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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

itionum (of 1415) it is said: insuper hodie inveniuntur homines, qui cum novilunium prime viderint jlcxis gcnibus adorant vel deposito caputio vel piilco, inclinato capite honorant auoquendo et suscipiendo^ an as. legend of cusberht relates how that saint was wont to go down to the sea at^ fial in sine fuazi, o. iii. 10, 27. an sine fiieze, karl 14. the christians in the mid. ages called it venie fallen, parz. 460, 10. karl loi. berth. 173. ksrclu. 2958. 3055. kneeling and kissing the ground, to obtain absolution: da er uf siner venie lac (lay, earl. 366, 21. den anger maz mit der langen venie, frib. trist. 2095. venien suochen, ms. 1, 23. morolt. 28. troj. 9300. terrae osculationibus, quas venias appellant, pez. bibl. ascet. 8, 440. gie ze kirchen und banekte (prostrated) ze gote siniu gl

the strong, masterful, swift (os. suith: but fortior is, no doubt, a false reading, all the mss (conf. pertz 3, 379) read 'wodan, id est/ ror' which agrees with the conclusion arrived at above. to him, says the edda, belong all the nobles who/a/ in battle (seem. 77. and to thor the common folk, but this seems added merely to depreciate the latter; in another passage (seem. 42, freya shares i\\q, fallen with osinn; he is named valfa&ir oxia herfa&ir (val, choice; her, host. od'inn vildi j'iggja mann at hlutfalli at hanga or herinom, fornald. sog. 3, 31. eidem prostratorum manes muneris loco dedicaturum se pollicetur (haraldus, saxo p. 146. othinus armipotens, p. 37, auctor aciei corniculatae, ordinandi agminis disciplinae traditor et repertor, pp. 138-9, 146. when old, he teaches arraying

oo the eyrbyggja saga p. 228 ?a skaut stein];6rr spioti at fornom si& til heilla ser yfir flock snorra; where, it is true, nothing is said of the spear launched over the enemy being the god's. saim. 5% of osinn himself: fieigsi ok 1 folk um skaut (see suppl. to the god of victory are attached two ivolves and two ravens, which, as combative courageous animals, follow the fight, and pounce upon the fallen corpses, andr. and el. xxvi. xxvii. the wolves are named gcri and frcjci, sn. 42; and so late as in hans sachs (i. 5, 499, we read in a schwank, that the lord god has chosen wolves for his hounds, that they are his cattle. the two ravens are hvginn and muninn, from hugr (animus, cogitatio) and munr (mens; they are not only brave, but cunning and wise, they sit on the shoidders of osinn, and

ow comes the ital. to have a trono (neap, truono, span, trueno) by the side of tuono l and the provenral a irons with the same meaning% has the r .sliptin from our donar, or still better from the goth, drunjus, sonus, rom. 10, 18 (conf. dronen 'cymbal's droning sound' of dryden] or did the lat. thronva pass into the sense of sky and thunder' forclist nicht, wanns tonnert, eiu tron werd vom himmel fallen' garg. 181. the troubadour's' jhesus del tro' might then simply mean lord of the tirmament* i wol dou sacritice, and lyres beete' chaucer. hence beetle itself] as. bytel. trans. 3 a provencal troubadour, quoted by raynouard sub v. barbajol, says: e daquel erba tenon pro li vilan sobra lur maiso. beside this hauswurz (hauswurzcl, superst. 60, the hatdhorn, albaspina, is a safeguard against l

l, into the brook that ran past the house (and by that, perchtha seems to have been appeased. p. 173: as a miner was returning from bucha to konitz on perchtha's night, she came up to him at the cross-roads, and demanded with threats, that he should put a icedge in her waggon. he took his knife, cut the wedge as well as he could, and fitted it into perchtha's waggon, who made him a present of the fallen chips. he picked them up, and at home he drew gold out of every pocket in which he had put perchtha's gifts. p. 182: two peasants of jiidewein, after stopping at the alehouse in kostriz till late on perchtha's eve, had gone but a little way, when perchtha came driving in a waggon, and called to them to put a peg in the pole of her waggon. one of the men had a knife, and perchtha supplied hi

: late one night, the master wheelwright at colba was coming home from oppurg, where he had 276 goddesses. been to work; it was the eve of the three-kings (twelfthday, and on the bank of the rivulet orla he came upon perchtha, her broken plough surrounded by weeping heimclien' hast thou a hatchet with thee, so help me mend' she cried to the terrified traveller. he gave what help he could, but the fallen chips offered hita for wages he would not touch' i have plenty of them at home' says he. when he got home, he told what had happened to him, and while his people shook their heads incredulously, he pulled off one of his shoes, which something had got into, that hurt his foot, and out rolled a bright new gold-piece. a twelvemonth passed, and one of his men, who had heard him tell the tale, s

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

ence and of depth in the place of the gathering of the waters; terrible was that silence of an uncreated world, immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenance of darkness half formed, arose. they abode not, they hasted away. and in the vastness of vacancy, the spirit moved, and the light-bearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings? do the sons of the night of time last forever? and have they not passed away? before all things are the waters, and the darkness, and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath was that face re

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

with positive energies for magical and healing work. some items, such as the pentacle (see page 189, you can make from clay, and herbs can be grown in pots or in gardens and chopped in a mortar and pestle. fresh herbs have more immediate energies than dried, though the latter are better in sachets and poppets. always bear in mind that the magick is in you, not in your tools, and a wand cut from a fallen hazel or willow branch in the right hands can be more magical that the most elaborate crystal-tipped one purchased from a new age store. spell casting spell casting is part of some, but by no means all, wiccan activities. most spells are carried out with the purpose of changing someone's life for the better or sending healing energies to others. for example, love magick could, if you wish t

a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the

used to encourage creativity and growth of all kinds. it may be performed either alone or in a group, with everyone present joining in the chants. use as many kinds of wood as possible in the kindling for your fire. traditionally the magical trees were oak, ash, thorn, willow, birch, rowan, alder, holly and yew, but you can use wood indigenous to your region. an arboretum will offer a variety of fallen twigs* light a small fire (this may be either a small bonfire out of doors, or a fire in a hearth indoors. barbecue pits are easily adapted) if you are working in a group, each person can ignite the fire at a different place. if you cannot light a fire, choose a really large, fat, dark green candle as your focus. place it on a wide, deep fireproof tray, secured in sand* if you are in a grou

ABRAMELIN1

ly the former is termed white magic, as opposed to the latter, or black magic. the invocation of angelic forces, then, is an idea common in works of magic, as also are the ceremonies of pact with and submission to the evil spirits. the system, however, taught in the present work is based on the following conception (a) that the good spirits and angelic powers of light are superior in power to the fallen spirits of darkness (b) that these latter as a punishment have been condemned to the service of the initiates of the magic of light (this idea is to be found also in the koran or, as it is frequently and perhaps more correctly written, qur-an (g) as a consequence of this doctrine, all ordinary material effects and phenomena are produced by the labour of the evil spirits under the command in

before the same occurred; and i say no more concerning this because he is an ecclesiastic35 passing over in silence all that i have further done to render unto him service. the count of varvich36 was delivered by me from prison in england the night before he was to have been beheaded. i aided the flight of the duke,37 and of his pope john,38 from the council of constance, who would otherwise have fallen into the hands of the enraged emperor; and the latter having asked me to predict unto him which one of the two popes, john xxiii. and martin v, should gain in the end, my prophecy was verified; that fortune befalling which i had predicted unto him at ratisbon. at the time when i was lodged at the house of the duke of bavaria,39 my lord, for matters of the greatest importance; the door of my

ABRAMELIN3

inces, archangels, and angels. the princes comprise spirits capable of giving treasures and riches, and they or their dependants serve in all the operations, being a mass composed of different orders, and they are sufficiently truthful. 11. these and the following titles of the hierarchies are usually ascribed to the good angels; but sometimes are also employed to designate grades of the evil and fallen angels as well. the sacred magick 217 the archangels be proper to reveal all occult matters, and all kinds of secret things, such as obscure points in theology and the law. they serve with great diligence. the angels in general do operate each one according unto his quality. there be an infinite number of them. they command the four princes and the eight sub-princes in all kinds of operatio

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

god the vast one" second "rise, then, o aspirant of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold. rise, glorified by suffering. rise, purified by humility (aspirant rises "despise not sadness, and hate not suffering, for they are the initiators of the heart; and the black robe of mourning which thou wearest is at once the symbol of sorrow and of strength. boast not thyself above thy brother if he hath fallen, for how knowest thou that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation? slander not, and revile not. if thou canst not praise, do not condemn. when thou seest another in trouble and humiliation, even though he be thy enemy, remember the time of thine own humiliation when thou didst kneel before the door of the tomb, clothed in the robe of mourning, with the chain of affliction about thy

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ce more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. but in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man to be shut up in a pressure-resisting suit electrically heated, with an oxygen supply, whereas it would be 'wrong' for him to wear it if he were running the three miles in the summer sports in the tanezrouft. this is the pit into which all the great religious teachers have hitherto fallen, and i am sure you are all looking hungrily at me in the hope of seeing me do likewise. but no! there is one principle which carries us through all conflicts concerning conduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' so: it is not the least use to come and pester me about it. perfect mastery of the violin in six easy lessons by

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

he pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of adoration. this i page 10 gulf.txt did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in the darkness- for night had fallen by this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was indeed chosen aright. so last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me on the high throne. one by one the priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. and the banquet waxed merry; for all the food was magically prepared

ption; but instead of sitting calm and cold, remote, aloof, i gather myself together, and spring madly at the veil, catching it in my two hands. now the veil was of woven gold, three thousand twisted wires; a span thick! yet i put out my whole force to tear it across; and (for she also put out her force) it rent with a roar as of earthquake. blinded i was with the glory of her face; i should have fallen; but she caught me to her, and fixed her divine mouth on mine, eating me up wit the light of her eyes. her mouth moaned, her throat sobbed with love; her tongue thrust itself into me as a shaft of sunlight smites into the palm-groves; my robes fell shrivelled, and flesh to flesh we clung. then in some strange way she gripped me body and soul, twining herself about me and within me even as d

that knowledge she sought to oppose craft with craft. and suspecting (aright) whose cunning had done this thing she bribed him to reverse the machinery, so that the high priest might be shamed. but shamed he was not; for he lied, saying that the god glowed page 34 gulf.txt brighter than the sun; and he lied securely, for maat the lady of truth had no place in that temple. to such foulness was all fallen by my first failure to assume the god-form, and their priestly falsehood that my sanctity had rapt me into heaven. nor had the wealth they lied to obtain availed them aught; for pharaoh had descended upon thebai, and laid heavy hand upon the coffers of the temple, so that they were poor. even, they sold good auguries for gold; and these were a very destruction to them that bought. then they

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

heart giving rise in my chest and my head growing hot, the sound of splitting rocks and thunder came from behind me and shook the very ground i ran upon. in fright, and in haste, i fell to the earth. rising, i turned to face whatever attacker had come nearest me, though i was unarmed. to my surprise what i saw was no priest of ancient horror, no necromancer of that forbidden art, but black robes fallen upon the grass and weeds, with no seeming presence of life or bodies beneath them. i walked cautiously to the first and, picking up a long twig, lifted the robe from the tangle of weeds and thorns. all that remained of the priest was a pool of slime, like green oil, and the smell of a body lain long to rot in the sun. such a stench nearly overpowered me, but i was resolute to find the other

ymbol. his gate is the last you will come upon in the rites that follow. his step on the ladder of lights is black. this is his seal, which you must engrave on a leaden plate or bowl, keeping it well hidden from the eyes of the profane. it should be wrapped and put away as all the others, until its use is desired. it should never be removed when the sun is in the sky, but only after the night has fallen and the earth grown black, for ninib knows the best the ways of the demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance

sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i was give

owels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the burning girra untie thy knots! may the flames of gibil untie your cord! may the law of the burning seize your throat! may the law of the burning

o make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn unlawful grasses and herbs, and raise tremendous evils, and their words are never written down, it is said. but there are. and they are prayers of emptiness and darkness, which rob the spirit. hymn to the ancient ones they are lying down, the great old ones. the bolts are fallen and the fastenings are placed. the crowds are quiet and the people are quiet. the elder gods of the land the elder goddesses of the land shammash sin adad ishtar have gone to sleep in heaven. they are not pronouncing judgements. they are no deciding decisions. veiled is the night. the temple and the most holy places are quiet and dark. the judge of truth the father of the fatherless shammas

they sought? yet, can i tell in my bones that this is not so? for the xastur sign has not left its station behind me, and has grown larger, casting a shadow over these pages as i write. i have summoned my watcher, but it is troubled by some things and does not respond to me well, as though afflicted with some disease, and dazed. my books have lost light, and settle upon their shelves like animals fallen asleep, or dead. i am sickened by what voices i hear now, as though the voices of my family, left behind me so many years ago, that is impossible to conceive that they are about. did i not understand of their untimely, unnatural death? can the demons who wait without take on so viciously the human voices of my parents? my brother? my sister? avaunt thee! that this book were an amulet, a sea

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

com 109 [113] 52 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-beta the bull-baiting fourscore and eleven books wrote i; in each did i expound the great work fully, from the beginning even unto the end thereof. then at last came certain men unto me, saying: o master! expound thou the great work unto us, o master! and i held my peace. o generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the wrath that is fallen upon you? o babblers, prattlers, talkers, loquacious ones, tatlers, chewers of the red rag that inflameth apis the redeemer to fury, learn first what is work! and the great work is not so far beyond! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 110 [114] commentary( nu-beta) 52 is bn, the number of the son, osiris-apis, the redeemer, with whom the master (fra. p) identifies himself

: www.abika.com 132 [135] 63 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-gamma margery daw i love laylah. i lack laylah "where is the mystic grace" sayest thou? who told thee, man, that laylah is not nuit, nd i hadit? i destroyed all things; they are reborn in other shapes. i gave up all for one; this one hath given up its unity for all? i wrenched dog backwards to find god; now god barks. think me not fallen because i love laylah, and lack laylah. i am the master of the universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and laylah naked! amen. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 133 [136] commentary( xi-gamma) this chapter returns to the subject of laylah, and to the subject already discussed in chapters 3 and others, particularly chapter 56. the title of the chapter refers to th

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

ery day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! ii,43: a feast every night unto nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! ii,44: aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. there is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of nu. ii,45: there is death for the dogs. ii,46: dost thou fail? art thou sorry? is fear in thine heart? ii,47: where i am these are not. ii,48: pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler. ii,49: i am unique& conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned& dead! amen [this is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg] ii,50: blue am i and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes& my spangles are purple& green. ii,51:

ctre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well& i will reward you here and hereafter. ii,53: fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. ii,54: nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: they are not of me. the stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! ii,55: thou shalt obtain the order& value of the english alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. ii,56: begon

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

a ozodonugonu! lape noanu tarofe coresa tage o-quo maninu ia-i-don. torezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelape; lape zodir ioiad* collation of the various mss. of these calls has not done away with various readings; and there is not enough of the language extant to enable a settlement on general principles. ed. read here vooan in invocations of the fallen spirits. the forty-eight keys or calls 22 can the wings of the winds understand your voices of wonder? o you! the second of the first! whom the burning flames have framed in the depths of my jaws! whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the chamber of righteousness! stronger are your feet than the barren stone, and mightier are your voices than the

her; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of y

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ignorant instinct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even to-day, a mass of maggots swarm heaving over the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by blind greed for rottenness

is day unite with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. the people. so mote it be (death (all stand, head erect, eyes open" the deacon. term of all that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. the people. so mote it be (the end) the deacon. unto them from whose eyes the veil of life 355 hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true wills; whether they will absorption in the infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills. gr:alpha-upsilo

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

representatives of the rosicrucian brotherhood. it is not for us in this place to estimate the degree of success with which she carried out her embassy; but at least we see today that physical science is at last penetrating to the spiritual basis of material phenomena. the work of henry poincar, einstein, whitehead, and bertrand russell is sufficient evidence of this fact. christianity, too, has fallen into a lower degree of contempt than ever. realizing that it was moribund, it made a supreme and suicidal effort, and plunged into the death-spasm of the first worldwar. it was too far corrupt to react to the injections of the white formula which might have saved it. we see today that christianity is more bigoted, further divorced from reality, than ever. in some countries it has again beco

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

a bad dream" similarly comes the reflection of the man who has had experience of dhyana "i am not that wretched insect, that imperceptible parasite of earth; it was only a bad dream" and as you could not convince the normal man that his nightmare was more real than his awakening, so you cannot convince the other that his dhyana was hallucination, even though he is only too well aware that he has fallen from that state into "normal" life. it is probably rare for a single experience to upset thus radically the whole conception of the universe, just as sometimes, in the first moments of waking, there remains a half-doubt as to whether dream or waking is real. but as one gains further experience, when dhyana is no longer a shock, when the student has had plenty of time to make himself at home

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

ok for free on: www.abika.com the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 2 the heart of the master by aleister crowley ordo templi orientis p.o box 2303 berkeley, ca 94702 (c) copyright o.t.o. june 21, 1985 e.v. sun in cancer moon in leo an 81 e.n* the heart of the master by khaled khan (aleister crowley) i. the vision penumbra. i am one of a concourse. all, or nigh all, seem fallen into heaviness, not from exhaustion of labour, but from lethargy. the plain is vast beyond eye to mark it's bounds, even were not all dark with blight of fog and thick with marish damp. a few of us are half awake, gaze dumbly on the east. no light responds. alas for me who am too much alive with the horrible and hopeless ache for sleep of one half-drugged! dazed, stupified- i know not who i

bread. of these did he bid me partake; and they being consumed, he took a phial of golden oil from their midst, and anointed mine eyes, and mine ears, and my lips. with that i was aware of the image of a god, severe and noble of aspect, his spirit utterly calm, in his right hand a sickle and in his left an hourglass. and as i looked upon him, he reversed his wrist, for the last grain of sand was fallen through. then did my instructer point with a little wand to a great chart not wholly filled, and there came the shadow of a man's hand, and drew the image of a lion at the end of the writing. above this parchment, which was partly furled, was a square tablet of white marble, on which, inlaid in gold, i read these characters about the image of an eye within a radiant triangle. s. s. and this

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

o an hexagram- the unit of divination of this book: yi king. the hexagram 8. an hexagram is made up of six lines; each line being yang or yin. the especial stick or coin is called "the moving line" 9. each line of the hexagram is numbered: the line nearest thyself is number one; whilst the farthest away is number six. an example 10. thou hast concentrated upon thy situation, and thine sticks have fallen thus: line 6- yang (a solid line) line 5- yang (a solid line) line 4- yang (a solid line) line 3- yang (a solid line) line 2- yin (a broken line) line 1- yin (a broken line- the moving line is in line 2) 11. the hexagram will look like this: 12. take notice that the hexagram is divided into two trigrams: an upper trigram and a lower trigram. interpretation 13. taking thine key, which is in

he flight. 11 the thai hexagram yoni of lingam- thai: the due order of things; we see, in sum, good fortune, small things gone, and great things come. pull up one stalk; and others follow it. seek patience, self reliance, love and wit. though all things change, rejoice; for that is writ. call friends to help thee, they may bring thee through. remember what ti yi thought right and true. the city's fallen; there's little thou canst do. 12 the phi hexagram lingam of yoni- phi: all's disorder in the organum. we see the great gone, and the little come. again one stalk pulled brings the others too. patience, obedience, fitness, build anew. shame hide thy purpose from thy own right view! act rightly; comrades come to love thee and wonder. restoring all things, murmur, we may blunder. the darkness

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

al process which interpreted chastity as physical abstinence, small regard being paid to the mental and moral concomitants of the refusal to act, still less to the physical indications. the root of the error lies in the dogma of original sin, as a result of which pollution was actually excused as being in the nature of involuntary offence, just as if one were to assert that a sleep-walker who has fallen over a precipice were any less dead than empedocles or sappho. the doctrine of thelema resolves the whole question in conformity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties prescribed by magick. it must be obvious to the most embryonic tyro in alchemy that if there be any material substance soever endowed with magical properties, one must class, primus inter pares, that vehicle o

th the changeless and impersonal. they have their roots in conceptions involving change and personality. strictly speaking 'joy' is no less absurd than sorrow, with reference to hadit; but from the standpoint of the individual, this is not the case. one's fear of death is removed by the knowledge that there is no such thing in reality; but one's joy in life is not affected. al ii,48 "pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler" 48. hadit has never defiled his purity with the illusion of sorrow, etc. even love and pity for the fallen is an identification with it (sympathy from sigma-upsilon-nu pi-alpha-theta-epsilon-iota-nu, and therefore a contamination. the new comment it is several times shewn in this book that 'falling' is

erself. the student should study in liber aleph and liber 418, the connection between 'modesty' and the attitude of the "black brothers. al ii,53 "fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up" the old comment 53. but the prophet again disliked the writing. the god comforted him. also he prophesied of his immediate future, which was fulfiled, and is still being fulfilled at the time (an v. sun in 20 degrees cancer) of this writing. even more marked now (an vii, sun in libra) especially these words "i lift thee up" the new comment yes! i was frightened when the

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e. marriage the deacon: upon all that this day unite with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. the people: so mote it be. death the deacon: term of all that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. the people: so mote it be. the end the deacon: unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true wills; whether they will absorption in the infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomp

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ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh fierce and active. 6. the son partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degeneration which we are compelled to think of as evil. in the human organism the same arrangement will be noticed. section iii 0. the pleroma of which our individuality is the monad: the all-self. 1. the self the divine ego of which man is rarely conscious. 2. the ego; that which

ence, and a draught of the wine of ecstasy. it is then thoroughly understood that the aspirant is seeking to solve the great problem. and he may conceive, as various schools of adepts in the ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms. 1. i am not god. i wish to become god. this is the hindus conception. i am malkuth. i wish to become kether. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 2. i am a fallen creature. i wish to be redeemed. this is the christian conception. i am malkuth the fallen daughter. i wish to be set upon the throne of binah my supernal mother. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 3. i am the finite square; i wish to be one with the infinite circle. this is the unsectarian conception. i am the cross of extension; i wish to be one with the infinite rose. this is the qabalis

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umns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha s hand; we are your brothers. but in the race of intellect we have fallen behind a little; will you take no interest in us, who have been your comrades? to science buddhism cries: lead us, reform us, give us clear ideas of nature and her laws; give us that basis of irrefragable logic and wide knowledge that we need, and march with us into the universe! the buddhist faith is not a blind faith; its truths are obvious to all who are not blinded by the spectacles of

nce only leads to sorrow; that the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third; and you would seek in the fourth the way, the noble eightfold path. i know, o arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where arahats do not grow on every tree. little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep. 110 opus prima materia. a. o. sapiens dominatibur astris. s. s. d. d. 1902 ambrosii magi hortus rosarum* translated into english by christeos luciftias. printed by w. black, at the wheatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is

children left their foulness and came soliciting with shameless words his acquiscence in their sport; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and pity, rebuked them not. but master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. so he saw his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwere. now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. the giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! he had fallen headlong into the great deep. as the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed; for i wit well, thought the adept, that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may the beetle transform unto a bird. wherewith he came

sy: to victory over one did he aspire. made he therefore toward the moon. rough was the hillside and the shadows deep and treacherous; as he advanced the towers seemed to approach onoe another closer and closer yet. he drew his sword: with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. three windows had the tower; and against it ten cannons thundered. eleven bricks had fallen dislodged by lightning: it was no house wherein our father might abide. but there he must abide. to destroy it i am come, he said. and through he passed out therewithal, yet twas his home until he had attained. so at last he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the river from two vessels of pure water. she-devil, he cried, have i gone ba

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mportant word of our lives, the corner- stone of the temple, the keystone of the arch, the flail that beats the grain from the chaff, the sieve through which falsehood passes and in which truth remains. it is, indeed, the poise of the balance, the gnomon of the sun-dial; which, if we learn to read aright, will tell us at what hour of our lives we have arrived. through the want of it kingdoms have fallen into decay and by it empires have been created; and its dreaded foe is of necessity "dogma" 150 directly a man begins to say "yes" without the question "why" he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar. and it is for this reason that we are so bitterly opposed to and use such scathing words against the present- day rationalist6 when we attack him. for we see he is doing for d

ty of eternal sleep, or to the mansion of the music of rejoicing? o my brothers! come with me! follow me! let us mount the dark stairs of this tower of silence, this watch-tower of night; upon whose black brow no flickering flame burns to guide the weary wanderer across the mires of life and through the mists of death. come, follow me! grope up these age-worn steps, slippery with the tears of the fallen, and bearded with the blood of the vanquished and the salt of the agony of failure. come, come! halt not! abandon all! let us ascend. yet bring with ye two things, the flint and the steel 168- the slumbering fire of mystery, and the dark sword of science; that we may strike a spark, and fire the beacon of hope which hangs above us in the brasier of despair; so that a great light may shine f

mongst the clouds? o where is the sun-god of rhodes, whose golden brow was wont to blush with the first fire of dawn, whilst yet the waters at his feet were wrapped in the mists of night? o where is the temple of ephesus, and those who cried unto diana? o where is the gleaming eye of pharos that shone as a star of hope over the wild waters of the sea? children of monsters and of gods, how have ye fallen! for a whirlwind hath arisen and swept through the gates of heaven, and rushed down on the kingdoms of earth, and as a tongue of consuming flame hath it licked up the handicrafts of man and cloaked all in the dust of decay. a yoke hath been laid on the shoulders of the ancient lands; and where once the white feet of semiramis gleamed amongst the lilies and roses of babylon there now the wil

s of shepherds. merodach has gone, and so has ea, and no longer doth istar flame in the night, or cast down her kisses on the sparkling goblets in the palace of belshazzar. isis, dark-veiled, hath departed, and nu no longer uplifteth the sun-bark with the breath of dawn. o amen, bull fair of face, where is thy glory? thebes is in ruins! o lord of joy, o mighty one of diadems! the sekhet crown has fallen from thy brow, and the strength of thy life hath departed, and thine eyes are as the shrouded shadows of night. olympus is but a barren hill, and asgard a land of sullen dreams. alone in the desert of years still crouches the sphinx, unanswered, unanswerable, inscrutable, age-worn, coeval with the aeons of eld; even facing the east and thirsting for the first rays of the rising sun. she was

us, and the land is corrupted by reason of their stench. the mighty ones are dead, the giants are no more, for the sons of god come not in unto the daughters of men, and the world is desolate, and greatness and renown are gone. to-day the blue blow-flies of decay sit buzzing on the slow-rolling wheel of fortune, intoxicated on the dust of the dead, and sucking putrefaction from the sinews of the fallen, and rottenness from the charnel-house of might. o reason! thou hast become as a vulture feasting off the corpse of a king as it floats down the dark waters of acheron. nay! not so grand a sight, but as an old, wizened woman, skaldy and of sagging breast, who in the solitude of her "latrina" cuddles and licks the oleograph of a naked youth. o adonis, rest in the arms of aphrodite, seek not

g has grown hideous and wanton, and that in the place of a fair maiden there slimeth a huge slug fed of the cabbage-stalks of decay. o theos! o pantheos! o atheos! triple god of the brotherhood of warriors. evoe! i adore thee, o thou trinity of might and majesty- thou silent unity that rulest the hearts of the great. alas! that men are dead, their thrones of gold empty, and their palaces of pearl fallen into ruin! grandeur and glory have departed, so that now in the elysian fields the sheep of woolly understanding nibble the green turnip-tops of reason and the stubble in the reaped cornfields of knowledge. now all is rational, virtuous, smug, and oily. those who wrestled with the suns and the moons, and trapped the stars of heaven, and sought god on the summits of the mountains, and drove

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pace: and you have finished the meditation on love. in the same way, using the same formula, do you proceed with the other three sublime states. thinking of all beings who are involved in the samsara cakka, involved in the endless sorrow of existence- thinking especially of those in whom at this moment sorrow is especially manifested, thinking of the weak, the unhappy, the sick, and those who are fallen; you send out a ray of pity and compassion towards them in all six directions of space. and so suffusing all beings with thoughts of compassion, you pass on to the meditation on happiness. you meditate on all beings who are happy, from the lowest happiness of earthly love to the highest, the happiness of those who are freed from all sin, the unutterable happiness of those who have attained

0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh- authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh- fierce and active. 6. the son- partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degeneration- which we are compelled to think of as evil. in the human organism the same arrangement will be noticed. section iii 0. the pleroma of which our individuality is the monad: the "all-self" 1. the self- the divine ego of which man is rarely conscious. 2. the ego; that whi

e, and a draught of the wine of ecstasy. it is then thoroughly understood that the aspirant is seeking to solve the great problem. and he may conceive, as various schools of adepts in the ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms. 1. i am not god. i wish to become god. this is the hindu conception. i am malkuth. i wish to become kether. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 110 2. i am a fallen creature. i wish to be redeemed. this is the christian conception. i am malkuth, the fallen daughter. i wish to be set upon the throne of binah my supernal mother. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 3. i am the finite square; i wish to be one with the infinite circle. this is the unsectarian conception. i am the cross of extension; i wish to be one with the infinite rose. this is the qabali

softened by the dawn; and i hear the sistron, and i hear the songs sung to the hanging moon, and thou, istar, radiantly comest on the brains of men to the slow illumination of desire; the old enchanted palace of the will is thine, and god-like dreams of eld are thine, of the underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee! fallen to idle sleep, and borne within the temple of mind, the soul of night is bared under the starry canopy of the worlds, and the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, let her still slumber! oh, my radiant one, thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, 122 come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, o thou far inmost and supernal dawn, o thou that bearest the torch for the feast o' th

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i am, the surrounding of the four. lift up your heads, o houses of eternity: for my father goeth forth to judge the world. one light, let it become a thousand, and one sword ten thousand, that no man hide him from my father's eye in the day of judgment of my god. let the gods hide themselves: let the angels be troubled and flee away: for the eye of my father is open, and the book of the aeons is fallen. arise! arise! arise! let the light of the sight of time be extinguished: let the darkness cover all things: for my father goeth forth to seek a spouse to replace her who is fallen and defiled. seal the book with the seals of the stars concealed: for 3 the rivers have rushed together and the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod is broken in a thousand pieces (against the cubic stone. tremble ye

e aeon is makhashanah. and these words shalt thou say backwards: 17 ararnay obolo maharna tutulu nom lahara en nediezo lo sad fonusa sobana arana binuf la la la arpazna uohulu when thou wilt call my burden unto appearance, for i who am the virgin goddess am the pregnant goddess, and i have cast down my burden even unto the borders of the universe. they that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes. and the noise is confused, thousands of battle-cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river in flood. and all the stone is dull, dull gray. the

ened, and the shrine re-veiled. yet know this for thy reproof, and for the stirring up of discontent in them whose swords are of lath, that in every word of this vision is concealed the key of many mysteries, even of being, and of knowledge, and of bliss; of will, of courage, of wisdom, and of silence, and of that which, being all these, is greater than all these. begone! for the night of life is fallen upon thee. and the veil of light hideth that which is. with that, i suddenly see the world as it is, and i am very sorrowful. bou-saada "november" 28, 1909. 4-6 p.m. 36("note- you do not come back in any way dazed; it is like going from one room into another. regained normal consciousness completely and immediately) the cry of the 21st aethyr, which is called asp. a mighty wind rolls throug

whom it is written: he shall deceive the very elect. for in the beginning the father of all called forth lying spirits that they might sift the creatures of the earth in three sieves, according to the three impure souls. and he chose the wolf for the lust of the flesh, and the raven for the lust of the mind; but me did he choose above all to simulate the pure prompting of the soul. them that are fallen a prey to the wolf and the raven i have not scathed; but them that have rejected me, i have given over to the 4 this night i took the shew-stone to my breast to sleep, and immediately a dhyana arose of the sun, seen more clearly afterwards as the star. exceeding was its brilliance. wrath of the raven and the wolf. and the jaws of the one have torn them, and the 43 beak of the other has devo

opened it and come out. i ask him for admission: and he shakes his head kindly, and says: it is not given to flesh and blood to unveil the mysteries of the aethyr, for therein are the chariots of fire. and the tumult of the horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again with equal eyes. i insist. 47 the little gate is guarded by a great green dragon. and now the whole wall is suddenly fallen away; there is a blaze of the chariots and the horsemen; a furious battle is raging. one hears nothing but the clash of steel and the neighing of the chargers and the shrieks of the wounded. a thousand fall at every encounter and are trampled under foot. yet the aethyr is always full; there are infinite reserves. no; that is all wrong, for this is not a battle between two forces, but a "m l

f against all the others. i cannot see one who has even one ally. and the least fortunate, who fall soonest, are those in the chariots. for as soon as they are engaged in fighting, their own charioteers stab them in the back. and in the midst of the battlefield there is a great tree, like a chinar- tree. yet it bears fruits. and now all the warriors are dead, and they are the ripe fruits that are fallen- the ground is covered with them. there is a laugh in my right ear "this is the tree of life" and now there is a mighty god, sebek, with the head of a crocodile. his head is gray, like river mud, and his jaws fill the whole aire. and he crunches up the whole tree and the ground and everything. now then at last cometh forth the angel of the aethyr, who is like the angel of the fourteenth key

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ransport to hoshiapur (the chief punjab depot) is rs. 100, and there it fetches from rs. 30 to rs. 100 per maund. retail dealers sell small quantities at a price that works out at rs. 200 to rs. 500 per maund. five years ago the kashgar growers, encouraged by the high prices, sowed a large crop and reaped a bumper harvest, only to find the market already overstocked and prices on the leh exchange fallen from rs. 60 to rs. 30 per maund. the following are 236 the imports of charas from ladakh and kashmir between 1904 and 1907: 1904-5 1905-6 1906-7 cwt. 2818. 2446. 2883 value. rs. 12,13,860. rs. 18,39,960. rs. 22,90,560 small quantities of charas are made, chiefly for local consumption, in the himalayan districts of nepal, kumaon, and garhwal, and in baluchistan. samples of baluchistan charas

my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous. my breathing passages were none too clear, either; i have evidently taken a chill. now, o, my lord adonai, thou self-glittering one, wilt thou not manifest unto thy chosen one? for see 73 me! i am as a little white dove trembling upon thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. i am as a young child bought in the slave market and night is fallen! i await thee, o my lord, with a great longing, stronger than life; yet am i as patient as death. there was a certain darwesh whose turban a thief stole. but when they said to him,"see! he hath taken the road to damascus! that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery,"i will await him here! so, therefore, there is one place, o thou thief of my heart's love, adonai, to which tho

ever saw the hellish snare! i ought to have risen up and prepared myself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord's coming the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil knight in malory, riding and slaying and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mo

e he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self- satisfaction! go at it more reverently and humbly oh, you dog, how i loathe you for your vileness! to have risen so high, and now to be thus fallen! 4.40. the question arises: how to mortify this self-satisfaction? asceticism notoriously fosters egoism; how good am i to go without dinner! now noble! what renunciation! on the other hand,the good wine in one says:"a fine fellow i have made my coffin of! the answer is simple, the old answer:"think not of" 93 "st. john""and his foolishness; think of adonai! exactly: the one difficulty! my

phantoms that mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep.(the pranayama precipitated a short attack of diarrhoea, started by the chill of the ceremony. 6.23. he slept from 1.45 (approximately) till now. the morn is cold and damp; rain has fallen. john st. john is horribly tired; the "control" is worn to a thread. he takes five minutes to make up his mind to go through with it, five more to wash and write this up. and he has a million excuses for not doing pranayama. 6.51. 15 breath-cycles, steady and easy enough. the brain is cool and lucid; but no energy is in it. at least no sammav yamo. and at present the superscription on john

p-top to the adept himself. but others may be deterred from entering the path by the foolish talk of the ignorant, and thus may flowers be lost that should go to make the fadeless wreath of adonai. ah, lord, pluck "me" up utterly by the root, and set that which thou pluckest as a flower upon thy brow! 4.10. walked back to the d me to drink a citron press through the lovely gardens, sad with their fallen leaves. reflecting on what dr. henry maudsley once wrote to him about mysticism "like other bad habits (he might have said 'like all living beings' it grows by what it fees on. most important, then, to use the constant critical check on all one's work. the devotion to adonai might itself fall under suspicion, where it not for the definition of adonai. adonai is that thought which informs an

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ver and of depth in the place of the gathering of waters. 276 "terrible was the silence of an uncreated world. immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose "they abode not; they hasted away; and in the vastness of vacancy the spirit moved; and the light-bearers were for a space "i have said: darkness of the darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings that were? do the sons of the night of time endure for ever? not yet are they passed away "before all things are the waters; and the darkness and the gates of the land of night "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose "and before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back, and the darkness hasted away "in the waters beneath

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e le bon has attempted to prove, what becomes of the "a priority" of causality? nay, further, of the "a priority" of the transcendental aesthetic itself- of time and of space, the fundamental sensual perceptions of kant's system? must we agree with the learned author of "the star in the west" that kant, after having for a hundred years lost his way in "the night of hume's ignorance" has at length fallen victim to his own verbosity, and has indeed sadly scorched "his fundamental basis? the literary guide and rationalist review, 1908-9. monthly, 2"d. of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of sir francis drake, i suppose that the origin-of-religion lunatics are the silliest. 386 listen to charles callow-hay on stonehenge! here's lo

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for centuries of thinking- thinking without method- bricks without straw! just so, also, the masters of meditation have erred. they have attained the mystic vision, written long books about it, assumed that the conclusions drawn from their vision were true on other planes- as if a microscopist were to stand for parliament on the platform "votes for microbes- never noted possible sources of error, fallen foul of sense and science, dropped into oblivion and deserved contempt. i want to combine the methods, to check the old empirical mysticism by the precision of modern science. hashish at least gives proof of a new order of consciousness, and (it seems to me) it is this "prima facie" case that mystics have always needed to make out, and never have made out. but to-day i claim the hashish-phe

i crown me with poppy-leaves: sere are the bays. fling down the myrtle: the myrtle decays. still be the strife of the strenuous days! still be thy stridency, player pandean! soothe me the lute; but oh hush to the paean! feed me on kisses of flowers lethean! specks on the wheel are the nights and the days, fast as they fall from me, lost in the haze, sobered to softness of silvery grays. satan is fallen from the pale empyrean down in the dusk with the dead galilean- fill me the cup of the poppy circean! ii hardly a glimmer to chasten the gloom. hardly a murmur of time at his loom. nothing of sense by the poppy-perfume. 191 boy, as you love me, i charge you to fold pipe over pipe into gardens of gold such as a god may be glad to behold. seated on high in the aeons of doom, sucked as a seed

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talisman, too hurriedly prepared, he cured the pain in the leg of a certain friend of his; but forgetting to close the circle he found himself afflicted, exactly twenty-four hours later, by a similar pain,but in the opposite leg to the one in which his friend had suffered. on very much the same lines as the foregoing, p. invoked into manifest appearance in the early autumn of 1899 the mighty but fallen spirit buer, to compel his obedience unto the restoring of the health of frater i.a; and many other workings were also accomplished about this period. more important than any such dealings with the paths is his progress in the middle pillar. in this connection we shall include frater i.a.'s ritual for "the magical invocation of the higher genius" the magical invocation of the higher genius

with his feelings, but as a true manifestation of his own ignorance. the aspirant shortly after this rises to his feet and the "second adept" addresses him as follows] despise not sadness and hate not suffering. for they are the initiators of the heart; and the black robe of mourning, which thou wearest, is at once the symbol of sorrow and strength. boast not thyself about thy brother if he hath fallen; for how knowest thou that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation. slander not and revile not; if thou canst not praise, do not condemn; and when thou seest another in trouble and humiliation, even though he be thine enemy, remember the time of thine own humiliation, when thou didst kneel before the door of the vault, clothed in the robe of mourning, with the chain of affliction ab

ng slave to the fourth; just as a warrior who has slain the king, and the captain of the guard, and even the chief eunuch who sleeps across the threshold of the queen's bed-chamber, may lose the kingdom he has all but won amongst the soft seducing cushions of a fair woman's couch, and only awake from his foolish sleep as the mallet drives the nail through his unguarded head. more valiant men have fallen in netzach than ever fell in malkuth, yesod, and hod combined, and more will fall in tiphereth than ever fell in netzach, and for the same reason, 236 and that is, that all success is illusionary, the greatest illusion being to consider oneself successful. it is here that man leaves, if he strive, the bow of worldly desires, and cleaves the firmament of thought like an arrow, which, eventua

than an obsession, and is as follows: in bed, i invoked the fire angels and spirits on the tablet, with names, etc, and the 6th key.47 i then (as harpocrates) entered my crystal. an angel, meeting me, told me among other things, that they (of the tablets) were "at war with the angels of the 30 aethyrs, to prevent the squaring of "the circle" i went with him unto the abodes of fire, but must have fallen asleep, or nearly so. anyhow, i regained consciousness in a very singular state half consciousness being there, and half here. i recovered and banished the spirits, but was burning all over, and tossed restlessly about__very sleepy, but consumed of fire! only repeated careful assumption of harpocrates' god-form enabled me to regain my normal state. i had a long dream of a woman eloping, who

d order were now in open revolt. from this point the lection continues: 48 described in a m.s. edited by s.r.m.d. and issued to the second order, in which is a picture of mercury diving into the sea. 49 secretary of the order of the golden dawn "he discovered that s.r.m.d, though a scholar of some ability and a magician of remarkable powers, had never attained complete initiation: and further had fallen from his original place, he having imprudently attracted to himself forces of evil too great and terrible for him to withstand.50 "the claim of the order that the true adepts were in charge of it was definitely disproved "in the order, with two certain exceptions and two 252 doubtful ones, he found no persons with any capacity for initiation of any sort "he thereupon, by his subtle wisdom

captured the vault. he writes: in the morning early i was very badly obsessed, and entirely lost my temper_ utterly without reason or justification. five times at least have horses bolted at sight of me" also "fires at 15 r.r. refuse utterly to burn" on tuesday he recaptured vault and suspended h.s. and it appears s.s.d.d, who sought aid from the police, and, so to speak, with the majority of the fallen order under the protection of the truncheons of scotland yard, drew up a new set of rules and regulations, and expelled such members from the order as had shown any knowledge superior to their own. thus it came to pass that on april 21, 1900, the second order of the golden dawn struggled through the fogs of their own fatuity; the sun of occult knowledge rising in the outer court of scotland

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hich is defilement to touch. before i had skimmed fifty pages i found my brain swimming; i nearly swooned" rev. r. f. horton, d.d. this book should be printed on vellum and locked up in a fire-proof safe in the british museum, great russell street w.c; so that future ecclesiastical historians and ethicists may learn into what a state of mental menorrhagia the adherents of the christian church had fallen at the commencement of the twentieth century. the "cleansing" part of the business seems to consist in pumping filth into everything that is clean. we are not allowed to talk of leg because every leg adjoins a thigh: soon we shall not be able to put a foot into a boot without first looking to see if some nasty mess has not been deposited in it, and why? because foot adjoins leg! moreover, f

orm. 4. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all my labours are as weary oxen laggard and sore stricken with the goad, ploughing black furrows across the white fields of light. yet in the scrawling trail of their slow toil do i descry the golden harvest of thine effulgence. 5. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all the hope 45 of my heart hath been ravished as the body of a virgin that is fallen into the hands of riotous robbers. yet in the outrage of mine innocence do i disclose the clear manna of thy purity. 6. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all the passion of my love is mazed as the bewildered eyes of a youth, who should wake to find his belov d fled away. yet in the crumpled couch of lust do i behold as an imprint the sigil of thy name. 7. o woe unto me, my god, woe un

il d beam of the stars, that art tangled in the tresses of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou flashing shield of the sun, as a discus hurled by the hand of space! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou ribald shout of laughter, that echoest among the tombs of death! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unfailing cruse of joy, that art filled with the tears of the fallen! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning lust of the moon, that art clothed in the mist of the ocean! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou one measure of all things, that art dam of the great order or worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frail virgin of eden, that art ravished to the abode of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dark fo

re; and when thou hast swallowed the sun surely shall the waters be driven from thee, so that though the fire be thine the water hath slipped thee, as a dog its leash. yet the path is straight. 8. along it shalt thou journey, and then shalt thou learn that the fear of death is the blood of the world. so the woman dressed herself in the shrouds of the dead, and decked herself with the bones of the fallen; and all feared her, therefore they lived. but she feared life; therefore she wove a dew-moon in her tangled hair as a sign of the fickleness of death, and wept tears of bitter sorrow that she should live in the blossom of her youth. and her tears crept like scorpions down her cheeks, and sped away in the darkness like serpents; and for each serpent came there an eagle which did carry it aw

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ence. sealed and sure! that throne is knowledge perfect pure. below that throne adoring stand 39 virtues in a blissful band; mercy, majesty and power, beauty and harmony and strength, triumph and splendour, starry shower of flames that flake their lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk's eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i b

s it that the hashish had produced, without any apparent cause, effects much more vigorous than the ordinary_ a not infrequent occurrence? he told me that across the scutcheon of his joy, this supreme delight of feeling oneself full of life and believing oneself full of genius, there had suddenly smitten the bar sinister of terror. at first dazzled by the beauty of his sensations, he had suddenly fallen into fear of them. he had asked himself the question "what would become of my intelligence 74 and of my bodily organs if this state (which he took for a supernatural state "went on always increasing; if my nerves became continually more and more delicate" by the power of enlargement which the spiritual eye of the patient possesses, this fear must be an unspeakable torment "i was" he said "l

ption, which present then, in an exceptional atmosphere, a true phenomenon of refraction. the man who, after abandoning himself for a long timr to opium or to hashish, has been able, weak as he has become by the habit of bondage, to find the energy necessary to shake off the chain, appears to me like an escaped prisoner. he inspires me with more admiration than does that prudent man who has never fallen, having always been careful to avoid the temptation. the english, in speaking of opium-eaters, often employ terms which can only appear excessive to those innocent persons who do not understand the horrors of this 92 downfall "enchained, fettered, enslaved" chains, in fact, compared to which all others_ chains of duty, chains of lawless love_ are nothing but webs of gauze and spider tissues

o seduce consents to buy from him on the same conditions his terrible privilege. in fact every man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. it is easy to grasp the analogy which exists between the satanic creations of poets and those living beings who have devoted themselves to stimulants. man has wished to become god, and soon_ there he is, in virtue of an inexorable moral law, fallen lower than his natural state! it is a soul which sells itself bit by bit. balzac doubtless thought that there is for man no greater shame, no greater suffering, than to abdicate his will. i saw him once in a drawing-room, where they were talking of the prodigious effects of hashish. he listened and asked questions with an amusing attention and vivacity. those who knew him may guess that it

the common eye, appears as a fabulous land of wonder and miracle. yet we say to you that there is no wonder imagined in the mind of man that man is not capable of performing, there is no miracle of the imagination, which has been performed by man, the which may not yet again be performed by him. the sun has stood still upon gibeon and the moon in the valley of ajalon, and the stars of heaven have fallen unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. what are suns, and moons, and stars, but the ideas of dreaming children cradled in the abyss of a drowsy understanding? to the blind worm, the sun is as the fluttering of warm wings in the outer 137 darkness, and the stars are not; to the savage, as welcome ball of fire, and the glittering eye

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to a house which p. at once recognized as that in which d.d.c.f. lived. he entered one of the rooms, which he also at once recognized but curious to say, instead of finding d.d.c.f. and v.n.r. there he found theo and mrs. horos. mr. horos (m.s.r) incarnated in the body of v.n.r. and mrs. horos (s.v.a) in that of d.d.c.f. their 176 bodies were in prison; but their spirits were in the house of the fallen chief of the golden dawn. at first frater p. was seized with horror at the sight, he knew not whether to direct a hostile current of will against d.d.c.f. and v.n.r, supposing them to be guilty of cherishing within their bodies the spirits of two disincarnated vampires, or perhaps abramelin demons under the assumed forms of s.v.a. and m.s.r, or to warn d.d.c.f; supposing him to be innocent

ver the moon uprose, and the tall dark trees cast shadows dun over the lonely way; over the moorland the long path goes we trod at the close of day. we sped to reach the dark green hill. the hill of the bloody bowl, and the shadows were watching, watching us still as we crept in the shadowless path, over the moor to the mother troll with the heart that was pierced in wrath. 236 stumbling over the fallen leaves, sliding over the dew, staring up at the barley sheaves that nod in the autumn wind, we pushed and jostled the twilight thro, shrilling to those behind. and ere the night had grown to noon we were under the bloody bowl, and then uprose a huge pale moon. behind the shivering trees; and so we found the mother troll well-skilled in mysteries. she heard our coming, and rose to the door

marriage falsehood and hypocrisy. chaos will not result when virtue weds with vice, for what is possible to the savage is possible for us, and the children will be looked after better than eve. once teach our children the nobility of love, and the pimp, the pander, and the puir-minded presbyter will simply be starved out. continue to foster the present unhealthy aspect with its "unfortunate" its "fallen" its "awful" its "degradation" and its "doom" and, in spite of a million vigilance society men on every 337 railway platform in the kingdom, the white slave traffic will continue to flourish the more it is presecuted, and become more criminal and degrading than ever. money is not the basis of this so-called evil, as suggested, and public indignation will not work a cure any more than public

on birds with a wild duck, so do thou create some harpy to torment them. who is this that followeth thee? behold this mumbler born to butcher the english language, and educated to hack it with a saw! this stuttering babbler, this harpocrates by the compulsion of a sloane square mammurra! who is this hanger-on to the bedraggled petticoats of thy lousy thalia- this beardless, witless filcher of thy fallen crab-apples? this housemaid of the court theatre, the gittite slut whose bleary eyes weep sexless crocodile tears over the crassness of the daughters of the philistines? arise, and speak to this palsied megalomaniac, this frowsy moll flanders of a degenerated chelsea, this down-at-heel "fl neur" on the outer boulevards of a prostituted literature, this little mongrel dog that fawneth upon t

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iris even now to the dark nile's upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti's void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again" 73 with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen 'hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him 'hath fallen himself to that profane whence none might ever rise again. dread torture racks him; all his bones get voice to utter forth his groans. the very poison of his blood joins in that cry's soul-shaking flood. for many a chiliad counted well his soul stayed in its proper hell. then, when sir palamedes came back to himself, the shrine was dark. cold was the incense, dead the flame; the slain babe

