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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

to whom folk-lore is more indebted than to grimm. not to mention the loving care with which he hunted up his kinder und raus-mdrchen from all over germany, he delights to detect in many a nursery-tale and popular custom of to-day the beliefs and habits of our forefathers thousands of years ago. it is impossible at times to forbear a smile at the patriotic zeal with which he hunts the trail of his german gods and heroes; the glee with which he bags a new goddess, elf, or swan-maid; and his indignation at any poaching celt or slav who has spirited away a mythic being that was german born and bred" ye have taken away my gods, and what have i more" the present translation of the deutsche mythologie will, like the last (fourth) edition of the original, be published in three volumes; the first t

-books for future use. if grimm had kved to finish his great dictionary, which engrossed the latter years of his life^ he would, no doubt, have incorporated 1 he used to say, he had a boolc ready to run out of each of his ten fingers, but he was no longer free. translator's preface. vii the pith of these later jottings in the text of his book, rejecting much that was irrelevant or pleonastic. the german editor, not feeling himself at liberty to select and reject, threw the whole of this posthumous matter into his third volume (where it occupies 370 pages, merely arranging the items according to the order of subjects in the book, and numbering each by the page which it illustrates. this is the supplement so frequently referred to in the book, under the form" see suppl. i have already introd

pecial attention to individual branches of the science of folk-knowledge. a full classified bibliography and an accurate and detailed index to the whole work will accompany the book. it is hoped by this means to render the english edition as complete and serviceable as possible. grimm's preface to the edition of 1844, giving a vigorous resum^ of the book, and of the whole subject, will, as in the german accompany vol. ii. there is so much in it, which implies the reader's acquaintance with every part of the book, that i have felt bound to keep it where i find it in the original. the only additions or alterations i have ventured to make in the text are the following: 1. the book bristles with quotations in various languages, for the most part untranslated. an ordinary german reader might fi

is so much in it, which implies the reader's acquaintance with every part of the book, that i have felt bound to keep it where i find it in the original. the only additions or alterations i have ventured to make in the text are the following: 1. the book bristles with quotations in various languages, for the most part untranslated. an ordinary german reader might find the old and the middle high german about as intelligible as an ordinary englishman does anglo-saxon and chaucer respectively. but when it comes to making out a word or passage in old norse, greek, and even slavic, i must suppose the author to have written for a much more limited and learned public than that which, i hope, will find this english edition sufficiently readable. i have therefore translated a great many words and

nce by substituting the 10 and ce, which he is accustomed to see in anglo- saxon words, for grimm's v and a, as' waeg' instead of' vag. i have also used the words' dutch, mid. dutch' in a wider sense comprehending au the teutonic dialects of the netherlands, instead of coining the awkward adjective' netherlandish. one word on the title of the book. ought not" deutsche mythologie" to be translated german, rather than teutonic mythology? i am bound to admit that the author aimed at building up a deutsch mythology, as distinct from the scandinavian, and that he expressly disclaims the intention of giving a complete account of the latter, because its fulness would have thrown the more meagre remains of the deutsch into the shade. at the same time he necessarily draws so much upon the richer re

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ars of age, frederick had been betrothed to anne, daughter of the emperor charles iv, later on he had serious disputes concerning this matter with the emperor wenceslaus (the brother of anne, who had disposed of her hand to another, but who ultimately consented, in 1397, to pay frederick a considerable sum by way of damages. in 1388 he fought as ally of the burgrave of nuremberg in the war of the german towns; and gained his knightly spurs in 1391, in the war which he, in concert with the teutonic knights, waged against the lithuanians. next, he fought against wenceslaus. he married catherine of brunswick in 1402, and after various wars and quarrels, the university of leipzig was founded in 1409. the indefatigable activity which this prince displayed from 1420 against the movements of the

xiliary to the emperor sigismond, who was then in a very critical position. in order to assure himself definitely of the alliance of frederick the quarreller, the emperor conferred upon him the electorate and duchy of saxony; but the former could not long enjoy his new found dignities in peace, for the emperor shifted the whole weight of the war with the hussites on to his shoulders. as the other german princes did not respond readily to the elector s appeal, the latter had the misfortune to lose the greater part of his army near brux in 1425. but his wife, catherine, summoned the whole of catholic germany to unite in a crusade against the innovating hussites; while 20,000 strange and foreign warriors came unexpectedly to range themselves under the standard of frederick. it is to be noted

le 20,000 strange and foreign warriors came unexpectedly to range themselves under the standard of frederick. it is to be noted that abraham the jew puts the artificial cavalry he supplied at 2000 (though this may easily be a slip for 20,000) and rumour would of course soon magnify the number. but the elector was at length defeated at the disastrous battle of aussig in 1426, where the lite of the german warriors fell. the following year again witnessed a fresh defeat of the elector, and the chagrin which this excited, ultimately led to his death. he was succeeded by his son, frederick ii, called the good born in 1411, who began to reign in 1428, and died in 1464 (see dict. larousse. 35 the same ambiguity exists in the french as in the translation, as to whether it is abraham or the bishop

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s; or from mg= a changing of camp or place; or from greek, magos, a magician. usually written maguth. compare the french word magot, meaning a sort of baboon, and also a hideous dwarfish man; this expression is often used in fairy-tales to denote a spiteful dwarf or elf. this spirit has also been credited with presiding over hidden treasure. larousse derives the name either from ancient french or german. of abramelin the mage 85 asmodee: usually written asmodeus, and sometimes chashmodai. derived by some from the hebrew word asamod, to destroy or exterminate; and by others from the persian verb azmonden= to tempt, to try or prove. some rabbins say that asmodeus was the child of the incest of tubal-cain and his sister naafrfah. others say that he was the demon of impurity. others again rela

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

ies of the rose and the cross have existed from time immemorial, and that the rites were practiced and the wisdom taught in egypt, eleusis, samothrace, persia, chaldea and india, and in far more ancient lands. the story of the introduction to these mysteries into medieval europe has thus been handed down to us "in 1378 was born the chief and originator of our fraternity in europe. he was of noble german family, but poor, and in the fifth year of his age was placed in a cloister where he learned both greek and latin. while yet a youth, he accompanied a certain brother p.a.l. on a pilgrimage to the holy land, but the latter, dying at cyprus, he himself went to damascus. there was then in arabia a temple of the order which was called in the hebrew tongue 'damkar' that is, the blood of the lam

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ish. the sumerians did not have an alphabet as we know it, but they had developed a syllabary, very much like the japanese "kana" script of today. in phonetic transliterations, the english spelling sought to approximate the sumerian pronunciation. however, there are a few sounds which english does not possess, and which have been put into phonetic variations. important examples below: x as in the german "ach" ch (same as above) q as in "like" k (same as above) sh as in "shall" ss as in, perhaps "lasso; a hissing "s" common to arabic languages z as in "lots; a hard "ts" sound, not quite as in "zoo" remember, in the transliterations which follow, every letter must be pronounced. there are no schwas or silent syllables in sumerian. hence "kia" is pronounced "keeya "kaimanu" is pronounced "ka

akkadian translation of a given greek charm of conjuration. these will be given here. also, the reader will find english translations of the sumerian charms as they are given in the necronomicon. not al of the charms are available this way, and sometimes we have had to make do with near misses. much of what is found here has come from the maklu text, of which the only extant translation is in the german of tallqvist("die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalen im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae, tomm. xx, no. 6, helsingforsiae mdcccxcv. the word "maklu" or "maqlu" itself is controversial, but tallqvist seems to think that it does, indeed, mean "burning; especially so as the incantations to be found therein invariably entail burning somethin

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s destiny. it must then consider the political conditions of the world; how other countries may help it or hinder it. it must then destroy it itself any elements discordant with its destiny. lastly, it must develop in itself those qualities which will enable it to combat successfully the external conditions which threaten to oppose is purpose. we have had a recent example in the case of the young german empire, which, knowing itself and its will, disciplined and trained itself so that it conquered the neighbours which had oppressed it for so many centuries. but after 1866 and 1870, 1914! it mistook itself for superhuman, it willed a thing impossible, it failed to eliminate its own internal jealousies, it failed to understand the conditions of victory<
equal modesty, admits that "it often goes wrong; but it works well enough, all things considered. the science is in its infancy. all we can do is our best. we no more pretend to infallibility than the mining expert who considers himself in luck if he hits the bull's eye four times in ten" the error of all dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his "literally-inspired word of god" to the newest german professor with his single-track explanation of the universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretching a probably excellent theory to include all the facts and the fables, until it bursts like the overblown bladder it is. divination is no more than a rough and ready practical method which we understand hardly at all, and operate only as empirics

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

of the black school looked on at these magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 103 atrocious paroxysms. but it did more. it marshalled its forces quietly, and prepared to clean up the debris of the battlefields. it is at present (1924 e.v) pledged to a supreme attempt to chase the manly races from their spiritual halidom (the spasm still [1945 e.v] continues; note well the pro-german screams of anglican bishops, and the intrigues of the vatican) the black school has always worked insidiously, by treachery. we need then not be surprised by finding that its most notable representative was the renegade follower of blavatsky, annie besant, and that she was charged by her black masters with the mission of persuading the world to accept for its teacher a negroid36 messiah. to

- no! i wasn't there- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 115 or "absolute" alcohol and- liqueur whisky from "alki (commercial alcohol- see jack london's the princess, a magnificent story- don't miss it) and wartime scotch as sold in most british pubs in 1944, era vulgari. one pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into french or german or whatever language you like best, walk around your chair three times (so as to forget the english) and then translate it back again. you will gather a useful impression of the value of the masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in the work of translation; more, by observing the effect produced on you by reading over the result; and finally, by estimating the re-transla

ut thirty years of age with no sign of a wound anywhere. the man's head, which was clean-shaven, was outside the block of ice; the eyes were closed and the features were european. the shaman then lit a fire and burnt some leaves, threw powder on them muttering incantations, and there was a heavy aromatic smoke. he said in russian to the bolshevik 'ask what you want to know' the bolshevik spoke in german; he was sure that the shaman knew no german, but he was equally sure he saw the lips move and heard it answer, clearly, in german. he asked what would happen to russia, and what would happen to him. from the moving lips of the corpse came the reply that russia would be defeated in war and that there would be a revolution; the tzar would be captured magic without tears get any book for free

actice. consider zeus, jupiter, amon- ra, indra, etc, we can think of them as the same identical people known and described by greeks, romans, egyptians and hindus; they differ as mont cervin differs from monte silvio and the matterhorn (they are bound to appear different, because the mountain does not look the same from zermatt as it does from domodossola, or even as seen by a french-swiss and a german-swiss) in the same way read the life of napoleon written by one of his marshals, by michelet (a rabid republican, by lord rosebery, by a patriotic russian, and by a german poet and philosopher: one can hardly believe that the subject of any two of these biographies is the same man. but upon certain points the identity is bound to transpire; even when we read of his crushing and classic defe

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

riting. the god comforted him. also he prophesied of his immediate future, which was fulfiled, and is still being fulfilled at the time (an v. sun in 20 degrees cancer) of this writing. even more marked now (an vii, sun in libra) especially these words "i lift thee up" the new comment yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year of the new aeon has dawned. yes! i am lifted up, the sun being in scorpio in this fourteenth year of the aeon. al ii,54 "nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: they are not of me. th

the germans, despite my warnings, with reference to verse 59 of this chapter. he became insane, and behaved with the blackest treachery, this theft being but a small portion of his infamies. the incident was necessary to my own initiation. weh note: as the current grand treasurer general of the order, i feel it incumbent upon me to offer a defense of general cowie. in point of fact crowley's pro-german involvement in the usa, whether clandestine on behalf of the allies or not, occasioned a police raid on his british office. cowie, a deafmute thousands of miles away from crowley, could hardly prevent the crown from seizing the golden book and such assets as lay about. cowie's letters to crowley were filled with invective against the axis powers out of simple precaution of reputation. crowl

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d learnt it; and, in the next five or six years, imbued me with his own wish to do each piece of work as perfectly as possible. but this period of imitation did not last long. before i reached manhood, i began to draw apart from my father, to live my own life and to show a love of reading and thinking foreign to his habit. it was religion which separated us. at school i had learnt some french and german, and in both languages i came across sceptical opinions which slowly grew in my mind, and in time led me to discard and almost to dislike the religion of my father. i mention this simply because any little originality in me seemed to spring from this inquiry and from the mental struggle that convulsed three or four years of my youth. for months and months i read feverishly to conquer my dou

having a very poor time of it. talk! good god! but dorothy kept on quietly and took no notice; and in the end i forgot about them. thinking it over soberly, i see now that very likely they were quite right: i can't prove it either way. but as a mere practical man, i intend taking the steamer- for my sins i am 122 in gibraltar- back to dorothy at the earliest possible moment. sandwiches of bun and german sausage may be vulgar and even imaginary- it's the taste i like. and the more i munch, the more complacent i feel, until i go so far as to offer my critics a bite. this sounds in a way like the "interior certainly" of the common or garden christian; but there are differences. the christian insists on notorious lies being accepted as an essential part of his (more usually her) system; i, on

