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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

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

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

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

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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

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on" says mr. g. smith "which in the chaldean account of the creation leads man to sin, is the creation of tiamat, the living principle of the sea, or chaos. which was opposed to the deities at the creation of the world" this is an error. the dragon is the male principle, or phallus, personified, or rather animalized; and tiamat "the embodiment of the spirit of chaos" of the deep, or abyss, is the female principle, the womb. the "spirit of chaos and disorder" refers to the mental perturbation which it led to. it is the sensual, attractive, magnetic principle which fascinates and seduces, the ever living active element which throws the whole world into disorder, chaos, and sin. the serpent seduces the woman, but it is the latter who seduces man, and both are included in the karmic curse, tho

the following morning, he typified the resurrection of life after the change called death. in the great mysteries his figurative death lasted two days, when with the sun he arose on third morning, after a last night of the most cruel trials. while the postulant represented the sun- the all-vivifying orb that "resurrects" every morning but to impart life to all- the sarcophagus was symbolic of the female principle. this, in egypt; its form and shape changed with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or the germ of life. in india, it is the "golden" cow through which the candidate for brahminism has to pass if he desires to be a brahmin, and to become dwija("reborn a second time. the crescent-form argha

as to its primitive meaning, it was purely metaphysical. no unclean thought traversed these conceptions in the ancient mind. even in the zohar- far less metaphysical than any other symbolism- the idea is an abstraction and nothing more. thus, when the zohar (iii, 290) says "all that which exists, all that which has been formed by the ancient, whose name is holy, can only exist through a male and female principle" it means no more than this "the divine spirit of life is ever coalescing with matter" it is the will of the deity that acts; and the idea is purely schopenhauerian "when atteekah kaddosha, the ancient and the concealed of the concealed, desired to form all things, it formed all things like male and female. this wisdom cornprises all when it goeth forth" hence chochmah (male wisdo

ght with the index and middle finger pointing to heaven. the position is precisely that of a christian bishop giving his blessing, or the one in which jesus is often represented while at the last supper. the egyptian hierophant had a square head-dress which he had to wear always during his functions. the perfect tau, formed of the perpendicular (descending male ray, and a horizontal line (matter, female principle, and the mundane circle was an attribute of isis, and it is but at death that the egyptian cross was laid on the breast of the mummy" these square hats are worn unto this day by the armenian priests. the claim that the cross is purely a christian symbol introduced after our era, is strange indeed, when we find ezekiel stamping the foreheads of the men of judah, who feared the lord

reeminently by the jewish cosmogony. the last one, is that which is taught by the occult philosophy, as explained all along. an answer is found to our question in a volume just published by mr. s. laing- the best lay exponent of modern science* in chapter viii. of his latest work "a modern zoroastrian" the author begins by twitting "all ancient religions and philosophies" for "assuming a male and female principle for their gods" at first sight, he says "the distinction of sex appears as fundamental as that of plant and animal "the spirit of god brooding over chaos and producing the world" he goes on to complain "is only a later edition, revised according to monotheistic ideas, of the far older chaldean legend which describes the creation of kosmos out of chaos by the co-operations of great

s born according to the now normal process. this "first man" answers in the bible (genesis) to enos or henoch, son of seth (ch. iv* geology records the former existence of a universal ocean, sheets of marine sediments uniformly present everywhere testifying to it; but, it is not even the epoch referred to in the allegory of vaivasvata manu. the latter is a deva-man (or manu) saving in an ark (the female principle) the germs of humanity, and also the seven rishis- who stand here as the symbols for the seven human principles- of which allegory we have spoken elsewhere. the "universal deluge" is the watery abyss of the primordial principle of berosus (see stanzas from 2 to 8 in part i. how, if croll allowed fifteen million years to have elapsed since the eocene period (which we state on the a

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res for the dual creative power in nature (matter and force on the material plane) is padma, the waterlily of india. the lotus is the product of heat (fire) and water (vapour or ether; fire standing in every philosophical and religious system as a representation of the spirit of deity* the active, male, generative principle; and ether, or the soul of matter, the light of the fire, for the passive female principle from which everything in this universe emanated. hence, ether or water is the mother, and fire is the father. sir w. jones (and before him archaic botany) showed that the seeds of the lotus contain- even before they germinate- perfectly formed leaves, the miniature shape of what one day, as perfect plants, they will become: nature thus giving us a specimen of the preformation of i

e "germ" the idea of the "breath" of darkness moving over "the slumbering waters of life" which is primordial matter with the latent spirit in it, recalls the first chapter of genesis. its original is the brahminical narayana (the mover on the waters, who is the personification of the eternal breath of the unconscious all (or parabrahm) of the eastern occultists. the waters of life, or chaos- the female principle in symbolism- are the vacuum (to our mental sight) in which lie the latent spirit and matter. this it was that made democritus assert, after his instructor leucippus, that the primordial principles of all were atoms and a vacuum, in the sense of space, but not of empty space, as "nature abhors a vacuum" according to the peripatetics, and every ancient philosopher. in all cosmogoni

female portion, as is stated, of brahma, one "generated by the gods- is, in company with kwan-yin, with isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of osiris) and other goddesses, the female logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in nature, the word, voice or sound, and speech. if kwan-yin is the "melodious voice" so is vach "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water (the female principle "who yields us nourishment and sustenance" as mother-nature. she is associated in the work of creation with the prajapati. she is male and female ad libitum, as eve is with adam. and she is a form of aditi- the principle higher than ether- in akasa, the synthesis of all the forces in nature; thus vach and kwan-yin are both the magic potency of occult sound in nature and ether- whi

contains a detailed explanation of all this "the first triad of the body of adam kadmon (the three upper planes of the seven) cannot be seen before the soul stands in the presence of the ancient of days" the sephiroth of this upper triad are "1, kether (the crown) represented by the brow of macroprosopos; 2, chochmah (wisdom, a male principle) by his right shoulder; and 3, binah (intelligence, a female principle) by the left shoulder" then come the seven limbs (or sephiroth) on the planes of manifestation, the totality of these four planes being represented by microprosopus (the[[footnote(s* the formation of the "living soul" or man, would render the idea more clearly "a living soul" is a synonym of man in the bible. these are our seven "principles[[vol. 1, page] 240 the secret doctrine

he various cosmogonies show that the archaic universal soul was held by every nation as the "mind" of the demiurgic creator; and that it[[footnote(s* the "seven angels of the face" with the christians[[vol. 1, page] 353 the egyptian version. was called the "mother" sophia with the gnostics (or the female wisdom, the sephira with the jews, saraswati or vach, with the hindus, the holy ghost being a female principle. hence, born from it, the kurios or logos was, with the greeks, the "god, mind (nous "now koros (kurios) signifies the pure and unmixed nature of intellect- wisdom" says plato in "cratylus; and kurios is mercury, the divine wisdom, and "mercury is the sol (sun("arnobius" vi, xii, from whom thot-hermes received this divine wisdom. while, then, the logoi of all countries and religio

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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

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

d texts and in the later versions of the book of the dead- nu represents the primeval watery mass from which all the gods were evolved, and upon which floats the bark of "millions of years" containing the sun. this god's chief titles are" father of the gods" and begetter of the great company of the gods. he is depicted in the form of a seated deity having upon his head disk and plumes.[1] nut the female principle of nu; she is depicted with the head of a snake surmounted by a disk, or with the head of a cat.[2] ptah was associated with the god khnemu in carrying out at the creation the mandates of thoth the divine intelligence; his name means the "opener" and he was identified by the greeks with greek h!'faistos, and by the latins with vulcan. he was worshipped at a very early date in memp

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he poor upon the charity of the more affluent members of the community. further, sadhuism, by the multiplicity of the independent sects which have arisen in india has engendered and favoured a spirit of tolerance which cannot escape the notice of the most superficial observer. of the three main branches of hinduism, the most esoteric is the shaktas. the shaktas are worshipers of the shakti or the female principle as a creative and reproductive agency. each of the principal gods possesses his own shakti, through which his creative acts are performed. the shaktas or tantrics developed an elaborate picture of the subtle anatomy of the individual, independent drawing and painting encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 784 proposing that each person had a secondary body composed of

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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

t of ecstasy. london: thames& hudson, 1974. tigunait, pandit rajmani the living science of tantra, yoga international (may 1998: 22-29. williams, stephen. tantra: an introductory dialogue with raymont powers c.t.t. gentleman s quarterly, august 1997, http//home.earthlink.net/-raypows/interview.htm. tantric yoga a system of hindu yoga which emphasizes the shakti (sexual energy) associated with the female principle and usually characterized as kundalini. there are essentially two concentrations of tantric yoga, which can be called the pragmatic and the aesthetic. the pragmatic level focuses primarily on the sexual act and promotes a sacred style of sexuality which promotes communication, breath, and energy. in concert with the tantra philosophy, this concentration seeks to enhance the sexual

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

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, p. 56. mackey also stated this in the symbolism of freemasonry, p. 60] sex in the point within a circle the point and the circle carries a sexual connotation. another masonic author states that this symbol is used in sun worship, and then says "the female principle, symbolized by the moon, assumed the form of a lunette [small circular opening, or crescent, while the male principle, symbolized by the sun, assumed the form of the lingam [phallus] and placed himself erect in the center of the lunette, like the mast of a ship["point within a circle" short talk bulletin, august, 1931, masonic bulletin designed to read within the lodges, p. 4] sex

onry, as a quick tour of any cemetery in new england will tell you. you can tell which graves are masonic by the obelisks as their headstone. of course, not all masons choose the obelisk for their headstone. the triangle and hexagram maso mong egyptians, the base nic author, r.h. mackenzie, states that "a [of the triangle] represented osiris, or the male principle; the perpendicular, isis, or the female principle; and the hypotenuse, horus, their son [kenneth r.h. mackenzie, the royal masonic cyclopaedia of history, rites, symbolism, and biography, new york, j.w. bouton, 1877, p. 743] thus, you can see that the hypotenuse was conceived as a result of the sexual union of the base and the perpendicular. within masonic symbolism, the sex act is portrayed as the union of the perpendicular and

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

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

, for the no-thing evolves into the some-thing, the who; and necessity creeps in, for necessity is impossible without a choice, and choice demands the existence of opposing forces, the male and the female, or the positive and the negative. we are told somewhat mysteriously: before the forms of the holy king, the atteek, were prepared, it built worlds and made forms for their preservation, but the female principle was not joined yet with the male principle. therefore they could not exist until this was done. 9 until this balance was established adam qadmon could not appear and replace the adam belial of the unbalanced world and the averse tree of life from which the races of the gentiles are sprung. it would, therefore, appear that the reason for the creation of the kings of edom was to acc