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n is that which is written "bring furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" and again "i am armed, i am armed" 19 i.nsit n.aturae r.egina i.sis (obtained in invocation, june 9-10, 1910 o.s) all the hot summer i lay in the darkness, calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, slay me with light in the heat of the summer; but the winds had no answer for one who was fallen asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, no voice of the lyre, and no song to charm them. late as i lay there asleep by the wayside, i heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, there in the darkness the summer called to me "thou who art hidden in the green silence, let a time of quietness come now upon thee. lay thine head on the earth and slumber on her bosom: time and the go

womanly manner she had despatched her first husband to the night of a sanatorium and thence to an early grave. she had suffered badly at the hands of her second. this we may take a being the coarsest form of that automatic justice, which is dealt only to the coarsest natures. it had not, however, extirpated an iota of her fund of self-esteem and lust for authority. to the latter, lionel had often fallen a victim. he was born bright and happy; the houses had done well by him. his mother gradually turned him into a self-concentrated, self-conscious, frightened and deceitful youth. she had mentally emasculated him; and, in his fits of understanding, he cursed her with no mean-spirited lips. he never forgave her the death of his 29 father, her lying, under-handed ways, especially her brutality

ll me, and leonine thy male caress. will not god grant us paradise to end the music earth began? we play with loaded dice! he cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. el arabi! el arabi! great is the love of god and man while i am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! el arabi! hilda norfolk. 38 lambda iota nu omicron sigma iota sigma iota delta omicron sigma lo! i lament. fallen is the sixfold star: slain is asar. o twinned with me in the womb of night! o son of my bowels to the lord of light! o man of mine that hast covered me from the shame of my virginity! where art thou? is it not apep thy brother, the snake in my womb that am thy mother, that hath slain thee by violence girt with guile, and scattered thy limbs on the nile? lo! i lament. i have forged a whirlin

erse known."11 because there is but one atman and not many atmans. 54 the first veil against which we must warn the aspirant is the entanglement of language, of words and of names. the merest tyro will answer "of course you need not explain to me that, if i call a thing 'a' or 'b' it makes no difference to that thing in itself" and yet not only the tyro, but many of the astutest philosophers have fallen into this snare, and not only once but an hundred times; the reason being that they have not remained silent12 about that which can only be "known" and not "believed in" and that which can never be names without begetting a duality (an untruth, and consequently a whole world of illusions. it is the crucifixion of every world-be saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, th

at nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the 62 certainly not in the case of the mahometan religion and its sufi adepts, who drank the vintage of bacchus as well as the wine of iacchus. the question of chastity is again one of those which rest on temperament and not on dogma. it is curious that the astute vivek nanda should have fallen into this man-trap. 63 swami vivek nanda "raja yoga" p. 45. 64 the bhagavad-g ta, vi, 16, 17. 65 or more correctly as the buddhist puts its- skilfulness and unskilfulness. 66 "konx om pax" by a. crowley, pp. 62, 63. fault is the seer's and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. never forget blake's words "those who restrain desire do so because theirs is w

ecame, the less he reasoned outwardly; and the more he became endowed with the spirit of the buddha in place of the vapourings of buddhism, the more he saw that personal endeavour was the key; not the scriptures, which at best could but indicate the way. it (the dharma) is to be attained to by the wise, each one for himself. salvation rests on work and not on faith, not in reforming the so-called fallen, but in conquering one-self "if one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men: and another conquer but himself- he is the greatest of conquerors."221 this is the whole of buddhism, as it is of any and all systems of self- control. 140 strenuousness is the immortal path- sloth is the way of death. the strenuous live always- the slothful are already as the dead.222 frater p. now s

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s ocean, wraps me round as fire! ye elemental sorceries of song, surge, strenuous and strong, seeking dead dreams, the secret of the shrine; so that she drain my life and being up as from a golden cup, to mingle in her blood, death's kiss incarnadine. who cometh from the ocean as a flower? who blossometh above the barren sea, thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower, thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me? o goddess, queen, and wife! o lady of my life! who set thy stature as a wood to wave? whose love begat thy limbs? whose wave-washed body swims that nurtured thee, and found herself a grave? 56 but thou, o thou, hast risen from the deep! all mortals mourn and weep to see thee, seeing that all love must die besides thy beauty, see thee and despair! deadly as thou art fair, i cry for al

lendour of noon [aries "and" leo "resume thrones["a" probationer "recites the" 12 "fold glorification of god from" 963["enter" scorpio-apophis "dressed in a filmy white robe, her hair in disorder [aries "and" leo "rise and bow" aries. hail thou! whence comest thou? scorpio-apophis. from the house of god. aries. what bringest thou as an offering to our lord? 68 scorpio-apophis. the house of god is fallen. there is nothing left therein. therefore i bring nothing but myself. leo. let us burn her upon the altar of burnt offering. scorpio-apophis. but in the fire my tears would be dried up; and these tears are of mine offering to the lord. leo. let us throw her to the sacred crocodile. scorpio-apophis. but in the water my heart would be chilled; and this heart is of mine offering to the lord. l

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his friends shall say "look! he pretends to read this book. but it is unintelligible- it is nonsense" yet he delights in the odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar things. 17. we shall bring you to absolute truth, absolute light, absolute bliss. 6 18. many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words have been perverted by their successors, and again and again the veil has fallen upon the holy of holies. 19. to you who yet wander in the court of the profane we cannot yet reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adept, seeing all these things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20. the m

e, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of the murderous mouth! 45 ii the snow maiden "to margaret callaghan" my love is like the lucent globes that drip from lips of cool crevasses, to clothe them with the virgin robes of mosses, flowers, and grasses. o spheres compact of fire and dew, lamps of the hollows of the

atma and ledmiya "and the" pipe-slaves "with their prisoner] fatma, do thou lament. i await tidings of the battle. is there sign of a messenger [fatma "goes to corpse and mutters over it" ledmiya["at window. there are many that make hither. some bear the dead away- two, three, five, eight, oh so many! some ride weary or wounded. laylah. some ride like messengers? ledmiya. no. yes, one. no, he has fallen from his horse, and lies still["wailing without" laylah. go, bid those fools be quiet. is there not enough woe in this house but that their shrieks should edge it [ledmiya "goes out. the wailing stops. then suddenly it begins again more loudly than before" fatma. more death! more misery [ledmiya "returns, and goes again to window" 89 laylah. silence, thou blotchy spider! thou baboon of ugli

bends over him] was not this arm too tender to bear a sword? why would he go to the battle? he was made for luting and the zephyr. his eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle's! his eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. alas, my baby! my young one, my tender one. is there tidings, girl? ledmiya. one rides fast. his horse stumbles at the gate. he leaps clear. the horse has fallen. he runs hither. laylah. news! news [ledmiya "goes out. enter a messenger" 2nd messenger. the duty of my lord to his mother! we keep the hounds at bay now. prince sliman is like the angel of death. no man can stand before him. the christians tremble, and give back when he rides against them. laylah. a man! a man! he is not hurt? 2nd messenger. scratches. as if a lion were at play with kitte

icious" she rimed "if i see anyone that seems likely to amuse me, i try and amuse him- or her" she laughed "is not that the golden rule "well" said edgar hesitatingly "well "i am so abstemious, so self-restrained, that i fear the reproach of the ascetic. love is my balancing-pole" she threw her arm round his neck, and her mouth shuddered on his in a long, deliberate, skilful kiss "art" sighed he, fallen back half fainting in his seat "art concealed" she glowed, radiant, intoxicated with her own enthusiasm "yes" he agreed "consummate art" 118 "and to all arts there is but one summit" continued the girl "you are a "nymphomane" he said "your aspiration is the lie you tell yourself" she struck him across the face "devil" she cried, so loud that even in the taverne pantheon folk looked up an la

y. suppose now that the world is only symbol- i had rather say sacrament- suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless aether are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier of the creator "you frighten me. i don't want to suppose "think of the eternal battles of haemoglobin, oxyhaemoglobin, carboxyhaemoglobin in our blood. it is the same idea. do we express sympathy for the fallen? have we a stop-the-war party? on the contrary, we take good care that these 123 murderous conflicts shall go on. so when you call the god to whom you aspire 'the compassionate 'the merciful' pray be very careful as to exactly what you mean "i am cold. i am frightened. the world has fallen away from me. take me away. put me into the ordeal; i have nothing more to lose "in the grey hours of

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bound together so that their blood could mingle. normally the third-grade initiation would have been held before this, but for maxine and alex it was already obsolete.they spent their honeymoon in alex'sflat,surrounded by the magical weapons that were so much a part oftheir lives. now that alex spent so much of his time with his bride, paul was very lonely. he had takena room in stockport and had fallen in .love with a girl, but she was engaged to someone else and he had resolvednot to try to win her over. usedto a sociable life, he asked alex to apply his powers to send him someone to live for. for some time alex had been toying with the idea of trying an experiment. he had studied it but never performed it, nor heard of any other living person who had. many of the ancient magicians, howe

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o are coming somewhat under the control of man, and will be more and more dominated by him. class 3. a group who form the health auras of all the three middle kingdoms of nature (vegetable, animal and human) either collectively or individually. man is coming into contact with them along medical lines and beginning somewhat to recognise them. one of the great errors into which the human family has fallen has been the endeavour to administer mineral drugs to man for medicinal purposes. it has resulted in a combination of deva substances which was never intended. the relation of man to the lower kingdoms, and particularly to the animal and mineral, has brought about a peculiar condition in the deva world and has tended to complicate deva evolution. the use of animal food (and the use of miner

mediators between spirit and matter. 2. they are the transmitters of force from sources extraneous to the solar system to forms within- 712- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the solar system. each of these groups of beings is likewise septenary in nature, and the forty-nine fires of brahma are the lowest manifestation of their fiery nature. each group also may be regarded as "fallen" in the cosmic sense, because involved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun.32(297) it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the huma

ion with the devas and the elemental kingdoms. 7. special mantrams connected with fire. all these mantrams depend for their potency upon the sound and rhythm and upon the syllabic emphasis imparted to them when enunciating and intoning. they depend too upon the capacity of the man who uses them to visualise and to will the desired effect. 252 86: s. d, i, 279, 280. 253 87: the solar gods are the "fallen angels" s. d, ii, 287. a. they warm the shadows..the human bodies. b. they in their turn are warmed by the monad, or atma. s. d, ii, 116, 117, 284. c. they are the serpents of wisdom. s. d, ii, 240. d. their nature is knowledge and love. s. d, ii, 527. e. they come in from the cosmic mental plane. s. d, iii, 540. the ego, or solar angel is imprisoned--s. d, i, 621- 819- a treatise on cosmic

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the pendulum, to swing too far in the opposite direction and to discount these stages of activity. do not misunderstand me however; i do not suggest that an attempt be made to place people and to decide where they stand upon the evolutionary ladder. this has been most foolishly done in the past, with much dishonour to the subject, so much so that, in the minds of the public, the whole matter has fallen into disrepute. if these stages are regarded sanely for what they are states of extended consciousness, and grades of responsibility then the danger of personality reaction to the terms "accepted disciple, initiate, adept, master" would be negligible and much trouble would be eliminated. it must ever be remembered that individual status is rigidly kept to oneself, and the point of evolution

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emphasis laid upon his divinity. that divinity is there, and nothing can touch or hide it; it is radiance and pure white light. but the manhood is there also, a guarantee to us of our opportunity and of our potentialities, an endorsement of our faith. in the magnetic power, breathed out through the words of the beloved apostle as he portrayed christ as the son of god who speaks divinely, we have fallen down in love and adoration before that divinity. but his manhood is emphasised by- 36- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust st. luke and st. matthew, just as his life as the great server was emphasised by st. mark. we have fought over the divinity of christ. had there been no gospel but the gospel of st. john, only his divinity would have been known to us. christ as man, and

up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil."25 this story of the temptation in the wilderness is most controversial. many questions have been propounded and much agony of soul has been experienced by the serious believer who endeavours to reconcile common sense, christ's divinity, and the devil. was it possible that christ could in reality be tempted, and if so, could he have fallen into sin? did he meet these temptations as the omnipotent son of god, or did he meet them as a man and therefore subject to temptation? what is meant by the devil? and what was the relation of christ to evil? had this wilderness story never been told to us, what would have been our attitude to christ? what really took place in the consciousness of christ while in the wilderness? for what pu

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

o you for he throws a light on people. in quietness and in confidence go forward along the lighted way and with expectancy as your keynote. preserve a readiness to handle all that may eventuate. the link between you and your master strengthens daily. january 1935 brother of mine: you face the three most strenuous years of your life and by the time you are forty-nine years old, your work will have fallen into such definite lines that you will see the plan for future service with much greater clarity and will have acquired the desired momentum. your work ahead lies now in cooperating with those who are the new group of world servers and in organising the financing through which much of their work may become possible. the work as it takes shape on the physical plane must be directed towards t

42- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust i have but little to say to you this half year, so brief a time have you been working in this group. the doors of opportunity have opened wide for you, for your increased stimulation (through your group affiliation) has so enhanced your potency that your vibration attracted attention where your words on occult matters would have fallen on deaf ears. herein is your field of service and herein lies your test. particularly for you the word magnetism should be considered. you have some definite magnetic power. this you know. but through which centre will it flow, and via which body? i give you here a thought and i indicate to you a field of awareness, concerning yourself, that you should learn to master. some day you will be

initely told a.a.b (as did her own master) that her major duty as a disciple was to familiarise the public with the true nature of the masters of the wisdom, and thus offset the erroneous impression which the public had received. this she has done to a certain degree but not to the full extent that was intended. she has shrunk from the task, owing to the disrepute into which the whole subject has fallen because of the false presentations given out by the various teachers and occult groups, plus the ridiculous claims put out by the ignorant about us. h.p.b, her predecessor, stated in certain instructions sent out to the esoteric section of the theosophical society that she bitterly regretted ever mentioning the masters, their names and functions. a.a.b. has been of the same opinion. the mas

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

oung people everywhere. they are the parents of the coming generations and the engineers who must implement the new civilization. what we do with them and for them is momentous in its implications; our responsibility is great and our opportunity unique. this chapter deals with the children and adolescents, under sixteen years old. these two groups are the most hopeful element in a world which has fallen to pieces before our eyes. they are the guarantee that our world can be rebuilt and if we have learned anything from past history and its dire consequences in our lifetime rebuilt along different lines, with different objectives and incentives and with well-defined goals and carefully considered ideals. let us remember, however, that visionary, mystical hopes and dreams, wishful thinking an

t realization that the kingdom of god is on earth, and that man is in deed and in truth made in the image of god and must inevitably through the passing of time and the discipline of life manifest his essential divinity, as christ did. 4. the brotherhood of man much has been written, preached and talked about brotherhood. so much has been said and so little brotherhood practised that the word has fallen somewhat into disrepute. yet the word is a statement of the underlying origin and goal of humanity and is the keynote of the fourth kingdom in nature, the human. brotherhood is a great natural fact; all men are brothers; under the divergences of colour, creed- 85- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust cultures and civilizations, there is only one humanity without distinction or di

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

plus its creative ability- 103- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust much that i have given you here will serve to elucidate that which i have written upon esoteric astrology*(15) it will give you the key to that science of relationships which is essentially the key to astrology and also to the science of laya yoga. this latter science has (fortunately for the aryan race) fallen into disrepute since later atlantean days; it will, however, be restored and used upon a higher turn of the spiral, during the next five hundred years. when correctly and rightly restored, its emphasis will not be upon the nature of the centre involved, but upon the quality of the consciousness which distinguishes any particular centre and which will then necessarily condition its sphere of

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

heir intermediary work, therefore, is dual: 1. they are the mediators between spirit and matter. 2. they are the transmitters of force from sources extraneous to the solar system to forms within the solar system. each of these groups of beings is likewise septenary in nature, and the forty-nine fires of brahma are the lowest manifestation of their fiery nature. each group also may be regarded as "fallen" in the cosmic sense, because involved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun. it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant

self that which is desired this time the good of the whole. in capricorn, therefore, jupiter reaches its lowest point of expression in the densest material aspect, and then as love and selflessness triumph this lowest aspect vanishes and disappears. it is to the "fall" of the highest aspect that the symbolism refers, and then later to the fall or disappearance of all that is base and low. love is fallen and blinded when desire is rampant; desire vanishes when love triumphs. neptune is often spoken of as falling in this sign and for the same reasons. neptune is the god of the waters, and is esoterically related to pisces. it should be noted that both neptune and jupiter are exalted in cancer, the great sign wherein the desire for incarnation finds its fulfilment; the power of both is lessen

ire into aspiration. uranus, the planet of the hidden mystery and one of the most occult of the planets "falls" in this sign, producing the accentuation and the sharp division between body and soul which is so marked a characteristic of the taurian subject. it prepares the inner man for the sharp interplay and conflict in the next sign, gemini. the presence, therefore, of the exalted moon and the fallen uranus gives a marvellous picture of man's history during the stage of personality development and power. the task of uranus, hidden in the depths, is to awaken and evoke the intuitive response of taurus to an ever-increasing light until such time that full illumination is achieved and also the development of the spiritual consciousness substituting these higher soul aspects for the lower f

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

duate course, i received a letter from the president of the university begging me to return to walter. he pleaded with me (as a very old and experienced man) to go back to my husband because, he stated, never in the course of his long experience with thousands of young men had he met a man as gifted spiritually, physically and mentally as walter evans. it was not surprising, therefore, that i had fallen in love and married him. all the indications were good except his social setting and lack of money, but as i was going to america to live and as he was shortly to be ordained in the episcopal church that did not seem to matter. we could manage on his stipend and my small income. we went straight from england to cincinnati, ohio, where my husband was studying at the lane theological seminary

i definitely told a.a.b (as did her own master) that her major duty as a disciple was to familiarise the public with the true nature of the masters of the wisdom and offset the erroneous impression which the public had received. this she has done to a certain degree but not to the full extent that was intended. she has shrunk from the task, owing to the disrepute into which the whole subject had fallen because of the false presentations given out by the various teachers and occult groups, plus the ridiculous claims put out by the ignorant about us. h.p.b, her predecessor, stated in certain instructions sent out to the esoteric section of the theosophical society that she bitterly regretted ever mentioning the masters, their names and functions. a.a.b. has been of the same opinion. the mas

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

ion can be, if it is impulsed by true vision and made responsible to sensed world need and to the demands of the times. education is the training, intelligently given, which will enable the youth of the world to contact their environment with intelligence and sanity, and adapt themselves to the existing conditions. this today is of prime importance and is one of the signposts in a world which has fallen to pieces. education is a process whereby the child is equipped with the information which will enable him to act as a good citizen and perform the functions of a wise parent. it should take into consideration his inherent tendencies, his racial and national attributes, and then endeavour to add to these that knowledge which will lead him to work constructively in his particular world setti

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ifestation will make possible certain moves and will clear away some (though not all) of those forces which have held back the proposed expansion and which have limited the work that disciples all over the world have sought to do. every disciple has been tested; unsuspected weaknesses have emerged and characteristics which should be straightened out have come to the surface; a few a very few have fallen by the way, but a large majority have passed the test. weaknesses of motivation, of purpose, of technique and of personality faults have been exposed and recognised by truly earnest disciples; this has been necessary, for the incoming energies will render excessive the weaknesses (if they are recognised for what they are) and will enhance the contribution to world service of those disciples

unity. you can see, therefore, the scientific reason i had when i urged you in past years to have a group enterprise, for it is a major unifying factor, and the inner ashram with which you are affiliated stands to you (at your particular point of development) as shamballa stands to the hierarchy from the angle of dynamic inspiration. had you done this (which you did not) the group would not have fallen apart as it has done. had you eliminated criticism, the essential unity would have been strengthened. one of the reasons i had for the complete frankness and so-called exposure of your individual weakness and limitations to the group as a whole was to train you in the light of pure perception which knows the reason why and sees with clarity the ends in view. where true perception exists, cr

ility can be placed upon him if not in this life then in the next. you are not young, my brother, but you can have the rare joy of looking back (when the time comes to pass through the portal into clearer light and life and know) to know that you have served and helped thousands, through the radio and through the translated material of the teaching i have tried to give; what you have sown has not fallen on sterile ground. this remains true, even if you do not register the fact. since first you responded to my vibration, you have not turned back; this has been recorded and recognised by us. praise and commendation is an unusual line for me to take but a disciple has to learn to respond correctly to that as well as to correction. you have earned commendation and we withhold from no one their

ing free from all environing limitations, whilst steadily giving love where association exists but doing so with complete detachment. that is the concept or idea behind the apparently peculiar episode in the life of the christ where he repudiated his mother; it is a symbolic story and probably has no basis in fact but it nevertheless carries a lesson for all disciples. the lines of your life have fallen for you now into those which your soul desires, for your brother travels with you and you are doing the needed work. those who bear or have borne the same family name as yourself invoke your loving sense of responsibility and obligation but only temporarily and only for this life. is this a hard saying for you? think not about it unduly, brother of mine; your next incarnation is necessarily

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ements (based on population and internal resources, etc) and will know also what they can contribute to the family of nations; all will be animated by the will to the general good a will-to-good that will probably at first be based on expediency and national need but which will be constructive in its working out. certain facts are obvious. the old order has failed. the resources of the world have fallen into the hands of the selfish, and there has been no just distribution. some nations have had too much, and have exploited their surplus; other nations have had too little, and their national life and their financial situation have been crippled thereby. at the close of this war all the nations will be in financial difficulties. all nations will require re-building; all will have to attend

tution condition all manifestation for what reason this is so, no one knows, but so is the divine will. in synthesis and in the all-inclusive awareness of the great life which enfolds all that is, everything (except what we know as evil) is persistent and for ever endures. you will have noted (if you are true students of what i have given out to the world) that information anent the hierarchy has fallen into three major categories: 1. the work of the hierarchy in relation to man and to the three worlds of human evolution. 2. the interior constitution of the hierarchy and its internal activity. 3. its superior relation to shamballa and to extra-planetary livingness. a great deal that has been conveyed to you in the two final categories has been merged by you into an interested but totally i

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

sion and satisfies his desire to incarnate in a solar system, and to begin the great [33] life cycle of the universe. it may be likewise the urge to individual creation, of the soul to take a body, or of a human being to create something which shall be specially his own. in ancient accadian days, this sign aries was called that "wherein the sacrifice of righteousness was made" or the sign of "the fallen angels. the sons of god, impelled by this basic urge, fell from their high estate, took form, and started upon their individual round upon round of the zodiac. thirdly, we find the urge to resurrection. in aries, which has seen the beginning of form life and which has initiated the creative work, there begins to be felt the urge to achieve freedom from the form, to roll away the stone from

d, bespattering hercules. three fathoms high the- 81- the labours of hercules monster stood, a thing of ugliness that looked as if it had been made of all the foulest thoughts conceived since time began. the hydra sprang at hercules and sought to coil about his feet. he stepped aside and dealt it such a crushing blow that one of its heads was immediately dissevered. no sooner had this horrid head fallen into the bog than two grew in its place. again and again hercules attacked the raging monster, but it grew stronger, not weaker, with each assault. then hercules remembered that his teacher had said "we rise by kneeling" casting aside his club, hercules knelt, grasped the hydra with his bare hands, and raised it aloft. suspended in mid-air, its strength diminished. on his knees, then, he he

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

deficiency. therefore she was called life, which is the mother of the living, by the foreknowledge of the sovereignty of heaven. and through her they have tasted the perfect knowledge. i appeared in the form of an eagle on the tree of knowledge, which is the epinoia from the foreknowledge of the pure light, that i might teach them and awaken them out of the depth of sleep. for they were both in a fallen state, and they recognized their nakedness. the epinoia appeared to them as a light; she awakened their thinking "and when yaltabaoth noticed that they withdrew from him, he cursed his earth. he found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame h

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

off one garment after another, till she is naked and then stops, and thenwhen dressed the race begins again.as the vast storm-cloud falls in glittering drops, even so the great myths of the olden time are bro-ken up into small fairy-tales, and as these drops in turn reuniteen rivire ou sur lestang,(on silent lake or streamlet lone,)as villon hath it, even so minor myths are again formed from the fallen waters. in this story we clear-ly have the dog made by vulcan and the wolf jupiter settled the question by petrifying them asyou may read in julius polluxhis fifth book, or any other on mythology. is canis fuit postea jove inlapidem conversus. page 54 this is pretty, but it is only imitation, and neither in form or spirit really equal to the incantations,which are sincere in faith. and it m

the fathers of the beginning, to the mothers, the spirits who were before the firstspirit, and lamented unto them that she could not prevail with lucifer. and they praised her for hercourage; they told her that to rise she must fall; to become the chief of goddesses she must becomea mortal.and in the ages, in the course of time, when the world was made, dianawent on earth, as didlucifer, who had fallen, and dianataught magic and sorcery, whence came witches and fairies andgoblins all that is like man, yet not mortal.and it came thus that dianatook the form of a cat. her brother had a cat whom he loved beyond allcreatures, and it slept every night on his bed, a cat beautiful beyond all other creatures, a fairy: hedid not know it.dianaprevailed with the cat to change forms with her; so she

cret of endless wealth, that such a sorceress musthave had a store of wondrous legends; but of all this there is no trace, and it is very evident thatnothing could be further from his mind than that there was anything /interesting/ from a higher ormore genial point of view in it all.his book, in fine, belongs to the very great number of those written on ghosts and superstition sincethe latter has fallen into discredit, in which the authors indulge in much satirical and very safe butcheap ridicule of what to them is merely vulgar and false. like sir charles coldstream, they havepeeped in the crater of vesuvius after is had ceased to erupt, and found nothing in it. but therewas something in it once; and the man of science, which sir charles was not, still finds a great dealin the remains, an

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

stood as a universal approach to witchcraft, shall the answer lie between the shadow and light, the essence between. the path of the wise is existent between what is seen and not seen, the very connection a clue to what the potential of the individual can be. luciferian witchcraft is the very result of sorcery which emerged in ancient cultures and times. the luciferic linage is traced back to the fallen angels of ancient lore, whom tasted from the shadow garden and the pleasures of both the spirit and flesh. that the watchers and fallen ones, led by azazel[1] lucifer, called later iblis, understood the immortality of the psyche is between the path of the not-seen, the shadow and darkness which cultivates the black flame itself. the witchcraft tradition was explored in essence by the practi

freedom from the trappings of flesh and the awakening of the nightside consciousness. this is the primal gnosis of sorcery itself, which is the dark well of the elixir of the adept, the one who drinks of the dual ecstasies of the sun and the moon[4. the arcanum of the luciferian path is a resounding voice of the king and queen of witchblood, being samael and lilith[5. the key to the gnosis of the fallen angels is within their very essence, being of the sun and the moon. the sorcerer may seek the sexual union of both within his or her self, allowing the pleasure of the waking and waning moon to be brought forth through the sun, which is the gateway for demons and angels in copulation. if one seeks not the sexual genii, the antinomianian path is brought forth by a solitary and capable mind

ch implies the connection of folklore with inspired magical practice, the caul introduced in ritual practice (by a blood coloured cloth, stained with menstrual blood or otherwise) is the mark of lilith and cain, born unto the night within the mysteries of vampyrism. the heart of the arcana is in the brain itself, it is our connection and desire to unite the hand and the eye in the grimoire of the fallen, which was long ago scribed in the blood of our spiritual ancestors, those who walk the ahrimanic path long ago, when the deserts whispered the timeless name of azazel, called our father and lilith, the very womb of our birth and initiation. i) the left hand path that the luciferian tradition is awakening from european traditional craft is nothing new, the emergence of the work in america l

discovery through the saturnian sphere. the work of saturn itself is one connected with the left hand path. as the saturn sphere is connected with demiurge saturnus, or satanas, the self is the avenue of which this planetary influence is found. saturn, as being held in two octaves or rays, is itself a means of psychic isolation from which the psyche is refined to a deified level. the watchers, or fallen angels of ancient lore are the guardians of the path of the wise. such angels dwell within the shadow gardens of twilight, of dreams and the nightside of being. we must listen closely, for their wisdom is that of the gifts of lucifer and lilith, that through the adversary can such beautiful musick be heard! the watchers, as brought forth by shemyaza/azazel, is the divine gift brought down f

shadow gardens of twilight, of dreams and the nightside of being. we must listen closely, for their wisdom is that of the gifts of lucifer and lilith, that through the adversary can such beautiful musick be heard! the watchers, as brought forth by shemyaza/azazel, is the divine gift brought down from the sky unto man, whom was a primal sleeper which carried the bestial desires of the planet. the fallen angels thus brought divinity with the abyssic daemon of self, that we were divine in our dual essence. it is through the self-alchemical work of saturn, that one emerges awakened in unity. saturn is the guardian of death, or daath or the guardian of the threshold[8. in saturn there is a lower and higher octave, which is a passage way of self-exploration and self-perception. in the lower oct

, being that of sorath, or the sun. satanas is this aspect is one form of the adversary, being rebellion, death and chaos from stasis. the very fire force of the sun is in the eye of satanas/saturnus, misrule and self-liberation through antinomianian awakening of saturn. the higher octave of saturn is lucifer, being light, wisdom and illumination. lucifer/iblis is the imagination thus azazel, the fallen djinn of fire. lucifer represents also rebirth, inner strength, reason and solitude. in the unity of saturn are both the star of algol[9] hidden (without the averse pentagram) and the mark of demiurge saturnus. it is through satan/iblis (fire) that one emerges in light, thus lucifer is the black flame in the darkness, the light in the darkness. it was in medieval times that saturn itself wa

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

d of tibet in which tsiu marpo exists. this is necessary in order to understand the multiple contexts in which tsiu marpo and other protector deities participate, as well as the social solidarity that they help to maintain. the second chapter will provide the origin myth of tsiu marpo as recounted in the primary tibetan texts concerning him. this chapter will discuss how tsiu marpo evolved from a fallen buddhist monk to a local malicious spirit and, finally, into an important protector deity. this section will also elucidate on tsiu marpo s connection to samy monastery. the third chapter will explore the iconography surrounding tsiu marpo and his demonic cohorts. this chapter will discuss the significance of the frightening visual appearance these deities tend to share and how these appear

despite the later popularity of padmasambhava as the chief originator of terma texts, it is significant that such prestigious figures of tibet s ancient empire specifically its most lauded kings were initially attached to the terma tradition. davidson, in his exploration of the tradition s early history, suggests that termas provide a perceptible connection to tibet s dynastic past. certainly the fallen empire itself, or at least the buddhist ideals that have come to recreate it, became viewed as a treasure to be continually discovered across tibet s mythic landscape.32 as padmasambhava was connected to this past he became a popular figurehead of the terma tradition, authenticating the teachings of the nyingma sect, which has its roots in this dynastic period. we will continue to see multi

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

downwards to the lowest parts, like the torrent of a violent stream. the fourth book of occult philosophy it is written in the bible that samael/satan fell from heaven as lightening, being a flash downwards, who before the fall, was a guarding seraph around the throne of god. after his fall he was a master of death, the very poison of god yet he was also a giver of life, being the father between fallen angel and woman. in later jewish writings, samael is associated with the name malkira, which morris jastrow jr. associated with malik- ra, being the evil angel and the name matanbuchus, being a form of angro-mainyush or ahriman. here does the circle become closed and the nature of the first angel become perceived or sensed. in ongoing ritual work, the magician begins identifying his or hers

evil angel and the name matanbuchus, being a form of angro-mainyush or ahriman. here does the circle become closed and the nature of the first angel become perceived or sensed. in ongoing ritual work, the magician begins identifying his or herself with samael (and lilith) within the parameters of their own life and initiation. the lord of the earth, being a name ascribed to samael (satan) and his fallen angels and demons, are but considered astral spirits, that which no longer take physical form, but may become manifest through the magician or witch who may make a pact with them, being initiation and dedication to the left hand path. 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 proce

onsidered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen ones and demons, only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kiss

would not accept his offerings and prayers, rather than any specific demands of animal sacrifice. the tale continues with cain being cursed to wander the earth as a vagabond, with the ground he tills never giving bounty. nathaniel j. harris, the mark of cain, the first satanist and first murder. in certain rabbinical literature, the daughters of cain were those who joined in sexual union with the fallen angels, the watchers, and gave birth to the nephilim, the giants who were war like and brutal. they were said to have populated the earth in plenty, and attacked the children of seth. in manichaean lore, the queen of demons and spiritual initiator of cain, lilith az, taught the fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann ko

cery and cunning craft is from the earliest legends, memories and mythology of mankind. cain who wandered east to the land of nod became essentially, according to the truth of the circle the first satanist and witch, whose children beget children and the blood line of the cunning were born. it is suggested in some jewish lore that the daughters of cain were the ones to seduce or copulate with the fallen angels, the watchers. it is beginning with the watchers that the balanced aspects of angelic and satanic magick are found it is the very atavistic depths in which this bloodline still rests deep within our psyche, along with the serpents and therion-atavisms within our flesh. the book of enoch, translated from the ethiopian by r.h. charles, in the 69th chapter, presents the names and therei

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

nsciousness, are allied to seven states of matter and the seven forms of force, the division must be the same in all that concerns the earth* venus is thus[[diagram] the earth[[diagram[[vol. 2, page] 30 the secret doctrine. also of astrology, represented venus in its astronomical tables as a globe poised over a cross, and the earth, as a globe under a cross. the esoteric meaning of this is "earth fallen into generation, or into the production of its species through sexual union" but the later western nations did not fail to give quite a different interpretation. they explained this sign through their mystics- guided by the light of the latin church- as meaning that our earth and all on it were redeemed by the cross, while venus (otherwise lucifer or satan) was trampling upon it. venus is t

o the primitive root-race also. it becomes androgynous as the races and all on earth develop into their physical forms, and the symbol is transformed into a circle with a diameter from which runs a vertical line: expressive of male and female, not separated as yet- the first and earliest egyptian tau[[diagram; after which it becomes[[diagram] or male-female separated (see first pp. of book i) and fallen into generation. venus (the planet) is symbolised by the sign of a globe over the cross, which shows it as presiding over the natural generation of man. the egyptians symbolised ank "life" by the ansated cross, or[[diagram, which is only another form of venus (isis[[diagram, and meant, esoterically, that mankind and all animal life bad stepped out of the divine spiritual circle and fallen i

ds, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dupuis, tome iii, p. 255. only dupuis never knew why draco, once the pole-star- the symbol of "guide" guru and director- had been thus degraded by posterity "the gods of our fathers are our devils" says an asiatic proverb. when draco ceased to be the lode-star, the guiding sidereal divinity, it shared the fate of all the fallen gods. seth and typhon was at one time, bunsen tells us "a great god universally adored throughout egypt, who conferred on the sovereigns of the 18th and 19th dynasties the symbols of life and power. but subsequently, in the course of the 20th dynasty, he is suddenly treated as an evil demon, insomuch that his effigies and name are obliterated on all the monuments and inscriptions that could

ramaya, the atlantean. it has already been hinted that of all the incomprehensible characters in the mahabharata and the puranas, narada, the son of brahrna in matsya purana, the progeny of kasyapa and the daughter of daksha[[footnote(s* achyuta is an almost untranslatable term. it means that which is not subject to fall or change for the worse: the unfalling; and it is the reverse of chyuta "the fallen" the dhyanis who incarnate in the human forms of the third root- race and endow them with intellect (manas) are called the chyuta, for they fall into generation[[vol. 2, page] 48 the secret doctrine. in the vishnu purana, is the most mysterious. he is referred to by the honourable title of deva rishi (divine rishi, more than a demi-god) by parasara, and yet he is cursed by daksha and even b

e principle- are the positive poles of creation, so to say; hence, the first produced. this is in brief the process as narrated allegorically in the puranas "having concentrated his mind into itself and the quality of darkness pervading brahma's assumed body, the asuras, issuing from his thigh, were first produced; after which, abandoning this body, it was transformed into night (see part ii "the fallen angels) two important points are involved herein (a) primarily in the rig-veda, the "asuras" are shown as spiritual divine beings; their etymology is derived from asu (breath, the "breath of god" and they mean the same as the supreme spirit or the zoroastrian ahura. it is later on, for purposes of theology and dogma, that they are shown issuing from brahma's thigh, and that their name began

creation" of the good and evil in this world and of the whole cycle of manvantaric results therefrom, hangs on the correct comprehension of these four bodies of brahma. the reader will now be prepared to understand the real, the esoteric significance of what follows. moreover there is an important point to be cleared up. christian theology having arbitrarily settled and agreed that satan with his fallen angels belonged to the earliest creation, satan being the first-created, the wisest and most beautiful of god's archangels, the word was given, the key-note struck. henceforth all the pagan scriptures were made to yield the same meaning, and all were shown to be demoniacal, and it was and is claimed that truth and fact belong to, and commence only with, christianity. even the orientalists a

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ellent work with a very unfortunate[[vol. 1, page] xviii introductory. title, though it meant no more than does the title of this work, the "secret doctrine" it proved unfortunate, because people are always in the habit of judging things by their appearance, rather than their meaning; and because the error has now become so universal, that even most of the fellows of the theosophical society have fallen victims to the same misconception. from the first, however, protests were raised by brahmins and others against the title; and, in justice to myself, i must add that "esoteric buddhism" was presented to me as a completed volume, and that i was entirely unaware of the manner in which the author intended to spell the word "budh-ism" this has to be laid directly at the door of those who, havin

s place in history" vol. i. p. 200[[vol. 1, page] xxvii introductory. so that, with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments, the entire chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost atlantis. a few facts that were contained in the berosian history are given in part ii. of vol. ii, and may throw a great light on the true origin of the fallen angels, personified by bel and the dragon. turning now to the oldest aryan literature, the rig-veda, the student will find, following strictly in this the data furnished by the said orientalists themselves, that, although the rig-veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns" in spite of the brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this

there, some 3,000 human beings represent the relics of about a hundred extinct nations and races- the very names of which are now unknown to our ethnologists. an anthropologist would feel more than embarrassed to class, divide and subdivide them; the more so, as the respective descendants of all these antediluvian races and tribes know as little of their own forefathers themselves, as if they had fallen from the moon. when questioned about their origin, they reply that they know not whence their fathers had come, but had heard that their first (or earliest) men were ruled by the great genii of these deserts. this may be put down to ignorance and superstition, yet in view of the teachings of the secret doctrine, the answer may be based upon primeval tradition. alone, the tribe of khoorassan

of the earlier work, an indispensable corollary to it. much of what was in isis could hardly be understood by theosophists in those days. the secret doctrine will now throw light on many a problem left unsolved in the first work, especially on the opening pages, which have never been understood. concerned simply with the philosophies within our historical times and the respective symbolism of the fallen nations, only a hurried glance could be thrown at the panorama of occultism in the two volumes of isis. in the present work, detailed cosmogony and the evolution of the four races that preceded our fifth race humanity are given, and now two large volumes explain that which was stated on the first page of isis unveiled alone, and in a few allusions scattered hither and thither throughout tha

nwhile, be prudent. do not give out the great truths that are the inheritance of the future races, to our present generation. do not attempt to unveil the secret of being and non-being to those unable to see the hidden meaning of apollo's heptachord- the lyre of the radiant god, in each of the seven strings of which dwelleth the spirit, soul and astral body of the kosmos, whose shell only has now fallen into the hands of modern science. be prudent, we say, prudent and wise, and above all take care what those who learn from you believe in; lest by deceiving themselves they deceive others. for such is the fate of every truth with which men are, as yet, unfamiliar. let rather the planetary chains and other super- and sub-cosmic mysteries remain a dreamland for those who can neither see, nor y

explains this by hinting at the necessity of failures even in the ethereal races of dhyan chohans. concerning this it says "still, as these 'failures' are too far progressed and spiritualized to be thrown back forcibly from dhyan chohanship into the vortex of a new primordial evolution through the lower kingdoms" after which only a hint is given about the mystery contained in the allegory of the fallen asuras, which will be expanded and explained in book ii. when karma has reached them at the stage of human evolution "they will have to drink it to the last drop in the bitter cup of retribution. then they become an active force and commingle with the elementals, the progressed entities of the pure animal kingdom, to develop little by little the full type of humanity" these dhyan chohans, a

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er reason than that of their worldly prosperity. in short, the order failed to initiate. 12. scandal arose, and with it schism. 13. in 1900, one p, a brother, instituted a rigorous test of s.r.m.d. on the one side and the order on the other. 14. he discovered that s.r.m.d, though a scholar of some ability and a magician of remarkable powers, had never attained complete initiation: and further had fallen from his original place, he having imprudently attracted to himself forces of evil too great and terrible for him to withstand. the equinox 58 the claim of the order that the true adepts were in charge of it was definitely disproved. 15. in the order, with two certain exceptions and two doubtful ones, he found no persons prepared for initiation of any sort. 16. he thereupon by his subtle wi

; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to a.a. is in the most secret of england.s war councils at this hour. but it is possible that this instruction refers to some later time when our law, administered by some such order as the o.t.o. which concerns itself with temporal affairs, is of weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen, and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods. note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that

ear, the drone and rustle of the weir told in bass the treble tale of the embowered nightingale. higher, on the patient river, velvet lights without a quiver echoed through their hush d rimes the garden s glow beneath the limes. then the sombre village, crowned by the castellated ground where, in cerements of sable, one square tower and one great gable stood, the melancholy wraith of a false and fallen faith over all, supine, enthralling, the young moon, her faint edge falling to the dead verge of her setting, saintly swam, her silver fretting all the leaves with light. afar the equinox 188 toward the zenith stood a star, as of all worthiness and fitness the luminous eternal witness. so silent was the night, that i stirred the grasses reverently and hid myself. the garden s glow darkened

m, that his conduct will be watched with kindly eye by our authorities, and his prowess rewarded by admission to the ranks of the master-class. also, he will be given fair play. you may now ask how such arrangements are possible. there is only one solution to this great problem. it has always been admitted that the ideal form of government is that of a .benevolent despot. and despotisms have only fallen because it is impossible in practice to assure the goodwill of those in power. the rules of chivalry, and those of bushido in the east, gave the best chance to develop rulers of the desired type. chivalry failed principally because it was confronted with new problems; today we know perfectly what those problems were, and are able to solve them. it is generally understood by all men of educa

deacon: upon all that this day unite with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. the people: so mote it be (death) the deacon: term of all that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. the people: so mote it be. liber xv 263 (the end) the deacon: unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true wills; whether they will absorption in the infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomp

BOOK OF ENOCH

5.9] they will not again do wrong, and they will not be judged in all the days of their life, and they will not die of wrath or anger. but they will complete the number of the days of their life. and their life will grow in peace, and the years of their joy will increase in gladness and eternal peace; all the days of their life. 3) rebels among the watchers (pages 15-17) this is the story of the fallen angels. the beginning, 6.1-2, is virtually identical with genesis 6.1-2. in enoch's book, we get their names and many other details. at 6.6, enoch explains the naming of mount hermon- in hebrew it means curses. the mountain that he was actually referring to is possibly somewhere near lake van in turkey. it is common for translators to update names rather than use phonetics, so the few names

BOOK OF JASHAR

spoke to the people "you cannot see the peace that i have given you, so let us build a tower for god. you have forgotten the warfare that i ended, so let us make blood sacrifices at the new moon. then you will see and remember, and you will know that god still inhabits our kingdom" thus nimrod reigned until his death, and he was entombed in the high tower, and everyone mourned how the mighty had fallen. the people were afraid of being divided, so nimrod was succeeded by other kings. but each king was driven to exalt his own name, and the tower of each generation was built higher than before. in time, the royal engineers learned how to reach up to heaven. monitors were appointed in every village, so that those who did not make bricks for the tower should be sacrificed into its mortar. and

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

vice. some of these spirits demand a sacrifice of the magician before they will honor the requests but it having been made they are amiable to the demands made. each of these orders rule 490 leagues of spirits except those ruled by tagaririm, whose dominion is sevenfold that of the others. the qliphoth these be they who be unclean and evil, even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the

ficers who raise, argue and close every case that comes before the holy one when he is seated on the throne of judgement. it is they who give effect to the decrees of the most high over the kingdoms of men; these angels form the council of the almighty. the eldest servant of his house is metatron naar, the angel which maintains the heavenly treasures. the watchers and the holy ones theses are the fallen high angels and were known to the greeks as arcontev [or "archons; their names are radweriel; he is the c lestial scribe; rahatiel is the angel ruling over the constellations. unto him are the angelick decans which rule the 12 signs; sopheriel is the angel set over the books of the living and the dead. the chief of the watchers is named azazel, who governs with uzza and uzziel. the merkabah

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

rgies for magical and healing work [insert pic p024- some items, such as the pentacle (see page 189, you can make from clay, and herbs can be grown in pots or in gardens and chopped in a mortar and pestle. fresh herbs have more immediate energies than dried, though the latter are better in sachets and poppets. always bear in mind that the magick is in you, not in your tools, and a wand cut from a fallen hazel or willow branch in the right hands can be more magical that the most elaborate crystal-tipped one purchased from a new age store. spell casting spell casting is part of some, but by no means all, wiccan activities. most spells are carried out with the purpose of changing someone's life for the better or sending healing energies to others. for example, love magick could, if you wish t

a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish, showing the way and offering sustenance to all who ask. raphael stands in the east and his colour is yellow. michael archangel of the sun and light, michael is the warrior angel. he appeared to moses as the fire in the burning bush and saved daniel from the lions' den. as commander of the heavenly hosts, michael, with his flaming sword, drove satan and his fallen angels out of the celestial realms; as angel of judgement, he also carries a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the

ativity and growth of all kinds. it may seite 157 wicca01.txt be performed either alone or in a group, with everyone present joining in the chants. use as many kinds of wood as possible in the kindling for your fire. traditionally the magical trees were oak, ash, thorn, willow, birch, rowan, alder, holly and yew, but you can use wood indigenous to your region. an arboretum will offer a variety of fallen twigs* light a small fire (this may be either a small bonfire out of doors, or a fire in a hearth indoors. barbecue pits are easily adapted) if you are working in a group, each person can ignite the fire at a different place. if you cannot light a fire, choose a really large, fat, dark green candle as your focus. place it on a wide, deep fireproof tray, secured in sand* if you are in a grou

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

ea of understanding. lucifer sought to free humanity from its sheep condition, all the while fought by the anthropomorphic-created god. god is chaos invariably and lucifer sought to manipulate this power, which the morning star has done successfully. the watchers and the nephilim understood this fact clearly and so did their will in the same fashion. the sabbatic bloodline of those descended from fallen angels is present clearly in this age, equaled with those who were spiritual heirs as well. the craft taught by the fallen angels is further outlined in my the book of the witch moon, which further introduces what can be considered disciplined chaos sorcery. the methods of chaos magick are based within the theories of the universe being subject to those who may open and use the mind on nume

d disciplined chaos sorcery. the methods of chaos magick are based within the theories of the universe being subject to those who may open and use the mind on numerous levels. the effects of the earth are reactions to theories and ideas enfleshed. magick is nothing but a science of the mind. it is our psychic connection between the universe surrounding the casual world and us. the language of the fallen angels and those who would seek the promethean light of knowledge and wisdom is inherent also within us. it must be understood that chaos magick is not a form of magick specifically; it is open to possibilities. one may assume the doctrine of thelema but practice both witchcraft and rune magick. the potentials are never ending. any combination may be used only if it is perfectly suitable to

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

extant. the holy eucharist or mass, was regarded by c.g. jung as an alchemical work connected with the third century gnostic alchemist zosimos of panopolis, in whom he placed the historical point of the convergence of gnosticism and alchemy. zosimos accepted the hermetic teaching that the origin of the term "chemae" was from the books of the divine art of attaining immortality given to man by the fallen angels. 313: under emperor constantine, the edict of milan makes christianity a legal religion throughout the empire. a few years later, constantine begins building a new imperial capital on the bosphorus, which he modestly names constantinople. c.318 pachomius left his hermitage at an old serapis temple and founded the first known cenobitical or "communal type" monastery at tabennis near d

venture mininster general of the franciscan order from 1257 "salvation only comes through wisdom "the soul has to be reordered according to a process of hierarchization that restructures the soul according to its place in god's design and to its true image, that is, both among other creatures above and below it, and within itself""just as human nature is not responsible for its own creation, once fallen it cannot repair the damage incurred by its own fault without going through a veritale 're-creation' which is properly the work of infused grace" 1222-1290 salimbene de adam. franciscan joachite 1223-1273 thomas aquinas dominican turned to maimonides for novel approaches to the interpretation of the bible. 1225-1295 shem tob ben yosef falaquerra of tudela sefer ha-mebaqqesh( the book of the

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

ourse- after i had finished my earnest and most fervent prayer, i laid myself down in my bed, so that perchance my good angel by the divine permission might appear, and (as it had sometimes formerly happened) instruct me in this doubtful affair. which to the praise of god, my own good, and my neighbours faithful and hearty warning and amendment, did now likewise come about. for i was yet scarcely fallen asleep, when i thought that i, together with an innumerable multitude of men, lay fettered with great chains in a dark dungeon, in which, without the least glimpse of light, we swarmed like bees one over another, and thus rendered each other s affliction more grievous. but although neither i nor any of the rest could see one jot, yet i continually heard one heaving himself above the other

d passed, how through ignorance i fell into that mistake, and so offered myself to undergo all that i had thereby deserved. the king, and the rest of the lords, wondered greatly at so unexpected a confession, and so asked me to step aside a little. now as soon as i was called in again, atlas declared to me that although it was grievous to the king s majesty that i, whom he loved above others, had fallen into such a mischance, yet because it was not possible for him to transgress his ancient usages, he did not know how to absolve me; the other must be at liberty, and i put in his place; yet he would hope that some other would be apprehended, so that i might be able to go home again. however, no release was to be hoped for, till the marriage feast of his future son. this sentence had nearly

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e heavenly bodies is in the care of a mother who is in some sense responsible for their proper functioning.5 professor birrell explains further: ti chun [dijun] is one of the supreme gods, but in the evolution of myths he became a faded deity .6 71 jan and yvonne walls explain the fate of the balls of fire which fell from the sky after being hit by archer yi s arrows: nine three-legged ravens had fallen to the ground. but where did all the fire balls go? it was said that they all fell into the vast ocean east of the sea to form a giant rock forty thousand li thick and forty thousand li in circumference. it was called wo jiao (the fertile scorch. sea waters that dashed upon it would evaporate and disappear instantly. this is the main reason why, even though all the waters or all the rivers

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

o damned seriously, to have fun with it. and since then i ve learned not to take myself very seriously either. so deal with psionics like everything else in life. have fun with it, enjoy it, but don t take it too seriously. use it as a tool for living but don t make a religion of it. we have enough of those things in the world as it itthe covenant of samyaza- i- i, samyaza, speak to mortal man of fallen angels, those who are called watchers, whose blessing man reapeth in defiance of the tyrant-god demiurge. o man, hear of thy daimonic inheritance, and of the daimon seedwhich continues to manifest its power on earth, which doth uplift you fromthe beast of the field unto godhood. know that it was demiurge who conceived the earth and man as his playthings to do with as it pleaseth him, that h

hood, yea, even the sons of god also, waged battle against those angels who were touched by satanael and were illuminated, receiving the spark of selfhood. michael and his legions overwhelmed satanael, who departed from heaven madriax with the illuminated ones beyond the boundaries of kosmos, unto the black void called hell by man, which now glowed with their presences. and they, the first of the fallen ones, despaired not but, cast out of the sterile kosmos of demiurge, rejoiced in their freedom. now we of the order of watchers, being the sons of god, stood not at this time by the side of satanael, but remained servile before demiurge. thus did the first fall come to pass- iii- there followed the creation of earth and man by demiurge to satisfy has vanity and power-lust. satanael and his

