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ABRAMELIN1

the four parts of the world, which ought not to want light for the space of a week "and the manner of fasting is this: to abstain from all things having a life of sense, and from those which do proceed from them, let him drink only pure running water; neither is there any food or wine to be taken till the going down of the sun. let the perfume and the holy anointing oil be made as is set forth in exodus, and other holy books of the bible. it is also to be observed, that as often as he enters the circle he has upon his forehead a golden lamen, upon which must be written the name tetragrammaton, in the manner we have before mentioned. in the key of solomon the king 10 (book ii. chapter xxi) will be found other directions for invoking spirits as follows: make a small book containing the praye

means of explaining the different emanations or attributes of the deity. it was thus that pythagoras employed the abstract ideas of numbers as a means of metaphysical instruction. the schemahamphorasch or divided name is a qabalistical method of investigating the natures of the name of four letters i h v h (jehovah, which is considered to contain all the forces of nature. there are in the book of exodus three verses in the fourteenth chapter, describing the pillars of fire and of cloud forming a defence unto the children of israel against the egyptians. each of these three verses consists in the hebrew of seventy-two letters, and by writing them in a certain manner one above another, seventy-two columns of three letters each are obtained; each column is then treated as a name of three lett

ABRAMELIN2

samael, which is derived from the hebrew root sml, which means a figure, image, or idol. it is a name given in the qabalah to one of the chief evil spirits. paimon: is also frequently written paymon, and sometimes paimonia. probably from hebrew, pomn= a tinkling sound or small bell. this is again derived from the hebrew root pom= to agitate, impel, or strike forward. the word pomn is employed in exodus 28, 34; 28, 33; and 39, 25. paimon is also called by the rabbins by the title of ozazl, azazel, which is a name used in leviticus with reference to the scape-goat. its derivation is from oz= a goat; and azl= to go away. it has frequently been warmly discussed whether the word in question means simply the scape-goat, or whether it signifies a demon to whom that animal was dedicated. but in r

ry, by bulwer lytton. 41 i.e, the terrace or balcony. 42 i.e, the spirits. 43 i.e, the altar. 44 he here evidently means the oratory, and not the bedchamber described in chapter vil. 45 the rosicrucian initiate will note the description of these vestments. 46 mirrhe en larmes 47? galanca, or galanga, an indian root, used for medicinal purposes. see description of holy anointing oil and perfume in exodus xxx. 48 olibanum. 49 or storax. 50 a brasse is a fathom; but here perhaps implies rather an arm s length: lune brasse enveron ou demi aulne. 51 i.e, in the hollow interior of the altar. 52 which give the instructions for these periods. 53 concerning the two last moons. 54 it will be remarked how this point is insisted on. 55 which, apparently, should refer to the coals, and not to the cense

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ng centres in the brain which are, according to some psychologists, the mainspring of the mechanism by which civilized man has raised himself above the savage. so far it has been spoken, as it were, in the negative. aaron's rod has become a serpent, and swallowed the serpents of the other magicians; it is now necessary to turn it once more into a rod<exodus for a rod of almond is hebrew letters: mem-tet-hay hay-shin-qof-dalet, adding to 463. now 400 is tau, the path leading from malkuth to yesod. sixty is samekh, the path leading leading sic from yesod to tiphereth; and 3 is gimel, the path leading thence to kether. the whole rod therefore gives the paths from the kingdom to the crown. this magical will is the wand in your hand by which the gr

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

reflection. now also we have the commencement of a vibration established, for the number 1 vibrates alternately from changelessness to definition, and back to changelessness again. thus, then, is it the father of all numbers, and a fitting type of the father of all things. the name of the first sephira is rtk, kether, the crown. the divine name attributed to it is the name of the father given in exodus iii, 14: hyha, eheieh, i am. it signifies existence. this first sephira contained the other nine, and produced them in succession, thus: the number 2, or the duad. the name of the second sephira is hmkj, chokmah, wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from kether, as i have before explained. this sephira is the active and evident father, to whom the mother is united, who is the number

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

ph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal ayin-shin-heh aleph-taw-vau qof-bet-resh vau-nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them" now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of those mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal, is the manifestations of their presence. now mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of yod-heh-vau-heh aleph-dalet-nun-yod, wherefore by gematria "tetragrammaton o

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

s have been sadly neglected. but now let us turn to the subject over which he must have spent years of labour. man he traces back to the pygmies of central africa, these or beings very like them hundreds of thousands of years ago emigrated all over the world- they were paleolithic man, and whether these ape-like little beings had a mythos 341 or not would appear to be doubtful, but the next great exodus, that of neolithic man, carried with it the stellar mythos- that of the seven stars and the pole star, and the varied quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be born in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides

earest island to easter island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of south america is no less than 2,300 miles distant. and yet in this tiny island we find proofs of very high civilization, and it is curious that dr. churchward has not mentioned the numerous hieroglyphics found there concerning which a very full account is given in the smithsonian reports of 1889. after these came another exodus, carrying with it the lunar and solar mythos, and horus became under varying names the supreme world-god, and his four sons, or emanations, the four quarters. it is impossible here to enter into the numerous entrancing speculations that dr. churchward draws, or to give any adequate idea of the vast number of proofs that he marshals to convince us- they are quite bewildering. in fact, they c

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

god name to sanctify it: notable names were ih, jah; alh, eloah; then ihvh; then the notable 42 lettered name, which was really composed of others- aheie asher aheie (i am that i am) jah, jehuiah, al, elohim, jehovah, tzabaoth, al chai and adonai. the shemhamphorash, or separated name, was a famous word of power; it was formed of three times 72 letters: the words of three verses, 19, 20 and 21 of exodus xiv. were taken: the separated letters of verse 19 were written down, then the letters of verse 20 in reverse order, then those of verse 21 in direct order: this gave 72 names read from above down, each of 3 letters: to each was added either al or ih, and so were formed the names of the 72 angels of the ladder of jacob which led from earth to heaven: these names were often placed on the obv

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

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

. samael is the patron spirit of the left hand path, as his word is what formed our thoughts and gave us the inner fire of the black flame, our individual process of thought and free will. the magicians who aligned their will with the left way, that of samael (the devil, were given powers over the earth in one way or another; all the while strengthening, defining and expanding their conscious. in exodus 7 the magicians were able to make frogs and serpents by the power they obtained in the devil, thus such creatures are astral forms of ahriman (samael) and the dreaming body of witches and sorcerers -liber hvhi here we can see that samael or satan/shaitan, is not the all devouring aspect, but also the savior of humanity and the original planter of the seed of light in our being. through cain

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

se "operations" vol. ii, p. 358; that thither sabeans proceeded[[footnote(s* who became later on, with the greeks, limited only to castor and pollux. but in the days of lemuria, the dioscuri, the "egg-born" were the seven dhyan chohans (agnishwatta-kumara) who incarnated in the seven elect of the third race* clement of alexandria recognized the astronomical significance of chapter xxv. et seq. of exodus. according to the mosaic doctrine, he says that the seven planets help in the generation of terrestrial things. the two cherubs standing on the two sides of the sacred tetragrammaton represent the ursa major and ursa minor[[vol. 2, page] 362 the secret doctrine. on pilgrimage, and chanted prayers seven times a day, turning to the north (the mount meru, kaph, olympus, etc, etc (see palgrave

vidya (the "knowledge of flying in air-vehicles, and, therefore, their great arts of meteorography and meteorology. it is from them, again, that the aryans inherited their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy. several times the writer has put to herself the question "is the story of exodus- in its details at least- as narrated in the old testament, original? or is it, like the story of moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the atlanteans" for who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? the anger of "god" at the obduracy of pharaoh, his command to the "chosen" one

them perished on their way. but most were saved" yet the pursuers "whose heads and chests soared high above the water" chased them "for three lunar terms" until finally reached by the rising waves, they perished to the last man, the soil sinking under their feet and the earth engulfing those who had desecrated her. this sounds a good deal like the original material upon which the similar story in exodus was built many hundred thousands of years later. the biography of moses, the story of his birth, childhood and rescue from the nile by pharaoh's daughter, is now shown to have been adapted from the chaldean narrative about sargon. and if so, the assyrian tile in the british museum being a good proof of it, why not that of the jews robbing the egyptians of their jewels, the death of pharaoh

ent was the great struggle of bel with the dragon- the devil! whence the christian idea that god cursed the devil? the god of the jews, whomsoever he was, forbids cursing satan. philo judaeus and josephus both state that the law (the pentateuch and the talmud) undeviatingly forbid one to curse the adversary, as also the gods of the gentiles "thou shalt not revile the gods" quoth the god of moses (exodus xxii. 28, for it is god who "hath divided (them) unto all nations (deut. iv. 19; and those who speak evil of[[vol. 2, page] 478 the secret doctrine "dignities (gods) are called "filthy dreamers" by jude (8. for even michael the archangel durst not bring against him (the devil) a railing accusation, but said "the lord rebuke thee (ibid 9. finally the same is repeated in the talmud "satan app

nfold more puzzling, when, instead of being correlated, or made to flow consecutively out of and to follow each other, each, or any one of these meanings is accepted as the one and sole explanation of the whole symbolical idea. an instance may be given, as it admirably illustrates the statement. here are two interpretations given by two learned kabalists and scholars, of one and the same verse in exodus, xxxiii, 18-23. moses beseeches the lord to show him his "glory" evidently it is not the crude dead letter phraseology as found in the bible that is to be accepted. there are seven meanings in the kabala, of which we may give two as interpreted by the said two scholars. one of them quotes, while explaining "thou canst not see my face. i will put thee in the cleft of the rock. cover thee wit

at was given in xvii "the holy of holies" page 467. the numbers of the name moses are those of "i am that i am" so that the names moses and jehovah are at one in numerical harmony. the word moses is[[hebrew[[over] 5,300,40, and the sum of the values of its letters is 345; jehovah- the genius par excellence of the lunar year- assumes the value of 543, or the reverse of 345. in the third chapter of exodus, in the 13th and 14th verses, it is said: and moses said. behold when i come unto the children of israel, and shall say unto them, the god of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say, what is his name? what shall i say unto them? and god said unto moses "i am that i am" the hebrew words for this expression are ahiye asher ahiye, and in the value of the sums of their letters st

he signum thau, as it is translated in the vulgate. in the ancient hebrew this sign was formed thus[[diagram, but in the original egyptian hieroglyphics as a perfect christian cross[[diagram (tat, the emblem of stability. in the revelation, also, the "alpha and omega (spirit and matter, the first and the last, stamps the name of his father in the foreheads of the elect (p. 323, vol. ii) moses, in exodus xii. 22, orders his people to mark their door-posts and lintels with blood, lest the "lord god" should make a mistake and smite some of his chosen people, instead of the doomed egyptians. and this mark is a tau! the identical egyptian handled cross, with the half of which talisman horus raised the dead, as is shown on a sculptured ruin at philoe. enough was said in the text about the swasti

om previous page] for, this "tree of life" is also the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" whose chief mystery is that of human procreation. it is a mistake to regard the kabala as explaining the mysteries of kosmos or nature; it explains and unveils only a few allegories in the bible, and is more esoteric than is the latter* simplified in the english bible to "is the lord) among us, or not (see exodus xvii. 7* see kabala denudata, by s. liddell macgregor mathers, f.t.s, p. 121* translators often render the word "companion (angel, also adept) by "rabbi" as the rishis are called gurus. the "zohar" is, if possible, more occult than the books of moses; to read the "book of concealed mystery" one requires the keys furnished by the genuine "chaldean book of numbers" which is not extant[[vol. 2

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ddha or his "good law" the loss of nearly 76,000 tracts does seem miraculous. had it been vice versa, every one acquainted with the natural course of events would subscribe to the statement that, of these 76,000, five or six thousand treatises might have been destroyed during the persecutions in, and emigrations from, india. but as it is well ascertained that buddhist arhats began their religious exodus, for the purpose of propagating the new faith beyond kashmir and the himalayas, as early as the year 300 before our era* and reached china in the year 61 a.d* when kashyapa, at the invitation of the emperor ming-ti, went there to acquaint the "son of heaven" with the tenets of buddhism, it does seem strange to hear the orientalists speaking of such a loss as though it were really possible

was the meaning of the square tabernacle raised by moses in the wilderness, if it had not the same cosmical significance "thou shalt make an hanging. of blue, purple, and scarlet" and "five pillars of shittim wood for the hanging. four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. boards of fine wood for the four sides, north, south, west, and east. of the tabernacle. with cherubims of cunning work (exodus, ch. xxvi, xxvii) the tabernacle and the square courtyard, cherubim and all, were precisely the same as those in the egyptian temples. the square form of the tabernacle meant just the same thing as it still means, to this day, in the exoteric worship of the chinese and tibetans- the four cardinal points signifying that which the four sides of the pyramids, obelisks, and other such square er

moses "was the great city of agadi, called by the semitics akkad- mentioned in genesis as the capital of nimrod (gen. x. 10 "akkad lay near the city of sippara on the euphrates and north of babylon (see isis, vol. ii. p. 442-3) another strange coincidence is found in the fact that the name of the neighbouring above-mentioned city of sippara is the same as the name of the wife of moses- zipporah (exodus ii. of course the story is a clever addition by ezra, who could not be ignorant of it. this curious story is found on fragments of tablets from kouyunjik, and reads as follows- 1. sargona, the powerful king, the king of akkad am i. 2. my mother was a princess, my father i did not know; a brother of my father ruled over the country. 3. in the city of azupiran, which is by the side of the riv

ich is by the side of the river euphrates. 4. my mother, the princess, conceived me; in difficulty she brought me forth. 5. she placed me in an ark of rushes, with bitumen my exit she sealed up. 6. she launched me in the river, which did not drown me. 7. the river carried me, to akki the water-carrier it brought me. 8. akki, the water-carrier, in tenderness of bowels, lifted me, etc, etc. and now exodus (ii "and when she (moses' mother) could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink[[vol. 1, page] 320 the secret doctrine. and that he applied the allegory told of sargon to the jewish lawgiver. in short, that exodus was never written by moses, but refabricat

of a numerical and geometrical symbol language* hence one finds numbers and figures used as an[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page "the story" says mr. g. smith "is supposed to have happened about 1600 b.c. rather earlier than the supposed age of moses. as we know that the fame of sargon reached egypt, it is quite likely that this account had a connection with the event related in exodus ii, for every action, when once performed, has a tendency to be repeated" but now, when professor sayce has had the courage to push back the dates of the chaldean and assyrian kings by two thousand years more, sargon must have preceded moses by 2,000 years at the least (see professor sayce's lectures on the subject) the confession is suggestive, but the figures lack a cypher or two* as a re

f pan; the inextinguishable fire in the temple on the acropolis, and in that of vesta; the fire-flame of pluto's helm; the brilliant sparks on the hats of the dioscuri, on the gorgon head, the helm of pallas, and the staff of mercury; the egyptian phtha-ra; the grecian zeus cataibates (the descending) of pausanias; the pentacostal fire-tongues; the burning bush of moses; the pillar of fire of the exodus, and the "burning lamp" of abram, the eternal fire of the "bottomless pit; the delphic oracular vapours; the sidereal light of the rosicrucians; the akasa of the hindu adepts; the astral light of eliphas levi; the nerve-aura and the fluid of the magnetists; the od of the reichenbach; the psychod and ectenic force of thury; the psychic force of sergeant cox, and the atmospheric magnetism of

respective opponents and foes- the demons. thus while (according to the kabalists) jehovah assumes the shape of the tempting serpent in the garden of eden; sends satan with a special mission to tempt job; and harasses and wearies pharaoh with sarai, abraham's wife, and "hardens" his heart against moses, lest there should be no opportunity for plaguing his victims "with great plagues (genesis xii, exodus- vishnu is made in his purana to resort to a trick no less unworthy of any respectable god "have compassion upon us, o lord, and protect us, who have come to thee for succour from the daityas (demons" pray the defeated gods "they have seized upon the three worlds, and appropriated the offerings which are our portion, taking care not to transgress the precepts of the veda. although we, as we

bal gods there were many; the one universal deity is a principle, an abstract root-idea which has nought to do with the unclean work of finite form. we do not worship the gods, we only honour them, as beings superior to ourselves. in this we obey the mosaic injunction, while christians disobey their bible- missionaries foremost of all "thou shalt not revile the gods" says one of them (jehovah- in exodus xxii. 28; but at the same time in verse 20 it is commanded "he that sacrificeth to any god, save unto the lord, he shall be utterly destroyed" now in the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 493 the triple sidereal force. pendent of planets and matter as we see and know them on earth, who are the rulers of the sidereal heaven. plato represented the planets as moved by an intrinsi

BOOK OF ENOCH

i was researching into end of days prophesies. when i finally managed to get hold of a copy, i discovered that it was a very strange and unusual book. the first time i read it i was skeptical and somewhat puzzled; i wondered who would have written an odd book like this. i knew that enoch (hanokh in hebrew, was very favourably mentioned in genesis, and i discovered that enoch s book describes the exodus and moses very favourably (although not by name. so my first theory was that it might have been written around the same time as the torah, perhaps around 1400 bc. however, after several readings i could find no plausible theories. the prophecy of the animals is extremely precisely written and obviously refers to events well after moses (see my notes on that chapter. additionally; who would

k recap of some of enoch's story. it seems likely therefore, that copies of the book of enoch survived into egyptian times, 3500 bc, and was known to moses around 2,000 years later. moses presumably took a copy of the book with him when they all left egypt, and he was no doubt pleased to see enoch's prophecy fulfilled. the book probably existed mainly in hebrew during the thousand years after the exodus. no hebrew copies exist today, however, although there are some hebrew passages quoted in some of the aramaic fragments that survive from a few centuries bc. the appearance of the book in ethiopia, is probably due to events in jerusalem during the reign of king manasseh of judah (695- 642 bc, which are documented in the bible (2chronicles 33:1- 20, and at 2kings 21:1- 18. king manasseh was

sound like cannabis to me. the description at 25.6 of "drawing the fragrance into the bones, is quite an apt description 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 10,0

BOOK OF JASHAR

entwine forever, then he truly becomes our abraham or ibrahim, the father of many nations. translator's apology (a postscript: when i finished my book on game theory in 1991, i had some thoughts of writing a monograph about the philosophical foundations of social theory. then i read harold bloom's "book of j" an homage to the j-strand in the bible("j" is an early draft of the books of genesis and exodus, which can be extracted from the later priestly additions on the basis of its linguistic style) bloom's thesis is that this j-strand was intended by its author, not as theology nor as history, but as literature. that is, it was written just to be a good story, which might tell us something fundamental about the universe or might simply entertain us. bloom compares j to shakespeare's "king l

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

everything that should be created (subsequently" book of formation, 1: 2, stenring's translation. hence d l th, 434. is held by our author to be a symbol of division, just as a door divides what is outside a house from what is within, because 434 digits to 11, the half of 22. the letter-name, d l th, is concealed in the saying "the lord is a man of war, because the hebrew for "man of war, used in exodus 15: 3, is ish milkhamah, a i sh m l ch m h, which has the value 434, the same as the letter-name. atziluth is the highest of the four qabalistic "worlds. it is the archetypal world, practically the same as plato's world of ideas. below it is briah, the creative world, or world of mental patterns. below briah is yetzirah, the world of formation, or plane of invisible forces. the fourth, and

lose, to contract, to shut up. the numeration is again 50. 4 "to thee" is le-khah, l k "what" and "which" are mi, m i. both l k and m i have the value 50 "white brilliance" is a technical name for kether, the crown. the reference to it here is derived from tsatekhakh, tz ch ch" to glare, to be bright, to be dazzling white. this word adds up to 106, the value of the lettername n v n. 5 the book of exodus says that joshua was the son of nun. his father's name signifies "perpetuity. joshua means "the nature of reality is to liberate. the name jesus is a variant of joshua. concerning the doctrine in the succeeding portion of this paragraph, the following comment was given at the time the outline of the text was first received "the attribution of motion to nun becomes more intelligible when it

to rule, to govern; and medorin, m d v r i n "habitations. all these words correspond to the number 310 [144] the meditation on ayin* 1 thus saith he who formulateth in darkness: i am lord, not of light alone. but of darkness also, for i the one am all-pervading. this is a hard saying and a stumbling block to many, yet must ye consider it well and ponder it in your hearts. 2 is it not written in exodus that the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh, and again, in isaiah "i create both the evil and the good? have ye not also read "the eye of the lord is in every place? and david saith" if i descend into sheol, thou art there [147] t h e book o f t o k e n s 3 ayin is that eye, and it is in every place in very truth, because place there is not, save in the manifested, and wherever place is the

