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them from christianity was their emphasis on knowledge rather than faith. the christian church fathers considered the gnostics heretical, or heretics. kether: the first emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify kether as the state of consciousness where creation merges with the veils of nonexistence. kether lies on the middle pillar and transcends the duality of chokmah (male) and binah (female) which lie immediately below on the tree. it is therefore symbolized in mystical tradition by the heavenly androgyne (male and female united in one) and represents a state of mystical transcendence and union with the supreme. it is compared to satori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great father, the giver

orth all the images of creation. chokmah is associated with such deities as kronos, saturn, thoth, atum-ra, and ptah in other pantheons. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic oppos

onal thought. it also represents the structuring and measuring capacities of the mind as opposed to the emotional and intuitional aspects of netzach. hod has no exact parallel in the tarot, but is closely linked to the card judgement, ascribed to the path between hod and malkuth. yesod: the ninth emanation on the tree of life. yesod is associated with the moon and the element water. regarded as a female sphere, it is the seat of sexual instinct and corresponds to the genital chakra on the archetypal man, adam kadmon. on the tree of life, yesod has the function of channeling the energies of the higher down to the earth below, malkuth. occultists associate yesod with the astral plane, because if the sephiroth above malkuth are regarded as a map of the unconscious psyche, yesod is the most ac

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

m divinam facere fnrvis hostiis; does that mean hlack beasts? we may suppose that cattle were 1 or will any one trace this incident in the reynard to the words of the vnlgate in matt. 22, 4: tauri mei et altilia occisa sunt, venite ad nuptias; which merely describe the preparations for the wedding-feast? any liint about males is just what the passage lacks^ the greeks ofiered male animals to god, female to goddesses, ii. 3, 103: a white male lamb to helios (sun, a hlack eive lamb to ge (earth. tiie lithuanians sacrificed to their earthgod zemiennik utriusque sexus domestica animalia; haupt's zeitschr. 1, 141^ reyscher and wilda zeitschr. fiir deutsches recht 5, 17, 18* ra. 261. 594. weisth. 3, 41. 46. 69. conf. virg. aen. 8, 82: candida cum foetu concolor albo sus; and the umbrian: trif ap

rs with the gauls, with whom he had had more familiar converse; but the personifications of the sun, fire, and the moon, to which he limits the sum total of their gods, will hardly bear even a forced' interpretatio eomana. if in the place of sun and moon we put apollo and diana, they at once contradict that deeply rooted])eculiarity of the teutonic way of thinking, which conceives of the sun as a female, and of the moon as a male being, which could not have escaped the observation of the eoman, if it had penetrated deeper. and vulcan, similar to the norse loki, but one of those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of teutondom, had certainly less foundation than the equally visible and helpful deities of the nourishing earth, and of the quickening, fish-teeming

hat in addition to the personal meaning, there is an abstract %a/3t9, gratia, as there is a wish^ piiterich of eeicherzhausen (haupts zeitschr. 6, 48) speaks of' die ivuntsclics fiiesse' of a princess; the older phrase would have been' ir fiieze waren deni wunsche gelich. it is a genuine bit of german heathenism to make this creative faculty reside in a god, and not, after the greek fashion, in a female personage. and there are other features too, that point back to our native heathen eld. wish's aue and heilwac can be matched by phol's ouwa and brunno, or the meads and holywells of other gods; wish's crovm by that worn by gods and kings. and, most remarkable of all, wish rejoices in his creature as in a child; here woden's self comes upon the scene as patriarcli or paterfamilias, before w

beow. 2155; wig fornom. cod. exon. 291, 11. do we not still say, war or battle snatched them all away? a remarkable gloss in the old cod. sangall. 913, p. 193, has 'turbines= ziu (we have no business to write zui, which may mean the storm of war, the imars trux, saevus, or possibly the literal whirlwind, on which mythical names are sometimes bestowed; so it is either zio himself, or a synonymous female personification ziu, bearing tlie same relation to zio as diu (ancilla) to dio (servus. here comes in another string of explanations, overbold as some of them may seem. as eresburg is just as often spelt hcrcsburg by the frankish annalists, we may fairly bring in the goth, hairus, as. heor, os. heru, on. morr, ensis, cardo, although the names of the rune and the day of the week always appea

passing into the fem. paura, peur of the eomance. as. ipn, hine se broga ongeat (terror eum invasit, beow. 2583. ohg. forhta cham mih ana, n. ps. 54, 5; forhta anafiel ubar inan, t. 2, 4; conf. mhg. diu sorge im was so verre entriten, sie mohte erreichen niht ein sper, fear was fled so far from him, a spear could not reach it, wh. 280, 10 (see suppl. but further on, we shall get acquainted with a female ililta, comparable to the lat. bellona and the gr. enyo and eris, who is really one with war and the war-god. tyr is described in sn. 105 as a son of osinn, but in the hymisqvisa as a kinsman of the giants. his mother, whose name is not found, but whose beauty is indicated by the epithet all-gullin, all-golden, ssera. 53% must have been a giant's daughter, who bore to osinn this immortal so

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in the center of the heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is attached to kether. in the egyptian sense it is sirius, the dog star of isis sothis; around it are the stars of the seven planets, each with its sevenfold counterchanged operation. the nude female figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah, the great supernal mother, aima elohim pouring upon the earth the waters of creation, which unite and form a river at her feet; the river going forth from the superna

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himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored

, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycl

e nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a

were hanged. even a dog was hanged. dorcas good, a four-year-old child, was the youngest victim to be accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. she was released on bail after her mother was hanged, but her younger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was different in any way- eccentric, senile or physically deformed- could be accused. any old woman living alone might b

g version dates only from the thirteenth century. but the authentic water gypsies knew their lore by inheritance rather than from a book, and the similarities are remarkable. ritual was practised by the canal people within a triple magical square, each square joined by four lines and constructed from wood known as 'the mill. only the women entered the sacred area, under the leadership of a senior female water witch, though the chief male, known as the master, summoned the entity to assist in the ritual. if you would like to read more about this, you will find some recommended books listed in further reading, page 301. certainly, i can recall two terrifyingly swarthy aunts who commanded the family, and my father recounted many superstitions and much canal lore when i was young. this include

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ve their superiority, as the amazons of old did; which latter (as the writings even of their especial enemies, the greeks, unwillingly admit) when overcome, were conquered by superior numbers, not by superior valour. however, abraham the jew grudgingly admits that the sacred magic may be attained by a virgin, while at the same time dissuading any one from teaching it to her! the numerous advanced female occult students of the present day are the best answer to this. but notwithstanding the forementioned shortcomings, his advice on the manner of using magical power, when acquired, to the honour of god, the welfare and relief of our neighbour, and for the benefit of the whole animate creation, is worthy of the highest respect; and no one can peruse it without feeling that his highest wish wa

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lluon, apollyon= the destroyer. schabuach: from arabic= to calm or assuage. mermo: from coptic, mer, across, and moou, water, across water. melamud: from hebrew, mlmd= stimulus to exertion. poter: from greek, poter= a drinking cup, or vase. sched: from hebrew, shdd, the hebrew name for a devastating demon. but the hebrew root shd implies the same idea as the english words to shed; and signifies a female breast. ekdulon: probably from greek, ekduo= to despoil. mantiens: from latin, mantiens, and greek, manteia, prophesying, divining. obedama: from hebrew,obd= a servant. ama= mother. but amh= a maid-servant, whence obedama should signify a womanservant. sachiel: is a name frequently given in magical works to an angel of the planet jupiter. skk= to cover or protect, but schh= to trample down

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can. under this heading are included all classes of good-will and affection, among the which abraham says that the most difficult thing is to make oneself or others beloved by religious persons (e) no. b is a gnomon of j squares taken from a square of c f. dodim means" loves pleasures. no. c consists of b h squares arranged like a capital letter e taken from a square of c f squares. raiah means a female companion. no. d consists of b d squares taken from a square of c f squares. modah= adorned as for a bridal. no. e consists of c f squares from a square of e j. no. f consists of c j squares taken from e j. almanah= a virgin; hence evidently this should be numbered e and not f, while probably no. e should be here placed. no. g consists of c g squares taken from a square of d g squares. call

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ing) and returns to it. the first cause is not an explosion like the so-called big bang, but the emergence of chaos and order. people often ask "how can satan be the exception to every rule, the dissonance in the universal, the rebel of the cosmos, the rock cast in the still pond and still represent nature's balance factor" simply put, satan, the male principle, is chaos personified. babalon, the female principle, is order personified. these principles combine, divide and subdivide as the universe expands. these divisions create primary forms which help the co-creators weave the fabric of the universe. the process is reminiscent of the way cells divide and multiply in our own bodies. during the contraction phase, the primary forms rejoin the source as the two principles begin to reconcile

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with the tail of an eye on such sciences as mathematics, biology, and chemistry. in mathematics the expression 'a' plus 'b' plus 'c' is a triviality. write 'a' plus 'b' plus 'c' equals 0, and you obtain an equation from which the most glorious truths may be developed. in biology the cell divides endlessly, but never becomes anything different; but if we unite cells of opposite qualities, male and female, we lay the foundations of a structure whose summit is unattainably fixed in the heavens of imagination. similar facts occur in chemistry. the atom by itself has few constant qualities, none of them particulary significant; but as soon as an element combines with the object of its hunger we get not only the ecstatic production of light, heat, and so forth, but a more complex structure havin

ou must trust mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. i can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. in one sense mercury is the great enemy; mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. the last of the seven sacred planets is the moon. the moon represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of venus, for the moon corresponds to the sun much as venus does to mars. she is more purely passive than venus, and although venus is so universal the moon is also universal in another sense. the moon is the highest and the lowest; the moon is the aspiration, the link of man and god; she is the supreme purity: isis the v

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and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon o

the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixio

not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there is also evidence to show that every god and goddess also had both a good and an evil nature, and evil gods were banished in the exorcism formulae of that civilisation as well as the l

he worn tapestry of the established moral christian atmosphere of victorian england, and expose it for what it really was, a carpet made of many ingenious threads and not god- or eternal happiness- at all; only nap. therefore, it seemed almost logical that he should seek in the defeated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that h

ntrick sex magick rites that so preoccupied crowley and the o.t.o. there can be no true magick without woman, nor without man, and in the symbolic language of the occult there can be no sun without the moon. in alchemy, ceremonial magick, and witchcraft, the formula is the same, for they all deal with identical properties; whether they are called the sun and moon of the elixir vitae, the male and female participants in a rite of indian or chinese tantricism, or the shadow and the anima of jungian depth psychology. for many years, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was

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f his cruel sport. note (18) this chapter was written to clarify chi-epsilon-psiiota- delta of which it was the origin. frater perdurabo perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at "au chien qui fume. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 76 [79] 35 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-epsilon venus of milo life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. the soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond life and death. even as the lingam and the yoni are but diverse developments of one organ, so also are life and death but two phases of one state. so also the absolute and the conditioned are but forms of that. what do i love? there is no from, no being, to which i do not give myse

e, who will! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 77 [80] commentary( lambda-epsilon) this chapter must be read in connection with chapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 16, 18, 24, 28, 29. the last sentence of paragraph 4 also connects with the first paragraph of chapter 26. the title "venus of milo" is an argument in support of paragraphs 1 and 2, it being evident from this statement that the female body becomes beautiful in so far as it approximates to the male. the female is to be regarded as having been separated from the male, in order to reproduce the male in a superior form, the absolute, and the conditions forming the one absolute. in the last two paragraphs there is a justification of a practice which might be called sacred prostitution. in the common practice of meditation the

universe (n.b. frater p. wrote this chapter-61-while dining with friends, in about a minute and a half. that is how you must know the qabalah) note (28) oe= island, a common symbol of nibbana (29) vau-yod-aleph ain. vau-yod-ayin ayin (30) scil. of shiva (31) cf. bagh-i-muattar for all this symbolism (32) death= nun, the letter before o, means a fish, a symbol of christ, and also by its shape the female principle book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 130 [133] 62 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-beta twig?(33) the phoenix hat a bell for sound; fire for sight; a knife for touch; two cakes, one for taste, the other for smell. he standeth before the altar of the universe at sunset, when earth-life fades. he summons the universe, and crowns it with magick light to replace t

of the title is an analysis of 77 considered as a mystic number. 7, the septenary; 11, the magical number; 77, the manifestation, therefore, of the septenary. through matter, because 77 is written in hebrew ayin zayin (oz, and he-goat, the symbol of matter, capricornus, the devil of the tarot; which is the picture of the goat of the sabbath upon an altar, worshipped by two other devils, male and female. as will be seen from the photogravure inserted opposite this chapter, laylah is herself not devoid of "devil, but, as she habitually remarks, on being addressed in terms implying this fact "it's nice to be a devil when you're one like me" the text need no comment, but it will be noticed that it is much shorter that the title. now, the devil of the tarot is the phallus, the redeemer, book o

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

(navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 10 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect of chokmah. 9 =28 magus locusts 3 almost any female image shows some aspect of binah 8 =38 magister templi 3rd order darkness 4 a mighty crowned and enthroned king 7 =48 adeptus exemptus hail and fire 5 a mighty warrior in his chariot, armed and crowned 6 =58 adeptus major boils 6 a majestic king, a child, a crucified god 5 =68 adeptus minor 2nd order murrain 7 a beautiful naked woman 4 =78 philosophus flies 8 an hermaphrodite 3 =88 practicu

, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with

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and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet] in the t

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sephira is complete in its way; mercy and authority are the attributes of its dignity. the number five is balanced against it. the attributes of five are energy and justice. four and five are again combined and harmonized in the number six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. in the number seven the feminine nature is again predominant, 2 but it is the masculine type of female, the amazon, who is balanced in the number eight by the feminine type of male. in the number nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. it identifies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and t

e last of the purely mental qualities. it identifies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and therefore also unity. binah (3) is he of tetragrammaton, and therefore "the emperor" chesed (4) is daleth, venus the female. geburah (5) is the sephira of mars, the male. tiphereth (6) is the hexagram, harmonizing, and mediating between kether and malkuth. also it reflects kether "that which is above, is like that which is below, and that which is below, is like that which is above" netzach (7) and hod (8) balanced as in text. jesod (9) see text. malkuth (10) contains all the numbers> which includes the whole of

m is that it sometimes occurs that one particular portion of the microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate the macrocosm of which it is the image, eidolon, or reflexion. for example, god is above sex; and therefore neither man nor woman as such can be said fully to understand, much less to represent, god. it is therefore incumbent on the male magician to cultivate those female virtues in which he is deficient, and this task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. it will then be lawful for a magician to invoke isis, and identify himself with her; if he fail to do this, his apprehension of the universe when he attains samadhi will lack the conception of maternity. the result will be a metaphysical and- by corollary- ethical limitati

ine plural of the feminine noun alh. a moment's investigation is sufficient to dissipate the illusion. the word masculine has no meaning except in relation to some feminine correlative. the word alim may in fact be considered as neuter. by a rather absurd convention, neuter objects are treated as feminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. but the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by spirit. thus we find the feminine ama, becoming aima<fertility, of bn, the son, through the operation of the phallic yod, while alim, the congress of dead elements, only fructifies by the brooding of spirit. this being so, ho

where the creative or reproductive force is primarily situated. qoph in the tarot is "the moon, a card suggesting illusion, yet shewing counterpartal forces operating in darkness, and the winged beetle or midnight sun in his bark travelling through the nadir. its yetziratic attribution is pisces, symbolic of the positive and negative currents of fluidic energy, the male ichthus or "pesce" and the female vesica, seeking respectively the anode and kathode. the number 100 is therefore a synthetic glyph of the subtle energies employed in creating the illusion, or reflection of reality, which we call manifested existence. the above are the principal considerations in the matter of aumgn. they should suffice to illustrate to the student the methods employed in the construction of the hieroglyphi

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istence of any such remagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 cord. i know a great many legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character. 9 it would be better for you to get a copy of the equinox of the gods and study it. the great work is the uniting of opposites. it may mean the uniting of the soul with god, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego- or what not. by "love under will" one refers to the fact that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of

ression to nothing by taking any two equal and opposite terms (thus n(-n= 0 "we ought therefore to be able to get any expression that we want from nothing; we merely have to be careful that the terms shall be precisely opposite and equal (0= n- n. this then they did, and began to diagrammatize the universe as the oe s.b. cap "i- a pair of opposites, the yang or active male, and the yin or passive female, principles. they represented the yang by an unbroken, the yin by a broken, line (the first manifestation in nature of these two is th i yang, the sun, and the th i yin, the moon) this being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four hsiang. they then took them three at a time, and got the eight kwa. these represent the development from the original oe s.b. ca

line (the first manifestation in nature of these two is th i yang, the sun, and the th i yin, the moon) this being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four hsiang. they then took them three at a time, and got the eight kwa. these represent the development from the original oe s.b. cap "i" to the natural order of the elements. i shall call the male principle m, the female f. m.1- khien "heaven-father" f.1- khw n "earth-mother- m.2- loe the sun f.2- kh n the moon- m.3- k n fire f.3- tui water- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 77 m.4- sun air f.4- k n earth- note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. m.1. and f.1. are perfection. m.2. and f.2. still keep balance in their lines. the four "elements" show imperfection;

. this is something the same as mystic monotheism; but all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. if we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural "it is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements- the elements are at least there, and god, when you look for him, is not there. theism is obscurum per obscurius. a male star is built up from the centre outwards; a female from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 79 every "act of love under will" has the dual result (1) the creation of a child combining the qualities of its parents (2) the withdrawal by ecstasy into nothingness. please consult what i

ity of- sympathy? i doubt if that be the word, but can think of none better- which enables them to assume at times the human form. no. 1- and the rest are also rans- is the seal. there is a whole body of literature about this. then come wolves, hyaenas, large dogs of the hunting type; occasionally leopards. tales of cats and serpents are usually the other way round; it is the human (nearly always female) that assumes these shapes by witchcraft. but in ancient egypt they literally doted on this sort of thing. the papyri are full of formulas for operating such transmutations. but i think that this was mostly to afford some relaxation for the spirit of the dead man; he nipped out of his sarcophagus, and painted the town all the colours of the rainbow in one animal shape or another. 33 the onl

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ntras: 1. aum. 2. aum tat sat aum. this mantra is purely spondaic. ii. illustration: line of music with: aum tat sat aum :under it 3. aum mani padme hum; two trochees between two caesuras. iii. illustration: line of music with: aum ma-ni pad-me hum :under it 4. aum shivaya vashi; three trochees. note that "shi" means rest, the absolute or male aspect of the deity "va" is energy, the manifested or female side of the deity. this mantra therefore expresses the whole course of the universe, from zero through the finite back to zero. iv. illustration: line of music with: aum shi-va-ya va-shi aum shi-va-ya vashi :under it 5. allah. the syllables of this are accented equally, with a certain pause between them; and are usually combined by fakirs with a rhythmical motion of the body to and fro. 6

t in the temple. each of these objects will then flame in the light of the lamp. this oil is like that which was in the widow's curse: it renews and multiplies itself miraculously; its perfume fills the whole temple; it is the soul of which the grosser perfume is the body. 67 the phial which contains the oil should be of clear rock crystal, and some magicians have fashioned it in the shape of the female breast, for that it is the true nourishment of all that lives. for this reason also it has been made of mother-of-pearl and stoppered with a ruby. 68 chapter vi the wand the magical will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing. hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further

f copper. the guard is composed of the two crescents of the waxing and the waning moon- back to back. spheres are placed between them, forming an equilateral triangle with the sphere of the pommel. the blade is straight, pointed, and sharp right up to the guard. it is made of steel, to equilibrate with the hilt, for steel is the metal of mars, as copper is of venus. those two planets are male and female- and thus reflect the wand and the cup, though in a much lower sense. the hilt is of venus, for love is the motive of this ruthless analysis- if this were not so the sword would be a black magical weapon. the pommel of the sword is in daath, the guard extends to chesed and geburah; the point is in malkuth. some magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are s

(indian civil service> the sword has been the great weapon of the last century. every idea has been attacked by thinkers, and none has withstood attack. hence civilization crumbles. no settled principles remain. to-day all constructive statesmanship is empiricism or opportunism. it has been doubted whether there is any real relation between mother and child, any real distinction between male and female. the human mind, in despair, seeing insanity imminent in the breaking up of these coherent images, has tried to replace them by ideals which are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by their vagueness. the will of the king was at least ascertainable at any moment; nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people. all conscious willed action i

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on; see also liber 418 10th ayre) lwx flame +hl garment dm 45 the mystic number of yesod adam: man; red md) the fool dm) redemption, liberation hlw)g to grow warm; they (masc) mh hesitated (see 405) lxz she who ruins hlbx hwhy in yetzirah )h w)w )h dwy greatly, strongly, very d)m what, which, why, how; anything, something; yetzitah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) hm 46 a name of god yhl) a female slave; an ell, cubit hm) tin, the metal of jupiter lydb a dividing, sundering, separation hldbh a ruiner lbwx 47 foolish, silly, stupid lyw) a weeping hyykb cloud; high place; waves; fortress hmb to clutch, hold +lx that it was good bw+ yk aum (cf. 111) mw) 48 the pillar of severity: the paths cheth and mem (cf. 26& 463) m x planet; star: the sphere of mercury bkwk greatness, magnificence

sayings nylm the pillars (cf. 164) ydwm( destitute yn( a staircase, ladder mls chaff cm lest np swift lq 131 he was angry pn) nose myp) turn, roll np) a title of kether hswkm humility hwn( pluto (referred to daath) w+wlp 132 to make waste qlb to receive lbq 133 (the hebrew palatal letters; see i.z.q. 694 et seq& cf. 84) qkyg vine npg the salt sea xlmh my plague pgn 134 burning qld 135 a destitute female hyn( the congregation (see 161) lhq roast, parch; burn; to be lightly esteemed, dishonoured hlq 136 the avenging angel l)wgh k)lm fines, penalties nwmm a voice lwq 137 a wheel; one of the auphanim npw) the belly, gullet )kmw+s) a pillar, monument (gn. 28:22) hbcm a receiving, tradition; the qabalah hlbq 138 the son of god myhl) nb to smoothe, divide qlx to leaven, ferment cmx to pollute pnx

ds h; see liber 418) n(l)b)b the tabernacle of the congregation (lev. 1:1) d(wm lh) a viper h(p) locked [door; shod, wearing shoes lw(n fowl pw( zion nwyc limpid blood lwlc crying aloud (the city of hadar (see 209, referred to binah in i.r.q. 994; cf. s.d. 4:19) w(p 157 the setting of the sun hmx ymwdmd was angry, enraged; anger p(z the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz) nqz hidden; wonderful )lpwm female; yoni hbqn demon; injurer qyzm 158 arrows mycyx to suffocate qnx balances (ch) nynz)m eternal, perpetual, enduring yxcn 159 surpassing whiteness (see 934 )nycwb point hdqn 160 thine eyes (pl; gnot h written; see 150& i.r.q. 652) kyny( silver psk fell down lpn a rock, stone (ls a tree c( thy face (ez. 3:8) kynp image mlc cain nyq to be lovely, pleasant m(n existing, stable myyq 161 the heave

h: the material world; action hy( shekinah, divine presence: the goddess of malkuth hnyk# lip hp# 386 tongues nw#l tziruph, combinations: tables of temurah pwryc 387 the milky way (lit. gthe way of milk h; but cf. 525) blxh lyb# 388 the hardest rock (ps 114:8 #ymlx to search out diligently #px table; bread (cf. 394) nxl# 389 realized, materialized, corporeal m#gwm judge; judgment +p# 390 male and female (gn. 1:27) hbqnw rkz retroactively (rpm nourishing, supplying, maintaining snrp heavens, firmament, sky (always pl; referred to ruach) mym# oil nm# 391 salvation, help h(w#y the inscrutable height: a title of kether hl(m mwr 392 spices mym#b dwelling, habitation nb#m paths mylyb# 394 table (cf. 388) nxlw# 395 the heavens mym#h the oil nm#h judge +pw# eight hnm# neschamah: the soul in the su

bindings [of the pillars] mhyqw#x 470 eternity (lit. ga cycle of cycles h) myrwd rwd pure wool yqn rm( time; period of time, season t( floor, ground, bottom (qrq 471 the hekaloth: palaces twlkyh 472 was terrified t(b and god made myhl#(yw 473 the three persons (yn )wh: ht) coalesced) yn)wht) golgoltha: a skull (ar; fig. the supernals; see 475& s.d. 2:33 )tlglwg millers, grinders (traditionally a female occupation) twnx+ 474 death: knowledge t(d wisdom (pl; prov. 1:20. i.r.q. 244) twmkx the testimony [within the ark] td( a ram, he-goat; a prepared sacrifice dt( 475 in golgotha (ar; s.d. 2:33 )tlglwgb priestess tnhk 476 house of justice, a court-house nyd tyb 478 the lesser countenance: a title of the ruach, esp. tiphareth nypn) ry(z 479 grindings. female millers) twnxw+ 480 stones of empti

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relations were manifest, even the most intelligent observer might be perplexed as to which was which. this is called the crown of mystery((the adept has become so absolutely natural that he appears unskillful. ars est celare artem. it is only he who has started on the path that can divine how sublime is the master) 32 chapter xxviii the return to simplicity. 1. balance thy male strength with thy female weakness and thou shalt attract all things, as the ocean absorbeth all rivers; for thou shalt formulate the excellence of the child((weh note: the ts has a mark for a footnote at this point. none is found in the end notes to match it. crowley's intent cannot be definitely defined, but probably relates to the 'childe' of liber al, possibly as hoor-pa-kraat) eternal, simple, and perfect. know

it against men. it is able to hurt men; so also is the wise king; but he doth not. 3. when these powers((the spirits and the wise king) are in accord, their good will produceth the teh, endowing the people therewith. 66 chapter lxi the modesty of the teh. 1. a state becometh powerful when it resembleth a great river, deep-seated; to it tend all the small streams under heaven. 2. it is as with the female, that conquereth the male by her silence. silence is a form of gravity((it is not that there is any 'virtue' in humility; it is simply that all lines converge at the center of the web) 3. thus a great state attracteth small states by meeting their views, and small states attract the great state by revering its eminence. in the first case this silence gaineth supporters; in the second, favou

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that of the qabalah; the actual apparatus is simple, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. to mega therion the tao 1. tao concentrateth itself upon kether as a point. 2. tao directeth itself within chokmah and becometh the male force. he is called yang, and is symbolized by a solid line. 3. tao expandeth in binah and becometh the female force. she is called yin, and is symbolized by a broken line. 4. these three: tao, yang and yin, bring forth heaven and earth, and all contained therein. the apparatus 0. tao is the source of the yi king, as of all. 1. thou shalt obtain 6 chinese coins. five shall be of one metal and the sixth of another. one side ye shall call yang, and the other yin (heads and tails. 2. these coins should

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hat theory is that god has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. if we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. it is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements- the elements are at least there; and god, when you look for him, is not there. theism is "obscurum per obscurius. a male star is built up from the centre outwards, a female star from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the difference between the sexes. weh note: although crowley evidently felt that this characterization was true simply, it should be noted that this comment is not class a. the idea of center outwards and circumference inwards may actually have described the impression received b

eh note: although crowley evidently felt that this characterization was true simply, it should be noted that this comment is not class a. the idea of center outwards and circumference inwards may actually have described the impression received by a male of the victorian age in regard to men and women. certainly every male mystic has the state here described as "circumference inward..no soul" and "female" at the time of reception- vide liber lxv. equally, every woman who acts positively from awareness of her identity would qualify for "center outwards "soul" and "male" in this sense. what crowley identified as sex-linked may better be considered as modality linked, with the sexual linkage as much an accident of culture as anything else. al i,4 "every number is infinite; there is no differen

he is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. aleph is attributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now as "one" or aleph he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is seal

r' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine; he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi

ved 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 of essential humanity which is the first matter of that great work wherein our race shares the divine prerogative of creating man in its own image, male and female. it is evidently of minor importance whether the will to create be consciously formulated. lot in his drunkenness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in order to give himself time to beget hercules. man is in actual possession of this supreme talisman. it is his "pearl of great price" in comparison with which all other jew

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of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to the

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

n of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in

mothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26: and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now

ne is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. 11 in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article t.s. 12 given the timescales involved it is prima faci far more likely that the early qabalists (such as the author of the sepher yetzirah) were influenced by pythagorean number mysticism t.s. liber lviii 11 now, we find that before the deity conformed himself thus i.e, as male and female that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis (i, 2) the earth was formless and void. these prior worlds are considered to be symbolized by the kings that reigned in the land of edom, before there reigned a king over the children of israel ,13 and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the edomite kings. this will be found fully explained in various

a thing we none of us knew. to help our deduction about redemption, too, we find hdj, to brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a is the pentagram, which means the will of man working redemption. o is the circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. 30 published as sepher sephiroth in equinox i (8. liber lviii 18 look at all our meanings! every one of them shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the ca

s it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems to deny that name. 40 in the apocalpyse of john t.s. liber lviii 28 32. number of sephiroth and paths, 10+ 22. hence is completion of perfection. finality; things as they are in their totality. hwhyha, the combined hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus, is here. if we supposed the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, c, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god= ateh gibor le-olahm adonai. to thee be the power unto

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we reason of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers in other words, by the spirvth, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas. among the sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was

e and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis iv, 26 "and elohim said: let us make man" again (v. 27, who could adam be made in the image of elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the word elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular alh, eloh, by adding im to word. but inasmuch as im is usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency united to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. how, we hear

, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word rvch, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah "achth rvch alhim chiim, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chimm: one is she the spirit of the elohim of life" now, we find that before he deity conformed himself thus "i.e, as male and female- that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis "the earth was formless and void" these prior worlds are considered to be symbolised by the "kings who reigned in edom before there reigned a king in israel" and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the "edomite kings" this will be found fully explained in various parts of this work. we now come to the

nd out a thing we none of us knew. to help our deduction about redemption, too, we find hb:heh hb:dalet hb:heh weh note: sic, should be: hb:heh hb:dalet hb:chet, to brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. look at all our meanings! every one shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the cause of life, by its masculine whirlings, and to gladden us and to being u

1. la "not; and al "god" in this part i("nature as it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems to deny that name. 32. number of sephiroth and paths, 10+ 22. hence is completion of perfection. finality: things as they are in their totality. ahihvh, the combined ahih and ihvh, macroprosopus, and microprosopus, is here. if we suppose the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, sh, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. agla, a name of god= ateh gibor le olahm adonai "to thee by the power unt

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wt. 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 made in the sarawan division of the kalat state have been sent to the indian museum by mr. hughes-buller. the following is the mode of preparation "the female 'bhang' plants are reaped when they are waist high and charged with seed. the leaves and seeds are separated and half dried. they are then spread on a carpet made of goat's hair, another carpet is spread over them and slightly rubbed. the dust containing the narcotic principle falls off, and the leaves, etc, are removed to another carpet and again rubbed. the first dust is the best quality

ericana) it has been generally assumed that the american-grown drug was practically worthless therapeutically, and that cannabis sativa grown in india must be used if one would obtain physiologically active preparations. 250 furthermore, it has been claimed that the best indian drug is that grown especially for medicinal purposes, the part used consisting of the flowering tops of the unfertilised female plants, care being taken during the growing of the drug to weed out the male plants. according to our experience, this is an erroneous notion, as we have repeatedly found that the indian drug which contains large quantities of seed is fully as active as the drug which consists of the flowering tops only, provided the seed be removed before percolation. several years ago we began a systemati

have heard this state of interior trembling described in some mystic books. i think the shakers and quakers had violent shudderings. abdullah haji of shiraz writes: just as the body shudders when the soul gives up to allah in its quick career itself. it is the tiniest, most intimate trembling, not unlike that of kambhakham or "vindu-siddhi"[see the shiva sanhita. ed. properly performed; but of a female quality. i feel as if i were being shaken; in 77 the other cases i recognize my own ardour as the cause. it is very gentle and sweet. so now i may turn back to wait for him. 3.50. the voice of the nadi has changed to a music faint yet very full and very sweet, with a bell-like tone more insistent than the other notes at intervals. 5.45. again awake, and patient-eager. the dreams flow throug

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that to the thirty-second path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed the seven abodes of assiah; to the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares. 5 "see 777" cols. civ, cvi

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

her arms are posed as though to hold up a ceiling level with her crown. to the left of the male on the lower cross arm is hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:mem, to the left is air hb:lamed hb:qof hb:dalet hb:heh. the words "the tree of life" cross either side of the male's heart in space off the lower arm of the cross. the words "the knowledge of good" are similarly situated in space at the height of the female's crown. the words "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" extend in space across and just below the bases of the pillars. foliage extends about the base of the cross: four tendrils arch upward to left and three to right, six leaves each, topped by moon mercury venus sun mars jupiter saturn in order from left to right. a similar spray extends in arches downward, three to left and four to r

s composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly overlapping circles, one above two. the top circle contains a crown of three points and a wing extending from the lower left circle. the right circle is surmounted by four visible points and contains a bearded male face obscured on the left by a wing extending from the left circle. the left circle contains a turned-away profile of a female with a crown of at least eight points, the points topped by diamond crosses. there is a glory about the left outer half of this circle, and wings extend as noted. below the top circle is a calvary cross. the top arm of this cross shows the sword that defines the sephiroth on usual depictions of the tree of life. to the left of this top arm are two large heads topped by hebrew letters, and t

of this top arm are two large heads topped by hebrew letters, and there is another pair to the right. left to right these are: bull(hb:heh, man(hb:vau, eagle(hb:heh) and lion(hb:yod. all these face left. the cross arm is bare, except for the serpent described below. the lower arm is obscured by drawings: top to bottom; a circle, a male head and torso leaning forward with arms hanging, a circle, a female head and arms clasping the next element to be described. in the hands of the female figure there is a large ringed circle. this circle contains the smaller circles described in diagram #27. beginning with tail at the intersection point of the cross, an eight headed serpent loops the female figure in the lower third of the drawing. the tail continues clockwise around the lower circle, and st

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in our life, my first duty is to describe them. the island is a large one. when i have gone round it myself i shall perhaps be able to give a rough estimate of its area. for the present i can but say "it is a large island" we have trees by thousands: water trees, from which, after the stems have been cut and slashed, the water pours down; kola-nut trees, papaw tress, with their flowers, male and female; dragon trees, fig trees, cocoa-nut palms, bread-fruit trees, and the rest. beautiful birds are dwelling in the branches. all that is needed for life is abundant and easy to gather. the climate permits us 367 to spend night and day in the open, and when i retire to sleep on the box whose cover i have turned out to be, my companions sleep in the trees. no venomous or objectionable beast has

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ulate this judgment: 160 that the querent's loss in business has been principally owing to his own mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. illustration: this is another by aos, formed this time in an abstract of female primary and secondary sexual attributes in contrast to the male elements in the first. there is a large face suggested in the drawing, to the right and center. 161 the organ in king's chapel, cambridge then silence,and the veil of light is raised and darkness seen behind. now softly sound the angels' herald-trumpets, calling round thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. now laden with

l of the father and the mother, and so divided into vau-heh and yod-heh<genesis v. 1, 2 :bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-daletmemfinal bet-dalet-mem-vau-taw aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal ayin-shin-heh aleph-taw-vau qof-bet-resh vau-nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them" now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of those mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal, i

estations of their presence. now mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of yod-heh-vau-heh aleph-dalet-nun-yod, wherefore by gematria "tetragrammaton our lord" is the angel now if into the midst of this divided name of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of aleph-mem-nunfinal (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+ 4+ 5= 10- the perfection of the sephiroth> 170 we cast the triple fire of the holy letter hb:shin= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, yod-heh-shin-vau-heh. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of hb:vau, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of

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scord, jealous of my authority, though clamorous for my teaching, the so-called mr. and mrs. horos and a mrs. rose adams, who said she was a doctor of medicine, came to me in paris in the beginning of last year (1900) with an introduction from an acquaintance of good social standing. at this time my name was well known here in connection with lectures on ancient egyptian religious ceremonies. the female prisoner stated that they had come with the intention of aiding me in this, and she professed to be an influential member of the theosophical society, and also of my own order, giving me the secret name58 of a person of high occult rank in it, who had been reported to be dead some years before. i have yet to learn how, when, where and from whom she obtained the knowledge of that order, whic

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is letter in order to see that a couple of nice crisp cabbages do not during their ebullition throw too much water over the gas-stove. and as i return to you it occurs to me that you may know the great masterpiece of dostoievsky. i have only read it in the french 'crime et ch timent' they call it. well, there is a similar case in that terrible story. mikolka confesses to the 300 murder of the old female moneylender and her sister elizabeth, when the real murderer is rodion romanich raskolnikoff. mikolka is longing for expiation; he wants to atone for a wasted life; he is neither a madman nor an insane, but a mystic, a fantast. you will object that he is a slav. quite so, but there might be some anglo-saxons with a similar turn of mind "what of the theft? what if there has been no theft? if

"all applications should be sent to" sri parananda paramahamsa, c/o "the equinox "the photograph in this number of "the equinox" is by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. important new books published by r. fisher unwin. after death_ what? spiritistic phenomena and their interpretation. by cesare lombroso, alienist professor of psychiatry in the university of turin, author of "the female offender "the man of genius" etc. second impression. illustrated. demy 8vo, cloth, 10/-net; post free 10/5. psychotherapeutics. a symposium. by morton prince, m.d, professor of diseases of the nervous system, tufts college medical school. frederic h. gerrish, m.d. professor of surgery, bowdoin college. james j. putnam, m.d, professor of neurology, harvard medical school. e.w.taylor, m.d, in

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cocoa would tint your boko less than criminal libel_ what did waistcott wynn? anyway, he lost his shirt_ see-saw, bernard shaw sold his beef to live upon straw. wasn't he a thousand miles from sense when he went to eustace miles_ jagmatite said (torn edge) the back contains some account of a football match played on some saturday in january, apparently in lancashire. the envelope was addressed in female script, and bears postmark "rock ferry" besides the senseless vulgarity and scurrility of this disgusting stuff, it implies the false and malicious statement that a writ has been served upon us; and we shall proceed according to law, if we can trace the offenders. a green garland by v. b. neuburg green paper cover. 1s. 6d. net "as far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume someth

it is very widely spread under different names in 62 india, algeria, and arabia felix; but we have around us, under our eyes, curious examples of the intoxication caused by vegetable emanations. without speaking of the children who, having played and rolled themselves in heaps of cut lucern, often experience singular attacks of vertigo, it is well known that during the hemp harvest both male and female workers undergo similar effects. one would say that from the harvest rises a miasma which troubles their brains despitefully. the head of the reaper is full of whirlwinds, sometimes laden with reveries; at certain moments the limbs grow weak and refuse their office. we have heard tell of crises of somnambulism as being frequent among the russian peasants, whose cause, they say, must be attr

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tumultuous tongue- o virgin in armour, thine arrows unsling, in the brilliant resilient first rays of the spring! no godhead could charm her, but manhood awoke- o fiery valkyrie, i invoke, i invoke! aleister crowley. 198 illustration opposite page 199 described "the interpreter (script lettering at base, credited at lower right "carl hentschel ph. lc) this is a monochrome color tinted photo of a female violinist. she stands on a white draped block, the background is white, except for the floor which seems to be wooden and is interrupted by the block. she is garbed in a black robe, rose-cross on chest, hood turned back and over hair with eye-in-triangle seen only as three or four points of the glory. her head is turned in profile to the right until the shoulders and torso- 3/4 profile. all

lence' is really choice. 287 "virtue" he defines as "the bent of mind towards self-command (and evidently practises it. his morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really "take the cake "there are three kinds of animate creations in the world" he writes "they are the creations from (1) the womb (2) eggs (3) perspiration" another gem "how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female" answer "if the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. while, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born) at one of his male meetings- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed- he related to us his pet story, of how he had "flumoxed" the chief engineer and the captain of the liner which had b

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ch are obvious to anyone who has mixed the gluten of the white eagle with the red powder, or accomplished the third projection, the order of the tarot trumps cannot any longer be preserved. nor will their number exceed seven. ix the hermit he went to seek it in the wilderness. a cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. it proved very comfortable- and lonely. he pursued his education, often troubled by horrid visions, when he saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. they reminded him of the terrible prediction of the french poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, la femme ayant gomorrhe et l'homme ayan

hose skin was velvet. as a whole, she was very manly in her life, speech and 34 habit. she dressed often as a man; and, one day, riding by lionel's cottage, she noticed the thin-armed youth whose eyes were big and haloed. their eyes met; she smiled, he trembled. both were pleased. the next day rose and brought them again together. a formal introduction followed. mary the male conquered lionel the female. thereafter, the "cheval hongre" lost his nickname. nor did he give any widow the chance of horse-whipping him again. xviii the moon they were very happy; he learnt the joy of health and the ineffable delectation of surrender; she the thrilling pain-pleasure of possession. here, she, being the heroine of our tale, passes out of it. they are very happy. man and woman. the complete being. may

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lism. we have acquiesced in the method of the primitives- do you think men and women are really like fra angelico's pictures look to the eye of the untaught? we may one day acquiesce in all the noughts and crosses of nadelmann! it's the same everywhere. i draw a curve and a circle and a waggle up and down; and everybody who can read english is perfectly satisfied that i mean that placid ruminant, female, herbivorous, and lactiferous, to which we compare our more domesticated courtesans and our less domesticated policemen. so being is not in form; it is however only to be understood through form. hence incarnations. the universe is only a picture in the mind of the father, by which he wishes to convey- what? it is our magnum opus to discover what he means! hence 'the eye 138 of faith' mere

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he escort of beautiful women. he became the darling of the local 'jet. set. when his companions heard that he dabbled in magiche still kept his secret-s-they pressed him to make them amulets and good-luck charms. alex revelled in his power and popularity. he mixed mostly with men he had met in manchester clubs-doctors, actors, businessmen and entrepreneurs, their one common asset being money. his female acquaintances were more diverse- daughters of indulgent daddies, show girls, factory girls, typists and the occasional call-girl. with so many followers he had no difficulty filling his ballroom whenever he gave a party. outside caterers and staff were engaged to provide and serve food and drink, for alex knew from experience that he could have little privacy with servants in residence. at

s such as they had justwitnessed. they were not even imitations of genuine esbats--or coven meetings. he added that he was trying. to find means of recognizing real witches so that he could practise his cult with them 'initiate me' urged his companion 'then you would have a. coven of two, and i promise i shall do all you ask of me' alex explained that no male witch may initiate another male, nora female a female. the natural laws of witchcraft, which regard homosexuality as a denial of the basic tenet of fertility, insist on man always being paired with woman, especiallyin a ceremony as personal asinitiation. a few days later the young man returned and asked if alex would accompany him to the home of some friends who might be able to help 'they are devout christians, evangelists, but they

d the [mal proclamation and, at the same time, masturbated, ejecting eheirsperm 011 to the pentacle. as they both slumped hack exhausted from theirlong vigil a baby's cry broke the silence. there on the pentacle; still moist with semen, lay what appeared to be a human baby of normal size except thatit had no navel. nor umbilical cord. and it" appeared to be bisexuel, its genitals .part male, part female. paul bent to pick it up. but alex, following the hebrew ritual,.stopped him 'butyou said it was my son,'said paul 'i want to christen it 'how can we christen it if we .aren't christians? you can baptize it. here, use the consecrated water, but do not touch the child with your hands' paul.flicked his moistened fingers over the baby and gave him the name 'michael. neither of them knew what n

pointing upwards, while she says 'hear ye, mighty ones of the watchtowers, x [giving his name] has been consecrated a priest of the goddess' they all sit in a circle, the initiate beside the high priest in the place of honour. the high priest, on his knees, is given a cup of wine by the high priestess who then plunges her athame into it and says 'as the athame is to the male, so the cup is to the female, and when they are joined they become one in truth' they partake of the cakes and wine-communion with their god-and the ceremony ends. the ritual by which a first-grade witch becomes a secondgrader lasts several hours during which each member of the coven enacts part of a mystery play which tells the history of witchcraft from its earliest days. before the initiate can present himself for t

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h, pentacle, censer, athame, bell; presence lamp; 4 quarter candles; sword (optional, candle snuffer (optional) let all be fit to enter into the presence of the gods. start in the dark. ritual leader waits until it feels like time to begin, then rises: lighting of the candle: r: i light this candle (lights presence lamp) in the name of that ancient presence, which is, was, and ever shall be male, female, all-knowing, all-powerful and present everywhere. and in the names of the four mighty ones, the rulers of the elements, may power and blessing descend in this hour upon this place and those gathered here. r lights the two altar candles, the charcoal, and the four quarter candles from the presence lamp. exorcism of the water: r kneels before the altar and places the water bowl upon the pent

at a sabbat the great rite comes first. notes l from the witches' way by the farrars. wine blessing follows: working part of esbat circle (any worship circle) hps stands in god position before altar. hp fills a chalice with red wine and offers it up to her from his knees. hps takes athame between her palms and holds it above the chalice. hp: as the athame is to the male, hps: so the cup is to the female; both: and conjoined they bring blessedness. laying athame aside, hps accepts cup of hp (kiss, sips and returns it to him (kiss) who also sips and arises to pass it to a woman (kiss) to sip and hence from woman to man (kiss) and man to woman (kiss) about the circle. if more work is to be done, the cup makes the round but once and is returned to the altar, else it is replaced in the center o

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rtant triangles: 1. in the head: the triangle of the three major centres, a. the pineal gland, b. the pituitary body, c. the alta major centre. 2. in the body: the triangle of prana, a. between the shoulders, b. above the diaphragm, c. the spleen. 3. at the base of the spine: the three lower centres, a. a point at the bottom of the spinal column. b. and c. the two major sex organs in the male and female.62(54) the merging of the fires of matter and the fires of mind results in the energising of the sumtotal of the atoms of the matter of the body. this is the secret of the immense staying power of the great thinkers and workers of the race. it results also in a tremendous stimulation of the three higher centres in the body, the head, the heart, the throat and in the electrification of this

icles. how can this be expressed? in terms of fire, when the two electric poles are brought into definite relationship we have demonstrated, along the line of occult sight and of occult feeling, both heat and light. this relationship is brought about and perfected during the evolutionary process. this heat and light are produced by the union of the two poles, or by the occult marriage of male and female, of spirit (father) and matter (mother. in terms of the physical, this union produces the objective solar system, the son of the father and the mother. in terms of the subjective, it produces the sun, as the sum total of the qualities of light and heat. in terms of fire, by the union or at-one-ment of electric fire (spirit) and fire by friction (energised matter) solar fire is produced. thi

the vibration becomes sufficiently strong. a negative planet will be attracted by a positive, and so on through all forms. this is the manifestation of sex in- 162- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust substance of every kind, from the tiny atom in the body to the vast planetary chains, and this is the basis of activity. radiatory activity is simply the interplay between male and female, and this can be seen in the physical atom of the scientist, among men and women, and in the vaster atom of a solar system as it vibrates with its cosmic opposite. we might, therefore, consider time as that process of activity, or that progression in development, wherein the indwelling consciousness is seeking its opposite, and coming under the law of attraction, which leads to atomic, huma

ed at as follows: the moon chain with the earth chain formed two units, or two polarities, negative and positive. the point of merging was reached, and the earth chain absorbed or synthesised the moon chain in the same sense as certain of the schemes will merge until only three will apparently be left. therefore the earth chain is essentially dual in its nature, being the sumtotal of a male and a female chain. this is a mystery impossible to elucidate further, but it is dealt with in certain occult books, and hinted at by h. p. b.47(130) in due course of time another merging in the scheme will eventuate and then uranus (the chain of that name in our scheme) will flash into objectivity. forget not that the schemes manifest as seven, as ten, as three from the angle of the eternal now, or fro

again be permitted. it will be generally recognised at that time that spirit-matter are two aspects of the one unity, and the present terminology of spirit, and material substance, will have given place to the broader concept of negative and positive energy as the two aspects of the one energy. all phenomena will then be expressed in force terms, and the sex question or the union of the male and female, the negative and the positive, on the physical plane will be redeemed and purified. an embodied idea, therefore, is literally a positive impulse, emanating from mental levels, and clothing itself in a veil of negative substance. these two factors in turn will be regarded as emanations from a still greater force centre, which is expressing purpose through them both. a thought form, as const

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lan. thus, again, we have a relation established between a positive and a negative vibration, and the study of these relations carries much information to the student, and is part of the teaching given in preparation for the first initiation. a list of these related situations might here be given showing them in their progressive relation on the path of evolution. 1. the relation between male and female physical bodies, called by man, the sex relation, and- 52- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust deemed of such paramount importance at this time. in the vale of illusion, the symbol oft engrosses attention and that which it represents is forgotten. in the solving of this relationship will come racial initiation, and it is with this that the race is now engrossed. 2. the rela

this is a pull from the physical plane and the swinging back of a type of involutionary energy on to the path of return. cosmically speaking, it manifests as the attractive force between spirit and matter; spiritually speaking, it is demonstrated as the activity of the soul, as it seeks to draw the lower self into full realisation. physically speaking, it is the urge which tends to unite male and female for the purpose of procreation. when man was purely animal, no sin was involved. when to this urge was added emotional desire, then sin crept in, and the purpose for which the urge manifested was perverted into the satisfaction of desire. now that the race is more mental, and the force of mind is making itself felt in the human body, an even more serious situation is apparent, which can onl

the clarity of the embodiment of the formula in a simple outlined structure, so will- 264- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust be the finally furnished building and the consequent form, which will confine within the periphery of the outer form itself the lives used in its construction. this, in reality, resembles the stage of conception. latent within the germ (the result of male female interrelation) lie all the potencies and capacities of the finished product. latent within the idea which has been materially conceived, but which has been inspired by the spirit aspect, lie hid the potencies of the finished thoughtforms. the matter aspect, represented by the mind, has been fecundated by the spirit aspect, and the triplicity will eventually be completed by the created form

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ts in the reproduction of the species. speaking in terms of modern usage as it is found among the unthinking and the average, sex is a word which denotes the alluring satisfaction of the animal impulses at any cost and with no rhythmic regulation. sex is essentially an expression of duality, and of the separation of a unity into two aspects or halves. these we can call spirit and matter, male and female, positive and negative; and they are in the nature of a stage upon the evolutionary ladder towards a final unity or homo-sexuality which has no relation to that perversion which is, today and inaccurately, called "homosexuality. this latter manifestation is rampant at this time in a mental and modern conception of the phenomenon, but it is rare indeed to find a person who truly combines wit

ity. this head centre is the symbol of the spirit or positive masculine aspect, just as the centre between the eyebrows is the symbol of matter, of the negative feminine aspect. connected with these force vortices are two physical plane organs, the pituitary body and the pineal gland. the first is negative and the second is positive. these two organs are the higher correspondences of the male and female organs of physical reproduction. as the soul becomes increasingly potent in the mental and emotional life of the aspirant, it pours in with greater power into the head centre. as the man works with his personality, purifying it and bending it to the service of the spiritual will, he automatically raises the energies of the centres in the body up to the centre between the eyebrows. eventuall

