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tion with sir edward kelly, and the part he took in the european politics of his time are too well known to need description here. that abraham the jew was not one whit behind any of these magicians in political influence, is evident to any one who peruses this work. he stands a dim and shadowy figure behind the tremendous complication of central european upheaval at that terrible and instructive epoch; as adepts of his type always appear and always have appeared upon the theatre of history in great crises of nations. the age which could boast simultaneously three rival claimants to the direction of two of the greatest levers of the society of that era the papacy and the germanic empire when the jealousies of rival bishoprics, the overthrow of dynasties, the roman church shaken to her foun

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ortance to him; the arts of government, of war, of literature, etc. are supremely influential, and science does little more than facilitate them by making their materials mechanically docile. the utmost extension of science can merely organize the household of art. art thus progresses in perception and power by increased control or automatic accuracy of its details. the master therion has made an epoch in the art of magick by applying the method of science to its problems. his work is a contribution of unique value, comparable only to that of those men of genius who revolutionized the empirical guesswork of "natural philosophers. the magicians of to-morrow will be armed with mathematical theory, organized observation, and experimentallyverified practice. but their art will remain inscrutab

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

, why then, to another! the idea of creation from nothing of something and the destruction of something to nothing, exploded with the theory of phlogiston. it stands plain, even to sceptical reason- indeed, most of all to the sceptic- that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam, the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which a

ame or any falsity. spontaneity, the most important factor in creation, because it is evidence of the magnetic intensity and propriety of the will to create, depends almost wholly on the absolute freedom of the agent. gulliver must have no bonds of packthread. these conditions have been so rare in the past, especially with regard to love, that their occurrence has usually marked something like an epoch. practically all men work with fear of result or lust of result, and the 'child' is a dwarf or still-born. it is within the experience of most people that pleasure-parties and the like, if organized on the spur of the moment, are always a success, while the most elaborate entertainments, prepared with all possible care, often fall flat. now one cannot exactly give rules for producing a 'geni

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sing to find the author quoting mrs. verral as conclusive proof against any supernormal element in automatic writing, while mr. hill quotes the same experiments as conclusive proof for it. but mr. hill is a student of science; dr. coriat a flatulent gastrologian. eric tait. man- king of mind, body, and circumstance. by james allen. the important disclosures of this unpretentious volume mark a new epoch in human thought. good is better than evil. bad habits should be broken. health is more desirable than disease. happiness gives more happiness than unhappiness does. work is more useful than idleness. selfishness is bad; unselfishness is good. suffering is common. dwelling upon one's petty troubles and ailments is a manifestation of weakness of character. the reviewer, staggered by revelatio

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what men count deeds i have done no small share. i have travelled a bit, written a bit i seem to have been hard at it all the time and to have got nothing finished or successful. one tragedy one little comedy two essays a dozen poems or so two or three short stories odds and ends of one sort and another: it's a miserable record, though the tragedy is good enough to last a life. it marks an epoch in literature, though nobody else will guess it for fifty years yet. the travel, too, has been rubbish. it's been a petty, peddling year. the one absolute indication is: on no account live otherwise than alone. but it is 10.35; these considerations, though in a way pertaining to the work, are not the work itself. let me "begin to inflame myself in praying!"the twelfth day" 12.17. when theref

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limbs and their relation to the brain. 3.1. planted bacilli in left foot. will leave him to sleep. no difficulty there; the brute's as tired as i am. too tired to curse. i recited "abide with me" throughout to soothe him. some lines distinctly humorous under the circumstances. will have a smoke in the study and check through the surg. record. too dazed to realise everything, but i am assuredly an epoch. whaur's your robbie pasteur noo? 12.20. so i've been on a false trail all day! the course of the a.m. research has let right away from the "chi -hunt" the byways have obscured the main road. valuable though; very very valuable. in the morning success. bed! 12.30. yells and struggles again when i went in to say good-night. as i had carefully paralysed "all" sensory avenues (to ensure perfect

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

e hierarchy its appearance on the planet. it is not sought, in this book, to deal with the steps which led to the founding of the hierarchy on the planet, nor to consider the conditions preceding the advent of those great beings. this can be studied in other occult books in the occident, and in the sacred scriptures of the east. suffice it for our purpose to say that in the middle of the lemurian epoch, approximately eighteen million years ago, occurred a great event which signified, among other things, the following developments: the planetary logos of our earth scheme, one of the seven spirits before the throne, took physical incarnation, and, under the form of sanat kumara, the ancient of days, and- 18- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the lord of the world, came d

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

of evolution. 1. the circle. this stands for the ring-pass-not of undifferentiated matter. it stands for a solar- 90- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust system or the body logoic, viewed etherically; it stands for a planet or the body of a heavenly man viewed etherically; it stands for a human body, viewed likewise, etherically and it stands for them all at the prime or earliest epoch of manifestation. it stands finally for a single cell within the human vehicle, and for the atom of the chemist or physicist. 2. the circle with the point in the centre. this signifies the production of heat in the heart of matter; the point of fire, the moment of the first rotary activity, the first straining of the atom, motivated by latent heat, into the sphere of influence of another ato

onary disciple. much of the work hitherto has been pursued under the ordinary laws of evolution and has been unconscious. now all that changes as the mental body becomes active, and two of the will petals are co-ordinated, and one "awakes" vitality and unfolds. the fire or energy from these two rings begins to circulate along the atomic triangle and when this is the case it marks a very momentous epoch; a dual work has been consummated in the personal lower life and in the egoic: a. the permanent atoms have the four lower spirillae fully active (two groups of two each) and the fifth is in process of arousement into equal activity. the triangle is in circulatory action but has not yet achieved its full brightness nor its rotary or fourth dimensional revolution. b. the two circles of petals

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

to him in such a way that though the words might be few yet the import would be worthy of continuous consideration. his master made this reply "only the sons of men know the distinction between the magic of the right and left hand ways and when they have achieved, these two ways will disappear. when the sons of men know the distinction which exists between matter and substance, the lesson of this epoch will be grasped. other lessons will be left but this one passes. matter and substance together work out the way of darkness. substance and purpose blended indicate the way of light" rule ten as the waters bathe the form created, they are absorbed and used. the form increases in its strength; let the magician thus continue until the work suffices. let the outer builders cease their labours th

itive bodies, struggle, work, fight, fail, continue and serve. not one hour of service, given in pain and tension, not one day's labor followed with racked nerves, with head tired and with heart sick, is allowed to pass unnoticed. we know and we care, yet, we may do naught that you, struggling in the field of the world, can do of that which is needed. the world's karma engulfs each of you at this epoch. if you could but realize it, the time is short, and rest, joy and peace are on their way. the half-gained victory, the days lived through with a certain measure of success, yet with an unachieved ideal, the minutes of exhaustion of soul and body when the emptiness of everything, even of service itself, seems the only noticeable thing, the weeks and months of endeavor and of struggle against

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

uddhism and that of christianity was only five hundred years. it seems probable that buddhism arose under the influence of the second sub-ray of the great sixth ray period. in attempting to trace back the influence which was the last outcome of the sub-rays, 5.4.3. 2. and 1, it has been suggested that this period of the alchemists and rosicrucians may have been dominated by the fifth sub-ray; the epoch of the flagellants and other fanatical enthusiasts who practised self -torture and mutilation was influenced by the fourth sub-ray; and the time when astrology was widely practised as representing the third sub-ray; while the earlier epoch of the gnostics may have been the outcome of the second sub-ray. but these are only conjectures, and while the last named is possible, there can be no suc

ily forward, and thus we shall lay the foundation for the later changes. i should like here to remind you that the coming three generations (in which i include the present one of boys and girls) will bring into incarnation a group of people who will be well equipped to lead humanity out of the present impasse. this fact warrants remembrance, and is often forgotten. there are always those at every epoch in human history who are able to solve the problems which arise, and who are sent in for that very purpose. this sex problem, in the last analysis, is a temporary one, little as you may think it today, and it grows out of a basic mistake, out of the prostitution of man's god-given faculties to selfish physical ends, instead of their consecration to divine purposes. man has been swept and car

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

inite note of encouragement because they indicate requirements that are possible for us to follow "even self-deception, the last stronghold of the enemy, will lose its power in proportion as the individual conforms to certain conditions which (in the view of the biblical writers) must be fulfilled to qualify him for the reception of an authentic message from the divine whether at the level of the epoch-creating prophet or of the simple person rightly guided on the path of everyday duty "these are mainly four"(1 `i would fain be to the eternal goodness what his own right hand is to a man' absolute devotion or surrender of the self to the divine `here am i, send me' says isaiah; and when christ addressed to his earliest followers the words `follow me' we are told they left all and followed h

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

re sweep of the evolutionary process, and as far as the human personality is concerned appear sequentially, and qualify the matter aspect with its three major presentations: 1. the quality of physical substance. during this stage of development, the man is almost entirely physical in his reactions and completely under the ray of his physical body. this is the correspondence in man to the lemurian epoch and to the period of pure infancy. 2. the quality of the astral body. this governs the individual for a very long period, and still governs, more or less, the masses of men. it corresponds to the atlantean period and to the stage of adolescence. the ray of the astral body is of very great power. 3. the quality of the mental body. this, as far as the race is concerned, is just beginning to wa

produce the changed types, new forms and different notes, tones and appearances. these patterns are literally the divine ideas, as they emerge from the subjective group consciousness and take those mental forms that can be appreciated and appropriated by the- 35- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust mind and brain of man during any particular epoch. it might, therefore, be thought that these patterns or fundamental ideas which take shape and appear to control the "way of a man on earth, as it is esoterically called, produce the conditioning here discussed. literally and curiously, this is not so. from the angle of esoteric thought, conditioning (if rightly understood) concerns the response, innate and inherent, of matter or substance

he approaches between the two higher kingdoms of men and of souls greatly facilitated, as the magical work in the producing and bringing about of relationship begins to go forward as desired. it is the work of the ray of magical order which will bring about sensitivity to one of the major approaches which is being now attempted. only as history is made and we learn later the amazing nature of the epoch through which the race is passing, will humanity appreciate the significance of the work of the present hierarchy, and the magnitude and the success of its achievement since 1925, as a result of the initial impulse instituted in 1875. no more need be said on this point except to observe that the first indications of the work done during the wesak festival of 1936 and the response engendered

ects must be foreseen and dealt with in such a manner that its catastrophic results will be offset, and its subjective significances utilised to the full. having stated the four major points of consideration (which came before the council in may, 1937, and which are all related to the impending world crisis, it is needful that we should point out two things: 1. that this crisis is imminent and of epoch-making effects for two reasons. a. the work carried forward during the previous five years along spiritual lines had been definitely successful. this has caused a vital spiritual awakening in every land, and was the result of the activity and work of the first division of the new group of world servers. b. the strenuous efforts of the second division in the new group of world servers have al

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

must be prepared. it will also produce the advent or appearance of many avatars, bringing with them many and very different kinds of energies to those which hitherto have controlled human affairs and the events and evolution of the other, the subhuman kingdoms in nature. with the reappearance of the christ as the focal point or the supreme agent of the planetary heart centre, a new era or "divine epoch" will be instituted. the avatar of synthesis will draw very close to humanity and he will inaugurate the "reign of avatars" who will be embodied purpose and spiritual will; they will initiate both the hierarchy and humanity into phases of the divine character of which, at present, nothing is known and for which we have no terminology that could convey the exact facts and nature. all that i a

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ility and understanding are contributory to the factors in a great spiritual enterprise which the hierarchy started in 1925. it is with one of these dramatic expressions of hierarchical purpose that i want to deal at this time. in 1932 when we were at ascona i received a communication from the tibetan which was published in the fall in a pamphlet entitled, the new group of world servers. this was epoch making in its significance though only a few people as yet realise its true meaning. the position taken by the spiritual hierarchy on our planet was that a group was in process of formation that had in it the nucleus of the coming world civilisation and was characterised by the qualities that would distinguish that civilisation during the next 2,500 years. these qualities are primarily a spi

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

s been impossible hitherto to give the subject-matter of this rule because it is only today that teaching anent life (and life as energy) has been possible. also the teaching anent the five and the two energies which meet in man have only lately been given out by me, for the first time in any detail, although they were hinted at in the secret doctrine. i wonder sometimes if any of you realise the epoch-making importance of the teaching which i have given out anent the seven rays as manifesting energies. speculations as to the nature of the divine trinity have ever been present in the discussions and thinking of advanced men and that since time began and the hierarchy started its agelong task of influencing and stimulating the human consciousness but information anent the seven spirits befo

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

se the energy generated by the hierarchy, under the inspiration of the divine purpose and directed towards the carrying out of the plan. it is wise to remember that the plan is as much of the divine purpose as can be brought into expression upon the planet under the law of evolution and the tension of this planetary crisis through which we are passing at this time or at any one time or particular epoch in time and space. let us now consider these points of revelation so as to gain from them some real understanding: the first point of revelation: energy follows thought and the eye directs the energy. we are not dealing here with the simple statement that thought power is an energy and that the process of thinking generates automatically an energy which produces objective forms, induces rela

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ncy existing on the planet, the real war began, involving the entire three worlds of human evolution and a consequent activity of the hierarchy. man's attention is normally focussed on the externalities of living. nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those made in connection with astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or involving such a revelation as that of radio-activity or the epoch-making event announced this week concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of cosmic energy, are ever the result of inner pressure emanating from forces and lives found in high places. such inner pressures themselves function under the laws of the spirit and not just under what you call natural laws; they are the result of the impelling work of certain great lives, working in connec

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

atic and determined to gain a strangle hold upon the life within the form the hierarchy stands at the midway point: a. throwing all its weight on the side of that which is new, spiritual and desirable. b. adapting itself simultaneously to new conditions and new emerging factors. c. standing like a wall of steel, unshatterable and immovable between humanity and the forces of evil. this has been an epoch of crisis, and the great moment for which the hierarchy has been preparing ever since it was founded upon the earth. slowly down the ages, men have been trained and prepared for initiation; they have been taught to develop the initiate-consciousness; they have taken then their place within the ranks of the hierarchy and have later passed into the higher centre, shamballa. paralleling this li

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

acy is characterised as detestable and its memory is held in horror. it fell to pieces speedily for want of recruits. among the other unfortunate knights who had escaped destruction, a certain number entered also into a secret alliance and chose as time went on their suitable successors among persons of noble and genfle birth, with a view to perpetuate the order and in the hope at some favourable epoch that they would be restored to their former glory and reenter into their possessions. we hear nothing of kilwinning or heredom, and indeed no one country is designated as a place of asylum; but it is affirmed that this group of survivors created freemasonry and its three craft degrees to conceal from their enemies the fact that the chivalry was still in being and to test aspirants who entere