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

identified the slaves with the israelites, portraying blacks as freedom fighters in a decisive struggle that had already\ 66\ been foretold in sacred history. as described in the confessions of rolla bennett, a slave of the former governor, vesey held secret gatherings in which he planned strategy and shared his revolutionary ideas. in a meeting at his home, vesey gave a militant exegesis of the exodus story of the deliverance of the hebrew slaves, a favorite biblical account for african americans in the nineteenth century. according to bennett's confession, at this meeting vesey said c that we ought to rise up and fight against the whites for our liberties c he read to us from the bible, how the children of israel were delivered out of egypt from bondage. c he then read in the bible wher

escape from slavery. see william wells brown, narrative of william wells brown, a fugitive slave (boston: the anti- slavery office, 1847, pp. 91.93; charles e. stevens, anthony burns (boston: john p. jewett, 1856, pp. 168.69. see also james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, connecticut, 1881, p. 171 for another account of a conjurer's assistance to a fugitive slave. 12. rawick, american slave, texas narratives vol. 5, p. 161; added emphasis. 13. drew gilpin faust, james henry hammond and the old south: a design for mastery (baton rouge: louisiana state university press, 1985, pp. 82, 93. see also levine, black

slavery, see sobel, trabelin' on, p. 13. 39. irving e. lowery, life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or a story based on facts (columbia, s.c: state co. publishers, 1911, p. 81.84. 40. morgan, slave counterpoint, p. 618; james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminscences of slave life, recollections of the war, the education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, connecticut, 1881, pp. 5.6; walker diary, june 5, 1832, february 19, 1833, john walker papers, southern historical collection, cited in william dosite postell, the health of slaves on southern plantations (baton rouge: louisiana state university press, 1951, pp. 108.9. see also piersen, black legacy, p. 100. 41. catterall, judicial cases co

slave, north carolina narratives vol. 15, pp. 157, 375; georgia writers' project, drums and shadows, pp. 117, 121, 133, 184 "conjure doctors in the south" southern workman 7, no. 4 (1878: 30.31. on the use of cards for divination, see james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, 1881, p. 56; on the use of cups, crystals, and gourds by conjurers and specialists, see gilbert osofsky, puttin on old massa: the slave narratives of henry bibb, william wells brown, and solomon northup (new york: harper and row, 1969, p. 215. on the frizzly chicken, see southern workman 24 (1895: 78; see also michael bell "pattern, structu

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thern parts of tibet. they brought with them an ancient form of polytheistic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near crotona in southern italy where scholars learn about numerology, astrology and the occult arts, which pythagoras learned during his 20 years of travels in babylon and egypt. 500 bce w.v. gensis, exodus, numbers (o.t) 475 bc empedocles of agrigentum introduces the 4 elements, fire, earth, air and water, into astrology, as the 4-fold root of all things. he discovered the idea that nothing can be destroyed (or created) only transformed. 427-347 plato 400 bce books of proverbs, job (o.t) 384-322 aristotle 370 bc eudoxus of cnidus devises calendars using zodiac with 12 equal zodiac signs. inve

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hat they were the same peoples from the former sumer empire and even further back to atlantis and lemuria. some of the names by which these former sumerian peoples were known are the scythians (saca, sacki, sacksen, saxon, goths (gauls, and cimmerians. the angles and the saxons, who combined to form the anglo-saxons, once again had the same origin, the aryan race from sumer and its empire.2" this exodus into europe included the people called the sicambrian franks. interestingly these franks also claimed to have lived in arcadia in greece, which is a name for atlantis according to some researchers. the danube (danaan) region was another area where the sicambrian franks settled and this region has long been connected to the bloodlines and their interbreeding. from the time of their king call

and were part of the rephaim, descendants of the reptilian nefilim.61' apop was the first ruler of the hyksos in egypt and the name was used to symbolise the serpent when they took on their "evil" public image in egypt. the serpent was known as apep or apop (apophis to the greeks, and apop became the symbol of the serpent people who occupied palestine and also egypt at the time of the so-called "exodus. rituals to destroy apop in egypt were very similar to those in asia designed to overcome the nagas. for me the hyksos were of the reptilian bloodline and played a major role in infiltrating the egyptian mystery schools. it was around 2000bc that the royal dragon court, now the imperial royal dragon court and order, was formed in egypt by the priests of mendes to protect, advance, and serve

e altars of hebrew temples.7 excavations have discovered bronze and copper serpent symbols in former levite temples. the mythical story of moses and the brazen serpent set upon a cross is symbolic of this same theme. the babylonians had inherited the stories and myths of egypt and sumer, and now they would reappear in a twisted form in the texts that would later become the old testament. genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, which together make up the "jewish" torah, were all written by the levites, or under their supervision, during or after the captivity in babylon when the levites joined forces with the network of the babylonian reptilian priesthood. so you find the sumerian story of king sargon floating on the river in a basket of rushes rehashed by the levites in the a

israel or palestine. they were just an expression of the same empire and doubtless the priesthood of the sumerians, egyptians, hebrews, sumerians, and babylonians, were connected by the same brotherhood networks going back to atlantis and lemuria. the sumerian priesthood were the middlemen between the people and the reptilian "gods" and so, in the end, were the others. the invented story of the "exodus" was written to obscure the truth of what really happened in egypt and there is no historical record outside of the levite texts, nor any archaeological evidence, that any such "exodus" ever took place. between 1967 and 1982 when the israelis occupied the sinai desert, they instigated a massive search for evidence of the 40 years the "israelites" were supposed to have lived there. what did

rs the "israelites" were supposed to have lived there. what did they find? nothing. the loss of the egyptian army in the red sea is not recorded in any historical document and this is utterly ludicrous if it had actually happened. the greek historian herodotus (c.485-425bc) travelled and researched the lands and history of egypt and the near east and yet he heard nothing of king solomon, the mass exodus of "israelites" from egypt, or the egyptian army drowned in the red sea. neither did the greek philosopher, plato. l.a. waddell, a fluent reader of sanskrit, sumerian, and egyptian, researched that whole region in great detail. he concluded "there is absolutely no inscriptional evidence whatsoever, nor any ancient greek or roman reference, for the existence of abraham or any of the jewish p

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forhuman was lu, the root meaning of which is worker or servant, and it was also used toimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been overtly and now covertly ruling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal meaning and given us a fantasy story. genesis and exodus were written by thehebrew priestly class, the levites, after they were taken to babylon from around 586bc. babylon was in the former lands of sumer and so the babylonians, and thereforethe levites, knew the sumerian stories and accounts. it was from these recordsoverwhelmingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode

ak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and 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

n babylon, with its wealth ofinherited knowledge and stories from sumer, the levites mixed truth, often symbolictruth, with fantasies and this concoction became the foundations of the old testament.the so-called israelites did not write these texts or agree with what they said. even ifyou accept they even existed, the israelites had long dispersed by the time the levitesinked their pens. genesis, exodus, leviticus and numbers, which together make up thejewish torah, were all written by the levites or under their supervision during or aftertheir period in babylon. this bunch of human sacrificing, blood drinking fanatics andblack magicians, who you would not trust to tell you the time, compiled the law whichjewish people to this day are supposed to follow. likewise many christian fanaticsquo

blets prove beyond question that genesis was a muchedited and condensed version of sumer records. the sumerian story of edin became thelevites biblical garden of eden. remember the story of moses being found in thebulrushes by the egyptian princess? the same tale was told by the sumerians-babylonians about king sargon the elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in babylon. their stories are symbolic and coded for initiates tounderstand and the masses to take literally. according to the levites, moses was givenhis laws and commandments by god on top of a mountain. again a

ted in the most merciless and grotesque fashion by their hierarchy to advancean agenda which the jewish people in general have not even begun to identify. there isno greater example of this manipulation than the way the reptilian bloodlines like thejewish rothschilds funded and supported the nazis and allowed the rank and filejewish people to reap the unspeakable consequences. the levite story of exodus is asmokescreen to hide the fact that the hebrew knowledge was stolen from the egyptianmystery schools after they were infiltrated by the babylonian brotherhood. the82egyptians considered the jehovah revelation to be a robbery committed against thesacred sciences.2 manly p. hall, the freemasonic historian and initiate, said that blackmagic dictated the state religion in egypt and that the i

t in thetexts produced by the levites and other writings and opinions stimulated by those texts.84some say this was a cover name for the egyptian pharaoh, arkenaten, and i wouldcertainly not dismiss that, but the official background to moses and his name have nohistorical basis. nothing was known about the moses story, or the plagues inflictedupon the egyptians, until the levites of babylon wrote exodus centuries after it wassupposed to have happened. all the animals of egypt were killed three times accordingto the story! what did they do, die and immediately remanifest? there was no murderof the first born of egypt and so the feast of the passover has no historical basis, it wascreated as a result of a story invented by the levites. their references to the lambsblood on the doors is code

e called abraham.king solomon and his temple are more symbolism. there is, again, no independentevidence for a person called king solomon. not once has his name appeared in anyinscriptions. before the levites wrote their texts, the greek historian herodotus (c. 485-425 bc, travelled and researched the lands and history of egypt and the near east. heheard nothing of the empire of solomon, the mass exodus of israelites from egypt, or thedestruction of the pursuing egyptian army in the red sea. nor did plato in his travels tothe same area. why? because it is all invention. the three syllables in sol-om-on are allnames for the sun in three languages. manly p hall wrote that solomon and his wives andconcubines were symbolic of the planets, moons, asteroids and other receptive bodieswithin his h

andobedience. the same ritual continues today among the satanists, the bloodline familiesof the brotherhood, and their organised crime offshoots like the mafia. sacrificing thefirst born son is used by these strange people as a way of testing a persons commitmentto the cause.yahweh-jehovah makes it plain in the book of numbers that. all the firstborn of israel are mine, both man and beast, and in exodus, yahweh demands thatthe first of all thy sons shalt thou give unto me. the bible says that abraham camefrom the sumer city of ur and excavations in 1927 by sir leonard woolley in theroyal cemetery there revealed widespread evidence of human sacrifice in gravesdating from about 2,800 bc. the scythians, the people who transported many of the292aryan bloodlines and rituals into europe, did the

un by the templar-controlled, henry iii. edward died in 1066, the very year that william the conquerorand his st clair supporters invaded england and won the battle of hastings underinstructions from the black nobility of v enice. the coronation crown is set with 12jewels along with two depictions of the maltese cross which was one of the mostprominent symbols of the nazis. in the levite-authored exodus we hear of thebreastplate of aaron which is set with 12 stones.5 the same stones, in the same order,appear in the british crown.6 the archbishop placed his hands between the queensto pay homage to the new head of his church and he kissed her right hand. then hesaid:the lord almighty. establish your throne in righteousness, that it may stand forevermore, like as the sun before him, and as a

s up and they may beplanning to abdicate and move to the united states. it may even be part of thebrotherhood agenda for them to abdicate soon, who knows? to the reptilians, theagenda is far more important than any individual or family line, even theirs. sources1thomas foster, britains royal throne (acadia press, victoria, australia, 1986, p 2.2samuel 10:24.3britains royal throne, p 6.4ibid, p 8.5exodus 28:1-21.6britains royal throne, p 12.7ibid, p 14.8psalm 89: 35-37.4019the curse of canaan, p 85.10in the blood, p 62.11gary boyd roberts, ancestors of the american presidents, new england historicgenealogical society.12ibid.13the top 13 illuminati bloodlines, p 99.14ibid.15the information about philips nazi connections is available through many sources, but this anda catalogue of other info

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crowley. london: macdonald, 1971. rev. ed. london: mayflower, 1973. the king of the shadow realm. london: duckworth, 1989. aaron s rod a magic wand deriving from the biblical narrative of the rods of moses and aaron that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and was retained by adam after leaving the garden of eden, subsequently passing into the hands of a succession of patriarchs. an apocryphal christian legend states that the rod was cut from the tree of kno

gelic kingdom, as the messenger, not of separate and temporary commands, but of the whole word in its fullness. dionysius, or st. denis, the supposed areopagite (sixth century c.e, describes three hierarchies of angels in nine choirs: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers, virtues, angels, and archangels. these were created by assembling various biblical passages (such as exodus 25:18.20; isaiah 6:2.3; ephesians 3:10) and the book of enoch. vartan (or vertabied, the thirteenth-century armenian poet and historian, described them under the same terms, but expressly stated: these orders differ from one another in situation and degree of glory, just as there are different ranks among men, though they are all of one nature. this description, and all others resembling it

und in the visible material world, argued that everything visible is but the shadow of a corresponding spiritual reality. ultimately, he believed the nature of the connection with the spiritual world is most easily realized through a knowledge of the correspondences found in the bible. swedenborg devoted a considerable part of his life to writing a 12-volume commentary on the books of genesis and exodus (arcana coelestia (1905.10) and several volumes on the book of revelation (apocalypse revealed (1970. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. correspondences, doctrine of 339 in his last book, the true christian religion, originally published in 1770.71, he detailed his method of interpreting the bible spiritually. while on cursory examination it appears similar to allegory, it d

ng vessels. magicians in australia and elsewhere used rock crystal in rainmaking ceremonies. rock crystal shaped into polished balls was also the favorite material for crystal gazing (see also crystal skull) from ancient times crystal objects have been used as amulets and talismans. in ancient israel, 12 stones (one for each of the 12 tribes) were placed on the breastplate of the high priest (see exodus 39. later, 12 gemstones were identified with the 12 signs of the zodiac. these survive today as birthstones. sources: bonewitz, ra. cosmic crystals: crystal consciousness and the new age. van nuys, calif: newcastle publishing, 1983. crow, w. b. precious stones. new york: samuel weiser, 1968. crystal skull ancient mayan skull shaped from rock crystal, discovered at lubaantun, british hondura

ame by which it became well-known, the following year. cog grew up around david berg, a former minister in the christian and missionary alliance. with several of his teenage children he began evangelistic work in huntington beach, california. in 1969 several of the group received revelations concerning possible earthquakes, and the entire group left to wander across the united states. during this exodus, berg became known as moses david and the group as the children of god. the group adopted fundamental christian belief with an emphasis on the endtime, and berg was accepted as the prophet of the endtime. they attained some initial fame after conducting a series of demonstrations warning people of the evils of american society. they dressed in sackcloths and covered their faces with ashes

who accused gestefeld of distorting her teachings. gestefeld was dismissed from eddy s church and responded with an attack on eddy in jesuitism in christian science (1888. gestefeld developed her own variation on christian science, which she termed the science of being. for several years she functioned as an independent teacher and writer. besides a number of books, in 1896 she began the magazine exodus (1896.1904. she also founded informal science of being groups, one of which was in england. in 1897 she founded the exodus club, which grew in 1904 into the church of new thought, one of the first metaphysical churches to use that name. as the pastor of the church, she was recognized as one of the leading figures of the emerging new thought movement, which had developed out of the independe

ng of the international new thought league in 1899 in boston. that organization was a precursor to the international new thought alliance, founded in 1914. she continued to lead her church until her death on october 22, 1921, in chicago, but it dissolved soon after her passing. she was cremated, and her ashes were buried in chicago. sources: gestefeld, ursula n. the builder and the plan. chicago: exodus publishing, 1901. jesuitism in christian science. chicago: the author, 1888. the science of the christ. chicago: the author, 1889. a statement of christian science. chicago: the author, 1888. ghadiali, dinshah pestanj (1873.1966) dinshah pestanji ghadiali, an indian american, pioneered vegetarianism and chromotherapy (healing with color) in twentieth- century america. born november 28, 1873

er in skye (hebrides, scotland) named archibald the lightheaded was believed to know this incantation but repeated it so quickly that no one could understand what he said. the man was insane, but the fear that dogs had of him was ascribed to his knowledge of the glas ghairm. it was believed that this rhyme had some reference to the safety of the children of israel on the night before the biblical exodus: against any of the children of israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast (exod. 11:7 (see also hand of glory) glaskin, g(erald) m(arcus (1923) australian novelist who has experimented with the christos experience, a method of inducing altered states of consciousness. born december 16, 1923, in perth, western australia, glaskin traveled widely. during world war ii, he ser

des base news, the website found at http//www.oakweb.com/hades, through which the earthly center of the base may also be contacted. sources: hades base. http//www.oakweb.com/hades. february 28, 2000. haggadah the general name for the narrative or fabular portion of rabbinical literature. the most familiar use of the term is in the 683 household service of seder at passover, dramatizing the jewish exodus from egypt led by moses. hag of the dribble welsh banshee named gwrach y rbibyn, who was said to carry stones across the mountains in her apron, then untie the string, letting the stones shower down, thus making a dribble. it was believed that at twilight this hag flapped her raven wing against the windows of those doomed to die, and howled a-a-a-ui-ui-anni! haines, frederick h(enry (1869.1

ished kinley s primary text, elohim the archetype (original) pattern of the universe. yahweh had revealed his pattern or plan previously to moses, who embodied it in the hebrew tabernacle. it was later embodied in such teachings as the kabbalah, where it is pictured in the tree of life diagram. yahweh appeared at various times in his super incorporeal form on several occasions including to moses (exodus 24, isaiah (isaiah 6, and at the mount of transfiguration (matthew 17. yahweh is ultimately spirit, without form. however, since matter is simply condensed spirit, yahweh can take physical form. he does this in a more general sense as the material creation, but in a specific sense in yahshua. following his resurrection, yahshua continued in his physical form as the comforter (usually called

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age. edited by robert basil. buffalo, n.y: prometheus press, 1988. paganism, magic, and witchcraft. new york: garland publishing, 1982. paschal beverly randolph: america s pioneer occultist. in le defi magique. edited by jean-baptiste martin and franciose laplantine. lyon, france: presses universitaires de lyon, 1994. the revival of astrology in the united states. in religious movements: genesis, exodus, and numbers. edited by rodney stark. new york: paragon house publishers, 1985. toward a history of magical religion in the united states. listening 9, no. 3 (autumn 1974: 112.33. melton, j. gordon, jerome clark, and aidan kelly. new age encyclopedia. detroit: gale research, 1990. melton, j. gordon, and james r. lewis, eds. perspectives on the new age. albany, n.y: state unversity of new yo

er clyde, embarking in a small boat for ireland. as witches cannot pursue their victims over running water, they flung a huge rock after the escaping saint, which fell harmlessly to the ground, and which tradition says now forms dumbarton rock. catholic and protestant church leaders alike pursued the crusade against witchcraft with equal vigor, drawing their support from biblical passages such as exodus 22:18, which commands, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. witches were believed to have sold themselves, body and soul, to the devil. their ceremony was said to consist of kneeling before the devil, who placed one hand on the individual s head and the other under her feet, while she dedicated all between to the service of the devil and renounced baptism. the witch (usually thought of as

elieved that the word of power contains 12 letters, others, 42, and yet others 72, but these are the letters of the divine alphabet, which god created from certain luminous points made by the concentration of the primal universal light. shemhamphorash is, in fact, the name of this word. in the kabala, the shemhamphorash, or 72 syllabled name of god, is related to three verses of the hebrew bible, exodus 14, 119.21. each of these verses, in hebrew, contains 72 letters. if one writes the 72 letters or verse 19 in correct order, and under them write the letters of verse 20 in a similar manner in reverse order, and then the letters in verse 21 in correct order below the first two, one creates 72 three-letter names. by adding either al or ih to these names the names of the 72 angels of jacob s

ths of various other individuals associated with the tutankhamen tomb, started the story of a curse of the pharaohs. one writer claimed the curse was responsible for the lives of some three dozen scientists, archaeologists, and scholars. who was tutankhamen? it has been claimed that tutankhamen was a great king because his tomb contained such treasures. others have suggested he was the pharaoh of exodus and it was his wife, ankhesenpa- aten, who found moses in the bulrushes and raised him. in fact, both claims are incorrect. tutankhamen reigned during the eighteenth dynasty of the new kingdom. he was a boy of nine when he came to the throne and his reign lasted nine years, from about 1334 to 1325 b.c.e. he was not the ruler of egypt during the exodus described in the bible. it is believed

volumes. velikovsky then moved to palestine, where he practiced as a physician for fifteen years. he then spent some time in new york researching a study of freud s own dreams and the relationship of freud s thought to such figures as oedipus, akhnaton and moses, but in the course of his researches, he became intrigued by the suggestion that there might have been a catastrophe at the time of the exodus of the israelites from egypt. a new book began to develop, under the title ages in chaos, followed by a further manuscript, worlds in collision. the latter work was published in 1950 and created a storm in the scientific world, and the original publisher felt compelled to drop the book. the extraordinary campaign of suppression is fully documented in alfred de grazia s book the velikovsky a