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er his life reacts to evil or to good. the devil is the symbol of that which is not humanly divine, for there are evil things done by man which, when done by an animal, are not so regarded. a man or a fox, for instance, may raid a chicken coop, but in the one case a moral law is broken, and in the other a natural instinct is followed. an animal may kill another animal in rage or in defense of its female, but when a man does the same thing it is called murder, and he is duly punished. father christmas is the embodiment of that which is selfless; he is the symbol of giving and of the christ spirit; he therefore stands to man as a reminder of god, just as this other figment of the imagination, the devil with horns and tail, is a reminder of that which is not god, that which is- 71- from bethl

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g the situation with much concern. these cleavages seem basic, and produce the divisions we find everywhere between race and race and between religion and religion, and can- 253- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust be traced back to the fundamental condition of manifestation which we call the relationship of positive and negative, of male and female and, esoterically speaking, of the sun and the moon. the mystery of sex itself is bound up with the re-establishment of the sense of unity and of balance, of oneness or of wholeness. in its higher human aspect, this sexual differentiation is only the symbol or lowest expression of the cleavage or separativeness of which the mystic is aware and which makes him seek at-one-ment or union with

1998 lucis trust therefore, for much of the discomfort and disease found in those areas in the human body which are governed and controlled by a particular centre. i would like to add the following points to the information given above: 1. the intense activity of the sacral centre will often produce diseases and physiological abnormalities, connected with the organs of reproduction (both male and female. these difficulties are of two kinds: a. those to which normal humanity is prone and which are well known to the physician, surgeon and psychologist. b. those which are the result of over-stimulation, through the successful effort of the mystic to bring in energy from the higher centres and from sources outside the human frame altogether. 2. in all cases of transference, the intense activit

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irants in the early stages, sex does constitute a fundamental problem. esoterically, however, it is in libra that the whole question comes up and will increasingly come up for answering, and it is in libra that the balancing of the pairs of opposites must take place and reach solution through the activity of the judicial mind and the establishing of a point of equilibrium between the male and the female principles. this again (for it is a piece of recurrent symbology) is the problem existing basically between the sheep and the goats, between negative and positive, and between those who blindly follow either instinct or custom and those who climb freely where they choose- 139- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and are self-directed in co

nd form, so in the new world religion this fact will be recognised. appeal will be made to the forces which can utilise this planetary potency in order to work out the divine plan upon the earth. it is because venus thus relates certain pairs of opposites that she has been erroneously connected in the minds of men with sex and the sex life and with the relation of the physical opposites, male and female. it is interesting to discover that the hierarchical ruler of gemini is the earth itself, which is a non-sacred planet. the earth is also the esoteric ruler of sagittarius, the polar opposite of gemini. these are the only two constellations ruled by the earth, and this fact is of major- 210- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust significance

tion (s.d. iii. 141) note: all the travels of all the heroes of antiquity through the signs of the sun and the heavens. are in each individual case, the personification of the sufferings, triumphs, and miracles of an adept before and after initiation. 5. the signs of the zodiac: each a double sign in ancient astrological magic namely: it was taurus-eve; and scorpio was mars-lupa, or mars with the female wolf. so as these signs were opposites of each other, yet met in the centre they are connected (s.d. iii. 154) references in a treatise on cosmic fire. 6 "until the mystery of the great bear is revealed and is known as it is, and until the influence of pleiades is comprehended, and the true significance of the cosmic triangle formed by 1. the seven rishis of the great bear, 2. the seven pla

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sick leave for months as he had crashed whilst piloting a plane, training army observers. i had been introduced to him, after a lecture i had given at krotona, by dot weatherhead, who not only introduced him to me but was also instrumental in introducing me to occult truth and to krotona. foster's recollection of that introduction is summed up in the words "all i saw was a hank of hair and a bony female" i have always had lots of hair. it is a family inheritance and my three girls have masses of lovely hair. i shall never forget a remark of my eldest daughter, dorothy (who is famous for her remarks with a double meaning. i had washed my hair one day in england and was sitting out in the garden at ospringe place, faversham, drying it. dorothy looked out of the window and called out "oh! mot

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

who succumb to the inherited taints. curiously enough, the free use of salt sea bathing has a definite effect on the healthiness of the physical body. the water, incidentally absorbed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect. one of the major problems today to the psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of homosexuality, both female and male. specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove that this abnormal development (and the consequent interest in this morbid tendency) is due to the fact that the race is slowly becoming androgynous in its development, and that the future hermaphroditic man or woman is gradually making its appearance. this, again, is not true. homosexuality is what you call a "left-over" from

that we can trace much of the difficulty inherent in the use and the misuse of the sex urge. instead of man being governed by the cyclic manifestation of the sex impulse, and his life, therefore, being ruled by a definite rhythm, there exists at this time no such- 54- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust thing, except in the cycles through which the female passes, and little attention is paid to these. the male, however, is not governed by any such cycles, and has broken in also on the rhythm to which the female body should be subordinated, and which rightly understood would determine the use of the sex relationship, including naturally the male impulse also. this failure to live by the law of periodicity and to subordinate the appetites to c

is too will result in the prolongation of life. the laws of electrical energy will also be better understood in this connection- 66- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. by the understanding of right methods of assimilation and elimination will come the healing of diseases connected with the bodily tissues, the stomach and bowels and the male and female organs of generation. it will some day be understood that these latter are only another system of assimilation and elimination, centred this time in the feminine aspect or woman, for again remember that this is the second or love system. the order is thus: a. the first system was masculine. b. the present system, the second, is feminine. c. the third system will be hermaphroditic. e'en thou

rd. it registers the intention or creative purpose of the soul, transmitted to it by the inflow of energy from the ajna centre; the fusion of the two energies, thus brought about, will lead to some type of creative activity. this is the higher correspondence to the creativity of the sacral centre. in that centre the negative and the positive creative energies are embodied in the separate male and female organisms and are brought into relation in an act of creation, consciously undertaken, though as yet without much definite purpose. f. the dense physical externalisation of this centre is the thyroid gland. this gland is regarded as of supreme importance in the well-being of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain import

orld religions as a virgin mother and in the christian religion as the virgin mary. it is that substance which enables deity to manifest. 2. nature itself, the mother of all forms. 3. the moon also, who is the symbol of the generative, creative life which gives birth to forms and is therefore the symbol of the form nature. 4. the concentration of the feminine force in nature in some individual in female form who is then called the "world mother" such an individual has never existed in our particular planetary life, though the avatars of a previous solar system, expressing itself through planetary life, always took this form. but not in this solar system. the tradition of such appearances is purely symbolic, inherited from the previous solar system from which we inherited the matter of whic

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

the sumtotal of manifestation. all that remains is a point of light. this point is conscious, immutable and aware of the two extremes of the divine expression: the sense of individual identity and the sense of universality. these are fused and blended in the one. of this one the divine hermaphrodite is the concrete symbol the union in one of the pairs of opposites, negative and positive, male and female. in the state of being which we call the monadic, no difference is recognised between these two because (if i can bring such ideas down to the level of the intelligence of the aspirant) it is realised that there is no identity apart from universality and no appreciation of the universal apart from the individual realisation, and this realisation of identification with both the part and the

in the phenomenal world of the average human being who has not yet passed through the initiatory experience of the rebirth, the emphasis has ever been and is today upon the dual relationship of the sexes and to this our novels, plays, movies and affairs of all men bear testimony. creativity expresses itself mainly through the propagation of the race, brought about through the relation of male and female, or of the positive and negative poles in the human family. this is right and good and part of the divine plan. even though men have prostituted their capacities and debased their relationships, the basic plan is divine and ideal. after the first initiation, the entire sex relationship shifts gradually and steadily into its proper place as simply a natural phase of existence in the three wo

basic plan is divine and ideal. after the first initiation, the entire sex relationship shifts gradually and steadily into its proper place as simply a natural phase of existence in the three worlds and as one of the normal and correct appetites, but the emphasis changes. the higher experience and correspondence, that of which physical sex is only the symbol, becomes apparent. instead of male and female, there emerges the magnetic relationship between the now negative personality and the positive soul, with consequent creativity upon the higher planes. of this relationship the head centre and the centre between the eyebrows (the ajna centre) are the agents and eventually through the medium of the pituitary body and the pineal gland they condition the personality, rendering it soul-infused

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

coherence which builds the forms through which god, or the soul, manifests. it produces the stability which demonstrates in the persistence of the form throughout its cycle of existence, and concerns the interrelation between that which builds the form and the form itself; between the two poles, positive and negative; between spirit and matter; between the self and the not-self; between male and female, and thus between the opposites. four symbolic words we find that this test concerns predominantly the problem of sex. there are four words in the english language which are ideographic and symbolic. they consist of three letters each and are as follows: god, sex, law and sin. in these four words we find expressed the sum total of all that is. god, the sum total of all forms, the sum total

he sum total of all forms, the sum total of all states of consciousness, and the energizing life. sex, that life in operation, attracting spirit and matter and instituting the interplay between the objective and the subjective and between the exoteric and the esoteric. sex, desire, attraction, the instinctive urge to creation, the pull of the soul, the urge to divinity, desire of the male for the female, the lure of matter for spirit: all these phrases can be piled up to express some of the activities of sex in its various relations. law, the thought-impelled response of god to form; the habits instituted by the timeless interplay between the polar opposites which have been recognized by humanity as the inevitable laws of nature; the imposition [43] of the will of god and the impress of th

the personal self. the story of man's growth to maturity and the history of the soul's gradually increasing control are told for us in the constellation gemini. in the ancient zodiac of denderah, this sign is called "the place of him who cometh, and the thought of an emerging spiritual being is held before us. it is represented by- 40- the labours of hercules two figures, the one male, the other female; one, the positive, spirit aspect, and the other, the negative, matter aspect. the coptic and the hebrew names signify "united, and this is the status of hercules, the aspirant. he is soul and body unified. this was the problem to be wrestled with in the sign gemini. the at-one-ment of the lower with the higher self, of the mortal and the immortal aspects, is the objective. it was this prob

heir significance the problem of the man who is seeking initiation. they picture to him distinctly and clearly the work that he has to do. as leo [106] the king, the soul, starts upon his work, he realizes that he has the cup of suffering and of experience to drink, the serpent of illusion to overcome, and the bird of prey to eliminate hydra, the serpent, in the ancient pictures is portrayed as a female serpent. it covers more than a hundred degrees and lies beneath the three constellations, cancer, leo and virgo. in scorpio, this serpent of matter or of illusion, with which the soul has identified itself for so long, is finally overcome. it y has in it sixty stars, and again we come in touch with a significant number, for six is the number of mind, of the creative work of the universal mi

rd or swan, quotes "says the rig-veda. the syllable a is considered to be the bird hamsa's right wing, u its left, and m its tail (the chakras by c. w. leadbeater) in the zodiac of denderah, leo and the three attendant constellations are pictured as forming one great sign, for the lion is seen treading on the serpent. corvus, the raven, is perched upon the lion's shoulder, while below is a plumed female figure (again, the symbol of matter) holding out two cups, for there is ever the cup which symbolizes the cup of experience, the cup of penalty. the cup is the cup which is offered to the initiate, to which christ referred in the garden of gethsemane, when he pleaded that the cup be taken away from him, but which he ended by drinking. so hercules, the aspirant, expressing himself in leo, vi

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

tal organs of the chest; netzach and hud are the lower limbs right and left; jesod refers to the digestive and reproductive organs and abdomen; and lastly malkuth is compared to the feet as a basis or foundation of man upon this earth or lowest plane: see the plate of the adam kadmon, archetypal man, or the first adam. these triads were looked upon as formed of a principle of union and a male and female potency, and thus a balance, mtqla, methequela, exists. almost as old as the kabalistic doctrine of the sephiroth, the intelligences, or emanations, are the peculiar forms in which they were represented in diagrams which resume all kabalistic ideas, and are emblems of these views on every subject. every deific conception can be thus demonstrated, and also the constitution of the angelic hos

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

he chief archon wanted to bring her out of his rib. but the epinoia of the light cannot be grasped. although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her. and he brought a part of his power out of him. and he made another creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the epinoia which had appeared to him. and he brought the part which he had taken from the power of the man into the female creature, and not as moses said 'his rib-bone "and he (adam) saw the woman beside him. and in that moment the luminous epinoia appeared, and she lifted the veil which lay over his mind. and he became sober from the drunkenness of darkness. and he recognized his counter-image, and he said 'this is indeed bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh' therefore the man will leave his father and his

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

epugnant it may be fora time.the emancipated or womans rights woman, when too enthusiastic, generally considers man aslimited, while woman is destined to gain on him. in earlier ages a contrary opinion prevailed, andboth are, or were, apparently in the wrong, so far as the future is concerned. for in truth both sexesare progressive, and progress in this respect means not a conflictof the male and female principle,such as formed the basis of the mahabarata, but a gradual ascertaining of true ability and adjust-ment of relations or co-ordination of powers in doing which on a scientific basis all conflict ceas-es.these remarks are appropriate to my text and subject, because it is in studying the epochs whenwoman has made herself prominent and influential that we learn what the capacities of t

iana made the stars and the rain is the same given inmy legends of florence, vol. ii. p. 229, but much enlarged, or developed to a cosmogonic-mytholog-ic sketch. and here a reflection occurs which is perhaps the most remarkable which all this witchevangel suggests. in all other scriptures of all races, it is the male, jehovah, buddha, or brahma,who creates the universe; in witch sorcery it is the female who is the primitive principle. wheneverin history there is a period of radical intellectual rebellion against long-established conservatism,hierarchy, and the like, there is always an effort to regard woman as the fully equal, which meansthe superior sex. thus in the extraordinary war of conflicting elements, strange schools of sorcery,neo-platonism, cabala, heretic christianity, gnosticis

h of whom one is in doubt whether they are all head orall tail, or only head and tail; or the goddess laverna, of whom no one ever knew whether she wasall head or all body, or neither or both.then the emperor inquired who this deity might be, for he had never heard of her.and virgil replied: among the gods or spirits who were of ancient times may they be ever favourable to us! amongthem (was) one female who was the craftiest and most knavish of them all. she was called laverna.she was a thief, and very little known to the other deities, who were honest and dignified, for shewas rarely in heaven or in the country of the fairies.she was almost always on earth, among thieves, pickpockets, and panders she lived in dark-ness.once it happened that she went (to a mortal, a great priest in the for

sa? who knowswhat? and mercurio, who was the god of speed and of quickness, being much pleased with thisimp, bestowed on him the gift of running like the wind, with the privilege that whatever he pursued,be it spirit, a human being, or animal, he should certainly overtake or catch it.this follettohad a beautiful sister, who, like him, ran errands, not for the gods, but for the goddess(there was a female god for every male, even down to the small spirits; and dianaon the same daygave to this fairy the power that, whoever might chase her, she should, if pursued, never be overtak-en.one day the brother saw his sister speeding like a flash of lightning across the heaven, and he felt asudden strange desire in rivalry to overtake her. so he dashed after as she flitted on; but though itwas his de

ghs to hear them as they rage afar. c. g. leland.the following story does not belong to the gospel of the witches, but i add it as it confirms the factthat the worship of dianaexisted for a long time contemporary with christianity. its full title in theoriginal ms, which was written out by maddalena, after hearing it from a man who was a native ofvolterra, is la pellegrina della casa al vento the female pilgrim of the house of the wind. itmay be added that, as the tale declares, the house in question is still standing.there is a peasants house at the beginning of the hill or ascent leading to volterra, and it is calledthe house of the wind. near it there once stood a small palace, wherein dwelt a married couple,who had but one child, a daughter, whom they adored. truly if the child had but

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n off the walworth road and into his studio for a sitting. all of his portraits of actors and tramps and faerie folk resonate with a strong sense of his london roots. his use of coloured auras, halos, symbols and sigils add up to create an enhanced style of portraiture that he called glyphographs. spare s women are always powerful in a way that strongly links them to the fin de siecle cult of the female in an artistic vision that flows from the sumptuous art nouveau forms through to the streamlined art deco ideal of the feminine. he is subtle and sensitive in his handling of all human and non-human forms, but it is to women that he gives the most ravishing attention. his female forms possess strength and sensuality, and a mystery that is both beautiful and intoxicating. and he paints them

rs. from this i can find a definite magickal thrust that culminates in the commissioned work he did for his friend kenneth grant s occult group, the nu-isis lodge in the 50 s. spare was commissioned to produce numerous magickal paintings including depictions of isis the star goddess. the stunning pastel isis smiles is perhaps the most famous of these. there also exists a very novel picture called female nebula that shows a swirling spiral galaxy, literally the body of the stars: a depiction of the feminine mystery of space and a reference to the children of isis being the stars themselves. this in turn recalls aleister crowley s maxim every man and every woman is a star from the book of law/liber al vel legis. stars are a recurrent motif in spare s work from the luxurious and sybaritic pen

BAPHOMANTIS LUCIFERIAN SATANIC MASS

. pick up the pitcher of water and pour the water into bowl with a slight bit of graveyard earth and say: cain wonderd through the desert of nodd. as cain approached death from the desert heat, the ground parted and water sprung up. and cain partook of it's sweetness. dip the aspergeant into the water turn to each compass point and say. in the name of lucifer i bless thee with the waters of life! female: dip your finger into the chalice, then on your forehead draw an inverted pentagram, then kneel down before the alter and say: i who am the joys and pleasures of life, which strong men have forever sought, have come to give you, lord lucifer, my eternal love, to serve you for all of eternity, accept me now for i am truly yours forever! i shall take comfort within you. accept me always as yo

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

the twelve keys of basil valentine 10 of 95 subject of this investigation. animals are a class by themselves; nor can anything ever be obtained from them that is not animal in its nature. but our stone, as it has been bequeathed to me by the ancients, is derived from two things, and one thing, in which is concealed a third thing. this is the purest truth, and a most faithful saying. for male and female have from of old been regarded as one body, not from any external or visible consideration, but on account of the ardour of that mutual love which naturally draws them together into one; and as the male and female seed jointly represent the principle of propagation, so also the sperm of the matter out of which our stone is made can be sown and increased. there are in our substance two suppl

figurative account of our art. take a quantity of the best and finest gold, and separate it into its component parts by those media which nature vouchsafes to those who are lovers of art, as an anatomist dissects the human body. thus change your gold back into what it was before it became gold; and thou shalt find the seed, the beginning, the middle, and the end vthat from which our gold and its female principle are derived, viz, the pure and subtle spirit, the spotless soul, and the astral salt and balsam. when these three are united, we may call them the mercurial liquid: a water which was examined by mercury, found by him to be pure and spotless, and therefore espoused by him as his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself

s his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself. he put twelve keys of basil valentine 17 of 95 forth eagle feathers, and devoured the slippery tail, of the dragon, and challenged mars to battle. then mars summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose mercury in prison under the ward of vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. when this became known, the other planets assembled and held a deliberation on the question, what would be the best and wisest course to adopt. when they were met together, saturn first came forward, and delivered himself as follows: i, saturn, the greatest of the planets in the firmament, declare here before you all, that i am the meanest and most unprofitable of all that are here pre

after me to write about the wonderful things of nature, which by the foolish are looked upon as unnatural. for they do not understand that all things twelve keys of basil valentine 43 of 95 are ultimately traceable to supernatural causes, but nevertheless are, in this present state of the world, subject to natural conditions. twelve keys of basil valentine 44 of 95 sixth key the male without the female is looked upon as only half a body, nor can the female without the male be regarded as more complete for neither can bring forth fruit so long as it remains alone. but if the two be conjugally united, there is a perfect body, and their seed is placed in a condition in which it can yield increase. if too much seed be cast into the field, the plants impede each other s growth, and there can b

he old body may also receive back its former colour through the love of alluring venus, from whose blood it, in the first instance, derived its origin. but observe, likewise, that the spirit of salt also destroys the moon, and reduces it to a spiritual essence, according to my teaching, out of which the potable moon may be prepared. this spirit of the moon belongs to the spirit of the sun, as the female answers to the male, by the copulation or conjunction of the spirit of mercury or its oil. the spirit lies hid in mercury, the colour you must seek in sulphur, and their coagulation in salt; then you have three things which together are capable of once more generating a perfect thing. the spirit is fermented in the gold with its own proper oil; the twelve keys of basil valentine 80 of 95 su

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

en, the shadow and darkness which cultivates the black flame itself. the witchcraft tradition was explored in essence by the practitioners of yatuk dinoih[2, or persian witchcraft of which emerged from the sorcerous shadow-god ahriman, the darkness which would create flesh. ahriman is a pitch-black representative of the hidden and the secret, from which the profane should not see. ahriman and its female counterpart, az[3, are the early fountainheads of the gnosis of the sabbat or al-zabbat, the 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

longer self-sufficient but depended on nourishment from outside, and this in turn ultimately led to their own wastage and death when they themselves are devoured by az, for az is not only the demon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is never sated; she is the demon 'who swallows all things: the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism, r.c. zaehner, new york, 1961 az, which is a female demon related directly to ahriman, is considered a harlot and goddess of death and blood. in this aspect az is related or a blue-print for, lilith, hecate and babalon. she is the vampyre queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the luciferian and vampyre. az may also be related to kali, the goddess who devours and brings lif

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

ngy ling monastery, lhasa. 35. mother and daughter praying to tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa (1) 36. mother and daughter praying to tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa (2) 37. the special arrangement of the oracular attire and weapons. 38. lhakpa d ndrup fully dressed and beginning the oracle trance. 39. lhakpa d ndrup at the height of the trance, possessed by dorj shukden. 40. a female oracle at the height of trance. 41. lhakpa d ndrup collapsing after the trance and being held up by his assistants. 42. a thread-cross. 43. the tree on which pehar landed during the reign of the fifth dalai lama. 44. a common iconographic representation of pehar. 45. painting of pehar at tengy ling monastery, lhasa. 46. a statue of pehar at the jokwukhang. 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 11

these are ancient tibetan deities of ambiguous nature but who are primarily associated with the sky. they are also harmful, causing death and disease. erik haarh explains that these deities were originally the spirits of pre-buddhist ancestors found in the heavenly spheres.19 11. hindering demons (tib. bgegs: these are lesser obstacle demons that are generally known to hinder ritual success. 12. female sky-goers (tib. mkha gro ma; skt..kin: these important deities are by no means demonic, though they can be wrathful. they are not usually involved in this classification scheme given their excessively buddhist significance. i include them here for the significant role they will play later in this research. given the abundant use of the sanskrit word..kin. in scholarship and the awkward phra

y involved in this classification scheme given their excessively buddhist significance. i include them here for the significant role they will play later in this research. given the abundant use of the sanskrit word..kin. in scholarship and the awkward phrasing of the english, i will continue with convention and refer to these beings as..kin.s from this point forward..kin.s are a class of ancient female beings, limitless in number, that are found in the entourages of all major buddhist deities. they fill the intermediate spaces of ma..alas, are messengers and inspirers of buddhist texts, and represent pervasive wisdom, which is personified as feminine in buddhism. as such..kin.s are involved in all major buddhist ritual processes and can be invoked for protective purposes; they are said to

cles are requested to resolve. rare instances where oracles claim to be 152 these studies are surprisingly diverse in their approaches despite the vast majority of them being anthropological in their methodology. see berglie 1976 for tibetan oracles in nepal; day 1989 and 1990, schenk 1993, and tewari 1987 for village oracles in ladakh; havnevik 2002 for an examination of the one state-recognized female oracle; wangdui and xiao hao 1992, and diemberger 2005 for further explorations of female oracles in tibet as well as the contemporary state of tibetan oracles; de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 409-454 for the earliest extensive examination of the tibetan oracle tradition and its main features; peter 1978a and 1978b, and rock 1935 for some preliminary observations; rinzin 1992 for a specific

2005, pp. 136-138. 160 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 418, 435; and havnevik 2002, p. 272. 115 horses of my master but left one for my lady-love; the spirit of the las dpon [foreman, who once served the bde legs rabs ldan [delek rapden] family of shigatse, always complains about the heavy grain-tax which had been collected at his time, etc.161 hanna havnevik describes a scenario in which the female oracle lobsang tsedr n channeled a male hero spirit and accordingly dressed, walked, and drank beer like a man; she never drank beer in any other circumstance. patrons claim that, once out of the trance, nobody could smell beer on her breath.162 supernatural qualities are a significant attribute of the trance state and help further the authenticity and sacred activity that surrounds the ora

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

n the animal kingdom[[footnote(s* see genesis ch. ii, v. 19. adam is formed in verse 7, and in verse 19 it is said "out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them" thus man was created before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven division

became the new shadow, and the shadow of the wing- vi. 22. then the second evolved the egg-born, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled

ed; the second yellow like gold; the third red; the fourth brown, which became black with sin. the first seven human shoots were all of one complexion. the next seven began mixing. 40. then the fourth became tall with pride. we are the kings, it was said; we are the gods. 41. they took wives fair to look upon. wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. they bred monsters. wicked demons, male and female, also khado (dakini, with little minds. 42. they built temples for the human body. male and female they worshipped. then the third eye acted no longer- xi. 43. they built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built, and out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of[[vol. 2, page] 21 the slokas of "dzyan" the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images in their si

thus- to anticipate a little by way of illustration- every race in its[[vol. 2, page] 24 the secret doctrine. evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the planets: race the first receiving its breath of life from the sun, as will be seen later on; while the third humanity- those who fell into generation, or from androgynes became separate entities, one male and the other female- are said to be under the direct influence of venus "the little sun in which the solar orb stores his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* of gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same point, which is the one universal, immutable, eternal, and absolute unity. in its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become (1) in the sphere of objectivity a

his light" the summation of the stanzas in book i. showed the genesis* of gods and men taking rise in, and from, one and the same point, which is the one universal, immutable, eternal, and absolute unity. in its primary manifested aspect we have seen it become (1) in the sphere of objectivity and physics, primordial substance and force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and negative, male and female, etc, etc (2) in the world of metaphysics, the spirit of the universe, or cosmic ideation, called by some the logos. this logos is the apex of the pythagorean triangle. when the triangle is complete it becomes the tetraktis, or the triangle in the square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered tetragrammaton in the manifested kosmos, and of its radical triple ray in the unmanifested, o

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

08 the correlation of the "gods. 113 evolution of the "principles" of nature. 119 the mystery of the fire. 121 the secret of the elements. 123 the square of the tabernacle. 125 the planetary spirits and the lipika. 129 the ring "pass not. 130 the sidereal book of life. 131 the soul's pilgrimage and its "rest. 134- stanza vi- our world, its growth and development. 136 the logos. 136 mystery of the female logos. 137[[vol. 1, page] xi contents. page. the seven layu centres. 138 the "elementary germs. 139 the evolution of the elements. 140 the building of the worlds. 145 a neutral centre. 147 "dead" planets- the moon. 149- theosophical misconceptions. 152 the planetary divisions and the human principles. 153 the moon. 155 transmigrations of the ego. 159 the septenary chain. 161 relation of the

a "thor's hammer" the jaina cross, so-called, or simply svastica within a circle[[diagram] by the third symbol- the circle divided in two by the horizontal line of the diameter- the first manifestation of creative (still passive, because feminine) nature was meant. the first shadowy perception of man connected with procreation is feminine, because man knows his mother more than his father. hence female deities were more sacred than the male. nature is therefore feminine, and, to a degree, objective and tangible, and the spirit principle which fructifies it is concealed. by adding to the circle with the horizontal line in it, a perpendicular line, the tau was formed[[diagram- the oldest form of the letter. it was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical fall- i.e, when

neither two infinites nor two absolutes in a universe supposed to be boundless, this self-existence can hardly be conceived of as creating personally. in the sense and perceptions of finite "beings" that is non-"being" in the sense that it is the one beness; for, in this all lies concealed its coeternal and coeval emanation or inherent radiation, which, upon becoming periodically brahma (the male-female potency) becomes or expands itself into the manifested universe. narayana moving on the (abstract) waters of space, is transformed into the waters of concrete substance moved by him, who now becomes the manifested word or logos[[footnote(s* see "vedanta sara" by major g. a. jacob; as also "the aphorisms of s'andilya" translated by cowell, p. 42* nevertheless, prejudiced and rather fanatical

er, vishnu, from the root vis "to pervade" to enter in the nature of the essence; brahma-vishnu being this infinite space, of which the gods, the rishis, the manus, and all in this universe are simply the potencies, vibhutayah[[vol. 1, page] 9 proem. return to, brahma (brahma: for brahma (neuter, the unmanifested, is that universe in abscondito, and brahma, the manifested, is the logos, made male-female* in the symbolical orthodox dogmas. the god of the apostle-initiate and of the rishi being both the unseen and the visible space. space is called in the esoteric symbolism "the seven-skinned eternal mother-father" it is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers "what is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a universe or not; whether there

is rejected, but the god of human dogma and his humanized "word" in his infinite conceit and inherent pride and vanity, man shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the material he found in his own small brain-fabric, and forced it upon mankind as a direct revelation from the one unrevealed space* the occultist[[footnote(s* see manu's account of brahma separating his body into male and female, the latter the female vach, in whom he creates viraj, and compare this with the esotericism of chapters ii, iii, and iv. of genesis* occultism is indeed in the air at the close of this our century. among many other works recently published, we would recommend one especially to students of theoretical occultism who would not venture beyond the realm of our special human plane. it is called

BLUE EQUINOX

liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. the equinox 266 appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to the

ith this expense of this stenographer aforesaid, he decided that it would be cheaper to get married. so he went to llandudno; and, rather like abraham when he found the ram caught in the thicket by its horns, he found a cow caught in the children s special service mission by her feet, which were exceptionally large, and took her as wife in name, and secretary and general servant in function. this female, however, developed an unsuspected quality. she made him shave, and mr. bishop, who had been going about london for forty years looking like a most venerable old gentleman, was seen to be a monkey. he looked like a monkey so much that the local zoologists used to frequent the neighbourhood of his house on sunday afternoon. we have also seen that he thinks like a monkey, the god whom he has

iting alike resemble the senseless flourishes of some callow student. and all this while the babu, while accepting what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from england, is plotting sneakishly in the bengali manner against her. i would to god that the british would withdraw from india for six months, so that the men of india might exterminate these fatherless fish-eaters, this spawn of female dogs that, without caste even in its own slime of bastardy, asserts itself in america as a .young nation. kwaw li ya. the dance of shiva. by dr. ananda kent coomaraswamy. sunwise turn, inc. the plot thickens. there is certainly no one equal to dr. coomaraswamy for tangling up situations, perhaps not always too pleasantly. nor can one be very sure how far dr. coomaraswamy is himself responsi

art of importance. this person has never heard of cambodia, yucatan, peru, egypt, west africa, java. his art criticism is beneath the depth of upper tooting .can any unprejudiced observer deny that even these exceptionally favourable specimens of indian workmanship are marred by the gravest effects of conventionality in form, of overcrowding in composition, of excess in ornament? in a few seated female figures, viewed from behind, there is a certain natural grace, but most of the women who swarm all over the reliefs are the product of a morbid convention which gives them enormous breasts, wasp waists, and atrophied legs, and places them in attitudes suggestive of a violent dislocation of the hipjoint. whether such figures were actually cultivated at the period, i do not know; but even if

the ripe mango fruit: as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others. woes, as hard as that fruit.s stone for thine own throes and sorrows, o conqueror of weal and woe. more trouble, more poetic image, more apparent sentimentality. its true interpretation is to be found in the old symbolism of this rearrange of chiah and neschamah. chiah is the male, proof against seduction; neschamah the female that overcomes by weakness. but in actual practice the meaning may be explained thus,.you yourself have conquered, you have become perfectly indifferent, perfectly energetic, perfectly creative, but, having united yourself to the universe, you become acutely conscious that your own fortunate condition is not shared by that which you now are. it is then that the adept turns his face downward

BOOK OF JASHAR

an and eve, and noah and tubalcain. the subsequent naming of descendants("humans "noahites) calls our attention primarily to the husband in one couple (human) and the wife in the other (noah. but human and noah both rely on the skills, the strength, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the promise of the rainbow, etc, the gender of noah is one of the least essential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we could r

BOOK OF PLEASURE

, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not? be ye mystic. others believe in prayer. have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? let it be the root of your gospel. oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. then verily sleep is better than prayer. quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking; by it the female obtains much from man. utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by that you will obtain your desire. some do much to show the similarity of different religions; certainly by it i prove the possibility of a fundamental illusion, but that they never realise-or this ukase they are the mockery, for how much they regret! they suffer more conflict than the unenlightened. wi

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

one, the names for the deities would vary depending upon locality. and not only locality. with the goddess, especially, the question of names could become quite involved. for example, a young man with problems in his love life might worship the goddess in her aspect of a beautiful young woman. yet a woman in childbirth might feel more at ease relating to the goddess as a more mature "middle-aged" female. then again an elderly person would tend to think of the goddess as herself being elderly. so there we have three separate and very distinct aspects of the same goddess, each having been given a different name yet all being the same deity. as if that weren't enough, the deities would have names known to the general worshippers but also other, secret, names (often two or three) known only to

itchcraft today there are many traditions that continue this multiplicity of names. traditions with degree systems, for example, frequently use different deity names in their higher degrees than in their lower. gardnerian is one example of this. so we have this idea of an ultimate deity, an incomprehensible power, and in trying to relate to it we have split it into two main entities, a male and a female. to these we have given names. it would seem that by so doing we are limiting what is, by definition, limitless. but so long as you know, and keep always in the back of your mind, that "it" is limitless you will find that this is the easiest path to follow. after all, it is pretty difficult to pray to a "thing, a supreme power, without being able to picture someone in your mind. in judaism

termediaries. different traditions use different names, as already mentioned. these are the names used for the "understandable forms" of the supreme power; the ultimate deity. they are the deities honored and worshipped in the witchcraft rites. the god and goddess of witchcraft a general complaint about christianity by witches is that there is the worship of the male deity to the exclusion of the female. in fact this is one of the main reasons for people (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft traditions are guilty of this same crime of christianity, if in reverse. they laud the goddess to the near, or even total, exclusion of the god! witchcraft is a religion of nature, as any wit

e (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft traditions are guilty of this same crime of christianity, if in reverse. they laud the goddess to the near, or even total, exclusion of the god! witchcraft is a religion of nature, as any witch will tell you. everywhere in nature there is male and female, and both are necessary (i have yet to meet anyone who does not have both a mother and a father. it follows, then, that both the god and the goddess are important and should be equally revered. there should be balance. but balance is as woefully missing in most traditions of the craft as it is in christianity. we are all every single one of us made up of both masculine and feminine attribut

also tradition-oriented (perhaps this explains the battle for the 'oldest tradition' title. for this reason i have given my tradition an historical background on which to lean. namely, a saxon background. by this i most emphatically do not mean that there is any claim to its liturgy being of direct descent from saxon origins. but, for example, names were needed for the deities. the main male and female deities of the saxons were woden and frig. unfortunately 'frig'has certain connotations today which would be misplaced! 1 therefore adopted the norse variant, freya. so woden and freya are the 'labels' used for the god and goddess worshipped by the seax-wica (earth religion news, yule 1973) the seax-wica does not claim to be a reconstruction of the original saxon craft such a task would be

BUDGE E

a lion-headed goddess called hen-kherth (see p. 71. 6. a goddess, with a pair of horns on her head, in a sitting position, but with no throne to sit upon; her name is thest-apt (see p. 71. of these beings it is said "those who are in this picture are in the forms wherein horus made them, and they stand on the ground of re-stau in the hidden place" 7. the male serpent amen (see pp. 75, 77. 8. the female serpent hekent, which has a human head growing out of its body, a little distance from the tip of its tail; the human head faces the serpent amen. of the male serpent it is said "he p. 79 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 80 p. 81 who is in this picture is the guardian of the secret passages which lead to the aheth chamber; he journeyeth round to every place each day, and he liveth on

from the tip of its tail; the human head faces the serpent amen. of the male serpent it is said "he p. 79 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 80 p. 81 who is in this picture is the guardian of the secret passages which lead to the aheth chamber; he journeyeth round to every place each day, and he liveth on the words of the gods who guard this road" the meaning of the legend which refers to the female serpent hekent is not clear. 9. the three-headed serpent (see p. 79) menmenut, which is described as the "hidden image of the aheth chamber [of seker, which is illumined daily at the birth of khepera by that which cometh forth from the faces of [the serpent] menment" over the back of this serpent are six stars and fourteen human heads, each of which is surmounted by a disk. these fourteen h

tched out at almost full length on the ground a monster serpent (see pp. 99, 103, which has two snakes' heads at one end of his body, and a bearded human head at the other (see 99; the text above his snakes' heads is mutilated, and all that can be made out satisfactorily are the words neter aa "great god" from the middle of his body springs a pair of wings, and between them, immediately under the female head at the top of the mound, stands the god sekri, in the form of a hawk-headed man. of him it is said "his work is to protect his own form" and of the serpent "he liveth upon the magical protection which issueth from his mouth every day" the text which refers to the oval reads- p. 95 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 97 "the image which is in this picture is in thick darkness. the da

hour. once again standing in his boat, under the canopy, accompanied by his usual company of gods. he is no longer in the serpent boat wherein he passed through the domain of sekri, and he is no longer being towed along. in front of the boat are- 1. the god thoth, in the form of a man with the head of a cynocephalus ape, seated on a throne, and p. 117 bearing the name tehuti-khenti-neb-tuat. 2. a female figure, with her hands turned behind her, holding in each the pupil of an eye of horus or ra; she is called ament-semu-set. the text above the boat reads: click to view (left) the goddess ament-semu-set (right) thoth of the tuat [paragraph continues "this great god travelleth through this city, being provided with [his] boat, on the water; be worketh the paddle in this country towards the p

w hetemit. bekhkhit. tchetmit. senthes. for your members shall not perish, and your flesh shall not decay, and ye shall have dominion over your water, and ye shall have abundance according to my command, o ye whose duty it is to dwell in nu, together with those who have plunged themselves beneath the waters, and are in [his] following, and whose souls have life" 5. a lake of water. p. 230 6. four female figures, each bearing a serpent on her head and shoulders; the head of each reptile is raised above the head of its bearer, and its tail hangs down her back; their names are- 1. hetemit. 2. bekhkhit. click to view set-nehes. 3. tchetmit. 4. senthes. the text reads: p. 231 [paragraph continues "those who are in this picture are they whose forms (or, figures) live by their heads. it is they w

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

5 "destruction is the foundation of existence. the letter peh, as a single character, is the number 80, and 80 is the enumeration of yesod, i s v d" foundation. on the tree of life the sephirah yesod represents the reproductive organism of the heavenly man. the process which begins the generation of a human or animal body is primarily a destruction. the male cell, or spermatozoon, penetrates the female cell, or ovum, and begins a process of division in the ovum [157] t h e book of t o k e n s the quotation is from deuteronomy, 8: 3. the authorized version reads" man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that procecdeth out of the mouth (peh) of the lord" but the authorized version is a translation made by theologians, who interpolated the noun "word. it does not occur in the orig

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored

, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing

e nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists and midwives became a

were hanged. even a dog was hanged. dorcas good, a four-year-old child, was the youngest victim to be accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. she was released on bail after her mother was hanged, but her younger sibling died in prison. dorcas was driven insane by her experience. about three-quarters of all those killed as witches in europe and scandinavia were women, mainly lower-class older women, female healers, village herbalists, wise women and midwives. with the death of so many experienced healers and wise women, much knowledge was inevitably lost, and for a time infant mortality increased as male physicians took over the roles of the deposed midwives. but anyone who was different in any way- eccentric, senile or physically deformed- could be accused. any old woman living alone might b

g version dates only from the thirteenth century. but the authentic water gypsies knew their lore by inheritance rather than from a book, and the similarities are remarkable. ritual was practised by the canal people within a triple magical square, each square joined by four lines and constructed from wood known as 'the mill. only the women entered the sacred area, under the leadership of a senior female water witch, though the chief male, known as the master, summoned the entity to assist in the ritual. if you would like to read more about this, you will find some recommended books listed in further reading, page 301. certainly, i can recall two terrifyingly swarthy aunts who commanded the family, and my father recounted many superstitions and much canal lore when i was young. this include

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

e rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and leads into the invoking of the force of darkness. the temple itself would be decorated in images of death, skulls and bones and a large black coffin in which one of the female magicians would be laying. it begins with the priest of thanatos invoking: now listen to the voice of thanatos known to men as the face of death, whom they worship with howling and shattering teeth. all the while a funerary drum beats and calls forth the dead. soon, the congregation throws human bones and grave soil within the coffin, which is soon closed. the celebrants then meditate on am

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

mancipation period tells of "reverend dr. h" in virginia, a conjurer who "had his hair braided like a woman, and [had] rings in his ears" gender mutability may have been a dramatic means by which conjure practitioners exploited their reputations as eccentric individuals.[20] although males appear to be more prominent in nineteenthand early twentieth-century accounts of conjurers, african american female practitioners apparently made their mark in significant numbers as well. charles colcock jones, jr, a white southern historian and namesake of a prominent antebellum missionary, alleged that conjure women predominated in black communities in the coastal regions of georgia and the carolinas "the fabrication of black magic page 16 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk

and their sale to those who desired to utilize the powers of the deities which they were supposed to represent, were monopolized by old women" he wrote "who derived considerable gain from this calling" the novelist charles chesnutt attested to the supernatural powers of the elderly black women he met in north carolina while researching his 1899 work, the conjure woman and other tales. other black female supernatural specialists were represented in a gamut of gender stereotypes in fiction and folklore, from the sinister, decrepit hag to the dangerous, bewitching mulatta. african american conjure women inherited a legacy of powerful spiritual roles that had been instituted by their foremothers.[21] it was not unknown for conjurers to undergo a period of study or training in order to master r

tion of his fellows" lowery remarked that "some of the evoodoos f were skillful poisoners, and while the great mass of their professed art was a rank imposture, still they possessed enough of the devilish skill to render them objects of wholesome dread" although skeptical of the veracity of conjurers f claims to power, lowery detailed a case of poisoning by "voodooism and conjuration" involving a female plantation slave in south carolina who had been in a "love scrape" with another bondwoman "some conjurer of the neighborhood prepared the dose for her, so it was said" he explained. when the white physician who attended blacks on the plantation was brought in to help the fatally afflicted woman, the slaves summoned their own "voodoo doctor" who determined that she had been conjured by a jea

ysical symptoms that were so incisively described by victims as bodily states. it was viewed as a kind of attack by an invisible agent, motivated by human intent. adopting an idiom of the spirit to interpret affliction, african american healers used both conventional techniques and magical ritual to treat their patients "there's a cure for every disease, and i can cure most anything" asserted one female healer who came of age in reconstruction virginia "but you have got to talk with god and ask him to help out" the north carolina conjure doctor allen vaughn's patients received physical and psychic treatments for their ailments. the doctor, according to one patient, would "give them medicine to ease the pain, and pull the tricks to ease the mind" combination remedies were often successful

y south, when intelligence and reason shall prevail, and ignorance shall be dispelled. then all these superstitious beliefs will be banished" some african americans believed that the rejection of conjure practices and the overall improvement of literacy for black people were related "education c has thrown the ban of disrepute upon witchcraft and conjuration" wrote charles chesnutt. and the black female author octavia rogers albert used an anecdote in her bestselling treatise on slavery, the house of bondage, to condemn magical beliefs. appropriating the voice of her christian narrator, albert admonished her readers "yes, the vice of black magic page 80 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 voudouism which is practiced among the colore

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

. c.1210 azriel of gerona(student of isaac the blind) commentary on the sefer yezirah promoted neoplatonic elements in kabbalah; aquainted with the ideas of john scotus erigena and ibn gabirol. 1210-1281 guglielma, princess blazena vilemina, daughter of the king of bohemia. guglielmites believed that guglielma of milan was the incarnation of the holy spirit and wished to establish a church with a female pope and female cardinals. 1214 franciscan friar roger bacon, born in somerset 1215 b. yehuda ha-cohen ibn matqha, astrologer in the entourage of frederick ii. translated his encyclopaedia: midras ha-hokhmah( the search for knowledge, from hebrew into arabic. written 1245-1247. 1215-1235 vulgate cycle of arthurian stories compiled by cistercian clerics includes prose lancelot, queste del sa

re-paul savalette de lange. keeper of the royal treasury, grand officer of the grand orient, and a high initiate of masonry 'versed in all mysteries, in all the lodges, and all the plots' in order to unite all the masonic groups he made his lodge a mixture of all sophistic, martiniste, and masonic systems 'and as a bait to the aristocracy organized balls and concerts at which the adepts, male and female, danced and feasted, or sang of the beauties of their liberty and equality, little knowing that above them was a secret committee which was arranging to extend this equality beyond the lodge to rank and fortune, to castles and to cottages, to marquesses and bourgeois' alike (webster, quoting barruel) 1748 tarot de grimaud 1748-1830 adam weishaupt 1749-56 swedenborg's arcana coelestia publis

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

, through the little door, and placed in the middle, a wonderful thing of longish shape, which my companions took only to be a fountain. but i well observed that the corpses lay in it, for the inner chest was of an oval figure, so large that six persons might well lie in it one by another. after which they again went forth, fetched their instruments, and conducted in our virgin, together with her female attendants, with a most delicate sound of music. the virgin carried a little casket, but the rest only branches and small lamps, and some lighted torches too. the torches were immediately given into our hands, and we were to stand about the fountain in this order. first stood the virgin a with her attendants in a ring round about with the lamps and branches c. next stood we with our torches

re himself with a pipe, and they stood blowing about it like this, as if they were wondrously preferred before us in this. and this blowing lasted until our old man roused us to our work again, so that i cannot say what was done afterwards. we opened our little forms, and there appeared two beautiful, bright and almost transparent little images, the like of which man s eye never saw, a male and a female, each of them only four inches long, and what surprised us most greatly was that they were not hard, but lithe and fleshy, like other human bodies, yet they had no life; so that i most assuredly believe that the lady venus s image was also made after some such manner. these angelically fair babes we first laid upon two little satin cushions, and looked at them for a good while, till we were

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

silk, spices, and other precious items of trade.1 the panku story shares some common elements with creation myths of those far-flung regions: a cosmic egg, separation of the world into opposing forces, and doomed gods. this story introduces the important concept of yin and yang. these opposing forces, which exist in everything found in nature, are not seen as evil and good, but as dark and light, female and male, earth and heaven. one cannot exist without the other. in this story, panku is depicted as a giant. in other versions, he appears in his withered human form, clothed in bearskin and leaves. 16 once, the world was a mass of swirling darkness. there was no heaven. there was no earth. all the forces of the universe were trapped inside a small egg, tumbling and spinning in utter chaos

t tiamat, the feminine principle of chaos, and divides her enormous corpse: from one half marduk constructs the vault of heaven, from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consultancy on religion, education, and culture (icorec) explain: yin is female, moist, cold, the moon, the autumn and winter, the shadow and the waters. yang is male, dry, hot, the sun, the spring and summer, the bright and the dry land. they struggle with each other for supremacy. from their struggle comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the othe

comes the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so clearly illustrates.3 22 2 nuwa creates people introduction whereas panku, the creator of the universe was male, the creator of people was a female goddess named nuwa. nuwa is briefly mentioned in several ancient chinese texts, a classic of history (eighth century b.c, a classic of mountains and seas (third century b.c, and questions of heaven (fourth century b.c).1 in addition, many images of nuwa have been uncovered on ancient chinese bronze sculptures and paintings. like many of the early chinese gods, nuwa was half animal, half div

standing of their own. however, in their roles as mothers and wives, they were extremely powerful. since women generally outlived their husbands, they often asserted themselves and ran the household after their spouses death. even in politics, several women (empresses) became extremely powerful after the death of their husbands, the emperors.2 although most gods were male, nuwa is a very powerful female goddess in early mythology. she creates mankind and is responsible for repairing the earth. 24 the world was indeed a sparkling jewel. sturdy pine trees dotted the mountains, and weeping willows lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, crimson, and iridescent green fea

new creations, she knew she could not watch over these humans every second. what would happen to these creatures when they grew old and died? nuwa did not relish making repairs, nor did she wish to repeat the tiring task of making new people. she thought and thought. how could these creatures reproduce without her? with a twist and a poke, she made some of the clay creatures male and some of them female. then she gathered up all the noisy creatures who were slipping and falling in the mud. in the hubbub, she began to deliver her most important instructions. as nuwa spoke, the clamor died down to a silent hush. the humans listened solemnly to her words. she spoke of the importance of marriage and a couple s obligations to each other. she told them how to make children and how to raise them

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ldren but the rest of us know better than to try to use them in the real world. not only is the box useful for dealing with physical conditions or behavior, but it is even more useful when dealing with thoughts. yes, my friend, you too can read minds and open your own psychic phone network. the procedure for doing this is similar to working with a physical condition. let us use the old adolescent female parlor game of wanting to know if person x really loves person y. do you have any idea how many ouija boards have been worn out with that question? no wonder the spirits get mad. anyway, love, as we know, can take many forms, all of them bad (sorry about that) so you should be certain to use for a witness sample something from someone who you know is emanating the type of love you wish to e

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earth based. key for chant: g minor. perfume petriochor. nythra: energy vortex in abyss nameless in itself but represented by vibration of word. works of terror and sinister destruction. shugara: one of the most hideous intrusions possible on the causal level and very dangerous. g major key for invoking chant. manifestations often are accompanied by a smell similar to rotting flesh. aosoth: dark female force. works of passion and death. the name should be vibrated. azanigin: mother of all demons who lie waiting in earth. key of b minor. very useful to invoke in works of personal destruction. shaitan: long held to be an earth bound representative for the dark gods. perfume/incense sulphur. name to be vibrated. stone opal. nekalah: collective name for race of dark gods. name to be vibrated

ting the name for one of the planetary homes of the dark gods, later famed as an early star gate. atazoth: the most powerful of the dark gods. the name itself (which correctly describes the entity only when chanted properly) signifies in one sense the purpose of the cosmic cycles and the opening of the gates since `atazoth' as a word means `an increasing of azoth' see chant illustration. davcina: female form along the 19th. path. to be vibrated. useful in works of enchantment. athushir: symbolic form along the 16th. path. serpent of fire(`dragon) often regarded as a memory of one of the dark gods during their previous (and only partially successful) intrusion into our causal universe. kthunae: word of power (kthunae) to be vibrated to bring forth this entity. budsturga: a blue, aetherial e

enchantment. athushir: symbolic form along the 16th. path. serpent of fire(`dragon) often regarded as a memory of one of the dark gods during their previous (and only partially successful) intrusion into our causal universe. kthunae: word of power (kthunae) to be vibrated to bring forth this entity. budsturga: a blue, aetherial entity related to 13th. path. tradition relates it as a dark god, of female aspect, trapped in the vortex between the causal and acausal spaces. in one sense represents hidden wisdom but generally dangerous to sanity. partially manifest when nemicu vibrated. gaubni: related to 2nd path. often called the great demon repulsive smell and appearance. may manifest when nythra vibrated. sapanur: form along the 11th. path. the sudden fire of destruction. a primal atavism

ated. gaubni: related to 2nd path. often called the great demon repulsive smell and appearance. may manifest when nythra vibrated. sapanur: form along the 11th. path. the sudden fire of destruction. a primal atavism of human origin not related to dark gods. darkat: goddess, associated with lunar aspects. the name is traditionally regarded as pre-sumerian in origin of the myth of lilitu/lilith the female counterpart of dagon, remembered as one of the dark gods from their last manifestation on earth. associated with the 10th. and 8th. paths. the dark gods according to tradition, the dark gods are actual entities which exist in the acausal universe. according to our spatial, causal perception, these beings may be regarded as `timeless and chaotic. since our consciousness is by its nature part

