Michael Wynn's Occult Reference Library
FRANCE

Return to Occult Library Index

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

immediately after birth, and marked, and then reared with the rest till the time of sacrificing. in frankish and alamannic documents there often occurs the word friscin, usually for porcellus, but sometimes for agnus, occasionally in the more limited sense of porcinus and agninus; the word may by 1 berlin, monatsclir. 1802. 8, 225. conf. lucas david 1, 118-122. 2 in many districts of germany and france, the butchers at a set time of the year lead through the streets a fatted ox decked with flowers and ribbons, accompanied by drum and fife, and collect drink-money. in holland they call the ox hdder, and hang gilded apples on his horns, while a butcher %valks in front with the axe (beil. all this seems a relic of some old sacriiicial rite. sacrifice. 51 its origin express recens natus, new

leading the boar round (p. 51, flowers (p. 58, minne-drinking (p. 59, even the shape of cakes, is a reminiscence of the sacrifices of heathenism (see suppl^ eneii-^av ra 2f/3n(tta) 8s)pov rov upmrarov trap' avroi^ xe^rjra, tlie most sacred cauldron tney had, strabo vii. 2- baking in the shape of a boar must have been much more widely spread than in the north alone, see below, fn'j's boar; even in france they baked cochelins lor new year's day, mem. de i'ac. celt. 4, 429. 64 worship. beside prayers and sacrifices, one essential feature of the heatlien cultus remains to be brought out: the solemn carryinfj about of divine images. the divinity was not to remain rooted to one spot, but at various times to bestow its presence on the entire compass of the land (see ch. xiv. so nerthus rode in st

niversa multitudo cum giadiis et fustibus vel omni fremitu conabantur defendere. sancta vero regina immobilis perseverans et christum in pectore gestans, equum quem sedebat in antea i.e. ulterius) non movit antequam et fanum perureretur et ipsa orante inter se populi pacem firmarent. the situation of the temple she destroyed i do not venture to determine; eadegund was journeying from thuringia to france, and somewhere on that line, not far from the ehine, the fanum may be looked for. greg. tur. vitae patrum 6: eunte rege (theoderico) in agrippinam urbem, et ipse (s. gallus) simul abiit. erat autem ibi fanum quoddam diversis ornamentis refertum, in quo barbaris (1. barbarus) opima lihamina exhibens usque ad vomitum cibo potuque replebatur. ibi et simulacra ut deum adorans, membra, secundum

herly goodness (v. supra, p. 21, the old god, dan. vor gamle fader. the norwegian calls the lightning tkorsvarmc -warmth, faye p. 6. thunder, lightning and rain, above all other natural phenomena, proceed directly from god, are looked upon as his doing, his business (see suppl^ when a great noise and racket is kept up, a common expression is: you could not hear the lord thunder for the uproar; in france: le bruit est si fort, qu'on n'entend pas dieu tonncr. as early as the roman de eenart 11898: font une noise si grant quen ni oist pas dieu tonant. 29143: et commeuqa un duel si grant, que len ui oist dieu tonant. ogier 10915: lor poins deterdent, lor paumes vont batant, ni oissiez nis ame dieu toiumt. garin 2, 38: nes dieu tonnant ni possiez oir. and in the eoman de maugis (lyon 1599, p. 6

herself by night in princely houses, she rocks or dandles the babies, while their nurses sleep: she acts the old grandmother or ayicestrcss of the family see suppl. there is a good deal in the fact, that several women of that name, who are famed in our national traditions, stand connected with the ghostly bcrhta; they have been adopted out of the divine legend into the heroic legend. in italy and france, a far distant past is expressed by the phrase' nel tempo ove berha jilava' when b. span (pentamerone. liebrecht 2, 259' au tems que la reine bertlie filait' the same idea still, of the spinning matron^ berta, the daughter of king flower and of whiteflower, afterwards the wife of king pippin and mother of the great hero charles, she who in the mlg. poem of flos is called both vredelitig and

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

till practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banne

of food, nectar and flowers and consulted on family happenings. it was believed that the ancestors as well as the living gathered around the family hearth, and so it became a natural focus for magick. the witches' cauldron started off as the iron cooking pot that hung over the fire (such pots are still used in country regions of europe- i saw one for sale quite recently in the market in rouen in france. herbal brews were not only created to cure coughs and colds but also, with magical words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother would put any small coins she could spare into a money pot and warm it near the fire to 'incubate' the money into sufficient to mend the roof or buy new coats

me the earliest calendars were based on the lunar cycle and moon time is still used in the modern world in both pagan and religious rituals: the chinese new year is a lunar festival and the chinese ritual year follows the moon and the native americans calculate their months by the moon. the coligny calendar of the gallic druids, which runs from full moon to full moon, was named after the place in france where it was discovered in 1897, engraved on bronze. similar calculations were inscribed in stone at knowth, one of the sacred ancient megalithic sites in ireland. many of the original lunar calendars were based on the natural and agricultural world and helped in establishing an agricultural calendar, noting times in the cycle when crops were planted and ripened and when birds migrated, as

ageing and mortality this festival, recalled in the modern world as hallowe'en, or all hallows eve, marked the beginning of the celtic year that officially began at sunset on 1 november. it was an occasion for welcoming home family ghosts to the family hearth where their favourite food would be left. this custom continues today in mexico and to some extent in strongly catholic countries, such as france and spain, and in france, all saints' day, 1 november, is a public holiday. in earlier times people in many lands would put garlic on west-facing windows and open the shutters to allow the good family dead to enter it was also the time when the cattle were brought from the hills for the winter and either put in byres or slaughtered for meat, having been driven between twin fires to purify t

en, even if it is not fully day, light the third candle, replacing and re-lighting the others if they are almost burned down, saying: the sun comes forth from the cave, in joy and glory and promise; we join our light with the rays of the new morning* spend the morning out of doors, if possible, collecting greenery, or making tiny clay figures of the nativity figures, santons as they are called in france, to create a personalised nativity, including figures to represent your family and friends* at noon, light the fourth candle, again after replacing any that are burned through, saying: i rejoice that the light surrounds us; the sun lives and thrives and multiplies in a thousand cascading sunbeams* if possible, enjoy a festive meal with family and friends and make a phone call or perhaps tak

ABRAMELIN1

at of hungary, whom he afterwards married. he was nominated by his father-in-law his successor on the throne of poland. but the nobles preferred ladislaus, the nephew of casimir the great. however, in 1386, he took possession of hungary, repulsed the poles, overcame the rebellious nobles; and then marched against the wallachians and turks, but he was beaten, and later, notwithstanding the help of france and england, he lost the battle of nicopolis in 1396, he escaped on board a vessel in the black sea, and for eighteen months was a fugitive from his kingdom; and at the moment of his re-entering hungary he was made prisoner by the discontented nobles, and shut up in the citadel of ziklos. escaping thence into bohemia, he, however, reconquered his throne, and in 1410 was raised to the empire

the death of josse, and the resignation of wenceslaus, left sigismond sole master of the empire. after having received the silver crown at aix-la-chapelle in 1414, he went to preside at the council of constance, where john huss was condemned, notwithstanding the safe conduct which he had obtained from the emperor. he endeavoured to end the differences between the roman and greek churches, visited france and england under pretext of reconciling charles vi. and henry v, but, as some say, in order to form a league with the latter against france, so as to recover the ancient kingdom of arles. the death of his brother, wenceslaus, in 1409, rendered him master of boheinia, at the moment when the revolt of the hussites was at its height. he commenced a war of extermination against them, but was d

ABRAMELIN3

iture. had i been of noble birth i might have demanded much more and have profited less. when any one demanded of me: eh! how have you managed to gain so much? i would reply thereto that it is a fine thing to know by certain knowledge how much such or such a thing is worth here, and how much it is worth elsewhere, that this year, wheat, barley, and other crops, will be cheap in italy, and dear in france, etc, etc; and that commerce well managed, enricheth any one. as for what concerneth the manner of treating and commanding the spirits, it is an easy thing unto whomsoever walketh by the proper paths; and it is a very difficult thing for whomsoever through ignorance submitteth himself unto them. i have heard say that there be some men who pass for being famous herein, such as a certain blin

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

practically every great man has been thus marked, and these periods are those during which the heroic spirit has died out of their nation, and the burgeois is apparently triumphant. in this case the cause is evidently the horror of life induced in the artist by the contemplation of his surroundings. he must find another world, no matter at what cost. consider the end of the eighteenth century. in france the men of genius are made, so to speak, possible, by the revolution. in england, under castlereagh, we find blake lost to humanity in mysticism, shelley and byron exiles, coleridge taking refuge in opium, keats sinking under the weight of circumstance, wordsworth forced to sell his soul, while the enemy, in the persons of southey and moore, triumphantly holds sway. the poetically similar p

e men of genius are made, so to speak, possible, by the revolution. in england, under castlereagh, we find blake lost to humanity in mysticism, shelley and byron exiles, coleridge taking refuge in opium, keats sinking under the weight of circumstance, wordsworth forced to sell his soul, while the enemy, in the persons of southey and moore, triumphantly holds sway. the poetically similar period in france is 1850 to 1870. hugo is in exile, and all his brethren are given to absinthe or to hashish or to opium. there is however another consideration more important. there are some men who possess the understanding of the city of god, and know not the keys; or, if they possess them, have not force to turn them in the wards. such men often seek to win heaven by forged credentials. just so a youth

wells in the sahara desert. the legion of honor glows red in his shabby surtout. he comes here, one of the many wrecks of the panama canal, a piece of jetsam cast up by that tidal wave of speculation and corruption. he is of the old type, the thrifty peasantry; and he has his little income from the rente. he says that he is too old to cross the ocean--and why should he, with the atmosphere of old france to be had a stone's throw from his little apartment in bourbon street? it is a curious type of house that one finds in this quarter in new orleans; meagre without, but within one comes unexpectedly upon great spaces, carved wooden balconies on which the rooms open. so he dreams away his honored days in the old absinthe house. his rusty black, with its worn red button, is a noble wear. black

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

xistence, the dragon is given a place of pre-eminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backl

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ilure. as it is written: in the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the infernal gods! the englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. all moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every new code there is hope. provided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because if is fulfilled. the dead dog floats with the stream; in puritan france the best women are harlots; in vicious england the best women are virgins. if only the archbishop of canterbury were to go make in the streets and beg his bread! the new christ, like the old, it the friend of publicans and sinners; because his nature is ascetic. o if everyman did no matter what, provided that it is the one thing that he will not and cannot do [130] commentary( xi) the title

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

certainly not give him sight. a similar phenomenon is observed when a gentleman who has taken an "honours degree" in modern languages at cambridge arrives in paris, and is unable to order his dinner. to exclaim against the master therion is to act like a person who, observing this, should attack both the professors of french and the inhabitants of paris, and perhaps go on to deny the existence of france. let us say, once again, that the magical language is nothing but a convenient system of classification to enable the magician to docket his experiences as he obtains them. yet this is true also, that, once the language is mastered, one can divine the unknown by study of the known, just as one's knowledge of latin and greek enables one to understand some unfamiliar english word derived from

logous. for my nature is such that i am compelled to perform magick in order to make my will to prevail; so that the cause of my doing the work is also the cause of the ball's motion, and there is no reason why one should precede the other (cf "lewis carroll" where the red queen screams before she pricks her finger "let me illustrate the theory by an actual example "i write from italy to a man in france and another in australia on the same day, telling them to join me. both arrive ten days later; the first in answer to my letter, which he received, the second on "his own initiative, as it would seem. but i summoned him because i wanted him; and i wanted him because he was my representative; and his intelligence made him resolve to join me because it judged rightly that the situation (so fa

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

nd oxygen gas. heat copper in a stream of oxygen; you obtain copper oxide. you can complicate such experiments indefinitely, as when one analyzes coal-tar, or synthesizes complex products like quinine from its elements; but one can always describe what happens as a series of simple operations, either of the analytical or the synthetic type (i wonder if you remember a delightful passage in anatole france where he interprets an "exalted" mystical statement, first by giving the words their meaning as concrete images, when he gets a magnificent hymn, like a passage from the rig-veda; secondly, by digging down to the original meaning, with an effect comical and even a little ribald. i fear i have no idea where to find it; in one of the "odds and ends" compilations most likely. so please, look s

demand at work as uncomplainingly as usual: the holy man prays for the threatened dynasty, blesses the barren queen; and they all live happy ever after. this is not an arabian night's tale of antiquity; it is the same today: there are very few englishmen who have spent any time in india who have not been approached with proposals of this character. similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in france; the "fils papa" was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the riviera, where was an exceptionally holy image of the blessed virgin mary, prayers unto whom removed sterility. but when m. combes turned out the monks, the image somehow lost it virtue. now get your bible and turn up luke viii, 2! when the sal volatile has worked, turn to john xiii 2,3

took 10,000 francs (at about 125 to the oe; she took three weeks in hospital and three weeks' holiday between the shows. she was, or had been, the mistress of a minister magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 307 40 with "peuple" ideas, though he was an aristocrat of very old vintage; and he helped her to have her daughters brought up in one of the most exclusive convents in france. chapter lxxix progress cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. you will certainly have to have an india-rubber medal for persistence: this is the nth time that you have tried to catch me contradicting myself. well, so i do, and must, every time i make any statement whatever, as has been shown several times in this chatty little interchange of views. but that is not wha

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

s to assume that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is either greater than or less than two right angles, instead of equal to them, we can construct two new systems of geometry, each perfectly consistent with itself, and we possess no means soever of deciding which of the three represents truth. i may illustrate this point by a simple analogy. we are accustomed to assert that we go from france to china, a form of expression which assumes that those countries are stationary, while we are mobile. but the fact might be equally well expressed by saying that france left us and china came to us. in either case there is no implication of absolute motion, for the course of the earth through space is not taken into account. we implicitly refer to a standard of repose which, in point of fa

s as she wants or can get; and she defies the world to interfere with her. more power to her- elbow! the war has seen this emancipation flower in four years. primitive people, the australian troops for example, are saying that they will not marry english girls, because english girls like a dozen men a week. well, who wants them to marry? russia has already formally abrogated marriage. germany and france have tried to 'save their faces' in a thoroughly chinese manner, by 'marrying' pregnant spinsters to dead soldiers! england has been too deeply hypocritical, of course, to do more than "hush things up; and is pretending 'business as usual, though every pulpit is aquake with the clamour of bat-eyed bishops, squeaking of the awful immorality of everybody but themselves and their choristers. e

rrors, tortures, and temptations (parts ii and iii of book 4 elaborate this thesis at length) we are so caked with dirt that the germs of disease cannot reach us. if we decide to wash, we must do it well; or we may have awakened some sleeping dogs, and set them on defenceless areas. initiation stirs up the mud. it creates unstable equilibrium. it exposes our elements to unfamiliar conditions. the france of louis xvi had to pass through the terror before napoleon could teach it to find itself. similarly, any error in reaching the realization of hadit may abandon the aspirant to the ambitions of every frenzied faction of his character, the masterless dogs of the augean kennel of his mind. al ii,28 "now a curse upon because and his kin" the old comment 28. the great curse pronounced by the su

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

sed girl to lecture her more favourite sister on the very point for which she herself was at that moment being punished. it is the spite of baffled dissimulation against triumphant honesty. goneril adds a word of positive advice. you, she says in effect, who prate of duty thus, see you show it unto him unto who you owe it. that this advice is wasted is clear from act v. sc. iii, where the king of france takes the first trivial opportunity* to be free of the vile creature he had so foolishly married. cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man s failing mind; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the english people to depend upon his whims. bad women would have rejoiced in the banishment of kent, whom they al

de of a strong man, and a righteous one. primogeniture is wrong enough; the other shame, no fault of his, would make the blood of any free man boil. gloucester enters, and exhibits himself as a prize fool by shouting in disjointed phrases what everybody knew. great news it is, of course, and on discovering edmund, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more! kent banished thus! and france in choler parted! and the king gone to-night! subscrib d his power! confin d to exhibition! all this done upon the gad! edmund, how now! what news (act i. sc. ii. ll 23-26. edmund forces a card by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. gloucester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to axiomania in its crudest form, we have seen the best of our time: machination

ly vile cordelia, with no pity for her father s serious condition (though no doubt he deserved all he got, he was now harmless and should have inspired compassion, hanging to him in the hope that he would no reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of great england. and were any doubt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizanship of france should settle it. shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for the french; never aught but praise of england and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the english for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated frenchmen? moreover, cordelia reckons without her host. the british bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels

any word but ridicule for the french; never aught but praise of england and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the english for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated frenchmen? moreover, cordelia reckons without her host. the british bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the connivance of the king of france, who, with great and praiseworthy acuteness, forsees that cordelia will be hanged, thus liberating him from his most filthy bargain: there is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is won; for even if we exonerate the king of france, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the french. thi

ue of* crowley confuses two common pastoral amusements throwing wooden balls at cocoanuts and sticks at aunt sally. the metaphor, such elasticity having led prof. bl mengarten to surmise them to be indiarubber trees. 27. truth, that s the gold. 12 two poets of croisic, clii. 1, and elsewhere. 28. i, you, or simpkin. 13 inn album, l. 143. simpkin has nothing to do with the foaming grape of eastern france. 36. aischulos.14 see agamemnon (browning s translation, preface. 40. aristobulus.15 may be scanned elsehow by pedants. cf. swinburne s curious scansion arjstpphanes. but the scansion adopted here gives a more credible rhyme. 42. batracomuomacia.16 aristophanes batrachoi. 46. mine of so many pounds pouch even pence of it?17 this line was suggested to me by a large holder of westralians. 47

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

ve got my real eyes, therefore you can force others to see as i see; but you have not the real eyes of rembrandt, or velasquez, or titian; you have not the physical key to the souls of the great masters of the past; and so your work can only apply to the present and to the future. but that is enough, and more than enough' he added quickly 'go on: there are millais' eyes to get too; and corot's in france, and half a dozen others; and glad i shall be to put you on the scent. you will do wonderful things, my friend, wonderful things "i was mightily uplifted by his praise and heart-glad, too, in my own way; but resolved at the same time not to give up the idea of making velasquez-glasses and rembrandt-glasses; for i had come to know and to admire these masters through rossetti's talk. he was a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas l vi (a complete translation of "dogme et rituel de la haute magie, with a biographical preface by arthur e. waite, author of "devil worship in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the ston

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 3

any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. well aware that i was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, i allowed them to advance and attend upon me. in that way began my new life as master of a harem. at first the negroes treated me with a certain reserve, even with hostility; but they soon changed, seeing me so tame and amiable. as the story goes, the king of france and forty thousand men they drew their swords and put them back again. but i now perceive that my narrative will appear almost incoherent if i do not at this point of the history pass over a few incidents and the daily toil of civilising, in order to state immediately the chief facts. the negroes after a while submitted to me; my two wives are most attentive, and wait upon me with a laudabl

ly printed, deserves a place on every bookshelf. it contains the essential knowledge of our own community in the christian- but not too christian- dialect. i have bought a dozen copies to give to my friends. meister eckhart's sermons. translated by claude field, m.a. same price and publisher. too pedantic and theological to please me, though i daresay he means well. the worship of satan in modern france. by arthur lillie. swan sonnenschein and co, 6"s. arthur lillie is as convenient as mrs. boole from the standpoint of the poet. i should add that the catch-penny title is entirely misleading, and has no discoverable connection with the contents, save those of a short preface, cribbed, like the title, from mr. waite's "devil-worship in france" what a wicked place france is! the workshop of r

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

istence of a sword and dagger in my hands. i was bleeding, too; my left arm twice grazed. i took out my watch; four o'clock. since i left the bridge- ah! when had i left the bridge? i could not tell- yes, i could. at moon-set. the moon was nine days old "no; everything was real. i examined the sword and 123 the stiletto. silver-gilt; blades of exquisite fineness; the cipher of a princely house of france shone in tiny diamonds upon the pommels "the thought sent new courage and determination thrilling through me. i had saved a princess from shame and torture; i loved her! she loved me, for i had saved her- ah! but i had not yet saved her. that was to do "but how to act? i had plenty of time. jean would not return to the house, in all probability. but the markets were stirring; the weapons an

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

they reflected the sky as an ape imitates man, in a way inferior, poorly, servilely. and a certain uncanny look which never quite left him made that man an undesirable neighbour to me. had i not seen him i would refuse to admit the reality of his existence. 295 "i met him during a journey. comfortably seated in a corner of the railway compartment, i was reading a book of the sixteenth century in france merely to occupy my mind, so that i should not be tempted to look through the window at the too commonplace scenery "we had just passed a station, as i knew by the disturbing voice of a porter; and, on resuming my journey, i felt sorry that no companion of travel had entered the lonely carriage. i attempted another perusal of my book, when, without any opening of the door or of the window

hysician of nervous diseases, st. joseph's hospital, providence. ernest jones, m.d, demonstrator of psychiatry, university of toronto. tom a. williams, m.d. crown 8vo, cloth, 4/6 net; post free 4/10. mysterious psychic forces. an acount of the author's investigations in psychical research, together with those of other european savants. by camille flammarion, director of the observatory of juvisy, france. author of "the unknown" etc. etc. with 21 illustrations. demy 8vo, cloth, 8/6 net; post free 8/11. psychical research and the resurrection. by james h. hyslop, ph.d, ll.d, author of "enigmas of psychical research" and "science and a future life" formerly professor of ethics and logic at columbia university. large crown 8vo, cloth, 5/-net; post free 54 sic, s.b "5/4. psychotherapy. by hugo

d in curious old literature should write to frank hollings for his catalogue of over 1,000 volumes. sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. a few selected items below. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas l vi (a complete translation of "dogme et rituel de la haute magie, with a biographical preface by arthur e. waite, author of "devil worship in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the sto

stract of an essay upon the chinese qabbalah, a translation of part of the mystic theology of dionysus, the areopagite, etc. etc, by isaac myers, ll.b. royal 4to, large paper, with diagrams and illustrations, cloth, t. e g, others uncut, philadelphia, 1888. 35s. nostrodamus_ the true prophecies and prognostications of michel nostrodamus, physician to henry ii, francis ii, and charles ix, kings of france, and one of the best astronomers that ever were; a work full of curiosity and learning, translated and commented by theophilus garienceres, m.d. folio, fine portrait frontispiece by dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state, 1672. 45s sanders (richard, student in the divine and celestial sciences) physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signa

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

ish, or at least, as repeated experiments have shown, unfitted to give a drug which is equal in power to hashish. hashish, or indian hemp("cannabis indica, is a plant of the family of "urticacea" resembling in every respect the hemp of our latitudes, except that it does not attain the same height. it possesses very extraordinary intoxicating properties, which for some years past have attracted in france the attention of men of science and of the world. it is more or less highly esteemed according to its different sources: that of bengal is the most prized by europeans; that, however, of egypt, of constantinople, of persia, and 63 of algeria enjoys the same properties, but in an inferior degree. hashish (or grass; that is to say "the" grass "par excellence" as if the arabs had wished to def

, sometimes a slumber doubtful and thronged with dreams. there are, however, some phenomena which occur regularly enough; above all, in the case of persons of a regular temperament and education; there is a kind of unity in its variety which 65 will allow me to edit, without too much trouble, this monograph on hashish-drunkenness of which i spoke before. at constantinople, in algeria, and even in france, some people smoke hashish mixed with tobacco, but then the phenomena in question only occur under a form much moderated, and, so to say, lazy. i have heard it said that recently, by means of distillation, an essential oil has been drawn from hashish which appears to possess a power much more active than all the preparations hitherto known, but it has not been sufficiently studied for me to

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

ything in order with the object of carrying out the operation of abramelin the mage. i had studied ceremonial magic, and had obtained very remarkable success. my gods were those of egypt, interpreted on lines closely akin to those of greece. in philosophy i was a realist of the qabalistic school. in 1900 i left england for mexico, and later the far east, ceylon, india, burma, baltistan, egypt and france. it is idle here to detail the corresponding progress of my thought; and passing through a stage of hinduism, i had discarded all deities as unimportant, and in philosophy was an uncompromising nominalist, arrived at what i may describe as an orthodox buddhist; but however with the following reservations (1) i cannot deny that certain phenomena "do" accompany the use of certain rituals; i o

ildren of the east live under a sunnier sky than their western brethren: they are the "repositors" of centuries of tradition; their semi-civilised imagination is unbound by the fetters of logic and the schools" but the ionians once answered all these conditions, yet homer sang no eblis, no superhuman journey on the wings of genii through infinitudes of rosy either. at one period of their history, france, germany, and england abounded in all the characteristics of the untutored old world mind, yet when did an echo of oriental music ring from the lute of minstrel, 243 "minnesinger" or "trov re" the difference can not be accounted for by climate, religion, or manners. it is not the supernatural in arabian story which is inexplicable, but the peculiar phase of the supernatural both in beauty a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

m a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first throwing him coins, soon desert him to follow a foolish egyptian wizard. no beast cometh to his call. xx. he argueth out that there can be but on beast. following single tracks, he at length findeth the quarry, but on pursuit it eldueth hi by multiplying itself. this on the wide plains of france. xxi. he gathereth an army sufficient to chase the whole herd. in england's midst they rush upon them; but the herd join together, leading on the kinghts, who at length rush together into a "m l e" wherein all but sir palamede are slain, while the beast, as ever, standeth aloof, laughing. xxii. he argueth its existence from design of the cosmos, noting that its tracks form a geometrical fig

in the smoke. sir palamede is all alone, wrapped in his misery like a cloak, despairing now to charm the unknown. so arms and horse he takes again. sir palamede hath overthrown the jesters. now the country men, stupidly staring, see at noon sir palamede the saracen a-riding like an harvest moon in silver arms, with glittering lance, with plum d helm, and wing d shoon, athwart the admiring land of france. 55 xx sir palamede hat reasoned out beyond the shadow of a doubt that this his questing beast is one; for were it beasts, he must suppose an earlier beast to father those. so all the tracks of herds that run into the forest he discards, and only turns his dark regards on single prints, on marks unique. sir palamede doth now attain unto a wide and grassy plain, whereon he spies the thing to

, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas l vi (a complete translation of "dogme et rituel de la haute magie, with a biographical preface by arthur e. waite, author of "devil worship in france" etc. etc. portrait of the author, and all the original engravings. 8vo, 406 pp, cloth, 1896. published 15s offered at 7s. 6p. the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the ston

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

n heresies and secret societies- viii. jesuitry and masonry- ix. the vedas an the bible- x. the devil myth- xi. comparative results of buddhism and christianity- xii. conclusions and illustrations. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas levi (a complete translation of "dogme et rituel de la haute magie, with a biographical preface by arthur e. waite, author of "devil worship in france" etc, etc "portrait of the author, and all the original engravings" 8vo, 406 pp "cloth" 1896 (pub. 15"s. postage free. 10"s" 6"d" the pillars of the temple, triangle of solomon, the tetragram, the pentagram, magical equilibrium, the fiery sword, realsation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the s

ised and enlarged, 8vo "cloth" 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 digested form the entire writings of eliphas levi. nostrodamus- the true prophecies and prognostications of michael nostrodamus, physician to henry ii, francis ii, and charles ix, kings of france, and one of the best astronomers that ever were; a work full of curiosity and learning, translated and commented by theophilus garienceres, m.d. folio "fine portrait frontispiece by dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state" 1672. 45"s" the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated and edited from ancient mss. in the british museum, by s. liddell macgregor-mather

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

french. 1 we are further glad to hear such good reports from every branch. the north and the midlands are already making london look to its laurels; the west has surpassed all hope; america, south africa, burma, india, the malay peninsula, west africa, all thrive. australia has received an important addition to its strength; we have excellent accounts from british columbia, paraguay, and brazil. france is being specially nursed at present, but holland, switzerland, and germany need no such aid. the work in spain is still hampered by political conditions, and we are sorry to hear little from italy. in algeria and egypt work has got somewhat into arrear, but we hope that the winter will see the fundamental task fairly accomplished. as we go to press, we are overjoyed to receive the most exc

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

future and to the formulation of spells to increase fertility or destroy enemies. as long ago as the stone age the wise man of the tribe was dressed in an animal skin; he was called 'devil, which meant 'little god, and was worshipped by his followers as the chief god's representative. the earliest record of this custom is a palaeolithic painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol of benevolent power in primitive times. another, a man disguised as a jackal, carved on slate, dates back to archaic egypt. in about 1100 b.c. women and officers of the harem of rameses iii were brought to trial for making wax images of the pharaoh to the accompaniment of magic incantations. these ima

iscovering and punishing witches and ways m which magic could be harmful. the book, which by. 1520 had run to fourteen editions, confirmed popular misconceptions and hostility towards witchcraft and was to influe ce public opinion in europe until after the reformation (protestants were even greater witch-haters than their predecessors. one of the first countries to declare war on witches had been france, where they .were burnt at the stake several decades before the papal bull. at that time whole villages still followed the old religion and even the priests, who were mostly drawn from the peasant class, were only outwardly christian. having tried to stamp out witchcraft by persuasion, the clergy, backed by civil law, overcame it by force-the same fate as had befallen the ancient religions

ecutorsand witch-prickers had done their work well. the books of magic, or 'grimoires' as they were called, were seized upon by collectors-many of the witches' closest secrets were discovered in the key of solomon, a copy of which is preserved in the british museum. clutching the remnants of their faith, the survivors of the witch-hunts went underground. but not for long. eliphas levi was born in france in 1810. roman catholic priest and magician, levi was not ashamed to announce that he was a witch and could conjure up spirits. later he revealed his methods to an english occult group led by bulwer lytton, the novelist. soon half a dozen similar societies had sprung up. the members dabbled in magic and witchcraft, blackand white, the former for revenge and even murder, the latter for heali

too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamedly declared it by her dress in an age when witches were the only females who would wear men's clothing. the terror alex had felt when he first heard of her dying in the flames was allayed when he learnt that condemned witches were usually helped by their companions at liberty. if drugs like dwale or foxglove could not be smuggled into gaol, then witches in the crowd round the p

ole purpose oftheir visit to england was to. meet him. he felt flattered, and. a little afraid 'arewe to wlderstand that you are directly. descended from a line ofwitches dating back to .the 'middle ages' asked mrg. alexconfirmed that he was 'and that you are the.acknowledged master of witchcraf in euil.ope' alex explained that he believed so, although he had not' hadl1luch.contact with covens in,france and belgium 'but is there anyone more experienced in witchcraft and its magic than you?'mr g.was insistent. alexreplied thatifthere weresucha person, he had not met him.ereve heatd ofhim 'why are the priests of kati so interestedjnwitchcraft? are yon seeking initiation' the .man smiled and,assured him.that they. were entirely satisfied with their own. religion and had no wish to become witc

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

on. the effects of their work are still to be felt, for the modern humanistic movement with its emphasis upon the past which is completed in the present, and its search for the roots of man's equipment in the earlier trends, harks back to the renaissance. revolution and the determination to fight for the divine rights of man find their prime inaugurating influence and impetus in the revolution in france. revolt, the formation of political parties, the class warfare which is so rampant today and the splitting of every country into warring political groups, though sporadic always, have- 237- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust become universal during the past two hundred years, and are all the results of the group activity started by the masters. men have grown thereby and h