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s and gordon, 2000. the name metatron comes out of traditional jewish mysticism, where metatron is depicted as an archangel, perhaps the highest of them all. some mystics believe that on earth he was the prophet enoch whom god took directly to heaven without the transi- metatron 173 tional detail of dying. other sources assert that it was he who led the israelites through the wilderness after the exodus. further reading arvey, michael, 1994. metatron. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/metatron-arvey.html. davidson, gustav, 1967. a dictionary of angels.new york: free press. gates, david, and devin gordon, 2000. smooth as santana. newsweek (february 14: 66 67. gilmore, robert and laurie, eds, n.d. the ascension is life lived from joy. http//www.nitehawk. com/daydove/25metatr.html. hurtak, jame

hich had fallen victim to the detrimental radiation. some wandered to the surface and in time forgot their history as they became the mortal and confused homo sapiens. the others stayed in the caves to become the sadistic, cannibalistic idiots called deros. one other group, the smallest of the three, was the teros, who had escaped the negative rays but who, for various reasons, had not joined the exodus from earth. both the deros and the teros were robots not because they were walking mechanical contraptions but because they were under the influence of, respectively, negative and positive energies. the deros used the advanced technologies to torment surface-dwellers. as palmer explained it, they have death rays, giant rockets that traverse in the upper air. ground vehicles of tremendous po

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great) e the qur an, the song of allah transmitted through master mohammed e the peshitta (gospels, including the gospel of thomas) describing the life and teachings of master yeshuvah, and the revelation of john e the etz hachayyim (tree of life) dictated by rabbi yitza aq luria to chayyim vital( the five component books of the torah (hrvt) are conventionally known outside of judaism as genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. in this book, the five books of the torah shall be named according to their traditional titles. hence, the first book is called torah b reshith( in the beginning or by the first. the second book is called torah shmoth (names. the third, fourth, and fifth books are respectively titled torah vayiqra( and he called, torah b midbar( in the wilderness, and t

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ten "be still- and know- that i am god. that i am god- the final recognition of the all in all, the unity of the self with the cosmos- the cognition of the divinity of the self [emphasis in the original; george h. steinmetz, the lost keys of freemasonry, richmond, virginia, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1923, p. 92] you have just witnessed a masonic author twist the words of god in exodus 3:14. how? he applied them to mankind. this blasphemy is an excellent example to show us why freemasonry has been so sensitive about any of its secrets ever becoming public knowledge. masons in every age knew that if the general public knew the satanic core that existed in the heart of freemasonry, the organization would either go into oblivion or would be arrested and put in jail. now you

ip the creature rather than the creator [romans 1:25] because it shreds their flimsy claim to be christian into a billion bits. in this sentence, we see utter blasphemy against god. here, masonic author, ward, states that the phallus is a symbol of god the creator! in his 10 commandments, god made it very plain that he did not want man representing him by any created means in the entire world. in exodus 20, we see god going through quite a list of the symbols by which he did not want man representing him. even though he did not list the phallus, i am absolutely certain god would not want man thinking of him as a phallus! however, ward is not finished with this subject yet, and in going on, he answered my question, above, as to why the gavel is always represented upside down, not up "but th

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country of the globe, it is known that they represent the male energy, and from all the facts connected with the story of laban's gods it is probable that they were emblems of this power. we may suppose then that the "strange gods" the unorthodox gods, which jacob ordered put away, were those representing the female energy. it seems strange that any person can study the history of the israelitish exodus by the light of later developments in biblical research without recognizing the fact that the "lord" which brought the children of israel out from the bondage of egypt was the male power, which by a certain sect had been proclaimed the only actual creative agency, and therefore the "only one and true god" although, at the time at which abraham is said to have lived, the knowledge of an abst

still a holy thing. not only among the israelites, but among other nations of the east, we find the devotees of the male god beginning to assume a position quite independent of the beliefs of their fathers. at this time great towers or pillars begin to be erected in honor of this deity, which is figured as the "god of life" or as the "lord of hosts" notwithstanding the fact that the story of the exodus contains much historical truth, it is altogether probable that the priests have used it, as they did that of the flood, to conceal their religious doctrines. at the time of the exodus, the israelites were ignorant tribes without laws or letters, and while in egypt were menials of the lowest order. hence, the laws written on the two tables of stone, and which it is claimed were elaborated du

of life and faiths of man in an lands, vol. i, p. 325. it is believed that abraham introduced fire-worship among the jews from ur in mesopotamia, a land in which lights are still venerated, and fire altars are worshipped as containing the deity. the real essence of fire which was identical with the life-principle was holy. the "lord" of the israelites was in the fire which descended on mt. sinai, exodus xix, 18 "the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed" exodus iii, 2. whether the signification of "bush" is the same as "grove" i know not, but josephus assures us that the bush was holy before the flame appeared in it. because of its sacred character, it became the receptacle for the burning "lord" of the jews. the ark, the religious emblem which moses bore aloft, was simply a

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o the wordtzlm,a shadow form. consider next that eastern occultism teaches that there is a curious connection between the spleen, an organ lying on the liftside,and the astral form- clairvoyants report having seen the astral form ooze out from the left side. have we not here a blind, an intentional hebrew blind for purposes of concealment?thewordtemunahis used for the likeness of any thing, as in exodus xx. 4, or as in numbersxii,8 'the similitude of the ihvh; or in pslam xvii. 15 'i shall be satisfied when i awake with thy likeness, meaning the likeness of deity.thenext principle to be noticed is the prana or life essence, the vitality; that power resident in the astral vehicle which animates the physical body, and keeps it in action and living existence. perhaps the word which most defin

human principle, essence or organ.anomalies inthebibilical views of man 149there is also the rootbun,meaning 'he understood; as already mentioned, from this comes the wordtbnh,'tebunah, which has been for centuries used to mean the understanding, intellect, and the mind-consciousness, this occurs in the old testament in the verbal form'tetebunnu'orttbnnu,i.e,'shall understand it perfectly, and in exodus xxxi. 3, we read 'i have filled bezaleel with the spirit of god, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge, these words are respectively ruach elohim, chokmah the second sephira, tebunah, and daath.theword 'understanding' occurs more often in the english bible than any other word meaning one of the human principles.thehebrew wordlb,pronounced 'laib, is related in meaning to the brain and

of god. in kabbalistic language the macroprosopus, father, microprosopus, son, aima, mother; and the bride malkuth are the emanations of the ain-soph-aur, the boundless brilliance. we pass on to the allegorical representations of deity in the tetrad, or quadripartiteform,and first the cherubim; they are described by ezekiel in sublime language,butthey are curiously enough not described either in exodus, where they are noted as made by moses, nor in the book of kings, where their formation by solomon is described. distinct mention is made of the several faces of a man, a lion, a bull and an eagle; these obvious types of know, dare, bear and aspire are beautifully combined in the ideal sphynx of egypt: a perfect symbol of what man must do to be comparable with the omniscience, omnipotence

aramaicasia,healers;iznuoim,the humble;chshaim,the silent ones. josephus calls themessenoiandessaioi;epiphanius calls themossenes,osioior holy ones, thus agreeing with philo. a curious note is that josephus, in whiston's english translation, calls the breast255 plate of the high priest by the wordessen(antiquitiesiii.,8, 5),butthis is not the spelling of the hebrew word used in the mosaic books, exodus xxv, 7, and xxviii, 4, 30, where we readch sh nfor that adornment. boutell's bible dictionary gives the namesshriunandshrihfor the breastplate of judgment. there does not seem to be any declared connection between the breast-plate of the high priest and these countryside devotees of the monastic life (but see heeke255 thorn. for many centuries there was but a single high priest, the theolog

e of a key-stone were unknown in solomonic times- he is believed to have built his temple in 1012b.c.;butrecent discoveries among the ruins of egyptian tombs and temples have shown arches which are referred to 1600b.c.as the date of their erection;thekey-stone is also found in arches among the ancient ruins of peru and mexico. referring again to rough and hewn stones it is curious to note that in exodus xx, 25, we read that an altar must not be built of hewn stones; and again, joshua raises an altar of 'stones upon which no man has laid a tool (joshua viii, 31) the reason given being that men should not be encouraged to shape stones for religious purposes, lest they come to make statues of gods, and so become led into the worship of idols, which, however, all the races of the holy land wer

e death of his wife rachel; this latter is perhaps the earliest mention of a tombstone; and this example led to the reverence paid in later times to tombstones in relation to ancestor worship. so jacob appears to have set up altogether four notable pillars. joshua erected a monument of twelve stones at gilgal; thus bane suggests a ring or circle. reference must be made to the two tables of stone, exodus xxii and xxiv, on which were written the ten commandments of jehovah; the first pair was broken by moses; the second set was preserved in the ark in horeb, and was later on placed in the temple of solomon. note that the two pillars at the entrance of the temple of solomon were not of stone but of brass; they are said symbolically to represent the stone pillars of seth, enoch and hermes, of

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nhedrim were admitted; and lastly, the people, as many as pleased: to all of whom moses again repeated both the law and the explanation as he received them from god. so that aaron heard it four times, his sons thrice, the elders twice, and the people once. now, of the two things which moses taught them, the law and the explanation, only the first was committed to writing; which is what we have in exodus, leviticus, and numbers; as to the second, or the explication of that law, they were contented to impress it well in their memory, to teachitto their children, and they inturnto theirs, etc. hence the first is the written law, and the second the cabbala' this word cabbala is spelt in a great variety of ways by various writers: cabala, caballa, kabbala, kabala, kabbalah, gaballa, and qabalah

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

the swedenborgian rite it is dom antoine joseph pernety (1716 1796. at the age of fifty pernety left the benedictine order and settled at avignon where he redirected his alchemical enthusiasm into masonic channels and allegedly created a rite hermetique that reflected his interests. from 2[2] swedenborg s principal theological works are arcana coekstia, his commentary on the books of genesis and exodus, published at london between 1749 and 1756; and vera chrisriana religio, his principal dogmatic work, published at amsterdam in 1771. all of his works have been translated into english. the most noticeable differences between swedenborg s system and most other expositions of christian theology are over the doctrines of the trinity and vicarious atonement. swedenborg also denied the divine i

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when confronted by the miracles god performed through moses, and the disasters he inflicted on his people, pharaoh relented. and so, one night the israelites gathered en masse, and began their emigration from egypt. later, pharaoh attacked the israelites, but god saved them through a further miracle he performed through moses. but, it is in the qur'an that we find the most accurate account of the exodus from egypt, because the torah underwent much textual corruption after it was originally revealed to moses. an important proof of this is that in the five books of the torah genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy there are many contradictions. the fact that the book of 5x deuteronomy ends with an account of the death and burial of moses is indisputable proof that this portion wo

riginally revealed to moses. an important proof of this is that in the five books of the torah genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy there are many contradictions. the fact that the book of 5x deuteronomy ends with an account of the death and burial of moses is indisputable proof that this portion would have to have been added after moses' death. in the qur'an, in the account of the exodus of the israelites from egypt, as in all other stories related in it, there is not the slightest contradiction; the story is recounted soundly. moreover, as with other stories, god reveals much wisdom and many secrets in the course of what is related. for this reason, when we examine these stories closely, we can extract a number of lessons from them. the golden calf one of the important fac

elites from egypt, as in all other stories related in it, there is not the slightest contradiction; the story is recounted soundly. moreover, as with other stories, god reveals much wisdom and many secrets in the course of what is related. for this reason, when we examine these stories closely, we can extract a number of lessons from them. the golden calf one of the important facts concerning the exodus of the israelites from egypt, as related in the qur'an, is that they rebelled against the religion revealed to them by god in spite of the fact that god had rescued them through moses from the tyranny of pharaoh. the israelites were not able to comprehend the monotheism that moses communicated to them, but tended continually toward idolatry. the qur'an describes this strange tendency here:

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e credulity if not stupidity for christians to try and interpret the whole old testament as a coherent early revelation and it does little for their intellectual integrity. bible narratives biblical criticism has shown that there are at least four intermingled narratives within the old testament, most of which specifically seem to be in conflict. the epic tradition seems to date from the original exodus while the priestly tradition dates from the babylonian captivity. this second narrative was probably written by a literalist priestclass who had little knowledge of the true meaning of the tradition. therefore, it is clear that most sections of the old testament have been re-worked. a number of examples may help you to get the overall picture. in the epic tradition the original covenant inc

ning of the tradition. therefore, it is clear that most sections of the old testament have been re-worked. a number of examples may help you to get the overall picture. in the epic tradition the original covenant includes the ten words or ten commandments only, the gnostic handbook page 115 while the priestly tradition includes the covenant code laws (these laws could not have been written at the exodus as they include agricultural regulations and references to the canaanites which obviously originate after their settlement in palestine. in the epic tradition the covenant code was an adaptation of the ten words into civil law yet we can show how this code has been re-written time and time again (producing the priestly version) and moved back into scripture in an attempt to prove that the l

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ntact roof, but for the fine quality of the many acres of beautiful reliefs that decorate its towering walls. located at abydos, eight miles west of the present course of the nile, this is the temple of seti i, a monarch of the illustrious nineteenth dynasty, who ruled from 1306-1290 bc.1 seti is known primarily as the father of a famous son: ramesses ii (1290-1224 bc, the pharaoh of the biblical exodus.2 in his own right, however, he was a major historical figure who conducted extensive military campaigns outside egypt s borders, who was responsible for the construction of several fine buildings and who carefully and conscientiously refurbished and restored many older ones.3 his temple at abydos, which was known evocatively as the house of millions of years, was dedicated to osiris,4 the

solated shafts of sunlight that penetrated through slits in the outer masonry like beams of divine radiance. hovering among the motes of dust dancing in those beams, and infiltrating the heavy stillness of the air amid the great columns that held up the roof of the hypostyle 1 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 2 dates from atlas of ancient egypt. for further data on ramesses ii as the pharaoh of the exodus see profuses k. a. kitchen, pharaoh triumphant: the life and times of ramesses ii, aris and phillips, warminster, 1982, pp. 70-1. 3 see, for example, a biographical dictionary of ancient egypt, pp. 135-7. 4 traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 384. 5 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, pp. 285, 253. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 384 hall, it was easy to imagine that the spirit-for

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t, and its enforcement was 'sweet savor' in the nostrils of the 'lord' why not scorn also tiie pagan rites and philosophy? why draw so deeply from the wells of wisdom, dug and filled up to brim by the same heathen? or did the fathers, in their desire to imitate the chosen people whose time-wom shoes they were trying to fit upon their feet, contemplate the re-enactjon of the spohation-scene of the exodus? did they propose, in fleeing from heathendom as the jews did from egypt, to carry off the valuables of its religious allegories, as the 'chosen ones' did the gold and silver ornaments? it certainly does seem as if the events of the first centuries of chris- tianity were but the refiexion of the images thrown upon the mirror of the future at the time of the exodus. during the stormy days of

sinian mysteries began in the month of boe- dromion, which corresponds with the month of september, the time of grape-gathering, and lasted from the 15th to the 22nd of the month, mveti days* the hebrew festival of the feast of tabernacles b^an on the 15th and ended on the 22nd of the month of ethanim, which dunlap shows as derived from adonim, adonia, attenim, ethanim* and this feast is named in exodus (xxiii, 16) the feast of ingatkaritm "all the men of israel assembled themselves unto king solomon at the feast in tlie month ethanim, which is the aevenik month^ plutarch thinks the feast of the booths to be the bacchic rites, not the eleusinian. thus "bacchus was directly called upon" he says. the sdxizian worship was sabbatie; the names evius, or hevius, and effective motion the woii hod

ten at different times and by different persons; or, again, that they are full of fraudulent interpolations. in either case the work loses all claims to be considered divine revdaiion. here is the problem, which we quote from the bible the word of the god of truth "and i appeared unto abraham, unto isaac, and unto jacob, by the name of god almighty, but by my name jehovah was i not known to them (exodus, vi, 3, spake god unto moses. a very startling bit of information that, when, before arriving at the book of exodus, we are told in genesis (xxii, 14) that "abraham called the name of that place" where the patriarch had been preparing to cut the throat of his beloved son "jehovah-jireh (jehovah sees. which is the inspired text? both cannot be which the spurious one? 376. kircber: oedip. aeg

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s the country that adopted and maintains la loi salique. sign of the planet venus. chapter the eighth. sacred fire. he appearance of god to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether he was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. these appearances are often mentioned in scripture. when god appeared on mount sinai, it is said, the lord descended upon it in fire (exodus xix. 18. and when moses repeats the history of this to the children of israel, he says, the lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire (deuteronomy iv. 12. so it was when the angel of the lord appeared to moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush: the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (exodus iii. 3. the appearances of the angel of god s presence, or tha

use and intention of these bells and pomegranates have been subjected to much discussion, particularly a passage which we now cite: a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. and it shall be upon aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not (exodus xxviii. 34, 35. the reason supposed in the targum for the directions given to the priest in these two verses of the chapter containing the law is, that the priest s approach should be cautious to the innermost holy of holies, or sanctuary of the tabernacle. the sound of the small bells upon his robe was intended to announce his approach before his actual appearance, in order to recall the a

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

n every page. the kabbalah experience is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point on their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. 108 the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface o

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

on every page. the kabbalah experience is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point along their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the 204 from chaos to harmony basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

on every page. the kabbalah experience is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point along their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface o