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back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk and osiris's penis in that story symbolise male energy, which has dominated the world throughout recorded history. all of us, and creation as a whole, are in search of balance and harmony between opposites- negative and positive, male and female. these are the yin and yang-type forces of chinese culture. when one of these forces dominates, there is an imbalance which manifests as imbalanced behaviour. the transformation the planet is now going through is designed to bring such forces into harmony and balance so that all serve, but none dominates. the suppression of female energy by the male has created a maledominated world and the

leness. wholeness= infinite potential. that's the last thing the prison warders want, because such people are impossible to control. instead, they have sought to imbalance us. disharmony and imbalance= division of self. division of self= limited potential. the two major imbalances within ourselves and the prison in general have been the negative dominating the positive and the male dominating the female. there is no greater manifestation of the male imbalance than what is seen in some of the major religions and in the secret society network. the re-emergence of female energy is crucial to the harmonising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of

and in the secret society network. the re-emergence of female energy is crucial to the harmonising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of the indoctrinated desire of so many men to dominate and to follow the macho man programming. this reemergence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons

even realise they are doing so. they are so sure that they are right, they don't stop to observe that they are imposing their beliefs on someone else and using the banner of 'freedom' to do it. mental dictators don't all look like adolf hitler or josef stalin. they can also stand in picket lines, go on freedom marches, or sit around a candle in glastonbury. we desperately need the re-emergence of female energy on the planet, but not to the extent that we replace one dogma with another. when it was suggested that i be interviewed on the bbc radio programme, woman's hour, the programme researcher asked what a man could possibly tell women about female energy. this lady opposed, quite rightly, male chauvinism, but then expressed female chauvinism, another dogma which operates on exactly the s

, anxiety, guilt, pain, and other negative emotions, the negative thought patterns are absorbed by the energy grid and its power and balance diminished. they are also carried around the globe on the grid network, and so the negative energy created by a war on one side of the world affects everyone because it is passed around the planet. these lines are designed to enjoy positive-negative and male-female harmony, but they have become dominated by the negative and male energies resulting from the inner turmoil and imbalances of humanity. in this transition period, it is necessary to repair the grid by removing the negative blockages, and channel high frequency energies into its system to raise the frequency. millions are now involved in this. other levels of their consciousness are guiding t

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nd the vacuum atmosphere would make the water vaporise instantly.58 the closer orbit to the sun, desborough says, would have demanded that the first earth races would have been black, with the pigmentation necessary to cope with the fiercer rays of the sun. ancient skeletons found near stonehenge and along the west coast of france have 26 children of the matrix the nasal and spinal traits of many female africans.59 ancient artefacts, statues, and artistic depictions around the world also suggest there was an advanced black race of the negro type. the sumerian tablets describe how the anunnaki "gods" left the planet to escape the devastation, even indicating that they had caused it.60 the only ones to survive the catastrophe were the extraterrestrials with the technology and foresight, perh

m. the constant reference to the number 50 in ancient myth could relate to these 50-year orbits, temple suggests, and they also symbolised sirius b and c as "the twins" using their combined orbit periods of 100 years as a code for them, he says. certainly there is endless reference to "twin" symbolism throughout the ancient world. the dogon call sirius b, digitaria, and sirius c, sorghun, or the "female star".17 they also call it the "sun of women" or "star of women".18 to them, the most important star is sirius b, which, they rightly said, was invisible to the eye. still today their religious rituals and rites are based on the cycles of the sirius system. the dog star, sirius or sirius a, has two and a half times the mass of our own sun and is thirty-five and a half times brighter" when y

face on the sphinx on the giza plateau is a woman and not a man as officially claimed. wherever the reptilian bloodlines have located, the worship of a serpent goddess has always been the centre of their rituals under names like athene, barati, isis, semiramis, el, artemis, diana, and hecate. other atlantean/lemurian colonists were known as the pelasgians("peoples of the sea, the danaans, and the female amazons.50 the pelasgians worshipped the serpent moon goddess dana, later diana (artemis, and the atlantean goat god called pan. they first landed on the peloponnese in greece and settled in arcadia, according to ancient greek records. arcadia has always been a sacred place to the illuminati bloodlines and was apparently a name for atlantis. the danaans left atlantis to settle in asia minor

isle of man in the irish sea, a place so important to the druids, has the same origin, no doubt. the taurus mountains in turkey, the baleric islands, and syria (sirius) were 42 children of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became known as tuatha de danaan or the "people of the sea. these carried the anunnaki reptilian bloodlines. the female amazons were another branch of the atlanteans and lemurians and myths say they came from a paradise called hesperides or hespera, a name for atlantis.56 they, too, followed the goddess athene or nieth and venerated her symbol, the double-headed axe. they founded shrines to the serpent goddess in many places, including the famous centre for diana worship at ephesus and other locations along

tianity, was st michael and so you have st michael's mount just off the cornish coast near penzance.34 the tin ships operated from here, and there are many other references to "st michael" in that region. other phoenician-sumerian deities were st george of cappadocia in turkey, who defeated the dragon and became the patron saint of england; barat, a male deity, who became "briton; and barati, the female, who became the british heroine, britannia, when these deities were brought to these islands by the sumerian empire (figure 14).35 according to sir laurence gardner, the spokesman of the ancient imperial court of the royal dragon and order, barat-anna (great mother of the fire stone) symbolised the wife of anu, the chief of the sumerian reptilian gods called the anunnaki (see www.nexusmagaz

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and suppressed this knowledge since ancient times.the tablets say that enki and ninkharsag eventually found the right mix which becamethe first homo sapiens, a being the sumerians called a lu.lu (one who has beenmixed. this is the biblical adam. lu.lu was a genetic hybrid, the fusing of homoerectus with the genes of the gods to create a slave, a human worker bee, some200,000-300,000 years ago. a female version was also created. the sumerian name forhuman was lu, the root meaning of which is worker or servant, and it was also used toimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been overtly and now covertly ruling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal

umerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and modern fossil finds and anthropological research suggests that homosapiens did indeed come out of africa. in the 1980s, douglas wallace of emoryuniversity in georgia compared the dna (the blueprint for physical life) of 800 womenand concluded that it came from a single female ancestor.5 wesley brown of theuniversity of michigan said, after exa

alifornia at berkeley did the same with 147 women of diverse racial andgeographical backgrounds and she said their common genetic inheritance came from asingle ancestor between 150,000 and 300,000 years ago.7 another study of 150american women from genetic lines going back to europe, africa and the middle east,together with aborigines from australia and new guinea, concluded that they had thesame female ancestor who lived in africa between 140,000 and 290,000 years ago.8personally i think the human race was seeded by many sources; not just the annunaki.the sumerian tablets and later akkadian stories give the names and hierarchy ofthe anunnaki. they call the father of the gods, an, a word that means heaven.our father who art in heaven? an, or anu to the akkadians, stayed mostly inheaven wit

ntly and the near-vacuum atmospherewould make the water instantly vaporise.30 desborough says that the earths closerproximity to the sun demanded that the first earth humans were the black races withthe pigmentation to cope with the much fiercer rays of the sun. ancient skeletons foundnear stonehenge in england and along the west coast of france display the nasal andspinal characteristics of many female africans.31 desborough says that mars, then witha climate very much like ours, had a white race before the v enus cataclysm. hisresearch has convinced him that the white martians built the pyramids which have beenrecorded on mars and they went to war with an advanced black race to conquer theearth. these wars, he says, are the wars of the gods described in endless ancient texts,not least th

of their eyes. two televisionpresenters had just such an experience while interviewing a man who was in favour ofthe global centralisation of power known as the new world order. after the liveinterview, the male presenter said to his colleague that he had experienced an amazingsight during the interview. he had seen the mans face transform into a lizard-likecreature and then return to human. his female fellow presenter was astounded becauseshe had seen the interviewees hands turn reptilian. the male presenter also told me ofan experience a policeman friend had while making a routine visit to an office block inaurora, near denver, colorado. the policeman had commented to an executive of oneof the companies on the ground floor of the extreme nature of security in the building.she told him h

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nd general shape. my experience in psychic research and psychological testing enabled me to identify some first rate clairvoyants who have provided additional, very valuable, insight into the science of shape power. in this book, i have lumped all the clairvoyants for purposes of simplicity. this was done to protect the various identities as they all wish to remain anonymous. i used both male and female clairvoyants for various testing. it is amazing what we've been able to prove so far. it's better than using an oscilloscope on electronic circuits. using clairvoyants as the test instrument is total real-time feedback on exactly what is happening to the energy. as an example, i ran some tests on various materials to find out what happens with aetheric energy transmission through the materi

DEMONIC BIBLE

s a ruler may be called king, lord, emperor, your highness, your honor, etc. satan is a title which means literally adversary. lucifer is latin for light bearer. in hebrew, belial means wicked one. these names, and many of the others, are titles given to the dark god or dark goddess. the original and true name for the devil is that used by the ancient sumerians. in her original form, the devil is female. she is the ancient one, the serpent of chaos, tiamat, mother of the gods and the abominations of chaos. most of the names for the devil are titles of honor addressed to her. the devil is thought of as masculine in form because centuries of christian dogma converted the dark goddess/female serpent into a dark god/masculine dragon. while most of the names for the devil are simply titles, som

ddess of fertility and pleasure, or goddess of death. astaroth is a form of ishtar, the babylonian goddess of pleasure who descends into the underworld to conquer her sister ereshkigal, the goddess of death. in this ancient myth, both ishtar and ereshkigal are forms of tiamat. the dark goddess was also often depicted carrying a phallic object a severed penis. the egyptian god set was originally a female deity and was identified with isis. the goddess set carried as a talisman the severed penis of osiris. isis and set, like the babylonian ishtar and ereshkigal, represent life and death and are both aspects of the dark goddess of chaos, tiamat. it was often said that witches of the middle ages gathered in covens of twelve women and one man, the high priest, who assumed the form of the devil

d are both aspects of the dark goddess of chaos, tiamat. it was often said that witches of the middle ages gathered in covens of twelve women and one man, the high priest, who assumed the form of the devil and had sexual intercourse with the women. it was also said that his penis was unusually large and that his semen was cold. the truth of the witches sabbath is that all of the participants were female. the high priestess wore a large phallus strapped to her waist not to represent herself as the christian devil satan or as the pagan goat-god pan but rather as a form of the dark goddess who severs the penis of god, symbolizing both fertility and death. the dark goddess, tiamat, chooses her lovers from among men. it is for this reason that the greatest magicians and sorcerers of history (as

most powerful magicians of legend. the greatest of these men were worshipped after their deaths as gods. the prophets of every major religion were magicians, practitioners of the black arts, and lovers of the dark goddess. from all that i have written in this and the preceding sections, you may realize that the rituals of the demonic bible contain several fallacies. i have said that the devil is female, not male. how then can a man become the devil incarnate if the devil is female? i have also said that the names satan, lucifer, belial, etc. are titles for the dark goddess. how can the magician cross the gate of satan or the gate of lucifer? i have said that the key to understanding deitus is the realization that man is a god and yet the first ritual of the demonic bible is a renunciation

ave crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. attach thyself unto me as my wife and as my lover. take me as thy husband and lover. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself. come forth, queen of the underworld, and manifest thyself [notes: the female practitioner should adapt these rituals so that she "becomes" the queen of the underworld, the queen of the dead, and takes the lord of the underworld as her husband and lover. in either case, the ritual will be followed by a consummation of the marriage. to experience sexual union with non-physical entities you need only lie on your back in your bed with your arms at your side. you should

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me yaltabaoth. the apocryphon of john the apocryphon of john, discovered in upper egypt in 1945, is perhaps one of the more significant gnostic texts which hold a hidden relation to the adversary. these early christian writings, dated roughly ad 350, were perhaps one of the most significant records of the history of gnostic records. it was written that barbelo (called sophia, a great and powerful female archon, who was considered beautiful and near perfection, desired to create a child. she went off alone and begat this child. while she desired to create something like herself, this child was imperfect and different. she saw the results of her creative desire, and cast him off away from her where others may not see him. this child of chaos took the form of a lion serpent, who contained the

athan 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 fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch 60: 7-8 these twin dragons in the beginning were said to be angels, but took monstrous form and fell to earth, leviathan, represented as often female and male, and behemoth b

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ciousness for a time. 2) in spiritualism (q.v, a person who becomes an intermediary by providing the spirit(s) with means of communicating with the carnate, material human beings. today, called a channeller. memory, magickal: the memory of past lives. menstruum (nee menstruum of the gluten: in alchemy (q.v, the result of the slow heating of a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick (q.v) the female lubricating fluids and/or female ejaculatory fluids. mercury: the first planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god who served as the herald and messenger. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) signs gemini (q.v) and virgo (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) mercury is attributed to the eighth sephirah (q.v, ho

pulse inherent in human nature to realize individual human potential and thereby achieve harmony between the individual, the universe, and the almighty (q.v. aleister crowley (q.v) coined the term to distinguish this constant, unvarying impulse from what is called will but which is really no more than the vague impulse of the moment born of circumstance. opposite of want. wise woman: the solitary female witch (q.v) who dispensed charms and prescribed healing herbs to common inhabitants of rural villages in medieval europe. witch: a person, male or female, who practices the art and religious faith of witchcraft (q.v. see wicca. witchcraft: popularized by gerald gardner (q.v) and many others, it is a peaceful religion based on the worship of the generative forces in nature. witches generally

spine and causing it to rise up to the head, bringing enlightenment. yoga, laya: pronounced "lie yoga" it uses breath and visualization to recreate the changes that the physical and spiritual bodies go through during sexual activity. this is usually presented as an allegory of causing the kundalini (q.v) energy to rise. it is the source idea for kundalini yoga (q.v. yoni: a sanskrit term for the female genitalia- z- zelator: a term that means "one who is zealous" in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a zelator is the title of the third degree of membership, and correlates to the air of earth in the sephiroth of malkuth (i.e. the citrine colored quarter of malkuth. the primary principle of this grade is based on mastering the element of earth (q.v. zen: a buddhist sect widespread in

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ere of the zodiac. 9. now saturn is the father of the gods; he is the greatest of the old gods that were the predecessors of the olympians over which jupiter rules. in the secret titles attributed to the tarot trumps, the path of saturn is called, according to crowley, the great one of the night of time. 10. we have, then, kether differentiating into an active male potency, chokmah, and a passive female potency, binah, and these are placed at the head of the two side columns formed by the vertical alignment of the sephiroth in their spacing on the tree of life. of these two columns, the left-hand one under binah is called severity; the right-hand one under chokmah is called mercy; the middle one under kether is called mildness, and it is said to be the column of equilibrium. these two side

on the other hand, is drawing very near to the sphere of earth. 30. to yesod are assigned all the deities that have the moon in their symbolism: luna herself; hecate, with her dominion over evil magic; and diana, with her presidency over child-birth. the physical moon, yesod in assiah, as the qabalists would say, with its twenty-eight day cycle, correlates with the reproductive cycle of the human female. jf the symbolism of the luna crescent be traced through the various pantheons it will be found that the deities associated with it are predominantly female; it is interesting to note in confirmation of our assignation of the holy spirit to yesod that according to macgregor mathers the holy spirit is a feminine force. he says (kabbalah unveiled p. 22 "we are usually told that the holy spiri

pace, as understood by the modern philosopher, are more like modes of consciousness than linear measures. 19. the initiates of the ancient wisdom made no bones about their philosophy; they took each factor in nature and personified it, gave it a name, and built up a symbolic figure [page 68] to represent it, just as british artists have by their collective efforts produced a standard britannia, a female figure with shield charged with the union jack, a lion at her feet, a trident in her hand, a helmet on her head, and the sea in the back ground. analysing this figure as we would a qabalistic symbol, we realise that these individual symbols in the complex glyph have each a significance. the various crosses which make up the union jack refer to the four races united in the united kingdom. th

egative principles- and their respective sephiroth as representing the modes of functioning of these forces upon the different levels. 22. the pillar of severity contains binah, geburah, and hod, or saturn, mars, and mercury. the pillar of mercy contains chokmah, chesed, and netzach, or the zodiac, jupiter, and venus. chokmah and binab, in the symbolism of the qabalah, are represented by male and female figures and are the supernal father and mother, or in mystical qabala page 56 more philosophical language, the positive and negative principles of the universe, the yin and the yang, of which maleness and femaleness are but specialised aspects. 23. chesed (jupiter) and geburah (mars) are both represented in qabalistic symbolism as crowned figures, the former a lawgiver upon his throne, and

e fact that the qabalah attributes thern respectively to the right and left arms and the left and right legs. 25. it will thus be seen that the three form-sephiroth are in the pillar of severity, and the three force-sephiroth in the pillar of mercy, and between them, in the pillar of equilibrium, are set the different levels of consciousness. the pillar of severity, with binah at its head, is the female principle, the pingala of the hindus and the yang of the chinese; the pillar of mercy, with chokmah at its head, is the ida of the hindus and the yin of the chinese; and the pillar of equilibrium is shushumna and tao. chapter xii the gods upon the tree 1. all students of comparative religion and its poor relation, folk-lore, are agreed that primitive man, observing and beginning to analyse

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t that mr. cs first wife died of cancer of the womb does not in itself call for remark, but it is a curious thing that he should lose his second wife from the same disease. cancer is not as common as all that, and in any case, there are many available sites beside the womb. on the other hand, diana, one of the aspects of luna, of whom hecate, the goddess of witches, was another, presides over the female reproductive organs. the illness of mrs. c. began to show itself soon after miss x. was excluded from the house. finally, what shall we say concerning the deaths of the three people most intimately associated with miss x. within a short time of each other, and her immediate break down? in the absence of details any conclusion must be guesswork, but we have good grounds for supposing that mi

woman, possibly quite ignorant of the facts of life, finds herself strangely stirred. she is frightened, she senses that something of the kingdom of pan is approaching. her instincts will usually guide her truly enough in divining the source from which the disturbing influence proceeds. she will point an unerring finger at the magnetic male. she will seldom take into account the reactions of the female in the presence of the male. if she is a woman ignorant of the facts of life, the charge she brings will usually take the form of an accusation of hypnotic influence. she does not realise that nature is the hypnotist. if she is a woman who knows something of the world, the charge may be of improper advances. one glance at the woman is usually enough to tell us whether there is likely to be

visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those who were drowned in the flo

ation, was similar in type to herself, and a weed into the bargain. but her three sons were tall, upstanding blond men of the nordic type, bearing a strong resemblance to the dead man. the truth of this story was vouched for to me by a friend of the family. i have know personally two alleged "changelings" the male had the pointed ears of pan, and if anyone was ever a son of the devil, he was. the female was a curious and fascinating creature, essentially non-human, and when her child was born it came into the world with no more trouble than a kitten. both these beings were conceived when their mothers were under the influence of drink, and both of them were characterised by a marked callousness, which in one case developed into deliberate cruelty. although very peculiar to look at, neither

e the extent to which we are psychically poisoned by our own emanations of unguarded and unpurified thoughts. it is well known that orgasm takes place in dreams, accompanied by appropriate dream-pictures. the ancients believed that such an experience was due to the action of demons. moderns believe it to be due to physical tension. it is not so generally known that there are people, both male and female, who can produce the same reaction at will solely by means of day-dreams. may we not ask ourselves whether it cannot also be produced by means of telepathic suggestion, and whether this may not have played a part in the operations of many covens? there is another curious phase of this aspect of the left- hand path, which was brought to my knowledge through a case which came into my hands. a

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o evoke salamanders since random fires may begin burning in various parts of the building where the evocation takes place. salamanders are extremely difficult to control and deal with, and should only be employed by a magician who knows exactly what he or she is doing. undines are sensual, mobile, graceful in their movements, somewhat dark, with very strong and persistent emotions. they favor the female form, and are found living in streams, natural springs, ponds and lakes. for many centuries it was believed that undines would appear to traveling men in the forms of beautiful, naked young women, and while charming the men would pull them to their deaths beneath the surface of the water. there is some truth in this tale. undines are the most human and seductive of the four elemental types

with them, which can happen very easily. their prolonged presence in a house tends to make it damp and unhealthy. sylphs are active, energetic, quick of movement and of speech, subtle, clever, intelligent, persuasive, but at times mocking and superficial. they are light complexioned, with light brown or dark blond hair, usually. their eyes tend to be blue or grey. they may come in either male or female form, but have a slight preference for the male body. they usually appear in bodies that are only partially formed and transparent, but when they assume human shape they are thin, not muscular, with long arms and legs, deep chests, usually short hair. their touch feels very human and normal. their faces tend to be angular. they can be beautiful, but are not so sensual as undines, and by nat

the pointed hats that go under this name in popular folklore, but they are by nature more substantial than the other classes of elementals. they dwell in holes, mines, crevices and caverns in the ground. the best place to communicate with them is in a cave or cellar. they are the most fallibly human in their personalities, and are prey to all the weaknesses in human nature. they take the male and female form about equally as often. when they manifest in human form, they tend to have dark hair, dark brown eyes, olive complexions or sometimes darker skin, short and heavyset bodies, short arms and legs, powerful hands, a wide mouth, a deep voice and ringing laughter. usually when you deal with a gnome, or any other elemental, it will not assume a fully human form but will remain somewhat elus

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ords. sometimes soldiers struggled ankle deep in blood. since this was the place of their deaths, the restless shades of slain soldiers were believed to haunt any field where a battle had been fought. this made a battlefield, particularly a recent battlefield where the blood was still fresh, an even better place to work necromancy than a graveyard. necromancy was not solely man's work. there were female necromancers in ancient greece and rome, who are usually referred to, under the much abused umbrella term, as witches. the term witch has been far too broadly applied in english texts to anyone who worked, or was believed to work, evil by magic. necromancy was a very specific type of magic, as i have indicated, and was not necessarily always worked for evil purposes. because traditional nec

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ands, arms, belly, back, hips and thighs, and legs are the god tmu, and his face is anubis.[7] he is the brother of the moon,[8] he is the child of the star sothis,[9] he revolves in heaven like orion and sothis,[10] and he rises in his place like a star.[11] the gods, male and [1. recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391. 10. ibid, t. iii, p. 205 (l. 221. 10. ibid, t. iv, p. 44 (l. 391] p. lxxiv female, pay homage to him,[1] every being in heaven adores him; and in one interesting passage it is said of pepi i. that "when he hath come forth into heaven he will find ra standing face to face before him, and, having seated himself upon the shoulders of ra, ra will not let him put himself down again upon the ground; for he knoweth that pepi is more shining than the shining ones, more perfect t

re followed by osiris and isis, set and nephthys. dr. brugsch's version of the origin of the gods as put forth in his last work on the subject[3] is somewhat different. according to him there was in the beginning neither heaven nor earth, and nothing existed except a boundless primeval mass of water which was shrouded in darkness and which contained within itself the germs or beginnings, male and female, of everything which was to be in the future world. the divine primeval spirit which formed an essential part of the primeval matter felt within itself the desire to begin the work of creation, and its word woke to life the world, the form and shape of which it had already depicted to itself. the first act of creation began with the formation of an egg[4] out of the primeval water, from whi

und mythologie, p. 101. 4 a number of valuable facts concerning the place of the egg in the egyptian religion have been collected by lef bure, revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xvi, paris, 1887, p. 16 ff] p. xcix according to the divine intelligence maa. under the influence of thoth, or that form of the divine intelligence which created the world by a word, eight elements, four male and four female, arose out of the primeval nu, which possessed the properties of the male and female. these eight elements were called nu and nut,[1] heh and hehet,[2] kek and keket,[3] and enen and enenet,[4] or khemennu, the "eight" and they were considered as primeval fathers and mothers.[5] they are often represented in the forms of four male and four female apes who stand in adoration and greet the ri

ale and female. these eight elements were called nu and nut,[1] heh and hehet,[2] kek and keket,[3] and enen and enenet,[4] or khemennu, the "eight" and they were considered as primeval fathers and mothers.[5] they are often represented in the forms of four male and four female apes who stand in adoration and greet the rising sun with songs and hymns of praise,[6] but they also appear as male and female human forms with the heads of frogs or serpents.[7] the birth of light from the waters, and of fire from the moist mass of primeval matter, and of ra from nu, formed the starting point of all mythological speculations, conjectures, and theories of the egyptian priests.[8] the light of the sun gave birth to itself out of chaos, and the conception of the future world was depicted in thoth the

east in the morning, and who made [1. dizionario di mitologia egizia, tavv. i 150 ff. 2. ibid, tav. 158] p. ciii the egyptian heaven. his course along his mother's body, until he set in the west in the evening. the moon followed the sun's the abode of the blessed. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod08.htm (1 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:23:43 am] course along his mother's body, but sometimes a second female is represented bowed beneath nut [1 (fig. 2, and this is believed to signify the night sky across which the moon travels. in an interesting picture which m. j quier has published[2] the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms stretched out at full length above her head; on her breast is the disk of the sun, and on her stomach the moon. those who believed that the sky was an iron plane

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sion of secret societies, free masonry was the only one excepted from the operation of the law. a grand lodge was formed in london in 1717, with power to grant charters to other lodges, and the constitutions of the fraternity were first published under its sanction. from this fountain free masonry has spread to every quarter of the globe. now and then we masons are amused by statements concerning female members of our order. some years ago it was claimed by a number of newspapers that a certain famous woman sculptor of washington was a free mason. the writer of this asked for the name of the lodge in which she was initiated and a few other particulars. the reply was given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question

eply was given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question was as to where the empress got her authority for chartering masonic lodges. the intimation was further made that she was no more a free mason than the gilt figurehead of a man-of-war. every real mason knows that there never was, is not, and never will or can be a female free mason. let our sisters remain content with the reply of a gallant brother vi introduction "you were born masons; any initiation or ceremony would be superfluous; therefore, we do not insult you by any such proposition" none the less, there is respectable authority for believing that three women have taken the first step in masonry. it is said that mrs. beaton, of norfolk, england, lear

g the relics, and have often been used in conferring the past master's degree. the years between i85o and i86o were prosperous ones for north carolina. many public enterprises were begun and the resources of the state were rapidly developed. the fine building for the education of the deaf and dumb and blind was completed and occupied; the insane asylum was established; the methodists built a fine female school; st. mary's school was greatly improved; goldsboro and charlotte were joined by railway, making connection with other roads on the south and east; still other lines joined the atlantic with the mountains on the west, and the public school system was thoroughly reorganized. masonry kept pace with these advancements. the membership of hiram lodge had doubled and its members were identi

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n all. latin and greek mysteries were added to the rite by the ladies hospitallers of mount tabor. the greatest ladies in france joined the french lodges of adoption. the rite of mizraim created lodges for both sexes in 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, and the rite of memphis in 1839. america founded the rite of the eastern star in five points. in these systems, admission was generally confined to the female relations of masons. the order of the eastern star and that of adoptive masonry were attempted in scotland but without success. adramelech according to johan weyer, adramelech is chancellor of the infernal regions, keeper of the wardrobe of the demon king, and president of the high council of the devils. he was worshiped at sepharvaim, an assyrian town, where children were burned on his alt

epending on the length of time of its application. basing their conclusions on the examination of natural processes and metaphysical speculation concerning the secrets of nature, the alchemists arrived at the axiom that nature was divided into four principal regions: the dry, the moist, the warm, the cold, from which all that exists must be derived. nature was also divisible into the male and the female. she is the divine breath, the central fire, invisible yet ever active, and is typified by sulphur, which is the mercury of the sages, which slowly fructifies under the genial warmth of nature. thus, the alchemist had to be ingenuous, of a truthful disposition, and gifted with patience and prudence, following nature in every alchemical performance. he recalled that like attracts like, and h

n alchemical nomenclature, and the gibberish employed by the scores of charlatans who in later times pretended to a knowledge of alchemical matters did not tend to make things any more clear. the neophyte alchemist also had to acquire a thorough knowledge of the manner in which metals grow in the bowels of the earth. they were said to be engendered by sulphur, which is male, and mercury, which is female, and the crux of alchemy was to obtain their seed .a process the alchemistical philosophers did not describe with any degree of clarity. the physical theory of transmutation is based on the composite character of metals, and on the presumed existence of a substance which, applied to matter, exalts and perfects it. this substance, eugenius philalethes and others called the light. the element

bstance, eugenius philalethes and others called the light. the elements of all metals were said to be similar, differing only in purity and proportion. the entire trend of the metallic kingdom was toward the natural manufacture of gold, and the production of the baser metals was only accidental as the result of an unfavorable environment. the philosophers stone was the combination of the male and female seeds that form gold. the composition of these was so veiled by symbolism as to make their precise identification impossible. occult scholar arthur edward waite, summarized the alchemical process once the secret of the stone was unveiled: given the matter of the stone and also the necessary vessel, the processes which must be then undertaken to accomplish the magnum opus are described with

ildbirth, and water in which it had been infused prevented swellings in animals. because of the large demand for alrauns, they were often carved from the roots of briony when genuine mandrakes were difficult to find. they were exported from germany to various countries and sold in england during the reign of henry viii. sources: thompson, c. j. s. the mystic mandrake. london: rider, 1934. alrunes female demons or sorceresses, the mothers of the huns in ancient germany. they took all sorts of shapes, but without changing their sex. the name was also given by germans to little statues of old sorceresses, about a foot high. to these they attributed great virtues, honoring them as fetishes; clothing them richly, housing them comfortably, and serving them with food and drink at every meal. they

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ul was the foundation of this abstinence. they professed the science of divination and for that purpose met together and consulted in their temples. they professed to make truth the great object of their study, for that alone, they said, can make man like god whose body resembles light, as his soul or spirit resembles truth. they condemned all images and those who said that the gods were male and female; they had neither temples nor altars, but worshiped the sky, as a representative of the deity, on the tops of mountains; they also sacrificed to the sun, moon, earth, fire, water, and winds, said herodotus, meaning no doubt that they adored the heavenly bodies and the elements. this was probably before the time of zoroaster, when the religion of persia seems to have resembled that of ancien

s lying latent, like a coiled serpent, at the base of the spine. in tantric practice, kundalini is released to travel up the spine, opening the chakras, and eventually bringing enlightenment. in right-hand tantra, this awakening is done with meditation and concentration. in the left-hand path, the kundalini is awakened in part by sexual intercourse ending in coitus interruptus, with a cooperating female. there has also existed in the west since the late nineteenth century an occult system that includes sexual practices, its encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maithuna 969 major exponent having been aleister crowley. this system is often seen as a derivative of tantra, but in fact has quite different origins. since the 1970s, western sex magick and tantra have been the subjec

yne, alan james. the promotion of research. journal of the society for psychical research 42 (1963. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mayne, alan james 1003 ma yoga shakti international mission a hindu organization founded in 1979 by maha mandaleshwar ma yoga shakti saraswati, an indian female guru who immigrated to the united states in 1977. she established ashrams in ozone park, new york, and palm bay and deerfield beach, florida, and alternates her time between them. she has also organized four ashrams in india: bombay, calcutta, delhi, and gondia. she teaches a balanced approach to all forms of yoga. hatha, rajah, bhakti, and karma. devotional services, classes and retreats a

1854.1936. the name mazdaznan is derived from the persian mazda and znan which hanish translated as master thought, although this interpretation might be questioned by persian scholars. as a zoroastrian group, members affirm the monotheistic faith in the lord god mazda, the creator of humanity. god finds expression in the holy family of father (the male creative principle, mother (the procreative female principle, and child (destiny/salvation. hanish was born in leipzig, germany. when only a boy, he was supposed to have been taken to a persian monastery at math-el-kharman and taught every major art and science, including occultism. early in this century, hanish settled in chicago, where he founded mazdaznan. in 1916 he moved to los angeles. a european headquarters was established as a colo

3 (1949. unobtrusive communication. assen, the netherlands: van gorcum, 1964. meher baba (1894.1969) indian spiritual teacher and mystic, born merwin s. irani on february 25, 1894 in poona, india. his parents were parsees, but he was strongly influenced by both hinduism and sufi mysticism and was educated at a christian high school. at the age of 19, he contacted hazrat babajan, an elderly moslem female saint, who kissed his forehead and, as he later related, induced divine consciousness and a state of ecstatic bliss. after that, he devoted his life to religious teaching, usually expressed in a rather erratic fashion, involving journeys with disciples that apparently led nowhere, or in searching out the eccentric and sometimes deranged wandering monks of india. in 1921 he established an as

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that interest irrespective of the actual nature of the phenomenon (bullard, 1987. hopkins s next book, intruders (1987, introduced fresh features that would figure largely in all subsequent discussions. from his latest investigations he had come to suspect a reason for alien abductions: the creation of a race of hybrid beings to replenish the extraterrestrials apparently exhausted genetic stock. female abductees would find themselves pregnant, sometimes inexplicably; then, following subsequent abductions involving vaginal penetration by a suction device, they would discover that those pregnancies had been suddenly terminated. in later abductions they would be shown babies or small children with both human and alien features. the abductors would explain that these were the women s children

desk. they were all expensively dressed, the males in tailored suits, the females in pastel peach dresses. their hair did not look real. odd as it seemed, simpson suspected that they were wearing wigs. in a falsetto voice the man said, do you have a room to stay? do you have a room to stay? she told him what the charges would be, but he seemed not to understand what she had said. he turned to his female companion as if expecting her to clarify matters, but she remained silent. an uncomfortable period of silence followed, broken finally when the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a thick wad of bills, many of large denomination. the bills were so crisp and new that simpson wondered if they were counterfeit, but some quick informal testing suggested they were not. she took two twenty

showing five consistent substitutions from a human consensus. which could not easily have come from anyone else in the sydney area except by the rarest of chances; is not apparently due to any sort of laboratory contamination; and is found only in a few other people throughout the whole world. while it may not be impossible for him to h a ve had sexual contact with some fairskinned, nearly albino female from the sydney area, such an explanation is ruled out by the dna evidence, which fits only a chinese mongoloid as a donor of the hair. fu rt h e rm o re, while it might be possible to find a few chinese in sydney with the same dna as seen in just 4% of taiwanese women, it would not be plausible to find a chinese woman here with thin, almost clear hair, having the same rare dna. fi n a l l

aiwanese women, it would not be plausible to find a chinese woman here with thin, almost clear hair, having the same rare dna. fi n a l l y, that thin blonde hair could not plausibly re p resent a chemically-bleached chinese (including the root) because then its dna could not easily h a ve been extracted. the most probable donor of the hair must therefore be as the young man claims: a tall blonde female who does not need much color in her hair or skin as a form of protection against the sun, perhaps because she does not require it. could this young man really have provided, by chance, a hair sample which contains dna from one of the rarest human lineages known. that lies further from the mainstream than any other except for african pygmies and aboriginals (chalker, 1999. see also: abductio

dra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka chief frank buck standing horse, an ottawa indian from oklahoma, met andra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka onboard a spaceship that took him to several planets in july 1959. the ship, called vea-o-mus, landed around 10 p.m. on the evening of the twelfth. piloted by andra-o-leeka, the ship took off again, this time going to mars, then to venus. after a short stay there, a female pilot, mondra-oleeka, a venusian, relieved andra-o-leeka, and the ship went on to clarion, a planet hidden on the other side of the sun (clarion first ap- andra-o-leeka and mondra-o-leeka 21 pears in contactee stories after truman bethurum reported meeting a scow [a small spacecraft] and its pilot, the beautiful aura rhanes, who hailed from that planet) after a short stop on clarion, vea-o

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ing toward the table. my god! i wonder if the wines still flow? siebel it was a swindle, lies, twas all a cheat. frosch yet i drank wine or thought it so. brander but how about the grapes? what was that anyway? altmayer one should believe no miracles? oh, say! witch s kitchen a great cauldron stands over the fire on a low hearth. in the steam which rises from it, various figures become visible. a female ape sits by the cauldron and skims the foam off it, taking care that it does not run over. the male ape, with the young apes sits beside it and warms himself. walls and ceiling are decked out with the strangest articles of witches furniture. faust. mephistopheles. faust i am repelled by this mad sorcery. i shall get well, you promise me, in this chaotic craziness? shall i demand an old cron

t is the world! it mounts, now whirled, its fall will follow, like glass it rings. soon break such things! within it s hollow. here bright it gleams, here brighter beams. i am alive! my dear son, strive to keep away! for you must die! tis made of clay, in bits twill fly. mephistopheles what means the sieve? the male ape [takes it down. came you to thieve, i would know you directly. he runs to the female ape and makes her look through it. look through the sieve! know you the thief? dare not name him exactly? mephistopheles [going nearer to the fire. and then this pot? male ape and female ape. the half-witted sot! he knows not the pot, he knows not the kettle! mephistopheles unmannerly beast! the male ape. take the brush at least and sit on the settle! he makes mephistopheles sit down. faust

! how nearly crazy do i feel! mephistopheles [pointing to the beasts. now my head too almost begins to reel. the beasts and if we succeed and all fits indeed, will thoughts in it be! faust [as above. my breast begins to burn in me! let s go away immediately! mephistopheles [in the same attitude as above. well, now at least one has to say, there are some honest poets anyway. the cauldron which the female ape has neglected, begins to boil over; a great flame arises which streams up the chimney. the witch comes careering down through the flame with horrible cries. the witch ow! ow! ow! ow! you damned beast! accursed sow! neglecting kettle, scorching me now! accursed beast! espying faust and mephistopheles. what is that here? who are you here? what will you wreak? who is the sneak? may pangs o

come! bring in a heap of gold! beneath our claws fast will we hold. they re bolts none others can excel, they guard the greatest treasure well. pygmies we are in our places truly, know not how it did befall. whence we came, don t ask unduly, for we re here now once for all. as a joyous place to settle, suitable is every land; if a rocky rift shows metal, straightway is the dwarf at hand. male and female, busy, ready, exemplary is each pair; we know not if once already this the case in eden were. our lot gratefully we treasure, for we find things here are best; mother earth brings forth with pleasure in the east as in the west. dactyls. hath in a night the earth the little ones brought to birth, the smallest she will create too, they will find each his mate too. eldest pygmies. hasten, in s

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as the shekhinah throughout the material creation, or earth(/ra, aretz. actually, the lord hvhy is referred to in the feminine about 10-15 percent of the time in the torah, though often mistranslated or ignored. it is important to note that, despite the medieval injunctions of the rabbinate, the ancient qabalah is not sexist. the mystical qabalah establishes the unity and equality of the male and female aspects of the lord hvhy( honor thy father and thy mother, and offers equal opportunity to become masters of the name and great servants of our lord. among books on the subject of the qabalah, there is some confusion regarding how the letters yod y, heh h, and vav v are respectively ascribed to the supernal sefiroth. many authors ascribe only the upper tip of the yod y to the sefirah crown/

es out from one name (i.e. hvhy. 6 the third chapter is keyed to the root phrase: three mothers alef a mem m shin s. the mother letters are the gates among the sefiroth of the inner court of the tree (first, last, water, fire. these letters are discussed in relation to the universe x heaven, earth, and the space between them, the seasons of the year (hot, cold, temperate, and the body of male and female (head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the archetypal elements of the mother letters. from the air (ryva, avir) of alef a comes the father space; from the water(,ym, mayim) of mem m comes the father matter; and from the fire (sa, esh) of shin s comes the father energy or motion..and from him go out fire and water, dividing into m

head, belly, and the geviyah. verses in both the third and sixth chapters mention fathers born from the archetypal elements of the mother letters. from the air (ryva, avir) of alef a comes the father space; from the water(,ym, mayim) of mem m comes the father matter; and from the fire (sa, esh) of shin s comes the father energy or motion..and from him go out fire and water, dividing into male and female. three mothers alef a mem m shin s are their foundation, and from them are born fathers, from which everything is created. 7 :2% e= i2 2 f 3#5 ten intangible sefiroth five opposite five (sefer yetzirah 1:3) center detail of figure 4.9' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f 3# double pyramid tree (sefer yetzirah) center detail of figure 4.10 :2% e= i2 5 2 f 3# inner court meditation (sefer yetzirah' 8: h" 2

en planets, seven days of the week, and seven orifices of the eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth. seven double letters: beyt b gimel g dalet d kaf k pey p resh r and tav t are the foundation. he engraved them, he hewed them out, he combined them, he weighed them at opposites, and he formed through them: seven stars in the universe, seven days in the year :2% e= i2 seven gates in the body of male and female. and through which he engraved seven universes, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas, seven rivers, seven sabbatical years, seven jubilees, and the holy temple. therefore he cherished the seventh ones under all the heavens. 10 the twelve simple letters, also called the borders and everlasting arms of the tree, are gates that connect the directional sefiroth among one another. chapter fiv

uth-east border, south- below border, west-above border, west-south' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% border, west-below border, north-above border, north-west border, north-below border. and they continually become wider for ever and ever, and they are the arms of the universe. 11 the text then goes on to respectively designate the twelve constellations, twelve months, and twelve organs in the body of male and female as formed from the simple letters. for the reader s convenience, all of the correlations given by the sefer yetzirah for the mother, double, and simple letters are given in tables 4.1 through 4.3. the fifth chapter ends by mentioning three allusions: the sunset, the wall, and the battle. the sunset (figure 4.13) includes all the information on the letters in the sefer yetzirah. the wall (fi

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knowing only the more important] incarnations-what greater misery than this? of others, their awakeconsciousness is aware of more than one entity and obtain ecstasy by saturable desire. o ikkah! jest viciously! abandon this haunted mortuary in a blind turning-by significant courage. the 'i' surfeit-swelled is the end of compassion-the indrawing of sex to selflove. fortunate is he who absorbs his female bodies-ever projecting-for he acquires the extent of his body. whatever is desired, predetermines its existence in endless ramifications miserably and evanescent: self-love is the paradox of i. oh ikkah zod-ka! thy fiction of finality has prevented sleep and created eternity. o, invent sound sleep by the utter ruin of cosmos! for impalpably and anterior to consciousness-all things exist. wi

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e armature of the spheres "now, says pimander "i will reveal to you a mystery which has been hidden until now. nature being united to man in love produced an amazing prodigy. man, as i said, had in him the nature of the assembly of the seven, composed of fire and breath. nature from her union with man brought forth seven men corresponding to the natures of the seven governors, being both male and female and rising up towards the sky" the generation of the seven first men was made in the following fashion. female was the earth, water the generative element; the fire brought things to maturity, and from ether nature received the vital breath, and she produced the bodies with the form of man. as for man, from life and fight which he had been, he changed to soul and intellect, the life changin

as for man, from life and fight which he had been, he changed to soul and intellect, the life changing to soul and the light to intellect. and all the beings of the sensible world remained in this state until the end of a period. at the end of this period, continues pimander, the link which bound all things was broken by the will of god. man and all animals, which till then had been both male and female, separated into two sexes and god spoke the word, increase and multiply. 24 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" then providence, through destiny and the armature of the spheres, established the generations, and all living things multiplied, each according to their species. pimander gives trismegistus advice as to how he is to comport himself in life in view of the mystery which has been

ology, professor of a purer and more innocuous wisdom, noted in the best academies of europe, an approved and honourably received philosopher, a stranger nowhere save amongst the barbarous and ignoble, the waker of sleeping souls, tamer of presumptuous and recalcitrant ignorance, proclaimer of a general philanthropy, who does not choose out the italian more than the briton, the male more than the female, the mitred head more than the crowned head, the man in the toga more than the armed man, the cowled man more than the man without a cowl, but him who is the more peaceable-minded, the more civilised, the more loyal, the more useful; who regards not the anointed head, the forehead signed with the cross, the washed hands, the circumcised penis, but (where the man may be known by his face) th

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

e done in several ways. our goal is always the same: to form an altered ing to these doctrines, loss of semen means loss of power (and, by extrapolation, longevity. this approach which has for various reasons never become particularly popular in the west, led even one of the major masters of sexual magic, aleister crowley, to concentrate on drinking his sper sexual intercourse, the mixed male and female secretions.crowley fs infamous gelixir h. this digression aside, we may note that lecherous sex maniacs won ft have too much when dealing with this branch of sexual magic, as these operations can be rather strenuous and not too pleasurable. in state of consciousness in which the censor has become gsoft h and in which s/he will no longer or cannot prevent direct communication between the con

which occurred to a name like astarte (ishtar) in the course of centuries.an erstwhile chaldean moon goddess developed in the middle ages via the addition of the plural ending goth h into a male) demon wi n astaroth. today fs evocatory magicians might be in for quite a surprise or two, if, for example, a supposedly male demon like kedemel from the venusian sphere suddenly appears before them as a female entity (quite obvious, actually, but who would have thought of it beforehand) 2. ray sherwin, writing as a form o milar connection in his excellent theatre of magic (leeds: the sorcerer fs apprentice press, introduces the term gliminal gnosis. h 3. compare the section gthe physiological gnosis h and the subsequent explanations in liber null (york beach, me: samuel weiser, inc, 1987, p. 33ff

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es, were nevertheless rooted in cosmic truths, highly illuminating to the initiate. the students of the rosicrucian teachings who have learned how the world came into being and the process of gradual creation should have no difficulty in properly understanding every part of the alchemist's language. we know in the first place, that there was a time when man-in-the-making was a hermaphrodite, male-female, and able to create from himself, and we remember also that at that time he was like the plant in other respects. his consciousness was like that which we possess in dreamless sleep and which is possessed by the plant. the vital energy which he absorbed into his body was used solely for the purpose of growing, until the time of propagation came, when a new budding body was cast off to grow

upward under the direction of the angels for the purpose of building a larynx and a brain, that man might learn to create by thought as do the divine hierarchies, and express the creative thought in words. thus man ceased to be physically hermaphrodite and became uni-sexual. he can no longer create from himself physically as do the hermaphrodite plants, nor psychically as do the elohim, the male-female hierarchs, in whose image he was originally made, and thus he occupies at the present time, an unenviable intermediate position between the plant and the god. at the time when one half of the human sex force was diverted for the purpose of building a brain, men were helpless and lacking in knowledge of how to overcome conditions. they did not even have the consciousness to know that there w

irmly fixed in mind to appreciate the full value of what follows. the creative force used by god to bring a solar system into manifestation, and the force used by the divine hierarchies to form the physical vehicle of the lower kingdoms over which they rule as group spirits, expresses itself in a dual manner as will and imagination, and is the same as the united creative force of the male and the female which results in the creation of a human body. at one time man was bi-sexual, male-female, and therefore each was able to propagate his species without assistance from anyone else. but one-half of the creative force has been temporarily diverted upwards to build a brain and larynx in order to enable him sometime to create by his own mind, to form thoughts and speak the word of power that sh

shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in the bible terminology, and it is said that he was king of salem, salem meaning peace. since then humanity has been divided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master crafts

ver their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged ever since the separation, that sin, sorrow and death are rampant, and that humanity is praying for the day of redemption, when the two streams shall be united in the kingdom of heaven where there is neit

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h men who have the indomitable courage to dare, the unflagging energy to do and the diplomatic discrimination to be silent. part ii the masonic legend every mystic movement has its legend, which tells in symbolic language its status in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the esoteric teaching supplements this information by stating that the purpose of this change was to u

ual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin mary. faith is the prime factor in their salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seeking, and when he answers "light" it is the duty of the master to give what he asks and make him

ow from the least to the greatest what is the purpose of evolution, and thus give them a chance to align themselves with the trend of cosmic events. to understand the mystery of melchisedec we must revert to the earlier epochs of man's stay upon the earth during the age called the hyperborean epoch. the earth was then in an extremely heated condition. man in the making was then double sexed, male-female, like so many of our present plants, and he also resembled the plants in being inert and lacking in desire and aspirations. at that time man was the tractable ward of the divine hierarchs who guided him physically, these being darkly referred to in the bible as "kings of edom" later, during the lemurian epoch, when the body of man had crystallized and condensed somewhat more, mankind was di

ed the clashing of interests which now obtains, and which will continue until another divine ruler shall present himself to embody within in his own person the qualifications of the dual office of king and priest after the order of melchisedec, and until sex generation be abolished. in this connection it is significant that the bible narrative begins in the garden of eden, where mankind were male-female and innocent; then in the next chapter we are told of the division of sexes, the transgression of the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and the infliction of the penalty--painful parturition and swift death. from then on the old testament tells of war, struggle and strife and in the last chapter makes the prophecy that there shall a sun of righteousness arise with healing in his

n were given the emblem of the rose and the cross to teach them to work faithfully to make the molten sea, the philosopher's stone, and to find the new word which shall admit them to the kingdom, for they believe more in works than in faith. the accompanying chart shows graphically the three ages mentioned in this article (1) the first age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double sexed, and ruled by one hierarch, melchisedec, who filled a dual office as king and priest (2) the second age, when the division of the race into men and women, evolution under human and superhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

mphasis added] we find it absolutely incredible that the freemasons should portray the holy spirit with the satanic symbol, baphomet. eliphas levi created this symbol, one of the foremost satanists and freemasons of all time. the baphomet is one of the most evil of all symbols. looking closely at the baphomet(left) you will see that the emphasis is on sex. this being is androgynous- both male and female- you can see it has the breasts of a woman, and an erect phallus. you'll notice that the erect phallus has two serpents coiled around it. the baphomet has the head of a "horned goat" another title for satan. masonic and occult symbols illustrated is a book in which dr. burns says "in a book on witchcraft, the complete book of witchcraft and demonology. the caption states that he is 'the hor

lluminist satanist) confirms that hexagrams are used to call forth demons to place spells and curses on the intended victim. the word "hex" comes from this practice. the hexagram is also a symbol of the sex act and reproduction. masonic author, albert g. mackey provides us with the occult explanation in his book, the symbolism of freemasonry [p. 195, 1869 a.d] the triangle pointing downward "is a female symbol corresponding to the 'yoni' and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the 'lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor]

evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator" speaking of the sexual connotation of the hexagram, another witch revealed "when the male triangle penetrates the female triangle, it produces the six pointed crest of solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft [david j. meyer, dancing with demons: the music's real master] the hexagram is the sign used in the royal arch in freemasonry. masonic author wes cook, writing in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine [missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132] stated that

s levi who is also a 33rd degree, tells us that the letter "g" stands for venus, and that venus' symbol is a lingam, a stylized phallis [masonic author, arthur edward waite, the mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicago, delaurence, scott, and company, 1909, p. 217] albert pike states within morals and dogma [page 631-32] that the monad[#1] is male, and the duad[#2] is female. their sexual union produces the triad[#3, which is "represented by the letter 'g, the generative principle" this term "generative principle" is code for the sex act. sex act in columns- broken and unbroken the broken column is utilized by the eastern star and freemasonry. it contains many levels of meanings. the initiate is told that the broken column signifies an early death. the mason le

ections. isis and osiris were wrote about by albert pike, saying they were "the active and passive principles of the universe. commonly symbolized by the generative parts of man and woman [morals and dogma, p. 401] you must focus on the bottom of the broken column and not the top. the bottom of the column shows the phallic upright column inserted into the circular base, which is the symbol of the female vulva. the column is broken, of course, to symbolize the belief that osiris' penis had been cut into many sections. but albert mackey, 33 degree masonic author, states that the regular column is a phallus symbol "the phallus was an imitation of the male generative organ. it was represented usually by a column, was was surrounded by a circle at the base [mackey, a manual of the lodge, 1870