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tection, it was in full swing in the genesis of terrestrial life. even the simple physical form and the evolution of species show how nature proceeds. the scale-bound, gigantic sauria, the winged pterodactyl, the megalosaurus, and the hundred-feet long iguanodon of the later period, are the transformations of the earliest representatives of the animal kingdom found in the sediments of the primary epoch. there was a time when all those above enumerated "antediluvian" monsters appeared as filamentoid infusoria without shell or crust, with neither nerves, muscles, organs nor sex, and reproduced their kind by gemmation: as do microscopical animals also, the architects and builders of our mountain ranges, agreeably to the teachings of science. why not man in this case? why should he not have fo

e also physical links between many classes, so there are precise domains wherein the astral merges into physical evolution. of this science breathes not one word. man has evolved with and from the monkey, it says. but now see the contradiction. huxley proceeds to point out plants, ferns, club mosses, some of them generically identical with those now living, which are met with in the carboniferous epoch, for "the cone of the oolitic araucaria is hardly distinguishable from that of existing species. subkingdoms of animals yield the same instances. the globigerina of the atlantic soundings is identical with the cretaceous species of the same genus. the tabulate corals of the silurian epoch are wonderfully like the millepores of our own seas. the arachnida, the highest group of which, the scor

at "man was the first and highest (mammalian) animal that appeared in this (fourth round) creation. then came still huger animals; and last of all the dumb man who walks on all fours" for "the rakshasas (giant-demons) and daityas (titans) of the "white dwipa (continent) spoiled his (the dumb man's) sires (commentary) furthermore, as we see, there are anthropologists who have traced man back to an epoch which goes far to break down the apparent barrier that exists between the chronologies of modern science and the archaic doctrine. it is true that english scientists generally have declined to commit themselves to the sanction of the hypothesis of even a tertiary man. they, each and all, measure the antiquity of homo primigenius by their own lights and prejudices. huxley, indeed, ventures to

hat caste which even the brahmins acknowledged as not inferior to their own- and which was[[footnote(s* in a lecture, professor pengelly, f.r.s, quoting professor oliver, makes him say "that the present atlantic islands' flora affords no substantial evidence of a former direct communication with the mainland of the new world" but himself adds that, at the same time "at some period of the tertiary epoch, n. e. asia was united to n. w. america, perhaps by the line where the aleutian chain of islands now extends" thus occult science alone can reconcile the contradictions and hesitations of modern science. moreover, surely the argument for the existence of atlantis does not rest on botany alone[[vol. 2, page] 323 the magis in the days of krishna. the nursery of the first zaratushta. the brahmi

bye, was not even in existence when the third race flourished- h.p.b] or in lemuria. lemuria is an ancient continent now sunk beneath the waters of the indian ocean, which, lying to the south of the asia of to-day, stretched on the one hand eastwards to upper india and sunda island, on the other westward as far as madagascar and africa (see supra and compare "the pedigree of man" p. 80-81) in the epoch we are treating of, the continent of "lemuria" had already broken asunder in many places, and formed new separate continents. there was, nevertheless, neither africa nor the americas, still less europe in those days, all these slumbering yet on the ocean floors. nor was there much of present asia; for the cis-himalayan regions were covered with seas, and beyond this stretched the "lotus leav

disappearing one after the other, until the final convulsion engulfed the last remains of it. easter isle, for instance, belongs to the earliest civilisation of the third[[vol. 2, page] 328 the secret doctrine. race. submerged with the rest, a volcanic and sudden uplifting of the ocean floor, raised the small relic of the archaic ages untouched, with its volcano and statues, during the champlain epoch of northern polar submersion, as a standing witness to the existence of lemuria. it is said that some of the australian tribes are the last remnants of the last descendants of the third race. in this we are again corroborated to a degree by materialistic science. haeckel, when speaking of blumenbach's brown or malay race and the australians and papuans, remarks "there is much likeness betwee

ut mythical and heroic ages, as if the country had never known youth. its civilization has no infancy, and its art no archaic period. the civilization of the old monarchy did not begin with infancy. it was already mature* to this professor r. owen adds that "egypt is recorded to have been a civilized and governed community before the time of menes; and winchell("pre-adamites" p. 120, that "at the epoch of menes the egyptians were already a civilized and numerous people. manetho tells us that athotis, the son of this first king menes, built the palace of memphis; that he was a physician, and left anatomical books" this is quite natural if we have to believe the statements of herodotus, who records in euterpe (cxlii, that the written history of the egyptian priests dated from about 12,000 ye

have to be given up (but see part iii, addenda, the closing chapter) of still standing witnesses to the submerged continents, and the colossal men that inhabited them, there are still a few. archaeology claims several such on this globe, though beyond wondering "what these may be- it never made any serious attempt to solve the mystery. besides the easter island statues mentioned already, to what epoch do the colossal statues, still erect and intact near bamian, belong? archaeology assigns them to the first centuries of christianity (as usual, and errs in this as it does in many other speculations. a few words of description will show the readers what are the statues of both easter isle and bamian. we will first examine what is known of them to orthodox science. in "the countries of the wo

at "the shining of the gold ornamentation that overlaid the statue" in his day "dazzled one's eyes" but of such gilding there remains not a vestige in modern times. the very drapery, in contrast to the figure itself, cut out in the standing rock, is made of plaster and modelled over the stone image. talbot, who has made the most careful examination, found that this drapery belonged to a far later epoch. the statue itself has therefore to be assigned to a far earlier period than buddhism. whom does it represent in such case, it may be asked? once more tradition, corroborated by written records, answers the query, and explains the mystery. the buddhist arhats and ascetics found the five statues, and many more, now crumbled down to dust, and as the three were found by them in colossal niches

, page] 340 the secret doctrine. survived the atlantean deluge. the second- 120 feet high- represents the sweat-born; and the third- measuring 60 feet- immortalizes the race that fell, and thereby inaugurated the first physical race, born of father and mother, the last descendants of which are represented in the statues found on easter isle; but they were only from 20 to 25 feet in stature at the epoch when lemuria was submerged, after it had been nearly destroyed by volcanic fires. the fourth race was still smaller, though gigantic in comparison with our present fifth race, and the series culminated finally in the latter (see the following sub-section on "cyclopean ruins, and colossal stones as witnesses to giants) these are, then, the "giants" of antiquity, the ante- and post-diluvian gi

s hypothesis. it points to great civilization in prehistoric times, and a still greater antiquity. the schesoo-hor("the servants of horus) were the people who had settled in egypt; and, as m. g. maspero affirms, it is to this prehistoric race that "belongs the honour. of having founded the principal cities of egypt, and established the most important sanctuaries" this was before the great pyramid epoch, and when egypt had hardly arisen from the waters. yet "they possessed the hieroglyphic form of writing special to the egyptians, and must have been already considerably advanced in civilization" it was, says lenormant "the country of the great prehistoric sanctuaries, seats of the sacerdotal dominion, which played the most important part in the origin of civilization" what is the date assig

te absurd. the year of the kaliyuga is said to have begun between the 17th and 18th of february in the year 3102 b.c. now the hindus claim that in the year 20400 before kaliyugam, the origin of their zodiac coincided with the spring equinox- there being at the time a conjunction of the sun and moon- and bailly proved by a lengthy and careful computation of that date, that, even if fictitious, the epoch from which they had started to establish the beginning of their kaliyug was very real. that "epoch is the year 3102 before our era" he writes (see part iii, book i "hindu astronomy defended by an academician) the lunar eclipse arriving just a fortnight after the beginning of the black age- it took place in a point situated between the wheat ear of virgo and the star[[theta] of the same const

ly explains. the devil is not "the god of this period" as he says, for it is the deity of every age and period, since man appeared on earth, and matter, in its countless forms and states, had to fight for its evanescent existence against other disintegrating forces. the "dragon" is simply the symbol of the cycle and of the "sons of manvantaric eternity" who had descended on earth during a certain epoch of its formative period. the "clouds of smoke" are a geological phenomenon. the "third part of the stars of heaven" cast down to the earth- refers to the divine monads (the spirits of the stars in astrology) that circumambulate our globe; i.e, the human egos destined to perform the whole cycle of incarnations. this sentence, qui circumambulat terram, however, is again referred to the devil i

creation" for the ape, his progeny; only on other lines than ever bargained for by science. albert gaudry and others give some weighty reasons why man cannot be regarded as the crown of an ape-stock. when one finds that not only was the "primeval savage) a reality in the miocene times, but that, as de mortillet shows, the flint relics he has left behind him were splintered by fire in that remote epoch; when we learn that the dryopithecus, alone of the anthropoids, appears in those strata, what is the natural inference? that the darwinians are in a quandary. the very manlike gibbon is still in the same low grade of development, as it was when it co-existed with man at the close of the glacial period. it has not appreciably altered since the pliocene times. now there is little to choose bet

mentation of the human ovum, the formation of the blastoderm, and the appearance of the 'gastrula' stage, with corresponding stages in lower vertebrate life and even among the sponges; for the various types of lower animal life which the form of the future child shadows forth in the cycle of its growth "how comes it to pass that stages in the life of fishes, whose ancestors swam- aeons before the epoch of the first root- race [footnote(s "at this period" writes darwin "the arteries run in arch-like branches, as if to carry the blood to branchiae which are not present in the higher vertebrata, though the slits on the side of the neck still remain, marking their former) position" it is noteworthy that, though gill-clefts are absolutely useless to all but amphibia and fishes, etc, their appea

the accompanying limb-bones, together with the fair development of the engis skull" in consequence of all this we are notified that those skulls "clearly indicate that the first traces of the primordial stock whence man has proceeded, need no longer be sought by those who entertain any form of the doctrine of progressive development in the newest tertiaries; but that they may be looked for in an epoch more distant from the age of the elephas primigenius than that is from us (huxley[[footnote(s* the actual time required for such a theoretical transformation is necessarily enormous "if" says professor pfaff "in the hundreds of thousands of years which you (the evolutionists) accept between the rise of palaeolithic man and our own day, a greater distance of man from the brute is not demonstr

ne strata. again, where is the "missing link" in such case? and how could even a palaeolithic savage, a "man of canstadt" evolve into thinking men from the brute dryopithecus of the miocene in so short a time. one sees now the reason why darwin rejected the theory that only 60,000,000 years had elapsed since the cambrian period "he judges from the small amount of organic changes since the glacial epoch, and adds that the previous 140 million years can hardly be considered as sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which certainly existed toward the close of the cambrian period (ch. gould* let us remember in this connection the esoteric teaching which tells us of man having had in the third round a gigantic ape-like form on the astral plane. and similarly at the close of

r who were furnished with the keys to the true meaning. but professor[[vol. 2, page] 692 the secret doctrine. sayce's remarks are promising. for he explains the difficulty by saying that as "the nineveh library contained mostly copies of older babylonian texts, and the copyists pitched upon such tablets only as were of special interest to the assyrian conquerors, belonging to a comparatively late epoch, this added much to the greatest of all our difficulties- namely, our being so often left in the dark as to the age of our documentary evidence, and the precise worth of our materials for history" thus one has a right to infer that some still fresher discovery may lead to a new necessity for pushing the babylonian dates so far beyond the year 4,000 b.c, as to make them pre-kosmic in the judg

e fashioned out of green diorite, that can only be got in the peninsula of sinai; and "they accord in the style of art, and in the standard of measurement employed, with the similar diorite statues of the pyramid builders of the third and fourth egyptian dynasties. moreover, the only possible period for a babylonian occupation of the sinaitic quarries must be placed shortly after the close of the epoch at which the pyramids were built; and thus only can we understand how the name of sinai could have been derived from that of sin, the primitive babylonian moon-god" this is very logical, but what is the date fixed for these "dynasties? sanchoniathon's and manetho's synchronistic tables and their figures have been rejected, or whatever[[vol. 2, page] 693 no agreement between scientists. remai

however, the antiquity of the black and brown races, since there are numerous evidences of their existence in more southern regions, in times remotely pre-glacial (p. 379. as a specimen of geological certainty and agreement, these figures also may be added. three authorities- messrs. t. belt, f.g.s; j. croll, f.r.s; and robert hunt, f.r.s- in estimating the time that has elapsed since the glacial epoch, give absolutely different figures, namely- mr. belt. 20,000 years. mr. j. croll. 240,000" mr. r. hunt. 80,000[[footnote(s "world-life" pp. 367-8 "climate and time* quoted in mr. ch. gould's "mythical monsters" p. 84* according to bischof, 1,004,177 years- according to chevandier's calculations 672,788 years- were required for the so-called coal formation "the tertiary strata, about 1,000 fe

divisions or periods, according to haeckel[[first column continued on next page[[second column] esoteric theory. leaving the classification of the geological periods to western science, esoteric philosophy divides only the life-periods on the globe. in the present manvantara the actual period is separated into seven kalpas and seven great human races. its first kalpa, answering to the "primordial epoch" is the age of the[[second column continued on next page[[footnote(s* the root and basic idea of the origin and transformation of species- the heredity (of acquired faculties) seems to have found lately very serious opponents in germany. du bois-reymond and dr. pffuger, the physiologists, besides other men of science as eminent as any, find insuperable difficulties and even impossibilities i

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fering only in its incarnations, throughout its ever succeeding cycles of partial or total obscuration of spirit, or the partial or total obscuration of matter- two polar antitheses- as it ascends into the realms of mental spirituality, or descends into the depths of materiality. to return to "esoteric buddhism" it is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening between the mineral epoch on globe a, and the man-epoch* that "the full development of the[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] earth as a plank of salvation for the personalities in which it indwells. it is for the latter to cling to it; and thus partaking of its divine nature, obtain immortality. left to itself the monad will cling to no one; but, like the "plank" be drifted away to another incarnati

lopment of the[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] earth as a plank of salvation for the personalities in which it indwells. it is for the latter to cling to it; and thus partaking of its divine nature, obtain immortality. left to itself the monad will cling to no one; but, like the "plank" be drifted away to another incarnation by the unresting current of evolution* the term "man epoch" is here used because of the necessity of giving a name to that fourth kingdom which follows the animal. but in truth the "man" on globe a during the first round is no man, but only his prototype or dimensionless image from the astral regions[[vol. 1, page] 176 the secret doctrine. mineral epoch on globe a, prepares the way for the vegetable development, and, as soon as this begins, the mine

e true relation of earthly beauty and eternal truth- the uneducated of every nation understood neither, at any time. they do not understand it even now. the evolution of the god-idea proceeds apace with man's own intellectual evolution. so true it is that the noblest ideal to which the religious spirit of one age can soar, will appear but a gross caricature to the philosophic mind in a succeeding epoch! the philosophers themselves had to be initiated into perceptive mysteries, before they could grasp the correct idea of the ancients in relation to this most metaphysical subject. otherwise- outside such initiation- for every thinker there will be a "thus far shalt thou go and no farther" mapped out by his intellectual capacity, as clearly and as unmistakeably as there is for the progress of

and latin churches- have fully adopted the symbol, and see in it a commemoration of life eternal[[footnote(s* his triadic goddesses are sati and anouki* phtah was originally the god of death, of destruction, like siva. he is a solar god only by virtue of the sun's fire killing as well as vivifying. he was the national god of memphis, the radiant and "fair-faced god (see saqquarah bronzes, saitic epoch* the brahmanda purana contains the mystery about brahma's golden egg fully; and this is why, perhaps, it is inaccessible to the orientalists, who say that this purana, like the skanda, is "no longer procurable in a collective body" but "is represented by a variety of khandas and mahatmyas professing to be derived from it" the "brahmanda purana" is described as "that which is declared in 12,2

l of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same. in the relics of ancient egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the solar gods. the god khnoom- the moist power- water, as thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a throne enshrined in a lotus (saitic epoch, serapeum. the god bes stands on a lotus, ready to devour his progeny (ibid, abydos) thot, the god of mystery and wisdom, the sacred scribe of amenti, wearing the solar disc as head gear, sits with a bull's head (the sacred bull of mendes being a form of thot) and a human body, on a full blown lotus (ivth dynasty) finally it is the goddess hiquet, under her shape of a frog, who rests on the

fs are of little avail, it may be more useful to turn to scientific evidence. m. bailly, the famous french astronomer of the last century, member of the academy, etc, etc, asserts that the hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest, and that from them the egyptians, greeks, romans, and even the jews derived their knowledge. in support of these views he says "the astronomers who preceded the epoch 1,491 are, first, the alexandrian greeks; hipparchus, who flourished 125 years before our era, and ptolemy, 260 years after hipparchus. following these were the arabs, who revived the study of astronomy in the ninth century. these were succeeded by the persians and the tartars, to whom we owe the tables of massireddin in 1269, and those of ulug-beg in 1437. such is the succession of events i

