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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ritual or use certain crystals without consciously knowing their significance, only to find out that our invented spell closely resembles one from another time or culture; we know how to heal without being taught. gaining such knowledge has been described as 'inner-plane' teaching and if you can trust your own deep intuitions, you need very little formal teaching about magick. if you scry at the full moon or during one of the ancient festivals, by looking into water and letting images form, this deep wisdom will offer solutions to seemingly impossible dilemmas. the practice of witchcraft demands great responsibility, for you are handling very potent material when you deal with magick. the benefit is that by focusing and directing your own inner powers and natural energies you can give for

coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood i

ld deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is where it remains today. in the same way, the crosses on the hot cross buns that we eat on good friday were originally the ancient astrological signs for the earth, and were eaten to absorb the power and fertility of mother earth. hot cross buns were still thought to retain their magical qualities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and wer

aerie help- and so by implication was consorting with the devil. under torture, even the innocent would admit to the vile deeds suggested by their inquisitors. many of the confessions now appear to be remarkably uniform and come straight from the pages of the works on demonology, with which the members of the inquisition would be familiar. simple village circle dances performed at the time of the full moon and the old rituals performed to bring fertility to both fields and people- with a figure dressed as the horned god and couples making love in the fields or leaping over a bonfire- became all too easily translatable into evidence of satanic covens. although the last person executed for witchcraft in england was alice molland at exeter in 1712, it was not until 1951 that the witchcraft ac

n another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the magician, was believed to have been incarnated in several lifetimes and to have entered willing bodies, including the sixth-century bard taliesin. wiccan rituals are held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. the eight sabbats are described in the chapter seasons and festivals (see page 245, and celebrate the eight major divisions of the celtic year on the solstices, the equinoxes and the old fire festivals. these festivals mark the coming of early spring, the start of the celtic summer, the first corn harvest and the start of the celtic winter. there are also many lovely ceremonies to mark

take responsibility for any events. however, if you do want to follow a particular tradition. have a preliminary meeting in which you can plan for about six meetings ahead, deciding on the topics, the different venues and equipment you will need to buy. using a good almanac and moon diary, you can arrange to meet on the crescent moon some months to light candles and make wishes as well as on the full moon and on the major festivals. you may arrange a special evening also for healing work, especially if this is an area that you would like to develop collectively. you can hold separate meetings for planning, but if you wish to make practical decisions at a meeting before an esbat, always carry out a ritual to strengthen harmony after such discussions as earthly issues can intrude on even th

nto 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 for the winter. a young wife eager to be pregnant would secretly prick a fertilised hen's egg with a needle on the night of the full moon immediately before making love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened thei

you something you desire. for example, you could scatter pins across a map between the places you and a lover live and with a magnet collect them, while reciting: come love, come to me, love to me come, if it is right to be. you would then place your pins in a silk, heart-shaped pincushion or a piece of pink silk, also in the shape of a heart, and leave it on the window ledge on the night of the full moon, surrounded by a circle of rose petals. banishing and protective magick this involves driving away negative feelings, fears and influences by casting away or burying a focus of the negativity. for example, you might scratch on a stone a word or symbol representing some bad memories you wished to shed, and cast the stone into fast-flowing water. alternatively, you could bury it, together

and eventually became their leader. you can invoke lugh especially at the time of lughnassadh, for the reaping of benefits sown earlier in the year, but also at any time for adaptability, versatility, innovation and originality. deities of the moon invoke these for gentle increase, power and banishing energies, fertility, intuition, magick and dreams. arianrhod arianrhod is a welsh goddess of the full moon and also of time, karma and destiny. she ruled over the realm of the celtic otherworld, called caer feddwidd, the fort of carousa. here a mystical fountain of wine offered eternal health and youth for those who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuvenation, and is a focus for all magick, as she is a witch goddess. diana diana

d a virgin goddess, but can be invoked in her role as an earth goddess and as protector of women in childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. my

three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility

psychometric abilities, astral projection, for rituals to invoke anima (female) power, for intuition and mysticism. it represents dreams, visions and a desire for fulfilment beyond the material world. in times of stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the

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ng into flames crimson and gold, as the petals of the red-rose, woven with poppy, and crocus, and tulips. and around her, as a cloud of irradiant mystery gleaming with darkness, and partly obscuring the softness of her form, sweeps a robe, woven of a network of misty waters, and flashing with a myriad stars of silver; and in its midst, as a great pearl of fire drawn from the depths of the seas, a full moon of silver trembles glowing with beams of opalescent light- mystic and wonderful. in her right hand she holds a sistrum, and chimes forth the music of the earth, and in her left an asp twisted to the prow of a boat of gold, wherein lie the mysteries of heaven. then clear and sweet as the breath of the hillside, i heard a voice, as of the winds across a silver harp, saying: i am the queen

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ears; one cannot see anything any more. now he stops playing and moves with his finger in the air. his finger leaves a trail of fire of every colour, so that the whole aire is become like a web of mingled lights. but through it all drops dew (i can't describe these things at all. dew doesn't represent what i mean in the least. for instance, these drops of dew are enormous globes, shining like the full moon, only perfectly transparent, as well as perfectly luminous) and now he shows the tablet again, and he says: as there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of god. and there are 49 interpretations of every cosmos, and each interpretation is manifested in 49 ways. thus also are the calls 49, but to each call there are 49 visions. and each vision is

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poivrade pur e de marrons, and glace "casserole" with a small bottle of perrier water. i know the new ritual down to the end of the confession. it was hard to stop the mantra the moment my thought wandered, up it popped! 8.3. i shall add caf cognac cigare to this debauch. i continue learning the ritual. 8.40. i will return and humble myself before the lord 94 adonai. it is near the night of the full moon; in my life the full moon hath ever been of great augury. but to-night i am too poor in spirit to hope. lo! i was travelling on the paths of lamed and of mem, of justice and the hanged man, and i fell into both the pitfalls thereof. instead of the great balance firmly held, i found only libra, the house of venus and of the exaltation of saturn; and these evil planets, smiling and frownin

g his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one's dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave."adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain! 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon full moon of my desire!(ha, ha, thou beast! are "i and me and mine" not dead yet? yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears "fears, o lord of the western pylon! lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through."the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved! yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motio

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hooded hate on him that would ascend. o may the four avail me! ageless woe, fear, torture throng the threshold. lo! the end of matter! the immensity of things let loose- new laws, new beings, new conditions- dire chaos; see! these new-fledged wings fail in its vaguenesses and inanitions. only my circle saves me from the hate of all these monsters dead yet animate. i match &c. 326 yesod hail, thou full moon, o flame of amethyst! stupendous mountain on whose shoulders rest the eight above. more stable is my crest than thine- and now i pierce thee, veil of mist! even as an arrow from the war-bow springs i leap- my life is set with loftier things. i match &c. samech (and the crossing of the path of pe) now swift, thou azure shaft of fading fire, pierce through the rainbow! swift, o swift! how

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tive of colour) let it be taken out of the bath. it is now to undergo another magical ceremony. m. now place the curcurbite to the west of the altar, holding the lotus wand by the black end, perform a magical invocation of the moon in her decrease and of cauda draconis. the curcurbite is then to be exposed to the moonlight (she being in her 166 decrease) for nine consecutive nights, commencing at full moon. the alembic head is then to be fitted on. n. repeat process set forth in section l. o. the curcurbite is to be placed to the east of the altar, and the alchemist performs an invocation of the moon in her increase, and of caput draconis (holding lotus wand by white end) to act upon the matter. the curcurbite is now to be exposed for nine consecutive nights (ending with the full moon) to

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

marriage, had been working voodoo to break it up, his intention being to have an affair with victoria. without waiting to hear more, alex went up to ben's room and demanded the return of the ring. it was concealed ina bag of flour-flour being the medium for voodooalong with a crucifix, a st christopher medallion and a bracelet, all belonging to other witches in the coven. on 3 january, the first full moon of 1969, the coven was convened and ben was ritually cursed and banished. the others were asked to repeat their witch oaths or resign their membership. voodoo is totally incompatible with witchcraft, used as it is fo.r the seduction of women or the destruction of men by death or insanity 'let all ofyou understand that while i am elder ofthe coven i will tolerate no betrayal of witch idea

re not allowed to receive money for membership. those who call afford to, buy their own robes and weapons; others make do with those discarded by the coven. q: is witchcraft compatible with christianity and other religions? a: yes, so long as christians recognize that their god is also ours. q: how much time must members devote to the cult? a: a minimum of one evening a week plus the night of the full moon each month. experience has shown that most witches enjoy the company of their fellows and make friends within the coven. quite a few marry each other. q: is there any age limit? a: no, but i prefer not to initiate those under eighteen. in the upper age groups we have many in their sixties. q: what is the average age of your covens? a: at present about twenty-eight, but it varies between

ymouslyto poor or sick people-usuailynon-witches--whose names have been put forward by members of the coven. hallowe'en, on 3i october, is the night when witches catlask for the souls ofthe dead to manifest themselves ar give messages. in addition t( the eight sabbaths when c.?vens welcome visiting wit hesto the ceremony,thereareesbats, that is, working meetings afeach. coven, on the nightpfyvery full moon. these vary. little from month .to. 1l10n.th andhegin with the high priest and high priestess sweepi g round the circle with their. broomsticks. to exorcize the area of other influences. while everyone chants incantations, the. circle is formed and set up with symbols for. the guardians of the watchtowers and incense burners. within the circle the altar is set up and laid with the witch

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

ht, bow before my spirit bright. aphrodite, arionrhod, lover of the horned god, mighty queen of witchery and night. morgan, etoine, nisene, diana, bridgid, melusine, am i named of old by men. artemis and cerridwen, hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. ye who would ask of me a rune, or who would ask of me a boon, meet me in some secret glade, dance my round in greenwood shade, by the light of the full moon. in a place wild and lone, dance about mine altar stone; work my holy mystery. ye who are feign to sorcery, i bring ye secrets yet unknown. no more shall ye know slavery, who give true worship unto me. ye who tread my round on sabbat night, come ye all naked to the rite, in token that ye be really free. i teach ye the mystery of rebirth, work ye my mysteries in mirth. heart joined to hea

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unfolded during the course of evolution. this triad forms the individualised or separated self, or ego. viveka. the sanskrit "discrimination" the very first step in the path of occultism..is the discrimination between the real and the unreal, between substance and phenomenon, between the self and the not-self, between spirit and matter. wesak. a festival which takes place in the himalayas at the full moon of may. it is said that at this festival, at which all the members of the hierarchy are present, the buddha, for a brief period, renews his touch and association with the work of our planet. yoga. 1. one of the six schools of india, said to be founded by patanjali, but really of much earlier origin. 2. the practice of meditation as a means of leading to spiritual liberation. note: this g

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the mystery of polarity, we have three different types of force manifesting and thus it is apparent that the two mysteries deal with the six forces. these three types of force are manipulated by the buddhas of love. they, through their sacrifice, concern themselves with the problem of sex, or of "magnetic approach" on all the planes. the buddha of whom we speak and who contacts his people at the full moon of wesak, is one of the three connected with our globe, having taken the place of one who passed on to higher work in connection with the chain, for the same hierarchical grading is seen as in connection with the buddhas of action. one group might be considered the divine carpenters of the planetary system, the other the divine assemblers of its parts and the ones who, through the magnet

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and become guilty of the sin of separateness the one real sin. an appreciation of the above thoughts should build in the aspirant a realisation of the value of his meditation work, whilst the idea of a cyclic response to soul impulse lies back of the activities of a morning meditation, a noonday recollection, and an evening review. a larger ebb and flow is also indicated in the two aspects of the full moon and the new moon. let this be borne in mind. may there be a full and steady play of cyclic force from the kingdom of spirit upon each one of us calling us forth into the realm of light, love and service and producing a cyclic response from each one! may there be a constant interchange between those who teach and the disciple who seeks instruction! much preliminary work will have to be do

force him to use his energy in order to safeguard the work from error and the disciple perhaps from harm. the aim of every high disciple is to carry out his work and be en rapport with the spiritual force centre which is his group, and thus in steady touch with the master, without interviews and phenomenal contacts. many only expect to contact their master once a year, usually at the time of the full moon in may. f. he finds also that the relationship between master and disciple is governed by law and that there are definite stages of contact and grades in the desired rapport. these can be enumerated, but cannot be enlarged upon. 1. the stage wherein a disciple is contacted by the master through another chela on the physical plane. this is the stage of "little chelaship- 101- a treatise o

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statement of the human situation. he outlined to them the noble eightfold path governing right conduct, and gave in reality the rules which should control one upon the path of discipleship. then, having himself achieved illumination, he entered into the "secret place of the most high" to come forth once a year, so legend tells us, in order to bless the world. that day of blessing (the day of the full moon of may) is preserved in the east as a general holiday, and in the west many hundreds also keep it as a day of spiritual remembrance. then christ came, and presented to the world, and made public in his life and through its critical points, the great processes of initiation (five in number) which lie ahead of all who keep the rules which his great brother laid down. he carried the teachin

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

fested life. they are, and then are not. all is and all is not. but the blessed ones at any time can sweep forth into manifested light. they carry then the potencies of spirit to meet the need expressed. light holds them not; their purpose is not imprisoned; their will is not subdued. they appear and disappear at will (an expression of the truth of this can be seen demonstrating in the world each full moon of may, when the buddha flashes forth into manifestation, for the fulfillment of the plan and at the urgent behest of his own spiritual will "naught holds the blessed ones. neither the deities nor form; neither desire nor mind; nor any quality of life. pure life they are; pure being and pure will; pure love and pure intent; this is all that unenlightened man can grasp, and only that in p

s event, or this transition, never takes place before the first fine strand of energy (like the first steel cable on a physical bridge) has anchored itself on the further shore; thus a delicate and (at first) almost nebulous channel of communication is established between the higher nature and the lower, between the world of the soul and the worlds of human affairs. each month, at the time of the full moon, the masters are intensifying their efforts, and men and women are being prepared for the process of initiation with as much rapidity as is safely possible. remember that understanding must always parallel the intellectual grasp of a subject, and it is this that holds back some disciples from this great step forward. in the performance of the next duty, in the establishing of the dedicat

erarchy are attempting to carry forward and in which all true disciples and aspirants can have a part. they are brought to our attention in order to evoke our lasting cooperation. d. astrology and the new groups this law of group progress embodies one of the energies which have gradually been released over the past two centuries. a fuller tide was swept into activity at the time of the may, 1936, full moon and now the growth of the group idea, both in its good and bad aspects, can be imminently expected. as has several times been pointed out to students, this law is connected with a certain realised impulse in the minds of men, and this is, in its turn, the effect of various types of energy, which are playing upon the earth. the name "law of group progress" is the phrase given by human bei

e. this worked out in every nation and in every group as a marked tendency to good will. in 1942, there will come another planetary inflow of which we all are begged to avail ourselves, and for which we are urged to make due preparation. this "week of group impact" occurring every seven years, will run from december 21st till december 28th, and if this should at any time fall at the period of the full moon, the opportunity will be most significant. this possibility must be watched. this week should be regarded as pre-eminently the "festival week" of the new group of world servers, and after 1942 advantage must be taken of this period, and special preparation made. this fact invites the attention of all of us. these new groups are appearing everywhere all over the world. the groups upon the

in the cases of those advanced men whom we regard as the revealed sons of god. the crisis of approach is one of the most important and one of the least understood of the various stages. students should find it of interest to make a comparative study of the approaches which have previously been mentioned in connection with such episodes in human history as those occurring at the time of the wesak full moon. there is a close underlying relationship between the approaches upon the path of involution and those upon the path of evolution, and also between those taken by an individual and those by a group. then, when the gathering of forces during the stage of approach is consummated, the fourth stage takes place, that of appearance, and the man emerges into the light of day and runs his little

rts can be launched during the next few years and they will embody the next great spiritual effort and expression of the men of good will for which the intermediate period is a preparation. it is desirable that there should be, if possible, a far wider use of the radio, so that sequentially and following the journey of the sun, there may go forth over the air this appeal to god at the time of the full moon. the day of appeal will be the expression of the spiritual attitude of humanity and will lead to a subjective spiritual synthesis between the men of good will and the new group of- 388- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust world servers and the inner spiritual hierarchy which is working to bring about the manifestation of the new orde

ard with diligence and tact, and wisdom must be cultivated in order to avoid all antagonism, all criticism and all hatred. the power of such a group, working in such a fashion, will be tremendous. they can accomplish phenomenal results. this is no idle promise, but it is contingent upon the preservation of the initial concepts and the steady practice of good will. e. the world servers and the may full moon the month of may is one of deepest significance to all who are affiliated with the great white lodge (as are all true esotericists) in that the wesak festival takes place and is of moment and deep import. the period is always one of prime interest and rare opportunity, but the wesak festival of 1936 was unique and the lodge of masters prepared for it for six months. may i add also that t

to help the planet, more adequate channels of service. three masters from each of the seven ray groups of masters are in their turn attempting a closer cooperation with the great lords in preparation for the opportunity to be presented. these twenty-three spiritual forces are banded together to act as a group channel of service on the day of the wesak festival and particularly at the hour of the full moon. a call has been sent out to the entire hierarchy of masters to prepare themselves for an intensive "holy month" of accelerated service, and all of the masters on the seven rays no matter what their departmental work may at this time be are getting into immediate cooperation and close contact with the three masters on their particular ray who are acting as the ray intermediaries. the ser

hierarchy. remember, no matter who we are or where we may be placed or what is the nature of our environment, no matter how isolated we may feel or apart from those who may share our spiritual vision, each of us can that day and for the period immediately following and preceding it, work and think and act in group formation, and function as a silent distributor of force. for two days prior to the full moon, we will hold the attitude of dedication and service and seek to assume that attitude of receptivity to that which our soul will impart which will make us of use to the hierarchy. the hierarchy works through groups of souls, and the potency of this group work is to be tested out. these groups in their turn contact and feed the waiting dedicated attentive personalities. on the day of the

ealing nature went not forth except by prayer and fasting. will you ponder on these words? this is a group effort towards a vast group healing and by prayer (sanctified desire, illumined thought and intense aspirational longing) and by the discipline of the physical body for a short period and for a definite objective, the work can be done. what is it that should be accomplished at each momentous full moon in may? i shall state the objectives sequentially and in the order of their importance, and with as much clarity and brevity as this abstruse subject permits. 1. the releasing of certain energies which can potently affect humanity, and which will, if released, stimulate the spirit of love, of brotherhood and of good will on the earth. these energies are as definite and as real as those e

heads of the planetary hierarchy, who stand behind our planetary evolution, and who seldom take an active outer part in the world activity, leaving it to the masters of the wisdom except in the time of an emergency such as this. by whatever name we call them, they stand ready to aid, if the call comes forth with sufficient strength and power from the aspirants and disciples at the time of the may full moon and the june full moon. 4. the evocation from the inner side of a strenuous and one-pointed activity on the part of the hierarchy of masters, those illumined minds to whom has been confided the work of world direction. a responsiveness is desired and can be effective between the following three groups- 413- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lu

erdependence and religious unity. when these three groups of thinkers and servers are brought en rapport with each other, and when the three groups can be aligned, even momentarily, much can be accomplished; the gates of the new life can be opened, and the inflow of the new spiritual forces can take place. such is the group objective and idea. may i now make an inquiry? of what importance is this full moon of may to you personally? does it seem to you of sufficient importance to warrant your utmost effort? do you really believe that on that day there can truly come a release of spiritual energy of sufficient potency to change world affairs, provided the sons of men play their part? do you really believe, and can you stand practically by that belief, that the buddha on that day, in cooperat

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results may be sensed by me alone on my side, or they may work out in certain specific realisations and even phenomena on your side. i indicate not the results of such an activity for the power of suggestion and the response of the creative imagination is a fruitful source of glamour. i would, therefore, ask all of you who are my disciples to endeavour to make a contact with me at the time of the full moon each month. make sacrifice in order to establish this monthly relation as i will make my adjustments to contact you. may i emphasise the necessity for holding the thought of that contact for three whole days prior to the full moon itself, with aspiration and with confidence and then for three days afterwards with expectancy. may i point out the prime importance of making this a group act

; your contact with me is intended to be a group contact and, as a group, you will seek to strengthen the tie between us. this, therefore, is an act of group service to be rendered selflessly and with no personal expectancy. owing to the pressure of time and of urgency in service, i am one of several teachers who have pledged themselves for the next few years to keep the twelve hours prior to the full moon of each month open for contacts with their disciples, so that at any time during that twelve hours, the world servers and disciples can make an attempt to reach us. this will somewhat facilitate your work for you need not, therefore, keep the exact hour of the full moon, unless this is easily possible. service in the world these days requires constant pressure and attention and the work

lve hours, the world servers and disciples can make an attempt to reach us. this will somewhat facilitate your work for you need not, therefore, keep the exact hour of the full moon, unless this is easily possible. service in the world these days requires constant pressure and attention and the work is strenuous. it may not always be possible for you to make your approach at the exact hour of the full moon, though you can at that hour always silently and interiorly lift up your heart and eyes to the eternal. but at some hour during the preceding twelve hours, you can make your approach. when you do so rightly, you will find me waiting. go to your work with clear vision, a loving heart and an understanding love. much can then be accomplished. part iv- 26- discipleship in the new age- volume

the soul, which must be developed in all of you if you are to do your share in meeting world need, and work for the hierarchy in the field of world service. let us briefly enumerate them: 1. intuitional response to ideas. 2. sensitiveness to the impression which some member of the hierarchy may seek to make upon the mind of the disciple. it is for this reason that i am training you to utilise the full moon contact. 3. quick response to real need. you had not regarded this as one of the psychic powers, my brother, had you? i refer not here to a solar plexus reaction but to heart knowledge. ponder on this distinction. 4. right observation of reality upon the soul plane. this leads to right mental perception, to freedom from illusion and glamour and to the illumination of the brain. 5. correc

not hard) and then drop the use of the seed thought. listen and aspire. close each meditation by pouring out love to all beings. this outflowing thought is a great releaser and each of you in the group of disciples whom i am seeking to train needs release from something. for you, it is release from form in your work of service. you will know to what i am referring. secondly, until the time of the full moon of may, cease from all breathing exercises. you have followed them for years and need a respite. nature grows and progresses through cyclic activity and cyclic rest, and, before i can carry you forward to the next unfoldment, i seek to have you rest from mental pressure and e'en from that devotion which has governed much of your life experience. till may, centre your thought, your medita

e and you are now an accepted disciple (chela) in my group. secondly, i have told you and your brothers that i am in process of preparing you for initiation. i am reminding you of these two facts for the following reason: you must enter upon the next cycle of activity with set purpose, clear vision and unswerving attention to facts. you have ended one cycle of effort last month at the time of the full moon of may. you are entering now upon another cycle. i would have you keep this steadfastly in mind and go forward to freer service, greater understanding and clearer insight. you have laid a firm foundation. the two thoughts which come into my heart to tell you can be summarised as follows. note that these thoughts come from my heart and the suggestion from my mind. herein lies a hint as to

group life, and, by means of your loving radiation, strengthen the group structure, and stimulate the group love. this is something i ask you definitely to do. my brief instructions to you can be summed up as follows: 1. keep your meditation as heretofore. 2. follow carefully the review work assigned you. 3. above everything else pay close attention to reaching me, if possible, at the time of the full moon and give to the five days thereof your constant thought. i am anxious to see a greater emphasis built up this year in connection with your contact with me, your teacher and your friend. one other point i seek to make, my brother, whom i hope to see drawn into a closer relation of service. this point may be regarded by you as in the nature of a criticism. from my point of view and lucidit

he second ray energy of love which, in the case of christ, dominated his sixth ray personality. slowly and gradually, this domination must begin to take place in you. the rest of the meditation you know, and it need not be recorded here- 188- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust august 1936 my brother of old: i am anxious that you should realise that at the time of the full moon this year one cycle of training and of integration closed and a new one started. the keynote of the cycle which passed was discovery discovery of weakness, not a negative discovery but one which was fraught with responsibility; discovery of your fellow disciples and of your brothers, as pilgrims on the path; discovery of the goal and a consequent pledging of yourself to that goal; discov

oblem is summed up. it is i.b.s. who loves and serves; it is i.b.s. who speaks wisely and who works for me. the focus of your attention on your training and your life demonstration is: how far am i, i.b.s, complying with requests? what use am i, i.b.s, making of this information? what results am i, i.b.s, getting from my meditation practice? what phenomena do i, i.b.s, register at the time of the full moon? always i. always i.b.s. read back, brother of mine, over all the reports you have written about your work during the past two years. gather them together and run with rapidity through them so as to get their general trend and note if my words are not warranted. here lies the crisis for you. here is indicated to you what your next step forward into the light should be. the question now a

effort on my part an effort called forth by the group itself. my time is most precious at this period of world activity but i am willing to cooperate with the group if they continue to evidence willing service. given a little more personal training, the result may be out of all proportion to the effort on my part. bear in mind that as i think of you (when communicating with you at the time of the full moon each month) it will inevitably produce a stimulation and a pouring-in of energy. this is only now constructively possible. we, who teach, have to guard our disciples from the potency of the group which we represent. the risk of over-stimulation is always real and present. it is for this reason that you will find it of value to study with care all the instructions which disciples in my gr

l render group service and which will aid me in my work of awakening these members of my ashram to the light of the intuition. this meditation is based on the recognition that separation is founded on personality living, but that in the realm of the soul there is no separation but only a free circulation of spiritual life, light and love. do this meditation once a week and also at the time of the full moon, but continue with that already assigned by me in my last instruction to you, as your own daily exercise. i would like to point out that if you work this way, with the emphasis laid upon the giving-forth aspect, there will be no danger of the growth of any mental control over your group brothers. fifteen minutes given to this service once a week will bring to you its own reward. but of t

ality ray was the first ray of power, and hence the evidence of power which seizes you at times- 222- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust january 1935 brother of old: it is not my intention today to change your meditation work or to alter my instructions to you. you have worked at them for a relatively brief time and i shall not, therefore, change them until after the full moon in may, and in the next half-yearly work. you will gain a fuller idea of the group work and of your group brothers if you will take the time to study with care the instructions given individually to them. i am not interested in much writing, or in the use of words and phrases which will intrigue the aspirant, or give to him a sense of my keen personal interest. i would not help that way

