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rang from mind, clothing the one fire with the other fire, binding them together so that he might mingle the fountainous craters while preserving unsullied the brilliance of his own fire. and thence a fiery whirlwind drawing down the brilliance of the flashing flame penetrating the abysses of the universe, for thence from downwards all extend their wondrous rays, abundantly animating light, fire, ether and the universe. from him leap forth all relentless thunders, and the whirlwind wrapped, storm enrolled bosom of the all splendid strength of hecate, father begotten and he who encircleth the brilliance of fire, and the strong spirit of the poles, all fiery beyond. hereunto is the speech of axiokersos. hiereus: leads theoricus round to hegemon's seat in south west. heg: takes red lamp and t

r and for the 7th he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun; into that center from which all lines are equal. that the swift sun may come round that center, eagerly urging itself towards that center of resounding light. as rays of light his locks flow forth, stretching to the confines of space. and of the solar circles, and of the lunar clashings and of the aerial recesses; the melody of ether, and of the sun and of the passages of the moon, and of the sun is in the supramundane orders, for therein a solar world and endless light subsist. the sun more true measureth all things by time, for he is the time of time. and his disc is in the starless above, the inerratic sphere, and he is the center of the triple world. the sun is fire and the dispenser of fire. he is also the channel o

above, the inerratic sphere, and he is the center of the triple world. the sun is fire and the dispenser of fire. he is also the channel of the higher fire, aether, sun, and the spirit of the moon, ye are the leaders of air. and the great goddess bringeth forth the vast sun and the brilliant moon, and the wide air, and the lunar course and the solar pole. she collecteth it receiving the melody of ether, and of the sun, and of the moon, and of whatsoever is contained by air. unwearied doth nature rule over the worlds and works, so that the periods of all things may be accomplished. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. thus far the voice of the kabiri. heg: conducts theoricus to hierophant's throne and hands to theoricus the solar creek cross. hier

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

re/intuition and water/feelings. jung also thought that we each had a predominant element, a secondary one and a shadow one that we denied or projected on other people whom we then unconsciously disliked because they mirrored our faults. in formal magick, the four elements are seen as providing natural energies for transforming wishes into reality. together they combine to form the fifth element- ether, or akasha- that represents pure spirit, or perfection. medieval alchemists attempted to create this elusive substance, called the philosopher's stone. it was said to turn base metal into gold and, as an elixir according to the eastern tradition, to cure all ills and offer immortality. these elements form the basis for raising power in formal magick and in less formal spells too and are repr

d his colour is silver. pentagrams the pentagram, as i have already mentioned, is one of the most sacred geometric forms in magick. some witches wear a gold pentacle, a pentagram in a circle (see page 189, on a chain as a sign of their craft. each of the five points of the pentagram represents one of the five elemental powers, so that the uppermost single point is symbolic of spirit, or akasha or ether. it is dedicated to the goddess in her triple aspects. it is the realm of spirituality and the divine spark within all life. the top left point of the pentagram symbolises air and the fixed sign of aquarius, representing logic, intelligence and the conscious awareness that enables us to reach beyond the material and follow steps to knowledge of what is hidden. the top right point is the elem

les, unless they are to be left to burn down. if this is the case, make sure there is no risk of fire* cleanse and recharge your tools. glossary akasha: the fifth and greatest element, formed by the combination of the ancient elements of earth, air, fire and water that were considered in classical times and by alchemists to be the components of all life and matter. also sometimes called spirit or ether. akashic records: the collective memory bank on the spirit plane said to hold the experiences of all people, past, present and future. alban arthuran: the festival of the mid-winter solstice, named after king arthur, the legendary sun king, which takes place on or about 21 december in the northern hemisphere. alpha waves: brain waves, cultivated in psychic work, that are associated with a ve

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y, or labour, is a spiritual and moral synthesis, it is not measurable in terms of its elements> on the other hand, if you purchase without haggling you will find that along with your purchase the vendor has thrown in 64 the purse of fortunatus. no matter in what extremity you may seem to be, at the last moment your difficulties will be solved. for there is no power either of the firmament of the ether, or of the earth or under the earth, on dry land or in the water, of whirling air or of rushing fire, or any spell or scourge of god which is not obedient to the necessity of the magician! that which he has, he has not; but that which he is, he is; and that which he will be, he will be. and neither god nor man, nor all the malice of choronzon, can either check him, or cause him to waver for

ance need not be conceived as "material" in the crude sense of victorian science; we now know that such phenomena as the rays and emanations of radioactive substances occupy an intermediate position. for instance, mass is not, as once supposed, necessarily impermeable to mass, and matter itself can be only interpreted in terms of motion. so, as to "prana, one might hypothesize a phenomenon in the ether analogous to isomerism. we already know of bodies chemically identical whose molecular structure makes one active, another inactive, to certain reagents. metals can be "tired" or even "killed" as to some of their properties, without discoverable chemical change. one can "kill" steel, and "raise it from the dead; and flies drowned in icewater can be resuscitated. that it should be impossible

making the "petitio principii" of assigning to the astral light the power of transmitting vibrations of all kinds. he nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. he does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of this light (the scientifically trained student will observe the analogy between levi's postulate and that of ordinary science "in re" the luminiferous ether) it is deplorable that nobody should have recorded in a systematic form the results of our investigations of the astral light. we have no account of its properties or of the laws which obtain in its sphere. yet these are sufficiently remarkable. we may briefly notice that, in the astral light, two or more objects can 109 occupy the same space at the same time without interfering with each ot

o perceive by other means those subtle forces which we only perceive by our instruments. 3) we can influence other beings, conscious or no, as lion-tamers, gardeners, etc, and are influenced by them, as by storms, bacilli, etc. 4) there is an apparent gap between our senses and their correspondences in consciousness. theory needs a medium to join matter and spirit, just as physics once needed an "ether" to transmit and transmute vibrations. 5) we may consider all beings as parts of ourselves, but it is more convenient to regard them as independent. maximum convenience is our cannon of "truth<
ecret solitary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word in truth, creating the world by its magick" thiaf "o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun, the beas that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar-phallic bird "the holy ghost, of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me; so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. 267 section c. fire. i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible god: who dwellest in the void place of the spirit- ar-o-go-go-ru-abrao "thou spiritual sun! satan, thou eye, thou lust! cry aloud! cry aloud! whirl the wheel, o my fa

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onditions of membership of the a'.a (equinox iii, supplement pp. 57- 59. so much for the green tree; now for the dry! 66 we come down to the average popular "teacher" the mere humbug. read this "one day quite soon an entirely different kind of electricity will be discovered which will bring as many profound changes into human living as the first type did. this new electricity will move in a finer ether than does our familiar kind, and thus w chapter xvi on concentration cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 119 you wisely ask me for a special letter on concentration; you point out that i have implied it constantly, but never given plain instruction. it hope i have not been so vague as to allow you to suppose

fish, a frog (and all the rest of it) so did that animal at that stage possess a mind correlative. now then! in the course of that kind of initiation conferred by sammasati, the layers are stripped off very much as happens in elementary meditation (dharana) to the conscious mind (there is a way of acquiring a great deal of strange and unsuspected knowledge of these matters by the use of sulphuric ether [c2h5]2o, according to a special technique. i wrote a paper on it once, 16 pp. 4to, and fearing that it might be lost had many copies made and distributed. where is it? i must write you a letter one day) accordingly, one finds oneself experiencing the thoughts, the feelings, the desires of a gorilla, a crocodile, a rat, a devil-fish, or what have you! one is no longer capable of human though

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. this had often been done, but no one had sufficiently fine instruments even to perceive the discrepancy. to take another example, a famous man of science asserted not so long ago that science could never discover the chemical composition of the fixed stars. yet this has been done, and with certainty. if you were to ask your man of science for his "theory of the real" he would tell you that the "ether" which cannot be perceived in any way by any of the senses, or detected by any instruments, and which possesses qualities which are, to use ordinary language, impossible, is very much more real than the chair he is sitting on. the chair is only one fact; and its existence is testified by one very fallible person. the ether is the necessary deduction from millions of facts, which have been ve

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scribe themselves by these names. thus increase bringeth decrease to some, and decrease bringeth increase to others. 3. others have taught thus; i consent to it. violent men and strong die not by natural death. this fact is the foundation of my law. 48 chapter xliii the cosmic method. 1. the softest substance((water-yoni) hunteth down the hardest((rock- lingam) the unsubstantial((the luminiferous ether) penetrateth where there is no opening. here is the virtue of inertia. 2. few are they who attain: whose speech is silence, whose work is inertia. 49 chapter xliv monitorial. 1. what shall it profit a man if he gain fame or wealth, and lose his life? 2. if a man cling to fame or wealth, he risketh what is worth more. 3. be content, not fearing disgrace. act not, and risk not criticism. thus

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

al ii,27 "there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason" the old comment 27. the importance of failing to interpret these verses. unspirituality leads to the bird-lime of intellect. the hawk must not perch on any earthly bough, but remain poised on the ether. the new comment humanity errs terribly when it gets 'education, in the sense of ability to read newspapers. reason is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide. experience is the great teacher; and each one of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. the intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves;

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ou choose, and all such turn to folly lose the subtle splendour, and the wise love and dear bliss of truth. beware 765 lest your lewd laughter set a snare for any! thus and only thus will i admit a difference twixt spirit and the things of sense. what is the quarrel between us? 770 why do our thoughts so idly clatter? i do not care one jot for matter, one jot for spirit, while you say one is pure ether, one pure clay. i ve talked too long: you re very good 775 i only hope you ve understood! remember that conversion lurks nowhere behind my words and works. go home and think! my talk refined to the sheer needs of your own mind. 780 you cannot bring god in the compass of human thought? up stick and thump ass! let human thought itself expand bright sun of knowledge, in me rise! lead me to thes

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an! 118 v we are of course no happier when we examine the many, separately or together. they converge and diverge, each fresh hill-top of knowledge disclosing a vast land unexplored; each gain of power in our telescopes opening out new galaxies; each improvement in our microscopes showing us life minuter and more incomprehensible. a mystery of the mighty spaces between molecules; a mystery of the ether-cushions that fend off the stars from collision! a mystery of the fulness of things; a mystery of the emptiness of things! yet, as we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition- what shall i call it- that being is one, and thought is one, and law is one- until we ask what is that one? then again we spin words- words- words. and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate

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the lurid sky to which tentacular arms appeal to loves too luscious for this world, are all embodied in this simple design. the artist has seized the loathsome horror of the book- i feared even to sign it. look at the cover and shudder; then read it if you dare! e. j. wieland the obsurer phases of love, the more mystic side of passion, have never been more enchantingly delineated than they are by ether archer, in this delightfully vicious book. terrible in its na vet, astounding in its revelations "the whirlpool" is the complete morbid expression of that infinite disease of the spirit spoken of in thelema. for my own personal opinion i refer readers to my exquisite introductory sonnet to the volume. victor. the first thing one wishes to know on completing this extraordinary volume is- what

his extraordinary volume is- what is the author's definition of art? some say that the definition of art is to please; i say art is artifice; phil may said something which conveys nothing 151 if translated into latin, and is unprintable in english. if the author holds phil mar's opinion she has, of course, ever right to continue printing such books; if, however, her idea of art is to please, then ether archer's idea of pleasure is as warped as her nature. to the philistine public this book will have but one use- it contains just sufficient paper to set the drawing-room fire agoing in event of returning home after the domestics have retire to rest. those, however, who appreciate good verse, with find just sufficient warmth therein to read it though the fire be out. bunco. especially after a

ative title to this thin volume. this but bony- nor could sweeter marrow be found elsewhere. the volume has, i am afraid, an unfortunate horoscope, owing no doubt to some affliction in virgo, with no correspondingly strong influence from the house of taurus. let use leave it at that. george raffalovich. babes of the abyss! behold form without soul! of womanhood (philosophical weininger-womanhood) ether archer is the supreme expression. she is passion rebours; l -bas in excelsis. one can imagine her writhing away from even the infamies and hysterics of canon docre; or, having won her broomstick, declining to go to the sabbath. hers is the glass fruit of murano, with its tinkling bells; hers that obscene chastity which blasphemes love and holds the candle to vice. hers is the prudery and res

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the eternal one; he is the almighty one. blessed are they upon whom he shall look with favour, for nothing shall stand before his face. accursed are they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world he shall reveal unto his chosen. and they shall have power over every spirit of the ether; and of the earth and under the earth; on dry land and in the water; of whirling air and of rushing fire. and they shall have power over all the inhabitants of the earth, and every scourge of god shall be subdued beneath their feet. the angels shall come unto them and walk with them, and the great gods of heaven shall be their guests. but i must sit apart, with dust upon my head, discrowned

here was ever a beginning at all. and this magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, ripping and tearing the aethyr, so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or 144 madness. there is a horrible grinding sound, maddening. this is the mill in which the universal substance, which is ether, was ground down into matter. the seer prayeth that a cloud may come between him and the sun, so that he may shut out the terror of the vision. and he is afire; he is terribly athirst; and no help can come to him, for the shew-stone blazeth ever with the fury and the torment and the blackness, and the stench of human flesh. the bowels of little children are torn out and thrust into his mouth

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th the mystic process- always invoking trained observation- and from that moment the future of scientific illuminism will be assured. i must add a paragraph or two on the nature of the mystic process and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. xi "he maketh the whole world of fire, air, water, and earth, and of the all-nourishing ether- zoroaster. one truth, says browning, leads right to the world's end; and so i find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57 in appearance, without discovering an universe. so, as i set myself to discuss the character of mystic states, it is immediately evident that if i am to render myself at all intelligible to english readers, a totally new system of classification must be though

ne, though perhaps it may be admitted that few philosophers have been capable of so profound and acute a resolution of phenomena. it has nothing to do with mysticism as such, but its rational truth makes it a suitable basis for our proposed classification of the mystic states which result from the many religious and magical methods in use among men. 59 xii "the vast sun, and the brilliant moon "o ether, sun, and spirit of the moon! ye, ye are the leaders of air "the principles, which have understood the intelligible works of the father, he hath clothed in sensible works and bodies, being intermediate links existing to connect the father with matter, rendering apparent the images of unapparent natures, and inscribing the unapparent in the apparent frame of the world "there are certain irrat

ouls this peculiar grace condescends- may one say- to this level, just as a father may join in the games of his child, thus gaining its sympathy and confidence as a basis for a higher union. xv "the mind of the father riding on the subtle guiders which glitter with the inflexible tracings of relentless fire "the oracles assert that the types of characters and of other divine visions appear in the ether (or astral light" zoroaster "san n a- chief among the phenomena of san n a, in the case of the beginner trying to concentrate his mind, are those 71 disturbing thoughts which analyse the very process itself. harder to destroy are they than the others, since they come no longer from memory or physical conditions, but from the practice itself, so that they cannot be shut off, but must needs be

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

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ell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness rising, descending, changing for ever, yet for ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mother the moon! the wind hath borne thee in its bosom: and earth hath ever nourished the changeless godhead of thy youth. come thou forth i say, come thou forth, and make all spirits subject unto me! so that every spirit of the firmament, and of the ether of the earth, and under the earth, on dry land, and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, may be obedient unto me [she binds a black cord thrice round the sigil of the spirit and veils it in black silk, saying] hear me, ye lords of truth in the hall of themis, hear ye my words, for i am made as ye! i now purpose with the divine aid, to call f

lumined by this one supreme longing which had burnt up his coarser desires, he passed through the next ritual to 234 the illusive foundation of yesod, which in its apparent equilibrium contains a falsified reflection of the supreme path of the fool. for, though its element is air, it is not the aethyr of zero, the breath of equilibrium, any more than air as a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen is the ether of space. from yesod he could look back upon malkuth and be filled with an intense pity for all who still cling to its illusive splendour; so also could he look up towards kether (kether in yesod, though he knew it not, and burn with a joy not unmingled with sorrow at the apparent hopelessness of ever being able to climb so distant a peak. thus would the heavens and hells seduce him from the

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ned it without touching it. the struggle between his almost childish curiosity and his repugnance to submit himself showed strikingly on his expressive face. the love of dignity won the day. now it is difficult to imagine to oneself the maker of the theory of will, this spiritual twin of 108 louis lambert, consenting to lose a grain of this precious substance. despite the admirable services which ether and chloroform have rendered to humanity, it seems to me that from the point of view of the idealist philosophy the same moral stigma is branded on all modern inventions which tend to diminish human free will and necessary pain. it was not without a certain admiration that i once listened to the paradox of an officer who told me of the cruel operation undergone by a french general at el-agho

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eath. 71 it is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of god, the net with which the fish of pr na is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of brahman.44 at the end of the "shiva sanhita" there are some twenty verses dealing with the mantra. and as in so many other hindu books, a considerable amount of mystery is woven around these sacred utterances. we read: 190. in the four-petalled muladhara lotus is the seed of speech, brilliant as lightning. 191. in the heart is the see

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and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness. rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mother the moon! the wind hath borne thee in its bosom! and earth hath nourished the changeless godhead of thy youth. come thou forth, i say, come thou forth and make all spirits subject unto me! so that every spirit of the firmament, 103 and of the ether, of the earth, and under the earth, on dry land, and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, may be obedient unto me["a pause [mercury "goes to his throne" fr. gemini. 1. brother virgo, didst thou hear the voice? virgo. ay, brother. fr. gemini. tell me, brother, is not mercury a great god? virgo. indeed, son of maia, the greatest of all gods th

et it soar for a boon, for a bane, for a snare, for a lure, for a light, for a kiss, for a rod, for a scourge, for a sword- bring us thy burden of bliss- bring us the word of the lord! taurus. in vain thou askest speech from our lady of silence: cancer. bear the cup of libation! pan. 333-333-333["recites" roll through the caverns of matter, the world's irremovable bounds! roll, ye wild billows of ether! the sistron is shaken and sounds! wild and sonorous the clamour, vast in the region of death. live with the fire of the spirit, the essence and flame of the breath! sound, o sound! gleam in the world of the dark, where the chained ones shall tremble and flee! gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the light of the dawn is in me! light on the forehead and life in the nostrils, and love in the b

the kabbalah" isis unveiled: a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. by h. p. blavatshy. in two volumes. vol. i. science, pp. xiv, 628. vol. ii. theology, pp. iv, 640 and index 52 "pounds"1, 1"s. net" vol. i- before the veil- 1. old things with new names- ii. phenomena and forces- iii. blind leaders of the blind- iv. theories respecting psychic phenomena- v. the ether, or "astral light- vi. psycho-physical phenomena- vii. the elements, elementals, and elementaries- viii. some mysteries of nature- ix. cyclic phenomena- x. the inner and outer man- xi. psychological and physical marvels- xii. the "impassible chasm- xiii. realities and illusion- xiv. egyptian wisdom- xv. india the cradle of the race. vol. ii- i. the church; where is it- ii. christian crimes a

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

, of the physicist, of the mathematician, and of the metaphysician were four totally different things. that is another reason why it is not possible to be dogmatic in dealing with these questions. nevertheless, rightly or wrongly, i have a very definite hypothesis to put before you. when we talk about radium. we are, in all probability, venturing into the realm of etheric substance, the region of ether, or of protyle. protyle was a word coined by sir william crookes, and is defined by him as follows "protyle is a word analogous to protoplasm, to express the idea of the original primal matter before the evolution of the chemical elements. the word i have ventured to use for this purpose is compounded of a greek word `earlier than' and `the stuff of which things are made" we are, therefore

xpress the idea of the original primal matter before the evolution of the chemical elements. the word i have ventured to use for this purpose is compounded of a greek word `earlier than' and `the stuff of which things are made" we are, therefore, throwing the concept of matter back to where the oriental school has always put it, to primordial stuff, to that which the orientalist calls "primordial ether" though we must ever remember that the ether of science is many, many removes from the primordial ether of the oriental occultist. we are led back to that intangible something which is the basis of the objective thing which you and i can see and touch and handle. the word "substance" itself means that which "stands under" or which lies back of things. all, therefore, that we can predicate in

ever remember that the ether of science is many, many removes from the primordial ether of the oriental occultist. we are led back to that intangible something which is the basis of the objective thing which you and i can see and touch and handle. the word "substance" itself means that which "stands under" or which lies back of things. all, therefore, that we can predicate in connection with the ether of space is that it is the medium in which energy or force- 12- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust functions, or makes itself felt. when we are talking in these lectures of energy and force, and of matter and substance, we can separate them in our minds thus: when we speak about energy and substance we are considering that which is as yet intangible, and we use force in

ns, or makes itself felt. when we are talking in these lectures of energy and force, and of matter and substance, we can separate them in our minds thus: when we speak about energy and substance we are considering that which is as yet intangible, and we use force in connection with matter when dealing with that aspect of the objective which our scientists are definitely studying. substance is the ether in one of its many grades, and is that which lies back of matter itself. when we speak of energy there must be that which energises, that which is the source of energy and the origin of that force which demonstrates in matter. it is here that i seek to lay the emphasis. whence comes this energy, and what is it? scientists are recognising ever more clearly that atoms possess qualities, and it

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

eric matter, and when the race of men on earth have developed etheric vision its location will be recognised and its reality admitted. the development of this vision is rapidly coming to pass, as may be seen from the newspapers and the current literature of the day, but the location of shamballa will be one of the latest etheric sacred spots to be revealed as it exists in the matter of the second ether. several of the masters in physical bodies dwell in the himalaya mountains, in a secluded spot called shigatse, far from the ways of men, but the greater number are scattered all over the world, dwelling in different places in the various nations, unrecognised and unknown, yet forming each in his own place a focal point for the energy of the lord of the world, and proving to his environment

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

evolution. on the highest plane the combination of these three factors (active heat, latent heat and the primordial substance which they animate) is known as the 'sea of fire' of which akasha is the first differentiation of pregenetic matter. akasha, in manifestation, expresses itself as fohat, or divine energy, and fohat on the different planes is known as aether, air, fire, water, electricity, ether, prana and similar terms.9,(9)10,11(10) it is the sumtotal of that which is active, animated, or vitalized, and of all that concerns itself with the adaptation of the form to the needs of the inner flame of life. it might here be useful to point out that magnetism is the effect of the divine ray in manifestation in the same sense that electricity is the manifested effect of the primordial ra

an only be transcended when consciousness is sufficiently developed to permit of escape. this can be seen in both the microcosm and the macrocosm. when a man has, through meditation and concentration, expanded his consciousness to a certain point he is enabled to include the subtler planes, and to escape beyond the limits of the dividing web (stop) physical sub-planes solar system planes 1. first ether. atomic plane..adi. divine. sea of fire. first cosmic ether. 2. second ether. sub-atomic..anupadaka. monadic plane. akasha. second cosmic ether. 3. third ether. super-etheric..atmic. spiritual plane. aether. third cosmic ether. 4. fourth ether. super-gaseous..b. uddhic. intuitional plane. air. fourth cosmic ether. dense physical planes of humanity 5. gaseous. sub-etheric..mental. fire. cosmi

undamental truths stand out from the aggregate of facts so slightly dealt with here: first. the fourth etheric subplane of the physical plane is the immediate concern of a. man, the microcosm, b. the heavenly man, the planetary logos, c. the grand man of the heavens, the solar logos- 56- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust second. in this fourth chain and fourth round, the fourth ether is beginning to be studied, and viewed as a separating web it permits occasional exit to those of suitable vibration. 3. the transmitter of prana. we have touched but little on the subject of the fire, the purpose of the etheric body being to convey it and distribute it to all parts of its system. we have dwelt on facts which might stimulate interest and emphasise the utility of this pranic

t that time availed themselves of just this very thing to bring about the finish of an inadequate form. the latent fire of matter (as seen in volcanic display, for instance) and the radiatory fire of the system were combined. planetary kundalini and solar emanation rushed into conjunction, and the work of destruction was accomplished. the same thing may again be seen, only in matter of the second ether, and the effects therefore will be less severe owing to the rarity of this ether and the comparatively greater refinement of the vehicles. we might here note a fact of interest, though of a mystery insoluble as yet to most of us, and that is, that these destructions by fire are part of the tests by fire of an initiation of that one of the heavenly men whose karma is bound up with our earth

e to the planetary logos, who temporarily employs it as a medium of incarnation, and of expression. this fourth round finds the solution of its strenuous and chaotic life in the very simple fact of the shattering of the etheric web in order to effect liberation, and permit a later and more adequate form to be employed. a further chain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth ether is even now being studied and developed by the average scientist, and is already somewhat harnessed to the service of man; that the fourth subplane of the astral plane is the normal functioning ground of the average man and that in this round escape from the etheric vehicle is being achieved; that the fourth subplane of the mental plane is the present goal of endeavor of one-fourth of the hu

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ourth race on this fourth globe and in the fourth round, the four vidyas and the four noble truths and the four basic elements form the sum total of this knowledge. the four vidyas of the hindu philosophy might be enumerated as follows: 1. yajna vidya. the performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results. ceremonial magic. is concerned with sound, therefore with the akasa or the ether of space. the "yajna" is the invisible deity who pervades space. 2. mahavidya. the great magic knowledge. it has degenerated into tantrika worship. deals with the feminine aspect, or the matter (mother) aspect. the basis of black magic. true maha-yoga has to do with the form (2nd aspect) and its adaptation to spirit and its needs. 3. guhya vidya. the science of mantrams. the secret knowledge

further: blind to the fourfold aryan truths of things, and blind to see things as they really are, long was our journeying thro' divers births. gone is the cord of life when these are seen. no more becoming when ill's root is cut" the four elements have been stated for us in the following extract from the secret doctrine (i. 95 "the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements, four ready (ether, fire, air, water, three secret" 11. their activities are to be done away with through the meditation process. the "opposing mental attitude" referred to in the previous sutra has distinct reference to the seeds or the latent tendencies as they subsist in the mental body and in the body of desire. this mental attitude has to become one of active mental meditation and one-pointed thought if t

the conclusion of a great solar cycle. the lesser cycle of man is involved in the greater and his attainment and the nature of his liberation is only relative to the greater whole. 1. the specific division of the gunas. this specific or particularised division of the gunas is divided into sixteen parts which deal primarily with man's reaction to the tangible objective world. a. the five elements: ether, air, fire, water and earth. these are the directly involved effects of the unspecific or subjective sound or word. b. the five sense organs: the ear, the skin, the eye, the tongue and the nostrils, those physical organs or channels through which identification with the tangible world becomes possible. c. the five organs of action: voice, hands, feet, the excretory organs and the organs of g

od the holy- ghost. active intelligence. the plane of union or atonement plane iv. christ or buddhic .a ir .u nion. harmony. at-one-ment- 185- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust planes of human endeavor. plane v. mental. fire. reflection of the sea of fire. human will. plane vi. emotional or astral. astral light. reflection of the akasha .h uman love and desire. plane vii. physical. ether. reflection of the aether. human activity. on all these planes, consciousness manifests and the senses, exoteric and esoteric, produce contacts. plane i. fire. the breath. ii. a kasha .t he sound .h earing. the ear. iii. aether. vibratory-response. touch. the skin. iv. a ir .v ision. sight. the eye. v. fire. discrimination. taste. the tongue. vi. a stral light .d esire. smell .t he nose. v i

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

sm can be controlled. 4. then a definite act of concentration, calling in the will. this involves an endeavor to keep the mind unmoving upon a certain form of words, so that their meaning is clear in our consciousness, and not the words themselves, or the fact that we are attempting to meditate. 5. then say, with focussed attention "more radiant than the sun, purer than the snow, subtler than the ether is the self, the spirit within me. i am that self. that self am i" 6. concentrate now upon the words "thou god seest me" the mind is not permitted to falter in its concentration on their significance, meaning, and implications. 7. then, with deliberation bring the concentration work to a close, and say again with the mind re-focussed on the underlying ideas the following concluding statement

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

heric body, and this for certain reasons. first, the etheric body is the next aspect of the world substance to be studied by scientists and investigators. this time will be hastened if thinking men and women can formulate intelligent ideas anent this interesting subject. we can aid in the revelation of the truth by our clear thinking and from the standpoint of the present pronouncements about the ether, scientists will eventually arrive at an understanding of etheric forms or bodies. secondly, the etheric body is composed of force currents, and in it are vital centers linked by lines of force with each other and with the nervous system of the physical man. through these lines of force, it is connected also with the etheric body of the environing system. note that in this lies the basis for

housands of years and time has set its mark even upon the physique of the people, providing them with bodies which offer not that resistance which occidental bodies so oft afford. the environment has been long permeated with the strong vibrations of the great ones who reside within its borders and who, in their passage to and fro, and through their proximity, continuously magnetise the environing ether. this in itself affords another line of least resistance, for this etheric magnetisation affects the etheric bodies of the contacted population. these two facts, of time and of high vibration, result in that stability of rhythm which facilitates occult work, and offer a quiet field for mantric and ceremonial enterprise. these conditions are not to be found in the west, where constant change

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

energy rightly used and directed. with full knowledge of his divine sonship and a potent mind realisation of all that that term conveys, he focusses his forces in the vital body and becomes a focal point for the transmission of divine energy and hence a builder in union with the building energies of the cosmos. he carries the energy of illumined thought and sanctified desire down into the body of ether, and so works with intelligent devotion. you ask for a clearer definition of the "midway" spot. for the probationer it is the emotional plane, the kurukshetra, or the plane of illusion, where land (physical nature) and water (emotional nature) meet. for the disciple it is the mental plane where form and soul make contact and the great transition becomes possible. for the advanced disciple an

7- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust dynamic impulse of the greater whole, and even they are only sensitive to it but are, as yet, utterly unable to conceive of its trend, for it lies beyond mind and love and will. it brings into play factors for which we have no terms and tendencies which are as yet not even remotely visioned on our planet. we have generated a term we call the ether. occultly speaking, this is the modern way of expressing "the waters of space, which are the waters of desire, in which we are immersed. it is in constant ebb and flux, and is the stream of life, constituted of forty-nine types of energy, which pours through the cosmic egoic lotus, and (radiating forth from it) feeds with its measure of sustenance the form solar, planetary, or human for whic

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

which decides within itself to take a material form and to incarnate. a vortex of force is set up as a preliminary step and we then have god immanent and god transcendent at the same time. this vortex, as a result of this initial activity, demonstrates through the medium of what we call substance or (to use a technical term of modern science, which is the best we can do at this time) through the ether of space. the consequence of this active interplay of life and substance is that a basic unity is constituted. father and mother are at-one. this unity is characterised by quality. through this triplicity of life-quality-form, the central life evokes and manifests consciousness, or awareness of response to all that is eventuating, but in a degree which it is impossible for us to cognise, lim

three higher etheric levels, with their denizens, are waiting to become the property of all, and with their inhabitants comes the next approximation. it is possible at this time to foretell certain events which will come to pass during the next one- 83- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust hundred years. first, in about ten years time the first ether, with all that is composed of that matter, will be recognised scientific fact, and the scientists who work intuitionally will come to recognise the devas of that plane. people coming into incarnation on this seventh ray will have the eyes that see, and the purple devas and the lesser devas of the etheric body will be visioned by them. secondly, when he whom both angels and men await, will ap

works with, or through, their egos. as men learn to sense and recognise these devas, more and more teaching will be given. they teach in three ways: a. by means of intuitional telepathy. b. through demonstration of colour, proving the accomplishment of certain things in this way. c. by definite musical sounds, which will cause vibrations in the ethers, which in their turn will produce forms. the ether will eventually appear to the enhanced vision of humanity to have more substance than it now has, and as etheric vision increases, the ethers will be recognised as being strictly physical plane matter. therefore when in sickness men shall call a deva, when that deva can destroy diseased tissue by sounding a note that will result in the elimination of the corrupt tissue, when by the presence

dom marks the densest expression of the life of god in substance, and its outstanding, though oft unrealised, characteristic is imprisoned or unexpressed power. speaking in symbols, a volcano in eruption is a mild expression of this power. from the standpoint of esoteric substance, the four ethers are far more dense and "substantial. this modern science has also told us, positing the hypothetical ether. this fifth kingdom (counting occultly from the egoic kingdom downwards) is a reflection of these four ethers, and the point of their densest concretion. just as they "substand" or form the basis of the manifested world, and are regarded as the "true form" so the mineral kingdom is the fundamental kingdom in the three worlds, under the law of correspondences. it is, in a most peculiar sense

overned. the logoic plane. divine purpose or will. metal. gold. sense. a synthetic sense, embracing all. esoterically. this power is viewed as the life principle seated in the heart. ray ii..love-wisdom planet. jupiter. day. thursday. exoteric colour .i ndigo with a tinge of purple. esoteric colour. light blue. s.d.iii. p. 461. human principle. the auric envelope. divine principle. love. element. ether "it is spoken" the word. instrument of sensation. ears. speech. the word. bodily location. the heart. plane. the monadic. sense. hearing. esoterically, this power is the consciousness or soul principle, seated in the head. ray iii..active intelligence or adaptability planet. saturn. day. saturday. exoteric colour .b lack. esoteric colour. green. human principle. lower mind. divine principle

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

estion is of paramount importance and necessitates a clear understanding. when the biblical words are used "in him we live and move and have our being" we have the statement of a fundamental law in nature and the enunciated basis of the fact which we cover by the rather meaningless word: omnipresence. omnipresence has its basis in the substance of the universe, and in what the scientists call the ether; this word "ether" is a generic term covering the ocean of energies which are all inter-related and which constitute that one synthetic energy body of our planet. in approaching, therefore, the subject of telepathy, it must be carefully borne in mind that the etheric body of every form in nature is an integral part of the substantial form of god himself not the dense physical form, but what

rce and draw to itself similar types of ideas and thought currents which are not strong enough to live by themselves or to make a sufficiently strong impact upon the human consciousness. in union is strength. this is the second law governing telepathic communication. the first law is: 1. the power to communicate is to be found in the very nature of substance itself. it lies potentially within the ether, and the significance of telepathy is to be found in the word omnipresence. the second law is: 2. the interplay of many minds produces a unity of thought which is powerful enough to be recognised by the brain. here we have a law governing a subjective activity and another law governing objective manifestation. let us voice these laws in the simplest manner possible. when each member of the g

ke him a master of the wisdom. the first initiation is purely the concern of the man's own soul, and the moment that that initiation has been taken, a measure of buddhic energy can enter and the process of transference of the higher ethers and their substitution for the lower can go forward. this, as you may well imagine, produces conflict; the personality etheric body rejects the incoming higher ether, and thus crises are produced in the initiate's life. progress and initiation have been presented to us mainly in terms of character-building and of service to humanity. this approach most surely also produces conflict and the personality fights the soul. but paralleling this well known conflict, another battle goes on between the ethers composing the disciple's etheric body and the downpour

es first of all when the abstract mind awakens and begins to impress the concrete mind; an intuition is an idea clothed in etheric substance, and the moment a man becomes responsive to those ideas, he can begin to master the techniques of etheric control. all this is, in reality, an aspect of the great creative process: ideas, emanating from the buddhic levels of being (the first or lowest cosmic ether) must be clothed in matter of the abstract levels of the mental plane; then they must be clothed in matter of the concrete mental plane; later, with desire matter, and finally (if they live so long) they assume physical form. an idea which comes from the intuitive levels of the divine consciousness is a true idea. it is noted or apprehended by the man who has, within his equipment, substance

