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se as a symbol of air (smells the rose; to feel the warmth of the sacred fire (spreads hands over lamp; to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (breaks bread, dips it in the salt, and eat; and to drink with me this wine, the consecrated symbol of water (makes a cross with the wine and drinks it (after the hierophant, the new neophytes do the same. all other members may partake of the eucharist after the ceremony is complete) kerux (comes last and finishes the wine, inverts the cup "it is finished (hierophant goes back to his throne after the eucharist) hierophant (knocks "tetelestai" hiereus (knocks) hegemon (knocks) 40 hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "l

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ings [but in euss. only that of lex. ulph. translates dvaia by goth, hunsl, matt. 9, 13. mk. 9, 49. lu. 2, 24; then again xarpeiav trpoa^epetv in john 10, 2 by hunsla saljan, where the reference is expressly to killing. and dvo-iaawjptov is called hunslastniss]\latt. 5, 23-4. lu. 1, 11. but the corresponding as. husd, engl, hoiisd, allows of being applied to a christian sacrament, and denotes the eucharist, hilsdgong the partaking of it, msc/fa^t the sacred vessel of sacrifice; conf. citedni. 260, 5 hiisdhtu halegu for the sacred vessels of jerusalem. likewise the ok hihl in the norw. and swed. laws is used in a christian, never in a heathen sense. no hunsal is found in ohg; neither can i guess the root of the word. twice, however, ulph. 1 sci-v. frilcg offering -what is laid before, prilo

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crations: with an account of the nature and nurture of the magical link. xvi (1) of the oath. xv of the invocation. xvi (2) of the charge to the spirit: with some account of the constrains and curses occasionally necessary. xvii of the license to depart. xviii of clairvoyance: and of the body of light, its powers and its development. also concerning divinations. xix of dramatic rituals. xx of the eucharist: and of the art of alchemy. xxi of black magick: of the main types of the operations of magick art: and of the powers of the sphinx. xxvii chapter 0 the magical theory of the universe there are three main theories of the universe; dualism, monism and nihilism. it is impossible to enter into a discussion of their relative merits in a popular manual of this sort. they may be studied in erd

avoided eating meat in lent by baptizing the pullet a carp. for as the sacrament- by its intention, despite its defects of form- could not fail of efficacy, the pullet must have become a christian, and therefore a human being. carp was therefore only its baptized name- cf. polycarp- and dom gorenflot ate human flesh in lent, so that, for all he became a bishop, he is damned- 178 chapter xx of the eucharist and of the art of alchemy i one of the simplest and most complete of magick ceremonies is the eucharist. it consists in taking common things, transmuting them into things divine, and consuming them. so far, it is a type of every magick ceremony, for the reabsorption of the force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. take a substance<
e reabsorption of the force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. take a substance< symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it god, and consume it. there are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be classified according to the number of the elements of which the sacrament is composed. the highest form of the eucharist is that in which the element consecrated is one. it is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither hot nor cold, neither male nor female. this sacrament is secret in every respect. for those who may be worthy, although not officially recognized as such, this eucharist has been described in detail and without concealment "somewhere" in the publish

. it is reserved for the highest initiates, and is synonymous with the accomplished work on the 179 material plane. it is the medicine of metals, the stone of the wise, the potable gold, the elixir of life that is consumed therein. the altar is the bosom of isis, the eternal mother; the chalice is in effect the cup of our lady babalon herself; the wand is that which was and is and is to come. the eucharist of "two" elements has its matter of the passives. the wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water (there are certain other attributions. the wafer is the sun, for instance: and the wine is appropriate to bacchus. the wafer may, however, be more complex, the "cake of light" described in liber legis. this is used in the exoteric mass of the phoenix (liber

omplex, the "cake of light" described in liber legis. this is used in the exoteric mass of the phoenix (liber 333, cap: 44) mixed with the blood of the magus. this mass should be performed daily at sunset by every magician. corn and wine are equivalent to flesh and blood; but it is easier to convert live substances into the body and blood of god, than to perform this miracle upon dead matter. the eucharist of "three" elements has for basis the symbols of the three gunas. for tamas (darkness) take opium or nightshade or some sleepy medicine; for rajas (activity) take strychnine or other excitant; for sattvas (calm) the cakes of light may again be suitable<three necessari

or sattvas (calm) the cakes of light may again be suitable<three necessaries of human nutrition: also perfume of the three essential types of magical and curative virtue; the subtle principle of animal life itself is fixed in them by the introduction of fresh living blood> the eucharist of "four" elements consists of fire, air, water, and earth. these are represented by a flame for fire, by incense or roses for air, by wine for water, and by bread and salt for earth. the eucharist of "five" has for basis wine for taste, a rose for smell, a flame for sight, a bell for sound, and a dagger for touch. this sacrament is implied in the mass of the phoenix in a slightly differ

" elements consists of fire, air, water, and earth. these are represented by a flame for fire, by incense or roses for air, by wine for water, and by bread and salt for earth. the eucharist of "five" has for basis wine for taste, a rose for smell, a flame for sight, a bell for sound, and a dagger for touch. this sacrament is implied in the mass of the phoenix in a slightly different form. 180 the eucharist of "six" elements has father, son, and holy spirit above; breath, water, and blood beneath. it is a sacrament reserved for high initiates<holy spirit of life, in silence. the bread and wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the virgin mother. the elements are then intermingled and consumed after the epiph

above; breath, water, and blood beneath. it is a sacrament reserved for high initiates<holy spirit of life, in silence. the bread and wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the virgin mother. the elements are then intermingled and consumed after the epiphany of iacchus, when "countenance beholdeth countenance> the eucharist of "seven" elements is mystically identical with that of one. of the method of consecrating the elements it is only necessary to say that they should be treated as talismans. the circle and other furniture of the temple should receive the usual benefit of the banishings and consecrations. the oath should be taken and the invocations made. when the divine force manifests in the elements

f soul and of mind determinant of a certain habit of body which is nowise identical with what is commonly understood. chastity in the true magical sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated from the obsession of sex> is a condition; fasting for some hours previous is a condition; an earnest and continual aspiration is a condition. without these antecedents even the eucharist of the one and seven is partially- though such is its intrinsic virtue that it can never be wholly- baulked of its effect. a eucharist of some sort should most assuredly be consummated daily by every magician, and he should regard it as the main sustenance of his magical life. it is of more importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a complete circle. the whole of the forc

cken and putrefy as the alchemist breaks up its coagulations of impurity. the student may work out for himself the various analogies involved, and discover the "black dragon, the "green lion, the "lunar water, the "raven's head, and so forth. the indications above given should suffice all who possess aptitude for alchemical research. only one further reflection appears necessary; namely, that the eucharist, with which this chapter is properly preoccupied, must be conceived as one case- as the critical case- of the art of the alchemist. the reader will have observed, perhaps with surprise, that the master therion describes several types of eucharist. the reason is that given above; there is no substance incompetent to 188 serve as an element in some sacrament; also, each spiritual grace sho

its own "materia magica. it is utterly unscientific to treat "god" as a universal homogeneity, and use the same means to prolong life as to bewitch cattle. one does not invoke "electricity" indiscriminately to light one's house and to propel one's brougham; one works by measured application of one's powers to intelligent analytical comprehension of the conditions of each separate case. there is a eucharist for every grace that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable elements, and devise proper processes. to consider the classical problems of alchemy: the medicine of metals must be the quintessence of some substance that serves to determine the structure (or rate of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. this nee

rigid discipline as the brain in the case of mysticism. the essence of the technique of magick is the development of the body of light, which must be extended to include all members of the organism, and indeed of the cosmos. the most important drill practices are: 1. the fortification of the body of light by the constant use of rituals, by the assumption of god-forms, and by the right use of the eucharist. 2. the purification and consecration and exaltation of that body by the use of rituals of invocation. 3. the education of that body by experience. it must learn to travel on every plane; to break down every obstacle which may confront it. this experience must be as systematic and regular as possible; for it is of no use merely to travel to the spheres of jupiter and venus, or even to ex

ated that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talisman charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things "line 3" he now asserts that he is himself the "angel" or messenger of his angel; that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as "un-nefer" the perfection of "asar" himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nu

on will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. let him now remain in the pyramid or cone of light, as an egg, but no more of blackness. 10. then let his body be in the position of the hanged man, and let him aspire with all his force unto the holy guardian angel. 11. the grace having been granted unto him, let him partake mystically of the eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension. 363 ii aaa "these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear" liber lapidis lazuli. vii. 3. 0. be seated in thine asana, or recumbent in shavasana, or in the position of the dying

pushed to the 366 point of samadhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not samadhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious of all else, do thou imagine the hunger of the one for the other; the emptiness of the brain, the ache of the spine, even as the emptiness of space and the aimlessness of matter. and if thou hast experience of the eucharist in both kinds, it shall aid thine imagination herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and down

eightfold word that shall be equilibrated with the three. 19. there is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. all holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. these animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. 23. i am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with all concealments; when