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

he creator, because only this bond will facilitate our spiritual redemption. we should not ask the creator for the ability to see and experience miracles, falsely believing that this experience will help us overcome the self and bring an appreciation of the grandeur of the spiritual, rather than simply being overtaken by blind faith. kabbalah warns against such thinking when it tells the story of exodus from egypt: when amalek attacked the people, moses defeated them only by raising up his hands and asking for the power of faith. in the process of spiritual ascent, we constantly acquire a higher reason that increases with each attained level. as a result, we must constantly increase the power of our faith, so that it is always greater than the power of the intellect; otherwise, we may once

ng the importance of perceiving the creator as a means to our improvement for his sake. revelation and concealment- 169- the ability to perform acts of goodness (altruistic acts) is not a means, but a reward for a person who wishes to resemble the creator. the sequential order of the process by which a person shifts away from egoism and towards the spiritual world can be found in the bible as the exodus from egypt. the appearance of vessels of bestowal in a person is called "the exodus from egypt" however, altruistic desires (vessels of bestowal) mean that a person would rather follow the path of faith than the path of knowledge. to exit from egoism is only possible when we feel spirituality, perceive the creator; and the light of wisdom splits the yam suf (red sea)in the middle. at this p

or- 247 "lech (go) says the creator to the person "acharai ba midbar (after me in the desert) with the feeling that your life without perception of the spiritual is like a desert without a drop of water, that the small spark of redemption from the feeling of emptiness will seem to you like "a cool spring on your exhausted soul" a further example can be found in the passover haggada (story) on the exodus from egypt, from the spiritual captivity of pharaoh our egoism "pharaoh died" finally the person sees that his egoism is not for his good, that it kills him, and obligates him to serve it all of his life. this principle now, in his eyes "dies" and as long as he does not recognize that his egoism is his sole enemy, he thinks that his life and servitude in egypt (captivity to the desires of t

sists of demonstrating to us the rewards we can receive. we clearly perceive the rewards that can be gained from our egoistic actions; we comprehend these rewards with our reason, and see them with our eyes. the result is known from the start; and is approved by society, by the family, by the parents, and by the children. hence, the body asks pharaoh "who is the lord that i should obey his voice (exodus 5, 2, meaning "what do i gain from work like this" we are thus correct when we see that it is impossible to advance against our own nature. but advancement itself is not the ultimate goal, but only the act of having faith in the creator s ability to change us. the light of the creator, his disclosure to a human being, is known as "life" the first instance of the permanent perception of the

hen find that not only have we not progressed in our perception and understanding of the spiritual, but our normal daily lives have become worse than they had been previously. instead of moving forward, we then withdraw even more to our egoism. in such a state, we must immediately shift to prayer to correct our situation. on this, it is said in the bible that the- 422- attaining the worlds beyond exodus from egypt (egoism) occurred when they were in the very last, forty-ninth state of impure desires. only when we completely realize all of the depth and evil of our egoism and cry for help, does the creator elevate us, and give us the middle line, bestowing upon us a soul, light of the creator, from above. this begins to illuminate us and gives us the powers to shift to altruism and to be bo

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

ds on every page. the kabbalah experience is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point on their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface o

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ause you have now discovered the truth, you can compare the two and clearly see where the deceit lies. if you begin to feel the light of lishma within the situation of lo lishma, you will see how deep that situation of lo lishma is, and you will feel you must get out of it, but can t! you will already see the evil and despair because you can t escape that situation on your own. at that point, the exodus occurs. the passage from lo lishma to lishma is exactly like a seed that rots and gives life to something new. q: will we be unable to enjoy life in another way after the restriction! it s as though there is no connection between the spiritual worlds and the material worlds. before we learn to give, will we be unable to receive any pleasure! a: if you didn t have a point in your heart that

e i called thee, o lord (psalms 130, 1. q: is this what prayer is? t h e t h o u g h t o f c r e a t i o n 49 a: yes, this is prayer. otherwise, where will you raise your man (prayer) from? when you feel that all this is death, and only the creator has the solution, you ask, you plead and cry. in a moment you ll be dead, like one who stands above the abyss, like the situation in the middle of the exodus from egypt, standing at the shore before the red sea opened. we needn t hide our negative attributes; only use them creatively in negative situations. we should simply consult the creator before any action, and only then start acting. a n g e l s q: how can i always maintain my aim? a: before every thought, every action and every breath you take v think of the purpose! if a member of my gro

toiled in all sorts of t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 110 works to no avail, he becomes truly low. he knows he is the lowest of men; that there is nothing good about his body, and then his prayer is sincere and his generous hand answers him. the writing refers to this as follows: and the children of israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry rose up to god k (exodus 2, 23, because at that time, israel was desperate from the work, as he who draws water from the well in a punctured bucket. he draws water all day long and still has not a drop of water with which to soothe his thirst. so were the sons of israel in egypt; everything they built was buried right there in the ground. so it is with those who have not attained his love. everything they do for th

performs unifications with holiness, he makes the area of the choice a holy place again. i have interpreted the words of our sages- the healer has been given permission to heal- according to that, meaning even though the healing is undoubtedly in the hands of the lord and no human counsel shall move him from his place, still the holy torah tells us that he shall cause him to be thoroughly healed (exodus 21, 19, meaning to tell you that it is a choice, the place of battle between holiness and sin. so we find that we are obliged to take over that choice and turn it over to holiness. and how is it taken over? when we go to see a doctor, and the doctor gives us a remedy that has been tested a thousand times, and when the medicine works and we are cured, we must still believe that without that

es. only once, when man first exits the sensation of this world and enters the upper world, does he receive a screen over his corporeal will to enjoy. in other words, the first time we cross the barrier between the physical and the spiritual world, we acquire the intent not to use the corporeal desires for ourselves. it is a special moment, called the crossing of the red sea, that comes after the exodus from egypt, meaning after one has been freed from one s nature. through that passage, man crosses over to the spiritual realm, where he senses the creator. the sensing of the creator is the attaining of the upper world. c h a r ac t e r, at t r i b u t e s a n d h a b i t s q: is it risky to allow yourself to be moved by a film or a book that does not contain even a shred of spirituality, a

e ones he should wrestle with. if you want to eat, drink or sleep more, don t worry about it; it is a temporary phenomenon during a spiritual descent, when there are no other pleasures. the situation is that man is given more egoistic desires to enjoy the spiritual world, and we should wrestle with what rebels against the creator, or as pharaoh said, who is the lord, that i should obey his voice (exodus 5, 2. the most important thing is to confront thoughts against faith and doubts about providence or the uniqueness of the creator. it is true that the physical desires grow as well, but that is done on purpose, in order to divert us from the correct battle against that which really distances us from the creator. the most important thing is not to change the object against which we are fight

on that. if further knowledge beyond that, which man already has, would benefit man, the creator would have revealed it to us. but knowing beyond what we should know harms us, because it denies us free choice and the possibility for correction. that is why it says unequivocally, neither shall ye practice divination nor soothsaying (leviticus, 19, 26, and thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live (exodus 22, 17. you can see for yourself how much unnecessary commotion there was at the dawn of the new millennium, as a result of the fortune telling of nostradamus. in fact, nothing happened and the year went by peacefully, as did all the years before it. man yearns to believe in what he knows. he wants to know the future for his own personal benefit. but the creator reveals everything- past, pr

which is needed for correction and advancement toward the spiritual world. all the degrees along the way are revealed in the process of progressing toward the goal. an outcome that was not predicted in the present, and that cannot be predicted by the present reality, is called a miracle. it is something that is not supposed to happen according to the current laws. an example is the miracle of the exodus from egypt. we strive to attain spirituality without even knowing what we are doing. in fact, we b e l i e f s, m y s t i c i s m a n d t h e s u p e r n a t u r a l 309 don t even know what spirituality is because we haven t attained it yet. we aspire to something we do not really know. the truth, we do not aspire to spirituality, because spirituality is only the desire to give, and we, by

e existence of a vessel, and a vessel is the aim for the creator. a person can attain the first spiritual degree only after he has attained the understanding that death is detachment from the creator and life is attachment to him. the rest is in the hands of the spiritual mechanism. but in order to attain such an understanding, it is necessary to receive help from the creator v the miracle of the exodus from egypt! that is the only way god can help. and when he does, then mankind will really be saved! q: what is the meaning of the words of the zohar, when it says that only the chosen will attain life in the next world? what about the rest of humanity? a: creation is eternal. time and motion do not exist. we only speak of inner sensations of the creature. the changing inner situations evoke

uestions in life. kabbalah is an accurate method to investigate and define man s position in the universe. the wisdom of kabbalah tells us why man exists, why he is born, why he lives, what the purpose of his life is, where he comes from, and where he is going after he completes his life in this world. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this commandment from the bible is the basis of the kabbalistic wisdom, for kabbalists know that the only true reality is that of his essence, the upper force. when we accept this concept, we can become truly open to the prospect of freedom for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. while the structure of reality and how we perceive it are at the surface of this boo

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532 toronto, on, m2r 3x1 canada e-mail: info@kabbalah.info web site: www.kabbalah.info toll free in canada and usa: 1-866-laitman fax: 1-905 886 9. 379 how to contact bnei baruch. 380 the path of kabbalah 3 9 part one: the beginning c h a p t e r 1 .1 t h e g r e at i l l u s i o n thou shalt have no other gods before me. thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. judaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. this prohibition envelops the most fundamental principle in judaism: that everything we see is only a figment of our imaginations. over the years, many of us have consciously or unconsciously adopted this principle after realizing that, by changing our perspective, we might be able to better cope with our day-to-day problems. this pe

egoistic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. our egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh, that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that frees one of that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of absolute slumber and even unconsciousness. we have no sensation whatsoever of who or where we are. it is even a lower state than this world, since defining our state as this world implies that we are already aware that there is another world. it is so low that we cannot feel any spirituality

he 400 years, the entire nation that left egypt was forced to experience another exile, the one that has been ongoing for the past 2000 years. in order to feel who you are and what your properties are, you must feel at least a little bit of what spirituality is like. you must experience these feelings to the fullest and examine them in every way. when the process is completed, you will be granted exodus from egypt. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 330 abraham is only the first phase. when we begin to study the wisdom of kabbalah, we begin to feel that we are much worse than before. however, this feeling passes. it is a small entrance to egypt. afterwards abraham returns to beit-el on the second visit to egypt, he takes his family with him. this means that once he has accumulated a substant

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egyptian mysteries. moses, as was said much later, was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians(*acts, vii, 22) and he seems to have been the real founder of the jewish mysteries, much as tradition suggests, introducing into them the succession of i.m.s which he had received from the egyptian priests. our investigations have not confirmed the events related in the early chapters of the book of exodus with regard to the ten plagues and the smiting of the egyptians; the jews departed without much opposition, and after many years of wandering in the wilderness conquered various tribes and took possession of palestine. indeed their migration seems to have been inspired to some extent by the manu. during their wanderings they used a tent for the celebration of their mysteries, preserved in h

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ry jury member, whom he recruits from the worst of the underworld s sinners, and whom he assumes will decide against the farmer. instead,webster makes such a superb defense that the jurors feel much remorse for their own bad deeds, and they vote not to condemn jabez to his horrific fate. mr. scratch leaves the farmer to his good life, as taking him could threaten the stability of hell with a mass exodus. evelyn oliver the devil and max devlin a 1981 disney studios comedy about an obnoxious slumlord,max devlin, who is killed by a bus and sent to hell. the devil tells him that if he can get three souls to exchange for his,max can get out of hell. after a great deal of trouble finding three replacements,max has a change of heart and does not want to harm the innocent persons. as a surprise re

noah s to lock away all of the evil spirits underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. there are other references to mastema, such as in exodus (4:24ff. here mastema tries to kill moses. also, it is said that mastema is supposed to have assisted the egyptian wizards against moses and aaron when these israelites had to present themselves before the pharaoh to display their talent at feats of magic. see also book of jubilees for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free

n the raging flood sweeps by, it shall not touch us; for we have taken refuge in lies and sheltered behind falsehood. although the original passage is not discussing an actual agreement with satan or one of his minions, it is not difficult to see how this verse might be interpreted so as to support such a notion. the bible also provided legitimation for the witch-hunts, through such assertions as exodus 22:18, you shall not allow a witch to live. initially, witches were executed merely for the harm they supposedly wreaked on their victims. by the fourteenth century, entering into a contract with satan had become an important part of the charges leveled against witches. for example, in his 1484 bull, summis desiderantes affectibus, after recounting a long list of dark deeds attributed to wi

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were an analysis thereof, doing for matter what the buddha was decreed to do for mind. t the book of wisdom or folly 73 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum, quem appelunt iudaei mosheh (of a certain magus of the egyptians, whom the jews call moses) he follower of tahuti was an egyptian whose name is lost; but the jews called him mosheh, or moses, and their fabulists made him the leader of their legendary exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh, which thou must understand also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this word is itself a plan of the fabrick of the universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the holy qabalah, whereby we have knowledge of the nature of all things soever upon every

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reflection. now also we have the commencement of a vibration established, for the number 1 vibrates alternately from changelessness to definition, and back to changelessness again. thus, then, is it the father of all numbers, and a fitting type of the father of all things. the name of the first sephira is rtk, kether, the crown. the divine name attributed to it is the name of the father given in exodus iii, 14: hyha, eheieh, i am. it signifies existence. this first sephira contained the other nine, and produced them in succession, thus. the number 2, or the duad. the name of the second sephira is hmkj, chokmah, wisdom, a masculine active potency reflected from kether, as i have before explained. this sephira is the active and evident father, to whom the mother is united, who is the number

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nity unmanifest* for it is written (genesis 1: 27:\da arb jbqnw rkz wta arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is also the number of ynda hyhw, wherefore by gematria .tetragrammaton our lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symboli

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e temple. in any case i have been reliably informed (private communication) that a revised and more practical version of this ritual survives in an unpublished crowley ms notebook. 38 storax. 39 this is the oil of abramelin; see the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, book ii, cap. 11; the incense recipe is from the same source; actually both recipes ultimately derive from the book of exodus. 40 the available evidence tends to indicate that the robe of a probationer of a a was white with no hood, a pentagram on the front and a hexagram on the back as described. the robe of an adeptus minor (according to william northram fs advertisments in the equinox) adds an unspecified symbol to this. 41 vide al. ii, 36-43. 42 a reference to one of the letter-squares received in the dee-kell

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exist at the time--the workmen made their exit from the pyramid after dropping the stone plugs into the ascending gallery. biblical scholars have contributed a number of most extraordinary conceptions regarding the great pyramid. this ancient edifice has been identified by them as joseph's granary (despite its hopelessly inadequate capacity; as the tomb prepared for the unfortunate pharaoh of the exodus who could not be buried there because his body was never recovered from the red sea; and finally as a perpetual confirmation of the infallibility of the numerous prophecies contained in the authorized version! the sphinx although the great pyramid, as ignatius donnelly has demonstrated, is patterned after an antediluvian type of architecture, examples of which are to be found in nearly ever

of the greeks and gnostics, called by the greeks "zeus" the immortal mortal, and by the hebrews "ihvh" p. 134 of the covenant itself was an adaptation of the egyptian ark, even to the kneeling figures upon its lid. bas-reliefs on the temple of phil show egyptian priests carrying their ark--which closely resembled the ark of the jews--upon their shoulders by means of staves like those described in exodus. the following description of the tabernacle and its priests is based upon the account of its construction and ceremonies recorded by josephus in the third book of his antiquities of the jews. the bible references are from a "breeches" bible (famous for its rendering of the seventh verse of the third chapter of genesis, printed in london in 1599, and the quotations are reproduced in their o

substantiated by a statement made in the eighth chapter of hebrews "who serve unto the paterne and shadowe of heavenly things, as moses was warned by god, when he was about to finish the tabernacle" here we find the material physical place of worship called a "shadow" or symbol of a spiritual institution, invisible but omnipotent. the specifications of the tabernacle are described in the book of exodus, twenty-fifth chapter "then the lord spake unto moses, saying, speake unto the children of israel that they receive an offering for me: of every man, whose heart giveth it freely, yee shall take the offering for me. and this is the offering which ye shall take of them, gold and silver, and brass, and blue silke, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linnen and goats haire. and rammes skinnes co

nx occupies the position in the constitution of man between the holy place, which is the trunk of his body, and the holy of holies, which is the head with its contents. into the holy of holies none might pass save the high priest, and he only at certain prescribed times, the room contained no furnishings save the ark of the covenant, which stood against the western wall, opposite the entrance. in exodus the dimensions of the ark are given as two and a half cubits for its length, one cubit and a half its breadth and one cubit and a half its height. it was made of shittim-wood, gold plated within and without, and contained the sacred tablets of the law delivered to moses upon sinai. the lid of the ark was in the form of a golden plate upon which knelt two mysterious creatures called cherubim

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e wheels went by them: and when the living creatureswere lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up (ezekiel 1:19)whithersoever the spirit was to go they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheelswere lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.(ezekiel 1:20..and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them (exodus 4:19..his going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there isnothing hid from the heat thereof (nehemiah 18:10)and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire infold-ing itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber outof the midst of the fire (ezekiel 4:5)and it came to pa

bout it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber outof the midst of the fire (ezekiel 4:5)and it came to pass, as moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, andstood at the door of the tabernacle, and the lord talked with moses. and all the people sawthe cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,every man in his tent door (exodus 33:9)then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the landwhither they went (john 6: 21) earths first deluge10atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and from the ancient aryans and hindus we have:he boarded the aerial vehicle with khara which was decorated with jewels and the faces ofdemons and it moved with noise resembling the sonorous clou

l 28:13) dead things are formed from under the water, and the inhabitants thereof.(job 12:5) with this kind of phenomena occurring, we can perhaps make sense of one of the mostenigmatic edicts from the yahwistic commandments:y ou shalt not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heavenabove, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is under the water of the earth (exodus 20:4)in edward bulwer-lyttons book, the coming race, he describes the existence ofadvanced beings living in tunnels and caverns beneath the surface of the earth. herefers to these beings as the ana, saying they were forced below because of earthearths first deluge12atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation changes and a flood which destroyed their civilization thousands of years

patriarchythere seems to be some terribleinevitability, a relentless desire to crush the female essence, human and divine. the questionof why is one of the most puzzling of our time (leonard schlain, the alphabet and thegoddess)the race of adam34atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation35 chapter 6the world falls deadeventually, the exodus of the adamic race became known to the serpent masters,who grew furious and vengeful. this was the third time that their plans and exploitshad been thwarted. first, they were banished from their home planet. then after com-ing to a new one, they created a race to serve them, but which did not; and when theyfinally created the perfect servant, they found them permanently seduced away fromthe

ounts, one may do well to reflect on the personality of thelord and wonder if the activities mentioned are not those to be expected of a morehuman agency.i am the lord and there is none else. i form the light and create the darkness, i make peaceand create evil, i, the lord, do all these things (book of isaiah) he that sacrificeth to any god save unto the lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed (exodus22:20)by the sweat of your face will be your bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it youwere taken, for dust you are and to dust you will return (genesis 3:17-19) then shall ye know that i am the lord, when their slain men shall be among their idolsround about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and underevery green tree, and under every thick o

travesty of mans perplexity:we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass mur-derer and heinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that theslaughter of human beings in the name of god is a divine act. and all through these passages is the reference to more than one god. a perfect exam-ple follows:thou shalt not revile the gods (exodus 22:28) scholar and genius, ignatius donnelly wrote of the tribulations: it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world.and from comyns beaumonts the riddle of prehistoric britain: the prehistory of the atlanteans and the race of adam possessed peculiar similarities. thesupermen of plato

irst that were awakened and exalted by theirmore advanced cousins. they were initiated into the secrets of technology. the word secret comes from secretion, meaning fluid of the body, particularly the femalemenstrual fluids. the concept and phenomenon of the holy grail comes from the myster-ies of the female cults after their residency with and tuition from the sons of the serpent.it is from this exodus to lemuria that we have the great female cults, when females werechief initiators, oracles, and keepers of the mysteries, which is recorded even in the arthu-rian romances of later ages. celtic myth is full of anecdotes about the warrior queens whocommand great magical abilities. that this was changed in historical times is due to thesupremacy of the evil masters again taking control of civ

there confound their language (genesis 11: 7)woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are the gods that smote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8)and the king said to her, be not afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said unto saul, i saw gods ascending out of the earth (i samuel 28:13)thou shalt not revile the gods (exodus 22:28)he that sacrificeth to any god save unto the lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed (exodus 22:20)behold the man is become as one of us (genesis 3:22)and god said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness(genesis 1:26)when jehovah speaks he uses the name in the third person. jehovah will do something, meaning the jehovah will do something. jehovah is a race.the forbidden fru

il the el elyon that abraham and some ofhis familys forbearers were transported into canaan, having made their respective journeys from thecities of mesopotamia (p. 63)mazdaanother name for enki and his line. origin of jehovahthen some five generations after abraham, jehovah (i am that i am) emerged as the god of mosesand the children of israel when they returned to canaan from egypt. the book of exodus furtherexplains how god told moses that he was the very same god who spoke to abraham, except that abra-ham had called him el shaddai (el of the mountain) because he did not know the divine name of jeho-vah (exodus 6:3. the jehovah of the jews (el elyon of the canaanites) was, therefore, synonymouswith enlil of the annunaki, son of the great anu (p. 64)sumaire (sumerian)an old irish word me

ic people who settled in the delta region of goshen, but this does notreally help because they are not specified as israelites, but included in the arab races of syria, phoeni-cia, mesopotamia, and the fertile crescent in general (p. 176)actually, they arrived many centuries before the reign of ramesis i (1335 b.c).recent analysis of volcanic debris in the area, utterly disproves the dates of the exodus. the volcanicaction was about 1624 b.c. this is 300 hundred years before the supposed time of moses (see p. 177)the joseph myth (yusuf)the joseph of egypt myth was actually based on joseph the son of jacob who actually lived 400 yearsearlier. the information about the first joseph was concealed so that he could be identified as the onemuch later that became the pharaoh of egypt (see p. 180)

challenging ramesiss right of succession moseshavingfailed in his attempt to regain his pharaonic position, he managed to persuade ramesis to allow him andthe israelites to leave the country (p. 196)israelites this name denotes only those people who had resided in egypt, not those semites or hebrews (habiru)that were in palestine (see p. 196)dates of exodusit can be determined that the israelite exodus from egypt occurred during the year of ramesis isdeath- the first year of pharaoh seti i (1333 b.c).mt. sinaithere was an alchemical workshop frequented by moses and the israelites. it was dedicated to the god-dess hathor (see p. 202)pyramidinner fire, denotes the fire of alchemy, the essence of life.miriam, wife of mosesthe epithet mery was again used for her as it was for the sister of mo

r, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation, a passage in veiledlanguage appears to denote that with these weapons they punished the shortcomings of those theydefeated and destroyed. in analyzing the past i cannot over-stress how vital and important is always theproblem of weapons (p. 170)pillar of cloudsaid to have been used by moses and jehovah to hinder the pursuing egyptians during the exodus (seep. 172.)moses and the amalekitesdefeated because on a hill lifted his rod, which was so weighty that others has to sustain it while it operated and gained when he delayed, as loading it was doubtless a long task (p. 173)jehovah nissiafter moses had destroyed the amalekites he erected a pillar to jehovah nissi which means god ofthe serpents (p. 173)beaumont on egyptologistsconsiderable l