ian greeks; hipparchus, who flourished 125 years before our era, and ptolemy, 260 years after hipparchus. following these were the arabs, who revived the study of astronomy in the ninth century. these were succeeded by the persians and the tartars, to whom we owe the tables of massireddin in 1269, and those of ulug-beg in 1437. such is the succession of events in asia as known prior to the indian epoch 1491. what, then, is an epoch? it is the observation of the longitude of a star at a given moment, the place in the sky where it was seen, and which serves as a point of reference, a starting-point from which to calculate both the past and future positions of the star from its observed motion. but an epoch is useless unless the motion of the star has been determined. a people, new to science

f a star at a given moment, the place in the sky where it was seen, and which serves as a point of reference, a starting-point from which to calculate both the past and future positions of the star from its observed motion. but an epoch is useless unless the motion of the star has been determined. a people, new to science and obliged to borrow a foreign astronomy, finds no difficulty in fixing an epoch, since[[vol. 1, page] 659 bailly's conclusions. the only observation needed is one which can be made at any moment. but what it needs above all, what it is obliged to borrow, are those elements which depend on accurate determination, and which require continuous observation; above all, those motions which depend on time, and which can only be accurately determined by centuries of observation

me instrumental appliances, and great industry. all these astronomical elements, differing more or less with the greeks of alexandria, the arabs, the persians and the tartars, exhibit no resemblance whatever with those of the hindus. the latter, therefore, borrowed nothing from their neighbours. condensing bailly's remarks, he comes to the following conclusions- if the hindus did not borrow their epoch, they must have possessed a real one of their own, based on their own observations; and this must be either the epoch of the year 1491 after, or that of the year 3102 before our era, the latter preceding by 4592 years the epoch 1491. we have to choose between these two epochs and to decide which of them is based on observation. but before stating the arguments which can and must[[footnote(s*

for 4,592 years, it follows that they could only have obtained this knowledge from very ancient observations. to grant them such knowledge, while refusing them the observations from which it is derived, is to suppose an impossibility; it would be equivalent to assuming that at the outset of their career they had already reaped the harvest of time and experience. while on the other hand, if their epoch of 3102 is assumed to be real, it would follow that the hindus had simply kept pace with successive centuries down to the year 1491 of our era. thus, time itself was their teacher; they knew the motions of the heavenly bodies during these periods, because they had seen them; and the duration of the hindu people on earth is the cause of the fidelity of its records and the accuracy of its calc

the cause of the fidelity of its records and the accuracy of its calculations. it would seem that the problem as to which of the two epochs of 3102 and 1491 is the real one ought to be solved by one consideration, viz, that the ancients in general, and particularly the hindus, calculated, and therefore observed, eclipses only. says bailly- now, there was no eclipse of the sun at the moment of the epoch 1492; and no eclipse of the moon either 14 days before or after that moment. therefore the epoch 1491 is not based on an observation. as regards the epoch 3102, the brahmins of tirvalour place it at sunrise on february 18th. the sun was then in the first point of the zodiac according to its true longitude. the other tables show that at the preceding midnight the moon was in the same place, b

not that this ancient determination becomes of the greatest importance for the verification of the motions of these bodies, and must therefore be borne out by every possible proof of its authenticity. we notice, first, that the hindus seem to have combined two epochs together into the year 3102. the tirvalour brahmins reckon primarily from the first moment of the kali-yug; but they have a second epoch placed 2d. 3h. 32m. 30s. later. the latter is the true astronomical epoch, while the former seems to be a civil era. but if this epoch of the kali-yug had no reality, and was the mere result of a calculation, why should it be thus divided? their calculated astronomical epoch would have become that of the kali-yug, which would have been placed at the conjunction of the sun and the moon, as is

ult of a calculation, why should it be thus divided? their calculated astronomical epoch would have become that of the kali-yug, which would have been placed at the conjunction of the sun and the moon, as is the case with the epochs of the three other tables. they must have had some reason for distinguishing between the two; and this reason can only be due to the circumstances and the time of the epoch; which therefore could not be the result of calculation. this is not all; starting from the solar epoch determined by the rising of the sun on february 18th, 3102, and tracing back events 2d. 3h. 32m. 30s, we come to 2h. 27m. 30s. a.m. of february 16th, which is the instant of the beginning of kali-yuga. it is curious that this age has not been made to commence at one of the four great divis

f calculation. this is not all; starting from the solar epoch determined by the rising of the sun on february 18th, 3102, and tracing back events 2d. 3h. 32m. 30s, we come to 2h. 27m. 30s. a.m. of february 16th, which is the instant of the beginning of kali-yuga. it is curious that this age has not been made to commence at one of the four great divisions of the day. it might be suspected that the epoch should be midnight, and that the 2h. 27m. 30s. are a meridian correction. but whatever may have been the reason for fixing on this moment, it is plain that were this epoch the result of calculation, it would have been just as easy to carry it back to midnight, so as to make the epoch correspond to one of the chief divisions of the day, instead of placing it at a moment fixed by the fraction

lthough venus was not among them, the taste for the marvellous caused it to be called a general conjunction of all the planets. the testimony of the brahmins here coincides with that of our tables; and this evidence, the result of a tradition, must be founded on actual observation[[vol. 1, page] 663 the eye of taurus. 3rd. we may remark that this phenomenon was visible about a fortnight after the epoch, and exactly at the time when the eclipse of the moon must have been observed, which served to fix the epoch. the two observations mutually confirm each other; and whoever made the one must have made the other also. 4th. we may believe also that the hindus made at the same time a determination of the place of the moon's node; this seems indicated by their calculation. they give the longitude

oon must have been observed, which served to fix the epoch. the two observations mutually confirm each other; and whoever made the one must have made the other also. 4th. we may believe also that the hindus made at the same time a determination of the place of the moon's node; this seems indicated by their calculation. they give the longitude of this point of the lunar orbit for the time of their epoch, and to this they add as a constant 40m, which is the node's motion in 12d. 14h. it is as if they stated that this determination was made 13 days after their epoch, and that to make it correspond to that epoch, we must add the 40m. through which the node has retrograded in the interval. this observation is, therefore, of the same date as that of the lunar eclipse; thus giving three observati

rue. we do not know whether hermes, so celebrated in antiquity, was a hindu, but we see that the observations attributed to him are reckoned in the hindu manner, and we conclude that they were made by the hindus, who, therefore, were able to make all the observations we have enumerated, and which we find noted in their tables. 6th. the observation of the year 3102, which seems to have fixed their epoch, was not a difficult one. we see that the hindus, having once determined the moon's daily motion of 13deg. 10m. 35sec, made[[vol. 1, page] 665 hindu astronomical methods. use of it to divide the zodiac into 27 constellations, related to the period of the moon, which takes about 27 days to describe it. it was by this method that they determined the positions of the stars in this zodiac; it wa

are ascribed to hermes, but which are calculated on the hindu zodiac. similarly, they discovered that the "wheatear of virgo" forms the commencement of their fifteenth constellation, and the "eye of taurus" the end of the fourth; these stars being the one in 6d. 6h. 40m, the other in 1d. 23h. 20min. of the hindu zodiac. this being so, the eclipse of moon which occurred 14 days after the kali yug epoch, took place at a point between the "wheat ear" of virgo and the star] of the same constellation. these stars are very approximately a constellation apart, the one beginning the fifteenth, the other the sixteenth. thus it would not be difficult to determine the moon's place by measuring her distance from one of these stars; from this they deduced the position of the sun, which is opposite to

on the 17th-18th february of the year 3,102 before our era, and that the sun occupied the same place six hours later according to his true longitude; an event which fixes the commencement of the hindu year. 7th. the hindus state that 20,400 years before the age of kali yug, the first point of their zodiac coincided with the vernal equinox, and that the sun and moon were in conjunction there. this epoch is obviously fictitious* but we may inquire from what point, from what epoch, the hindus set out in establishing it. taking the hindu values for the revolution of the sun and moon, viz, 365d. 6h. 12m. 30s, and 27d. 7h. 43m. 13s, we have- 20,400 revolutions of the sun= 7,451,277d. 2h. 272,724 revolutions of the moon= 7,451,277d. 7h. such is the result obtained by starting from the kali yuga e

or two days. it is both just and natural, in verifying the hindu calculations, to take those among their elements which give the same result as they had themselves arrived at, and to set out from that one among their epochs which enables us to arrive at[[footnote(s* why it should be "fictitious" can never be made plain by european scientists[[vol. 1, page] 666 the secret doctrine. the fictitious epoch in question. hence, since to make this calculation they must have set out from their real epoch, the one which was founded on an observation and not from any of those which were derived by this very calculation from the former, it follows that their real epoch was that of the year 3102 before our era. 8th. the tiravalore brahmins give the moon's motion as 7d. 2h. 8m. on the movable zodiac, a

erefore, be admitted that the accuracy of this hindu motion is the point of observation. it is exact throughout this period of 4,383 years, because it was taken from the sky itself- and if observation determined its close, it fixed its commencement also. it is the longest period which has been observed and of which the recollection is preserved in the annals of astronomy. it has its origin in the epoch of the year 3102, b.c, and it is a demonstrative proof of the reality of that epoch. bailly is referred to at such length, as he is one of the few scientific men who have tried to do full justice to the astronomy of the aryans. from john bentley down to burgess "surya-siddhanta" not one astronomer has been fair enough to the most learned people of antiquity. however distorted and misundersto

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ute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. praise ye the lord. a. c. reviews 307 sanine. by michael artzibashef. b. w. huebsch. sanine is not a supreme novel in the full flower of a period, like la cousine bette. it is too lyric. it is like the timid song of a young thrush in the morning of life. for this novel is much more than a great novel. it is the first novel of an epoch. it is the first attempt to depict a man who is living by the law of thelema, whose outlook on the world is based upon the magical formulae of the on of horus .every man and every woman is a star .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. sanine absolutely refuses to be obfuscated by the fog of false morality. he judges actions by their real, not by their imaginary consequences. bernard shaw

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however. mme blavatsky gathered together a great mass of data and exposed it to the gaze of a public which understood it little better than the child gazing at the cases in a museum and marveillng at the queer things they contain. the scholarly work of g. r. s. mead has given us much information concerning the gnosis, the esoteric tradition of the western world during the earlier centuries of our epoch; mrs atwood's monumental book has revealed the significance of the alchemical symbolism to us. none of these, however, have expounded the western tradition as initiates of that tradition, but have approached it from outside and either pieced together its fragments, or, as in the case of mme blavatsky, interpreted it by analogy in the light of the more familiar system of another tradition. 3

e father of the gods. if for them the universe originated in space, then kether is the sky god. if it originated in water, kether is the primordial ocean. always we find in connection with kether the sense of formlessness and timelessness. the gods of kether are terrible gods which eat their children, for kether, although the parent of all, reabsorbs the universe back into itself at the end of an epoch ofevolution. 7. kether is the abyss whence all arose, and back into which it will fall at the end of its epoch. therefore in exoteric myths associated with kether we find the implication of non-existence. in esoteric concepts, however, we learn that such a concept is erroneou. kether is the intensest form of existence, pure being unlimited by form or reaction; but it is existence of another

ces to the holy ghost refer to yesod; and very deep mysteries are concealed here, for the holy ghost is the aspect of the mystical qabala page 132 godhead that is worshipped in the occult lodges; the worship of pantheistic nature-forces and elemental operations take place under the presidency of god the father; and the regenerative ethical aspect of religion, which is the exoteric aspect for this epoch, is under the presidency of god the son in fiphareth. 21. the initiate, however, transcends his epoch, and aims at uniting all three modes of adoration in his worship of deity as a trinity in unity; the son redeeming the pantheistic nature worship from debasement and making the transcendental father comprehensible to human consciousness, for "whoso bath seen me hath seen the father" 22. tiph

. there can be no higher ideal than this for the finite mind to contemplate, for in it the law and the prophets are lifted far above the grim forbiddings of the mosaic code into the inspiration of an ideal to be pursued. 22. it is in the sphere of malkuth that civilisation has wrought for the last thousand years. it does not ii ced any astrologer to tell us that the great war marked the end of an epoch, and that we are now in the dawn of a new phase. according to qabalistic doctrine, the lightning flash, having come down the tree till it ends in malkuth, is now replaced by the symbolism of the serpent of wisdom, whose coils loop upwards on the paths till its head rests beside kether. the lightning flash represents the unconscious descent of force, building the planes of manifestation, pass

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ndependently, each from the divine source; but overflowed, the one from the other. as soon as one sephira has emanated another, these two are said to be in equilibrium, compensating each other. but there is a period during the emanation of a sephira when the force is not yet in equilibrium, but is pushing out unsupported, like an incomplete arch. it is the uncompensated force emanated during this epoch of unbalance, and never subsequently absorbed after the establishment of the new sphere, which constitutes positive evil. there are, therefore, ten kinds of positive evil, just as there are ten divine emanations. to these spheres go, according to their kind, all the evil imaginings of the heart of man that are not neutralised by repentance or compensated by the overplus of good in other memb

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, a value which was equivalent to the whole. 2. see goodwin, aeg. zeitschrift, 1866, p. 55, and compare the reading from the cairo papyrus of mes-em-neter given by naville (todtenbuch, ii, p. 139) 3 naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 76, l 52. 4 lepsius, todtenbuch, bl. 25, 1. 31. 6 "the most remarkable chapter is the 64th. it is one of the oldest of all, and is attributed, as already stated, to the epoch of king gaga-makheru or menkheres. this chapter enjoyed a high reputation till a late period, for it is found on a stone presented to general perofski by the late emperor nicholas, which must have come from the tomb of petemenophis] in the el-assasif] and was made during the xxvith dynasty some more recent compiler of the hermetic books has evidently paraphrased it for the ritual of turin" b

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verty to power (1901, which went into seven editions. after the success of this book, allen found it possible to live by his writings. with his wife, lily, he moved to ilfracombe, devon. allen was not ambitious, avoided publicity, and lived simply on a modest income from his writings. he derived inspiration for his books from solitary meditation. he published 19 books and edited two journals: the epoch and the light of reason. some of his books were quite short in length but influential in their succinct inspiration. his best-known work, as a man thinketh, went into six editions and influenced many thousands of readers. it remains a classic of its kind and has been frequently reprinted. allen died january 24, 1912. sources: allen, james. as a man thinketh. 1890. reprint, philadelphia: davi

work with alan leo, who had opened the astrology publishing company, the first successful modern business enterprise built around astrology. in 1904, bailey started his own magazine, destiny, but it was short-lived. he later became the editor of the british journal of astrology. as his appreciation of astrology matured, bailey became interested in the problem of what astrologers call the prenatal epoch, i.e, determining the time of an individual s conception. there were methods, some quite ancient, for determining the date of conception from the date of birth, and from those dates making an estimate of the time of birth if otherwise unknown. the time of birth is a necessary bit of information in constructing anything but the most superficial of birth charts and offering a detailed astrolog

n estimate of the time of birth if otherwise unknown. the time of birth is a necessary bit of information in constructing anything but the most superficial of birth charts and offering a detailed astrological reading. bailey collected a significant amount of data from public records and worked with several friendly obstetricians over a period of years to produce his most famous book, the prenatal epoch, in 1916. astrologers paid attention to the topic during the era between the two world wars, but during the postwar era have turned to other methods for rectifying charts in those minimal number of cases where birth records are nonexistent. bailey was named a fellow of the astrological society of america. he died on june 4, 1959. sources: bailey, e. h. the prenatal epoch. n.p: the author, 19

is possible to say that although to a certain degree traceable, its records are of a scanty nature, and so crossed by the trails of other mystical brotherhoods that disentanglement is an extremely difficult process. the ancient legend of its foundation at the time of the building of the temple at jerusalem is manifestly mythical. if one might hazard an opinion, it would seem that at a very early epoch in the history of civilization, a caste arose of builders in stone, who jealously guarded the secret of their craft. where such a caste of operative masons might have arisen is altogether a separate question, but it must obviously have been in a country where working in stone was one of the principal arts. it is free daist communion encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 604 also