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

rator of the kingdom of god and the expression of the love of god. on this day, the spiritual hierarchy which he guides and directs will be universally recognized, man's relation to it emphasized and the nature of god's love registered. men everywhere will invoke that love, with its power to produce resurrection and spiritual livingness. this festival is determined always by the date of the first full moon of spring. the eyes and thoughts of men will be fixed on life, not death; good friday will no longer be a factor in the life of the churches. easter will be the great western festival. ii. the festival of wesak or vaisakha. this is the festival of the buddha, that great spiritual intermediary between the centre where the will of god is known and the spiritual hierarchy. the buddha is the

l of the buddha, that great spiritual intermediary between the centre where the will of god is known and the spiritual hierarchy. the buddha is the expression of the will of god, the embodiment of light and the indicator of the divine purpose. men everywhere will evoke wisdom and understanding and the inflow of light into the minds of men everywhere. this festival is determined in relation to the full moon of taurus. it is the great eastern festival and is already meeting with western recognition; thousands of christians today keep the festival of the buddha. iii. the festival of humanity. this will be the festival of the spirit of humanity aspiring to approach nearer to god, seeking conformity to the divine will to which the buddha called attention, dedicated to the expression of goodwill

efore the hierarchy as the god-man, the leader of his people and "the eldest in a great family of brothers. this will, therefore, be a festival of deep invocation and appeal; it will express a basic aspiration towards fellowship and for human and spiritual unity; it will represent the effect in the human consciousness of the work of the buddha and of the christ. it will be held at the time of the full moon of gemini. if in these early days of restoration and of the inauguration of the new civilization and of the new world, men of all faiths and all religions, of every cult and all esoteric groups were to keep these three great festivals of invocation, simultaneously and with understanding of the far-reaching implications, a great spiritual unity would be achieved; if they unitedly invoked

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

physical contact with humanity, if they would bring about the initial stages of establishing right human relations; secondly, he gave to the world (for the use of the "man in the street) one of the oldest prayers ever known, but one which hitherto had not been permitted to be used except by the most exalted, spiritual beings. he used it himself for the first time, we are told, at the time of the full moon of june, 1945, which is recognised as the full moon of the christ, just as the full moon of may is that of the buddha. it was not easy to translate these ancient phrases (so ancient that they are without date or background of any kind) into modern words, but it has been done, and the great invocation, which may eventually become the world prayer, was pronounced by him and taken down by h

sponsible for hierarchical tension and for the eventual appearance or the emergence of the christ, lies behind the christ; it is in the field of long past experience. the consequent point of tension is now controlling the affairs of the spiritual hierarchy and its many groups of workers. the "point of decision" as it is called in all hierarchical circles, was reached during the period between the full moon of june, 1936, and the full moon of june, 1945. the point of decision covered, therefore, nine years (a- 36- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust relatively brief time; it resulted in the decision arrived at by the christ to re-appear or return to visible presence on earth as soon as possible, and considerably earlier than had been planned. this decision was necessar

is is necessarily a statement hard to understand. a point of tension is, symbolically, a storehouse of power. today the energies which will be uniquely distinctive of the kingdom of god are gathering momentum and assuming direction through the agency of the masters of the wisdom, in cooperation with the will of christ. whilst this energy has been accumulating or mounting in potency ever since the full moon of june 1945, three events of great moment in the living experience of christ (and, therefore, of the hierarchy) have taken place and their effects are in process of consolidation. i can only make reference to them, for it is not possible to prove the factual nature of what is here said; only possibility, probability and the law of correspondences can indicate the rightness of these even

s undergoing a true initiation as it enters into the new age of aquarius; it will then be subjected to those energies and forces which will break down the barriers of separation, and which will blend and fuse the consciousness of all men into that unity which is distinctive of the christ consciousness- 43- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust in june, 1945, at the time of the full moon (so significant a day in the spiritual experience of the christ, he definitely and consciously took over his duties and responsibilities as the teacher and leader during the aquarian solar cycle. he is the first of the great world teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles the piscean and the aquarian. this is a statement easily made and written down, but again it involves the three modes or

adly lack skill in action and have too great a love for destruction. the new group of world servers holds steadily to the "noble middle way (as the buddha called it) and seeks the decent burial of old forms, the implementation of that which is new and the restoration of that which has, in the past, proved useful and good and which could form the living germ of the new creation. at the time of the full moon of april 1945, during the easter season of that year and covering approximately a period of five weeks, the forces of restoration began their work, emerging first upon the subtler planes of human experience. this type of energy is peculiarly creative in nature and carries the "life which produces the birth of forms" it poured into the hierarchy, via certain of the masters and their group

tional or planetary life. their effects will be primarily physical; they will bring about a new world in which the evidences of war will have disappeared, the physical health of men and animals will be bettered, and cities and villages will be rebuilt. their objective is the production of the new earth and all the outer evidences of an inflowing new life. following this inflow, at the time of the full moon of the buddha in may 1945, the forces of enlightenment became active, and light began to stream into the minds of men. these are, in reality, the energies which initiate the new world education. those first to be affected by them are the great educational movements, the forums of the people in all lands and the values which are now unfolding through the radio and the moving picture indus

cated work lies not so much with the forms which embody their enunciated divine principles light and love as with the souls who have evolved through the application of these principles. in june 1945, christ set in motion the forces of reconstruction which are related to the will aspect of divinity and which remain as yet the least powerful of the three streams of energy, released during the three full moon festivals in 1945. these forces of reconstruction are effective mainly in relation to those entities which we call nations. the hierarchy is at this time attempting to channel them into the assembly of the united nations; the use made of these impersonal energies is dependent upon the quality and the nature of the recipient nation, on its measure of true enlightenment and on its point in

shed his physical body centuries ago. he did this in order to accomplish certain assigned work which had in it (besides many things unknown to humanity) activities connected with the work of the christ, with the immediacy of his coming and with certain plans for the coming civilisation of the aquarian age. as many millions in the world know, each year (at the time of the wesak festival at the may full moon) he communicates with humanity, via the christ and the assembled, attentive hierarchy. he acts in this way as an agent bringing about relationship between the "centre where the will of god is known" and the "centre which we call the race of men" these two descriptive phrases are used advisedly because all the work now being done by these two great sons of god is concerned with the distri

he year. these will be: 1. the festival of easter. this is the festival of the risen, living christ, the teacher of all men and the head of the spiritual hierarchy. he is the expression of the love of god. on this day the spiritual hierarchy, which he guides and directs, will be recognised and the nature of god's love will be emphasised. this festival is determined always by the date of the first full moon of spring and is the great western and christian festival. 2. the festival of wesak. this is the festival of the buddha, the spiritual intermediary between the highest spiritual centre, shamballa, and the hierarchy. the buddha is the expression of the wisdom of god, the embodiment of light and the indicator of the divine purpose. this will be fixed annually in relation to the full moon o

tor of the divine purpose. this will be fixed annually in relation to the full moon of may, as is at present the case. it is the great eastern festival. 3. the festival of goodwill. this will be the festival of the spirit of humanity aspiring towards god, seeking conformity with the will of god and dedicated to the expression of right human relation. this will be fixed annually in relation to the full moon of june. it will be a day whereon the spiritual and divine nature of mankind will be recognised. on this festival for two thousand years the christ has represented humanity and has stood before the hierarchy and in the sight of shamballa as the god-man, the leader of his people and "the eldest in a great family of brothers (romans viii.29. each year at that time he has preached the last

ified spiritual approach of humanity. the time is coming when all three festivals will be kept throughout the world and by their means a great- 84- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritual unity will be achieved and the effects of the great approach, so close to us at this time, will be stabilised by the united invocation of humanity throughout the planet. the remaining full moons will constitute lesser festivals but will be recognised to be also of vital importance. they will establish the divine attributes in the consciousness of man, just as the major festivals establish the three divine aspects. these aspects and qualities will be arrived at and determined by a close study of the nature of a particular constellation or constellations influencing those months

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ho, in roman times, were called "sibyls" these mediums (for such they were) will be trained by the workers upon the seventh ray to speak under inspiration from the hierarchy whose foreknowledge extends far ahead into the future, but does not extend beyond two thousand years. these mediums will, however, only be used under direction, after careful training and only twice a year at the may and june full moon rituals. as to the prevision with which i shall deal, unorthodox as it may appear to be to some of you, it will be based upon two factors: first of all, the logical indications to be gathered from the past and present events which condition the immediate future and which must inevitably lead to definite and tangible happenings. any deep student of human affairs could follow the same line

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

e this, my brothers) you can help in time to do two things: 1. clarify the group mind on this subject. i refer not here to your particular group, but to the world consciousness. 2. help shatter the great illusion which has held, and still holds, the sons of men in thrall. i ask, therefore, for your service along these lines, and i request also that you give increased attention at the time of your full moon contact with myself. this group should have a special aptitude for work along the line of dispelling glamour at the period of the full moon. contact is made on the different planes according to the focus of the subtle bodies of the personnel of the group, and this group makes its contact with me on the higher levels of the astral plane. hence the clarity of their reactions and the wealth

ome, however, aptitude in dispelling it in the personal life of each one of you. another group makes its contact with me on mental levels and therein will lie their field of service. still other groups are only as yet in an embryonic stage. their personnel is incomplete and the group integration only in process of being set up. i will, therefore, ask you to intensify your effort each month at the full moon period, and seek to strengthen your tie with myself and with your fellow group members. one word of warning only will i give. success along this line will bring both its rewards and also its difficulties. you will have to watch with care for the undue stimulation of your astral or emotional nature, with consequent and subsequent glamour. you will have to exercise the deepest watchfulness

itivity is increased, see to it that you are not deflected from your main group objective, which is to study and understand the significance of glamour and the laws for its dissipation. record and note all telepathic activity and phenomena and learn to work this way, but regard it as a secondary issue for you at this time. one of the outstanding characteristics of the work done at the time of the full moon will be the mass of phenomena noted. this is to be expected as this service calls you to work on the astral plane. but it will provide you with a field for the wise use of the faculty of discrimination. it is too early as yet for you to work at the problem of separating the real from the unreal; your task at first will be recording. keep detailed records. preserve the scientific attitude

r) can be divided as follows: a. invocation to the solar lord. b. seven sentences, embodying seven keys for the dissipation of illusion. c. a final affirmation of divinity. use your intuition and apply these all to the subject of glamour and see at what knowledge you will arrive. then write it down in the form of an interpretation or article and we may arrive at much value. 3. keep a copy of your full moon record and, at the close of six months, subject it to a careful analysis and see what is the sum total of gain. divide your analysis into the following heads and express your understanding of the phenomena: a. as to any real contact. b. as to any colour contact or phenomena. c. as to any other phenomena sensed, or seen or heard. that we may all go forward into greater light and understan

llumination dispel glamour, and how can it be brought about? 3. define maya and give your understanding of inspiration as a factor in dispelling it. i have purposely not elucidated this technique as i sought to draw out your own ideas. i would urge you to follow the group meditation with care. it is of deep importance to the group in the interest of integration and real spiritual cooperation. the full moon work will likewise increase in importance. later will come facility in recognising and recording the nature of the glamour to be dissipated and aptitude in seeing the process of light distribution- 56- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust section two the causes of glamour 1. the racial and individual growth of glamour. we shall now employ the word "glamour" to cover all th

nt. only then can the relation between the soul of humanity and the- 91- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust generated forces of its ancient and potent personality assume proportions which call for drastic activity and intelligent cooperation. such a time has now come, and in the two books, the problems of humanity and the reappearance of the christ, and also in the wesak and june full moon messages, i have dealt with this most practical and urgent situation, which is in itself the guarantee of human progress toward its destined goal as well as the assertion of its major hindrances to spiritual realisation. the sections on which we shall now be engaged are of prime importance to all who are in training for initiation. i said "in training" my brothers; i did not say that you

revelation is that some potent and far-reaching results will be achieved by the merging of light and love, and by the reaction of "lighted substance to the attractive power of love" in this sentence i have given those who can understand a profound and- 100- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust useful hint as to the method and purpose of the undertaking which was staged for the june full moon, 1942. i have also given a clue to the true understanding of the work of these avatars a thing hitherto quite unrealised. it might be added that when an appreciation of the meaning of the words "transfiguration of a human being" is gained, the realisation will come that when "the body is full of light" then "in that light shall we see light" this means that when the personality has reach

slowly gathering momentum as these two great beings have gathered around them their disciples and initiates during the past two thousand years. it has reached a point of intensive usefulness as the channel of communication between shamballa and the hierarchy has been opened and enlarged, and as the contact between these two great centres and humanity has been more firmly established. at the june full moon, 1942, the first test as to the directness of the communication between the centre where the will of god holds sway, the centre where the love of god rules, and the centre where there is intelligent expectancy was made. the medium of the test was the united effort of the christ, of the buddha, and of those who responded to their blended influence. this test had to be carried out in the m

lds sway, the centre where the love of god rules, and the centre where there is intelligent expectancy was made. the medium of the test was the united effort of the christ, of the buddha, and of those who responded to their blended influence. this test had to be carried out in the midst of the terrific onslaught of the powers of evil and was extended over the two weeks beginning on the day of the full moon (may 30th 1942) and ending on june 15th 1942. there was a great concentration of the spiritual forces at that time, and the use of a special invocation (one which humanity itself may not use, but the success or failure of the test was, in the last analysis, determined by mankind itself. you may feel, though wrongly, that not enough people know about or understand the nature of the opport

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

gh the medium of groups within the great council; these step down the impression which they register so that the hierarchy as a whole may cooperate with the purposes intended by those who are forming the needed plan. b. certain great lives who, at specific times and according to cyclic rhythm, or in times of emergency, are swung into this type of activity. for instance, one such time would be the full moon period, which is a time of reception by the hierarchy as well as by humanity; an instance of the second type of activity would be the wesak festival, or those acute crises when intervention is required from sources far higher than those with which the recipient is usually en rapport. such a crisis is fast approaching. the first type of impression is rhythmic, recurrent and therefore cumu

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

ogether) is ruled by sirius. sirius is the home of that greater lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple. later, when the new world religion is founded and is working- 177- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust we shall find that the major, monthly festival in august, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the hierarchy, with sirian force. each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as sirius governs leo. this i shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "approaches" to spiritua

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

appening. there was no opportunity for auto-suggestion, wishful thinking or an over-vivid imagination. i twice (whilst living and working in great britain) took part in an extraordinary ceremony and it was nearly two decades after my participation that i discovered what it was all about. the ceremony in which i took part, i eventually found out, actually takes place every year at the time of the "full moon of may" it is the full moon of the hindu calendar month of vaisakha (taurus) under its ancient name. this month is of vital importance to all buddhists and the first- 24- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust day of this month is the national holiday known as the hindu new year's day. this tremendous event takes place each year in the himalayas. it is held in a valley a

guided the occident nearer to god. it is this theme that the tibetan elaborates in his pamphlet, the new world religion. he indicates that the work of the buddha prepared people for the path of discipleship, whilst the work of the christ prepared people for initiation. he indicated a ritual in this pamphlet in which the great day of the buddha, the wesak festival (the vaisakha festival at the may full moon- 135- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust and easter sunday, fixed by the april full moon, stood for the illuminated buddha and the risen christ, whilst the full moon of june was the festival of humanity making its major annual approach to god under the guidance of christ. the other full moons in each month constitute lesser festivals in which certain spiritual qualit

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

eally to do with him, but being sensitive, he identifies himself with those who are suffering from acute melancholia. 9. melancholia, as a symptom of disease (not of brain disease) is also fairly frequent and will disappear when the disease is under proper treatment. a person may be suffering from a combination of such causes, as for instance a combination, let us say of the causes in 1, 2, 6. on full moon and psychoses. one of the departments of esoteric medicine in the future will concern itself with the law of cycles, lunar and solar. it will then be demonstrated as a fact, what has always been suspected and is now generally recognised, that the period of the full moon has a definite effect upon unbalanced people, upon the dreaming state and frequently conditions quite drastically, the

w lives, will exact its toll from the race until the human mechanism has adjusted itself to light. remember that this general use of light is less than one hundred years old and is an occult effect with far reaching results. i mention these three things because they are responsible for much of the predisposition to sensitivity of an abnormal kind. occult students well know that at the time of the full moon certain high contacts are easier than at other times, but it is right here, my brother, that the difficulty lies. at the time of the full moon (over a period of five days) the moon and the planet are the recipients of more reflected light from the sun than at any other time. for this there is a subjective cause. i can only explain it to you by a symbol which may convey truth to you or wh

t the time of the full moon (over a period of five days) the moon and the planet are the recipients of more reflected light from the sun than at any other time. for this there is a subjective cause. i can only explain it to you by a symbol which may convey truth to you or which may act as a blind. symbolically speaking, the period of intensest meditation of our planetary logos comes around at the full moon period each month; just as you have your daily meditation so he in his high place, has his cyclic point of contact. this produces the pouring in of radiance and the entering in of energy both subjective and objective. for all true students, therefore, their work on the mental plane is facilitated; they are enabled then to meditate more successfully and to attain realisation with greater

f the lord of shamballa. the moon, as you know, is a shell, an ancient form through which the planetary logos at one time sought expression. it is slowly disintegrating physically but not astrally as yet, and is therefore still closely linked with the astral body of the planetary logos and therefore with the astral bodies of all people. its influence is consequently more potent at the time of the full moon- 202- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust upon all who are unbalanced. this lack of equilibrium, which it really is, will eventually be found to exist between the astral body, the etheric body and the physical mechanism. people who are definitely aspirants and people who are definitely mental, can profit by these full moon cycles; those wh

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

e invocative power of the personality is nonexistent speaking from the angle of the group personalities which make up the personality aspect of the ashram. this is a factor which can only become potent if certain personality relations are adjusted and inertia is overcome. then, and only then, can the "group stand" i propose to give you personality instructions only once a year, at the time of the full moon of may. i shall then indicate to you any needed changes in your individual meditation or in the group meditation. at this time i will give to this new seed group a meditation intended to produce coherent relations and a conscious group interplay. i will give each member also a meditation which will serve to integrate his personality more completely but will also serve, above all else, to

between each and all of you. it is not often that i speak to you in this manner, but in the process of freeing you for increased service i have drawn nearer to you and my love surrounds you. learn, my brothers, the meaning of words, their transmitting potency and their spiritual significance. i am going to take the time and spare the needed energy to get in touch with the group during the coming full moons, prior to that of may. i ask you, at no matter what hour the full moon each month may fall, to endeavour to keep half an hour free so that you can attempt to enter into my consciousness. i realise that it may not always be possible for you in your busy western lives to keep the exact minute free, but you can attempt to find some time, as near to the full moon period as is reasonably pos

ties of imagination and of visualisation. this triple activity will test and tax your powers but will be good training in active esoteric work. regard this always as a united group effort and remember that in doing it you aid each other, and may facilitate the work to be done at the time of the wesak moon. i would like to add that the results of this work will not become apparent to you until the full moon of may, and even then you will only (through the synthesis of the two years' work) begin to comprehend the fusing and blending and awakening that your own souls are bringing about. i would ask you also to make a careful record every full moon from two days before until two days after the full moon of all experiences and visions. then in june turn in your full moon records along with your

al with it only briefly and tentatively, as the majority of aspirants and disciples are not yet ready for this particular study. vi. i shall, once a year, give to each of you a measure of individual help, personal instruction and individual meditation. the clue to your next step towards the door of initiation and towards the presence will also be indicated by me. this i will do at the time of the full moon of may (taurus) each year. this may involve at times an analysis of your group relation, of the effect that your national and racial thoughtforms have upon you, and also the assets and the liabilities of your personality and egoic rays. i shall endeavour to bring to your attention your personal point in evolution. i would remind you at this point that these seven rays are sharply differe

of spiritual knowledge, the masters who take pupils are faced with two problems: 1. the problem of the unawakened aspirant. 2. the problem of the learned disciple. ignorance and knowledge must both give place to understanding and wisdom- 18- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i particularly wish to speak about the work that i desire you should do at the time of the full moon during the coming year. this aspect of your work should become increasingly potent and interesting. i regard it as of major importance in the group endeavour, and if i, your teacher and friend (under the pressure of the present world opportunity, can spare the time to aid the group in this particular way, it is surely not too much to ask that i receive reciprocal attention. perhaps some

of major importance in the group endeavour, and if i, your teacher and friend (under the pressure of the present world opportunity, can spare the time to aid the group in this particular way, it is surely not too much to ask that i receive reciprocal attention. perhaps some of you may get increased light upon the usefulness of the attempt if i tell you the interesting fact that at the time of the full moon it is almost as if a door suddenly opened wide, which at other times stands closed. through that door, ingress is possible; through that door or opening, energies can be contacted which are otherwise shut off; and through that door approaches can be made to the planetary hierarchy and to reality which are at other times not possible. in this statement, you have the rude outlines of a sci

y hierarchy and to reality which are at other times not possible. in this statement, you have the rude outlines of a science of approach which has been little known up to the present time, even to advanced disciples, but which it is intended during the new age to develop. it is a part of the true and emerging technique of the path. i would like somewhat to change your work in connection with your full moon contact. two days before the time of the full moon, i will ask you to begin to cultivate that inner attitude of poised re-collectedness which will lay the right foundation for further work and which will help to shift the focus of the attention from the objective to the subjective work. it is an attitude more than an activity. ponder on this phrase. it is a state of consciousness which c

two days to step up your consciousness a little higher at each of the three spiritual points in each day: at the early morning meditation, at the noonday recollection, and at the sunset hour of contact. this means if you follow instructions correctly that you subject your subtle bodies to six equal points of spiritual stimulation and that you do it consciously. then at some hour in the day of the full moon, but prior to the exact hour if that hour is not possible, follow the procedure outlined below: 1. centre the consciousness in the head. 2. imagine yourself as retreating even more consciously within towards that point of contact where personality-soul and the teacher in the world of souls can meet and become as one. 3. then hold yourself as poised and steady as possible, preserving that

e group in service and deep consecration to the service of the plan. d. when you have accomplished this, imagine that you see me rising from my chair. then as a group we face the east and say together the great invocation. endeavour consciously to follow my lead as we say the words, and listen with care, using the imagination. this will involve intense concentration. do this until the time of the full moon of may, for it is a preparatory exercise in order to train you all in esoteric participation. make a careful analysis each month of your success or failure to carry out this discipline, and note with exactitude all reactions, results and phenomena. success will depend upon your ability to achieve a strong mental reorientation and focus, to keep detached from brain activity, and yet at th

cipline, and note with exactitude all reactions, results and phenomena. success will depend upon your ability to achieve a strong mental reorientation and focus, to keep detached from brain activity, and yet at the same time to preserve the waking brain attentiveness. the resultant effects, reactions, and the registering of any realisation must be noted for the two days succeeding the time of the full moon, for the seeping through of information and knowledge is often a slow process, owing to the inadequate alignment of the bodies. the may full moon will inaugurate the first real united effort to synthesise subjectively the present existing groups. this synthesis and corporate effort will become an annual endeavour as time goes on, and will take place regularly each wesak festival. of the

us mentally free yourselves, you can and will go on to a fuller life of service, with your eyes on human need and not upon your co-disciples, their activities, my plans and the purpose at this time of your preparation for initiation- 26- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i would like now to try an experiment. continue with your group work with me at the time of the full moon, exactly as outlined in your group instructions, but to that work i want to add another activity. each month i will speak three words, forming one consecutive sentence. will you see if you can, in the silence of intensity, record these words? to help you in your task, i am giving a list from which i will choose each month a phrase. send in what you think you registered each month on your

ull moon, exactly as outlined in your group instructions, but to that work i want to add another activity. each month i will speak three words, forming one consecutive sentence. will you see if you can, in the silence of intensity, record these words? to help you in your task, i am giving a list from which i will choose each month a phrase. send in what you think you registered each month on your full moon report. i will signify to a.a.b. the correctness, or otherwise, of your choice, by letting her know what i said. this is the list from which i will choose: 1. go in peace. 2. faith, hope and charity. 3. god keep you. 4. god bless you. 5. enter within thyself. 6. love thy brother. 7. stand in light. 8. om tat sat. 9. where art thou? 10. tread the path. 11. god guard thee. 12. enter into p

