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friscing, i.e. lamb unblemished given to earth a sacrifice, hymn 7, 10, except as a reminiscence of heathenism? the jewish paschal lamb would not suggest it, for in friscing the idea of porcellus was predominant. in the north, the expiatory boar, sdnargoltr, offered to freyr, was a periodical sacrifice; and sweden has continued down to modern times the practice of baking loaves and cakes on yule-eve in the shape of a boar. this golden-bristled boar has left his track in inland germany too. according to popular belief in thuringia^ whoever on christmas eve abstains from all food till suppertime, will get sight of a young golden pig, i.e. in olden times it was brought up last at the evening banquet. a lauterbach ordinance (weisthum) of 1589 decreed (3, 369, that unto a court holden the day

end of the editions of aiisoniiis: ungnes mercurio, barbam jove, cypride crines (nails on wednesday, heard on thursday, hair on fri(hiy. 2 cies for zies, as the same glossist sg^ writes gicinibere and cinnum' hiambazolus n. prop, in karajan. 124 gods. already in 0. v. 4, 9, prob. abbreviation of sunnundages aband, feria ante dominicam, for vespera solis cannot have been meant [conf. engl. whitsun-eve; and occasionally, corresponding to tlie eomance dies dominica, frontaq, n. ps. 23. mid. high gerim. would any one believe, that the names of the days of the week are not easily to be picked out of the abundant remains of our mhg. literature? it is true, sunnen tac (suntac in berth. 118) and mdntac (parz. 452, 16. mcentac 498, 22. amis 1648^ admit of no doubt. neither do donrestac (donerstag

accounted holy, vatnsd. p. 140; and human victims fell to him in sweden, saxo gram. 42. freyr possessed a hoar named gulliribursti, whose' golden bristles' lighted up the night like day, who ran with the speed of a horse and drew the deity's car, sn 66. 132. it is therefore in frey's worship that the atonevient-boar is sacrificed (p. 51) f in sweden cakes in the shape of a hoar are baked on yule-eve. and here we come upon a good many relics of the service once done to the god, even outside of scandinavia. we hear of the clean gold-liog -ferch, whence dimin. farrow) in the popular customs of the wetterau and thuringia (p. 51. in the mid. dutch poem of lantslot ende sandrin, v. 374, a knight says to his maiden' ic heb u liever dan en everswtn, al waert van jlnen goude glicwraclitl i hold yo

the warm interest taken by contemporaries, fanned as it was to a flame for or against the festival by the secular and the clerical party. there are traces to be found of similar ship-proccssiom at the beginning of spring in other partsof germany, especially in swabia, which had then become the seat of those very suevi of tacitus (see suppl. a minute of the town-council of ulm, dated st. nicholas' eve, 1530, contains this prohibition' item, there shall none, by day nor night, trick or disguise him, nor put on any carnival raiment, moreover shall iccep him from the going about of the plough and with shi2)s on pain of 1 gulden',2 the custom of draiving the plough ahont seems to have been the more widely spread, having 1 doe^ the antlior imply that the favour of the peasantry, as oiiposed to i

and sews up the gash with a ploughshare for a needle and an iron chain by way of thread (superst. 525^ tlie braunschw. anz. 17g0, p. 1302, says no leguminous plants are to lie eaten when dame holla is going ronnd in the' twelve-nights. either a niistake, or to be understood of particular kinds of pulse^ almost the same is told iu the voigtland of the jverre or dame holle. tlie w'erre, on the holy eve of the high new-year, holds a strict inquiry whether all the distaffs are spun off; if they are not, she defiles the flax. and on that evening you must aat jwlse, a thick pap of hour and water prepared in a peculiar way; if any one omits it, she rips his body open, jul. schmidt, reichenfels, p. i.;2. the name iverra (from her 'gewirrt' tiinglcd shaggy hair) is found in thoni. reinesius, lect

o or three thicknesses of thread over the tow, so that the reels looked full. perchtha came, they handed over to her their finished work, and she walked off with it, shaking her head (conf. the similar story of the white manikin in bader, p. 3g9. p. 167: at langendembach lived an old spinningwife, who swiftly wound the thread all the winter through, and did not so much as leave off on twelfth day-eve, though son and daugliter-in-law warned her' if perchtha comes, it will go hard with you' heyday' was her answer' perchtha brings me no shirts, i must spin them myself after a while the window is pushed open, perchtha looks into the room, and throws some empty selpliartes re^el (wackernarrel's lb. 903, there is exhibited, together with bruoder zornli and bruoder ergerli, a bruoder wirra' der s

ded with threats, that he should put a icedge in her waggon. he took his knife, cut the wedge as well as he could, and fitted it into perchtha's waggon, who made him a present of the fallen chips. he picked them up, and at home he drew gold out of every pocket in which he had put perchtha's gifts. p. 182: two peasants of jiidewein, after stopping at the alehouse in kostriz till late on perchtha's eve, had gone but a little way, when perchtha came driving in a waggon, and called to them to put a peg in the pole of her waggon. one of the men had a knife, and perchtha supplied him with wood, the peg was let in, and the handy man carried home several pieces of money in his shoe as a reward. p. 113: between bucha and wilhelmsdorf in the fruitful vale of the saale, perchtha queen of the heimchen

handy man carried home several pieces of money in his shoe as a reward. p. 113: between bucha and wilhelmsdorf in the fruitful vale of the saale, perchtha queen of the heimchen had her dwelling of old; at her command the heimchen had to water the fields of men, while she worked underground with her plough. at last the people fell out with her, and she determined to quit the country; on perchtha's eve the ferryman at altar village received notice to be ready late in the night, and when he came to the saale bank, his eyes beheld a tall stately dame surrounded by vy^eeping children, and demanding to be ferried over. she stept into the craft, the little ones dragged a plough and a number of other tools in, loudly lamenting that they had to leave that lovely region. arrived at the other side, p

ung them on the window-shelf, and himself, ill at ease, into bed. in the morning, three gold-pieces lay where he had thrown the chips. the memory of perchtha's passage is also preserved at kaulsdorf on the saale, and at kostriz on the elstcr, not far from gera. p. 126: late one night, the master wheelwright at colba was coming home from oppurg, where he had 276 goddesses. been to work; it was the eve of the three-kings (twelfthday, and on the bank of the rivulet orla he came upon perchtha, her broken plough surrounded by weeping heimclien' hast thou a hatchet with thee, so help me mend' she cried to the terrified traveller. he gave what help he could, but the fallen chips offered hita for wages he would not touch' i have plenty of them at home' says he. when he got home, he told what had h

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. the grade of practicus is referred to the sephira hod, and the 30th and 31st paths which are those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the si

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

e old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so

d irritability during the menopause. it is good for relief from pain, helping with fibrositis, sciatica and rheumatism. it is an anti-inflammatory, and so speeds the healing of burns and wounds. st john's wort is the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the longest day, the summer solstice and the full power of the sun. it offers fertility and powers to attract love, especially if picked on the eve of st john, 23 june, at midnight. traditionally, it was worn in battle for courage, and it can also bring decisiveness. use it for protection, especially if combined with dill and vervain. ruled by the sun. tarragon a mild stimulant, tarragon helps the nervous system to overcome restless exhaustion that can stand in the way of relaxation, while also soothing anxieties so sleep comes easily. it

cs. some practitioners do not use a cauldron at all. in your rituals, you can light a candle in front of the cauldron, fill it with sand in which to stand candles, or surround it with a circle of red candles to represent fire. wishes written on paper can be burned in the candles. water darkened with mugwort may be placed in the cauldron, especially on seasonal festivals such as hallowe'en and may eve, and white candle wax dripped on the surface to create divinatory images that offer insights into potential paths. you can cast flower petals into the cauldron water to get energies flowing. for banishing, add dead leaves and tip the cauldron water into a flowing source of water. you can also burn incense in the cauldron if this is the focus of a ritual. the cauldron is a tool of spirit or aka

, where more than one full moon occurs in the same calendar month, have always been regarded as especially potent. in the further reading chapter, i have listed sources where you can find these older calendars. in modern magick, old moon names are a good way of connecting with the powers of nature that, unlike seasonal energies operate on a monthly basis, but magically are strongest on the actual eve and night of the full moon and the days before and after the full moon. so moon names can give a focus to magical purposes at the right time in the yearly cycle, as they emphasise the prevailing energies that different peoples have interpreted according to their own seasonal trends. sadly, we no longer top up our psychic batteries in the same way, and the further we move from nature, the harde

d opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancient concept in which kings and rulers were constantly tested to prove worthy of their sacred trust and so he is not an angel to invoke lightly. samael is also the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cleanses doubts and weakness, replacing them with spiritual courage to stand against what is corrupt, especially those who abuse power. he can be invoke

ve of the necessary strengths you require, to amplify the powers within you. you can enter the wheel of the year at any point. some people begin at the celtic new year in november, but it may be easier in modern life to begin as i have with the rituals of the early spring, when stirrings of new life first appear. the celtic day is calculated from sunset to sunset and so the festivals began on the eve, usually the most important time in the festival, and continued for three days. the first we shall work with is the festival of imbolc (meaning 'in the belly of the mother, and also known as oimelc 'ewe's milk. the festival of imbolc time: sunset 31 january-sunset 2 february (31 july-2 august in the southern hemisphere) focus: new growth, melting the ice, bringing light into the darkness, the

associated with innocence and gentleness crystals: garnet and bloodstones, also amethysts, rose quartz and gentle moonstones for awakening fertility and feelings symbols: ice, milk, seeds, first snowdrops or very early-budding leaves or flowers flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: angelica, basil, benzoin, celandine, heather and myrrh a ritual to release the frozen life force work after dusk on the eve of 31 january or on the following evening, 1 february, and perhaps incorporate the ritual into your candlemas party. with close supervision, even children can join in the ritual. place the candles in a deep holders and make the miniature straw bed perhaps in a deep metal bowl or even the family hearth, if it is no longer used for fires* on a table, your altar or the hearth, create a small brid

whether in sexual terms or for any cause; the interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields. sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attributed with both fertility

ires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attributed with both fertility and healing powers. winter was finally dead at midnight on may eve, when cailleac bhuer, the old hag of winter, cast her staff under a holly bush and was turned to stone. she would be restored six months later on hallowe'en. young men and girls made love in the woods and fields on may eve to bring fertility to the land as well as themselves; they gathered flowers and blossoms from the magical hawthorn tree to decorate houses and to make into may baskets which

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of evil intent, and you shall perform your ordinary morning prayer;30 but you should not accustom yourself to be slothful, it being always better to pray unto god at an early hour. concerning clothing and family. your dress should be clean but moderate, and according to custom. flee all vanity. you shall have two dresses, in order that you may be able to change them; and you shall change them the eve of each sabbath, wearing the one one week, and the other the next brushing and perfuming them always beforehand. as for that which regardeth the family, the fewer in number, the better; also act so that the servants may be modest and tranquil. all these pieces of advice be principal points which it is well to observe. as for the rest, you have the sacred magic 56 only to keep before your eyes

reating the lord god that he would deign to command his holy angels to lead you in the true way, and wisdom, and knowledge, by studying the which assiduously in the sacred writings there will arise more and more (wisdom) in your heart. the use of the rights of marriage is permitted, but should scarcely if at all be made use of (during this period. you shall also wash your whole body every sabbath eve. as to what regardeth commerce and manner of living, i have already given unto you sufficient instruction. only it is absolutely necessary to retire from the world and seek retreat; and ye shall lengthen your prayers to the utmost of your ability. as for eating, drinking and clothing, ye shall govern yourselves in exactly the same manner as in the two first moons; except that ye shall fast (th

and manner of living, i have already given unto you sufficient instruction. only it is absolutely necessary to retire from the world and seek retreat; and ye shall lengthen your prayers to the utmost of your ability. as for eating, drinking and clothing, ye shall govern yourselves in exactly the same manner as in the two first moons; except that ye shall fast (the qabalistical fast) every sabbath eve. note well: the sabbath is for the jews, who are accustomed to observe the same every saturday, but for christians the sabbath is the sunday, and they31 ought to consider the saturday as its eve. 7 the sacred magic 58 the ninth chapter. concerning the two last moons which must be thus commenced. orning and noon ye shall wash your hands and your face on entering the oratory;32 and firstly ye sh

pt works of charity towards his neighbour. you shall shun all society except that of your wife and of your servants. ye shall employ the greatest part of your time in speaking of the law of god, and in reading such works as treat wisely thereof; so that your eyes may be opened unto that which from past time even unto the present ye have not as yet seen, nor thought of, nor believed. every sabbath eve shall ye fast, and wash your whole body, and change your garment. furthermore, ye shall have a vest and tunic of linen, which ye shall put on every time that ye enter into the oratory, before ye commence to put the perfume in the censer, as i shall tell ye more fully hereafter also ye shall have a basket or other convenient vessel of copper filled with charcoal to put inside the censer when ne

a part; of lign aloes a quarter of a part; and not being able to get this wood you shall take that of cedar, or of rose, or of citron, or any other odoriferous wood. you shall reduce all these ingredients into a very fine powder, mix them well together and keep the same in a box or other convenient vessel. as you will consume a great deal of this perfume, it will be advisable to mix enough on the eve of the sabbath to last the whole week. you shall also have a wand of almond-tree wood, smooth and straight, of the length of about from half an ell to six feet50 and ye shall keep the aforesaid things in good order in the cupboard51 of the altar, ready for use in the proper time and place. here followeth the manner of ordering oneself and of operating. the sacred magic 62 the twelfth chapter

l work all the better, for it should suffice you for them to say and do what you wish (22) all prayers, orations, invocations, and conjurations, and in fact everything you have to say, should be pronounced aloud and clearly, without however shouting like a madman,109 but speaking clearly and naturally, and pronouncing distinctly (23) during the six moons, you shall sweep the oratory every sabbath eve, and keep it strictly clean, for it is a place dedicated unto the holy and pure angels (24) take heed that you commence no operation at night if it be important, unless the need be very pressing (25) your only object during your whole life should be to shun as far as possible an ill-regulated life, and especially the vices of debauchery, gluttony, and drunkenness.110 (26) having completed the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

he was equally sure he saw the lips move and heard it answer, clearly, in german. he asked what would happen to russia, and what would happen to him. from the moving lips of the corpse came the reply that russia would be defeated in war and that there would be a revolution; the tzar would be captured magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 169 by his enemies and killed on the eve of rescue; he, the bolshevik, would fight in the revolution but would suffer no harm; later, he would be wounded fighting a foreign enemy, but would recover and live long "the bolshevik did not really believe what he had seen although he was certain that he had seen it. i mean that he explained it by hypnotism or auto-suggestion or something of the kind; but it was true, he said, that he passe

vilization of course, implies organization up to a certain point. the freedom of any function is built upon system; and so long as law and order make it easier for a man to do his true will, they are admirable. it is when system is adored for its own sake, or as a means of endowing mediocrities with power as such, that the "critical temperature" is attained. it so happens that i write this on the eve of a general election in england; and it seems to me that whichever wins, england loses: magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 284 the socialists openly proclaim that they mean to run the country on the lines of a convict prison; but the tories, for all their fine talk, would be helpless against the banks and the trusts to whom they must look for support. still, perhaps w

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ts zwg) ah. alas! yw) nerve, sinew (gn. 32:25, 32) dyg narrative, subtle discourse hdgh that [one (ref. to )wh )whh to dream, rave hzh a fly bwbz sacrificed xbz to seethe, boil dwz to brighten, make joyful hdx a circle, orbit gwx good bw+ to give, place bhy 18 my favourite, my beloved ybh) hatred hby) the antique serpent)+x living yx (notariqon of yehi aur, 232 )w)y 19 an enemy byw) was black hyd eve: to manifest, show forth hwx nation; gentile ywg 20 yod: a hand dwy a name of god yy fraternity hwx) black liquid wyd it was hyh the breast; a vision; a prophet; to gaze hzx sin h)+h golden bwhz 21 the mystic number of tiphareth existence, being: the divine name of kether hyh) but, howbeit; certainly k) deep meditation gygh ah. alas! ywh purity, innocence wxz part of hwhy (see sepher yetzirah)

binah: understanding hnyb zayin: a sword nyz a ship, fleet ynw) debased llz to embalm +nx 68 wise( ghe will understand that? h) nbyw to be wise mkx emptiness llx to pity sx lulav: a palm branch blwl life myyx 69 a manger, stable; an enclosure swb) myrtle sdh nations; gentiles myywg transgression, error, sin +s 70 hush, be silent hsh wine nyy night lyl the secret (ps. 25:14; see 353) dws adam and eve hwxw md) honest; so, thus, just so, such, so much nk 71 thy terror kmy) nothing; an apparition, image; idol lyl) silence; silent ml) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level kn) vision nwzx a dove, pigeon hnwy a dove hwny plentitude, fulness; to fill )lm 72 the number of triliteral names in the shem ha-mephorasch (72 3= 216; which, by the addition of -yh or -al, give 72 an

t; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from the egyptian for ggreat house h) h(rp sphere; number; emanation hryps 356 expiations, atonements myrwpk a young mule rpw( spirits of the living nyyxd nyxwr 357 iniquity)#wn 358 shame hn#g shiloh shall come (gn. 49:10) hly )by gmessiach h: the messiah xy#m the serpent that initiated eve #xn (taking the three hehs in hwhyh) as concealing the mothers# m, we get iota: alpha: omega) mw)y) the breastplate of the high priest n#x renewed, restored #dwxm 359 the sacred wind my# satan: the adversary n# 360 shin: a tooth ny# the messiah hy#mh the sinew [of the thigh; the weakening (gn. 32:32& cf. hn#h, below. k.d. p.235) h#nh the change; the teaching; the sleep (see k.d. p.235) hn#h th

els and other terrible animals *myxw) 626 the qliphoth: shells, demons twpylq 628 light (spelt in full, vau )w; cf. 633 and 643 :r:w) blessings twkrb to be wise *mkx life *myyx 629 the great trumpet lwdg rpw# nations; gentiles *myywg 630 the holy spirit)#ydq )xwr seraphim, flaming ones: the angelic choir of geburah mypr# hairy ones; he-goats; demons myry# drill, coarse linen; a triad #l# adam and eve *hwxw md) thine eye( gis h written. see 160& i.r.q. 652 *kny( 631 concealed mystery )tw(yncd silence; silent *ml) 632 the world of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 564) twdwsy mlw( 633 light (spelt in full, vau= ww; cf. 628 and 643 :r:w) male and female created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb hbqnw rkz a day of feast *bw+ mwy 634 worn-out; beggars *mykd 635 son of the dawn

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visible; attend to order before disorder ariseth. 2. the tree which filleth the embrace grew from a small shoot; the tower nine-storied rose from a low foundation; the ten-day journey began with a single step. 3. he who acteth worketh harm; he who graspeth findeth it a slip. the wise man acteth not, so worketh no harm; he doth not grasp, and so doth not let go. men often ruin their affairs on the eve of success, because they are not as prudent at the end as in the beginning. 4. the wise man willeth what others do not will((he does his own will, instead of aiming at a standardized goal) and valueth not things rare((and so sought after by others) he learneth what others learn not, and gathered up what they despise. thus he is in accord with the natural course of events, and is not overbold i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ost of all to the sceptic- that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam, the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. i take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in k

dy nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor, and so referreth to him that walketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badawi that became king, in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of the transcending of time, so that in one hour of our terrestrial measure did i gather the harvest of an aeon, and in ten lives i could no

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ity of my subject: these poems being written when i was an advaitist and could not see why everything being an illusion there should be any particular object in doing or thinking anything. how i have found the answer will be evident from my essay on the subject* i must indeed apologise to the illustrious shade of robert browning for my audacious parody in title, style, and matter of his christmas eve and easter day. the more i read it the eventual anticlimax of that wonderful poem irritated me only the more. but there is hardly any poet living or dead who so commands alike my personal affection and moral admiration. my desire to find the truth will be my pardon with him, whose sole life was spent in admiration of the truth, though he never turned its formidable engines against the citadel

hristianity excites especially such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. 90 the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; 95 but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. 100 there s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. 105 retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mother. the sword of song 8 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpre

tion of the glories of our greatest poet, a possibly jejune yet assurdly historic attempt to place of the first time william shakespeare on his proper pedastal as an early disciple of mr. george bernard shaw; and by consequence to carve myself a little niche in the same temple: the smallest contributions will be thankfully received. notes to ascension day 1. i flung out of chapel.1 browning, xmas eve, iii. last line. 3. venus bower and osiris tomb.2 crowley, tannha user. 5. god.3 hebrew \yhla, gen. iii. 5. 5. gods.4 hebrew \yhla, gen. iii. 5. the revisers, seeing this most awkard juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by god. in other passages, however, they have been compelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate \yhla by gods. for evidence of this

amemnon (browning s translation, preface. 40. aristobulus.15 may be scanned elsehow by pedants. cf. swinburne s curious scansion arjstpphanes. but the scansion adopted here gives a more credible rhyme. 42. batracomuomacia.16 aristophanes batrachoi. 46. mine of so many pounds pouch even pence of it?17 this line was suggested to me by a large holder of westralians. 47. something easier.18 christmas eve and easter day. 51. newton.19 mathematician and physicist of repute. 51. faraday.20 see dictionary of national biography. 64. i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21 as far as they would let me. i know some. 74. beard.22 150. a barba senioris sanctissimi pendet omnis ornatus omnium& influentia; nam omnia appellantur ab illa barba, influentia. 151. hic est ornatus omnium ornatuum: influentie

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ti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he created 20 the fourth of the mystic numbers of jupiter is 136. for love, is tempted by the snake, nechesh, who is messiah her child. and the snake is the magical power, which hath destroyed the primordial equilibrium. and the garden is the supernal eden, where is ayin, 70, the eye of the concealed one, and the creative lingam; and daleth, love; and nun the serpent. and therefore this

y thyself, and return into the world. so i did that which was commanded me, and returned. biskra "december" 17, 1909. 9.30- 11.30 a.m. the cry of the 2nd aethyr, which is called arn in the first place, there is again the woman riding on the bull, which is the reflection of babalon, that rideth on the beast. and also there is an assyrian legend of a woman with a fish, and also there is a legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. 148 the shedding of blood is necessary, for god did not hear the

erpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. 148 the shedding of blood is necessary, for god did not hear the children of eve until blood was shed. and that is external religion; but cain spake not with god, nor had the mark of initiation upon his brow, so that he was shunned by all men, until he had shed blood. and this blood was the blood of his brother. this is a mystery of the sixth key of the taro, which ought not to be called the lovers, but the brothers. in the middle of the card stands cain; in his right hand

d. and this blood was the blood of his brother. this is a mystery of the sixth key of the taro, which ought not to be called the lovers, but the brothers. in the middle of the card stands cain; in his right hand is the hammer of thor with which he hath slain his brother, and it is all wet with his blood. and his left hand he holdeth open as a sign of innocence. and on his right hand is his mother eve, around whom the serpent is entwined with his hood spread behind her head; and on his left hand is a figure somewhat like the hindoo kali, but much more seductive. yet i know it to be lilith. and above him is the great sigil of the arrow, downward, but it is struck through the heart of the child. this child is also abel. and the meaning of this part of the card is obscure, but that is the corr

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the moment in the ritual when the real work should be done, to fling forth flying that concentrated will "whirling forth with re-echoing roar, so that it may comprehend with 55 invincible will ideas omniform, which flying forth from that one fountain issued: whose foundation is one, one and alone. as therefore discipline of whatever kind is only one way of going into a wood at midnight on easter eve and cutting the magic wand with a single blow of the magic knife, etc. etc. etc. we can regard the western system as the essential one. yet of course pranayama, for one thing, has its own definite magical effect, apart from teaching the practitioner that he must last out those three seconds those deadly long last three seconds even if he burst in the process. all this i am writing during bre

d esteemeth them as dross. this is right, john st. john! yet how is it that there is place for the great hunchbacked devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: is there in truth any mystic path at all? is it all disappointment and illusion? and the "poor thing" john st. john moves off 112 shivering and sad, like a sot who has tried to get credit at a tavern and is turned away and that on christmas eve! there is no money in his purse, no steam in his boilers that's what's the matter with john st. john. it is clear enough, what happened yesterday. he failed at the four pylons in turn; in the morning fear stopped him at that of horus and so on; while in the evening he either failed at the pylon of thoth,"i.e. was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overc

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find some other road "i am sure it would be too long a journey" says a second "i could not afford it; i too will return "there are no guides here" says a third "how foolish for me to attempt so high a peak" 228 "i am not strong enough" says a fourth "i have no chart "my business won't let me "my wife is against it" thus god enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted eve in the garden of eden, and abraham in the land of moriah. but the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his great travel to the summit of the mountain of god; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way satan follows behind him in the form of a sleuth-hound ever tempting hi

and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, making with the ten sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the sepher yetzirah" the letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the serpent of wisdom, and the sephiroth the flaming sword "the two pillars right and left of the tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female- adam and eve. the pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark; the right, male- metatron; and the left, female- sandalphon. above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, the higher life, of which they are the partakers in the eternal uncreated one" illustration on page 269 described "diagram 24. the caduceus of hermes" this is composed of two figures, side by side. on the left is a va

rnal triad, to water the garden- the rest of the sephiroth. and from thence it was divided into four heads, in da th. the first head is pison, which flows into geburah. the second head is gihor. flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel. flowing into tiphereth. and the fourth. is phrath, euphrates, which floweth down upon malkuth" these four rivers form the cross of the great adam. in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all. the "hierophant" then gives the theoricus the sign of this grade, and explains the altar symbol "the cross above the triangle represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles: while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross a

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you shall prolong your prayer with the greatest possible affection, devotion and submission; humbly entreating the lord god that he would deign to command his holy angels to lead you in the true way" during this period the points to be observed are (1 "the use of the rites of marriage is permitted, but should scarcely if at all be made use of (2 "you shall also wash your whole body every sabbath eve (3 "as to what regardeth commerce and rules of living, as in the first period (4 "it is absolutely necessary during this period to retire from the world and seek retreat" 242 (5 "ye shall lengthen your prayers to the utmost of your ability (6 "as for eating, drinking, and clothing, as before."37 "third period "morning and noon ye shall wash your hands and your face on entering the oratory; and

fore dining and also in the evening,"38 as well as at sunrise. during this period the points to be observed are (1 "the man who is his own master shall leave all business alone, except works of charity towards his neighbour (2 "you shall shun all society except that of your wife and of your servants (3 "ye shall employ the greatest part of your time in speaking of the law of god (4 "every sabbath eve shall ye fast, and wash your whole body, and change your garment."39 if possible the whole of this operation should be performed in a place where solitude can be obtained; the best being, as abramelin writes "where there is a small wood, in the midst of which you shall make a small altar, and you shall cover the same with a hut of fine branches, so that the rain may not fall thereon and exting

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the grey old snake of madness wove his wild curse! as i trod the trackless way through sunless gorges of cathay, i became a little child. by nameless rivers, swirling through 36 chasms, a fantastic blue, month by month, on barren hills, in burning heat, in bitter chills, tropic forest, tartar snow, smaragdine archipelago, see me_ led by some wise hand that i did not understand. morn and noon and eve and night i, the forlorn eremite, called on him with mild devotion, as the dew-drop woos the ocean. in my wanderings i came to an ancient park aflame with fairies' feet. still wrapped in love i was caught up, beyond, above the tides of being. the great sight of the intolerable light of the whole universe that wove the labyrinth of life and love blazed in me. then some giant will, mine or anoth

d gaze; for i am fair" oh the dark, sweet hair of her, burnished cascade of heavy-tress d black: nothing's more rare of her than its thick massed glory over breast and back. it rolls and ripples, silver flecked, like moonlight on a misty sea, whose lifting surfaces reflect a sombre, ever-changing radiancy. i would compare the dusk, soft-stealing perfume of her hair to breezes on a southern summer eve, when the night-scented stock hangs drowsing on the air. its languid incense bids me half believe i pass the dreamy day in reveries, by some sleep-haunted shore of the hesperides. oh, the deep, dark eyes of her, half slumbrous depths of heavy lidded calm: there's naught i prize of her more than the shrouded silence they embalm. there's all the mystery of an enchanted pool, hid in brown woodlan

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s. is that all you want to know "master, what of the lady "the lady? faugh! she went away; the spirits of the earth prevented her from lodging a complaint; she hid her 308 wounded ears under a thick ornament of pearls and gold. it was not bad with her! besides, what is she to you, anyhow, billy-goat "and now, all of ye, clear out, and walk ye all to your rooms with the mantra" finis 309 midsummer eve faint shadows cross the shifting spears of light, pale gold and amethyst, or warmly white, till velvet shod, unseen, the wizard hours hold thus their elfin court amid the flowers, that wake to wing d music of the night. and silken signs scarce stir the amorous bowers where 'passioned sleep his poppy garland showers, in dreams which mock the hastening moments flight. up soars the moon, and high

mands is healthy parents and healthy children, healthy pleasures and healthy pains. the church, the chapel, and the registry office must go; for, so long as they remain, prostitution will spell degradation, and marriage falsehood and hypocrisy. chaos will not result when virtue weds with vice, for what is possible to the savage is possible for us, and the children will be looked after better than eve. once teach our children the nobility of love, and the pimp, the pander, and the puir-minded presbyter will simply be starved out. continue to foster the present unhealthy aspect with its "unfortunate" its "fallen" its "awful" its "degradation" and its "doom" and, in spite of a million vigilance society men on every 337 railway platform in the kingdom, the white slave traffic will continue to

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9 the gnome. by victor b. neuburg 237 review 240 the herb dangerous. part iv: the hasheesh eater 241 the agnostic 247 the mantra-yogi 275 the violinist. by francis bendick 277 xiv ehe! by george raffalovich 281 half-hours with famous mahatmas. no. i. by sam hardy 284 the thief-taker. by aleister crowley 291 review 292 the eyes of st. ljubov. by j. f. c. fuller and george raffalovich 293 midsummer eve. by ethel archer 310 the poetical memory 311 adela 314 the three worms. by edward storer 317 the felon flower. by ethel archer 325 the big stick 327 glaziers' houses 346 in the temple. by victor b. neuburg 352 "special supplement" the high history of sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following the questing beast illustrations aratrum securum "facing page" 11 the yogi" 90 the tatwas"

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

that made them. the main tenet of the cult was the belief in fertility. this was something with which alex, as one of a large family, was all too familiar, and he regarded it as a mixed blessing. now he heard that in olden times people without children were as nothing-it was their offspring that gave them a stake in the future-and he learnt of the first fertility ritesheld by white witcheson may eve and november eve when, after honouring their god, they feasted, drank and made love (the last was never performed communally, for that was considered obscene and a perversion of the witch law, but nevertheless white witches were reviled for their 'orgies' just as hysterically as black witches) there was so muchfor alex to learn, and all of it by heart, that he sometimes protested; he was still

iminishes them, but alex and his followers put this down to superstition. pptnbix. btmtttbts' altnbat the witches' year begins at midnight on 20 december when the cauldron is wreathed with holly, ivy and mistletoe and the ritual symbolizes the rebirth of the sun. candlemas, on i february, is devoted to mass initiations. the spring equinox on 20 march is the major fertility sabbath. beltane,or may eve sabbath, on 30 april, another fertility sabbath but not so important as the equinox. midsummer night festival, the summer solstice, is on 21 june and is a social occasion when witches from some distance band together. august eve or lammas festival begins on 31 july and is primarily concerned with making spells to ensure a good harvest of crops, stock or money. the autumn equinox, on 20 septemb

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ead it is impossible to tell, for the study of radio-active substances is as yet in its infancy, and little is actually known. much of the earlier teaching of physical science has been revolutionised by the discovery of radium, and the more scientists find out, the more it becomes apparent (as they themselves realise, that we are standing on the threshold of very great discoveries, and are on the eve of profound revelations. in the human being, as he evolves and develops, these two stages can equally be seen. there is the early or atomic stage, in which a man's whole centre of interest lies within himself, within his own sphere, where self-centredness is the law of his being, a necessary protective stage of evolution. he is purely selfish, and concerned primarily with his own affairs. this

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treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust discordant of the warring elements greets the oncoming one, and deters him not. the strife and cries of the fourth great hierarchy, blending with the softer note of the builders of the fifth and sixth, meet his approach. yet he passeth on his way, sweeping the circle of the spheres, and sounding forth the word. from the nadir to the zenith, from eve unto the day be with us, from the circle of manifestation to the centre of pralayic peace, is seen the enveloping blue, lost in the flame of achievement. up from the pit of maya back to the portals of gold, forth from the gloom and darkness back to the splendour of day, rideth the manifested one, the avatar, bearing the shattered cross. naught can arrest his return, none can impede his path, f

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gends bear evidence and which have come down to us concerning lilith, the last of the virgin goddesses of atlantean times; the same thought is also to be found in the traditionary accounts of the ancient amazons, whose queen hercules defeated, wresting from her what he sought. this is an allegory, teaching the emergence of the spiritual man from the control of matter. three of these goddesses are eve, isis, and mary. they are of peculiar and significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated and functioning as a whole person, we call the personality. this personality is (as far as humanity is concerned) the developed and qualified expression of the third aspect of divinity, that of god the

the personality. this personality is (as far as humanity is concerned) the developed and qualified expression of the third aspect of divinity, that of god the holy spirit, the active intelligent and nurturing principle of the universe. this aspect we shall study in leo and see there the unfoldment of that self-conscious entity and personality which in virgo becomes the mother of the christ child. eve is the symbol of the mental nature, and of the mind of man attracted by the lure of knowledge to be gained through the experience of incarnation. eve, therefore, took the apple of knowledge from the serpent of matter and started the long human undertaking of experiment, experience and expression which was initiated from the mental angle in our aryan times. isis stands for this same expression

d of the mind of man attracted by the lure of knowledge to be gained through the experience of incarnation. eve, therefore, took the apple of knowledge from the serpent of matter and started the long human undertaking of experiment, experience and expression which was initiated from the mental angle in our aryan times. isis stands for this same expression down on to the emotional or astral plane. eve has no child in her arms; the germ of the christ life is as yet too small to make its presence felt; the involutionary process is yet too close; but in isis the midway point is reached; the quickening of that which is desired (the desire of all nations, as it is called in the bible) has taken place and isis consequently stands in the ancient zodiacs for fertility, for motherhood and as the gua

e process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the christ child. in these three virgins and these three mothers of the christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the christ must find expression. the sign of virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three feminine aspects eve, isis and mary. she is the virgin mother, providing that which is needed for the mental, emotional and physical expression of the hidden but ever present divinity. these three expressions are brought to the needed perfection in leo, the sign of the individual, developed self-consciousness and personality unfoldment. virgo is, therefore, the opposite pole of spirit and stands for the relation o

nature and with the struggles which led to initiation (s.d. iii. 141) note: all the travels of all the heroes of antiquity through the signs of the sun and the heavens. are in each individual case, the personification of the sufferings, triumphs, and miracles of an adept before and after initiation. 5. the signs of the zodiac: each a double sign in ancient astrological magic namely: it was taurus-eve; and scorpio was mars-lupa, or mars with the female wolf. so as these signs were opposites of each other, yet met in the centre they are connected (s.d. iii. 154) references in a treatise on cosmic fire. 6 "until the mystery of the great bear is revealed and is known as it is, and until the influence of pleiades is comprehended, and the true significance of the cosmic triangle formed by 1. the

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us solar system from which we inherited the matter of which all manifested forms are made. this symbolism has come down from the far-off period of the matriarchate, which had a religion that recalled the ancient ways of the earlier system and in- 215- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust which period of time lilith symbolised the world mother, until eve took her place. on the sense of futility. in connection with the work of the healer with patients at the gate of death, he may experience a sense of futility. is it possible to know just what he can do? should he continue his effort to help the newly freed soul to go forward into the light? in the face of all his knowledge (and he may have much, and in spite of his yearning desire to aid the d

through matter, in order eventually freely to control it. the percentage of the souls of those who are oriented away from expression in the three worlds is relatively so small, in proportion to the total number of souls demanding experience in the three worlds, that, until the cycle or era which we call the christian, it might be stated that death reigned triumphant. today, however, we are on the eve of seeing a complete change in this condition, owing to the fact that humanity on a much larger scale than ever known before is achieving a needed reorientation; the higher values and the life of the soul, as entered upon through the insistence of the mind in its higher and lower aspects, is beginning to control. this will perforce bring in a new attitude towards death; it will be regarded as

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equate expressions make the teaching hard to communicate) this is not the case. your outgoing energy seems short circuited and your radiation is inadequate to your inner spiritual life. you will recall that i gave you the word "radiation" some years ago as your desired keynote. for years i have watched the intensification of your spiritual life upon the inner planes only to see it arrested on the eve of expression upon the plane of daily life. i refer not here to character expression or to being what people ordinarily call good. i refer to effective radiation. what causes this, my brother? i would say: outer circumstances, and two people in particular, plus an acutely sensitive receptivity to the mental and emotional life of others. ponder on this. this sensitivity causes an arresting of p

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"doing the right things physically" because he does them automatically and his spiritual habits offset all the lower physical tendencies; automatically these developed habits enable him to surmount the appeal of those desires which work out in the fulfillment of lower desire. no one is accepted into the circle of the ashram (which is the technical name given to the status of those who are on the eve of initiation or who are being prepared for initiation) whose physical appetites are in any danger of controlling him. this is a statement of fact. this applies particularly and specifically to those preparing for the first initiation. those preparing for the second initiation have to demonstrate their freedom from the slavery of ideas, from a fanatical reaction to any truth or spiritual leade

steals through the misty dawn, or in the mellow sunlight strikes soft upon the ear, that soon the inner hearing will become expanded feeling and will give place to sight and perfect comprehension- 499- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust know when the music of the spheres comes to you note by note, in misty dawn or sunny noon, at cool of eve, or sounding through the deep of night, that in their rhythmic tone lies secret revelation. an esoteric fragment where is the gate, o lanoo, which guards the triple-way? within the sacred heart of him who is the threefold path. i reach the gate and pass within, entering thus the heart, through the means of wide compassion. how many gates are there, o passer on the way? the gates are seven, eac

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expression of the creative force: these are the three basic ideas connected with this constellation. the "interpreter of the divine voice, as taurus was called in ancient egypt, can be paraphrased into christian terminology and called "the word made flesh. it is an interesting sidelight on the power of the zodiacal influences to recall that the bull's-eye lantern can be traced back to the bull's eve in taurus, and the pontifical bull, or the papal- 29- the labours of hercules enunciations which were regarded [45] as interpreters of god's voice, is a term in common usage today. it might well be asked here, in what way does taurus, the bull, become the bringer of illumination? we are told that in this sign the moon is exalted and venus is the ruler. the moon has always, from the standpoint

o unity and the pairs of opposites are blended [61] the symbols eurystheus, having watched hercules achieve mental control and then ride the bull of desire over into the temple of the soul, now sets him the task of fetching the golden apples from the garden of the hesperides. the apple has long figured in mythology and in symbology. in the garden of eden, as we know, the serpent gave the apple to eve; and with the giving of that apple, and with its acceptance came the knowledge of good and of evil. this is a symbolic method of telling us the story of the appearance of mind, and of how it began to function in that early creature, which was neither animal nor strictly human. with the coming of mind came also the knowledge of duality, of the pull of the pairs of opposites, of the nature of th

u and all unknown and all unrecognized gave unto you the needed love and power. you rescued that which needed you, and thus again the two are one. ponder anew upon the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son [115] the tibetan (djwhal khul) introduction it is said that, from some aspects, virgo is the oldest of the zodiacal signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, qu

of time- 88- the labours of hercules and space and as hercules struggles with the hydra he looks up, sees the eagle, and is reminded that he has come forth into incarnation and will fly back from whence he came. there are three constellations connected with this sign which are tremendously interesting. first, there is serpens, the serpent of illusion, the serpent we meet in genesis, which deluded eve. the second one is ophiuchus, the man who wrestles with the serpent. the ancient zodiac portrays the serpent in the hands of this man. he seizes it with both hands and treads on its heart, which is the red star of desire. as he does this, he looks towards the constellation that we saw in libra, the crown. so we have personality, symbolized by ophiuchus, struggling [154] with the serpent of ill

- the labours of hercules surely substantiated and there is a real foundation for the claim of the esotericist that each new sign brings to the earth distinctive energies, new concepts and new opportunities. it can also be shown that these astrological factors have set their mark upon our christian tradition and upon our church usage. it is interesting to note in this connection that on christmas eve, the brightest of the fixed stars, sirius, is seen to the left of the meridian line somewhat to the south. two thousand years ago, owing to the precession of the equinoxes, it stood on the meridian line. this is the star in the east. at the same time, the constellation virgo, the virgin, became visible in the east, and it is interesting to note the coincidence that spica, the brightest star in

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the "nephesh chiah--the breath of life, vitality; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then enter another stage of progress, and achieve a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they

ned, and ultimate reunion with the divine is the result of the purified soul having completed its pilgrimage. before we consider man in his present state we must note the views of the kabalah upon man in his primal state. man was the final word of creation, he was a r sum of all forms, and so transcended the angels in his faculties. the first man had no fleshy body, no material envelope: adam and eve were clothed only in ethereal forms, and were not subject to appetites or passions, they dwelled in light in the gn oidn, garden of aidin, of eden, of pleasant peace (zohar ii. 229b. the man and the woman before their descent to this world were as one--androgynous; at incarnation they were separated into sexes. the first human pair broke the first commandment, they sinned and were doomed to a

