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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

. in the passage quoted "in ch. iv from vita s. agili; ami the' wilde heiden' in our heldenbuch is an evident pleonasm (see supplement. 1 2 intkoduction. the worn out empire of the eomans saw both its interior convulsed, and its frontier overstept. yet, by the same mighty doctrine which had just overthrown her ancient gods, subjugated eome was able to subdue her conquerors anew. by this means the flood-tide of invasion was gradually checked, the newly converted lands began to gather strength and to turn their arms against the heathen left in their rear. slowly, step by step, heathendom gave way to christendom. five hundred years after christ, but few nations of europe believed in him; after a thousand years the majority did, and those the most important, yet not all (see suppl. from greece

ore us as a goddess of no mean rank^ the comparison of snowflakes to feathers is very old; the scythians pronounced the regions north of them inaccessible, because they were filled witli feathers (herod. 4, 7. conf. 31. holda then must be able to move througli the air, like dame herke. she loves to haunt the lake and fountain; at the hour of noon she may be seen, a fair white lady, hathing in the flood and disappearing; a trait in wiiich she resembles nerthus. mortals, to reach her dwelling, pass through the well; conf. the name wazzerholde? another point of resemblance is, that she drives about in a waggon. she had a linchpin put in it by a peasant whom she met; when he picked up the chips, they were gold* her annual progress, wdiich, like those of herke and berhta, is made to fall betwee

memorial diffusion of the volsungasaga itself (see suppl. how, beginning with wuotan, it goes on to 8igi, sigimunt, sigifrit, sintarfizilo, has been alluded to on p. 367, and has already been treated of elsewhere "with sigfrit stands connected hclfrich, chilpericus, on. hialprekr. it is worthy of note, that the as. beowulf calls sigfrit sigemund, and signumdr is a surname of osinn besides* such a flood of splendour falls on siegfried in the poems, that we need not stick at triiles; his whole nature has evident traces of the superliuman: brought up by an elf eegino, beloved by a valkyr brunhild, instructed in his destiny by the wise man gripir, he wears the helmet of invisibility, is vulnerable oidy on one spot in his body, as achilles was in the heel, and he achieves the rich hoard of the

r wings back. from this point the story takes a turn, which is less within the province of the swan-wife myth; but it is worth noting, that one of the maidens offers her lover a drink of water out of a golden 'pitcher, exactly as elfins and wish-wives do elsewhere (pp. 420, 326. molbech no. 49. these lovely swan-maidens must have been long known to german tradition. when they bathe in the cooling flood, they lay down on the bank the swan-ring, the swan-shift; who takes it from them, has them in his power^ though we are not expressly told so, yet the three prophetic merioomcn whose garments hagene took away, are precisely such; it is said (nib. 1476, 1) by way of simile again: sie swebten sam die vogele uf der fluot. it is true, our epic names only two of them (the danish story only one, th

estote i'ortnnae meae([uam est honiinum quililiet cibi atf^ne patriae. 3 three otjier nymphs appear directly alter, and prepare enchanted food lor balder with the spittle of snakes, p. 43. a 'femina silvestris et immanis' ia also mentioned by saxo p. 125. 432 wise women. this seems no modern distorted view, to imagine the maids of war, that dwelt in osin's heavenly company, that traversed air and flood, as likewise haunting the woodlaiid cave; therefore feaxo was right to call them silvcstres, and to place their chamber, their cave, in the forest. the older stages of our language supply some similar expressions, in which i recognise the idea of wise wood-iuives, not of mere elvish wood-s]3rites. they are called ivildiu ivip, and the trad, fuld, p. 544, speak of a place' ad domum ivildero i

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ty, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she i

me a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the balan

actitioners do not greet the guardians of the watchtowers at all, but instead light each elemental candle in turn, visualising golden energies pouring from each direction into the circle. uriel uriel, whose name means fire of god, is associated with earthquakes, storms and volcanoes and is the archangel of salvation. he is sometimes linked with the courage of mars. he warned noah of the impending flood and led abraham out of ur. believed to have given alchemy to mankind, he also imparted the wisdom of the kabbalah, the book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue or purple of midnight

d villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used for the coming year in ceremony were purified on the feast of candlemas on 1 february. each person was given a blessed candle that acted as protector of the home against storms, fire and flood and defended cattle and crops against evil. the energies of this seasonal festival are good for the regeneration of any areas devastated by neglect or pollution, for melting rigid attitudes that may have led to conflicts between counties or ethnic groups, and the isolation and alienation of disadvantaged groups through prejudice. they are especially helpful for the welfare of infants, small

o take leave of the summer sun as the nights will get longer. michaelmas, the day of st michael, the archangel of the sun, is celebrated on 29 september. st michael was patron saint of high places and replaced the pagan sun deities in christianity. today, global rituals concentrate on positive steps to ensure enough food, shelter and resources for vulnerable communities and individuals, relief of flood and famine, protection of endangered water creatures, dolphin, whales and fish whose death involves great suffering; they also look for peace especially where initiatives are already in motion. on a personal level, autumn equinox rituals are potent for the completion of tasks, for abundance in all aspects of your life, including security for the future which may involve issues of employment

ABRAMELIN1

e the above is applied to the nature of venus. i give the hebrew form (see appendix a, table of hebrew and chaldee letters) of equivalents: introduction xii or in latin letters: in the key of solomon it is (as being a pentacle) inscribed within a double circle, wherein is written the following versicle from psalm lxxii, v. 8 his dominion shall be also from the one sea unto the other, and from the flood unto the world s end. in the hebrew, this versicle consists of exactly twenty five letters, the number of the letters of the square. it will be at once noticed that both this form and that given by abraham the jew are perfect examples of double acrostics, that is, that they read in every direction, whether horizontal or perpendicular, whether backwards or forwards. but the form given as a pe

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success. but the action of the m makes it mild and beneficient. a gentle, peaceful, force. the square of o of omebb in the sephirotic cross of the c lesser angle of the c tablet. triangle no. 1: c triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: c. triangle no. 4: geburah. here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of geburah. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of m of aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the b tablet. triangle no. 1: queen of wands triangle no. 2: b. triangle no. 3: eagle kerub. c triangle no. 4: d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly palce

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

she made open love (though feigned) to him. yet subtly, so that he thought her the deer and himself the lion. then at last he went clean mad, and said "i will give thee what thou wilt for one kiss of that thy marvellous mouth" then she made him swear the oath by pharaoh- the which if he broke pharaoh would have his head- and she kissed him once, as if her passion were like the passion of nile in flood for the sandy bars that it devoureth, and then leaping up, answered him "give me thine office of high priest for this my lover" with that she took and fondled me. he gaped, aghast; then he took off the ring of office and flung it at her feet; he spat one word in her face; he slunk away. but i, picking up the ring of office, cried after him "what shall be done to who insulteth the high priest

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is

ers in magick, that commands thee! kakkammu! kanpa! incantation against the ancient ones (to be recited each year, when the bear hangs from its tail in the heavens) destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne-bearers of ninnkigal they are the flood which rusheth through the land seven gods of the broad heavens seven gods of the broad earth seven ancient ones are they seven gods of might seven evil gods seven evil demons seven demons of oppression seven in heaven seven on earth utug xul ala xul gidim xul mulla xul dingir xul masqim xul zi anna kanpa! zi kia kanpa zi dingir enlil la lugal kurkur ra ge kanpa! zi dingir ninlil la nin kurku

ging destruction below they are children of the underworld loudly roaring on high gibbering loathsomely below they are the bitter venom of the gods. the great storms directed from heaven those are they the owl, messenger of uggi lord of death those they are they are the children born of earth that in the creation of anu were spawned. the highest walls the thickest walls the strongest walls like a flood they pass from house to house they ravage no door can shut them out no bolt can turn them back through the door like snakes they slide through the bolts like winds they blow pulling the wife from the embrace of the husband snatching the child from the loins of man banishing the man from his home, his land they are the burning pain that presseth itself on the back of man. they are ghouls the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

the idea is that, by forcing the mind to follow, and as far as possible to realise, the language of beyond the abyss, the student will succeed in bringing his reason under control. as soon as the reason is vanquished, the garotte is removed; then the influence of the supernals (kether, chokmah, binah, no longer inhibited by daath, can descend upon tiphareth, where the human will is situated, and flood it with the ineffable light [73] 32 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-beta the mountaineer consciousness is a symptom of disease. all that moves well moves without will. all skillfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease. practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is

problem is the creation of a class with the true patriarchal feeling, and the manners and obligations of chivalry. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 170 [173] 82 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta pi-beta bortsch witch-moon that turnest all the streams to blood, i take this hazel rod, and stand, and swear an oath-beneath this blasted oak and bare that rears its agony above the flood whose swollen mask mutters an atheist's prayer. what oath may stand the shock of this offence "there is no i, no joy, no permanence? witch-moon of blood, eternal ebb and flow of baffled birth, in death still lurks a change; and all the leopards in thy woods that range, and all the vampires in their boughs that glow, brooding on blood-thirst-these are not so strange and fierce as life's unfai

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

known. time that eateth his children hath not power on them that would not be children of time. to them that know themselves immortal, that dwell always in eternity, conscious of nuit, throned upon the chariot of the sun, there is no death that men call death. in all the universe. darkness is only found in the shadow of a gross and opaque planet. as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a flood of light eternal. so also death is but through accident; thou hast hidden thyself in the shadow of thy gross body, and taking it for reality, thou hast trembled. but the orb revolveth anon; the shadow passeth away from thee. there is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of nu! for inasmuch as thou hast made the law of freedom thine, as thou hast lived in light and liberty and l

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the life-bearing ark. see a. crowley "the ship, equinox i, x> and then, in the centre of all, broods spirit, which combines the mildness of the lamb with the horns of the ram, and is the letter of bacchus or "christ<nuith, which makes possible the process described in the previous notes. but it is not permissible here to explain fully the exact mat

icene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yod in tetragrammaton. a the babe is pursued by the dragon, who casts a flood from his mouth to swallow it. see "rev" vii. the dragon is also the mother- the "evil mother" of freud. it is harpocrates, threatened by the crocodile in the nile. we find the symbolism of the ark, the coffin of osiris, etc. the lotus is the yoni; the water the amniotic fluid. in order to live his own life, the child must leave the mother, and overcome the temptation to return to her for ref

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

coincidence, but not to that extent! the answer, i believe, is manifold. it might be, for example, that poland and ireland are ruled by different degrees of taurus; that there are major and minor figures, the former overruling the latter, so that the figure of the launching of the "titanic" swallowed up the nativities of the victims of her wreck. something of this sort is really an obvious truth. flood in china, famine in india, pestilence anywhere, evidently depend on maps of a scale far more enormous than the personal. then- on this point i feel reasonably sure- there may be one or more factors of which we know nothing at all, by which the basic possibilities of a figure are set to work (just as a car with engine running will not start until the clutch is put in) i will conclude by annou

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

us, the others beneath the curving feathers. there is still another crown, the crown of amoun, the concealed one, from whom the hebrews borrowed their holy word "amen" this crown consists simply of the plumes of truth. but into the symbolism of these it is not necessary to go, for all this and more is in the crown first described. the crimson cap implies concealment, and is also symbolical of the flood of glory that pours upon the magician from above. it is of velvet for the softness of that divine kiss, and crimson for that it is the very blood of god which is its life. the band of gold is the eternal circle of perfection. the three pentagrams symbolize the father, the son, and the holy spirit, while the hexagram represents the magician himself. ordinarily, pentagrams represent the microc

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

ly xrb to decide, determine rzg to dwell; circle, cycle; generation rwd to conceive hrh a joining of words; incantations; to conjoin; a brother rbx a sword brx n.o.x (liber vii, 1:40; liber 333 caps. 1& 29) c( n points, pricks, dots mydwqn amulet, magic square (mq giants mylpn rushing water yr bloom, blossom; hawk (cn 211 (worthy) rxb) a lion yr) strong rwbg a flash; lightning hr)h a girdle rgx a flood r)y the fear (i.e. wonderment [of hwhy (cf. 611 )ry 212 great voice rwbd splendour; to enlighten rhz to spread out; harlot; golden hrz to enclose; a secret chamber rdx 213 strong, powerful, mighty; the almighty ryb) limestone; chalk ryg slaughter hgrh loaded rzw to be strange; a stranger rwz the supernal mercy of god l)d h)l( dsx a great cloud lwdg nn( 214 a girdle rwz) whiteness rwx came do

ed, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the archetypal man (lit. geastern man h, scil. ancient) nwmdq md) gall, bile hrm spirit of god l) xwr 246 myrrh rwm vision, aspect h)rm height, altitude mwr gabriel: archangel of water (lit. gmighty one of god h) l)yrbg 247 to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood mrz light, luminary rw)m the symbolic sense (i.e. of scripture, etc; see 400& 510) zmr 248 the three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the water, and the blood: aleph being air (spiritus, daleth standing for md blood, and mem being both water and the initial of mym, water. cf. 203& 447 )rb md) uriel or auriel: archangel of earth (lit. resp. gflame of el h an

hem (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b)b zion *nwyc height, altitude *mwr 807 blasphemed *pdg the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz *nqz to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood *mrz 808 the brazen serpent (ii kings 18:4; cf. 1121) nt#xn under txt pure, innocent *px balances (ch *nynz)m the three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the water, and the blood: aleph being air (spiritus, daleth standing for md blood, and mem being both water and the initial of mym, water. cf. 203& 447*)rb md) mercy; womb; vulture *mxr to steam; darkness *

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

the text from the point of view of scholarship. i had merely to paraphrase his translation in the light of actual knowledge of the true significance of the terms employed. anyone who cares to take the trouble to compare the two versions will be astounded to see how slight a remodeling of a paragraph is sufficient to disperse the obstinate 13 obscurity of prejudice, and let loose a fountain and a flood of living light, to kindle the gnarled prose of stolid scholarship into the burgeoning blossom of lyrical flame((weh note: in other words, crowley used meditation and visions to attain a mental unity with the text and lao tzu's mind at the point of the original writing. this may account for crowley's strange way of identifying ko yuen (lao-tzu) as himself in his liber xxi and elsewhere. this

the present; know it as it was known in the beginning; follow fervently the thread of the tao. 16 chapter xv the appearance of the true nature. 1. the adepts of past ages were subtle and keen to apprehend this mystery, and their profundity was obscurity unto men. since then they were not known, let me declare their nature. 2. to all seeming, they were fearful as men that cross a torrent in winter flood; they were hesitating like a man in apprehension of them that are about him; they were full of awe like a guest in a great house; they were ready to disappear like ice in thaw; they were unassuming like unworked wood; they were empty as a valley; and dull as the waters of a marsh. 3. who can clear muddy water? stillness will accomplish this. who can obtain rest? let motion continue equably

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

rtificially smoothed and undercut for at least thirty feet on every side in order to make access impossible. these plains had been made flat by generations of labour. vines and fruit-trees growing only on the upper slopes, they were devoted principally to corn, and to grass pastures for the amphibian herds of atlas. this corn was of a kind now unknown, flourishing in sea-water, and the periodical flood-tides served the same purpose as the nile in egypt. enormous floating stages of spongy rock--no trees of any kind grew anywhere on the plains so wood was unknown--supported the villages. these were inhabited by a type of man similar to the modern caucasian race. they were not permitted to use any of the food of their masters, neither the corn, nor the amphibians, nor the vast supplies of she

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

good out of its context, and call this verse christian optimism? see caird s hegel. hegel knew how to defend himself, though. as goethe wrote of him: they thought the master too inclined to fuss and finick. the students anger grew to frenzy paganinic* they vowed they d make him rue his work in jena s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god s battue, the flood for mortal s sin icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him wer bist du? he answered slowly bin ich? 387. the fish.58 because of icquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59 consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60 how vain, ind

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

"sic pervenias" and he went his wizard way, inweaving dreams of things beyond believing. when he will, the weary world of the senses closely curled like a serpent round his heart shakes herself and stands apart. so the heart's blood flames, expanding, strenuous, urgent, and commanding; and the key unlocks the door where his love lives evermore. she is of the faery blood; all smaragdine flows its flood. 42 glowing in the amber sky to ensorcelled porphyry. she hath eyes of glittering flake like a cold grey water-snake. she hath naked breasts of amber jetting wine in her bed-chanber, whereof whoso stoops and drinks rees the riddle of the sphinx. she hath naked limbs of amber whereupon her children clamber. she hath five navels rosy-red from the five wounds of god that bled; each wound that m

and feet unshod i follow the wizard way to god. wherever he leads my foot shall follow; over the height, into the hollow, up to the caves of pure cold breath, down to the deeps of foul hot death, across the seas, through the fires, past the palace of desires; where he will, whether he will or no, if i go, i care not whither i go. for in me is the taint of the faery blood. fast, fast, its emerald flood leaps within me, violent rude like a bestial faun's beatitude. in me the faery blood runs hard: my sires were a druid, a devil, a bard, a beast, a wizard, a snake and a satyr; for- as my mother said- what does it matter? 44 she was a fay, pure of the faery; queen morgan's daughter by an aery demon that came to orkney once to pay the beetle his orisons. so, it is i that writhe with the twitch

lders of the ancient lands; and where once the white feet of semiramis gleamed amongst the lilies and roses of babylon there now the wild goats leap, and browse the sparse rank grass which sprouts in tufts from the red and yellow sand- heaps, those silent memorial mounds which mark the spot where once stood palaces of marble, and of jasper, and of jade. o woe! o woe! for all is dust and ruin; the flood- gates of the years have been opened, and time has swept away as a mighty wind the embattled castles of kings with the mud-daubed 178 huts of shepherds. merodach has gone, and so has ea, and no longer doth istar flame in the night, or cast down her kisses on the sparkling goblets in the palace of belshazzar. isis, dark-veiled, hath departed, and nu no longer uplifteth the sun-bark with the b

surface of the black waters shimmers as the quivering skin of one in the agony of travail. the horizon is cleft and glows like a womb of fire, the hosts of the night are scattered, i am born, and the stars melt like flakes of snow before mine eyes. lo! there she stands, born in maturity, shaken from out the loins of the darkness, as a rainbow from the purple jars of the thunder. her hair is as a flood of dancing moon- beams, woven with golden ears of corn, and caught up by flashing serpents of malachite and emerald. on her forehead shines the crescent moon, pearl-like, and softly gleaming with the light of an inner light. her garment is as a web of translucent 223 silver, glistening white and dew-like, now rippling with all the colours of the rainbow, now rushing into flames crimson and g

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

ey that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes. and the noise is confused, thousands of battle-cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river in flood. and all the stone is dull, dull gray. the life is gone from it. there is no more to see. sidi aissa, algeria "november" 24, 1909, 8-9 p.m. the cry of the 26th aethyr, which is called des there is a very bright pentagram: and now the stone is gone, and the whole heaven is black, and the blackness is the blackness of a mighty angel. and though he is black (his face and his wings and his robe

e silver parts, and there is a crowned eagle, also like the assyrian eagles. and he cries: all my strength and stability are turned to the use of flight. for though my wings are of fine gold, yet my heart is the heart of a scorpion. glory unto thee, who being born in a stable didst make thee mirth of the filth thereof, who didst suck in iniquity from the breast of thy mother the harlot; who didst flood with iniquity the bodies of thy concubines. thou didst lie in the filth of the streets with the dogs; thou wast tumbled and shameless and wanton in a place where four roads meet. there wast thou defiled, and there wast thou slain, and there wast thou left to rot. the charred stake was thrust through thy bowels, and thy parts were cut off and thrust into thy mouth for derision. all my unity i

ants of the star and of the snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. for why? because the lord of righteousness delighteth in them. the prophets shall prophesy monstrous things, and the wizards shall perform monstrous things. the sorceress shall be desired of all men, and the enchanter shall rule the earth. blessing unto the name of the beast, for he hath let loose a mighty flood of fire from his manhood, and from his womanhood hath he let loose a mighty flood of water. every thought of his mind is as a tempest that uprooteth the great trees of the earth, and shaketh the mountains thereof. and the throne of his spirit is a mighty throne of madness and desolation, so that they that look upon it shall cry: behold the abomination! of a single ruby shall that throne be b

de a mock of his nakedness, walking forwards; and was black. and these are three great schools of the magi, who are also the three magi that journeyed unto bethlehem; and because thou hast not wisdom, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one. for the black brothers lift not up their heads thus far into the holy chokmah, for they were all drowned in the great flood, which is binah, 124 before the true vine could be planted upon the holy hill of zion. now again i stand in the centre, and all things whirl by with incessant fury. and the thought of the god entereth my mind, and i cry aloud: behold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. so is the peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the change

d be broken. health is more desirable than disease. happiness gives more happiness than unhappiness does. work is more useful than idleness. selfishness is bad; unselfishness is good. suffering is common. dwelling upon one's petty troubles and ailments is a manifestation of weakness of character. the reviewer, staggered by revelations so overwhelming, can only fall upon his knees and burst into a flood of tears. but think of the chagrin of lord avebury! m. tupper. konx om pax the most remarkable treatise on the mystic path ever written contains an introduction and four essays; the first an account of the progress of the soul to perfect illumination, under the guise of a charming fairy tale; the second, an essay on truth, under the guise of a christmas pantomime; the third, an essay on magi

untries- druidical stones and their worship- the round towers of ireland- cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises- rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial- alchemy- rosicrucians in strange symbols- robert flood- indian mystic adoration of forms, etc, etc. mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas l vi, with biographical and critical essay by arthur e. waite "second edition, revised "and enlarged" 8vo "coth" 1897 (pub. 10"s" 6"d) 6"s" this work fulfils a purpose quite distinct from that of "transcendental "magic "inasmuch as it is not simply translation, but presents in an abridged and

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rs in tune, and finds the tendency to hurry almost irresistible. this record is here written at lightning speed. attempt to write slowly is painful. 107 8.20. the thought too, is wandering all over the world. since the last entry, very likely, the beast has not thought even once of adonai. 8.35. the reading of the ritual has done much service, though things are still far from calm. yet the mighty flood of the chittam is again rolling its tremendous tide toward the sea the sea of annihilation. amen. 9.0. returning home, with his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the moon, in his heart and brain invoking adonai, he hath now entered into his little chamber, and will prepare all things for the due performance of the new ritual which he hath got by heart. 9.35. nearly ready. in a state of ver

nderstood that the "standard of living" goes up at an incredible rate. the same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as "high degree of concentration; unhoped-for success. the phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which john st. john worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained seemed almost to outstrip the possible of glory. the flood of the chittam is again being heaped up by the dam of discipline. there is less headache, and more sense of being on the path that is the only way one finds of expressing it. 11.45. worse and worse; though pose even better held. in despair returned to a simple practice, the holding of the mind to a single imagined object; in this case the triangle surmounted by the cross. it seems quite eas

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ion, the one or the many, it is taught to work its way into one narrow groove, and like the water in a drain or a gutter to flow for a time unobtrusively between dignified cobbles and over respectable cement, and then to vanish as genteelly as possible underground. sometimes there is a stoppage; too much filth has accumulated, and it refuses all conventional methods of being removed. then comes a flood- a revolution- for a time there is a nasty mess, but soon the filth is washed away, and once again the drainage flows humbly down its customary gutter in the same old unobtrusive manner, between the same old cobbles, and over the same old cement until in time fresh filth silts up and there is more trouble and annoyance "so runs my dream" and civilized man dreaming from his drain naturally pi

trampled under foot as if they were the very cockroaches of hell, before freedom of even a protoplasmic kind can be brought to life. better be a savage, a one-legged hottentot, better be anything than a civilized eunuch, a crape-capped "widder" in upper tooting lamenting her "demised husband" whilst she counts the halfpence he has left behind him in his trouser pockets. if there is going to be a flood, let it be grand, typhoonic, torrential; do not let others pass by us and say "really, my dear, what an insalubrious odour" the savage babe being born is taught the myths of his tribe, that uncorrupted are beautiful enough; the civilised child the myths of his nation, that corrupted are merely bestial, and are as rigid as the former are elastic. the savage youth passes through one great orde

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them, though in a degraded and distorted form. i was also aware of the prime agony of meditation, the "dryness<apophis in the mystic regenerative process isis apophis osiris i a o; or the black dragon in the alchemical translation from the first matter of the work into the elixir (as molinos calls it) which hardens and sterilises the soul. the very practice which should flood it with light leads only to a darkness more terrible than death, a despair and disgust which only too often lead to abandonment, when in truth they should encourage, for that- as the oracles affirm- it is darkest before the dawn. meditation therefore annoyed me, as tightening and constricting the soul. i began to ask myself if the "dryness" was an essential part of the process. if by some me

me! now in the balance of infinite things stirs not a feather; the universe swings poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. surely the sable osirian bird sole in the aether shall utter the word now that its crying can never be heard! 192 iv see how the star of the universe blazes! millions of meteors in marvellous mazes mingle their magic of peony praises. oh! the dark streak on the heart of its flood! smitten is the star, and its poisonous blood drips through the race of the luminous scud. poison and poison and poison! i quiver, drenched with the hate of the horrible river- o but the stars of it stagger and shiver! leave me in peace, o disaster of light! leave me to solitude, leave me to night! is there no moon to enkindle the height? v see how the moon with her amrita dews drinks up the

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s you like it" in our investigation of the trumpery tin pantheon of aunt sallies which our courtesy calls "literary gents" one of the most striking figures is a certain lame duck that suggests a mixed ancestry of brigand manqu and the ghost in the bab ballads. historically, too, the subject has its advantage, for not only does the work of weary willie suggest primal chaos, but himself recalls the flood. he seems to have desired to emulate noah, but the modern tendency to specialisation has led him to confine his attentions to the insect world, and the remarkable jumping qualities of some of his specimens have their correspondence in the metre of those treacly emulsions which it is our present purpose to study. come with me! behold the scene of action. what? you can see nothing? of course n

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rberations of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there's the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald 23 waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god's beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundless d

nts hangs no veil of love; but, guarded by unsleeping eyes of twice seven score severities, the veil that only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus' heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. woe be to that accurs d man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath's avenging flood to black immitigable seas! 24 woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me ther

lumn: oh, the velvet skin. little i reck of her save the curve from breast to chin. oh, the rising rounded throat, pain's subtle antidote. to sit and watch the pulses of it beat, and guess the passionate heat of the blood that flows within! i see it swelling with her even breath and long to make it throb with a love as strong as death, to cause the sharp and sudden-catching sob and the swift dark flood, showing the instant blood, quick mantling up where i had made it throb with love as strong as death. oh, the pure, pale face of her; the chiselled outline, chaste as starlit snows. the ineffable grace of her; the distant, perfect grace of her repose. her mouth the waiting redness of a rose; 129 a rose too nearly cloyed with its own secret sweetness unalloyed: that waits in scented silence

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ost by the silent sea; and shuddering fought the o'erwhelming thought of its own identity. is the frenzied form that derides the storm a ghost of the days to be? and the restless wave but the troubled grave of its own dread imagery? or merely a wraith cast up without faith from the jaws of a phantom sea? to his love unborn in that grey dim dawn did the shade of the dreamer flee; nor marked he the flood where the vision had stood which mocks for eternity. for the soul he would wed was the hope that had fled in the battle with destiny. ethel archer. 208 mr. todd a morality by the author of "rosa mundi""in memoriam" lilith "obiit kal. mai" 1906 mr. todd persons of the play grandfather ossory("eighty-one) alfred ossory("fifty "his son, a shipowner" emily ossory("forty-five "his wife" euphemia

he flame was blue, and the face of the troll like fire. and so we gave her the heart of the slain, that was slain for a dead man's sake; she chuckled low at each blackened vein gory an brown and torn; she wriggled her sides like a wounded snake as she squeezed the blood into a horn. 237 far into the fire she cast the blood, and the flames grew twisted and red; her breast heaved with her passion's flood as a hollow-eyed ghost arose like a cloud of stench from the rotting dead. when a wind from a pest-house blows. she clasped the ghost to her skinny dugs- no other love might she know- the dead man squirmed at her panting hugs, but she had her passionate will, and a sobbing breeze began to blow from the top of the lonely hill. and then a dim grey streak of dawn came, and the sad ghost fled, w

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31 and thereto at the end is hell believe! and why believe? because it is a thing impossible" sir palamede his pulses pause "it is not possible (quod he "that palamede is wroth, and draws his sword, decapitating thee. by parity of argument this deed of blood must surely be" with that he suddenly besprent all scythia with the sage's blood, and laughting in his woe he went unto a further field and flood, aye guided by that wizard's head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 32 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts

r-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe's throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crown d goat. his wand makes curves and spires in air; the smoke of incense curls and quivers; his eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: the land of egypt rocks and shivers "lo! by thy gods, o god, i vow to burn the authentic bones and blood of curst osiris even now to the dark nile's upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti's void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again" 73 with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen 'hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him 'hath fallen himself to that profane whence none

s and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen 'hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him 'hath fallen himself to that profane whence none might ever rise again. dread torture racks him; all his bones get voice to utter forth his groans. the very poison of his blood joins in that cry's soul-shaking flood. for many a chiliad counted well his soul stayed in its proper hell. then, when sir palamedes came back to himself, the shrine was dark. cold was the incense, dead the flame; the slain babe lay there black and stark. what of the beast? what of the quest? more blind the quest, the beast more dim. even now its laughter is suppressed, while his own demons mock at him! 74 o thou most desperate d

ll and blue the sky is! hush- god knows- god knows! then on a sudden in the midst of them is a swart god, from hoof to girdle a goat, upon his brow the twelve-star diadem and the king's collar fastened on this throat. thrill upon thrill courseth through palamede. life, live, pure life is bubbling in his blood. all youth comes back, all strength, all you indeed flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood! 103 yet was his heart immeasurably sad, for that no questing in his ear he had. nay! he saw all. he saw the curse that wrapped in ruin the world primaeval. he saw the unborn universe, and all its gods coeval. he saw, and was, all things at once in him that is; he was the stars, the moons, the meteors, the suns, all in one net of triune bars; inextricably one, inevitably one, immeasurable, i

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which endures, the holy heaven of will! i kindle a flame like a torrent to rush from star to star; your hair as a comet's horrent, ye shall see things as they are! 41 i lift the mask of matter; i open the heart of man; for i am of force to shatter the cast that hideth- pan! your loves shall lap up slaughter, and dabbled with roses of blood each desperate darling daughter shall swim in the fervid flood. i bring ye laugher and tears, the kisses that foam and bleed, the joys of a million years, the flowers that bear no seed. my life is bitter and sterile, its flame is a wandering star. ye shall pass in pleasure and peril across the mystical bar that is set for wrath and weeping against the children of earth; but ye in singing and sleeping shall pass in measure and mirth! i lift my wand and w

ountries; druidical stones and their worship; the round towers of ireland; cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics; mystic christian figures and talismans; the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and mediaeval monuments; the great pyramid; myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises; rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial; alchemy; rosicrucians in strange symbols; robert flood; indian mystic adoration of form; etc, etc. real history of the rosicrucians, founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren, by arthur e. waite "illustrated" 8vo "cloth, uncut" 1887 (pub. 7"s" 6"d) 5"s" written from the historical standpoint, giving the chief documents "in extenso" together with an elaborate summary and analysi

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studied the moon's reflections and conjured up the future. when he was nine, alex was allowed to take part in his first full-moon ceremony. gran had no difficulty in persuading his mother to part with him for the night, for she was delighted with the progress he had made in welsh and grateful to her mother for having taught him. as the moon rose, gran opened the kitchen curtains and let its light flood the kitchen. she had banked up the fire with small coal to deaden its glow and now she led alex into the centre of the circle. the air was heavy with incense burning in four bowls placed at intervals round the perimeter. she handed him his own athame and told him she was going to consecrate it. the boy had to lie flat on his back, the dagger on his bare chest; then shelowered herselfon to hi

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awakening of the intuition. as the great races have succeeded one another upon the planet, there has ever been an ordered, directed unfoldment of the powers of the soul, and a definitely planned sequence. in the third root race, the lemurian, the physical aspect of man was carried to a high stage of perfection. later in the great race which preceded ours, the atlantean, and which perished in the flood, the emotional nature of man was developed. then in the race to which we belong, the- 48- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust aryan or fifth race, the development of the concrete or lower mind is the goal, and this we are developing each decade. a few are also beginning to develop the power to think in abstract terms. when this is the case we shall see more of that pecul

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e hierarchy thus took advantage of the discriminative faculty of mind, which is the distinctive quality of humanity, to enable him, through the balancing of the pairs of opposites, to reach his goal, and to find his way back to the source from whence he came. this decision led to that great struggle which distinguished the atlantean civilization, and which culminated in the destruction called the flood, referred to in all the scriptures of the world. the forces of light, and the forces of darkness, were arrayed against each other, and this for the helping of humanity. the struggle still persists, and the world war through which we have just- 22- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust passed was a recrudescence of it. on every side in that world war two groups were to be fou

one is to enumerate some of the subjects to which it gives the clue, adding to this the information that in our planetary scheme, owing to the point in evolution of our own planetary logos, this secret is the most vital. our planetary logos is at the stage wherein he is consciously seeking the at-one-ment with his polar opposite, another planetary logos. the subjects on which this secret throws a flood of light are: a. sex on the physical plane. it gives us a key to the mystery of the separation of the sexes in lemurian days. b. the balancing of forces in all departments of nature. c. the clue as to which scheme forms with ours a duality. d. the true name of our planetary logos and his relation to the solar logos. e "the marriage of the lamb" and the problem of the heavenly bride. a clue t

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e apex, connect and circulate the fire, when the threefold apex likewise burns, then the two triangles the greater and the lesser merge into one flame, which burneth up the whole. stanza ii "aum" said the mighty one, and sounded forth the word. the sevenfold waves of matter resolved themselves, and varied forms appeared. each took its place, each in the sphere ordained. they waited for the sacred flood to enter and to fill. the builders responded to the sacred sound. in musical collaboration they attended to the work. they built in many spheres, beginning with the third. upon this plane their work commenced. they built the sheath of atma and strung it to its primary- 13- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust "aum" said the mighty one "let now the work proceed. let the builde

resolution of the six-pointed star, into the five-pointed star.40,(124)41 the mystery of the lords of karma, who are, in themselves, the sole recipients of the mind purposes of that cosmic entity who enfolds our solar logos within his consciousness. when, therefore, the esoteric side of astrology, and of mystical geometry, has been studied, and alliance has been made between these two sciences, a flood of light will be thrown upon this matter of the intelligent principle; when the inner workings of the law of cause and effect (the law whereby the lipika lords govern all their action) is better comprehended, then and then only will the sons of men be able to study with profit the place of manas in the evolutionary scheme. at the present time it is not possible to do more than point out the

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the working out in objective existence of some life. this is the consciousness aspect and two great revelations are latent in every symbol or form- 145- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the revelation of full consciousness, or the streaming forth of that response to contact which is potential or differing as yet in all forms but which can and will be carried forward to the full flood-tide of awareness. b. the revelation of that which the consciousness aspect (the second aspect) is in its turn veiling. the unveiling of the soul leads to the manifestation of the one life. the manifestation of the son of god leads to a knowledge of the father. the shining forth of the higher self, through the medium of the lower self, produces the revelation of the divine or spiritual self

he veil or covering which prevents the illumination of the mind, and the other to the state of realization which is achieved when a man has freed himself from this veil. that which covers up the light (the "bushel" referred to by the christ in the new testament) is the changing, fluctuating sheaths or bodies. when they are transmuted and transcended the light of god (the second divine aspect) can flood the lower man and he knows himself as he is. illumination pours in and he knows himself as something different to the forms through which he is functioning. he is no longer centred, no longer polarized in his forms, but is actually in a condition of disembodiedness. his consciousness is that of the man out of incarnation, of the true man on his own plane, the real discarnate thinker. st. pau

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e, and should such an entity make platitudinous comments, he will use the same judgment as he would in business or ordinary life with a man who came and said to him "a great work lies in your hands, you are doing well. we see and know, etc, etc" he would probably laugh and continue with the activity or duty of the moment. another effect of meditation, and a very prevalent one at this time, is the flood of so-called inspirational writings which are coming out, with high claims made for them, everywhere. men and women are busily writing automatically, inspirationally, and prophetically, and giving to the public the result of their labors. these writings are distinguished by certain uniform features and can be explained in several ways. they emanate from many different interior sources. they

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under instructions from the masters at shamballa) began to withdraw into the temples, to make the mysteries more difficult of attainment and to work against abuses and distortions, a number of their erstwhile followers, many of great power and knowledge, fought them and thus we have one of the causes of the appearing of black and white magic, and one of the reasons of the purifying waters of the flood being deemed necessary. c. the powerful thought-forms built up in the early ibezhan mysteries and which (particularly in america) are as yet undestroyed. this gigantic "dweller on the threshold" of all the true mysteries has to be slaughtered before the aspirant can pass on. 10. the work of the ibezhan adepts and the mysteries of the temple of ibez are still persisting and are being carried

y that which has been desired, only to find in the majority of cases that the aspirant no longer aches for possession, but regards it as an incubus, or, in the meantime, already possesses more than he needs and is satiated and knows not what to do with all that he has gained. a potent thought-form embodying an aspiration for spiritual illumination or for recognition by the master may bring such a flood of light as to blind the aspirant, and make him consequently the possessor of a wealth of spiritual energy for which he is unready, and which he cannot use. again, it may attract to the aspirant a thought-form of one of the great ones, and thus swing him deeper into the world of illusion and of astralism. hence the need for humility, for a longing to- 283- a treatise on white magic copyright

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

and calm, untired and unafraid? quality. endurance and fearlessness. 5. see you not god in all, the life in all, and love in all? why separate yourself and leave behind the loved and the well-known? quality..power to detach oneself- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. can you arrest the waters of the sixth great sphere? can you stem the flood? can you recover both the raven and the dove? can you, the fish, swim free? quality..overcoming the waters of the emotional nature. this out-going ray of devotion to the ideal, and the incoming ray of magical order or organisation are largely responsible for the type of man's consciousness today. man is essentially devoted (to the point of fanaticism) to whatever may be the goal of his life'

ee light" this intensification of the light will continue until a.d. 2025, when there will come a cycle of relative stability and of steady shining without much augmentation. in the second decanate of aquarius these three aspects will again be augmented by increased light from the fourth aspect, that is the light from the soul realm, reaching us via the universal "chitta" or mind stuff. this will flood the world. by that time, however, the soul will be recognised as a fact, and as a consequence of this recognition our entire civilisation will have changed so radically that we cannot today even guess at the form it will take. the next ten years will see a greatly increased merging of the first three forms of light, and those of you who are awake to these issues and happenings will find it i

o doing, for they have delegated much of this work to their initiates and disciples. the bulk of the communicators today (working through aspirants on the physical plane) are active working chelas of accepted degree who (living as they do in the thought aura of the master and his group) are steadily endeavouring to reach all kinds of people, all over the world, in all groups. hence the increasing flood of communications, of inspired writings, and of personal messages and teaching- 75- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust when you add to the above the equally large flood of communications which emanate from the transmitters' own souls and from the realm of the subconscious, you have accounted for the mass of the material going out now. in

ciples and not with individual purposes; and that all such communicators will be mental types, channels for the love of god, and group conscious. there will be nothing in their work to produce separativeness, and nothing to feed the fires of controversy, antagonism or partisanship. much of value may come along other lines than through this group of communicators, and you may look for an increased flood of inspirational writings of a high order, and for an outpouring of wisdom from the world of souls through the hundreds who are in touch with their own souls; there will also be much emanating from the highest level of the astral plane, of a high order along devotional lines, but none of this will be the work of the band of communicators now in process of forming. only a handful are doing th

f concepts and bring through (for the use of the race) the pattern ideas upon which to build. in saying this i realise that i may be accused of romancing and of communicating the impossible; but time will demonstrate the truth of that which i predict. the world structure emerges from and is built upon certain inner thought patterns, and it is these thought patterns which are producing the present flood of governmental experiments among all nations. but today there is no training given upon the process of contacting the world of patterns and upon the true interpretation of ideas, and hence the problems. later, when the race sees its problem with clarity, it will act with wisdom and train with care its observers and communicators. these will be men and women in whom the intuition has awakene

ons of god may be emphasized to them. all this is good and right and useful. but no true solution is offered, and no light is thrown upon their problem, and their confusion remains unrelieved. they may perhaps turn to the religiously minded people and seek out the orthodox churchman. they may be told to be good; the example of the saints may be cited to them; they may find themselves deluged in a flood of puritanical injunctions, in righteous platitudes, and with unsatisfying explanations, based often on personal prejudice and predilection. but seldom- 174- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust is a clear note sounded, and seldom is it possible to do more than enunciate the great mosaic law "thou shalt not" to the bulk of the young and see

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d a divine potency. this the buddha embodied. but love came to the world through christ, and he, through his work, transmuted emotion into love. as "god is love" the comprehension that christ revealed the love of god makes clear the magnitude of the task he undertook a task far beyond the powers of any teacher or messenger who had preceded him. the buddha, when he achieved illumination "let in" a flood of light upon life and upon our world problems, and this intelligent understanding of the causes of world distress he endeavoured to formulate into the four noble truths. these are, as most of us well know: 1. that existence in the phenomenal universe is inseparable from suffering and from sorrow. 2. that the cause of suffering is desire for existence in the world of phenomena. 3. that cessa

ome alive' by centring in mind. and when we speak of the soul as a will creatively moulding circumstance, this is another expression for the microcosm, including the centre which its circumstances stand around, remoulding and reshaping itself. it is, on the other hand, a thread or fibre of the absolute life. a stream or tide within it of varying breadth, intensity, and separateness from the great flood within which it moves [the italics are mine. a. a. b.]7 what this soul is, when unveiled and manifested (even through the limitations of the flesh, christ made clear to us. the partial in us is complete in him, a fact in full expression. he has linked us to himself through his perfected humanity; he has linked us to god through his expressed divinity. two thoughts must therefore be borne in

n the silence" when a man has quieted all the outer voices. the attainment of the faculty of inspiration is essential to any progress upon the path of initiation, and it presupposes a development of intelligence which will enable a man to make the necessary differentiations. true inspiration is not in any sense the welling-up of the subconscious self or mind; nor is it the releasing in man of the flood of ideas and thoughts which are his racial, national or family; it is not the tuning in on the world of thought which can so easily be done by those in whom a certain quality of telepathic rapport is developed. nor is it listening to the many voices which can make themselves heard when a man succeeds in becoming so utterly negative and so emptied of all intelligent thought that the sounds, t

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nd the assembled hierarchy. this group endeavor will call forth from them a responsive and magnetic impulse, which will bring together, through the medium of all the aspiring groups, the overshadowing beneficent forces. through the concentrated effort of these groups in the world today (who constitute subjectively one group) light and inspiration and spiritual revelation can be released in such a flood of power that it will work definite changes in the human consciousness and help to ameliorate conditions in this needy world. it will open men's eyes to the basic realities, which are, as yet, only dimly sensed by the thinking public. humanity itself must apply the necessary correctives, believing it can do so in the strength of its own sensed wisdom and strength; yet all the time, behind th

y are not yet free, however, from ambition, and their orientation is still basically- 84- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust towards personality expression, and not to the merging of themselves in the group of world servers. if however they can avoid glamour, and can discriminate between the real and the unreal, then the inflowing force will flood their lives with effective unselfish love and with devotion to the plan, to those whom the plan serves, and to those who serve the plan. note the sequence of these attitudes, and govern yourselves accordingly. there will then be no room for self-interest, self-assertiveness, or selfish ambition. all that is considered is the need and the driving necessity to take the next immediate step to m

ch i make, the colours which i blend, the music which i can evoke. me, they will therefore like, and me, they will adore- 104- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust but crashing came a note of music, a chord of sound which drove the mixer of sweet sounds to quiet. his sounds died out within the sound and only the great chord of god was heard. a flood of light poured in. his colours faded out. around him naught but darkness could be seen, yet in the distance loomed the light of god. he stood between his nether darkness and the blinding light. his world in ruins lay around. his friends were gone. instead of harmony, there was dissonance. instead of beauty, there was found the darkness of the grave. the voice then chanted forth these words

, beyond giving two ancient stanzas which will convey much to the initiate but may only be sounding words and meaningless symbolic phrases to the average reader and student "the sun, in all its glory, has arisen and cast its beams athwart the eastern sky. the union of the pairs of opposites produce, in the cycles of the time and space, both clouds and mists. these veil a mighty conflagration. the flood pours forth. the ark floats free..the flames devour. the three stand free; and then again the mists envelop. above the clouds of earth, a sign shines forth..only the eye of vision sees this sign. only the heart at peace can hear the thunder of the voice which issues from the dark depths of the cloud. only an understanding of the law which elevates and lifts can teach the man of fire and son

n is, it is needless to say, exceedingly positive in the implications which he attaches to his so-called mental conceptions and ideas as to how it all should be worked out, and is a constant source of dismay to those around him. his friends or co-workers are the butt of his ceaseless criticism, because they do not work out the plan as he believes it should be worked out, or fail to appreciate the flood of ideas with which he is overwhelmed. it should be realised that the man is suffering from a sort of mental fever, with its accompaniments of hallucination, over-activity, and mental irritability. the cure, as i said above, lies in the patient's own hands. it involves earnest application to one chosen plan to prove its effectiveness, using common sense and ordinary good judgment. the light

of the christ, of the power of anti-christ and the power of christ. this produced a great climax in atlantean days and, though the hierarchy of light triumphed, it was only by the merest margin. the battle was fought out on the astral plane, though it had its correspondence upon the physical plane, in a great world conflict of which the ancient legend tells us. it ended in the catastrophe of the flood. the seeds of hate and of separation have been- 349- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust fostered ever since that time and the three modes whereby the forces of darkness seek to control humanity are hatred, aggression and separativeness. the three great spiritual counterparts are love, selfless sharing and synthesis. however, the hold of

wisdom and the assembled hierarchy. this group endeavour will call forth from them a responsive magnetic impulse which will bring together, through the medium of the aspiring group, the overshadowing beneficent forces. through the concentrated effort of these groups in the world today (who constitute subjectively one group) light and inspiration and spiritual revelation can be released in such a flood of power that it will work definite changes in the human consciousness and ameliorate conditions in this needy world. it will open men's eyes to the basic realities, which are as yet only dimly sensed by the thinking public. then humanity itself will apply the necessary correctives, believing it can do so in the strength of its own sensed wisdom and strength; yet all the time, behind the sce