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ephirotic scheme (see plate ii on page 25) may be condensed as follows: kether is also called abbah, the father; it is the will or ego from which the remaining nine sephiroth emanate. the second sephirah is binah, the universal intellect or understanding, also called immah or mother. whilst kether is positive, form (male, binah is negative and plastic, the receiver of form and, therefore, matter (female, because geverything existing can only be the work of the male and female h principles. 9 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 24 plate 2: the tree of life secret wisdom of the qabalah page 25 the second emanation from kether is called 'hokmah, wisdom, the word, logos, or son; it is the male principle in activity, for through it all things are generated. gby means of the thirty-two paths. it g

ivity, for through it all things are generated. gby means of the thirty-two paths. it gives everything, existing, shape and size. h 10 this sephirah is the spiritus mundi. from 'hokmah is derived the balance of the sephiroth, the next six of which refer to the dimensions of the universe- length, breadth, and depth moving as it were outwardly towards the positive and the negative, the male and the female principles each, therefore, in two directions. together they form the six faces of a perfect cube (the stone of the wise: the tenth sephirah, malkuth, the kingdom or sabbath represents rest, poise, and completion. these first three sephiroth- kether, binah, and 'hokmah (father, mother, and son- the supernal triad- constitute the intelligible or intellectual world. and since the holy ancient

ion; and kether, binah 'hokmah the impression, so also all the lamps that receive their light from the holy ancient are triadic. 11 the second triad is called the moral or sensuous world; it is the world soul which emanates from the world spirit (spiritus mundi. it consists of the positive or male principle 'hesed, which means grace or mercy, also called gedulah (magnificence; and the negative or female principle pahad (punishment, also called geburah (severity) and din (judgment. these two unite in the sixth sephirah, tiphereth (beauty, the highest manifestation of ethical life- the ideal. the third triad is called the physical or material world and consists of the male or positive sephirah netzah (triumph or victory, and the female or negative hod (glory or splendour. they constitute the

s (see plate iv on page 32. the central pillar- known as harmony, or mildness, or sometimes as the perfect pillar, consisting of kether, tiphereth, yesod, and malkuth- is the tree of life as mentioned in the book of genesis. the right-hand pillar- that of 'hokmah 'hesed, and netza'h- is active, male, and positive, and is called the pillar of mercy, whilst that of binah, pahad, and hod is passive, female, and negative, and is called the pillar of justice. these two pillars constitute the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because they are made up of unbalanced forces which can only find equilibrium in the central trunk or pillar. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 30 plate 4: the four planes of the tree of life secret wisdom of the qabalah page 31 plate 4: the three pillars of the tree

, and evil is the foundation of the symbolical temple of solomon. myer writes: the widow's son, hiram abiff of tyre, cast for the qabalistic temple of king solomon two high pillars or pylons of bronze; their capitals were pomegranates and lily work. the lily, most likely the lotus, an emblem of life, white or male, on the right side, the pomegranate, the emblem of fecundity and plasticity, red or female, on the left side. the first was called yakheen, the latter boaz. these columns represented, understanding, binah, h, and wisdom 'hokhmah, v, and between them was the temple of kether, y, the father. here we see symbols of the former, the harmony, and the to be formed. all energy must have resistance, all light must have darkness, all projecture or emanation, a hollow or excavation to recei

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

independent chain of evidence has been produced in support of the facts recently set forth bearing upon the development of the two diverging lines of sexual demarcation. in other words, it has been found that sex is the fundamental fact not only in the operations of nature but in the construction of a god. in the evolution of woman it has been shown that the peculiar inheritance of the two sexes, female and male, is the result of the bias given to these separate lines of development during the earliest periods of sex-differentiation; and, as this division of labor was a necessary step in the evolutionary processes, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier

s, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier age of existence upon the earth, at a time when woman's influence was in the ascendancy over that of man, human energy was directed by the altruistic characters which originated in and have been transmitted through the female; but after the decline of woman's power, all human institutions, customs, forms, and habits of thought are seen to reflect the egoistic qualities acquired by the male. nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. with the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts

well might we hope to gain a complete knowledge of human history by studying only the present aspect of society, as to expect to reach reasonable conclusions respecting the prevailing god-idea by investigating the various creeds and dogmas of existing faiths. the object of this volume is not only to furnish a brief outline of religious growth, but to show the effect which each of the two forces, female and male, has had on the development of our present god- idea, which investigation serves to accentuate the conclusions arrived at in the evolution of woman relative to the inheritance of each of the two lines of sexual demarcation. e.b.g. contents- chapter introduction i--sex the foundation of the god-idea ii--tree, plant, and fruit worship iii--sun worship--female and male energies in the

h investigation serves to accentuate the conclusions arrived at in the evolution of woman relative to the inheritance of each of the two lines of sexual demarcation. e.b.g. contents- chapter introduction i--sex the foundation of the god-idea ii--tree, plant, and fruit worship iii--sun worship--female and male energies in the sun iv--the dual god of the ancients a trinity also v--separation of the female and make elements in the deity vi--civilization of an ancient race vii--concealment of the early doctrines viii--the original god-idea of the israelites ix--the phoenician and hebrew god set or seth x--ancient speculations concerning creation xi--fire and phallic worship xii--an attempt to purify the sensualized faiths xiii--christianity a continuation of paganism xiv--christianity a contin

alogy existing between the growth of the god-idea and the development of the human race, and especially of the two sex-principles, is everywhere clearly apparent "religion is to be found alone with its justification and explanation in the relations of the sexes. there and therein only"[3 [3] hargrave jennings, phallicism. as the conception of a deity originated in sex, or in the creative agencies female and male which animate nature, we may reasonably expect to find, in the history of the development of the two sex-principles and in the notions entertained concerning them throughout past ages, a tolerably correct account of the growth of the god-idea. we shall perceive that during an earlier age of human existence, not only were the reproductive powers throughout nature, and especially in

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ciple. it is in fact, the occult theory of monosexualism based on a blasphemous distortionofthesacred text' succeedingversesinvolve further distortions and blasphemies-not, however, to. be taken seriously. he sums uptherite in this way:therite puts asunderwhatgod has joined together. it then unites them in abondof defiance to the command that they should fill the earth. it takes the male from the female and the female from the male and then promises a spiritual union between the female partswiththe suggestion or the inference that there is a more fruitful union still possible between their male parts.if the words had been translated into literal deeds it would havebeenanextremelycuriousrite. machen and waite, however, werebothvery much concernedwithfemale partners. long before.the advent.o

the bell. brother devil descended to receive me lookinggauntin the gaslight and distorted in the mistwhichcame inwithme from the street. he escorted me up to the top floor where a fireburntin acommonopen range provided withan oven and inthisthedinnerplates were warming.thecloth was laiduponthe table towards thewindowend of the room. i observed the flagon of funchal wine partially emptied. a vast female [yeats's housekeeper, mrsold]was preparing the meal in aroomwhichopened towards the back part of the house and is, i believe, on ordinary occasions the poet's bedroom.he made excuses to avoid long discussions on lady gregory and ancient irish romances,butdiscussed the grail legends, waite's books and the golden dawn_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'115 he told me that the unfortunate frater-[wa

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

hat would have been known to westcott also.thecipher itself, which is alchemical in origin, would have posed few problems for westcott, who was familiar with old alchemical and magical texts and was well aware oftrithemius'polygraphiae-thebook which contains the cipher's key. trans255 lating it he found that it was in english, although written from right to left, that it allowed for both male and female initiates, and that it needed considerable improvement before the rituals could be worked. he further found that the german adept was the 'famous soror' sapiens dominabitur astris of nuremberg, whose real name was anna sprengel. in her 'reply' to westcott's initial letter, anna sprengel distri255 buted occult largesse wholesale: westcott was raised to the statusofadeptus exemptus(t=4260, he

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lah and the esoteric eastern system: such are the theories of the debasement of menintoanimal forms; and of men reborn as women, as apunishment*for earthly sins in a previous life: see rabbi manasseh in the nishmath chiim, or 'breath of lives. but it must be remembered that many of the doctrines to which we may justly take exception are limited to the teachings*ifnotaspunishment,yetthemajority of female lives areharderto bearthanmale lives; possible male and female lives are alternative, and complementary to each other, each supplying needful experiences.thekabalah87ofbuta few rabbis: and that the differences between the doctrines on a given point are sometimes very great; as is shewn by a comparison of the books of the rabbis of different eras and schools. some of the kabalistic teaching

he son of god. binah is the supernal mother -aima,malkuth is the inferior mother, the bride of the microprosopus.thefour letters yod, he, vau, he, or as we say ihvh, of the name, we call yahveh, or jehovah, are allotted and distributed among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner: so that even if to some jewish exoteric teachers 'jehovah' is the name in especial of the so-called passive principle, or female aspect of binah- and that this did at times degenerate into the worship of the groves- yet this stigma does not attach to the kabalistic conception of the tetragrammaton, that dreadful name of majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews. time will not permit me to extend much farther this pa

refers also to the doctrines of pythagoras whose five pointed star i mention later on. among the masonic points which have been derived from the ancient mysteries, i notice the triple degrees of the system corresponding to the mysteries of serapis, isis, and osiris. now our second degree has feminine suggestions; note, shibboleth, the ear of corn, the water, for corn refers to the goddess ceres, female, or demeter, gemeter, earth mother, and the water is female in all old languages; compare binah, mother deity; andthe religion of freemasonry 119our third is a very close approximation to that which represen255 ted the slaying of osiris.thebattery of acclamation when the candidate is restored to light is a direct imitation of the sudden crash of feigned thunder and lightning by which the ne

he old initiations. this hexapla was a type of the number six, esteemed a. male number assigned by the kabbalists to microprosopus, the vau of the hebrew alphabet, and of the tetragrammaton, the six middle sephiroth, especially the median 6th, the tiphereth, or beauty of the deity.thepentalpha, or emblem of health, the pythagorean emblem, is the five-pointed masonic star, five is the hebrew he, a female potency according to the kabbalah, and may be either the superior he, the mother idea, or the lower he, the bride of god, the church, the kingdom, these two together constitute the elohim, a feminine plural noun, constantly used as a title for creative power in the narrative of genesis in chapter one, and up to the end of verse four of chapter two, where the jehovist narrative commences.iti

the sun was called widdershins, and was an evil omen and act. freemasonry, as one special development of a long series of monotheistic secret associations, being constituted on a basis of masonic operations by masculine operatives, has perhaps necessarily excluded females; many military and hierarchical mystical societies have also from their essence consisted of males alone.thevery low state of female culture in the ancient world and duringthemiddle ages, also no doubt contributed towards the exclusion of women from mystic rites and from active interference with religious ceremonies; an exclusion which, were we about to constitute a new form of concealed worship, would hardly be tolerated in the present year of grace, and certainly could not be defended in argument. this ancient exclusio

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

red with the appliances of his art stands the figure of a juggler, one hand upraised holding a wand (in some packs, a cup, the other pointing downwards. he wears a cap of maintenance like that of the kings, whose wide brim forms a sort of aureole round his head. his body and arms form the shape of the hebrew letter aleph, to which this card corresponds. he symboliseswill. 2. the high prestess, or female pope.a woman crowned with a high mitre or tiara (her head encircled by a veil, a stole (or a solar cross) upon her breast, and the book of science open in her hand. she representsscience, wisdom,orknowledge.3.the empress.a winged and crowned woman seated upon a throne, having in one hand a sceptre bearing a globe surmounted by a cross, while she rests the other upon a shield with an eagle b

s.left hand he bears a flame255 headed sceptre. he is the image offateorfatality,good or evil.16. the lightning-struck tower.a tower whose upper part is like a crown, struck by a lightning-flash (two men fall headlong fromit,one of whom is in such an attitude as to form a hebrew letterayin.)sparks and debris are falling.itshowsruin, disruption.60 the sorcererand his apprentice 17. the star.a nude female figure pours water upon the earth. fromtwovases. in the heavens above her shines the blazing star of the magi (surrounded by seven others, trees. and plants grow beneath her magic influence (and on one thet butterfly of psyche alights. she is the star ofhope. 18. the moon.the moon shining in the heavens, drops of dew falling, a wolf and a dog howling at the moon, and halted at the foot of t

with a cross thereon is attached. the dead rise from their tombs.itsignifiesrenewal, result.o.the foolish man.a man with a fool's cap, dressed like a jester, with a stick and bundle over his shoulder. before him is the butterflyofpleasure luring him on (while in some packs a tiger, in others a dog, attacks him from behind).itsignifiesfolly, expiation. 21. the universe.within a flowery wreath is a female figure nude save for a light scarf. she represents nature and the divine presence therein. in each hand she should bear a wand.atthe four angles of the card are the four cherubic animals of the apocalypse. above, the eagle and the man; below, the lion and the bull.itrepresentscompletion, reward.thus the whole series of the twenty-two trumps will give a connected sentence which is capable of

ed the 'universe. 8 justice is referred to, and,and11 strength is referred totoandq,which causeth a transposition in the attribution, for these are cognate symbols. but at one time the82thesorcerer and his apprenticesword of justice wastheegyptian 'knife' symbol of the*'sickle of leo, while the scales represented the sun having'.just quitted the balance point of highest declination. similarly the female and the lionrepresentedthe idea of venus (lady) offire of vulcan (hinexalted).but'the earliest attribution was the lion-goddess (or lion-god of.'horus)to.q.andmatthegoddess oftruthwith herscales'to, and this is therefore better. alsowas attributed to.225..horus at one time. so unto the 'foolish man' is attributed air, moveable .and'.never permanent.the'juggler' isthenatural symbol of mercur

theearlier gods,theone supreme, the all-father, neter, whose worship was pre-dynastic,beingsymbolized by an axe, whose head inthetomb paintings is bound to the shaft by thongs, proving that it was a flint head.thelater symbol had the shaft wedged into a socket in the head,showingthatmetalhadsuperseded flint.thenext book of the papyrus directs the exorciser to writedownthe namesofall the male. and female. demons of which his heart is afraid, and to wrap these in a coverlid, together with a figure of apophi, to tie. them round tightly andputin a fire, to spit foul' times, and stamp withtheleft foot.'thedoing of this' says the papyrus,'hathgreat effect on earth, and inthenether world.'136 the sorcererand his apprenticethenether world here clearly means that which we call the astral, and is a

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aughter of muslims, this motley band called crusaders reached jerusalem in 1099. when the city fell after a siege of nearly five weeks, the crusaders moved in. they carried out a level of savagery the like of which the world has seldom seen. all muslims and jews in the city were put to the sword. in the words of one historian "they killed all the saracens and the turks they found. whether male of female."2 one of the crusaders, raymond of aguiles, boasted of this violence: wonderful sights were to be seen. some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into flames. piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. it was nec

o which kabbalists devoted a great deal of meditation and speculation. obviously, this multifaceted god image admits to accusations of being polytheistic, a charge which was vehemently, if never entirely successfully, rebutted by the kabbalists. not only was the divine plural in kabbalistic theosophy, but in its first subtle emanation from unknowable unity god had taken on a dual form as male and female; a supernal father and mother, hokhmah and binah, were god's first emanated forms. kabbalists used frankly sexual metaphors to explain how the creative intercourse of hokhmah and binah generated further creation. 27 an interesting feature of this mystical theology is that, according to it, human beings are not created, but are in some way divine. owens describes this myth: the complex divin

e humanism is an expression of "man's reckoning that he will be left to go on unchecked" which has been the primary basis, throughout history, for the denial of god. in one verse of the qur'an, god says: global freemasonry hg does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked? was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then a blood-clot which he created and shaped, making from it both sexes, male and female? is he who does this not able to bring the dead to life (qur'an, 75: 36-40) god says that people are not to be "left to go on unchecked" and reminds them immediately afterwards that they are his creation. this is because, when a person realizes that he is a creation of god, he understands that he is not "unchecked" but responsible before god. for this reason, the claim that human beings are

of all time. in his book morals and dogma, albert pike wrote the following about the compass and square: the square. is a natural and appropriate symbol of this earth. the hermaphroditic figure is the symbol of the double nature anciently assigned to the deity, as generator and producer, as brahm and maya among the arians, osiris and isis among the egyptians. as the sun was male, so the moon was female.78 this means that the compass and square, the most well known symbol of masonry, is a symbol of arian paganism and which dates back to ancient egypt or before the advent of christianity. the moon and the sun, in the passage quoted from pike, are important symbols in masonic lodges, and are none other than a reflection of the false beliefs of those ancient pagan societies that worshipped th

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ll things, this is known as ain (1st c) ain at various cycles moves through transformative stages and manifests three principles (2nd c) kether the divine will chokmah the logos binah sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chosen gnostic names here to prepare you for there use in our gnostic model of the universe as presented in the next chapter. chokmah and binah also form the polarity of male and female principles which give birth to the rest of the tree of life (they could also be easily related to the fire and ice of yggdrasil. geburah mars chesed jupiter tiphareth sun hod mercury netzach venus yesod moon malkuth earth these planes or world, which can be related to planets and realities bring together the remaining the gnostic handbook page 21 characteristics with the astral plane at the

ure that it was the combined power of jesus and mary madgadene who transmitted the mysteries, not jesus alone. the sophia tradition has survived hidden under the veil of christian piety, it is still found in the cult of the virgin mary and is most powerful in the russian orthodox traditions. it is a tradition of great age and some beauty that personifies the power of the holy spirit as distinctly female. for example, in proverbs particularly we have sophia wandering the street begging men to love her. while in the following quotes we may even begin to think that sophia or wisdom is separate, yet in reality, sophia is a facet of the lord of wisdom himself. wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:

involves a special spiritual technology which was revealed by jesus after his resurrection to his disciples, with final revelations being given to paul in what are now known as the mysteries. the secret of the qadesh jesus said" when you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female..then you will enter the kingdom. the gospel of thomas 2:38. within the oldest gnostic traditions we find that a further division is made within the spiritual classes. the psychic or dove class are allowed to reproduce (though not encouraged) and in fulfil the role of creating children, however, those of the serpent class

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the rational or conscious mind. it includes the personality and all its related characteristics. the chiah and neschamah as deeper facets of the ruach, the chiah and neschamah form the unconscious framework of the psyche. these may be related to the animus and anima of jungian psychology and represent the deepest levels of the personal unconscious, where the dualities of force and form, male and female and body and mind originate. the yechidah the yechidah is the immortal part of man, which in his fallen state does not come into action naturally. the average human experiences life through his instincts (the soul) and through his mind (ruach) and constructs a little sense of self from these experiences. however, neither of these offer a truly discrete, individual identity. the kabbalistic

to the liberation of the self through the activation of the tree of life. the church of smyrna the church of smyrna is the svadhisthana chakra in the hindu system or in our terms the sacral centre. it is known as sweet smelling and is related to the sexual organs. the sweet smell refers to the ojas or psychic force that dwells within the energy that flows through the organism of both the male and female. it also has a specific sexual meaning in terms of tantric practise where it represents the psychic energy found within the sexual secretions themselves, the smell relating to the ripening of the energy at certain times of the year. this correlation of sexual secretions, time and energy represents one of the inner teachings of gnosticism as well as buddhist and hindu tantra. the characteris

nd the vedas to the sacred birds of the celts and druids. from the chakric perspective the fifth day is the throat centre. the logos regenerates the mind and new levels of consciousness are reached. it is the blue centre, the colour of devotion. the sixth day this marks the appearance of the reborn man. he has subjugated his instincts and mind, liberated his innermost self and united the male and female principles within gnostic theurgy page 87 him. from the perspective of the chakra system, the sixth day is that of the ajna centre, where the currents of creation and destruction are unleashed and the gnostic becomes a master. it is indigo and represents intuition and inner mastery. the seventh day regeneration is complete. in relation to the chakric system is that of completed regeneration

stery. the knight templars were, at first, considered to be simply an order for the protection of the roads along which pilgrims travelled to the holy land. however, as they become better known, rumours began to circulate about their esoteric knowledge and occult practises and this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were dualistic with an emphasis on the union of the opposing male and female facets of consciousness, this process was reflected in their use of the image of baphomet, an androgynous pan like figure within their secret shrines. their origins can probably be traced to 1188 ce when the order of sion split into two opposed factions, of which the knight templar was the major. as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight templars absorbed esoteric teachings

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gicians summons in the evocation circle the spirit, and then enters the point to become one with the spirit the very essence inbetween, then the force will be willed by concentration and enchantment (of reciting the binding 28 spell) into the vessel. if sexual evocation, allow the elixir to enter the vessel upon climax. if one is working with a partner, a woman, then she may utilize both male and female sexual fluids to create and give material basis for the spirit. this is not by itself necessary; the solitary magician may conduct successfully this creation or summoning method alone. beware the union of the fluids of the sun and the moon, as it leads to a strong familiar who for the inexperienced, may cause mental stress for the magician. after the evocation and binding of the spirit to t

people as well. he governs 60 legions of spirits. p zepar zepar is a duke whom appears in red clothing and armor. he is likewise considered a familiar of babalon-lilith, and causes lust and love between women and men. he is also one aspect of the crone as well, making women barren. 26 legions of spirits are under zepar, one may work through this spirit as a means of obtaining the union of another female, or creating a shadow form of a succubus via dreaming sorcery. 44 q botis botis appears in the black mirror as a viper, and then with the command of the magician will appear in a human shape with sharpened teeth, two horns and carrying a flaming sword. botis is a divinatory spirit whom reveals secrets in the depths of the mind, and how one may obtain secrets from others by language and talk

ove beyond the mirror from the circle yet this is a seeming illusion if ones concentration of will is upon the circle, hold it fast to the meeting place of spirits. asmoday may be summoned by self-enchantment as in karezza (karezza is masturbation without climax, always willed) or other means. a sex magickal operation involving the consecration of his sigil with secretions/fluids of both male and female will create asmoday, as suggested rightly so by aleister crowley. qabalistic lore has long warned of such, as it is said to breed demons. in a self-initiatory sense, it is ideal and powerful. asmoday/asmodeus grants 72 legions of spirits, and shows one where treasure may be found. this translates to the treasure of self from which one may obtain an area of individual and mental achievement

of the seventh throne and seeks to return there after 1,000 years. focalor governs 30 legions of spirits and is a powerful servitor to summon in dreaming (subconscious water leviathan) sorcery. he too has power of the air, being a luciferic angel as well. 57 p vepar vepar is the forty-second spirit of solomon whom is also recognized by vepar or vephar. this spirit is a great duke who appears as a female mermaid. he governs waters and was said to guide ships with armor and weapons. he also causes storms in the sea. in an initiatory context, vepar is a spirit who is of the leviathanc spirits, of the subconscious and water. in this, vepar appears in dreams as a fluid-like gray mermaid who has deep blue or black eyes. vepar may gather and guard servitors who go forth by the dreaming gnosis, an

answers unto that which he governs. he presides over 20 legions of spirits. 64 4 gremory gamori/gremory is the fifty-sixth spirit, being a duke who is very powerful. he appears as a beautiful woman, of middle eastern visage, who wears a crown upon a camel. gremory will also copulate spiritually in a dreaming sense with the magician, who is just as a woman, as djinn are generally neither male nor female. gremory is a divinatory spirit. who tells of things past and present. gremory also teaches of the treasures of self, at various points in ones life, that may be considered as useful knowledge. he brings the love and lust of women young and old. gamori governs 26 legions of spirits. 5 ose ose/ose/voso is a great president, who appears as a leopard. he will put a human form on at the request

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ten "i indeed baptize you with n, but one shall come after me who shall baptize ye with the holy ghost and with o" this completes the names and titles of the officers of a temple, and they are seven in number and may all be taken by a frater or soror. as they represent powers and not persons, the feminine form of the greek names is not usually used, for the powers are positive (male) or negative (female) according to the god form used. thus, hierophant, hiereus, and kerux are more natural offices for fraters, while hegemon, stolistes and dadouchos are more natural for sorors, but the office itself carries no implication of sex and sometimes the psychic balance of a ceremony may be better maintained when a frater is hegemon and a soror is hierophant. the hierophant must be of the 5=6 grade

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erequisite and all parties must see through their commitment, without question or faltering. however, to my mind, initiation via sexual action is generally best confined to higher rites as operated between individuals of suitable adeptship. to write from experience, i was taught that a magister can pass on his power via sexual means only once in his life. this might be to his chosen successor, if female, or to his own consort in the craft. we must also consider that sexual initiation can occur in the dream-state and that the 'consent' of the aspirant may be an irrelevant consideration. it is rather a case of personal sacrifice to the deity. from my knowledge of both male and female adepts in the elder craft, the gods can and will take lovers and by their 'elixirs' convey strange knowledges

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

oah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded, and the lord shut them in. and the flood was upon the earth; and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. and the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. and every man was destroyed, al

nts, and mighty hands on their mighty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the rebellious titan who had presented humanity with the gift of fire.36 the mechanism the vengeful deity used to sweep the earth clean was an overwhelming flood. in the most widespread version of the story prometheus impregnated a human female. she bore him a son named deucalion, who ruled over the country of phthia, in thessaly, and took to wife pyrrha, the red-blonde, daughter of epimetheus and pandora. when zeus reached his fateful decision to destroy the bronze race, deucalion, forewarned by prometheus, made a wooden box, stored in it all that was necessary, 33 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 460, 466. 34 c. kere

ermediaries between gods and men the urshu, a category of lesser divinities whose title meant the watchers .3 and they preserved particularly vivid recollections of the gods themselves, puissant and beautiful beings called the neteru who lived on earth with humankind and exercised their sovereignty from heliopolis and other sanctuaries up and down the nile. some of these neteru were male and some female but all possessed a range of supernatural powers which included the ability to appear, at will, as men or women, or as animals, birds, reptiles, trees or plants. paradoxically, their words and deeds seem to have reflected human passions and preoccupations. likewise, although they were portrayed as stronger and more intelligent than humans, it was believed that they could grow sick or even d

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

r bridge ostensibly centers on the high weirdness of the mothman scare and ufo sightings culminating in the silver bridge disaster of the mid-1960s. his work provides the closest clue to the solution of the ufo mystery, up until the discovery of the cipher of the ufonauts. barker, a close ally of james w. moseley, died suddenly in the early 1980s. bell, dr. fred, contactee in communication with a female ufonaut, one semjase, a pleiadean being, since 1971. semjase has shown up in a number of other cases over the last twenty or so years. bethurum, truman, became a contactee in 1952, with the female ufonaut aura rhanes from the planet clarion. a physical contactee of the adamski type, bethurum seemed a down-to- earth person with an extraordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9

the way to whatever the essence of the encounter is. the clues in the adamski case would have yielded to the initiate of these runes, for example, that the yamski reincarnation episode was bound to happen immediately upon adamski s death. this leads to the well-known scientific prerequisite the ability to predict the results of an experiment. for example, truman bethurum s contact, aura rhanes, a female and thus unusual in the history of contactee accounts, has the cipher meaning of female. one would then expect, in future funny-name cases with female entities, some cipher reference to the femaleness of the being hidden in the being s name. thus, when semjase arrives in fred bell s life, we are not surprised to find her name the equivalent of gynander, the female in a so-called male role

ion for leaving a room is turning the door knob and pushing the door. resistance is not futile= 329= abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words. in the seminal and quintessential chapter 36 of the book of lies, aleister crowley informs us, let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his mystic rose. the magick rood, or wand, is the supreme male symbol; the mystic rose the female complement. the ritual, called the star sapphire, is the revelation to the initiated of the key secret of the magick of the conquest of the universe. thus, we find the wand: the double wand of power= 329= resistance is not futile. the blond alien khyia of procyon, our alleged informant from the stars= 150= mystic rose. combined, by theosophic addition, the wand and rose together are 3+2+9=

trw: that would be telling. 76 allen h. greenfield 77 appendix one select control names from mediumship, adepts hip and contacteeism ashtar, maat, thor, osomo all= 47 (4+7=11) aura rhanes= 92 (9+2=11) morya, voltra, manco all= 56 (5+6=11) val thor= 60= ra disc. master aetherius= 224= elixir of life& god but, curiously, also indrid cold+carl ardo+lanulus (the complete myth cycle) aura rhanes= 92= female and let her. she is one of the few contacts who is named and female. orlon= 42= sananda and zago+zo orthon= jesus and lomec haa ton= 64= markon j.w= 19= ro (see shaver mystery) lazaris= 52= monka cosmos= 58= lanulus and madacana and seth ramtha= 63= orion kimi= 76= soltec suttku= 96= lraeton 78 appendix two: the sirius mystery and v. a. l. i. s..the teachings of the order of the silver star

lete term vast active living intelligence system= 515= i am life and the giver of life of every star, a most suggestive phrase considering that valis is supposed to be a kind of god-computer capable of transmitting meaningful transformative messages to earth. the acronym valis= 41= her (repeated many times, but also= whole. in the valis story, a magical child is created as a messiah. the child is female. phil dick died at age 54 during the filming of blade runner based (very loosely) on his antima- chine novel do androids dream of electric sheep? in his last year he became a follower of british contactee benjamin creme and maintained that his earlier works of fiction allegory, really contained a sort of cipher. the last of his novels published in his lifetime, the divine invasion, dealt wi

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tion throughout the atmosphere. the water and air appear to be acting together to create al l manner of forms. designs and patterns of intricate shapes and delicate pues will appear and then dissolve again. step 7. you will see the goddess isis in this reg an in her capacity as the fire of solidification. she is the power 129 behind the continual formation of shapes and colors in this square. the female sphinx here looks like a huge hawk with human arras and hands. the atmosphere of this square is charged with a strong feminine current. the net result is that the entice square vibrates with creative forces that sculpt and mold the elements into beautiful multa-colored designs but with little conscious planning or purpose. there seems to be no other purpose to the shape-shifting than the ve

xual polarities. it is your task as a magician to seek within yourself all of those qual i t ies charact er i zed as mascul ine or feminine. modern psychology suggests that every man has a feminine psychic component and that every woman has a masculine psychic component (this idea is expressed in the jungian descriptions of the anima and animus. in other words, a person outwardly male is inwardly female and vice versa. this idea echoes the magi -cal theorem that e ve ry indi vidual is essentially sufficient to himself. a part of the great work of every magician is to cultivate those virtues and qualities in which he/she is deficient. to do this a man may invoke one of the female enochian 152 deities, or one of the egyptian goddesses who presides over certain of the lesser watchtower square

fully pre-pared and so was able to directly experience all of the aethyrs up to and including lil. the physical body is a sexual organism. sex can not be avoided, nor should i t be. the enochian magician accepts sexuality as an important part of life. the great work is the unification of the dualistic poles that comprise the basis of our universe. this unification includes the duality of male and female. it takes place in the mind, not the body (i.e, in the mental body rather than the physical body. every physical act of sex should be a creative conscious expression of the great work. as such, every physical act of sex should be a magical act. 153 the use of sex sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armory of the magician; and precisely because there is no moral g

your own "partner" with your magical imagination and will. this is especially easy to do in enochian magick because the aethyrs, and certain of the watchtower squares, already contain willing partners. in pop, if you are a male for example, is the priestess of the silver star, in zip is the daughter of babalon, and in arn is babalon herself. in the same way, male "partners" await you, if you are female, in other aethyrs( for example, pan is in lin, jupiter is in khr, horus is in zen and hermes is in vta. prel iminary exercises and operat ions of the jnanamudra type are there-fore essential for you to advance in enochian magick. 3. mahamudra. this is the third and highest stage. literally the name means "great symbol" in this degree a "partner" is no longer needed. when you reach this stag

primary separation between the novice and the adept. when crowley entered nia he was taken on a journey in a chariot of mother-of-pearl and ivory. his guide stated that "every moment that we fly shall cover an aeon. and every place on which we rest shall be a young universe rejoicing in its strength" this dearly shows how human concepts of time and space will shift in nia. 210 crowley's guide was female. she had golden hair and skin, blue eyes, and scented breath. she wore see-through robes of the seven major colors. she was an aspect of the goddess venus, or perhaps venus herself. she told him "the price of the journey is l it tle, though its name be death" death of the human self is a small thing relative to the higher self, and is the price of spiritual adeptship. you must die to your l

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ferent stages. first a young naked child (incarnation, second a crucified body (sacrifice, third a crowned and robed priest-king (transformation. the birth, death and resurrection of sacred kings. 7 netzach, victory. a beautiful young woman with a palm branch. 8 hod, glory. an hermaphrodite with the grace of both sexes. 9 yesod, foundation. a naked and virile man. 10 malchut, the kingdom. a young female representing nature clothed as a bride, because nature was regarded as the proper mate of mankind symbolised by the shechinah or visible signs of the presence of god on earth, personified as an attractive female. there are colour-associations with the spheres of the tree. again there is a simple up and down and side to side logic to this. the left hand pillar is black, and called the pillar

life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzafkiel( watcher or observer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the aralim (thrones or seats. expressively by the planet shabetai (saturn. humanly by the supply of unfertilised ova or eggs in the female (here male and female forces meet, mate and fertilise. in a perfect condition of creation this would result in a state of beautiful harmony as at sphere 6, but since the object is a material world, this is pushed out of place by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which the lifestream goes to) 4 mercy or generosity. origination governed by god-aspect el

piter, traditional giver of good things. humanly the development of male chromosomes in the foetus. 5 severity or economy. origination governed by the god-aspect elohim gibur (god-goddesses of strength/might).creation byarchangelchamael orsamael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim (fiery serpents. expressively by the planet madim (mars. humanly by the development of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male

emale chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. originatively governed by the god-aspect yhvh tzva ot (i will be hosts. creatively by archangel auriel (light of god, sometimes identified with haniel [grace ofgod. formatively by the angel order of the elohim god-goddesses. expressively by the plan

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adition of today hangs by threads which ultimately link it without a break to ancient times. of the priceless records of the romans, who let the first ray of history fall on their defeated but unsubdued enemy, i have spoken in the fourth and sixth chapters. if among gods and heroes only tuisco, mannus and alx are named in german, and the rest given in' romana interpretatio' on the other hand, the female names nerthus, veleda, tanfana, huldana (for hludana, aliruna, have kept their original form; and so have names of peoples and places that lead back to gods, ingaevones, iscaevones, herminones, asciburgium. christian authors also, writing in latin, prefer the roman names, yet, when occasion calls, wodan, thunar, frea, sahsnot cannot be avoided. the refined language of the goths, and the fra

ective names, i was fain to claim for nerthus also an adj. basis nairthus, with the sense of mild, gracious, fair. frigg too p. 301-2) i interpret by the adj. free, fair, gracious- if gaue, gauden, is a corruption of the masc. woden, it might still have an accessory notion of good. frouwa is obviously the fem. to froho, and still asserts her full power in our present frau. almost all names of the female deities have still a transparent meaning; as compared with those of the male, there is something innocent and inviolable in them, and for that reason they seem to have been treated tenderly or tolerated. the delicacy and inoffensive matter of the myth have shielded it longer in popular legend. pkeface. xxi the goddess hellia has exchanged her personal meaning for a local one, that of hell

, fro, a.s. frea, so that goths and saxons seem to have preferred the god. high germans the goddess; in the north both freyr and freyja are honoured alike. but the north knows only the god nicirsr, and the germans living on the opposite side of the baltic only the goddess nerthus. the relation of zio to zisa, perhaps isis (p. 298, demands further explanation. no doubt the numerous aliases of that female deity, who is not yet forgotten in modern legend, are due to differences of race: holda shews herself in hesse, thuringia, and north franconia, berhta in vogtland, east franconia and sundry tracts of swabia, where likewise a male berhtold encounters us. there is no trace of either goddess in lower germany, but a dame freke now turns up in the mark, and dame gaue haunts majklenburg between e

ernhart and dietrich-bern, as indeed the dreams of hackelberg and berend were identical (p. 923. lastly, perhaps the nethl. derh met den beer (p. 213-4) ought to be taken into account here, not that i would derive his epithet from a misapprehension of dietrich von bern (see suppl. we have come to know the wild host in two principal lights: as a nocturnal hunt of male, and as a stately progress of female, deities; both, especially the last, occurring at stated seasons. the precise meaning of the word' host' calls for a third explanation: it marches as an army, it portends the outbreak of war. wuotan (the old father of hosts, p. 817, rackelhernd, berhtolt, bestriding their wlute war-horse, armed and spurred, appear still as supreme directors of the war for which they, so to speak, give licen

nd prob. ought to bo so in matt. 9, 33. a fem. unjwlps occurs, always for 8at/jb6viov, in mk. 7, 26-9. 30. lu. 4, 33. 7,33. john 7,20. 8,48-9.52. 10,20-1. the plur. baifjlovta is only once rendered by masc. vnhulpans, lu. 8, 33, and everywhere else by fem. unhujpons, mat. 7, 22. 9, 34. mk. 1, 32- 4-9.3,15. 5,12. 6,13. 9,38. 16,9. lu.4,41. 8,27.30-5-8. 9,1. 49. the inference is, that the notion of female demons was the favourite one with the goths, and very likely with other germans, for in hymn. 24, 3 the word for diabolus is the ohg. fem. unholdd if as heathens they had worshipped a goddess holda, how natural, in contrast with her mildness, to regard a malignant being as a female unholda! thus ulphilas's preference for the term goes far to prove a gothic worship of hul]?6; and the transla

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en, and repelled by them. the downfall of heathenism must have wrought great changes in the old-established relationship: the spirits acquired a new and terrible aspect as ministers and messengers of satan.1 some put on a more sava.ge look that savours of the giant, especially the woodsprites. grendeps nature borders on those of giants and gods. not so with the females however: the wild women and female nixes drop into the class of fortune-telling swan-maids who are of human kind, while the elfins that present the drinking-horn melt into the circle of valkyrs; and here again we recognise a general beauty pervading all the female spirits, and raising them above the males, whose characteristics come out more individually. in wichtels, dwarfs and goblins, especially in that children s bugbear

t is more, the word must have lived on in later times, down to the latest, for i find the fern, eteninne (giantess) preserved afc least in nursery-tales. laurenberg (ed. lappenberg, p. 26) l has de olde eteninne/ and another rostock book of the beginning of the 18th century 2 die alte eteninne; i should like to know whence adelung sub v. mummel gets the fact, that in westphalia a certain terrible female with whom they frighten children is called etheninne? i have no doubt it is correct. the saxon etan warrants us in conjecturing an ohg. ezan, ezzan, a goth. uans, having for root the on. eta, as. etan, ohg. ezzan, goth, itan (edere, and for meaning edo (gen. edonis, manducus, 7ro\v(j)dyo&lt, devourer. an as. poem in cod. exon. 425, 26 says: fic mesan ma3g meahtelicor and efn etan ealdum

horter-lived genii warrant a comparison with the wights and elves of our own mythology? in the third race giants seem to be portrayed, or fighters of the giant sort, confronting as they do the rightful 1 the rabbinic myth supposes a first woman, lilith, made out of the ground like adam [the bible, we know, has two different accounts of man s creation: the first (elohistic) in gen. 1, 27, male and female created he them; the second (jehovistic) in gen. 2, 7, formed man of the dust, and in vv. 21. 22, took one of his ribs. and the rib. made he a woman. the first account seems to imply simultaneous creations. tkans] 576 ceeation. heroes of the fourth. the latter we might in mosaic language call sons of elohim, and the former sons of men; at the same time, their origin from the ash would admit

ld at the end of ch. xxxii. another and older narrative, found even in the british triads, comes much nearer to those given above: when the lake of llion overflowed and submerged all britain, the people were all drowned save dwyvan and dwyvach, who escaped in a naked (sailless) ship, and afterwards repeopled the land. this ship is also named that of nevydd nav neivion, and had on board a male and female of every creature; again it is told, that the oxen of hu gadarn dragged the avanc (beaver) ashore out of the llion lake, and it has never broken out since.3 of still narrower limits are our german tales, as that of the dwarf seeking a lodging at ralligen on l. thun (no. 45, which is very like the philemon-myth; of arendsee (no. ill, where again only a husband and wife are saved; of seeburg

f his urn (pp. 585. 593. homer finely pictures the elemental strife between water and fire in the battle of the skamander with hephaestus: the river is a god, and is called ava%y od. 5, 445. 451. the indian ganges too is an august deity. smaller streams and fountains had nymphs set over them. 1 in our language, most of the rivers names are feminine (gramm. 3, 384-6, there must therefore have been female watersprites. twelve or eighteen streams are specified by name in seem. 43b. sn. 4. i single out leiptr, by whose clear water, as by styx or acheron, oaths were sworn. seem. 165a: at eno liosa leiptrar vatni/ a dabmon of the ehine is nowhere named in our native traditions, but the edda calls the eui (fern) svinn, askunna (prudens, a diis oriunda, ssem. 248a. and in the bosom of the rhine li

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

videhis report 'raising the devil, p.129).again, despite all the care taken, even the crowned angel wasnotabove giving hockley the required ceremonial for calling up very dubious spirits. as hockley took down verbatim what his speculatrix reported seeing, what is remarkable is the quality and depthofinformation received. it seems unlikely that a teenage girl with, presumably, an average victorian female's education, could have invented the religious and philosophical information hockley transcribed. many seekers after arcane knowledge sought initiation into freemasonry, in the erroneous belief that knowledgeofthe rituals of freemasonry would set them on the path to discovering the key to all knowledge. surprisingly, hockley did not take this step until his fifty-fifth year, although some o

nifestations but soon became convinced that scrying with the crystal or mirror was the only true form of spirit communication and the method least capable of being tampered with by charlatans and publicity seekers. he married, but details of his wife have proved elusive. from a comment to irwin it appears that she died in the 1850s, but the records at st catherine's house, surprisingly, list many female hockleys dying inthatdecade. she shared her husband's interest. in spiritualism and. may. herself have possessed mediumistic powers.therevdc.m. davies records an amusing use of the powers she had" it would seem that in his youth hockley was addicted to the pleasures of the turf, often over-staying his time at race meetings. he possessed an ancient spell by means of which it was possible to

en, and read the particulars. he assured me it was correct in every particular and attached his name to the account i had written down at the time, to certify that it was true. these books are locked up and nobody can see them; and sometimes,ifi repeat some previous question which has escaped my memory, 1 am referred to the book in whichithas been previously answered.theseers are generally of the female sex, and it is impossible to tell by their personal appearance whether they have the gift or not. 1 once knew a seeress that weighed 19 stone.theonly way to tell whether a person is a seer is by trying. two persons occasionally see the same thing at the same time.onone occasion a lady was looking into the crystal, and when the mist divided she saw her husband in conversation with a lady, a

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ed princess whose hand he wins in a jumping competition. the story known as truth and lies has been interpreted as an allegorical version of the osiris myth, with the deities transformed into a dysfunctional human family.62 the plot involves a son who grows up to avenge his father, truth, and defeat the enemy, lies. in contrast to isis, the hero s mother is presented as lustful and heartless. the female characters also prove to be evil in the story of the two brothers. the hero is falsely accused of attempting to rape his brother s wife and then betrayed by the woman given to him as a wife by the gods. many mythological themes appear in semidisguised form in this story.63 the two brothers have the same names as two gods (anubis and bata) and exhibit some superhuman powers. the story is set

ed by the woman given to him as a wife by the gods. many mythological themes appear in semidisguised form in this story.63 the two brothers have the same names as two gods (anubis and bata) and exhibit some superhuman powers. the story is set in a time when, just beyond the borders of egypt, it was still possible to encounter gods and monsters. the motif of the sea s attempts to seize a beautiful female occurs both in the two brothers and in another new 28 handbook of egyptian mythology kingdom tale about seth s fight with a god of the sea to save the goddess astarte. this seems to be a partially egyptianized version of a foreign myth (see astarte in deities, themes, and concepts. even more fragmentary tales involve a woman who turns into a lioness and the god heryshef s recruitment of a h

d goddesses. some of these deities had to change or die to begin the creative process. the origin of the universe was an intellectual problem that came to fascinate the egyptians. texts that allude to the unknowable era before creation define it as the time before two things had developed. 1 the cosmos was not yet divided into pairs of opposites such as earth and sky, light and darkness, male and female, or life and death. the egyptians speculated that the primeval substance was watery and dark and had no form and no boundaries. these primeval waters, known as the nu or the nun, continued to surround the world even after creation and were thought of as the ultimate source of the nile. when personified as a deity, nun could be called the father and mother of the creator, because the creator

emes, and concepts. the eight were imagined as amphibians and reptiles, fertile creatures of the dark primeval slime. they were the forces that shaped the creator or even the first manifestations of the creator. in order to become the fathers and mothers of life, they had to change or, in some accounts, to die. several temples claimed to be the burial place of these primeval deities. amun and his female counterpart amunet were often regarded as part of the eight and personified hidden power. when amun became a national god, a new theology made amun the invisible, unknowable force that began the movement toward independent life. in some accounts the eight join together to be fertilized by the seed of the serpent amun kem-atef, the first primeval god who gave birth to the primeval gods. 2 th

rious theological centers, a number of deities could be identified with the creator who emerged from the primeval waters. these creator deities include the gods atum, ra (often combined as ra- atum, shu, ptah, khnum, and amun-ra and the goddesses neith, hathor, and isis. important stages in the creation process were the establishment of maat, the divine order; the division of beings into male and female; and the separation of earth and sky. the egyptian cosmos consisted of a divine realm in the upper sky; the earth, with egypt its center; and the duat (or dat, the underworld that was to become the realm of the dead. the creator produced other deities and then lesser beings such as people and animals. the one who made himself into millions. in many egyptian sources the creation of life invo

HEAVEN HELL

o him in neter kher" 3 and the text begins "hail, ra! hail, tem! hail, seb! hail, nut! grant ye unto sepa that he may traverse the heavens (or sky, that he may traverse the earth, that he may traverse the waters, that he may meet his ancestors, may meet his father, may meet his mother, may meet his grown up sons and daughters, and his brethren, and his sisters, may meet his friends, both male and female, may meet those who have been as parents to him, 4 and his kinsfolk (cousins, 5 and those who have worked for him upon earth, both male and female, and may meet the concubine whom he loved and knew" p. 68 "behold, o qema-ur (i.e, great creator, make sepa to rejoin his grown up sons and daughters, and his concubines whom it is his heart's desire [to meet, and make thou sepa to rejoin his fri

se who have been as parents to him, 4 and his kinsfolk (cousins, 5 and those who have worked for him upon earth, both male and female, and may meet the concubine whom he loved and knew" p. 68 "behold, o qema-ur (i.e, great creator, make sepa to rejoin his grown up sons and daughters, and his concubines whom it is his heart's desire [to meet, and make thou sepa to rejoin his friends, both male and female, and those who have worked for him upon earth "and if it happen that his father should be turned aside, or opposed or removed, when he would appear to him, or his mother when she would reveal herself to him, when sepa wisheth to rejoin his ancestors, and his father and his mother, and his men and his women, and if it happen that there should be turned aside or opposed, or done away the reun

m from the things which the goddess. doeth, and from the actions) of nut, and from the mighty things which the two-lion 1 god doeth to every soul, and to every god. the ancestors of sepa shall make him to be delivered [rubric. may be rejoined ancestors, and father, and mother, and foster-parents, and kinsfolk, and young children, and wives, and concubines, and beloved ones (i.e, friends) male and female, and servants (i.e, slaves, and the property of every kind which belongeth to a man, to him in neter-kher (the underworld" the rubric ends with the words "rope of maat, millions of times" which indicate that the whole chapter, probably including the rubric, was to be said by the person who wished to rejoin his friends in the p. 71 [paragraph continues] underworld regularly and unceasingly f

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

e mist had disappeared and a complete change of scene had been wrought. the fires of the funeral pyre had rekindled of themselves, and stretched thereon was seen a hind (rohit)*which was none else than the prince rohita, devarata, who, pierced to the heart with the knife he haddirected against another, was burning as a sacrifice for his sin* a play upon words. rohit in sanskrit is the dame of the female of the deer, the hind, androhita means "red. it was because of his cowardice and fear of death that he was changed,according to the legend, into a hind by the gods. some little way apart from the altar, also lying stretched out, but on a bed of lotuses, peacefully sleptsunahsepha; and in the place on his breast where the knife had descended was seen to bloom a beautiful bluelotus. the pushk

lack and narrow eyes so deeply sunk in the yellow old face. it seemed to penetrateinto my brain and heart like an arrow, and set to work to dig out. therefrom every thought and feeling. yes; iboth saw and felt it, and very soon the double sensation became intolerable. to break the spell i defied him to tell me what he had found in my thoughts. calmly came the correct answer- extreme anxiety for a female relative, her husband and children, who were inhabiting a house the correctdescription of which he gave as though he knew it as well as myself. i turned a suspicious eye upon myfriend, the bonze, to whose indiscretions, i thought, i was indebted for the quick reply. rememberinghowever that tamoora could know nothing of the appearance of my sister's house, that the japanese areproverbially t

are walls and destitute of furniture. the floor was carpeted with athick layer of dust, and cobwebs festooned the walls in neglected confusion. in the corner we saw somethingthat i at first mistook for a bundle of old rags; but the heap presently moved and got on its legs, advanced tothe middle of the room and stood before us, the most extraordinary looking creature that i ever beheld. its sexwas female, but whether she was a woman or child it was impossible to decide. she was a hideous-lookingdwarf, with an enormous head, the shoulders of a grenadier, with a waist in proportion; the whole supportedby two short, lean, spider-like legs that seemed unequal to the task of bearing the weight of the monstrousbody. she had a grinning countenance like the face of a satyr, and it was ornamented wi

storyjust a year ago, during the christmas holidays, a numerous society had gathered in the country house, orrather the old hereditary castle, of a wealthy landowner in finland. many were the remains in it of ourforefathers' hospitable way of living; and many the mediaeval customs preserved, founded on traditions andsuperstitions, semi-kinnish and semi-russian, the latter imported into it by its female proprietors from theshores of the neva. christmas trees were being prepared and implements for divination were being madeready. for, in that old castle there were grim worm-eaten portraits of famous ancestors and knights andladies, old deserted turrets, with bastions and gothic windows; mysterious sombre alleys, and dark andendless cellers, easily transformed into subterranean passages and

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

h and carrying her off' this has somewhat delayed my asking you to come as arranged, but the w ath r has not been propitious as yet, and we may now hope it will be warmer and more pleasant. if it would be convenient to you to come the end of next week, say friday or saturday, 27th or 28th, and stay over sunday, it would suit us best. we have miss simpson with us now, and early in july we have two female cousins coming, which would make our bed-rooms scarce, and we could not give you so good a one as you had last time. please let us know-as soon as you conveniently can that we may be ready for you. we will not talk now but reserve it till you come. 1 i have not been able to discover what brought mina- later she called her elf moina- bergson, the sister of henri bergson, the rench philosophe