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one into english by ant. horneck. 8vo "curious frontispiece in six "compartments by faithorne. old calf, rebacked" 1681 "1 5"s" alchemy- suchten (alex. van. of the secrets of antimony; also basil valentine's salt of antimony, with its use, translated out of high dutch by daniel cable, a person of great skill in chemistry, 1671- treatise concerning the fiez water of the philosophers, written in he german tongue, and now published in english by j. f. houpreght, a student of the wonderful secrets of hermes "n.d- marrow of alchemy, an experimental treatise discovering the most hidden mystery of the philosopher's elixer, by e. p. philalethes (lewis du moulin, 1654-55. in one volume, 8vo "being a series "of beautifully written manuscripts, as legible as copper-plate, in calf "4 4"s" there is pra

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iss. but the main consideration was one of expediency. 118 has not john st. john possibly been stuffing himself both with methods and results? certainly this morning was more like the engorgement of the stomach with too much food than like the headache after a bout of drunkenness. a less grave fault, by far; it is easy and absurd to get a kind of hysterical ecstasy over religion, love, or wine. a german will take off his hat and dance and jodel to the sunrise and nothing comes of it! darwin studies nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics and out comes the law of evolution. so it is written "by their fruits ye shall know them. but about this question of spiritual overfeeding what did darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished

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fectly legitimate. outlines of psychology. by oswald k lpe. swan sonnenschein and co, 10"s. 6"d. one of the most encouraging and significant signs of the times is the new psychology, an excellent introduction to which is provided by the present work. oswald k lpe's work is of an essentially teutonic character, having nearly all the characteristics, both good and bad, that one expects to find in a german technical scientific work; eminently typical is "outlines of psychology" in its thoroughness. the experimental method, in which k lpe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that supernaturalism has to face. the subjective view of life is undoubtedly dest

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equently reappears in articles on hashish, seems to me solved more simply by a more accurate analysis of the phenomenon. the normal explanation involves the assumption that man naturally possesses a perfect and infallible "time-sense" as regular as a clock. which is absurd; were it so, we should not need watches. we are accustomed to work (whether the idea be philosophically tenable or not is not german to the matter) with a minimum cogitable both of space and of time. just as a definite number of beats of the pendulum makes an 45 hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour's consciousness. perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. the apparently

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ished its mysteries, and thus handed down to posterity the secret wisdom of the ancient ages. many were its 214 temples, and among many nations were they established; though in process of time some lost the purity of their primal knowledge. howbeit the manner of its introduction into medieval europe was thus: in 1378 was born the chief and originator of our fraternity in europe. he was of a noble german family, but poor, and (1383) in the fifth year of his age, was he placed in a cloister, where he learned both greek and latin. 1393. while yet a youth he accompanied a certain brother p.a.l. in a pilgrimage to the holy land, but the latter dying at cyprus, he himself went on to damascus. there was then in arabia a temple of our order, which was called by the hebrew name of damcar (hb:resh h

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earer than any one else to be the criminal author of that murder. only, when i arrived 291 it was too late. had i not been already a madman during the years 1897 and 1898, and eventually cured, this strange adventure would certainly have sent me into a state of complete insanity. as it is, i am in a certain way vaccinated against madness "monsieur, as true as i am a frenchman born in america of a german mother by a poor spanish hidalgo who forgot to give her his address_ you see, i am french by naturalization (i wanted to make up for their declining birth-rate_ the footman of mrs. ridley has been murdered by that lady herself because he tried to save her life. i don't know her past, but i am certain that she had been a near relation of mine in some former existence, and that she was much i

on with the brighton murder has confessed. he will be tried at the next assizes" well! maybe he is a new mikolka. but where is the absent relative, the spiritualist? george raffalovich 303 reviews the cloud on the sanctuary. by councillor von eckartshausen. william rider and son. we shall be very sorry if any of our readers misses this little book, a translation from the french translation of the german original into the pretty broken english of madame de steyer. it was this book which first made your reviewer aware of the existence of a secret mystical assembly of saints, and determined him to devote his whole life, without keeping back the least imaginable thing, to the purpose of making himself worthy to enter that circle. we shall be disappointed if the book has any less effect on any

dd that i was profoundly interested in the final book "the king's dole" no mystic who is familiar only with christian symbolism can afford to neglect this ritual. vale, frater! a. c. the cleansing of a city. greening and co. 1"s" net "wherefore i say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven,the same loveth little" jesus christ "but this german woman, pretending to defend the cause of virtue, and to warn women against the perils of the day, produces a book('the diary of a lost one) which is defilement to touch. before i had skimmed fifty pages i found my brain swimming; i nearly swooned" rev. r. f. horton, d.d. this book should be printed on vellum and locked up in a fire-proof safe in the british museum, great russell street w.c;

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calm, silent, reposeful beatitude, and the universality of beings presents itself tinted and illumined by a flaming dawn. if by chance a vague memory slips into the soul of this deplorable thrice-happy one "might there not be another god_ believe that he will stand upright before him; that he will dispute his will, and confront him without fear. who was the french philosopher that, mocking modern german doctrines, said "i am a god who has dined ill? this irony would not bite into a spirit uplifted by hashish; he would reply tranquilly "maybe i have dined ill; but i am a god" 106 chapter v moral but the morrow; the terrible morrow! all the organs relaxed, tired; the nerves unstretched, the teasing tendency to tears, the impossibility of applying yourself to a continuous task, teach you crue

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ed that he was deprived and banished as a "false prophet" against this we have the fact that chrysostom does not mention the book, but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. we must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern "unveiler" though personally i am inclined to accept the views of those early fathers who assign the authorship to cerinthus, and also the later german critics, who believe that the first three chapters and the last have been added by a later hand, and other portions altered to agree with the scriptures held to be orthodox. of course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of mr pryse, but rather strengthens them, as i look upon the imagery of the book as essentially that of the earlier and pre-christian gnostics. though

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

established for the perpetuation of the teachings of the tibetan and alice a. bailey. this fund is controlled by the lucis trust, a tax-exempt, religious, educational corporation. the lucis publishing company is a non-profit organization owned by the lucis trust. no royalties are paid on this book. this title is also available in a clothbound edition this title is also available in dutch, french, german, greek,italian, spanish. chapter one introductory thoughts "the scientific method apart from a narrowly agnostic and pragmatist point of view is therefore by itself incomplete and insufficient: it demands in order to make contact with reality the complement of some metaphysic or other- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust joseph mar chal, s.j. the present widespread interest in the subject of medi

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

jew i will deal later. germany cannot help herself, for though the first ray is not in manifestation as we understand the term, yet the bulk of the egos now in power in germany are on the first subray of the seven different rays, and hence they are from one dominant angle the transmitters of first ray force. a hint is here given. it is for this reason therefore that great britain can contact the german race and handle the german psychology more understandingly than can russia, italy or france. they share similar qualities, and one of the services therefore that england can render at this time is to come to the aid of world peace, and so live up to the motto "i serve" by acting as a mediator. a careful analysis of the idealism of russia and of the united states may reveal no resemblances i

d think in wider terms than the feminine aspects of divine manifestation. the reader would find it useful to consult an earlier tabulation which i gave (see pages 382-383, and consider the higher and lower expressions of the rays, noting how they work out in relation to the rays personal and egoic of the different nations. take for instance the emergence into manifestation of the egoic ray of the german nation. its lower expression is that of architectural construction, and can be seen at this time making its presence felt in the new and modern style in building. its higher expression is not yet to be noted, but germany some day will give out to the world a sound form of hierarchical government. it is interesting to note that the higher expression of the egoic ray of france (the fifth) is

nch intellect into terms which humanity can understand and the true soul psychology may come into being. again, the genius of germany has often in the past manifested along the line of its fourth ray soul, and through that soul pattern has been given to the world much of the outstanding music and philosophies. when this is again manifested, and the soul pattern is more strongly impressed upon the german consciousness, we shall begin to comprehend the significance of the superman. germany has caught a vision of this ideal. it is as yet misinterpreting it, but germany can give us the pattern of the superman, and this is its ultimate destiny. if england's ideal of justice (which is the pattern of its personality ray) can be transformed and transmuted by her egoic ray of love into just and int

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

encies. the problem of the interplay and interaction of the nations is largely a psychological one. the soul of a nation is potent in its effect. the national thoughtform (built up over the centuries by the thinking, the goals and the ambitions of a nation) constitutes its ideal objective and is most effective in conditioning the people. a pole, a frenchman, an american, a hindu, a britisher or a german are easily recognized, no matter where they may be. this recognition is not based solely upon appearance, intonation or habits but primarily upon the expressed mental attitude, the sense of relativity and a general national assertiveness. these indications express reaction to the particular national thoughtform under which the man has been raised. if this reaction makes him a good cooperati

ternational attitude to france in terms of unselfish human relations, summarizes the psychological problem with which france is at this time faced and which certain of her finest thinkers realize. can france learn to think in terms of and for those who lie beyond her boundaries, or will she continue to think in terms of france? these are the questions she must answer. germany of the faults of the german nation, there is little need to speak; they have been made painfully clear to the entire world. the germany of the mystical poets and writers of the middle ages will again arise the germany of the musical festivals, the germany which has given the world the best of the music of all time, the germany of schiller and of goethe and the germany of the philosophers. the major fault of the german

many which has given the world the best of the music of all time, the germany of schiller and of goethe and the germany of the philosophers. the major fault of the german people is an extreme negativity which makes them the most easily "conditioned" people of all time, plus an ability to accept dictatorship and propaganda without any questioning or revolt and with a deep sense of inferiority. the german- 10- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust people are consequently easily exploited, easily convinced by those who can shout and threaten; they are easily regimented. this negativity must be overcome and attention must be paid to the careful training of the individual to think and act for himself and to set great store by his own ideas, and all in a spirit of goodwill. this should

lucis trust people are consequently easily exploited, easily convinced by those who can shout and threaten; they are easily regimented. this negativity must be overcome and attention must be paid to the careful training of the individual to think and act for himself and to set great store by his own ideas, and all in a spirit of goodwill. this should be the keynote of all future education of the german people. given that and given right idealistic propaganda, the german people can develop right habits of thought as easily as they have been led into evil ways and into separative thinking. the regimentation of the german people must not be stopped for a long time to come but its motivation must be completely altered. their main psychological problem is to recognize their relation to all oth

st not be stopped for a long time to come but its motivation must be completely altered. their main psychological problem is to recognize their relation to all other peoples on equal terms. the major trouble facing the united nations will be to find the strong and good leader who can enforce that regimentation in a spirit of understanding and goodwill until such time as it is no longer needed and german men and women can think for themselves, and not in response to the propaganda of a group or a military caste. the responsibility of the allies is great. will they take advantage of the responsiveness of the german people to propaganda and see that it is properly and spiritually exploited? will they see that the educational institutions of that unhappy land are placed in the hands of those w

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

oint of regimentation. this has been the line of least resistance for germany, for though the first ray is not in manifestation at this time, yet the bulk of the people in power in germany during the past world war (1914-1945) were all on the first subray of the seven rays and hence they were inevitably the transmitters of first ray energy. it is for this reason that great britain can contact the german race and handle the people in that sad country more- 28- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust understandingly than can the other nations or great powers. they share similar qualities and one of the services which great britain can render at this time is to come to the aid of world peace and live up to her motto "i serve" by acting as an interpreter. a careful analysis of th

genius of germany has often in the past been expressed along the line of its fourth ray soul, and through its power germany has given much of music and philosophy to mankind. that soul is not at present expressing itself; a rampant personality has expressed the greatest evil, but as time goes on and germany learns the lessons which she must learn, the soul pattern will again be impressed upon the german consciousness; germany must be helped to get again the vision of this ideal. if england's ideal of justice (which is the pattern of its personality ray) can be transformed by her soul ray of love into just and intelligent world service, then she will give to the world the pattern of that true government which is the genius of the soul quality of the british. if the idealism of the united st

er, for the past renders it impossible; mixed blood runs in all veins, but the effort to produce this is the keynote of certain of the more modern cultures. these fortunately are in a minority, for they are anti-evolutionary and their objective is quite impossible of achievement, for they do not start with any pure strain. this tendency towards racial segregation (so noticeable in the jew and the german) is a form of- 34- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust isolationism and necessarily an aspect of materialism, and is related to the personality of humanity and not to the soul aspect; it is separative in effect and normally feeds pride in the individual and the nation; it runs counter to the true progress of humanity which must lead increasingly to closer human relations

e future. i would emphasis this thought: it is as one humanity, chastened, disciplined but illumined and fused, that we must emerge into the future. those who do not grasp this important fact, whether they are what is called belligerents or neutrals, will suffer deeply as a result of their non-participation in the fate of the whole. the isolationist or the super-racial attitudes of the bewildered german people are the attitudes of the separative tendencies of the form nature with its wrong emphasis; but so also is the attitude, veiled under beautiful words and misty idealism, of any neutral power who stands aloof from the happenings of the present. the hierarchy is not neutral. it is one with the right element in every nation and set against all separative, isolationist and materialistic a

not determining factors nor is history itself, as now given, an adequate guide. as said above, some nations are entities and demonstrably so, as, for instance, france or japan; others have been great and powerful nations but are so no longer, but the strain is there, and of these, india and the jewish race are illustrations. other nations are, relatively speaking, very modern, as for instance the german nation, yet the strain is very ancient. strains, types, races, nations, branches and sub-branches produce a bewildering kaleidoscope before which astrology necessarily stands confused. but to the eye of the enlightened esotericist, certain entities emerge clearly and form the nations of the world; the important factor always to remember is that it is humanity as a whole which is the factor