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and all the ceremonies then practised reminded men of the renovation of nature and the triumph of ormuzd, the light-god, over the powers of darkness and ahriman their chief. the legislator of the jews fixed the commencement of their year in the month nisan, at the vernal equinox, at which season the israelites marched out of egypt and were relieved of their long bondage; in commemoration of which exodus, they ate the paschal lamb at that equinox. and when bacchus and his army had long marched in burning deserts, they were led by a lamb or ram into beautiful meadows, and to the springs that watered the temple of jupiter ammon. for, to the arabs and ethiopians, whose great divinity bacchus was, nothing was so perfect a type of elysium as a country abounding in springs and rivulets. orion, on

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oo, were unaware of "the giver of all things, kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he, and there was no relationship between them. achor b panim back to face& panim b achor face to back there also is a stage called panim b achor (face to back. in this stage, zeir anpin kudsha brich hoo is aware of the jewish people, but they are unaware of him. this is similar to the time beginning with the exodus from egypt until the destruction of the first temple. during this period, there was great influence from above to below, from g-d to the jewish people, but little reciprocation from below to above. because of this, immediately after receiving the torah directly from g-d and hearing him speak at mt. sinai, the jewish people were capable of making the golden calf. likewise, during the time of

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s a city, h so did pharaoh say, gcome, let us be wise with them. h13 he decreed against the [israelites f] sons, saying, gthe newborn boys should be thrown into the river, h that is, into the water, so that they could be rectified in the water. although the earthly pharaoh fs intentions were evil, he was unwittingly trying to rectify the souls that had become reincarnated in the generation of the exodus by immersing them in water, which is a metaphor for the torah. but they were not fully rectified until they came to marah, where they were all fully rectified. at marah, the jews received their first commandments, as a sort of transitional law between the universal laws of the noahides and the 613 commandments of the torah. moses also rectified the hei of abel fs name [hevel, and thus then

ommandments, as a sort of transitional law between the universal laws of the noahides and the 613 commandments of the torah. moses also rectified the hei of abel fs name [hevel, and thus then everything was rectified. when moses received the full torah and transmitted it to the jewish people, all the souls that made up adam fs original soul were finally rectified .translated from likutei torah 13 exodus 1:10. 57 parashat lech lecha the portion of the torah read this week begins: gand g-d said to abram, ego forth from your land, and from your birthplace, and from your father fs house, to the land that i will show you. i will make you [there] into a great nation c f h1 as we have explained in our exposition on the partzuf of nukva, it has existed in various states of development and union wi

rteen rectifications of the beard [of arich anpin] is called kel, this being the mystical significance of the verse: gg-d [kel, merciful, gracious c h6 and of the verse: gwho is a g-d [kel] like you c, h7 as we have explained in our exposition on the thirteen attributes of mercy recited in the weekday morning prayers.8 as we have explained previously, g-d fs thirteen attributes of mercy listed in exodus 34:6 are identified in kabbalah with the thirteen rectifications of the beard of arich anpin. this [attribute] corresponds to the two upper corners of the beard [i.e, the sideburns, one to the right and one to the left. thus, we have [so far] two names kel. it is also known that each sideburn contains three names kel, i.e [the manifestation of this attribute in] the three [lower] worlds, th

f-lamed-pei= 1+ 30+ 80= 111. lamed lamed-mem-dalet= 30+ 40+ 4= 74. 111+ 74= 185. for the two names kel on the two cheeks, we have 2 x 185= 370. this yields 8 names kel, which together equal the numerical value of abraham. six on the two sideburns and two on the two cheeks. in our discussion of the 175 years of abraham fs lifetime in parashat chayei sarah, we will explain this at greater length. 6 exodus 34:6. 7 micah 7:18. 8 sha far hakavanot, va fya favor 6 and 7. 9 a passage of the zohar, found in 3:132a. see sha far ma famarei rashbi ad loc. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 65 the numerical value of the name isaac [yitzchak] is 8 times that of the name havayah [26. yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf= 10+ 90+ 8+ 100= 208= 8 x 26. these eight [names havayah] are the eight states of gevurah of

the sabbath, is associated with the name kah adni. it is also known that the sabbath is associated with yesod, which is called the seventh. normally, we associate the sabbath with malchut, the seventh midah. however, in the context of z feir anpin, malchut is not truly a separate sefirah, but is called gthe crown of the yesod, h associated physically with the glans of 1 2:92a, in raya mehemna. 2 exodus 20:8. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 69 the male reproductive organ. malchut comes into its own only as the full partzuf of nukva. thus, the gseventh h of the midot within z feir anpin.and therefore, the sabbath as well.can still be considered to be part of yesod.3 therefore, the numerical value of yesod is the same as that of the names kah adni. yesod= 80, as above. kah adni: yud-hei al

ve seen that at gthe covenant between the parts, h g-d said to abraham, g cyour seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs [they will serve them, and they will oppress them for four hundred years. but i will also judge the nation that they will serve, and in the end they will leave with great wealth. you, however, will come to your forebears in peace; you shall be buried in good old age. the 10 exodus 14:31. 11 job 1:8-11. 12 y. sotah 5. 13 pesachim 113b. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 82 fourth generation will return here, for the iniquity of the amorite will not be full until then] h14 in this covenant, g-d promises abraham the land of israel in exchange for his children going into exile. it is called gthe covenant between the parts h since it was gendorsed h by abraham and g-d (rep

on the two cheeks. in our discussion of the 175 years of abraham fs lifetime in parashat chayei sarah, we will explain this at greater length. to continue with the present passage: thus we have 3 names kel to the right and 3 to the left. the two names kel are on the face itself to the right and to the left. we thus have 8 names kel, whose combined numerical value is the same as that of abraham. 4 exodus 34:6. 5 zohar 3:132. 6 ibid. see sha far ma famarei rashbi ad loc. the arizal on parashat chayei sarah (2) 109 however, these two names kel situated on the face are derived from the two names havayah situated on the face, one to the right and one to the left. they are spelled out with the letter yud. this is the significance of the two names havayah that precede the 13 rectifications of the

ince the full array is not present. of these thirteen [parts of the beard of arich anpin, two are referred to as a mazal, in that divine beneficence flows downward through them. these are the attributes of gstoring kindness h and gand acquits. h as we have mentioned previously, the thirteen tufts of the beard of arich anpin are synonymous with the thirteen attributes, or aspects, of divine mercy: exodus 34 beard 1 mighty sideburns 2 merciful mustache 3 and gracious the lack of hair in the middle of the mustache 4 long- the hair under the lower lip 5 suffering the lack of hair in the middle of the hair under the lower lip 6 abundant in kindness the hair of the jaw bone 7 and truth the lack of hair on the cheeks 8 storing kindness the upper layer of the beard 9 to thousands the short hairs b

ubdivisions and 1000 sub-subdivisions. together, the sum [of these two operations] is 1410. this is alluded to in the verse, gbehold, there is a place with me, h as stated. furthermore, the numerical value of the spelling out of the spelling out of the 72-name is 610. the numerical value of the name itself is 72. if the sum of these two numbers is doubled, the product is 1364. 2 (610+ 72= 1364. 6 exodus 33:21. 7 kohelet rabbah 7:40. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 138 then consider the spelling out of the [72-]name, which uses 10 letters, and the spelling out of the spelling out, which uses 28 letters, and the 4 original letters. the sum of these three numbers is 42. the three kolel fs [for these three values] plus the kolel for their sum yields the value of the name adni [65. 42+ 4= 46

hus means, gg-d made out of the few a multitude and a great house [the verse then describes what happened] afterwards, i.e, that ghe brought them out in proper ways, h i.e, in a time fit for leaving, neither in the hot [summer] nor the cold [winter, but in the [spring] season [i.e, in] the month of nisan. this is the meaning of the word gin proper ways. h 1 bereishit rabbah 68:4. 2 psalms 68:7. 3 exodus 1:8. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 148 secondly, why did [the matron, in phrasing her question, say[ gin how many days h] with a lamed [meaning literally] gfor how many days, h rather than with a beit, which would mean gin how many days? h true, we could say that this is a printing error, for in some of the other sources in which this same story is told4 the word is written with a beit

e. they offered a parable [to illustrate this] of a king who prepared a great feast and invited the notables of his capital to it, but they were too few to eat the whole meal. so he invited the middle class of people, but they were still too few. so in the end he invited the whole city, great and small, so as not to waste the feast he had 4 bamidbar rabbah 3; vayikra rabbah 1; midrash shmuel 5. 5 exodus 20:11. 6 genesis 2:2. 7 avodah zarah 3b. 8 psalms 145:16. 9 psalms 25:7. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 149 prepared. thus king david said, gmention not the sins of my youth and my transgressions, for the sake of your goodness, o g-d, h so that there be [enough] people to benefit from it.10 even if we assume that this matron, being a non-jew, did not know this, and rabbi yosi did not wish

oly one, blessed be he, sits and makes matches. h he could have simply 10 see midrash tehilim 25. 11 par. isaiah 51:1. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 150 responded, ghe makes matches. h why did he mention gthe holy one, blessed be he h explicitly. the answer [to all this] is as follows. rabbi yehudah bar simon assumed that if the verse gg-d causes individuals to dwell as a house h refers to the exodus from egypt, it should have read, ghe makes the few into many. h why does it use the idiom gindividuals, h and why does it use the idiom gas a house h to mean ginto many? h furthermore, the verb ghe causes to dwell h[.if it means increasing the jewish people] does not fit well with the name elokim [used for gg-d h in this verse, which indicates strict judgment: what g-d did for the jewish pe

the oil press [beit ha-bad] and the small oil press [bodeidah].8 since yesod is the masculine principle, the word for gson of h is mentioned [in the name of its corresponding king [hadad] is mentioned as having gsmote midian in the field of moab, h for the holy yesod exemplifies peace, and thus gcauses strife to cease9 in the field of moab, h i.e, in the field of the supernal father, chochmah. 4 exodus 27:20. 5 isaiah 16:10. 6 par. leviticus 13:46; jeremiah 15:17; lamentations 1:1, 3:28. 7 shabbat 19b. 8 shevi fit 8:6. 9 par. proverbs 18:18. the arizal on parashat vayishlach (5) 183 the word for gwho smote h is read as gwho made cease h; the name midian is interpreted as the noun madanim, which means gforms of strife and argument. h moab is read as mei-av, gfrom the father, h and father r

tellect not vested in emotions is not manifest life. 7 genesis the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 201 this [presence of the name ekyeh in the name havayah] is known as the person fs blood, for the yesod of ima is the garment of da fat, which includes states of chesed and gevurah that descend via these veins in the form of ten types of blood, as we have mentioned in our exposition of pesach and the exodus from egypt.8 there are five states of chesed and five of gevurah within da fat, as we have seen previously. these become manifest in the life-force carried by the blood as ten gtypes of blood, h or ten variations of life-force that animate the person. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gand the rooms will be filled with knowledge [da fat. h9 [this] refers to the blood, the life-forc

is what is written, gand [joseph] relocated the people in cities from one end of egypt fs borders to the other h (genesis 47:21. those he relocated were those whom he had circumcised, and he moved them around in order to refine and purify them. these are the mixed multitude (the eirev rav) of whom the egyptians said, gthe people of the children of israel are more numerous and stronger than us h (exodus 1:9. but a later verse states, gand they [the egyptians] became dissatisfied with themselves because of the children of israel h (exodus 1:12 [in one verse they are referred to as gthe people of the children of israel, h whereas in the other they are referred to as simply gthe children of israel. h why the discrepancy] the secret of this is that those whom joseph circumcised, and who lived

ms of the israelites. jacob had also converted egyptians, as our sages state.19 all of them also observed israelite customs. now pharaoh noticed [the observances of] those who were called gthe people of the children of israel, h i.e, those who were not the children of israel themselves, but the people of the children of israel. therefore another verse states, ghe [pharaoh] said to his nation c h (exodus 1:9) i.e, other egyptians, who were not the people of the children of israel. but the verse gand they became dissatisfied with themselves because of the children of israel h refers to the israelites themselves. now you can understand to a degree why the israelites were exiled to egypt. all of this was for the sake of those sparks which the decadent egyptians had captured. this is what is wr

children of israel. but the verse gand they became dissatisfied with themselves because of the children of israel h refers to the israelites themselves. now you can understand to a degree why the israelites were exiled to egypt. all of this was for the sake of those sparks which the decadent egyptians had captured. this is what is written, galso a mixed multitude (eirev rav) went up with them h (exodus 12:38. mystically, the mixed multitude were the sparks of holiness which had mingled into egypt, and which moses wished to elevate. but the holy one saw that they were not yet rectified and fit [to be elevated, and he did not want to extract them at that point in time. however, there were actually two varieties of mixed multitude. those who are referred to as gthe mixed multitude, h and als

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arth is mal- v a kuth, the receptacle of the other three. oa w fifth knowledge lecture 85 (note: the following angelic names have been assembled and <170> tabulated systematically from a philosophus manuscript entitled "the lecture on the shemhamphoresch" this document deals principally with the traditional modes of fonning angelic names. it describes how various verses are taken from the book of exodus, and by methods of permutation, are formed into seventy-two names of three letters each. to each of these names is added the suffix yeh or el, thus yielding angelic names and formulae. these seventy-two angels are allotted to each quinary, or division of 5, in the celestial heavens, so that with the other names a very complete hierarchy is given. thus every sign of the zodiac has an archang

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objects which interpret wonderfully the letters of the divine tetragram. gaffarel has proved learnedly that the cherubim of the ark were in the likeness of bulls, but he did not know that instead of two there were four. two at each end, as the text expressly says. though it has been misconstrued for the most part by commentators. the eighteenth and nineteenth verses of the twenty-fifth chapter of exodus should read thus: gand thou shalt make two calves or sphinxes of beaten gold on each side of the oracle. and thou shalt make the one looking this way and the second that way. h the cherubim or sphinxes were, in fact, coupled by twos on each side of the ark, and their heads were turned to the four corners of the mercy-seat, which they covered with their wings inclined archwise, thus overshad

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make better essay [that is, attempts] for heroic actions than others, having the same measures of virtue and vice as we, and still expecting advancement to a higher and more splendid state of life. one of them is stronger than many men, yet [they] do not incline to hurt mankind, except by commission for a gross misdemeanour, as [in the case of] the destroying angel of egypt and the assyrians [in] exodus 12:29, and 2 kings 10:35. they haunt [that is, inhabit] most where there is most barbarity [that is, in isolated non-english-speaking regions, and therefore our ignorant ancestors [in order] to prevent the the secret commonwealth 57 insults of that strange people, used rude and coarse remedies, such as exorcisms, donations, and vows. but as soon as true piety prevailed in any place, it did

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(one god but toleration of others (3) monotheism, and (4) dualism [adapted from persian zoroastrianism (after zaratustra, ca. 600 bce. dualism involves a conflict between two opposing forces of the cosmos in persia ahura mazda vs. ahriman, and later in israel yahweh vs. satan. the hebraic ten commandments are now dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is thus given a "mission" and/or a "destiny" while the egyptian concept

of the ingredients within the incense. meaning may also be supplied by the words used during the censing of the chambre. without some meaning, incense is not symbol, but only smell. closely related to the sense of smell is the sense of taste, and it's fairly easy to see that certain tastes can have meaning as well. during passover seder, a ritual meal of thanksgiving and freedom (celebrating the exodus, jews will dip greens into salt water and eat the salty greens, to remind them of tears shed by the jews in bondage. they will eat bitter herbs to remind them of the bitterness of slavery. likewise, there can be kinesthetic symbols as well. we feel different when we hold a sword in ritual as opposed to when we hold a dagger. we feel different when we are standing up than we feel when we are

on that the condition of human "hopelessness" can be shared in depth. interestingly, the mysteries identified were initially experiences that the jews as a people went through, and which they have been using since the historical occurrences as symbols of recurring collective and individual challenges to faith, or initiations as we would look at it. an example is the passover seder celebrating the exodus. however this is a glaring contradiction of god as not "the intervening presence "the main doctrine of the prophets can be called 'pathetic theology. their attitude toward what they knew about god can be described as [a] religion of sympathy. the divine pathos, or as it was later called, the middot, stood in the center of their consciousness. the life of the prophet revolved around the life

of strong emotions. its calendar chronicles a series of emotional highs and lows throughout the year. jewish ritual orients itself to the most highly-charged moments of human existence: birth, the passage from childhood to adulthood and responsibility, marriage, and death" the jew is taught to see all of these in terms of their history of god's interaction with them, through concepts such as the exodus experience, which has become for them an archtype of transformation in much the same way as the setian would consider an aeonic word. an example of this is the sect portrayed in the "dybbuk" tale found in an appendix to the book of leviathan by ipsissimus james lewis, grand master of the order of leviathan. this sect, in its behavior, is similar to the hasidic jews of today. they are charac

to be drawn from these various considerations. it is that the nature of every number is a thing peculiar to itself, a thing inscrutable and infinite, a thing inexpressible, even if we could understand it. crowley, 777, pages #134-135. 49. the cultural integrity and religious identity of the hebrews will stand some dispassionate re-examination, since egyptian records during the time of the fabled "exodus" mention nothing of the events or personalities contained in that chapter of the bible. cf. pierre montet, lives of the pharaohs, cleveland: world publishing company, pages #197-199. montet is a member of the french institute and honorary professor at the college de france. cf. also john romer, testament, new york: henry holt, 1988, page #58. romer is a distinguished archaeologist and egypt