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

y around him and controlling it. anyone who learns to do this cannot help but improve his life circumstances. and that's the witch's bag in a nutshell. she knows how to put the power of her secret mind to work, how to harness the wild energy around her. but not all witches do their thing the same way. some witches always begin with a romantic interlude. the charged atmosphere between a male and a female cannot be duplicated, and it does generate high-intensity energy. that's why the stories of sexual orgies involved with witchcraft got started. but that certainly is not what witchcraft is all about, even if some groups use it as an excuse for wild sexual excesses, which sometimes include sadomasochistic practices. it's too bad that these groups get so much publicity, because it leads the g

t of it: to bring an individual under control through your own emotional energies. other aspects of witchcraft you must learn about are the psychics, real and phony, the familiars, and spirits that witches supposedly rub shoulders with regularly. an eighteen-year-old black cat named othello is my familiar. a familiar is usually an animal that a witch uses to get energy. i used to have a beautiful female german shepherd and would receive energy from petting her, because she was so full of life. you're bound to feel turned-on when you're near someone who vibrates with energy. but i can't go for people using a toad as a familiar, because how can you get turned on with a toad? it just doesn't have the same warm, vibrant personality as a dog or cat. many people claim that dogs and cats can see

tamin e, which may have some effect on sexual activity. when a man is having difficulty getting a woman pregnant, doctors often advise increasing the vitamin e intake for her and the man, so there must be something vital in it. the chinese eat seahorse, and they consider this the ultimate stimulant for sexual desire and potency. as for beverages, use your imagination. you might put three drops of female blood into his coffee, or try true love tea spiked with booze. as an icebreaker, a whisky sour spiced with just a dash of cumin might do. here's a hot one: take instant coffee and heat a cup of milk for each cup of coffee; use a half spoon of instant coffee and a half spoon of chocolate- not cocoa- a teaspoon of sugar, a dash of nutmeg and a cinnamon stick. rum, if desired. there are dozens

he counterpart of the king of hearts. it would be to a man what the king of hearts is to a woman. but if you are a woman, the queen of hearts would represent your mother-in-law. it has to do with a woman who is not just a girl, so it's a womanly relationship you have, with a relative, for instance. it also has to do with passion. it can be used as a passion card, having no connection with male or female. if you want to cast a spell and put the queen of hearts in the fifth circle, that would trigger a passionate situation. the jack of hearts is a younger lover, but it also could be the one you're engaged to, or it could be just a man of forty. but as the king of hearts was a new man in your life, the jack of hearts is a man you are already involved with, and he could be any age. ten of hear

could indicate one of you is thinking about divorce. if you're not married and the king of diamonds comes in the seventh, it might mean that you are going to marry a lawyer. in the tenth it might be that you yourself will achieve tremendous recognition and dignity in the work you do. it has to do with dignity, and it has to do with reputation and longstanding situations. queen of diamonds is the female version of the king of diamonds. it also has to do with any woman who is over thirty-five. also, if you are a married man, it could indicate the "other woman" in your life. if you're a woman and the queen of diamonds falls in the seventh circle, it might indicate that your husband's having an affair. it would not be just a boyish affair, but one that had more of a permanent hold on him, a t

INFERNAL UNION

sks) by which she has been called throughout history may be traced by the owl representation of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal father of and the first in the circle of witchblood. throughout history he has

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

nt book does. if both the honest trainee and the attentive reader will find in this book all they have been searching for in vain all the years, then the book has fulfilled its purpose completely. the author. part i theory picture of the magician: the first tarot card interpretation of the symbolism below you will find the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms expressed in a symbolic manner. the female on the left side and the male on the right side are the plus (positive) and the minus (negative) in every human being. in their middle is seen a hermaphrodite, a creature personifying the male and female combined in one as the sign of concinnity between the male and female principle the electrical and magnetical fluids are shown in red and blue colors, electrical fluid being red, magnetical

on the right side are the plus (positive) and the minus (negative) in every human being. in their middle is seen a hermaphrodite, a creature personifying the male and female combined in one as the sign of concinnity between the male and female principle the electrical and magnetical fluids are shown in red and blue colors, electrical fluid being red, magnetical fluid blue. the head region of the female is electrical, therefore red, the region of the genitals is magnetical, consequently blue. as for the male, it happens to be in inverted order. above the hermaphrodite there is a globe as a sign of the earth sphere, above which the magician is illustrated with the four elements. above the male, there are the active elements, that of the fire in red and the air element in blue color. above t

ale is electrical, therefore red, the region of the genitals is magnetical, consequently blue. as for the male, it happens to be in inverted order. above the hermaphrodite there is a globe as a sign of the earth sphere, above which the magician is illustrated with the four elements. above the male, there are the active elements, that of the fire in red and the air element in blue color. above the female there are the passive elements, the water element in green and the element of the earth in yellow color. the middle along the magician up to the globe is dark purple, representing the sign of the akasa principle above the magician s head, with an invisible ribbon for a crown, there is a gold-edged silvery white lotus flower as a sign of the divinity. in the inside there is the ruby red phil

al, right side electrical, left side also, the inside neutral. the fingers of the left hand: fore- and back part neutral, right side electrical, left side as well, the inside neutral. the feet: fore- and back part neutral, right side magnetical, left side electrical, the inside neutral. the male genitals: forepart electrical, back part neutral, right and left side also, the inside magnetical. the female genitals: forepart magnetical, back part, right and left side neutral, the inside electrical. the last vertebra& anus: fore and back part neutral, right and left side as well, the inside magnetical. with the help of this occult anatomy and the key of the tetrapolar magnet, the adept may compile further analogies if wanted. the alchemist will recognize that the human body represents a genuin

d that through washing the power will pass into your body and the desire will be realized. he who has time to spare can combine both exercises by stripping off all evil in one water (say under the tap or in a separate basin, and then washing himself in another basin with the water impregnated with his desire. in this case, namely the first exercise, you have to use soap when washing off the evil. female adepts have a third opportunity besides the two forementioned possibilities: they will concentrate their magnetism on the fact that the water makes the face and skin look much younger, more elastic and thus more attractive. it is therefore advisable not only to wash the face, but to dip the whole face into the water for some seconds. this procedure is to be repeated at least seven times in

ISIS UNVEILED

t- digitizecoy google the fhysico-f5ychol0g1cal american type 19 ot men from tarioua climates and of different constitutions and habits, have, since 1492, invaded north america, and by intermarrying have substantiauy changed the physical type of the inhabitants. in what country in the world do the women's constitutions bear comparison with the delicate, nervous, and sensitive constitutions of the female portion of the population of the united states? we were struck on our arrival in the country with the semi-transparent delicacy of skin^ the natives of both sexes. compare a hard-working irish factory girl or boy with one from a genuine american family. look at their hands. one works as bard aa the other; they are of equal age, and both seemingly healthy; and yet, while the bands of the one

meval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which the father created the heavens is the son, or the kabalistic androgynous adam kadmon. the son is at once the male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the binah or reason, the second intelli- gence the holy ghost of the christians. therefore strictly speaking there is a tetraktts or quaternary, consisting of the unintelligible first monad and its triple emanation, which properly constitutes our trinity. how then avoid perceiving at once that had not the christians p

f bread and at this 'superstition' to the old myit rief> which had been for nge spread su over the globe. the bncient variago-irinat had his mysteries in the north as well as in the south of riusis; and there are many relics of the by-gone /aith scsttered in the lands watered by tlie sacred diun>er, the biiptisnial jordan of all russia. no znadtar (the icdowing one) ot koldottn (sorcerer, male or female, can die in fact before be baa passed the mysterious word to soipe one. the popular behej is that unless he does that he will linger and suffer for weeks and mouths, and were he even finally to get hberated. it would be only to wander on earth, unable to quit its r^on unless he fim^ a luccesoor even after death. how far the belief may be verified by others we do not know, but we have seen a

rongly suggestive of devil-worship" as des mousseaux tells us. we can scarcely be assured that the morality of the pagans would be in the least improved were they allowed a free inquiry into the life of, say, the psalmist-king, the author of those sweet psalms which are so rapturously repeated by christians. the difference between david performing a phallic dance before the holy ark emblem of the female principle and a hindfl vishnavite bearing the same emblem on his forehead, favors the former only in the eyes of those who have studied neither the ancient faith nor their own. when a rehgion which compelled david to cut off and deliver two hundred fore- skins of his enemies before he could become the king's son-in-law(.1 sam, 155. cbm. ccjemmi: the mgfholon of uu bindat. p. 331. digitizeco

ses its light. than this, nothing could more completely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'heavenly peace-makn* etc" such pictures are not purely astronomical. they represent the mole god and the female goddess, as the sun and moon in conjunction "the union of the triad with the unit" the horns of the cow on the head of isis have the same significance. and so above, below, outside, and inside the cbristiaii church, in the priestly ganneots. and the religious rites, we recognise the stamp of exoteric heathenism. on no subject within the wide range of human knowledge has the world been more

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

techniques sitting in the middle of some chaotic scene like peak hour traffic. again this is focus training as it s easy to be a yogi and meditate in the stillness of nature however many live in busy cities where experiencing a constant state of inner peace can at times be a challenge. maintaining mastery in all situations in life is also basic training for the modern day yogi* while in india the female yogi is known as a yogini, throughout this text i choose not to discriminate as to me a yogi is neither male nor female. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 46 smiling 2. the inner smile taoist master practice: this technique prepares our organs and biosystem to get, and stay connected, to the theta. delta field by tuning each organ to the nourishing fre

e. represents freshness, renewal and hope and the feminine being in all her glory. her realm is relationship and feeling and mature love. the goddess of both spiritual and passionate love. athena. the virgin goddess of war and wisdom and limitlessness, she encourages warriors to gentleness, the patron of useful and elegant arts. artemis. mistress of animals and all wild untamed things, symbolizes female independence, healing goddess, values solitude. demeter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. other goddesses who have made an impact through time are. kwan yin. chinese goddess of infinite mercy and compassion. said t0 be born from buddha s tears for the suffering of the world. protects women an

e, death, regeneration. represents our fearless self and can lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look behind the masks in life and beyond appearance. eve. mother and nurturer of all life, creator of the world and all living beings. represents rebirth and regeneration, embodies primal female creative energy. gaia. the eternal pre-historic earth mother goddess of the soul who clothes us with the atoms of her essence. reminds us to be grounded in the reality of nature and to balance and embrace all aspects of our selves from the heavenly to the earthly. sedna. eskimo goddess who rules the underworld. reminds us of the nourishing gifts that we can find in the darker places that we

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

duced out of the secret chemical laboratories of nature by some adepts. the famous chemist, robert boyle, mentions a preparation in his works, of which dr. le fevre gave him an account in the presence of a famous physician and of another learned man. an intimate friend of the physician, as boyle relates, had given, out of curiosity, a small quantity of this medicated wine or preparation to an old female domestic; and this, being agreeable to the taste, had been partaken of for ten or twelve days by the woman, who was near seventy years of age, but whom the doctor did not inform what the liquor was, nor what advantage he was expecting that it might effect. a great change did indeed occur with this old woman; for she acquired much greater activity, a sort of youthful bloom came to her counte

ere different from those that usually prevail. they felt that neither monarchs nor the wealth of monarchs could endow or aggrandjse those who already esteemed themselves the superiors of all men; and therefore, though declining riches, they were voluntary in the renunciation of them. they held to chastity, because, entertaining some very peculiar notions about the real position in creation of the female sex, the enlightened or illuminated brothers held the monastic or celibate state to be infinitely that more consonant with the intentions of providence, since in everything possible to man s frail nature they sought to trample on the pollutions and the great degradation of this his state in flesh. they trusted the great lines of nature, not in the whole, but in 22 the rosicrucians. part, as

l confidently commit to the penetration of those among our readers who can felicitously privately surmise it; and also the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of the sea. blue is expressive of the hellenic, isidian, ionian, fonian (foni-indian) watery, female, and moonlike principle in the universal theogony. it runs through all the mythologies. the lady-bird, or lady-cow (there is no resemblance between a bird and a cow, it may be remarked en passant, except in this strangely occult, almost ridiculous, affinity, and the rustic rhyme among the children concerning it, may be here remembered: lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home! your house is on f

tis revelatnm; seu, fratres militia templi, qua gnostid et quidem ophiani, apostasi, idololatri, et quidem impuritatis convicti per ipsa eorum monumenta, published in the mines de l orient, vol. vi. this treatise is illustrated with numerous admirably executed copperplates of magical statuettes, architectural ornaments, mystical inscriptions, vases, and coins. amidst these there is a bearded, yet female, figure, mete (magna, or maxima) whom von hammer, following theodosius and others, makes the same as the sophia of the ophites. some particulars referring to these subjects are contained 52 the rosicrucians. in the gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval; although there is an evident betraying total ignorance on the part of the author, throughout his book, as to the purpose, meani

; act i. sc. i. we.commend the above history of the fleur-de-lis to the thoughtful attention of our reader, because he will find under it the whole explanation of the arms of france. and yet, although the above is all-essentially feminine, this is the country that imported amidst its frankish or saxon progenitors (clodio, the long-haired, to the example, who first passed the rhine and brought his female ultramarine to supersede and replace, in blazon, the martial, manly carmine or gules of the gauls) this is the country that adopted and maintains la loi salique. sign of the planet venus. chapter the eighth. sacred fire. he appearance of god to mortals seems always to have been in brightness and great glory, whether he was angry and in displeasure, or benign and kind. these appearances are

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

d marduk h. other rows have to be interpreted analogously. venus venus, or i.tar, sister of the sun, is the only woman among the planets. as the brightest planet it has a special place; often moon, sun, and venus are treated as a triad. the two appearances of venus though acknowledged as the same planet were attributed to two different manifestations of the same god: as the morning star venus was female, as the evening star. male, and the two aspects corresponded to the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification o

KETAB E SIYAH

e sat in a glade beside the river, so she has told, some strange being of princely beauty of an image both similar and foreign to our own. gigantic in apparence was this earthly king, yet not terrible as you and your brothers seem, but rather gentle and most fair, inspiring in our hearts only love for such splendour and such grace. this spirit was both like us and much different: neither male nor female in formation but possessing both these attributes, miraculous androgyne, with the wide hips and rounded breasts of woman yet also man's member betwixt the thighs; and also was the flesh of this monster alien to us, coloured of the purest white whereas ours, as is most apparent to your sight, is tawny brown as is the soil of the earth; and the hair that cascaded as some shining cataract upon

y ashes of the trees, scattered across the dark-scarred earth, many motes of light like burning stars and his angel-sight did know them as the germs of those trees that he had been sent to scorch to dust. even as he watched two creatures, unknown to his own lore, descended from the field of stars, a canopy above him. they appeared to him as winged bears with the hands of men, one of each sex. the female of this pair did set foot upon the yet scorching embers of the flame and gathered to herself the grains of knowledge then, holding all within her hands, flew to the east to distant india, to plant anew the tree of knowledge that sakyamuni might sit beneath the boughs, guided there by the serpent that once before guided to the tree the then-ancient mother of the race of men, and there conten

and the cruel day sky burnt from him his wits that all the while he worked he addressed commands and exhortations to slaves that lived but within his mind. thus was built the ship of noah. when its dark form was finished, casting a great shadow on the sands as the day died bloody in the west came michael to noah from the south and behind him was some great number of beasts of each kind a male and female, lions, serpents, birds and deer, and unnumbered others that went on the earth and from the wind drew breath. so came michael once more to noah to fulfil his black scheme and thwart that scheme of mine which was born of his own treachery and malice 269 that had not dwindled but grown darker yet "hail noah, son of lamech" spoke the prince of heaven "this number of beasts have i brought to yo

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

by a god who holds his right hand over the cage of a hawk, and his left over the food of eternity. on each side of the god is a cornice crowned by a row of alternate feathers and uraei symbolizing justice and firey power. the door leaf which completes the right hand of a stall is called "posessor of truth controlling the feet" while that on the left is "possessor of strength, binding the male and female animals" the 42 judges of the dead are represented as seated in a long row, and each of them has to be named, and the sin over which he presided has been denied. this chapter describes the introduction of the initiate into the hall of truth by anubis, who, having questioned the aspirant, receives from him an account of his initiation, and is satisfied by his right to enter. he states that h

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

elements. they operate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolized and attributed: kerub of air man aquarius kerub of fire lion leo kerub of earth bull taurus kerub of water eagle scorpio tetragrammaton means 'four-lettered name' and refers to the unpronounceable name of god symbolized by 'jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offering for the sacrifice of animals symbolizes the qlippoth, or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and below the material universe. it points out that our passions should be sacrificed. the qlippoth are the evil demons of matter and the shells of the dead. the altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold. ours

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

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

nts he describes, two primates were separated from each other by a transparent partition that allowed them to see one another. each of them was given food at different times, and the monkeys tried to hand over the food across the seethrough partition. observations revealed that the monkeys tended to increase their alertness and care for another when one of them was hurt or handicapped. a crippled female monkey managed to survive for two decades in a rough climate, and even raise five offspring, thanks to the assistance given to her by the other monkeys. another female monkey, mentally and physically retarded, survived with the support of her older sister, who dragged her on her back for a very long time and protected her. a female monkey that had lost her sight was granted special guard by

ism is life s law 57 other animals act very similarly. dolphins support their wounded companions and keep them close to the water level to keep them from drowning. elephants have joined to help one of their own that was dying on the sand. they tried their hardest to pick him up by pushing their trunks and their tusks under his body. some even broke their tusks in the process. lastly, friends of a female elephant that had been hit by a poacher s bullet to her lungs, bent under her to prevent her from falling. a communal society among animals the animal world presents some spectacular examples of communal societies where each element works to benefit the whole. such societies include ants, mammals, and birds. biologists avishag and amotz zahavi researched the communal life of the arabian bab

eak in alarm to warn their group members, even at the risk of exposing themselves 58 from chaos to harmony to danger. they also risk themselves to save a member that s been captured by a predator. interdependency scientific research has found numerous examples of interdependency. one such example is the yucca plant, which has a symbiotic (interdependent) relationship with the yucca butterfly. the female butterfly helps fertilize the flower by transmitting powder from the stamens of one flower and placing them precisely on the style of another flower. subsequently, the female butterfly lays her eggs in the place where the flower seeds will develop. when the larva hatch, they feed off the growing buds of the yucca plant. however, they leave enough buds on the plant to allow the continuation

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gree? t h e s t u d y o f k a b b a l a h 95 a: yes, any woman can, and no less than a man, provided she has the desire from above and the devotion from below, the exact same requirements as for men. q: is it the will of the creator that women will study kabbalah? a: every soul should reach its destiny. all souls should reach equivalence of form with the creator and become a part of him, male and female souls alike. m e n a n d wo m e n q: is there a difference in the study of kabbalah between men and women? a: no. man or woman, it doesn t matter. women must also develop spiritually. the only difference lies in the method. the beginning of the learning process is the same. that is why in our introductory courses there is no difference between the method provided for men and for women. late

ds on the effort you ll make. ultimately you will attain the degree of moses, who received the torah on mt. sinai, but when that time comes, in this life or in ten or a hundred lives from now, depends on the quantity and, even more so, on the quality of your efforts. t h e g e n d e r o f t h e s o u l q: does the soul have a gender, like the body? a: the soul does have a specific gender: male or female. that attribute extends from the root of creation, from the very beginning. zeir anpin (male) and malchut (female) of the world of atzilut are the prototypes of the genders in our world, and there are no greater opposites than these. throughout the system of creation, built from up downward, there is a division, a separation into a feminine part and masculine part. the lower the degree of c

ritual attributes change according to our correction. thus, a woman may experience masculine spiritual situations, but on the outside, her body, which is the dressing, the clothing of this world, will remain a woman. in the spiritual world, however, the soul experiences corrections both in its feminine part and in its masculine part. in our world, the body is fixed and retains its gender- male or female. s o u l s o f l e a d e r s o f t h e wo r l d q: do evil leaders and dictators in our world have no spiritual souls, since they were destined to punish mankind? a: all souls are a part of the soul of the first man. the soul is a part of the creator from above because it is filled with the light of the creator, depending on the extent of its correction. we cannot see what actually happens

is not considered a sinner, but simply detaches from consciousness, from correction. but the act of ejaculation without a screen is a sin. you might say that the intoxication in and of itself is not a sin, but the sin is the deviation from the purpose of creation caused by the intoxication. through the correspondence between root and branch, ejaculating semen instead of mating with the corrected female and multiplying is an act that goes directly against correction, and the intoxication goes only indirectly against correction. i would also add that spiritual ejaculation is a sin regarding both the first and second restrictions. e n d o f t h e wo r l d q: what is the end of the world in kabbalah? a: the end of the world refers to the end of the situation we are currently in, which is the

opment of our world comes from that spiritual gene in us. humanity should come to a situation of complete fragmentation, after which a process of correction will begin. if we want to picture the future family, it is possible only to the extent that a man, with his spiritual masculine gene, and a woman, with her feminine spiritual gene, bond in so well that they will be connected like the male and female in spirituality. those who have learned the wisdom of kabbalah know that there is a partzuf called zon, which is zeir anpin and nukva, the ideal image of man and woman in our world, the spiritual masculine and feminine origin. the same bond should exist between biological men and women. otherwise, there will be no connection at all. that is the situation our world is headed for. therefore

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

g is what they do in their two or three free hours a day, the ones in which they are not committed to family or work. those are the hours that they must examine themselves to see if they spend them in front of the television, in a restaurant, or laboring to attain a spiritual goal. the difference between men and women in our world is a consequence of the relationship between the male part and the female part of the soul. as a result, men and women have different outlooks on life, different obligations and different objectives. the male and female parts of every partzuf in the spiritual world complement one another: the female part contributes its desires and the male part contributes its screens. in the end, it is their combination that pa r t t wo: p h a s e s o f s p i r i t ua l e v o l

feminine parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example, in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how should men and women behave in this world? each should behave according to the possibilities that he/she has been given within a specific sex. although we are egoistic and seek nothing but personal profit, we must be grateful to the creator for having allowed us to see ourselves as we really are, as unpleasant as it ma

n) and correct us to want to emulate the creator in everything we do, meaning to bestow. that is the uniqueness of the kabbalah, and that is its importance. the study awakens the surrounding light that corrects man. pa r t t h r e e: t h e s t ru c t u r e o f t h e u p p e r wo r l d s 171 c h a p t e r 3. 7 e x pa n s i o n a n d w i t h d r awa l o f l i g h t once malchut (who is considered a female partzuf) decides to receive some of the direct light into her toch, she stops receiving. malchut always calculates in the rosh (head) what is the maximum amount of light she can receive in order to bestow. she always receives only a small part of the direct light, as receiving in order to benefit the creator is against her nature. as previously mentioned, the part of direct light that remai

is a vessel? a: a vessel is a desire that has been corrected by the screen. using the screen (aim, the vessel is able to receive in order to benefit the creator, and thus fulfill the desire for pleasure. a desire without a screen is still not considered a vessel, but is called a reshimo or a shell. m a l e& f e m a l e q: why is the light of wisdom assigned a male gender and the light of mercy a female, motherly gender? a: the light of wisdom is the root of the male properties and the light of bina is the root of the female properties. men and women differ in properties, skin texture, physiology, etc. you can even see the differences in their handwriting. what separates the two genders are the t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 252 (hebrew) letters yod) for male and hey) for female. the let

, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do not exist in the spiritual world. we must understand that relationship between the male and female parts of zon of the world of atzilut determines everything that happens in our world. there is no other way to easily explain the variety of possibilities for the relationship between these two parts, how they connect and how they clothe one another, how they mate and how they create new souls. it is a very complex system. nearly 1600 of the 2000 pages of the study of the ten sefirot are de

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

it was also emblematic of the androgynous nature of the deity; it typified god as father-mother. on the installed 775. figure 15 776. 777. master fs apron we find three taus in separation; in the holy royal arch we see them conjoined, for here the teaching given is the unity to be found in this entire threefold universe, conveying also the meaning that each person in this trinity has its male and female aspect- precisely the same idea which is expressed in the hindu religion by the statement that each person has his shakti, commonly described as his consort. thus the three-in-one becomes six-in-one, and, with the surrounding circle which indicates the unmanifested totality, we have the mystic seven. 778. the triple tau is also called in royal arch masonry the key. it contains eight right a

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

vinity. the doves on the gold chalice from mycenae and of nestor s cup repeat the same idea. 245. but it was not only the cult object itself that could be thus sanctified by the descending emblem of spiritual indwelling. in the case of the gold plates from the third shaft grave at mycenae the doves are seen not only perched on the shrine but on the head and fluttering from the shoulders of a nude female personage (plate iii, 2, following p. 50. so too the central clay image from the late shrine of the double axes at knossos shows the dove settled on her head. in these cases we have either images of the dove goddess herself, reinforced by what may have been her older zoomorphic form, or of a priestess deified by the descent of the dove-spirit. 246. the extent to which primitive minoan relig

side of the cross on the altar ledge the figures wear aprons, which were clearly of a ritual character, for they are not to be met with in ordinary cretan dress (see plate v, 3, following p. 50. the apron was evidently double, extending both in front and at the back, and differed in details in the case of the goddess and her priestess. it is possible, and in some respects even probable, that both female figures found on the altar are worshippers of the cross and the triple snake, in which case the different character of the two aprons may well denote a difference in the rank or degree of the wearers. evans expresses his opinion that the double aprons are of a ritual character(*op. cit, p. 503) 256. various symbols 257. there were also some lesser religious symbols and objects which are of

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

hand gestures have long been used to ward off the evil eye. two of the best known gestures are mano cornuta, making horns, in which the index and little finger are extended with the other two fingers and the thumb are folded into the palm; and the mano in fica or the fig, in which the hand is in a fist with the thumb protruding between the first and second fingers. the latter is a synonym for the female genitals. rock-crystal amulets set in gold of a hand in the sign of the fig were made in southern germany circa 1680. amulets may be made of hands in these configurations and are still made and sold today. in many regions a red coral amulet depicting the sign of the fig is popular even today on watch-chains and necklaces. knots are another symbol traditionally believed to dispel the evil ey

rs to be damned, who are saved. consequently sorrow must be said to exist in them, and especially because it is of the very notion of punishment that it be repugnant to the will.moreover, they are deprived of happiness, which they desire naturally. while condemned to hell, thomas asserted that demons would float in the air until the day of judgment in the form of incubi (male demons) and succubi (female demons. like other medieval thinkers, aquinas believed that demons could seduce human beings, particularly in the dream state. he further speculated that should a succubi conceive after having intercourse with a man, the result would be a giant, like the nephilim mentioned in genesis 6:4. aquinas also perceived dark forces at work behind many cases of dream divination. he distinguished betw

and the triumphs of mortal men and women. blake s entire scheme is based upon a view that has its roots in plato and that extends to a philosophical tradition pointing to a spiritual reality in which forces higher than ourselves are constantly at work. blake insisted that eternity was complete harmony, and that therefore angels and spirits were androgynous,with no separate principles of male and female, but only the one of humanity. blake often used infernal imagery to represent aspects of the human being such as sensuality that he placed a positive valuation on but that the christian tradition labeled evil. this tendency to invert traditional imagery, which was also utilized by other romantic writers, was one of the touchstones of later satanists such as anton lavey. see also lavey, anto

nd gods, and as such are subject to the cycle of reincarnation. the buddhist archfiend is mara, who in vain tempted gautama shortly before his enlightenment. evil forces are encountered in the burmese buddhist figures of the nats and other ghosts who inflict pain on humans. in mahayana buddhism demons are alternatively good or evil in their efforts to keep their devotees in the faith. a number of female demonic figures have also been developed that explain children s sicknesses or death. in medieval central and eastern europe the lamias, mythic figures of greek and roman origin, were believed to kill all children by drinking their blood; the hindu churalin (who embodies the women who died because of childbirth, and in islam ghul, are female demons who lie in wait and practice cannibalism

dead (seeds of pomegranate, symbol of fertility and blood, and thus bound her to the realm of the dead. the final agreement was that, for half of the year, persephone was the ruling queen of hades, and for the other half, she was with her mother demeter. although this myth was originally interpreted as explaining the vegetation cycle, various elements indicate the characteristics of a process of female initiation: her descent to the underworld that ended with her marriage to hades (she became queen of hades) could symbolize her death as virgin and the achievement of a new status from daughter to wife. in the christian tradition, the underworld is a place of damnation for sinners. in early apocryphal literature, christ was described as descending into hell to rescue the damned and to demon

LIBER 777

navel) sakkya-ditti 9 hati linga sharira muladhara (lingam and anus) kama 1010 kheibt, khat, tet, sahu sthula sharira avigga cxx. magical images of the sephiroth. cxxi* the grades of the order. cxxii. the ten plagues of egypt. 0. 08=0. 1 ancient bearded king seen in profile 10 =18 ipsissimus death of first-born 2 almost any male image shows some aspect of chokmah. 9 =28 magus locusts 3 almost any female image shows some aspect of binah 8 =38 magister templi 3rd order darkness 4 a mighty crowned and enthroned king 7 =48 adeptus exemptus hail and fire 5 a mighty warrior in his chariot, armed and crowned 6 =58 adeptus major boils 6 a majestic king, a child, a crucified god 5 =68 adeptus minor 2nd order murrain 7 a beautiful naked woman 4 =78 philosophus flies 8 an hermaphrodite 3 =88 practicu

, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with

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y stable, and resisteth change; but things like increase mutually the potential of their particular natures. howbeit, each path hath his own use; and thou, being instructed in all ways, choose thine with discretion. i liber aleph vel cxi 176 #s de sua initiatione (of his initiation) y son, my delight, honey of the comb of my life, i will say also this concerning the odds of the formul of male and female, that mine initiation was ordered as followeth. first, unto the middle of the way, the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, were these men appointed to mine aid, jerome politt of kendal, cecil jones of basingstoke, allan bennett of the border, and oscar eckenstein of the mountain, with no woman. but after that attainment hath word come to me only through

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and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, adore your creator [sprinkle water before earth tablet] in the t

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cribed by yorke] 2 [another one of crowley.s pseudonyms. the quotation is from the scented garden of abdullah the satirist (bagh-i-muattar, cap. xix] john st. john 65 just as the body shudders when the soul gives up to allah in its quick career itself. it is the tiniest, most intimate trembling, not unlike that of kumbhakha or .vindu-siddhi [see the .iva sam.hita. ed] properly performed; but of a female quality. i feel as if i were being shaken; in the other cases i recognize my own ardour as the cause. it is very gentle and sweet. so now i may turn back to wait for him. 3.50. the voice of the n.d.i has changed to a music faint yet very full and very sweet, with a bell-like tone more insistent than the other notes at intervals. 5.45. again awake, and patient-eager. the dreams flow through

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h is totally unbefitting the dark lord. these fools are far from a true understanding of the master. 25. i was not born, and never was i created. i have no father, no mother, and no offspring; i am purity. comment: those who claim the master has a body are foolishly anthropomorphizing a being who transcends the limitations which we as humans are bound by. satan is a being of purity, not born of a female and not siring any offspring. 26. cursed be those who claim i was created by a god; i am the essence. comment: those who seek to understand the god of this earth as a being created by an omnipotent creator god are doubly deluded. firstly, their creator is nonexistent, and secondly, the dark lord operates in a metacausal way. the lord satan transcends our own limited understanding of the uni

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

ng the two techniques. cloy a bathroom with foul smelling incense. bring in a strobe and stereo for white noise and light and then submerge yourself in the tub, and follow the earlier procedure. excitatory forms of gnosis sex simple orgasm is not enough to reach a state of altered consciousness. the neophyte should instead practice techniques of karezza if male and multiple orgasmic overload if a female. in addition, sexual states of gnosis are generated through severe acts of sexual blasphemy by violating taboos. these taboos are entirely based upon your natural sexual preference, and each individual should come up with a list of gnasty h things that he or she wouldn ft do. these are usually perfect actions to trigger whole-body orgasms that should push you into a state of altered conscio

LIBER LVII

n of numbers in their abstract sense, so in the qabalah we reason of the deity by the abstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every 11 [in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article. t.s] 12 [yeah, right. pythagoras: fl. 6th century b.c.e. estimated date of earliest known qabalistic texts (ignoring mythology: 4th or 5th century c.e. who derived from whom, mr. mat

on the qabalah 11 reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26 .and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now

w, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rwr tja, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chayyim .one is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. now, we find that before the deity conformed himself thus.i.e, as male and female.that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or, in the words of genesis (i, 2 .the earth was formless and void. these prior worlds are considered to be symbolized by the .kings that reigned in the land of edom, before there reigned a king over the children of israel.,13 and they are therefore spoken of in the qabalah as the .edomite kings. this will be found fully explained in variou

a thing we none of us knew. to help our deduction about redemption, too, we find hdj, to brighten or make glad. we also work in another way. i is the straight line or central pillar of the temple of life; also it stands for unity, and for the generative force. a is the pentagram, which means the will of man working redemption. o is the circle from which everything came, also nothingness, and the female, who 30 [published as sepher sephiroth in equinox i (8] 20 liber lviii absorbs the male. the progress of the name shows then the way from life to nirvana by means of the will: and is a hieroglyph of the great work. look at all our meanings! every one of them shows that the name, if it has any power at all, and that we must try, has the power to redeem us from the love of life which is the c

1. al .not; and la .god. in this part i(.nature as it is) the number is rather forbidding. for al is the god-name of chesed, mercy; and so the number seems to deny that name. 32. number of sephiroth and paths, 10+ 22. hence is completion of perfection. finality; things as they are in their totality. hwhyha, the combined hyha and hwhy, macroprosopus and microprosopus, is here. if we supposed the 3 female letters h to conceal the 3 mothers a, m, c, we obtain the number 358, messiach, q.v. note 32= 25, the divine will 41 [in the apocalpyse of john. t.s] on the qabalah 33 extended through motion. 64= 26, will be the perfect number of matter, for it is 8, the first cube, squared. so we find it a mercurial number, as if the solidity of matter was in truth eternal change. 35. alga, a name of god=

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

poken by the holy pythagoras .god geometrises. let us behold the work of his fingers! one father incomprehensible one son incomprehensible 1. 2. 3. a m c one mother incomprehensible. fig. i..the trinity unmanifest* for it is written (genesis 1: 27:\da arb jbqnw rkz wta arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]

angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is also the number of ynda hyhw, wherefore by gematria .tetragrammaton our lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of ma (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+4+5= 10.the perfection of the sephiroth. a note on genesis 7 one father eternal. one son eternal. 4. 1. 2. 3. one mother eternal. fig. ii..the trinity in manifestation in both of these symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying idea of the number 0: the infinite: para-brahman: the ain soph. in

LIBER SAMEKH

the earth and the heavens. 3. thee, that didst create the night and the day, 4. thee, that didst create the darkness and the light. 5. thou art asar un-nefer1( gmyself made perfect h; whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. thou art ia-besz2( gthe truth in matter h. 7. thou art ia-apophrasz3( gthe truth in motion h. 8. thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. 9. thou didst make the female and the male. 10. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. 11. thou didst form men to love one another and to hate one another. section aa. 1. i am ankh-f-n-khonsu4 thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem.5 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah-apophrasz-ra

h in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. the impossibility of defining it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason. point i 7 ioel g hail, thou that art! h kotha g thou hollow one! h athor-e-bal-o g thou goddess of beauty and love, whom satan, beholding, desireth! h abraft g the fathers, male-female, desire thee! h (the conception is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. sectio

eption is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section f. spirit. hear me. aft gmale-female spirits! h abaft gmale-female sires! h bas-aumgn gye that are gods, going forth, uttering aumgn h isak gidentical point! h sa-ba-ft gnuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! h iaf9 g hail, great wild beast! hail, i a o! h* sacred to ahathoor. the idea is that of the female conceived as invulnerable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity, etc. the word that goeth from (a) free breath (u) through wil

d by the creation of the compound letter mgn to replace m: that is, silence is realized as passing into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of glove h under gwill h as shewn by mgn= 40+ 3+ 50= 93= agaph= qelhma, etc; and the whole word has the value of 100, perfection perfected, the unity in completion, and equivalent to kf [sic, s.b [k. kf= 520, the conjunction of the essential male and female principles [vide supra, point i, section f, note; also book 4, part iii, ch. vii. v] the gnormal h intellect is incapable of these functions; a superior faculty must have been developed. as zoroaster says: gextend the void mind of thy soul to that intelligible, that thou mayst learn the intelligible, because it subsistith beyond mind. thou wilt not understand it as when understanding some c

LIBER V VEL REGULI

mode of naught, and its nature cannot encroach on the perfections of not-being, la, or of being, al. it must be purely nothing-motion as they are purely nothing-matter, so as to create a matter-in-motion which is a function of .something. thus sht is motion in its double phase, an inertia compose of two opposite current, and each current is also thus polarized. sh is heaven and earth, t male and female; sht is spirit and matter; one is the word of liberty and love flashing its light to restore life to earth, the other is the act by which life claims that love is light and liberty. and these are two-in-one, the divine letter of silence-in-speech whose symbol is the sun in the arms of the moon.11 but sh and t are alike formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states o

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

anza. but besides this, he used a narrative frame to retell some of the more important myths that underlie skaldic kennings. according to this frame, a man named agir or hler from hlesey( ghler fs island, h modern lasso off the danish coast, a master of magic, goes to asgard, where the asir receive him well but with visual delusions. the hall is illuminated by swords alone. twelve male and twelve female asir are there. agir sits next to bragi, who tells agir many stories of events in which the asir have participated. the first of these is the full story of the alienation and recovery of idun and her apples, the death of thjazi, and the compensation granted to skadi. when bragi has finished, he and agir have a short conversation about a few kennings, and then agir asks bragi the origin of p

ese are quite relevant to the subject. for example, sorla thattr tells how freyja acquired the brisinga men, a torque or necklace, by sleeping with dwarfs in order to outwit a cunning loki who is odin fs liege man. whereas sorla thattr seems like a mythic-heroic saga, thidranda thattr ok thorhalls shares the setting of the sagas of icelanders and presents some of the evidence regarding the disir, female spirits. not all the important source material is from iceland or even in the vernacular. an extremely important source is gesta danorum, a danish history written by the priest saxo grammaticus (that is, gthe grammarian h. little is known about saxo, other than that he came from a family of warriors, probably in jutland, and that he was a member of the household of absalon, who was archbish

ht also be regarded as a form of sacrifice, a subject to which i will return shortly. other aspects of the worship of nerthus find striking agreement with texts recorded much later that are associated specifically with the vanir. freyja fs cart is pulled by cats, and according to ogmundar thattr dytts, admittedly a late text (an idol of) frey is pulled about in a cart accompanied by an attendant, female in this case. frodi, who shares many characteristics with frey, was also pulled in a cart, and a time of great peace and prosperity was associated with both frey and frodi. although there does not seem to have been a separate priestly class, the introduction 33 term go.i, as suggested above, implies a religious function for the leaders of icelandic society before the conversion to christian

berserks as elite troops, and the medieval icelandic law code, gragas, has a provision against going berserk. elsewhere in medieval icelandic literature, however, berserks are mostly stereotypical figures who threaten but are easily overcome by heroes, sometimes after challenging for the hand of a woman. although there may be a parallel here with the lusting of the giants for freyja and the other female asir, the only direct connection between berserks and the mythology is the passage from snorri. if, however, there indeed was a cult of warriors in animal disguise, it would almost certainly have centered around odin. references and further reading: d. j. beard, gthe berserkr in icelandic literature, h in approaches to oral literature, ed. tobin thelwall (ulster: new university of ulster, 1

hole moon story from other sources has led many observers to the conclusion that they lack mythic significance, or even that snorri invented them, but anne holtsmark advanced a plausible argument to the effect that snorri had a now lost verse source, probably a learned riddle in which bil and hjuki represented the waning and waxing moon. holtsmark thinks it possible that bil was one of the disir (female spirits. see also mani; sol; vidfinn references and further reading: anne holtsmark, gbil og hjuke, h maal og minne, 1945: 139.154. alfred wolf, gdie germanische sippe bil: entsprechung zu mana: mit einem anhang uber den bilwis, h sprakvetenskapliga sallskapets i uppsala forhandlingar, 1928.1930: 17.156, thought that the root bil meant gsupernatural power h and referred to a concept like ma

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all of her aspects, thus she is deadly and protective at the same time. the sabbat is paralleled in morocco by the ancient meeting of spirits called the zabbat, translating the forceful or powerful one, and those who attended this occasion are called kafan, meaning the winding sheet, from which is worn by the participants and may only b

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

a symbolic form of awakening, and much of the luciferian witchcraft gnosis is based upon the self-initiatory association with cain. cain is also considered the offspring of asmodeus/samael and lilith, a child of infernal union. the lore of the sorcerous blacksmith is explained in depth in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon. leviathan considered primarily "male" and often female, leviathan encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this 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 dr

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

but in the end both sexes suffer from the separation and reunite, realizing they need each other. either way, as with all myths, this one reflects the history and culture of the mythmakers. anthropologists have also found that origin myths, like folktales and other oral and written literature, are commonly structured through binary oppositions pairings of contrasts such as good and evil, male and female, culture and nature. the account in genesis abounds with such binary oppositions earth/heaven, dark/light, night/day, land/sea, man/woman, to name a few. anthropologist claude le vi-strauss considered that binary oppositions are so common in humans oral and written expressions because the human mind itself is organized to think this way. we find these myths and stories attractive because th

population of humans: between 1,000 and 10,000 individuals. therefore, all humans on the planet are descended from one woman who was part of this relatively small east african population. interestingly (and jokingly, our common ancestress was nicknamed eve by the researchers who first discovered our african origins. but eve was not the only woman on earth at the time she had between 500 and 5,000 female companions in her population. what happened to the mtdna of all these other women? the answer is threefold (1) some of these women did not reproduce (2) others may have had boys only, or (3) their lineages stopped at a certain point in the past because their descendants failed to reproduce and hence their mtdna lineages were lost. y chromosome studies as one can well imagine, there must hav

homo sapiens 93 child receives one x chromosome from its mother and one x from its father, this child will be a girl. if, however, the father contributes a y chromosome to the child, this child will be a boy. thus, we can see that y chromosome phylogenies trace the evolutionary history of human males. in that respect, the y chromosome plays for male phylogenies the same role that mtdna plays for female phylogenies. but unlike mtdna, the y chromosome is large: it contains more than 60 million base pairs and is thus about 4,000 times bigger than mtdna. this size makes sequencing this whole chromosome impractical on a routine basis. rather, scientists sequence only portions of the y chromosome to establish male phylogenies. but which portions? fortunately again, it turns out that, aside from

afer than a plane equipped with only one. sexual reproduction is not restricted to complex animals and plants, however. even the simple photosynthetic unicellular eukaryote chlamydomonas reinhardii engages in sexual reproduction when conditions warrant it. this suggests that sexual reproduction appeared before multicellular organisms did. the cells of chlamydomonas come in two varieties: male and female. but since these cells are completely indistinguishable under the microscope, the preferred designations for the two sexes are mating-type plus and mating-type minus. when nutrients in the environment where chlamydomonas lives become depleted, the two mating types mate by fusing their cells and melding their genomes. the result is the formation of a tough structure called a zygospore, which

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

has, from its very beginnings, excluded women? in the late 17th and early 18th centuries witch's covens in england were androgynous "the english [witch] craft was ostensibly bi-gradal until the end of the seventeenth century. two rites were observed but only one actual initiation was recognized. the first rite entailed ritual copulation with a representative of the god. the magister "brought in" female recruits. the lady brought in male recruits. this is the historical basis for the claim that a candidate must be initiated by a person of the opposite sex. the magister passed the "power" to women. the lady passed it to men. this sexual induction at the entrance rite was mandatory."10 it seems to me entirely reasonable to think that masons, seeking to rebut accusations of witchcraft, had ex

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

vior of his people. the secret processes whereby he was resurrected symbolized those cultures by means of which man is able to overcome his lower nature, master his appetites, and give expression to the higher side of himself. the mysteries were organized for the purpose of assisting the struggling human creature to reawaken the spiritual powers which, surrounded by the flaming click to enlarge a female hierophant of the mysteries. from montfaucon's antiquities. this illustration shows cybele, here called the syrian goddess, in the robes of a hierophant. montfaucon describes the figure as follows "upon her head is an episcopal mitre, adorned on the lower part with towers and pinnacles; over the gate of the city is a crescent, and beneath the circuit of the walls a crown of rays. the goddes

al, in allusion to the mundane egg, from which issued, according to the traditions of many nations, the universe, or, according to others, our first parents; serpentine, because a serpent was the symbol of hu, the druidic osiris; cruciform, because a cross is an emblem of regeneration; or winged, to represent the motion of the divine spirit* their chief deities were reducible to two--a male and a female, the great father and mother--hu and ceridwen, distinguished by the same characteristics as belong to osiris and isis, bacchus and ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being" godfrey higgins states that hu, the mighty, regarded as the first settler of britain, came from a place which the welsh triads call the summer country, the present site of

e western provinces of the roman empire; many exist in germany, still more in france, and in this island (britain) they have often been discovered on the line of the picts' wall and the noted one at bath" alexander wilder, in his philosophy and ethics of the zoroasters, states that mithras is the zend title for the sun, and he is supposed to dwell within that shining orb. mithras has a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. as mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the yazatas (izads, or genii, of the sun. as mithra, this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. she represents nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the solar orb. the

or cycles of creative and created life in substance and space, celestial creatures] there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one root, which is the power invisible, inapprehensible silence [bythos. of these shoots one is manifested from above, which is the great power, the universal mind ordering all things, male, and the other [is manifested] from below, the great thought, female, producing all things. hence pairing with each other, they unite and manifest the middle distance, incomprehensible air, without beginning or end. in this is the father who sustains all things, and nourishes those things which have a beginning and end (see simon magus, by g. r. s. mead) by this we are to understand that manifestation is the result of a positive and a negative principle, one

eral meeting, during which those to be initiated were questioned concerning their several qualifications. the second day was spent in a procession to the sea, possibly for the submerging of a image of the presiding goddess. the third day was opened by the sacrifice of a mullet. on the fourth day the mystic basket containing certain sacred symbols was brought to eleusis, accompanied by a number of female devotees carrying smaller baskets. on the evening of the fifth day there was a torch race, on the sixth a procession led by a statue of iacchus, and on the seventh an athletic contest. the eighth day was devoted to a repetition of the ceremonial for the benefit of any who might have been prevented from coming sooner. the ninth and last day was devoted to the deepest philosophical issues of

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

practice. the sun and the moon are the two great hands of our cosmic clock. whereas the hour hand or sun governs the seasons of the year, the moon or minute hand governs the sea tides and the hidden workings of the deep mind. as such, this heavenly body rather than the sun is the main concern of witches. in european mythology the sun has always been seen as a symbol of a male divinity, the moon a female one. however, worship of the moon as a supreme deity evolved much earlier than that of the sun. it is said among witches that in england at least the cult of the moon goddess predated the druidic, solar religion, and that it is from this early prytanic religion that four of the great annual witch festivals are derived. these are the nights of october 31 (halloween; february 2 (candlemas; ap

matters can be provided by finding out your astrological birth sign and planet and looking up the legends that surround them. for instance, if you are an artist or craftsman born under the sign of taurus, you may well decide on the name of daedalus, being that of the wizard-craftsman of king minos, leader of the cretan bull cult, thus linking with taurus the bull. or, alternatively, if you are a female witch born under taurus, ruled by venus, you may decide that the name "ariadne" daughter of king minos and theseus' bride, would be suitable, especially as she is indeed a form of aradia, one of the chief spirit powers of the witch world. a third method which can yield results is the numerological one. add up all the digits which compose the name you are best known by, using this scheme to

selection of names in your mind. ponder them in reverie if you can and let your deep mind send up some hints if possible. this really is the best way, as in the final analysis the deep mind is what we are really concerned with here. the witch name is basically designed to be an indication of the true nature of you as you really are deep down! there exists a coven of witches in england today whose female members only use witch names of a floral derivation, rosemary, japonica, aubretia, flora, and so on! some witches like to take worthy mottoes in latin like sapiens dominabitur astris or omnia vincam, maybe a bit ecclesiastical in tone, but quite legitimate, though to my mind again less effective than the considerably more evocative names of legend. just choose one that satisfies you. it may

in as a form of identity sign. however, unlike the necklace, it is engraved with the witch name of the bearer, the coven symbol (which is often an animal such as an owl, cat, or serpent, and his rank in it. there are usually only two "degrees" of rank, that of the triangle and the more advanced one of the pentacle. if male, the leader of the coven is sometimes known as the magister or master, the female as the high priestess. these are generally honorary ranks and titles, however, and simply indicate seniority of membership for the most part. very occasionally are they indications of power (see chapter 7 "the coven and how to form one" for more on this) sometimes coven members will wear the bracelet to signify the triangle, and the garter, the pentacle grade. should you not belong to a pro

er is perhaps the most unusual piece of insignia carried by witches and, as such, is concealed and worn openly only at coven meetings. the other jewels can pass as regular items in the eyes of the uninitiated, and as such can usually be worn openly. there are many styles of witch garters in existence. the traditional colour is bright red, though black, blue, and green ones are to be seen. often a female practitioner will have her garter made of velvet and backed with silk, the male variants being snakeskin, crocodile, or soft leather of some sort backed with blue silk. the garters are fastened by means of gold or silver gilt buckles. sometimes tiny gold or silver bells are also sewn on, reminiscent of those worn by english morris dancers. on the outer surface of the garter are embroidered

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

at the care of the editor. preliminary invocation. thee i invoke, the bornless one. thee, that didst create the earth and the heavens: thee, that didst create the night and the day. thee, that didst create the darkness and the light. thou art osorronophris: whom no man has seen at any time. thou art j bas thou art j pos: thou hast distinguished between the just and the unjust. thou didst make the female and the male. thou didst produce the seed and the fruit. thou didst form men to love one another, and to hate one another. i am mosheh thy prophet, unto whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of ishrael: thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. hear thou me, for i am the angel of paphro osorronophris: this is thy true name, handed d