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ipline warrant it contact with one of the masters. record this in an impartial way, preserving the scientific attitude and seeking ever a practical explanation before accepting a mystical one. a spirit of agnosticism (not of atheism) is of real value to the beginner and preserves him from the snares of the world illusion and of lower psychism. 2. any illumination which may come to you, throwing a flood of light upon a problem and revealing the way that you or the group should go. any intuition which corroborated by the reason carries one forward into knowledge and evokes the wisdom of the soul and its registration by the brain, via the mind. 3. any telepathic happenings between you and your fellow disciples. this telepathic interplay should be cultivated but it must be most carefully check

ith the reactions of others and a mental stability which will enable you to work as a soul. thus you will learn to avail yourself of the knowledge, gained psychically, and to serve with increased effectiveness. later, i will (if you progress in sensitivity) train you in the art of psychometry, but the time is not yet. that the light of your soul and the light emanating from the master's group may flood your heart and energise your life is the thought which lies in my heart for you. june 1935 brother of old: i seek today to make a somewhat careful analysis of the condition of your psychic centres from the solar plexus upwards. you are passing through a dual process of psychic detachment and, at the same time, of psychic unfoldment. you need to remember that the phases of detachment are many

within my heart; and understanding, pity, love and self-forgetfulness arise. i carry love to all i meet. i meet men's love with love and remember not myself. 4th month the joy of the soul irradiates my life, and lightens all the burdens which those i meet may carry. the joy of the lord is my strength, and i develop strength in joy for others. 5th month the purity of the soul acts like a cleansing flood and bathes my lower self in the- 131- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust "waters of purification" the body of desire is rendered pure and clean and strong. i can then become a cleansing force to all i meet. 6th month the will of the soul becomes my will. i know no other. that will is love and peace and power and strength to live. it bears me on. it leads me to t

l energy, breaking up that which hinders and pouring a cleansing tide through your personality. you seek to be a channel and you long adequately to serve. this i know. be willing, therefore, to let the "forces of light" enact their will within your life, e'en though you awaken with surprise to unknown and unrealised aspects of yourself both good and not so good. first month. a barrier of stone. a flood of cleansing water, and then the vision. the pilgrim then can chant: i stand in love. second month. a boat at rest upon a sea of blue. and then a tidal wave. but after that the calm. the boatman chants: the storm has brought me here. third month. a mountain top. snow with a fold of sunshine. a group of pilgrims on the upward way. one pilgrim chants: in love we walk the way. fourth month. thr

ity, these little happenings (and how small they are when looked at in the right light and dare i say it? with a sense of humour) disappear. go forward with fresh courage. learn from the past but refuse to be held by that past. do not let the words or the influence of anyone lead you. may the light of your own soul lead you from strength to strength and reveal to you a purity of motive which will flood your life with love. september 1934 brother of mine: for you today i have a very simple message and a simple instruction. i would say to you in the words of the initiate, paul "forgetting the things which are behind, press forward" the glamour- 182- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust which enveloped you has gone. it has gone, my brother. you are now suffering pr

the year of training which lies ahead: 1. that of your own soul at moments of contact. these are the moments of light and illumination and of released thought and for this contact and its expression in these forms you should increasingly work. they are free from personality ideas, ideals and desires (of no matter how high an order) and from all traces of personality love. but they should throw a flood of light upon the personality, revealing you to yourself. if this they do not do, then they are kept on too high a mental level and are impractical for they remain mystical and abstract, theoretical and divorced from consummated practice. they increase responsibility but remain relatively useless for they are futile upon the physical plane. 2. the vibration of your group of co-disciples. you

ere is oft a mist in your garden, but on the top of the tower there is sunlight, space and air. there i can meet with you, if you rightly build and learn the method of ascent (a description of this garden will be found at the end of this disciple's instructions. a.a.b) be more strict in the keeping of your quiet hour. build then your tower of ivory and may the light of your soul pour upon you and flood your life; may you realise the uses of joy and of caring nothing about the separated self and may the blessing of your master rest upon you. july 1935 my brother: if i were to ask you to measure your success or failure during the past twelve months, do you know for yourself what your measurement would be? would you say: real success with occasional brief relapses through old habits of though

when there is an interlude of difficulty. during that interlude, discovery is made that the personality will, the personality judgment, and the personality aspiration is a part of the general glamour a glamour which can only be dispelled as the soul pours its life and light with steady radiance into the instrument. the best that i can desire for you, my brother, is that this dispelling light may flood your life and evoke that simplicity which is ever the indication of soul domination. that one word "simplicity" should embody the theme of your thought for the next few months and should constitute the keynote of your meditation. you are a strong soul and must hew your own way through the jungle of mundane existence. what do i mean by the words "a strong soul? i mean not only that your first

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

t for an intensification of the light of the world. this light will irradiate (in a fashion unknown before) not only the father's house, which is the source of all our planetary light but also the spiritual centre from which have come all those teachers and world saviours who have stood before men and said, as did hermes, the buddha and the christ "i am the light of the world" this light will now flood the world of men, bringing illumination to men's minds and light into the dark places of human living. it is light and above all else "life more abundantly" which christ will bring, and until he- 30- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust brings it we know not what it signifies; we cannot realise the revelation which this will entail and the new possibilities which will op

e stupidities and errors of presentation has nevertheless been good. in all lands, men today are aware of the existence of the masters and of the possibility offered and the opportunity presented to make scientific spiritual progress and thus become members of the kingdom of god. this the churches had ignored and had in the victorian age particularly looked upon science as an arch enemy. all this flood of information about the mysteries of initiation some of it indicative of a hidden truth, some of it the fabrications of an aspirational imagination and some commercially instigated has definitely prepared humanity for the teaching it is believed christ will give when again here with us in physical presence. little as the orthodox christian may care to admit it, the entire gospel story in it

future of mankind or distress over the disappearance of the old order "the good, the true and the beautiful" is on its way, and for it mankind is responsible, and not some outer divine intervention. humanity is sound and rapidly awakening. we are passing through the stage where everything is being proclaimed from the housetops as christ stated would be the case and as we listen to or read of the flood of filth, crime, and sensual pleasure or luxury buying, we are apt to be discouraged; it is wise to remember that it is wholesome for all- 97- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust this to come to the surface and for us all to know about it. it is like the psychological cleansing of the subconscious to which individuals submit themselves; it presages the inauguration of a

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

rk, bringing in the death of the personality influence, fostered by leo; this can be done without any great outer dissolution of the form of the nation through the beneficent influence of jupiter, the exoteric ruler of pisces. what is needed in the national life of france is the more spiritual expression of the second ray of love-wisdom, which has in the past led to material success but which can flood the world, via france, once she dies to self. capricorn, ruling paris, signifies both death and initiation into the spiritual life, and here lies the choice for france. with the cooperation which pluto can give in bringing about those conditions which will lead to the revelation of virgo (ruling the soul of paris) there is possible in connection with this powerful and influential country a c

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

old. the reaction at this time, through the stress of circumstances, is bringing about a more spiritual understanding and a reorganisation of human values, and this is part of the process whereby a vital part of the world glamour may be dissipated if only all men of goodwill within the world aura adhere to their appointed task. when the buddha was on earth and achieved illumination, he "let in" a flood of light upon the world problem through his enunciation of the four noble truths. his body of disciples and his nine hundred arhats formulated those four great truths into a structure of dogma and doctrine that by the power of collective thought has greatly helped in the attack upon the world illusion. today the christ is carrying forward the same great task and in the spiritual significance

or ego through right effort. through meditation, good intention, and correct technique, plus the desire to serve and to love, he achieves alignment. he becomes then aware of the results of his successful work. his mind is illumined. a sense of power flows through his vehicles. he is, temporarily at least, made aware of the plan. the need of the world and the capacity of the soul to meet that need flood his consciousness. his dedication, consecration and right purpose enhance the directed inflow of spiritual energy. he knows. he loves. he seeks to serve, and does all three more or less successfully. the result of all this is that he becomes more engrossed with the sense of power, and with the part he is to play in aiding humanity, than he is with the realisation of a due and proper sense of

o that localised glamour with which you, as a group, are dealing. what this localised area is, i will presently disclose. 5. when this is clearly defined in your mind and inspired by your desire and force, and when you have the entire symbolic picture clearly visualised, then see your particular shaft of light blended with the shafts of light which your group brothers are projecting. thus a great flood of directed light coming from several trained aspirants (and are you trained, my brothers) will pour on to that area of glamour with which you are supposed to deal- 86- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. do this work for five carefully sustained minutes and then proceed as indicated in stage iv of your meditation outline. in defining illumination as the antithesis of glam

it mistakes, and this the false pride of the mind will not permit. again, i would assure you that humility is one of the most potent factors in releasing the illuminating power of the mind, as it reflects and transmits the light of the soul. the determined facing of the factual life and the stern recognition of truth coldly, calmly and dispassionately will greatly facilitate the calling in of the flood of illumination which will suffice to dispel glamour. as we are dealing with the problem of glamour and illumination, it might be of value here if i dealt with the particular glamour which i would ask your group to aid in dispelling. i refer here to the glamour of separateness. work along this line will have most practical and salutary implications, for none of you (as you will discover) wil

n by means of a new method and technique in breathing. these techniques and exercises will be taught, to start with, in the new and coming schools of esotericism. inspiration is a process of qualifying, vitalising and stimulating the reaction of the personality via the centres to that point of tension where soul control becomes present and apparent. it is the mode whereby energy from the soul can flood the personality life, can sweep through the centres, expelling that which hinders, ridding the aspirant of all remaining glamours and maya, and perfecting an instrument whereby the music of the soul and, later, the musical quality of the hierarchy can be heard. forget not that sound permeates all forms; the planet itself has its own note or sound; each minute atom also has its sound; each fo

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

he third stage automatically becomes increasingly effective. the received and interpreted impression brings about fundamental changes in the life and the state of consciousness of the aspirant and, above all, in his orientation. he becomes an evocative and invocative centre of energy. that which he has received through the medium of his aligning channel becomes a potent factor in invoking a fresh flood of higher impression; it also makes him evocative upon the physical plane, so that the magnetic aura which he has engendered becomes increasingly sensitive to these spiritual inflowing impressions, and also increasingly sensitive to that which he evokes from his surrounding physical environment and from humanity. he becomes a power station en rapport with the hierarchy and he receives and di

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

once in the atlantean period at the climax of the conflict between the lords of the dark face and the lords of the shining countenance (see volume ii of the secret doctrine or the vishnu purana. a.a.b) in the earlier activity, the fourth active constellation was gemini and in the atlantean it was sagittarius. the effect then was on the physical plane (the earliest was on the mental) and the great flood eventuated to which the bible bears testimony. it brought about the destruction of the humanity of the time, but released the indwelling life for further experience and development. 1. leo, capricorn and pisces. the effects produced are mass effects and the rulers of these constellations which move into activity at this time are those listed in one of the earlier tabulations which i gave you

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

graphy- 137- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust appendix my work by the tibetan in 1919, during the month of november, i made a contact with a.a.b (alice a. bailey) and asked her to do some writing for me and also to undertake the publishing of certain books which under the sequential giving out of truth were due to appear. she refused immediately, having no sympathy with the flood of so-called occult literature being passed out to the public by the various occult groups, having no experience in writing for the public, and having also a profound dislike of every form of psychic writing and of psychic work. later she changed her mind when i explained to her that telepathic rapport was a proven thing and a matter of scientific interest, that she was not either clair-audi

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

unseen realms, the forces of nature and man's relation to them through a keen sensitivity, and the entire gamut of his- 32- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust emotional attitudes constituted the life of the race, and coloured all that there was or might have been of embryo thought. the result of all this, inherited by us when history as we now have it arose (from the time of the flood, whenever that might have been, can be expressed by such words as animism, spiritualism, lower psychism and feeling. the sense of god, the sense of immortality, the sense of subtler inner relationships, the sense of worship and the undue sensitivity of modern man is our outstanding heritage from the civilisations which existed upon old atlantis. upon all this basic structure the exact opposi

f concepts and bring through (for the use of the race) the pattern ideas upon which to build. in saying this i realise that i may be accused of romancing and of communicating the impossible; but time will demonstrate the truth of that which i predict. the world structure emerges from and is built upon certain inner thought patterns, and it is these thought patterns which are producing the present flood of governmental experiments among all nations. but today there is no training given upon the process of contacting the world of patterns and upon the- 78- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust true interpretation of ideas, and hence the problems. later, when the race sees its problem with clarity, it will act with wisdom and train with care its observers and communicators. thes

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ts was consequently raised. the minds of men met this new challenge, and the consciousness of those who stood on the periphery of the hierarchy, and in line, therefore, for ashramic training, was recognised as being now basically mental, with a growing sensitivity to intuitional understanding. it was realised in hierarchical ashrams that the light of the soul was, speaking generally, beginning to flood the aura of the fourth kingdom in nature, and that there were many thousands of aspirants who were developing responsiveness to the light of the spiritual triad. the masters, therefore, withdrew their attention from aspirants upon the probationary path, and left them to be trained by disciples in some one or other ashram, and gave their attention primarily to those upon the mental plane who

us establishing of relation with others through: a. the focussing of the power or energy of devotion within yourself so that it becomes: 1. a radiation affecting others. 2. an attractive force relating them to you as their temporary source of spiritual light. 3. a magnetic influence, stimulating a new activity of their soul in connection with their personalities. b. an act of service, wherein you flood the personalities of those you are seeking to help, with the pure rose colour (most carefully visualised by you) of spiritual devotion. this stream of warm rose and radiating light will esoterically drive them in devotion to their own souls and will not attract them to you a thing which is never desirable. 2. then say with all the outpouring love of which you will increasingly find yourself

d given to and consequently by one disciple is greatly intensified and increased. one suggestion i would here make to you personally. on receipt of this instruction, will you take a full month for the establishing of such a close contact with your own soul that love, enthusiasm, wisdom and certain fundamental spiritual recognitions (which must ever condition the life of an accepted disciple) will flood your whole being? day by day link up with your soul; day by day pledge yourself to the work to be undertaken; day by day seek a deepened relation with me, with my ashram, and with your group brothers; day by day investigate your service as rendered up to date in the searchlight of the soul, and then, my brother, with my aid and blessing go forward, recognised by us as one of our spiritual as

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

e mass of human vehicles to meet the newly imposed strain and some idea of the problem can be grasped. let it not be forgotten, however, that there is another side to the picture. the inflow of this energy has brought many hundreds of people into a new and deeper spiritual realisation; it has opened a door through which many will pass before long and take their second initiation, and it has let a flood of light into the world a light which will go on increasing for the next thirty years, bringing assurance of immortality and a fresh revelation of the divine potencies in the human being. thus is the new age dawning. access to levels of inspiration, hitherto untouched, has been facilitated. the stimulation of the higher faculties (and this on a large scale) is now possible, and the coordinat

nd, with the aid of certain great lives extraneous to our planetary life, they brought the atlantean civilisation to an abrupt end after a long period of chaos and disaster. this took place through the medium of a culminating catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on the

t such a cost of human life that there is definite hesitation over employing it by the custodians of natural law and the workers who understand divine purpose, apart from the fact that humanity has now reached the point in evolution where the expression of human free will is definitely possible. the use of cataclysm was the method employed in atlantean days, as you well know from the tales of the flood; and through the flood there was almost complete destruction of the civilisation of that time. it is hoped that such a drastic step will not be needed today, though there are ancient prophecies which foretell the possibility of the destruction of this world at this time through fire instead of flood. which of the two methods divine embodiment and natural cataclysm will be employed will reall

of those great lives who are waiting today to help humanity. the work of these two sons of god produced among many results the following: 1. they embodied in themselves certain cosmic principles, and by their work and sacrifice certain divine potencies poured through and upon the race, stimulating intelligence into wisdom and emotion into love. the buddha, when he achieved illumination "let in" a flood of light upon- 270- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust life and world problems. he formulated this revelation into the four truths. his group of disciples erected a structure of truth which (by the power of collective thought) has flooded mankind with light. 2. through the message of the buddha, man has for the first time grasped the cause of his constant distast

e of the individualisation of animal-man when the mind principle was implanted. this was the birth hour of the human soul. 2. in atlantean days when the power of the black lodge was so great that defeat faced the hierarchy and the destruction of the human soul. shamballa then interfered, and the world of that time was destroyed. this period is recognised in modern history as the time of the great flood- 288- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. today, once again, the powers of darkness are attempting to destroy humanity and the spiritual values. the power of shamballa was let loose, destroying old forms political, social and religious but at the same time this power was seized upon by the evil forces to destroy the souls of men, to precipitate war and to destr

han this i may not tell you about this particular hierarchical move, affecting as it does both shamballa and the hierarchy. this wesak festival is of supreme importance because it is the first festival since the war ended, because it takes place at a time when a definite orientation of the hierarchy will take place, and because a fresh tide of spiritual impulse and directed second ray energy will flood the entire hierarchy; the work, therefore, to be done by the hierarchy will be far more effective. this you may anticipate and upon this you can count. but as you may well have surmised it is the full moon of june which is (this year) the season of prime and outstanding importance; it is in many ways easier for western believers and esotericists to tune in and participate in the activities o

t for an intensification of the light of the world. this light will irradiate in a fashion unknown before, not only the father's house, which is the source of all our planetary light, but also the spiritual centre from which have come all those teachers and world saviours who have stood before men and said, as did hermes, the buddha and the christ "i am the light of the world" this light will now flood the world of men, bringing illumination to men's minds and light into the dark places of human living. it is light and above all else "life more abundantly" which christ will bring, and until he brings it we know not what it signifies; we cannot realise the revelation which this will entail and the new possibilities which will open before us. but through him, light and life are on their way

future of mankind or distress over the disappearance of the old order. the good, the true and the beautiful is on its way, and for it mankind is responsible, and not some outer divine intervention. humanity is sound and rapidly awakening. we are passing through the stage where everything is being proclaimed from the housetops as the christ stated would be the case and as we listen or read of the flood of filth, crime, sensual pleasure or luxury buying, we are apt to be discouraged; it is wise to remember that it is wholesome for all this to come to the surface and for us all to know about it. it is like the psychological cleansing of the subconscious to which individuals submit themselves, and it presages the inauguration of a new and better day. there is work to do, and the men of goodwi

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

which i refer is not possible in the early stages of the disciple's unfoldment; there again, the teaching hitherto presented by occult groups in connection with a master's relation to his disciple has been erroneous and the result of wishful thinking. the disciple is only permitted to have contact with the master's mind when his spiritual life has become habitual to him and when he can, at will, flood his personality with soul energy. those who make occasional and rare soul contacts (and there are many who do) in their meditation work are not so privileged. it is the disciple who has established a usable contact with his soul, of which he can avail himself at any time he so chooses, who can begin to register impressions coming directly to him from the master. aspirants must not confuse te

ts, both in the hierarchy and in the human family. in old atlantean days, it was the masters (facing the same sixth initiation) who "decided" to bring that ancient civilisation to an end; they therefore sacrificed the form aspect of manifestation and created a situation in which the soul of humanity was liberated from the prison in which it found itself. today, a material catastrophe, such as the flood, has not been deemed necessary; it is believed that humanity can and will find its own way out of the world difficulties. section two- the aspirant and the major initiations we now approach the second part of our theme, dealing with the major initiations; we will do so primarily from the standpoint of the ray energies, considering the subject from the initiate's point of view. i wonder if yo

s the dominant energy, always exerting pressure upon the fourth kingdom; this pressure began to exert itself primarily towards the end of the fourth human race, the atlantean race of men; at that time men began to give evidence of a growing sense of responsibility, and therefore of the power to demonstrate discriminative choice. this led to the great war in the fourth race which culminated in the flood, to which all parts of the world testify and to which the majority of the world scriptures bear evidence. in that era, in which the then known world of men was extensively involved, the black and the white lodges of adepts were also implicated, and the first major fight between the demonstrators of evil and the forces of light took place; it was inconclusive, with the evidence for defeat to

tures bear evidence. in that era, in which the then known world of men was extensively involved, the black and the white lodges of adepts were also implicated, and the first major fight between the demonstrators of evil and the forces of light took place; it was inconclusive, with the evidence for defeat to be found on the side of the good more than on the side of evil. under the symbolism of the flood, it is apparent to students that the fight was focussed primarily upon the astral plane, though fought out historically upon the physical plane; it resulted in the destruction of the world by water, as it might be symbolically expressed. in the climaxing war of the immediate past, the mental plane was the focus of the amalgamated forces, for the war was in reality a clash of ideologies and h

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

, the messenger of the gods. it is worth noticing also in this connection how hercules comes under the influence of two teachers: nereus, the higher teacher, and busiris, the lower or psychic teacher; and thus we again have emphasized both the duality of gemini and its mental quality. when this sign is in evidence as it is now, being a powerful mutable sign, it inaugurates many changes; new ideas flood the world; new impulses make their presence felt; new and undeveloped lines of approach to spiritual truth emerge, and many teachers will arise everywhere to help lead the race into a new state of spiritual awareness. being an air sign, we find that the conquest of the air proceeds with speed, and also a constant effort is made to unify and coordinate the many and varied aspects of human end

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

fears. and thus the whole creation was made blind, in order that they may not know god, who is above all of them. and because of the chain of forgetfulness, their sins were hidden. for they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they we

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ven now the list is not exhausted. the explanation of this influence through all its period and everywhere is (i) that which lay behind the romantic thesis of ramsay, as shown by his work on the philosophical principles of natural and revealed religionmystery of hidden knowledge perpetuated in the east from the days of noah and the flood (2) that which lay behind, as already mentioned, the talismanic attraction exercised on masonic minds in the eighteenth century by the name of knights templar, because the church had accused them. they had learned strange things in the east: for some it corresponded to the view of ramsay, for others to occult knowledge on the side of magic, and for the chapter of clermont to alchemy. the col

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ds of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the c

m the bodies of the sons of twilight. neither water nor fire could destroy them. their sons were (so destroyed (a (a) this verse cannot be understood without the help of the commentaries. it means that the first root-race, the "shadows" of the progenitors, could not be injured, or destroyed by death. being so ethereal and so little human in constitution, they could not be affected by any element- flood or fire. but their "sons" the second root-race, could be and were so destroyed. as the "progenitors" merged wholly in their own astral bodies, which were their progeny; so that progeny was absorbed in its descendants, the "sweat-born" these were the second humanity- composed of the most heterogeneous gigantic semi-human monsters- the first attempts of material nature at building human bodies

wisdom, the illegitimate son of the moon (soma) and the planet jupiter's (brihhaspati's) wife, tara. all this, which seems a jumble to the profane, is full of philosophical meaning to the occultist. on the very face of the narrative a secret and sacred meaning is per[[footnote(s* the first occurred when what is now the north pole was separated from the later continents[[vol. 2, page] 139 what the flood means. ceivable, all the details, however, being so purposely mixed up that the experienced eye of an initiate alone can follow them and place the events in their proper order. the story as told in the "mahabharata" strikes the key-note, and yet it needs to be explained by the secret sense contained in the bhagavad gita. it is the prologue to the drama of our (fifth) humanity. while vaivasva

story is too well known to need repetition. vishnu orders a ship to be built, in which manu is said to be saved along with the seven rishis, the latter, however, being absent from other texts. here the seven rishis stand for the seven races, the seven principles, and various other things; for there is again a double mystery involved in this manifold allegory. we have said elsewhere that the great flood had several meanings, and that it referred, as also does the fall, to both spiritual and physical, cosmic and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. the ship or ark- navis- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the moon, and on earth by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or

, to both spiritual and physical, cosmic and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. the ship or ark- navis- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the moon, and on earth by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and[[footnote(s* we must remember that at the head of all the babylonian gods were ea, anu, and the primeval bel; and that ea, the first, was the god of wisdom, the

l dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male god; with the hindus it was soma, with the chaldeans nannak or nannar, and sin, the son of mulil, the older bel. the "akkadians" called him the "lord of ghosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who caused the waters of the flood to fall from heaven on earth, for which xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. as the modern assyriologists have now ascertained, it is the northern nipoor which is the centre whence chaldean (black) magic spread; and eridu (the southern) which was the primitive seat of the worship of the culture god, the god of divine wisdom- the sun-god being the supreme deity everywhere. wit

from her the race of manu; which is a reference to the first human manushyas, who had to create women by will (kriyasakti, before they were naturally born from the hermaphrodites as an independent sex, and who were, therefore, regarded as their creator's daughters. the puranic accounts make of her (ida or ila) the wife of budha (wisdom, the latter version referring to the events of the atlantean flood, when vaivasvata, the great sage on earth, saved the fifth root-race from being destroyed along with the remnants of the fourth. this is shown very clearly in the bhagavad gita, where krishna is made to say "the seven great rishis, the four preceding manus, partaking of my essence, were born from my mind: from them sprung (were born) the human races and the world (chapter x, verse 6. here th

ginning with ruta and daitya and ending with the (comparatively) small island mentioned by plato. this is shown by the agreement of certain details in all the legends. it was the last of its gigantic character. the little deluge, the traces of which baron bunsen found in central asia, and which he places at about 10,000 years b.c, had nothing to do with either the semi-universal deluge, or noah's flood- the latter being a purely mythical rendering of old traditions- nor even with the submersion of the last atlantean island; at least, only a moral connection. our fifth race (the non-initiated portions, hearing of many deluges, confused them, and now know of but one. this one altered the whole aspect of the globe in its interchange and shifting of land and sea. we may compare the traditions

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

s of electrifying spirit, union of the male active principle with the female passive element, which become the parents of their tellurian child, cosmic matter, the prima materia, whose soul is aether, and whose shadow is the astral light (isis unveiled. the fragments of the systems that have now reached us are rejected as absurd fables. nevertheless, occult science- having survived even the great flood that submersed the antediluvian giants and with them their very memory, save in the secret doctrine, the bible and other scriptures- still holds the key to all the world problems. let us apply that key to the rare fragments of long-forgotten cosmogonies and try by their scattered parts to re-establish the once universal cosmogony of the secret doctrine. the key fits them all. no one can stud

* according to colonel wilford, the conclusion of the "great war" was b.c. 1370 (see a. r, vol.9, p. 116; according to bentley, 575 b.c! we may hope, perhaps, that before the end of this century, the mahabharatean epics will be found and proclaimed identical with the wars of the great napoleon[[vol. 1, page] 370 the secret doctrine. the world beyond which nobody can go" and "immediately after the flood (see royal asiat. soc, vol. 9, p. 364) we know of no "flood" 3,102 years b.c- not even that of noah, for, agreeably with judaeo-christian chronology, it took place 2,349 years b.c. this relates to an esoteric division of time and a mystery explained elsewhere, and may therefore be left aside for the present. suffice to remark at this juncture that all the efforts of imagination of the wilfor

a coincidence? a strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even moses- found in the water of the nile- having the symbolical consonant in his name. and pharaoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which

a longest and shortest solar day, and two solar days of equal day and night, within the period of the solar year; and the points in the year of these could be marked with the greatest precision in the starry groups of the heavens or the constellations, subject to that retrograde movement thereof, which in time would require a correction by intercalation, as was the case in the description of the flood, where correction of 150 days was made for a period of 600 years, during which confusion of landmarks had increased. this would naturally come to pass. with all races in all time; and such knowledge must be taken to have been inherent in the human race, prior to what we call the historic period" on this basis, the author seeks for some natural physical function possessed in common by the hum

ations of a purely abstract force or principle now called "god" the very establishment of such worship shows, in its details and rites, that the philosophers who evolved those systems of nature, subjective and objective, possessed profound knowledge, and were acquainted with many facts[[footnote(s* during that period which is absent from the mosaic books- from the exile of eden to the allegorical flood- the jews worshipped with the rest of the semites dayanisi[[hebrew "the ruler of men" the "judge" or the sun. though the jewish canon and christianism have made the sun become the "lord god" and jehovah in the bible, yet the latter is full of indiscreet traces of the androgyne deity, which was jehovah the sun, and astoreth the moon in its female aspect, and quite free from the present metaph

t word of genesis, with its prepositional prefix, signifying the same concreted general form[[vol. 1, page] 444 the secret doctrine. astronomically, with the one here intended" now the secret reading of the first verse of genesis being "in rash (b'rash) or head, developed gods, the heavens and the earth- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven, once that the like meaning of the flood (or noah's deluge) is ascertained. whatever the many other meanings of this emblematical allegory may be, its chief meaning is that of a new cycle and a new round (our fourth round* the "raven" or the eth-h'orebv, yields the same numerical value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose prototy

sm, and astronomy" and this was finally applied to the "signification of simply human generative organs* hence the whole cycle of events[[footnote(s* bryant is right in saying "druid bardesin says of noah that when he came out of the ark (the birth of a new cycle, after a stay therein of a year and a day, that 364+ 1= 365 days, he was congratulated by neptune upon his birth from the waters of the flood, who wished him a happy new year" the "year" or cycle, esoterically, was the new race of men born from woman after the separation of the sexes, which is the secondary meaning of the allegory: its primary meaning being the beginning of the fourth round, or the new creation* unpubl. mss (but see "source of measures[[vol. 1, page] 445 god is our higher self. from adam and the patriarchs down to

aning being the beginning of the fourth round, or the new creation* unpubl. mss (but see "source of measures[[vol. 1, page] 445 god is our higher self. from adam and the patriarchs down to noah is made to apply to phallic and astronomical uses, the one regulating the other, as the lunar periods, for instance. hence, too, their genesis begins after their coming out of the ark, and the close of the flood- at the fourth race. with the aryan people it is different. eastern esotericism has never degraded the one infinite deity, the container of all things, to such uses; and this is shown by the absence of brahma from the rig veda and the modest positions occupied therein by rudra and vishnu, who became the powerful and great gods, the "infinites" of the exoteric creeds, ages later. but even the

BLUE EQUINOX

god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl i

ation. 271 nekam, adonai! the preceptor s address to his templars to sir james thomas windram love, the saviour of the world, must be scourged with many rods, from its place in heaven hurled, outcast before all the gods. love, that cleanses all, must be washed in its own blood and tears, heir of all eternity made the martyr of the years. love, that fills the void with bliss, staunches the eternal flood, heals the hurt of the abyss, blanches, beggared of its blood. love, that wears the laurel crown, turns to gain the lees of loss, that from the shame retrieves renown, is the carrion of the cross. through the heart a dagger-thrust, on the mouth a traitor kiss, the equinox 272 on the brows the brand of lust, in the eyes the blaze of bliss! life, the pimp of malice, drags love with rape of fin

BOOK OF ENOCH

ceived or widely accepted anywhere in 200 bc. this plus the all too accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was lost by the religions that used to regard it as holy. i concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well preserved, ancient and genuine. enoch was the great-grandfather of noah, and father of methuselah, and his book gives a unique view of the world before the flood; which recent research suggests may have occurred as long ago as 17,000 bc. the history of the book of enoch the book was thought to have been lost, for over 2,000 years, with many ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brought three copies back from ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country. enoch h

ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brought three copies back from ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country. enoch had two main reasons for writing his book. the first was because the watchers instructed him to do it (see section 15 at 81.5 and 81.6. the second reason; was to save his family from the flood. enoch wrote his book, after his grandson lamech was born, but before noah was born. noah is only named in the section that methuselah wrote (see section 10 at 107.3, and of course in his own section (section 11, the book of noah. so, there may still have been 40- 80 years left before the flood, at the time when enoch wrote his book. there is a long gap between the time of the flood and the

om the notes that enoch took while he was with the watchers. additionally, the end of noah s short book conveniently serves as an introduction to enoch s book of parables. andy mccracken (august 2002) the book of enoch 1) the blessing of enoch book from the ashes of angelsthe main theme is that of destruction; god is going to clear away the sinners, so that good people can have peace. this is the flood of noah which was still some way off when enoch wrote the book, although there are details of a second end later in the book (see the 10 weeks. 1.1] these are the words of the blessing of enoch; according to which he blessed the chosen and righteous who must be present on the day of distress, which is appointed, for the removal of all the wicked and impious. 1.2] and enoch began his story an

ground details do emerge later in the book. at 106.13 (section 10, we learn that the runaways came to enoch's area in his father's day. enoch is a scribe, see 12.4, and he says that it was the angels who introduced writing. so, enoch was probably taught to write, and employed, by the runaway angels. at 10.1-3, the most high instructs an angel to save the son of lamech (this will be noah) from the flood. this is interesting, because besides prophesying details of the flood, and its timing, it reveals that this was written at a time when enoch is a grandfather (of lamech, but he does not yet know what lamech's son will be called. if the runaways were young in enoch's father s day, then they are probably at least 10 years older than enoch and maybe more. so, it is likely that the events in th

e old. i have wondered if they (the angels) lived longer than we would think was normal but there isn t enough detail to draw a conclusion. the majority of this section consists of a prophecy of doom for the runaways: they will see their families destroyed by fighting amongst themselves during their lifetime. they will suffer in the afterlife and the societies they founded will be wiped away by a flood. he says, at 10.22, that there will never again be another flood like the one to come. 10.1] and then the most high, the great and holy one, spoke and sent arsyalalyur to the son of lamech, and said to him: 10.2 "say to him in my name; hide yourself! and reveal to him the end, which is coming, because the whole earth will be destroyed. a deluge is about to come on all the earth; and all that

, and from all iniquity, and from all sin, and from all impiety, and from all the uncleanness which is brought about on the earth. 10.21] and all the sons of men shall be righteous, and all the nations shall serve and bless me and all shall worship me. 10.22] and the earth will be cleansed from all corruption, and from all sin, and from all wrath, and from all torment; and i will not again send a flood upon it, for all generations, forever. 11.1] and in those days, i will open the storehouses of blessing, which are in heaven, so that i may send them down upon the earth, upon the work, and upon the toil, of the sons of men. 11.2] peace and truth will be united, for all the days of eternity, and for all the generations of eternity. 5) enoch meets the holy watchers (pages 23-24) this section

the words of his father enoch- for he showed him everything which is secret- he returned, having seen him, and called the name of that child noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction. 11) the book of noah (pages 50-53) noah's book was probably written when he was the head of the family and like methuselah he claims to speak with enoch. he seems to have written this before the flood; and once again there are some interesting details. the most important passage is at 67.2. this indicates that the boat is being constructed at the time of writing. noah may have written this piece in order to persuade his sons to come and live with him, inside "the wooden structure. noah may not have seen a boat like this before, and perhaps was not sure what to call it. there seems to be a

have seen a boat like this before, and perhaps was not sure what to call it. there seems to be a background of unusual geological events. at the beginning, 65.1, noah says the earth has tilted, later, at 67.11, he says the hot springs became cold. this does fit with the theories of charles hapgood in his book the path of the pole where he suggests that the huge ice melt (that probably caused the flood) occurred when the poles shifted- perhaps due to an impact from space. the north pole shifted from hudson s bay to its present position. at 65.3 noah says the earth is afflicted and shaken and he does seem quite alarmed by it. there is also talk of molten metal and a smell of sulphur, 67.6, but this may be pollution from the metalworking described at 65.7. production of metals, and weapons

BOOK OF JASHAR

fet. at night, while her family slept, noah talked to god. then god told noah to leave the forest and go up into the mountains "make disks of wood, two by two, and set rods through their centers. lay a sled four cubits long across the rods, and put all that you possess on the sled. then go with your family up to the high slopes of mount ararat. for the forests below are to be destroyed by a great flood which will cover all the lands of the world" to raise the sea level over all land would require more water than then existed in the oceans of the world. noah knew that her family would wonder how more water could be made. so she asked whether god's plan would deviate from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made

m the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, until it came to rest on an olive tree in a field of wheat, high above the valley. and there they stayed, waiting for the flood. in their first winter on the mountain, they had no food, except for the wheat. but god put a blessing on noah's porridge, and tubalcain set out to enlarge the field. with torch and axe he cut the brush, and in the spring they scattered their last grains over the clearing. by autumn, the rain and sun had brought them a rich harvest. when noah's sons grew up, they found wives from the surroun

ping of the world. noah lived long into the years of her great-grandchildren. once, after a day of rain, she walked up her mountain and surveyed the green fields which stretched in all directions. then she understood that the laws that god gave at the beginning would never be forsaken. for noah saw, under the rainbow, that the forest was being destroyed by her own family, which was spreading as a flood over the land. 5. nimrod was the mightiest hunter in the age after noah. he shared his booty with other landless men, and he taught them loyalty by his stories of the jinn, who strove before the world was made. then nimrod triumphed, and with his two hands he settled all disputes among the noahites. for nimrod knew that a united people could do great deeds before god. but when nimrod grew ol

s the agent whom god has selected to bring about this transformation of humanity, and the consequent reversal of peoples' relationship with the forests. 4. the book of numbers (26.33) tells us that a woman named noah was one of the daughters of zelophehad, who set a legal precedent for women's rights to inherit property. in the jashar manuscript, the daughter of zelophehad becomes the noah of the flood. confusing these two noahs would be less likely in hebrew, where their names are spelt differently. according to genesis 4.22, tubal-cain was a maker of metal tools, his parents were lamech and zillah, and his sister was naamah. but chapter 4 of genesis lists naamah at the end of an eight-generation genealogical sequence that is almost the same as the sequence that ends at noah in chapter 5

n the other (noah. but human and noah both rely on the skills, the strength, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the promise of the rainbow, etc, the gender of noah is one of the least essential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we could readily imagine that a reader might more easily accept goliath being transformed into a short philistine general, assassinated by david) thus, our reaction to noah's womanhoo

ch people inadvertently created when they hunted down the great herbivores. to make an interesting story, god wanted the earth to be dominated by intelligent animals, not by trees. noah was led up from her home because god wanted people to progress beyond hunting and gathering, and to dominate the earth by farming. so we should not have been surprised, as noah was, to learn that god's destructive flood is a flood of humanity, not a flood of water. this reinterpretation of the flood may be particularly satisfying to a modern reader, because it relates the flood directly to our own lives. even today, as chain saws reduce the last forests and jungles, we can see the advancing waves of noah's flood. the ecological impact of civilization is thus portrayed here as a part of god's plan. woven in

of tubalcain and noah pulling the cart, while the younger children enjoy the ride, as the family goes on a wild dove chase (like modern archaeologists, noah and her family are uncertain about the exact location of the biblical ararat) another, more serious strand concerns intermarriage and unbelief, which noah confronts when her sons marry forest women who do not share the family's belief in the flood. the unbelieving wives lead noah's sons down the mountain to the better lands below. noah is in anguish for her family, and she prays each day that the flood should be deferred long enough to get her whole family back up to safety on the mountain. we recognize, however, that noah and her daughters-in-law have complementary and equally essential roles in god's plan. without noah's prophecy an

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

wal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power with responsibility and necessary sacrifice for future gain, but above all transformation. isis the egyptian goddess isis is the most powerful and frequently invoked goddess in formal magick. she is mother, healer and the faithful wife who annually restored seite 36 wicca01.txt her consort osiris to life, thus magically causing the nile to flood and fertility to return to the land. she is the patroness of magick and spell-casting, having tricked ra the sun god into giving her his secrets. some accounts say she was taught by thoth, god of wisdom and learning. her cult spread throughout the roman empire and she remained in mediterranean lands in her guise as the black madonna, holding her infant son horus, until the middle ages. she i

me a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the balan

et the guardians of the watchtowers at all, but instead light each elemental candle in turn, visualising golden energies pouring from each direction into the circle. uriel seite 122 wicca01.txt uriel, whose name means fire of god, is associated with earthquakes, storms and volcanoes and is the archangel of salvation. he is sometimes linked with the courage of mars. he warned noah of the impending flood and led abraham out of ur. believed to have given alchemy to mankind, he also imparted the wisdom of the kabbalah, the book of sacred writings, to hebrew mystics. he stands as wise protector and keeper of the sacred mysteries, hence representing the direction of magick and initiator of all who seek the mysteries. uriel stands in the north and his colour is the deep blue or purple of midnight

d villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used for the coming year in ceremony were purified on the feast of candlemas on 1 february. each person was given a blessed candle that acted as protector of the home against storms, fire and flood and defended cattle and crops against evil. the energies of this seasonal festival are good for the regeneration of any areas devastated by neglect or pollution, for melting rigid attitudes that may have led to conflicts between counties or ethnic groups, and the isolation and alienation of disadvantaged groups through prejudice. they are especially helpful for the welfare of infants, small

o take leave of the summer sun as the nights will get longer. michaelmas, the day of st michael, the archangel of the sun, is celebrated on 29 september. st michael was patron saint of high places and replaced the pagan sun deities in christianity. today, global rituals concentrate on positive steps to ensure enough food, shelter and resources for vulnerable communities and individuals, relief of flood and famine, protection of endangered water creatures, dolphin, whales and fish whose seite 163 wicca01.txt death involves great suffering; they also look for peace especially where initiatives are already in motion. on a personal level, autumn equinox rituals are potent for the completion of tasks, for abundance in all aspects of your life, including security for the future which may involve

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

hology 10 preface 11 ten legendary kings2 after the chinese settled in the yangtze valley in 6500 b.c. after the chinese settled in the yellow river valley in 5000 b.c. early chinese stories refer to a mythical time ruled by the ten legendary kings. these rulers are half-human, half-animal. they have magical powers and introduce knowledge to humans such as writing, agriculture, hunting, fire, and flood control. although no archeological evidence exists to prove they really lived, these kings dominated early chinese mythology. fushi shen nung yen di huang di (yellow emperor) shao hao kao yang yao ti (divine yao) k u shun yu the great fire, hunting, trigrams, domestication of animals 3000 b.c 2737 2598 b.c. agriculture, medicine overthrown by his brother, huang di 2697 2598 b.c. dams, compas

the great fire, hunting, trigrams, domestication of animals 3000 b.c 2737 2598 b.c. agriculture, medicine overthrown by his brother, huang di 2697 2598 b.c. dams, compass, calendar, coins 2598 2591 b.c. few accomplishments uncertain accomplishments indeterminate time father of eight famous sons indeterminate time 2357 2255 b.c. astronomy, canal building 2317 2208 b.c. dams 2205 2197 b.c. mapping, flood control, founder of the legendary xia dynasty, 2005 1520, which has not yet been verified. b.c. brief rule name: dates: known for: chinese mythology 12 major historical dynasties3 shang zhou [joh] qin [chin] han six dynasties sui song tang yuan ming qing [ching] period of modern government 1523 1027 b.c. high bronze age 1027 221 b.c. feudalism, confucius, great classics 206 b.c. a.d. 220 tra

xia dynasty of the great yu and his descendants lasted for six hundred years and ended the period of the god-kings. with the next dynasty, the shang, came recorded history and human rulers. dr. john s. major, director of the china council of the asia society, explains the change: the square earth had to be drained, surveyed, marked out into its nine provinces, and set under the government of the flood tamer [yu] himself [after the xia dynasty] the world became familiar, ruled by a human emperor with a normal life span, and marked by the trouble and strife that is the lot of all mortals. for better or worse, we became masters of our own fate, but at a price for the gods, those inhabitants of the celestial plane, withdrew from the plane of the earth, and were our constant companions no long

suns which rose in sequence from the branches of the mulberry [fusang] tree in outlying regions. in the central states, this tradition was known but the ten suns were confined to the mythical past by the story that one day all of them came out at once and nine were shot by archer yi.3 the sun god dijun plays only a small role in chinese mythology. professor anne birrell surmises [t]he myth of the flood and its control was more nearly relevant to the lives of the people than the less real myth of the unnatural phenomenon of solar disaster.4 dijun s wife shiho plays a more prominent part in her position as mother of the suns. scholar anthony christie clarifies: both sun and moon are in fact suns and moons, ten and twelve in number respectively. each of these heavenly bodies is in the care of

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believe that extraterrestrial expressions of the prison warder consciousness still landed and interacted with the people, telling different peoples the same basic manipulated story. some atlanteans escaped by sailing west to the americas, some went east to europe and north africa. it is possible that the biblical story of noah and the ark relates to this period, although it could involve another flood some thousands of years later. over many millennia, the atlantean and extraterrestrial knowledge was passed on through the succeeding generations, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it was accordingly changed to suit those in power at any given time. this is why you still find elements of this knowledge in all

y's assassination. prime minister yitzhak rabin was lauded as a great peace maker after his own assassination in 1995, but he too was a terrorist. as naeim giladi, the israeli historian and author, says "rabin launched his career .with terrorist murders that shed both arab and jewish blood when cold political calculation demanded it".6 in 1940 when illegal jewish immigration to palestine became a flood, the british military government began to detain and deport those jews who did not have the correct documentation. the zionist underground decided to sabotage the refugee ships rather than allow them to be turned away. giladi goes on "in those days rabin was a member of palmach- the name means 'action squads- it was a violent underground force .in november 1940 his group blew up the refugee

g to open. the period of quarantine is also coming to a close. these gateways, in places like stonehenge, machu picchu in peru, tibet, knossos in crete, ayers rock, lake titicaca in the andes, mount fuji, mount shasta, and the lands of ancient sumer and babylon (now iraq) are opening as circumstances allow. this is like opening a valve which allows energies and vibrations from other dimensions to flood into this one. a merging of dimensions and realities is beginning to happen which is offering the opportunity for those who are ready, emotionally and mentally (vibrationally in other words, to advance to a far higher state of consciousness, love, wisdom, and understanding. these energies and the effect of the photon belt are activating data stored in our consciousness and our physical bodie

nor every assumption, because we are dealing with people and organisations who wish that such information remains hidden. dispersing the smokescreens is a life's work. i come from the direction of no religious, racial, or political dogma. i only wish to challenge the imposition of belief systems by those who use violence, fear, guilt, and the suppression of information. i also desire for love to flood this planet and for all humanity to access its full and infinite potential. if anyone decides to take parts of this book out of context and pronounce it 'racist, they will be making a statement about their own state of being, not mine. i wouldn't know how to be racist if my life depended upon it. i seek freedom for myself, for humanity, and for this planet and all her lifeforms. if there are