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ct and as the basis of trouble. they are, in their place, as sincere as you are and as eager for the achievement of the right attitude as you feel yourself to be. this is something often forgotten and i would remind you of it. i might also illustrate this point by pointing out to you that the hatred or the dislike (if hatred is too strong a word) that any of you may feel for the activities of the german government, and for the line that they have taken against the jewish people, might be turned with almost equal justification against the jews themselves. the latter have always been separative and have regarded themselves as "the chosen of the lord" and have never proved assimilable in any nation. the same can be said of the germans, and from many they evoke the same reaction as they mete o

rom the angle of the soul; they are both equally wrong, and this is a point of view which the jew and the anti-jew must eventually understand and, through understanding, bring to an end. i mention this because i am going to ask you to deal with that ancient and world-wide glamour the glamour of the hatred of the jew. in this group there are those who are, in their thought at least, violently anti-german; there are others who are definitely, though intelligently, anti-jew. i would ask those in both these groups to recognise the problem with which they are faced. it is a problem which is so very ancient and deeply rooted in the consciousness of the race that it is far bigger than the individual can possibly vision; the individual point of view is consequently so limited that constructive use

individual point of view is consequently so limited that constructive usefulness is noticeably impaired. after all, my brothers, the point of view of the "under dog" is not necessarily the only one or necessarily always the correct one. both the germans and the jews merit our impersonal love, particularly as they are both guilty (if i may use such a term) of the same basic errors and faults. the german is powerfully race conscious; so is the jew. the german is separative in his attitude to the world; so is the jew. the german insists today on racial purity, a thing upon which the jew has insisted for centuries. a small group of germans are anti-christian; so are an equally small number of jews. i could continue piling up these resemblances but the above will suffice. therefore, your disli

heir origin, their goal and their life experience with yours- 88- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust as you pour out the stream of pure white light (as stage iii instructs you, see to it that it pours through you with purity and clarity as one stream. then see it bisect into equal quantities or proportions one stream of living light and love going to the jews and the other to the german peoples. the quality of your love will count and not so much the accuracy of your analysis or the perfection of your technique. c. the contrast between maya and inspiration. here we come definitely into the realm of material substance. this is essentially and in a peculiar manner the realm of force. maya is predominantly (for the individual) the aggregate of the forces which control his sep

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

ttitude of these dictators an attitude which is so often ignored but which has real racial value. it is the attitude which leads to a synthesis of the national life, aims and intentions. a typical instance of this attitude is that of hitler. no matter what may be our personal opinion of him, there is no question that he has unified, produced fusion and blended together the various elements in the german race. this activity is aquarian in nature but in its lowest and most undesirable aspect. it is also of the nature of leo, for the people who can produce these results have necessarily to be intensely self-aware. this is the major characteristic of the leo person. what part leo may play in the personal horoscope of hitler i do not know, for i have not investigated it, but it plays a very pro

is an aspect of the principle of sharing. when i say these words, i am not speaking idealistically or mystically. i am pointing out the immediate goal; i am indicating a problem of our planetary deity; i am giving you the clue to a scientific process which is going on under our eyes and which is today at a point of crisis. as this is the aryan or fifth root-race (and i do not use this term in the german, materialistic and untrue sense) there are today in the body of him in whom we live and move and have our being, five focal points of spiritual energy, expressing themselves through five awakened centres in that body. these five are: 1. geneva. the european continent- 308- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. london. the british commonwe

ts leaders usually; they marshal the nations' forces, focus the national intent (if intuitive enough) and develop the characteristics of the people, leaving in fact behind them the memory of symbols of national intent, ideals or corruption. this could be seen working out in a demonstrable way in the two great guiding groups of world leaders: the three axis groups of leaders, dominated by the evil german group, with italy and japan fighting at intervals (consciously seldom but unconsciously often) against the evil influence, and the second group the leaders of the allied cause who represent their nations. no matter what past history may indicate in connection with many of the allied nations (past aggressions, ancient cruelties and wrong doing, they sought to cooperate with the forces of lig

he ancient gods, to deify the forms of matter and to make the state the supreme end of men's lives; the spirit of love and of individual right relations are not known those relations which are so basically characteristic of the kingdom of god. the completely atheistic approach of russia to the problem of religion at the time of, and during the period of, the revolution is much more sound than the german approach. the spirit of man in its essential divinity can be trusted to arise unhurt from the experience in answer to the call of the undying spirit. this call can sound forth clearly in a void and be evoked by time and circumstance unopposed if the only difficulty with which it is confronted is the spirit of agnosticism and an attitude of questioning. but the imposition of the ancient myth

uch a drastic purification. these are points which thinkers would do well to remember. in mystical russia, the seeds of the spiritual life are emerging to fresh beauty and a triumphant religious ideal is on its way to manifest; in germany, ancient crystallised forms of belief are met with something more ancient still and the combination of world dislike and decadent forms will make the lot of the german people one of great tragedy. in the consequent struggle for that which is spiritually alive and in the effort to regain belief in the realities of divine revelation, and in the determination to right the evil wrought by her rulers to the world, germany may some day regain the expression of soul life. to this end, she must be first released from evil rule and then aided to regain her spiritu

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e complete impossibility of verbal inspiration. if god had spoken in english, if christ had preached his sermons in english then perhaps we might be more secure as to accuracy of the presentation. but such is not the case. i remember once when eight or nine people (all of different nationalities) and my husband and i sat around a table on the shores of lake maggiore in italy and tried to find the german equivalent for the anglo-saxon word "mind" or "the mind" one of my books was being translated into german and the question had arisen. they gave it up in despair for there is no true equivalent for what we mean when we speak about "the mind" the word "intellect" is not the same. they declared that the german word "geist" did not meet the need and though we searched everywhere for some word

he mind" one of my books was being translated into german and the question had arisen. they gave it up in despair for there is no true equivalent for what we mean when we speak about "the mind" the word "intellect" is not the same. they declared that the german word "geist" did not meet the need and though we searched everywhere for some word expressing the same idea, it eluded us. and there were german professors trying to find the word along with us. perhaps some of the trouble with germany lies right there. it dawned on me then how intensely difficult a thing it is to translate correctly. one of the words constantly occurring in occult books is the word "path" meaning the way back to our source, to god, and to the spiritual centre of all life. when translating it into french, what word

le thinking concerning the unorthodox and younger jew is his materialism, of which shylock is a symbol. as i write these words i am conscious of their inadequacy and lack of complete fairness and yet from the standpoint of a broad generalisation, they are absolutely true although from the standpoint of an individual jew they are in many, many cases grossly unfair. there is much in the jew and the german which is alike. the german regards himself as a member of the "super race" whilst the orthodox jew regards himself as the chosen people. the german emphasises "racial purity" and so have the jews down the ages. the jew never seems assimilable. i have met jews in asia, in india and in europe as well as here and they remain jews, and in spite of their citizenship they are separate from the na

succeed in reaching, took the position that i had written the pamphlets and papers endorsing the united nations and the need to defeat the axis powers, and that the tibetan was not responsible for the anti-nazi point of view of these articles. this, again, was not true. the pacifists took the orthodox and idealistic point of view that because god is love it would be impossible for him to be anti-german or anti-japanese. because god is love, he had no alternative, or the hierarchy either, working under the christ, to do anything else but stand firmly on the side of those who were seeking to free humanity from slavery, evil, aggression and corruption. the words of the christ have never been more true "he that is not with me is against me" the tibetan in his writings at that time took a firm

li were outstanding features of the ascona conferences. he would lecture in french, italian and english and the spiritual power which poured through him was the means of stimulating many into renewed consecration in life. for the first two years he and i carried the bulk of the lecture work though there were other able and interesting speakers. the last year we were there the place was overrun by german professors and the whole tone and quality of the place altered. some of them were most undesirable and the teaching given shifted from a relatively high spiritual plane to that of academic philosophy and a spurious esotericism. 1933 was the last year that we went there. the second year that we went to ascona was one of very real interest. grand duke alexander joined us there and gave some v

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

heir destiny are subjects of worldwide, universal concern. the jews have- 156- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust always had a symbolic significance; they sum up in themselves as a nation, down the ages the depths of human evil and the heights of human divinity. their aggressive history as narrated in the old testament is on a par with present-day german accomplishment; yet christ was a jew and it was the hebrew race which produced him. let this never be forgotten. the jews were great aggressors; they despoiled the egyptians and they took the promised land at the point of the sword, sparing neither man, woman nor child. their religious history has been built around a materialistic jehovah, possessive, greedy and endorsing and encouraging ag

is outstandingly creative and artistic. this he must recognise and not seek as he now does to dominate in all fields, to grasp all opportunities away from other people, and so better himself and his own people at the expense of others. release from the present situation will come when the jew forgets that he is a jew and becomes in his inmost consciousness an italian, an american, a britisher, a german or a pole. this is not so at this time. the jewish problem will be solved by intermarriage; that of the negro will not. this will mean concession and compromise on the part of the orthodox jews not the concession of expediency but the concession of conviction. let me point out also that just as the kabbalah and the talmud are secondary lines of esoteric approach to truth, and materialistic

ecessary that the nations meet the jew more than half way when he arrives at altering slowly and gradually his nationalistic orthodoxy. it is essential that they cease from fear and persecution, from hatred and from placing barriers to cooperation. the growing anti-semitic feeling in the world is inexcusable in the sight of god and man. i refer not here to the abominable cruelties of the obsessed german people. behind that lies a history of atlantean relationships into which it is needless for me to enter because i could not prove to you the truth of my statements. i refer to the history of the past two thousand years and to the everyday behaviour of gentile people everywhere. there must be a definite- 159- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trus

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

will take place within the immediate future. it will be soon. the evil referred to has nothing to do with the evil inclinations, the selfish instincts and the separativeness found in the hearts and minds of human beings. these they must overcome and eliminate for themselves. but the reduction to impotency of the loosed forces of evil which took advantage of the world situation, which obsessed the german people and directed the japanese people, and which worked through barbarity, murder, sadism, lying propaganda, and which prostituted science to achieve their ends, requires the imposition of a power beyond the human. this must be invoked, and the invocation will meet with speedy response. these evil potencies will be occultly "sealed" within their own place; what this exactly means has naug

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

n in all lands are responding clearly and definitely to this note of sacrifice. leaders of the great nations everywhere are using this note and call to sacrifice in their appeals at this time to their peoples. men in germany were called to battle by their leaders with the challenge of sacrifice and told that they must give their lives in order that germany may live. a study of the speeches by the german leaders will be found to contain this note. the other group, whom you call the allies (because they stand more specifically for the good of the whole and not for the good of the separated nation or unit) are also calling the masses of their people to fight for the good of civilisation and for the preservation of those values which are next upon the evolutionary scale and essential to the ge

ighting of ancient historical wrongs influences others; the restitution of lands, earlier held, directs the acts of others. for instance: the ancient glory of the roman empire must be restored at the expense of the helpless little peoples; the culture of france must be paramount and french security must outweigh all other considerations; british imperialism has in the past outraged other nations; german hegemony and "living space" must dominate europe, and the german superman must be the arbiter of human life; american isolationism would leave humanity defenceless in its hour of need and hand men over to the rule of hitler; russia, in her silence, cannot be trusted; japan is upsetting the balance of power in asia. such is the picture today. anarchy rules the world; famine stalks the inhabi

rld order the totalitarian order must go because it is contrary to the spiritual vision. the world order, as visioned by hitler, is based upon the subjection of the weak to the rule of a super-germany; it is one in which the life of the little nations will be allowed to go on just in so far as they serve the need of germany. the lesser axis powers are permitted existence only because they benefit german aims italy, to give germany scope in the mediterranean; japan, to handle the asiatic problem which is too large for germany to handle alone. it is an order whose intention is that the- 123- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust best of all industrial and agricultural products shall go to germany and the unwanted residue to the little nations. it is an order in whic

ry, and as the ruthless saviour of mankind; the beauties of war, of struggle and of physical strength will be emphasised, and these so-called admirable objectives of the human spirit will be developed to produce a race of men in whom the "effeminate" beauties of loving kindness and wise consideration for others will find no place. i would call your attention to the teaching now being given to the german youth. might is right. the german belongs to the super-race, and all other races are inferior. only a chosen aristocracy should be permitted the privilege of education and of rule. the masses of the people are no more than cattle and exist only to be slaves of the superior race. war is to men what childbirth is to women. war is a natural process and therefore eternally right. all sources of

tocracy should be permitted the privilege of education and of rule. the masses of the people are no more than cattle and exist only to be slaves of the superior race. war is to men what childbirth is to women. war is a natural process and therefore eternally right. all sources of supply must be controlled by germany, and consequently even those nations at present neutral must be brought under the german sphere of influence. the totalitarian powers will dominate the economic system of the world and control all imports and exports. the standard of living in both hemispheres will be lowered; everything will be related to the good of germany, and no other nation will be considered. christian teaching and christian ethics must necessarily be eliminated, because germany regards christianity and