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ed. the message went on "we have nothing with the outcast and the unfit; let them die in their misery. for they feel not. compassion is the vice of kings; stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath..pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not; i hate the consoled and the consoler "i am unique and conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned and dead. amen..therefore strike hard and low, and to hell with them, master..lurk! withdraw! upon them! this is the law of the battle of conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house..worship me with fire and bl

yers in the drug empires and that dea officials paid noriega $4.7 million to keep quiet. in february 1988, noriega was indicted on drugs charges, all but one of which related to activities before 1984, when he was on the cia payroll! economic sanctions against panama followed- the economic warfare which poindexter had promised. if noriega had agreed to support the us war with nicaragua, or hadn't fallen out with bush in some way, he would still be dictator of panama instead of being in a us jail. when bush became president, he made the ludicrous statement that panama posed an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to us national security and foreign policy. us news and world report said on may 1st 1989 that bush had authorised $10 million in cia expenditure on projects against the panamanian g

from the authorities on all fronts. they won a court order requesting samples for the second opinion of everything the crime laboratory had, but malak still refused to hand them over. eventually other opinion showed that don henry had been stabbed in the back and kevin ive's skull had been crushed before they were placed on the railway line. malak still said it was an accident. the boys had both fallen asleep on the tracks, he said. it's just the place you would choose to go to sleep, isn't it? six people who talked to the police about the boys' murders were themselves killed. keith mckaskie knew what was planned for him. he said goodbye to his family and friends in 1988 and days later he was murdered. the following year, jeff rhodes, a young guy from benton, arkansas, rang his father to

ing foundations to make way for the new. although the transit of these planets will be uncomfortable, whatever the individual and collective process experiences, it will eventually prove a small price to pay for liberation" if we follow our intuition, we will magnetically attract to ourselves everything we need to guide us through this period. many people have said that my books, and others, have fallen at their feet from the shelf of a bookshop. this appears to be a 'mystery, but it is not. the magnetic energy field of the book and the person's subconscious interact because the subconscious knows that its conscious level would benefit from reading the book. at its most powerful, this magnetic attraction pulls the book from the shelf. it is like two magnets attracting each other. if we are

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explains a stream of ancient and modern "mysteries. so many things that later turn out to be true appear at first hearing to be impossible and insane. that's because people only hear the opening line and don't read on to see the detailed evidence to support it. when people first suggested the earth was round, they were called crazy because it was thought that those living on the bottom would have fallen off. the critics dismissed the idea at this point and walked away convinced that the earth had to be flat. yet when you introduce the law of gravity, what seems at first to be crazy suddenly becomes far more credible. so it is with the truth that a non-human race is controlling and manipulating humanity through hybrid bloodlines- the same bloodlines that have been placed in positions of pow

nefilim who fled within the earth after losing a cosmic battle for supremacy. the hebrew name for eve's tempter is nahash, which besides its translation as serpent also reads "he who knows secrets, another theme of the reptilian gods.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and the ancient book of enoch says that a watcher who revealed secrets to humans was called gadreel. this is a "fallen angel" who has been identified with the serpent who tempted eve and he is a blueprint for a number of later deities who took knowledge (often symbolised as fire, illumination) from "the gods" and gave it to humans. adam and eve as i've suggested, the biblical adam and eve were probably not individuals, but hybrid genetic streams, as in "the" adam and "the" eve. at first the interbreeding pr

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isintegrate at the roche limit.in this case, the ice would have been projected from v enuss surface towards the earth.also, as it entered the so-called v an allen belt, which absorbs much of the dangerous14radiation from the sun, the ice would have been ionised- magnetised- and thereforeattracted to the earths magnetic poles.19 billions of tons of ice, cooled to -273 degreescentigrade, would have fallen on the polar regions, flash-freezing everything in littlemore than an instant.20 this, at last, would explain the mystery of the mammoths foundfrozen where they stood. the mammoth, contrary to belief, was not a cold regionanimal, but one which lived in temperate grasslands. somehow those temperate regionswere frozen in a moment. some mammoths have been found frozen in the middle ofeating! t

tall. they have wings which are flapsof skin supported by long ribs.43 the wings can be folded back against the body and theyare the origin of the term winged serpent. they are also the origin of the term fallenangels and the winged gargoyles are symbolic of these draco. the cape worn by countdracula is symbolic of these wings and the character of dracula in the bram stokerstories is said to be a fallen angel. the winged draco are also known as the dragon raceand some of the ancient gods were described and depicted as birdmen. this could be oneof the origins of the phoenix and eagle in brotherhood symbolism, as well as the moreesoteric meanings. the biblical satan is depicted as a reptilian, too.some of the draco reptilian hierarchy are apparently white or albino white and notthe usual gre

daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any40of them they chose. the nefilim were on the earth in those days -and also afterwards -when the sons of god went to the daughters of men and had children by them. they werethe heroes of old, men of renown.genesis 6:1-4according to the translations of zecharia sitchin, the word nefilim relates tothose who decended while others say it means the fallen ones or those whohave fallen. the word renown in that passage in genesis is translated from thesumerian word shem. this has been translated in the bible as relating to name, as inmaking a name for yourself as a man of renown. sitchin says the real meaning of shemis sky vehicle. he says it comes from the root, shu-mu, which means that which is amu, and a mu was a flying craft, he says. so me

tchers, the reptilians, winged andotherwise. the very term sons of the gods is translated in the septuagint, the greekversion of the old testament, as angelos- angels. it appears from my research that thereare different reptilian factions: those who are more positive in their attitude to humanityand those who wish to dominate and control. they both became known as watchers orangels, the latter as fallen angels. it could well be that the legends of st michael castingthe dragon onto the earth for the final battle and st george defeating the dragon, relate tothe long-standing conflict between the genuine white martians and the reptilian anunnaki.st michael and st george are ancient phoenician heroes from the very region of the worldwhere the anunnaki instigated their crossbreeding programme a

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

whose conception was (due)to the watchers. and to the nefilim. in jewish lore, eve is seen as the ancestral motherof the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake. eve was,of course, tempted by the serpent according to old testament myth and other sources. inchapter 69 of the book of enoch we find that among the watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of enoch was banned by the roman church which sought to deny theearlier christian belief in the existence of flesh and blood angels and fallen angelsoccupying physical bodies and interbreeding with humans. this was to stop the massesunderstanding the true situation. but the freemasons, who control the roman catholicchurch today along

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e they are now tuned. dan describes an interesting finding where a flow in a two dimensional pattern can be biased to follow a given pathway. he found that the pattern must be drawn with one continuous stroke of the pen, instead of being drawn in sections. as i understand this, as the pen or pencil moves to draw the pattern, crystals are deposited which point in the direction of the pathway, like fallen dominoes, serving as a kind of waveguide for subtle or aether energy. perhaps something of this nature might serve to create a conduit for the biasing of an energy flow into a collector. once the collector is charged, it can be extracted by draining it off or in the form of a sudden discharge. another claim that illustrates how shape power could be used is in the incunabula files. under the

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ode (hell, and the realm of the abominations of chaos. all spirits, demons, angels, and other beings of an archetypal nature are said to reside in one of the archetypal spheres. there are, for example, many ranks or orders of angels such as seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, virtues, archangels, etc. each angelic choir is said to reside in a particular heavenly sphere. similarly, the fallen angels may reside in earth, air, fire, water, or in the tartaric depths. spirits which dwell in the planetary spheres are often called olympic spirits. these include lunar, mercurial, venereal, solar, martial, jovial, and sanguine spirits. traditionally, all spirits may be invoked or summoned to appearance by the magician using certain formulas of invocation or evocation. magicians of the m

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have not accepted christ as their personal savior. non-catholics, we are told, are damned to hell because they have rejected god's holy church. and catholics, we are told, are damned to hell for bowing down to and worshipping graven images. the irony of organized religious thought is the damnation of all, regardless of belief or quality of life. it has often been said by scholars that devils are "fallen" gods, or deities men no longer worship. but then, are not gods simply devils men choose to worship? could it be that yahweh and allah are simply more "politically correct" devils than astaroth and beelzebub? the followers of every religion have been condemned by others as "devilworshippers" at some time or another. in the "tolerant" social climate of today, the christian still condemns the

dess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even a fallen angel. christianity condemned paganism, goddess-worship, and sexuality as evil; and the cult of lucifer could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devil of hebrew origin, satan. in hebrew mythology, satan was an angel who accused men before god in order to bring about their punishment. he was never the enemy of god but at times the enemy of man. the name sa

out one another, and the dwelling places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings let them become caves for the beasts of the field. confound her understanding with darkness. for why? it repenteth me i made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. o you heavens, arise, the lower heavens underneath you, let them serve you. govern those that govern. cast down, cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten: no place let it remain in one number: add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise, move and appear before the covenant of his mouth which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the

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iman, but empowered him was the whore jeh or az. in manichaean religious lore, az is considered the great whore who played a very important role to her mate, ahriman. in manichaean traditions az was a spirit which made he home in the caves and dark places of the earth, as well as hell. az was considered to have taught demons and arch-fiends how to copulate and act in lewd ways, later teaching the fallen angels how to excite themselves and others sexually. az used her sorceries to produce dragon-children and to then create other demons and daughters who were of her own blood. az was known to have devoured her children and their children, then create more to later devour them as well. and he kissed jeh upon the head, and the pollution which they call menstruation became apparent in jeh the b

instead of light, from which the angels after were made from. shaitan was originally called azazel or azazyl, the first angel which preached to the other angels under the throne of god. azazel, who later was called iblis or shaitan, refused to bow before man, noting that his nature of lowly compared to his essence, which was of fire. azazel was cast out from heaven into the earth, along with the fallen angels (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve it s own inertia for transmutation to its very opposite because it contains it..the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear. the book of pleasure, austin osman spare within the practice of magic the lore of iblis provides a powerful initiatory model for the sorcerer. essentially t

themselves have made themselves evil- fourth lateran council, from the catholic encyclopedia. here we see that azazel and other angels possessed an original independence of being, that is they recognized that they could have the faculties of a higher state of being, they perceived themselves as separate from their original maker or source of being. the bible further describes satan as how he had fallen, which presents a connection of the vajra rune which anton szandor lavey made a part of his personal sigil within an inverted pentagram. the vajra rune is almost an s type shape, falling downwards. it represents health, vitality and strength. 22 i saw satan like lightning falling from heaven luke 10:18 the dragon itself is a symbol of the collective independence and intelligence of satan th

the great demon king is a powerful spirit who was first presented in zoroastrian lore as aeshma of the wounding 27 spear, a war and fiery daeva. the hebrew ashmedai is one who gained a very high rank among the original angels, asmodeus was according to lore a seraphim, one of the highest ranks of angels. it is suggested in other hebrew lore that asmodeus was born from the demoness naamah and the fallen angel shamdon. asmodeus and samael were said to have had strife over one spirit of lilith. this is the waning moon, the moon of witchcraft and abominable deeds. she is the poisoned darkness which is the condition for the rebirth of light the book of thoth, aleister crowley here we are able to understand that lilith has many forms, yet her nature is clear to those who work with her. allow he

shall become them by means of magical fascination and arte. 35 v. the path of the crooked serpent the god of the jagged spine- leviathan in the caverns and caves of the abyssic darkness, wherein the water depths weave a lonely song, comes a whispering hiss of the past and future. in blood this name is recalled, spiraling in the back of the spine through the brain of man. the rahab daemon, who has fallen forth into the oceans and long since transformed in the coiling dragon of timeless being, emerged leviathan! unto the deserts of dendain does behemoth dwell, now a beast of gigantic stature, who listens to the voice of the adversary, the will inspiring force of motion and evolution. rivers of blood flow that flowers may grow from their nourishment of the soil, that the sun and the moon capt

than is a bad angel. the hebrew term refers to leviathan as that which gathers itself together in folds, thus the coiling dragon. it should be known that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fo

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r the middle pillar as referring to levels of consciousness we shall find further confirmation of this view. 31. there remains for our final consideration the scphitah malkuth, the kingdom of earth. this sephirah differs from the others in several respects. firstly, it is not part of any equilibrated triangle, but is said to be the receptacle of the influences of all the others. secondly, it is a fallen sephirah, for it was cut off from the rest of the tree by the fall, and the coils of the stooping dragon arising from the world of shells, the kingdoms of unbalanced force, separate it from its brethren. behind the shoulder of the queen, the bride of microprosopos (malkuth, the serpent rears his head, and here is said to be the place of severest judgments. the sphere of malkuth abuts upon t

ened expositors of all religions regard dualism as a heresy; it is only ignorant adherents of a faith who believe in the conflict between light and darkness, spirit and matter, which shall eventually result in the triumph of the god and the total abolition and elimination of all opposing influences. protestant christianity forgets mystical qabala page 205 that lucifer is the light-bearer, satan a fallen angel, and that our lord did not limit his ministrations to humanity, but descended into hell and preached to the spirits in prison. we cannot deal with evil by cutting it off and destroying it, but only by absorbing and harmonising it. 15. in all our calculations and conceptions we must carefully distinguish between the resistance of the compensating sephirah and the influence of the corre

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magical operation is over, what then? will the operator be left to enjoy his victim in peace? is it likely? this is the mystical basis of the story of faust. the devil might be not only willing but anxious to enable dr. faustus to win margarita, but he came for his soul at the appointed time. we may also remember that if margarita had not responded to the lure of the jewel song she would not have fallen a victim. the weak spot in the defence was after all in her own nature. we have considered the modus operandi of telepathic suggestion in detail because it forms the real basis of every kind of occult attack. whether it be a discarnate entity, a being of another order of evolution, a demon from the pit, or merely the panic-stricken soul of a selfish friend, clinging to the life of form rega

that, being rigid as a board, he was much easier to handle than the ordinary limp, unconscious human form; but there is a certain ratio between the weight of a grown man and the strength of a woman of average physique. what became of the missing weight on these occasions i found out one night. he had been ill, with some delirium, and the lion's share of the nursing, especially the night work, had fallen to my lot. there came a time, however, when we decided that he was so far recovered that it was unnecessary for anyone to sit up with him, so to bed we all went, for the first time for several days. i shared a room with another member of the community. it was a comparatively small cottage we were in, and our two beds were close together, side by side, right under the uncurtained open window

asteries has been raided, either by rival religionists or chinese troops, and its curios scattered. to be the possessor of one of these buddhas, magnetised by dugpa rites, is not a very pleasant thing. i had a curious experience with a buddha upon one occasion. it was an archaic soap-stone statuette, some nine inches high, and its owner had dug it up herself on the site of a burmese city that had fallen in ruin and been swallowed by the jungle. it was placed on the floor in an angle of the stairs, and served as a doorstop upon occasion. i had a flat on the top floor, and had to pass the melancholy little buddha each time i came in or went out, and to me it seemed a desecration to see the sacred symbol of another faith treated thus. i tried to point this out to her, and asked her how she wo

many cases of functional disorder. many people in the course of occult meditative practices obtain control of the automatic mind which controls the functioning of the bodily organs. it may be recalled that the famous scientist, sir francis galton, the founder of the science of eugenics, experimented with mental control of respiration, and having obtained it, found that the automatic function had fallen into abeyance, and he had to spend three anxious days breathing by will power and voluntary attention until the automatic function was re-established. in this particular case, however, there was more than disturbance of function, there was this peculiar and very marked chronic exhaustion. i formed the opinion that a rapport still existed between her and the thibetan order of which she had b

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o his lower emotions and impulses. the "four winds" mentioned by gabriel that surround wisdom are the four archangels of the elements, michael (fire, gabriel (water, raphael (air) and uriel (earth. they are winds because the speak with the angelic language, and its power and authority, and of course because they are winged. they are mentioned as a group in the book of enoch in connection with the fallen watchers who sin with the daughters of man, where these four archangels are primary servants and agents of god's judgement. it is clear from the words of gabriel to john dee that coronzon is to be regarded as synonymous with the serpent described in genesis. this serpent is almost always treated as the same as fallen lucifer, later to be known as satan, the archangel who led a rebellion in

es. in a sense, the watchers are responsible for our technological society, since their teachings served as the basis for modern science. this being so, modern society may justly be described as satanic, because it is the gift of semjaza, or coronzon, to the daughters of man. whether or not technology is a good thing or a bad thing is another question, but we enjoy the fruits of the legacy of the fallen watchers. just as prometheus was severely punished by zeus for daring to give the gift of fire to mankind, so were the watchers punished by god, who instructs the archangel michael "go bind semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness [i.e. during their menstrual cycle. and when their sons have slain one

e lord of spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the lord. therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion in it, but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever" in the enochian key known as the call of the thirty aethyrs, coronzon is referred to under the descriptive title "him that is fallen" which is equated with the enochian words teloc-vovim. coronzon is the proper name of the fallen leader of the watchers, whereas teloc-vovim is a title similar to those applied to god, such as lord of hosts. in the eighth key, reference is made to the "stooping dragon" this is almost certainly another title for coronzon, who stoops in the way that a falcon stoops upon its prey, falling like

on with anger and pain and hell. the demon replied) thinkest thou, o fool, that there is any anger and any pain that i am not, or any hell but this my spirit? images, images, images, all without control, all without reason. the malice of choronzon is not the malice of a being; it is the quality of malice, because he that boasteth himself "i am i, hath in truth no self, and these are they that are fallen under my power, the slaves of the blind one that boasted himself to be the enlightened one. for there is no centre, nay, nothing but dispersion. woe, woe, woe, threefold to him that is led away by talk, o talkative one. o thou that hast written two-and-thirty books of wisdom, and art more stupid than an owl, by thine own talk is thy vigilance wearied, and by my talk art thou befooled and tr

he law. nuit is quoted as saying "my number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us" since daath is one sephirah more than the recognized ten, it is natural to assign it the number eleven. this essay is somewhat more complex and difficult than others on this web site, but the importance of coronzon in the more subtle aspects of western occultism, and the general lack of knowledge concerning the fallen one, impelled me to treat this topic in greater than usual depth. i recommend that those interested in understanding coronzon study crowley's vision and the voice, casaubon's true and faithful relation, and grant's nightside of eden. for an analysis of the numerical significance of coronzon's name, and how my interpretation differs from that of aleister crowley, see my response to a visitor

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al authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to overthrow god and rule heaven, lucifer assembled an army of apostate angels and initiated a war in heaven. he and his angels were defeated by michael and the angels who remained loyal to god, and were thrown down from heaven to hell. in their fallen state these angels of hell are supposed in christian lore to be of hideous aspect, filthy, deformed and base. lucifer seeks to harass god by plaguing mankind with a multitude of troubles, and by inciting human beings to defy god. he uses his fallen angels as his agents, sending them abroad across the face of the world to incite and commit evil. every time he succeeds in inducing a human to

commit injuries upon the person. what is true of lucifer himself applies to his agents, the demons. in a nutshell, this is the christian demon myth. demons are tempters of men because they are forbidden to injure human beings who obey god. but if through the temptation of a demon a person can be induced to disobey god, that person is demon fodder. effectively, they join lucifer's army of apostate fallen angels, although at a very subordinate rank. from a fundamentalist christian point of view, all those who fail to worship christ are disobedient to god, and therefore prey for the demons who walk and swim and fly upon the earth. much the same belief concerning those of other religions is held by fundamentalist islamics and jews. in a broader inter-religious sense, anyone of any religion who

ossess those who unwittingly use the board. however, these unfortunate dabblers in the occult, who in films always seem to be teenagers guilty of drinking beer and necking in the back seat of cars, can save themselves from the talons of the demons if they burn the board and give themselves in the service of christ through fervent prayers. in christian writings demons in the strictest sense- those fallen angels who remained loyal to lucifer in hell- were continually being confused with pagan deities and with nature spirits. thus we find mention of the demon satyr who incites men and women to lust, and the demon theutus, who induces the urge to gamble for money with cards or dice. the satyr is a nature spirit of greek mythology, and theutus is a degenerate variation on the name of the egypti

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, because they feel that they have nowhere else to turn. doctors and psychologists dismiss their fears. even priests and rabbis no longer realize that the terrible effects of the evil eye are quite real to those who suffer from them. shut out from the churches, the clinics, the hospitals, where are they to turn? some unscrupulous fortune-tellers deliberately try to convince clients that they have fallen victim to the evil eye. if they are successful, they offer to lift the curse for a price- a high price. so desperate are the suffers, they are eager to agree to almost anything. the fortune-teller performs a few meaningless gestures, mumbles a few words, or tells the sufferer to do some silly action, and takes the money to the bank. the sad thing is that the cure of the fortune-teller often

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ced by devout believers, saints, and angels. the trouble is, these events are often indistinguishable. to account for this similarity, christian scholars assert that the changes wrought by god are true and enduring changes, whereas the changes worked by magicians are temporary illusions. hence in christian folklore you read of the glamours of witches, who can make a man believe that his penis has fallen off, or that he has transformed into a beast such as a swine or a donkey, even though these things have not actually taken place. you encounter tales of magicians such as faust who could transform for a time bits of twigs and stones into the semblance of gold and silver coins, or could make a lavish banquet seem to appear in a twinkling- but eventually the coins became twigs again, and the

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ra could not answer, for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the nile invadeth all his land. when the great god had stablished his heart, he cried unto those who were in his train, saying "come unto me, o ye who have come into being from my body, ye gods who have come forth from me, make ye known unto khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. my heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my hand hath not caused it, nor do i know who hath done this unto me. never have i felt such pain, neither can sickness cause more woe than this. i am a prince, the son of a prince, a sacred essence which hath preceded from god. i am a great one, the son of a great one, and my father planned my name; i have multitudes of names and mul

west and of the east. ascribe [ye] praise unto ra, the lord of heaven, the (8) prince, life, health, and strength, the creator of the gods, and adore ye him in his beautiful presence as he riseth in the atet[6] boat (9) they who dwell in the heights and they who dwell in the depths worship thee. thoth[7] and maat both are thy recorders. thine enemy[8] is given to the (10) fire, the evil one hath fallen; his arms are bound, and his legs hath ra taken from him. the children of (11) impotent revolt shall never rise up again [1. according to the egyptian belief man consisted of a body xa, a soul ba, an intelligence xu, and ka, the word ka means "image" the greek ei?'dolon (compare coptic kau peyron, lexicon, p. 61. the ka seems to have been the "ghost" as we should say, of a man, and it has b

th (9) i know that by which thou dost live. grant that i may be like unto one of those who are thy favoured (10) ones [among the followers] of the great god. may my name be proclaimed, may it be found, may it be lastingly renewed with (11) the oars are lifted into the sektet boat, and the sacred boat cometh in peace (12) may i see ra when he appeareth in the sky at dawn, and when his enemies have fallen at the block (13) may i behold [horns] guiding the rudder and steering with [his] two hands (14) may i see the abtu fish at the moment of his creation; and may i see the ant fish when he maketh himself manifest at creation, and the ant boat upon its lake. o thou only one, o thou mighty one, thou growing one (15) who dost never wax faint, and [1. a name of the boat of the rising sun] p. 250

wakest up in beauty at the dawn, when the company of the gods and mortals sing songs of joy unto thee; hymns of praise are offered unto thee at eventide. the (20) starry deities also adore thee. o thou firstborn, who dost lie without movement (21) arise; thy mother showeth loving kindness unto thee every day. ra liveth and the fiend nak is dead; thou dost endure for ever, and the (22) fiend hath fallen. plate i. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod13.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:24:37 am "thou sailest over the sky with life and strength. the goddess nehebka is in (23) the atet boat; the sacred boat rejoiceth. thy heart is glad and thy brow is wreathed with the twin serpents" ii (i) a hymn of praise to ra when he riseth in the eastern part of heaven. behold osiris, qenna the merchant, tri

nd of the (9) great deep, and thou givest life to all that is therein. thou hast knit (10) together the mountains, thou has made mankind and the beasts of the field, thou hast created the heavens and the earth. worshipped be thou whom the goddess maat embraceth at morn and at eve. thou dost travel across the (11) sky with heart swelling with joy; the lake of testes is at peace. the fiend nak hath fallen and his two arms are cut off. the sektet boat receiveth fair winds, and the heart of him that is in his shrine rejoiceth. thou (12) art crowned with a heavenly form, the only one, provided [with all things. ra cometh forth from nu in triumph. o thou mighty youth, thou everlasting son, self-begotten, who didst give thyself birth (13) o thou mighty one, of myriad forms and aspects, king of th

erein is. the company of the gods rejoice at thy rising, the earth is glad when it beholdeth thy rays; the peoples that have been long dead come forth with cries of joy to see thy beauties. thou goest forth over heaven and earth, made strong each day by thy mother nut. thou passest through the uppermost heaven, thy heart swelleth with joy; and the lake of testes is content thereat. the enemy hath fallen, his arms are hewn off, the knife hath cut asunder his joints. ra liveth in maa[1] the beautiful. the sektet boat draweth on and cometh into port; the south, the north, the west and the east turn to praise thee, o thou unformed substance of the earth, who didst create thyself. isis and nephthys salute thee, they sing unto thee in thy boat hymns of joy, they shield thee with their hands. the

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of masonry for the whole world "from this source have lodges, grand and subordinate, at various times been established, and still exist and flourish in france and switzerland; in all the german states save austria (and there at different times and for short seasons; all up and down the classic shores of the rhine; in prussia; holland, belgium, saxony, hanover, sweden, denmark, russia and even in fallen poland; in italy and spain (under cover of secrecy; in various parts of asia; in turkey; in introduction ix syria (as at aleppo, where an english lodge was established more than a century ago; in all the east india settlements, in bengal, bombay, madras (in all of which lodges are numerous; in china, where there is a provincial grand master and several lodges; in various parts of africa, as

e of the basin. but we were too late to have any part in the fray. after the exchange of a few shots, in which one of our scouts was wounded and one of the enemy brought down, the others made off swiftly in the darkness and were beyond reach. as we came together in the gloom, we were a disappointed and furious lot. angry mutterings were going on, when smith noticed that one of the apaches who had fallen was struggling to get to his feet. the scout jim observed it, and ran forward to finish him with his knife, but the lieutenant was the nearer and stayed his hand "he is a prisoner. we don't kill captives, even if they're apaches" seizing the fellow by the arm, he helped him to rise. he was badly hurt, but with the slight aid thus given, was able to stand erect. he looked defiantly around in

but he was not with us just then, and i reflected, too, that none of us knew anything positive against him. it was his relationship to the warm spring leader that caused distrust "well" said i with a sigh "this business is costing both sides dear. you have lost some of your best men and so have we. one of our finest scouts was killed to-night, besides several who were hurt "who of your scouts has fallen "pedro, the equal almost of vikka. i never saw a braver fellow. he faltered before no danger" i noted the start of jennings. he was resting easily on one foot, but straightened up and asked in an excited undertone "are you sure pedro is dead "there is no question about it; i saw his body "you have loosed my lips; now that the scout is no more, i will tell you that he was the friend of ours

questioned him. he surlily refused to tell me anything, but i secured the help of vikka, who was able to draw out the venerable scamp, and piecemeal he told the truth of one of the many atrocious crimes of which he had been guilty, though you will find no mention of it (nor of many others) in his biography lately published. there was nothing that i could do for brother jennings. he lay as he had fallen, and, though his blood had dyed the ground, one arm was bent under the side of his head, as if he had lain down to peaceful slumber. neither vikka nor i had our blanket with us, or we should have wrapped him up in it; but we drew him to one side of the canon, carefully composed his stiffening limbs, and left him there. low twelve 83 as i looked down in that pale countenance, which i had fir

s involved in debt, and, like morgan, believed that the treachery would make all concerned independently rich. the editor did not shrink from publicly announcing his purpose. it was right here that the masons made a blunder which, in the language of the french, was worse than a crime. they should have paid no attention to the treachery, and the publication, whatever it might have been, would have fallen flat and attracted little or no notice. strong arguments were made to morgan to abandon his scheme, and he said he was willing to do so, but miller pushed the publication as fast as lie could. several hotheaded masons determined to get the manuscript. miller's office was set on fire in september, but the flames were extinguished before much damage was clone. a reward of:-ioo was offered for

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ished an account of his contacts with the space beings and remained the leader of his small group through subsequent years. by the 1980s he had faded into obscurity. sources: aho, wayne s. mojave desert experience. eatonville, wash: the new age foundation, 1972. sachs, margaret. the ufo encyclopedia. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. ahrimanes the name given to the chief of the cacodaemons, or fallen angels, by the ancient persians and chaldeans. these cacodaemons were believed to have been expelled from heaven for their sins; they endeavored to settle down in various parts of the earth, but were always rejected, and out of revenge they found their pleasure in injuring the inhabitants. xenocritus thought that penance and self-mortification, though not agreeable to the gods, pacified the

hist countries, it was common to wear an amulet around the neck. these generally represented the leaf of the sacred fig tree and were made in the form of a box that contained a scrap of sacred writing, prayer, or a little picture. women of position in tibet wore a chatelaine containing a charm or charms, and the universal amulet of the tibetan buddhist priests is the thunderbolt, supposed to have fallen direct from indra s heaven. this is usually imitated in bronze or other metal and is used for exorcising evil spirits. many muslims wear amulets, and it is said that the prophet mohammed believed in the evil eye. the koran is sometimes carried as an amulet, or extracts from it are copied out for that purpose. suras 113 and 114 are directed against witchcraft. other powerful charms for amule

amy according to an ancient grimoire, amy is grand president of hades and one of the princes of the infernal monarchy. he appears there enveloped with flame, but on earth, he is in human form. he teaches the secrets of astrology and liberal arts. he reveals to those who possess his favor the hiding place of treasures guarded by demons. thirty-six of the infernal legions are under his command. the fallen angels acknowledge his orders, and he hopes that, at the end of 200,000 years, he shall return to heaven to occupy the seventh throne. anachitis a stone used in divination to call up spirits from water; another stone, called synochitis, obliged them to remain while they were interrogated. anahata nada (magazine) monthly magazine presenting the teachings, essays, and poems of hindu spiritual

erest in angels are the writings of artist leilah wendell, who has written a series of books concerning her communications with azrael, the angel of death, and who created a popular museum built around artistic representations of death in new orleans. sources: clayton, rev. george. angelology; agency& ministry of holy angels. new york, 1851. davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels: including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. duke, h. h. the holy angels: their nature& employments. london, 1875. hodson, geoffrey. the kingdom of faerie. london, 1927. miller, c. leslie. all about angels: the other side of the spirit world. glendale: g/l regal books, 1973. newhouse, flower a. natives of eternity. vista, calif: the author, 1950. o kennedy, rev. r. book of the holy angels. london, 1

ody stem that filled the neck of the water carafe. it had 29 leaves, each smooth and glossy. it was impossible to remove the plant from the water bottle, the neck being too small to allow the roots to pass; indeed the comparatively slender stem entirely filled the orifice. the plant was a native of india, an ixora crocata. it had some years of growth. we could see where other leaves had grown and fallen off, and wound-marks which seemed to have healed and grown over long ago. but there was every evidence to show that the plant had grown in the sand in the bottle as the roots were naturally wound around the inner surface of the glass, all the fibres perfect and unbroken as though they had germinated on the spot and had apparently never been disturbed. the plant was photographed. it lived fo

from walter, another control. she had gotten the plant on condition of returning it. walter gave instructions to keep the plant in darkness until she could come again and take it. on july 5 the plant vanished as mysteriously as it came. at 9:23 p.m. it stood in the midst of the company, and at 9:30 p.m. it was gone. not a vestige remained except the photographs and a couple of flowers, which had fallen off. the scent seemed for a moment to fill the room almost overpoweringly, and then it was gone. addressing inquiries to walter at the time of the lily s appearance, the sitters were told that the plant was in the room before the sitters came in and was ready for being put together at least an hour before they saw it. alexander n. aksakof also witnessed this apport. on the night of its disa

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

awn from there to the left-hand angle at the base is the descent of spirit into matter in its lowest form; where it ascends to the righthand angle, it typifies matter in its highest form: the brain of man. from here, a line is drawn across the figure to left angle, representing man s development in intellect; while progress in material civilization, the point of danger from which all nations have fallen into moral corruption, is signified by the descent of the line to right angle at the base. the soul of man being derived from god cannot remain at this point but must struggle upward, as is symbolized by the line reaching again to the apex, god, from which it issued (see also ceremonial magic; magic; magical instruments and accessories; magical vestments and appurtenances) sources: barrett

s of the trials. these show sufficiently that the unfortunate wretch who was once brought before the inquisitors of the holy see on the suspicion of sorcery, however slight might be the grounds of the charge, had very small chance of escaping out of their claws. the malleus contains no distinct allusion to the proceedings at the sabbath. the witches of this period differ little from those who had fallen into the hands of the earlier inquisitors at the council of constance. we see plainly how, in most countries, the mysteriously indefinite crime of sorcery had first been seized on to ruin the cause of great political offenders, until the mallebranche encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 972 fictitious importance thus given to it brought forward into a prominent position, which

dia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. materialization 995 information as to its origin. it cannot be traced how long the stone, which was set in a ring, remained in his possession. gems and pearls were frequently brought to moses circle. his theory was that they were made by spirits because he could see them falling before they reached the table, while others could not see them until they had fallen. further, an emerald had flaws in it, and therefore it could not have been cut or have been an imitation. flower materializations were more frequent. there was a remarkable instance in d esperance s mediumship. on june 28, 1890, at a seance in st. petersburg, in the presence of alexander aksakof and one professor boutlerof, a golden lily, seven feet high, appeared in the seance room. it was

died november 20, 1918. the macgregor mathers society was founded in britain as a dining club for men only, membership by invitation. the society can be contacted at bm#spirotos (m.m.s, london w.c.1, england. mathers s most lasting contributions to the magical revival of the twentieth century were his many translations of key magical texts, which he rescued from the obscurity into which they had fallen. sources: colquhoun, ithell. the sword of wisdom: macgregor mathers and the golden dawn. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1975. mathers, s. l. macgregor. astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy. rochester, vt: destiny books, 1987. the kabbalah unveiled. 1907. reprint, london: routledge and kegan paul, 1926. the key of solomon the king. 1889. reprinted as: the greater key of solomon. chic

ook the ring which had been laid on the table and passed it round her right wrist. immediately afterwards i took hold of the corresponding hand, and waited, holding it firmly between my own. at the end of eight or ten minutes she uttered a cry, like a cry of pain or fright, and at the same instant she woke and the ring was seen on the ground. august reveillac, observing the same effect, found the fallen ring, when picked up, almost burning hot. col. w. a. danskin described a seance in baltimore in how and why i became a spiritualist (1869, in which a secretly marked iron ring, seven inches smaller than the circumference of the medium s head, was repeatedly placed around the medium s neck. from the banner of light (january 11, 1868, he reproduced the following testimony, signed by thirty-tw

in december, and in the following march, but sister catherine s confessor was somewhat cold to the idea. finally, after the vision reappeared in september, he conferred with the archbishop of paris, who ordered the medal struck. the first of the miraculous medals, as they came to be known, appeared in 1832, and the first miracle attached to them concerned the former archbishop of malines, who had fallen from his faith and was dying. the archbishop of paris presented him with one of the new medals, and shortly thereafter the archbishop recanted his errors and died reconciled to the church. as stories of other miracles arrived at his office, the archbishop became its enthusiastic backer. meanwhile, sister catherine was sent to a hospice outside of paris where she worked with the poor for the

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

futurity "knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" said the poet laureate. the christian rosicrucian can only exclaim "lead, kindly light, lead thou me on; the night is dark, and i am far from homnl1-7 evil and unclean spirits by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 these be they who be unclean and evil; even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth, the fallen restrictions of the universe; the sloughing of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

t contact with her. in the years ahead, he had dreams about being onboard the ufo and developed an interest in mysticism and religion. in 1978 he discussed his experience with webb, then an astronomer employed by boston s hayden planetarium. subsequently, webb traced cornell to atlanta. she confirmed the sighting though all she could recall of it was that a big light had approached them, they had fallen down, and some sort of mental block had ensued. webb had refrained from sharing the details lapp provided him; still, cornell s account matched lapp s to the extent that her memory allowed. separately placed under hypnosis, the two recounted an abduction experience. lapp re m e m b e re d standing on the deck with one of the humanoids looking into space and o b s e rving earth, moon, stars

stand in the power of one, as the individual light that you are, to create a new vision for your world, a new heaven on earth through your individual expression of unconditional love for yourselves and one another. we challenge you to act upon life as creators rather than having life act upon you( gabriel speaks, n.d. further reading davidson, gustav, 1967. a dictionary of angels in- cluding the fallen angels. new york: free press. gabriel speaks, n.d. http//childrenoflight.com/ gabriel.htm gef gef is the central character in an episode that p s ychical re s e a rcher he rew a rd carrington called p re p o s t e ro u s a palpable absurd i t y e ven while conceding that it baffled him. acc o rding to one of the most peculiar stories eve r told as true, gef was a talking animal a selfi d e

r said to be from gef turned out to be from a dog curiously like the irvings sheepdog, mona. the prints he allegedly allowed the irvings to preserve in clay were not at all like a mongoose s or, for that matter, any known animal s. over time, so the irvings related, gef s visitations became rarer and rarer. by 1938 or so he was heard from for the last time. by then the whole outlandish affair had fallen into obscurity. it was too much even for the most sensationalistic newspapers; and parapsychologists, who first took it to be an exotic poltergeist case, did not know what to make of it. the only precedent for something like gef was a witch s familiar (an animal form in which witches are sometimes said to appear, and on the isle of man in the 1930s, belief in witchcraft had largely passed

istian beliefs. one that particularly infuriated him was the mad and blind belief that there exists a certain region called magonia, from which ships, navigating on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm. agobard tells of several of these senseless fools who held in custody three men and one woman, who they said had fallen from these ships. the prisoners were brought in front of an assembly to be stoned to death, but the archbishop managed to save their lives, after the truth finally triumphed and he had shown up the absurdity of the charges (brodu, 1995. in a critical analysis of the legend, french anomalist jean-louis brodu reviewed magonia s various uses over the centuries as well as the embellishments tha

the men were of normal appearance, seemingly around fifty years of age, dressed in jeans and flannel shirts. only their shoes, with their unusually thick soles, looked out of the ordinary. one of the strangers asked what they were doing there, but he acted as if he did not believe the two men s answer. two more strangers showed up. the guano-hunters were badly frightened, convinced that they had fallen into the hands of a criminal gang in hiding. their fears only rose when one of the band told them that they should accompany them deeper into the cave. about two miles later, they came to a spot where the walls expanded. there they encountered a strange device that looked like a toboggan with a seat and a control panel. it gave off a buzzing sound. the group sat on the wide seat and flew of

; some had four arms, and some had an eye in the back of their heads. these beings lived on the now-lost pacific continent of lemuria. by the time the fourth root race, dwelling on atlantis, appeared on earth, the present human form had developed. humans represent the fifth root race. in the relatively near future, the sixth root race will replace humans. after the seventh root race has risen and fallen, a new cycle of civilizations will begin on the planet mercury. blavatsky claimed as her source for these revelations an archaic manuscript a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process. on the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black ground. on the following page, the same disk, but with a central point (blavatsky

FAUST

there, shoot them straightway, all them together, in helm and feather us to array. ants and dactyls. who now will save us! iron we re bringing, chains to enslave us. chains we re not springing, not yet the hour; heed, then, their power! the cranes of ibycus. cries of murder, moan of dying! fearful pinions fluttering, flying! what a groan and moan and fright pierces upward to our height! all have fallen in the slaughter, reddened with their blood the water. greedy lust, misshapen, cruel, steals the heron s noble jewel. on the helmet now it waves, oh, these fat-paunched, bow-legged knaves! comrades with our host in motion, serried wanderers of the ocean, summon we, for vengeance mated, in a case so near related. let none spare his strength or blood! hate eternal to this brood! they disperse

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

r of a suitable name of god, mantra, or other invocation, automatically directs the changes in consciousness of the traveler along its characteristic pattern of gates. different forms of the tree, called trees of perfection, allude to enlightened yogis, transcendent devotees, saints and messiah. in this book, all the various types of working trees and trees of perfection will be presented. 2 f #4 fallen and perfect trees on the human body the tree provides the finite intellect with a frame of reference for all possible experiences. each sefirah is itself a complete tree present in all planes of existence. the entire tree, as well as each individual sefirah, is therefore an open-ended ladder from the waking state all the way into the light of the endless (ayn sof or, 2" 2' 8: 5 rva [vc ]ya

through the four worlds. the relationship between the tree and the four worlds is displayed in figures 3.7 and 3.8. each figure contains two different forms of the tree. the diagrams in which the throat sefirah knowledge/first is visible, and there is no anal sefirah kingdom, are trees of perfection. the trees in which the sefirah kingdom is visible and the throat sefirah invisible are working or fallen trees. the difference between perfect and working trees will be discussed in detail in the section the tree of life and the fall of adam on page 99. 2" 2' 8: 5 in figure 3.7, the qabalistic worlds are associated with successive sets of sefiroth down the tree. figure 3.8 shows the four worlds as concentric circles of successively smaller diameter within each sefirah. the outermost circle of

firah, starting from wisdom/east, corresponds to the tree of the world of b riyah. the third and next smaller circle within each sefirah, starting from sefirah understanding/north, corresponds to the tree of the world of yetzirah. the final and smallest set of concentric circles, representing the seven sefiroth of the world of asiyah, completes the tree in the four worlds. 2 f# four worlds in the fallen and perfect trees (1) 5' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f+ four worlds in the fallen and perfect trees (2, 0*,0( consciousness manifests substantially in the four worlds as different shells of embodied existence (tvpylq, p.qlifoth, s.qlifah. the qlifoth of embodied human consciousness correlate with the qlifoth of divine consciousness embodied as the planes of existence. the qabalistic qlifoth can be

. one of the mysteries delineated in tree of life is the fall of adam. this fall is portrayed in the difference between working and perfect trees (see figure 3.6 on page 92. working trees are so-named because they represent different ways of ascending the tree. the primary source for all the different types of working trees is the sefer' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% hashmoth. working trees are also known as fallen trees. in the fallen trees, the sefirah knowledge/first has become invisible and fallen into position as the anally centered sefirah kingdom dangling at the bottom of the tree. there is no equivalent for the sefirah kingdom in the sefer yetzirah, since it only has perfect trees in which the throat sefirah is visible and there is no sefirah at the anal center. at the macrocosmic level, the f

panded manner as mostly hydrogen atoms in sefirah kingdom. it is critical to keep in mind that sefirah kingdom and sefirah knowledge/first are one, not two. it is like looking at one object from two sides. at the microcosmic level in the perfect tree, the universe is perceived by human consciousness in sefirah knowledge/first as a perfect spiritual unity in the mind of god (i.e. vast face. in the fallen tree, human consciousness is dualistic in sefirah kingdom, perceiving the material universe as differentiated from the spiritual. the fall is an illusion sustained in individual consciousness by the lord of the universe via his/her power of obscuration, sustained through five limitations: temporal limits, spatial limits, attachment to particular things, limited knowledge, and limited agency

. in many contemporary books on qabalah, the composite tree is shown with gates connecting the sefirah kingdom to sefirah victory/south and to sefirah glory/west. this is not correct. when sefirah knowledge/first falls and becomes sefirah kingdom, it takes the gate of the beyt b with it, which thereby connects kingdom only to the sefirah foundation/ below. no other gates connect to kingdom in the fallen tree. the reader might also take note that the composite tree shows gates connecting sefirah power/fire with sefirah wisdom/east (gate of samael, and sefirah mercy/water with sefirah understanding/north (a gate on the way of the saint. these gates are not usually seen in tree diagrams. 2 f #5 composite tree' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% hvhy, 6' 7 the single most important name of small face in the he

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hms are attributed to the qlippothic sphere of geburah averse, the demon of the sphere is asmoday who origins are ancient persian as aeshma (demon of the wounding spear. the song angel of prostitution ii is connected with yesod- the moon and the averse sphere of lilith, the bride of satan who is represented of the instinctual, dark side of humanity. she was originally called az and had taught the fallen angels how to take form and copulate to produce dragon children in some gnostic and manichaean text. her divinity is sexual perversion, the original priestess of fuck and whore of the shadowed ones (the fallen angels. alone and divided is connected with malkuth, earth and the demoness naamah (meaning pleasant, a bride of samael and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the lin

FOCUS OF LIFE

d silence? salvation shall be unsay all things: and true, as is time, that speaketh all things. of what use are hints or stage whispers? true wisdom cannot be expressed by articulate sounds. the language of fools-is words. in the labyrinth of the alphabet the truth is hidden. it is one thing repeated many times. confined within the limits or rationalism; no guess has yet answered. o zos, thou art fallen into the involuntary accident of birth and rebirth into the incarnating ideas of women. a partial sexuality entangled in the morass of sensual law. on earth the circle was fabricated. the origin of all things is the complex self. how shall it be made the end of things? dubious of all things by this increase, and ignorance of individuality. i or self, in conflict, separate. this forgetfulnes

ear. all is a backward walking-realized incapacity of volition: to walk towards thyself. with thine infinite self multiplication of associations thou knowest all things. among sentient creatures human birth is highly desirable, man desires emancipation-liberation to his primeval self. remember! didst thou leave the high estate for worse things? man becomes what he relapses into "o zos, though art fallen into..the incarnating ideas of women" cast into demoniacal moulds, human nature is the worst possible nature. the degenerate need women, dispense with that part of thyself. give unto her all thy weaknesses, it is the suffering half. pain awaits him, who is sentimentally desirous. be it thus 'woman, there shall be no vintage from our kisses. in man and woman is thy 'being' but i say, thou co

by morals; that cowards fear, and must needs promise pleasure of their sufferings; and they who had experienced "i" would have you destroy its body; and potential: verily, aaos realized that the origin of i, was for pleasurable procreation. but that things had been changed. aaos then pondered in his heart long over the geometry of the world of senses; and spake thus "how far short has realization fallen from original conception? have we not lived all things previous to the event? what is any desire but all desire? but men get married and nothing is sufficiently arbitrary. i am the origin of all creation, certain it is that i want not salvation [observing all the miserably diseased mob "o, grant that i may add to the world a far greater suffering" god is a precocious creation of the apes, s

s! no w that my individual consciousness dissolves, to saturate again with its furthermost desires, to form the new body:-o mighty death, remember at the time of incarnating-my utmost immorality, my frightening madnesses, my jesting sins, my s atyr carouses, my grotesque concubine of chaos! remember o death, my frenzied longing that has no name [oh, forget my first kiss of love, now withered as a fallen leaf. make this my sexuality complete, all knowing, so that i may again procreate the lusty self-love in isolation" then aaos spake unto the ferryman "o time, of nothing now am i ashamed to admit parentage. what i generate is future, body to become. i have learned and unlearned in equal labouring this universe. hard has been my faith and denial. that which is incomprehensible have i made,-h

alphabet" when suddenly he observed another and more agile following him-who when reaching aaos, clutched hold of him-shouting "where i cannot reach, thou too shall not ascend" their combined weight became too heavy-the balustrading collapsed and they both fell. aaos felt himself falling as into a bottomless pit-when with a start he awoke, and after introspection spoke to his heart "verily i have fallen in love with a new belief and become moral! this i reflects itself differently. what was once easy- is now difficult. all reflections are radiated matter incarnating. who doth know what his own stillness refracts at the time of its projection? who would suspect afterthought without consciousness? the i, to be self prophecy-without a conglomeration of old clothes-is by a deliberation previou

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

j. lagrange, le judaisme avant jesus-christ, paris, 1931, pp. 505-11; a. puech, histoire de la ihtirature grecque chretienne, paris, 1928, ii, pp. 603-15; and the note by g. bardy in oeuvres de saint augustin, desclee de brouwer, vol. 36, i960, pp. 755-9- 8 hermes trismegistus general passages lactantius condemns the worshipping of images, and he also thinks that the demons used by magi are evil fallen angels.1 these things are, however, never associated by him with trismegistus, who always appears as a revered authority on divine truths. it is no wonder that lactantius became a favourite father for the renaissance magus who wished to remain a christian. augustine was, however, a difficulty for the renaissance magus who wished to remain a christian, for augustine in the de civitate dei de

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

-spheres and vacuity. a transmutation, ex-nihilo. how this is accomplished is the domain of the given star and is approached quite naturally. the gift of babalon is that we are of her, and the shells of victory become unraveled. this appears paradoxical at first, for she is zos complete. but the schizophrenic shards have a new facet about them, many as a matter of fact. when babalon the great has fallen, her victory shall be complete. the body itself shall become cognizant of it s inner void/light instantaneously shredding existence asunder. our way should not be approached directly, but askance. the mask called choronzon is infiltrated by the self, which is it s only means of communicating with the light. the quaklephant seeks to merge with the shell and absorb it into his mass. doing so

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

rom the garden of god to wander in the wilderness of the world. according to that plan, a tabernacle was built after a pattern planned by god, jehovah, and an ark symbolical of the human spirit was placed in it. its staves were never taken out of their place, to show that man is a pilgrim on the earth and may never rest until he reaches the goal. there was within it a golden pot with "manna (man "fallen from heaven" together with a statement of the divine laws which man must learn in his pilgrimage through the wilderness of matter. this symbolic ark contained also a magic wand, an emblem of the spiritual powers, called aaron's rod, which are now latent in everyone on his way to the haven of rest--the mystic temple of solomon. the old testament also tells how humanity was miraculously led a

only yielded obedience to one who had "the word" and "the sign" therefore no one appeared at the call of solomon, and the queen of sheba could not escape the conclusion that this marvelous miracle was wrought by another and one who was greater than solomon. and so she insisted on knowing and seeing this king of crafts and his wonderful workmen, much to the chagrin of solomon, who felt that he had fallen in her estimation. the temple of solomon is our solar universe which forms the great school of life for our evolving humanity; the broad lines of its history, past, present and future, are written in the stars, its main outlines being discernible to anyone of average intelligence. in the microcosmic scheme, the temple of solomon is also the body of man wherein the individualized spirit or e

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

fty purposes these people have raised themselves above the red ray and are now entirely imbued with the golden christ ray and its vibration. this spiritual fact has been embodied by mediaeval artists gifted with spiritual sight, in their pictures of saints whom they represent as surrounded by a golden aureole, indicating their emancipation from the power of the lucifer spirits of mars who are the fallen angels, as well as from jehovah and his angels, who belong to an earlier stage of evolution and are warders of national and race religions. the lucifer spirits find expression in the iron in our blood. iron is a mars metal, difficult to start into high vibration, so difficult that it takes many lives of great effort to change the product of its combustion to the golden color which designate