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here meet in a spirit of cooperation. may forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time. let power attend the efforts of the great ones. so let it be, and help us to do our part. these words sound simple, but the "forces of light" is the name for certain new powers which are being invoked by the hierarchy at this time, whose potencies can be brought into great activity at the may full moon if due effort is made. the spirit of peace which is invoked is an inter-planetary agent of great power whose cooperation has been promised if all aspirants and disciples can cooperate to break through the shell of separation and hatred which holds our planet in thrall. may i therefore close with these simple words: please give us your aid, my brothers. seed groups in the new age july 193

inity or a more rapid understanding of the "deeper being" evokes an immediate response and reaction. there is consequently much need for caution and considered action- 37- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust i have already indicated to you the form that the religion of the new age will take (see the reappearance of the christ. it will be built around the periods of the full moon, wherein certain great approaches will be made to the world of reality, also around two periods of massed approaches to be made at the time of the major eclipse of the moon and of the sun during the year. the two major full moon approaches will be those of the wesak full moon and the full moon of june one hitherto consecrated to the buddha who embodied the wisdom of god, and the other to

between them. the buddha, through his achievement of illumination, established the first major link with the forces of light. the christ, through his ability to express the will of god in love and as world salvage, established the first major link with the spirit of peace. if you will study the above information with care, you will find that the importance of the wesak festival at the time of the full moon of may will assume increasing importance in your minds. it is the festival at which three factors of importance to humanity are brought into relation: 1. the buddha, the embodiment or agent of the forces of light can then be contacted and that which they seek to transmit to humanity can be consciously appropriated. 2. the christ, the embodiment of the love and the will of god and the age

door will not open unless the act of invocation is backed by the focussed will. the directed determination of the man or the group who is using the suggested formula, prayer or invocation is essential. i would ask you to call as many people as you can reach through the medium of every available channel to a definite activity upon the coming christmas day, if possible, and again at the time of the full moon of january, thus making two great appeals to the forces of peace and light, so that they may help humanity. i would ask you to get in touch with leaders and workers important and unimportant in every land, asking them to associate themselves in their own way and with their own people, and to do this on as large a scale as possible as large, at least, as that of your effort in may, 1936

never been employed. it can, today, save the world. the world crisis from hierarchical viewpoint april-may 1940 another wesak festival will be close at hand when you receive this communication. its urgency, imminence and finality prompt me again to attempt to awaken those of you who receive it to the present opportunity and to the spiritual urgency of this high moment in human affairs. the three full moon periods of april, may and june are most significant and determining, and upon what happens during the next few weeks, whilst the sun is still moving northwards, much will depend. in this communication i would like to do two things: first of all, give you a better idea as to how the spiritual hierarchy of our planet regards the present world crisis, and secondly, indicate to you certain m

christ carry no truth, and is it not possible for that risen christ to express his power on earth through his chosen instruments? is there no foundation for the myth of the annual return of the buddha, holding the door open between shamballa and the hierarchy so that, at need, intervention may be possible through that open door? is it only a silly dream and a fantasy that at the time of the june full moon, christ in the closest cooperation with the buddha links the hierarchy with humanity? is it quite impossible that when humanity awakens to the fact of this mediatorship and can then avail itself of the straight line of ascent and descent through the doors held open by the buddha and the christ, some stupendous appearing may be imminent and suddenly take place? may it not be possible that

may be imminent and suddenly take place? may it not be possible that through the ascent of man's aspiration and spiritual desire, and through the descent of the waiting potencies, certain great changes may take place, for which all the past has been only preparatory and through which the aquarian age of brotherhood and understanding may make itself felt by virtue of these great potencies? the two full moons of may and june present to you a new opportunity to participate in the release of the planetary life from the thraldom of the forces of materialism. if you are to do your share in this work of salvage, it will necessitate certain attitudes and activities on your part which i would like briefly to touch upon, leaving you to take right and appropriate action and to follow, with all other

ke briefly to touch upon, leaving you to take right and appropriate action and to follow, with all other disciples and aspirants, the indicated stages: 1. study with care and answer with sincerity and to your own complete satisfaction the questions i put to you earlier in this communication. when you have done this, you will know where you personally stand. 2. for the entire week prior to the may full moon and the june full moon endeavour to do the following things- 149- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust a. link up with all disciples, aspirants and men and women of goodwill throughout the world and in all nations, using the creative imagination. b. eliminate out of your consciousness all negativity, seeing yourself clearly as ranged on the side of the forces o

of love for all individuals who have been swept into the vortex of their potency. c. when meditating and invoking the forces of light, endeavour to forget entirely all your own personal difficulties, tragedies and problems. disciples have to learn to carry forward their work for humanity in spite of personality stresses, strains and limitations. d. prepare yourselves thus for the work of the two full moons, keeping your objective clearly in mind and submitting yourselves to an adequate temporary discipline. 3. for the two days prior to the full moon, on the day of the full moon itself, and for the two succeeding days (five days) endeavour at sunrise, at noon, at five o'clock p.m, and at sunset, plus the exact time of the full moon in your own land, to say the great invocation with the int

ipitate and anchor in outer manifestation the waiting potencies. do this aloud when possible, and in group formation whenever feasible. it is the focussed power of your unemotional thought which will bridge the present existing gap and link more closely the two worlds of spiritual activity and of human demonstration. 4. repeat this activity for three days each and every month the day prior to the full moon, the day of the full moon, and the succeeding day. as a preliminary exercise to these three days, you could take an earlier three days of preparation, and thus increase the effectiveness of your effort. many people the world over have for years been trained to recognise two things. first, the importance of the wesak festival at the time of the full moon of may, because it not only object

he belief that all the information which i have given out anent the relation of the buddha and the christ, and of the hierarchy, humanity and shamballa, will form part of the coming new world religion and that the theme of the great approaches will constitute the basic fundamentals of the future spiritual teaching. this too you must have in mind, for the work you are asked to do at the coming two full moons, and during the less important full moons of the year, is not only related to the present emergency, but is also constructively related to the future faith of humanity. bear this also in mind. you will note that what i have said concerns your mental attitudes and your emotional reactions to present world affairs. it concerns also your soul tension, your willingness to undergo soul tensi

light, humanity can grasp in some measure the nature of divinity. they are greater than is known or realised; human intelligence and aspiration can only sense their essential nature; their spiritual potency has to be stepped down if mankind is to bear the pressure of the impact of the energy they wield and seek to transmit. it is this stepping down process which takes place at the time of the may full moon, and it is brought to a "focus of transmission" by the massed intent of the hierarchy and the massed demand of the world aspirants and disciples itself drawn forth by the massed need of the people of all lands. here, my brothers, is a simple statement of the facts which must be grasped by all of you who seek to participate intelligently in the wesak festival and who are anxious to act as

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is nevertheless a fact which cannot be gainsaid, and the problem, therefore, confronting the custodians of the will, working through the custodians of the plan, is to bring good out of the evil which man has wrought, and thus gear events to the larger issues. that is one of the objectives before the hierarchy at this time (written april, 1943) as it prepares for participation in the may and june full moons. can the forces be so organised and the energies so distributed that the full measure of good may be evoked from humanity by the invocation sounded forth by shamballa? can this evocation of a new cycle of spiritual contact and of liberation be brought about by the invocation of the men and women of good-will? can the will-to-good of the spiritual forces and the goodwill of humanity be b

ent of an enlightened public opinion, which is- 57- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust (speaking esoterically) right response to the sound which conveys the will of god to the ears of the attentive. then humanity will indeed move outward from the desert, leave the seas behind, and know that god is fire. rule four at the time of the june full moon, each year, the love of god, the spiritual essence of solar fire, reaches its highest point of expression. this it achieves through the instrumentality of the hierarchy, that great group of souls which has ever been the custodian of the principle of light, of enlightened love, and which always down the ages focusses its attention upon the race of men when the spiritual influence is at it

olar fire, reaches its highest point of expression. this it achieves through the instrumentality of the hierarchy, that great group of souls which has ever been the custodian of the principle of light, of enlightened love, and which always down the ages focusses its attention upon the race of men when the spiritual influence is at its height. this it does through one of the great sons of god. the full moon of june of 1943 saw this outpouring of divine love reach its highest expression for all time, and at the point of attainment which is, for that particular son of god, his highest also. such is the law. when an embodied christ in time and space reaches his goal of achievement, recognition of this comes to him at the time of the june full moon, for in that sign of gemini the complete victo

r upon the earth, as is the case today of both the buddha and the christ. this is the first cycle in the history of humanity when this has been the case. one or the other has been present down the ages, but not the two simultaneously. the reason for this is that the time has now been reached when shamballa can be contacted and its energy evoked. hence we have the activity of the buddha at the may full moon and that of the christ at the following june full moon. their united activity serves to bring about a much closer approach between the lord of the world and the hierarchy, via his four representatives: the buddha, the christ, the manu, and the mahachohan the five points of energy which are creating the five-pointed star of humanity at this time. an ancient rule rule iv for applicants giv

evocation of the fire of the will was initiated symbolically in the garden of gethsemane. he has twice symbolically shown his individual response to the shamballa energy: once in the temple of jerusalem as a child, and again in the garden as a full grown man at the close of his earthly career. his third and final response (which climaxes his work from our human angle) covers nine years, from the full moon of june, 1936, to the full moon of june, 1945. this period, in reality, constitutes one event to him who lives now free in his own world and free from the limitations of time and space. having related humanity to the hierarchy (which in the case of individual man means relating the personality to the soul, he now seeks to relate more closely, with the aid of the buddha, the hierarchy to

f light. ponder on this statement. 6. the attempt to form an exoteric branch of the inner ashrams. this is evidenced in the work i have done with a special group of aspirants and accepted disciples whose instructions, emanating from my ashram, have been embodied in the book discipleship in the new age (vols. i and ii. 7. teaching upon the new world religion, with its emphasis upon the three major full moon periods (aries, taurus, gemini, falling usually in april, may and june respectively) and the nine (occasionally ten) minor full moons each year. this leads to a consequent relation being established between the work of the christ and of the buddha in the minds of spiritually inclined people everywhere, with the result of a great broadening of the human aspiration. this work is as yet emb

will indicate to you the lines along which i would like to see the work expand in future years. i would ask for a careful study of these words, for i regard this as an important instruction and one which could be regarded as the skeleton outline of the work i wish to see done. it will involve an intensification of the work of the advanced section in the arcane school, a greater emphasis upon the full moon meetings, a careful organisation of the triangle work and the goodwill work as an added effort to aid the work of the new group of- 165- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust world servers, plus an attempt to recognise the members of the new group whenever and wherever contacted. this will not be at all an easy task, my brothers

la which has been hitherto unknown and unrealised. this will connote a high stage of initiation of the group and is, in effect, connected with inter-hierarchical activity. it is a working out into the consciousness of the group members of an event which has taken place within the ashram of sanat kumara, the hierarchy itself; this takes place through the stimulation of all the ashrams at a certain full moon, and concerns the relation of the ashrams as a whole to shamballa, and not to humanity. can you grasp something of what i am endeavouring somewhat unsuccessfully to convey? there is an ashramic activity of which disciples know nothing in their brain consciousness until such- 176- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust time as the t

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not work out so exactly. the chart of the soul will be used in the astrology of the future; not the chart of the personality. this warning is covered in a positive statement by the tibetan "the basis of the astrological sciences is the emanation, transmission, and reception of energies and their transmutation into forces by the receiving entity. this defines clearly what should be our attitude at full moon meditations and our use of individual horoscopes "the point i seek to make here, says the tibetan "is that it is all a question of developed reception and sensitivity [123] significance of the sign and its polar opposite in the mermaid, the fish goddess, we have the symbol of the at-one-ment of virgo with its opposite sign pisces. always there is the duality, inherent in us and in the so

48, the discipline of the war, the destruction of material values, the suffering and the mental growth of humanity had produced an effect which we are told exceeded the expectations of the hierarchy. in the book on the reappearance the following statements are found "the point of decision, as it is called in all hierarchical circles, was reached during- 116- the labours of hercules the period the full moon of june 1936 and the full moon of june 1945. the point of decision covered, therefore, nine years, a relatively brief time; it resulted in the decision arrived at by the christ to reappear or return to visible presence on earth as soon as possible and considerably earlier than had been planned" it is indeed a momentous thing to realize that humanity could so notably affect the time and m

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

t upon the waters;thou who art mistress of the oceanin thy boat made like a crescent,crescent moon-bark brightly gleaming,ever smiling high in heaven,sailing too on earth, reflectedin the ocean, on its water; page 71 n r r r r r come lappetito viene mangiando,e viene il guadagno lavorando e risparmiando.as appetite comes by eating and craving,profit results from labour and saving.t o be born in a full moon means to have an enlightened mind, and a high tide signifies an exaltedintellect and full of thought. it is not enough to have a fine boat of fortune.bisogna anche lavorareper farla bene andare.you must also bravely row,if you wish the bark to go.ben faremmo e ben diremmo,mal va la barca senza remo.do your best, or talk, but moret o row the boat youll need an oar.and, as it is said la fo

hins, it had not yet come to pass.and his mother replied: patience, my son, for it is by waiting and watching ourselves that we learn how to be taught. andthou hast within thee the teachers who can impart the most, if thou wilt seek to hear them; yes, theprofessors who can teach thee more in a few minutes than others learn in a life. page 70 alta marea, luna piena, sai,grande uomo sicuro tu sarei.full moon, high sea,great man shalt thou be!then the young man, who had only a paolo 35 in his purse, touched it, saying: luna mia, bella luna,mia sempre bella luna!moon, moon, beautiful moon,ever be my lovely moon!and so the young man, wishing to make money, bought and sold and made money, which he dou-bled every month.but it came to pass that after a time, during one month he could sell nothing

y diana, the great spirits of the stars, men in their time and place, the giantswhic were of old, and the dwarfs who dwell in the rocks, and once a month worship her with cakes.there was once a young man who was poor, without parents, yet was he good.one night he sat in a lonely place, yet it was very beautiful, and there he saw a thousand littlefairies, shining white, dancing in the light of the full moon.gladly would i be like you, o fairies! said the youth, free from care, needing no food. but what areye?we are moon-rays, the children of diana, replied one: we are children of the moon;we are born of shining light;when the moon shoots forth a ray,then it takes a fairys form.and thou art one of us because thou wert born when the moon, our mother diana, was full; yes, ourbrother, kin to us

et, then think upon the moon, ondiana, unto who(sic) thou wert born; then repeat these words: luna mia, bella luna!pi di una altra stella;tu sei sempre bella!portatemi la buona fortuna!moon, moon, beautiful moon!fairer far than any star;moon, o moon, if it may be,bring good fortune unto me!and then, if thou has(sic) money in thy pocket, thou wilt have it doubled.for the children who are born in a full moon are sons or daughters of the moon, especially whenthey are born of a sunday when there is a high tide. page 68 yet a few years, reader, and all this will have vanished from among the italians before the newspa-per and railroad, even as a light cloud is driven before a gale, or pass away like a snowflakes in apond. old traditions are, in fact, disappearing with such incredible rapidity th

s fashion ragingwith love for her, but she could not so much as bear to look at him, and repelled all his advances.but late one night, when she was returning alone from the farmhouse where she had worked to herhome, this man, who had hidden himself in a thicket, leaped out on her and cried, non mi sfug-gerati; sara mia! thou canst not flee; mine thou shalt be!and seeing no help near, and only the full moon looking down on her from heaven, t ana in despaircast herself on her knees and cried to it: i have no one on earth to defend me,thou alone dost see me in this strait;therefore i pray to thee, o moon!as thou art beautiful so thou art brightflashing thy splendour over all mankind;even so i pray thee light up the mindof this poor ruffian, who would wrong me here,even to the worst. cast ligh

ndamone!sopra te io mi metto al lume,il tuo (cuore) io dimeno,e mi dimeno io pure e cosi,e cosi tanto far,t anto far e tanto faremmo,che uniti ne veremmo.the counter-charm.endamone, endamone, endamone!by the love i feel, which ishall ever feel until i die,three crosses on thy bed i make,and then three wild horse-chestnuts take, 19 in that bed the nuts i hide,and then the window open wide,that the full moon may cast her lightupon a love as fair and bright,and so i pray to her abovet o give wild rapture to our love,and cast her fire in either heart,which wildly loves to never part;and one thing more i beg of thee!if any one enamoured be,and in my aid his love hath placed,unto his call ill come in haste. page 38 volont di fare al amoreverra e non la potrai farecome una candela ti struggera,ti

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found under its christian symbol in every church, as the nave (from navis, the ship* the navis- the sidereal vessel- is fructified by the spirit of life- the male god; or, as the learned kenealy (in his apocalypsis) calls it very appropriately- the holy spirit. in western religious symbology the crescent was the male, the full moon, the female aspect of that universal spirit "the mystic word alm, which the prophet mahomet prefixed to many chapters of the koran, alludes to her as the alm, the immaculate virgin of the heavens. and- the sublime ever falling into the ridiculous- it is from this root alm that we have to derive the word almeh- the egyptian dancing-girls. the latter are "virgins" of the same type as the n

BLUE EQUINOX

he lord stood forth in the blackness. as a pillar of fire shone the lord; as a devil that whirleth in the wilderness of sand. the lord hath veiled himself in purple; the lord hath ex alted himself in manifestation. the lord went before me into the darkness; the lord hewed him a way into the forest of night. the glory of the lord was as the sunrise upon black mountains; the lord shone forth as the full moon on the dark river. then went i forth into the city, praising the lord; i cried aloud in my joy, i made songs unto the lord, the living god. i will follow the lord all the days of my life, and in the hour of my death let the lord lead me into the house everlasting. liber clxv a master of the temple v a.a. publication in class b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

n metal; sword; other tools; dress; jewelry; horned helmet. inscriptions. your witch name. lesson four 41 getting started rites of passage. circles. self-dedication. coven initiation. lesson five 53 covens and rituals *i covens and degrees. hierarchy and priesthood. covensteads and covendoms. the book of rituals. consecration of tools. rituals erecting the temple; clearing the temple; esbat rite; full moon rite; new/dark moon rite; cakes and ale. lesson six sabbats samhain; beltane; imbolc; lughnasadh. 79 lesson seven meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats meditation how meditation works; technique; posture; area; time of day: method. dreams the source; dream interpretation and symbology; remembering dreams; personal symbols; the repetitive dream; group dreams; dreams vs out-of-body expe

magick to promote fertility and increase the crops; the church claimed that they made women and cattle barren and blighted the crops! no one apparently stopped to think that if the witches really did what they were accused of, they would suffer equally themselves. after all, they too had to eat to live. an old ritual act for fertility was for the villagers to go to the fields in the light of the full moon and to dance around the field astride pitchforks, poles and broomsticks; riding them like hobby-horses. they would leap high in the air as they danced, to show the crops how high to grow. a harmless enough form of sympathetic magick. but the church claimed not only that they were working against the crops, but that they actually flew through the air on their poles. surely the work of the

, here i would like to take a quick look at some of the rudiments of magick; the basics. first among these is timing. you may know that the moon is frequently associated with witchcraft, but you may not know why. one of the reasons is that the phases of the moon are important to the proper working of magick. taking the two main phases: the time from the new moon, through the first quarter, to the full moon is known as the waxing moon. from the full, through the last quarter, to the new is known as the waning moon. when the moon is growing in size, it is waxing; when it is decreasing in size, it is waning. extermination. there is a certain element of sympathetic magick just in this time of working. for example, as the moon grows, so grows the opportunity (or whatever) for which you are work

elf-dedication/initiation. presuming that you have not yet even made your athame, this casting is of the most basic. you will need your altar furniture: candle, censer, goblet or drinking-horn, salt and water, libation dish and (if you wish) figures representing the deities. there should be wine in the goblet. self-dedication this ritual should be performed during the waxing moon, as close to the full moon as possible. for the ritual i would suggest you be completely naked, wearing no jewelry of any kind. along with the rest of the altar furniture there should be a small dish of anointing oil (see lesson thirteen, page 198 for recipe) standing between the water and the salt. the altar is set up in the center so that, when you stand in front of it, you are facing east. the circle is indicat

. so mote it be" all "so mote it be" all kiss their athame blades. they then move about the temple to kiss one another in farewell. esbats and sabbats the regular meetings of witches are called esbats. it is at these that any work is done (e.g. magick, healing. most covens meet once a week, but there is really no hard and fast rule. there should certainly be a circle at least once a month, at the full moon. since there are thirteen full moons in the year then, obviously, there will be at least thirteen meetings in the year. in addition to the full moons, many covens also celebrate the new moons. and in addition to the esbats there are the festivals known as sabbats (from the french s'ebattre, to revel or frolic. there are eight of these, spaced more or less equidistant throughout the year

happens the esbat normally done on that date gives way to the sabbat. essentially sabbats are looked upon as a time for rejoicing and celebration. no work is done at a sabbat, unless there is some emergency such as a healing. here, then, are the ceremonies for the esbats and the sabbats. esbat rite here is a basic esbat ritual that can be used every week, if you meet that often. for times of the full moon, include the full moon rite (below) where indicated. similarly with the new moon rite. the erecting the temple is performed. priest/ess "once more we meet together, one with another, to share our joy of life and to reaffirm our feelings for the gods" covener "the lord and the lady have been good to us. it is meet that we thank them for all that we have" 2nd 'they also know that we have n

at the very least clap hands and chant the names of the god and the goddess. enjoy this for a few minutes. priest/ess "beauty and strength are in the lord and the lady both. patience and love; wisdom and knowledge [if the esbat is taking place at either the full or the new moon, then the appropriate segment (below) is inserted at this point. otherwise go directly into the cakes and ale ceremony] full moon rite priestess stands with her legs apart and her arms raised up and out, stretching to the sky. priest kneels before her. all the coveners also kneel. all raise their arms high. covener "when the moon rides on high, as she crosses the sky, and the stars on her gown trail behind, then we wiccans below are with love all aglow, just to see her so brightly enshrined" covener "on the night o

ll moon rite priestess stands with her legs apart and her arms raised up and out, stretching to the sky. priest kneels before her. all the coveners also kneel. all raise their arms high. covener "when the moon rides on high, as she crosses the sky, and the stars on her gown trail behind, then we wiccans below are with love all aglow, just to see her so brightly enshrined" covener "on the night of full moon, as we sing to the tune of the lady who watches above, we raise high our song as she glides by so strong, and we bask in the light of her love" all lower their arms. priest rises and kisses priestess, then kneels again. priest "lovely lady, you have been known by so many names to so many people *in paganism generally it is thought to be far more efficacious to speak "from the heart" rath

wers, branches, pine-cones, small pumpkins, etc. there should be flowers on the altar. the altar cloth/candles should be orange. the horned helmet rests beside the altar. in the north quarter stands a cauldron containing material for a fire (regular kindling, if the circle is outside, or a candle or a sterno* burner, if meeting inside. the erecting the temple is performed. this may be followed by full moon or new moon rite, if appropriate. bell is then rung three times by a covener acting as summoner. summoner "haste! haste! no time to wait! we're off to the sabbat, so don't be late" priest/ess "to the sabbat" all "to the sabbat" with priest and priestess leading, the coven moves deosil around the circle, walking or dancing as each feels moved. it is appropriate to carry small drums or tam

ies beside the altar. this may be a crown of flowers or it may be a silver crown decorated with silver crescent moons or similar. in the north quarter stands a cauldron containing material for a fire (regular kindling or a candle or a sterno burner. in the east quarter is a maypole the circle may be drawn extra large to accommodate it. the erecting the temple is performed. this may be followed by full moon or new moon rite, if appropriate. the bell is rung three times by a covener acting as summoner. summoner "haste! haste! no time to wait! we're off to the sabbat, so don't be late" priest/ess "to the sabbat" all "to the sabbat" with priest and priestess leading, the coven move deosil around the circle, walking or dancing as each feels fit, with small drums or tambourines giving a beat. ci

k half of the year; the halfway point in the god's pre-dominence. but although it is in that segment of the year's cycle, yet it is very much a festival of the goddess (particularly brigid, brigantia, bride and other variations. beside the altar rests a "crown of light" a circlet of candles. the altar cloth and candles should be brown. the erecting the temple is performed. this may be followed by full moon or new moon rite, if appro-riate. bell is rung three times by covener acting as summoner. summoner "haste! haste! no time to wait! we're off to the sabbat, so don't be late" priest/ess "to the sabbat" all "to the sabbat\ with priest and priestess leading, the coven moves deosil around the circle, walking or dancing. circle as many times as you wish. priest/ess starts a hymn to the gods a

ale. after that the clearing the temple is performed so that there is plenty of room for fun, games and entertainment (which may still take place around the altar if desired. the evening concludes with a feast. lughnasadh greater sabbat summer flowers are on the altar and around the circle. the altar cloth and candles should be yellow. the erecting the temple is performed. this may be followed by full moon or new moon rite, if appropriate. the bell is rung three times by covener acting as summoner. summoner "haste! haste! no time to wait! we're off to the sabbat so don't be late" priest/ess "to the sabbat" all "to the sabbat" with priest and priestess leading, the coven move deosil around the circle, walking or dancing. circle as many times as you wish. priest/ess starts a hymn to the gods

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n it. in front of the boat of af the way is led by a procession of four boats, which are moved, presumably, by the same power which moves the boat of ra. the first boat has ends which terminate in bearded human heads, and its celestial and solar character is attested by the sign for "heaven" and the utchat, with which its sides are ornamented. the object of this boat is to support the disk of the full moon, which rests within a crescent upon a support divided into thirteen sections, each typifying a day; thus the full moon as it appears on the fourteenth day of the month is here represented. by the disk kneels a god who is "supporting maat" which is symbolized by a feather, and is described by the word maat written between it and the support of the moon's disk. in the mutilated text above

pporting maat" which is symbolized by a feather, and is described by the word maat written between it and the support of the moon's disk. in the mutilated text above the p. 23 boat it is said that "this great god approacheth this region, and he is conveyed along in the boats of the earth, by means of their, and he paddleth along through this field and uttereth words" click to view the boat of the full moon. the name of the fore part of the boat appears to be urer, and in front of the boat is written "chief of the gods of the tuat" p. 24 the hieroglyphics above the full moon read, and those above the stern of the boat read "field of him that beareth up urnes" the ends of the second boat likewise terminate in click to view the boat of the goddess hathor. bearded human heads, but each is surm