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

s archangel promised adam a life to last. till like ripe fruit thou drop into thy mother's lap"[4 [4] primitive culture, vol. i, p. 295. in the old religion the sky was the husband of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a time when the mother was not only the one recognized parent on earth, but that the female principle was worshipped as the more important creative force throughout nature [5] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regarded as the more important factors in human society. the fact has been show

h decorations, in which, among the devices noticed, this particular fruit appears the most conspicuous. its significance, as revealed by inman and other writers, is too gross to be set forth in these pages. among the most sacred plants or flowers were the lotus and the fleur de lis, both of which were venerated because of some real or fancied organic sexual peculiarity. the lotus is adored as the female principle throughout nature, or as the "womb of all creation" and is sacred throughout oriental countries. it is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite--hence its peculiarly sacred character. it has long been thought that this lily is produced without the aid of the male pollen, hence it would seem to be an appropriate emblem for that ancient sect which worshipped the female as the more im

very odd things, probably understood at the vatican, or the crypt of st. peter's"[20 [20] anacalypsis, book vii, ch. xi. of the lotus of the hindoos nimrod says "the lotus is a well-known allegory, of which the expanse calyx represents the ships of the gods floating on the surface of the water, and the erect flower arising out of it, the mast thereof. but as the ship was isis or magna mater, the female principle, and the mast in it the male deity, these parts of the flower came to have certain other significations, which seem to have been as well known at samosata as at benares"[21 [21] quoted in anacalypsis. in other words it was a phallic emblem and represented the creative processes throughout nature. susa, the name of the capital of the cushites, or ancient ethiopians, meant "the city

arth, the heavens irradiate pale. jove is the boundless spirit, jove the fire, that warms the world with feeling and desire" in a former work the fact has been mentioned that the first clue obtained by herr bachofen, author of das mutterrecht, to a former condition of society under which gynaecocracy, or the social and political pre-eminence of women, prevailed, was the importance attached to the female principle in the deity in all ancient mythologies. according to the testimony of various writers, om, although comprehending both elements of the deity, was nevertheless female in signification. sir william jones observes that om means oracle--matrix or womb.[27] upon this subject godfrey higgins, quoting from drummond, remarks [27] see anacalypsis, book iii, ch. ii "the word om or am in th

heavenly gods and goddesses, whose single deity the whole world venerates in many forms, with various rites and various names. the egyptians worship me with proper ceremonies and call me by my true name, queen isis" isis, we are told, is called myrionymus, or goddess with 10,000 names. she is the persian mithra, which is the same as buddha, minerva, venus, and all the rest. faber admits that the female principle was formerly regarded as the soul of the world. he says "isis was the same as neith or minerva; hence the inscription at sais was likewise applied to that goddess. athenagoras informs us that neith or the athene of the greeks was supposed to be wisdom passing and diffusing itself through all things. hence it is manifest that she was thought to be the soul of the world; for such is

evi"[35 [35] ibid. it seems to be the general belief of all writers whose object is to disclose rather than conceal the ancient mysteries, that until a comparatively recent time the moon was never worshipped as isis. until the origin and meaning of the ancient religion had been forgotten, and the ideas underlying the worship of nature had been lost, the moon was never regarded as representing the female principle. when man began to regard himself as the only important factor in procreation, and when the sun became masculine and heat or passion constituted the god-idea, the moon was called isis. the moon represented the absence of heat, it therefore contained little of the recognized god-element. it was, perhaps, under the circumstances, a fitting emblem for woman. in the sacred writings of

a fact so patent that for ages the mother principle could not be eliminated from the conception of a deity, and the homage paid to athene or minerva, even after women had become only sexual slaves and household tools, shows the extent to which the idea of female supremacy in nature and in the deity had taken root. notwithstanding the efforts which during numberless ages were made to dethrone the female principle in the god-idea, the great mother, under some one of her various appellations, continued, down to a late period in the history of the human race, to claim the homage and adoration of a large portion of the inhabitants of the globe. and so difficult was it, even after the male element had declared itself supreme, to conceive of a creative force independently of the female principle

ham, and japhet" hesiod teaches that, after the flood, chaos, night, and black erebus first appeared.[45] at this time, when there was no earth, no heaven, and no air, an egg floated on the face of the deep, which, being parted, brought forth love, or cupid. out of chaos this god created or formed all things. now cupid is the same as the greek phanes, and phanes is noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was produced. the greek god phanes is the same as the egyptian osiris, who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts" or by the evil principle [45] the theogony "as cupid is indifferently said to have been produced from an egg at a time when the whole world was in disorder, and from the womb of the marine goddess venus, the egg and the womb of that goddess mus

which the attempt has been made to prove nature motherless. all the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and which were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and males; and, besides, the dove (female, the emblem of peace, was also present. even noah himself was produced from an egg, which, as we have seen, is the symbol of venus, or universal womanhood. in after ages the female principle was not mentioned, but, on the contrary, was concealed beneath convenient symbols; and as the philosophical ideas underlying natural religion were lost or forgotten, and mankind had become too ignorant to perceive that a dual force, female and male which was also a trinity, pervades nature, the notion came gradually to prevail that the creative agency, which is spirit, is altogeth

er principles involved in an earlier religion were in a measure forgotten, it is evident that at this time humanity had not become wholly sensualized, and that the lower propensities and appetites had not assumed dominion over the reasoning faculties. the great mother cybele, who is represented by the sphinx, had doubtless been adored as a pure abstraction, her worship being that of the universal female principle in nature. she is pictured as the "eldest daughter of the mythologies" and as "the great first cause" she represented the past and the future. she was the source whence all that was and is had proceeded. in its earliest representations, the sphinx is figured with the head of a woman and the body of a lion. by various writers it is stated that the sphinxes which were brought as spo

n worshipped under the same emblem. neither is it remarkable, when we recall the fact that the female was supposed to comprehend both sexes, that in certain instances a beard appears as an accompanying feature of the sphinx. we are told that the fourth avatar of vishnu was a sphinx, but a further search into the history of this deity reveals the fact that her ninth avatar is brahm (masculine. the female principle has at length succumbed to the predominance of male power, and vishnu herself has become transformed into a male god. although the rites connected with the worship of cybele were phallic they were absolutely pure. in an allusion to this worship, hargrave jennings admits that the "spirituality to which women in that age of the world were observed to be more liable than men was pecu

ahm, the creator, is male, and appears as a triplicated deity in the form of three sons within whom is contained the essence of a great father, the female creative principle being closely veiled. hence we see that the god of the ancients, the universal dual force which resides in the sun and which creates all things, is no longer worshipped under the figure of a mother and her child. although the female principle is still a necessary factor in the creative processes, and although it is capable of producing gods, the mother element possesses none of the essentials which constitute a deity. in other words, woman is not a creator. from the father is derived the soul of the child, while from the mother, or from matter, the body is formed. hence the prevalence at a certain stage of human histor

ill be remembered that man claimed supremacy over woman on the ground that the male is spirit, while the female is only matter; in other words, that she was simply a covering for the soul, which is divine. thus was the god-idea divorced from nature, and a masculine principle, outside and independent of matter, set up as a personal potentate or ruler over the universe. the logic by which the great female principle in the deity has been eliminated, and the subterfuges which have been and still are employed to construct and sustain a creator who of himself is powerless to create, is as amusing as it is suggestive, and forcibly recalls to mind la couvade, in which, among certain tribes, the father, assuming all the duties of procreation, goes to bed when a child is born.[59 [59] the evolution

nd forcibly recalls to mind la couvade, in which, among certain tribes, the father, assuming all the duties of procreation, goes to bed when a child is born.[59 [59] the evolution of woman, p. 127. all mythologies prove conclusively that ages elapsed before human beings were rash enough, or sufficiently blinded by falsehood and superstition, to attempt to construct a creative force unaided by the female principle. just here it may not be out of place to refer to the fact that in the attempt to divorce god from nature have arisen all the superstitions and senseless religious theories with which, since the earliest ages of metaphysical speculation, the human mind has been crowded. to this separation of the two original elements in the deity, and the consequent exaltation of one of the factor

se of the entire cycle of twelve periods, all creation was dissolved or drawn to the source of all life. subsequently a new creation was brought forth under which the same order of events will take place. the involution of life, or its return to the great source whence it sprang, did not, however, involve the destruction of matter. the seeds of returning life were preserved in an ark or boat--the female principle, within which all things are contained. this indrawing of life constituted "the night of brahme" it was represented by vishnu sleeping on the bottom of the sea. from the facts adduced in relation to the etrurians we are not surprised to find that their religion was that of the ancient nature worshippers, and that a mother with her child stood for their god-idea. in referring to th

f the altruistic or mother element in human affairs, and that the gradual engrafting of the later-developed sensuous faiths upon their earlier god-idea, marks the change from female to male supremacy. we have observed that whenever a remnant of the civilization of the ancient cushites appears, exactly as might be expected, women hold an exalted position in human affairs, at the same time that the female principle constitutes the essential element in the deity. of the ancient persians who received their religion and their civilization from this older race malcolm observes "the great respect in which the female sex was held was, no doubt, the principal cause of the progress they made in civilization. it would appear that in former days the women of persia had an assigned and honorable place

of the deity and worshipped as possessing certain female or male characteristics or attributes. it is plain that, with the decline of female power, and the consequent stimulation of the animal instincts in man, the pure creative principles involved in nature-worship gradually became unsuited to the sensualized capacities and tastes of the masses; but in addition to this were other reasons why the female principle in the deity should be concealed. women were already deposed from their former exalted position as heads of families and as leaders of consanguine communities. all their rightful prerogatives had been usurped. the highest development in nature had become the slave of man's appetites, and motherhood, which had hitherto been accepted as the most exalted function either in heaven or

ancient divinity about which there seems to be connected so much mystery as the assyrian hea. when referring to the "great obscurity" which surrounds this god we are assured that there is at present "no means of determining the precise meaning of the cuneiform hea, which is babylonian rather than assyrian" but that it is doubtless connected with the arabic hya, which is said to mean "life" or the female principle in creation. this deity is the god of "glory" and of "giving" titles which during the earlier ages of human existence belonged to the queen of heaven, the celestial mother. the representation of the god amun or amun-ra, which superseded the triune deity, kneph, sate, and anouk at thebes, and from which in assyria doubtless proceeded the trinity, amun, bel-nimrod, and hea, is suppo