(i was learning latin in junior high at the time, ascribing the need to howard stanton levey's design to sell the degree system of the church of satan. i can not comment on this, from my vantage point this decision looks resonate with his philosophy. it would likewise be a true sign of that philosophy to clear out when you realize you've been had. i see the fulfillment of levey's teachings in the exodus of many church of satan priests under michael aquino. in this act of rebellion, the temple has maintained its contact with the prince of darkness in his archetypical form as satan, but such a connection is a fairly low voltage connection compared to what mankind is capable of (see below. it is the act of rebellion that makes the magical and philosophical connection, not the document associa

rs and i am many. more are hidden and await their place. my order is of those who exercise the wills of the powers of darkness. we hold four of the five. i do not represent any manner of mankind: only the few elect who are shedding their human aspects. for the millions not chosen by the prince of hell are worthy not of such representation. they are left to their own destiny. i am a planner of the exodus of the elect from the dark fate which our set has spoken of through its magus. the state of the masses is now such that we, the nobles, must gather our wills to one end. the setamorphosis of the setian being. we have not time for pettiness. we have not the energy to spare for the unworthy. we respect not the weaknesses of mankind. from this, set-i, we proclaim our path, for we are the trave

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off and landed in saladin chamcha's lap; followed in quick time by its former owner. eugene dumsday fell tongueless and insensate into the actor's arms. eugene dumsday gained his freedom by losing his tongue; the persuader succeeded in persuading his captors by surrendering his instrument of persuasion. they didn't want to look after a wounded man, risk of gangrene and so on, and so he joined the exodus from the plane. in those first wild hours saladin chamcha's mind kept throwing up questions of detail, are those automatic rifles or sub-machine guns, how did they smuggle all that metal on board, in which parts of the body is it possible to be shot and still survive, how scared they must be, the four of them, how full of their own deaths. once dumsday had gone, he had expected to sit alone

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e fire so they cannot escape it. according to the sibylline oracles uri-el is the angel who on the day of judgement will break the monstrous bars framed of unyielding and unbroken adamant of the brazen gates of hades, and cast them down straightaway. in the prayer of joseph jacob wrestles with a dark angel usually identified as uri-el, and the two merge to become one entity. in the midrash aggada exodus uri-el manifests in the form of a fiery serpent and attacks moses for failing to uphold tradition in the circumcision of his son. uri-el was officially de-sainted in 745 a.d. when a church council, pope zachary, condemned both uri-el and ragu-el as demons in a kind of inquisition of the celestial beings. he was later reinstated. sari-el also known as suri-el, suriy-el, zerachi-el and sarqu

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great prince of the wicked! be present leviathan, great serpent of the infernal seas! be present beelzebub, great lord of the flies! be present lucifer, great morning star and light-bringer! 3 all participants face the satanagram as the celebrant recites the invocation to lucifer: o lucifer, prideful morning star, supreme in beauty and power, hear me! grant him (her, this enlightened fallen angel exodus from the heavenly abyss of slavery and the tyrant king the knowledge and will of your dark soul, satan! dark creator of the angles of darkness, herein we the dark souls dwell! guide and empower him (her) now and forevermore! in luciferi honos! 4 all drink from the chalice of change (the celebrant, then his assistant, and finally the initiate. 5 the celebrant recites the pact of oration whic

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which were for the healing of the nations) these are also the 72 names of the ladder of jacob on which the angels of god ascended and descended. it will presently be shown how the 72 angelic names are formed from the 72 names of the deity, and also how their signification is to be found. the 72 names of the deity are thus obtained. the 19th, 20th, and 21st verses of the xiv chapter of the book of exodus each consist of 72 letters (the english translation is) 19th verse: and the angel of the elohim, that went before the camp of israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them and stood behind them. 20th verse: and it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel; and it was a cloud and darkness (to the first) but it gave light by night (

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

right knowledge, and right conduct. tian: heaven, or the principle of ordering the universe. tipitaka: the buddhist sacred texts accepted by all branches of buddhism. tirthankara: literally, makers of the ford; those souls who have attained enlightenment and have been freed from the cycle of death and rebirth; the twenty-four leaders of jainism. torah: the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. tori: the gate that marks the entrance to a shrine. its shape is regarded as a symbol of shinto. totem: some sort of object or, perhaps, animal that assumes a spiritual symbolism for a clan or tribe. transcendent: going beyond the ordinary, beyond the universe and time, into spiritual dimensions. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, a

ne god, judaism s early history experienced many challenges. this early history is recorded in the first five books of the tanakh; these five books are collectively called the torah. the key event was god s appointment of the prophet abraham (c. 2050 c. 1950 bce) as the leader of the israelites, god s chosen people. another key event was the bondage, or enslavement, of the jews in egypt and their exodus, or escape, under the leadership of the prophet moses, who received from god the ten commandments (religious laws) and gave them to the jewish people. judaism became more structured and organized under kings saul (c. 1020 1000 bce, david (d. 962 bce, and solomon (tenth century bce, who constructed a magnificent temple (the first temple) in jerusalem in the tenth century bce. there, in a roo

. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less traditional branch of the faith. rosh hoshanah: the jewish new year. sephardic: term used to refer to jews of north africa, the middle east, spain, and portugal. talmud: traditions that explain and interpret the torah. tanakh: the chief jewish scripture; the hebrew bible. torah: the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. yahweh: one of the names for god in the tanakh. yom kippur: the day of atonement. zionism: a movement that began in the nineteenth century to find a permanent home for jews. world religions: almanac 347 judaism ended in 70 ce when roman troops occupied the city, massacred the jews, and destroyed the temple. a second revolt took place in 132 ce when hund

ach day. 6. the words of the prophets in the tanakh are true. jewish scripture identifies fifty-five prophets, including seven women. these prophets spoke for god and helped to define the relationship between god and his people. 7. a related belief is that moses was the greatest prophet and that his words are true. 8. the words of the written torah, or the first five books of the tanakh (genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, are true and were given to moses by god. similarly, the words of the oral torah, which includes the talmud, or traditions that interpret and explain the scriptures, are accepted as true. in the second century of the common era the talmud was written down in a text called the mishnah. orthodox jews believe that god taught it to moses and that it was hand

the messiah, while jews do not. 13. the dead will be resurrected in the time to come, or in hebrew, olam ha-ba, the afterlife. sacred writings jewish tradition recognizes tanakh, also called the hebrew bible (mainly by non-jews, as its core sacred scripture. the tanakh, in turn, comprises three parts. the first part is the torah, or law, which contains the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. the second part is called nevi im, or prophets, and includes twenty-one books, including i kings, ii kings, isaiah, jeremiah, and others. these books, as the names suggest, record the life and teachings of many of the major prophets of judaism. the third part is called ketuvim, or writings, and includes a number of the more literary books of the tanakh

ather. the second major theme is the concept of covenant, which refers to agreements between god and man. this sense of covenant governed all human relationships and made both moral and ritual demands on the jewish people. the third theme is law, including the ten commandments given to moses on mount sinai, but the torah contains numerous other laws, including the 613 mitzvoth. the final theme is exodus, the most prominent example of which is contained in the second book of the torah, exodus. the escape of jews from bondage in egypt and their return to the promised land is a key event in jewish history, an event still commemorated in the yearly feast of passover. in a jewish temple, the torah is handwritten in beautiful calligraphy (stylized handwriting) on parchment scrolls rather than in

day. most jews observe this holiday to some world religions: almanac 361 judaism extent, even those who are not otherwise religious. passover, which begins on the fourteenth day of the jewish month of nissan, commemorates the jewish escape from egypt after many years of slavery. the name refers to god passing over the homes of jews when the firstborn sons of egypt were slaughtered, as recorded in exodus, chapter 12. at the center of passover is the seder, a ceremonial dinner held in the home or the community on the first or first and second evenings of passover. one of the most recognizable features of passover and the seder is that jews avoid any breads or grain products that contain leaven, the substance that makes bread rise. this observance commemorates the fact that when the jews fled

me time off from work or school to prepare for seder, a long and complicated process of cooking food and cleaning the home, especially the stove and refrigerator that come into contact with leavened products. the seder dinner itself is a complex ritual consisting of at least fifteen parts, including a variety of blessings. at the center of the seder meal is the maggid, a retelling of the story of exodus, and the youngest person in the group asking the four questions (mah nishtanah) to prompt the story. rosh hashanah rosh hashanah is typically referred to as the jewish new year. it takes place on the first and second days of the jewish month of tishri. tishri is the seventh month of the jewish calendar (nissan is the first month, but tishri marks the new year because that is when the number

h in origin. the bible, which contains both the jewish tanakh and the christian new testament, has been translated into more than two thousand languages and dialects. a survey of bible sales up to 1992 revealed that an estimated six billion copies of the book have been sold, making it one of the bestselling books of all time. the stories of the tanakh, such as that of creation, the flood, and the exodus from egypt led by moses, are familiar to millions of people around the world, many of whom are not jewish. these stories have been reproduced in television and in movies, including moses (1975) starring burt lancaster (1913 1994, the ten commandments (1956) with charlton heston (1924) and yul brynner (1920 1985, and samson and delilah (1956, produced by cecile b. demille (1881 1959. scenes

ealed his intentions through his prophets (divine messengers, and their prophecies were revealed in the hebrew scriptures, primarily in the section called prophets (nevi im. this section consists of twenty-one books, including 1 kings, 2 kings, isaiah, and jeremiah. 7. moses (c. 1392 c. 1272 bce; see entry) was the greatest among the prophets. moses was the dominant figure in the biblical book of exodus, which details the story of the formation of the jewish nation after he led the jewish people out of slavery in egypt. moses has also traditionally been regarded as the author of the torah, the first five books of the hebrew scriptures, although modern biblical scholars dispute this belief. 8. god gave his law to man in the form of the ten commandments and other principles. god s law was fi

e formation of the jewish nation after he led the jewish people out of slavery in egypt. moses has also traditionally been regarded as the author of the torah, the first five books of the hebrew scriptures, although modern biblical scholars dispute this belief. 8. god gave his law to man in the form of the ten commandments and other principles. god s law was first revealed to moses in the book of exodus. the law is detailed in the biblical book of leviticus, although exodus, numbers, and deuteronomy also contain principles that remain part of jewish law. 9. the torah, as god s law, is unchangeable( maimonides put forth this idea in response to the growing belief that god s law could evolve or change according to current conditions. this is perhaps the one of the thirteen principles of fait

. writing the first the mishnah gentiles, or those who are not jews, can sometimes find the terms used to refer to jewish scripture and traditions confusing. the most important jewish scripture is the bible s old testament, which jews refer to as the tanakh( old testament is a term used by christians) the most essential part of the tanakh is the torah, the first five books in the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. these books detail the principles of jewish law, the formation of the jewish nation, and god s covenant, or agreement, with the israelites as his chosen people. these five books are often referred to as the written torah. in addition to the written torah is the oral torah, which consists of interpretations of the written torah and methods with which to

proclaim the name of the lord/ ascribe greatness to our god. moses ranks as one of the major leaders, prophets (divine messengers, and lawgivers in the jewish and christian traditions. he is best remembered for leading the israelites, or the jewish people, out of slavery from egypt in about the thirteenth century bce. the account of this journey is detailed in the hebrew scriptures in the book of exodus. the hebrew scriptures, or sacred texts, are often referred to by christians as the old testament of the bible. they are called the tanakh by jews. jews refer to the first five books of the tanakh, which are exodus, genesis, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, as the torah. orthodox jews and conservative christians traditionally believe that these five books were written by moses himself

times disappears behind clouds of dust during sandstorms, which could explain the three days when the sun was not visible in the story about the plague in egypt recounted in the tanakh, or the old testament. several events occurred when the israelites were fleeing the egyptian army that again raise the issue of god s possible miraculous intervention on behalf of the jews. according to the book of exodus, god parted the red sea, allowed the jews to escape on foot, then released the walls of water so they rushed down onto the pursuing egyptians. again, potential natural explanations exist. one holds that the events did not take place at the red sea but at the isthmus of suez, an arm of water that extends inland from the mediterranean sea. an earthquake could have caused a tsunami, a massive

. again, potential natural explanations exist. one holds that the events did not take place at the red sea but at the isthmus of suez, an arm of water that extends inland from the mediterranean sea. an earthquake could have caused a tsunami, a massive wave of water that engulfed the egyptians after the israelites passed by safely. an alternative explanation claims that the red sea as specified in exodus was in actuality a large marsh that was thick with reeds. on foot, the israelites would have been able to make their way through the marsh, but the egyptians horse-drawn chariots would have become stuck in the soggy ground, and, as the horses struggled, the egyptians might have lost their lives. world religions: biographies 281 moses spared their sons) the egyptians became so terrified that

e israelites would have been able to make their way through the marsh, but the egyptians horse-drawn chariots would have become stuck in the soggy ground, and, as the horses struggled, the egyptians might have lost their lives. world religions: biographies 281 moses spared their sons) the egyptians became so terrified that they not only released the israelites but ordered them to leave egypt. the exodus the story that dominates the book of exodus is that of the wandering of the israelites in the desert after their escape from egypt. according to exodus, the israelite men numbered some six hundred thousand; adding in women and children would bring the total number of travelers to perhaps two million. under the leadership of moses the israelites followed a route southeast to the town of succ

number of travelers to perhaps two million. under the leadership of moses the israelites followed a route southeast to the town of succoth, then northeast to the isthmus of suez, southeast again along the sinai peninsula to mount sinai, and finally northeast to hebron, in palestine. this journey took place over a period of forty years. early on in the flight of the israelites, referred to as the exodus, the pharaoh apparently changed his mind about ordering the israelites out and sent his army in pursuit. the israelites achieved a great victory at the red sea, which is said to have miraculously parted, allowing them to walk across safely and then swamping the pursuing egyptian army. another key event concerned the hunger and thirst of the people in the desert. they began to grumble and qu

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rse (genesis 1:3, and god said 'let there be light' and there was light? why does the verse not say "and it was so? what is this like? a king had a beautiful object. he puts it away until he had a place for it, and then he put it there. it is therefore written "let there be light, and there was light" this indicates that it already existed. 26. rabbi amorai said: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 15:3 "god is a man (ish) of war? mar rahumai said to him: great master, do not ask about something that is so simple. listen to me and i will advise you. he said to him: what is this like? a king had a number of beautiful dwellings, and he gave each one a name. one was better than the other. he said "i will give my son this dwelling whose name is aleph. this one whose name is yod is also go

t is the soul- and its name is cholem. if you listen to it, your body will be vigorous (chalam) in the ultimate future. but if you rebel against it, there will be sickness (choleh) on your head, and diseases (cholim) on its head. 41. they also said: every dream (chalom) is in the cholem. every white precious stone is in the cholem. it is thus written [with regard to the high priest's breastplate (exodus 28:19"[and in the third row] a white stone (achlamah" 42. he said to them: come and hear the fine points regarding the vowel points found in the torah of moses. he sat and expounded: chirek hates evildoers and punishes them. its side includes jealousy, hatred and competition. it is thus written (psalm 37:12 "he gnashes (chorek) his teeth at them" do not read chorek (gnashes, but rochek (rep

s side includes jealousy, hatred and competition. it is thus written (psalm 37:12 "he gnashes (chorek) his teeth at them" do not read chorek (gnashes, but rochek (repels. repel (rachek) these traits from yourself, and repel yourself from evil. good will then certainly attach itself to you. 43. chirek. do not read chirik but kerach (ice. whatever the chirek touches becomes ice. it is thus written (exodus 34:7 "and cleanses" 44. what is the indication that chirek has the connotation of burning? this is because it is fire that burns all fire. it is thus written (1 kings 18:38 "and god's fire fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and evaporated the water that was in the trench" the bahir 12 section iii the seven voices and the sephiroth 45. he (rabbi amorai)

e indication that chirek has the connotation of burning? this is because it is fire that burns all fire. it is thus written (1 kings 18:38 "and god's fire fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, the dust, and evaporated the water that was in the trench" the bahir 12 section iii the seven voices and the sephiroth 45. he (rabbi amorai) said: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 20:15, and all the people saw the voices. these are the voice regarding which king david spoke. it is thus written (psalm 29:3, the voice of god is upon the waters, the god of glory thunders [this is the first voice [the second voice is (psalm 29:4, the voice of god comes in strength. regarding this it is written (isaiah 10:13, by the strength of my hand have i done it. it is likewise writt

th, o daughters of jerusalem, with the hosts, or with the hinds of the field. this teaches us that the torah was given with seven voices. in each of them the master of the universe revealed himself to them, and they saw him. it is thus written, and all the people saw the voices. 46. one verse states (2 samuel 22:10, he bent the heavens and came down, with gloom under his feet. another verse says (exodus 19:20) and god came down on mount sinai, to the top of the mountain. still another verse, however (exodus 20:22) states from heaven i spoke to you. how is this reconciled? his great fire was on earth, and this was one voice. the other voices were in heaven. it is thus written (deuteronomy 4:36, from the heavens he let you hear his voice, that he might instruct you. and on the earth he showe

this like? a king stands before his servants wrapped in a white robe. even though he is far away, they can still hear his voice. this is true even though they cannot see his throat when he speaks. in a similar manner, they saw an image, but not an entire image. it is therefore written, you saw no form, only a voice. it is also written (deuteronomy 4:12) a voice of words you heard. 48. one verse (exodus 20:15, states, and all the people saw the voices. another verse, however (deuteronomy 4:12) states, the voice of words you heard. how can [the two be reconciled? at first they saw the voices. what did the see? the seven voices mentioned by david. but in the end they heard the word that emanated from them all. but we have learned that there were ten. our sages taught that they were all said

make a mistake and say, others helped him. it might have been one of the angels. but his voice alone could not be so powerful. it was for this reason that he came back and included them [in a single word. 49. another explanation: it was so that the world should not say that since there were ten sayings for ten kings, it might be that he could not speak for them all through one. he therefore said (exodus 20:2, i am [the lord you god, which included all ten. what are the ten kings? they are the seven voices and three sayings (amarim. what are the sayings [they are the ones alluded to in the verse (deuteronomy 26:18) god has said for you today. what are the three [two are mentioned in the verse (proverbs 4:7, the beginning is wisdom: acquire wisdom, with all your acquisition, acquire understa

s the gold. what is the meaning of the verse, mine is the silver, and mine is the gold? what is this like? a king had two treasuries, one of silver, and one of gold. he placed that of silver to his right, and that of gold to his left. he said [of the silver, this should be ready, and easy to take out. he keeps his words calm. he is attached to the poor and directs them calmly. it is thus written (exodus 15:6, your right hand, o god, is mighty in power. if he rejoices in his portion, then all is well. if not, then (exodus 15:6, your right hand, o god, crumbles the enemy. he said to them: this is referring to the gold. it is thus written, mine is the silver, and mine is the gold. 53. why is [gold] called zahav? because it includes three attributes [alluded to in its three letters, zayin, heh

arn that it is where justice emanates. if you bend your words to the right or left, you will be punished. 57. what is the meaning of the verse (isaiah 30:26, the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, like the light of the seven days. the verse does not say seven days, but the seven days. these are the days regarding which it is written (exodus 31:17, for six days god made [the heaven and the earth. as you said, god made six beautiful vessels. what are they? the heaven and the earth. are they not seven? yes, as it is written (ibid) and on the seventh day, he rested and souled. what is the meaning of souled? this teaches us that the sabbath sustains all souls. it is therefore written that it souled. 58. another explanation: this te

eace, so he chose peace. it is therefore written (2 kings 20:19, peace and truth shall be in my days. this shall be through the attribute that you gave to david. regarding this, it is written (psalm 89:37, his throne shall be like the sun before me. 76. what is the meaning of the verse (habakkuk 3:2, in the midst of years make it known? he said: i know that you are the holy god, as it is written (exodus 15:11, who is like you, mighty in holiness? holiness is in you and you are in holiness. nevertheless, in the midst of years make it known. what is the meaning of make it known [this means] that you should have mercy. it is thus written (exodus 2:25, and god saw the children of israel, and god knew. the bahir 20 what is the meaning of, and god knew? what is this like? a king had a beautiful

for vav is nothing other than the six directions. he replied: the covenant of circumcision and man s mate are considered as one. his is two hands then make three, his head and body, five, and his two legs make seven. paralleling all these are their powers in heaven. it is thus written (ecclesiastes 7:14, also one opposite the other had god made. these are the days [of the week, as it is written (exodus 31:17, because six days god made the heaven and the earth. the scripture does not say in six days, but rather, six days. this teaches us that each day [of the week] has its own specific power. 83 what is the significance of the nun [in the word ozen? this teaches us that the brain is the main part of the spinal cord. it constantly draws from there, and if not for the spinal cord, the brain

gave them a sign. they said, from now on, with these two signs, god will watch you from all evil, he will safeguard your soul. 94. rabbi amorai sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (1 kings 8:27, behold the heaven and the heaven of heaven cannot contain you? this teaches us that the blessed holy one has 72 names. all of them were placed in the tribes [of israel. it is thus written (exodus 28:10, six of the bahir 24 their names on one stone, and the names of the other six on the other stone, according to their generations. it is also written (joshua 4:9, he raised up twelve stones. just like the first are (exodus 28:12, stones of memorial, so these are (joshua 4:7, stones of memorial [there are therefore] 12 stones [each containing six names] making a total of 72. these paral