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ritual or use certain crystals without consciously knowing their significance, only to find out that our invented spell closely resembles one from another time or culture; we know how to heal without being taught. gaining such knowledge has been described as 'inner-plane' teaching and if you can trust your own deep intuitions, you need very little formal teaching about magick. if you scry at the full moon or during one of the ancient festivals, by looking into water and letting images form, this deep wisdom will offer solutions to seemingly impossible dilemmas. the practice of witchcraft demands great responsibility, for you are handling very potent material when you deal with magick. the benefit is that by focusing and directing your own inner powers and natural energies you can give for

coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.tx

ld deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for example, was celebrated on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is where it remains today. in the same way, the crosses on the hot cross buns that we eat on good friday were originally the ancient astrological signs for the earth, and were eaten to absorb the power and fertility of mother earth. hot cross buns were still thought to retain their magical qualities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and wer

aerie help- and so by implication was consorting with the devil. under torture, even the innocent would admit to the vile deeds suggested by their inquisitors. many of the confessions now appear to be remarkably uniform and come straight from the pages of the works on demonology, with which the members of the inquisition would be familiar. simple village circle dances performed at the time of the full moon and the old rituals performed to bring fertility to both fields and people- with a figure dressed as the horned god and couples making love in the fields or leaping over a bonfire- became all too easily translatable into evidence of satanic covens. although the last person executed for witchcraft in england was alice molland at exeter in 1712, it was not until 1951 that the witchcraft ac

n another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the magician, was believed to have been incarnated in several lifetimes and to have entered willing bodies, including the sixth-century bard taliesin. wiccan rituals are held at esbats and sabbats. an esbat is a monthly coven meeting, traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. the eight sabbats are described in the chapter seasons and festivals (see page 245, and celebrate the eight major divisions of the celtic year on the solstices, the equinoxes and the old fire festivals. these festivals mark the coming of early spring, the start of the celtic summer, the first corn harvest and the start of the celtic winter. there are also many lovely ceremonies to mark

take responsibility for any events. however, if you do want to follow a particular tradition. have a preliminary meeting in which you can plan for about six meetings ahead, deciding on the topics, the different venues and equipment you will need to buy. using a good almanac and moon diary, you can arrange to meet on the crescent moon some months to light candles and make wishes as well as on the full moon and on the major festivals. you may arrange a special evening also for healing work, especially if this is an area that you would like to develop collectively. you can hold separate meetings for planning, but if you wish to make practical decisions at a meeting before an esbat, always carry out a ritual to strengthen harmony after such discussions as earthly issues can intrude on even th

nto 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 for the winter. a young wife eager to be pregnant would secretly prick a fertilised hen's egg with a needle on the night of the full moon immediately before making love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened thei

you something you desire. for example, you could scatter pins across a map between the places you and a lover live and with a magnet collect them, while reciting: come love, come to me, love to me come, if it is right to be. you would then place your pins in a silk, heart-shaped pincushion or a piece of pink silk, also in the shape of a heart, and leave it on the window ledge on the night of the full moon, surrounded by a circle of rose petals. banishing and protective magick this involves driving away negative feelings, fears and influences by casting away or burying a focus of the negativity. for example, you might scratch on a stone a word or symbol representing some bad memories you wished to shed, and cast the stone into fast-flowing water. alternatively, you could bury it, together

and eventually became their leader. you can invoke lugh especially at the time of lughnassadh, for the reaping of benefits sown earlier in the year, but also at any time for adaptability, versatility, innovation and originality. deities of the moon invoke these for gentle increase, power and banishing energies, fertility, intuition, magick and dreams. arianrhod arianrhod is a welsh goddess of the full moon and also of time, karma and destiny. she ruled over the realm of the celtic otherworld, called caer feddwidd, the fort of carousa. here a mystical fountain of wine offered eternal health and youth for those who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuvenation, and is a focus for all magick, as she is a witch goddess [insert pic

d a virgin goddess, but can be invoked in her role as an earth goddess and as protector of women in childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. my

three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility

psychometric abilities, astral projection, for rituals to invoke anima (female) power, for intuition and mysticism. it represents dreams, visions and a desire for fulfilment beyond the material world. in times of stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver candles are best used on a monday. gold gold is the colour of the sun and is associated with the solar deities, for example, the egyptian ra. in ancient greece, helios, the sun god, was worshipped each dawn as he emerged in the east and drove his chariot of winged horses around the sky before plunging into the

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he gods make to reward the archer? a: once a year, on the night of the harvest moon, the gods allowed the archer yi to visit his wife in the skies. the moon goddess 81 expert commentary the moon goddess s popularity stems from her association with a very important harvest celebration. anthropologist roy willis states: most chinese have a sentimental attachment to the moon, and particularly to the full moon, whose round shape symbolizes the reunion and completion of the family circle. the mid-autumn festival, which is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, when the moon is full, is still very popular. on that evening families come together and, among other things, eat round moon cakes. 2 derek walters, europe s most prolific author on chinese culture, writes: a

eunion and completion of the family circle. the mid-autumn festival, which is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, when the moon is full, is still very popular. on that evening families come together and, among other things, eat round moon cakes. 2 derek walters, europe s most prolific author on chinese culture, writes: at that time, for meteorological reasons, the full moon (the harvest moon to westerners) always appears much bigger than usual. it was customary to have moon-watching parties, and offerings are still made to the moon. and paper lanterns are in abundance. the autumn equinox marks the time of the year when nights become longer than the days, and as the moon symbolizes the yin, or feminine force, the rituals are performed by women, who offer inc

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riory of sion, the inner core of the knights templar. he was an inspiration behind the founding of the royal society. researchers into the background of the lunar society have shown that it mirrored (with remarkable accuracy) a group called the invisible college, described in the francis bacon work, the new atlantis. it was known as the lunar society because it met once a month at the time of the full moon. among its members were benjamin franklin, one of the founders of the united states and close associate of french revolutionaries, and .erasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would later be the frontman for this-world-is-all-there-is. what a coincidence! another member of the lunar society was the unitarian, josiah wedgwood, founder of the famous pottery, and his

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hollywood is one of their most important vehicles for mass mindconditioning. hollywood is indeed a place of magic as it casts a spell on humanitysperception of itself and the world. the druids knew about astrology and astronomyand they celebrated the birth of the sun on december 25th. the moon was also veryimportant to them. particularly sacred was the night of the new moon, the sixth day,and the full moon.as with the blue degrees of modern freemasonry, the druid initiates were dividedinto three groups. the teachings given to each level in the forest groves of ancient timesand the freemasonic temples of today are virtually the same. the first level of the druidschool was the ovate who was dressed in green, the druidic colour for learning. thesecond was the bard, who wore sky blue represent

it the vision andbreadth of scientific and spiritual understanding. for confirmation of that, look at theesoteric initiates behind an organisation which denies the esoteric. this becomes evenmore obvious when you consider the background of another group of esoteric initiateswho merged into the royal society. they called themselves the lunar society becausethey met once a month on the night of the full moon.43 among its members wasbenjamin franklin, the high level freemason, rosicrucian, one of the founding fathersof the united states, and closely connected to the freemasons behind the frenchrevolution. more of him in the next chapter. other lunar society members wereerasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would be used topromote the belief in this world-is-all-there

hen very powerful energiesof various kinds are manifesting on the earth and the rituals and ceremonies of both apositive and negative nature are performed on these dates. the cycle produces theenergy and the satanists simply harness that energy for their own purposes, just as thepositive rituals do, like those performed by most modern druids. other dates forwidespread satanic ritual include every full moon because the reflected energy of thesun is at its most powerful on those occasions. note also the significance to satanists ofmay 1st, the day the bavarian illuminati was formed in 1776 and the day of celebrationin the brotherhood-created communist and socialist calendar.the key of solomon is a book of occult magic which legend claims was written byking solomon himself. it includes the pe

pening in a linear time line. but even in linear time, we have beenunplugged from the natural flow. nature is tuned to moon time, the 28-day 13 cycles ofthe moon. the womans menstrual cycle is tuned to the moon and, appropriately, it is themoon which takes the male solar energy and reflects it back at the earth in a femaleform. the satanists have their rituals and sacrifices every month under the full moonwhen that female energy is at the peak of its power. they take this energy and manifestits negative polarity: hecate. the more negative female (intuitive) energy they can focus,the more powerful their connection with the demons they seek to access and communi-cate with on other dimensions. this is why they programme sensitive psychics likearizona wilder to conduct their rituals. the nativ

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e following night. this is not a simple ritual which is performed within a ritual chamber for a determined length of time, but rather a magical operation which will take months, even years, to complete. you may, therefore, choose to begin these rites on a night of special magical significance such as walpergisnaught (april 30) or halloween (october 31. or you may simply choose to begin around the full moon or the new moon. the rituals can take any form you choose. it is not essential to shut out all outside light sources unless you are prone to distraction. you may adapt the rituals to your liking but they must be committed to memory. for this reason, i have left the invocations simple and repetitive. you will have no problem memorizing the invocations and can easily add your own embellish

ill have no problem memorizing the invocations and can easily add your own embellishments when you enter the ritual chamber. the following is an example ritual working which a novice practitioner may wish to employ* set myself apart to the dark lord* become celibate, abstain from drugs and alcohol, eat less* study the occult every day, perform ritual every night [beginning a few nights before the full moon] 3 nights before full moon: shave head, take bath of purification in salt water, recite "renunciation& proclamation" nine times. 2 nights before full moon: recite "lord's prayer" backwards nine times. 1 night before full moon: burn pact giving body, mind, and soul to lucifer, chant i give my body to lucifer, i give my mind to lucifer, etc. night of full moon: consecrate body as a temple

bath of purification in salt water, recite "renunciation& proclamation" nine times. 2 nights before full moon: recite "lord's prayer" backwards nine times. 1 night before full moon: burn pact giving body, mind, and soul to lucifer, chant i give my body to lucifer, i give my mind to lucifer, etc. night of full moon: consecrate body as a temple to the dark lord [beginning immediately following the full moon] all of 1st lunar month: invoke the unholy trinity& unholy spirit every night. all of 2nd lunar month: call upon the nine lords of the abyss and invoke my unholy guardian demon every night. all of 3th lunar month: invoke satan every night. all of 4th lunar month: invoke lucifer every night. all of 5th lunar month: invoke belial every night. all of 6th lunar month: invoke leviatan every n

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rainbow: the modified "lotus wand" of the g.d. by donald michael kraig. the "shaft" of a lotus wand (q.v. the central tool for use by a magician, used to represent no single element, but is of a planetary nature; and the magician's higher and true will. in the astral star, the primary elemental weapon of one who is a lord/lady of the portal (of adepts. waning (moon: the moon phase from just after full moon until it disappears, and becomes the new moon. watchtower: an invisible station in the universe on the astral plane (q.v, set at the quarters (east, south, west, and north. a celestial garrison of angels (q.v, under the command of an archangel (q.v. some traditions hold that there are watchtowers at the cross quarters as well as at the quarters. note: there is only one watchtower in each

this ritual is used by adepts to consecrate and cleanse a hall (room) as a preparation for any magickal ritual, especially operations of gray magick (q.v. water: one of the five magickal elements. it has the properties of being cool and moist. the element of the west. the elemental weapon/tool is the cup or chalice. waxing (moon: the moon from when the new moon can just be seen to the time of the full moon. western occultism: the magick of europe and english speaking nations around the world that has descended from the magick of sumeria, babylonia, egypt, greece, rome, the arabs and the jews, as well as from the indigenous european magick of ancient times. it's range is roughly coequal with that of christianity. the kabbalah is said to be the heart of modern western occultism. white magick

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ame a time, however, when we decided that he was so far recovered that it was unnecessary for anyone to sit up with him, so to bed we all went, for the first time for several days. i shared a room with another member of the community. it was a comparatively small cottage we were in, and our two beds were close together, side by side, right under the uncurtained open window. it was the time of the full moon, and i remember that i had no need to light a candle in order to see to undress. i fell asleep at once, for i was very tired. i could not have been asleep very long, however, when i was awakened by the sensation of a weight upon my feet. it was as if a good-sized dog, say, a collie, had jumped up and lain down on the bed. the room was flooded with moonlight, and as bright as day, and i c

nightmare terror, but an imposed emotion that could be thrown off by an effort of the will. this passed almost as soon as i stood up, and i thought no more about it "again on april 2, or thereabouts, i was troubled by the same feeling, but regarded it as nothing more than a severe nightmare, though the fact that my sleep was distorted towards the time of the new moon had occurred to me; while as full moon drew on, the nights were peaceful again "the new moon of may i brought a recurrence of the trouble. this time very much more powerful, and necessitating an almost intolerable effort of will to cast if off. also it was about this time that i first saw the entity which was rapidly obsessing me. it was not altogether unlovely to look at. its eyes were closed and it was bearded, with long fl

to be found in it. note the dates carefully, and turn them up in an ephemeris of those years, and observe how the moon stood in relation to them, also the planets. observe whether they fell on or about the equinoxes or solstices. note also the days of the week upon which they occurred. if you found that all the crises of the case occurred on thursdays, or round about the vernal equinox, or at the full moon, you would have a piece of information which was of 77 of 103 considerable significance. you would be sure of one thing, at any rate, that you were dealing with a case in which the invisible psychic tides played a part. information should also be sought concerning the place or places in which the different crises of the trouble took place, and especially the circumstances attending its f

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is seldom necessary. return hy.home resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about werewolves (european werewolf attacking a villager) most people know nothing about werewolves other than what they've seen in old lon channy jr. movies, and their modern-day imitations. the modern cinematic myth of the werewolf states that a person bitten by a werewolf who lives becomes under the light of the full moon a werewolf, which is to say a creature with an overall human shape, but covered in wolf's fur and with a head and limbs that resemble those of a wolf. a movie werewolf has glowing eyes, elongated canine teeth, a hairy face, and claws on its feet and hands. usually it cannot speak, although more recent werewolf films have talking werewolves. as the night of the full moon approaches, perso

cannot speak, although more recent werewolf films have talking werewolves. as the night of the full moon approaches, persons infected by the werewolf's bite becomes increasingly restless and savage. under the pale light of the full lunar orb they transform into the same kind of hairy monster that previously bit them, and go loping off into the night in search of human prey. once the night of the full moon is past, werewolves revert to their ordinary human form and retain little or no recollection of what they did during their wolf phase. there are usually clues, however, such as clots of drying blood under the fingernails and muddy wolf footprints on the carpet. in the old hollywood version of the myth, a werewolf can be killed with a silver bullet, and is allergic to the herb wolf's bane

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de mountains and a nearby moonstone circle constructed by menhirs where some of the annual major festivals (sabbats) are held for those members who reside in the northwest. like most pagans, the church follows a cycle of worship including eight major gatherings evenly spaced through the year and anchored in the solstices and equinoxes, and lesser biweekly gatherings (called esbats) at the new and full moon. the church has been in the forefront of claiming a place for contemporary paganism in the larger religious community. the church joined the interfaith council of washington state, and pathfinder served two terms as its president. pathfinder also serves as a member of the religious advisory commission of the department of corrections in washington. the church gained some unwanted nationa

saturday in the first hour of the day. the arbatel was said to be one of the best authorities on spiritual essences and their powers and degrees. arc see astrological registration and communication arcana magazine a quarterly journal devoted to cosmology, eschatology, hermetic science and the occult. current address not obtained for this edition. arcana workshops the arcana workshops, one of the full moon meditation groups operating in southern california, grew out of the program of the arcane school and the teachings of alice bailey, to which it has added insights from the theosophical agni yoga society. the group promotes full moon meditation as a time for transmitting the spiritual energies of the masters to the world. the group also works to unite the efforts of occult groups in south

aries, taurus, and gemini. the arcana workshops also offers correspondence courses, publishes a number of pamphlets, and sends out regular mailings to those on their mailing list. the non-profit organization may be contacted at box 506, manhattan beach, california 90267-0506. website: http//www.meditationtraining.org. sources: arcana workshops. http//www.meditationtraining.org. march 8, 2000. the full moon story. beverly hills, calif: arcana workshops, 1974. the full moon workers. beverly hills, calif: arcana workshops, n.d. what is arcana? beverly hills, calif: arcana workshops, n.d. arcane that which is hidden or secret; usually refers to rites associated with the mystery religions or secret societies (see also arcanum, great) sources: yarker, john. the arcane schools. belfast, 1909. arc

ge and the accompanying appearance of the christ. this coming arariel encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 84 of the new age savior was also encouraged by the repeating of the great invocation. bailey taught that certain moments of the year are especially fruitful times for spiritual work because an abundance of spiritual energy is available. such a time is the monthly period of the full moon, when members of the school gather on the evening of the full moon to meditate and transmit energy. on three full moon dates the great festivals easter, wesak, and goodwill take place. the festival of easter does not follow either of the christian calendars, but is celebrated on the full moon in april as the time of the most active forces for the restoration of the christ. in may, wesak

ull moon to meditate and transmit energy. on three full moon dates the great festivals easter, wesak, and goodwill take place. the festival of easter does not follow either of the christian calendars, but is celebrated on the full moon in april as the time of the most active forces for the restoration of the christ. in may, wesak is the time when the buddha s forces are available. in june, at the full moon, the forces of reconstruction are active. foster succeeded his wife as head of the school following her death in 1949. their daughter mary bailey succeeded to the leadership after foster s death in 1977. the school publishes several periodicals, including the beacon and the world goodwill newsletter. international headquarters are located close to the united nations building at 113 unive

the new group of world servers was dedicated to uniting people of goodwill in the goal of creating a new world civilization. triangles evolved as a spiritual service through groups of three individuals uniting with others. the books of the tibetan promoted the ideal of a forthcoming world religion uniting east and west, and the arcane school developed special prayers and meditations, such as the full moon meditation and the great invocation, toward this goal. another theme arising from the tibetan writings was the reappearance of the christ. after the death of alice bailey in 1949, the arcane school split into several groups. foster bailey headed the arcane school and the lucis trust until his death in 1977. the work is currently headed by the baileys daughter, mary bailey. bahir encyclop

teenth-century manuscript of a magic ritual for changing a goat into a beautiful youth was delivered mysteriously in his national laboratory of psychic research, london, and he decided to test whether the magic worked. this blocksberg manuscript detailed a ritual from the high german black book, a classic manual of black magic, and required a magic circle drawn on top of the brocken on a night of full moon, a fire of pinewood, a goat with a silver cord, and a maiden pure in heart. price undertook this ritual before scores of pressmen, photographers, and a film cameraman. in fact, the goat was not metamorphosed after all, but price achieved his objective of securing publicity for paranormal investigation, and magic and psychic phenomena became a talking point in the stifled atmosphere of th

ly: the green dragon of spring 1. the horn 2. the neck 3. the base 4. the room 5. the heart 6. the tail 7. the basket the black tortoise of winter (new moon) 8. the ladle 9. the ox-boy 10. the maiden 11. the void 12. the rooftop 13. the house 14. the wall the white tiger of autumn 15. astride 16. the mound 17. the stomach 18. the pleiades 19. the net 20. the beak 21. orion the red bird of summer (full moon) chinese astrology encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 282 22. the well 23. ghosts 24. the willow 25. the bird 26. the bow 27. the wings 28. the carriage. chinese astrology in general has two goals: the prediction of the future, and the determination of auspicious days upon which to initiate a particular enterprise (especially to marry or to begin a new business endeavor

of the church s perspective, and mastery of ancient egyptian history is an important task for individual church members. in the church s understanding, the gods create reality. in their diversity and their transactions, divine vectors are established. the human task is to achieve balance by relating to the divine vectors. worship is both communal and personal. communal gatherings are held on the full moon in july (at the birthday of the gods) and at the solstices and equinoxes. at the festivals, the myth of a particular deity may be reenacted. various magical rituals are also used, though no particular rituals have been prescribed. most worship centers upon personal shrines which members erect in their own dwellings. members also practice forms of divination. the church of the eternal sou

otwithstanding, so few have known. in his history of magic (1913) eliphas levi describes cagliostro s great secret of rejuvenescence in the following terms: let us now turn to the secret of physical regeneration to attain which.according to the occult prescription of the grand copht.a retreat of forty days, after the manner of a jubilee, must be made one of every fifty years, beginning during the full moon of may in the company of one faithful person only. it must be also a fast of forty days, drinking may-dew.collected from sprouting corn with a cloth of pure white linen.and eating new and tender herbs. the repast should begin with a large glass of dew and end with a biscuit or crust of bread. there should be slight bleeding on the seventeenth day. balm of azoth should then be taken morni

points on the solar calendar have become the holidays that assist in defining the wiccan faith. while there are records of ancient european tribes marking the important points on the solar calendar, there are few records of their paying attention to the lunar cycles, at least as a point for gathering and the working of magic. the idea of meeting monthly at the new moon or bi-weekly at the new and full moons (the esbat, appears to be a practice introduced by gerald b. gardner, who created modern wicca over a number of years after retiring to england in the 1930s. previously, he had been a mason in southeast asia and while there may have learned of the so-called moon lodges, masonic groups that met monthly according to the lunar calendar. modern wicca is built around small intimate groups of

n lodges, masonic groups that met monthly according to the lunar calendar. modern wicca is built around small intimate groups of ten to twenty people (covens) who gather in a culture that is either secular or follows another faith. while several covens may father for the solar festivals (sabbats) to celebrate together, the real work of the coven is done in its esbats. common to all wiccans is the full moon esbats. it is at these meetings that one develops their psychic powers, learns to do magic, and focuses the spiritual life. most covens also meet at the new moon. new moon rituals tend to be for personal growth, healing, and the initiation of new ventures. these tend to be the most intimate meetings of the coven and rarely are outsiders admitted. full moon rituals are for the working of

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ry demon. he also acted as a medium and divined through trance. to become a magician, you must meet the ghost of a murdered man. take the midrib of a leaf of the ivory cocoa-nut palm (pelepah niyor gading, which is to be laid on the grave, and two midribs, which are intended to represent canoe-paddles, and carry them with the help of a companion to the grave of the murdered man at the time of the full moon (the 15th day of the lunar month) when it falls upon a tuesday. then take a cent s worth of incense, with glowing embers in a censer, and carry them to the head-post of the grave of the deceased. fumigate the grave, going three times round it, and call upon the murdered man by name: hearken, so-and-so, and assist me; i am taking (this boat) to the saints of god, and i desire to ask for a

exture is obscured. the patterns on the lunar surface have, like clouds, taken on anthropomorphic characteristics. some saw the face of a man; others, various animals. the changing phases of the moon and its seeming disappearance for a day or two each month also led to additional speculations. modern werewolf lore has the wolf-like side of the person showing itself only during the evenings of the full moon. the moon was associated with various gods and goddesses, though primarily the latter. in hindu astrology, the moon was associated with the god nanna, though the more common associations are with the greek artemis, the roman luna, or the moonlight-giving mother of the zuni. it was especially associated with females as they identified the lunar cycle with the menstrual cycle. in the conte

, attempting to understand its significance and drawing implications for behavior from it, was astrology. the 28-day cycle of the moon became a convenient way of dividing the solar year into more manageable units we have come to know as months (actually the moon takes only 27.32 days to orbit the earth, but because of the movement around the sun it takes 29.53 days for it to complete a cycle from full moon to full moon. in astrology the moon represents the inner emotional side of the self, the subconscious mind and psyche. the moon s placement in the chart reveals the creative side of the person, where he/she might give birth to new ideas, how his/her nurturing side is expressed, or where great passion is resting. the moon is paired off with the sun, related to the overall aspects of one s

roduced over the twentieth century, especially that associated with michel gauquelin, the data on the immediate effects of the moon on behavior as expressed in popular folklore appears to be negative. while there remain areas that have gone unresearched, enough has been done so that the burden of proof has shifted onto the shoulders of those who now make such claims. sources: carrol, robert todd. full moon and lunar effects. skeptic s dictionary. http//www.skepdic.com/fullmoon.html. june 11, 2000. chudler, eric. moonstruck! does the full moon influence behavior. http//faculty.washington.edu/chudler/moon.html. june 11, 2000. kelly, i. w, and r. martens. lunar phases and birthrate: an update. psychological reports 75 (1996: 507.11, james rotton, and roger culver. the moon was full and nothin

d important events in agricultural communities, though most modern pagans are urban dwellers. in the rituals, while some recognition of their past significance is still noted, the sabbats have been reinterpreted as occasions for personal magic and reformation and the veneration of the deities. as distinct from the eight major sabbats, witchcraft covens also hold a bi-monthly esbat at each new and full moon. these are the coven s regular meetings for its ongoing magical work and group worship (see also litanies of the sabbat) sources: ravenwolf, silver. to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1995. valiente, doreen. the abc of witchcraft past and present. new york: st. martin s press, 1973. sabbathi this angel, in the jewish rabbinical

e. presently she exclaimed: i see behind you a white round object. it is the moon. at the same instant, wrote ochorowicz, i saw a faint but distinct light pass near my left hand, which held the coin; it was not round, nor a flash, it was like a little meteor, like a thin ray, lighting up the space round my hand on the side away from the medium. when the plate was developed it showed an image of a full moon. he considered it evident that this time a photograph of thought obtained the existence of a quasi-physical intermediary, since the image represented the medium s conception of something that existed outside her mind. the image of the moon was once obtained previous to the experiment. on the night of september 7, 1911, the medium was much impressed by the superb sight of the starry heave

evident that this time a photograph of thought obtained the existence of a quasi-physical intermediary, since the image represented the medium s conception of something that existed outside her mind. the image of the moon was once obtained previous to the experiment. on the night of september 7, 1911, the medium was much impressed by the superb sight of the starry heavens, and particularly by the full moon, which she looked at for some time with admiration. on the following day, instead of the little hand, which was desired, a full moon appeared on the plate against a background of white cloud. the cinematograph representations of the eclipse of the moon on april 17, 1912, showed the image of the moon slightly flattened in the direction of the axis of rotation. this characteristic appeared

eities. the number of deities is unknown. awareness is genderless and individual deities may be either male or female. there is also an ordering among the deities and it is proper to speak of the greater and lesser deities. the wiccan church follows primarily a european format with worship centered upon the eight annual festivals common to pagans and also the small coven gatherings at the new and full moon (esbats. the church also has its own rituals to designate important moments in the life cycle, from the naming ceremony for the new born (wiccaning) to the passing from this incarnation (funeral. it performs both weddings and handpartings (for couples that are separating. all of the priests and priestesses of the church constitute a ruling priesthood council. their job is to train member

vals a year.the solstices and equinoxes and the four cross-quarter days between them: lugnasadh or lammas (loaf-mass) at the beginning of august, a harvest festival; samhain (hallowe en) a festival honoring the ancestors; brigid or oimelc, at the beginning of february, a feast of creativity and new beginnings; and beltane, at the beginning of may, celebrating the new growing season. new moons and full moons were times of magic-working as opposed to the celebration and attunement of the seasonal festivals. they worshipped in the nude, a practice indeed claimed of medieval witches. gardner and his first associations were naturists, people who advocated sunbathing for better health, and he and his first associates purchased land next to a naturist club north of london. while many neopagan wit