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

within the universal life. constellations, solar systems, planets, kingdoms in nature and microscopic man are all of them the result of the activity and the manifestation of energy of certain lives whose cycle of expression and whose infinite purposes lie outside the comprehension of the most advanced and illumined minds on our planet. the next point for each of you to grasp is the fact that the ether of space is the field in and through which the energies from the many originating sources play. we are, therefore, concerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the solar system, and of the seven solar systems of which our system is one, as well as with the general and vaster etheric body of the universe in which we are located. i employ the word "located" here with deliberation and beca

vitally responsive to the life of sirius and is beginning to respond consciously to the vibratory influences of the pleiades. you need here to bear in mind in this connection that the pleiades though they are regarded as embodying the matter aspect in manifestation are in reality and literally the expression of that principle of life which we call vitality, prana in its various stages or degrees, ether or substance. the logos of a sacred planet has taken five cosmic initiations. d. the logos of a solar system is esoterically called the "sacred triangle of all-inclusive force" because this great being includes within his focussed awareness the fields of expression of the great bear, the pleiades and sirius. they are to him what the heart, the head and the throat centres are to the developed

his dwelling, like a `boatman in his boat (s.d. i. 535) a "the planets were not inanimate masses but acting and living bodies" b "the planets were rational intelligences circulating around the sun (s.d. i. 535) 9 "the seven planets have for supreme spirits, fortune and destiny, who uphold the eternal stability of the laws of nature throughout incessant transformation and perpetual agitation. the ether is the instrument or medium by which all is produced (s.d. i. 735- 375- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 10 "the seven gods were divided into two triads and the sun. a. lower triad mars, mercury and venus. b. higher triad moon, jupiter and saturn (the moon standing for a hidden planet (s.d. ii. 484, 5) 11 "saturn, jupiter, mercury and ve

even spirits before the throne of god" and therefore one of the seven heavenly men. he is on the evolutionary arc of the universe and has passed many stages beyond the human. the planetary entity is on the involutionary arc and is a very low grade entity. he is the sum total of all the elemental lives of the planet (c.f. 105, note) 22 "the seven sacred planets are composed of matter of the fourth ether and the planetary logoi (the seven heavenly men) whose bodies the planets are, function normally on the fourth plane of the system, the buddhic plane (c.f. 121) 23 "certain of the planets are to the logos what the permanent atoms are to man. they embody principles. certain planets afford only temporary homes to these principles. this is one of the distinctions between a sacred and a non-sacr

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

meditation work, many years of study and thought, and a command of clear, forceful english. 3. clairvoyant vision. the various symbols in the books (and there are many) have been shown to mrs. bailey and then described by her. this process is possible only with the aid of a powerful collaborator. the tibetan would impress the desired symbol or glyph upon one of the subtler differentiations of the ether, and the vibration of the vehicles of the pupil being maintained at the required height, the pictures remain as clear and as perfect for study, as would some exquisite masterpiece in oils hung upon the wall of a private art gallery. the picture cannot be taken away, but the viewer may study and describe, and the artist might copy, although the color effects are utterly beyond any possibility

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

us. they must carry their own responsibility and fail or succeed in arriving at the truth through their own self-initiated effort- 218- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust h.p.b. prophesied the work now being done many years ago when she spoke of the recognition ultimately to be accorded by science to an universally diffused omnipresent deity (the ether of space is an entity, she also tells us) and that the mystery of electricity, when solved, holds for us the solution of most of our problems. many of the theories of modern science are laid down in a treatise on cosmic fire, though scientists have not gone far enough yet to recognise this fact; there the electrical nature of man is posited. you would find it interesting and helpful to searc

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

ar, only the gentle can respond. the stormy sounds of all earth struggle, the shrill vibration of the watery sphere, the crashing note marking the place of thought, dims the sound and shuts out the tone. he who is silent, quiet and calm within, who sees all by means of light divine and is not led by light reflected within the threefold spheres, is he who will shortly hear. from out the environing ether will strike a note upon his ear unlike the tones that sound within the world terrestrial. listen, o pilgrim, for when that sound strikes in colourful vibration upon the inner sense, know that a point has been achieved marking a great transition. watch then, o pilgrim, for the coming of that hour. with purified endeavour mount nearer to that sound. know when its tone steals through the misty

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

f the exposition are given, and certain important points commented upon and explained. in the subsequent sections various additional details are gathered, and a fuller explanation of the subject is attempted[[vol. 2, page 13] book ii- part i. anthropogenesis- stanzas translated with commentaries from the secret book of dzyan[[vol. 2, page 14] in primeval times, a maiden, beauteous daughter of the ether, passed for ages her existence in the great expanse of heaven. seven hundred years she wandered, seven hundred years she laboured, ere her first-born was delivered. ere a beauteous duck descending, hastens toward the water-mother. lightly on the knee she settles, finds a nesting-place befitting, where to lay her eggs in safety, lays her eggs within, at pleasure, six, the golden eggs she lays

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

om public view are the most important facts of anthropogenesis, two passages are now quoted from two kabalistic books. the first is from the book of the concealed mystery (429) from a light-bearer (one of the seven sacred planets) of insupportable brightness proceeded a radiating flame, dashing off, like a vast and mighty hammer, those sparks which were the prior worlds (430) and with most subtle ether were these intermingled and bound mutually together, but only when they were conjoined together, even the great father and great mother (431) from hoa, himself, is ab, the father; and from hoa, himself, is ruach, the spirit; who are hidden in the ancient of days, and therein is that ether concealed (432) and it was connected with a light-bearer (a planet and its angel or regent, which went f

ially our fire dhyanis? for, as already stated, these beings fall into four corporeal (or grosser) and three incorporeal (or subtler "principles" or call them by any other name you please. why do the seven nervous plexuses of the body radiate seven rays? why are there these seven plexuses, and why seven distinct layers in the human skin "having projected their shadows and made men of one element (ether, the progenitors re-ascend to maha-loka, whence they descend periodically, when the world is renewed, to give birth to new men "the subtle bodies remain without understanding (manas) until the advent of the suras (gods) now called asuras (not gods" says the commentary "not-gods" for the brahmins, perhaps, but the highest breaths, for the occultist; since those progenitors (pitar, the formles

found in stanza v (vide paragraph (a, a few remarks will now suffice. the "father" of primitive physical man, or of his body, is the vital electric principle residing in the sun. the moon is its mother, because of that mysterious power in the moon which has as decided an influence upon human gestation and generation, which it regulates, as it has on the growth of plants and animals. the "wind" or ether, standing in this case for the agent of transmission by which those influences are carried down from the two luminaries and diffused upon earth, is referred to as the "nurse; while "spiritual fire" alone makes of man a divine and perfect entity. now what is that "spiritual fire? in alchemy it is hydrogen, in general; while in esoteric actuality it is the emanation or the ray which proceeds f

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ontinued. 191 "creation" in the fourth round. 191 the "curse "sin" and "war. 193 the struggle for life and the birth of the worlds. 202 the adepts and the sacred island. 207- stanza vii- the parents of man on earth. 213 divisions of the hierarchies. 214 correlations of beings. 223 what incarnates in animal man. 233 formation of man: the thinker. 238 occult and kabalistic pneumatics. 243 akasa and ether. 257 the invisible "lives. 259 occult vital chemistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its

in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe

orship of the elements. 467- xv. on kwan-shi-yin and kwan-yin. 470 kwan-shi-yin and phallicism. 471 the real meaning. 472- book i- part iii. science and the secret doctrine contrasted. i. reasons for these addenda. 477 occultism versus materialism. 479 the sabbath of the mystic. 481- ii. modern physicists are playing at blind man's buff. 482- iii. an lumen sit corpus nec non. 483 the hypothetical ether. 485 scientific theories of its constitution. 489- iv. is gravitation a law. 490 intelligences or blind forces. 493 the cause of attraction. 498[[vol. 1, page] xv contents. page. v. the theories of rotation science. 500 conflicting hypotheses. 502 more hypotheses. 505- vi. the masks of science. 506 what are the "forces. 508 the view of the occultists. 510 scientific and occult theories on he

forces. 493 the cause of attraction. 498[[vol. 1, page] xv contents. page. v. the theories of rotation science. 500 conflicting hypotheses. 502 more hypotheses. 505- vi. the masks of science. 506 what are the "forces. 508 the view of the occultists. 510 scientific and occult theories on heat. 515 the atoms of science. 519- vii. an attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science. 523 ether and atoms. 527- viii. life, force, or gravity. 529 dr. richardson on nervous ether. 531 the senses and their action. 535 too much "life" may kill. 539- ix. the solar theory. 540 the primordial element. 542 elements and meta-elements. 546 the tree of life and being. 549 prof. crookes on the elements. 552- x. the coming force. 554 mr. keeley, an unconscious occultist. 557 inter-etheric waves

erogeneous; and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous. cool breath is the mother, who conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives them back into her bosom, to reform them at the dawn (of the day of brahma, or manvantara" for clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that occult science recognises seven cosmical elements- four entirely physical, and the fifth (ether) semi-material, as it will become visible in the air towards the end of our fourth round, to reign supreme over the others during the whole of the fifth. the remaining two are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception. these latter will, however, appear as presentments during the 6th and 7th races of this round, and will become known in the 6th and 7th rounds respectively* these

BLUE EQUINOX

nd overwhelmed by the sublimity of this matter, so that plain speech may whirl into lyric, when i would plod the equinox 120 peaceably with didactic, expression. my best hope is that you may understand by virtue of the sympathy of your intuition, even as two lovers may converse in language as unintelligible to others as it seemeth silly, wanton, and dull, or as in that other intoxication given by ether the partakers commune with infinite wit, or wisdom, as the mood taketh them, by means of a word or a gesture, being initiated to apprehension by the subtlety of the drug. so may i that am inflamed with love of this light, and drunken on the wine ethereal of this light, communicate not so much with your reason and intelligence, but with that principle hidden in yourself which is ready to part

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

the duad and also the triad. kether, 1, is beth, the house of en soph aur, and beth is 2 in the alphabet; but beth is also assigned to the magician, or 1, which is the first of the tarot sequence, because 0, the fool, symbol of pure spirit and the nonumber, really precedes the idea of relative unity represented by 1. yet the no-number, or 0, also follows every number, just as the hindus say that ether, or akasha, intervenes between each two manifested elements. the logical place for 0 in a definite series is before 1, but it is also the reality manifested as 1, or as any other number [46] c o m m e n t ox d a l e t h and that which may be thought of as subsisting between any two consecutive numbers. even in common parlance this is true. if we ask "what comes between 1 and 2" the correct a

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re/intuition and water/feelings. jung also thought that we each had a predominant element, a secondary one and a shadow one that we denied or projected on other people whom we then unconsciously disliked because they mirrored our faults. in formal magick, the four elements are seen as providing natural energies for transforming wishes into reality. together they combine to form the fifth element- ether, or akasha- that represents pure spirit, or perfection. medieval alchemists attempted to create this elusive substance, called the philosopher's stone. it was said to turn base metal into gold and, as an elixir according to the eastern tradition, to cure all ills and offer immortality. these elements form the basis for raising power in formal magick and in less formal spells too and are repr

d his colour is silver. pentagrams the pentagram, as i have already mentioned, is one of the most sacred geometric forms in magick. some witches wear a gold pentacle, a pentagram in a circle (see page 189, on a chain as a sign of their craft. each of the five points of the pentagram represents one of the five elemental powers, so that the uppermost single point is symbolic of spirit, or akasha or ether. it is dedicated to the goddess in her triple aspects. it is the realm of spirituality and the divine spark within all life. the top left point of the pentagram symbolises air and the fixed sign of aquarius, representing logic, intelligence and the conscious awareness that enables us to seite 123 wicca01.txt reach beyond the material and follow steps to knowledge of what is hidden. the top r

re to be left to burn down. if this is the case, make sure there is no risk of fire* cleanse and recharge your tools. glossary [insert pic p290- akasha: the fifth and greatest element, formed by the combination of the ancient elements of earth, air, fire and water that were considered in classical times and by alchemists to be the components of all life and matter. also sometimes called spirit or ether. akashic records: the collective memory bank on the spirit plane said to hold the experiences of all people, past, present and future. alban arthuran: the festival of the mid-winter solstice, named after king arthur, the legendary sun king, which takes place on or about 21 december in the northern hemisphere. alpha waves: brain waves, cultivated in psychic work, that are associated with a ve

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ate psychic energy. why should this be? understand that your mind is constantly putting out this energy. every second some part of your consciousness is transmitting into the etheric body and thence to the psychic world. most of these transmissions come to nothing because there is not enough energy behind them to hold them together. the thought message goes out and immediately dissipates into the ether. it is like a clump of dirt. when the clump is moist, it has a cohesion which will hold it together in a breeze. but, let it dry, and the wind pushes at it, pulling away small parts until there is nothing left but the dust floating in the air, capable of getting the neighbors' laundry dirty (why she can't buy a drier like a civilized human being is beyond me, but little else. so it is with t

are telepathic contact, like when my real great aunt lula (which was her real name so you aren t the only one whose relatives have strange cognomens) knew when dad had his first heart attack, now, by means of the box, you have not only the normal telepathic contact but are able to narrow the range of information from that contact to concentrate on one thing, instead of running around all over the ether like a psychic phone line operator. but none of this explains the why of it all. the answer lies in the combination of the link and the rate. remember, in the view of traditional folk magick, the link is the person. if the witch doctor sticks pins into the doll with the person's link as a part of it he is sticking the pins into the person himself. now this does not work for most people, part

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e viscosity. this model aether is developed in a later chapter where many of the basic universal constants describing physical phenomena with magnetic, electrical, and gravitic formulas are developed. my research over 35 years proves the existence of aether as a reality. modern physics has focused on the first experiments which michelson and morley did in the early part of this century showing no ether drift; however, the experiments were flawed in design and later experiments implied the validity of aether theory. later experiments by trouton and noble, sagnac, michaelson and gale, thirring and lenze, and fizeau, all imply that aether exists. john keely performed extensive experiments in engineering the aether, including producing various gravity phenomena, controlled breakdown of matter

ists. john keely performed extensive experiments in engineering the aether, including producing various gravity phenomena, controlled breakdown of matter into pure aetheric force and then using aether in experiments, etc. 1.1.1 historical terms for aether there are many terms, which when analyzed, lead to a characterization of a common space energy. terms such as prana from hindu/yogi literature, ether or aether from physics and metaphysics prior to the late 20th century, orgone energy from the breakthrough research of dr. wilhelm reich, chi from ancient to modern chinese medicine and martial arts in general, all have very similar characteristics. one term which is used in many of the new science circles is "zero point energy (zpe. from classical physics, we learn that atoms can be thought

mind, is that it allows physicists to save face by inventing a new unsullied term for aether which has a disreputable name in the physics community due to it being "disproved" by the early michaelson morley experiment "a rose by any other name" the aether spoiling of the ter with an "a" in front was used extensively in ancient literature. i prefer the term "aether" to distinguish it from the word ether which is an anesthetic. 1.1.2 aether and its conversions it is my contention that aether manifests in myriad ways. aether interacts with three dimensional matter and matter is a bound form of aether. all the various forces such as gravity, magnetism, electricity, and the nuclear forces are due to activities in aether. 1.1.3 characterization of aether my research and discoveries have led me t

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

but we must always remember that different minds go back different distances, and that for some the veil is drawn in one place, and for others in another. the ignorant man goes no further than the concept of god as an old man with a long white beard who sat on a golden throne and gave orders for creation. the scientist will go back a little further before he is compelled to draw a veil called the ether; and the philosopher will go back yet further before he draws a veil called the absolute; but the initiate will go back furthest of all because he has learnt to do his thinking in symbols, and symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand-an extended application of its powers. 4. the qabalist takes for his starting-point kether, the crown, the first sephirah which he symbolises by the f

types of force is a legitimate analogy, provided we realise that the entity which is the soul of the force may differ as much in kind and degree from our minds as our bodies differ in type and scale from the bodies of the planets. we shall be nearer an understanding of nature if we look for mind in the background than if we refuse to admit that the visible universe has an invisible framework. the ether of the physicists is closer akin to mind than to matter; time and space, as understood by the modern philosopher, are more like modes of consciousness than linear measures. 19. the initiates of the ancient wisdom made no bones about their philosophy; they took each factor in nature and personified it, gave it a name, and built up a symbolic figure [page 68] to represent it, just as british a

age 196] first triad of the three supernals, forms the evolving individuality, or spiritual soul. it is this which endures and builds up throughout an evolution; it is from this that the successive personalities, the units of incarnation, are emanated; it is into this that the active essence of experience is absorbed at the end of each incarnation when the incarnating unit dissolves into dust and ether. 30. it is this second triad which forms the oversoul, the higher self, the holy guardian angel, the first initiator. it is the voice of this higher self which is so often heard with the inner ear, and not the voice of discarnate entities, or of god himself, as is thought by those who have had no training in tradition. 31. overshadowed and directed by the second triad, the third triad builds

the vast mass of what, for want of a better name, we call mind-stuff, because that is its nearest analogy among known things, is freemoving upon what occultists call the astral plane, organised into forms within itself, but not necessarily attached to matter. different occultists refer to this free mind-stuff by different names. mme blavatsky calls it akasha; eliphas levi calls it the reflecting ether. netzach represents the force aspect, and hod the form aspect of this akasha. 17. out of this mind-stuff are formed the moulds of all forms; and within these moulds are built up the framework of [page 220] etheric stresses that function in the sphere of yesod, and within which are held the molecules of matter which form the body of manifestation on the physical plane. 18. normally these form

h, the elohim, are not so much intelligences as the embodiments of ideas. 7. these elohim, to give them their hebrew name, are the formative influences whereby the creative force expresses itself in nature. their true character is to be discerned in chesed, where they are described by the sepher yetzirah as the holy powers" in netzach, however, which represents the upper stratum of the reflecting ether, they undergo a change, the image-making mind of man has begun to work upon them, moulding the astral light into forms that shall represent them to his consciousness. 8. it is very important that we should realise that these lower sephiroth of the plane of illusion are densely populated by thought-forms; that everything which the human imagination has been able to conceive, however dimly, ha

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substantial to be visible there must be a modicum at least of ectoplasm in its composition, and ectoplasm is capable of exercising force on the physical plane, in some degree at least. where a ghost is both seen and heard, we may be sure there is an actual haunting. where it is seen, but not heard, it may possibly be that a person with psychic tendencies is perceiving the images in the reflecting ether, the photographic plate of nature, and there may be no actual entity present. where the disturbance is heard, but not seen, it may be due to astral forces set in motion by ritual magic, and which continue for a while after the original impulse is withdrawn. these may be perfectly harmless, save that they disturb the sleep in the same way that a rattling window would do. on the other hand, if

cle. for instance, a marquise ring is not as good as a signet ring. letters are apt to be misleading because they often contain nearly as much of the magnetism of the recipient as of the writer. some psychics can work from a photograph, but this method is not, strictly speaking, psychometry, for the mental image evoked by the photograph is used to pick up the corresponding image in the reflecting ether. great care should be used in taking a psychometric specimen, for it is readily contaminated by the magnetism of anyone who handles it, who is in proximity to it, or who even thinks about it concentratedly. for instance, if while packing up such a specimen for sending off you are brooding over the problem it presents and working out your own theory, the psychometrist may pick up your thought

ppropriate thereto. consequently, a solution of salt and water makes a better base than either salt or water could do separately because it enables us to cover the whole of the sphere of probable operations in a single act. it may be interesting to note concerning the magical properties of crystalline substances, that crystals are used in wireless apparatus to pick up the subtle vibrations of the ether. once again we 81 of 103 are close upon the trail of our electro-bacteriological analogy. it is an excellent plan, when trying to break an undesirable psychic contact, to immerse oneself in a bath of water that has been especially consecrated for the purpose; re-dressing in new or at least clean clothing afterwards, and if it be by any means possible, moving into a different room. if this ca

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

t night of the battle" they concern the inroad [of the children of impotent revolt] into the eastern part of heaven, whereupon there arose a battle in heaven and in all the earth "o thou who art in the egg (i.e, ra, who shinest from thy disk and risest in thy horizon, and dost shine like gold above the sky, like unto whom there is none among the gods, who sailest over the pillars of shu (i.e, the ether, who givest blasts of fire from thy mouth [who makest the two lands bright with thy radiance, deliver] the faithful worshippers from the god whose forms are hidden, whose eyebrows are like unto the two arms of the balance on the night of the reckoning of destruction [1. i.e "blazing-face coming forth, going back" 2 i.e "the one who seeth by night, and leadeth by day" 3 this reading differs f

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and structure that concentrate subtle energies may be found throughout the complex. sources: airaudi, oberto. tales from damanhur. translated by esperide and ileana troni. canavese, italy: damanhur editrice, 1997. intrivigne, massimo. damanhur: a magical community in italy. communal studies 16 (1996) 71.84. merrifield, jeff. damanhur: the real dream. london: thorsons, 1998. akasha (or soniferous ether) one of the five elementary principles of nature according to hindu mysticism. akasha is the first of these principles, and out of it the others are created. these subtle principles, or tattvas, are related to the five senses of human beings and to basic elements of matter: earth (prithivi, water (apas, fire (tejas, and air (vayu. the all-pervading akasha is responsible for vibrations of lig

nskrit, with introductory and explanatory essays on nature s finer forces. london: theosophical publishing society, 1897. akashic records a theosophical term denoting a kind of central filing system of all events, thoughts, and actions impressed upon an astral plane, which may be consulted in certain conditions of consciousness. events are believed to make an impression upon the akasha, or subtle ether, which may be reanimated by mystics as if they are switching on a celestial television set. the idea of akashic records was central to the work of seer edgar cayce. when cayce went into trance, it was believed that he accessed the records, sometimes referred to as god s book of remembrance. the akashic records store the individual s thoughts and information on activities that may be read by

logous to the customary conscious interpretation of photographic or phonographic records, and indeed of pictures or music and artistic embodiment generally. take, for example, a haunted house, where one room is the scene of a ghostly representation of some long past tragedy. on a psychometric hypothesis the original tragedy has been literally photographed on its material surroundings, even on the ether itself, by reason of the intensity of emotion felt by those who enacted it; and thenceforth in certain persons an hallucinatory effect is experienced corresponding to such impression. it is this theory that accounts for the feeling one has on entering certain rooms, that there is an alien presence therein, though it be invisible and inaudible to mortal sense. the idea of connecting psychomet

structures have a special form of nerve aura, fairfield constantly observed that epileptics, pending the incubation of the fit, appear to be enveloped in a sensitive and highly excited nerve-atmosphere, which. heralds the attack; or. eventuates in clairvoyance and trance. though subsensible, observation and experiment seem alike to indicate that the nerve-aura is material.an imponderable nervous ether, possibly related to the odyle. it is thus at once a force and a medium, susceptible of control by the will of the operator, and capable of sensory impression: an atmosphere to take shape of his command, and to dissolve the moment volition ceases, or, when the habit of the medium s will has become fixed in that direction, to come and pass in visible apparitions, without conscious objective i

plored the philosophical implications of psychic matters. in his paper some reminiscences of fifty years of psychical research (1924, he concludes that there is convincing evidence for (1) the existence of a spiritual world (2) for survival after death, and (3) for occasional communications from those who have died. barrett was convinced of the possibility of life of some kind in the luminiferous ether. it is in harmony with all we know, he writes in on the threshold of the unseen, to entertain a belief in an unseen world, in which myriads of living creatures exist, some with faculties like our own, and others with faculties beneath or transcending our own; and it is possible that the evolutionary development of such a world has run on parallel lines to our own. the rivalry of life, the ex

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e flames at the poles of the most powerful magnets until warned to look at them. if warned, they saw flames issuing from any object. the influence of braid s discoveries on the mesmerists themselves was very slight, and strangely enough, official science took little notice. the main attraction of mesmerism was its therapeutic value. it was the discovery in 1846.47 of the anaesthetic properties of ether and chloroform that deprived mesmeric trance of its most obvious utility. the conquest by spiritualism soon began, and the leading mesmerists were absorbed into the ranks of the spiritualists. no further advance was registered in england until 1883, when edmund gurney made his first experiments in hypnotism. he pointed out that in the hypnotic stage, the formerly numerous cases of rapport be

ledge& kegan paul, 1964. ducasse, c. j. a critical examination of the belief in a life after death. springfield, ill: charles c. thomas, 1961. meteormancy a branch of aeromancy (divination through aerial phenomena such as thunder and lightning, concerned with divination from the appearance and movements of meteors and shooting stars. methetherial a term coined by f. w. h. myers meaning beyond the ether, the transcendental world in which spirits exist. metopomancy metopomancy is a form of divination character analysis based upon the reading of the wrinkle lines of an individual s forehead. the use of the forehead wrinkles would appear to be but another one of the many items assigned some divinatory significance in the ancient world, and in fact it was one aspect of the ancient art of face r

nformally associated with the east west foundation headed by michio kushi, a teacher of macrobiotics. last known address: 17 station st, brookline, ma 02147. nature spirits (or elementals) according to theosophy, nature spirits have bodies composed of the finer kinds of matter. there are countless hosts of them, divided into seven classes, which, allowing for two unmanifested forms, belong to the ether, air, fire, water, and earth.the last four being called by followers of the kabala, sylphs, salamanders, undines, and gnomes respectively. at the head of each class is a deva or inferior god. nature spirits are said to work in unsuspected ways, sometimes lending their aid to human beings in the form of certain national spiritualist association of churches encyclopedia of occultism& parapsych

physical world in theosophical thought, the lowest of the seven worlds, the world in which ordinary man moves and is conscious under normal conditions (formerly known as the sthula plane. it is the limit of the ego s descent into matter, and the matter which composes the appropriate physical body is the densest of any of these worlds. physical matter has the seven divisions of solid, liquid, gas, ether, super-ether, sub-atom, and atom in common with the matter of the other worlds. beside the physical body, familiar to ordinary vision, there is a finer body, the etheric double, which plays a very important part in collecting vitality from the sun for the use of the denser physical body through its etheric centers, the chakras. at death, the physical body and the etheric double are cast asid

photographs stuck on the film. the former i have found to refer to past events, the latter to those about to happen. the locality of the event is judged by the scenery and the climatic heat. i have to estimate dates by the clearness of the pictures. i foresee more unpleasant than pleasant things. i believe the reason to be that evil, being nearer to matter than to spirit, is more ponderous in the ether than its opposite, and is therefore sensed more easily by a seer. i not only see, but feel, the density of evil (see also arnall bloxham) sources: besterman, theodore. crystal gazing: a study in the history, distribution, theory and practice of scrying. london: william rider, 1924. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1965. grey, e. howard. visions, previsions and miracles in moder

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y for zellner s theory, slade later 104 fossilized aliens confessed that he produced the effects fraudulently. later psychical researchers, however, used variants of the fourth-dimensional idea to explain the fate of the soul after death. see also: bermuda triangle further reading de camp, l. sprague, 1980. the ragged edge of sci- ence. philadelphia, pa: owlswick press. layne, n. meade, 1950. the ether ship and its solu- tion. vista, ca: borderland sciences research associates. frank and frances strolling through his rural property near quebec city, quebec, one night in 1941, inventor arthur henry matthews encountered two men, each six feet tall, blue-eyed, and goldenhaired. after introducing themselves as venusians, they expressed interest in matthews s work with electrical genius nikola

kethra e da foundation and layne s better-known borderland sciences research associates, the channelings of yada di shi ite and associates eventually their number expanded to eleven found an international audience. in the early age of flying saucers, the late 1940s and early 1950s, the circle s pronouncements on the subject were particularly influential, and they founded the basis of layne s the ether ship and its solution (1950, which was widely read in fringe circles and is still an influence on latter-day occult saucer theorists such as john a. keel. see also: channeling; keel, john alva further reading barker, gray, 1956. they knew too much about fly- ing saucers. new york: university books. layne, n. meade, the ether ship and its solution. vista, ca: borderland sciences re s e a rch

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subtle powers, thy favour to thy master now impart! i look on thee, and soothed is my distress; i seize on thee, the struggle groweth less. the spirit s flood-tide ebbs away, away. i m beckoned out, the open seas to meet, the mirror waters glitter at my feet to other shores allures another day. a fiery chariot floats on airy pinions hither to me! i feel prepared to flee along a new path, piercing ether s vast dominions to other spheres of pure activity. this lofty life, this ecstasy divine! thou, but a worm, and that deservest thou? yes! turn thy back with resolution fine upon earth s lovely sun, and now make bold to fling apart the gate which every man would fain go slinking by! here is the time to demonstrate that man s own dignity yields not to gods on high; to tremble not before that m

r than you d obtain in a whole year s monotony. all that the tender spirits sing you, the lovely images they bring you, are not an empty sorcery. they will delight your sense of smell, they will refresh your palate well, and blissful will your feeling swell. of preparation there s no need, we re here together, so proceed! spirits vanish, ye darkling vaultings above him! more lovely gleaming, blue ether beaming, gaze down, benign! now are the darkling clouds disappearing! faint stars are sparkling, gentler suns nearing hitherward shine. graces, adorning sons of the morning, spirit-like, bending, wavering, hover. yearning unending follows them over; ribbons a-trailing, fluttering, veiling, wide spaces cover, cover the bower, where, with deep feeling, lovers are dreaming, life-pledges sealing

most strenuous, never sated, a colossal caryatid, bears an awful weight of boulders, buried still up to his shoulders. but twill not come near these spaces; sphinxes now are in their places. seismos i, only, wrought this little matter as men will finally declare; but for my batter and my clatter how would this world be now so fair? how would your mountains stand above there in clear and splendid ether-blue, if them i had not worked to shove there? a picturesque, entrancing view! whenas (the primal sires surveying, chaos and night) i saw my honour lost, i, with the titans joined in playing, hurled ossa, pelion too, as balls are tossed. thus we raged on in youthful passion till vexed and weary at the last both mountains we, in wanton fashion, like twin peaks on parnassus cast. apollo gladly

wrapped in the purest swaddling-fleece, bound fast in fine, costly wrappings, but now the strong, though dainty rogue draws forth his delicate limbs, firm, elastic, and supple, craftily thence, the purple shell, which so grievously bound him, leaving quietly in its place, like the perfected butterfly which from the cramping chrysalis deftly slips with unfolding wings, through the sunlit, radiant ether boldly, wantonly fluttering. so too did he, the agilest, that to thieves and to tricksters and all seekers of gain he d be ever a favouring genius. this straightway he makes manifest through most clever devices. swift the trident of ocean s lord steals he, and slyly from ares self steals the sword from the scabbard, arrow and bow from phoebus too, also the tongs from hephaestus, even from ze

s godlike joy possesses when love forms a precious three. faust all is found, our love s requited, i am thine, and mine art thou; and so stand we here united, were it always thus as now! chorus. many years of purest pleasure in the mild light of the boy crown this pair in plenteous measure. how their union stirs my joy! euphorion. let me be skipping, let me be springing in all the breezes through ether winging is now my passion; it hath me won. faust but gently! gently! don t be rash! check thee that plunge and death may not overtake thee, that we may not perish through our dear son. euphorion. i will no longer stand earthly stresses; let go my hands, let go my tresses, let go my garments, they are all mine. helena. oh, think- believe usto whom thou belongest! how it would grieve us, and h

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

to the condition of small face turned inward toward vast face i.e. the ayn. 34 etz hachayyim branch 1: in his simple and smooth will, the desire arose to (make a) creation. behold, he then contracted (tzimtzum) himself in the middle point..he contracted the light (of the endless. and the light was withdrawn to the sides around the middle point, and there remained an empty space, atmosphere (ryva, ether, and a vacuum surrounding the exact middle point. and, behold, the contraction was evenly balanced around that empty middle point in such a manner that the vacuum was circular and in complete balance and sameness all around. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8- a 1 sifra detzniyutha 1. 2 unpublished translation. 3 vast face: one sees several versions of this appellation arising from differences between hebr

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

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

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uarded in various ways. while we walk the earth in our physical bodies, we are drawn toward the center of the earth by the force of gravitation; but our bodies being solid, that is to say, of the same density as the material whereof our globe is composed, we are thus prevented from sinking through the earth by displacement as we would sink in water, or by interpenetration as we would pass through ether. when death comes and we shed this so-called mortal coil, we find ourselves in vehicles that are finer than the elements of the earth. a person clothed in these finer vehicles could easily penetrate through the various strata of our globe to the center if there were no other obstacles. having shed the dense body, he is no longer subject to gravitation, but to levitation, and on that account

d easily penetrate through the various strata of our globe to the center if there were no other obstacles. having shed the dense body, he is no longer subject to gravitation, but to levitation, and on that account he usually finds it sufficiently difficult to stay upon the surface of the earth. only during the first part of his post-mortem experience when he is still loaded down with the coarsest ether and desire stuff is this possible for him. the more he has gathered of that denser substance by indulgence of his lower nature and cultivation of the habit of drunkenness, covetousness, hatred, malice, immoral emotions, and disreputable vices, the easier it is for him to stay around low saloons, gambling houses, red-light districts, and kindred places. but the man of high ideals and lofty as

re they are now living. and analogously, the citizens of the coming age will inhabit the air. but we know that our dense body gravitates towards the center of the earth, therefore, a change must take place; also paul tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a soul body, and this is made of ether, which is lighter than air and therefore capable of levitation. this is the golden wedding garment, the philosopher's stone, or the living stone, spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies as the diamond soul, for it is luminous, lustrous, and sparkling--a priceless gem. it was also called the astral body by the mediaeval alchemists, because of the ability it conferred upon the one who ha

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iron and in time disintegrates it. this process is commonly known as rusting. the blood comes in contact with the air every time it passes through the lungs, and as a needle is drawn to a magnet, so does the oxygen of the inspired air coalesce with the iron the blood. a process of combustion takes place, which is similar to the rusting or oxidation we observed in the iron exposed to the air. the ether contained in the dense fiber of wood, after the latter has undergone combustion in a stove, passes outwards through the iron in the form of semi-invisible heat-waves vibrating at different velocities according to the degree of heat in the furnace. so the spiritual vibration generated by the combustion of oxygen and iron in our physical bodies, passes outwards and colors our invisible vehicle

nto which it has been temporarily assimilated. hence one who lives upon a flesh diet must replenish his food supply very often; such material would therefore be unsuitable for the purpose of building a body that has to wait for some time before the adept enters it. food consisting of vegetables, fruits and nuts, particularly when these are ripe and fresh, is interpenetrated by a great deal of the ether which composes the vital body of the plant. these are much easier to subdue and to incorporate into the polity of the body, also they stay much longer there before the individual cell life can assert itself. therefore the adept who wished to build a body ready to wear before he leaves the old one, naturally builds it of fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts, taking them into the body which he us

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

in these distant days the mysteries of nature, and what is now called physical science, formed part of the hidden cult. thus pythagoras, anaximander, nicetas, heraclides, aristarchus, seleneus, and ecphantus believed in the rotundity of the earth or in its movement; the first of these philosophers holding that each star was a world possessing its own atmosphere and surrounded by immense spaces of ether.4 but this knowledge was never popularized for fear of upsetting religion, by means of which authority over the ignorant masses was maintained. early in the fourth century a.d. we find lactantius writing: it is an absurdity to believe that there are men who have feet above their heads, and countries in which all is inverted, in which the trees and plants grow from the top to the bottom. we f

imulacrum possible. according to the zohar, metatron gsets all his legions in motion by the power of a single letter [shin] h.21 this was the spoken word tetragrammaton, which created light, when the yetziratic emanation moved upon the face of the waters (the luminous mirror) and proclaimed gyehe aur h (value 222, glet there be light h (illumination. in proclaiming it, the shekinah, astral light, ether, or by whatever name the reader chooses to call it, emerged from out of the yetziratic deity, leaving the four tetragrammatic letters of his name reflected upon the deep. these four letters represent what may be called the materiality of this deity, the elements of air, fire, water, and earth. in themselves they are not spiritual but are reflected upon spirit, the shin by going forth from th

off another ring or palace forming a sort of envelope around the first one. so that, emanating from the supreme point, all the degrees of creation are but envelopes, the one for the other. the envelope of the superior degree forms the brain of the degree next to it. 4 here is presented to us a system of worlds within worlds. first there is the world, or expanse, of no-thingness; then the awir, or ether; next the aur, or light; then ten sephirotic rings of light, one grosser than the other, until the last is composed of air, fire, water, earth, and spirit, or od, heh, vau, heh, and shin, in which the form is visible because of the existence of the spirit. by the cry gyehe aur h (let there be light) was the world created, and yehe is a combination of od and heh (hy- the great father and the

l a means of balancing out good. neither is desirable in itself except in the material world, which cannot exist without them; equally, the spiritual world cannot be entered as long as they exist; consequently their adverseness is purely relative to the spiritual world. further on in this book we will show that the power of using either is drawn from the same source- shin, shekinah, astral light, ether, electricity, whatever name it may be called by- and to understand the use of this force, yet never to be obsessed by it, is to trample on the head of the serpent and so re-establish the shin in the body of tetragrammaton and formulate the messiah, the incarnate word which when disincarnated caused the assiatic world to be. in brief, this is the central doctrine of the qabalistic redemption;