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sumer, and the indus valley, had a white skin and often blue eyes, yet they were known as the dragon kings or serpent kings by those who knew the secret of their hybrid nature. lemuria was destroyed by a staggering cataclysm that struck the earth, maybe 11,500 to 12,000 years ago. atlantis went the same way, in stages, over the thousands of years that followed. the universal stories of the great flood are related to this. when atlantis came to an end amid more enormous geological upheavals, the bloodlines and their "gods" began again in the near and middle east from about 4,000bc with an empire based in sumer in what is now iraq, between the rivers euphrates and tigris. sumer, according to official "history, was the start of human "civilisation, but, in fact, it was merely the re-start af

a high-tech "golden age" of human society, although some of it, especially towards the end, was anything, but "golden. these stories say that this age was ended by high-tech war and a series of geological catastrophes that caused colossal earth changes through earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, magnetic pole shifts, and tidal waves on a scale we could not begin to imagine today. the biblical great flood is a symbolic story of one such event, but there appear from the biological and geological record to have been several from about 12,000bc up to around 5000bc, perhaps even later. as you can see in the biggest secret, and the excellent book, the day the earth nearly died, by d.s. allen and j.b. delair (gateway books, bath, 1995, the geological and biological evidence is supported by the anci

uary (machu picchu) in the wake of devastating land upheavals, they returned to cuzco to start a second culture. this would push back the original inca empire to the time of the atlantean-lemurian cataclysms and before, and lead us to the true builders of the fantastic structures that conventional history cannot explain. all over the world in every native culture, you will find stories of a great flood and incredible geological upheavals. there is no doubt that an unimaginable catastrophe or, more likely, catastrophes were visited upon the earth between approximately 11000 and 5000bc. the geological and biological evidence is overwhelming in support of the countless stories and traditions that describe such events. they come from europe, scandinavia, russia, africa, throughout the americas

apan, and the middle east. everywhere. some speak of great heat that boiled the sea; of mountains breathing fire; the disappearance of the sun and moon and the darkness that followed; the raining down of blood, ice, and rock; the earth flipping over; the sky falling; the rising and sinking of land; the loss of great continents; the coming of the ice; and virtually all of them describe a fantastic flood, a wall of water, which swept across the earth. the tidal wave caused by the comet in the movie, deep impact, gives you an idea of what it would have been like. old chinese texts describe how the pillars supporting the sky crumbled; of how the sun, moon, and stars poured down in the north-west, where the sky became low; rivers, seas, and oceans, rushed to the south-east where the earth sank

h. the tidal wave caused by the comet in the movie, deep impact, gives you an idea of what it would have been like. old chinese texts describe how the pillars supporting the sky crumbled; of how the sun, moon, and stars poured down in the north-west, where the sky became low; rivers, seas, and oceans, rushed to the south-east where the earth sank and a great conflagration was quenched by a raging flood. in america, the pawnee indians tell the same story of a time when the north and south polar stars changed places and "went to visit each other. north american traditions refer to great clouds appearing and a heat so powerful that the waters boiled. the greenland eskimos told early missionaries that long ago the earth turned over. peruvian legends say that the andes mountains were ripped apa

negro type. the sumerian tablets describe how the anunnaki "gods" left the planet to escape the devastation, even indicating that they had caused it.60 the only ones to survive the catastrophe were the extraterrestrials with the technology and foresight, perhaps prior warning, who left before the stuff hit the fan, and the people who sheltered deep underground or in the mountain ranges above the flood water which, according to the boeing study, could have reached heights of 10,000 feet. the earth is riddled with tunnels and caverns, natural and created, which date back into far ancient times. many of these have been located, including an underground city that could house a population of thousands in cappadocia, turkey, one of the centres of the phoenicians and the origin of george of capp

und cities have been discovered in cappadocia so far and some are huge complexes going down eight levels. the ventilation systems are so efficient that even eight floors down the air is still fresh. thirty vast underground cities and tunnel complexes have also been found near derinkuya in turkey, also. it was the floodwaters and the need to survive them, which ensured that agriculture in the post-flood world began at altitudes above 10,000 feet and not, as you would expect, in the fertile plains. a study by the botanist, nikolai ivanovitch vavilov, revealed that the 50,000 wild plants he examined from around the world originated in only eight areas- all of them mountainous.61 in james churchward's view this would have been because the mountains were formed during the cataclysms and therefo

e mysteries of egypt and sumer and the staggering structures left us by the ancients would be far less mysterious. and if egypt and sumer were founded with this same advanced knowledge, it means that some of those pre-cataclysmic peoples must have survived. so what has happened to their knowledge for thousands of years and what happened to their bloodlines? once you allow a hole in your dyke, the flood begins to pour through. this is why the illuminati, through their vehicles of religion and, more latterly "science, have made a prime focus the suppression of all knowledge and information that would reveal the true story of human history. once we see that, the mist begins to clear. sources for the people who have written to me asking for the meaning of "ibid" in the source lists, it means

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higher than normal. this was when,according to the bible, lots wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. afterreferring to the original sumerian, zecharia sitchin says that the true translation of thatpassage should read that lots wife was turned into a pillar of vapour which, onbalance, is rather more likely!all over the world in every native culture you will find stories of a great flood and thesumerian tablets are no different. sitchin says they tell how the anunnaki left the planetin flying craft, as an enormous surge of water wiped out much of humanity. there is nodoubt that an unimaginable catastrophe, or more likely catastrophes, were visited upon theearth between approximately 11,000 and 4,000 bc. the geological and biologicalevidence is overwhelming in its support of

, japan and the middle east.10everywhere. some speak of great heat which boiled the sea; of mountains breathingfire; the disappearance of the sun and moon and the darkness that followed; the rainingdown of blood, ice and rock; the earth flipping over; the sky falling; the rising andsinking of land; the loss of a great continent; the coming of the ice; and virtually all ofthem describe a fantastic flood, a wall of water, which swept across the earth. the tidalwave caused by the comet in the film, deep impact, gives you an idea of what it wouldhave been like. old chinese texts describe how the pillars supporting the sky crumbled;of how the sun, moon and stars poured down in the north-west, where the sky becamelow; rivers, seas and oceans rushed to the south-east where the earth sank and a gr

the earth. the tidalwave caused by the comet in the film, deep impact, gives you an idea of what it wouldhave been like. old chinese texts describe how the pillars supporting the sky crumbled;of how the sun, moon and stars poured down in the north-west, where the sky becamelow; rivers, seas and oceans rushed to the south-east where the earth sank and a greatconflagration was quenched by a raging flood. in america, the pawnee indians tell thesame story of a time when the north and south polar stars changed places and went tovisit each other. north american traditions refer to great clouds appearing and a heat sopowerful that the waters boiled. the greenland eskimos told early missionaries thatlong ago the earth turned over. peruvian legend says that the andes were split apartwhen the sky m

aused devastating winds, exactly as described by chinese folklore.the physicists said that the pressures created by the orbits of v enus around theearth would have produced a 10,000 foot tidal wave in the oceans and this againfits with the evidence that agriculture began at altitudes of 10,000 feet and higher.plato wrote in his work, laws, that agriculture began at high elevations after agigantic flood covered all the lowlands. the botanist, nikolai ivanovitch v avilov,studied more than 50,000 wild plants collected around the world and found thatthey originated in only eight different areas- all of them mountain terrain.23 thetidal wave would have produced pressures on the earths surface of two tons persquare inch, creating new mountain ranges, and fossilising everything withinhours.24 art

satanism are the reptilianswho have sought to take over the planet for thousands of years. charles gould who haswritten extensively about dragons and reptiles, says:there is a lost species of lizard hibernating and carnivorous which had draco-likewings and was protected by armour and spikes.12 he believes its habitat was thehighlands of central asia and its disappearance coincided with the great flood.13 butthere are still sightings of giant flying lizards in remote areas of the world, especiallyin mexico, new mexico and arizona.who are they and where do they come from?there are three suggested origins for the anunnaki reptilian intervention in humanaffairs: 1 they are extraterrestrials; 2 they are inner terrestrials who live within theearth; 3 they manipulate humanity from another dimens

ad conceived. were unable to bring forth theirchildren, and they died. it describes how some of these giant babies were deliveredby caesarean section. having split open the bellies of their mothers they came forthby their navels.46 in the ancient hebrew text, the book of noah, and its derivative, thebook of enoch, a strange birth is described of a non-human child, who turns out to benoah of great flood fame. references to this also appear in the dead sea scrolls, therecords of the essene community in palestine 2,000 years ago which included muchmaterial from the book of enoch. the strange child the texts describe is the son oflamech. he is said to be unlike a human being and more like the children of theangels in heaven. lamechs child, noah, is described as white skinned and blond-haired w

as itand who doesnt. christian and barbara obrien say in genius of the few that if theannunaki had interbred with humanity hundreds of thousands of years ago and then interbredwith them again about 30,000 years ago, the result of the second interbreeding would be agenetic structure that was 75% anunnaki and 25% human. i think there was another breedingprogramme far more recently, after the v enus flood of about 7,000 years ago. these laterbloodlines would have been even more anunnaki than previous versions, of course. these arethe reptilian crossbreeds who run the world today and it this profusion of reptilian geneswhich allows such people to shape-shift into reptilians and back into an apparently humanform. these bloodlines also have the ability to produce an extremely powerful hypnotic s

addell, the phoenician origin of britons, scots and anglo saxons (the christian bookclub of america, hawthorne, california, first published 1924, p 65.53from the ashes of angels, p 191.54ibid.55second book of enoch, 1:4-5.56revelation, 12:9.57ibid, 20:2-3.58geza vermes, the dead sea scrolls in english (penguin books, harmondsworth, 1990).59ibid, p 7.50chapter threethe babylonian brotherhoodas the flood waters receded after the v enus cataclysm the survivors came down fromthe mountains and up from within the earth. they settled on the lowlands and plainsand began to rebuild. this was when sumer, egypt and the civilisation in the indusv alley suddenly appeared at a very high level of technological advancement, althoughthey had existed before and were now restored after the upheavals.the sume

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ch seemed ready to swallow him once more as if the universe itself realized that it had made a terrible mistake, scared of this thing called "life" and yet equally scared of death, began to imagine hideous gods and demons all about him. these monsters which roared with anger and surely had the power to destroy him would have to be appeased or else death could be imminent. as man survived fire and flood, disease and famine, the anxiety he felt concerning his condition lessened. man learned to live and even thrive in a hostile and evil world. civilizations rose to power and rose up animistic deities as gods who now demanded worship and sacrifice in return for their beneficence and blessing. the threat was no longer against an individual man but against an entire society. to gain the favor of

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heru-em-anpu, who is the son of set. it is said 7 azothoz, a grimoire of the adversary by michael w. ford, succubus publishing 9 that anubis is very similar to the grecian hecate, as they are deific forces over both the celestial and infernal realms and like dogs, were able to see in the night. as alexander sanders wrote, the inverted triangle was the symbol of the left hand path- after the great flood, the ancient egyptians used these triangles to represent a triad of deities. the people of neph-kam, the black lands of lower egypt used the triangle of darkness, led by sethan and supported by anubis and sekhmet. alex sanders lectures magick and sorcery within egyptian cults survived long beyond the death of that culture. consider the graeco-roman period, when wax figures were implemented a

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tles "concealed of the concealed" and "primordial point" that are applied to kether convey a good deal to those who know where to look for it. 14. we can also, once we are acquainted with the symbolism, assign to the various sephiroth their equivalent gods in other systems, and when we look up the symbols, functions, cosmic concepts, and methods of worship assigned to these deities we get a fresh flood of illumination. by the use of a good mythological dictionary or an encyclopaedia, frazer's golden bough, and mme blavatsky's secret doctrine and isis unveiled, we can, by the mere application of diligence, read a great many riddles that at first appeared insoluble, and the exercise is a fascinating one. when used thus the tree is peculiarly valuable, because its diagrammatic form causes thi

basis of life, not a steady forward progress. if we understood this better, how much suffering we should save ourselves, for we should watch the chokmah and binah phases succeeding each other, both in our own lives and the lives of nations,and would realise the deep significance of shakespeare's words when he says: mystical qabala page 98 "there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune" 14. binah is the primordial root of matter, but the full development of matter is not found till we arrive at malkuth, the material universe. we shall see repeatedly in the course of our studies that the three supernals have their specialised expressions on a lower arc in one or another of the six sephiroth which form microprosopos. it is repeatedly said of these that th

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hen made regarding her history, and a very curious story unfolded. as a young girl she had become engaged to a man who, soon after the engagement was announced, had developed galloping consumption and died after a short illness with a violent hemorrhage. soon after this, miss xs sister also became engaged, and by a strange fatality her lover shared the same fate, dying as died the other man, in a flood of his own blood. years went by, and miss x. became engaged again. soon the second lover fell ill, not, this time, with galloping consumption, but with a more lingering form of the complaint, in which hemorrhage was the principle symptom. he seemed to linger on from hemorrhage to hemorrhage, and this went on for years. miss x, a woman of considerable private means, took a house, installed an

ul female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those who were drowned in the flood. we read in genesis and in the book of enoch that the sons of god mated with the daughters of men, and the demonic race was the result. the folk-lore of every country contains instances of the mating of humans with elementals, usually with disastrous consequences. classical literature is full of stories of the visits of gods and goddesses to human kind. what shall we say of all such stories?

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nquered in the terrific battle of moytura. but they were by no means crushed by this defeat and continued to harass the gods of light for generations chiefly by employing their undoubted powers of sorcery (spence. magic arts in celtic britain. new york: dover, 1999, pages 25-6) these tales are so primal, so ancient, that they may well be part of our racial memory, just as is the myth of the great flood. if credence is given to the notion that an individual human being can draw upon this racial memory, as the psychologist carl jung believed, then it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that lovecraft in his frequent strange dreams and nightmares glimpsed something true about the distant past of the universe, perhaps so far back in the past that the human race had not even begun to take t

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heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i have made the hours, i have created the days, i bring forward the festivals of the year, i create the nile-flood. i make the fire of life, and i provide food in the houses. i am khepera in the morning, i am ra at noon, and i am tmu at even" meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could no longer walk. then said isis unto ra "what thou hast said is not thy name. o tell it unto me, and the poison shall depart; for he shall live whose name shall be r

the enemy of ra was darkness and night, or any cloud which obscured the light of the sun. the darkness personified was apep, nak, etc, and his attendant fiends were the mesu betesh, or 'children of unsuccessful revolt] p. 248 the house of the prince[1] keepeth festival, and the sound of those who rejoice is in the (12) mighty dwelling. the gods are glad [when] they see ra in his rising; his beams flood the world with light (13) the majesty of the god, who is to be feared, setteth forth and cometh unto the land of manu; he maketh bright the earth at his birth each day; he cometh unto the place where he was yesterday (14) o mayest thou be at peace with me; may i behold thy beauties; may i advance upon the earth; may i smite the ass; may i crush (15) the evil one; may i destroy apep[2] in his

ayest thou come forth in the place of happiness [to which] i advance. may the shenit,[2] who make men to stand fast, not cause my name to stink"[3] vignette: ani holding his soul in the form of a human-headed bird. text [chapter lxi (i) chapter of not letting the soul of a man be taken away from him in the underworld. osiris the scribe ani saith "i, even i, am he (2) who came forth from the water-flood which i make to overflow and which becometh mighty as the river [nile" plate xv. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod22.htm (3 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:28:11 am] appendix; in many early papyri the text of chapter lxi. forms part of a longer composition which m. naville calls chapters lxi,[4] lx,[5] and lxii,[6] and which reads (1) chapter of drinking water in the underworld [he saith "i, even

ometh mighty as the river [nile" plate xv. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod22.htm (3 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:28:11 am] appendix; in many early papyri the text of chapter lxi. forms part of a longer composition which m. naville calls chapters lxi,[4] lx,[5] and lxii,[6] and which reads (1) chapter of drinking water in the underworld [he saith "i, even i, am he who cometh forth from (2) seb. the flood hath been given unto him [1. this chapter is usually accompanied by a vignette. in that in the papyrus of nebseni the deceased is being weighed against his own heart; an ape "thoth, lord of the balance" seated on a pedestal, holds the tongue of the balance. in british museum papyrus no. 9964 the deceased is also weighed against his own heart, but at the same time a figure of himself is also

heaven (4) who are mighty in splendours. o grant ye that i may gain power over the water, even as set overcame his foes on the day (5) when he terrified the world. i have passed by the great ones shoulder against shoulder, even as they have passed by that great and splendid god who is (6) provided [with all things] and whose name is unknown. i have passed by the mighty one of the shoulder (7) the flood of osiris hath been passed through by me, and thoth-hapi-tmu, the lord of the horizon, hath opened unto me the flood in his name 'thoth, the cleaver of the earth (8) i have gained power over the water, even as set gained power over his foes. i have sailed over heaven. i am ra. i am the lion-god. i am the young bull (9. i have devoured the thigh, i have seized the flesh. i have gone round abo

west, and my two hands are [raised] in adoration [of thee] when thou settest (30) as a living being. behold, thou art the maker of eternity, and thou art adored [when] thou settest in the heavens. i have given my heart unto thee without wavering (31) o thou who art mightier than the gods" osiris ani, triumphant, saith "a hymn of praise to thee, o thou who risest (32) like unto gold, and who dost flood the world with light on the day of thy birth. thy mother giveth thee birth upon [her] hand, and thou dost give light unto the course of the disk (33) o thou mighty light, who shinest in the heavens, thou dost strengthen the generations of men with the nile-flood, and dost cause gladness in all lands, and in all (34) cities, and in all the temples. thou art glorious by reason of thy splendour

ld the great gods, and i feed upon the meals of sacrifice whereon their kas feed. i have been to the plates xxix. and xxx. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod35.htm (2 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:28:57 am] boundaries [of the p. 345 lands (9) of the ram, the lord of tattu, and he hath granted that i may come forth as a bennu bird and that i may have the power of speech. i have passed through the river-flood. i have made (10) offerings with incense. i have made my way by the side of the thick-leaved tree of the children. i have been in abtu in the house of satet (11) i have flooded and i have sunk the boat of my enemies. i have sailed forth upon the lake in the neshem boat. i have seen the noble (12) ones of kam-ur. i have been in tattu, and i have constrained myself to silence. i have set the d

aville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 123] p. 365 (d) a boat bearing a flight of steps and floating on a stream;[1] above is the legend tehefau,[2) a boat of eight oars, each end shaped like a serpent's head, bearing a flight of steps; at the stern is written and at the bows meter am un-nefer "the god therein is un-nefer" the stream which flows on the convex side of the small island is called ashet pet "flood) of [heaven" on the other island is placed a flight of steps, by the side of which is written the space to the left represents the abode of the blessed dead, and is described as- duset xu au-sen meh sexef at meh xemt an saku aqeru asexet-sen the seat of the shining ones. their length is cubits seven the wheat cubits three the blessed dead who are perfected they reap [it [1. in the turin papy

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e taken unawares. smith would have been glad to whisper a word of counsel or at least to say good-by, but it was not necessary or worth the risk. as i emerged from behind the rock, i perceived that the moon had risen and was rapidly climbing the sky. just then it was obscured by a heavy cloud, but observing that it would soon pass, i improved the chance to creep forward for several rods. then the flood of light was such that i lay flat awaiting another opportunity, which i perceived would soon come. ahead of me and slightly to the left towered another boulder, not so large as the one that screened lieutenant smith. i crawled behind this and then awaited the obscuration of the moon, to advance farther into the open. i was in the act of creeping forward, when, without the slightest sound or

a long time on our way here, and i shall be glad to accompany your prisoner back to our camp "and he will be equally glad, no doubt, to go with you; yonder he lies, apparently asleep, on that blanket, which i placed at his disposal" it will be remembered that no fire was in the camp, a part of which was in shadow, though by this time the moon was high in the sky, and when not hidden by clouds, a flood of light bathed the earth. a few paces beyond where we stood 74 low twelve a dark, silent form was lying, as if the man felt no interest in what was going on around him. jennings walked over to him, stooped and touched his shoulder, saying something in apache. there was no reply, and he bent lower. a moment followed and then he straightened up "chief martana is dead i" he said with more exci

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go by faraday) to the projection of protoplasmic activity or to the temporary emanation from the body of the medium imagined by lodge; from the psychiatric doctrine of lombroso to the psycho-physiology of ochorowitz; from the externalisation admitted by rochas to the eso-psychism of morselli; from the automatism of pierre janet to the duplication of personality of alfred binet.there was a perfect flood of explanation, having for their end the elimination of an exterior personality. it is not possible, and never will be, to have a scientific proof of the identity of beings who manifest themselves. it will always be possible to imagine an unknown mechanism by the aid of which elemental substance and power may be drawn from the medium and the sitters and combined in such a way as to produce t

s was revived in 1882 with the publication of ignatius donnelly s atlantis, the antediluvian world. he argued that atlantis was the lost origin point of humanity, the place where the race moved out of barbarism to a civilized state. for donnelly, atlantis explained many of the prominent similarities between the culture of egypt and that of latin america. he believed that the worldwide myth of the flood was really the account of atlantis s demise. blavatsky adopted donnelly s ideas and integrated atlantis into the theosophical story of the evolution of the human race. she hypothesized the evolution of humanity through a series of root races. lemuria, the pacific equivalent of atlantis, was the home of the third root race; atlantis, of the fourth root race. earth is currently populated by th

ized means in china of conversing with evil spirits from time immemorial. she had lived in one of the particular provinces known as demon land, where the natives are bound up in the belief and worship of spirits. there is a real power, she added, in this necromancy. they do healings and tell fortunes. she personally knew of one instance that the spirits through the planchette had foretold a great flood. the boxer uprising was prophesied by the planchette. these spirits disturbed family relations, caused fits of frothing at the mouth, and made some of their victims insane. in closing she declared that chinese spiritism was from hell, the obsession baffling the power of both christian missionaries and native priests. nevius sent out a circular communication for the purpose of discovering the

ilver star center. amid the many books designed simply to present his claims for contact, a lesser-known set of books, designed primarily to circulate among his followers, outlined his moral/ religious message. basic to that message, known as the ten bids (analogous to the ten commandments) are the ten things creation bids us to do. the attacks upon meier s credibility were somewhat lost amid the flood of material supportive of his claims, including more than a dozen books, most beautifully illustrated with photos. meier also released several amateurish videos. through the 1980s these materials circulated among ufo buffs, but found an even larger audience within the new age community. they associated the pleiades as the home for the visitors from outer space, and thus it is not surprising

rgaret fox kane (of the fox sisters, the davenport brothers, florence cook, and henry slade. before this the comparatively private nature of the seances and the high standing of those who took part in them had prevented the periodicals from making any but the most cautious comments on the seances. the appearance of professional mediums on the scene, however, swept away the barrier and let loose a flood of journalistic ridicule and criticism. this in turn provoked the supporters of spiritualism to retort, and soon a lively battle was in progress between the spiritualists and the skeptics. the consequence was that the cause was promoted as much by the articles that derided it as by those that were in favor of it. among the defenders of spiritualism was madame elise van calcar, who not only w

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l gazing and he investigated the haunted ballechin house in perthshire, scotland. as a result, he published two papers in the proceedings of the society for psychical research: on alleged movements of objects without contact, occurring not in the presence of a paid medium (vol. 7, pts. 19 and 20, 1891.92. myers speaks from the grave? myers died january 17, 1901, in rome, italy. after his death, a flood of claimed communications from his spirit came from many mediums. the most important ones were those received through leonora piper, margaret verrall, and alice k. fleming (known publicly as mrs. holland. as regards the latter, frank podmore and alice johnson agreed that the myers control was a subconscious creation of the medium. the views there expressed were alien to the mentality of the

d about, the body is wound around into a sort of semicircle, with results apparently incompatible with nature. fearful convulsions, affecting all the limbs and accompanied with shouts and cries. sometimes fear at the sight of certain phantoms and spectres by which they say they are menaced, causes such a change in their facial expression that those present are terrified; at other times there is a flood of tears beyond control and accompanied by groans and piercing cries. again, the widely-opened mouth, eyes wild and showing nothing but the white, the pupil being turned up under cover of the lids.the whole returning to the normal at the mere command of the exorcist in conjunction with the sign of the cross. they have often been seen creeping and crawling on the ground without any help from

lliam piper of boston. soon after this she consulted dr. j. r. cocke, a blind professional clairvoyant who was attracting considerable attention by his medical diagnoses and cures. she fell into a short trance. at the second visit to the clairvoyant s circle, which was held for effecting cures and developing latent mediumship, when cocke put his hand on her head, piper again saw in front of her a flood of light in which many strange faces appeared. in a trance, she rose from her chair, walked to a table in the center of the room, picked up a pencil and paper, and wrote rapidly for a few minutes before handing the written paper to a member of the circle and returning to her seat. the member was judge frost of cambridge, a noted jurist; the message, the most remarkable he ever received, came

particular types of mental images called engrams (a term borrowed from psychologist richard semon to denote a memory trace, creating a complete record of unpleasant or unconscious experiences. it also thinks in identities, equating the various elements of a painful experiences. in the future, when one experiences several elements in the engram, all of the pain and emotion of past experiences will flood back into the present. over a lifetime, the cumulative effect of engrams can be a set of unwanted and little-understood negative conditions, including, but not limited to, pains, emotional blocks, and even physical illnesses, according to hubbard. armed with hubbard s book, any ordinary individual was considered competent to practice a simple system of psychotherapy superior to those involvi

th those of ceres, rhea, venus, and isis. euripides also mentioned that the rites of cybele were celebrated in asia minor in a manner identical with the grecian mysteries of dionysius and the cretan rites of the cabiri. the rev. geo. oliver, in his book the history of initiation (1829, asserted that the rites of freemasonry were exercised in the antediluvian world, were received by noah after the flood, and were practiced by people at the building of babel. these rites spread and were molded into a form, the great outlines of which can be traced in the mysteries of every heathen nation. these mysteries are the shattered remains of the one true system, from which they were derived. although there may have been likenesses between the rites of certain societies, the idea that all sprang from

s unidentified flying objects. sitchin started with a somewhat different hypothesis, that ancient mythology should be read as historical documents, as reports of actual occurrences. his starting point was the biblical book of genesis, chapter 6, and the cryptic references to the sons of god marrying the daughters of men and the giants or nephilim who were on earth in the era prior to the biblical flood. using a variety of ancient documents, though primarily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits of jupiter and mars every 3,600 years. the planet is inhabited by a humanoid race called the anunnaki, who created homo sapi

years ago, their arrival motivated by the problem of an eroding atmosphere. they established a large gold mining operation in south africa, and gold was shipped to mesopotamia where the space port was set up to transport it to nibiru. the anannaki created humans to work the mines, then later intermarried with their creation. the near approach of nibiru around 11,000 b.c.e. led to the destructive flood recounted in genesis. noah and his family escaped in a submersible ship. after the flood, life began again with the anunnaki s assistance. given the hypothesis of human interaction with the anunnaki, sitchcin has been able to present an alternative reading of ancient history that, while ignored by the mainstream of modern archeologists and astronomers, has found a broad popular audience. the

nly one would have expected the real southcott box to contain voluminous prophecies, correspondence, and religious pamphlets. the incredible story of joanna southcott and her prophecies has continued over nearly two centuries and is still not wholly extinct. the southcott literature is voluminous. she herself published some 65 books and pamphlets, while her followers in the various groups added a flood of additional communications. sources: adkin, clare e. brother benjamin: a history of the israelite house of david. berrien springs, mich: andrews university press, 1990. balleine, g. r. past finding out: the tragic story of joanna southcott and her successors. london: spck, 1956. lane, c. life and bibliography of joanna southcott. london, 1912. matthews, ronald. english messiahs. london: me

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experiences or in the pediatric literature. still the reports continue. another significant development in 1987 was the publication of communion by whitley strieber, heretofore known as a novelist specializing in horror and futuristic themes, now a self-identified abductee with a series of strange adventures in his past. the grayskinned, big-eyed alien on the best-selling book s cover triggered a flood of memories among many who saw it. even ufologists who had been abduction literalists grew puzzled, then uneasy, at the apparent quantity of recovered abduction recollections. strieber also was the first to express a kind of new age view of the abduction phenomenon, now seen 4 abductions by ufos not as an entirely negative experience (as hopkins and others held it to be) but as an initiation

d by entities that included serpentlike cre a t u res and sasquatchlike hairy bipeds. soon after their initial conve r s a t i o n, wight and his companions we re taken to a kind of elevator that led them to the undere a rt h e r s place of residence, a city made of glass. it turned out that their guides we re no a h s direct descendants, who had found their way und e r g round in the wake of the flood. t h e re they found supertechnology and the remains of an a d vanced civilization, along with teros. ap p a rently at some point, wi g h t s group met the t e ros who had been there all along. this was not the only trip the group took to blowing cave. unable to get anybody on the surface to believe their story, wight and his friends vowed to return with conclusive proof. during one expediti

embers of an extraterrestrial race that functioned as stern, authoritarian teachers. early humans both revered and feared them. they were sturdy, large, light-skinned people. their symbols were birds, cats, and the phoenix. the phoenix image was an invention of theirs, intended to symbolize the indestructibility of their empire. they did not hold earthlings in high regard and hoped that the great flood would destroy all of them, so that the lyrans could start over with a new, improved civilization. other, more kindly disposed extraterrestrials, however, warned noah and others, and humanity was saved. travel to earth from the lyran system took generations. thus, once the lyrans arrived here, they could never leave. they lost all contact with their home world and eventually intermarried with

ce-fic t i o n n ovella, i remember lemuria! the story app e a red under sh a ve r s by-line in the ma rc h 1945 issue. palmer presented it as a true story based on racial memory, though sh a ve r claimed that he had re c e i ved his knowledge of h u m a n i t y s hidden history directly from beings who live in a vast network of tunnels and cave s under the eart h s surf a c e. the response was a flood of letters from curious readers and some from persons who related unusual experiences that they thought validated shaver. a promotional genius with the instincts of a carnival barker, palmer coined the phrase shaver mystery, started a shaver mystery club, and opened amazing s pages to allegedly factual material and sciencefiction stories based on it. palmer wrote that when he visited richard

en to pranks that periodically sent its members packing in preparation for meetings with space people or saucer landings. though on the morning of the twentieth the guardians promised that they would board a flying saucer just after midnight, no spaceship appeared. stunned, the group tried to figure out what had happened. finally, someone suggested that the group s positive work had prevented the flood. not long afterward, a message from sananda confirmed that interpretation. when laughead called reporters and wire services to pass on the good news, he triggered a fresh round of ridiculelaced stories. even worse, group members who had given up jobs and cut ties with skeptical family members faced uncertain futures. prank calls and visits over the next 24 days, however, kept the group open

unto another christ child you will be. he said she was from a planet. like unto venus (steiger, 1976. she and steiger believed they had shared previous lives. as part of what they believed to be their mission, the couple moved from upstate new york to scottsdale, arizona. an article on their beliefs concerning st a r people in the may 1, 1979, issue of the na- tional en q u i re r b rought them a flood of letters and telephone calls. it turned out that other persons suspected that they also we re space people put in place to help the human race through coming cataclysms and changes. many said they had heard a disembodied voice tell them, now is the time, short l y b e f o re they read the en q u i re r piece. t h e steigers went on to release books in the st a r people series, three origin

mense, partially hollowe d- out rock called simply giant rock. van ta s s e l s t a rted receiving psychic messages from extrat e r restrials in ja n u a ry 1952, the first of them f rom lutbunn, senior in command first wave, planet patrol, realms of schare [pro n o u n c e d sh a re-ee, a starship station in space. we have your contact aboard 80,000 feet above this p l a c e (van tassel, 1952. a flood of other messages followed in the next days, weeks, and months, all from peace-loving space people associated with the council of se ven lights on the planet shanchea. van tassel wrote what may be the first contactee book, in the modern sense, i rode a flying sa u c e r (1952. its title notwithstanding, at that point all of his contacts had been mental ones. not until au g u s t 24, 1953, wo

lson walk. three crew members stepped outside, two to work on the structure, the third to chat with the witness. the stranger told williams that he had built the ship after many years of experiment and error at a little town in the interior of new york. the may 16 issue of the same newspaper carried a letter forwarded by dr. d. h. tucker. tucker said that a young man who subsequently drowned in a flood in mississippi had written the original, recounting an experience that occurred on april 19 in the lake charles, louisiana, area. while riding in his buggy, he spotted an airship approaching. a high-pitched whistle from the vessel spooked his horses, and he was thrown to the ground. when the ship landed, two men rushed from it to help him to his feet and to extend their apologies. one introd

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in woods at night the moonbeam drifts and lies? thou peerless phial rare, i welcome thee and now i take thee down most reverently. in thee i honour human wit and art. thou essence, juice of lovely, slum brous flowers, thou extract of all deadly, subtle powers, thy favour to thy master now impart! i look on thee, and soothed is my distress; i seize on thee, the struggle groweth less. the spirit s flood-tide ebbs away, away. i m beckoned out, the open seas to meet, the mirror waters glitter at my feet to other shores allures another day. a fiery chariot floats on airy pinions hither to me! i feel prepared to flee along a new path, piercing ether s vast dominions to other spheres of pure activity. this lofty life, this ecstasy divine! thou, but a worm, and that deservest thou? yes! turn thy

emn guest to mirth incline, when thee, in pledge, one to another brought. the crowded figures, rich and artful wrought, the drinker s duty, rhyming to explain them, the goblet s depths, at but one draught to drain them, recall full many a youthful night to me. now to no neighbour shall i offer thee, upon thy art i shall not show my wit. here is a juice, one s quickly drunk with it. with its brown flood it fills thy ample bowl. this i prepared, i choose this, high upborne; be this my last drink now, with all my soul, a festal, lofty greeting pledged to morn! he puts the goblet to his lips. the sound of bells and choral song. chorus of angels. christ is arisen! joy to mortality, whom earth s carnality, creeping fatality, held as in prison! faust what a deep humming, what a clarion tone, draw

ster-witch. you gentlemen, don t pass by so! let such an opportunity not go! look at my wares attentively; here are all sorts of things to see. yet in my shop, sirs, there is naughtits like on earth you will not findthat at some time or other has not wrought dire harm both to the world and to mankind. no dagger s here which has not streamed with blood, no cup which has not poured a hot, consuming flood of poison into some quite healthy frame, no gem that has not brought some lovely maid to shame, nor sword that has not made a truce miscarry or, from behind maybe, has stabbed no adversary. mephistopheles dear coz, you understand but badly times like these: what s done is past! what s past is done! provide yourself with novelties! by novelties alone can we be won. faust if i m not to forget

rove. manto who yearns for the impossible i love. chiron is already far away. manto enter, audacious one, glad shall you be; the gloomy way leads to persephone. within olympus cavern foot she lists in secret for prescribed salute. here did i smuggle orpheus in of old. use your turn better! quick! be bold! they descend. by the upper peneus sirens [by the upper peneus as before. plunge ye in peneus flood! meetly splashing, swimming, fording, linking songs in tones according, for these ill-starred people s good. without water weal is none! if our goodly bands were faring to the aegean, swift repairing, every joy would then be won. earthquake. sirens. back the foaming wave is going, down its bed no longer flowing; quakes the ground, the waters choke, shores and pebbles crack and smoke. let us

uizing, now near, now far] here! and here! thales i pardon you that ancient jeer; but with a friend such idle words forgo! you speak from some false place, i know. proteus [as if from a distance] farewell! thales [softly to homunculus he is quite near. shine brilliantly! as curious as a fish is he; assume what form and place he may, be sure, flames are for him unfailing lure. homunculus at once a flood of light i ll scatter, discreetly, though, for fear the glass might shatter. proteus [in the form of a giant tortoise. what beams so winsome, fair, and dear? thales [concealing homunculus. good! if you wish, you can observe it near. don t let the little effort worry you, appear on two feet just as humans do. it s with our will and by our courtesy that what we now conceal, who wills may see

eles to sucli strange greeting they re not used. the boldest climbers are confused. faust with might now brook to brook is downward rushing; from many a gorge redoubled they come gushing. one cascades in an arch adown the trail, soon spreading outward on a rocky level, foaming and rushing to and fro in revel, leaping down step by step into the vale. what boots heroic, brave resistance? the mighty flood sweeps them past all assistance. before so fierce a surge i too must quail. mephistopheles naught do i see of water and illusion; men s eyes alone are subject to confusion. in this odd case i take a great delight. the crowds rush on, are fain to leap and bound. the fools! they think that they ll be drowned, and, as if swimming, drolly thrash around, panting and snorting on the solid ground

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ld be a return to the religion of the ancient desert hebrews* 0- 1 the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham reflects an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any of the individual religious vessels through which it has been filtered and colored. orthodox jews sometimes refer to this transmission as the noachic kabbalah, linking it in name to noah who survived the great flood. outside the rigid myopia of compartmentalized religious dogma, the hebrew, jewish, christian, muslim, and perhaps even the tantric traditions, can be seen as branches of a single tree. these branches all share a common trunk and roots: the universal mystical spirituality of the absolute unity of the divine, and the primacy of love, surrender, and discrimination as the means for spiritual aw

has had the experience of an elaborate dream that seemed to span a long period of time, maybe years, only to wake up and find out that it actually occurred in a manner of minutes. consider also the oft-told story of a person seeing their entire life pass before their eyes in a near-death episode. from the perspective of a multi-plane, time-space sequence of events, one could conceive of the great flood described in the parable of noah in torah b reshith as an allusion to a great solar cycle spanning approximately six billion years in matter. during that cycle, the sun consumes its mass and eventually expands into a red giant, enveloping the planets that it had created, including the earth. then, the sun (known as elohim in hebrew and brahma in sanskrit) contracts its mass, reconstitutes it

nd his wife and all fauna and flora thereby existed in a formless state, as vibrational signatures in the world of b riyah (creation. this information then reemerged with the regeneration of life on the planetary mass in the world of asiyah (activity in matter. this extraordinary idea is also found in ancient sanskrit texts in the account of the incarnation of vishnu as matsya the fish, where the flood is called pralaya( dark night of brahma. 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8- 0' the primary texts that are largely the source for the core ideas, meditation practices, and all the various forms of the tree of life in the mystical qabalah are listed below. primary texts include those revealed through messiahs, prophets, and great masters. secondary texts are commentaries upon primary texts. during and since

master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound descriptions of the life dramas and teachings of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and others. buddhism p

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

elieved that the soul was immortal and that all actions in this world affected the person's future in the world to come. pingala (sanskrit: one of the two side channels on the chakric tree. corresponds to the column of the left on the qabalistic tree. pir (persian: title for the spiritual preceptor in sufism. pralaya (sanskrit: night: a solar night in which brahma sleeps. corresponds to the great flood in the torah. prana (sanskrit: vital energy: subtle energy responsible for all life. corresponds to ruach in hebrew and qi in chinese. prasadam (sanskrit: food that has been made holy by the touch of the divine; the ritual of offering food to the divine to make it holy. purusha (sanskrit: pure undifferentiated spirit. corresponds to the neshamah in the qabalah. qabalah (hebrew: receiving, ac

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

t sometimes employ him surreptitiously and he was much feared. but he was certainly not publicly admired as a religious philosopher. renaissance magic, which was a reformed and learned magic and always disclaimed any connection with the old ignorant, evil, or black magic, was often an adjunct of an esteemed renaissance philosopher. this new status of magic was undoubtedly mainly due to that great flood of hterature which came in from byzantium, so much of which dated from those early centuries after christ in which the reigning philosophies were tinged with occultism. the learned and assiduous reader of such authors as lamblichus, porphyry, or even 1 kristeller, studies, pp. 223 ff; suppl. fie, i, pp. lvii-lviii, exxixexxxi. 2 scott, i, pp. 31 ff, and see further below, pp. 170-0, 179, 181

h the divine majesty. when the fervour of the four men and the presence of god had filled the holy place, the divine love divinus cupido)1 began to speak through the lips of hermes. all descends from heaven, from the one who is the all, by the intermediary of the heaven. attend carefully to this, with full application of your divine intellect, for the doctrine of the divinity is like a torrential flood coming down from the heights with violent impetuosity. from the celestial bodies there are spread throughout the world continual effluvia, through the souls of all species and of all individuals from one end to the other of nature. matter has been prepared by god to be the receptacle of all forms; and nature, imprinting the forms by means of the four elements, prolongs up to heaven the serie

h respect; for roger bacon he was the "father of philosophers",6 and he is sometimes given a genealogy which makes him even more ancient than ficino or the designer of the siena mosaic thought. in the preface to a twelfth-century translation of an alchemical work, it is stated that there were three hermeses, namely enoch, noah, and the king, philosopher, and prophet who reigned in egypt after the flood and was called hermes triplex. the same genealogy of 1 festugiere, i, pp. 112 ff. the liber hermetis was discovered by gundel and published by him in 1936. 2 festugiere, i, pp. 139 ff. 3 ibid, pp. 283 ff. 4 thorndike, i i, pp. 214 ff; festugiere, i, pp. 105 ff. 5 in his speculum astronomiae; see albertus magnus, opera, ed. borgnet, x, p. 641; and cf. thorndike, ii, p. 220. albertus magnus is

downing rivals, and the like, to a wider view of the possibilities of magic. one might say that this city shows us hermes mercurius triplex in his triple role of egyptian priest and god-maker, of philosopher-magician, and of king and lawgiver. unfortunately no date is given for the founding of adocentyn, so we have no means of knowing whether this took place in the time of noah and soon after the flood, or in the time of moses, or not much later than moses. but the pious admirer of those two "divine" books by the most ancient hermes the pimander and the asclepius might surely have been much struck, by this vivid description of a city in which, as in plato's ideal republic, the wise philosopher is the ruler, and rules most forcibly by means of the priestly egyptian magic such as is describe

us manner that ficino embarks on a mild form of astral magic, attempting to alter, to escape from, his saturnian horoscope by capturing, guiding towards himself, more fortunate astral influences. yet this compara- 1 origen, contra celsum, viii, 58-9; translated h. chadwick, cambridge, r953, pp. 496-7- 60 hermes trismegistus and magic tivcly harmless attempt at astral medical therapy was to open a flood-gate through which an astonishing revival of magic poured all over europe. 61 chapter iv ficino's natural magic1"^icino, whose father was a physician, was himself a physician as well as a priest, and his libri de vita,2 divided into three books and first published in 1489, is a treatise on medicine. it was absolutely inevitable that a medical treatise of the middle ages or the renaissance sh

etoric as represented by cicero, the proficiency in literary and historical studies which a ciceronian speech represents, its exquisite latin style, the dignified way of life in a well-organised society, which is its framework. this world really did exist at the date at which the latin humanist thinks it existed. he is not transposing its date to some misty antiquity just before or just after the flood, with a bogus chronology such as that by which the prisca theologia is given a false emphasis in the other tradition, and distorts the approach to greek philosophy. this historical realism of the latin humanist gives also a realism to his textual scholarship. petrarch already has a feeling for the dating and genuineness of texts1 which his successors rapidly carried to high standards of phil

c trance is described by milton in/ penseroso, his poem on melancholy: or let my lamp at midnight hour be seen in some high lonely tower, where i may oft outwatch the bear, with thrice great hermes, or unsphere the spirit of plato, to unfold what worlds or what vast regions hold the immortal mind that hath forsook her mansion in this fleshly nook; and of those daemons that are found in fire, air, flood, or under ground, whose power hath a true consent with planet, or with element. these lines (which to my mind have a brunian ring through the mention of the bear, where the reform of the heavens begins in the spaccio) brilliantly suggest the atmosphere of the hermetic trance, when the immortal mind forsakes the body, and religiously consorts with demons, that is to say, gains the experience

no more than putting him in a place in the context of this history in general. thar place seems to me to be, roughly, as follows. at a very late date, after the hermetica have been dated and when the whole renaissance outlook is on the wane and about to give way before the new trends of the seventeenth century, fludd completely reconstructs the renaissance outlook. he might be living in the full flood of that intense mystical enthusiasm aroused by ficino's translations of the hermetica, or just after pico had completed magia with cabala. this is, of course, an exaggeration since there are many later influences. for example, fludd knows the useful text-book of renaissance magic compiled by agrippa. i would say, too, that he knew something of the traditions of sixteenth-century religious he

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number of his months are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. for there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. but man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? as the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down, and riseth not up till the heavens shall be no more. yet, 0 lord i have compassion on the children of thy creation; administer them comfort in time of trouble, and save them with an everlasting salvation. amen. or this form may be used: o god, in whose hand our breath is, we bow in thy presence with a sense of the frailty and uncertainty of this mor