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ything that is proper to his nature. thus, a man's sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites hadit with nuit sacramentally when he satisfied his instinct of physical love. of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfil other needs. we must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an eucharist: suum cuique. observe, however, the constant factor in this enumeration of the practices proper to 'hermits' it is ecstatic delight. let us borrow an analogy from chemistry. oxygen has two hands (so to speak) to offer to other elements. but contrast the cordial clasp of hydrogen or phosphorus with the weak reluctant greeting of chlorine! yet hydrogen and chlorine rush passionately to emb

sacrament, full of divinest ecstasy and nourishment. there is no act which true delicacy cannot consecrate. it is one thing to be like a sow, unconscious of the mire, and unable to discriminate between sweet food and sour; another to take the filth firmly and force oneself to discover the purity therein, initiating even the body to overcome its natural repulsion and partake with the soul at this eucharist. we 'believe in the miracle of the mass' not only because meat and drink are actually "transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, but because we can make the "body and blood of god" from any materials soever by virtue of our royal and pontifical art of magick. now when brillat-savarin (was it not) served to the king's table a pair of old kid gloves, and pleased the princely palate

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us in the brasier of despair; so that a great light may shine forth through the darkness, and guide the toiling footsteps of man to that temple which is built without hands, fashioned without iron, or gold, or silver, and in which no fire burns; whose pillars are as columns of light, whose dome is as a crown of effulgence set betwixt the wings of eternity, and upon whose altar flashes the mystic eucharist of god. 169 the miser "god" what a treasure-house of wealth lies buried in that word! what a mine of precious stones- ptah, father of beginnings, he who created the sun and the moon; nu, blue, starry lady of heaven, mistress and mother of the gods; ea, lord of the deep; istar "o thou who art set in the sky as a jewelled circlet of moonstone; brahma the golden, vishnu the sombre, and siva

night; you are more desirable than ever you have been before. you are built as a youth should be. ah! how long, how long have i loved you. but to-day i am hungry, hungry for you" thus under the golden bough in the moonlight was the host uplifted, and the shepherd, and the hangman, and the sorceress broke the bread of necromancy, and drank deep of the wine of witchcraft, and swore secrecy over the eucharist of art. now in the place of the dolmen stands the hospital, and where the trilithons towered is built the "hall of science" lo! the druid has given place to the doctor; and the physician has slain the priest his father, and with wanton words ravished the heart of his mother the sorceress. now 187 instead of the mystic circle of the adepts we have the great "bosh-rot" school of folly. mir

there were the glories of light revealed to me, and i became as a daughter of ceres playing in the poppied fields of yellow corn: yet still as a sun-limbed bacchanal i trampled forth the foaming must from the purple grapes of bacchus, and breathing it into the leaven of life, caused it to ferment, and bubble forth as the wine of iacchus. then with the maiden, who was also myself. i partook of the eucharist of love- the corn and the wine, and became one. then there came unto me a woman subtle and beautiful to behold, whose breasts were as alabaster bowls filled with wine, and the purple hair of whose head was as a dark cloud on a stormy night. dressed in a gauze of scarlet and gold, and jewelled with pearls and emeralds and magic stones, she, like a spider spun in a web of sunbeams and bloo

d thou shalt see before thee a table of pearl on which are set the hidden waters and the secret bread of the banquet of light. and thou shalt drink and eat and become bright as a stream of molten silver; and, as the light of the body is the eye, so shalt thy true self become as an eye unto thee, and see all things, even the cup of the third birth; and, taking it, thou shalt drink from the cup the eucharist of freedom, the wine of which is more fragrant than the sweet-scented grapes of thrace, or the musk- breathing vines of lesbos, and is sweeter than the vintage of crete, and all the vineyards of naxos and egypt. and thou shalt be anointed with sweet-smelling nards, and unguent made from lilies and cypress, myrtle and amaranth, and of myrrh and cassia well mixed. and in thine hair shall b

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will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9 9. let him now remain in the pyramid or cone of light, as an egg, but no more of blackness. 10. then let his body be in the position of the hanged man, and let him aspire with all his force unto the holy guardian angel. 11. the grace having been granted unto him, let him partake mystically of the eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension. ii a a a "these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear- liber lapidis lazuli. vii. iii. 0. be seated in thine asana, or recumbent in shavasana, or in the position of the dying

pushed to the point of samadhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not samadhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious of all else, do thou imagine the 13 hunger of the one for the other; the emptiness of the brain, the ache of the spine, even as the emptiness of space and the aimlessness of matter. and if thou hast experience of the eucharist in both kinds, it shall aid thine imagination herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and down

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e sacrament of sword and flame, acknowledge him. then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly done, all is symbolically sealed by the thirty voices, and the word that vibrateth from the silence to the speech, and from the speech again unto the silence. then the pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened; yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake in a certain mystical manner of the eucharist of the four elements that are consumed for the perfection of the oil. knox om pax.[with these mystic words the mysteries eleusinian were sealed. ed. 10.0. having written out this explanation, i will read it through and meditate solemnly thereupon. all this i wrote in the might of the secret ring committed unto me by the masters; so that all might be absolutely correct. one thing strikes

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ghtfold word that shall be equilibrated with the three. 36 19. there is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. all holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. these animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. 23. i am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with all concealments; when

lender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of t

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, 1735, p. 56; john mathews, a voyage to the river sierra leone on the coast of africa (london: b. white and son, 1788, p. 132; j. spencer trimingham, a history of islam in west africa (london: oxford university press, 1962. 23. hilton, kingdom of kongo, pp. 15.17; christian missionaries in early kongo, adopting endogenous categories in their efforts to convert africans, identified the bible, the eucharist, crosses, and even churches as nkisi. see hilton, kingdom of kongo, p. 94; and john thornton, the kingdom of kongo: civil war and transition, 1641.1718 (madison: university of wisconsin press, 1983, p. 62. on the visual tradition of kongo charms as magical objects see wyatt mac-gaffey, art and healing of the bakongo, commented by themselves: minkisi from the laman collection (bloomington

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res of his teacher plotinus (204-270. in the minds of historians of philosophy, neoplatonism instantly replaces middle platonism. c.300 zosimos of panopolis(akhmin. the work named "cheirokmeta (dedicated to his *sister* theosebeia) which consisted of 28 books probably with 24 chapters for each of the 24 of the letters of the greek alphabet including commentary on the letter omega(extant. the holy eucharist or mass, was regarded by c.g. jung as an alchemical work connected with the third century gnostic alchemist zosimos of panopolis, in whom he placed the historical point of the convergence of gnosticism and alchemy. zosimos accepted the hermetic teaching that the origin of the term "chemae" was from the books of the divine art of attaining immortality given to man by the fallen angels. 31

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ebrated the main mithra festival during what is now easter. mithra initiations were held in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter and summer solstices. he was portrayed as a winged lion (the sun) standing within a spiralling serpent. the lion and the serpent are, of course, major symbols of the serpent cult/illuminati. the roman church encompassed the mithra eucharist into its "christian" rituals. mithra was claimed to have said "he who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood, so that he may be one with me and i with him, shall not be saved" the very site on which the vatican was built was a sacred place of mithra worship. it still is. they just call him jesus. as i have written before, the cult of mithra simply became the cult of myth-ra- chri

d 95 8 full interview available through hidden mysteries at www.davidicke.com chapter 16 "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen nothing is easier to manipulate than genuineness that isn't streetwise. david icke hristianity claims to oppose the force known as "satan" and yet there are many themes of satanic ritual within its beliefs and ceremonies. there are indications that the ritual of the eucharist is a reflection of earlier rituals related to human sacrifice and blood drinking. there is the emphasis on symbolically eating the body of "jesus" and drinking his blood as red wine. we might expect, therefore, that the christian church would be a front for satanism and its blood and sacrifice rituals. that, it turns out, is precisely what it is. today the religions of the world remain a

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keys, cows and sheep. this fantasy has been used to indoctrinate countlessgenerations to believe that this is how it all happened, when, in truth, the nativityand the christmas story are the acting out of translation errors, an invention of stfrancis, and the mid-winter rituals of pagan beliefs. i say, jenny and johnny, beforeyou don those costumes this year, can i have a quiet word?the christian eucharist, when they eat bread and drink wine to symbolise thebody and blood of christ, originates with a cannibalistic ritual when they ate anddrank the real thing in animal and human sacrifices. most of the christian termscome from the greek, including christ and christianity. among many others arechurch (the lords house, ecclesiastical (ecclesia, the greek assembly orparliament, apostle (missio

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e order of the astral star, inc. founded in 1980 in the commonwealth of kentucky, usa, by a group of ten teenagers including ghfr. pneuma asteros, ghsr. alethia asteros, and ghfr. skarff tou asterou and seven other members upon the principles of christian mysticism and ceremonial magick. the first degree is founded upon the ideals of christian knighthood, and the magickal secrets of the christian eucharist. the order practices golden dawn [g.d (q.v) style ceremonial/ritual magick. the symbol of the order is an eight rayed star on it's point, inscribed with the glyphs of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the numbers, and colors. a gold, silver, and red crux mystica is in the center, and the star itself is surmounted by a crux mystica. the order was incorporated in kentucky on the vernal