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

gn secretary, responsible for exoteric relationships. one further point anent the buddhas of activity might here be of interest. each of them has a special relation to the three races which have been or are strictly human: these are the third, the fourth and the fifth rootraces which we call the lemurian, the atlantean and the present aryan race (i do not use the word "aryan" in the manner of the german race. in some peculiar manner, they represent in shamballa the soul of each of these three races. one thing complicates this question for you, but it is in reality quite simple. the same souls re-incarnate in each race, and each soul therefore comes in turn under the influence of each of the three buddhas, each of whom is of a quality different to that of his two associates. they represent

ul-personality are being more directly related than has hitherto been possible. one reason for this is that there are present in incarnation upon the planet many more initiates of the third degree than ever before; there are many more disciples being prepared for the third initiation; and in this third strictly human race, the aryan (using this term in its generic sense and not in its prostituted german connotation, the three aspects of the personality are now so potent that their magnetic influence and their creative effect are making the building of the antahkarana an outstanding achievement, thus linking and aligning the three aspects in man. the same is true of the three divine centres in the planet which embody these divine qualities: shamballa, hierarchy, and humanity. these are now

ved her many differences and has returned to the old ways of spiritual understanding and of enlightened wisdom which distinguished her many centuries ago. india has nearly lost the light, but when she has passed through the coming points of crisis, and has achieved a point of united tension, then she will find the door or point of emergence into light. the ray governing the soul expression of the german race is that of harmony through conflict, but her materialistic personality, focussed in the emotional nature and not yet under control of the soul, is conditioned by the first ray of power. germany as a nation is too young, immature, and negative to realise the true uses of power; she lacks the wisdom to use power, and her sense of inferiority (based on youth) leads her to misuse it when s

that of harmony through conflict, but her materialistic personality, focussed in the emotional nature and not yet under control of the soul, is conditioned by the first ray of power. germany as a nation is too young, immature, and negative to realise the true uses of power; she lacks the wisdom to use power, and her sense of inferiority (based on youth) leads her to misuse it when she has it. the german race is very old, and the german leaders during the past one hundred years have confused racial issues and national ambitions. races are basically subjective, and nations are basically objective. their leaders have permitted the ideal of power (which is a great spiritual responsibility) to lead them to make the germanic race synchronise with the german nation. it was this immaturity and thi

e arriving the first at the point of tension where the concept is concerned, and the other at the point of crisis. germany's point of crisis and of- 410- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust tension led to the explosion of the world war; nevertheless, after due process of pain, of re-education and of training in right human relations, the german people will discover their soul, and then the soul-infused personality of the german people will demonstrate in a unique manner the significance of harmony. the basic and subjective synthesis of the germanic race must not be confused with the separate nation of the german people, and the underlying emotional and sentimental unity (using the word "sentimental" in its correct sense) must not

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

he school of segovia of rabbis jacob, abulafia (died 1305, shem tob (died 1332, and isaac of akko. the school of rabbi isaac ben abraham ibn latif about 1390. the school of abulafia (died 1292) and joseph gikatilla (died 1300; also the schools of "zoharists" of rabbis moses de leon (died 1305, menahem di recanti (died 1350, isaac loria (died 1572) and chajim vital, who died in 1620. a very famous german kabalist was john reuchlin or capnio, and he wrote two great works, the "de verbo mirifico" and "de arte cabalistica" in the main there were two tendencies among the kabalists: the one set devoted themselves entirely to the doctrinal and dogmatic branch: the other to the practical and wonder-working aspect. the greatest of the wonder-working rabbis were isaac loria, also called ari; and sab

1576; gulielmus postellus, 1581; john pistorius, 1608; jacob behmen, 1624; the notable english rosicrucian, robert fludd, 1637; henry more, 1687; the famous jesuit athanasius kircher, 1680; and knorr von rosenroth, 1689. to these must be added eliphaz l vi and edouard schur, two modern french writers on the occult sciences, and two english authors, anna kingsford and edward maitland. the notable german philosopher spinoza, 1677, regarded the doctrines of the kabalah with great esteem. the practical kabalah let us take the practical kabalah before the dogmatic; it may perhaps have preceded the theoretical philosophy because it was at first concerned with an intimate study of the pentateuch; a research based upon the theory that every sentence, word and letter were given by divine inspirati

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ds were generally selected. they vary more or less, but seldom material-ly, from these. sometimes visible manifestations, as, for instance, lightning, are requested. t o see awhite horse is a sign that the prayer will be granted after some delay. it also signifies victory. 26 la testa dun uomo piena di verme e puzzolente. a parody in kind for the decayed cabbage,much completer than the end of the german tale resembling it.chapter xiv. no footnotes)chapter xv. 27 this was a very peculiar characteristic of diana, who was involved in a similar manner. i havehere omitted much needless verbiage or reputation in the original ms. and also abbreviated whatfollows. 28 all of this indicates unmistakably, in several repects, a genuine tradition. in the hands of craftypriests this would prove a great

f; theywho called her chaste, methinks, began too soontheir nomenclature; there is not a daythe longest, not the twenty-first of june,sees half the business in a wicked wayon which three single hours of moonshine smile. don juan, cxiii.chapter x no footnotes) page 77 n r r r r r footnotes.preface. 1 march, 1897: neapolitan witchcraft. 2 thus we may imagine what the case would have been as regards german fairy-tales if nothinghad survived to a future day except the collections of grimm and musaeus. the world would fall intothe belief that these constituted all the works of the kind which had ever existed, when, in fact, theyform only a small part of the whole. and folklore was unknown to classic authors: there is really noevidence in any ancient latin writer that he gathered traditions and

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

single study. the chevalier ramsay never spoke of the templars: his affirmation was that the hypothetical building confraternity of palestine united ultimately with the knights of st. john of jerusalem; that it became established in various countries of europe as the crusaders drifted back; and that its chief centre in the thirteenth century was kilwinning in scotland. but the french or otherwise german masonic mind went to work upon this thesis, and in presenting the craft with the credentials of knightly connections it substituted the order of the temple for the chivalry chosen by ramsay. the battle of lepanto and the siege of vienna had invested the annals of the st. john knighthood with a great light of valour; but this was as little and next to nothing in comparison with the talismani

to exist in secret from the days of philippe le bel even to the second half of the eighteenth century. there were other considerations, however, which loomed largely, and especially in regard to the sudden proscription which befell the order in 1307. of the trial which followed there were records available to all, in successive editions of the french work of dupuy, first published in 1685; in the german historical tractatus of petrus puteamus published at frankfort in 1665; in gurther's latin historia tempiarsorum of 1691; and in yet other publications prior to 1750. there is not a little evidence of one impression which was produced by these memorials, the notion, namely, of an unexplored realm of mystery extending behind the charges. it was the day of voltaire, and it happened that a sha

f mary the mother of god, and isis the queen of heaven. the root of these dreams on doctrine and myth transfigured through the ages- with a heart of reality behind it- will be found, as it seems to me, in occult derivations from templar ritual which belong to circa 1782 and are still in vigilant custody on the continent of europe. i mention this lest it should be thought that the intimations of a german poet, though he was an active member of the strict observance, were mere inventions of an imaginative mind. there is no historical evidence for the existence of any templar perpetuation story prior to the oration of ramsay, just as there is no question that all documents produced by the french non-masonic order of the temple, founded in the early years of the nineteenth century, are inventi

of which no authority is cited and imagination may seem to have been at work. but some of the statements, including those of other english writers, are referable to a source in thory's acta latamorum. when woodford speaks of von hund's admission into templar masonry at clermont as not a matter of hypothesis, but of certain knowledge, he is dependent on the french historian, according to whom the german baron was made a mason at paris in 1742. the chapter of clermont was founded in that city so late as 1754, and some time subsequently von hund retunied thither, with the result that he derived templar teaching from clermont, on which he built up the observance system. but, whatever the point is worth, this story is not only at issue with that of von hund himself, but with the current chrono

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rty. however, they can sell only that one copy- they are not permitted to make additional copies for sale* reverend77x@aol.com- i am told he has claimed to be a iv* member of the temple of set. he is not a member* lilithdarkmoon@aol.com and/or lilithvmp@aol.com- i am told she claims to be a former member. she is not* magussatanicus@aol.com- i am told he claims to be a member of the priesthood in "german chamber" and claims as well that lilithdarkmoon@aol.com/lilithvmp@aol.com is actually lilith aquino. he is not a member. there is no "german chamber" lilith aquino does not use either of those two aliases on aol* xeper879631179@aol.com- while this person has not yet claimed to be a member of the temple of set, he apparently has proclaimed himself the magus of xem. xem is an aeonic word with

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ronomer" moreover, prof. weber refuses to assign any great antiquity to the indian zodiac, and feels inclined to think that the hindus never knew of a zodiac at all till "they had borrowed one from the greeks* this statement clashes with the most ancient traditions of india, and must therefore be ignored (vide "the zodiac and its antiquity. we are the more justified in ignoring it, as the learned german professor himself tells us in the introduction to his work (history of sanskrit literature) that "in addition to the natural obstacles which impede investigation (in india, there still prevails a dense mist of prejudices and preconceived opinions hovering over the land, and enfolding it as with a veil" caught in that veil, it is no wonder that dr. weber should himself have been led into inv

ight of the hindu pramantha. degraded into a purely physiological symbol by some orientalists, and taken in connection with terrestrial fire only, their interpretation is an insult to every religion, including christianity, whose greatest mystery is thus dragged down to matter. the "friction" of divine pramantha and arani could suggest itself under this image only to the brutal conceptions of the german materialists- than whom there are none worse. it is true that the divine babe, agni with the sanskrit-speaking race, who became ignis with the latins, is born from the conjunction of pramantha and arani (svastica) during the sacrificial ceremony. but what of that? twashtri (viswakarman) is the "divine artist and carpenter* and is also the father of the gods and of creative fire in the vedas

ntly ready. the incarnating powers chose the ripest fruits and spurned the rest* by a curious coincidence, when selecting a familiar name for the continent on which the first androgynes, the third root- race, separated, the writer chose, on geographical considerations, that of "lemuria" invented by mr. p. l. sclater. it is only later, that reading haeckel's "pedigree of man" it was found that the german "animalist" had chosen the name for his late continent. he traces, properly enough, the centre of human evolution to "lemuria" but with a slight scientific variation. speaking of it as that "cradle of mankind" he pictures the gradual transformation of the anthropoid mammal into the primeval savage! vogt, again, holds that in america man sprang from a branch of the platyrrhine apes, independ

gainst prometheus, and by jehovah-il-da-baoth against his "rebellious son" satan. the cold, pure snows of the caucasian mountain and the neverdying, singeing fire and flames of an extinguishable hell. two poles, yet the same idea; the dual aspect of a refined torture: a fire producer- the personified emblem of[[phosphoros] of the astral fire and light in the anima mundi (that element of which the german materialist philosopher moleschott said "ohne phosphor kein gedanke" i.e, without phosphorus no thought, burning in the fierce flames of his terrestrial passions; the conflagration fired by his thought, discerning as it now does good from evil, and yet a slave to the passions of its earthly adam; feeling the vulture of doubt and full consciousness gnawing at its heart- a prometheus indeed

ich belonged to a buddha of the earliest day of the fifth race, who had witnessed the deluge and the submersion of the chief continents of the atlantean race. the day when much, if not all, of that which is given here from the archaic records, will be found correct, is not far distant. then the modern symbologists will acquire the certitude that even odin, or the god woden, the highest god in the german and scandinavian mythology, is one of these thirty-five buddhas; one of the earliest, indeed, for the continent to which he and his race belonged, is also one of the earliest. so early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from norway via iceland and greenland, to the lands that at present