bless them. finally, the great czar put the cup to his lips, humbly and reverently, and then filled it to overflowing with a wealth of golden pieces, for it is the still living representative in the nineteenth century a.c. of 'the golden boat' of hea of the nineteenth century b.c'[77 [77] forlong, rivers of life, vol. ii, p. 95. the symbol of neith or muth, athene or minerva, the great universal female principle of the egyptians, greeks, and romans, was the shield and serpent. in celtic druids i find that nath, the egyptian neith, the "goddess of wisdom and science whose symbol was the shield and serpent, was worshipped among the ancient irish" the male god associated with her was naith, and according to higgins represented "the opposite of neith" in rivers of life is observed a reference

ty have been shifted upon males--usually deified monarchs. after priestcraft and its counterpart, monarchial rule, had robbed the people of all their natural rights, kings assumed not alone the governing functions, but arrogated to themselves the symbols, titles, and attributes of the dual deity. the reigning monarch became not only the temporal ruler and priest, but was actually god himself, the female principle being concealed under convenient symbols. chapter viii. the original god-idea of the israelites. not only were religious doctrines veiled beneath allegories and convenient symbols, but names also had a religious significance. we are given to understand that in chaldea and assyria every child was named by the oracle or priest, and that no one thought of changing the appellation whi

a worship very nearly identical in ceremony and doctrine with that of the roman papists exists amongst the lamas, the name of om is still sacred. the iav of the jews was equally revered, but in the later ages of their career they seem to have lost sight of its true meaning. according to inman's testimony and that of other etymological students, the true signification of the cognomen jacob is the female principle. it is believed by various writers that the story of jacob and esau as related in genesis has an esoteric as well as an exoteric meaning--that jacob has reference to the female creative energy throughout nature, or, rather, to the great mass of people who in an early age of the human race believed in the superior importance of the female in the office of reproduction, and that esa

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pretation 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 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

akra also has been called the brakma center because in this phase of development the yogi scholar recognizes brahma as the godhead in the most subtle manifestation. brahma is the eternal, the inscrutable, the universal, the indefinable, the steady and the calm, and therefore the positive part. brahma does not create out of himself, but all that has been created has been done so by his shakti, the female principle. shakti in the muladhara chakra represents the serpent winding round the phallus and using the imagination, its creative power. a lot more could be said about this center, but the experienced magician will be satisfied with these hints to understand that a parallel exists between religious and initiating systems. consequently the shakti or kundalini power represents the imaginatio

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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

ne: amu, he, p. 140. 222. cf. c. w. king: the onothci, cte. p. 231, 2iul cd; tht onadon <4 ou bumi virgin mary, by patutub, buhap cf ries. 223. edtnburpaamem april, 1851, p. 411; dted in pococke /njtaircre(0(,pp.31s-9: londod. 1852. digitizecoy google the vffigin maby on the cab of jagannatha 111 codvey tbe ungam of siva. to have used thit car to carry id its turn the romish representative of the female principle in nature, is to show discrimination and a thorough knowledge of the oldest mythological con- ceptions. they have blended the two deities, and thus represented, in a christian procession, the 'heathen' brahma, or nora (the father, n&ri (the mother, and viraj (the son. says manu "the sovereign master who exists through himself) divid^ his body into two halves, male and female, and

monae. next comes the demiurge called bd or el, who is the active power of the godhead. the third is the principle of wisdom, hea or boa, who also rules the sea and the imderworld. each of these has his divine consort, giving us anata, digitizecoy google vabiovs 'only-begotten' sons 171 bdua, and dmkina. these, however, are only like the saktit, and not especially remarked by theologists. but the female principle is denoted- by mylitta, the great mother, called also ishtar. so with the three male gods, we have the triad or trimarti, and with mylitta added, the arba or four toraktys of pythagoras, which perfects and potentializes all. hence, the ahove-given modes of expression. the following chal- daean scheme may serve as an iuustratiou for all others: m mylitta arbsril, pour-fold god, iii

earance of the divine presence in bis own works of creation, tangible and viable, and therefore comprehensi- ble. he mystery-god, or the ever-unrevealed deity, fecundates through his will bythos, the unfathomable and infinite depth that exists in silence sigi) and (for our intellect) darkness, and that represents the d[>stjact idea of all nature, the ever-producing kosmos. as neither the male nor female principle, blended into the idea of a double-sexed deity in ancient conceptions, could be comprehended by an ordinary human intellect, the theology of every people had to create for its religion a logos or manifested word, in some shape or other. with the ophites and other gnostics who took their models direct from more ancient originals, the unrevealed bythoa and her male coimterpart produ

was the mediator and guide between god (the higher, and everything spiritual in man; achamoth the younger sophia per- formed the same function between the 'primitive man' ennoia and matter. what was mysteriously meant by the general term, chrittos, we have just explained. deuvering a sermon on the 'month of mary' we find the rev. dr. preston, of new york city, expressing the chnstian idea of the female principle of the trinity better and more clearly than we could, and sub- stantially in the spirit of an ancient 'heathen' philosopher. he says that the "plan of the redemption made it necessary that a mother should be found, and mary stands pre-eminently alone as the only instance when a creature was necessary to the consummation of god's work" we beg the right to contradict the reverend ge

n' philosopher. he says that the "plan of the redemption made it necessary that a mother should be found, and mary stands pre-eminently alone as the only instance when a creature was necessary to the consummation of god's work" we beg the right to contradict the reverend gentleman. as shown above, thou- sands of years before our era it was found necessary by all the' heathen' theogonies to find a female principle, a 'mother' for the triune male principle. hence christianity does not present the 'only instance' of such a consummation of god's work^ albeit, as this work shows, there was more philosophy and less materialism, or rather anthropomorphism, in it. but hear the reverend doctor express 'heathen' thought in 382. affoinal btntia. i, izi. 383. id king's ofuxfic* we find the ?ystem a li

eve, is but a hvnian god. he is the symbol of humanity, a mixture of good with a portion of un- avoidable evil; of spirit fallen into matter. in worahiihdg jehovah, we simply wor- ship luture, as embodied in man, half- spiritual and half-material, at best: we arc pantheists, when not fetish worshipos, like the idolatrous jews, who sacrificed on high places, in poves, to the per- bonified male and female principle, ignorant of iao, the supreme 'setret nome' of the mysteries. shekhinah is the hindq vacb, and praised in the same terms as the latter. thmigh shown in the kabolistic ivee of life as proceeding from the ninth sephiroth, yet shekhinah is the 'veil' of ain-soph and the 'garment' of jehovah. tbo 'veil' for it succeeded for long ages in concealing the real supreme god, the universal s

e enabled to understand how that mysterious cause came at first to be represented (in the picture-writings, peibaps) as the combination of the alpha and omega of numbers, a decimal, then as lao, a triliteral name, contuning in itself a deep allegory. lao, in such a case, would etymolo^cally considered mean the 'breath of life' generated or springing forth between an upright male and an egg-shaped female principle of nature; for, in sanskrit, a means 'to be 'to live or exist; and originally it meant 'to breathe "from it" says max muller "in its ori^oal sense of breathing, the hindos formed 'asu' breath, and 'aiura' the name of god, whether it meant tbe breathing one or tbe giver of breath* it certainly meant the latter. in hebrew 'ah' and 'lah' mean life. cornelius agrippa. in hia treatise

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f stone. chapter the sixteenth. the round towers of ireland. t is astonishing how much of the egyptian and the indian symbolism of very early ages passed into the useages of christian times. thus: the high cap and the hooked staff of the god became the bishop s mitre and crozier; the term nun is purely egyptian, and bore its present meaning; the erect oval, fig 24. fig. 25. fig. 26. symbol of the female principle of nature, became the vesica piscis, and a frame for divine things; the crux ansata, testifying the union of the male and female fig 27. fig 28. fig 29. fig 30. i 138 the rosicrucians. principle in the most obvious manner, and denoting fecundity and abundance as borne in the god s hand, is transformed, by a simple inversion, into the orb surmounted by the cross, and the ensign of

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is symbol (the phallus, deem that they thereby do honor to the active force of the universal generation of all living things. for the same reason, as we learn from the geographer ptolemy, it was revered among the assyrians and persians. proclus remarks that in the distribution of the zodiac among the twelve great divinities, by ancient astrology, six signs were assigned to the male and six to the female principle. there is another division of nature, which has in all ages struck all men, and which was not forgotten in the mysteries; that of light and darkness, day and night, good and evil; which mingle with, and clash against, and pursue or are pursued by each other throughout the universe. the great symbolic egg distinctly reminded the initiates of this great division of the world. plutar

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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

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, said, namely, that gthe holy one, blessed be he, will not enter the upper jerusalem until he will enter the lower jerusalem. h4 g-d gentering h jerusalem is an appellation for the coupling of the male and female principles, alluded to by gthe holy one h and jerusalem, respectively. more precisely, jerusalem is the ghome h into which the male principle enters in order to couple with the awaiting female principle. in its plain meaning, this statement refers to the spiritual antecedent of jerusalem and the physical jerusalem, but in its mystical meaning, it implies that abba and ima do not couple unless z feir anpin and nukva do so first. 1 genesis 18:1. 2 proverbs 23:25. 3 zohar 3:55a, 61b, 119a, 156a, 240b; berachot 35b. 4 ta fanit 5a. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 86 this cannot be

s chochmah chesed of z feir anpin 10. firstborn keter keter-chochmah-binah of z feir anpin 9 exodus 10:23. 10 ammended according to v.l. cited by rabbi shalom sharabi. 11 tikunei zohar 70 (119b. the arizal on parashat vaeira (2) 16 if we consider all this, we see here yet another overturning of victorian stereotypes. here, the female is the attacking warrior, and she attacks not only her opposing female principle but also.and chiefly.the evil male. in this tour de force of feminine power, nukva seems to be mustering all her possible sources of divine energy, based on various combinations of divine names. thus, we see why the ten plagues first of all had to be ten, and secondly, why they took the specific forms they did: each plague expressed a different combination of divine power channele