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

tice. so much for its influence on religious thought; its other aspects will be considered later. we have also been told that the religious revival under wesley and whitfield in england was under the sixth subray, and i think we are justified in drawing the inference that the rise of molinos and the quietists in spain and central europe, and of st. martin and his band of spiritual philosophers in france and elsewhere, may have also marked the progress of the same period, during which the ray of devotion was accentuated by its own sixth sub-ray. with these few isolated facts before us we may perhaps conclude that the time during which each sub-ray exerts its modifying influence is between one hundred and fifty and two hundred years. we do not know how often (perhaps seven times) the sub-ray

exploitation and control by the religious demagogues, fervent prophets and reactionaries. disciples or workers on the second ray are now actively handling this problem. it is interesting to note that the reason for the success in breaking down old barriers and in bringing about a condition of spiritual readiness everywhere in the occident, is largely due to the work of the orientalist scholars in france, germany and england. they have made the literature of the east available, in all its beauty, to the west, and so have linked the spiritual truths of all ages with the truth of the christian presentation, showing them all to be of equal progressive value. now the masses in india, china, and northern africa must be awakened to the inner significance of their own faiths, and to the part that

n rays, governing certain nations, are at this time out of incarnation. nation personality ray egoic ray motto india. 4th ray of art. 1st ray of "i hide the light" government- 237- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust china .3 rd ray of intellect .1 st ray of "i indicate the way" government germany. 1st ray of power .4 th ray of art "i preserve" france. 3rd ray of intellect. 5th ray of. i release the light" knowledge great britain. 1st ray of power .2 nd ray of love "i serve" or government italy .4 th ray of art. 6th ray of idealism" i carve the paths" u.s.a. 6th ray of idealism .2 nd ray of love "i light the way" russia. 6th ray of idealism .7 th ray of" i link two ways" magic and order austria .5 th ray of knowledge .4 th ray of art "i

art "i serve the lighted way" spain. 7th ray of order. 6th ray of "i disperse the clouds" idealism brazil .2 nd ray of love. 4th ray of art "i hide the seed" a close analysis of the above will indicate certain lines of racial understanding. there is a natural rapport indicated between the modern and present personality rays of germany and great britain, and yet a relationship can be seen between france and great britain through their esoteric national mottoes and also between the two symbols which are esoterically theirs. the symbol for france is the fleur de lys, which she adopted centuries ago under divine guidance, which symbol stands for the three divine aspects in manifestation. the emphasis is upon the third aspect, producing intelligent manifestation. the symbol of great britain, u

the prince of wales. the scintillating and brilliant french intellect, with its scientific bent, is accounted for by the interplay of the third ray of active intelligence with the fifth ray of scientific understanding. hence their amazing contribution to the knowledge and thought of the world, and their brilliant and colourful history. be it remembered also that the glory of the empire which was france is but the guarantee of a glory of divine revelation which lies ahead in the future, but which will never be theirs till they cease living in the wonder of their past and go forth into the future to demonstrate the fact of illumination, which is the goal of all mental effort. when the intellect of the french is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, th

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

urity, of adolescent thinking, of uncontrolled childish emotions and of a demand by anti-social nations for that which does not belong to them. like children, they cry for "more. the intense isolationism and the "hands off" policy of certain groups in the united states, the demand for a white australia or south africa, the cry of "america for the americans, or british imperialism, the shouting of france for recognition, are other instances. they all indicate inability to think in larger terms; they are an expression of world irresponsibility; they indicate- 7- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust also the childishness of the race which fails to grasp the extent of the whole of which each nation is a part. war and the constant demand for territorial boundaries, based on ancient h

ssessive greed and competition. this is the inevitable next step ahead for humanity one for which the entire evolutionary process has prepared mankind. it was selfishness and self-interest which prevented several nations from siding with the forces of light; they preserved a selfish neutrality and lengthened the war by years. is it not possible that when germany first marched into poland and when france and great britain consequently declared war upon germany, if the entire civilized world of nations (without exception) had likewise declared war and banded together for the defeat of the aggressor, the war would not have lasted as long as it did? interior politics, international jealousies, ancient distrusts and hatreds, fear and a refusal to recognize the facts produced disunity. had all n

e they have been so long established, the voices of the conservatives carry weight and because humanity is tired, almost any action will be taken to ensure a rapid return to the normalcy, demanded by the conservatives, unless those who have the new vision act with promptness and with wisdom and of this there is too little indication at this time- 9- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust france a clamour is arising from france that her ancient glory be recognized, that her ancient task of representing the major, civilizing influence in old europe be remembered, and that france be safeguarded and protected. she demands that nothing be done without consulting her. yet for decades, france has given to the world a picture of great disunity and of political corruption and graft; she ha

done without consulting her. yet for decades, france has given to the world a picture of great disunity and of political corruption and graft; she has always evidenced a deep love and desire for material gratification, priding herself on her realism, but not on any spiritual idealism, and substituting the brilliance of the intellect and keen scientific perception for the subjective realities. has france learned from her collapse in the summer of 1940 that the values of the spirit must take the place of those which have hitherto motivated her? does she realize that she has to regain the respect of the world a respect which she lost when she surrendered and sought collaboration, thus proving herself innately weaker than those much smaller nations which fought until forced to accept defeat? c

nce learned from her collapse in the summer of 1940 that the values of the spirit must take the place of those which have hitherto motivated her? does she realize that she has to regain the respect of the world a respect which she lost when she surrendered and sought collaboration, thus proving herself innately weaker than those much smaller nations which fought until forced to accept defeat? can france emerge from this time of trial, purified and able to demonstrate a new capacity to think in terms of unselfish international relations and not solely in terms of the material civilization which she demonstrated so wonderfully for so many centuries? she can and eventually she will. her brilliant intellect (when turned to the study of the things of the spirit) can outstrip the researchings of

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

but always too with an eye to profit. the united states would also gladly undertake to force the american brand of democracy upon the world, using her vast capital and resources in so doing, and gathering into her banks the financial results of her widespread financial dealings, preserving them safely by the threat of the atomic bomb and the shaking of the mailed fist over the rest of the world. france will keep europe in a state of unrest as she seeks to regain her lost prestige and garner all she can from the victory of the other allied nations. thus the story goes each nation fighting for itself, and all rating each other in terms of resources and finance. in the meantime, humanity starves, remains uneducated, and is brought up on false values and the wrong use of money. until these th

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

er materially or egoically; some of the problems may be due to the fact that certain rays, governing certain nations, are not at this time active. see table (page 50) a close analysis of the following will reveal certain lines of racial understanding. there is a natural rapport indicated between the present personality rays of germany and great britain, yet a relationship can be seen also between france and great britain through their esoteric national mottoes and also between the two symbols which are also theirs. the symbol for france is the fleur de lys, which she adopted centuries ago under divine guidance, which symbol stands for the three divine aspects in manifestation. the symbol for great britain, under the same divine apportioning, is the three feathers, carried as the arms of th

the prince of wales. the scintillating and brilliant french intellect with its scientific bent is accounted for by the interplay of the third ray of active intelligence with the fifth ray of scientific understanding. hence their amazing contribution to the knowledge and the thought of the world and their brilliant and colourful history. be it remembered also that the glory of the empire which was france is but the guarantee of a glory of divine revelation which lies ahead in the future; it will never be theirs until they cease living in the wonder of their past and go forth into the future to demonstrate the fact of illumination which is the goal of all mental effort. when the intellect of the french is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they

future to demonstrate the fact of illumination which is the goal of all mental effort. when the intellect of the french is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they will carry revelation to the world. when their egoic ray dominates the third ray and when the separative action of the fifth ray is transmuted into the revealing function of this ray, then france will enter into a period of new glory. her empire will then be of the mind and her glory of the soul. it is obvious that the governing faculty of the ray of will or power is the outstanding characteristic of great britain. england is an exponent of the art of control and her function has been to produce the first tentative grouping of federated nations the world has seen and to demonstrate

nation must play in the history of nations. every nation without exception has its peculiar virtues and vices which are dependent upon the point in evolution, the measure of control of the personality ray, the emerging control of the soul ray, and the general focus of the nation. it is useful to bear in mind that some nations are negative and feminine and others are masculine and positive. india, france, the united states of america, russia and brazil are all feminine and constitute the nurturing mother aspect. they are feminine in their psychology intuitive, mystical, alluring, beautiful, fond of display and colour, and with the faults also of the feminine aspect, such as over emphasis upon the material aspects of life, upon pageantry, upon possession and upon money or its equivalent as a

ical, governing, standardising, group-conscious, occult by inclination, aggressive, full of grandeur, interest in law and in laying the emphasis upon race and empire. but they are more inclusive and think in wider terms than the feminine aspects of divine manifestation. national relationships and the major intellectual cleavages are based also upon the governing ray influences. spain, austria and france, being governed by the seventh, fifth and third rays, have a close inter-relation. this worked out in a most interesting manner in the middle ages, and the destinies of these three nations were closely related. the newly forming country of the united states is likewise spiritually and intimately associated in its form aspect with brazil, russia and italy; hence the early influx of certain t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

t to this day i attempt to live by the note that they struck. they were very different. miss godby was plain, quite ordinary in background and equipment, but sound and sweet. my aunt was exceedingly beautiful, well-known for her philanthropies and religious views but equally sound and sweet. at 18 years of age i was sent to a finishing school in london, whilst my sister again went to the south of france with a governess. it was the first time we had ever been separated and the first time i was ever on my own. i do not think i was a great success at school; i was good at history and literature, really very good. i had been given a good classical education and there is something to be said for the intensive and individual training acquired if the child is taught by a good and cultured privat

at saving souls, but i wonder now from the angle of more worldly wisdom if they did not get saved with rapidity in order to get rid of me, so pertinacious and earnest was i. at the same time, the mystical trend of my life was steadily deepening; christ was an ever-present reality to me. i would go off on to the moors in scotland or wander away alone in the orange groves of mentone in the south of france or the hillsides of montreux on lake geneva and try to feel god. i would lie on my back in a field or by a rock and try to listen to the silence all around me and to hear the voice after the many voices of nature and within myself were stilled. i knew that behind all that i could see and touch there was a something that could not be seen but which could be felt and which was more real and m

then i really did laugh. we got off at avignon for a meal and went into the restaurant there. a very nervous waiter came in. he gave- 54- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust me one look and dropped three dozen plates one by one out of his hand i honestly believe because i sat there weeping and weeping. the other thing that made me laugh happened at a little wayside station in france where the train stopped for ten minutes. a lady in our compartment got off the train to go to the ladies' room. trains were not as comfortable in those days as they are now and lacked all kinds of accommodation. we dignified the ladies' room by the name w.c. she came back to the train doubled up with laughter and said to me, when she could catch her breath "my dear, as you know, i went to t

rom him. no money came from him and in 1916 i consulted a lawyer about getting a divorce. i could not face the prospect of going back to him or subjecting the children to his tempers and sulkiness. he had given no indication that he had learned anything and evidenced no sense of responsibility where the children and i were concerned. in 1917, when the united states entered the war, he went out to france with the y.m.c.a, and was in france for the duration. he did most distinguished work and was given the croix de guerre. i, therefore, cancelled the divorce proceedings at that time, as there was a strong feeling against women getting divorces when their husbands were absent at the front. it never seemed to me really logical, because the man at the front or the man at home are just the same

tuation between my three girls and myself would be clearly explained. do not infer from this that we always get on. there have been stormy scenes and misunderstandings. they have not always understood me, and i have often agonised over them, and wanted to change things, and hoped they would act differently, etc, etc. it was towards the close of 1917 that walter evans went out with the y.m.c.a, to france and my friend, the bishop, arranged that i should have an allotment of one hundred dollars a month from his salary. this was sent direct to me by the y.m.c.a, until his work with them ceased. this, with my own small income (which was beginning to dribble through more regularly) enabled me to drop my work as a sardine packer and make other plans. my work with the theosophical lodge in pacifi

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

it will not hurt him to know this. so, my brothers, we face a new cycle of work and one in which c.d.p. and p.d.w. working on the inner side of life are definitely sharing. the latter has moved on into the ashram of his master, the master morya. he is now preoccupied with the work of breaking up along with other trusted first ray disciples the crystallisation which is the disastrous condition of france. his past incarnation in the french nation has well fitted him for this task; his heart of love and his very profound development will also enable him greatly to assist, thus offsetting the destructive tendencies of the first ray worker. he has never been destructive in his application of truth. c.d.p. is working continuously with the children of the world (including those who died victims

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

st illuminating study. it would be found that the first faint indications were felt around 1575 a.d. this was due to the fact that permission for the inflow of this force was given when demanded at the centennial conference of the hierarchy, held in 1425. i referred to this conference in my earlier writings*(5) in the second group of changing ideologies and of reaction to mass need, you will find france, germany, italy, spain and portugal, all of whom have altered their ancient policies, changed their forms of government and reacted gradually and slowly to the shamballa force. they have, however, reacted to that force through the medium of certain great and outstanding personalities who were peculiarly sensitive to the will-to-power and the will-to-change and who (during the past 150 years

eir own by right. this spirit of acquisitiveness belongs to no one group; it has been a universal and general fault, and has produced the present disastrous economic situation, thus precipitating the world into war, hate and cruelty. the fusion of many minds into one directed activity is today of supreme importance; this has been symbolised in the union which now exists between two great nations, france and great britain. unity of directed thought and purpose is the guarantee of inevitable and future success. the power of massed thought is omnipotent. the potency of focussed and directed mental activity is unpredictable. if you accept this premise and this statement, then act upon it. the spirit of peace is hovering close to humanity, seeking opportunity to make his presence felt. the spir

lt around the theme of war; its points of crisis have been the great battles. the thought of revenge motivates some nations; the demand for the righting of ancient historical wrongs influences others; the restitution of lands, earlier held, directs the acts of others. for instance: the ancient glory of the roman empire must be restored at the expense of the helpless little peoples; the culture of france must be paramount and french security must outweigh all other considerations; british imperialism has in the past outraged other nations; german hegemony and "living space" must dominate europe, and the german superman must be the arbiter of human life; american isolationism would leave humanity defenceless in its hour of need and hand men over to the rule of hitler; russia, in her silence

read of the soviet socialist republics. certain major groupings would seem possible and probably advisable. they might be divided as follows: 1. a federal union of the great democracies after the war. this might include the british empire as a whole, the united states, the scandinavian countries and certain northern european nations, including germany. 2. a union of the latin countries, including france, spain, all the mediterranean countries, the balkan countries (except one or two which might be absorbed into the u.s.s.r, and south america. 3. the united soviet socialist republics and certain asiatic nations working in collaboration with them, such as china, and later japan. these three great blocs would not be antagonistic blocs but simply geographical spheres of influence. they would a

lso willing to take the necessary measures to make these values possible. i would like to deal openly and frankly with the problems with which you are being confronted when you face the world as it is today and the world as it may be tomorrow a world whose fate is still unsettled. i would present possibilities with a definite application to the reactions of such empires as those of great britain, france and holland, and with indication as to how the united states of america should be expected to respond. i write as one who represents the hierarchy, as a member of a certain standing in its ranks, and as one also who works day and night for the success of those nations in the human family who, with their backs to a wall of misunderstanding, vilification and dislike, are strenuously opposing

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

n from the principle of enslaving selfishness and is largely responsible, at this time, for the struggle in which we are all participating. the country which is the most free from selfishness today is great britain; she is experienced, old, and therefore mature in her thinking; she has learnt much in a relatively short time and her judgment is sound. the most selfish country in the world today is france, with the united states (though along totally different lines) running her a close second; both are materially selfish and capitalistically engrossed. russia is also selfish but it is the selfishness of a fanatical ideal, held by an immature, a too young a people. the selfishness of the united states is also due to youth, but it will eventually yield to experience and to suffering; there is

ally selfish and capitalistically engrossed. russia is also selfish but it is the selfishness of a fanatical ideal, held by an immature, a too young a people. the selfishness of the united states is also due to youth, but it will eventually yield to experience and to suffering; there is fortunately for the soul of this great people much suffering in store for the united states. the selfishness of france is less excusable; france too is old and experienced; again and again she has been the victim of the armed forces of germany and cries aloud to the world about it. france forgets that she frequently over-ran central europe in the middle ages, and the napoleonic conquests are relatively modern history. her evil destiny (as she regards it) does, nevertheless, give her the opportunity to becom

less, give her the opportunity to become spiritual in her life and attitudes, instead of grossly and intellectually (though brilliantly) material. she has not yet learned her lesson, and as yet shows little inclination to do so. strain, economic privations and anxiety may teach her; the result will be stability. in the hands of the united states, great britain and russia, and also in the hands of france, lies the destiny of the world disciple, humanity. humanity has been passing through the tests which are preparatory to the first initiation; they have been hard and cruel and are not yet entirely over. the lords of karma (four in number) are today working through these four great powers; it is, however, a karma which seeks to liberate, as does all karma. in the coming crisis, true vision a

needed and will be provided. great britain, from the angle of its personality or material problem, is governed by the energy or ray of will or power, whilst the soul of the country is conditioned by the ray of love-wisdom. in this you have the presentation of a positive and a negative energy, and when they are fused and blended you will have a balance and a wisdom which is at present lacking. in france, where the contributing rays are both along the line of the intellect, you have necessarily and naturally a strong materialistic influence and the conflict there is hard to resolve. it is ever the mind aspect which produces all the separativeness, the cleavages and the differences in the human arena in france, making it the playground of untold numbers of conflicting ideas, a diversity of g

have necessarily and naturally a strong materialistic influence and the conflict there is hard to resolve. it is ever the mind aspect which produces all the separativeness, the cleavages and the differences in the human arena in france, making it the playground of untold numbers of conflicting ideas, a diversity of groups and of clashing personalities, and leading to an intense preoccupation with france and its welfare; there is small interest in anything else, or in any other nations or groups, except as they affect france or the french people. the french are in no way as yet ready to balance conflict with harmony, even interiorly. the qualities of the mind pride, self-centredness, a separative attitude, a selfish planning and a materialism which penetrates deep into the mass consciousnes

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

what we manifest. it correlates with painful exactness the impressions gained by the casual tourist, and the man who goes and lives for a while in a country, and really knows its people. sometimes one [129] thinks that an intelligence test should be given before a visa is issued. such wild ideas, for instance, are brought back by people who have spent a few days in paris and think they then know france. and in this stately sign of balance and justice and the law we find that the test ends in a burst of laughter, the only labor that does. down from the mountain came hercules, trundling the boar like a wheelbarrow, singing and laughing, and all onlookers laughed with him. how delightful; and this despite the fact that again hercules made a dire mistake. the teacher had told him to "take tim

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

christian churches which had been destroyed by saracens in the holy land. for some reason which does not emerge, the foster-mother of masonry, according to the mind of the hypothesis, was the chivalry of st. john. ramsay appears to have left the masonic arena, and he died in the early part of 1743, but his discourse produced a profound impression on french freemasonry. he offered no evidence, but france undertook to produce it after its own manner and conformably to the spirit of the time by the creation of rites and degrees of masonic knighthood, no trace of which is to be found prior of ramsay. their prototypes of course were extant, the knights of malta, knights of the holy sepulchre, knights of st. lazarus, in the gift of the papal see, and the order of christ in portugal, in the gift

, word for word, with the formula of another masonic chivalry, and will not be unknown to many. but the appeal of the new foundations was set in an6ther direction, and was either to show that they derived from masonry or were masonry itself at the highest, in the proper understanding thereof. when the story of a secret perpetuation of the old knights templar- outside the order of christ- arose in france or germany, but as i tend to conclude in france, it was and remains the most notable case in point of this appeal and claim. it rose up within masonry, and it came about that the templar element overshadowed the dreams and pretensions of other masonic chivalries, or, more correctly, outshone them all. i am dealing here with matters of fact and not proposing to account for the facts themselv

r and ancient scottish masonry. such is the story told. the strict observance was founded by baron von hund in germany between about 1751 and 1754 or 1755, and is usually regarded as the first masonic chivalry which put forward the story of templar perpetuation. i have accepted this view on my own part, but subject to his claim at its value- if any- that he had been made a knight of the temple in france, some twelve years previously. the question arises, therefore, as to the fact or possibility of antecedent degrees of the kind in that country, and we are confronted at once by many stories afloat concerning the chapter of clermont, the foundation of which at paris is referred to several dates. it was in existence, according to yarker, at some undetermined period before 1742, for at that da

communicated to solomon by the master hiram abiff. so and so only was it possible to account for the wealth of adornment which characterised the first temple. the discovery explains also the wealth acquired by the templars, but it led in the end to their destruction. traitors who knew of the secret, though they had not themselves attained it, revealed the fact to clement v and philip the fair of france, and the real purpose of the persecution which followed was to wrest the transmuting process from the hands of its custodians. jacques de molay and his co-heirs died to preserve it, but three of the initiated knights made their escape and after long wandering from country to country they found refuge in the caves of mount heredom. they were succoured by knights of st. andrew of the thistle

nuscript collection and again- so far as ascertained- it seems to be the sole copy in england, though it is not unknown by name, in view of the bibliographies of kloss and wolfsteig. it is called le chevalier du temple, and is of high importance to our subject. the collection to which i refer is in twelve volumes, written on old rag paper, the watermark of which shows royal arms and the lilies of france: it is pre-french revolution and post 1768- say, on a venture, about 1772. the ritual to which i refer extends from p. 73 to 202 of the fifth volume, in a size corresponding to what is termed crown octavo among us. the hand is clear and educated. the particular templar chivalry is represented as an order connected with and acknowledging nothing else in freemasonry except the craft degrees

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

even before the laws of moses, were gnostics, and many of them initiates. they held their "mysteries of life" in nazara (ancient and modern nazareth, and their doctrines are a faithful echo of the teachings of the secret doctrine- some of which we are now endeavouring to explain* see the translation from the greek by francois, monsieur de foix, evesque d'ayre: the work dedicated to marguerite de france, reine de navarre. edition of 1579, bordeaux[[vol. 2, page] 97 the trees of life (b) these "shadows" were born "each of his own colour and kind" each also "inferior to his creator" because the latter was a complete being of his kind. the commentaries refer the first sentence to the colour or complexion of each human race thus evolved. in pymander, the seven primitive men, created by nature

rection. except that "of man, the highest organic being of creation, not a trace was found in the primary strata; only in the uppermost, the so-called alluvial layer" is all that can be urged, so far. that man was not the last member in the mammalian family, but the first in this round, is something that science will be forced to acknowledge one day. a similar view also has already been mooted in france on very high authority. that man can be shown to have lived in the mid-tertiary period, and in a geological age when there did not yet exist one single specimen of the now known species of mammals, is a statement that science cannot deny and which has now been proven by de quatrefages* but even supposing his existence in the eocene period is not yet demonstrated, what period of time has ela

ants[[footnote(s "polynesian researches" ellis. vol.ii, p. 38. missionaries seem to have pounced upon this name ivi and made of it eve. but, as shown by professor max muller, eve is not the hebrew name but an european transformation of[[hebrew, chavah "life" or mother of all living "while the tahitian ivi and the maori wheva meant bone and bone only("false analogies* chaire d'hebreu au college de france, p. 20[[vol. 2, page] 195 the hairy men of china. and monsters, we decline to believe that such a thing existed in nature 5,000 years back. for nature never proceeds by jumps and starts, and logic and common sense, besides geology, anthropology and ethnology, have justly rebelled against such assertions. but if that same theology, giving up her fantastic chronology, had claimed that men liv

collision with science. the latter denies, so far, that man has ever been much larger than the average of the tall and powerful men one meets with occasionally now. dr. henry gregor denounces such traditions as resting upon ill-digested facts. instances of mistaken judgments are brought forward. thus, in 1613, in a locality called from time immemorial the "field of giants" in the lower dauphine (france, four miles from st. romans) enormous bones were found deeply buried in the sandy soil. they were attributed to human remains, and even to teutobochus, the teuton chief slain by marius. but cuvier's later research proved them to be the fossil remains of the dinotherium giganteum of the family of tapirs, 18 feet long. ancient buildings are pointed to as an evidence that our earliest ancestor

ings xix. 12* the rocking, or logan, stones bear various names. the celts had their clacha-brath, the "destiny or judgment-stone; the divining-stone, or "stone of the ordeal" and the oracle stone; the moving or animated stone of the phoenicians; the rumbling stone of the irish. brittany has its "pierres branlantes" at huelgoat. they are found in the old and the new worlds: in the british islands, france, spain, italy, russia, germany, etc, as in north america (see hodson's "letters from north america" vol. ii, p. 440) pliny speaks of several in asia (hist. nat. lib. i, c. 96, and apollonius rhodius expatiates on the rocking stones, and says that they are "stones placed on the apex of a tumulus, and so sensitive as to be movable by the mind (ackerman's arth. index, p. 34, referring no doubt

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

are the direct cause, at the lower end, of the production of natural phenomena manifesting through vibration (so-called. the knowledge of the real (not the hypothetical) nature of ether, or rather of the akasa, and other mysteries, in short, can alone lead to the knowledge of forces. it is that substance against which the materialistic school of the physicists rebels with such fury, especially in france* and which exact science has to advocate notwithstanding. they cannot make away with it without incurring the risk, like a modern samson, of pulling down the pillars of the temple of science, and getting buried under its roof. the theories built upon the rejection of force outside and independent of matter pure and simple, have been all shown fallacious. they do not, and cannot, cover the g

told on the authority of cyclic recurrences, there is no psychic phenomenon involved. it is neither prevision, nor prophecy; no more than is the signalling of a comet or star, several years before its appearance. it is simply knowledge and mathematically correct computations which enable the wise men of the east to foretell, for instance, that england is on the eve of such or another catastrophe; france, nearing such a point of her cycle, and europe in general threatened with, or rather, on the eve of, a cataclysm, which her own cycle of racial karma has led her to. the reliability of the information depends, of course, on the acceptation or rejection of the claim for a tremendous period of historical observation. eastern initiates maintain that they have preserved records of the racial de

that which preceded being traditional. moreover, those who believe in seership and occult[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] no more deny the existence of spirits than i deny soul while trying to explain certain facts without their hypothesis "the non-defined forces" historical and experimental researches, p. 3. the above is written by a. de rochas, a well-known man of science in france, his work being one of the signs of the time (paris: masson, boulevard st. germain, 1887[[vol. 1, page] 647 astrology a science. powers will have no difficulty in crediting the general character, at least, of the information given, even if traditional, once the latter is checked and corrected by the corroboration of clairvoyance and esoteric knowledge. but in the present case no such metaph

e egyptians. so much, every schoolboy knows. it may perhaps help to refresh the memory of our theosophists by referring them to what was said of the virgin and the dragon, and the universality of periodical births and re-births of world-saviours- solar gods- in isis, ii, 490, with reference to certain passages in revelations. in 1853, the savant known as erard-mollien read before the institute of france a paper tending to prove the antiquity of the indian zodiac, in the signs of which were found the root and philosophy of all the most important religious festivals of that country, the origin of which religious ceremonies goes back into the night of time at least 3,000 b.c, as the lecturer tried to demonstrate. the zodiac of the hindus, he thought, was far anterior to the zodiac of the gree

BLUE EQUINOX

.o, the organization which should operate his plan, under certain conditions. what he had foreseen occurred; he had possessed one house; by surrendering it he became owner of a thousand houses. he gave up the world, and found it at his feet. eliphas l vi, the great magician of the middle of the last century, whose philosophy made possible the extraordinary liber clxi 233 outburst of literature in france in the fifties and sixties by its doctrine of the self-sufficiency of art(.a fine style is an aurole of holiness. is one phrase of his) prophesies of the messiah in a remarkable passage. it will be seen that our founder, born as he was to the purple, has fulfilled it. i have not the volume at my side, living as i am this hermit life in new hampshire, but its gist is that kings and popes hav

e sinistre d cor dont la noirceur reluit la noirceur effray e de cette me blouie, de ce corps ab m. l initiation soit ma tre de mon sort! l oeuvre, o fr res forts! le droit humain se l ve, temple supr me. guerre aux tyrans! plus de r ve! la libert, compas, d limite l avance. l.egalit, l querre, en justesse nous joint, et la fraternit nous allie aux cinq points. vive le droit humain! vive la belle france! the tank 277 the tank .treat .em rough. shelley.s elopement. by alexander harvey. alfred a. knopf. this book is one of the most glorious blasphemies ever printed. i have long recognized in alexander harvey one of those extremely rare types of genius, of which, curiously enough, america seems to have a monopoly. the united states have not produced any all-round men of the first class, but t

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

e to its pursuit but who also invariably had access to the necessary funds. bishops, archbishops, even popes were, known to practice the "art magick. gerbert the bishop, who later became pope sylvester ii, was regarded as a great magician. other practitioners included pope leo iii, pope honorius iii, pope urban v; nicephorus, patriarch of constantinople; rudolf n, the german emperor; charles v of france; the cardinals cusa and cajetan; bernard de mirandole, bishop of caserta; udalric de fronsperg, bishop of trent and mariy others. each of the magicians worked alone and j ealously guarded his methods of operation. they guarded them not from the church authorities, but from other magicians. to protect their works from prying eyes, they utilized secret alphabets. many of these alphabets are k

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banne

of food, nectar and flowers and consulted on family happenings. it was believed that the ancestors as well as the living gathered around the family hearth, and so it became a natural focus for magick. the witches' cauldron started off as the iron cooking pot that hung over the fire (such pots are still used in country regions of europe- i saw one for sale quite recently in the market in rouen in france. herbal brews were not only created to cure coughs and colds but also, with magical words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother would put any small coins she could spare into a money pot and warm it near the fire to 'incubate' the money into sufficient to mend the roof or buy new coats

me the earliest calendars were based on the lunar cycle and moon time is still used in the modern world in both pagan and religious rituals: the chinese new year is a lunar festival and the chinese ritual year follows the moon and the native americans calculate their months by the moon. the coligny calendar of the gallic druids, which runs from full moon to full moon, was named after the place in france where it was discovered in 1897, engraved on bronze. similar calculations were inscribed in stone at knowth, one of the sacred ancient megalithic sites in ireland. many of the original lunar calendars were based on the natural and agricultural world and helped in establishing an agricultural calendar, noting times in the cycle when crops were planted and ripened and when birds migrated, as

ageing and mortality this festival, recalled in the modern world as hallowe'en, or all hallows eve, marked the beginning of the celtic year that officially began at sunset on 1 november. it was an occasion for welcoming home family ghosts to the family hearth where their favourite food would be left. this custom continues today in mexico and to some extent in strongly catholic countries, such as france and spain, and in france, all saints' day, 1 november, is a public holiday. in earlier times people in many lands would put garlic on west-facing windows and open the shutters to allow the good family dead to enter it was also the time when the cattle were brought from the hills for the winter and either put in byres or slaughtered for meat, having been driven between twin fires to purify t

en, even if it is not fully day, light the third candle, replacing and re-lighting the others if they are almost burned down, saying: the sun comes forth from the cave, in joy and glory and promise; we join our light with the rays of the new morning* spend the morning out of doors, if possible, collecting greenery, or making tiny clay figures of the nativity figures, santons as they are called in france, to create a personalised nativity, including figures to represent your family and friends* at noon, light the fourth candle, again after replacing any that are burned through, saying: i rejoice that the light surrounds us; the sun lives and thrives and multiplies in a thousand cascading sunbeams* if possible, enjoy a festive meal with family and friends and make a phone call or perhaps tak

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

arabs bearing the new religion of islam captured alexandria, and the mantle of alchemical study and research passed from the greeks to the arab world. 644-656 can. of qur'an. 692 chinese reopened the silk-routes across central asia 711: muslims from north africa invade spain and quickly dismantle most of the hispano-visigothic kingdom there. they head north, into the pyrenees, towards modern-day france. 717 muslim caliph umar ii founded the first muslim university at harran. umar brought many of the last remaining hermeticists from alexandria and installed them at harran. 721 al-jabir(jabir ibn hayyan) born in the town of tus. 732: at the battle of tours (in southern france, frankish leader charles martel manages to defeat the muslims. 754-775 kankah indian astrologer at baghdad, book on

es the active intellect with the angel of revelation, gabriel, the holy spirit. theory that the soul can make an impression upon "first matter (astral matter) by the vehemence of its affection and intention influenced albertus magnus (thorndike, history of magic and experimental science, ii, 731) 1039-1123 milarepa 1040-1105 rashi (rabbi solomon ben isaac; jewish sage, talmudic exegist of troyes, france c.1050 michael psellus studying in constantinople, received an annotated copy of the hermetica from a scholar from harran. 1052-1127 ibn al-sid al batalyawsi kitab al- hada'iq or "the book of imaginary circles" ladder by which the soul ascends and descends(influenced by the "epistles of the brethren of purity) popular in medieval spain and provence -translations made by kabbalists moses ibn