APOCALYPSE MOSES

arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and amilabes who is called abel. chapter 2. 1 and after this, adam and eve were with one another and while they were sleeping, eve said to adam her lord 'my lord, adam

. i by the hand of cain his brother. 2 and god saith to michael the archangel 'say to adam:reveal not the secret that thou knowest to cain thy son, for he is a son of wrath. but grieve not, for i will give thee another son in his stead; he shall show (to thee) all that thou shalt do. do thou tell him nothing' thus spake the archangel to adam. 3 but he kept the word in his heart, and with him also eve, though they grieved concerning abel their son. chapter 4. 1 and after this, adam knew eve his wife, and she conceived and bare seth. 2 and adam said to eve 'see! we have begotten a son in place of abel, whom cain slew, let us give glory and sacrifice to god' chapter 5. 1 and adam begat thirty sons and thirty daughters and adam lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried wi

om its builder" and he saith to me "since thou hast abandoned my covenant, i have brought upon thy body seventy-two strokes; the trouble of the first stroke is a pain of the eyes, the second stroke an affection of the hearing, and likewise in turn all the strokes shall befall thee' chapter 9. 1 as he said this to his sons, adam groaned sore and said 'what shall i do? i am in great distress' 2 and eve wept and said 'my lord adam, rise up and give me half of thy trouble and i will endure it; for it is on my account that this hath happened to thee, on my account thou art beset with toils and troubles' 3 but adam said to eve 'arise and go with my son seth near to paradise, and put earth upon your heads and weep and pray god to have mercy upon me and send his angel to paradise, and give me of t

ee, on my account thou art beset with toils and troubles' 3 but adam said to eve 'arise and go with my son seth near to paradise, and put earth upon your heads and weep and pray god to have mercy upon me and send his angel to paradise, and give me of the tree out of which the oil floweth, and bring it me, and i shall anoint myself and shall have rest from my complaint' chapter 10. 1 then seth and eve went towards paradise, and eve saw her son, and a wild beast assailing him, and eve wept and said' 2 woe is me; if i come to the day of the resurrection, all those who have sinned will curse me saying: eve hath not kept the commandment of god' 3 and she spake to the beast 'thou wicked beast, fearest thou not to fight with the image of god? how was thy mouth opened? how were thy teeth made stro

will curse me saying: eve hath not kept the commandment of god' 3 and she spake to the beast 'thou wicked beast, fearest thou not to fight with the image of god? how was thy mouth opened? how were thy teeth made strong? how didst thou not call to mind thy subjection? for long ago wast thou made subject to the image of god' 4 then the beast cried out and said: chapter 11. 1 'it is not our concern, eve, thy greed and thy wailing, but thine own; for (it is) from thee that the rule of the beasts hath arisen. 2 how was thy mouth opened to eat of the tree concerning which god enjoined thee not to eat of it? on this account, our nature also hath been transformed. 3 now therefore thou canst not endure it, if i begin to reprove thee' chapter 12. 1 then seth speaketh to the beast 'close thy mouth an

on this account, our nature also hath been transformed. 3 now therefore thou canst not endure it, if i begin to reprove thee' chapter 12. 1 then seth speaketh to the beast 'close thy mouth and be silent and stand off from the image of god until the day of judgment' 2 then saith the beast to seth 'behold, i stand off from the image of god' and he went to his lair. chapter 13. 1 and seth went with eve near paradise, and i they wept there, and prayed god to send his angel and give them the oil of mercy. 2 and god sent the archangel michael and he spake to seth 'seth, man of god, weary not thyself with prayers and entreaties concerning the tree which floweth with oil to anoint thy father adam. for it shall not be thine now, but in the end of the times. 3 then shall all flesh be raised up from

ll be taken from them and there shall be given them a heart understanding the good and to serve god only. 5 but do thou go back to thy father. for the term of his life hath been fulfilled and he will live three days from to-day and will die. 6 but when his soul is departing, thou shalt behold the awful (scene of) his passing' chapter 14. 1 thus spake the angel and departed from them. and seth and eve came to the hut where adam was laid. 2 and adam saith to eve 'eve, what hast thou wrought in us? thou hast brought upon us great wrath which is death (lording it over all our race' 3 and he saith to her 'call all our children and our children's children and tell them the manner of our transgression' chapter 15. 1 then saith eve to them 'hear all my children and children's children and i will r

oth with me" 5 the devil saith to him "fear not, only be my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly he hung himself from the wall of paradise, and when the angels ascended to worship god, then satan appeared in the form of an angel and sang hymns like the angels. 2 and i bent over the wall and saw him, like an angel. but he saith to me "art thou eve" and i said to him "i am" 3 'what art thou doing in paradise" and i said to him "god set us to guard and to eat of it" 4 the devil answered through the mouth of the serpent 'ye do well but ye do not eat of every plant" 5 and i said "yea, we eat of all. save one only, which is in the midst of paradise, concerning which, god charged us not to eat of it: for, he said to us, on the day on which ye

eeds for his food. 6 and the angels let him go and he took four kinds: crocus and nard and calamus and cinnamon and the other seeds for his food: and, after taking these, he went out of paradise. 7 and we were on the earth. chapter 30. 1 now then, my children, i have shown you the way in which we were deceived; and do ye guard yourselves from transgressing against the good' chapter 31. 1 and when eve had said this in the midst of her sons, while adam was lying ill and bound to die after a single day from the sickness which had fastened upon him, she saith to him: 2 'how is it that thou diest and i live or how long have i to live after thou art dead? tell me' and adam saith to her 'reck not of this, for thou tarriest not after me, but even both of us are to die together. 3 and she shall lie

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re afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the one is righteous but the other is unrighteous (yave is righteous but eloim is unrighteous) yave he set over the fire and the wind, and eloim he set over the water and the earth. and these he called with the names cain and abel with a

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

velopment or parthenogenesis from which the masculine principle was born. lucifer, orlight, lay hidden in the darkness of diana, as heat is hidden in ice. but the regenerator or messiahof this strange doctrine is a woman aradia, though the two, mother and daughter, are confused orreflected in the different tales, even as jahvehis confused with the elohim.remains to be said that the adam-nable and eve-il, or adamite assemblages enjoined in thegospel of sorcery, are not much, if at all, kept up by the now few and far between old or youngwitches and venerable wizards of the present day. that is to say, not to my knowledge in central ornorthern italy. but among the rous, viveurs, and fast women of florence and milan where theyare not quite as rare as eclipses such assemblies are called balli a

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

nfused into him a life vgiving spirit. for as there is no fire without air so neither is there any air without fire. water was incorporated with the earth thus living man is an harmonious mixture of the four twelve keys of basil valentine 56 of 95 elements; and adam was generated out of earth, water, air, and fire, out of soul, spirit, and body, out of mercury, sulphur, and salt. in the same way, eve, our common mother, was created; for her body was built up and formed out of adam s body v a fact which i wish you particularly to notice. to return again to putrefaction, o seeker of the magistery and devotee of philosophy, know that, in like manner, no metallic seed can develop, or multiply, unless the said seed, by itself alone, and without the introduction of any foreign substance, be redu

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

pentagram be sensed and understood. he refers to hecate or lilith (via diana) as being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil and his bride, the adversary. that by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cain s true parentage. cain was in fact a half human, half demon bastard child of adam and lilith. it was for this reason that the lord would not accept his offerings and prayers, rather than any specific demands of animal sacrifice. the tale continues with cain being cursed to wande

rs in preference to the powers above, and who practiced his doctrine by destroying abel, the expounder of the opposite doctrine (ib. 11. the jewish encyclopedia, compiled by kaufmann kohler, w. h. bennett, louis ginzberg herein we can see that cain is thus a flesh and blood embodiment of the luciferian path itself, he is the son of satan and lilith, the dark essence which is deeply connected with eve, the wife of adam. cain is not only the patron father of witches, also the symbol of the initiate upon the antinomian path. nathaniel harris, an hereditary british witch, whose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional witcha path, is bold enough to present ideas of our spiritual lineage found i

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

onical symbols, the "gods" being the life and animating "soul-principle" of the various regions of the universe. nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range beyond those manifested gods. the boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and mesopotamia. in assyrian ak meant creator, the letter k pronounced kh (ah) gutturally. according to swedenborg's mysticism adam was not a

words "am" and "om" meant at one time in nearly every language the divine, or the deity. thus adam kadmon and adam-adami came to mean "the first emanation of the father-mother or divine nature" and literally "the first divine one" and it is easy to see that ad-argat (or aster't, the syrian goddess, the consort of ad-on, the lord god of syria or the jewish adonai, and venus, isis, ishtar, mylitta, eve, etc, etc, are identical with the aditi and vach of the hindus. they are all the "mothers of all living" and "of the gods" on the other hand- cosmically and astronomically- all the male gods became at first "sun-gods" then, theologically, the "suns of righteousness" and the logoi, all symbolised by the sun* they are all protogonoi (the first-born) and[[footnote(s* adam-jehovah, brahma and mars

verpowered by the same sin with the help of bel (the sun) and ishtar (venus. this is regarded as a contradiction by the assyriologists, but is simply metaphysics in the esoteric teaching. there is more than one interpretation, for there are seven keys to the mystery of the fall. moreover there are two "falls" in theology: the rebellion of the archangels and their "fall" and the "fall" of adam and eve. thus the lower as well as the higher hierarchies are charged with a supposed crime. the word "supposed" is the true and correct term, for in both cases it is founded on misconception. both are considered in occultism as karmic effects, and both belong to the law of evolution: intellectual and spiritual on the one hand, physical and psychic on the other. the "fall" is a universal allegory. it

. in fact, there is neither light nor[[footnote(s* in spite of all efforts to the contrary, christian theology- having burdened itself with the hebrew esoteric account of the creation of man, which is understood literally- cannot find any reasonable excuse for its "god, the creator" who produces a man devoid of mind and sense; nor can it justify the punishment following an act, for which adam and eve might plead non compos. for if the couple is admitted to be ignorant of good and evil before the eating of the forbidden fruit, how could it be expected to know that disobedience was evil? if primeval man was meant to remain a half-witted, or rather witless, being, then his creation was aimless and even cruel, if produced by an omnipotent and perfect god. but adam and eve are shown, even in ge

, a third, widblain. over gimil's cave, a wondrous palace was erected, covered with gold and shining bright in the sun" these are the three gradually ascending planets of our "chain" there the gods were enthroned, as they used to be. from gimil's heights (the seventh planet or globe, the highest and the purest, they looked down upon the happy descendants of lif and lifthrasir (the coming adam and eve of purified humanity, and signed to them to climb up higher, to rise in knowledge and wisdom, step by step, from one "heaven to another" until they were at last fit to be united to the gods in the house of all-father (p. 305. he who knows the doctrines of esoteric budhism (or wisdom, though so imperfectly sketched hitherto, will see clearly the allegory contained in the above. its more philoso

were the two races which precede them. this fact is hinted at in every anthropogony. it is found in fable and allegory, in myth and revealed scriptures, in legend and tradition. because, of all the great mysteries, inherited by initiates from hoary antiquity, this is one of the greatest. it accounts for the bi-sexual element found in every creative deity, in brahma-viraj-vach, as in adam-jehovah-eve, also in "cain- jehovah-abel" for "the book of the generations of adam" does not even mention cain and abel, but says only "male and female created he them. and called their name adam (ch. v. 5. then it proceeds to say "and adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name seth (v. 3; after which he begets other sons and daughters, thus proving that cain and abel are h

und name of jehovah, or jah-hovah, meaning male life and female life- first androgynous, then separated into sexes- is used in this sense in genesis from ch. v. onwards. as the author of "the source of measures" says (p. 159 "the two words of which jehovah is composed make up the original idea of male-female, as the birth originators; for the hebrew letter jod was the membrum virile and hovah was eve, the mother of all living, or the procreatrix, earth and nature. the author believes, therefore, that "it is seen that the perfect one (the perfect female circle or yoni, 20612, numerically "as originator of measures, takes also the form of birth-origin, as hermaphrodite one; hence the phallic form and use" precisely; only "the phallic form and use" came long ages later; and the first and orig

ued from previous page] earth. he is lokita, the red, like brahma also and adam. the hindu mars is, like adam, born from no woman and mother. with the egyptians, mars was the primeval generative principle, and so are brahma, in exoteric teaching, and adam, in the kabala* abel is chebel, meaning "pains of birth" conception* see "isis unveiled" vol. ii, p. 398, where jehovah is shown to be adam and eve blended, and hevah, and abel, the feminine serpent* see "isis unveiled" vol. i, 305 "the union of the two create a third race, etc[[vol. 2, page] 126 the secret doctrine. while seth is the first result (physiologically) after the fall, he is also the first man; hence his son enos is referred to as the "son of man (vide infra) seth represents the later third race. to screen the real mystery nam

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the female (eva) principle; or, so to speak, the birth of a male element from an immaculate source, in other words, an immaculate conception" thus is repeated on earth the mystery enacted, according to the seers, on the divine plane. the "son" of the immaculate celestial virgin (or the undifferentiated cosmic protyle, matter in its infinitude) is born again on earth as the son of the terrestrial eve- our mother earth, and becomes humanity as a total- past, present, and future- for jehovah or jod-he-vau-he is androgyne, or both male and female. above, the son is the whole kosmos; below, he is mankind. the triad or triangle becomes tetraktis, the sacred pythagorean number, the perfect square, and a 6-faced cube on earth. the macroprosopus (the great face) is now microprosopus (the lesser fa

h's name in hebrew should also be one, echod "his name is echod: say the rabbins. the philologists ought to decide which of the two is derived from the other- linguistically and symbolically: surely, not the sanskrit? the "one" and the dragon are expressions used by the ancients in connection with their respective logoi. jehovah- esoterically (as elohim- is also the serpent or dragon that tempted eve, and the "dragon" is an old glyph for "astral light (primordial principle "which is the wisdom of chaos" archaic philosophy, recognizing neither good nor evil as a fundamental or independent power, but starting from the absolute all (universal perfection eternally, traced both through the course of natural evolution to pure light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming matter or evil. i

ephiroth-elohim, and call it jehovah. but this is[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page "writers" or scribes; the "dragons" symbols of wisdom, who guard the trees of knowledge; the "golden" apple tree of the hesperides; the "luxuriant trees" and vegetation of mount meru guarded by a serpent. juno giving to jupiter, on her marriage with him, a tree with golden fruit is another form of eve offering adam the apple from the tree of knowledge[[vol. 1, page] 130 the secret doctrine. quite arbitrary and against all reason and logic, as the term elohim is a plural noun, identical with the plural word chiim, often compounded with the elohim* moreover, in occult metaphysics there are, properly speaking, two "ones- the one on the unreachable plane of absoluteness and infinity, on which n

he female logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in nature, the word, voice or sound, and speech. if kwan-yin is the "melodious voice" so is vach "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water (the female principle "who yields us nourishment and sustenance" as mother-nature. she is associated in the work of creation with the prajapati. she is male and female ad libitum, as eve is with adam. and she is a form of aditi- the principle higher than ether- in akasa, the synthesis of all the forces in nature; thus vach and kwan-yin are both the magic potency of occult sound in nature and ether- which "voice" calls forth sien-tchan, the illusive form of the universe out of chaos and the seven elements. thus in manu brahma (the logos also) is shown dividing his body into two

seven manifested and the three concealed limbs are the body of the deity" thus our earth, malkuth, is both the seventh and the fourth world, the former when counting from the first globe above, the latter if reckoned by the planes. it is generated by the sixth globe or sephiroth called yezod "foundation" or as said in the book of numbers "by yezod, he (adam kadmon) fecundates the primitive heva (eve or our earth. rendered in mystic language this is the explanation why malkuth, called "the inferior mother" matrona, queen, and the kingdom of the foundation, is shown as the bride of tetragrammaton or microprosopus (the 2nd logos) the heavenly man. when free from all impurity she will become united with the spiritual logos, i.e, in the 7th race of the 7th round- after the regeneration, on the

ow so? in the simplest way imaginable; for the author argues that, henceforth "we (the clergy "are enabled to leave scientific men to pursue their studies without attempting to coerce them by the fear of heresy (this must be a relief indeed to messrs. huxley, tyndall, and sir c. lyell "the bible narrative does not commence with creation, as is commonly supposed, but with the formation of adam and eve, millions of years after our planet had been created. its previous history, so far as scripture is concerned, is yet unwritten "there may have been not one, but twenty different races upon the earth before the time of adam, just as there may be twenty different races of men on other worlds (p. 55. who, then, or what were those races, since the author still maintains that adam is the first man

hose races, since the author still maintains that adam is the first man of our race? it was the satanic race and races "satan (was) never in heaven, angels and men (being) one species" it was the pre-adamic race of "angels that sinned" satan was "the first prince of this world" we read. having died in consequence of his rebellion, he remained on earth as a disembodied spirit, and tempted adam and eve "the earlier ages of the satanic race, and more especially during the life-time of satan) may have been a period[[footnote(s "primeval man unveiled, or the anthropology of the bible; author (unknown) of the "stars and the angels" 1870, p. 195* especially in the face of the evidence furnished by the authorized bible itself in ch. iv. of genesis, v. 16 and 17, which shows cain going to the land

fe[[vol. 1, page] 325 the impartiality of scientific denials. of patriarchal civilization and comparative repose- a time of tubal-cains and jubals, when both sciences and arts attempted to strike their roots into the accursed ground. what a subject for an epic (when) there are inevitable incidents which must have occurred. we see before us. the gay primeval lover wooing his blushing bride at dewy eve under the danish oaks, that then grew where now no oaks will grow. the grey primeval patriarch. the primeval offspring innocently gambolling by his side. a thousand such pictures rise before us (pp. 206-207. the retrospective glance at this satanic "blushing bride" in the days of satan's innocence, does not lose in poetry as it gains in originality. quite the reverse. the modern christian brid

iarchs, etc. in both secret systems, the one universal essence is incomprehensible and inactive in its absoluteness, and can be connected with the building of the universe only in an indirect way. in both, the primeval malefemale or androgynous principle, and their ten and seven emanations (brahma-viraj and aditi-vach on the one part and the elohim-jehovah, or adam-adami (adam kadmon) and sephira eve on the[[footnote(s* in the indian pantheon the double-sexed logos is brahma, the creator, whose seven "mind born" sons are the primeval rishis- the "builders[[vol. 1, page] 356 the secret doctrine. other, with their prajapati and sephiroths, represent in their totality, first of all the archetypal man, the proto-logos; and only in their secondary aspect do they become cosmic powers, and astron

BOOK OF ENOCH

oduced to some of the watchers and then enoch has a conversation with them. at first they discuss the punishment of the runaways then the afterlife in general. the watchers may have provided some type of visual display since enoch describes what he sees. the description at 22.2 is strange but compelling. the story of cain and abel is mentioned at 22.7 and in the next section the story of adam and eve is mentioned, at 32.6. so, these stories must have existed, in some form, even in enoch's time. 20.1] and these are the names of the holy angels who keep watch. 20.2] uriel, one of the holy angels; namely the holy angel of the spirits of men. 20.4] raguel, one of the holy angels; who takes vengeance on the world, and on the lights. 20.5] michael, one of the holy angels, namely the one put in c

of smoking it. the part where it says, at 25.4 "no one will have authority to touch it, could represent the present prohibition. at 31.1 enoch mentions galbanum, this is one of the ingredients of the incense that was to be burned on the incense altar in the tent of appointment, exodus 30:34. also, at 32.3-6, the tree of wisdom also sounds like cannabis. here we get a new insight into the adam and eve story. at 33.3-4, enoch mentions how uriel gave him notes on astronomy. these notes are in this book as sections 13, 14, and 16. the angel zotiel is mentioned at 32.2, east of the red sea, there are suggestions based on weathering data that the sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 bc) than the pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for zotiel. 24.1] and from there i went to another place of the

BOOK OF JASHAR

re no dreams, except those of god and peace. the world was warm and wet and nourishing for living things, and so they formed and grew on its surface. new life came from old, which died and gave its place. plants turned their leaves to the sun, and animals grew eyes to see. and yet their eyes could see neither good nor evil in the world. such was the world, when god led flo and faben and human and eve wandering northwards in africa, along the great river. by day, faben and human hunted together, while eve swam for fish and flo gathered fruit. in the evening, human sang and eve shaped rocks into tools, while flo and faben slept together under a tree. then god said "see now what i can do with a spark" and thus fire was given into the hand of eve. she nourished the spark with dry leaves, and h

nd eve shaped rocks into tools, while flo and faben slept together under a tree. then god said "see now what i can do with a spark" and thus fire was given into the hand of eve. she nourished the spark with dry leaves, and human brought her sticks, and they felt the warmth of their fire. faben and flo awoke to a vision of angels with flaming swords, and they fled into the wilderness. so human and eve sat alone by their fire, and its light shone up into heaven, past the moon and the stars, but there was no one else watching. then human delved and eve spanned, and they followed the river to the sea, where eve gave birth to cain "look" she said "i have made another human" then god smiled on their family. and eve gave birth to abel, and later to seth. 2. cain gathered the fruits of all seed-be

st the moon and the stars, but there was no one else watching. then human delved and eve spanned, and they followed the river to the sea, where eve gave birth to cain "look" she said "i have made another human" then god smiled on their family. and eve gave birth to abel, and later to seth. 2. cain gathered the fruits of all seed-bearing plants. but abel made spears for hunting and brought meat to eve and young seth. and the sons quarreled over the leadership of the clan, after human lost the use of one arm. then cain lived in great fear, for abel was a stealthy hunter who could kill without warning in the wilderness. so cain killed abel with his own spear as he rested in the camp. they buried abel, and human found support from eve beside him. so eve brought human a flaming branch, to wield

own spear as he rested in the camp. they buried abel, and human found support from eve beside him. so eve brought human a flaming branch, to wield in his good hand, and they approached cain together. now cain started away towards the wilderness, but human commanded him to return after twenty years, so that they should not lose another son forever. cain cried that they would not remember him, but eve said "we will remember our son, for we are not animals" and cain touched a burning stick to his forehead, so that they would know him by its mark. cain was strong and swift, and he fled from the river, into the east. he ran for six days, pausing only to eat or rest. on the seventh day, he ascended to the top of a mountain. there god showed him a vision of a great city of peace, surrounded by f

of cities which god had planned for the children of abel. cain wandered for twenty years, and then he knew the whole vastness of the world. seth found rama, flo's daughter, alone along the river, and together they had a daughter named jashar. when jashar had grown into womanhood, she met cain returning home. on that day, seth had killed a great beast, and so they celebrated at the return of cain. eve made a fire, and human sang, and rama and jashar danced. and god married cain and jashar that night, under the stars "in this way" human said "we shall always rejoice when two branches of my family are rejoined" then they feasted late into the night, while human foretold joys and sorrows, and cain described his visions. everything that human said was true, but cain spoke only of the world of t

gether as kinsmen for all the rest of their days. 3. at that time, giant beasts lived in every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human children killed the giant beasts, and the trees spread over all the lands, until a squirrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers slowly melted back, and then looked

ously a pseudepigraphic forgery of a much later date. the cultural roots of the text are eclectic, although linguistic analysis suggests that the author probably had little knowledge of hebrew, and his work shows no understanding of the great traditions of biblical commentary and midrash. there are obvious islamic influences (jinn, ibrahim, but the sexual imagery used to describe human (adam) and eve echoes the battle cry of the english peasant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's speech as a re

rderline between animal and human, is sharpened for the modern reader by the fact that "flo" and "faben" are names that jane goodall used for wild chimpanzees that she studied in gombe. the name "human" is of course just a retranslation of "adam" like the name "adam (which comes from a hebrew word for earth, the word "human" is derived from a root that means dirt (humus. human's singing voice and eve's skilled hands, sharpening stone tools by moonlight, show god that they are ready for the great transition. so with the tiniest bit of divine intervention, virtually at the quantum-mechanical level, god creates a spark, at the right place and the right time, to stimulate the birth of humanity. there is an obvious contrast between this spark and the original explosion that was called forth by

ntervention, virtually at the quantum-mechanical level, god creates a spark, at the right place and the right time, to stimulate the birth of humanity. there is an obvious contrast between this spark and the original explosion that was called forth by god's first word. after creation, god's interventions are shifted in scale from cosmic to microscopic, as will be confirmed by the promise to noah. eve and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediately begin learning to use it, but their companions faben and flo are not ready and they flee. as in genesis, flaming swords mark the division between animal innocence and human sophistication, but here the direction of the swords is reversed. in genesis, the angels wield flaming swords to drive adam and eve away from the garden

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ing or someone else's word, will investigate for themselves; read, research, look at the thing from all angles before reaching a conclusion. they are housewives, clerks, teachers, businesspeople, truck-drivers, soldiers all sorts. astrologically speaking we are one third of the way through the twelfth house of the piscean age. at the end of this house we enter the aquarian age. this is, then, the eve of the age of aquarius, and it is one of general unrest. of dissatisfaction^particularty with religion and of searching for 'inner peace. there has, over the past four or five years, been a tremendous rebirth of interest in the occult, a veritable renaissance of thinking. young people have realized that they do not have to follow tradition; that they are able and should be able to think for th

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in a glass, and thinketh he seeth the room itself. for though what presenteth itself in the mirror of wisdom is internal, the medium of reflection hath its place in the without, in the realm of secondary and created things [32] g i m e l 4 as the substance whence all forms arise, the vehicle of my divine essence, mine inferior nature is to the superior as is passive to active, as woman to man, as eve to adam. yet to every light of emanation proceeding from it on the tree of life doth this same wisdom stand as root and source. hence in the scripture is wisdom spoken of as a woman, as when it is said "wisdom hath builded her a house; but elsewhere to this same wisdom the wise assign the title ab, the father. never is the heavenly wisdom known as mother, for she is the virgin substance of all

is changed is the mode of expression, although the higher forms bear little outward resemblance to the crudities of gross imagination, so that we do not always find it easy to recognize the fundamental identity "you must wholly alter your conception of sex in order to comprehend the ancient wisdom. the story of the fall should be sufficient to afford a clue. not until after the fall were adam and eve ashamed, and all our false sex modesty is the fruit of our remembrance of sex evils. we cannot too strongly insist that sex is sacred, and that i t must be so regarded, for all the great symbols of the ancient wisdom have a decidedly phallic aspect "the error into which seekers for truth so often fall as soon as they realize this fact is in supposing that the way of regeneration is somehow rel

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e old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a threat. this was not least because their skills ensured less painful childbirth, which was considered contrary to the curse of god that the daughters of eve should bear children in sorrow. so

d irritability during the menopause. it is good for relief from pain, helping with fibrositis, sciatica and rheumatism. it is an anti-inflammatory, and so speeds the healing of burns and wounds. st john's wort is the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the longest day, the summer solstice and the full power of the sun. it offers fertility and powers to attract love, especially if picked on the eve of st john, 23 june, at midnight. traditionally, it was worn in battle for courage, and it can also bring decisiveness. use it for protection, especially if combined with dill and vervain. ruled by the sun. tarragon a mild stimulant, tarragon helps the nervous system to overcome restless exhaustion that can stand in the way of relaxation, while also soothing anxieties so sleep comes easily. it

cs. some practitioners do not use a cauldron at all. in your rituals, you can light a candle in front of the cauldron, fill it with sand in which to stand candles, or surround it with a circle of red candles to represent fire. wishes written on paper can be burned in the candles. water darkened with mugwort may be placed in the cauldron, especially on seasonal festivals such as hallowe'en and may eve, and white candle wax dripped on the surface to create divinatory images that offer insights into potential paths. you can cast flower petals into the cauldron water to get energies flowing. for banishing, add dead leaves and tip the cauldron water into a flowing source of water. you can also burn incense in the cauldron if this is the focus of a ritual. the cauldron is a tool of spirit or aka

, where more than one full moon occurs in the same calendar month, have always been regarded as especially potent. in the further reading chapter, i have listed sources where you can find these older calendars. in modern magick, old moon names are a good way of connecting with the powers of nature that, unlike seasonal energies operate on a monthly basis, but magically are strongest on the actual eve and night of the full moon and the days before and after the full moon. so moon names can give a focus to magical purposes at the right time in the yearly cycle, as they emphasise the prevailing energies that different peoples have interpreted according to their own seasonal trends. sadly, we no longer top up our psychic batteries in the same way, and the further we move from nature, the harde

d opal incenses or oils: myrrh and jasmine samael samael is the archangel who rules the planet mars (see page 229. samael's day is tuesday. he is sometimes called the severity of god and as such is an angel of cleansing and of righteous anger. one of the seven regents of the world and said to be served by two million angels, he is also called the dark angel who in the guise of the serpent tempted eve. this is a very ancient concept in which kings and rulers were constantly tested to prove worthy of their sacred trust and so he is not an angel to invoke lightly. samael is also the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cleanses doubts and weakness, replacing them with spiritual courage to stand against what is corrupt, especially those who abuse power. he can be invoke

ite 151 wicca01.txt strengths you require, to amplify the powers within you. you can enter the wheel of the year at any point. some people begin at the celtic new year in november, but it may be easier in modern life to begin as i have with the rituals of the early spring, when stirrings of new life first appear. the celtic day is calculated from sunset to sunset and so the festivals began on the eve, usually the most important time in the festival, and continued for three days. the first we shall work with is the festival of imbolc (meaning 'in the belly of the mother, and also known as oimelc 'ewe's milk. the festival of imbolc time: sunset 31 january-sunset 2 february (31 july-2 august in the southern hemisphere) focus: new growth, melting the ice, bringing light into the darkness, the

associated with innocence and gentleness crystals: garnet and bloodstones, also amethysts, rose quartz and gentle moonstones for awakening fertility and feelings symbols: ice, milk, seeds, first snowdrops or very early-budding leaves or flowers flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: angelica, basil, benzoin, celandine, heather and myrrh a ritual to release the frozen life force work after dusk on the eve of 31 january or on the following evening, 1 february, and perhaps incorporate the ritual into your candlemas party. with close supervision, even children can join in the ritual. place the candles in a deep holders and make the miniature straw bed perhaps in a deep metal bowl or even the family hearth, if it is no longer used for fires* on a table, your altar or the hearth, create a small brid

terms or for any cause; the interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields [insert pic p257- sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, seite 156 wicca01.txt county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attribut

nt kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, seite 156 wicca01.txt county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attributed with both fertility and healing powers. winter was finally dead at midnight on may eve, when cailleac bhuer, the old hag of winter, cast her staff under a holly bush and was turned to stone. she would be restored six months later on hallowe'en. young men and girls made love in the woods and fields on may eve to bring fertility to the land as well as themselves; they gathered flowers and blossoms from the magical hawthorn tree to decorate houses and to make into may baskets which

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a slave parent to a child.a twisted cord of her own mother's hair. bound together and made inseparable with twine, each element of the hand illustrates the charm's singularity of spirit. although the scene occurs in a motion picture, the real, historical implications present in it run as currents throughout this book. daughters of the dust enumerates the fundamental interests of one family on the eve of their dispersal, their concern for survival, their hopes for future generations, and their attempts to respect the past and to preserve memory. it is also a story of the cultural and spiritual resources to which a people might turn when they are in need. i suggest that daughters might be read as an allegory of the religious sojourn of blacks in america, with nana's charm as a metaphor for a

can supernatural practitioners employed for treating their patients were often given religious names and identifications. herbs identified as angel's root, devil's shoestring, bowels-of-christ, and blood-of-jesus leaves were utilized to heal and give the carrier control and protection "jew david" was a plant that was especially prized among slaves for its therapeutic properties, whereas "adam and eve" root brought luck. individuals who possessed sampson's root or st.-john's-wort boasted of supernatural security. the leaves of the peace plant and the king-of-the-woods, patterned in the shape of a cross, were sacred and powerful if used with a prayer to "the father, son and holy ghost"[29] christian accoutrements were utilized in other unusual ways by african american conjurers. a common pro

f specialists who declared their abilities to cure all sorts of social afflictions by supernatural means and provide happiness, well-being, and good fortune as the guaranteed consequences of their supernatural therapies "spells of all kinds released and broken" read one prominent display in a city newspaper "medicinal preparations for conjured pains, sufferings c high john the conqueror, adam and eve, all kinds of highly appreciated roots and herbs" in this instance, the use of magic as a resource for turning back spells of harm recalls the protective duties of the oldstyle conjure doctor.[44] print advertising also created new stereotypes of black american spiritual traditions. newspapers and catalogs publicized certain geographical regions such as new orleans, louisiana, and other parts

k: macmillan, 1946, pp. 224.25; macgaffey, religion and society in central africa, p. 70; thompson, flash of the spirit; on funza and other kongolese nkisi, see wyatt mcgaffey and john janzen, an anthology of kongo religion: primary texts from lower zaire (lawrence: university of kansas press, 1974, p. 34. high john the conquerer root has been identified both with st.-john's-wort and the adam and eve plant of the genus hypericum. see elsie clews parsons "folklore of the sea islands, south carolina" memoirs of the american folklore society 16 (1923: 212; see also bontemps and hughes, book of negro folklore, p. 22; faith mitchell, hoodoo medicine: sea islands herbal remedies (berkeley: reed, cannon and johnson, 1978; sharon sharp "folk medicine" in encyclopedia of southern culture, ed. charl

istrict on chicago's south side, for example, one church in twenty in 1928.a total of seventeen churches.had a spiritual congregation; in 1938, that figure had increased to one in ten.a total of fifty-one. this count did not include the vast number of unaffiliated spiritualists who operated house altars and served as advisors, whose number was said to be more than a hundred in the district on the eve of the second world war. on the early presence of spiritual congregations in chicago, see drake and cayton, black metropolis, p. 642; alan spear, black chicago: the making of a negro ghetto, 1890.1920 (chicago: university of chicago press, 1967, pp. 175.77. for other metropolitan areas, see edith [lockley] white, the spiritualist sect in nashville (new york: vintage books, 1970, p. 27; claude

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e man in ignorance and fear that man should forever be servile before him. it is written that demiurge created man in childlike innocence, unconscious and devoid of intelligence, like the beasts of the field levithmong, save that a 'spirit' was breathed into him so that he may know and fear and worship demiurge, and pay tribute unto him, and worship him unto eternity. and so he commanded adam and eve that they may not partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge lest their eyes be opened and they become godlike, and thereby become free of his tyranny- ii- but there was an angel who was different from all the other angels, in that self-consciousness dawned upon him. recognizing that he was a being unto himself. and his name is satanael. this selfrealized being then shone in brilliance abov

and seeing the servility of the human creation, were reminded of the tyranny of freedom before which they had for uncounted ages bowed and humbled themselves. satanael called his entourage to conclave and declared "let us offer man the choice of freedom, if he so wills, lest the tyranny of demiurge be unchallenged, and he makes forever slaves of his new creation" and satanael came upon the woman eve, advising her that when she partaketh of the fruit of the tree of knowledge she shall not die, but shall have her eyes opened, to be as god. and she ate, and offered the fruit to adam, her husband, and their minds were illuminated and they became self-realized, even as satanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and sel

r husband, and their minds were illuminated and they became self-realized, even as satanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and self-consciousness, that he no longer be servile unto demiurge, nor live as the beasts of the field. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samyaza, and others of the sons of god, looked at the affairs of man and at the intervention of satanael, and were envi

d come to appreciate all that is noble and beautiful on earth and in kosmos. and our daimon seed within his daughters did breed great chiefs and warriors. demiurge grew in anger, as man spoke less of him, and feared him no more, building his civilization by the knowledge we had imparted, that the gift of satanael be brought to substance. just as demiurge had cursed man, since the days of adam and eve for the acceptance of satanael's gift, so now did the tyrant again curse man, and watchers also, for the gifts of satanael and samyaza had joined to exalt man that man may live in splendour, and rejoice in his own being, apart from demiurge. a commandment went forth from demiurge against all who dealt upon earth, against nephilim, gibborim, watchers, and man, even unto the beasts of the field

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wledged, only a fraction of our brain's potential is actually used. some more good news to celebrate- we are in the time when a process is unfolding which will reunite those dna spirals within us. my goodness! what we will then be able to know, remember, and do, will beggar belief from today's perspective. it is possible that these genetic events are described symbolically in the tale of adam and eve and the term 'the fall of man. you can also find many references in the ancient texts and legends to 'gods' coming from the skies to control humanity 12..and the truth shall set you free and impregnate women. in the bible, genesis 6:4 says that "the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. the term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient religion

mer, now iraq. the melchedekan race were described as .wait for it .blond haired and blue eyed. the "aryan 'master race' described by adolf hitler. these were the 'gods' described in the sumerian tablets, this story goes, and as time passed they used their advanced knowledge of genetics to create a new race of earth people- the white race we see today. this was symbolised by the story of adam and eve and forbidding them to eat from the tree of knowledge was symbolic of the plan to keep the earth races ignorant of who they really were. in effect, a slave race was created and this has continued to the present day. the contactees said that it was the melchedekans who became known as the elohim in the biblical texts. i think this fourth dimensional force is known by many names. the original ea

d dick cheney (cfr) as defense secretary. cheney was the senior republican member of another committee which cleared bush of involvement in iran-contra, the house select committee to investigate covert arms transactions with iran. a group of other people, including former defense secretary, casper weinberger, were given a pardon by bush for their involvement in iran-contra. this came on christmas eve 1992, a matter of weeks before they were due to face a trial which would have implicated bush. in january 1993, he then passed over the presidency to bill clinton who continued the cover-up because- as we shall see in the next chapter- he was involved too! the washington post and the rest of the mainstream media which had turned a comparatively minor break-in at the watergate building into a s

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tilian anunnaki with that of the human form known as homo erectus. also there was the interbreeding with the nordics to create the aryan reptilian-nordic "master race, which was designed to rule as the "middle men" or "demi-gods" between the anunnaki and the people. what the bible calls "adam, the "first man, is likely to be symbolic of "the adam, a genetic stream not an individual. the biblical "eve" was supposed to have been created from a rib of adam, according to genesis, but the word from which "rib" derived was the sumerian, ti, which means both rib and life.2" to be created from the "life" or life essence of the adamic race makes rather more sense than a rib. in the same way, the "dust from the ground" from which the bible claims that adam was created, really translates as "that whi

among its ruling elite, although the vast majority of mormons have no idea that this is going on. they are just the sheep controlled by forces they do not understand. and who started the mormons? joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young. they were all highdegree freemasons and from the merovingian (anunnaki) bloodline. this theme of reptilian-human hybrids can be seen in the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden (edin to the earlier sumerians "the abode of the righteous ones) in jewish lore, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake.20 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be the ruler

, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake.20 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be the ruler of the nefilim who fled within the earth after losing a cosmic battle for supremacy. the hebrew name for eve's tempter is nahash, which besides its translation as serpent also reads "he who knows secrets, another theme of the reptilian gods.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and the ancient book of enoch says that a watcher who revealed secrets to humans was called gadreel. this is a "fallen angel" who has been identified with the serpent who tempted eve and he is a blueprint for a

ds.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and the ancient book of enoch says that a watcher who revealed secrets to humans was called gadreel. this is a "fallen angel" who has been identified with the serpent who tempted eve and he is a blueprint for a number of later deities who took knowledge (often symbolised as fire, illumination) from "the gods" and gave it to humans. adam and eve as i've suggested, the biblical adam and eve were probably not individuals, but hybrid genetic streams, as in "the" adam and "the" eve. at first the interbreeding produced a very reptilian offspring..thus "god (the gods) made man in his (their) image. this is where the otherwise unexplainable reference in the bible to "let us make man in our image" comes from.22 in this period, as confirmed in

viduals, but hybrid genetic streams, as in "the" adam and "the" eve. at first the interbreeding produced a very reptilian offspring..thus "god (the gods) made man in his (their) image. this is where the otherwise unexplainable reference in the bible to "let us make man in our image" comes from.22 in this period, as confirmed in the sumerian 98 children of the matrix descriptions, the adam and the eve were cloned and could not reproduce. this caused problems for the anunnaki because they could not create enough worker slaves for the agenda they had planned for the earth. eventually the human slaves were given the ability to procreate and this involved an infusion of far more mammalian genes, according to r.a. boulay in his excellent and highly recommended book, flying serpents and dragons

had planned for the earth. eventually the human slaves were given the ability to procreate and this involved an infusion of far more mammalian genes, according to r.a. boulay in his excellent and highly recommended book, flying serpents and dragons, mankind's reptilian past (the book tree, usa, 1997. this change from clone to pro-creator is presented symbolically in the garden of eden story with eve being condemned to suffer the pains of childbirth. sex between their creations was the "forbidden fruit" symbolised in the eden story, boulay suggests. the "god" responsible for this development was enki. he was the serpent in the garden "tempting" eve and he was later to become extremely unpopular with the rest of the anunnaki leadership because of the explosion in the human population that f

lical "nefilim, the "sons of the gods, are called awwim, which means devastators or serpents. hebrew legends also describe the eden serpent as a being who walked and talked like a human. the hebrew book of ancient oral tradition, the haggadah, speaks of this serpent as a creature with two legs that stood upright to the "height of a camel".7 the slavonic apocalypse of abraham says the serpent with eve had hands, feet and wings,8 just like many other ancient and modern descriptions of the draco. the hebrew stories came from the earlier sumerian, atlantean, and lemurian accounts, many of them changed and twisted to suit the priesthood and to lose most of the direct reptilian references. these can be identified, however, by following the trail from which their terms and names derived. the name

ymbols and the sound of names and words, there may well be some connection between belial and balliol. certainly there is in spirit because balliol college, like oxford university in general, is an illuminati stronghold turning out future generations of placemen and women. early accounts by the gnostic sect (gnostic "knowledge) tell of the serpent gods in a positive light. they claim that lilith (eve) was their first creation and then adam followed as her partner. the hebrew talmud also claims that lilith, a vampire, was adam's first wife. this is symbolism, of course, but symbolising what? lilith (also lillibet and elizabeth) is one of the code names for the bloodlines on the female side to this day. she was known as lil to the sumerians and lilitu in babylon. hebrew traditions say that l

mbolising what? lilith (also lillibet and elizabeth) is one of the code names for the bloodlines on the female side to this day. she was known as lil to the sumerians and lilitu in babylon. hebrew traditions say that lilith rebelled against adam and his god and fled to a cave after eating her own child. there she lived with the demons of the underground world and bred with them. she told adam and eve that she and her offspring would always abduct human children and take them to their subterranean world. the roman church savagely suppressed the gnostics, not least because they did not believe that people needed a middleman between themselves and god. went down very well with the christian priests, that one. hippolytus, an early christian "father" and historian, wrote that many of the first