, 104b. 23 2:96a. the arizal on parashat bo (2) 12 a certain amount of gevurah, of contraction, is necessary in order for the world to exist in its finite form. however, if the force of contraction is allowed to progress beyond its proper limit, the divine energy becomes so limited that even evil can derive sustenance from it. as we have explained previously, it is especially crucial to guard the female principle from this tendency toward excessive contraction and limitation. due to its drive to actualize divinity in the material world, the female principle may overestimate the need to allow worldliness to exist. this is an open invitation for the forces of evil to stake their claim. we can now explain the verse. for ham, the father of egypt,24 embodied the power of the [five] states of ge

malchut, or gkingdom. h malchut is how a person becomes king over reality, by expressing his ideas and emotions and through them changing, rectifying, and elevating the world from its initial, purely physical state to a spiritualized state. binah is thus the actualization of chochmah, and malchut is the actualization of the emotions. in both cases, the male principle is the abstract idea and the female principle is its concretization. malchut may be considered a lower form of binah since expression is simply a way of making other people understand the emotions one feels. the two biblical archetypes for these two facets of femininity are the two wives of jacob, leah and rachel. leah is represented by the first hei of the divine name, and rachel by the second hei. since the four letters rep

ly that nukva is constructed from the sub-sefirot of gevurah of the preceding sefirot, here we are discussing a further rectification process. we have explained the difference between the male and female principles previously in terms of the difference between the drives for abstraction and concretization. the male principle seeks re-inspiration from the spiritual levels higher than it, while the female principle seeks to manifest divinity in the levels below it, this being g-d fs directive to make the lower worlds into his home. in order for the female principle to exhibit this consciousness, the male abstraction-drive must be subdued, or hidden. only then can the female principle assert itself and become an equal partner with the male principle. this female drive or consciousness is deri

t (i.e, at the level of tiferet, not netzach and hod, and reaches nukva from there. as is known, nukva is built only through reflected light, not through direct light. thus, if [these lights would not descend] as described, nukva could not be constructed at all. the idea that nukva is built only through reflected light expresses what we said earlier, that the male principle cannot directly create female principle, since their respective orientations are opposite. 1 exodus 27:20. 2 etz chaim 25:2, etc. the arizal on parashat tetzaveh (3) 366 these two sub-sefirot of chesed within netzach and hod [of z feir anpin] are manifest as two olives, as it is written, gthere were two olive [trees] above it. h3 this verse is part of zechariah fs prophetic vision of the return of the babylonian exile

ticles, and we have had occasion to point out the semantic connection between the hebrew word for goil h (shemen) and the english word gsemen, h based on the fact that the implication of the word shemen is the distilled essence of any entity. thus, these two olives may be seen as the spiritual gtesticles h that produce the male seed, or oil, that is then spiritually transferred to the menorah, or female principle. in the present context, the gseed h is the conceptual insight originating in chochmah that is processed by the sefirotic array, eventually being brought to fulfillment as it is applied to the real world. this seed must be pulverized, i.e, reduced to its constituent elements, in order to create female consciousness, as we said. this is similar to how physically, the male seed must

mmandments, the torah mentions the second reason, which is [solely] in order to fulfill the creator fs command, this being the meaning of the phrase, gas g-d, your g-d, commanded you. h this explains also why [in the second version of the ten commandments, the commandment to keep the sabbath] begins gguard the sabbath day to keep it holy. h the second [version of the ten] commandments is from the female principle, which is alluded to by the word gguard, h as is known.8 the word for gremember h (zachor) is related to the word for gmale h (zachor. gremembering h is the active aspect of observing the sabbath, and refers to the active declaration of the day fs holiness made at its beginning (in kiddush) and end (in havdalah. gguarding h is the passive aspect of observing the sabbath, and refer

alchut up to tiferet, as gfeminine water. h the sin was that this name must remain always in malchut in order to raise gfeminine water h so that [malchut] can receive the supernal light as gmale water, h both of them remaining within her. gmale water h and gfeminine water h are the kabbalistic idiom for garousal from above h and garousal from below, h respectively. as we have seen previously, the female principle innately yearns for union with the male principle, in order to combine the female drive for concretization of divine consciousness in the world with the male drive for ever more abstract and sublime levels of divine consciousness in oneself. without rejuvenation from the male, the female loses inspiration and succumbs to the ggravitational h pull of the very material reality she i

herefore, in the context of rosh chodesh and pesach, the torah says, gabove the daily sacrifice it shall be done, h implying that (1) there is a supernal coupling and (2) it occurs by itself. by the way, this also explains the difference between the sabbath and rosh chodesh in the following way. on the sabbath, the male principle predominates due to the influence of abba, but on rosh chodesh, the female principle predominates due to the influence of ima. the sabbath is a solar phenomenon, occurring every seventh day, while rosh chodesh is a lunar phenomenon, occurring when the moon begins its cycle anew. this alluded to in the verse, g[the gate of the inner courtyard (of the temple) will be closed during the six days of the workweek] but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day

ten normally, the gmale h letters yud and vav overpower the gfemale h letters hei and hei. the four letters of the name havayah are associated with the four partzufim abba, ima, z feir anpin, and nukva, respectively. thus, the yud and vav are gmale h letters while the two hei fs are gfemale h letters. in the two couples, yud-hei and vav-hei, the male principle precedes and therefore dominates the female principle. but in the context of rosh chodesh, it is written, gthe sabbath it shall be opened and on the day of the [new] month. h the initials of these words [also] spell 11 leviticus 25:12. 12 ibid. 23:2, 4, 37. 13 3:95b. 14 ezekiel 46:1. the arizal on parashat pinchas 644 the name havayah, but with the first hei, which is ima, ruling over the yud, which is abba. these words read: hashabb

of the prophets,21 and the 9 books of the writings22).23 it is therefore customary to spend the night of shavuot reading selections of these books (chiefly the beginning and end of each parashah of the torah and book of the prophets and writings) plus selections from the oral law as well (this is called tikun, grectification h or restoration of the 24 ornaments of the bride) the gmatron h is the female principle, the shechinah, which is the collective soul of the jewish people. the gbride h we are adorning by learning torah on shavuot night is thus essentially our individual selves and the jewish people collectively. since we are busy with the workings of the supernal coupling on shavuot night, marital relations are forbidden to us. 15 1:9a. 16 3:79a, 1:48b. 17 genesis 2:22. 18 genesis 3:

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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

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rituals, and ceremonies that were important to shinto. over the centuries, the kojiki has become 13 an important part of japanese/shinto mythology and helps define the japanese worldview. the shinto creation story relates the activities of izanagi and izanami, a god and goddess who created the japanese islands out of chaos, a state of disorder or formlessness. shinto recognizes both a male and a female principle, or element, in creation. this is in contrast to religions such as christianity and judaism, which see creation as the work of a male god alone. the story notes, however, that because izanami spoke ahead of her husband at their wedding ceremony, the ceremony had to be repeated so that the male god was given priority over the female goddess. this male prominence is an important fea

nlightenment and salvation (saving from sin. the dao de jing develops a number of other themes as well: that force gives rise to force; that beauty, power, and wealth bring about envy, shame, and crime; that exerting effort creates resistance; that the simpler a person s needs are, the more they will be fulfilled; and that achievement comes from acting in harmony with the universe, especially the female principle of flexibility. each of these themes is reflected in the excerpts given here, and each provides followers of daoism with a set of principles that they apply in their daily lives. still, these principles are not always entirely clear. for example, the dao de jing says, when people see some things as good, other things become bad. this sentence tells readers that they cannot know ev

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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

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y fear that such representations are actually paying tribute to the ancient goddesses and earth mothers and that these images perpetuate t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 273 pope john paul ii praying at the black madonna shrine in czestochowa, poland, in 1999 (ap/wide world photos) strains of pagan worship of the female principle. for example, church scholars point out that st. germain de pres, the oldest church in paris (par-isis, the grove of isis, was built in 542 on the site of a former temple dedicated to isis. isis had been the patron goddess of paris until christianity replaced her with st. genevieve. within the church of st. germain de pres, however, parishioners worshipped a black statue of isis u

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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

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eferred to the tetmgrammaton. yhvh elohim: divine hebrew name of binah, meaning "the lord god" associated with daath in the exercise of the middle pillar. yhvh eloah ve-daath: divine hebrew name of tiphareth meaning "lord god of knowledge" used in the exercise of the middle pillar. yhvh tzabaoth: divine hebrew name of netzach, meaning "lord of armies" yin: in chinese taoism the negative, passive, female principle. yoga: sanskrit word meaning "union" the eastern science of physical, mental, and spiritual integration. bibliography agrippa. three books of occult philosophy. edited and annotated by donald tyson. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publicationwh- 1- beelzebub visits west virginia fingers of lightning tore holes in the black skies as an angry cloudburst drenched the surrealistic landscape

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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

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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. if this be truth, let truth name its own price. i was not sure, until norm and john got back from the old jail. a couple of months earlier, scant days after hearing that i was to become a gnostic bishop and thus an heir t

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tamasic, and sattvic. these have found expression in astrology as the car- dinal, fixed, and mutable signs of the zodiac. briefly, this dynamic notion of the trinity states that everything in creation is made of motion, which can be linear, rotary, or vibratory in nature. these motions are never pure but always mixed. the rajasic, or cardinal, is the male principle; the tamasic, or fixed, is the female principle; and the sattvic, or mutable, is the neu- tral principle. to some extent these motions correspond to the spiral, the circle, and the wave. the value of this view of the trinity is its denial that a thing need be material to be real. as a ritual symbol the triangle is used sparingly in the art, but might be employed more often with a little ingenuity. its common function is the enc

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ed within the fifth sephirah, which carries the two names din (rigorous judgment) and geburah (binding strength. the daughters of the just would seem to fall under din and the sons of fury under geburah. on the tree as a whole, it is the left (female) side that is severe and the right (male) side that is merciful. but if we consider only the left side of the tree, then the masculine aspect of the female principle may be regarded as dominating or conquering, while the feminine aspect of the female principle may be looked upon as dispensing equitable judgments. neither aspect of the fifth sephirah can be called merciful, since mercy belongs on the right side of the tree, but the din aspect is just while the geburah aspect is wrathful. the strong connection of the elders with time is emphasiz

ught has reincarnated in countless female forms, being compelled by the angels to pass from one to another like water poured fiom vessel to vessel. appendix a: the keys 235 this gnostic myth of the simonians contains many of the essential gnostic ideas. details differ greatly from sect to sect, but always the god of the old testament is not god the father but an abortion that arose from the first female principle, the great mother, without the consent of the father. man is physically created by yaldabaoth and the other archons, yet he is infused with a spark of true divinity by the will of the father, making man a higher creature than the archons who shaped him. however, man does not recognize his divinity, and this ignorance of his true estate allows yaldabaoth to use humans as his slaves

ild-fire in the magical texts. few indeed and far between are those modern rituals in which that awe-inspiring name does not occupy the place of honour (ritual magic [i9491 [hollywood: newcastle publishing, 19711, p. 40) william gray until the left-hand limit of the feminine binah came into being, nothing further could be created in mind or matter. it is therefore technically true to say that the female principle made possible the knowledge between good and evil (daath, but it made all other knowledge possible at the same moment. once binah exists, so does distinction between right and left, black and white, this and that etc. once the monad becomes the dyad, the triad are automatically in existence, which combine in the tetrad, and so the mighty name (ihwh) is "uttered (the ladder of ligh