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

comprehension as the other, and that nature, instead of being separated from spirit, is filled with it and can not be divorced from it; also that the female is the original organic unit of creation, without which nothing is or can be created. chapter vi. civilization of an ancient race. the profound doctrines of abstractions or emanations; of the absorption of the individual soul into the divine ether or essence; of the renewal of worlds and reincarnation, were doubtless elaborated after the separation, in the human mind, of spirit from matter, but before mankind had lost the power to reason abstractly. although pythagoras understood and believed these doctrines, he did not, as is well known, receive them from his degenerate countrymen, but, on the contrary, imbibed them from private sour

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

rituals for his fellowshipofthe rosy cross.136a. e.waite-magicianofmany parts _butthere is no question that waite had experienced this state himself.'ithas been given to me, he continues,'toknowofthis stateundertheinfluence of etherinaway that i may never looktoexperience until the end of all travellings; it has been given to me to find its threshold in a still stateofmind''underthe influence of ether' is a reference to experiences duringthecourseoftwodental operations. waite described them fully while commenting on a similar happening recorded by sirarthurconandoyle:in this connection it may be pardonabletomention a personal experience of the present writer, also under gas at a dentist's.duringthenormal course of intellectual work, prior to the dental operation, he had been dealingwithce

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ng, the prey of every evil influence, and of anyone with malign passion: he is deceiving and self deceived, the catspaw of every elemental force, and baneful misdirected energy. our existence passes in an atmosphere of material air; matter in the third state. but beyond this, there are other states, even more rare; even science begins to hint at one step beyond the invisible air- the hypothetical ether of the light waves. a true medium indeed, but there is an even rarer state in which we are equally bathed, the akasic so-called astral light, of which our senses are all too gross to form any conception; yet this unseen and almost inconceivable film is ever around us, and takes an impression of every event and form that exists and that ever has existed.itis the recording angel of the exoteri

various forms; we must recognise that they are formed not only of many solid earthy materials,hutalso necessarily of water, and of many gases, chiefly common air. medieval philosophers also added heat, then considered as an element,butnow described as a mode oftheconstitution of man299motion. we should also grant the existence of an all-penetrating finer grade of matter around and within us- the ether of space, and so we should probably include an etheral envelope of the human body as an unseen but necessary element of our frames. orientals have in general recognised this finer element in bodies,butmodern europeans have discardedit.the recognition of aether as a fifth element, additional to air, fire, water and earth was due to aristotle, the greek philosopher, who introduced the word qui

st thirty years the outline of these ancient schemes has been offered to english students by the school of theosophists, who were mainly inspired by the late madame h. p. blavatsky, and her followers have, since her decease, somewhat varied the arrangement of the human principles. in broad outline the system is that man has a gross material body,rupa,thesthula sarira,and a more tenuous vehicle of ether-like material, thelinga sharira.these are energised by the vital force calledprana,a stream from the ocean of vitality calledjiva.then follow the supra-physical principles, the lowest calledkama,meaning the passions and emotions, the animal driving forces of the man; then the human mind or soul calledmanas,which they view as pending and vibrating between the passionalkamicelement below, and

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

neye located in this globe or at the sun, before the globe or the sun were there, and nothingbutan eye, nothingbutthe perceptive faculty. now through that hollow sphere are running the tatwic currents which have called those stars into existence. and i will just remind you for a moment of these currents. there is the akasa, which produces the capacity, the potentiality of motion, which causes the ether- that is to say, the absolutely undifferentiated matter which fills thatspace255to become so differentiated as to become capable of motion, causes it to become granular. and following that, operates the vayu tatwa which sweeps these granules into a circular motion. upon that again operates the taijas tatwa, which sweeps the moving particles into a glowing incandescent mass of fire mist, in f

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U1

sical body is permeated throughout by the rays of the ruach, of which is the material completion. the nephesch shineth through the material body and formeth the magical mirror or sphere of sensation. this magical mirror or sphere of sensation is an imitation or copy of the sphere of the universe. the space between the physical body and the boundaries of the sphere of sensation, is occupied by the ether of the astral world. that is to say, the container or recipient of the astral rays of the macrocosm. the nephesch is divided into seven palaces, combining the sephirotic influence in their most material forms. that is, the world of passions dominated by the ruach, or by the world which is beyond. or otherwise said its sephiroth are passionate, expressing a passionate dominion. thus, its thre

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM13

ught in the world. i am he that lighteneth and thundereth. i am he from whom is the shower of the life of the earth. i am he, whose mouth ever flameth. i am he, the begetter and the manifester unto the light. i am he, the grace of the world. the heart girt with a serpent is my name. come thou forth and follow me and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire and every spell and scourge of god the vast one may be obedient unto me. iao. such are the words "i am the resurrection and the life, he who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live, and he who believeth in me who liveth shall never die. i am the first and the last, i am he who

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

art the same all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the moon. the wind hath borne thee in its bosom, and the earth hath ever nourished the changeless godhead of thy youth. come thou forth i say, come thou forth and make every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, the vast one, obedient unto me" 7 magus of fire (moves to the south holding the lotus wand by the leo band "in the name of yhvh tzabaoth, i invoke the protective power of asch in the cardinal point of darom and its great archangel michael, its mighty ang

defend with all the force, power and might of geburah, and make all spirits subject unto me. entrust me with the power to invoke thy forces on command in the defense of this order, my loved ones and lastly, myself. empower all the elements of nature with thy force and strength to act as a sword of defeat and a shield of invincibilty to mine enemies so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire and every spell and scourge of god, the vast one, obedient unto me (now makes the sign of the enterer towards the quarter while saying "in the name of elohim gibor, i call upon kamael and his angels, the seraphim, to utterly and unequivocally protect, without hesitation or delay, any and al

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

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM3

be wrought in the world. i am he that lighteneth and thundereth. i am he from whom is the shower of the life of earth. i am he, whose mouth ever flameth. i am he, the begetter and manifester unto the light. i am he, the grace of the world. the heart girt with a serpent is my name. come thou forth and follow me and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, the vast one be made obedient unto me" step 12 feeling surrounded and empowered by the divine white brilliance and filled with the rose colored glow of trapt of atziluth, let the adept now astrally look at the luna 5 far below him and the earth below lu

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM5

be wrought in the world! i am he that lighteneth and thundereth! i am he from whom is the shower of the life of the earth! i am he whose mouth ever floweth! i am he the begetter and manifester unto the light! i am he, the grace of the world! the heart girt with a serpent is my name. come thou forth and follow me and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god the vast one may be obedient unto me" step 4 meditate on whatever communication you can obtain from your higher genius. when you are finished communing with your higher genius, simply say "be my mind open to the higher! be my heart the center of the ligh

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM7

the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever, yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mother the moon. the wind hath borne thee in its bosom, and the earth hath ever nourished the changeless god head of thy youth. come thou forth i say, come thou forth, and make every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god, the vast one, obedient unto mtolineal figures r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 examine the number of hebrew letters in the sephirotic names on the qabalistic tree of life. rtk consists of three letters. this could be equated to the

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

intended as a useful guide much like a roadmap for anmar country. as a magician, you must fill in the details for yourself as you discover them. 34 the tablet of union the enochian tablets are four in number, each referred to one of the elements of earth, air, fire and water. in addition to these four there is another smaller tablet, which is called the tablet of union, referred to the element of ether or spirit. its function, as its name implies, is a unite and b nd together the four elemental tablets. the hermetic order of the golden dawn the book of the concourse of the forces the black cross is shown in figure 1, appendix a, as the central horizontal row and vertical column of darkened squares. the two horizontal arms have 12 squares each and the top and bottom vertical arras have 13 s

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

ch, whose name expresses literally the notion of sky, while wuotan signifies the air, and donar the thunderstorm. and as wuotan turns the tide of battle, zio presents himself as the special god of war; as donar flings the hammer and wuotan the spear, he is god of the sword, as exhibited in the names sahsnot and heru. but here much remains dark to us, because our legend has lost sight of zio altoo-ether. like wuotan, he also seems to rush down from the sky in the form of tempest. two others, though never appearing in the week, must yet be reckoned among the great gpds. froho, a god of hunting, of generation, fertility and summer, had long planted his name in the heart of our language, where he still maintains his ground in the derivatives fron and fronen; his sacred golden-bristled boar sur

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ppen through cosmic law and the volition of the supreme being. when a mystic or student of mysticism says he will consult the akashic records, he means he will seek to attune his conscious mind with the cosmic consciousness and be imbued with its omniscience. the word akashic is derived from the sanskrit word, akasa, which, in the sankhya philosophy means an indeterminate essence such as space or ether. alden (pronounced awlden).sometimes spelled ahldain; a'ldain; the name of a former master of the great white brotherhood, who gave jurisdiction over the establishment of mystical centers on the north american continent during the fifteenth century, and after whom the first temple in the united states was named in 1603. his personality still affects much of the work in this country. allegory

continued experiments with one subject make that subject enter such a state more readily as long as [179] the same operator conducts the experiments. no one was ever placed in the state against his or her will and cooperation, for it is impossible (except in some rare cases where drugs are used, and then the state will more nearly approach a heavy or deep sleep as when chloral, sulphonal, hypnal, ether, and similar drugs are used; in this state the subject is not under the mental control of the operator or physician, and the mind of the subject is not inhibited as when a mental process is used) but while all this is true and is intended to dispel the fear and false statements about hypnotism, there is seldom any need for its use (especially that which is induced by mental processes) and th

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

is violently snapped, and the disembodied entity becomes divorced from the personal soul, the latter being annihilated without leaving the smallest impression of itself on the former. if that union between the lower, or personal manas, and the individual reincarnating ego, has not been effected during life, then the former is left to share the fate of the lower animals, to gradually dissolve into ether, and have its personality annihilated. but even then the ego remains a distinct being. it (the spiritual ego) only loses one devachanic state-after that special, and in that case indeed useless, life-as that idealized personality, and is reincarnated, after enjoying for a short time its freedom as a planetary spirit almost immediately. q. it is stated in isis unveiled that such planetary spi

laws accept it, more, perhaps, even than they should. to get convinced of the fact of reincarnation and past lives, one must put oneself in rapport with one's real permanent ego, not one's evanescent memory. q. but how can people believe in that which they do not know, nor have ever seen, far less put themselves in rapport with it? a. if people, and the most learned, will believe in the gravity, ether, force, and what not of science, abstractions "and working hypotheses" which they have neither seen, touched, smelt, heard, nor tasted-why should not other people believe, on the same principle, in one's permanent ego, a far more logical and important "working hypothesis" than any other? q. what is, finally, this mysterious eternal principle? can you explain its nature so as to make it compr

s is "the light of the world" the second, and the third, its gradually deepening shadows. adept (lat. adeptus) in occultism, one who has reached the stage of initiation and become a master in the science of esoteric philosophy. aether (gr) with the ancients, the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe; the "garment" of the supreme deity, zeus, or jupiter. with the moderns, ether, for the meaning of which, in physics and chemistry, see webster's dictionary, or some other. in esotericism, aether is the third principle of the kosmic septenary, matter (earth) being the lowest, and akasha, the highest. agathon (gr) plato's supreme deity, lit "the good" our alaya or the soul of the world. agnostic a word first used by professor huxley, to indicate one who believes nothing

ce of all bodies "of the same nature as the bodies which they formed" these atoms, he taught, were primarily put in page 143 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt motion by nous (universal intelligence, the mahat of the hindus, which nous is an immaterial, eternal, spiritual entity; by this combination the world was formed, the material gross bodies sinking down, and the ethereal atoms (or fiery ether) rising and spreading in the upper celestial regions. antedating modern science by over 2,000 years, he taught that the stars were of the same material as our earth, and the sun a glowing mass; that the moon was a dark uninhabitable body, receiving its light from the sun; and beyond the aforesaid science he confessed himself thoroughly convinced that the real existence of things, perceived b

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

nd reminiscent connection with the human shape; but how representative or permanent that similarity might be, none could say with any kind of certainty. we had devised two weapons to fight it; a large and specially fitted crookes tube operated by powerful storage batteries and pro vided with peculiar screens and reflectors, in case it proved intangible and opposable only by vigorously destructive ether radiations, and a pair of military flame-throwers of the sort used in the world war, in case it proved partly material and susceptible of mechanical destruction- for like the superstitious exeter rustics, we were prepared to burn the thing's heart out if heart existed to burn. all this aggressive mechanism we set in the cellar in positions care fully arranged with reference to the cot and ch

ich kept me from going mad. i had drilled myself in preparation for the crucial moment, and blind training saved me. recognising the bubbling evil as no substance reach able by matter or material chemistry, and therefore ignoring the flame-thrower which loomed on my left, i threw on the current of the crookes tube apparatus, and focussed toward that scene of immortal blasphemousness the strongest ether radiations which men's art can arouse from the spaces and fluids of nature. there was a bluish haze and a frenzied sputtering, and the yellowish phosphorescence grew dimmer to my eyes. but i saw the dimness was only that of contrast, and that the waves from the machine had no effect whatever. then, in the midst of that daemoniac spectacle, i saw a fresh horror which brought cries to my lips

straw hat of my uncle. dazedness was upper most, and i could scarcely recall what was dream and what was reality. then thought trickled back, and i knew that i had witnessed things more horrible than i had dreamed. sitting down, i tried to conjecture as nearly as sanity would let me just what had happened, and how i might end the horror, if indeed it had been real. matter it seemed not to be, nor ether, nor anything else conceivable by mortal mind. what, then, but some exotic emanation; some vampirish vapour such as exeter rustics tell of as lurking over certain church yards? this i felt was the clue, and again i looked at the floor before the fireplace where the mould and nitre had taken strange forms. in ten minutes my mind was made up, and taking my hat i set out for home, where i bathe

verse, even though our eyes can see them. with proper knowledge, however, any good chemist could make a photographic emulsion which would record their images. the genus is unique in its ability to traverse the heatless and airless interstellar void in full corporeal form, and some of its variants cannot do this without mechanical aid or curious surgical transpositions. only a few species have the ether-resisting wings characteristic of the vermont variety. those inhabiting certain remote peaks in the old world were brought in other ways. their external resemblance to animal life, and to the sort of structure we understand as material, is a matter of parallel evolution rather than of close kinship. their brain-capacity exceeds that of any other surviving life-form, although the winged types

e the trip, but that the prodigious surgical, biological, chemical, and mechanical skill of the outer ones had found a way to convey human brains without their concomitant physical structure. there was a harmless way to extract a brain, and a way to keep the organic residue alive during its absence. the bare, compact cerebral matter was then immersed in an occasionally replenished fluid within an ether-tight cylinder of a metal mined in yuggoth, certain electrodes reaching through and connecting at will with elaborate instruments capable of duplicating the three vital faculties of sight, hearing, and speech. for the winged fungus-beings to carry the brain-cylinders intact through space was an easy matter. then, on every planet covered by their civilisation, they would find plenty of adjust

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ter shelters, begun with hard snow blocks during odd moments, were by no means as high as they should have been; and lake finally detached all hands from other tasks to work on them. it was after four when lake at last prepared to sign off and advised us all to share the rest period his outfit would take when the shelter walls were a little higher. he held some friendly chat with pabodie over the ether, and repeated his praise of the really marvelous drills that had helped him make his discovery. atwood also sent greetings and praises. i gave lake a warm word of congratulations, owning up that he was right about the western trip, and we all agreed to get in touch by wireless at ten in the morning. if the gale was then over, lake would send a plane for the party at my base. just before reti

in of miskatonic university. here i shall sketch only the salient highlights in a formless, rambling way. myth or otherwise, the sculptures told of the coming of those star-headed things to the nascent, lifeless earth out of cosmic space- their coming, and the coming of many other alien entities such as at certain times embark upon spatial pioneering. they seemed able to traverse the interstellar ether on their vast membranous wings- thus oddly confirming some curious hill folklore long ago told me by an antiquarian colleague. they had lived under the sea a good deal, building fantastic cities and fighting terrific battles with nameless adversaries by means of intricate devices employing unknown principles of energy. evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man s t

the form of a new invasion from outer space- this time by half-fungous, half-crustacean creatures- creatures undoubtedly the same as those figuring in certain whispered hill legends of the north, and remembered in the himalayas as the mi-go, or abominable snow men. to fight these beings the old ones attempted, for the first time since their terrene advent, to sally forth again into the planetary ether; but, despite all traditional preparations, found it no longer possible to leave the earth s atmosphere. whatever the old secret of interstellar travel had been, it was now definitely lost to the race. in the end the mi-go drove the old ones out of all the northern lands, though they were powerless to disturb those in the sea. little by little the slow retreat of the elder race to their orig

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

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

be for like eternities to come. then the resplendent aura of my brother of light drew near and held colloquy with me, soul to soul, with silent and perfect interchange of thought. the hour was one of approaching triumph, for was not my fellow-being escaping at last from a degrading periodic bondage; escaping forever, and preparing to follow the accursed oppressor even unto the uttermost fields of ether, that upon it might be wrought a flaming cosmic vengeance which would shake the spheres? we floated thus for a little time, when i perceived a slight blurring and fading of the objects around us, as though some force were recalling me to earth- where i least wished to go. the form near me seemed to feel a change also, for it gradually brought its discourse toward a conclusion, and itself pre

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

appears as the crystal arethusa in remote sicilia" then arose homeros, the ancient among bards, who took his lyre and chanted his hymn to aphrodite. no word of greek did marcia know, yet did the message not fall vainly upon her ears, for in the cryptic rhythm was that which spake to all mortals and gods, and needed no interpreter. so too the songs of dante and goethe, whose unknown words dave the ether with melodies easy to ready and adore. but at last remembered accents resounded before the listener. it was the swan of avon, once a god among men, and still a god among gods: write, write, that from the bloody course of war, my dearest master, your dear son, may hie; bless him at home in peace, whilst i from far, his name with zealous fervour sanctify. accents still more familiar arose as m

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

as a leader in witchcraft. you may remember his name from the film rosemary's baby. he was a chemist who was preoccupied with turning other metals into gold by (transmutation) alchemy. in the course of his experiments he discovered things that were to be of far more value to succeeding generations than a pot of gold. potassium bicarbonate was discovered by another alchemist of that era. sulphuric ether and hydrochloric acid were other compounds the alchemists discovered as they practiced their kind of witchcraft. the existence of gas, sodium sulphate, phosphorus and tin oxide were other discoveries made during that period. in the course of their experiments, these men chanted, lit candles and did all sorts of weird things and, as a result, became the forerunners of the abracadabra type mag

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

or the first tarot card, mastery of the elements having been chosen as the first act of initiation. in honor of this tradition i shall give my principal attention to the elements for, as you will see, the key to the elements is the panacea, with the help of which all the occurring problems may be solved. according to the indian succession of the tattwas, it runs as follows: akasa principle of the ether tejas principle of the fire waju principle of the air apas principle of the water prithivi principle of the earth in accordance with the indian doctrine, it has been said that the four somehow grosser tattwas have been descended from the fifth tattwa, the akasa principle. consequently akasa is the cause ultimate and to be regarded as the fifth power, the so-called quintessence. in one of the

hing on our earth, all thriving, ripening, life and death depend on the statements made in these chapters. hence the adept fully conceives that physical death does not mean disintegration, passing into nothingness, but what we consider as annihilation or death is nothing else but the transition from one stage into another. the material world has emerged from the principle of akasa, i.e, the known ether. the world also is controlled and kept by this same principle. therefore it is understandable that it is the transmission of the electric or the magnetic fluid on which are based all the inventions connected with the communication at distance, through the ether, such as radio, telegraphy, telephony, television and all the other inventions to be achieved in the future, with the aid of the ele

lled and kept by this same principle. therefore it is understandable that it is the transmission of the electric or the magnetic fluid on which are based all the inventions connected with the communication at distance, through the ether, such as radio, telegraphy, telephony, television and all the other inventions to be achieved in the future, with the aid of the electric or magnetic fluid in the ether. but the fundamental principles and laws were, are and always will be the same. a very extensive and exciting book could be written solely about the effects of the various magnetic and electric fluids on the grossly material plane. but the interested reader who has decided to walk on the path of initiation and will not be deterred by the study of the principles, will find out by himself all

, having its seat in the lowest part of the soul. the next center is that of the water, with its seat in the region of the sexual organs and designated in the indian terminology as swadisthana. the center of fire, as center of the soul, is in the umbilical region and is named manipura. the center of air as compensatory element is in the region of the heart and is termed anahata. the center of the ether or principle of akasa is found in the region of the neck and is named visudha. another center, that of volition and intellect, is between the eyebrows and is called ajna. as the supreme and most divine center is regarded as the thousand-petaled lotus, named sahasrara from which derive and are influenced all the other powers of the centers. beginning at the top, from the supreme center, along

e original laws. 12. the astral plane the astral plane, often designated as the fourth dimension, has not been created out of the four elements, but it is a density-degree of the akasa principle, consequently of all that up to now, i the material world occurred, is actually occurring and will occur, and has its origin, regulation and existence. as said before, akasa in its most subtle form is the ether, well known to all of us, in which, amongst other vibrations, electric as well as magnetic ones are propagating. consequently this vibration-sphere is the origin of light, sound, color, rhythm, and life in all tings created. as akasa is the origin of all existing things, all that ever was produced, is being produced and will be produced in the future is reflected in it. therefore, in the ast

ISIS UNVEILED

120. vd. i, p. 300. digitizecoy google the bloody record of torquehaoa so eedena mm noou sanguintm! meekly repeated the scarlet-robed car (tinab. and to avoid the siullmg of blood which horrified them, they in- stituted the holy inquisition' if, as the occultists maintain, and science half confinns, our most trifling acts and thoughts are indelibly impressed upon the eternal mirror of the astral ether, there must be somewhere, in the boundless realm of the unseen universe, the imprint of a curious pic- ture. it is that of a gorgeous standard waving in the heavenly breeze at the foot of the great 'white throne' of the almighty on its crimson rtnmiialf face a cross, symbol of 'the son of god who died for mankind' with an olire branch on one side, and a sword, stained to the hilt with hu- ma

s been doubted. there are two precious mianves from her in the archives of the church. the first pur- ports to be a letter in answer to one addressed to her by ignatius. she confirms all things learned by her correspondent from "her friend" digitizecoy google a lbttbr pboh haby tibgin s3 meaning the apoaue jolm. she bids him hold fast to liis vows, and adds as an inducement/ and john wul oome iof/ether and pay you a vint" nothing was known of this unblushing fraud till the letters were pub- lished at paris in 1495. by a curious accident it appeared at a time when threatening inquiries began to be made as to the genuineness of the fourth synoptic. who could doubt, after such a confirmation from headquarters i but the climax of effrontery was capped in 1534, when another letter was received

and wife, the spirit and life" whose li^t includes all other lights" or life-spirits. this first manifestation was symbolized by s serpent, which is at first divine wisdom, but, fauifm inio generation, becomes polluted. pta^ is the heavenly man, the egyptian adam- kadmon, or christos who, in conjunction with the female holy ghost, the zob, produces the five elements, lur, water, fire, earth, and ether; the latter being a servile copy from the buddhist adi, and his five dhy&ni-buddhas, as we have shown in the preceding chapter. hie hinda svdyav^kuva-nara develops from himself the mother-prindjiu, enclosed within his own divine essence nsri, the immortal virgin who, when impregnated by bis spirit, becomes tanmdlra, the mother of the five elements air, water, fire, earth, and ether. tlius ma

ot expressed in either the greek or latin tongues. nat. hi t, xzxviii, 41. in the 'eternal sun' the 'abraxai' the' adotuti' of these gems, we recognise the very amulets ridiculed by the philosophic fliuy th gnoritos etc, p. 283; 2nd ed) viittiut (miracles) as employed by irenaeus. digitizecoy google 234 ms dntehed the whole is surrounded by the makd-samtidra, or the great ses the astral light and ether of the kabalists aod adeiitists; and within the central drclea appears 'the likeness of a man' he is the achamoth^ the gnostics, the twofold unity, or the androgyne man; the heavenly incarnation, and a perfect representation of ze'ir anptn (short-face, the son of a'tiih anpin (long-face" this likeness is now represented in many lamaseries by gautama-buddha, the last of the incarnated avatars

d divine ages is equal to 4,320,000,000 of human yean, in the brfthmanical calculations "at the expiration of each night. brahman, who has been asleep, awakes, and [through the sole energy of the motion] causes to emanate from himself the spirit, which in its essence is, and yet is not" prompted by the desire to create, the spirit [first of the emanations] operates the creation and gives birth to ether, which the sages consider as having the faculty of transmitting sound" ether begets air whose property b tangible [and which is necessary to life "through a transformation of the air, light is produced "from [air and] light [which begets beat, water is formed [and the water is the womb of all the living germs* throu^out the whole immense period of progressive creation, cover- ing 4,320,000,0

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

he affinities of nature. there is a singular and mysterious alliance between colour and sound. there are seven pure tones in the diatonic scale, because the harmonic octave is on the margin, or border, or rhythmic point, of the first and seventh, like the chemical dark rays on the margin of the solar spectrum (see explanatory chart of the prismatic colours above) red is the deep bass vibration of ether. to produce the sensation of red to the eye, the luminous line must vibrate 477 millions of millions of times in a second. blue, or rather purple, is the high treble vibration, like the upper c in music. there must be a vibration of 699 millions of millions in a second to produce it; while the cord that produces the high c must vibrate 516 times per second. 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 fig. 32. fig. 32a. 1

ards, or about a.d. 1200; and that the third had the term filioque first inserted into it about the time when the athanasian creed was produced, and not sooner, or about a.d. 767. eleanor cross. roman tower in dover castle. chapter the eighteenth. cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics. o indicate god s existence, the ancient sages of asia, and many greeks, adopted the emblem of pure fire, or ether. a rem amplecatur immensus ther, qui constat exaltissimis ignibus (cicero, de natura deorum, lib. ii. c. 36. coelum ipsum stellasque colligens, omnisque siderum compago, ther vocatur, non ut quidem putant quod ignitus sit en insensus, sed quod cursibus rapidis semper rotatur (apuleius, de mundo. pythagoras and empedocles entertained similar theories (brucker, 1, c. i. p. 113. parmenides also

cs maintained that the son of god could not suffer physically upon the cross, the apparent sufferer being human only real body having no part with him. at the point of the miraculous transference of persons, christos and sophia (the divine) left his body, and returned to their own heaven. upon his death on earth, the two withdrew the being jesus (spiritually, and gave him another body, made up of ether (rosicrucian ther um. thenceforward he consisted of the two first rosicrucian principles only, soul and spirit; which was the cause that the disciples did not recognise him after the resurrection. during his sojourn upon earth of eighteen months after he had risen, he received from sophia (soph, suph, or holy wisdom, that perfect knowledge or illumination, that true gnosis, which he communic

nnemoser, vol. i. p. 268, trans, by howitt. among the egyptians, athor also signified the night (hesiod, orpheus. according to the egyptians, says jablonski, matter has always been connected with the mind. the egyptian priests also maintained that the gods appeared to man, and that spirits communicated with the human race. the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian doctrine, formed of ether, and at death return again to it. the alchemists were a physical branch of the rosicrucians. the more celebrated authors (and authorities) upon the art and mystery of alchemy are hermes (whose seven chapters and smaragdine table, as it is called, contain the whole alchemical system; geber, the turba, rosary, theatrum chemicum, biblioth que herm tique, chymical cabinet; artephius, arnoldus de

of the world, comes the ineffable name tetragrammaton. the archetypical idea is also called reflective intelligible informed superessential endless in resource* the reflection of god is in the archetype which is the second principle, or macrocosmos (created worlds, exhibiting either sides, or will in action. this is displayed in three divisions, or spheres called (1st) the empyr um (god (2d) the ether um (the saviour (3d) the elements (the virgin mary. light emanates in the sephiroth( cabala) or sevenfold rotation hence the production of phenomena. in uniting with the ethereal spirit, it becomes the soul, or responsive sentience of the world. the further elucidation of the rosicrucian theological system, in its general features so far as in hint or parable submitted to unenlightened compr

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

some way determine the nature of gravity itself. no, they are part of same physics principal. they do extend outward concentrically, usually stay in position, not, always. there may even be hints available to us regarding gravity. for instance, no final settlement has ever been made of the argument over the opposed wave and corpuscular theories of the propagation of light. an assumption that the ether, a necessary adjunct to the wave theory, is identical with the gravitational field, whatever that may be, would reconcile the opposing theories and a quantum of light would then be merely a pulsation or fluctuation in the gravitational field. intense studies of the movements of space-navigable ufo's might furnish vital clues to such problems. it would only tell all, what this one has guessed

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

terly review, vol. 93, nos. 1.2 (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania, july.october 2002. kaplan, aryeh. meditation and kabbalah. pp. 122-4 (excerpt of shekel ha-kodesh. koren, sharon faye. gkabbalistic physiology: isaac the blind, nahmanides, and moses de leon on menstruation, h ajs review, vol. 28, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 2004. margoliouth, george. gthe doctrine of ether in the kabbalah, h in jewish quarterly review, vol. 20 (1908. wolfson, elliot. gmystical realization of the commandments in sefer ha-rimmon, h in hebrew union college annual, vol. 59 (cincinnati: 1988. gmystical-theurgical dimensions of the commandments in sefer ha- rimmon, h in approaches to judaism in medieval times i, edited by david r. blumenthal [brown judaic studies, no. 54 (atlanta: s

KETAB E SIYAH

on wednesday he created jibra'il (gabriel, who is sheikh abu bekr. on thursday he created 'azra'il, who is sajadin. on friday he created the angel shemna'il, who is nasiru'd-din. 402 on saturday he created the angel nura'il. he made melek ta'us chief over them all. after this, the invisible one retreated into itself, and acted no more; but melek taus was left to act. seeing the barrenness of the ether, he created the form of the seven heavens, the earth, sun and moon. he created mankind, animals, birds and beasts in the pockets of his cloak. then he brought man up from the pearl accompanied by angels. he gave a great shout before the pearl, after which it split into four pieces. he made water flow from its inside, and that water became the sea. the world was round without clefts. then he

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

y faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun "between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the strength of ra. i have come into harbour as osiris made perfect. let priestly offerings be made to me as one in the train of the ancient of d

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trology. even granting that an angle of 120 subtended at the eye of the observer on earth between sol and saturn (exempli gratia) is accompanied by certain fortunes, this may be casual and not causal. however, in this matter we have no doubt of the efficacy of the process, and are therefore fain to toy with any hypothesis, investigating as probability may determine us to do. thus we may assume an ether or akasa, inflamed or stressed by a particular prana. and all stresses in this akasa being of one kind ultimately, though mediately diverse, it may be as easy to arrest the course of the earth as to destroy a worm. for the work is taking place in a world of causes fluid and not solid, in yetzirah (or even briah) rather than in assiah. it will be impossible or very difficult to move infantry

LIBER ALEPH

ent, we have melancholy; if the kidneys, coma; if the testes or ovaries, loss of personality itself. also, an we poison the blood directly with belladonna, we have delirium vehement and furious; with hashish, visions phantastic and enormous; with anhiolonium, ecstasy of colour and what not; with diverse germs of disease, disturbances of consciousness varying with the nature of the germ. also with ether, we gain the power of analysing the consciousness into its planes; and so for many others. but all these are, in our mystical sense, poisons; that is, we take two things diverse and opposite, binding them together so that they are compelled to unite; and the orgasm of each marriage is an ecstasy, the lower dissolving in the higher. n liber aleph vel cxi 22 u de cursu amoris (of the course of

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

an.man! v we are of course no happier when we examine the many, separately or together. they converge and diverge, each fresh hill-top of knowledge disclosing a vast land unexplored; each gain of power in our telescopes opening out new galaxies; each improvement in our microscopes showing us life minuter and more incomprehensible. a mystery of the mighty spaces between molecules; a mystery of the ether-cushions that fend off the stars from collision! a mystery of the fulness of things; a mystery of the emptiness of things! yet, as 6 liber cxlviii we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition.what shall i call it?.that being is one, and thought is one, and law is one. until we ask what is that one? then again we spin words.words.words. and we have got no single question answered in

LIBER ISRAFEL

hell! thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness! rising, descending! changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! thy mother the moon! the wind hath borne thee in its bosom; and earth hath ever nourished the changeless godhead of thy youth!2 13. come thou forth, i say, come thou forth! and make all spirits subject unto me: so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, and of the earth, and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god the vast one, may be obedient unto me!3 14. i invoke the priestess of the silver star,4 asi the curved one, by the ritual of silence. 15. i make open the gate of bliss; i descend from the palace of the stars; i greet you, i embrace you, o children of e

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

fact you choose, and all such turn to folly.lose the subtle splendour, and the wise love and dear bliss of truth. beware lest your lewd laughter set a snare for any! thus and only thus will i admit a difference .twixt spirit and the things of sense. what is the quarrel between us? why do our thoughts so idly clatter? i do not care one jot for matter, one jot for spirit, while you say one is pure ether, one pure clay. i.ve talked too long: you.re very good. i only hope you.ve understood! remember that .conversion. lurks nowhere behind my words and works. go home and think! my talk refined to the sheer needs of your own mind. you cannot bring god in the compass of human thought? up stick and thump ass! let human thought itself expand. bright sun of knowledge, in me rise! lead me to these ex

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

glory, life, light, sun. thus read .of the dawning of life and light. a is by shape the svastika, symbolically aleph, the ox, as though showing the fearful force of the spiritual .whirling motions. upon the material plane, as a terrible and destructive power. this is also shown by the foolish man, as the material tarotic emblem of that which in its proper and higher manifestation is the spiritual ether. therefore we read .begun are the whirling motions. c signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the hieroglyph. it is that ruach elohim brooding upon the face of the waters. so read .formulated is the primal fire* as it is written .thy youth shall be renewed as the eagle.s [psalm ciii, 5] now the eagle is n. for further consideration of this 13, vide in the portal ritual the explanation

LIBER SAMEKH

tary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word is truth, creating the world by its magick! h thiaf g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic bird, gthe holy ghost, h of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me* the letter f is used to represent the hebrew vau and the greek digamma, its sound lies between those of the english long o and long oo, as in rope and tooth. point i 5 section c. fire. i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible go

thou phallus, thou sun! h ooo g satan, thou eye, thou lust! satan, thou eye, thou lust! satan, thou eye, thou lust! h aepe gthou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, most high! h the bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of fire, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic lion of an uranian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section d. water. hear me. ru-abra-iaf* gthou the wheel, thou the womb, that containeth the father iaf! h mariodom gthou the sea, the abode! h* see, for the formula of iaf, or rather fiaof, book 4 part iii, chapter v. the form fi

brasax g c of the father, the sun, of hadit, of the spell of the aon of horus! h aeoou g our lady of the western gate of heaven! h ischure g mighty art thou! h8 mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section e. earth i invoke thee. ma go mother! o truth! h barraio g thou mass! h* gmass h in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. the impossibility of defining it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the

oint i 7 ioel g hail, thou that art! h kotha g thou hollow one! h athor-e-bal-o g thou goddess of beauty and love, whom satan, beholding, desireth! h abraft g the fathers, male-female, desire thee! h (the conception is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section f. spirit. hear me. aft gmale-female spirits! h abaft gmale-female sires! h bas-aumgn gye that are gods, going forth, uttering aumgn h isak gidentical point! h sa-ba-ft gnuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! h iaf9 g hail, great wi