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o her divine son prematurely. the spiritual experience assigned to kether is the vision of god face to face; and god (jehovah) said to moses "thou canst not look upon my face and live" 21. but although the sight of the divine father blasts mortals as with fire, the divine son comes familiarly among them and can be invoked by the appropriate ntes-bacchanalia in the case of the son of zeus, and the eucharist in the case of the son of jehovah. thus we see that there is a lower form of manifestation, which "shews us the father" but that this rite owes its validity solely to the fact that it derives its illuminating intelligence, its jnner robe of glory, from the father, chokmah. ii 22. the grade of initiation corresponding to chokmah is said to be that of magus, and the magical weapons assigne

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jaffu, and his mishnah became the foundation of the religious code. he was involved in the revolt of bar-cochba against hadrian in 132 c.e. and suffered martyrdom by being flayed alive. akita in 1969, akita, japan, was the site of one of the more prominent modern series of apparitions of the virgin mary. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatima. sister mary was deaf. four years later she received another locution, which happened to coincide with t

heretics and protestants, and he wore a wondrous sword that he alleged had been given to him by saint michael. borri said that he had seen in heaven a luminous palm branch that was reserved for him. he uttered a number of heretical views, including that the virgin was divine in nature, that she had conceived through inspiration, and that she was equal to her son, with whom she was present in the eucharist, that the holy spirit was incarnate in her, and that the second and third persons of the trinity were inferior to the father. all of these views are rejected by the roman catholic church. according to some writers, borri later proclaimed himself to be the holy spirit incarnate. in any case, he was arrested after the death of innocent x by order of the inquisition, and on january 3, 1661

ave become the main times when thousands arrive. two volumes of the most important early messages that were received were published in 1991 and 1992. in 1992, the archbishop of atlanta issued a cautious statement concerning the apparitions. without making any judgments, he did not support the unofficial nature of the events at conyers, requesting that no priest publicly identify with or serve the eucharist at the site, and that no official pilgrimages be organized. he saw no reason at the time to launch an official investigation. a year later, a scientific team led by dr. ricardo castanon, a professor of neuropsychophysiology at the catholic university of bolivia, subjected fowler to a series of tests not unlike tests given to other recent claimants of extraordinary contact with the virgin

ned in india, where he was writing his first books: methods of psychic development (1912, theosophy simplified (1915, and reincarnation (1917. in 1917 cooper moved to australia and through leadbeater was quickly involved in the new church. he was ordained a priest in 1918. he assisted wedgwood and leadbeater in the preparation of the liturgy of the mass (1917, published as the liturgy of the holy eucharist (1918. meanwhile, the liberal catholic church had been established in the united states, and wedgwood chose cooper to lead it. cooper was consecrated as reginary bishop for the united states on july 13, 1919, at st. alban s liberal catholic church in sydney by wedgwood and leadbeater, and he moved to the united states in 1920. headquarters for the church were established in hollywood in

os santos (age nine, francisco marto (age eight, and jacinta marto (age six. none of the three had had schooling enough to have learned to read and write. their adventure began one spring day when out on a hillside with the sheep, they each shared a vision of a young man who described himself as the angel of peace. he visited them on two subsequent occasions and the last time shared with them the eucharist, which roman catholics believe to be the body and blood of jesus. after the angel s visits, nothing more occurred for almost a year. then on may 13, 1917, a brilliant flash of light caught their attention and a beautiful young lady, described as dressed in white and shining with light, appeared before them. the lady said that she had come from heaven and wanted the children to come to th

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by this false show to get louis out of the hands of those who were looking after him and to prevent his making a full confession. finally, october 20, 1603, was set aside for proof in the chapel of st. ignatius, and for reproduction of the true contract containing the deal made with the demon. the young man made profession of the orthodox catholic faith, renounced the demon, and received the holy eucharist. then with terrible cries he said that he saw two goats of immense size standing with their forefeet in the air, each holding between its hoofs one of the contracts. pacts with the devil encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1166 but when the exorcism began and the name of st. ignatius was invoked, the two goats disappeared and there issued from the arm or left hand of the y

london, alfred a. knopf, 1926. reprint, new york: s. weiser, 1969. the secret tradition in freemasonry. london, rider, 1937. reprint, new york: s. weiser, 1969. yarker, john. the arcane schools: a review of their origin and antiquity; with a general history of freemasonry. belfast: william tait, 1909. secret words according to christian folklore, christ communicated certain words relating to the eucharist to joseph of arimathea, who was described as a secret disciple in john 19:38, and these words were committed orally from keeper to keeper of the holy grail. in robert de borron s (ca. 1170.1212) metrical romance, joseph of arimathea, material power is added to the spiritual efficacy of these words, and whoever could acquire and retain them had a mysterious power over all around him, coul

order that possessed an ancient jewish terra-cotta cup believed to be the true eucharistic vessel of the last supper. the cup was encased in gold, with two ancient silver auxiliary grails, prepared in 1888 to do the sacred grail rites as had been done once each century by the order and its predecessors in the 88th year (88 being a mystical number in the christian kabbalah. the rite (a theurgical eucharist) was performed with the understanding that it would reempower a channel for divine blessing upon the planet for the coming century and protect humanity from being overwhelmed by dark forces. however, in 1888, the elderly abbot of the order had some concern that the chalices would be stolen by people who wished to use them for less altruistic magical purposes. the chalices were secretly t

rior history of the destruction of the grail and not formally connected with any traditional grail order. however, through interior guidance, he was led over several years to construct a new chalice using white magical and theurgical preparations. following that same guidance, in august of 1988 he traveled over 1,000 miles to a sacred site in canada, where he used the new chalice for a theurgical eucharist to bless the planet and humanity. only after this event, which he performed quite unaware of its full implications, did he while returning home hear an interior voice naming him the grailmaster. he was unfamiliar with the term. subsequently, he received teachings telepathically in lucid dreams from a tibetan lama that eventually became the first empowerment of the first order of thg. sho

ich continue to be used by occultists to the present time. in prewar germany there was a vril society founded in berlin. sources: lytton, edward bulwer. vril: power of the coming race. edinburgh; london: w. blackwood and sons, 1871. vril encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1642 w wadl see witches anti-defamation league wafer (in devil worship) the sacred wafer used in the christian eucharist is frequently cited as a prized item in devil worship for purposes of profanation. when satanism was invented in the late fifteenth century by roman catholic inquisitors, no phenomenon existed which could be called satanism. the inquisitors envisioned satanism as a reversal of christianity, the devil being the opposite of god. devil worship, then, would be a reversal of christian rituals

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g; it was made by callimachus. the altar of the temple of apollo carneus, at cyrene, was similarly furnished. a like account is given of the great temple of aderbain, in armenia, by said ebn batric. kenealy in his "book of god" calls attention to the name carystios applied to the asbestine wicks of the lamps in ancient greek temples, and draws attention to its relations to chr. of christos and to eucharist, anointed with oil, as to everburning lamps before the throne, as in the apocalypse. chrs=[hebrew: chrsh]=solar fire. chre=[hebrew: chrh]=sun=he burned. krs=[hebrew: krsh]=sun=(greek?-eo)kupios= cyrus. ceres=was called taedifera=torch bearing. chrs, from this also comes eros in greek, material light coming from ineffable light. there is a curious reference of asbestos to fire, and the he

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al element flourished in the early church, and that the entire history of christianity is replete with mystics. many of the ideas and practices of the mystical qabalah are reflected in those of mystical christianity. the mysteries of the last supper and the crucifixion have long been compared with the mystical significance of pesach (passover. the sacraments of the body and blood of christ in the eucharist have their roots in the sacramental use of bread and wine that goes back to the earliest hebrews and beyond. ablution with water, lighting of candles, prostration, rituals that celebrate the mystical significance of the rites of passage, and rituals associated with 8- f e 3 changes of season, planting and harvesting are other fundamental elements christianity shares in common with its he

e know that ablution and prostration would have been significant components. both jews and muslims also pray while standing. we know that the ritual breaking of bread and sipping of wine to respectively acknowledge the divine presence in all matter and symbolically demonstrate mastery over the power of illusion would have been root hebrew practices. these ritual observances later evolved into the eucharist in pauline christianity. if we strip away official holy days that were assimilated from indigenous religions, what holidays would have been celebrated? as in all ancient religions and cultures, the original hebrew new year was celebrated on the vernal equinox. it was later moved to the fall and packaged with yom kippur (day of atonement. this was perhaps done so that the order of the sec