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[nous, the principle that according to his views is absolutely separated and free from matter and acts on design* was called motion, the one life, or jivatma, ages before the year 500 b.c. in india. only the aryan philosophers never endowed the principle, which with them is infinite, with the finite "attribute" of "thinking" this leads the reader naturally to the "supreme spirit" of hegel and the german transcendentalists as a contrast that it may be useful to point out. the schools of schelling and fichte have diverged widely from the primitive archaic conception of an absolute principle, and have mirrored only an aspect of the basic idea of the vedanta. even the "absoluter geist" shadowed forth by von hartman in his pessimistic philosophy of the unconscious, while it is, perhaps, the clo

re is also a range in the himalayas, described in the old books as being situated north of mount meru, called "hamsa" and connected with episodes pertaining to the history of religious mysteries and initiations. as to the name of kala-hansa being the supposed vehicle of brahma-prajapati, in the exoteric texts and translations of the[[footnote(s* this is again similar to the doctrine of fichte and german pantheists. the former reveres jesus as the great teacher who inculcated the unity of the spirit of man with the god-spirit (the adwaita doctrine) or universal principle. it is difficult to find a single speculation in western metaphysics which has not been anticipated by archaic eastern philosophy. from kant to herbert spencer, it is all a more or less distorted echo of the dwaita, adwaita

does not apply merely to our terrestrial humanity, but to the mortals that inhabit any world, i.e, to those intelligences that have reached the appropriate equilibrium between matter and spirit, as we have now, since the middle point of the fourth root race of the fourth round was passed. each entity must have won for itself the right of becoming divine, through self-experience. hegel, the great german thinker, must have known or sensed intuitionally this truth when saying, as he did, that the unconscious evolved the universe only "in the hope of attaining clear selfconsciousness" of becoming, in other words, man; for this is also the secret meaning of the usual puranic phrase about[[vol. 1, page] 107 no man- no god. brahma being constantly "moved by the desire to create" this explains al

of science" messrs. jevons and babbage tell the profane. modern science is drawn more every day into the maelstrom of occultism; unconsciously, no doubt, still very sensibly. the two main theories of science- re the relations between mind and matter- are monism and materialism. these two cover the whole ground of negative psychology with the exception of the quasi-occult views of the pantheistic german schools[[footnote(s* not of course in the sense of the german materialist moleschott, who assures us that "thought is the movement of matter" a statement of almost unequalled absurdity. mental states and bodily states are utterly contrasted as such. but that does not affect the position that every thought, in addition to its physical accompaniment (brain-change, exhibits an objective- thoug

one thing, and his terrestrial physical casket another. that physical nature, the great combination of physical correlations of forces, ever creeping onward towards perfection, has to avail herself of the material at hand; she models and remodels as she proceeds, and finishing her crowning work in man, presents him alone as a fit tabernacle for the overshadowing of the divine spirit" moreover, a german scientific work is mentioned in a footnote on the same page. it says that a hanoverian scientist had recently published a book entitled "ueber die auflosung der arten durch naturliche zucht-wahl" in which he shows, with great ingenuity, that darwin was wholly mistaken in tracing man back to the ape. on the contrary, he maintains that it is the ape which is evolved from man. he shows that, i

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s we might have supposed.from the .spiritualistic. point of view, and endeavours to prove that the various personalities are not such at all, in reality, but probably .spirits. who are .obsessing. the poor girl, and causing all the reviews 287 disturbance. shades of witchcraft and the new testament.here is a joyous revival, in the twentieth century! we have a girl, doris fischer, born in 1889 (of german parents, who developed, in all, five distinct personalities, each of which received a special name. besides the original .doris. we find .sick doris .margaret. and .sleeping margaret. and .sleeping real doris. these five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (as is invariably the case) and to be essentially different, from the psychological point-of-view. as usual, als

rabindranath tagore. the macmillan co. knowing that whatever is good in rabindranath tagore is due to the style of w. b. yeats, i expected the introduction to be by that individual, who might have been romantic if he had been willing to wash his face and put on a clean collar every month or so. the introduction begins .a few days ago i said to a distinguished bengali doctor of medicine .i know no german. apart from the question as to whether silly willy counts his fortune in marks or not, i was much distracted by his reference. i found myself back again in teng-yueh. we were sitting at dinner in the consul.s house, when the messenger broke in to tell us that the consul.who was away among some unruly tribes.was ill, perhaps dying. we jumped up, george forrest, the botanist, and i, and made

o her too, and then perhaps paira mull will take at least one of the children.his own. off my hands. narada, too, is not legally my child at all. he is just a nameless bastard. so thinks the .worm. and so he does. the only detail in which his the equinox 294 scheme goes wrong is that his wife manages, against all odds, to survive her miscarriage. all this time, the .worm. himself is living with a german prostitute; and, as he finds this expensive, he tries to keep the wolf from the door by getting this unfortunate woman to copy out various items from the works of his wife s lover, which are not very well known in america, and she proceeds to hawk them about new york. the man whose property they are will not be likely to hear of it, as the inexplicable conduct of alice has more or less brok

ems from the works of his wife s lover, which are not very well known in america, and she proceeds to hawk them about new york. the man whose property they are will not be likely to hear of it, as the inexplicable conduct of alice has more or less broken his heart, and he has become a sort of hermit. but the wife turns up again like a bad penny. the .worm. has by this time got rather tired of the german girl, and he goes off to chicago after another woman, leaving his wife and his mistress to share a room at the mcalpin. instead of quarreling, they made friends, and the wholly icily murderous plot is laid bare. alice now makes strenuous efforts to get back her lover, but he is one of those people who learn by experience. he merely exposes the .worm.s. attempt to pirate his property. it see

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g the principles of the infernal hierarchy and so should all groups that are truly left path, small and large, from the top to the bottom. translator's note: the algolic spiritual hierarchy is somewhat reflected in the grimoire "the threefold coercion of hell by doctor johannes faust" translated into english by k.h.w. however, the names of the infernal spirits have been somewhat distorted in this german classic. the hierarchy of the o.a.i. is indeed following these ancient principles as shown in this chapter, and so is the hierarchy of all branches of the o.a.i. caput quartum: the infernal alphabet of doom part 1: letters from f through g 4.1. the first letter of the infernal alphabet is f; it is ruled by lucifer, who is emperor supreme of the great infernal empire. 4.2. the second letter

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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 devil! in 1484 pope innocent viii produced his bull against witches. two years later two infamous german monks, heinrich institoris kramer and jakob sprenger, produced their incredible concoction of anti-witchery, the malleus maleficarum (the witch hammer. in this book definite instructions were given for the prosecution of witches. however, when the book was submitted to the theological faculty of the university of cologne the appointed censor at that time the majority of the professors refus

nly many early illustrations of naked witches anointing themselves preparatory to their departure for the sabbat, but there are also illustrations of witches at the sabbat who are clothed. for interest i did a little research to see how many, if any, such early illustrations showed the witches actually naked at the sabbat. the result was fairly conclusive. hans baldung grun, the sixteenth century german, did any number of witch illustrations (witches at work and witches' sabbat are typical) all showing naked participants. albrecht durer's the four sorcerers is of naked witches. the douce collection, bodleian library, oxford, contains an illustration of the witches sabbat on the bracken with many of the participants naked. practically all of goya's paintings of witches show them naked (two

writing. not very old when we look at the whole picture of witchcraft. so if a gardnerian initiation (for example) can be considered "valid, then so can yours. circles a roman ambassador in a foreign country would draw a circle around himself with his staff, to show he should be safe from attack; the babylonians drew a circle of flour on the floor round the bed of a sick man, to keep demons away; german jews, in the middle ages, would draw a circle round the bed of a woman in labor, to protect her from evil spirits. the use of a circle to mark the boundary of an area which is sacred, is very ancient (e.g. stonehenge. but the circle not only keeps the unwanted out, it also keeps the wanted the raised power; the magickal energy in. the dimensions of the circle depend entirely on who is drawi

n mountain ash bk. pilewort hb. potentilla hb. purple loosestrife hb. queen of the meadow hb. rattlesnake rt. redrt. rhatany rt. sage hb. sanicle rt. sampson snake rt. shepherd's purse hb. sumbul rt. sumach bk. or rt. tormentil rt. wafer ash bk. water avens rt. water lilly rt. white ash bk. white oak bk. wild indigo bk. witch hazel twigs mild astringents: blackberry rt. black birch ivs. celandine german rue rosa gallica petals st. john's wort sweet fern hb. bitter tonics used for temporary loss of appetite. they stimulate the flow of saliva and gastric juices, assisting in the process of digestion. augosura bk. balmony hb. barberry rt. and bk. bayberry ivs. blackberry ivs. black haw bk. blessed thistle bogbeab hb. boldo ivs. cascarilla bk. chamomile fls. chiretta hb. columbo rt. condurango

dderwrack; dandelion leaves; dulse; kelp; linseed; sesame; watercress; wheat germ. vitamin g (b2: essential in preventing a deficiency disease. sources-hydrocotyle asiatica. vitamin 1c: necessary in the physiological process of blood clotting. sources-alfalfa herb; chestnut leaves; shepherd's purse. vitaminp (rutin: believed to be of benefit in strengthening tiny blood vessels. sources-buckwheat; german rue; paprika. niacin (another b-complex vitamin: prevents pellagra. sources-alfalfa leaves; blueberry leaves; burdock seed; fenugreek; parsley herb; watercress; wheat germ. the art of prescribing medicine in prescribing medicine the following circumstances should always be kept in mind: age, sex, temperament, habit, climate, state of stomach, idiosyncrasy. age for an adult, suppose the dose

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musical endeavors from zero kama and his art work today proves this. dewitt had a number of very powerful and dangerous rituals, for which i will only describe in parts here to present the luciferian aspects of this foundation of self-alchemy and evolution. dewitt became a neophyte in the iot in 1988, taking the title frater anon 359. he then began translating a number of peter carroll s works in german and pushed forward with his own temple pleasuredome. much of the workings of temple pleasuredome were focused on spare s zos kia cultus and an uncompromising focus of magick which led others to call him a gnostic extremist. many of the rituals implemented by anon 359 prove a barrier to many of the would be chaos magicians and those who actually do magick, the difference is astonishing and s

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

t derives from personal, egotistical motivations; religion, a public activity, yields benefits for an entire community.[7] and yet this delineation of private versus public interests did not apply in all cases. in many accounts of indigenous african religious life\ 40\ spiritual forces were involved in rituals for personal needs as well as those affecting the larger group. the seventeenth-century german barber-surgeon andreas ulsheimer noted this when he observed that the futisse(fetishes) of cape coast africans were often petitioned for the success of crops, for prosperity in trade, for prevention of illnesses, for the fecundity of women, and on the likelihood of war.matters of both private and public concern. other witnesses corroborate the fusion of private and public interests within i

t of elmina in the late 1600s exclaimed "they cry out, let us make fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our religious worship" the avatar of the national deity of whydah, a serpent, was called a fetish by white missionaries on the slave coast in the late seventeenth century. bosman spoke of fetishes as "all things made in honour of [their] false gods" as did wilhelm muller, a german lutheran prelate who wrote from the gold coast that akan fetishes incarnated "the devil himself, from whom c they seek advice, comfort and help" a being who was incarnated in the figure of a "tall, abominable, black moor" at a future point fetishism would be associated with magic, but most accounts suggest its link to various forms of traditional african religion.[9] although contemporary w

align occultism" p. 410; hortense powdermaker, after freedom: a cultural study in the deep south (new york: viking press, 1939, pp. 294.95. on charms containing psalms and biblical verses see botkin, lay my burden down, p. 339. germanand french-language magical booklets were first published in the united states during the early nineteenth century and consulted as reference texts by healers within german jewish and pennsylvania dutch communities. eventually, english-language editions of these manuals made their way into the hands of angloand african american practitioners of folk magic. belief in the inherent supernatural power of certain books, letters, and written materials may have intensified when literacy acquired a near-sacred significance for african americans in the post-emancipatio

he slave trade in a published autobiography. equiano was educated in england and america by benevolent whites, who renamed him gustavus vassa, after a sixteenth-century swedish monarch. traveling extensively in europe, the caribbean, and america, he wrote of his adventures at sea in a narrative that was published in several editions during his lifetime and later translated into dutch, french, and german. for background on equiano see angelo costanzo, surprising narrative: olaudah equiano and the beginnings of black autobiography (westport, conn: greenwood press, 1987. for the context of the religious thought and views of the world of which equiano was a part, see paul edwards and rosalind shaw "the invisible chi in equiano's interesting narrative" journal of religion in africa 19, no. 2 (1

y that is based in social organization. for durkheim, magical activity normally involves individuals, who serve as clients of the magician. magic has no church or community and does not emphasize collective activity; religion recognizes a moral assembly of believers who are bound together by their unified belief in the authority of the collective. 8. andreas joshua ulsheimer "voyage of 1603.4" in german sources for west african history, ed. adam jones (wiesbaden: franz steiner verlag, 1983, p. 26. 9. bosman, who called the fetish a "false god" used the akan word bossom, as did wilhelm muller, a lutheran prelate who served the danish african company on the gold coast nearly fifty years earlier. muller distinguished between obossum "a general idol" that took its power from the high god, and