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

as the more flamboyant contactees did. a spectacular ce3 took place over boianai, papua new guinea, in late june 1959. the best-known witness, the rev. william booth gill, was an anglican missionary from australia. on the evening of june 26, thirty-eight persons observed a large, disc-shaped craft with four legs hovering in the northwestern sky. gill estimated its apparent size to be that of five full moons lined up end to end. at the top of the ufo, behind a glass-covered cockpit, four humanlike figures, surrounded by illumination, moved back and forth, apparently working at an unknown task. the object and its crew ascended into gathering clouds after forty-five minutes. other ufos, though not their occupants, were intermittently visible over the next three and a half hours. twenty five o

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h. no dog could live thus any more! so i have turned to magic lore, to see if through the spirit s power and speech perchance full many a secret i may reach, so that no more with bitter sweat i need to talk of what i don t know yet, so that i may perceive whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds, see all its seeds, its working power, and cease word-threshing from this hour. oh, that, full moon, thou didst but glow now for the last time on my woe, whom i beside this desk so oft have watched at midnight climb aloft. then over books and paper here to me, sad friend, thou didst appear! ah! could i but on mountain height go onward in thy lovely light, with spirits hover round mountain caves, weave over meadows thy twilight laves, discharged of all of learning s fumes, anew bathe me

emperor s will that it be done. a blonde [to mephistopheles. one word, sir! see my face without a spot, but thus in tiresome summer it is not! then brownish-red there sprout a hundred freckles which vex my lily skin with ugly speckles. a cure! mephistopheles you radiant darling, what a pity, spotted in may-time like a panther-kitty. take frog-spawn, toads tongues, cohobate them, and carefully, at full moon, distillate them. when the moon s waning, spread the mixture on, and when the spring has come, the spots are gone. a brunette to fawn around you, see the crowd advancing! i beg a remedy! a chilblained foot hinders me much in walking and in dancing and makes me awkward even when i salute. mephistopheles pray let me tread upon it with my foot. brunette well, i suppose that happens between

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

est. the left side of her body is dressed in rags' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (corresponding to the state of dualistic exile) and the right half in royal vestments (corresponding to shabat. her hands are in her lap, palms upward, and she has a crown on her head around which is the twenty-two atziluthic letters. to her immediate right and left are trees representing the side columns of the tree of life. the full moon shines above the trees in the night sky above her. the flaming letters of the name hvhy shimmer in her heart center, cradled just above her hands. brilliant gold light shines forth in all directions from her body, her face veiled by the light. the shema is the best known and most revered root mantra in the jewish religion. according to the zohar, it should be pronounced shem ayn yisroel

alternately see everyone (including yourself) as living yoshers (upright forms of the name hvhy, or as living trees of life. if you live near the shore of an ocean or a large body of water, you could walk along and dwell upon the idea of a vast face ocean of endless light. sitting quietly before it, you could focus upon the sound and rhythm of the waves. going to that body of water on a cloudless full moon night, you could meditate upon the reflection of the moon in the water. the practices of the mystical qabalah are fluid and flexible, and provide fertile opportunity for us to use our imaginations in a creative and personally meaningful way,-8, most faiths, and many sects within each faith, often find much to disagree about. but, all of them teach that helping people is good. masters and

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tower was very strong. ketamine was used as an intoxicant during the rite, and some pot later that night in celebration at a local rave. no personal sigils were fired and again a somber self-reflective feeling saturates me. this being(s) whose voice(s) i heard, if it is a being at all, frightens me and excites me. more to follow. it feel as if the next part of the rite should be undertaken at the full moon (in a few days. for this part the moon was about 65% full and was performed on 10/30/98 between 6pm and 8pm (members of the autonomatrix sent energies my way to be utilized during the right, from across the usa. today is 11/4/98 i performed the ritual again last night under the full moon, this vision did not seem as powerful as the first vision, but i was granted another sigil. this one

FULL MOON RITUALS

boldness added] freemasonry is a mysteries religion. mystery religions in all of past history have had several things in common: 1) they serve lord satan, most of them openly 2) they reject the one true god of the holy bible. 3) god has brought every one of these mystery religions into physical judgment. freemasonry will be no differen but will t,get its judgment in conjunction with antichri tfaq full moon rituals full moon faq this is the full moon ritual (hereafter referred to as fmr) faq sheet. this will let you know what it is and how it works, hopefully, and if it doesn't then please feel free to ask questions on the list. who can "be in" fmr? the fmr is not a coven or any kind of formal group; it's a community event, open to all who care to participate. by participate, we mean lead

and the results were pretty astonishing. so how do i get in on this? some time around new moon, the leader for the next fmr posts an announcement of timelines, probably a call for volunteers, maybe a preliminary mention of place, maybe a format note if something special is planned. as replies to that note, people sign up to invoke and/or petition, ask questions, etc. watch for there appearance of full moon roll call, which is where this sort of thing takes place. it's also the place for any side discussion that may go on during the ritual, such as "nifty invocation, joe" or "sorry i was late for east. no experience is required, but a little background is useful, and it can be acquired by reading a previous fmr or two (copies of past fmrs are archived on this website, if you'd like to read

g. example: cloud stops typing for a moment and scratches her head. she almost wonders what she was about to say, but remembering what it was, she speaks "hey! now i remember" that's it from me, for now. a thousand thank-you to cloud (one of the original fmr moms) for this information! a note on the determination of moons the moons here a determined by the following list, beginning with the first full moon after yule. many different moon names exist, and i've tried to provide a few alternates as well. wolf moon chaste, cold, disting, little winter, quiet, wolf horning moon big winter, hunger, ice, storm, wild storm moon crow, plow, sap, seed, wind, worm seed moon growing, hare, planter's hare moon bright, dyad, flower, frog, merry meade moon honey, horse, dyad, lovers, rose, strawberry, st

month for our matrifocal ancestors who lived by a lunar calendar, it was impossible to have two moons in a month, as a moon was a month! old castle ritual room wolf moon leader: red deer date: 30 december 2001 the days after yule had found red deer ever more intent on singing a place sometimes his alone but more often a part of the real world into the old castle environs. now, on the night of the full moon, he lay again on the central altar amid the circle and spiral of standing stones, only a few miles out in the country from the southern part of heaven. a glorious full moon shone overhead, with only wisps of clouds. she illuminated the lithons of rough hewn sandstone- the quarter-stones of which stood some twenty feet tall. when deer first found this circle, it was unlike any he'd experi

y oriented and quickly places quarter candles upon the four sculpted pedestals positioned at the room's perimeter- beeswax pillars heavily scented with the finest essential oils- and finally pauses at the altar for a brief moment, where he notices the first pale rays of tonight's moon lapping over the eastern edge of the widely opened skylight; rays of a tide which brings the promise of tonight's full moon shining down upon them in all her splendor. then a last check of the essentials upon the altar for this evening's ritual: a sun-bleached tortoise shell filled with sea-salt, a copper bowl of fresh rainwater, and a small reiku censer with charcoal beside a smaller silver plate covered with powdered dragon's blood and amber. there too is his athame of georgian silver covered in spirals, hi

up the tortoise shell filled with salt and dances steps outward in a spiral to the north. from her pouch she takes some earth from her travels, and sprinkles it upon the floor. standing upon the earth, she sprinkles some salt on the floor, mixing the salt with the earth. her mind fills with the fog of the early evening and smells of deers tongue and frankincense, the woods and the castle and the full moon. she sways back and forth to a music she hears and she sings this music to the north. ancient one of the north you who are earth she who is mother you who sleeps now the deep sleep of winter you who reminds us that we will all sleep and that we shall all awaken again. she who wraps us now in a cloak of cold yet warms us with the fires of the hearth from whom we come, and to whom we retur

eart, and the tremble of his body "you are the altar. prepared to receive the god, as we dance, and sing, and light the fires recalling the sun from the distance" owl lifts here arms, and gazes up at the night sky, clearly glistening thru the skylight. the moon is at her fullest, the stars dance around her, and the world waits in expectation. she sings out "father, remember! come to us now at the full moon of yule. let the light of the mother entice you, enthrall you, and bring you back to warm the earth and you're children. renew the promise "hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all who die will be reborn! corn and grain, corn and grain, all who die will come again" father we invite you. father we entreat you. father we welcome you. be with us now. so mote it be" owl watches as reddeer "becomes

her warm touch upon his breast and hears her words "you are the altar" then loses the thread of her saying. but not of that which transpires. deer suddenly reels- the change in perspective from five simple senses to seemingly endless points of vantage is always vertiginous. he seeks a single reference to ground within, and finds a view from a small hillock above a rice paddy in malaysia- with the full moon rising and millions of lightening bugs pirouetting among the tall grasses. stars wheel grandly above, lightening bugs reel gracefully about and all are reflected in the glass still waters of the rice field. in some tiny compartment of self, deer whispers a silent "thank you" to david abrams for this anchor- then finds himself adrift among this sea of whirling lights. with new eyes, not w

of the aztec nation comes to him: we only come to sleep we only come to dream it is not true no, it is not true that we came to live on the earth. we are changed into the grass of springtime our hearts will grow green again and they will open their petals but our body is like a rose tree: it puts forth flowers and then withers. looking up, deer spies above the wide open skylight a ring about the full moon at her zenith. and a myriad of six-pointed stars wheeling gently within night's embrace. he returns to owl's side, and arm in arm they perambulate the circle together. west, south, east, north. they thank and release from service the spirits which have dutifully warded the circle this moon- at the same time recognizing their debt to each "our circle is open but unbroken" deer states as h

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and fixed their festivals by the moon. in the ancient times of jewish history, the light of the moon was of much greater importance than it is to us who have so much artificial light. the jews were largely a pastoral people, and moonlight nights were much valued in the care of sheep and goats and for making journeys. the revision of the old testament has introduced in two places the words 'at the full moon, psalms lxxxi, 3, and proverbs vii, 20, which were nowhere found in king james's authorised version; this expressionreplaces-'atthe time appointed. there are two hebrew words applied to the moon:irach,irch, means the pale one, the silver moon, moon255light,-amasculine word, andlevanahorlebanah,lbnhthe whiteone,-afeminine word. so there are two words for sun and two for moon, but where su

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method alone. beware the union of the fluids of the sun and the moon, as it leads to a strong familiar who for the inexperienced, may cause mental stress for the magician. after the evocation and binding of the spirit to the vessel, bury it in a graveyard or some designated area by a great tree or hidden place. it shall reside there for a period of when the dark moon begins and grows towards the full moon. you may evoke it above the burial space on those nights, envisioning it growing in strength with your willed focus. on the night of the fullmoon, exhume the vessel and in the temple invoke the spirit through the black mirror of circle, seek the inspiration of the spirit and then retire to sleep. take notes to the dreaming communion and meeting of the force, it will guide you to the answ

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ontributions are used to maintain both the golden dawn and the r.r. et a.c. as well as to provide an income for the g.h. chief of the order; thus allowing him to act as a full time viceroy for the order. when writing to a fellow member, please use the r.r. et a.c. letterhead. a stamp on the letterhead is not necessary. 5 regulations index and requirements for advancement from z.a.m. to th.a.m. 1. full moon rite 2. send back ritual 3. spiritual initiation body of light 4. second order eucharist 5. ritual i 6. ritual 5 7. the bornless ritual 8. bornless middle pillar 9. invocation of thoth 10. invocation of isis 11. jupiter talisman ritual 12. ritual of spiritual alchemy 13. equinox ceremony 14. requiem ceremony 15. sol talisman ritual 1. admission index (general orders [a] 2. obligation (to

igils (sigils by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. comentary and addition by g.h. frater p.c.a) 2. concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti 3. analysis of the 5=6 initation by g.h. frater p.c.a. 4. symbology of the banners 5. telesmata and flashing tablets 6. the canopic gods symbolism of the four genii of the hall of the neophyte 7. evil and unclean spirits- by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. 18. full moon healing vigil (to be performed monthly on the full moon) 19. ritual of spiritual alchemy (astral projection, ritual magick and alchemy by francis king) the adept must now pass an examination on the above. 20. z.a.m. second stage lectures 1. rosary of the r.r.et.a.c. 2. archangels on the paths 3. practical workings with the schemhamphoresch 4. telesmatic figures 5. 6. 7. 8. 21. the advanc

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nd banishing 5 is the same with some important considerations. luna changes, so let the adept be certain to invoke or banish the correct aspect of luna. in most cases, the symbol of 5 should be traced thus: y. it symbolizes luna in her increase and is thus favorable. when traced thus: 2, it symbolizes luna in her decrease. this means limitation and restriction, which is not favorable. luna at the full moon is traced thus. at the new moon, it is a dark circle: 3. these last two forms are seldom employed and are not good in most cases. should the adept desire to invoke the head of the dragon, the north node of the moon, caput draconis, let him/her trace it thus: p. the tail, cauda draconis, is traced thus: q. these forces are most easily invoked when the sun or moon is within them in the zod

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o thy tablets. i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. go back to thine own abodes and habitation with the blessings of yehashua yehovashah, for i now declare this rite in the hall of the neophyte duly closed" hierophant "khabs" hiereus "am" hegemon "pekht" hiereus "konx" hegemon "om" hierophant "pax" hegemon "light" hierophant "in" hiereus "extension" bell/ 13.f full moon healing vigil of the r.r. et a.c. r.r. et a.c. zelator adeptus minor 2 the full moon healing vigil is one of the sacred responsibilities of all fraters and sorors of our rosicrucian fraternity. it is a sacred vigil that links each of us who are sworn to the trust of human spiritual evolution and to the masters, our more ancient fraters and sorors who went before us. many of them have cho

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cian fraternity. it is a sacred vigil that links each of us who are sworn to the trust of human spiritual evolution and to the masters, our more ancient fraters and sorors who went before us. many of them have chosen not to move on to other worlds, stars, or the clear, scintillating light, but rather in self-sacrifice chose to remain in service to humankind. it is on this night at the hour of the full moon that the fraters and sorors of the second order link with the fraters and sorors of the third order in a sacred bond of healing upon those who are deserving of its reward. we must emphasize that this vigil will have a profound illuminating effect on the adept who has sworn to persistently pursue it, month in and month out, year in and year out. we must also recognize that to abstain from

subtle truth. for as we project healing to the world, we heal the deepest part of our infected self, thus, gradually rising and becoming more than human. preparation for the vigil this vigil is one of the few of our order, that if possible, can be performed outdoors. but knowing that the moon is full in one's sphere of sensation makes it possible to perform it indoors under the inner light of the full moon, if conditions don't permit to work outdoors. full regalia is not necessary for this vigil. however, if the adept does have the ability to work outdoors in regalia undisturbed, then it is more than permissible. it is only required that the adept wear his or her consecrated rose cross lamen. if during the time of the vigil one is working in a public park or parking lot, then the rose cros

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t by way of unique transmission, there are certain craft rites which have strict prescribed formulae and which must, of necessity, be performed alone. the toadsman's rite called 'the waters of the moon' is a well-known example. this requires a man to find himself a toad, to impale it upon a blackthorn and thereafter to let its body be flensed by ants. then, taking its bones to a stream on a clear full moon night, the would-be toadsman should cast the bones into the water. all the world will howl and clamour, a-seeking to distract the attention from the one bone that will move against the current; this is the charming bone, said to have power over animals. thereafter the man should take this bone and keep it upon his person. the next three nights he should sojourn alone in a graveyard, seek

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

the treasure blossoms (as fortune blossoms, p. 866 'it gets ripe; then 'it fades (simpl. 2, 191, has to sink again. this may refer to the hlowing of a flower above or beside it. in mhg. they spoke of the treasure coming forth' wenne hiimt hervilr der hort, der mich so ricle mohte machen' ms. 1, 163. it ripens in most cases every seven years, in some only every hundred, and that especially under a full moon, or during the hoard lifted: vvunder-blume. 971 twelves. another phrase is 'the treasure suns itself: on the fridays in march it is said to rise out of the ground to sun itself (mone's anz. 8, 313, and that spreading-out of the wheat and the flax-pods (p. 962-4) was this kind of sunning; the treasure heaves itself up in cauldrons, and then indicates its presence by a clear hlaze shining

e, zwispel (furca, and twist it three times round itself^ others demand a white shoot of hazel or holy-thorn, one that has a twiele or fork, has shot up in one year, and has not a speck of old wood in it; it must stand so that the sun from east and west shines through the fork, else it is no good. he that would gather it walks in silence to the shoot, between 3 and 4 in the morning of a sunday in full moon, turns his face to the east, bows three times to the shoot, and says' god bless thee, noble spray and summer's bough' then follow seven spells, given in the meckl. jb. 5, 1 10 7. that simile of conrad's makes us imagine a single slender rod. several sorts were distinguished, at least in later times: fire-rod, burn-rod, burst-rod, strike-rod, quakerod. the hazel was not used for all, some

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ff, falling off, defectus; which confirms my view, that we reckon the wane from full-moon itself (wtb. 2, 408. ace. to muchar s noricum 2, 36 the waxing and waning moon are called the gesunde and the kranke man (well and ill. 4 following tacitus, he says, the germani always chose either new or full-moon, for after the wadel they thought it unlucky. wadel then comprehends the two phases of new and full moon, but seems to exclude those of the first and last quarter. vol. ii. t 712 sky and stabs. the brem. wtb. 5, 166 e waal, vollmond (like aal for adel, a swamp, and kilian waedel, senium lunae/ from the phrase ology of superst. i 973 one would take wcidel to be a general name for the moon, whether waxing or waning, for the bad wiidel [new-moon] surely implies a good wiidel favourable to the

enil, uslitap luna deer. sloven rnlay, mlad novil, polna plenil, ship plenil, but no doubt also luna deer, from shipati to nip, impair. pol. now and boh. nowy novil, pol. pelnia and boh. 1 the engl. waddle, which is the same word, would graphically express the oscillation of the (visible) moon from side to side of her path; and if wedel meant that oscillation, it would apply equally to new and to full moon. trans. 2 wezza mehnes, the old moon, in a scotch ballad: i saw the new moon late yestreen wi he auld moon in her arm, jamieson 1, 159. percy 1, 78. halliwell pp. 167-8. phases of the moon. 713 auplnek plenil. here we see another instance of the ruder races having more various and picturesque names for natural pheno mena, which among the more cultivated are replaced by abstract and unifo

of the moon. 713 auplnek plenil. here we see another instance of the ruder races having more various and picturesque names for natural pheno mena, which among the more cultivated are replaced by abstract and uniform ones. no doubt teutonic speech in its various branches once possessed other names beside niff and wadel. tacitus merely tells us that the germani held their assemblies at new moon or full moon, not that the two periods were thought equally favourable to all enterprises without distinction. we may guess that some matters were more suitable to new moon, others to full; the one would inspire by its freshness, the other by its fulness. 1 caesar 1, 50 reports to us the declaration of wise women in the camp of ariovistus: f non esse fas gerinanos superare, si ante novam lunam proeli

and stabs. boys at the full, probably to give the one a slim elegant figure, and the other a stout and strong. healing herbs and pure dew are to be gathered at new-moon (tou an des manen niwi gelesen, n. cap. 100, conf. 25, for then they are fresh and unalloyed. when it says in i, 764 that weddings should take place at fullmoon, and in 238 that a new dwelling should be entered with the waxing or full moon, this full-moon seems to denote simply the utmost of the growing light, without the accessory notion of incipient decline. if our ancestors as a rule fought their battles at new-moon, they must have had in their eye the springing up of victory to themselves, not the defeat and downfall of the enemy. 1 at full-moon (as opposed to new, i.e. by a waning light, you were to perform operations

upfuff, strasb. 1511: with the moon s wedel tis good to begin the hewing of wood. the same precept is still given in many modern forest-books, and full-moon is therefore called hoh-wadel: in the bad wadel (crescent moon) fell no timber/ sup. i, 973. in keisersperg s menschl. bauin, strasb. 1521, 19: alway in wedel are trees to be hewn, and game to be shot/ 2 grass is not to be mown at new, but at full moon (lith. sup. 7; that the hay may dry quickly? and treasures must be lifted at full-moon. if a bed be stuffed when the moon is grow ing, the feathers will not lie (i, 372. 914; this operation too requires a waning light, as if to kill the new-plucked feathers completely, and bring them to rest. if you open trenches by a waxing moon, they will soon grow together again; if by a waning, they

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

igures of osiris filled with mud and seeds were planted in sacred areas and watered till they sprouted.51 these ceremonies were not just a remembrance of long-ago events; the death and renewal of osiris were seen as archetypal acts that maintained the cosmos. the mutilation and dismemberment of osiris could also be linked to the lunar calendar (see under moon in deities, themes, and concepts. the full moon could represent both the complete body of osiris and the complete eye of his son, horus. each month as the moon waned, the body of osiris and the eye of horus were divided. evil seemed to triumph, until the waxing of the moon completed these two symbols of beneficent power again. periodic eclipses of the moon were explained by myths such as that of seth taking the form of a black boar to

e a kind of national mascot. when an apis bull died, he was mourned as if he were osiris himself and given an extravagant funeral. priests searched egypt for a calf with the right markings to be recognized as the new apis. the mother of the chosen calf was given a name (such as the one of bastet) and honored as a manifestation of deities, themes, and concepts 105 isis. the new bull was crowned at full moon by the high priest of ptah. then he and his mother were installed in palatial quarters in the grounds of the temple of ptah. the actions of the apis bull were carefully watched because they were believed to predict the future. the apis bull came to be closely linked to the myth of the repeated death and regeneration of osiris. diodorus siculus was told that when osiris died, his soul had

ye of ra the ancient egyptian word for eye (irt) sounded like a word for doing or acting. this may be why the eyes of a deity are associated with divine power at its most interventional. since the word irt was feminine in gender, divine eyes were personified as goddesses. in different contexts, the eyes of the creator were identified with various celestial bodies, such as the disk of the sun, the full moon, the morning star, and sopdet (sirius. these celestial eyes could all be shown as the part-hawk, part-human eye known as the wedjat eye (see figure 12. the eye of ra was regarded as ra s daughter and protector. this eye goddess was associ- 128 handbook of egyptian mythology ated with both fire and water. her fiery glance destroyed the enemies of the divine order while her tears created l

hicago: 1999, 83 100. primary sources: pt 522; ct 214; famine stela; p. westcar; esna hymns khonsu (khons, chons) khonsu was a moon god whose name means the traveler. in the south of egypt he was said to be the son of amun and mut. in the north, he was the son of ptah and sekhmet. he could be shown as a falcon-headed man or as child wearing the sidelock of youth. his usual headdress represented a full moon above a crescent moon. the earliest references to khonsu make him a terrifying figure. he was the angry one of the gods who strangled lesser deities and ate the hearts of the dead. later he was associated with fate, judgment, and punishment. a baboon form of khonsu was feared as the keeper of the books of the end of year. these were the books in which the gods wrote the names of those wh

(1986: 107 123. primary sources: pt 503; sphinx stela of amenhotep ii; qadesh inscriptions moon a variety of male and female deities was associated with aspects of the moon. the god who personified the moon itself was called iah (yah, but he never gained great importance in cult or myth. khonsu and thoth were major lunar deities who could be shown wearing a crescent (the new moon) and a disk (the full moon. the egyptian equivalent of the man in the moon was a great white baboon. the moon was also thought of as the left eye of horus, the heavenly falcon. the complex mythology of the moon centered on its dramatic monthly cycle of decline and renewal. as a god of the new moon khonsu could be shown as a child, whereas as god of the full moon he appeared as a falcon-headed man crowned with a lu

ion of the myth she was persuaded to return to egypt and civilization by the god thoth and her brother, onuris-shu. texts in temples of the greco-roman period refer to shu who brought back his beautiful sister to her father. as a further complication, shu and tefnut could sometimes be identified with the sun and the moon, and the goddess mehit( the completed one) could be a personification of the full moon. onuris then becomes the god who returned the lost lunar eye of horus and restored the cosmic balance. see also eye of ra; eyes of horus; feline deities; horus; shu and tefnut references and further reading: g. hart. onuris. in a dictionary of gods and goddesses. london and boston: 1986, 148 150. h. junker. die onurislegende. berlin: 1917. primary sources: hmp; cairo calendar; mut ritual

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amenti, the great god of abydos, and it, no doubt, formed a section of the sekhet-hetepet according to the old theology of egypt. the boat of afu-ra is now under the direction of the goddess of the second hour of the night, shesat-maket-neb-s, and the uraei of isis and nephthys have been added to its crew. immediately in front of it are four boats, which move by themselves; the first contains the full moon, of which osiris was a form, the second the emblem of a deity of harvest, the third the symbols of another agricultural deity, and the fourth the grain-god personified. all four boats contain either forms or symbols of osiris, in his different aspects, as the god of ploughing, sowing, and reaping, and of the p. 112 grain from the time when it germinates to the season of harvest. when afu