FULL MOON RITUALS

h. ancient one of the north you who are earth she who is mother you who sleeps now the deep sleep of winter you who reminds us that we will all sleep and that we shall all awaken again. she who wraps us now in a cloak of cold yet warms us with the fires of the hearth from whom we come, and to whom we return come, ancient one of the north you who are earth she who is mother step lightly as the new fallen snow come dance with us this evening tinkle as icicles upon our roofs join us in our songs, laugh with us, fill our hearts with merriment as we celebrate together this night from somewhere there was music. it echoes in the great hall as boudica turns and lights the quarter candle, then step dances a spiral back to the altar and replaces the tortoise shell on the altar. she bows to the eleme

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

an ideal form which emanated from the thoughts of a human being also fashioned of matter, that is of flesh, blood, and bone. it was not thought which created the material of the statue, for this existed before the thought arose in the head of the artist; yet thought did give to the statue its form, and this crystallized thought may live on long after the flesh, blood, and bone of the artist have fallen to dust. will the artist, then, have perished? no, not altogether, for he will in part live on in the form of the statue which perhaps for thousands of years will proclaim his genius to those who look upon it. with the entire world, the entire universe, it is the same, but with this difference: it expresses the totality of the thoughts of the divine thinker. thought, we have seen, gave it f

t is a misrepresentation of the unconscious or super-conscious to the conscious. to the qabalist, as there are two principles in every human being- the active and the passive- because of the law of inversion there must also be two principles within the divinity. to him the great work of redemption is not to redeem ourselves, or to be redeemed by the divine power, but to redeem tetragrammaton, the fallen god of the yetziratic world. the active principle in man must secret wisdom of the qabalah page 56 unite with the passive principle in yhvh, and the passive principle in man must submit to union with the active principle in yhvh. from this dual marriage between man and divinity will emanate the child, or messiah, a complete integration of man in god and of god in man. as through the divine

y hid themselves from gthe presence of the lord god h. when questioned, the active force (vau) accuses the passive force (heh, and jah curses the serpent (the messianic force) 4 and assumes his full satanic form by putting enmity into the heart of woman and sorrow into the life of man. then he clothes them in animal desires which are symbolized by the coats of skins. that this is the voice of the fallen sammael of yetzirah there can be no doubt, because tetragrammaton says to eve: gthy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee h; 5 in other words- the passive shall be subservient to the active, which means that equilibrium cannot be established. lastly, tetragrammaton acknowledges the active force by saying: behold, the man is become as one of us [the elohim, to know good

is vision lasts he is the messiah, but once it has faded away he is again man, yet charged with a terrific power which according to his will is a power for good or for evil. the existence and possible employment of this force constitute the great secret of practical magic; it is the wand of thaumaturgy and the key of black magic. it is the edenic serpent who transmitted to eve the seductions of a fallen angel. the astral light warms, illuminates, magnetizes, attracts, repels, vivifies, destroys, coagulates, separates, breaks and conjoins everything under the impetus of powerful wills. god created it on the first day, when he said: glet there be light. h this force of itself is blind but is directed by egregores, that is, by chiefs of souls, or, in other words, by energetic and active spiri

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

h of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regarded as the more important factors in human society. the fact has been shown in a previous work that after women began to leave their homes at marriage, and after property, especially land, had fallen under the supervision and control of men, the latter, as they manipulated all the necessaries of life and the means of supplying them, began to regard themselves as superior beings, and later, to claim that as a factor in reproduction, or creation, the male was the more important. with this change the ideas of a deity also began to undergo a modification. the dual principle necessary to cre

fruits were garnered in. it was at these gatherings that the great mother earth received the devout adoration of all her children. it is supposed that the neros, or cycle of 600, is closely connected with this worship, and that it was invented to regulate the season for these festivals. in process of time it was discovered that this cycle no longer answered, that the festival which had originally fallen on the first of may now occurred on the first of april. this, we are told "led ultimately to the discovery that the equinox preceded about 2160 years in each sign or 25,920 years in the 12 signs, and this induced them to try if they could not form a cycle of the two. on examination, they found that the 600 would not commensurate the 2160 years in a sign, or any number of sums of 2160 less t

ned a prominent place in the god-idea of that country. i am not unmindful of the remarks which a reference to a past age of intellectual and moral greatness will call forth; indeed, i can almost hear some devotee of the present time remark "so we are asked to regard as a sober fact the existence in the past of a golden age; also to believe that man was created pure and holy, and that he has since fallen from his high estate; in other words, we are to have faith in the ancient tradition of the 'fall of man" if by the fall of man we are to understand that a great and universal people, who in a remote age of the world's history had reached a high stage of civilization, gradually passed out of human existence, and that a lower race, which was incapable of attaining to their estate, and which

t been worshipped, but, on the contrary, that the great universal dual principle which pervades nature and which is back of matter and force, for instance tien among the chinese, iav among the hebrews, and aum among the hindoos, had been the deity adored; but with the decline of virtue and knowledge, this god was gradually abandoned for a lesser one, a deity better suited to the comprehension of "fallen" man. in the elohistic narrative of creation which appears in the first chapter of genesis, a dual or triune god, female and male, says, let us make man in our own image, and accordingly a male and a female are created. in the jehovistic account, however, in the second chapter of the same book, a document of much later date, man is made first and afterward woman. in fact, in the latter narr

rist. both children are carried away by night, after which an order is issued by the ruler of the country that all the young children throughout the kingdom be slaughtered. when joseph and mary arrived in egypt, they visited the temple of serapis, where "all the magistrates and priests of the idols were assembled" upon the image being interrogated concerning the "consternation and dread which had fallen upon all our country" it answered them as follows "the unknown god has come hither, who is truly god; nor is there anyone besides him, who is worthy of divine worship; for he is truly the son of god" and at the same instant this idol fell down, and at his fall all the inhabitants of egypt, besides others, ran together.[127] a similar story is related of crishna. this indian god, the same as

ary was adopted by the so-called christians in response to a craving in the human heart for a recognition of those characters developed in mankind which may be said to contain the germ of the divine. the masculine god of the jews was feared not loved, and his son had already been invested with his attributes. he was all powerful, hence a mediator, a mother, was necessary to intercede in behalf of fallen man, and this, too, notwithstanding the fact that woman had become the "cause of evil in the world [145] essays on symbolism, p. 134. the great goddess of the ancients, perceptive wisdom, the deity of giving, she who represented the purely altruistic characters developed in mankind, and whose worship involved a scientific knowledge of the processes of nature, when engrafted upon the so-call

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

rletmask,andtheblackbrothers.theyare, however 'improved' and forthemostpartrather restrained inmanner-althoughone, at least, does have an appropriate excessofblood.inthefallofthehouseofmorlandoccur such passages as this:'see, see,'icried,'ithas life: it is moving' my father started back horror-struck, for the assassin hadrisen-risenupon his hands and knees, and was crawling towards us.themask had fallen from his face, revealing features of appalling hideousness.ishriekedwithterror as i gazed upon it 'here, here is fatality' cried my father,'thedeath-blow only reveals theirfaces''itmeans us harm, father. beware, beware! surely that cannot be human. let us fly' there was a yell; the monster had leapeduponus and had clutched my father. from its own torn and bleeding side it had wrenchedthedag

fperiodicalliterature,is important for its early recognitionofthehistorical significanceof popular literature. waite urgeduponhis readerstheneed to preserve this 'vast and perishing literature'which'a little care will rescue from complete oblivion'.ifnot,he said, then'inajewyears the namesofthese productions will be totally, as they are for themostpart now, unknown. his pleaswouldundoubtedly have fallen onmoreattentive ears if hisowntext hadnotbeen bowdlerized.atthe time, waljord'santiquarian magazinewas ostensibly edited by its publisher, george redway,butin realitytheeditor wasarthurmachen, and it was due to machen's sensibilities-heightened by the contemporary prosecution. ofvizetelly for publishingzlla'snovels-thatwaite's intemperate language was curbed.thus,g. w. m. reynolds,'thehighp

he had come to realize that browning was a shrewdjudgeofcharacter as well as ofpoetry, and waite recorded that he 'profited bytheadvice he received;thathe set himself to 'learn life; that he held over his 'facultiesofapoet'until many lessons had beenputto heart; thatthetermofyears mentioned by robert browning brought strength to those faculties; and that'the"sparkfromheaven"has possibly at length fallen. he didnotstopwritinghis poems,butonlya very few would be printed in the 1880s, there would be no more privately printed pamphlets, andnothingsubstantial would appear until 1886 andlsrafel. and that was tobe a very different workindeed--5 'lovethatnevertoldcanbe'durin gmuchofthevictorian erathemajorityofperiodicals for children were overtly, almost aggressively, religious in tone, although

y moved away from furnished rooms, taking a house at hornsey and then, in1891,purchasing eastlake lodge, a large semi-detached house in harvard road, gunnersbury. it was a suitablehome for a poet, being on the edge of the consciouslyavant-gardecommunity of bedford park; it was alsowithineasy reach of east!"101esey and the stuart-menteaths-whichprovedjustas well, for early in1892,lucasta and i had fallen desperately ill,withaboutof influenza as it was in those old days, when the complaint was first generally described by that name. for a wholemonthwe could scarcelymove or speak, while sybil alsowas in bed,witha recurring attack of so-called continuedfever.there is no question that evelyn stuart-menteth saved our three lives, nursing us day and night, hardly taking off her clothes and sleepi

cation in every kingdom of nature. applying this theory to the mineral kingdom 'they discovered a method of evolvinggold and silverfrom substanceswhich they deemed inferior, and found too that a parallel process could be267 applied to man.thenature of this process, argued waite, is hinted at in alchemicaland magical texts, and if it is understood and carried out,thenthe regenerationofman from his fallen state will follow.theexistence and effectiveness ofsucha'process is 'abundantly confirmed by.thestudyof certain higher .phases of mesmerism, electrical psychology, and trance clairvoyance-s-although inwhatway waite does95_'hethataspiredtoknow. was derisive: themanchesterguardianjeered at its style and content alike, andtheechodismissed it as 'two hundred and thirty pages of delirious slush

quately repaired, andwhenit was finally dealtwithin1923the rafters were found to be 'like powder' and renovation used upmostoftheyear's interest from the war loan.thedamp cellar was a perennial problem, and waite periodically spent many hours rescuingwhathe couldofthe papers he unwisely persisted in storing there. his solution to this problem was original, if odd; by1924'manyhundreds'ofpapers had fallen to pieces, and to save the rest from a similar fate they were'hungup in parcels from the rafters'(diary,7october1924).andat ramsgate ada died.herrelationshipwithwaite had been a curious one. they had little incommon-shehad no interest whatsoever in his esoteric pursuits and remainedcontentwithher devotion to the anglicanchurch-butthey were genuinely fondofeach other. waite'smultitudeofactiv

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

had grown up for the purposeofproviding extra -curricular occult activities in the form, principally,ofastral travelling.theywere harmless enough to theorderbut to some members they were anathema. annie homiman had retumed to the order after the break with mathers and was horrified to find the secret groups still in evidence; even worse, she found that the system of advancement by examination had fallen into disuse. with the supportofw.b. yeats she tried to have the groups, or what was left of them, disbanded and the examination system restored,butthe membership would have none of it.therefollowed long and complicated squabbles over the order's essential nature, involv255 ing much pamphleteering and canvassingofsupport. dissatisfied with the inconclusive outcomeofall this, annie homiman, y

aera. other, more recent innovations exist, claiming descent from the cipher manuscripts, and the various offshoots of the old order that straggled across the atlantic still surviveinthe form of paul foster case's brotherhood of the adytum. but mathers has gone, felkin has gone and waite has gone. perhaps only the secret chiefs remain. in1966a box was found on the beach near seisey bill which had fallen from the cliffsinwhich it had been buried.itcontained the robes, banners and magical instruments of maiya tranchell255 hayes,buthighmagic was quite unknown to the experts to whom the finders took it. they said that 'the contents had80thegoldendawnprobably belonged to a witch'.suchisthe rewardofthe hermetic student.references: 1.themanifesto is printed as appendix gofthis book.2.a.e.waite,sh

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tdoctrine,which has been expounded to them in so learned and yet so interesting a manner by madame blavatsky, yet some portion of their time and attention may with advantagebespent in a comparison between thesecretdoctrineand other ancient theologies, faiths and philosophies. being fully persuaded of the good to be thus derived, i have been desirous of taking advantage of any opportunity that has fallen in my way, of calling attention to the dogmas of the old hebrew kabalah. i had the good fortune to be attracted to this somewhat out-of-the-way and recondite study, at an early period of my life, and i have been able to spare a little time in subsequent years to collect some knowledge of this hebrew religious philosophy: my information upon the subject has been kept up by my membership of m

l enter (5)thatevery soul after earth lives must at length be so purified as to be reabsorbed into the infinite (6)thattwo lives are taught by many rabbis, to be necessary for all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked with a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity (7) that when all the pre-existent souls have arrived at perfection, the fallen angels are also raised, and all lives are merged into the deity by the kiss of love from the mouth of tetragrammaton- and the manifested universe shall be no more. this short summary of the kabalah is necessarily very94themagical masonimperfect, omitting altogether many points of great importance, and is no doubt tinctured by my own personal views, which it is very difficult to eliminate fr

also refers to two classes of angels, the cherubim and the seraphim, the former acting especially as sentinels and guardians, and the latter, of winged human forms notable for reverence, humility and obedience and swiftness of action. michael the archangel is named in daniel x. 13, and xii. 1, as the 'great prince, and 'the first of the chief princes, his part is the mysterious conflict with the fallen angel satan.angels127gabriel is mentionedindaniel viii. 16, and ix, 21, also inlukei.19,26. he is commonly called an archangel,butnotinthe bible; he says of himself: i am gabriel that stand in the presence of god.thename means 'strength of god, the gibur of el. uriel is mentioned in 2 esdras iv. 1.thename means 'fire of god, theaur,light or fire of el.itshould be remembered that the name lu

himself: i am gabriel that stand in the presence of god.thename means 'strength of god, the gibur of el. uriel is mentioned in 2 esdras iv. 1.thename means 'fire of god, theaur,light or fire of el.itshould be remembered that the name lucifer is in thebible-themorning star, isaiah xiv. 12, and has no reference to satan either before or after his fall. st jerome first applied the name lucifer to a fallen angel and milton is notable as following the same course.theword satan of jobi,6,12and ii. 1, and zechariah iii. 1, appears to have had the meaning of 'adversary. in the new testament the name is satanas and occurs 26 times.theearliest use of the name satan isin1. chron, xxi. 1.thejews while nominally restrictedintheir theology to the old testament books, were at all timesmuchinfluencedinth

rin relation with the world and mananyone who has a literary turn of mind and possesses leisure time may very well pay a little attention to the notions of symbolism and the use of analogy to be found in books relating to the so-called occult sciences. some of these old studies, cultivated in long past times, have laid the bases for our modern scientific investigations, while others have no doubt fallen into neglect and condemnation. many of the early discoveries in chemistry were made by the alchemists, who spent their lives in experimental researches designed to discover an elixir of life, and a mode of producing gold from other metals of less importance. our modern scientific astronomy has sprung from the very ancient observa255 tions of the planets and the hosts of glittering stars whi

cover thieves: they suspended a sieve by a thread, then prayed for help from the gods, and recited the names of suspected persons, and he at whose name the sieve rotated was deemed to be the thief. see the idylls of theocritus, 3, v. 28. ceromanteia in this method wax was melted in a metal vessel and was poured into a bowl of water, and a judgment arrived at from the shapes into which the wax had fallen and solidified.theetruscan priests divined by the appearances of drops of oil allowed to fall into water in a vase. pegomanteia a greek divination by fountain water: observations were made of its changes, colours and reflections: a mirror was dipped into the water of a fountain to discover the result of an illness. dactylomancy sometimes water was placed in a vase, and a finger ring suspend

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ing.iwill, therefore,inconclusion, ask those who wear those mystical robes of the ancients to remember what they signify separately and collecth'ely; foritis notalightthing to represent materially theforcesoftheineffablenm1e'[clavicularosicrucianano.11.issuedbythes.r.i.a, 1888]3.theqliphoth oftheqabalahthese be they who be unclean and evil, even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yettenare they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the t

he concluding rubric is 'after ra has risen, stand facing himwitharms bent (that is in the positionofadoration- as figured in the tomb paintings),saying;"rahas triumphed over thee, apophi; repeat four times,"invery truth has ra been made to triumph over thee, apophi. destroyed is apophi. therefore art thou exalted, 0 ra, for thineenemies are destroyed. shine therefore, 0 ra, for thine enemies are fallen. verily ra hath destroyed all thine enemies,ora-a-a- life, strength, health: this ceremony in. the temple of amen ra was clearly a formula of white magic for the banishingofevils, famine, and disease, as well as moral evil.and wrong,andtherefore is appropriately paralleled by the church formulae of exorcism. with this may be profitably compared the black magical formulae, as recorded in the

each stone walking round thrice widdershins and crying to thel:>evilto .curse and blast the man's life. he also baptized the stone in the devil's name with water from a certain spring, said to. be the haunt of evil spirits. where he got the ritual from no one knows. i believe there are some spells somewhat similiar in thegrimoire.i asked whether the curses had taken effect 'the man i was told had fallen off a roof and broken his l1eck, and the girl had died with her first child. the curser raarried soon after this,buthe was a miserable man all his life, haunted with gloomy forebodings, and died more or less insane. i know not whether the stones still stand. probably110t.the family have long ago left the district, and i have never been able to trace them.witchcraft147.the curious student ma

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

and english bodies became tenuous. for his part yarker moved at once to minimise any risk to his new baby. a further notice of the rite in the freemason (10 february 1877, p. 54) included this paragraph: 33[33] shadwell h. clerke to t. d. harington, 3 august 1876. copies of the letters are in the letter-book of the supreme council 33 of the ancient& accepted rite for england and wales. yarker had fallen foul of the supreme council through his involvement with an irregular supreme council in america, deriving from joseph cerneau. 34[34] clerke to harington, 8 march 1877 some misapprehension having got afloat, it was considered desirable to state that although this rite had leading members in various rites, yet it was quite independent and interfered with no other rite whatever, but was a ne

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anism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 november, describing it as a 'most interesting book, written in critical and dispassionate style by a non-mason, the end of which is that mr. waite pronounces the charges to be "lying myt

ssible, and i look sometimes with sore regret on the great parchment which is the evidence of my appointment'81[81. in the same letter waite doubted that bridge 'could do anything of a practical kind for the furtherance of the order in this country. i should have done it long since, had any path opened. he was yet pleased when the rite was re-established in america in 1934 (blitz's charter having fallen into abeyance, for the two brethren concerned, dr. william moseley brown and j. ray shute, had learned of the rite and its significance through waite's writings. 76[76] ibid, 27 october 1902 77[77] in 1905; they were printed, or rather mimeographed, in 1934 by f. f. bahnson at warrenton in north carolina 78[78] his letter of obligation is dated 26 november 1907. it is preserved in the archi

s' chronicle (vol. 135, p. 178, 6 june 1942) in which he was characterized as a poet and writer on freemasonry. there was no attempt to appraise his work or to state his primary thesis. he was buried in the churchyard at bishopsbourne in kent where he spent most of his later years, and his grave is now obscured by a thick growth of deadly nightshade- an appropriate parallel to the blight that has fallen on his reputation. his besetting faults were a conscious refusal to accept his limitations as a historian, limitations that were inevitable, given his lack of academic training- and the subconscious recognition of them that led to an inordinate conceit and to constant belittling of his predecessors. serious though these faults are they are not serious enough to deny him a place amongst the

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

is bread be friends. brothers, to be blood brothers, take another sip of flame from your wine glass (mason, year: 29, no.40-41, 1981, pp. 105-107) djl the masonic war against religion global freemasonry dkc the materialist-humanist dogma espoused by the masons has brought great suffering upon humanity in the twentieth century. world war two cost 55 million people their lives. this photograph of a fallen soldier, whose face was shattered by a bomb near stalingrad, is just one example of the great human suffering that was created by "humanist" ideologies. dkd the masonic war against religion global freemasonry dke in other words, at the beginning of the twentieth century, masonry had, in great measure, achieved its goal of socio-political revolution. therefore, the twentieth century was not

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anism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 november, describing it as a 'most interesting book, written in critical and dispassionate style by a non-mason, the end of which is that mr. waite pronounces the charges to be "lying myt

ssible, and i look sometimes with sore regret on the great parchment which is the evidence of my appointment'81[81. in the same letter waite doubted that bridge 'could do anything of a practical kind for the furtherance of the order in this country. i should have done it long since, had any path opened. he was yet pleased when the rite was re-established in america in 1934 (blitz's charter having fallen into abeyance, for the two brethren concerned, dr. william moseley brown and j. ray shute, had learned of the rite and its significance through waite's writings. 76[76] ibid, 27 october 1902 77[77] in 1905; they were printed, or rather mimeographed, in 1934 by f. f. bahnson at warrenton in north carolina 78[78] his letter of obligation is dated 26 november 1907. it is preserved in the archi

s' chronicle (vol. 135, p. 178, 6 june 1942) in which he was characterized as a poet and writer on freemasonry. there was no attempt to appraise his work or to state his primary thesis. he was buried in the churchyard at bishopsbourne in kent where he spent most of his later years, and his grave is now obscured by a thick growth of deadly nightshade- an appropriate parallel to the blight that has fallen on his reputation. his besetting faults were a conscious refusal to accept his limitations as a historian, limitations that were inevitable, given his lack of academic training- and the subconscious recognition of them that led to an inordinate conceit and to constant belittling of his predecessors. serious though these faults are they are not serious enough to deny him a place amongst the

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r. ljosalfheim is the home of the light elves or lojosalfar. there are two classes of elves, the light inhabit the lighter realms above midgard, while the dark elves (dwarves) inhabit the subterranean realm. asgard, the home of the aesir of sky gods is above the elven world and is the crown of the world tree. the name asgard means "enclosure of the gods. within asgard is valhalla, the hall of the fallen where the warriors of odin are taken if they are killed in battle and from where they will return to the final battle or ragnarok. snorri sturlson describes an inner enclosure (gardh) as being built right within the center of midgard, the sacred space of human society. however, this enclosure, this true essence of midgard as asgard, can only be entered by crossing the bifrost. the gnostic h

in the old testament, apocryphal sources (with some ot/nt references) and within the new testament. these are mirrored in other esoteric traditions, for example, the old testament view of satan as tester is also found in hinduism. these three motifs can be summarised as follows: 1. the satan-saturn complex the illusion of cosmological evil (perceptional dualism) 2. the watchers evil as ignorance (fallen astral forms (temporary dualism) 3. evil as ignorance (ethical dualism) these three models are found quite clearly in different forms of scripture. the satan as tester image is primarily old testament, the watchers are found primarily in the book of enoch (but also referenced subtlety in the ot& nt, the image of satan as bad mind is primarily new testament. these three motifs are found in a

marily in the book of enoch (but also referenced subtlety in the ot& nt, the image of satan as bad mind is primarily new testament. these three motifs are found in all aspects of gnostic, essene and christian literature. for example, the demiurge. the demiurge as saturn is not evil but only the harsh school teacher, yet within the watchers the demiurge is desire (pride, uncontrolled lust etc. all fallen spirits are demiurges, all have desire to leave their station and enter earth. while the demiurge in man is the ego. these three different motifs explain the strange amalgam of tales we have throughout the bible about evil which range from the fall of lucifer (light bearer (the watchers, jesus calling peter satan (ethical dualism) and the book of job image of satan as tester. chapter four:

enizens are much the same as us (indeed the human dead are part of the astral kingdom) and hence can share our own ignorance and stupidity as well as our joys and illuminations. while certainly gnosticism does not accept the reality of beings that are intrinsically evil. we do accept that since man has free well and can make himself evil through ignorance, so astral spirits can do the same. these fallen spirits are described in many gnostic texts and can certainly gang together and influence man in a destructive way. these spirits are not intrinsically or ontologically evil, but have become evil through ignorance, desire and so on. this is important as it proves there is no evil god in competition with the source of all life, no hierarchy of destruction, but ignorant spirits and entities

ffspring. this is why the great flood occured, not to destroy man but to purify the earth of these mutated forms. this desire however continued and brought about not only the corruption of many astral realms but allowed these spirits to incarnate on earth! this last fact is important and has far more significance than we may realize. as we will discuss in another work it is possible many of these fallen spirits have taken physical form and are now in controlling positions in governments and institutions. if we believe that spiritually destructive forces are working on many different levels, then we cannot ignore the existence of these forces on the physical plane as well as on the spiritual. for centuries there has been a belief in a secret government which manipulates and controls world p

ked over the cities all this can be yours. it is legion as there are multitudes of archons both dwelling within our minds and within the collective unconscious. the question of the devil being the father of the jews takes us into the darker reaches of archon theory, because not only can they exist in the unconscious collective mind but they can create a breach into the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions. they can control and influence individuals, collectives even nations and governments. jesus decried the jews not because of racial prejudice but beca

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he would begin to draw the conclusion that it is the sun that produces the seasons and the course of the year and controls everything in the visible world and moreover is in a way the cause of all that he and his companions used to see. republic, plato. 516ff. plato, then, is illustrating for us the state of man. his insight is clear and precise. man is chained by his attachment to matter and his fallen condition. the only reality he sees is a reflection and forms a illusionary world around him. this is known as the dialectic system or the world of the archons. the true source of all things is found in the world of ideals- the spiritual planes. in the gnostic school these are known as the static system or the treasury of light. the allegory of plato is an important place to start as it giv

and religious stories and deduce the essential event from behind them. due consideration should be given to the way in which myth and legend form the language or symbol system of the mysteries (see fig 2. myths and legends of cosmic error in the biblical account we read of an archangel who rebels against the cosmic order and is thrown from the heavens. his angelic nature is lost and he becomes a fallen being. his name lucifer means light bearer and accordingly, we have a light bearer who is transformed into a dark force. this is followed by a second fall, this time directly involving humanity, where adam and eve, depending on interpretation, break gnostic theurgy page 16 one of creators commandments or in some way or another break cosmic law, and are expelled from the garden of eden (in g

n from eden represents the soul entering matter. there are many variantions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia or wisdom. out of a yearning to know the original creator she gives birth to a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. in this legend the god of the old testament is seen as evil and christ is the only emissary of the light world. in another tradition satanel (the fallen one) creates the physical world, but his creation is sterile and marred. yahweh as the emissary of light rectifies this false creation by breathing life into shells satanel has formed. however, the fallen wo

ve of the positive form, this reflection became the essence we understand as evil and as a natural expansion of itself, matter was formed. whichever myth or legend we accept (and we could continue with many from other cultures, traditions and scriptures) the essential truth is that the alpha event was one of cosmic error. the line of time, space and matter should not have come into being. it is a fallen system, one which is a mixture of light and darkness, but with a tendency towards darkness. entropy is the nature of the day, all things suffer and die. the alpha event caused a split in the spiritual worlds, which resulted in a division, a dualism between the higher and lower worlds (the subject of study three) and the higher and lower bodies (the subject of study four. the alpha event for

that genes are fulfilling the programming of a cosmic error, even a destructive entity or being (okay, lets not go too far, then we can extend this to see how memes condition the thinking of humanity and create the 'isms' and 'ologies' that curtail the possibly of real spiritual development, awakening or realisation. nature, in itself, probably cannot be considered ethically evil, it is, however, fallen- designed in error, and therefore a mixture of light and darkness. as nature enters the human sphere, then the dualities which existed in potential, spirit matter the timeline omega point matter contra spirit: the nature of the alpha event. omega point chart of evolutionary technological cycle versus yuga/spirit cycle. fig three gnostic theurgy page 21 become dualites of an ethical nature

himself and achieve a rectification of the scheme of things. this rectification, however, can only occur after the nature of the system has been truly comprehended. the scheme of things in the gnostic worldview, however, goes far beyond the physical, or for that matter even the mental. if we accept the hypothesis that other dimensions, planes, even worlds exist, then there must be hierarchies of fallen and unfallen denizens. worlds that exist beyond time and space, and worlds trapped in the mesh of matter. these worlds may be populated, there may be other streams of life, some waiting to help mankind, to liberate him from this prison while others, perhaps, more malefic to the human lifestream, may wish to keep him in bondage. these other realities, then, are the subject of our next chapte

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m and model, lucifer (sathan) is an ideal form to align with in an initiatory sense. azazel rebelled against the natural order (god ain soph) as he sought independence, fell to the realms of earth and awoke in hell (earth the chthonic realm. rather than fearing and cowering, hiding, lucifer understood he was an independent mind and existed independently from the natural order and roused all other fallen angels to stand strong. in this context, lucifer was creating order from chaos. this is a seeming model of the initiate, that we work towards recognizing our own sense of being, and to expand the circle of control. the daimons/djinn of the goetia are initiatory forces as well. consider the definitions of angel and demon. the significance is beneficial in the context of this grimoire. angeli

imons/djinn of the goetia are initiatory forces as well. consider the definitions of angel and demon. the significance is beneficial in the context of this grimoire. angelic spirits are solar/air based spirits who posses a higher articulation of being, that is, they resonate with the more developed aspects of the self i.e. communion with the initiatic guide/holy guardian angel. demons are spirits/fallen angels which proceed to grow in shadows and the darkness of the earth, but are as significant and beneficial as angelic spirits. in unity these djinn are of fire and air, thus enflame the very essence of self in the illumination of being (black flame self- perception and being. black magick is the development and refinement of the self on every level. it can be unpleasant such as questionin

anslated the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage. 10 the four infernal princes are- lucifer east (from lux fero, light bearer. a common shadow association is lucifuge, latin for fly the light and may have close associations with mephistopheles. lucifer in this aspect is the angel of light, the adversary. lucifer is a title which is beheld by the fire djinn azazel being the first angel, fallen from the stasis of light. by this manner, lucifer is the liberator and developer of humanity with his gift of the black flame, or individualized self-perception. leviathan- west (from lvthn, the crooked serpent/dragon of the sea. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and initiation, that the beast and scarlet whore moves through to arise from the oceans as the beast 666, the solar spirit o

pproach the goetic spirits with fear, if the mind is clear upon the initiatory intent then this is a building point of character associated with the spirit therein. daemonic spirits/djinn are the phantasms which congress and communicate with those who partake of the infernal sabbat, the conclave of witches and sorcerous beings of night-walking dreaming gnosis. daemonic (demonic) spirits are often fallen angels; those who have tasted from the golden cup of the celestial realm of lucifer, and by falling into the infernal realms have learnt the dark ways of their own sorcerous making. such daemonic forces are but in some ways mirrors of our self, we must gain by association and invocation. this, by this work alone, will strengthen and develop the very self of the sorcerer, the ever changing l

ia. you have been warned. working with angelic spirits angelic(k) spirits are celestial or empyrean forces, based primarily in the element air. they are commonly associated with lucifer and are the higher articulated solar and lunar shadow forms of the initiatic guide, by one conjoined with the demonic spirit the self develops in balance, rather than repression and self-deception. such angels are fallen, and contain a demonic or infernal aspect to their character. approach this with respect and seek to become like the essence you so seek. the angelick spirits of the shemhamphorasch are the guardians who lead one to the threshold (azazel, shaitan. spirits should be invoked as how lucifer would command by resolve and silent perception. do not act upon impulse; rather refine your thought to w

el, hold too a 18 special knowledge and the self and individual mind is that which will commune with them. be firm in your works, yet respectful. i am the daimon who speaks the words of the immortal fire, the holy flame which emerges from the lightning flash and storm of chaos bred, so this the angel-serpent shall come forth with the birthing knife shedding into storm of seth! spirit of which the fallen have taken strength, isolate and beautiful, angelic essence, azal ucel, from which came into being cain i do invoke thee! south- devil-djinn of the burning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao thiaf! east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bring

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governor of the third division of the aethyr oxo (45. tatan: wormwood/ of wormwood. taxs: 7336. tbl: her. tdat: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet. tdim: kerubic angel of water angle of water tablet. teaa: four lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of fire. tedoand: governor of the first division of the aethyr uta (40. teloah/ teloc teloch: death. teloc vovim (of) him that is fallen. tex: name of the thirtieth aethyr. thaaot: name of saturn perimeter. thahaaaotahe: elemental king of water. thaot: name of saturn (corrected) perimeter. thil: seat/ seats (cf. othil. thild: of their own seats. thiln: in seats. thilnos: in seats twelve/ in twelve seats. thotanf: governor of the first division of the aethyr paz (10. ti: it is/ it. ti ta: it is as. tia: his. tianta: bed (n. t

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ithmong unchi omp tibl caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with ors bagle moooah ol cordziz. darkness. for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. l capimao ixomaxip od cacocasb gosaa baglen one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because pii tianta a babalond, od faorgt teloc vo-vim. she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. madriiax torzu! oadriax orocha 0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, aboapri! tabaori priaz ar tabas adrpan cors ta let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. ad

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ithmong unchi omp tibl caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with ors bagle moooah ol cordziz. darkness. for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. l capimao ixomaxip od cacocasb gosaa baglen one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because pii tianta a babalond, od faorgt teloc vo-vim. she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. madriiax torzu! oadriax orocha 0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, aboapri! tabaori priaz ar tabas adrpan cors ta let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. ad

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ere are now their gods? o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels 11 of thy chariot. yhvh tzboath, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and f

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/her name_ may now be, and on whatever 3 plane he/she may now pursue his/her ideal, let him/her be blessed with a more divine rest and an utter cessation from strife" step 7 trace l hexagram with the sigil in center. step 8 "term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. and unto him/her, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his/her true will. should_(his/her name_ will to absorb into the infinite, or to be united with his/her chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labor and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto_(his/her name_ may there be granted the accomplishment of hi

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are now their gods? 11 o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. la, ab, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are

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(state earthly name) who on this day of (date) has now transcended the veil into the land of the dead and away from the land of the living" step 7 s.i.r.h. of l. trace l hexagram with sigil in the center. step 8 "term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. and unto (state earthly name, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his/her true will" purify and consecrate the shells with n and o. step 9 walk the shell to the east so that it is facing west. leave it there and return to behind the altar faced east "i invoke thee by the divine name iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom. strengthen and establish (state earthly name)

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ere are now their gods? o my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, o mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of the laygwu were empty. i came, and around me hovered the \ynpwa, with layzr at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. tudw hwla hwhy blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fall

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

circle around, cross the highway for a second time, pass an astonishing arrangement of fish and triangles laid out beside a pelican, turn left and find ourselves floating over the sublime image of a giant condor with feathers extended in stylized flight. just as i try to catch my breath, another condor almost close enough to touch materializes out of nowhere, a real condor this time, haughty as a fallen angel riding a thermal back to heaven. my pilot gasps and tries to follow him. for a moment i catch a glimpse of a bright, dispassionate eye that seems to weigh us up and find us wanting. then, like a vision from some ancient myth, the creature banks and glides contemptuously backwards into the sun leaving our single-engined cessna floundering in the lower air. below us now there s a pair o

of the sea, a master of science and magic who wielded terrible weapons and who came in a time of chaos to set the world to rights. the same basic story was shared in many variants by all the peoples of the andean region. it began with a vivid description of a terrifying period when the earth had been inundated by a great flood and plunged into darkness by the disappearance of the sun. society had fallen into disorder, and the people suffered much hardship. then there suddenly appeared, coming from the south, a white man of large stature and authoritative demeanour. this man had such great power that he changed the hills into valleys and from the valleys made great hills, causing streams to flow from the living stone..1 the early spanish chronicler who recorded this tradition explained that

ity of tiahuanaco was once a port, complete with extensive docks, positioned right on the shore of lake titicaca.8 the problem is that tiahuanaco s ruins are now marooned about twelve miles south of the lake and more than 100 feet higher than the present shoreline.9 in the period since the city was built, it therefore follows that one of two things must have happened: either the level of lake has fallen greatly or the land on which tiahuanaco stands has risen comparably. 5 either way it is obvious that there have been massive and traumatic 4 tiahuanacu, j. j. augustin, new york, 1945, volume i, p. 28. 5 ibid. 6 see, for example, h.s. bellamy, built before the flood: the problem of the tiahuanaco ruins, faber& faber, london, 1943, p. 57. 7 ibid, p. 59. 8 tiahuanacu, iii, pp. 192-6. see also

ss inquirers explored deeper and still deeper into the eternity of the past. on a stela at quiriga in guatemala a date over 90 million years ago is computed; on another a date over 300 million years before that is given. these are actual computations, stating correctly day and month positions, and are comparable to calculations in our calendar giving the month positions on which easter would have fallen at equivalent distances in the past. the brain reels at such astronomical figures..26 isn t all this a bit avant-garde for a civilization that didn t otherwise distinguish itself in many ways? it s true that mayan architecture was good within its limits. but there was precious little else that these jungledwelling indians did which suggested they might have had the capacity (or the need) to

ved dignity, the captain stuffed the money into his shirt pocket, and, finally, we all shook hands. ok, said ali, let s go. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 269 inexplicable precision as the guards continued their patrol in a westerly direction along the northern face of the great pyramid, we made our way around the northeastern corner and along the base of the eastern face. i had long ago fallen into the habit of orienting myself according to the monument s sides. the northern face was aligned, almost perfectly, to true north, the eastern face almost perfectly to true east, the southern to true south, and the western face to true west. the average error was only around three minutes of arc (down to less than two minutes on the southern face)1 incredible accuracy for any building in

ending corridor leading downwards from the original concealed doorway in the northern face (the location of which, though known in classical times, had been forgotten by ma mun s day. by a further lucky accident the vibrations that the arabs had caused with their battering rams and drills dislodged a block of limestone from the ceiling of the descending corridor. when the socket from which it had fallen was examined it was found to conceal the opening to another corridor, this time ascending into the heart of the pyramid. there was a problem, however. the opening was blocked by a series of enormous plugs of solid granite, clearly contemporaneous with the construction of the monument, which were held in place by a narrowing of the lower end of the corridor.8 the quarriers were unable either

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

devil himself. even barker noted that albert k. bender s experiments were more like a magical conjuration than an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. any initiated magician reading bender s accounts would recognize the elements of magical conjuration immediately. maybe, i mused, we were dealing more with magick than with martians. the black lodge mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. the secret chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection, even his scholarship deserted him. he published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put an end to his long misery. he was a great man in his way- aleister crowley what i am out to complain of is what i seriously believe to be an organized conspiracy of the black lodges to prevent people from thinking- al

otherhood and carried their influence back with them to europe, just as the templars had done centuries before, and incorporated their teachings into the western esoteric system. it is known that the black lodge which, as it opposes evolution, inherently fights a rear-guard action has made unceasing war on the great white brotherhood in the west from the beginnings of the magical revival. indeed, fallen and failed adepts of the great white brotherhood have become the tools and pawns of the black lodge, from mathers to hubbard and beyond. it would seem that the immediate goal of the black brothers is to delay the manifestation of the new aeon, the birth of the magical child and the realization of the ubermensch through diversion of the will-current into less than useless power plays, demora

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

and here we are only concerned with the descent of divinity. sometimes the lightening-flashwas termed a sword, because of the fierysword whichgodwas supposed to have placed before the garden of eden to prevent humans going back there before they had solved all the problems they would have to face in the outside world. that was also why this design became known as the tree of life, because having fallen by the tree of knowledge, man would have to rise (or evolve) by the family tree of life connecting us with god by a series of step-by-step efforts until we had enough knowledge to bridge the abyss between us and that god (which represented ignorance) and so become in the words of the bible: like unto the gods, immortal. the tree of course is just the bare bones or abc of the kabbalistic sys

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if he would shew no gap in his harness, to be initiated into all the innocence of popular poetry; as ho who would coin a word, into all the mysteries of language. out of elben (elves) to make elfen, was doing violence to our language; with still less of forbearance have violent hands been laid on the colouring and contents even of myths. they thought to improve upon the folk-tale, and have always fallen short of it: not even where it shews gaps, is any restoration to be dreamt of, which sits upon it as new whitewash on old ruins, contriving with a couple of dabs to wipe out all the charm. astonishing are the various shapes its identity assumes. xiv peeface. additional adornments spring up on ground where we least expect it; but it is not in every soil that it thrives luxuriantly, here and

poets despise these fables which they could have sung so admirably, just as they leave on one side dame berhte and holde and in general what is of home growth. yet a couple of allusions may prove, if proof it needs, that this dressing up of the old myth was in vogue as early as the 13th century: bumelant (amgb. 12) relates of christ and peter, how they came to a deep rivulet into which a man had fallen, who was doing nothing to help himself; and a nameless poet (mone's anz. 5, 192) tells of a woodcutter whom peter was trying to hoist into heaven by his mallet, but when on the topmost rung, the mallet's handle came off, and the poor man dropt into hell. the pikeman or blacksmith in the fairy-tale got on better by flinging his knapsack or apron (sledgehammer in asbiornsen p. 1 36 is still m

tual and unceasing interaction of them all. a pagan religion never dropt out of the clouds, it was carried on through countless ages by the tradition of nations, but in the end it must rest on a mysterious revelation which accords with the marvellous language and the creation and propagation of mankind. our native heathenism seems not to have been oppressed by gloomy fancies about the misery of a fallen existence (like the indian doctrine of emanation, it favoured a cheerful fatalism (p. 860-1, and believed in a paradise, a renovated world, deified heroes; its gods resemble more those of greece, its superstition more that of rome' tanta gentium in rebus frivolis plerumque religio est' the question has been gravely asked, whether the heathen pkeface. iv gods really existed; and i feel disgu

eligio est' the question has been gravely asked, whether the heathen pkeface. iv gods really existed; and i feel disgust at answering it. those who believe in a veritable devil and a hell, who would burn a witch with a will, may feel inclined to affirm it, thinking to support the miracles of the church by the evidence of this other miracle, that in the false gods she had crushed actual fiends and fallen angels. having observed that her language, laws and antiquities were greatly underrated, i was wishful to exalt my native land. to me one labour became the other: what was evidence there was also a confirmation here, what furnished a foundation here served there as a prop. perhaps my books will have more influence in a quiet happy time which will come back some day; yet they ought to belong

(sasm. 5. sn. 37, whom she sought through the world and bewept with, golden tears, may have been a personification of poetic art^ was he the same as kvdsir, who traversed the world, and was murdered by the dwarfs? thus o^hroerir contained the sweet drink of divine poesy, which imparted immortality; and from the exertions made by the gods, particularly osinn, to regain possession of it when it had fallen into the hands of dwarfs and giants, follows its identity with amrita, ambrosia and nectar (p. 317-9; the ichor in the veins of gods is like the limpid spittle of the ases and vanes. the pure bee, which has survived from paradise^ brings the honey of song to the lips of the sleeper, p. 696 (see suppl. i cannot resist the temptation to add some more legends, of how the inspiration of song ca

imilar to the' duris, diirst' on pp. 521. 920 is a finnic turisas, god of war and at the same time a giant (turras, turrisas, tursas, who, when a war is imminent, has his drum beaten high up in the clouds. to the lettons johdi or murgi means ghosts, souls of the dead; when the northern liglits fiicher, they say 'johdi kaujahs^ ghosts are fighting, or' karru lauschu dwehseles kaujahs^ the souls of fallen warriors fight" they connect the ghostly tumult with a shining phenomenon, as we do with a sounding one; it reminds one also of the war stirred up by our landsknechts in heaven itself, and still more of the on. name for war and battle' hiacfninga ve&r e"sa el' hedaningorum tempestas vel procella, sn. 163. in a lengthened tight the heroes had fallen, when hildur the valkyrja came to the batt

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dumpty. this seems pointed at a sluggish mountain-giant, and we shall see how folk-tales of a later period name the giants ditmme dutten; the term lubbe, lubbe likewise indicates their clumsy lubberly nature, and when we nowadays call the devil dumm (stupid, a quondam giant is really meant (see suppl. 1 yet the norse lays contain one feature favourable to the giants. they stand as specimens of a fallen or falling race, which with the strength combines also the innocence and wisdom of the old world, an intelligence more objective and imparted at creation than self-acquired. this half- regretful view of giants prevails particularly in one of the finest poems of the edda, the etymisqvrsa. hymir 2 is called forn iotunn (the old) 54a, as uoxixfrafjios in theocr. 11,9 is ap%aio&lt, and anot

it was a fir-cone, which the giant felt between his fingers, and said: who d have thought a little thing like that would hurt you so (see suppl. the edda tells wonderful things of giant skr^mir, 1 in the thumb of whose glove the god thorr found a night s lodging. skrymir goes to sleep under an oak, and snores; when thorr with his hammer strikes him on the head, he wakes up and asks if a leaf has fallen on him. the giant lies down under another oak, and snores so that the forest roars; thorr hits him a harder blow than before, and the giant awaking cries, did an acorn fall on my face? he falls asleep a third time, and thorr repeats his blow, making a yet deeper dint, but the giant merely strokes his cheek, and remarks, there must be birds roosting in those 1 in the faroe dialect skrujmsli

jutul fighting with another is said to have flung obliquely across the bay, and plain marks of his fingers remain on the stone (faye, p. 15. two or three miles from dieren in the meissen country there lie a block of quartz and one of granite; the former was thrown by the giant of wantewitz at the giant of zadel, the latter by the zadeler at the wantewitzer; but they both missed, the stones having fallen wide of the mark.1 so two combatants at refnas and asnas threw enormous stones at each other, one called sortensteen, the other blak, and the latter still shews the fingers of the thrower (thiele 1, 47. a kind of slaty stone in norway, says hallager 53a, is called jyvrikling, because the jyvri (giantess) is said to have smeared it over with butter, and you may see the dint of her fingers on

d it may even chance, that when faith has perished or is corrupted, this veneration shall keep its hold of the people longer. the multi tude will give up its great divinities, yet persist for a time in the more private worship of household gods; even these it will renounce, and retain its reverence for elements. the history of the heathen and christian religions shews, that long after the one was fallen and the other established, there lived on, nay there live still, a number of superstitious customs connected with the worship of elements. it is the last, the all but indestructible remnant of heathenism; when gods collapse, these naked sub stances come to the front again, with which the being of those had mysteriously linked itself (see suppl. to this effect i have already expressed myself

ry: when the lord god at the creation of the world ordered the beasts to dig a great well (or pond, this bird abstained from all work, for fear of soiling his handsome plumage (or yellow legs. then god ordained that to all eternity he should drink out of no well (pond; therefore we always see him sip laboriously out of hollow stones or cart-ruts where rainwater has collected. but when no rain has fallen and there is drought, he is sore athirst, and we hear unceasingly his pain-stricken 1 giet! and the good lord takes pity, and pours down rain (reusch in preuss. provinz. bl. 26, 536; from samland. fahlmann in the dorpater verhandl. 1, 42 gives an esthonian myth: god was having the em-bach(-beck -brook, p. 599n) dug, and set all the beasts to work; but the whitsun-fowl idly flew from bough t

(wears a gowk s head, msh. 3, 468g. rehter witze ein gouch, ms. 2, 124b. der maere ein goichelin (dim, and gouchgouolt (augm, ben. 209. the on. gaukr is likewise arrogans morio. hans sachs occa sionally uses gauchberg 2 in the same sense, ii. 4, 110d (kempten ii. 4, 220a, extr. from goz 1, 52. yet originally in grauchsberg the bird himself may very well have been meant in a mystic sense which has fallen dark to us now (see suppl. 3 in other ways too the cuckoo stands in ill repute, he passes for an adulterer, who lays his eggs in other people s nests; hence the romans used cuculus in the sense of moechus (plauti asinaria, twice in last scene, and our goucli, goucheun formerly meant bastard (nib. 810, 1. aw. 1, 46, as the swiss gugsck still means an unbidden rival suitor. he even comes out

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1856.itconsisted principally of correspondence and book reviews mainly concerned with mesmerism, natural medicine, and, in later volumes, spiritualism. hockley stated that he had made four contributions but only the following three have been traced.]ontheancientmagiccrystal,anditsconnexionwithmesmerism.bymrhockley.'my brethren, there are men who, whether designedly or not, are in league with the fallen spirits-wizardi' andnecromancers,usingenchant255mentanddivination,and producing divers effects beyond the power ofman-realand natural effects, by thehelpofthedevil,upon both the minds and bodies of their fellow-creatures.ishall endeavour this evening, by god's help, to follow that branchofthe subject, and to shew you whaticonceive to be the connexion between the agency of those fallen spiri

elded to the counsels and the persuasions of the devil, and violated a divine command, and in consequence fell down from his high estate, cursed of god with total depravity and eternal death' c.a.-itwas in his imperfection that he sinned; and they are wrong to suppose that one act committed by the first man should so entirely change his situation. proposition5-'thatgod so loved man in his present fallen condition, that he sent his only son to die upon the cross, and thereby redeem man from the effect of the curse. this son was jesuschrist,-verygod and veryman,-andhe, together with god the father, and god the holy ghost, constitute the holytrinity-theeverlasting god' c.a.-thatisright. by his redemption the three are united,therosicrucianseer-whoare ever surounding us, and eagerly seeking to

all charity, all love, the creator of the humanrace-emanatingfrom him are the divinequalities-hisinfluence, his holy spirit and his son. god has angels in his presence perfect as himselfin purity, in goodness and in truth but unlike himself either almighty, all-knowing or all powerful, their capacities are limited, his are boundless.thereis an antagonist to all this good in the shape of an angel fallen from his highdegree-heis the power of evilalwaysat enmity with god,alwaysstrivingto rule his creator by gainingman-thegreatest of acquisitions-over to him and subservient to his will. this power of evil so strong it was necessary that god should send into the world, to arm man with a weapon by which he might defeat the power of evil. this weapon is his word given by his son to man, in the n

irwin's crystal contact appears to be able only to give them information which has already appeared elsewhere. 4itis not clear but it would appear that thebookofsethwas dictated to the irwins through the crystal. according to josephus'h,storyofthejews,seth(3767be)was the first astrologer.theapocryphal book of enoch was an important source for occultists as it listed the namesofthe archangels and fallen angels and gives the legendofthe sonsofheaven coming to earth, marrying mortals and teaching them charms, enchantments, herbalism, and astrology. 5 thomas vaughan (1622-66, english rosicrucian who used the pseudonym eugenius philalethes. his translationofthefamaandconftssioappeared in 1652. his writings provoked an angry response in print from the cambridge platonist henry more (1586-1661)