, gets permission from pope innocent iii to follow a new rule of life based on an extremely strict interpretation of christ's and the apostle's poverty. francis's group is called the order of friars minor. 1209-1229: the albigensian crusade marks the first crusade officially called against christian (in this case, cathar) enemies and christian lands. the eventual winners are the capetian kings of france, who wind up incorporating the sizeable domains of the count of toulouse into their kingdom. c.1210- 1272 jehan brete. trouv re member of the confr rie des jongleurs d'arras. c.1210 azriel of gerona(student of isaac the blind) commentary on the sefer yezirah promoted neoplatonic elements in kabbalah; aquainted with the ideas of john scotus erigena and ibn gabirol. 1210-1281 guglielma, princ

abd al-haqq ibn sabin, sufi pole star of the faith philosophically similar to his contemporary ibn 'arabi "withdrew to the solitude of the moroccan mountains from where he corresponded with frederick ii. influence on roger bacon. 1216: the castilian canon dominic (1170-1221) manages to convince pope honorius iii that he and his followers, who have been preaching against cathar heresy in southern france for about a decade, will adopt the (pre-existing) rule of saint augustine and thus evades fourth lateran's ban on creating new orders; they are permitted to create the order of preachers. 1217 st. francis founded at vezelay the 1st house of his order. 1217 1270 abd al-haqq ibn sab'in influential sufi in the hermetic tradition. 1219-1295 roger bacon. thought to have composed a basic hebrew g

88 adam de la halle troubadour 1240 abraham abulafia, sicilian kabbalist, founder of ecstatic kabbala, born in saragosa 1240 elhanan b. yakar(london) publishes sefer yetzirah commentary 1240-1321 yunus emre. anatolian sufi troubadour 1241- 1246 toregene khatun 1241: batu's mongol "blue horde" invade poland, hungary and the balkans 1244: tartars capture jerusalem. massacre of cathari at montsegur, france. 1244-1274 moshe ibn tibbon translated in montpellier commentaries of averroes; al-farabi s book of principles; themisto s commentary on aristotle s metaphysics; book of circles by ibn al-sid of badajoz(batalyasi. 1245-1247 franciscan john of plano carpini and benedict the pole arrive at the camp of great khan guyuk(at some point, lawrence of portugal dropped out of the journey. 1246- 1248

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

oved the royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were destroyed by the catholic church in the most horrific manner after spreading their influence over a wide area from their base in southern france. the knights of the temple (knights templar, who came to prominence about the same time as the cathars, were dealt with equally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars

jamin franklin, the first grand master of the freemasons of pennsylvania. he 34..and the truth shall set you free became a friend of sir francis dashwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support of the french freemasons for the american revolution, and he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron was to play a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. franklin's connections with the french brotherhood were very close and he became a hi

ay a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. franklin's connections with the french brotherhood were very close and he became a high ranking member of the lodges of san juan and the nine sisters which, in league with the grand orient lodge in paris, would trigger the french revolution of 1789. franklin was made grand master of the nine sisters. one of the central revolutionaries in france, the marquis de lafayette, was a friend of franklin and supported him and the colonists during the american revolution. freemasons manipulated and won the war of independence and then took control of the new united states of america. they, and other brotherhood groups, have never conceded that control to this day. how appropriate, then, that when the founding fathers commissioned a design f

g the first bankers in the western world were the knights templar. they were given enormous riches by christians supporting the crusades and by legacies from people who were often hoping to buy a place in heaven. they were the wealthiest organisation in every country in which they established themselves, and their temples in paris and london became financial centres. eventually, king philip iv of france, in league with pope clement v, destroyed the templars and stole their fortune to pay debts and, as i outlined in the robots' rebellion, possibly for other reasons, too. the templars' grand master, jacques de molay, was burned at the stake and the order then went underground to work and plot secretly within other organisations. the christian world had a strict ban on usury (the charging of

family's story. the character, sidonia, in this extract, is really nathan rothschild "he arrived here [london] after the peace of paris with his large capital. he staked all that he was worth on the waterloo loan and the event made him one of the greatest capitalists in europe..he reaped the due reward of his sagacity. europe did require money and sidonia [nathan] was ready to lend it to europe. france wanted some, austria more, prussia a little, russia a few million; sidonia could furnish them all. the only country he avoided was spain; he was too well acquainted with its resources..he established a brother or near relative in whom he could confide, in most of the principal capitals. he was lord and master of the money markets of the world and of course virtually lord and master of every

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

was the most important to these extraterrestrial factions (at least at that time. these factions were dominated by the reptilian or "serpent race. over thousands of years these peoples expanded out of the middle and near east into europe and the "royal" bloodlines of sumer, egypt, etc, became the royal and aristocratic families of britain, ireland, and the countries of mainland europe, especially france and germany. wherever they went, these "royal" lines interbred obsessively with each other through arranged marriages and secret breeding programmes. we see the same with the ruling families of today because they are seeking to perpetuate a particular genetic code, which can be quickly diluted by breeding outside of their hybrid circle. in the ancient world, one of the headquarters for the

lf million individual blocks. some weigh 70 tons and in the other pyramids and walls are stones of 200, even 468 tons, and they are so perfectly cut and fitted together you could not get a piece of paper between designer history 13 them. there is enough stone in the great pyramid alone to build 30 empire state buildings and enough stone on the giza site to build a wall around the entire border of france some three metres high and one metre thick.2 some of these gigantic stones at giza and numerous temple sites were apparently taken from quarries hundreds of miles away. and we are told that "primitive" people did this? oh do come on. at baalbeck in the lebanon are structures thousands of years old, which include three enormous chunks of stone known as the trilithon, each weighing more than

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

the pentagram within a circle is used by satanists in their rituals to draw other dimensional demonic entities into this world or to "draw down the kingdom of satan into manifestation on earth, as one writer put it. the pentagram is symbolised by the goat head known as the "goat of mendes" or "baphomet, the image the knights templar secret society was accused of worshipping when it was purged in france after 1307. the goat head is also associated with the sirius system. the ancients designed massive temples to point directly at the spot on the horizon where sirius appeared at the "rising" and their key rituals were focused on sirius, just as many of the illuminati's are today. one example of these sirius-aligned structures is the temple of isis at denderah in egypt.24 the goddess, isis, i

e outwardly white bloodlines were symbolised by terms like the dragon kings. i know this all sounds fantastic, but stay with me and you will see the evidence to support this apparently bizarre suggestion. south to sumer at least many strands of this "nordic" race travelled to sumer from the far north where we now have scandinavia and northern europe. these were the norse people who came down into france to establish normandy and became the normans, or "norse (north) men" who invaded britain with william the conqueror at the time of the battle of hastings in 1066. these regions of scandinavia and europe were colonies of the former lemurian/atlantean empire. with the cataclysms came the ice sheets and those who survived fled south to what is now france, the netherlands (holland, belgium, and

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

itish empire. this allowed the tribeto export its bloodlines to all the countries the british and european powers occupied,including the united states where they continue to run the show to this day. there havebeen just over 40 presidents of the united states and 33 of them have been geneticallyrelated to two people, englands king alfred the great and charlemagne, the famousmonarch in 9th century france. throughout this whole period the agenda of thisbloodline has been gradually implemented until we have reached the point today wherecentralised global control is possible.if you want to know what life will be like unless we wake up fast, take a look at nazigermany. that is the world that awaits the global population as the plan i call thexbrotherhood agenda unfolds across the year 2000 and

s, becausetoday it is so cold that water would freeze instantly and the near-vacuum atmospherewould make the water instantly vaporise.30 desborough says that the earths closerproximity to the sun demanded that the first earth humans were the black races withthe pigmentation to cope with the much fiercer rays of the sun. ancient skeletons foundnear stonehenge in england and along the west coast of france display the nasal andspinal characteristics of many female africans.31 desborough says that mars, then witha climate very much like ours, had a white race before the v enus cataclysm. hisresearch has convinced him that the white martians built the pyramids which have beenrecorded on mars and they went to war with an advanced black race to conquer theearth. these wars, he says, are the wars

rd kin or blood relative and kin-ship becamekingship. just to emphasise the point about the reptile bloodlines here, the name theegyptians gave to their sacred messeh or crocodile was. draco. this also became asymbol of the egyptian therapeutate and their branch in israel called the essenes, andit was represented as a sea serpent or bistea neptunis by the royal merovingians andtheir decendents in france. the same tribe, all of them. if you look in the picture sectionyou will see an ancient egyptian depiction of a god on the temple wall at saqquara- itis a non-human reptilian figure with what appear to be wings.blond-haired, blue-eyed beings with eyes like lasers are still being reported. anamerican friend told me of an experience her father had in the early 1970s. they lived inturkey at th

ds, germany and denmark. the roman historians, pliny and tacitus, said thatall the people along the coast from the netherlands to denmark were the same ethnicgroup and this is supported by archaeological evidence which indicates that this peoplearrived in that region about 300 to 250 bc. another group of cimmerians travelled upthe river danube through hungary and austria into southern germany and france. theromans called them gauls and the greeks knew them as the keltoi or celts. groups ofthese celtic tribes also settled in bohemia and bavaria and others invaded northernitaly. sallust, the roman historian, records how romans were defeated a number of figure 8: the aryans and the reptile-aryans expanded by sea and land into europe under many names, andespecially thanks to the british empire

an historian, records how romans were defeated a number of figure 8: the aryans and the reptile-aryans expanded by sea and land into europe under many names, andespecially thanks to the british empire, they would eventually take over the wodd. 61times by the cimbri, who he says were gauls. other roman historians say the cimbriwere celts. they were divided into three tribes, the belgae (north east france, thegauls (central france) and the acquitanae (southern france to the pyreneesmountains. by the second century bc, the gauls/celts (the white cimmerians from thecaucasus mountains and the middle east) occupied all of central europe and northernitaly and they went on to conquer the whole of that country. around 280 bc they sweptdown into asia minor and reoccupied the lands of their ancestors

DEMONIC BIBLE

y to salvation, the people were told, was denial of the flesh and obedience to the church and state. it is questionable whether or not there was a single satanist before the inquisition, but as a result of christian oppression (and repression) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic developed. those evil masons& brothers of the rosy cross masonic lodges, which began to appear in france and england in the 18th century and spread to other countries, made a number of false claims: a) the origin of masonry can be traced to ancient jerusalem and the construction of solomon s temple, b) freemasonry is linked with the knights templar, and c) the leader of the lodge is in contact with master beings who live in the himalayas the illuminati. the early lodges had no connection to ea

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

il purposes or that involves malign actions, agents, or entities. black mass: a satanic parody of the mass of the christian church, specifically the catholic church, in which allegedly the body of naked woman serves as the altar, and other noxious substances is used including excrement, urine, and blood. black magick (q.v) is said to be practiced at these services. it had it's origins in decadent france but was so rare as to be virtually mythical. blavatsky, helena petrovna: a ukrainian woman who was the principle founder and guiding force behind the theosophical society. many members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) were also members of this society. her importance is also due to two large books she wrote, isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. many mystical and occult

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

and dispatched in the bathroom. i have staged the incident somewhat more picturesquely in my story, but the essential facts are the same. the result of the dispatching of this entity was a marked improvement in the condition of the boy patient, and the elicitation of the following story. the boy, whom we will call d, was in the habit of going to sit with a cousin who had been invalided home from france suffering from alleged shell-shock. this young man was another scion of a worn-out stock, and it transpired that he had been caught red-handed in that unpleasant per version called necrophilia. according to the story elicited from the parents of d, this vice was not uncommon on certain sections of the front, as were also attacks on wounded men. the authorities were taking drastic steps to p

or women. there have been a number of cases so flagrant that the police have intervened, both here and abroad. in ancient times, and among primitive peoples, human sacrifice was a common incident in connection with occult practices. it is not unknown in eastern europe even at the present day. the nursery story of bluebeard has its origin in the practices of the infamous gilles de rais, marshal of france and comrade of joan of arc, who slaughtered innumerable children and youths in connection with his magical experiments. i have never heard of a case in england, but there have been at various times some curious killings reported from the united states which look suspiciously like ritual murders, but in the absence of adequate information it is impossible to come to a final conclusion upon t

such operations to be taken seriously, or should we class them with the anti-fat pills that reduce without dieting? we have already referred to the old love-philtres. the ancients were well acquainted with the aphrodisiac drugs which excited sexual passion. nor are the modems altogether ignorant of them, as carefully-worded advertisements in certain occult publications reveal. there are firms in france which specialise in the manufacture of chocolates which contain masked doses of these drugs. publicity was given to their productions recently owing to the death of two girls and a man through taking overdoses. there are cocktails in use in this country containing so-called "tonic" ingredients whose effect is well known. if these are not "love-philtres" what are they? we are not concerned i

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ka"[2] in the next world, and his ka is joined unto his body in "the great dwelling [3] his body [1. the first scholar who seriously examined the meaning of the word was dr. birch, who collected several examples of the use and discussed them in his m moire sur une pat re gyptienne du mus e du louvre, paris, 1858, p. 59 ff (extrait du t. xxiv. des m moires de la soci t imp riale des antiquaires de france. dr. birch translated the word by tre, personne, embl me, divin, g nie, principe, esprit. in september, 1878, v. maspero explained to the members of the congress of lyons the views which he held concerning this word, and which he had for the past five years been teaching in the coll ge de france, and said "le ka est une sorte de double de la personne humaine d'une mati re moins grossi re qu

es canoniques, et aujourd'hui encore un grand nombre des g nies de la tradition populaire gyptienne ne sent que des doubles, devenus d mons au moment de la conversion des fellahs an christianisme, puis l'islamisme" these views were repeated by him at the sorbonne in february, 1879. see comptes rendus du congr s provincial des orientalistes, lyons, 1878, t. i, pp. 235-263; revue scientifique de la france et de l' tranger, 2e s rie, 8e ann e, no. 35, march, 1879, pp. 816-820; bulletin de l'association scientifique de france, no. 594, 1879, t. xxiii, p. 373-384; maspero, tudes de mythologie et d'arch ologie, t. i, pp. 1, 35, 126. in march, 1879, mr. renouf read a paper entitled "on the true sense of an important egyptian word (trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. vi, london, 1979, pp. 494-508, in whi

after death, the egyptians gave a material form. it was a subordinate part of the human being during life, but after death it became active; and to it the offerings brought to the tomb by the relatives of the dead were dedicated. it was believed that it returned to the body and had a share in its re-vivification. see birch, m moire sur une pat re gyptienne (in trans. soc. imp. des antiquaires de france, 1858; chabas, papyrus magique, pp. 28, 29; maspero, tude sur quelques peintures, p. 191 ff; trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. vi, p. 494 ff; brugsch, aegyptologie, p. 181; wiedemann, religion der alien aegypter, p. 126 f. 2 the deceased is always identified with osiris, or the sun which has set, the judge and god of the dead. as the sun sets in the west and rises again in the cast, so the dead

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

e amused by statements concerning female members of our order. some years ago it was claimed by a number of newspapers that a certain famous woman sculptor of washington was a free mason. the writer of this asked for the name of the lodge in which she was initiated and a few other particulars. the reply was given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question was as to where the empress got her authority for chartering masonic lodges. the intimation was further made that she was no more a free mason than the gilt figurehead of a man-of-war. every real mason knows that there never was, is not, and never will or can be a female free mason. let our sisters remain content with the reply of a gallant brother vi introductio

egulations, adapted to the changed condition of the institution, were then made, an entire revolution in its governmental policy took place, order and system obtained where neither had previously existed, and england became the great central point of masonry for the whole world "from this source have lodges, grand and subordinate, at various times been established, and still exist and flourish in france and switzerland; in all the german states save austria (and there at different times and for short seasons; all up and down the classic shores of the rhine; in prussia; holland, belgium, saxony, hanover, sweden, denmark, russia and even in fallen poland; in italy and spain (under cover of secrecy; in various parts of asia; in turkey; in introduction ix syria (as at aleppo, where an english

resent a total membership of more than a million. they are in full affiliation with the english grand lodge, of which the duke of connaught is grand master, and the grand lodges of ireland, scotland, cuba, peru, south australia, new south `hales, victoria, and also with the masons of germany and austria. they recognize and affiliate with the masons under the jurisdiction of the supreme council of france, but are not in affiliation with the masons under the jurisdiction of the grand orient of that country. in spain, italy and other roman catholic countries, freemasonry is under the ban of the church, and the membership is meagre and scattered. inasmuch as we are dealing only with the blue lodges, an account of one will serve as an illustration of the history of all. a general similarity of

result was not favorable to the cubans. captain boynton saw that he would have to wait a long time for the money due him on account of the war supplies he had furnished. while he was meditating over the best course to follow, if indeed any course remained open to him, the franco-prussian war broke out. believing there might be something for him in this new and more formidable conflict, he went to france to look into things. during that struggle he brought several cargoes of war supplies into french ports, and on one occasion came very near losing his life. the austrian government was engaged in equipping its army with a new rifle. it had sold 3500 of the old rifles to a london firm, and they were to be delivered on the firm's order at the vienna arsenal. captain boynton opened negotiations

ng year of 66,576. these grand lodges are in full affiliation with the english grand lodge, of which the duke of connaught is grand master, and the grand lodges of ireland, scotland, cuba, peru, south australia, new south wales, victoria, and also with the masons of germany and austria. they are not in affiliation and do not correspond with the masons under the jurisdiction of the grand orient of france; they, however, affiliate with and recognize masons under the jurisdiction of the supreme council. freemasonry is under the ban of the church in spain, italy, and other catholic countries, and the membership is small and scattered *2905 report. grand lodges no. members, x906 grand secretaries grand lodges no. members, 1906 grand secretaries alabama arizona arkansas* british columbia califor

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

n the middle ages and may be found in the twelfth century quete del st. graal, ascribed to walter map but probably only adapted by him. all the traditions of the kabala are embodied in the allegory contained in the book of the penitence of adam, which supplements and throws considerable light on the entire kabalistic literature. adam, l abbe about the time that the templars were being driven from france, the devil was said to have appeared under various guises to the abbe adam, who was journeying with one of the servants from his convent to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the se

into a barrel and rolled into an adjoining field. in a short time he returned in the form of a cart wheel, and, without giving the brother time to put himself on the defensive, rolled heavily over his body, without, however, doing him any injury. after that he left him to pursue his journey in peace. this story is related in regne de philippe le bel by robert gaguin and in histoire de la magie en france by jules garinet (1818. adamantius (ca. fourth century c.e) a jewish doctor, who became a catholic at constantinople in the time of constantine, to whom he dedicated his two volumes on physiognomy; or, the art of judging people by their faces. this work, full of contradictions and fantasies, was printed in the scriptores physiognomoniae veteres of johann g. f. franz at attembourg in 1780. a

sible protector and king, and no image of him is made. he is worshiped according to his commandments, with an observance of the ritual instituted through moses. the term yhwh means the revealed absolute deity, the manifest, only, personal, holy creator and redeemer. adoptive masonry masonic societies that adopted women as members. early in the eighteenth century such societies were established in france, and they spread speedily to other countries. one of the first to adopt women was the mopses. the felicitaries existed in 1742. the fendeurs, or woodcutters, were instituted in 1763 by bauchaine, master of a parisian lodge. it was modeled on the carbonari, and its popularity led to the establishment of other lodges, notably the fidelity and the hatchet. in 1774 the grand orient lodge of fra

in 1742. the fendeurs, or woodcutters, were instituted in 1763 by bauchaine, master of a parisian lodge. it was modeled on the carbonari, and its popularity led to the establishment of other lodges, notably the fidelity and the hatchet. in 1774 the grand orient lodge of france established a system of three degrees called the rite of adoption and elected the duchess of bourbon as grand mistress of france. the rite has been generally adopted into freemasonry, and various degrees were added from time to time to the number of about twelve in all. latin and greek mysteries were added to the rite by the ladies hospitallers of mount tabor. the greatest ladies in france joined the french lodges of adoption. the rite of mizraim created lodges for both sexes in 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, and the ri

ears, serving various noble patrons. thereafter he practiced medicine at geneva, and was appointed physician to louise of savoy, mother of francis i; but, on being given some task which he found irksome, he left the service of his patroness and denounced her bitterly. he then accepted a post offered him by margaret, duchess of savoy, regent of the netherlands. on her death in 1530, he traveled to france, where he was arrested for some slighting mention of the queen-mother, louise of savoy. he was soon released, however, and died at grenoble in 1535. agrippa was a man of great talent and varied attainments. he was acquainted with eight languages and was evidently a talented physician, soldier, and theologian with many noble patrons. yet, notwithstanding these advantages, he never seemed fre

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ess diana vaughan and others with the practice of devil worship and sorcery. the whole campaign proved to be a conspiracy on the part of journalist gabriel jogand-pages to discredit and embarrass both the roman catholic church and freemasonry. one of the earliest writers to throw doubt on the revelations of jogand-pages was british occultist and mystic arthur e. waite in his book devil-worship in france (1896. he died on june 20, 1881, in virginia. sources: mackey, albert gallatin. encyclopedia of freemasonry. 1874. reprint, chicago: masonic history, 1927. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. maclaine, shirley (shirley maclean beatty (1934) world-famous actress, dancer, movie star, and writer, whose books on her search for spiritual fulfillment have created

ost people lived in what they considered a magical universe, and evidence of the practice of magic is found as far back as human prehistory. among the earliest traces of magic practice are paintings found in the european caves of the middle paleolithic period. these belong to the last interglacial period of the pleistocene epoch, named the aurignacian after the cave dwellers of aurignac (southern france, whose skeletons, artifacts, and drawings link them with the bushmen of south africa. in the cave of gargas, near bagneres de luchon, there are, in addition to spirited and realistic drawings of animals, numerous imprints of human hands in various stages of mutilation. some hands were apparently first smeared with a sticky substance and then pressed onto the rock; others were held in positi

and tell her that i always think of her. i am not dead. why doesn t he write to her? he has written to her, but the vessel has no doubt been wrecked.at least he supposes this to be so, since he has received no answer. he tells me that he is in mexico. he has followed the emperor, don pedro; he has been imprisoned for five years; he has suffered a great deal, and will use every effort to return to france; they will see him again. can he name the place in which he is living? no, it is very far inland. these countries have no names. a similar experience was recorded by m. mirande, the head of the printing office in which the first volume of the arcanes had been printed. his missing brother, whom he believed to be dead, was found by maginot to be living and a plausible account of his long sile

needle, the magnetometer was used for the study of terrestrial magnetism to solve meteorological problems. since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been used for dowsing (see also biometer of baraduc; de tromelin cylinder; water witching) magonia (journal) quarterly journal concerned with anomalies, such as visions, portents, prodigies, and ufos. the name magonia was given in medieval france to a mysterious land beyond the sky, the origin of all kinds of signs and wonders but inextricably bound up with the destinies of human beings. inhabitants of magonia traveled in aerial ships and were believed to destroy crops and kidnap human beings. the emperor charlemagne issued edicts to prohibit the magonians from troubling the air and provoking storms. issues of magonia have covered s

foundation of the institut metapsychique international (concerned with psychical research. the maison des spirites was located at 8 rue copernic, paris, and was intended to propagate knowledge of spiritism. it became the secretariat of the federation spirite internationale (international spiritualists federation) and hosted the second international spiritualist congress in paris in 1925 (see also france) maithuna sanskrit term for sexual intercourse, one practice espoused in tantric yoga. tantra differs from more ascetic forms of hinduism in eschewing the way of denial. instead of refraining from such things as alcohol and sex in order to attain spiritual realization, tantra suggests using items commonly denied as a tool to enlightenment. sexuality is by far the most controversial of such

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ers, most prominently sir francis bacon (1551 1626, revived the myth of atlantis and theorized that its remains could be found in the newworld. that would be only the beginning of a new round of speculation. at one time or another, a modern chronicler of the legend observes, atlantis has been located in the arctic, nigeria, the caucasus, the crimea, north africa, the sahara, malta, spain, central france, belgium, the netherlands, the north sea, the bahamas, and various other locations in north and south america (ellis, 1998. among the most influential books ever written on the subject, atlantis: the antedilu- vian world (1882) was the creation of a former minnesota congressman named ignatius donnelly (1831 1901. donnelly surveyed what he presented as evidence from such disciplines as archa

were grotesque-looking. sometimes they looked like small humans. a minority were of normal human height, and a few were said to be more than that, seven or eight feet tall. such reports came from all over the world, including remote third world locations where ufos were little known and the occupants were sometimes taken to be american or russian pilots. a wave of humanoid and other encounters in france in the fall of 1954 received international attention and caused even the most cautious ufo researchers to reconsider their bias against ce3 reports. in the summer of 1955, the air force s project blue book investigated a bizarre episode in which members of a rural kentucky family claimed to have spent a night besieged by floating, big-eared humanoid entities from a ufo. ce3s were different

erity of their informants, few folklorists were willing to take the leap of faith required to embrace actual belief in fairies. one who did, however, was the well-regarded w. y. evans-wentz, an anthropologist of religion who had a ph.d. from oxford university. in the first decade of the twentieth century, evans-wentz traveled through the celtic regions of the british isles as well as brittany (on france s northwest coast. the result was a folklore classic, the fairy faith in celtic countries (originally published in 1911. aside from its worth as a record of surviving fairy beliefs and associated superstitions, it is unique in its championing of an underlying reality behind the tradition. like the pioneering rev. robert kirk, a scottish clergyman whose the secret common-wealth (1691) preser

n the mouths of advanced intelligences. even so, he still tried to start a group with him at the head, but it failed, as did a publishing enterprise and an fm radio station. interviewed by ufologist jacques vallee in 1989, fontaine stuck to his story but charged that prevost was lying about his. see also: abductions by ufos; contactees further reading bonabot, jacques, 1983. 1979 fontaine case in france now admitted to be a hoax. mufon ufo journal 190 (december: 10. evans, hilary, with michel piccin, 1982. who took who [sic] for a ride? fate 35, 10 (october: 51 58. vallee, jacques, 1991. revelations: alien contact and human deception. new york: ballantine books. ishkomar is h k o m a r, an extraterrestrial, began channeling for the first time in late september 1966 130 insectoids t h rough

icler of the ufo phenomenon, charles fort, remarked that anybody else [who] wants to think that these foreigners were explorers from mars or the moon (fort, 1941) was free to do so, but he himself suspected a hoax. because no foreign spies were engaged in aerial surveillance of britain in 1909, it is hard to imagine another explanation. coincidentally or otherwise, during a wave of ufo reports in france in the fall of 1954, a railroad worker at monlucon claimed that one evening he encountered a tube-shaped craft. outside it stood a man dressed in what looked like a long, hairy overcoat. when the witness addressed the figure, the latter responded in an unknown language. the witness left the scene to report it to his supervisor, but when the two returned, the ufo and the hairy-coated figure

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

secrets of the catholic faith. this cross-pollination led to the emergence of a distinctly christian cabala founded by giovanni pico della mirandola (1463-1494. pico s writings, and subsequently those of john reuchlin (1455- 1522, caused a sensation in christian intellectual circles and ignited an interest in this previously unknown esoteric jewish tradition that spread across italy, germany, and france. in the sixteenth century ce, the appearance of qabalistic texts in latin translation enhanced attempts to draw further parallels between esoteric jewish doctrines and christianity. guillaume postel translated and published the zohar and sefer yetzirah into latin even before they were published in hebrew. latin texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were influential in standardiz

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

he puts a different string of intermediaries to those given by ficino, but arrives eventually, like ficino, at pythagoras and plato. see the passages quoted from pletho's commentary on the laws and from his reply to scholarios in f. masai, plethon et le platonisme de mistra, paris, 1956, pp. 136, 138. for a valuable study of ficino's genealogies of wisdom, see d. p. walker "the prisca theohgia in france, j. w.c.i, 1954 (xvii, pp. 204-59. 2 vita di ficino, published from a manuscript of circa 1591 in marcel, op. cit, p. 716. is hermes trismegistus not know this through the stars or the revelation of demons, but lactantius does not hesitate to place him among the sibyls and the prophets.1 these remarks (which we have paraphrased, not fully translated, from the argumentum) show ficino's effor

ry reader naturally supposes are also by ficino. p. o. kristeller first cleared up this error in suppl. fie, i, pp. exxx ff; see also kristeller, studies, pp. 223 ff. 2 see ficino, pp. 1866-7, 1870, for the commentaries on the asclepius (really by lefevre d'etaples) in which the egyptian idolatry and magical practices described in that work are condemned. cf. d. p. walker "the prisca theologia in france, j.w.c.i, 1954 (xvii, p. 238. 3 "e multis denique mercurii libris, duo sunt diuine praecipue, unus de voluntate diuina, alter de potestate& sapientia dei. me asclepius, hie pimander inscribitur" ficino's argumentum before his pimander (ficino, p. r836. 40 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" and the christian piety of egyptian regeneration, would have rehabilitated in their eyes the egyp

. thorndike, ii, p. 814; v, pp. 119, 122. 50 hermes trismegistus and magic attested by the fact that rabelais directed one of his shafts at it when he spoke of "le reuerend pere en diable picatris, recteur de la faculte diabologique' the secretive way in which such a book circulated is described by agrippa d'aubigne in a letter written between 1572 and 1575 in which he says that king henri iii of france had imported some magical books from spain which he was allowed to see, after much difficulty and not without solemnly swearing not to copy them; amongst them were "les commantaires de dom jouan picatrix de tollede".2 thus there is a good deal of evidence that this picatrix, though it was never printed, had a considerable circulation in manuscript during the fifteenth and sixteenth centurie

obliged to appoint a commission to go into the matter. pico appeared several times before this commission to answer for his views. eventually, several of the theses were 1 c.h, i i, pp. 301-2 asclepius; see above, p. 35. 2 see e. garin's study "la 'dignitas hominis' e la letteratura patristica, in la rinascita (florence, 1938, iv, pp. 102-46. 3 see l. dorez and l. thuasne, pic de la mirandole en france, paris, 1897. particularly valuable for the bearing of pico's case on the problem of magic is the discussion by thorndike (vi, pp. 484-511) which i have largely followed. i n pico della mirandola and cabalist magic categorically condemned, amongst them the magical conclusion in which pico states: nulla est scientia que nos magis certificet de divinitate christi quam magia et cabala. despite

ons. this publication naturally involved him in fresh difficulties, and bishops with inquisitorial powers were appointed to deal with his case. in july, 1487, pico made a formal submission and retraction to the commission, and in august the pope issued a bull condemning all the theses and forbidding their publication, but exculpating pico because of his submission. nevertheless, when pico fled to france, papal nuncios were sent after him to obtain his arrest, and he was for a time imprisoned at vincennes, though his case was viewed with a good deal of sympathy in france, both in court and in university circles amongst whom his use of the teachings of the parisian schoolmen in many of the theses was appreciated. he was allowed to return to italy bearing french royal letters in his favour, a