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

. nightmare talesthe blue lotus21 "alas" he wailed, every morning while performing his puja to the lesser gods "alas! what avails it to be thegreatest king on earth when god denies me an heir of my blood. when i am dead and placed on the funeralpyre, who will fulfil the pious duties of a son, and shatter my lifeless skull to liberate my soul from its earthlytrammels? what strange hand will at the full moon-tide place the rice of the shraddha ceremony to doreverence to my shade? will not the very birds of death [rooks and ravens] themselves turn from the funeralfeast? for, surely, my shade earthbound in its great despair will not permit them to partake of it* the shradda is a ceremony observed by the nearest relatives of the deceased for the ninedays following the death. once upon a time it

t the lotus bleu has been established. if any of our readers should allow themselves to doubt the historical truth of this adventure of our ancestor;rohita, and of the transformation of the white lotus into the blue lotus, they are invited to make a journey toajmeer. once there, they need only to go to the shores of the lake thrice blessed, named pushkara, where everypilgrim who bathes during the full moon time of the month of krhktika (october-november) attains to thehighest sanctity, without other effort. there the sceptics would see with their own eyes the site where wasbuilt the pyre of rohita, and also the waters visited by lakshmi in days of yore. they might even have seen the blue lotuses, if most of these had not since been changed, thanks to a newtransformation decreed by the gods

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

re not lend it to anyone else, or he would never lend me another. i will write to l.a [percy bullock] and tell him so. it may perhaps answer your purpose to go to the harz mountains to get fresh ore. of course it spoils by keeping, i.e. the essential part evaporates. in a ms i have it says that paracelsus knew about this, and it intimates that he went, when the sun goes into cancer and exactly at full moon when the same entrance takes place which happens every year close upon the middle of june, go into a silver mine, as in hungary, or freyberg, clausthal, hallerfeld and fichteburg, and you will find a brown earth between the passages, which will change in the above named hour, and, n.b. become as yellow as gold, such as i have found in the mountains of kipphausen. take this and immediatel

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

objects of indeterminate nature. on one occasion they were spied in considerable numbers, a detachment of them wading along a shallow woodland watercourse three abreast in evidently disciplined formation. once a specimen was seen flying- launching itself from the top of a bald, lonely hill at night and vanishing in the sky after its great flapping wings had been silhouetted an instant against the full moon these things seemed content, on the whole, to let mankind alone; though they were at times held responsible for the disappearance of venturesome individuals- especially persons who built houses too close to certain valleys or too high up on certain mountains. many localities came to be known as inadvisable to settle in, the feeling persisting long after the cause was forgotten. people wo

his own sanity. he had had enough, he admitted, but he. wanted to make a dignified exit if he could. this letter reached me on the 28th of august, and i prepared and mailed as encouraging a reply as i could. apparently the encouragement had effect, for akeley had fewer terrors to report when he acknowledged my note. he was not very optimistic, though, and expressed the belief that it was only the full moon season which was holding the creatures off. he hoped there would not be many densely cloudy nights, and talked vaguely of boarding in brattleboro when the moon waned. again i wrote him encouragingly but on september 5th there came a fresh communication which had obviously crossed my letter in the mails; and to this i could not give any such hopeful response. in view of its importance i b

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r delight. but he remembered it again when he walked down a white path toward a red-roofed pagoda, and would have questioned the people of this land about it, had he not found that there were no people there, but only birds and bees and butterflies. on another night kuranes walked up a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly, and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain and river lit by the full moon; and in the silent city that spread away from the river bank he thought he beheld some feature or arrangement which he had known before. he would have descended and asked the way to oothnargai had not a fearsome aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon, showing the ruin and antiquity of the city, and the stagnation of the reedy river, and the death lying upon that la

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g a portal of stone, rough with strange chiselling. trying it, i found it locked; but with a supreme burst of strength i overcame all obstacles and dragged it open inward. as i did so there came to me the purest ecstasy i have ever known; for shining tranquilly through an ornate grating of iron, and down a short stone passageway of steps that ascended from the newly found doorway, was the radiant full moon, which i had never before seen save in dreams and in vague visions i dared not call memories. fancying now that i had attained the very pinnacle of the castle, i commenced to rush up the few steps beyond the door; but the sudden veiling of the moon by a cloud caused me to stumble, and i felt my way more slowly in the dark. it was still very dark when i reached the grating- which i tried

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

moothly and silently over the sea. and whether the sea was rough or calm, and whether the wind was friendly or adverse, it would always glide smoothly and silently, its sails distant and its long strange tiers of oars moving rhythmically. one night i espied upon the deck a man, bearded and robed, and he seemed to beckon me to embark for far unknown shores. many times afterward i saw him under the full moon, and never did he beckon me. very brightly did the moon shine on the night i answered the call, and i walked out over the waters to the white ship on a bridge of moonbeams. the man who had beckoned now spoke a welcome to me in a soft language i seemed to know well, and the hours were filled with soft songs of the oarsmen as we glided away into a mysterious south, golden with the glow of

with delicate blossoms. i climbed gentle hills from whose summits i could see entrancing panoramas of loveliness, with steepled towns nestling in verdant valleys, and with the golden domes of gigantic cities glittering on the infinitely distant horizon. and i viewed by moonlight the sparkling sea, the crystal headlands, and the placid harbor wherein lay anchored the white ship. it was against the full moon one night in the immemorial year of tharp that i saw outlined the beckoning form of the celestial bird, and felt the first stirrings of unrest. then i spoke with the bearded man, and told him of my new yearnings to depart for remote cathuria, which no man hath seen, but which all believe to lie beyond the basalt pillars of the west. it is the land of hope, and in it shine the perfect ide

hich all believe to lie beyond the basalt pillars of the west. it is the land of hope, and in it shine the perfect ideals of all that we know elsewhere; or at least so men relate. but the bearded man said to me, beware of those perilous seas wherein men say cathuria lies. in sona-nyl there is no pain or death, but who can tell what lies beyond the basalt pillars of the west? natheless at the next full moon i boarded the white ship, and with the reluctant bearded man left the happy harbor for untraveled seas. and the bird of heaven flew before, and led us toward the basalt pillars of the west, but this time the oarsmen sang no soft songs under the full moon. in my mind i would often picture the unknown land of cathuria with its splendid groves and palaces, and would wonder what new delights

o man might peer beyond them or see their summits- which indeed some say reach even to the heavens. and the bearded man again implored me to turn back, but i heeded him not; for from the mists beyond the basalt pillars i fancied there came the notes of singers and lutanists; sweeter than the sweetest songs of sona-nyl, and sounding mine own praises; the praises of me, who had voyaged far from the full moon and dwelt in the land of fancy. so to the sound of melody the white ship sailed into the mist betwixt the basalt pillars of the west. and when the music ceased and the mist lifted, we beheld not the land of cathuria, but a swift-rushing resistless sea, over which our helpless barque was borne toward some unknown goal. soon to our ears came the distant thunder of falling waters, and to ou

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

er bowl. the candles should flame brightly for ninety minutes, at the end of which time sprinkle three drops of olive oil over the copper bowl three separate times, nine drops in all. each time chant "my energies are a gift to the cosmos; my soul belongs to the wind. i am the cosmos; i am the wind" that makes you powerful for ever. the ring must stay in the bowl until midnight of the night of the full moon, two weeks later. at that moment place the ring on your finger. later, bury the bowl, the earth, the candles and the silk in a garden. then you are ready to practise witchcraft. from that moment forward you are protected, and nobody can ever steal the ring from you without coming to harm. wear this ring at all times. once you start being witchy, it's a full-time job, and you need protect

es who perform rituals in her name are granted special favours. she is queen of witchcraft, known for her sympathetic intervention into affairs of the heart. she has never turned her face from anyone who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no attempt should be made to cast a spell, perform a ritual, work a charm, enchant or fascinate without the protection of the ring described, called a full moon ring. the birthstone is said to offer the most protection. however, the stone that you associate with your moonsign is also highly effective. the chant variation is "in the name of isis, goddess of the moon, i offer my energies as a gift of the cosmos; my soul belongs to the wind. i am the cosmos; i am the wind" witchcraft can be a comforting modus operandi. in spell casting, the ritual

he winter solstice. get a current calendar and find out the first day of spring; certain spells are cast the night before. also important are the nights before the first day of summer, autumn and winter. there seems to be more force to spells cast at these times. another thing to watch is the moon. new and full-moon days are very effective for spellcasting. use the new moon for beginnings and the full moon for endings- either for romance. the moon dates give you twenty-four good spell days a year. the special dates and festivals give you another eight. that's thirty-two spell days a year, which ought to keep anybody hopping. the new moon is when the moon is dark, and anything you do at the new moon should be something that you want quick results from because it's bound to happen in the nex

t will drive them crazy, if nothing else, to get that incomprehensible thing in the mail for nine days running. trim your hair a quarter of an inch every new moon, and it will grow in thick and luxurious. start a new business at the last quarter, the week before the new moon. this is the most dynamic period. but to begin a new love affair, it's best to pick the quarter or the week just before the full moon, in order to have the right emotional influences. aside from the seasonal influences and festival dates mentioned earlier, there are some days of the week that are better than others for spellcasting, and there are specific reasons why. saturday is a good day for casting spells connected with money, and friday is good for emotion, but wednesday is the best day of the week for witch spell

tter contact your doctor. rosemary and thyme are not known for their intoxicating fumes. it could have been that the candle snuffed out the oxygen in the small enclosed area. where were you anyway? dear potential witch (july 19, 1933) witchcraft is a discipline activity. when casting spells rituals must be followed exactly if they are to have a powerful effect. you must use a copper bowl for the "full moon ring" a pyrex dish will not do! dear h.d (november 12, 1934) from what you have written concerning your illicit romance, i am led to believe that you consider yourself to be a pawn and the innocent member of the love partnership. perhaps. indeed. you are a 'victim' but i would say more a victim of your own emotional and sensational appetites than of anything else. why not try the sex wat

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

kness light. haix-tetrax, himself. damnameneus, the sun. aision, interpreted as truth. these ephesian words, says plutarch (sympos, the magi used to recite over those possessed with devils. damnameneus is seen on a gnostic amulet in the de la turba collection (the gnostics, p. 94. the argha had the form of a crescent. the argo, arc, or arche, is the navis biprora. it is clear that, as neither the full moon nor the half-moon was ever the object of worship, it is the crescent horns of the moon which imply the significance. these mean the woman-deity in every religion. the snake associated with the mysteries among the hindoos is the cobra-di-capella. it is said that the snake on the heads of all the idols in egypt was a cobra. the name of the monarch or chief priest in thibet is the lama, or

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ng eyes on the gravitational neutral of the earth-sun-moon systems. at times of new moon and of solar eclipse, this neutral point will be directly in line with the sun and moon, which will either be superimposed in the sky or be very close to each other. as the moon approached first quarter the neutral will swing to the east (left) of the sun and will move back into line between first quarter and full moon. after full moon and until third quarter the neutral will move to the west (right) of the sun, and will again swing toward the sun between third quarter and new moon. the neutral will reach its maximum distance to left of right at first and third quarters, but will not follow the moon around the earth. at new moon the neutral will be very close to the moon and that will be the time to wa

will reach its maximum distance to left of right at first and third quarters, but will not follow the moon around the earth. at new moon the neutral will be very close to the moon and that will be the time to watch for objects landing or taking off from the moon, although it is the worst time of all to see anything in that region because of the glare of sunlight. on the other hand, at the time of full moon the neutral will be closest to the earth, and directly in line with the sun, and that will be the time to watch for objects crossing the disc of the sun, probably from left to right. all of this on the assumption that space structures do make use of the neutral on account of the lessened navigational problems. look for formations and groups which are especially indicative of intelligent

it across the sun. but there are ways to look for them: one is with telescopes and the other is with radar. barring more searches at eclipse time, it does seem that radar has the better possibilities. we know that radar blips can be bounced off the moon: why not from these objects which are nearer? let's point both our radar sets and telescopes at the region near the sun, at times of both new and full moon and see what we can see. the objects probably range a very few degrees east and west of the sun at first and third quarters of the moon. that would probably be the best time to look. a variation of the radio-telescope such as in used in england& i believe, new jersey usa, can detect energy-forms of l-m ships plus their solid "semi-solid_ forms as well. detects "nodes" too 146 ufo patrol

and the bright star of comparison, that the latter could not be a fixed star, and the only feasible conclusion is that it was a companion comet. but that this object had no existence a short time previously to dr. gould's observation is i think, shown by negative evidence in my journal "the horizon being clear before sunrise yesterday morning i rose to observe the comet. the diffused twilight and full moon prevented me seeing any stars near the comet for comparison. there was certainly no star of brighter than seventh magnitude it will be found that (my) observation preceded the first comparison at cordoba by only 1h 29m" i feel confident that, at my last observation, no such object as that described by dr. gould could have been in the field with the comet p.s: could dr. gould, by any poss

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

en as mulbir (g56, which gossmann suggests to read as mulkalam2, with the akkadian translation in both cases mulkal tu ethe kidney star f. as a pseudonym, this combination can be also used to mark mercury and mars. different phases of the moon could be mentioned by their own names: the new moon from the first to fifth day was called ud.sar da-nu-u, on 6th-10th day the half moon was ka-li-tu de-a, full moon of 11th-15th day was aga ta.-ri -ti ethe tiara of the full moon f (gossmann 1950: 133, etc. figure 6. widespread ways of writing emoon f in cuneiform: d30, den.zu and mulgal. all these were read alike: sin. the sun the sun, sumerian utu and akkadian .ama, stays in texts always on the second place, he is the eldest son of the moongod, and brother of i.tar. in akkad, the astral goddess aya

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE THREE

symbol has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part and wings touch chokmah and binah. the knob touches kether. these are the three supernals. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are' lead! gold& tin$ copper or brass% iron# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philo

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e origin. 361. when the procession reached the outskirts of the city of athens, the hallows were met by the magistrates and people, and were escorted with all magnificence and pomp to the eleusinion at the foot of the acropolis. like the mother temple at eleusis, this was surrounded by high walls, and no one but the initiates was ever allowed to enter. on the 15th day of the month, the day of the full moon, the mystae who were to be advanced to the greater mysteries assembled, and the solemn proclamation was made, enumerating those to whom access to the mysteries was forbidden whoso hath unclean hands whoso hath an unintelligible voice(*libanius, quoted foucart. op. cit, p. 311) this latter qualification has been taken to mean that only greek-speaking people could be admitted to the myster

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

sterners use the term. rather, this is a comprehensive category that encompasses a variety of different types of negative spiritual entities. kuei include the hungry ghosts ancestors who have become angry and negative because their descendants have ceased sacrificing to them. thus in the seventh month of the chinese calendar, the gates of hell are opened and these kuei are free to roam about. the full moon in the middle of that month is a special kuei festival during which an effort is made to comfort the hungry ghosts. particularly after the importation of buddhism, the chinese developed a bureaucratic system of hells in which demons were employed to torture morally bad people, not unlike their western counterparts. in good buddhist fashion, however, these hells were purgatories in which

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whom the body writhes, a lotus-bloom swayed by the wind of love, a crime too sweetly sinned, the queen of time, the lady of heaven, to whom the stars, seven by seven, from their bars lean and do worship.even she who hath given all her sweet self to thee, the lady astarte! the girl. peace, o peace! a swan, she sails through ecstasies liber cccxxxv 4 of air and marble and flowers, she sways as the full moon through midnight.s haze of gauze.her body is like a dove and a snake, and life, and death, and love! the boy. even as the twilight so is she, half seen, half subtly apprehended, ethereally and bodily. the soul incarnate, the body transcended! the girl. aching, aching passionately, insufferably, utterly splendid! the boy. her lips make pale the setting sun! the girl. her body blackens bab

thy lip. esarhaddon. ah. astarte. there fs no liquor, none, within the cup. esarhaddon. nay, draw not back; nay, then, but lift me up. i would the cup were molten too; i fd drain its blasting agony. liber cccxxxv 8 astarte. in vain. esarhaddon. in vain? nay, let the drinker and the draught in one blaze up at last, and burn down babylon! astarte. all but the garden, and our bed, and.see! the false full moon that comes to rival me. esarhaddon. she comes to lamp our love [a chime of bells without. astarte. i.ll tire my hair. the banquet waits. girls, follow me [they go out, leaving esarhaddon. esarhaddon. how fair and full she sweeps, the buoyant barge upon the gilded curves of tigris. she fs the swan that drew the gods to gaze, the fawn that called their passion to his glades of emerald, the

ed [the lady psyche is lifted to her feet. in silence she bows, and in silence follows him as he turns and advances to the gate while the curtain falls] 30 scene v: the garden of the lady astarte. the lord esarhaddon is lying on the couch with his mistress. their arms are intertwined. they and their slaves and maidens are all fallen into the abysses of deep sleep. it is a cloudless night; and the full moon, approaching mid-heaven, casts but the shortest shadows. the murmur of the breeze i am the breeze to bless the bowers, sigh through the trees, caress the flowers; each folded bud to sway, to swoon, with its green blood beneath the moon stirred softly by my kiss; i bear the sort reply of amber air to the exhaled sighs of the heat that dreams and dies amid the wheat, from the cool breasts

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re poivrade puree de marrons, and glace .casserole. with a small bottle of perrier water. i know the new ritual down to the end of the confession. it was hard to stop the mantra.the moment my thought wandered, up it popped! 8.03. i shall add cafe cognac cigare to this debauch. i continue learning the ritual. 8.40. i will return and humble myself before the lord adonai. it is near the night of the full moon; in my life the full moon hath ever been of great augury. but tonight i am too poor in spirit to hope. lo! i was travelling on the paths of lamed and of mem, of justice and the hanged man, and i fell into both the pitfalls thereof. instead of the great balance firmly held, i found only libra, the house of venus and of the exaltation of saturn; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning

greek hexameter poem, probably first written down during the reign of marcus antoninus aurelius (2d. century c.e. the passage quoted is fragment 130 in the westcott edition. t.s] john st. john 89 .adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain. 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies.the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon.full moon of my desire (ha, ha, thou beast! are .i and me and mine. not dead yet) yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears (fears, o lord of the western pylon) lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through .the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motio

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of the whole universe. 11. thou art like a beautiful nubian slave leaning her naked purple against the green pillars of marble that are above the bath. 12. wine jets from her black nipples. svb figvra vii 7 13. i drank wine awhile agone in the house of pertinax. the cup-boy favoured me, and gave me of the right sweet chian. 14. there was a doric boy, skilled in feats of strength, an athlete. the full moon fled away angrily down the wrack. ah! but we laughed. 15. i was pernicious drunk, o my god! yet pertinax brought me to the bridal. 16. i have a crown of thorns for all my dower. 17. thou art like a goat fs horn from astor, o thou god of mine, gnarl fd and crook fd and devilish strong. 18. colder than all the ice of all the glaciers of the naked mountain was the wine it poured for me. 19

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reat cloud; and rain fell gently and purely, so that he really did the things good by fighting them. and there was a bull that tossed them on his horns, so that they changed into butterflies; and there was a man who kept telling everybody to be quiet and not make a noise. so we came at last in the next house of the palace. it was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. she was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders. webs, and it rayed about her, like one can.t say what; it was all too beautiful. in the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the flood, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, and it was l

MAGIC AND SPELLS

or hit points don't qualify. a keyed portal remains active for 1 full round. any creature who touches the activated portal in the same round also can use the portal, even if such creatures don't have a key themselves. many portal keys are rare and unusual objects that the creature using the portal must carry. some portals are keyed to work only -at a particular time, such as sunrise, sunset, the full moon, or midnight. spells can serve as portal keys, as can the channeling of positive or negative energy. when the portal is the target of the specified spell or within the spell's area or touched by its effect, the spell is absorbed and the portal is activated. any form of the spell works to activate the portal, including spell-like effects of creatures or magic items and spells from scrolls

d creatures and objects in the spell's area at the time the spell is cast must make will saves or immediately return to their normal forms. even if the save succeeds, they remain covered in ghostly white outlines that show their true forms for 1 round per caster level. the entire area covered by the cone glows silver white for 1 round per caster level. this radiance is as bright as the light of a full moon and negates electricity for 1 round per caster level unless the creature generating it makes a caster level check against a dc equal to the caster's level. if an electricity effect is generated outside the glowing cone, the cone blocks the electricity effect if the caster level check fails. if an electricity effect is generated inside the glowing cone, the cone completely negates the ele

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parted only in the depths of forests and in the darkness of caves. in these places, far from the haunts of men, the neophyte was instructed concerning the creation of the universe, the personalities of the gods, the laws of nature, the secrets of occult medicine, the mysteries of the celestial bodies, and the rudiments of magic and sorcery. the druids had a great number of feast days. the new and full moon and the sixth day of the moon were sacred periods. it is believed that initiations took place only at the two solstices and the two equinoxes. at dawn of the 25th day of december, the birth of the sun god was celebrated. the secret teachings of the druids are said by some to be tinctured with pythagorean philosophy. the druids had a madonna, or virgin mother, with a child in her arms, wh

, and which, spreading round and passing under her right side, and ascending to her left shoulder, there rose protuberant like the center of a shield, the dependent part of the robe falling in many folds, and having small knots of fringe, gracefully flowing in its extremities. glittering stars were dispersed through the embroidered border of the robe, and through the whole of its surface: and the full moon, shining in the middle of the stars, breathed forth flaming fires. nevertheless, a crown, wholly consisting of flowers and fruits of every kind, adhered with indivisible connexion to the border of that conspicuous robe, in all its undulating motions. what she carried in her hands also consisted of things of a very different nature. for her right hand, indeed, bore a brazen rattle [sistru

t colour, with the concave towards the sun, and the ends thereof seeming to touch the parelii: above that, in a clear diaphanous ayr [air, appeared another conspicuous rainbow, beautified with divers colours; it was as neer as i could discern to the zenith; it seemed of something a lesser radius than the other, they being back to back, yet a pretty way between. at or neer the apparent time of the full moon, they vanished, leaving abundance of terror and amazement in those that saw them (see william lilly) p. 51 was formerly called the feast of the passage of the virgin (beausobre, tome i. p. 350; and in the library of the fathers (bibl. part. vol. ii. part ii. p. 212) we have an account of the passage of the blessed virgin. the ancient greeks and romans fix the assumption of astraea, who i

isoned in the material nature, but in a few this internal constitution has been objectified and the spiritual nature is outside, so that it surrounds man's personality with a great radiance. silver, used as the capitals for the pillars, has its reference to the moon, which was sacred to the jews and the egyptians alike. the priests held secret ritualistic ceremonies at the time of the new and the full moon, both of which periods were sacred to jehovah. silver, so the ancients taught, was gold with its sun-ray turned inward instead of objectified. while gold symbolized the spiritual soul, silver represented the purified and regenerated human nature of man. the brass used in the outer altars was a composite substance consisting of an alloy of precious and base metals. thus, it represented th

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ind, shroud yourself with a certain amount of reasonable secrecy, especially about the time and place of your magical operations. of course, if it is a rival witch or maybe a whole coven that is interested in busting up your operation, then should they know the nature of the magic you are going to work, they will probably be able to figure out the time when you are going to perform say around the full moon. if they are worth their magical salt, they may also even figure out the place, by means of a divination. then it will be a matter of may the best witch win; magic against countermagic. but this is more properly a subject for chapters 5 and 6, which deal with countermagic and attack. here i shall restrict myself to sensible advice concerning the relatively simple matter of preserving a m

uld be performed when the moon is bright, that is, waxing to full. these would include love magic of any sort, sorcery designed to bring luck or success, fertility charms, protection, countermagic, and of course divination. an old witch verse goes thus: pray to the moon when she is round luck with you shall then abound what you seek for shall be found in sea or sky or solid ground. as soon as the full moon is passed, we embark upon the dark of the moon, as the light wanes and nights get blacker. during this period you will perform all operations of a destructive or "black" nature, such as spells of attack and vengeance, binding operations (ligature) to prevent people from doing certain things, agricultural magic designed to eliminate pests or weeds, charms to cool off passions in another

full or new moon, in order to have a general coffee klatch and maybe perform a collective ritual to aid one of the members or an outside friend who has requested help in someway. whether you hold your esbat at full or new moon, of course, depends on the nature of the spells you intend to cast. so these then are the red-letter days on your witches' calendar. there are quite a lot of them. thirteen full moons, thirteen new moons, and eight sabbats. none of them are mandatory, except insofar as you need to make use of them, as a witch, however, you will find that the sabbats are fun. and worth making an effort over, especially the grand sabbats of beltane and halloween. 2- preliminary preparations your witch name assuming you have embarked on your career as a practitioner of the black arts, y

oxide, otherwise known as lodestone or magnetite. from time immemorial siderites have been treasured by witches, and if you were to try to choose between wearing one of these as opposed to one of the preceding four, i would counsel you definitely to decide on the siderite. though slightly more complicated to manufacture and maintain, many witches find it well worth the effort. by the light of the full moon (the window must be open if you perform this ritual indoors, place the lodestone on a piece of talisman paper which in turn covers your workbook. now consecrate it with as many drops of sabbat oil (see chapter 7) as there are years in the prospective bearer's life, plus one extra dab for the present year, chanting the following quaint formula with each touch "may hertha bless thee [n] wi

r's life, plus one extra dab for the present year, chanting the following quaint formula with each touch "may hertha bless thee [n] with all her might and main" see the drops of oil glow as they touch the stone, infusing it with witch power. then tie the stone loosely in a red flannel or chamois leather bag bound with red ribbon with the sealing words "so mote it be" i say "loosely" because every full moon the bearer is going to have to remove the siderite, and after dipping it in a glass of water and drying it, sprinkle on it a small pinch of iron pyrites dust or iron filings "in hertha's name" this is known as "feeding the stone" the siderite must be worn around the neck or carried about in the pocket. in the past, male practitioners would often carry this amulet about with them suspende

each time you do it. at the end of the month, you must sever the selected branch with your athame, and carve it into a small female image, anything between five to twelve inches long, using a similar spoken charm as the mandragore one while you work away at it. when you are finished, cure the image in vervain smoke. now to complete the operation, you must sleep with the alraun in your bed at the full moon, looking to it for that night, as the old books put it delicately "as your wife" enough said. like the mandragore, the alraun should be enshrined near the hearth to complete the spell and initiate its protective activity. magical defence as a newcomer to the field, you will need to get to know some of the signs which can prove to be sure indicators that some form of definite occult attac

l in the air. the dreams will generally have a specific motif repeated ad nauseam with minor variations on the theme. as a witch, your first step will be to determine their nature, if possible, and what their period of occurrence is, if any. usually, if they are in any way magically induced, they will correspond in some way to the phases of the moon, usually reaching their peak at new rather than full moon. generally speaking, the nightmares themselves won't be the magical attack but rather their cries of help to your conscious self from your deep mind, which is the real target for all the bolts of dark fire. should the attack worsen, then of course the deep mind's pleas for attention will become more frenzied, and you may begin to discover you are experiencing waking dreams or hallucinati

ee, and guard this circle from all perils approaching from the south! again all present should accompany you in your visualization. the powers of the west should be invoked by the chalice, here representing the elemental power of water. sprinkle a few drops of salt water from the chalice to the west and, as you do, see a mighty, glassgreen sea open beneath your feet. low over the waters hangs the full moon. feel the cold mist rising from the waters and listen to the eddy and swirl of the currents, the lap of waves upon the" shore. o thou serpent of old, ruler of the deeps, guardian of the bitter sea, prince of the powers of water, be present we pray thee and guard this circle from all perils approaching from the west! finally, passing to the north, light the lamp, and taking in hand the pe

l together. you must keep this up for a limited state of time, beginning and ending the fast within a properly cast circle, with the circumambulations performed "widdershins" against the sun, and naming your intention in the form of a curse, that"[victim's name] so come to grief" repeat this same curse to yourself every time you refuse food. the process should last for two weeks- beginning at the full moon, or just after, and ending at the new moon. as the moon wanes, so the dark tide flows swifter. this practice can be effectively camouflaged from your non-witch friends by the simple excuse of dieting. there is more to a so-called hunger strike than meets the eye. the second simple way of laying a curse on somebody is by the candle of bewitchment. here again we make use of constant repeti

eems to stem partly from an old custom dealing with "territorial rights" in some circles referred to as the covendom, and partly from the days of the persecutions, when smallness of number was considered a wise precaution. similarly, the unusual number of thirteen members may also have this foundation, although there are many magical reasons behind the number, not least of them being the thirteen full moons to a lunar year. some modem witches claim, however, that thirteen has a more pragmatic import, inasmuch as it is the largest number of folk that can comfortably be squeezed into a nine-foot circle. the word "coven" itself is derived from the latin noun conventus, meaning "a gathering or assembly" it is the same root which gives us our words "convent "convention "covenant" and "convene"