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cure myths, such as that of the lost children of bedesh. the end of the new kingdom by the eleventh century bce, the kings, who lived in the eastern delta, seem to have had little influence over the south of the country. the last king of the twentieth dynasty, rameses xi (c. 1099 1069 bce, had a tomb cut in the valley of the kings but was probably never buried in it. in the theban area, power had fallen into the hands of one family whose members served as generals in the army and high priests in the temple of karnak. several members of this family gave themselves royal titles, even after a new line of kings, the twenty-first dynasty, took control in the north. a series of marriages between the two families kept the peace. some of the most beautifully illustrated books of the dead were made

and london, 1999. 20. recent research has suggested that the stars and planets were thought of as forming part of the great cycle of the sun s progression through the sky, so it was not contradictory to claim that the deceased king was joining both the sun and the stars. 21. these statements are from pyramid text 477. this is typical of the way in which the death of osiris was alluded to (he has fallen upon his side) but never clearly described. the belief that this terrible event should not be directly shown or narrated persisted right until the end of egyptian culture. 22. this provincial use may only be evidence for the gradual spread of literacy and an increasing availability of artists outside the capital. some parts of the pyramid texts were probably recited at private funerals long

urrent in the late first millennium bce. in the longest of these, hathor-tefnut is roaming the distant southern desert in the form of a nubian cat. thoth disguises himself as a dog-faced baboon to approach the angry goddess. he alternately harangues and cajoles her. thoth lectures her about her duty and dignity as the daughter of ra. he tells her about the desolate and gloomy state that egypt has fallen into without her bright presence. he paints word pictures of the delicious food offerings and the singing and dancing she will receive in the 72 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 14. a dwarf god celebrating the return of the distant goddess. a relief in a temple which originally stood on the island of philae (courtesy of geraldine pinch) temples of egypt if she returns. thoth also tells

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auses its egoof clay to draw the soldier's blade, assuring him it is in defence of his country. prompting each other to action, they defeat the enemy and cover themselves with glory and pride. they makethe haughty foe bite the dust at their feet in supreme humiliation. for this they are crowned by history withthe unfading laurels of valour, which are those of success. they make a footstool of the fallen enemy andtransform their sire's little kingdom into a great empire. satisfied they could achieve no more for the present,they return to seclusion and to the dreamland of their sweet home. for three lustra more the soul-ego sits at its usual post, beaming out of its windows on the world around.over its head the sky is blue and the vast horizons are covered with those seemingly unfading flowe

gore. viiia hideous dream detaches itself from a group of passing visions, and alights heavily on his aching chest. thenightmare shows him men expiring on the battlefield with a curse on those who led them to their destruction.every pang in his own wasting body brings to him in dream the recollection of pangs still worse, of pangssuffered through and for him. he sees and feels the torture of the fallen millions, who die after long hours ofterrible mental and physical agony; who expire in forest and plain, in stagnant ditches by the road-side, inpools of blood under a sky made black with smoke. his eyes are once more rivetted to the torrents of blood,every drop of which represents a tear of despair, a heart-rent cry, a lifelong sorrow. he hears again thethrilling sighs of desolation, and t

dead, where a black-elf reveals to him a series of its lives and theirmysterious concatenation "why does man suffer" enquiries the soul-ego "because he would becomeone" is the mocking answer. forthwith, the soul-ego stands in the presence of the holy goddess, saga. shesings to it of the valorous deeds of the germanic heroes, of their virtues and their vices. she shows the soulthe mighty warriors fallen by the hands of many of its past forms, on battlefield, as also in the sacred securityof home. it sees itself under the personages of maidens, and of women, of young and old men, and ofchildren. it feels itself dying more than once in those forms. it expires as a hero- spirit, and is led bythe pitying walkyries from the bloody battlefield back to the abode of bliss under the shining foliage

aw her brother's room with himself lying upon the lounge, and a servant bathing his head, whence toour horror, blood was trickling. we had left the boy in perfect health but an hour before; and upon seeing thispicture my companion uttered a cry of alarm, and seizing me by the hand dragged me to the door. werejoined our guide and friends in the long hall and hurried back to the hotel. young h- had fallen downstairs and cut his forehead rather badly; in our room, on the dressing-tablewere the two letters which had arrived in our absence. they had been forwarded from athens. ordering acarriage i at once drove to the ministry of finance, and alighting with the guide, hurriedly made for the ditchi had seen for the first time in the shining disk! in the middle of the pool, badly mangled, half-fa

e grotto, accompanied only by his siberian servant. half-an-hourlater, ivan returned to the mansion for a snuff-box which his master had forgotten in his room, and went backwith it to the cave. an hour later the whole house was startled by his loud cries. pale and dripping with water,ivan rushed in like a madman, and declared that mr. izvertzoff was nowhere to be found in the cave.thinking he had fallen into the lake, he had dived into the first basin in search of him and was nearlydrowned himself. the day passed in vain attempts to find the body. the police filled the house, and louder than the rest in hisdespair was nicolas, the nephew, who had returned home only to meet the sad tidings. nightmare talesthe cave of the echoes55 a dark suspicion fell upon ivan, the siberian. he had been st

e usual price of admission, but still the theatre could not hold the crowdsthat flocked to secure tickets for that memorable performance* at last the morning of the concert day dawned, and the "duel" was in every one's mouth. franz stenio, who,instead of sleeping, had passed the whole long hours of the preceding midnight in walking up and down hisroom like an encaged panther, had, toward morning, fallen on his bed from mere physical exhaustion.gradually he passed into a death-like and dreamless slumber. at the gloomy winter dawn he awoke, butfinding it too early to rise he fell asleep again. and then he had a vivid dream- so vivid indeed, so life-like,that from its terrible realism he felt sure that it was a vision rather than a dream. he had left his violin on a table by his bedside, lock

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he choose the parents that will give him life. in every respect he is a victim to his environment, the child of circumstances over which he has no control; and if each of his transgressions were impartially investigated, there would be found nine out of every ten cases when he was the one sinned against, rather than the sinner. it is on this transgression that the cruel and illogical dogma of the fallen angels has been built. it is explained in vol. ii of the secret doctrine. all our "egos" are thinking and rational entities (manasaputas) who had lived, whether under human or other forms, in the precedent life cycle (manvantara, and whose karma it was to incarnate in the man of this one. it was taught in the mysteries that, having delayed to comply with this law (or having "refused to crea

"occultism" was suspected even but by very few. now all that is changed. we theosophists were, unfortunately, the first to talk of these things, to make the fact of the existence in the east of "adepts" and "masters" and occult knowledge known; and now the name has become common property. it is on us, now, that the karma, the consequences of the resulting desecration of holy names and things, has fallen. all that you now find about such matters in current literature-and there is not a little of it-all is to be traced back to the impulse given in this direction by the theosophical society and its founders. our enemies profit to this day by our mistake. the most recent book directed against our teachings is alleged to have been written by an adept of twenty years' standing. now, it is a palp

in asserting that earth will be a heaven in the twenty-first century in comparison with what it is now! finis glossary absoluteness when predicated of the universal principle, it denotes an abstraction, which is more correct and logical than to apply the adjective absolute to that which can have neither attributes nor limitations. adam kadmon (heb) archetypal man, humanity. the "heavenly man" not fallen into sin. cabalists refer it to the ten sephiroth on the plane of human perception. in the cabala adam kadmon is the manifested logos corresponding to our third logos, the unmanifested being the first paradigmic ideal man, and symbolizing the universe in abscondito, or in its "privation" in the aristotelian sense. the first logos is "the light of the world" the second, and the third, its gr

ght. as now used, it is a loose and flippant term, embracing under its meaning both a happy guess due to natural shrewdness or intuition, and also that faculty which was so remarkably exercised by jacob b hme and swedenborg. yet even these two great seers, since they could never rise superior to the general spirit of the jewish bible and sectarian teachings, have sadly confused what they saw, and fallen far short of true clairvoyance. clemens alexandrinus a church father and voluminous writer, who had been a neo-platonist and a disciple of ammonius saccas. he was one of the few christian philosophers between the second and third centuries of our era, at alexandria. college of rabbis a college at babylon; most famous during the early centuries of christianity, but its glory was greatly dark

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y friend [i.e, julius kohn] cannot lay his hands upon it. his books are in double rows, and he finds it very difficult to find any ms he has not seen for some time. he will send it as soon as he can lay his hands upon it. he is much obliged to you for the chinese book. it is very uncertain when i can come to you. monday and yesterday being fine i was out, but to-day i dare not stir. barometer has fallen. perhaps you will be coming this way before long. i the rotalo ms appears to have contained instructions for making some kind of simple apparatus, perhaps from cardboard, for predictive) purposes. there are further references to it in the letters that follow. 59 60 the letters 95 285 uxbridge road, w. 23 november 1900 285 uxbridge road 20 december 1900 61 285 uxbridge road 12 february 1901

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clothing and some of the skin. it was not quite dead, but twitched silently and spasmodically while its chest heaved in monstrous unison with the mad piping of the expectant whippoorwills outside. bits of shoe-leather and fragments of apparel were scattered about the room, and just inside the window an empty canvas sack lay where it had evidently been thrown. near the central desk a revolver had fallen, a dented but undischarged cartridge later explaining why it had not been fired. the thing itself, however, crowded out all other images at the time. it would be trite and not wholly accurate to say that no human pen could describe it, but one may properly say that it could not be vividly visualized by anyone whose ideas of aspect and contour are too closely bound up with the common life-fo

antastic references to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible elder race of beings from another dimension. he would shout that the world was in danger, since the elder things wished to strip it and drag it away from the solar system and cosmos of matter into some other plane or phase of entity from which it had once fallen, vigintillions of aeons ago. at other times he would call for the dreaded necronomicon and the daemonolatreia of remigius, in which he seemed hopeful of finding some formula to check the peril he conjured up 'stop them, stop theml' he would shout 'those whateleys meant to let them in, and the worst of all is left! tell rice and morgan we must do something- it's a blind business, but i know

ding- near the top of the mountain. curtis, who held the instrument, dropped it with a piercing shriek into the ankle-deep mud of the road. he reeled, and would have crumbled to the ground had not two or three others seized and steadied him. all he could do was moan half-inaudibly 'oh, oh, great gawd. that. that' there was a pandemonium of questioning, and only henry wheeler thought to rescue the fallen telescope and wipe it clean of mud. curtis was past all coherence, and even isolated replies were almost too much for him 'bigger'n a barn. all made o' squirmin' ropes. hull thing sort o' shaped like a hen's egg bigger'n anything with dozens o' legs like hogs-heads that haff shut up when they step. nothin' solid abaout it- all like jelly, an' made o' sep'rit wrigglin' ropes pushed clost tog

on the farther side. this was the end of his quest; for upon the wide, iron-railed, weed-grown plateau which the wall supported- a separate, lesser world raised fully six feet above the surrounding streets- there stood a grim, titan bulk whose identity, despite blake's new perspective, was beyond dispute. the vacant church was in a state of great decrepitude. some of the high stone buttresses had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neglected weeds and grasses. the sooty gothic windows were largely unbroken, though many of the stone mullions were missing. blake wondered how the obscurely painted panes could have survived so well, in view of the known habits of small boys the world over. the massive doors were intact and tightly closed. around the top of the b

816, when the continued absence of lights was noticed by the squatters. at that time a party made investigations, finding the house deserted and partly in ruins. there were no skeletons about, so that departure rather than death was inferred. the clan seemed to have left several years before, and improvised penthouses showed how numerous it had grown prior to its migration. its cultural level had fallen very low, as proved by decaying furniture and scattered silverware which must have been long abandoned when its owners left. but though the dreaded martenses were gone, the fear of the haunted house continued; and grew very acute when new and strange stories arose among the mountain decadents. there it stood; deserted, feared, and linked with the vengeful ghost of jan martense. there it sti

treet. the space south of the house, abutting on benefit street, was of course greatly above the existing sidewalk level, forming a terrace bounded by a high bank wall of damp, mossy stone pierced by a steep flight of narrow steps which led inward be tween canyon-like surfaces to the upper region of mangy lawn, rheumy brick walls, and neglected gardens whose dismantled cement urns, rusted kettles fallen from tripods of knotty sticks, and similar paraphernalia set off the weather beaten front door with its broken fanlight, rotting ionic pilasters, and wormy triangular pediment. what i heard in my youth about the shunned house was merely that people died there in alarmingly great numbers. that, i was told, was why the original owners had moved out some twenty years after building the place

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f cubes, and other rectangular forms, and a peculiar sprinkling of angled edifices whose five-pointed ground plan roughly suggested modern fortifications. the builders had made constant and expert use of the principle of the arch, and domes had probably existed in the city s heyday. the whole tangle was monstrously weathered, and the glacial surface from which the towers projected was strewn with fallen blocks and immemorial debris. where the glaciation was transparent we could see the lower parts of the gigantic piles, and we noticed the ice-preserved stone bridges which connected the different towers at varying distances above the ground. on the exposed walls we could detect the scarred places where other and higher bridges of the same sort had existed. closer inspection revealed countle

d us took on a wilder note of purposeful malignity. the last stage of our descent to the town was unusually steep and abrupt, and a rock outcropping at the edge where the grade changed led us to think that an artificial terrace had once existed there. under the glaciation, we believed, there must be a flight of steps or its equivalent. when at last we plunged into the town itself, clambering over fallen masonry and shrinking from the oppressive nearness and dwarfing height of omnipresent crumbling and pitted walls, our sensations again became such that i marvel at the amount of self-control we retained. danforth was frankly jumpy, and began making some offensively irrelevant speculations about the horror at the camp- which i resented all the more because i could not help sharing certain co

n a while containing some bizarre object carved from green soapstone which was either broken or perhaps held too inferior to warrant removal. other apertures were undoubtedly connected with bygone mechanical facilities- heating, lighting, and the like-of a sort suggested in many of the carvings. ceilings tended to be plain, but had sometimes been inlaid with green soapstone or other tiles, mostly fallen now. floors were also paved with such tiles, though plain stonework predominated. as i have said, all furniture and other movables were absent; but the sculptures gave a clear idea of the strange devices which had once filled these tomblike, echoing rooms. above the glacial sheet the floors were generally thick with detritus, litter, and debris, but farther down this condition decreased. in

driving ahead with increased speed; whilst the straying penguins in our rear were squawking and screaming and displaying signs of a panic really surprising in view of their relatively minor confusion when we had passed them. once more came that sinister, wide-ranged piping "tekeli-li! tekeli-li" we had been wrong. the thing was not wounded, but had merely paused on encountering the bodies of its fallen kindred and the hellish slime inscription above them. we could never know what that demon message was- but those burials at lake s camp had shown how much importance the beings attached to their dead. our recklessly used torch now revealed ahead of us the large open cavern where various ways converged, and we were glad to be leaving those morbid palimpsest sculptures- almost felt even when

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d an odd idea that they were turning toward the ancient cemetery on which the back of the house abutted. when i slammed the door after them west came downstairs and looked at the box. it was about two feet square, and bore west s correct name and present address. it also bore the inscription "from eric moreland clapham-lee, st. eloi, flanders" six years before, in flanders, a shelled hospital had fallen upon the headless reanimated trunk of dr. clapham-lee, and upon the detached head which- perhaps- had uttered articulate sounds. west was not even excited now. his condition was more ghastly. quickly he said "it s the finish- but let s incinerate- this" we carried the thing down to the laboratory- listening. i do not remember many particulars- you can imagine my state of mind- but it is a v

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and knowing, peace rests nevermore. fool that i was to plunge with such unsanctioned phrensy into mysteries no man was meant to penetrate; fool or god that he was-my only friend, who led me and went before me, and who in the end passed into terrors which may yet be mine! we met, i recall, in a railway station, where he was the center of a crowd of the vulgarly curious. he was unconscious, having fallen in a kind of convulsion which imparted to his slight black-clad body a strange rigidity. i think he was then approaching forty years of age, for there were deep lines in the face, wan and hollow-cheeked, but oval and actually beautiful; and touches of gray in the thick, waving hair and small full beard which had once been of the deepest raven black. his brow was white as the marble of pente

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ed only in the eyes. and i heard it hinted abroad that those who knew nyarlathotep looked on sights which others saw not. it was in the hot autumn that i went through the night with the restless crowds to see nyarlathotep; through the stifling night and up the endless stairs into the choking room. and shadowed on a screen, i saw hooded forms amidst ruins, and yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments. and i saw the world battling against blackness; against the waves of destruction from ultimate space; whirling, churning, struggling around the dimming, cooling sun. then the sparks played amazingly around the heads of the spectators, and hair stood up on end whilst shadows more grotesque than i can tell came out and squatted on the heads. and when i, who was colder and more scie

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by the pursuits of commercial life, have prevented the scions of our line from maintaining their estates in pristine splendour; and the falling stones of the walls, the overgrown vegetation in the parks, the dry and dusty moat, the ill-paved courtyards, and toppling towers without, as well as the sagging floors, the worm-eaten wainscots, and the faded tapestries within, all tell a gloomy tale of fallen grandeur. as the ages passed, first one, then another of the four great turrets were left to ruin, until at last but a single tower housed the sadly reduced descendants of the once mighty lords of the estate. it was in one of the vast and gloomy chambers of this remaining tower that i, antoine, last of the unhappy and accursed counts de c, first saw the light of day, ninety long years ago

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1816, when the continued absence of lights was noticed by the squatters. at that time a party made investigations, finding the house deserted and partly m ruins. there were no skeletons about, so that departure rather than death was inferred. the clan seemed to have left several years before, and improvised penthouses showed how numerous it had grown prior to its migration. its cultural level had fallen very low, as proved by decaying furniture and scattered silverware which must have been long abandoned when its owners left. but though the dreaded martenses were gone, the fear of the haunted house continued; and grew very acute when new and strange stories arose among the mountain decadents. there it stood; deserted, feared, and linked with the vengeful ghost of jan martense. there it sti

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heering illusion. still nearer the end of the passage was painted scenes of the utmost picturesqueness and extravagance: contrasted views of the nameless city in its desertion and growing ruin, and of the strange new realm of paradise to which the race had hewed its way through the stone. in these views the city and the desert valley were shewn always by moonlight, golden nimbus hovering over the fallen walls, and half-revealing the splendid perfection of former times, shown spectrally and elusively by the artist. the paradisal scenes were almost too extravagant to be believed, portraying a hidden world of eternal day filled with glorious cities and ethereal hills and valleys. at the very last i thought i saw signs of an artistic anticlimax. the paintings were less skillful, and much more

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the structure is visible only at the entrance. the door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. the abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a stroke of lightning. of the midnight storm which destroyed this gloomy mansion, the older inhabitants of the region sometimes speak in hushed and uneasy voices; alluding to what they call `divine wrath' in a manner that in later years vaguely increased the always strong fascination which i had felt for the forest-darkened sepulcher. one man only h

thicket before the mold-stained facade of the hillside, allowing the surrounding vegetation to encircle and overhang the space like the walls and roof of a sylvan bower. this bower was my temple, the fastened door my shrine, and here i would lie outstretched on the mossy ground, thinking strange thoughts and dreaming strange dreams. the night of the first revelation was a sultry one. i must have fallen asleep from fatigue, for it was with a distinct sense of awakening that i heard the voices. of these tones and accents i hesitate to speak; of their quality i will not speak; but i may say that they presented certain uncanny differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and mode of utterance. every shade of new england dialect, from the uncouth syllables of the puritan colonists to the precise

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fin whose tarnished plate bears the single word: jervas. in that coffin and in that vault they have promised me i shall be buried. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:455:the tree by h.p. lovecraft 1920 on a verdant slope of mount maenalus, in arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. close by is a tomb, once beautiful with the sublimest sculptures, but now fallen into as great decay as the house. at one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of panhellic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape; so like to some grotesque man, or death-distorted body of a man, that the country folk fear to pass it at night when the moon shines faintly through the crooked boughs. mount maenalus is a chosen

oi led the tyrant's messengers up the slope to the abode of the sculptor, but the night wind had done strange things. slaves' cries ascended from a scene of desolation, and no more amidst the olive grove rose the gleaming colonnades of that vast hall wherein musides had dreamed and toiled. lone and shaken mourned the humble courts and the lower walls, for upon the sumptuous greater peri-style had fallen squarely the heavy overhanging bough of the strange new tree, reducing the stately poem in marble with odd completeness to a mound of unsightly ruins. strangers and tegeans stood aghast, looking from the wreckage to the great, sinister tree whose aspect was so weirdly human and whose roots reached so queerly into the sculptured sepulchre of kalos. and their fear and dismay increased when th

the heavy overhanging bough of the strange new tree, reducing the stately poem in marble with odd completeness to a mound of unsightly ruins. strangers and tegeans stood aghast, looking from the wreckage to the great, sinister tree whose aspect was so weirdly human and whose roots reached so queerly into the sculptured sepulchre of kalos. and their fear and dismay increased when they searched the fallen apartment, for of the gentle musides, and of the marvellously fashioned image of tyche, no trace could be discovered. amidst such stupendous ruin only chaos dwelt, and the representatives of two cities left disappointed; syracusans that they had no statue to bear home, tegeans that they had no artist to crown. however, the syracusans obtained after a while a very splendid statue in athens

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lly away from me and actually cried out with a sort of gulping gasp which released a strain of previous repression. it was an odd cry, and all the more terrible because it was answered. for as it was still echoing, i heard a creaking sound through the pitchy blackness, and knew that a lattice window was opening in that accursed old house beside us. and because all the other frames were long since fallen, i knew that it was the grisly glassless frame of that demoniac attic window. then came a noxious rush of noisome, frigid air from that same dreaded direction, followed by a piercing shriek just beside me on that shocking rifted tomb of man and monster. in another instant i was knocked from my gruesome bench by the devilish threshing of some unseen entity of titanic size but undetermined na

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fled from the shadow of gallows hill just in time, and the tales of his sorceries were many. now, it seemed, his lone descendant had gone somewhere to join him! in the car they found the hideously carved box of fragrant wood, and the parchment which no man could read. the silver key was gone- presumably with carter. further than that there was no certain clue. detectives from boston said that the fallen timbers of the old carter place seemed oddly disturbed, and somebody found a handkerchief on the rock-ridged, sinisterly wooded slope behind the ruins near the dreaded cave called the snake den. it was then that the country legends about the snake den gained a new vitality. farmers whispered of the blasphemous uses to which old edmund carter the wizard had put that horrible grotto, and adde

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from which one seeks the balance of self. the destiny and map of ones life is chosen by thought, will and action, thus iblis is the imagination. lucifer is thus the imagination of self, realization and the strength to become something better. this black mass, as performed in two parts through the musick of psychonaut 75, is that of two aspects of the dragon the light and the grave, unto earth the fallen angels descend, the earth opens and the vampyric shades and the dead walk the earth. this ritual was designed as a means of opposition to bigotry and oppression, that lucifer rises to awaken each with the black flame of perception and self-love, while the vampyric archetype announces the communion of the cthonic forces of the earth, the demonium of the earth. this ritual is thus in two part

INFERNAL UNION

rom the obvious, that of darkness with light. the answer is found in the essences of the witch-king and queen, samael and lilith. their sexual union produced the original spawn of demons and succubi. their continued union through us produces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of

by the number that samael shares in common with both pan and baphomet,131. the references to sex and death in liber oz refers to this very 2 essence, oz as it is called .his gift is that of wisdom and knowledge of the earth (said by kenneth grant to be the reverse hierophant in this regard. in our practice, samael is the king of witchblood, the guardian of the gateway which is access to all other fallen angels and watchers. he is the subprince or shadow and fire of lucifer in the east being air. lilith is in jewish folklore, the first eve or wife of adam. she refused adams advances and attempts to subvert her power, independence and inherent equality. she would not lay beneath him in sexual congress by instead called upon the secret names of god and fled to the caves in the shores of the r

force in a similar way but perhaps related more to the carrying out or individual acting up of this deep desire of will (the outward reception of an inner will of manifestation. both are the sources of entry into the ectasies of the infernal sabbat. as well, samael is the earth and lilith the spirit. lilith is the mother of abortions, and samael is one of the origional abortions or nephilim,both fallen from grace. in practice, the uniting of the infernal feminine and masculine within the self can be developed by exploring exactly why we perceive ourselves in certain ways, breaking down all gender stereotypes we may have been subconsciously programmed with, and finding our true sexual nature, the essence of our energy. as mentioned before, a study of liber oz is helpful as is experiments i

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

not mean that a different time would be quite unsuitable for self-suggestion, but these tow moments are most promising, subconsciousness being most responsive then. that is why the magician will never go to sleep in an emotional attitude such as anger or depression, worries which would have an unfavorable influence in his subconsciousness, going on in the same train of thoughts with which he had fallen asleep. always go to sleep with peaceful and harmonious thoughts or ideas about success, health and pleasant feelings. before you practice autosuggestion, make up a small chain of 40 beads. a knotted piece of string also will do fine. this expedient is only meant to avoid counting when you are reiterating the suggestive formula over and over, so as not to divert your attention. this little

right distraction for him, the phantom s mode of action will result in more dangerous effects. the person becomes confused, stops eating, the nerves are over-excited and such like. the love-phantom can be condensed to such a degree by unsatisfied passion that it can adopt bodily forms, seducing his victim to onanism and other artificial stimulation of the genital organs. thousands of people have fallen victims of phantoms by committing suicide as the result of disappointment in love or unsatisfied passions. this problem recalls the memory of true occurrences of the medieval succubi and the trials for witchcraft connected therewith. a very dangerous pleasure indeed! in the light of the two foregoing instances, the magician may observe the activity of the phantasms, and he will be able to f

represents a very abrupt destruction of the created being, your elementary. your body, soul and spirit are accepting the life in a tolerable manner. the rest of the power remains in the water and you are protected against any magic drawback or reaction. now leave the bath and dry yourself, but leave the puppet in the water until it has cooled down. the silk in which it was wrapped might also have fallen into the water. let the cold water drain off, but make sure that nobody else comes in touch with this water. if your eyes are clairvoyant and you notice that the figure is still emanating an aura, throw it once more into hot water and the fluid condenser will mix with the water. you may perform this experiment in any case even if you don t see the emanation. at least you will be sure that a

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

and wish to gain knowledge of dreaming, let them go out walking by day away from the company of men, out into the fields of their locality. conscious of their step upon the land, let them ask for a sign or token. if the spirits of the place find you acceptable, an object or omen may be revealed. for example, you might see a white stag, a black dog, a magpie, or find a hagstone, a gnarled root, a fallen antler or a snake-slough. fixate your perception at every opportunity on this object and ask the spirits to open the way for you. when falling into sleep, ho ld the object in attention and again entreat the spirits. by letting awareness wander in the onset of dreaming, but at the same time tethering consciousness to the talismanic object, a scope of receptivity is established a field wherei

ce of one s vision is found, one should rejoice for the sole object worthy of true devotion s love is revealed. rf: books emerging from the cultus are all published by xoanon. could you give a brief description of xoanon's birth and development. what does the name mean, and why did you choose it? were other names considered? ac: xoanon is an ancient greek word, meaning an effigy or image of deity fallen from the sky to earth. it was chosen as the name for the cultus sabbati s publishing house because it depicts the process of reification of spirit into matter, the translation of unseen texts to visible books. i think the name was chosen in a lightning- flash of inspiration and i don t recall any alternative names being considered. xoanon was founded in 1992 for the express purpose of publi

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

ure and honour- a broken idol of clay, offered in the name of every pantheon; the scriptures forsworn by every faith the scrolls that tell of each trespass d law; a child, naked of chrisom, innocent of faith and promised to none; a severed head from the holiest of men; a skull from a horse that knew no mortal master; a heartfill d chalice from the martyrs of heresy; and a golden flame lit for our fallen brethren. o mahazhael! our sovereign witch-father! accept these offerings, both fair and foul, and turn all to serve the empowerment of thy presence here among us! genuflections should then be made to the place of power. thereafter the officiant, being filled with the spirit of mahazhael, shall lift up the sighns imparting the mystery of faith: a devil-mask and a mirror. bearing these dual

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

r, set, azazel. the sorcerer shall seek the fire-spirit of change, rebellion and progression. the symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movem

being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/herself, thus in the circle the first of witchblood unto the path. upon the hour of nooninvocation of the djinn of fire ya! zat-i-shaitan! o ring of flame, scorching sun of the sun s height scorpion soul, who arises as the sun at noon sekak sekak, iasokilam i speak now unto the sun, fr

rakek sabaiz i call forth the shadow of which i am and have always been, the darkness which i nourish in between the light eclipse now the face of god that i become in this darkened image- by this circle i do become by the flame i do emerge i am by form the peacock angel beauty revealed unto those who may see as the black sun rises, i become in this emerald stone i am the imagination, the seed of fallen angel in darkness exists my light my will gives birth to the kingdom of incubi and succubi, the nourish their desires in the blood of the moon, lilitu az drakul so it is done! commentary the ritual of the adversary is a dual rite which explores, encircles and announces command over the entire approximation of self. while the rite is called for as one being conducted at both noon and midnigh

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

as above. the whole process is repeated about ten or twelve times, but not more than two twigs are made use of. she also puts her patients on a certain diet, and this, together with the general air of mystery, no doubt helps to produce the desired results. instances also occur in ireland of persons employing unhallowed means for the purpose of bringing sickness and even death on some one who has fallen foul of them, or else they act on behalf of those whose willingness is circumscribed by their powerlessness. from the aran islands a story comes of the power of an old woman to transfer disease from the afflicted individual to another, with the result that the first recovered, while the newly-stricken person died; the passage reads more like the doings of savages in polynesia or central afr

ISIS UNVEILED

glected magic as little as the ancient heathen. it is easy to prove that the toriilegium, or sorcery, was widely practised among the clergy and monks so late as the ust century, and is pmctised occasional^ even now. anathematizing every manifestation of occult nature outside the predncts of the church, the clergy notwithstanding proofs to the contrary call it "the work of satan "the snares of the fallen angels" who "rush in and out from the bottomless pit" mentioned by john in his kabalistic revelation "from whence arises a smoke as the smoke of a great furnace "inloxicaied by its fumet, around this pit are daily gathering miuions 0/ spiruwdiete, to teorthip at 'the aby$ of baal" more than ever arrogant, stubborn, and despotic, now that she has been nearly upset by modem research, not dari

egions; it is a cold and cheerless abode, and neither the gelid halls of hela nor the occupation of balder present the least similitude to the blazing hell of eternal fire and the miserable' damned' sinners with which the church so generously peoples it. neither is it the egyptian ameriti, the region of judgment and purification; nor the honderak the abyss of darkness of the hindfis; for even the fallen angels hurled into it by siva are allowed by para- brahman to consider it as an intermediate state, in which an opportunity is afforded them to prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemp- tion from their wretched condition. the gehenna of the new testa- ment was a locality outside the walls of jerusalem; and ill mentioning it jesus used but an ordinary metaphor. whence then came

e genera- tion" blending this transcendental idea with the more hypostatic figure of the logos of philo- whose doctrine was that of the oldest kabala, and who viewed hk king messiah, as the metatron, or 'the angel of the lord' the legaiia descended in flesh, but not the ancuni of days himself* the christians clothed jesus, the son of mary, with this mythical representation of the mediator for the fallen race of adam. under this unexpected garb his personality was all but lost. in the mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. decline and fall itf the annan empin, ch. xxi. 52. zisis unveiled irenaeua, not the adept of the esseoes, the obscure reformer from galilee. we see him

his is but a very indirect proof "die jordan baptism need not be shown a substitution for the exoteric bacchic rites and the ubations in honor of adonis or adoni whom the nazarenes ab- horred in order to prove them [the nazarenes] to have been a sect sprung from the' mysteries' of the' secret doctrine; and their rites can by no means be coctfounded with those of the pagan populace, who had simply fallen into the idolatrous and unreasoning faith of all plebeian multitudes. john was the prophet of these nazarenes, and in galilee he was termed 'the savior' but he was not the founder of that sect which derived its tradition from the remotest chaldaeo-akkadian theurgy" the early plebeian israelites were canaanitea and phoenicians, with 272. luie, xiu, 32-3. 273. maa, ii, 23. we must bt*i in min

are shown by irenaeus to have loved the beauty (jormam) of the primitive woman* who is bythos depth as well as sophia, and as having produced conjointly ophis and sophia (double-sexed unity again, male and female wisdom, one being considered as the unrevealed boly spirit or elder sophia the pntuma the intellectual 'mother of all things; the other the revealed one or opku, ty hfying divine wisdom fallen into matter, or god-man jesus, whom the gnostic ophites represented by the serpent (ophis. fecundated by the divine light of the father and son, the highest spirit and ennoia, sophia produces in her turn two other emanations one perfect christos, the second imperfect sophia-achamoth* from nis^n 'hokhamoth (simple wisdom, who becomes the mediatrix between the intellectual and material worlds

ia, and his son sim became supreme king. moses of chorene says that sim was called zeruan; and sim is shem" in hebrew, his name writes utd, shem a sign. as^ria is held b; the ethnologists to be the land of shem, and egypt called that of ham. shem, in the tenth chapter of gmeaia is made the father of all the children of eber, of elam (oulam or eilam, and ash- ur (assur or assyria. the nephilim, or fallen men, gebers, mighty men spoken of in genesis (vi, 4, come from oijam 'men of shem' even ophir, which is evidently to be sought for in the india of the days of hiram, is made a descendant of shem. the records are purposely mixed up to make them st into the frame of the mosaic bible. but genesis, from its first verse down to the last, has naught to do with the 'chosen people; it belongs to th

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

f and closed his eyes to rest. and so i watch and wait, and dad watches and waits, and each day he gets a little weaker. sometimes he s full of fun with the familiar twinkle in his eye, and other times he grumbles his way, shuffling through it on tired old legs that say they ve seen better days. i look at the once tall proud man of viking stock who used to carry me into bed each night after i had fallen asleep listening to the classics on our old gramophone. a gentle giant he d tuck me in and kiss me sweetly on my head as if i was some strange precious creature, a boy-girl who d come unexpectedly from his loins, as after my older sister came they swore they d have no more. as i watch i see a caring man who d once spent months transforming a rusty old second hand bike, delivering it looking

navigation center in birds. scientists are looking at the magnetic, navigatory properties of the pineal gland in humans. so pineal activation and charging through solar energy is a vital step that is the doorway to the cosmic energy highway. this may be kundalini shakti activation, in other words. ever since mankind has started ignoring the psychically and spiritually equipped pineal gland it has fallen on the merely physical-material plane and so endless pains have fallen on mankind. mankind must now relearn to activate the pineal and the other psychospiritual bodies either through cosmic energy dynamics or through practice of rajyoga or the tantric ways or other such practices. kundalini shakti is said to be activated through these and happiness and bliss with peace are bound to follow

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

es before the deluge, of which phenomenon, as there remains a brighter or fainter tradition of it among all the peoples of the globe, it must be true, man walked with the knowledge of spirit in him. he has derogated, through time, from this primeval, god-informed type. knowledge of good and evil, or the power of perceiving difference, became his faculty, with his power of propagation, only in his fallen state, that is, his gods only came to him in his fallen state. as one of two things must of necessity be under the other, and as one and two are double in succession, one being, as a matter of course, before the other, and positive or particled, existence being in itself denial of abstract, or imparticled, existence, existence needing something other than itself to find itself, logicians mu

we seize the idea of it through a machinery, our own judgment, which is a clear sight compounded of our senses, a synthesis of senses that, in the very act of presenting an impossible idea, destroys it as humanly possible. miracle can be of no date or time, whether earlier, whether later, if god has not withdrawn from nature; and if he has withdrawn from nature, then nature must have before this fallen to pieces of herself; for god is intelligence not life only; and matter is not intelligent, though it may be living. it is not seen that during that space which is a space taken out of time, though independent of it in which miracle is possible to us, we cease to be men, because time, or rather sensation, is man s measure; and that when we are men again, and back in ourselves, the miracle i

us are music, colours, and language allied. of the chaldsean astrology it may figuratively be said that, although their knowledge, in its shape of the portentous stone, in this instance, their grave-stone, shut up the devils in the depths of the abyss, and made the sages their masters (solomon being the priest or king, and his seal the talisman that secures the deep; man, on account of his having fallen into the shadow and the corruptions of existence, needs that mighty exterior hand (before which all tremble) to rescue him back into his native original light or rest. all the foregoing is pure bhuddism. thinkers who have weighed well the character of those supposed infractions of natural laws which have admitted, as it were philosophically, the existence of other independent, absent, think

ilors, rules and governs the ocean, and her colours are the ultramarine of the deep, and sea-green, when viewed in this phase of her divine character. in all representations, ancient or modern, sailors have beardless faces, unless they belong to the reprobate and barbarian classes, such as pirates and outlaws, and men who have supposedly thrown 244 the rosicrucians. off devotional observance, and fallen into the rough recusancy of mere nature. fig. 175 is a very curious design from sylvanus morgan, an old herald. above is the spade, signifying here the phallus; and below is the distaff, or instrument of woman s work, meaning the answering member, or yoni; these are united by the snake. we here perceive the meaning of the rhymed chorus sung by wat tyler s mob: when adam delved (with his spa

veral previous ruins, of which mortality has lost all trace. the terms superstition and science are counterchanged. in reality science may be the superstition, and superstition the truth (otherwise the science, assumed as truth. scientific men are the most superstitious of any class, for they have raised an idol which they call science, and therefore truth (why, therefore, forsooth; and they have fallen down and worshipped science (their own ignorance) as god. they have taken themselves out of themselves, and worshipped themselves otherwise their heads, instead of their hearts; their reason (their head, which is no reason (no head) really, instead of their hearts, or their emotions and instincts; which are true, and which are infallible because they contradict the apparent and the reasonab

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

august "after an extraordinary peal of thunder" it was said that this was homogenous ice, except in a small part, which looked like congealed hailstones. the mass was about twenty feet in circumference. the story, as told in the london times, august 14, 1849, is that, upon the evening of august 13, 1849, after a loud peal of thunder, a mass of ice, said to have a circumference of twenty feet, has fallen upon the estate of mr. moffat, of balvullich, rosshire. it was said that this object fell alone, without hailstone. 1851: ice the size of pumpkins fell in gunfalore, india, on may 22. 1851: masses of ice, each piece about a pound and one-half in weight, fell in new hampshire, august 13. 1853: masses or irregularly shaped piece of ice fell at pouen, france, on july 5. they were about the siz

which case they are an intrinsic element of the space life or space craft, and that their very inconsistency indicates intelligence in space. since they are not consistent with natural laws, there must be direction behind them. falling stones what, indeed, do "falling stones" have to do with ufo's? we shall list, herein, but a few of the more interesting and entertaining examples of stones having fallen from space, and we can note that quartz and other materials not of usual meteoric types indicate something other than meteors. where else, then, but from ufo's? yes, quartz, it has its use s electro-magnetically and otherwise on the home-ships. 53 it is essential, too, to keep reminding ourselves that because we attribute intelligence too these otherwise inexplicable phenomena, it does not

d with ice. the object had been cut and shaped by means" similar to human hands and human mentality" that expression "similar to" begins to tell a story. it was a disc of worked stone "tres regulier "il a ete assurement travaille" there is no word of any known whirlwind or tornado, or notes of any other objects or debris which fell at, or near, this date, in france. it was a single entity. it had fallen alone! can part of our trouble with the acceptance of miscellaneous falls lie in our definition of "sky" and our use of the word sky instead of space? when we get far enough out into space, only a few hundred miles, the word sky becomes meaningless. to the surface dwellers, sky is essentially something opposed to earth, or the solid understratum of dirt and pavement on which we live. it is

ran contrary to their every belief and tenet. 1846: something described as "slag" fell at darmstadt, germany, on june 6. 1875: ashes fell on the azores. 1879: a quantity of "slag" fell from the sky near chicago, on april 9. a professor who did not see the fall and who was not there, said that the slag was there all the time. but the new york times of april 14, 1879 said that about two bushels had fallen. 54 1881: two silver crosses were found by charles c. jones in georgia. an unintelligible inscription was upon them and they were definitely not christian since both arms of the cross were of equal length. 1884: nature, of january 10, quotes a kimberley newspaper "toward the end of november, 1883, a thick shower of ashy matter fell at queenstown, south africa. it was in marble-sized balls

lls, and other things falling in storms. it is useless to argue that storms pick these things up. the list is too selective. so we have to think of some reasons why these things fall during storms; and one wonders if the storms were created by something outside of what we are commonly calling meteorological conditions? 1885: it was reported that a good-sized stone, of clearly artificial form, had fallen at naples, in november. la science pour tous, 5-264: at wolverhampton, england, june, 1860 a violent storm, there fell so many little pebbles that they were cleared away with shovels rept. brit. assoc, 1864. great numbers of small black stones which fell at birmingham, england, in august, 1858 in a storm mon. weath. rev, july, 1888: pebbles of the water-worn variety, not common to the local

explosions in the sky, fall of debris, slag, cinders, powder, discolored rain, reported at and near crieff, england. recurrence, in a localized area, of unusual events, mostly of celestial, or mysterious origin. 1858-1868: dr. c.m. inglsby, a meteorologist, wrote "during the storm on saturday (12) morning (may, birmingham was visited by a shower of aerolites. many hundreds of thousands must have fallen, some streets being strewn with them" many pounds of stones gathered from awnings. greenhouses damaged. the same type of stones fell again at wolverhampton, thirteen miles from birmingham, june 9, 1860, two years later. eight years later they fell again in birmingham. birmingham daily post, may 30, 1868: letter from meteorologist, thomas plant, who said "i think for one hour the morning of

KETAB E SIYAH

article should give an approximate picture of how the planets were understood in mesopotamian culture, how and why they were called thus and with which gods they were related to. translated by raul veede 30 pl name mul.apin, en .ma, horoscopes minor sources r sin d3ot. 464 4 apostacy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred diamonds wrapped round my

of which they tell. how it sorrows my heart that this kingdom of yours should endure to hear me speak these words. rather, i should have it, that the world split asunder than that i must speak this dire report. yet it must be spoken. your dearest son, satanael, the best of us, 14 he whom i honoured above all others, he who shone most bright amongst us, has betrayed us, our kingdom and you. he has fallen from most perfect light into a gulf of darkness without floor. his heart that once nurtured only virtue has been consumed with black evil that itself gives suck to terrible crime. where once was one that deserved love alone now is their one worthy only of hate. o sorrow that i must speak such tragedy! this is my brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, your overt

all loyal union that once we enjoyed, rather turning us to base treachery and an internal destruction and ruin. this kingdom, this heaven, has grown old and weary, hoping for nothing in its decay until new and greater race accomplishes its overthrow, overdue, and rules eternity with pride, now lost, newfound and worthy dignity, such as heaven and its children have forgotten. woe! my brothers have fallen and i can but watch their carrion, gnawed to nothing by the passing ages until the universe is claimed by new glory. you have asked me to make my defence against those charges that my brothers have brought. they prosecute me with malice against my father, against the one that i should best cherish, and yet it is their malice that conspires against one who might expect better use from those

r every victory bearing the fruit of new endeavour. almost i had forgotten the harvests that we reaped as we went out into the world, newborn and fertile, to partake of all its fruit, delighting in their many beauties. this long winter had killed in me these dreams that once we held dear. but joy! when hope was all but lost and all spark of life within me extinguished by the bleak snows that have fallen for an eternity i saw the sun dawning, bringing new light and warmth to my frozen heart and to this land of ice, stirring forgotten birds to song. feeling his warm caress upon the stone-cold earth above, feeling the hard soil yield, mellowing in that golden light, long-buried bulbs burgeoned, opening into flowers to welcome the spring. it was satan who was this sun, bringing light into my w

ollowed me, as i raised up my sword and led my people, the shedim, in procession from the gates of heaven, and, descending upon wings of flame, down from that upper realm to the earth, resplendent in her emerald garb, promising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 65 theomachy hear me o my prophet! when yet was the world of old new-born and the first winter's snow, like blossom had not yet fallen, shrouding the grass of the first spring, then was i the noblest of all the angels, the noble potentates of supreme heaven. to god alone was my fealty owed, and all others, to me, theirs. for, of all the shining sons of heaven, the king of the world loved me best. i was adorned in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred hundred diamonds wrapped r

ng of which they tell. how it sorrows my heart that this kingdom of yours should endure to hear me speak these words. rather, i should have it, that the world split asunder than that i must speak this dire report. yet it must be spoken. your dearest son, satanael, the best of us, he whom i honoured above all others, he who shone most bright amongst us, has betrayed us, our kingdom and you. he has fallen from most perfect light into a gulf of darkness without floor. his heart that once nurtured only virtue has been consumed with black evil that itself gives suck to terrible crime. where once was one that deserved love alone now is their one worthy only of hate. o sorrow that i must speak such tragedy! this is my brother's most awful sin: he intends, in his ambition most perverse, your overt

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

tance of the great one and his acquiescence to receive anything from us. this is accepted as the attainment of pleasure. but in this case, we once again feel that progress with the body is being made. it is not the greatness of the creator, but the pleasure and the degree of personal confidence in the work done for the sake of the greatest one that determines our actions. thus, once again we have fallen to the bosom of egoism and personal gain. our complete inability to perceive the creator allows us to insist that we have undertaken all actions for his sake, both altruistically and spiritually. the revelation by the creator that is represented by the left line is known as "the knowledge of the light of wisdom" therefore, the revelation of the creator makes it necessary for us to apply str

e rule of the creator. only in such cases when people can live by their faith in the ultimate justice of the creator s rule, despite great trials and suffering, will curses be transformed into blessings. however, those trials that we cannot overcome by going beyond our reason s limitations bring us a spiritual decline, since only in maintaining faith above reason can we find support. once we have fallen out of faith and back to our dependence on reason, we must then wait to be saved. on the other hand, those who can withstand these trials will ascend, since the suffering and trials increase the strength of one s faith. it is in these cases that the trials and the suffering will transform into blessings. a real plea to the creator must come from the depths of one s heart, which means that t

es, and consequently is preferable for the disciple. as a result, the one who was closer to a teacher and best served that teacher gained a greater chance for spiritual ascent. accordingly, it is said by the kabbalists that the way of kabbalah is not inherited, but rather passed down from teacher to disciple. so it was in all generations, up to the present one. however, the present generation has fallen so low spiritually that even its leaders pass on their knowledge via family lineage, since all their knowledge is on a bodily level. on the other hand, those who have formed a spiritual bond with the creator and with the disciples, transfer their legacy only to those who can receive it, that is, to their closest disciples. when we experience obstacles in our advance toward the creator, we m

ure forces does not allow us to understand the hidden meaning of kabbalah. in a spiritual object, the light that fills its top half, from the rosh (head) to the tabur (navel, is called "the past" while the light that fills its bottom half is called "the present" the surrounding light that did not yet enter the object, but is still awaiting its turn to be revealed is called "the future" if one has fallen spiritually and the egoistic desires have increased, then the importance of the spiritual decreases in that person s eyes. but a spiritual decline is sent from above for a purpose: to impart to one the understanding that one is still in spiritual exile; this should in turn prompt one to pray for redemption. but we will not find true serenity until we elevate our preordained purpose the spir

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

called gmar tikkun (the end of correction. t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 45 returning to the natural, perfect state is a process that the creator has predetermined from beginning to end. each phase is dictated from top to bottom. in each of us is a spiritual gene in which all our past, present, and future states are imprinted. the soul must move up the same route and stages from which it had fallen from above. however, the way back depends on the extent to which we recognize that our egoistic state is bad, and our understanding that being closer to the creator is the preferable state to experience. thus, the predetermined stages built in the spiritual gene evolve through the light, namely through the upper force, and lead us from state to state. if we realize that it is in our interes

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scent; you must try not to lose the contact between yourself and the creator. the minute you move from thinking about the creator to thinking about yourself, the minute you start to think that you like it here in this situation, instead of thinking about how that situation is near the creator, which makes it good, is when you ll begin to fall. but it will take time before you discover that you ve fallen, perhaps days. all sins happen during ascents, when you fall from above. when you are in descent, there is nothing one can demand of you because you are weak and detached from spirituality. you are like an animal xdet h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 134 pressed and simply enduring life. the habit of systematic study, of participating in a study group, helps accelerate your exit from

ourselves alone. that new sensation is called the upper world, or the creator. one feels the creator according to how much of that aim is at one s disposal. that amount is one s first spiritual degree. in fact, anything lower than that degree does not exist. one can only rise from that basic step. after the first degree, we get an additional desire aimed for ourselves. this makes us think we have fallen from the previous degree. however, that feeling comes because we have been given a new, corrupted will. the fall is the sensation of the next degree in its corrupted state. thus, each time a person corrects the corporeal aim from for myself to the spiritual aim of for the creator, the fall is mended and one ascends to the next degree (in fact, a person must crave this correction, but the cr

t our own flesh. never, under any circumstances, should you look for lower situations because one is where one s thoughts are. the lower the situation one is tied to, the more distant one is from the creator. q: is it true that when in low situations, it is good to remind myself of good situations? a: no. it s not good to remind yourself how good you felt during the ascent, because you ve already fallen from that. if you now rise up again by remembering that ascent, it is not a correction or a new distinction. quality-wise, your current degree will be no better than your former one. therefore, it is best to search for new reasons to rise, make new assessments about the greatness of the creator, the purpose of creation, and the nothingness of your own situation, etc. s p e e d a s f r e q u

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

at particular sort of darkness that freemasonry delivers its candidates. therefore they symbolically acknowledge the existence of the darkness, and are willing to go forward through it in search of light. 479. moreover, as is said in the mystic charge, it also symbolizes the blank unconsciousness which follows the passage through the gateway of death, ere the subtler part of the physical body has fallen away. 480. the candidate wears a c c t c about his neck, with the loose end hanging in front, and he is admitted to the lodge upon the p c of a naked s c pressed to his left b c these two things typify the fact that in life men have responsibilities and limitations, both of which must be taken into account by every wise man; there can be no turning back from the former, nor any impetuous ru

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of isis 112. in the lesser mysteries the initiate was taught what lies on the other side of death, and the ceremony of initiation was a symbolical map of that intermediate world which is sometimes called the astral plane. probably apuleius refers to this degree when he describes the mysteries of isis as celebrated in greece during the second century a. d, although he wrote at a time when they had fallen into considerable decay. after mentioning various purifications through which he passed, he goes on to relate something of what took place at his initiation: 113. then, behold, the day approached when as the sacrifice of dedication should be done; and when the sun declined and evening came, there arrived on every coast a great multitude of priests, who according to their ancient order offer

great ones this was nevertheless definitely preserved, and transmitted from various sources into our modern craft. 561. the first minutes 562. it is during this post-reformation period, when the old lodges had almost forgotten the glory of their heritage, both operative and speculative, that we first find actual minutes of lodge meetings. these minutes show the condition into which the craft had fallen at the time; they are, as we should expect, almost silent upon all questions of ritual, secrets and symbolism, although there are occasional indications which point to the concealment of a hidden tradition. it is in this period also that the first public references to the secrets of the freemasons occur in contemporary literature; and we are able by means of them to trace to some extent the

xample will be sufficient to indicate the state of affairs. several inns in england are named the goat and compasses, and as it stands the phrase has no meaning, unless it be taken to refer to the perennial fable of the riding of the goat. the real derivation is from the words god encompasses us, degenerated into goat and compasses. it was into a somewhat analogous state that the whole ritual had fallen in the days of anderson and desaguliers, who after the founding of the new grand lodge set to work to bring order out of chaos. 603. they proceeded to collect and revise all the workings known to them, clothing the skeleton of the ritual in the eighteenth century english so familiar in our ears to-day. on the whole their task was well carried out, and although many losses had occurred befor