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ings were spawn of hel (2, of which many could not escape from their graves and existed in a similar way to central european nosferatu, nachzehrer and so on. such creatures in norse mythology were called "haugbui" which translates to "barrow, being mound dweller. germany holds a large amount of folklore relating to vampirism and lycanthropy, austria has the demonic perchten, the british isles the female vampires glaistigs. much has grown from such legends and myths, some of which is truth and some of which is something beyond. symbolism is of great significance in magick because the individual seeks to enter, take hold and mold the clay of life around him/her. germany gives us the vampire races of nachzehrer, nachttoter, alp, neuntoter and nosferatu. 9 9 nachzehrer is a vampire which is fo

s modern tactics of war and subterfuge proved him to be a successful war lord and prince. his war with the turks lasted his life and gave birth to many tales of his vampiric actions and violence. an order he belonged to, the order of the dragon, was a defense against the turkish offensive that was rumored to involve magical activities. strigoi is represented as an undead vampire spirit, sometimes female and also a kin to the word strigoica, meaning "witch. it is the moroii, who are often varcolaci themselves, who meet the strigoi in the night and give communion of blood and other lustful unions of demonic passion. the individual, who seeks to explore and envelop the self within the shadows of vampiric sorcery, must be willing to become as those nocturnal archetypes which hide within their

t is fitting to your personality and self. vampirism and lycanthropy is the most dangerous path to take on magickally, as it invites the dark arms of the black eagle and thanatos. proceed with caution. when i began focusing on the archetypes and symbols of vampirism i began drawing connections to the system of shape shifting according to the nature of the vampire presented. for example, a tale of female vampires would give them the astral form of a cat, an owl or raven. many male vampires would take the astral assumption of a wolf or bat. it was said that vampires may take the form of mist or fog, this connection obviously comes from the ability to assume a mist form on the astral plane. if certain points of chi can be strengthened into a viable physical energy then one can view the astral

rself. will must preserve you. in the air you notice several spirals of what appears to be white and gray funnel clouds, like a small tornado. this funnel cloud seems to project a kind of screeching sound, which disappears again into the night. you feel strangely at home in this place, wondering if you have known it before. you see a black tower in the distance, from which the sound of wolves and female voices chanting a mantra grows as you approach. you are floating yet at times walking on something you are not quite aware of. when fear takes over for a fraction of a second you feel your walking slowed. only when will takes over can you relax and float. you make a mental note not to let panic overtake you. the wolves howl in the distance, and a blood 35 35 red moon, seemingly marked with

you draw near the tower three black shapes approach you. you take note and with control of will halt in your steps. your first impulse is to run, however you know you would almost certainly lose your bodily control, and movement would diminish almost to the point of stopping. dreams always operate by the reversal of laws which form the basis of your reality web. one of the shapes takes a seeming female form. you cannot tell many of her features only that she is molded from the desires within your mind. wolves come and surround the three shadows and yourself in a large circle. the wolves stare intensely, gray fur, large salivating mouths with yellow fangs and burning crimson eyes. the female says nothing as she approaches you, neither do the two remaining faceless shadows. you feel an enve

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

tors to their island paradise. they weretaken to lemuria by spacecraft. eden by william blake atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation33 the race of adam due to the relocation of the adamic race, we find a compulsion in the psychology of humansto seek for some lost paradise or far away shore where life is sublime and untroubled. thisinstinct appears especially strong in members of the female sex.because of the allegiance of the eves and their curiosity toward the high mysteries, thematriarchal cults of the priestess began. these cults of power women existed down tomedieval times, when the brotherhood of the snake, under the guise of catholicism,rose up to destroy them, en masse. the eves have never been forgiven for their aban-donment of the alien hegemony. their decision seale

lation satan, in hebrewbelongs by right to the first and cruelest adversary ofall other godsjehovah, not in the serpent which spoke only words of sympathy and wisdom.(madame helena petrovna blavatsky)woman have always been marginalized and degraded in post-diluvian times, because oftheir allegiance to the first born. the book of genesis reveals the intense hatred that thebent ones have toward the female. the tyrannies which have been perpetrated against wom-ankind through all the centuries, though disguised as a male versus female problem, are cer-tainly not at all confined to this, which is why very little is changing. the gender problemand dichotomy are but a carefully crafted manifestation of a greater malevolence, an all per-vasive ancient loathing for earths original inhabitants. once

s why very little is changing. the gender problemand dichotomy are but a carefully crafted manifestation of a greater malevolence, an all per-vasive ancient loathing for earths original inhabitants. once we approach the problem fromits root, we will see progress.when we look back across the historical time of patriarchythere seems to be some terribleinevitability, a relentless desire to crush the female essence, human and divine. the questionof why is one of the most puzzling of our time (leonard schlain, the alphabet and thegoddess)the race of adam34atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation35 chapter 6the world falls deadeventually, the exodus of the adamic race became known to the serpent masters,who grew furious and vengefu

swere distinctly reptoid. they operated from the limbicmode of consciousness and possessed the physical endur-ance and strength, not to mention the guile, of the humbleearth reptile. from these beings, we inherit the term cold-blooded evil.zeus and typhonatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation61 reptilians, priestesses, and strange genes the euphemism that has come down to describe a female reserved for crossing withpart alien being was virgin. the offspring of these relations were referred to as beingof virgin birth. other terms which implied genetics are blood (as in blood of thelamb, seed (as in seed of david, and immaculate (as in the immaculateconception) this latter term connotes progeny who were created genetically, ratherthan sexually. properly, it was to designate tha

. the eves who were receptive to the counsel of the sons of theserpent in the garden became the first that were awakened and exalted by theirmore advanced cousins. they were initiated into the secrets of technology. the word secret comes from secretion, meaning fluid of the body, particularly the femalemenstrual fluids. the concept and phenomenon of the holy grail comes from the myster-ies of the female cults after their residency with and tuition from the sons of the serpent.it is from this exodus to lemuria that we have the great female cults, when females werechief initiators, oracles, and keepers of the mysteries, which is recorded even in the arthu-rian romances of later ages. celtic myth is full of anecdotes about the warrior queens whocommand great magical abilities. that this was c

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dragon. here is the adversary, she is the night and the abyss. tiamat can give life and create what she wishes, much like ahriman created the archdaevas to counter creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic feminine is equally important to the adversarial formula in luciferian witchcraft as it is the balance which acknowledges the female generative principle as the foundation of all actions and purpose. the associative name of tiamat was tamtu, both names referring to the primeval sea and the dragon 20 which personified it. tiamat is thus very close to the idea of the hebraic leviathan, the dragon of the abyss. the sea is also connected to the abyss and thus the subconscious. in corey s ancient fragments and george barton s

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

allow them to interact with the material world by their own volition. the occult recognizes 5 elements; fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. occultists recognize 4 types of elementals, and each--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 32 is assigned an element: undines, salamanders, sylphs, and gnomes. undines are elementals of the element water. they are graceful, sensual, often pale and prefer the female form and watery habitations like river, lakes, and the ocean. salamanders, associated with the element of fire, are known for being emotionally unstable. their actions are rapid and explosive. when conjured, a salamander may prefer to arrive as a male with glowing eyes. sylphs, the elementals of air, are intelligent, subtle, and, like salamanders, make rapid movements. gnomes are the elemen

fore, the dagger is used to threaten and punish disobedient spirits. the cup, or goblet, is associated with the element of water. water is symbolic for the passive force, and feminine quality of the womb, and its ability to bear life. water is likewise symbolic for blood and, more specifically, the previously discussed life-force. in magic, fire and water represent the polar opposites of male and female. water, who symbol is a downward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the eagle, the west, the color blue, and arch-angel gabriel. in magic, water corresponded to dreams, emotions, and psychic work. the last major magical tool is the scrying mirror. the scrying mirror is related to the moon, rather than one of the elements. since a spirit can more easily reveal itself in a mirror--mic

increase of pragmatism and detachment; we humans rarely known them as the warmest individuals among us. coldness and disloyalty come easier for this flock. they are also extremely predatory, whether this characteristic is on account of their lifestyle, or whether it truly is inherent their kind, i do not know (although i ve come to suspect the latter. a male vampire is called an incubus, while a female vampire is called a succubus. some vampires are closer to spirit, while others lean towards the flesh. priests ,as they are called, lean more towards the spirit; as a result, they have increased vampiric senses and capabilities, but also suffer more of the weaknesses of vampires. their ability to reach out at long distances and feed is unmatched. they are even more sensitive to sunlight and

new powers from being merged with the mighty demon; this probably contributed to further corrupting set and driving him from the light. apep, whose number is 333 is therefore half of the essence of lucifer, whose number is 666 and therefore complete. apep, who became the shadow aspect of set, has titles like the great rebel and the evil one. this guardian of the abyss, is sometimes spoke of as a female character and is frequently associated with a single, lid-less eye. this being is also closely associated with the triangle (being a 3-sided shape, and his seal has often been depicted as 3 triangles in an arrangement that resembles a nuclear or radiation symbol. leviathan appears to be another name for the demon choronzon, and is associated with the west and is called the guardian of the g

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an. the history of bram stoker's novel dracula has its own curious beginnings in association with folklore and historical figures. specifically, in dracula was a woman by raymond t. mcnally, stoker had an original manuscript of the novel which was later deleted, which was published in 1807. the character harker traveled from munich to a isolate area from which he comes into contact with a vampyre female named countess dolingen for the sorcerer interested in developing the vampyric path, literary and folklore is highly suggested. it is through inspired magickal lore that one may develop their own form of becoming, something which may add to their own arcana of belief. in the yatuk dinoih, the lines of persian sorcery and vampyrism are close, as connected with the adversary form of ahriman

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

erences between males and females with respect to this phenomenon? there seems to be no difference at all in the contents or types of experiences reported by males and females. i have found both males and females who have described each of the common aspects of near-death encounters which have been discussed, and there is no one element which seems to weigh either more or less heavily in male vs. female reports. still, there are differences between male and female subjects. on the whole, males who have had death experiences are far more reticent to talk about them than are females. far more males than females have told me briefly of experiences, only to fail to respond to my letters or return my calls when i tried to follow up with a more detailed interview. many more males than females ha

MORALS AND DOGMA

fe; and god was the source from which all light flowed; the _essence_ of light, the _invisible_ fire, developed as flame _manifested_ as light and splendor. the sun was his manifestation and visible image; and the sab ans worshipping the light-god _seemed_ to worship the sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the deity. the moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. it was the symbol of isis, astarte, and artemis, or diana. the"_master of life" was the supreme deity, above both, and manifested through both; zeus, the son of saturn, become king of the gods; horus, son of osiris and isis, become the master of life; dionusos or bacchus, like mithras, become the author of light and life and truth* th

ng and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "the sun and moon" says the learned bro. delaunay "represent the two grand principles of all generations, the active and passive, the male and the female. the sun represents the actual light. he pours upon the moon his fecundating rays; both shed their light upon their offspring, the blazing star, or horus, and the three form the great equilateral triangle, in the centre of which is the omnific letter of the kabalah, by which creation is said to have been effected" the ornaments of a lodge are said to be "the mosaic pavement, the indented te

urderer of khurum, that of the evil god bal is found* har-oeri was the god of time, as well as of life. the egyptian legend was that the king of byblos cut down the tamarisk-tree containing the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes [illustration: hieroglyph

was a _title_ and not part of the name. joseph says[_gen_ xlv. 8 "god has constituted me_'ab l'paraah, as father to paraah _i.e, vizier or prime minister" so haman was called the second father of artaxerxes; and when king khurum used the phrase "khurum abi" he meant that the artificer he sent schlomoh was the principal or chief workman in his line at tsur. a medal copied by montfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (iao. she is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her. horus was the _mediator, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle. the word heri, in sanscrit, means _shepherd, as well as _saviour. crishna is called _heri, as jesus called himsel

nce" that is, of equilibrium. of the sephiroth, or divine emanations, wisdom and understanding, severity and benignity, or justice and mercy, and victory and glory, constitute pairs. wisdom, or the intellectual generative _energy, and understanding, or the _capacity_ to be impregnated by the active energy and produce intellection or thought, are represented symbolically in the kabalah as male and female. so also are justice and mercy. strength is the intellectual energy or activity; establishment or stability is the intellectual capacity to produce, a passivity. they are the power of _generation_ and the capacity of _production. by wisdom, it is said, god creates, and by understanding establishes. these are the two columns of the temple, contraries like the man and woman, like reason and f

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. aleph is attributed to the "element (in the old classification of things) of air. now, as one, or aleph, he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is s

r' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine: he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi

y the babylonians, jehovah acquired several of the markedly homosexual characteristics of sin. the god of the jews is a homosexual's concept of maleness: harsh, violent, revengeful, merciless. there are no equilibrating qualities. it is geburah at its worst. it must come as a surprise to those who do not know their qabalah that this image of the male is incomplete. as a matter of fact, geburah is female. it is chesed mercy which is male. the qualities that homosexuals attribute to masculinity are nothing but psychological transference. women, who are much more qualified to judge, like men to be gentle and considerate. they want men to be strong, and hard, and even harsh, of course-but they want to feel an underlying basis of qualities which homosexuals are inclined to attribute to the fema

them or insult them. this excessive reaction of hostility is a defense mechanism. they feel attracted, therefore they fear. a society that is sexually equilibrated will tolerate exceptions. a society that is sexually unhealthy will not, because its balance is unstable, and it is easily upset by deviations. one must add that the above remarks are just as true of societies where the concept of the female exists without the male. while it is true that everybody has absolute right to interpret the external-or the internal universe as they please, an interpretation that is too partial or twisted leads inevitably to interference with the will of others. thelemites will find themselves hampered at every turn by people whose concept of god is homosexual. they will try to restrict your personal fr

ved 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 of essential humanity which is the first matter of that great work wherein our race shares the divine prerogative of creating man in its own image, male and female (let us not forget, lest we turn pious, that all species share this divine prerogative, from viruses down or up, in one way or another. and that even crystals share it too) it is evidently of minor importance whether the will to create be consciously formulated. lot in his drunkenness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

tem of which sprang forth a hundred blossoms. drawing near to examine this lovely flower, whose exquisite scent perfumed the air, she stooped down to gather it, suspecting no evil, when a yawning abyss opened at her feet, and aides, the grim ruler of the lower world, appeared from its depths, seated in his dazzling chariot drawn by four black horses. regardless of her tears and the shrieks of her female attendants, aides seized the terrified maiden, and bore her away to the gloomy realms over which he reigned in melancholy grandeur. helios, the all-seeing sun-god, and hecate, a mysterious and very ancient divinity, alone heard her cries for aid, but were powerless to help her. when demeter became conscious of her loss her grief was intense, and she refused to be comforted. she knew not whe

cians. she became confounded, and eventually identified with selene and persephone, and is one of page 93 those divinities of whom the ancients had various conflicting accounts. hecate was the daughter of perses and "gold-wreathed" astraa (the starry night[32, and her sway extended over earth, heaven, and hell, for which reason she is represented in works of art as a triple divinity, having three female bodies, all young and beautiful, and united together. in later times, when this divinity becomes identified with persephone, she is supposed to inhabit the lower world as a malignant deity, and henceforward it is the gloomy, awe-inspiring side of her character which alone [86]develops itself. she now presides over all practices connected with witchcraft and enchantments, haunts sepulchres

ady established, when they first settled in asia minor, and whom they identified with their own greek artemis, though she really possessed but one single attribute in common with their home deity. metra was a twofold divinity, and represented, in one phase of her character, all-pervading love; in the other she was the light of heaven; and as artemis, in her character as selene, was the only greek female divinity who represented celestial light, the greek settlers, according to their custom of fusing foreign deities into their own, seized at once upon this point of resemblance, and decided that metra should henceforth be regarded as identical with artemis. in her character as the love which pervades all nature, and penetrates everywhere, they believed her also to be present in the mysteriou

rica chersonnesus. it was colonized by greek settlers, who, finding that the scythian inhabitants had a page 102 native divinity somewhat resembling their own artemis, identified her with the huntress-goddess of the mother-country. the worship of this taurian artemis was attended with the most barbarous practices, for, in accordance with a law which she had enacted, all strangers, whether male or female, landing, or shipwrecked on her shores, were sacrificed upon her altars. it is supposed that this decree was [94]issued by the taurian goddess of chastity, to protect the purity of her followers, by keeping them apart from foreign influences. the interesting story of iphigenia, a priestess in the temple of artemis at tauris, forms the subject of one of schiller's most beautiful plays. the c

s, and then induced him to return to olympus, where, after having released the [99]queen of heaven from her very undignified position, he became reconciled to his parents. he now built for himself a glorious palace on olympus, of shining gold, and made for the other deities those magnificent edifices which they inhabited. he was assisted in his various and exquisitely skilful works of art, by two female statues of pure gold, formed by his own hand, which possessed the power of motion, and always accompanied him wherever he went. with the assistance of the cyclops, he forged for zeus his wonderful thunderbolts, thus investing his mighty father with a new power of terrible import. zeus testified his appreciation of this precious gift, by bestowing upon hephastus the beautiful aphrodite in ma

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

aintings depicting every conceivable form of sexual deviation adorned the walls. the temple of the abbey (the central hall) contained an altar at the center of a magic circle, a throne upon which crowley would sit during the rituals dedicated to magic and sexuality, and various other occult paraphernalia such as an artificial phallus and a whip. from time to time, crowley would nominate a willing female disciple to be his idea 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 a

er children was eros, the winged god of love. the black candle of love< the occult practitioners of ages past were the matchmakers of their day. almost without exception, every small village had its resident wise woman dispensing love spells and philters of varied kinds to those in search of true love. no occult book would be complete without information on how to win the love of another. for the female witch intent on seduction cast this love spell before coming into the presence of the man concerned. enter your witching circle. awaken your magic power. burn a black candle and think of the person to be spellbound. after a few minutes, gaze into candle flame and say: listen, o mighty and powerful ancient one, he whose appearance is that of a burning pillar of fire. ancient and powerful one

c for thousands of years. witches and occultists from all times and all places have always recognized the enormous level of magic power contained in the sex act. in the ritual that follows you can make the irresistible combination of sex and magic work real wonders for you. first you, and your partner, must decide on what it is you seek. then enter your witching circle and place a pillow, for the female s head, in line with one of the four cardinal points. the direction you choose will depend on what it is you seek. once you know your intention you should check with the list in chapter 2 to know which elemental force to invoke. now indulge in the sex act, but keep your mind at all times< on your magical intention. that s all there is to it. chapter 5 ancient secrets of the cabala it is sai

st fraction of it. the central symbol in cabalism is the tree of life, giving the path to perfection. the idea is that you follow a complex path of spiritual enlightenment up the tree passing through each sepher (divine emanation) until you achieve union with god in kether the crown. an interesting aspect of the cabala is that the achieving of knowledge is likened to sexual union with shekinah, a female personification of wisdom. this is similar to the gnostic sophia, wisdom given a female personification, only with a much stronger sexual connection since she was a prostitute. gnosticism was the main competitor to christianity in ancient rome. the gnostics believed that the christian jehovah was not the real god but an evil creator of an evil world. the power of the spheres sit or lie down

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ore, that many of those who attended the mystery 126 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages of the passion and other catholic mystery plays belonged to this group. at the time of the hospital's reorganization, supported by an act of parliament on july 1, 1547, it was decided that children of the poor would also be raised there and educated in craft techniques by male and female workers in return for the privilege of obtaining, in six years' time, recognition as masters in their crafts without the requirement of any fee or masterpiece. justification for their status would be provided by the professional skills of their eventual students, who would themselves enjoy the status of the sons of masters* by a declaration of henri ii given in paris on february 2, 1553, cr

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

rd garuda. vishnu, the wide-strider, measured out the cosmos in three strides. he is regarded as the protector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where various goddesses are worshiped under the enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferociou

ysus wanted ariadne, and scared theseus away by appearing to him in a dream, causing him to forget her. dionysus then married ariadne, although their first two children, oenopion and thoas, are sometimes referred to as fathered by theseus. music and poetry dionysus was associated, through the creative inspiration of wine, with poetry, song, music, and drama, resulting in much revelry. maenads the female devotees of dionysus were known as maenads, which translates as raving women. in their ecstatic orgies they tore animals and even humans such as pentheus, king of thebes to pieces, and devoured their raw flesh. silenus silenus, dionysus drunken old tutor, is his constant companion, and the leader of his revelers, made up of sileni, satyrs, maenads, and bassarids. the god pan the god pan (se

bringing dido and aeneas together, she hoped to prevent this. the founding of rome romulus and his twin brother remus were the sons of aeneas descendant rhea silvia, a vestal virgin, and mars (ares, the god of war. at their birth, their mother s evil uncle amulius (who had deposed her father) killed her and threw the boys into the river tiber. luckily, they were carried ashore and cared for by a female wolf until they were found by faustulus, one of the old king s shepherds. when the boys grew up, faustulus told them their history and they killed amulius and restored their grandfather to the throne. then they decided to build a city on the tiber. they each climbed a hill and sought omens from the gods as to which of them should rule it. romulus, having seen 12 vultures to remus six, was f

the west indies as well as ghana. this headpiece belonged to the yoruba people in nigeria and was used in ceremonies to impersonate the trickster hare. hare s ears hare orb-web spider the cosmic serpent 88 the cosmic serpent t he fon people of africa tell how the cosmic serpent, aida-hwedo, was brought into being at the beginning of time by the creator, an androgynous god with two faces: mawu the female moon and lisa, the male sun. aido-hwedo helped with the creation by carrying the creator in his mouth as the world was shaped. but when the work was done, the creator saw that there was too much weight for the earth to bear too many trees, too many mountains, too many elephants, everything. so he asked aido-hwedo to coil himself into a circle and lie underneath the overburdened earth like a

jar of spirits the jar probably contains fierce alcohol perhaps ghede s special drink of crude rum steeped in hot spices, which only he can bear to swallow. cockerel the black cockerel is a bird of sacrifice, waiting to be slaughtered to ghede. snake the snake twined around legba s walking stick, the symbol of his old age, represents damballah and ayida wedo (aido- hwedo, see p. 88, the male and female rainbow snakes who embrace the world, across the sky and beneath the sea. calling the gods the designs known as vevers are used to call the gods and are drawn on the earth in flour. at the centre of the circle in a voodoo ritual would be the poteau-mitan, the center-post by which the gods make their entrance to the ceremony. the ship symbol stands for agw, the god of the sea and formal cons

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, a period of one year will be the time of which the initiate enters grade 0) void and the abyss (this may be sooner, this is the time limit. they will learn and practice the foundations of high and low sorcery, an introspective study of their own being and to ensure their focus is suited for toph. the title for this grade is veneficus or yatus (the yatuk-dinoih practitioners, males, pairikas are female witches, the sorcerer who has entered the sabbat path of the leviathanic serpent. the witch of this path is known as commonly veneficus and their magical name, which will be adopted upon entry of toph. the grade structure is not a design of title, rather of work. while in the grade of void and the abyss the student will work with a guide or initiator who is in essence a vessel of lucifer or

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 it becomes a focus point of the initiates life -lilith-hecate, how this spirit relates to the self both male and female -the very basics of magick the differences of high and low sorcery. developing the will as the center of work. 1. study of the luciferian path in base, the definition of magick and sorcery, lucifer as an archetype from sufi lore (azazel iblis) to the middle ages to modern times. what is the essence of lucifer and how is it recognized in you. study of shaitan (satan) the adversary and how th

medium suitable that may present your obtainment through the cunning arte. in summary, you must be able to described and positively present the following structure of the grade, thus embodying the elements of the grade system7 -study of lucifer, how this spirit relates to self and how it becomes a focus point of the initiates life -lilith-hecate, how this spirit relates to the self both male and female. this will be crystallized and presented to the magistrate for review. you may present this in ongoing written work, magical records and discussions/results from coven workings. the order of phosphorus recognition process in regards to grade structure. grade o) void and the abyss issued by akhtya, coven maleficia, vox barathrum toph, botd iv toph is an initiatory guild which focuses on guid

f baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each goddess represents (and how they are the same) and the results of invoking them within (both male and female. the significance of the feminine (lunar) and the goddess of death and birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra, book of cain, book of the witch moon and yatuk dinoih. 3. creation of famulus (familiars) both lesser and greater. submit re

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

ekiel 16:44 "like mother (binah) like daughter (malchut" and "the mother (binah) lends her clothing (the five gevurot) to the daughter (malchut. this is to say that the divisions of the letters of speech follow exactly according to the divisions which took place in thought. before we explain how the sefirah of malchut is built into a separate stature in and of itself, which is called "nukvah (the female, one more thing needs to be explained. as previously mentioned, adam represents zeir anpin while chava represents nukvah (malchut. in the torah, before adam s wife chava, was created, the torah tells us that g-d put adam to sleep. this teaches us that the "sleep of zeir anpin" is a necessary prerequisite to his wife being separated from him. before the separation, the female (nukvah) was in

firot of malchut are brought about from the sefirot of zeir anpin. from the tenth sefirah of each sefirah (the malchut of that sefirah) each corresponding sefirah of malchut comes about. from malchut of chochmah of zeir anpin, comes chochmah of malchut, from malchut of binah of zeir anpin, comes binah of malchut etc. achor b achor- back to back there are several stages in the "building up" of the female stature (nukvah or malchut. the first stage is called achor b achor (back to back. during this stage, adam& chava (zeir anpin& nukvah) were literally one. nonetheless, they were back to back and were therefore unaware of each other and could not relate to each other. when two people are back to back, they could, literally, be standing an inch away from each other, and nonetheless be complet

wledge of each other. in other words, kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he) and the jewish people are completely aware of and "know" each other intimately. furthermore, the relationship is reciprocal from both sides. this will occur in the time of the final redemption, may it happen speedily, in our days. amen we now may continue to explain the process of the "building up" of nukvah (the female. a point under yesod at first, the stature of malchut is like a point under yesod. afterwards it is "built up" into a heh (the final heh of g-ds four letter name) as before (as the heh of binah. the explanation is as follows: 1) from the angle of the giver, before a person can speak, he must first focus on the point he wants to convey through his speaking. only after this can the point expa

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

a, as is known. then, on the sixth day, the torah tells us that gg-d created the man in his image, h and further on, that gg-d formed man out of the dust of the earth, h interrupting these two accounts with [its description of what occurred on] the seventh day, as it is written, gand the heavens [and the earth] were completed c. h in the first account of creation, the torah mentions both male and female, while in the second account, in [g-d fs] command [to create man, the female is not mentioned at all. if the command was to create only adam, why was eve created? we see that [even in the second account of creation] after the command, the female was created, for the torah goes on to describe how gg-d caused a deep sleep to descend upon the man c h and so forth. we shall now explain this. fr

nine nature. tzelem: tzadik-lamed-mem= 90+ 30+ 40= 160. ekyeh: alef-hei-yud-hei, when spelled out with the letter yud, becomes: alef alef-lamed-pei 1+ 30+ 80 111 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 yud yud-vav-dalet 10+ 6+ 4 20 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 161 the difference is that the gimage h is what ima gives to the male [offspring, z feir anpin] and the glikeness h.which has more of a form.is what ima gives to the female [offspring, nukva. because his intention was to [ultimately create the world of] asiyah.and the lower level always possesses the power of everything above it, while the higher level does not possess what the lower one does.he therefore said, gin our image, after our likeness, h all referring to asiyah. as was stated previously, the verse glet us make man in our image, after our likeness h1

h of asiyah, while the following verse, gand g-d created man in his image, h refers to the gman h of beriah. thus, the gman h of asiyah contains both the image and the likeness, while the gman h of beriah contains only the image. even though it is stated in the zohar that gthe eimage f exists in the male, h this refers to the gimage h in z feir anpin of asiyah, and gthe elikeness f exists in the female h of asiyah. the terms gmale h and gfemale h usually refer to z feir anpin and nukva of atzilut, but in this case they refer to z feir anpin and nukva of asiyah. 1 genesis 1:26. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 22 nonetheless, all this occurred through ima of beriah [clothing the partzufim of] asiyah, and all of this is the feminine. thus, the question was solely regarding the gman h of

unt of the making [of the world of asiyah. this is because the creation occurred by means of z feir anpin and nukva of atzilut as they were clothed [atzilut] is a masculine world, so therefore the heavens, the vav of the name havayah, were created first. atzilut is indicated by the yud of the name havayah and corresponds to chochmah (abba, male principles. asiyah is a feminine world, in which the female rules over the male, so therefore the earth was created before the heavens. this is another reason why asiyah was made together with beriah, before yetzirah [beriah] is a feminine world, indicated by the letter hei, which is formed of a dalet above a vav. the dalet, which indicates asiyah, was revealed there [in the world of beriah, while the world of yetzirah was not yet [revealed. the let

ah-binah-da fat, the intellect, corresponding to the three lobes of the brain. the middle triad, chesedgevurah- tiferet, corresponds to the right and left arms and torso, respectively. the lower triad, netzach-hod-yesod, corresponds to the right and left legs and sexual organ, respectively. the final sefirah, malchut, corresponds to the glans of the male sexual organ (or in other contexts, to the female. all souls were included in his. when sinned, his stature was diminished and he became physical, and this caused a blemish in all the souls [he encompassed. ghis stature was diminished h obviously does not mean that he physically shrunk, and that being spiritual is just being giant. rather, this simply the way the kabbalists describe adam fs transformation from a totally spiritual to partly

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

f substance. it constitutes the divine centre of human consciousness, all the other principles which comprise what we call man being rather like so many layers of an dnion around a central core. from this meta hvsicalandu niversal centre dualitvissues. two distinct principles of activity, the oninked chokmah, wisdom, and thgother ina ah, understanding. here we have the roots of polarity, male and female, positive and negative, fire and water, mind and matter, and these two ideas are the noumena of all the various opposites in life of which we have cognisance. these three emanations are unique in a special way, and they especially symbolise that "light which shineth in darkness" the light of the spiritual self. as light shines into darkness, illuminating it without suffering a diminution of

y a god who holds his right hand over the cage of a hawk, and his left over the food of eternity. on each side of the god is a cornice crowned by a row of alternate feathers and uraei symbolising justice and fiery power. the door leaf which completes the right hand of a stall is called 'tossessor of truth controlling the feet" while that on the left is 'tossessor of strength, binding the male and female animals" the 42 judges of the dead are represented as seated in a long row, and each of them has to be named, and the sin over which he presided has been denied. this chapter describes the introduction of the initiate into the hall of truth by anubis, who, having questioned the aspirant, receives from him an account of his initiation, and is satisfied by his right to enter. he states that h

ate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolised and attributed- kerub of air-man-aquarius zv.5 kerub of fire-lion-leo q kerub of earth-bull-taurus w kerub of water-eagle-scorpio tll or. tetragrammaton means four-lettered name and refers to the <121> unpronounceable name of god symbolised by jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offmmnfgo r the sacrifice of animals syrnbolises the qlippoth or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and below the material universe. it points out that our passions should be sacrificed. the qlippoth are the evil demons of matter and the shells of the dead. the altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold. ours i

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

ater triplicity in all its aspects, with its attributions and correspondences <141> notes on the tarot by frater s.r.m.d. in the tree of life in the tarot, each path forms the connecting link between two of the sephiroth. the king and the queen are the correlations of the abba and the aima in that suit; the knight or prince answers to microprosopus, and the knave or princess which was anciently a female figure, is referred to the bride, kallah or malkah. combining, then, the material attributions of the sephiroth and the path, it results that: 0. fool=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac. 1. the juggle-the crown of understanding, the beginning of material production, the primum mobile acting through the philosophic mercury on saturn. 2. high priestess

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

antity of water; if he happens to die before this ceremony can he performed it is reserved till the body is brought to the grave. fr. 1 whilst the corpse is laid out in the house, the kaww ls chant one or two hymns to the sound of their sacred instruments, and then precede the funeral procession to the grave, burning incense as they go. morning and evening for several successive days the male and female relatives of the deceased repair to the grave in distinct parties, the women to weep and mourn, and the men to burn incense, and watch a short time in silence round the spot. it strikes me that these rites go to support the hypothesis already advanced, and that as a symbol of yezd or sheikh adi, the life-giving principle, the infusion of water is intended to typify, or is supposed to convey

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

ers, all phantoms of nightmare; enormous toads play inverted flutes and thump with paws on flanks; limping scarabaei mingle in the dance; crabs play the castanets; crocodiles beat time on their scales; elephants and mammoths appear habited like cupids and foot it in the ring: finally, the giddy circles introduction 5 break up and scatter on all sides. every yelling dancer drags away a dishevelled female. lamps and candles formed of human fat go out smoking in the darkness. cries are heard here and there, mingled with peals of laughter, blasphemies and rattlings in the throat. come, rouse yourself: do not make the sign of the cross! see, i have brought you home. you are in your bed, not a little worn out, possibly a trifle shattered, by your night's journey and its orgy; but you have beheld

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

ients, and shall recognize air, fire, earth and water as the four positive and visible elements of magic. the subtle and the gross, the swift and slow solvent, or the instruments of heat and cold, constitute, in occult physics, the two positive and negative principles of the tetrad, and should be thus tabulated: thus, air and earth represent the male principle; fire and water are referable to the female principle, since the philosophical cross of pantacles, as affirmed already, is a primitive and elementary hieroglyph of the lingam of the gymnosophists. to these four elementary forms correspond the four following philosophical ideas spirit, matter, motion, rest. as a fact, all science is comprised in the understanding of these four things, which alchemy has reduced to three the absolute, t

hs. the lamp of trismegistus is reason illuminated by science; the mantle of apollonius is full and complete self-possession, which isolates the sage from blind tendencies; and the staff of the patriarchs is the help of the secret and everlasting forces of nature. the lamp of trismegistus enlightens present, past and future, lays bare the conscience of men and manifests the inmost recesses of the female heart. the lamp burns with a triple flame, the mantle is thrice-folded and the staff is divided into three parts. the number nine is that of divine reflections; it expresses the divine idea in all its abstract power, but it signifies also extravagance in belief, and hence superstition and idolatry. for this reason hermes made it the number of initiation, because the initiate reigns over sup

eally exists in love, explains the allegorical marvels of the wand of circe. apuleius speaks of a thessalian woman who changed herself into a bird; he won the affections of her servant to discover the secrets of the mistress, but succeeded only in transforming himself into an ass. this allegory contains the most hidden secrets of love. again, the kabalists say that when a man falls in love with a female elementary undine, sylphide or gnomide, as the case may be she becomes immortal with him, or otherwise he dies with her. we have seen already that elementaries are imperfect and as yet mortal men. the revelation we have mentioned, which has been regarded merely as a fable, is therefore the dogma of moral solidarity in love, which is itself the foundation of love, explaining all its sanctity

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

d, and he exhausts all his resources; his torture is that of tantalus: ever does the water flow back when he stoops down to drink. the ancients in their symbols and magical operations multiplied the signs of the duad, so that its law of equilibrium might be remembered. in their evocations they constructed two altars and immolated two victims, one white and one black; the operator, whether male or female, holding a sword in one hand and a 20 the ritual of transcendental magic wand in the other, had one foot shod and the other bared. moreover, either one or three persons were required for magical works, because the duad would mean immobility or death in the absence of an equilibrating motor; and when a man and a woman participated in the ceremony, the operator was always a virgin, a hermaphr

rew letter m; the man's arms and head constitute a triangle, and his entire hiero-glyphical shape is that of a reversed triangle surmounted by a cross, an alchemical symbol known to all adepts and representing the accomplishment of the great work. the twenty-second key, which bears the number twenty-one because the fool which precedes it carries no numeral, the great work 67 represents a youthful female divinity, veiled slightly and running in a flowering circle, supported at four corners by the four beasts of the kabalah. in the italian tarot this divinity has a rod in either hand; in the besancon tarot, the two wands are in one hand while the other is placed upon her thigh, both equally remarkable symbols of magnetic action, either alternate in its polarization or simultaneous by opposit

have issued the revolting and foolish histories of the sabbath which figure in magical processes and in the books of such writers as sprenger, delancre, delrio and bodin. 86 the ritual of transcendental magic the rites of the gnostic sabbath were imported into germany by an association which took the name of mopses. it replaced the kabalistic goat by the hermetic dog, and the candidates, male or female. for the order initiated women. were brought in with eyes bandaged. the same infernal noise was made about them which surrounded the name of sabbath with so many inexplicable rumours; they were asked whether they were afraid of the devil, and were required abruptly to choose between kissing the posterior of the grand master and that of a small silk-covered figure of a dog, which was substit

le of peace of all men h. according to some, the baphomet was a monstrous head, but according to others, a demon in the form of a goat. a sculptured coffer was disinterred recently in the ruins of an old commandery of the temple, and antiquaries observed upon it a baphometic figure, corresponding by its attributes to the goat of mendes and the androgyne of khunrath. it was a bearded figure with a female body, holding the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, attached to chains. now, this virile head is a beautiful allegory which attributes to thought alone the initiative and creative principle. here the head represents spirit and the body matter. the orbs enchained to the human form, and directed by that nature of which intelligence is the head, are also magnificently allegorical. the

tively supposes, creative will and the providential co-operation of a first cause, which we have reason to call god. some alchemists, impressed by this idea, indulged in reveries on the culture of the mandragore and experimented in the artificial reproduction of a soil sufficiently fruitful and a sun sufficiently active to humanize the said root, and thus create men without the concurrence of the female. others, who regarded humanity as the synthesis of animals, despaired about vitalizing the mandragore, but they crossed monstrous pairs and projected human seed into animal earth, only for the production of shameful crimes and barren deformities. the third method of making the android was by galvanic machinery. one of these almost intelligent automata was attributed to albertus magnus, and

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ance; possibly very few women would admit to it when questioned by a male priest of an authoritarian, witch burning religion, even one as gentle and spiritually inclined as robert kirk. whatever the reasons, and we note that in this tale he implies that the woman was a witch working with a familiar spirit, kirk is not correct in this suggestion. indeed, it is often traditionally asserted that the female bloodline passes on the second sight, either to daughters or sons, and not the male bloodline. the second level concerns the nature of this woman's seership and its source. suddenly we find a different kind of tale altogether from anything that kirk has mentioned previously, and quite out of keeping with his general and specific thesis. indeed, the woman from colonsay seems to be more of a

that period he is offered up to hell, or becomes subject to the powers of dissolution inherent in the underworld. following this second death, he can only be reborn as a mortal child, and commence again upon the wheel once challenged, however, tam lin is able to reveal a way by which he might be liberated through transformation, as with other male characters in magic, he is incomplete without the female partner, and unable to transform without the vitalizing fire of janet's love. 11. the transformation at hallow-e'n the most obvious magical elements now begin to appear in the ballad. janet must save her lover at hallow-e'en- the festival which marks the ancient feast of the dead. at this time, the barriers between the outer and underworld were said to be weakened, and the dead could freely

love or divine grace- while in the second he is saved by that same divine power emanating from within himself. for most of us, the first mode of liberation is the most likely, though the second is the true aim and function of the tradition. it would not be too daring to suggest that tam lin and thomas may be taken sequentially for magical purposes. the first ballad represents either a human male-female ritual operation and developed mystery or the action of divine intervention through the cycles of the wheel. the second ballad represents this same use of polarities removed into an inner dimension, where the love-exchange occurs between the initiate and the inner world entity; through which love the divine redemption is activated. the process described in thomas, therefore, may be said to

her bridle is hung with silver bells. she is a appendix 4: thomas rhymer 145 nature power, the isis of the ancients. thomas erroneously titles her as 'mighty queen of heaven, and she immediately corrects him. this apparently trivial detail of flattery is a very significant magical clue, which reveals important laws and powers of operation. firstly, the human magician or initiate, whether male or female, is apt to confuse innerworld powers readily. most modern occultists are so shocked at actually contacting any being whatsoever, that they invariably confuse the communication out of sheer surprise at their own partial success. the ballad teaches us two http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_138.htm (7 of 11 [10/9/2001 12:37:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds important rules or laws (1

RUBY TABLET OF SET

here exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for the psyche was its escape from reincarnation into an eternal existence of pure spirit. the "music of the spheres. from his academy at crotona, magna graciacia, pythagoras advised students (both male and female) and political clients to strive to eliminate sources of friction and cultivate homonoia("good relations among the citizenry. he suggested that mankind was subject to hybris (diverse and chaotic animal emotions. acceptance of a master principle or "threatening eminence" called epanastasis is necessary to ensure homonoia in human relations. this master principle was an intuitive apprehension

nts. the opposites were then examined for certain criteria, and possibly eliminated from the list or renamed. several opposites were eliminated because they were found to be relatively unimportant subsets of other opposites. like and dislike, for instance, are milder examples of love and hate. other pairs were eliminated because upon examination we found them to not be opposites, such as male and female. finally, we had a list of opposites worth listing, and we chose to list them, where possible, as nouns or verbs, rather than listing them as adjectives or adverbs. for instance, we chose boredom and excitement instead of "boring" and "exciting. it seems that true opposites, neters of opposition, should be nameable using nouns (or perhaps verbs. any set of opposites which is named using adj

b6 light: light- dark b1oi 1a3b7 direction: front- back n2bi 1a3b7a direction: left- right n2si 1a4 material/ non-material b2oi 1b time: past- future n?oi 1b1 negentropy- entropy b1oi 1b1a creation- destruction b2oi? maat? o?oi the following items were considered for the above list of opposites, and rejected, for reasons indicated in the corresponding notes: x.1 matter/ anti-matter x.2 sex: male/ female part iii- discussion and notes hierarchy the grand master proposes conceivability and inconceivability as the highest level of opposite. the grand master bases this classification on his opinion that everything which can or does exist must be conceivable. given a variety of advanced intelligent life forms, we feel that conscious life is or will be able to a) recognize the existence of every

meet, they destroy each other (convert each other into huge amounts of randomized energy. though they sound as if they are opposites, in truth they are identical in every way except for charge. modern sub-nuclear physics has determined that the component particles of matter and anti-matter are identical, except that the subatomic components which contribute to the charge are different. sex: male/female male and female were one of the first entries in the taxonomy, and have a long tradition of being opposites. this tradition carries on symbolically in the order of shuti through the relationship of the primal opposites, shu and tefnut. but realistically, male and female are not opposite. some of their biological functions are complementary, but otherwise males and females are very much alik

many apparently conflicting stories within the egyptian mythology. the grand master pointed out that in several egyptian myths, shu and tefnut are selfcreated. in others they were created by tears of the master creator god (whoever he happened to be according to the story teller. in yet others they were created by the master god's masturbation. shu and tefnut by definition are the first male and female. the master god's masturbation in these latter stories was always male masturbation, but shu is the first male. shu and tefnut begat geb and nut, but nut was the all-pervasive universal sky that preceded the first god. this confusion is the result of centuries of egyptian story telling, and while some of it appears to be contraditory, most of it is useful. we certainly must hesitate to cons

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

was your very man. he made carpets speak in warehouse advertisements, he did celebrity impersonations, baked beans, frozen peas. on the radio he could convince an audience that he was russian, chinese, sicilian, the president of the united states. once, in a radio play for thirty--seven voices, he interpreted every single part under a variety of pseudonyms and nobody ever worked it out. with his female equivalent, mimi mamoulian, he ruled the airwaves of britain. they had such a large slice of the voiceover racket that, as mimi said "people better not mention the monopolies commission around us, not even in fun" her range was astonishing; she could do any age, anywhere in the world, any point on the vocal register, angelic juliet to fiendish mae west "we should get married sometime, when

wdy songs and wild, loud music. on one occasion some members of the tribe of shark went too far in their greed for pilgrim money. the gatekeepers at the house began demanding bribes from weary voyagers; four of them, piqued at receiving no more than a pittance, pushed two travellers to their deaths down the great, steep flight of stairs. this practice backfired, discouraging return visits. today, female pilgrims are often kidnapped for ransom, or sold into concubinage. gangs of young sharks patrol the city, keeping their own kind of law. it is said that abu simbel meets secretly with the gangleaders and organizes them all. this is the world into which mahound has brought his message: one one one, amid such multiplicity, it sounds like a dangerous word. the grandee sits up and at once concu

he inner courtyard of his house, his wife's house, and will not go in to her. she is almost seventy and feels these days more like a mother than a. she, the rich woman, who employed him to manage her caravans long ago. his management skills were the first things she liked about him. and after a time, they were in love. it isn't easy to be a brilliant, successful woman in a city where the gods are female but the females are merely goods. men had either been afraid of her, or had thought her so strong that she didn't need their consideration. he hadn't been afraid, and had given her the feeling of constancy she needed. while he, the orphan, found in her many women in one: mother sister lover sibyl friend. when he thought himself crazy she was the one who believed in his visions "it is the ar

waiting-room or transit lounge, the central heating is at full blast night and day, and the windows are tightly shut. the exile cannot forget, and must therefore simulate, the dry heat of desh, the once and future land where even the moon is hot and dripping like a fresh, buttered chapati. o that longed--for part of the world where the sun and moon are male but their hot sweet light is named with female names. at night the exile parts his curtains and the alien moonlight sidles into the room, its coldness striking his eyeballs like a nail. he winces, narrows his eyes. loose-robed, frowning, ominous, awake: this is the imam. exile is a soulless country. in exile, the furniture is ugly, expensive, all bought at the same time in the same store and in too much of a hurry: shiny silver sofas wi

as to post a letter, stay in, lock the door, say your prayers, and the goblins would (maybe) stay away- reasons for defeat? baba, who could count them? not only was she a shopkeeper's wife and a kitchen slave, but even her own people could not be relied on- there were men she thought of as respectable types, sharif, giving telephone divorces to wives back home and running off with some haramzadi female, and girls killed for dowry (some things could be brought through the foreign customs without duty- and worst of all, the poison of this devil-island had infected her baby girls, who were growing up refusing to speak their mothertongue, even though they understood every word, they did it just to hurt; and why else had mishal cut off all her hair and put rainbows into it; and every day it wa

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nce, or flights of imagination and the product of the deeper strata of subconscious mind. the ancient kabalists and magicians were not unaware of these ideas we now call the science of psychology, which we like to believe to be modern and progressive. the texts and systems of such practitioners speak freely of such concepts as male mind (active, rational, consciousness aware of consciousness) and female mind (passive, intuitive, dreaming awareness, and the concept of heaven and hell itself have direct parallels with the metaphoric language of superego and subconscious. as it says in the kybalion, the all is mind; the universe is mental. indeed any of these systems might provide alternative explanations for the products and manifestations of the others. both the medieval mystic and the mode

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

ection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce the coming of john the baptist, and again in daniel to tell him of the coming of a messiah, a m

in its entirety on one line, and then related to itself running backwards in the line below. employing this code, the sacred name of baphomet translates to that of sophia. perhaps this was known to eliphas levi, whose depiction of this mystery is commonly reproduced in modern texts. his picture is that of a hermaphrodite, displaying both male genitalia symbolised as the two caduceus serpents, and female breasts. barbatos (goetia, 8th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions, formerly of the angelic order of virtues. teaches the speech of animals, breaks enchantments on hidden treasures, knows past and future, reconciles friends and those in power. barbelo (gnostic. according to the gnostic sect called the sethians, the daughter of pistis-sophia. was so great in her glory that it is said that she

and attacked moses at horeb. it was kezef who was imprisoned by aaron. khil (grimorium verum. occasions great earthquakes. kimaris, cimejes, cimeies (goetia, 66th spirit. rules over all spirits of africa. a marquis commanding 20 legions, appearing as a valiant warrior on a black horse. teaches grammar, logic, rhetoric. discovers things lost or hidden. kiskil-lilla (sumerian, lillu meaning night. female night demon who dwelled in the haluppa tree of inanna, which was later felled by gilgamesh. see lilith. kobal. manager of the infernal theatre who tempts men to pretence and fraud. lahash once led 184 spirits to prevent the prayers of moses from reaching god, and was thus expelled from the presence. leraikha, leraje, leraie (goetia, 14th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as an

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ds" dracula- romanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- greek prince of death fenriz- son of loki, depicted as a wolf gorgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death mid

d of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- babylonian god of hades nihasa- american indian devil nija- polish god of the underworld o-yama- japanese name for satan pan- greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom pluto- greek god of the underworld proserpine- greek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with d

sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. the pig was despised by the jews and the egyptians. it symbolized th

day that lend themselves to the receiving of the will of the wizard. those times when day-dreaming or boredom ensue, or when time hangs heavy, are fertile periods of suggestibility. if a woman is the target for your spell, do not forget the importance of the menstrual cycle. if man were not dulled through his stifling evolutionary development, he would know, as an allfours animal knows, when the female was most sexually inclined. man's snout, however unsullied by cheap opiates, is not normally equipped to ferret out such tell-tale erotic scents. even if he were so endowed with such olfactory powers, the object of his quest would most likely "throw him off the scent" through the use of massive doses of perfumery to cover and smother the "offending" effluvium, or eliminate detection complet

he priest. end of ritual the satanic ritual c. devices used in a satanic ritual clothing black robes are worn by the male participants. the robes may be cowled or hooded, and if desired may cover the face. the purpose in covering the face is to allow the participant freedom to express emotion in the face, without concern. it also lessens distraction on the part of one participant towards another. female participants wear garments which are sexually suggestive; or all black clothing for older women. amulets bearing the sigil of baphomet or the traditional pentagram of satan are worn by all participants. robes are donned by men before entering the ritual chamber, and are worn throughout the ritual. men may substitute all black clothing for black robes. black is chosen for the attire in the r

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ppearance conveyed the image of a woman. an exclusively homosexual group can often conduct more fruitful rituals than a group with both heterosexual and homosexual participants. the reason is that each person in an aflhomophile group is usually more aware of the individual active/passive propensities of his associates, and this ensures accurate role casting. it must be stressed that both male and female principles must be present, even if the same sex portrays both. with few exceptions the rituals and ceremonies in this book have been written to meet existing conditions and requirements. because a workable format depends on fairly recent standards of language, readily-understandable rubrics and emotion- producing litany cannot be set down without a certain degree of "satanic license" there

he entire rite. his assistants are an illuminator to supply light for reading, a gong-striker, and a lictor. the priest wears a black robe with open hood attached. his assistants wear black robes with closed hoods. the lictor holds a large bullwhip in his right hand, which is gloved in black leather. his left hand is encased in black velvet or satin and there is a ruby on the first finger. a nude female altar sits facing the gathering in the "bast enthroned" position: upright on a platform against the wall, her legs folded crosswise under her. the invocator and the participants wear black robes with open hoods revealing masks in the likenesses of various animals. entire animal heads made of papier-mache or other material can heighten the effectiveness. masks should be as representational a

e woman who serves as altar, two acolytes, an illuminator, a gong-striker, and the congregation. the priest wears a red robe with full sleeves. his assistants are garbed in black robes with red cinctures around the waist. the altar is nude and wears only a metal crown with four lighted candles around its edge. male congregants wear russian style tunics over black trousers tucked into black boots. female congregants wear diaphanous fabric of muted hues, representing the misty veils of the rusalki. a chained thurible with which to cense the altar and the artifacts is required, as is a large brazier. a small vial of flash powder is placed next to the brazier. the powder is thrown into the brazier according to the rubric. a human arm or leg bone is used as an aspergeant, in honor of kashchey

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 theologically isolated them from all other peoples. the yezidis' legend of their origin is no longer fantastic, by scientific standards. it alludes to the creation of the first male and female of the tribe through the principles later set down by paracelsus for the creation of a homunculus; viz. encapsulation of sperm in a container where it gestates and assumes a human embryonic form. the yezidi provided a link between egypt, eastern europe, and tibet. the language of the yezidis was kurdishsimilar in sound to enochian, the language supposedly spoken by the watchers. shortly bef