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for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva, goddess of wisdom, who made up the feminine principle of deeper, more instinctual wisdom. use the hour of jupiter to profit from an opportunity to upgrade your life. element: air colour: blue/purple crystals: azurite, lapis lazuli, sodalite, turquoise incenses: agrimony, cedar, sandalwood, sage trees: beech, oak herbs and oils: borage, cinquefoil, coltsfoot, hyssop, mistletoe metal: tin jupiter rules sagittarius, 23 november-21 dec

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cism, and the method of science. no denies all these and closes the argument. but all this is a glamour cast by maya; the real meaning of the prose of this chapter is as follows: no, some negative conception beyond the it spoken of in chapters 31, 49 and elsewhere. yes, it. perhaps, the flux of these. o, nuit, hadit, ra-hoor-khuit. eye, the phallus in kether. i, the ego in chokmah. hi, binah, the feminine principle fertilised (he by yod) y, the abyss. no, the refusal to be content with any of this. but all this is again only a glamour of maya, as previously observed in the text (chapter 31. all this is true and false, and it is true and false to say that it is true and false. the prose of this chapter combines, and of course denies, all these meanings, both singly and in combination. it is

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uch, because unity is omniform. it represents kether, which is the source of all things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. continuing on these lines, the number of knocks will refer to the sephira or other idea qabalistically cognate with that number. thus, 7 knocks will intimate venus, 11 the great work, 17 the trinity of fathers, and 19 the feminine principle in its most general sense. analyzing the matter a little further, we remark firstly that a battery of too many knocks is confusing, as well as liable to overweight the other parts of the ritual. in practice, 11 is about the limit. it is usually not difficult to arrange to cover all necessary ground with that number. secondly, each is so extensive in scope, and includes aspects s

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chaste' or venal sisters, as men now despise 'milksops 'sissies' and 'tango lizards' love is to be divorced utterly and irrevocably from social and financial agreements, especially marriage. love is a sport, an art, a religion, as you will; it is not an ol' clo' emporium 'mary inviolate' is to be 'torn upon wheels' because tearing is the only treatment for her; and rv, a wheel, is the name of the feminine principle (see liber d) it is her own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man's own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. let him attend to his own particular business, t

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tation until the end, stringing upon itself the pearls of human existence. it is the line of energy which connects the lower personal man with his father in heaven via the ego, the mediating middle principle. upon it are found those focal points of energy we call the permanent atoms. 48 52: s. d, i, 136, 354. see also note page no. 8. 49 54: mulaprakriti. the parabrahmic root, the abstract deific feminine principle undifferentiated substance. akasa. literally "the root of nature (prakriti, or matter. 50 55: the monads of the fourth creative hierarchy, the human monads, exist in three main groups: a. the monads of will. b. the monads of love. c. the monads of activity. mahachohan. the officer in our planetary hierarchy who presides over the activities carried on in the four minor rays and t

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if the veiled language of the puranas is not understood- all this should tend to show that the ancients knew something of the "modern discoveries" of science. enoch, when speaking of "the great inclination of the earth" which "is in travail" is quite significant and clear. is not this evident? nuah is noah, floating on the waters in his ark; the latter being the emblem of the argha, or moon, the feminine principle; noah is the "spirit" falling into matter. we find him, as soon as he descends upon the earth, planting a vineyard, drinking of the wine, and getting drunk on it, i.e, the pure spirit becomes intoxicated as soon as it is finally imprisoned in matter. the seventh chapter of genesis is only another version of the first. thus, while the latter reads "and darkness was upon the face

" which is called allegorically the great "vaivasvata manu deluge" when the account shows vaivasvata manu (or "humanity) remaining alone on earth in the ark of salvation towed by vishnu in the shape of a monstrous fish, and the seven rishis "with him" the allegory is very plain- in the symbolism of every nation, the "deluge" stands for chaotic unsettled matter- chaos itself: and the water for the feminine principle- the "great deep" as the greek lexicon of parkhurst gives it "arche (ark) answers to the hebrew rasit, or wisdom. and (at the same time) to the emblem of the female generative power, the arg or arca, in which the germ of nature (and of mankind) floats or broods on the great abyss of the waters, during the interval which takes place after every mundane (or racial) cycle" ark is a

ancient egyptians that spirit was and is entirely metaphysical and psychological; with the hebrews it was realistic and physiological. it pointed to the first sexual separation of the human race (eve giving birth to cain-jehovah, as shown in the "source of measures; to the consummation of terrestrial physiological union and conception (as in the allegory of cain shedding abel's blood- habel, the feminine principle) and- child-bearing; a process shown to have begun in the third race, or with adam's third son, seth, with whose son henoch, men began to call themselves jehovah or jahhovah, the male jod and havah or eve- to wit, male and female beings* thus the difference lies in the religious and ethical feeling, but the two symbols are identical. there is no doubt that, with the fully initia

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e groups called the line, the triangle, the pentacle, the second line and the cube (or 13514; and when the point having generated a line, thus becomes a diameter which stands for the androgynous logos, then the figures become 31415, or a triangle, a line, a cube, the second line, and a pentacle "when the son separates from the mother he becomes the father" the diameter standing for nature, or the feminine principle. therefore it is said "in the world of being, the one point fructifies the line- the virgin matrix of kosmos (the egg-shaped zero- and the immaculate mother gives birth to the form that combines all forms" prajapati is called the first procreating male, and "his mother's husband* this gives the key-note to all the later divine sons from immaculate mothers. it is greatly corrobor

nd crucifixion; but it has a far nearer relation, in truth, to the mystery of generation, when dissociated from the egg with the central germ, or the circle with its central point. the brazen serpent had no such holy meaning as that; nor was it, in fact, glorified above the "fiery serpents" for the bite of which it was only a natural remedy. the symbological meaning of the word "brazen" being the feminine principle, and that of fiery, or "gold" the male one* in the book of the dead, as just shown, reference is often made to the egg. ra, the mighty one, remains in his egg, during the struggle between the "children of the rebellion" and shoo (the solar energy and the dragon of darkness (ch. xvii. the deceased is resplendent in his[[footnote(s* and this only because the brazen serpent was lif

s explained by the later religion copying the earlier? that doctrine was universal, and it was not the mind of any one hierogrammatist that evolved it; for the indian avatars are a proof to the contrary. after which, having come "to realize clearer* what "the divine father and son" were with the egyptians, de rouge still fails to account for, and perceive what were the functions attributed to the feminine principle in that primordial generation. he does not find it in the goddess neith, of sais. yet he quotes the sentence of the commander to cambyses when introducing that king into the saitic temple "i made known to his majesty the dignity of sais, which is the abode of neith, the great (female) producer, genitrix of the sun, who is the first-born, and who is not begotten, but only brought

of being "gods, demons, pitris and men" are the four orders of beings to whom the term ambhamsi is applied (in the vedas it is a synonym of gods: because they are all the product of waters (mystically, of the akasic ocean, and of the third principle in nature. pitris and men on earth are the transformations (rebirths) of gods and demons (spirits) on a higher plane. water is, in another sense, the feminine principle. venus aphrodite is the personified sea, and the mother of the god of love, the generator of all the gods as much as the christian virgin mary is mare (the sea, the mother of the western god of love, mercy and charity. if the student of esoteric philosophy thinks deeply over the subject he is sure to find out all the suggestiveness of the term ambhamsi, in its manifold relations

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for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva, goddess of wisdom, who made up the feminine principle of deeper, more instinctual wisdom. use the hour of jupiter to profit from an opportunity to upgrade your life. element: air colour: blue/purple crystals: azurite, lapis lazuli, sodalite, turquoise incenses: agrimony, cedar, sandalwood, sage trees: beech, oak herbs and oils: borage, cinquefoil, coltsfoot, hyssop, mistletoe metal: tin jupiter rules sagittarius, 23 november-21 dec

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e many components of the universe, including gods, man and animals. in saharan africa the world was originally made out of the numerous segments of the sacrificed cosmic serpent minia, god s first creation an event remembered in animal sacrifice in the region to this day. there is a similar cosmic drama in an assyro-babylonian myth when the celestial king marduk slaughters the serpent 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

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e to cut the umbilical cord. another name later given to her was mammi, from which came mama and mother. mama or ma as a term for mother can be found in various languages all over the world. ninkharsag would later be symbolised in part by the stream of mother goddess deities with names like queen semiramis, isis, barati, artemis, diana, and the biblical mary. these were also used to symbolise the feminine principle as goddesses of the moon or waters, which are 74 children of the matrix considered feminine in balance to the masculine sun. there are often two distinct camps in these areas of research. there are those who believe that these deities were only symbolic of astronomical and esoteric principles, and those who say they were originally flesh and blood extraterrestrial "gods" or "god

i" and called the "queen of heaven "our lady, and "mother of god".25 el in the edda texts was also known as mary. the hebrews worshipped a god and goddess deity called mari-el or "mary-god, and the "mother mary" of christianity is just another name for the ancient goddess known as el, isis, ishtar, barati, artemis, and diana. the christian religion, like its bed-mate judaism, sought to remove the feminine principle from the public domain, and the ancient trinity of father-son-mother became father-son-holy ghost. the grotesque suppression of women would follow "justified" by the invented words of the mythical st paul "wives submit to your husbands for the husband is the head of the wife, as christ is the head of the church. now if the church submits to christ so should wives submit to their

or surrender" and muslim means "one who submits. god save us from religion 223 islam was another illuminati creed that was to cost the lives of hundreds of millions in the bloody wars waged with christianity and judaism. these are three prison religions ultimately controlled by the same force. islam, like christianity and judaism, was also a vehicle for the systematic suppression of women and the feminine principle. again we see the connection to freemasonry. after earning the three blue lodge degrees of freemasonry and completing the scottish or york rite degrees, masons can petition to become a shriner. these who swear a blood oath and confess allah as god.43 allah is a moon god. this is why you will see a crescent moon at the top of mosques around the world, and why the shriners have th