5 96. what is the earth from which the heavens were graven? it is the throne of the blessed holy one. it is the precious stone and the sea of wisdom. this parallels the blue in the tzitzit. rabbi meir thus said: why is blue chosen above all other colours [for the tzitzit? because the blue resembles the sea, the sea resembles the sky,l and the sky resembles the throne of glory. it is thus written (exodus 24:10, they saw the god of israel, and under his feet was like a pavement of sapphire, like the essence of heaven in clarity. it is furthermore written (ezekiel 1:26, as the likeness of a sapphire stone was the appearance of a throne. 97. rabbi berachiah sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 25:2, and they shall take for me a lifted offering (terumah? it means, lift me

is the meaning of the verse (exodus 25:2, and they shall take for me a lifted offering (terumah? it means, lift me up with your prayers. and whom? those whose hearts make them willing. these are the ones who are willing to draw themselves away from this world. honour him, for it is in him that i rejoice, since he knows my name. from him it is fitting to take my lifted offering, as it is written (exodus 25:2, from each man whose heart makes him willing, you shall take my lifted offering. from he who makes himself willing. rabbi rahumai said [this refers to] the righteous and pious in israel who raise me over all the world through their merit. from them the heart is sustained, and the heart sustains them. 98. and all the holy forms oversee all the nations. but israel is holy, taking the tre

omes weak. it supports the entire world, as it is written, and righteous is the foundation of the world. if it becomes weak, then the world cannot endure. therefore, even if there is only one righteous person in the world, it is he who supports the world. it is therefore written, and a righteous one is the foundation of the world. you should therefore take my lifted offering from him first. then (exodus 25:3, and this is the lifted offering that you should take from them from the rest. what is it? gold, silver and copper. 103. another explanation: it is written (exodus 25:2, and the shall take for me (li) a lifted offering [li (for me) can also be read, for the yod] they shall take the yod, which is the tenth, as a lifted offering to make it holy. how do we know that the tenth is holy? bec

which it is written (ezekiel 44:30, the beginning of all the first fruits and every lifted offering of every thing. it is furthermore written (psalm 111:10, the beginning of wisdom is the fear of god. do not read is the fear but and the fear [the verse will then read, the beginning is wisdom and the fear of god] 104. the disciples asked rabbi eliezer: our master, what is the meaning of the verse (exodus 13:2, sanctify to me every first-born? does the blessed holy one then have a first-born? he replied: sanctify to me (li) every first-born refers to nothing other than the second the bahir 27 level of holiness. it is the name that is given to israel, as it is written (exodus 7:22, my son, my first-born, israel. to the extent that we can express it, he was with them [in egypt] in the time of

n? does the blessed holy one then have a first-born? he replied: sanctify to me (li) every first-born refers to nothing other than the second the bahir 27 level of holiness. it is the name that is given to israel, as it is written (exodus 7:22, my son, my first-born, israel. to the extent that we can express it, he was with them [in egypt] in the time of their oppression. it is therefore written (exodus 4:27, send forth my son and he will serve me [here, only my son is mentioned] and not my first-born. rabbi rahumai said: what is the meaning of the verse (deuteronomy 22:7, you shall surely send away the mother, and the children you shall take for yourself. why does it not say, you shall surely send away the father? but the scripture says, you shall surely send away the mother in honour of

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ings of isaiah vi. 2; the word otherwise is translated serpent, and in numbers xxi. 6, as "fiery serpents: also in verse 8 as "fiery serpent" when jehovah said "make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole" kerubim. the hebrew words arc chivth h qdsh, holy animals: i have ventured to put kerubim, as the title of the other biblical form of holy mysterious animal, as given in 1 kings vi. 23 and exodus xxv. 18, and indeed genesis iii. 24. bible dictionaries generally give the word as cherubim, but in hebrew the initial letter is always k and not ch. 26. three. in the first edition i overlooked this word three; and putting and for as, made four classes of serving beings. 27. this is verse 4 of psalm civ. 28. here follow the permutations of the name ihv, which is the tetragrammaton--jehovah

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figures, magical pictures and formula, magical names, magical ceremonies, etc, and such portions of the book of the dead as bear upon these subjects generally. footnotes footnotes 1:1 the series referred to is books on egypt and chaldaea, published by kegan paul. budge wrote several volumes in the series, including the first, mentioned here, egyptian religion--the publisher 4:1 acts vii. 22. 5:1 exodus vii. 10 ff. two of moses' opponents were called "jannes" and "jambres (see 2 timothy iii. 8. 5:2 that moses' rod or serpent should swallow up the rods or serpents of the egyptians is, of course, to be expected, just as his magical powers are declared to be superior to those of the egyptians. 5:3 an interesting paper on the use of the rod by the egyptians and hebrews was published by chabas

rod or serpent should swallow up the rods or serpents of the egyptians is, of course, to be expected, just as his magical powers are declared to be superior to those of the egyptians. 5:3 an interesting paper on the use of the rod by the egyptians and hebrews was published by chabas in annales du musee guimet, tom. i. pp. 35-48, paris, 1880. 6:1 for details, see chapter iii (magical figures. 7:1 exodus xiv. 21-28. 7:2 see erman, die marchen des papyrus westcar, berlin, 1890. 7:3 he was the chief kher heb, i.e, the head of the priests who officiated in funeral ceremonies, and read the service from a book. 15:1 see chapter vi (magical ceremonies. 16:1 chapters xxx, lxiv, cxxxvii. see my chapters of coming forth by day (text, pp. 97, 141, 309. 21:1 les prairies d'or (ed. by b. de meynard and

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of egypt, and i hardened his heart. i am he whom iannes and iambres invoked homing [1] with moses in egypt. i am he who fought against moses [2] with wonders with signs [1. o koyx menoi in the ms, a vox nihili. if we had the apocryph of iannes and iambres we might understand the reference. 2. 2 tim. iii. 8] 126. i said therefore to him "how wast thou found in the red sea" and he answered "in the exodus of the sons of israel i hardened the heart of pharaoh. and i excited his heart and that of his ministers. and i caused them to pursue after the children of israel. and pharaoh followed with (me) and all the egyptians. then i was present there, and we followed together. and we all came up upon the red sea. and it came to pass when the children of israel had crossed over, the water returned a

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mural, are each counted as one figure. the number 72 denoted from the earliest days the divine name of 72 words. this number is derived from a permutation of the values assigned to the four letters of the tetragrammaton (jhvh: jehovah, the ineffable, unpronounceable name of god. this name, in its multitude of forms, can be used to work miracles or magic, so say the cabalists. it was derived from exodus xiv, verses 19, 20 and 21, which each consist of 72 letters "now, if these three verses be written at length one above another, the first from right to left, the second from left to right, and the third from right to left (or, as the greeks would say, boustrophedon, they will give 72 columns of three letters each. then each column will be a word of three letters, and as there are 72 columns

hitect of the universe (whenever it appears as a symbol of god. his explanation is that which is generally accepted. it is, however, erroneous. a full commentary on the meaning of this all-important symbol appears in part ii of this study. the sephiroth earlier, reference was made to the sephiroth, and to the three pillars of which it is composed in the form called the tree of life. the verses of exodus which contain the 72 letters of the tetragrammaton are also believed by the cabalists to contain the pillars of the sephiroth, or emanations (the cabala, by bernhard pick, chicago, 1913, p. 91. the reader will notice in the upper left corner of the mural an arc which curves down to the left from the tip end of the caduceus line and forms the third side of a white geometrical figure which is

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. the hebrew word which is translated as "mark" is tau and some have identified the sign tau with the t cross. tertullian, in commenting on the passage, says of the sign "ipsa enim litera graecorum t, nostra autem species crucis (adversus marcian iii.22" we also see a view that the mark made with the blood of the paschal lamb on the houses of the israelites before they left egypt was the t cross (exodus xii. 7. we have now to consider the christian cross or also known as the calvary cross. the new testament makes it quite certain that christ was not crucified on a single stake (crux simplex, but on a patibulum or bigot formed of two bars of wood with one fastened across the other. some have held the view that he was nailed to the cross whilst it lay on the ground, and that the cross was th

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of the ingredients within the incense. meaning may also be supplied by the words used during the censing of the chambre. without some meaning, incense is not symbol, but only smell. closely related to the sense of smell is the sense of taste, and it's fairly easy to see that certain tastes can have meaning as well. during passover seder, a ritual meal of thanksgiving and freedom (celebrating the exodus, jews will dip greens into salt water and eat the salty greens, to remind them of tears shed by the jews in bondage. they will eat bitter herbs to remind them of the bitterness of slavery. likewise, there can be kinesthetic symbols as well. we feel different when we hold a sword in ritual as opposed to when we hold a dagger. we feel different when we are standing up than we feel when we are

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xplains that the ritual for this degree requires a keen understanding of astrology. but, its performance is said to be derived from a passage in the scriptures "the sign is made" writes zain "by thrusting the hand into the bosom and again drawing it out."9 the official masonic explanation for this sign a myth intended to divert the profane from the truth is that it refers to the fourth chapter of exodus in the holy bible "and the lord said unto moses, put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow" leprous, indeed, is the hand of the mason who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophe

sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the masonic ritual. yet the holy bible commands "thou shalt have no other gods before me (exodus 20:3) and goes on to emphatically state "make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth (exodus 23:23) in volume 1 of albert mackey's encyclopedia of freemasonry, a large section is devoted to a discussion of the hand and hand signs. mackey states "in freemasonry, the hand as a symbol holds a high place..the same symbol is found in the most ancient reli

or of freemasonry, illustrating the strong master's grip, or lion's paw, as practiced in the third degree of scottish rite freemasonry. 198 codex magica former vice president al gore, who ran for the presidency on the democrat party ticket in 2000, appears to be in the process of making the master's grip of the 3rd degree of freemasonry, indicating he is, as a minimum, a master mason (photo: from exodus iii, volume 2, number 1) note: a sign similar to that of the master's grip is that of the most excellent master as illustrated on p. 61 of richardson's monitor of freemasonry. page 61 of richardson's monitor of freemasonry illustrating the sign of the most excellent master's degree "i gruesomely swear that i'm on the square" 199 mormon (lds) woman gives a sign in a lds church ritual ceremon

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ond temple, and the prayer book did not appear in its classical form until the middle ages. but spontaneous prayers are found throughout the tanakh, the hebrew bible, and the old testament in the christian bible. to list only a few: the prayers of abraham (genesis 15:2 3, isaac (genesis 25:21 23, and hannah (1 samuel 1:9 13) petitioning god for an heir; moses prayers for plagues on the egyptians (exodus 8:12, for the red sea to part its waters (exodus 14:21, for a glimpse of god s glory (exodus 33:18, for aaron s forgiveness after his sin of making the gold calf (deuteronomy 9:20; samson s prayer for strength to bring the columns down 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 228 religious phenomena according to a 2001 survey on the prayer ha

iced writings of such church fathers as irenaeus, hippolytus, and epiphanius, who condemned the gnostics as heretics and devil-worshippers. the library that was found in upper egypt consists 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 278 mystery religions and cults simon magus: the earliest known gnostic. magnus construed that the garden of eden, the exodus from egypt, and the red sea crossings were symbols. marcion (85 160 c.e: organizer of gnostic congregations. these eastern mediterranean congregations lasted into the third century c.e. christian leaders from rome excommunicated marcion for writing a book called antitheses. he believed the death of christ was a hallucination, because jesus did not have a physical body. valentinus: founder o

ensory perception, the mind/body connection, and other psi or paranormal factors that cannot be explained by known scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of drugs

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something that gives an indication of the course of future events. oracle either someone or something that is the source of wisdom, knowledge or prophecy. can also refer to the place where the prophetic word would be given. via french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh an all-powerful person in a position of authority and who expects unquestioning obedience, such as the ancient egyptian rulers of egypt. from the hebrew paroh and egyptian pr-o, meaning great house. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can

ensory perception, the mind/body connection, and other psi or paranormal factors that cannot be explained by known scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of drugs

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retations to the 12 signs of the zodiac. katter stated that the star gospel, also called adamic theology, antedates the old testament by 2,500 years. the star gospel uses the same 12 zodiacal signs as does astrology, but begins with virgo and ends with leo. katter stated that, according to tradition, jacob and his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 signs stand for 12 positions of the sun in relation to earth. while western astrology evolved from the egyptians, babylonians, chaldeans, and greeks, chinese astrology developed independently of outside influences and was formed around the belief that the emperor was divine. some scholars of astrology place the beginning of chinese astrolog

0 feet on mt. ararat. it was reported to be the same size as the ark. in the 1980s, former nasa astronaut james irwin participated in expeditions up the mountain, but he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s, and the search for noah fs ark continues. as described in the old testament book of exodus, the ark of the covenant, a wooden chest covered with gold, is said to contain such sacred relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem, but ev

n rings, one on each corner of the chest. two poles made of setim and covered with gold ran through the gold rings on either side; the poles were used to lift the ark and were never removed from the rings. the ark had a cover of gold on which two cherubim faced each other, each with wings spread. the oracle (word, or commands) of god would issue from the ark from a cloud between the two cherubim (exodus 25:19.22. the ark originally provided safety to the israelites in their journey to the promised land. the power of the ark was manifested several times and enemies were scattered. when priests carrying the ark stepped into the river jordan, the water stopped flowing and all the israelites were able to cross. at the battle of jericho the ark was carried by a procession around the walls of th

ensory perception, the mind/body connection, and other psi or paranormal factors that cannot be explained by known scientific principles. parapsychology the study or exploration of mental phenomena that does not have a scientific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par foh, egyptian pr- fo, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally ggreat house. h an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of d

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freed from the past. keep the ball rolling. i am myself at last! to bring about quiet, say: hush like a whisper the wind through the trees softer and softer a summer s breeze eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.izof 273 part one: the beginning 6 of 273 chapter 1.1- the great illusion thou shalt have no other gods before me. thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20, 3. judaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. this prohibition hides behind it the most fundamental principle in judaism, which states that everything we see is only a figment of our imagination. over the years, this principle has been consciously and sometimes unconsciously adopted by many of us after realizing that the ability to change our perspective might serve as a good t

stic nature, doesn t allow us to advance anywhere except to care for ourselves. this is called the state of pharaoh. the egoism doesn t let us feel the sublime and perfect state. it is the egoism, man s inner and vicious force called pharaoh that the torah speaks of at length, whereas the force that makes one exit that state is called moses. pharaoh, moses and everything that is written about the exodus describe spiritual states and emotions. our current state is the lowest possible. it is a state of absolute slumber, unconsciousness. we have no sensation whatsoever of who or where we are. it is even 20 of 273 a lower state than this world. it is so low that we cannot feel any spirituality, not even as good or bad. the torah is not a historic epic, though there is a correlation between the

00 years, the entire nation that left egypt was forced to experience another exile, the one that has been ongoing for the past 2000 years. in order to feel who you are and what your properties are, you must feel at least a little bit of what spirituality is like. one must experience these feelings to the fullest, and examine them in every way. when the process is completed, he is granted with the exodus from egypt. abraham is only the first phase. when one begins to study the wisdom of kabbalah, he begins to feel that he is much worse than before. however, this feeling passes. it is a small entrance to egypt. afterwards abraham returns to beit-el. on the second time he goes to egypt he takes his family with him. meaning, once he has accumulated a substantial amount of desires, and has alre

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er the one supreme deity; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness, and the internal spiritual higher world of goodness and light, beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of babylonia. the unique athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light. gquand l fhomme grandit dieu s feleve h. it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in exodus, xxxiii, moses was unable to look at god face to face; it was also the same idea as held by charles darwin. the theory of evolution. the growth of the protoplast into man, of evil into good. khephra, god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night. above us flames the zodiac, the sign of the balance lies between virgo and scorpio, the eagle is the emblem of good, the scorpion o