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

at the statue of liberty was given to us by illuminist french freemasons in 1876 ring "towe above the shimmering but polluted waters, she holds in her outreached arm and hand a torch of fire and light. a gift of the masonic order, the modern inheritors of the illuminati heritage, the statue of liberty was sculptured by frederic bartholdi, a member of the masonic lodge of alsace-lorraine in paris, france. the statue is significant to the secret societies plotting the new world order [texe marrs, dark majesty: the secret brotherhood and the magic of a thousand points of light, p. 212] please note that our symbol of the statue of liberty was the actual terra cota model constructed in 1870 by the masonic sculptor. in satanism, virtually any perpendicular symbol is the phallus, so the torch cer

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

urnalia as an important period in the life of christ, at first calling it the time of his conception, and later of his birth, this last best suiting the views and feelings of their solo- christian flocks. the jews called the day of the winter solstice the fast of tebet. the previous time was one of darkness, and on the 28th began their feast of lights"[134 [134] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 430. in france the ancient name for christmas is noel, a term which until recently has baffled all antiquarian research. it is now thought that it is formed from nuadh and vile which together mean all heal. although every possible effort has been put forward to give to this date (the 25th of december) the appearance of authenticity as the birth of christ, still, so far as i am able to find, no one accredi

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

osewholive.in the spirit world'2as an acceptable faith. indeed, it was largely through the propaganda of the journals that potential converts were gained: waite among them. before he.beganto attend seances waite immersed himselfinspiritualist literature, until 'there came a timewheni could almost say that i was acquainted sufficientlywiththe wholeoutputof spiritism, so far as england, america and france were concerned'(sly,p.60. he soon acquired a remarkable knowledge of the subject for he had, as. he says,'a considerablefacultyin mystudiesfor extracting the quintessence of books, and it remainedwithme (sly: p.61)-afact borneoutby the enormous number of notes and shrewd comments made in his manuscript commonplace book,collec tan eametaphysica.he also came to know manyofthe most prominent s

and he was greatly relievedwhengeorge redwaywroteto tellhimthathe had left kegan paul and set up in business once more, athartstreet in bloomsbury. redway was as eager to publish waite as waite was towritefor him, and they collaborated happily for four years from1896to1899.duringthe first year waitewrote devil-ft'orship infrance,9a topical exposeofthe spurious anti-masonic rubbishthenappearing in france, translated levi'stranscendentalmagic,and persuaded redway to issuethelastofthe alchemical translations,theturbaphilosophorum.in the succeeding years he issued a collectionofjames braid's works on hypnosis, edited bad books into readable form,wrotethebookofblackmagicandofpacts(redway chose the title: he knew exactlyhowto appeal to the lowest instinctsofthe reading public, and saw hismostamb

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

magical invocations were carried out and a numberofadepti minores made and consecrated their magical instruments in the vault. mathers was busy flying(metaphorically) between london and paris, gainingmagicalknowledge from the secret chiefs and cadging money from annie horniman. he was also engaged in a grandiose dream about his fictitious highland ancestry and dabbling in reactionary politics in france, although magic re255 mained his primary concern.thesecret chiefs were un255 doubtedly real tohim-hadhe not met them in the flesh in the bois deboulogne?-andhe made the following statement about them to his adepti minores in the courseofa long and paranoid 'manifesto, which he issued to theorderin1896(the 'manifesto' demanded the submission to his will of all the membersofthe second order

to the possession of two englishmen who applied for permission to use them. this was granted to the society no.2 of hermanubis but we neverheard whether anything usefulwas done there. afteryou havemanaged to make a thorough examination ofthe papers and haveunderstood them, it is within mycompetence to promoteyou and i appointyou to thet=40ofthe second order of the g.d. in england, l'aube doree in france, die goldene dammerung in germany. youwill nowstart a newsociety(no.)3 and choose twolearned persons in order to makeup the first three masters and when you have appointed three more asso=60adepts you can then be independent. hermetic science is almost extinctin our own dayand age,we ourselves are very few here but we are very zealous and earnest and possess considerable strength. however

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ircles of this country; and yet the mere publication in 1614 of a little pamphlet in germany, narrating the mode of foundation and the aims of the rosicrucian order, made such a stir throughout14themagical masoneurope, that even to-day there are extant six hundred tracts for and against the reality and thebonafidesof the doctrines of the order; which tracts were written and printed in germany and france alone, within a hundred years of the issue of the originalfamafraternitatis,or narrative of the establishment of the society of c.r. in estimating the relative importance of so voluminous a literature, we must remember that the era 1600-1700 was far different from the age in which we live.theprinting press, although available to the few and rich, was still a rarity, and the daily newspaper

thodox opinions. he sought out the secrets of nature, and speculated in the constitution of the universe and man as related to the divinity who is above all, and displayed much erudition to which he added long research, deep thought and original conclusions: his books gave rise to much learned controversy, and unfortunately to bitter polemics. having left college he travelled for several years in france and germany, and made an attentive study of chemistry in italy, and also of physic; his researches led him away from the old established practice of the continental medical teachers, and he inclined to the revolutionary opinions of paracelsus, the great medical reformer who flourished from 1520 to 1541. for six years he studied and taught in noble families on the continent of europe, return

nd they are believed to have received it from the persians and from ancient egypt.thegame, however, in its essentials is found to exist in the descriptions of the oldest poets of india. in its oldest form traceable in literature its name is found in sanskrit works as chaturanga from chatur=four, ranga=member. among the persians and arabs the name became shatranji. introduced in europe, we find in france, echecs; italy, scacci; england, chess; perhaps from the chequered board on which it is played (germany, scach. in all forms the board used is quite similar, being square, and divided into 8 x 8=64 lesser squares.thechess men, too, have not varied in number, 16 pieces and 16 minor pieces or pawns. in the chaturanga these 32 were divided equally between four players, two partners against two

f monserrat, should fight a certain battle with success, but should be wounded in the knee, and so it fell out in both events. he wrotede astronomia,tractatus x; these were printed at basle in 1550. henry cornelius agrippa was one of the most famous of the old occult philosophers and his works are full of astrological ideas. he was born, 1486, at cologne; he was astrologer to francis the first of france about 1524 and lost that office because he foretold unfavourable events. his three volumes onthehistory of astrology177occult philosophy were published about 1530. he is said to have formed in paris and in london secret societies of astrologic and alchymic students, which some think formed one of the sources of the rise in freemasonry. he died in 1535. a later fourth volume appears to be sp

mes onthehistory of astrology177occult philosophy were published about 1530. he is said to have formed in paris and in london secret societies of astrologic and alchymic students, which some think formed one of the sources of the rise in freemasonry. he died in 1535. a later fourth volume appears to be spurious. florent de villiers was famous as an astrologer at the court of louis the eleventh of france about 1645; he carried on a school of astrology, and king charles the seventh, the father of louis the eleventh, is said to have attended these classes. lord burleigh calculated the nativity of our queen elizabeth, and she, with other princes, consulted dr john dee, the astrologer, who was certainly to some extent a charlatan; he lived from 1527 to 1608. michael scott, who lived in the thir

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

rt card than in the ordinary packs- the cavalier, knight, or horseman, and22symbolical picture-cards answering for trumps; these latter are numbered fromito21inclusive, the 22nd card being marked zero,o.thedesigns of these trumps are extremely singular, among them being such representations as death, the devil, the last judgment, etc.theidea that cards were first 'invented' to amuse charles vi of france is now exploded; and it is worthy of note in this connection that their supposititious 'inventor' was jacques gringonneur, an astrologer and qabalist, furthermore, cards were known prior to this period among the indians and the chinese. etteilla, indeed, gives in one of his tracts on the tarot a representation of the mystical arrangement of these52 the sorcererand his apprentice cards inthe

rtain distance, and then slams the door in one's face,butwhether because he did not know, or whether, knowing the secret tradition, he was unable to tell more, who shall say? in any case all are agreed as to the fascinating quality of his work, and undoubtedly no one can read it without having his interest profoundly stirred in these ancient cards.itis generally supposed that they were unknown in france, or at all events in paris, prior to m. court de gebelin, who it is said, found and introduced them to the french occultists. this, however, may be doubted. i have in my possession a french tarot of the early eighteenth century, a very interest255 ing feature of which is that some of the cards have ms inscriptions of their meaning, and apparently the records of an experiment in divination

s, however, may be doubted. i have in my possession a french tarot of the early eighteenth century, a very interest255 ing feature of which is that some of the cards have ms inscriptions of their meaning, and apparently the records of an experiment in divination, which from internal evidence would seem to be pre-revolution. this, so far as it goes, would support the theory that they were known in france before m. degebe1inwrote about them. i would not, however, press this further than as a warning against too confident dogmatism concerning the date of the tarot, and the history of its introduction into europe.thecards have been called the 'tarot of the bohemians, and have often been popularly spoken of as the gipsy fortune-telling cards. as a fact, however, when gipsies lay the cards for t

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

maine coon cat, bartholomew, who had taken an instant dislike to it. 37[37] the kneph, volume 1, no. 2, 1 february 1882, p. 10 came of bro. hale s interest; it would have been a splendid irony for the english supreme grand lodge to have chartered a similar body in america. what did prosper was a later foray into europe. freemasonry had come late to roumania, arriving by way of the grand orient of france in 1859, but it lost no time in acquiring every possible grade and rite that masonic inventors could supply 38[38. in 1881 a sovereign sanctuary of the rites of memphis and mizraim was constituted, thus giving yarker an opportunity for some carpet-bagging. he opened negotiations with the grand master, constantine moriou, and on 22 march 1883 a charter was issued for the sovereign grand lodg

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

s, waite had attained the grade of zelator in september 1891. he was no. 98 on the order's roll and, from the dates of initiation of surrounding members, june 1891 seems to be his date of entry. he demitted in 1893 23[23] an insignificant work on fortune-telling, published by redway. waite never permitted his connection with implication that his german mentor was involved with the grand orient of france, or whether waite hoped that by using the motto he would increase sales of the book is unclear, but they do indicate an irreverent attitude to the order that he was to maintain for a number of years. waite's initial sojourn in the golden dawn was short, apparently because he was unhappy with the activities of some of his superiors 'i began to hear things which, in my several positions at th

not join the golden dawn until november 1896 and it seems probable that it was the second order that he encouraged waite to enter, as he himself had done in april 1898. waite goes on to say that it was his membership of the second order that led him ultimately to seek initiation into freemasonry, but there were other influences at work upon him before this time. diana vaughan and devil worship in france it to be known publicly, but he admitted it to voorhis and others in private. 24[24] slt, p. 126 25[25] the second order worked a spectacular rosicrucian initiation, devised by s. l. macgregor mathers who 'had a genius for constructing such rituals. it is printed in israel regardie's four-volume work, the golden dawn (chicago, aries press, 1937-1940. 26[26] slt, p. 160 from 1886 onwards fre

such allegations, the controversy over diana vaughan had spread to england, where waite took a leading role in the counter-attacks upon this suppositious lady freemason. a series of detailed rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printe

before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printed in the issues of 7 december 1895, 4 january, 28 march and 6 june 1896. 30[30] devil- worship in france, or the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates (redway, 1896) waite had described the diana vaughan affair as 'among the most extra-ordinary literary swindles of the present, perhaps of any, century31[31' and claimed, with justice, to have 'unveiled the mass of fraud, falsehood and forgery contained in their depo

o the whole conspiracy in an unenviable light32[32. he had also earned the gratitude of both westcott and yarker for refuting the outrageous allegations of their involvement with satanism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 novem

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

e of hattin, and afterwards rescued jerusalem, put the templars to death for the murders they had committed, even though he had otherwise pardoned a large number of christians. although they lost jerusalem, and suffered heavy casualties, the templars continued to exist. and, despite the continual diminution of the christian presence in palestine, they increased their power in europe and, first in france, and then in other countries, became a state within a state. there is no doubt that their political power made the monarchs of europe uneasy. but there was another aspect of the templars that also made the clergy ill at ease: the order had gradually apostatized from the christian faith, and while in jerusalem, had adopted a number of strange mystical doctrines. there were also rumors that t

s. finally, the leaders of the templars, who were called "grand masters" beginning with the most important of them, jacques de molay, were executed in 1314 by order of the church and the king. the majority of them were put into prison, and the order dispersed and officially disappeared. some historians have a tendency to portray the trial of the templars as a conspiracy on the part of the king of france, and depict the knights as innocent of the charges. but, this manner of interpretation fails in several aspects. nesta h. webster, the famous british historian with a great deal of knowledge on occult history, analyzes these aspects in her book, secret societies and subversive movements. according to webster, the tendency to absolve the templars of the heresies they confessed to during the

der under the name of mac benach. the scottish king, robert the bruce, welcomed them and allowed them to exercise great influence over the masonic lodges in scotland. as a result, scottish lodges gained great importance from the point of view of their craft and their ideas. today freemasons use the name mac benach with respect. scottish masons, who inherited the templars' heritage, returned it to france many years later and established there the basis of the rite known as the scottish rite."8 again, mimar sinan presents a lot of information about the relationship between the templars and freemasonry. in an article entitled "templars and freemasons" it states that "the rituals of the initiation ceremony of the order of templars are similar to those of present-day freemasonry."9 according to

uspected only by a small group of rabbis who remained in palestine and from them the templars learn it.30 when the templars adopted this ancient egyptian-kabbalist doctrine, naturally, they came into conflict with the christian establishment that dominated europe. this was a conflict they shared with another important force the jews. after the templars were arrested, by joint order of the king of france and the pope in 1307, the order went underground, gl the inside story on the kabbalah but its influence continued, and in a more radical and determined way. as we said earlier, a significant number of templars escaped arrest and appealed to the king of scotland, the only european kingdom at that time that had not accepted the authority of the pope. in scotland, they infiltrated the wall-bui

the mainline of masonry is the "ancient and accepted scottish rite" as we investigated in detail in the new masonic order, from the beginnings of the fourteenth century it is possible to detect traces of the templars and some jews associated with them at various stages of european history. without going into detail, here are some of the headings under which we examined this topic: in provence, in france, there was an important templar refuge. during the arrests, very many hid here. another important feature of the area is that it is the most well known center of kabbalism in europe. provence is the place where the oral tradition of the kabbalah was made into a book. the peasants revolt in england, in 1381, was, according to some historians, fanned to flame by a secret organization. those e

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

s, waite had attained the grade of zelator in september 1891. he was no. 98 on the order's roll and, from the dates of initiation of surrounding members, june 1891 seems to be his date of entry. he demitted in 1893 23[23] an insignificant work on fortune-telling, published by redway. waite never permitted his connection with implication that his german mentor was involved with the grand orient of france, or whether waite hoped that by using the motto he would increase sales of the book is unclear, but they do indicate an irreverent attitude to the order that he was to maintain for a number of years. waite's initial sojourn in the golden dawn was short, apparently because he was unhappy with the activities of some of his superiors 'i began to hear things which, in my several positions at th

not join the golden dawn until november 1896 and it seems probable that it was the second order that he encouraged waite to enter, as he himself had done in april 1898. waite goes on to say that it was his membership of the second order that led him ultimately to seek initiation into freemasonry, but there were other influences at work upon him before this time. diana vaughan and devil worship in france it to be known publicly, but he admitted it to voorhis and others in private. 24[24] slt, p. 126 25[25] the second order worked a spectacular rosicrucian initiation, devised by s. l. macgregor mathers who 'had a genius for constructing such rituals. it is printed in israel regardie's four-volume work, the golden dawn (chicago, aries press, 1937-1940. 26[26] slt, p. 160 from 1886 onwards fre

such allegations, the controversy over diana vaughan had spread to england, where waite took a leading role in the counter-attacks upon this suppositious lady freemason. a series of detailed rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printe

before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printed in the issues of 7 december 1895, 4 january, 28 march and 6 june 1896. 30[30] devil- worship in france, or the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates (redway, 1896) waite had described the diana vaughan affair as 'among the most extra-ordinary literary swindles of the present, perhaps of any, century31[31' and claimed, with justice, to have 'unveiled the mass of fraud, falsehood and forgery contained in their depo

o the whole conspiracy in an unenviable light32[32. he had also earned the gratitude of both westcott and yarker for refuting the outrageous allegations of their involvement with satanism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 novem

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

no longer under a schoolmaster. galations 3:24,5 the parfait there are many groups throughout history whose legacy is still found today in the continuation of the gnostic ecclesia. one of the most important was the cathari. the cathars means "the pure ones, the term comes from the greek word katharos which is translated the purified. within western europe these early gnostics appeared in northern france and the low countries toward the late 11th or early 12th century. persecuted and expelled from the north, the cathars travelled south and found success in the semi-independent province of languedoc and the surrounding areas. here they became known as albigenses. it is believed the cathars originally derived from sects such as the bogomils and paulicians who originated in such regions as arm

held that the traditional christian church, with its corrupt clergy and its immense material wealth, was the agent of satan and was to be avoided. the roman catholic church initially attempted to reconvert the albigenses through subtle means. when every attempt failed, pope innocent iii launched the albigensian crusade (circa 1209-29) that annihilated the albigenses and desolated much of southern france. small groups of albigenses survived in isolated areas but were pursued by the inquisition. one of the central cathari rituals was that of the consolamentum, a special form of adult baptism which could be administered only once. it was reserved only for those special cathars who had attained the level of the" perfected ones. it is believed the rite was preceded by a fast, various ritual for

tral techniques used is known as the bridal chamber. this ritual was unique to the pre-christian gnostics and was carried into christian gnosticism, it was also clearly alluded to in the early celebrations of the eucharist and agape feast in later history the mystery of the transformation of eros was reflected in the traditions of courtly love in mediethe gnostic handbook page 112 val england and france and the imagery of alchemy (particularly in the mass of the holy ghost. the bridal chamber is based on the process of solve et coagula. after the instincts and mind have been "destroyed" and reformed, the two poles of the electromagnetic organism (astral body) are stimulated and at their union the shekinah awakens (the shekinah or presence is that part of god which is locked in the lower wo

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

and killed without mercy. the cathars the name cathars comes from the greek word katharos, which literally means the purified, it is more regularly translated as the pure ones. it is the title given to a range of movements which existed between the third and eleventh centuries in armenia, assyria, asia minor, the balkans and europe. within western europe these early gnostics appeared in northern france and the low countries toward the late 11th or early 12th century. persecuted and expelled from the north, they travelled south and found success in the semi-independent province of languedoc and the surrounding regions. here they became known as albigenses. at their height it was said that there were some 50,000 cathars and 3,000 parfait. the roman catholic church initially attempted to bri

ounding regions. here they became known as albigenses. at their height it was said that there were some 50,000 cathars and 3,000 parfait. the roman catholic church initially attempted to bring them back to the fold through subtle means. however, when every attempt failed, pope innocent iii launched the albigensian crusade (circa 1209-29) that annihilated the cathars and desolated much of southern france. small groups are believed to have survived in isolated areas, but were continually pursued by the inquisition. while beliefs varied from movement to movement (there were some 50 distinct cathar sects, they generally held certain gnostic doctrines in common. these included strict dualism and a belief that the material world was the creation of satan, this false creator they called rex mundi

arance by creating the myth of christian rosencrantz, a superhuman figure who had supposed lived for 106 years and left his secrets to the order. this had the desired effect and many rosicrucian orders arose. in the seventeenth century a range of manifestoes were penned by many members gnostic theurgy page 208 of the order (and many who spuriously claimed membership) and lodges spread to england, france and russia. some of the more prominent members of this order including dr.randolph (1825-1875, a famous occult author and master of the societas rosicruciana in london, franz hartmann (1838-1912, theodor reuss (founder of the ordei templi orientis) and eliphas levi (1810-1875, whose works helped trigger the french occult revival. in more recent time a plethora of authors have claimed member

y, is another character than is either loved or loathed. he was born in 1872 in alexandropol on the russian-persian border and was initiated as a child into the yezidi cult. this was followed by a twelve year exploration of asia, europe and africa. his first teaching took place in the institute for the harmonious development of mankind which he founded in russia, this institute was later moved to france due to the intervention of world war i. the significance of gurdjieff was that he sensed that the time was right for mankind to awake, he outlined a powerful system in which he taught that man was asleep and that mankind as a whole spent their whole lives in that state. he emphasised the need for a superhuman act of will to go beyond the sleep we are in and the need for a new path for the p

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

where the ice reached outward from scandinavia and scotland to cover most of great britain, denmark, poland, russia, large parts of germany, all of switzerland, and big chunks 8 ibid, p. 73. 9 ibid, p. 73, 77. 10 encyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 12:712. 11 path of the pole, p. 146. 12 ibid, p. 152; encyclopaedia britannica, 12:712. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 206 of austria, italy and france.13 (known technically as the wurm glaciation, this european ice age started about 70,000 years ago, a little later than its american counterpart, but attained its maximum extent at the same time, 17,000 years ago, and then experienced the same rapid withdrawal, and shared the same terminal date).14 the crucial stages of ice age chronology thus appear to be: 1 around 60,000 years ago, when t

ver the world characteristically and recurrently describe scenes when humans and animals flee the rising tides and take refuge on mountain tops. the fossil record confirms that this did indeed happen during the melting of the ice sheets and that the mountains were not always high enough to save the refugees from disaster. for example, fissures in the rocks on the tops of isolated hills in central france are filled with what is known as osseous breccia, consisting of the splintered bones of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and other animals. the 1430 feet peak of mount genay in burgundy is capped by a breccia containing remains of mammoth, reindeer, horse and other animals .49 much farther south, so too is the rock of gibraltar where a human molar and some flints worked by paleolithic man were

g been understood by mathematicians and geographers that the great pyramid serves the function of a geodetic marker (geodetics being the branch of science concerned with graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 415 determining the exact position of geographical points and the shape and size of the earth1. this realization first dawned in the late eighteenth century when the armies of revolutionary france, led by napoleon bonaparte, invaded egypt. bonaparte, who had cultivated a deep interest in the enigmas of the pyramids, brought with him a large number of scholars, 175 in all, including several greybeards gathered from various universities who were reputed to have acquired a profound knowledge of egyptian antiquities, and, more usefully, a group of mathematicians, cartographers and survey

lass mind and is always restlessly accumulating and analysing new data relevant to his interests, finding new ways to look at old problems. in the process, entirely by accident, he has succeeded in transforming himself into a kind of magician of esoteric knowledge. 1 robert bauval s the orion mystery (heinemann, london; crown, new york; doubleday, canada; list, germany; planeta, spain; pygmalion, france, etc) was an international bestseller when it was published in 1994. egyptologists closed ranks against its implications, which they refused to discuss, but many distinguished astronomers hailed bauval s findings as a breakthrough. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 426 the orion mystery the roots of bauval s discoveries at giza go back to the 1960s when the egyptologist and architect

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

bout it. but in the meantime, as if the phenomena responded to obscure events in human history, after 1973 the rules, for the most part, were different. the last classical ufo flap was in 1973, and this itself emphasized the growing contact without communication with impersonal nonhuman aliens very unlike orthon and aura rhanes. grays and blonds were always present in ufo lore, although mostly in france and latin america prior to the 73 flap. indeed, the betty and barney hill abduction case was, when it appeared in the 1960s, a total departure in american close encounter cases. but, after 1973, the personal aliens with funny names were nearly universally replaced with blonds and grays. dr. fred bell s semjase, also contacted by billy meier, began prior to 1973. other repeat contacts of the

, the oto, the anthroposophical society and even lost-word freemasonry- in short, anyone who might have an actual understanding of the coming being. the leading figure of the oto in germany, the future grand master karl germer, was placed in a concentration camp. his official crime was that he knew and maintained relations with aleister crowley. the chief bishop of the universal gnostic church in france was executed by the nazis. crowley, for his part, on the outbreak of the war..was invited to see the director of british naval intelligence. according to gerald suster, crowley claimed that he advocated the use of two magical signs which were to boost british morale and frequently used by winston churchill: the v sign, which, in magical terms, is the counter of the swastika; and the thumbs

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

y the name of their saint; this division of tasks has the strongest analogy to the directions given in norse and lithuanian mythology for the invocation of the several deities (p. 335. the victorious hero who had slain the dragon made room for michael or george; and the too pagan siegberg (p. 198, which may have meant the same as eresberg (p. 201, was handed over to michael, as the mons martis in france was turned into a mons martyrum, montmartre. it is remarkable that the ossets have converted the dies martis into georgeday, and dies veneris into mary's day (pott 1, 105. 2, 802. the places of osinn and of freyja in minni-drinking are taken by john and by gertrude, a saint who in other ways also has changed places with the goddess (pp. 61. 305. 673; but we can easily see why the heathen co

ws us the whole germ of protestantism. it was no accident, but a necessity, that the reformation arose first in our country, and we should long ago have given it our undivided allegiance, had not a stir been made against it from abroad. it is remarkable how the same soil of old-german faith in scandinavia and britain proved receptive of protestant opinion; and how favourable to it a great part of france was, where german blood still held its ground. as in language and myth, so in the religious leanings of a people there is something indestructible. gods, i.e. a multiplication of the one supreme incomprehensible deity, could only be conceived of by germans as by others under a human form (p. 316, and celestial abodes like earthly houses are ascribed to them. but here comes a difference, in

conf. the dan. legend of kuntekonig's or euek'dnig^s trooping out, thiele, 1, 98. 3, 55. even childi-en marching with pike and flag portend war, superet. i, 106. 2 stender's lett. gram (1783) p. 262-6. bergmann p. 145. furious host: durs, hedanings, hellequin. 941 but the romance nations have no less their own traditions of this aerial host, which on some points agree exactly with the german. in france such an air-picture of contending spirits goes by the name of hellequin, hielehin (bosquet 70 77, and in spain of exercito antiguo guilielm. alvernus (d. 1248) p. 1037' de equitibus vero nocturnis, qui vulgari gallicano heuequln, et vulgar! hispanico exercitiis antiqnus vocantur, nondum tibi satisieci, quia nondum declarare intendo qui sint; nee tamen certum est eos malignos spiritus esse

he name garoliqidnti, some say allequintl, obviously the same thing as hellequin and our hessian karlequinte in the odenberg, p. 938. nevertheless it seems a false interpretation of the older hellequin, whose mesnie is mentioned several times in poems of the 13th cent^ as well as by guil. alvernus, and who cannot therefore be the french king charles v. of the latter half of the 14th cent. that in france too they connect charles the great with the furious host, appears from a burgundian poem of the 17th cent, in which charlemagne bestrides his horse at the head of the airy apparition, and roland carries the standard (journ. des savans 1832, p. 496. but what if hellequin were after all the german helle (underworld) or its diminutive hellekin, personified and made masculine^ at tours they say

lack cocks were also sacrificed (dielienbach's wetterau 279, but there must not be a wltite featjier on them, bechst. 4, 207. little men of the mountain can also be conjured up, if you place a new table for them, and set two dishes of milk, two of honey, two plates and nine knives upon it, and kill a black hen, ds. no. 38. guibertus (vita 1, 24) speaks of a cock-sacrifice that was still in use in france' diabolo gallo litare, ita ut ovum de quo concretus est, die jovis, mense martio, in gallina constet expositum' the cock was roasted, and carried to the pond (i.e. to a watersprite again. in h. sachs iii. 3, 13 a man says he will cover two old women with bear skins, stick them all over with qreen lozenges, and give them to the devil on new-year's day. in burcard waldis isc^ we read of 'send

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

and girls, they break out into cries of joy, answered by the men on the hill; and inhabitants of neighbouring villages, who have flocked to the river side, mingle their voices in the universal rejoicing. 1 in the same way the butchers of treves are said to have yearly sent down a wheel of fire into the moselle from the top of the paulsberg (see suppl. 2 the custom of midsummer fires and wheels in france is attested even by writers of the 12th and 13th centuries, john beleth, a parisian divine, who wrote about 1162 a summa de divinis officiis, and william durantis, b. near beziers in languedoc, about 1237, d. 1296, the well-known author of the rationale divinor. offic (written 1286; conf. viii. 2, 3 de epacta. in the summa (printed at dillingen, 1572) cap. 137, fol. 256, and thence extracte

told that the christians strew rushes, the moors myrtle, the jews reeds; and the throw ing of flowers and herbs into the flame seems an essential part of the celebration, e.g. mugwort, monks-hood, larkspur (p. 618, mullein and walnut leaves (p. 621. hence the collecting of all such john s-herbs in germany (superst. i, 157. 189. 190, and of s. hans urter (worts) in denmark (k, 126, and the like in france (l, 4. according to gasp. zeumer s de igne in festo s. joh. accendi solito, jenae 1699, the herb axisfia) was diligently sought on that day and hung up over doors. in greece the women make a fire on midsummer eve, and jump over it, crying, i leave my sins/ in servia they think the feast is so venerable, that the sun halts three times in reverence. 2 on the day before it, the herdsmen tie bi

ster and midsummer, but nearer to easter when that falls late. a feature common to all three, and perhaps to all public fires of antiquity, is the wheel, as friction is to all the ancient easter fires. i must not omit to mention, that fires were also lighted at the season opposite to summer, at christmas, and in lent. to the yule-fire answers the gaelic samhtheine (p. 614) of the 1st november. in france they have still in vogue the souche de noel (from dies natalis, prov. natal) or the trefue (log that burns three days, superst.k, 1. 28, conf. the trefoir in brand s pop.antiq. 1, 468. at marseille they burnt the calendeau or caligneau, a large oaken log, sprinkling it with wine and oil; it devolved on the master of the house to set light to it (millin 3, 336. in dauphine they called it cha

or even, and other pranks. about the time of vespers they set the wheel afire, and let it run into the vale at full speed, which to look upon is like as the sun were running from the sky. such a 1 so the lith. kalledos christmas, from kalada, a log. suppl. 628 elements. hoop-trundling on shrove tuesday is mentioned by schm. 1, 544; the day is called fwnkentag (spunk, in the rheingau hallfeuer, in france la fete des brandons. l it is likely that similar fires take place here and there in connexion with the vintage. in the yoigtland on mayday eve, which would exactly agree with the bealteine, you may see fires on most of the hills, and children with blazing brooms (jul. schmidt s reichenf. 118. lastly, the servians at christmas time light a log of oak newly cut, badniah, and pour wine upon i

e (wends) used to keep off or extirpate cattle-plagues by fixing round their stables the heads of mad horses and cows on 1 conf. sup. i, 838, planting the willow in the dead foal s mouth. 2 pretty much as they turned the eagle s head on the house, and thought thereby to shift the wind (p. 633-4. the heathen practice of fastening up animals heads explains many very old names of places in germ, and france, as berhaupten, tierhaupten, roshaupten, schni. 2, 223. ad locum qui nuncupatur caput caballinum, pertz 2, 278. ad locum qui vocatur caput equi (vita s. magni, in canisius s lect. ant. 1, 667, with the addition in g-oldast (scr. rer. alem. i. 2, 198: et idcirco vocatus est ille locus caput equi, quia onmes venatores reliquerant ibi suos caballos, et pedestres ibant ad venandum. obviously a