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ave, chicago, il 60614. it publishes two periodicals, the study group herald and the mighty messenger. the current president is janet farrington graham. it has some 1,200 members. sources: the urantia book. chicago: uversa press, n.d. fellowship of isis an international, neopagan religious organization founded in 1976 by author and painter olivia robertson to revive worship and communion with the feminine principle of the deity in the form of the goddess isis and to promote knowledge of the world s matriarchal religions. the fellowship is organized on a democratic basis and there are no vows of secrecy (though member groups may have their own secrets. it professes religious toleration and members are free to maintain other religious allegiances. communication between members is maintained

aphical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. feraferia an early neopagan group that pioneered the development of goddess worship in southern california. it was founded by frederick m. adams in 1967. adams, who had studied greek and celtic folklore, as well as the works of c. g. jung, had a mystical experience in 1956 when he was suddenly seized by a realization of the sacred feminine principle. in 1957 he devoted himself to establishing a nature celebration group known as the fellowship of hesperides. he also met and was deeply influenced by the poet robert graves and graves s book the white goddess. in 1959 adams started a multifamily commune in the sierra madre, with seasonal festivals at a goddess temple. the temple and commune became the predecessors of feraferia

orth his ideas on exalting base metals into sol and luna (gold and silver) and illustrates exactly what kind of vessel should be used for each. isar see institute for the study of american religion isc see international society of cryptozoology isian news quarterly publication of the fellowship of isis, an irish-based religious organization founded in 1976 to revive worship and communion with the feminine principle in deity, in the form of the goddess, and to promote knowledge of the world s ma- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. isian news 809 triarchal religions. address: clonegal castle, enniscorthy, eire, ireland. website: http//www.fellowshipofisis.com. sources: fellowship of isis homepage. http/ www.fellowshipofisis.com. march 8, 2000. iskcon see international society

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sity of new york press, 1995. mercury also popularly known as quicksilver. known for many centuries, the metal has played an important part in the history of alchemy. in its refined state it forms a coherent, very mobile liquid that at ordinary room temparature was a well-known unique substance. the early alchemists believed that nature formed all metals from mercury, and that it was a living and feminine principle. it went through many processes, and the metal that evolved was pure or impure according to the locality of its production. the mercury of the philosophers stone needed to be a purified and revivified form of the ordinary metal; as the arabian alchemist geber stated in his summa perfectionis: mercury, taken as nature produces it, is not our material or our physic, but it must be

liffs, n.j: prentice- hall, 1970. seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1972. watkins, susan. conversations with seth. the story of jane roberts s esp class. 2 vols. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1980.81. robertson, olivia (1917) irish neo-pagan writer and painter who founded the fellowship of isis to revive worship and communication with the feminine principle in deity. she was born in london on april 13, 1917, and later worked as a play leader in dublin corporation playgrounds, eire (1941.45. her book st. malachy s court (1946) is based on these experiences. other publications include field of the stranger (1948, a book society choice and also published in a braille edition; the golden eye (1949; miranda speaks (1950; it s an old iri

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the gnosis. the gnostic handbook page 29 that which is not divine will sophia the logos awakened by the mind of god (logos) purified by the wisdom of god (sophia) empowered by divine will the christ-state the gnostic handbook page 30 what is sophia? the general understanding of the holy spirit as found in the christian tradition is a desexing of the great feminine power. sophia is the goddess or feminine principle and as such exists from the earliest pagan traditions right through to the greek mysteries and gnosticism. in gnostic literature she is described by many names the all mothers, mother of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterpart of the logos and cannot work without. it is hence suggested in esoteric gnostic literature that it was the combi

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herself here, so she receives above a shining garment, in order to be able to look without injury into the mirror, whose light proceeds from the lord of light. moreover, the zohar teaches that the soul cannot reach the abode of bliss, unless she has received the "holy kiss" or the reunion of the soul with the substance from which she emanated-spirit. all souls are dual, and, while the latter is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys, a hermetic work. woe indeed, for nothing will remain of that personality to be recorded

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e herself here, so she receives above a shining garment, in order to be able to look without injury into the mirror whose light pro- ceeds (rom the lord of light* moreover, the zokar teaches that the soul cannot reach the abode of bliss unless she has received the "holy kiss, or the reunion of the soul with the substance from which she emanated" spirit' all souls are dual, and while the soul is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the' spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband [spirit] the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys^ these ideas on the transmigrations and the trinity of man were held by many of the ear

o-ofsi^ fim frtmly pirtt vniiy in a trinitf lord ftaho tbe ufe whkh u do life uo the ineffable nudc of the unksown the supreme god. the caiue which daty abmas, slid the 'etenuu ptoducei the ijght, or the logo* tn spiritiuj sun' unity enclosed within tibteondiio. the water of jordanus the depth, bythoa, feminine prindple mazimiu the water of ufe, or ajar, the boundlem circle, within whicli lie the feminine principle. unity in a all ideal fomu. fkom this unity eman- ivinity, endoaed within the tsh amon *tea the second rrinifv second trinilg (he manifestatiod of the first (idem) 1. lcird hano the king of ufe and 1. ennoia- nund. li^t an lveii. first lite, or the prnnitite nan. 2. lord jordan manifestation or emana- 2. ophis, the agathodaimod. tiod of jordan haximua the watos of grace. second

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f the order of the saint-esprit, or of the h.g. it also refers mystically to revelation, and tosaint john. white 3. it stands for the great deep, or for matter in the abstract. it is represented heraldically by horizontal lines,which stand for fluid-levels,whether of the sea or of the air. this colour is assigned to the blessed lady, or notre dame de paris. in heathen representations of theruling feminine principle, it stands for the virgin of thesea. blue also, in regard to the heraldicmetals, sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (gold; and luna, the moon, astarte( receptive, or female power, is the metal argent (or silver* the colour azure, or blue,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by t

serpent-worship, united with the adoration paid to a perpendicular. the three most celebrated emblems carried in the greek mysteries were the phallus, i; the egg, o; and the serpent, f; or otherwise the phallus, the loni or umbilicus, and the serpent. the first, in each case, is the emblem of the sun, or of fire, as the male, or active, generative power. the second denotes the passive nature, or feminine principle, or the element of water. the third symbol indicates the destroyer, the reformer, or the renewer (the uniter of the two, and thus the preserver or perpetuator eternally renewing itself. the universality of the serpentine worship (or phallic adoration) is attested by emblematic sculpture and architecture all over the world. this does not admit of denial. its character and purpose

alistic fall of man. 309 all languages, would result in a persuasion of their serpentine origin. the forms of these snake-like glyphs and their cursive lines in all the alphabets will, on examination, present the same suspicious undulation. these letters have an intimate refluent connection with all the signs which mean the sea, the great deep, matter in the abstract, or the personified receptive feminine principle, which eventually is to be the conqueror of the dragon or enemy. we thus desire to show the unity of the myths and the forms made use of for the expression of religious ideas in the glory of woman. woman, in fact, is the maker of nature; as we know nature. we wish the reader particularly to take notice that the above singular notions are in no way shared by us, further than as o

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the world teacher made it part of his work to draw their attention to the true meaning of the three persons. at what time knowledge of these three aspects of god was introduced into the land we do not know, but at the date of our experience they had their places in the symbology of the mysteries. 64. isis and osiris 65. isis, to whom the lesser mysteries were ascribed, was not only the universal feminine principle expressed in nature, but also a real and very lofty being, just as the christ is the universal life, the second logos, and also a high official of the occult hierarchy. she by virtue of her high development and office was able to represent the feminine aspect of the deity to man. isis was the mother of all that lives, and wisdom and truth and power; upon her temple at sais the i

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will with solid energy as the bull, doh dare with fierce courage as the lion, doth know with swift intelligence as the man, and doth keep silence with soaring subtilty as the eagle or dragon. moreover, this sphinx is an eidolon of the law, for the bull is life, the lion is light, the man is liberty, the serpent love. now then his sphinx, being perfect in true balance, yet taketh the aspect of the feminine principle that so she may be partner of the pyramid, that is the phallus, pure image of our father the sun, the unity creative. the signification of this mystery is hat the adept must be whole, himself, containing all things in true proportion, before he maketh himself bride of the one universal transcendental, in its most secret virtue. and now herefore, o my son, comprehending this myst

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der 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 mithraic cult is a simplification of the more elaborate teachings of zarathustra (zoroaster, the persian fire magician. click to enlarge the ground plan of stonehenge. from maurice's indian antiquities. the dru

is said to have created man in his own image, male and female; or, more properly, as the division of the sexes had not yet taken place, male-female. this is a deathblow to the time-honored concept that god is a masculine potency as portrayed by michelangelo on the ceiling of the sistine chapel. the elohim then order these androgynous beings to be fruitful. note that neither the masculine nor the feminine principle as yet existed in a separate state! and, lastly, note the word "replenish" the prefix re denotes "back to an original or former state or position" or "repetition or restoration (see webster's international dictionary, 1926) this definite reference to a humanity existing prior to the "creation of man" described in genesis must be evident to the most casual reader of scripture. an

man (the little world) is included in this symbol because his inner nature is potential gold (aphar min haadamah, which gold is his eternal indestructible spiritual body. gold is the masculine principle of the universe. figure 35 is the character of silver and the moon. it signifies that silver (like gold) is a perfect metal, except that the red part of its nature is turned inward. silver is the feminine principle of the universe. figure 36 is the character of copper and venus; figure 37, of iron and mars; figure 38, of tin and jupiter; figure 39, of lead and saturn; figure 40, of mercury (both the planet and the element; figure 41, of antimony, the key metal of the earth itself; figure 42, of arsenic; figure 43, of sulphur; figure 44, of cinnabar; figure 45, of quicklime; figure 46, of n

in spite of its lapse into idolatry still retained the secrets of the ancient wisdom cult. the arcana of islam may yet be demonstrated to have been directly founded upon the ancient pagan mysteries performed at the caaba centuries before the birth of the prophet; in fact it is generally admitted that many of the ceremonials now embodied in the islamic mysteries are survivals of pagan arabia. the feminine principle is repeatedly emphasized in islamic symbolism. for example, friday, which is sacred to the planer venus, is the moslem's holy day; green is the color of the prophet and, being symbolic of verdure, is inevitably associated with the world mother; and both the islamic crescent and the scimitar may be interpreted to signify the crescent shape of either the moon or venus "the famous

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

enus, ishtar, inanna, aradia, davcina, selene, diana, az, babylon, kali, tiamat, al-uzza, and gaia. although this goddess is mostly associated with the moon, she is said to have both good and bad aspects, and true to that logic she if often spoke of as lilith who was consumed or possessed by a much more ancient goddess named tiamat. as if lilith is now the body that tiamat walks in. lilith is the feminine principle personified. tiamat is said to be the most ancient of god s enemies, long before the fall of lucifer, and she spawned a race of wicked giants and demons. in babylonian legend, tiamat was called the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the olde

diana is a goddess of the hunt, the moon, and childbirth. she was also known as the virgin goddess. artemis, the greek equivalent of diana, is also a goddess of the hunt, childbirth, the moon and also known as the virgin goddess. artemis is also closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is the consort of the god shiva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the crema