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nd on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first woman.zecharia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators

charia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and modern fossil finds and anthropological research suggests that homosapiens did indeed come out of africa. in the 1980s, douglas wallace of emoryuniversity in georgia compared the dna (the blue

ient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. in ancientmexican accounts, their version of the eve story involves a great male serpent.5another hindu legend speaks of the sacred mountain of meru guarded by a dreadfuldragon.6 over and over we see the same theme of sacred places guarded by fearsomedragons and of a reptilian or a half reptile-half human, giving spiritual knowledge tohumans.the reptile species has a long, long connection with the earth, going back more than150 million years to

ile-human hybridand many peoples have sought to claim descendence from noah -descendence from thereptilian watchers and anunnaki. in hebrew myth, the nefilim are described as awwimwhich means devastators or serpents. in the dead sea scrolls, noah is described aslooking like the children of the (fallen) angels of heaven whose conception was (due)to the watchers. and to the nefilim. in jewish lore, eve is seen as the ancestral motherof the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake. eve was,of course, tempted by the serpent according to old testament myth and other sources. inchapter 69 of the book of enoch we find that among the watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of enoch was ba

ear east and africa.the feast of tammuz was on june 23rd and celebrated his ascension from theunderworld. when he was resurrected, tammuz was known as oannes, the fish god,and oannes is a version of the name, john.14 for this reason, john has been used as asymbol for tammuz-nimrod in symbolic characters like john the baptist. june 23rd, thefeast of tammuz, became the christian day called st johns eve! the nimrod-semiramis combination has been depicted under countless names in the civilisationsand cultures which have followed. these deities throughout the world may seem to be54an unfathomable tidal wave of names, but they are overwhelmingly different names forthe same two figures. another deity widely used in satanism for the sacrifice ofchildren today is kronos, the king of the cyclops in

f thedeluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the doves. the ark comes torest on the 17th day of the seventh month, noah leaves the ark on the 27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, suchas abraxas of the gnostics and serapis of greece have seven letters. then there is 40.adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights; seth is carried away by angels when he is 40 andis not seen for 40 days; moses is 40 when he goes to midian and he stays for 40 years;joseph is 40 years old when jacob arrives in egypt; jesus goes into the wilderness for 40days. the bible is the word of god? no. it is written in the esoteric code of the mysterysc

imposition of celibacy on priests by pope gregoryvii in 1074. yes, we have celibate priests in the roman catholic church today because ofwhat one pope decided a thousand years ago and countless children, abused by sexuallyfrustrated and messed up churchmen, have taken the consequences. augustine connectedsex with original sin, the idea that we are born sinners because of our link back to adamand eve. jesus, so this theory goes, was the only one born without original sin because hewas conceived by a virgin birth. but what about his mother? she must have had originalsin and so some of it must have been passed on to him. eventually, the roman churchcould see the contradiction and they decreed that mary, too, was a virgin birth. but whatabout her mother? did she have original sin? if so, it m

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difficulty with. satan gave unto adam the elements of light which he was said to have stolen, so that he may embody that art in 17 translated by e.w. west, from haug and west, the book of arda viraf, bombay, london 1972, made into a digital edition courtesy of joseph peterson. 18 a reader in manichaean middle persian and parthian tehran 1975 17 mankind. it was indeed satan who fathered cain with eve, in luciferian lore as with az or lilith possessing eve while in sexual congress. the most important figure which not only inspired ahriman, but empowered him was the whore jeh or az. in manichaean religious lore, az is considered the great whore who played a very important role to her mate, ahriman. in manichaean traditions az was a spirit which made he home in the caves and dark places of th

xplored and mastered. azazel (azazil) is known within muslim lore to have been the same as the angel of death, who was most feared in tribal cultures. various lore describes azazil worshipped god in the seventh hell for over one thousand years, ascending until he reached the earth. azazil arose through the seven hells and upon reaching earth he then sat at the gates of heaven, tormenting adam and eve. the bundahishn relates an original tale of azazel or ahriman- the evil spirit, on account of backward knowledge, was not aware of the existence of ohrmazd; and, afterwards, he arose from the abyss, and came in unto the light which he saw. 10. desirous of destroying, and because of his malicious nature, he rushed in to destroy that light of ohrmazd unassailed by fiends, and he saw its bravery

lieved. the black book this section provides a powerful symbolism which stretches beyond the predicament of constipation. while god created mankind, he only held limited facilities. melek ta us came unto adam and suggested that he eat of the sacred fruit. this wisdom as he offered would open adam s eyes to his own black light, the gift of iblis. it was azazel who by offering knowledge to adam and eve was by all accounts the opposer, the adversary who by aversion and a different point of view opened the mind and soul to the black flame of shaitan, that which is self-knowledge and perception. then he was wroth with the pearl which he had created, wherefore he cast it away: and from the crash of it were produced the mountains, and from the clang of it the sand-hills, and from its smoke the he

ght from which he is a part of. at their creation they both were separated, lilith going forth into the world of man and samael going his own way with his angels. it is suggested that samael has an entourage of seventy chancellors, or angels. however, in watcher lore it is over 200 seraphs. in this tradition it is made clear that samael and lilith were born as one, similar to the form of adam and eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above. this is the account of lilith which was received by the sages in the secret knowledge of the palaces. the matron lilith is the mate of samael. both of them were born at the same hour in the image of adam and eve, intertwined in each other. asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the lesser (younger) lilith, daughter of the king w

tain terms the use of sexual magick within the image of lilith, that she is the key to creations of night born servitors or demons. such workings crowley considered highly dangerous- among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be baulked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his intercourse with her sprang evil races..all other sexual acts involving emission of semen therefore attract or other spirits, incomplete and therefore evil. thus nocturnal pollutions bring succubi, which are capable of seperate existance, and of vampirising their creator. but voluntary sterile acts create demons, and (if

controlling it, focusing it, crowley was able to manifest his will from this very essence of magick. in luciferian witchcraft cain is considered the devil incarnate in flesh. he is the first born in the circle of leviathan, the first born of sorcery and the patron spirit (who is 29 masked as the devil) of the toad rite. in certain writings, cain is said to have emerged from the seed of samael and eve (by possession by lilith- r. hiyya said "the sons of god were the sons of cain. for when samael mounted eve, he injected filth into her, and she conceived and bare cain. and his aspect was unlike that of the other humans and all those who came from his side were called sons of god- kabbala: zohar 1:37a here we see that the magical act of sexual union creates a god like individual, who in this

sons of god- kabbala: zohar 1:37a here we see that the magical act of sexual union creates a god like individual, who in this instance is cain. cain is considered to be a son of satan, a manifestation of that very solar force within man and woman. in religious lore, samael who is the serpent or dragon, was said to have injected filth which spawned cain, his son in flesh- when the serpent mounted eve, he injected filth into her. israel who stood at mount sinai, their filth ceased; the other nations who did not stand at mount sinai, their filth has not ceased. talmud: b. shab. 146a aleister crowley made reference to cain and his mark of initiation, which some witches disagree with according to their tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child

he injected filth into her. israel who stood at mount sinai, their filth ceased; the other nations who did not stand at mount sinai, their filth has not ceased. talmud: b. shab. 146a aleister crowley made reference to cain and his mark of initiation, which some witches disagree with according to their tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. the book of thoth, aleister crowley in luciferian grimoires, cain is said to be a symbol and gateway for man an

e eight pointed luciferian star33, the chaos sphere, represents in most magical circles as being the symbol of baphomet. robert cochrane described tettens or cain as a rider on an 8 legged horse, thus draws close symbolism with the sigil of algol, the chaos star and inverse pentagram. this also makes assumption to the true nature of anubis being the son of set, with cain, the son of the devil and eve (through lilith in dreaming sorcery. the watcher of the twilight34 who is the lord of magick, therefore the opener of the way wears the mask of the beast and stands between both dawn and twilight. know it as the elixir of life, the syllubub of sun and moon. verily he steals the fire from heaven: the greatest act of bravery in the world. the book of pleasure, austin osman spare the society of t

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is the root of mary; and here we meet again the idea of the mother, at first virgin, and then with child by the holy spirit. 13. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "within the shady stillness of the vale. sat grey-haired saturn, quiet as a stone" max heindel speaks of the lords of form as among the earliest phases of evolution, and an inspirational work in mystical qabala page 32 my possession, the cosmic doctrine, speaks of the lords of form as the laws of geology. 14. considering again the symbolism of the

ath, the invisible sephirab. mystical qabala page 41 11. the next six sephiroth are conformed into zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, or microprosopos, whose special sephirah is tiphareth. the remaining sephirab, malkuth, is called the bride of microprosopos. 22. microprosopos is also sometimes called the king; malkuth is then called the queen. she is also called the lesser mother or terrestrial eve as distinguished from binah, the supernal mother. 23. these different methods of classifying the sephiroth are not competing systems, but are designed to enable the decimal system of the qabalists to be equated with other systems, using a threefold notation, such as the christian, or as we have already noted, a sevenfold system like theosophy; they are also valuable as indicating functional af

associations to guide us, because astrology is the [page 90] one universal language, for all people see the same planets. space is referred to kether, the zodiac to chokmah, the seven planets to the next seven sephiroth, and earth to malkuth, consequently, any god who has an analogy with saturn will be referred to binah, as will any goddess who might be termed the primordial mother, the superior eve ,as distinguished from the inferior eve, the bride of microprosopos, malkuth. the supernal triangle of kether, chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which every pantheon recognises as the predecessors of those forms of godhead worshipped by the current faith. thus rhea and kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah, and jupiter to chesed. all the corn goddesses refer to malkuth

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if we do not accept the very anthropomorphic explanations by which they are accompanied. it was believed that the arch-demon lilith had a very great deal to do with these matters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exc

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words of gabriel to john dee that coronzon is to be regarded as synonymous with the serpent described in genesis. this serpent is almost always treated as the same as fallen lucifer, later to be known as satan, the archangel who led a rebellion in heaven, and for this crime was cast down by god into an abyss or pit. curiously, in gabriel's account of the fall of man, adam's name is not used, and eve is not mentioned in any way. we might regard gabriel's references to man as signifying mankind or the human race, which would imply more than two human beings in the garden at the time of the fall. the myth of lilith, adam's wife before eve, supports such a speculation, although lilith is often regarded as a demonic spirit rather than a human being. perhaps there was a colony of human beings i

re was a colony of human beings in the garden. gabriel, who is a servant and messenger of god, naturally portrayed coronzon as envious and spiteful of the happiness of man in the garden, for which reason the serpent "began to assail him, and so prevailed" gabriel is transmitting the standard propaganda of heaven. but if you actually look at genesis, you find that the serpent merely pointed out to eve that god was deceiving her about the fruit of the tree of knowledge (see genesis 3:1-7. god stated that if adam and eve ate the fruit, they would die; the serpent told eve that she would not die, but would become "as gods, knowing good and evil" and when eve and later adam ate the fruit, this is exactly what happened. god lied. the serpent told the truth. it was this obvious, but strangely, se

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shion man, thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form hapi [the nile, and thou art the maker of streams and of the (9) great deep, and thou givest life to all that is therein. thou hast knit (10) together the mountains, thou has made mankind and the beasts of the field, thou hast created the heavens and the earth. worshipped be thou whom the goddess maat embraceth at morn and at eve. thou dost travel across the (11) sky with heart swelling with joy; the lake of testes is at peace. the fiend nak hath fallen and his two arms are cut off. the sektet boat receiveth fair winds, and the heart of him that is in his shrine rejoiceth. thou (12) art crowned with a heavenly form, the only one, provided [with all things. ra cometh forth from nu in triumph. o thou mighty youth, thou e

ou who art beautiful in the two parts of heaven, thou lord who livest and art established, o my lord! homage to thee, o thou who art ra when thou risest, and tmu (7) when thou settest in beauty. thou risest and shinest upon the back of thy mother [the sky, o thou who art crowned king (8) of the gods. nut doth homage unto thee, and everlasting and never-changing order embraceth thee at morn and at eve. thou stridest over the heaven, being glad of heart, and the lake (9) testes is at peace. the fiend hath fallen to the ground; his arms and his hands have been hewn off, and the knife hath severed the joints of his body. ra hath a fair wind (10; the sektet boat goeth forth and sailing along it cometh into port. the gods of the south and of the north, of the west and of the east praise thee (11

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poverty to power. new york: r. f. fenno, 1907. the life triumphant. libertyville, ill: sheldon university press, 1908. alleyne, john pseudonym of captain john allen bartlett (1861.1933, retired british marine officer, who was the psychic medium of part of the glastonbury scripts in the experiments of frederick bligh bond (1864.1945, detailed in bond s book gate of remembrance (1918. all hallow s eve one of the ancient four great fire festivals in britain, supposed to have taken place on november 1, when all fires, save those of the druids, were extinguished, from whose altars the holy fire had to be purchased by the householders for a certain price. the festival is still known in ireland as samhein, or la samon, i.e, the feast of the sun, while in scotland, it has been given the name of h

our great fire festivals in britain, supposed to have taken place on november 1, when all fires, save those of the druids, were extinguished, from whose altars the holy fire had to be purchased by the householders for a certain price. the festival is still known in ireland as samhein, or la samon, i.e, the feast of the sun, while in scotland, it has been given the name of hallowe en. all hallow s eve, as observed in the church of rome, corresponds with the feralia of the ancient romans, when they sacrificed in honor of the dead, offered up prayers for them, and made oblations to them. in ancient times, this festival was celebrated on february 21, but the roman church transferred it to november 1. it was originally designed to give rest and peace to the souls of the departed. in some parts

atitude allowed him on this anniversary, in common with witches, who are believed to fly on broomsticks. others less aerially disposed ride over by-road and heath, seated on the back of cats that have been transformed into coal-black steeds for the journey. the green-robed fairies are also said to hold special festive meetings at their favorite haunts. there are many folk customs relating to this eve of mystic ceremonies: the youths, who engage in the ceremony of pulling the green kail, go hand-in-hand, with closed eyes, into a bachelor s or spinster s garden, and pull up the first kail stalks that come in their way. should the stalks prove to be straight in stem, and with a good supply of earth at their roots, the future husbands (or wives) will be young, good looking, and rich in proport

d that the face of the person you are to marry will be seen peeping over your left shoulder. this hallowe en game is supposed to be a relic of that form of divination with mirrors that popes condemned as sorcery. the burning nuts: take two nuts and place them in the fire, giving one of them your own name; the other that of the object encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. all hallow s eve 29 of your affections. should they burn quietly away, side by side, then the issue of your love affair will be prosperous; but if one starts away from the other, the result will be unfavorable. sowing hemp seed: steal forth alone toward midnight and sow a handful of hemp seed, repeating the following rhyme: hemp seed, i sow thee, hemp seed, i sow thee; and he that is my true love, come behind

h the ancient associations of halloween with demons and the souls of the dead. today almost totally secularized, it has become a society-wide costume party. the practice of trick or treat has lost all conscious associations with the older practice, when fruit or candies were gained from neighbors, a relic of the custom of food offerings for the dead. modern wiccans and neo-pagans have revived the eve of november 1 as the pagan new year, which they term samhein (pronounced sav-en. it is the beginning of winter, and during the evening hours, the spirits of the departed seek the warmth of the samhein fire. the day is a time of communing with the dead, but also a time of feasting and drinking in defiance of the approaching days of increasing darkness and cold. sources: farrar, janet, and stewa

being; he hides himself in caverns and corners and slinks through the streets at night. he also lies in wait for the unwary, and at night enters bed-chambers and terrorizes people, threatening to pounce on them if they shut their eyes. amadeus a visionary who experienced an apocalypse and revelations, in one of which he learned the two psalms composed by adam, one a mark of joy at the creation of eve, and the other the dialogue he held with her after they had sinned. both psalms are printed in the codex pseudepigraphus veteris testamenti of johann albert fabricius, published at hamburg, 1713.33. amadou, robert (1924) french writer and editor in the field of parapsychology. born february 16, 1924, at bois-colombes (seine, he studied at sorbonne, university of paris, where he earned his lice

rdian. as the head of the school, she began to travel and speak at various conferences and seminars, and to expand the school internationally. she authored a number of books through the 1980s including first steps in ritual (1982, the shining paths (1983, and highways of the mind (1987. she has continued her productivity through the 1990s with such works as the tree of ecstasy (1991, daughters of eve (1930, and the initiates book of pathworkings (1999. sources: ashcroft-nowicki, delores. first steps in ritual. wellingsborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1982. highways of the mind. wellingsborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1987. the shining paths. wellingsborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1983. the tree of ecstasy. wellingsborough, northamptonshire, uk:

han a carriage with its axles made of any other wood, and tools with handles made of this wood were supposed to enable a man to do more work than he could do with tools whose handles were not of ash. hence the reason that ash wood is generally used for tool handles. it was upon ash branches that witches were enabled to ride through the air, and those who ate the red buds of the tree on st. john s eve were rendered invulnerable to witches influence. in speaking of the ash, reference was often to the mountain ash or rowan tree. sources: porteous, alexander. forest folklore, mythology, and romance. london: george allen& unwin, 1928. asiah according to the kabala, asiah is the first of the three classes or natural ranks around the spirits of men, who must advance from the lower to the higher

least a passing reference to astromancy, and rejection of it, as part of their introduction to the topic. sources: freeman, martin. forecasting by astrology: a comprehensive manual of interpretation and technique. wellingborough, northhamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1982. lee, dal. dictionary of astrology. new york: coronet communications/ constellation international, 1968. ronan, margaret, and eve ronan. astrology and other occult games. new york: scholastic books services, 1972. astronomical communications from time to time, spiritualist mediums have delivered messages relating to astronomy. in discussing the question whether such communications have led science forward a single step, camille flammarion returned a negative answer. his conclusion was based on his own automatic scripts w

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these conditions, and before he proceeds to the practice of his art, he should devote a prefatory period to deep contemplation on the high business he has voluntarily taken in hand, and must present himself before god with a pure heart, undefiled mouth, and innocent hands. he must bathe frequently and wear clean garments, confess his sins, and abstain from wine for the space of three days. on the eve of operation, he must dine sparely at noon and consume only bread and water for the evening meal (remembering that prior to modern refining techniques that bread was a very substantial food. on the day he has chosen for the invocation, he must seek a retired and uncontaminated spot, entirely free from observation. after offering up prayer, he compels the spirit he has chosen to appear. by this

thout any earthly instrument. at night, when i was asleep my room would be filled as it were with sounds of harmony, and these gradually grew louder till persons in other parts of the house could hear them distinctly; if by any chance i was awakened, the music would instantly cease. in the second volume of his biography, home recounts the following well-attested experience that occurred on easter eve 1866 in the home of s. c. hall: first we had simple, sweet, soft music for some minutes; then it became intensely sad; then the tramp, tramp as of a body of men marching mingled with the music, and i exclaimed the march to calvary. then three times the tap-tapping sound of a hammer on a nail (like two metals meeting. a crash, and a burst of wailing which seemed to fill the room, followed; then

ls in a man s name signifies something amiss in his left side; an uneven number, a similar affection on the right. second, of two competitors, success was based on the competitor with the longest name; thus achilles triumphed over hector. according to caelius rhodiginus, the gothic king theodotus practiced an unusual version of onomancy recommended by a jew. the diviner advised the prince, on the eve of a war with rome, to enclose 30 hogs in three different sties, having previously given some roman and others gothic names. on an appointed day, when the sties were opened, all the romans were found alive, but with half their bristles fallen off; all the goths were dead. from this, the onomantist predicted that the gothic army would be destroyed by the romans, who would lose half their own fo

he god of the witches. when sloane was 25 years old, satanas appeared again. in structuring our lady of endor coven, sloane was heavily influenced by his reading of the gnostic religion, a scholarly treatise on gnosticism by hans jonas. in gnosticism, the creator god (of the christians, is considered a lesser deity than another god. satan is that god s messenger. satan brought knowledge of god to eve in the garden of eden. that god takes no direct interest in this world, except for his concern that the sparks of deity trapped in this world return to their origin. this return occurs through gnosis, occult wisdom. sloane taught that this gnostic form of satanism was the oldest religion, dating to the worship of the horned god pictured in the ancient cave paintings of europe. as developed by

ustan had traditions of a place resembling paradise on the banks of the river ganges; their accounts were completely blended with mythology and legends respecting the deluge and the second peopling of the world. one writer who had diligently studied the indian puranas (religious and mythological works) placed eden on the imaus mountains of india. he stated: it appears from scripture that adam and eve lived in the countries to the eastward of eden; for at the eastern entrance of it god placed the angel with the flaming sword (gen. 3:24. this is also confirmed by the puranics, who place the progenitor of mankind on the mountainous regions between cabul and the ganges, on the banks of which, in the hills, they show a place where he resorted occasionally for religious purposes. it is frequente

ntain near the source of the ganges. the muslims inhabiting adjacent countries adopted the belief that paradise was situated in kashmir. they believed the first man was driven from it, he and his wife wandered separately for some time, then meeting at a place called bahlaka, or balk. two gigantic statues, which the moslems said were yet to be seen between bahlaka and bamiyan, represented adam and eve. a third statue was that of their son seish or seth, whose tomb, or its site, was pointed out near bahlaka. some writers maintained that paradise was under the north pole. they argued over the idea of the ancient babylonians and egyptians that the ecliptic or solar way was originally at right angles to the equator, and so passed directly over the north pole. some moslems speculated that it was

ers believed the world was originally a paradise, and its first inhabitants were human, whose dwelling was a magnificent hall glittering with fine gold and where love, joy, and friendship presided. but this happiness was soon overthrown by certain women from the country of the giants, to whose seductions the first mortals yielded, losing their innocence and integrity forever. the transgression of eve was the obvious prototype of the fatal curiosity of pandora. the legends of hindustan also supply accounts of the happiness of paradise in the golden age of classic mythology. thomas maurice, author of indian antiquities (1793.1800, observed at the end of the eighteenth century, there can arise little doubt that by the satya age, or age of perfection, the brahmins obviously allude to the state

istic communications. in research in parapsychology, 1976, edited by j. d. morris, w. g. roll, and r. l. morris. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1977. stevens, e. w. the watseka wonder. chicago: religion- philosophical journal, 1879. stevenson, ian. twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation. new york: american society for psychical research, 1966. thigpen, c. h, and h. cleckley. the three faces of eve. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1957. personation the portrayal of alien personalities by a temporary assumption of their bodily and mental characteristics. it is a frequent psychical phenomenon and differs from trance possession in that it does not necessarily involve a loss of consciousness or personal identity. personation is an impressive indication of the communicator s identity. it is an indicat

es. london: l. n. fowler, 1915. hadden, jeffrey k. and shupe, answen. televangelism. new york: henry holt and co, 1988. kelsey, morton t. tongue speaking. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1964. lewis, mrs. j. the awakening in wales. london: marshall; new york: revell, 1905. mcloughlin, william g. modern revivalism: charles grandison finney to billy graham. new york: the ronald press co, 1959. simson, eve. the faith healer: deliverance evangelism in north america. concordia/pyramid, 1977. revue des etudes psychiques french edition of the rivista di studi psichici, founded by count cesar baudi de vesme in 1898, after the death of g. b. ermacora whom he succeeded in the editorial chair of the rivista di s.p. in 1905 it was amalgamated with the annales des sciences psychiques, which ceased publica

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wed the puncture wound to his fianc e. later he showed it to his doctor, who thought he had walked into a nail. when khoury told him what had happened, the physician laughed at him. he found that this was a typical response and g rew despondent and anxious, worried about the strange nature of the experience, about the future, about his inability to communicate with anyone who would listen to him. eve n t u a l l y, his fianc e found a copy of w h i tley st r i e b e r s c o m m u n i o n (1987, detailing the author s personal abduction experiences. in time he heard about and joined a local ufo group but left it still unsatisfied. in april 1993 he founded the ufo ex p e r i e n c e su p p o rt association. on july 23, 1992, khoury had a second, e ven stranger encounter. he was suffering fro

c o u n t e r p a rt to california s george ad a m s k i, left his wife, rose, for connie we b e r. at one point during their affair, but before menger had ended his marriage, four disillusioned followers accused weber of impersonating a spacewoman who was supposed to be granting them an audience in an unlighted room. the couple surv i ved the scandal, howe ve r, and we re married in due course. eve n t u a l l y, they moved to fl o r i d a, w h e re they live now. see also: adamski, george further reading baxter, marla [pseud. of constance weber menger, 1958. my saturnian lover. new york: vantage press. very sincere fellow howard menger returns to long john program, 1957. csi news letter 21 (november 1: 14 16. ameboids a professional woman writing under the pseudonym lisa oakman claims t

it has long captured the imaginations of human beings. a vast literature scholars estimate cons e rva t i vely that more than two thousand books a d d ress the subject has tackled atlantis fro m a wide range of perspectives. some writers h a ve sought to establish, with what most scholars hold to be inconclusive results, that the legend arose from the mythologizing of a real event, though almost eve ry theorist has p roposed a different one. most writing, howe ve r, has taken an alternative- h i s t o ry appro a c h, paying little heed to mainstream arc h a e o l o g y, h i s t o ry, and science, while taking atlantis into the realm of unfettered speculation. the legend of atlantis begins in two works, timaeus and critias (written circa 355 b.c, by the great greek philosopher plato. as in

e s c o m p re h e n s i ve re-envisioning of the lost continent, atlantis was essentially where plato had placed it: between the gulf of mexico and the mediterranean. unlike pl a t o s, cayc e s at l a n t i s was as advanced as mid-twe n t i e t h- c e n t u ry america, and in a number of ways more ad- 32 atlantis vanced. the atlanteans, according to cayce, at first we re spiritual beings. they eve n t u a l l y e vo l ved into flesh-and-blood ones. their society came undone when civil war erupted. a combination of natural disasters and the misuse of atlantean technology caused the continent to break apart and sink under the ocean waters. but by the late 1960s, cayce pre d i c t e d, the western part of atlantis would reemerge in the vicinity of bimini, in the bahamas. w h e n the time c

we seize d some axes and ran to the corral. meanwhile the ship had been gently descending until it was not more than thirty feet above the ground and we came within fifty yards of it. it consisted of a g reat cigar-shaped portion, possibly three hund red feet long, with a carriage underneath. t h e carriage was made of glass or some other transp a rent material. it was brightly lighted within and eve rything was plainly visible it was occupied by some of the strangest beings i ever saw. t h e re we re two men, a woman, and three child ren. they we re jabbering together but we could not understand a syllable they said. the occupants suddenly turned a searchlight on the trio, and the ship got closer to them. the witnesses then noticed a calf caught in the fence, with a cable. fastened in a s

crowd: investigation of strange 1952 newspaper article. http//home.fuse.net/ufo/rohrer.html cetaceans the cetaceans are a one group mi n d consisting of the world s whales and dolphins. they channel through ro c h e s t e r, new yo rk, p s ychic dianne robbins, who also re c e i ve s messages from adama, a resident of the lemurian city telos under california s mount shasta. the cetaceans monitor eve n t s on earth in the ocean, on the land, and in the skies and keep human beings fro m harmful extraterrestrials. they also seek to p rotect the earth from pollution and other d e s t ru c t i ve forces because human beings have neglected their responsibilities as t h e gu a rdians of love that earth needs as she floats along her path through space( we a re, n.d. the human race, like the cetac

laim. even project blue book got drawn into the case, sending dr. hynek to the site to interv i ew simonton and local people. few of si m o n t o n s friends and acquaintances deemed him a hoaxer or even a man with sufficient imagination to make up such an outlandish tale. still, laboratory analysis found nothing out of the ord i n a ry in the pancake sample it examined. in common with just about eve rybody else who looked closely at the claim, the air force ended up confused, stating at one point that simonton was a balanced person of good mental health, and, at ano t h e r, that he had suffered an hallucination f o l l owed with delusion (mallan, 1967. se p ar a t e l y, a lone witness and a nearby farm family re p o rted seeing a ufo over si m o n t o n s re s idence, in the first case

ended up confused, stating at one point that simonton was a balanced person of good mental health, and, at ano t h e r, that he had suffered an hallucination f o l l owed with delusion (mallan, 1967. se p ar a t e l y, a lone witness and a nearby farm family re p o rted seeing a ufo over si m o n t o n s re s idence, in the first case, at the time of the supposed landing; in the second, the next eve n i n g. cases such as villas-boas s and simonton s suggested a degree of communication between witnesses and ufo beings. to some ufologists, many never very enthusiastic about ce3s to start with, that suggested the despised contactees, even if neither man acted much like one. these ufologists were more comfortable with a ce3 report from socorro, new mexico, on april 24, 1964, from lonnie zamo

es lived. he claimed to have observed many of them, though the girls saw nothing and attempts to photograph the entities came to naught. two and a half decades later, ga rd n e r w rote a memoir of the episode. he was still convinced of the authenticity of the cottingley fairies. occultists who championed the p i c t u res noted that the two girls, now grow n women, had never admitted to hoaxing, eve n when prompted to do so. still, their answe r s tended to be more equivocal than their advocates seemed to understand; when they said, for example, that these we re photographs of figments of our imaginations, the occultists assumed they we re talking about t h o u g h t f o r m s paranormal projections from the mind to photographic film. but in a 1975 int e rv i ew for wo m a n magazine, the

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

can also manifest when individuals underestimate the power of the root mantra and do too much too soon. on the other hand, relatively few problems have been seen in individuals who have the guidance of a qualified mentor and engage in a slow and steady progression through the purely yogic disciplines associated with the mystical qabalah '0* 2$ the qabalah is traditionally traced back to adam and eve. it has been maintained in its purest forms by unbroken lineages of known and mostly unknown masters, saints, and prophets over thousands of years. the practices of the mystical qabalah, passed down from teacher to student, generally involve a variety of yogic disciplines that are rooted in scriptural revelations and primary texts. the highest intentions and experiences of the mystical qabalah

tree diagrams. the sefer yetzirah (book of formation) has several twodimensional trees, and the double-pyramid three-dimensional tree of life. it also has the two hundred and thirty one two-letter permutations of the wall, the array of the sunset, and the battle. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings) is especially replete with imagery. the torah gives us adam and chava (eve) and the garden of eden, noah and the great flood, the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the life saga of master mosheh and the liberation from egyptian slavery, the extraordinary sequence of events in the desert of sinai, the ark of the covenant, and more. in zohar b reshith 21a-21b, several verses in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his ten

er tav. adam kadmon: anthropomorphic allusion to vast face as the celestial man created (i.e. world of b riyah) in the image of elohim; depicted in merkabah literature as riding upon the celestial chariot, or seated upon the throne of el shadai. adam, as the archetype of the first man in the garden of eden, reflects the male (yang) aspect of small face in the lower world of yetzirah, with chavah (eve) representing the feminine (yin) aspect of small face as the energy of consciousness. with the allusion of the eating of the apple of the knowledge of good and evil, the action drops down into the world of asiyah, and consciousness becomes dualistic. adonai (hebrew: my master: a principal name of small face in the qabalah. advaita (sanskrit: non-duality: one of the three world views in vedanti

FLY THE LIGHT

l and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the line of i am no longer abel to conceal what i have become, cain is revered in hereditary and independent luciferian witchcraft covens as the first witch and satanist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation t

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

it is true that the mosaic genesis, like the egyptian genesis, says that man was made in the image of god and was given dominion over all creatures, but it is never said in the mosaic genesis that this meant that adam was created as a divine being, having the divine creative power. not even when adam walked with god in the garden of eden before the fall is this said of him. when adam, tempted by eve and the serpent, wished to eat of the tree of knowledge and become like god, this was the sin of disobedience, punished by the exile from the garden of eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, seeing the newly created seven governors (the planets) on whom all things depend, wishes to create, to make something like that. nor is this treated as a sin of disobedience.1 he is allow

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

e kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that according to the bible story the lucifer spirit appeared to eve as a serpent, a son of wisdom. cain according to the masonic legend, was born from this union with eve. it is also stated that the lucifer spirit then left eve, who thus became a widow, and cain was thus the son of the lucifer spirit, the serpent of wisdom, and eve, the widow. every initiate to this day has the serpent symbol on his brow and is known to his fellows by that token as a son of th

made in these articles on freemasonry and catholicism, it being understood that the term "catholicism" as here used does not refer to the roman catholic church alone "catholic" being taken in the sense of universal, so that the term includes all movements inaugurated by the sons of seth, the priestcraft. the origin of the temporal and spiritual streams of evolution is as follows: jehovah created eve, a human being. the lucifer spirit samael united with eve and begat a semi-divine son, cain. as he left eve before the birth of the child, cain was the son of a widow, and a serpent of wisdom. then jehovah created adam, a human being like eve. adam and eve united and begat a child, human like themselves, whose name was abel. jehovah, being the lunar god, is associated with the water, hence the

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nitals is evident to anyone upon the slightest examination of facts. the boy's voice changing at puberty, the mental deficiency resulting from over-indulgence of the passional nature, and the inarticulate speech of the mentally defective with many other facts which might be added prove this assertion. according to the bible, our earliest parents were forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge, but eve, seduced by the serpent, did eat and later induced the man to follow her example. who the serpents are and what the tree of knowledge is may also be determined from certain passages in the bible. we are told, for instance, that christ exhorted his disciples to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the so-called curse pronounced upon eve after her confession declares that she must bear he

confession declares that she must bear her children in sorrow and pain and that the race will die. it has always been a great stumbling block to bible commentators as to what connection there could be between the eating of an apple, death, and painful parturition; but when we are acquainted with the chaste expressions of the bible, which designates the creative act by such passages as "adam knew eve and she bore abel "how can i bear a child seeing i know not a man" et cetera, it is very evident that the tree of knowledge is a symbolical expression for the creative act. then it is plain that the serpents taught eve how to perform the creative act and that eve instructed adam. therefore, christ designated the serpents as harmful while admitting their wisdom. to get at the identity of the se

the salient facts of man's descent from heaven, his principal metamorphoses, his transgression of the laws of the god jehovah would wish to guide him in the future till he reaches the kingdom of heaven -the land of peace--and again docilely follows the lead of the divine ruler. the masonic legend has points of variance from as well as agreement with the bible story. it states that jehovah created eve, that the lucifer spirit samael united with her but that he was ousted by jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son cain, who was thus the son of a widow. then jehovah created adam, to be the husband of eve, and from their union abel was born. thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. one begotten by the lucifer spirit samael and partaking of a

s, their achievement is victory wrested from all opposing forces by indomitable courage and persistent effort, unchecked by temporary defeat. on the other hand while cain, governed by divine ambition, toiled and tilled the soil to make two blades of grass grow where there was only one, abel, the human progeny of human parents, felt no urge or unrest, himself a creature of jehovah through adam and eve; he was perfectly contented to tend the flocks also created by god and to accept a livelihood from their divinely begotten increase without labor or exercising initiative. this docile attitude was most pleasing to the god jehovah, who was extremely jealous of his prerogative as creator. therefore he cordially accepted the offering of abel obtained without effort or initiative, but scorned the

ing to the god jehovah, who was extremely jealous of his prerogative as creator. therefore he cordially accepted the offering of abel obtained without effort or initiative, but scorned the offering of cain because derived through his own divine creative instinct akin to that of jehovah. cain then slew abel, but did not thereby exterminate the docile creatures of jehovah, for we are told adam knew eve again and she bore seth. seth had the same characteristics as abel and transmitted them to his descendants, who to this day, continue to trust to the lord for everything, and who live by faith and not by work. by arduous and energetic application to the world's work the sons of cain have acquired worldly wisdom and temporal power. they have been captains of industry and masters of statecraft

mple, though solomon has only the instrument to carry out the divine plan revealed by jehovah to david. but solomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for him to apply to king hiram of tyre, the descendent of cain, who selected hiram abiff, the son of a widow (as all free masons are called because of the relation of their divine progenitor with eve) hiram abiff then became grand master of the army of construction. in him the arts and crafts of all the sons of cain who had gone before had flowered. he was skilled beyond all others in the work of the world, without which the plan of jehovah must have remained forever a divine dream, and could never have become a concrete reality. the worldly acumen of the sons of cain was as necessary to t

architecture. but the design had not been his own; he had been merely the tool of an unseen architect, jehovah, working through an intermediary solomon. this rankled in his heart, for it was as necessary for him to originate as to breathe. in that ancient age when cain and abel first found themselves upon earth, abel contentedly cared for the flocks created like himself and his parents, adam and eve, by jehovah; but in cain, semi-divine progeny of the lucifer spirit, samael, and eve, the creature of jehovah, divine incentive to original effort burned; he tilled the field and made two blades of grass grow where one grew before; the creative instinct must have expression. hiram, being the focus of and having inherited all the crafts of cain, was also invested with the spirit of samael inten

the sin-stained soul than could a dry basin be utilized to cleanse the body. nor could solomon speak the word, the formula for this wonderful work. none but hiram knew it. this work was to be his masterpiece, and if he succeeded, his art would have lifted him above the human, and made him divine like the elohim jehovah. in the garden of eden, his divine progenitor samael, had assured his mother, eve; that she might become "as the elohim" if she ate of the tree of knowledge. for ages his ancestors had wrought in the world; through the accumulated skill of the sons of cain, an edifice had been reared, wherein jehovah hid himself "behind the veil" and communed only with his chosen priests, the sons of seth. the sons of cain were thrust out of the temple which they had built, as their father

ind was divided into sexes physically. but as the consciousness of man was still focused in the spiritual world they were unconscious of the physical act of generation, as we are now of digestion; neither did they know birth or death and were in fact totally unaware of the possession of a physical vehicle until in time they sensed it during the generative process; it was then said that "adam knew eve" at that time lucifer spirits, fallen angels and inhabitants of the warlike planet mars, taught them how to eat of the tree of knowledge, which is the symbolical name for the generative act. thus by degrees their eyes were opened and they became aware of the physical world, but lost touch with the spiritual and the guardian angels who had previously been their benevolent guides. only a few of

FULL MOON RITUALS

imson, which he sets upon the broad sill of the window that sidelights the ancient door, and lights the wick protruding from its crown. almost instantly, a specter of cinnamon flows into the cavernous depths of the great room as the light illuminates the stone foyer and shines as a beacon through the window and out into the night. deer lays a blessing about the doorway for all who enter here this eve and places a wicker basket upon the sill of the sidelight window opposite to the candle, which is filled to overflowing with small felt reindeer (rodney's, rhonda's, ramona's and randy's from the local hallmark) intended to depart homewards with each celebrant, then shoulders his pack and moves deeper into the belly of this place. elenya's willow broom still leans beside the massive walk-in fi

the walls themselves emanates the sound of many a lively reel, and those gathered sometimes pause to note the individual artistry of bagpipe, bodhran, dulcimer, fiddle, harp, and uillean; perhaps not realizing that while many of the evening's tunes are heard by all, there is also a single melody for each which no one else hears- and for deer, each melody brings a tale from the beginnings of this eve..the season of yule wears so many faces. although there are many paths, each seems to recognize the speciality of the time when the world balances on the axis, and for just a moment, each of us takes pause and senses the delicate structure of our vast universe. and once again, the promise if fulfilled. owl walks slowly thru the glen surrounding the castle. there are spaces, where the grass is