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heir compeers. therefore they wandered in the wilderness while the promised land as we know it today was emerging from the lighter fogs, and at the same time their growing lungs were fitting them to live under the present atmospheric conditions. two more races were born in the basins of the earth after the pioneers had left it. then a succession of floods drove them all to the highlands. the last flood took place when the sun by precession entered the watery sign cancer about ten thousand years ago, as told plato by the egyptian priests. thus we see that there is no sudden change of constitution or environment for the whole human race when a new epoch is ushered in, but an overlapping of conditions which makes it possible for the majority by gradual adjustment to enter the new conditions

paul taught the thessalonians by the word of the lord that those who are christ's at his coming shall be caught up in the air to meet him and be with him for the age. this is in line with the tendencies shown by past developments. the lemurians lived very close to the fiery core of the earth. the atlanteans inhabited the basins somewhat further away from the center. the aryans were driven by the flood to the hilltops where they are now living. and analogously, the citizens of the coming age will inhabit the air. but we know that our dense body gravitates towards the center of the earth, therefore, a change must take place; also paul tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a soul b

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equest faust asks the reason and mephistopheles says knowingly and cunningly "blood is a most peculiar essence" it is said in the bible that the blood of bulls and calves will not take away sins and that is reasonable, but how then about the blood of jesus, which is extolled as a panacea? to understand this great mystery of golgotha it is necessary to study the composition and the function of the flood from the occult point of view. when blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence. the heat is caused by the ego which is within that blood, for as the bible says, the life is in the blood. mephisto was right when he said tha

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ition, which in man is shadowed forth as ignorance. a void is created, and over it the spirit (shekinah) in man moves and respiritualizes the gross incarnation of tetragrammaton and so formulates the messiah. the laboratory of the devil (satan of the qliphoth) is the heart of man; herein are all things human conceived and ordered. mystically this heart is the ark which rode out the terrors of the flood, just as the shin rode out the terrors of the darkness which gwas upon the face of the deep h. the timber it is built of is cut from the branches of the tree of life. in it is carried the cubic stone of the wise, the corner stone of the qabalistic temple (the divine form of adam qadmon, the apex of which is the letter od, and at the corners of whose triangular base stand the letters heh, vau

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d by a parent and a triplicated offspring. it is perhaps unnecessary to add that this monad trinity is the creator, preserver, and destroyer with their great parent, the mother of the gods, which in process of time came to be regarded as male. according to wilford, hindoo chronology presents fourteen different periods, six of which have already elapsed; we are in the seventh, which began with the flood. each of these periods is called a manwantara, the presiding genius or deity of which is a menu. at the close of each dynasty a total destruction of the world takes place, everything being destroyed except the ruler, or menu, who "escapes in a boat" each new world is an exact counterpart of the one destroyed, and each menu is a representation of all preceding ones. thus the history of one dy

e visited our planet, and of the belief which has come to be entertained by ecclesiastics that the earth will be destroyed by fire, celsus writes "the belief has spread among them, from a misunderstanding of the accounts of these occurrences, that after lengthened cycles of time, and the returns and conjunctions of planets, conflagrations, and floods are wont to happen, and because after the last flood, which took place in the time of deucalion, the lapse of time, agreeably to the vicissitude of all things, requires a conflagration; and this made them give utterance to the erroneous opinion that god will descend, bringing fire like a torturer"[44 [44] origen against celsus, book iv, ch. xi. the mythologies of all nations are largely founded upon the "religious history" of a flood. the doct

a flood. the doctrine of a triplicated god saved from destruction by a storm-tossed ark which rested on some local mountain answering to ararat, and which was filled with the natural elements of reproduction, is found amongst the traditions of every country of the globe. in egypt, the destructive agency drives the god into the ark--or into the fish's belly, where he is obliged to remain until the flood subsides. in other words, at the time of the destruction of the world, the creative agency is forced within the womb of nature, there to remain until it again comes forth to recreate the world; nor does the symbolism end here, for this god--the sun, or the reproductive power within it, which every year is put to death by the cold of winter, must for a season remain lifeless, but, at the prop

put to death by the cold of winter, must for a season remain lifeless, but, at the proper time, will come forth with healing in his wings. this god must issue forth to life through female nature. the god-man, noah, who appears under one appellation or another in all extant mythologies, was slain, or shut up in a box, ark, or chest in which he or his seed was preserved from the ravages of a mighty flood, or from destruction by the calamity which had befallen the rest of mankind. in one sense he represents a savior, in another sense he is the saved, for he is the seed of a former world and is born again from a boat, a symbol which always represents the female energy. sometimes he is shut up in a wooden cow, from which he issues forth to new life. again this storm tossed mariner is born from

ecomes incarnate, by transmigrating from the human bodies occupied during a former incarnation; brahm or the unity appearing as the paternal menu of a new age, while the triad, brahma, vishnu, and siva, is exhibited in the person of his three sons. but the ark-preserved menu--satyavrata and his three sons are certainly noah and his three sons, shem, 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

y with matter was spirit indestructible "our soul" says plato "was somewhere, before it came to exist in this present form; whence it appears to be immortal. who knows whether that which is demonstrated living, be not indeed rather dying, and whether that which is styled dying be not rather living" to one who has given attention to the various legends relative to the destruction of the world by a flood, and a storm-tossed mariner saved in an ark or boat, it is plain that they all have the same significance, all are but different versions of the same myth, which in an early age was used to conceal the philosophical doctrines of an ancient people. that the early historic nations understood little concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older rac

hat the early historic nations understood little concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older race is quite evident. the ignorance of the greeks regarding the significance of these legends is shown by the following: when solon, wishing to acquaint himself with the history of the oldest times, inquired of an egyptian priest concerning the time of the flood, and the age of deucalion or phroneous or noah, this functionary replied "o solon, solon, you greeks are always children, nor is there an old man among you! having no ancient traditions nor any acquaintance with chronology, you are as yet in a state of intellectual infancy. the true origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. there have been and shall again be in the course of ma

the new faith and worship had corrupted the old, and through the conditions which had been imposed upon women, and the consequent stimulation of the lower nature in man, even the adherents of the older faith were losing sight of those higher principles which in preceding ages they had adored as god. we have seen that in every country upon the earth there is a tradition recounting the ravages of a flood. whether or not this legend is to be traced to an actual calamity by which a large portion of asia was inundated, is not for a certainty known; but the fact that there was a deluge of contention and strife, surpassing anything perhaps which the world has ever witnessed, seems altogether probable. not long after the catastrophe designated as the flood, emblems of the deity, representations of

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h josephus is said to mention them in his first book of antiquities, and two pillars erected before the noachian deluge are referred to in ancient masonic charges, for example in the 'cooke ms' of the 15th century, it is narrated that all science was written upon each of two pillars, one of which could not be destroyed by fire, and the other not injured by water; the legend relates that after the flood these two pillars were recovered by hermes and pythagoras and the inscriptions260themagical masonupon them formed the basis of all other knowledge. samuel erected a stone pillar between mizpah and shen and called it ebenezer (the stone of help, i samuel, vii, 12. king saul is said to have set up a pillar or monument at carmel as a memorial of his success over the amalekites.therewas also the

es the earliest stage lemuria (the hindoo name would confer no meaning to us, then acknowledges the atlantic continent, and that the lastpartto disappear was a great atlantic island beyond the pillars of hercules, that is, outside gibraltar;itsank beneath the ocean some 6,000 years before egyptian history begins: this great submergence gave rise to the widespread primary form of the legend of the flood. streams of survivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is believed the ancient

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down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restored it to adam; and that it passed from adam to seth.thebook being lost, and the mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive law from god. accordingly the jews believe, that god gave to moses on mount sinai, not only the law,butalso the explication of that law; and that moses

. well! it will*pronouncedthek.some celtic memories109two days from now; come ye here and ye shall see that funeral, and then go and talk about your marsh gas if ye like. marsh gas indeed' he walked off rather contemptuously. but there is no question that on the second day from that i saw the baby's funeral as he had described, and the reason they went round by the far side of the burn was that a flood in the meantime had washed away the wooden bridge by which they usually crossed. many were the tales i heard of the corpse-lights, and of the toille, or phantom funerals, and of the death-wright who might be heard hammering at a spectral coffm. but this is the solitary instance in which i myself saw the funeral that had been described to me before, and can testify that the description was ab

genious theories have been formed to account for it. or158 the sorcerer and his apprenticeagain,267the power of witches to see and have intercourse with elemental spirits, and for this also there are appropriate rituals. one very oldms in the ashmole collection at oxford was discovered and copied by bishop percy.itis entitled 'an excellent waye to get a faerie, and is full of interest, throwing a flood of light on other rituals and traditions. this form of magic is practised to this day in the westernlslands, and i have myself been shown what was declared to be the spoor or track of elemental spirits, and.have heard predictionsofweather and other coming events based thereon.thestudent should make up his mind definitely whether it is witchcraft or folklorethathe intends to study. both are p

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condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the mental plane this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, blueprints are formulated and laid. the astral plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the mental and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them both. the physical plane the world o

as it proves there is no evil god in competition with the source of all life, no hierarchy of destruction, but ignorant spirits and entities. the legends of the book of enoch which permeate so much biblical literature suggest that since these spirits desired to have physical bodies they entered the earth stream and interbreed with man producing giants and depraved offspring. this is why the great flood occured, not to destroy man but to purify the earth of these mutated forms. this desire however continued and brought about not only the corruption of many astral realms but allowed these spirits to incarnate on earth! this last fact is important and has far more significance than we may realize. as we will discuss in another work it is possible many of these fallen spirits have taken physic

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it are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gained the most influence. the plane of thought this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, the ground plane are formulated and laid. gnostic theurgy page 29 the desire plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the thought and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them both

y to be sure, but only as a dead body disintegrates into the soil, as nutrients return to the earth, not as a discrete and aware being. in thus spake zarathustra fredrich nietzsche discuses the struggle to go beyond using evolution as a symbol of this battle. in one memorable passage he states. all beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? humanity is a species in transition created by the individualisation of the mould or psychic memory. the only hope for humanity exists within the individual overcoming the wave of eternal re-occurrence, and forging a higher will- a will to power. here we are not talking of a petty will, a brutal desire to violence or warfare, we are ta

e, and he carried them over the waters and so they came into another land. but they took this counsel among themselves and they would leave the multitude of the heathen and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. and they entered into euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. for still the flood till they were passed over. for through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half and the same region is called asareth. 2 esdras 13:13-45. ancient historians such as ptolemy and herodotus and modern historians such as gibbons have also affirmed that the captive tribes of israel were known through various periods as guta, getae, gauls, goths, manda, dacians, teut

with the daughters of men and gave birth to every kind of mutation. these mutated creatures, called nephilim were truly evil and hideous. they are discussed in many traditional theological works such as those of clement, alexander, tertullian and justin to name a few early christian writers and philo and josephus to name a number of others. these beings brought such havoc to earth that after the flood the elder gods (emissaries from the pleroma) created a special seal across the astral dimension which surrounds the earth and locked them away until the omega day. according to the new testament these forces were kept in a spiritual dimension called tartaros. this is the meaning of verses six and seven in the new testament book of jude, these uniquely destructive demons are chained until the

rn home to the treasury of light. the equinox of the gods is a final call to mankind, it is the last opportunity before the age ends and the judgement of maat begins. x gnostic theurgy page 221 i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him? all beings so far have created something beyond themselves, and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? what is ape to man? a laughing-stock or painful embarrassment. and man shall be just that for the overman, a laughing-stock or painful embarrassment. you have made your way from worm to man and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. whoever is wisest among you is a mere conflict

are so many dogmas whether they come from the right or the left, religion or sociology. for the gnostic it is clear that equality is a deception, no one is really equal. while the politicians may scream all men are created equal reality slaps us in the face and we realise that this is a matter of social policy rather than everyday experience. every path to the divine is unique, we experience the flood of past lives in different ways and therefore our present conditions vary greatly. nobody is the same, nobody is equal and we must each individually decide whether our personal charade will continue. however, one thing we can be sure of, is that the kali age is accelerating, mans degeneration is reaching its peak. while technology has become more and gnostic theurgy page 223 more refined, th

vidually decide whether our personal charade will continue. however, one thing we can be sure of, is that the kali age is accelerating, mans degeneration is reaching its peak. while technology has become more and gnostic theurgy page 223 more refined, the content of our lives has become more and more decayed. we have quantity, but little quality. television, video, computers, virtual reality- all flood our lives with information, information that seems important, relevant, even necessary- yet that information keeps us asleep, conditioned, stupid and servile. in the past there was always time to spare, we could have a family, spend lifetimes exploring and growing, leave our spiritual growth to later in life. the old hinu tradition was that life could be a stroll through its various stages a

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ry success" but the action of the m makes it mild and beneficient. a gentle, peaceful, force. the square of "o" of "omebb" in the sephirotic cross of the c lesser angle of the water tablet. triangle no. 1 c triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 c triangle no. 4 hrwbg here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of hrwbg. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of "m" of "aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the earth tablet. 29 triangle no. 1 queen of wands triangle no. 2 b triangle no. 3 c, triangle no. 4 d here b acting downwards and d upwards, the effect would be volcanic. the c is as strongly placed as th

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

ided to make a world for men to live in. first he made the earth and sky. then he began to make people to live in it, carving great stone figures of giants which he brought to life. at first all went well but after a time the giants began to fight among themselves and refused to work. viracocha decided that he must destroy them. some he turned back into stone. the rest he overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to th

giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buried in the biblical sands of the middle east be connected in some unseen way to the giants woven into the fabric of pre-colombian native american legends? adding considerably to the mystery was the fact that the jewish and peruvian sources both went on, with many further details in common, to depict an angry deity unleashing a catastrophic flood upon a wicked and disobedient world. on the next page of the sheaf of documents i had assembled was this inca account of the deluge handed down by a certain father molina in his relacion de las fabulas y ritos de los yngas: in the life of manco capac, who was the first inca, and from whom they began to 1 jos de acosta, the natural and moral history of the indies, book i, chapter four, in sou

n the period since the city was built, it therefore follows that one of two things must have happened: either the level of lake has fallen greatly or the land on which tiahuanaco stands has risen comparably. 5 either way it is obvious that there have been massive and traumatic 4 tiahuanacu, j. j. augustin, new york, 1945, volume i, p. 28. 5 ibid. 6 see, for example, h.s. bellamy, built before the flood: the problem of the tiahuanaco ruins, faber& faber, london, 1943, p. 57. 7 ibid, p. 59. 8 tiahuanacu, iii, pp. 192-6. see also bolivia, lonely planet publications, hawthorne, australia, 1992, p. 156. 9 ibid. see also harold osborne, indians of the andes: aymaras and quechuas, routledge and kegan paul, london, 1952, p. 55. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 72 physical changes. some of t

, new york and oxford, 1991, p. 23. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 94 the temporary increase in the level of the lake may have been caused in part by the breaking of the bulwarks on some of the lakes further to the north and situated at a greater altitude. thus releasing the waters which descended toward lake titicaca in onrushing and unrestrainable torrents.9 posnansky s evidence that a flood had been the agent of the destruction of tiahuanaco included the discovery of lacustrine flora, paludestrina culminea, and paludestrina andecola, ancylus titicacensis, planorbis titicacensis, etc, mixed in the alluvia with the skeletons of human beings who perished in the cataclysm. and the discovery of various skeletons of orestias, fish of the family of the present bogas, in the same alluv

y, jewels, tools and utensils. layers of alluvium cover the whole field of the ruins and lacustrine sand mixed with shells from titicaca, decomposed feldspar and volcanic ashes have accumulated in the places surrounded by walls..11 it had been a terrible catastrophe indeed that had overwhelmed tiahuanaco. and if posnansky was right, it took place more than 12,000 years ago. thereafter, though the flood waters subsided, the culture of the altiplano did not again attain a high point of development but fell rather into a total and definitive decadence .12 struggle and abandonment this process was hastened by the fact that the earthquakes which had caused lake titicaca to engulf tiahuanaco were only the first of many upheavals in the area. these initially resulted in the lake swelling and over

cted by archaeologists and agronomists. these experimental plots consistently yielded three times more potatoes than even the most productive conventional plots. likewise, during one particularly cold spell, a severe frost did little damage to the experimental fields. the following year the crops on the elevated platforms survived an equally ruinous drought: then later rode high and dry through a flood that swamped surrounding farmlands. indeed this simple but effective agricultural technique, invented by a culture so ancient that no one today could even remember its name, had proved such a success in rural bolivia that it had attracted as a usable nutritive source. both factors are clearly present. the other plants identified as early domesticates at the titicaca sites have similar levels

ame fifth sun, or epoch, that humankind still lives today. this account is taken from a rare collection of aztec documents known as the vaticano- latin codex: first sun, matlactli atl: duration 4008 years. those who lived then ate water maize called atzitzintli. in this age lived the giants. the first sun was destroyed by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the art of sorcery of the permanent rain. men were turned into fish. some say that only one couple escaped, protected by an old tree living near the water. others say that there were seven couples who hid in a cave until the flood was over and the waters had gone down. they repopulated the earth and were worshipped as gods in their nations. second sun, ehecoatl: duration 4010 years

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ee tastoxo tah-seh-toh-tzoh you are advised to study the formula of ivitdt before attempting to enter oxo. when you first enter here you will be caught up in the jjoyous atmosphere. the angels will dance and sing and will all appear extremely happy. crowley saw the dance of salome where salome was a reflex of the goddess nuit. whatever you actually see, the happiness and gaiety of the aethyr will flood your being as it does all who enter here. as you enter deeper into the aethyr you will see that it contains an important initiation that you must undergo. it is the mystery of the rose and the cross. the rosy cross is a symbol for the union of the masculine and feminine currents. these currents rhythmically swirl through oxo. the feminine current is the strongest and is emphasized, but enoug

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lain that to this alone we owe our knowledge of the goddesses holda, berhta and fricka, as also the myth of the wild hunt which leads us straight to wodan. the tale of the old beggar-wife is a reminiscence of grimnir. of the wise-women, of swan-wives, of kings shut up in hills we should have learnt little from written documents, did not legend spread her light over them; even the myths of the sin-flood and xvi preface. the world's destruction she has not lost sight of to this day. but what is most fondly cherished in her, and woven into the gayest tissues, is the delightful narratives of giants, dwarfs, elves, little wights, nixies, night-hags and home-sprites, these last being related to the rest as the tame beasts of the fable are to the wild and unsubjugated: in poetry the wild is alway

orts an angel through the world (meon, nouv. rec. 2, 116, and pref. to tome 1; from mielcke's lith. sprachl. p. 167 i learn that the same version prevails in samogitia, and the gesta romanor. cap. 80 tell of the angelus et eremita. as the gods lodged with philemon and baucis, so does a dwarf travelling in the grindelwald with some poor but hospitable folk, and protects their little house from the flood (ds. no. 45; in kinderm. 87 god almighty lodges with the poor man, and allows him three wishes; to riigen comes the old beggar-man= wuotan, gets a night's lodging from a poor woman, and on leaving in the morning lets her dabble in the wishing business, which turns out ill for the envious neighbour. thiele (danmarks folkesagn 2, 306) finds the very same myth in fiinen, and here the traveller

ith him as god of poetry. with the greeks the musa was a daughter of zeus, but we often hear of three or nine muses, who resemble our wise women, norns and schopferins (shapers of destiny, and dwell 1 o'sinn himself; whose bhndness fits in with that of the ancient poets. the loss of ejes strengtheue the memory, it ieuds the capacity aud impulse to sing. saga. 911 beside springs or wells^ the cool flood well befits tlie swanwives, daughters of wish. 8aga can be no other than our sage (saw, tale, the' m^ere' of p. 897 personified and deifi^ed. our 13th cent, poets personify' aventiure' making a fyan aoentiure, like the norn, foot it overland to the minstrel's hut, knock and demand admission^ to this day, when people take turns in telling stories, they say' the marlein goes round from house t

8, 535; conf. schreiber's tagb. for 1840, p. 271. that is a forcible description of the swift advance of an unforeseen calamity. the same legend presents us with yet a third feature full of moaning. when the water had wrecked and swamped all the houses in suggenthal, there remained alive only that old man and his son, and one small infant. this child, a hoy, floated in ids cradle all through the flood, and with him was a cat. whenever the cradle tilted to one side, the cat jumped to the other, and restored the equilibrium; in this way the cradle safely arrived below buchholz, and there stuck fast in the duld or crown of a tall oak. when the water had subsided, and the tree was accessible again, it was fetched down, and child and cat were found alive and unhurt. as nobody knew who the boy'

34 (not unuke the gyrating eagle on the palace-roof, p. 634. the dove represented the sorrowing kinsman who set up the pole. precisely so the servians of to-day make the cuckoo mourn for them (p. 682: on a wooden cross 6 feet high arc carved as many cuckoos as there are survivors, esp. sisters, to mourn the dead. a girl who has lost a brother can never hear the cuckoo sing without breaking into a flood of tears; kukumene! is an interjection of grief, montenegro, stuttg. 1837. pp. 99. 100. all this setting up of doves and cuckoos brings to mind that of horses' heads on poles and roofs (p. 659, of eagles on roofs (p. 633-4. 1 the lausitz wends call our wehklage boze sedlesko, god's little chair [saddle: it appears either as a ichite hen, or as a beautiful white child, whose piteous wailing a

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

ing bound up with some particular oak or ash, and, unlike the tree-born man, had never got wholly detached from the material of their origin. then, a creation out of stones is recorded in the story of deucalion, whom after the deluge hermes bade throw stones behind his back: those that he threw, all turned into men, and those that his wife pyrrha threw, into women. as in the edda, after the great flood comes a new creation; only in this case the rescued people are themselves the actors.2 even the jews appear to have known of a mythical creation out of stones, for we read in matth. 3, 9: on, svvarai, 6 0eo9 e/c twv \i6av tovtwv eyelpai re/cva rc5 aftpadfj (see suppl. the creation of dwarfs is described ambiguously in the edda: according to one story they bred as worms in the proto-giant s f

ears in surprising harmony with a theological opinion largely adopted throughout the mid. ages, according to which, though the 0. t. begins with the work of the six days, yet the existence and consequently the creation of angels and the apostasy of devils had gone before, and then were produced heaven and earth, man and all other creatures.1 after wards, it is true, there comes also a destructive flood, but does not need to be followed by a new creation, for a pious remnant of mankind is saved, which peoples the earth anew. the muhammedan eblis (by aphseresis from dieblis, diabolus) is an apostate spirit indeed, but created after adam, and expelled from para dise. our teutonic giants resemble at once the rebel angels (devils) and the sinful men swept away by the flood; here deli verance wa

16th cent, undeniably and makes me doubt the supposed connexion of the concealed creation. 575 bible makes two separate actions, adam/s creation coming first, and eve s being performed afterwards and in a different manner.1 so, by hesiod s account, there already existed men descended from the gods themselves, when the first woman pandora, the allgifted, fair and false, was formed out of earth and flood (p. 571. it is difficult to arrive at the exact point of view in the hesiodic poems. in the theogony, there ascend out of chaos first graia (earth) the giantess, then erebus (corresp. to niflheim) and night; but gaia by herself brought forth uranus (sky) and seas and mountains, then other children by uranus, the last of them kronus the father of zeus and ancestor of all the gods. as the edda

ld admit of their being placed beside the first- created men of the edda. the agreement of the myths would be more striking if we might bestow the name of stone race on the third, and shift that of brazen, together with the creation from the ash, to the fourth; stones being the natural arms of giants. apollodorus however informs us it was the brazen race that zeus intended to destroy in the great flood from which deucalion and pyrrha were saved, and this fits in with the scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of

men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had flesh and breath perished, but the ark floated on the flood. then jehovah stayed the rain, the waters returned from off the earth, and the ark rested on the mountains of ararat. but noah let out first a raven, then a dove, which found no rest for her foot and returned into the ark; and after seven days he again sent forth a dove, which came back with an olive leaf in her mouth; and after yet other seven days he sent forth a dove, which returned not a

dove, which returned not any more.2 then noah came out on the dry earth, and offered a clean burntoffering, and 1 ulph. renders kara/cxuoy^s by midjasveipdins, sveipan meaning no doubt the same as k\veu&gt, to flush, rinse, conf. as. swapan verrere. diluvium is in ohgr. unmezfluot or slnfluot (like sinwaki gurges, mhg. sinwage; not so good is the ohg. and mhg. smtvluot, and our siindfluth (s^-flood) is a blunder. sailors let birds fly, pliny 6, 22. three ravens fly as guides, landnamabok 1, 2. deluge, sinflut. 577 jehovah made a covenant with man, and set his bow in the cloud for a token of the covenant. after this beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain gia

which brings the bavarians from armenia. 3 all this in buttmann, pp. 24-27. 578 ceeation. the approach of storm by her flying back, and of fair weather by her keeping away. lucian (de dea syria, cap. 12. 13) calls him tov ztcvoea (the scythian; if that sprang out of, 1 it may have long had this altered form in the legend itself. some branches of the greek race had their own stories of an ancient flood, of which they called the heroes ogyges and ogygos; 2 but all these accounts are wanting in epic details.3 a rich store of these opens for us in the indian mahabharata.4 king hanus stood on a river s bank, doing penance, when he heard the voice of a little fish imploring him to save it. he caught it in his hand and laid it in a vessel, but the fish began to grow, and demanded wider quarters

oring him to save it. he caught it in his hand and laid it in a vessel, but the fish began to grow, and demanded wider quarters. manus threw it into a large lake, but the fish grew on, and wished to be taken to ganga the bride of the sea. before long he had not room to stir even there, and manus was obliged to carry him to the sea; but when launched in the sea, he foretold the coming of a fearful flood, manus was to build a ship and go on board it with the seven sages, and preserve the seeds of all things, then he would shew himself to them horned. manus did as he was commanded, and sailed in the ship; the monster fish appeared, had the ship fastened to his horn by a rope, and towed it through the sea for many years, till they reached the summit of the himavdn, there he bade them moor the

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

s derived from his intimate knowledgeofgerman&french,&when you have mastered their difficulties a vastly enlarged field of occult science will furnish you withoriginalmatter, as well as others (especially on alchemy. i do not knowmrm'saddressbuta letter thro' bro. kenning" will doubtless reachhim-isaw in the last issueofthe freemasons his marriageannounceds-s-lvery sincerely hope itwillbeaturning flood in his favour.itnow wants a quarteroftwelve soimust conclude&go to bed,&with kindest regards am most fraternally yours.1thesubject of his papereveningswithindwellersofthespiritworld.2see introduction to the next section. 3 john morant hervey (1805-80) who was grand secretary oftheunited grand lodge of england from 1868 until his death. 4 george kenning. manufacturer of masonic regalia and pu

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

f egyptian mythology come, it was in the form of violent desert storms that could lead to destructive flash floods. the usually cloudless skies made it particularly easy for the egyptians to observe the stars and planets. much early mythology may have developed to explain the movement of celestial bodies. the habitable part of egypt was effectively a giant oasis created by the nile and its annual flood, which is known as the inundation. every year a combination of melting snows and monsoon rains in the mountains of ethiopia caused a huge increase in the amount of water in the nile. when the swollen river reached egypt, it flooded all the low-lying land in the nile valley and delta, depositing a thick layer of silt.7 as the floods went down, the fields were planted, and crops such as emmer

r in the nile. when the swollen river reached egypt, it flooded all the low-lying land in the nile valley and delta, depositing a thick layer of silt.7 as the floods went down, the fields were planted, and crops such as emmer wheat and barley grew very quickly in the moist, fertile soil. in a good year, the egyptians could grow more grain than they needed to feed the population. in bad years, the flood might not be high enough to reach all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes

ituals: a general theory, harvard theological review 35 (1942: 45 79. 4. kirk, myth, 254 255. 5. it is a feature of etiological myths that, factually speaking, the explanation given is nearly always wrong. 6. in ancient egyptian color symbolism, black was a good color standing for fertility and rebirth, whereas red was a bad color standing for danger and sometimes for evil. 7. because of the nile flood, all permanent settlements had to be built on banks or mounds of high ground within the floodplain or in the desert hills that flank the nile valley. the annual flood is now controlled by the huge aswan dam. 8. kirk, myth, 208 209. 9. for an accessible account of recent discoveries about the origins of egyptian writing, see vivian davies and ren e friedman, egypt (london, 1998, chap. 1. 10

rkness and search for other life. another image of the first sunrise was a blue lotus rising above the surface of the nun (see lotus in deities, themes, and concepts. from the new kingdom onward, a naked child or a ram-headed figure was shown sitting in the lotus to represent the newborn sun. the fertile aspect of the nun could be personified as the goddess mehet-weret, whose name means the great flood or the great swimmer. she was usually shown as a cow and was considered the mother of all the primeval beings, including apophis. mehet-weret was envisaged as giving birth to the sun child and lifting him up on her horns. a new kingdom hymn tells us that with the first light the sky became like gold and the primeval waters like lapis-lazuli. mythical time lines 59 the sun might also be thoug

h, returns. so, most versions of the tears myth provide an explanation for the perpetually sorrowful and imperfect state of humanity. in spite of this imperfection, the creator was said to have done many things to help humanity. in coffin texts 1130, the lord of all describes his four good deeds. these were to create the four winds to give the breath of life to every body, to make the annual nile flood so that everyone would get enough food, to create everyone with equal potential, and to make every person s heart remember the west. this last deed implies that from the beginning humans were destined for an eternal life in the beautiful west, the realm of the dead. a middle kingdom text set in the turbulent first intermediate period compares humanity with a flock and the (unnamed) creator w

ion of the symptoms of snake bite. he feels colder than water and hotter than fire; he is drenched with sweat and has lost his sight. isis claims that she can help if ra will tell her his name. ra describes himself by many phrases that define his role as creator. he is the one who created the physical world, he made the bull for the cow so sex came into being. he is the one who causes the nile to flood. he is the one who divided the year into seasons and the day into hours. he ends by proclaiming that he is called khepri 70 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 13. votive bronze statuette of isis with her son, horus the child (cleveland museum of art, bequest of harley c. lee and elizabeth k. lee, 1993. 110) in the morning, ra at noon, and atum in the evening, but none of these is his true

ey to make beer. they make 7,000 jars of beer and add the red mineral to it to make the beer look like blood. ra has the beer taken to the place where the goddess plans to destroy humanity. before dawn ra pours the red beer out until the fields are flooded to a depth of three palms. 28 when the goddess arrives at dawn, she sees her own 74 handbook of egyptian mythology beautiful reflection in the flood. she drank and it delighted her heart. she came back drunk without having noticed humanity. ra welcomed her back and from that day on alcohol was drunk during the festivals of hathor.29 it is not clear whether ra took pity on humanity after the first day s slaughter or whether he only wanted to save the portion of humanity that he regarded as innocent. the latter is probably implied by the f

y, he goes on to say that after millions of years he will become one with osiris. when this happens, there will no longer be a division between life and death, and everything on earth will go through a period of catastrophic change. in book of the dead spell 175, atum declares that after millions of years he will destroy everything that he has made and the land will return into the deep, into the flood, as it was before (creation. a spell in the harris magical papyrus has the magician claim that he can, like the creator, cause the earth to go down into the primeval waters and the south to become north. this strain of thought seems to be reflected in the roman period hermetic text known as the asclepius. in this dialogue, hermes trismegistus warns that in the old age of the world the gods w

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

blavatsky.txt theurgists, regarded fire as the symbol of deity. it was the source, not only of material atoms, but the container of the spiritual and psychic forces energizing them. broadly analyzed, fire is a triple principle; esoterically, a septenary, as are all the rest of the elements. as man is composed of spirit, soul, and body, plus a fourfold aspect; so is fire. as in the works of robert flood (de fluctibus, one of the famous rosicrucians, fire contains-firstly, a visible flame (body; secondly, an invisible, astral fire (soul; and thirdly, spirit. the four aspects are (a) heat (life (b) light (mind (c) electricity (kamic or molecular powers, and (d) the synthetic essences, beyond spirit, or the radical cause of its existence and manifestation. for the hermetist or rosicrucian, whe

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ed on the work of psychologist abraham maslow- ranging from .survival demons. such as hunger or thirst, working up towards .ego. demons- the need for self-respect or a particular self-image, and more abstract conceptions: the hunger for knowledge or wisdom. the deeper the level of the hierarchy, the more primal the desires and urges. the techniques: flooding and vomiting (eating and excreting- to flood awareness with specific images, to bring forth (evoke) the demon, giving it form .flesh. and eventually a name or a 9 sigil. the scrambled personality tapes were to act as auditory sigils- storms of emotion whipped up by intensive remembering (replaying) sets of memories. letting loose the hyenas of cynicism on a cherished ideal or goal. the means of gnosis: sensory overload, hyperventilatio

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

eing required (or so i thought, i devised a hierarchy based on the work of psychologist abraham maslow, that ranged from survival demons- hunger, thirst etc, ego demons- self-esteem, selfimage etc, and more abstract conceptions such as the hunger for knowledge or wisdom. the deeper the level of hierarchy, the more primal the desires. the techniques: flooding and vomiting (eating and excreting- to flood awareness with specific images, to bring forth (evoke) the demon, giving it form, flesh, and eventually a name or a sigil. the scrambled personality tapes were to act as auditory sigils- storms of emotions whipped up by intensive remembering (replaying) sets of memories. letting the hyenas of cynicism loose on a cherished idela or goal. the means of gnosis: sensory overload, hyperventilation

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

den lightning-bolt must have struck somewhere in this neighbourhood, though no trace of its striking could afterwards be found. a youth in the tau omega fraternity house thought he saw a grotesque and hideous mass of smoke in the air just as the preliminary flash burst, but his observation has not been verified. all of the few observers, however, agree as to the violent gust from the west and the flood of intolerable stench which preceded the belated stroke, whilst evidence concerning the momentary burned odour after the stroke is equally general. these points were discussed very carefully because of their probable connection with the death of robert blake. students in the psi delta house, whose upper rear windows looked into blake's study, noticed the blurred white face at the westward wi

where they overlook the unfortunate hamlet, and i gave particular attention to the loose earth of the landslide region on the latter eminence. the afternoon of my search brought nothing to light, and dusk came as i stood on maple hill looking down at the hamlet and across the valley to tempest mountain. there had been a gorgeous sunset, and now the moon came up, nearly full and shedding a silver flood over the plain, the distant mountainside, and the curious low mounds that rose here and there. it was a peaceful arcadian scene, but knowing what it hid i hated it. i hated the mocking moon, the hypocritical plain, the festering mountain, and those sinister mounds. everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers. pre

usness the sight that i saw, and let me live my last years in peace. i cannot sleep at night now, and have to take opiates when it thunders. the thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, ratlike scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life- a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents' slime it rolled up and out of that yawning hole, spreading like a septic contagion and streaming from the cellar at every point of egress- streaming out to scatter through the accursed midnight forests and strew fear, madness, an

mission when over all the neighbourhood a pandaemoniac howling of dogs set in. the extent of this howling can be judged from the space it received in the papers the next day, but to those in the ward household it was overshadowed by the odour which instantly followed it; a hideous, all- pervasive odour which non of them had ever smelt before or have ever smelt since. in the midst of this mephitic flood there came a very perceptible flash like that of lightning, which would have been blinding and impressive but for the daylight around; and then was heard the voice that no listener can ever forget because of its thunderous remoteness, its incredible depth, and its eldritch dissimilarity to charles ward's voice. it shook the house, and was clearly heard by at least two neighbours above the ho

and twenty years. controversy with dr. lyman has compelled him to be very specific, and he definitely dates the madness of charles ward from the time the typewritten notes began to reach his parents. those notes are not in ward's normal style; not even in the style of that last frantic letter to willett. instead, they are strange and archaic, as if the snapping of the writer's mind had released a flood of tendencies and impressions picked up unconsciously through boyhood antiquarianism. there is an obvious effort to be modern, but the spirit and occasionally the language are those of the past. the past, too, was evident in ward's every tone and gesture as he received the doctor in that shadowy bungalow. he bowed, motioned willett to a seat, and began to speak abruptly in that strange whisp

h a friend could bear better than a relative. as family physician he must have a free hand, and the first thing he required was a period alone and undisturbed in the abandoned library upstairs, where the ancient overmantel had gathered about itself an aura of noisome horror more intense than when joseph curwen's features themselves glanced slyly down from the painted panel. mr. ward, dazed by the flood of grotesque morbidities and unthinkably maddening suggestions that poured in upon him from every side, could only acquiesce; and half an hour later the doctor was locked in the shunned room with the panelling from olney court. the father, listening outside, heard fumbling sounds of moving and rummaging as the moments passed; and finally a wrench and a creak, as if a tight cupboard door were

e to let a few random creakings set me off speculating in this fashion- but i regretted none the less that i was unarmed. at length, feeling a fatigue which had nothing of drowsiness in it, i bolted the newly outfitted hall door, turned off the light, and threw myself down on the hard, uneven bed- coat, collar, shoes, and all. in the darkness every faint noise of the night seemed magnified, and a flood of doubly unpleasant thoughts swept over me. i was sorry i had put out the light, yet was too tired to rise and turn it on again. then, after a long, dreary interval, and prefaced by a fresh creaking of stairs and corridor, there came that soft; damnably unmistakable sound which seemed like a malign fulfillment of all my apprehensions. without the lean shadow of a doubt, the lock of my door

ccentricity, moreover, could easily account for his strange acts and apprehensions toward the last. the whole matter began, so far as i am concerned, with the historic and unprecedented vermont floods of november 3, 1927. i was then, as now, an instructor of literature at miskatonic university in arkham, massachusetts, and an enthusiastic amateur student of new england folklore. shortly after the flood, amidst the varied reports of hardship, suffering, and organized relief which filled the press, there appeared certain odd stories of things found floating in some of the swollen rivers; so that many of my friends embarked on curious discussions and appealed to me to shed what light i could on the subject. i felt flattered at having my folklore study taken so seriously, and did what i could

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

y or even gradual decay. had the coming of the ice been foreseen, and had a nameless population left en masse to seek a less doomed abode? the precise physiographic conditions attending the formation of the ice sheet at this point would have to wait for later solution. it had not, very plainly, been a grinding drive. perhaps the pressure of accumulated snows had been responsible, and perhaps some flood from the river, or from the bursting of some ancient glacial dam in the great range, had helped to create the special state now observable. imagination could conceive almost anything in connection with this place. vi it would be cumbrous to give a detailed, consecutive account of our wanderings inside that cavernous, aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry- that monstrous lair of elder secrets

HP LOVECRAFT THE BEAST IN THE CAVE

hearing, threw with full force the sharp-angled bit of limestone which it contained, toward that point in the darkness from which emanated the breathing and pattering, and, wonderful to relate, it nearly reached its goal, for i heard the thing jump landing at a distance away, where it seemed to pause. having readjusted my aim, i discharged my second missile, this time moat effectively, for with a flood of joy i listened as the creature fell in what sounded like a complete collapse and evidently remained prone and unmoving. almost overpowered by the great relief which rushed over me, i reeled back against the wall. the breathing continued, in heavy, gasping inhalation. and expirations, whence i realised that i had no more than wounded the creature. and now all desire to examine the thing ce

HP LOVECRAFT THE LURKING FEAR

where they overlook the unfortunate hamlet, and i gave particular attention to the loose earth of the landslide region on the latter eminence. the afternoon of my search brought nothing to light, and dusk came as i stood on maple hill looking down at the hamlet and across the valley to tempest mountain. there had been a gorgeous sunset, and now the moon came up, nearly full and shedding a silver flood over the plain, the distant tant mountainside, and the curious low mounds that rose here and there. it was a peaceful arcadian scene, but knowing what it hid i hated it. i hated the mocking moon, the hypocritical plain, the festering mountain, and those sinister mounds. everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers

usness the sight that i saw, and let me live my last years in peace. i cannot sleep at night now, and have to take opiates when it thunders. the thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, ratlike scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life- a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. seething, stewing, surging, bubbling like serpents' slime it rolled up and out of that yawning hole, spreading like a septic contagion and streaming from the cellar at every point of egress- streaming out to scatter through the accursed midnight forests and strew fear, madness, an

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

e to let a few random creakings set me off speculating in this fashion- but i regretted none the less that i was unarmed. at length, feeling a fatigue which had nothing of drowsiness in it, i bolted the newly outfitted hall door, turned off the light, and threw myself down on the hard, uneven bed- coat, collar, shoes, and all. in the darkness every faint noise of the night seemed magnified, and a flood of doubly unpleasant thoughts swept over me. i was sorry i had put out the light, yet was too tired to rise and turn it on again. then, after a long, dreary interval, and prefaced by a fresh creaking of stairs and corridor, there came that soft; damnably unmistakable sound which seemed like a malign fulfillment of all my apprehensions. without the lean shadow of a doubt, the lock of my door

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

harley warren. he who had so calmly left me a little while previously, now called from below in a shaky whisper more portentous than the loudest shriek "god! if you could see what i am seeing" i could not answer. speechless, i could only wait. then came the frenzied tones again "carter, it's terrible--monstrous--unbelievable" this time my voice did not fail me, and i poured into the transmitter a flood of excited questions. terrified, i continued to repeat "warren, what is it? what is it" once more came the voice of my friend, still hoarse with fear, and now apparently tinged with despair "i can't tell you, carter! it's too utterly beyond thought--i dare not tell you--no man could know it and live--great god! i never dreamed of this" stillness again, save for my now incoherent torrent of s

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

and awesome silence full of the spirit of desolation. on every hand pressed the illimitable vastness of the void; yet the seeker knew that the being was still there. after a moment he thought of words whose mental substance he flung into the abyss "i accept. i will not retreat" the waves surged forth again, and carter knew that the being had heard. and now there poured from that limitless mind a flood of knowledge and explanation which opened new vistas to the seeker, and prepared him for such a grasp of the cosmos as he had never hoped to possess. he was told how childish and limited is the notion of a tri-dimensional world, and what an infinity of directions there are besides the known direc-tions of up-down, forward-backward, right-left. he was shown the smallness and tinsel emptiness

ISIS UNVEILED

apostolical. its sanctity proceeded, however, from the esoteric rdigiod c^ the former times of rome. the hierophant of the mysteries probably oc- cupied it on the day of initiations, when exhibiting to the candidates the petroma (atone tablet containing the last revelation made by the hioiqihsnt to the neophyte for initiation" digitizecoy google 26 isis vnvbilbd that were on the other side ot the flood, or the gods of the amorites, in whose land ye dwell'"hie science of religion" wrote max mutler in 1860t "is only just beginning. during the last fifty years the authentic docu- roents of the most important religions in the world ktat been recovered in a nu t unexpected and almoat miraeulotu manner* we have now before us the canonical books of buddhism; the zend avetta of zoro- aster is no l

ld estimate the ignorance of hinda meta- phydcians by their own. t^e grand cycle, as we have heretofore remarked, includes the pro- gress of mankind from its germ in the primordial man of spiritual form to the deepest depth of degradation he can reach each successive step in the descent being accompanied by a greater strength and grossness of the physical form than its precursor and ends with the flood. but while ^e grand cycle, or age, is running its course, seven minor cycles are passed, each marking the evolution of a new race out of the preceding one, on a new world. and each of these races, or grand ^pes of hu- manity, breaks up into subdivisions of families, and they again into nations and tribes as we see the earth's inhabitants subdivided today into mongols, caucasians, indians, et

who preserved tbe acctet doctrinca of jcaui u pure and unadulter- ated ai they had been kceived. and atill, even all tbeae atiove-meiitioiied and con- dictinff aecta were for more orthodox in their christianity, or rather chriitism, than the churchea of conitaiitine and rome "it waa a strange fate that befell theae un- fthlunate people (the ebionites, says lord amberley "when, overwhelmed by tbe flood (rf heathenism that had swept into the church, they woe condemned as heretics. yet there is no evidence that they had ever swerved from the doctrines of jesus, or of tbe diacipka who knew him in his lifetime. jesus himself had been circumcised. reverenced the tem^ at jo^isalem as 'a house of prayer t
JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

n wave patterns are resonating from deep within the delta field. as already mentioned, it is a quality form of nourishment that feeds our human soul and also our cells. in spiritual terms this energy from the delta field, in its purest essence, is love. in dimensional biofield terms it is simply a brain wave pattern that can unlock inner doors that when opened, and programmed, have the ability to flood our atoms with a supreme type of nourishment that we call divine nutrition. known as manna and prana and chi and the universal life force, on an alchemical level this delta field essence also expresses itself via a wave of grace, where magic and coincidence rule via a synchronistic and harmonious flow. able to be aligned with and experienced, the wave of grace of the delta field adds a level

the air, while i tickle and stroke her. i m sure her little belly just quivers at my touch as she soaks up lots of the nourishing chi energy that flows from my fingers. our hands can be as holy and healing as we wish, and there are times to recognize this and use them as such for even our hands can channel the true food of the gods. nestled against my heart chakra i d open it further and begin to flood her fields with my love as if a big lighthouse beam is on. mondi always sits there and drinks it up, as i talk soothingly to her, interested in her day and telling her of the new home at the beach where i have begun my solitude time of life for my dying marriage and hungry self are being re-born by a silent sojourn by the sea. unplugged from technology, my time out time is bliss and my heart

nature gifted. there s also something so blessed about watching the process of death. completions and endings make way for new beginnings and experiences that will feed the soul, for the true food of the soul is the living of life and the sharing and caring that it brings. food for the mind comes as answers to questions no matter how great or small. food for the heart comes in waves of love that flood through us deeply enough to release the true gifts of our soul. for the soul is programmed to reveal itself within waves of love, as like will always recognize like, and our hearts and souls are both are programmed only to be fed by love. if death is like holidays and life is like school time, then death is also food, for it feeds us a time of rest, to step back. independent of form. and ass

more research needs to be done. all pioneering work requires, guinea pigs or test subjects, of which perhaps you. the reader. may be one. how do you find out if you are? keep reading and in chapter 11 we will provide a technique for you to find out. prana, of chi, or the universal life force as in reiki, all have as their underlying vibration, or base frequency, pure love and light and when these flood our biosystem, they stimulate the release of the same things within us. these are the frequencies that can sustain and nourish physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 39 in order to understand how we can be nourished on all levels of our being we need to look at both the conventional and non-conventional sour

sed and by using energy shifting tools, we can learn to open inner doors, or improve the download of data coming through doors that are already opened, or open fields to very particular frequencies where a bigger picture is continually unfolding. in other words using these metaphysical tools people can move into more positive realities that feed them in a healthier way. when the dow is invited to flood our system with violet light, it acts like a computer virus clean up program that can automatically heal and nourish us particularly when used with the programming code of perfect health, perfect balance etc. once these inner doors are open we can then flood the cells of our body with the pure violet light that streams constantly through our inner energy centers or chakras. this occurs more

of our body with the pure violet light that streams constantly through our inner energy centers or chakras. this occurs more easily with the creation of our unified chakra column (see diagram 7& 8 below) i call this system flooding. flooding can also operate via a system of bio-feed back looping once the original energy dynamics are established. divine nutrition program. technique no. 12: how to flood our bio-system system with the violet light and its theta. delta field frequencies: i consider the following tool one of the most powerful and important in the divine nutrition program as it is from this source of divine love, divine wisdom and divine power that a human bio-system can gain perfect nourishment. firstly: do the chakra expansion exercise below and create one column or spinning

quency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 78 that one of the major reasons for the high levels of global emotional, mental and spiritual anorexia today is due to the imbalance of the yin/yang. masculine/feminine energies in the earth s fields. this imbalance has brought us violence, war, poverty, lack of compassion, greed and hunger on many levels. one of the obvious ways to rebalance a field is to flood the field with the frequencies it is lacking and we can do this via the tools in this book. the love breath meditation in particular. technique 1 of this chapter. is a great aid in achieving this rebalance. imagine 6 billion people freely breathing in and drawing divine mother love into their bio-system and releasing it into the earth s fields as they breathe out? one of the things that i am

of light as per the violet light one chakra column meditation in chapter 7. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 87 the above meditation, like all energy grid work, needs only to be done once for once the connections are made, they are made. however making the connections strong enough and keeping the doors open so that enough of these energies can continue to flood our bio-system and feed it in a nourishing way so that we are no longer hungry, this depends totally on our frequency which again depends on our lifestyle. as we keep stressing, the luscious lifestyle program determines how well we connect to the divine love channel. also the more we focus on something the stronger it grows so the more we assume, trust and expect the above meditation to do a