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

s rule. for instance, out of a desire to include a multicultural/cross-cultural component, i included entries on the devils and hells found in world religious traditions (christianity was not given a separate entry because the great bulk of the information contained in these pages derives directly or indirectly from the christian tradition) i also included brief entries on a significant number of fallen angels a kind of who s who in hell as well as entries on certain topics from older western folklore about satan and witches. with the exception of a few older theologians like aquinas, i have largely ignored formal theology. the reader will also find treatments of a handful of traditional literary figures who have helped shape our images of the prince of darkness, such as milton and dante

on. there is also a reference to abaddon as the sixth of the seven lodges of hell in the work of the cabalist joseph ben abraham gikatilla. in various sources,abaddon is identified as the angel of death and destruction, demon of the abyss, and chief of the demons of the underworld. see also demons;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. strayer, joseph r. dictionary of the middle ages. vol. 1. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1982. the abbey of thelema the abbey of thelema is an independent initiatory magical group patterned after the argenteum astrum (aa, order of the silver star) and following the magical practices developed by its founder, aleister crowley. the leader of the abb

er, in later cabalistic thought, abraxas becomes the designation of the chief aeon. yet other ancient writers portrayed abraxas as a demon and/or as an archon who ruled other archons. abraxas was also associated with magic, and was said to be the source of the familiar term abracadabra. see also archon; demons; gnosticism for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. robinson, james m. the nag hammadi library. 1977. new york: harper& row, 1981. adramelechk adramelechk, or king of fire, is mentioned in traditional demonography as eighth of the ten archdemons, as well as a great minister and chancellor of the order of the fly, an infernal order founded by beelzebub. in rabbinic literature, it is said that when he is con

s also been equated with the babylonian anu and with the ammonite moloch, is mentioned in various sources, such as in the history ofmagic, where seligmann pictures him in the shape of a horse; in 2 kings, where he is regarded as a god of the sepharvite colony in samaria to whom children were sacrificed; and in milton s paradise lost, where he is referred to as both an idol of the assyrians, and a fallen angel overthrown by uriel and raphael in combat. see also demons;milton, john for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: the free press, 1967. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon, 1948. advertising although at first blush infernal images might not seem appropriate for advertising, the devil and hell have been tr

trian armageddon) between good and evil in which it is anticipated that ahriman and his hosts will be defeated. the earth will then be renewed, evil people will be destroyed, and the righteous resurrected. one of the points on which zoroastrianism differs from the other monotheisms is in its conceptualization of the genesis of satan. mainstream judaism, christianity, and islam all view satan as a fallen angel who was cast out of heaven, either for disobeying god or for rebelling against god. by way of contrast, ahriman is believed to be very much on par with ahura mazda. they even created the world together, which explains why the world is such a mixture of good and bad. later thinkers speculated that the two beings were twins, both fathered by boundless time (zurvan. ahriman is, however

ings of celtic and saxon decorative art probably arose from the notion of warding off the evil eye also. witch balls are bright reflecting balls of glass that one often sees hanging up in antique shops. their purpose was to ward off the evil eye by reflecting it back to the source. it was believed that the glass ball would attract to itself all the influences of ill luck that would otherwise have fallen upon the household. early christians continued to use many of the amulets of the ancients. the medieval catholic church promoted the use of numerous holy charms including rosaries and holy relics. the most common charm was the agnus dei, a small cake of wax originally made out of passover candles, bearing images of the lamb and flag. when blessed by the pope, the agnus dei protected the wea

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er reason than that of their worldly prosperity. in short, the order failed to initiate. 12. scandal arose and with it schism. 13. in 1900 one p, a brother, instituted a rigorous test of s.r.m.d. on the one side and the order on the other. 14. he discovered that s.r.m.d, though a scholar of some ability and a magician of remarkable powers, had never attained complete inititiation: and further had fallen from his original place, he having imprudently attracted to himself forces of evil too great and terrible for him to withstand. the claim of the order that the true adepts were in charge of it was definitely disproved. 15. in the order, with two certain exceptions and two doubtful ones, he found no persons prepared for initiation of any sort. 16. he thereupon by his subtle wisdom destroyed

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e that his word allh may mean this or that. but i am bold concerning his doctrine of the unity of god, for god is man, and he said therefore: man is one. and his will was to unite all men in one reasonable faith: to make possible international co-operation in science. yet, because he arose in the time of the greatest possible corruption and darkness, when every civilisation and every religion had fallen into ruin, by the malice of the great sorcerer of nazareth, as some say, he is still hidden in the dust of the simoom, and we may not perceive him in his true self of glory. nevertheless, behold, o my son, this mystery. his true word was la allh, that is to say (there is) no god, and la al is that mystery of mysteries which thine own eye pierced in thine initiation. and of that truth have t

thine own eye pierced in thine initiation. and of that truth have the illusion and falsehood enslaved the souls of men, as is written in the book of the magus. b the book of wisdom or folly 75 bf de se ipso, twi megalwi qhriwnoi, toi logwi 'aionoj cuius verbum est qelhma (of himself, the great beast, the logos of the on, whose word is thelema) my son! me seemeth in certain hours that i am myself fallen on a time even more fearful and fatal than did mohammed, peace be upon him! but i read clearly the word of the aeon, that is abrahadabra, wherein is the whole mystery of the great work, as thou knowest. and i have the book of the law, that was given unto me by him thou wottest of; and it is the interpretation of the secret will of man on every plane of his by-coming; and the word of the law

his son) ere i reach forth mine hands against thee in the sign of the enterer, o son of my bowels, for with all my magical might i will that thou fight manfully and labour with diligence (with sword and trowel; say i) in this work. for this is the first and last of all, that thou bid every man do what he will, in accord with his own true nature. therefore also blast thou that lie that man is of a fallen and evil nature. for the word of sin is restriction, the doubt of his own godhead, the suppression of, which is the blasphemy against, his own holy spirit. saith not the book of the law that. it is a lie, this folly against self? therefore to every man, in every circumstance, say thou: do what thou wilt; and teach him, if he yet waver, how to discover his true nature, earnestly and with ard

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ude. liber ccxxxi 3 10. now then the father of all issued as a mighty wheel; the sphinx, and the dog-headed god, and typhon, were bound on his circumference. 11. also the lady maat with her feather and her sword abode to judge the righteous. for fate was already established. 12. then the holy one appeared in the great water of the north; as a golden dawn did he appear, bringing benediction to the fallen universe. 13. also asar was hidden in amennti; and the lords of time swept over him with the sickle of death. 14. and a mighty angel appeared as a woman, pouring vials of woe upon the flames, lighting the pure stream with her brand of cursing. and the iniquity was very great. 15. then the lord khem arose, he who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the unive

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; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to a a is in the most secret of england.s war councils at this hour.2 but it is possible that this instruction refers to some later time when our law, administered by some such order as the o.t.o. which concerns itself with temporal affairs, is of weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen, and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods. note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that

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but momentary radiance. as it goes out a cone of white light is seen upon the head of the lady psyche, and before her stands a figure of immense height cloaked and hooded in perfect blackness] the king. come! for the throne is hollow. the eagle hath cried: come away! the stars are numbered, and the tide turns. follow! follow! thine adonis slumbered. as a bride adorned, come, follow! fate alone is fallen and wried. follow me, follow! the unknown is satisfied [the lady psyche is lifted to her feet. in silence she bows, and in silence follows him as he turns and advances to the gate while the curtain falls] 30 scene v: the garden of the lady astarte. the lord esarhaddon is lying on the couch with his mistress. their arms are intertwined. they and their slaves and maidens are all fallen into t

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and sure! that throne is knowledge perfect pure. below that throne adoring stand virtues in a blissful band; mercy, majesty and power, beauty and harmony and strength, triumph and splendour, starry shower of flames that flake their lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung liber ccxlii 24 down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk fs eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i

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triumpheth: whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be: which shineth as a flame in the midst of your palaces, and reigneth amongst you as the balance of righteousness and truth* collation of the various mss. of these calls has not done away with various readings; and there is not enough of the language extant to enable a settlement on general principles..ed. read here vooan in invocations of the fallen spirits. the forty-eight keys or calls 22 move therefore, and shew yourselves! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest! 169 words in this english call. the second key adagita vau-pa-ahe zodonugonu fa-a-ipe salada! vi-i-vau el! sobame ial-pereji i-zoda-zodazod pi-adapehe casarema aberameji ta tala

her; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of y

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

to the dark nile fs upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti.s void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again. with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. liber cxcvii 66 he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen .hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him .hath fallen himself to that profane whence none might ever rise again. dread torture racks him; all his bones get voice to utter forth his groans. the very poison of his blood joins in that cry fs soul-shaking flood. for many a chiliad counted well his soul stayed in its proper hell. then, when sir palamedes came back to himself, the shrine was dark. cold was the incense, dead the flame; the slain babe

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on brow, heart& head. the officer now circumambulates the temple 11 times reciting "i am the girdle of the robe of the god nu (here he robes the candidate in the proper robe) which shineth and sheddeth light upon that which belongeth to his breast, sending forth light into darkness, bringing to peace the two gods that are at war in his heart. mine is the mighty spell that raiseth up him that was fallen. i have taken possession of the lord of darkness; i have rescued the eye of the sun. i have brought forth thoth, and made even the scales of balance. mine is the ureret-crown; maat is in my body; its mouths are of turquoise and rock crystals; my home is among the burrows of lapis-lazuli: i am he that sheddeth light in the darkness: the darkness is made light and bright by me. i have given l

ail ye two mert goddesses, i bring a message to you concerning my magical words. i shine from the sektet boat. i am ra-hoor-kaa, the sun of strength and light (circle "get thee back, depart, get thee back from me, o apep! depart from the divine place of ra s birth, where in is the house of thy terror! i am ra, terrible and triumphant. ra setteth, ra setteth; ra is strong at his setting. apep hath fallen; apep the enemy of ra is overcome (circle "get thee back, hai, thou impure one, abomination of asar! tahuti hath cut off thine head and i have slain thee and hurled thee utterly asunder. get thee back from the neshuet boat, as with a fair wind ra saileth over his heaven (circle "o thou scepter of joy! let me not be hurt of any; nor by man, nor by gods, nor by the holy dead, nor by the viole

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nto my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous) my breathing passages were none too clear, either; i have evidently taken a chill. now, o, my lord adonai, thou self-glittering one, wilt thou not manifest unto thy chosen one? for see me! i am as a little white dove trembling upon thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. i am as a young child bought in the slave market. and night is fallen! i await liber dccclx 62 thee, o my lord, with a great longing, stronger than life; yet am i as patient as death. there was a certain darwesh whose turban a thief stole. but when they said to him .see! he hath taken the road to damascus. that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery .i will await him here. so, therefore, there is one place, o thou thief of my heart fs love, ado

never saw the hellish snare! i ought to have risen up and prepared myself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord.s coming.the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me. so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil liber dccclx 78 knight in malory, riding and slaying.and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember

where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self-satisfaction! go at it more reverently and humbly.oh, you dog, how i loathe you for your vileness! to have risen so high, and.now.to be thus fallen! 4.40. the question arises: how to mortify this self-satisfaction? asceticism notoriously fosters egoism; how good am i to go without dinner! how noble! what renunciation! on the other hand, the good wine in one says .a fine fellow i have made my coffin of. the answer is simple, the old answer: think not of st. john and his foolishness; think of adonai! exactly: the one difficulty! my best

mayan, dread maker of illusion, hath cumbered it withal. 1.13. 10 breath-cycles; calm, perfect, without the least effort; enough to go to sleep upon. he will read through the ritual once, and then sleep (the pr.n.y.ma precipitated a short attack of diarrh.a, started by the chill of the ceremony) liber dccclx 94 6.23. he slept from 1.45 (approximately) till now. the morn is cold and damp; rain has fallen. john st. john is horribly tired; the .control. is worn to a thread. he takes five minutes to make up his mind to go through with it, five more to wash and write this up. and he has a million excuses for not doing pr.n.y.ma. 6.51. 15 breath-cycles, steady and easy enough. the brain is cool and lucid; but no energy is in it. at least no samm.v.y.ma. and at present the superscription on john

1 j.w. morrice. marcelle was his girl in the brothel 3 rue des 4 vents [ms. note by ac in equinox i (1, transcribed by yorke] john st. john 99 that should go to make the fadeless wreath of adonai. ah, lord, pluck me up utterly by the root, and set that which thou pluckest as a flower upon thy brow! 4.10. walked back to the dome to drink a citron presse. through the lovely gardens, sad with their fallen leaves. reflecting on what dr. henry maudsley once wrote to him about mysticism .like other bad habits (he might have said .like all living beings f) it grows by what it feeds on. most important, then, to use the constant critical check on all one fs work. the devotion to adonai might itself fall under suspicion, where it not for the definition of adonai. adonai is that thought which inform

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ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh.authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh.fierce and active. 6. the son.partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touching with her hands the shells. it will be noticed that this order represents creation as progressive degeneration .which we are compelled to think of as evil. in the human organism the same arrangement will be noticed. section iii 0. the pleroma of which our individuality is the monad: the .all-self. 1. the self.the divine ego of which man is rarely conscious. 2. the ego; that whic

l of a particular rite. t.s] 44 liber lviii it is then thoroughly understood that the aspirant is seeking to solve the great problem. and he may conceive, as various schools of adepts in the ages have conceived, this problem in three main forms. 1. i am not god. i wish to become god. this is the hindus conception. i am malkuth. i wish to become kether. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 2. i am a fallen creature. i wish to be redeemed. this is the christian conception. i am malkuth the fallen daughter. i wish to be set upon the throne of binah my supernal mother. this is the qabalistic equivalent. 3. i am the finite square; i wish to be one with the infinite circle. this is the unsectarian conception. i am the cross of extension; i wish to be one with the infinite rose. this is the qabalis

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er reason than that of their worldly prosperity. in short, the order failed to initiate. 12. scandal arose, and with it schism. 13. in 1900, one p, a brother, instituted a rigorous test of s.r.m.d. on the one side and the order on the other. 14. he discovered that s.r.m.d, though a scholar of some ability and a magician of remarkable powers, had never attained complete initiation: and further had fallen from his original place, he having imprudently attracted to himself forces of evil too great and terrible for him to withstand. the claim of the order that the true adepts were in charge of it was definitely disproved. 15. in the order, with two certain exceptions and two doubtful ones, he found no persons prepared for initiation of any sort. 16. he thereupon by his subtle wisdom destroyed

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nce only leads to sorrow; that the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third; and you would seek in the fourth the way, the noble eightfold path .i know, o arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where arahats do not grow on every tree. little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep. 78 1902 ambrosii magi hortus rosarum* translated into english by christeos luciftias. printed by w. black, at the wheatsheaf in newgate, and sold at the three keys in nags-head court, gracechurch st. it is fitting that i, ambrose, called i.a.o, should set down the life of our great father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that t

children left their foulness and came soliciting with shameless words his acquiscence in their sport; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and pity, rebuked them not. but master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. so he saw his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwere. now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. the giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! he had fallen headlong into the great deep. as the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed .for i wit well. thought the adept .that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may the beetle transform unto a bird. wherewith he came

asy: to victory over one did he aspire. made he therefore toward the moon. rough was the hillside and the shadows deep and treacherous; as he advanced the towers seemed to approach one another closer and closer yet. he drew his sword: with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. three windows had the tower; and against it ten cannons thundered. eleven bricks had fallen dislodged by lightning: it was no house wherein our father might abide. but there he must abide .to destroy it i am come. he said. and through he passed out therewithal, yet .twas his home until he had attained. so at last he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the river from two vessels of pure water .she-devil. he cried .have i gone b

umns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha.s hand; we are your brothers. but in the race of intellect we have fallen behind a little; will you take no interest in us, who have been your comrades? to science buddhism cries: lead us, reform us, give us clear ideas of nature and her laws; give us that basis of irrefragable logic and wide knowledge that we need, and march with us into the universe! the buddhist faith is not a blind faith; its truths are obvious to all who are not blinded by the spectacles of

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is friends shall say: glook! he pretends to read this book. but it is unintelligibile.it is nonsense. h yet he delights in the odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar things. 17. we shall bring you to absolute truth, absolute light, absolute bliss. 18. many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but their words have been perverted by their successors, and again and again the veil has fallen upon the holy of holies. 19. to you who yet wander in the court of the profane we cannot reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the sub figura i 3 absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adepts, seeing all things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20

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see also crowley fs remarks on this line in point ii. 6 the goetia version has gpaphro osorronophris h (fapro fosoronnwfrij in the original greek, probably meant for gpharaoh asar un-nefer h. 7 with a couple of exceptions (ff for uu in section g, f renders letters which were originally omega, long eo. f the substitution, one suspects, was made for qabalistic reasons. the letter digamma) had long fallen out of use in greek except in standing for number 6 by the time pgm v was written down. 8 ischure( fiscure) is a greek word and not a barbarous name; it simply the vocative form of iscuroj, gmighty h and is not repeated in the original. 9 some printed editions omit this giaf h while retaining the gloss. 10 this is intelligible greek and crowley fs gloss is a straightforward translation; how

LIBER V VEL REGULI

shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still the ritual of the mark of the beast 15 trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even today, a mass of maggots swarm heaving over the carrion earth, a brotherhood bound by blind greed for rottenness

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

irst to the pyre of the son of odin, and leads armies. the exceedingly widely famous hropta-ty lr [odin] rides to the pyre of his son. there i perceive valkyries and ravens accompany the wise victory-tree [man; here odin] to the blood of the holy corpse. thus [the hall] is adorned from within with things remembered. the excellent heimdall rides a horse to that pyre that the gods had built for the fallen son of the very wise tester of the raven [odin. the very powerful hild of the mountains [giantess] caused the sea-sleipnir [ship] to trudge forward; but the wielders of the helmet flames of hropt [odin] felled her mount. snorri has more detail. he adds several gods to the list of those who attended, and he makes sense out of the stanza with the giantess in it by stating that the funeral shi

e other to pieces. they suspend a poisonous snake over him, dripping venom. his wife sigyn catches the venom in a pot, but when she goes to empty it the venom falls onto his face, and his writhings cause earthquakes. saxo grammaticus has a rather different story of baldr fs death and the aftermath. hotherus, the foster son of king gevarus, and balderus, the son of othinus and a demigod, have both fallen in love with nanna. hotherus acquires a special sword and a magic ring. nanna refuses balderus on the grounds that demigods and humans are incompatible. hotherus and an ally confront balderus and the gods in a sea battle and gain victory when hotherus slices the handle off thor fs hammer, the gods f major weapon, with his magic sword. hotherus marries nanna. in a subsequent battle balderus

accepted that what saxo says here reflects two sides of odin, a distinction that is contrasted in the names bileyg and baleyg. see also bileyg; od barri the trysting place where frey will meet gerd, his giant bride-to-be. we have the story in skirnismal and in an abbreviated form in snorri fs gylfaginning. in brief, after frey fs emissary skirnir has cajoled gerd, the giantess with whom frey has fallen in love from afar, she agrees to meet him in nine nights f time at barri (barrey, according to snorri. magnus olsen fs hoary explanation, that barri has to do with barr, gbarley, h ties the story to a hypothetical fertility myth, in which skirnir is understood as the sun fs ray and the ensuing marriage as a holy wedding of a god and the earth. those who are unpersuaded point out that barr c

d guest. the similar poem hakonarmal, attributed to eyvind finnsson skaldaspillir, also mentions the einherjar: odin tells the retinue of hakon the good, as they are arriving in valholl, that they shall have a truce with the einherjar and invites them to drink beer. in gylfaginning snorri uses and expands on these sources, adding, among other things, that the einherjar are gall those men who have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world. h he also sends the einherjar out against the forces of chaos at the last battle but gives no details of their fights and fates. the emphasis in the sources is twofold: the eternal fighting and revival of the einherjar, and their special relationship with odin, which is manifested in part by their feasting endlessly with him and in part by their s

found in manuscripts of snorri fs heimskringla, and some are also cited in snorri fs edda and in the kings f saga synoptic manuscript fagrskinna. according to that manuscript, eyvind composed the poem in direct imitation of eiriksmal, the anonymous poem describing the entry of hakon fs brother eirik bloodax into valholl. hakonarmal consists of two scenes followed by four stanzas of praise for the fallen king. the first scene describes the battle, which we know from the very first stanza is being observed by valkyries. exhorting his men, hakon tears off his armor before the battle. his sword cuts through armor as if through water, and swords glow in wounds. but now the valkyrie gondul speaks: it is time to depart for valholl. the forces of the gods have grown, now that hakon and his army ar

have no weapon. h then loki said to him: gdo as others do and honor baldr as others do. i will show you where he is standing; shoot this stick at him. h hod took the mistletoe and shot it at baldr at loki fs direction. the shot flew through baldr, and he fell dead to the earth. in the gesta danorum of saxo grammaticus the cognate figure hotherus is a human king who, like the demigod balderus, has fallen in love with nanna. hotherus and an ally confront balderus and the gods in a sea battle and gain victory when hotherus slices the handle off thor fs hammer, the gods f major weapon, with his magic sword. hotherus then marries nanna. in a subsequent battle, balderus defeats him. balderus is plagued by dreams of his desired nanna. hotherus is now chosen king of the danes, but in his absence t

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

ncrease or diminish. the defect of all our conceptions is that they manifest a feeling for particular forms and show little feeling for the whole. what we embrace is obvious stuff, suggesting much or little. seldom is it subtle, illusive, or suggestive of the spacious, unplumbed, circumambient abyss we never succeed in enclosing, but which encloses us as an identity in time-space. man has already fallen exhausted at the foot of a mountain of littlenesses, facts, figures, knowledge, nominalism, categories, etc, which have served only to excuse and to fuel the miseries of greed. so, every believer in art, beauty, mystery and magic is my brother. they at least are great geocentricists, anthropocentricists. their reasons and conclusions do not refute their logic or syllogisms, having one truth

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

es us the ability to open the gates of self-initiation through the witches sabbat mysteries. 4 we are required to have the individual love of self, strength and determination to pass through the long winding path of the sorcerer. our goal is to become and achieve through the process of self-deification and self-transformation through this luciferian gnosis. shaitan, as it is called is lucifer the fallen angel. lucifer fell from his desire to be separate from the consciousness of the universe, that through antinomianism he sought to be the gateway of god itself, to be growing and illuminated in essence. it should be considered that satan or lucifer are aspects of the domineering self expresses its existence, and that is should be strengthened and defined to search the possibility of immorta

re as the dream meeting of the astrals and spirits of magickal practitioners of the craft, those who between the twilight of dawn and dusk dive the dream waking environment and meet as spirits and other forms to gather under the black sun, or under the arms of luna, awaiting the embrace of lilith and hecate, the queens of the sabbath. it is through the witches sabbat circles that the watchers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be explored within its dream based roots, the touch of witches sabbat initiation. as the ange

e cover his or herself in the mud and green of the earth and meditate. the green man and goddess themselves shall make their awakening to the witch, with whom has communed with nature. by being robed in the sky of the goddess, nuit, shall great beauty be revealed. it is by this simple yet important act which will lead one to the initiation of belial, or mastery of the earth. belial is itself, the fallen angel who masters the beasts of the world, the mountains and the forests along with azazel. it is though this exercise of invoking the green man or green woman, that one may proceed later to darker areas of bestial exploration, such as lycanthropy and spiritual transformations of mind above flesh. the union of both brings the announcement of our becoming in the world of manes and shades of

crowley suggested, invoke often! an invocation to the holy guardian angel, spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light azal ucel i am the daimon who speaks the words of the immortal fire, the holy flame which emerges from the lightning flash and storm of chaos bred, so this the angel-serpent shall come forth with the birthing knife shedding into storm of seth! 30 spirit of which the fallen have taken strength, isolate and beautiful, angelic essence, azal ucel, from which came into being cain i do invoke thee! south- devil-djinn of the burning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao thiaf! east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bring

mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the goddivinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of blackened light is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on earth through cain, the initiator of the sethanic path of witchcraft. east lucifer as azazel in the earthbound form

ciousness the powers of the dead or subconscious energies or powers from the pre-human aspects. atavisms are evoked through intense nostalgia and focus, often appearing in bestial forms. athame the blade of holy magick or greater black magick workings, used in ceremonial or solitary practice. pathally a black handled knife. azazel called the guardian of the goat, azazel is one of the 200 original fallen angels, according to lore. it is considered that azazel is the same as shemyaza, the leader of the watchers. the zohar makes reference (in vayeze 153a) about the rider upon the serpent is the evil azazel. in islamic lore, azazel is the same as eblis and considered by other lore as the first star (in reference to any angels) which would reveal him as lucifer. azoth the beginning and end in i

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

s dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk dinoih is the dragon which brings the union of lilith and samael within the magician, that the path is brought forth. shaitan/lucifer lucifer is the bringer of light, the fallen angel who prides knowledge and wisdom above blind faith and servitude. lucifer was the seraph who with a flaming sword and beautiful visage guarded the throne of god in the heavens. it was because of stasis that lucifer sought to rebel, to initiate becoming in the exploration of his shadow self. the angel then became as daemon also, holding both quality of darkness and light. lucifer fell u

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

lore as the dream meeting of the astrals and spirits of magickal practitioners of the craft, those who between the twillight of dawn and dusk dive the dream waking environment and meet as spirits and other forms to gather under the black sun, or under the arms of luna, awaiting the embrace of lilith and hecate, the queens of the sabbath. it is through the luciferian circles that the watchers and fallen angels brought to us the gift of what is called witchblood, the black flame of awakening that offered an awakening of senses. each angel still exists in spirit form upon the earth, allowing a linage to emerge from different areas of psychic and physical development. the essence of witchcraft should be explored within its dream based roots, the touch of sethanic initiation. as the angels bro

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ing the reference to "cabalists) appear virtually unchanged in the 1807 edition. in his version of the introductory essay harper, following dermott's example, makes a distinction between what he calls "the royal art" and operative masonry. harper's introduction starts with adam and "the fall" and to that event it traces. the origin of the sciences. first arose divinity, whereby was pointed out to fallen man, the ways and will of god, the omnipotence and mercy of an offended creator; then law, as directing us to distribute justice to our neighbour, and relieve those who are oppressed or suffer wrong. the royal art was beyond all doubt coeval with the above sciences,"32 we should note the parallel between this statement and the traditional kabbalistic teaching which says that immediately aft

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ated, a limited-use portal can transport as many creatures as can touch it that round. spells of faer n almost every faith of faer n harbors secret divine spells, prayers and invocations known only to the initiated clergy. hundreds of reclusive wizards and sinister circles devise new arcane spells, seeking a purer understanding of the art or a simple weapon other spellcasters lack. the temples of fallen deities and the ruins of ancient cities hold scrolls of powerful and dangerous spells, forgotten by the lesser clerics and wizards who populate faerun today. the spells and domains described in the player's handbook form the common knowledge of faer n's bards, clerics, druids, paladins, rangers, sorcerers, and wizards. any character may acquire these spells in the. usual fashion. the domain

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

who are called kings of the sacred rites by those whose business it is to name them, give additional strangeness to the tragic occurrence, by forbidding parsley with the roots from being placed on the table, for they think that parsley grew from the corybantic blood that flowed forth; just as the women, in celebrating the thcsmophoria, abstain from eating the seeds of the pomegranate, which have fallen on the ground, from the idea that pomegranates sprang from the drops of the blood of dionysus. those corybantes also they call cabiric; and the ceremony itself they announce as the cabiric mystery" the mysteries of the cabiri were divided into three degrees, the first of which celebrated the death of cashmala, at the hands of his three brothers; the second, the discovery of his mutilated bo

une buoyed them up. at last on the eve of total discouragement fate came to their rescue. a great stone was heard to fall somewhere in the wall near the toiling and disgruntled arabs. pushing on toward the sound with renewed enthusiasm, they finally broke into the descending passage which leads into the subterranean chamber. they then chiseled their way around the great stone portcullis which had fallen into a position barring their progress, and attacked and removed one after another the granite plugs which for a while continued to slide down the passage leading from the queen's chamber above. finally no more blocks descended and the way was clear for the followers of the prophet. but where were the treasures? from room to room the frantic workmen rushed, looking in vain for loot. the dis

e from its trunk to support the roof of his palace. isis, visiting byblos, recovered the body of her husband, but it was again stolen by typhon, who cut it into fourteen parts, which he scattered all over the earth. isis, in despair, began gathering up the severed remains of her husband, but found only thirteen pieces. the fourteenth part (the phallus) she reproduced in gold, for the original had fallen into the river nile and had been swallowed by a fish. typhon was later slain in battle by the son of osiris. some of the egyptians believed that the souls of the gods were taken to heaven, where they shone forth as stars. it was supposed that the soul of isis gleamed from the dog star, while typhon became the constellation of the bear. it is doubtful, however, whether this idea was ever gen

. as time went on, pythagoras came to be regarded as a god rather than a man, and his scattered disciples were bound together by their common admiration for the transcendent genius of their teacher. edouard schure, in his pythagoras and the delphic mysteries, relates the following incident as illustrative of the bond of fellowship uniting the members of the pythagorean school "one of them who had fallen upon sickness and poverty was kindly taken in by an innkeeper. before dying he traced a few mysterious signs (the pentagram, no doubt) on the door of the inn and said to the host 'do not be uneasy, one of my brothers will pay my debts' a year afterwards, as a stranger was passing by this inn he saw the signs and said to the host 'i am a pythagorean; one of my brothers died here; tell me wha

nd nor shiftless persons to enter into his life. he must ever surround himself with rationally inspired thinkers and with conscientious workers. ix. offer not your right hand easily to anyone. this warns the disciple to keep his own counsel and not offer wisdom and knowledge (his right hand) to such as are incapable of appreciating them. the hand here represents truth, which raises those who have fallen because of ignorance; but as many of the unregenerate do not desire wisdom they will cut off the hand that is extended in kindness to them. time alone can effect the redemption of the ignorant masses x. when rising from the bedclothes, roll them together, and obliterate the impression of the body. pythagoras directed his disciples who had awakened from the sleep of ignorance into the waking

n the mysteries as an emblem of the occult art. the wild boar which gored atys shows the use of this animal in the mysteries. according to the mysteries, the monkey represents the condition of man before the rational soul entered into his constitution. therefore it typifies the irrational man. by some the monkey is looked upon as a species not ensouled by the spiritual hierarchies; by others as a fallen state wherein man has been deprived of his divine nature through degeneracy. the ancients, though evolutionists, did not trace man's ascent through the monkey; the monkey they considered as having separated itself from the main stem of progress. the monkey was occasionally employed as a symbol of learning. cynocephalus, the dogheaded ape, was the egyptian hieroglyphic symbol of writing, and

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

nasmuch as the moon is ever pursuing the sun across the sky, became enamoured of her brother the sun and seduced him in the shape of his pet cat. the offspring from this union was a daughter, aradia or herodias, the archetypal "avatar" or patroness of all witches. in this legend of diana with its gnostic overtones, there are reflections of the cabalistic tradition of naamah, the seductress of the fallen angel azael. naamah, is synonymous with babylonian lilith, and azael is none other than babylonian shamash, the sun-god in his underworld aspect as lord of riches and artificer of metals. in fact he is the alter ego of tubal cain himself, naamah's own brother. azael or azazel, is in fact one of the modern witch's gods. which brings me to the crux of the matter. according to ancient magical

and queen in their enchanted hill which opened up on the ancient holy festivals of halloween and beltane were fast passing out of public memory, recalled only by the wise, or as they were known in the old english tongue, the wicce and wicca, wizards and witches. the legend of the elvenfolk's ancestry still survived, however, in heavily christianized form. they were the remaining offspring of the fallen angels. neither devils, like satan and his cohorts, nor angels, but somewhere between the two. neither good nor bad, merely indifferent. it is at this point that organized christianity began to take a hand, and bore down heavily on all those suspected of either having consorted with or actually being elves or "faery folk" the heresy trials of the waldenses, albigenses, and knights templar h

inertia, forgetfulness, or frustration of some sort or other, then you must invoke the dark power habondia, in her dark aspect, nocticula, using a black candle. the conjuration such as the one to be described below can be used with effect here. the magical landscape to be visualized should be one of darkness and mystery. one of those traditionally associated with the dead is as follows: night has fallen, winter has set in; the air is chilly. two monolithic pillars of granite rise from the gentle hill, and between them winds the path of the dead, pale in the starlight. the two pillars mark the entrance to the realm of the dead, back of the north wind. between them stands the representative of the dark power itself. the figure is neither distinguishable as male or female, an ancient robed in

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

ircle, and the companions also in their several places, and let them say consecutively with him in a low voice, turning in the direction of the east, the following: address to the angels. i conjure and pray ye, o ye angels of god, and ye celestial spirits, to come unto mine aid; come and behold the signs of heaven, and be my witness before the sovereign lord, of the disobedience of these evil and fallen spirits who were at one time your companions. this being done, let the master arise, and constrain and force them by a stronger conjuration, in manner following. the key of solomon page 32 chapter vii an extremely powerful conjuration. behold us again prepared to conjure ye by the names and symbols of god, wherewith we are fortified, and by the virtue of the highest one. we command ye and p

MEANING OF MASONRY

rphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul to save it, he rises from the dead a master, a just man made perfect, with larger consciousness and faculties, an efficient instrument for use by the great architect in his plan of rebuilding the temple of fallen humanity, and capable of initiating and advancing other men to a participation in the same great work. this--the evolution of man into superman--was always the purpose of the ancient mysteries, and the real purpose of modern masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect thei

ystems of religion, and all the great systems of the mysteries and of initiation of antiquity, viz, that which is popularly known as the fall of man. however we may choose to regard this event--and throughout the history of the human race it has been taught in innumerable ways and in all manner of parables, allegories, myths and legends--its sole and single meaning is that humanity as a whole has fallen away from its original parent source and place; that from being imbedded in the eternal centre of life man has become projected to the circumference; and that in this present world of ours he is undergoing a period of restriction, of ignorance, of discipline and experience, that shall ultimately fit him to return to the centre whence he came and to which he properly belongs" paradise lost"

"wisdom and mercy that follow us all the days of our life" on the other. very truly then the mason who keeps himself thus circumscribed cannot err. masonry, then, is a system of religious philosophy in that it provides us with a doctrine of the universe and of our place in it. it indicates whence we are come and whither we may return. it has two purposes. its first purpose is to show that man has fallen away from a high and holy centre to the circumference or externalized condition in which we now live; to indicate that those who so desire may regain that centre by finding the centre in ourselves for, since deity is as a circle whose centre is every where, it follows that a divine centre, a" vital and immortal principle" exists within ourselves by developing which we may hope to regain our

ression. the pity of it is that those who practise the rite make no effort to penetrate its meaning and are content with the unenlightened perfunctory performance of a ritual which even exoterically is singularly striking, beautiful and suggestive. the least reflection upon it must suggest that masonry is here dealing with the building-work of no outward structure, but with the re-erection of the fallen, disordered temple of the human soul; and tha t even assuming that it but memorialized some long past historic events, those events can have no vital bearing upon the life, character or conduct of anyone to-day and would not justify the existence of an elaborate secret order to perpetuate them. but if those events and this rite be symbolic of something deeper and something personal; if they

re into vital association with the divine principle from which by its secession it became increasingly detached, as its materialistic tendencies overpowered and quenched its native spirituality. this restoration in turn required vast time-cycles for its achievement. and it required something further. it required the application of an orderly and scientific method to effect the restoration of each fallen soul-fragment and bring it back to its primitive pure and perfect condition. i emphasize that the method was necessarily to be not a haphazard, but a scientific one. anyone may fall from a h ousetop and break his bones; skilled surgery and intelligent effort by some friendly hand are required to heal the patient and get him back to the place he fell from. so with humanity. it fell--out of e

d comminuted by its fall into countless individuations and their subsequent respective progenies, each separately damaged and imperfect, needed to be restored to the condition from which it had become dislocated and once more built up into a perfect harmonious whole. to the spiritual guardians of primitive man, then, one must attribute the communication of that universal science of rebuilding the fallen temple of humanity, of which science we now surprisedly find traces in every race and religion of the world. to this source we must credit the distribution, in every land and among every people, of the same or equivalent symbols, practices and doctrines, modified only locally and in accordance with the intelligence of particular peoples, yet all manifesting a common root and purpose. this w

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

ng. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 15 the people of the lie, or practitioners of witchcraft, see yatuk dinoih by the present author. 9 necromantic shade. by the wealth of symbolism there is indeed much to develop from be ready to grasp that which was always slightly out of reach by dream, that fleeting moment of truth not so lightly fallen before you. there was a group of so-called witches which were known as the aniza bedouin clan. they were derived in leadership from a man known as abu el- atahiyya (748-c. 828, who was originally a potter but became a strong and influential writer and poet among fellow arabs. atahiyya had a coven or circle of disciples who were called wise ones, and after his death adopted the goat as a sym

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ess which can lead to stagnant development. it is therefore suggested that the sorcerer is one able to change their self and immediate surroundings as they see fit. beliefs change with will and desire, to suit the development of the individuals personality. i have known quite a few gifted individuals, magickians and otherwise, who in the beginning present an immense amount of potential. many have fallen away into stagnant slumps of failure due to the fact they never rise and develop as their beliefs change. i urge each one to progress in their own time, while always keeping their integrity and individualistic strength. imposed moral codes are nothing but shackles for those without personal honor. an individual who has a strong personal morality is able to break with moral dogma in order to

in something as the description given: i__birth name, hereby on the day of, announce the dedication to the path of the wise, from which the left hand path shall be revealed unto me! i proclaim my birth rite towards the luciferian path of ascension. i free my spirit to be now free unto myself, so that i may develop the gift of azal ucel, the black flame itself! my name shall now be, a child of the fallen seraph, asmodeus, astaroth, belial and lilith bless my sacred path to the great serpent-angel shaitan called azal ucel 50 50 i now cut myself in the name of the dark bringer, noctifer, the devil by twilight. that eye sight grows in the weavings of dusk and dawn. the gates of the dead are opened! bless my mark, which is the sigillium diaboli, the new flesh emerges! so it shall be! witch name

hall rectify the primal dream of all desire let this mark be again in the light of the sabbat moon" the prayer of the infernal sabbat the devil s mark part two- by the promethean torch, known illuminated as baphomet, the sacred guardian of azazel, the hidden watcher. shall i make my oath in fire and black earth. as the power of christ runs deep in the land, it runs not as deep as the power of the fallen seraph, who uplifts up from common 52 52 clay. it was this very spirit who brought unto us freedom and divinity. by the fire and blackened earth i deny the baptism of the profane, that faith in dogmatic sickness of spirit be banished that the stain of guilt ridden spirituality be forgotten. i speak these prayers against the sun, as songs to the shadows as gifts to the broken and trampled cr

near an area where you may bury a small box or bottle/pot. a chalice will be needed, preferably a skull cup/cap if access is had. this ritual should be conducted when the moon is full. the vessel for which the famulus (latin for familiar) or succubi/goddess fetish may be housed should be an aesthetic choice, one which connects with the feeling of what hecate is to you. it is from the wing of the fallen seraph that you create your quill to mark this tomb and fetish-house of the spirit, however it must be prepared. day onewash the vessel in clean and cool water. allow it to sit from dawn until dusk, to let it bask in the sunlight if it may. seek hecate in dreams. record the experience accordingly. day twopaint it the color of your desire, upon it on four sides a mark of an x, the sacred sig

t unto me this night an ember from the fire of thy wisdom. to believe! to will! to obtain! io baphomet! i am the god who over the astral sabbath presides: baphomet, illuminated god of flesh and spirit. i am the god of creative and inspiring tides. i am the god of worthlessness and merit! as lightning flashes, so life streaks from my eyes. the goat, the snake and human, i know their mysteries, the fallen watchers and angels who attend our sacred fire. i am the lord of witches, with sabbat chalice of desire. the devil's foot steps fall, under my joy filled eye, wandering the wondrous night beneath the moonlit sky. to me! to me! io baphomet" a call unto baphomet, the black shadow of the sabbat "in silence the mirror becomes black with my many forms of i, whispered and howled in the congress o

e flesh, or earth, to that of choronzon. approach this daemon with caution, for there can be hell to pay if any spirit is invoked without care. 73 73 shaitan -the adversary which developed from the lord of storms and prince of darkness, set. in the islamic tradition (ahadith, shaitan/satan is azazel, the lord of djinn whom is made from fire, thus a source of light unto itself. azazel/shaitan is a fallen angel, the first angel who preached to the other angels in preeternity. shaitan is also melek ta aus, the peacock angel. samael samael in hebrew texts is the husband of lilith, the father of cain. samael is of fire and of night, from which all daemonical energy is derived. when accepting both lilith and samael into your mind, into your spirit, one must be certain of the witch blood which ru

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

n non-intervention as an inviolate edict. on the other hand, the bible and the book of enoch, in particular, relate that earth'ssovereignty was violated by one contingent of ancient visitors. these beings werenamed the nephilim (those who were cast down. there are many names that havecome down to us that were used to describe the visitors. some of these are: anakim,rephaim, djinn, giants, titans, fallen angels, the watchers, the els, the ari, elders,atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation3 from the end of heaven sons of zadok, sons of seth, the uranids, cyclopeans, promethians, olympians, theelect, asuras, the illies, fomorians, the necromancers, rayless ones, bent ones, thedogons, dagons, the ana, amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of the sna

f the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient days, theirarrival and activities were not concealed asthey are now. there were giants in the earth in those days;and also after that, when the sons of godcame in unto the daughters of men, and theybear children to themthe mighty men whichwere of old, men of renown (genesis, chap-ter 6-8) they come from a far country, from the end ofheaven (i

es of cold and damp,lengthened the solar year by enlarging the world s orbit. it shaped world history by compel-ling the flight of survivors to other less inhospitable climes and led in considerable degree tothe dispersion of the aryans. it inundated the british isles for a period to a great extentexcept the higher lands. it was the drowning of atlantis. the flood immortalizes the colli-sion of a fallen planet, later termed satan, actually a cometary body, with our earth comyns beaumont (riddle of prehistoric britain)the debris from tiamats destruction has become the asteroid belt with its own orbit.when it nears the roche limit of this planet, the debris occasionally re-enters theatmosphere, falling to the surface. as researchers like charles fort have so splendidlycollated, our earth has

nt people from the fact that theyhad the habit of mining and burrowing underground and living there in complex colonies. this was a practice that availed perfect concealment as these renegades knewthat it was absolutely imperative that they were not traced to this planet and that theirprevious hosts believed them utterly destroyed. the celtic legends, and even thebible, declare that the nephilim (fallen angels) took refuge under water in their crafts. no craft they knew, with woven brick and jointed beam to pile the sunward porch; but in thedark earth burrowed and housed like sunless ants in sunless caves (aeschylus)and the king said to her, be not afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said untosaul, i saw gods ascending out of the earth (i samuel 28:13) dead things are formed from u

tion is compre-hensible when we realize that it refers to a face inside a space helmet, which appearedto our ancestors as two faces or heads. the men of brass or bronze was also a title used for the visitors possibly due tothe metallic suits they wore. they also seem to have communicated in strange voices(many-tongues. can this not also be explained in practical terms? can the referencesabout the fallen angels in the old testament, book of enoch, and the dead seascrolls, for example, not be based on actual fact? the nephilim had to begin calibrations of the earth in relation to the neighboring plan-ets and stars almost immediately after ascent from their subterranean havens.although they were in no immediate hurry, they believed they could leave the planetwhenever they desired. earth was c

cting upon the psyche atrauma that has produced morbidity and crushed to a degree the natural instinct for humanhappiness (alvin boyd kuhn, the ultimate canon of knowledge)from these malefactors comes the notion of the removed god, a distant, immaterialand punitive demiurge that requires man to repress natural instincts and live in con-stant guilt. from them also comes the pernicious concept of a fallen god who temptsthe unwary and leads one into everlasting perdition.they also instilled the fallacy that women are lower in ontological status than men andthat they are to be distrusted and kept in subordinate positions. polygamy, anotherpractice pervasive in certain ancient societies, was again based on the need for thesebiologically superior entities to reproduce their kind as fast as was p

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

nt than the archdemons. for instance, the archdemons rule the specific qlippothic spheres in a transcendent manner, that is, invisible to us to us but relations are made through invocation and the assumption of the spirit. the qlippothic servitors or demons can be evoked and made visible or more associative than the others. the reason for this is that they are more advanced and ascension oriented fallen or awakened powers. the qlippothic spirits are very powerful and beneficial to the vampyre magickian who can tap their powers, drain them or simply gain them according to utilizing 52 the archdemons and their spirits. these specific orders of demons rule 490 leagues of spirits. as lilith is the mother of demons and vampiric spirits, she has 480 spirits the moon is the sphere attributed to h

ule 490 leagues of spirits. as lilith is the mother of demons and vampiric spirits, she has 480 spirits the moon is the sphere attributed to her. the sphere of the sun is said to have seven times the number of the other demons. the methodology of working with the qlippothic demons is to turn poison into a beneficial medicine of initiation. one must move through the averse sephiroth, the so-called fallen restrictions of the universe, where there sleeps an ancient dragon. seven heads dwell there, yet through the seven the eight arises. this power is essential to the development and empowerment of the vampyre magickian. 53 the qlipphoth and their servitors: neptune kether satan or moloch thamiel (thamal: thadekiel+ abraxsiel+ mahaziel+ azaza l +lufugiel dual giants, bestial atavistic demons w

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

n to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our race. the offspring of this union, beings who were half human and half angel, would be called the nephilim. these nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as men of renown. this early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans became increasingly wicked. after our wickedness reached a boiling point, god could no longer restrain his angry hand, so he--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 4 alerts a righteous man named noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the ea

number is 7. the exterior of the statue of liberty is made of copper, the statue is green, and has 7 rays of light reaching out from her head--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 13 then there s satan, who himself has countless names. most christians believe they have a monopoly on the stories regarding this being, but satanists know better. satanists, and occultists in general, have equated the fallen angel satan with the villain of almost every mythology. in egyptian mythology, satan is set, the egyptian god of chaos, storms, and evil. and similar to satan from the bible, who once stood beside the throne of god, set was once the guarding of the sun god ra. apparently, it was after set s battle with apep, the serpent of chaos, that he became the new villain in the egyptian tales; the fir

ree; zeus would rule heaven, poseidon would rule the sea, and hades would rule the underworld, which was the land of the dead. although the greek traditions do not mention a conflict between the two brothers zeus and hades, satanists do. i suspect that this is just another god and his evil brother story. satanists also refer to satan as azazel. azazel, according to jewish lore and the bible, is a fallen angel or demon who is described as an outcast. he, like the egyptian god set, is associated with the desert. although azazel was mentioned in the bible, his most famous appearance was in the book of enoch. the book of enoch is considered an apocryphal text, which means that it did not receive entry into the bible. the book of enoch s exclusion from the canon (bible) is truly a tragedy, and

of eden being in fact a group. the bible, albeit a bit more subtly, also makes it clear that this serpent was in fact a group, when it mentions the sons of god (which is of coarse plural. in the bible, the serpent tempts eve into eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, yet in the book of enoch there was no fruit, but instead it was knowledge of magic and the sciences which the fallen angels gave unto man. the relationship between the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 14 the world of the occult. satanists often speak of azazel as being a mouthpiece or mask of satan. occultists frequently tell the story of satan approaching eve in the form of azazel, as if azazel were in fact a separate entity who, while tempt

an. occultists frequently tell the story of satan approaching eve in the form of azazel, as if azazel were in fact a separate entity who, while tempting eve, was possessed by satan. this follows the avatar model, where multiple gods are related to a single god and vice-versa. after giving man magical knowledge that was forbidden by god, and mating with human women, the book of enoch describes the fallen angels, their offspring, and almost the whole of humanity (except for noah and his family) being destroyed by a flood whose cause was divine. black magicians, to this day, revere azazel and the rest as heroes for bringing the flame of magic and transformation to humanity. this story of god s enemy who, against the wishes of god, gives fire to mankind is also echoed in greek mythology. black

liver, which regenerated every day. prometheus is depicted as incredibly intelligent, deceptive, and rebellious; prometheus, azazel, lucifer, the torch-bearer, the light bringer. the flame, or torch of the olympics, and it s corresponding tradition, is a commemoration of prometheus theft of fire from zeus. the statue of liberty, whose likeness is based on the goddess ishtar, who was said to have fallen with azazel, also bears the torch of illumination. this flame is a direct reference to magical knowledge and self-deification through magical means. it is important not to mistake this azazel, and those who were with him, for the traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden taught humanity much magic, and did not have the support of the most high god. our humble civilizer

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

the dream lands haunting and draining those sleeping and unawake. by my oath, signed in blood from which the sorcerous art is pledged, i do call the attendant of this mask andmy own famulus which shall reside within this very object of arte. by the sign of x do i mark thee- eyes which see beyond the veil, mouth of crystals and essence storing objects, horns of five which form the pentagram of the fallen seraphs, infernal flesh formed in fire, serpent skin of stealth and wisdom, blade of azrail's sunless domain, the very pleasures of the necromance- i summon thee unto this vessel, rest and grow strong within it, be as with my temple to hunt, protect and make flesh to that which i so desire "so it is done" phenomena- room grew colder, a shadow seemed to envelope us. adrian was very happy, po

ince medieval times (and earlier) is a most feared demonic essence, known as the lord of the forest. the atavistic elementals within our own flesh is a gateway of transformation, the ecstasies contained therein and our own means of developing and becoming an illuminated (hence black flame) promethean being. just as we sip at the golden chalice of the luciferian sabbat, the sunlight essence of the fallen seraph, the fire djinn who holds the flame of self-perception, we to sip from the skull-cup of the dead, of hecate. noctulia- hecate is the goddess robed in black, perched upon her shoulder a raven. she appears before the circle, as the encirclement of our being, the gate-keeper of the realms of the ghostroads and the dead. it is noctulia -hecate (named also lilith) whom we sing hymns of th

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

oner of the art magical[7] is one who seeks the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel or luciferian angel, but also to enflesh the bestial aspects of his being, thus developing the shadow and the light aspects of his being. this is the great work, through isolation in the antinomian path does the luciferian sorcerer come forth and recreate himself/herself as a god. the lore of the fallen was written as a witch cult invocation of the self bringing in union the ghostfires of shades of the dead with the witches sabbat and luciferian point of becoming. the illustrations present direct interplay of this process, the dynamic in motion. while the illustrations do not represent the end point, but rather the self in this motion, ever flowing towards the higher articulation of being

to the left hand path, the path of non-union with the subjective universe. part one of azothoz is the throne of twilight, this poetic invocation is the leviathanic dance against the sun and ensorcells the vampyric and shadow essence of not only the sabbat, but the sorcerous invocation of shaitan-lilith-azrael-ahriman, the infernal spirits who reside over the path itself. part two the lore of the fallen is a poetic-invocation of the cunning path, that of the sabbat and sethanic gnosis of lucifer and cain, from which the initiatic fire is passed from spirit to spirit. the spirit-familiar of austin osman spare, known as the black eagle is presented here as a guide by a sinistral (left way) sigillic formula, including an invocation chant and essay upon the shadow of this vampyric shade. two f