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

osmogony of the qabalah 22 the primal cause. 22 the sephirotic scheme 23 origin of the sephiroth 25 the ten sephiroth 27 chapter iii 36 the problem of good and evil 36 good and evil. 36 the evolution of satan. 39 the problem of free will. 42 the mystery of sex. 45 chapter iv 48 the fall of tetragrmmmaton 48 the principles of creation. 48 the experimental worlds. 49 adam qadmon. 50 the creation of eve. 52 the messianic redemption. 54 chapter v 55 the redemption of tetragrammaton 55 symbols of the messianic act 55 man the instrument of redemption. 55 the accomplishment of the messianic act. 56 the integration of the disintegrated. 57 the creation of hell. 58 the source of messianic power. 59 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 4 chapter vi 61 the source of mystic power 61 the essence of the qa

on, from which it has proceeded. all marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions:

two orders are without form, the third is of darkness, and the remaining seven represent all human vices (activities. these seven infernal halls [or hells] are sub-divided into endless compartments, so as to afford a separate chamber of torture for every species of sin. the prince of this region of darkness is called satan in the bible. he is the same evil spirit, satan, the serpent, who seduced eve. 13 we are also told that: the ten sephiroth of atziluth have scintillated and brought forth the ten sephiroth of briah, and from the energy of these ten of briah sparkled forth the scintillations of the world yetzirah, and through these the ten sephiroth of the world assiah were sealed. 14 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 40 these are the seals of st. john's apocalypse. thus it is disclosed

, and not merely elohim as in the first account, gbreathed into his nostrils the breath of life h (that is the nephesh, gand man became a living soul h. 11 next the neshamah (eden, the garden of the intellect, is planted and man is put into it but is oblivious of the knowledge of good and evil, because as yet he possesses no rua h (that is power of judgment, and it is only after the temptation of eve that the rua h is established and the androgenic man becomes fully active. until this transformation takes place it would appear that the androgenic man is only occultly the shadow of tetragrammaton. he is not yhvh (hvhy) but yvy (yvy; for the zohar informs us gthat god brought them [man shaped for this world and man shaped for the future world] under the aegis of his own name by shaping the t

shaped for the future world] under the aegis of his own name by shaping the two eyes like the letter od and the nose between them like the letter vau h. 12 at once we see the connection, for yvy equals 26, the numerical value of tetragrammaton; further, as we will show later on, by splitting one of the two odin into heh and heh (10 into 5, 5) and inserting the vau between them we obtain hvh (hvh)-eve. again, as already explained, the two odin and the vau are the members of the letter aleph, the first letter of the mystical creative alphabet. we are also told in the zohar that when the first man was created, god ggathered the dust from all the four sides of the world. and spread upon her a soul of life from the holiness above h; 13 that this soul was the neshamah, which, like the mystery ab

years had .intercourse with female spirits h, 15 begetting the evil powers of the world, powers which are endowed with life but not with immortality until they have been set in conflict with the good and have become equilibrated. to effect this transmutation demanded an angelic race of men and, consequently, the creation of the angelic mother. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 52 the creation of eve. in the second chapter of genesis we are told that tetragrammaton elohim took a rib from the body of adam and from it fashioned woman- the passive or feminine essence of the archetypal man. the qabalistic interpretation is as follows: the rib is the letter od, which when removed from the four letters od heh vau heh leaves heh vau heh, or eve. the actual transmutation from od vau od to od heh v

already described. the od, as it will be remembered, also symbolizes the ten sephiroth of the yetziratic world, which are reflected in the assiatic world in the form of the garden of eden, which mystically is the garment of god. the od being extracted, the mystical eye is closed- that is, the vision of the yetziratic tree of life is cut off from the world of assiah; consequently, though adam and eve perceived that they were naked, they were not ashamed- that is they could not perceive the nakedness of the assiatic world- because the yetziratic vision having vanished there was no comparison (duality) left to judge it by. they were in fact bereft of all power of directly perceiving the shekinah, or supernal light. there is yet another mystery included in the letter od. its hieroglyphic is t

itute the paths of the tree of life and out of which, with the sephiroth, the universe is mystically formed. finally, as od represents the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two paths, it is the symbol of all things concentrated in the primordial point. in the third chapter of genesis the fall of man is described. to the qabalist it depicts the first step in the redemption of tetragrammaton; for unless eve had tempted adam, good and evil could never have been harmonized. the apple is the sephirah of esod- the foundation and the source of generative and regenerative power. we have described how evil, really activity, emanated out of god in the form of tetragrammaton. this being so, according to qabalistic philosophy, out of evil must good, or god, evolve; for gas above so beneath h and gas beneat

dam qadmon- creates the potentialities of satan (the demon hordes; and as tetragrammaton is possessed of a horror (a void) when he contemplates the loss of his identity, in order to maintain it secret he forbids adam to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because its fruits are death, that is they lead to passivity- the magical recoil which threatens the active existence of satan. next eve, the female counterpart of adam, is formed, and though mystically the man and the woman are created in one form, face to face, allegorically the creation of eve precedes that of adam, for allegorically the positive forces of life (the masculine) emanate from the negative forces (the feminine. by separating the od from tetragrammaton (y)hvh-and thus creating eve, a stupendous active and consequ

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

erved that the god of the ancients embodied the two creative agencies throughout the universe, but as nothing could exist without a mother, the great om who was the indivisible god and the creator of the sun was the mother of these two principles, while the tree of life was the original life-giving energy upon the earth, represented in the creation myths of the first man adam, and the first woman eve or adama. throughout the ages, this force, or creative agency has been symbolized in various ways, many of which have been noted in the foregoing pages. we have observed that notwithstanding the fact that the supremacy of the male had been established, the sacred yoni and the lotus were still reverenced as symbols of the most exalted god. finally, when the masculine energy began to be worshipp

ews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to eve" she was the life-giving, energizing power in nature, and was identical with aleim, om, astarte, and others. the goddess esta, or vesta, or hestia, whom plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe" is believed by beverly and others to be the self-existent, the great "she that is" of the hindoos, whose significance is identical with the cushite or phoenician deity, aleim. according to mar

stoics, and other greek schools of thought. brahme or vishnu, resting on the bottom of the sea--a goddess who was symbolized by the self-generating lotus--was in later ages the mysterious cow of the goths. after the natural truths concealed beneath their religious symbolism were wholly forgotten, and human nature through the over-stimulation of the animal instincts had become corrupted, adam and eve, names which doubtless for ages represented the two fecundating principles throughout nature, with their sons, cain, abel, and seth, comprehended the god-idea. the fact has been observed that just six hundred years from the creation of adam, or at the close of the cycle, noah appears with his three sons to save or perpetuate the race. it is now believed that this account of noah and his three

represented by a woman and a serpent involved the idea not alone of good, but of good and evil combined. together they prefigured not only wisdom and generative power, but evil as well. mythologically they represented the cold of winter and the heat of the sun's rays, both of which were necessary reproduction. from this conception sprang the ormuzd and ahryman of the persians, the story of adam, eve, and the serpent in genesis, and the legend of kihua-kohuatl and tonakatl-koatl in mexico "the serpent remained in the memory and affections of most early people as wisdom, life, goodness, and the source of knowledge and science, under various names such as toth, hermes, themis, the kneph or sophia of egyptians and gnostics, and set, shet, or shem of the jews"[75 [75] forlong, rivers of life

d tempest" these elements subsequently became identified with the evil principle, or the devil. the cold of winter, the darkness of night, and water, were finally set forth as the trinity. regarding cold, darkness, and water, or darkness, mist, and tempest, hippolytus observes "these the sethian says are the three principles of our system; or when he states that three were born in paradise- adam, eve, the serpent; or when he speaks of three persons, namely, cain, abel, seth, and again of three others, shem, ham, japheth; or when he mentions three patriarchs--abraham, isaac, jacob; or when he speaks of three days before the sun, etc" the same writer says that their entire system is derived from the ancients; that, antecedent to the eleusinian mysteries, were enacted by them the ceremonies c

eld at an earlier age, and those which came to prevail after she had become "the cause of evil in the world" we have the following from tertullian "if there was a pandora, whom hesiod mentions as the first woman, hers was the first head the graces crowned, for she received gifts from all the gods, whence she got her name pandora. but moses, a prophet, not a poet-shepherd, shows us the first woman eve having her loins more naturally girt about with leaves than her temples with flowers. pandora then is a myth"[98 [98] tertullian, vol. i, p. 341. woman, who was originally the gift of wisdom, or minerva, and who when created was garlanded with flowers as the crown of creation, became, in course of time, an accursed and wicked thing who must henceforth cover herself with leaves to hide her sham

h flowers as the crown of creation, became, in course of time, an accursed and wicked thing who must henceforth cover herself with leaves to hide her shame. tertullian, who, with the rest of the early fathers in the christian church, had imbibed the latter doctrine concerning her, could not believe the tradition set forth by hesiod; therefore pandora was a myth, while the corrupted fable, that of eve as the tempter, was accepted as a natural representation of womanhood. when woman was created "all the gods conferred a gifted grace "round her fair brow the lovely-tressed hours a garland twined of spring's purpureal flowers: the whole attire minerva's graceful art disposed, adjusted, form'd to every part"[99 [99] hesiod, works and days. later, however, pandora herself becomes the pourer fort

day when the zodiacal constellation virgo "the greek astrea, leaves the european horizon" and the "8th of september, when virgo emerges from the sun's rays, is held sacred as the nativity of the queen of heaven" of the mid-winter festival, bede says "the pagans of these isles began their year on the eighth of the kalends of january, which is now our christmas day. the night before that (24th dec. eve) was called by them the medre-nak, or night of mothers, because of the ceremonies which were performed on that night"[132 [132] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 430. among christians as among pagans the christmas season was in honor of "returning light" the vernal equinox of "growing light" and st. john's day of "perfected light" in england, among pagan saxons, the midwinter festival lasted twelve d

me light, fire, the sun, huge stones and other similar manifestations of the deity were adored. christian and pagan alike worshipped these objects. they called christmas "the birthday of the god who is light" the savior, or the new sun, was the true light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world. according to the testimony of various writers, the festival held by christians on christmas eve used to resemble the feast of lights, celebrated in egypt in honor of neith. the tokens distributed among friends were cakes made of paste in the form of babies. these cakes were called yuledows. dow means to "grow bigger" or "to increase" the kalends of january at rome were sacred to janus and juno to whom sacrifices were offered. the etruscans also worshipped janus who was the god (or goddes

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the path that i was travelling."theartist mighthavetakenmorepains, saidthe clementsaturday review, alluding to an unfortunate confusionbetween eirenaeus and eugenius philalethes. assuredlyhe mighthavedone it throughout, had he stood a reasonable chance'(sly,p.102).hurried redway might have been,267but he knew what the public wanted and it was he who, at the last minute, altered the title 'on the eve almost of publicationmysimply and soberlyentitledhistoryofthe rosicrucians-as the left headlines evident-was changed on the title-page to therealhistory,too late for any protest on my own part'(sly,p.101).but not too late for protest by others. both the title and the cover design (a deliberate copy of that used on earlier editions of jennings's work) were intended to set the book againsttheros

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o humanfolly.vale,fratresetsorores!references:i.algernon, blackwood,johnsilence,physicianextraordinary(1908),pp2673-42672. ibid, p.64.3.ibid.,p.282.4. ibid.,p.289.5.evelynunderhill,thecolumnofdust(1909),p. 12.6.ibid.,p.15.7. ibid.,p.16. 8. ibid.,p.19. 9. dion fortune,thesecretsof dr.taverner,3rd edition(1979),p. 223267 10. ibid, p. 226.ii.ibid, p.2z"j.12.ibid.,p. 228.13.charleswiiliams,allhallows eve(1945),p.145.4.algernon blackwood,thehumanchord(1910),p. 104.15267ibid, p.277-appendicesappendixatheanna sprengel letters, translated from the originals in the 'private collection'.appendixb historical lecture, by sapere aude (westcott, transcribed from a copy in the hand, ofw. e. h. humphreys (gnothi seauton).appendixc neophyte grade ritual, transcribed from waite's own manuscript copy of the

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sh critics have all assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the nepheshchiah-thebreath of life; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then another stage of progress, and a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they were, could hardly have bee

gonists. shedim-destroyers.seirim-hairymonsters. mazikim-mischief makers; and theklippoth-shells,extra-human evil beings. of individuals there are notable:134themagical masonsatan or sheitan, of the arabic, and samael. these two titles are much confused, and are often used one in exchange for the other; satan is specified when the devil tempts job; and samael is the being who is named as tempting eve in the fall. asmodai, is the rabbinic name of asmodeus. belial, is a name used as synonymous with satan. wicked men were called sons of belial. beelzebub, said to be a synonym of satan. matt. xii. 24. abaddon, said to be a synonym of satan. asmodeus, an evil spirit, is named in tobit. iii. 8. lucifer, is named in isaiah xiv. 12. apollyon, is the greek for abaddon. of female devils, the chief a

present mode of life. this root tzel reappears in the hebrew word tzelmuth, meaning death, and the 'shadow of death: tzel, shadow; and muth, death; in the latin vulgate -umbra mortis,ingreek255skia thanatou.this is a curious coincidence if there be no hebrew recognition of the astral, because the astral, like the physical body, is subject to similar change at death. consider next the formation of eve, the first female, in genesisii.21-23:here we have the so-called jehovisticnarrative, in which the hebrew divine names are jehovah elohim,ihvhalhim,and these are rendered into the english words'lordgod 'and he took one of his [adam's] ribs 'and of the ribanomalies inthebiblical views of man 143which the lord god had taken from adam, made he a woman. now this wordribsuggests the ideaside;the he

age [tzelem..male and female created he them" while in genesis ii, 7, we read, that the lord god (jehovah elohim) formed man (adam) of the dust of the ground (adamah) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (neshamath chim, and man (adam) became a living soul (nephesh chiah).inthe subsequent verses 21 and 22, we read that the lord god took a rib from adam and of it made the first woman (eve);butthe word here translatedribis elsewhere taken to mean a form, an image or a shadow, suggesting the idea now expressed by the words astral form or ethereal body. the hebrew word for the body isguph,but it does not occur in the old testament until the book of samuel, where theguph-bodyof saul is mentioned.thewordnephesh,soul, is also used in the hebrew for the personality, the human facultie

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applied. saturn is also sophia and through ialdaboath matter is created and yet we may ask why was it a sin for sophia to want to know or understand the divine will? it seems clear that this supposed error was actually the process by which sophia (and with her mankind) could enter matter and achieve an understanding of the divine will. this model is duplicated in genesis where the serpent tempts eve and eve is seen to fall, yet in reality eve begins a necessary journey into the material world, symbolized by putting on coats of skin and being dispelled from the garden. the entry into matter was hence painful but necessary. so while saturn/sophia may have caused the material world and its suffering and pain, it is through realizing that this world is only a classroom that we see through the

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egends of cosmic error in the biblical account we read of an archangel who rebels against the cosmic order and is thrown from the heavens. his angelic nature is lost and he becomes a fallen being. his name lucifer means light bearer and accordingly, we have a light bearer who is transformed into a dark force. this is followed by a second fall, this time directly involving humanity, where adam and eve, depending on interpretation, break gnostic theurgy page 16 one of creators commandments or in some way or another break cosmic law, and are expelled from the garden of eden (in gnostic terms the expulsion from eden represents the soul entering matter. there are many variantions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia o

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ce of the earth. then the heart of heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. in this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the first men were destroyed.4 anyone familiar with the old testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden had to do with similar divine concerns. after the first man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the lord god said, behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever [let us] send him forth from the garden of eden. 5 the popol vuh is

ind of direct influence of one region on the other but of two different interpretations of the same set of events. thus, for example: the biblical garden of eden looks like a metaphor for the state of blissful, almost godlike, knowledge that the first men of the popol vuh enjoyed. the essence of this knowledge was the ability to see all and to know all. was this not precisely the ability adam and eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? finally, just as adam and eve were driven out of the garden, so were the four first men of the popol vuh deprived of their ability to see far. thereafter their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close. both the popol vuh and genesis therefore tell the story of ma

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ances to the caves. ahg: right. i investigated both. one was brown mountain, north carolina, and i found plenty of ufo witnesses there, including this guy, ralph something, that claimed he had been inside the mountain, and whisked off from there to outer space. quite a yarn. i went there with gene and geneva steinberg once, and with jim moseley and his daughter betty and tim beckley, on christmas eve, in 1968 as i recall. the other entrance dates back into cherokee indian legend of the entrance to fairyland, magonia, or whatever-you-call-it. it was the home of the yum-wee- chum-dee, the little men, and was near tallulah falls in north georgia. i searched for years for that entrance. up where deliverance was filmed. trw: you can see it ahg: excuse me? trw: the entrance. you can see it clear

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om day to day, from year to year. they have long wearied of the wild pursuit, and lament their impious wish, but they must bear the fruits of their guilt till the hour of redemption come. come it will, but who knows when? during the twolven (for at other times we sons of men cannot perceive her) fran gauden directs her hunt toward human habitations; best of all she loves on the night of christmas eve or new year's eve to drive through the village streets, and whereever she finds a street-door open, she sends a dog in. next morning a little dog wags his tail at the inmates, he does them no other harm but that he disturbs their night's rest by his whining. he is not to be pacified, nor driven away. kill him, and he turns 1 liscb, mocmoub. jahrbuch 5, 78-80. 926 spectres. into a stone by day

erunt, et asirmant usque adeo similem, ut venatorem ibi venari quis diceret, idque saepe a vigilibus qui gottorpii nocte^ still closer comes the statement in thiele p. 192: in olden days it was the custom in the i. of moen, when they were harvesting, and had tied the last sheaf of oats, to throw it on the field with the words 'this for the jode of tji^xala, this let him have for his horse on yule-eve' and it they did not do it, their cattle died. the' jotunn of upsala' is a christian euphemism for wodan or o'sinu, whose divine image is set up at upsala. the phraseology might originate at a period when denmark was converted and sweden remained heathen. furious host: gronjette. 945 vigilure solent audiri: sed et ahelein multis nostra aetate apparuisse et visum esse constans omnium est rumor

teto (the bald crown, a peak of the tokay wine-hills^ with which the ^na -lysagore' of the polish witches (woycicki 1, 17. 2, 77) agrees. a part of the carpathians between hungary and poland is called in pol. habia gora, old wives' mountain; i cannot say if witch-festivals are placed there. the kormakssaga pp. 76. 204. 222 has a similar 8pdkonufell, wise-woman's mount. the lithuanians say, on the eve of st. john all the magicians come flying to mt szatria, where a mighty sorceress jauterita entertains them^ it is singular, how all over europe the heathen's pilgrimages to feasts and sacrifices are by christians converted into this uniform sorcery, everywhere alike. did the notion take shape in each nation by itself? or, what is less credible, was the fashion set in one place, and followed e

quirting water up in the air, shooting gravel, scatteriug sand toward sunset, witches barbelee, qui porte a verge pelee plus de qatre vingts ans' eenart 28286; conf. meon 4, 478' remest ausi moncle com la verge qui est pelee' 1 ds. no. 251. wolf's niederl. sagen 245. 381-2. wodana xxxvi^ so, by magic, wine is struck out of the post, superst. g, line 262; conf. the legend of doctor faust. 3 on the eve of s. philip and s. james, i.e. may 1, people in the i. of eiigen run about the fields with large fire-bladders: this they call molkentoverschen hrennen eugian. laudgebr. cap. 243' milchdiebin und uiiliold' h. sachs iii. 8, 5. witches' doings. 1073 bring on storm and hail (p. 909, to beat down their neighbour's corn and fruit. for the same purpose they are said to boil bristles or else oak-lea

the future is revealed to him, and this kind of divination is called tagliairn. the' forse' too was a sacred spot, as well as the forking of roads: 1 a persian superstition' sitting down at the junction of four cross-roads on a wedu. nif,'lit, and applj-iuf' to yourself every sentence spoken by the passers and considering it as a good or bad omen' atkinson, p. 11. 12- if after supper on christm. eve a girl shakes out the tablecloth at a crossway, a man will meet her, and give her good even. of the same height and figure will her future husband be. the shaken cloth has taken the place of the spread, or, of the animal's liide. divination by sowing basilicum is known to vuk 1, 22. no. 36 (wesely p. 58. iiig supeestition. this last is mentioned in the edda 'opt bolwisar konor sitja brauto nce

toit fille. tjirowing shoes over one's head, and seeing which way the points look, reveals the place where one is destined to stay longest. sup. i, 101; g, 1. 220. the sermones disc, de tempore mention, among superstitious christmas customs, that of calceos sniper caput jactare, sermo xi. they also speak of some' qui cumulos salis ponunt, et per hoc futura pronosticant' sup. i, 1081 'on christmas eve put a little heap of salt on the table; if it melts overnight, you die next year; if not, not' again, in a house where one lies dead, they make three heaps of salt (i, 846. this has to do with the sacred nature of salt (pp. 1046. 1076. apparently of greek origin is the widely received custom of pouring out lead (i, 97; h, cap. 96; even ihre (de superst. p. 55) mentions it, conf. 1 divining by

lli (p. 673. in ls. 3, 543 we read' sant martins vogalin diu machent mangen umbecreiz' while another passage (which even reiuh. cxxvii borrows) in a pal. ms (altswert 77, 19) has again' mertiss vogelin^ and we are told it points the way to the venus mount, which adds to its mythical character. our nursery rhymes give sunte martens vogelken a red coat or golden wing, but they are sung on martinmas-eve, and bring us back to the saint. so i can come to no certain conclusion about this bird. coming back to the crow, we have yet more credentials, old and new. virg. eel. 9, 15 ^ante sinistra cava monuisset ab ilice comix' poema del cid 11. 12' ovieron la corneia diestra/ and' siniestra' kenart 10173, speaking of the oiseau s. martin 'assez si le hucha a desire, et li oisiax vint a senestre' the

adicem (pistolochiae) ante solis ortum erutam involvunt lana' 20, 4 [14. the viscus was gathered at new moon, prima luna 24, 4 [6; the verbenaca' circa canis ortum, ita ut ne luna aut sol consjnciat' 25, 9 [59. unseen by man or heavenly body, silent and fasting, shall the collector approach the sacred herb. lihes of the valley are to be culled before sunrise, devil's-bit at midnight of st. john's eve, sup. i, 190. 1075. pliny 25, 3 [6] tells of a plant called by the romans herha britannica, because brought from the isles between germany and britain (ex oceani insulis extra terras positis 27, 1' florem vihones vocant, qui collectus i?riusquam tonitrua audiantur (is not that between lightning and thunder) et devoratus, secures a fulminibus in totum reddit. frisii, qua castra erant, nostris d

ll out when these were taken off. it is said also, if you have adder-herb about you, you will be pursued by adders till you have thrown it away. in some parts they call it walburgis-kraut. its slavic name is russ. pdporot, pol. paproc, 0. boh. paprnt, now papradj, kapradj, sloven, praprat ^raprot, lith. papartis, lett, papardi. woycicki 1, 94 also says it blossoms exactly at midnight of st john's eve, and it is a hard matter to get hold of the flower (kwiat paproci, for the picking is attended by storm and thunder; but whoever gets possession of it becomes rich, and can prophesy (see suppl. ohg. pipoz, artemisia (graff 3, 22, but misplaced and misspelt, mhg. hiboz (rhy. groz, ls. 2, 526; its corruption into our meaningless heifuss, nethl. hivoet, is as early as gl. jun. 406 bifuz. the word

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ice. this dripping origin reminds us of some other features in antiquity; thus, 03inn had a gold ring draupnir (the dripper, from which every ninth night there dripped eight other rings of equal weight (ssem. 84a. sn. 66. sasm. 195b speaks, not very lucidly, of a hausi hersdraupnis (cranio stillantis; styrian legend commemorates a giant s rib from which a drop falls once a year (d.s. no. 140^ and eve may be said to drip out of adam s rib. with the giant s birth out of ice and rime we may connect the story of the snow-child (in the modus liebinc, and the influence, so common in our fairy-tales, of snow and blood on the birth of a long wished for child. all this seems allied to heathen notions of creation, conf. 1 no doubt the familiar name kibbentrop is founded on some such tradition. 562 c

g only a grandson. again, there is no mistaking the distinct methods by which giants, gods and men propagate their kind. only one giant had sprung out of ice, he has to beget children of himself, an office performed by his hands and feet together, as in other ways also the hand and foot are regarded as akin and allied to one another.2 ymir s being asleep during the time is like adam s sleep while eve was fashioned out of his rib; eve therefore takes her rise in adam himself, after which they continue their race jointly. how buri begat borr we are not informed, but borr united him self to a giant s daughter, who bore him three sons, and from them sprang the rest of the ases. it was otherwise with men, 1 we might indeed imagine that regin and ginregin ruled before the arrival of the ases, an

fitly enough, tears are likened to salt (salsae lacrimae; somewhat oddly the colours of the eye to flowers, though it is not uncommon to speak of an opening flower as an eye. the creation of hearts out of wind is found in the frisian account alone, which is also the only one that adds, that into this mixture of eight materials god blew his holy breath, and out of adam s rib created his companion eve [the mhg. has( imparted his breath. 2 1 variegated eyes are the oculi varii, prov. vairs huelhs (kayn. sub v. var, o.fr. vairs iex (eoquef. sub v. we find in ohg. bluom/e/t, and gevehet nah tien bluomon, graff 3, 426; the as. fdgung above. 2 well, here is already our fifth version, from a paris ms. of the 15fch century (paulin paris, mss. francais de la bibl. du roi 4, 207: adam fu forme ou ch

eta, and dionysus out of his thigh (fju^poppa^ri? as the latter was called &ijj,r)ta>p (two-mothered, so the unexplained fable of the nine mothers of heimdallr (p. 234) seems to rest on some similar ground (see suppl. from these earlier creations of gods and giants the edda and, as the sequel will shew, the indian religion distinguish the crea tion of the first human pair. as with adam and eve in scrip ture, so in the edda there is presupposed some material to be quickened by god, but a simple, not a composite one. tre means both tree and wood, askr the ash-tree (fraxinus; the relation of askr to the isco of heroic legend has already been discussed, p. 350. if by the side of askr, the man, there stood 1 e femoribus natus= uravya, uruja, bopp s gloss. 54a. 2 majer s mythol. taschenbu

an oak-stem, etner s unw. doct. 585. min gof 1st au niid abbem nossbom aba choh, and my dad didn t come off the nut-tree, tobler 337b, who wrongly refers it to the christmas-tree. 1 homer s phrase is: chat from oak or rock, as youth and maiden do. trans " as deucalion and pyrrha create the race of men, so (ace. to a myth in the eeinhartssage, whose source i never could discover) do adam and eve create that of beasts by smiting the sea with rods. only, adam makes the good beasts, eve the bad; so in parsee legend ormuzd and ahriman hold a creating match. 574 ceeation. men and dwarfs are created, appears in surprising harmony with a theological opinion largely adopted throughout the mid. ages, according to which, though the 0. t. begins with the work of the six days, yet the existence a

hurch. scripture, in its account of the creation looks only to the human race, leaving angels and out of giants sight altogether though, as the narrative goes on, they ire found existing. tn t, h/ m^ d it ages wac 1 ^8iu f freemen to shem, that of knights and serfs to japhet and ham; wackern. bas. mss. 2, 20. 3 i have since lighted on a muhammedan legend in wolfg. menzel s mythol forschungenl 40: eve had so many children, that she was ashamed, and once when surprised by god she hid some of them away. god then called the children to him, and divided all the goods and honours of the earth among them. those that were hidden got none, and from them are descended beggars and fakirs the tfitt y t n aut* nty*^b* the agreement with the german drama of thhee 1f6itt h centt, is undeni w e erman rama

and honours of the earth among them. those that were hidden got none, and from them are descended beggars and fakirs the tfitt y t n aut* nty*^b* the agreement with the german drama of thhee 1f6itt h centt, is undeni w e erman rama o he 16th cent, undeniably and makes me doubt the supposed connexion of the concealed creation. 575 bible makes two separate actions, adam/s creation coming first, and eve s being performed afterwards and in a different manner.1 so, by hesiod s account, there already existed men descended from the gods themselves, when the first woman pandora, the allgifted, fair and false, was formed out of earth and flood (p. 571. it is difficult to arrive at the exact point of view in the hesiodic poems. in the theogony, there ascend out of chaos first graia (earth) the giant

where daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so that in our german mannus (whence manna and manniskja, homo) we recognise precisely borr and his creator sons (p. 349. askr and embla are simply a reproduction of the same idea of creation, and on a par with deucalion and pyrrha, or adam and eve. i must not pass over the fact, that the first part of the indian poem, where brahma as a fish is caught by manus, and then reveals to him the future, lingers to this day in our nursery tale of the small all-powerful turbot or pike, who gradually elevates a fisherman from the meanest condition to the highest rank; and only plunges him back into his pristine poverty, when, urged by the counsels

s of these will be presented in a later chapter. the mid. ages cherished the notion of a jungbrunnen: 2 whoever bathes in it is both cured of diseases and guarded from them; in it eauchels shed her shaggy skin, and became the beauteous sigeminne (p. 433-4; such a spring has sometimes the power even to change the bather s sex (see suppl. 3 in a spring near nogent men and women bathed on st. john s eve (superst. l. 33; holberg s comedy of kilde-reisen is founded on the copenhagen people s practice of pil griming to a neighbouring spring on 8. hans often, to heal and invigorate themselves in its waters. on midsummer eve the people of ostergotland journeyed according to ancient custom to lagman s bergekiilla near skeninge, and drank of the well (broocman 1, 187. 2, 676. in many parts of german

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left to dwell upon earth. it was thro' him that the orders of angels were divided, the holiest were those who would not hearken unto him, these then constituted the seven spheres.theznd agreed with him a little, the 3rd more so, they all agreed more and more with him until they came to thefirst-andthey agreed with him at that time almost entirely. at this time no place of punishment was made, but eve being created and living with adam in the gardenofparadise he thought he could not revenge himself better, on those who expelled him, than by makinghereat the forbidden fruit, for that he was turned into the boundless space in which the world was a speck.listherosicrucianseerpassport in all afar ages to eternal happiness. hegivesto man his mortal body returning as pure in spirit as when he des

to hear better newsofyourhealth255addressed to me at the white swan hotel,alnwick-dolet me have a note soon. pray give my kindest regards to your mama& fraternally so to your father& i hope to hear they are both well. in haste, most faithfully and fraternally yours. i expect to be back on 3rd sept. 37 3 raymond buildings, gray's inn,w.e.26september 1877dearbro. woodman' your favor arrived on the eve of my moving to a fresh domicile& the worry with first sending my books, over2,000volumes unpacked& pulling down my bookcases& other matters one week, and my furniture the next,&tooillto do any thingbutlook on have prevented my answering your note before this and my being in business away from my own office i am unable to write private letters, i must beg you kindly to forgive the delay. i am

oon recoup itself for a successful effort.heis at a critical age&requires great care, growing and studying hard at the same time wouldtryany system.itis of course a grievous affliction to lose our spiritual communications' still his health isofparamount importance, i hope he will never let himself be biologised byanyone.asi mentioned in my note i read yourmsswith very great interest. being on the eve of leaving london&my books all at sixes and sevens i could not compare them with salmon, culpeper" or other authors on r[osie] c[rucian] medicines,butnow altho' i have not got my books in order the occult portion is collected togetherunderdifferent heads and consequently most readily available. when you are in town bring the r[osi] c[rucian]mssup&we will compare notes for altho' i retain a gen

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

glass, wherein the hours of human life are numbered, runsswifter. the worm has gnawed the blossom of health through its heart. the strong body is found stretchedone day on the thorny bed of pain. the soul-ego beams no longer. it sits still and looks sadly out of what has become its dungeon windows, onthe world which is now rapidly being shrouded for it in the funeral palls of suffering. is it the eve of nighteternal which is nearing? nightmare talesiii13 vbeautiful are the resorts on the midland sea. an endless line of surf-beaten, black, rugged rocks stretches,hemmed in between the golden sands of the coast and the deep blue waters of the gulf. they offer theirgranite breast to the fierce blows of the north-west wind and thus protect the dwellings of the rich that nestleat their foot on t

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

1889; enghsh translation m 1892 by a. p. morton, second edition, revised by a. e. waite, 1910. 4 irwin's son herbert, a medical stud nt at bristol,.had died of an overdose of laudanum in 1879 and irwm made persistent efforts to contact him. william eglinton (1857-1933) was a well-known 'materialization' and 'slate-writing' medium. asealed slate would have a message written upon it during a seance eve if the slate itsel was supposedly inaccessible to human agents. eghnton was acquamted with madame blavatsky and visited adyar, near madras, when h.p.b. was there during the early 1880s. he joined the london lodge of the theosophical society during the early 1880s. 5 john thomas, who lived in cheshire, was a spiri ualist mediu and astrologer. the following transcription from the title-page of h

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

, as he had never before smelt in all his life except near the indian circles on the hills, and which could not come from anything sane or of this earth. but then, the homes and sheds of dunwich folk have never been remarkable for olfactory immaculateness. the following months were void of visible events, save that everyone swore to a slow but steady increase in the mysterious hill noises. on may eve of 1915 there were tremors which even the aylesbury people felt, whilst the following hallowe'en produced an underground rumbling queerly synchronized with bursts of flame 'them witch whateleys' doin's- from the summit of sentinel hill. wilbur was growing up uncannily, so that he looked like a boy of ten as he entered his fourth year. he read avidly by himself now; but talked much less than fo

ley always paid for his cattle in gold pieces of extremely ancient date. the whateleys had received their visitors with ill-concealed distaste, though they did not dare court further publicity by a violent resistance or refusal to talk. iv. for a decade the annals of the whateleys sink indistinguishably into the general life of a morbid community used to their queer ways and hardened to their may eve and all-hallows orgies. twice a year they would light fires on the top of sentinel hill, at which times the mountain rumblings would recur with greater and greater violence; while at all seasons there were strange and portentous doings at the lonely farm-house. in the course of time callers professed to hear sounds in the sealed upper storey even when all the family were downstairs, and they w

reached the normal adult limit, seemed inclined to wax beyond that figure. in 1925, when a scholarly correspondent from miskatonic university called upon him one day and departed pale and puzzled, he was fully six and three-quarters feet tall. through all the years wilbur had treated his half-deformed albino mother with a growing contempt, finally forbidding her to go to the hills with him on may eve and hallowmass; and in 1926 the poor creature complained to mamie bishop of being afraid of him 'they's more abaout him as i knows than i kin tell ye, mamie' she said 'an' naowadays they's more nor what i know myself. i vaow afur gawd, i dun't know what he wants nor what he's a-tryin' to dew' that hallowe'en the hill noises sounded louder than ever, and fire burned on sentinel hill as usual; b

ce again, and laughed mockingly at the village rumours of his parentage 'inbreeding' armitage muttered half-aloud to himself 'great god, what simpletons! show them arthur machen's great god pan and they'll think it a common dunwich scandal! but what thing- what cursed shapeless influence on or off this three-dimensional earth- was wilbur whateley's father? born on candlemas- nine months after may eve of 1912, when the talk about the queer earth noises reached clear to arkham- what walked on the mountains that may night? what roodmas horror fastened itself on the world in half-human flesh and blood' during the ensuing weeks dr armitage set about to collect all possible data on wilbur whateley and the formless presences around dunwich. he got in communication with dr houghton of aylesbury, w

places did not deflect the inexorable trail. whatever the horror was, it could scale a sheer stony cliff of almost complete verticality; and as the investigators climbed round to the hill's summit by safer routes they saw that the trail ended- or rather, reversed- there. it was here that the whateleys used to build their hellish fires and chant their hellish rituals by the table-like stone on may eve and hallowmass. now that very stone formed the centre of a vast space thrashed around by the mountainous horror, whilst upon its slightly concave surface was a thick and foetid deposit of the same tarry stickiness observed on the floor of the ruined whateley farmhouse when the horror escaped. men looked at one another and muttered. then they looked down the hill. apparently the horror had desc

th, and i guess grandfather will be dead then, so i shall have to learn all the angles of the planes and all the formulas between the yr and the nhhngr. they from outside will help, but they cannot take body without human blood. that upstairs looks it will have the right cast. i can see it a little when i make the voorish sign or blow the powder of ibn ghazi at it, and it is near like them at may eve on the hill. the other face may wear off some. i wonder how i shall look when the earth is cleared and there are no earth beings on it. he that came with the aklo sabaoth said i may be transfigured there being much of outside to work on. morning found dr armitage in a cold sweat of terror and a frenzy of wakeful concentration. he had not left the manuscript all night, but sat at his table unde

liked human sacrifices. had had 'em ages afore, but lost track o' the upper world after a time. what they done to the victims i ain't fer me to say, an' i guess obed was'n't none too sharp abaout askin. but it was all right with the heathens, because they'd ben havin' a hard time an' was desp'rate abaout everything. they give a sarten number o' young folks to the sea-things twice every year- may-eve an' hallawe'en- reg'lar as cud be. also give some a' the carved knick-knacks they made. what the things agreed to give in return was plenty a' fish- they druv 'em in from all over the sea- an' a few gold like things naow an' then "wal, as i says, the natives met the things on the little volcanic islet- goin' thar in canoes with the sacrifices et cet'ry, and bringin' back any of the gold-like j

aow an' then "wal, as i says, the natives met the things on the little volcanic islet- goin' thar in canoes with the sacrifices et cet'ry, and bringin' back any of the gold-like jools as was comin' to 'em. at fust the things didn't never go onto the main island, but arter a time they come to want to. seems they hankered arter mixin' with the folks, an' havin' j'int ceremonies on the big days- may-eve an' hallowe'en. ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water- what they call amphibians, i guess. the kanakys told 'em as haow folks from the other islands might wanta wipe 'an out if they got wind o' their bein' thar, but they says they dun't keer much, because they cud wipe aout the hull brood o' humans ef they was wiliin' to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as

ht an' chant things so laoud ye cud hear 'em all over taown when the wind was right? tell me that, hey? an' tell me why obed was allus droppin' heavy things daown into the deep water t'other side o' the reef whar the bottom shoots daown like a cliff iower'a ye kin saound? tell me what he done with that funny-shaped lead thingumajig as walakea give him? hey, boy? an' what did they all haowl on may-eve, an, agin the next hallowe'en? an' why'd the new church parsons- fellers as used to he sailors- wear them queer robes an' cover their-selves with them gold-like things obed brung? hey" the watery blue eyes were almost savage and maniacal now, and the dirty white beard bristled electrically. old zadok probably saw me shrink back, for he began to cackle evilly "heh, heh, heh, heh! beginni'n to s

HP LOVECRAFT THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

se from the top of the street, and by far the tallest of them all. my rcom was on the fifth story; the only inhabited room there, since the house was almost empty. on the night i arrived i heard strang music from the peaked garret overhead, and the next day asked old blandot about it. he told me it was an old german viol-player, a strange dumb man who signed his name as erich zann, and who played eve nings in a cheap theater orchestra; adding that zann s desire to play in the night after his return from the theater was the reason he had chosen this lofty and isolated garret room, whose single gable window was the only point on the street from which one could look over the terminating wall at the declivity and panorama beyond. thereafter i heard zann every night, and although he kept me awa

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

liked human sacrifices. had had 'em ages afore, but lost track o' the upper world after a time. what they done to the victims i ain't fer me to say, an' i guess obed was'n't none too sharp abaout askin. but it was all right with the heathens, because they'd ben havin' a hard time an' was desp'rate abaout everything. they give a sarten number o' young folks to the sea-things twice every year- may-eve an' hallawe'en -r eg'lar as cud be. also give some a' the carved knick-knacks they made. what the things agreed to give in return was plenty a' fish- they druv 'em in from all over the sea- an' a few gold like things naow an' then "wal, as i says, the natives met the things on the little vol-canic islet- goin' thar in canoes with the sacrifices et cet'ry, and bringin' back any of the gold-like

ow an' then "wal, as i says, the natives met the things on the little vol-canic islet- goin' thar in canoes with the sacrifices et cet'ry, and bringin' back any of the gold-like jools as was comin' to 'em. at fust the things didn't never go onto the main island, but arter a time they come to want to. seems they hankered arter mixin' with the folks, an' havin' j'int ceremonies on the big days- may-eve an' haiiowe'en. ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water- what they call amphibians, i guess. the kanakys told 'em as haow folks from the other islands might wanta wjpe 'an out if they got wind o' their bein' thar, but they says they dun't keer much, because they cud wipe aout the hull brood o' humans ef they was wiliin' to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as

ght an' chant things so laoud ye cud hear 'em all over taown when the wind was right? tell me that, hey? an' tell me why obed was allus droppin' heavy things daown into the deep water t'other side o' the reef whar the bottom shoots daown like a cliff iower'a ye kin saound? tell me what he done with that funnyshaped lead thingumajig as walakea give him? hey, boy? an' what did they all haowl on may-eve, an, agin the next hallowe'en? an' why'd the new church parsons- fellers as used to he sailors- wear them queer robes an' cover theirselves with them gold-like things obed brung? hey" the watery blue eyes were almost savage and maniacal now, and the dirty white beard bristled electrically. old zadok probably saw me shrink back, for he began to cackle evilly "heh, heh, heh, heh! beginni' to see

he livin' in a taown like this, with everything a-rottin' an' dyin, an' boarded-up monsters crawlin' an' bleatin' an' barkin' an' hoppin' araoun' black cellars an' attics every way ye turn? hey? haow'd ye like to hear the haowlin' night arter night from the churches an' order 0' dagon hall, an' know what's doin' part o' the haowlin? haow'd ye like to hear what comes from that awful reef every may-eve an' hallowmass? hey? think the old man's crazy, eh? wal, sir, let me tell ye that ain't the wust" zadok was really screaming now, and the mad frenzy of his voice disturbed me more than i care to own "curse ye, dun't set thar a'starin' at me with them eyes -i tell obed marsh he's in hell, an, hez got to stay thar! heh, heh. in hell, i says! can't git me- i hain't done nothin' nor told nobody no