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th. after this a feast was held and 'a large black cat appeared, emerging from a statue which was always present'(3) again the members present would kiss the cats behind and then the ritual was concluded with an orgy. some of the more sensationalist accounts of satanic initiations have added to the early satanic tradition mentioned above as also including the ritua lslaughter of a virgin, usually female, or of a baby or young child and the drinking of a concoction of urine, sperm and/or vaginal fluid and blood whilst the participants blasphemed against god and jesus christ. from a moral perspective there is little, or often, no attempt to apologise for such cases from any satanic quarter. here one comes across the satanic morality, or amorality where what is traditionally accepted by socie

iginates in a non-satanic religious source where initiation is held to be a symbolic transition from one stage to another. the differences occur in the use of symbolism and of dieties. thus in some examples of a satanic initiation the neophyte may undergo a ritual coupling with a temple priest or priestess. this coupling is a symbolic union of satan and his bride baphomet. thus if the neophyte is female, then a priest, representing satan will couple with her, or if the neophyte is male a priestess, representing baphomet, will couple with him. the obvious exception is if the neophyte is gay and then he or she must seek out a relevant sapphic or uranian temple. the individual to be initiated may also undergo tests- both during and previous to the initiation ritual- and may be subjected to bo

tradition, lies within the rituals and ceremonies of the early christian church. the mass of the dead is considered by some(6) to be the originator of the black mass and, although considerably different from the modern versions of the black mass, it's sole function was to procure the death of a person. this variation of the early christian mass was performed by a christian priest accompanied by a female server, with whom he had copulated prior to the ritual. the mass took place in a disused church, water from a well in which an unbaptized child had drowned replaced wine and a black triangular host was duly consecrated. the progression from the mass of the dead into the modern black mass took a new turn when it was linked to the medieval witches sabbath. accordingly the inclusion of a horne

onsidered to free the individual from the constraints that have been acquired- both consciously and unconsciously- from past indoctrination and stigma. the actual ritual as laid out in the satanic rituals consists of a priest, who acts as the main celebrant, accompanied by two assistants, being referred to as the deacon and the subdeacon respectively, a nun adorned in habit and wimple and a naked female who serves as the altar and a congregation. the ritual begins with an invocation to the prince of darkness and his host of demons, followed by a renunciation of past allegiances and a dedication to satan-lucifer. the ritual progresses through the satanic offertory, canon and consecration of the host. the mass is completed with the recital of the fifth enochian key and the repudiation and de

and consecration of the host. the mass is completed with the recital of the fifth enochian key and the repudiation and denunciation, whereby the power and divinity of christ is denied and the power of satan is invoked to cause vengeance to christ and his host of angels. after this has been said the rite is concluded with the wafer which, having been consecrated by insertion into the vagina of the female altar, is then cast to the floor and trodden upon. the participants drink from the chalice and the ritual is then officially declared completed. the order of nine angles offer a similar though different tradition concerning the black mass. whilst in the church of satan's black mass, the naked female takes the place of the altar, the black mass of the order of nine angles stipulates that it

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

g jesus fully human and fully divine. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. izanagi: the male figure in the shinto creation myth. izanami: the female figure in the shinto creation myth. jinja: shrine. jinn: evil spirits that tempt a person away from dedication to allah. jinn: literally, conquerors; the great teachers of jainism who have conquered their earthly passions. world religions: almanac xxi words to know jiva: the soul. junzi: a gentleman or superior man. ka aba: the shrine built by the prophet abraham in the holy city of mecca a

hese cultures it is believed that the mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins found on the island of crete. the mother goddess was not only important in prehistoric europe, but has been found in the traditions of ancient canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief syste

amian rites of passage the major rites of passage for ancient mesopotamians were the same as those for people in many other cultures: birth, marriage, and death. families were nuclear, that is, they consisted of a father, mother, and children. the father was accepted as head of the household. birth was an occasion for much religious care. women giving birth wore special ornaments to scare off the female demon lamashtu, who was said to kill or kidnap children. the moon god, nanna, was called upon to help the woman in labor. the earliest lullabies, or soothing songs sung to babies, were adapted from incantations, or sung prayers, to protect the infant. the next major rite of passage, marriage, was both a religious and a legal matter. law codes that survive show that marriage was celebrated i

ests to people who chant his name. avalokitesvara can be represented as either a man or a woman, and (s)he is shown in statues and paintings with several pairs of arms sprouting from his/her body. in the palm of each hand is an eye of wisdom. legend has it that avalokitesvara has a thousand arms in order to better help all those who ask for assistance. in china, because compassion is considered a female characteristic, avalokitesvara is pictured as a beautiful woman wearing a white robe and is called kuan yin. one legend of kuan yin says that she was the daughter of a cruel man who wanted her to marry a wealthy man. kuan yin was very religious, though, and wanted to be a nun at a temple. her father made the monks give her difficult chores to discourage her. kuan yin, however, was so good t

eastern european countries and in russia was able to hold services without fear of repression. another trend in the twentieth century was a decline in europe of religious affiliation, or formal connection with an organized church. this was accompanied by a sharp rise in church membership in asia and africa. changes in social values forced christian churches to address issues once avoided, such as female clergy. many christians, especially those belonging to more conservative protestant denominations, object to the changes introduced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. they feel that these changes, like changing ad (anno domini, in the year of our lord) and bc( before christ) to ce (common era) and bce (before the common era, is an example of the secular, or nonreligious, world tak

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rd is the channel from the brain to the entire body. it is represented by the bent nun. but [in the word ozen] the nun is a straight one. the bahir 22 the straight nun is the one that is always at the end of a word. this teaches us that the straight nun includes both the bent one and the straight one. but the bent nun is the foundation. this teaches us that the straight nun includes both male and female. 84. the open mem. what is the open mem? it includes both male and female. what is the closed mem? it is made like a belly from above. but rabbi rahumai said that the belly is like the letter teth. he said it is like a teth on the inside, while i say that it is like a mem on the outside. 85 what is a mem? do not read mem, but mayim (water. just like water is wet, so is the belly always wet

m? it includes both male and female. what is the closed mem? it is made like a belly from above. but rabbi rahumai said that the belly is like the letter teth. he said it is like a teth on the inside, while i say that it is like a mem on the outside. 85 what is a mem? do not read mem, but mayim (water. just like water is wet, so is the belly always wet. why does the open mem include both male and female, while the closed mem is male? this teaches us that the mem is primarily male. the opening was then added to it for the sake of the female. just like the male cannot give birth, so the closed mem cannot give birth. and just like the female has an opening with which to give birth, so can the open mem give birth. the mem is therefore open and closed. 86. why should the mem have two forms, ope

ed. 86. why should the mem have two forms, open and closed? because we said: do not read mem, but mayim (water. the woman is cold, and therefore, must be warmed by the male. why should the nun have two forms, bent and straight? because it is written (psalm 72:17, before the sun shall his name reign (ya-nun [this is] from two nuns, the bent nun and the straight nun, and it must be through male and female. 87. it is written (ecclesiastes 1:8, the ear is not satiated from hearing. it is also written (ecclesiastes 1:8, the eye is not satiate from seeing. this teaches us that both draw from thought. what is thought? it is a king that is needed by all things that were created in the world, both above and below. 88. what is the meaning of the expression, it rose in thought? why do we not say that

nded and did not taste death. 112. these are the explicit holy exalted names. there are twelve names, one for each of the twelve tribes of israel: ah-tzitzah-ron aklithah-ron shemaqtharon demushah-ron ve-tzaphtzaphithron hurmyron brach yah-ron eresh gadra-aon basavah monahon chazhavayah havahayryhah the bahir 30 ve-harayth-hon all of them are included in the heart of heaven. they include male and female. they are given over to the axis, the sphere and the heart, and they are the wellsprings of wisdom. 113. rabbi rahumai sat and expounded: what are the twelve tribes or israel? but this teaches us that the blessed holy one has twelve rods [on high. the word shevet is the same for both tribe and rod] what are they? what is this like? a king had a beautiful fountain. all his brothers has no wa

ole earth is filled with his glory. why is he among them? this is so that he should support them and sustain them. 172. and what are the sons? i have already told you that the blessed holy one has seven holy forms. all of them have a counterpart in man, as it is written (genesis 9:6, for in the form of god he made man. it is likewise written (genesis 1:27, in the form of god he made him, male and female he made them. this is what they are: the right and left legs; the right and left hands; the body, covenant and head. but these are only six. you have said that there are seven. the seventh is with his wife. it is thus written (genesis 2:24, and they shall be one flesh. but she was taken from his ribs, as it is written (genesis 2:21, and he took one of his the bahir 45 ribs. he said: yes fro

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een them. the three mothers, aleph, mem and shin, fire, water and air, are found in man: from the fire was formed the head; from the water the belly; and from the air was formed the chest, again placed as a mediator between the others. 5. these three mothers did he produce and design, and combined them; and he sealed them as the three mothers in the universe, in the year and in man--both male and female. he caused the letter aleph to reign in air and crowned it, and combining it with the others he sealed it, as air in the world, as the temperate (climate) of the year, and as the breath in the chest (the lungs for breathing air) in man: the male with aleph, mem, shin, the female with shin, mem, aleph. he caused the letter mem to reign in water, crowned it, and combining it with the others f

g it with the others he sealed it, as air in the world, as the temperate (climate) of the year, and as the breath in the chest (the lungs for breathing air) in man: the male with aleph, mem, shin, the female with shin, mem, aleph. he caused the letter mem to reign in water, crowned it, and combining it with the others formed the earth in the world, cold in the year, and the belly in man, male and female, the former with mem, aleph, shin, the latter with mem, shin, aleph. he caused shin to reign in fire, and crowned it, and combining it with the others sealed with it the heavens in the universe, heat in the year and the head in man, male and female (38) chapter iv section 1. the seven double letters, beth, gimel, daleth, kaph, peh, resh, and tau have each two sounds associated with them. th

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many call him grandfather or grandmother. there are reasons for this, and you will learn them when the time is right. for now, if you would rather continue thinking of the force as lucifer or satan or even the devil, well, that's all right too. you can even call him mr. scratch or mr. hobs or whatever suits your fancy. there is no right human name for the force, it just is- it's neither male nor female, dark nor light, good nor evil- it just is. that is why it is such a mell of a hess to write coherent text concerning this entity. me thinks that i'll stick to the force from here out to save on ink. now that we know that the force and lucifer are one and we even have a name for him/her, it is time to access the cbr way of perceiving and interacting with our benefactor. there is only one wa

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o lord hvhy-the sister, and all is within vhy.47 all are included in the tongue concealed in the mother, for it opens for that which egresses from it. the father dwells in the head, the mother in the middle, and there is a covering from this side and from that side. and woe unto him that uncovers their nakedness. and elohim said lights will be in the firmament of heaven.48 the male rules over the female as it is written, the righteous is the foundation forever.49 the yod y illumines both, and it illumines and passes on into the female. the yod y sets itself apart, ascends by its level higher and higher, and the female is darkened. and the mother is illumined and is opened out into her gates. the key, which contains the six, comes and covers up her gates, and it is unified below, with this

good waters, the evil waters. for he said: the waters will swarm 11 they were contained, one in the other. the upper living-being, the lower living-being. the good living-being. the evil living-being. and elohim said, we will make adam. 102 this adam-not is written on not-adam in order to take away adam of above who was made by the perfect name. when this is perfected, that is perfected. male and female were perfected in order to perfect everything. the lord hvhy is the side of the male. elohim(,yhla) is the side of the female. therefore was the male extended, and formed with his members, as it were, regenerative power. the kings that were nullified are here sustained, the judgments of the male are severe in the beginning, mild in the end. those of the female are vice versa. vy h h yv the

, regenerative power. the kings that were nullified are here sustained, the judgments of the male are severe in the beginning, mild in the end. those of the female are vice versa. vy h h yv the channels of connection are shrouded beneath his covering. yod y small in this very form he is found. but if judgments are to be mitigated, necessarily the ancient one is required. the serpent came upon the female and a nest of impurity was formed within her, establishing a dwelling for evil. thus it is written: and she conceived, and she gave birth to qain,103 the nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arm

establishing a dwelling for evil. thus it is written: and she conceived, and she gave birth to qain,103 the nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 104 and called their name adam. the form and person of adam was seated upon the throne,105 as it is written: 12 and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of adam upon it from above.106 13 chapter four the ancient one107 is hidden and conceal

se that are the form of not were expanded, when these became attached, the one in the other, they give birth like unto that living-being that gives birth unto many at one time. twenty-two letters that are concealed, twenty-two letters that are manifest.113 a concealed yod y, a manifest yod y. the concealed and the manifest are balanced in weight, over the weighing of the yod y came forth male and female v d d v. in this place vav v male, dalet d is female. therefore this d v v d is two,114 d v v d male and female. d v v d two pillars, two. yod y is by itself, male. heh h female. heh h at first was dalet d, but after it was impregnated in yod y, it brought forth the vav v (thus, as in the heh h there is d v v d, and in the yod y is h h h h, hence vhy) 14 thus the yv d d vy is seen in its ge

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

footsteps he had not heard upon the pebbles, whose approach he had not beheld in the moonlight, was once more by his side "farewell" resumed zanoni "thy trial commences. when next we meet, thou wilt be the victim or the victor" glyndon's eyes followed the receding form of the mysterious stranger. he saw him enter the boat, and he then for the first time noticed that besides the rowers there was a female, who stood up as zanoni gained the boat. even at the distance he recognised the once-adored form of viola. she waved her hand to him, and across the still and shining air came her voice, mournfully and sweetly, in her mother's tongue "farewell, clarence, i forgive thee! farewell, farewell" he strove to answer; but the voice touched a chord at his heart, and the words failed him. viola was t

le, nothing but those intolerable eyes; but his terror, that even at the first seemed beyond nature to endure, was increased a thousand-fold, when, after a pause, the phantom glided slowly into the chamber. the cloud retreated from it as it advanced; the bright lamps grew wan, and flickered restlessly as at the breath of its presence. its form was veiled as the face, but the outline was that of a female; yet it moved not as move even the ghosts that simulate the living. it seemed rather to crawl as some vast misshapen reptile; and pausing, at length it cowered beside the table which held the mystic volume, and again fixed its eyes through the filmy veil on the rash invoker. all fancies, the most grotesque, of monk or painter in the early north, would have failed to give to the visage of im

s animated by the passions of a half-savage and vehement nature "englishman" said the woman "beware! you know that, whether in flight or at the place of death, i would brave all to be by your side, you know that! speak "well, fillide; did i ever doubt your fidelity "doubt it you cannot, betray it you may. you tell me that in flight you must have a companion besides myself, and that companion is a female. it shall not be "shall not "it shall not" repeated fillide, firmly, and folding her arms across her breast. before glyndon could reply, a slight knock at the door was heard, and nicot opened the latch and entered. fillide sank into her chair, and, leaning her face on her hands, appeared unheeding of the intruder and the conversation that ensued "i cannot bid thee good-day, glyndon" said ni

, or i denounce you' in a word, viola must share our flight "what so easy? i see your passports provide for her "what so easy? what so difficult? this fillide would that i had never seen her! would that i had never enslaved my soul to my senses! the love of an uneducated, violent, unprincipled woman, opens with a heaven, to merge in a hell! she is jealous as all the furies; she will not hear of a female companion; and when once she sees the beauty of viola! i tremble to think of it. she is capable of any excess in the storm of her passions "aha, i know what such women are! my wife, beatrice sacchini, whom i took from naples, when i failed with this very viola, divorced me when my money failed, and, as the mistress of a judge, passes me in her carriage while i crawl through the streets. pla

death is dethroned! robespierre has fallen! they rush to the rescue! hideous in the tumbril, by the side of zanoni, raved and gesticulated that form which, in his prophetic dreams, he had seen his companion at the place of death "save us! save us" howled the atheist nicot "on, brave populace! we shall be saved" and through the crowd, her dark hair streaming wild, her eyes flashing fire, pressed a female form "my clarence" she shrieked, in the soft southern language native to the ears of viola "butcher! what hast thou done with clarence" her eyes roved over the eager faces of the prisoners; she saw not the one she sought "thank heaven! thank heaven! i am not thy murderess" nearer and nearer press the populace, another moment, and the deathsman is defrauded. o zanoni! why still upon thy brow

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

eir own; indeed, it is said that several of them occasionally assist in rolling the same ball. the males as well as the females assist in rolling the pellets. they fly during the hottest part of the day. 1 among the ancients several curious views were held about the scarab, whether of the type scarabaus sacer or the ateuchus agyptiorium, 2 and alian, porphyry, p. 38 and horapollo declared that no female scarab existed. the last named writer stated that the scarab denoted "only begotten" because it was a creature self-produced, being unconceived by a female. he goes on to say that, having made a ball of dung, the beetle rolls it from east to west, and having dug a hole, he buries it in it for eight and twenty days; on the twenty-ninth day he opens the ball, and throws it into the water, and

amulet was in use in egypt as early as the vith dynasty, and it was worn or held or carried with the sistrum by gods, kings, priests, priestesses, etc; usually it is held in the hand, but it is often worn on the neck. its object was to bring joy and health to the wearer, and it was believed to possess magical properties; it represented nutrition 2 and p. 61 strength, and the might of the male and female organs of generation, mystically considered, was supposed to be united therein. the amulet is made in bronze, stone, porcelain, and other substances, and when laid upon the body of the dead brought to it the power of life and reproduction. 17. the amulet of the sam, this amulet is probably intended to represent an organ of the human body, and its use is very ancient; it is made of lapis-laz

been inscribed on the tablet, and one of two things will happen: i.e, the dog will either snarl p. 97 and snap at the lover, or he will bark. if he snarls and snaps the lover will not gain the object of his affections, but if he barks the lady will come to him. in the second example the lover is ordered to make two waxen figures; one in the form of ares, and the other in the form of a woman. the female figure is to be in the posture of kneeling upon her knees with her hands tied behind her, and the male figure is to stand over her with his sword at her throat. on the limbs of the female figure a large number of the names of demons are to be written, and when this has been done, the lover must take thirteen bronze needles, and stick them in her limbs, saying as he does so "i pierce (here h

syrian philosophers and magicians, and from a passage like the following 1 we may get a proof of this-"i call thee, the headless one, that didst create earth and heaven, that didst create night and day, thee the creator of light and darkness. thou art osoronnophris, whom no man hath seen at any time; thou art iabas, thou art iapos, thou hast distinguished the just and the unjust, thou didst make female and male, thou didst produce seeds and fruits, thou didst make men to love one another and to bate one another. i am moses thy prophet, to whom thou didst commit thy mysteries, the ceremonies of israel; thou didst produce the moist and the dry and all manner of food. listen to me: i am an angel of phapro osoronnophris; this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of israel. listen to

writers. but if the matter be examined closely its apparent stupidity disappears. the egyptians paid honour to certain birds, and animals, and reptiles, because they considered that they possessed certain of the characteristics of the gods to whom they made them sacred. the bull was a type of the strength and procreative power of the god of reproduction in nature, and the cow was the type of his female counterpart; every sacred animal and living thing possessed some quality or attribute which was ascribed to some god, and as each god was only a form of ra, the quality or attribute ascribed to him was that of the sun-god himself. the educated egyptian never worshipped an animal as an animal, but only as an incarnation of a god, and the reverence paid to animals in egypt was in no way diffe

SOLOMON

i might gain authority over him. and it came about through my prayer that grace was given to me from the lord sabaoth by michael his archangel [he brought me] a little ring, having a seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me "take, o solomon, king, son of david, the gift which the lord god has sent thee, the highest sabaoth. with it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up jerusalem [but] thou [must] wear this seal of god. and this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a pentalpha" 6. and i solomon was overjoyed, and praised and glorified the god of heaven and earth. and on the morrow i called the boy, and gave him the ring, and said to him "take this, and at the hour in which the demon shall come unto thee, t

wered "i am called ornias" 10. and solomon said to him "tell me, o demon, to what zodiacal sign thou art subject" and he answered "to the water-pourer. and those who are consumed with desire for the noble virgins upon earth, these i strangle. but in case there is no disposition to sleep, i am changed into three forms. whenever men come to be enamoured of women, i metamorphose myself into a comely female; and i take hold of the men in their sleep, and play with them. and after a while i again take to my wings, and hide me to the heavenly regions. i also appear as a lion, and i am commanded by all the demons. i am offspring of the archangel uriel, the power of god" 11. i solomon, having heard the name of the archangel, prayed and glorified god, the lord of heaven and earth. and i sealed the

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he crescent is continued fullcircle, the figure which results is a hidden point within a circle, the symbol which was adopted by the astronomers as their sign of the sun. in the ancient- 17- mysteries the point in the circle denoted the principle of fecundity and has been carried down through the ages as a sign of various secret societies, including the llluminati of adam weishaupt in 1776.20 the female principle is also emphasized by the crescent moon or lunette figure. there are 72 geometrical figures (and shadings) in the mural. the two crescent shapes and the four long triangles. white, yellow, blue and black. which are located in the two upper tiers of the mural, are each counted as one figure. the number 72 denoted from the earliest days the divine name of 72 words. this number is de

venty-two is also the number of the quinaries or sets of five degrees in the 360 degrees of the zodiac.21 the number of triangles in the mural are difficult to count. there are 22. isosceles, equilateral, scalene, right-angled. triangles. there are also 22 numbered letters in the ancient hebrew alphabet, with values of 1 to 400. the triangle is an ancient emblem of deity; it is also a sign of the female element. however, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down it becomes the male element; thus inverted it may also represent lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are f

gative and positive (representing polarity) and twine around the spinal column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the u.n. the serpents are male and female; the sun-god and the moon-god; and are symbols of generation. buddha was symbolized by the serpent and in mythology is identical with mercury. the center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye. this bisected sphere overlays an isoceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. according to manly palmer hall, in his occult treatise -18- on the secret destiny

sents the four different worlds of the tree. the three rows up and down of the mural are the three pillars of the tree. the 22 iriangles in the mural are the 22 lines or paths by which the (en sephiroth are connected one to another (waite, op. cit, p. 381. the left, male side of the tree, indicated by the black half of the sphere, is darkness and death (ibid, p. 350. the right side of the tree is female: as symbolized by the moon figure, the while halfcrescent. the caduceus line .spinal chord is the sex force which extends down (he middle pillar of the sephiroth, which is also the body of adam kadmon. the base of the spine is the yesod or foundation, the sacred generative organs (ibid, p. 1201. from yesod springs the kingdom at the bottom of the tree, which represents mankind. the literatu

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as a fantastic ring to it, but the truth contained in the story is the birth of the divine and its subsequent destiny in individual human souls. the divine is united with the soul, which is still subject to time and earthly conditions; and as soon as the god, the dionysiac spirit, stirs within the soul, it experiences a longing for its real spiritual form. however, consciousness again imaged as a female deity, 62 christianity as mystical fact hera appears and becomes jealous of the offspring from a qualitatively higher consciousness. she rouses the lower aspects of human nature the titans and the unformed divine child is dismembered. the divine knowledge exists in humanity, but dismembered by the understanding that is bound to the senses. if on the other hand there is within the individual

titan disposition still lived on in prometheus he was only half a friend to zeus. when zeus was about to destroy humankind on account of their hubris, prometheus took up their cause and taught them numbers, writing, and that other prerequisite of culture, the use of fire.82 this provoked zeus rage against prometheus. hephaestus, a son of myth and mysteriosophy 77 zeus, was commissioned to make a female form of great beauty, which all the gods adorned with every possible gift. she was named pandora( all-gifted. the messenger of the gods, hermes, brought her to prometheus brother, epimetheus, to whom she gave a casket as a gift from the gods. epimetheus accepted the gift, despite the fact that prometheus had warned him on no account to accept a gift from the gods. when the casket was opened

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

bol of sacrifice or reflection-exemplified for example in the tarot card the hanged man. the planetary sign of the path of t, is l, a sign composed of the cross and the moon, and thus apt for linking twklm and dwsy. the full descent of the into matter is exemplified by the crucifixion, the beautiful naked hermaphrodite of dwsy on the t or cross of the thirty-second path. on the card we notice the female figure naked, except for a k-shaped scarf, dancing within a wreathed oval. her attitude, with arms extended downwards and outwards, and her legs forming a cross, suggests the triangle over a cross, the sign of q. having taken a look at correspondences of the cross with the feminine principle of both h and h final, we need to look at w. w is the letter attributed to the world of hryxy, and t

SYMBOLISM

many apparently conflicting stories within the egyptian mythology. the grand master pointed out that in several egyptian myths, shu and tefnut are self-created. in others they were created by tears of the master creator god (whoever he happened to be according to the story teller. in yet others they were created by the master god's masturbation. shu and tefnut by definition are the first male and female. the master god's masturbation in these latter stories was always male masturbation, but shu is the first male. shu and tefnut begat geb and nut, but nut was the all-pervasive universal sky that preceded the first god. this confusion is the result of centuries of egyptian story telling, and while some of it appears to be contraditory, most of it is useful. we certainly must hesitate to cons

TELESMATIC FIGURES

lows: sound prolonged (masculine) aleph-broad a beth-b-bh vau-u,v, oo zayin-z caph-k, kh nun-n samekh-s ayin-o, ngh, au qoph-q, qh resh-r shin-sh, s sound arrested (feminine) gimel-g, gh daleth-d, dh heh-h cheth-ch (gutteral) teth-t yod-i, j, y. lamed-l mem-m peh-p, ph tzaddi-tz 5 telesmatic attributions of the letters of the hebrew alphabet a spiritual. wings generally, epicene, rather male than female, rather thin type. b active and slight. male. g grey, beautiful yet changeful. feminine, rather full face and body. d very beautiful and attractive. feminine. rather full face and body. h fierce, strong, rather fiery; feminine. w steady and strong. rather heavy and clumsy, masculine. z thin, intelligent, masculine. j full face, not much expression, feminine. f rather strong and fiery. femin

active. feminine. rather full face and body. h fierce, strong, rather fiery; feminine. w steady and strong. rather heavy and clumsy, masculine. z thin, intelligent, masculine. j full face, not much expression, feminine. f rather strong and fiery. feminine. y very white and rather delicate. feminine. k big and strong, masculine. l well-proportioned; feminine. m reflective, dream-like, epicene, but female rather than male. n square determined face, masculine, rather dark. s thin rather expressive face; masculine. u rather mechanical, masculine. p fierce, strong, resolute, feminine. x thoughtful, intellectual, feminine. q rather full face, masculine. r proud and dominant, masculine. c fierce, active, epicene, rather male than female. t dark, grey, epicene; male rather than female (these gende

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urderer of khurum, that of the evil god bal is found* har-oeri was the god of time, as well as of life. the egyptian legend was that the king of byblos cut down the tamarisk-tree containing the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. the identity of the lege

roditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current..it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring his own tail..force attracts force..5 the jewish cabalists speak in mysterious, guarded terms of this same potent force. they say it is produced from the uniting of the two triangles, male and female, in the sex act, releasing the generative energy of creation. the result symbolized is, of course, the jewish star of david, known as the seal, or symbol, of solomon or simply as the six-pointed star. the cabalists say this star represents the combined energy of good and evil becoming one force; it represents the "white jehovah and the black jehovah" it is the epitome of the "as above, so b

nry, southern jurisdiction. fascinating, isn't it, that black leaders like farrahkan and jesse jackson aren't complaining? usually, they go nuts complaining about confederate monuments and statues on government land. could their silence be attributed to the fact that jackson and farrakhan are themselves 3 3rd degree masons? in any case, at the foot of pike's justice department statue is a masonic female figure representing lady justice, holding a banner with the 33rd degree double-headed eagle and the triangle of freemasonry. the androgyne, a combination creature of male and female, symbolizes the hermaphrodite principle of the two-faced entity or two-headed eagle. in the jewish cabala, this strange creation of the feminine and masculine principle is known as "adam kadmon" both adam and ev

distinguished book, the history of the world (written between 1607 and 1614) had this illustration as its frontispiece. the book was banned by england's king james i because it revealed too much, ostensibly for its portrayals of babylonian queen semiramis and her effeminate son, ninus. more likely is that the artwork shown here revealed far too many occult secrets, including the androgynous (male/female) figure holding aloft the globe, the allseeing eye, etc. united mine workers union poster, 1890. the two miners are exchanging a masonic handshake, being overseen by the all-seeing eye. almost all unions in america and europe were founded by jewish activists deep into cabala, masonry, and other occult secrets. 274 codex magica the riddle of the great seal of the united states 275 three vers

even worshipped a god of silence, harpocrates, a form of the solar deity. harpocrates was often pictured sitting on his mother's lap, suckling at her breast. later, the catholic church adopted similar images in the veneration of mary with child. sometimes harpocrates was pictured naked or with horns on his head, symbols of power. he often sat on a lotus flower. the lotus is a sexual symbol of the female vagina.7 "silence, slaves, or we'll cut your throat from ear to ear" 289 in the active days of benjamin franklin and our nation's founders, their secret society counterparts in great britain made use of the god harpocrates. sir francis dashwood, instrumental in the british operation of the illuminati, recruited nobility for his hell-fire club, a secret group based on magic, satanism, and se

THE BLACK LODGE

sexuality. the purpose behind this policy is still the basic purpose of the black lodge: to keep the human being as sub-human as possible. abstention from sexual relations with the opposite sex, and concentration in our own sex, is not, certainly, a normal attitude- again statistically speaking. but when it happens spontaneously, it may be normal for the individuals participating- be they male or female. the important condition, the vital condition, consists in avoiding environmental influence. our environment must not influence us either to avoid or to engage in homosexuality. we are not, in truth, either male or female in all the planes in which we exist- at least not simultaneously. in the subtler planes, the polarity of our vehicles may vary and alternate; particularly so during the in

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not? be ye mystic. others believe in prayer. have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? let it be the root of your gospel. oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. then verily sleep is better than prayer. quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking; by it the female obtains much from man. utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by that you will obtain your desire. some do much to show the similarity of different religions; certainly by it i prove the possibility of a fundamental illusion, but that they never realise-or this ukase they are the mockery, for how much they regret! they suffer more conflict than the unenlightened. wi

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

wood, water, fire, and earth. north of the ancient roman empire, the teutonics used frost, fire, and water. while the celtic tribes called them sky, land, and sea. this background denotes sections taken from my personal book of shadows. above the realm of man and elements, there dwells the one which are two. we call it the force, or tao, and we know it as the yin& yang, the archetypical male and female, our lord& lady. in its manifest form it is the spirit flame. below the spirit flame, are the three sacred elements of the sky, the land, and the sea. the sky, is the realm of the sun, moon and stars. the home of the great ones that we call gods and goddesses. it is the unwritten future, and the realm of dreams. the land, is the realm of man. here we dwell in the present, with the birds, an

rsonal of the basic tools. traditionally made of wood, and a cubit in length (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, it frequently has in its construction a drop of its owner blood. modern wands are often fashioned of copper tubes, covered in leather or cloth, and tipped with crystals or semi-precious gem stones. this tool is viewed as having a male end for projection, and a female or receptive end. much like the athame, the wand can be employed to cast a circle, but its true power lies at a higher level, when used to invoke, and dismiss spiritual entities. it is associated with the element of fire. miscellaneous altar tools these include candles, cords, censor/thurible/incense, bell, sword, staff, crystal ball, scrying stone, magick mirror, tarot cards, rune stones

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y considered the ka an essential aspect of a human being, but understood that a provision for it, as well as for the physical body, must be made at the time of death. the ba is generally understood by modern scholars as representing that aspect of the essential self that is commonly referred to as the soul. often depicted in ancient egyptian art and hieroglyphs as a bird with a human head male or female, corresponding to the sex of the person represented the ba hovers near its physical counterpart. in cultures throughout the world, the bird is often utilized as a symbol for the soul. and certainly, in the egypt of thousands of years ago, the high-flying, free-moving creature of the air would have seemed an obvious representation of the aspect of the self that separates from the body at the

s and mystical traditions appear to center around a kind of mystery play or ritual reenactment of the life of such gods as osiris, dionysus, and demeter, divinities most often associated with the underworld, the realm of the dead, the powers of darkness, and the process of rebirth. because of the importance of the regenerative process, the rites of the mysteries were usually built around a divine female as the agent of transformation and regeneration. while the initiates of the mystery cult enacted the life cycle of the gods who triumphed over death and who were reborn, they also asserted their own path of wisdom that would enable them to conquer death and accomplish resurrection in the afterlife, with rebirth in a new body in a new existence. the origin and substance of the state religion

(anthro man; sophy wisdom) to achieve contact with the spiritual world. the human intellect, steiner insisted, could be trained to rise above material concerns and to perceive a greater spiritual reality. the human consciousness had the ability to activate the seed that the great spirit beings had implanted within their human offspring. steiner recognized that while the physical seeds of male and female intermingled to pro- 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 52 afterlife mysteries the symbol of the theosophical society (fortean picture library) rudolfsteiner defined christ consciousness as a transformative energy that transcended orthodox christianity. duce the whole human being, there was also something in each human that did not aris

dently from the medium. trumpet 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 mediums and mystics 87 a group of men and women levitating a table (archives of brad steiger) mediums are popular at spiritualist camps, and husband and wife teams often travel the circle of summer camps giving demonstrations. skeptics suggest that the reason for such male and female partnerships among trumpet mediums is the simple fact that many more voice tones may be imitated by the mediums during the course of a seance. the materialization of an old coin, a ring, a bracelet, or a semiprecious stone from the spirit world to a sitter attending a seance is called an apport (from the french apporter, to bring. according to mediums, spirit friends bring these objects fro

rkeley, mountain view, sacramento, and santa rosa refers to itself as a psychic kindergarten. the meaning of kindergarten, in this case, is the virtual playground in the psychic field, a place for exploring what it means to be psychic. since 1973, the bpi has taught students how to recognize and develop their own psychic abilities through classes in clairvoyance, meditation, healing, and male and female energy. since that time, more than 100,000 students have taken classes, and an additional 4,000-plus have graduated from a one-year intensive clairvoyant training program. sources: berkeley psychic institute. http//www.berkeleypsychic.com/ bpi/bpi.html. 15 october 2001. human television channel, receiving thoughts and images from beyond. whichever title is preferred by those who claim to re

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rwear, so he was searching for a proper uniform to wear in the afterlife. the restaurant s maitre de had little sympathy for wilhelm s plight, however. he had seen the ghost on so many occasions that he finally told johnson that he would no longer venture down to the cellar. in addition to wilhelm, who manifested at the 1972 seance, there was a little boy ghost, who cried for his lost mother; two female entities who had worked at the inn and had died young under bizarre circumstances; eight other hessian soldiers who had once been quartered at the inn and who had died nearby in battle; a native american who seemed primarily to be observing the others; and an african american who was an entity of few words. many customers and employees had seen the spirits of the hessians over the years. us

e night. by midsummer the eerie sound of voices in the night had become intolerable. they began 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 40 ghosts and phantoms before the household went to bed, and with brief intermissions were heard until after broad day in the morning. mary ricketts could frequently distinguish articulate sounds. usually a shrill female voice would begin, and then two others with deeper and manlike tones joined in the discourse. although the conversation often sounded as if it were taking place close to her, she never could distinguish actual words. at last, mary ricketts appealed to her brother, the earl st. vincent, to come to her aid. earlier, he had spent a few days at hinton ampner and had heard nothing, but now the u

o s keeper, george telbury of yale, announced his intention to take the man-beast to london, england, to exhibit him. all traces of jacko vanished after the rash of news stories recounting the details of his capture. on october 20, 1967, near bluff creek, north of eureka, california, bigfoot hunters roger patterson and bob gimlin managed to shoot several feet of movie film of what appears to be a female bigfoot. with its glossy black hair shining in the bright sun, the bigfoot walks away from the camera with a stride that is human. it has pendulous breasts, and it looks back at the cameraman as it walks steadily toward a growth of trees. it does not appear to be frightened, but it is obvious that it wishes to avoid contact. experts say that the creature in the filmstrip is over seven feet

ax broke, refused to confirm or deny the reports. chris murphy, a bigfoot researcher, told the sunday telegraph (october 19, 1997) that very high computer enhancements of the film show conclusively that, whatever it was, it was not wearing a suit. the skin on the creature ripples as it walks. other bigfoot experts have declared the patterson-gimlin film to be an authentic documentary of a genuine female hominoid. two russian scientists, dmitri bayanov and igor bourtsev, minutely analyzed every movement of the female bigfoot on the controversial film and concluded that it had passed all their tests and their criteria of distinctiveness, consistency, and naturalness. who, they ask rhetorically in their chapter in the sasquatch and other unknown hominoids, other than god or natural selection

sts theorized that aliens brought the monsters to test the planet s atmosphere, in order to prepare a mass invasion of earth. anthropologists reminded people that tales of such mysterious, vampirelike monsters that sucked the blood out of livestock had been common in central america for centuries. a widely popular story spread throughout chile that chilean soldiers had captured a chupacabra male, female, and cub that had been living in a mine north of calama. then, according to the account, a team of nasa scientists arrived in a black helicopter and reclaimed the chupacabra family. the creatures, so the story claimed, had escaped from a secret nasa facility in the atacama desert of northern chile where the u.s. space agency was attempting to create some kind of hybrid beings that could sur

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uals who were often escaped convicts, galley-slaves, and vicious criminals. below the athletes in rank were the gbellows, h elderly men who were regarded by their cities and villages as men of good character who acted as the disposers of stolen goods for the society. the lowest rank in the garduna was held by the ggoats, h the new recruits who had yet to prove their abilities. there were also two female ranks: the sirens, young beautiful women whose task it was to seduce state officials; and the covers, whose assignment lay in luring unsuspecting victims into ambushes where they could be robbed or murdered. in 1822, in an era of social reform, police entered the home of the grand master in seville, arrested him, and confiscated all his documents. remarkably, the garduna had kept meticulous

ned on him, but the shock proved too much for the chief. when he saw the bloodied corpses of his wife and daughter and realized how viciously his fellow leopard men had betrayed him, he collapsed and died of heart failure. although wilson received 200 additional police officers as reinforcements, the leopard men became increasingly bold in their nocturnal attacks. one night they even sacrificed a female victim inside the police compound and managed to get away without being seen. after that cruelly defiant gesture, the cult committed several murders in broad daylight. the native inhabitants of the region lost all confidence in the police and their ability to stop the slashings and killings of the powerful leopard men. even some of wilson fs men began to believe that the cultists might trul

e been captured or spared during a raid, a man had to be born into the cult in order to become an initiate. the minimum age for initiation into the society was 10, and the young candidates were allowed to watch their elders at work from hidden points some distance from the site of the attack. at the age of 18, they were permitted to make their first human sacrifices to kali. the thuggee had their female counterparts in a secret sect of tantrists who held that it was only by a constant indulgence in passion that a human could ever achieve total union with kali. only indulgence in the five vices that corrupt the soul of humankind. wine, meat, fish, mystical gesticulations, and sexual indulgence.could drive the poisons out of the human body and purify the soul. in 1822, william sleeman, an of

his own and proclaimed it an allegorical novel written in tribute to rosencreutz, as well as a symbolic depiction of the science of alchemy and hermetic magic. others identified the work as a comic romance, lightly depicting the most profound alchemical symbols in a fanciful manner. the royal wedding to which the hero rosencreutz is invited is in reality the alchemical process itself in which the female and male principles are joined together. as the novel continues, the vast arcana of alchemical truths are represented by various animals, mythological beings, and human personalities. in addition to being an advocate of alchemy and the process of contacting intermediary spirits to accomplish good for society, andreae believed in becoming an active reformer of social ills, as well as support

or doing evil. 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 magic and sorcery 53 among certain hispanic and native american cultures of the southwest, the practice of burjeria is feared as a manifestation of evil. those who use rituals, spells, incantations, potions, and powders to work ill against others are known as brujas (witches, who are primarily female in number (the male witch is known as a brujo. all the negative facets of witchcraft feared by people throughout the world are practiced by the brujas: 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

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

a devil, that the cult of the horned god fell into disrepute.the idea of dividing the power beyond into two, one good and one evil, belongs to an advanced andsophisticated religion. in the more primitive cults the deity is in himself the author of all, whether good orbad. the monotheism -of early religions is very marked, each little settlement ok-group of settlementshaving its one deity, male or female, whose power was co-terminous with that of his worshippers.polytheism appears to have arisen with the amalgamation of tribes, each with its own deity. when a tribewhose deity was male coalesced with a tribe whose deity was female, the union of the peoples wassymbolised in their religion by the marriage of their gods. when by peaceful infiltration a new god ousted anold one, he was said to b

of palaeolithic man beyond his flint tools, his painted and sculptured caves, his engravedbones, and a few skulls. he lived in caves in glacial conditions as is shown by the animals found with him. itis certain that there was some kind of ceremony, religious or magical, in which a horned man, presumably agod, took the leading part. it is equally certain that there must have been a worship of the female principle,but in the cult of the horned god this does not appear till a much later stage.of the religion of the neolithic period nothing is known in western europe except the burial rites. the godshave left no recognisable trace, though certain female figures may possibly represent goddesses. but whenthe bronze-age arose the horned god is found through all europe from east to west. the fier

rriages of an ordinary village, and show how the cult permeated the whole religious organisation and lifeof the people. gaule[54] makes the general statement that the devil "oft-times marries them ere they part,either to himselfe, or their familiar, or to one another; and that by the book of common prayer" delancre[53] is very explicit "the devil performs marriages at the sabbath between male and female witches.joining their hands he says to them aloud: esta es buena parati, esta parati lo toma" in lorraine[56] agnestheobalda said that she was at the wedding when cathalina and engel von hudlingen took their beelzebubsin marriage. in sweden[57 "the devil had sons and daughters whom he did marry together" besides thepermanent unions there were temporary marriages in which the ceremonies were

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

ky falling and the seas drowning us, even the fires of the end of the cosmos, cannot destroy us, for by truly being aware of it, we become the indestructible, ever-renewing heart of life and existence, which is the only reality. the housle rite is our way of declaring that fact and showing it to all levels, from the subtlest, to the most material, in the form of a meal around an altar or a table. female redeemer, male consecrator and now for the last: some people have looked at the housle rite and asked a very good questio n, one that deserves answering. they have seen that the wine is symbolically a masculine substance, and the bread a feminine one, but noticed that the dame or the daughter is called upon to consecrate the wine, and the father or the master is called upon to consecrate th

inds the stability and wisdom that he needs to complete his task of renewal, which he does. without her, he could not have done it. and by the power he gave to each human being, we can bring forth his completion, through this sacrament, regenerating ourselves, and our own world. the father or the master is called upon to consecrate the bread, because it is the masculine force that consecrates the female, and the earth, with the fertilizing power of life that allows the feminine to complete the task of procreation; the sky fertilizes the ground, and the earth father mates with the earth mother to co-create her plenty. but more than that, the blessing of the father/master of the bread shows the mythological pattern of the horn child, the glorified essence of reality or fire, returning at las

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

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

of balance, alluding to its aspect of moderation between two extremes. 4 "the one" 5. it is our opinion that the freudian id, in its more restricted definition, conesponds to the qabalistic nephesh rather than the yechidah. see part two, chapter six. 6. a chinese term for "way" it refers to the one absolute reality which is said to have brought forth "ten thousand things" it is the union of yin (female energy) and yang (male energy. 7. the collected works of c. g. jung #13, alchemical studies. 8. the word it is the english translation of the latin word id, which freud used in his theories (the german translation is es) to avoid confusion we have italicized the word it throughout the text to indicate where regardie was referring to the freudian id. 9. on the qabalistic tree of life, yang e

lever expositor, referring to the manner in which the ancient magicians conceived of these archetypes or magical images, expresses the idea thus: they took each factor in nature and personified it, gave it a name, and built up a symbolicfigure to represent it; just as british artists have by the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 61 their collective efforts produced a standard britannia, a female figure with shield charged with the union jack, a lion at her feet, a trident in her hand, a helmet on her head, and the sea in the background. analysing thisfigure as we would a qabalistic symbol, we realize that these individual symbols in the complex glyph have each a sign$cance-in fact, an occult glyph is more akin to a coat of arms than anything else. a magicalfigure is the coat of arm

to, someone who symbolizes the attributes of their own psyche. every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definitive feminine image. this image is findamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or "archetype" of all the ancestral experiences of the female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by woman. since this image is unconscious, it is always unconsciously projected upon the person of the beloved, and is one of the chief reasons for passionate attraction or aversion.l9 psychology and magic 12 7 we must learn to discriminate between interior and exterior manifestation of the anima and animus, just as we must distinguis

beneficent spirits in. and as early as the sixth century b.c.e, pythagoras, the greek philosopher-mystic, used the pentagram as a holy symbol for his followers. five was a number peculiarly associated with the ideas of marriage and union, as it is the first number beyond the monad formed from the union of the first odd and even numbers, male and figure 11: backing into the tree. the pentagram 185 female. it is also said to represent the human figure, with arms and legs outspread. the shape of the five-pointed star seems to be one of nature's favorite geometric designs-it can be found in flowers, fruit, and crystalline forms. in magic the pentagram represents the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth-plus one other. in addition, the number five is attributed to the pentagrammaton or

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ohio valley] monsters, ufos, and apparitions have an, interesting affinity for garbage dumps and junk yards even the famous miracle at lourdes, france, in 1858, took place at the local garbage dump- 7- the night of the bleeding ear i. gwendoline martino was back in her apartment in cherry hill, new jersey, early in december 1966, packing her things for a trip to europe. her unlisted phone rang. a female voice with a slight foreign accent came on the line "hello, gwen "yes, this is gwen "gwen stevens "no, this is gwen martino "you're not gwen stevens "no. you've got the wrong gwen" this same woman called back again on two successive nights. the conversation was always the same. mrs. martino was mildly irritated that the woman would call her three times in a row but she thought nothing of it

e of them and studied the tapes. the sound is more mechanical or electronic than human and is probably caused by the introduction of a modulated current into the telephone line. this phenomenon is not isolated to the cities. people in remote towns with a population of only twenty-five or so also get these calls. the heavy breathing of the sex nut who (supposedly) masturbates while he listens to a female voice on the line contains certain recordable vocal characteristics which are totally absent in the heavy breathing calls i taped. played at a slower speed, the recorded "breathing" was an evenly spaced series of pulses resembling the swishing sound of a phonograph when the needle reaches the end of the record and does not reject. heavy breathing would not be so uniform. ii mr. kevin dee an

his shoes squished loudly as he walked" she noted. when he reached the road, he made a gesture with his hand and a black 1963 cadillac drove through the trees and pulled up. it was driving in the pitch-dark with its headlights out so she couldn't see the driver. tiny climbed into the car and it drove away, its headlights still out- the next morning ed was alone in the house when the phone rang. a female voice explained she was calling about the missing-heir interview "we've located the edward christiansen we were looking for in california" she explained. ed said he had felt sure he wasn't the right one, thanked her, and hung up. when he told his family about the call, they all dismissed the incident from their minds until my interview with them. the wire running up the leg is one feature i

f in a place not too unlike the earth. he and vadig got into a wheelless vehicle that traveled along a kind of trough "this is lanulos" vadig announced with pride in his voice. he repeated the name several times so it would stick in tom's memory. their vehicle traveled through a large city with low, flat buildings and signs written in some kind of oriental-looking characters. the people, male and female, were all nude "there were some real lookers there, too" tom commented. after the tour, they returned to the egg-shaped craft and took off again. tom sat alone in the same circular room watching the television screen for hours. finally they arrived back on earth at the same place from which they had left. tom, vadig, and the silent man returned to the old buick and drove for about thirty mi

uggested. my problems were minor compared to dan's, however. he was seeing plenty of aerial lights but his battery-powered cameras malfunctioned when he tried to photograph them. finally, he thought he had managed to get some footage. then the precious films were later accidentally ruined in a processing lab back in new york. members of his crew began to have troubles with their telephones, and a female production assistant was awakened one night in her apartment in brooklyn by a loud beeping noise. she got up, looked out the window, and saw a large luminous sphere hovering directly outside her building. during his second visit to point pleasant dan uncovered some mothman witnesses i had missed. and he also came across some more baffling men-in-black-type reports. people up in the back hil

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon o

the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixio

not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities, had both male and female manifestations, showing that the sumerians definitely recognised a yin-yang composition if the universe (the "male moon" idea is, the editor is given to understand, common to so-called aryan mythologies. there is also evidence to show that every god and goddess also had both a good and an evil nature, and evil gods were banished in the exorcism formulae of that civilisation as well as the l

he worn tapestry of the established moral christian atmosphere of victorian england, and expose it for what it really was, a carpet made of many ingenious threads and not god- or eternal happiness- at all; only nap. therefore, it seemed almost logical that he should seek in the defeated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that h

ntrick sex magick rites that so preoccupied crowley and the o.t.o. there can be no true magick without woman, nor without man, and in the symbolic language of the occult there can be no sun without the moon. in alchemy, ceremonial magick, and witchcraft, the formula is the same, for they all deal with identical properties; whether they are called the sun and moon of the elixir vitae, the male and female participants in a rite of indian or chinese tantricism, or the shadow and the anima of jungian depth psychology. for many years, the moon remained the prime deity of the sumerians, constituting the essential personum of a religious and mystical drama that was performed roughly 3000 b.c. amid the deserts and marshes of mesopotamia. side by side with the worship of the moon, nanna, there was

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

what a person does in his two or three free hours a day, the ones in which he is not committed to his family or his work. those are the hours that he must examine himself to see if he spends them in front of the television, in a restaurant, or labouring to attain a spiritual goal. the difference between men and women in our world is a consequence of the relationship between the male part and the female part of the soul. as a result, men 54 of 273 and women have a different outlook on life, different obligations and different objectives. the male and female parts of every partzuf in the spiritual world complement one another: the female part contributes its desires and the male part contributes its screens. in the end, it is the combination between them that brings to spiritual attainment

e parts, meaning the right and left lines. for example: in the degrees of pharaoh, moses, israel, and a gentile, there is both a feminine and a masculine part. but each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. man and woman are a union of between zeir anpin and malchut of the world of atzilut. its essence and degree create different names and a higher spiritual degree. the male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. if that is the case, then how should men and women behave in this world? each according to the possibilities that he/she has been given within a specific gender. though we are egoistic and seek nothing but our personal profit, we must be grateful for the creator for having allowed us to see ourselves as we really are, as unpleasant as it is. it is

quivalence of form (properties) with the world of ein sof. one feels the transitions from world to world according to the changes in his inner properties (inner feelings; he begins with feeling himself in this world, and gradually comes to feel himself completely identical to the world of ein sof, to the creator. lights q: why is the light of wisdom assigned a male gender and the light of mercy a female, motherly gender? a: the light of wisdom is the root of the male properties and the light of bina is the root of the female properties. men and women differ in properties, skin texture, physiology etc. you can even see the differences in their handwriting. what separates between the two genders are the (hebrew) letters yod (for male) and hey (for female. the letter yod represents the sefira

himo or a shell. q: what is the reason that one is born as a man or a woman? why does one need to realize his destination in the land of israel and the other away from it, and by what criteria are the relatives chosen? a: these questions relate to the mechanism of the superior providence, called zon of the world of atzilut. that system consists of two parts: zeir anpin and nukva, meaning male and female that have their own relationship. that relationship creates time (days, weeks, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do not exis

, months and years) and their mating creates the souls. the properties of the souls define the characteristics of the physical body that the soul clothes. the soul is created and descends to this world even before a child is born into it. i am using earthly terms of time, space and motion, although they do not exist in the spiritual world. we must understand that relationship between the male and female parts of zon of the world of atzilut determine everything that happens in our world. there is no other way to easily explain and describe the complete variety of possibilities of the relationship between these two parts, how they connect and how they clothe one another, how they mate and how they create new souls. it is a very complex system. about 1600 pages of the 2000 pages of the study