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y sign, viz: gemini, libra, or aquarius. but if these things seem unto thee difficult to accomplish, it will suffice thee merely to notice the moon after her combustion, or conjunction with the sun, especially just when she quits his beams and appeareth visible. for then it is good to make all experiments for the construction and operation of any matter. that is why the time from the new unto the full moon is proper for performing any of the experiments of which we have spoken above. but in her decrease or wane it is good for war, disturbance, and discord. likewise the period when she is almost deprived of light, is proper for experiments of invisibility, and of death. but observe inviolably that thou commence nothing while the moon is in conjunction with the sun, seeing that this is extre

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of the dead, kissed each forehead of the two and sealed it by cutting a small sigil in the form of a crescent moon on their thighs. herren then gave each boy a wolfskin belt and an ointment. he then gave to them the verbal ritual of lycanthropic power, the strength and success of which depended on their own judgment and will. he told each boy to grow their left thumbnail long and in the night of full moon to begin invoking the power of the wolf spirit. the lord of the forest (5) then disappeared never to be heard from again. the two teenagers embarked upon a great killing spree, eventually being caught and executed for their murderous acts. peter stubb was also a known lycanthrope who lived in germany in the 15th century. stubb claimed that the "devil" had given him a belt made of wolf sk

ir universe! being primarily an independent sorcerer, i rarely involve myself in, or work with many other magickians within my rites. one particular example displays my reasoning for this: several years ago, when we were in fact diving 'head first' into these theories, i had a sigil constructed which was based on the romanian varcolaci vampires, an astral wraith which took form flying towards the full moon on certain nights. the sigil involves an inverted pentagram within the center, thus invoking a 'sinister' reaction from most people. the pentagram is not by any means meant as either 'satanic' or 'evil, however to merely invoke the essence of inverse, or choronzonic rites which involve a semblance of the death posture in order to reach the heart of it's being. this sigil is a representat

irth by our cultures. this is not a satanic rite but one of luciferian provenance, the awakening from the sleepwalkers. this is to be noted, the infant shaky steps of what will come after this. throw your soul into the workings! keep in mind that sathan/satan is but the mind, and is a great well of inspiration and knowledge to those that may summon this force. you should conduct this working on a full moon night, or at noon when the sun is high. the inverted pentagram will be used in this rite; a traditional pentacle upon the altar will do well. you will also need your anthame. the mirror in front of the altar should be illuminated with black candlelight. the circle should be cast before the altar with the billowing smoke of incense. you will also want a quill and parchment paper, to scrib

web of dreams, i invoke thee within my very essence, by serpent and wolf by fire and earth, ice and snow, desert and heat pass beyond the veil little known by most, for i am a child of this flesh! i offer now my dedication of my own will to the powers of night, and of the great work itself! that through my dedication to the path of witch blood, i shall know the secrets not so hidden! 51 51 by the full moon and the sun which both illuminate the inner space of my self, i grant this area protection and safety from that which would devour me! widdershins should be performed at this moment. asmodeus, spirit of knowledge and wisdom, i do invoke thee into visible appearance! recognize your brother/sister of witchblood, i return from the great flood which caused my sleep of ages! i announce in you

e vessel in clean and cool water. allow it to sit from dawn until dusk, to let it bask in the sunlight if it may. seek hecate in dreams. record the experience accordingly. day twopaint it the color of your desire, upon it on four sides a mark of an x, the sacred sign of the cross roads. the sigillic formula of the succubi or hecate should be inscribed on the pot/vessel. day three the night of the full moon. within the vessel place the sigil of hecate which should already be prepared, ashes and bone if possible. i) the virgin -hekas umpesha ur-rastu lil-ka zrazza encircle me by three, shadow wrap my being in the caul-shroud of your mark. triple mooned, blood drinking, beast like goddess, oh sorcerers of the flame of witch fire, i summon thy three fold shadow to attend me rise up, goddess of

needs and desires. the most important thing in magick is that you learn from and of yourself through honesty. explore all and question everything. one should remember that all is subject to change and alteration as the sorcerer sees fit. nothing is sacred beyond the limits of acceptance and lies. 116 116 obtaining the devil s skin this initiation rite of the red temple should be performed on the full moon. the reasoning behind this is that the moon in its various phases affects water in numerous ways. as humans are around ninety percent water it is obvious enough that we can be affected to. the trick if you will is to make this work for the sorcerer. this rite may be performed indoors in a suitable chamber, decorated for this particular working, or outdoors where privacy can be had. if th

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uttering their names aloud while visualizing them. and so there it is; symbolic ritual, corresponding visualizations, and invocations to the dominant spirits open the gate to the magical program. but if this be entirely true, then why must, or should, i do certain things on certain days? had i spit in that toad's mouth after sunrise, would i be left with asthma? why would a spirit care if it's a full moon, or what day of the week it is? and then there's all these rules relative to my environment; my ritual circle bearing certain symbols, drawn on the floor relative to the points on the compass, my alter at its center. and who was the first to try all this? and are they sane enough to take seriously? but hey, i m not here to debunk, nor project an aura of disbelief with all my questions, i

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its nightside powers. the sorcerer focuses upon the vampyric essence throught the shades of the dead, and the darkness and shadow is developed internally. it is visualized outside of the self to present a means of opposition, which allows the self to later realign this focus point of the mind the magician uses the imagination and will to visualize and create the vampyric form accordingly. in the full moon darkness of night, when shades and the manes of the dead remain close to the earth, approach the tomb of sah in the honor of the self, which is the mysteries of the nephilim and watchers, who descended into the demonium of the earth, to merge spirit with beast and human flesh. wear this mask with intent and pure love, then shall the secret of the essence be revealed in your sunless palac

devil shall this belt be given, and i shall wear with pride. whilethe skin of the wolf and the beast is upon me, i acknowledge then that iam of seraph blood, and i am of lucifer ian birth. i am both light and darkness, the essence of the opposer within. witness this rite of passage noctulia hecate and lucifer, may the devil grant me the gates of hell to open forth unto my form of the wolf. by the full moon shall transformation be complete" close circle. part two on the eve of the full moon prepare your chamber for the actual transformation into the werewolf shape. this form will be with you as you sleep and when you so seek, shall the shade flesh be worn to transverse the dreaming plane. have the devil's belt upon the altar, with the skull of the wolf. you shall come forth oiled in previou

nts from sah are a gift of the blackened fires of the blacksmith called cain, who breathes with life from set-an. drink from the cup, focus upon your reflection "i have sunk unto the depths of the tomb, yet the flame within lives -hail (magical name, i am awakened into the light of set and the knowledge of anubis. hail thou self, who shinestfrom the dark moon, hail thou self, who shinest from the full moon, hail thou self, set-an who is the god of immortal life and chaos of being, hail thou self, anubis who is death and the gateway of the dead, encircle me in self- love, that i may walk through the gates of the celestial and infernal" perform now the ritual of the triple hermetic circle of hamara't. here ends the grimoire of nox umbra. the calling of the four quarters of the circle western

MORALS AND DOGMA

like that of isis weeping over the broken column containing the remains of osiris at byblos* masonry has its decalogue, which is a law to its initiates. these are its ten commandments: i [symbol: earth: god is the eternal, omnipotent, immutable wisdom and supreme intelligence and exhaustless love. thou shalt adore, revere, and love him! thou shalt honor him by practising the virtues! ii [symbol: full moon: thy religion shall be, to do good because it is a pleasure to thee, and not merely because it is a duty. that thou mayest become the friend of the wise man, thou shalt obey his precepts! thy soul is immortal! thou shalt do nothing to degrade it! iii [symbol: earth: thou shalt unceasingly war against vice! thou shalt not do unto others that which thou wouldst not wish them to do unto the

ecause it is a duty. that thou mayest become the friend of the wise man, thou shalt obey his precepts! thy soul is immortal! thou shalt do nothing to degrade it! iii [symbol: earth: thou shalt unceasingly war against vice! thou shalt not do unto others that which thou wouldst not wish them to do unto thee! thou shalt be submissive to thy fortunes, and keep burning the light of wisdom! iv [symbol: full moon: thou shalt honor thy parents! thou shalt pay respect and homage to the aged! thou shalt instruct the young! thou shalt protect and defend infancy and innocence! v [symbol: earth: thou shalt cherish thy wife and thy children! thou shalt love thy country, and obey its laws! vi [symbol: full moon: thy friend shall be to thee a second self! misfortune shall not estrange thee from him! thou

obey its laws! vi [symbol: full moon: thy friend shall be to thee a second self! misfortune shall not estrange thee from him! thou shalt do for his memory whatever thou wouldst do for him, if he were living! vii [symbol: earth: thou shalt avoid and flee from insincere friendships! thou shalt in everything refrain from excess. thou shalt fear to be the cause of a stain on thy memory! viii [symbol: full moon: thou shalt allow no passions to become thy master! thou shalt make the passions of others profitable lessons to thyself! thou shalt be indulgent to error! ix [symbol: earth: thou shalt hear much: thou shalt speak little: thou shalt act well! thou shalt forget injuries! thou shalt render good for evil! thou shalt not misuse either thy strength or thy superiority! x [symbol: full moon: th

; and a terrible noise is heard in the midst of these terrors. the temple of the son of cecrops resounds with long-continued roars; eleusis uplifts her sacred torches; the serpents of triptolemus are heard to hiss; and fearful hecate appears afar" the celebration of the greek mysteries continued, according to the better opinion, for nine days. on the first the initiates met. it was the day of the full moon, of the month bo dromion; when the moon was full at the end of the sign aries, near the pleiades and the place of her exaltation in taurus. the second day there was a procession to the sea, for purification by bathing. the third was occupied with offerings, expiatory sacrifices, and other religious rites, such as fasting, mourning, continence, etc. a mullet was immolated, and offerings o

th or the dog-star, that the beginning of the year was fixed, and that of the generation of all things, or, as it were, the natal hour of the world. not sirius alone determined the period of the rising of the nile. aquarius, his urn, and the stream flowing from it, in opposition to the sign of the summer solstice then occupied by the sun, opened in the evening the march of night, and received the full moon in his cup. above him and with him rose the feet of pegasus, struck wherewith the waters flow forth that the muses drink. the lion and the dog, indicating, were supposed to _cause_ the inundation, and so were worshipped. while the sun passed through leo, the waters doubled their depth; and the sacred fountains poured their streams through the heads of lions. hydra, rising between sirius

earth projects, by which the moon is eclipsed at full, and with which, making night, the bull rises and descends as if covered with a veil, while he remains above our horizon. the body of osiris, enclosed in a chest or coffin, was cast into the nile. pan and the satyrs, near chemmis, first discovered his death, announced it by their cries, and everywhere created sorrow and alarm. taurus, with the full moon, then entered into the cone of shadow, and under him was the celestial river, most properly called the nile, and below, perseus, the god of chemmis, and auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with pan, whose wife aiga the she-goat was styled. then isis went in search of the body. she first met certain children who had seen it, received from them their information, and gave them in

adow, and under him was the celestial river, most properly called the nile, and below, perseus, the god of chemmis, and auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with pan, whose wife aiga the she-goat was styled. then isis went in search of the body. she first met certain children who had seen it, received from them their information, and gave them in return the gift of divination. the second full moon occurred in gemini, the twins, who presided over the oracles of didymus, and one of whom was apollo, the god of divination. she learned that osiris had, through mistake, had connection with her sister nephte, which she discovered by a crown of leaves of the melilot, which he had left behind him. of this connection a child was born, whom isis, aided by her dogs, sought for, found, reared

and one of whom was apollo, the god of divination. she learned that osiris had, through mistake, had connection with her sister nephte, which she discovered by a crown of leaves of the melilot, which he had left behind him. of this connection a child was born, whom isis, aided by her dogs, sought for, found, reared, and attached to herself, by the name of anubis, her faithful guardian. the third full moon occurs in cancer, domicile of the moon. the paranatellons of that sign are, the crown of ariadne or proserpine, made of leaves of the melilot, procyon and canis major, one star of which was called the star of isis, while sirius himself was honored in egypt under the name of anubis. isis repaired to byblos, and seated herself near a fountain, where she was found by the women of the court

rown of ariadne or proserpine, made of leaves of the melilot, procyon and canis major, one star of which was called the star of isis, while sirius himself was honored in egypt under the name of anubis. isis repaired to byblos, and seated herself near a fountain, where she was found by the women of the court of a king. she was induced to visit his court, and became the nurse of his son. the fourth full moon was in leo, domicile of the sun, or of adonis, king of byblos. the paranatellons of this sign are the flowing water of aquarius, and cepheus, king of ethiopia, called regulus, or simply the king. behind him rise cassiopeia his wife, queen of ethiopia, andromeda his daughter, and perseus his son-in-law, all paranatellons in part of this sign, and in part of virgo. isis suckled the child

ons in part of this sign, and in part of virgo. isis suckled the child, not at her breast, but with the end of her finger, at night. she burned all the mortal parts of its body, and then, taking the shape of a swallow, she flew to the great column of the palace, made of the tamarisk-tree that grew up round the coffin containing the body of osiris, and within which it was still enclosed. the fifth full moon occurred in virgo, the true image of isis, and which eratosthenes calls by that name. it pictured a woman suckling an infant, the son of isis, born near the winter solstice. this sign has for paranatellons the mast of the celestial ship, and the swallow-tailed fish or swallow above it, and a portion of perseus, son-in-law of the king of ethiopia. isis, having recovered the sacred coffer

the morning dried up a river, whence arose a strong wind. landing, she hid the coffer in a forest. typhon, hunting a wild boar by moonlight discovered it, recognized the body of his rival, and cut it into fourteen pieces, the number of days between the full and new moon, and in every one of which days the moon loses a portion of the light that at the commencement filled her whole disk. the sixth full moon occurred in libra, over the divisions separating which from virgo are the celestial ship, perseus, son of the king of ethiopia and bo tes, said to have nursed horus. the river of orion that sets in the morning is also a paranatellon of libra, as are ursa major, the great bear or wild boar of erymanthus, and the dragon of the north pole, or the celebrated python from which the attributes

separating which from virgo are the celestial ship, perseus, son of the king of ethiopia and bo tes, said to have nursed horus. the river of orion that sets in the morning is also a paranatellon of libra, as are ursa major, the great bear or wild boar of erymanthus, and the dragon of the north pole, or the celebrated python from which the attributes of typhon were borrowed. all these surround the full moon of libra, last of the superior signs, and the one that precedes the new moon of spring, about to be reproduced in taurus, and there be once more in conjunction with the sun. isis collects the scattered fragments of the body of osiris, buries them, and consecrates the phallus, carried in pomp at the _pamylia, or feasts of the vernal equinox, at which time the congress of osiris and the mo

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er 2 you will learn a simple ritual that will summon the magical energy within you. when this ritual has been completed, you will have made a very definite contact with the magic power of witchcraft. the old grimoires, hand-written books of magic, were most specific in what they said about the art and practice of magic. dark forests, secluded caves, abandoned ruins, or upon the seashore beneath a full moon were considered as ideal places to work magic. you do not have to do anything so elaborate. some space and a few minutes of your time each day is all that is required for you to work magic. secrets of money magic this aspect of the occult is one of the most popular. when you use it, in effect, you bring money out of thin air. you can begin to receive a seemingly endless flow of cash into

ead you astray advanced pendulum work a secret code of communication your psychic legacy from the past the ritual of yog-sothoth how to use your dice to foretell the future the magic of goetia the spirits of goetia wins $1000 with the magic of goetia the ritual of goetia using the magic of goetia to draw money to you thank you letter #9 occult power points< chapter 1 the witching circle the first full moon after midsummer s night hangs in the night sky above a wooded hollow. a naked young girl lays outstretched on an altar, her loose blond hair rippling over her shoulders and across the cold altar stones. her pale flesh bathed in the glow of the full moon above. her breasts rise and fall to the fear inside her, as hooded figures draw close to the altar and a low-pitched chant begins to fil

t witches do the cornerstone of witchcraft is the coven. a coven is just a fancy name for a group of people who like to get together every so often, take all their clothes off, and dance about in a circle, in the open air. it is lead by a coven master. the purpose of the coven is to build magical energy amongst its members to achieve the coven's common objectives, such as ensuring that there is a full moon every month and that summer returns after winter. covens hold great feasts on certain nights each year, february 2 (candlemas, april 30 (walpurgis night, august 1 (lammas, and october 31 (halloween. these four dates are the main witch sabots of the year. special nights on which white witches gather to celebrate their devotion to the moon goddess diana, and the goat-footed god of fertilit

etiring to bed rub the legs of the bed with the peels thinking intently on what you seek to know. place the peels under pillow and that night, if she is to have him, he will appear in a dream. if no dream of him comes he is not to be hers. the children of the night the art and practice of witchcraft goes hand in hand with eerie legends of mysterious, evil creatures that are seen by the light of a full moon. these legends have existed through the centuries and are as old as man. it is difficult to separate the two. they are all part of the same thing: the unknown world of supernatural forces. i have included here three of the most enduring of these legends. zombies, the dead that walk, raised from their graves to work as mindless slaves for powerful voodoo exponents who, in order to obtain

would leave their tombs at midnight to drink the blood of young virgins. a girl, once bitten, would become a virgin of the undead and, her eyes burning with a dark desire, was forever more drawn back to the vampire s embrace. the only way to kill a vampire was to drive a sharp, pointed stake through its heart. the werewolf, a man who was transformed into a gigantic wolf under the influence of the full moon; tearing out the throats of his victims, and feasting on their blood. another name for this was lycanthropy. the werewolf was both man and monster the paradox. the fear of witchcraft most people are paranoid that you will use witchcraft either to gain control of them or place a curse upon their heads, and will know that sympathetic magic requires either an item of clothing etc, or a phot

tions. however, even when you reach the point when you realize that much of the paraphernalia associated with witchcraft, i.e. candles, incense and so forth, can be dispensed with you will find that the moon still holds sway over certain things. the ancient witch cults knew this and timed their activities to the different phases of the moon. positive magic is worked from the first quarter until a full moon, and black magic from the last quarter until a new moon. the more things change, the more they stay the same. creating your personal grimoire once the magic begins to flow, things are going to happen so fast and so often that it will be difficult to keep track of them by mere memory alone< the easiest way to remember all the practical expressions of your magical workings is to keep a sma

imple step in waking your fiery serpent from its ancient slumber is to find a place where you can create a witching circle. the old grimoires, hand-written books of magic spells, invocations, herbal recipes, incantations and other magical lore were most specific in what they said about the location of a witching circle. dark forests, secluded caves, abandoned ruins, or upon the seashore beneath a full moon were considered as ideal places to work magic. you do not have to do anything so elaborate. preparations are simple, but you need to ensure silence with no interruptions. first, make a physical space to stand in without being obstructed or cluttered. that means that when you stand at the center of your cleared area, you can stretch your hands and arms out all around you. this is your per

this same rhythm should be used as you use the chant< you are now ready to begin. enter your witching circle. awaken your magic power. chant the magic word, misabu, over and over again for at least five minutes. ideally, the chant should begin as a shout and gradually fade away to a whisper. the magic word is pronounced: me-sah-boo. i would suggest you begin the chant on a sunday, at or near the full moon. the golden square spell gnomes are the elemental spirits of the earth. they have the general appearance of grotesquely deformed dwarfs, but despite their appearance gnomes are benevolent in nature. one occult belief is that gnomes are the guardians of buried treasure, and inhabit the darkest depths of mines. their essence can be found in the earth, wood and metals. this spell will help

ovens. many work alone and with just as good results using the magic power of witchcraft as if they were working with a group. using this magical power is simplicity itself. the warlock of the middle ages, desiring to arouse love and passion, was required to make a figure of wax to represent the woman whose company he desired above all else. positive magic is worked from the first quarter until a full moon, and black magic from the last quarter until a new moon< the knights templar was a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. it's a good idea to work a protection ritual on a regular basis. the pentagram (five-pointed star) is a tool used by both witches and magicians to keep evil forces at bay. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two l

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en as starting (as a gnew moon h) with abraham, waxing until its greatest point in the person of king solomon, and then waning as jewish civilization became more decadent after him, until the destruction [nukva] grew to equal the full stature of z feir anpin. the moon is a correlate of nukva, as can be seen (among other ways) in the correlation between the lunar month and the menstrual cycle. the full moon thus indicates the full maturation of the partzuf of nukva, that occurred when king solomon built the temple. therefore [when he dedicated the temple, king solomon made a fourteenday feast, divided into two groups of seven, corresponding to rachel and leah. gand solomon celebrated the festival at that time, and all israel with him, a great congregation, from levo chamat until the wadi of

before being channeled through malchut. the arizal now explains how gthe filling of the filling of the name adni may be done in two ways h: this is, however, only if the letter yud is omitted from the spelling of the letter tav (like this: tav-vav. if, however, the letter yud is included (like this: tav-yudvav [the filling of the filling] is then great and complete, this being the concept of the full moon. at issue here is the sixth line of the chart above, where the tav of the dalet of adni is spelled out. tav may be spelled either with or without a yud. by adding the yud, the number of letters in the spelling out of the spelling out the arizal on parashat vayakhel (2) 407 changes from 34 to 35. 34 signified poverty, as was just mentioned; the significance of 35 will be explained present

y. one of the earthly manifestations of the sefirah of malchut is the moon. just as malchut has nothing of its own, the moon merely reflects the light of the sun. just as malchut fs emptiness or fullness is dependent upon the extent to which it is funneling the content of the preceding sefirot into creation, the moon waxes and wanes in accordance with how much it receives of the sun fs light. the full moon thus signifies malchut in its fullness, when the additional yud has transformed it from gpoor and destitute h to ggreat and complete. h the letter yud is the first letter of the divine name havayah, and in this context generally indicates the sefirah of chochmah( gwisdom h) or sometimes intellect in general. as the arizal explains elsewhere, this yud which completes the spelling out of t

nyms for gmoon h in hebrew, levanah (literally, gwhite h) and yareiach. here, the latter synonym is used, and it is in the plural, so the literal translation of the second half of the verse would be, g cand with choice fruits brought forth by the moons. h the difference between [the terms] yareiach and levanah is that yareiach signifies the moon in its blemished state, while levanah signifies the full moon. this is why term yareiach appears in the plural, while the term levanah never does. since there are many forms of the gincomplete h moon but only one form of the full moon, yareiach can appear in the plural form, whereas it would be inappropriate for levanah to take the plural. the meaning of the verse now can be understood to be: g cand with choice fruits that are brought forth by the