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ld of villanova and jean roquetaillade. c. 1400 moses ben isaac botarel provencal kabbalist 1400-1464 nicholas of cusa 1402-1442 bernard of treviso 1403-1472 cardinal johannes bessarion encouraged the spread of greek studies in italy 1403 king henry iv of england issues a prohibition of alchemy and to stop counterfeit money 1405 moses botarel sefer yezirah commentary 1412-1480 lacinius 1415 early german ms buch der heiligen dreifaltigkeit paralleling the christ and the philosophers' stone 1419 cristoforo de' buondelmonti's purchase, on the island of andros of a manuscript of the hieroglyphica, attributed to horapollo. 1420-1477+ bonifacio bembo 1420 splendor solis manuscript 1423 cards are condemned in a speech made a bologna by st. bernardin of siena. he does not refer to the tarot major

a chapter on cabala. 1519 jean thenaud la saincte et tr s chrestienne cabale m trifi e exposes fran ois i to the cabala. 1520(31)-1609 r. ben bezalel of prague, r. loew of prague. 1521 trait de la cabale employs a cosmology and numerology derived from dionysius the areopagite and re-interprets kabbalism by means of the figura of the ninth century rabanus maurus of fulda. 1522 n.t. translated into german by m. luther. 1522-1570 moses ben jacob cordovero author of pardes rimmonim, or hashekhal("light of the intellect, and the angelology: derishot be-inyanei ha-mal'akhim. student of joseph caro and a teacher of isaac luria. 1523-1596 blaise de vigen re astrologer and alchemist, follower of guillaume postel; published traict of the figures and traict of the prayers and speeches< traict des chi

tzirah. a second latin version printed 25 years later. guillaume postel -omnium linguaruam quibus ad hanc usque diem mundus est usus origo idea that the characters of the three sacred languages derive from a common geometrical base. january 6, postel's mystical "immutation" 1553-1588 valentin weigel mystical writer who drew upon paracelsist and alchemical ideas; influenced jacob boehme, and other german protestant mystics of the 17th century. 1553-1623 abraham yagel. gei hizzayon(valley of vision. 1553 postel publishes de originibus (p. 10 discusses ethiopian magical texts) postel leaves paris in may due to henry ii putting a halt to his public preaching. he journeys to dijon, besancon and basel in the summer returning to venice in august; in the autumn he is preaching in padua. by decembe

petrus bongus mysticae numerorum asserts pythagoras derived from the cabbalists 1586-1652 pietro della valle. travelled extensively in the levant (1614-26, bringing back with him to italy egyptian mummies and coptic manuscripts. 1586-1588 giordano bruno university teacher at wittenberg, preaching the coming of a magical reform movement politically associated with henry of navarre. bruno described german scholars as being the builders of the temple of wisdom, eulogising martin luther at his former university. the inquisition claimed at bruno s trial, that he intended to form a new sect under the name of "giordanisti, appealing particularly to the lutherans in germany 1586 alleged meeting at luneburg (hanover) between the representatives of the king of navarre, the king of denmark and the qu

ed itself to "les freres d orient" created in constantinople in 1090. the teachings of this society were conveyed from teacher to disciple and the their principle unifying form was the distinction of receiving "the initiation" which gave them the right to be known as "unknown superiors" or "superieurs inconnus" or s.i. as it is written"-mark stavish. there were printed editions of them in french, german and latin. james bonaventure hepburn published at rome his virga aurea "the heavenly golden rod of the blessed virgin mary in seventy-two praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually seventy, plus latin and hebrew which are the two languages of the text of the plate. cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia- stephan michelspacher. 1617 first volume of fludd's utriusq

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

s published on microfiche. 1992 greek papyrus from 4th-century hermoupolis, egypt, published by william brashear of mithraic catechism 1999 christine payne-towler: underground stream "when you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research -wilson mizo the chymical wedding of christian rosenkreutz the chymical wedding of christian rosenkreutz originally published in german in 1616. this edition derives from an english translation published in 1690. no part of this document is copyrighted or copyrightable in any domain. adobe acrobat edition prepared by benjamin rowe, october, 2000. typeset in bembo. page 1 the first day n an evening before easter day, i sat at a table, and having (as my custom was) in my humble prayer sufficiently conversed with my creator, a

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cis dashwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support of the french freemasons for the american revolution, and he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron was to play a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. franklin's connections with the french brotherhood were very close and he became a high ranking member of the lodges of san juan and the nine sisters which, in league with the grand orient lodge in paris, would trigger the fre

d bounds as this funny money system expanded its grip on the world. this gave the elite's bankers the power to manipulate wars and revolutions, almost at will, in league with other elements within the brotherhood network, which expanded and became even more focussed on its goals during the same period that the banking system emerged. another branch of the brotherhood was officially started by the german professor, adam weishaupt, on may 1st 1776, and this sought to infiltrate all the seats of power throughout europe. it was called the bavarian illuminati. the term tlluminati' means illuminated or enlightened ones and goes back to ancient times. weishaupt's illuminati was designed on classic brotherhood lines with circles of apparently unconnected people who were, behind the scenes and with

a form of money to which the title 'credit' had been given."18 debts were measured in gold or silver, neither of which france produced. therefore their debts were bound to grow and become even more impossible to pay. the brotherhood had people on the inside as usual, including one in the key position of chief finance minister to king louis. his name was necker, a man who claimed to be a swiss of german extraction. mcnair wilson wrote of him "necker had forced his way into the king's treasury as a representative of the debt system and owing allegiance to that system".19 necker had a reputation of being a daring and unscrupulous speculator before joining the king's administration and, after four years in the treasury, he had manipulated the french finances on behalf of the illuminati-elite

ure they play their part in the overall plan, the true agenda of which is kept secret from them. once they have done their job, they are discarded. those reading this book who are on the lower levels of the brotherhood ladder might ponder deeply on this for their own sake, if not for that of others. another brotherhood frontman was the marquis de mirabeau. he is known to have been financed by the german, moses mendelssohn, a member of the uluminati.21 rabbi marvin s. antelman names mendelssohn as a key manipulator for an inner 'jewish' clique which he believes has been seeking to destroy judaism and all religion.22 he says that this clique, together with non-jews, are followers of what he, too, calls the all-seeing eye cult. he links this group to the house of rothschild and says the cult

mstrong, rothschilds money trust (1940) p22 3 eustace mullins, the world order, our secret rulers (ezra pound institute of civilisation, staunton, usa, 1992) p7 4 i have also seen this quote attributed to later rothschilds. 5 the rothschilds, financial rulers of nations, pl67 6 john reeves, the rothschilds, pl04-105 7 jewish encylopedia, vol. 10, p501-502 8 i say "dutch, in fact he was formerly a german prince from the house of nassau. interestingly, another german prince would marry into the dutch royal family in this century. that was prince bernhard, of which much more later. 9 the world order, our secret rulers, p25 10 the world order, our secret rulers, p25 11 ibid p276 12 secret societies, pl22 13 there is another train of thought which suggests that lincoln was killed because he was

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l, change the weather, and "shape-shift" into any form. thousands of years later, one of the most important of the illuminati secret societies, the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem, now the knights of malta, located on rhodes and for a while were known as the knights of rhodes. ultimately, they came from the same source as the knights templar. the name rhodes, which is connected to the german "rot, meaning red, as with rothschild("red-shield, became a code name for the bloodlines. red= sirius? these guys don't choose their locations or their names by accident. malta, too, was an important centre by 3500bc and the home of a major mystery school. under malta is a vast network of tunnels and megalithic temples where secret rituals took place- and still do. malta's original name was

ignificant part of it, had moved down from northern europe after the upheavals. he says they came from locations called friezland, scandza, and tula, which could be today's greenland, he thinks. certainly there is an illuminati interest in greenland that does not make sense when viewed simply from the perspective of a vast island covered in snow and ice. one of the key secret societies behind the german nazis was called the thule society after "ultima thule, one of the alleged origins of the "master race" in the far north of the world. this "aryan master race" was said to be..blond-haired and blue-eyed. frans kamp says that the name holland (a big region of the netherlands) came from halland in scandinavia as those peoples moved south and settled new lands. he suggests that some of the lea

of england, an extremely important centre for the illuminati and its satanists because of its position on the earth energy grid. more 84 children of the matrix about that in due course. it was lord mountbatten who arranged the marriage between prince philip and queen elizabeth ii, after which the royal line of the uk became known as windsor-mountbatten. both the windsors and the mountbattens are german bloodlines formerly known as the house of saxe-coburg-gotha and the battenbergs. they anglicised their names during the first world war against germany for public relations reasons, but both of these "families" supported the nazis, and prince philip was sent to a school in germany run by the nazi youth programme (see..and the truth shall set you free and the biggest secret. phillip eugene

sh missed that meeting. shaw says that later they are told the "real" meaning, which is that the compass is the male phallus of the sun impregnating the female earth, symbolised as the square.15 on one level, again, that's true, but to the highest levels of the illuminati the compass and square represent the impregnation that perpetuates the bloodline. the v and a symbol of queen victoria and the german prince albert, both reptilian bloodlines, were designed to symbolise this also (figure 30 overleaf) and so is the letter g in the freemasons logo. shaw says that, first, masons are told the g represents "god. later that it represents deity and still later that it means geometry 176 children of the matrix figures 29 and 30: the freemasonic square and compass represent the male impregnating t

nnel from the consequences of their actions in those wars and this is what happened with mengele, and the other leading nazi geneticists, mind controllers, scientists, and engineers. they escaped from germany as the allies arrived thanks to a british and american intelligence operation called project paperclip. this has even been occasionally exposed even in the mainstream media here and there. a german television documentary in late 2000 exposed the secret life of a former nazi war criminal, who spied for america's central intelligence agency after the second world war in return for a fake jewish identity.5 he was gunter reinemer, an ss lieutenant who commanded death squads at the treblinka concentration camp. he serving the dragon: the present (i) 241 was responsible for the deaths of hu

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denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why.colorado is a major centre for the new world order and the queen of england,under another name, has been buying up land there. as you will see later, the britishroyal family are massively involved in this story and so is the murder of diana,princess of wales. one of christophers main contacts was a guy called phil schneider,the son of a german u-boat commander in world war ii, who was commissioned tobuild a number of deep underground bases in the united states. i saw some of hislectures on video when he began to speak out publicly about the underground networkof bases, cities and tunnels throughout the united states. he later died in verysuspicious circumstances which were meant to appear like suicide. schneider said thatdenver a

o distinguish between them andother peoples. the sacred emblems of the scythians included the serpent, the ox(nimrod/taurus, fire (the sun, knowledge, and tho or theo, the god the egyptianscalled pan. the romans called the scythians the sarmatae and the germani from thelatin word germanus, meaning genuine. the scythians were known, therefore, as thegenuine people and of course from germani we get german and germany. the namechange is confirmed by the writings of the roman historians pliny and strabo. theanglo-saxons who invaded britain were also known as germani by the romans. theland called old saxony is modern day north germany and the netherlands. both theangles and the saxons came from the same genetic source -the white cimmerians andscythians from the caucasus and the middle/near east

e called caer troia- new troy. the romans would later call it londinium. london became the operationalcentre of the empire of the babylonian brotherhood, and it still is, along with paris andthe v atican. in the king arthur stories, london or new troy, is troynavant, kingarthurs eastern gateway city and king arthurs camelot apparently means martiancity or city of mars. artefacts discovered by the german archaeologist, heinrichschliemann, at the site of ancient troy, contained many of the markings found onbritish megalithic stones. they were also decorated with the swastika, the phoenician-aryan symbol of the sun. once again, they were the same people. all the white peoplesare and it is the white race which has taken over the world, quite demonstrably. justlook around you at who controls al

ing to do with jesus. the reason you find so many references to arcadia in relationto rennes-le-chateau is because arcadia in sparta was the legendary home of zeus andthe titans- the reptilian bloodlines of troy. that is the origin of these bloodlines, notjesus, who did not even exist. pierre plantard, who knows the truth, but doesnt wantyou to know, was born in 1920 and, with the approval of the german oppressors, heedited a magazine in nazi-occupied france in 1942 called conquest for a youngknighthood.17 it was the journal of a paris based masonic-chivalric society called the149order alpha-galates, and plantard became its grand master at the age of 22.18 this iscertainly not a man whos word is his bond.at st sulpice in paris, the village priest abbe berenger sauniere met with abbebieil

s involved at a very high level in the globalmanipulation (see. and the truth shall set you free) and it is most definitely satanic. awork entitled the merovingian descendants and the enigma of the visigoth razes was150published, according to its title page, by the grand alpine lodge, though they now denyit.24 razes is the old name for the area around rennes-le-chateau.25 it was first publishedin german and then translated into french by a walter celse-nazaire, a pseudonym ma-de up of the saints after whom the church at rennes-les-bains is dedicated. the secretsheld in rennes-le-chateau and the languedoc are extremely important to these people.the composer, richard wagner, used unusual names from the rennes area in his operasand in his work, the v alkyrie, we see again the theme of someone