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

te themselves for the kingdom of god, but the great human masses will let the kingdom of god go to the devil, if a pretty pair of lips is in question. not for long in any case can we change our natures, as the anchorites of the libyan deserts only too fearfully proved; boiling with carnalities they feared to see their own mothers, and were even forbidden to keep in their possession animals of the female sex. o stylites! they are now in heaven! how we clave together! how we strained caresses! how the swooning limbs sank fainting on the sward! for the fiery dart raged fiercer; in excesses long restrained, it cried, gbehold i am the lord! h *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 173. such is the ultimate end of platonic love. that it has many noble forms, that it sprang from the true abhor

ciety, as scathing as a beverland, as cynical as a carlyle, and as satirical as a butler. its great theme is the contest gof age and sense with flatulence and youth. h we have already shaken hands with percy, molly, and lady baird (angela; we have still to be introduced to lord glenstrae. the first two form the flatulent element, the latter two the constipated substance of this drama. angela, the female quantity; glenstrae the male: both are outwardly highly moral; both are ready to lay their morality aside with skirt and shirt when opportunity should offer. when percy fell in love with molly, we saw how lady angela enticed him from her by her maturer wisdom. utterly false, the social hag of sixty totally eclipses the girl of sixteen; she backs her knowledge against the latter fs innocence

ion fs waistcoat buttons undone! any old gentleman in any club in london *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 38. meeting molly he asks her for a glass of milk, and comforts her on hearing that she intends going into service, saying: gand so you shall, my dear, so you shall. come and live with my wife as her companion, and we will try and find your lover for you. no doubt the arts of this. er. designing female will soon lose their power. there, there, no thanks, i beg! i never could bear to see a pretty wench cry. there, there! h* we have now thoroughly grasped the quality of the male element, and the two together, the harlot and the lecher, produce the social code and seven-eighths of the social woes *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 39. vide, the martyrs of hell fs highway. gmust i, must i? oh, sir

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

nt sun. the rays from this sun number thirty, the number of degrees in one zodiacal sign. the woman is crowned with twelve stars, to represent the twelve signs through which the sun passes each year. her feet rest upon the moon, symbol of the feminine in nature. and the cube upon which she sits represents the cross of matter, where rays of sun and moon meet, and so signifies the union of male and female forces. from her brow the sacred serpent thrusts its head as a symbol of enlightenment. in her right hand she carries a scepter surmounted by a globe. this is essentially a phallus, and indicates the perpetual action of creative energy upon all things born or to be born. in her left hand she carries an eagle, the symbol of fruitfulness and of the heights to which the flights of the spirit c

and that from the silver cup the forces of woman; together revealing the truth of soul-matehood, and indicating how the finer energies of man rejuvenate woman and how the finer energies of woman rejuvenate man; their forces mutually sustaining each other and making a joint immortality possible. the eight-point star symbolizes the law of equilibrium, the balance between spirit and matter, male and female, the inner and the outer. it is the book of the apocalypse sealed with seven seals, and thus represents the inner realization and the outer realization, the birth of the soul and the birth of the body, under the influence of the planets, represented by the 7 surrounding stars, or seals. each of these smaller stars, or seals, has four points, to signify that man should recognize the nature o

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

e rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and leads into the invoking of the force of darkness. the temple itself would be decorated in images of death, skulls and bones and a large black coffin in which one of the female magicians would be laying. it begins with the priest of thanatos invoking: now listen to the voice of thanatos known to men as the face of death, whom they worship with howling and shattering teeth. all the while a funerary drum beats and calls forth the dead. soon, the congregation throws human bones and grave soil within the coffin, which is soon closed. the celebrants then meditate on am

THE BOOK OF GATES

upon you the deadly chain. keep ye [your] ward under the reckoning of khenti-amenti" of the children of horus it is said "those who are in this picture make heavy the fetters of the sons of the helpless one, and the boat of the well-doing god travelleth on its way" in the lower register are- 1. twelve male beings, each of whom carries a paddle; they are called "gods who never diminish" 2. twelve female beings, each of whom grasps a rope with both hands; above the head of each is a star. they are called the "hours who tow alone [the boat of ra" p. 274 the god banti, with the head of a cynocephalus ape, holding a sceptre. 4. the god seshsha, man-headed, with a star above him, holding a sceptre. 5. the god ka-amenti, bull-headed, and holding a sceptre. click to view the twelve akhemu-seku go

each holding a sceptre in his left hand; these are "they who come forth" 4. four ram-headed gods, each holding a sceptre in click to view (left) the apes who praise ra (right) amenti. herit. sebekhti. his left hand; their names are ba, khnemu, penter, and tent. 5. four hawk-headed gods, each holding a sceptre in his left hand; these are called horus, ashemth, sept, and ammi-uaa-f. p. 289 6. eight female figures, each seated on a seat formed by a uraeus with its body coiled up, and holding a star in her left hand; these are called "the protecting hours" 7. a crocodile-headed god called sebek-ra, who grasps a fold of a serpent that stands on its tail in his right hand, and a sceptre in his left. p. 290 click to view the gods who bring disks and stars for ra. p. 291 of the four gods bearing d

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

he grip is. etc. the word is on. it signifies the sun in the old egyptian language. the password for the present month is. for the present, worthy and welcome guest, i see that you are in need of repose. this noble emir will conduct you to a suitable lodging. therefore i bid you, for the present, hail and farewell (black guard conducts new member to join his fellow soldiers) note. if candidate be female the obvious emendations must be made. part two minervals should be made in batches, preferably 12 at a time, according to the signs of the zodiac. each goes through the first part separately, all coming in together for the second part. saladin: noble emir, have you attended to the necessities of our guests? black guard: i have, mighty saladin. saladin: let me assure myself of the same (blac

r-father. you will further recognize in j.a.h. a name of god so sacred that the hebrews dared not utter it, and dare not to this day. it represents the father and mother conjoined with the microcosm represented by the letter a whose shape suggests the pentagram, the star of the microcosm contained in that conjunction. h.b.v. adds to 13 and thus expresses both unity and love, while v.l.j. is 46, a female slave, here referring to the unenlightened soul. combining all this into a single sentence, we read: the most high by love and unity exalts the daughter to the throne of the mother. that is a pure rendering of the way of salvation by samadhi or union with god, in that particular image which you have studied in the vision and the voice. taking the name by syllables, we find jah as before the

mistic personifications of partial phenomena, and the like. but of universal gods, as these: the fire; an image of sol, and a fable of the phallus. the moon; an image of kteis, only worshipped with sol in his aspect as an extension of the phallus. the mountain; reverenced as the home of the gods, the visible place of the rising of sol, and as by shape symbolical of the phallus. some mountains are female, from shape or tradition. the ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the phallus. the yoni or kteis; revered as the house of the phallus, and his complement. the snake; revered as giver of death, and as a symbol of the spermatozoon. he has often the head of the lion; to indicate the mighty power of the spermatozoon. the egg; revered as solar, and in itself as the vehicle of phallic energy

and again overflowed, in sleep, without will, and only reflected itself dimly and fantastically by dream into his knowledge. now since naught can be lost on any plane, but only changed in appearance, the inner substance of this life-stuff does indeed beget monsters in part material, which the doctors of the middle ages called incubi or succubi according as they performed the functions of male or female. these, too, begat children upon women; but not the reverse, for the succubus, for all his female function, is as male as his brother. of these monstrous lovers some even became famous on earth; as that one who tempted san antonio, and the angel that wrestled with jacob at the place called paniel. also merlin was the child of an incubus, and thus also were many heroes of old time begot. con

, o titan, son of earth! or at the least, this being denied thee, yet all thy life in heart and spirit being hers, thy death shall be the consummation of these betrothals, an entry into the closed palace of thy lady. and of such espousals mayst thou read in liber ccccxviii, more especially in the ninth and in the second aethyrs. it is to be noted in all this that both god and the soul are male or female as convenience requires. see, for a curious example, the mystic treatise called the bagh-i-muattur. xi of lesser marriages this matter is easy, for the souls of the elements desire constantly this salvation. but let the adept beware: 1. that he choose wisely a reasonable soul, docile, apt, beautiful, and in all ways worthy of love. 2. that he fall not ever from love of the great goddess int

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

earth after his kind: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:26 and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 so god created man in his [own] image, in the image of god created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 and god blessed them, and god said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1:29 and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree

again; and she bare a son, and called his name seth: for god [said she] hath appointed me another seed instead of abel, whom cain slew. 4:26 and to seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name enos: then began men to call upon the name of the lord. 5:1 this [is] the book of the generations of adam. in the day that god created man, in the likeness of god made he him; 5:2 male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name adam, in the day when they were created. 5:3 and adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name seth: 5:4 and the days of adam after he had begotten seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5:5 and all the days that adam lived were nine hundred

herein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 6:18 but with thee will i establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. 6:19 and of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 6:20 of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive. 6:21 and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 thus did noah; according to all that god commanded him, so did he

ee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 6:22 thus did noah; according to all that god commanded him, so did he. 7:1 and the lord said unto noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have i seen righteous before me in this generation. 7:2 of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. 7:3 of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. genesis page 4 7:4 for yet seven days, and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 an

d noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights

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nism has arisen. it constitutes a mythos of its own. no doubt, misguided `copycat' fanatics have sometimes misused this mythos, in much the same way that charles manson misused the music and culture of the 1960s. true occult initiates have always regarded the ultimate reality as beyong all names and description. named `deities' are, therefore, largely symbols "isis" is a symbol of the long-denied female component of deity to some occultists "pan" or "the horned god" or "set" or even "satan" are symbols of unconscious, repressed sexuality. to the occultist, there is no devil, no "god of evil" there is, ultimately, only the ain sof aur of the cabbalah; the limitless light of which we are but a frozen spark. evil, in this system, is the mere absence of light. all else is illusion. the goal of

ey were afraid of it, as has been pointed out to me by folk practioners. their "nature rites" were to propitiate the caprice of the gods, not necessarily to honor them. the first neopagan revivalists, gardner, crowley and dr. murray, well understood this. neopagan wiccans usually do not. in introducing a "goddess element" into their theology, crowley and gardner both understood the yin/yang, male/female fundamental polarity of the universe. radical feminist neopagans have taken this balance and altered it, however unintentionally, into a political feminist agenda, centered around a near-monotheistic worship of the female principle, in a bizarre caricature of patriarchal christianity. bigotry, i submit, cuts both ways. i do not say these things lightly; i have seen it happen in my own time

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

nce of phallic worship in the roman colonies. 117 aix, in provence. 119 nimes, and its roman amphitheatre. 120 xansen, in hesse, and antwerp. 121 britain, and its priapic remains. 122 the teutonic venus, friga. 126 fascinum, and its magical influences. 128 scotland, and its phallic celebrations. 130 phallic figures on public buildings. 131 ireland, and its shelah-na-gig. 132 representation of the female organ exhibited in various countries. 134 horseshoes nailed to stable-doors, a remain of the the shelah-na-gig exhibition. 139 the ancient god priapus becomes a saint in the middle ages. 139 x contents. page. marriage offerings to priapus. 141 antwerp, and its patron saint ters. 144 m. forgeais collection of phallic amulets. 146 the fig, and its meanings. 148 the german scrat, and the gauli

rther proof of it, the amulet which occurs most frequently amongst those of the ancients (next to that which represents the simple priapus, is such a hand united with the phallus; of which you may see several specimens in my collection in the british museum. one in particular, i recollect, has also the halfmoon joined to the hand and phallus; which half-moon is supposed to have an allusion to the female menses. the shell, or concha veneris, 1 see plate ii, fig. 1. 2 this elegant little figure is engraved in the first volume of the bronzes of the herculaneum. sir william hamilton 5 is evidently an emblem of the female part of generation. it is very natural then to suppose, that the amulets representing the phallus alone, so visibly indecent, may have been long out of use in this civilized c

ch one of the canons of the church presides, this crying out, qui si riceveno le misse, e litanie: here masses and litanies are received" and the other, qui si riceveno li voti: here the vows are received. the price of a mass is fifteen neapolitan grains, and of a litany five grains. on each table is a large bason for the reception of the different offerings. the vows are chiefly presented by the female sex; and they are seldom such as represent legs, arms &c, but most commonly the male parts of generation. the person who was at this fete in the year 1780, and who gave me this account (the authenticity of every article of which has since sir william hamilton 7 been fully confirmed to me by the governor of isernia, told me also, that he heard a woman say, at the time she presented a vow, li

, by time, or eternity (kronoj, and necessity (anagkh, operating upon inert matter (caoj. he is described as eternally begetting (aeignhthj; the father of night, called in later times, the lucid or splendid (fanhj, because he first appeared in splendour; of a double nature (difuhj, as possessing the general power of creation 18 on the worship and generation, both active and passive, both male and female.1 light is his necessary and primary attribute, co-eternal with him- 1 orph. argon, ver. 12. this poem of the argonautic expedition is not of the ancient orpheus, but written in his name by some poet posterior to homer; as appears by the allusion to orpheus s descent into hell; a fable invented after the homeric times. it is, however, of very great antiquity, as both the style and manner su

the great end for which she was ordained. so expressive a symbol, being constantly in her view, must keep her attention fixed on its natural object, and continually remind her of the gratitude she owed the creator, for having taken her into his service, made her a partaker of his most valuable blessings, and employed her as the passive instrument in the exertion of his most beneficial power. the female organs of generation were revered2 as symbols of the generative powers of nature or matter, as the male were of the generative powers of god. they are usually represented emblematically, by the shell, or concha veneris, which was therefore worn by devout persons of antiquity, as it still continues to be by pilgrims, and many of the common women of italy. the union of both was expressed by t

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nsights into a difficult and often self- contradictory subject. m agic has always been a disreputable business. until a few years ago, it could result in fines, imprisonment, torture, or execution, depending on how the lawmakers felt at a given period. in the bible, christians are cautioned not to suffer a witch to live "witch" was the english translation for any- one who practiced magic, male or female, as well as those who sold poison, pro- cured abortions, and committed other crimes. the magician was classed with the dregs of humanity alongside the prostitute and the cutpurse. occasionally voices were raised in defense of magic. the rosicrucian michael maier wrote in his themis aurea in 1618 "magic (as some define it) is the highest, most absolute, and divinest knowledge of natural phil

rms of magic, since everyone is innately androgynous, as the psy- chologist carl jung recognized with his concepts of the anima and animus. with- in the unconscious of each woman there is a hidden masculine persona, and within each man a concealed feminine persona. these may be more or less active, depending on the nature of the individual. the tendency toward a balanced androgyny, where male and female qualities approach equal strength, is more evi- dent in people naturally suited to magic. magus is an ancient persian word meaning priest. the magi, or priest cast of persia, were skilled in the arts of magic, astrology and healing. in ancient times the word magus became synonymous with "wise man" the irish historians applied the term to the druids who opposed the preaching of st. patrick

s more evi- dent in people naturally suited to magic. magus is an ancient persian word meaning priest. the magi, or priest cast of persia, were skilled in the arts of magic, astrology and healing. in ancient times the word magus became synonymous with "wise man" the irish historians applied the term to the druids who opposed the preaching of st. patrick. it may rightly be given to anyone, male or female, who seeks to work magic by accessing the spirit. there is no separate word for a female magus, because in old persia all of the priests were men, but in the modern age "magus" applies equally to men or women, in the same way that the title "aviator' originally given only to men because there were no female flyers, is now used for both sexes. magician is a better term for someone who pursue

r, although in manifest nature each sex embod- ies all three choices. the eighth point springs into being immediately as a reaction to the initial yes. when a body moves toward one thing, it moves away from something else. when water is poured from one vase to another, the first becomes empty as the second becomes full. the eighth point is rejection, a pulling away, the basic no. it can be called female in the same way the seventh point was termed male. these are symbolic opposites. it should be understood, however, that in the physical world the female sex both affirms and denies. the ninth point forms immediately as the tension between yes and no manifests itself. it is the reconcilement of opposites, the center on the line between extremes. in moral terms it is the understanding that tr

gular cross: q. the christian cross is not regular, but has a vertical arm that is considerably longer than the horizontal. this signifies symbolically that the masculine, active principle is exalted in christ over the passive, feminine side. the vertical ray is akin to the primal lightning and is always the male principle. the horizontal ray sug- gests the surface of the primal sea and is always female. also, the intersection point of the christian cross is near the top, indicating a movement toward the light. for these reasons it emphasizes triumph and victory. not surprisingly, the history of christianity has been one of male rule and military conquest. the pagan and christian views of the cross find an interesting union in this lyric of cynewulf, an anglo-saxon poet who lived around a

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en visit with him to communicate his future path in life. the shaman sees these spirits in dreams or visions. after he has accepted his fate, the spirits become his teachers and instruct him in the ways of shamanism. frequently the shaman marries one of the spirits. he has other lesser familiar spirits who act as his assistants. although i use the male gender for convenience, there have been many female shamans in different cultures. it is not exclusively a male profession. female shamans also engage in soul flight, and sometimes wed the spirits who guide their progress and instruct them in their arts. a shamaness named thorbjorg is described in detail in the norse saga of eric the red. she was probably typical for her time and culture, although the appearance of the shamaness varied widel

asses, woolves, ferrets, cowes, apes, horsses, dogs, etc. some say they can keepe divels and spirits in the likenesse of todes and cats.12 why most witches were women the term witch is gender neutral, as is the term shaman. even so, today most people think of witches as exclusively women. there is a reason for this error. throughout history witches have been presented in literature and in art as female. medieval christian theologians held that women were by their nature more susceptible to evil influences than men. they derived this belief in part from the biblical fable of adam and eve because it was eve who was seduced by the serpent. due to this imagined vulnerability of women, theologians believed that more women than men became witches. however, many men were also accused of witchcra

iding through the air.31 monkshood is poisonous when applied to the surface of the skin. the naturalist pliny the elder wrote in his natural history that the roman calpurnius bestia murdered a succession of wives by rubbing aconitine on their sexual parts as they slept "it is established that of all poisons the quickest to act is aconite, and that death occurs on the same day if the genitals of a female creature are but touched by it."32 the juice of the opium poppy causes languor and hallucinations. in modern times, we are familiar with the power of the opium poppy's concentrated extract, heroin, but the raw gum that seeps from cuts in the seed pods can be smoked, or the plant can be eaten, to produce a less potent effect. opium was known about and used by physicians in europe during the

f had commerce with the fairies, or even commanded their realm, just as she commanded the realm of england. the poet edmund syenser (c. 1552-1599) wrote the epic poem the faerie queene in 1590 in order to do homage to elizabeth. contrary to popular belief, queen mab was not the fairy queen of england "when mab is called 'queen' it does not mean sovereign, for titania was oberon's wife, but simply female; both midwives and monthly nurses were anciently called queens or queans. quen or cwen in saxon means neither more nor less than woman; so 'elf-queen' and the danish 'elle-quinde' mean female elf, and not 'queen of the elvesy5l shakespeare described queen mab as "the fairies' midwife" a diminutive creature that rides her tiny- 51. brewer, dictionary ofphrase and fable, 535. 42 soul flight w

eership than men. this was a prejudice of the same sort that once held men to be better weavers than women, and that continues to assert that they make better cooks. experience has demonstrated the falsehood of all these beliefs. if anything, 52. kirk and lanp, 7-8. chapter three: the land of fairy 45 the spiritualist movement has proven women better seers than men-at least, there seem to be more female mediums in modern times than male mediums, and they have attracted a larger share of attention. the same walking abroad of the fairies occurs, on a smaller scale, at twilight, the transition between day and night, when fairies are most often to be glimpsed or their music and laughter heard in the fields and woods. the scots call this transition period of the day the gloaming. fairies are al

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end at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which the father and mother (i and first h) alternately generate the son (v) and daughter (second h. the generative unit is complete in the trinity, but this trinity endlessly alternates its polarity, male-female-male giving way to male-female-female, and vice versa. the v elevates his twin sister, the second h, to the throne of the now barren mother, the first h, whom she replaces. her mature beauty arouses the creative lust of the v, who ascends to the throne of his father, the i. by this ascent he is transformed and his old identity "dies" or passes from existence. the renewed and fertile male-fe

cond h combine to generate offspring, the seed of the v is purely masculine, composed only of the solid line in the binary code, and the egg of the second h is purely feminine, composed only of the broken line. in this sense, when brother and sister mature and come together to reproduce new life, they assume the pure gender identities of their parents. as immature children, they are both male and female in one, but as sexually mature adults they are of single gender. it may be more useful to think of the i and the first h not as complete male and female human figures, but as sperm and egg. with this in mind, it is easier to grasp how the v can be distinct from the i and yet at the same time embody the i within himself; and how the second h can be both the product of the first h and also ho

we no longer know what those chants were. more importantly, we do not know how they were vibrated, because they were never written down. the druids of the celts conveyed their magical wisdom verbally. because of the strong bardic tradition of the later druids, it very likely consisted of vocalizations of words of power, but again, the technique as well as the particular chants has been lost. the female worshippers of dionysus among the ancient greeks employed bloodcurdling cries that were reported to freeze the blood of any man foolish enough to venture within hearing range. some of these wild chants have been preserved, but the manner of their vocalization has been lost. the universal features of language allow us to make some general observations on the magical vibration of names. conso

always appear in statues of human shape, and often of human size as well. since the wings of the winds may be related through the banners to the signs of the zodiac, it is possible to give them distinguishing human characteristics that aid in understanding their natures. twofold division the first distinction to be made lies between the twelve occult angels under the moon, who may be regarded as female, and the twelve overt angels under the sun, who may be looked upon as male. paired angels under a single banner are related and are like brother and sister twins. the brother is the right wing, and the sister is the left wing. this polarity is expressed in the banner sigils by the invoking and banishing forms in each pair of sigils, which are mirror opposites. the female wings are under the

sigils, which are mirror opposites. the female wings are under the influence of the supernal sephirah binah, understanding, which stands at the head of the left pillar of severity on the tree of the kabbalah. binah is the seat of aima, the great dark mother who is the fruitful womb of the universe. it is the role of the wings on the left side to bring forth into being ideas and possibilities. the female angels are responsible for the fashioning, limiting, and destroying of things; for all analytical and critical judgement; for punishment, pain, and matters relating to the health of the body; for dreams, nightmares, and fantasies; for doubts, fears, self-analysis, and conscious thoughts; for fashions, styles, and other social trends outwardly expressed; indeed, for all manifest, structured

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th century. many of randolph's ideas were transmitted to germany through a little known but extremely influential group known as the hermetic brotherhood of luxor (h.b. of l, begun by max theon (d. 1927) and peter davidson (d. 1916) probably sometime in the 1880 s. following randolph, the h.b. of l. made sex central to its metaphysical system and spiritual practice: it is the polarity of male and female energies that creates the universe, and it is sexual union of males and females that leads to the "reunion of the divine ego and to angelhood" li at the same time, however, the h.b. of l. was even more emphatic about the dangers that arise from the abuse of sexual magic. indeed, they warn that randolph himself was led to ruin by his sexual excesses.lii nonetheless, the teachings of the h.b

more physical practice focused on bodily postures known as hatha yoga. his eight lectures on yoga- or "yoga for yahoos" as he described it- displays a competent grasp of the classical yoga system and would become one of the first vehicles through which yoga was transmitted to the west.lxxiii and it is also true that he made frequent use of key sanskrit terms, such as lingam and yoni, the male and female sexual organs, to explain his own magical practice. in fact, he records in his confessions that it was the indian worship of the lingam that helped change his attitudes toward sex and to see that the sexual organ can be a source of spiritual power and an object of veneration. unlike repressed and neurotic modern western society, india had long known the inherent divinity of sexuality and th

le, the god, shiva, who is imagined as dwelling in a thousand-petalled lotus at the top of the head. crowley more or less accepts this basic system of seven chakras and the serpent power; yet, quite remarkably, he also adds a special set of lower chakras located beneath the lowest energy center (the muladhara or root, in the regions of the anus, the prostate gland (or urethra-cervix region in the female) and the base of the penis (or clitoris in the female. in other words, he has added a series of sub-chakras that are explicitly associated with the sexual organs and orifices. as he explains in a letter in 1916, it appears that a special set of nadis [nerves] fed the muladhara lotus as if it had three roots. the source of these roots is in the three centres..buy they are not lotuses of the

ey are not lotuses of the same order as the sacred seven. the anal lotus is of eight petals, deep crimson, glowing to rich poppy color when excited. the prostatic lotus is like a peridot, extremely translucent and limpid..the petals are numerous, i think thirty-two. the third lotus is in the glans penis, close to the base..it is of a startlingly rich purple..the centre is gold like the sun in the female these three lotuses also exist, but in a very different form.[t]he second of the chakras is situated between the urethra and the cervix uteri.[i]ts color is neutral grey but in pregnancy it becomes a brilliant orange and flowerlike. the third lotus is at the base of the clitoris. the petals are forty-nine in number the basic color is a rich olive green, sometimes kindling to emerald lxxxvi

ommingling as an 'elixir' which, when imbibed, could heighten both one's physical and spiritual state.lxxxvii actually, this is not quite correct. it is true that many later tantric texts emphasize retention of semen during union; but there are in fact many hindu tantric traditions- and arguably, the older traditions- that call for ejaculation of the semen and consumption of the combined male and female sexual fluids. according to the brhat tantrasara- one of the largest compendia of tantric ritual and iconography composed by the great 16th century author, krishnananda agamavagisha- the shedding of semen into the womb of the female partner is the ultimate "sacrificial act" for "sexual union is the libation; the sacred precept is the shedding of semen."lxxxviii the mingled sexual fluids are

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

nd then by uttering its name caused his thought to take concrete form. this process of thinking out the existence of things is expressed in egyptian by words which mean "laying the foundation in the heart" in arranging his thoughts and their visible forms khepera was assisted by the goddess maat, who is usually regarded as the goddess of law, order, and truth, and in late times was held to be the female counterpart of thoth "the heart of the god ra" in this legend, however, she seems to play the part of wisdom, as described in the book of proverbs,[fn#3] for it was by maat that he "laid the foundation [fn#3 "the lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. i was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. when there were no depths i was br

els of the cowgoddess meh-urt, who shall overthrow and cut in pieces the poison which is in thy belly and in all the members in thee, and in [all] the members of the gods in heaven, and in [all] the members of the gods on earth, and shall overthrow every poison in thee. there is no member in thee without the goddess who shall overthrow and cut in pieces the poison of every male serpent, and every female serpent, and every scorpion, and every reptile, which may be in any member of this cat which is under the knife. verily isis weaveth and nephthys spinneth against the poison. this woven garment strengtheneth this [being, i.e, horus, who is perfect in words of power, through the speech of ra heru-khuti, the great god, president of the south and north 'o evil poison which is in any member of

e eye of horus is with him. a great beetle spreadeth himself over him, great by reason of his grasp, produced by the gods from a child. he who is over the water appeareth in a healthy form. if he who is over the water shall be approached (or, attacked, the eye of horus, which weepeth, shall be approached "get ye back, o ye who dwell in the water, crocodiles, fish, that enemy, male dead person and female dead person, male fiend and female fiend, of every kind whatsoever, lift not up your faces, o ye who dwell in the waters, ye crocodiles and fish. when osiris journeyeth over you, permit ye him to go to busiris. let your nostrils [be closed, your throats stopped up "get ye back, seba fiends! lift ye not up your faces against him that is on the water. osiris-ra, riseth up in his boat to look

on the way, o thou who art on the way. o thou who art at the mouth of the way. he is urmer (mnevis) who approacheth every man and every beast. he is like the god sep who is in anu (heliopolis. he is the scorpion-[god] who is in the great house (het-ur. bite him not, for he is ra. sting him not, for he is thoth. shoot ye not your poison over him, for he is nefer-tem. o every male serpent, o every female serpent, o every antesh (scorpion) which bite with your mouths, and sting with your tails, bite ye him not with your mouths, and sting ye him not with your tails. get ye afar off from him, make ye not your fire to be against him, for he is the son of osiris. vomit ye [say] four times "i am thoth, i have come from heaven to make protection of horus, and to drive away the poison of the scorpi

censer placed under it. much in the same way are those statues of the judges at thebes without hands, and their chief, or president, is represented with his eyes turned downwards, which signifies that justice ought not to be obtainable by bribes, nor guided by favour or affection. of a like nature is the beetle which we see engraven upon the seals of the soldiers, for there is no such thing as a female beetle of this species; for they are all males, and they propagate their kind by casting their seed into round balls of dirt, which afford not only a proper place wherein the young may be hatched, but also nourishment for them as soon as they are born [fn#286] the oldest form of the name is as-ar; the first sign, is a throne, and the second, is an eye, but the exact meaning represented by t

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kinds of plagues, as often as they will [according with the law- revelation 11: 4-6. disposition of the two witnesses the two witnesses are a semi-etheric, semiphysical pair of sympathetic cords that are entwined along the spinal medulla, forming the caduceus of mercury, the sacred eight, the sign of the infinite. in the male, the two witnesses depart from the right and left testicles and in the female they depart from the ovaries. these two witnesses are located to the right and left sides of the dorsal spine. the two witnesses alternatively ascend from left to right until forming a marvelous knot in that space located between the two eyebrows, thereafter they continue through the nasal cavities. the two witnesses connect the sexual organs with the nasal cavities. the ganglionic cord tha

n ganglionar que procede del lado izquierdo es fr o, lunar, y el cord n ganglionar que procede del lado derecho, es caliente, solar. este par de cordones nerviosos se anudan graciosamente en el coxis. 57 when the solar and lunar atoms of the seminal system make contact in the triveni, next to the coccyx, the kundalini awakens [the serpent of brass nachash. the sexual act among initiates, male and female, has only one objective, that of establishing a contact of opposite poles in order to awaken their kundalini. with the sexual contact, the mercury of secret philosophy multiplies (the seminal liquor increases. when the ens seminis is not ejaculated it is transmuted into seminal vapors. these vapors, at the same time, convert themselves into energies and are bipolarized into positive and neg

rcanum eight of the tarot. indeed, only she [the priestess] can deliver the sword to the magician. thus, an initiate (the priest) without a woman cannot receive the sword. there exists the eve-venus, the instinctual woman. the venus-eve, the noble home woman. there also exist venus-urania, the woman initiated into the great mysteries and finally, we confirm the existence of the urania- venus, the female adept, the woman that is self-realized in depth. the flaming fire the flaming fire opens the seven churches of the apocalypse (seven magnetic centers of the spinal medulla. we conquer the powers of the earth with the first center (situated at the level of the sexual organs. el trabajo en el laboratorium oratorium, es una verdadera ceremonia m stica que no debe ser profanada por el deseo ani

ople of normal sexuality are those who have no sexual abberations of any kind. sexuality amoung people of normal sexuality is in perfect equilibrium with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. those types of people do not abuse sex, nor do they have any type of sexual aberrations. 13 hetaeras (hey-tie-ras) an ancient greek courtesan or concubine, especially one of a special class of cultivated female companions. todos los tabues, restricciones y prejuicios que actualmente condicionas las vidas de la gente te sexualidad normal fueron establecidas por los infrasexuales, estos odian mortalmente el arcano a.z.f, empero ellos se dan licencias especiales, as pues, no es dif cil encontrar el homosexualismo metido en muchos conventos y escuelas dedicadas a estudios espiritualistas o seudo esot

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

d good sense? does the person show self-discipline or does he or she pester everybody with accounts of his or her incredible visions? these are some good criteria to test yourself and others. building a telesmatic figure and sigil when you are building this beautiful relationship with your closest and most trust-worthy friend, begin to discover clues about its nature. does your angel seem male or female? does he or she glow with certain colors? you can determine what colors are actually associated with the letters of the hebrew name (which, ideally, should be 5-7 letters. begin with the first letter. find it in the color chart (see figure 2-b. you may need to compare the color yellow yellow blue green red red-orange orange yellow-orange yellow yellow-green violet green blue blue-green blue

o in opposite diagonals from the first set of roots we examined and demonstrate that each of these signatures.even the most simple two-letter combinations.has its own specific energy. the arrow going up (hm) is from the root which means "the vital power of the universe (de 'olivet, p. 331, implying an outgoing, more masculine principle, while the mh root, signified by the arrow going down, means "female generation. essentially passive and creative (it is) the element from which everything draws nourishment (p. 387. one will note from these simple examples that there are many complements, both in the hebrew roots and in the hebrew gematria. these are consistent themes in qabalistic study of the kameas. we see this very principle of complementarity in the archetypal expression of binah/satur

ea 45: adm, adam: generic humanity 45: agial, agiel: intelligence of saturn 45: hm, hame: abundance, multitude, themselves root: universalized life, vital power of the universe 45: amd, ahmad: to appraise, value, estimate 45: zbvl, zebul: habitation, dwelling place 45: zzal, zazel: the spirit of saturn 45: mad, meode: strength, force, might 45: mh, mah: what? why; secret nature of yetzirah. root: female generation, root of all nourishment, passive and creative 45: ivd-ha-vav-ha, yod-heh-vav-heh: spelling of ihvh in yetzirah, world of formation 45: ylh, yelah: 44th name of shem hamphorash, associated with the 2nd quinance of pisces 45: hvld: begat chapter 6. the kamea of chesed/jupiter the magical numbers connected to the jupiter kamea are four, sixteen, thirty-four, and 136. we have noted

ss and will to become aligned with the work that the subconscious is activating via the symbol. correspondences: mystical names and numbers of daath/pluto asterisks) denote god-names. 11: mystical number of daath 11: 11th path between kether and chokmah 11: there are 11 sets of pairs of the hebrew letters 11: avd, ode: fire, firebrand; the fire of the magic of lvx("that od force, which still from female fingertips burnt blue" e. b. browning) 11: dhb, dehab: gold (crowley) 11: chg, chag: a circularity of form or motion (crowley; festival, tournement, carousal (ben yehuda; every turbulent movement; every transport of joy (d'olivet) 11: ia: oh! root: all movements of the soul which spring from admiration and astonishment (d'olivet) 11: ai; root: where one acts, where one is 11: bbva, ve-boa:

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

da/who are the draconians.htm (9 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] are motivated only by the predatory instinct of their collective which apparently knows only one agenda: conquer, assimilate, consume! all this has been confirmed by many abductees, especially in more recent years. there is one reptilian "world" that has however been identified as being more-or-less friendly towards humans. and that is a female-dominated society in capella which has recently broken free of the greys and their male-dominated draco masters. big wonder, since female "reptilians" would probably be more in touch with their emotional/spiritual nature than would the male-dominated types "praise the lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps- psalms 148:7 as a result of the space-time-dimension travel however, or simp

r and nobody ever saw him again> i wrote down at the end of my notes on this affair 'the whole case is like a ufo horror movie" case file #13: from: reptoids.com message board note: many of the reptiloids have shown animosity towards humans, there have however been, on a few occasions, reptoids which have apparently expressed a benevolent disposition. in most cases it seems that these were either female reptilians or reptilian males that have spent much time in the presence of humans- on starships or in underground bases- humans whose "emotionalism" seems to have "rubbed off" on the reptilians- branton appearance of reptoids, i have known. from "tal" date: 07 apr 1999 time: 07:55:18 comments having been within arm length of reptoids, i did get to observe various details. they wore no cloth

ly this person was discovered to have kept and maintained personal notes on his discoveries and was therefore scheduled for termination [not just "job termination. which he narrowly escaped. following 33 years of investigations, he went in to hiding in 1990: here is some data which this anonymous informant reportedly gathered on the reptilian type alien entities: average height: male- 2.0 meters; female- 1.4 meters average weight: m- 200 kilos; f- 100 kilos body temperature: m- ambient temperature; f- ambient temperature pulse/resperation: m- 40/10; f- 40/10 blood pressure: m- 80/50; f- 80/50 life expectancy: m- 60 earth years; f- 23 earth years cold-blooded like all reptiles, the reptiloid is found to flourish in a warm, tropical clime [normally artificial. big caves. with imperfect respi

and an unusual cobalt pigmentation. many have no external sex organs. some have been bred to have them (note: most reptiloids that have been encountered have been described as having no exterior sex organs, however on a few occasions reptiloids have been described as having external sex organs. in nearly every case that i have heard of where 'these' reptiloids were encountered, the abductee was a female human who was forcibly 'raped' by the reptilian within an underground base or even within their own homes during the abduction-encounter- branton) one variety of reptilian crossbreed is particularly negative and dangerous. this variety, who work with the draco, do not 'eat' in the same way humans do. these hive-like beings use synthetically produced substances, mixed with blood. thus slurry

appendages] were the source for some of the legends of the past relating to gargoyles and valkyries. it is also apparent that some of the qualities ascribed to vampires have also been taken from these creatures. interjection: these 'elite' reptilians have gone by many names: gargoyles, mothmen, birdmen, winged draco, winged serpents, ciakars, etc. one such creature that had literally tortured one female abductee- who was taken to a multi-leveled underground system below camp hero at montauk point, long island- was described as follows. i will provide only the description of the creature itself, an alien that she encountered inside the base which is said to be maintained by european and american 'nazis' working under the bavarian thule society. however i will not release any personal detail

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

to beltane, when the climate is more suited to its outdoor celebration) the other christian holiday which gets mixed up in this is easter. easter, too, celebrates the victory of a god of light (jesus) over darkness (death, so it makes sense to place it at this season. ironically, the name 'easter' was taken from the name of a teutonic lunar goddess, eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen. her chief symbols were the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation, images which christians have been hard pressed to explain. her holiday, the eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon. of course, the church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them

life) from the land of the dead, as we are told in the 'mabinogi. welsh triads allude to gwydion and amaethon doing much the same thing. in fact, this theme is so universal that mythologists refer to it by a common phrase 'the harrowing of hell. however, one might conjecture that the descent into hell, or the land of the dead, was originally accomplished, not by a solar male deity, but by a lunar female deity. it is nature herself who, in spring, returns from the underworld with her gift of abundant life. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 solar heroes may have laid claim to this theme much later. the very fact that we are dealing with a three-day period of absence should tell us we are dealing with a lunar, not solar, theme (although one must make excep

l of the goddess in her bounty. the precise meaning of these two symbols, which i believe i have recently discovered, will be explored in the essay on the death of llew. but it is interesting to note here that modern witches often use these same symbols in the midsummer rituals. and one occasionally hears the alternative consecration formula 'as the spear is to the male, so the cauldron is to the female' with these mythic associations, it is no wonder that midsummer is such a joyous and magical occasion! l a m m a s: the first harvest= by mike nichols* once upon a lammas night when corn rigs are bonny, beneath the moon's unclouded light, i held awhile to annie* although in the heat of a mid-western summer it might be difficult to discern, the festival of lammas (aug 1st) marks the end of s

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

n facts; and this is the method i propose to adopt. in dealing with native races one records their folklore, the; stories and religious rites on which they base their beliefs. and actions. so why not do the same with english witches [1] witches are as often men as women, but in english a witch is always called 'she, so i will use that word, and the reader must understand it to mean either male of female [2] see note 1 (page 188- i must first explain why i claim to speak of things note generally known. i have been interested in magic and kindred subjects all my life, and have made a collection of? magical instruments and charms. these studies led me to spiritualist and other societies, and i met some people who claimed to have known me in a past life. here i must say that, though i believe

le that their method may be superior to that of witchcraft; possibly they know the witches' system and all the teaching it involves and keep it as a trade secret. witches are also taught that in some mysterious way 'inside the circle they are between the worlds (this world and the next, and 'that which happens between the worlds does not concern this world. to form this battery of wills, male and female intelligences are necessary in couples. in practice these are usually husband and wife, but there are younger people who often form attachments which usually end in marriage. there are also, of course, some unattached people, or some whose respective spouses are for some reason or other not members of the cult. i have heard fierce purists declare that no married man or woman should belong t

me the witches' duty to perform rites to obtain these things. this was probably a matriarchal age, when man was the hunter and woman stayed at home making medicine and magic. historically, the matriarchal period has been tentatively dated from the middle of the ninth to the middle of the seventh millennium b.c, during which time caves, trees, the moon and stars all seem to have been reverenced as female emblems. so the myth of the great mother came into existence and woman was her priestess. probably at the same time the men had a hunter's god, who presided over the animals. later, perhaps, came the idea of a future life and thoughts of the next world as being an unhappy place unless you could attain to the abode of the gods, a sort of paradise. this was thought of as a place cf rest and r

ture. in this way the old witch notion became generally believed. it is unlikely that any of these old women were real witches, that is, that they had been initiated into the circle; but doubtless some of them knew many old wives' cures. to go back to a much earlier time, arne runeberg tells us of the grave of a witch of the bronze age found in denmark. among costly swords and gold jewellery this female magician had a bronze bowl containing the following. we add their uses in modern days: 1. the claw of a lynx. used today as medicine and as an amulet. 2. bones of a weasel. weasel's skin is still used as a remedy against all sorts of diseases in animals. 3. vertebrae of snakes. pulverised snake-skin and snake joints are still used as medicine for sick animals. 4. horses' teeth, torn out and

the mabinogion, the bleeding head in the story of peredur, and others, all bringers of victory and prosperity, reminiscent of the old legends of adonis and astarte, and of horus who was begotten by the dead osiris. the templars may have attempted practices which, while sheer heresy to a witch, were founded on her methods. witches teach that to work magic you must start with a couple, a male and a female intelligence being necessary, and they must be in sympathy with each other; and they find that in practice they become fond of each other. sometimes it is undesirable that they should fall in love. witches have methods by which they try to prevent this, but they are not always successful. for this reason, they say, the goddess has strictly forbidden a man to be initiated by or to work with

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

m the earliest christian times, as indeed jesus himself did. elizabeth johnson women, earth and creator spirit pg. 22 three basic relationships: human beings with nature, among themselves, and with god. in each instance the major classical pattern of relationship is shaped by hierarchical dualism, that is, modeled on the dominance of ruling male elites and the subjugation of what is identified as female, cosmic, or foreign, an underclass with only instrumental value. as the ecological crisis makes crystal clear, the polarization of each pair s terms is nothing short of disastrous in its interconnected effects. our eyes have been blinded to the sacredness of the earth, which is linked to the exclusion of women from the 285 sphere of the sacred, which is tied to focus on a monarchical, patri

to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians were destined to perish. they told her what god had said, and she did not want to return (alphabet of ben sira 23a-b) and god created the human species in god s own image. male and female created god them (genesis 1:27) 286 scottish gaelic poetry editor s note: this collection is from the book nuadh bardachd/ modern scottish gaelic poetry (you won t find it in the library) with collections from many authors with english translations. i have met and talked with these authors while in scotland. the heron by sorley maclean a pale yellow moon on the skyline, the heart o the soil

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

wife, sarai, shri, into sarah, shrh, see genesis xvii. v. 5-15, on the occasion of the conception of isaac, ytzchq or yshchq, from the root shchq or tzchq, laugh, when sarah was 90 and abraham 100 years old. this was on the occasion of the covenant made by jehovah with abram and the institution of circumcision of males in token thereof. now here we have the addition of an h or 5, the essentially female letter, to the name of abraham, and a conversion of a yod into he, y into h, in the case of sarah; and then their sterility is destroyed. some learned men consider abraham to be a conversion of brahma, the hindu deity. the name splits up curiously. ab is father, br is son, am is like om or aum, a deific name of power. rm meant, he is lifted up. blavatsky remarks that abraham and saturn were

ma sou monades, dekades, ekaton tades okto, or nomen tuum 8 unitates, denarii, 8 centenarii--see st. augustine, de civitate dei. note the mystic word abraxas is 1, 2, 100, 1, 60, 1, 200=365 in greek letters. as a curiosity, note that the roman x for 10 is two v s, which are each 5. c, for 100 consists of two l s which are 50. priscian says i for 1, was taken from i in the middle of the greek mia, female of eis, i and v for 5 because it was the fifth vowel. to remember hebrew numerals note a, i, q=1, 10, 100. and in greek a, i, r, a=1, 10, 100, 1000. according to the canon, of 1897, anonymous work, 32. a vesica piscis (the figure formed by the intersection of two equal circles) whose dimensions are 26 and 15, is a symbol of the hidden rule or canon by which natural laws were represented to

lled wholenesses--holotetes in greek. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the monad, unity, or the number one received very numerous meanings. photius tells us that the pythagoreans gave it the following names- mmeeaanni iings of the monad, number one 1. god, the first of all things; the maker of all things. 2. intellect, the source of all ideas. 3. male and female--both together produce all things; from the odd proceed both odd and even. 4. matter, the last development of universality. 5. chaos, which resembles the infinite, indifferentiation. 6. confusion. 7. commixion. 8. obscurity, because in the ineffable principle of things, of which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness. 34. 9. a chasm, as a void. numbers--th eir occu lt power

es tcott produces less than by multiplication; whilst the dyad, whether added to itself or multiplied by itself, produces the same. 4. fountain of symphony, and harmony. 5. erato, because it attracts the monad, like love, and another is formed. 37. 6. patience, because it is the first number that endures separation from the monad. 7. phanes, or intelligible intellect. 8. it is the fountain of all female divinities, and hence nature, rhea and isis. 9. cupid, just as erato, from desiring its opposite for a partner. in astronomy, we speak of 2 nodes, caput and cauda draconis; and in astrology of 2 aspects of the planets, benefic and malefic. the two pillars ikin and boz at the entrance of king solomon s temple are notable symbols of strength and stability. they are comparable to the two being

rato, from desiring its opposite for a partner. in astronomy, we speak of 2 nodes, caput and cauda draconis; and in astrology of 2 aspects of the planets, benefic and malefic. the two pillars ikin and boz at the entrance of king solomon s temple are notable symbols of strength and stability. they are comparable to the two beings, kratos and bia, who appear in the play by eschylus, as a male and a female potency, who bind prometheus. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the chinese speak of blue as the color of heaven, because made up of red, male and black, female; of the active and the passive; the brilliant and the obscure. the followers of pythagoras spoke of two kinds of enjoyment. first, lasciviousness and indulgence of the belly, like the murdero

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

ive and linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 89 fifty-two connote two permutations of yhwh, ywd he waw he (10+6+4 5+1 6+1+6 5+1) and ywd hh ww hh (10+6+4 5+5 6+6 5+5) two gesticulations of the name that correspondingly symbolize overflowing masculine mercy and constricting feminine judgment. the temporalizing of the supernal will is manifest in the dyad of gender dimorphism,203 but the male and female potencies comprise the lower seven aspects, which correspond to the seven days of creation, also associated with seven of the eight kings of edom. in contrast to the lower seven, in the upper three the temporal deportment (hanhagat ha-zeman, which is identified as well as the root of time (shoresh ha-zeman, is fixed everlastingly. in that root, temporality and eternality are set not as pola

the mother in the seventh millennium, to the secret of eternality [sod ha-nishiyyut, and there they will receive their reward and they will rise from level to level until arikh anpin who is above time, for his growth is not by way of time as in the case of ze eir anpin. the division of time into five gradations minutes, hours, days, months, and years is a deep matter, for time is in the male and female, the secret of the forty-five and fifty-two.204 kabbalistically interpreting the eschatological conception of the cosmic sabbatical cycle transmitted in the name of r. qatina six thousand years of history followed by a thousand years of desolation205 haver characterizes the seventh millennium as the elevation of everything to the mother, a standard designation of the third emanation, binah

ycle of six millennia, is depicted both as the return of all things to the womb of binah, the maternal fountainhead in the sefirotic pleroma, and as the elevation of malkhut to the head of her husband. the latter image conveys the asceticism appropriate to redemption, a point underscored by the symbolic connection between binah, the worldto- come, and yom kippur. in her transformed condition, the female is a crown on the male rather than a separate vessel to receive the seminal fluid, and consequently there is no intercourse. the transposition of the female to the status of the crown signifies, therefore, the ascetic eroticism suitable to the final phase of salvation.211 the temporal dimension of this transmutation is underscored by the fact that the seventh millennium is associated with t

binah but with arikh anpin, literally the longfaced and metaphorically the long-suffering, the supreme manifestation of the godhead, keter, which is above time. the root of time is positioned in ze eir anpin, literally the short-faced and metaphorically the impatient, the lower gradation, which, in contrast to arikh anpin, is characterized by the opposition of left and right, judgment and mercy, female and male, night and day. we may deduce from this that temporality is inherently connected to a binary structure, the fluctuation from darkness to light, engendered in kabbalistic literature respectively as feminine and masculine, whereas the attribute linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 91 that is beyond polarity and the dimorphic interplay of gender, the moment/ place characterized by t

logy is troped in phallic symbolism, whereas space as the curbed receptacle, emptiness gauged by the degree of its vacuity, is gendered as feminine, the capacity to receive that gives structure through imposing limit on the power to overflow. insofar as time is the divine impulse, which is marked by the dialectic of contracting and extending, it stands to reason that it will exhibit both male and female characteristics, and that these will correspond respectively to light and darkness, day and night. yet, as suggested by the image in one bahiric passage the precious pearl that is at once the inseminating seed and the inseminated womb that gives birth237 the nocturnal and diurnal aspects are both localized in what i have called the androgynous phallus in an effort to indicate that, accordin

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

the holy guardian angel- sabbatic familiar- angelic familiar -this is the higher self, what aleister crowley called the true will. the goal of the magician is to create what are twin vessels or pots which contain a solar and lunar essence. the lunar is created first, the contents are based on the sorcerers choice, but generally involve blood, grave soil, semen or sexual fluids (menstrual blood if female, sigils which are created based on a demonic aspect, ect. it is buried and focused upon for half a month. the the solar one is created. semen, 6 image of lucifer as an angel, blood and buried for half a month next to the other. each night you will burn incense at the site, invoking both the light and the shadow *the pots were buried on two separate workings. the red or shadow vase is buried

ascination, as meditation grows deeper visualize the shadow taking from and rising up. 20 leviathan, samael and lilith that samael is considered the qlippothic gateway towards self-deification is not essentially a new concept, but often misunderstood. the symbolism of this fallen angel is based within his connection (i label the gender male due to the solar aspects of this spirit, while lilith is female and lunar) of asmoday or ashamdon, a yezidic archangel. samael is considered to some extent connected with the roman light bearer, lucifer whom brings wisdom to mankind. when lucifer becomes the shadow bringer (noctifer) he is revealed as the ancient prince of darkness, set. the hidden gateway within the order of phosphorus is the sabbatic light and union of opposites. samael is the center

s own life. samael himself is attributed to the serpent, when in the zohar for when samael mounted eve, he injected filth into her, and she conceived and bare cain. tubal-cain is the father of witchcraft, the first of the witch blood in the circle of initiation. upon earth, in flesh, the mythological linage comes from this spirit. 21 lilith is one of the hebraic sources of evil, reflective of the female ability to not only produce children, but to their very nature itself. women are attributed to the moon, luna, and thus their natures are centered around the phases of the moon. lilith is thus a night daemon, considered such because of he ability to seduce, take what she wishes, and disregard those whom displease her. lilith is the goddess whose top half is feminine beauty, her bottom half

ence to the primal force of the reptilian mind, cold and calculating while the darkness is itself the hidden source of knowledge. lilith is known as the queen of demons in hebrew lore, but also she has manifested throughout different cultures and times. kali is one of the 17 names of lilith, represented as the devouring black mother of india, who absorbs through time itself. kali is the proactive female, the mother which devours its young. while lilith is itself, a force of the subconscious, lunar and fluid sense of self, something so very real as lilith may manifest to the sorcerer. lilith is the mother of demons, spawning lilitu or succubi, in the caves of the red sea. lilitu and succubi are essential in the magical awakening process of the sorcerer. while many might view such as dangero

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