; gn is the nasal sound of generation and knowledge. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 8 section ff. 1. this is the lord of the gods. 2. this is the lord of the universe. 3. this is he whom the winds fear. 4. this is he, who having made voice by his commandment is lord of all things, king, ruler and helper. hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section g. spirit. hear me. ieou gindwelling sun of myself! h pur g thou fire! thou sixfold star initiator, compassed about with force and fire! h iou g indwelling soul of myself! h pur (vide supra) iafth g sun-lion-serpent, hail

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

, either will serve. i- y 'w" dress, of masquerading, is true translatable symbolism: one fiction guising another. there are conventions of asking, giving, receiving and taking. how remiss we are. we often ask, give to, receive or take from the wrong people. we are dimensionally caged but nothing prevents our looking through the bars. imagination has fewer bars than reasoning. thought is like the ether, it conveys and permeates all things, giving all we initially know. and what do we give in return? morality is a reciprocal discipline necessary to survival, and to protect the inexperienced from consequences unnecessary or unequal to development. the jungle law is superior to ours, but then man makes his laws. all pleasures eventually equalize; their difference is of duration and degree. wh

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s the sun who is dismembered by the signs of the zodiac and from whose body the universe is formed. when the terrestrial forms were created from the various parts of his body the sense of wholeness was lost and the sense of separateness established. the heart of bacchus, which was saved by pallas, or minerva, was lifted out of the four elements symbolized by his dismembered body and placed in the ether. the heart of bacchus is the immortal center of the rational soul. after the rational soul had been distributed throughout creation and the nature of man, the bacchic mysteries were instituted for the purpose of disentangling it from the irrational titanic nature. this disentanglement was the process of lifting the soul out of the state of separateness into that of unity. the various parts a

and miseries, on the stormy ocean of time. the spindle symbolizes the fact that she spins and cuts the thread of life. these emblems further signify that isis abounds in humidity, by means of which she nourishes all natural bodies, preserving them from the heat of the sun by humidifying them with nutritious moisture from the atmosphere. moisture supports vegetation, but this subtle humidity (life ether) is always more or less infected by some venom proceeding from corruption or decay. it must be purified by being brought into contact with the invisible cleansing fire of nature. this fire digests, perfects, and revitalizes this substance, in order that the humidity may become a universal medicine to heal and renew all the bodies in nature. the serpent throws off its skin annually and is the

ification of the dawn, or aurora (see moor's hindu pantheon) p. 52 concept regarded the sun as a parent and the planers as embryos still connected to the solar body by means of ethereal umbilical cords which served as channels to convey life and nourishment to the planets. some secret orders have taught that the sun was inhabited by a race of creatures with bodies composed of a radiant, spiritual ether not unlike in its constituency the actual glowing ball of the sun itself. the solar heat had no harmful effect upon them, because their organisms were sufficiently refined and sensitized to harmonize with the sun's tremendous vibratory rate. these creatures resemble miniature suns, being a little larger than a dinner plate in size, although some of the more powerful are considerably larger

ht that each species of creatures had what he termed a seal, given to it by god, and that the physical form of each was the impression of this seal upon the wax of physical substance. thus each body was stamped with the dignity of its divinely given pattern. pythagoras believed that ultimately man would reach a state where he would cast off his gross nature and function in a body of spiritualized ether which would be in juxtaposition to his physical form at all times and which might be the eighth sphere, or antichthon. from this he would ascend into the realm of the immortals, where by divine birthright he belonged. pythagoras taught that everything in nature was divisible into three parts and that no one could become truly wise who did not view every problem as being diagrammatically tria

cation of pythagoras' great theorem. hence the conclusion, as plato put it, that 'this (the regular dodecahedron) the deity employed in tracing the plan of the universe (h. stanley redgrove, in bygone beliefs) mr. redgrove has not mentioned the fifth element of the ancient mysteries, that which would make the analogy between the symmetrical solids and the elements complete. this fifth element, or ether, was called by the hindus akasa. it was closely correlated with the hypothetical ether of modern science, and was the interpenetrative substance permeating all of the other elements and acting as a common solvent and common denominator of them. the twelve-faced solid also subtly referred to the twelve immortals who surfaced the universe, and also to the twelve convolutions of the human brain

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

el: thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. hear thou me, for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of ishrael. hear me, ar: thiao: rheibet: atheleberseth: a: blatha: abeu: ebeu: phi: thitasoe: ib: thiao. hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me: so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether; upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me* i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible god: who dwellest in the void place of the spirit. arogogorobrao: sothou: modorio: phalarthao: doo: ape, the bornless one: hear me: etc* hear me- roubriao: mariodam: balbnabaoth: assalona

wrought in the world! i am he, that lighteneth and thundereth. i am he, from whom is the shower of the life of earth: i am he, whose mouth ever flameth: i am he, the begetter and manifester unto the light: i am he; the grace of the world: the heart girt with a serpent is my name come thou forth, and follow me: and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the, firmament, and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land, or in the water: of whirling air or of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god, may be obedient unto me! iao: sabao: such are the words* r h w l d 7kh /hvvhu .h\ 2i 6rorprq the initiated interpretation of ceremonial magic. it is loftily amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool and rare is such a combinatio

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

lood pumps the life of hecate, while upon this earth in flesh we do our will, so that life, love and joy overtake the earth, in which all desires are fulfilled. so mote it be zos kia and the sorceries of asmodeus defined by austin spare, sorcery is a deliberate act of causing metamorphoses by the employment of elementals. it forges a link with the powers of middle nature (the astral plane) or the ether, the astrals of great trees and of animals of every kind. will is our medium, belief is our vehicle, and desire is the force combining with the elemental. cryptograms are our talismans and protectors" art is often considered a mirror of the soul, a reflection of the inner planes of the subconscious. from art comes compassion, anger, love, hate, happiness and passion. the inherent dream becom

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

" figures prominently. this happened to me when i was a little boy of nine years old. that was twenty-seven years ago, but it was so striking that i have never forgotten it. one afternoon i became very sick, and they rushed me to the nearest hospital. when i arrived they decided they were going to have to put me to sleep, but why i don't know, because i was too young. back in those days they used ether. they gave it to me by putting a cloth over my nose, and when they did, i was told afterwards, my heart stopped beating. i didn't know at that time that that was exactly what happened to me, but anyway when this happened i had an experience. well, the first thing that happened now i am going to describe it just the way i felt-was that i had this ringing noise brrrrrnnnnng-brrrrrnnnnng-brrrrm

MORALS AND DOGMA

h the great source. so, in the great oriental allegory of the hebrews, the river pison compasses the land of _gold_ or _light; and the river gihon the land of _ethiopia_ or _darkness. what light _is, we no more know than the ancients did. according to the modern hypothesis, it is _not_ composed of luminous particles shot out from the sun with immense velocity; but that body only impresses, on the ether which fills all space, a powerful vibratory movement that extends, in the form of luminous waves, beyond the most distant planets, supplying them with light and heat. to the ancients, it was an outflowing from the deity. to us, as to them, it is the apt symbol of truth and knowledge. to us, also, the upward journey of the soul through the spheres is symbolical; but we are as little informed

t principle was half material, half spiritual, a dark air, animated and impregnated by the spirit; and a disordered chaos, covered with thick darkness. from this came the word, and thence creation and generation; and thence a race of men, children of light, who adored heaven and its stars as the supreme being; and whose different gods were but incarnations of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the ether _chrysor_ was the great igneous power of nature, and _baal_ and _malakarth_ representations of the sun and moon, the latter word, in hebrew, meaning queen. man had fallen, but not by the tempting of the serpent. for, with the ph nicians, the serpent was deemed to partake of the divine nature, and was sacred, as he was in egypt. he was deemed to be immortal, unless slain by violence, becoming

sees charming meadows overarched by a clear sky, and festivals celebrated by dances; where he hears harmonious voices, and the majestic chants of the hierophants; and views the sacred spectacles. then, absolutely free, and enfranchised from the dominion of all ills, he mingles with the crowd of initiates, and, crowned with flowers, celebrates with them the holy orgies, in the brilliant realms of ether, and the dwelling-place of ormuzd. in the mysteries of isis, the candidate first passed through the dark valley of the shadow of death; then into a place representing the elements or sublunary world, where the two principles clash and contend; and was finally admitted to a luminous region where the sun, with his most brilliant light, put to rout the shades of night. then he himself put on th

those who descend through their own fault, go from world to world, insensibly losing their love of divine things, and their self-contemplation; until they reach the world aziath, falling by their own weight. this is a pure platonism, clothed with the images and words peculiar to the kabalists. it was the doctrine of the essenes, who, says porphyry "believe that souls descend from the most subtile ether, attracted to bodies by the seductions of matter" it was in substance the doctrine of origen; and it came from the chald ans, who largely studied the theory of the heavens, the spheres, and the influences of the signs and constellations. the gnostics made souls ascend and descend through eight heavens, in each of which were certain powers that opposed their return, and often drove them back

ich language can supply, is but a _sign_ or _symbol_ for an object unknown, and no more truthful and adequate than the terms osiris and vishnu, except as being less sensuous and explicit. to say that he is a _spirit, is but to say that he is not matter _what_ spirit is, we can only define as the ancients did, by resorting, as if in despair, to some sublimized species of matter, as light, fire, or ether. no symbol of deity can be appropriate or durable except in a relative or moral sense. we cannot exalt words that have only a sensuous meaning _above_ sense. to call him a _power_ or a _force, or an _intelligence, is merely to deceive ourselves into the belief that we use words that have a meaning to us, when they have none, or at least no more than the ancient visible symbols had. to call h

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all manifestations of the powers of nature, an actual, tangible divinity. page 11 but uranus, the heaven, the embodiment of light, heat, and the breath of life, produced offspring who were of a much less material nature than his son oceanus. these other children of his were supposed to occupy the intermediate space which divided him from gaa. nearest to uranus, and just beneath him, came aether (ether, a bright creation representing that highly rarified atmosphere which immortals alone could breathe. then followed aer (air, which was in close proximity to gaa, and represented, as its name implies, the grosser atmosphere surrounding the earth which mortals could freely breathe, and without which they would perish. aether and aer were separated from each other by divinities called nephelae

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ng chaos that calls beyond the stars and they created nyarlathotep for their messenger, and they clothed him with chaos that his al azif page 9 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 form might be ever hidden amidst the stars. who shall know the mystery of nyarlathotep? for he is the mask and will of those that were when time was not. he is the priest of the ether, the dweller in air and hath many faces that none shall recall. the waves freeze before him; gods dread his call. in men's dreams he whispers, yet who knoweth his form? of leng in ye cold waste who seeketh northwards beyond the twilight land of inquanok shall find amidst the frozen waste the dark and mighty plateau of thrice-forbidden leng. know ye time-shunned leng by the ever-burning evil

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ell as what may be called his magical or nervous force- what the hindu systems denominate as prana. the third of that triad is yesod, the foundation, the ninth sephirah, the operation of the sphere of the moon. this is the airy sphere of the fourth dimension, termed in occultism the astral plane. here we find the subtle electro-magnetic substance into which all the higher forces are focussed, the ether, and it constitutes the basis or final model upon which the physical world is built. its elemental attribution is that of air, ever flo-g, shifting, andin a constant flux- yet because of that flux, in perpetual stabilitv. lust as the tremendous speed of the particles insures the stabilitv of the atom, so the fleeting forms and motio; of yesod* all its implications constitute the permanence a

knowledge of the divine ones" the grade of the portal, which conferred upon the candidate the title of lord of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepti, is not referred to a sephirah as such. it may, however, be considered as an outer court to tiphareth, exactly as the adeptus minor ceremony may be considered tiphareth within. its technical attribution is the element of akasa, spirit or ether which is magically invoked by the usual procedure of invoking pentagrams and the vibration of divine names following upon the conjuration of the powers of the four subsidiary elements. to this grade, there is attached no elemental prayer as in the former grades, but there is one remarkable invocation employed which bears quoting here. in full temple, the english version is not used, but it i

faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun,'between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon, as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams, as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the strength of ra. i have come into harbour as osiris made perfect. let priestly offerings be made to me as one in< 114> the train of the ancie

ion of the moon and the nature of mankind. and shaddai is a god who sheddeth benefits, omnipotent and satisfymg, anda1 chai is the god of life, the living one. its archan el is gabriel the prince of change and alteration. and the name of the or d er of angels is kerubim or kerubic ones who are also called the order of an els. and from the rays of this triad there appear three colours in $lkuth to ether with a fourth which is their synthesis. thus from the orange tawn of 5 od and the green nature of netzach, there goeth forth a certain greenis k 'citrine' colour, yet ure and transluient withal. from the orange tawny of hod mingled rnth &e puce of yesod there oeth forth a certain red russet brown 'russet' yet gleamin with a hidden &e. and from the reen of net- zach and the r uce of yesod &er

body is permeated throughout by the rays of the ruach, of which it is the material completion. the nephesch shineth through the material body and formeth the magical mirror or sphere of sensation. this magical mirror or sphere of sensation is an imitation or copy of the sphere of the universe. the space between the physical body and the <209> boundary of the sphere of sensation is occupied by the ether of the astral world; that is to say, the container or recipient of the astral fifth knowledge lecture 103 rays of the macrocosm. the nephesch is divided into its seven palaces, combining the sephirotic influences in their most material forms. that is, the world of passions dominated by the ruach, or by the world which is beyond. that is, its sephiroth are passionate, expressing a passionate

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emonial magic become effective not only because of the employment of the trained will and imagination, but primarily by virtue of the affective arousal of which he is capable. enthusiasm or a divine frenzy is the primary productive factor. moreover, in place of the traditional seven planets, let me suggest a far simpler classification: that of the five ancient elements earth, air, water, fire and ether, the quintessence. and going further, i believe we can find the golden dawn attributions to these five elements a broad base of meaning into which most projects may be classified. their divinatory meanings as given in the section on tarot provide us with the major materials we need. for example, the following may be used as our foundation: earth: business, money, employment, practical affair

be classified. their divinatory meanings as given in the section on tarot provide us with the major materials we need. for example, the following may be used as our foundation: earth: business, money, employment, practical affairs, etc. air: health, sickness, disputations, trouble, etc. water: pleasure, marriage, fertility, happiness, parties, etc. fire: power, dominion, authority, prestige, etc. ether: all matters spiritual, howsoever they are interpreted. the symbols for these five elements may be of several kinds, though for the purpose of this interpretation, i have conveniently selected the tattvic system of the east, as follows- earth: prithivi, a yellow square. heh (final) of tetragrammaton. air: vayu, a blue circle. vav of tetragrammaton. water: apas, a silver crescent. heh of tetr

e symbols for these five elements may be of several kinds, though for the purpose of this interpretation, i have conveniently selected the tattvic system of the east, as follows- earth: prithivi, a yellow square. heh (final) of tetragrammaton. air: vayu, a blue circle. vav of tetragrammaton. water: apas, a silver crescent. heh of tetragrammaton. fire: tejas, a red triangle. yod of tetragrammaton. ether (spirit: akasa, a black egg. shin of pentagrammaton. this immediately provides an artistic schema for the creation of talismans. a fire talisman could be constructed out of bright red-coloured papers, similar to the japanese origama, in the form of an upright triangle. appropriate inscriptions, writings, and sigils could be written on it in green ink or paint. the result would be a flashing

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a wise duty, i require your thought as to the celestial fire, when it ceases to beterrestrial element and partakes of the ethereal qualities, the pure ethereal fire which burns forever isrepresented under the egyptian doctrines as ptah, who is the emblem of the eternal spirit out ofwhich everything is created. thus, the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian school ofethics, formed of ether, at death return to it again.the celestial fire is here represented by the vestal lamp having a tapering flame, indicative of god sinfluence and continued activity. it is the everlasting light, that like the incense conveys theunknown and unseen, even unto the direct presence of the all; the praise and supplication of mortalman. this by sweet perfume extracted by fire and glowing prayer is w

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ersal agent, there is a current of love and a current of wrath. this ambient and all-penetrating fluid; this ray loosened from the sun's splendour and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere and the power of central attraction; this body of the holy spirit, which we term the universal agent, while it was typified by the ancients under the symbol of a serpent devouring its tail; this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is depicted in archaic monuments by the girdle of isis, twice-folded in a love-knot round two poles, as well as by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblematic of prudence and of saturn. motion and life consist in the extreme tension of two forces. i would thou wert cold or hot, said the master. as a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepi

s to be the first root and fundamental substantive of the verb to believe and the verb to grow, thus combining the conceptions of science, religion and progress. the great magical agent manifests by four kinds of phenomena, and has been subjected to the experiments of profane science under four names caloric, light, electricity, magnetism. it has received also the names of tetragram, inri, azoth, ether, od, magnetic fluid, soul of the earth, lucifer, etc. the great magical agent is the fourth emanation of the life-principle, of which the sun is the third form see the initiates of the school of alexandria and the dogma of hermes trismegistus. in this way the eye of the world, as the ancients called it, is the mirage of the reflection of god, and the soul of the earth is a permanent glance o

al seducer, typified by the serpent of genesis' this subtle agent, ever active, ever vigorous, ever fruitful in alluring dreams and sensuous images; this force, which of itself is blind and subordinated to every will, whether for good or evil; this ever-renewing circulus of unbridled life, which produces vertigo in the imprudent; this corporeal spirit; this fiery body; this impalpable omnipresent ether; this monstrous seduction of nature how shall we define it comprehensively and how characterize its action? to some extent indifferent in itself, it lends itself to good as to evil; it transmits light and propagates darkness; it may be called equally lucifer and lucifuge; it is a serpent but it is also an aureole; it is a fire, but it may belong equally to the torments of infernus or the sac

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gist, court de gebelin. the double triangle of solomon is explained by st. john in a remarkable manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word or logos, and the ether with the holy spirit. but the things of transcendent symbolism can only be understood rightly by the true children of science. the threefold

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spirit (kakos daimon, by "breaking away" from the monad "3" shows the action of the monad and the dyad in the creation of existence [as a plane is formed "4" extends creation to three dimensions, and was seen to conceal the sacred decad (1+2+3+4=10 "5" symbolizes the five atomic shapes: the pyramid, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron (further representing fire, earth, air, water, and ether "6" is the first perfect number (its products adding to 6, and like "5" is circular in that its powers always produce numbers ending in itself "7" is the only prime number in the decad which cannot generate another number in the decad "8" symbolizes the cube, and "9" is important as the highest number before the series is repeated. most of plato's comments concerning panpsychism, numbers, ma

ll. infinite will, bestow on me the ultimate potential of the black flame, establishing in me the true guardianship of the eternal will, so that any and all who would shun and curse you, with their desire of annihilation of will, will be instantly and eternally defeated, themselves. hail set, master of all demons, make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament, and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire; and every spell and scourge may be obedient unto me. i am, myself of essence, unto myself a being, through the fulfillment of my will and the will of set. hail set, might of hell unleashed, i seek to find and reach my destiny, which is xem! oh mighty, great gods and goddesses of the infern

in the creed of another's thought. i call forth set, the great initiator, to bear witness to what i say, and to stand by me in my undertaking within the realm of darkness, as i seek to become more than i am, and as i seek the instruction of set through the forces at my command, i now declare in the name of set that all spirits are subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and rushing fire, and all that comes within my realm are subject to me [read the eighteenth part of the word of set; close the temple by first extinguishing the black flame, then ring the bell nine times [then say] so it is done! the elements and the self in the study of the self, it is important to have a bas

ed to do" further fires suffuse the great chamber and a new shadow takes its place there. the braziers' flames subside, and the watching shadows laugh with pure pleasure as they are released to go here and there upon the earth for a while. this home of theirs is at the opposite end of the known universe, but they can travel there and back in a heartbeat. with the sounds of black wings beating the ether, i am left alone to commune with myself and set, the two creators of that which is my self. the lords of darkness increase in number, and the genetic changes made by set in time before time are successful. knowing my creatures are ever near, i become a nebulous mist again and my eyes open to the world of man. but yea, even though i am again on earth, shadows move at the corners of my vision

tate in harmonious concentration upon the brothers and sisters who are not among us, and send them all good and harmonious powers of our thoughts- in the spirits of the great demiurges saturn and uranus. close your eyes and meditatively prepare yourselves [when it is time, the first warden will strike a gong. the master will then vibrate seed mantras for the elements: earth, air, fire, water, and ether; and the mantras for the noose that catches anything, and for druga, the goddess beyond reach. for those learned in kundalini this represents an opening of each of the chakras from the lowest to the highest. after each mantra the first warden strikes the gong softly] lam yam ram vam ham am dum [after the last soft gong, the master says] harmony and peace to all beings touched of set [first w

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in the stumbling, hit-andmiss manner first envisaged, but in great, radical leaps. the history of life was not the bumbling progress- the very english middleclass progress- victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution- i've heard enough, the cabbie said. eugene dumsday vanished from the ether, to be replaced by disco music _ave atque vale. what saladin chamcha understood that day was that he had been living in a state of phoney peace, that the change in him was irreversible. a new, dark world had opened up for him (or: within him) when he fell from the sky; no matter how assiduously he attempted to re--create his old existence, this was, he now saw, a fact that could not be unmad

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remonies of albion thou didst produce the moist and the dry and that which nourisheth all created life hear thou me, for i am the angel of lucifer; this is thy true name handed down to the initiates of albion. east: air hear me ar thiao rheibet a-thele-ber-set a bel-atha abeu ebeu phi-theta-soe ib thiao hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! south: fire thee i invoke the terrible and invisible god who dwelleth in the void place of spirit ar vo vg o vgo vru-abrao sotou mudorio phalarthao ooo aepe the bornless one hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that e

h, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! south: fire thee i invoke the terrible and invisible god who dwelleth in the void place of spirit ar vo vg o vgo vru-abrao sotou mudorio phalarthao ooo aepe the bornless one hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! west: water hear me ru vabra- iao mri vo- dom lillithbal- bin-abaot asal-on-ai aphen-iao i thoteth abrasax aeoou ischure mighty and bornless one hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament

the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! west: water hear me ru vabra- iao mri vo- dom lillithbal- bin-abaot asal-on-ai aphen-iao i thoteth abrasax aeoou ischure mighty and bornless one hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! north: earth i invoke thee ma barraio ioel kotha athor-ebal- o abraot hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in th

scourge of god may be obedient unto me! spirit active: rending the veil hear me aot abaot bas-aum isak sabaot iao this is the lord of all spirits this is the lord of the world this is he whom the winds fear this is he who having made voice of his commandments is lord of all things king ruler and helper hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me [here takes place the binding and commanding, to whatever act of sorcery is voiced and willed] spirit passive: closing the veil hear me ieou pur iou pur iaoth iaeo ioou abrasax sabriam oo uu adonai ede edu angelos-ton-theon anlala

d be wrought in the world i am he that lighteth and thundereth i am he from whom is the shower of the life of earth i am he whose mouth ever flameth i am he the begetter and manifester unto the light i am he the grace of the worlds the heart girt with the serpent is my name come thou forth and follow me hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water; of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me! iao sabao! the prayer to satan oh satan, thou who art the shadow of god and of ourselves, i speak these words of agony for thy glory. thou who art doubt and revolt, sophism and impotence, thou livest again in us and round us, as

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which was, by necessity, killed for food. an animal is never slaughtered for the purpose of using all or a part of that animal in a satanic ritual. if commerical parchment which has been made from already slaughtered sheep cannot be obtained, plain paper may be substituted. the parchment is the means by which the written message or request can be consumed by the candle flame and sent out into the ether. the request is written on parchment or paper, read aloud by the priest, and then burned in the flame of either the black or white candle- whichever is appropriate for the particular request. before the ritual begins curses are placed to the right of the priest, and charms or blessings are placed to the left of him (water) the book of leviathan the raging sea despite all non-verbalists' prot

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here the word god really is in the singular. 22. the voice, spirit and word are qul, ruch, dbr. a very notable hebrew expression of divinatory intuition was bath qul, the daughter of the voice. 23. formless and void. thu and bhu; these two words occur in genesis i. 2, and are translated "waste and void" 24. note the order in which the primordial elements were produced. first, spirit (query akasa, ether; then air, vayu; then water, apas, which condenses into solid elementary earth, prithivi; and lastly from the water he formed fire. 25. the first name is often written ophanim, the letters are aupnim; in the vision of ezekiel i. 16, the word occurs and is translated "wheels" shrpim are the mysterious beings of isaiah vi. 2; the word otherwise is translated serpent, and in numbers xxi. 6, as

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t that humanity occupies a mediating position between the earthly and the divine. empedocles thought knows nothing of a god outside and transcending the world. divinity lives in human beings though in a human way. it is the force in them which makes them strive to become more and more divine. thinking in this way, one can say with empedocles: when, set free from the body, released you rise to the ether, you become divine, an immortal, escaped from the power of death.38 34 christianity as mystical fact looking at human life from this perspective, the prospect of initiation into the magic circle of the eternal becomes a real possibility. forces that would not unfold under purely natural conditions of life must certainly be present in human beings, and if they remain untapped their life will

ian mysteries: becoming osiris the so-called egyptian book of the dead, 86 now restored to us by the diligence of nineteenth-century scholarship, demonstrates the existence among the ancient egyptians of ideas concerning humanity s eternal existence and communion with the divine, which might be summed up in the words attributed to empedocles: when, set free from the body, released you rise to the ether, you become divine, an immortal, escaped from the power of death. it contains, in fact, all kinds of teachings and invocations, which were put into the grave along with the deceased in order to furnish guidance when they were released from the mortal state. by means of this literary work we can explore the most intimate ideas of the egyptians concerning the eternal world and cosmogony. the i

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of the body; and to him the stomach and upper intestines were dedicated (a. ahephi was also termed the digger or burier, for he puts out of sight or removes that which is useless or offensive in the body, and to him, the lower intestines or bowels were dedicated (b. tmo-oumathu was also called the cutter or divider for he divides and distributes the blood bearing with it the prana and the subtle ether by the holy science of breath brought into the body, and to him were the lungs or heart dedicated (c. kabexnuv was termed bleeder for as a stream of blood is drawn from the body, so is a stream of impurity drawn from the blood, and cast out into the draught by the action of the liver and the gall-bladder, and to him therefore, these organs were dedicated (d. these jars were called canopic ja

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cial memberships to establish a mystical union with the absolute. 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 50 afterlife mysteries akashic records some metaphysicians believe that they have the ability to perceive and to read the akashic records, eternal accountings of individual human life patterns which have been somehow impressed on the celestial ether or astral light that fills all of space. these records are said to detail each lifetime and are perpetuated like vast computer-like memory banks in the collective unconscious. certain psychic sensitives claim to enter altered states of consciousness, such as trance or meditation, and thereby achieve the ability to read the past lives of individuals who seek such knowledge. when these seers r

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mas a. edison (1847 1931, the electrical wizard, theorized that energy, like matter, is indestructible. he became intrigued by the idea of developing a radio that would be sensitive enough to pick up the sounds of times past sounds which were no longer audible to any ears but those of the psychically sensitive. edison hypothesized that the vibrations of every word ever uttered still echoed in the ether. if this theory ever should be established, it would explain such phenomena as the restoration of scenes from the past. just as the emotions of certain individuals permeate a certain room and cause a ghost to be seen by those possessing similar telepathic affinity, so might it be that emotionally charged scenes of the past may become imprinted upon the psychic ether of an entire landscape. a

ants, once saw the events occurring. whatever the reasons may be, it cannot be denied that some locales definitely have built up their own atmospheres over the years and that such auras often give sensitive people feelings of uneasiness and often sensations of fear and discomfort. whether this may be caused by surviving minds, a psychic residue, or an impression of the actual event in the psychic ether is a question that remains unsolved at the present stage of parapsychological research. paranormally restored battle scenes offer excellent examples of what seem to be phantoms caused by the collective emotions and memories of large groups of people. perhaps the most well-known, most extensively documented, and most substantially witnessed was the phantom battle of edge hill which was refoug

hic investigator edmund gurney put forth the hypothesis that the collective sighting of a ghost is due to a sort of telepathic infection. one percipient sees the ghost and, in turn, telepathically influences another person, and so on. in his presidential address to the society for psychic research in 1939, h. h. price, a distinguished professor of logic at oxford university, put forth his psychic ether theory of hauntings. price hypothesized that a certain level of mind may be capable of creating a mental image that has a degree of persistence in the psychic ether. this mental image may also contain a degree of telepathic ability by which it can affect others. price s theory holds that the collective emotions or thought images of a person who has lived in a house some time in the past may

pothesized that a certain level of mind may be capable of creating a mental image that has a degree of persistence in the psychic ether. this mental image may also contain a degree of telepathic ability by which it can affect others. price s theory holds that the collective emotions or thought images of a person who has lived in a house some time in the past may have intensely charged the psychic ether of the place especially if there had been such powerful emotions as fear, hatred, or sorrow, supercharged by an act of violence. the original agent, price theorized, has no direct part in the haunting. it is the charged psychic ether which, when presented with a percipient of suitable telepathic affinity, collaborates in the production of the idea-pattern of a ghost. ghosts, according to pri

ta of physical and nonphysical human beings a bit differently. in his sleeping through space (1938, cannon related the view of the master-the-fifth of the great white lodge of the himalayas, kushog vogi of northern tibet, who believed that the astral body surrounds the physical body like an eggshell surrounds the egg within it and is linked up with the physical body by invisible vibrations on the ether in the air being carried to the mind centers on the plexuses of the involuntary nervous system. in cannon s view, the astral body is the scriptural golden bowl and the etheric body is the linking silver cord. the astral body, he wrote, is mainly the emotional body and has to do with emotions, moods, and feelings. the astral body is not only linked up with the physical body through the solar

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er told hermes that he might make a wish and it would be granted to him. hermes-thoth asked for a ray of the entity fs divine knowledge. pymander granted the wish, and hermes was immediately inundated with wondrous visions, all beyond human comprehension and imagination. after the imagery had ceased, the blackness surrounding hermes grew terrifying. a harsh and discordant voice boomed through the ether, creating a chaotic tempest of roaring winds and thunderous explosions. the mighty and terrible voice left hermes filled with awe. then from the all-powerful came seven spirits who moved in seven circles; and in the circles were all the beings that composed the universe. the action of the seven spirits in their circles is called fate, and these circles themselves are enclosed in the divine t

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

is substance is what hermes trismegistus calls the great "telesma" when it produces splendour, it is called light. it is this substance which god creates before everything else, when he says "let there be light" it is at once substance and movement. it is fluid, and a perpetual vibration. its inherent force which set it is motion is called "magnetism" in the infinite, this unique substance is the ether, or the etheric light. in the stars which it magnetizes, it becomes astral light. in organized beings, light, or magnetic fluid. in man it forms the "astral body" or the "plastic medium" the will of intelligent beings acts directly on this light, and by means of it on all that part of nature which is submitted to the modifications of intelligence. this light is the common mirror of all thoug

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ty. apas is attributed to water, the second element and the principle of liquid, portrayed by a silver crescent. tejas corresponds to fire, the third element, symbolized by a red triangle. its attributes include transmutation and heat. vayu is assigned to air, the fourth element, represented by a blue circle. vayu symbolizes motion and the principle of vapor or gas. the fifth and final element of ether or spirit is referred to as akasha, symbolized by a black oval. unity and limitlessness are its characteristics. prithivi earth yellow te jas fire red vayu air blue akasha spirit black w apas water silver figure 8: the tattva symbols. yoga, chakras, and the wisdom of the east 165 the seven chakras 1. muladhara, the base or root chakra. the first chakra is located at the sacrum at the base of

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

fact you choose, and all such turn to folly. lose the subtle splendour, and the wise love and dear bliss of truth. beware lest your lewd laughter set a snare for any! thus and only thus will i admit a difference etwixt spirit and the things of sense. what is the quarrel between us? why do our thoughts so idly clatter? i do not care one jot for matter, one jot for spirit, while you say one is pure ether, one pure clay *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 183. in pure idealism, objects have no independent existence; but in the above, which is no less than pure hylo-idealism, they have. yet none to the individual brain, until they have been brought into reciprocal relationship to it. if the outer world is an illusion, then the inner world of self is but a delusion, a mere mirrored refle

he little crab of konigsberg and his lunar hut in their appointed niche in the great solar mansion of eternity. at length we have arrived at the end of our first series of arguments, which may be generalized as the infoldment of all rational philosophies into one uncertain philosophic problem. berkeley, as we have seen, opened the gateway of scepticism, and was the first to vanish in the absolute ether of pyrrhonism, which he outwardly symbolized under the form of a bishop of the church of england. hume following, clutched vaguely in the night of doubt at a gsomething h he could not grasp, and whose watery substance trickled through his clenched and searching fingers. kant similarly losing his way in the night of hume fs ignorance, struck a spark on the tail of his shirt, proclaiming the d

e that drew its perfect passion from the dew, and all the flowers that blushed and blew on sunny slopes by little brooks. mine the desire that brushed aside the thorns, and would not be denied, and sought, more eager than a bride, the cold grey secret wan and wide of sacred books *songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 29. it is in this search that the soul unfurls its wings and sweeps into the infinite ether of existence, bending its course towards god in its own unutterable ideal. with burning eyes intent to penetrate the black circumference, and find out god *songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 32. in gthe alchemist, h or in that beautiful poem gthe farewell of paracelsus to aprile. h gstruggling in vain to what one hopes the best. h* we find this larger hope is here the keynote, as it is in so ma

e have advanced, by such we shall advance. the hhorror of great darkness h which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master soul, intolerant of the cosmic agony *the sword of song, p. 207. the sun of true agnosticism breaks through buddhism (vol. ii, p. 247, and now the vega of illuminism, the flashing star of crowleyanity drowns the sun of agnosticism, and reduces the whole infinite ether to a flaming crown of glory. this, all yearning hearts must hope, will be the great golden coronation of the centuries hereafter. surrounded by fools on every side, we are apt as agnostics to consider ourselves the only torch-bearers of truth; and through ignorance, joining ourselves to a particular body, hoist on high our spluttering brand of mundane tar, declaring we have discovered that l

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ertain obligations designed to make you more efficient in your way as in ours. are you willing to take these? c: i am. s: i most solemnly promise and swear/ that i will not submit myself/ to hypnotism/ mesmerism/ or any similar practice/ whereby my full consciousness/ and free will/ might be impaired/ i most solemnly promise and swear/ that i will not indulge unduly/ in any drug/ such as alcohol/ ether/ opium/ hashish/ or cocaine/ whereby my full consciousness/ and free will/ might be impaired/ i do most solemnly promise and swear/ that i will not allow myself/ to fall unduly under the influence/ of any person/ whereby my free will/ might be impaired/ finally/ i do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear/ to obey the laws of the order in general/ and in particular the rulings of the super

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

socoh, and azekah, 15:36 and sharaim, and adithaim, and gederah, and gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: 15:37 zenan, and hadashah, and migdal-gad, 15:38 and dilean, and mizpeh, and joktheel, 15:39 lachish, and bozkath, and eglon, 15:40 and cabbon, and lahmam, and kithlish, 15:41 and gederoth, bethdagon, and naamah, and makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: 15:42 libnah, and ether, and ashan, 15:43 and jiphtah, and ashnah, and nezib, 15:44 and keilah, and achzib, and mareshah; nine cities with their villages: 15:45 ekron, with her towns and her villages: 15:46 from ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near ashdod, with their villages: 15:47 ashdod with her towns and her villages, gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of egypt, and the great sea, and

o their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of judah. 19:2 and they had in their inheritance beer-sheba, or sheba, and moladah, 19:3 and hazar-shual, and balah, and azem, 19:4 and eltolad, and bethul, and hormah, 19:5 and ziklag, and bethmarcaboth, and hazar-susah, 19:6 and beth-lebaoth, and sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: 19:7 ain, remmon, and ether, and ashan; four cities and their villages: 19:8 and all the villages that [were] round about these cities to baalath-beer, ramath of the south. this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of simeon according to their families. 19:9 out of the portion of the children of judah [was] the inheritance of the children of simeon: for the part of the children of judah was too much for them