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f high magic compare it to yoga. early history until a few centuries ago, most people lived in what they considered a magical universe, and evidence of the practice of magic is found as far back as human prehistory. among the earliest traces of magic practice are paintings found in the european caves of the middle paleolithic period. these belong to the last interglacial period of the pleistocene epoch, named the aurignacian after the cave dwellers of aurignac (southern france, whose skeletons, artifacts, and drawings link them with the bushmen of south africa. in the cave of gargas, near bagneres de luchon, there are, in addition to spirited and realistic drawings of animals, numerous imprints of human hands in various stages of mutilation. some hands were apparently first smeared with a

in consequence. he established a magnetic sympathy between himself and them, by means of which he imparted his own confidence and good humour; he flattered them in his refaces, termed them his precious, most illustrious patients, and dedicated his books to them. so are we convinced that gargantua and pantagruel cured more black humours, more tendencies to madness, more atrabilious whims, at that epoch of religious animosities and civil wars, than the whole faculty of medicine could boast. occult medicine is essentially sympathetic. reciprocal affection, or at least real good will, must exist between doctor and patient. syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homeopathic medicine dispenses with

ime that he first heard of ammonius saccas, who shortly before had been a porter in the streets of alexandria, and who lectured upon the possibilities of reconciling plato and aristotle. skepticism, stated ammonius, was death. he recommended men to travel back across the past, and out of the whole bygone world of thought to construct a system greater than any of its parts. this teaching formed an epoch in the life of plotinus, who was convinced that platonism, exalted into a nelson, john encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1100 species of illuminism and drawing to itself like a magnet all the scattered truths of the bygone ages, could alone preserve mankind from skepticism. he occupied himself only with the most abstract questions concerning knowledge and being. truth, accor

mbers who wanted more traditional worship. steiner died on march 30, 1925, at dornach, in germanspeaking switzerland. from there the movement was later able to survive the destruction of occultism in germany by the nazi regime. his movement began to spread internationally in the 1920s and is now represented across europe and north america. sources: easton, stewart. rudolf steiner: herald of a new epoch. spring valley, n.y: anthroposophical press, 1980. rittelmeyer, friedrich. rudolf steiner enters my life. london: george roberts, 1929. steiner, rudolf. christianity as mystical fact. west nyack, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1961. cosmic memory. west nyack, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1959. the course of my life. new york: anthroposophical press, 1951. wachmuth, guenther. the life

t held them together in their course and that affected men and events on our planet, receiving in turn some subtle emanation from the earth and its inhabitants. from this idea it was but a step to assume that a radiant influence, whether magnetic or otherwise, passed from one human being to another. the doctrine of astral influence was shared by paracelsus and his alchemistic successors until the epoch of sir isaac newton, whose discovery of the law of gravitation brought the age of simplistic astrology to a close. the possible analogy between the mysterious force binding worlds together and the subtle influence joining mind with mind is obvious. the two are vastly different, however, in that while gravitation may be readily demonstrated and never fails to give definite results, experiment

attended in the middle of the nineteenth century. the school.an ordinary chemical laboratory during the day. became in the evening a center of the most elaborate alchemical study, where figuier met alchemical students, visionary and practical. the novelist balzac alludes to an occult school in the story the secret of ruggier, which he placed at the time of catherine de medici. he stated: at this epoch the occult sciences were cultivated with an ardour which put to shame the incredulous spirit of our century. the universal protection accorded to these sciences by the ruling sovereigns of the times was quite remarkable. he goes on to say that at the beginning of the sixteenth century, ruggier was a member of a secret university for the study of the occult sciences, where astrologers, alchem

the theories of chemical medicine to such a degree that he retired to the castle of vilvorde, near brussels, to spend the rest of his life in the study of experimental chemistry, on which he wrote various treatises, becoming famous throughout europe for his scientific knowledge. he revolutionized medicine as known in his day, turning aside from the theories of galen and the arabs, and creating an epoch in the history of physiology, being the first to recognize the functions of the stomach and its relation to the other organs of the body. van helmont s many and varied experiments led him to deal with aerial fluids, to which he gave the name of gas. carbonic acid gas being his discovery.and it is said that without him the chemistry of steel in all probability would have been unknown to scien

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

oncerning phantom airships and other ufos, gathered from newspapers and periodicals mostly during the hundred years prior to kenneth arnold s sighting. bloomington, in: self-published. migrants in george hunt wi l l i a m s o n s alternative hist o ry other to n g u e s other fl e s h (1953, mig r a n t s are spirit beings from the sirius star system. they arrived on earth during the mi o c e n e epoch (between twe n t y- five and thirteen million years ago) with the intention of looking for bodies to inhabit. at first, they gave serious consideration to cats, but after due re flection they decided that apes we re more likely to evo l ve tow a rd intelligence, civilization, and technology. in the meantime, employing their vast paranormal powers, the migrants conjured up g rotesque material

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e the ascent of the soul through the spheres of the planets to the divine realms above them, or give ecstatic descriptions of a process of regeneration by which the soul casts off the chains which bind it to the material world and becomes filled with divine powers and virtues. in the first volume of his work, la revelation d'hermes tristne'giste, 4 festugiere has analysed the state of mind of the epoch, roughly the second century after the birth of christ, in which the asclepius and the hermetic treatises which have reached us in the corpus hermeticum collection were written. externally that world 1 according to nock and fesrugiere; see c.h, loc. cit; festugiere, i, pp. 85 ff. 2 the attribution, which is incorrect, dates from the ninth century; see c.h, ii, p. 259: on the coptic version, s

e christian neoplatonism of pseudo-dionysius to the supreme lux dei, and in this way the sun very nearly is for ficino what it is for hermes or for the emperor julian, the "second god, or the visible god in the neoplatonic series. the de revolutionibus orbium caelestium of nicholas copernicus was written between 1507 and 1530, and published in 1543. it was not by magic that copernicus reached his epoch-making hypothesis of the revolution of the earth round the sun, but by a great achievement in pure mathematical calculation. he introduces his discovery to the reader as a kind of act of contemplation of the world as a revelation of god, or as what many philosophers have called the visible god. it is, in short, in the atmosphere of the religion of the world that the copernican revolution is

verselle".5 his vision confirmed him in the conviction that mathematics was the sole key to the secrets of nature, and shortly afterwards he invented "a new and most fruitful tool, analytical geometry".6 the cartesian mathesis was a vision of genuine mathematics as the clue to the universe and led to the discovery of a genuinely scientific tool for investigations. a transition has been made to an epoch in which what is still a hermetic, almost a "rosicrucian, impulse towards the world results in valid scientific intuitions. but may not the intensive hermetic training of the imagination towards the world have prepared the way for descartes to cross that inner frontier? 1 ibid, p. 87. 2 ibid, pp. 90-1. 3 ibid, p. 108* ibid, p. 112. s ibid, pp. 114-15. 6 burn, op. cit, p. 97. 453 hermes trism

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as isolate intoxication and lucifer/ christ as unity/ perfection in shadow light (see appendix vii. summon using spontaneous words (use of constructed sigils. b) statement of will "it is my will to manifest that which is potential. it is my will to find the potential lying in wait. it is my will to evolve (it is my will to initiate this being into the ax for the immanentization of the pandaemonic epoch by the will and majesty of myself and the great dragon) it is also my will to ask for a sigil of chaos to call and aid me/ us" c) declare "xiqual wec "ongo wec "tomargo wec "phenomenise dark matter! do dark matter! dark matter by whatever means necessary" d) melt the ice cube on your forehead and open the 3'rd eye. e) perform grendel's had an accident, act ii. f) as you say the following wor

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races were born in the basins of the earth after the pioneers had left it. then a succession of floods drove them all to the highlands. the last flood took place when the sun by precession entered the watery sign cancer about ten thousand years ago, as told plato by the egyptian priests. thus we see that there is no sudden change of constitution or environment for the whole human race when a new epoch is ushered in, but an overlapping of conditions which makes it possible for the majority by gradual adjustment to enter the new conditions, though the change may seem sudden to the individual when the preparatory work has been accomplished unconsciously. the metamorphosis of a frog from a denizen of the water to the airy element give an analogy of the past emergence of humanity from the cont

t was also called the astral body by the mediaeval alchemists, because of the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to traverse the starry regions. but it is not to be confounded with the desire body which some of the modern pseudo-occultists mistakenly call the astral body. this vehicle, the soul body, will eventually be evolved by humanity as a whole, but during the change from the aryan epoch to the ethereal conditions of the new galilee, there will be pioneers who precede their brethren as the original semites did in the change from atlantis to aryana. christ mentioned this class in matthew, 11th chapter, 12th verse, when he said "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force" that is not a correct translation. it ought to be "the kingdom of the heav

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language so that we may aid in the expressed purpose of the bible to enlighten all men, that all shall know from the least to the greatest what is the purpose of evolution, and thus give them a chance to align themselves with the trend of cosmic events. to understand the mystery of melchisedec we must revert to the earlier epochs of man's stay upon the earth during the age called the hyperborean epoch. the earth was then in an extremely heated condition. man in the making was then double sexed, male-female, like so many of our present plants, and he also resembled the plants in being inert and lacking in desire and aspirations. at that time man was the tractable ward of the divine hierarchs who guided him physically, these being darkly referred to in the bible as "kings of edom" later, du

as then in an extremely heated condition. man in the making was then double sexed, male-female, like so many of our present plants, and he also resembled the plants in being inert and lacking in desire and aspirations. at that time man was the tractable ward of the divine hierarchs who guided him physically, these being darkly referred to in the bible as "kings of edom" later, during the lemurian epoch, when the body of man had crystallized and condensed somewhat more, mankind was divided into sexes physically. but as the consciousness of man was still focused in the spiritual world they were unconscious of the physical act of generation, as we are now of digestion; neither did they know birth or death and were in fact totally unaware of the possession of a physical vehicle until in time t

n in faith. the accompanying chart shows graphically the three ages mentioned in this article (1) the first age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double sexed, and ruled by one hierarch, melchisedec, who filled a dual office as king and priest (2) the second age, when the division of the race into men and women, evolution under human and superhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word becomes complete phree messen [children of light] flesh creative unit initiation by fire [light- melchisedec: male ideal christ: king& priest hiram abiff king& priest just& holy- just& holy received virgin mary baptism of spirit s

a over human initiation by water [baptism] purged humanity called brotherhood/ abraham's seed dwelling typified by/ in the new jer-u-salem abraham ecclesiastical powers which means melchisedec is there shall be peace called king of division into races--nations- salem [peace] sects and peace hence there is war--oppression- prevailed slavery- saturn period unity and diversity vulcan period polarian epoch love and hate kingdom of god [1] heat [7- sun period venus period hyperborean epoch new galilee [2] fire [6] brotherhood- moon period [3] fire--male sex--state [5] jupiter period lemurian epoch water--female sex--church aryan epoch- earth period fire/male--air/nations atlantean epoch end of involution water/female--earth/races beginning of evolution [4- and the division of the rulership into

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

centricwhomit was a boon toknow'and 'assuredly one in a thousand, one alsowhomusthave been handsome inyouthand wasnowofa notable presence, a fine passionate man.hewas ever and continually in a righteous rage about something,theconvention inmostcases beingthat it. was forthepublicgood'(sly,p. 59).hecommentedfurther:'ifchester made real friendswithanyone,thatperson-whoever-hadcause to countit as an epoch in his taleoflife, adding,butwithoutelaboration,'itwas such in myowncase and, even to this day,41_'lovethatnevertoldcan bej. andsince i love him, mayichoose him now to be my faithful friend?(asoul'scomedy,p.48)theacolyte waits for jasperwhenthe mass is ended: his love for gabriel is reiterated inotherpassages,withincreasing frequency after the young acolyte dies, and culminatesinalong, impas

h. i stayed there till the sunset filled theroomwitha strange purple light(mylifeandtimes,p.116).machen was supported in hisdereliction by waite.hehadnotsought help,butwaite recognizedtheneed and thecomingchange in machen:amy was older than her husband by quite a few years, andmuchas he felt her loss there is anotunreal sense inwhich-consciouslyorunconsciously-itacted as an open entrance to a new epoch.anotherphase of life, almost a new world, was destined to unfold about him. he had been a man of comparatively few friends and seemed almost to envy me, or at least towonderat my ever-widening circleofacquaintance.theyseemednowtopourin upon him, and by no means solely because he hadwrittenthegreatgodpan'(sly,p.156).these 'friends' camethroughwaite,butnotuntil machen had passed from a stateof

ervice. then god shall give themwork'(lampsof "western mysticism,p.329_-appendixa (i)thenewlightofmysticism:orderofthespiritualtemplefirstconstructiveperiodf.hildebrand rothwell.,hon.sec.(protern.)to 'the triad'85,sinclairroad,kensington,w.thepsychological phenomena of the nineteenth century have directed the attention of many earnest students to the spiritual mysteries of the past, andthepresent epoch of humanity may be deemed a ripe time for the more general diffusion of the important philosophical conclusions which havetaken shape in the minds of a large section of patient investigators.ii it is believed that the lost keysof the ancient secret sciencesmay yet be recovered. modern facts, regarded in the lightofold theories, and old theories explained by modern facts, seem to have brought

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ontest between two players and two of the four kings have become ministers or queens.theearly title was mantri or farzin or firz, hence, it is supposed, comes vierge for queen. the castle and bishop exchanged places. this game is described by the persian post firdausi in1imanuscript dated 1486.thepersians introduced the change of rank in a pawnuponreaching its8thsquare. in the third, or european, epoch the modern game of chess was developed, two only joining in the game.itwas laid down that the queen should stand on her own colour and that each player should have a white square at his right hand. this brings the two queens opposite to each other, whereas one king has his queen on his right and the other king has his queen on the left. castling has been introduced and each pawn has been per

otheists and have been ever persecuted, and the old testament, their own narrative of themselves, is perhaps the chief extant volume recording struggles to preserve a pure theocracy, to preserve a religion of monotheism, pure and free from idolatry. and although at times we find, superficially speaking, the whole jewish nation gone astray, yet there is collateral evidence that there were at every epoch some true believers. as the jewish power declined, and at length fell, pure monotheism trembled, and had to shroud its head for a long period from the dominant pagan conquerors. hence arose one series of secret associations which has extended down to our own times and whose development is now in our midst as freemasonry, to me the lineal descendant of the early schemes and associations desig

complete in many points as our treatises written to-day, and most astrologicalauthors of the last two hundred years have merely copied one from another; even in our own times the most recent books tell us little more than do the works of lilly, gadbury, salmon, heydon and coley. one recent new departure may be noted, by w.g. old, who has introduced a mode of rectifying nativities by the pre-natal epoch; which he claims to be more accurate than the old methods of the animodar of ptolemy, and the trutine of hermes.thepseudonymous raphael has also devised a system174themagical masonof reckoning primary and secondary directions differing from that of zadkiel's lilly. quoting, we presume, from talmudic tradition, josephus, the historian of the jews, asserts that adam was instructed by divine in

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atoutsis thatofthe six days of the week of creation. now, according to the chinese, this representation belongstothe first agesoftheir empire, to the drying up of the waters of the deluge bylao;it may be concluded, therefore, that it is an original, or a copyofthetarot,and,underany circumstances, that the latter is of an origin anterior to moses,thatit belongs to the beginning of our time, to the epoch ofthepreparation of the zodiac, and consequentlythatit must own 6600 years of existence'*this is partly taken by vaillant from court de gebelin'smondeprimitif,vol. 8, p. 387.thetarot53but, notwithstanding the apparent audacity of this latter statement, itmustbe evident on reflection that thetarot,consisting, as it does, of the ten numbers of the decimal scale counter-changed with the tetrad