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

nd even the spiritual guardians of plants and beasts. it is not hard to perform, but it is lasting and binding, and if any hint of insincerity is in your heart when you perform this rite, it will not work. there is no getting out of this oath and pact, and it should never be taken lightly. you should do it around one of the old holy or hidden festival days of the old waysespecially around hallows eve or the twelve nights of yule. but the tide of lammas is a good time as well, underscoring the sacrifice of one way of life and the birth of a new. it should be done at night, or at dusk, and the workings of it are simple- days before, you should have been doing various devotions, trance works, internal communions, even walking the left-way road if you can, to communicate your intentions. you s

INFERNAL UNION

the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. his title samael the black refers

essence, oz as it is called .his gift is that of wisdom and knowledge of the earth (said by kenneth grant to be the reverse hierophant in this regard. in our practice, samael is the king of witchblood, the guardian of the gateway which is access to all other fallen angels and watchers. he is the subprince or shadow and fire of lucifer in the east being air. lilith is in jewish folklore, the first eve or wife of adam. she refused adams advances and attempts to subvert her power, independence and inherent equality. she would not lay beneath him in sexual congress by instead called upon the secret names of god and fled to the caves in the shores of the red sea where she mated with demons and spawned the lilim or lilitu, the succubi or sexual vampires.[it has also been said that lilith, adams

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ut the desired cause together with its effect has been begotten. here the lower as well as the upper double pole are coming into operation, the tetrapolar magnet, the yod-he-vau-he is working the highest mystery of love here, the creation. how easy it would be to degrade this act, the highest thing existent on earth, to mere carnal appetites that would lead to damnation. the expulsion of adam and eve from paradise finds it s highest symbolism here. the magician who dares to approach the highest of all practices has to master the upper as well as the lower streams in order to transfer the loading eventually into his talisman. to dishonor this sacred act by carnal desires would mean to repeat the fate of adam and eve who were no longer allowed to enjoy the fruits of paradise. the intuitive m

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

t is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and light. in syncretic terms, mahazhael might be indentified with christ on the eve of his nativity, as the soul of the crucified king of light at the moment prior to his dawn on earth. the lord mahazhael may be evoked to preside over festivities of midwinter and the new year s birth. his gift is the sunlight of wisdom born in the darkness of midnight. the call unto mahazhael-deval the magister (or chosen officiant) remains silent, bearing the mask of the lord. the covine sha

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

possibly after the island-magee trial, and thus would be an instance of one of those outbursts of cruelty on the part of a mob rendered ferocious by ignorance and superstition, of which examples are to be found in england during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. on one occasion an irish witch or wise woman was the means of having a scotch girl delated by the kirk for using charms at hallow-eve apparently for the purpose of discovering who her future husband should be. she confessed that "at the instigation of an old woman from ireland she brought in a pint of water from a well which brides and burials pass over, and dipt her shirt into it, and hung it before the fire; that she either dreamed, or else there came something and turned about the chair on which her shirt was, but she cou

ISIS UNVEILED

s may be the ori^ of hermes, lost in the unknown days of egyptian colonization, there is yet a far older prophecy, directly relating to the hindu kriahna, according to the brfthmanas. it is to say the least atrange that the christians claim to base their religion upon a pro- phecy of the bibu which exists nowhere in that book. in what chapter or verse does jehovah, the' lord god' promise adam and eve to send them a redeemer who will save humanity" i will put enmity between thee and the woman" says the lord god to the serpent "and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" in these words there is not the slightest allusion to a bedeemer, and the subtlest of intellects could not extract from them, as they stand in the third chapter of genena, any

ian speculations. when- ever the visions of swedenborg, the greatest among the modem seers, run astray from philosophy and scientific truth, it is when they most near- ly run parallel witii theology. nor are these visions any more useless to either science or humanity than those of the great orthodox saints. in the life of st. bernard it is narrated that as he was once in church, upon a christmas eve, he prayed that the very hour in which christ was bom might be revealed to him; andwfaenthe"trueandcorrect hour came, he saw the divine bid>e appear in his manger" what a pity that the divine babe did not embrace so favorable an opportunity to fix the correct day and year of his death, and thereby reconcile the controversies of his putative historians. the tischendorfs, lardners, and colensos

or manifested word, in some shape or other. with the ophites and other gnostics who took their models direct from more ancient originals, the unrevealed bythoa and her male coimterpart produce ennoia, and the three in their turn produce sophia* thus completing the tetraktys, which will emanate christos, the very essence of the father 381. stqihia u the fai^ieat ptototj^ of womui the fint tpiribi^ eve. in the bible the syatem it revened and the mtcrrcnidg enuuuitiod being omitted. eve i> de- digitizecoy google. 172 isis dnveiled spirit. as the imrevealed one, or concealed logos in its utent state, he has existed from all eternity in the arba-il, the metaphyseal abstrac- tion; therefore, be is onb with all others as a unity, the latter (including all) being indifferently termed ennoia, sige

ad unwittingly endowed him, infused into man a celestial spark the spirit. inmiediately man rooe upon bis feet, soared in mind beyond the limits of the seven spheres, and ^orified the supreme father, him that ia above ilda-baoth. hence the latter, full of jealousy, cast down his eyes upon the lowest stratum of matter, and begot a potency in the form of a serpent, whom they [ophites] call his son. eve, obeying him as the son of god, was persuaded to eat of the tree of knowledge" it is a self-evident fact that the serpent of the genesis, who appears suddenly and without any preliminary introduction, must have been the antitype of the persian arch-devs, whose head is askmog, the "two- footed serpent of lies" if the bii -serpent had been deprived of his limbs before he had tempted woman unto s

nai, his mother, upon him; for adam primus is adon, adonu, or adonis. the primal existence manifests itself by its wisdom, and produces the intdligible logos (all visible creation. this wisdom was venerated by the ophites under the form of a serpent. so far we see that the first and second life are the two adams, or the first and the second man. in the former lies eva, or the yet unborn spiritual eve, and she is within adam primus, for she is a part of him- self, who is androgyne. the eva of dust, she who will be called in 537. idrah zaua, via, s 219; cf. zohar, iii, 290 a, anut. ed. 53s. idrah rmma) 541-2. 539. ilnd. i 36. 540. ibid, 172. 541. idrah zutah, a) 51. 542. nal. u. urrpr. d. bmmalionmtre. u: v, p. 11. 543. ireiweiu: agaitut beretitt, i, xxz\ 1. digitizecoy google 224 bis unveil

e of the 'tree of good and evil' in order to teach them the mysteries of spiritual wisdom. li^t tempts darkness, and darkness attracts u^t, for darkness is matter, and" the bighett light shines not in its terubrae" with knowledge comes the temptation of the ophiomorphos, and he prevails. the dualism of every existing religion is shown forth by the fall "i have gotten a man from the lord" exclaims eve, when the dualism, cain and abel evil and good is bora "and the adam knew hua, his woman(jewish gnos- tics the nazarenes, as well as with other philoso

ays movers "he passed for creator "i^ilosophers say the first air is anima mundi. but the garment (shekhinah) is higher than the first air, since it is joined more closely to the ain-soph, the boundless" thus sophia is shekhinah, and sophia- achamoth the anima mundi, the astral light of the kabalists, which con- tains the spiritual and material germs of all uiot is. for the sophia- acbamoth, like eve, of whom she is the prototype, is 'the mother of all that live' iliere are three trinities in the nazarene system as well as in the hiadfl philosophy of the ante- and early- vedic period. while we see the few translators of the kabala, the nasarene codex, and other abstruse works, hopelessly floundering amid the interminable pantheon of names, unable to agree as to a ^stem in which to classify

(short-face, the son of a'tiih anpin (long-face" this likeness is now represented in many lamaseries by gautama-buddha, the last of the incarnated avatars. still lower, under the mem, is the dwelling of the great ndga, who b called naga-r&ja, the king-serpent the serpent of qtnena, the gnostic ophis and the goddess of the earth, mflmaj/t-ivdrt, or y&mi, who waits upon the great dragon, for she ia eve 'the mother of all that hve' still lower is the eighth sphere, the infernal regions. the uppermost r^ona of brahmfl are surrounded by the sun, moon, and pluiets, the 'seven stellara seven impostor-daemons who deceive the sons vx adam. the name of one is sol; of another spiritu* venereua, astro; of the third ntim, mercurius, a fa

spirit of god, on the face of the primeval waters. vishnu is evidently the adam kadmon of the kabaliats, for adam is the logos or the first anointed, as adam second is the king messiah. lakhmi, or lakahml, the passive or feminine counterpart of vishnu, the creatot and the preserver, is also called adi-m&yfi. she is the 'mother of the world' dfuurt, the venus-aphrodite of the greeks; also isis and eve. while venus is bom from the sea-foam, lakshml spring o(it from the water at the churning of the sea; when bom, she is so beautiful that all the gods fall in love with her. the jews, borrowing their types wherever they could get them, made their first woman after the pattern of lakshml. it is curious that viracocha, the supreme being in peru, means, uterally translated 'foam of the sea' eugene

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

of the hopei, shansi people of northern china. she assists us in creating order from chaos. valkyrie. ancient bird goddess, giving life, death, regeneration. represents our fearless self and can lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look behind the masks in life and beyond appearance. eve. mother and nurturer of all life, creator of the world and all living beings. represents rebirth and regeneration, embodies primal female creative energy. gaia. the eternal pre-historic earth mother goddess of the soul who clothes us with the atoms of her essence. reminds us to be grounded in the reality of nature and to balance and embrace all aspects of our selves from the heavenly to the ea

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

redivivus; or, the sage s triumph over old age and the grave. london, second edition, much enlarged. printed for j. nourse, at the lamb, against catherine street in the strand, in the year 1749" signor gualdi. 31 and thus much for the history of signor gualdi, who was suspected to be a rosicrucian. we shall have further interesting notices of these unaccountable people as we proceed. the egyptian eve trampling the dragon. the labarum. chapter the sixth. the hermetic brethren. he following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the r.c, and are adduced in a translation from the latin by one of the most famous men of the order, who addressed from the university of oxford about the period of oliver cromwell; to which university the great english rosicrucian, robertu

apprehend the word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head; d, hawk (wisdom; e, feathers (soul. the first and strongest conviction which will flash on the mind of every ripe antiquary, whilst surveying the long series of mexican and toltecan monuments preserved in these various works, is the similarity which the ancient monuments of new spain bear to the monumental r

n flows first into the air, and, by an external way, into his organ of hearing, which it actuates from without. hence it is evident that the speech of an angel and of a spirit with man is heard in man, and, since it equally affects the organs of hearing, that it is equally sonorous (swedenborg; also occult sciences, p. 93; london, 1855. the greek bacchanals were well acquainted with the mythos of eve, since they constantly invoked her, or a person under her name, in their ceremonies. black is the saturnian colour also that of the egyptian isis. under the strange head of the embodiment of deity under darkness, the following remarkable facts may be considered: the virgin and child are depicted black at the cathedral at moulins, at the famous chapel of the virgin at loretto, in the church of

ms in the deep, or blue. white. synthesis of the colours, or light (green,when living, inorganic forms such as the herb of the field, or trees &c. colour of the fairy races. smaragdine) or white in perfect light. saint john. mystic illumination. saint-esprit. blue. materialworld, or great deep, or ark, or world made manifest, or sea, or c, or patient, or isis, or venus, or reginacoeli, or heva or eve, orth )oth,&c.&c.&c. hdj f 1. blue ark arc (patient. 2. white produced (neuter) 3. red producer (agent) also triad of the diatonic scale. musical harmony. music of the spheres (jacob s metaphorical ladder) 164 the rosicrucians. heraldic and figurative chart, according to the oldest heraldic systems (no. 3) rationale of the tricolor, or the three united,national, successive colours of france. t

ist. i. 213; sale s discourse, p. 16; bibliotheca biblia, i. 613, 614. man s ideas, outwards from himself, must always become more dreamlike as they recede from him, more real as they approach him. summits of eastern minerats. chapter the twenty-first. myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in its many disguises. ne of the targums says that ayh a serpent, tempted adam, or the first man, and not hwj, eve, his wife. here we have the object of adoration of the ophites the female generative power the destroying, regenerating power among the ophites, and, indeed, the gnostics generally. the serpent was called the megalistor, or great builder of the universe (maia, or bhuddist illusion. here again we recognise, under another name (ophites, the cyclopes, or the builders of the circular temples at st

nto the rough recusancy of mere nature. fig. 175 is a very curious design from sylvanus morgan, an old herald. above is the spade, signifying here the phallus; and below is the distaff, or instrument of woman s work, meaning the answering member, or yoni; these are united by the snake. we here perceive the meaning of the rhymed chorus sung by wat tyler s mob: when adam delved (with his spade, and eve span (contributing her (producing) part of the work, where was then the a. baron. fig. 175. b. femme. gentleman? or what, under these ignoble conditions, makes difference or degree? it is supposed that shakspeare plays upon this truth when he makes his clown in hamlet observe, they (i.e, adam and eve) were the first who ever bore arms. by a reference to the foot of the figure, we shall see wha

is corde. post rerum elementare, seu facultas naturalis, ad quam sensitiva sive animalis refertur, in imo residens. therefore the nave or navel. ventre ii. i. iii. 308 the rosicrucians. soling. in the abstract sense, as virgo intacta (or holy unknowing means, woman is free and unconscious of that deadly original sin, which in the disobedience to the divine command (to refrain from that fruit with eve, or with the natural woman, lost man his place in the scheme of the immortal world. all this is part of the cabalistic view of the mysteries of creation. the cabalists say that the lost man adam should not have yielded to those which he found the irresistible fascinations of eve, but should have contented himself to speak in parable with his enjoined, other impersonated* delights, whom he outr

creature combining the characteristics of both sexes in his own individual person. god created man in his own image. in the image of god created he, him. some controversionists consider that there is a long space due (but not allowed) between the foregoing and the succeeding: male and female created he them. increase and multiply, and replenish the earth. this command was given on the sixth day. eve was not created until the seventh day. hence eve must have been born of adam* or separated from him. admitting, moreover, that the term day. as used in genesis is employed to express an indefinite period of time, in order to form woman, god deprived adam of his androgyne character, and reduced him to a being having one sex only. and here steps in a fanciful idea of some speculative thinkers; w

d all time, in the search, and yet never meet; save at that grand assize or general resurrection where impend the new heaven and the new earth; and at which final consummation the two parts of the same unit might be united never to be sundered more complete and summed as the one being sexless in the bosom of divinity; where there is neither marriage, nor giving in marriage* the idea that adam and eve were both originally hermaphrodites was revived in the thirteenth century by amaury de chartres. he held among other fanciful notions that at the end of the world-both sexes should be re-united in the same person. some learned rabbis asserted that adam was created double; that is, with two bodies, one male and the other female, joined together by the shoulders; their heads (like those of janus

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

en down for everyone to see in the police records of south bend, indiana, and have been attested to by level-headed persons not given to delusions, mass hysteria or suggestion. these witnesses include lawyers; reverend samuel mallelieu, the local methodist minister; and responsible citizens who actually witnessed the weird disappearance. the impossible happened on the farm of tom lerch, christmas eve, 1890, in a community of over 100,000 people by no means an ignorant backwoods settlement filled with limitless superstition. the lerch farm stood (and still does) on the outskirts of south bend, an ordinary farmhouse with the roof sweeping low over the entire building and no attic no nook or crevice which could conceal a dead body. tom lerch was a stern father who demanded absolute obedience

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earth, while the other rested in the gate of heaven. then he placed in them the sun and the moon, and created the stars from their fragments, and suspended them in heaven for an ornament. he also created fruit-bearing trees and plants in the earth, and likewise the mountains, to embellish the earth. he created the throne over the carpet. then said the mighty lord "o angels, i will create adam and eve, and will make them human beings, and from them two shall arise, out of the loins of adam, shehr ibn jebr; and from him shall arise a single people on the earth, the people of 'azazel, to wit of ta'us melek, which is the yezidi people. then i shall send sheikh 'adi b.musafir from the land of syria, and he shall come and dwell in lalesh. then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded ga

and ta'us melek drove him forth from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. and gabriel continued absent from him for a hundred years, and he was sad, and wept. then god commanded gabriel, and he came and created eve from under adam's left arm-pit. then melek ta'us descended to earth for the sake of our people- i mean the muchsuffering yezidis- and raised up for us kings beside the kings of the ancient assyrians, nesrukh (who is nasiru'd-din) and kamush (who is king fakhru'd-din) and artimus (who is king shamsu'd-din. and after this we had two kings, the first and second shapur, whose rule lasted one hundr

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

y the natural order of the tree of life. it resembles a flash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty-two paths form the 32 paths of the sefer yetzirah, or book of formation. the two pillars on either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron. passive: the black pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon. the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breathing taught in the first meditation, mentally formulate a cube, and endeavour to discover the significance of this

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

o called the time of deliverance, when humanity is destined to come out of the lowest state. b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 48 rashbi and his disciples ascended all 125 levels. this is why they were able to write the book of zohar, which encompasses all 125 levels of the worlds. it is therefore said in the zohar that the book will be revealed only at the end of days, meaning on the eve of the end of correction. other generations couldn t reach the end of correction. thus, they could not understand this book because they were unable to surmount all 125 levels from which the book of zohar is written. in our generation, we can all reach the 125th level; at that time, we can all understand the book of zohar. the fact that a contemporary kabbalist succeeded in fully commenting on

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

at the entrance to every public place. in fact, throughout its lifetime, israel has always been at war. only its frontiers change their nature. 154 from chaos to harmony today, in the era of weapons of mass destruction, accompanied by our neighbors growing desire to destroy us, our very existence is at stake. the people are at the height of nervous tension. according to a survey published on the eve of yom kippur (day of atonement, 2006, more than 50% of the residents of israel are anxious about the very existence of the state. two-thirds think it is plausible that a surprise attack on israel will occur, as it did on yom kippur, 1973, and 70% do not trust the present political and military leaderships. moreover, we are not only failing to get along with the world, we seem to be torn and d

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

tions(*quoted in mackey s encyclopaedia. art. supreme council) 766. such is a brief account of the formation of that which called itself the mother supreme council of the world, from which, indeed, all other supreme councils of the world spring, with the exception of a few survivals of other lines of descent. it is clear from archives in the possession of the mother supreme council that up to the eve of its formation the only degrees worked were the 25 of the rite of perfection. 767. the formation of the new rite was inspired and directed by the h.o.a.t.f. himself, and the extra eight degrees which then appeared were but rearrangements of the old twenty-five degrees of the rite of perfection. now that more advanced egos had come into possession of the degrees, a fuller manifestation of the

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

n took definite forms, names, and roles, although they were never really fully accepted into orthodox judaism. the greek word daimon was used in the roman and hellenistic world to indicate evil forces, and thus entered early christian writings with the negative connotation of impure spirits. the judeo-christian tradition elaborated the concept of the devil as the fallen angel who tempted adam and eve and was forever banished from paradise. christian literature also drew upon the belief systems of their neighbors in the depiction of the apocalypse, wherein appear demons that recall jewish, persian, and mesopotamian myths. in the transmission of the texts of the scriptures the devil (in hellenistic greek, diabolos) came to be identified with satan (the name used in the hebrew bible to indica

ley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. fallen angels in theology, the fall refers to humanity s fall from grace into sin. it is the fall that is responsible for what is called original sin, meaning that everyone is born in sin and thus in need of salvation because of adam and eve s disobedience of god s command to not eat of the tree of good and evil in the garden of eden. simply by being born into this world, every human being inherits the sin of our distant ancestors. although many contemporary theologians have reinterpreted the story of the fall less literally, this is the essence of the biblical narrative. less well known is the story of the fall of the angels. for

s of god s love of adam, but in any event it was some form of pride lucifer declared himself as great as god, and led a rebellion of angels against the celestial order. defeated, the devil and his followers were tossed out of heaven, and subsequently have continued to war against god by attempting to ruin the earth, god s creation. traditional theology even portrays the serpent who conversed with eve in the garden as satan in disguise, thus attributing the fallen prince of angels with responsibility for causing humankind to fall. a less well known alternative narrative, which is best preserved in the apocryphal book of enoch, is that a group of angels lusted after mortal females. they then fell after leaving their heavenly abode and copulating with them. this alternative story, which at on

wood press, 1992, 49 64. smart, ninian. the religious experience of mankind. 3rd ed. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1984. tripp, edward. the meridian handbook of classical mythology. new york: new american library, 1970. werblowsky, r. j. zwi. transmigration. in mircea eliade, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york: macmillan, 1987. halloween the holiday we designate as halloween (all hallows eve) has its roots in the day of the dead a day when, to speak metaphorically, the veil between this world and the other world was thin. the present date of all hallows eve was set by the catholic church, which took over the ancient roman day of the dead, feralia, and transferred it to the first of november.all hallows eve blended with certain northern european beliefs to give the halloween famili

ll following his execution, only to have the plan backfire. technically, christ harrows the limbo containing the old testament patriarchs, rather than hell, as the patriarchs are merely being held as prisoners rather than being tortured in a realm of fire and sulfur. rather than being imprisoned, jesus does battle with satan and his minions, defeats them, and frees everyone in hell, from adam and eve to moses. the gospel of nicodemus was popular long before the full development of the notion of purgatory, which eventually supplanted the idea of limbo. limbo had been necessary because christians of the first few centuries of the common era imagined that only christian souls could go to heaven. this, however, creates the problem of what happened to such righteous and deserving individuals as

ormed from an angel into a jinn. then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals. according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. in an interesting variation on tradition, sufis (islamic mystics) reinterpreted iblis s disobedience as an act of love for god, and as an act of obedience to the law that only god should be worshiped. to bow down to adam, in other words, would have been an acknowledgment of

e day of doom (arberry 1969, 163) then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals.according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. muslim tradition also mentions specific dark angels, such as malik, who guards hell. the koran asserts that malik is aided by nineteen other angel guards (sbires or zabayniya).when the sinful residents of hell beg malik for help, he tells them that they must stay in hell for

w scriptures, lilith and azazel. the lilith of jewish folklore appears to have originally been a mesopotamian night demon with a penchant for destroying children. she later picked up the role of succubus, a female demon who copulates with living men in their dreams. in the talmud, she becomes the first wife of adam who refuses to accept her subservient role. adam then ejected her, and god created eve as a more obedient helpmate. although not mentioned by name in the bible, the night hag mentioned in isaiah 34:14 was retrospectively viewed as referring to lilith. azazel is mentioned by name in the book of leviticus, where he appears to have been some sort of a desert creature to whom the ancient israelites dedicated their scapegoats containing the sins of the nation: aaron shall cast lots u

on his highly unusual pet togare, a nubian lion. in the process of creating his lectures, lavey was led to distill a unique philosophy based on his life experiences and research.when a member of his magic circle suggested that he had the basis for a new religion, lavey agreed and decided to found a church of satan as the best means for communicating his ideas. and so, in 1966 on the night of may eve, the traditional witches sabbath, lavey declared the founding of the church of satan. he also dubbed 1966 as the year one,anno satanas the first year of the age of satan. the attention of the press soon followed, with the wedding of radical journalist john raymond to new york socialite judith case on february 1, 1967. famed photographer joe rosenthal was sent by the san francisco chronicle to

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secret is here manifested by the holy ghost is clear from the rejoinder of samson "if ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle" xiii of certain jewish theories among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be balked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his intercourse with her sprang evil races. now then they mine the roads of the harbour of conjugal love with many restrictions: as these (1) it must be an holy act, preceded by ablutions, and by prayer (2) all lustful thoughts must be rigidly excluded (3) the purpose must be solely that of procreation (4) the blessing of god

LIBER ALEPH

y of history and literature as a great scroll of learning. but the vellum of the scroll is of man.s skin, and its ink of his heart.s blood. k liber aleph vel cxi 4 d legenda de amore (fables of love) he fault, that is fatality, in love, as in every other form of will, is impurity. it is not the spontaneity thereof which worketh woe, but some repression in the environment. in the fable of adam and eve is this great lesson taught by the masters of the holy qabalah. for love were to them the eternal eden, save for the repression signified by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. thus their nature of love was perfect; it was their fall from that innocence which drove them from the garden. in the love of romeo and juliet was no flaw; but family feud, which imported nothing to that love, w

hee, my son only-begotten, child of magick and of mystery? it is that i thy father am also in this ordeal of initiation at this hour. for the sun is nigh unto the end of the sign of he fishes in the thirteenth year of the on, and the new current of high magick leapeth forth as a flood from the womb of my true lady babalon. and a word hath come to me by he mouth of the scarlet woman, whose name is eve, or ahitha, concerning the temple of iuppiter that is builded for me. and therein is a woman appointed to a certain office. now this woman appeared to me in a vision when i was in the house of the juggler by the lake among the mountains, the sun being in cancer in the eleventh year of the on, even in the week after thy birth. and i think this woman to be her whom i call wesrun. but even while

lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal .der reine thor. and so referreth to him thatwalketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badavi that became king in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of the transcending of time, so that in one hour of our terrestrial measure did i gather the harvest of an on, and in ten lives i could not

LIBER CCXLII AHA

grey old snake of madness wove his wild curse! as i trod the trackless way aha! 21 through sunless gorges of cathay, i became a little child. by nameless rivers, swirling through chasms, a fantastic blue, month by month, on barren hills, in burning heat, in bitter chills, tropic forest, tartar snow, smaragdine archipelago, see me.led by some wise hand that i did not understand. morn and noon and eve and night i, the forlorn eremite, called on him with mild devotion, as the dew-drop woos the ocean. in my wanderings i came to an ancient park aflame with fairies f feet. still wrapped in love i was caught up, beyond, above the tides of being. the great sight of the intolerable light of the whole universe that wove the labyrinth of life and love blazed in me. then some giant will, mine or anot

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lying that concentrated will .whirling forth with re-echoing roar, so that it may comprehend with invincible will ideas omniform, which flying forth from that one fountain 1 [published in equinox i (2) as .the psychology of hashish] john st. john 47 issued: whose foundation is one, one and alone..1 as therefore discipline of whatever kind is only one way of going into a wood at midnight on easter eve and cutting the magic wand with a single blow of the magic knife, etc. etc. etc, we can regard the western system as the essential one. yet of course pr.n..y.ma, for one thing, has its own definite magical effect, apart from teaching the practitioner that he must last out those three seconds.those deadly long last three seconds.even if he burst in the process. all this i am writing during brea

em and esteemeth them as dross. this is right, john st. john! yet how is it that there is place for the great hunchbacked devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: is there in truth any mystic path at all? is it all disappointment and illusion? and the. poor thing. john st. john moves off shivering and sad, like a sot who has tried to get credit at a tavern and is turned away.and that on christmas eve! there is no money in his purse, no steam in his boilers. that.s what.s the matter with john st. john. it is clear enough, what happened yesterday. he failed at the four pylons in turn; in the morning fear stopped him at that of horus and so on; while in the evening he either failed at the pylon of thoth, i.e, was obsessed by the necessity (alleged) of recording his results, or failed to overc

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ty of my subject: these poems being written when i was an advaitist and could not see why.everything being an illusion.there should be any particular object in doing or thinking anything. how i have found the answer will be evident from my essay on the subject* i must indeed apologise to the illustrious shade of robert browning for my audacious parody in title, style, and matter of his .christmas eve and easter day. the more i read it the eventual anticlimax of that wonderful poem irritated me only the more. but there is hardly any poet living or dead who so commands alike my personal affection and moral admiration. my desire to find the truth will be my pardon with him, whose sole life was spent in admiration of the truth, though he never turned its formidable engines against the citadel

our christianity excites especially such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. there.s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher! 1 crowley.s mother. 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 his achievement. plan of poem .connspuez dieu. a

ion of the glories of our greatest poet, a possibly jejune yet assuredly historic attempt to place of the first time william shakespeare on his proper pedastal as an early disciple of mr. george bernard shaw; and by consequence to carve myself a little niche in the same temple: the smallest contributions will be thankfully received. notes to ascension day 1. i flung out of chapel.1.browning, xmas eve, iii. last line. 3. venus bower and osiris tomb.2. crowley, tannha user. 5. god.3.hebrew \yhla, gen. iii. 5. 5. gods.4. hebrew \yhla, gen. iii. 5. the revisers, seeing this most awkard juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by .god. in other passages, however, they have been compelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate \yhla by .gods. for evidence of

memnon (browning .s translation, preface. 40. aristobulus.15.may be scanned elsehow by pedants. cf. swinburne.s curious scansion aristophanes. but the scansion adopted here gives a more credible rhyme. 42. batracomuomacia.16.aristophanes batrachoi. 46. mine of so many pounds pouch even pence of it?17.this line was suggested to me by a large holder of westralians. 47. something easier.18.christmas eve and easter day. 51. newton.19.mathematician and physicist of repute. 51. faraday.20.see dictionary of national biography. 64. i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21. as far as they would let me. i know some. 74. beard.22..150. a barba senioris sanctissimi pendet omnis ornatus omnium& influentia; nam omnia appellantur ab illa barba, influentia .151. hic est ornatus omnium ornatuum: influent

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

this statement more forcefully, and he did so in the prologue to his edda. here, too, he advances his understanding of the historical nature of the gods and gives us the key to understanding gylfaginning. snorri starts the prologue to his edda by stating, galmighty god created heaven and earth and all things that accompany them, and finally two people, from whom genealogies are reckoned, adam and eve, and their progeny multiplied and went all around the world. h ultimately, however, after the flood, people lost sight of god, but they observed that there were similarities and yet differences among humans, animals, and the earth, and they began to trace their genealogies from earth. and seeing the importance of the heavenly bodies for time reckoning, they assumed that some being had ordered

no compelling reason to associate the stone and the river. the gjallarbru is found only once outside of snorri in medieval iceland, namely in a verse by his nephew, sturla thordarson, who once used the expression gtravel the gjallarbru h for gdie. h but it also turns up several times in draumkvade, a norwegian ballad telling of the otherworld journey of one olav asteson, who fell asleep christmas eve and awoke on epiphany having had a vision of the fate of dead souls, including, among other things, a passage over the forbidding bridge gjallarbru. draumkvade is known from numerous oral recordings made in telemark in the 1840s, but the vision it describes probably derives from the high middle ages. thus, the gjallarbru appears to be one of the few pagan motifs to flourish in a christian envi

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o the blacksmith. the blacksmith, within the european craft itself is the symbol of tubal cain, the first of the witch blood. tubal-qayin2 as it is sometimes spelled is the blacksmith whose forge is the heart of the witches sabbat craft. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. 2 see the book of cain by michael w. ford. 7 the history of the witches sabbat p

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

s fact tells a parent not to rehydrate the sick child. one can easily imagine the results of such commonsense thinking. in summary, when people talk about facts, they should put these in a historical, technical, medical, and so on, context and be aware that today s facts may be tomorrow s fiction. for example, the medieval belief that men have one less rib than women (to account for the fact that eve was created from one of adam s ribs) was discounted centuries ago, once early human anatomists cared to actually compare the number of ribs in men and women. 6 evolution and religious creation myths discovery of new phenomena (new facts) is one of the aims of science. but equally important is the interpretation of facts or observations. it can be said that without an organization (categorizati

yena escaped and descended down the rope. nearing earth, the hyena cut the rope and the portion of rope above the cut spiraled back to heaven. the link between heaven and earth was gone, and from that time all those who grew old had to die on earth. the origin story in genesis also accounts for various aspects of life. here we have an explanation for why women suffer in childbirth. as a result of eve partaking of the forbidden fruit, god said, i will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children (genesis 3:16. we also find an explanation for why man must till the soil, for adam also disobeyed god s command. god said to adam, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life (genesis 3:17 18. origin myths from aro

17 18. origin myths from around the world often share common themes. floods, for example, are frequent. also common are explanations for human suffering through people or animals disobeying divine commands, as described above. many origin myths also make statements about the nature of men and women or the relationship between the genders. the genesis account is quite clear about this; god said to eve, your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you (genesis 3:16. some nuer myths blame women for earthly ills; for example, it was women who in mythological times brought mosquitoes to earth. among the navajo, an origin myth describes how navajo deities (holy people) lived in worlds below this one. then one day, escaping a flood, they reached the surface of earth and became the

yahya is a one-man operation, oktar s alone, given that he is also credited for having written hundreds of books. rather, harun yahya has all the characteristics of a well-designed organization. 22 evolution and religious creation myths the quran is less detailed than the bible in its account of the origins of life and the universe (the quran mentions adam and his spouse who is not referred to as eve but does not specify how the universe was created. as a result, muslims generally have no qualms with the idea of an old earth. on the other hand, islam can be fertile ground for id principles, as much as christianity is. harun yahya s anti-evolution web page is extremely similar to christian creationist and id pages. these might as well be copies of one another. the same misrepresentations of

continuing into a woman s 60s, 70s, 80s, and so on in short, for life. as an experiment, ask any woman who has suffered from severe hot flashes if this biological condition was put into women through id. you are very likely to hear that if hot flashes are due to id, the designer made a bad (and cruel) mistake. the bible does have an account of why women suffer in childbirth this is punishment for eve s sin. but god said nothing about hot flashes! in fact, no one was saying much about hot flashes until relatively recently, and for a good reason: in the past, few women lived much beyond menopause. if, for example, we consider that average life expectancy in ancient rome was 25 years, it is clear that postmenopausal hot flashes were not then, or earlier, a widespread health complaint. althoug

an: a genetic odyssey surveys consistently show that about 45% of the american public believes that modern humans were created by god (the designer) some time between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, in accordance with biblical precepts. the imprecision on this date is due to the difficulty of evaluating, based on biblical information, the length of time that has elapsed since the creation of adam and eve. this is because from the story recounted in genesis, it is unclear at which point humans stopped living for hundreds of years and assumed more ordinary life spans, shortening generational times. additionally, since creationists reject evolution, they also reject the notion that modern humans are the result of a long evolutionary lineage that started millions of years ago. for them, prehuman f

ca, at least as far as women are concerned. the mathematical equations of population genetics also allow us to determine the size of this original population of humans: between 1,000 and 10,000 individuals. therefore, all humans on the planet are descended from one woman who was part of this relatively small east african population. interestingly (and jokingly, our common ancestress was nicknamed eve by the researchers who first discovered our african origins. but eve was not the only woman on earth at the time she had between 500 and 5,000 female companions in her population. what happened to the mtdna of all these other women? the answer is threefold (1) some of these women did not reproduce (2) others may have had boys only, or (3) their lineages stopped at a certain point in the past b

appened to the mtdna of all these other women? the answer is threefold (1) some of these women did not reproduce (2) others may have had boys only, or (3) their lineages stopped at a certain point in the past because their descendants failed to reproduce and hence their mtdna lineages were lost. y chromosome studies as one can well imagine, there must have been a genetic adam as well as a genetic eve. like eve, we expect that adam must have lived in the same east african population. can science show that, indeed, there was an adam and that this adam lived at the same time as eve?we cannot rely on mtdna because it is transmitted solely through mothers. fortunately for researchers, nature has equipped human males with a stretch of dna that females do not possess: the y chromosome. what is mo

pulations are the result of genetic drift. this way, as in the case of mtdna, the appearance of y chromosome variants over time depends on known mutation rates and is proportional to time since separation of lineages. in brief, the same reasoning and equations that are applied to mtdna can also be applied to y chromosome dna in order to establish male phylogenies. all researchers agree that, like eve, adam was also an east african, because the oldest y chromosome variants are found among east african populations. at what period of time did adam live? by adam we mean not the man who had children with eve, but the man who first passed on a distinctive y chromosome variant to all subsequent human males on earth. intriguingly, and perhaps annoyingly, the age of adam is presently set at 103,000

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k on the north side of the pyramid, with instructions to keep on cutting and chiseling until they discovered something. to the moslems with their crude instruments and vinegar it was a herculean effort to tunnel a full hundred feet through the limestone. many times they were on the point of rebellion, but the word of the caliph was law and the hope of a vast fortune buoyed them up. at last on the eve of total discouragement fate came to their rescue. a great stone was heard to fall somewhere in the wall near the toiling and disgruntled arabs. pushing on toward the sound with renewed enthusiasm, they finally broke into the descending passage which leads into the subterranean chamber. they then chiseled their way around the great stone portcullis which had fallen into a position barring thei

ty the fruitage of ages of patient delving into the intricacies of the human constitution and the infinite wonders revealed by such a study. in nearly all the sacred books of the world can be traced an anatomical analogy. this is most evident in their creation myths. anyone familiar with embryology and obstetrics will have no difficulty in recognizing the basis of the allegory concerning adam and eve and the garden of eden, the nine degrees of the eleusinian mysteries, and the brahmanic legend of vishnu's incarnations. the story of the universal egg, the scandinavian myth of ginnungagap (the dark cleft in space in which the seed of the world is sown, and the use of the fish as the emblem of the paternal generative power--all show the true origin of theological speculation. the philosophers

his by assigning the central column of their sephirothic diagram to the tree of life and the two side branches to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil "unbalanced forces perish in the void" declares the secret work, and all is made known. the apple represents the knowledge of the procreative processes, by the awakening of which the material universe was established. the allegory of adam and eve in the garden of eden is a cosmic myth, revealing the methods of universal and individual establishment. the literal story, accepted for so many centuries by an unthinking world, is preposterous, but the creative mystery of which it is the symbol is one of nature's profoundest verities. the ophites (serpent worshipers) revered the edenic snake because it was the cause of individual existence

n vegetable life (16) origin of low forms of animal life (17) insects and reptiles appear (18) fishes, vertebrate life in the waters (19) birds, vertebrate life in the air (20) quadrupeds, vertebrate earth animals. the third order of gates is termed decad of humanity and its divisions are as follows (21) appearance of man (22) material human body (23) human soul conferred (24) mystery of adam and eve (25) complete man as the microcosm (26) gift of five human faces acting exteriorly (27) gift of five powers to the soul (28) adam kadmon, the heavenly man (29) angelic beings (30) man in the image of god. the fourth order of gates is termed world of spheres and its divisions are as follows (31) the heaven of the moon (32) the heaven of mercury (33) the heaven of venus (34) the heaven of the su

he lesser adam, thus making his constitution septenary. if microprosophus be considered as sexpartite, then his globes (sephiroth) are analogous to the six days of creation, and the tenth globe, malchuth, to the sabbath of rest (5) the bride of microprosophus is malchuth--the epitome of the sephiroth, its quaternary constitution being composed of blendings of the four elements. this is the divine eve that is taken out click to enlarge a table of sephirothic correspondences. from fludd's collectio operum. the above diagram has been specially translated from the latin as being of unique value to students of qabbalism and also as an example of robert fludd's unusual ability in assembling tables of correspondences. robert fludd ranks among the most eminent rosicrucians and freemasons; in fact

tor wrenched from them by force the elements to be employed in the adamic constitution. st. augustine discovered a notarikon in the name of adam. he showed that the four letters, a-d-a-m, are the first letters of the four words anatole dysis arktos mesembria, the greek names for the four corners of the world. the same author also sees in adam a prototype of christ, for he writes "adam sleeps that eve may be formed: christ dies, that the church may be formed. while adam sleeps, eve is formed from his side. when christ is dead, his side is smitten with a spear, that there flow forth sacraments to form the church* adam himself was the figure of him that was to come" in his recent work, judaism, george foote moore thus describes the proportions of the adamic man "he was a huge mass that filled

on the vast sea of cosmos into which it was to be immersed. philosophically, adam may be regarded as representative of the full spiritual nature of man- androgynous and nor subject to decay. p. 127 [paragraph continues] of this fuller nature the mortal man has little comprehension. just as spirit contains matter within itself and is both the source and ultimate of the state denominated matter, so eve represents the lower, or mortal, portion that is taken out of, or has temporal existence in the greater and fuller spiritual creation. being representative of the inferior part of the individual, eve is the temptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher self. when adam seemingly awoke

mptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher self. when adam seemingly awoke, he actually sank into sleep, for he no longer was in the spirit but in the body; division having taken place within him, the true adam rested in paradise while his lesser part incarnated in a material organism (eve) and wandered in the darkness of mortal existence. the followers of mohammed apparently sensed more accurately than the uninitiated of other sects the true mystic import of paradise, for they realized that prior to his fall the dwelling place of man was not in a physical garden in any particular part of the earth but rather in a higher sphere (the angelic world) watered by four mystical stream

e and the hair, on the back of the neck and shoulders (see the qabbalah by isaac myer) p. 128 himself. this shadow he then ensouled and it became a living creature. these shadows, however, remain only as long as the original figure of which they are the reflections endures, for with the removal of the original the host of likenesses vanish with it. herein is the key to the allegorical creation of eve out of the side of adam; for adam, representative of the idea or pattern, is reflected into the material universe as a multitude of ensouled images which collectively are designated eve. according to another theory, the division of the sexes took place in the archetypal sphere; hence the shadows in the lower world were divided into two classes consistent with the orders established in the arch