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o cabalist conclusions, 14,16 (ibid, p. 109. 105 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic it was thus, through cabalistic letter-manipulations that the ecstatic young man perceived with rapture that iesu is indeed the name of the messiah, the son of god. but how did magia also prove the divinity of christ? i have no explanation of this to offer, unless it is to be supposed that pico thought of the eucharist as a kind of magia. readers interested in this problem may be referred to pico's treatise on the eucharist,1 in which i have not been able to find any definite use of the word magia. so, with the utmost confidence and boldness, the most devout christian mystic, pico della mirandola, advanced to his defence magia and cabala. far from being magics in which a christian must not dabble, they

eloping within a catholic framework. on his return to paris, after his momentous stay in england, bruno used to read in the library of the abbey of st. victor, the librarian of which kept a diary in which he recorded some of his conversations with bruno. he reports bruno as having said that he greatly admired thomas aquinas but condemned the subtleties of scholastics "about the sacraments and the eucharist, saying that st. peter and st. paul did not know of these (subtleties) knowing only that hoc est corpus meum. he says that the troubles in religion could be easily taken away if these questions were taken away, and he says that he hopes that soon there will be an end of them. but above all he detests the heretics of france and england, because they despise good works and preach the certi

ole of christianity tends to goodness of life (toute la chrestiente tend a bien vivre."1 this accords perfectly well with the teaching of the spaccio and its' document, p. 40. 230 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform condemnation of the "pedants" who despise good works, and in which, under the constellations fluvius eridanus and ara there are obscure remarks which evidently refer to the eucharist, or to some magical interpretation of it.1 mocenigo, in one of his reports about bruno to the venetian inquisitors in 1592, reports him as having said "that the church to-day does not proceed as the apostles used to proceed, for they converted men by their preaching and the example of a good life, but to-day whoever wishes not to be a catholic must endure punishment and pain, for force i

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out of which it had been formed. to carry this illustration further: suppose that the four worlds of the qabalistic cosmology are represented by ice, water, steam, and gas, and that their final state is called electricity, or complete dematerialization (no-thingness; then the ultimate object of the messianic act is to re-establish this nirvana. symbolically, this potent mystery is depicted in the eucharist, or high mass, in which the bread and the wine are transmuted into the body and blood of christ; that is matter into god. as we have already stated, it was on account of the potency of this mystery that it was so heavily shrouded. here existed an idea which could either re-create divinity or plunge mankind into still deeper depths of devilry. it could exalt man to supreme genius or cast

believing that light is and already exists. belief is of the dust of the earth, it is the static shadow of divine power; will is of the breath of life, it is the dynamic force of that same essence. thus it happens that true faith is belief crucified on the cross of will, a transmutation of the material into the spiritual. for an individual to accomplish an act of will is to attain to the supreme eucharist; but for an individual to obliterate the wills of others by forcing his will, however spiritualized it may be, on to others is to take part in a black mass. that is to obliterate light, and the higher the spirituality the deeper the darkness resulting. we will attempt to explain this in simpler terms. if a bright light is brought into a lit room which is crowded with people, it is probab

entirely swallowed up. for just as a cube contains an infinite number of planes the size of any one of its own sides, so does a4, etc, include an infinite number of a3's, etc. whilst in state j, a3 etc, sinks into illusion, a4, etc, becoming the sole reality, which cannot, however, be secret wisdom of the qabalah page 78 explained to g individuals in any language they can understand. the mystical eucharist at an end, x sinks back into state g, and though in this state his sole instrument is his three-dimensional consciousness, the union he experienced was so overwhelming that state j still remains the supreme reality to him. should he have attained equilibrium in state g before entering state j, he will realize that this is not the only reality; that gas above so beneath h, state g is equa

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loyed by them to usurp the ecclesiastical authority of the irish people, is shown in the history of their councils. the 5th canon of the council of ceale-hythe requires "that none of irish extraction be permitted to usurp to himself the sacred ministry in any one's diocese, nor let it be allowed such an one to touch anything which belongs to those of the holy order; neither must he administer the eucharist to the people because we are not certain how or by whom he was ordained" after quoting the above ledwich queries thus: if st. patrick had been a missionary of the romish church, would the anglo-saxon clergy have abjured the spiritual children of that see? in the year 670 theodoret, archbishop of canterbury, decreed that they who were consecrated by irish or british bishops should be conf

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old always burning; it was made by callimachus.thealtar of the templeofapollo carneus, at cyrene, was similarly furnished. a like account is given ofthegreat temple of aderbain,inarmenia, by said ebn batric. kenealy in hisbook of godcalls attention to the name carystios applied to the asbestine wicks of the lamps in ancient greek temples,anddraws attention to its relatons to chr. of christosandto eucharist, anointed with oil, as to ever burning lamps before the throne, as in the apocalypse. chrs==solarfirechre==sun=heburnedkrs==sun=kupios=cyrusceres=wascalled ta:difera=torch bearing chrs, from this also comes eros in greek, material light coming from ineffable light.thereis a curious reference of asbestos to fire,andthe heat of thesun,intheecstaticjourneytoheavenof kircher, where casmiel,t

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f the pneumatic spark from the treasury of light. therefore many of the technologies of the celestial path use methods which actually change the energy form of the organism one of the central techniques used is known as the bridal chamber. this ritual was unique to the pre-christian gnostics and was carried into christian gnosticism, it was also clearly alluded to in the early celebrations of the eucharist and agape feast in later history the mystery of the transformation of eros was reflected in the traditions of courtly love in mediethe gnostic handbook page 112 val england and france and the imagery of alchemy (particularly in the mass of the holy ghost. the bridal chamber is based on the process of solve et coagula. after the instincts and mind have been "destroyed" and reformed, the t

has the final decision regarding approval or rejection of ordination candidates. sacraments of the church the gnostic apostolic church acknowledges seven sacraments, these are: 1 naming. 2 baptism. 3 ordination. 4 union. 5 illumination. 6 rites of passing. 7 feasts and festivals. the gnostic handbook page 123 in connection with these the church also acknowledges healing sacraments and the sacred eucharist. naming rituals are similar to baptisms, they welcome a child into the world and give a special protection for that child. however, they do not lock a child into any specific form of religious practice or tradition. as our church no longer encourages reproduction this rite is of limited importance. baptism recognises the great spiritual changes which take place during this period. these

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with the fifth, or spirit, being the gnostic himself. gnostic theurgy page 163 the wand. fire. the wand is used as an extension of the will or intent of the gnostic. it concentrates the energies of the rite and is used extensively with rites of invocation and evocation. the chalice. water. the chalice is the projection of the intuition of the gnostic. it has many uses including offerings and the eucharist within the gnostic liturgy. the dagger. air. the dagger or small blade is the projection of the intellect. in some rites it is exchanged for a sword. it is used to contain energies and create sigils and signs. the pentacle. earth. the pentacle is the symbol of the body or physical form. it is used to earth the powers that are invoked, at times it is exchanged for a bowl of salt and water

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provide an income for the g.h. chief of the order; thus allowing him to act as a full time viceroy for the order. when writing to a fellow member, please use the r.r. et a.c. letterhead. a stamp on the letterhead is not necessary. 5 regulations index and requirements for advancement from z.a.m. to th.a.m. 1. full moon rite 2. send back ritual 3. spiritual initiation body of light 4. second order eucharist 5. ritual i 6. ritual 5 7. the bornless ritual 8. bornless middle pillar 9. invocation of thoth 10. invocation of isis 11. jupiter talisman ritual 12. ritual of spiritual alchemy 13. equinox ceremony 14. requiem ceremony 15. sol talisman ritual 1. admission index (general orders [a] 2. obligation (to be committed to memory with understanding of each section of the oath as it corresponds

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y be not allowed to penetrate to his spiritual realm. inspire and sanctify him so that he may be a light into the body and the lantern of illumination guiding into the completion of the great work" step 18 move to the east. reunite with yourself, meditate on your spiritual self and your true will. step 19 move back to the west behind the altar, and close by the watchtower and final releae magical eucharist 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 (note: this should be preferably performed between four to five adepts. otherwise it may be performed entirely by one adept) opening by watchtower (after the watchtower, the four elements are brought to the center altar (one adept each brings forth one of the elements "behold, the holy symbol of (name of element (this is said while

s a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends the arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great eastern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers, and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the theoricus grade sign (chief adept moves back behind the cubicle altar) first adept (circumambulates to the fire tablet, holds arms in the form of a cross in front of the tablet "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite y

he tablet "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great southern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now and assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the philosophus grade sign (first adept circumambulates back to his place) 4 second adept (circumambulates to the water tablet and extends arms in the form of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you g

of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great western quadrangle. ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple and partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the practicus grade sign (second adept circumambulates back to his position) third adept (circumambulates to the earth tablet and extends arms in the form of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "i invite you all, you glo

of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "i invite you all, you glorious beings of the great northern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers, and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist" all make the zelator grade sign" first adept (moves to the east facing east "all kneel. oh lord of the universe, the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and the darkness. we adore thee and we invoke thee. thou who art all powerful and beyond all things, we love thee and give thee our undaunted workings. bless these elements, sanctify them and glorify them. give unto them the breath