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

edged by the highest rosicrucian authorities of europe and other lands. having had passed to him in the proper way certain knowledge preserved by the descendants of the first foundation in america, he prepared himself through various courses of study and association with scientific and metaphysical bodies, for the work he was to undertake in 1909. then in the month of july of that year he went to france, where he was introduced to the proper authorities and inducted into the mysteries and the methods of carrying out his life mission. returning to america, he held many private sessions with men and women who had been initiated into the order in france and india and other lands, who formed with him the first foundation committee. together they labored for six years so that in the seventh yea

ey could announce to the american public the reestablishment of the rosicrucian order. the first official manifesto was warmly greeted by a gathering of over three hundred prominent students of the ancient rosicrucian teachings who examined the official papers, seals and warrants possessed by imperator lewis, and formed the first american council of the order. a report of that session was sent to france, to the body of men who undertook the burden of supporting the foundation work in america, and a few months later the grand council of the ordre rose croix of france recognized the imperator for the order in america. thereafter further organization meetings were held until a point was reached when two officials of the international council of the order visited america, approved of the organ

mation it contains [6] sir francis bacon imperator of the rosirucians in the seventeenth century, modern symbolical drawing [7] fra. michael maier grand master of rosicrucians in germany in the seventeenth century and sir francis bacon's deputy on the continent [8] lord raymond vi as count of toulouse, refused to prosecute the mystics who laid the foundation for rosicrucian philosophy in southern france in the thirteenth century. as a mystic martyr, his body was refused burial in "holy ground" but was preserved for 600 years in the knights templar building, built by his forefathers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the world. l

th century. as a mystic martyr, his body was refused burial in "holy ground" but was preserved for 600 years in the knights templar building, built by his forefathers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the world. legate of the order in france.minister of the foreign legation. ordained priest of the ashrama in india.honorary councilor of the corda fratres, italy.sri sobhita. symbolic great white lodge. tibet .rex, universitatis illuminati.fellow, andhra university india.chancellor, rose-croix university (set biographical reference on page 125 [10] mrs. may banks-stacey co-founder and first grand matre in u.s.a (see biographical r

eceive identical monographs. for the benefit of the latin-american countries, the monographs are translated into spanish, but are issued directly from the department of instruction of the grand lodge in san jose. no master of any subordinate lodge or chapter shall be authorized or permitted to add to the work or teachings or to insert any personal opinion. other grand lodges of amorc, as those of france and brazil, issue the monographs in the language of their own countries. once a week during most of the year, in the supreme temple of [42] the supreme grand lodge at rosicrucian park, san jose, california, there is an assembly for all members living in the vicinity of rosicrucian park or who may be visiting or passing through. the ceremony on that occasion is of a mystical nature, with an

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

hat he had in fact met with the fratres lucis in paris and that fifteen years earlier there had been only twenty-seven members in the whole world; he added that 'all members were bound to keep [their] immediate chiefs postedofall [their] movements. surprisingly, or perhaps not so, this links in with the crowned angel's comments to hockley when questioned about freemasonry; presumablythesociety in france, referred to therein, was the fratres lucis. how often,ifever, the fratreslucismet is not known.ithasallthe apperanceofbeing another order, organized by irwin and mackenzie. which existed in great detail on paper, wasintroduction21academy at marylebone to hockley.thathockley knew the worksofsibley is undoubted, copies bearing his signature are in various libraries and he is known to have co

ers are, to say the least, surprising 'i have a greatobjectionto your being afellowof a fm lodge unless you could at once become a member of that sacredsocietyof which the fathers are at jerusalem'[why)'it is not onlyfollybut wickedness in joining asocietywho do no possible good but a great deal of harm [what is the sacredsociety)'they arefollowersofthe rosy cross [where arethey]'the societyis in france and unless you went there and were installed a brother you could not possibly become one. napoleon the rst emperor of france was a member of that society [what is their purpose/what do theystudy]'they study the occult sciences after an interview with an invisible power, which they have at stated times. the elders travel to jerusalem [where do theymeet]'you have seen their place of meeting i

the crystal-it is in the[blank]they then return to the rest of the society with the instructionsthey receivefrom the invisible agent-upon this they act. they are not limitedto thewealthyforjean-jaquesrousseau was one of its firmest supporters. i will showyouvisionsthat will tend to enlighten you, but in the meantime i hope you will not join an english lodge' hockley either met aninvisiblepowerin france (the letters show he hadbeento paris, or chose to disregard his guardian spirit's warning, for on21march1864 he was initiated into freemasonry in the british lodgeno.8,then meeting at the freemason's tavern,greatqueen-street,london.heappears to have taken a liking to the ritualofthe craft for as soon as hehadtaken thethirddegree,ofmastermason, he became a memberofthe emulation lodgeofimprov

sphere andhalfacentury-thatwe may withhold assent, waiting an example more completely exempt from all chancesofmistake, misapprehension, and misreport; but a questionofdegree it still remains, and we must not allow the enormityofthe application to frighten us out of recognitionofthe principle. what view then may we form, consistently with the principle,ofthe conversation reported between adele in france and the stranger in mexico? if, as we have seen, it be an admitted possibility that the brain ofapersonat a distance, at mexico, may conduct its impressions to the brain of a person, in this case a brother, which in years long past had been in sympathetic intercourse with it, anotherlinkin the mysterious chain conducts those impressions to the brain of the somnambule; and it is quite within

ch the impressions are enunciated by the somnambule, as a conversation, a vision &c, areknownto be matters of casual association and habit and predisposition, and the liabilities of mixed failures and success are also notorious.thereseems then no impossibility, according to the condi255 tionsofthe argument, in a positive communicationofthought taking place between a brain in mexico and a brain in france; nay,ifwe suppose the brain in mexico as sensitive and clairvoyant as the french one, the transferenceofthought may be mutual, and there may be consciousness of the communica255 tion on either side. but in the absenceofsuch coincident sensitiveness there seems no reason,underthe assumptions, for requiring that the absent person should become 'conscious of the communication, and agree in the

HEAVEN HELL

sommaire des monuments gyptiens expos s dans les galeries du mus e du louvre, paris, 1876, p. 51. 83:1 see e. de roug, notice sommaire, p. 52. it contains the figures of the eleven divisions, with very few inscriptions; see j quier, le livre de ce qu'il y a dans l'hades, p. 25. 83:2 see e. de roug, notice sommaire, p. 52. this sarcophagus is made of basalt, is beautifully cut, and was brought to france by champollion. see also sharpe, egyptian inscriptions, vol. ii, plates 1-24. 83:3 see sch fer in j quier, op. cit, p. 26, notes 3 and 4. 83:4 see catalogue des manuscrits gyptiens, paris, 1881, p. 15. 83:5 see pierret, tudes gyptologiques, tom. ii, p. 103-148. 83:6 see lanzone, le domicile des esprits, paris, 1879, folio. 83:7 see catalogue du mus e gyptien de leyde, pp. 253-255. 83:8 see

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ntatiously inone of the quiet faubourgs of the metropolis. the first rejoiced in the name of samuel klaus; the secondanswered to the more poetical appellation of franz stenio. the younger man was a violinist, gifted, asrumour went, with extraordinary, almost miraculous talent. yet as he was poor and had not hitherto made aname for himself in europe, he remained for several years in the capital of france- the heart and pulse ofcapricious continental fashion- unknown and unappreciated. franz was a styrian by birth, and, at the timeof the event to be presently described, he was a young man considerably under thirty. a philosopher and adreamer by nature, imbued with all the mystic oddities of true genius, he reminded one of some of the heroesin hoffmann's contes fantastiques. his earlier exist

essional, and held the organ in such horror. franz sincerely lamented his mother's death. unaware of being the indirect cause of it, he felt no remorse; butselling the modest household goods and chattels, light in purse and heart, he resolved to travel on foot for ayear or two, before settling down to any definite profession. a hazy desire to see the great cities of europe, and to try his luck in france, lurked at the bottom of thistravelling project, but his bohemian habits of life were too strong to be abruptly abandoned. he placed hissmall capital with a banker for a rainy day, and started on his pedestrian journey via germany and austria.his violin paid for his board and lodging in the inns and farms on his way, and he passed his days in thegreen fields and in the solemn silent woods

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ney by your books, magazines, and other publications? a. the theosophist of madras, alone among the magazines, pays a profit, and this has regularly been turned over to the society, year by year, as the published accounts show. lucifer is slowly but steadily engulfing money, never yet having paid its expenses-thanks to its being boycotted by the pious booksellers and railway stalls. the lotus, in france-started on the private and not very large means of a theosophist, who has devoted to it his whole time and labor-has ceased to exist, owing to the same causes, alas! nor does the new york path pay its way, while the revue th osophique of paris has only just been started, also from the private means of a lady-member. moreover, whenever any of the works issued by the theosophical publishing c

nd sorcery! even law itself has ceased to believe in such things? a. so much the worse for law, as it has been led, through such a lack of discrimination, into committing more than one judiciary mistake and crime. it is the term alone that frightens you with its "superstitious" ring in it. would not law punish an abuse of hypnotic powers, as i just mentioned? nay, it has so punished it already in france and germany; yet it would indignantly deny that it applied punishment to a crime of evident sorcery. you cannot believe in the efficacy and reality of the powers of suggestion by physicians and mesmerizers (or hypnotists, and then refuse to believe in the same powers when used for evil motives. and if you do, then you believe in sorcery. you cannot believe in good and disbelieve in evil, ac

naugurated their theories at rochester, u.s.a. theosophists, while believing in the mediumistic phenomena of both spiritualists and spiritists, reject the idea of "spirits" spiritualism the modern belief that the spirits of the dead return on earth to commune with the living (see spiritism) st. germain, count a mysterious personage, who appeared in the last century and early in the present one in france, england, and elsewhere. sthula-sharira the sanskrit name for the human physical body, in occultism and vedanta philosophy. sthulopadhi the physical body in its waking, conscious state (jagrat. sukshmopadhi the physical body in the dreaming state (svapna, and karanopadhi "the causal body" summerland the fancy name given by the spiritualists to the abode of their disembodied "spirits" which

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

hear about it eventually. now as i.ve said, by the time i got around to doing this, there was some level of gossip/rumour 21 being generated anyway. so all gohu had to act as a kind of .amplifier. as well as receiving rumours and beaming them in my direction. the rumours since gohu became active, the following tales have reached back to my shell-like ears: 1. that i have a castle in the south of france) 2. that i own the atlantis bookshop in london) 3. that i am, in reality, peter j. carroll) 4. that i was putting in a bid to buy a goth nightclub in birmingham (someone actually rang me up to ask me if this was .true) 5. that i apparently sodomize former chaos international editor ian read on a regular basis) 6. that i am a blood-drinking .vampire- this .fact. is recounted in 2 books- hear

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

writings ofeliphaslevi with a biographical and critical essay by a. e. waite (redway, 1886. this anthology was largely based upon levi's dogme et rituel de la haute magie (1856; revised edition 1861. waite discussed the project with a. p. sinnett, who introduced him to redway. 4 robert fryar, a bookseller at bath who published limited editions of books on occultism, was importing tarot cards from france during the 1880s. it is possible that gardner had acquired a pack from this source. the letters 49 have not seen it yet, i do not know what conveniences there are for receiving a visit r. i.shall probably see it on monday afternoon and then i will write. we shall be at anderson's hotel 5 harpur street, theobald's road, w.e' you certainly have arrived at some idea of the great work [i.e, alc

r from his (supposed) son, very polite and very short, just changing one of the medicines, which was equally useless to my case. there was in the letter a something which seemed to convey to me the impression "i make money by the credulity of 64 the alchemist of the golden dawn mankind, and i suppose you to be one of them" my impression of them is confirmed by the experience of a lady residing in france who tried them. she had a carbuncle on her leg, and mattei's alter ego, the agent at marseilles or nice, i forget which, told her one of the remedies to apply to it. instead of getting better, it got worse, till the appearance of it was so alarming,that she was obliged to call in the local surgeon, who said that by neglect, gangrene had set in, and that he must cut it out immediately, or sh

to send you vol. i at once, for i am really very anxious to have your views upon it. the spelling, grammar& punctuation of the french are all infamous, but you must not. let that prejudice you against it. i have come to the conclusion that the adept who enuntiated it employed a scribe to do the writing. the internal evidence of it seems to me to show that, probably, the adept was not a native of france, but a german domiciled there& that he probably employed a german scribe to write to his dictation, that this scribe knew nothing of occultism, for he does not use the alchemical symbols& the mistakes are just such as a scribe imperfectly acquainted with french, would make, writing the words more according to the sound of them as his master uttered them, than according to the orthography an

rticular in that rosi, ms in wh[ich, as i thought, i had so nearly succeeded, but for that most unfortunate blow up. as soon as i arrive at the new house& have a laboratory ready, i shall try to put it into practice, if i only live long enough. i am just now beginning to work in earnest for another house. as ill-luck would have it, a friend who was to have looked at houses for me, was detained in france till yesterday. today the house-hunting begins in earnest& i shall be summoned in a day or two to london to look at one or more thought likely. i suppose you are concluding about southend.alasl you run off just as i am coming nearer to you. i shall try hard to get to acton. i am fairly well in health& doing all i can in occultism. the author of this ms mentions kabbalah, confirming what i s

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

found seriousness, and began at once not only to review the evidence, but to accumulate as much as i could. i talked with the elderly archer harris, then owner of the house, many times before his death in 1916; and obtained from him and his still surviving maiden sister alice an authentic corroboration of all the family data my uncle had collected. when, however, i asked them what connection with france or its language the house could have, they confessed themselves as frankly baffled and ignorant as i. archer knew nothing, and all that miss harris could say was that an old allusion her grandfather, dutee harris, had heard of might have shed a little light. the old seaman, who had survived his son welcome's death in battle by two years, had not himself known the legend; but recalled that h

creasingly great problem to the merchant. by 1760 joseph curwen was virtually an outcast, suspected of vague horrors and daemoniac alliances which seemed all the more menacing because they could not be named, understood, or even proved to exist. the last straw may have come from the affair of the missing soldiers in 1758, for in march and april of that year two royal regiments on their way to new france were quartered in providence, and depleted by an inexplicable process far beyond the average rate of desertion. rumour dwelt on the frequency with which curwen was wont to be seen talking with the red-coated strangers; and as several of them began to be missed, people thought of the odd conditions among his own seamen. what would have happened if the regiments had not been ordered on, no on

662-3; and that he had run away to sea at the age of fifteen, not appearing again for nine years, when he returned with the speech, dress, and manners of a native englishman and settled in salem proper. at that time he had little to do with his family, but spent most of his hours with the curious books he had brought from europe, and the strange chemicals which came for him on ships from england, france, and holland. certain trips of his into the country were the objects of much local inquisitiveness, and were whisperingly associated with vague rumours of fires on the hills at night. curwen's only close friends had been one edward hutchinson of salem-village and one simon orne of salem. with these men he was often seen in conference about the common, and visits among them were by no means

that my grandmother's family was a topic of some local curiosity. there had, mr. peabody said, been considerable discussion about the marriage of her father, benjamin orne, just after the civil war; since the ancestry of the bride was peculiarly puzzling. that bride was understood to have been an orphaned marsh of new hampshire- a cousin of the essex county marshes- but her education had been in france and she knew very little of her family. a guardian had deposited funds in a boston bank to maintain her and her french governess; but that guardian's name was unfamiliar to arkham people, and in time he dropped out of sight, so that the governess assumed the role by court appointment. the frenchwoman- now long dead- was very taciturn, and there were those who said she would have told more t

HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

attlements have frowned down upon the wild and rugged countryside about, serving as a home and stronghold for the proud house whose honored line is older even than the moss-grown castle walls. these ancient turrets, stained by the storms of generations and crumbling under the slow yet mighty pressure of time, formed in the ages of feudalism one of the most dreaded and formidable fortresses in all france. from its machicolated parapets and mounted battlements barons, counts, and even kings had been defied, yet never had its spacious halls resounded to the footsteps of the invader. but since those glorious years, all is changed. a poverty but little above the level of dire want, together with a pride of name that forbids its alleviation by the pursuits of commercial life, have prevented the

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

that my grandmother's family was a topic of some local curiosity. there had, mr. peabody said, been considerable discussion about the marriage of her father, benjamin orne, just after the civil war; since the ancestry of the bride was peculiarly puzzling. that bride was understood to have been an or-phaned marsh of new hampshire- a cousin of the essex county marshes- but her education had been in france and she knew very little of her family. a guardian had deposited funds in a boston bank to maintain her and her french governess; but that guardian's name was unfamiliar to arkham people, and in time he dropped out of sight, so that the governess assumed the role by court appointment. the frenchwoman- now long dead- was very taciturn, and there were those who said she wind have told more th

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

tor the distinguished creole student of mysteries and eastern antiquities, etienne-laurent de marigny. carter had met de marigny during the war, when they both served in the french foreign legion, and had at once cleaved to him because of their similar tastes and ontlook. when, on a memorable joint furlough, the iearned young creole had taken the wistful boston dreamer to bayonne, in the south of france, and had shown him certain terrible secrets in the nighted and immemorial crypts that burrow beneath that brooding, eon-weighted city, the friendship was forever sealed. carrer's will had named de marigny as executor, and now that avid scholar was reluctantly presiding over the settlement of the estate. it was sad work for him, for like the old rhode islander he did not believe that carter

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

entury america immune. joseph mccarthy had the same effect with the word "communist" remember what happened to the indians? so many dollars per scalp. those bounty hunters were direct descendants of the witch hunters of the 1600s who made a pretty penny by turning in their neighbourhood nuisances under the handy label of "witch" even so, fewer witches were put to death in salem than in england or france. the fad didn't last as long here. the european witch hunters received a yearly stipend to go from city to city, and when they arrived in a new city, they would set up a little office and then find local assistants who were also paid for finding witches. soon the whole town would be involved in a nightmarish hysteria. chemists and doctors were prime targets, understandably. medicine was so

ber 15, 1948. all males in his family are wizards and all women in my family have been witches, except for my grandmother and my mother. yet since i was a small child, i've had strange powers. could i be the one to begin a new cycle of future witches in my family? also can the wizard and myself be on the same wave length mentally? one more thing i can't understand is that he called me from paris, france. he spoke french, and i don't understand french, but i understood every word and he understood my english. what gives? i swear all of this happened. strange things have happened, but this thing has me scared, and it blew my mind. this is too much. i can't shake the fear growing inside of me. i am not sure how i shall handle this. norma t. you are lying to me and lying to yourself. you have

you a housekeeper" she said "yes" i said "do you want a new job" she said yes. i immediately went and got her and 1 had her for over two years. she had been working for someone named ada. she'd only been working a short time. she'd gone home for the weekend, and ada was to pick her up. she called ada, but she dialled my number by mistake. i believe that can happen. but i don't believe a man from france called you after seeing you on his tv set. dear louise: could you tell me if my life will ever be happy, and my love life. i have been thinking about a man i've known since i was sixteen, and i love him deeply. the last i heard from him he is in los angeles. i would like to find if he is right for me. his birthdate is about march 15, and mine is july 12, 1933. please tell me what the future

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

effect" 193:1 the devil in britain and america, chap. xxiv. chapter viii a.d. 1689-1720 portent on entry of james ii--witchcraft in co. antrim--traditional version of same--events preceding the island-magee witch-trial--the trial itself- dr. francis hutchinson. the account of the following portent is given us in aubrey's miscellanies "when king james ii first entered dublin after his arrival from france, 1689, one of the gentlemen that bore the mace before him, stumbled without any rub in his way, or other visible occasion. the mace fell out of his hands, and the little cross upon the crown thereof stuck fast between two stones in the street. this is well known all over ireland, and did much trouble king james himself with many of his chief attendants; but no doubt greatly raised the hopes

ISIS UNVEILED

isks being doubted in the end. the church has no intention of falling into the oblivion of the ancient myths, or of suffering ber authority to be too closely questioned. hence she pursues, as well as the times permit, her traditional policy. lamenting the enforced extinction of her ally, the holy inquisition, she makes a virtue of necessity. the only victims now within reach are the spiritists of france. recent events have shown that the meek spouse of christ never disdains to retaliate on helpless victims. having successfully performed her part of deus ex mataind from behind the french bench, which has not scrupled to disgrace itself for her, the church of rome sets to work and shows in the year 1876 what she can do. from the whirling tables and dancing pencils of profane spiritualism, th

an and his worshipers, their style would be faultless. as it is, the crusade against the enemy of mankind was fierce, and lasted for over twenty years. what with the catholics piling up their p^chological phenomena to prove the existence of a personal devil, and the count de gasparin, an ancient minister of louis philippe, collecting volumes of other facts to prove the contrary, the spiritists of france have contracted an everlast- ing debt of gratitude toward the disputants. the existence of an unseen spiritual universe peopled with invisible beings has now been demon- strated beyond question. ransacking the oldest ubraries, they have dis- tilled from the historical records the quintessence of evidence. all epochs, from the homeric ages down to the present day, have supplied their ehoices

ed exclusively by her chosen ministers and holy saints. neither could the protestant church well mtuntain on the same ground that miracles had ended with the apostolic ages. for, whether of the same nature or not, the modem phenomena claimed close kinship with the biblical ones. the magnetists and healers of our century came into direct and open competition with the apostles. the zouave jacob, of france, had outrivaled the prophet elijah in recalling to life persons who were seeming dead; and alexis the somnambulist, mentioned by mr. wallace in his work* was, by his lucidity, putting to shame apostles, prophets, and the sibyls of old. since the burning of the last witch the great revolution of france, so elaborately prepared by the league of the secret societies and their clever emissaries

p os their sacerdotal mask. still for a time the church held her position, and with the powerful help of super- stitious fear checked the progress of the intruding force. but, when in succession appeared mesmerists and somnambulists, reproducing the physical and mental phenomenon of ecstasy, hitherto believed to be the special gift of saints; when the passion for the turning tables had reached in france and elsewhere its climax of fury; when the leaning toward psychognq>hy alleged spiritual from a sim de curiosity had developed itself and settled into an unabated interest, and finally ebbed into religious mysticism; when the echoes aroused by the first raps of rochester, crossing the oceans, spread until they were re-percussed from nearly every comer of the world then, and only then, the l

ceans, spread until they were re-percussed from nearly every comer of the world then, and only then, the latin church was fully awakened to a sense of danger. wonder after wonder was reported to have occurred in the spiritualist-circles and the lecture-rooms of the mesmerists; the sick were healed, the blind made to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear. j. r. newton in america, and du potet in france, were healing the multitude without the slightest claim to divine intervention. the great discovery of mesmer, which reveals to the earnest inquirer the mechanism of nature, mastered as if by magical power organic and inorganic bodies. but this was not the worst. a more direful calamity for the church occurred in the evocation from the upper and nether worlds of a multi- tude of 'spirits' w

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

anks to the german people whose hearts were touched by my early research enough to walk the path with me and who then proved by their own experience that what i had come to know was also true for them. to the millions who have walked before me and beside me exploring all these fields, i also give thanks, for you have made the journey easier for us all. to my publishers in germany, italy, croatia, france, spain, brazil, belgium, sweden, greece, hungary, romania, poland, russia, and japan, i also give my thanks for your courage to bring such a controversial subject to the public and thus anchor this data deeper within the global field. evolution has a way of being supported, regardless of our capacity to deal with things that may challenge what we know. i would also like to thank those who a

that his calibration system offered as far as a way of checking our freedom models, i began to apply it during my october/november 2004 tour. quickly recognizing that we can use this system as a base to move into levels perhaps unexplored by david hawkins, during this tour i took advantage of testing and confirming my findings with hundreds of special test subjects from four different countries. france, italy, germany and switzerland. in order to understand what i m about to share in this post-script, it is important for you to read and understand what david hawkins is talking about in his power vs. force book, nonetheless i will provide a brief synopsis here so that its relevance to our own findings is a little easier to understand. hawkins sees the potential of kinesiology as the wormho

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

illars of hermes have been judaiscd into solomon's jachin and boaz. so says herz, in regard to masonic insignia. we will explain fully, later in our book, of these interesting sexual images, set up for adoration so strangely; and from the meaning of which we foolishly but determinedly avert. we now propose to deduce a very original and a very elaborate genealogy, or descent, of the famous arms of france, the fleurs-de-lis, lucifera lisses, luces, lu40 the rosicrucians. cies, bees, scarabs, scara-bees, or imperial bees of charlemagne, and of napoleon the first and napoleon the third, from a very extraordinary and (we will, in the fullest assurance, add) the most unexpected point of view. the real beginning of these inexpressibly sublime arms (or this badge, although in itself, and apart fro

ke or jack a fish famous for the profuse generation of a certain insect, as some fishermen know full well. this once (incredible as it may seem) formed an object of worship, for the sake of the inexpressibly sublime things which it symbolised. although so mean in itself, and although so far off, this implied the beginning of all sublunary things. the bees of charlemagne, the bees of the empire in france, are scarabs, or figures of the same affinity as the bourbon lilies. they deduce from a common ancestor. now, the colour heraldic on which they are always emblazoned is azure, or blue which is the colour of the sea, which is salt. in an anagram it may be expressed as c. following on this allusion, we may say that ventre-saintgris! is a very ancient french barbarous expletive, or oath. liter

hie fran aise, paris, 1729, also jean-jacques chifflet, anutasis de childerie, 1655. see also notes and queries, 1856, london, 2d series, for some under the stone or the mystic human possibility, is the infant saviour, born in the mysterious month of the propitiation, or the mystical astrological and astronomical escaped month of the zodiac; and the stone is the philosopher s stone. the lisses of france. 43 learned papers on the fleur-de-lis. in the early armorial bearings of the frankish kings, the lilies are represented as insects, sembed (seeded, or spotted, on the blue field. these are, in their origin, the scarab ei of the orientals; they were dignified by the egyptians as the emblems of the enlightened. if the reader examines carefully the sculpture in the british museum representing

e enlightened. if the reader examines carefully the sculpture in the british museum representing the mithraic sacrifice of the bull, with its mystic accompaniments (no. 14, grand central saloon, he will perceive the scarab uis, or crab, playing a peculiar part in the particulars of the grand rite so strangely typified, and also so remotely. the motto placed under the lilies, which are the arms of france, runs as follows: lilia non laborant, neque nent. this is also (as all know) the legend, or motto, accompanying the royal order of knighthood denominated that of the saint-esprit, in france. we are immediately now recalled to those exceedingly obscure, but very significant, words of our saviour, which have always seemed very erroneously interpreted, on account of their obvious contradiction

y spin: and yet i say unto you, that even solomon (here steps in some of the lore of the masonic order) in all his glory was not arrayed (or exalted, or dignified, as it is more correctly rendered out of the original) like one of these (st. matt. vi. 28. 44 the rosicrucians. sacred to the lux, or the sul, or the sun. the auriflamme (the flame of fire, or fire of gold) was the earliest standard of france. it was afterwards called oriflamme. it was the sacred flag of france, and its colour was red the heraldic, or rosicrucian, red, signifying gold. the three lotuses, or lisses, were the coat of arms emblems of the trimurti, the three persons of the triple generative power, or of the sun, or lux. hlc, sle, shilo, is probably lyc, sil 36o, or c= 6oo, l= 50= 10, w= 6= 666. this is silo, or selo

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

a copy. the first edition was reprinted as facsimile by kessinger publications in kila, montana, around 1992. this work is in the public domain reproduce and distribute at will. love is the law, love under will. celepha s press ulthar- sarkomand- inquanok- lecr1 "varo edition" the case for the unidentified flying object by m. k. jessup transcribed by the quantum future group castelnau-barbarens, france 2003 2 the case for the u f o unidentified flying objects by m.k. jessup 3 preface on the evening of april 20, 1959, an astronomer committed suicide in dade county park, florida. inhaling automobile exhaust fumes, which he had introduced from the tail pipe through a hose into his station wagon, he died in the same academic obscurity in which he had lived, unheralded and almost unrecognized

the indian and tibetan monasteries. these in themselves are almost conclusive. records of 15,000 years ago imply wingless flight at least 70,000 years prior to that. add this to the recorded visit of a space fleet to the court of thutmose iii, approximately 1500 b.c, and we are close to paralleling the sightings of today. evidence of continued interest by the space dwellers comes from 29 medieval france where adamski was completely scooped by elements of the french populace who were given rides in the ufo's. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. no not pals but the french are such of an general pholosophic attitude even in that day that they were chosen to be contacted. now, some l-m's live in france out of preference in field of philosophical study. they like i

n. no not pals but the french are such of an general pholosophic attitude even in that day that they were chosen to be contacted. now, some l-m's live in france out of preference in field of philosophical study. they like it. if early visits to asia, subsequent contacts with the egyptians at the peak of their culture, rumored associations of flight with the disappearance of atlantis, and tours of france some centuries ago, indicate a pattern, then it may be of little wonder that the civilizations of today, perhaps the most spectacular of all, are receiving attention. in many ways, the most intriguing data of all comes from the skeptical astronomers. their observations do tend to be quantitative, timed, and documented. the astronomical data is more than merely qualitative. in other words, t

which strikes with such suddenness that the pilots do not have time to make an outcry via 34 passage of auroral beam, november 17, 1882, as seen from guildown observatory, lat. 51 31 39 n, long. 0 28 47 w. their ever-live radios. then, too, there are cases of dead or frightened birds, and the cases of people being struck by unseen forces, as with seventeen marching soldiers in eighteenth-century france who were simultaneously struck down by an invisible agency. one had a compass on him, fouled a "sweep" made l-ms angry after analyzing these things, one speculates as to new types of obstacles as well as new forces. take the mysterious maunder object, which moved deliberately across the sky above southern england in november 1882. rand capron, an authority on auras, said it was auroral, whi

ence, fell in derbyshire, england, on may 11. 1828: a mass of ice about a cubic yard in size fell in candeish, india. 1829: a block of ice weighing four and one-half pounds fell at cazorta, spain, on june 15. 1830: a profound darkness came over the city of brussels, on june 18, and flat pieces of ice, an inch long, fell to the ground. 49 1844: a block of ice weighting eleven pounds fell at cette, france, in october. 1849: an irregular-shaped mass of ice fell at ord, scotland, in august "after an extraordinary peal of thunder" it was said that this was homogenous ice, except in a small part, which looked like congealed hailstones. the mass was about twenty feet in circumference. the story, as told in the london times, august 14, 1849, is that, upon the evening of august 13, 1849, after a lo

KETAB E SIYAH

silver i watched as war was once more on the world and wept for my children. night and day i watched as germany waxed great and the prophet of gabriel, hitler, was yet more greatly perverted by the deception of the elohim. now did the nephilim build machines that flew upon the wind and hurled down flame to destroy the cities of the foe. now were germany's hosts upon the banks of the volga now was france under them. again and again were they strengthened by the hidden hand of gabriel. the shedim looked upon the earth and they were dismayed. as i sat within the spire of opal and ruby. came to me there three of the shedim: abaddon, dagon and moloch. of these three that sought audience spoke moloch for them. as he approached me at the mirror. with these words did he counsel "satanael, commande

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

ere he was twice awarded the department of psychiatry s seymour lustman residency research prize (2nd place. he pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 18 was the 1975 william james lecturer at harvard. until recently, he was a teaching fellow in the department of physics at yale university. today, dr. satinover is completing his phd in quantum physics at nice university in france and teaches constitutional law at princeton university. dr. satinover has written five successful books that were translated into nine languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. his most famous book, the quantum brain, set new standards in popular science writing and was celebrated by critics. this book touches upon several themes: mathematics, science, computers, quantum physics

the world over, various sciences have yet to adapt their models to the 19th century models of physics. the problem is that physics has already abandoned these models. even molecular biology, which studies the most minuscule objects, has yet to turn to the path that the quantum revolution has paved. about a year ago, i gave a course at the department of biochemistry in the university of toulouse, france. the head of the department was unaware of the fact that to understand the evolutionary process of protein, one needed to take quantum effects into consideration, and that this is why it cannot be understood in terms of classical mechanics. this is just an example of how even fundamental sciences such as biochemistry have not internalized the implications of quantum mechanics. even in its h