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ics in common with it; for example, they also are divided 101. leadbeater, astral plane, 72. chapter six: theosophy 87 into seven great classes, inhabiting respectively the same seven states of matter already mentioned as permeated by the corresponding varieties of the essence. thus, to take those which are most readily comprehensible to us, there are spirits of the earth, water, air and fire (or ether)-definite intelligent astral entities residing and functioning in each of those media. in mediaeval literature, these earth-spirits are often called gnomes, while the waterspirits are spoken of as undines, the air-spirits as sylphs, and the ether-spirits as salamanders. in popular language they are known by many names-fairies, pixies, elves, brownies, peris, djinns, trolls, satyrs, fawns, ko

, although exactly why he felt it posed a danger, he did not write. it terrified him and he did not experiment with it further. as we will later see when we examine the hermetic order of the golden dawn, fox had independently discovered the astral technique known as rising on the planes. the single time that fox saw his silver cord was when he detached his astral body while under the influence of ether. this was also an experience of the type of travel he called skrying "after a few sniffs, it seemed to me that i shot up to the stars, and that a shining silver thread connected my celestial self with my physical bodyl'log on a few occasions, he felt a pull that seemed to draw his astral body back into his physical body, but he never saw the cord before or after this drug experience. this ca

energy that is so familiar to trance mediums. he wrote in his manifesto "the sensation was that of being in contact with so terrible a force that i can only compare it to the continued effect of that usually experienced momentarily by a person close to whom a flash of lightning passes during a violent storm; coupled with a difficulty in respiration similar to the half-strangled effect produced by ether; and if such was the result produced in one, as tested as i have been in practical occult work, i cannot conceive a much less advanced initiate being able to support such a strain even for five minutes, without death ensuing."120 leaving aside the question of whether mathers had ever experienced the effect of a close lightning strike, his description effectively conveys the strain on his bod

l travel, the golden dawn employed various sets of symbols to act as astral doorways. those most often used to initiate astral projection were the tattwas-five simple colored shapes derived from hindu hilosophyth at embody the four lower elements of fire, water, air, 139. regardie, 102. chapter seven: the golden dawn 109 and earth-and the fifth universal binding element, or quintessence, known as ether or spirit. akasa (spirit)-black egg vayu (air)-sky-blue circle tejas (fire)-red equilateral triangle apas (water)-silver crescent prithivi (earth)-yellow square these symbols were painted, or cut erom colored craft paper and glued, on to cards, upon the backs of which were written the divine and angelic names corresponding with the tattwa. the symbols themselves were made about two inches in

tuary in his transparent astral double, morehouse would begin what was termed "descent into the target area" his own sanctuary consisted of a cube in space surrounded on all six sides by stars. when he was ready to begin, a swirling vortex would form in the floor of this transparent box in space. morehouse allowed himself to drop into this vortex, a stage in the process known as "jumping into the ether" and felt himself drawn headfirst down through this tunnel of light at an accelerating speed until his astral body struck a kind of membrane and punched through it to the target location. there can be no question that this was a form of astral projection. the penetration of the membrane at the end of the light vortex is equivalent to the snapping shut of the "pineal doorway' described by the

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ff a skin-tight mask. open your eyes, stretch gently, and when you feel ready, rise and go about your day. 26 reclining exercises commentary the five eastern tattwa symbols were used in the hermetic order of the golden dawn to graphically represent the five elements: fire, water, air, earth, and the quintessence or fifth element, known in the golden dawn system variously as akasa (akasha, aether (ether, spirit, or light. the elemental colors of the tattwa symbols do not agree with the common golden dawn colors for the elements. no attempt was made to reconcile this conflict, and it often causes confusion in the minds of students. the tattwa symbols were used mainly as astral gateways during scrying in order to access the elemental planes of the astral realm, or as representatives of the el

n concerning the qualities of the four lower elements, but no understanding of the fifth element, spirit or aether, that underlies and pervades the lower four. it is the essence of universal mind, and may be conceived as a subtle fire borne upon the breath and stored up in the blood of living things. it is the pneuma of the greeks, the spiritus of the romans, and the chi of the chinese. it is the ether that was supposed by primitive science to pervade all of space between the stars and act as a conducting medium for light. due to its universal nature, it was assigned both white (all colors) and black (no colors. the rainbow, which also embodies all colors, is appropriate to represent it. when imagining the black egg against the black background of space, visualize an aura of silvery light

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

d with two plumes and two uraei, and he had the back of a hawk, and his spear and his chain were in his hands. and horus, the son of isis, transformed himself into a similar shape, even as heru-behutet had done before him. and they slew the enemies all together on the west of per- rehu, on the edge of the stream, and this god hath sailed over the water wherein the enemies had banded themselves to-ether against him from that day to this. now these things took place on the 7th day of the first mouth of the season pert. and thoth said "this region shall be called aat-shatet" and this hath been the name of the region from that day unto this; and the lake which is close by it hath been called temt from that day to this, and the 7th day of the first month of the season pert hath been called the

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

ndala, which will connect us to mercury or hod, the 8th sphere on the tree of life. symbols are very archetypal, but they can also be very personal. you probably have certain kinds of symbols which may mean something to you that no-one else understands. however, the archetypal symbols have great power in talisman making because they have a tradition.these are images that have been built up in the ether, or akasha, for thousands of years and that have direct correspondences to certain ideas, so they come already invested with the power to speak in a certain way. this in no way means that the archetypal image is limited, for it speaks to us all in distinctly individual ways. this is so even when symbols represent archetypal entities such as michael the archangel. i probably have a different

mind of the person making the talisman. however, some symbols (i. e, planetary signs, the sigils, and hebrew letters which spell the god-names, angels, etc) have remained the same in the qabalistic tradition. tattwa combinations, on the other hand, are almost endless. as used in the golden dawn, they comprise twenty-five variants of the five principal elements, i. e, earth, air, fire, water, and ether, represented by a square, a circle, a triangle, a moon shape, and an egg shape. they have been attributed to tarot keys with some success. i have a number of students who use them regularly. but there are some inconsistencies and a number of different interpretations. tattwa images and their possible uses can be found in the works of mathers (1971) and regardie (1984. case attributes tattwa

the planet mars, the mundane chakra attributed to geburah, the fifth sphere on the tree. it is also attributed to anthropomorphism in general, and one often sees the representation of a man with extended limbs in the shape of a pentagram or five-pointed star in medieval magical literature. humans have five senses and understand the universe through its five elements (earth, air, fire, water, and ether. levi says it is the number of magic and enchantment. the five-pointed star is a symbol used both to invoke and to banish spirits. five symbolizes the transcendence of spirit over nature. it signifies versatility and adventure as well as mediation and intuition. 6. six is represented on the tree by beauty and harmony, called tiphareth. it is the number of perfect equilibrium and divine order

of kamea. you should have a very good bond with your guardian angel or higher self, before attempting to bond with these other entities, because they do have their trickster elements. using the sigil and telesmatic images of your angel in your magical workings ensures that you will have guidance and protection. one can also cut a sigil (or geometric figure, such as a pentagram, etc) in the air or ether. when doing so, one always uses the right hand with directed force. make sure there is a definite beginning and ending of the sigil as you are drawing it. any seal or design sympathetic to the magician's purpose can also be traced in the ether. some seals and sigils are too complicated to be done in the air, so the simpler ones are easier for this purpose. more complicated designs can be use

d also see it in the mind's eye. this is the signature of an angelic force, and you are opening the door to let in its energy when you cut sigils. do it with great care. i suggest that you have the sigil of certain powerful divine names, such as ihshvh, or that of your angel, imprinted deeply in your mind's eye as well, to instantly call upon if necessary. these angelic sigils, whether cut in the ether or incorporated into a talisman, can be drawn from the rose cross or the planetary kameas themselves. in his book how to make and use talismans, regardie says that if the student takes time to try to understand the examples he gives, which are relatively simple, that the others should "not prove to be insuperable problems (p. 56. it is vital for the committed magical student to spend time do

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

a, that is referring to marriage. and androgynia, being odd and masculine, yet containing an even female part. also, a demi-goddess, because it is half of the decad, which is a divinity. and didymus, because it divides numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the decad into two equal parts. but they called it pallas, and immortal, because pallas presides over the ether, or 5th element (akasha) which is indestructible and is not material to our present senses. and cardiatis or cordialis, because like a heart it is in the middle of the body of the numbers, thus- 1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 the ancients had a maxim, pass not above the beam of the balance, that is be not the cause of injury; for they said, let the members in a series form a balance beam. thus when a wei

nt grand master of the mysteries. 61. kenneth mackenzie remarks that, being formed by the union of the first odd and even numbers, 5 was considered of peculiar value and used as an amulet or talisman powerful to preserve from evil, and when inscribed on a portal, could keep out evil spirits. it is found almost everywhere in greece and egypt. diodorus calls five the union of the four elements with ether. there are 5 orders of architecture and 5 senses of the human body now commonly known and described (but the whole are seven. geometry is technically called the 5th science. in masonry the grand scheme is the 5 points of fellowship and note also 5 brethren can hold a fellowcrafts lodge. it is also called the pyramid, from the arrangement of monads, thus three below, then two, then one above

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ophy they taught. life on the plains of chald a, with its mild nights and jewelled skies, tended to foster the interior unfoldment; in early life the disciples of the magi learnt to resolve the bonds of proscription and enter the immeasurable region. one oracle assures us that "the girders of the soul, which give her; breathing, are easy to be unloosed" and elsewhere we read of the "melody of the ether" and of the "lunar clashings" experiences which testify to the reality of their occult methods. the oracles assert that the impressions of characters and other divine visions appear in the ether. the chald an philosophy recognized the ethers of the elements as the subtil media through which the operation of the grosser elements is effected by the grosser elements i mean what we know as earth

riations each; and according to the preponderance of one or another elemental condition in the constitution of the individual, so were his natural inclinations deduced therefrom, thus when in the astrological jargon it was said that a man had aries rising, he was said to be of a fiery nature, his natural tendencies being active, energetic and fiery, for in the constitution of such a one the fiery ether predominates. and these ethers were stimulated, or endowed with a certain kind of vibration, by their presidents, the planets; these latter being thus suspended in orderly disposed zones. unto the planets, too, colour and sound were also attributed; the planetary colours are connected with the ethers, and each of the planetary forces was said to have special dominion over, or affinity with

. z. or t. 36. for in each world shineth the triad, over which the monad ruleth. damascius in parmenidem. t. 12 of 13 37. the first course is sacred, in the middle place courses the sun* in the third the earth is heated by the internal fire. anon. z. or t *jones gives sun from hellos, but some greek versions give herios, which cory translates, air. 38. exalted upon high and animating light, fire, ether and worlds. simplicius in his physica, 143. z. or t. 13 ofusi wish to express my gratitude to professor david biale, who first approached me about preparing these lectures, and to professor daniel boyarin, who followed up by extending an o cial invitation on behalf of the program in jewish studies at berkeley. the time i spent on the berkeley campus was a turning point on my journey, both pe

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

s are preserved in zoharic homilies, and the many subsequent authors influenced thereby, including luria and his disciples.268 keter, the supernal will, the aura that is coextensive with and hence ontically inseparable even if distinguishable from ein sof,269 is also characterized as nothing (ayin),270 a designation that denotes not lack but surplus of being that is beyond comprehension, the pure ether that cannot be apprehended. 271 the nature of that primordial will is to will naught but itself, which is to say, to will nothing; but to will nothing is to have nothing to will, a double negation that results in the emanation of the sefirot hidden in the will.272 the plentitude of the infinite finds its fullest expression in the emptying of the will rather than its overflowing, retreating i

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

ltar of? in the north iacchaion with the table of the scribe. in the centre the hexagonal altar, with the pantacle, the image of the god- o ur aborted man-child, the bell& the knife, the oil& the lamp, or candle. of the ceremony in general. the formula of this magick is this (1) banish (2) purify (3) consecrate (4) equilibrate (5) make oath (6) invoke, by song, dance &c (7) make iacchaion god, by ether (8) sacrifice him to the beast, who thus becomes god. use here the accendat& the right mantram, the tu quies& the quia patris (9) sacrifice the beast to the scarlet woman, using her mantras f- s- etc. ether at pleasure (10) consume the elements, as by amalantrah the wizard we are taught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) per

pse of the whole working, which i therefore declare ended. i now myself repair to the city of paris, there to inaugurate an alternative course of procedure. 666 to mega therion 9degree= 2square a'.a. here endeth the book of the cephaloedium working. iacchaion altar of fire& table of scribe aiwaz throne& altar altar with lamp, bell, knife, pantacle& oil. scarlet woman with cup& sword, wine. water, ether atthe cephaloedium working by aleister crowley copyright (c) o.t.o_ do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. i ask an oracle of thelema for this working `liber lapidis lazuli' the solar chapter``white cat, the sparks fly from thy fur! thou dost crackle with splitting the worlds' i ask a yi king symbol for the whole working: xx `big earth. it means manifestation: i.e. the bringing for

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

altar of? in the north iacchaion with the table of the scribe. in the centre the hexagonal altar, with the pantacle, the image of the god- our aborted man-child, the bell& the knife, the oil& the lamp, or candle. of the ceremony in general. the formula of this magick is this (1) banish (2) purify (3) consecrate (4) equilibrate (5) make oath (6) invoke, by song, dance &c (7) make iacchaion god, by ether (8) sacrifice him to the beast, who thus becomes god. use here the accendat& the right mantram, the tu quies& the quia patris (9) sacrifice the beast to the scarlet woman, using her mantras f- s- etc. ether at pleasure (10) consume the elements, as by amalantrah the wizard we are taught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) per

pse of the whole working, which i therefore declare ended. i now myself repair to the city of paris, there to inaugurate an alternative course of procedure. 666 to mega therion 9degree= 2square a'.a. here endeth the book of the cephaloedium working. iacchaion altar of fire& table of scribe aiwaz throne& altar altar with lamp, bell, knife, pantacle& oil. scarlet woman with cup& sword, wine. water, ether &c_ re high magick series practical magick is performed with the aid of ordinary, everyday implements, is concerned with the things of the earth and the harmony of nature, and is considered to be the magick of the common people. high magick, on the other hand, has long been considered the prerogative of the affluent and the learned. some aspects of it certainly call for items expensive to pr

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

ype of the tiphareth form. this tiphareth answers to the letter vau of the holy name, as representing the prince. the letter vau also represents the number six and adam was created on the sixth day, for tiphareth is the symbol of the creation. furthermore, the hexagram consists of the two forms fire and water: the ideal fire and the ideal water; the spirit and the water of creation; the spiritual ether and the ethereal fire; the fire of the holy spirit. thus, in the creation of the man is the extension from tiphareth i.e, the moment adam is created, that is the beginning of the reflection of the lower triad, and finally, of malkuth. eve is the synthesis of creation and represents the mother of life, as the name chavah. the 3=8 diagram thus represents the establishment of life, i.e, created

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e speak of exorcism, what we are talking about is barring the qlippothic or negative energies from our own sphere of sensation. it is also a symbol of barring out negative energies outside our sphere of sensation as well. in this sense, it is used as a fitting symbol in pathworking and in astral projection. the memorization of the banner of the west and projecting it forward becomes a very strong etheric symbol of protection. there are several books that may go deeper indepth on these symbols, but at this time it is unnecessary for these symbols will be studied in depth in a higher grade. it is our hope that you will read the initiation over several times and even highlight it in the neophyte book. various parts of the initiation itself are selfexplanatory, such as the three fold cord arou

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

n a divinity of some sort, whether it be god, goddess or spirit, good or evil. evocations were performed by medieval practitioners of magick to summon up angels (and sometimes demons) and bind them to perform tasks, rather like the middle eastern djinn, or genie, who, in faerie tales, would appear from a magick lamp or corked bottle and grant wishes. incense would be used to give substance to the etheric form of the angel or demon concerned (modem magick tends to be a little wary of calling up spirits, however, whose malevolent energies may cause harm) in contrast, invocations were used to endow the practitioner with the power to carry out magical purposes through a form of possession, with the angel or god acting directly from within the practitioner's body. elementals have also been asso

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

d and grow. another thing we can look for (and it is already being recognised somewhat) is the development of the ability to- 47- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust see in subtler matter. everywhere there are children being born who see more than you or i can. i am here referring to something that is based purely on material grounds, and concerns the physical eye. i refer to etheric vision, which is seeing in the finer matter of the physical plane, or in that which is called the ethers. much interesting work has been done along this line by students and scientists in california. dr. frederick finch strong has been working along this line in a valuable way, and teaching that the physical eye is capable of seeing etherically, and that etheric vision is the normal functi

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

gly on the probationary path until by the third initiation the control of the lower self by the higher is perfected, and the highest aspect begins to make its energy felt. the ego reflects itself in iii. the personality, or lower self, physical plane man. this aspect is also threefold: 1. a mental body..lower manas. 2. an emotional body..astral body. 3. a physical body..the dense physical and the etheric body. the aim of evolution is therefore to bring man to the realisation of the egoic aspect and to bring the lower nature under its control. chapter i introductory remarks before entering upon the subject matter of the following articles of initiation, on the paths that- 3- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust open before the perfected man, and on the occult hierarchy, ce

-ment on all levels emotional, intuitional, spiritual and divine consists in conscious, continuous functioning. in all cases it is preceded by a burning, through the medium of the inner fire, and by the destruction, through sacrifice, of all that separates. the approach to unity is through destruction of the lower, and of all that forms a barrier. take, in illustration, the web that separates the etheric body and the emotional. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and complete, and the three lower vehicles function as one. you have a somewhat analogous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels

al. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and complete, and the three lower vehicles function as one. you have a somewhat analogous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels of the mental plane to the etheric. in the destruction of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation (called symbolically "the crucifixion) you have a process analogous to the burning of the web that leads to the unification of the bodies of the personality. the disintegration that is a part of the arhat initiation leads to unity between the ego and the monad, expressing itself in the triad. it is the perfect at-o

ar copyright 1998 lucis trust the lord of the world, came down to this dense physical planet and has remained with us ever since. owing to the extreme purity of his nature, and the fact that he is (from the human standpoint) relatively sinless, and hence incapable of response to aught on the dense physical plane, he was unable to take a dense physical body such as ours, and has to function in his etheric body. he is the greatest of all the avatars, or coming ones, for he is a direct reflection of that great entity who lives, and breathes, and functions through all the evolutions on this planet, holding all within his aura or magnetic sphere of influence. in him we live and move and have our being, and none of us can pass beyond the radius of his aura. he is the great sacrifice, who left th

of the planetary logos to take a physical vehicle produced an extraordinary stimulation in the evolutionary process, and by his incarnation, and the methods of force distribution he employed, he brought about in a brief cycle of time what would otherwise have been inconceivably slow. the germ of mind in animal man was stimulated. the fourfold lower man, a. the physical body in its dual capacity, etheric and dense, b. vitality, life force, or prana, c. the astral or emotional body, d. the incipient germ of mind, was co-ordinated and stimulated, and became a fit receptacle for the coming in of the self-conscious entities, those spiritual triads (the reflection of spiritual will, intuition, or wisdom, and higher mind) who had for long ages been waiting for just such a fitting. the fourth, or

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f the physical vehicle. the autobiography also contains certain statements by the tibetan in regard to his work and some information as to the reasons why it was undertaken. in the early stages the work involved careful attention to the physical plane conditions which might best help to make the telepathic process more successful. but during the latter years the technique was so perfected and the etheric mechanism of a.a.b. so skilfully attuned and adjusted that the whole process was- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust practically effortless, and the reality and practical usefulness of telepathic interplay was demonstrated to an unique degree. the spiritual truths dealt with involved in many cases the expression by the lower concrete mind (often with the insuperable restrictions of the english

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

g in the dark midnight sky "i sense one flame, o gurudeva; i see countless undetached sparks shining in it" secret doctrine i. 145- 7- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust contents section one. the internal fires fire by friction introductory remarks division a. of the sheaths macrocosmic and micro cosmic division b. the personality ray and the first fire division c. prana and the etheric body division d. kundalini and the spine division e. motion on the physical and astral planes 1. in the sheaths 2. in the centres division f. the law of economy section two. the fire of mind solar fire introductory questions division a. the nature of manas or mind division b. manas as a cosmic, systemic and human factor division c. the egoic ray and solar fire division b. thought elemental

ons. c. the subsequent result of forward progressive motion a motion which is rotary, cyclic and progressive. the whole matter dealt with in this treatise concerns the subjective essence of the solar system, not primarily either the objective or spiritual aspect. it concerns the entities who indwell the form, who demonstrate as animating factors through the medium of matter, and primarily through etheric matter; who are evolving a second faculty, the fire of mind, and who are essentially themselves points of fire, cast off through cosmic friction, produced by the turning of the cosmic wheel, swept into temporary limited manifestation and due eventually to return to their central cosmic centre. they will return plus the results of evolutionary growth, and through assimilation they will have

he initiation at which the adept stands free from the limitations of matter in the three worlds. the internal fires of the system, of the planet, and of man are threefold: 1. interior fire at the centre of the sphere, those inner furnaces which produce warmth. this is latent fire. 2. radiatory fire. this type of fire might be expressed in terms of physical plane electricity, of light rays, and of etheric energy. this is active fire. 3. essential fire, or the fire elementals who are themselves the essence of fire. they are mainly divided into two groups: a. fire devas or evolutionary entities. b. fire elementals or involutionary entities. later we will elaborate on this when we consider the fire of mind and deal with the nature of the thought elementals. all these elementals and devas are u

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

initiation. at that time the attainment of the third initiation, resulting in the transfiguration of the personality, was the highest initiation that man was capable of achieving. in atlantean days, the progress of the sons of men was procured through the imposition of two yogas. first, the yoga which is called by the name of laya yoga, the yoga of the centres which produced a stabilizing of the etheric body and of the centres in man and the development of the astral and psychic nature. later on, bhakti yoga, growing out of the development of the emotional or astral body, was incorporated with laya yoga and the foundation of that mysticism and devotion, which has been the underlying incentive during our particular aryan root race, was laid. the fourth initiation was at that time the objec

h his environment, through the medium of the senses and the mind; 3. the sleep of the soul, which, occultly speaking, covers that part of human experience which dates from a man's first human incarnation until he "awakens" to a knowledge of the plan, and endeavors to bring the lower man into line with the nature and will of the inner spiritual man; 4. the sleep of the ordinary medium, wherein the etheric body is partially extruded from the physical body, and is likewise separated from the astral body, bringing in a condition of very real danger; 5. samadhi, or the sleep of the yogi, the result of the conscious scientific withdrawal of the real man from his lower threefold sheath in order to work on high levels, preparatory to some active service upon the lower; 6. the sleep of the nirmanak

has passed through the cycle of incarnation and through struggle and experience has found the true self. here is depicted the nature of the solar angel, the son of god, the ego or the higher self. he is stated to be 1. untouched by limitation. he is no longer "cribbed, cabined and confined" by the lower quaternary. he is no longer crucified upon the cross of matter. the four lower sheaths dense, etheric, emotional and mental are no longer his prison. they are but instruments which he can use or vacate at will. his will functions freely and if he stays within the realm of the three worlds, it is of his own choice, and his self-imposed limitation can be terminated at will. he is master in the three worlds, a son of god dominating and controlling the lower creations. 2. free from karma. thro

along which the pranava (or word) vibrates. students of the esoteric science have to recognize the technique of the processes outlined. in the case of the sounding forth of the word we have the following factors: 1. the soul who sends, or breathes it forth, 2. the sutratma or thread along which the sound vibrates, is carried or transmitted, 3. the vestures of consciousness, mental, emotional and etheric which vibrate in response to the vibration or breath and are stimulated thereby, 4. the brain which can be trained to recognize that sound and vibrate in unison with the breath, 5. the subsequent act of the man in meditation. he hears the sound (called sometimes the "still small voice" or the "voice of the silence, he recognizes it for what it is and in deep reflection he assimilates the r

ll into four groups: 1. the rendering of the body immune to the attacks of disease or indisposition. this is in itself a triple process involving: a. the eradication of present disease, b. the refining and the purifying of the body so as to rebuild it eventually, c. the protection of the body from future attack and its utilization as a vehicle of the soul. 2. the strengthening and refining of the etheric body in order that it may be finally tuned up so that the work of force direction may be safely undertaken. the disciple has to pass the forces used in his work through his body. 3. the unfoldment and awakening of the centres in the etheric body, the centralization of the fires of the body and their just progression up the spine, in order to make union with the fire of the soul. 4. the coo

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

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

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

connection with the dense physical body, through the heart. 3. as the activity of the atoms and cells of which the physical body is composed. it is the sum total of those little lives of which the human organs, comprising the entire man, are composed. these have a life of their own and a consciousness which is strictly individual and identified. this aspect of the life principle works through the etheric or vital body and, in connection with the solid mechanism of the tangible form, through the spleen. therefore let us remember that the definition of spirit is not possible of accomplishment, nor is the definition of god. when one says that spirit is the inexpressible, undefinable cause, the emanating energy, the one life and source of being, the totality of all forces, of all states of con

98 lucis trust c. within the lower body are: 1. the spleen. 2. the stomach. 3. the sex organs. 11. the sum total of the body is also triple: a. the skin and bony structure. b. the vascular or blood system. c. the three-fold nervous system. 12. each of these triplicities corresponds to the three parts of man's nature: a. physical nature: the skin and bony structure are the analogy to the dense and etheric body of man. b. soul nature: the blood vessels and circulatory system are the analogy to that all pervading soul which penetrates to all parts of the solar system, as the blood goes to all parts of the body. c. spirit nature: the nervous system, as it energises and acts throughout the physical man is the correspondence to the energy of spirit. 13. in the head we have the analogy to the spi

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

them (and at the same time reveals the nature of the higher) is on the verge of discovery. the structure, the mechanism, is now ready and developed to its point of usefulness; the vital life that can guide and motivate the machine is likewise present, and man now can intelligently use and control, not only the machine, but the active principle. the great symbol of the soul in man is his vital or etheric body and for the following reasons: 1. it is the physical correspondence to the inner light body we call the soul body, the spiritual body. it is called the "golden bowl" in the bible and is distinguished by: a. its light quality. b. its rate of vibration, which synchronises always with the development of the soul. c. its coherent force, linking and connecting every part of the body struct

e no separated organisms in it, but it is simply a body of freely flowing force, that force being a blend or unification of two types of energy in varying quantities, dynamic energy, and attractive or magnetic energy. these two types characterise the universal soul likewise the force of will, and of love, or of atma and buddhi, and it is the play of these two forces on matter that attracts to the etheric body of all forms the needed physical atoms and that having so attracted them by the will force drives them into certain activities. 4. this coherent unified body of light and energy is the symbol of the soul in that it has within it seven focal points, wherein the condensation, if it must be so called, of the two blended energies is intensified. these correspond to the seven focal points

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

ns outside. plan and purpose concern the emanating energies of that central life and involve duality, will or the life urge plus attractive magnetic love which, in its turn, is the response of the vibrating universal substance to the impact of the energy of will. this initial activity precedes the creative process of form building; and the play of the divine will on the ocean of space, matter, or etheric substance produced the first differentiation into the major rays, and their mutual interplay produced the minor four rays. thus the seven emanations, the seven potencies and the seven rays came into manifestation. they are the seven breaths of the one life, the seven basic energies; they streamed forth from the centre formed by the impact of the will of god on divine substance, and divided

subject and the acuteness of the feeling evolved become therefore apparent. the seventh ray of ceremonial order or magic embodies a curious quality which is the outstanding characteristic of the particular life which ensouls this ray. it is the quality or principle which is the coordinating factor unifying the inner quality and the outer tangible form or appearance. this work goes on primarily on etheric levels and involves physical energy. this is the true magical work. i should like to point out that when the fourth ray and the seventh ray come into incarnation together, we shall have a most peculiar period of revelation and of light-bringing. it is said of this time that then "the temple of the lord will take on an added glory and the builders will rejoice together" this will be the hig

copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritually understood. the lost word will then be recovered and uttered for all to hear, and the master will arise and walk among his builders in the full light of the glory which shines from the east. the spiritualising of forms might be regarded as the main work of the seventh ray, and it is this principle of fusion, of coordination and of blending which is active on etheric levels every time a soul comes into incarnation and a child is born on earth. d. the soul is the principle of sentiency, underlying all outer manifestation, pervading all forms, and constituting the consciousness of god himself. when the soul, immersed in substance, is simply sentiency, it produces through its evolutionary interplay an addition, and we find emerging quality and capacity to

of contact which is its objective in any particular form. the soul therefore, viewed from one angle, is an aspect of the body, for there is a soul in every atom comprising all bodies in all kingdoms in nature. the subtle coherent soul which is the result of the bringing together of spirit and matter exists as an entity apart from the body nature, and constitutes (when separated from the body) the etheric body, the double, as it is sometimes called, or the counterpart of the physical body. this is the sum total of the soul of the atoms constituting the physical body. it is the true form; it is the principle of coherence in every form. the soul, in relation to the human being, is the mind principle in two capacities, or the mind expressing itself in two ways. these two ways are registered an

and appearance a unique manifestation in time and space of the three expressions of the soul as we have just outlined them: 1. the soul of all the atoms, composing the tangible appearance. 2. the personal soul or the subtle coherent sum total which we call the personality, composed of- 39- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the subtle bodies, etheric or vital, astral or emotional, and the lower mental apparatus. these three vehicles humanity shares with the animal kingdom as regards its possession of vitality, sentiency, and potential mind; with the vegetable kingdom as regards vitality and sentiency; and with the mineral kingdom as regards vitality and potential sentiency. 3. the soul is also the spiritual being, or the union of life

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

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

s concerns the passing down to a lower plane, or from a lower plane onto a higher. indications of the importance and the crucial nature of such transition can be seen in certain formulas which are used when passing from one degree in masonry to another, as in raising a lodge from a lower to a higher degree. b. another such point of crisis occurs when the mental body is swept into activity and the etheric body is similarly vitalised. 2. relationship between the ego or soul and the dense physical body is established when a. matter of the three lowest subplanes of the physical plane is built into the etheric body, prior to physical incarnation, and the potential channels of communication and of exit are established. these are the main channel or line of communication found between the centre

or a spiritual entity, and shows that both groups are dealing with facts, and that both must play their united parts in training the aspirant in the new age. 4. as the introspective method is pursued, and as we study the human subject, we discover that underlying the human body in all its parts, and constituting a definite part of the human apparatus, there is a vehicle which has been called the "etheric body, composed entirely of threads of force which, in their turn, form the channels along which still more subtle and varying types of energy flow. these are, in their turn "conditioned" during manifestations by the status of the soul. these threads underlie and interpenetrate the entire body and the nervous system and are in reality the actuating power of the nervous system. their respons

types of energy flow. these are, in their turn "conditioned" during manifestations by the status of the soul. these threads underlie and interpenetrate the entire body and the nervous system and are in reality the actuating power of the nervous system. their responsiveness to impacts, outer and inner, is unbelievably great. the nervous reactions of the disciple and highly developed person, whose etheric body is in close rapport with his nervous system, is beyond the average comprehension. 5. the sum-total of the nerves, with the millions of nadis or "thread counterparts" in the etheric body, form a unit, and this unit, according to the teaching of the ageless wisdom, has in it points of focus for different types of energy. these are called "force centres, and upon these depend the life ex

m with the dual energy emanating from the spleen. the spinal- 41- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust tract with its five centres then awakens into activity, and finally all the forces are gathered together into one fused and blended stream of energy. three things then happen: a. the kundalini fire is raised and immediately burns away all the etheric webs which are the protective barriers, separating the various centres. b. the etheric body intensifies its vitality, and the physical body is consequently powerfully vitalised, galvanised, and energised. c. the entire aura is coordinated and illumined, and the soul can then, at will, withdraw from its physical vehicle in full waking consciousness, or stay in it as an incarnated son of god

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

hannels of communication are between the various individuals in the group and the master, and between the various groups within the ashram of a master. a master's group of disciples, upon the inner side of life, forms an integrated organism, characterised by mutual life, love and interplay. the relationships in such a group are entirely on mental and astral levels and hence the limitations of the etheric force body and of the physical brain are not felt. needless to say the fundamental relation is on soul levels. the fact that the etheric body and the physical brain lie outside these basic relations where the ashram is concerned leads to greater facility in understanding and to reciprocal interplay. it is wise to remember, however, that the astral potency is far more strongly felt on the p

the requirements to his life. flexibility within certain limits is always needed but that flexibility must not be set in motion by any personality inertia or mental questioning. a change in this relationship between disciples is now being made. an attempt is being set on foot to see if a group activity and interplay can now be set up upon the physical plane, involving consequently the use of the etheric body and the brain. the difficulties confronting you are, therefore, great and i am anxious that you should realise this. will you realise, for instance, that any differences of opinion which may occur in the relations of this group of disciples will be caused by astral-brain reactions and, therefore, must not be considered of any importance whatsoever? they must be immediately eliminated

he existing glamours and illusions, and so dissipate the ancient deceptive thoughtforms. they will release the light and peace which will illumine the astral plane and dispel the illusory nature of its life. 3. the third group is that of the magnetic healers. these healers have no relation to the work of the so-called magnetic healers of today. they work intelligently with the vital forces of the etheric body. much of their work is dealt with in the fourth volume of a treatise on the seven rays. this group of healers must bring about the right healing of the personalities of individuals in all aspects of their nature. the work to be done is that of the intelligent transmission of energy to various parts of the nature mental, emotional and physical through the right organisation and circula

work which is motivated by love of humanity and its welfare, which relates science and religion and brings to light the glory of god through the medium of his tangible world and his works. they have a most interesting function but one which will not become evident for a long time not until the building forces of the universe are better understood. this will be co-incident with the development of etheric vision. this group will act as a channel of communication or intermediary between the energies which constitute the forces which construct the forms and fabricate the outer garment of deity and the human spirits. you will note here, consequently, the possibility that this group's main initial work will be concerned with the problem of reincarnation. that problem deals with the taking of an

unity is the goal of the immediate future; that hatred is retro-active and undesirable and that goodwill is the touchstone which will transform the world. how then can you keep your minds free from your own desires and from your own interpretations? by achieving that poised and positive negativity on the part of the two lower aspects of the personality the astral body and the brain as well as the etheric brain; these determine the reactions of the lower centres, particularly of the solar plexus centre. the mind will then be left free to fulfil three functions: 1. that of soul contact; this will result in illumination and a working knowledge of the immediate aspects of the plan. 2. that of thought formulation and thoughtform creation. then a clear thoughtform can be constructed with definit

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

d plan and for the benefit of the evolving life in any particular world cycle: 1. spirit and matter. 2. life and form. 3. the ego and the personality. 4. the soul and its outer expression. 5. the higher worlds of atma-buddhi-manas and the lower reflection of mind emotion and the physical nature. 6. the head and the heart, through the sublimation of the sacral and the solar plexus energies. 7. the etheric-astral planes and the dense physical plane. 8. the intangible subjective levels of existence and the outer tangible worlds. such is the task of the white magician and as evolution proceeds and becomes more complicated and complex it will nevertheless be more rapid and more accurately defined in the mind of the magician. all, therefore, that is conducive to human sensitivity and to increase

the human personality, the higher integration between soul and personality is today more possible and more easily accomplished than ever before. the new forms, through which that much desired consummation can be affected, must be consequently gradually and scientifically developed. this, as you may well conceive, will be achieved through the intensification of the forces, functioning through the etheric body, through the coordination of the seven major centres, and the establishing of their rhythmic relationship. the seventh ray governs predominantly upon the etheric levels of the physical plane. it does not govern the dense physical form which is under the control of the third ray. it is the vital or the etheric body which is responsive to and developed by the incoming seventh ray influe