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rceeer's terrifying death-bed^ verily the 'christs' of the pre-christian ages were many. but tbey died unknown to the world, and disappeared as silently and as mysteriously from the sight of man as moses from the top of pisgah, the mountain of nebo (oracular wisdom, after he had laid his hands upon joshua, who thus became "full of the spirit of wisdom" i. e, iniiiaied. nor does the mystery of the eucharist pertain to christiana alone. godfrey higgins proves that it was instituted many hundreds of yeara before the 'paschal snpper' and says that "the sacrifice of bread and at this 'superstition' to the old myit rief> which had been for nge spread su over the globe. the bncient variago-irinat had his mysteries in the north as well as in the south of riusis; and there are many relics of the by

m communism" we have nothing to say. only, we would beg eveiy critic to remember that if the templars were accused of that most 'abominable crime' of applying the 'holy kiss' to the root of baphomet's tail* st. augustine is also suspected, and on very good grounds too, of having allowed his community to go somewhat astray from the primitive way of administering the 'holy kiss' at the feast of the eucharist. the holy bishop seems quite too anxious as to certain details of the kdies' toilet for the 'kiss' to be of a strictly orthodox nature* wherever there lurks a true and sincere religious feeling, there is no room for worldly details. considering the extraordinary dislike exhibited from the first by christians to all manner of cleanliness, we cannot enough wonder at such a strange solicitu

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hronging angels, casting off from about us our swathes and bands of thick mortality in the new, overmastering influence, may not all this be as the bridge across which we pass out from this world gladly into the next, until we meet, as. on the other side, jesus, the ruler in very deed, but now felt as the offered, the crucified, the complete and accepted living great sacrifice? may we not in this eucharist partake, not once, but again and again, of that even of that solid which was our atonement, and of that blood which was poured out as the libation to the great earth, profaned by sin, partaking of that reddest (but that most transcendently lucent) sacrament, which is to be the new light of a new world? is not the very name of the intercommunicating high-priest that of the factor of this

origin. fig. 174 represents s. johan (st. john, from an early woodcut of the twelve apostles. his right hand is raised in the act of the holy sign, whilst his left clasps the chalice of the s.s, or sacrament of wine; in the cup is a salamander, signifying the h.g. this is st. john the 242 the rosicrucians. apostle, the author of the apocalypse; or the sanctus spiritus, who baptises in the mystic eucharist with the holy ghost and with fire. fig. 174. the following are the names of the angels of the planets, according to the gnostics. at the beginning of all things, is jehovah (sabaoth, victory; at the end, the old serpent (ophis. between these are the seraphim (intelligences) and cherubim (benevolences, and their representatives. origen calls the sun, adonai; the moon, lao; jupiter, eloi;

cs, or red and white roses, correspond with the twenty-six seats, or stalls, around the round table (which is an apotheosis, allowing two chief seats (or one throne) as pre-eminent for the king-priest, priest-king, in the siege-perilous. the whole refers to king arthur and his knights of the round table, set round as sentinels( in lodge) of the sangr al, or holy graal the sacrifice mysterious, or eucharist. black book and black rod. 291 building in the castle, and therein placed a table( round table) of 200 feet diameter, giving to the building itself the name of the round table. he appropriated 100 per week an enormous sum in those days for the maintenance of this table. in imitation of this, the french king, philip de valois, instituted a round table for himself at his court. some say th

ning bell of the romish mass (which latter signal has a signification overpowering in its profundity, are held to disturb and to scare and drive off evil spirits. these were supposed, according to the old superstitious ideas, to congregate thickly, with opportunities accidentally offered either in the din of battle to impair invisibly the exertions of the combatants, or in the church to spoil the eucharist, by tempting the celebrating priest, or hampering or hindering the ceremonial and its triumphant sacred climax. the eastern name of venus is al-huza or husa* which stands for the egyptian divine woman, or isis. al-huza means the hyacinth, acacia, or lily, sacred to the woman or to the complying and therefore productive powers of nature. the word hussar comes, through circuitous* hussey

body of adam was embalmed and transmitted from father to son, till at last it was delivered up by lamech into the hands of noah. again, the middle of the ark was the place of prayer (and worship) made holy by the presence of adam s body. gregory, p. 121. and so soon as ever the day began to break, noah stood up towards the body of adam &c &c, and prayed (or worshipped. here was the origin of the eucharist, as the reader will clearly see farther on (see accompanying plate) the most ancient monuments of idolatry among the gentiles were consecrated pillars (lingas, or columns, which the jews were forbidden to erect as objects of divine homage and adoration. and yet a most extraordinary lines on the forehead, with ashes obtained if possible from the hearth, on which a consecrated fire is perp

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egyptian cult, not of its outer glories, that freemasonry is a relic, and the ritual which is preserved in it is a part of that of the mysteries. to explain what this hidden work was, let us draw a parallel from a more modern method of producing a somewhat similar result. 54. the christian plan for spreading abroad the divine power or grace is principally by means of the cele-bration of the holy eucharist, commonly called by our roman brethren the mass. we must not think of that grace as a sort of poetical expression, or as in the least degree vague and cloudy; we are dealing with a force as definite as electricity- a spiritual power which is spread abroad over the people in certain ways, which leaves its own effect behind it, and needs its own vehicles, just as electricity needs its appr

sion, or as in the least degree vague and cloudy; we are dealing with a force as definite as electricity- a spiritual power which is spread abroad over the people in certain ways, which leaves its own effect behind it, and needs its own vehicles, just as electricity needs its appropriate machinery. 55. it is possible by clairvoyance to watch the action of that force, to see how the service of the eucharist builds up a thought-form, through which that force is distributed by the priest with the aid of the angel invoked for that purpose. it has been so arranged that the attitude of the priest, his knowledge- even his character- does not in any way interfere with the due effect of the sacrament(*see no. 26 of the thirty-nine articles of the church of england in the book of common prayer) ther

ple would feel the heart to be an easier symbol for that virtue. 289. those who have read greek philosophy or the gnostic systems will remember that the krater or cup plays a prominent part in them. it was the vessel into which the wine of the divine life was poured. in christian thought it is the holy grail filled with the precious blood of christ; the chalice used at the institution of the holy eucharist, the cup which joseph of arimathea is supposed to have held to catch the sacred blood of jesus as he hung upon the cross. all these things are, however, an allegory. the real meaning of the symbol is that the cup is the causal body of man, and the wine is the life from god that flashes into it in the third outpouring from the first logos, at the moment of individualization, which makes t

t of the h.o.a.t.f. it is just before the singing of this hymn that that portrait is unveiled, all the brn. turning towards it and saluting. in instant response to this salutation the great adept projects a thought-form which is an exact image of himself; just as at a higher level the lord christ projects that thought-form which is called the angel of the presence at every celebration of the holy eucharist. so fully is this thought-form a part of the h.o.a.t.f. that the lodge has the benefit of his presence and his blessing just as though he stood there in physical form. the deva representative of the r.w.m. bows low before the head of his ray, and leaves the direction of affairs in his hands. it will be seen that those of us who know of the existence of this great adept, and of his keen i

e has deserved it, for otherwise it simply could not happen. 610. another interesting point is that we are told, in the explanation of the t c b c that the f.c.s were paid in specie, which symbolizes the reward of toil not directly remunerated by its results, but that the e.a.s received their wages in corn, wine and oil. 611. corn and wine at once call to mind the sacred elements in the christian eucharist, and also the myth of the sun-god, who rises into mid-heaven to ripen the corn and the grape, and thus gives of his life for the benefit of others. these are types of the things most valuable to man; and to say that anyone is paid in corn and wine thus means that the richest of earth fs treasures are the reward of his work, and that at the same time they carry with them the blessing of g

duced them. 875. the children brought him two golden vessels, which bore some resemblance to those used in the christian eucharistic service, and evidently to a certain extent corresponded to them. this ceremony long antedated christianity, so it is by no means impossible that some of its features may have been absorbed by the later religion. we may clearly regard this as the egyptian form of the eucharist, for its object was identical; the brn. offered themselves, body, soul and spirit, to god, he entered into them in an especial manner in return, and they then acted as the channels of his bounty to the world. 876. the boy returned from the master fs pedestal bearing in his hands a circular golden dish with a domed cover perhaps twelve inches in diameter; in fact, it was in shape and size