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

at the workmen were treated as slaves and wretchedly paid, but that s. alban (as he was afterwards called) introduced freemasonry and changed all that, securing for them better wages and greatly improved conditions generally. many of our brn. must have heard of the watson ms of 1687. in that a good deal is said about s. albans work for the craft, and it is specially mentioned that he brought from france certain ancient charges which are practically identical with those in use at the present time. he was beheaded in the persecu-tion by the emperor diocletian in the year 303, and the great abbey of s. alban was built over his remains some five hundred years later. 29. in the year 411 he was born in constantinople and received the name of proclus- a name which in after life he was destined to

instantly responsive and obedient to the enlightened human will. the brothers of light are easily recognized there. 516. this portion of the ritual is mainly derived from the symbolic or blue degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite, but does not appear in the working of the grand lodge of england. in the scottish rite ritual worked in lodges under the auspices of the supreme council of france the three symbolical journeys exist, with noise and clashing of swords in the first, with a gcliquetis d farmes blanches h in the second, and perfect silence in the third, but there is no invocation of the elementals, although the journeys are compared to the ancient trials by earth, air, fire and water. 517. an interesting confirmation of the use of these trials or journeys is given in the

e course of time it has been made a little shorter; it has lost about one thousandth part of itself, so that the pyramid inch is 1.0011 of the english inch. it is only in the last century that men have come to know the length of the equatorial diameter of the earth, but the polar diameter was known long ago. 549. many countries still retain measures of length derived from the pyramid inch, but in france the decimal system was adopted. there they have the metre, which was intended to be one ten-millionth part of a quadrant of the earth, measured over the surface from the pole to the equator. later they discovered that this measure was not perfectly accurate, so a metre is now a conventional length standardized by a bar kept in paris, just as a standard yard is kept in london. 550. scientifi

s a gsystem of morality h, and it offers a splendid training in practical kindliness and fraternity. in england and its colonies and in the united states of america masonic charities are on a magnificent scale, and there are many exceedingly well-managed masonic schools and orphanages. on this account, and because of the excellent character of its members, masonry is highly respected, although in france and italy it has lost caste to some extent because it has there allowed itself to become identified with anti-clerical political parties. unfortunately modern masons have altogether lost sight of what might be called the inner charity- their power on higher planes. they would scarcely understand if one should say to them: gyou ought to be sending out streams of thought-power; that should be

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ry, they would correspond perfectly. masonry is yet in a transitional stage, and is but emerging from the ignorance of the dark ages. the rites of memphis and mizraim are an example of this discrepancy. these colossal systems of 96 and 90 respectively are a mass of arti-ficially-manufactured ceremonies, of but little value to a masonic student except as a record of high-grade masonic invention in france at the end of the eighteenth century. most of the degrees have little occult power, and have simply been inserted into the rites by brn. who could have known nothing of their real purpose; but behind the rites and quite independent of the form side of the tradition a line of succession has been handed down from a past even more ancient than that of the scottish rite itself. even in the scot

ll of the grand lodge of scotland, which date from 1642(*history of the lodge of edinburgh (mary s chapel, no. i) d. murray lyon, pp. 340, 434) there is truth in the legend of the coming of certain of the french knights templars to scotland after their proscription in 1307, and there was an intermingling of their doctrines also with the scottish rites. one line of descent crossed from scotland to france, where it was blended in the eighteenth century with the egyptian tradition to form the rite of heredom or of perfection under the council of the emperors of the east and west, as will be further explained in chapter xi. another line was handed down in scotland and england, becoming blended with jewish tradition, and emerged in the degrees of hrdm-rsycs in what we now call the royal order o

y of their customs and usages; and it is well that we should understand these in addition to what we have derived from other sources. 505. when europe was overrun by the germanic tribes and the empire of the west was destroyed, the roman collegia for the most part disappeared with the other fruits of civilization. the mysteries enshrined in them survived in a more or less repressed form in italy, france and england, although they were kept extremely secret for fear of the barbarian invaders. it was from these survivals that the lodges of the guild masons of the middle ages were derived. 506. decline of the collegia 507. mackey shows how the collegia declined after the fall of rome, and how new guilds were started and old ones revived under the patronage of the christian clergy, and asserts

workmen were often summoned to great distances from well-known centres of architecture. in the same way as venice and ravenna sent to constantinople for byzantine builders, charles the great and many other princes, as well as cities, procured from italy skilful romanesque architects, such as the comacine masters, and the characteristics of this lombard romanesque are found not only in germany and france but even in england(*history of art, vol. i, p. 230) 512. italian chroniclers relate that architects and builders were sent by pope gregory the great to england with s. augustine, and we learn from the venerable bede that s. benedict biscop set out for gaul to search for masons to build the monastic church at monk wearmouth according to the roman style he had always loved(*the cathedral bui

e him instructions and credentials, and sent with him a large following of monks versed in the art of building, and of lay brethren who were also architects to assist him(*ibid, p. 133) leader scott contends that these builders were comacine masters, and bases her arguments upon the evidence of building methods and the similarity of the styles employed. in like manner she traces the comacini into france and normandy, southern italy and sicily, and even to ireland in fact wherever the romanesque style of building has penetrated. 513. the comacine lodges 514. the comacine guild not only inherited the building traditions of the collegia, but also their secret mysteries; and it was largely owing to the impulse given by them that a general revival of the existing lodges of europe took place. a

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

ven though there have been systematic studies since the late nineteenth century inaugurated by the society for psychical research. among its most important works are the research about apparitions, the results of which are reported in phantasms of the living (1886, and the 1889 census of hallucinations, about apparitional experiences of either the living or the dead. similar censuses were done in france, germany, and the united states. for further reading: cavendish, richard. the encyclopedia of the unexplained. new york:mcgraw-hill, 1967. green, celia, and charles mccreery. apparitions. london: hamish hamilton, 1975. gurney, edmund, f.w. h.myers, and frank podmore. phantasms of the living. 1886. london: kegan paul, trench, trubner& co, 1918. myers, frederic w. h.human personality and its

y of magic and the supernatural. london: spring books, 1964. first published as histoire en 1000 images de la magie. paris: editions du pont royal, 1961. howard,michael. the occult conspiracy. london: rider, 1989. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. wirth, oswald. la franc-maconnerie rendue intelligible a ces adeptes. 3 vols. paris: derry- livres, 1931. reprinted laval, france: n.p. 1962 1963. bardo th dol (the tibetan book of the dead) nowhere is the art of dying more sophisticated than in the culture of tibet, whose religion evolved from the shamanistic b n into tantric buddhism beginning in the eighth century. in tibetan thought, the process of right dying is as important as right living. a high form of yoga a spiritual discipline of meditation has developed o

new york: avon, 1969. belphegor belphegor, lord of the opening, was, according to cabalists, once an angel of the order of principalities, but later became a god of licentiousness in ancient moab. in hell, belphegor is the demon of inventiveness, and when called upon, appears in the likeness of a young woman. according to the dictionnaire infernal, by de plancy, belphegor was hell s ambassador to france, and victor hugo concurs with this in the toilers of the sea, placing belphegor in paris. in john milton s paradise lost, belphegor is a variant for nisroc, whom he describes as of principalities of the prime. one story describes how the devils of hell were upset to hear about the existence of some couples on earth who were apparently happily married. belphegor was sent on a mission to inve

is in america, and over the following years altered the oto sex magic rituals to accommodate his new findings. in 1919 he moved to italy, where he continued his training and reached ipsissimus, the highest magical level. in 1922 he succeeded theodore reuss as outer head of the oto. in 1923 mussolini, as part of a move against occultists, forced crowley to leave italy. he went first to tunis, then france (from which he was expelled about 1930, then to england, where he remained for the rest of his life. in 1929 he married maria theresa ferrari de miramar. despite crowley s dedicated leadership, the oto did not grow, but steadily diminished. perhaps it was because crowley s energies were diverted by an addiction to heroin, or perhaps the times were not conducive to occultists generally. at t

hey have not been notably successful in this bid for new recruits. on the other hand, a few movements have originated within the gothic milieu, and some of these are satanist or have satanist overtones. for example, the french group, the confrerie spirituelle sataniste les croisades de la nouvelle babylone, asserts that its goal is to unify satanists and neopagans. as the desecration of graves in france and the torching of norwegian churches indicates, there are tiny groups around the fringes of the black metal phase of the gothic subculture that commit illegal, antisocial acts. this is especially the case for groups combining nazism with satanism. it should be stressed, however, that such acts of esoterrorism, as they have been referred to, are not typical of the subculture. see also heav

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first throwing him coins, soon desert him to follow a foolish egyptian wizard. no beast cometh to his call. xx. he argueth out that there can be but one beast. following single tracks, he at length findeth the quarry, but on pursuit it eldueth him by multiplying itself. this on the wide plains of france. xxi. he gathereth an army sufficient to chase the whole herd. in england.s midst they rush upon them; but the herd join together, leading on the kinghts, who at length rush together into a melee, wherein all but sir palamede are slain, while the beast, as ever, standeth aloof, laughing. xxii. he argueth its existence from design of the cosmos, noting that its tracks form a geometrical figu

ne, wrapped in his misery like a cloak, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 47 despairing now to charm the unknown. so arms and horse he takes again. sir palamede hath overthrown the jesters. now the country men, stupidly staring, see at noon sir palamede the saracen a-riding like an harvest moon in silver arms, with glittering lance, with plumed helm, and winged shoon, athwart the admiring land of france. 48 xx sir palamede hath reasoned out beyond the shadow of a doubt that this his questing beast is one; for were it beasts, he must suppose an earlier beast to father those. so all the tracks of herds that run into the forest he discards, and only turns his dark regards on single prints, on marks unique. sir palamede doth now attain unto a wide and grassy plain, whereon he spies the thing t

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

nthusiasms h mentioned here, there is evidence that crowley referred the letters of iao to iacchus, asi (isis) or aphrodite and `orus (permissible since h is not a letter in greek, the latter as a cognate of apollo. the reference to gspurious masons working under a forged charter h at the end of section xv probably denotes the ancient and accepted scottish rite, so called because it originated in france, claimed an authorisation from a prussian prince, and had its greatest initial success in the southern u.s.a. aasr, despite being founded on a questionable warrant, is the most numerous and wellestablished masonic ghigh grade h system, and since masonic gregularity h is largely a matter of mutual recognition it was rather workings like memphis, misraim, and cerneau, with which crowley was a

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ssed girl to lecture her more favourite sister on the very point for which she herself was at that moment being punished. it is the spite of baffled dissimulation against triumphant honesty. goneril adds a word of positive advice .you. she says in effect .who prate of duty thus, see you show it to him unto whom you owe it. that this advice is wasted is clear from act v. sc. iii, where the king of france takes the first trivial opportunity* to be free of the vile creature he had so foolishly married. cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man.s failing mind; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the english people to depend upon his whims. bad women would have rejoiced in the banishment of kent, whom they al

de of a strong man, and a righteous one. primogeniture is wrong enough; the other shame, no fault of his, would make the blood of any free man boil. gloucester enters, and exhibits himself as a prize fool by shouting in disjointed phrases what everybody knew. great news it is, of course, and on discovering edmund, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more .kent banished thus! and france in choler parted! and the king gone to-night! subscrib .d his power! confin.d to exhibition! all this done upon the gad! edmund, how now! what news (act i. sc. ii. ll 23-26. edmund .forces a card. by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. gloucester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to axiomania in its crudest form .we have seen the best of our time: machinat

ly vile cordelia, with no pity for her father.s serious condition (though no doubt he deserved all he got, he was now harmless and should have inspired compassion, hanging to him in the hope that he would no reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of great england. and were any doubt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizanship of france should settle it. shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for the french; never aught but praise of england and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the english for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated frenchmen? moreover, cordelia reckons without her host. the british bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels

any word but ridicule for the french; never aught but praise of england and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the english for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated frenchmen? moreover, cordelia reckons without her host. the british bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the connivance of the king of france, who, with great and praiseworthy acuteness, forsees that cordelia will be hanged, thus liberating him from his .most filthy bargain: there is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is won; for even if we exonerate the king of france, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the french. th

of* crowley confuses two common pastoral amusements .throwing wooden balls at cocoanuts and sticks at aunt sally. the metaphor, such elasticity having led prof. bl mengarten to surmise them to be indiarubber trees. 27 .truth, that s the gold..12.two poets of croisic, clii. 1, and elsewhere. 28 .i, you, or simpkin..13.inn album, l. 143 .simpkin. has nothing to do with the foaming grape of eastern france. 36. aischulos.14.see agamemnon (browning .s translation, preface. 40. aristobulus.15.may be scanned elsehow by pedants. cf. swinburne.s curious scansion aristophanes. but the scansion adopted here gives a more credible rhyme. 42. batracomuomacia.16.aristophanes batrachoi. 46. mine of so many pounds pouch even pence of it?17.this line was suggested to me by a large holder of westralians. 47

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

structure could be gdisplaced h to the level of divine heroes or in some cases historical fictions. in the scandinavian area, dumezil fs most forceful argument for such displacement involved the prehistoric king hadingus, who had many aspects, according to dumezil, but who also enacted in his life and career all three functions. until the late 1950s or early 1960s dumezil was little known outside france, but thereafter scholars in many fields began to acquaint themselves with his huge output of scholarly writings, and translations of his work began to appear. it was probably inevitable that with such an ambitious project covering so much territory, there would errors at the most specialized level, and in norse mythology, as in other areas, part of the initial reaction was to point these ou

the ancient northmen, ed. einar haugen, trans. john lindow, alan toth, francis charat, and george gopen, publications of the ucla center for comparative folklore and mythology, 3 (berkeley and los angeles: university of california press, 1973. this book comprises a translation of dumezil fs les dieux des germains: essai sur la formation de la religion scandinave (paris: presses universitaires de france, 1959, and translations of four articles specifically on scandinavian mythology. dumezil fs later arguments about the displacement of myth into epic are available in dumezil, from myth to fiction: the saga of hadingus, trans. derek coltman (chicago and london: university of chicago press, 1973, which followed by only three years the french original, du mythe au roman: la saga de hadingus et

specifically on scandinavian mythology. dumezil fs later arguments about the displacement of myth into epic are available in dumezil, from myth to fiction: the saga of hadingus, trans. derek coltman (chicago and london: university of chicago press, 1973, which followed by only three years the french original, du mythe au roman: la saga de hadingus et autre essais (paris: presses universitaires de france, 1970. his huge study mythe et epopee (paris: gallimard, 1968.1975) was rendered piecemeal into english: the destiny of a king, trans. alf hiltebeitel (chicago and london: university of chicago press, 1973; camillus: a study of indo-european religion as roman history, trans. annette aronowicz and josette bryson, ed. udo strutynski (berkeley and los angeles: university of california press, 1

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nd a seemingly mostly inert surface of earth are illusions. at this time, several thinkers began to revisit the dogma of a young earth and immutable living species. five naturalists stand out in their overturning of the old ideas and their introduction of the notion of transformism in biology and the earth sciences: georges louis de buffon (1707 1788) and jean-baptiste de lamarck (1744 1829) from france, and charles lyell (1797 1875, charles darwin (1809 1882, and alfred russel wallace (1823 1913) from england. through their works and those of their followers, we now know that earth is very old, that its surface has been (and is being) constantly reshaped, and that living species change over time. in other words, these scientists introduced the idea of dynamic natural effects acting over l

unravel perhaps the most significant attribute of humans: culture. 102 evolution and religious creation myths cultural evolution up to about 10,000 years ago, humans lived as hunter-gatherers, following animal prey for meat and gathering wild fruits, roots, and nuts for subsistence. by then they had already invented sophisticated symbolic art (as seen in the famous caves of lascaux and chauvet in france and altamira in spain) and made efficient weapons for hunting and possibly warfare. but by 10,000 years ago, a great transition in lifestyle took place roughly at the same time in west asia, east asia, and mesoamerica. this major evolutionary change was the invention of agriculture, which developed in what is called the neolithic (or new stone age) period. the neolithic transition was accom

g from the aftermath of these old political decisions. we cannot allow this to happen again anywhere. unfortunately, a rigorous statistical study performed in 2002 2003 in the united states, japan, turkey, and 31 european countries shows that the u.s. population ranks very low (immediately above turkey) in its acceptance of evolution. to wit, 78% or more of adults in iceland, denmark, sweden, and france think that evolution is a correct theory. in the united states, this figure is 38. turkey ranks at the bottom, with only 25% of adults who think that evolution is a valid theory. the authors of the study (j. d. miller, e. c. scott, and o. okamoto) blame protestant fundamentalism and the politicization of science for the poor showing of the united states. as for turkey, it is likely that isl

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

posite pole of opinion, consider that masonry started as nothing more than a gentleman's club, one of the myriad clubs that sprang up in london in the early part of the 18th century. if that be true, it was a very unusual club, indeed. unlike the other clubs of the period, very shortly after its initial organization in 1717 it grew explosively, not simply in england but also in scotland, ireland, france, the low countries and germany. in addition masonry acquired, somehow, royal patronage, a profoundly philosophical orientation, and a very elaborate system of symbolism. in arguing that masonry is simply "a club" one should explain why this particular club developed as it did. one of the obvious explanations for its rapid growth is that masonry was teaching and practicing something that was

(if not the historical descendent of) the wisdom of antiquity and lists "cabala" as one of those sources. this defense of masonry received a certain amount of "official recognition" it appeared in the 1738 edition of anderson's constitutions, which suggests support within masonry for its content. during the early and middle 18th century english masonry produced very little graphical material. in france, however, the order was growing almost as quickly as it was in england; and there were numerous french exposures. we must not spend a great a great deal of time considering french masonry, but it has had some influence on the english order, and some of the exposures contain interesting pictures. figure 3 is from la desolation des entrepreneurs modernes, an expose by louis travenol published

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

peror was initiated into the order, which met in caverns under the city of rome. concerning the spread of this mystery school through different parts of europe, c. w. king, in his gnostics and their remains, says "mithraic bas-reliefs cut on the faces of rocks or on stone tablets still abound in the countries formerly the western provinces of the roman empire; many exist in germany, still more in france, and in this island (britain) they have often been discovered on the line of the picts' wall and the noted one at bath" alexander wilder, in his philosophy and ethics of the zoroasters, states that mithras is the zend title for the sun, and he is supposed to dwell within that shining orb. mithras has a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. as mithras, he is the ford of t

he gods of antiquity sacred texts esoteric index previous next atlantis and the gods of antiquity p. 33 atlantis is the subject of a short but important article appearing in the annual report of the board of regents of the smithsonian institution for the year ending june 30th, 1915. the author, m. pierre termier, a member of the academy of sciences and director of service of the geologic chart of france, in 1912 delivered a lecture on the atlantean hypothesis before the institut oc anographique; it is the translated notes of this remarkable lecture that are published in the smithsonian report "after a long period of disdainful indifference" writes m. termier "observe how in the last few years science is returning to the study of atlantis. how many naturalists, geologists, zoologists, or bo

erse each perfected product of his labor. concerning masons' marks, robert freke gould writes "it is very remarkable that these marks are to be found in all countries--in the chambers of the great pyramid at gizeh, on the underground walls of jerusalem, in herculaneum and pompeii, on roman walls and grecian temples, in hindustan, mexico, peru, asia minor--as well as on the great ruins of england, france, germany, scotland, italy, portugal and spain (see a concise history of freemasonry) from this viewpoint the story of chiram may well represent the incorporation of the divine secrets of architecture into the actual parts and dimensions of earthly buildings. the three degrees of the craft bury the grand master (the great arcanum) in the actual structure they erect, after first having killed

bols of the great buddha. it is also significant that the dolphin should be sacred to both apollo (the solar savior) and neptune. it was believed that this fish carried shipwrecked sailors to heaven on its back. the dolphin was accepted by the early christians as an emblem of christ, because the pagans had viewed this beautiful creature as a friend and benefactor of man. the heir to the throne of france, the dauphin, may have secured his title from this ancient pagan symbol of the divine preservative power. the first advocates of christianity likened converts to fishes, who at the time of baptism "returned again into the sea of christ" primitive peoples believed the sea and land were inhabited by strange creatures, and early books on zoology contain curious illustrations of composite beast

that bees are ruled by queens is one reason why this insect is considered a sacred feminine symbol. in india the god prana--the personification of the universal life force--is sometimes shown surrounded by a circle of bees. because of its importance in pollenizing flowers, the bee is the accepted symbol of the generative power. at one time the bee was the emblem of the french kings. the rulers of france wore robes embroidered with bees, and the canopies of their thrones were decorated with gigantic figures of these insects. the fly symbolizes the tormentor, because of the annoyance it causes to animals. the chaldean god baal was often called baal-zebul, or the god of the dwelling place. the word zebub, or zabab, means a fly, and baal-zebul became baalzebub, or beelzebub, a word which was l

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

e female as the lady or queen of the sabbat. the second male, known as the "officer "executor" or "summoner" is he who relays the requests of the magister or lady to the rest of the coven membership. he is the go-between and lieutenant of the leader or leaders, and traditionally he wore black from head to foot to designate his rank. hence his old title "the man in black" occasionally, in medieval france, he was dressed in green and named "verdelet" his badge of office was a pilgrim's crutch or blackthorn staff, whence derived another of his titles "black rod" it was the summoner's job to attend to the mundane functioning of the coven, the membership dues if any, and the passing out of information to the members about time and place of the next sabbat, what to wear, what food to bring and s

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

d for printing at 300 dpi; with some combinations of computer monitor and driver software, the onscreen images may appear blocky or crude. for the best reading experience, i recommend printing this document on nonglossy paper tinted a light ecru or tan color. benjamin rowe march 23, 1999 book one page 1 preface to book one. the key of solomon, save for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in france in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. the fountain-head and storehouse of qabalistical magic, and the origin of much of the ceremonial magic of mediaeval times, the key has been ever valued by occult writers as a

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

some early will training exercises amidst the perils of an extreme winter which often threatened my own personal safety. i had to call upon the wolf then just to carry my mind and body to a heightened sense of strength and power. the werewolf may be invoked with runes or sigils, for which the details are given later in this book. werewolves and such creatures have existed as long as vampires. in france there were "meneurs de loup which were said to lead wolves by playing a bone pipe which would echo the music of the dead. the wolf charmer was by no means a friend of humanity, causing werewolves and servitors to devour any unfortunate soul who walk near them in the night. in the year 1502 in france there was a peasant named pierre burgot who was tending to the sheep in his herd. from the w

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

hor is, however, far from subscribing to these andother kindred theories. along with comyns beaumont, william bramley, c. s. lewis, and others, the authorbelieves that the aliens have never left this planet and are, in fact, themselves responsi-ble for the origin and presence of evil in the consciousness of mankind. this place is terrible (an unintepreted templar inscription in rennes le chateau, france).this place is terrible!74atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation though it is unlikely, but not impossible that none of the original alien visitors stillphysically live, their offspring certainly do exist and continue to bring mankind to thebrink of spiritual degradation and physical annihilation for their own selfish purposes.descendants of the beings known as the sons of the

ments, kings, and ministersbut also with secret societies, elements which must be taken into account, which at the lastmoment can bring our plans to nought, which have agents everywhere, who incite assassina-tions and can if necessary lead a massacre (benjamin disraeli, lord beaconsfield) it is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of europe thewhole of italy and france and a great portion of germany, to say nothing of other countries is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the earth arenow being covered with railroads (benjamin disraeli, lord beaconsfield) the very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a peopleinherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and

s halfthe population of europe. as author william bramley proves in his classic, gods ofeden, the plague was man made. another event planned and executed by the progenyof atlantis in keeping with their pact was the second world war. here are the statisticsof the human mortality: soviet union 20 million china 10 million poland 5.8 million germany 4.6 million japan 2 million y ugoslavia 1.7 million france 600,000 great britain 400,000 united states 300,000 from the sword to the syringe106atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation there have been more wars since the creation of the united nations, than there have beensince the beginning of time to the creation of the united nations (anthony j. hilder)although it is painful to consider, have we become complacent when it comes to syst

if not civilized, man has been pushedback to more than two million years (p. 14)the positive development of advanced group cultures is now estimated to have occurred from fifty to ahundred thousand years ago (p. 14)iron mines before the iron agean iron mine was discovered in africa (swaziland) that was being worked over 43,000 years before theiron age of the middle east.in front of marseilles in france, under the water have been found a cliff that once would have beenabove sea level. it contains mine shafts and smelting facilities. this dates from the stone age.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation201 appendix b: book abstracts the mediterraneanwas not as large as it is today. under the sea now exist many land masses that were above the waterlevel. the atlantic rose and flo

s and smelting facilities. this dates from the stone age.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation201 appendix b: book abstracts the mediterraneanwas not as large as it is today. under the sea now exist many land masses that were above the waterlevel. the atlantic rose and flooded the land of the countries of mediterranean. domesticated horsesthese are seen depicted on wall drawings in france, as having bridles over 25,000 years ago. concretean unusual site in y ugoslavia, lepiniski vir, has revealed that a small village culture of not more than130 houses had constructed dwellings on poured-cement foundations incorporating indirect centralheating at least 7,000 years ago (p. 161)optical lensesin 1853, sir david brewster of the british association for the advancement of science p

MORALS AND DOGMA

rity is the grand inquest that passes judgment on them. what is the exclusion of worth and intellect and knowledge from civil office compared with trials before jeffries, tortures in the dark caverns of the inquisition, alva-butcheries in the netherlands, the eve of saint bartholomew, and the sicilian vespers* the abb barruel in his _memoirs for the history of jacobinism, declares that masonry in france gave, as its secret, the words equality and liberty, leaving it for every honest and religious mason to explain them as would best suit his principles; but retained the privilege of unveiling in the higher degrees the meaning of those words, as interpreted by the french revolution. and he also excepts english masons from his anathemas, because in england a mason is a peaceable subject of th

" from all explanations tending to overturn empires; but there still remained adepts whom disorganizing principles bound to the ancient mysteries. because true masonry, unemasculated, bore the banners of freedom and equal rights, and was in rebellion against temporal and spiritual tyranny, its lodges were proscribed in 1735, by an edict of the states of holland. in 1737, louis xv. forbade them in france. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conventicles _de liberi muratari, or of the freemasons, under the penalty of _ipso facto_ excommunication, the absolution from which is reserved to

a large one, it requires a large comprehension; it is proper for the action of the central power. if it be a small one, it may be thwarted by disagreement. the central power must step in as an arbitrator and prevent this. the people may be too averse to change, too slothful in their own business, unjust to a minority or a majority. the central power must take the reins when the people drop them. france became centralized in its government more by the apathy and ignorance of its people than by the tyranny of its kings. when the inmost parish-life is given up to the direct guardianship of the state, and the repair of the belfry of a country church requires a written order from the central power, a people is in its dotage. men are thus nurtured in imbecility, from the dawn of social life. wh

e above the popular level. we should naturally suppose that a nation in distress would take counsel with the wisest of its sons. but, on the contrary, great men seem never so scarce as when they are most needed, and small men never so bold to insist on infesting place, as when mediocrity and incapable pretence and sophomoric greenness, and showy and sprightly incompetency are most dangerous. when france was in the extremity of revolutionary agony, she was governed by an assembly of provincial pettifoggers, and robespierre, marat, and couthon ruled in the place of mirabeau, vergniaud, and carnot. england was governed by the rump parliament, after she had beheaded her king. cromwell extinguished one body, and napoleon the other. fraud, falsehood, trickery, and deceit in national affairs are

fickle, fluctuating currents, are apt emblems of the fickle humors of the populace, its passions, its heroic impulses, its enthusiasms. woe to the statesman who does not estimate these as values! even music and song are sometimes found to have an incalculable value. every nation has some song of a proven value, more easily counted in lives than dollars. the marseillaise was worth to revolutionary france, who shall say how many thousand men? peace also is a great element of prosperity and wealth; a value not to be calculated. social intercourse and association of men in beneficent orders have a value not to be estimated in coin. the illustrious examples of the past of a nation, the memories and immortal thoughts of her great and wise thinkers, statesmen, and heroes, are the invaluable legac

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

first world war. readers must not forget that this amazingly modern commentary was written in the twenties) has seen this emancipation flower in four years. primitive people, the australian troups for example, are saying that they will not marry english girls, because english girls like a dozen men a week. well, who wants them to marry? russia has already formally abrogated marriage. germany and france have tried to 'save their faces' in a thoroughly chinese manner, by marrying pregnant spinsters to dead soldiers! england has been too deeply hypocritical, of course, to do more than "hush things up; and is pretending 'business as usual, though every pulpit is aquake with the clamour of bat-eyed bishops, squeaking of the awful immorality of everybody but themselves and their choristers. eng

errors, tortures and temptations (parts ii and iii of book 4 elaborate this thesis at length) we are so caked with dirt that the germs of disease cannot reach us. if we decide to wash, we must do it well; or we may have awakened some sleeping dogs, and set them on defenceless areas. initiation stirs up the mud. it creates unstable equilibrium. it exposes our elements to unfamiliar conditions. the france of louis xvi had to pass through the terror before napoleon could teach it to find itself. similarly, any error in reaching the realization of hadit may abandon the aspirant to the ambitions of every frenzied faction of his character, the masterless dogs of the augean kennel of his mind. some technical aspects of this verse had better be mentioned. first of all, hadit equals 29 by the qabal

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

in detail, i ll be explaining how to do it later in this book. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two legs. inverted it becomes the symbol of baphomet, the goat of a thousand young. now to understand what baphomet represents, i need to give you a little lesson on the knights templar, a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. king phillipe of france had them burnt at the stake in the 14th century for worshipping baphomet- an idol with the head and feet of a goat, the breasts of a woman, and the wings of an angel. inverted the pentagram becomes the symbol of baphomet- the five points being two horns, two ears, and the beard. so now you know! love and witchcraft love has always been a problem. witches and witchcraft have long been associ

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

olleges of builders in rome 4 2 the collegia and the barbarian invasions 18 3 ecclesiastical and monastic associations 34 4 secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 51 5 the crusades and the templars 62 6 the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 81 7 the templars and the parisian builders 102 part 2. from the art of building to the art of thinking 8 mason corporations in france 146 9 builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 168 10 the corporative masonry of great britain 180 11 universal freemasonry 205 12 speculative freemasonry 221 13 the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 247 conclusion 270 notes 278 index 293 preface i state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subject, that to date there

the burgundians, fought the arian visigoths in vouille, resulting in his annexation of aquitaine and languedoc minus the duchy of septimania, which, under the hegemony of narbonne, would remain visigothic for two more centuries. despite clovis's victory, the breviary of alaric continued to be applied. its clauses remained in practice and contributed to the formation of the law set down in central france, where it supplanted the lex romana burgundionum. the province of auvergne remained the most roman in tradition. for centuries it had been the religious center of gaul. from the fifth the collegia and the barbarian invasions 21 century on, churches (several of which are noteworthy) multiplied there under the influence of christianity. the visigoths, who were in the narbonnaise from 413 or 4

paired or built part of the ramparts of cahors, erected bridges across the lot river, and built an episcopal palace and various religious establishments. the collegia and the barbarian invasions 23 the knowledge and reputation of the gallo-roman builders was such that their influence extended outside gaul. according to bede, in the year 675 bishop benoit of weymouth in england was forced to go to france to find builders capable of building in the roman style.3 toward the end of the seventh century and the beginning of the eighth, anglo-saxons went to foreign lands, primarily rome and france, to recruit those skilled in the art of building: masons, glass workers, and other craftsmen.4 if we assume that this art of building more romanum was indeed preserved in france, and that artists and wo

reserved in france, and that artists and workers were there in great number and enjoyed great renown, then we can deduce that goth architects had roman teachers and that associations still existed that had inherited the traditions of the roman collegia. it is also worth nothing that the influence of these associations occurred in an era contemporary with that of charles martel, who, as legends in france and england have it and as we shall see, played a prominent role in the formation of freemasonry. it is necessary, however, to stress that gallo-roman and goth art of that time had evolved. the basilicas of gaul did in fact differ from those of rome in that goths and visigoths introduced eastern influences, particularly those from egypt, palestine, syria, and sassanid persia. in the fifth a

ienced this influence. during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the scholoe of the builders of venice, which was entirely greek with respect to mores, built a cathedral in the purest byzantine style in honor of saint mark. works that are admirable testaments to byzantine art can also be found in central italy and sicily, 32 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages and in france, in the area of the former visigoth kingdom, we find the example of saint front of perigueux. in the kingdom of the franks, where the art of building had disappeared, frankish kings, as we have seen, resorted to hiring visigoth architects. later, charlemagne was struck with admiration for italian monuments, which aroused his desire to have similar buildings erected in his own country, but a