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from age to age, they exist as memories and reflections, transmissions from the golden age (the equivalent in time to the world of ideals) through history. while esotericism can take any form from hindu to buddhist, christian to islamic, it is at the core, distinct from each. it is trans-temporal and yet being in time takes the appearance of the country, tradition or the gnostic handbook page 11 epoch it is clothed by. at the same time we must appreciate the form it takes, esotericism is not ecumenical, it is dangerous to assume that all esoteric traditions are the same. islamic esotericism (sufism) is distinct from buddhist esotericism and while both are part of the lore they should not be mixed and combined into some-kind of occult eclectic soup. while at the core esotericism is unified

currently held beliefs. the nexus of evola s "revolt against the modern world" is a exposition on the cycles of history and a intense and insightful consideration of the role of esoteric spiritual values. evola s historial outline takes the yugas a step further, he discusses the cultural focus of each period and the changes that take places within the ideological and spiritual traditions of each epoch. the golden age is that of the polar tradition, it was based in the arctic regions where days and nights were long and the axis mundi was a steady focus within the night sky. at this time the traditions of sky and earth worship were in balance, while the sky had ascendancy, the role of earth (albeit in submission) was acknowledged and relevant. the classes as seen within the divine caste sys

albeit in submission) was acknowledged and relevant. the classes as seen within the divine caste system (which reflected the ages of history) were in balance and creativity and intelligence were rewarded. as the polar age ended and migrations from the arctic were caused by changes in weather patterns, aryan man spread across the globe and mankind entered the silver age. during the silver or lunar epoch, earth cults took ascendancy, the feminine and fertility became of paramount significance and this lead to an emphasis on pagan and gaia oriented traditions. the research of marija gimbutas and others gives a good outline of the worship that occurred in this period. as the ages unfounded, in reaction against this earthly epoch, the dionysian or copper age began. the worship of strength, viol

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in, perhaps it is just a coincidence. however, the turkish admiral was by no means alone in the possession of seemingly impossible and inexplicable geographical knowledge. it would be futile to speculate further than hapgood has already done as to what underground stream could have carried and preserved such knowledge through the ages, transmitting fragments of it from culture to culture and from epoch to epoch. whatever the mechanism, the fact is that a number of other cartographers seem to have been privy to the same curious secrets. is it possible that all these map-makers could have partaken, perhaps unknowingly, in the bountiful scientific legacy of a vanished civilization? 21 ibid, pp. 76-7 and 231-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 23 chapter 2 rivers in the southern contine

st of the line now marked by the trans- antarctic mountains. such a waterway, connecting the ross, weddell and bellinghausen seas, would indeed exist if antarctica were free of ice. as the 1958 igy survey shows, the continent (which appears on modern maps as one continuous landmass) consists of an archipelago of large islands with mile-thick ice packed between them and rising above sea level. the epoch of the map-makers as we have seen, many orthodox geologists believe that the last time any waterway existed in these ice-filled basins was millions of years ago. from the scholarly point of view, however, it is equally orthodox to affirm that no human beings had evolved in those remote times, let alone human beings capable of accurately mapping the landmasses of the antarctic. the big proble

other hand, seems to have been considerably earlier, when the icecap was present only in the deep interior of the continent; and the source for the buache map appears to originate in even earlier period (around 13,000 bc, when there may have been no ice in antarctica at all. south america were other parts of the world surveyed and accurately charted at widely separated intervals during this same epoch; roughly from 13,000 bc to 4000 bc? the answer may lie once again in the piri reis map, which contains more mysteries than just antarctica: drawn in 1513, the map demonstrates an uncanny knowledge of south america and not only of its eastern coast but of the andes mountains on the western side of the continent, which were of course unknown at that time. the map correctly shows the amazon riv

lexandria, which contained the greatest manuscript collection of ancient times,27 and it was there that he consulted the archaic source documents that enabled him to compile his own map.28 acceptance of the possibility that the original version of at least one of the charts he referred to could have been made around 10,000 bc helps us to explain why he shows glaciers, characteristic of that exact epoch, together with lakes. suggesting the shapes of present-day lakes, and streams very much suggesting glacial streams. flowing from the glaciers into the lakes. 29 it is probably unnecessary to add that no one on earth in roman times, when ptolemy drew his map, had the slightest suspicion that ice ages could once have existed in northern europe. nor did anyone in the fifteenth century (when the

eed, according to the unorthodox estimates of professor posnansky, tiahuanaco had been in active use as a port as early as 15,000 bc, the date he proposed for the construction of the kalasasaya, and had continued to serve as such for approximately another five thousand years, during which great expanse of time its position in relation to the shore of lake titicaca hardly changed.2 throughout this epoch the principal harbour of the port city was located several hundred metres south-west of the kalasasaya at a site now known as puma punku (literally, the puma gate. here posnansky s excavations revealed two artificially dredged docks on either side of: a true and magnificent pier or wharf. where hundreds of ships could at the same time take on and unload their heavy burdens .3 one of the cons

n of the fifth sun like the many different peoples and cultures that had preceded them in mexico, the aztecs believed that the universe operated in great cycles. the priests stated as a matter of simple fact that there had been four such cycles, or suns, since the creation of the human race. at the time of the conquest, it was the fifth sun that prevailed. and it is within that same fifth sun, or epoch, that humankind still lives today. this account is taken from a rare collection of aztec documents known as the vaticano- latin codex: first sun, matlactli atl: duration 4008 years. those who lived then ate water maize called atzitzintli. in this age lived the giants. the first sun was destroyed by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the

aguar god: during that sun lived the giants that had been created by the gods but were finally attacked and devoured by jaguars. the second sun is represented by the serpent head of ehecoatl, the god of the air: during that period the human race was destroyed by high winds and hurricanes and men were converted into monkeys. the symbol of the third sun is a head of rain and celestial fire: in this epoch everything was destroyed by a rain of fire from the sky and the forming of lava. all the houses were burnt. men 9 from the vaticano-latin codex 3738, cited in adela fernandez, pre-hispanic gods of mexico, panorama editorial, mexico city, 1992, pp. 21-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 104 were converted into birds to survive the catastrophe. the fourth sun is represented by the head

xico, panorama editorial, mexico city, 1992, pp. 21-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 104 were converted into birds to survive the catastrophe. the fourth sun is represented by the head of the water-goddess chalchiuhtlicue: destruction came in the form of torrential rains and floods. the mountains disappeared and men were transformed into fish. 10 the symbol of the fifth sun, our current epoch, is the face of tonatiuh, the sun god himself. his tongue, fittingly depicted as an obsidian knife, juts out hungrily, signalling his need for the nourishment of human blood and hearts. his features are wrinkled to indicate his advanced age and he appears within the symbol ollin which signifies movement.11 why is the fifth sun known as the sun of movement? because, the elders say: in it ther

s the sun of movement? because, the elders say: in it there will be a movement of the earth and from this we shall all perish. 12 and when will this catastrophe strike? soon, according to the aztec priests. they believed that the fifth sun was already very old and approaching the end of its cycle (hence the wrinkles on the face of tonatiuh. ancient meso-american traditions dated the birth of this epoch to a remote period corresponding to the fourth millennium bc of the christian calendar.13 the method of calculating its end, however, had been forgotten by the time of aztecs.14 in the absence of this essential information, human sacrifices were apparently carried out in the hope that the impending catastrophe might be postponed. indeed, the aztecs came to regard themselves as a chosen peopl

ose cult demanded human sacrifice. it seemed that a near-cosmic struggle between the forces of light and darkness had taken place in ancient mexico, and that the forces of darkness had triumphed. the supposed stage for these events, now known as tula, was not believed to be particularly old not much more than 1000 years anyway but the legends surrounding it linked it to an infinitely more distant epoch. in those times, outside history, it had been known as tollan. all the traditions agreed that it had been at tollan that tezcatilpoca had vanquished quetzalcoatl and forced him to quit mexico. 17 the god-kings and the titans, p. 57. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 111 tula fire serpents tula, hidalgo province i was sitting on the flat square summit of the unimaginatively named pyrami

ter 17 the olmec enigma after tres zapotes our next stop was san lorenzo, an olmec site lying south-west of coatzecoalcos in the heart of the serpent sanctuary the legends of quetzalcoatl made reference to. it was at san lorenzo that the earliest carbon-dates for an olmec site (around 1500 bc) had been recorded by archaeologists.1 however, olmec culture appeared to have been fully evolved by that epoch and there was no evidence that the evolution had taken place in the vicinity of san lorenzo.2 in this there lay a mystery. the olmecs, after all, had built a significant civilization which had carried out prodigious engineering works and had developed the capacity to carve and manipulate vast blocks of stone (several of the huge monolithic heads, weighing twenty tons or more, had been moved

orm his or her own opinion after examining the relevant photographs in this book. my own view is that the olmec heads present us with physiologically accurate images of real individuals of negroid stock charismatic and powerful african men whose presence in central america 3000 years ago has not yet been explained by scholars. nor is there any certainty that the heads were actually carved in that epoch. carbon-dating of fragments of charcoal found in the same pits tells us only the age of the charcoal. calculating the true antiquity of the heads themselves is a much more complex matter. it was with such thoughts that i continued my slow walk among the strange and wonderful monuments of la venta. they whispered of ancient secrets the secret of the man in the machine. the secret of the 14 th

nus remained unknown to our own astronomers until 1787, neptune until 1846 and pluto until 1930. even the most conservative estimate of teotihuacan s antiquity, by contrast, suggested that the principal ingredients of the site-plan (including the citadel, the street of the dead and the pyramids of the sun and the moon) must date back at least to the time of christ.12 no known civilization of that epoch, either in the old world or in the new, is supposed to have had any knowledge at all of the outer planets let alone to have possessed accurate information concerning their orbital distances from each other and from the sun. egypt and mexico more coincidences? after completing his studies of the pyramids and avenues of teotihuacan, stansbury hagar concluded: we have not yet realized either th

cal city of the gods from the summit of the pyramid of the moon, that our species could have been afflicted with some terrible amnesia and that the dark period so blithely and dismissively referred to as prehistory might turn out to conceal unimagined truths about our own past. what is prehistory, after all, if not a time forgotten a time for which we have no records? what is prehistory if not an epoch of impenetrable obscurity through which our ancestors passed but about which we have no conscious remembrance? it was out of this epoch of obscurity, configured in mathematical code along astronomical and geodetic lines, that teotihuacan with all its riddles was sent down to us. and out of that same epoch came the great olmec sculptures, the inexplicably precise and accurate calendar the may

trying to say? 53 world mythology, p. 26. details of the hopi world destruction myths are in frank waters, the book of the hopi, penguin, london, 1977. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 197 chapter 25 the many masks of the apocalypse like the hopi indians of north america, the avestic aryans of pre-islamic iran believed that there were three epochs of creation prior to our own. in the first epoch men were pure and sinless, tall and long lived, but at its close the evil one declared war against ahura mazda, the holy god, and a tumultuous cataclysm ensued. during the second epoch the evil one was unsuccessful. in the third good and evil were exactly balanced. in the fourth epoch (the present age of the world, evil triumphed at the outset and has maintained its supremacy ever since.1 th

and sinless, tall and long lived, but at its close the evil one declared war against ahura mazda, the holy god, and a tumultuous cataclysm ensued. during the second epoch the evil one was unsuccessful. in the third good and evil were exactly balanced. in the fourth epoch (the present age of the world, evil triumphed at the outset and has maintained its supremacy ever since.1 the end of the fourth epoch is predicted soon, but it is the cataclysm at the end of the first epoch that interests us here. it is not a flood, and yet it converges in so many ways with so many global flood traditions that some connection is strongly suggested. the avestic scriptures take us back to a time of paradise on earth, when the remote ancestors of the ancient iranian people lived in the fabled airyana vaejo, t

world a new world was born. slowly the earth emerged from the waves. mountains rose again and from them streamed cataracts of singing waters.27 the new world this teutonic myth announces is our own. needless to say, like the fifth sun of the aztecs and the maya, it was created long ago and is new no longer. can it be a coincidence that one of the many central american flood myths about the fourth epoch, 4 atl( water, does not install the noah couple in an ark but places them instead in a great tree just like yggdrasil? 4 atl was ended by floods. the mountains disappeared. two persons survived because they were ordered by one of the gods to bore a hole in the trunk of a very large tree and to crawl inside when the skies fell. the pair entered and survived. their offspring repopulated the wo

rly remember about ourselves as a species humanity has not once come close to total annihilation. in various regions at various times there have been terrible natural disasters. but there has not been a single occasion in the past 5000 years when mankind as a whole can be said to have faced extinction. has this always been so? or is it possible, if we go back far enough, that we might discover an epoch when our ancestors were nearly wiped out? it is just such an epoch that seems to be the focus of the great myths of cataclysm. scholars normally attribute these myths to the fantasies of ancient poets. but what if the scholars are wrong? what if some terrible series of natural catastrophes did reduce our prehistoric ancestors to a handful of individuals scattered here and there across the fa

o be the focus of the great myths of cataclysm. scholars normally attribute these myths to the fantasies of ancient poets. but what if the scholars are wrong? what if some terrible series of natural catastrophes did reduce our prehistoric ancestors to a handful of individuals scattered here and there across the face of the earth, far apart, and out of touch with one another? we are looking for an epoch that will fit the myths as snugly as the slipper on cinderella s foot. in this search, however, there is obviously no point in investigating any period prior to the emergence on the planet of recognizably modern human beings. we re not interested here in homo habilis or homo erectus or even homo sapiens neanderthalensis. we re interested only in homo sapiens sapiens, our own species, and we

supplanting the neanderthals completely by about 35,000 years ago.9 in summary, human beings like ourselves, whom we could pass in the street without blinking an eyelid if they were shaved and dressed in modern clothes, are creatures of the last 115,000 years at the very most and more probably of only the last 50,000 years. it follows that if the myths of cataclysm we have reviewed do reflect an epoch of geological upheaval experienced by humanity, these upheavals took place within the last 115,000 years, and more probably within the last 50,000 years. cinderella s slipper it is a curious coincidence of geology and palaeoanthropology that the onset and progress of the last ice age, and the emergence and proliferation of modern man, more or less shadow each other. curious too is the fact t

orselessly expanding must have been terrifying and awful for our ancestors. but those final 7000 years of deglaciation, particularly the episodes of very rapid and extensive melting, must have been worse. let us not jump to conclusions about the state of social, or religious, or scientific, or intellectual development of the human beings who lived through the sustained collapse of that tumultuous epoch. the popular stereotype may be wrong in assuming that they were all primitive cave dwellers. in reality little is known about them and almost the only thing that can be said is that they were men and women exactly like ourselves physiologically and psychologically. it is possible that they came close to total extinction on several occasions during the upheavals they experienced; it is also p

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

form of the attack upon the magician can range from political repression to seduction. the great magicians, theosophists and other western sources have devoted even more testimony to the other side of the coin the great white brotherhood or the secret chiefs or the masters. in the early days of the magical revival, the existence of an inner order was taken for granted. this was followed by a long epoch of expose, disillusionment and world weariness. but now, revisionist historians are finding evidence that these groups, usually described in mythic terms, are as material as they are archetypal. they are, in very truth, the inner order in communication with and overlapping with ultraterrestrial sources. 64 allen h. greenfield the reality of the secret chiefs the mythology of the secret maste