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t, strengthen and encourage all members of the craft. 38. some years ago i undertook an investigation into the hidden side of the sacraments of the catholic church, and published the results of that investigation in a book called the science of the sacraments. those who have read that book will remember that the shedding abroad of spiritual power is one great object of the celebration of the holy eucharist, and of other services of the church, and that it is attained by the invocation of an angel to build a spiritual temple in the inner worlds with the aid of the forces generated by the love and devotion of the people, and the charging of that temple with the enormous power called down at the consecration of the sacred elements. a somewhat similar result is achieved during the ceremonies p

ition of the mysteries was transmitted from century to century, until we find it among the essenes, who also appear to have inherited chaldaean rites. it was in this school that the disciple jesus lived in preparation for his ministry, after receiving a high initiation into the true mysteries of egypt. the essenes had among other chaldaean rites inherited what was afterwards known as the mithraic eucharist, the ceremony of bread and wine and salt, which, as we shall see later, was transmitted through the ages until it was incorporated in the modern degree of the rose-croix of heredom. the consecration of those elements was and is wonderful, though there is not so full a descent of the divine presence as in the corresponding ritual of amen used in ancient egypt. it seems probable, however

see later, was transmitted through the ages until it was incorporated in the modern degree of the rose-croix of heredom. the consecration of those elements was and is wonderful, though there is not so full a descent of the divine presence as in the corresponding ritual of amen used in ancient egypt. it seems probable, however, that the lord christ took the mithraic supper as the basis of his holy eucharist, and while preserving the ancient symbolism of the elements changed them into his own special vehicle, symbolized as his body and blood- the very closest and most intimate of all the sacraments known to man. 297. the mithraic eucharist brought the worshipper into close touch with the divine life; the mystic supper of the rose-croix lifts the sovereign prince into a wonderful union with c

d blood- the very closest and most intimate of all the sacraments known to man. 297. the mithraic eucharist brought the worshipper into close touch with the divine life; the mystic supper of the rose-croix lifts the sovereign prince into a wonderful union with christ, the lord of love; in the ritual of amen the brn. bowed to each who had partaken of the sacrament saying, thou art osiris. the holy eucharist of the christian church is the last and most wonderful of all, for in it we receive him, the lord of love, and the sacred host is just as fully and perfectly his vehicle as was the body of jesus in palestine two thousand years ago. it seems probable that he took the existing sacrament which was regularly celebrated in the essene community, and transfigured it into another and holier euch

23. the mithraic sacrament consisted of bread and wine and salt, and was consecrated at a solemn ceremony in the mysteries, being linked to that aspect of the deity which was represented by mithra, and intensely charged with force along the characteristic lines of purity, courage and brotherhood, helping to bind the brethren together into a body corporate as soldiers of light and truth. this same eucharist has been transmitted to us to-day through the culdee line of tradition, in the ceremonial of the rose-croix of heredom; but the forces flow-ing through it have been modified to some extent, so that instead of a brotherhood of arms we have now a brotherhood of love. the power of love takes the place of the military influence of courage, although the method of consecration in the higher wo

the same tree, even though external traces of their rela-tionship in the past have disappeared. 494. the holy grail 495. as part of this indirect heritage from the greek mysteries came the well-known symbol of the krater or cup, which in the intermingling with early british christianity was identified with the sangreal, the chalice used by our lord at the last supper for the founding of the holy eucharist. king arthur, who has often been supposed to be an imaginary hero, was a very real and most lovable and sagacious ruler, of whom england may well be proud; his round table also is fact and not fiction, and among its knights there was a rite of the christian mysteries centring round the beautiful story of the quest for the holy grail. some there were who took the legend literally and unde

an age, the most evil and horrible practices were attributed to the order because of this secrecy, and stories were told which had absolutely no foundation whatever in fact. 678. in the templar form of what we now call the 18, the most wise sovereign was an ordained priest or bishop, and the bread and wine which was consecrated in open chapter in the course of a splendid ceremony was a veritable eucharist- a wonderful blending of the egyptian with the christian sacrament. 679. the suppression of the templars 680. the suppression of this great and powerful order forms one of the darkest blots upon the tenebrous history of the roman catholic church. the reports of the french trial were published by michelet, the great historian, in 1851-61 and an excellent digest of the evidence given both

of several almost meaningless intermediate degrees, which still belong to the scottish rite, but are seldom or never worked among us. 753. a certain marriage of traditions took place in the case of the 18, for the great ritual of the rosy cross used for the perfecting of the rosicrucian and egyptian brethren, though shorn already of much of its ancient splendour, was blended with the old mithraic eucharist handed down in the rites of heredom, to form the source of our modern workings of the rose-croix. the emperors ritual of the 30, then called the 24, grand commander of the black and white eagle, grand elect kadosh, reflected far more efficiently the egyptian teachings of black masonry than those which have to-day reached us through the hands of many editors, who were ignorant of their tr

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

e demon-god to whom the ammonites are supposed to have sacrificed children. human beings are represented as being shut up in the cells within the body of the model, and are burned to death by the fires below (fortean picture library) 180 mr. bubbles case embodies the martinist occult/mystical tradition in north america. it is a ritual theurgic body that emphasizes purity of ritual, as well as the eucharist as the center of initiation, through which the invocation of angels and planetary spirits is made. spirit communication often takes place during the mass, when members of the clergy, who are clairvoyant, may have visions. during the mass a mystical language is perceived and spoken. the absolute, emanating the trinity, is viewed as the head of a gnostic hierarchical system. the trinity is

ifices vary greatly. in traditional cultures, for instance, they were represented by natural sites of peculiar sanctity, such as caves, hills, and groves, or tombs of the powerful dead. however, with the advent of urban civilization, the necessity for a sacred place in the city led to the construction of temples, where the gods were worshiped and sacrifices were offered. in christian liturgy, the eucharist symbolizes the sacrifice of the body and blood of jesus christ. blood sacrifice has been practiced in most ancient religious rites as a form of propitiation to the gods and to secure generous harvests. the association of blood with sacrifice is significant, since blood has always been regarded as the bearer of life. thus special measures have been sought to consecrate the blood of a sacr

LIBER AASH

eightfold word that shall be equilibrated with the three. 19. there is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. all holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. these animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman, and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. svb figvra ccclxx 3 23. i am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with al

LIBER ALEPH

. mark well, make ready a new child immediately after every birth. fourth, make an especial and direct invocation at thy mass, before the introit, formulating a visible image of this child, and offering the right of incarnation. fifth, perform the mass, not omitting the epiklesis, and let there be a golden wedding ring at the marriage of thy lion with thine eagle. sixth, at the consumption of the eucharist accept this child, losing thy consciousness in him, until he be well assimilated with thee. now then do this continuously, for by repetition cometh forth both strength and skill, and the effect is cumulative, if thou allow no time to dissipate itself. h the book of wisdom or folly 87 gq de hac formula considerationes kabbalistic (qabalistic considerations concerning this formula) ehold m

lso, every act is holy, being essential to the universal sacrament. knowing this, thou mayst conform with that which is written in the book of the law: to make no distinction between any one thing and any other thing. learn well to apprehend this mystery, for it is the great gate of the college of understanding, whereby each and all of thy senses become constant and perpetual witnesses of the one eucharist, whereunto also they are ministers. so then to thee every phenomenon soever is the body of nuith in her passion; for it is an event; that is, the marriage of some one point of view with some one possibility. and this state of mind is notably an appurtenance of thy grade of master of the temple, and the unveiling of the arcanum of sorrow, which is thy work, as it is written in liber magi

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

e sacrament of sword and flame, acknowledge him. then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly done, all is symbolically sealed by the thirty voices, and the word that vibrateth from the silence to the speech, and from the speech again unto the silence. then the pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened; yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake in a certain mystical manner of the eucharist of the four elements that are consumed for the perfection of the oil. konx om pax [with these mystic words the mysteries eleusinian were sealed..ed] 10.00. having written out this explanation, i will read it through and meditate solemnly thereupon. all this i wrote in the might of the secret ring committed unto me by the masters; so that all might be absolutely correct. one thing strikes

LIBER HHH

on will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. let him now remain in the pyramid or cone of light, as an egg, but no more of blackness. 10. then let his body be in the position of the hanged man, and let him aspire with all his force unto the holy guardian angel. 11. the grace having been granted unto him, let him partake mystically of the eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension.7 liber hhh 4 ii a a a .these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear..liber lapidis lazuli. vii. 15, 16. 0. be seated in thine .sana, or recumbent in .av.sana,8 or in the positi

be pushed to the point of sam.dhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not sam.dhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious of all else, do thou imagine the hunger of the one for the other; the emptiness of the brain, the ache of the spine, even as the emptiness of space and the aimlessness of matter. and if thou hast experience of the eucharist in both kinds,12 it shall aid thine imagination herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lip, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and dow

LIBER SAMEKH

ted that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talis-man charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as gun-nefer, h the perfection of gasar h himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit

MORALS AND DOGMA

a portion of these dogmas was made known to the catechumens; who, after particular purifications, received baptism, or the initiation of the _theogenesis (divine generation; but in the grand mysteries of that religion, the incarnation, nativity, passion, and resurrection of christ, none were initiated but _the faithful. these doctrines, and the celebration of the holy sacraments, particularly the eucharist, were kept with profound secrecy. these mysteries were divided into two parts; the first styled the mass of the catechumens; the second, the mass of the faithful. the celebration of the mysteries of mithras was also styled _a mass; and the ceremonies used were the same. there were found all the sacraments of the catholic church, even the breath of confirmation. the priest of mithras prom

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

thing that is proper to his nature. thus, a man's sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites hadit with nuit sacramentally when he satisfies his instinct of physical love. of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfill other needs. we must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an eucharist: suum cuique. observe, however, the constant factor in this enumeration of the practices proper to 'hermits: it is ecstatic delight. let us borrow an analogy from chemistry. oxygen has two hands (so to speak) to offer to other elements. but contrast the cordial clasp of hydrogen or phosphorus with the weak reluctant greeting of chlorine! yet, hydrogen and chlorine rush passionately to em

t a sacrament, full of divine ecstasy and nourishment. there is no act that true delicacy cannot consecrate. it is one thing to be like a sow, unconscious of the mire, and unable to discriminate between sweet food and sour; another to take the filth firmly and force oneself to discover the purity therein, initiating even the body to overcome its natural repulsion and partake with the soul at this eucharist. we "believe in the miracle of the mass" not only because meat and drink are actually "transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, but because we can make the 'body and blood of god' from any materials soever by virtue of our royal and pontifical art of magick. now, when brillat-savarin (was it not) served to the king's table a pair of old kid gloves, and pleased the princely palate