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

aid "emblem" and i did not say "symbol" a symbol is an outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality, carried out into expression upon the physical plane by the force of the inner embodied life. an emblem is man's formulation of a concept, created by man and embodying for him the truth as he sees it and understands it. a symbol is ever greater in its implications than is an emblem. the etheric levels are also the field of expression for the soul, whether it is the human soul or the soul as an expression of the higher triad, the monadic life. i wonder whether any of you have the faintest idea what will happen to humanity when the inner subjective reality, functioning through the etheric and pouring its forces unimpeded through the centres in that body, will have made its major co

lsive activity is called energy and that which is conditioned by and swept into activity through its agency is called force. the terms are therefore relative and- 70- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust movable. for the bulk of humanity, for instance, astral impulse is the highest energy to which they normally aspire and the forces upon which astral energy plays will then be the etheric and physical forces. higher energies may intermittently control, but as a general rule the life incentive or impulse is astral, and this can either be called desire or aspiration, according to the objective. the latter may simply be mental ambition or desire for power and the term "aspiration" should not be confined only to so-called religious impulses, mystical longings and the demand for

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

o psychism, either higher or lower; the seeing of a vision, the hearing of the voice of the silence, a pleased reaction to teaching of any kind does not infer the functioning of the intuition. it is not only the seeing of symbols, for that is a special sort of perception and the capacity to tune in on the universal mind upon that layer of its activity which produces the pattern-forms on which all etheric bodies are based. it is not intelligent psychology, and a loving desire to help. that emanates from the interplay of a personality, governed by a strong soul orientation, and the group-conscious soul. intuition is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions: towards the monad, a

ime as it has learnt to pour the light of the soul through into the mind and the brain. the problem of glamour is found when the mental illusion is intensified by desire. what the theosophist calls "kama-manas" produces glamour. it is illusion on the astral plane. the problem of maya is really the same as the above, plus the intense activity produced when both glamour and illusion are realised on etheric levels. it is that vital unthinking emotional mess (yes, brother of old, that is the word i seek to use) in which the majority of human beings seem always to live. the dweller on the threshold is illusion-glamour-maya, as realised by the physical brain and recognised as that which must be overcome. it is the bewildering thoughtform with which the disciple is confronted, when he seeks to pi

and mental activity produces the genius in some field or another; but then there is no illusion, but clear thinking, coupled with a trained equipment in that particular field or enterprise. 3. the weaker and more average mental types of people succumb to the general field of illusion and of mass illusion. the mental plane manifests a different sort of distortion to that of the astral plane or the etheric. the faculty of discrimination which is being developed has produced sharper lines of demarcation, and instead of the dense fogs and mists of the astral plane or the swirling tides and currents of energy of the etheric plane, we have on the mental plane masses of sharply indicated thoughtforms of a particular quality and note and tone, around which are grouped lesser thoughtforms, created

ned to disappear. students would do well to remember that all forms of possessions and all material objects, whether it is money, or a house, a picture or an automobile, have an intrinsic life of their own, an emanation of their own, and an activity which is essentially that of their own inherent atomic structures (for an atom is a unit of active energy. this produces counterparts in the world of etheric and astral life, though not in the mental world. these subtler forms and distinctive emanations swell the potency of the world desire; they contribute to the world glamour and form part of a great and powerful miasmic world, which is on the involutionary arc but in which humanity, upon the upward arc, is nevertheless immersed. therefore the guides of the race have felt the necessity of sta

h he should be rendering. emphasise in your own minds the spontaneity of the life of the soul and spoil it not with the glamour of high aspiration selfishly interpreted, self-centredness, self-immolation, self-aggressiveness, self-assertiveness in spiritual work such are some of the glamours of the path- 48- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust next, we will consider glamour on the etheric plane and the theme of the dweller upon the threshold, and thus complete the brief outline of our problem which the first part of this teaching was intended to convey. before taking up this subject in some detail, i would like to add something to our previous consideration of the problem of glamour. in your last instruction, i elaborated somewhat upon the subject of the various types of gl

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

u. to more active and steady enterprise i call you. the tibetan. publisher s note: see also the techniques of fusion and integration in a treatise on the seven rays, vol. ii, esoteric psychology, pp. 345-401- 163- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes 1 discipleship in the new age, vol. i, pp. 583-584- 164- glamour: a world probascopyright 1998 lucis trust telepathy and the etheric vehicle by alice a. bailey copyright 1950 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1978 by lucis trust teaching on telepathy i. the field of telepathic interplay one of the characteristics, distinguishing the group of world servers and knowers, is that the outer organisation which holds them integrated is practically non-existent. they are held together by the inner structure of thought and by a t

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

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

cated in our time and age by a growing responsiveness to the mass ideas called sometimes public opinion of the rapidly evolving human mentality. within the human family are also found those who respond to that inner group of thinkers who, working in mental matter, control from the subjective side of life the emergence of the great plan and the manifestation of divine purpose- 2- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust this group of thinkers falls into seven main divisions and is presided over by three great lives or super-conscious entities. these three are the manu, the christ, and the mahachohan. these three work primarily through the method of influencing the minds of the adepts and the initiates. these latter in their turn influence the disciples of the world, and

conclave and it was felt that something could be done. the master jesus undertook to present it to his group of disciples as he was working in the occident. one of these disciples on the inner planes, seized upon the suggestion and passed it on (or rather stepped it down) until it registered in the brain of colonel house. he, not recording the source (of which he was totally- 3- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust unaware, passed it on in turn to that sixth ray aspirant, called woodrow wilson. then, fed by the wealth of analogous ideas in the minds of many, it was presented to the world. it should be borne in mind that the function of a disciple is to focus a stream of energy of some special kind upon the physical plane where it can become an attractive centre of f

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

nderstand, it will be useful to study individual man; in this way we can arrive at a faint comprehension of the basic and underlying truth. students should never forget the law of analogy as an interpretive agency. esotericism teaches (and modern science is rapidly arriving at the same conclusion) that underlying the physical body and its comprehensive and intricate system of nerves is a vital or etheric body which is the counterpart and the true form of the outer and tangible phenomenal aspect. it is likewise the medium for the transmission of force to all parts of the human frame and the agent of the indwelling life and consciousness. it determines and conditions the physical body, for it is itself the repository and the transmitter of energy from the various subjective aspects of man an

ion of force to all parts of the human frame and the agent of the indwelling life and consciousness. it determines and conditions the physical body, for it is itself the repository and the transmitter of energy from the various subjective aspects of man and also from the environment in which man (both inner and outer man) finds himself. two other points should here be added. first: the individual etheric body is not an isolated and separated human vehicle but is, in a peculiar sense, an integral part of the etheric body of that entity which we have called the human family; this kingdom in nature, through its etheric body, is an integral part of the planetary etheric body; the planetary etheric body is not separated off from the etheric bodies of other planets but all of them in their total

an isolated and separated human vehicle but is, in a peculiar sense, an integral part of the etheric body of that entity which we have called the human family; this kingdom in nature, through its etheric body, is an integral part of the planetary etheric body; the planetary etheric body is not separated off from the etheric bodies of other planets but all of them in their totality, along with the etheric body of the sun constitute the etheric body of the solar system. this is related to the etheric bodies of the six solar systems which, with ours, form a cosmic unity and into these pour energies and forces from certain great constellations. the field of space is etheric in nature and its vital body is composed of the totality of etheric bodies of all constellations, solar systems and plane

composed of the totality of etheric bodies of all constellations, solar systems and planets which are found therein. throughout this cosmic golden web there is a constant circulation of energies and forces and this constitutes the scientific basis of the astrological theories. just as the forces of the planet and of the inner spiritual man (to mention only one factor among many) pour through the etheric body of the individual man upon the physical plane, and- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust condition his outer expression, activities, and qualities, so do the varying forces of the universe pour through every part of the etheric body of that entity we call space and condition and determine the outer expression, the activities and qu

oteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust condition his outer expression, activities, and qualities, so do the varying forces of the universe pour through every part of the etheric body of that entity we call space and condition and determine the outer expression, the activities and qualities of every form found within the cosmic periphery. the second point i would make is that within the human etheric body there are to be found seven major force centres which are in the nature of distributing agencies and electrical batteries, providing dynamic force and qualitative energy to the man; they produce definite effects upon his outer physical manifestation. through their constant activity his quality appears, his ray tendencies begin to emerge and his point in evolution is clearly indicated

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ust then followed a treatise on white magic. this was written years ago and as it was written it went out, chapter by chapter, to the senior students of the arcane school as reading matter only. it is the first book ever given out upon the training and control of the astral or emotional body. many occult books have been written on the subject of the physical body and its purification and upon the etheric or vital body. most of them have been compilations of other books, both ancient or modern. this book of mine, however, is intended to train the modern aspirant in the control of his astral body, by the aid of the mind as that mind is, in its turn, illumined by the soul. the next book undertaken was a treatise on the seven rays. it is a long book, not yet completed. it is taking shape in fo

he exoteric fundamental truths of the present. during the past one hundred years, the esoteric doctrines and the secret teaching of the ageless wisdom given to the public often under the pledge of secrecy have become public property. the nature of man as taught in the mystery schools of the past has under other names become recognisable as modern psychology. the mystery of the astral body, of the etheric body and the mental body are now dealt with in our universities, in our psychological courses, dealing with the vitality of the human being, his emotional nature and the mind. the belief in the masters was a closely guarded secret; now they are discussed from public platforms in all our great cities. the way of meditation and its techniques were closely guarded subjects and the public was

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

ust possess the varying functions which enable the soul to express itself on the physical or objective plane as part of a greater and more inclusive organism. the physical body is the response apparatus of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary logos, the life in which we live and move and have our being. 2. the etheric body, which has one main objective. this is to vitalise and energise the physical body and thus integrate it into the energy body of the earth and of the solar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the

lar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through the veins and arteries. this constant, individual human, planetary and solar circulation of life-forces through the etheric bodies of all forms is the basis of all manifested life, and the expression of the essential non-separateness of all life. 3. the astral or desire body (sometimes called the emotional body) is the effect of the interplay of desire and of sentient response upon the self at the centre, and the resultant effect in that body is experienced as emotion and as pain and pleasure and the other pair

of all manifested life, and the expression of the essential non-separateness of all life. 3. the astral or desire body (sometimes called the emotional body) is the effect of the interplay of desire and of sentient response upon the self at the centre, and the resultant effect in that body is experienced as emotion and as pain and pleasure and the other pairs of opposites. in these two bodies, the etheric and astral bodies, ninety percent of the causes of physical disease and troubles is to be found. 4. the mental body, or that much of the chitta or mind stuff which an individual human unit can use and impress, constitutes the fourth of the series of mechanisms at the disposal of the soul. at the same time let it not be forgotten that these four constitute one mechanism. five percent of all

nd the vital causes of such diseases, and to indicate the general laws with which the healer must work and the six rules which he must impose upon himself and to which he gives obedience, through discipline and understanding. you will have noted that i listed the psychological causes under four headings: 1. those arising out of the emotional-feeling nature. 2. those which have their origin in the etheric body. 3. those which are based on wrong thought. 4. the peculiar complaints and psychological troubles of disciples. it may have interested you to see that i place the ills of the etheric body in the second place and not the first. the reason for this is that the group ills and diseases which have fastened upon the race, work primarily through the etheric body and find their way out into m

e which are based on wrong thought. 4. the peculiar complaints and psychological troubles of disciples. it may have interested you to see that i place the ills of the etheric body in the second place and not the first. the reason for this is that the group ills and diseases which have fastened upon the race, work primarily through the etheric body and find their way out into manifestation via the etheric bodies of all forms. but i have placed them second, even though they are in the last analysis the most numerous, owing to the fact that humanity cannot as yet deal with these en masse. the approach has to be through individuals, and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those conditions which pre-dispose them to disease, as individuals. at present, the race is astrally polaris

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

truth of this bridging necessity. the antahkarana is the bridge the man builds through meditation, understanding and the magical creative work of the soul between the three aspects of his mind nature. therefore the primary objectives of the coming education will be: 1. to produce alignment between mind and brain through a correct understanding of the inner constitution of man, particularly of the etheric body and the force centres. 2. to build or construct a bridge between the brain-mind-soul, thus producing an integrated personality which is a steady developing expression of the in-dwelling soul. 3. to build the bridge between the lower mind, soul, higher mind, so that the illumination of the personality becomes possible- 10- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust viii. the t

age copyright 1998 lucis trust the technique to be later applied will then be built upon this important initial decision hence again, the growing responsibility of the educator. a child's note and quality will be early determined, and his whole planned training will grow out of this basic recognition. this is not yet possible, but will shortly be so, when the quality and nature of any individual etheric body can be scientifically discovered. this development is not as distant as might be supposed or anticipated. it is not my intention to deal with the details of this process, nor to elaborate the methods whereby the children of the race can be trained. our objective is to deal with the more universal and immediate necessity of bridging the gap between the different aspects of the lower se

one. humanity has as a whole already bridged the gap between the emotional astral nature and the physical man. as i said elsewhere: we might generalise in the following manner as to the stages of growth and consequent ability to become the agent of ever increasing powers, tapping the resources of dynamic energy in the three worlds: lower types of humanity use the sutratma as it passes through the etheric body. average men utilise almost entirely that part of the sutratma which passes through the astral plane. their reactions are largely based on desire, and are emotional. intellectual men utilise the sutratma as it passes through the lower levels of the mental plane, down through the astral to the physical in its two sections. their activities are energised by mind and not by desire, as in

ef and inadequate statement as to the science of the antahkarana. i have endeavoured to express this in terms, symbolic if you will, which will convey some general idea of the process to your minds. we can learn much through the use of the pictorial and visual imagination. many aspirants have already established the following links of the bridging antahkarana: 1. from the physical to the vital or etheric body. this is really an extension of the life thread between the heart and the spleen. 2. from the physical and the vital, regarding them as a unity, to the astral or emotional vehicle. this thread emanates from, or is anchored in, the solar plexus, and is carried upward by means of the aspiration till it anchors itself in the love petals of the egoic lotus. 3. from the physical and astral

his soul is essentially intelligence, vitally used on each plane. it functions as the discriminating mind on the mental plane, as the sensitive consciousness on the emotional plane, and as the active participator in physical life. this intelligent activity is always used from the wisdom angle. 11. the new education will take into consideration: a. the mind and its relation to the energy body, the etheric body, which underlies the nervous system and which galvanises the physical body into activity. b. the mind and its relation to the brain. c. the mind and its relation to the seven centres of force in the etheric body, and their externalisation and utilisation through the medium of the major nerve plexi to be found in the human body, and their relation (which will become increasingly obviou

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

the spiritual result of the esoteric manifestation of the potency of life to be found in the seed group. the work to be done by us in joint cooperation (as regards your training) was organised by me into seven teaching units: i. definite planned meditation. ii. teaching upon the subject of initiation. iii. training in telepathy. iv. consideration of the problems of humanity. v. teaching anent the etheric body. vi. added to the above, i seek to give each of you a measure of individual help and instruction. vii. as time goes on, i will convey information anent the work of the masters' ashrams and their planned externalisation. i am going to ask you to give two relatively brief periods of time each day to definite and defined meditation. one period (the most important) must be given to the ge

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

ey also have a third function: they ground or focus energy, thus producing a point of tension, of crisis and an interlude, prior to a process of transmission. ponder on these words. the physical body can be evoked into manifestation and subsequent activity, but it has no power of invocation. hence it is not a principle (as h.p.b. tells us in the secret doctrine) but is basically an automaton. the etheric body invokes and evokes; but it also, in relation to the physical plane, precipitates energy through a process of appropriation. a study of these things- 15- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust will bring to our attention the entire subject of the centres and this we will approach from the angle of invocation and evocation. the teaching upon the etheric body n

pon the masters as well as upon the incoming and junior, and therefore inexperienced, disciples? if, however, the relation between the hierarchy and humanity is thus strengthened and there is freer access in both directions, there will clearly emerge the invocational pull or the magnetic potency of these blending centres: the pull will be upon shamballa, which is the highest centre of all. is the etheric web of the planet sufficiently stable and balanced so that it can adequately respond to the new and potent forces which could and will pour through it into objective expression? i- 43- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust would remind you that the release of atomic energy has had a far more potent effect in the etheric web than in the dense physical vehicle of

will pour through it into objective expression? i- 43- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust would remind you that the release of atomic energy has had a far more potent effect in the etheric web than in the dense physical vehicle of the planet. three times the atomic bomb was used, and that fact is itself significant. it was used twice in japan, thereby disrupting the etheric web in what you erroneously call the far east; it was used once in what is also universally called the far west, and each time a great area of disruption was formed which will have future potent, and at present unsuspected, results. the formation of the triangles of light and of goodwill[page 62] essentially the manipulation of energy into a desired thought pattern has a definite relation

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ctivity increased. 2. the world war marked a climax in the history of mankind, and its subjective effect was far more potent than has hitherto been grasped. through the power of prolonged sound, carried forward as a great experiment on the battlefields all over the world during a period of four years (1914-1918, and through the intense emotional strain of the entire planetary populace, the web of etheric matter (called the "veil of the temple) which separates the physical and astral planes was rent or torn asunder, and the amazing process of unifying the two worlds of physical plane living and of astral plane experience was begun and is now slowly going on. it will be obvious, therefore, that this must bring about vast changes and alterations in the human consciousness. whilst it will ushe

ouls go forth to incarnation and all souls return from the place of experience and of experiment. it might be asked what ground this training should cover. i would suggest that teaching should be given as to the nature of man and the purpose and objectives of the soul; training can be offered as to the technique of expression, and careful instruction also given as to the use of the centres in the etheric body and in the development of the ability to preserve inviolate the attitude of the positive onlooker, who is always the directing, controlling factor. there will have to be careful analysis of the type and character of the psychic, and then the application of differentiated and suitable methods so that he may progress with the least hindrance. training schools and classes which seek to d

cent cells into activity and awakens the brain consciousness to the light of the soul. this process of ordered meditation, when carried forward over a period of years and supplemented by meditative living and one-pointed service, will successfully arouse the entire system, and bring the lower man under the influence and control of the spiritual man; it will awaken also the centres of force in the etheric body and stimulate into activity that mysterious stream of energy which sleeps at the base of the spinal column. when this process is carried forward with care and due safeguards, and under direction, and when the process is spread over a long period of time there is little risk of danger, and the awakening will take place normally and under the law of being itself. if, however, the tuning

initial or first group to lay the emphasis upon telepathic rapport, because upon that rapport, understandingly cultivated and developed, the success of these seed groups must depend. it does not mean that their success depends upon the established success of the first group, but upon the comprehension by all the groups of the meaning and purpose and techniques of telepathy (see telepathy and the etheric vehicle) the founding upon the inner planes of a school of telepathy to which humanity can become sensitive, even if unconsciously so, is part of the task which the first group, the telepathic communicators, has undertaken. they are the custodians of the group purpose, and work on mental levels. the second group, the trained observers, has the objective to see clearly through- 21- the exte

on, through consciousness, of the divine life. the first three groups which i have formed are intended to be small reflections of these three aspects from the angle of modern need and the meeting of that need. i have indicated somewhat the intended work of the first group from the angle of telepathic- 24- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust interplay (telepathy and the etheric vehicle. the method of communication between the members of the hierarchy has to be externalised, eventually, upon earth and this is one of the tasks of the group. it might be of service to you if i outlined a little more clearly what is the purpose of the new seed groups, in terms of the new age civilisation and culture so that the practical results might be visioned with clarity and some

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

ntrol of some one or other of their forms but are the captives of all the three. in studying the lower threefold man and the energies or lives that seek to control him it should be remembered that they fall into three categories: a. the individual tiny lives which we call the atoms or cells of the body. these exist in three groups and compose respectively the four types of bodies: dense physical, etheric, astral and mental. b. the aggregate of these lives which constitute in themselves four types of elementals or separate coherent, though not self-conscious, existences. these four lunar lords constitute what the ageless wisdom teaching calls "the four sides of the square" they are the "lower quaternary "the imprisoning cubes" or the cross upon which the inner spiritual man is to be crucifi

y tend to become powerful, and thereby fully express that which is in them. c. a dominant controlling lunar lord who is that which we understand by the term the 'lower personality; he (if the personal pronoun can be used) is the sumtotal of the physical, astral and mental elementals, and it is this power which at present forces the 'fiery energies' of the body to feed the lower three centres. the etheric body has a unique and curious position, being simply the vehicle for prana or life and the centre which it uses exists in a category by itself. 3. all subhuman forms in their aggregate prove a powerful deterrent factor in the progress towards emancipation of the real man. they form the opposite to what we understand by the world of the master and the two are in direct opposition to each ot

d the group there stands the door; before them opens out the way" this is the lower correspondence of the higher initiate-experience with which our rule is dealing. again, this time in relation to the soul, comes the repetition of the discovery of the door, its use and its appearance, finally, behind the initiate. this time the door must be found upon the mental plane, and not as earlier upon the etheric level; this is brought about by the aid of the soul and of the lower mind and through the revealing power of the clear cold light of the reason. when discovered, the "revelation of a terrible though beautiful experiment" faces the initiate. he finds that this time alignment is not his need, but the definite undertaking of a creative work the building of a bridge between the door which lies

ut through the evocation of the will. the lesser wheels must not for aye revolve in time and space. only the greater wheel must onward move and turn. this is a rule peculiarly related to the fourth creative hierarchy, embodying its goal as the aryan rootrace can sense and approximate it. it is peculiarly related also to the quaternary to which we give the name "personality" composed of a vital or etheric body, a sumtotal of emotional states and a mind, plus that integrated something which we call the whole man. rightly understood and followed, this rule reveals the nature of the fourth plane or fourth state of consciousness, that of buddhi or the plane of pure reason, the intuition. from the angle of the higher initiate, this rule is related to the activity of monad, soul and body within t

. this law of the supplementary seven is concerned with the inflow of energy from the seven planetary centres to the seven groups or types of men, via the seven groups within the hierarchy. in this work of transmission the seven centres of the initiate are used as agencies; their work, therefore, is not the interrelated work of right transmission of energy within the septenary constitution of the etheric body of the individual initiate, implementing his life expression, but is the task of being responsive to the seven types of planetary energy which are received in a pure state. it is then channeled through the seven centres in the initiate's etheric vehicle and out into the world of men as regenerative and constructive forces. these living spiritual energies transmitted by the individual

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

soul. in taurus the desire world was contacted and a similar procedure pursued. the means of sentiently contacting the world of feeling and emotion were developed and man became a sentient soul. in gemini, a new and vital energy body was constructed [101] by the bringing together of the energies of soul and matter, and man became a living soul, for the two poles were en rapport, and the vital or etheric body came into being. in cancer, which is the sign of physical birth and of the identification of the unit with the mass, the work of incarnation was completed and the fourfold nature was manifested. man became a living actor on the physical plane. but it is in leo that man becomes what is occultly called the five-pointed star, for that star stands as the symbol of individualization, of hu

imilar lines [the soul and its mechanism by alice a. bailey. lucis publishing company, new york, n.y, and the lucis press limited, london] it is in this cave that the lion of the developed personality or individuality has its lair, and it is here that the sun god, hercules, must conquer [111] for centuries the egyptians, and especially the hindus, have known of the chakras or force-centers in the etheric body. the discovery of the endocrine system shows corresponding physical glands in the same locations. one of these, the pituitary body, with its two lobes, symbolizes the cave with two openings, one of which hercules had to close before he could control the personality by the higher mind. for it was only when he had blocked the opening of the personal emotions (postpituitary, thrown away

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ess which, according to the brahminical and esoteric doctrine, is without a beginning or an end, the occultist is told that it cannot be, since "by all the admissions of[[footnote(s* such, we believe, is the name applied by mr. keely, of philadelphia, the inventor of the famous "motor- destined, as his admirers have hoped, to revolutionise the motor power of the world- to what he again calls the "etheric centres[[vol. 1, page] 149 the moon is not dead, but only sleepeth. modern scientific philosophy it is a necessity of nature to run down" if the tendency of nature "to run down" is to be considered so forcible an objection to occult cosmogony "how" we may ask "do your positivists and free-thinkers and scientists account for the phalanx around us of active stellar systems" they had eternity

f the material world, and therefore tended towards the centre of the earth, where they found the conditions most suited to their state; while the more transparent spirits passed into the surrounding aura of the planet, the most rarified finding their home in its satellite" this relates exclusively to our elementary spirits, and has naught to do with either the planetary, sidereal, cosmic or inter-etheric intelligent forces or "angels" as they are termed by the roman church. the jewish kabalists, especially the practical occultists who dealt with ceremonial magic, busied themselves solely with the spirits of the planets and the "elementals" so-called. therefore this covers only a portion of the esoteric teaching* the possibility of the "soul (i.e, the eternal spiritual ego) dwelling in the

jective agencies at work. science only errs in believing that, because it has detected in vibratory waves the proximate cause of these phenomena, it has, therefore, revealed all that lies beyond the threshold of sense. it merely traces the sequence of phenomena on a plane of effects, illusory projections from the region that occultism has long since penetrated. and the latter maintains that those etheric tremors, are not, as asserted by science, set up by the vibrations of the molecules of known bodies- the matter of our terrestrial objective consciousness- but that we must seek for the ultimate causes of light, heat, etc, etc, in matter existing in super-sensuous states- states, however, as fully objective to the spiritual eye of man, as a horse or a tree is to the ordinary mortal. light

is due the recently produced phenomena of the so-called "keely motor" what is it that acts as the formidable generator of invisible but tremendous force, of that power which is not only capable of driving an engine of 25 horse-power, but has even been employed to lift the machinery bodily? yet this is done simply by drawing a fiddle-bow across a tuning fork, as has been repeatedly proven. for the etheric force, discovered by the well-known (in america and now in europe) john worrell keely, of philadelphia, is no hallucination. notwithstanding his failure to utilize it, a failure prognosticated and maintained by some occultists from the first, the phenomena exhibited by the discoverer during the last few years have been wonderful, almost miraculous, not in the sense of the supernatural* but

w years have been wonderful, almost miraculous, not in the sense of the supernatural* but of the superhuman. had keely been permitted to succeed, he might have reduced a whole army to atoms in the space of a few seconds as easily as he reduced a dead ox to the same condition. the reader is now asked to give a serious attention to that newly-discovered potency which the discoverer has named "inter-etheric force and forces" in the humble opinion of the occultists, as of his immediate friends[[footnote(s* the word "supernatural" implies above or outside of nature. nature and space are one. now space for the metaphysician exists outside of any act of sensation, and is a purely subjective representation; materialism, which would connect it forcibly with one or the other datum of sensation, notw

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

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

mental and spiritual bodies. due to their elasticity, and the speed at which they function, it is impossible to define physical limits for these last two. although the vibrations of the non-physical bodies are too high a rate to be detected by the physical eye, the energy patterns that emanate can be seen by the adept. these energy patterns are what is known as the aura. usually the energy of the etheric body is detected, or "seen, first because of its denseness. as your perceptions improve you can begin to detect the energy that radiates beyond the etheric body. often it can be seen flowing, ebbing and spiralling much like the northern lights. the colors detected are usually indicative of the person's state of being. thus, a person with a deeply spiritual state may exhibit blue and lavend

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

n a divinity of some sort, whether it be god, goddess or spirit, good or evil. evocations were performed by medieval practitioners of magick to summon up angels (and sometimes demons) and bind them to perform tasks, rather like the middle eastern djinn, or genie, who, in faerie tales, would appear from a magick lamp or corked bottle and grant wishes. incense would be used to give substance to the etheric form of the angel or demon concerned (modem magick tends to be a little wary of calling up spirits, however, whose malevolent energies may cause harm) in contrast, invocations were used to endow the practitioner with the power to carry out magical purposes through a form of possession, with the angel or god acting directly from within the practitioner's body. elementals have also been asso

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

secrating the vault of the adepti r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti by g.h. frater p.c.a. this a most solemn and yet joyous occasion. it acts as a binding link between our order and the divine. the vault of the adepti places itself as a physical image of the heart of our order. the vault allows us to maintain an etheric link between each other and with the chief of the second order. we must first be aware that the round circular altar that is usually found over the pastos is outside the vault. note the diagram of the temple layout. c b a f k l 5 c q n w this is a notable point. the reason for this is that the altar must be charged separately. for unless the altar is charged as well as the vault, the eleme

g of the neschamah, the ruach and the nephesch can only be accomplished in an atmosphere of zero space. this happens as the third order enters the vault to recharge it. this power is brought down from the triangle formed above by the wands into the pastos or the physical body through the ankhs below. in this case, the physical body of the third order is the devoted adepti of the second order. the etheric link is now sealed and confined through the lvx sign and the grand word. banishing of negative energy in the vault now we address the quarter of how negative energy is removed from the vault of the adepti. the link and lvx bring forth the light and seal the link, but negative energy still remains since no banishing may be performed in the vault. 6 the chief adept absorbs this negative ener

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se you don't want it to explode (damn! she was ugleeeee, your body seems like a pretty solid piece of work. in fact for some of us it is just a bit too, too solid (i write as i regard my tummy. you would never dream that this oh so solid mass of flesh is more nothing than matter and that the matter is hung on an energy field like a skyscraper is hung on steel girders. this framework is called the etheric body and it is made up of the stuff we call psychic energy. and it does not stop there, because in one form or another, this is true of all physical matter. atoms are nothing more than solidified, slow energy and the energy particles that constitute atoms, one way or another, go back to the energy of the psychic. it gets a little complicated at that point and there is no point in boring yo

ysical matter. atoms are nothing more than solidified, slow energy and the energy particles that constitute atoms, one way or another, go back to the energy of the psychic. it gets a little complicated at that point and there is no point in boring you with the theory, just accept it as true for the moment and we can deal with questions later if we have time. but we can make an assertion about the etheric body because we have some real unpleasant evidence for it in the phenomena of the phantom pain. if something terrible happens to a person and they lose a body part, like an arm or a leg, it seems that the etheric body of that part does not leave. it sticks around and causes all manner of trouble for the poor person. the individual may very well feel intense pain where the missing part shou

s not leave. it sticks around and causes all manner of trouble for the poor person. the individual may very well feel intense pain where the missing part should be, but there is no reason why such a pain should occur. after all, all the nerve endings went with the part. however, if a person suffers from a birth defect and a part is missing, no such pain will occur. why should this be? because the etheric body never formed that part and thus does not react to a loss. phantom pain, however, is useful to study because it gives us some idea of the interface between the etheric body and the physical one, in this case, the nervous system. remember that there are no nerve endings present. they are gone to wherever amputated parts go (and i don't know that and i don't want to know. after all, you

een the etheric body and the physical one, in this case, the nervous system. remember that there are no nerve endings present. they are gone to wherever amputated parts go (and i don't know that and i don't want to know. after all, you cannot cut a finger that is not there. in spite of this, there is significant pain where there should be none. why? clearly there exists a relationship between the etheric body and the physical brain. the nervous system is carrying signals to the part of the brain that says "pain" and that part is responding. so let's go back to the bit about psychic energy being carried by electrical conductors. there are still etheric nerves (or their equivalent) present. they are being activated by something, we have no idea what. they carry information to the interface w

very smart, the brain is not, at least at that level, and does not know that there is nothing there and thus sends out the message automatically. here we get to the real important part of this stuff, the ability of psychic energy to act as a carrier of information. and at this point we have to make just a bit of a leap, so bear with me. we will operate under the assumption that the energy of the etheric body is in some way all-pervasive. this means that the etheric body of one person is connected at some level, by some instrumentality, with the etheric body of everyone else in the world, if not in the universe and this connection is the means by which psychic powers operate. will this cure our water addiction? how the hell should i know, but that is not what this book is about, thank badn

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feel the human race originally came from another star system and took the opportunity to populate and experience this magnificent new planet. genetic manipulation, both positive and negative, has continued ever since to advance or control the species, depending on the mindset at the time. in those earlier times, i think the nature of the physical form was not as dense as it is today. it was more etheric, lighter and less dense, and capable of manifesting and demanifesting, levitation, and floating above the surface. all these things are possible now if the power of our thought is concentrated sufficiently, but it was available to everyone then, i believe, as an everyday part of life. in those periods, there was no physical 'death. the consciousness withdrew from the body when it chose to

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aid to have been born with a "dragon-like countenance. it was claimed that he was conceived by a ray of golden light that entered his mother's womb from the big dipper constellation.12 the big dipper includes the star alpha draconis, the star of set in egypt. alpha draconis is an alleged base of the "draco" reptilian "royalty. one chinese legend says that when he died huang ti transformed into an etheric dragon and flew to the realm of the immortals. the priest kings of the peruvian incas were symbolised by the snake and they wore bracelets and anklets in the image of a snake. the earliest of the royal bloodlines of central america claimed genetic descent from the serpent gods, quetzalcoati and itzamna. in the mycenaean age in greece the kings were, in the words of author jane harrison "re

rnative methods, too, but on nowhere near the scale of those in the drug cartels and medical authorities. when the cause is removed, its physical consequences disappear and this is reported as a "miracle cure, but, like i say, it is nothing of the kind. i have experienced some of these "miracles" myself. the physical body has an energy blueprint known to healers as 354 children of the matrix the "etheric body" and when this is damaged or imbalanced it manifests as physical dis-ease. you might imagine the etheric body standing by a pool and its reflection in the water as the physical body. when the etheric changes its state or form in any way, the same happens to the physical. so if you keep the etheric level in good shape, the physical will do the same. while i was writing this book, i bas

ysical body. when the etheric changes its state or form in any way, the same happens to the physical. so if you keep the etheric level in good shape, the physical will do the same. while i was writing this book, i bashed my toe and after ten days it was getting worse, not better. it was extremely painful to walk. a healer did some "hands on" healing, channelling energy to repair the damage to the etheric level. within half an hour my toe was feeling better and within two days it was back to normal. i have met healers who have worked on some famous people in the far east and these are the healing methods the illuminati use. they don't want us to know about such treatments and so they ridicule them, call them "quackery, or condemn them as evil, while secretly using them for their own benefit

, one inside the other, all vibrating at different speeds. and all, except that spark of love that interpenetrates all existence, are illusions of varying degrees. the dense physical body, the outer of all the shells, is therefore part of the greatest illusion because it not only has its own personal illusions, it encompasses all the others, too. the nearest "bodies" to the dense physical are the etheric, astral, mental and emotional. they are all vibrating at higher speeds than our physical senses and so we can't see them, although psychic people can when they access those frequencies. we feel them, however, as good and bad "vibes. the etheric is a mirror image of the physical, but less dense, and the lower levels of the astral frequency range (lower fourth dimension) appear to be the rea

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nd the pyramid. many interesting effects have been noted about the pyramid shape, such as the ability to mummify dead animals, fruit, vegetables, and flowers. the pyramid has also been used to sharpen razor blades. the pyramid as a shape power device will be examined in depth in chapter 4. another device, the orgone accumulator 8 invented by dr. wilhelm reich, uses specific materials to intensify etheric energies and make them useful in physics and biological experimentation and treatment. it is easy to see that there is more than meets the eye with respect to the effects of shape and what it does in the time-space continuum of our universe. 2.2 john ernst worrel keely john keely was probably one of the greatest enigmas of the 19th century of science. he was labeled an impostor and a cagli

filtering techniques. the experimenter knew nothing of keely's work. john ernst worrel keely (1827-1898) was one of the first in a line of research scientists during the past 100 years who discovered a mechanism to release large quantities of energy with a low energy trigger mechanism. keely's discoveries hinged on the breakdown of water (and later, other substances) to create what keely termed "etheric vapor" using specific, tuned, acoustic forces. this obviously fits the free energy definition of a small force (sound in this case) releasing enormous quantities of aetheric force with the source of the energy being matter. this was done in water with a base frequency that keely asserted was 42,800 hz (cycles/second. whether this frequency is accurate is open to debate since a small error

on (looking down on the pyramid) with an upward thrust due to the stoping pyramid the third flow is a flow/pressure of the aether from above down into the earth. when this flow hits the ccw rotating flow, a vortex action is created which could create toroidal vortexes in the aether. these would automatically become simple particles and most likely they would be electrons. figure 4.8.4-1 shows the etheric flows acting across a magnetically oriented pyramid. the current theory in the new vision science network is that the sub-atomic particles are various combinations of aetheric toroidal vortexes as first discovered and written about by john keely in figure 4.8.4-1 aetheric flows acting across a magnetically oriented pyramid so we now have a method of explaining how the electrons are formed