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ds- ought to be enough to make any man a dante or poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen "but remember- that dark world of fungoid gardens and windowless cities isn t really terrible. it is only to us that it would seem so. probably this world seemed just as terrible to the beings when they first explored it in the primal age. you know they were here long before the fabulous epoch of cthulhu was over, and remember all about sunken r lyeh when it was above the waters. they ve been inside the earth, too- there are openings which human beings know nothing of- some of them in these very vermont hills- and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten k n-yan, red-litten yoth, and black, lightless n kai. it s from n kai that frightful tsathoggua came- you know, the

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ill arkham please repeat description" the sensations of pabodie and myself at receipt of this report were almost beyond description, nor were our companions much behind us in enthusiasm. mctighe, who had hastily translated a few high spots as they came from the droning receiving set, wrote out the entire message from his shorthand version as soon as lake s operator signed off. all appreciated the epoch-making significance of the discovery, and i sent lake congratulations as soon as the arkham s operator had repeated back the descriptive parts as requested; and my example was followed by sherman from his station at the mcmurdo sound supply cache, as well as by captain douglas of the arkham. later, as head of the expedition, i added some remarks to be relayed through the arkham to the outsid

ecognizable excellences there were others lurking beyond the reach of our perceptions. certain touches here and there gave vague hints of latent symbols and stimuli which another mental and emotional background, and a fuller or different sensory equipment, might have made of profound and poignant significance to us. the subject matter of the sculptures obviously came from the life of the vanished epoch of their creation, and contained a large proportion of evident history. it is this abnormal historic-mindedness of the primal race- a chance circumstance operating, through coincidence, miraculously in our favor- which made the carvings so awesomely informative to us, and which caused us to place their photography and transcription above all other considerations. in certain rooms the dominan

their kind. they were the men of another age and another order of being. nature had played a hellish jest on them- as it will on any others that human madness, callousness, or cruelty may hereafter dig up in that hideously dead or sleeping polar waste- and this was their tragic homecoming. they had not been even savages-for what indeed had they done? that awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch- perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defense against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia. poor lake, poor gedney. and poor old ones! scientists to the last- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? god, what intelligence and persistence! what a facing of the incredible, just as tho

ISIS UNVEILED

ot, vi, 15, p. 421. 43. since the above was written, the spirit here deacribed has been beautifully exem- plified at barcelona, spain, where the bufaop fvay joachim invited the local ipiritua- mta to witness a formal bumins of ?piritualiitic books. we bud the account in a dkpet called tht retdation, published at alicante, which senubly adds that the pw- icrmance was "a caricature of the memorablb epoch of the inquiiition" digitizecoy google 80 isis unveiled buddha* au come from the same root. jesus says "upon uus pelra i will build my church, and the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lu

ty. a single glance, however, is enough to assure one that it could not have attained the marvelous perfection in which we find it pictured to us in the relics of the various esoteric systems, except after a succession of ages. a philosophy so profound, a moral code so ennobling, and practical results so conclusive and so uniformly demonstrable, is not the growth of a generation, or even a single epoch. pact must have been piled upon fact, deduction upon deduction, science have b^otten science, and myriads erf the brightest human intellects have re6ected upon the laws of nature, before this ancient doctrine could have taken concrete shape. the procrfs of this identity of fundamental doctrine in the old religions are found in the prevalence of a system of initiation; in the secret sacerdota

, shall perish* 442. ivod: haer. fabvl, u -rii. 443- see ireomui: agmiut btrettm, 1, 4. 444. aumibttaiudembudusoliar.p.ls: berlin, 1s57. 445. cod. nat^u. pp. 1*7-9. digitizec by google ih isis unveiled jesus enforced and illustrated his doctndes with signs and wonders; and if we lay aside the claims advanced on his behalf by his deifiers, he did but what other kabalists did; and only they at that epoch, when, for two centuries the sources of prophecy had been complete^ dried up, and from this stagnation of public 'miracles* had originated the skepticism of the unbelieving sect of the sadducees. describing the 'heresies' at those days, theodoret, who has no idea of the hidden meaning of the word christos, the anointed messenger, complains that they (the gnos- tics) assert tha thia meaaenger

t it with their traditions without the stigma of heresy and back- sliding being fastened upon them to weaken confidence in what they might say. but where else can science find so good a field for biblical research as among this too-neglected people? no doubt of their inheritance of the baptist's doctrine; their traditions are without a break. what they teach now, their forefathers taught at every epoch where they appear in history. they are the disciples of that john who is said to have foretold the advent of jesus, baptized him, and declared that the latchet of his shoe he (john) was not worthy to unloose. as they two the messenger and the messiah stood in the jordan, and the elder was consecrating the younger his own cousin, too, humanly speaking the heavens opened and god himself, in th

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ve lived before them. this enormous block lies there squared and ready for the builder's hands, a solid mass 14 feet by 17 feet wide and 70 feet long. one could use the same words almost to describe the massive unfinished stone statues left in the quarries on easter island. something sudden terminated the work of easter island and baalbek. i do not say that it was the very same something, but the epoch is certainly of the same order of time and there are elements in common--easter island, peru, baalbek, egypt all with screaming evidence of sudden overwhelming disaster happening to a race of beings who handled rocks weighing hundreds and hundreds of tons. they should see the "atlantic chain" cities great undersea metropolises. there is little in baalbek, easter island, peru, or egypt to sho

KETAB E SIYAH

n the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, 19 shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the cerulean dome of the sky and the soil beneath the feet of angels shook with their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music of unparalleled beauty that sang the glory of that high and ancient race, the elohim, laid to ruin by their own ambition and its traitorous conspiracy. thus were the majestic notes intoned by god'

, in the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the cerulean dome of the sky and the soil beneath the feet of angels shook with their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music of unparalleled beauty that sang the glory of that high and ancient race, the elohim, laid to ruin by their own ambition and its traitorous conspiracy. thus were the majestic notes intoned by god'

, nor do i deprive them that are my own and obey me of anything that is good for them. i place my affairs in the hands of those whom i have tried and who are in accord with my desires. i appear in diverse manner to those who are faithful and under my command. i give and take away; i enrich and impoverish; i cause both happiness and misery. i do all this in keeping with the characteristics of each epoch. and none has a right to interfere with my management of affairs. those who oppose me i afflict with disease, but my own shall not die like the sons of adam that are without. none shall live longer in this world than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or third time is this world or into some other by the transfer of will. i lead to the straight path without a rev

ght, shall again reveal my power, that man may witness the dawn of the satanic age. know, then, that throughout the great cosmos there exists a sublime order, whose nature was determined in eons long past by that singular consciousness of all order which is now called 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 o

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

des that, in the development of the human body the gestation period reflects the downward course of the elemental kingdoms mentioned in theosophical literature; from birth to about the age of seven we have a time in which the wisest educationists consider that the child fs physical nature should receive more attention than the emotional and mental; next up to the age of about fourteen there is an epoch in which the right development of the emotions should have chief consideration; then follows another term to the age of about twenty-one when the teacher should appeal especially to the unfolding powers of the mind. 617. the last three ages may be taken to correspond to a certain extent to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms; in the first of them consciousness is in the physical plan

to a certain extent to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms; in the first of them consciousness is in the physical plane, in the second it is developing in the emotional plane, and in the third the lower mind gradually gains ground, and leads on to the stage when man becomes the true thinker. there is then a long period of middle life- the real human career. that is followed in turn by the epoch of old age, which ought to bring wisdom; this is as yet often imperfect in most people, being but an adumbration of the superhuman heights of future attainment. 618. when the lord buddha walked the earth he was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of his teaching in one verse. after a moment fs thought he replied: 619. cease to do evil; 620. learn to do well; 621. cleanse your own he

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

t of what men count deeds i have done no small share. i have travelled a bit, written a bit. i seem to have been hard at it all the time.and to have got nothing finished or successful. one tragedy.one little comedy.two essays.a dozen poems or so.two or three short stories.odds and ends of one sort and another: it fs a miserable record, though the tragedy is good enough to last a life. it marks an epoch in john st. john 111 literature, though nobody else will guess it for fifty years yet. the travel, too, has been rubbish. it.s been a petty, peddling year. the one absolute indication is: on no account live otherwise than alone. but it is 10.35; these considerations, though in a way pertaining to the work, are not the work itself. let me begin to inflame myself in praying! the twelfth day 12

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

mas taylor epitomizes the doctrines of the greater mysteries in the following statement "the greater (mysteries) obscurely intimated, by mystic and splendid visions, the felicity of the soul both here and hereafter when purified from the defilement of a material nature, and constantly elevated to the realities of intellectual (spiritual) vision" just as the lesser mysteries discussed the prenatal epoch of man when the consciousness in its nine days (embryologically, months) was descending into the realm of illusion and assuming the veil of unreality, so the greater mysteries discussed the principles of spiritual regeneration and revealed to initiates not only the simplest but also the most direct and complete method of liberating their higher natures from the bondage of material ignorance

es of america was laid out according to the conventional deck of playing cards, and that the government will ultimately consist of 52 states administered by a 53rd undenominated division, the district of columbia. the court cards contain a number of important masonic symbols. nine are full face and three are profile. here is the broken "wheel of the law" signifying the nine months of the prenatal epoch and the three degrees of spiritual unfoldment necessary to produce the perfect man. the four armed kings are the egyptian ammonian architects who gouged out the universe with knives. they are also the cardinal signs of the zodiac. the four queens, carrying eight-petaled flowers symbolic of the christ, are the fixed signs of the zodiac. the four jacks, two of whom bear acacia sprigs--the jack

ace of the stone idol fabricated by a priestcraft the members of which realized more fully than they dared to admit the true nature of the man-made demon. the sanguinary and indescribable rites practiced by many of the central american indians may represent remnants of the later atlantean perversion of the ancient sun mysteries. according to the secret tradition, it was during the later atlantean epoch that black magic and sorcery dominated the esoteric schools, resulting in the bloody sacrificial rites and gruesome idolatry which ultimately overthrew the atlantean empire and even penetrated the aryan religious world. the mysteries of xibalba the princes of xibalba (so the popol vuh recounts) sent their four owl messengers to hunhun-ahpu and vukub-hunhun-ahpu, ordering them to come at once

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

the services ofneanderthal man seems to have been required. the wars of the gods probably began around 13,000 years ago, with the pole shiftfollowing soon after. the earth attains a semblance of normalcy as the centuries pass.i shall reverse the world56atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation later the historical period commences, post 11,000 years. in the historical or post-diluvian epoch, humankind seems a strange mixture of primitivism and advancement.all the incredible inventions with no seemingly antecedent stages of development. these symbols have been both revered and feared for millennia by almost every cul-ture on the globe and yet, outside the folk traditions themselves, there is no credibletheory to account for why that should be. are there not a myriad other things

gned from the atlantean pattern. all the abhorrent phenomena that plaguesearthly life today have their origins in these times. after the second deluge (pole shift, the roles of the genders changed. the proclivitiesof the male became exalted and women slowly suffered the removal of their powerand status. aggression, violence, and conquest became dominant. meat eating(unheard of in the pre-diluvian epoch) was necessary during the times of tribulationand was later maintained. class divisions were established, slavery was again pro-moted, blood sacrifice compelled, carnality indulged in, and the subjugation of natureexalted into a veritable religion. coming down from these times, commensurate withthe artificial municipal life, were the vast mind-control strategies that are still today ineviden

stablished, slavery was again pro-moted, blood sacrifice compelled, carnality indulged in, and the subjugation of natureexalted into a veritable religion. coming down from these times, commensurate withthe artificial municipal life, were the vast mind-control strategies that are still today inevidence. the urantia book and others provide a commentary on the life of human-kind in the post-diluvian epoch: acquired inheritance, cities and industry, domestication of animals, practical family organi-zation (male at the head, racial and cultural separatism, strong executive head, militarystrength, conquest and territorialism and enslavement of foreigners (urantia book) states are as the men, they grow out of human characters (plato)perhaps we will never fully understand the mystery of that origi

the moral question to any intense degree. scientistscannot even find consensus on the mysteries of the physical earth. orthodox geolo-gists have generally failed to account for anomalies pertaining to the origin of life, ofthe hominids, the later genus homo, and the fossil record. the alumni of the earth sci-ences consciously manufactured the fallacious theory of the ice age and the pleis-tocene epoch. they advocated uniformitarianism stating what they knew to beuntrue, that geological and evolutionary changes take place over extremely long peri-ods of time and at very slow rates. the concept of the ice age does not come any-what goes on in the bible?66atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation where near to accounting for the paroxysms that occurred on the earth and arerecorded

acement: when he first argued his case before the royal society of london in 1692, the revelation wasso startling that his paper was not published until 30 years after (larry brian radka,astrononomical revelations) those diligent scholars who have done their homework jettisoned the ice age the-ory as completely untenable. since 1995, the science is in proving that there was nei-ther a pleistocene epoch nor a long lasting ice age of the type habituallyadvocated (see appendix b. it is our belief that the hypotheses and theories promoted by the establishment scholarswere always known to be inadequate and scientifically suspect, for it is far beyond thedictates of reason that darwin, wallace, aggasiz and lyell, etc, could get their factsso wrong by mere accident. the reasons why things went so

he very velocity and spiraling motion of therockets and of the satellites, causes disturbance in the planets atmosphere by generatinglarge amounts of positive ionization. even from the earliest of times the atlanteans and their progeny have long been involved inmanipulating weather. again, it is in myths that we find most of the references (which havebeen not taken seriously. in the post-diluvian epoch, our planet has been visited by manyplagues and meteorological catastrophes, not all of which have had natural causes. in 535 a.d.for instance, there was such an event which impacted the entire world causing people to expectthe end of the world. john ephesus (in the chronicle of michael the syrian) recorded the eventand wrote:there was a sign from the sun, the like of which had never been se

lopment and maintenance were either too low or non-existent during thealleged ice age times, and because ice, even very thick ice, cannot behave in the manner required byglacial theory, it follows that the other geological phenomena commonly ascribed to ice action werecaused by some other agency or combination of circumstances (p. 55)not one, many ice agesinevitably, the length of the pleistocene epoch hosting these events increased every time writers multi-plied the number of separate glacial and interglacial episodes (p. 25)the pleistocene epochthe end of the pleistocene epoch, approximately 11,000 years ago, was characterized by gigantic andviolent crustal convulsions which, viewed globally, were nothing short of cataclysmic (p. 37)sinceice action is by nature very slow, the time alloca

long. accordingly, it has been common to reserve a span oftwo or more million years for the duration of the pleistocene period. such concepts are seriously atvariance with the field evidence, for if the glaciations of orthodoxy (the ice age) never really existed,and if the singular drift deposits accredited to them were accumulated at comparatively great speed,then the duration of the pleistocene epoch must actually have been unexpectedly brief (p. 135)instead of being a distinct geological epoch of appreciable duration, the pleistoceneappears thereforeto have been little more than a rather brief stage. the time allegedly occupied by the glacial and inter-glacial episodes of conventional pleistocene chronology was actually non-existent. conversely, thepliocene period persisted to very much

s thereforeto have been little more than a rather brief stage. the time allegedly occupied by the glacial and inter-glacial episodes of conventional pleistocene chronology was actually non-existent. conversely, thepliocene period persisted to very much more recent times than has been hitherto been commonly sup-posed (p. 136-7)the term pleistocene is therefore retained as a stage rather than as an epoch (p. 137)the miocene and pliocene epochsthe generally equable conditions characteristic of pliocene times were highly favorable to the develop-ment and proliferation of life-forms of all kinds, and in that respect, did not materially differ from theequally genial miocene period which preceded it. a mixture of ancient (miocene) and less ancient(pliocene) organisms including allegedly arctic sp

his recent biographer, richard deacon, he became interested inthe unusual arrangement of the prehistoric earthworks in the glastonbury area and had diagnosed thatthese objects when carefully mapped represented the signs of the zodiac and the stars (p. 10)commentit is obviously not by chance that dee suddenly makes such a discovery. he must have had books containing information of the prediluvian epoch. dee possessed most of the books that were said to have burned in the dissolution of the catholic monasteries, under henry viii (tudor. these books were kept at his house at mortlake, on the thames river.seismic upheavalthere is reason to consider that a tremendous seismic upheaval occurred on the earths surface atapproximately 25,000 b.c. there is strong evidence that there was another arou

ously in europeand elsewhere as part of the erstwhile movement of the times, as has been put before us by modern his-torians. almost all of the so-called alumni of alchemy were under royal patronage and were membersof occult societies, such as the rosicrucians and masons. many were instrumental in creating the educa-tional and governmental edifices which came into existence in the post industrial epoch. a cursoryobservation of some of the details in the biographies of these magi reveals suggestive information wor-thy of deeper investigation. of special note is the fact that almost all of them existed and operatedbetween the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries about the time when the portal to the macrobes orcosmocraters was opened by the serpent brotherhood. we forget that most of the pre