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iversal aether plus reich's invention of mechanisms to intensify and make the energies available for various uses. his fundamental discoveries are based on how intense manifestations of the aether interact with different types of matter and with living organisms, animals, and man. 2.3.1 brief history of wilhelm reich wilhelm reich was born march 24, 1897, in austria. his high school education was german and college training was at the university of vienna from 1918 to 1922 where he finished a 6-year medical degree in only 4 years. his post graduate work was in neuro-psychiatry and internal medicine. reich was one of sigmund freud's star pupils and worked as first clinical assistant for 6 years at freud's psychoanalytic polyclinic from 1924 to 1930. from 1930 to 1933 reich founded various m

the vortex. willian f. hamilton, telos publishing co, p.o. box 1745, sun valley, ca, 91352,1979, 1986. 12 "investigations at the keely laboratory, scientific american, february 4,1899, 72-73, 13. weltreich spirale. leopold brandstatter, linz/donan, austria, morikeweg 3 branstadart, 1961,1962. chapter 3 earth energies 3.1 earth energies a new awareness of earth energies emerged in the 1920's when german dowsers found there were houses where people got more cancer than their neighbors. physical analysis and dowsing analysis found underground veins of water crossing under the cancer houses, and not under their neighbors' houses. underground waterways that cross one above the other generate a vortexing energy in the aetheric field which seems to affect people's health. researchers have even f

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od that follows after the aeon of osiris where human-god was a duality. according to aleister crowley (q.v, it begin in 1904 with the dictation of the book of the law and is coeval with the astrological age of aquarius. agla: a hebrew notarikon (q.v) for "ah-tah gee-boor lih-oh-lahm ah-doh-nye" which translates in english "thou art great forever, my lord" agripa, henry cornelius (of nettesheim: a german doctor of laws, and a doctor of letters, philosopher, and occultist who lived from 1486?-1535. he is most noted for the writing of his three books on occult philosophy, which have been plagiarized by more classical authors than just about any other work in history. aik bekar: a form of biblical interpretation and system for making codes. see temurah. ain: hebrew for "no-thing" one of the ka

he brain. elemental: 1) a non-physical entity composed entirely of one of the magickal elements. these entities should actually be more properly called "elementaries (q.v) according to classic grimoires (q.v. 2) a spirit formed entirely from one of the four magickal elements (q.v) being: fire= salamanders; air= sylphs; water= undines; and earth= gnomes. these attributions were made by the ancient german occultist, paracelsus. 3) a "nature spirit" one of the living beings of the astral (q.v) world. less individuated than human beings, sub rational, highly sensitive, emotional, and imaginative creatures with the primary make up of one element (q.v) and that element's attributes. elemental, artificial: an entity similar to an elemental, but created by a magician from an element (q.v) or a com

order of the golden dawn (q.v) who was a lay psychologist as well as a natural psychic (q.v) and ceremonial magician. dion fortune founded her own order based upon that order's teachings and gnostical christian mysticism known as the society of the inner light. she wrote works including sane occultism and the mystical qabalah. futhark: a word made up of the first six rune (q.v) characters in the german rune alphabet: f-u-th-a-r-k. other rune alphabets are called by slightly different names due to variations in the pronunciation of the letters. the english rune alphabet is known as the futhorc- g- gabriel: pronounced "gahb-ray-ehl" the archangel (q.v) and cosmic guardian of the west and of elemental water. in the tradition of christian mysticism, gabriel is the "heavenly herald. the archan

ronounced "keh-tehr" it is the first (1st) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. it is at the top of the middle pillar on the tree. king, yi: an ancient book of wisdom from china, commonly called i ching. like the tarot (q.v, it has many spiritual purposes, but is popularly known for giving divinations. kobaloi: a greek word used to indicate a wicked spirit invoked by rogues. the origin of the german kobold and the english goblin (q.v. kobolds: mischievous earth elementals that are said to inhabit german households. krishna: although only the sixth avatar, or incarnation of vishnu, krishna has developed into a popular hindu deity due to his representing unbridled sexuality. some hindu traditionalists would down play this reason for his popularity, citing his role as "savior" and "messia

ed star on it's point, inscribed with the glyphs of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the numbers, and colors. a gold, silver, and red crux mystica is in the center, and the star itself is surmounted by a crux mystica. the order was incorporated in kentucky on the vernal equinox, 1993. ordo templi orientis [o.t.o: the order of the temple of the east. a well known and still existing originally german occult order which has become the primary promulgator of the teachings of aleister crowley (q.v, who at one time was the head of that international order. kenneth grant was also a one time past frater superior of that order. today, hymneas beta is frater superior of the o.t.o. orgone: a name used for pra a, ruach, or chi, the universal life force, by dr. wilhelm reich. outer alchemy: making

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d take her spiritual inspiration from the east. i was young and inexperienced at the time, but i began to ask myself what manner of spiritual force was going to be poured in through the channel we were constructing. sup posing during the war a group of english occultists had tried to perform a similar service for germany, what line would they have taken? would they not have tried to influence the german group-mind to give up its militarist ideals and concentrate on the league of nations? was it not more than likely that our indian friend was trying to disabuse us of our imperialistic tendencies? would it not appear to him, smarting as he was under the race prejudice of the white man, that the world would be a much better place for humanity if the english cultivated their own garden and let

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perfect. fire is hot and dry. air is hot and moist. water is cool and moist. earth is cool and dry. fire and air tend to rise upward, water and earth tend to fall downward. fire and water are opposites and are antagonistic, as are air and earth. fire and air are friendly to each other, as are water and earth. elementals are called by various names, but the set of four names applied to them by the german magician paracelsus is most commonly used today. paracelsus called the fire elementals salamanders, the water elementals undines, the air elementals sylphs, and the earth elementals gnomes. salamanders are explosive and quick in their movements, very bright, with extreme and unstable emotions. they can assume many forms, but their forms usually reflect the appearance of a flame. they favor

res. in the centuries before reliable banks, when wealth consisted of gold or silver coins, it was not uncommon for individuals to conceal their savings under the ground. it is the gnomes, by the way, who control the response of the dowsing wand, not the undines, as you might expect- dowsing is used to locate minerals and metals just as often as it is used to find water. the original dowsers were german miners, who employed the dowsing rod to find new veins of ore. undines were most often employed for sexual purposes. they make excellent lovers, and when treated with kindness and respect, will remain faithful to the magician for years. some might find their chilly embrace unappealing at first, but it is surprising how quickly you become accustomed to it. they have the ability to provoke in

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hich lovecraft translated as "the book of dead names" all copies of the greek text were ordered burned by the patriarch michael in the year 1050- by this time the arab text had been lost. some greek copies escaped, however. in 1228 olaus wormius translated the greek text into latin. both the latin and greek editions were suppressed by the papal censors at the command of pope gregory ix in 1232. a german black letter edition appeared around 1440, and sometime in the first half of the next century (1500-1550, the greek text was reprinted in italy. the final known version of the work was a spanish translation from the latin text, made around 1600. in lovecraft's tales, those interested in the necronomicon can always consult the copy kept under lock and key in the library of miskatonic univers

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arliest times, knew and worshipped one god, nameless, incomprehensible, and eternal. in 1860 de roug wrote-"the [1. the hieratic text of this story was published by pleyte and rossi, le papyrus de turin, 1869-1876, pll. 31-77, and 131-138; a french translation of it was published by m. lef bure, who first recognized the true character of the composition, in aeg. zeitschrift, 1883, p. 27 ff; and a german translation by wiedemann is in his collection of the legend of ra and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (2 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am "sonnensagen" religion der alten aegypter, m nster, 1890, p. 29 ff. 2 a similar difficulty also exists in hebrew, for elomhim means both god and "gods; compare psalm lxxxii, i] p. xcii unity of a supreme and self-existent being, his etern

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

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cis r. niglutsch, publisher 39 east nineteenth street new york. egypt greece france assyria rome russia babylonia germany spain persia austria china japan norway sweden holland belgium denmelthe emerald tablet of hermes multiple translations this page copyright 2002 blackmask online. http//www.blackmask.com history of the tablet translations from jabir ibn hayyan. another arabic version (from the german of ruska, translated by 'anonymous. twelfth century latin translation from aurelium occultae philosophorum..georgio beato translation of issac newton c. 1680. translation from kriegsmann) alledgedly from the phoenician from sigismund bacstrom (allegedly translated from chaldean. from madame blavatsky from fulcanelli (translated from the french by sieveking) from fulcanelli, new translation

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of the word, is said to have been regarded as the name of a god in syria and as a magical symbol by the jews. it seems doubtful whether the abracadabra, or its synonyms, was really the name of a deity. sources: levi, eliphas. transcendental magic. london: rider, 1896. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. abraham the jew (ca. 1362.ca. 1460) little biographical information exists concerning this german jew, who was an alchemist, magician, and philosopher, ca. 1400. what is known is mostly derived from a manuscript in the archives of the bibliotheque de l arsenal, paris, an institution rich in occult documents. written entirely in french, the manuscript purports to be translated from the hebrew, and the handwriting style indicates that the scribe lived at the beginning of the eighteenth ce

guidebook and hidden threats to mental and spiritual freedom. quinlan, tex: stelle group, 1986. adcock, c(yril) j(ohn) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 10 kossy, donna. kooks: a guide to the outer limits of human belief. portland, ore: feral house, 1994. kueshana, eklal [richard kieninger. the ultimate frontier. chicago: stelle group, 1963. adelung, johann christoph (1732.1806) german philologist and grammarian. adelung published a work on the occult entitled histoire des folies humaines, on biographie des plus celebres necromanciens, alchimistes, devins, etc (leipzig, 1785.89. he died at dresden. adepts according to the theosophical society and some occultists, adepts are individuals who, after stern self-denial and consistent self-development, have prepared themselves

james. flim-flam! buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1982. sherman, harold. wonder healers of the philippines. los angeles: devorss, 1967. valentine, tom. psychic surgery. chicago: henry regnery, 1973. agricola name adopted by mineralogist georg bauer (1490.1555, who had also searched for the elixir of life and the secret of the philosophers stone. agrippa von nettesheim, henry cornelius (1486.1535) german soldier and physician, and an adept in alchemy, astrology, and magic. he was born at cologne september 14, 1486, and educated at the university of cologne. while still a youth he served under maximilian i of germany. in 1509 he lectured at the university of dole, but a charge of heresy brought against him by a monk named catilinet compelled him to leave dole, and he resumed his former occup

physiological and psychological phenomena, he studied medicine at the university of moscow for two years. he translated emanuel swedenborg s heaven and hell, count szapary s magnetic healing, and the principal works of robert hare, william crookes, j. w. edmonds, robert dale owen and the report of the dialectical society. because works on spiritualism in russian were suppressed by the censor but german publications were tolerated, his literary activity of necessity centered in germany. he founded the psychische studien which, under the new title zeitschrift fur parapsychologie, was instrumental in provoking the first strictly scientific russian investigation of spiritualism. daniel d. home, who visited russia for the first time in 1861, became connected through marriage with aksakof s fam

a of personalisation and animism in their intellectual content which affords evidence of an independent personality. spiritualism and science (der spiritualismus und die wissenschaft [1872] was another of aksakof s important works. his literary output was considerable, and during his lifetime he translated or wrote over 30 books relating to spiritualism and psychic research. in 1874, he started a german monthly journal psychische studien (psychic studies. one of his last translations was colonel de rochas s exteriorisation of motricity. under dreadful physical handicaps aksakof kept on working to the last. his right hand became useless, his eye almost sightless. he died january 17, 1903, after an attack of influenza. aksakof bequeathed a large sum of money to the british society for psychi

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d his wife returned to england about 1840, but it is probable that kenneth mackenzie was educated abroad. according to william wynn westcott, mackenzie received a rosicrucian initiation in austria while living with count apponyi as an english tutor. mackenzie returned to london by 1851 and contributed a series of learned notes to notes and queries. as a young man he had an impressive knowledge of german, french, latin, greek, and hebrew and had a precocious talent for antiquarian studies. he had ambitions to follow a literary career, and as early as 1852 he translated k. r. lepsius s briefe aus aegypten, aethiopen, 1842.45 into english. he also contributed articles on peking, america, and scandinavia to theodore alois buckley s work great cities of the ancient world (1852. the next year he