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

rth, so she began to shape the world, dividing land and sea. her son, v in m inen, the first man, was born 30 years later. he floated in the sea, reaching dry land eight years later. the lord of the beasts the early celtic god cernunnos was the lord of the beasts, and is shown as such in various reliefs, most notably on the gundestrup cauldron (see below. he was worshiped most strongly in central france, and is often accompanied by ram-headed serpents. he wears a chieftain s torc around his neck and is sometimes shown with purses filled with coins. his name means the horned one, and he is evidently a god with nearly as complicated a role as the greek dionysus (see pp. 58 59. he is predominantly a god of fertility and prosperity, but is also a god of the underworld. a coin found in hampshir

he ground. his position here is strikingly similar to that of a horned indian deity shown on a seal from mohenjo daro in pakistan, who also sits cross-legged surrounded by animals; it is suggested that this indian deity represents shiva in his role as lord of the beasts (see pp. 112 13. bull horned bulls are often shown in association with cernunnos, as for instance on a stone relief from rheims, france, in which cernunnos holds a sack from which coins flow down to a bull and a stag. many irish myths center around the attempted thefts of supernatural bulls, most notably the t in b cuailnge, whose hero is cuchulain, son of the sun god lugh. the two bulls whose battle is the climax of the t in are said to have originally been divine swineherds even after undergoing many transformations, they

nevere, surrounded by his noble knights. but even they had failings, and that of sir lancelot to fall in love with guinevere was arthur s downfall. told of the affair by sir agravain, one of his knights, arthur condemned guinevere to die. lancelot rescued her, but in doing so, killed agravain s brothers gareth and gaheris. another brother, sir gawain (see p. 83, insisted arthur follow lancelot to france to fight. arthur left mordred, his son by his half-sister morgause, as regent. but mordred turned traitor, and arthur had to come back to face him at the battle of camlann. here, arthur ran him through; but mordred, with superhuman effort, hauled himself the length of the lance, and dealt arthur a fatal blow. taken from the battle, and knowing his fate, arthur asked sir bedivere to cast exc

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

pike paid little attention to either of these rites. his earliest comments reflect a type of sympathetic indifference, and reveal that he did not yet know how specious they actually were. by the b i g as, however, his study convinced him that both the rites of memphis and misraim peddled cheap wares which were unworthy of consideration by freemasons. we extract pike s article, the grand orient of france and the rite of memphis, from his b i g f allocution to the supreme council.2 william l. cummings s 1936 study in his b j d g allocution to the grand college of rites, grand chancellor j.hugo tatsch stated, for the b j d g issue of collectanea i have selected the fine article of fellow william l. cummings, on the spurious rites of memphis and misraim, to which should be added the able trans

1936 study in his b j d g allocution to the grand college of rites, grand chancellor j.hugo tatsch stated, for the b j d g issue of collectanea i have selected the fine article of fellow william l. cummings, on the spurious rites of memphis and misraim, to which should be added the able translations, never before published in the united states, of extracts from the bulletin of the grand orient of france, on the rites of memphis and misraim, b i g c v h a.these were translated by our assistant redactor-general, fellow john black vrooman.3 for some unknown reason illustrious cummings s excellent but littleknown paper was never published in full. fortunately, however, illustrious arturo de hoyos, d d x, who serves as the grand archivist and chairman of the publications committee of the grand

ow pleased to publish.william leon cummings,m.d.,one of the ablest masonic scholars of his day, served as grand chancellor of the grand college of rites during the b j e f v e g year.he is best known as one of the contributors to and editors of coil s masonic encyclopedia( b j g b. readers should bear in mind that this paper does not take into account the many subsequent changes in freemasonry in france. extracts from brother cumming s paper,with corrected dates,were used as an introduction to a publication of one b e i heredom albert pike& william l. cummings version of the rituals of the rite of memphis. in our reprint of the cummings paper, the corrected dates are set bold in brackets, e.g [may c f, b i e b, to indicate those published in collectanea, vol. d (grand college of rites of t

the rite of memphis and its final absorption by the grand college of rites of the united states of america in great detail.appendix b records incidents connected with these important events during b j d b and b j d c, when the sovereign sanctuary determined to transfer its power and authority to the grand college.appendix c records the filial descent of the rite of memphis, from its beginning in france to its final absorption. copies of these documents were provided by the grand college of rites of the united states of america and have been placed in the archives of the supreme council, d d x, s.j.,washington,d.c. n o t e s b. albert pike, jan. c a, b i i e,official bulletin of the supreme council, d dd degree for the southern jurisdiction of the united states, vol.vi (gr or of charleston

and another who received them in half a minute, up to the j eth, by the pronunciation, by the hierophant of a single short sentence. i append to this address a true account of the origin and progress of this rite of memphis, taken from the masonic monthly published at boston, and which, from investigations long ago made by me, in translating documents connected with the history of free-masonry in france, i can vouch for as true. those who now manage the rite and sell its degrees, in new york, publish that it is recognized by the gr or of france. but this is false, in the sense in which it is intended to be taken; and in selling degrees and titles by means of it, the vendors are obtaining money under false pretenses. on the d ath of april, b i g c, grand master marshal magnan addressed a ci

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

these claims are no more verifiable and certainly no clearer than those which characterised its beginning <16 "the order of the golden dawn" narrates the history lecture of that order "is an hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of occult science and the magic of hermes. during the early part of the second half of last century, several eminent adepti and chiefs of the order in france and england died, and their death caused a temporary dormant condition of temple work "prominent among the adepti of our order and of public renown were eliphas levi the greatest of modem french magi; ragon, the author of several books of occult lore; kenneth m. mackenzie, author of the famous and learned masonic encyclopaedia; and frederick hockley possessed of the power of vision in the c

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

ents the law of mystery which watches at the door of initiation to warn away the profane. voltaire, who knew nothing of all this, was highly diverted at the notion of a bull brandishing a sword. what would he have said had he visited the ruins of memphis and thebes, and what would the echo of past ages which slumbers in the tombs of rameses have replied to those light sarcasms so much relished in france? the mosaic cherub represents also the great magical mystery, of which the elements are expressed by the septenary, without, however, giving the final word. this verbum inenarrabile of the sages of the alexandrian school, this word which hebrew kabalists write 111 and interpret by ararita thus expressing the triplicity of the secondary principle, the dualism of means, the equal unity of the

as computed the recurrence of fortunate or calamitous years for all empires of the world. in the twenty-first chapter of our ritual we shall give an exact analysis of this work, together with a continuation of the labour of trithemius to our own days and the application of his magical scale to contemporary events, so as to deduce the most striking probabilities relative to the immediate future of france, europe and the world. according to all the grand masters in astrology, comets are the stars of exceptional heroes, and they visit earth only to signalize great changes; the planets preside over collective existences and modify the destinies of mankind in the aggregate; the fixed stars, more remote and more feeble in their action, attract individuals and determine their tendencies. sometime

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

d, which issued from the mouth of hermes. nothing equals the electricity of eloquence. speech creates the highest intelligence in the most grossly constituted masses. even those who are too remote for actual hearing understand by sympathy and are carried away with the crowd. peter the hermit convulsed europe by his cry of ggod wills it! h a single word of the emperor electrified his army and made france invincible. proudhon destroyed socialism by his celebrated paradox: gproperty is robbery. h a current saying is sufficient on occasion to demolish a reigning power. voltaire knew this well. he who shook the world by sarcasms. so, also, he who feared neither pope nor king, neither parliament nor bastille, was afraid of a pun. we are on the verge of fulfilling the intentions of that man whose

are often strange or ridiculous, but on this account are so much more effectual, for they exact and realize more faith on the part of patients and operators. an old merchant of our acquaintance, a man of eccentric character and exalted religious sentiment, after retiring from business, set himself to practise occult medicine, gratuitously and out of christian charity, in one of the departments of france. his sole specifics were oil, insufflations and prayers. the institution of a lawsuit against him for the illegal exercise of medicine established in public knowledge that ten thousand cures had been attributed to him in the space of about five years, and that the number of his believers increased in proportions calculated to alarm all the doctors of the district. we saw also at mans a poor

he nation which possesses at this time the initiative of intelligence and life will have also the keys of the east and will establish the universal kingdom. to do this it may have to undergo previously a cross and martyrdom analogous to those of the man-god; but, dead or living, its spirit will prevail among nations; all peoples will acknowledge and follow in four-and-twenty years the standard of france, ever victorious or miraculously raised from the dead. such is the prophecy of trithemius, confirmed by all our previsions and rooted in all our hopes. 128 chapter xxii the book of hermes the end of our work is upon us; it is here that we must give the universal key thereof and utter its final word. the universal key of magical works is that of all ancient religious dogmas. the key of the k

RUBY TABLET OF SET

minated universities were educating virtually all of catholic europe. after 1550 tensions between catholics and protestants had reached the stage of religious warfare, culminating in the terrible thirty years' war between denmark, sweden, and the protestant german principalities on one hand and the catholic hapsburgs (spain, austria, netherlands, italy, and most of catholic germany) on the other. france, though catholic, fought against the hapsburgs for secular political reasons. approximately one-third of germany's population died from the war and its side-effects, and the final peace of westphalia (1648) was brought about more by exhaustion than by genuine reconciliation. the philosophy of thomas hobbes the period from ca. 1500 to 1789 is generally referred to as the "age of absolutism"

ate. in 1660 parliament invited the classification: v2- 102- 11 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 16a, 16l, 16m exiled charles ii to resume the throne (the restoration. charles' son james ii was deposed by a bloodless coup in 1688-89 (the glorious revolution) in favor of william and mary. in france louis xiv (the "sun king) reigned from 1643 to 1715. he devoted much time and effort to affairs of state, but was followed by two incompetent kings, louis xv and xvi, whose estrangement from the people ultimately led to the french revolution of 1789. spain's philip ii reigned from 1556 to 1598. the defeat of his "invincible armada" by elizabeth i's england in 1588 marked the beginning of sp

to others for their own sake as fellow natural creatures. the enlightenment, however, was a phenomenon limited to the literate, wealthy, and noble classes. the masses of the european populace were still impulsive and superstitious. the 16th and 17th centuries also encompassed europe's great witchcraft hysteria, when millions of victims were tortured and burned to death at the stake, primarily in france and germany. the appearance of halley's comet in 1682 was popularly interpreted as a sign of divine wrath. so the "confused" climate of hobbes' era continued to pervade much of locke's. it may be hypothesized that the forthcoming age of revolutions was energized by the spread of enlightenment techniques among a general populace insufficiently educated and enlightened to handle them save thr

awakening of the arts, magnanimity of youth, and fantastic madness" the philosophy of marx the european industrial revolution, which created the conditions conducive to the onslaught of modern capitalist/labor/socialist developments, began in england at the start of the 19th century. the move towards industrialization spread to belgium as a consequence of english investments in that country, and france and germany experienced their major industrial booms between 1830 and 1870. sweden, denmark, and the low countries followed during the period 1871-1914, as did austria, bohemia, and russia. by the period just prior to world war i, the principal countries which were still essentially preindustrial were hungary, italy, and spain. during the 1870s a gradual transition could be seen from indivi

f protective tariffs in order to help protect budding national industries against competition from further developed foreign ones. by the 1890s england, belgium, and holland were the only countries still observing a free trade policy. the consolidation and organization of business encouraged (by example) the organization of labor. labor unions first began to experience general legal toleration in france in the period 1864-1884, in england in 1871-1875, and in austria in the early 1870s. the first international labor organization, the international workingmen's association (the "first international) was founded in london in 1864 and existed until 1876, when it dissolved due to a split between the anarchist faction of bakunin and the socialist/marxist factions. in 1889 the second internation

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

the door. man singh, youngest and jumpiest of the quartet, screamed at her "now where do we go? in any damn place they'll send the commandos in for sure. we're gone geese now "martyrdom is a privilege" she said softly "we shall be like stars; like the sun" o o o sand gave way to snow. europe in winter, beneath its white, transforming carpet, its ghost-white shining up through the night. the alps, france, the coastline of england, white cliffs rising to whitened meadowlands. mr. saladin chamcha jammed on an anticipatory bowler hat. the world had rediscovered flight a 1-420, the boeing 747 _bostan. radar tracked it; radio messages crackled _do you want permission to land_ but no permission was requested _bostan_ circled over england's shore like a gigantic sea-bird. gull. albatross. fuel ind

SATANGEL

familiars. possible roots include the mesopotamian goddess belili. belmagel the evil angel of the scryer edward kelly, who worked alongside dr. dee to earth the enochian angelic magick. belphegor (assyrian baal-poer, meaning lord of flesh. once a prince of the order of principalities. the patron devil of ingenious inventions and discoveries, and also of marital discord. the demonic ambassador of france, patron demon of paris. keen on partying, belphegor may appear also in the form of an attractive young woman. originally a moabite god of licentiousness. also a phallic deity, he was known as the lord of the opening, a reference to his favoured sacrifice of human sexual virginity. berchard, bechard (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power over winds and tempests, lightni

SATANIC BIBLE

e, well known in the arts and sciences, and the business world. eventually a "magic circle" evolved from this group. the major purpose of the circle was to meet for the performance of magical rituals lavey had discovered or devised. he had accumulated a library of works that descibed the black mass and other infamous ceremonies conducted by groups such as the knights templar in fourteenth-century france, the hell-fire club and the golden dawn in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century england. the intent of some of these secret orders was to blaspheme, lampoon the christian church, and address themselves to the devil as an anthropomorphic deity that represented the reverse of god. in lavey's view, the devil was not that, but rather a dark, hidden force in nature responsible for the workings of

ld be defiled, acultural militants would be deified, and the decadence of ecclesiastical theologies might even be given a satanic boost. the satanic magus has always been the catalyst for the dichotomy necessary in molding popular beliefs, and in this case a ceremony in the nature of a black mass may serve a farreaching magical purpose. in the year 1666, some rather interesting events occurred in france. with the death of fran ois mansart, the architect of the trapezoid, whose geometrics were to become the prototype of the haunted house, the palace of versailles was being constructed, in accordance with his plans. the last of the glamorous priestesses of satan, jeanne-marie bouvier (madame guyon) was to be overshadowed by a shrewd opportunist and callous businesswoman named catharine desha

SATANIC RITUALS

ometimes using an aborted fetus as a human sacrifice (records indicate that she performed over two hundred abortions) the priests who supposedly celebrated the black mass for her supplied the holy propagandists with more material. if ordained priests were occasionally prone to take part in heretical rites, it is understandable when one considers the social conditions at the time. for centuries in france many men became priests because they were from upper class families and the priesthood was de rigeur for at least one son of cultured or well-to-do parents. the first son became a military officer or politician, and the second was sent off to a religious order. so controversial was this arrangement that it produced a catch phrase "le rouge et noir" if one of the young men happened to be of

ristian standards of satanism. one fact is irrefutable: for every unborn baby offered up "in the name of satan" during lavoisin's clandestine playlets, countless thousands of living babies and small children have been slaughtered in wars fought in the name of christ. the black mass which follows is the version performed by the societe des luciferiens in late nineteenth and early twentieth century france. obviously taken from prior messes noir, it also derives from the texts of die holy bible, the missale romanum, the work of charles baudelaire and charles marie- george huysmans, and the records of georges legue. it is the most consistently satanic version this author has encountered. while it maintains the degree of blasphemy necessary to make it effective psychodrama, it does not dwell on

he knights templar. it celebrates a reawakening of the flesh and a rejection of past self-denials, and symbolic rebirth is attained through a contrived entombment. the ceremony originated in the thirteenth century. in its original form it was not the historical parody into which it later developed. accounts of the performance of l'air epais ultimately strengthened the charges of king philip iv of france in his campaign to abolish the rich order, which was banished in 1331. the templars had been exposed to the dualistic concepts of the yezidis in the near east they had seen pride glorified and life praised as never before, when they entered the courtyard of the serpent and the sanctuary of the peacock, where indulgence became tantamount to greater power. as a result, they developed what was

een banished to the place of eternal indecision and regret, where he must stand in a humorless wind, his tatters blowing, with none to see. forever. the priest presents his final proclamation and the ceremony is closed in the standard manner. l'air epais the tribunal [the priest introduces the participants: his high court convenes tonight, he says, to heat the case of pope clement and the king of france, philip, who are accused of conspiracy, murder, and treason. he then asks clement to justify his actions] pope: je ne puis comprendre ce myst re. un mal diction d'une norme puissance est attach e ma personne et mes actes. les templiers se sout veng s; ils ont de'touit le pape, ils ont de'touit le roi. leur pouvoir n'est-il pas arr t par la mort? why am i here? what is the meaning of this? i

, for even after death, the torment of the templars is not still they have destroyed this pope, and with me they have taken the king. yet here am i as it was in centuries past. will not their power stop with death? king: la question est vieille et oubli e. the matter is old and should be forgotten. priest: la question ne peut pas tre oubli e. beaucoup d'hommes moururent, partni les plus braves de france. the matter cannot be forgotten. many men died, among the bravest in france. pope: ce n'est pas moi qui les ai condamn s. leur roi, phillipe, connaisait les actions des templiers: il obtient des informatious. il consid re leur fortune, leur pouvoir, leur arrogance, et leurs rites tranges, sombres et terribles. il les condamn. a mort! i did not condemn them. the king, philip, condemned them

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

emple of jerusalem. artha: prosperity and success in material affairs. asatru: a neo-pagan religion based on worship of the norse (scandanavian) gods. ascetic: a person who practices rigid self-denial, giving up all comforts and pleasures, as an act of religious devotion. jain monks and nuns are ascetics. asha: righteousness that derives from natural law. ashkenazic: term used to refer to jews of france, germany, and eastern europe. astrology: the study of the movement of the planets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. ataraxia: serenity, tranquility, or peace of mind. atheism: a disbelief in the existence of god or a belief that there is no god. atomism: the belief that matter is composed of simple, indivisible, physical particles that are too tiny to b

ginates. whether or not these theories about the origins of religion are true, evidence suggests that the practice of religion is very ancient. prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists who focus their studies on the remains and culture of prehistoric humans and their ancestors, have uncovered evidence 4 world religions: almanac what is religion? of burial rituals dating to about 13,000 bce. in france and germany, paleontologists have found burials by neanderthals, a subspecies of modern humans who no longer exist. paleontologists study life from past geological periods through fossil remains. these neanderthals carefully laid their dead in prepared graves, along with tools and weapons. the care with which the neanderthals prepared their dead suggests that they believed in some form of a

from past geological periods through fossil remains. these neanderthals carefully laid their dead in prepared graves, along with tools and weapons. the care with which the neanderthals prepared their dead suggests that they believed in some form of an afterlife, a step that implies some kind of religion. a famous painting known as the sorcerer, found on the wall of a cave called trois fre`res in france and dating about 18,000 years ago, shows a figure of a bearded being that is half man, half animal. most anthropologists believe that this figure is a tribal shaman (an intermediary between the gods and tribal members, but he may also represent an early deity. anthropologists believe that early religion may have developed in part out of human beings attempts to control uncontrollable parts

rre-simon de laplace (1749 1827) verified newton s theory of gravitation and the movements of the planets as well as the rhythm of the ocean s tides. the discoveries of newton and laplace provided an alternative explanation for the existence and behavior of the universe that did not rely on god as its designer. during the age of enlightenment reason and logic were often ranked above faith. one of france s most famous advocates of enlightenment thought, denis diderot (1713 1784, was accused of atheism for his challenges to religion through his belief in materialism (the theory that physical matter is all that exists and everything can be explained through it. he explained this belief in his 1746 work, pense es philosophiques( philosophical thoughts. philosophers during the enlightenment als

example, moved away from a god-centered christianity. for tillich, the concept of god was more abstract. he called god the ground of being. tillich suggested that god actually exists within each person. tillich shocked many in the religious community by claiming that the old formal god did not exist. meanwhile, the twentieth century after world war ii (1939 45; a war in which the united kingdom, france, and the united states defeated germany, italy, and japan) brought about state-sponsored atheism by the communist governments of eastern europe, the soviet union, and china. many people stopped practicing religion or did so only in secret. while religion was not officially forbidden by communist governments, it was heavily controlled because it was seen as a threat to the person in power. t

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ey served to increase his gloom. what could ever connect his fate with rene dumas, or the fugitive assassin? why did the buoyant air of paris seem to him heavy with the steams of blood; why did an instinct urge him to fly from those sparkling circles, from that focus of the world's awakened hopes, warning him from return? he, whose lofty existence defied but away these dreams and omens! he leaves france behind. back, o italy, to thy majestic wrecks! on the alps his soul breathes the free air once more. free air! alas! let the world-healers exhaust their chemistry; man never shall be as free in the marketplace as on the mountain. but we, reader, we too escape from these scenes of false wisdom clothing godless crime. away, once more "in den heitern regionen wo die reinen formen wohnen" away

n allured him from ambition, and living beauty distracted his worship from the senseless canvas. brave, adventurous, vain, restless, inquisitive, he was ever involved in wild projects and pleasant dangers, the creature of impulse and the slave of imagination. it was then the period when a feverish spirit of change was working its way to that hideous mockery of human aspirations, the revolution of france; and from the chaos into which were already jarring the sanctities of the world's venerable belief, arose many shapeless and unformed chimeras. need i remind the reader that, while that was the day for polished scepticism and affected wisdom, it was the day also for the most egregious credulity and the most mystical superstitions, the day in which magnetism and magic found converts amongst

; so it is not till the bloom of fancy begins to fade, that the heart ripens to the passions that the bloom precedes and foretells. joyous alike at his lonely easel or amidst his boon companions, he had not yet known enough of sorrow to love deeply. for man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greatest. it is the shallow sensualists of france, who, in their salonlanguage, call love "a folly" love, better understood, is wisdom. besides, the world was too much with clarence glyndon. his ambition of art was associated with the applause and estimation of that miserable minority of the surface that we call the public. like those who deceive, he was ever fearful of being himself the dupe. he distrusted the sweet innocence of viola. he

with his subjects. his saints and virgins are to me only men and women "and from what source should painting, then, take its themes "from history, without doubt" returned nicot, pragmatically "those great roman actions which inspire men with sentiments of liberty and valour, with the virtues of a republic. i wish the cartoons of raphael had illustrated the story of the horatii; but it remains for france and her republic to give to posterity the new and the true school, which could never have arisen in a country of priestcraft and delusion "and the saints and virgins of raphael are to you only men and women" repeated glyndon, going back to nicot's candid confession in amaze, and scarcely hearing the deductions the frenchman drew from his proposition "assuredly. ha, ha" and nicot laughed hid

"not if she could get a better offer" said mervale, looking up to the ceiling "a better offer? you don't understand me" said nicot "i, jean nicot, propose to marry the girl; marry her! others may make her more liberal offers, but no one, i apprehend, would make one so honourable. i alone have pity on her friendless situation. besides, according to the dawning state of things, one will always, in france, be able to get rid of a wife whenever one wishes. we shall have new laws of divorce. do you imagine that an italian girl and in no country in the world are maidens, it seems, more chaste (though wives may console themselves with virtues more philosophical) would refuse the hand of an artist for the settlements of a prince? no; i think better of the pisani than you do. i shall hasten to int

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

f the office of secretary of state. 9-24-56# 6-324 "lana" levi, virgillio (alias levine, monsignor. assistant director of official vatican newspaper, l'osservatore romano. manages vatican radio station. 7-4-58# 241-3 "vile" lozza, lino. chancellor of rome academy of st. thomas aquinas of catholic religion. 7-23-69# 12-768 "loli" lienart, achille. cardinal. grand master top mason. bishop of lille, france. recruits masons. was leader of progressive forces at vatican ii council. macchi, pasquale. cardinal. pope paul's prelate of honour and private secretary until he was excommunicated for heresy by pope paul vi. was reinstated by secretary of state jean villot, and made a cardinal. 4-23-58# 5463-2 "mapa" mancini, italo. director of sua santita. 3-18-68# l551-142 "mani" manfrini, enrico. lay c

e, in europe there are twelve fathers- one for each country in europe. when i was younger i had to also meet with the fathers at one point and kiss the ring, and go through another ceremony of allegiance to them as well. in the illuminati, the european fathers rule over what are called the different houses. for instance, if you are from germany then you belong to the german house, if you are from france you belong to the french house- they call them houses. uk, russia, poland, belgium, spain, italy and others. from there, america was considered a mission field for them. in the 17, actually in the 1600s, pittsburgh became the first port of entry for them. that's where they first settled. that's why it's still considered a spiritual power base for the group on the east coast in the us. gs: y

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

lluminati worship deity by many names in many disguises. one such name and disguise is "jahbuhlun" in pursuit of their worship of this false god, jahbuhlun, they have devised many rituals in which they employ "hidden" hand signs. in all the 33 degrees of scottish rite freemasonry and in the rituals of the york rite, the order of skull and bones, the ordo templi orientis, the grand orient lodge of france, the grand lodge of jerusalem, and on and on in almost all the secret societies and orders, handsigns, and handshakes are prominent. in coil's masonic encyclopedia we read "the hand is important in freemasonry..for the purpose of giving and receiving modes of recognition."1 in 46 codex magica concealed messages: the importance of hand signs 47 j. c. coopers's an illustrated encyclopedia of

on in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, indicates that washington had taken the vow of vengence to all enemies of the order of the illuminati. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun m 61 the marquis de lafayette of france presented george washington with this masonic apron which is now preserved in the library of the grand lodge of pennsylvania, in philadelphia. it contains many occultic symbols, the meaning of which presumably is reserved for higherlevel masonic brethren. many, however, are outed and explained in this book, to the chagrin, i am sure, of the masonic brotherhood. emblem of the exclusivist ord

ntifying his secret society membership through a hand signal. the name of jesus is never mentioned in either the declaration of independence or the subsequent united states constitution. instead, our nation's founders used vague, illuminist coded terms like "nature's god" or "providence" benjamin franklin, a key leader of the delegates, was both a grand master mason (lodge of nine sisters, paris, france) and a rosicrucian. thomas jefferson, who helped draft the declaration of independence, wrote favorably of the order of the illuminati and its founder, european jesuit professor adam weishaupt. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 63 this poster showing america's first president, george washington, as a mason, is distributed by the george washington masonic national memorial association. it

ey, in turn, were wiped out by stalin. levandovsky (center) is displaying his masonic "jahbuhlun" hand signal. mekhonoshin (right) wears the llluminati phyrgian cap. four gulag camp commandants. note that all four are giving the secret sign of jewish freemasonry, just as did communism's founding father, the jewish mason, karl marx. 72 codex magica sculptor auguste bertholdi was a member of paris, france's grand orient lodge. it was bertholdi (1834-1904) who sculpted the illuminati's monumental statue of liberty which now graces new york's harbor. the statue is replete with secret society coded messages and symbols of a particularly blasphemous nature. yet, the vast majority of americans adore the statue of liberty and naively see in her only virtue and goodness. in the mid-nineteenth centu

eaders waiting to see him in his oval office at the white house. the president entered his office wearing a goat's head mask (peter sawyer's inside news, november 1991 and south east christian witness, january 1992, p. 5 and july /august 1989, p. 9) baphlesme! 109 110 codex magica the devil makes an appearance at a black sabbat ritual of his followers (from an ancient woodcut by pierre de lancre, france, 1913) baal and some other gods were pictured as horned bulls. this is baal, god of fire receiving an infant as sacrifice. baphles me! 111 according to this news account from the associated press (april 1, 1995, the tomb of alexander the great was found at siwa, in egypt. adorers of the greek conqueror, alexander the great, attributed horns to him. this was thought to be emblematic of a per

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

at sphinx in egypt. like many such ancient places, those sites have been examined and speculated upon for centuries, yet they still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the lost civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society that

es based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, ca

fter all the other subjects had been awakened, sutphen asked if barbara wished to explore in greater detail the prior life on which she had touched so emotionally. she eagerly agreed, and sutphen once again induced the trance state. in a few moments, barbara was speaking in the voice and persona of a 12-year-old french girl, describing her luxurious home and her perfect life in eighteenth-century france at the time of the revolution. when the hypnotist moved her forward in time, she experienced the arrival of soldiers who had orders to take her family to prison. numerous humiliations followed, and the young girl was eventually killed by the revolutionaries. after her death experience in that lifetime, sutphen directed a question to barbara s higher self: how had events from the past life i

ance at the time of the revolution. when the hypnotist moved her forward in time, she experienced the arrival of soldiers who had orders to take her family to prison. numerous humiliations followed, and the young girl was eventually killed by the revolutionaries. after her death experience in that lifetime, sutphen directed a question to barbara s higher self: how had events from the past life in france related to her present life problems? from the depths of her hypnotic sleep, barbara cried out that pretty people got hurt. she had been very pretty in that life in france and the soldiers had humiliated and killed her. the only way to be safe is to remain ugly in the world, she said. after she was once again awakened from the trance state, barbara provided additional information about her

of enthusiastic sitters to regard the medium as priest or priestess as the major danger area in mediumistic activities. she wisely concluded that communication with the other world may well become a substitute for living in this world. understanding that this world in which we live has priority in this existence is the core of mediumship ethics. eileen garrett died on september 15, 1970, in nice, france, following a period of declining health. m delving deeper angoff, allan. eileen garrett and the world beyond the senses. new york: william morrow, 1974. carrington, hereward. the case for psychic survival. new york: citadel press, 1957. garrett, eileen. many voices: the autobiography of a medium. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1968. leshan, lawrence. the medium, the mystic, and the physicis

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

at sphinx in egypt. like many such ancient places, those sites have been examined and speculated upon for centuries, yet they still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the lost civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society that

es based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, ca

ecutive nights, they had watched the ghostly reconstruction and had even recognized several of their comrades who had fallen that day. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 15 almostevery city, town, or village in the world has a bit of folklore about a phantom. on august 4, 1951, two young englishwomen vacationing in dieppe, france, were awakened just before dawn by the violent sounds of guns and shell fire, dive bombing planes, shouts, and the scraping of landing craft hitting the beach. cautiously peering out of their windows, the two young women saw only the peaceful pre-dawn city. they knew, however, that just nine years previously, nearly 1,000 young canadians had lost their lives in the ill-fated dieppe raid. de

the observer, december 31, 2000 [online] http//www.observer.co.uk/ uk_news/story/0,6903,416556,00.html. price, harry. the most haunted house in england. london: longmans, green& co, 1940. poltergeist over england. london: country life, 1945. stevens, william oliver. unbidden guests. new york: dodd, mead& co, 1957. calvados castle the disturbances that took place in the norman castle of calvados, france, from october 12, 1875, to january 30, 1876, were written up and published in the annales des sciences psychiques in 1893 by m. j. morice. although the master of calvados kept a diary that could later be used as a documentary of the phenomena, he insisted that his family name not be mentioned in connection with the haunting. he is, therefore, referred to in the narrative only as m. de x. hi

r arrests. switzerland can lay claim to the first official execution of werewolves, when in 1407, 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 mysterious creatures 83 stories of women who gave birth to werecreatures are common among the north american tribal myths. several individuals so accused were tortured and burned in basel; but the inquisitors in france have the dubious distinction of recording the most cases of werewolfism in all of europe 30,000 between 1520 and 1630. the werewolf trials began at poligny in 1521 when, after enduring the torture chamber, three men admitted to consorting with shewolves and demons in order to gain the power to transform themselves into wolves then they confessed to having killed and devoured many small chil