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rder, only that the symbol of the sun should be traced therein. remember that the symbol of luna varieth, and as d in her increase she is favourable. but c is not so favourable for good in her decrease. the symbol of luna in the centre of the hexagram should be traced d if in her increase; by c if in her decrease. remember that c represents restriction and is not so good a symbol as d, and at the full moon exactly it is 0, but at new moon a dark circle e. the last two forms of luna are not good in many cases. if thou wilt invoke the forces of the head of the dragon of the moon thou shalt trace the lunar invoking hexagram and write therein the symbol a, and for the tail w. these forces of a and w are more easy to be invoked when either the sun or the moon is with them in the zodiac in conju

ve of colour) let it be taken out of the bath. it is now to undergo another magical ceremony. m-now place the curcurbite to the west of the altar, holding the lotus wand by the black end, perform a magical invocation of the moon in her decrease and of cauda draconis. the curcurbite is then to be exposed to the moonlight (she being in her decrease) for nine con <187> secutive nights, commencing at full moon. the alembic head is then to be fitted on. n-repeat process set forth in section l. 0-the curcurbite is to be placed to the east of the altar, and the alchemist performs an invocation of the moon in her increase, and of caput draconis (holding lotus wand by white end) to ad upon the matter. the curcurbite is now to be exposed for nine consecutive nights (ending with the full moon) to the

the energising forces and holding them in solution until the time of release. her colours, pale blue, deepening into sky blue, silvery white, and silver, relieved by touches of orange and flame, carry out these ideas. ill. the empress. she is an aspect of isis; the creative and positive side of nature is suggested here. the egyptian trilogy, isis, hathor and nephthys, symbolised by the crescent, full moon, and gibbous moon are represented in the tarot by the high priestess, hathor. the empress, isis, takes either the crescent moon or venus as her symbol. justice, nephthys, takes the gibbous moon. isis and venus gives the aspect of love, while hathor is rather the mystic, the full moon reflecting the sun of tiphareth while in yesod, transmitting the rays of the sun in her path gimel. in in

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

the influence of which is very great in astrology. the moon attracts and repels alternately the magnetic fluid of the earth, and thus produces the ebb and flow of the sea; we must be well acquainted therefore with its phases and be able to distinguish its days and hours. the new moon is favourable at the beginning of all 102 the ritual of transcendental magic magical works: from first quarter to full moon its influence is warm; from full moon to third quarter it is dry; and from third quarter to last it is cold. here follow the special characters of all days of the moon, distinguished by the twentytwo tarot keys and by the signs of the seven planets. 1. the juggler, or magus. the first day of the moon is that of the creation of the moon itself. this day is consecrated to mental enterprise

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the source of great power and strength. it is a symbol of the empty spaces where the adept will face his inner shadows and demons, a symbol for the abyss. it is traditional among many cultures for magicians and mystics to seek communion with the greater spirits in the desert. the ritual should be performed there if possible. in this instance, the best time would be in the solar equinox and at the full moon. wilderness: set is also the neter of the wilderness in general, and any wild spaces. this is an alternative to the desert. it should be as far from civilization as possible. ocean: set is also known as the neter of the oceans, which are wild and unpredictable. the ritual can be done at the oceanside, especially during a good storm (caution must be exercised in this case as it could be d

ms. also it may help the magician to "wake up" in the dream state, as the magician realizes he or she has been working on this before going to sleep. tools: the tools should be collected and prepared carefully, with the dark lord in mind while searching for the right ones. it is important to create the appropriate magical link with each tool. time: the best time for the ritual is midnight. by the full moon and the summer equinox for the fiery neter, new moon and winter equinox for the for the draconic. temple: the primary choice for the ritual is in nature, so the temple should be simple, portable, and quick to set up. if it is necessary to perform the rite indoors, the ritual space can be more elaborate, but the goal of the this ritual is to make a spontaneous and natural link with the da

intensity of sex was the intensity of the will interacting with the universe and the well-oiled muscles were actually those of the focussed mind. nor did this pleasure hold any hint or hope of union, it was a pure indulgence for its own sake, with each partner concerned primarily with their own pleasure and satisfaction, each using the other in full knowledge and consent. i looked up and saw the full moon in a starlit sky overhead. it had grown dark. i then perceived that the depression in which i stood was in fact an enormous anus, the pine trees being the hairs around the opening. i grew to a size sufficient to "interact" with this opening. here in oxo, the isolated will can return once again to indulge self in interaction with not-self, but with no further fear of contamination or diss

eardly scott [iii. incensing of the chamber- adept eardly scott [iv. invocation to set- priest dennis mann [v. graal invocation- priest dennis mann [vi. summoning of lucifer- adept bill van patten] in this dark and secret place we gather in clandestine vestments to unveil the mysteries of our creation and to build a sanctuary for the arcane rites. we gather here on this darkest of eves, under the full moon, to call forth lucifer from the great beyond. welcome o' lucifer, son of the morning, you who are the star in the east, into the presence of the elect of set. for it is our wills who call you this night. with exalted posture lucifer sits upon his throne, defined only by the lines of his conscious creation- a mirror to the dreams of the ones who gaze upon him. with every breath he fills t

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whenever he rests, whenever he drops his guard. he struggles against them, but they are faster, nimbler, winged. he has no devil to repudiate. dreaming, he cannot wish them away. iii ellowen deeowen 1 i know what a ghost is, the old woman affirmed silently. her name was rosa diamond; she was eighty-eight years old; and she was squinting beakily through her salt-caked bedroom windows, watching the full moon's sea. and i know what it isn't, too, she nodded further, it isn't a scarification or a flapping sheet, so pooh and pish to all _that_ bunkum. what's a ghost? unfinished business, is what- at which the old lady, six feet tall, straight--backed, her hair hacked short as any man's, jerked the corners of her mouth downwards in a satisfied, tragedy-mask pout- pulled a knitted blue shawl tigh

an's home. on clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining, revenant ghost. best place to see 'em come, she reassured herself, grandstand view. repetition had become a comfort in her antiquity; the well-worn phrases _unfinished business, grandstand view, made her feel solid, unchanging, sempiternal, instead of the creature of cracks and absences she knew herself to be- when the full moon sets, the dark before the dawn, that's their moment. billow of sail, flash of oars, and the conqueror himself at the flagship's prow, sailing up the beach between the barnacled wooden breakwaters and a few inverted sculls- o, i've seen things in my time, always had the gift, the phantom-sight- the conqueror in his pointy metal-nosed hat, passing through her front door, gliding betwixt th

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ngs. epicureanism: the philosophy of epicurus and others that states that the highest good is pleasure and the avoidance of pain. equinox: either of two points during the year when the sun crosses the equator and the hours of day and night are equal. the spring, or vernal, equinox occurs generally on march 21 and the autumn equinox occurs on or about september 23. esbat: wiccan celebration of the full moon. ethics: the study of moral values and rules or a guide to such values and rules. etiquette: proper behavior; good manners. evangelical: describing a protestant group that emphasizes the absolute authority of the bible and forgiveness of sin through belief in jesus. excommunicate: to exclude or officially ban a person from a church or other religious community. faith: belief and trust in

broken up throughout the year by a variety of religious observances. for some workers almost one-third of the year was set aside for religious observances and celebrations. the tomb makers eight-day work week, for example, had a two- or three-day weekend. put together, these weekend days of rest accounted for about sixty days a year. there were another sixty-five days of religious festivals, from full moon days to the celebration of the flooding of the nile river, to such major festivals as the feast of opet. these occasions were opportunities not just for prayer at one s home shrine or at the temple, but also for world religions: almanac 63 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the enjoyment of games such as boxing and chariot races. other games that may have had a religious signific

bini, nepal, is the birthplace of the buddha and is one of the four most important pilgrimage sites for buddhists. other sites include bodh gaya, the place where he attained enlightenment; sarnath, where he delivered his first sermon on how to avoid suffering; and kusinagara, where he escaped from this life into nirvana. observances. wesak is the most important holy day for buddhists. held on the full moon in may, it celebrates the buddha s birth. phrases. om mani padme hum is a mantra, or chant, prevalent in buddhism, meaning hail the jewel in the lotus. it refers to the symbology surrounding the buddha s miraculous birth. world religions: almanac 91 buddhism rock pillars, or stupas, erected with the words of the buddha inscribed on them, calling for respect for all life. ashoka organized

rom country to country. moreover, since buddhists (except those in japan) use the lunar calendar, the schedule of such holy days can be confusing for westerners. the buddhist year begins with the new year s festival, symbolizing the death and rebirth of the year. in theravada countries such as thailand, burma, sri lanka, cambodia, and laos, the new year is celebrated for three days from the first full moon day in april. in mahayana countries, the new year usually starts on the first full moon day in january, and tibetan buddhists generally celebrate it in march. to prepare for the new year, buddhists clean their houses very thoroughly and perform cleansing rituals with water to drive out evil spirits. as with all the holy days of buddhism, the three days of the new year s celebration inclu

with all the holy days of buddhism, the three days of the new year s celebration include visits to the temple to bring offerings of incense, cloth, flowers, and money for the monks. there are also processions through the streets carrying images of the buddha, as well as feasting, dancing, and sports events. wesak (also spelled vesak) is the most important of buddhist holy days, celebrated on the full moon in may for theravada countries. buddhists meditate inside a temple. worship is often carried out at a temple or at a home shrine, before an altar with a statue of the buddha, candles, incense, and flowers. stephen epstein/ponkawonka.com. world religions: almanac 107 buddhism wesak takes its name from the name of the indian month in which it is held. in japan it is celebrated in april and

ngs from the buddha s first sermon at deer park. the retreat months (august to october) are called vassa. this is a time for buddhists to renew their belief. the end of this period is marked by the festival of kathina (held within a month of the end of vassa. this is a time when new robes are given to the monks by the people of the community. sangha day, also called magha puja day, is held on the full moon day of the third lunar month (march. it celebrates the religious community, or sangha, and recalls the time when more than one thousand enlightened monks gathered to hear the buddha s first sermon, the turning of the wheel of law or truth. this sermon detailed the rules for monastic orders. in a tradition similar to christmas, gifts are exchanged on sangha day. pilgrimage buddhists have

ead, and forgive us our trespasses; as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. world religions: almanac 139 christianity observances and pilgrimages the primary holy days for christianity are christmas (celebrated on december 25 in the western tradition) and easter (celebrated in the western tradition on the first sunday after the first full moon in spring. christmas celebrates the birth of jesus, although it is not known for sure what time of the year he was born. easter celebrates the resurrection of jesus. although these holy days are commonly celebrated worldwide on the dates recognized by the western tradition, in some areas, including parts of eastern europe and in the middle east, they are often celebrated later. this is b

oves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. druidism: a neo-pagan religion based in the celtic region of the british isles. equinox: either of two points during the year when the sun crosses the equator and the hours of day and night are equal. the spring, or vernal, equinox occurs generally on march 21 and the autumn equinox occurs on or about september 23. esbat: wiccan celebration of the full moon. goddess worship: term that refers generally to any neo-pagan practice that elevates the status of goddesses over that of gods. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence of the world from winter. lughnasadh: neo-pagan harvest festival on august 1. mabon: neo-pagan celebration of the autumn equinox; the completion of the h

sses. the modern world has reinvented some of these religions. modern believers in these movements value the balance between masculine and world religions: almanac 383 neo-paganism feminine that such religions provide or they value the promotion of feminine deities over masculine ones. in elevating goddesses, neo-pagans tend to see the goddess in three aspects, represented by the waxing moon, the full moon, and the waning moon. the waxing (or growing) moon is the goddess in her youth and vitality. she is the maiden whose sexuality is just emerging. the mother, represented by the full moon, symbolizes nurturing, procreation, and feminine power. the crone, represented by the waning moon, symbolizes wisdom and experience. it is the crone who guides humans toward death and the afterlife. wicca

star surrounded by a circle. contrary to popular belief, it is not a satanic symbol. rather, the star s geometric shape symbolizes wisdom and balance, while the circle symbolizes unity and eternity. the wiccan calendar is quite similar to that of other neo-pagan religions, especially druidism. it follows the cycles of the moon, the sun, and the natural world. wiccans celebrate thirteen esbats, or full moons, each year. wiccans also mark a number of days called sabbats throughout the cycle of the year. four sabbats mark the beginning of seasons, and four more occur about midway between the seasonal days. the cycle begins with yule, the shortest day of the year and the start of winter, when wiccans ask the sun to return. imbolc, on february 2, marks the lengthening of the days and the emerge

with the new moon. a sikh initiation ceremony, amrit sanskar, is held in a gurdwara. holy water called amrit is mixed and stirred with a khanda before being poured into the initiate s hands and sprinkled in his or her hair and eyes five times. tim page/corbis. 434 world religions: almanac sikhism a thirteenth month is added every three years to adjust the calendar to the movements of the sun. the full moon has significance for sikhs because guru nanak was born during a full moon. ceremonies sikhism is not known for having holy days or ceremonial occasions. sikhs regard every day as holy. nonetheless, a few days hold special significance because they mark important events in the life of a sikh. one is called naam karam, or the naming of a child. as soon after the birth of a child as possibl

iginally conceived by a brahmin mother, devananda (brahmins are the highest indian caste and are usually priests, religious teachers, and intellectuals) the embryo was then moved into trishala s womb. the legends also hold that vardhamana s conception was foretold to his mother in a series of dreams. these dreams, called auspicious dreams (favorable or lucky dreams) included images of a lion, the full moon, the rising sun, an ocean of milk, a white bull, and a white elephant. these dreams are described in jain literature and are often depicted in temples. as a child vardhamana received an education that was suitable for a prince. according to one of the two main sects, or divisions, of jainism, he married a princess named yasoda, and the couple had a daughter. the other major sect of jaini

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birth, and she replied "i was born of a voice untimely, the socalled echo of a man's ordure [1] dropped in a wood [1. for the demon born of an echo we have an analogue in the hebrew bath kol "the daughter of a voice" in the gnostic hymn to hermes, edited by dieterich, abrasax, p 19, we read, l. 104] 19. and i said to her "under what star dost thou pass" and she answered me "under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things" then i said to her "and what angel is it that frustrates thee" and she said to me "he that in thee [or "through thee] is reigning" and i thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier strike her. but she cried aloud, and said "i am [subjected] to thee, o king, by the wisdom of god given to thee, and by the angel joel" 20. so i comma

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

ship in the ancient world originated in this festival held in honor of osiris.57 the number fourteen has a special occult meaning in the symbolism of modern-day secret societies as the "14. days of burial (lunar darkness" plutarch, in his treatise on isis and osiris, explained the symbolism "the body of osiris was cut into fourteen pieces; that is, into as many parts as there are days between the full moon and the new."58 now, if the picture of the reverse side of the great seal is examined, it will be found that fourteen rays of light issue from the triangle containing the eye of osiris. this combination of symbols simply cannot be attributed to a chance arrangement. only one writer. an occultist. has realized the startling fact that the number of stones in the pyramid totals 72, the 72 a

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

or circle. page 5 grimoire of eclectic magick) the wheel of the year( ha m in as ule y bolg mi tar s a o ta l i e n b tha il as n s h ad g h ul bo a n m pagans celebrate eight festivals, or sabbats in the cycle of a year. while all eight of these times reflect agricultural aspects of the year, four are of a celtic nature, while the other four are drawn from the mediterranean area of europe. each full moon is also a holy day, and is called an esbat. samhain celtic fire festival october 31 yule winter solstice december 21 imbolg celtic fire festival february 2 ostara spring equinox march 22 beltain celtic fire festival april 30 litha summer solstice june 21 lughnassadh celtic fire festival august 1 mabon autumn equinox september 22 samhain, the time of the year when the veil is the thinnest

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

even a man who s pure in heart and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. just as certain humans imagine themselves to be vampires, others believe themselves to shapeshift into wolves. psychologists recognize a werewolf psychosis (lycanthropy or lupinomanis) in which persons so afflicted may believe that they change into a wolf at the full moon. those who are so disturbed may actually feel their fur growing, their fingernails becoming claws, their jaw lengthening, their canine teeth elongating. in their paper a case of lycanthropy, published in the american journal of psychiatry in 1977, psychiatrist harvey rosenstock and psychologist kenneth vincent discussed the case history of a 49-year-old woman who received daily psychothe

e of lycanthropy, published in the american journal of psychiatry in 1977, psychiatrist harvey rosenstock and psychologist kenneth vincent discussed the case history of a 49-year-old woman who received daily psychotherapy and antipsychotic drugs and who still perceived herself as a wolfwoman with claws, teeth, and fangs. medical personnel would manage to get the woman under control until the next full moon when she would snarl, howl, and resume her wolflike behavior. rosenstock and vincent stated that the woman was eventually discharged and provided with antipsychotic medication, but she declared that she would haunt graveyards until she had found the male werewolf of her dreams. m delving deeper clark, jerome, and loren coleman. creatures of the outer edge. new york: warner books, 1978. e

at issued pain and sucked out the evil spirit. mothers around the world still kiss the bruised finger or knee of their crying children to kiss it and make it well. many people still knock on wood to guard against their words or thoughts having been misunderstood by eavesdropping spirits who might wish to punish them by bringing bad luck upon them. some believe that the howling of a dog during the full moon predicts the death of its owner. to place three chairs in a row accidentally means a death in the family. if a sick person is changed from one room to another it is a sure sign that he will die. one who counts the number of automobiles in a funeral procession will die within the year. an open umbrella, held over the head indoors, indicates approaching death. scores of superstitions such

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

as the top of the passive pillar of form, symbolises the ultimate feminine archetype, that of the great mother. the feminine can be broken down into a two-fold division, and a three-fold one: two-fold system ama: the dark, sterile, mother. light isis aima: the bright, fertile, mother. dark isis three-fold system sattva: goodness; maiden (first quarter- mary, isis, nephthys rajas: passion; mother (full moon- venus, aphrodite, nike tamas: darkness; crone (third quarter- kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city

he value of peh, meaning "mouth. it is also the value of ks, meaning "throne, and mvld, meaning "birth, or new moon. as the moon is the planet attributed to yesod, it is interesting to note that peh spelt in full is pa, which totals 81, and is as crowley states "a mystic number of the moon, as it totals 8+1=9, the number of yesod, and equates with ksa, meaning again "throne" and also "time of the full moon. this number, 81, is also the value of anki, meaning "ego, which again is attributed to yesod. thus both 80 and 81 represent different aspects of yesod. the attribution of "throne" and "ego" to yesod are of note in light of the description by the golden dawn of the tasks undertaken by an adeptus minor (attributed to tiphareth, where the ego is seen as enthroned in human consciousness as

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ction of christ and his victory over death, is an image of the reintegration and resurrection of the whole humanity, it is advantageous to operate choosing a monthly cycle which would reverberate, in the invisible, this solemn commemoration by a sort of a psychic and spiritual echo. this is the reason why the monthly periods for this general operation have been fixed for the sunday following each full moon (easter takes place on sunday following the full moon of the vernal equinoxes) the hour has been set: from 11 p.m. until midnight, standard time. this time has been chosen because the traffic and outside noise level starts then to subside. local time should be taken into account as it is often advanced from the standard time. in such cases the time for the operation should be properly co

frankincense cannot be obtained in its original "tear drop" form, regular frankincense may be used. the important point is that it be pure frankincense and not a mixture of incenses (6) any sword or poignard may be used as long as it has a straight hilt. all metallic objects that will be touched during the operation must be insulated (7) the operation may be done at any time between new moon and full moon, and at any hour of the day or night -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o this operative and general ritual was released in volumes 3& 4 of the martinist review, 1962/63. 13 b) sacramentary. sanctifying the alb and cordelier: o lord, my power is in thy name, thou who hast made heaven and earth, grant, o lord, my prayer, and may my cry ascend to thee. peace be with thee, and with thy spirit. alb and cordel

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

nder fear, too sweet to speak of, closed the dying year with love more perfect, for its purple root might blossom outward to the snowy fruit whose bloom to-night lay sleeping on her breast *mysteries; lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 94. true love, the love of self in the soul of another, the poet paints very beautifully in the following charming lines: do you recall? could i forget? how once the full moon shone above, over the houses, and we let loose rein upon the steeds of love? how kisses fled to kisses, rain of fiery dew upon the soul kindled, till ecstasy was pain; desire, delight: and swift control leapt from the lightning, as the cloud disparted, rended, from us twain, and we were one *star and garter, vol. iii, p. 13. this melting of the i in you, is the only true possible form of

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

f use in inducing astral projection. take a clear glass flask or bottle and fill it with fresh seawater collected from an ocean beach. seal the flask so that it will not leak. this instrument can then be left exposed to bright moonlight for several days. the best time to charge your lunar accumulator is during the three days of each lunar cycle when the moon shows a full face-the night before the full moon, the night of the full moon, and the night following the full moon. it should be stored away when not in use in a wrap of black silk or velvet, and never exposed to sunlight or even to the bright light of day. it can be taken out and used to good effect at twilight or in the evening. the accumulator should be placed near to the head while lying down to practice soul flight. a good locati

portal you wish to seal shut, it should be visualized as glowing upon the air. when using a large mirror as an astral doorway, it is best to keep it covered during the day, and not to use it for common purposes. it should be protected from the direct rays of the sun, and from strong daylight. to charge it with lunar virtue, set it outside or beneath a window where it can reflect the light of the full moon. covering the mirror with a black cloth after it is charged will help retain this virtue. to incorporate the lunar virtue of a mirror into the standard projection ritual, in which the chamber, corridor, and elevator are visualized, a small mirror may be combined with the symbolic key that specifies the astral destination. these can be held together with tape or a rubber band. the mirror

address of curving cow's horns. the ruling intelligence of this trump is the goddess hathor, from whose breasts flow the sustaining milk of the stars. the phoenix will act as her oracle, for if you pose it a question about some future event, it will cry out in its shrill voice if the answer is yes. xviii the moon hebrew letter: qoph (back of the head) correspondence: pisces path: twenty-ninth the full moon shines down her light on a path that winds its way up from the edge of a stagnant pond into the distant hills that line the horizon. droplets of night dew shower down with her silvery beams. on either side of the path stand two animals like dogs. or one of them may be a wolf. they try to catch the falling dew on their tongues as they howl and bark at the moon. behind them, unnoticed, a c

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

likewise look upon the pig as an impure animal, and to be avoided, observing it to be most apt to engender upon the decrease of the moon, and they think that those who drink its milk are more subject to leprosy and such-like cutaneous diseases than others. the custom of abstaining from the flesh of the pig[fn#279] is not always observed, for those who sacrifice a sow to typhon once a year, at the full moon, afterwards eat its flesh. the reason they give for this practice is this: typhon being in pursuit of this animal at that season of the moon, accidentally found the wooden chest wherein was deposited the body of osiris, which he immediately pulled to pieces. this story, however, is not generally admitted, there being some who look upon it, as they do many other relations of the same kind

wanes [fn#342] in egyptian, or# which plutarch seems to connect with set [sec. xliii. the height of the nile in flood at elephantine is twentyeight cubits, at mendes and xois low nile is seven cubits, and at memphis middle nile is fourteen cubits; these figures are to be compared with the twenty-eight days of the moon's revolution, the seven-day phase of the moon, and the fourteen days' moon, or full moon. apis was begotten by a ray of light from the moon, and on the fourteenth day of the month phamenoth[fn#343] osiris entered the moon. osiris is the power of the moon, isis the productive faculty in it [fn#343] marked in the papyrus sallier iv. as a particularly unlucky day [fifth explanation of the story [sec. xliv. the philosophers say that the story is nothing but an enigmatical descri

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

-tanek: your womb (deut. 7: 13) 81: anki, anoki: the personal pronoun, i 81: gchnk: your belly (locks) 81: v-lilh, ve-layil: and night 81: l-akl, le-achel: to be devoured, or consumed 81: l-hedil: to divide (locks "let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night (gen. 1: 14) 81: tbo, teba: nature 81: obdh, abodah: divine service, work 81: ksa, kebe: time of the full moon 81: ksa, kibbe: throne 81: h-mlah, ha-melah: the fullness 81: oculus (latin: eye 81: anima mundi (latin: soul of the world 369: sum of rows in kamea 369: chshmvdai, chasmodai: spirit of the moon 369: shhdny, shehadani: angel of the second decanate of gemini 369: nchvshh: brass (job 28: 2) 369: vhnchsh: now the serpent (gen. 3: 1) 369: ashibnv: i will bring back (locks) 369: b-mshkbh, be

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

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

so they planted their easter on the following sunday. thus, easter is always the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. if you've ever wondered why easter moved all around the calendar, now you know (by the way, the catholic church was so adamant about not incorporating lunar goddess symbolism that they added a further calculation: if easter sunday were to fall on the full moon itself, then easter was postponed to the following sunday instead) incidentally, this raises another point: recently, some pagan traditions began referring to the vernal equinox as eostara. historically, this is incorrect. eostara is a lunar holiday, honoring a lunar goddess, at the vernal full moon. hence, the name 'eostara' is best reserved to the nearest esbat, rather than the sabbat

nd to mark the time of the new moon (when no moon is visible) as a single date on a calendar. we tend to forget that the moon is also hidden from our view on the day before and the day after our calendar date. but this did not go unnoticed by our ancestors, who always speak of the goddess's sojourn into the land of death as lasting for three days. is it any wonder then, that we celebrate the next full moon (the eostara) as the return of the goddess from chthonic regions? naturally, this is the season to celebrate the victory of life over death, as any nature-lover will affirm. and the christian religion was not misguided by celebrating christ's victory over death at this same season. nor is christ the only solar hero to journey into the underworld. king arthur, for example, does the same t

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

to contact it. the members are said to hold their meetings in a disused quarry where they can work without being disturbed. they wear long black cloaks for protection until they reach the meeting place, where they remove them to reveal a type of kilt made of two pieces of leather thonged at the sides. they are said to sacrifice animals to the moon, or at least to hold ceremonies in honour of the full moon, with dances regulated by a moon dial. i am told that they have one very beautiful dance, the dance of the four winds, which is usually held round a standing stone or something which has four sides; but i can obtain no details. it is said that part of the initiation ceremony of the man is called diana's hunt, when all the single and unattached girls chase the initiate and whoever catches

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