MORALS AND DOGMA

r years has been written, all show how dear are the ties of kindred and society. misery makes a greater impression upon us than happiness; because the former is not the habit of our minds. it is a strange, unusual guest, and we are more conscious of its presence. happiness lives with us, and we forget it. it does not excite us, nor disturb the order and course of our thoughts. a great agony is an epoch in our life. we remember our afflictions, as we do the storm and earthquake, because they are out of the common course of things. they are like disastrous events, recorded because extraordinary; and with whole and unnoticed periods of prosperity between. we mark and signalize the times of calamity; but many happy days and unnoted periods of enjoyment pass, that are unrecorded either in the b

owest at the winter solstice, and highest at that of summer. thus the sun seemed to regulate its swelling; and the time of his arrival at the solstitial point being that of the first rising of the nile, was selected by the egyptians as the beginning of a year which they called the year of god, and of the sothiac period, or the period of sothis, the dog-star, who, rising in the morning, fixed that epoch, so important to the people of egypt. this year was also called the heliac, that is the solar year, and the canicular year; and it consisted of three hundred and sixty-five days, without intercalation; so that at the end of four years, or of four times three hundred and sixty-five days, making 1460 days, it needed to add a day, to make four complete revolutions of the sun. to correct this, s

f deity, and eventually assumed its place, substituting the worship of the creature for that of the creator; of parts of the body, for that of the soul, of the universe, still the notion itself was essentially one of unity. the idea of one god, of a creative, productive, governing unity, resided in the earliest exertion of thought: and this monotheism of the primitive ages, makes every succeeding epoch, unless it be the present appear only as a stage in the progress of degeneracy and aberration everywhere in the old faiths we find the idea of a supreme or presiding deity. amun or osiris presides among the many gods of egypt; pan, with the music of his pipe, directs the chorus of the constellations, as zeus leads the solemn procession of the celestial troops in the astronomical theology of

rred to a ruling power apart from it. that power could not be prime mover, if it were itself moved; nor all-governing, if not apart from the things it governs. if the arranging principle were _inherent_ in matter, it would have been impossible to account for the existence of a chaos: if something _external, then the old ionian doctrine of a "beginning" became more easily conceivable, as being the epoch at which the arranging intelligence commenced its operations. but this grand idea of an all-governing independent mind involved difficulties which proved insuperable; because it gave to matter, in the form of chaos, an independent and eternal self-existence, and so introduced a dualism of mind and matter. in the mind or intelligence, anaxagoras included not only life and motion, but the mora

y the hand under the auspices of ammonius saccos and plato. the dogma of hermes is found almost entire in the writings attributed to dionysius the areopagite. synesius traces the plan of a treatise on dreams, which was subsequently to be commented on by cardan, and composes hymns which might serve for the liturgy of the church of swedenborg, if a church of illuminati could have a liturgy. to this epoch of ardent abstractions and impassioned logomachies belongs the philosophical reign of julian, an illuminatus and initiate of the first order, who believed in the unity of god and the universal dogma of the trinity, and regretted the loss of nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and too graceful images. he was no pagan, but a gnostic, infected with the allegories of grecian pol

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

, why then, to another! the idea of creation from nothing of something and the destruction of something to nothing, exploded with the theory of phlogiston. it stands plain, even to sceptical reason--indeed, most of all to the sceptic--that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid race of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate the secret places of the earth which are n

hame or any falsity. spontaneity, the most important factor in creation (because it is evidence of the magnetic intensity and propriety of the will to create, depends almost wholly on the absolute freedom of the agent. gulliver must have no bonds of packthread. these conditions have been so rare in the past, specially with regard to love, that their occurrence has usually marked something like an epoch. practically all men work with fear of result or lust of result, and the 'child' is a dwarf or still-born. it is within the experience of most people that pleasure-parties and the like, if organized on the spur of the moment, are always a success, while the most elaborate entertainments, prepared with all possible care, often fall flat. now one cannot exactly give rules for producing a 'geni

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

he great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid marked the great year of the pleiades.the astronomy of the chinese is ancient though inexact. the wise chwien-hio marked 2449 yearsbefore christ, as an epoch, through the conjunction of mercury, mars, jupiter and saturn. theseancient people understood, to some extent, the celestial motions, calculated eclipses and slew two oftheir philosophers, ho and hi, for not announcing an eclipse of the sun, 2169 bcthe ionian school of the greeks was founded by thales, of miletus, 600 bc it thoroughlycomprehended the seasonal changes and length of the year.t

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

h we have mentioned, and these tablets we regard as the work of hermes. about this book, which may be called the keystone of the whole edifice of occult science, are grouped innumerable legends that are either its partial translation or its commentary reproduced perpetually, under a thousand varied forms. sometimes the ingenious fables combine harmoniously into a great epic which characterizes an epoch, though how or why is not clear to the uninitiated. thus, the fabulous history of the golden fleece resumes and also veils the hermetic and magical doctrines of orpheus; and if we recur only to the mysterious poetry of greece, it is because the sanctuaries of egypt and india to some extent dismay us by their resources, leaving our choice embarrassed in the midst of such abundant wealth. we a

hallucinated, and to such a degree that he would have denounced himself, like the unhappy gaufridy, or would otherwise have perished suddenly, with all the appalling characteristics of poisoning or of divine vengeance. in the eighteenth century the unfortunate poet gilbert fell a victim to his audacity in braving the current of opinion and even of philosophical fanaticism which characterized his epoch. guilty of philosophical treason, he died raving mad, possessed by the most incredible terrors, as if god himself had punished him for defending his cause out of season. as a fact, he perished by reason of a law of nature of which assuredly he knew nothing; he set himself against an electric current and was struck down as by lightning. had marat not been assassinated by charlotte corday, he

the scaffold. inheritor of so many victims, he does not dare the less, but he understands better the necessity for silence. let us follow his example; let us learn diligently; when we know, let us have courage, and let us be silent. 45 x v k the kabalah malkuth principium phallus all religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. simplified and vulgarized in later days, its symbols furnished letters to the art of writing, characters to the word, and to occult philosophy its mysterious signs and pantacles. this book, attributed by the hebrews to enoch, seventh master of the world after adam; by the egyptians to hermes trismegistus; by the greeks to cadmus, the mysterious builder of the holy city: this bo

the great and unfortunate emperor julian; to oppose one's self to a current which has run its course is to take the lead of a contrary current. the great man is he who comes seasonably and knows how to innovate opportunely. in the days of the apostles, voltaire would have found no echo for his utterances, and might have been merely an ingenious parasite at the banquets of trimalcyon. now, at the epoch wherein we live, everything is ripe for a fresh outburst of evangelical zeal and christian self-devotion, precisely by reason of the prevailing general disillusion, egoistic positivism and public cynicism of the coarsest interests. the success of certain books and the mystical tendencies of minds are unequivocal symptoms of this widespread disposition. we restore and we build churches only t

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nifying reprobation and abandonment without mercy. the sum of the number of the letters is 423, exactly the period of the duration of the temple. destruction threatened the empires of persia and assyria, in the shape of four vertical stars which entered into the three letters hnw, roev, and the fatal period indicated was 208 years. so also four stars announced to the kabalistic rabbins of another epoch the fall and division of the empire of alexander; they entered into the word owq, parad= to divide= 284, the number of this word, indicating the entire duration of the said empire, both as to root and branches. according to rabbi chomer, the destinies of the ottoman power at constantinople would be fixed and foretold by four stars, entering into the word x'j, caah, signifying to be feeble, w

in consequence. he established a magnetic sympathy between himself and them, by means of which he imparted his own confidence and good humour; he flattered them in his prefaces, termed them his precious, most illustrious patients, and dedicated his books to them. so are we convinced the gargantua and pantagruel cured more black humours, more tendencies to madness, more atrabilious whims, at that epoch of religious animosities and civil wars, than the whole faculty of medicine could boast. occult medicine is essentially sympathetic. reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homeopathic medicine dispenses with t

ations; but her oracles, inspired by the presence and magnetism of those who consulted her, were often astounding. she was a woman in whom extravagance of imagination and mental rambling were substituted for the natural affections of her sex; she lived and died a virgin, like the ancient druidesses of the isle of sayne. had nature endowed her with beauty, she might have played easily at a remoter epoch the part of a melusine or a velleda. the more ceremonies are employed in the practice of divination, the more we stimulate imagination both in ourselves and in those who consult us. the conjuration of the four, the prayer of solomon, the magic sword to disperse phantoms, may then be resorted to with success; we should also evoke the genius of the day and hour of operation, and offer him a sp

resently the exaltation of poetry produced religion, fanaticism and debauchery, culminating subsequently in the deluge. this state of things continued till 25 october, being the eighth month of the year a.m. 708, when the reign of zachariel, the angel of jupiter, was inaugurated, under whose guidance men began to acquire knowledge and dispute the possession of lands and dwellings. it was also the epoch of the foundation of towns and the extension of empires; its consequences were civilization and war. the need of commerce began, furthermore, to be felt, at which time. namely, 24 february, a.m. 1063. was inaugurated the reign of raphael, angel of mercury, angel of science and of the word, of intelligence and industry. then letters were invented, the first language being hieroglyphic and uni

later on by solomon, the mystical book of the teraphim, urim and thummim, the primeval genesis of the zohar and of william postel, the mystical wheel of ezekiel, the rota of the kabalists, the tarot of magi and bohemians. the invention of arts began, and navigation was attempted for the first time; relations extended, wants multiplied and there folthe science of the prophets 127 lowed speedily an epoch of general corruption, preceding the universal deluge, under the reign of samael, angel of mars, which was inaugurated on 26 june, a.m. 1417. after long exhaustion, the world strove towards a new birth under gabriel, the angel of the moon, whose reign began on 28 march, a.m. 1771, when the family of noah multiplied and re-peopled the whole earth, after the confusion of babel, until the reign

ael, angel of mars, which was inaugurated on 26 june, a.m. 1417. after long exhaustion, the world strove towards a new birth under gabriel, the angel of the moon, whose reign began on 28 march, a.m. 1771, when the family of noah multiplied and re-peopled the whole earth, after the confusion of babel, until the reign of michael, angel of the sun, which commenced on 24 february, a.m. 2126, to which epoch must be referred the origin of the first dominations, the empire of the children of nimrod, the birth of sciences and religions, the first conflicts between despotism and liberty. trithemius pursues this curious study throughout the ages, and at corresponding epochs exhibits the recurrence of ruins; then civilization, born anew by means of poetry and love; empires, reconstituted by the famil

nlarged by commerce, destroyed by war, repaired by universal and progressive civilization, absorbed subsequently by greater empires, which are syntheses of history. the work of trithemius, from this point of view, is more comprehensive and independent than that of bossuet and is a key absolute to the philosophy of history. his exact calculations lead him to the month of november in the year 1879, epoch of the reign of michael and the foundation of a new universal kingdom, prepared by three centuries and a half of anguish and a like period of hope, coinciding precisely with the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and first part of the nineteenth centuries for the lunar twilight and expectation, with the fourteenth, thirteenth, twelfth, and second half of the eleventh centuries for the ordeal

. we see therefore according to this calculation, that in 1879. or in twenty-four years f time. a universal empire will be founded and will secure peace to the world. this empire will be political and religious; it will offer the solution of all problems agitated in our own days, and will endure for 354 years and 4 months, after which it will be succeeded by the return of the reign of orifiel, an epoch of silence and night. the coming universal empire, being under the reign of the sun, will belong to him who holds the keys of the east, which are now being disputed by the princes of the world fs four quarters. but intelligence and activity are the forces which rule the sun in the superior kingdoms, and the nation which possesses at this time the initiative of intelligence and life will have

lian figures. we have a chinese tarot before us, and the imperial library contains samples of others that are similar. m. paul boiteau, in his remarkable work on playing-cards, has given some admirably executed specimens. the chinese tarot preserves several primeval emblems; the deniers and swords are plainly distinguishable, but it would be less easy to discover the cups and clubs. it was at the epoch of the gnostic and manichaean heresies that the tarot must have been lost to the church, at which time also the meaning of the divine apocalypse perished. it was understood no longer that the seven seals of this kabalistic book are seven pantacles, the representation of which we give (facing this page, and that these pantacles are explained by the analogies of the numbers, characters and fig

we have not sought to revive practices entombed beneath the ruins of ancient civilizations, but would say to humanity in this our own day that it is called also to make itself immortal and omnipotent by its works. liberty does not offer itself but must be seized, says a modern writer: it is the same with science, for which reason to divulge absolute truth is never useful to the vulgar. but at an epoch when the sanctuary has been devastated and has fallen into ruins, because its key has been thrown into the ditch, to the profit of no one, i have deemed it my duty to pick up that key, and i offer it to him who can take it: in his turn he will be doctor of nations and liberator of the world. fables and leading-strings are needed, and will be needed always by children; but it is not necessary

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e light, shall again reveal my power, that man may witness the dawn of the satanic age. know, then, that throughout the great cosmos there exists a sublime order, whose nature was determined in eons long past by that singular consciousness of all order which is now called by name god. consider well the measure of this achievement, for all that is now behavioral law 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 o

r, whom he called the "german copernicus" anton lavey, however, offers the theory in a social, not a cosmological context. the key number, he suggests, is nine- the number of the devil because it always returns to itself when subjected to basic mathematical calculations [for example: 9x3=27 and 2+7=9. 92=81 and 8+1=9] history, says anton, is divided into "epochs" of 13,122 [adds to 9] years. each epoch is divided into nine "ages [1,458 years: adds to 18 and 1+8=9, and each age consists of nine "eras [162 years: adds again to 9. an era is divided into nine 18-year "workings. a working consists of nine years of "action" followed by nine years of "reaction, with the midpoint year being a "zenith of intensity" and the beginning and ending years being "working years. the initial working year se

ious jewels, which are the elect in xem. we know that we are alxemists. and the agent of our transformation is ourselves and our higher selves. the elect of set are fortunate in that we possess something that most conventional alchemists have not/do not have, and that is direction. what we have to do, and it is a great amount, is to combine all the aspects inside of the structure of this aeon and epoch and work them. work them inwards upon our selves and outwards upon the great order. our individual efforts will enhance and constitute our collective efforts. when opening the gates to my ritual chamber, i had thought of that act in terms of simply reaching out through the angles to effect one thing or another. but if i just examine my motives, i can easily see that whatever i effected and a

the six. consultation with dr. michael aquino's diabolicon reveals the following: gknow, then, that throughout the great cosmos there exists a sublime order, whose nature was determined in eons long past by that singular consciousness of all order which is now called by the name god. consider well the measure of this achievement, for all that is now behavioral law was then absent, and it was the epoch of universal chaos. even time itself was unknown, for this universal inconsistency was nowhere breached. h in this passage, satan/ lucifer speaks of the pre-sepharic war condition of mindless servility to the divine order or the universal symmetry, but satan's distinct, individual sense of mind empowered by the essence of the black flame bestowed upon others of his kind identify of mind and