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ilosopher and classical scholar (1463 1594; cornelius henry agrippa, the distinguished philosopher, divine, and physician (1486 1535; john baptist van helmont, a remarkable chemist and physician (1577 1644; dr. henry more (1614 1687; and lasty and chiefly (in regard of whom this whole book is but the translation and exposition of his highly-prized and very scarce works, our own countryman* robert flood or fludd (robertus de fluctibus, the famous physician and philosopher (1574 1637. hargrave jennings. london, april 6th, 1879* in regard to the value and rarity of roburt fludd s books, it may be mentioned that isaac d israeli says that forty and seventy pounds were given for a single volume abroad in his time such was the curiousity concerning them. at the present time the value of these boo

d philsophy remains to be seen; but this he is assured of, that the admiration of all students and reflective minds will be excited by the unrivalled powers of thinking of the rosicrucians. the application, proper or otherwise, of these powers is a matter altogether beside the present inquiry. the author has chiefly chosen fro exposition the latin writings of the great english rosicrucian, robert flood, or fludd (robertus de fluctibus, who lived in the times of james the first and charles the first. our final remarks shall be those of a very famous brother of the r.c, writing under the date of 1653: i will now close up, saith he, with the doxology of a most excellent, renowned philocryphus: soli deo laus et potentia! amen in mercurio, qui pedibus licet carens decurrit aqua, et metallice un

e adapted rosicrucian contemplation. intrusion of sin. ruins of the old worlds. 337 chapter the thirty-sixth. indian mysterious adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the buddhistic and mahommedan temples. 346 chapter the thirty-seventh. doctrine and rationale. the embodied children of the elements, both of heathen and of christian periods. 354 chapter the thirty-eighth. robert flood (robertus de fluctibus, the english rosicrucian. 361 supplementary notes. the first. notice of an ancient work (1595. 367 the second. rosicrucian views on the ark of noah. 368 the third. cabalistic illustrations. the sang-r ale, gr al, or holy gr ale. 369 concluding note. remarks upon two curious works. 372 the rosicrucians badge of the grand master of the templars. chapter the first. critic

and explanations of who the rosicrucians were in biographical works, in encyclop dias and histories, and we find them all prejudiced and misrepresenting, really telling no truth, and only displaying a deplorable amount of mischevious ignorance. they are, besides, in the main copied from each other which is notably they case with the early encyclop dias. old fuller, who has some notices of robert flood, a famous english member of the order of the rosicrucians, fully admits his ignorance of whom the brotherhood comprised, and of their constitution or purpose. all generally received accounts, therefore, are wrong, principally for three reasons: first, through ignorance; secondly, through prejudice; thirdly, as instigated by distrust, dislike and envy, for in criticism it is a dogma that the

the rosicrucians. during the age of james the first, charles the first, even during the protectorate, and again in the time of charles the second, the singular doctrines of the rosicrucians attracted a large amount of attention, and excited much keen controversy. sundry replied or apologies appeared on the part of the rosicrucians. among them was a most able work published in latin by dr. robert flood, at leyden, in 1616. it is a small, closely printed, very learned octavo, entitled, apologia compendiara fraternitatis de rosea cruce &c, and abounds in knowledge. it is an exceedingly rare work, but there is a copy in the british museum. all this long period was marked by considerable speculation regarding these rosicrucians. pope s rape of the lock is founded upon some of their fanciful ca

n. the labarum. chapter the sixth. the hermetic brethren. he following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the r.c, and are adduced in a translation from the latin by one of the most famous men of the order, who addressed from the university of oxford about the period of oliver cromwell; to which university the great english rosicrucian, robertus de fluctibus (robert flood, also belonged, in the time of james the first and charles the first. we have made repeated visits to the church where robert flood lies buried. him, and which are in print. every man naturally desires superiority. men wish for treasures and to seem great in the eyes of the world. god, indeed, created all things to the end that man might give him thanks. but there is no individual thinks of

lar of oxford, and was vehemently attacked in his lifetime, and who certainly was a rosicrucian adept if there ever was one, led a wandering life, and fell often into great perplexities and dangers from the mere suspicion that he possessed extraordinary secrets. he was born, as we learn from his writings, about the year 1612, which makes him a contemporary of the great english rosicrucian, robert flood; and what is the strangest part. 36 the rosicrucians. of his history, as we find remarked by a writer in 1749, is, that he is believed by those of his fraternity so the author adds to be living even now; and a person of great credit at nuremberg, in germany, affirms that he conversed with him but a year or two ago. nay, it is further asserted, continues the author, that this very individual

t no real progress could be made in knowledge or in religion by it; and that to all vital that is, supernatural purpose it was a vain thing. they taught that divine and supernatural illumination was the only means of arriving at truth. their name of paracelsists was derived from paracelsus, the eminent physician and chemist, whowas the chief ornament of this extraordinary sect. in england, robert flood, or fludd, was their great advocate and exponent. rivier, who wrong in france; severinus, an author of denmark; kunrath, an eminent phyisican of dresden; and daniel hoffmann, professor of divinity in the university of helmstadt, have also treated largely on paracelsus and on his system. philippus aureolus theophrastus paracelsus was born in 1493, at einsiedeln, a small town of the canton of

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

the supremely intellectual being. huh, he'll never admit it, though: pride. there has been a raging controversy for generations between pro-atlantians and anti-atlantians as regards the antiquity of civilized mankind upon this planet. the archaeological remains of those nuclei civilizations, which have, for 7,000 years or more been recovering from the celestial impact which caused the traditional flood, redistributed the surface soil of the earth, destroyed continents and made new ones, sunk atlantis and mu and raised hob in general, are readily available in quantity. they offer easy materials for study. archaeology and ethnology, sharing with astronomy the feature of being observational and not experimental, have built their entire framework upon the study of those remains. yet, underlyin

annual fall of rain, at norfolk, england, is about twenty-nine inches, and that is not a dry or desert locality. but mr. symons points out that volumes of water up to twenty-four inches fell from may 25,to 28 in new south wales and of a deluge much greater, thirty-four inches, which engulfed hong kong on may 29 and 30. in the united states, one inch of rain a day is a big fall and two inches is a flood. a normal thunder shower can bring from one-eighth to one-half inch of rain water. mr. symons called attention to these two splashes which were a couple of thousand miles or more apart, and posed the question of whether they were merely coincidence, but leaving it to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz professional meteorologist thought zzzznds of miles apart, might be remarkable, and not easy to explain on any

1913, found the state of ohio flooded, inundated. torrents were falling and rivers were out of control. the floods at dayton, ohio were singularly disastrous and they were the center of attraction in the national press. 250,000 people were homeless, many homes were obliterated. dayton was a shambles of bodies, stalled street cars, snarled traffic, wrecked buildings, and the general flotsam of any flood. dayton got the headlines, i remember them. i was two hundred miles away, on a farm in western indiana. it rained there, too. we couldn't plow the land, much less plant crops. that was the year i got my first camera, and i bought a brownie. and one of the very first rolls of film i used was to photograph the tiny brook which ran through our pasture. only it wasn't tiny then, it was a raging

battle. as they drew nearer, they discharged flashes of lighting, and the whole effect was that of an eerie sea battle high in the air. nearer and nearer they drew, the violence of the flashes of lightning increasing the closer they approached, until, with one great flash, they collided, and rain fell in torrents. one hundred and fifty persons drowned and it is believed to be the most disastrous flood ever to befall that section of the country. the l-m live in water half or more of the time and it is no wonder so much water fell from two "mother ships" lemurian& muanina ships in battle, no doubt. rubbish in space these few chapters of observational material show that space contains a much greater amount and variety of material scattered between planets than most of us, including the astro

hey tire easily& must rest often when on "terra" except underseas. nine days later, at gibraltar, deveau swung the ghost ship into port with the idea of collecting salvage money for the 1,700 barrels of alcohol under her hatches. but the destiny of the marie celeste was more complicated than that. the marshal of the vics admiralty court put the brig under arrest. the queen's proctor, frederick s. flood, asserted that a crew just didn't leave a ship with $80,000 worth of alcohol, to risk their necks on a directionless joy ride. what, then, had deveau done with the missing crew? the dei gratia had also pulled into port. flood turned suspicious glances toward its hands. clearly he was determined to find evidence of crime. he entered the marie celeste's cabin, and his eyes snapped when he unco

ith $80,000 worth of alcohol, to risk their necks on a directionless joy ride. what, then, had deveau done with the missing crew? the dei gratia had also pulled into port. flood turned suspicious glances toward its hands. clearly he was determined to find evidence of crime. he entered the marie celeste's cabin, and his eyes snapped when he uncovered an old italian sword under the captain's berth. flood scrutinized the deck and found the stains he expected! dr. j. patron was summoned to make a chemical test "no" he told flood "these are not blood stains" john austin, the ship surveyor and diver, next examined the brig's underside. he came up dripping to report that there was no indication that the brig had struck anything like a reef which might have caused the crew, fearful of being trappe

j.f. briggs concludes "that the captain became suddenly alarmed (presumably by rough weather, hauled aback the square sails to stop the brig's headway, ordered all hands into the yawl, and temporarily left the ship, which subsequently gathered way and sailed off" this view is the simplest explanation. but scores of other solutions have been just as sincerely forwarded. there is the letter proctor flood wrote to the london board of trade on january 22 or 23, 1873 "my own theory, or guess, is that the crew got at the alcohol and in the fury of drunkenness murdered the master, his wife, child, and the chief mate; that they damaged the bows of the vessel with the view of giving it the appearance of having struck on rocks so as to induce the master of any vessel which might pick her up to think

s up to 1934" another more popular assumption saw captain briggs and his crew fall prey to merciless pirates. on this one, too, fay sought government information. a letter dated january 15, 1941, came from the naval archives" concerning the possibility of pirates records do not reveal that any piratical operations took place as late as 1872 between the azores and the coast of portugal" a swirling flood of conjectures continued to pour forth as to the fate of captain briggs and his men and women. was j. l. hornibrook any nearer the facts in chamber's journal, september 17, 1904 "suddenly a huge octopus rises from the deep, encircles the helmsman. his yells bring every soul running on deck. one by one they are caught by the waving wriggling arms. then, freighted with its living load, the mon

KETAB E SIYAH

the sky, illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever sleep until, once more, do the stars conjoin with planets, unrecorded and invisible, in the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, 19 shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the cerulean dome of the sky and the soil beneath the feet of angels shook with their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music

i ennumerated those hosts that now stood with me. a third part of the elohim had joined me, raising their swords with mine. not alone did i make this calculation, my false father also counted, fear and hatred upon his face. he raised his ancient eyes to me, they burned with venom and bile, tearing at me like wild dogs. terrible was the potency of his gaze, searing me like fire, drowning me like a flood. against hatred as strong as death i could hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, 60 i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a w

the sky, 80 illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever sleep until, once more, do the stars conjoin with planets, unrecorded and invisible, in the most portentous placement. then, by algol's unholy light, the star of piled-up corpses, the demon's head, shall she burst her bonds, her mighty flanks rippling with potency like a great river in flood, and, as a tree new-sprouted reaches, through dark soil, to the brightness of the sun, seek the ocean's ceiling of the playing waves to wreak, upon the elohim, her vengeance and fury at her epoch-abiding prisonment. all heaven rang with such horns, the cerulean dome of the sky and the soil beneath the feet of angels shook with their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music

numerated those hosts that now stood with me. a third part of the elohim had joined me, raising their swords with mine. not alone did i make this calculation, my false father also counted, fear and hatred upon his face. he raised his ancient eyes to me, they burned with venom and bile, tearing at me like wild dogs. terrible was the potency of his gaze, searing me like fire, 121 drowning me like a flood. against hatred as strong as death i could hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a wrat

bore the dreadful blade, making further incision and widening the hurt already wreaked upon my flesh. now sick of such self-brutality the hand that bore the dagger, made weak by agony, released its hold and let the dagger fall. now blood, like a river flowed down, down my belly and down my thighs until it stained the garden's soil, flowing even thence down the river's bank and joined the greater flood down to the sea. then it seemed that weakness would defeat the spell i sought to speak. a moment did i but sit in stillness in silent search for strength to avail me that i might complete the deed and the victory over the king that opposed me. 144 reaching with my right hand into the bleeding gap, sharp teeth of mine hard biting the tongue they caged yet the mind unknowing of the taste of bl

led me here to this uncertain enterprise that i now worked, i employed stretching and working anew every bone and sinew of my body. now i no more resembled angel-form but a jewel-scaled serpent of long coil, shining with a thousand rainbow colours. now disguised within this new shape i went, coiling, winding, sliding, over plain and sand, gliding over those lands that i traversed like the river's flood, with such grace and speed did i make the journey to the vale where my afflicted children, considered hopelessly the many questions for which they had no answer. now to thwart the counter-plot of heaven i made all haste to the garden's glades. coming to its darkened entrance as once before i had first come to create the nephilim i came now to redeem from ignorance and confusion those who mus

hmedai, he divulged the true purpose heaven had for lamech's son. this, satan, do they ordain: in noah is invested some part of power that was lost to adonai yahweh when you took it from him upon the field. this power then heaven can but command if the elohim can command the nephilim to the end noah does suffice. using then that power which does reside in him they will call upon the earth a great flood to cover mountain peaks, drowning all upon the earth save that which has fore-warning. michael has instructed noah to build for him a boat to carry god's loyal family from the waters and of every beast that goes on land a pair by which to breed anew 255 their population upon the blasted earth. thus does god intend to annihilate the nephilim race you made. accursed be those criminals for the

f my children breaks not easily by any small means. some grander plan is needed by heaven to overcome that which is predestined to themselves cast down the elohim and seize from them that which they prove unfit to hold. so baser means do the elohim employ against those that they would destroy. upon the end of all nephilim are their depraved intents resolved. it is their plan to call forth a great flood to wash every footprint of the nephilim and cover the peaks of mountains that their foes might be left no recourse 263 but to be devoured by the seas. thus shall they consume the works wrought by the hands of children and forever drive from the earth that race which might challenge them and, doing so, would surely defeat them. for this reason have i sought you out, utanapishtim, august king

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

e absorbs from the media. thus, the third factor is the laws by which the environment affects the individual and induces changes in those qualities that are changeable. 4. changes in the environment that affect the object the environment that affects the growth of the wheat is, itself, affected by external elements. these elements can change drastically: for example, there might be a drought or a flood, causing all the seeds to rot or dry out. as for man, this fourth factor involves changes in the environment itself, which then change how it affects the changeable qualities in the individual. thus, these four factors define the general state of each object. these factors define one s character, mode of thinking and process of deduction. they even determine what one wants and how one acts a

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

and may they help all of us unite with the creator in the course of our lives here in this world! rabbi michael laitman- 10- attaining the worlds beyond how to read the text the need for this text became apparent to me from the questions that i received from my students, and from the questions that were asked during various lectures and radio programs, as well as from the letters that continue to flood in from all over the world. the difficulty of explaining and teaching kabbalah lies in the fact that the spiritual world has no counterpart in our world. even if the object of our studies becomes clear, our understanding of it is only temporary. what we learn is grasped by the spiritual component of our ability to understand, which is constantly renewed from above. thus, a subject we initial

e light of kabbalah. the way of kabbalah is a period of preparing for new thoughts and desires, during which we experience feelings of- 139- suffering. but once we move over this bridge that leads to the dwelling of the creator, we enter the world of spirituality, the kingdom of light. at this point, we reach the final goal of creation the ultimate perception of the creator. the generation of the flood is called "a period of work of the heart" whereas the generation of building the babylonian tower is regarded as "the period of working with one s intellect" each of us strives to satisfy every desire from the first moment of life up to the very last moment. the difference between us is in the object from which we want to receive pleasure, whereas the pleasure itself is always spiritual. onl

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

s are therefore named the impure bya. the impure worlds (shells) are called: esh mitlakachat (erupting fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud) opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind) opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam ha rishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam ha rishon were fragments with a will to receive in order to receive, with just a spark of light. these parts with sparks in them clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join groups of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell, called klip

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ent co-operation of a considerable number of people. it was, therefore, much more difficult to achieve perfectly, but when thoroughly done it was far more powerful, and covered a much wider range of country. the christian scheme needs a vast number of churches dotted all over the land; the egyptian plan required only the action of a few grand lodges established in the principal cities in order to flood the whole kingdom with the hidden light- the work of the ordinary lodges being regarded as subsidiary to these, and rather as a training ground for membership in the grand lodges. 57. the central doctrine of the religion of the ancient egyptians was that the divine power dwelt in every man, even the lowest and most degraded, and they called that power gthe hidden light h. they held that thro

as influenced by a foreign princess, whom he had espoused, to cast aside the aryan traditions and establish lower forms of worship; but the clan drew together and, by strictly marrying only among themselves, preserved the old customs and religion as well as their purity of race. nearly four thousand years after the arrival of the indians, there arose in egypt certain prophets who foretold a great flood, so the clan in a body took ship across the red sea and found a refuge among the mountains of arabia. 63. in 9,564 b.c. the prophecy was fulfilled; the island of poseidonis sank beneath the atlantic ocean in the deluge mentioned in the timaeus of plato; at the same time the land rose and made the sahara desert where a shallow sea had been before, and a vast tidal wave swept over egypt, so th

e race, but with very mixed blood, and the same thing is true of those who are usually called the australian aboriginals, except that in their case there is a very alight admixture of aryan blood. 246. at one time the pygmies were spread over a great deal more of africa than at present, and some of them were the first people to enter egypt when the marshes were partially drying up after the great flood that followed the sinking of the island of poseidonis some nine thousand five hundred years before christ. they were driven out a little later by the nilotic negroes, but that more advanced race was finally dispossessed (and, i think, to some extent absorbed) by the true egyptians when they returned to their country. as i have explained in chapter i, the wise men of egypt had foreseen that t

e sinking of the island of poseidonis some nine thousand five hundred years before christ. they were driven out a little later by the nilotic negroes, but that more advanced race was finally dispossessed (and, i think, to some extent absorbed) by the true egyptians when they returned to their country. as i have explained in chapter i, the wise men of egypt had foreseen that there would be a great flood, and the aryan portion of the egyptian population had left the country and gone over to arabia, where it was mountainous. when the returned a long time after the flood they found the nilotic negroes in possession of their country, and to some slight extent they blended with them; that is the explanation of the traces of negro blood which are found in the ancient egyptians. 247. these nilotic

d it the duty of the enlightened one, first, so to live as to let that light shine unobstructed through him, and secondly, to try by every means within his power to help to arouse and unveil that hidden light in his fellow-men. 836. they found by experience that one of the most efficient modes of giving such help to large numbers simultaneously was to afford a channel for the outpouring of a vast flood of spiritual force over the surrounding country, and that was what they endeavoured to do in the ceremony which i am about to describe. they said: gall light comes from the great one; but because men shut themselves away in the caves of ignorance and misunder-standing, our earthly mirrors can reflect that light where otherwise it would not penetrate, and so the great one accepts our help, an

aced on the altar before the r.w.m, who extended his hands over them and said: 878. go thou most high, most strong, most wise, thou ever-shining light, from whom all light forever comes, we return to thee herein the light and life that thou hast given us. our life is in this offering; we lay it at thy feet, we pour it forth before thee. as it bears our life to thee, so may it bear thy life to us. flood thou our offering with thy life, that it may awaken thee in us. h 879. all stretched forth their hands and chanted the egyptian equivalent of: gso mote it be. h 880. the r.w.m. then drew over himself a wonderful golden robe, which his acolyte had brought from the pedestal, gave a k c and, turning slowly round, with his arms extended towards the columns, said: 881. gbrn, you have given yourse

centre. the cake was of flour, with a slightly sweetish taste, but the top was covered by a thin layer of whitish-grey material, not unlike the icing on some modern cakes. the cup contained a colourless fluid. 884. the descent of osiris 885. as soon as the r.w.m. had uncovered the vessels, he raised his arms towards the blazing star, and cried three times: go lord, descend! h when that tremendous flood of light fell upon the offerings, a remarkable chemical change was at once set up, presumably by the actinic action of the light-rays, and the greyish-white icing grew crimson. it would appear that the same sensitive chemical was in solution in the cup, for the colourless liquid also became a deep rose. the change of colour was obviously intended to symbolize the descent of the divine life

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, less fanciful, have attributed its origin to abraham, moses, or solomon. dr. oliver, writing as late as the first part of the nineteenth century, held that masonry, as we have it to-day, is the only true relic of the faith of the patriarchs before the flood, while the ancient mysteries of egypt and other countries, which so closely resembled it, were but human corruptions of the one primitive and pure tradition. as scientific and historical knowledge progressed in other fields of research, and especially in the criticism of the scriptures, scientific methods were gradually applied to the study of masonry, so that to-day there exists a vast body

at large. the performance of the ritual of each degree is intended to call down spiritual power, first to assist the bro. upon whom the degree is conferred to awaken within himself that aspect of consciousness which corresponds to the symbolism of the degree, as far as it can be awakened; secondly to aid in the evolution of the members present; and thirdly and most important of all, to pour out a flood of spiritual power intended to uplift, strengthen and encourage all members of the craft. 38. some years ago i undertook an investigation into the hidden side of the sacraments of the catholic church, and published the results of that investigation in a book called the science of the sacraments. those who have read that book will remember that the shedding abroad of spiritual power is one gr

ing with the egyptian line of tradition. 424. the analogies between mithraism and christianity are very close; they are well summarized thus in the encyclopedia britannica: 425. the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed upon abstinence and self-control; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emana

thing of hidden mystery to transmit. i give below a brief summary of the dowland manuscript, which is fairly representative of the tradition common to all. it is reproduced from hughan s old charges (1872, and is quoted from mackey s encyclopaedia(*art. legend of the craft) 550. the legend begins with an account of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight ewcl

or took his place among them; and that- after his manner and the manner of the rosy cross- they began to speak of spiritual building in a hall of masons, of a hermetic art in stone; and that therefore they may have contributed something to our own unfinished sketch of figurative building(*emblematic freemasonry, p. 43) 577. among the records of the acception was a book of constitutions which mr. flood gave. 578. in the harleian mss, no. 2054, a rough memorandum of date 1665 is found, containing the following sentence, which looks like notes of an obligation, used probably in the chester lodge: 579. there is seu`all word and signes of a free mason to be revailed to yu wch as yu will anew: before god at the great and terrible day of iudgmt yu keep secret and not to revaile the same to any i

hael maier, who died in 1622, after writing the silentium post clamores (1617; the symbola aureae mensae (1617, and the themis aurea (1618- all of which expound and defend rosicrucian and alchemical philosophy. thomas vaughan, although not an actual member of the society, was in close sympathy with its tenets, and translated into english the fama fraternitatis and the confessio. there were robert flood, a great english rosicrucian philosopher, author of the tractatus apologeticus, the tractatus theologo-philosophicus, and other works; sincerus renatus, or sigmund richter, who published in 1710 the curious work, the perfect and true preparation of the philosophical stone, according to the secretof the brotherhoods of the golden and rosy cross, with which is included the rules of the above-m

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

e angels of the spirits of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of clouds, and of darkness [and so forth (giovetti 1993, 19. among other contents, the book of jubilees repeats the central angel tale in the book of enoch in which a group of angels mate with mortal females. they then fell from grace and became devils after leaving their heavenly abode. the book of jubilees adds that god sent the flood to destroy the race of sinful giants who were the offspring of these unnatural unions. see also enoch; judaism for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light. transl. toby mccormick. 1989. york beach, me: samuel wiser, 1993. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston, mt: s

them; when they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them (7:10 13) when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered (the nephilim) went on wreaking havoc until (according to such sources as the book of jubilees) they were wiped out in the flood. scripture, however, records later, post-flood tribes of giants who were descendants of the nephilim (e.g, num. 13:33; deut. 2:11; josh. 12:4; etc. this story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. a

resented by the image of a primordial ocean. pralaya the night of brahma during which the creator is said to sleep lasts as long as a day of brahma, or another 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of this night, the cosmos is recreated. lesser dissolutions recur at the end of every mahayuga. the dissolution of the cosmos into pralaya is not to be confused with the deluge and the accompanying universal flood that occurs fourteen times each kalpa at the end of temporal periods called manvantaras, or manu-intervals. the events of each kalpa recur exactly during each day of brahma. each brahma, in turn, lives 100 years that are constituted by 360 days of brahma very longlived indeed! furthermore, successions of different brahmas become the building blocks for even longer time periods. scholars such

n emerges from a lotus flower that sprouts from vishnu s navel and recreates the cosmos. see also asuras; indo-europeans for further reading: basham, arthur l. the origins and developments of classical hinduism. boston, ma: beacon press, 1989. dimmitt, cornelia, and j. a. b. van buitenen. classical hindu mythology: a reader in the sanskrit puranas. philadelphia, pa: temple university press, 1978. flood, gavin. an introduction to hinduism. london: cambridge university press, 1996. kinsley, david r. hinduism: a cultural perspective. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall, 1993. klostermaier, klaus k. a survey of hinduism. albany: state university of new york press, 1989. zimmer, heinrich.myths and symbols in indian art and civilization. new york: bollingen, 1946. princeton: princeton university

s the angel of adversity. elsewhere,mastema is referred to as the accusing angel, and in hebrew mastema means animosity. mastema works for god to tempt mankind and as an executioner. a large number of demons are under his charge. these evil spirits were born from the dead bodies of giants killed by god that were the offspring of fallen angels and mortal earth women. one legend tells how after the flood god intended to comply with a request of noah s to lock away all of the evil spirits underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision. ther

until the time of augustine. aquinas, who would later become the catholic church s official theologian, reaffirmed this notion in sententiae where he states that magicians perform miracles through personal contracts with demons (guiley n1989, 100. the biblical foundation for this idea comes from isaiah 28:15: we have made a treaty with death and signed a pact with sheol: so that, when the raging flood sweeps by, it shall not touch us; for we have taken refuge in lies and sheltered behind falsehood. although the original passage is not discussing an actual agreement with satan or one of his minions, it is not difficult to see how this verse might be interpreted so as to support such a notion. the bible also provided legitimation for the witch-hunts, through such assertions as exodus 22:18

nything good from these scientifically- created creatures, and that out of man only evil could come. satan was like the head of a political party on the planet of the elohim, which was opposed to the creation of any type of beings in their image by other elohim, who thought that they could create beings who would be positive and non-violent (rael 1986, 94 95. certain biblical stories, such as the flood, are explained in terms of the intervention of satan s party: the group who believed that nothing but evil came out of man, presided on by one of the elohim named satan, finally triumphed, and the destruction of all life on earth came about by the flood (ibid, 4. according to this narrative, noah s ark was actually a space ship within which another party of elohim preserved humanity. making

hat they ate all the food on earth, then went on to eating humans, and eventually started to eat each other. when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered were destroyed, but their evil spirits went on wreaking havoc until they were wiped out by the flood sent by god. according to hebrew myths, by robert graves, semyaza is now eternally residing in the sky in the form of the constellation orion, hanging between heaven and earth, with his head pointing downwards. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967. new york: free press, 1971. ronner, john. know your a

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te to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues into the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. the initiate is asked to compare and contrast this chapter with chapter xiv, observing in particular, underlying both systems, this one postulate: in the semen itself exists a physical force which can be turned to the magical or mystical ends of the adept. initiates will notice also that these heathen philosophers have made also one further march towar

LIBER ALEPH

f wisdom or folly 101 gf de femina quadam (of a certain woman) nowest thou for what cause i am moved to write this unto hee, my son only-begotten, child of magick and of mystery? it is that i thy father am also in this ordeal of initiation at this hour. for the sun is nigh unto the end of the sign of he fishes in the thirteenth year of the on, and the new current of high magick leapeth forth as a flood from the womb of my true lady babalon. and a word hath come to me by he mouth of the scarlet woman, whose name is eve, or ahitha, concerning the temple of iuppiter that is builded for me. and therein is a woman appointed to a certain office. now this woman appeared to me in a vision when i was in the house of the juggler by the lake among the mountains, the sun being in cancer in the elevent

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

, a broad lawn enriched with clustered flowers and sculptures. the sun is nigh his setting. on a couch under the wall of the city reposes the lord esarhaddon, fanned by two slaves, a negro boy and a fair kabyle girl, clad in yellow and blue, the boy fs robes being covered with a veil of silver, the girl fs with a veil of gold. they are singing to him softly: the boy. all crimson-veined is tigris. flood; the sun has stained his mouth with blood. the girl. orange and green his standards sweep. the boy. his minions keen. the girl. his maidens weep. the boy. but thou, lord, thou! the hour is nigh when from the prow of luxury shall step the death of all men.s hearts, she whose live breath, a dagger.s darts, a viper.s vice, an adder.s grip, a cockatrice .twixt lip and lip, she whose black eyes a

LIBER CCXLII AHA

tions of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find aha! 9 no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there fs the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god fs beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundless

of love; but, guarded by unsleeping eyes of twice seven score severities, the veil that only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus f heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. liber ccxlii 10 woe be to that accursed man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath fs avenging flood to black immitigable seas! woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

ur the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl i

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

lieve! and why believe? because it is a thing impossible. sir palamede his pulses pause .it is not possible (quod he .that palamede is wroth, and draws sir palamedes, the saracen knight 27 his sword, decapitating thee. by parity of argument this deed of blood must surely be. with that he suddenly besprent all scythia with the sage.s blood, and laughting in his woe he went unto a further field and flood, aye guided by that wizard.s head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 28 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts

-stone; the blood drips from the slain babe.s throat; his chant rolls in a magick moan; his head bows to the crowned goat. his wand makes curves and spires in air; the smoke of incense curls and quivers; his eyes fix in a glass-cold stare: the land of egypt rocks and shivers .lo! by thy gods, o god, i vow to burn the authentic bones and blood of curst osiris even now to the dark nile fs upsurging flood! i cast thee down, oh crowned and throned! to black amennti.s void profane. until mine anger be atoned thou shalt not ever rise again. with firm red lips and square black beard, osiris in his strength appeared. liber cxcvii 66 he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen .hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him .hath fallen himself to that profane

k beard, osiris in his strength appeared. liber cxcvii 66 he made the sign that saveth men on palamede the saracen .hath hushed his conjuration grim: the curse comes back to sleep with him .hath fallen himself to that profane whence none might ever rise again. dread torture racks him; all his bones get voice to utter forth his groans. the very poison of his blood joins in that cry fs soul-shaking flood. for many a chiliad counted well his soul stayed in its proper hell. then, when sir palamedes came back to himself, the shrine was dark. cold was the incense, dead the flame; the slain babe lay there black and stark. what of the beast? what of the quest? more blind the quest, the beast more dim. even now its laughter is suppressed, while his own demons mock at him! o thou most desperate dupe

ill and blue the sky is! hush.god knows.god knows! then on a sudden in the midst of them is a swart god, from hoof to girdle a goat, upon his brow the twelve-star diadem and the king fs collar fastened on this throat. thrill upon thrill courseth through palamede. life, live, pure life is bubbling in his blood. all youth comes back, all strength, all you indeed flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood! yet was his heart immeasurably sad, for that no questing in his ear he had. nay! he saw all. he saw the curse that wrapped in ruin the world primaval. he saw the unborn universe, and all its gods coeval. he saw, and was, all things at once in him that is; he was the stars, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 91 the moons, the meteors, the suns, all in one net of triune bars; inextricably one

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ingers in tune, and finds the tendency to hurry almost irresistible. this record is here written at lightning speed. attempt to write slowly is painful. 8.20. the thought too, is wandering all over the world. since the last entry, very likely, the beast has not thought even once of adonai. 8.35. the reading of the ritual has done much service, though things are still far from calm. yet the mighty flood of the chitta is again rolling its tremendous tide toward the sea. the sea of annihilation. amen. 9.00. returning home, with his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the moon, in his heart and brain invoking adonai, he hath now entered into his little chamber, and will prepare all things for the due performance of the new ritual which he hath got by heart. 9.35. nearly ready. in a state of ver

nderstood that the .standard of living. goes up at an incredible rate. the same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as .high degree of concentration; unhoped-for success. the phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which john st. john worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained seemed almost to outstrip the possible of glory. the flood of the chitta is again being heaped up by the dam of discipline. there is less headache, and more sense of being on the path.that is the only way one finds of expressing it. 11.45. worse and worse; though pose even better held. in despair returned to a simple practice, the holding of the mind to a single imagined object; in this case the triangle surmounted by the cross. it seems quite easy

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

th ibis head and phoenix wand and wings of night! whose serpents strain their bodies, bounding the beyond. thou in the light and in the night art one, above their moving might! he lays the wand, etc, on the altar, uses the scourge on his buttocks, cuts a cross with the dagger upon his breast and tightens the chain of the bell about his forehead, saying: 2 liber dclxxi the lustral water! smite thy flood through me.lymph, marrow and blood! anointing the wounds, say: the fire informing! let the oil balance, assain, assoil! the invoking spiral dance: so life takes fire from death, and runs whirling amid the suns. hail, asi! pace the path, bind on the girdle of the starry one! sign of the enterer. homage to thee, lord of the word! sign of silence. lord of the silence, homage to thee! repeat bot

e way. thus i pass by with force and care, advance with fortitude and wit, in the straight path, or else their snare were surely infinite. the passing of the second pylon (stagger and fall back to earth. suit action to words) asar! who clutches at my throat? who pins me down? who stabs my heart? i am unfit to pass within this pylon of the hall of maat (rubric as before) the lustral water! let thy flood cleanse me.lymph, marrow, and blood! the scourge, the dagger and the chain purge body, breast and brain! the fire informing! let the oil balance, assain, assoil! still, in corpse-position: for i am come with all this pain to ask admission to the shrine. i know not why. i ask in vain unless it be that i am thine. i am mentu his truth-telling brother, who was master of thebes from my birth. o

.breaks forth from under) he goes to the west, in the centre of the base of the triangle of (m, asi (a, and hoor (c: o thou, the apex of the plane (etc, to .art one, above their moving might) he lays the wand, etc, on the altar, uses the scourge on his buttocks, cuts a cross with the dagger upon his breast and tightens the chain of the bell about his forehead, saying: the lustral water! smite thy flood (etc) anointing the wounds, say: the fire informing! let the oil (etc) the invoking spiral dance: so life takes fire from death, and runs whirling amid the suns. banishing spiral dance: vel pyramidos 13 now let mine hands unloose the sweet and shining girdle of nuit! the adorations and the word. sign of the enterer. homage to thee, lord of the word! sign of silence. lord of the silence, homa

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

. out of its context, and call this verse .christian optimism. see caird.s .hegel. hegel knew how to defend himself, though. as goethe wrote of him. they thought the master too inclined to fuss and finick. the students. anger grew to frenzy paganinic* they vowed they.d make him rue his work in jena.s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god.s battue, the flood for mortal.s sin.icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him .wer bist du. he answered slowly .bin ich. 387. the fish.58.because of .cquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59.consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60..how vain

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. she was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders. webs, and it rayed about her, like one can.t say what; it was all too beautiful. in the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the flood, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, and it was like a green universe full of flowers, and little children playing among them. so i said .shall we be married in this domus x. v. regnum v. porta 4 loci secundum elementa. qliphoth. via t vel crux. cherubim domus ix v. fundamentum yod v. membrum sancti f.deris the wake world 7 house. and he said .no, this is only the house wher

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

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

ther. after asking about the monstrous birth of the offspring of aurgelmir, odin asks what vafthrudnir fs oldest memory is. vafthrudnir responds in stanza 35: a great many years before the earth was formed, bergelmir was born; what i first remember is when the wise giant was placed on a lu.r. this verse has occasioned all sorts of speculation. snorri wrote in gylfaginning that it had to do with a flood story. after the sons of bor killed ymir, his blood flooded the earth and gwith it all of the frost giants were killed, except one who got away with his family. the giants called that one bergelmir. he got up 74 norse mythology on his lu.r along with his wife and saved himself there, and from them come the families of the frost giants. h snorri clearly understood the lu.r as something that w

at, and the word might in fact have meant gcoffin h or gchest h or some wooden part of a mill; the expected meaning, of a cumbersome musical instrument something like an alphorn, makes no sense either in snorri or his poetic source. if there is any consensus here, it is that what vafthrudnir remembered was the funeral of bergelmir, and what snorri made of it was an analogue to the judeo-christian flood story. see also aurgelmir; thrudgelmir; vafthrudnismal; ymir references and further reading: the best interpretation of the issues surrounding bergelmir and his lu.r remains that of anne holtsmark, gdet norrone ord lu.r, h maal og minne, 1946: 49.65. berserks furious warriors, in mythology associated with odin. the passage in question is chapter 6 of snorri fs ynglinga saga, which also provi

mir, whose father was thrudgelmir and grandfather aurgelmir. 6. whence came aurgelmir? from drops of poison out of the elivagar. 7. how did aurgelmir beget children? a boy and girl came from under his arm, and one leg begat a six-headed son on the other. 8. what is the first thing you remember? when bergelmir was placed on a lu.r (according to snorri, something that floated and saved him from the flood created from ymir fs blood. 9. whence comes the wind? from the giant hrasvelg, who sits in the form of an eagle at the end of heaven and flaps his wings. these items are known from other accounts of the creation and structure of the universe. it is, however, worth noting that vafthrudnir had also asked about the sun and moon; odin fs questions elicit a response that concedes the role of the

coffin h or gchest h or some wooden part of a mill; the expected meaning, of a cumbersome musical instrument something like an alphorn, makes no sense either in snorri or his poetic source. in vafthrudnismal, bergelmir could have been placed in his coffin or on some plank of wood, which would suggest his funeral, or perhaps into a cradle at birth. in neither case is there any reason to think of a flood, but that is what snorri did, presumably as an analogue to the judeo-christian flood story. snorri fs final section about ymir presents the creation of the cosmos: they took ymir and transported him into the middle of ginnunga gap and made the earth from him: from his blood the sea and lakes; the earth was made from the flesh, and mountains from the bones, rocks and gravel from the teeth and

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

reflector, the reflective and reflected. they are interdependent, dependent, and independent. becoming spatial in space, alternating in time, combining and separating endlessly; seemingly casual as the way of the life-force. we cannot fathom more than the believable. that is our level of ability. but it does not preclude our feeling more. euphony is formulated sound. wisdom cannot articulate in a flood of words but may express itself in some resounding word-graph to cipher a mystic meaning. see that your in-breathings are of purity so that your out-breathings are not foul. i have indrawn all foulness, but my exhalations are not that bad. as human beings, all we absorb. psychically or bodily. forms its own excretion. the rationale of our beliefs and acceptances usually spring from pretentio

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

hilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the wise, from the shadows of the dead. the shadow world of the magickian is shrouded in arcane wisdom and infernal teachings, all the while embracing the light of the morning star and the sun rising within. the actual practice of magick d

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

hilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the wise, from the shadows of the dead. this lore exists within our minds and holds strength within our minds eye. the initiate into the shadows of the sabbatic path understands the darkness and light within he/she, how to master it and us

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

erve the words creationism or classical creationism to designate an older type of thinking, predating the idea of irreducible complexity. the term intelligent design, or id, is used when specific reference is made to individuals who started and propagated this latest version of creationism. id is creationism with a twist. indeed, gone from the present version of id are the concepts of a universal flood, a six-day creation, and formation of the universe in 4004 b.c.e.why is this? its proponents claim that id is a scientific view of nature, not just the reworking of a religious story first told a long time ago. in that light, id supporters know very well that not a shred of geological or meteorological evidence supports the idea that the entire surface of our 4 evolution and religious creati

l evidence supports the idea that the entire surface of our 4 evolution and religious creation myths planet could have been under water as recently as a few thousand years ago. even though we have not seen or heard this ourselves, we suspect that id supporters may also know that genesis in all likelihood evolved derived from the older sumerian epic of gilgamesh, which already incorporated a great flood and the survival of just two human beings who later repopulated earth. likewise, no serious scientist today believes that the whole universe was created in exactly six days and that this creation took place 6,000 years in the past. further, no archaeologist accepts the biblical account that animal husbandry was invented by (or provided to) humans before they first experienced a very long per

genesis account is quite clear about this; god said to eve, your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you (genesis 3:16. some nuer myths blame women for earthly ills; for example, it was women who in mythological times brought mosquitoes to earth. among the navajo, an origin myth describes how navajo deities (holy people) lived in worlds below this one. then one day, escaping a flood, they reached the surface of earth and became the earth surface people, the first navajo. in one story, before this emergence to earth s surface, first man learns of the adultery of his wife and hits her. his wife complains to her mother (woman chief, who scolds first man, telling him that she, not he, is ruler of all things. in retaliation for this insult, first man calls all the other men

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ter christ and the early history of both cults was closely interwoven. the encyclop dia britannica makes the following statement concerning the mithraic and christian mysteries "the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed on abstinence and selfcontrol; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emanatin

s-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or the sacred book of the guatemaleans, which also tells of his escaping in a large boat, like the hindu noah--vaiswasvata (see isis unveiled) from the atlanteans the world has received not only the heritage

markings, whatever proof they might be that the building was erected during the fourth dynasty is certainly offset by the sea shells at the base of the pyramid which mr. gab advances as evidence that it was erected before the deluge--a theory substantiated by the much-abused arabian traditions. one arabian historian declared that the pyramid was built by the egyptian sages as a refuge against the flood, while another proclaimed it to have been the treasure house of the powerful antediluvian king sheddad ben ad. a panel of hieroglyphs over the entrance, which the casual observer might consider to afford a solution of the mystery, unfortunately dates back no further than a.d. 1843, having been cut at that time by dr. lepsius as a tribute to the king of prussia. caliph al mamoun, an illustrio

of the ancients. alexander wilder derives the name delphi from delphos, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared the honor of being the patron god of delphi. after being vanquished by apollo, t

epths. from the ancient oaks and beeches were hung many chains of tiny bronze bells which tinkled day and night as the wind swayed the branches. some assert that the celebrated talking dove of dodona was in reality a woman, because in thessaly both prophetesses and doves were called peleiadas. it is supposed that the first temple of dodona was erected by deucalion and those who survived the great flood with him. for this reason the oracle at dodona was considered the oldest in greece. p. 64 drawn into the cave, which was described by those who had entered it as having only the dimensions of a fair-sized oven. when the oracle had completed its revelation, the consultant, usually delirious, was forcibly ejected from the cave, feet foremost. near the cave of the oracle two fountains bubbled o

al creator--the source of that power by which physical organisms are produced. the ideals and aspirations of the individual depend largely upon which of these three centers of power predominates in scope and activity of expression. in the materialist the lower center is the strongest, in the intellectualist the higher center; but in the initiate the middle center--by bathing the two extremes in a flood of spiritual effulgence--controls wholesomely both the mind and the body. as light bears witness of life-which is its source-so the mind bears witness of the spirit, and activity in a still lower plane bears witness of intelligence. thus the mind bears witness of the heart, while the generative system, in turn, bears witness of the mind. accordingly, the spiritual nature is most commonly sym

mblems of the supreme deity, of the latter because while under water the crocodile is capable of seeing--plutarch asserts- though its eyes are covered by a thin membrane. the egyptians declared that no matter how far away the crocodile laid its eggs, the nile would reach up to them in its next inundation, this reptile being endowed with a mysterious sense capable of making known the extent of the flood months before it took place. there were two kinds of crocodiles. the larger and more ferocious was hated by the egyptians, for they likened it to the nature of typhon, their destroying demon. typhon waited to devour all who failed to pass the judgment of the dead, which rite took place in the hall of justice between the earth and the elysian fields. anthony todd thomson thus describes the go

were said to speak. many myths have been fabricated to explain the brilliant plumage of birds. a familiar example is the story of juno's peacock, in whose tail feathers were placed the eyes of argus. numerous american indian legends also deal with birds and the origin of the various colors of feathers. the navahos declare that when all living things climbed to the stalk of a bamboo to escape the flood, the wild turkey was on the lowest branch and his tail feathers trailed in the water; hence the color was all washed out. gravitation, which is a law in the material world, is the impulse toward the center of materiality; levitation, which is a law in the spiritual world, is the impulse toward the center of spirituality. seeming to be capable of neutralizing the effect of gravity, the bird w