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

hind the theosophical society. many members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) were also members of this society. her importance is also due to two large books she wrote, isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. many mystical and occult writings or so-called "channeling" are directly or indirectly based on these two books. blood of the red lion: in sex magick (q.v) the semen. body, etheric: an emanation of all created things. halfway between the astral and the physical. bon: the shamanic religion of tibet before the coming of buddhism, which officially supplanted it. in fact many bon beliefs and practices were absorbed into tibetan buddhism, giving it a unique, magickal character. book of shadows: a collection of rituals, prayers, charms, and other magickal information compi

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tter is also a number, and the numbers of a name have an important significance. 17. in the yetziratic world the divine emanations manifest, not through a single being, but through different types of beings, which are called the angelic hosts or choirs. 18. the assiatic world is not, strictly speaking, the world of matter when viewed from the sephirotic standpoint, but rather the lower astral and etheric planes which, together, form the background of matter. upon the physical plane the divine emanations manifrst through what may not inapdy be called the ten mundane chakras, likening these centres of manifestation to the centres that exist in the human body, an exact analogy. these chakras are the primum mobile or first swirlings, the sphere of the zodiac, the seven planets, and the element

anifestation. ii 9. we have hitherto considered kether in atziluth, that is to say as its essential and primal essence. we must now consider kether as it appears in the three other kingdoms distinguished by the qabalists. 10. each kingdom or plane of manifestation has its primary form; matter, for instance, is in all probability primarily electric, and this is expressed by the esotericists as the etheric sub-plane which lies behind the four elemental planes of earth, air, fire, and water; or in other words, the four conditions of dense matter, solid, liquid, gaseous, and etheric. 11. the qabalists conceive of the tree as existing in each of the four kingdoms of atailuth, pure spirit; briah, archetypal mind; yetzirah, astral picture-consciousness; and assiah, the material world in both its

be. 44. this sounds very complex and abstract, but examples will soon serve to show it to be simple and practical when understood. take the problem of the sublimation of sex-force, which besets the psychotherap;sts, concerning which they talk so glibly and say so little. in malkuth, which in the microcosm is the physical body, sex-force is in terms of ovum and spermatozoon; in yesod, which is the etheric double, it is in terms of magnetic force, concerning which nothing is known to orthodox psychology, but concerning which we shall have a good deal to say under the heading of the appropriate sephirah. hod and netzach are on the astral plane, and in hod we find that the sex-force is expressed in mystical qabala page 93 visual images, and in netzach in another and altogether subtler type of

ind formulated archetypal ideas in order that substance might take form, and that without such archetypal ideas substance was formless and void, primordial slime awaiting the breath of life to organise into the crystal and cell. the latest researches in physics have revealed that every substance, without exception,has a crystalline structure, and the lines of tension that the psychic perceives as etheric stresses have been revealed by the x-rays [page 166] 14. a very important and very imperfectly understood part in the mysteries is played by those beings who are generally called the masters. different schools define the term differently, and some include living adepts of a high grade among the masters; but we consider that it is advisable to make a distinction between the incarnate and di

alistic system, for we must of necessity forestall with partial explanations if our argument is to be comprehensible. we must therefore give some explanation of the three lower sephiroth grouped around tiphareth,netzach, hod, and yesod. 5. netzach is concerned with the nature forces and ele-mental contacts; hod with ceremonial magic and occult [page 190] knowledge; and yesod with psychism and the etheric double. tiphareth itself, supported by geburah and gedulah, re presents seership, or the higher psychism of the individuality, each sephirah, of course, has its subjective and objective aspects-its factor in psychology and its plane in the universe, 6. the four sephiroth below tiphareth represent the pet sonality or lower self; the four sephiroth above tiphareth are the individuality, or h

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t. coue' just missed the turning when he sought in prolonged attention a substitute for spontaneous emotion. diagrams mystical qabala page 209 mystical qabala page 210 mystical qabala page olpsychic self-defense dion fortune contents preface part i types of psychic attack i. signs of psychic attack ii. analysis of the nature of psychic attack iii. a case of modern witchcraft iv. projection of the etheric body v. vampirism vi. hauntings 1 of 103 vii. the pathology of non-human contacts viii. the risks incidental to ceremonial magic part ii differential diagnosis ix. distinction between objective psychic attack and subjective psychic disturbance x. non-occult dangers of the black lodge xi. the psychic element in mental disturbance part iii the diagnosis of a psychic attack xii. methods emplo

w as aft& the preceding one, but an additional symptom now manifested itself. as i walked out of the room at the end of the interview i had a curious sensation as if my feet were not in the place i expected them to be. anyone who has walked across a carpet that is bellying up with the under-floor draught will know what i mean. occultists will recognise it as having to do with the extrusion of the etheric double. the next incident to occur in this curious menage did not concern myself, but another girl, an orphan with considerable means. my employer kept this girl constantly with her, and finally persuaded her to put the whole of her capital into her schemes. however, trustees descended in wrath, forced my employer to disgorge, and took the girl away with them then and there, leaving all he

e my physical health became normal. my body was like an electric battery that has been completely discharged. it took a long time to charge up again, and every time it was used before the charging was completed, it ran down again rapidly. for a long time i had no reserves of energy, and after the least exertion would fall into a dead sleep at any hour of the day. in the language of occultism, the etheric double had been damaged, and leaked prana. it did not become normal until i took initiation into the occult order in which i subsequently trained. within an hour of the ceremony i felt a change, and it is only upon the rarest occasions since then, after some psychic injury, that i have had a temporary return of those depleting attacks of exhaustion. i have told this story in detail because

103 more commonly, however, if there is a definite psychic attack of sufficient force to make itself noticeable at all, there will soon begin to appear characteristic dreams. these may include a sense of weight upon the chest, as if someone were kneeling on the sleeper. if the sense of weight is present, it is certain that the attack emanates locally, for the weight is due to the concentration of etheric substance or ectoplasm, and is sufficiently tangible to press down the scale of a balance when it is possible to capture it for measurement. a great deal of research has been done with materialising mediums upon the nature of this tangible subtle substance, and the reader is referred to the books on the experiments conducted by crawford with the goligher circle at belfast, and in paris wit

ge eventful history can be explained away, but taken together they make a curious story, especially when it is remembered that without any previous information a psychic investigation had "spotted" the existence of a person with abnormal faculties who was interested in mr. c. cancer is a disease upon which certain occult hypotheses throw a good deal of light. it is believed to be a disease of the etheric double, not of the physical body, and that a "cancer elemental" is the infective factor. to prove or disprove anything concerning the foregoing story is impossible, but the following occult hypothesis may explain much. if this hypothesis be not accepted, readers may find an interesting exercise for their ingenuity in constructing another that shall explain more satisfactorily the circumsta

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heosophy, and those numerous occult systems derived from it, to denote the link between the nervous system and the cosmic reservoir of energy. the astral body corresponds to the double of out-of-the-body experiences reported in psychic research. the term double, however, is less comprehensive and refers only to the living; astral body refers specifically to the bodily counterpart of the dead. the etheric double or body, in theosophy, is distinct from the astral, but in spiritualistic literature they are often interchanged. these concepts derive from traditional hindu mysticism, though there are also western precursors. the astral body is the instrument of passions, emotions, and desires, and, since it interpenetrates and extends beyond the physical body, it is the medium through which thes

ources: mead, george r. s. the doctrine of the subtle body in western tradition. london: john m. watkins, 1919. reprint, wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1967. powell, arthur e. the astral body and other astral phenomena. london: theosophical publishing house, 1927. astral projection popular term for the ability to travel outside the physical body during sleep or trance, also known as etheric projection or out-of-the-body traveling. astral projection involves the movement of the consciousness, often pictured as an astral body or double, some distance away from the physical body. there are numerous reports of this ability in popular psychic literature as well as that of psychic research. for example, the british scientist dr. robert crookall collected hundreds of cases from indi

ntals, both good and bad, such as fairies, which are just beyond the powers of human vision; as well as demons, present to alcoholics in delirium tremens. following physical death, the astral world is said to contain both heaven and hell as these are popularly conceived. the astral world is comprised of seven divisions which correspond to the seven divisions of matter: the solid, liquid, gaseous, etheric, super-etheric, subatomic, and atomic. these divisions are believed to play a most important part in the immediate destiny of humans: if through ignorance, one has permitted the rearrangement of the matter of the astral body into sheaths, one is cognizant only of part of one s surroundings at a time, and it is not till after experience, much of which may be extremely painful, that one is a

eces of glass. looking through it in daylight and then turning the eye to view a naked man in dim light before a dark background, three distinct radiations, all lying in the ultraviolet end of the spectrum, became visible. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. aura 117 the first, dark and colorless, surrounded the body to the depth of a quarter to half an inch. kilner called this the etheric double. the second, the inner aura, extended three inches beyond. the third, the outer aura, was about a foot in depth. kilner tried various experiments. he found that the depth of the aura is influenced by a magnet and that it is sensitive to electric currents, completely vanishing under a negative charge from a wimshurst machine, then increasing to an additional 50 percent after the char

gical problems. sources: bendit, laurence j. the mirror of life and death. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1965. the mysteries today, and other essays. adyar, madras, india: theosophical publishing house, 1973. self knowledge: a yoga for the west. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1967. bendit, laurence j, and phoebe d. bendit. man incarnate. 1957. reprinted as the etheric body of man. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1977. this transforming mind. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1970. mills, joy. one hundred years of theosophy: a history of the theosophical society in america. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1987. bendit, phoebe daphne (payne (1891) psychotherapist, author, and collaborator with her husband, dr. l. j. be

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ing ministry. it seems that he was deceived by misleading communications from the association of electricizers (which supposedly included the spirit of benjamin franklin. it is possible that the new motor may have suggested a line of research to john worrell keely (1837.1898, who claimed the discovery of a new motive force in his invention of the keely motor. this force was said to be a vibratory etheric force or cosmic energy. after the death of keely, evidence of fraud was revealed. from time to time since the new motor fiasco, spiritualists have constructed various apparatus to facilitate communication with the spirit world, sometimes basing their constructions on spirit messages. among modern inventors who were more successful than spear were those comprising the group known as the ash

itable items and, afterwards, visualise a duplicate of the page with these items falling into their places. at first i was unable to do this. it seems to me that it is an ability which throws some light upon foretelling, a visualising of what is to be, but based upon that which already is. sometimes i see further detail upon visualising which i had not sensed from the letters. i think there is an etheric foreshadowing of things about to be done. it would probably be impossible to get anything very far ahead, but only within a certain number of hours, and i cannot say how many. i scarcely think it would be possible to get a test for the day after the morrow, or, even if possible, that it could result in more than a jumble of the morrow s with a few of the day following. i think they should

favor the spirit hypothesis and he expressed his conviction that the phenomena were due to a fluidic action and were performed at the expense of the medium s own powers and those of the persons present. the mediumship of stanislawa tomczyk was discovered by ochorowicz. in his experiments with her, he achieved conspicuous success in psychic photography, having photographed what he believed was an etheric hand on the film, rolled together and enclosed in a bottle. tomczyk was also successful in raising and suspending small objects in the air without contact with her hands. in 1911, ochorowicz was awarded a prize of 1,000 francs by the comite d etude de photographie transcendental for his experiments. a similar prize was awarded to him by the academie des sciences de paris. ochorowicz was an

acting to itself other and still more material particles. according to traditional spiritualist teachings, in time the psychic body decays just as did the physical and leaves the soul free. during trance, the soul leaves the body, but the vital func- psychical research foundation encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1250 tions are continued by the psychic body (see also astral body; etheric double) psychic detective bureau state licensed organization, also known as the u.s. psi squad, headed by psychic beverly jaegers, who also edited a quarterly publication pathways, containing articles, reports on activities, reviews and comments. the organization brought together persons interested in utilizing mind skills such as psi to combat crime as a public service, to work with and f

ence, james hewat mckenzie found employment for sloan in a london garage and made him accessible to various experimenters. after his return to glasgow, sloan cooperated in experiments with j. arthur findlay. in 1924, findlay published a small book on his findings: an investigation of psychic phenomena, with a preface by sir william barrett. this was followed by a larger volume: on the edge of the etheric (1931, in which findlay graded his evidential cases a1 and a2, according to the quality of the evidence. examining three of the 180 a1 communications, he stated: an eminent mathematician on calculating the chances of correctly guessing all the facts recorded, answers that to have reached such accuracy, represented the equivalent of 1 to 5,000,000,000,000 in other words the odds were 5,000

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

cording to most contactees who have dealings with him) head of the ashtar command he is, in the words of his sponsor lord michael, supreme director in charge of all of the spiritual program for earth. from his giant starship in earth s general vicinity he gives orders to millions of extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional beings who are trying to reform and enlighten earthlings. his home is in the etheric realm, which means that to visit our physical universe he must descend the vibratory scale, or we would not be able to hear or perceive him at all. he explains his mission thus: we have come to fulfill the destiny of this p l a n e t, which is to experience a short period of c l e a n s i n g and then to usher in a n e w g o l d e n ag e o f l i g h t. we are here to lift off the s u rf a

is a real personality. a clone of the original ashtar, and is dangerous. a disobedient angel (wettlaufer, 2000. the name ashtar may owe its inspiration to a nineteenth-century work, oahspe, the 28 ashtar product of alleged angelic dictation to new york occultist john ballou newbrough. in this complex alternative history of earth and the universe, ashars are guardian angels who sail the cosmos in etheric ships. oahspe had a wide readership among devotees of the early contactee movement. see also: athena; contactees; korton; monka; portla; sananda; van tassel, george w. further reading alnor, william m, 1992. ufos in the new age: ex- traterrestrial messages and the truth of scripture. grand rapids, mi: baker book house. james, trevor [pseud. of trevor james constable, 1958. they live in the

contact lore often hailed from our immediate vicinity. after space probes in the 1960s established, beyond further rational discussion, that beyond earth there are no planets hospitable to life in this system, the extraterrestrials in contact claims were placed farther out in the cosmos. either that, or the venus, mars, saturn, and other solar planets said to harbor advanced civilizations became etheric counterparts, existing on a higher vibratory rate and distinct from the lifeless worlds we know. another influential early book was oahspe (1882, the product of automatic writing at the guidance of angels, or so new york occultist john ballou newbrough asserted. written between january and december 1881, the book is a mystical account of the cosmos, its history, and its inhabitants. the bo

d company. who is hatonn? http//www.fourwinds10.com/ information.html 118 gyeorgos ceres hatonn hierarchal board the hierarchal board communicates through pauline sharpe (also known as nada-yolanda) via channeling and automatic writing. the board is the solar system s spiritual government, and its members include sananda (jesus, who has orbited earth in a spacecraft since 1885. right now he is in etheric form but will enter the physical realm as the planet is cleansed and transformed for the coming new age, due to arrive sometime around 2000. sharpe s organization is called mark- age, commissioned by the hierarchal board to implant a prototype of spiritual government on earth, the i am nation. the i am nation is a government of, for and by the i am selves of all people on earth. it is not

om which scientology grew. she also read the works of guy warren ballard, creator of the i am movement, arguably the first religious group to make extraterrestrial contacts a central tenet. another book, oah- spe, recorded the 1881 channeling of john ballough newbrough, depicting a richly populated spiritual cosmos whose inhabitants include guardian angels known as ashars who sail the universe in etheric ships. when flying saucers came on the scene and the contactee movement followed in their wake, martin followed developments with interest. in the meantime, charles and lillian laughead (pronounced law-head) were doing the same. their own odyssey had begun in 1946, when the couple were protestant medical missionaries in egypt and lillian started suffering seemingly untreatable nightmares a

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8, 1891, of bright s disease a condition from which lovecraft also suffered, and which contributed to his early death. one explanation of the many occult correspondences found in lovecraft s fiction has been supplied by kenneth grant in his typhonian trilogies. grant suggests that the lovecraftian grimoire, the necronomicon, actually exists within the akasha, or field of astral light. this is an etheric reservoir said to surround the earth, and which retains within its structure the imprint of every event which has occurred since the formation of the planet. it can be accessed at will by those individuals who possess the necessary psychic ability, and may be manipulated to provide positive images. it was from the akashic records that blavatsky transmitted the book of dzayn, and crowley tr

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

been freed from the flesh by the violent death on golgotha. when anyone is killed, the venous blood with its impurities clings closely to the flesh, and therefore the arterial blood which flows is distinctly cleaner than it would otherwise be; it is more free from passion and desire. and being etherealized by the great christ spirit, the cleansed blood of jesus overflowed the world, purified the etheric region of selfishness to a great extent, and gave man a better chance to draw to himself materials which will allow him to form altruistic purposes and desires. thus the age of altruism was there inaugurated. by faith in this blood, and by imitation of the christ life the sons of seth are therefore provided with a means of purging from themselves the curse of selfishness; while the sons of

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ld as to themselves. they have nothing rosicrucian-except the name? and yet, from their ranks would come two men whowereconcerned with spiritual philosophy and who would, in time, create the darkly glittering splendour of the golden dawn.therosicrucian freemasons were not, of course, the only established body of occultists in victorian england. mesmerism, or animal magnetism, with its trances and etheric fluids, still had its followers, although the continuing refusal of the medical profession to consider its claims as a curative agent prevented any real study of its phenomena in orthodox scientific circles.itremained the property of occultists, clairvoyants and those spir255 itualists who were able, by mental juggling, to fit the rationalist theory of animal magnetism into a world-view ba

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

he physical body and related electro-magnetic fields. it has no innate immortality and returns to the earth at death (in pre-fall man the guph was simply an electro-magnetic extension of the higher bodies with no related physical form. the nephesh the nephesh is roughly defined as the instinctual bodies. it can be divided into upper and lower forms and these could be related to the astral and the etheric bodies. these levels are the energy fields which invigorate and control the physical and psychic organism and relay commands from the mental complex (ruach. gnostic theurgy page 45 the ruach the ruach is the mental complex or mind. in the understanding of modern psychology it represents all facets of psyche, from the unconscious right through to the rational or conscious mind. it includes

his instincts (the soul) and through his mind (ruach) and constructs a little sense of self from these experiences. however, neither of these offer a truly discrete, individual identity. the kabbalistic structure of man body. description. world& description. god-name. yechidah. potential self atziluth- word of gods. yod. ruach. personality. briah- creative world. he. nephesh. instincts. yetzirah- etheric world. vau. guph. physical body. assiah- physical world. he. fig 11 gnostic theurgy page 46 hence the yechidah only exists in potential, as a possibility and, i am afraid, in most cases is never realised. ultimately then, cessation of existence, after a cycle of lives and many lost opportunities, becomes the end for most of humanity. when man descended into the fallen world of matter, he l

is the higher mind. the instinctual body, pranic body or lower thought force this is the psychic energy which radiates through the organism. it is sometimes also known as od, prana or psychic energy. it also encompasses facets of the lower mind. astral or desire body this is the electro-magnetic field which surrounds the physical organism. it has three distinct levels: gnostic theurgy page 49 the etheric skin. this clings to the physical organism, somewhat like a second skin. this creates the light layer at the edge of the body. the inner aura. this occupies the first six to ten inches of the energy field, and expands in proportion to the outer astral body. the outer aura. this extends beyond the physical organism and can, at times, be a metre wide depending on your spiritual development

t times, be a metre wide depending on your spiritual development. the astral or desire body has also being known as the double imago (doppleganger) as it mimics the physical body and can, though gnostic practises, be temporally separated from the physical organism and used for spiritual purposes. the physical or vital body the physical organism with related physiological structures, sometimes the etheric skin is also included in this category. it is sometimes called the vehicle or vessel in gnostic traditions to emphasise the distance the gnostic should keep from his physical form. now we have come to some understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of man we need to examine a most important question, what is the nature of man s spirit and by extension, where does immorality exist? the s

ntral to the spiritual system that we know as gnosis. indeed, the word gnosis, in some sense, means knowledge and hence emphasises the importance of the intellectual path within the esoteric tradition. when we contemplate our earlier model of the nature of man, we can see what a central role the psyche has. if the brain-mind complex is the matrix that radiates energy into the various physical and etheric bodily systems, then its importance cannot be underplayed. at the same time, we must be cautious. in the twentieth century there has been a tendency to psychologise everything, whether it be alchemy, gnosticism, magic, demons, gods or spirits, there has been an attempt to interpret everything as products of the mind. while certainly the mind does play a paramount part in the gnostic tradit

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ll just and righteous purposes" let the adept trace with the chalice above the fire wand, the invoking active spirit pentagram and invoking fire pentagram with the kerub in a circle as before. 7 empowering the lesser angle of m let the adept take up the air dagger and recite the following "o thou mighty angel bdopa, ruler and president over the four angels and governors of the subtle and aspiring etheric o, i beseech thee to bestow upon this weapon thy strength and fiery steadfastness, that with it i may control the spirits of thy realm for all just and righteous purposes" with the dagger held over the wand, trace the invoking active spirit pentagram and the invoking pentagram of o within a circle with the kerub in the center. empowering the lesser angle of l let the adept hold the pantacl

e within a circle the invoking passive spirit pentagram, the invoking water pentagram, and insert the kerub in the center. note: with using the magical sword of the art in this case, use the pommel and not the point to do the tracing. empowering the lesser angle of m let the adept hold the air dagger up high and recite the following "o thou powerful angel htaad, thou who art lord and ruler of the etheric and airy qualities of n, i beseech thee to endue this chalice with the magic powers of which thou art lord, that i may, with its aid, direct the spirits who serve thee in purity and singleness of aim" with the dagger held over the chalice, trace within a circle the invoking passive spirit pentagram and the invoking water pentagram with the kerub. empowering the lesser angle of l let the ad

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

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

ne of four worlds or planes as follows: 1. atziluth, the divine world of archetypal ideas. 2. briah, the creative world of the archangels. 3. yetzirah, the astral world of angels and demons. 4. assiah, the physical world, the lowest and most material. these bear striking sinnilarities to the enochian earth, water, air, and fire tablets. you must always remember that the earth tabeet refers to the etheric plane rather than to our physical world. in the same way, the hebrew qabalah equates the lowest sephira, malkuth, with our planet earth. the lowest of the enochian aethyrs, however, is just aboye (i.e, less dense than) the earth and thus does not precisely equate wi th malkuth. correspondences between the enochian system and the hebrew qabalah have impressive similarities, but the enochian

liberlibrae the enochian magical system views man as a microcosm of the macrocosmic world. as the physical earth is the lowest of a series of expressions, so your physical body is but the lowest of a graduated series. this view accords well with both eastern and western occultism. you have a body or vehicle to correspond with each cosmic plane. immediately aboye or behind the physical body is the etheric body. next, is the astral body followed by the mental and spiritual bodies. the physical body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the physical cosmic plane. the astral body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the astral cosmic plane whose symbolic cosmic element is water. the physical body is limited by a ring-pass-not to the physical cosmic plane. t

eric body. next, is the astral body followed by the mental and spiritual bodies. the physical body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the physical cosmic plane. the astral body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the astral cosmic plane whose symbolic cosmic element is water. the physical body is limited by a ring-pass-not to the physical cosmic plane. the etheric body is limited to the etheric cosmic plane. the astral body cannot enter the mental cosmic plane, and so on. man below the first aethyr lil is dualistic. however, aboye lil, man is monadic. this monadic nature, often called "monadic essence" in occult terminology, is symbolized by a circle with a point in the center as shown in the figure on the following page. the cirde's center is a geo

ds are dangerous, unless care can be taken to keep the personality of the god distinct from one's own. aleister crowley, magick without tears in order for an invocation or evocation to be successful, you must be able to elevate your mind to another dimension. you must be able to see and hear with the body of light, because the deities and demons of the watchtowers and aethyrs are not physical but etheric, astral or psychic beings. the first step is imagination. you must imagine that the deity comes before you. the known signposts of the operation should be of service during this step. atthe climax of the operation, you will actually see and/or hear the deity or demon invoked. if a demon strikes you, you will suffer the pain accordingly. however, no one elle around you will probably be able

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sts tell us, from stratum to stratum out into space forever and ever; an impulse has been given to matter, and that is never lost, can never be recalled! so with crime, and so with its opposite. the action may be instantaneous, the effects are eternal. when, after the stone is once flung into the pond, we can recall it to the hand, roll back the ripples, obliterate the force expended, restore the etheric waves to their previous state of non-being, and wipe out every trace of the act of throwing the missile, so that time's record shall not show that it ever happened, then, then we may patiently hear christians argue for the efficacy of this atonement -and cease to believe in karmic law. as it now stands, we call upon the whole world to decide, which of our two doctrines is the most apprecia

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ystic, a quabbalist or a yogi, etc, can derive his practical benefit from it. should i succeed in teaching the reader so far that he is able to deal with the subject in the proper way and to find the practical key to the branch of knowledge most suitable for him, i will be glad to see that the purpose of my book has been fulfilled. 2. the principle of fire as it has been said before, akasa or the etheric principle is the cause of the origin of the elements. according to the oriental scriptures, the first element born from akasa is believed to be tejas, the principle of fire. this element as well as all the others manifest their influence not only in our roughly material plane but also in everything created. the basic qualities of the fiery principle are heat and expansion. in the beginning

ive in all things created, as a matter of fact, in the whole universe beginning from the tiniest grain of sand to the most sublime substance visible or invisible. 3. the principle of water in the previous chapter we have studied the origin and the qualities of the positive element of fire. in this chapter i am going to describe the opposite principle, the water. it is also derived from akasa, the etheric principle. but in comparison with fire, it has quite contrasting qualities. these basic qualities are coldness and shrinkage. the point in question are also two poles, the active one being constructive, life-giving, nourishing and protective, whereas the negative pole, similar to the one of fire, is destructive, dissecting, fermenting, and dividing. as this element owns the basic quality o

the abdomen it must be the contrary, the watery, the secretion, the work of the saps, etc. the chest underlies the air and has a mediating part, because here breathing takes place quite mechanically. the earthy principle with its cohesive power or ability of holding together represents the whole of the human body with all its bones and flesh. now the question will arise were and how akasa or the etheric principle occurs in the grossly material body. in doing some deeper thinking, everybody will be able to answer this question by himself, for the etheric principle is hidden in its most grossly material form in the blood and in the seed and in the reciprocal action of these two substances in the vital matter or in the vitality. as we have learned, the fiery element produces the electrical a

e principles, will find out by himself all about the varieties of powers and properties. the fruits and the insights he earned, in the course of his studies, will indemnify him amply. 11. the soul or the astral body through subtler vibrations of the elements, through the electric and the magnetic fluid of their polarity, the man proper, the soul has proceeded from the akasa principle or the finer etheric vibrations. in the same way as the elements are functioning in the material body, the soul or the so-called astral body will behave. the four-pole magnet, with its specific qualities, connects or amalgamates the soul with the body. this amalgamation takes place, with analogy to the body, by the electromagnetic influence of the elements. we, the adepts, call the astral matrix or life this a

ple, the impulsive part, means the will (volition. the airy principle shows up in the intellect (mind, the watery principle respectively in the life and the feeling, and the earthy principle is representing the union of all the three elements in the consciousness of the ego. all the other qualities of the spirit are based upon these four original principles. the typical part of the fifth, say the etheric principle (akasa) manifests itself, in the highest aspect, in the faith and, in the lowest form, in the instinct of self-preservation. each of these mentioned four elemental principles has many other aspects corresponding to the law of analogy of the polarity or the positive and negative elements. all of them together form the ego or the spirit. for this reason, we can make the fiery princ

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doorway to dow power to connect our physical body with our lightbody. in our small speck of our galaxy, our sun accumulates energy from outside the solar system to feed itself, and after having refined what it has digested, it creates a pranic souptype of output which radiates out to feed the planets in our solar system. this includes of course the earth, from which we are nourished, directly by etheric absorption or by partaking of the earth s food chain. as to what proportion is absorbed ethereally by most people, the armenian seer and teacher, g. i. gurdjieff, said we obtain 70% of our energy from breathing, which he calls our first food. the sun derives its vitality by feeding on the refuse of space, attracting rays from outer space with its great force. the rays consumed are life.ato

of sound, that carries with it support structures for successful living. driven by divine codes called universal law, the grace wave runs via these laws and magnetic attraction. e) someone tuned to the madonna frequency divine love-wisdom channel may have access to divine abundance and prosperity. part of this may entail access to, and utilization of, the cosmic bank of abundance. an inner plane etheric bank with open doors to those in the grace wave of theta. delta field. this bank can download an abundance of love, health, wealth, passion and purpose to those who can match its beat. any person who sincerely works for harmonious global refinement, or lives their life in a way that is good for all, will have access to the perfect resources they need to do this. purity of heart, and intent

o-shield. its purpose is to act as an internal conversion system that instantly transmutes everything we eat into the perfect vibration of light that we need. using our will, imagination and intention we. take some time and sit in stillness and centre ourselves with the love breath tool then. visualize 5 lines of light coming out of your fingers and with a circular motion begin to. weave a web of etheric light around your mouth. around your throat. down your esophagus. continue to weave this circular pattern of light around your stomach. down around your intestines, and finally. down around your elimination system. wrap your whole digestive system in a field of pink light, then golden light, then blue light, then violet light. check on the inner planes using your third eye to see that your

ur elimination system. wrap your whole digestive system in a field of pink light, then golden light, then blue light, then violet light. check on the inner planes using your third eye to see that your digestive system has now been cocooned. next this new energy matrix needs to be programmed as these light fields remain relatively inert until coded. recommended programming code: first focus on the etheric web around your digestive system and. see it as a living field of intelligence just waiting for a software program to run itself. then command into it telepathically the following statement: i now command that all food, all fluid, and all that i ingest from this moment on that flows through my digestive system bio-shield. is automatically converted into the perfect frequency of light and d

ur auric field and hence creating field imbalances and schisms. constructed on the inner planes using the frequencies of divine love, divine wisdom and divine power, it allows an initiate freedom to maintain sensitivity and sanity while we serve. as we have previously shared, it also creates a cocoon for the dow to dwell within and radiate permanently and powerfully into the world. this cocoon of etheric violet light acts as a cosmic hotel allowing a comfort zone space for our divine delta field dow being to dwell successfully, and fully, in our physical form even though our physical form dwells predominantly in a beta. alpha world. the creation of this shield is quite simple and the below meditation only needs to be done once, however the programming and maintenance of the shield may need

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sic group the police "spirits in the material world. there are many similar terms used by other occult groups. for example 'astral light' is another name for astral world, although it may sometimes also refer to the entire non-physical realm, as may 'inner planes' or 'the invisible world. planes are essentially the same as worlds. vehicles or sheaths are the same as bodies. some groups include an etheric or vital body between physical and astral: it is mostly 'physical' with a little of the lower 'astral' besides. and sometimes astral and mental are each divided into two parts (upper and lower. the 'causal body' is the upper 'mental. microcosm and macrocosm we have been describing 'traditonal' occult philosophy here, and certainly an important part of the tradition is the idea (and terms)

fic emotion will cause you to experience that emotion. review questions 1) what is the aura? 2) what is a thoughtform? 3) how can you develope clairvoyance? book list annie bessant and charles leadbeater, thought forms. w.e. butler, how to develop clairvoyance. j.h. brennan, astral doorways. piero ferrucci, what we may be. kilner, the human aura. swami panchadasi, the human aura. a.e. powell, the etheric double. harold sherman, how to make esp work for you* magick 7- basic ritual* it may be said that ritual is the very heart of magick. for it is through ritual that we acheive our magical results. ritual is a magical procedure or ceremony we perform in order to change the environment. usually we think of ritual as bearing on active magick, although certainly, it can also affect passive magi

y* want to remember your dreams, you could arrange for someone to sit by your bedside all night long with a dim light on. then when he sees your eyes moving back and forth- rapid eye movements, a sign you are dreaming- he can wake you and ask for a dream report) forms of astral projection astral projection may be subdivided into three basic types: mental projection, astral projection (proper) and etheric projection. and your oobe may shift between them. mental projection is really simple clairvoyance('remote viewing, and 'traveling in your mind. imagination plays a key role. the experience of mental projection is not particularly vivid, and you will more likely be an observer than a participant. nevertheless, mental projection is an important 'way in' to astral projection proper. during me

tal projection is not particularly vivid, and you will more likely be an observer than a participant. nevertheless, mental projection is an important 'way in' to astral projection proper. during mental projection and astral projection you are able to travel through solid objects, but are not able to act directly upon them or to move them (if they are in the physical world. this is not true during etheric projection. whether it is simply subconscious expectation, or whether it is a true etheric projection which in theory means that part of your physical body has been relocated with your projection (the etheric or vital part) may be difficult to determine. etheric projections generally travel at or very near the physical world. there are even cases reported (very, very rare ones) in which th

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ols, and the egyptian interpretation of them. chapter vii the second degree the questions. the preparation. the inner preparation. the opening. the e.a.'s last work. the five stages. the five steps. the o. the working tools. closing the lodge. chapter viii the third degree the opening of the lodge. the c c the preparation. the internal preparation. entering the lodge. the seven steps. the o c the etheric forces. hiram abiff. death and resurrection. the star. the raising of humanity. fire, sun and moon. the villains. the inscription (second edition: our master h. a. instead of hiram abiff) chapter ix the higher degrees the masonic plane. the ceremony of installation. the mark degree. the holy royal arch. still higher. the rose croix. black masonry. white masonry. how to use the powers. our

ants to see and to work where he wants to work. that body, trained perhaps for a particular profession, brought up in the special culture of one of the nations, with its manners and habits of action, feeling and thought, constitutes his personality, the mask through which his voice can be heard in the world of outside appearances. this personality is fourfold- there is the physical body, then the etheric double or counterpart of that, then the emotional nature, then the lower mind- the last two constituting his own private storehouse and gallery of personal feelings and ideas. the s.d. stands for the lower mind, the j.d. for the emotional or astral nature; the i.g. for the etheric double, and the o.g. or t. for the physical body(*for a fuller study of these principles from this point of vi

. it is usually considered identical with the carpenter fs or mason fs tool of that name, which is worn by the r.w.m. as the symbol of his office, but the two ideas are in reality quite distinct. 231. in egypt the triangle represented the triad of spiritual will, intuitional love and higher intelligence in man; while the square typified the lower quaternary, that is, his body with its visible and etheric divisions, his emotional nature, and his lower mind. thus the triangle stool for the individuality or soul, and the square; fur the personality, the two together constituting septenary man. 232. the three articles of furniture were also regarded as intended to help men on their way; the v.s.l. drew attention to the value of tradition, the triangle spoke of the importance of inspiration, an

le of which the earthly one is an outer symbol, a temple of finer matter through which perfectly real work can be done and enormous volumes of spiritual influence can be distributed. this temple is also an image of the vortex which t.g.a.o.t.u. made when he was about to form his solar system. he began by limiting himself, by marking out the limitations of his system, within which he set up a vast etheric vortex, the remains of which we find today in the system of revolving planets condensed from the original nebula, as it cooled and descended into denser physical matter. 310. in co-masonic lodges the procession has at its head a thurifer swinging a censer, giving off the smoke from aromatic gums specially compounded with other substances for the purpose. after him comes the t. with his swo

e is in the thought that now prevails, that the apron itself is everything, 315. figure 12 316. 317. and that the band which passes round the body exists merely to secure it and retain it in place. in old days the belt of the apron was the most important practical feature, and it was far more than a mere symbol. this belt was a highly magnetized circle, intended to enclose within itself a disc of etheric matter, separating the upper part of the body from the lower, so that the tremendous forces which it was the object of the masonic ceremonial to set in motion might be entirely shut off from the lower part of the man fs body. 318. in the meaning of masonry bro. wilmshurst writes: 319. masonry is a sacramental system, possessing, like all sacraments, au outward and visible side consisting o