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

at sphinx in egypt. like many such ancient places, those sites have been examined and speculated upon for centuries, yet they still continue to conceal secrets and occasionally yield surprising information that forces new historical interpretations of past societies. there are other places that have become mysterious sites because of unusual occurrences. the claimed miraculous healing at lourdes, france, the accounts of spiritual illumination at jerusalem and mecca, and the sacred visions at taos, new mexico, provide testimonies of faith and wonder that must be assessed by each individual. there are also the glost h civilizations and mysterious places that may never have existed beyond the human imagination. more than 2,500 years ago, legends first began about atlantis, an ideal society th

es based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society fs reaction to those who mixed arcane practice with heterodox theology. in spite of persecution, the concept of witchcraft persisted and even flourished in early modern times. at least the fear of it did, as the salem witch trials richly illustrate. in the early decades of the twentieth century, schools of pagan and magical teachings were reborn as wicca. wiccans, c

eans drove the invaders from spain as legend told it. after about 714, the gothic monarchy of spain had been replaced by the institutions of the conquering arabs, and a short time after spain had fallen to the moors, it became the most prosperous and civilized country in the west. within a few more years, the arabs had extended their european empire north of the pyrenees mountains to the south of france and from the mouth of the garonne to that of the rhone. in 732, charles martel of france stemmed the muslim tide of conquest at the battle of tours, and the arabs retreated back to spain where they retained a peaceful possession of the country for many centuries. cordova became a highly respected seat of art and learning, and the arab philosophers became the sages of the west. over the cent

erbergers plan for a new world order teenth century to signify those alchemists and magicians who appeared to possess the glight h of spiritual illumination from a higher source. the term may have originated in the gnostic dualism of the forces of light and darkness, and many individuals who claimed to be illuminati, those enlightened by a higher wisdom, joined the rosicrucians and took refuge in france to escape the fires of the spanish inquisition. the secret society known as the order of the illuminati was founded in the city of ingolstadt in the southern german monarchy of bavaria on may 1, 1776 by adam weishaupt, a 28-year-old professor of religious law. beginning with only five members, weishaupt fs order grew slowly, numbering about 60 in five cities by 1780. the professor deliberat

issued a series of exhortations that the order was accepting into its membership too many knights who were but adventurers and outlaws and that a good number of the nobility who had joined the templars were men who had been regarded as oppressors and scourges by their serfs. there were three divisions of the templars in the east.jerusalem, antioch, and tripoli. in europe, there were 16 provinces.france, auvergne, normandy, aquitaine, poitou, provence, england, germany, upper and lower italy, apulia, sicily, portugal, castile, leon, and aragon. a majority of the templars were french, and it was estimated by the middle of the thirteenth century that as many as 9,000 manors were held by the templars in france. the chief seat of the templars had remained in jerusalem from the origins of the o

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

n in the text. for the benefit of those who wish to pursue the study furtherthere is a bibliography for each chapter at the end of the book. for a complete bibliography of englishrecords the reader is referred to wallace notestein's history of witchcraft in england (washington, 1911. inmy witch cult in western europe (oxford university press, 1921) the bibliography is chiefly of the britishisles, france, belgium, and sweden.though i am concerned with the existence through the middle ages of a primitive religion in westerneurope only, there is no doubt that the cult was spread in early times through central and eastern europe andthe near east. there it survived, underlying, as in the west, the official religion of the country, christianity ineurope, islam and sometimes christianity in the e

wildanimal, penance for three years because this is devilish. three centuries later king edgar[5] found that theold religion was more common than the official faith, and he urges that "every christian should zealouslyaccustom his children to christianity" the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god9the great influx of heathen norsemen, under sweyn and canute into england and under rollo into france,must have been a terrible blow to christianity in western europe, in spite of the so-called conversion of therulers. though the new religion steadily gained ground, the old religion regained many "converts, andmore than one ruler held firmly to the faith of his fathers. this was markedly the case among the east saxons,the most powerful kingdom in the seventh and eighth centuries. the east s

eir god. of the aberdeen witches, tried in 1596[7] agnes wobsterwas accused of having dealings with "satan whom thou callest thy god; marion grant confessed thatchristsonday was the name of the divine personage "christsonday bade thee call him lord, and caused theeto worship him on thy knees as thy lord. boguet,[8] the inquisitor, who records with unction that he triedand executed many witches in france in 1608, states that "the witches, before taking their repast, bless thetable, but with words full of blasphemy, making beelzebub the author and protector of all things. delancre,[9] the inquisitor in the pays de labourd (basses pyr351n351es, wrote in 1613 that there was "a greatdevil, who is the master of all, whom they all adore; he also recorded the evidence of one of his victims,[10]"th

and who the gentleman she spoke of was, the said examinant answered andsaid, that it was the devil" these are only two instances out of very many.the forms in which the disguised god appeared were bull, cat, dog, goat, horse, sheep, and stag. it isnoteworthy that the goat and sheep do not occur in the british isles except in the case of the norman bishopof coventry; they belong almost entirely to france and germany. in england, scotland and the south offrance the usual animal disguise was the bull or the stag; but nowhere is there a record of the head of thereligion appearing as an ass, or a hare, though the hare was the most common transformation of the witches;in late times, in france and germany he is occasionally a pig. in guernsey there is a record of a peculiardisguise, when in 1617

n, the equivalent of homme de bouc, goat-man[40] which brings the whole of the earlyreligion of the basques into connection with the horned god. de lancre notes that the witches, when "in thehands of justice" used the name barrabon[41] to signify either their own or the christian god, barrabon[42]being also the name of a witch-god in belgium.a peculiar name, which occurs both in great britain and france is simon; it was used for either thegrandmaster or for the familiars which were also called devils. it is possibly a diminutive like the mamilionof layamon's brut (ll. 16790-5, or the amaimon and barbason of which falstaff says "they are devil'sadditions, the name of fiends" but there is another possible explanation. the early christian fathers refer toa statue to simon set up in rome in th

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

d the west, and the soft rays of the sun of asia have touched the icicles of the north. stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over a worn-out world; the souls of dead people have shone upon rejuvenated races, and enlarged in them the spirit of life. there is in the world a nation which calls itself frankness and freedom, for these two words are synonymous with the name of france. this nation has always been in some ways more catholic than the pope, and more protestant than luther. the france of the crusades, the france of the troubadours, the france of songs, the france of rabelais and of voltaire, the france of bossuet and of pascal, it is she who is the synthesis of all peoples: it is she who consecrates the alliance of reason and of faith, of revolution and of p

eceived and wounded, never cast down, enthusiastic over her triumphs, daring in her adversities, she laughs, she sings, she dies, and she teaches the world faith in immortality. 57 the old guard does not surrender, but neither does it die! the proof of it is the enthusiasm of our children, who mean, one day, to be also soldiers of the old guard! napoleon is no more a man: he is the very genius of france, he is the second saviour of the world, and he also gave for a sign the cross to his apostles. st. helena and golgotha are the beacons of the new civilization; they are the two piles of an immerse bridge made by the rainbow of the final deluge, and which throws a bridge between the two worlds. and can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so gre

without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? could you think that the spur of a tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother's womb "go on! go on" said the voice of god to the wandering jew "advance! advance" the destiny of the world cries out to france. and where do we go? to the unknown, the the abyss perhaps; no matter! but to the past, to the cemeteries of oblivion, to the swaddling-clothes which our childhood itself tore in shreds, towards the imbecility and ignorance of the earliest ages. never! never! xv the number fifteen fifteen is the number of antagonism, and of catholicity. christianity is at present divided into two churches:

t the autocracy of intelligence, confirmed by the universal vote of faith? in this case, one might say, the pope ought to be the first genius of his century. why? it is more proper, in reality, that he should be an average man. his supremacy is only more divine for that, because it is in a way more human. do not events speak louder than rancours and irreligious ignorances? do not you see catholic france sustaining with one hand the tottering papacy, and with the other holding the sword to fight at the head of the army of progress? catholics, jews, turks, protestants, already fight under the same banner; the crescent has rallied to the latin cross, and altogether we struggle against the invasion of the barbarians, and their brutalizing orthodoxy. it is for ever an accomplished fact. in admi

the demons, if they appeared in any shape, would not pass very long for marvellous beings, and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forgetfulness and the neglect of human kind. mr. home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bidding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happiness which he had tasted in france. mme. de b. treated him very kindly that day, as always, and asked him to stay to dinner; the man of mystery was about to accept, when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world of occult science by the publication of a book entitled "dogme et rituel de la haute magie" mr. home suddenly changed countenance, and said, stammering, and with a visi

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

nt to tell hs parents that he would working with crowley. since regardie had attended art school, simply told them that he had been invited to study painting with english artist in paris. his parents gave him documents for the but when it came time to obtain the french visa, regardie up the papers himself and signed hs father's name to it. so in october of 1928 at the age of twenty, regardie went france to take the post that crowley offered him. for the next years regardie lived a rather nomadic life as he tried to get employer to teach him the magical arts. glass silex coffee maker that the detective distilling drugs. the fact that crowley german magical society (the ordo templi the false conclusion that crowley was a crowley's problems came to a head with h s literary press agent who tol

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

r with a terrible smell i might have taken it seriously. but gray convinced me it was no joke. i looked point pleasant up on the map. it was about eight hundred miles from new york. oiled my fourteen-foot monster traps, got into my car, and headed for the ohio valley] monsters, ufos, and apparitions have an, interesting affinity for garbage dumps and junk yards even the famous miracle at lourdes, france, in 1858, took place at the local garbage dump- 7- the night of the bleeding ear i. gwendoline martino was back in her apartment in cherry hill, new jersey, early in december 1966, packing her things for a trip to europe. her unlisted phone rang. a female voice with a slight foreign accent came on the line "hello, gwen "yes, this is gwen "gwen stevens "no, this is gwen martino "you're not g

ar a wooded area on long island. they stopped their car to watch and were astonished when they saw two figures, normal-human-sized beings, exit through a door in the object as a large black car crossed the field and stopped nearby. the two beings got into the car and it drove off. the object took off quickly and disappeared into the night sky. similar incidents had been reported in south america, france, and england, but this was the first time i had come across one in the united states. the family was terrified. they knew they should report it to someone but they kept silent until they heard me on a radio program a few days later. meanwhile, the ohio valley was lit up by these things nightly, from cairo, illinois, in the south, where the ohio river linked with the mississippi, to the nort

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

existence, the dragon is given a place of preeminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backl

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

when other gods are fallen and put to scorn. thy foot is to my lips; my sighs unborn rise, touch and curl about thy heart; they spend pitiful love. lovelier pity, descend and bring me luck who am lonely and forlorn. h *w.e. henley, rodin in rime, vol. iii, p. 120. compare the following verse in swinburne fs poem, the centenary of the battle of the nile: the strong and sunbright lie whose name was france arose against the sun of truth, whose glance laughed large from the eyes of england fierce as fire whence eyes wax blind that gaze in truth askance. here gpiti h is a trochee; glovelier, h a spondee; gpity, h a trochee. the whole metre breaks up, as if the singer fs heart burst in despair. whilst in gbouches d fenfer h we find such lines as: from the long-held leash! the headlong, hot-mouth

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

l (3 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter four reuss, steiner and aleister crowley under the leadership of reuss the o.t.o. enjoyed a steady, although not spectacular, expansion. charters were granted to various occultists outside germany and independent national orders, derivative of the o.t.o, were established; in france, for example dr. encausse, better known under his occult pseudonym of papus, was appointed chief of both the o.t.o. and the french rite of memphis and misraim.16 this close association of the o.t.o. with memphis and misraim seems to have been usually the case up to 1914; it is interesting to note that as late as 1927 the danish section of the o.t.o, the danish rite of memphis and misraim, a

ions wear the robes of familiars of the inquisition. no templar jewel or ensign must be shown. c.b. is in temple as baphomet) on the 13th day of october 1307 the grand master of the temple jacobus burgundus molensis or jacques de bourg molay and many of his brethren were arrested through the treachery of two apostate brethren (they appear) who inspired the pope clement v and philip le bel king of france to crush the order. these tyrants stripped him of all the signs of his high rank (done by pope and king) and had him bound hand and foot (done by familiars) and cast into prison on a charge of heresy and immorality; and indeed our master was sworn to bring light and freedom in to those ages of ignorance and slavery. here he was put to the torture (cord round can. s forehead until he screams

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

the lazie affecters of ignorance, of whom this age swarms: but the voice and sound of the snake and goose is all one. but our stomacks are not now so queazie and tender, after so long time feeding upon solid divinity, nor we so umbragious and startling, having been so long enlightened in god s path, that we should relapse into that childish age, in which aristotle's metaphysicks, in a council in france, was forbid to be read. but i incite the reader to a charitable opinion hereof, with a christian protestation of an innocent purpose therein; and intreat the reader to follow this advice of tab us, qui litigant, sint ambo in conspectis tuo mali& rei. and if there be any scandal in this enterprise of mine, it is taken, not given. and this comfort i have in that axiome of trismegistus, qui pi

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

igently treated so many different departments of literary research: arch ology, art, bibliography, christianity, customs, heraldry, literary history, philology, topography, and travels, are among the topics illustrated by the learning, zeal and industry of mr. thomas wright. s. austen allibone. preface to this edition iii the discoveries of objects of antiquity at herculaneum and pompeii, also in france, germany, belguim, england, ireland, and in fact in nearly every country in europe, illustrating the subject they were considering. the numerous illustrations are engraved from antique coins, medals, stone carvings, etc, preserved in the payne knight collection in the british museum, and fromother objects discovered in england and on the continent, since the first essay was written. these a

ges brought against them. 185 spitting on the cross, and the denial of christ. 188 the kiss. 189 intercourse with women prohibited. 190 the cat and idol worship. 194 baffomet, or baphomet. 198 von hammer s description of the templars images or idol. 199 the witches sabbath the last form which the priapeia and liberalia assumed in western europe 206 contents. xi page. trial of witches at arras, in france. 207 sprenger and others on witchcraft in the fifteenth century. 209 bodin s description of the sabbath ceremonies. 210 pierre de lancre s full account of the witches sabbath. 212 pictorial representation of the ceremonies. 245 similarity of the proceeding of the sabbath to those of the templars. 246 intermixture of priapic orgies with christian rites and ceremonies. 247 traces of phallic w

al phallus was also found. similar objects in bronze, and of smaller dimensions, are so common, that explorations are seldom carried on upon a roman site in which they are not found, and examples of such objects abound in the museums, public or private, of roman antiquities. the phallic worship appears to have flourished especially at nemausus, now represented by the city of n mes in the south of france, where the symbol of this worship appeared in sculpture on the walls of its amphitheatre and on other buildings, in forms some of which we can hardly help regarding as fanciful, or even playful. some of the more remarkable of these are figured in our plates, xxv and xxvi. 120 on the worship of the the first of these,1 is the figure of a double phallus. it is sculptured on the lintel of one

stra vetera and colonia trajana, stood within no great distance of xanten, and ph. houben, a notarius of this town, formed a private museum of antiquities found there, and in 1839, published engravings of them, with a text by dr. franz fiedler. the erotic objects form a separate work under the title, antike erotische bildwerke in houbens antiquarium zu xanten. generative powers 123 which occur in france and italy. in illustration of this fact, we give two examples of the triple phallus, which appears to have been, perhaps in accordance with the explanation given by plutarch, an amulet in great favour. the first was found in london in 1842.1 as in the examples found on the continent, a principal phallus forms the body, having the hinder parts of apparently a dog, with wings of a peculiar fo

sive and imposing remains of one of the roman stations on the wall of hadrian named borcovicus. the walls of the entrance gateways are especially well preserved, and on that of the guard-house attached to one of them, is a slab of stone presenting the figure given in our plate xxviii, fig. 3. it is a rude delineation of a phallus with the legs of a fowl, and reminds us of some of the monuments in france and italy previously described. these phallic images were no doubt exposed in such situations because they were supposed to exercise a protective influence over the locality, or 1 see plate xxviii, fig. 1. horseley, who engraved this monument in his brittania romana, scotland, fig. xix. has inserted a fig-leaf in place of the phallus, but with slight indications of the form of the object it

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

that god manifested out of a whirlwind. all creative acts of god must pass through the point by means of spiral motion. it is the only way to get from there to here. it is also why the dervishes of turkey spin themselves into delirium and call their god the axis of the world. i symbols of the spiral acting along the ray abound. the cone is the traditional headgear of the wizard. cave paintings in france depict men dancing in cone, s common- shaped hats. merlin, the counselor druid at the court of king arthur i ly pictured in illustrations as a magician in a tall sky-blue cone hat with stars and planets painted on it. in the popular press, witches are always shown wearing black cone hats-the black color intended to suggest both evil and the unknown. although practicing members of wiccan cov

t is born of shadows and its true nature is oblivion. that the egyptian and christian myths are essentially the same is demonstrated conclusively by the medieval images of the great scale that weighs souls at the last judgment. examples of this scale of souls are to be found in the doorway of autun cathedral (eleventh centu- ry) and in the doorway of bourges cathedral (thirteenth century, both in france. the egyptians understood the dynamic aspect of the balance of life-that every action was part of the final assessment of the soul. a deed could be balanced but never erased. nor could anyone escape the ultimate judgment as to the worth of their existence. cosmic law is a machine that is not subject to prejudice or affec- tion. it always weighs true. although the norm of society is the sum

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

p several times a day. the juice in the cup became congealed, and was knocked out in the form of a patty. it was used to cut or adulterate opium because its properties are similar to those of opium "the drug resembles a feeble opium without its tendency to upset the digestive system. it is used to a small extent as a sedative and narc tic"'w ater distilled from lettuce (eau de laitue) was used in france as a mild sedative, but larger doses given to animals in the form of injections have caused death. francis bacon listed the leaves of the black poplar as a soporific. gerard, writing in 1597, reported that the buds of the new leaves were made into "that profitable ointment called unguenturn pop l eon "it i s worth noting in passing that the juice of the mandrake was also put into this ointm

wise circumambulation unwinds and releases it. passage between two pillars of stone is symbolically 53. murray, 240. 46. soul flight akin to being born between the legs of a woman, and passing from a place of darkness into a place of light. at one time, the stone circles were thought to have been erected by the priestly and scholarly order of druids that was great in power in britain and northern france just prior to the time of christ. archeology has revealed that they are much older than the druids, older even than the celts themselves. they were built by the prehistoric neolithic people who inhabited britain before the coming of the celts from the mainland. work on the earliest version of stonehenge began around 2180 bc. it did not achieve its final form until 1550 bc, still long before

vilish, depending on the circumstances of the moment. the theologians who examined her at poitiers came close to proclaiming joan a messenger of god. the burgundians and the english, good catholics all, conspired to have her burned as a witch by the inquisition. centuries later, she was elevated to sainthood. the voices in joan's head that helped the dauphin charles finally be anointed as king of france at reims were naturally viewed as holy by charles vii and his followers, since they worked to the advantage of charles, but the english and french opponents of charles took the opposite view. soul flight in the bible there are many examples of soul flight in the bible, but they are always presented as divine miracles that fulfill the purposes of god. the experience of the prophets is the sa

the theosophical society of blavatsky and olcott was only thirteen years old. at that time, madame blavatsky was living in london. just as spiritualism had its influence on theosophy, so theosophy in its turn contributed to the mental climate that allowed the golden dawn to flourish. ellic howe observed that a kind of underground explosion of interest in the occult took place in great britain and france during the latter part of the 1880s "the explosion itself was hardly noticed by the establishment, 11 i. howe, magicians of the golden dawn, 69. but it was felt by many who were no longer satisfied with conventional religious beliefs. the influence of helena petrovna blavatsky's theosophical society was notable in this ontext" the order of the golden dawn was a rosicrucian society that admi

ds used in europe at the time. the tarot was devised to play a trick-taking card game of the same name that is similar in some respects to bridge. in addition to four suits, each of which contains cards numbered from one to ten and four court cards, the tarot has a special set of twenty-two picture cards, known as trumps, making a total of seventy-eight cards in the standard tarot deck. it was in france during the second half of the eighteenth century that the tarot first began to be used for purposes of fortunetelling. they became a popular instrument for both divination, and meditation once the notion began to circulate among french occultists during the following century that the cards had higher meanings hidden in 198 soul flight their symbolism. the twenty-two picture cards received t

VOX SABBATUM

search of the sabbat to a writer named idries shah, two books10 specifically deal with aspects of witchcraft from a multi-cultural perspective. the foundations of the art of the witches sabbat was based on adversarial practice, not for negative or counter-productive means, but to illuminate the self by walking between two worlds. the reports of witchcraft from far reaching sources such as sweden, france, scotland to africa and the middle east. the cult of the double horned ones according to shah were attributed to worship of the moon. these double horned ones would gather on thursday nights, their initiation was having a small wound cut on their body, this sacred knife was called the al-dhamme, which means bloodletter. the word athame is said to have derived in part from this term. the two

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

16th and 17th centuries, the latin-writing scholars were animated with zeal for the exposition of the tradition in israel, with the result that many memorable and even great books were produced on the subject. among those scholars were many great names, and they provided the materials ready to the hands of the symbolists. what purpose had the latter in view? the answer is that in germany, italy, france and england, the zeal for kabalistic literature among the latin-writing scholars had not merely a scholastic basis. they believed that the texts of the secret tradition showed plainly, out of the mouth of israel itself, that the messiah had come. this is the first fact. the second i have mentioned already, namely, that although, the central event of the third degree is the candidate's raisi

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

eached by her priests was one of hope and happiness, and coming to the greeks and romans, as it did, at a time when men were weary of their national cults, and when the speculations of the philosophers carried no weight with the general public, the people everywhere welcomed it with the greatest enthusiasm. from egypt it was carried to the islands of greece and to the mainland, to italy, germany, france, spain and portugal, and then crossing the western end of the mediterranean it entered north africa, and with carthage as a centre spread east and west along the coast. wherever the cult of isis came men accepted it as something which supplied what they thought to be lacking in their native cults; rich and poor, gentle and simple, all welcomed it, and the philosopher as well as the ignorant

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

h, a demon in the hebrew cabala. in ancient sumer the reptilian bloodline, as passed on through the female, was symbolised as lily and the main reptilian gene carriers were given names like lilith, lill, lilutu and lillette. another demon used by some 'mothers' is called bilair, bilar, and bilid, cabalistic names for the force others call satan, etc" it is from these lands in belgium and northern france that the bloodline families came, including the bruces, to take over scotland all those centuries ago. belgium, this little country between france and the netherlands, is also the home of the european union, nato, and, i am told, a massive computer centre where databases on all the people of the world are being compiled. it is known apparently as 'the beast' and there are a number of these

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

than likely that the heathens were at first rather pleased to see their saxon conquerors so discomforted and were quite willing at times to enter into relations with the normans, giving service as hunters and possibly as miners, in return for exemption from all taxation. these relations would most likely take place when the norman manorial lord already belonged to some cult of the same nature in france. that there were such cults is proved by manuscripts of the church coureans in france which tell how the ladies of the nobility used to ride to the nocturnal revelries or sabbats of bensozia, the diana of the ancient gauls, also called nocticula, herodias and the moon. they inscribed their names in a register and after the ceremony believed themselves to be fairies. here we have the fact th

sion which passes through a wood singing 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of death' could not that be a chant in praise of the goddess? or could it be really to disguise a chant 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of the fear of death? that is, to the givers of regeneration, death and what lies beyond. jaffet, a knight from the south of france, deposed that at his reception he was shown a head or idol and told 'you must adore this as your saviour and the saviour of the order of the temple' and he was made to worship this head by kissing its feet and saying 'blessed be he who shall save my soul' cettus, a knight received at rome, gave a very similar account. a templar of florence said he was told 'adore this head; this head is you

already on which to graft it. i think it most curious that such a tradition should have come down from such early times. i have given my reasons for thinking that it must go back at least as far as the days of the first elizabeth. if it was imported from italy then, a relic of a dionysian cult which had survived there, it could easily have survived in england; or it could have been imported from france by the normans far earlier. i wonder if we shall ever really find out. the people i know are taught never to use blood or to make sacrifices; but the irish coven seemingly use them and they are used in voodoo. knowing how the rites in england work, these practices would be useless in any i know, so presumably there are totally different rites of which my friends know nothing. the essence of

nd firmly believes that it will kill him, then he can frighten himself to death. a witch may make an image and frighten people with it if they believe that she has the power to kill. any person may do it and the effect may be much the same, so this form of evil is not exclusive to witchcraft. in 1318 the bishop of troyes was tried, the evidence showing that he had made a wax image of the queen of france, and that after doing various indignities to it, burned it, and so the queen died! mr. hughes goes on to say (page 146 'witches cast spells, they raised havoc, they poisoned, they aborted cattle and inhibited human beings, they served the devil, parodied christian practices, allied themselves with the king's enemies, they copulated with other witches in male and female form whom they took t

ed, their impulses were bemused, the proceedings more and more remote from any common original practices, yet they did them, and the reasons for what they did lie in the earliest religious beliefs' i presume he thinks he knows what he is talking about, so let me reassure him that to the best of my knowledge most of these accusations are false. witches did cast spells, to stop hitler landing after france fell. they met, raised the great cone of power and directed the thought at hitler's brain 'you cannot cross the sea 'you cannot cross the sea 'not able to come 'not able to come' just as their great-grandfathers had done to boney and their remoter forefathers had done to the spanish armada with the words 'go on 'go on 'not able to land 'not able to land' is that allying themselves with the

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

ed them. please feel free to seek more selections to add to this collecti chistoric lecture- golden dawn by v.h. frater sapere aude (dr. w. wynn westcott) the order of the g.d. in the outer is a hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of occult science and the magic of hermes. during the early part of the second half of the 19th century, several adepti and chiefs of this order in france and england died, and their deaths caused a temporarily dormant condition of temple work. prominent among these were eliphas levi, ragon, kenneth r. h. mackenzie, author of the masonic encyclopedia and frederick hockley, possessed of crystal vision whose m.s.s. we highly esteemed. these and other adepti received their knowledge and power from predecessors of greater imminence and have hande

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

century compiled a history of ireland from b.c 2242 to a.d. 1616. 58. magic squares were first known by the work of a greek, emanuel moscopulos, still existing in mss. of the 16th century in the national library of paris. cornelius agrippa then gave the planetary squares, which have been many times copied in subsequent books. from a more mathematical point of view, they have been much studied in france by m. bachet and m. frenicle, m. poignard of brussels and de la hire. m. de la loubere gives information of the use of magic squares by the indians of surat. to the number 4 belong the several forms of the cross, maltese, greek, passional, st. andrew s and the fylfot cross the swastika. hermetic philosophy teaches how to view the last as composed from a magic square of 5, giving 25 squares

he ordination of a bishop. there was a 7 years probation for admission to the celtic order of the culdees. there are 7 vestments of the christian priesthood, and bishops should wear 7 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott others, sandals, dalmatic, rational, mitre, gloves, ring and staff. the 7 champions of christendom were st. george for england, st. denis of france, st. james of spain, st. andrew of scotland, st. david of wales, st. patrick of ireland and st. antonio of italy. the 7 sleepers of ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of t

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

arbor: university of michigan press, 1994. ayres, lewis. the discipline of self-knowledge in augustine s de trinitate book x. in the passionate intellect: essays on the transformation of classical traditions presented to professor i. g. kidd, edited by lewis ayres, 261 296. new brunswick: transaction publishers, 1995. bachelard, gaston. la dialectique de la dur e. paris: presses universitaires de france, 1972. the poetics of space. translated by maria jolas, foreword by etienne gilson. boston: beacon press, 1969. baer, yitzhak. a history of the jews in christian spain. translated by louis schoffman. 2 vols. philadelphia: jewish publication society of america, 1961. baker, cynthia m. rebuilding the house of israel: architectures of gender in jewish antiquity. stanford: stanford university p

the construction of time, edited by john bender and david e. wellbery, 38 64. stanford: stanford university press, 1991. chalier, catherine. ethics and the feminine. in re-reading levinas, edited by robert bernasconi and simon critchley, 119 129. bloomington: indiana university press, 1991. challiol-gillet, marie-christine. schelling: une philosophie de l extase. paris: presses universitaires de france, 1998. chanter, tina, ed. feminist interpretations of emmanuel levinas. university park: pennsylvania state university press, 2001. chanter, tina. heidegger s understanding of the aristotelian concept of time. in interrogating the tradition: hermeneutics and the history of philosophy, edited by charles e. scott and john sallis, 131 157. albany: state university of new york press, 2000. time

y of toronto, 1993. bibliography 273 chrudzimski, arkadiusz, and barry smith. brentano s ontology: from conceptualism to reism. in the cambridge companion to brentano, edited by dale jacquette, 197 219. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2004. clark, grahame. space, time and man: a prehistorian s view. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1992. claudel, paul. art po tique. paris: mercure de france, 1915. cohen, richard a. elevations: the height of the good in rosenzweig and levinas. chicago: university of chicago press, 1994. coomaraswamy, ananda k. time and eternity. new dehli: munshiram manoharlal, 2001. copenhaver, brian p. number, shape, and meaning in pico s christian cabala: the upright tsade, the closed mem, and the gaping jaws of azazel. in natural particulars: nature and the

. oldenbourg verlag, 1997. coudert, allison p. the impact of the kabbalah in the seventeenth century: the life and thought of francis mercury van helmont (1614 1698. leiden: e. j. brill, 1999. courtine, jean-fran ois. extase de la raison: essais sur schelling. paris: galil e, 1990. schelling et le juda sme. in la philosophie allemande dans la pens e juive, 95 114. paris: presses universitaires de france, 1997. craig, william lane. on the mind-dependence of temporal becoming. in time, reality, and transcendence in rational perspective, edited by peter hrstr m, 129 145. aalborg: aalborg university press, 2002. relativity and the elimination of absolute time. in time, reality, and transcendence in rational perspective, edited by peter hrstr m, 91 127. aalborg: aalborg university press, 2002

ress, 2003. katz, steven t. utterance and ineffability in jewish neoplatonism. in neoplatonism and jewish thought, edited by lenn e. goodman, 279 298. albany: state university of new york press, 1992. kavka, martin. jewish messianism and the history of philosophy. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2004. kayser, paulette. emmanuel levinas: la trace du f minin. paris: presses universitaires de france, 2000. keller, pierre. husserl and heidegger on human experience. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1999. kant and the demands of self-consciousness. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1998. keyes, c. d. art and temporality. research in phenomenology 1 (1971: 63 73. kierkegaard, s ren. the concept of anxiety: a simple psychologically orienting deliberation on the dogmatic issue of

Return to Occult Library Index



Related Matches
africa age ages air ancient atlantis beast bishop black brother builders bull catholic cave children christ christian christianity church cross crowley cycle dead death degrees devil divine dragon earth east eastern egypt egyptian empire eve evil existence father fear female fire fires five force forces form france mason masons masonic freemasonry masonry german goat god gods golden greek history holy horned human humanity illuminati india initiation intellect jerusalem jewish kabbalah key king kings kingdom knights knowledge legend living lodge lodges london lord magic magical material matter mind modern moon mother mysteries mysterious mystical natural nature north occult order people power powers re reality religion religious rite rites ritual rituals roman rome rosicrucian royal sacred saint school sea secret secrets set sky society societies solomon soul south southern spirit spiritual state states stone sun supreme sword symbol tarot templar templars temple thousand three tradition truth ufo universal war west white wisdom witch witches witchcraft women world worship


http://www.hollywoodinsiders.net
MWLibCreator Ver.2 By:Michael Wynn