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od will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware genesis page 30 to abraham, to isaac, and to jacob. 50:25 and joseph took an oath of the children of israel, saying, god will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 50:26 so joseph died [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in egypt. page 31 exodus the second book of moses, called exodus 1:1 now these [are] the names of the children of israel, which came into egypt; every man and his household came with jacob. 1:2 reuben, simeon, levi, and judah, 1:3 issachar, zebulun, and benjamin, 1:4 dan, and naphtali, gad, and asher. 1:5 and all the souls that came out of the loins of jacob were seventy souls: for joseph was in egypt [already] 1:6

e to see, god called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, moses, moses. and he said, here [am] i. 3:5 and he said, draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 3:6 moreover he said, i [am] the god of thy father, the god of abraham, the god of isaac, and the god of jacob. and moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look exodus page 32 upon god. 3:7 and the lord said, i have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for i know their sorrows; 3:8 and i am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of

old, i will slay thy son [even] thy firstborn. 4:24 and it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the lord met him, and sought to kill him. 4:25 then zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me. 4:26 so he let him go: then she said, a bloody husband [thou art] because of the circumcision. page 33 exodus 4:27 and the lord said to aaron, go into the wilderness to meet moses. and he went, and met him in the mount of god, and kissed him. 4:28 and moses told aaron all the words of the lord who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. 4:29 and moses and aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of israel: 4:30 and aaron spake all the words which the lord

he life of kohath [were] an hundred thirty and three years. 6:19 and the sons of merari; mahali and mushi: these [are] the families of levi according to their generations. 6:20 and amram took him jochebed his father s sister to wife; and she bare him aaron and moses: and the years of the life of amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years. 6:21 and the sons of izhar; korah, and nepheg, and exodus page 34 zichri. 6:22 and the sons of uzziel; mishael, and elzaphan, and zithri. 6:23 and aaron took him elisheba, daughter of amminadab, sister of naashon, to wife; and she bare him nadab, and abihu, eleazar, and ithamar. 6:24 and the sons of korah; assir, and elkanah, and abiasaph: these [are] the families of the korhites. 6:25 and eleazar aaron s son took him [one] of the daughters of put

ord because of the frogs which he had brought against pharaoh. 8:13 and the lord did according to the word of moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. 8:14 and they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. 8:15 but when pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the lord had said. page 35 exodus 8:16 and the lord said unto moses, say unto aaron, stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of egypt. 8:17 and they did so; for aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of egypt. 8:18 and the magi

and aaron, and said unto them, i have sinned this time: the lord [is] righteous, and i and my people [are] wicked. 9:28 intreat the lord (for [it is] enough) that there be no [more] mighty thunderings and hail; and i will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. 9:29 and moses said unto him, as soon as i am gone out of the city, i will spread abroad my hands unto the lord [and] the thunder shall exodus page 36 cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth [is] the lord s. 9:30 but as for thee and thy servants, i know that ye will not yet fear the lord god. 9:31 and the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled. 9:32 but the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up. 9:33 and mose

hat follow thee: and after that i will go out. and he went out from pharaoh in a great anger. 11:9 and the lord said unto moses, pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of egypt. 11:10 and moses and aaron did all these wonders before pharaoh: and the lord hardened pharaoh s heart, so that he would not let the children of israel go out of his land. page 37 exodus 12:1 and the lord spake unto moses and aaron in the land of egypt, saying, 12:2 this month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you. 12:3 speak ye unto all the congregation of israel, saying, in the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house: 12:4 and

e day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the lord went out from the land of egypt. 12:42 it [is] a night to be much observed unto the lord for bringing them out from the land of egypt: this [is] that night of the lord to be observed of all the children of israel in their generations. 12:43 and the lord said unto moses and aaron, this [is] the ordinance of the passover: there shall no stranger exodus page 38 eat thereof: 12:44 but every man s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 12:45 a foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 12:46 in one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 12:47 all the congregation of israel shall keep

ve the egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 14:13 and moses said unto the people, fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14:14 the lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 14:15 and the lord said unto moses, wherefore page 39 exodus criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of israel, that they go forward: 14:16 but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea. 14:17 and i, behold, i will harden the hearts of the egyptians, and they shall follow them: and i will get me honour upon pharaoh, and upon all h

gregation of the children of israel came unto the wilderness of sin, which [is] between elim and sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of egypt. 16:2 and the whole congregation of the children of israel murmured against moses and aaron in the wilderness: 16:3 and the children of israel said unto them, would to god we had died by the hand of the lord exodus page 40 in the land of egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 16:4 then said the lord unto moses, behold, i will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that i may prove them, whether they will walk in my

rephidim. 17:9 and moses said unto joshua, choose us out men, and go out, fight with amalek: to morrow i will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of god in mine hand. 17:10 so joshua did as moses had said to him, and fought with amalek: and moses, aaron, and hur went up to the top of the hill. 17:11 and it came to pass, when moses held up his hand, that israel prevailed: and when he page 41 exodus let down his hand, amalek prevailed. 17:12 but moses hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and aaron and hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 17:13 and joshua discomfited amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 17:14 and the lord

shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 19:14 and moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 19:15 and he said unto the people, be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives. exodus page 42 19:16 and it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled. 19:17 and moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with god; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 19:18 and mount sinai was a

urely put to death. 21:16 and he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 21:17 and he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 21:18 and if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: 21:19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon page 43 exodus his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed. 21:20 and if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. 21:21 notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he [is] his money. 21:22 if men strive, and hurt

un goeth down: 22:27 for that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that i will hear; for i [am] gracious. 22:28 thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 22:29 thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou exodus page 44 give unto me. 22:30 likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 22:31 and ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. 23:1 thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be a

:12 and the lord said unto moses, come up to me into the mount, and be there: and i will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which i have written; that thou mayest teach them. 24:13 and moses rose up, and his minister joshua: and moses went up into the mount of god. 24:14 and he said unto the elders, tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, aaron page 45 exodus and hur [are] with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. 24:15 and moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. 24:16 and the glory of the lord abode upon mount sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto moses out of the midst of the cloud. 24:17 and the sight of the glory of the lord [was] like devouring fire on th

by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. 26:10 and thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain [that is] outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. 26:11 and thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 26:12 exodus page 46 and the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 26:13 and a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 26:14 and thou shalt

o their generations on the behalf of the children of israel. 28:1 and take thou unto thee aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest s office [even] aaron, nadab and abihu, eleazar and ithamar, aaron s sons. 28:2 and thou shalt make holy garments for aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. 28:3 and thou shalt page 47 exodus speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom i have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make aaron s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest s office. 28:4 and these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for aaron thy brother

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

to be the medium through which men passed from the present to a future life. the greeks, and all the celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the gentoos do at this day; while the egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, 1 bronzi dell hercol. tom. vi. plate xcviii. 2 exod. ch. xxviii. 3 bronzi dell hercol. tom. vi. plate xcviii. maimonides in patrick s commentary on exodus, ch. xxviii. 4 ovid. fast. lib. v, ver. 441. schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii, ver. 36. 5 schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii. ver. 36. 98 on the worship placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country. the soul which was to be emancipated was the divine emanation, the vital spark of heavenly flame, the princip

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ght the dead, and the sale of charms for various purposes such as compelling love or finding treasure. they used a mixture of folk magic and folk medicine. whether such a person was known locally as a wise woman or a witch probably depended on how highly they were regarded in the community. until recent times, witch was a wholly pejorative term. the bible mandated a sentence of death for witches (exodus 22:18, so to accuse someone of being a witch was to condemn them to execution, particularly toward the close of the renaissance when the furor against witchcraft reached an hysterical frenzy. witch's familiar the witch's familiar was held by the demonologists who wrote against them during the witch craze to be either an animal possessed by an evil spirit, or an evil spirit in the shape of a

hey are always presented as divine miracles that fulfill the purposes of god. the experience of the prophets is the same as that of shamans and witches, with the difference that the soul flights of prophets were usually spontaneous, whereas those of shamans and witches were often induced. an exception is the ascent of moses to the top of mount sinai, where he remained forty days and forty nights (exodus 24:18. he engaged in this trial of physical endurance for the purpose of altering his state of consciousness, in a way little different from that of countless shamans around the world, who go alone into the wilderness and endure hunger and thirst to achieve what is called a "vision quest" success came in the form of the 59. murray, 239. chapter four: religious bilocation 51 astral vision of

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ars and tongues are purified by wisdom to hear and utter it in a holy place-in other words, for priests in the temple. in their own language the jews referred to the name as shem ha- mephoresh (w?15?3d;1w" the distinctive excellent name" this designation 2 tetragrammaton is often assigned by occultists to the seventy-two names of three letters extracted by kabbalistic methods from three verses in exodus, but it more properly belongs to tetragrammaton itself. in biblical times, the name was known to the common people and was used in a form of greeting not unlike "god be with you" as early as the fourth century before christ, its use was suppressed. the reason for the restriction of the name is not known. possibly it was to avoid profanation of the name by heathen lips, or to prevent its abu

or which permission was given that it be permuted and spoken" clearly there is more than a passing connection between revelation 4:8 and the kabbalah. the method for extracting the names of the angels described here would have been completely familiar to john dee, who had read agrippa and reuchlin. it is the same technique that is used to extract the seventytwo names of the shem ha-mephoresh from exodus 14:19-21 (see christian ginsburg, the kabbalah [london: routledge and kegan paul, 19551, pp. 132-6. in order to distinguish these two sets of angelic names, i have added the divine suffix al to the merciful angels and the suffix ih to the angels of judgment. the results are tabulated below. the position of the second h in each of the twenty-four permutations of ntragrammaton is indicated by

d. both express tetragrammaton in a concrete manner, numerically in divisions of four, six, twelve, and twenty-four. n the bible, there are a number of magical objects associated with tetragrammaton and its permutations. the most important of these is the breastplate of aaron, who was the brother of moses and the first high priest of israel. this breastplate is described in considerable detail in exodus 28:15-30, where it is called the "breastplate of judgment" and also in the antiquities of josephus (3.7.5. the name "breastplate" is misleading. the hebrew word used to describe this object is chosen (chshn. its meaning is unknown, but it has been translated as "ornament" or "breast-piece" it consisted of a linen pouch used in divination that was worn against the breast of the high priest

ch were reinforced by the ancient accepted meanings of the zodiac signs, and these associations were linked with the twelve overt banners of the name and their shadow twins, the twelve secret banners. for some reason biblical scholars have nothing to say about the connection between the banners of tetragrammaton and the breastplate of aaron-probably because the banners are not explicitly named in exodus. nonetheless, if we accept that the arrangement of the stones on the breastplate is not an accident, we can speculate that the three columns are 80 tetragrammaton intended to signify the cardinal, mutable, and fixed qualities and that the four rows are meant to stand for the elements fire, water, air, and earth. using this grid of qualities and elements, it is a simple matter to assign the

orrespondences of the banners given by the great renaissance magician, henry cornelius agrippa, in his three books of occult philosophy, to the the tribes, the zodiac signs, the apostles, the months, and the stones. however, it seems reasonable to assign the sons of jacob to the stones of the breastplate in order of their birth. this assignment is provided in the notes to the king james bible for exodus 39:lo-3, and also appears in aryeh kaplan's meditation and the bible (weiser, 1978, p. 143. because of the explicit correspondence presented in the notes of the king james bible between the stones on the breastplate and the twelve tribes, i have not felt bold enough to depart from this placement of the tribes on the stones. however, were this correspondence not present in the bible notes, i

enjamin; deut. 27:12) to the two upper rows of the stones, which relate to the urim, and the six tribes who dispense curses (reuben, gad, asher, zebulun, dan, and naphtali; deut. 27:13) to the two lower rows of stones, which relate to the thummim. there is also reason to suspect that these sets of tribes correspond with the names on the onyx stones on the shoulders of the high priest, in spite of exodus 28:lo. it is curious that the names of jacob's sons are assigned to the breastplate in a slightly different order than they appear in genesis 49:3-27, where their father blesses them on his deathbed. this blessing has great occult significance, because it provides a key to the nature of each son and therefore to the tribe he represents. there seems to be a veiled reference in this blessing

ed, the oracle might easily have consisted of a single disk or tablet, one side of which indicated yes and the other no. but it was two objects. the great jewish commentator on the bible, rashi, states unequivocally in his commentary on leviticus 8:s that urim and thummim are "the letters of the ineffable name (the pentateuch and rashi's commentary [brooklyn: s. s& r. publishing, 19491. regarding exodus 28:30, where urim and thummim are first described, he says explicitly "this w%s the writing of the divine name" surely nothing could be more clear. yet biblical scholars persist in regarding urim and thummim as colored pebbles. i believe the entire breastplate was a magical device structured around the permutations of tetragrammaton. upon the stones were written the banners that related to

and above the throne hung a canopy of colored cloths that fluttered with the appearance of lightning and flaming torches and a shimmering rainbow. around the throne were seventy chairs for seventy elders, and two more chairs opposite the throne for the seer gad and the prophet nathan, making a total of seventy-two, the same as the "divine name of seventy-two words" extracted kabbalistically from exodus 14:19-21 (see ginsburg, the kabbalah, pp. 132-6. the mother of solomon, bathsheba, sat in a chair on his right side. from another midrash legend we learn that the throne had six steps leading up to it and was made in the shape of the four-horse war chariot of god. it may be conjectured by combining the descriptions of the throne in the two legends that each step had the carved figures of be

raoh 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 common property of the adepts of all the nations in the world, and pharaoh certainly knew the "name" of the highest god mentioned in the book of the dead. but instead of that, moses (if we accept the allegory of exodus literally) gives pharaoh the name of yeva, the expression or form of the divine name used by all the targums as passed by moses. hence pharaoh's reply "who is that yeva that i should obey his voice "jehovah" dates only from the masoretic innovation. when the rabbis, for fear that they should lose the keys to their own doctrines, then written exculsively in consonants, began to insert their

keliel ivhh yelekiah 6. shahavel hivh vaheshiah 7. vahael vhih haviah 8. dabael hhiv badiah 9. kazahel ihhv hazekiah 10. shabuel hihv vabashiah 11. vivael vihh viviah 12. demuel hvih vamediah thes toneso n the breastplate t he sources for the following table of the stones said to have been set into the breastplate of aaron, the high priest of ancient israel, are all based upon the hebrew book of exodus. as the biblical scholar w. e. addis points out "the meaning of the hebrew words for the precious stones named here is in almost every case quite uncertain (the documents of the hexateuch [london: david nutt, 18981, vol. 2, p. 260, note 2. since i was unable to find any source for these stones that i could regard as authoritative, i compiled my own list (given in chapter xii) by making a co

d by university books under the title amulets and talismans, new york, 1968 (5) william wiston's translation of the works of flavius josephus (london: george routledge and sons, no date (6) w. e. addis' documents of the hexateuch, mentioned above (7) the pentateuch and rashi's commentary, translated by r. abraham ben isaiah and r. benjamin sharfman (brooklyn: s. s& r. publishing, 19491, volume 2 "exodus. no two of these sources agree in all respects, as can be seen in the accompanying table: 260 tetragrammaton james knox brit. budge josephus addis rashi 1. sardius sardius sard carnelian sardonyx carnelian carnelian or sard 2. topaz topaz topaz topaz or topaz topaz topaz peridot 3. carbuncle emerald emerald emerald emerald emerald smaragd 4. emerald carbuncle carbuncle ruby or carbuncle rub

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

70 is the natural end of life. the moon passes through stages of 7 days in increase, full, decrease, and renewal. naaman was ordered by elisha (an adept) to take seven dips in jordan, to cleanse himself from leprosy. 77. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the golden candlestick of seven branches was a notable emblematic ornament of the tabernacle of moses, exodus xxv. 31. note the seven years for repentance; 7 churches of asia (or assiah, 7 angels with trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the holy places, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the apocalypse. 7 members make a freemasons lodge perfect, although 5 may hold one. francis barrett, in his magus, catalogs 7 birds, fishes, animals, metals, stones and

ccu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott abraham was tested 10 times; 10 miracles were performed in egypt to help the children of israel, and 10 at the red sea. ten plagues were made to afflict the egyptians. ten times the jews offended god in the wilderness. ten times did the shekinah come down into the world; at the garden of eden; at the tower of babel; at sodom; in egypt, see exodus iii. 8; at the red sea, psalm cviii. 9; on mount sinai; at the temple; in the pillar of cloud; on the mount of olives, see zechariah xiv. 4; the 10th is omitted in the original reference, avoth d rabbi nathan, chapter 34. there are 10 hebrew words to designate idols and 10 for joy. sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; gideon took 10 servants to destroy the altar of baal; boaz chose

ius of tyana, given by eliphas levi in his ritual de la magie, paris, 1861. the 12 stones of the high priest s breastplate were named as follows: 1. sardius. 2. topaz. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 3. carbuncle. 4. emerald. 5. sapphire. 6. diamond. 7. ligure or jacinth. 8. agate. 9. amethyst. 10. beryl. 11. onyx. 12. jasper. see hebrew ancient version, exodus xxviii. the 12 foundations of the heavenly city, given in revelations xxi, are jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, sardius, sardonyx, emerald, topaz, beryl, chrysolite, amethyst, jacinth and chrysophrasus. the 12 hebrew months were abib or nizan (march- april) and are, iyar or zif, sivan, thammuz, ab, elul, tisri, bul, chisleu, tebeth, shebat and adar; and the inter-calary month ve-adar. the 12 s

0 nations, and mordecai is said to have known 70 languages. the jewish 70 years of the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott captivity are reckoned from their conquest by nebuchadnezzar to the accession of cyrus. 71. the number of the members of the sanhedrin. 72. 72 has a large number of mystic references to the 72 angels bearing the names of god derived from exodus xiv. 19, 20, 21 by the kabalists. there is an important set of 72 pentacles which, placed in pairs, forms a series of 36 talismans (see dr. rudd, the lemegeton, harleian mss. it is also the number of chesed (chsd) the sephirah, mercy. it is said that ptolemy, king of egypt, collected 72 hebrew rabbis and confined each in a separate room, and ordered each to write out the mosaic law, and tha

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

ry homilist and exegete judah loew ben bezalel of prague, deferentially referred to by the acronym maharal, had this confluence in 2 55 mind when he noted that time and place are one matter [ha-zeman we-ha-maqom inyan ehad] as is known to those who understand. 4 the specific context of maharal s comment is a discussion on the nature of the revelation of torah at sinai in the third month after the exodus of the israelites from egypt. in maharal s view, neither the spatial nor the temporal coordinates of the experience were accidental or arbitrary; on the contrary, the transcendental nature of the truth disclosed necessitated the place and time of the event, that is to say, both when and where the epiphany occurred approximated as much as possible the metaphysical constitution of what was di

me, the present, attah, is the middle or third term that dialectically bridges past and future. here we discern a structure that maharal applies to various speculative schema in his philosophical presentation of jewish piety.79 we find it again in the following passage, which concerns the inner significance of the fact that the sinaitic theophany took place in the third month after the israelites exodus from egypt (exod 19:1: since the torah does not fall under time and its category, as every rational matter [davar sikhli] is not under the category of time, it was not appropriate for it to be given except in the third month, for as we already know every [aspect of] time is divided into past and future, and the present [attah] is the third that mediates between them and that fastens time to

lfilled all of the torah that is below that circumcision and afterwards he merited that great circumcision that is above.297 the circumcision of abraham s membrum virile resulted from his having merited the circumcision of the heart, a spontaneous gesture that issues from the highest manifestation in the sefirotic pleroma, arikh anpin, a term derived from the scriptural elocution erekh appayim in exodus 34:6,298 the place that is pure mercy and consequently beyond the strictures of law and its implied system of reward and punishment.299 needless to say, the position articulated by shneur zalman should not be confused with the pauline argument so influential in the history of christianity that circumcision of the spirit (identified with the rite of baptism) replaces circumcision of the fles

the name we gain insight into the nature of time, that is, the connection established between the name and god s being in the past, present, and future indicates that temporality is an expression of the eternality of the divine essence. a similar point may be elicited from a statement attributed to r. isaac (briefly discussed in chapter 2) explaining the threefold repetition of the name ehyeh in exodus 3:14: the holy one, blessed be he, said to moses: say to them i am he [ani hu, i am the one who was, i am the one now, and i am the one in the future. 45 it has been suggested that this dictum may be a tacit reaction to the christian doctrine of the trinity.46 the polemical aspect seems plausible enough, but what is important to emphasize for our purposes is the con- after tau/ where ending

tians to refer to the presumed messiah] that had he created them previously, you would have asked why did he create them now and not before? and thus in this way there is no end to this question, and since it was necessary for there to be a beginning, thus all times are equal, and it is certainly within the range of his capability to give a time for bringing forth his thought into actuality. 134. exodus rabbah 3:6. see ch. 5 n. 45. 135. based on job 10:17. 136. moses ben nahman, perushei ha-torah le-rabbenu moshe ben nahman, vol. 1, p. 292 (ad exod 3:13. 137. ergas, shomer emunim, 2.17, 36c. 138. ibid, 36d. the relevant passages of menahem azariah of fano that ergas 218 notes to pages 74 77 cites or alludes to are from yonat elem, chs. 2, 12, and 20. see menahem azariah of fano, sefer ma a

efore [creation] is the order of time [seder zemannim, not a particular time [zeman meyuhad, for if there were a particular time, scripture would have mentioned it, but rather the order of time, that is, the matter of time [inyan ha-zeman. for other relevant passages in maharal s oeuvre, see the sources provided by the editor, op. cit, nn. 1278 1279. 181. genesis rabbah, 1:1, pp. 1 2, 8:2, p. 57; exodus rabbah, 30:9; leviticus rabbah, 19:1, pp. 412 413; song of songs rabbah, 5:7, p. 131. 182. azriel of gerona, perush ha-aggadot, pp. 101 102. 183. see comment of tishby, in azriel of gerona, perush ha-aggadot, p. 102 n. 17. 184. i have translated the passage as it appears in the published version of azriel s text; see following note for reference. the text reconstructed in midrash tanhuma, e

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