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mselves of these material forms and re-ascend into the heavenly spaces again "book of noah" from charles canon, book of enoch, london, society for promoting christian knowledge, 1962. reprinted from oxford university press edition, 1912- it is from these exiled beings that all true magical knowledge and power is said to be derived. laban, reputedly one of the greatest adepts in magical art of pre-flood times, visited the mountaintop wherein they dwelt, to learn his wisdom. this idea has lingered on and finally became a fundamental part of legends of magical initiation all over the world, from chaldea to tibet. the offspring of the sons of heaven, however, proved to be a mixed blessing for the world. like their progenitors, they were gigantic in stature "great giants whose height was three

ink the blood. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones] book of enoch, ibid- legend has it that the watchers, in despair at the evil that had been unleashed upon the world by their hand, took counsel among themselves and wielded their power to cast down the lands wherein the nephelim dwelt, overwhelming the entire population in one day and night by volcanic upheaval and subsequent flood, of such a planetary magnitude that to this day, throughout many parts of the world, there yet remains evidence of this appalling cataclysm in the form of layers of silt and debris beneath a certain level of geological strata, as well ,as the recurring legends of the flood and atlantis current throughout the western hemisphere. the early christian writer of the tale of beowulf recounts how

ogical strata, as well ,as the recurring legends of the flood and atlantis current throughout the western hemisphere. the early christian writer of the tale of beowulf recounts how, written in runes upon the hilt of an enchanted sword said to have been made by the nephelim themselves, king hrothgar of the danes reads. the story of ancient wars between good and evil, the opening of the waters, the flood sweeping the giants away, how they suffered, and died, that race who hated the ruler of us all, and received judgement from his hands, surging waves that found them wherever they fled] beowulf, translated by burton raffel (mentor books u.s.a. 1963- we again find traces of this lore in the norse legend of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with

surging waves that found them wherever they fled] beowulf, translated by burton raffel (mentor books u.s.a. 1963- we again find traces of this lore in the norse legend of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with the rebellious titans. it is a persistent theme. the zohar intimates, however, that though most of the giants yielded up their lives in the flood, many of their spirits partaking as they did of the angelic nature of their fathers, proved indestructible, and lived on, invisible yet powerful even in their disembodied state. on occasion, these shades are said to gain access to the world of men by reincarnating in human shape, and are referred to as intruders, ancient alien souls transmigrating from the past. otherwise, collectively in th

europe abbot trithemius and his pupils paracelsus, cornelius agrippa, and wierus turned their attentions circumspectly to the black arts. in england, dr. john dee, preoccupied with the lost lands of logres and the star temple at glastonbury, began his scrying experiments using a "great chrystalline globe" or seeing stone. it was during the course of these experiments that certain parts of the pre-flood language are said to have been rediscovered, a so-called enochian tongue, the original language of the nephelim. by the seventeenth century, the persecution of witches, by protestants now as well as catholics, seems to have fairly well decimated most of the centres of witch lore, save those preserved under heavy disguise of cabalistic or alchemical learning. even these by now had also become

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

ords of medieval magic; and, save to very few, its derivation from the present pentacle has been unknown. it will be seen at a glance that it is a square of five, giving twenty-five letters, which, added to the unity, gives twenty-six, the numerical value of ihvh. the hebrew versicle surrounding it is taken from psalm lxxii 8 "his dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world s end. this passage consists also of exactly twenty-five letters, and its total numerical value (considering final letters with increased numbers, added to that of the name elohim, is exactly equal to the total numerical value of the twenty-five letters in the square. figures 11 and 12. the holy pentacles page 61 figure 13. the third pentacle of saturn. this should be made wit

MEANING OF MASONRY

be fettered by mundane interests or subject to disturbance by carnal passions. if it is to" contemplate its own intellectual faculties and trace them from their development" until they are found to" lead to the throne of god himself" and to be rooted in deity, it must discard all its former thought-habits, prejudices and preconceptions, and be prepared to receive humbly the illumination that will flood into it from the light of divine wisdom. for the determined student of the mental discipline implied by the second degree there may be recommended two most instructive sources of information and examples of personal experience. one is the dialogues of plato and the writings of plotinus and other neo-platonists. the other is the records of the classical christian contemplatives, such as eckha

n any detail the course of its history is not now necessary and would require a long treatise. and to do so would also be like following the course of a river backwards from its broad mouth to a point where it becomes an insignificant and scarcely traceable channel. for the race itself has wandered backwards, farther and farther from the original wisdom-teaching, so that the once broad and bright flood of light upon cosmic principles and the evolution of the human soul has now become contracted into minute points. but that light, like that of a master mason, has never been wholly extinguished, however dark the age, and, by the tradition, this of ours is spiritually the darkest of the dark ages" god has never left himself without a witness among the children of men" and among the witnesses

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

i shall know the secrets not so hidden! 51 51 by the full moon and the sun which both illuminate the inner space of my self, i grant this area protection and safety from that which would devour me! widdershins should be performed at this moment. asmodeus, spirit of knowledge and wisdom, i do invoke thee into visible appearance! recognize your brother/sister of witchblood, i return from the great flood which caused my sleep of ages! i announce in your presence my dedication to the path of witchblood! to kiss the hind quarters of the beast, which is to dive the great mirror of darkness. let the purity of this fall bless my awakening. no longer shall my sight be limited in the tunnels of the dead. sight gives wisdom which breeds power. i shall know of this by action and experience! osculum i

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

of ashes began to fall. it fell for several weeks.the ute indians relate: the sun was shivered into a thousand fragments, which fell to earth causing a general con-flagration. then ta-wats, fled before the destruction he had wrought, and as he fled, theburning earth consumed his feet, legs, body, hands and armsuntil at last, swollen withheat, the eyes of the god burst and tears gushed forth in a flood which spread over the earthand extinguished the fire. the navajos, coyoteros, and pueblos indians have similar reports, in this vein: their only food was meatfor all kinds of game were closed up with themthen the menand animals began to come up from their caves and their coming up required several days.the earth was at this time very small and the light as scanty as it had been down below, f

d been down below, forthere was as yet no heaven, nor sun, nor moon, nor stars. from teutonic legends:earth sinks in the sea, the sun turns black, cast down from heaven are the hot stars,fumes reek, into flames burst, the sky itself is scorched with fireearths first deluge8atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation from maverick catastrophist and researcher comyns beaumont, we read: the flood, to the world generally a vague and nebulous tradition, really conceals the mostappalling visitation and its ravages in the british isles and scandinavian lands may beretraced to more considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the drift age.it was no mere ice drift. it was sudden and terribly swift and violent. it permanently affected the world s climate towards greater extre

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

the earth beneath, or that is under the water of the earth (exodus 20:4)in edward bulwer-lyttons book, the coming race, he describes the existence ofadvanced beings living in tunnels and caverns beneath the surface of the earth. herefers to these beings as the ana, saying they were forced below because of earthearths first deluge12atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation changes and a flood which destroyed their civilization thousands of years before thebiblical cataclysm. in david ickes children of the matrix, we read: thirty-six underground cities have been discovered in cappadocia so far and some are hugecomplexes going down eight levels. the ventilation systems are so efficient that even eightfloors down the air is still fresh. thirty vast underground cities and tunnel comp

enius, ignatius donnelly wrote of the tribulations: it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world.and from comyns beaumonts the riddle of prehistoric britain: the prehistory of the atlanteans and the race of adam possessed peculiar similarities. thesupermen of plato s island were drowned in a flood like the adamites, the giants of old time,men of renown, the men whose thoughts became wholly evil, destroyed in what is called theflood or universal deluge. the cause advanced for their destruction was in effect the samein both cases, they being accused of having mastered too many of the divine secrets of, as weshould say, science, as the ancients named it, the gods.the world falls dead38at

nd slayone another for what is left to feed on. brother slays brother, mighty battles occur in theworld. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation39 the world falls dead their adversarial presence was termed the midgard serpent: the midgard serpent blows so much poison that the whole sky and sea are splattered with it. strange flying craft bringing destruction are described: the mighty flood frees the ship known as naglfar, a vessel that the giants were so long inbuildingloki steers the ship of hel with the fenris wolf aboard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown wo

refore to one inevitable conclusionthe mammoth and its companions perishedby some wide-spread catastrophe which operated over a wide area and not through the slowprocess of the ordinary struggle for existencenot the result of gradual accumulationbutthe result of one of nature s hetacombs on a grand and wide-spread scale, when a vast faunaperished simultaneously (henry howarth, the mammoth and the flood, 1887) from the masterpiece, when the earth nearly died, by scientists alain and delair: in europe immense herds of diverse animals utterly vanished off the face of the earth for noobvious biological reason. records of blood and stone50atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation..coincident with this dreadful slaughter upon the land was the deposition of myriads ofcontemporary marin

e daythey perished. as a result, their remains are amazingly fresh-looking and are frequentlyindistinguishable from those of animals and plants that have died mere weeks ago. the magnitude of the biological extinctions achieved by the deluge almost transcends theimagination. it annihilated literally billions of biological units of both sexes and every ageindiscriminately. only incredibly powerful flood waters operating world-wide could haveachieved such results, and only a flood produced by the means previously suggested couldhave operated globally..it is astonishing that such an unscientific explanation ever came to be formulated, yet in ashort time both it and the concept of immense thick ice-sheets descending from a hypotheti-cal northern mountain system, to cover all of northern and ea

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

cient buddhism/bon po, including workings and descriptions of kali and her various mythological guises. adamu features numerous discipline-building excercises which will set the focus for serious initiatory practionthe soul travelers: by michael wynn@ hollywoodinsiders.net chapter 1- the great name game--pg 3 the collective hallucination [1.1--pg 3 the story of the serpent [1.2--pg 5 story of the flood [1.3--pg 6 paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4--pg 9 the great name game [1.5--pg 12 hidden history [1.6--pg 16 the stargates [1.7--pg 18 chapter 2- universe.com--pg 19 quantum confusion [2.1--pg 19 the onion of reality [2.2--pg 22 dreamscape [2.3--pg 25 on the inside looking out [2.4--pg 30 meet the neighbors [2.5--pg 32 the jinn [2.6--pg 35 meet the neighbors (revisited

as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as men of renown. this early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans became increasingly wicked. after our wickedness reached a boiling point, god could no longer restrain his angry hand, so he--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 4 alerts a righteous man named noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the earth s coming inundation. what s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. before the waters subsided, n

ected to, or described as, dragons and serpents. in islam, the serpent is associated with satan, and demons. in voodoo the gods are again associated with serpents. reptile gods are seen as far east as the pacific islands. no matter what place or age we examine, serpents provide a central theme in that region s mythological tales. serpents are also repeatedly associated with villains. story of the flood [1.3] even more frequent than the themes of serpentine gods is the theme of a global flood. the number of stories regarding a worldwide flood is incredible, and the similarities between the various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood

ldwide flood is incredible, and the similarities between the various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood with poured forth from the bleeding god ymir consumed the whole of humanity, save a man named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land n

the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so therefore plotted to destroy everything on earth in a great flood. but wily prometheus warned a man named deucalion, who builds a chest and survives the flood. in persian mythology, the benevolent god ahura mazda tells a man named yima

mands yima to build an underground enclosure to protect 2 of every creature and a small group of choice people. in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 6 serbian legends, a rooster who acts as the messenger of god becomes increasingly ignored by a decadent humanity. man s greed unleashed a torrent of water from a egg that can be paralleled to a pandora s box. only one man, kranyatz, survived this flood by hanging on to a grape vine. the people of southeast asia say that a flood consumed all of humanity, save a small number of men and women aboard a raft. the mandan s, a native american tribe, tell the story of lone man who, together with the creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. lone man, who was very much a savior figure, entered the world of man because he saw that humanity was plag

rotest of the 12 men already on board. yet the boat did set sail and during the voyage was attacked by demons. lone man made short work of these attacks, and when the boat was endangered by a whirlpool, lone man rose to his feet and reminded the whirlpool that it was he, lone man, that created the waters; the whirlpool promptly dissipated. one day lone man arrived to an island, proclaiming that a flood was soon to destroy the earth, and that a fortress must be built at the center of the village. he promised to return one day, and after leaving the village the flood waters did come, which protected those who believed him. it s important to note that this tale of a chosen one who travels with 12 guys predates the arrival of europeans to north america. in the african myth from the mande peopl

th in human form aboard an ark. the ark, which landed on mount kouroula, was of coarse loaded with a small group of humans and 2 of every animal. the incas of peru tell the story of a creator god named virococha, who created the world that was populated by giants he carved from stone. these giants were terribly disobedient and disorderly, and viracocha destroyed this race of giants with a massive flood. the hindu tradition of india, like countless others, often describes gods as taking human form and incarnating on earth. the many incarnations of vishnu upon the earth are certainly modeled after, and considered to be, a savior figure. the first incarnation of the benevolent god vishnu arrived to earth in the form of a fish, and warned a man named manu of a coming flood. the fish informed m

MORALS AND DOGMA

s of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty-five-"walked with god, and he was no more, for god had taken him" his name signified in the hebrew, initiate or initiator. the legend of the columns, of granite and brass or bronze, erected by him, is probably symbolical. that of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which masonry is the legitimate successor--from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems, and allegories. the legend of this degree is thus, partially, interpreted

nd _seventy-two_ that of his disciples: that john addressed his rebukes and menaces to the _seven_ churches, the number of the archangels and the planets. at babylon were the seven stages of bersippa, a pyramid of seven stories, and at ecbatana seven concentric inclosures, each of a different color. thebes also had seven gates, and the same number is repeated again and again in the account of the flood. the sephiroth, or emanations _ten_ in number, three in one class, and seven in the other, repeat the mystic numbers of pythagoras. seven amschaspands or planetary spirits were invoked with ormuzd: seven inferior rishis of hindustan were saved with the head of their family in an ark: and seven ancient personages alone returned with the british just man, hu, from the dale of the grievous wate

stands. the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnosticism

ey should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. he reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for sacrifices to the sun, at each of the zodiacal signs" manetho extracted his history from certain pillars which he discovered in egypt, whereon inscriptions had been made by thoth, or the first mercury [or hermes, in the sacred letters and dialect: but which were after the flood translated from that dialect into the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be certain winding apartments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient rites

ves be symbolized under the form of dragons; and overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus, in the old greek theology, warred against kronos, and was overcome and cast into his proper element, the sea. there he is installed as the sea-god oannes or dragon, the leviathan of the watery, half of creation, the dragon who vomited a flood of water after the persecuted woman of the apocalypse, the monster who threatened to devour hesione and andromeda, and who for a time became the grave of hercules and jonah; and he corresponds with the obscure name of _rahab, whom jehovah is said in job to have transfixed and overcome. in the spring, the year or sun-god appears as mithras or europa mounted on the bull; but in the opposite ha

not again curse the earth any more for man's sake, neither will i smite any more everything living as i have done. while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. i will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, and with every living creature. all mankind shall no more be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. this is the token of my covenant: i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth: an everlasting covenant between me and every living creature on the earth _qu_ what is the second of the three covenants _ans_ that which god made with abraham; when he said "i am the absolute uncreated

hanges ever, but no single atom is annihilated, it is not rational to suppose that the far nobler soul does not continue to exist beyond the grave: that many thousands who have died before us might claim to be joint owners with ourselves of the particles that compose our mortal bodies; for matter ever forms, new combinations; and the bodies of the ancient dead, the patriarchs before and since the flood, the kings and common people of all ages, resolved into their constituent elements, are carried upon the wind over all continents, and continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls, creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives and all his race. and thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wine we drink to-night _may_ enter into and form part

very predominant. the northern firmament, visible to their eyes, possesses by far the largest and most brilliant constellations; and they were more alive to the impressions made by such objects, than are the men of the present day. with the chinese, a patriarchal, simple, and secluded people, idolatry long made but little progress. they invented writing within three or four generations after the flood; and they long preserved the memory of much of the primitive revelation; less overlaid with fiction than those fragments which other nations have remembered. they were among those who stood nearest to the source of sacred tradition; and many passages in their old writings contain remarkable vestiges of eternal truth, and of the word of primitive revelation, the heritage of old thought, which

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

e forests whose overarching boughs protected him from the inclemency of the weather. in the course of time these primitive human beings became tamed and civilized by the gods and heroes, who taught them to work in metals, to build houses, and other useful arts of civilization. but the human race became in the course of time so degenerate that the gods resolved to destroy all mankind by means of a flood; page 22 deucalion [22](son of prometheus) and his wife pyrrha, being, on account of their piety, the only mortals saved. by the command of his father, deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife took refuge during the deluge, which lasted for nine days. when the waters abated the ship rested on mount othrys in thessaly, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife no

hat apollo and poseidon were condemned by zeus to a temporary servitude on earth, they built for king laomedon the famous walls of troy, afterwards so renowned in history; but when their work was completed the king treacherously refused to give them the reward due to them. the incensed deities now combined to punish the offender. apollo sent a pestilence which decimated the people, and poseidon a flood, which bore with it a marine monster, who swallowed in his huge jaws all that came within his reach. in his distress laomedon consulted an oracle, and was informed that only by the sacrifice of his own daughter hesione could the anger of the gods be appeased. yielding at length to the urgent appeals of his people he consented to make the sacrifice, and on the arrival of heracles the maiden w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

eneral outline. they open with an invocation to the trinity and more or less continue as follows "good breathren and fellows, our purpose is to tell you how and in what manner this worthy craft of masonry was first begun" a memorandum declaring that geometry is the oldest of the sciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is s

ffordshire published in 1686, dr. plott included a history of the freemasons. the legendary story he recounts is clearly based on a version of the ancient charters that closely corresponds to william watson's document, which is written in the style of english that was commonly used at the end of the fifteenth century+ according to the cooke manuscript, pythagoras found the second pillar after the flood. the corporative masonry of great britain 193 them that the masons owed the king their loyalty, that they should render assistance to each other and call one another "brother" that they should deserve their wages, and that they should designate the most skilled among them as director of the work and call him "master" finally, euclid ordered his masons to hold an annual assembly. the legend n

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

this serpent aido-hwedo, and he carried the creator in his mouth when the world was made. aido-hwedo is said to have accompanied the first man and woman to earth. introduction 7 our notion of time, the limited time of creation, is merely a trick of ahura mazda s to limit the power of ahriman. at the end of time, all will be purified, and as in norse mythology a fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gil

agnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists could still collect in serbia a cycle

warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists could still collect in serbia a cycle of slavonic myths about the great flood from which the sole survivor kranyatz was preserved by the trickster god of wine, kurent. the creator one thing that all mythologies agree on is that the world was created by the deliberate act of a divine being, and that men and women were created especially to live in it. in the mandan creation myth, first creator and lone man send a mudhen down to fetch sand from the bottom of the primeva

ood from which the sole survivor kranyatz was preserved by the trickster god of wine, kurent. the creator one thing that all mythologies agree on is that the world was created by the deliberate act of a divine being, and that men and women were created especially to live in it. in the mandan creation myth, first creator and lone man send a mudhen down to fetch sand from the bottom of the primeval flood, in order to make the land. the ainu of japan tell how the creator kamui sent a water wagtail down from heaven to accomplish the same task (see p. 120. according to the yoruba people in west africa, the world was made when obatala, the son of the great sky god olorun, threw earth from a snail shell, and got a pigeon and a hen to scatter it. the supreme gods of africa tend, like olorun, to wi

of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never aga

e they would live forever, but he lingered, and was passed by intulo the lizard, with the message that all people must die. there are also stories of heroes who tried to conquer death maui, gilgamesh, the mayan hero twins (see pp. 100 1. in his search for the secret of everlasting life, the sumerian hero gilgamesh crosses the ocean of death in search of utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? it is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. from the days of old there is no permanence. utnapishtim s lesson is repeated in

n (re) courses between them. on the left stands shu (air, next to ha, god of the western desert. on the right, the goddess nephthys waters the earth. creator of the universe re, creator of the universe, the gods, and the first people, wears the sun on his brow. he will rule the world until the end of time, when all creation shall pass away, and once more the world shall be covered by the infinite flood of nun. sun disc uraeus re s boat feather of justice the benu bird a t the beginning of time, the waters of nun lay in darkness, until re thought himself into being. at the first dawn, the benu bird flew across the waters, its great wings flapping soundlessly, its long legs trailing. the benu bird reached a rocky pyramid, just breaking through the surface of the water. it opened its beak, an

myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful re. re was born in an egg, and when he emerged from the egg he was dazzled by the light, and cried: mankind was formed from his tears. nun, fertility of the nile the god nun, who represents the primeval waters or flood, holds up the barque of the sun. to some extent the mythology of ancient egypt simply reflects the land of egypt itself. egypt was described by the greek historian herodotus as the gift of the nile, and without the annual flooding of the nile, which made a strip either side of the river fertile, egypt could not have survived. the importance of the sun god s journey from east to west, and the

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

one, is brought about through the middle line which is made up of da at, tiferet and yesod, etc. the first example of this is da at, which acts as a mediator and tips the mind from intellectual kindness to intellectual sternness, or visa versa. it is specifically the faculty of da at which dictates how these intellectual leanings will be. this is evidenced by the verse in which g-d said after the flood "i will not continue to curse the earth because of mankind, because the inclination of man s heart is evil from his youth, i will, therefore, not continue to punish any living thing, as i had done" here, man s inclination to evil is given as the logic and reason for judging them favorably, whereas prior to the flood, the identical reason was given for judging them as guilty, as is written "a

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

world of 9 chagigah 12a; bereishit rabbah 1:15. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 26 asiyah, which was the end and conclusion of everything, there the gearth h preceded. thus, one sage made one statement, and another made another statement, and they did not actually differ .translated from likutei torah 27 parashat noach the portion of the torah read this week describes the famous story of the flood. we must understand: 1. why did g-d had to save noah by means of an ark? 2. why [did he command noah him to bring] seven each of the ritually pure animals and of the ritually impure only two each? and 3. who exactly were the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? the end of the portion describes the events of the tower of babel, the aftermath of which was the dispersio

left him as seminal emissions. the sages compare intentional seminal emission to murder, since the individual is squandering his potential to bring life into the world. idolatry: for he caused the sparks of holiness to cling to the forces of evil. giving power to the forces of evil is serving them, which is idolatry. those souls who left him as seminal emissions returned as the generation of the flood, and made things even worse. 8 it is customary not to pronounce the names of angels that are not also names used for people (e.g, michael, gabriel, etc. 9 genesis 27:8. 10 zohar 1:27b. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 32 g-d sought to wipe out the generation of the flood gfor all flesh had corrupted its way on earth, h meaning that they engaged in all kinds of sexual aberrations. therefore t

ens rain on the earth, enabling it to grow fruit, z feir anpin (the male) fertilizes nukva (malchut, the female. the three ghandbreadths h are presumably the lowest three sub-sefirot of malchut, corresponding to asiyah of malchut; as was stated above, intercourse is not to supposed to take place only on the level of mere asiyah. these three handbreadths therefore had to be reconstituted after the flood. noah was [a manifestation of the sefirah of] yesod, and [his three sons] shem, ham, and japheth corresponded to chochmah, binah, and da fat respectively. they issued by way of yesod and were thus rectified because they originated in a high level; the light therefore had to be concealed. noah was said to be ga righteous man, perfect in his generation c. h11 the appellation grighteous h (tzad

even if they would try to adjure the angels in other languages, this would be totally ineffective. he therefore made them forget hebrew, and thus they no longer knew how to do anything [like this .translated from sefer halikutim and likutei torah 13 jeremiah 51:44. 39 parashat noach [third installment] gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits above, and the mountains were covered. h1 thus, during the flood, the highest mountaintop was submerged 15 cubits. let us understand why [the mountaintops were submerged] fifteen cubits, no more and no less. furthermore, once [the torah] says that[ gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits] above, h why must it say that gthe mountains were covered h? this is implied in the word gabove h! it is enough to say simply that the water prevailed fifteen cubits above t

ed] fifteen cubits, no more and no less. furthermore, once [the torah] says that[ gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits] above, h why must it say that gthe mountains were covered h? this is implied in the word gabove h! it is enough to say simply that the water prevailed fifteen cubits above the mountains. what is gained by saying that they were covered? the answer: the sin of the generation of the flood was wasteful emission of seed. it is known that this act causes above [the same thing, namely] that the drop [of divine beneficence] issues from the male [i.e, z feir anpin] without being posited in the female [i.e, nukva. rather, it is captured by the forces of evil. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gand g-d saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted it

aste. h thus, the phrase gfor all flesh had corrupted c h can also mean, gfor all flesh had wasted its way on the earth. h this immediately evokes the story of judah fs son onan, where we are told that gwhen he engaged in marital relations with his [dead] brother fs wife, he wasted it on the earth, in order not to give seed to his brother. h3 the verse describing the state of the earth before the flood thus indicates that wasting seed was rampant. gthe earth h refers to the supernal gearth, h [which was destroyed] and in what did its destruction consist? gthat all flesh had destroyed c h i.e, that the supernal yesod, which is termed gall, h had gdestroyed its way on the earth, h and not in nukva. gearth h is an appellation for nukva/malchut, which receives the seed of z feir anpin and deve

sefirot flows into it and through it to malchut. in the verse quoted, yesod is described as positing its seed on the earth, i.e, on the surface of the earth, rather than in the earth. 1 genesis 7:20. 2 ibid. 6:12. 3 ibid. 38:9. 4 1 chronicles 29:11. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 40 in this way [nukva] was gdestroyed, h for it could not elevate feminine water at all. therefore [g-d] brought the flood upon them. since the flow from yesod was directed toward the forces of selfishness and evil, rather toward 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

andments, while eto guard it f refers to the passive commandments. h6 here, the active commandments elicit the masculine water while the passive commandments are feminine water. the passive commandments are clearly associated with gevurah, the judgmentality that guards the garden from intrusion by forces antithetical to g-d consciousness. but in the present case [i.e, that of the world before the flood, there was no masculine water at all; rather, there were only severe states of judgment. unable to be gsweetened h by gmating h with masculine water (which was diverted into the forces of evil by the sin of wasting seed, the feminine gevurah states remained in their full force. this predominance of gevurah in the world precipitated the flood. it is known that the five states of judgment are

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

hiereus. hegemon raises the hoodwink for a moment. hiereus stands threatening with his sword. hiereus thou canst not pass by me, saith the guardian of the west, unless thou canst tell me my name. heg darkness is thy name, thou great one of the paths of the shades. hiereus thou hast known me now, so pass thou on. fear is failure so be thou without fear. for he who trembles at the flame and at the flood and at the shadows of the air, hath no part in god. kerux leads on. they pass hierophant who gives one knock. hiereus gives one knock as they pass. after this passing, kerux halts in the north, and raises his wand. neophyte ritual 125 hiero he8 hiero he8 hiereus unpurified and unconsecrated, thou canst not enter the path of the east! i purify thee with water. cross and sprinkling as before)

mild and beneficent. a gentle, peaceful, force 'the square of 'o'of 'omebb'in the sephirotic cross of the water lesser angle of the water tablet. triangle no. 1. water. triangle no. 2. spirit. triangle no. 3. water. r i a n g l e 4o .g eburah "here water is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of geburah. were it not for the spirit it would be the destroying <303> energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficent, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter 'the square of 'm'of 'azsmt 'a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the earth tablet. triangle no. 1. queen of wands. triangle no. 2. earth. triangle no. 3. eagle kerub. water. triangle no. 4. fire. the enochian system 655 "here earth acting downwards and fire upwards, the e

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

sacred hall, cease as they approach the west of the sacred chamber; theyhalt.cond. of n.:frater practicus, we are in the midst of physical darkness and mental gloom and even the soul iswandering in mazes preceded only by the light of truth, symbolised by the blazing torch. we are toapproach creation, the breaking away of night, to enter upon the first rays of lux. the chaoticelements of fire and flood are to give place to a serene, calm, passionless and pure existence of allthings terrestrial and celestial; the heavens and. the earth are to take form, system and harmony. therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles

RUBY TABLET OF SET

rifice of missing children. in 1999 it will probably focus on the impending "end of the world" today satanism and a wide variety of other terms are used interchangeably in reference to certain crimes. this discussion will analyze the nature of "satanic, occult, ritualistic" crime primarily as it pertains to the abuse of children and focus on appropriate law enforcement responses to it. recently a flood of law enforcement seminars and conferences have dealt with satanic and ritualistic crime. these training conferences have various titles, such as "occult in crime "satanic cults "ritualistic crime seminar "satanic influences in homicide "occult crimes, satanism and teen suicide, and "ritualistic abuse of children" the typical conference runs from one to three days, and many of them include

rs with precision, and let your will shine forth. thus shall you rule the universe of your creation [summoning of elements (four initiates, two male and two female, summon these elements] come forth, oh nun and naunet, lord and lady of the primeval waters. bring your gifts of potentiality and the not-yet-formed, and bring your gifts of fluidity. come forth, oh heh and hauhet, lord and lady of the flood force. bring your gifts of driving power and relentless advances. come forth, oh kuk and kauket, lord and lady of darkness. bring your gifts that conceal and contain all things, and bring your gifts that reveal and nurture the mysteries hidden there. come forth, oh amun and amaunet, lord and lady of hidden dynamism. bring your gifts of change, continued, repeated, and unending, and bring you

to transcend it only by accident. now i became aware of a sort of pressure somewhere around the crown of my skull which "felt" like a block or closed door. instinctively i knew what to do: i relaxed and directed the force of my will towards this area. mentally i "explained" to the pressure who i was and what i was doing, and then i became as one with it. i felt the pressure subsiding, releasing a flood of simultaneous emotions which nearly overwhelmed me. there was vibrant joy; then understanding, tears, and sadness most profound; then joy again; then a feeling that i was not alone, even inside my self. finally there were impressions relevant to my working question "children of the night" came to me again, followed by the vision of a coffin. therein i saw that the legends of vampires were

nts and transitioning to the focus upon the great pentagram (star) with the three goals (personal, pylon, temple) in mind, seems well suited. the major global pylon connection takes place here. the resolution leads inexorably to the 5-tone communication theme of close encounters. each of the five tones flash from each of the points of the pentagram, in a counter-clockwise circular affair (i still flood with tears from this connection, which is totally unlike any experience i have ever had in occult matters. rationale for the selection of elements for summoning the drawing of the four elements through the slightly more traditional satanic forms of satan, lucifer, belial, and leviathan is intended to cover the four directions of the compass without concern for physically facing a certain dir

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ous kain. he is the waning crescent, blacksmith and musician; he, too, has his devotees. hubal and kain look down on grandee and poet as they stroll. and the nabataean proto-dionysus, he-of-shara; the morning star, astarte, and saturnine nakruh. here is the sun god, manaf! look, there flaps the giant nasr, the god in eagleform! see quzah, who holds the rainbow. is this not a glut of gods, a stone flood, to feed the glutton hunger of the pilgrims, to quench their unholy thirst. the deities, to entice the travellers, come- like the pilgrims- from far and wide. the idols, too, are delegates to a kind of international fair. there is a god here called allah (means simply, the god. ask the jahilians and they'll acknowledge that this fellow has some sort of overall authority, but he isn't very po

jamas because a button had come off when he hurled himself on to his bed. with his right hand he was rubbing at an eye "bingo" said the hissing man, while the moaner clasped .his hands beneath his chin to indicate that all his prayers had been answered, and the roller of eyes shouldered past rosa diamond, without standing on ceremony, except that he did mutter "madam, pardon _me" then there was a flood, and rosa was jammed into a corner of her own sitting-room by that bobbing sea of police helmets, so that she could no longer make out saladin chamcha or hear what he was saying. she never heard him explain about the detonation of the _bostan- there's been a mistake, he cried, i'm not one of your fishing-boat sneakers-in, not one of your ugandokenyattas, me. the policemen began to grin, i se

he thirteenth-century german monk richalmus would shut his eyes and instantly see clouds of minuscule demons surrounding every man and woman on earth, dancing like dust-specks in the sunlight, so now gibreel with open eyes and by the light of the moon as well as the sun detected everywhere the presence of his adversary, his- to give the old word back its original meaning _shaitan. long before the flood, he remembered- now that he had reassumed the role of archangel, the full range of archangelic memory and wisdom was apparently being restored to him, little by little- a number of angels (the names semjaza and azazel came first to mind) had been flung out of heaven because they had been _lusting after the daughters of men, who in due course gave birth to an evil race of giants. he began to

y. the drought had broken too late to save the crops; afterwards many of the pilgrims believed that god had been saving up the water for just this purpose, letting it build up in the sky until it was as endless as the sea, sacrificing the year's harvest in order to save his prophetess and her people. the stunning force of the downpour unnerved both pilgrims and assailants. in the confusion of the flood a second doomtrumpet was heard. this was, in point of fact, the horn of mirza saeed's mercedes-benz station wagon, which he had driven at high speed through the suffocating side gullies of the suburb, bringing down racks of shirts hanging on rails, and pumpkin barrows, and trays of cheap plastic notions, until he reached the street of basket--workers that intersected the street of bicycle re

htar shouted abuse at her husband from the bottom of the pile "saboteur! traitor! scum from somewhere! mule- to which saeed sarcastically replied "martyrdom is too easy, mishal. don't you want to watch the ocean open, like a flower" and mrs. qureishi, sticking her head out through osman's inverted legs, added in a pink-faced gasp "okay, come on, mishu, quit. we meant well" o o o gibreel dreamed a flood: when the rains came, the miners of sarang had been waiting for the pilgrims with their pickaxes in their hands, but when the bicycle barricade was swept away they could not avoid the idea that god had taken ayesha's side. the town's drainage system surrendered instantly to the overwhelming assault of the water, and the miners were soon standing in a muddy flood that reached as high as their

s, chappals, sunglasses, baskets, excrement, medicine bottles, playing cards, dupattas, pancakes, lamps. the water had an odd, reddish tint that made the sodden populace imagine that the street was flowing with blood. there was no trace of bully-boy miners or of ayesha pilgrims. a dog swam across the intersection by the collapsed bicycle barricade, and all around there lay the damp silence of the flood, whose waters lapped at marooned buses, while children stared from the roofs of deliquescent gullies, too shocked to come out and play. then the butterflies returned. from nowhere, as if they had been hiding behind the sun; and to celebrate the end of the rain they had all taken the colour of sunlight. the arrival of this immense carpet of light in the sky utterly bewildered the people of sa

n there. our only chance is to drive down the opposite side of this hill and come out the other side of town" but ayesha and mishal had already started back; the prophetess was supporting the other, ashen woman, holding her around the waist "mishal, for god's sake" mirza saeed called after his wife "for the love of god. what will i do with the motor-car" but she went on down the hill, towards the flood, leaning heavily on ayesha the seer, without looking round. this was how mirza saeed akhtar came to abandon his beloved mercedes-benz station wagon near the entrance to the drowned mines of sarang, and join in the foot-pilgrimage to the arabian sea. the seven bedraggled travellers stood thigh--deep in water at the intersection of the street of bicycle repairers and the alley of the basket-we

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.and they began to sin against the birds, the beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another s flesh. it seems they were unable to divest themselves of their mortal forms and instead descended further and further into carnality. naturally, god stepped in to try and sort out the mess. the watchers and their foul offspring were either thrown into the abyss, or were destroyed in the great flood. however, there are many black magicians and witches who believe it is possible to contact and learn from these entities even in the modern day. their names appear with regularity in the grimoires, and they are considered to be the first of the blood. those who are moved to take up the heathen sorceries do so because we are carrying forward the genetic anomaly of the children of cain, whose

le to cure stupidity. pharmaros: who brought us pharmacy, herb lore, and diagnosis. satanail/salamiel: great prince amongst grigori. according to enoch he and his crew were already being punished by god even before the fall through lust, although for what crime enoch is not informed, although it is inferred that he had lead a small rebellion. talmai-el: a descendant of the grigori who escaped the flood and the avenging angels. tamiel: perfection of god. turel: rock of god. usiel: strength of god. chapter two; the fall of lucifer the sin of pride the concept of the devil was a fairly late development in the monothiestic legacy. the early hebrews attributed all events, whether good or bad, to the one god. he encapsulated both darkness and light, destruction and creation, corruption and purit

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ved of an and urac! mistress of heaven, with the great pectoral jewels, who loves the good headdress befitting the office of en priestess, who has seized all seven of its divine powers! my lady, you are the guardian of the great divine powers. like a dragon you have deposited venom on the foreign lands. when like ickur [god of storms] you roar at the earth, no vegetation can stand up to you. as a flood descending upon) those foreign lands, powerful one of heaven and earth, you are their inana. raining blazing fire down upon the land, endowed with divine powers by an, lady who rides upon a beast, whose words are spoken at the holy command of an! the great rites are yours: who can fathom them? destroyer of foreign lands, you confer strength on the storm. beloved of enlil, you have made aweso

times called the king of the gods. at the beginning of time, earth was separated from heaven, and heaven became anu s home. he can be sent to earth to avenge the gods. ea: the fun-loving god of fresh waters, wisdom, and magic. ea is also named enki. in a babylonian myth similar to that of the judeo-christian story of noah s ark, ea reveals to utnapishtim that enlil intends to destroy mankind in a flood. enlil: the god of air, wind, and storms. enlil is one of the most important mesopotamian gods. he guards the tablets of destiny, on which the fate of everything on earth is written. ishtar: the goddess of love and war. she is also known as inanna. ishtar journeyed to the underworld to retrieve her love, tammuz. she is often described as very violent and is depicted holding several weapons a

onsidered one of the founders of modern western thought. most of his writings use socrates s method of seeking truths through questions and answers of opposing beliefs. this question-and-answer style is known as the socratic method. in the passage below, plato s train of thought seeks to reason out how states and societies began. he begins with the question of whether humankind was destroyed in a flood and then tries to determine how survivors would have then ordered their lives to create a new society. laws was written in the fourth century bce. it is interesting to note that plato references a flood as being responsible for the destruction of humankind. this is similar to the biblical story of the flood, in which noah is warned that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house t

vivors would have then ordered their lives to create a new society. laws was written in the fourth century bce. it is interesting to note that plato references a flood as being responsible for the destruction of humankind. this is similar to the biblical story of the flood, in which noah is warned that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house two of each animal. all of them survive a flood of forty days and forty nights. another flood story is referenced in the ancient mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh. in this story the mesopotamian gods decide to destroy humankind, but utnapishtim is warned in advance and is able to build a great ship, on which he allowed humans and animals. the flood of the epic of gilgamesh is said to have lasted six days and seven nights. laws if a man wants

2001. boyer, p. religion explained: the human instincts that fashion gods, spirits, and ancestors. london: william heinemann, 2001. buswell, robert e, jr, ed. encyclopedia of buddhism. 2 vols. new york: macmillan reference, 2003. de lange, nicholas. an introduction to judaism. cambridge, u.k: cambridge university press, 2000. dundas, paul. the jains. 2nd ed. london and new york: routledge, 2002. flood, gavin d. an introduction to hinduism. cambridge, u.k: cambridge university press, 1996. glazier, stephen d. encyclopedia of african and african-american religions. new york: routledge, 2001. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca and witchcraft. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 2000. hartz, paula. zoroastrianism, 2nd ed. new york: facts on file, 2004. higginbotham, joyce. paganism: an

d like the nation to become officially a hindu state. this movement informally is called saffronization, referring to the color saffron, the symbolic color of hinduism. at its extreme, this movement has led to the persecution of minority christians, muslims, and other groups in india. for more information books cole, owen, and hemant kanitkar. teach yourself hinduism. new york: mcgraw-hill, 2003. flood, gavin d. an introduction to hinduism. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, 1996. knott, kim. hinduism: a very short introduction. new york: oxford university press, 2000. web sites das, subhamoy. hinduism. about.com. http//hinduism.about.com (accessed on june 14, 2006. hinduism. internet sacred text archive. http//www.sacred-texts.com/hin (accessed on june 14, 2006. hinduism: a genera

works is jewish in origin. the bible, which contains both the jewish tanakh and the christian new testament, has been translated into more than two thousand languages and dialects. a survey of bible sales up to 1992 revealed that an estimated six billion copies of the book have been sold, making it one of the bestselling books of all time. the stories of the tanakh, such as that of creation, the flood, and the exodus from egypt led by moses, are familiar to millions of people around the world, many of whom are not jewish. these stories have been reproduced in television and in movies, including moses (1975) starring burt lancaster (1913 1994, the ten commandments (1956) with charlton heston (1924) and yul brynner (1920 1985, and samson and delilah (1956, produced by cecile b. demille (188

2001. boyer, p. religion explained: the human instincts that fashion gods, spirits, and ancestors. london: william heinemann, 2001. buswell, robert e, jr, ed. encyclopedia of buddhism. 2 vols. new york: macmillan reference, 2003. de lange, nicholas. an introduction to judaism. cambridge, u.k: cambridge university press, 2000. dundas, paul. the jains. 2nd ed. london and new york: routledge, 2002. flood, gavin d. an introduction to hinduism. cambridge, u.k: cambridge university press, 1996. glazier, stephen d. encyclopedia of african and african-american religions. new york: routledge, 2001. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca and witchcraft. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 2000. hartz, paula. zoroastrianism, 2nd ed. new york: facts on file, 2004. higginbotham, joyce. paganism: an

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arbor 1950) 203. the amulets show the sun god iao-harpocrates. doresse did not cite this evidence either. 32 the name is the first part of a palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la crue du nil (paris 1964) 234f. 33 the preposition, hijn, is used in the coptic translation of the new testament texts describing jesus walking upon water (matt 14.25-26; mark 6.48-49; john 6.19. 34 see g. scholem, origins of the kabbalah, ed. r.j. zwi werblowsky and trans. a. arkush (new york 1987) 31-32. 35 in the two other places where the phrase "jesus who

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nd the abyss: the crossing over and initiation (in terms of awareness whilst still partaking of a causal existence) into the lands of the dark immortals. a self-awareness that transcends temporal understanding- becoming the essence; beyond opposites. iii from a mountain of skulls blue trees a rose garden cracks two women walk through; the corpse in a wedding dress no longer guides four waterfalls flood the earth and books become ash mistress of earth- davcina empathic manipulation (such as enchantment) to create change via causal structure- amoral acts that may conventionally be seen as evil. actions provoked by unfettered passions and a reveling in the physical pleasures and challenges of life. ruthless ambition. creativity and change via destruction- ie. war, culling. iv the elixir of re

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is seat; he whispered with his allies: the spirit he had drawn in was contagious; the men whom robespierre especially had denounced, and who saw the sword over their heads, woke from their torpid trance. vadier, cambon, billaud-varennes, panis, amar, rose at once, all at once demanded speech. vadier is first heard, the rest succeed. it burst forth, the mountain, with its fires and consuming lava; flood upon flood they rush, a legion of ciceros upon the startled catiline! robespierre falters, hesitates, would qualify, retract. they gather new courage from his new fears; they interrupt him; they drown his voice; they demand the reversal of the motion. amar moves again that the speech be referred to the committees, to the committees, to his enemies! confusion and noise and clamour! robespierr

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heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i have made the hours, i have created the days, i bring forward the festivals of the year, i create the nile-flood. i make the fire of life, and i provide food in the houses. i am khepera in the morning, i am ra at noon, and i am temu at even' meanwhile the poison was not taken away from his body, but it pierced deeper, and the great god could no longer walk. p. 141 "then said isis unto ra 'what thou hast said is not thy name. o tell it unto me, and the poison shall depart; for he shall live whose name s

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s well as a male witch. he has described the witch's "temple" as follows: in witchcraft, the "temple" is frequently not a building but rather a sacred "magic circle" laid down on the floor of a room with great ceremony. it is the sacred space of the wicca and serves the same function as a temple does to the mason.8 464 codex magica scorched by the sun 465 gods or men? is there a concerted plot to flood our consciousness with images that build world leaders into mount olympian man-gods, mythological giants on earth? internet sites www.freepressinternational.com and www.rense.com caught on to this recent trend and published a number of photographs that seem to confirm this bizarre plot. free press international, an alternative news website, wrote "these are just a few of the many photographs

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completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other tribes, or of falling victim to the sudden fury of a natural disaster, such as flood, fire, or avalanche. nearly all of these violent encounters brought about the death of a friend or family member, so one may surmise that chief among the mysteries that troubled early humans was the same one that haunts man today: what happens when someone dies? but belief in the unknown may be more than brain chemistry or a figment of our fears. perhaps there is some spiritual reality that

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completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other tribes, or of falling victim to the sudden fury of a natural disaster, such as flood, fire, or avalanche. nearly all of these violent encounters brought about the death of a friend or family member, so one may surmise that chief among the mysteries that troubled early humans was the same one that haunts man today: what happens when someone dies? but belief in the unknown may be more than brain chemistry or a figment of our fears. perhaps there is some spiritual reality that

a half a dozen native american graves have been found in the area. according to some local residents, the lights first began to be sighted on a regular basis sometime in 1916. at the time it was thought that the mystery lights might have been caused by the headlights on locomotives or cars running through a nearby valley. however, during the spring of that year, all bridges were knocked out by a flood and the roads became too muddy for cars to travel yet the brown mountain lights were seen in greater number than before. some who have witnessed the phenomena believe that the lights are intelligently controlled. they say that they have seen them butting into each other and bouncing like big basketballs. certain observers swear that they have tracked the lights at speeds of almost 100 miles