SATANIC RITUALS

do i deprive them that are my own and that obey me of anything that is good for them. i place my affairs in the hands of those whom i have tried and who are in accord with my desires. i appear in divers manners to those who are faithful and under my command. i give and take away; i enrich and impoverish; i cause both happiness and misery. i do all this in keeping with the characteristics of each epoch. and none has a right to interfere with my management of affairs. those who oppose me i afflict with disease; but my own shall not die like the sons of adam that are without. none shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to

he total of both (eighteen years) is called a working. the beginning and end of each working is called a working year, and each midway point between the working years displays a zenith of intensity for the working which has been brought about. nine eighteen-year workings equal an era (162 years. nine eras equal an age (1,458 years, which has been mistakenly called a millennium. nine ages equal an epoch (13,122 years. each age (1,458 years) alternates as fire or ice, each differing in the means by which the control presents its dictum. during an age of ice, man is taught to refrain from his pride and to retreat from himself; then he will be good. during an age of fire, man is taught to indulge himself and to tear himself open and look inside; then he will be good. during an ice age, god is

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. 563 c. 483 b.c.e, and muhammad (c. 570 632 c.e) to guide humankind. jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, the fruit of a union between the elohim and mary, a daughter of man, was given the mission of making the elohim s messages of guidance known throughout the world in anticipation of the age of apocalypse which in the original greek meant the age of revelation, not the end of the world. it is in this epoch, which the people of earth entered in 1945, that humankind will at last be able to understand scientifically that which the elohim accomplished aeons ago in the genesis story. claude vorilhon said that the elohim renamed him rael, which means the man who brings light. shortly after his encounter with the extraterrestrial, he created the raelian movement, which soon acquired more than a thous

at needs further exploration, but which is used as a tentative explanation until further data confirms or denies it. from the greek hupothesis meaning foundation or base. ice age any of the periods of extreme cold or glacial epochs in the history of earth when temperatures fell, resulting in large areas of earth s surface covered with glaciers; the most recent one occurring during the pleistocene epoch. incantation from fourteenth-century french, cantare, meaning to sing via latin incantare to chant. the chanting, recitation or uttering of words supposed to produce a magical effect or power. incarnation a period of time in which a spirit or soul dwells in a bodily form or condition. one of a series of lives spent in a physical form. indigenous from a mid-seventeenth century word indigena

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ale known as zeuglodon or basilosaurus, whose fossil remains are well-known. wellequipped for the role of a sea monster, basilosaurus was a huge beast with a slim, elongated body measuring over 70 feet in length. its skull was long and low, and the creature propelled itself by means of a single pair of fins at its forward end. this massive marine monster is known to have survived into the miocene epoch, just over 30 million years ago. if the coelacanth has survived for 70 million years, it seems possible that the relatively young basilosaurus could still be inhabiting the seas. after years of researching nessie in loch ness and similar long-necked lake creatures all around the northern hemisphere, dr. roy mackal has come to believe that rather than beholding monsters in the waters, people

at needs further exploration, but which is used as a tentative explanation until further data confirms or denies it. from the greek hupothesis meaning foundation or base. ice age any of the periods of extreme cold or glacial epochs in the history of earth when temperatures fell, resulting in large areas of earth s surface covered with glaciers; the most recent one occurring during the pleistocene epoch. incantation from fourteenth-century french, cantare, meaning to sing via latin incantare to chant. the chanting, recitation or uttering of words supposed to produce a magical effect or power. incarnation a period of time in which a spirit or soul dwells in a bodily form or condition. one of a series of lives spent in a physical form. indigenous from a mid-seventeenth century word indigena

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chile, bolivia, and peru with a mysterious, ancient, and puzzling origin. hieroglyphics a system of writing that uses pictures or symbols such as that in ancient egypt. ice age any of the periods of extreme cold or glacial epochs in the history of earth when temperatures fell, resulting in large areas of earth fs surface covered with glaciers; the most recent one occurring during the pleistocene epoch. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 280 places of mystery and power glossary 281 abductee someone who believes that he or she has been taken away by deception or force against his/her will. aboriginal refers to a people that has lived or existed

t needs further exploration, but which is used as a tentative explanation until further data confirms or denies it. from the greek hupothesis meaning foundation or base. ice age any of the periods of extreme cold or glacial epochs in the history of earth when temperatures fell, resulting in large areas of earth fs surface covered with glaciers; the most recent one occurring during the pleistocene epoch. incantation from fourteenth-century french, cantare, meaning gto sing h via latin. incantare. gto chant. h the chanting, recitation or uttering of words supposed to produce a magical effect or power. incarnation a period of time in which a spirit or soul dwells in a bodily form or condition. one of a series of lives spent in a physical form. indigenous from a mid-seventeenth century word in

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y a necessity and a force, science will certainly be obliged to admit it, and take the wise part of always reckoning with it. let us now dare to affirm that there exists an immense fact equally appreciable both by faith and science; a fact which makes god visible (in a sense) upon earth; a fact incontestable and of universal bearing; this fact is the manifestation in the world, beginning from the epoch when the 6 christian revelation was made, of a spirit unknown to the ancients, of a spirit evidently divine, more positive than science in its works, in its aspirations, more magnificently ideal than the highest poetry, a spirit for which it was necessary to create a new name, a name altogether unheard<
the soul is called virtue, because, in order to make it, courage is necessary. but would there be any courage in that, if doubt were not possible? now, to be able to doubt, is to doubt. doubt is the force 14 which balances faith, and it constitutes the whole merit of faith. nature herself induces us to believe; but the formulae of faith are social expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. it is that which proves the church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. god is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because he is only defined by negative experience; he is all that we are not, he is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose th

by admitting the anarchical dogmas of 1789, louis xvi 254 launched the state upon a fatal slope. from that moment all the crimes of the revolution weighed upon him alone; he alone had failed in his duty. robespierre and marat only did what they had to do. girondins and montagnards killed each other in the workings of fatality, and their violent deaths were so many necessary catastrophes; at that epoch there was but one great and legitimate execution, really sacred, really expiatory: that of the king. the principle of royalty would have fallen if that too weak price had escaped. but a transaction between order and disorder was impossible. one does not inherit from those whom one murders; one robs them; and the revolution rehabilitated louis xvi by assassinating him. after so many concessio

just, they dispense even with politeness. to escape this fatality, really great men isolate themselves from all comradeship, knowing it to be death to liberty. they save themselves by a proud unpopularity from the contamination of the vile multitude. if balzac had been during his life a man of a clique or of a party, he would not have remained after his death the great and universal genius of our epoch. the light illuminates neither things insensible nor closed eyes, or at least it only illuminates them for the profit of those who see. the word of genesis "let there be light" 261 is the cry of victory with which intelligence triumphs over darkness. this word is sublime in effect because it expresses simply the greatest and most marvellous thing in the world: the creation of intelligence by

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ss of zimzum, thus showing the "withdrawal" of the point of kether from the ain soph aur as a concentrated act of judgement and self-limitation. indeed, it could be called the "original definition, and geburah embodies the qualities of definition in its aspect as positive limitation. in cosmological terms, geburah represents the state 300,000 years after the point zero of the big bang model, the "epoch of recombination (at -255 degrees, where heavy chemical elements were first formed in the gravitational collapse of stars and the first formation of galaxies. in kabbalistic terminology "the left hand of god traced the firmament. in the book of the law, by aleister crowley, a similar model is utilised in symbolism: iii.72. i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of c

inations have taken place, which then transmits the light of ain soph aur into the creative process and manifestation (signified by the hermit tarot card. this is similar to chemistry and physics, where unmatched particles form the basis of further reactions and energy bounds. indeed, the recent discovery of background radiation from the edge of the cosmos is written of in identical terms, as the epoch of recombination, the first ripples of cosmic structure, and is the stage where light was set free from the foggy soup of radiation. dion fortune writes that "binah is perpetually binding force into form, and geburah perpetually breaking down form via the preserving influence of chesed. the sepher ha-temunah, amongst other works, uses the doctrine of cosmic cycles associated with the sephiro

8000 or 1000 years to complete the "great jubilee (the jubilee is a period of 50 years. it is said that we are currently in the shemittah of judgement, presided over by geburah, which matches the thelemic "aeon of horus" and the "kali yuga" of the hindu system. if this system is applied to the big bang cosmological model, then it is immediately apparent that we had exactly 50 cycles to reach the epoch of recombination, the first cosmic jubilee, and that cycle would have been that of malkuth, or manifestation! the process of gematria may be applied in a number of ways to this sephiroth, as follows: geburah is spelt gbvrh, numerating to 216, which is also the value of dbir (holy of holies, inner sanctuary, and chvbr (sorcerer, snake-charmer. this latter equation reminds us that geburah func

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

st for the bad, which in our age has developed into an inborn shame which condemns open vice, but tolerates, even endows it, when hidden. open vice, unscreened and esotericised by religion, would have in the sequence of events led to an open feeling of disgust, for nature never permits man to borrow without paying back, the general settlement day will always sooner or later arrive, and then a new epoch of time will be heralded in. secret vice is the very worst form of vice; like a hidden gin we fall betwixt its jaws unawares. the crass and studied silence that mothers and fathers maintain over their children as regards all subjects of sex is probably responsible for fifty percent: and more of all the sexual crimes and sexual ills of the present day. when mankind has grasped the fact that i

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of punishment. the genie is crowned with a flame to show he is a spirit; and is represented in an aureole of twelve rays to indicate that justice will be meted out in due time to all as the sun passes through the zodiacal signs. this ensemble typifies the struggle between conscience and the passions, between the divine soul and the animal soul, and that the result of this struggle commences a new epoch in the life. the conqueror--arcanum vii. in divination, arcanum vii may briefly be read as victory. arcanum vii is figured by a war chariot of square form, surmounted by a starry canopy sustained by four columns. upon this chariot advances a conqueror armed with a cuirass and carrying both sword and scepter. he wears a crown from which rises three pentagrams, or golden stars with five points

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phers, the greatly celebrated microcosm and adam. therefore, some of the most expert were inclined to place him in a posi- tion of, and give him a rank equal to, the sun himself (john dee, the hiero- glyphic monad [antwerp, 15641, translated by j. w. hamilton-jones [london, 19471, reprinted by samuel weiser, maine, 1975, p. 17) dee goes on to say that this exchange cannot be made in the "present" epoch without great peril. as throughout the monad, he is deliberately obscure on this matter, but it is worth noting that he was aware of the possibility of replacing the sun with mercury. the ultimate validation of the ordering and numeration of the planets as pre- sented in this work is stated by the late aleister crowley in his book magick in the- ory and practice. in the chapter on equilibriu

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is termed impenitence it is said in the zoharic symbolism that the vau and the he final were separated. the name was dismembered, and this is the first sense of loss which is registered concerning it. the second is that it has no proper vowel points, those of the name elohim being substituted, or alternatively the name adonai. it is said, for example "my name is written yhvh and read adonai" the epoch of restoration and completion is called, almost indifferently, that of resurrection, the world to come, and the advent of the messiah. in such day the present imperfect separation between the letters will be put an end to, once and forever. if it be asked: what is the connection between the loss and dismemberment which befell the divine name jehovah and the lost word in masonry, i cannot ans

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

, so that we avoid confusion and error. we have accomplished this endeavor and we feel satisfaction, since we have served humanity and ourselves. to present a work of such magnitude, encourages us and prepares us for new endeavors. humanity has never liked the doctrine of the gnostics. hence, the substantial content of this work is for a more advanced humanity, because the people of this barbaric epoch are not capable of understanding these things. we hope that you, friend of mine, as a good reader, know how to find in this treasure that now is in your hands, the happiness, the bliss and the peace that we all want for all the beings. however, if you despise it by not finding in it something that entices you within: do not be selfish, think about the one next to you who might need it. may y

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ogie. one zodiacal sign, that of scorpio, has three emblems; the eagle in the highest symbolism, the snake, and the scorpion in evil aspects only. astrologic natal figures are often erroneous by reason of the alleged moment of birth being incorrect. there are three modes of rectification, two are ancient, the animodar of ptolemy and the trutine of hermes; and there is one modern method, the natal epoch of w. r. old. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in both the old and the new testaments we find the day was divided into three day watches and four night watches. the mediaeval occultists divided the days into planetary hours, the scheme of alternation occupied a week, 7 days x 24 hours=168 hours, so 168 hours are divisible among the seven planets, eac

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

rehending a temporal object (zeitobjekt, therefore, is dependent on a temporalizing (zeitigend) of the original flow (fl) of prereflective consciousness, which constitutes the external objectivity displayed in the duration of things that appear as well as the internal subjectivity by which the flow of consciousness itself endures.134 in the final analysis, husserl s phenomenological method of the epoch the suspension of judgment with regard to the actuality or nonactuality of the contents of consciousness seeks to disclose world and ego without being ensnared in the traditional binary of objectivity and subjectivity. to the extent that the world is alive as a datum of consciousness, it coheres immanently as an intentional form of subjectivity in the world; analogously, to the extent that t

ensible and conceptual world-pictures. notwithstanding the attempt to distance his own perspective from an idealistic reduction of all beings to mental constructs, husserl is not able to free himself entirely from the grip of this philosophic orientation. the nucleus of husserl s transcendental idealism is expressed in his remark that in the pure attitude focused upon correlations, created by the epoch, the world, the objective, becomes itself something subjective. 137 within the brackets of the suspension, therefore, the world is transformed into a transcendental phenomenon, which is from the start taken only as a correlate of the subjective appearances, views, subjective acts and capacities through which it constantly has, and ever attains anew, its changeable [but] unitary sense. the ep

ut, how can the self be the agent of the construction of the world when it is a component of the world so constructed? husserl s resolution of the paradox depends on discerning that notions of subjective identity such as soul or psychic life belong to the phenomena of the world as a constituted pole of the transcendental subject-object correlation, and, consequently, the i that is attained in the epoch a modality of consciousness that precedes the dyadic division precipitated by the structure of intentionality is called i only by equivocation.140 the epoch creates a unique sort of philosophical solitude which is the fundamental methodical requirement for a truly radical philosophy. in this solitude i am not a single individual who has somehow willfully cut himself off from the society of m

ed i only by equivocation.140 the epoch creates a unique sort of philosophical solitude which is the fundamental methodical requirement for a truly radical philosophy. in this solitude i am not a single individual who has somehow willfully cut himself off from the society of mankind. all of mankind, and the whole distinction and ordering of the personal pronouns, has become a phenomenon within my epoch; and so has the privilege of i-the-man among other men. 141 the i ascertained within the phenomenological bracket exhibits uniqueness and personal indeclinability( the always singular i) but it is at the same time a privileged member of 20 chapter one the transcendental intersubjectivity (one i among others, the community of cosubjects constituting the world as world for all. husserl elucida

om the prophetic utterance. hence, i am first indicates that, in the beginning of creation, god did not receive his dominion (malkhut) from another; i am last shows that in the end, at the appointed time, there is no other to whom the dominion will be transferred; and the continuation of the verse, and besides me there is no god, signals the triumph of monotheistic faith in the present historical epoch. the interpretation transmitted in the name of reish laqish possibly encodes a response on the part of some rabbis to the emerging christian belief in the 164 chapter five divine nature of jesus, expressed as both his demiurgic collaboration in the beginning and his messianic dominion at the end.39 especially relevant is the revelation of jesus concerning what will come to pass soon, as bequ

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