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

'chaste' or venal sisters, as men now despise 'milksops 'sissies, and 'tango lizards. love is to be divorced utterly and irrevocably from social and financial agreements, especially marriage. love is a sport, an art, a religion, as you will; it is not an ol' do' emporium 'mary inviolate' is to be 'torn upon wheels' because tearing is the only treatment for her; and rv, a wheel, is the name of the feminine principle (see liber d) it is her own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man's own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. let him attend to his own particular business, t

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

erse, glet us make man in our image, after our likeness. h both the gimage h and the glikeness h come from the feminine [aspect of the intellect, ima, who clothes the offspring [she produces. this [clothing] is the gimage. h thus, the numerical value of the word for gimage h [tzelem, 160, plus the kolel] is the same as that of the name ekyeh when spelled out with the letter yud, which denotes the feminine principle. as we have seen, the name ekyeh is chiefly associated with binah, and therefore has a feminine 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 give

h of beriah, is described in [the torah fs account of] the sixth day, while his creation should have occurred after the seventh day, which expressed the nukva of z feir anpin of atzilut. but [it is] because the seventh day, which is always the feminine, and the sixth, which embodies yesod, are never separated, for yesod and malchut are never separated. since this is so, the sixth day includes the feminine principle as well [as the masculine principle. thus, in a sense, the entire array of atzilut has already been dealt with by the sixth day, so while still discussing the sixth day, the torah can go on to discuss what happened in the world of beriah. furthermore, the main aspect of the male [partzuf] is yesod, for the feminine [partzuf] is essentially just a receptacle for the [seminal] dro

ing speculum h is gmirror, h while that of gshining speculum h is simply gtransparent glass. h also, the sixth day is prefaced by the definite article, in contrast to the other days. in the creation account, the first five days are mentioned without a definite article( gone day, h ga second day, h ga third day, h etc. only the sixth day is referred to as gthe sixth day. h5 this indicates that the feminine principle is already rectified [on this day. since the definite article is the letter hei, which in the context of the name havayah refers to the feminine sefirot (binah and malchut, malchut in particular. if so, in what way does the seventh day refer to malchut? and the only thing lacking is for [z feir anpin and nukva] to turn face to face in order to couple. adam and eve.and therefore

nukva, nukva could not elicit the flow of divine beneficence toward it. gelevating feminine water h is the allegorical term for arousing or eliciting flow from above [normally, nukva can] elevate her feminine water, which is states of gevurah. and when the masculine water mates with her states of gevurah [in her feminine water, the states of gevurah are sweetened. as we have seen previously, the feminine principle is constructed out of states of gevurah, since it needs to be very judgmental in order to interface with the material world, which is a priori antithetical to g-dliness. in order that these states of gevurah not leave her with an entirely negative attitude, she must periodically gmate h with the male principle, in which chesed predominates. this mitigation of nukva fs gevurah-st

dden within reality or the inner powers or potentials that we possess to do good. when these are shared with people of evil intent, we are guilty allegorically of spilling our seed, causing our potentials to be diverted to unholy purposes. to explain: we have already said that the hei of atzilut is manifest in atzilut, and that the vav of this hei is the masculine principle while the dalet is the feminine principle. they are manifest as [the partzufim] jacob and leah. the form of the letter hei can be seen as a dalet with a smaller vav inside it. the hei, which indicates malchut of atzilut, thus alludes to the union of z feir anpin and nukva that occurs within it. when someone reveals a secret to a wicked person, he causes yesod, which is that vav, to channel its effulgence to the powers o

h, and da fat) is a different manifestation of g-d fs creative energy, which is expressed in the name havayah. arich anpin is considered a male partzuf, and there is no corresponding female partzuf that shares its mental states. these can therefore be entirely channeled through its own beard. but below, there are only nine parts of the beard of z feir anpin. for above, in arich anpin, there is no feminine principle. the three final letters hei in the three names havayah are for the female, and what is left [for the male] is the three 3 psalms 93:4. 4 genesis 25:25. the arizal on parashat toldot 121 letters yud-hei-vav in each name. this is why there are nine parts of the beard of z feir anpin and 13 parts of the beard of arich anpin. when the three names havayah in the three brains of aric

hei in the three names havayah are for the female, and what is left [for the male] is the three 3 psalms 93:4. 4 genesis 25:25. the arizal on parashat toldot 121 letters yud-hei-vav in each name. this is why there are nine parts of the beard of z feir anpin and 13 parts of the beard of arich anpin. when the three names havayah in the three brains of arich anpin descend into its torso, there is no feminine principle to absorb the residual light from the final hei fs of these names that pierces through the skin of the jaw and neck. therefore, all this light can be manifest as a beard. when the similar process occurs in z feir anpin, however, there is the partzuf of nukva to absorb the feminine energy from these letters. thus, there are only 9 letters left to manifest in the beard. there is n

+ 400 (50+ 6+ 50 (10+ 6+ 4= 111+ 434+ 106+ 20= 671. ta fara: tav-ayin-reish-alef= 400+ 70+ 200+ 1= 671. this refers to the mazal of gand he acquits. h the mazal gand he acquits h is the 13th of the 13 rectifications of the beard of arich anpin, as we have seen. this is the feminine mazal, and is therefore associated with the name adni, which is associated with malchut or the partzuf of nukva, the feminine principle. the alef is missing from the word for gand he entreated h because it is split into two, forming two sets of the letters vav-yud, one present in [the 8th mazal] gstoring, h and one present in [the 13th mazal] gand he acquits. h 1 genesis 25:21. the arizal on parashat toldot (2) 130 the letter alef can be seen as formed by a diagonal vav, or straight line, together with two small

n nukva fs development, maturing her into a full-fledged female, capable of arousing the male principle to mate with her and becoming pregnant. gfeminine waters h is the allegorical term for garousal from below, h the feminine arousal of the male princple. now, when nukva is dug out, she is open, like the hei. the word nukva is related to the word for ghole h (nekev, alluding to the idea that the feminine principle must be open to receive the input of the male principle. as we know, the partzuf of nukva is associated with the final hei of the name havayah (and even more generally, both hei fs of the name havayah are feminine relative to the masculine yud and vav. the letter hei evinces this quality of openness inasmuch as it is distinguished from the similar letter chet by the opening in i

eir anpin. the gbride h is therefore nukva. here, the gevil king h does circumcise the organ of procreation, but instead of this making z feir anpin sensitive to his bride, chusham makes him sensitive to himself, or to evil. therefore, the account of this king mentions his land, saying gfrom the land of the south. h as we have seen previously, gthe land h is an appellate for malchut or nukva, the feminine principle. since this king usurps the role of the female in syphoning off the energy of yesod, his land is mentioned. this answers question #6, posed at the beginning of this exposition. the name of this king, chusham, is missing the lamed of chashmal, since, in this sublime level of emanation, the sign of the holy covenant has not yet been revealed. rather, everything was hidden inside b

emale, the lack of whose presence caused this chesed to die. in contrast, the word chusham in the book of chronicles is written with a vav, in order to indicate that for lack of the male this chesed of nukva of z feir anpin died. this explanation, however, is not satisfactory. possibly [the explanation is] that this [evil] chesed issued only as an expression of its malchut, thereby expressing the feminine principle. therefore, chusham is written [in the torah] without a vav, which indicates the male principle. in the book of chronicles, chusham is written with a vav c [the rest of this thought is missing in the manuscript. the letter vav of the name havayah indicates the midot, or z feir anpin. it thus signifies the male principle (in this context, the letter hei signifies the female prini

rawing up, h and therefore the order of the letters is reversed. yud-vav thus indicates a descending flow while vav-yud indicates an ascending flow. that is why in the former case, avit is spelled ayin-vav-yud-tav, while in the latter case, it is spelled ayin-yud-vav-tav. for, as we have seen previously, the account of the kings in the book of chronicles is told from the perspective of nukva, the feminine principle. but we must keep in mind that in the world of tohu, the partzufim did not exist as such and therefore there could be no mating between them. thus. since [in this context] z feir anpin lacked its feminine counterpart, it retracted its attribute of yesod within it, and [instead] transmitted via its left pipeline. and similarly, nukva, lacking its masculine counterpart, retracted

t his brother fs level. this is [also] why his name was originally spelled without the second yud, and is here spelled with the second yud, indicating that he [now fully] personified the masculine principle. we see that sometimes his name is spelled with the second yud, indicating that he personifies the masculine principle, and sometimes without the second yud, indicating that he personifies the feminine principle. in fact, his name is spelled [in the torah] with the second yud only five times, for a known reason.2 five times the numerical value of benjamin spelled with the second yud is 810, alluding to the two temples that were built in benjamin fs territory and stood in total 830 years. it is for this reason that his name appears with the second yud only five times, as we said. beit-nu

esponds to the mouth; and yesod corresponds to the womb in the female and the reproductive organ in the male. 2 in our texts, binyamin appears with the second yud seven times (genesis 35:18, 42:4, 43:14, 43:16, 43:29, 45:12, 49:27. 3 yoma 9a. the arizal on parashat miket 209 this what is alluded to in parashat mikeitz, that joseph personified the masculine principle and the others personified the feminine principle. when they all saw that joseph personified the masculine principle and they all personified the feminine principle, they became very jealous of him. thus we see that the numerical value of joseph [yosef] is the same as that of the word for gjealousy h [kinah, 156. yosef: yud-vav-samech-pei= 10+ 6+ 60+ 80= 156. kinah: kuf-nun-alef-hei= 100+ 50+ 1+ 5= 156 [joseph] suckles from the

nt out of eden to water the garden, h geden h signifies chochmah, the griver h is binah, and the ggarden h is malchut. it happened that [the brothers acted on their jealousy] of his father, for he sent him [to check on them, saying, gare your brothers not pasturing their flocks in shechem? h5 by this, he meant [mystically] that some of them are situated spiritually at the level of the arms of the feminine principle, which is the meaning of the word shechem, as in gon his shoulder. h6 the word shechem literally means gshoulder. h jacob assumed that since some of them are situated spiritually at the level of the arms [of the feminine principle, they would not be jealous of him nor harm him, for two reasons: first, because the arms are higher than the torso and the procreative organ. gthis be

the subterranean well) can be revealed. isaac: yitzchak: yud-tzadik-chet-kuf= 10+ 90+ 8+ 100= 208. bor: beit-vav-reish= 2+ 6+ 200= 208. specifically [they cast him] into the nukva of z feir anpin, the attribute of isaac, to the location of its left arm, where simeon was spiritually located. as we know, the masculine principle in general is associated with the right side, that of chesed, whiel the feminine principle is associated with the left side, that of gevurah. therefore, nukva can be justifiably called the attribute of isaac, since isaac also personifed the side of gevurah. as was noted above, simeon personified the left arm of nukva, i.e, the gevurah of nukva, which is anyway associated with gevurah. thus, the left arm of nukva is doubly strict. that is why joseph acted wisely when s