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completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind fs fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions.fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other tribes, or of falling victim to the sudden fury of a natural disaster, such as flood, fire, or avalanche. nearly all of these violent encounters brought about the death of a friend or family member, so one may surmise that chief among the mysteries that troubled early humans was the same one that haunts man today: what happens when someone dies? but belief in the unknown may be more than brain chemistry or a figment of our fears. perhaps there is some spiritual reality that

ent cultures spaced far away from each other, donnelly argued that their commonness resulted from contact with atlanteans. 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 places of mystery and power 219 theidea of atlantis was first expressed in the works of plato. similarities do indeed exist among various ancient cultures, as do significant differences. flood myths and sun worship, for example, might be based on a shared teaching, or they might be separate reactions to beneficient and destructive elements of nature. pyramids were built in egypt and the americas, but they are also significantly different in their structures. the walls of pyramids in the americas did not converge to form a true point, as they did in egypt; rather, the walls reached

invading other lands with the idea of world domination. angered by these developments, poseidon set about destroying the civilization, battering the continent with earthquakes and floods until atlantis was swallowed up by the ocean. that description of the destruction of atlantis has been linked by some to other cataclysmic events.stories of a great deluge in the bible, the epic of gilgamesh, and flood myths in other societies. some contend that the end of the ice age between 12,000 and 10,000 b.c.e. likely resulted in rises of water levels in various parts of the world and that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and climate changes, either incidental or associated with the ice age, occurred during the time identified with the destruction of atlantis. the location of atlantis has been claime

he sky. a similar fate was shared by tantalis in myths of anatolia (an old name for the region in asia minor that includes turkey. according to that myth, tantalis ruled over a fabulously wealthy city he founded on mt. 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 224 places of mystery and power sipylus in lydia. his city was shattered by earthquake and flood and was reputed to have sunk when he lost the favor of the olympian gods. during the 1990s ruins were found on the northern slope of mt. sipylus. the area had undergone several phases of change through the centuries. among the ruins was a statue of the goddess cybele that was dated around 1400 b.c.e, a time when the hittite rule over the area was overthrown by locals affiliated with the myce

ources: gseven wonders of the ancient world. h [online] http//ce.eng. usf.edu/pharos/wonders. gseven wonders of the world. h [online] http//library.advanced. org/23378. the seven wonders of the ancient world according to hebrew tradition, jerusalem was chosen to be the earthly headquarters for the lord fs work among humankind in very ancient times, for melchizedek, a priest, a survivor of the pre-flood world, the oldest living human at that time, was living there as king of salem even before father abraham set out on his quest for the promised land. obeying a commandment of the lord, melchizedek had come out of babylonia to south central canaan to build a city on the summit of the watershed between the jordan river and the mediterranean. salem was constructed on the southeast hill of a mou

mphs, and then the majestic temples, stately pyramids, and massive edifices were abandoned completely to the surrounding jungle. whether or not the unknown dire events were prophesied or became self-fulfilling prophecies by the belief of a superstitious people accepting their fate is not known. according to mayan prophecy, the end of the most current great cycle .2012. will end with a cataclysmic flood. m delving deeper deuel, leo. conquistadors without swords: archaeologists in the americas. new york: st. martin fs press, 1967. flights into yesterday: the story of aerial photography. new york: st. martin fs press, 1969. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. irwin, constance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. mecca me

ce, rather than information from hieroglyphics or other histories. e. a. wallis budge, r. a. schwaller de lubicz, and john anthony west all wrote extensively on the monuments at giza, and all date the sphinx before the pyramids. west promotes a theory that an advanced, pre-egyptian civilization was responsible for the sphinx. he believes that much of the weathering took place because of rains and flood. west points to the period around 9000 b.c.e, when the end of the ice age may well have affected weather patterns. a great flood, perhaps the one recounted in the biblical story of noah, affected the sphinx, and afterward all the structures at giza show erosion by wind and the slow but steady encroachment of desert. schoch, a science professor specializing in geology at boston university, wa

naco on the native culture as far north as the coastal deserts of peru and as far south as argentina. most other archaeologists take much more conservative views. as with the mayans, they argue, the ancient indians of tiahuanaco might have had too much of a good thing. there is evidence that they were victims of a natural catastrophe, but it was a prolonged drought, rather than posnansky fs great flood, that probably overwhelmed them. drought conditions set in for an extended period, and the aymara could no longer support a massive population and large-scale construction projects. people began abandoning the city around 1000. the incas conquered communities remaining in the area around 1450. then the spanish came to tiahuanaco about one hundred years after the incas had moved in. still the

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s not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32 nimrod and babel are the two primitive allegories of the despot, and of the universal empire which has always filled the dreams of men- a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the assyrians, the medes

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thers are as follows; mem: the hanged man lamed: justice kaph: the wheel of fortune vau: the hierophant tau: the universe malkuth, the kingdom, thus begins, quite appropriately, with the hanged man, the card symbolic of initiation and sacrifice. this may be seen as the original genesis, the "big bang" where from nothing came everything. the card also reminds us that awareness is "drowned" in that flood, and "the light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not" the next card of the sequence is that of "justice, or as crowley retitled it "adjustment. the placement of this card on the tree connects it between geburah (discernment) and tiphareth (awareness) on the path of lamed (discipline. following on from the initial mem stage, we may see this step as the organisation a

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one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is

ers in magick, that commands thee! kakkammu! kanpa! incantation against the ancient ones (to be recited each year, when the bear hangs from its tail in the heavens) destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne-bearers of ninnkigal they are the flood which rusheth through the land seven gods of the broad heavens seven gods of the broad earth seven ancient ones are they seven gods of might seven evil gods seven evil demons seven demons of oppression seven in heaven seven on earth utug xul ala xul gidim xul mulla xul dingir xul masqim xul zi anna kanpa! zi kia kanpa zi dingir enlil la lugal kurkur ra ge kanpa! zi dingir ninlil la nin kurku

ging destruction below they are children of the underworld loudly roaring on high gibbering loathsomely below they are the bitter venom of the gods. the great storms directed from heaven those are they the owl, messenger of uggi lord of death those they are they are the children born of earth that in the creation of anu were spawned. the highest walls the thickest walls the strongest walls like a flood they pass from house to house they ravage no door can shut them out no bolt can turn them back through the door like snakes they slide through the bolts like winds they blow pulling the wife from the embrace of the husband snatching the child from the loins of man banishing the man from his home, his land they are the burning pain that presseth itself on the back of man. they are ghouls the

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therefore named the impure bya. 162 of 273 the impure worlds are called: esh mitlakachat (fire catches fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud- opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind- opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam harishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and there is more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam harishon are fragments that have a will to receive in order receive, with just a spark of light. these parts, with sparks in them, clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join the group of kabbalah students. there is yet another shel

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at which endures, the holy heaven of will! i kindle a flame like a torrent to rush from star to star; your hair as a comet fs horrent, ye shall see things as they are! i lift the mask of matter; i open the heart of man; for i am of force to shatter the cast that hideth. pan! your loves shall lap up slaughter, and dabbled with roses of blood each desperate darling daughter shall swim in the fervid flood. i bring ye laughter and tears, the kisses that foam and bleed, the joys of a million years, the flowers that bear no seed. my life is bitter and sterile, its flame is a wandering star. ye shall pass in pleasure and peril across the mystical bar that is set for wrath and weeping against the children of earth; but ye in singing and sleeping shall pass in measure and mirth! i lift my wand and

and dramatic, vol. i, p. 99. before this statue he is brought; her bronze and chilly loins are girded with the sacred gold of lust, her lips are lecherous and large, inviting to kiss: but somehow blood was black upon them; blood in stains and clots and splashes; and the mud trampled around her by the souls that knelt, worshipping where her false lewd body dwelt, was dark and hateful; and a sleepy flood trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt.*1. i am a man, nor fear to drain the bowl.*2. now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned, but living in her life, had wisely crammed her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device as made her belly yearn for sacrifice. she leered like love on me, and smiled, and shammed, and did not pity for all her breast of spice.*3 *1. mysteries: lyrical and

our earthly parr; but as long as we sprawl, what matters it what we sprawl before, if it be the shin-bone of an ass, or the pineal gland of our wretched imagination? whatever man has touched he has spoilt: one day he was struck with the mystic poetry of the waves, and he promptly hocussed slimy monsters from out the deep; gazing on his lithe and winsome daughter, he held her head under the green flood to satiate the rapacity of the offspring of his deluded imagination, who (he judged) appreciated his dinner, as well as he did himself. having devised religion, he by degrees fell into such excesses of worship, that religion bid well to exterminate his whole wretched race; thereupon he disclosed science, which, when it has destroyed his former hobby, will in its turn run riot over all, till

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which thou shalt make it [of] the length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 6:16 a window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it. 6:17 and, behold, i, even i, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 6:18 but with thee will i establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. 6:19 and of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark

evens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. genesis page 4 7:4 for yet seven days, and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and

and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 in the selfsame day entered noah, and shem, and ham, and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s w

and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. 7:16 and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded him: and the lord shut him in. 7:17 and the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 7:18 and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 7:19 and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered. 7:20 fifteen cubits upward d

with him, saying, 9:9 and i, behold, i establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 9:10 and with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 9:11 and i will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 9:12 and page 5 genesis god said, this [is] the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 and it shall come to pass, when i bring a cloud

is] with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 and it shall come to pass, when i bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 9:15 and i will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 and the bow shall be in the cloud; and i will look upon it, that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:17 and god said unto noah, this [is] the token of the covenant, which i have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:18 and the sons of noah, that went forth

s. 9:24 and noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 9:25 and he said, cursed [be] canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 9:26 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:27 god shall enlarge japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:28 and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 9:29 and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 10:1 now these [are] the generations of the sons of noah, shem, ham, and japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, and t

b: all these [were] the sons of joktan. 10:30 and their dwelling was from mesha, as thou goest unto sephar a mount of the east. 10:31 these [are] the sons of shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 10:32 these [are] the families of the sons of noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 11:1 and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 11:2 and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of shinar; and they dwelt there. 11:3 and they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 11:4 and they said, go to, let us build us a city and

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

n earlier in this work. meditation is the most fruitful method of gaining enlightenment. this is a learned technique of stilling the mind so that the light can speak if it chooses to make itself heard. the din that echoes continuously in the skull of the average modern man or woman makes it utterly impossible for the light to express itself at a safe volume. it is always possible for the light to flood the mind of a human being to the exclusion of other sensory signals, but this can result in madness and only happens in circumstances of dire necessity. the islamic mystics of the middle ages wrote that the voice of god can clearly be heard at all times and in all places, and that it is only the willful stupidity of mankind that obscures it. when the light speaks to an individual on the pers

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

he sound of the swirling vortex becomes louder. when you return to the eastern quarter, continue walking in a third clockwise circle around the altar. speak the following words so that they resound in the astral temple "a flashing light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. hear the voice of fire" visualize the whirling vortex above the altar intensift. and brighten, drawing down a flood of light that fills the entire circle. this light shining from the beam above the candle is so concentrated, it makes the astral temple glow, and can even be seen on the air of the physical temple. hear the rushing of the light as it descends. it sounds similar to roaring fire caught in a powerful downdraft. when you complete the third circle, adopt the standing pose in the eastern quarter f

and resume the standing posture. after a few seconds of silent contemplation, walk clockwise in a third circle around the altar. speak the following words so that they resound in the astral temple. 226 moving exercises "a flashing light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. hear the voice of fire" visualize the whirling vortex above the altar intensifjr and brighten, drawing down a flood of light that fills the entire circle. this light shining from the beam above the candle is so concentrated, it makes the astral temple glow, and may even be seen on the air of the physical temple. hear the rushing of the light as it descends. it sounds similar to roaring fire caught in a powerful downdraft. when you reach the eastern quarter once again, stop and stand facing south. inhale a

n you complete your second rotation and once again face the eastern quarter, continue spinning slowly in a third clockwise rotation on your body axis. speak the following words so that they resound in the astral temple "a flashing light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. hear the voice of fire" visualize the whirling vortex around your body intensify and brighten, drawing down a flood of light that fills the entire circle. this light shining from the beam that links the star with your heart-center is now so concentrated, it makes the astral temple glow, and can even be seen on the air of the physical temple. hear the rushing of the light as it descends. it sounds similar to roaring fire caught in a powerful downdraft. when you complete the third rotation, stop the turning

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

tute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues of the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. initiates will notice also that these heathen philosophers have made one further march towards the truth when they say that the sun and moon must be united before the reabsorption (see almost any tantra, in particular shiva sanhita).lxxvi -154- for these reasons, many authors have speculated that crowley did in fact have some extensive knowledge of tan

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ss, and when he had taken steps to remove the ground of complaint, the nile rose to its accustomed height, the crops became abundant once more, and all misery caused by scarcity of provisions ceased. in other words, when tcheser restored the offerings of khnemu, and re-endowed his sanctuary and his priesthood, the god allowed hapi to pour forth his streams from the caverns in the cataract, and to flood the land with abundance. the general character of the legend, as we have it here, makes it quite certain that it belongs to a late period, and the forms of the hieroglyphics and the spellings of the words indicate that the text was "stunned" on the rock in the reign of one of the ptolemies, probably at a time when it was to the interest of some men to restore the worship of khnemu, god of th

egarded as the eternal mother of life and of all living things. she was the creatress of crops, she produced fruit, vegetables, plants of all kinds and trees, she made cattle prolific, she brought men and women together and gave them offspring, she was the authoress of all love, virtue, goodness and happiness. she made the light to shine, she was the spirit of the dog-star which heralded the nile-flood, she was the source of the power in the beneficent light of the moon; and finally she took the dead to her bosom and gave them peace, and introduced them to a life of immortality and happiness similar to that which she had bestowed upon osiris. the message of the cult of isis as preached by her priests was one of hope and happiness, and coming to the greeks and romans, as it did, at a time w

er v. v. whosoever shall recite the words of this composition over himself shall anoint himself with olive oil and with thick unguent, and he shall have propitiatory offerings on both his hands of incense, and behind his two ears shall be pure natron, and sweet-smelling salve shall be on his lips. he shall be arrayed in a new double tunic, and his body shall be purified with the water of the nile-flood, and he shall have upon his feet a pair of sandals made of white [leather, and a figure of the goddess maat shall be drawn upon his tongue with greencoloured ochre. whensoever thoth shall wish to recite this composition on behalf of ra, he must perform a sevenfold) purification for three days, and priests and [ordinary] men shall do likewise. whosoever shall recite the above words shall perf

beginning of the land. there is too a flight of steps,[fn#178] which reareth itself to a great height, and is the support of ra, when he maketh his calculation to prolong life to everyone 'netchemtchem ankh'[fn#179] is the name of its abode 'the two qerti'[fn#180] is the name of the water, and they are the two breasts from which every good thing cometh forth [fn#175] i.e, the inundation, or nile flood [fn#176] the elephant city, i.e, elephantine [fn#177] a portion of northern nubia [fn#178] this is probably an allusion to the famous nilometer on the island of philae [fn#179] i.e "sweet, sweet life [fn#180] the qerti were the two openings through which the nile entered this world from the great celestial ocean "here is the bed of hapi (the nile, wherein he reneweth his youth [in his season

he comparison with the twenty-eight days of the moon's revolution. the tree-trunk which is made into the shape of a crescent at the funeral of osiris refers to the crescent moon when she wanes. the fourteen pieces into which osiris was broken refer to the fourteen days in which the moon wanes [fn#342] in egyptian, or# which plutarch seems to connect with set [sec. xliii. the height of the nile in flood at elephantine is twentyeight cubits, at mendes and xois low nile is seven cubits, and at memphis middle nile is fourteen cubits; these figures are to be compared with the twenty-eight days of the moon's revolution, the seven-day phase of the moon, and the fourteen days' moon, or full moon. apis was begotten by a ray of light from the moon, and on the fourteenth day of the month phamenoth[fn

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the dying human "branches" back into the vine which alone could renew them spirit, soul, and body. in so doing the "logos, the "christ, bought-back the "title deed" to planet earth for all those who were willing to enforce this title by active faith over the enemy "without, by first conquering the enemy "within. since the humans were composed both of spirit and earth-dust, humans would become the flood-gates who could either choose to open the endless heavenly reservoirs of "living water" out into the earth [straight from the side of christ as they accessed the "timeless" grace of the final passover lamb] or to quench the spirit of life and allow the world to continue to die like a spiritual desert-planet void of life-giving waters. the renewed spirit of humankind would take dominion over

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

thrall, the moon s the sovereign remedy of all. let mistletoe with reverent awe be sought, since as a boon, from heav n itself tis bought; the sacred oak ascend, and then with skill, cut the with d branches with a golden bill. selections from: william augustus russel. history of england. london, j. cooke, 1777. p. 4. sayings of the hindus (the rig-veda: to the waters) forth from the middle of the flood the waters their chief the sea flow cleansing, never sleeping. indra, the bull, the thunderer, dug their channels: here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. waters which came from heaven, or those that wander dug from the earth, or flowing free by nature. bright, purifying, spreading to the ocean, here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. those amid whom goes varuna, the sovereign, h

escape death s coming. bees in prison, green-hued ocean. stalks dried out, hillside hard. frigid, bitter, the world today. bees in shelter from winter s wetness. pale honey, hogweed hollow. foul hold on a man, cowardice. long night, bare heath, brown hillside, grey shore, gulls in a clamour, rough seas. it will rain today. dry wind, wet road, brawling water-ways, cold corpses, lean stag, river in flood: it will clear. storm on the mountain, rivers embroiled, floors of houses flooded: to one s sight, the world is a sea. you re not a schoolman, you re not a greybeard, you ll not answer a crisis: ah, cyndilig, if you d been a woman! stag crouches curled in the coombe s nook. ice crumbles, countryside bare. the brave may survive many battles. bankside crumbles beneath the scrawny stag s hoof h

y shield-rim. only geronwy, from the dales of edrywy, is better than i. long and white are my fingers. since i was a shepherd, since i was learned, i have traveled the world; i have made my circuit, i have dwelled in a hundred islands, in a hundred caers. o wise and proficient druids do you prophesy of arthur or is it i you celebrate? i know what is to be you what has been; i know the saga of the flood, christ s crucifixion, the day of doom. golden, jeweled, 1 shall be richly bedecked luxury shall attend me because of virgil s (or the ffyrllt s) prophecy. leadership be not too wise, not too foolish, be not too conceited, nor too diffident, be not too haughty, nor too humble, be not too talkative, nor too silent be not too hard, nor too feeble. for: if you be too wise, one will expect too m

nal irish, and on the translations of macalister, hull& cross and slover 170, 130. the song of amergin i (as arranged by robert graves) year of 13 months dec 24-jan 21 jan 22-feb 18 feb 19-mar 18 mar 19-apr 15 apr 16-may 13 m2y 14-june 10 june 11-july 8 july 9-aug 5 aug 6-sept 2 sept 3-sept 30 oct 1-oct 28 oct 29-nov 25 nov 26-dec 22 dec 23? god is speaking i am a stag of seven tines. i am a wide flood on a plain i am a wind on the deep waters i am a shining tear of the sun. i am a hawk on a cliff. i am a fair amongs flowers i am a god who sets the head afire with smoke i am a battle waging spear i am a salmon in a pool i am a hill of poetry i am a ruthless boar i am a great noise from the sea. i am a wave of the sea who but i knows the secret of the unhewn dolmen? tree alphabet beith the

life on the planet as a whole. arne naess when one recognizes the unity of nature, he also perceives the singleness of mankind. gus turbeville the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. planetologist pardot kynes, dune to be solitary is alone worthy of god. kurdish eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. the river was cut by the world s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. on some of these rocks are the timeless raindrops. under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. i am haunted by waters. norman maclean. i m often asked the question: is it possible to do valid rituals alone? first of all in nature ritual, one is never alone. all the other beings of nature are present: either sun or moon, tree

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

d then the sabbath had begun. w. f. shaw says that 6 is the number of temptation and sin, for at the 6th hour of the 6th day the first temptation came into the world. six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days, the israelites had to collect manna; at the 6th hour of the 6th day jesus was sentenced to death, and in the revelations, the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all emblematic of woe. the flood came when noah was 600 years old. the number 666 was an emblem of the great wicked one, still without identification, but he is implied in a prototype, schechem ben hamor, whose name is 666 by gematria, shkm bn chmvr, he was the corrupter of dinah. see genesis xxxiv. verse 2. the jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and st. number

rtian. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 86. hence the ogdoad was also called cadmeia, because harmony was looked upon as the wife of cadmus and cadmus meant the sub-lunary world, as olympiodorus says. eight was called also mother, and rhea, cybele and dindymene, from being the first cube, and a cube representing the earth. the eight persons saved from the flood of xisuthrus are synonyms of many octaves of gods, such as the 8 cabiri great gods of samothrace; see bryant and faber on this myth. there are 8 beatitudes of the christian religion, matthew, chap. v. eight is the number of the moons of saturn. there have been several masonic orders concerned with this noachite ogdoad, as the prussian masons, knights of the royal axe, or prince of libanus, t

r numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 1 and 3 and 5 and 7 are 16; add 2 and 4 and 6 and 8, and obtain 36. 39. the number of articles of the protestant christian church belief. 40. up to 40 years of age eating is best for a man, after 40 drinking suits best. he who has passed 40 days without an affliction has had his reward in this life. 115. for 40 days, the flood lasted, for 40 days, the spies searched the promised land, for 40 days, goliath challenged israel, 40 days of ezekiel s penitence, the jews were 40 years in the wilderness, 40 days of waiting before embalming the dead, genesis 1. 3; for days, the woman s purification lasted after childbirth; for 40 days, moses fasted twice; for 40 days, elijah fasted, and for 40 days, jesus fasted in the wil

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

r and given as a matrimonial gift to her brother. it thus makes perfectly good sense to associate the division of waters and the study of torah. moreover, the latter is connected to acts of kindness. this connection is interpreted in the following way: he who wishes to study must go to the source of the water, the beit-bayit that is the beginning, the plentitude of wisdom/ torah, and from there a flood of mercy will issue forth.80 the overflow of wisdom is expressed as the generosity of spirit that bestows deeds of kindness in the world, gemilut hasadim. we encountered this force before in the description of the gimmel at the beginning of the path, which we abruptly laid aside. now, however, it is time to take hold of the matter, to grasp the symbolic intent of this letter. what is gimmel?

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inks) hiereus (stands threatening with the sword in the right hand, and the banner of the west in the other "thou cannot pass by me" said the guardian of the west "unless you can tell me my name" hegemon "darkness is thy name, thou great one of the path of shades (slowly sinking the point of the sword) 32 hiereus "fear is failure, so be without fear. for he/she that trembles at the flames and the floods and the shadows of the night, has no part of divine light. thou hast known me now, so pass thou on (hegemon pulls down the hoodwink (kerux leads on. they pass the hierophant who gives one knock, then the hiereus gives one knock as they pass by him. after this passing, the kerux halts in the north, and raises his wand) kerux (blocks the way in the north "child/children of earth, unpurified a

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

t the compass points. though each element is represented by a single candle, you can use a second to increase a particular element in its own quadrant of the circle or use the elemental colour in all four quadrants. so, for example, if you were carrying out a fire spell, you could use four red (or gold or orange) candles and begin the ritual facing south. some practitioners invoke fire to conquer floods and water to conquer drought but i believe that each element can most effectively counter excesses of itself. light elemental candles after the altar candles, after you have cast the circles but before lighting any wish or astrological candle. begin in the north, with a green candle. green green is for earth and the north, midnight and winter. a green candle is placed at what would be the 1

agon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of whales, dolphins, seals and endangered sea creatures. like earth, water represents the yin, female goddess in the form of the moon goddesses. surround your water candles with silver objects, sea shells and pieces of coral or, for the lun

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shining flame. the rose of the palace of fire. rules one quadrant of heavens round n. pole. the princess of the waters. the rose of the palace of the floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the qu

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

(those) of whom it is measured, and it is as they are, whose number is 31. come away! for i have prepared (a place) for you. move therefore, and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation. be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of e of c in the tablet of c. the princess of the waters, the lotus of the palace of the floods. the twelfth key nonuci dasonuf babaje od cahisa ob habaio tibibipe: alalare ataraahe od ef! dirix fafenu mianu ar enayo ovof! soba dooainu aai i vonupehe. zodacare, gohusa, od zodameranu. odo cicale qaa! zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a! o ye that range13 in the south and are as the 28 lanterns of sorrow, bind up your girdles and visit us! bring down your train 3663 (s

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

reth expresses the nature of bacchus. it is then necessary to construct a ritual of tiphareth. let us open the book 777; we shall find in line 6 of each column the various parts of our required apparatus. having ordered everything duly, we shall exalt the mind by repeated prayers or conjurations to the highest conception of the god, until, in one sense or another of the word, he appears to us and floods our consciousness with the light of his divinity. the "third method is the dramatic" perhaps the most attractive of all; certainly it is so to the artist's temperament, for it appeals to his imagination through his aesthetic sense. its disadvantage lies principally in the difficulty of its performance by a single person. but it has the sanction of the highest antiquity, and is probably the

cal difficulties of this method of invocation. it will doubtless have been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great essentials these three methods are one. in each case the magician identifies himself with the deity invoked. to "invoke" is to "call in, just as to "evoke" is to "call forth. this is the essential difference between the two branches of magick. in invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. in evocation, the magician, having become the macrocosm, creates a microcosm. you "in"voke a god into the circle. you "e"voke a spirit into the triangle. in the first method identity with the god is attained by love and by surrender, by giving up or suppressing all irrelevant (and illusionary) parts of yourself. it is the weeding of a garden. in the second method identity

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

f the law. i have explained above the proper use of the qabalah. i cannot tell you how the early rosicrucians used it, but i think one may assume that their methods were not dissimilar to our own. incidentally, it is not very safe to talk about rosicrucians, because magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 their name has become a signal for letting loose the most devastating floods of nonsense. what is really known about the original rosicrucians is practically confined to the three documents which they issued. the eighteenth century rosicrucians may, or may not, have been legitimate successors of the original brotherhood- i don't know. but from them the o.t.o. derived its authority; the late o.h.o. theodor reuss possessed a certain number of documents which demonstra

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

is nightmare is a cerebral congestion" the strict way of doing this by meditation is mahasatipatthana<crowley "collected works" vol. ii, pp. 252-254> but it should be aided in every moment of life by endeavouring to estimate occurrences at their true value. their relativity in particular must be carefully considered. your toothache does not hurt any one outside a very small circle. floods in china mean to you nothing but a paragraph in the newspaper. the destruction of the world itself would have no significance in sirius. one can hardly imagine even that the astronomers of sirius could perceive so trifling a disturbance. now considering that sirius itself is only, as far as you know, but one, and one of the least important, of the ideas in your mind, why should that mind be

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

o star can stray from its self-chosen course: for in the infinite soul of space all ways are endless, all-embracing: perfect. love burns in the heart of the master: he, seeing only god in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of all its fancied imperfection. his boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. by virtue of his law he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the rapture of silence, and some new world unguessed of phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in his sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their beauty, making new

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

earth with the vehemence of a million lightnings, bound for that green blaze of glory that scintillated in the west above the sunset. instantly the earth, its god departed, gave itself up to anguish. the sea rushed unto the void of the column and in a thousand earthquakes atlas 'houses' and plains together were overwhelmed forever in the ocean. tidal waves rolled round the world; everywhere great floods carried away villages and towns; earthquakes rocked and tempests roared; tumult was triumphant. for years after the catastrophe the dying tremors of the event still shook mankind with fear* and the eternal waves of the great mother rolled over atlas, save where earth in her agony thrust up gaunt pinnacles, bare masts of wreckage to mark the vanished continent. save for its heirs, of whose s

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

f law or chance- equivalent symbols for the unknown; once born, environment, circumstance, position, convention, education, all in their turn come forward to claim us and smother us in their bestial kisses. yet like the streams and the gutters, the drains and the rivers, we all flow, roar, or trickle onwards to the same unknown sea from which we came. sometimes evolution flouts ethics and we have floods, earthquakes, and the spouting of volcanoes; sometimes ethics flouts evolution and we are turned into artificial ponds and ornamental serpentines; yet upon other times it hastens our course and gives us good doulton-ware to flow through; all of us, nevertheless, whether we be teardrop or dead sea, sooner or later get back to the ever-rolling ocean; and there shall we once again be wooed by

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o the welfare of mankind and the glory of god [i invoke the higher by the first prayer in 5= 6, and make the sign of the cross on the talisman. purify talisman, fire and water. the invoking ritual of the hexagram of jupiter is performed""the great invocation of amoun."16 hail unto thee, lord of mercy! hail, i say, unto thee, the father of the gods! o thou, whose golden plumes stream up the sky in floods of light divine! thou, whose head is as a sapphire, or the vault of the unchanging sky! thou, whose heart is pitiful; where the rose dawn shines out amid the gold! thou, unchanging and unchangeable; whom the eagle follows; whom the serpent doth embrace; o thou that standest on the scorpion! thee, thee, thee, thee, i invoke! o thou! from whom the universe did spring! thou, the all-father, th

is upon him, and all bow in adoration of that white glory. the osiris stands, and by that sign uniteth himself with that light. he faces the west, ready to shed light upon the world, and there in the pyramid is the great work accomplished; for in his heart is kether, the centre of light, and the rosy cross is in his body "i.e, his nephesch is redeemed while his mind is ever open to the descending floods of the influx from the higher. now the chief adept is again isis, and instructs. she formulateth ahih and tiphereth, and the light is finally fixed as the analysis of the key word, synthesising and uniting the symbolism of the entire ceremony again by the pyramid formula. minutum mundum. the light is shown divided and balanced in the tree. crook and scourge. the light is shown in the symbol

performed, the lights extinguished, and the temple left in silence""the great operation of invisibility" the begetting of the silence. the dwelling of the darkness. 272 the formulation of the shroud. the inmost light. the sign of defence and protection. the closing of the mouths of the crocodiles. the fear upon the dwellers of water. the radiant youth of the lord. the rising from the lotus of the floods. the habitation of the palace of safety. the understanding of the peace of god.73 all this is the knowledge of hoor-po-krat-ist unto whom be the glory for ever and ever, world without end [the usual banishings, consecrations &c, are performed in temple of 0= 0. the forces of spirit are first invoked by the supreme ritual of the pentagram and the enochian keys. add hexagram ritual of binah a

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ark purple storm-cloud of contending kisses! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till all my laughter, like enchaunted waters, is blown as an iris-web of bubbles from the lips of the deep, in the glory and splendour of thy name. 4. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou who broodest on the dark breasts of the deep; thou lap of the wave-glittering sea; thou bright vesture of the crested floods: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou native splendour of the waters; o thou fathomless abyss of surging joy! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till the mad swords of my music smite the hills, and rend the amethyst limbs of night from the white embrace of day, at the glory and splendour of thy name. 5. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou cloud-hooded bastion of the stormy skies; tho

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ng turned to one profound melodious bay. sir palamede with pleasure burned, and bowed him to the idol grey that on the altar sneered and leered with loose red lips behind his beard. sir palamedes and the beast are woven in a web of gold until the gilding of the east burns on the wanton-smiling wold: and still sir palamede believed his holy quest to be achieved! but now the dawn from glowing gates floods all the land: with snarling lip the beast stands off and cachinnates. that stings the good knight like a whip, 41 as suddenly hell's own disgust eats up the joy he had of lust. the brutal glee his folly took for holy joy breaks down his brain. off bolts the beast: the earth is shook as out a questing roars again, as if a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! the peasants gathe

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is not to be borne! magister templi. mother of heaven, let us work together! mater coeli. behold thine handmaiden [magister templi "and" mater coeli "go together hand in hand, within the veil" capricornus "turns light up [mater coeli "plays a paean of despair<veil, appears standing on altar" o melancholy brothers, dark, dark, dark! o battling in black floods without an ark! o spectral wanderers of unholy night! my soul hath bled for you these sunless years, with bitter blood-drops running down like tears: oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light! my heart is sick with anguish for your bale! your woe hath been my anguish; yea, i quail and perish in your perishing unblest. and i have searched the heights and depths, the scope of all our

now and steady! ist maenad. the tiger is harnessed. 2nd maenad. the nightingale urges our toil from her far nest. 3rd maenad. ionian surges roar back to our chant. 4th maenad. aha! for the taunt of theban sages is lost, lost, lost! the wine that enrages our life is enforced. we dare them and daunt. agave. the spirits that haunt the rocks and the river, the moors and the woods, the fields and the floods, are with us for ever! 39 ist maenad. are of us for ever. evoe! evoe! autonoe. agave! he cometh! agave. cry ho! autonoe! all. ho! ho! evoe, ho! iacche! evoe! evoe! agave. the white air hummeth with force of the spirit. we are heirs: we inherit. our joys are as theirs; weave with your prayers the joy of a kiss! ho! for the bliss of the cup and the rod. he cometh! o lover! o friend and o god

corn and wine, flowers, children, stars, with flame far subtler glows formless, all-piercing, death-defying, divine, a sweet frail lamp whose shadow gleams and shows no darkness, is as light is where its rays cross, interweave, and marry with the day's! i am: the heart that flames from central me, seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle its passion with my might and majesty, till the vast floods of the man's being tingle and glow, self-lost within my soul and sea of love, the sun of utter light, and single keen many-veined heart: our lips and kisses marry and muse on our immortal blisses. i am: the greatest and the least: the sole and separate life of things. the mighty stresses of worlds are my nerves twitching. branch and bole of forests waving in deep wildernesses are hairs upon

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

lanetary logos to turn his attention away from the act of creation on the systemic mental plane to the work of progressive evolution. this caused a cessation of certain types of activity, producing a quiescence in certain of his centres, and an increased activity in others. it also had an effect upon the solar angels, and consequently upon the heart of the solar system from whence they are drawn. floods of energy or streams of force from the heart of the sun (the subjective sun) were arrested and directed elsewhere, while the pitris already active began to centre their attention upon the work begun, and temporarily new beginnings were out of order. it must not be forgotten here that the work of the solar pitris from their point of view, is not primarily the evolution of man, but is the pro

gnised by him as the planetary vital body. only he who is free can control and utilise those who are prisoners. this is an occult axiom of real moment, and much of the failure undergone by would-be workers in magic is to be traced to the fact that they themselves are not free. the "prisoners of the planet" are those myriads of deva lives who form the planetary pranic body, and are swept in on the floods of vital force emanating from the physical sun. rule xiii. the magician must recognise the four; note in his work the shade of violet which they evidence, and thus construct the shadow. when this is so, the shadow clothes itself, and the four become the seven. this means literally that the magician must be in a position to discriminate between the different ethers, and to note the special h

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

r pain. thus equally the sixth modification is overcome and realisation of the true nature of divinity and utter bliss takes its place. 7. full self-realisation is the next and final stage. the initiate can now say, with full conscious knowledge "i am that i am" and he knows himself as one with the all-self. doubt no longer controls. the full light of day or completed illumination takes place and floods the whole being of the seer. these are the seven stages upon the path, the seven stations of the cross as the christian puts it, the seven great initiations and the seven ways to bliss. now the "path of the just shineth ever more and more until the perfect day" the eight means 28. when the means to yoga have been steadily practised and when impurity has been overcome, enlightenment takes pl

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

great river of life on the crest of desire into incarnation, and is one of the laws with which the aspirant must work, early in his training. until he can function as a soul, independent of the cyclic turmoil of terrestrial life, and free from the control of the tides of his emotional existence, he cannot take initiation. it was the inability to do this which brought on earth the great atlantean floods which brought that ancient civilisation to an end. we come now to a consideration of the law of cleavages, for our race is controlled by the great heresy of separativeness. through these cleavages (symbolically speaking) the fires of destruction may emerge and end our civilisation, as the atlantean civilisation was ended, unless the conscious sons of god can build those bridges and develop

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

finiteness of the initiate-entity becomes apparent; a few again are purely embryonic. thus the extreme difficulty of the science becomes increasingly apparent. there is, however, no need for discouragement, for this is a science, subject to moments of intense illumination when the intuition will suddenly reveal determining laws and when the capacity to think abstractly and synthetically will pour floods of light upon the most difficult and complex of problems. when the world again settles down to a cycle of peace and with opportunity for further conscious unfoldment, it will be found that that embryonic factor which we call the intuition will flower forth into as recognisable an expression of human consciousness as the present intellectual grasp and mental perception of the race. until thi

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

and to the vital nature of conscious and sentient response itself. as you know and have been taught, glamour can only be dissipated by the inflow of clear, directed light; this is true of the life of the individual or of humanity as a whole. illumination reveals first of all the existence of glamour; it provides the distressing contrasts with which all true aspirants wrestle and then gradually it floods the life to such an extent that eventually glamour completely vanishes. men see things then as they are a facade hiding the good, the beautiful and true. the opposites are then resolved and consciousness is superseded by a condition of realisation a realisation of being for which we have no adequate term. the technique of light becomes a permanent condition. 3. the technique of indifference

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

t, for in gemini, the disciple can come to some intelligent grasp of what we might call the consciousness-mechanism and of the life processes which enable man finally to be what he is. gemini also rules the thymus gland which is inactive at present in the adult person, owing to the fact that the heart centre is unawakened in the majority. it will, however, become active when "the immortal brother floods the mortal brother with the light and life of god" then the heart centre, with its correlating activity of consciousness (group understanding and group love) will function freely. the mystery of the sign is in reality concerned with the secret of the response which should and eventually will exist between the two brothers, between the two poles soul and form and between the mortal self or p

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

easy prey to the infectious diseases can also be traced to the same quiescence. as the emotional nature is developed and the mind begins to function, the centres then become more active. definite trouble then ensues, largely because psychological conditions begin to appear. the man is no longer simply an animal. the wear and tear of the emotional life (the major predisposing factor in ill health) floods the lower nature with ill-directed energy (or should i say mis-directed. the solar plexus centre then becomes unduly active and this activity falls into four stages: 1. the stage of its awakening, as the astral body becomes steadily more powerful. 2. the stage of its potency when, for lives, it is the conditioning centre in the etheric or vital body and the man is consequently entirely cond

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

rth. therefore let the disciple refrain from taking life and let him nourish that which is lowest- 13- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust with the produce of the second. for disciples and initiates: let the group know that life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life. let the group know the vivid, flaming, drenching life that floods the fourth when the fifth is known. the fifth feeds on the fourth. let then the group merged in the fifth be nourished by the sixth and seventh and realise that all the lesser rules are rules in time and space and cannot hold the group. it onward moves in life. rule vii. for applicants: let the disciple turn his attention to the enunciating of those sounds which echo in the hall where walks

f livingness in form. rule six a superficial reading of rule vi would give the impression that it is a simple statement as to the universality of life, and also that it embodies an enunciation of the basic fact of hylozoism. the rule runs as follows: rule vi. let the group know that life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life. let the group know the vivid, flaming, drenching life that floods the fourth when the fifth is known. the fifth feeds on the fourth. let then the group merged in the fifth be nourished by the sixth and seventh, and realise that all the lesser rules are rules in time and space and cannot hold the group. it onward moves in life. i find it extremely difficult to express the significance of this rule in such a way that it will convey meaning to you, and this

ms wisely, with understanding of their purpose and with freedom from excess; he is not preoccupied with them or fundamentally interested in them. his eyes are off himself and are fixed on the world of true values. he has no sense of self-interest, because a group awareness is rapidly superseding his individual consciousness. the words: 2. let the group know the vivid, flaming, drenching life that floods the fourth when the fifth is known are of prime importance to those who would and can profit by what i am seeking to convey, as i interpret as far as may be these rules. the knowing of the fifth kingdom in nature through the medium of the consciousness of the fourth and the sacrifice of the fourth kingdom to the fifth, of the human being to the soul and of humanity to the kingdom of god, is

m the mental plane. the symbol of fire was this time involved, instead of water, and this fire led to the destruction of men and of cities by fire (literally "fire from heaven, by the evocation of the fiery emotions so prevalent in the councils of men at this time, and by the drought of the year 1947 which burnt up the terrain in europe and in great britain, being curiously enough preceded by the floods and waters of the earlier spring, thus evidencing the repetition of- 396- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust cycles; this repetition is distinctive of natural process, leaving each stage of man's evolution depicted, but producing a climaxing point which is indicative of the past and of the present, but leaving (as is the case toda

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rs leapt upon such admissions as evidence of psychosis. in 1924 around the time of the publication of the anathema of zos subtitled (a sermon to the hypocrites) and around the same time as he drew the grotesque and powerful the book of ugly ecstasy he seemed to plunge headlong into a pit of loathing that deeply affected his view of mankind. the flesh that he drew seemed to overwhelm him in brutal floods and he withdrew deeply into himself, haunted by the intensity of the maelstrom of images he was receiving. and again in 1954, towards the end of his life there emerges an unsettling sense that the vision was becoming too unsupportable, too vivid and too painful, and something of this experience is reflected in the intense shattered techniques he used to paint the later chaotic series of pas

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

the work of god, as it is itself; that all are the seat[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 150 the secret doctrine. the occultists, who believe firmly in the teachings of the mother-philosophy, repel the objections of both theologians and scientists. they maintain, on their side, that, during those periods when there must have been insufferable heat, even at the two poles, successive floods, upheaval of the valleys and constant shifting of the great waters and seas, none of these circumstances could form an impediment to human life and organization, such as is assigned by them to the early mankind. neither the heterogeneity of ambient regions, full of deleterious gases, nor the perils of a crust hardly consolidated, could prevent the first and second races from making their ap

BLUE EQUINOX

rt enlightened.choose thy way. the anticlimax is now complete. knowledge is by no means the last step. knowledge has been finished with even by the master of the temple, and all this question of wedding woe, remaining unselfish till the endless end, is but poetic bombast, based upon misconception. it is as puerile as the crude conceptions of many christian sects. 100.behold, the mellow light that floods the eastern sky. in signs of praise both heaven and earth unite. and from the four-fold manifested powers a chant of love ariseth, both from the flaming fire and flowing water, and from sweetsmelling earth and rushing wind. hark. from the deep unfathomable vortex of that golden light in which the victor bathes, all nature.s wordless voice in thousand tones ariseth to proclaim: joy unto ye

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lace of fire" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea" 10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 11. the king of cups is "the prince of the chariot of the waters" 12. the knave of cups is "the princess of the waters: the lotus of the palace of the floods" 13. the knight of swords is "the lord of the wind and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air" 14. the queen of swords is "the queen of the thrones of air" 15. the king of swords is "the prince of the chariot of the winds" 16. the knave of swords is "the princess of the rushing winds: the lotus of the palace of air" 17. the knight of pentacles is "the lord of the wide and fertile land:

is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. powerful for good or evil but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent power or wisdom. if ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. he rules from 20 degree libra to 20 degree scorpio. air of water prince and emperor of nymphs or undines. xii. the princess of the waters; the lotus of the palace of the floods knave of cups a beautiful amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the princess of wands. her attire is similar. she stands on a sea with foaming spray. away to her right a dolphin. she wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. she bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues. her mantle is lined with swans-down, and is of thin floating material. swe

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

t the compass points. though each element is represented by a single candle, you can use a second to increase a particular element in its own quadrant of the circle or use the elemental colour in all four quadrants. so, for example, if you were carrying out a fire spell, you could use four red (or gold or orange) candles and begin the ritual facing south. some practitioners invoke fire to conquer floods and water to conquer drought but i believe that each element can most effectively counter excesses of itself. light elemental candles after the altar candles, after you have cast the circles seite 50 wicca01.txt but before lighting any wish or astrological candle. begin in the north, with a green candle. green green is for earth and the north, midnight and winter. a green candle is placed a

agon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of whales, dolphins, seals and endangered sea creatures. like earth, water represents the yin, female goddess in the form of the moon goddesses. seite 51 wicca01.txt surround your water candles with silver objects, sea shells and pieces of

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

n american bluesong. the blues articulated blacks f experiences of alienation, victimization, and loss and, as such, like conjure, became existential appeals for control in an uncontrollable universe. blues lyrics gave voice to suffering by describing both personal and collective afflictions. blues of the "downhome" genre, in particular, were sagas of disaster and tragedy, including chronicles of floods, the impact of the devastating boll weevil in the south, natural calamities, migration, or other historical events that had an impact on the blues singer or on black life. other blue narratives were preoccupied with individual misfortune or illness or the furtive quest for sexual fulfillment.all familiar motifs in conjure, which was utilized for these very same purposes. thus, while the blu

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

y was a dome held up at each of the four corners by a high mountain peak, one of which is the buzhow mountain, mentioned in the story. in reality, chinese mathematicians had already calculated that the earth was a sphere by the first century a.d, long before gong the water god s first appearance in classical history texts.2 43 gong the water god pummeled the world with incessant bouts of rain and floods. the deluges battered homes into piles of rubbish, and they toppled ancient trees. great mountains crumbled and crashed into the swelling muddy rivers. gong showed no mercy as thousands of people and animals perished on the soggy, bloated earth. the other gods avoided gong because his fury was so intense. they watched silently as their moats, villages, and temples were destroyed, one by one

es. in each area, yu used the tail of the dragon to gouge out new channels for the rivers. as he plodded across the country, yu found 233,559 large holes in the earth. year after year, water had bubbled up in these cavities and flooded the world. now yu plugged up the gaping holes with dirt and reeds, and dropped in magic dirt balls from the tortoise s back to dry up the soggy earth caused by the floods. chinese mythology 56 when he worked, yu often used the form of a human to avoid frightening the farmers. even in his human form, he had an ugly face like an insect, with a mouth like the bottom of a crow s beak and a long neck like a snake. the farmers did not care about his appearance, however. they loved him for his efforts on their behalf. as yu traveled across china, he named the triba