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

may seem rather out of place to quote aleister crowley here, yet he has written things in his magick on this subject that are so very important that i am impelled to quote them here for the benefit of the student. the important drill practises, in his belief, are "1. the fortification of the body of light by the constant use of rituals, by the assumption of god-forms, and by the right use of the eucharist "2. the purification and consecration and exaltation of that body by the use of rituals of invocation "3. the education of that body by experience. it must learn to travel on every plane; to break down every obstacle which may confront it" in a footnote to the above, he has appended a footnote which i reproduce herewith "the aspirant should remember that he is a microcosm 'universus sum

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

cs. the seven sacraments correspond equally to this great universal septenary. baptism, which consecrates the element of water, is in analogy with the moon; ascetic penance is under the auspices of samael, the angel of mars; confirmation, which imparts the spirit of understanding and communicates to the true believer the gift of tongues, is under the auspices of raphael, the angel of mercury; the eucharist substitutes sacramental realization of god made man for the empire of jupiter; marriage is consecrated by the angel anael, the purifying genius of venus; extreme unction is the safe-guard of the sick about to fall under the scythe of saturn; and orders, consecrating the priesthood of light, is marked more especially by the characters of the sun. almost all these analogies were observed b

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ctive universe, but also the subjective, so that the individual explores them within a framework of tradition and expectation of specific results. deviation is not possible without the charge of heresy. counterparts of all of the sacraments and rituals can be found in accounts of ancient pagan practices and current neo-pagan ones "the lord did everything in a mystery, a baptism and a chrism and a eucharist and a redemption and a bridal chamber" 3. the initiatory states are achieved through certain sacraments which are designed to empower the individual to live in a higher state than previously, which means closer to god. these include baptism (entrance into the faith with sworn allegiance to the dogmas, penance (in which one is absolved of sins and no longer responsible for them on the sub

n and a bridal chamber" 3. the initiatory states are achieved through certain sacraments which are designed to empower the individual to live in a higher state than previously, which means closer to god. these include baptism (entrance into the faith with sworn allegiance to the dogmas, penance (in which one is absolved of sins and no longer responsible for them on the subjective levels, and holy eucharist (the communal partaking of the "flesh and blood of christ. in the protestant denominations the holy eucharist is considered a symbolic act. the catholic however must believe he is actually eating of the body of christ and drinking his blood in a unique, non-rational concept called transubstantiation. confirmation (chrism-anointing) allows one to become a fuller participant in the life of

substantiation. confirmation (chrism-anointing) allows one to become a fuller participant in the life of the holy spirit through receiving his gifts of which there are seven. this is the highest that a lay person may achieve who is not accepted into the priesthood. it is expected that the confirmed individual can handle all aspects of the faith including mystical experiences. the sacrament of the eucharist when first received is considered a step between the baptism and the confirmation. the redemption sacrament (penance) is a continuation of the baptismal cleansing of sins, as is the sacrament of the sick. the sacrament of holy matrimony is required for entrance to the married state. it's significance has always been debated in the most sublime terms. it is used as the model to describe t

s required for entrance to the married state. it's significance has always been debated in the most sublime terms. it is used as the model to describe the relationship of god with the soul, and christ with his body the church. the couple are instructed to treat each other in that context, to the extent that they even consider intercourse as the culmination of the sacrament, and their own personal eucharist uniting them with god. holy orders is the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood, and continues the redemptive action as the priest performs rituals at which the sacraments are given to the others. even though a man may become bishop or pope, he will never be more a priest than when ordained. the power to ordain, however, is reserved to the bishops. extreme unction, now called the sac

ould that come to pass. priest menschel then banished the ten directions, thanking them for their participation. adept ogle rang the bell to end the ritual. footnotes 1. magical names in parentheses are supplied only for those whose names are referenced below. 2. setian robinson was recognized as adept during the conclave working the following night. 3. ruby tablet of set item v2-c21.z-1 a setian eucharist [ring the bell nine times. light the black flame. read the 19th part of the word of set [take the sword off the altar. turn to the south, point the sword upward to the level of the third eye, and call forth the name] set-hen [turn to the east, repeat the action, and call forth] lucifer [turn to the north, repeat the action, and call forth] belial [turn to the west, repeat the action, and

t the action, and call forth] belial [turn to the west, repeat the action, and call forth] leviathan [return the sword to the altar, and pick up the sceptre of tcham. facing west, trace in the air before you an inverse pentagram (start from the left upper point, down to the lower point, and classification: v2- b1r.1- 1 author: eardley w. scott ii date: xxvi html revision: dec 17, 1998 ce subject: eucharist reading list: follow through, and call forth] set-hen [turn to the south, repeat the action, and call forth] nebt-het [turn to the east, repeat the action, and call forth] anpu [turn to the north, repeat the action, and call forth] khepri [replace the sceptre on the altar [take the censer off the altar, and incense the four quarters. replace censer on altar [again take the sceptre, and t

ook and says [celebrant] such is the word of set-hen [deacon] and so may set's gift grow bright in each of us [all sit as the celebrant introduces the visiting bishop, who then gives a brief homily [when the visiting bishop sits, gifts are carried to the altar and placed there. gifts include the chamber pot, the items to be placed in the chamber pot, and an open bottle of wine] celebration of the eucharist [celebrant] therefore with demons and archdemons and all the company of this world we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee and saying [all] hail! hail! hail, satanic lord! hell and earth are full of thy glory. glory be to thee, o lord most high [deacon] therefore, o mighty and terrible lord of darkness, we offer you these gifts on behalf of this assembled company, u

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

this cell and will blossom into full flower in the forthcoming cells (p. 233-236p. 237-238) the sabbatic kabala displays a formulae for eroto-manic behaviour on behalf of the high priest towards the use of the tower as the external and therefore aggressive component in the communion. the priest become the vessel and the container of the powers drawn upon, mainly through the mystery of the sexual eucharist. it also reflects its double -natured house of power (or sah) in the tetragrammic vessel- the hand being the extension of the phallus and the eye being the cranial abode of the higher mouth (i.e. vulva- note due to this that the lone witch in norse lore was called volva and was considered a seer or a sybill, the oracle made manifest in the flesh of the crone, which suggest the oracular n

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

etail the life of jesus. christians soon also developed two primary sacraments, or sacred ceremonies: baptism and the lord s supper. baptism is a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. in the christian religion baptism also signifies that a person has been admitted to church membership. the last supper, also referred to as the eucharist, is a remembrance of christ s last meal with his disciples before he died. the faithful met on sundays, for it was on a sunday that jesus had risen from the dead. they said prayers together, reading from the old testament and from paul s letters. christianity has 2.1 billion followers around the world. the largest number of followers are in europe and north and south america. reproduced

rom the old testament at first and later from paul s letters. as christianity developed more of its own writings in the new testament, the readings tended to come more and more from that section. worship services were held on sunday, considered the day of jesus s resurrection. in addition, the early church had two main sacraments: baptism and the lord s supper, also known as holy communion or the eucharist. the lord s supper is a reenactment of the last supper, when jesus and his disciples shared bread and wine on the night before his crucifixion. at one time this lord s supper was a community dinner after which the faithful received symbolic bread and wine. now, it is a more symbolic gesture of drinking holy wine and eating a blessed bread wafer, representing the body and blood of jesus

in some denominations, laypersons are encouraged to speak, while in others, only the official clergy or priests conduct services. music is often a part of services, with choirs and organ accompaniment. in the roman catholic church, the eastern orthodox church, and the anglican church the reenactment of the last supper is the central part of the worship service. catholics call this celebration the eucharist or mass. in the orthodox tradition it is called the divine liturgy( liturgy is a public act of worship. for anglicans it is the holy eucharist. in all three traditions a priest leads the service. in both catholicism and eastern orthodoxy, sunday attendance is required of all members and is called a holy day of obligation. there are two parts to the eucharist or divine liturgy. the first

eadings from the bible. pilgrimages pilgrimages for christians are voluntary journeys; they are not required. people make them for a number of reasons. some go in search of a miraculous cure. others wish to renew their faith by visiting sites mentioned in the bible or connected with the life of christ. such visits most often include the holy land (modern-day israel, jordan, the second part of the eucharist, or divine liturgy, is a celebration of the last supper. this includes a symbolic eating of a bread wafer and drinking of wine. monte mace/ ponkawonka.com 140 world religions: almanac christianity and the west bank, where christ was born and preached his message. among the sites is jerusalem, a city holy to jews, christians, and muslims. this is a site of many of the events in the life a

ged in heated debate with pharisees and other religious scholars. these activities and disagreements further angered the priests, who then sought to eliminate jesus. on thursday night of passover week, jesus and his disciples had a final meal together, the reenactment of which would become one of the main sacraments, or religious rituals, of christianity: holy communion, also known as mass or the eucharist. following the meal, jesus went to the garden of gethsemane to pray. jesus s disciple, judas iscariot, betrayed jesus by leaking his whereabouts to his enemies. it was at gethsemane that jesus was arrested and taken to trial for blasphemy, or words and action that show irreverence to god. jesus was sentenced to death and taken to the roman authorities to have the sentence carried out. th

ut europe. in various books and sermons he openly questioned a number of basic doctrines of the catholic church. he denied that a person needed to be a member of the roman catholic church to achieve salvation. he made a number of changes to the catholic church s ritual of baptism (a ritual involving the symbolic use of water that results in a person being admitted to the church community) and the eucharist, or holy communion, in which bread and wine are believed to be transformed into the body and blood of christ, during a church ceremony known as mass. in particular he urged that laypersons be allowed to share in the cup of wine rather than just the bread, a practice contrary to that of the catholic church. world religions: biographies 229 martin luther laypersons are those who are common