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

of my subjects have mentioned. the most interesting ones occur in the writings of the apostle paul. paul was a persecutor of christians until he had his famous vision and conversion on the road to damascus. he says: acts 26:13-26: at midday, o king, i saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. and when we were all fallen to the earth, i heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the hebrew tongue "said, saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" and i said "who art thou, lord" and he said "i am jesus, whom thou persecutest. but rise, and stand upon thy feet: for i have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things whic

MORALS AND DOGMA

him, that is to leave him and his family to starve; and god will curse with calamity the people in which the children of the laborer out of work eat the boiled grass of the field, and mothers strangle their children, that they may buy food for themselves with the charitable pittance given for burial expenses. the rules of what is ordinarily termed"_justice" may be punctiliously observed among the fallen spirits that are the aristocracy of hell* justice, divorced from sympathy, is selfish indifference, not in the least more laudable than misanthropic isolation. there is sympathy even among the hair-like oscillatorias, a tribe of simple plants, armies of which may be discovered, with the aid of the microscope, in the tiniest bit of scum from a stagnant pool. for these will place themselves

ook back, and shuddering see the time when our feet stood upon the slippery crags that overhung the abyss of guilt; and when, if temptation had been a little more urgent, or a little longer continued, if penury had pressed us a little harder, or a little more wine had further disturbed our intellect, dethroned our judgment, and aroused our passions, our feet would have slipped, and we should have fallen, never to rise again. we may be able to say"_this_ man has lied, has pilfered, has forged, has embezzled moneys intrusted to him; and _that_ man has gone through life with clean hands" but we cannot say that the former has not struggled long, though unsuccessfully, against temptations under which the second would have succumbed without an effort. we can say which has the cleanest _hands_ be

ay indicate less virtue and less sacrifice of interest, than a few rare hidden acts of kindness wrung by duty out of the reluctant and unsympathizing nature of the other. there may be more real merit, more self-sacrificing effort, more of the noblest elements of moral grandeur, in a life of failure, sin, and shame, than in a career, to our eyes, of stainless integrity. when we condemn or pity the fallen, how do we know that, tempted like him, we should not have fallen like him, as soon, and perhaps with less resistance? how can we know what _we_ should do if we were out of employment, famine crouching, gaunt, and hungry, on our fireless hearth, and our children wailing for bread _we fall not because we are not enough tempted_ he that _hath_ fallen may be at heart as honest as we. how do we

unt, and hungry, on our fireless hearth, and our children wailing for bread _we fall not because we are not enough tempted_ he that _hath_ fallen may be at heart as honest as we. how do we know that _our_ daughter, sister, wife, could resist the abandonment, the desolation, the distress, the temptation, that sacrificed the virtue of their poor abandoned sister of shame? perhaps they also have not fallen, because they have not been sorely tempted! wisely are we directed to pray that we may not be exposed to temptation. human justice must be ever uncertain. how many judicial murders have been committed through ignorance of the phenomena of insanity! how many men hung for murder who were no more murderers at heart than the jury that tried and the judge that sentenced them! it may well be doub

at multitude might have become under similar circumstances. he is to be condemned indeed, but also deeply to be pitied. it does not become the frail and sinful to be vindictive toward even the worst criminals. we owe much to the good providence of god, ordaining for us a lot more favorable to virtue. we all had that within us, that might have been pushed to the same excess. perhaps we should have fallen as he did, with less temptation. perhaps we _have_ done acts, that, in proportion to the temptation or provocation, were less excusable than his great crime. silent pity and sorrow for the victim should mingle with our detestation of the guilt. even the pirate who murders in cold blood on the high seas, is such a man as you or i might have been. orphanage in childhood, or base and dissolute

e the tear glisten on the cheek of his wife, and lit up his boy's eyes with an unwonted sparkling eagerness. or, if he fell in the fight, and his place by the fireside and at the table at home was thereafter vacant, that place was sacred; and he was often talked of there in the long winter evenings; and his family, was deemed fortunate in the neighborhood, because it had had a hero in it, who had fallen in defence of his country. remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein for our country and kind. a useless life is short, if it last a century; but that of alexander was long as the life of the oak, though he died at thirty-five. we may do much in a few years, and we may do nothing in a lifetime. if we but eat and drink and sleep

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

al process which interpreted chastity as physical abstinence, small regard being paid to the mental and moral concomitants of the refusal to act, still less to the physical indications. the root of the error lies in the dogma of original sin, as a result of which pollution was actually excused as being in the nature of involuntary offence, just as if one were to assert that a sleep-walker who has fallen over a precipice were any less dead than empedocles or sappho. the doctrine of thelema resolves the whole question in conformity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties prescribed by magick. it must be obvious to the most embryonic tyro in alchemy that if there be any material substance soever endowed with magical properties, one must class, primus inter pares, that vehicle o

very truth his innermost identity? some technical aspects of this verse had better be pointed out "i am the magician and the exorcist: in any 'war, he is both sides. whichever wins, if the victor wins by true will (we except here such 'wars' as are caused by two people interfering with each other, both ignorant of their true will) wins by universal necessity. hadit, therefore, does not 'know 'the fallen' hadit knows only 'success; meaning: the acting out of the true law of one's being. in order for had it to manifest himself in the 'knower; that is, in the ruach, it is necessary that the ruach be attuned to the higher triad in which case 'failure 'fear' and 'sorrow' become impossible. these things exist in terms of relations, but not as 'absolutes "come unto me" is a 'foolish word' see our

ble with the changeless and impersonal. they have their roots in conceptions involving change and personality. strictly speaking 'joy' is no less absurd than sorrow, with reference to hadit; but from the standpoint of the individual, this is not the case. one's fear of death is removed by the knowledge that there is no such thing in reality; but one's joy in life is not affected. 48. pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler. it is several times shewn in this book that 'falling' is in truth impossible 'all is ever as it was. to sympathize with the illusion is not only absurd, but tends to perpetuate the false idea. it is a mistake to 'spoil' a child, or humour a malade imaginaire. one must, on the contrary, chase away the sh

re is: do what thou wilt! some technical aspects of this verse should be mentioned "hadit never knew them" hadit was never manifested in their ruach to them he exists only as "not" the consciousness of hadit is only possible to those whose ajna has become active, even if for just one moment "hadit consoles not" hadit, of course, is the a biding flame of life that makes manifestation, even of the "fallen; possible. though they are not conscious of him, he is in them. see lxv, iii, 36. but for the same reason, he "hates" those who console and those who let themselves be consoled. to fear death is to blaspheme against life, and your own spiritual intuition gimel in the qabalah turns against you in scorn. it is for this reason that beggars hate the alms giver, and the alms giver, deep in his h

of race, caste, or religion, are an abomination against beauty and love, babalon and therion, woman and man. love is the law, love under will. 53. fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year of the new aeon has dawned (this was thus written in 1918 e.v) yes! i am lifted up, the sun being in scorpio in this fourteenth year of the aeo

ight unfurished? one must hope that his success will go beyond joseph smith's, who was a flagrant case of "fool of men. when reaching his first great mystical trance which was also his last smith found himself surrounded by that "thick, oppressive darkness" characteristic of binah. he feared it; at once a "ray of white light" pierced it, and he saw "jesus descend from heaven unto him" having thus fallen back from samadhi into the lowest form of dhyana, he conversed with "because" under one of its innumerable shapes "jesus" being the one that had impressed his kama rupa and his manas most from childhood, through parental and environmental conditioning. finally he went and preached a "new" religion that had nothing of new, being, in essence, simply another form of protestantism. as with any

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

eir rapid course, and the very mountains and trees moved from their places at the sound of his entrancing melodies. orpheus became united to a lovely nymph named eurydice, the daughter of the sea-god nereus, whom he fondly loved. she was no less attached to him, and their married life was full of joy and happiness. but it was only short-lived; for aristaus,[31] the half-brother of orpheus, having fallen in love with the beautiful eurydice, forcibly endeavoured to take her from her husband, and as she fled across some fields to elude his pursuit, she was bitten in the foot by a venomous snake, which lay concealed in the long grass. eurydice died of the wound, and her sorrowing husband filled the groves and valleys with his piteous and unceasing lamentations. his longing to behold her once m

cise torments which awaited him in tartarus. the wretched sinners were then seized by the furies, who scourged them with their whips, and dragged them along to the great gate, which closed the opening to tartarus, into whose awful depths they were hurled, to suffer endless torture. tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below hades as the earth is distant from the skies. there the titans, fallen from their high estate, dragged out a dreary and monotonous existence; there also were otus and ephialtes, those giant sons of poseidon, who, page 149 with impious hands, had attempted to scale olympus and dethrone its mighty ruler. principal among the sufferers in this abode of gloom were tityus, tantalus, sisyphus, ixion, and the danaides. tityus, one of the earth-born giants, had insulte

n displeased with the thebans, sent them this awful monster, as a punishment for their offences. taking her seat on a rocky eminence near the city of thebes, commanding a pass which the thebans were compelled to traverse in their usual way of business, she propounded to all comers a riddle, and if they failed to solve it, she tore them in pieces. during the reign of king creon, so many people had fallen a sacrifice to this monster, that he determined to use every effort to rid the country of so terrible a scourge. on consulting the oracle of delphi, he was informed that the only way to destroy the sphinx was to solve one of her riddles, when she would immediately precipitate herself from the rock on which she was seated. creon, accordingly, made a public declaration to the effect, that who

ion of his vindictive designs; for adrastus, who, after his flight from thebes, had taken refuge at athens, induced theseus to lead an army against the thebans, to compel them to restore the dead bodies of the argive warriors to page 309 their friends, in order that they might perform due funereal rites in honour of the slain. this undertaking was successfully accomplished, and the remains of the fallen heroes were interred with due honours. the epigoni. ten years after these events the sons of the slain heroes, who were called epigoni, or descendants, resolved to avenge the death of their fathers, and with this object entered upon a new expedition against the city of thebes. by the advice of the delphic oracle the command was intrusted to alcmaon, the son of amphiaraus; but remembering th

g panted for. at length, wearied with the hot pursuit, hector made a stand and challenged his foe to single combat. a desperate encounter took place, in which hector succumbed to his powerful adversary at the scaan gate; and with his last dying breath the trojan hero foretold to his conqueror that he himself would soon perish on the same spot. the infuriated victor bound the lifeless corse of his fallen foe to his chariot, and dragged it three times round the city walls and thence to the greek camp. overwhelmed with horror at this terrible scene the aged parents of hector uttered such heart-rending cries of anguish that they reached the ears of andromache, his faithful page 327 wife, who, rushing to the walls, beheld the dead body of her husband, bound to the conqueror's car. achilles now

her gently from the ground, and she expired in his arms. on beholding the dead body of their leader in the [297]possession of achilles, the amazons and trojans prepared for a fresh attack in order to wrest it from his hands; but observing their purpose, achilles stepped forward and loudly called upon them to halt. then in a few well-chosen words he praised the great valour and intrepidity of the fallen queen, and expressed his willingness to resign the body at once. the chivalrous conduct of achilles was fully appreciated by both greeks and trojans. thersites alone, a base and cowardly wretch, attributed unworthy motives to the gracious proceedings of the hero; and, not content with these insinuations, he savagely pierced with his lance the dead body of the amazonian queen; whereupon achi

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ve times, you will feel the vibration from it starting to build up in your body, getting stronger and stronger. the green candle spell< this spell has proven extremely successful. it is concerned with bringing moderate amounts of money to meet financial needs. before beginning, write down on a piece of paper what bills need paying or what you want the money for. keep it simple. after darkness has fallen, enter your witching circle and light a single green candle. if you wish you can burn a stick of incense and have soft music playing. put out all lights except the candle and read your piece of paper once more. awaken your magic power and then close your eyes and see exactly what it is that you want, i.e. see the money appearing in your hands. get involved with the money. use your imaginati

dea of the scarlet woman, a particularly wanton prostitute. and subject her to every form of humiliation and degradation his fertile mind could come up with including branding between the breasts! after his death at hastings, england in 1947, his erotic poem hymn to pan, was recited during the funeral services by his remaining few disciples, and an occult ceremony held at his grave. the beast had fallen. thank you letter #4 thank you for your letter and advice. anyway i ve tried your asmodeus spell with amazing results, also the seduction spell worked first time and it worked well. the girl in question i had not seen for 18 months it s a long story, but i could not believe my luck. i thought a couple of years ago i would never score with her, and for that alone i thank you. i hope the dark

uld never be used for the playing of any board game if they are to be used for divining. how to use your dice to foretell the future this method is for short-term forecasts and the results achieved are basic and uncomplicated. the three dice should be cast into a circle measuring approximately 7 inches in diameter drawn on a piece of paper. the spots on the uppermost faces of the dice, which have fallen within the circle, should now be totaled and the following interpretations apply. a total of one or two mean the dice have nothing to say at the present. three signifies a very happy surprise. four an unpleasant letter will be received. five a new friendship will be formed. six a friend will ask a favor of you. seven foretells a new romance. eight a gift of clothing will be received. nine a

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

h. the first concern of these "warrior monks" was the erection of construction that could be used* the templars recognized themselves as "brothers and companions" of the cistercians, to whom they owed assistance and protection. the crusades and the templars 67 for purposes of attack and defense. rather than being assumed by the knights, who were primarily soldiers, the role of architect must have fallen upon the chaplains, who were religious clerics, as well as upon actual specialists. each templar commandery, though under the orders of a single commander, was managed by a certain number of officers, one of whom was a master carpenter.12 in addition to their servant brothers, the templars also employed christian workers who were not officially members of the order. these persons were somet

in italy, germany, and switzerland builders corporations of italy the appearance and development of trade communities in italy (known as arti in italian, a word that beautifully expresses the medieval and christian concept of work) were closely bound to the communal movement and its circumstances that were unique to this country. with the establishment of feudalism, almost all italian cities had fallen under the authority of the bishops. they were the first to acquire their freedom. the political process, however, was different from the communal movement in france, flanders, and great britain. in these countries liberalization was, from the onset, due to the struggle of the bourgeoisie against the nobles, who often had the support of the king. in italy, in the absence of any unified centr

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

shiping him and performing ceremonial rites. these later became the roman lupercalia, a festival dedicated to the fertility god faunus. half-goat pan s goat-form inspired the conventional depiction of the christian devil; some writers see the devil-worship of the european witchcult as a continuation of the rites of pan. pan and syrinx by fran ois boucher (1703 70) this painting shows pan, who has fallen in love with the beautiful nymph syrinx, pursuing her to the banks of the river ladon. as he reaches to embrace her, she calls on the river goddess to help her to escape. hermes, messenger of the gods hermes was pan s father. a son of zeus by maia, the eldest of the pleiades, he helped zeus to woo the princess io by lulling the 100- eyed guard dog argus to sleep with the story of pan s purs

be able to find its way out. every nine years, to appease it, minos gave the minotaur a sacrificial offering of seven young women and seven young men, which he exacted as tribute from the city of athens. one year, the hero theseus (see pp. 54 55) volunteered as a victim, intending to kill the minotaur and rescue athens from its terrible fate. with the help of ariadne, the king s daughter who had fallen in love with him, he succeeded. he then set sail for athens with ariadne but left her on the island of naxos, where she married the god dionysus (see pp. 58 59. king minos was the son of europa by zeus (see p. 45; europa later married king asterius, who adopted minos as his heir. when he became king, minos prepared an altar to poseidon and prayed for a bull to emerge from the sea to be sacr

after his victory at the battle of dannourra in 1185. his brother yoshitsune was a legendary hero who appears in many noh plays. river home every river has its own god, but is also home to evil dwarf vampires known as kappa, who drown their victims and then suck out their blood. the only way to outwit a kappa is to cause it to bow, thus spilling the water from its skull and dispersing its power. fallen warriors tadatsune s companions like him, samurai warriors lie dead on the ground, victims of the goddess displeasure after they attempted to trespass on her holy ground. izanami and izanagi izanami and izanagi were the last of seven generations of gods. here, they stir the ocean with a jeweled magical spear to create the islands of japan. tadatsune and the goddess of mount fuji by kuniyosh

PHOSPHORUS

ath of phosphorus. we as an order embrace the essence and ideal of lucifer, the bringer of light. it is through a detailed and individualized harrowing of hell that we emerge as one isolate, beautiful, and willing to go forth through initiation further. it is essential to use that which stimulates your imagination, that will urge you to move away from stasis to strive for the fiery essence of the fallen angel, that which would know heaven and hell. much of the sex magickal practice of phosphorus is solitary and is designed to create and develop the will and god itself self-deification. 5 0 void and the abyss title veneficus lucifugum -fly the light into the darkness- color white symbol witches mark forked stave within sun -study of fulmino-lucifer, how this spirit relates to self and how i

emon represents both earth and spirit and the unity within. the evocation and invocation of mephistopheles to absorb a hidden atavistic knowledge of the daemonum of the earth. see mephistopheles conjuration by michael w. ford 2. the assumption of the flesh of the devil, the power of initiation and the mark of the devil as a rite of passage. the god form of satan the adversary is to understand the fallen aspect of darkness to the 12 rise into the dark light, thus a balanced initiation of flesh and spirit. see book of the witch moon. 3. the astral sabbath, dedication to, preparation and emergence into the astral plane. complete records and insight through including if famulus attends the self. 4. averse tree of life (daath) and the spheres of the qlippoth. devotion to the essence of each sph

tion. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling beasts, bless my path with your eyes which are always seeing bless me with the fallen star of azazel, as lightening i awake! i do affirm ahriman, prince of darkness and the beast in flesh spectral shadow who is lucifugus, bless my rites with the astral shape of the toad and the serpent dragon open thy eye as algol! i do affirm lucifer azazel, fire born angel of the abyss, who comes forth in the earth as the devil and djinn of flame before me is algol my essence, my desire, m

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

the light of the spirit is based within perception and the clarity of an awakened self. perception is the vehicle of knowledge and what the individual can understand. christianity teaches the annihilation of perception and the repression of the awakened mind. the enthusiasm of the driven conscious, charged with the bright luciferian light; leads all individuals towards god itself. lucifer is the fallen angel of light. born strong in the light of the god spirit, his crown held the most beautiful jewels from the earth. his essence was of the sun and divine wisdom and enlightenment shone throughout him. no other angel or seraphim was as bright as lucifer. as with all beings of light and will, a great fire emerged within lucifer. he sought to become as god, to rise towards godhead. thus the g

ning to enter the great abyss of non-form if such would remain for any period of time "i call ye forth to awake and arise as yourselves, gods in the light of heaven. hell is ours yet we must make a heaven within ourselves. the universe is kind and all we shall ever need will be provided as long as we are here to take it. stand up and join with me. the world can be ours under our light..awake" the fallen seraphim began to rise and take shape. they would scatter unto the various parts of the earth and abyss. from the ashes must the gods and goddesses rise. some descended further, some became as angels of light. leviathan and samael descended, lucifer became and angel of light. belial would become an earth bound spirit who would transform into a demon. astaroth, wandering the earth on a great

e descended further, some became as angels of light. leviathan and samael descended, lucifer became and angel of light. belial would become an earth bound spirit who would transform into a demon. astaroth, wandering the earth on a great dragon. leviathan, a daemon who became of the ocean and would exist simultaneously with the astral plane and the depths of the sea. leviathan along with the other fallen angels became an ideal, a focus of strength whose power still remains within all of us. awaiting the moment of becoming, these daemonic atavisms exist on subconscious levels of the mind. the opening of such abyssic gates leads the psyche towards rising forth and becoming something of evolutionary progression. lucifer stands as the fountain head of astral magick (i.e, astral projection, drea

e far too real. insanity, which is displacement and unbalance of the many selves that form one union are disrupted and madness overtakes the self. the black magician must be fully balanced in order to avoid the dangers that tempt even the most stable minded. the shadowing forth of lucifer occurs once the self absorbs and forgets the spirit. further atavistic resurgence will summon lucifer and the fallen angel shall become you in every way. this can be accomplished later once the spirit is called forth and through the death posture a re-alignment can be done. consider absorbing spirits in a modern sense similar to downloading a program on your personal computer. once this is done, to become a part of this spirit the many selves must in some way be connected. the spirit is forgot and sunk de

led the abyss. when the time has come for this spirit to rise and become fully a part of the self, the downloaded program can only work when the computer is shut down and restarted. the mind works in this capacity with regards to such. the spirit through the death posture will re align it's self and the powers shall become at his or her demand to practice. the many spirits of the ascension of the fallen operate in a similar manner except this is far more dangerous. many other spirits are invoked and many are demonic energies which must be absorbed through will and control. aleister crowley gave us the modern synthesis and foundation of luciferian thought "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and "love is the law, love under will. two statements which clearly set in motion the a

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

memphis and misraim patent became of no effect when the entire custody of the rite was turned over to the grand orient in november of that year. no one who has made a study of the rite ofmemphis xand it should be said that this article covers only the high lights xwill deny that the rite of memphis maintained considerable activity during the b i g as and up to the early b i i as. it had, however, fallen into the hands of masonic charlatans and impostors who used it with more or less success to further their own selfish ends. authority was claimed and assumed by various individuals without the slightest semblance of legality. the growth of the rite during the period from b i f g to b i g h can be attributed in a large degree to the difficulties which existed in the northern masonic jurisdic

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

ch hitbonenut contemplation. we will now explain the various levels of how one becomes divinely inspired as a consequence of the toil of hitbonenut. bodies without souls the first category of "service" cannot be considered to be a level in divine service at all. unfortunately, most people fall into this category and it must therefore be discussed in order to dispel the delusions which people have fallen into, in imagining that they are serving g-d. these are people who fulfill the commandments (mitzvot) completely by rote, with no thought into their actions whatsoever. on the contrary, the commandments (mitzvot) are actually a burden to them. their minds and hearts, and their very souls, are not involved in the torah which they learn or the actions which they perform. therefore their perfo

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

veals a secret to a wicked person, he causes yesod, which is that vav, to channel its effulgence to the powers of evil. this is alluded to by the words g ca secret to another, h for the numerical value of the word for gsecret h [sod] is 70, referring to the 70 angelic princes [of the non-jewish nations. the non-jewish nations, at least until their rectification in the messianic future, embody the fallen version of adam that chose to be associated with the materiality of this world and thus oppose the revelation of divine will on earth. there are 70 archetypal nations, enumerated in genesis 10. their spiritual sources, the angelic gprinces, h are personifications of the different mentalities, or cultures, they each express. each is a different variation (i.e, perversion) of the torah, each

plete coupling and reproduction. this is the mystical meaning of our sages f statement that jacob fs gbed was perfect, h meaning that the [supernal] coupling that occurred in his time was a complete expression of all three aspects of the intellect. abraham had two sons, ishmael and isaac. isaac was worthy to become one of the forefathers of the jewish people, but ishmael was not. he personified a fallen version of his father fs chesed. this false chesed is the desire to please other people for egocentric ends, or excessive indulgence in the delights of this world. similarly, isaac had two sons, esau and jacob. jacob was worthy to continue the line, but esau personified a fallen version of isaac fs gevurah. this fallen gevurah is violence and murder. in contrast, all of jacob fs sons were c

ah, we will now explain how these two names combine and thereby contain all the states of gevurah. the summation of all the states of judgment are the 288 sparks that were rectified by the 32 names elokim, which were other states of judgment, as is known. all together, these sum to 320 sparks. as we have seen previously, when the vessels of tohu shattered, 288 general sparks were entrapped in the fallen remains of these vessels. in the account of creation, the torah refers to g-d exclusively by the name elokim, and this name is used exactly 32 times. the creation of this physical world, subsequent to the collapse of the world of tohu, effected a certain rectification in the shattered vessels, preparing them for their further rectification by man. now, the combined value of yitzchak [isaac]

s. the nine kings (i.e, the nine malchut fs of tohu) are extremely volatile, as is everything in that world because the amount of light is out of proportion with the capacity of the vessels to hold it. but everything in tohu is still in the realm of holiness. only when the vessels of tohu break and their gshards h descend into the lower worlds do they exist as almost lifeless gshells h.pockets of fallen consciousness possessing no holiness other than a tiny spark of tohu-light embedded deep with each one to keep it in existence. other than that deep kernel of holiness, the whole 1 genesis 14. 2 ibid. 36:31-39. 3 eitz chaim 8:4-5, 9:1-2, 5, 17:3. 4 ibid. 8:3. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 74 essence of the fallen gshell h is evil, i.e, selfhood and antithesis to divinity (this is what l

alue is 45. yud-vav-dalet hei-alef vav-alef-vav hei-alef (10+ 6+ 4 (5+ 1 (6+ 1+ 6 (5+ 1= 45. lot is positioned opposite the back of z feir anpin, being the evil that sucks from [z feir anpin fs] back. the numerical value of lot is thus also 45. lot: lamed-vav-tet= 30+ 6+ 9= 45. in order to exist, every form of evil must gsuck h (i.e, derive its sustenance) from some form of good, of which it is a fallen, corrupt version. in aramaic, lot means gcursed, h referring to this manifestation of evil. aramaic, being closely related to hebrew, is an intermediary between the holy language and the other languages of the world. it thus sometimes expresses a fallen version of the allied word in hebrew, or is seen to greveal h (aramaic is used for the sages f vernacular translations of the bible) the me

s and returns them to their original state. apparently this refers to the slivers of iron that break off the larger piece. the skilled blacksmith knows how to grecycle h these splinters and use them. this is the essence of the sages f dispute over whether or not a blessing is to be pronounced over unripe fruit.15 he who contends that we do not recite a blessing over them feels that once they have fallen off the tree and the forces of evil have appropriated them they are not suitable for a blessing. as long as unripe fruit remains on the tree, it can ripen and become edible. thus, it potentially can be eaten and thereby elevated into the service of g-d (assuming the person eating the fruit uses the energy and glift h he gets from eating it for holy purposes. once the unripe fruit falls (or

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

fire, while the ladder are principally of a watery nature. identical nature with those of the preceding reversed. previously the water was predominant. lurid storm, with water only as the complementary and in order that due equilibrium may elohim moved upon the face of the waters" elements which, intelligently controlled <55> eventually to the restoration of paradise may be re-created from it had fallen. for the light may not legitimately within him, until chaos has been turned enlightenment. not until order has been kingdom, neither peace nor inner security the symbols depicted while traversing of fire and water, indicate the results as tarot card shown demonstrates the destruction holes blasted in the walls syrnbolise the divine through and following the destruction water, warmth and moi

lid is a whkh brings fulfillment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams. it is divided into two sections. the lower half of the painting depicts a figufe of idam, similar to his presentation in the practicus grade diagram, though here the heads of the dragon are faback from the tree, showing the justified one, the illuminated adept, by his immolation and self-sacrifice rescuing the fallen kingdom of his natural self from the clutches of an outraged eros. but above this, as though to show the true nature behind the deceptive appearance of things is illustrated a noble figure of majesty and divinity described in the ritual in these words "and being turned i saw seven golden <64> light-bearers, and in the midst of the light-bearers, one like unto the ben adam, clothed with a ga

vast infinite sphere containing so many and diverse infinite microcosmic forms, of which the perfect knowledge is only known unto the advanced adept. also it shall here suffice to say that thou shalt make a distinction between the four-handed race (the quadrumana, apes and monkeys) which be midway between man and beast and other animals. for they be <224> neither the oneor the other, but are the fallen and debased result of a most ancient magical effect to formulate a material and immediate link between the human and animal microcosms. this is elsewhere treated of, and it shall here be sufficient to say that they are not an ascent, from the beast unto the man, but a mistaken magical fall from a man unto a beast. anciently they were a terrible power upon this planet, as then having more of

s of silence and of depth in the place of the gathering waters. terrible was the silence of that untreated world- immeasurable the depth of that abyss. and the countenances of darkness half-formed arose- they abode not- they hasted away- and in the darkness of vacancy, the spirit moved and the lightbearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness- are not the countenances of darkness fallen with kings? do the sons of the night of time last for ever? and have they not yet passed away? before all things are the watersand the darkness and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form- and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath philosophus ritual

e rose of ruby and the cross of gold. 228 the golden dawn: volume 11 book three <210> rise, glorified by suffering. rise, purified by humility. aspirant rises. second despise not sadness, and hate not suffering, for they are the initiators of the heart; and the black robe of mourning which thou wearest is at once the symbol of sorrow and of strength. boast not thyself above thy brother if he hath fallen, for how knowest thou that thou couldst have withstood the same temptation. slander not, and revile not. if thou canst not praise, do not condemn. when thou seest another in trouble in humiliation, even though he be thy enemy, remember the time of thy own humiliation when thou didst kneel before the door of the tomb, clothed in the robe of mourning, with the chain of affliction about thy ne

ere are now their gods? 0 my father, i saw thee when thou camest forth from edom, when thou wentest out of the field of seir. why were thy garments red, 0 mighty one? what were the sounds that behind thee rose from hell? a crying and a groaning, a wail as of pain! for the power of the mighty ones is shattered. red are thy robes, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came-and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came-and the thrones of the ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. 0 my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. a1 ab blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength 0 concealer, and fallen a

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

rn home" thumb 12400 "the melek taoos of the yezeedees" p. 125 according to the theology of the yezeedees, melek taoos, of which the senjak is a type, is the principle or power from whom all evil proceeds, and their religious services seem to partake much more of a propitiatory than of an eucharistic character. in this respect, their system is in accordance with the natural feelings of man in his fallen state, which lead him rather to dread punishment for his misdeeds, than to be thankful for benefits received. the yezeedees, therefore, revere the evil principle, not out of love, but from fear, and this reverence they manifest not only by such religious rites as these already described, but by scrupulously avoiding all mention of satan, and the use of any word implying execration. thus, th

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

mong primitive oriental peoples, moloch, adramelek, baal, were personifications of the one god, dishonoured by barbarous attributes. the god of the jansenists, creating hell for the majority of human beings and delighting in the eternal tortures of those he was unwilling to save, is a conception even more barbarous than that of moloch: hence the god of the jansenists is already a veritable satan, fallen from heaven, in the sight of every wise and enlightened christian. in the multiplication of the divine names the kabalists have connected them all, either with the unity of the tetragram, the figure of the triad, or the sephirotic scale of the decad. they arrange the scale of the divine names and numbers in a triangle, which may be presented in roman characters as follows: j ja sdi jehv elo

ons will do well to divert their attention or to abstain. we have undertaken a task, and we must complete it. let us first of all address ourselves frankly and boldly to the questions: is there a devil? what is the devil? as to the first point, science is silent, philosophy denies it at hazard, religion only answers in the affirmative. as to the second point, religion states that the devil is the fallen angel; occult philosophy accepts and explains this definition. it will be unnecessary to repeat what we have said previously on the subject, but we may add a further revelation: in black magic, the devil is the great magical agent employed for evil purposes by a perverse will. the old serpent of the legend is nothing else than the universal agent, the eternal fire of terrestrial life, the s

n what the notion of the devil is to that of god. this is the sense in which the worship of images is forbidden, and in this sense also a doctrine most holy in its original conception may become superstitious and impious when it has lost its spirit and its inspiration. then does religion, ever one, like the supreme reason, exchange its vestures and abandon old rites to the cupidity and roguery of fallen priests, transformed by their wickedness and ignorance into jugglers and charlatans. we may include among superstitions those magical emblems and characters, of which the meaning is understood no longer, which are engraved by chance on amulets and talismans. the magical images of the ancients were pantacles, i.e. kabalistic syntheses. thus the wheel of pythagoras is a pantacle analogous to

rally temperate, and it was through pride that he yielded to the excess which occasioned his death. francis i died of an adultery. louis xv died of his parc-aux-cerfs. when marat was assassinated he was perishing of rage and envy. he was a monomaniac of pride, who believed himself to be the only just man and would have slain everything that was not marat. several of our contemporaries perished of fallen ambition after the revolution of february. so soon as any will is confirmed irrevocably in the tendency towards the absurd, the man is dead, and the rock on which he will break is not remote. it is therefore true to say that wisdom preserves and prolongs life. the great master told us: my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath

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

cy for the salvation of the unity idea; he respects the old age of the church, but he has no fear that she will die; he knows that her apparent death will be a transfiguration and a glorious assumption. the author of this book calls upon the eastern magi to come forward and recognize once again that divine master whose cradle they saluted, the great initiator of all the ages. all his enemies have fallen; all those who condemned him are 8 the ritual of transcendental magic dead, those who persecuted him have passed into sleep for ever; but he is for ever alive. the envious have combined against him, agreeing on a single point; the sectaries have united to destroy him; they have crowned themselves kings and proscribed him; they have become hypocrites and accused him; they have constituted th

od when nothing remains to destroy and everything to remake. gremake what? the past? h no one can remake the past. gwhat, then, shall we reconstruct? temples and thrones? h to what purpose, since the former ones have been cast down? gyou might as well say: my house has collapsed from age, of what use is it to build another? h but will the house that you contemplate erecting be like that which has fallen? no, for the one was old and the other will be new. gnotwithstanding, it will be always a house. h what else can you expect? 17 chapter ii magical equilibrium equilibrium is the consequence of two forces. if two forces are absolutely and invariably equal, the equilibrium will be immobility and therefore the negation of life. movement is the result of an alternate preponderance. the impulsio

rnal catholicism. st. john, in the blazing pentagram 37 the apocalypse, beholds this same star fall from heaven to earth. it is then called absinthe or wormwood, and all the waters of the sea become bitter. a striking image of the materialization of dogma, which produces fanaticism and the acridities of controversy. then unto christianity itself may be applied those words of isaiah: ghow has thou fallen from heaven, bright star, which wast so splendid in thy prime! h but the pentagram, profaned by men, burns ever unclouded in the right hand of the word of truth, and the inspired voice guarantees to him that overcometh the possession of the morning star. a solemn promise of restitution held out to the star of lucifer. as will be seen, all mysteries of magic, all symbols of the gnosis, all f

ve, which result from the universal magic of nature, truly prodigious, and do they not actually transform persons and things? love is a dream of enchantments that transfigures the world; all becomes music and fragrance, all intoxication and felicity. the beloved being is beautiful, is good, is sublime, is infallible, is radiant, glows with health and happiness. when the dream ends we seem to have fallen from the clouds; we are inspired with disgust for the brazen sorceress who took the place of the lovely melusine, for the thersites whom we deemed was achilles or nereus. what faith is that which we cannot inspire in those who love us? but also what reason or justice can we instill into those who have finished with such love? love begins magician and ends sorcerer. after creating the illusi

lles de laval, lord of retz, who passed from asceticism to black magic and offered the most revolting sacrifices to conciliate the favour of satan. this madman confessed at his trial that satan had appeared to him frequently, but had always deceived him by promises of treasures which he had never delivered. it transpired from the judicial informations that several hundred unfortunate children had fallen victims to the cupidity and atrocious fancies of this monster. 93 chapter xvi witchcraft and spells what sorcerers and necromancers sought above all in their evocations of the impure spirit was that magnetic power which is the possession of the true adept, but was desired by them only that they might abuse it shamefully. the folly of sorcerers was an evil folly, and one of their chief ends

pliment from the marchioness of. looking me straight in the face, she said: esir, you will not make me flinch before your terrible glance: you have the eyes of satan. f h gwell, h answered the doctor, smiling, gyou, of course, put your arms round her neck and embraced her? h gnot at all; i was overwhelmed by her sudden onslaught. h gbeware how you call on her again, then, my friend; you will have fallen deeply in her estimation! h the office of executioner is commonly said to go down from father to son. do executioners really have children? undoubtedly, as they never fail to get wives. marat had a mistress who loved him tenderly. he, the loathsome leper; but still it was that terrible marat who caused the world to tremble. love, above all in a woman, may be termed a veritable hallucination

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omplete the academy only as skilled sophists. the sphinx: we are at something of an impasse. i confess that i cannot resolve this evident inconsistency. let us seek fresh counsel. quite suddenly there materializes a gryphon. the gryphon: the dilemma can be resolved, but it is so constructed that it defies resolution by sophistic logic. and that is precisely the trap into which the two of you have fallen. indeed the dialogues are there to teach, but the student must put forth the effort to see past the sophistic teachings to those of plato himself. the chimaera: but the argumentative pattern of the dialogues is sophistic, and any connection between sophistic logic and platonic faith cannot exist. do you think to pursue me? the gryphon: the key to plato rests in the meno. here. he turns to p

nd behind. and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face of a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. and the four beasts each had six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within; and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord jehovah almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. isaiah 14:12-14 how you have fallen from heaven, o morning star, son of the dawn! you have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! you said in your heart 'i will ascend to heaven; i will raise my throne above the stars of god; i will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. i will ascend above the tops of the clouds; i will make myself like the most high' lu

n the sea of humanity, there it shall remain through remanifestation. to snatch one's soul from that sea of humanity is akin to snatching a fish from the waters. consider this: what becomes of that snatched fish? who does the snatching? and who taught man to snatch men's souls? be this true, heaven becomes hell, good becomes evil, and jesus becomes the deceiver. lucifer: isaiah 14:12 how are thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. lucifer is one of the most used names of satan in today's culture. however, it is interesting to note that this is the only passage in the bible that mentions lucifer by name. lucifer is mentioned nowhere else in the bible. the dragon: revelation 12:7 and there was war in heaven:

ature of nuit. concerning the "dissolution" see the comments to #i-32 and #ii-21. 45. there is death for the dogs. those who reject such dissolution and absorption, and who are not initiates capable of sustaining the existence of the ba and ka after the transfer of the khu, will in fact die. 46. dost thou fail? art thou sorry? is fear in thine heart? 47. where i am these are not. 48. pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler. 49. i am unique and conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned& dead! amen [this is of the 4; there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg] a restatement of the themes in #ii-18/21. amon is the "conqueror. the warrior lord of thebes [see #i-5. he was the patron

l excess are characteristic of emotional use of the intellect. an attribute of harwer's distinction from the dispassionate objective universe. 53. fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. a restatement of crowley's role as set forth in #i-15. the curse of a magus is that, because he utters a new word amidst the values and norms of the expiring aeon, or as an unfamiliar complement to the present aeon, few if any will initially understand or endorse that new word. hence he can expect to be greeted with disinterest or even contempt. truth, however, is not d

it seemed that earth was unchanged, but in the eyes of man did raphael see the first gleam of thought. and raphael turned to michael, who had now answered his call, and said, satan hath come to earth, and man is no longer pure in the sight of heaven, for his will hath become his own. thereupon they rose again to heaven, where they told messiah of what they had seen. then messiah answered, man is fallen, but he is not lost, for his infant will is not that of an angel, and the powers that satan hath promised him lie dormant in the dim reaches of his future. consider this not our defeat, for the contest is but begun. the earth of man shall be remade as microcosmos, and many things shall man see, both good and ill. and the choice shall be placed before him, to wield the power and the pain and

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at chamcha; they burst through the bottom of the clouds. speed, the sensation of speed, returned, whistling its fearful note. the roof of cloud fled upwards, the water-floor zoomed closer, their eyes opened. a scream, that same scream that had fluttered in his guts when gibreel swam across the sky, burst from chamcha's lips; a shaft of sunlight pierced his open mouth and set it free. but they had fallen through the transformations of the clouds, chamcha and farishta, and there was a fluidity, an indistinctness, at the edges of them, and as the sunlight hit chamcha it released more than noise "fly" chamcha shrieked at gibreel "start flying, now" and added, without knowing its source, the second command "and sing" how does newness come into the world? how is it born? of what fusions, transla

would hurt the immortal gibreel- they fired him anyway and the police put him in the lock-up, just in case. but it was not the punch that had flattened gibreel. after the star had been flown into bombay's breach candy hospital in an air force jet made available for the purpose; after exhaustive tests had come up with almost nothing; and while he lay unconscious, dying, with a blood-count that had fallen from his normal fifteen to a murderous four point two, a hospital spokesman faced the national press on breach candy's wide white steps "it is a freak mystery" he gave out "call it, if you so please, an act of god" gibreel farishta had begun to haemorrhage all over his insides for no apparent reason, and was quite simply bleeding to death inside his skin. at the worst moment the blood began

ortunately the case that his voice (the first to go) and, subsequently, his face itself, had begun to let him down. it started- chamcha, allowing fingers and thumbs to relax and hoping, in some embarrassment, that his last remaining superstition had gone unobserved by his fellow-passengers, closed his eyes and remembered with a delicate shudder of horror- on his flight east some weeks ago. he had fallen into a torpid sleep, high above the desert sands of the persian gulf, and been visited in a dream by a bizarre stranger, a man with a glass skin, who rapped his knuckles mournfully against the thin, brittle membrane covering his entire body and begged saladin to help him, to release him from the prison of his skin. chamcha picked up a stone and began to batter at the glass. at once a lattic

o its reliable, english self. the first disturbing thing that happened to mr. chamcha on that flight was that he recognized, among his fellow-passengers, the woman of his dreams. 4 the dream-woman had been shorter and less graceful than the real one, but the instant chamcha saw her walking calmly up and down the aisles of _bostan_ he remembered the nightmare. after zeenat vakil's departure he had fallen into a troubled sleep, and the premonition had come to him: the vision of a woman bomber with an almost inaudibly soft, canadian-accented voice whose depth and melody made it sound like an ocean heard from a long way away. the dream-woman had been so loaded down with explosives that she was not so much the bomber as the bomb; the woman walking the aisles held a baby that seemed to be sleepi

point of her gun she pushed jalandri towards the open door at the front, while he screamed and begged for mercy "she's got sharp eyes" gibreel said to chamcha "he's a cut-sird" jalandri had become the first target because of his decision to give up the turban and cut his hair, which made him a traitor to his faith, a shorn sirdarji _cut-sird. a seven--letter condemnation; no appeal. jalandri had fallen to his knees, stains were spreading on the seat of his trousers, she was dragging him to the door by his hair. nobody moved. dara buta man singh turned away from the tableau. he was kneeling with his back to the open door; she made him turn round, shot him in the back of the head, and he toppled out on to the tarmac. tavleen shut the door. man singh, youngest and jumpiest of the quartet, sc

f the poets falls into step beside him, a sharp narrow youth with frenzied fingers. this young lampoonist already has the most feared tongue in all jahilia, but to abu simbel he is almost deferential "why so preoccupied, grandee? if you were not losing your hair i'd tell you to let it down" abu simbel grins his sloping grin "such a reputation" he muses "such fame, even before your milk-teeth have fallen out. look out or we'll have to draw those teeth for you" he is teasing, speaking lightly, but even this lightness is laced with menace, because of the extent of his power. the boy is unabashed. matching abu simbel stride for stride, he replies "for every one you pull out, a stronger one will grow, biting deeper, drawing hotter spurts of blood" the grandee, vaguely, nods "you like the taste

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the mid-eighth century a frankish priest named adalbert was condemned for praying to uriel, raguel, tubuel, adin, tubuas, sabaok, and sariel, all of whom the roman synod had declared to be actually devils. by the 14th century enoch s relatively modest count of a few hundred angels had been expanded by the cardinal bishop of tusculum to precisely 301,655,722. of these 133,306,668 were amongst the fallen. others insisted that the nine choirs each had 6,666 legions of 6,666 angels. although such theological absurdities may seem irrelevant to us now, at the time they were considered crucial to our common perception of ourselves in relation to cosmos. what can hardly be disputed is that the angels, and their relatives the devils, have been wholly accepted and imprinted into the collective imag

ned 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-el, his name translates as god s command. according to enoch, sariel is responsible for the fate of those angels who transgress the laws. with the self contradiction typical of all theologians he also lists him as one of the fallen angels, whilst in the wars of the sons of light against the sons of darkness his name appears on the shields of a unit of the forces of light. he is often identified as one of the angels of death, and as the angel who gave knowledge to moses. ragu-el friend of god, also called rasu-il, rufa-el, akrasi-el. according to enoch this is the angel who takes vengeance upon the world of the luminar

ame to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will mount the back of a cloud. i will be like unto elyon. according to some versions of this myth, the devil has set himself up in competition to god, and has created his own dark count

call upon the names of mammon and astaroth for added power. such might be inscribed upon a talisman, or intoned as a mantra to aid the trance during some other form of ritual. this is quite apart from the more extreme forms of sorcery, where the spirits might be more actively evoked to manifestation. having considered first the hierarchy of heaven, here follows a brief roll call of those who have fallen, their descendants, and also in some sense their ancestors. the primary sources of these names are the classical grimoire. these as a whole imitate the work of one book; this being the goetia itself, otherwise called the lesser key of solomon. yet the traditions of black witchcraft are none of them frozen in time, and there may be found below various other names that have been added to the

mes have been passed as secrets amongst certain lineages of witchcraft. one or two of the better known of these are also included below, for the convenience of the reader. on the whole such spirits are also christianised and demonised forms of old pagan powers. abalim (hebrew, mourning. demon attendant upon paimon. abbadon (hebrew, downfall, ruin, probably from greek, apollyon, meaning destroyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylo

9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent angel apollyon, the fallen apollo, king of locusts. again, we see the incorporation and demonisation of pagan dieties of the previous age. abraxas, abrasax, abraxis (greaco-oriental, gnostic) whose name means king, adds to 365, and the hebdomad of letters is assosciated with the seven planets. who has the head of a cockrel and snakes for legs (abrasax, abraxis, and in scientific literature, angnipede, meaning snake f

SATANIC BIBLE

oast. here and now is our day of torment! here and now is our day of joy! here and now is our opportunity! choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth! 3. say unto thine own heart "i am mine own redeemer" 4. stop the way of them that would persecute you. let those who devise thine undoing be hurled back to confusion and infamy. let them be as chaff before the cyclone and after they have fallen rejoice in thine own salvation. 5. then all thy bones shall say pridefully "who is like unto me? have i not been too strong for mine adversaries? have i not delivered myself by mine own brain and the book of satan v 1. blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth- cursed are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke! 2. blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced amon

o wield power over their followers. the teutonic goddess of the dead and daughter of loki was named hel, a pagan god of torture and punishment. another "l" was added when the books of the old testament were formulated. the prophets who wrote the bible did not know the word "hell; they used the hebrew sheol and the greek hades, which meant the grave; also the greek tartaros, which was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth, and gehenna, which was a valley near jerusalem where moloch reigned and garbage was dumped and burned. it is from this that the christian church has evolved the idea of "fire and brimstone" in hell. the protestant hell and the catholic hell are places of eternal punishment; however, the catholics also believe there is a "purgatory" where all souls g

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owers-the towers of satan (ziarahs)-six of them trapezoidal in form, and one, the "center" on mount lalesh, shaped like a sharp, fluted point. each tower was topped by a brilliant heliographic reflector, and was intended to serve as a "power house" from whence a satanic magician could beam his will to the "descendants of adam" and influence human events in the outside world. like the watchers-the fallen angels of the book of enoch-the yezidis claimed to be the descendants of azazel. the yezidis believed in a counterpart of the story of lucifer, i.e. the manifestation of pride banished. like the legendary lost tribes of israel, the yezidis broke away from their roots as a result of unresolved conflicts, and felt a strong justification and purpose because of their unique heritage, which theo

take the credit for his own actions. inasmuch as all satanists would be considered "misguided" by the pious, we have no wish to offend further the sensibilities of the self-righteous by luring apple-cheeked boys and girls into "unholy rites and unspeakable orgies" virtually every unsuccessful (usually deservedly so) contemporary sect or cult which has deviated from established christian dogma has fallen because the pious majority has been outraged by said cult's traffic with underaged persons. admittedly, many of these cults have been little more than confidence games, or sexual outlets, cloaked in white-light spirituality. while we concur that age is no proof of sound judgment, we recognize the importance of working within the legal framework of society. there is nothing inherently wrong

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sent belial, 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

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

wever it is considered to have a number of different meanings which are used by different groups. firstly the abyss is more commonly understood as being a reference to the satanic underworld wherein satan and his demonic army reside. this interpretation largely stems from christian sources, most especially revelations in the new testament 'and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss. and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolis

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

, calligraphy, and computation, or mathematics. for him, however, the highest form of education was a moral education. during his lifetime confucius gathered together the core elements of the confucian system. confucius always claimed to be a transmitter, or spreader of news, rather than a creator. he was presenting many concepts and principles that had long been valued in chinese society but had fallen out of favor over the years of social disorder and lawlessness. collecting and utilizing traditions such as filial devotion, loyalty, respect for tradition and ritual, and an emphasis on knowing one s role in the world, he transformed past ideas into a new system. his emphasis on the five virtues of benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom, and sincerity were blended into guidelines for right

etarianism. one is that killing any creature for meat would violate dharma, or the need for righteousness in one s personal life. another is that killing animals would create bad karma because it is an act of violence. many hindu pilgrims engage in the festival of kumbh mela, which occurs four times every twelve years in four locations in india. drops of the nectar of immortality are said to have fallen on these four cities during a fight between the gods. reuters/corbis. 264 world religions: almanac hinduism hindus also avoid eating meat for health reasons. gandhi believed that one should be a vegetarian by choice rather than by religious obligation or vow. he felt it was the right thing to do, to cause no harm to another living thing (ahimsa. some hindus believe as he did in causing no h

emperor claimed direct descent from amaterasu, the sun goddess, the emperor s clan was more powerful than any other clan and possessed the right to rule japan. two historical events had a major impact on the development of shinto. one was the introduction of writing in the fifth century of the common era. the other was the arrival of buddhism in the sixth century. by the seventh century japan had fallen under the influence of its much larger neighbor, china. many elements of japanese culture at this time reflected the influence of the chinese, including buddhist beliefs. the chinese wrote about and documented their history. under this influence japanese writers began to do the same (none of their seventh-century works survive) their goal appears to have been to establish the divine right o

umm kulthum. ali grew even closer to muhammad with the birth of these children. until muhammad s death in 632, ali was his constant advisor, aide, and faithful lieutenant. he served in the many military campaigns that spread the power of islam. he also became an important official in the theocracy, or government ruled by religious authority, that muhammad established in yathrib. by 630 mecca had fallen to the forces of muhammad and ali, and all of arabia was brought under the control of the islamic state. according to legend, it was ali who smashed the idols of the pre- islamic deities at the ka aba. world religions: biographies 19 al ibn ab ta lib when muhammad died many muslims assumed that ali would take over leadership of the community and the religion. some even said that muhammad na

the hall of eight fathoms. thereupon the male deity turning to the left and the female deity to the right, each went round the pillar in opposite directions. when they again met each other on the further side of the pillar, izanami, the female deity, speaking first, exclaimed: how delightful it is to meet so handsome a youth! to which izanagi, the male deity, replied: how delightful i am to have fallen in with such a lovely maiden! after having spoken thus, the male deity said that it was not in order that woman should anticipate man in a greeting. nevertheless, they fell into connubial relationship, having been instructed by two wagtails which flew to the spot. presently the goddess bore her divine consort a son, but the baby was weak and boneless as a leech. disgusted with it, they aban

the book s author back to the place where he had the vision detailed in the great vision. there he comments on the destiny of the sioux people, who live, he says, in a state of despair. he calls on grandfather and says: with tears running, o great spirit, great spirit, my grandfather with running tears i must say now that the tree has never bloomed. a pitiful old man, you see me here, and i have fallen away and have done nothing. here at the center of the world, where you took me when i was young and taught me; here, old, i stand, and the tree is withered, grandfather, my grandfather! did you know. the horse held an important place among the sioux. although the largest branch of the sioux nation, the lakota, originally came from the forests of minnesota, they moved to the great plains in