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

tions for the energy grid of doing so. the effects of the photon belt and the vibratory tussle now at large on planet earth between the jamming vibration and the freedom vibration can be seen more obviously by the week. i passed on channelled information in earlier books going back to 1990 which talked of dramatically changing weather patterns in this decade and beyond, with colossal rainfall and floods, and of many other extreme weather and geological phenomena. the changing weather patterns worldwide are now obvious with enormous tracts of ice the size of countries breaking away from the polar ice shelves which were once considered permanent. nothing is permanent except life itself. rainfall records continue to be broken year after year; the seas rise, and rivers cover the land in ways t

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oat was driven along by gentle favouring breezes, and reached the desired haven. let the reader, therefore, consider how great and saintly was that vulnerable man through whom almighty god manifested his glorious name by such miraculous powers as have just been described in the presence of a heathen people. the art of rainmaking, bringing down fire from the sky, and causing mists, snowstorms, and floods was also claimed by the druids. many of the spells probably in use among the druids survived until a comparatively late period.the names of saints being substituted for those of celtic deities. in pronouncing incantations, the usual method employed was to stand upon one leg and point with the forefinger to the person or object on which the spell was to be laid, at the same time closing an e

obert nelson first became interested in the paranormal through the telekinetic ability of his identical twin brother, william, to move small objects by mental concentration. the central premonitions registry is the first private agency in the united states dedicated to the scientific evaluation of precognitive perceptions and their use as an early warning system for assassinations, plane crashes, floods, fires, and other catastrophes. psychically gifted individuals are encouraged to participate in dream and telepathy studies at local dream laboratories. the registry also provides lectures to civic groups, schools, and colleges on precognition and related faculties. address: p.o. box 482, times square sta, new york, ny 10036. central psi research institute founded in 1977 with a membership

s egypt, semites, genius, and devil worship, and the demonology in preindustrial societies is examined in the entries on the various countries and peoples of its origin. according to michael psellus (1018.ca. 1079, author of de operatione daemonum dialogus, demons are divided into six main bodies: the demons of fire; of the air; of the earth; those of the waters and rivers, who cause tempests and floods; the subterranean who prepare earthquakes and excite volcanic encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. demonology 395 eruptions, and the shadowy ones who are somewhat like ghosts (st. augustine (354.430 c.e) considered all demons under the last category) psellus s classification is not unlike the system of the middle ages, which divided all spirits into those belonging to the four

he american races. nezahualpilli, king of tezcuco, near mexico, was accomplished in this type of divination. montezuma consulted him concerning the terrible prodigies that startled his people before the advance of the spaniards upon his kingdom, and that were supposed to predict the return of quetzalcoatl, the legendary culture-hero of anahuac, to his people. these included earthquakes, tempests, floods, and the appearance of comets and strange lights while mysterious voices were heard in the air. divination has persisted in modern civilizations. perhaps one of the most remarkable diviners was nostradamus (michael de nostradame, 1503.66) who published hundreds of prophecies in enigmatic verses. many believe these prophecies refer to events that have occurred through the centuries and that

or penitentiary penalties were levied against anyone who injured or killed another by wiccecraefte (witchcraft. witches apparently used philters (love potions, for it was also a crime to gain another s love through enchanted food or drink. wicca were also forbidden to wiglian (divine) by the moon. king canute renewed the prohibitions. he declared it illegal to worship the sun or the moon, fire or floods, wells or stones, or any sort of tree; to love wiccecraefte, or to frame death spells, either by lot or by torch; or to effect anything by phantoms. the poenitentiale of theodore reveals that witches also claimed the power of letting loose tempests. another name for magic among the anglo-saxons was unlybban wyrce (destructive of life. penitence was prescribed for a woman who killed a man by

hter, and the wildest hysteria. these states are often followed by languor and depression. the smallest noise appears to aggravate the symptoms, and often to occasion shudderings and terrible cries. it was noticeable that a sudden change in the air or time of the music had a great influence on the patients, and soothed or accelerated the convulsions, stimulating them to ecstasy, or moving them to floods of tears. nothing is more astonishing than the spectacle of these convulsions. one who has not seen them can form no idea of them. the spectator is as much astonished at the profound repose of one portion of the patients as at the agitation of the rest. some of the patients may be seen rushing towards each other with open arms, and manifesting every symptom of attachment and affection. all

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ues. starhawk encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1486 moving statues in modern history throughout history, moving statues have tended to be reported at times of civil, political, or religious crisis, in which a breakdown of morale or the imminence of national disaster seemed beyond human aid, inviting divine intervention. in 1524, italy was overrun by french armies and coping with floods, famine, and plague. during this time, when rome itself seemed threatened, a statue of the virgin mary at brescia was reported to open and close its eyes and to move its hands, bringing them together and separating them in a gesture of sympathy. thousands of witnesses attested to the phenomenon, and similar moving statues were reported in other towns. after the crisis, such miracles ceased

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

iest, atlantis had grown arrogant and warlike. it ruled many other islands and parts of what is now europe. but when it attacked athens and other greek city-states, those communities joined forces to repel the invaders and drive them back to atlantis, freeing other islands from atlantis s tyranny in the process. but when the battle was brought to atlantis s own shores, cataclysmic earthquakes and floods destroyed the island continent over a single night and day. the greek soldiers died along with the atlanteans, and atlantis sank to the bottom of the ocean, to rise no more. atlantis 31 illustration of the location of the empire of atlantis from atlantis: the antediluvian world by ignatius donnelly, 1882 (library of congress) that is not all the dialogues have to say, however. most of the d

ly and beast was manlike. these abominable entities took the forms of the creatures remembered in legend and mythology as griffins, centaurs, dragons, and sphinxes. eventually the host on the sirian planets could take no more of this insubordination. men were to be men, beasts were to be beasts, the host declared before setting loose a kind of global warming that melted the poles and sparked huge floods. monsters and anomalies were destroyed, the channeled entity elder brother informed williamson. no longer could they propagate. pure species were saved and pronounced sterile unto all but themselves. the migrants lost all their psychokinetic powers and became normal primates. they began engaging in sexual unions with ape-women, and out of these alliances modern homo sapiens eventually emerg

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

used or omitted at discretion. the grand honors are given, after which a procession is formed and the brethren pass around the lodge three times, signifying their respect and obedience by the usual distinctive marks in the different degrees, during which time the installation ode may be sung. master's installation ode. musicdundee. behold, o master in the east,what glories greet thee there; what floods of radiance eastward stream: the sun is rising fair. behold, o master, glorious arts were cradled in the east; maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (43 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] behold what sciences came forth man's waking mind to feast. o master, in thy symbolled east. seek wisdom from above; and spread the light which heaven shall send within the lodge

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

r. the glories of the reign of mohammed the second was foretold by the astrologers; he ruled from 1452 to 1480; he it was who took constantinople. an astrologer foretold with correctness the fates ofse1imthe first, 1520, and of his son suleyman who was born in 900th year of the hegira. in the reign of selim the second, 1572, there appeared a comet, regarding which the astrologers prophesied great floods,whichsubsequently occurred, causing immense damage to three cities. mohammed the third received a prophecy from a dervish that he would die in fifty-six days, and it so happened in 1603. murad the fourth was warned by a sheik astrologer in 1640 that he would have an unpropitious fate at an early date, and he did die according to the terms of the warning in 1640. we possess a record of a cel

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

this showed that the sign of the bull especiallyhad an earthly operation. in the lion, in july, the fiery heat is mostthe symbolism of the 4 ancients 21fymbollsmofthecourseof thezelatorpastthe4aticiehtseastfire.it .july.,redwate:r.mi.,3ai.anr.imt.oeeritblueair.2!!lanl'ient;jan, 225yellowwest.nwnj.nv',u",vmz255.;u":u22thesorcerer and his apprenticeevident. in the scorpion,inoctober..come the water floods, andin.aquarius,injanuary, come the keen and biting winds,ofwhich the element air is the type. note that the aspirant is led, asitwere backwards,up theseasonsin his course past thefrom \vest toe.ast.i.,i. but the' hebrew rabbis said that the divine namej"nrrihvh rushesthroughthe.foreac.hletter presides oyer an element-yod over fire, he over water, vau over air, andhepvereltrth,andthattheref

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

form-canal system was not merely a way of enriching infertile ground. it also appears to have created a climate that both extended the high-altitude growing season and helped crops survive hard times. during the area s frequent periods of drought, for example, the canals provided vital moisture, while the higher level of the platforms raised plants above the worst effects of the region s frequent floods. moreover the canal water may have acted as a kind of thermal storage battery absorbing the sun s heat during the day and radiating it back into the freezing night, to create a blanket of relatively warm air over the growing plants. feats and wisdom of the ancients, pp. 56-7. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 97 the attention of governmental and international development agencies and

the houses were burnt. men 9 from the vaticano-latin codex 3738, cited in adela fernandez, pre-hispanic gods of mexico, panorama editorial, mexico city, 1992, pp. 21-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 104 were converted into birds to survive the catastrophe. the fourth sun is represented by the head of the water-goddess chalchiuhtlicue: destruction came in the form of torrential rains and floods. the mountains disappeared and men were transformed into fish. 10 the symbol of the fifth sun, our current epoch, is the face of tonatiuh, the sun god himself. his tongue, fittingly depicted as an obsidian knife, juts out hungrily, signalling his need for the nourishment of human blood and hearts. his features are wrinkled to indicate his advanced age and he appears within the symbol ollin

the manifestations of events. the belief was that if the numbers which lay beneath the manifestations could be properly understood, it would be possible to predict successfully the timing of the events themselves.18 i felt disinclined to ignore the obvious implications of the recurrent destructions of humanity depicted so vividly in the central american traditions. coming complete with giants and floods, these traditions were eerily similar to those of the faroff andean region. meanwhile, however, i was keen to pursue another, related line of inquiry. this concerned the bearded white-skinned deity named quetzalcoatl, who was believed to have sailed to mexico from across the seas in remote antiquity. quetzalcoatl was credited with the invention of the advanced mathematical and calendrical f

s 173 reconstruction of teotihuacan, looking down the way of the dead from behind the pyramid of the moon. the pyramid of the sun lies to the left of the way of the dead. visible in the distance beyond it is the pyramid-temple of quetzalcoatl inside the large compound of the citadel. there was, of course, no proof of schlemmer s theory. however, when i remembered the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere in mexican mythology, and the equally obsessive concern with forecasting future events evident in the maya calendar, i felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched conclusions of the american engineer. if schlemmer were right, if the ancient teotihuacanos had indeed understood the principles of resonant vibration and had put them into practice in seismic fore

across the world from mounts ararat and nisir. there, culturally and geographically isolated from judaeo-christian influences, long ages before the arrival of the spaniards, stories were told of a great deluge. as the reader will recall from part iii, it was believed that this deluge had swept over the entire earth at the end of the fourth sun: destruction came in the form of torrential rain and floods. the mountains disappeared and men were transformed into fish. 8 according to aztec mythology only two human beings survived: a man, coxcoxtli, and his wife, xochiquetzal, who had been forewarned of the cataclysm by a god. they escaped in a huge boat they had been instructed to build and came to ground on the peak of a tall mountain. there they descended and afterwards had many children who

ient traditions evident here. all over the world these traditions appear to commemorate a widespread series of catastrophes. in many cases the character of each successive cataclysm is obscured by the use of poetic language and the piling up of metaphor and symbols. quite frequently, also, at least two different kinds of disaster may be portrayed as having occurred simultaneously (most frequently floods and earthquakes, but sometimes fire and a terrifying darkness. all this contributes to the creation of a confused and jumbled picture. the myths of the hopi, however, stand out for their straightforwardness and simplicity. what they tell us is this: the first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanours, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. the second wor

hy, or could elements of these remarkable universal myths have been engineered, long ages ago, by clever and purposeful people? which of these improbable propositions is the more likely to be true? or are there other possible explanations for the enigma of the myths? we shall return to these questions in due course. meanwhile, what are we to conclude about the apocalyptic visions of fire and ice, floods, volcanism and earthquakes, which the myths contain? they have about them a haunting and familiar realism. could this be because they speak to us of a past we suspect to be our own but can neither remember clearly nor forget completely? 27 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 275-7. 28 maya history and religion, p. 332. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 203 chapter 26 a specie

rom cataclysm to disaster and from misfortune to calamity, the few scattered tribes of surviving humans must have led lives of constant terror and confusion: there would have been periods of quiescence, when they might have hoped that the worst was over. while the melting of the giant glaciers continued, however, these episodes of tranquillity would have been punctuated again and again by violent floods. moreover, sections of the earth s crust hitherto pressed down into the asthenosphere by billions of tons of ice would have been liberated by the thaw and begun to rise again, sometimes rapidly, causing devastating earthquakes and filling the air with terrible noise. some times were much worse than others. the bulk of the animal extinctions took place between 11,000 bc and 9000 bc when ther

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

r any hollow houseutensil inverted (664. the like means are adopted in convulsions (853) and childbirth (561' if it go hard with her in travail, the husband shall take three shingles out of the roof, and put them in again wrong side up' ettn. hebamme p. 663; conf. supra p. 1116. i have kept to the last what i had to say of the plague and the numerous traditions based on its appearing. after great floods, when heavy fog and sultiy mist poison the air, it suddenly breaks out and spreads resistless over the earth. to the gr. xoifi6correspond, in gender as well, our ohg. sterpo, scelmo (mhg. schelme, gl. jnn. 219 scahno, fihusterbo, on. skelmis-drep or drep alone; ohg. wuol, diut. 1, 1182 sicknesses. 501% as. ivol, gen. woles. the latin names ijestls, lues are fern, so are the serv

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

er egypt, though he was later identified with foreign gods worshipped in the eastern delta. in the early dynastic period, seth, lord of ombos, was the chief god of the eastern desert and its rich gold mines. in the western desert he remained the lord of the oases and their vineyards into the greco-roman period. at all periods, seth was associated with dangerous aspects of the desert such as flash floods and sandstorms. many desert animals, particularly oryxes, wild asses, and the mythical griffin, were considered sethian creatures. seth himself was represented by a sinister imaginary animal. in myth, seth takes the form of many different animals, such as bulls, pigs, hippopotami, wild asses, crocodiles, and panthers, to carry out destructive acts. from the pyramid texts onward, seth was ac

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

equally, if not more interesting in the light (no pun intended) of the present discussion is that in other mythos tales, yog-sothoth is described as a conglomerate of iridescent globes- in other words, a light form phenomena! the entity is also associated with strange atmospheric effects such as freak winds and storms (lovecraft is known to have carefully related some of his fictional events with floods, earthquakes, and other such occurrence)s. to me, this stresses further the validity of lovecraft.s dream-inspired fiction as a valid source of magical ideas. the guidelines to evoking yog-sothoth appear, at least as far as the dunwich horror sets them forth, to be quite clear and operationally valid. investigation of the entity has (in my view) suffered from the negative connotations of as

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

l more i scraped, and then abruptly i leaped out of the hole and away from the filthy thing; frantically unstopping and tilting the heavy carboys, and precipitating their corrosive contents one after another down that charnel gulf and upon this unthinkable abnormality whose titan elbow i had seen. the blinding maelstrom of greenish-yellow vapour which surged tempestuously up from that hole as the floods of acid descended, will never leave my memory. all along the hill people tell of the yellow day, when virulent and horrible fumes arose from the factory waste dumped in the providence river, but i know how mistaken they are as to the source. they tell, too, of the hideous roar which at the same time came from some disordered water-pipe or gas main underground- but again i could correct them

pes hinted at obscure secrets and immemorial survivals which might or might not be hostile to mankind. for a time our course followed a broad, shallow river which flowed down from unknown hills in the north, and i shivered when my companion told me it was the west river. it was in this stream, i recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods. gradually the country around us grew wilder and more deserted. archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation. there were awesome sweeps of vivid valley where great cliffs rose, new england s virgin granite showing grey and austere through

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

e gained by tuning to and then programming directly into the fluids of our bio-system. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 147 for example, the chi machine device, gently rocks a person from side to side as they rest their feet upon a vibrating block and lie still on the floor. at the end of the session a rush of chi energy flows up from our feet and literally floods our bio-system with pure prana. it is during this rush that programming like perfect health, perfect balance, perfect weight, and perfect image (technique no. 10) can be utilized as when we do this with certain finger mudras, the imprinting goes deep into both our cellular and neutrino core. however remember that this program will only work if it is said from a point of being that we are go

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

rential downpour of water, and almost as frequently we find references to peculiar cloud formations which do not appear to have their origin based on normal, or at least familiar, meteorological conditions conditions of weather, that is. we hope that you will give very special thought to the world-wide scope of some of these intense and violent storm periods. there are many cases where storms and floods which inundated a considerable part of our own country have been almost universal in their action. this tends to hint the entrance of the earth into a large cosmic cloud of water and debris sufficient to deluge most of the areas in both northern and southern hemispheres together. the volume of water falling and the concomitants of mud, black rain, stones, etc, indicate unity of external ori

outh wales a whole continent and more and hong kong. that is not local, and bulks of water are not normal. we look for outside help. also, new zealand,and i do not know how this came to pass, jemi. i remember, my twin, this was the cleaning and the regeneration of the great ark& all its "great rooms" all arks too, needs cleaning same as any other ship. let us now follow the startling cases of the floods of 1913 which seriously damaged our middle western states but which were practically world-wide and, for some reason, failed to attract much attention from science or to be recognized as a single, complex disturbance. it is especially this sort of condition to which we direct your attention. we believe that you should question how such a widespread upheaval of our normal meteorological proc

invaded the streets of troy and albany. lampposts disappeared and furniture floated against the ceilings of rooms. in new jersey something called a "cloudburst" grabbed factories and made a mess of them, cluttering up the nicely laid out streets. there were a thousand dead in columbus, ohio, which is close to dayton, and the delaware river at trenton was fourteen feet above normal. the ohio river floods at the slightest opportunity it had a field day. at parkersburg, west virginia, people called on their second-story neighbors in rowboats. there were lakes 75 in vermont. farmers were caught napping in wisconsin. destructive floods occurred in illinois and missouri. by march 27, the meteorologists began to catch up, and the weather bureau was issuing storm warnings (new york tribune, march

for several hours from the sky at st. louis, crystalline particles, some pink and some white. fine dust fell in dakota: looked like a snowstorm. in greece there was a monstrous debacle and the rivers choked with cattle. the bahama islands were on a spree of water. a downpour was described by a newspaper on st. helena. a drought occurred in british honduras, followed by heavy rains, june 1 and 2. floods raged in california, ceylon, cuba; cities and plantations of mexico were raped by deluges. all in certain range of latitude. deluges and falls of lumps of ice throughout england. france deluged. water dropped from the sky in switzerland, flooding some streets five feet deep. it was not rain: there were falling columns of water from what was thought to be a waterspout "bulks dropped! and one

that broke all dams between coburg and lake ontario. in the toronto globe, june 3, this falling bulk is called a waterspout. fall of a similar bulk was noted in switzerland and saxony (quoted from the books of charles fort) 76 one can find plenty of other references to concentrated, local cloudbursts. they are all of a pattern: solid masses of water flooding small demarcated areas, causing local floods and flash flash floods. one was observed in france, yet two miles away, dry land. these are what we may call single, or isolated slugs of meteoric water. what can account for these erratics? surely, here is proof of intelligence, or selectivity and regularity of a sort which must be attributed to something in space. clouds and storms many of these singular objects which are known to have fa

s of widespread trouble and disturbance, either directly or by generally upsetting the earth's meteorological balance. they may cause discoloration of the sun for considerable periods; or diminution in its light, with ensuing darkness; or very cold weather, such as the extremes of the winter of 1882-83, when space around the earth seemed to be replete with clouds of spatial debris. they may bring floods to the whole earth, simultaneously, they do not always seem to be wholly vaporous, and there are some which are certainly made up of debris, dust, water, stones, ice, etc. 77 it seems impossible to organize a firm classification from data not at hand. there are apparently mergings or blendings of each type into the others. we will describe and list some of them. maybe something will work ou

er 10, and continuing until the catastrophe at saint kitts, there was deluge after deluge on the earth in one zone of latitude, the north tropical area. it seemed that a swarm of meteoric lakes must have gotten in the way of a rotating earth. to most of us such a thing "just could not be. but it did happen, and it is doubtful if meteorologists have ever assembled all of the data on that series of floods. maybe it was not as general as the world-wide deluge of 1913, but it was bad enough, and its very concentration within a limited belt of terrestrial surface is sufficient for us to conclude that extraterrestrial forces and materials were involved. these storms partook, of the ado of a very disturbed period in which we should have become aware of our spatial environment. on may 15, 1879, co

KETAB E SIYAH

coming to you, since i abandoned my brutish brothers and my monstrous sire, gog, reviling their crude barbarity and their ignoble temper. little did i see, in those brutes and their custom, to sustain my spirit's yearning for something fine and worthy. many years did i wander in the dark and stony deeps, through that troglodyte domain of grottoes and caverns of wondrous size, filled with seas and floods, unlit by sun, but flowing down from the surface earth to water those deepest parts, blind and lightless, ever night. i, first and yet last, trod these hidden ways, bats and pale and eyeless fish i made my bread and meat. i saw such things as to confound dreamers, caves, miles high, with stony columns so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as t

coming to you, since i abandoned my brutish brothers and my monstrous sire, gog, reviling their crude barbarity and their ignoble temper. little did i see, in those brutes and their custom, to sustain my spirit's yearning for something fine and worthy. many years did i wander in the dark and stony deeps, through that troglodyte domain of grottoes and caverns of wondrous size, filled with seas and floods, unlit by sun, but flowing down from the surface earth to water those deepest parts, blind and lightless, ever night. i, first and yet last, trod these hidden ways, bats and pale and eyeless fish i made my bread and meat. i saw such things as to confound dreamers, caves, miles high, with stony columns so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as t

LIBER 141

; even as it is written in the ritual of the v "it is the hour when the veil of the temple was rent in twain, when darkness began to overspread the earth, when the altar was thrown down, the star called wormwood fell upon the earth, when the blazing star was eclipsed, the sacred tau was defiled with blood and water, despair the tribulation visited us, and the word was lost" now therefore that the floods menace the earth, and the winter of civilisation is upon us, it is fitting that an ark of the sanctuary be builded wherein the sacred phallus may be hidden, a field sown wherein the germ of life may be preserved; so that although the tradition be destroyed in the destruction of the brains that bear it, it shall be possible for those that may be worthy coming after us to recover the lost wor

LIBER 777

the flame and the lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. rules 20 h to 20 i, including part of hercules. the lord of the waves and the waters. the king of the hosts of the sea. 20 k to 20 l, including most of pegasus. 32 bis the princess of the shining flame. the rose of the palace of fire. rules one quadrant of heavens round n. pole. the princess of the waters. the rose of the palace of the floods. rules another quadrant 31 bis the root of the powers of fire (ace) the root of the powers of water. lxxiii. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion swords. lxxiv. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion pantacles. 11 the prince of the chariot of air. 20 j to 20 k the prince of the chariot of earth. 20 a to 20 b 23 the qu

LIBER CHANOKH

.any echoing time between. the forty-eight keys or calls 32 number is 31. come away! for i have prepared (a place) for you. move therefore, and shew yourselves! unveil the mysteries of your creation. be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god: the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of e of c in the tablet of c. the princess of the waters, the lotus of the palace of the floods. the twelfth key nonuci dasonuf babaje od cahisa ob habaio tibibipe: alalare ataraahe od ef! dirix fafenu mianu ar enayo ovof! soba dooainu aai i vonupehe. zodacare, gohusa, od zodameranu. odo cicale qaa! zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a! o ye that range14 in the south and are as the 28 lanterns of sorrow, bind up your girdles and visit us! bring down your train 3663 (s

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

ng turned to one profound melodious bay. sir palamede with pleasure burned, and bowed him to the idol grey that on the altar sneered and leered with loose red lips behind his beard. sir palamedes and the beast are woven in a web of gold until the gilding of the east burns on the wanton-smiling wold: and still sir palamede believed his holy quest to be achieved! but now the dawn from glowing gates floods all the land: with snarling lip the beast stands off and cachinnates. that stings the good knight like a whip, as suddenly hell.s own disgust eats up the joy he had of lust. the brutal glee his folly took for holy joy breaks down his brain. off bolts the beast: the earth is shook as out a questing roars again, as if a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! sir palamedes, the sa

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

utive hours. i was unconscious 2 liber dcccxi of the fall of nights and days, even after stopping; nor was there any reaction of fatigue. this work was written when i was twenty-four years old, immediately on the completion of an orgie which would normally have tired me out. often and often have i noticed that sexual satisfaction socalled has left me dissatisfied and unfatigued, and let loose the floods of verse which have disgraced my career. yet, on the contrary, a period of chastity has sometimes fortified me for a great outburst. this is far from being invariably the case. at the conclusion of the k2 expedition, after five months of chastity, i did no work whatever, barring very few odd lyrics, for months afterwards. i may mention the year 1911. at this time i was living, in excellent

LIBER LXXVIII

violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. powerful for good or evil but more attracted by the a description of the cards of the taro 17 evil if allied with apparent power or wisdom. if ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. he rules from 20 g to 20 h. d of c prince and emperor of nymphs or undines. xii the princess of the waters; the lotus of the palace of the floods knave of cups a beautiful amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the princess of wands. her attire is similar. she stands on a sea with foaming spray. away to her right a dolphin. she wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. she bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues. her mantle is lined with swansdown, and is of thin floating material. swee

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

said, i will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children (genesis 3:16. we also find an explanation for why man must till the soil, for adam also disobeyed god s command. god said to adam, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life (genesis 3:17 18. origin myths from around the world often share common themes. floods, for example, are frequent. also common are explanations for human suffering through people or animals disobeying divine commands, as described above. many origin myths also make statements about the nature of men and women or the relationship between the genders. the genesis account is quite clear about this; god said to eve, your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you

talyst made of rna. rna: ribonucleic acid, a large molecule, similar to dna, where the sugar is ribose (instead of deoxyribose) and the bases are adenine, uracil (instead of thymine, cytosine, and guanine. selection: in this book, a natural or artificial evolutionary mechanism. natural selection operates in nature through environmental forces such a droughts, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, and floods. artificial selection consists in selectively breeding plants and animals for desired characteristics, such as yield in corn, milk production in cattle, and shape in dogs. sickle cell anemia: a heritable blood disorder characterized by malfunctioning hemoglobin. stromatolite: layered, domelike structure where cyanobacteria and other organisms proliferate. symbiosis: the action of living in

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

he entire world. zeus, perceiving the wickedness of the atlanteans, gathered the gods into his holy habitation and addressed them. here plato's narrative comes to an abrupt end, for the critias was never finished. in the tim us is a further description of atlantis, supposedly given to solon by an egyptian priest and which concludes as follows "but afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of rain all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea. and that is the reason why the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is such a quantity of shallow mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island" in the introduction to

MEANING OF MASONRY

responsibility of invoking the descent of the divine blessing and influx upon the unified and dedicated whole. of all which the psalmist writes" how good and joyful a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity..it is like the precious ointment (anointing) which flows down unto the skirts of the clothing" implying that the divine influx, when it descends in response to such an invocation, floods and illuminates the entire human organism even to its carnal sense-extremities (which are the" skirts of the clothing" of the soul. compare also the christian master's words" when thou prayest, enter into thy secret chamber (the lodge of the soul) and when thou hast shut thy door (by tyling the mind to all outward concerns and thoughts, pray to the father who seeth in secret, who shall rewa

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

hen, solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of hervirtue and strength among all mankind. she was preeminent in military skill and was theleader of the hellenesshe defeated and triumphed over the invaders and preserved fromslavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us whodwell between the pillars. but afterwards, occurred violent earthquakes and floods and in asingle day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth andthe island of atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. from the homeric sagas, we read:beneath the feet of the father of the gods olympus shook as he moved, the earth groaned;and from the lightening of his bolt, as well as from the eyes and breath of his antagonist, firewas

it- and compelledall the survivors to flee? no lengthy periods of ice alternated with warm and even sub-tropi-cal climatical interludes? no. nothing of the sort. there was admittedly a tremendous con-vulsion of nature, which had the most direful effect upon the inhabitants of scandinavia, thebritish isles, and those in northern asia. it resulted in giving us, it is true, bitter cold, tre-mendous floods, and cruel dampness. that it affected the climate in the north adversely andpermanently cannot be denied. it did other things as well. but no ice age (comyns beaumont, riddle of prehistoric britain)it was an eventsudden, rapid, devastating, and appalling in its magnitude, and destruc-tiveness. it was a celestial impact of an immense cometary body it rained or distributedrocks, stones, bould

ore, the men of atlantis hadsubjected the parts of libya within the columns of heracles as far as egypt, and of europe as far astyrrhenia.plato then tells how the atlanteans made a mistake by attacking greece. they could not withstandthe greeks' military might, and following their defeat, a natural disaster sealed their fate. timaeuscontinues: but afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day andnight of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of atlantis inlike manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. plato tells a more metaphysical version of theappendix c: suggested areas of research274atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis story in critias, where he describes the lost continent as the kingd

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

er fishermen, and was on that account, more particularly worshipped and revered in countries bordering on the sea-coast, where fish naturally formed a staple commodity of trade. he was supposed to vent his displeasure by sending disastrous inundations, which completely destroyed whole countries, and were usually accompanied by terrible marine monsters, who swallowed up and devoured those whom the floods had spared. it is probable that these sea-monsters are the poetical figures which represent the demons of hunger and famine, necessarily accompanying a general inundation. poseidon is generally represented as resembling his brother zeus in features, height, and general aspect; but we miss in the countenance of the sea-god the kindness and benignity which so pleasingly distinguish his mighty

ormed him into a stony mountain. beard and hair erected themselves into forests; shoulders, hands, and limbs became huge rocks, and the head grew up into a craggy peak which reached into the clouds. perseus then resumed his travels. his winged sandals bore him over deserts and mountains, until he arrived at athiopia, the kingdom of king cepheus. here he found the country inundated with disastrous floods, towns and villages destroyed, and everywhere signs of desolation and ruin. on a projecting cliff close to the shore he beheld a lovely maiden chained to a rock. this was andromeda, the king's daughter. her mother cassiopea, having boasted that her beauty surpassed that of the nereides, the angry sea-nymphs appealed to poseidon to avenge their wrongs, whereupon the sea-god devastated the co

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

e lake. he is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic. a fierce nature with calm exterior. powerful for good or evil, but more attracted by the evil, if allied with apparent power or wisdom. if ill-dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. he rules from 20" of libra to 20' scorpio. air of water. prince and emperor of nymphs and undines. xiz. princess of the waters and lotus of the palace of the floods. knave of cups a beautiful amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the princess of wands. her attire is similar. she stands on a sea with foaming, spray. away to her right is a dolphin. she wears as a crest on her helmet, belt and buskins, a swan with opening wings. she bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues. her mantle is lined with swans-down

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

earth to heaven, and again it descendeth from heaven to earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest become unto men a mirror of the living god in his works, a fount of life and ablution of sins. prayer of the undines dread king of the sea, who hast the keys of the floodgates of heaven and dost confine the waters of the underworld in the caverns of earth; king of the deluge and the floods of the springtime; thou who dost unseal the sources of rivers and fountains; thou who dost ordain moisture, which is like the blood of earth, to become the sap of plants: thee we adore and thee the invoke! speak unto us, thine inconstant and unstable creatures, in the great tumults of the sea, and we shall tremble before thee; speak unto us also in the murmur of limpid waters, and me shall

RUBY TABLET OF SET

, characteristics and dispositions; one is projecting on to god the image of an extremely powerful man. however, in doing so, one is limiting god, who is conceived by theologians as unlimited,28 infinite, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-beneficent. as far as the contention that god is all-good is concerned, the satanist and the setian would cite the abundance of "natural evil (tornados, floods, earthquakes, etc) as tending to refute such a notion. many theodicies have been set forth by theologians in an attempt to demonstrate that god is, in fact, just. these range all the way from the claim that god determines what is just, it therefore being absurd to refer to god as unjust, to more elaborate and cunning arguments, such as the tapestry analogy, i.e. the argument that the univer

ed all pursuits. my gifts to the time were the tools of the future. look about you, i am here. for even though your world be destroyed, my essence is forever in the desires of even one to build and renew. shade# 2- nostradamus i was born michael nostradamus, a jew-christian in 1503. i came from physicians and astronomers. i became a born healer as remarkable as paracelsus. in my time, plagues and floods menaced my france. i showed the people disinfectants and helped the healings. i later became a prophet. i feared not from where came these powers, but the people of my time thought me a magus come from ancient times. for this i denied magic. the stake awaited witches then. i burned my magical texts. i could not control my meanderings, and i prophesied great and terrible things which came to

e purest you can find. be careful if you are using water from a pond or lake (or slow-moving stream. nowadays the water tends to be polluted. 10. grael- to hold the water. let me explain the significance here. if you live in a desert, water takes on an entirely new meaning. during the dry seasons it's difficult to find enough to sustain life. during the rainy season it tries to kill you (in flash floods, hail. in the desert, water is life and death. it is also that from which we sprang; and it has some of the qualities that we associate with consciousness (reflection and reception. 11. pinon incense. this is the scent of the southwestern desert. the pinon pine is a hardy tree, twisted into shapes of outstanding beauty. its nuts are a delicious food, and its "body" offers a home to many cre

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sibly from belos, the greek version of the akkadian bel. belial, beliar (hebrew, unholy one, goetia 68th spirit. the ruling prince of sheol, his name means worthless. spirit and prince of darkness, patron of arrogance, lies, and deceit. inspires women to dress in finery, gossip in church, and indulge their children. wicked men are of him (2 samuel 16:17) in psalm 18:5 the phrase nachaleri belial, floods of ungodly men, is translated in catholic texts as streams of the devil. before the fall, an prince of the order of virtues, he was created directly after lucifer. in the cabbalah of 15th-16th century, believed to be god s worst enemy. qlippoth of ain soph. in some myths, belial was the original evil, and was already resident in the abyss when lucifer fell. in the gospel of bartholomew beli

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

pt was ruled by ramses ii (c. 1304 c. 1237 bce, and many historian believe that ramses is the pharaoh referred to in the hebrew scriptures. during his reign ramses undertook a major building program in the delta region, where the nile river flows into the mediterranean sea. prior to this, the israelites had found refuge from a severe food shortage in egypt along the nile river. the river s annual floods watered the nearby land and nourished it with rich silt, creating a 4,000-mile-long area of agricultural land surrounded by harsh desert. the egyptians considered the israelites to be gypsies, homeless wanderers who were nuisances and disgraced their nation. ramses did not know what to do with the israelites until the building program began. since he needed large numbers of laborers to dig

t with other schools of buddhism and with the government. nichiren 294 world religions: biographies banishment in 1260 nichiren presented to the government a treatise, or essay, titled establish the right law and save our country. he wrote the document in the form of a dialogue between an ordinary citizen and a visitor. the dialogue examined the nature of the times in japan. nichiren claimed that floods, famine, political conflicts, and other difficulties were increasing because of the government s refusal to accept the buddha s true teachings as detailed in the lotus sutra. he proposed that his version of buddhism become the state religion of japan. he also warned that rebellions and foreign invasions would occur if the government did not adopt the true buddhism. in the treatise nichiren

ngs go up into the boat. the boat which you are to build, its dimensions must measure equal to each other: resolved: made up one s mind to do, reached a decision. inflict: to cause something harmful. anu: father of all the gods in sumerian mythology. uttered: spoke. enlil: the storm god of sumer, the god who punishes humans who displease the gods. ninurta: the god of rain, war, thunderstorms, and floods. chamberlain: an official who manages a royal household. ennugi: the sumerian god in charge of canals, bringing water to dry regions. ea: one of the gods who created humans and gave them souls. spurn: reject or refuse. world religions: primary sources 65 the epic of gilgamesh its length must correspond to its width. roof it over like the apsu. i understood and spoke to my lord, ea: my lord

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

methods of divination and prophecies are included to encourage understanding of the techniques, not belief in their powers. astrology the earliest humans soon learned that the fertility of the soil was dependent upon the favor of the sun, as well as that of the rains, both of which were bestowed from the heavens. on the other hand were the adverse effects of lightning, wind, and hail, as well as floods. these phenomena were quite mysterious, as well as wonderful or dreadful, as the case might be. then, as now, people felt themselves at the mercy of these powers; and, since these good and bad energies all seemed to originate in the skies above, it was most logical that they should come to regard the heavens as the seat of the great gods. from this conviction evolved a theory of complete ac

assing on the secret of written language, and supervising construction of some of the world fs most mysterious structures of the ancient world. the pyramids of egypt and the americas, the sphinx in egypt, and the megaliths of western europe are among the structures attributed to the genius of atlanteans. according to most accounts, atlantis was suddenly destroyed by a cataclysm of earthquakes and floods and swallowed up by the sea. no definitive remnants have ever been found, and the exact location of the glost continent h remains debatable. the idea of atlantis was first expressed in the works of plato (c. 428.348 or 347 b.c.e, the greek philosopher, who stressed that a perfect world exists in ideas. for example, a shoe, according to plato, exists as an idea before a craftsperson makes th

lustrate that possibility, marinatos likened the thera explosion to the 1886 eruption of mt. krakatoa that could be heard a thousand miles away and created tidal waves that killed 36,000 people. the volcanic ash on crete helped preserve excellent artifacts of minoan civilization, including whole streets and houses as well as frescoes and pottery. however, while plato fs text cites earthquakes and floods as having destroyed atlantis, there is no mention of a volcano. the date of the thera volcano, around 1500 b.c.e, does not match the period of the downfall of atlantis, which egyptian priests told solon had occurred 8,000 to 9,000 years earlier. the 1500 b.c.e. date does coincide if the claim of 8,000 years is reduced to 800 years. that tactic was suggested by greek geologist angelo gelanpo

rgues that the sphinx was created by refugees from atlantis, the legendary continent that was supposedly destroyed around 9500 b.c.e. graham hancock and robert bauval, coauthors of the orion mystery (1994, credit wanderers from an advanced civilization that once thrived on the continent of antarctica before it was frozen over during a global catastrophe at the end of the last ice age. cataclysmic floods, they say, wiped out the connection of the sphinx with an ancient, advanced civilization. psychic edgar cayce (1877.1945) prophesied that answers to the mysteries of the sphinx and ancient civilizations would someday be yielded by the sphinx. according to cayce, a secret passageway leads from one of the sphinx fs paws to its right shoulder where there exists a hall of records that contains

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ht" has the value of 207, which reduces to 9, the number of teth, the snake of wisdom. thus, the light and the snake are brought together (as the zorastorian verse reads. that fire that darts and flashes throughout the hidden depths of the universe (and 418 is the value of kbvd zyv h-nchsh "the bright glory of the snake, and hence the great work completed as the snake reaches kether and the light floods down it. the word rbh, meaning "archer" has the value of 207 also, thus showing the process of "shooting" up the middle pillar of the tree in the mystical process of attaining the avr rather than the magical one of ascending back up the lightning flash. chapter four; kether, the crown of coherent light the doctrine of trans-resonance as we have already noted, one of the primary doctrines of

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

is not based in any way on the perceptions he has obtained from nature fs code as it now is reflected, but on that reflection which was obtained by his ancestors, a far less worthy appreciation. and in this inherent conservativeness and horror of change lie most of the tragedies of love; for man trying to quench the natural flame of his desires in a torrent of chilly and criminal atavism, merely floods the virtuous path, leaving the by-ways of vice high and dry, inviting, crying to the sated wanderer. man lives by paradoxes and contraries; martyrs and tortures himself, building around him lofty restrictions bristling with moral frises, and broken ethical beer-bottles, digging deep trenches around his joys, and then filling them with the tears of exasperation at his lot. all is either mono

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 15:6 thy right hand, o lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, o lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 15:7 and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath [which] consumed them as stubble. 15:8 and with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap [and] the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. 15:9 the enemy said, i will pursue, i will overtake, i will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; i will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 15:10 thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 15:11 who [is] like unto thee, o lord, among t

nd of saul: 22:2 and he said, the lord [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 22:3 the god of my rock; in him will i trust [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 22:4 i will call on the lord [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall i be saved from mine enemies. 22:5 when the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 22:6 the sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 22:7 in my distress i called upon the lord, and cried to my god: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears. 22:8 then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 22:9 there went up a smoke out

is tongue; 20:13 [though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 20:14 [yet] his meat in his bowels is turned [it is] the gall of asps within him. 20:15 he hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: god shall cast them out of his belly. 20:16 he shall suck the poison of asps: the viper s tongue shall slay him. 20:17 he shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 20:18 that which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be] and he shall not rejoice [therein] 20:19 because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20:20 surely he shall not feel quietness in his bell

sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 28:7 [there is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture s eye hath not seen: 28:8 the lion s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 28:9 he putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 28:10 he cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. 28:11 he bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light. 28:12 but where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding? 28:13 man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. 28:14 the depth saith, it [is] not in me: and the sea saith [it is] not with me. 28:15 it cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed

nd from the hand of saul: and he said, 18:1 i will love thee, o lord, my strength. 18:2 the lord [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my god, my strength, in whom i will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation [and] my high tower. 18:3 i will call upon the lord [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall i be saved from mine enemies. 18:4 the sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 18:5 the sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 18:6 in my distress i called upon the lord, and cried unto my god: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him [even] into his ears. 18:7 then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 18:8 there

presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 23:6 surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and i will dwell in the house of the lord for ever. psalm 24 a psalm of david. 24:1 the earth [is] the lord s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 24:2 for he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 24:3 who shall ascend into the hill of the lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? 24:4 he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 24:5 he shall receive the blessing from the lord, and righteousness from the god of his salvation. 24:6 this [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, o jacob. selah

ng. 32:4 for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. selah. 32:5 i acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have i not hid. i said, i will confess my transgressions unto the lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. selah. 32:6 for this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. 32:7 thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. selah. 32:8 i will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: i will guide thee with mine eye. 32:9 be ye not as the horse [or] as the mule [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in

the clouds. page 345 psalms 68:35 o god [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the god of israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people. blessed [be] god. psalm 69 to chief musician upon shoshannim, a [psalm] of david. 69:1 save me, o god; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul. 69:2 i sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: i am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 69:3 i am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while i wait for my god. 69:4 they that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then i restored [that] which i took not away. 69:5 o god, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 69:6 let not them t

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udslay's negatives to dr. brugsch, who in the course of 1891 published a transcript of the text with a german translation and notes in a work entitled die biblischen sieben jahre der hungersnoth, leipzig, 8vo. the legend contained in this remarkable text describes a terrible famine which took place in the reign of tcheser, a king of the iiird dynasty, and lasted for seven years. insufficient nile-floods were, of course, the physical cause of the famine, but the legend shows that the "low niles" were brought about by the neglect of the egyptians in respect of the worship of the god of the first cataract, the great god khnemu. when, according to the legend, king tcheser had been made to believe that the famine took place because men had ceased to worship khnemu in a manner appropriate to his

by the famine could hardly be imagined. the king then goes on to ask matar where the nile is born? what god or goddess presides over it? and what is his [or her] form? he says he would like to go to the temple of thoth to enquire of that god, to go to the college of the magicians, and search through the sacred books in order to find out these things [fn#47] i.e, there have been insufficient nile-floods. when matar had read the despatch, he set out to go to the king, and explained to him the things which he wished to know. he told him that, the nile rose near the city of elephantine, that it flowed out of two caverns, which were the breasts of the nile-god, that it rose to a height of twenty-eight cubits at elephantine, and to the height of seven cubits at sma-behutet, or, diospolis parva

e gods within them. i am the being who openeth his eyes and the light cometh; i am the being who shutteth his eyes and there is darkness. i am the being who giveth the command, and the waters of hapi (the nile) burst forth, i am the being whose name the gods know not. i am the maker of the hours and the creator of the days. i am the opener (i.e, inaugurator) of the festivals, and the maker of the floods of water. i am the creator of the fire of life whereby the works of the houses are caused to come into being. i am khepera in the morning, and ra (at the time of his culmination (i.e, noon, and temu in the evening"[fn#71] nevertheless the poison was not driven from its course, and the great god felt no better. then isis said unto ra "among the things which thou hast said unto me thy name ha

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you obtain adequate proof. for this reason science is continually and quite rightly changing its views; they may often confuse cause with effect, as when an early egyptian scientist noticed that at the coming of the dog star the nile rose, and, to the great benefit of agriculture, was able to predict the annual flooding. that later on it was discerned that the dog star did not actually cause the floods, but simply rose at the time of the floods, made no difference to this. i think that thousands of years ago some medicine men found that by directing the massed power of mind they got good results in hunting. whether this power affected the animal or the hunter did not matter, it produced results, and they called this power, magic. they experimented with this power and found by rather hit-a

ry and would like to know that it was true, i can only say that as far as i am concerned it is 'not proven. to recapitulate, ritualistic magic, kabalistic magic, art magic or black magic are alike attempting to evoke genii, demons or elemental spirits and forcing or bribing them to cause events to occur, the practitioner believing that such spirits have the power to alter nature, to cause storms, floods or earthquakes for instance. they often use blood, skulls and other nasty things for this purpose. the witch dislikes these methods and thinks her ways are best. true, in the past there have been many cases of sorcerers employing witches; but this was as mediums when something of a spiritualistic nature was attempted, that is, trying to communicate with the spirits of departed human beings

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