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

, the adytum of the muse s devotions. when the inspiration of one s perfect loneliness is not other than the manifest presence of one s beloved the door unto this hermitage has truly opened. the hermit of sacred marriage resides under the patronage of liliya and mahazhael, the witch-queen and king of the faithful gods. the blessings of this spiritual station are the elixirs of the love-feast, the eucharist of flesh and blood, the well-spring of love as inspiration, the mirror of gazes from whence dreams take flesh, the secret of union, and many more, exceeding great virtues of the heart. iii) the third solitude is the hermitage of the journeyman. this is the solitude of one who abandons all outward physical company, eschewing association with all others, men and women, friends and foes ali

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

rly centuries of the church, it was not, as is often incorrectly cited, a christian heresy. while it is true that the worshippers of the persian god mithras spoke of the adoration of their deity by a group of shepherds at his miraculous birth, observed a baptismal ritual that must be observed by those who wished to follow him, participated in a communal meal of bread and water which resembled the eucharist, and celebrated his birthday on december 25, mithraism had been established throughout the persian empire at least 500 years before the birth of jesus christ in 6 b.c.e. mithraism had been spread throughout the then-known world by a group of magi, who preached an apocalyptic scenario in which mithras, greatly associated with solar symbolism, would return at the end of a 7,000-year cycle

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

orous as the kisses of pasiphae; across the elysian fields of myrtle and asphodel, up the eagle-crested slopes of olympus, and over the shining sun-scorched sands of ammon, tawny and silken as the crouching form of some colossal lion, to the cool groves of eleusis child-like dreaming in the bosom of silvery attica by the blue agean sea. yet those who would drink deeper of the wine of this magical eucharist, spilt with due reverence on the pages of this volume, they must seek it in the sibylline verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life-blood. and they are: aceldama. the tale of archais. songs of the spirit. jezebel. an appeal to the american people. jephthah. the mother fs tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. t

, p. 77. gmany sins are forgiven this woman because she hath loved much. h not like adam and eve, however, did they then discover that they were naked, such epilogues being more especially suited to the author of glot and his daughters h and gthe concubine of gibeah, h than the author of gtannhauser h or galice. h nevertheless reproach followed, if shame did not, the celebration of love fs mystic eucharist. reproach rises, but falls enamoured to his kisses; all is extremes, there is no heaviness, no deadness of sentiment, the smoke curls as high as the flashing flames, and tears wash out smiles, and blushing cheeks dry tears; all is effluent glory, glorious as a sun of gold lingering on the blushing bosom of dawn: we lay in naked chastity, caressed child-like or dreaming, till the dawn rep

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

god; and one is the essence of man. yet since god is only one because he is three in one; so man is only one when he is two-in-one. as god s essence abideth in himself, so also with the essence of man. yet man not being himself wholly, but part of himself, this essence is not wholly in him. it is found in perfection only without himself, and he can only attain it by virtue of the sacrament of the eucharist. of the sacrifice of the eucharist (read first in the authorised version john iv. 13-16 and 31-32; vi. 27 and 48-58; viii. 38, and st. paul i. cor: x. 1-4, 16-17 and 23-30; xii. 3) the sacrament is administered under two kinds, bread and wine. bread is solid, white, the fruit of the earth, the sustenance of man, the body of christ, the white tincture. wine is liquid, red, the fruit of th

st dangerous; for thereby thou risketh profanation, eating and drinking damnation to thyself. remember also this, that to obtain the utmost from this work thou needest experience and well guided practice. even as if thou sowest seeds in ignorance of seasons and of climates and of soils, some only may germinate, when the wise husbandman will reap all in perfect harvest; so do thou reflect that the eucharist is of such nature that some result will follow, for the grace of god cannot wholly be balked and fail of its effect, yet it will be better daily as thou followest out this path. and if thou work with intelligence and energy, thou shouldst attain the highest perfection and accomplish the great work before the earth hath twice fulfilled her orbit. so mote it be. of rhythmic incantation thi

, that ye understand these words! behold! i have declared the law; unto you have i revealed it. i have manifested the tokens to you; with you have i exchanged the words. conquerors of sin and sorrow, partakers of the cup of blessing, initiates of the supreme rite, warders of the ineffable sanctuary, freemen of the city of truth, saints of the everlasting tabernacle! i have discovered unto you the eucharist of resurrection. i have shown you the way. i have spoken unto you the truth. i have endowed you with the life. sons of heaven and daughters of earth, children of god and inheritors of immortality, the feast is ready in the mansions of my father. brothers of light, life, love and liberty, illustrious sir knights of the order of kadosch, strike with the pommels of your swords upon the gate

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

n diminished the austerity of its original. on particular occasions however it equally abated its rigour, and gave way to festivity and mirth, though always with an air of sanctity and 1 erg. ver. 730. 2 strabo, lib. x. 3 herodot. lib. ii. 4 see spences de leg. rit. vet. hebr or. 5 exod. ch. xxxii. 6 reg. c. xv, ver. 13. ed. cleric. of priapus 107 solemnity. such were originally the feasts of the eucharist, which, as the word expresses, were meetings of joy and gratulation; though, as divines tell us, all of the spiritual kind: but the particular manner in which st. augustine commands the ladies who attended them to wear clean linen,1 seems to infer, that personal as well as spiritual matters were thought worthy of attention. to those who administer the sacrament in the modern way, it may

o infer, that personal as well as spiritual matters were thought worthy of attention. to those who administer the sacrament in the modern way, it may appear of little consequence whether the women received it in clean linen or not; but to the good bishop, who was to administer the holy kiss, it certainly was of some importance. the holy kiss was not only applied as a part of the ceremonial of the eucharist, but also of prayer, at the conclusion of which they welcomed each other with this natural sign of love and benevolence.2 it was upon these occasions that they worked themselves up to those fits of rapture and enthusiasm, which made them eagerly rush upon destruction in the fury of their zeal to obtain the crown of martyrdom.3 enthusiasm on one subject naturally produces enthusiasm on an

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

er to aid in preserving the fluid from rapid degeneration. these entities have been abducting humans for many centuries- these entities view earth as a big farm, and have been essentially raising and harvesting humans and apparently abduct humans to take them back to their home planet to raise there in a kind of human husbandry [or livestock] scenario. there are indications that the ritual of the eucharist is a reflection of earlier rituals where aliens were eating off the bodies of humans or feeding off their energies. the phrase "food of the gods" takes on new meaning when these factors are understood. the true "nectar of the gods" which the aliens involved seem to prize most is a substance that is taken from freshly killed humans. this substance is generated at the moment of death by th

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

of hallow or talisman. it brings fertility to the land and it feeds its worshippers. it has many forms, but it is always a fertility- and a food-providing object. it seems to have had five forms: 1. a reliquary. 2. the platter or cup used at the last supper. 3. a jar or bottle in which st. joseph received the blood from the wounds of christ. 4. a sacred or talismanic stone. 5. the chalice of the eucharist. in all these cases however it seems to have no material substance, but to have come from a sort of fourth dimension, to which it returned swiftly again. shall we say it came from and returned to that place between the worlds, or something like the witches' circle? we are told the grail is a mystery which must not be revealed to the uninitiated. the high history of the holy grail says th

. the postulant passed through the divine myth, revived the life of god and passed, together with the god of sorrow, into joy, from life unto death. professor macchioro gives this account 'all the mysteries operated after the same manner. they consisted in a sacred drama and a series of ritual acts, which reproduced the gestures and actions attributed to the divinity. this is the principle of the eucharist, the eating of bread and drinking of wine to identify oneself with his acts. it was not an objective but a subjective drama, its essence being the repetition of that which according to tradition had been wrought by god. it was led up to by preliminary instruction, heightened in effect by visions and ecstatic suggestions conducting the initiated, himself an actor in them, to communion wit

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

s of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidde n, did convene therein to counsel alostrael, 31-666-31, the scarlet woman lea m y concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore t o herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the exc rements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord o

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