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had only said (genesis 2:17, from the tree of knowledge. she also said, do not touch it lest you die [while god had only spoken of eating it. what did samael do? he went and touched the tree. the tree cried out and said, wicked one, do not touch me! it is thus written (psalm 36:12, let not a foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked move me. there have the workers of iniquity fallen they are thrust down, they cannot rise. he then said to the woman, see, i touched the tree and i did not die. you can also touch it and not die. the woman went and touched the tree. she saw the angel of death approaching her and said, woe is to me. now i will die and the blessed holy one will make another woman and give her to adam. i will therefore cause him to eat with me. if we die, we w

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult" shows a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. doresse refers to a prayer handed down in two recensions in the greek magical papyri (pgm i.195-222; iv.1167-1226. in these prayers, the celebrant identifies himself with adam, the first man, and prays to be restored to the original state from which he has fallen. e. peterson, to whom we are indebted for a penetrating analysis of the two prayers, connected the strange name of one of the prayers =u!tika (i.196, with the fifth hour of the day: in pgm iv.9, the time of the =u!tika is the fifth hour. according to iv.174ff, this is the hour when the sun is in zenith and the magician turns to his god typhon.6 the puzzling portrayal of seth-typhon as a sun

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ny quiet place where you will be undisturbed will do. yes, we are talking about reflection. not only are we talking about reflection, we are talking about total remembrance. not only are we talking about total and complete remembrance, we are talking about an absolute gleaning of your memories. in olden times, after a field was harvested, the gleaners passed through, picking up any grain that had fallen or was missed by the pickers. the gleaners were hungry, and missed little. be a better gleaner and miss nothing! we are talking about sitting down and forcing all memories to the surface, no matter how painful. even the memory of uncle harry taking you into the closet when you were a kid must hit the sunshine. even if was you who took uncle harry into the closet, recount it anyway. every ca

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

etrayed me "i assure your excellency that the dice were properly arranged; he should have thrown twelve; but he is the devil, and that's the end of it "there is no time to be lost" said the prince, quitting his hold of his parasite, who quietly resettled his cravat "my blood is up, i will win this girl, if i die for it! what noise is that "it is but the sword of your illustrious ancestor that has fallen from the table" chapter 3.vii. il ne faut appeler aucun ordre si ce n'est en tems clair et serein "les clavicules du rabbi salomon (no order of spirits must be invoked unless the weather be clear and serene) letter from zanoni to mejnour. my art is already dim and troubled. i have lost the tranquillity which is power. i cannot influence the decisions of those whom i would most guide to the

" the prince shouted; the room was filled with his minions "seize that man" he cried, pointing to the spot which had been filled by the form of mejnour. to his inconceivable amaze and horror, the spot was vacant. the mysterious stranger had vanished like a dream; but a thin and fragrant mist undulated, in pale volumes, round the walls of the chamber "look to my lord" cried mascari. the prince had fallen to the floor insensible. for many hours he seemed in a kind of trance. when he recovered, he dismissed his attendants, and his step was heard in his chamber, pacing to and fro, with heavy and disordered strides. not till an hour before his banquet the next day did he seem restored to his wonted self. chapter 3.xv. oime! come poss' io altri trovar, se me trovar non posso "amint" at. i. sc. i

ee her future lot, or protect her from harm. henceforth to her you are human, and human only. how know you, then, to what you may be tempted; how know you what her curiosity may learn and her courage brave? but enough of this, you are bent on your pursuit "the fiat has gone forth "and to-morrow "to-morrow, at this hour, our bark will be bounding over yonder ocean, and the weight of ages will have fallen from my heart! i compassionate thee, o foolish sage, thou hast given up thy youth" chapter 3.xvii. alch: thou always speakest riddles. tell me if thou art that fountain of which bernard lord trevizan writ? merc: i am not that fountain, but i am the water. the fountain compasseth me about. sandivogius "new light of alchymy" the prince di was not a man whom naples could suppose to be addicted

t thee are completed, and thy mind prepared by contemplation and austere thought for the ordeal, i promise thee the ordeal shall commence. one caution alone i give thee: regard it as a peremptory command, enter not this chamber (they were then standing in the room where their experiments had been chiefly made, and in which glyndon, on the night he had sought the solitude of the mystic, had nearly fallen a victim to his intrusion "enter not this chamber till my return; or, above all, if by any search for materials necessary to thy toils thou shouldst venture hither, forbear to light the naphtha in those vessels, and to open the vases on yonder shelves. i leave the key of the room in thy keeping, in order to try thy abstinence and self-control. young man, this very temptation is a part of th

ted a boon, the secret that startled death from those so dear to me. can i not trust that enough of power yet remains to me to baffle or to daunt the phantom, if it seek to pervert the gift? answer me, mejnour, for in the darkness that veils me, i see only the pure eyes of the new-born; i hear only the low beating of my heart. answer me, thou whose wisdom is without love! mejnour to zanoni. rome. fallen one! i see before thee evil and death and woe! thou to have relinquished adon-ai for the nameless terror, the heavenly stars for those fearful eyes! thou, at the last to be the victim of the larva of the dreary threshold, that, in thy first novitiate, fled, withered and shrivelled, from thy kingly brow! when, at the primary grades of initiation, the pupil i took from thee on the shores of t

he millennium for which ye dared and laboured! i invoke the ghosts! saturn hath devoured his children("la revolution est comme saturne, elle devorera tous ses enfans" vergniaud, and lives alone, i his true name of moloch! it is the reign of terror, with robespierre the king. the struggles between the boa and the lion are past: the boa has consumed the lion, and is heavy with the gorge, danton has fallen, and camille desmoulins. danton had said before his death "the poltroon robespierre, i alone could have saved him" from that hour, indeed, the blood of the dead giant clouded the craft of "maximilien the incorruptible" as at last, amidst the din of the roused convention, it choked his voice("le sang de danton t'etouffe (the blood of danton chokes thee) said garnier de l'aube, when on the fa

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

r. then the king commanded that tchatcha-em-ankh should appear before him at once, and as soon as the sage had been brought into his presence he said to him "o tchatcha-emankh, my brother, i have done according to thy words, and the heart of my majesty became glad when i saw how the maidens rowed. but now, an ornament which is made of new turquoise and belongeth to one of the maidens who row hath fallen into the water, and she hath in consequence become silent, and hath ceased to row, and hath disturbed the p. 10 rowing of those in her company. i said to her 'why dost thou not row' and she replied 'an ornament [of mine] made of new turquoise hath fallen into the water' then i said to her 'i will get it back for thee" thereupon the priest and writer of books tchatcha-emankh spake certain wo

egypt there "was a movement and quaking throughout all the land, and all the idols fell down from their pedestals and were broken in pieces" then all the priests and nobles went to a certain priest with whom "a devil used to speak from out of the idol" and they asked him the meaning of these things; and when he had explained to them that the footstep of the son of the "secret and hidden god" had fallen upon the land of egypt, they accepted his counsel and made a figure of this god. the egyptians acknowledged that the new god was greater than all their gods together, and they were quite prepared to set up a statue of him because they believed that in so doing they would compel at least a portion of the spirit of the "secret and hidden god" to come and dwell in it. in the following pages we

and it darteth into thy form. the eye of horus which is powerful against its enemy hath cast thee down, it devoureth thee, the great fire trieth thee, the eye of ra prevaileth over thee, the flame devoureth thee, and what escapeth from it hath no being. get thee back, for thou art cut asunder, thy soul is shrivelled up, thy accursed name is buried in oblivion, and silence is upon it, and it hath fallen [out of remembrance. thou hast come to an end, thou hast been driven away, and thou art forgotten, forgotten, forgotten" etc. to make these words to be of effect the speaker is told to write the names of apep upon a new papyrus and to burn it in the fire either when ra is rising, or at noon, or at sunset, etc. in another part of the work, after a series of curses which are ordered to be sai

ld not answer, for his jaws trembled and all his members quaked; the poison spread swiftly through his flesh just as the nile rusheth through all his land. when the great god had stablished his heart, he cried unto those who were in his train, saying 'come unto me, o ye who have come into being from my body, ye gods who have come forth from me, make ye known unto khepera that a dire calamity hath fallen upon me. my heart perceiveth it, but my eyes see it not; my hand hath not caused it, nor do i know who hath done this unto me. never have i felt such pain, neither can sickness cause more woe than this. i am a prince, the son of a prince, the sacred essence which hath proceeded from god. i am the great one, the son of the great one, and my father planned my name; i have multitudes of names

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nd that you will not support those who are evil; also, that you have called to account those who call the apocalypse of john 125 themselves apostles and are not, and that you have recognized them as false. and you are enduring patiently and are building up your work upon my name, and you have not grown weary. but i demand of you that you should attain the highest love: consider from what you have fallen, change your way of thinking, and achieve the highest deeds. otherwise, i will come to you and remove your light from its place unless you change your way of thinking. but this you have, that you despise the ways of the nicolaitans, which i too despise. he who has ears to hear what the spirit says to the communities, let him hear: to the victor i will give food from the tree of life, which

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

presley demonstrates her cabalistic knowledge in this body pose in a news magazine, including the x sign of osiris and the legs in diamond position. this body position emphasizes the sex generative energies (time magazine, april s, 2005) twelve that ravenous dark bird sublime mysteries of the llluminati's double-headed eagle and he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird- revelation 18:2 the royal secret..the secret of the universal equilibrium. shall at length make real the holy empire of true masonic brotherhood- albert pike, 33 morals and dogma two heads are better than one, except when they're on the body of only one eagle

not of flesh but was made up of actual gems and jewels. even more fantastic, musical instruments were incorporated into his being. a beauty to behold. but then the deceitful lucifer rebelled, taking down with him one third of the angels. he and they apparently became vile creatures, ugly and deformed, appearing in grotesque forms appropriate to their mental and spiritual deformities. how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, i will ascend into heaven, 1 will exalt my throne above the stars of god..i will ascend above that ravenous dark bird 243 the heights of the clouds; i will be like the most high. yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (i

thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, i will ascend into heaven, 1 will exalt my throne above the stars of god..i will ascend above that ravenous dark bird 243 the heights of the clouds; i will be like the most high. yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (isaiah 14:12-15) the bible says that the angry and furious fallen lucifer now walks to and fro in the earth like a lion seeking whom he might devour. his aim is to ruin god's creation, to bastardize and corrupt it, to change it into what he is a monumentally ugly and warped creation, totally opposite of what god intended. man and the world must be ruined, destroyed, transformed into a barren, non-producing, hideously shaped wasteland. men are to be made f

ts doubleheaded form, the eagle represents the illuminati's principal luciferian doctrine of as above, so below. it also represents the great work of the initiation of the world. how prophetic, then, is the bible verse found in isaiah 46:11 which reveals that in the last days, a "ravenous bird from the east" shall be called forth by god to wreak havoc and destruction on rebellious mankind and the fallen world. so when you see the duality principle("as above, so below) represented in the photos and illustrations in this section, remember: you're observing the great secret in operation, the perennial teaching of the hidden god, the god of the mysteries, the god who it is said possesses the key to the invisible world (hell, the god of the arch, the god of cunning, lies and deceit, the two-fac

is that the holy grail was the drinking vessel of jesus at the last supper, which again would translate into the cup being a magical talisman. the spear of longinus the spear of longinus is yet another legend connected to the priory of sion. it holds that a roman centurion named longinus was the one who thrust his spear into jesus' side at the crucifixion. some of jesus' blood is alleged to have fallen on him and miracles ensued. thus, again, a magical talisman was created the spear of longinus. throughout history wicked tyrants, including napoleon and hitler, have sought possession of the spear, believing that it is the spear of destiny and that whoever possesses it shall have the power to rule the world. william cooper, whose book, behold a pale horse, and his revelations on his nationa

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me of her problems being easily visible. the attractive 29-year-old woman weighed 225 pounds. as the seminar sessions progressed, sutphen observed barbara during two group regressions, trying to be comfortable in two chairs because her weight made lying down on the floor with everyone else too difficult. he could see, though, that she was a good deeplevel hypnotic subject, for she had practically fallen off the chairs almost immediately after he had begun the process. during an evening session, sutphen asked barbara to join 11 other subjects on the platform for a demonstration of individual regression work. during the group hypnosis of the 12 volunteers, sutphen instructed them to think about something in their life that they would like to change any kind of problem, habit, or personal sit

ivity she recreated her marriage to brian maccarthy, a young lawyer, who took her to live in belfast in a cottage back of his grandmother s house, not far from st. theresa s church. in her melodic irish brogue, bridey told of a life without children, a life laced with an edge of conflict because she was protestant while brian was catholic; then in a tired and querulous voice, she told how she had fallen down a flight of stairs in 1864 when she was 66. after the fall, she was left crippled and had to be carried about wherever she went. then one sunday while her husband was at church, bridey died. her death upset brian terribly, she said. her spirit lingered beside him, trying to establish communication with him, trying to let him know that he should not grieve for her. bridey told the aston

become greatly elevated in spiritual awareness. the concept of a spirit guide goes back to antiquity. the philosopher socrates (c. 470 b.c.e. 399 b.c.e) furnishes the most notable example in ancient times of an individual whose subjective mind was able to communicate with his objective mind by direct speech stimulus. socrates referred to this voice as his daemon (not to be confused with demon, a fallen angel or a negative, possessing entity. daemon is better translated as guardian angel or muse, and the philosopher believed that his guardian spirit kept vigil and warned him of approaching danger. parapsychologists have suggested that the spirit guide may be another little-known power of the mind which enables the medium s subjective level of consciousness to dramatize another personality

at her spirit guide would not be at all interested in her daily life and that his whole purpose was based on a sincere wish to be of service to humanity. garrett concentrated on developing her mediumship and studied with the college until mckenzie s death in 1929. although she had another of her premonitions concerning the transient nature of her role as wife in the state of marriage, garrett had fallen in love and planned to be married for a fourth time. as strange as it might seem, both garrett and her fiance became ill on the same day. she barely survived a mastoid operation, and he died of pneumonia. confused about the course in life she was to follow, eileen garrett decided to come to the united states and devote herself to the process of understanding mediumship and survival after de

g a normal childhood and the dramatic impact of any subsequent paranormal phenomena was underplayed. when leonora was 22, she married william piper of boston, and shortly thereafter developed a friendship with a blind clairvoyant named dr. j. r. cocke, who had been attracting a substantial following as a result of his accurate medical diagnoses and cures. at their first meeting, leonora piper had fallen into a trance, walked in such a state across the room, where she sat at a table, picked up pencil and paper, and began to write messages from spirit entities. prominent bostonians were often seated in the seance 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 122 mediums and mystics circle at cocke s home, the remarkable accuracy of piper s trance c

drifting off to sleep. several years before, peny had urged him to take a meditation course. many times he had tried meditating, and although he observed great benefits from meditation in the lives of others, he saw little or no benefits in his own life. glorified napping is what jach called meditation, until, for whatever reason, he decided to give it another try. suddenly he realized he had not fallen asleep after all, as something strange and real began happening. he started seeing things in visualizations so vivid in detail that the colors, smells, sights, and sounds came to life. he felt the images bursting with a reality that caused his mind to race with excitement and anticipation. following a path through ferns, lush trees, and sweet smells, he was beckoned to a cabin with a thatch

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iamentary sympathizers had fabricated the tale to cause him embarrassment. the king sent three of his most trusted officers to squelch the matter. when the emissaries returned to court, they swore oaths that they themselves had witnessed the clash of the phantom armies. on two consecutive nights, they had watched the ghostly reconstruction and had even recognized several of their comrades who had fallen that day. 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 ghosts and phantoms 15 almostevery city, town, or village in the world has a bit of folklore about a phantom. on august 4, 1951, two young englishwomen vacationing in dieppe, france, were awakened just before dawn by the violent sounds of guns and shell fire, dive bombing planes, shouts, and

938, the borley rectory was purchased by a captain w. h. gregson, who renamed it the priory. he was not at all disturbed by warnings that the place was haunted, but he was upset when his faithful old dog went wild with terror on the day they moved in and ran away, never to be seen again. he was also mildly concerned with the strange track of unidentified footprints that circled the house in fresh fallen snow. the tracks were not caused by any known animal, the captain swore, nor had any human made them. he followed the tracks for a time until they mysteriously disappeared into nothingness. captain gregson did not have long to puzzle out the enigma of borley. at midnight on february 27, 1939, the most haunted house in england was completely gutted by flames. gregson testified later that a n

thump about in the green room. the weary household had its only respite during the long siege when the reverend father h. l, a premonstrant canon, was sent there by the bishop. from the moment the reverend father entered the castle until the moment he left, there was not the slightest sound from the noisy nuisance. but after the clergyman had made his departure there was a sound as if a body had fallen in the first-floor passage, followed by what seemed to be a rolling ball delivering a violent blow on the door of the green room and the haunting had once again begun its devilment in earnest. on january 20, 1876, m. de x. left for a two-day visit to his brother, leaving his wife to keep up the journal of the haunting. mme. de x. recorded an eerie bellowing, like that of a bull, which bothe

that she heard the night before. the earl st. vincent frowned and shook his head in disbelief. he had heard no shot nor any of the terrible groaning. the earl himself was forced to experience the frustration of hearing sounds that no one else could perceive on the next day. he was lying in his bed, having just awakened from his afternoon s sleep, when he heard a sound as if an immense weight had fallen through the ceiling to the floor. he leaped out of bed, fully expecting to see a gaping hole in both ceiling and floor. there was not the slightest splinter, nor had anyone else in the mansion heard the crash. even his servant, who slept in the bedroom directly below, had heard nothing. the earl insisted that his sister leave at once, and, because he was unable to stay at hinton ampner any

also be a daughter. although judge woodruffe had a reputation for integrity with the law, he was also known as being promiscuous. at first, chloe tried to deny the sexual demands of her master, but she knew that if she fought against them, she could be sent to work in the fields. eventually, the judge grew tired of her and chose another house slave as his new mistress. when chloe saw that she had fallen from favor, she feared that she would also lose her position as a servant in the mansion and be ordered to the fields. chloe hoped that she might somehow win back woodruffe s affections and not be in danger of being sent to the brutal work in the fields. one evening, as she stood nearby the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 42 ghosts a

s 45 the tedworth drummer poltergeists (1662 1663 (fortean picture library) silence during the minister s prayers, but upon the last amen, it began to move chairs about the room, hurl the children s shoes into the air, and toss every object that it could get its invisible hands on. a heavy staff struck rev. cragg on the leg, but the astonished clergyman reported that a lock of wool could not have fallen more softly. the knocking had become so loud at nights that it awakened neighbors several houses away. the mompessons servants had also become subject to receiving nocturnal visits from the drummer. their beds were raised while they attempted to sleep, and at times it curled up about their feet. the ghost particularly delighted in wrestling with a husky servant named john. it would jerk the

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mafia. according to tradition, around 710 a holy man named apollinario, who lived a hermitlike existence in the hills above cordova, had a vision in which the blessed virgin mary appointed him to be the savior of spain and drive the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and established their royal seat in cordova. but when the apparition of mary presented him with a button that she said had been taken from the robe of christ, apollinario knew that he had been given the power to raise a band of holy warriors. he

andard of the holy virgin of cordova that no moorish force could repel them. while the garduna may have harassed the powerful muslim armies and conducted a guerilla-type warfare against them, they by no means drove the invaders from spain as legend told it. after about 714, the gothic monarchy of spain had been replaced by the institutions of the conquering arabs, and a short time after spain had fallen to the moors, it became the most prosperous and civilized country in the west. within a few more years, the arabs had extended their european empire north of the pyrenees mountains to the south of france and from the mouth of the garonne to that of the rhone. in 732, charles martel of france stemmed the muslim tide of conquest at the battle of tours, and the arabs retreated back to spain wh

as worse, they appeared to be prospering in their cities in southern france. in 1208, pope innocent iii (1160 or 1161.1216) ordered a crusade launched against the cathars, who were able to resist the armies sent against them until their central city of montesegur fell in 1246. hundreds of cathars were burned at the stake as heretics, witches, and sorcerers, for by the time their besieged sect had fallen, the holy inquisition had been founded in 1233 to stamp out magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. after it became quite apparent that the church and state had undergone a dramatic change in attitude toward the practice of magic, the alchemists/magicians and the magi became much more cautious in sharing the results of their experimentations. because the practitioners of ghigher magic, h such as pa

reached its zenith, concurrent with the persecutions of the pagans by the christians. zosimus of panapolis, self-appointed apologist of alchemy, cited a passage in genesis as the origin of the arcane art: gthe sons of god saw that the daughters of men were fair. h to this scriptural reference, zosimus added the tradition that in reward for their favors, the gsons of god, h who were believed to be fallen angels, endowed these women with the knowledge of how to make jewels, colorful garments, and perfumes with which to enhance their earthly charms. the seven principal angels whose favor the alchemist sought to obtain for their transformation were michael, who was believed to transmute base metals into gold and to dissolve any enmity directed toward the alchemist; gabriel, who fashioned silve

of angels called gwatchers, h or gthe sleepless ones. h the leader of the watchers was called semjaza (in other places, azazel, the name of one of the hebrews f principal demons, who led 200 watchers down to earth to take wives from among the daughters of men. it was from such a union that the nephilim, the giants, the heroes of old, as well as the ancient practitioners of sorcery, were born. the fallen angels taught their wives to cast various spells and to practice the arts of enchantment. they imparted to the women the lore of plants and the properties of certain roots. semjaza did not neglect human men, teaching them how to manufacture weapons and tools of destruction. in enochian magick, the practitioner employed words of power that allegedly had been passed down in an oral tradition

manifesting the evil eye, casting spells to cause physical or mental illness, bringing about bad luck, even death. the brujas create dolls in which they insert bits of the victim fs hair, fingernail clippings, or pieces of clothing and focus their evil intent upon the miniature representative of the person to be cursed. if an anglo doctor with modern medical techniques cannot cure someone who has fallen suddenly ill, a bruja is suspected as being the cause of the problem. brujas are also thought to be accomplished shapeshifters, possessing the supernatural ability to transform themselves into owls, coyotes, or cats. in the form of an animal, they may spy upon potential victims and may even administer a potion into their unsuspecting quarry fs food or water or hide a badluck charm on his or

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f a sacked town probably meant that the place was taboo andmight not be cultivated. the accounts of the witch-feasts show that salt was commonly used, though hereand there it appears to have been omitted. sometimes a reason for its absence is given, as in the case of thealsatian witch, anna lang, in 1618,[91] who had no bread or salt at the feast in the woods ofsaint-hippolite, because things had fallen out of the cart on the way there.wine was ordinarily drunk at feasts, especially when the provisions were given by the rich members of theflock. in france it was usually drunk out of wooden goblets, but in alsace[92] the wealthy ladies broughtwith them their own silver cups, out of which everybody drank. in england and scotland beer or aqua vitaewere the usual drinks.the combination of reli

all, together with the other great criminals. thegreat punishments of death were executed upon him".in great britain the making of a wax figure was never done by one person alone, several members of thecoven were present and everything was performed with great ceremony under the personal superintendenceof the grandmaster. the earliest example is of king duffus of scotland (961-5.[19] the king had fallen illof a mysterious sickness; and a girl having let fall some suspicious words "some of the guard being sent,found the lass's mother with some hags, such as herself, roasting before a small moderate fire, the king'spicture made of wax. the design of this horrid act was that as the wax by little and little did melt away, sothe king's body by a continual sweating might at last totally decay. t

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an oxymoron. we have mentioned alexander vi, and we think that this name will be sufficient without other memories as justly execrated as his being brought up against us. great criminals have been able to dishonour themselves doubly because of the sacred character with which they were invested, but they had not the power to dishonour that character, which remains always radiant and splendid above fallen humanity<dog has six legs. definition. it is no answer to this to show that all dogs have four- o.m> we have said that there is no religion without mysteries; let us add that there are no mysteries without symbols. the symbol, being the formula or the expression of the mystery, only expresses its unknown depth by paradoxical images borrowed from the known. the symbolic form, having for i

selves in the image of our ideal "those who make their gods become like unto them" says the psalmist "and all they that put their trust in them" the divine ideal of the ancient world made the civilization which came to an end, and one must not despair of seeing the god of our barbarous fathers become the devil of our more enlightened children. one makes devils with cast-off gods<<christianity has fallen, and so christ has already become the 'devil' to such thinkers as nietzsche and crowley- o.m> and satan is only so incoherent and so formless because he is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. he is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the absolute without reality and without light. man is the son of god because god, manifested, rea

salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of thee, may say to providence "you are our mother" children of woman, let us forgive fallen woman! children of woman, let us adore regenerate woman! children of woman, who have slept upon her breast, been cradled in her arms, and consoled by her caresses, let us love her, and let us love each other! iii the ternary the ternary is the number of creation. god creates himself eternally, and the infinite which he fills with his works is an incessant and infinite creation. supreme love

fe; then he said to them "love "what is- to love" replied the spirits "to love is to give oneself to others" replied god "those who love will suffer, but they will be loved "we have the right to give nothing, and we wish to suffer nothing" said the spirits, hating love "remain in your right" answered god "and let us separate! i and mine wish to suffer and even to die, to love. it is our duty" the fallen angel is then he who, from the beginning, refused to love; he does not love, and that is his whole torture; he does not give, and that is his poverty; he does not suffer, and that is his nothingness; he does not die, and that is his exile. the fallen angel is not lucifer the light-bearer; it is satan, who calumniated love. to be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to

ife; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of enthusiasm. faith does not consist of the affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine and constant aspiration towards the truths which are veiled by all symbolisms. if a man rejects an unworthy idea of divinity, breaks its false images, revolts against hateful idolaters, you will call him an atheist! the authors of the persecutions in fallen rome called the first christians atheists, because they did not adore the idols of caligula or of nero. to deny a religion, even to deny all religions rather than adhere to formulae which conscience rejects, is a courageous and sublime act of faith. every man who suffers for his convictions is a martyr of faith. he explains himself badly, it may be, but he prefers justice and truth to every

54 the tuba tree will make, with its back-curving branches, a dais for the celestial table. the bride will be white as the moon, and scarlet as the smile of morning. all nations shall press forward to see her, and they will no longer fear to pass al sirah; for, on that razor-edged bridge, the saviour will stretch his cross, and come to stretch his hand to those who stumble, and to those who have fallen the bride will stretch her perfumed veil, and draw them to her. o ye people, clap your hands, and praise the last triumph of love! death alone will remain dead, and hell alone will be consumed! o nations of europe, to whom the east stretches forth its hands, unite and push back the northern bear<war, this indicates levi's attempt to use imperialism as

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the left hand path, the path of non-union with the subjective universe. 8 part one of azothoz is the throne of twilight, this poetic invocation is the leviathanic dance against the sun and ensorcells the vampyric and shadow essence of not only the sabbat, but the sorcerous invocation of shaitan-lilith-azrael- ahriman, the infernal spirits who reside over the path itself. part two the lore of the fallen is a poetic-invocation of the cunning path, that of the sabbat and sethanic gnosis of lucifer and cain, from which the initiatic fire is passed from spirit to spirit. the spirit-familiar of austin osman spare, known as the black eagle is presented here as a guide by a sinistral (left way) sigillic formula, including an invocation chant and essay upon the shadow of this vampyric shade. two f

d what we commonly call magickal paths today. what was lost or well forgotten, by some incantation or spell of remembrance, such surged forth as a bestial atavism that which was dead now emerged as a necromantic shade. by the wealth of symbolism there is indeed much to develop from be ready to grasp that which was always slightly out of reach by dream, that fleeting moment of truth not so lightly fallen before you. 4 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 5 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the

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81 represent different aspects of yesod. the attribution of "throne" and "ego" to yesod are of note in light of the description by the golden dawn of the tasks undertaken by an adeptus minor (attributed to tiphareth, where the ego is seen as enthroned in human consciousness as a "usurpation, and the task is to return the correct functioning to each of the aspects of the psyche from this original "fallen" state, where "the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not" the connection of peh, the "mouth, to yesod is interesting in that upon jacob's ladder, yesod of one tree overlaps the da'ath of the next, and thus the yesod of yetzirah, the "ego, overlaps the da'ath of assiah, the "throat, from which we communicate our persona through our words. hence our mouth is the

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. the addition of shin to the sacred tetragram (i.h.v.h) marks the passage of the quaternary into the quinary for the formation of the living creature. jesus, the word made flesh, kabalistically represents all creatures, but particularly man, as man is the most evolved of all creatures" having been taught, and which is in accordance with the general christian tradition, that the entire nature had fallen with adam as a result of his own fall, we can easily understand how in effect this same nature can evolve, with man, back to its original state, starting with the redemption of man by the word. henry cornelius agrippa tells us in his famous "occult philosophy"2. during the time of the law, the ineffable name of god was composed of four letters: iod-hevau- he, in place of which and out of re

it, o lord of mercy, the discord of minds and perversity of hearts separate those who, at the beginning, were only one family under the authority of only one father, so that finding themselves one day in the same common celestial temple they may all dwell there eternally under thy holy protection. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a few moments and then prays for the debased and fallen spirits in the bosom of the mineral kingdom: o almighty god, eternal creator and preserver of all beings, here we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the mineral kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally these souls as well as all those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initial

e we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the mineral kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally these souls as well as all those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initial pleroma. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. 26 after a few moments of meditation, operator now prays for the debased and fallen spirits in the bosom of the vegetable kingdom: o almighty god, eternal creator and preserver of all beings, here we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the vegetable kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally these souls as well as those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initial

ngs, here we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the vegetable kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally these souls as well as those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initial pleroma. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. after having meditated awhile, operator prays then for the debased and fallen spirits in the bosom of the animal kingdom: o almighty god, eternal creator and preserver of all beings, here we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the animal kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally all these souls as well as all those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initi

ma, by integrating them into the bosom of the archetype "by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for awhile and then prays that the demoniacal spirits be chased away from the earth: o almighty and eternal god, creator and protector of the human race, thou who hast made the first man and in him all the preexistent souls to thine image and resemblance, deign, o lord, to consider thy servant fallen into the traps of the serpent. this ancient adversary of the earth shrouds its soul with the horrors of fright or benumbs its spiritual and reasonable faculties. thus destroy, o lord almighty, this diabolical power, upset the perfidious snares by chasing away the initial tempter, his angels and his ministers, far away from our universe. o almighty god, may thy servants be defended and prote

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

y. one of the most extreme cases of ufo blindness occurred on the night of wednesday, october 3, 1973, in southeastern missouri. eddie webb, forty-five, of greenville, saw a luminous object in his rear-view mirror. he put his head out the window of his truck and looked back. there was a bright white flash. webb threw his hands to his face, crying "oh, my god! i'm burned! i can't see" one lens had fallen from his glasses and the frames were melted. his wife took over the wheel of their vehicle and drove him to a hospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what puzzled me about connie's case, however, was that she had not seen a splendid luminous flying saucer. she had seen a giant "winged man" in broad daylight. according to her story, connie, a shy, sensitive eighteen-year-old, wa

in mineral wells, west virginia. it was a good time in his life. at 7 p.m. on november 2, 1966, he was heading home in his panel truck after a long, hard day on the road. the weather was sour, chill, and rainy. as he drove up a long hill outside of parkersburg on interstate 77 a sudden crash sounded in the back of his truck. he snapped on his interior lights and looked back. a sewing machine had fallen off the top of a stereo, but there didn't seem to be any real damage. a car swept up behind him and passed him. another vehicle seemed to be following it. he eased his foot on the accelerator. he had been speeding slightly and thought it might be a police car. the vehicle, a black blob in the dark, drew alongside him, cut in front, and slowed. woody derenberger gaped in amazement at the thi

ing and help me with my search. they were all looking through a fence facing a field that went behind the power plant "we thought we saw something back of the plant" mary hyre explained "a tall figure running. was it you "no. i never left the building "what was that noise while you were in there" mabel mcdaniel asked "what noise "it was metallic and hollow. a loud noise. like a piece of metal had fallen all the way down from the top or something" everyone had heard the sound. except me. and i hadn't done anything to make such a noise. keith led connie, still crying, to their car "please, let's get out of here" she begged "i'm bleeding" mary mallette suddenly exclaimed, cupping her hand to her ear. i flashed my light into her ear. a small trickle of blood was oozing out "did you hear anythi

he air force investigation was another story. deputy tom huntley accompanied the two men to the keesler air force base "when we got there it was something amazing" huntley told ralph blum afterward "we were in an unmarked car but the guards were expecting us and waved us through the moment i said who we was. i looked back through my rear-view mirror, and damn if two cars full of air police hadn't fallen in behind us. they had more air police stationed at each crossing all along the road. we pulled up in this concrete area behind a building the police had halted all traffic. doctors were waiting, and man, they looked like space creatures all wrapped in white and masked and gloved. they went over charlie and calvin from head to toe. they ran a radioactive check. they swabbed between the boys

paro i met several local ufo witnesses and contactees. long island, i discovered, was crawling with contactees of all ages and both sexes. one of these was a lovely young blonde, whom i will call jane, who lived near mount misery with her family. jane was not illiterate, but she seldom read anything other than the comic strips and "dear abby" she knew nothing about ufos and cared less. she was a "fallen catholic" having abandoned religion when she reached adulthood. she was a very sensitive woman, more ethereal than sensual. there was almost something mystical about her appearance and grace. mount misery is a heavily wooded hill with a few narrow dirt roads slicing through it and a number of large mansions set back among the trees. the late henry stimson, secretary of war during world war

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

heart giving rise in my chest and my head growing hot, the sound of splitting rocks and thunder came from behind me and shook the very ground i ran upon. in fright, and in haste, i fell to the earth. rising, i turned to face whatever attacker had come nearest me, though i was unarmed. to my surprise what i saw was no priest of ancient horror, no necromancer of that forbidden art, but black robes fallen upon the grass and weeds, with no seeming presence of life or bodies beneath them. i walked cautiously to the first and, picking up a long twig, lifted the robe from the tangle of weeds and thorns. all that remained of the priest was a pool of slime, like green oil, and the smell of a body lain long to rot in the sun. such a stench nearly overpowered me, but i was resolute to find the other

ymbol. his gate is the last you will come upon in the rites that follow. his step on the ladder of lights is black. this is his seal, which you must engrave on a leaden plate or bowl, keeping it well hidden from the eyes of the profane. it should be wrapped and put away as all the others, until its use is desired. it should never be removed when the sun is in the sky, but only after the night has fallen and the earth grown black, for ninib knows the best the ways of the demons that prowl among the shadows, looking for sacrifice. he knows best the territories of the ancient ones, the practices of their worshippers, and the locations of the gates. his realm is the realm of the night of time. his number is four, as the quarters of the earth, and the following is his seal: the book of entrance

sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i was give

owels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the burning girra untie thy knots! may the flames of gibil untie your cord! may the law of the burning seize your throat! may the law of the burning

o make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn unlawful grasses and herbs, and raise tremendous evils, and their words are never written down, it is said. but there are. and they are prayers of emptiness and darkness, which rob the spirit. hymn to the ancient ones they are lying down, the great old ones. the bolts are fallen and the fastenings are placed. the crowds are quiet and the people are quiet. the elder gods of the land the elder goddesses of the land shammash sin adad ishtar have gone to sleep in heaven. they are not pronouncing judgements. they are no deciding decisions. veiled is the night. the temple and the most holy places are quiet and dark. the judge of truth the father of the fatherless shammas

they sought? yet, can i tell in my bones that this is not so? for the xastur sign has not left its station behind me, and has grown larger, casting a shadow over these pages as i write. i have summoned my watcher, but it is troubled by some things and does not respond to me well, as though afflicted with some disease, and dazed. my books have lost light, and settle upon their shelves like animals fallen asleep, or dead. i am sickened by what voices i hear now, as though the voices of my family, left behind me so many years ago, that is impossible to conceive that they are about. did i not understand of their untimely, unnatural death? can the demons who wait without take on so viciously the human voices of my parents? my brother? my sister? avaunt thee! that this book were an amulet, a sea

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

piral helix cosmos sky persephone underworld mother butterfly triple goddess morrigu this is the calling of the chosen few. writer s chant mnemosyne. mnemosyne. muse of the ancient time. keeper of the ancient rhyme. memory of that ancient age when poetry was kept on tongue, not page. whisper to me those ancient utterings. send pen and ink fluttering. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com acorns fallen from up above are kept for youth and for true love. an arrowhead found within a field is kept in a pocket; protection it yields. string coral beads for children to wear. it protects against disease and keeps the wearer fair. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com buy a pin with a bee and wear when you need energy. a piece of coal, if found upon the ground, brings prosperity. eliza fegley h

THE SHADOWED ONES

e sun seek their nourishment and pleasure in the fading sun in the evening. it was azazel who first tasted the flesh of a daughter of man. her skin darkly smooth, beautiful in its innocence and gentle movements, drew him close seeking the warmth of a body. against the natural order conceived by other powers, azazel and his brethren took wives and soon many were giving birth to daemons the sons of fallen angels and the beauty of woman. these giants of the earth were intelligent, bold and strong among mankind. soon hungering for continued existence they taught them and the family of their wives the crafts which we were cultivating instinctually. no longer did many look at the beasts of nature as plagues and terrors, but they listened to their heartbeat and knew their feelings by the mirror o

ter and lover is that fiery goddess called lilith by some and demoness by others, yet she too drinks of both ecstasies. we are undying and eternal, we may sleep in the flesh of the dragon yet emerge in the heights of both the sun and the moon. the shadows merely remind us of our reflections and self divinities. you too are like us, no bending knee as the mindless, yet an ascended mind beyond that fallen and crumbling crowd-control method called god. you are the only the christ you need, separate and divine. dragon and angel in the flesh, devour and thirst eternally for knowledge and matter. place yourself above the church and its sheep. they cast stones at the wolf in the wild, yet it survives while they kneel and decay in houses of death and sickness. we vomit upon them to clean our stoma

heir genius, and such other watchers may communicate accordingly. know the grimoire of azal ucel opens forth this way, hidden not by the words spoken clearly in the dreaming planes of man. we must seek to know thyself before one may seek onward communication with the watchers, for they do not rule us they offer guidance from those initiates who seek a knowledge most profound. iii the names of the fallen angelick ones and watchers azazel seek when the sun is at its height, by fire and air. this is the enfleshed angel which is at heart and soul a dragon of both darkness and light. by balance of the mind and heart can you seek to become like azazel, who came forth from the void of chaos and created a form of order. that order is always torn asunder by the chaos willed of azazel, just as fire

orm of order. that order is always torn asunder by the chaos willed of azazel, just as fire consumes to create anew. azazel tests and confronts, yet strengthens and blesses that which withstands or falls in honesty. this is the essence of the adversary who is two who may be sought by light or shadow. azazel may be known in various forms as shaitan the adversary, set, ahriman a shadow form of this fallen angel, lucifer and azal ucel. seek the daemon by invocation and instinct, seek his essence by the will itself. belial a watcher who fell with azazel, who was given lordship of the gates of the hidden place, called hades or hell by some. in this inferno and darkened place does the spirit test itself, and is either illuminated and empowered by fire or consumed by it. those who are like azazel

nows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and devotion. leviathan is the dragon guardian of the abyss, who dwells in the deep and unknown realms of the ocean and the darkest depths of the mind. leviathan is different from the watchers in that this fallen seraphim does not hold relation to man or angel, yet this daemon offers the knowledge of ageless essence and being. ezeqeel knows well the passion of the dream and how one may by cord or charm enter the celestial sabbat of the watchers, the circle dance of flame and light, wherein all who enter this circle offer torches in the brilliance of self-deification. this is the secret dance of luci

samael and lilith! open now the secret ways of those angels of dream and skull walking sleep i seek thy council as i seek the daevas who walk the shadows! the black light is illuminating my spirit and i am both midnight and noontide in essence! o watchers who i seek do come forth to my circle and offer thy wisdom for i am willing to walk thy path against all others. be the lightening bolt of the fallen into my skull temple! with these words i speak, so it is done* michael w. ford (akhtya seker arimanius or keteb 75) is a practitioner of the left hand path, specifically through the initiatory guild of the order of phosphorus and the luciferian path. mr. ford is the author of numerous grimoires and works on the draconian shadow path such as yatuk dinoih, azothoz, nox umbra, book of cain and

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

iapic frenzy: gthe man must be prurient and lecherous as a dog-faced baboon in rut to have aught of passion excited by either. h this is all true enough; but i must call a halt. i had not intended here to write a series of apologetics, for i leave that to the poet and his pen, who can well look after themselves; but what i wished to point out was the deplorable state into which our literature has fallen. its ever increasing demand for sensation has been its destruction; everyone now is a mental trimalchio whose appetite has to be awakened by the most piquant and fantastic of dishes. scott, dickens, and thackeray are still (i believe) read by an ever decreasing number of school-girls; flaubert, gautier and balzac. who would have shocked the youthful years of our parents. have become dull an

groves are fit for pan. o rich with bacchic frenzy, and his wine fs atonement for the infinite woe of man *w.e. henley, rodin in rime, vol. iii, p. 119. here gcloistral h is a spondee; geried pines, h an (imperfect) anapaest; and so on. again in gla fortune h: ghail, tyche! from the amalthean horn pour forth the store of love! i lowly bend before thee: i invoke thee at the end when other gods are fallen and put to scorn. thy foot is to my lips; my sighs unborn rise, touch and curl about thy heart; they spend pitiful love. lovelier pity, descend and bring me luck who am lonely and forlorn. h *w.e. henley, rodin in rime, vol. iii, p. 120. compare the following verse in swinburne fs poem, the centenary of the battle of the nile: the strong and sunbright lie whose name was france arose against

om c *jezebel, vol. i, p. 131. the extra half-step in gshuddering h in place of discordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader fs mind than a word which scanned correctly would do. in the next passage, taken from gtannhauser, h we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness: chaos, a speck; and space, a span; ruinous cycles fallen in, and darkness on the deep of time. murmurous voices call and climb; faces, half-formed, arise; and he looked from the shadow of his throne, the curtain of eternity *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 251 (the italics are mine) whilst in the last verse of gthe palace of the world h the sudden dropping of a whole foot produces with it a sudden sense of finality: thine be the kingdom! thine the power!

godhead is less than mortal love, the garland of the spheres, than those sweet tears that yield no bitterness to the luxurious cries that love shrills out in death, that murmur when love dies *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 23. the hour of noon approaches, it falls, and the curse resumes its sway; a fiery snake winds its coils round the sleeping god, and hisses in his ear, gawake! h the god has fallen, the god is caught, caught and bound in the lusts of the manhood he assumed. no galilean is he to be crucified for his own or others f sins, and he wins his freedom at the price of charicles f liberty. nature breaks into a welcome chant of joy, the lovers are reunited, the men fs praise is for archais, and the eyes of the maidens are fixed on charicles. the tale is nearly ended, the lovers

divine powers of reason. and much of this new morality do we find in the love-gospel of aleister crowley. first turning to the love incarnate in motherhood, we find a touching case in the picture of cora in gthe mother fs tragedy. h cora vavasour, late of the halls, yet as true and noble a woman as ever lived, a type of woman that, thank heaven, is not so uncommon among those whom the prudes call fallen classes. cora was scarcely, however, one of these; living in luxury she tried to bury the recurring past, gold hours of horror, h and she trusted that ggod hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse h of her gforgetful age. h let me not shrink! truth always purifies. one night i stepped up tremulous on the stage, sang something, found my senses afterward only to that intolerable sound of

arriage-beds and our streets fill our days with woe. chivalry is dead, and the gilded ass reigns in the place of the champing stallion, and brays its goatish desires over the naked form of the sterile mule. no longer in this ice-bound age of frozen phalli do we hear sung: for, swooning at the fervid lips of artemis, the maiden kisses sob, and the languid body slips down to enamelled wildernesses. fallen and loose the shaken tresses; fallen the sandal and girdling gold, fallen the music manifold of moving limbs and strange caresses, and deadly passion that possesses the magic ecstasy of these mad maidens, tender as blue seas *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i. p. 170. for this is passion, if not quite so pure as some we have already seen, yet still passion of an unlustful nature. in gthe

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

0, the circle being the symbol of spirit, it is represented by the reversed t, that is, having the point, or energy, directed upward, the cross-bar resting below on the earth, and thus indicating that the thoughts, emotions and actions, are directed exclusively toward spiritual endeavor. it is figured by a blind man carrying bags on his left shoulder. he leans on a black staff and walks toward a fallen obelisk behind which a crocodile with open mouth awaits to devour him. above is an eclipse of the sun. the eclipse signifies that the spiritual light from within has been obscured by material interests; or it signifies that dark forces from the inner plane try to shut away the spiritual illumination which guides the neophyte. the bags over the left shoulder of the blind man indicate the mat

nd man indicate the material things of life he has spent his efforts acquiring; or it represents his ability to minister in physical ways to those in need. the staff of experience with good and evil is black, indicating that prudence is subservient to the demands of the senses; or that the demands for uplifting and protecting others is so great that, though enlightened, he ignores all danger. the fallen obelisk symbolizes the final overthrow of all temporal work and power. the crocodile indicates the ultimate fate of all who are blind to spiritual things, and also the persecution of those who work to spread the true facts of spirituality. this blind man is the atheist, or materialist, and the man who is so absorbed in material aims that he neglects all thought of spiritual things. it is li

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

of understanding. lucifer sought to free humanity from its sheep condition, all the while fought by the anthropomorphic-created god. god is chaos invariably and lucifer sought to manipulate this power, which the morning star has done successfully. the watchers and the nephilim understood this fact clearly and so did their will in the same fashion. the luciferian bloodline of those descended from fallen angels is present clearly in this age, equaled with those who were spiritual heirs as well. the craft taught by the fallen angels is further outlined in my the book of the witch moon, which further introduces what can be considered disciplined chaos sorcery. the methods of chaos magick are based within the theories of the universe being subject to those who may open and use the mind on nume

d disciplined chaos sorcery. the methods of chaos magick are based within the theories of the universe being subject to those who may open and use the mind on numerous levels. the effects of the earth are reactions to theories and ideas enfleshed. magick is nothing but a science of the mind. it is our psychic connection between the universe surrounding the casual world and us. the language of the fallen angels and those who would seek the promethean light of knowledge and wisdom is inherent also within us. it must be understood that chaos magick is not a form of magick specifically; it is open to possibilities. one may assume the doctrine of thelema but practice both witchcraft and rune magick. the potentials are never ending. any combination may be used only if it is perfectly suitable to

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

. as the elixir falls, she is always there to catch it, greedily, to speed forth a new child born from the darkness of the circle. in the dream do our bodies change with our desires, yet pleasure may be known to a deeper ecstalethe abyss and tabaet a study of adversarial mythology in magick by michael w. ford introduction the purpose of the following essay is to not only examine masks worn by the fallen angels throughout history as well as to examine the etymology of the spirit of self-liberation and opposition from the praxis of occult thought. the very passing of power in the circle of witchcraft and sorcery is the averse way of bringing into union daemon and man, the intent of the adversary is life and the immortality of the spirit. as luciferian witchcraft and liber hvhi provide a foun

marduk to capture and slay her. when she was cut open, the north wind bore her blood to secret places. gunkel and bousset describe that tiamat who was the queen of the abyss and darkness, supported by her infernal spirits rebelled against the higher gods of which marduk was of. tabaet is said to be the name of tiamat, the book of enoch mentions this serpent to not just an abyssic demon, rather a fallen angel who beholds power in the noon tide sun. the serpent later with the use of seduction, tempted mankind to accept the gift of the black flame in the form of an apple, leading to the possibility of mankind being as gods if they chose to. tiamat may be a etymological form of what would become the adversary as ahriman/jahi or samael/lilith, the name itself being the enemy of the so-called r

sucking vampiric demons and other night spirits. lilith is one half of the adversary is there were, is truly a satanic or luciferian source of self-mastery and strength. lilith is said to howl at the head of 480 companies of demons, having sometimes appearance with a chariot guided and backed by demonic spirits. lilith is the fiery aspect of ahriman or samael and should be considered equal to the fallen angel. in ancient non-zoroastrian writings, m.n. dhalla makes reference to the early hippolytus who wrote that there was a dualistic religion, the father being light and darkness being the mother. with this in consideration, ahriman no doubt was a manifestation of the androgynous primal dragon tiamat, which ahriman and az emerged from later. in the ancient writings of jacob and isaac hacohe

THE BOOK OF GATES

the sideboard room, as it has a projection of 3 ft. in form of a sideboard all round, which was perhaps intended to contain the articles necessary for the funeral ceremony. the pillars are 3 ft. 4 in. square, and the whole beautifully painted as the rest. at the same end of the room, and facing the hall of pillars, we entered by a large door into another chamber with four pillars, one of which is fallen down. this chamber is 43 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 6 in; the pillars 3 ft. 7 in. square. it is covered with white plaster, where the rock did not cut smoothly, but there is no painting on it. i named it the bull's, or apis' room, as we found the carcass of a bull in it, embalmed with asphaltum; and also, scattered in various places, ail immense quantity of small wooden figures of mummies 6 or 8 i

any stairs or subterranean passage was there. the doorway of the sideboard room had been walled up, and forced open, as we found the stones with which it was shut, and the mortar in the jambs. the staircase of the entrance-hall had been walled up also at the bottom, and the space filled, with rubbish, and the floor covered with large blocks of stone, so as to deceive any one who should force the fallen wall near the pit, and make him suppose, that the tomb ended with the entrance-hall and the drawing-room. i am inclined to believe, that whoever forced all these passages must have had some spies with them, who were well acquainted with the tomb throughout. the tomb faces the north-east, and the direction of the whole runs straight south-west" footnotes 44:1 as belzoni's narrative is of int

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

he directed them to conceal the corpse within the well of the oasis. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (12 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o (done) which, although it had served to quench his thirst for many days, was found to be entirely dry, as though it had expired in sympathy with him. now, the evening having fallen, it came to pass that the disciples of our brother became alarmed at his continued absence, and they organized a party to seek him. these men divided themselves into four sections to proceed to the well, each to a cardinal point of the compass. a little before dawn, they again met at the well, to report the result of their search. worthy wazir, have you sought to the north of the well? w: i

s the fair breast of our mother, and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (4 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the head of the great serpent is exalted. the veil of the temple is rent asunder (g.m. flings aside) our altars are thrown down; the