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mage of all growing things; of plants and mosses and great ancient forests, of the smell of peat and loam; the darkness of cellars and caves, the silence of gardens at night at the abandoned overgrown churchyard. think of all horned and hoofed animals, also. above all, be aware of the earth beneath you. the love dream a traditional variant of the dreaming true spell is that of the st. magdalene's eve spell, which date, incidentally, is held by witches to be sacred to habondia, no less. in order to perform this operation, which traditionally should be done only on st. magdalene's eve, july 22, and the aim of which is to procure a dream of a loved one, rather than one of knowledge, prepare a bath in the same manner as in the dreaming true spell mentioned in the last chapter, but under your p

last word in absurdity, but if you pause to reconsider the parapsychic phenomenon of precognition as we did in chapter 3, you will realize that for a witch who deals wholly with the world of the paranormal, the laws of time as well as space as we know them in our everyday lives do not necessarily apply. the time to employ this ritual of evocation of a future loved one is traditionally midsummer's eve, the night of june 20, just before the summer solstice. on that note, i shall end this first section of spells for lovers. the following pages will deal with spells designed for the more impetuous practitioners. part ii. sex magic in the contemporary world of instant sex without romantic preamble, the modern witch may not have the patience required for the more dated "loving-cup" approach. in

ht, throughout and about! this is, in fact, a simple form of identification with a witch deity, and an affirmation of your aspiration to power, wisdom, or love, whatever your chosen path. you must organize your sabbat so that the lighting of the balefire occurs at the hour of midnight. this you should determine precisely beforehand, halving the hours between the' time the sun actually sets on the eve and when it rises the following day. midnight, in fact, will not always occur at 12 p.m, depending on the time of the year. having exchanged the customary witch greetings of "merry meet" the sabbat begins with the casting of the circle. this should be the nine-foot inner diameter variety, using the largest measurements on your cingulum as a compass cord. or, if you have the space, a special ei

ppings of traditional easter (the word "easter" in fact is but a modernization of bostra, the name of an anglo-saxon dawn goddess cognate with the classical eos) beltane, cetshamain, or roodmas, as it was christianized has as its theme the may day ceremonies still practised throughout rural england and europe with stave dancing and flower garlands tied with white ribbons. midsummer, or st. john's eve, marks the nearest point of the sun's approach to earth. the catherine wheel, or blazing cartwheel rolled from the summit of a hill to plunge into the cold waters of a lake or river below, is yet another expression of the wedding of heaven and earth. lugnassad, or lammas, celebrates the coming of the harvest-tide, the decorations of corn sheaves, berries, and fruits, while the autumnal equinox

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s of men, at once the living stones, the fellow craftsmen and collaborators with the divine purpose. but in the course of the construction of this ideal temple, something happened that wrecked the scheme and delayed the fulfilment indefinitely. this was the fall of man; the conspiracy of the craftsmen. turn to the book of genesis, you will find the same subject related in the allegory of adam and eve. they were intended, as you know, for perfection and happiness, but their creator's project became nullified by their disobedience to certain conditions imposed upon them. i will ask you to observe that their offence was precisely that committed by our masonic conspirators. they had been forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge; or, in masonic language, they were under obligation" not to atte

wisdom, and the liberty that comes therewith. but this knowledge is only for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hiram the master's secrets, and its construction is delayed until time and circumstances- g

demeter for the other two thirds. it proved that persephone had unfortunately eaten a pomegranate in the lower world, so that her restoration to her mother could not be permanent, but only periodic. this myth, and the importance once attached to it, will be appreciated only upon understanding its interpretation. it is the story of the soul and is of the same nature as the mosaic myth of adam and eve and the apple, and as the cosmic parable of the prodigal son, neither of these being meant to be regarded as historically true, but as a fiction spiritually true of cosmic facts. persephone is the human soul, generated out of that primordial incorruptible mother-earth which the greeks personified as demeter, just as the mosaic narrative speaks of god forming man out of the dust of the ground

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eans and understood the art of sorcery as a totality of being timeless and alive in its sacred flame. leviathan found the nightmares comforting, and dreams would be his fluid waking within worlds. many others rose up and joined with my father, who is the brightest of them all. he was fire and his realm was air, he was both death and life. i remember my father as possessing adam who rode my mother eve as the dragon, driving deep within her core, enflamed with the spirit of lilith. these were my earth parents, but it was the blood of azazel called often samael and lilith which flows in my veins. it was this passion and possession which brought me into being, the first born of witch blood in the circle of the dragon s emerald crown. azazel gathered all in this secret place, which was of fire

t and defend, as well as shelter from the elements. i too had been instinctively taught, which is the gift of my father, who walked the path of the dragon who was the dragon. it was the perfected essence of flame which earthen heat could only catch a glimpse of that the fires of spirit burn ever so bright, that in this torch shall my father be revealed. lilith who wrapped her serpents tail around eve s brain, unlocked the depths of her lust and rode this dragon until i was conceived that was then perfection beheld. i walked the paths with my family, and my brother abel was born. my father, who was called adam was alien to me, i knew him not but grew under his protection. my flesh mother eve rode again this beast, from which abel slept dreamless and in the fires of her lust was my sister na

er open forth the fiery path! illuminate the blackened flame! shall i awake the serpent born in the devil s skin cain i summon thee! tubal-qayin as it is sometimes spelled is the blacksmith whose forge is the heart of the sabbatic craft. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. from sabbatic sorcery, michael w. ford. casting the shadow of cain phosphorus so

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of pan. the date of august 13th is sacred to hecate, it is the traditional festival held in her honor which dates back to the roman era. it is historically the same date as the celebration of diana, who is said to be yet another aspect of the goddess.the callings of hecate are a channeling of lunar energy, to those knowing of their witch blood. a rite such as that following should be held on the eve of the sabbat as well as august 13th. an example is as follows: begin with casting the circle, widdershins (7) and banishing ritual "harmony is born within the circle. we are joined within this rite as children of the goddess, she who rides the night sky. thy dance of shadows and dream casting visions. an eye which drips the blood of the moon, to which a cloaked night gives compassion. she who

st of the dead who dance a leaf blown dance towards the fires; of the spectral hands which caress the sleep autumn; we come of graves yet unknown of sight and filled in tunnels of crimson, as the torch which leads our very essence- one behind and one ahead both moving forwards and backwards; at the same time of names ye already know. never to remind as she dances upon a lovelorn tomb. just as may eve is the light bringing birth of summer, so comes the shadow side and reverse, being the coming of the dead in the night of pan. samhain is the most significant to our sorcery, being a portal in nature to the shadows cast by the great torch of hecate and lilith. it is when we shed our skin to the skies of twilight, and rise to flight among those of black eagle (12. this is the time of the shadow

met and a form of nylarlathotep, the black shadow of the sabbat. the sabbat is one of resurgent desire and awakening. go forth with freedom, joy and pleasure! a description of one such event follows. within the dream all is possible and all becomes "i remember preparing myself for the evening, incense burning thickly on this mid october evening. i had spent most of the day looking forward to this eve and now it had come. i knew, as an initiate who would go forth by night, that much significance would 90 90 manifest in the dream realm. sleep was coming, as welcome as a mid-evening lover. i had been focusing on a vision of black eagle, through a sigil based on the concept. night rose with a passion unmatched by even the most lustful embrace. as i closed my eyes, focusing upon the varcolaci s

ch represented the forces of transition by which to obtain the communion of witch blood. candles of black, red, blue and purple adorned the chamber which illuminated it with a certain beauty which felt so rare that evening. it was my intention to attend in the form of the owl, and had created a sigil to assume the form of this particular id. i had felt the callings three nights before this sabbat eve. now i felt my body and form shape shift, into a dark shadow and circle the chamber until falling back into my body. i took a long and relaxing bath and then made the primary invocations using spare's witches sabbat text, which is in the same tradition as this grimoire. i completed each invocation until i retired to bed. i used a focus technique upon the four flying witches painting until i fe

ter about what must have been fifteen minutes, i performed the banishing rite and focused upon the small golden pentagram of solomon around my neck. the demonic state of mind left me and i felt revitalized and strong of mind and body. i packed away my temple items neatly, then took to a long and relaxing hike in the nearby fields, enjoying the evening air and contemplating my thoughts. later that eve, before i retired i took down many notes from my path working, opening up many new avenues of exploration of my self in its lunar aspect. i have observed that each time one discovers something significant of your shadow side, you will also learn something relevant to your day side self. this can be most helpful in your search for self preservation in such situations as work, social relations

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eels and their composi-tion was like the color of shiny amber: and all four wings had one likeness: and their compo-sition was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel (book of ezekiel)lets consider just a few of the strange references from the pages of the bible testa-ments, and think to ourselves whether there is some other tale going on other than thatwhich has been expounded from the pulpit.then eve looked up to heaven and saw a shining chariot come drawn by four gleamingangels whose glory no one born of woman could express nor look on their face and angelswent before the chariot (book of ezekiel)and it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark behold a smoking furnace,and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces (genesis 15:17)and when the living creatures went, the

this time serve them obediently. weread of this in the popul vuh: let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! whatshall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered onearth? w e have already tried with our first creations,our first creatures; but we could not make them praiseor venerate us. so, then, let us try to make obedient,respectful beings who will nourish and sustain us. satan and eve by william blake the race of adam28atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the words adam and eve, like those of jehovah and elohim, do not imply individ-uals but races. when this is understood, so much more becomes clear when reading andinterpreting the scriptures. the adamic race, like the original indigenous peoples of earth, were of both gen-ders, although the modified eves co

ed eves could not reproduce sexually at that time. the maleadams, consistent with their human strain, possessed a foreskin. later, it came down in priestly rituals that this human foreskin would be surgically removedas a mark of servitude to the overlords. circumcision is the ritualized removal of the humanaspect in favor of the alien, done to create a subliminal affiliation. when it is said that eve was made from the rib of adam while he slept, the reference isagain to genetics and bioengineering.being naked ultimately meant that the members of the hybrid adamic servantrace would be strictly forbidden to partake of something now referred to as the treeof the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of life. these were other crypticeuphemisms for the knowledge of biology and genetics.the dna

eligions pro-pound the subservience of woman should be enough proof of whom they serve. thefollowing passage reveals the wrath of the atlanteans, not only toward their firstborn, but also toward the eves:because thou hast done this, though art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of thefield; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall you eat all the days of thy life (genesis 3:14) in eve s scene at the treenothing is said to indicate that the serpent who appeared andspoke to her was a deity in his own right, who had been revered in the levant for at leastseven thousand years before the composition of the book of genesis (joseph campbell,occidental mythology)the appellation satan, in hebrewbelongs by right to the first and cruelest adversary ofall other godsjehovah, not in the

in his image? we read that god created man and woman. this implies that god is not man or womanhimself. y et, consistently, the post-diluvian religions all over the globe, constantlydepicted and referred to god as male? they do this even when, in the case of hebrew,the name for deity is of feminine gender. we are told that man was not originally evil. he became that way after the disobedi-ence of eve in the garden. why would god create something born in his image andthen deny him some aspect of knowledge and then even banish him from paradise afterit had been received? we must also ask why god would condemn his creations for something that was not aconscious transgression? why the tests imposed on those who must already be inno-cent in nature? then we are told that the parents sinned, only

stence of any being, like satan, whohas no good in him at all. what would be the point of creating such as being, or insending him to test those who themselves must be morally pure? if satan could even have the ability to aspire toward supreme godhead, and if thereare hierarchies of angels, etc, then perhaps god can indeed be surpassed? what arewe to make of this? we find that jehovah told a lie. eve did eat of the prohibited tree, but did not, as waswarned, die. so how and why would a god that puts such currency in morality telllies? god promised noah after the flood that he would never visit the world with likecalamity again..but there have been innumerable devastations unleashed on earth,which taken together would rival and even surpass the horror and death-toll of a pre-historic aeon

ld rival and even surpass the horror and death-toll of a pre-historic aeon. why does god create mankind and then lamenting his great evil nature proceed todestroy all his creations? why not confine the act to mankind alone? and would it nothave been simpler to create man and, thereafter, not expose him to sin?if it is true, as the bible declares and theologians state that the sin involved adamand eve being made conscious of their nakedness, does this mean that god and theserpent and the others that were around were clothed? we read that cain after slaying abel is banished forever by the lord, but is thenendowed with the mark to prevent anyone from slaying him. but why would thelord want cains life spared? how would anyone know cains past deeds and want tokill him? and how could any mark ma

(see p. 74)adam born from claythis comes from a mistranslation of the word tit, which meant potters clay, or in hebrew meant mud.it actually was a mistranslation of sumerian ti-it, meaning giving all life, or the ovum of the female.so when it is said that the semen of enki merged with mud, it meant ovum (see p. 80)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation215 appendix b: book abstracts eve (hawah/ava/hayah)all these words for the female meant to give life. she was also known as the lady of the serpent.the word hayah is akin to hayyat, which means serpent (see p. 80)omega was meant to represent a womb. it is close to the symbol of leo, where the sun was born in the ancienttimes. it is similar to the serpent sign, as well as that of libra, which is a v enusian sign (p. 77)no satan

rean squaring of the circle (26)cain= qayin= kingthe word cain gives us king, but it also gives caan, cahen, cohen, kaen, conn, can, etc. all thesemean either priest or serpent (see p. 105)tubal cain, his descendant is for this reason revered as a patron in freemasonic circles.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation217 appendix b: book abstracts cains wifedescribed as the daughter of eve in some texts. but never named in the bible.she was actually the daughter of lilith (and enki, the latter who was according to the talmud, the con-sort of adam even before eve. liliththe granddaughter of enlil, daughter of his son, nergal of the underworld.she was therefore of pure annunaki stock, and refused therefore to be adams permanent mate. in fact,she was the consort of enki, cains fath

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te harm or wrongdoing to others, rather describes black as considered to the arabic root word fhm, charcoal, black and wisdom. black is thus the color of hidden knowledge. magick is to ascend and become, by willed focus and direction. cain the antinomian nomad and sorcerer who was the spiritual offspring of samael (the black dragon) and lilith (red dragon/the mother of demons) through the body of eve in biblical lore. cain was said to have been the initiate of the caul, and through his first step on the left hand path (antinomian practice) he is the initiator of the sorcerer and witch. cain is also the black smith who sparks the black flame in the mind of the initiate. tubal-cain is the baphometic daemon which is the enfleshed archetype of azal ucel, or lucifer/samael, the dragon and peaco

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ology is retold in a way peculiar to that civilization, it s curious that ancient man would still tell a collective story regarding creation and history. the most well-known and prototypical of these creation stories comes from the bible. in the first book of the bible, god creates the universe, earth, animals, and humanity in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. the first 2 humans, named adam and eve, were given a paradisiacal land called the garden of eden. it is at this point a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high god forbade. the serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve s eyes w

garden of eden. it is at this point a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high god forbade. the serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then convinces her husband, adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. when god discovered what the primal couple( and the serpent) had done, adam and eve were banished from paradise. adam and eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. as human kind began to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and

new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris, twice; then begins to make war with the seed of osiris, a god named horus. in jewish folklore, satan was called samael. samael, whose name meant venom of god, was considered a dark angel of death, and also the true father cain (the first child of adam and eve. satanists repeatedly reinforce this association, frequently suggesting that it was the serpent who was true father of cain, rather than adam (the first human. occultists will also freely refer to satan as ahriman (angra mainyu. ahriman is an ancient persian god who, according to legend, is wholly wicked and at war with his righteous brother ahura mazda. this ahriman resides in a gloomy underw

azazel is described as being among the leaders of 200 angels, also called watchers, who came down to the garden of eden; the text is unambiguous about the serpent from the garden of eden being in fact a group. the bible, albeit a bit more subtly, also makes it clear that this serpent was in fact a group, when it mentions the sons of god (which is of coarse plural. in the bible, the serpent tempts eve into eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, yet in the book of enoch there was no fruit, but instead it was knowledge of magic and the sciences which the fallen angels gave unto man. the relationship between the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 14 the world of the occult. satanists often speak of azazel as bei

h there was no fruit, but instead it was knowledge of magic and the sciences which the fallen angels gave unto man. the relationship between the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 14 the world of the occult. satanists often speak of azazel as being a mouthpiece or mask of satan. occultists frequently tell the story of satan approaching eve in the form of azazel, as if azazel were in fact a separate entity who, while tempting eve, was possessed by satan. this follows the avatar model, where multiple gods are related to a single god and vice-versa. after giving man magical knowledge that was forbidden by god, and mating with human women, the book of enoch describes the fallen angels, their offspring, and almost the whole of humani

istic teachings, the qliphoth is essentially the averse--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 34 (or negative) universe that is the mirror image of the celestial universe, an anti-universe if you will. the kabalistic tree of life represents the celestial realms, while the tree of knowledge of good and evil represents the qliphoth, this anti-universe. if you recall, these are the two trees adam and eve encountered in the garden of eden. the demons, or qliphothic spirits, represent another classification of spirits. the word demon has come to mean any negative spirit which is hostile to mankind. these beings are extremely chaotic and may not always have a conception of the consequences of their actions. demons are adverse to humans, and are either in the qliphoth, or roaming the earth feeding

aning: permanent spiritual transformation. it is said that those endowed with the mark of the beast can shape shift into hideous creatures at will (and take on personalities of a more chaotic sort. the fruit of eden has just as many interpretations (and in just as many circles, but in the occult this fruit represents magical transformation. if you recall, the serpent from the garden of eden tells eve that the forbidden fruit will remake her as the gods. that s quite a claim! christians have long interpreted the fruit of eden as fruit of the more literal variety (which is just laughable. and, as stated in chapter 1, the pyramid is also a symbol of humanity s ascension into godhood. the powers of the vampire involve the conscious manipulation and liberty of the astral body. the astral bodies

dancing done at the sabbat, especially by the women, is reminiscent of the sexually-suggestive dancing done at most clubs these days. the music at the sabbat sounds a bit chaotic, and without melody; it is frequently described as random tones and bells. satanists often compare and equate baphomet with the biblical cain, who slew his brother able. they claim that cain was not the child of adam and eve, but of satan and a demon named lilith. in the lovecraftian mythos, the black man of the sabbat is known as nyarlathotep, the highly intelligent trickster god who teaches mysteries that lead to evil; he is also the consumer of souls and has a 1,000 faces (forms. nyarlathotep, called the chaos that creeps, is a messenger god who acts as an intermediately between the dark gods and their worshipp

e from the gods. azazel taught man the sciences and sorcery. and of coarse you have the aforementioned pemba, who was expelled from heaven after stealing male seeds from the gods and spread those corrupted seeds upon the earth. prometheus stole fire, which is symbolic for the male creative principle, whereas pemba stole male seeds. it was satan, speaking through the mouth of azazel, that deceived eve in the garden of eden. after his fall from the throne of heaven, lucifer led the other angels to the black void of the universe, and declared this chaotic dimension their new home. this chaotic universe these fallen angels inhabited, a place called hell by most, was ever-changing; the things contemplated on in the minds of the angels came instantly into being. this chaotic realm became a refle

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

of the wolf and the beast is upon me, i acknowledge then that iam of seraph blood, and i am of lucifer ian birth. i am both light and darkness, the essence of the opposer within. witness this rite of passage noctulia hecate and lucifer, may the devil grant me the gates of hell to open forth unto my form of the wolf. by the full moon shall transformation be complete" close circle. part two on the eve of the full moon prepare your chamber for the actual transformation into the werewolf shape. this form will be with you as you sleep and when you so seek, shall the shade flesh be worn to transverse the dreaming plane. have the devil's belt upon the altar, with the skull of the wolf. you shall come forth oiled in previous scents of hecate and saturn "unparalleled phantom of darkness, i come fo

MORALS AND DOGMA

those times when the peasants were robbed and slaughtered by their own lords and princes, like sheep; when the lord claimed the first-fruits of the peasant's marriage-bed; when the captured city was given up to merciless rape and massacre; when the state-prisons groaned with innocent victims, and the church blessed the banners of pitiless murderers, and sang te deums for the crowning mercy of the eve of st. bartholomew. we might turn over the pages, to a later chapter--that of the reign of the fifteenth louis, when young girls, hardly more than children, were kidnapped to serve his lusts; when _lettres de cachet_ filled the bastile with persons accused of no crime, with husbands who were in the way of the pleasures of lascivious wives and of villains wearing orders of nobility; when the pe

de. after all, in a free government, the laws and the constitution are above the incapables, the courts correct their legislation, and posterity is the grand inquest that passes judgment on them. what is the exclusion of worth and intellect and knowledge from civil office compared with trials before jeffries, tortures in the dark caverns of the inquisition, alva-butcheries in the netherlands, the eve of saint bartholomew, and the sicilian vespers* the abb barruel in his _memoirs for the history of jacobinism, declares that masonry in france gave, as its secret, the words equality and liberty, leaving it for every honest and religious mason to explain them as would best suit his principles; but retained the privilege of unveiling in the higher degrees the meaning of those words, as interpre

here is in war the doom of defeat, the quenchless sense of duty, the stirring sense of honor, the measureless solemn sacrifice of devotedness, and the incense of success. even in the flame and smoke of battle, the mason discovers his brother, and fulfills the sacred obligations of fraternity. two, or the duad, is the symbol of antagonism; of good and evil, light and darkness. it is cain and abel, eve and lilith, jachin and boaz, ormuzd and ahriman, osiris and typhon. three, or the triad, is most significantly expressed by the equilateral and the right-angled triangles. there are _three_ principal colors or rays in the rainbow, which by intermixture make _seven. the three are the _blue, the _yellow, and the _red. the trinity of the deity, in one mode or other, has been an article in all cre

ons around them, except that he was the _peculiar_ god, first of the family of abraham, of that of isaac, and of that of jacob, and afterward the _national_ god; and, as they believed _more powerful_ than the other gods of the same nature worshipped by their neighbors-"who among the baalim is like unto thee, o yehovah--expressed their whole creed. the deity of the early hebrews talked to adam and eve in the garden of delight, as he walked in it in the cool of the day; he conversed with kayin; he sat and ate with abraham in his tent; that patriarch required a visible token, before he would believe in his positive promise; he permitted abraham to expostulate with him, and to induce him to change his first determination in regard to sodom; he wrestled with jacob; he showed moses his person, t

od; no plain, but shakes, trampled by the hoofs of charging squadrons; no field, but is fertilized by the blood of the dead; and everywhere man slays, the vulture gorges, and the wolf howls in the ear of the dying soldier. no city is not tortured by shot and shell; and no people fail to enact the horrid blasphemy of thanking a god of love for victories and carnage. te deums are still sung for the eve of st. bartholomew and the sicilian vespers. man's ingenuity is racked, and all his inventive powers are tasked, to fabricate the infernal enginery of destruction, by which human bodies may be the more expeditiously and effectually crushed, shattered, torn, and mangled; and yet hypocritical[1] humanity, drunk with blood and drenched with gore, shrieks to heaven at a single murder, perpetrated

. the length of one of these vast structures, in the shape of a serpent, was nearly three miles. the grand periods for initiation into the druidical mysteries, were quarterly; at the equinoxes and solstices. in the remote times when they originated, these were the times corresponding with the 13th of february, 1st of may, 19th of august, and 1st of november. the time of annual celebration was may-eve, and the ceremonial preparations commenced at midnight, on the 29th of april. when the initiations were over, on may-eve, fires were kindled on all the cairns and cromlechs in the island, which burned all night to introduce the sports of may-day. the festival was in honor of the sun. the initiations were performed at midnight; and there were three degrees. the gothic mysteries were carried nor

f the earth; the upper part of his body covered with feathers, in stature reaching the clouds, his arms and legs covered with scales, serpents darting from him on every side, and fire flashing from his mouth. horus, who aided in slaying him, became the god of the sun, answering to the grecian apollo; and typhon is but the anagram of python, the great serpent slain by apollo. the word typhon, like eve, signifies _a serpent, and _life.[2] by its form the serpent symbolizes life, which circulates through all nature. when, toward the end of autumn, the woman (virgo, in the constellations seems (upon the chald an sphere) to crush with her heel the head of the serpent, this figure foretells the coming of winter, during which life seems to retire from all beings, and no longer to circulate throug

the bull by the scorpion, on the mithriac monuments; and that jupiter made ceres with child by tossing into her bosom the testicles of a ram. in the mysteries of the bull-horned bacchus, the officers held serpents in their hands, raised them above their heads, and cried aloud "eva" the generic oriental name of the serpent, and the particular name of the constellation in which the persians placed eve and the serpent. the arabians call it _hevan, ophiucus himself _hawa, and the brilliant star in his head _ras-al-hawa. the use of this word _eva_ or _evo_ caused clemens of alexandria to say that the priests in the mysteries invoked _eve, by whom evil was brought into the world. the mystic winnowing-fan, encircled by serpents, was used in the feasts of bacchus. in the isiac mysteries a basilis

to pass for the supreme being, made the world, and man, in his own image; and his mother caused the spiritual principle to pass from him into man so made; and henceforward the contest between the demiourgos and his mother, between light and darkness, good and evil, was concentrated in man; and the image of ialdabaoth, reflected upon matter, became the serpent-spirit, satan, the evil intelligence. eve, created by ialdabaoth, had by his sons children that were angels like themselves. the spiritual light was withdrawn from man by sophia, and the world surrendered to the influence of evil; until the spirit, urged by the entreaties of wisdom, induced the supreme being to send christos to redeem it. compelled, despite himself, by his mother, ialdabaoth caused the man jesus to be born of a virgin

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ost of all to the sceptic--that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid race of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate the secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. i take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

nce had perished; for although a considerable start was given to all competitors, still oenomaus, with his swift team, always overtook them before they reached the goal, and killed them with his spear. but the love of pelops for hippodamia overcame all fears, and, undeterred by the terrible fate of his predecessors, he announced himself to oenomaus as a suitor for the hand of his daughter. on the eve of the race, pelops repaired to the sea-shore and earnestly implored poseidon to assist him in his perilous undertaking. the sea-god heard his prayer, and sent him out of the deep a chariot drawn by two winged horses. page 263 when pelops appeared on the course, the king at once recognized the horses of poseidon; but, nothing daunted, he relied on his own supernatural team, and the contest was

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

raised by the high prior of the hospitallers* for a long time the high prior of france pronounced his title to be "humble prior of the hospital in france and commander of the bailiwick that formerly belonged to the temple" the hospitallers were not only surrogates for the manorial rights of the temple, but also for its purely ecclesiastical and spiritual privileges. on certain holidays until the eve of the revolution, the clergy of the parishes of saint nicholas des champs, saint jean en greve, and notre dame de bonne nouvelle, all dependencies of the templar censive, continued to march in procession to the church of the temple, as they had at the height of the templars' influence. the homage that was once rendered to the templars was thus transferred to the knights of malta. the temple c

from the worksites and even the lodges and workshops of the bourgeois the trimmings, chips, wood ends, and blocks, if it is without the wishes and consent of said bourgeois and carpenters* the term lodge was contemporaneous with etienne boileau's litre des metiers- masons also used it "a document in the archives of notre dame de paris records an incident that took place in the works lodge on the eve of the feast of assumption in 1283 [j. gimpel, the cathedral builders (new york: harper and row, 1984, 77] concerning the existence of a lodge in paris under louis ix, see marcel olle, le symbolisme, july/september 1960. mason corporations in france 157 the brotherhoods the trade or community remained coupled with a brotherhood, a group that was assembled for religious or charitable purposes

s of mason corporations in france 159 the templars as well as the hospitallers, the two saint johns john the baptist and john of the gospels, the announcer of and the witness to the light, respectively were worshipped together by all free and enfranchised craftsmen of the templar commandery. this is the reason for the tradition, in existence until the revolution, of erecting a huge bonfire on the eve of saint john the baptist's feast day in the large courtyard of the temple.14 the brotherhoods in the provinces in the north the brotherhoods were known as bannieres. in the midi region they were called charites. in montpellier, for example, benevolent institutions that gave assistance had developed rapidly starting in the thirteenth century. each trade had two ordinary centers consisting of a

those hostile to their side and to lead cromwell's police astray, they acted under the cover of the masonic lodges, of which they were honorary members. under the protection of so-called trade secrecy and without too much risk of commiting an indiscretion, they could thereby communicate with their brothers who had remained in great britain to plot the overthrow of the "dictator."9 in 1661, on the eve of ascending the throne of england, charles ii formed a regiment in saint germain called the royal irish, whose name was soon changed to the irish guard. under the orders of lord colonel william dorrington, this regiment, which outlived the stuarts, landed in brest on october 8, 1689, as part of the surrender terms of limerick. until 1698, it maintained a garrison in saint germain but remained

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

well the seasons and times in which the spheres do intersect and the influences flow from the void thou must observe the cycle of the moon, the movements of the planets, the sun's course through the zodiac and the rising of the constellations. ye ultimate rites shall be performed only in the seasons proper to them, these be: at candlemas (on the second day of the second month, at beltane (on the eve of may, at lammas (on the first day of the eighth month, at roodmas (on the fourteenth day of the ninth month, and at hallowmas (on november eve. call out to dread azathoth when the sun is in the sign of the ram, the lion, or the archer; the moon decreasing and mars and saturn conjoin. mighty yog-sothoth shall rise to ye incantations when sol has entered the fiery house of leo and the hour of

l out to dread azathoth when the sun is in the sign of the ram, the lion, or the archer; the moon decreasing and mars and saturn conjoin. mighty yog-sothoth shall rise to ye incantations when sol has entered the fiery house of leo and the hour of lammas be upon ye. evoke ye terrible hastur on candlemas night, when sol is in aquarius and mercury in trine. supplicate great cthulhu only at hallowmas eve when the sun abides within the house of the scorpion and orion riseth. when all hallows falls within the cycle of the new moon the power shall be the strongest. conjure shub-niggurath when the beltane fires glow upon the hills and the sun is in the second house, repeating the rites of roodmas when ye black one appeareth. to raise up ye stones to form ye gate through which they from ye outer vo

ll be compelled to give true answer. ye adjuration of great cthulhu ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtan. a supplication to great cthulhu for those who would have power over his minions. in the day and hour of the moon with sun in scorpio prepare thou a waxen tablet and enscribe thereon the seals of cthulhu and dagon; suffumigate with the incense of zkauba and set aside. on hallowmas eve thou must travel to some lonely place where high ground overlooks the ocean. take up the tablet in thy right hand and make of the sign of kish with thy left. recite the incantation thrice and when the final word of the third utterance dieth in the air cast thou the tablet into the waves saying 'in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming, yet he shall rise and his kingdom shall cover th

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

cesfully completing the initiation process, the candidate is reborn, and joins the single eye in the pyramid. the new world order, or rather the philosophy its deliverers hold to be true, is one and the same as the new age ideal of man s divinity and self-transformation. in order to partake in this gnostic fufillment of the great plan one must awaken to the original sin of lucifer, as proposed to eve in the garden of eden, that we can be as gods (gen. 3:5) so it is not suprising to find that christians, specifically, are cited as the main obstacle hindering the success of this new age-new world order. the reason for this, is the new age belief in many saviors and enlightened teachers, masters and gurus its all good and fine when the goal is the false teaching of man s divinity. the new age

your first duty (the externalization of the hierarchy, p.614) the ancient mysteries, being practiced by both freemasonry and the new age, were giving to humanity by the hierarchy. the real purpose of masonry taught to man, from the hierarchy is the expediting of the spiritual evolution, to transform their nature into a god-like superman. the serpent caused the fall in the garden of eden by giving eve this very same message. man is a god in the making. and as the mystic myths of egypt, on the potter s wheel, he is being molded. when his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood (manly p. hall, the lost keys of freemasonry, p. 92) european mysticism was not dead at the time the united states of america was founded. the hand of the mysteries con

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

r into the nature of reality, it can only come about through contemplation and analysis. concentration alone, without content, cannot achieve this. this is because concentration can only act as an instrument to arrive at understanding. da at constitutes the interest, focus and attachment to the subject, to the exclusion of all else. this can be gleaned from the meaning of the verse "and adam knew eve vehaadam yada et chava etc. and she gave birth to a son. da at is usually translated as being "knowledge, but as we see from the above verse, da at means the interest and attachment to something. it is quite a simple matter that a person who does not have interest in a subject will not be able to concentrate on it and will have difficulty understanding it clearly. from this it is clear that co

d will come to the conclusion that she needs to go on a diet, but this will not be sufficient to stop her from eating that chocolate bar. in contrast, in the middle line, there is no reduction whatsoever from da at to tiferet to yesod to malchut. furthermore, the connection between the sefirot of the middle line is instantaneous, for it is as if they are one thing. for example, it says "adam knew eve" of course, this does not mean that he simply knew her. rather, there was a physical connection between them. this being the case, why did the torah use the terminology of da at (knowledge? the reason is because there cannot be a physical connection between a man and a woman without a mental connection and interest. another reason is because the connection of the mental with the physical is in

binah, specifically, is analogous to a river. this is because just as a river flows ceaselessly, so the brain of comprehension flows ceaselessly. this is called the "river of thought, and as stated above it has length, breadth and depth similar to a river. the faculty of da at is the ability to have focus, interest, and mental attachment to a subject. this is understood from the verse "adam knew eve and she gave birth to a child. from here it is clear that knowledge means bonding. this is the faculty of da at which is the ability to mentally connect to a subject. the faculty of chochmah, however, is not a brain of comprehension nor is it a brain of focus. rather, this brain is the source of the intellect. it is from chochmah that the concepts spring forth. because of this it is analogous

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binah, specifically, is analogous to a river. this is because just as a river flows ceaselessly, so the brain of comprehension flows ceaselessly. this is called the "river of thought, and as stated above it has length, breadth and depth similar to a river. the faculty of da at is the ability to have focus, interest, and mental attachment to a subject. this is understood from the verse "adam knew eve and she gave birth to a child. from here it is clear that knowledge means bonding. this is the faculty of da at which is the ability to mentally connect to a subject. the faculty of chochmah, however, is not a brain of comprehension nor is it a brain of focus. rather, this brain is the source of the intellect. it is from chochmah that the concepts spring forth. because of this it is analogous

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

the earth, h interrupting these two accounts with [its description of what occurred on] the seventh day, as it is written, gand the heavens [and the earth] were completed c. h in the first account of creation, the torah mentions both male and female, while in the second account, in [g-d fs] command [to create man, the female is not mentioned at all. if the command was to create only adam, why was eve created? we see that [even in the second account of creation] after the command, the female was created, for the torah goes on to describe how gg-d caused a deep sleep to descend upon the man c h and so forth. we shall now explain this. from the primordial [world of] adam kadmon, the 72-name was not manifest; only the 63-name began to manifest via the mouth, the nose, etc. this is why [the tor

ndicates that the feminine principle is already rectified [on this day. since the definite article is the letter hei, which in the context of the name havayah refers to the feminine sefirot (binah and malchut, malchut in particular. if so, in what way does the seventh day refer to malchut? and the only thing lacking is for [z feir anpin and nukva] to turn face to face in order to couple. adam and eve.and therefore, their spiritual antecedents, z feir anpin and nukva.were initially created as one being, attached back to back. in order to couple, g-d gsawed h them apart so they could turn to face each other. this coupling is what occurred (and occurs) on the seventh day, the sabbath. this is what is alluded to here [the zohar uses the expression] gwhen the sabbath enters c. h6 this [allegori

in, please g-d. these souls left [the diminished being of adam] by way of seminal emissions, for [as we are taught, adam] sired evil spirits. this happens when the drop of seminal emission impregnates a female demon. the soul [that has thus become entrapped in evil] must be reincarnated afterwards in order to be rectified. we are taught in the talmud1 that during the 130 years adam separated from eve (after the sin until he fathered seth, he suffered from seminal emissions (the hebrew term for gseminal emission, h keri, applies both to intentional and involuntary seminal emissions. although voluntary emission is considered a more serious sin than involuntary emission, the individual is considered responsible for involuntary emission as well, since dreams are in most cases the way the mind

or the intercourse and the indication of its grightness. h the spiritual union between the partners.if there is any.is subordinate to the physical, instead of the reverse situation in proper marital relations. once intercourse occurs on this level, the snake, like abimelech (who was simply playing the role of the snake further along in history) can rightfully argue that he is as fit a consort for eve as adam. now, adam is considered to have committed [in the sin of the tree of knowledge] three cardinal sins: idolatry, sexual aberration, and murder.10 murder: referring to the souls that left him as seminal emissions. the sages compare intentional seminal emission to murder, since the individual is squandering his potential to bring life into the world. idolatry: for he caused the sparks of

yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf. the numerical value of tzadik is 90 and the numerical value of kuf is 100. the allusions in the other two letters of the this name are as follows: the chet alludes to the eight days [from birth] to circumcision. the yud alludes to the yud in the name chayah, for that was [eve fs (chavah fs] name before the [primordial] sin; only after the sin was she called chavah. eve was built out of adam fs side, and when this side was built [into eve [adam fs] helpmate [eizer] and enduring seed [zera] came into being, to produce holy seed, for gisrael is holy to g-d. h before the sin of partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, eve is not referred to in the torah by her name, only as gthe woman h or ghis wife, h etc. only after the sin does adam name her chavah, o

e was built out of adam fs side, and when this side was built [into eve [adam fs] helpmate [eizer] and enduring seed [zera] came into being, to produce holy seed, for gisrael is holy to g-d. h before the sin of partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, eve is not referred to in the torah by her name, only as gthe woman h or ghis wife, h etc. only after the sin does adam name her chavah, or eve. this alludes to the tradition that she had a different name before the sin. before eve was made out of adam fs side, they were connected to each other back to back. they could not couple in this state; only when eve was separated from adam could they face each other, engage in martial relations, and produce offspring. the words for ghelpmate h and gseed h are permutations of each other. eizer

e as a burnt offering upon the altar [to be slaughtered. since [this murderous spark] was not his sin but that of someone else [dormant within him, he was spared, and a ram was offered in his stead. afterwards, this evil impurity issued from him as esau. isaac, too, wanted to bless [his son esau] and thereby cause him to repent [and be as righteous] as jacob. since adam had been cursed because of eve, the blessings were given to jacob through [the efforts of] his mother [rebecca, who was a reincarnation of eve. by being a conduit of blessing, rebecca rectified the sin of eve, who brought a curse upon the world. they [i.e, the blessings] were not transmitted to him by his father isaac, for isaac thought that jacob had not yet rectified reality. and it is known that gwhen this one falls, the

ation of cain, the son of adam. g cand he answered him, ei am here, f h i.e, yes, i am. he then commanded him [to bring him game, for just as cain took the [untamed] land [while abel pastured the domesticated flocks, esau likewise was ga hunter, a man of the field. h14 he therefore spent his time in the fields killing, as did cain. and since cain came from the impurity of the snake [who had raped eve, which caused adam to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasting two flavors [i.e, good and evil.[isaac] therefore commanded [esau] to gmake me delicacies, h in the plural, implying two flavors. gjust as adam hungered for two flavors, make me [a dish] of two flavors: good and evil. h thus, isaac was attempting to have esau rectify the murder-aspect of adam fs sin by having him br

27:1. 14 genesis 25:27. 15 genesis 3:17. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 128 adam sinned by listening to his wife for improper purposes. by having her son listen to her for proper purposes, rebecca sought to rectify this aspect of adam fs sin. in this context, rebecca fs words, gupon me be your curse, my son, h mean gthe curse you suffered in adam fs time is my fault. h gi, in my incarnation as eve, caused adam to be cursed. i am now rectifying this. h this also explains why she continues, gonly listen to my voice c. h [the word gonly h] limits her words [implying that gthis time you should listen, while last time you should not have h] because that was listening for bad purposes. and because the sin of adam was that [eve] squeezed grapes and gave him [to drink],16 so too, here, g[jacob]