explain: 1. blood. as i have told you, the numerical value of the simple progressive iteration of the name ekyeh is 44, that of the word for gblood h [dam. ekyeh: alef-hei-yud-hei. the simple progressive iteration (achorayim) of this name is: alef alef-hei alef-hei-yud alef-hei-yud-hei: 1 (1+ 5 (1+ 5+ 10 (1+ 5+ 10+ 5= 44. dam: dalet-mem= 4+ 40= 44. this plague issued from the malchut of the holy feminine principle [i.e, the partzuf of nukva] and smote the evil malchut, i.e, nukva of z feir anpin in the realm of evil [specifically] this plague attacked her outside her head. meaning, her skull (gulgolta, signifying keter of the evil nukva. 2. frogs. the sum of 320, the number of states of strict judgment, as is known, plus the numerical value of the simple progressive iteration of the name

sharabi, the kolels here should be added to the numerical value of the word gfrog h (444, giving 446, the sum of 320 and 126.1 adni: alef-dalet-nun-yud. the progressive iteration of this name is: alef alef-dalet alef-dalet-nun alef-dalet-nun-yud: 1 (1+ 4 (1+ 4+ 50 (1+ 4+ 50+ 10= 126. tzefardei fa: tzadik-pei-reish-dalet-ayin: 90+ 80+ 200+ 4+ 70= 444. this plague issued from the yesod of the holy feminine principle and smote the brains of the evil nukva. this is the mystical meaning of the word for gfrog h [tzefardei fa, which can be seen as a combination of the words for gbird h [tzipor] and gknowledge h [dei fa, referring to the da fat [of this nukva. as you know, the brains of [this nukva] are 1 this is also implied in the parallel passage in pri etz chaim. the arizal on parashat vaeira

-yud-mem= 1+ 30+ 5+ 10+ 40= 86. the second iteration of the name adni: simple spelling first filling filling of filling alef alef-lamed-pei alef lamed lamed-mem-dalet pei pei-alef dalet dalet-lamed-tav dalet lamed lamed-mem-dalet tav tav-vav nun nun-vav-nun nun vav vav-alef-vav nun nun-vav-nun yud yud-vav-dalet yud vav vav-alef-vav dalet dalet-lamed-tav this plague issued from the hod of the holy feminine principle.for as you know, ima fs influence extends until hod.and smote the highest part of the skull encompassing the head of the evil nukva, the location of the hair on the head [this plague] also [smote] the malchut.the final [sub-]sefirah.of the evil z feir anpin, otherwise known as samael, the husband [of the evil nukva. as is known, lice nest in the hair of the head. ima, intellectu

-hei= 10 (10+ 5 (10+ 5+ 6 (10+ 5+ 6+ 5= 72. elokim: alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem. the progressive iteratino of this name is: alef alef-lamed alef-lamed-hei alef-lamed-hei-yud alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem= 1 (1+ 30 (1+ 30+ 5 (1+ 30+ 5+ 10 (1+ 30+ 5+ 10+ 40= 40+ 2(10+ 3(5+ 4(30+ 5(1= 40+ 20+ 15+ 120+ 5= 200. arov: ayin-reish-beit= 70+ 200+ 2= 272. this plague issued from the forehead [i.e, netzach] of the holy feminine principle and smote the yesod of the evil z feir anpin, i.e, samael. the word for gforehead h is metzach, etymologically related to netzach. also, netzach( gvictory h) signifies resolve, which we express by contracting the skin on the forehead. 5. pestilence. the numerical value of the word for gpestilence h [dever] is equivalent to the combined numerical values of two names elokim, 172.t

n this verse, we first see the name havayah spelled in its natural order of letters, followed immediately by the word gis h.which is usually left out in hebrew. this word is spelled hei-vav-yud-hei, which of course is a rearrangement of the letters that spell the name havayah. thus, evil behavior changes g-d fs natural mercy into judgment. 6. boils. this plague issued from the gevurah of the holy feminine principle. now, the numerical value of gevurah is 216. from gevurah on down to malchut are manifest five more [sub-]sefirot, each compounded of ten [sub-sub-sefirot, giving a total of 50 [sub-sub-sefirot. 216 plus 50 equals 266. when 102 is added to this number, we have 368, the numerical value of the word for gboils h [shechin. the arizal on parashat vaeira (2) 12 102 is the sum of the n

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

he neschamah. introduction 33 speaking of an analogous psychological conception in his commentary to the secret of the golden flower, dr. c. g. jung remarks that this figure represents "a line or principle of life that strives after superhuman, shining heights" at the base of the tree stands eve, the nephesch or unconscious who, in opposition to this divine genius, stands for the dark "earthborn, feminine principle with its emotionality and instinctiveness reaching far back into the depths of time, and into the roots of physiological continuity" between the two stands adam, supported by the fundamental strength of eve, the ruach or ego not yet awakened to a realisation of its innate power and possibility. from the larger point of view he represents the race as a whole and "is the personifi

is. and an analysis of the separate parts of the vault- the venus door, the pastos, the two pillars- would subscribe to that view. for regeneration and the second birth have always as creative psychological states been associated with the mother. and it may be recalled that the neschamah or that principle in man which constantly strives for the superhuman shining heights, is always portrayed as a feminine principle, passive, intuitive and alluring. whilst the universal counterpart of this human principle, represented on the tree of life by the supernals, is always described by the mediaeval alchemists as a virginal figuie, from whose life and substance all things have issued, and through whose agency man is brought to the second birth. the reader is earnestly recommended to study this ritu

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

though the festival of kumbh mela occurs four times every twelve years in the indian cities of prayag, haridwar, uijain, and nashik. all hindus regard the ganga (ganges) river as holy. observances. hindus have a great many festivals and other observances. three of the most common are diwali, the festival of lights; navratri, nine nights, the celebration of the triumph of good over evil and of the feminine principle in the world; and kumbh mela, a pilgrimage that is held four times during a twelveyear cycle. phrases. one commonly used word is namaste, a greeting offered with the palms of the hands placed together at chest level and accompanied by a slight bow. it literally means i bow to you. world religions: almanac 243 hinduism sacred text, vishnu says, howsoever men approach me, even so

olence that has characterized religious disputes in other faiths such as christianity and islam. at the same time, hinduism is a complex religion, with numerous sects and subsects. vaishnavas, saivas, and saktis overall, hinduism can be divided into three broad sects or classes: vaishnavas, who worship vishnu; saivas, who worship shiva; and saktis, who worship devi, or the mother aspect of god, a feminine principle that gives birth and nurtures. other major sects include the sauras, who worship the sun-god; the ganapatyas, who worship ganesh; and the kumaras, who worship skanda as the supreme god. the first major sect in hinduism is vaishnavaism, whose followers are called vaishnavas. this sect itself covers a number of branches. the oldest one is the sri sampradaya, which was founded by r

ey teach involvement with the world in an effort to make it a better place. they believe that in carrying out the commandments, or instructions, of god in their daily lives, they are fulfilling god s will and helping god to perfect his creation. 150 world religions: primary sources dao de jing other themes of the dao other themes run through the dao de jing. one is an emphasis on the value of the feminine principle, with its qualities of fluidness and softness, like water (as opposed to the male principle of solidity, represented by the mountain. in this way, the dao de jing challenges its readers to reject such male traits as action, force, command, and ruling in favor of such female traits as dependence, intuition (the ability to know instinctively, without having to discover something)

ntrolled the people in their local region by force. they often battled with neighboring warlords for power and influence. the basic message of the book is that the natural order, the boundlessness of the universe, is more stable and enduring than any political order. human learning, in contrast to rest and meditation, is an uncertain path to salvation and enlightenment. dao is sometimes seen as a feminine principle, a mother that is the source of all things. this distinction between masculine and feminine is often seen as a stereotype in modern times, but at the time the dao de jing was written, masculinity was associated with action, purpose, drive, aggressiveness, and the like. femininity, in contrast, was associated with feelings, emotion, thought, and especially being passive and nonag

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

ld lead to the understanding 4 of the whole manifested universe as a form encompassing pure cosmic force. a gigantic cross upon which this force is crucified. the whole of life is lived under the shadow of this cross. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of the tree. the queen and the brid

xion, 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 to the element of m, and the sephira of trapt. one of the most important symbols of trapt is the cross, whether in its form of the calvary cross of black with three black 5 steps leading up to it, or the gold equal armed cross with a rose of red blooming at its center. the calvary

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

"handcrafted with love in vermont" 548 codex magica a wax talisman created by occultist edward kelley, using directions obtained in the angelic language he called "enochian (enigma magazine, issue 6. a friend of texe marrs' ministry sent this drawing of baphomet incorporated in an oval shaped, irregular pentagram. he noted that such an arrangement indicates the revolving of venus (the goddess, or feminine principle) around the sun in an elliptical orbit. the irregular pentagram is a sign of black magic when shown inverted and enclosing the horned head of the goat. every man and woman is a star 549 the masthead of the periodic "scroll of set" newsletter, published by dr (colonel) michael aquino, high priest of the temple of set. aquino claims to be an initiate of the "left-handed path" whic

THE HOLY ROSARY OF THE BRETHREN

valindus rector lucis et tenebrarum. final note: 11 the adept is encouraged to do his/her research and homework on the use of the pater noster (the lord s prayer) and the ave maria (the hail mary. the prayer on the pater noster is the most potent of prayers. let the adept ascertain how the prayers relate to the tree of life. the ave maria exposes the greatest qabalistic truth in that through the feminine principle, we are taught about the justified one, and through the justified one, we learn of the infinite. as it is written: whomsoever sees me, sees the father. i and my father are oneit(la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi the key of the mysteries according to enoch, abraham, hermes trismegistes and solomon by eliphas levi translated, with an introduction by aleister crowley "re

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

are the second of the six stages of what is called the "shao yung sequence" which graphically illustrates how the sixty-four hexagrams of the i ching are evolved from a solid and a broken line (see hellmut wilhelm, change [pantheon books, 19601, figure 1. it will be observed that the binary symbol of i, who is abba, the primal masculine principle, and that of the first h, who is aima, the primal feminine principle, are completely distinct. when they combine sexually, half of their binary coding is passed into each of their offspring, just as a human child receives half of its genetic code in the sperm of its father and the other half in the egg of its mother. the binary symbols for v and the second h both contain a solid line and a broken line, the solid line from the father and the broke

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