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nsciousness which is called the angel of the presence. if the recipient of the degree happens to be already an initiate the star (called in egypt the star of horus) which marks the approval of the one initiator once more flames out above him in all its glory; while in any case the two great white angels of the rite flash down in splendour from the heavenly places, showing themselves as low as the etheric level that they may give their blessing to the candidate. 181. the hierophant makes the actual links both with himself and with the reservoir of power set apart for the work of the masonic brotherhood, and through himself with that mighty king whose representative he is, while the great white angels of the order remain as the guardians of the bro. throughout life. he on the right hand has

ing and expanding them; by sound he drew the subtle bodies away from the physical, and set them free in the higher worlds. his music was quite different from the sequences, repeated over and over again, by which the same result was brought about in the rootstock of the race, which it carried with it into india. here he worked by melody, not by repetition of similar sounds; and the rousing of each etheric centre had its own melody, stirring it into activity. he showed his disciples living pictures, created by music, and in the greek mysteries this was wrought in the same way, the tradition coming down from him. and he taught that sound was in all things, and that if man would harmonize himself, then would the divine harmony manifest through him, and make all nature glad. thus he went throug

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eceased appears in a dream to a member of the family into which he will be born. numerous theories have tried to explain all edward kelly summons a corpse from the grave,walton-de-dale, lancashire (fortean picture library) apsaras 11 types of apparitions, from the assertion that they are mental hallucinations to the notion of telepathy from the dead to the living.other theories refer to astral or etheric bodies, an amalgam of personality patterns, recording or imprints of vibrations, projections of the human unconscious or will and concentration, true spirits of the dead, and localized phenomena with their own physicality, directed by an intelligence or personality. one of the most elaborate theories is that of ideapatterns contained in g. n. m. tyrell s apparitions (1973, in which apparit

e the circle within which the rate of vibration can be modified. in occult traditions, the other dimensions are understood as constituting a series of different realms or planes, arranged according to rate of vibration. it is the subtle energies found in these other realms that one manipulates during magical operations. in occult literature, the plane closest to the physical is referred to as the etheric plane, and the subtle energies of this realm are often termed etheric energies. etheric energies are subdivided into four categories according to the four classical elements of greek philosophy earth, air, fire, and water and hence are sometimes also referred to as elemental energies. it is from these etheric energies that the magician constructs the circle. as both consecrated space in th

philosophy earth, air, fire, and water and hence are sometimes also referred to as elemental energies. it is from these etheric energies that the magician constructs the circle. as both consecrated space in the physical realm, and space that has also been etherialized by being raised in vibration, the interior of the circle is, in a sense, between the worlds. from this energized space a physical/etheric temple floating between the worlds it is easy for participants to extend their imagination into the subtle realms, and thus facilitate magical operations. by the same token, it is easy for spiritual entities and other powers to be drawn near the participants. see also magic and magical groups for further reading: amber k. true magick: a beginner s guide. llewellyn, 1991. farrar, stewart. w

cording to the muslims, the jinn (from which we get the english term genie) are invisible spirits made out of fire, who were created 2,000 years before adam. islamic thinkers postulated three orders of being beyond god: angels, jinn, and humanity. the angels, who were created out of light, are closest to god. the jinn, who are intermediate between angels and humanity, inhabit a subtly material or etheric realm. like human beings, the jinn possess intelligence and free will, and are thus capable of being saved. for this reason, the koran sometimes explicitly addresses itself to both humans and jinn. it is said that one night a group of jinn overheard the prophet reciting the koran and became believers. the spot where muhammad later met with the jinns leaders and accepted their allegiance is

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g-root, so they followed this bird to its nest, and then stopped up the hole in the tree where its young were. the red-crested woodpecker went at once in quest of the spring-root, and, discovering it, brought it to the tree. it immediately drew forth the stopper from the entrance to the nest. the magician then secured the root from the bird. it was also asserted that because of its structure, the etheric body of the spring-root was utilized as a vehicle of expression by certain elemental spirits which manifested through the proclivity of drawing out or opening things "aciebel: a mighty ruler of the sea, controlling things both upon and under the water. he furnishes things lost or sunk in rivers, lakes, and oceans, such as sunken ships and treasures. the more sharply you invoke him, the swi

e in the element belonging to another class. to each elemental being the element in which it lives is transparent, invisible and respirable, as the atmosphere is to ourselves (philosophia occulta, translated by franz hartmann) the reader should be careful not to confuse the nature spirits with the true life waves evolving through the invisible worlds. while the elementals are composed of only one etheric (or atomic) essence, the angels, archangels, and other superior, transcendental entities have composite organisms, consisting of a spiritual nature and a chain of vehicles to express that nature not unlike those of men, but not including the physical body with its attendant limitations. to the philosophy of nature spirits is generally attributed an eastern origin, probably brahmanic; and p

g with paracelsus, shared the opinion that the elemental kingdoms were capable of waging war upon one another, and they recognized in the battlings of the elements disagreements among these kingdoms of nature spirits. when lightning struck a rock and splintered it, they believed that the salamanders were attacking the gnomes. as they could not attack one another on the plane of their own peculiar etheric essences, owing to the fact that there was no vibratory correspondence between the four ethers of which these kingdoms are composed, they had to attack through a common denominator, namely, the material substance of the physical universe over which they had a certain amount of power. wars were also fought within the groups themselves; one army of gnomes would attack another army, and civil

inhaled and discharged by the hermetic bellows of the lungs (the history of magic) this vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the other invisible and transcendent. the latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of arch us, and may be called a vital body. this etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. these "etheric doubles "seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. it is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease

rm is entirely disintegrated. these "etheric doubles "seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. it is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease. paracelsus taught that a person with a morbid mental attitude could poison his own etheric nature, and this infection, diverting the natural flow of vital life force, would later appear as a physical ailment. all plants and minerals have an invisible nature composed of this "arch us" but each manifests it in a different way. concerning the astral-light bodies of flowers, james gaffarel, in 1650, wrote the following "i answer, that though they be chopt in pieces, brayed in a mort

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

" and then transferring his consciousness to it. the shape is then sent forth to accomplish the witch's will. the shape, fetch, or wraith is often animal in form, the type being dictated either by analogy with the ensouling emotion of the projector or, on occasions, being that of the coven totem. this process of "sending forth the fetch" is identical to that of present-day practices of astral, or etheric, projection. the fetch itself may be perceived with the inner vision of the victim or, on very rare occasions, with his physical eyes should he or the antagonist be in any way a "materializing medium" this is the basis for the legends of the werewolf and the vampire. both of these creatures represent the materialized witch power of the practitioner through which he acts using the shape as

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

the seas of pre-diluvian earth. the masters of the nephilim wererelatively convinced that even if their enemies were on earth they could not survivethe paroxysms and furor that tiamats obliteration would bring on. however, theseunknown pursuers did not just leave our solar system without instigating precaution-ary measures. before they made the journey back to their own planet, they establishedan etheric barrier around our planet that would be along the same orbit trajectory as themoons around the earth. this barrier still exists and is utterly impenetrable to theatlantean progeny, because the technology by which it was erected was of anextremely advanced level. from that time onwards, the moon would come to represent(in almost all cultures) arcane powers of protection and magic. this apot

rd. one may also take note of theintel logo which has a distinct serpentine motif. but these are only two examples of thou-sands. the space program and all its attendant fields exist because the secret brotherhoodcannot of their own volition leave the planet. the supra-celestial forces have incarcer-ated them here permanently. the means of their entrapment is the moons orbit, whichis a barrier of etheric energy, the nature of which remains largely unknown to them andus. this orbit encloses the earth, and this is the reason why there have been no mannedexcursions beyond the moon. they can go to the moon but cannot venture beyond,although machines can. this has caused them enormous frustration, and they will notrest until they find the means to break through this energy field. the moons orbi

lders of the temple of luxor, than from the cre-ators of napalm (anthony west)w e are here to learn to love each other. i don t know what the others are here for (w. h.auden) the high priests and priestesses within the adepts of the rose have (from pre-dilu-vian days) closely monitored and counteracted the machinations of their nemesis. inthe sixteenth century, they sensed the colossal rip in the etheric dimensions and weretroubled that their adversarial cousins had committed such a deplorable and prohibiteddeed. they knew the consequences of necromantic communion with pan-dimensionalentities could be incalculable and foresaw much tribulation ahead. they realized thatextraordinary measures had to be taken if disaster of cosmic proportions was to beaverted.the adepts called their leaders fr

from knee to heal, the bone was thirty-nine inches long (p. 178)ancient man-made glassa solid sheet of glass, 3.40 meters long and 1.95 wide, was discovered in catacombs in 1956 (p. 200)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation205 appendix b: book abstracts the return of the serpents of wisdomby mark pinkhamdragon lines/earth gridthere are 1746 intersection or dragon lines on the earth etheric grid. these are made up of male andfemale polarity lines intersecting. the male 666 added to the female 1080 make 1746. there are also 5subgrids each shaped like the platonic solids.fourteen meridiansthese are in the human etheric grid. these are divided into 7 male and 7 female.nahuatlsthe wise ones of the americas. conversant with the earth grid and magick, they were serpent people.numbe

are routinely covered up by physicians. 1886 a seven year period begins in japan where 25,474,370 vaccinations and re-vaccinations are per-formed in japan, representing 66% of the entire population of japan. during that period, there are165,774 cases of smallpox with 28,979 deaths (see 1955. 1887 golden dawn founded in london by mathers. 1887 michaelson-morley experiments done to try to disprove etheric theory. 1894 superintendent of a home for the feeble-minded in kansas castrates 58 children before publicrevulsion forces him to stop. 1885 modified great seal of the united states adopted by congress. 1885 rothschild monetary power reaches point of world control. amschel rothschild dies. 1885 german eugenicist dr. alfred ploetz publishes the excellence of our race and the protection ofthe

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

rse and thus may be absorbed and used magickally. 12 qi was written about by the chinese philosopher mo di and noxious vapors that would arise from a corpse were it not buried deep enough. later qi was understood as being a part of everything in the material and even spiritual world. qi was best understood as the energy surrounding the human body, slightly larger than the physical body. qi is the etheric body, the astral essence which maintains the human body. it can be directly controlled by the mind. psychic energy or the energy surrounding the human body is transferred from what we eat to energy through resting or sleeping. when a vampyre feeds in astral form at night, they are gaining a replenished system of energy which is very pure. the luciferian must have a clear point of focus on

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ou (your soul. the mental world is no more than a collection of concepts and thoughts. things like rocks and trees do not exist on the mental plane, only the idea or concepts of a rock, and the concept of trees. the 3rd world, and perhaps most crucial to the magician, is the astral world. this world, unlike the mental world, is subject to a sense of space and time. the fourth of the worlds is the etheric. this world, sometimes used interchangeably with the astral world, is the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 23 universe that provides the foundation for the material plane. the etheric world is also where the life-force, the energy created and used by life forms, resides. finally, there s the 5th level of reality, the material universe. the operations of magic are rarely aimed at the lo

plane. the etheric world is also where the life-force, the energy created and used by life forms, resides. finally, there s the 5th level of reality, the material universe. the operations of magic are rarely aimed at the lowest level of reality (material, but instead the magician will attempt to alter the higher levels of the universe knowing that those changes will eventually trickle down to the etheric and material world. it is in the way does the magician alter reality by intention. the mental world, being nothing but concepts and thoughts, are affected by the magician in such a way as to produce predictable results on the lower levels of reality. one could argue that my distinction of mental/astral/etheric worlds is unnecessary, or just plain wrong; some occults only make reference to

called a chakra. although there is some disagreement regarding how many chakra points the human body has, since in truth it has many, 5-7 of them are widely accepted and considered major chakras. the major chakra points form a linear, vertical path from the soles of the feet, up the spine to a region just above the head. these chakra points are essentially junctions between someone s material and etheric body; life-force from that etheric body pours in to replenish the material body. at night, the vampiric spirits induce feelings of fear and lust in dreams and feed from the extra life-force created. it s also worth noting that activities such as: nervous twitches, chewing gum, excessive talking, and pretty much any unnecessary activity further spills the cup of life. the beings in the astr

the inhabitants of the spirit world can fall into general categories. i will use this blanket-label spirits too, although it doesn t do justice to the variety of beings in the other realms. as for the categories themselves, the first is elementals, the second is (astral) spirits, the third is demons, the fourth is larvae, and the last is angels. elementals are those who, unlike many spirits, have etheric bodies; these etheric bodies allow them to interact with the material world by their own volition. the occult recognizes 5 elements; fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. occultists recognize 4 types of elementals, and each--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 32 is assigned an element: undines, salamanders, sylphs, and gnomes. undines are elementals of the element water. they are graceful

lementals associated with the element earth. these beings are said to live underground and in caves. contrary to popular folklore, gnomes are not short, funny little men. they can be overly emotional and even dangerous. they are more solid than the other types of elementals, and may often arrive with dark hair, dark eyes, and olive-colored skin. the standard spirit has only an astral form, but no etheric or physical body. these types of beings may not operate in our world at all without possessing a living creature; only by plugging into a living being may they have any experiences of, or gain any pleasure from, our world. many spirits are described as moving back and forth between the material and astral planes, but direct contact between these entities and human beings usually happens in

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

ards godhead. thus the great rebel was born. standing against the holy hierarchy, lucifer gathered many of his fellow seraphim, leviathan, belial, astaroth, asmodeus/samael, mephistopheles, dagon, sorath/shaitan, beelzebub and a host of others to stand in the light of selfgodhood and defy that which stood against individual phosphorus; the infinite possibility of existence. a great battle ensued, etheric and astral bodies were devoured and torn from aggressive attacks. the seraphim which sought the throne of god gave all under the flag of lucifer. nothing would stand in the way of individual freedom and the light of godhood; nothing is the basis for destruction and the beginning of creation. the morning star was rising, angelic hosts feared these bright beings. finally the holy angel micha

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

i'll never do that again. i got her body up all right, but her essence had already fled. naturally, another loose cannon climbed in, and i got back some old gal named hilda. it took a couple of weeks to teach her to talk and walk, but she was ok after that. she lived on for a couple of years, but i didn't try to bring hilda back. hilda said that when i raised scooter, i was so torqued up that my etheric double came out. well, that only happens maybe twice in a lifetime, and i sure wasn't going to waste the other one. karmic note: karma is just another limiting factor taught by certain establishment religions to keep people like you in check. they want to control you through fear and deceit in order to prevent you from acting on your own behalf in defense of your honor as they fear those w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

s out, and you get all the sensation of walking around your own quiescent body. used thus, with rhythmmic breathing, it will withdraw your mind from pain (if it be not too severe) and release you for sleep. you can do the analysis of the key-word standing behind your physical head, and you can call down the divine white brilliance, watching it flow over your body and smooth out the tangles in the etheric double, bringing peace and rest. 4. you can do the ritual with intention to help others in pain or difficulty. for this purpose, you build up an astral image of the person, in the centre of the room, and call down the light upon him, after surrounding him with the six crosses. when the ceremony is done, command the astral shape you have made to return to the person, bearing with it the pea

mighty angel banaa, ruler and president over the four angels of fluid fire, i beseech thee to impress into this weapon thy magic power that by it i may control the spirits who serve thee for all just and righteous purposes. with the cup, trace invoking fire pentagram. lesser angle of air: oh thou mighty angel bdopa, ruler and president over the four angels and governors of the subtle and aspiring etheric fire, i beseech thee to bestow upon this weapon thy strength and fiery steadfastness, that with it i may control the spirits of thy realm for all just and righteous purposes. trace lnvoking fire penfagram with the dagger. lesser angle of earth: 0 thou mighty angel bpsac, who art ruler and president over the four angels of the denser fire of earth, i beseech thee <75> to bestow upon this we

r: 0 thou powerful angel htdim, thou who art lord and ruler over the pure and fluid element of water, i beseech thee to endue this cup with the magic powers of which thou art lord, that i may with its aid direct the spirits who serve thee in purity and singleness of aim. with sword trace invoking water pentagram. lesser angle of air: 0 thou powerful angel htaad, thou who art lord and ruler of the etheric and airy qualities of water, i beseech thee to endue this cup with the magic powers of which thou art lord, that i may with its aid direct the spirits who serve thee in purity and singleness of aim. with dagger trace invoking water pentagram. lesser angle of earth: 0 thou powerful angel hmagl, thou who art lord and ruler of the more dense and solid qualities of water, i beseech thee to end

knowledge is thus opened up. the names appropriate to each of these symbols are given in these papers, which should be carefully studied by the student. and he should remember that the formula of the employment of the divine names and signs applies equally to these other symbols as they did to the tattwa cards. there was a good deal of glib parlance within the order as to <23 'astral vision" and "etheric vision" the former was described as the ordinary tattwa vision, in which objects and landscapes, though vivid and alive, are yet "flat" as though reflected on a mirror, rather like a cinematograph film "in this form of descrying, note that you see objects reversed, as to right and left, for which suitable allowance must be made" the use of the phrase "mirror-like vision" is actually a very

ch suitable allowance must be made" the use of the phrase "mirror-like vision" is actually a very adequate description. yet this is capable, as development proceeds, of merging into another type of vision- a full-blooded clairvoyance, in which things and people are seen in three dimensions, and as though the seer were not merely watching the scene, but were actually in it. some explained that as "etheric vision" although the actual order documents describe this as the clairvoyance ensuing from astral projection. greatly honoured fratre d.d.c.f. states''if instead of this simple vision a ray of yourself is sent out and actually goes to the place (astral projection) there is not necessarily the sense of reversal of objeds. scenes, things, instead of being like pictures, have the third dimens

RUBY TABLET OF SET

feeling of fright, i imagined calling my grandmother. as i was talking to her, i suddenly reached a point where i could no longer speak. i was being drawn into communication, i could not move nor avoid my calling. the entity set was manifesting their) presence. not so much visually as felt. i was drawn toward the letter previously left for me. i took it into one of my hands and attended set. my "etheric" head was turned to face the expanse of the apartment. set was nearby.i think i tried to approach but could not. the letter i was holding had to do with that which the prince of darkness would tell and show me. he) was seated on a throne-like chair. he rose slowly with scepter in one hand. he "told" me that the letter (and some sort of visual impression i was receiving) was the way that he

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

oar with the wind. he believes himself to be dead and realizes that there is an existence beyond physical death. then instead of going on, i felt myself slide back. i breathed and i was back. dr. robert crookall, a british biologist and botanist, was one of the great pioneers in the clinical study of near-death experiences. crookall theorized that what metaphysicians had labeled the astral or the etheric body the soul is normally enmeshed in the physical body so that most people are never aware of its existence. during out-of-body or near-death experiences, however, the soul body separates or projects from the physical body and is used temporarily as an instrument of consciousness. according to crookall, this soul body consists of matter but it is extremely subtle and may be described as s

spacecraft that she had brought with her to washington. on september 23, 1962, lee secured herself in a hotel room. on december 2, with still no word from any government official or from her extraterrestrial advisor the 37-year-old ufo prophet died. shortly after her passing, the mark-age metacenter in miami, florida, announced that they were receiving messages from the spirit of gloria lee. her etheric form told the group that she was now able to discover how the method of interdimensional communication actually worked. as the metacenter took notes for a booklet gloria lee s publisher would later issue to the faithful and the curious, gloria s spirit spoke through the channel nada yolanda, explaining how her conscious intelligence had been transferred to another frequency and another bod

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 310 mystery religions and cults applewhite and nettles warned their followers and the members of their lecture audiences that earth was fast approaching that season when humans could enter the process that would enable them to graduate to a higher level. they insisted that they were not speaking of anything etheric. they were talking about actually leaving the earth s atmosphere. those who took the trip would no longer be associated with the human kingdom, but with the next level of existence. they will have graduated from earth. many members of the him inferred from various pronouncements by bo and peep that it was quite likely that they would be assassinated sometime around june 1976. they told a n

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

ese spontaneous, involuntary experiences, there are also those voluntary and conscious projections during which the subject deliberately endeavors to free his or her mind from the physical body. dr. robert crookall, the british geologist and botanist who was also a pioneer in the study of out-of-body experience, stated in the introduction to his more astral projections (1964) that the astral, the etheric, body is normally enmeshed in, or in gear with the familiar physical body so that most people are not aware of its existence. but many people have become aware of it, for [their] soul body separated or projected from the physical body and was used, temporarily, as an instrument of consciousness. crookall perceived this soul body as consisting of matter, but it is extremely subtle and may b

e it (kjv ecclesiastes 12:5 7. in tibetan buddhist tradition, out-of-body experiencers have also long observed that a strand exists between the astral double and the physical body. in diverse cultures, many individuals who have undergone out-of-body phenomena have noticed that their silver cords were highly elastic. in the oft-cited case of the reverend bertrand, the french clergyman saw that his etheric double was attached to his physical body by a kind of elastic string. an american student of obe, sylvan muldoon, reported an elastic- like cable linking his two bodies. on many occasions, out-of-body experiencers have commented that the silver cord appeared to be luminous, like a beam of light. others state that it was not really any kind of actual physical cord, but a stream of light tha

ic body is the linking silver cord. the astral body, he wrote, is mainly the emotional body and has to do with emotions, moods, and feelings. the astral body is not only linked up with the physical body through the solar plexus, but also linked up with the etheric body through vibrations passing from it through the physical body between the eyes to the top of the etheric body. cannon compared the etheric body to a streak of light running down the front of the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 171 spinal cord of the physical body but independent of either the astral or physical body, whereas the physical body is dependent, through the involuntary sympathetic nervous system, on the astral body, and in turn the astr

light running down the front of the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 171 spinal cord of the physical body but independent of either the astral or physical body, whereas the physical body is dependent, through the involuntary sympathetic nervous system, on the astral body, and in turn the astral body is dependent on the etheric body. according to cannon, the east has long believed that when the physical body dies, the astral body containing the etheric body separates from the physical body after three days, and that after years, perhaps centuries, the astral body dies and leaves only the etheric body to become a spirit. the eastern schools of initiation, cannon informed, teach the chela (student) how to withdraw

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

spiritual vision of intuition or the imagination. here it may be interpolated that it has always been an axiom of the magical system that the being which is active physically is passive the tree of life 31 spiritually and vice versa. in many an occult work do we find some such statement as this: man is termed the positive member of the two sexes. in reality only his physical body is positive. his etheric body is purely negative. on the other hand, while the female is commonly supposed to be the negative of the two sexes, it is really her physical body that is negative, for her e t h i c body is positive, and the real creative pole of the sexes. it will readily be conceded that every person is psychologically bisexual.11 he is a combination of both masculine and feminine elements, and withi

, the nephesh is a low level of awareness that answers to the primal instincts, fundamental drives, and animal vitality from our prehistoric past. the nephesh embraces the lowest components of the collective unconscious, those basic aspects whch relate to survival, sex, and the reptilian brain. it is also the seat of our personal unconscious. the nephesh is sometimes equated with the aura and the etheric body, a kind of energy sheath which fonns the matrix for physical body. proper use of the vital raw nephesh energy is important in many aspects of magic, but it must always remain under the firm control of the ruach, the conscious mind. psychology and magic 135 the nephesh is the most misunderstood part of the soul. due to its placement and relationship to the ruach above it and the g'uph

ce of reducing a solid to a liquid and back to a solid again. used as a metaphor for the practice of psychotherapy and self-integration, or the magical processes of initiation and spiritual growth. sphere of sensation: the aura. subtle body: the psycho-physical circuitry of a human being through which the life force flows. energy blue print for the physical body. sometimes called the astral body, etheric double, or body of light. superconscious: according to assagioli, the higher unconscious or transpersonal level of consciousness whch contains hgher intuitions, inspirations, latent psychc functions, and spiritual energies. super-ego: according to freud, an unconscious part of the psyche which is created by the internalization of moral standards taken from parents and society. 262 0 theb a

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

concept of the astral world differed from that of the spiritualists who came before them, and from that of the ritual magicians of the golden dawn who followed. the astral body theosophy divided the human body into seven degrees or levels. we need only concern ourselves with the lowest three. the lowest body is the material or physical body of flesh and blood. next above it is what is called the etheric body, which resembles the material body closely but is formed of a more subtle substance. slightly more refined than the etheric body is the astral body, with which human beings are enabled to travel the astral planes. just as, after death, the human body decays and eventually falls to nothingness, so theosophists believe that the etheric and astral bodies also break down and fall to nothi

efined than the etheric body is the astral body, with which human beings are enabled to travel the astral planes. just as, after death, the human body decays and eventually falls to nothingness, so theosophists believe that the etheric and astral bodies also break down and fall to nothing with the passage of sufficient time. the body of flesh is the first to disappear, followed by the body of the etheric, and then by the body of the astral, and so on up to the higher bodies. theosophists believe that the etheric body is able to separate from the physical body during life no more than a couple of feet. it is connected with the physical body by its own cord that has very little elasticity. it cannot travel far from the physical body.lo4 during the seance, it is the etheric body that becomes

. 90 soul flight composed of in the dim past when the processes of evolution had not yet arrived at the point of producing the material body for man.lo5 theosophy understands the astral body to be the template upon which the physical body is formed. it exists before the existence of the physical body, and when the physical body dies, it continues to survive for some time on the astral planes. the etheric body remains closely linked to the corpse, and is said to be responsible for ghosts seen in graveyards and near the bodies of the dead. it decays more quickly than the astral body. surrounding the human body is the aura, which theosophy divides into seven layers that distinguish themselves by different colors and varying densities. those projecting on the astral planes carry their aura wit

ne whether he was worthy of admission. it shook his nerves to such a degree that doyle decided not to become a member.125 two members of the golden dawn later visited doyle in an attempt to change his mind. they told him of an astral journey they had made together to central africa. doyle wrote "from what i learnt i should judge that the powers of this society included that of loosening their own etheric bodies, in summoning the etheric bodies of others (mine, for example) and in making thought images."126 this might be dismissed as merely an odd fixation in the mind of doyle, who was a confirmed believer in spiritualism, were it not that others reported the same sort of astral experience. ithell colquhoun (1906-1988, who attempted many years later to gain initiation into both a descendant

ributor who observed "deliberately will to pass through the gateway. let him imagine that he can hear it close behind him."142 the difference between scrying an astral vision and traveling to an astral landscape when using this tattwa technique is largely a matter of the clarity and sense of reality perceived. within the golden dawn, the distinction was sometimes made between "astral vision" and "etheric vision" the first was scrying through the tattwa symbol remotely, and was described as flat and two-dimensional, with objects reversed left to right as though seen in a mirror. the second was projection into the scene, which became threedimensional. mathers wrote "if instead of this simple vision a ray of yourself is sent out and actually goes to the place (astral projection) there is not

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ythms. its structure is predicated on the physiological reality that it is easier to stop the breath with the lungs full than with the lungs empty. in order to more evenly distribute the effort of the exercise, the retention with lungs empty has been made briefer than the retention with lungs full. the rapid threefold inhalation and exhalation have the beneficial effect of charging the lungs with etheric energy, while the unequal periods of inhalation and exhalation necessitate a high degree of concentration that keeps the mind focused. the most difficult part of this exercise is holding the breath expelled for seven repetitions of the mantra. if you have set too long an interval, you will struggle to keep the air out and find yourself rushing to inhale. this indicates that you must shorte

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

de los elementos, de la simiente de todo g nero (estudio sobre los misterios menores, las nueve arcadas por las cuales tiene que subir el estudiante. 8 arcanum 19 the resplendent light. the tenth hour of apollonius "the doors of the sky are opened and the man leaves the lethargy" this is the number 10 of the second great iniciation of the major mysteries that permits the iniciate to travel in the etheric body. this is the wisdom of john the baptist. arcanum 20 "the awakening of the dead" the eleventh hour of apollonius. the angels, the cherubims, and the seraphims fly with rumors of wings. there is rejoicing in the sky, awakening on the earth, and the sun that raises adam. this process belongs to the great iniciations of major mysteries where only the terror of the law reigns. arcanum 21 t

tice sexual magic with seminal ejaculation, that it does not rain in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over [the human] waters to convert them into blood, and to smite the [philosophical] earth [the human organism of fornicators] with all kinds of plagues, as often as they will [according with the law- revelation 11: 4-6. disposition of the two witnesses the two witnesses are a semi-etheric, semiphysical pair of sympathetic cords that are entwined along the spinal medulla, forming the caduceus of mercury, the sacred eight, the sign of the infinite. in the male, the two witnesses depart from the right and left testicles and in the female they depart from the ovaries. these two witnesses are located to the right and left sides of the dorsal spine. the two witnesses alternativel

lood and the semen in the human organism. this is vulcan that transmutes the seminal liquor into christic energy. the vital body is the vehicle of the soul-consciousness in the human being. the consciousness is the flame and the vital body is the wick. vulcan exists within the microcosmos and within the macrocosmos, in the human being and in nature. the great vulcan of nature is eden, this is the etheric world. cosmic rhythms any alchemist fledgling (after having been crowned) is getting away little by little from the sexual act. the connubial secret is more distant each time according to certain cosmic rhythms marked by the oriental gong. this is how the sexual energies are sublimated and transmuted in a continuous ecstasy. the alchemist fledgling that worked in the magisterium of fire in

rld of soulconsciousness, the region of rigor and justice sixth, tiphereth, the causal world, the region of willpower, equilibrium and beauty seventh, netzach, the region of victory, the world of the mental man (anyone who achieves the liberation of themselves from the four bodies of sin, is a buddha. eighth, hod, the splendor, the region of the astral world ninth, yesod, the foundation, sex, the etheric world tenth, malkuth, the kingdom in general, the physical world; malkuth is a supreme filter; from this region we depart to the ain soph or to the abyss, such is the law. the sephiroth are atomic; these ten sephiroth can be reduced to three tables: first: the quantum table of the radiant energy that comes from the sun. second: the atomic weight table of the elements of nature. third: the

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

und frequencies in physical regeneration of certain organs of the body. at the turn of this century, the great christian qabalist dr. paul foster case said that in the future, humankind would re-discover the ancient pythagorean principles of healing through sound and color, and advised meditation on the planetary chakras in the body (which each have a different color) for maintenance of a healthy etheric body. the wonder-working pythagoreans also applied their understanding of number to astronomy, devising a system of nine concentric circles or spheres to represent the heavenly bodies. soon it came to be understood that the relationships existing in these heavenly planets had direct counterparts within the human dimension. this was not just a simple belief in astrology, which was a much mo

terpretations. tattwa images and their possible uses can be found in the works of mathers (1971) and regardie (1984. case attributes tattwa images to zodiacal signs and the internal planetary chakras, which in turn relate specifically to color correspondences. the latter were particularly important to case, who felt that the tattwa images served as mandalas for healing the emotional, physical and etheric bodies through meditation on their colors and accompanying tones. in his book tarot (1947, case gave these tones and colors in a somewhat veiled fashion, and they have been published in other books as well, such as archetypes on the tree of life (1991) by madonna compton. some sources, such as emahmn's the book of correspondences (1991, have different attributions (see bibliography for abo

ng and transforming anima, she immerses us in the bath of regeneration. she is the fecundating power of spirit. the moon is also the reservoir of memory. occult philosophy tells us that subconscious memory is already perfect. we cannot improve it; we can only improve our ability to tap into its power. in tarot, this occult power is represented by the high priestess (see figure 11-a, who holds the etheric record of all experience on her lap, often called etheric water or occult water. this is because in yesod are manifested the fluidic energies of the astral light, often perceived as wave-like. occultists know that this astral light is often associated in folklore with magic and sorcery. in gematria, we note the association in the word ob (avb, which has a double meaning. it can be translat

wirl all of the colors of the rainbow, which are then distributed to the chakras as necessary. in this system it acts as the transmitter of the energies of the life-force, and is the sun behind the sun, since it resides behind tiphareth in the abyss. the number of daath, 474, also adds up to six, which is the number of tiphareth, the sun sphere on the tree. properly visualized, it is not just the etheric egg surrounding the body, but the point of contact through which we are made aware of the great transformation. in tantra, this concept is thought of as the bindu point, which, through great concentration, can release tremendous power. it is the chakra that will open up vast new areas of consciousness in the future. it is represented by pluto because true plutonian energy is transformative

ts vibration rate (sacrifices itself) to produce the spectrum (p. 9. an exhaustive exploration into color healing is not the focus of this book, but some background material is included here so that the student may grasp the underlying principles upon which this tattwa-meditation is based. paracelsus felt that the body was composed of a visible substance that was subject to corruption, and a more etheric substance, which was not. health of the physical body was brought about by reharmonizing it with its etheric vehicle that provided the elements necessary to overcome the malady. since his time, many auric healers have espoused the mental and physical benefits of projecting colors into a person's aura through thought transference. numerous investigators of aural phenomenon during the past t

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occurs in the astral or emotional body. this body exists within the human body but in a different dimension. it can travel to certain areas and see certain events that exist on our physical, visual level as well. to understand what the astral/emotional body is and what its functions are, one will have to look at subtle body anatomy. the first and main body is the physical body. the second is the etheric body, which resembles a series of road maps; its function is to supply energy to the physical body. this is done through the chakras, the acupuncture meridians, and the nadis, which are finer channels yet again. professor motoyama and kim bong han have published numerous papers on these systems and their functions which have been attributed to the etheric body. the astral/emotional body is

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thoth hermes temple. apparently, the snobbish structure of whare ra prevented this type of communication between temple members, and few had any real idea of their fellow members real potential, other than of their direct seniors in charge of ritual. take the neophyte ritual again as an example. after the hierophant activates the astral shells, they stay activated until the hierophant breaks the etheric link, for it is he that activates the current of osiris. when the officers take their places on the floor of the temple at the beginning of the ceremony, the activated shells of the godforms then link with their physical auras. because of the delicate nature of this linking (these auric shells are sometimes seen clairvoyantly as light green in colour, it must be done correctly on two level

included after the 6=5 ritual are some notes i made a few years ago as a part of my 6=5 thesis, and have included here as a matter of interest. the 7=4 ceremony uses the two outer rooms of the vault, and the notes included with the ritual were, i presume, written by felkin, as they were given to me by taylor after going through this grade ceremony. the final ritual is called "transmission of the etheric link" and was only given out to a few at whare ra. its purpose was to transmit the link of the order in its fullest capacity to the adept. this was only given out at 7=4 level, and is not a substitute for any grade ceremony, but in fact seals off the link in the adept's aura. why this was given out in the 7=4 grade and not 8=3 or 9=2 levels is not clear. it is slightly complicated, but in

he chiefs of said temples treated these two higher grades as nothing more than temple grades, given out to those who had devoted a lifetime of effort to the order. i was told this by a former chief of whare ra when i quizzed her about these grades and their significance. mrs. felkin told jack taylor that the 7=4 grade was the last of the physical grades, and not to bother with the other ones. the etheric link brought in at this level seals the aura of the adept, and theoretically gives him the highest level of energy the order has to offer. no one really believed that those of 8=3 or 9=2 grades were adepts beyond the physical. this stemmed over from the old golden dawn temples. one could say that the bottom line of the 8=3 and 9=2 grades is that they were temple grades only, having little

soul "ye are the salt of the earth. he who renounces joy, pouring out the wine into the water, shall savour the sweetness of life. he who shall offer himself as incense cast into the flame shall approach the sanctuary, but before entering therein, he must dedicate even his innermost spirit. the e the r i c l ink flying roll 39 one of the most little known but important facets of the order is the "etheric link" for without it there can be no order. the link itself is in three stages. the first is its development in the outer order. in the 00=00, the neophyte is first introduced to the link, which results in a type of power surge in the aura which expands the aura and heightens its density. it is seen by those who are clairvoyant as a shimmering green or blue light (depending on the degree o

0, it is impregnated into the individual for life, unless the chiefs who emanate the link choose to close it down. in the order one can only reduce the adept in rank to the portal, but they have no power to alter or cut the link. if one advances through the second order grades, this link is further strengthened by ritual. in the final phase at the 70=40 grade, a ritual called "transmission of the etheric link" is performed (and is usually reserved for those of the office of chief or who will succeed to that office, where the link is given in its entirety to the adept so that they are able to carry on. the link, in its varying stages, could be described as an astral tunnel of sorts, allowing access to certain regions of the astral plane where a contingency of astral entities govern their re

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