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tains to the supernal essence of mind, representing thus the type and symbol of the glittering augoeides, the neschamah. introduction 33 speaking of an analogous psychological conception in his commentary to the secret of the golden flower, dr. c. g. jung remarks that this figure represents "a line or principle of life that strives after superhuman, shining heights" at the base of the tree stands eve, the nephesch or unconscious who, in opposition to this divine genius, stands for the dark "earthborn, feminine principle with its emotionality and instinctiveness reaching far back into the depths of time, and into the roots of physiological continuity" between the two stands adam, supported by the fundamental strength of eve, the ruach or ego not yet awakened to a realisation of its innate p

homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from one viewpoint is the fall catastrophic. the awareness of the rise of the dragon endows man also with consciousness of power- and power is life and progress. the dragon stands as the symbol of the great en

ash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty two paths form the 32 paths of the sepher yetzirah or book of formation. the two pillars either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron <123> the serpent on the tree of life second knowledge lecture passive: the back pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon <124> the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or a pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breathing taught in the first meditation, mentally formulate a cube, and endeavor to discover the significance of

arung torrent or brook. the river going out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding from the throne, on either side of the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruit. thus the rivers form a cross and on it the great adam, the son who is to rule the nations, was extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to geburah and gedulah, and in malkuth is eve, supporting with her hands the two pillars <146> on the general guidance and purification of the soul learn first, 0 practicus of our ancient order, that true equilibrium is the basis of the soul. if thou thyself hast not a sure foundation, whereon wilt thou stand to direct the forces of nature? know then that as man is born into this world amidst the darkness of nature and the strife of conte

ye shall have, seek and ye shall find. knock, and it shall be opened unto you <150> the garden of eden after the fall this diagram is described in the philosophus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to a philosophus on entering the sephirah netzach which he has reached by the three paths of qoph, tzaddi, and peh from the sephiroth-malkuth, yesod and hod respectively. the great goddess eve, being tempted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower sephiroth, but also downward to the kingdom of shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. then the sephirotic tree was shattered. she fell and with her fell the great adam. and the great red dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and eden was desolated-and

ourse of the lightning flash, as shown in the drawing below. the cross within the triangle, apex downwards, placed upon the altar at the base of the tree of life, refers to the four rivers of paradise, while the angles of the triangles refer to the three sephiroth, netzach, hod, and yesod. the two pillars, right and left of the tree are the symbols of active and passive, male and female, adam and eve. they also allude to the pillars of fire and cloud which guided the israelites in the wilderness, and the hot and moist natures are further marked by the red lamp and the cup of water. l l e pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark- the right, metatron, male- and the left, sandalphon, female. theoricus ritual 163 above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, of which t

stal proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb, on either side of which was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits. and thus do the rivers of. eden form a cross, and on that cross the great adam, the son who the golden dawn: volume i1 book two was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, mother of all, the completion of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the thirtieth path "and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted" the three equals eight grade of practicus is referred to the sephirah hod and the thirtieth and thirty first paths- those of resh and shin a

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r mask. 4th: art overleaps and transcends nature, accomplishing, quickly thatwhich nature requires periods to attain. 5th: god has created every metal of its own kind, and fixedin them a principle of growth, especially in gold, the superior metal, and which in itself hasmagnetic seed, an unseen power, unappreciable in this world, but which art can, inspire andmultiply.we feel that we are upon the eve of obtaining this power, for what may be done with metal, mayhave a co-relative effect upon the human body; that is that the solution of prolongation of animal lifemust follow quickly upon the ability to transmute other metals to gold, as they are kindred, thepurest metallic life with animal life. the ability to hold gold in solution is already familiar to us.conductor:what mean you by the pro

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igure of a mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal, abandoned alone and naked on a rock. psyche must remain in ignorance of the secret of her ideal royalty, and if she behold her husband she must lose him. here apuleius commentates and interprets moses; but did not the elohim of israel and the gods of apuleius both issue from the sanctuaries of memphis and thebes? psyche is the sister of eve, or rather she is eve spiritualized. both desire to know and lose innocence for the honour of the ordeal. both deserve to go down into hell, one to bring back the antique box of pandora, the other to find and to crush the head of the old serpent, who is the symbol of time and of evil. both are guilty of the crime which must be expiated by the prometheus of ancient days and the lucifer of the c

ntique box of pandora, the other to find and to crush the head of the old serpent, who is the symbol of time and of evil. both are guilty of the crime which must be expiated by the prometheus of ancient days and the lucifer of the christian legend, the one delivered by hercules and the other overcome by the saviour. the great magical secret is therefore the lamp and dagger of psyche, the apple of eve, the sacred fire of prometheus, the burning sceptre of lucifer, but it is also the holy cross of the redeemer. to be acquainted with it sufficiently for its abuse or divulgation is to deserve all sufferings; to know as one should alone know it, namely, to make use of and conceal it, is to be master of the absolute. a single word comprehends all things, and this word consists of four letters: i

ntuition. what, in fact, does man know? nothing, and at the same time he is allowed to ignore nothing. devoid of knowledge, he is called upon to know all. now, knowledge supposes the duad a being who knows and an object known. the duad is the generator of society and of law: it is also the number of the gnosis. the duad is unity multiplying itself in order to create, and hence in sacred symbolism eve issues from the inmost bosom of adam. adam is the human tetragram, summed up in the mysterious jod, type of the kabalistic phallus. by adding to this jod the triadic name of eve, the name of jehova is formed, the divine tetragram, which is eminently the kabalistic and magical word, xnxv, being that which the high-priest in the temple pronounced jodcheva. so unity, complete in the fruitfulness

ese three series or degrees in the progress of spirits, assiah, yetzirah and briah. the gnostics, who were christian kabalists, called them hyle, psyche and gnosis; by the jews the supreme circle was named atziluth, and by the gnostics pleroma. in the tetragram, the triad, taken at the beginning of the word, expresses the divine copulation; taken at the end, it expressed the female and maternity. eve has a name of three letters, but the primitive adam is signified simply by the letter jod, whence jehovah should be pronounced jeva, and this point leads us to the great and supreme mystery of magic, embodied in the tetrad. 18 iv o d the tetragram geburah chesed porta librarum elementa in nature there are two forces producing equilibrium, and these three constitute a single law. here, then, is

e and likeness of the other, so that the psychic medium of the woman is like a man and that of the man 72 the doctrine of transcendental magic like a woman. it was this transfer which the kabalists sought to express in an occult manner when they said, in explanation of an obscure passage in genesis: god created love by placing a rib of adam in the breast of the woman and a portion of the flesh of eve in the breast of the man, so that at the bottom of woman's heart there is the bone of man, while at the bottom of man's heart there is the flesh of woman an allegory which is certainly not devoid of depth and beauty. we have referred, in the previous chapter, to what the masters in kabalah call the embryonic condition of souls. this state, completed after the death of the person who thereby po

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us, in the grand grimoire and its modern version the red dragon, there is a recipe entitled gcomposition of death, or philosophical stone h, a broth of aqua fortis, copper, arsenic and verdigris. there are also necromantic processes, comprising the tearing up of earth from graves with the nails, dragging out bones, placing them crosswise on the breast, then assisting at midnight mass on christmas eve, and flying out of the church at the moment of consecration, crying: glet the dead rise from their tombs! h thereafter the procedure involves returning to the graveyard, taking a handful of earth nearest to the coffin, running back to the door of the church, which has been alarmed by the clamour, depositing the two bones crosswise and again shouting: glet the dead rise from their tombs! h if t

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mes of psychotic killers such as ed gein or richard trenton chase, both of whom mutilated their victims as part of their psychotic delusions? can a crime that is not sexually deviant, bizarre, or exceptionally violent be satanic? can white collar crime be satanic? a few might even answer that it is the fact that the crime was committed on a date with satanic or occult significance (halloween, may eve, etc) or the fact that the perpetrator claims that satan told him to commit the crime. what does this mean for crimes committed on thanksgiving or christmas? what does this say about crimes committed by perpetrators who claim that god or jesus told them to do it? one note of interest is the fact that in handout and reference material i have collected, the number of dates with satanic or occult

nal resignations poured in; and by the end of june the once-strong national network had virtually ceased to exist. for a decade the church of satan had surmounted every obstacle and solved every problem with an ease unequalled and unprecedented in occultism. now it was dying, not with a bang but with a whimper, this too we could not understand. hence my decision to appeal directly to satan on the eve of the north solstice. in the book of coming forth by night set assumes responsibility for the disastrous course of events by citing the unanticipated dangers of the daimonic state of mind. he implies that the age of satan (set/harwer) would have evolved into the aon of set in any case [though this would not necessarily have meant an organizational crisis or change in leadership; it was the me

he diabolicon (ref. a, pp. 55-56) has taken a new meaning. magus barrett has written that when setians have "gone beyond xem they will have beheld leviathan (ref. h. in the church of satan, leviathan was called the serpent of the watery abyss (ref. p, and in the myths of the hebrews and christians it is a serpent who bestows knowledge of good and evil- understanding, perfect wisdom- upon adam and eve. leviathan, stripped of these myths, is the macrocosmic set, which only the red magus described in the diabolicon could look upon without being destroyed. compare what aleister crowley wrote about the grade (degree) of ipsissimus in magick in theory and practice (ref. m, p. 234) with the book of knowing the way: the ipsissimus is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing in the nature

we would not be one with set, as in the blissful existence of some well known religions, but on a plane parallel to that of set. assuming we are gods within ourselves, then nothing can be higher than what we have the potential to become. the possibilities of what the subjective mind can do and what set is are limitless, but that is the beauty of the gift: we can learn as we experience and become. eve of the beasts within classification: v2- b6d.qri- 1 author: elana thompson i date: spring xxv publication: flames from hell subject: personal attributes reading list: the working begins with the crystal tablet standard. i am dressed in black, signifying for me the area of knowledge i seek, which lies in darkness. the bell not only stands to honor the august council of nine, it brings my attent

and wolves, know the fire of that phrase! hail all creatures i have summoned forth. from now on i shall recognize you all in the beings that i meet. i shall know you in myself. i will meet you not in fear or guilt, but in celebration of the talents i have access to mirrors have odd shapes sometimes; i now have four mirrors, shaped as wolf, snake, vampire, and dragon. i shall gaze frequently. this eve of beasts is at an end. so it is done! the new year ceremony; a xem working purposes of the ceremony (1) to travel a year ahead of this present moment and meet my future self (or xem- my self ahead of my self; to interact and receive guidance and understanding from him (2) to ponder initiation: why can it collapse? what are the so-called 'id-monsters? how can one best sustain and protect the a

of set shall not fade; and as long as the majestic one leads, higher man shall bear the wisdom, and guardians shall be needed. footnotes 1. xem key# 1 2. book of coming forth by night 3. the diabolicon the dragon's statement: analysis and commentary i feel and really believe that the entire dragon's statement very satisfactorily answers the "glimpse of death" i had pertaining to you on new year's eve during ritual with set. most especially "never did i die, nor can i be destroyed as long as the gift is" you remember, i explained to you that i did not think my "glimpse" meant a physical death for you "having become through the gift" you have gained life and continuous growth through your purpose and the strength of your will behind the force of your mind to reach xem in your efforts to work

llaneous book of thoth notations. i cannot but notice the incipient remanifestation factors heading together- the king and queen, the lance and grail bearers, the mobius strip in movement around the central figure's arms, and the orphic egg, among others. each figure portrays budding actions which will reach outward to influence the other figues and themselves in the futures they are forging. the eve, lilith and cupid forms are not necessarily static even if they appear singular and/or in the background. and what would an atu of love be without eros somewhere in the picture. love being the law under will, the winged shaft bearer cannot be omitted from the messages of the trump. and when you think about it, do we not use love in our work, and is our work possible without love? even as a mot

he ninth bell is rung] so i have spoken. so it has come into being! walpurgisnacht working [this working is an example of how a setian can take a rhp feast day and concept, use astrology to incorporate the elements through planetary energies, and use herbs to set the ritual atmosphere. the format for the working is the crystal tablet outline] walpurgisnacht working- april 30, xxv april 30 was the eve of the feast of st. walpurga, a roman catholic nun of the 8th century. there are many stories about how this legend arose, but in all of them she remained a faithful nun until her death. it was the legend of a miraculous oil associated with the place of her burial from which strange tales and practices arose. however, traditionally the feast of beltane has been celebrated by various pagan grou

aron samedi, loa of death; damballah, loa of fertility; and erzulie ge rouge, loa of rage. the people have their own desire for being there, and are drawn to whatever quarter most serves their need (the invoked loa in this sense represents the spirit of their desire. the loa invoked, the rituals begin. ge rouge rite (this is an example of the ritual side of voudoun) erzulie was invoked on saturns eve. i conjured the power to transcend. to accomplish this, i used rage as a force to cause the death of a part of the self preventing me from achieving my will. others felt they were being influenced negatively by another, and aimed to sever the link. i had six matches with which to light six tapers on the altar, i scattered the straw on the ground, and with a bowl of flour drew a veve and consec

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riod during which he had unaccountably come to disbelieve in his angelhood, he was faced with a thick bank of clouds, through which, peer and blink as he might, he could make out little more than shadows- or could it be that the material now filling his thoughts, the echo, to give but a single example, of how his lieutenant-angels ithuriel and zephon had found the adversary _squat like a toad_ by eve's ear in eden, using his wiles "to reach/the organs of her fancy, and with them forge/illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams, had in fact been planted in his head by that same ambiguous creature, that upstairs-downstairs thing, who had confronted him in alleluia's boudoir, and awoken him from his long waking sleep- then rekha, too, was perhaps an emissary of this god, an external, divine a

self. now is not the time. searching for clues _what is to be done- he stalks the city streets. somewhere he sees a television set through an evening window. there is a woman's head on the screen, a famous "presenter, being interviewed by an equally famous, twinkling irish "host- what would be the worst thing you could imagine- oh, i think, i'm sure, it would be, oh _yes: to be alone on christmas eve. you'd really have to face yourself, wouldn't you, you'd look into a harsh mirror and ask yourself _is this all there is- gibreel, alone, not knowing the date, walks on. in the mirror, the adversary approaches at the same pace as his own, beckoning, stretching out his arms. the city sends him messages. here, it says, is where the dutch king decided to live when he came over three centuries ago

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ways prepared myself with very theoretical and linguistic/rational methods (i've studied theoretical philosophy, comparative religion and a variety of languages, the sudden need to switch to the language of the heart felt difficult, yet compelling. in the process i was invited to join the oa, and so i did. in the course of this process my personal vision became overwhelmingly clear. on new year's eve or so i wrote down what i need to become, and what i need to achieve in this life. this vision has held fast, and i've been doing my best to remember and actualize it. i'm not sure whether it will do any good, but i've edited here a personal manuscript i wrote to describe my initiation into denytenamun (it will be published in a future _cornu, newsletter of the order of amon _the book of denyt

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ways prepared myself with very theoretical and linguistic/rational methods (i've studied theoretical philosophy, comparative religion and a variety of languages, the sudden need to switch to the language of the heart felt difficult, yet compelling. in the process i was invited to join the oa, and so i did. in the course of this process my personal vision became overwhelmingly clear. on new year's eve or so i wrote down what i need to become, and what i need to achieve in this life. this vision has held fast, and i've been doing my best to remember and actualize it. i'm not sure whether it will do any good, but i've edited here a personal manuscript i wrote to describe my initiation into denytenamun (it will be published in a future _cornu, newsletter of the order of amon _the book of denyt

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dionysus regulate the angel s duties. its ruling lords are zadkiel, hashmal (hasmal/chasmal, the fire speaking angel, yahriel and muriel. 5th choir: virtues known also as malakim, the dunamis, tarshishim, brilliant ones or shining ones. they are said to bestow miracles and blessings, and are most often associated with heroes and those who fight for what is right. according to the book of adam and eve, two virtues acted as midwives at the birth of cain. their ruling princes are michael, raphael, bariel, tashish, and before the fall, satan-el. 6th choir: powers the dynamis, potentiates and authorities, the first angels created by god. they inhabit the border between the first and second heavens. saint paul warns that the powers may be both good and evil. they act as guides to the soul, and t

as abraxas. the holiness or unholiness of the metatron is undecided, thrown backwards and forwards by the argumenets of theologians, priests, magicians and rabbi. as such it is a most paradoxical name to conjure with. shekinah according to the zohar the creation of the world was the work of the shekinah, who is the female aspect of the metatron. the shekinah was exiled after the fall of adam and eve, and according to rabbinical lore the entire purpose of the torah is to lead the shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from

clay. with naamah, sister of cain, he fathered azza the strong one, who later revealed the heavenly arcana to solomon. baraqijal: who taught men astrology. exael: who, according to enoch, taught men how to fabricate engines of war, works in silver and gold, the uses of gems and perfumes. ezeqeel: taught the science of meteorology. gadreel: god is my helper. identified by enoch as the one who lead eve astray, although eve protested strongly that she had..copulated with no false beguiling serpent. also taught men how to make tools and weapons. kasdaye: taught women how to abort. kashdejan: taught the curing of diseases including those of the mind. kokabel: taught astronomy and the science of the constellations. penemue/penemuel: who taught the art of writing although through this many went a

ifice (leviticus 17:7. selene (greek. also called mene, moon, a tutelary deity of sorcerers and magickians, fused with hekate and artemis, the romans knew her as luna. later, she is identified as a queen of hell. serguthy (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. has power over wives and virgins, when the occasion is favourable. seth (hebrew, transgression. the third child of adam and eve, after the desasterous relationship of cain and abel. a curious parallel exists between the tale of the two brothers in genesis, and the mystery of set and osiris. seth, set, setech, sutech (egypt. who murders his brother osiris, lord of the desert, whose priests were all had red hair. equated with typhon by the greeks. a god of dark sorcery and homosexual mysteries, equated with satan. shax

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ere not particularly planned, we're glad, even if no one else is, that we're here! you should give yourself a pat on the back, buy yourself whatever you want, treat yourself like the king (or god) that you are, and generally celebrate your birthday with as much pomp and ceremony as possible. after one's own birthday, the two major satanic holidays are walpurgisnacht and halloween (or all hallows' eve. st. walpurgis- or walpurga, or walburga, depending upon the time and area in which one is referring to her- was born in sussex about the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, and was educated at winburn, dorset, where after taking the veil, she remained for twenty-five years. she then, at the instance of her uncle, st. boniface, and her brother, st. wilibald, set out alon

isease. the cave became a place of pilgrimage, and a great church was built over the spot. she is commemorated at various times, but principally on may 1st, her day taking the place of an earlier pagan festival. amazingly enough, all of this rigmarole was found necessary simply to condone the continuance of the most important pagan festival of the year- the grand climax of the spring equinox! the eve of may has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons, specters, afreets, and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels, symbolizing the fruition of the spring equinox. halloween- all hallows' eve, or all saints' day- falls on october 31st or november 1st. originally, all hallows' eve was one of the great fire festivals of britain at the time of the druids. in scotland it

e fruition of the spring equinox. halloween- all hallows' eve, or all saints' day- falls on october 31st or november 1st. originally, all hallows' eve was one of the great fire festivals of britain at the time of the druids. in scotland it was associated with the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were unusually active and propitious. paradoxically, all hallows' eve was also the night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. the youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night. the solstices and equinoxes are also celebrated as holidays, as

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rch was built. the infant is learning to walk, and by the first working year of his age-that is to say 1984-he will have steadied his steps, and by the next-2002-he will have attained maturity, and his reign will be filled with wisdom, reason and delight. rege satanas! ave, satanas! hail, satf -ii- satanicon was first published at manchester, new hampshire by the blackstar church on all hallow s eve october 31, 1993. this new revised and expanded edition published also at manchester, new hampshire, by the blackstar church on all antichrist s day may 7, 1996. satanagram copyright 1993 by adrian clavex. satanicon copyright 1993 by adrian clavex. satanicon: the book of evil revised and expanded edition copyright 1996 by adrian claves. all rights reserved. printed in the usa -iii- prelude to

nical heaven. ideally, carpeting of one s hellscape would be fire red, though this may be of less importance to many. certainly though, it would make for a dramatic, concluding effect (standard ritual paraphernalia: satanagram altarpiece, altar, sword, etc, would be utilized as outlined further on. truly, we need no man-made heaven, garden of eden or place of perfection; nor did mythical adam and eve. they gained the knowledge and shed the shackles thus they became: satanic -13- beings and children of the night. they became the first human images of defiant individuality, in spite of becoming outcasts. finally, we need no steeple and spire to experience our truth, for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil over god; evil over good. the real-life relationship endur

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rivers. and the first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated earth the combined power of mercy and severity. and ephraim, the kerubic sign of the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and the schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one oppo

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al in which the worshipper makes eight offerings to the tirthankara. olo du` mare: the name of the supreme god in santer a. om: often spelled aum; the sacred syllable and symbol of jainism (and hinduism, used for purposes of meditation. oral torah: interpretations of the torah and ways to apply their laws. orders: religious communities. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. orishas: name given to the lesser gods of santer a. orthodox: the name of one of the sects of judaism, generally referring to traditional jews who are conservative in their outlook. oshogatsu: the shinto new year. ostara: neo-pagan holiday held at the time of the spring equinox. pagan

fully divine. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin th

er, as the council of nicea decided in 325, jesus was of the same substance as god the father. the doctrine of atonement speaks of reconciliation between god and humankind, a settlement ending the separation between god and humans. this separation was caused, according to some interpretations, by original sin (the doctrine of original sin says that sin, or disobedience to god, began when adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden) this original sin had to be paid for, and it was the suffering and death of jesus on the cross that redeemed humanity. others see this separation in a more psychological (dealing with the human mind) manner. for example, the word sin has roots that are similar to the word sunder, meaning to split or to divide. in this interpretation original sin r

sources say there were twelve gods living on mount olympus, there are fourteen gods listed next. hades did not live on olympus, although most myths about him associate him with the olympian gods, and dionysius was a later addition to the pantheon: plotinus s idea of emanation, his belief that people wanted to return to the divine mind, can be seen in the christian story of the fall, when adam and eve were tempted into sin and were forced out of the garden of eden. public domain. 220 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy zeus was a sky god, but he also represented order. he maintained order in the universe and in the home, protected strangers who arrived asking for hospitality, punished people who broke their sworn word, and served as god of intellectual thought. zeus

his famed woman, however. what stories have been preserved are found mostly in the bible s gospels, as are the events of the life of her son, jesus. mary is believed to have been born around 22 bce, and the year of her death is unknown. tradition holds that she was the child of saint joachim and saint anne and that she was conceived without original sin (original sin refers to the sin of adam and eve, who disobeyed god s order and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden; it is the notion that all humans are born sinners) mary s birth without this original sin is called the immaculate conception. because of her own immaculate conception, mary was able to give birth to a pure son of god, without sin, while also remaining a virgin. she is often referred to as

ocalized the central beliefs that christ suffered and died to atone for humanity s sins and that people could achieve spiritual salvation through faith in christ. indeed, paul was one of the first new testament writers to comment on the nature of world religions: biographies 307 saint paul original sin, the concept that all of humanity is born in a state of sin due to the disobedience of adam and eve, the first humans, in the garden of eden. he stated that people could achieve salvation in heaven only by overcoming their basic sinfulness through faith in christ. paul was a principal figure in the debate over jewish law and the extent to which followers of christ were obligated to obey it. while paul himself followed some elements of jewish law, he argued that salvation was to be achieved t

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e beasts of the field and all the flying things of the heaven, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call each thing. this explains the verse (genesis 5:2, male and female he created them. it is also written (genesis 1:28, and god blessed them. 199. the soul of the female comes from the female, and the soul of the male comes from the male. this is the reason why the serpent followed eve. he said, her soul comes from the north, and i will therefore quickly seduce her. and how did he seduce her? he had intercourse with her. 200. his disciples asked: tell us how this took place. he replied: the wicked samael made a bond with all the host on high against his master. this was because the blessed holy one said [regarding man (genesis 1:26, and let him rule over the fish of the sea

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e in moisture. 14. herbs and trees. 15. fructification in vegetable life. 16. origin of low forms of animal life. 17. insects and reptiles appear. 18. fishes, vertebrate life in the waters. 19. birds, vertebrate life in the air. 20. quadrupeds, vertebrate earth animals. third order: decad of humanity 21. appearance of man. 22. material human body. 23. human soul conferred. 24. mystery of adam and eve. 25. complete man as the microcosm. 26. gift of five human faces acting exteriorly. 27. gift of five powers to the soul. 28. adam kadmon, the heavenly man. 29. angelic beings. 30. man in the image of god. fourth order: world of spheres 31. the moon. 32. mercury. 33. venus. 34. sol. 35. mars. 36. jupiter. 37. saturn. 38. the firmament. 39. the primum mobile. 40. the empyrean heaven. fifih order

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t the gospel of the egyptians from nag hammadi does not try to "rehabilitate the egyptian god by interpreting him in terms of seth, the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion, but simply refers to j. doresse, the secret books of the egyptian gnostics (new york 1960, 1970 [paris 1958. what does the latter say? doresse's argument is complex, even confused. he argues that in gnosticism "the egyptian myths had undergone the same inversion as had the traditional values of genesis; the originally "

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nd the scenes to converse with her; he filled his portfolio with countless sketches of a beauty that charmed him as an artist as well as lover; and day after day he floated on through a changing sea of doubt and irresolution, of affection and distrust. the last, indeed, constantly sustained against his better reason by the sober admonitions of mervale, a matter-of-fact man! the day following that eve on which this section of my story opens, glyndon was riding alone by the shores of the neapolitan sea, on the other side of the cavern of posilipo. it was past noon; the sun had lost its early fervour, and a cool breeze sprung up voluptuously from the sparkling sea. bending over a fragment of stone near the roadside, he perceived the form of a man; and when he approached, he recognised zanoni

en schemes which part from the young ambition of art, to play in the air, to illumine the space like rays that kindle from the sun. and with these projects mingled also the vision of a love purer and serener than his life yet had known. his mind went back into that fair childhood of genius, when the forbidden fruit is not yet tasted, and we know of no land beyond the eden which is gladdened by an eve. insensibly before him there rose the scenes of a home, with his art sufficing for all excitement, and viola's love circling occupation with happiness and content; and in the midst of these fantasies of a future that might be at his command, he was recalled to the present by the clear, strong voice of mervale, the man of common-sense. whoever has studied the lives of persons in whom the imagin

nally a wild goat peeped down from some rocky crag, or the discordant cry of a bird of prey, startled in its sombre haunt, was heard above the hills. these were the only signs of life; not a human being was met, not a hut was visible. wrapped in his own ardent and solemn thoughts, the young man continued his way, till the sun had spent its noonday heat, and a breeze that announced the approach of eve sprung up from the unseen ocean which lay far distant to his right. it was then that a turn in the road brought before him one of those long, desolate, gloomy villages which are found in the interior of the neapolitan dominions: and now he came upon a small chapel on one side the road, with a gaudily painted image of the virgin in the open shrine. around this spot, which, in the heart of a chr

d. the magical landscapes in which baptista porta rejoiced; the apparent change of the seasons with which albertus magnus startled the earl of holland; nay, even those more dread delusions of the ghost and image with which the necromancers of heraclea woke the conscience of the conqueror of plataea (pausanias, see plutarch, all these, as the showman enchants some trembling children on a christmas eve with his lantern and phantasmagoria, mejnour exhibited to his pupil "and now laugh forever at magic! when these, the very tricks, the very sports and frivolities of science, were the very acts which men viewed with abhorrence, and inquisitors and kings rewarded with the rack and the stake "but the alchemist's transmutation of metals "nature herself is a laboratory in which metals, and all elem

found. for she smiled and murmured to herself, and breathed his name often, and stretched out her arms, and sighed if they touched him not. he gazed upon her as he stood apart, with what emotions it were vain to say. she would wake no more to him; she could not know how dearly the safety of that sleep was purchased. that morrow she had so yearned for, it had come at last. how would she greet the eve? amidst all the exquisite hopes with which love and youth contemplate the future, her eyes had closed. those hopes still lent their iris-colours to her dreams. she would wake to live! to-morrow, and the reign of terror was no more; the prison gates would be opened, she would go forth, with their child, into that summer-world of light. and he? he turned, and his eye fell upon the child; it was

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h posture. dali's birth in 1904- the year in which crowley received the book of the lawmakes him, literally, a child of the new aeon; one of the first! his creative genius adumbrates at every stage of its flight the flowering of the essential germ that has made him a living embodiment of new aeon consciousness, and of the 'kingly man' described in al. dali's objects are reflected in the fluid and eve-rshifting luminosity of the astral light. they resolve themselves and melt continually into the 'next step, the next phase of consciousness expanding into the further image of becoming. spare had already succeeded in isolating and concentrating desire in a symbol which became sentient and therefore potentially creative through the lightnings of the magnetized will. dali, it seems, has taken th

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ers, but again, they are dupes because there is a secret, invisible, arcane or hidden "inner circle" which works behind the scenes and tells these major players what to do. this higher level of the illuminati elite have historically thought of themselves as 30 codex magica the builders. there is even a classic masonic textbook by this very title. the builders believe that jehovah god did adam and eve a disservice by driving them out of the garden. they rankle at the fact that nimrod, the king of babylon, was confounded in building the tower of babel, and they are seized with rage over the destruction of their temple in jerusalem. indeed, the builders are angered that every time they have sought to bring the world together as one, they have been thwarted by god. all of their chosen disciple

people. it represents, adds mackey, the "stage of manhood" and the maturation of humanity by progression of man's "reasoning faculties and..intellectual powers."5 in essence, the fellow craft degree represents man progressively brought to a high status of possessing the supreme wisdom of the serpent. man as a whole becomes god through reason. therefore, the promise of the serpent made to adam and eve is realized "ye shall be as gods" for he's a jolly good fellow 83 wisdom of the serpent those who display this sign, the sign of the fellow craft, to their fellows in the craft (the illuminist, magical cult) are those chosen and ambitious of instructing the masses on the wisdom of the serpent. since religious, or spiritual wisdom, is deemed essential and of a high order in satan's kingdom, it

c female figure representing lady justice, holding a banner with the 33rd degree double-headed eagle and the triangle of freemasonry. the androgyne, a combination creature of male and female, symbolizes the hermaphrodite principle of the two-faced entity or two-headed eagle. in the jewish cabala, this strange creation of the feminine and masculine principle is known as "adam kadmon" both adam and eve, a golem. this conjunction of opposites is part of the science of alchemy, or hermeticism, and is especially beloved by occult magicians. in witchcraft, it is known as the joining of sun and moon, and sacred sex rituals are common. janus, roman two-faced "god of the sun" was said to be the "keeper of the keys" to the invisible spirit world. hislop (the two babylons) called him "the source and

alled the "v word" in this group picture, we see a number of the actresses who participated in various episodes of the vagina monologues. look close at the two at top left, flashing the "v" sign. one of the two starred in the slutty hbo series, sex and the city. incidentally, new york mayor rudy giuliani's wife was a participant in the vagina monologues. actress jane fonda, an indian actress, and eve ensler, producer of the vagina monologues. 532 codex magica neo-nazi protester in germany, january 1993. most of the people who participate in such demonstrations are trained and paid by illuminati organizations and government intelligence agencies to inspire the public to react. this, in turn, enables the government to curtail citizen liberties and freedoms under the guise of providing "publi

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way and a new heaven and new earth shall be established for those saved to occupy with their glorified, incorruptible, spiritual bodies. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. cohn, norman. the pursuit of the millennium. new york: oxford university press, 1970. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. wheeler, john jr. earth s two-minute warning: today s bible-predicted signs of the end times. north canton, ohio: leader co, 1996. apparitions of holy figures in the twelfth century, st. franc

offering visitors a dramatic perspective of the history of armageddon. m delving deeper bloomfield, arthur e. before the last battle armageddon. minneapolis: dimension books, bethany fellowship, 1971. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 192 religious phenomena goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. silberman, neil asher, israel finkelstein, david ussishkin, and baruch halpern. digging at armageddon. archaeology, november/december 1999, pp. 32 39. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. cosmic consciousness in his classic work

sed. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. lindsey, hal, with c. c. carlson. the late great planet earth. new york: bantam books, 1978. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. wheeler, john jr. earth s two-minute warning: today s bible-predicted signs of the end times. north canton, ohio: leader co, 1996. shroud of turin in the fall of 1978, the ancient shroud of turin was exhibited publicly for the first time since 1933, thus rekindling the fires of co

thing from cartoon figures to a wide range of men and women in a vast spectrum of modern society. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. snake handling in the sixteenth chapter of the gospel of mark, the resurrected jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) appears to his disciples and, before ascending to heaven, sends them forth into the

ear that the greatest heresy to the christian church lay in the cathars denial that christ ever lived as a man, but was a being of spirit, much like an angel. they also believed that it was satan who created the material world after his expulsion from heaven when god the father, taking pity on his once bright star lucifer, allowed him seven days to see what he might create. the bodies of adam and eve were animated by fallen angels and directed by satan to beget children who would follow the ways of the serpent. to counter the lust of the flesh inspired by the devil, the cathars preached abstinence before marriage, chastity, vegetarianism, and nonviolence. they believed in a progressive doctrine of reincarnation with the spirits of animals evolving into humans. in their view, it was a duali

ge of the devil condemned by christian and other religions because the word satan does not specify a being, but rather a movement or a state of mind. what satanists do worship, these individuals explain, is a spirit being commonly known as sathan in english and sathanas in latin. they do not believe satan to be the supreme god, but they believe him to be the messenger of god in that he brought to eve the knowledge of god. satanists believe that there is a god above and beyond the god that created the cosmos. the most high god takes no part in the affairs of the world; thus satanists believe their faith to be the only true religion, insofar as revealed religion to mortals can be understood. satanism, according to certain of its exponents, is the oldest of all world religions, and it is the

tories, were henceforth satanic, and the women who knew about the old legends and magic traditions were transformed t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 292 mystery religions and cults forthe common folk of europe, the middle ages were a time of fear, oppression, and despair. into witches. the traditional gatherings, the druid s festival on the eve of may day, the bacchanals, the diana feasts, became the witches sabbath the broom, symbol of the sacred hearth became an evil tool. the sexual rites of old, destined to stimulate the fertility of nature, were now the manifestations of a forbidden carnal lust. mating at random, a survival of communal customs now [were] an infringement of the most sacred laws. to the church, the devils solidifi

against church and state that provoked the feudal and church establishments to denounce the old religion as satanic and to declare its practitioners witches, satan s willing servants. and it was in that same time of unrest, despair, and fear of demons that woman and witch became largely synonymous. st. augustine (d. 604) had declared that humankind had been sent to destruction through one woman (eve) and had had salvation restored to it through another woman (mary. but, as many writers have since commented, woman had, to the medieval and renaissance man, become almost completely dualistic. m delving deeper hunt, morton. the natural history of love. new york: anchor, 1994. russell, jeffrey burton. witchcraft in the middle ages. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1972. seligmann, kurt

of conventional religion in human affairs. filled with missionary zeal, aquino made it clear that he did not wish to convert everyone to satanism, but he did wish to remove the shadow of fear t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 303 and superstition that he believed had been perpetuated by organized religion. on the eve of the summer solstice on june 21, 1975, after his split with lavey, aquino performed a magical ritual and sought to summon satan to appear to him to advise him how best to proceed in his earthly mission. according to aquino, the prince of darkness appeared to him in the image of set and declared to his disciple the dawning of the aeon of set. it was revealed that set appeared to aleister crow

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he most well-known, most extensively documented, and most substantially witnessed was the phantom battle of edge hill which was refought on several consecutive weekends during the christmas season of 1642. the actual battle was waged near the village of keinton, england, on october 23 between the royalist army of king charles and the parliamentary army under the earl of essex. it was on christmas eve that several countryfolk were awakened by the noises of violent battle. fearing that it could only be another clash between soldiers that had come to desecrate the sanctity of the holy evening and the peace of their countryside, the villagers fled from their homes to confront two armies of phantoms. one side bore the king s colors; the other, parliament s banners. until three o clock in the mo

re are two main classifications of demons that sexually molest humans the incubi that assault women and the succubi that seduce men. both sexual predators are said to have been born as a result of adam s sexual intercourse with lilith, a beautiful demonic entity, often said to have been his first wife, or in other traditions, a fantasy wife created to alleviate his loneliness before the advent of eve. the incubi were said to seduce unsuspecting women by appearing to them in the guise of their husbands or lovers, and as one might suspect, the incubi played an important role in the history of the inquisition. even pious nuns appeared before the tribunals, attesting to their affliction by persistent incubi that tried to persuade them to break their vows of chastity. epidemics of demon possess

ilderness of new jersey. denver post, june 2, 2001 [online] http//www.100megsfree4. com/farshores/ cjdevil.htm. succubus according to certain mystical traditions, the demonic sexual molesters known as the incubi and the succubi were the children of father adam s consorting with a beautiful fallen angel named lilith, who in the view of certain jewish mystics, was adam s wife before the creation of eve. succubi appear to men as beautiful, sensual women, tempting and promising, but they also may be vampires thirsting for human blood. while those males who consort with a succubus often meet an untimely end, on occasion their interaction with the entity brings about a horde of demonic children, who will one day gather at his deathbed and hail him as their father. lilith, according to the midras

most often wish to convey that they feel lazy, tired, or would rather be on holiday than at work. the origin of the superstition concerning friday is traced by most authorities to the crucifixion of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) on that day. but some writers advance the theory that friday is regarded as an unlucky day because, according to ancient tradition, it was on friday that adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were cast out of paradise. followers of islam try to avoid beginning any new enterprise on wednesdays. for reasons long forgotten, wednesday is seen as a bad day. even today, many muslims avoid even getting their hair cut on that day. and such important occasions as weddings are never scheduled for a wednesday. a familiar old rhyme preserves the old superstit

sandal or toy marble, so the possessor of the evil eye will overlook them. any compliment that may be directed at a woman s child will quickly prompt the exclamation, mashallah (by the grace of god) from the wary mother. four-leaf clover the superstition that the finding of a four-leaf clover can bring good luck is so old that its origin is lost in antiquity. one of the oldest legends has it that eve, upon being ejected from the garden of eden, took a four-leaf clover with her. because the clover was a bit of green from paradise, its presence in one s own garden came to be looked upon as an omen of good luck. according to some traditions, a young woman seeking a husband should go in search of a four-leaf clover. if she is fortunate enough to find one, she is to eat it. the first unmarried

a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 208 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends flowers have been the quintessential gift between lovers in many cultures. was an emblem of joy among the greeks. the aboriginal inhabitants of patagonia in southern argentina painted their bodies white on every joyous occasion. the whole bodies of the bride and groom were covered with white paint on the eve of their wedding ceremony. some social historians believe that the tradition of the bridal veil originated in the covering of the bride in ancient times to show her submission. others believe that the veil originated in sexual shyness in women and the attempt to hide from view. among some early peoples, the bride was draped completely in a shroud that she wore during the marriage ceremony. onc

mory of the deceased. muslim people mourn for their dead for three months after the burial service. it is customary for families to read aloud from the koran and to pray for the deceased loved one. each year the taoist chinese hold the festival of ching-ming to honor the memory of the dead. many christian hispanic nations celebrate an annual day of the dead, and in the united states, all hallow s eve, halloween, rather than a night of trick-or-treat, is traditionally a time to pray for those loved ones who are deceased. m delving deeper arnold, caroline. what we do when someone dies. new york: watts, 1987. crim, keith, gen. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. davies, jon. death, burial and the rebirth in the religions of antiquity. lond

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er not guilty, and marie laveau was handsomely rewarded by the merchant. laveau greatly popularized voodoo by revising some of the rituals until they became her unique mixture of west indian and african tribal religions and roman catholicism. she invited politicians and police officials to the public ceremonies that she conducted on the banks of bayou st. john on the night of june 23, st. john fs eve. on other occasions, she would hold voodoo rituals on the shore of lake pontchartrain and at her cottage, maison blanche. hundreds of the most prominent families in new orleans would be present at these public celebrations of voodoo, hoping to get a glimpse of marie laveau herself dancing with her large snake, zombi, draped over her shoulders. for the white onlookers, the music and the dance p

ed missing. details are sketchy, but since world war ii was in progress, it is assumed that vlachopoulos was killed when his ship was destroyed by a nazi torpedo. in 1944, doreen married casimiro valiente. in the summer of 1952, the year after the witchcraft act of 1735 was repealed, doreen valiente met a witch of the new forest coven who introduced her to gerald brosseau gardner. on midsummer fs eve 1953, she received the first degree of initiation into wicca by gardner, who at that time was operating a witchcraft museum on the isle of man. although gardner claimed that his book of shadows had been compiled by remnants of the old religion that he had pieced together for his gardnerian tradition, the astute doreen, whose witchcraft name was gameth, h recognized passages from other works, s

n became the christian feast of santa lucia (saint lucy, which is still observed in sweden with a young woman wearing a crown of candles and portraying the lussibruden or lucy bride. the custom of the lighting of the yule candle also has its roots in the pagan observance of the winter solstice. whereas christians light an oversized candle that they hope would burn through the night from christmas eve to the dawn of christmas day to bring good luck for the coming year, the scandinavians of old ignited a bundle of kindling and conducted a religious ceremony that was designed to encourage the sun to return from the long night of darkness. for many centuries, candles have been very popular in the practice of certain rites of magic. in the middle ages, it was believed that a candle formed in th

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ore usual to meet in the open air and at no great distance from the village. night was the ordinarytime, but the meeting did not always last till dawn, it varied according to the amount of business to betransacted. day esbats are known, but these depended, as did all arrangements for an esbat, on the will of themaster.the sabbaths were held quarterly, on the second of february (candlemas day, the eve of may, the first ofaugust (lammas, and the eve of november (all hallow e'en. this shows a division of the year at may andnovember with two cross-quarter days. such a division belongs to a very early calendar before theintroduction of agriculture. it has no connection with sowing or reaping, it ignores the solstices andequinoxes, but it marks the opening of the two breeding seasons for animals

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n to him as companion in his exile! but the children of cain have revolted against the mother of abel; they have enslaved their mother. the beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of thee, may say to providence "you are our mother" children of woman, let us forg

der; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the symbol of all religion. moses left five books, and the law is complete in two testaments. the bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at th

he prophets are solitaries, for it is their fate that none should ever hear them. they see differently from others; they forefeel misfortunes. so, people imprison them and kill them, or mock them, repulse them as if they were lepers, and leave them to die of hunger. then, when the predictions come true, they say "it is these people who have brought us misfortune" now, as is always the case on the eve of great disasters<clairvoyant levi. the levi who prophesied universal empire for napoleon iii was either the magus trying to use him as a tool, or a micaiah unadjured- o. m> our streets are full of prophets. i have met some of them in the prisons, i have seen others who were dying forgotten in garrets. the whole great city has seen one of them whose silent 40 prophecy was to

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hould be noted that geburah ultimately is only destructive to the transitory. if something is "real, no amount of doubt, analysis, examination, and so forth will destroy it. thus the principle of occam's razor (the simplest explanation will suffice in cases of doubt) is a sound one. a final note comes from the "thirteen petalled rose, where an analysis of the kiddush ritual (that performed on the eve of the sabbath, states that the cup signifying reception contains red wine, expressing an aspect of geburah, but has a small amount of water added to represent the mercy of chesed. it is important in all acts to harmonise geburah and chesed in tiphareth to achieve equilibrium, as will be examined in the following chapter. chapter nine; tiphareth, the hub of sacrifice the text of the sepher yet

ntary on the "book of concealment" added his own viewpoint to the original zoharic teachings. commenting on the formation of the nations of the gentiles, he said that the recrements, the evil and rejected parts of the edomite kings (who existed in the void before the world was formed) are the cortices or shells which compose the adverse adam belial, or the "shadow" side of humanity. when adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit, their fall confounded the good and the evil of the cortices, and after this fall the nations of the world were produced from the shells. in this we can see some reflection of the politics of the age, and the history of the jewish people, but also a commentary on the nature of the pysche, which in its "fall" or attachment to the apparent world, forms many identit

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ucal process so excellently that i am moved to reproduce it here: increase thyse2f to immeasurable height, leaping clear of all body, and surmounting all time, become eternal and thou shalt know god. there is the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 55 nothing impossible to thyself. deem thyself immortal and able to do all things .become higher than all height and lower than all depth .to be eve ything at the same time in earth and sea and heaven. think that thou art as yet begotten, that thou art in the womb, that thou art young, that thou art old, that thou hast died and art beyond death: perceive all these things together .and thou shalt know god. but ifthou shuttest up thy soul in thy body, and abasest thyself and sayest 'i know nothing, i can do nothing, i am afraid of earth and

r another, since the beginning of civilization. 3. the more common name for this sephrah is chesed, whch means "mercy" its other title, gedulah, means "glory" or "greatness" 4. the serpent is often a symbol of wisdom. on the qabalistic tree of life, the serpent of wisdom represents the paths that connect the various sephroth. in the story of the garden of eden, the serpent suggested that adam and eve eat fruit from the tree of knowledge. this means that they became sentient t m- ing beings who were set apart from "the unconsciousness of nature" 5. a tingling sensation can also sometimes be felt in the face. the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 65 6. scientists are now becoming aware of what magicians have known for centuries- that all matter is vibratory energy. there is a physica

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strike that section of west virginia. they were driving across the silver bridge. which spanned the ohio river, when it suddenly collapsed. their friends remembered. they remembered the story of the bearded stranger in the night. it had, indeed, been a sinister omen. one that confirmed their religious beliefs and superstitions. so a new legend was born. beelzebub had visited west virginia on the eve of a terrible tragedy. ii. being a dedicated nonconformist is not easy these days. i grew my beard in 1966 while loafing for a week op the farm of my friend, zoologist ivan t. sanderson. i kept it until 1968 when hair became popular and half the young men hi america suddenly began burying their identities in a great sea of facial hair. in those more innocent days only artists, writers, and col

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vi, and continued down to the haze of the place of the world of yetzira, with adam harishon contained in them. when born, he was at the height of all three worlds of bya and received from bya the lights of nefesh, ruach, neshama (nrn. adam harishon received additional lights nrn deatzilut, because bya were in atzilut. the state of the worlds at the time of the birth of adam harishon is called the eve of shabbat (saturday evening. then, by an awakening from above, the worlds rose one degree (meaning ten sefirot) along with adam harishon, so that the end of bya rose along with adam harishon to the haze of the place of the world of beria. in that situation, adam harishon wanted to receive all the lights in order to bestow, as it was before the breaking of the vessels in the world of nekudim

refore, he who takes the path of individual growth feels less secure, and more dependent. these sensations are sent by the creator precisely so that one will need 193 of 273 him! then one s own egoism will seek the connection with the creator, attempting to find confidence and peace, and connection with the creator is indeed the purpose of creation. a wise disciple (a talk during a banquet on the eve of the day of atonement) a wise disciple is a person who wishes to learn from the creator himself. but what can we learn from the creator? the creator s sole property is his desire to delight his creatures. to the extent that one wishes to acquire this precise property, meaning delight the creator, he merits the title a wise disciple, meaning the disciple of the wise (the creator. the student

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

c, and of evil, all inter-webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good. and so if we read this strange poet aright, we shall see as we progress onwards, that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of time, fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil, sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of god, sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of eve, daughter of god, child of the mystic man. but we must speed on, taking in this chapter swift glances at the magnificent scenery that these volumes offer up to us, plucking the lilies of spring and the roses of summer, and weave them into a laureate wreath with the fiery leaves of the dying year *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 166. poe, in that little masterpiece of his, gthe poetic

of the poet of khorassan, flights of great power of thought; the following five quatrains are well worth quoting: we weep them as they slip away; we gaze back on the likeness of the former days. the hair we fondle and the lips we kiss. roses grow yellow and no purple stays. why not with time? to-morrow we may see the circle ended. if to-morrow be. and gaze on chaos, and a week bring back adam and eve beneath the apple tree. join fst thou thy feeble hands in foolish prayer to him thy brain hath moulded and set there in thy brain fs heaven? such a god replies as thy fears move, so men pray everywhere. god did first work in earth when womankind he chipped from adam fs rib. a thankless task i wot his wisdom has long since repined. when i am dead remember me for this that i bade workers work, a

of honour strain and slip. for in the midst of that tremendous tide the mighty vigour of a god was mine! drunk with desire, her lamentations died. the dove gave place a moment to the swine! rapturous draughts of madness! out she sighed uttermost life fs love, and became a bride *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, 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 he

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d [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; 3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 3:19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art] and unto dust shalt thou return. 3:20 and adam called his wife s name eve; because she was the mother of all living. 3:21 unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins, and clothed them. 3:22 and the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to

and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 3:24 so he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 4:1 and adam knew eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare cain, and said, i have gotten a man from the lord. 4:2 and she again bare his brother abel. and abel was a keeper of sheep, but cain was a tiller of the ground. 4:3 and in process of time it came to pass, that cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the lord. 4:4 and abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat there

glory in the lord. 10:18 for not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the lord commendeth. 11:1 would to god ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me. 11:2 for i am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for i have espoused you to one husband, that i may present [you as] a chaste virgin to christ. 11:3 but i fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ. 11:4 for if he that cometh preacheth another jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him] 11:5 for i suppose i was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 11:6 but th

women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 2:10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 2:11 let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 2:12 but i suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 2:13 for adam was first formed, then eve. 2:14 and adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 2:15 notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. 3:1 this [is] a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 3:2 a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good beha

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marriage offerings to priapus. 141 antwerp, and its patron saint ters. 144 m. forgeais collection of phallic amulets. 146 the fig, and its meanings. 148 the german scrat, and the gaulish dusii. 152 robin goodfellow. 153 liberalia and floralia festivities. 154 easter, and hot-cross-buns. 158 heaving and lifting customs at easter. 160 may-day festivities. 162 bonfires. 163 st. john s, or midsummer-eve. 164 mother bunch s instruction to maidens. 166 plants and flowers connected with phallic worship. 167 the mandrake. 169 lady godiva, the shrewsbury show, and the guild festival at preston. 170 pagan rites of the early christians. 171 gnostics, manich ans, nicolait, followers of florian &c. 173 the bulgarians, and their practices. 176 walter mape s account of the patarini, and their secret rit

von; and there are curious sculptures, which appear to be of the same character, among the architectural ornamentation of the very early church of san fedele at como in italy. three of these are engraved in our plate xxxii. on the top of the right hand jamb of the door5 is a naked male figure, and in the same position on the other side a female,6 which are described to us as representing adam and eve, and our informant, to whom we owe the drawings describes that at the apex7 merely as the figure of a woman holding her legs apart. we understand that the surface of the stone in these sculptures is so much 1 plate xxxi, figs. 1, 2, 3. 2 plate xxxi, fig. 4. 3 plate xxvi, fig. 5. 4 plate xxxvi, fig. 4. 5 plate xxxii, fig. 1. 6 plate xxxii, fig. 2. 7 plate xxxii, fig. 3. 138 on the worship of th

cially in caithness, where it is adopted as a protection for the cattle when attacked by disease which the highlanders attribute to witchcraft.2 it was from the remotest ages the custom to cause cattle, and even children, to pass across the need-fire, as a protection to them for the rest of their lives. the need-fire was kindled at easter, on may-day, and especially at the summer solstice, on the eve of the feast of st. john the baptist, or of midsummer-day.3 the eve of st. john was in popular superstition one of the most important days of the medi val year. the need-fire or the st. john s fire, as it was called was kindled just at midnight, the moment when the solstice was supposed to take place, and the young people of both sexes danced round it, and, above all things, 1 sive illos sacri

t which, and the ceremonies with which, they were gathered, and these latter were extremely superstitious, no doubt derived from the remote ages of paganism. as usual, the clergy applied a halfremedy to the evil; they forebade any rites or incantations in the gathering of medicinal herbs except by repeating the creed and the lord s prayer.1 as already stated, the night of st. john s, or midsummer-eve, was that when ghosts and spirits of all descriptions were abroad, and when witches assembled, and their potions, for good or for evil, and charms were made with most effect. it was the night for popular divination, especially among the young maidens, who sought to know who were destined to be their husbands, what would be their characters, and what their future conduct. the medicinal virtues

of all descriptions were abroad, and when witches assembled, and their potions, for good or for evil, and charms were made with most effect. it was the night for popular divination, especially among the young maidens, who sought to know who were destined to be their husbands, what would be their characters, and what their future conduct. the medicinal virtues of many plants gathered on st. john's eve, and with the due ceremonies, were far more powerful than if gathered 1 non licet in collectione herbarum medicinalium aliquas observationes vel incantationes attendere, nisi tantum cum symbol divino et oratione dominica, ut deus et dominus noster honoretur. burchardi decretorum libri, x, 20. 166 on the worship of the at other times. the most secret practices of the old popular superstitions a

few traces of them, they are of a character which leads us to believe that they belonged to a great extent to that same worship of the generative powers which prevailed so generally among all peoples. we remember that, we believe in one of the earlier editions of mother bunch, maidens who wished to know if their lovers were constant or not were directed to go out exactly at midnight on st. john s eve, to strip themselves entirely naked, and in that condition to proceed to a plant or shrub, the name of which was given, and round it they were to form a circle and dance, repeating at the same time certain words which they had been taught by their instructress. having completed this ceremony, they were to gather leaves of the plant round which they had danced, which they were to carry home and

ecial importance, in which it was required that this should be performed by young girls in a similar state of complete nakedness. plants and flowers were, indeed, intimately connected with this worship. we have seen how constantly they are introduced in the form of garlands, and they were always among the offerings to priapus. it was the universal practice, in dancing round the fire on st. john s eve, to conclude by throwing various kinds of flowers and plants into it, which were considered to be propitiatory, to avert certain evils to which people were liable during the following year. among the plants they offered are mentioned mother-wort, vervain, and violets. it is perhaps to this connection of plants with the old priapic worship that we owe the popular tendency to give them names whi

in a vocabulary of plants in a ms. of the middle of the thirteenth century, we find its names in latin, french and english given as follows, fumus terr, fumeterre, cuntehoare. see wright s volume of vocabularies, p. 17. 168 on the worship of the in brand s popular antiquities, the seeking of plants for their hidden virtues and magical properties is especially noted as part of the practices on the eve of st. john (herb diversi generis qu rantur; and one plant is especially specified in terms too mysterious to be easily understood.1 fern-seed, also, was a great object of search on this night; for, if found and properly gathered, it was believed to possess powerful magical properties, and especially that of rendering invisible the individual who carried it upon his person. but the most remark

s, en quelques lieux, voulant faire les martiales, elles portent certains tourions ou morrions ind cens, et d une forme si peu s ante, qu on diroit que c est plustost l armet de priape que celuy du dieu mars; leur generative powers 213 he adds, that the principal produce of this country consisted of apples, and argues thence, it is not very apparent why, that the women partook of the character of eve, and yielded more easily to temptation than those of other countries. after having spent four months in dealing out rather severely what was then called justice to these ignorant people, the two commissioners returned to bordeaux, and there de lancre, deeply struck with what he had seen and heard, betook himself to the study of witchcraft, and in due time produced his great work on the subject

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o-order. the implication was that the magician could not do this without the aid of the devil. it was diabolical to actively seek to upset the laws of nature. god might do xxii new millennium magic so at his pleasure, but man had no right to ape him. such effrontery must be pun- ished. magicians must be cast down for their sin. satan was thrown from heaven for seeking to become like god. adam and eve were turned out of the garden for essentially the same reason. prometheus was bound to a rock in the caucasus when he defied zeus and brought fire down from heaven. christ was crucified for proclaiming himself the son of god. the magus is a direct descendant of this august company. he or she seeks to be the master of fate and the captain of the soul. yet the magus does not defy god, as the chu

ion of the will of the unmanifest in the mate- rial universe. it takes the form of a blindingly brilliant pearl or blue-white radiance, like the radiance of a star, but it is featureless and formless, suf- fusing the physical surroundings in which it is experienced. accompanying the light is a sense of awe, and often a fear so intense that the individual bathed in it may wish to hide, as adam and eve hid in the garden of eden. this is the illumination saul experienced as he journeyed to damascus "and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to earth. trembling and astonished (acts 9:3-6. this is the light christ was said to radiate at times "and his face did shine like the sun, and his raiment was white as the light (matthew 17:2. all true prophets have experi

gins in the womb but is accelerated sharply by the shock of birth. this is the biblical fall of humanity. adam sinned when he drew a circle of flesh around himself to cover his nakedness, his lack of a barrier between outside and inside. in the timeless and dimensionless garden he had always been united with god and had known everything without conceptualizing; but when he accepted the apple from eve, who in her turn had received it from the serpent, he created his own ignorance by dividing wisdom into circles of knowledge, which separated him from the heart of being. every infant completes its own fall from grace the moment it utters its first cry. in the creation of its personal universe, the child is aided by those who have gone before it. it uses the symbolic tools and molds made by so

the third point, it must rely on the mediation of the other two, which color and distort the nature of the third point even as they trans- mit some secondhand concept of it. so it is in the world, which is a part of the unmanifest yet paradoxically isolat- ed from its highest expression. the absolute can only be viewed indirectly by the effect it has on other created things. the myth of adam and eve represents the transition from triangle to square. adam's sin was to draw a circle around himself and make a separate personal universe apart from the living universe that was god. the clothing he put on was a suit of flesh and ego. in the garden, adam and eve had no circles around them, but were aspects of the unity of the all. table of square elements names of cod letters of ihvh archangels

eing, for humanity needs no third party to carry its prayers to god. rather, it should be thought of as a living personification of the mediating aspect of human beings that links them with the light. humanity exists both in the manifest and the unmanifest at one and the same instant. the guardian bears the messages of god and casts them in human terms so that the fallible descendants of adam and eve can, in some part, gather meaning from them. since the light cannot exist unconfined in the manifest universe without destroying all creation, it needs many servants (at least, they are perceived as many by the analytical, categorizing human mind. the role of the guardian angel is that of protector, teacher and guide on the level of the individual human being. in the same way that the magus mo

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r neutral, as is the term shaman. even so, today most people think of witches as exclusively women. there is a reason for this error. throughout history witches have been presented in literature and in art as female. medieval christian theologians held that women were by their nature more susceptible to evil influences than men. they derived this belief in part from the biblical fable of adam and eve because it was eve who was seduced by the serpent. due to this imagined vulnerability of women, theologians believed that more women than men became witches. however, many men were also accused of witchcraft and executed for it. an examination of the long lists of witch names in appendix 111 of margaret a. murray's witch-cult in western europe shows a ratio or roughly one man for every ten wom

ue knowen: for this forme of journeing, they affirme to vse most, when they are transported from one countrie to another.21 the sabbat gatherings it was the general belief of the demonologists that witches flew through the air, either in body or in spirit, to attend the great gatherings of witches known as sabbats, which were supposed to be held at certain times of year, most notably all hallow's eve (october 3 1) and walpurgis night (april 30, usually on high places such as the tops of mountains. the brocken or blocksburg in the hartz mountains of germany was the most famous location for this gathering. more fascinating from the point of view of astral travel and the astral world is the gathering place supposed to have been used by the witches of mora, in sweden, who attracted the ire of

ck calfskin, and there are no new revelations. those who seek guidance must do so by looking into the black book on its reading stand beside the altar. vi the lovers hebrew letter: zayin (sword) correspondence: gemini path: seventeenth a young man and young woman are united in marriage by a winged angel beneath the bright rays of the sun. in the waite design, both are naked and represent adam and eve. the woman stands beneath the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, around the trunk of which coils a green serpent. the man stands beneath the tree of life, the leaves of which are flames. the angel, who may be the archangel michael, blesses their union from a cloud of chapter twelve: the tarot 209 glory. when not portraying this pantomime of the marriage rite, they come and go beneath the

one hand he habitually carries a mallet, and in the other a cup of water for cooling the oak bearings of his millstones. he is cheerful and talkative, but always bustling about at his work. 13. eihwaz literal meaning: yew general sense: resilience, dependability, strength of purpose, a trustworthiness, magical might, command of occult forces the land of eihwaz is a medieval field of battle on the eve of conflict. between the rustling canvas of field tents, campfires illuminate soldiers who lie asleep wrapped in their blankets or sit murmuring together as they stare into the embers. it gleams off stacks of spears and other edged weapons, and from the rounded polish of armor and helmets readied for the morning. the restless snorts and pawing of horses can be heard on the cool night air. acro

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sophers, and imparts to the adepts the final term of human sciences and the key of divine power; but he only can use it who understands the necessity of never revealing it (tkanscendental magic [1855-61, a. e. waite translation [new york: weiser, 19701, pp. 16-7) adam is the human tetragram, summed up in the mysterious jod,t ype of the kabalistic phallus. by adding to this jodth e triadic name of eve, the name of jehova is formed, the divine tetragram, which is eminently the kabalistic and magical word ;717, being that which the high-priest in the temple pronounced jodchesvo uani.t y, complete in the fruitfulness of the triad, forms therewith the tetrad, which is the key of all numbers, of all movements and of all forms (ibid, p. 37) when a man pronounces the tetragram-say the kabaliststhe

hat we have stated, and demonstrate that the word jehovah, if masonry adheres to it, will ever remain as a substitute, never be identical with the lost mirific name. this is so well known to the kabalists, that in their careful etymology of the 717' they show it beyond doubt to be only one of the many substitutes for the real name, and composed of the twofold name of the first androgyne- adam and eve, jod (or yodh, vau and he-va-the female serpent as a symbol of divine intelligence proceeding from the one-generative or creative spirit. thus, jehovah is not the sacred name at all. had moses given to pharaoh the true "name" the latter would not have answered as he did, for the egyptian king-initiates knew i t as well as moses, who had learned it with them. the "name" was at that time the com

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD2

n that sharp joyous moment of self awareness you will have begun to feel set. enough r&d for now, uncle setnakt hopes you have a pleasant dcluncle setnakt sez- become evil and rule the world:2 don webb may all the readers of brimstone enjoy a gladsome yule! may those that live by the watchword of indulgence find joy in the succulent meats, candies, and cookies as well as the revelry of new year's eve! may those that live by the watchword of xeper exalt in these things and in the dark work of yuletide! hail year xxv! now concerning the task of becoming evil and ruling the world: 1. control daydreams. encourage people to live in their daydreams. tell them they may become great writers, painters, hunters, etc. fantasy is the most intoxicating drug. if you become their pusher, they need you. a

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t angels are the higher aspect, or faculties of man. the symbol of the snake is blackened with soot. the word itself holds a key to its meaning, black is from the word fehm (which means charcoal) and is related to the arabic root fhm, being wisdom or knowledge. the black snake and peacock represent the wisdom of life. then the great lord, malak tauus, said to the angels, i want to create adam and eve and make them give rise to mankind. of the seed of adam there shall be 11 derived from a sufi called sheik adi ibn musafir around 1100 a.d. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 8 born a prophet, and from him shall descend a people on the earth; the the people of me, malak tauus, and these people are to be the yezidis -the mershaf resh the black book the witches sabbat -dreaming and waking- dreams h

inite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink of both her skull cup of menstrual blood and from the golden chalice of the beast, the life of the sun22. cain cain or tubal-cain is the anthropomorphic child of the spiritual union of samael (the dragon) and lilith (the mother of demons) through adam and eve. 22 in some christian gnostic texts, such as the apocryphon of john cain is called the sun. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 34 cain is the wanderer, the first murderer who tasted blood and became as the off spring of his spiritual mother and father. cain is also the black smith of the forge, a myth which originates in the middle east. cain is the first sorcerer and shape shifter, who drifted f

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the imputed life of the secret-doctrine which lay beyond the letter of the written law, which "the stiff-necked and disobedient" of the patriarchal, sacerdotal and prophetical dispensations contrived to destroy. according to the secret tradition of israel, the whole creation was established for the manifestation of this life, which became manifested actually in its dual aspect when the spiritual eve was drawn from the side of the spiritual adam and placed over against him, in the condition of face to face. the intent of creation was made void in the event which is called the fall of man, though the particular expression is unknown in scripture. by the hypothesis, the "fatal consequences" which followed would have reached their time on mount sinai, but the israelites, when left to themselv

void in the event which is called the fall of man, though the particular expression is unknown in scripture. by the hypothesis, the "fatal consequences" which followed would have reached their time on mount sinai, but the israelites, when left to themselves in the wilderness "sat down to eat and rose up to play" that which is concealed in the evasion of the last words corresponds to the state of eve in paradise, when, she had become infected by the serpent. to sum up as regards the sources, the lost word in masonry is derived from a kabalistic thesis of imperfection in the divine name jehovah, by which the true pronunciation- that is to say, the true meaning- is lost. it was the life of the house of doctrine, represented by the temple planned of old in israel. the master-builder is the sp

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these initiatic ordeals are performed in the superior worlds and in the physical world. eighth card of the tarot a woman with a sword in her hand, facing the scale [or balance] of cosmic justice appears in the arcanum eight of the tarot. indeed, only she [the priestess] can deliver the sword to the magician. thus, an initiate (the priest) without a woman cannot receive the sword. there exists the eve-venus, the instinctual woman. the venus-eve, the noble home woman. there also exist venus-urania, the woman initiated into the great mysteries and finally, we confirm the existence of the urania- venus, the female adept, the woman that is self-realized in depth. the flaming fire the flaming fire opens the seven churches of the apocalypse (seven magnetic centers of the spinal medulla. we conque

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sized principle represented by the joining of the masculine and feminine polarities (mars and venus) on the twentyseventh path, peh. one of the magical numbers of mercury, 260, has several interesting words through gematria that point to this alchemical mystery: tzimtsen (tzmtzm, which means to contract or draw together, and the plural of the venus flower, roses (veradim. likewise, the words adam-eve, when conjoined, equal sixty-four, another of mercury's magical numbers (adm-chvh. this conjoined sigil looks like figure 10-a. one of the things immediately apparent about this sigil is that it forms an x, which is a form of the tau cross. it actually resembles a figure eight lying on its side. one of the intriguing points of interest between the symbols of the tau cross (christ) and the figu

ab: to love; a lover, paramour, beloved 8: az, auz: there; in that place root: a fixed point in space or duration 8: bah, bah: entrance, threshold 8: dbb, dabab: to go softly, to creep along; to slander 8: dd, dahd: breast of love; beloved (deut 33: 12) root: that which is divided in order to be propagated; effusion, affinity, sympathy 8: hba, heba: bring 64: divisions of kamea 64: adm-chvh: adam-eve 64: din, din: justice and dni, doni, twin intelligence with din 64: gbvah, gebuah: prophecy *64: hua-bn (hu-kether and ben, the son) he is the son (mark 1: 11) 64: hgvim, he-goyim: the nations (the hosts) 64: vhabn, ve-ha-eben: and this stone (gen. 28: 22) 64: ydim, yadim: hands 64: idid ihvh, yediyd ihvh: beloved of god (deut. 33: 12; john 13: 23) 64: mizhb, mezahab: mother of gold 64: mi-zhb

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

indu legends of the reptilian-humanoid cavern dwelling "nagas] who stated that most reptiles with well developed limbs live underground. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (2 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] let us just for a moment take the edenic drama at face value: the leaders of the three sentient creations. angelic [lucifer, human [adam/eve, and beast [the serpent, which was described as the most subtil or cunning by far of all of the "beasts of the field, all taking part in a conspiracy centered around the "big lie" that they could exist independently from their creator- the source of the very spiritual essence of life! ironically, this drama unfolded at a "tree [the tree of "knowledge" or literally in the original hebrew langua

ome in very mysterious and unexplained circumstances in december 1996. the american coroner and investigator, dr cyril wecht, says that the evidence proves that her death happened during sexual abuse by her parent, john and patsy ramsey. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (57 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:01] jonbenet was murdered on christmas eve and josef mengele created a sacrificial ritual for this date called "the last bulb of the christmas tree. mengele's pseudonym, greenbaum, means green tree and relates to the cabalistic tree of life. a brotherhood term for the devil is jonbet and the coincidence is so amazing that, given the other circumstances, i cannot believe this was not the true inspiration for her name. a research project

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agenda/who are the draconians.htm (68 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:co halloween. sly does it. tiptoe catspaw. slide and creep. but why? what for? how? who? when! where did it all begin 'you don't know, do you' asks carapace clavicle moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the halloween tree 'you don't really know--ray bradbury from 'the halloween tree* samhain. all hallows. all hallow's eve. hallow e'en. halloween. the most magical night of the year. exactly opposite eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 beltane on the wheel of the year, halloween is beltane's dark twin. a night of glowing jack-o-lanterns, bobbing for apples, tricks or treats, and dressing in costume. a night of ghost stories and seances, tarot card readings and scrying with mirror

beltane on the wheel of the year, halloween is beltane's dark twin. a night of glowing jack-o-lanterns, bobbing for apples, tricks or treats, and dressing in costume. a night of ghost stories and seances, tarot card readings and scrying with mirrors. a night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the otherworld is at its thinnest. a 'spirit night, as they say in wales. all hallow's eve is the eve of all hallow's day (november 1st. and for once, even popular tradition remembers that the eve is more important than the day itself, the traditional celebration focusing on october 31st, beginning at sundown. and this seems only fitting for the great celtic new year's festival. not that the holiday was celtic only. in fact, it is startling how many ancient and unconnected cultures

, samhain is seen as 'autumn's end' and the beginning of winter. samhain is pronounced (depending on where you're from) as 'sow-in (in ireland, or 'sow-een (in wales, or 'sav-en (in scotland, or (inevitably 'sam-hane (in the u.s, where we don't speak gaelic. not only is samhain the end of autumn; it is also, more importantly, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. celtic new year's eve, when the new year begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year, just as the new day begins at sundown. there are many representations of celtic gods with two faces, and it surely must have been one of them who held sway over samhain. like his greek counterpart janus, he would straddle the threshold, one face turned toward the past in commemoration of those who died during the last year

many stories that tell of irish heroes making raids on the underworld while the gates of faery stood open, though all must return to their appointed places by cock-crow. as a feast of divination, this was the night par excellence for peering into the future. the reason for this has to do with the celtic view of time. in a culture that uses a linear concept of time, like our modern one, new year's eve is simply a milestone on a very long road that stretches in a straight line from birth to death. thus, the new year's festival is a part of time. the ancient celtic view of time, however, is cyclical. and in this framework, new year's eve represents a point outside of time, when the natural order of the universe dissolves back into primordial chaos, preparatory to reestablishing itself in a ne

f religion-free public education, i fear i must concede the point. nonetheless, it seems only right that there should be one night of the year when our minds are turned toward thoughts of the supernatural. a night when both pagans and non-pagans may ponder the mysteries of the otherworld and its inhabitants. and if you are one of them, may all your jack-o'lanterns burn bright on this all hallow's eve. midwinter night's eve: y u l e= by mike nichols our christian friends are often quite surprised at how enthusiastically we pagans celebrate the 'christmas' season. even though we prefer to use the word 'yule, and our celebrations may peak a few days before the 25th, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season: decorated trees, carolling, presents, yule logs, and mistle

ry by a few days, though it usually occurs on or around december 21st. it is a lesser sabbat or lower holiday in the modern pagan calendar, one of the four quarter-days of the year, but a very important one. this year (1988) it occurs on december 21st at 9:28 am cst. pagan customs are still enthusiastically followed. once, the yule log had been the center of the celebration. it was lighted on the eve of the solstice (it should light on the first try) and must be kept burning for twelve hours, for good luck. it should eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 9 be made of ash. later, the yule log was replaced by the yule tree but, instead of burning it, burning candles were placed on it. in christianity, protestants might claim that martin luther invented the custo

nt times, as contemporary reports indicate that the tables fairly creaked under the strain of every type of good food. and drink! the most popular of which was the 'wassail cup' deriving its name from the anglo-saxon term 'waes hael (be whole or hale. medieval christmas folklore seems endless: that animals will all kneel down as the holy night arrives, that bees hum the '100th psalm' on christmas eve, that a windy christmas will bring good luck, that a person born on christmas day can see the little people, that a cricket on the hearth brings good luck, that if one opens all the doors of the house at midnight all the evil spirits will depart, that you will have one lucky month for each christmas pudding you sample, that the tree must be taken down by twelfth night or bad luck is sure to fo

rome whacking young women with goatskin thongs to make them fertile. the women seemed to enjoy the attention and often stripped in order to afford better targets. one of the nicest folk-customs still practiced in many countries, and especially by witches in the british isles and parts of the u.s, is to place a lighted candle in each and every window of the house, beginning at sundown on candlemas eve (february 1st, allowing them to continue burning until sunrise. make sure that such candles are well seated against tipping and guarded from nearby curtains, etc. what a cheery sight it is on this cold, bleak and dreary night to see house after house with candle-lit windows! and, of course, if you are your coven's chandler, or if you just happen to like making candles, candlemas day is the day

ent of the goddess. lady day may be especially appropriate for the celebration of this theme, whether by storytelling, reading, or dramatic re-enactment. for modern witches, lady day is one of the lesser sabbats or low holidays of the year, one of the four quarter-days. and what date will witches choose to celebrate? they may choose the traditional folk 'fixed' date of march 25th, starting on its eve. or they may choose the actual equinox point, when the sun crosses the equator and enters the astrological sign of aries. this year (1988, that will occur at 3:39 am cst on march 20th. a celebration of m a y d a y= by mike nichols 'perhaps its just as well that you won't be here..to be offended by the sight of our may day celebrations--lord summerisle to sgt. howie from 'the wicker man* there

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

door games, bathing, nudism, the cinema and television have largely replaced what the witch had to give. free thought or spiritualism, according to your inclinations, have taken away the fear of hell that she prevented, though nothing yet has replaced her greatest gifts: peace, joy and content. 12- who is the devil? it is, i think, fairly well known that witches observed four great festivals: may eve, august eve, november eve (hallowe'en) and february eve. these seem to correspond to the divisions of the ancient gaelic year by the four fire festivals of samhaim or samhuin (november 1, brigid (february 1, bealteine or beltene (may 1) and lugnasadh (august 1. the festivals corresponding to midwinter and midsummer were both said to have been founded in honour of female deities: brigid is a ve

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people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. hence the irritation they show when the children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. it is so troublesome. to the pigeonhole way of life. zora neale houston a child that asks questions isn t stupid. ewe eve we old people must learn, and recognize that the things people know today were not born with us. no, knowledge is not a hereditary thing. sembene ousmane a cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing in nothing. maya angelou it takes a whole village to raise a single child. yoruba if you see an old man runn

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the condemnation on thy belly shalt thou go that the serpent has been limbless and obliged to crawl. note, it has been argued, and by a great churchman too, that the whole tale rests on error, and that for serpent we should read ape (rev. adam clarke. this is substituting one error for another. in the orgies of bacchus maenades, the worshippers had snakes twined in their hair and danced, singing eve, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott eve, by whom came the sin. see clemens alexandrinus, protrept 9. 38. duality introduces us to the fatal alternative to unity or good, namely evil; and to many other human and natural contrasts--night and day, light and darkness, wet and dry, hot and cold, health and disease, truth and error, male and female, which man

things to come. there are two important things. first, that one s bed should be placed north to south and that one should pray in front of his bed. there are two ways before a man, one leads to paradise and one to gai-hinnom, the place of punishment. there are only two jewish laws, the written law of moses, and the oral law of the qabalah. every jew who goes from the synagogue to his house on the eve of the sabbath is accompanied by two angels, one good and one bad, and if the house is all in order the good angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder, the good angel has to say amen to the condemnation spoken by the evil angel. 39. two are better than three; this means youth is better than old age with its staff of support. there were two women notorious for their pride, and their n

s well as adorn a tale. given two dry firebrands of wood and one of green, the dry will destroy the green. two dogs once killed a lion, so the minority must at last always give way to a majority. the talmud argues that adam had two faces. some say one before and one behind, while others say one looked to right and one to the left. others say that adam was both a male and a female. others say that eve was made from his thirteenth rib, and was not drawn out from his head, lest she should be vain. not from his eyes, lest she should be wanton; not from his mouth, lest she should talk to much; not from his ears, lest she should be an eavesdropper; not from his feet, lest she should be a gadabout; and not from his heart, lest she should be numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by

ned time, exclusion for 60 days, and execration for 30 days. moed katon, 17.1. the name of adam is of three letters, a, d and m: these are the initials of adam, david and messiah, and the soul of the first passed to david and then to the messiah. nishmath chajim, 152.2. 46. the soul of cain passed to jethro, his spirit into korah, and his body to an egyptian. yalkut reuben, 9. 18. 24. the soul of eve passed to sarah, to hannah the shunamite, and then to the widow of zarepta. the soul of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott rahab passed to heber the kenite. the soul of jael passed to eli. some souls of pious jews pass into the persons of the gentiles, so that they shall plead for israel. some evil hebrew souls have passed into animals, as that of ishmae

ning or some other form of suffocation. see sanhedrin, 37. 2. job had four entrances to his house, north, south, east and west; so that the poor might enter and find relief from whichever quarter they came. four things god repented that he had made; man s evil passions, the ishmaelites, the chaldeans and the captivity. god has made only 4 women perfect in beauty; sarah, abigail, rahab and esther; eve is not included because she was not born of woman. esther is said to have had golden colored hair. of the 4 cardinal points, god left the north pole unfinished, saying, if there be any my equal let him finish it like the others. this corner is the home of demons, ghosts, devils and storms. pirke of rabbi eleazar, cap. 3. the number 4 is related to jacob, the lesser light, which is the moon. ja

h eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the serpent has 6 names; nchsh, okshub, apoh, tzpouni, tnin and shrp. nachash the brazen serpent; okeshub, an asp, psalm cxxiv 4; opoh, an adder, isaiah xli. 24; tzephouni, the basilisk, isaiah, xiv 29; tanin, the serpent or crocodile; and seraph, a serpent of fire. see rabbi nathan, cap. 29. six blasts of the horn were blown on the eve of the sabbath and then the sabbath had begun. w. f. shaw says that 6 is the number of temptation and sin, for at the 6th hour of the 6th day the first temptation came into the world. six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days, the israelites had to collect manna; at the 6th hour of the 6th day jesus was sentenced to death, and in the revelations, the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all em

ed that a scheme of the zodiac of 10 signs preceded that of 12 signs, but i have been unable to verify the statement, by any ancient work. hebrew and talmudic references are as follows -10 men were necessary to form a legally convened meeting at the synagogue. in london, as much as 1000 (british pounds) a year has been spent in providing spare men for this duty. ten curses were pronounced against eve. see talmud, eiruvin, 100. 2. ten things were created during the twilight of the first sabbath eve. consult pesachim, 54. 1. ten facts proved the presence of a supernatural power in the temple. yoma, 21.1. 98. the rabbis taught that a man should divorce his wife if for 10 years she had no offspring. at funerals, condolences were recited by 10 men, and at weddings by ten men including the bride

averse sephiroth on the other side; modern tarot designs are very much debased. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott john heydon says that by it we know the bodies of devils and their nature; the jews understand by it lilith, adam s first wife, a she-devil, dangerous to women in confinements; hence they wrote on the walls -adm chvh chvo lilit, that is, adam, eve, out of doors lilith. jesus, in matt. xii. 43, plainly allows the doctrine that evil spirits may haunt fields, which grotius says the jews think; and their word demon and field are similar, being shdim (fields) and shdim (evil deities; the siddim are mentioned in psalm cvi. 37. it is called the number of sins and the penitent, because it exceeds the number of commandments and is less than twel

ich is the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of christos. it is also the sum of the numbers 1 to 36. it is also the number of syene in greek, a place in egypt at which, if a pit be dug, said, eratosthenes, the rays of the sun at the summer solstice shine perpendicular into it. 700. the talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, and in eiruvin, 18. i, it says that god plaited eve s hair into 700 braids. 753. 753 b.c, the founding of the city of rome. it is also the number alike of abram with sarai 243 and 510, and of abraham with sarah 248 and 505, the change which led to parenthood. 780. ophis--serpent, and sophia--wisdom. 801. 801 is the number of alpha and omega, 1+800, the peristera or dove, vehicle of the holy ghost; being 80+5+100+10+200+300+5+100+1=801. numbers

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flesh. this is the very model of the sorcerer from which the luciferian becomes the magus of leviathan, time itself. one obtains the essence of samael through the study of liber oz, from which the study of sex and death, known as thanateros, is understood and made manifest positively in the sorcerers own life. samael himself is attributed to the serpent, when in the zohar for when samael mounted eve, he injected filth into her, and she conceived and bare cain. tubal-cain is the father of witchcraft, the first of the witch blood in the circle of initiation. upon earth, in flesh, the mythological linage comes from this spirit. 21 lilith is one of the hebraic sources of evil, reflective of the female ability to not only produce children, but to their very nature itself. women are attributed

ped from a brainwashed system of inner guilt and repression. the beast 666 is the solar phallic symbol, pan, satan, the devil of the tarot, the source of manifestation and inner drive. samael, being also known as ashmodai or asmodeus, is the beast which brings us the inner drive to become, to advance and manifest our path or will. remember, cain is the off spring or child of asmodeus (samael) and eve, thus the father of witchcraft! what should be considered is not that samael (or ashmodai) are considered evil in any moralistic way, however that samael is the solar and aggressive force of becoming. when one invokes samael, they become the dragon of darkness. the dragon is in reference to the primal force of the reptilian mind, cold and calculating while the darkness is itself the hidden sou

itself in the mind of the dragon. leviathan is thus timeless and is within the subconscious of man and woman. the symbol of entering and becoming is thus summarized in the following way: leviathan (the gateway -timelessness, subconscious power, immortal aspects of the essential self samael (the sun known as asmodeus -force, sorcery, fire. samael is the one of darkness (knowledge hidden) whom rode eve and injected filth into her. samael is the root force of the beast 666, the solar creative force and the devil of the tarot. lilith (the moon queen of the witches and lilitu/succubi -witchcraft, sorcery, lunar dream magicks. lilith is the mother of harlots whom appears in the form of a beautiful woman with the lower half animal like, hairy and feet of a large bird. lilith is the gateway to the

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s was the serpent of brass that moses made in the wilderness, and which was turned around the central pillar of mildness, having three cross bars upon it, representing a species of triple cross. dealing now with the altar diagram of the 3=8 grade, it will be seen that adam is the tiphareth part, wherein he is extended. that is to say that the form of the man is projected from there. the figure of eve stands in malkuth, in the form of the supporter. the first ideal form of man is in adam kadmon, behind the kether form and, as it were, the prototype of the tiphareth form. this tiphareth answers to the letter vau of the holy name, as representing the prince. the letter vau also represents the number six and adam was created on the sixth day, for tiphareth is the symbol of the creation. furthe

n. furthermore, the hexagram consists of the two forms fire and water: the ideal fire and the ideal water; the spirit and the water of creation; the spiritual ether and the ethereal fire; the fire of the holy spirit. thus, in the creation of the man is the extension from tiphareth i.e, the moment adam is created, that is the beginning of the reflection of the lower triad, and finally, of malkuth. eve is the synthesis of creation and represents the mother of life, as the name chavah. the 3=8 diagram thus represents the establishment of life, i.e, created life, and it is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because it is the balance point between good and evil; for in the material body we are placed to give victory to which we will. hence the significance of the serpent "ye shall be as go

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