986.87: 80.82. torres, penny [mafu. and what be god? vacaville, calif: mafu seminars, 1989. reflections on yeshua ben joseph. vacaville, calif: mafu seminars, 1989. magi priests of ancient persia and cultivators of the wisdom of zoroaster (or zarathustra (possibly 1500 b.c.e. they were instituted by cyrus when he founded the new persian empire and are supposed to have been of the median race. the german scholar k. w. f. von schlegel stated in his lectures on the philosophy of history (2 vols, 1829: they were not so much a hereditary sacerdotal caste as an order or association, divided into various and successive ranks and grades, such as existed in the mysteries.the grade of apprenticeship.that of mastership.that of perfect mastership. in short, they were a theosophical college; and either

the golden dawn, which numbered among its members such individuals as annie horniman (sponsor of the abbey theatre, dublin, florence farr (mistress of george bernard shaw, s. l. macgregor mathers, william butler yeats, arthur machen, and arthur edward waite. another famous member was the magician aleister crowley, who left the order to found his own organization, a a, and then become head of the german-based ordo templi orientis. crowley s more psychologically sophisticated presentation of magic came to dominate twentieth-century thought on magic, even among those who rejected various portions of it, such as its emphasis on sex, mind-altering drugs, and egocentricity. a more sinister aspect of magic was the current of occult thought that flowed into and undergirded adolf hitler and nazism

ent and vegetarianism. sources: chalpple, christopher key. nonviolence to animals, earth and self in asian traditions. albany: state university of new york press, 1993. jaini, padmanabh s. the jaina path of purification. berkeley: university of california press, 1979. tatia, nathmal. studies in jaina philosophy. benares, india: jaina cultural research society, 1951. maier, michael (ca. 1568.1622) german alchemist, born at rensburg in holstein. he was one of the principal figures in the seventeenth-century rosicrucian controversy in germany and the greatest adept of his time. he diligently pursued the study of medicine in his youth, then practiced at rostock with such success that emperor rudolph ii appointed him as his physician. some adepts eventually succeeded in luring him from the prac

s. there is no adequate authority to support the opinion held by some that toward the end of his life he was initiated into the genuine order (there being serious doubt that any such genuine order ever existed. a posthumous pamphlet of maier s called ulysses was published by one of his personal friends in 1624. there was added to the same volume the substance of two pamphlets already published in german but which, in view of their importance, were translated into latin for the benefit of the european literati. the first pamphlet was entitled colloquium rhodostauroticum trium personarium per famem et confessionem quodamodo revelatam de fraternitate rosoe crucis. the second was an echo colloquii by hilarion on behalf of the rosicrucian fraternity. from these pamphlets it appears that maier c

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

go, ca: ha rc o u rt brace jova n ov i c h. trench, brinsley le po e r, 1974. se c ret of the ages: ufos f rom inside the ea rt h. london: so u venir pre s s. walton, bruce a, 1983. a guide to the inner earth. jane lew, wv: new age books. x, michael [pseudonym of michael x. barton, 1960. rainbow city and the inner earth people. los angeles: futura. honor in early january 1978, according to a west german newspaper, a twelve-year-old iranian girl, identified only as sara, underwent a series of contacts with an extraterrestrial creature named honor. the contacts took place over a seven-day period. covered with black hair or fur, honor stood six and a half feet tall and hailed from a world ten light years ahead of earth. sara said that the extraterrestrial had given her psychokinetic powers th

e postulated land bridge lemuria, after the lemurs, animals that the two areas shared in common. be f o re long, howe ve r, occultists and mystics would incorporate the concept of l e m u r i a n ow conceived of as a lost continent in the pa c i fic ocean into their own alt e r n a t i ve histories. for a time, however, lemuria remained a scientifically respectable hypothesis. one major champion, german evolutionary biologist ernst haeckel, speculated that homo sapi- ens originated on lemuria, though that could not be proved because any remains had sunk to the bottom of the sea along with the land lemuria 155 a science fiction novella about lemuria by richard s. shaver and ray palmer in amazing stories, march 1945 (fortean picture library) bridge. others theorized that lemuria was just par

arch: 12 70. williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongues other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press, 1958. secret places of the lion. london: neville spearman, 1959. road in the sky. london: neville spearman. lethbridge s aeronauts in the spring of 1909, the british isles were inundated with sightings of enigmatic objects that some people called airships. popular and official opinion concurred that german spies were involved, though it is now known that no such german surveillance was occurring or, for that matter, was even technically achievable. one man claimed to have seen an airship land and to have observed its crew. press accounts identify this witness as c. lethbridge, described in a press account as an elderly man, of quiet demeanor [who] did not strike one as given to ro m a n c i n

rica s mystical mount shasta. fate 36, 8 (august: 70 76. mr. x on the afternoon of november 5, 1957, reinhold schmidt, a grain buyer with a prison re c o rd, allegedly encountered the c rew of a landed flying saucer along the banks of ne b r a s k a s platte rive r. tw o c rewmembers ushered him inside, where he met two other men and two women, all of whom spoke high ge r m a n to one another and german-inflected english to schmidt. their captain identified himself as mr. x. after a brief conversation about america s satellite program, schmidt left the craft, which then depart e d. when schmidt reported his encounter to the sheriff s office in nearby kearney, officers went to the site and found footprints as well as a greasy substance at the supposed landing site. they also located two emp

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l telepathy of the combination of mediumistic telepathy under the direction of the confederation of cosmic space beings (keel, 1975. zandark s people are here to bring peace, and they have been here a long time. they built the sphinx, the pyramids, and other classic ancient structureth1808 faust johann wolfgang von goethe translated by george madison priest goethe, johann wolfgang von (1749-1832- german poet, writer, and playwright who was a dominant influence in german literature. his primary focus was on the natural evolution of things rather than abstract theories. faust (1808) a play about the legend of faust who promises his soul to the destructive spirit mephistopheles in order to fulfill his desire of encountering life through experiences rather than through the study of philosophy

ain tones are turning to harps aeolian murmuring at will. awe binds me fast; tear upon tear falls burning, my stern heart feels a gentle, tender thrill; what i possess, as if far off i m seeing, and what has vanished, now comes into being. prelude on the stage manager. dramatic poet. jester. manager ye two that have so often stood by me in time of need and tribulation, come, say: what hope in any german nation for what we undertake have ye? i much desire to give the crowd a pleasure, in chief, because they live and let us live. the posts, the boards are up, and here at leisure the crowd expects a feast in what we ll give. they re sitting now with eyebrows raised, quite calmly there, would gladly be amazed. i know how one can make all minds akin, yet so embarrassed i have never been. in tru

poetry! what we re in need of, that full well you know, we want to sip strong drink, so go and start the brew without delay! never is done tomorrow what is not done today and one should let no day slip by. with resolution seize the possible straightway by forelock and with quick, courageous trust; then holding fast you will not let it further fly and you will labour on because you must. upon our german stage, you are aware, each tries out what he wishes to display, so in your work for me today scenes, mechanism you are not to spare. use both the lights of heaven, great and small; the stars above are yours to squander; nor water, fire, nor rocky wall, nor beasts nor birds are lacking yonder. thus in our narrow house of boards preside and on through all creation s circle stride; and wander

on run dry and we again thus thirsting lie? i have experienced this in ample measure. and yet this feeling has its compensation; we learn the supernatural to treasure. our spirits yearn toward revelation that nowhere glows more fair, more excellent, than here in the new testament. to open the fundamental text i m moved, with honest feeling, once for all, to turn the sacred, blest original into my german well-beloved. he opens a volume and applies himself to it. tis written: in the beginning was the word! here now i m balked! who ll put me in accord? it is impossible, the word so high to prize, i must translate it otherwise if i am rightly by the spirit taught. tis written: in the beginning was the thought! consider well that line, the first you see, that your pen may not write too hastily!

ax at once, to have the stoppers ready! altmayer ah! these are tricks! it s jugglery! mephistopheles [to brander. and you? brander champagne s the stuff for me, and bubbling, sparkling, must it be. mephistopheles is boring holes; one of the others has meanwhile made the stoppers and plugged the holes. brander what s foreign we can t always shun, so far from us must good things often be. a genuine german can t abide the french, not one, but of their wines he drinks most cheerfully. siebel [as mephistopheles comes near his place. i do not like the sour, i d have you know; give me a glass that s really sweet! mephistopheles [boring. you ll see, at once tokay will flow. altmayer no, gentlemen, just look me in the face! i see t, you re only fooling us, it is a jest. mephistopheles oh! oh! with

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ition of the sefer raziel is the amsterdam manuscript dated 1701. 21 the snake devouring its tail (i.e. with the end contained in the beginning) is an allusion found in various forms throughout the world s mystical traditions. the form of such a snake is, the sinatic hebrew ayin of vast face. 22 sifra detzniyutha 1. 23 torah doverim 6:4, 5. 24 torah vayiqra 19:18. 25 q is derived from quelle, the german word for source. 26 relative to the darkness verse, the reader is encouraged to compare its allusions to those found in the first chapter of torah b reshith 1:2, now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. 27 the niche is the tzimtzum (contraction; also called tohu in torah b reshith 1:2. 28 the lamp is the inner court of the tree of life. 29 compare this wi

vad gita 9:34, 1 tapasyananda, swami, sri sarada devi, ramakrishna math, madras, 1968. 2 hume, robert (trans) the thirteen principal upanishads, oxford, 1928. 3 vivekananda, swami, the yogas and other works, ramakrishna-vivekananda center, new york, 1971. 4 torah b reshith 4:26. 5 torah doverim 6:4, 5. 6 idra rabba 197,'0= 1 weinberg, steven. the first three minutes, basic books, 1993, p.5. 2 the german physicist max planck won a nobel prize in 1918 for his mathematical formulation of energy as manifesting in discrete units. he identified the size of the smallest length of space allowed by quantum uncertainty, which came to be known as the planck constant. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 3 saguna brahman is the sanskrit vedic term for god with qualities of name and form. 4 a graviton is the quantum o

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

hoes of the twelfth-century pseudo-hermetic liber hermetis mercurii triplicis de vi rerum principiis, which has been published by th. silverstein in archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age, 1955 (22, pp. 217-302. on the influence of this work, see above, p. 13, note 3. 2 the arabic text of picatrix, ed. h. ritter, is published in studien der bibliothek warburg, vol. xii, 1933, a german translation by h. ritter and m. plessner of the arabic text is published in studies of the warburg institute, university of london, vol. 27, 1962; an outline in english of the contents of the arabic text is given in this volume. besides these editions, sec on the picatrix, h. ritter, picatrix, ein arabisches handbuch hellenistischer magie, in vortrdge der bibliothek warburg, 1922; thorndike

such a manner that by their virtue the inhabitants were made virtuous and withdrawn from all wickedness and harm. the name of the city was adocentyn' passed through the vivid imagination of the arab of harran, we seem to have here something which reminds us of the hieratic 1 picatrix, lib. iv, cap. 3 (sloane 1305, f. ill recto. in the arabic original, the name of the city is "al-asmunain; see the german translation of the arabic text (cited above, p. 49, note 2, p. 323. 54 hermes trismegistus and magic religious magic described in the asclepius. here are the man-made gods, statues of the animal- and bird-shaped gods of egypt, which hermes trismegistus has animated by introducing spirits into them so that they speak with voices and guard the gates of this magical utopia. the colours of the

are dangerous, being too aristotelian. i would have you then, holy father, and all future popes, give orders that some of the books which i have named (prominent among these was the hermetica) shall be continually taught everywhere, as i have taught them for the last fourteen years at ferrara. you will thus make all able men in italy, spain, and france friendly to the church; and perhaps even the german protestants will follow their example, and return to the catholic faith. it is much easier to win them back 1 "videtur hermes hie trismegistus coetanus quidem fuisse mosy, sed paulo senior" introduction to the hermetica in patrizi's nova de universis philosophia; cf. scott, i, p. 40. 2 "poemander creationem mundi et hominis, cum mosaica fere eandem complectitur. et trinitatis mysterium long

us mathematicos, prague, 1588 (pp. 313, 324- chapter xvii ach of bruno's periods needs a separate study, relating the works which he published in each place to the conditions prevailing in the place at die time. in the foregoing chapters, i have tried to do something of the kind, though not in sufficient detail, for the first parisian period, the enghsh period, and the second parisian period. the german period i shall have to pass over even less adequately, doing little more than indicate what seem to me the points of major importance. at wittenberg, where bruno stayed for two years (1586-8) we see him in the role of university teacher or professor, for the doctors of wittenberg, to his unbounded delight and gratitude, accepted him and allowed him to teach in their schools. in a dedication

and desired for my spouse, and have become a lover of her form. and i prayed. that she might be sent to abide with me, and work with me, that i might know what i lacked, and what was acceptable to god: for she knew and understood, and would guide me soberly in my work and would keep me in her charge.1 the genealogy of wisdom which has been quoted earlier comes in this speech; and the list of the german builders of the temple of wisdom ends with a resounding eulogy of martin luther, as was inevitable in an address to luther's university.2 it was a marvellous speech, in the course of which he brought in the deus pater, the mens, dwelling in light inaccessible, but who could be seen in his shadows and vestiges, in the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds, and ending with the suggesti

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

es of this discipline and to explain its techniques and its rationale. the reader.the complete tyro and the advanced practitioner alike.will receive an introduction which will accompany him/her in his/her magical practice for a long time to come. you will find in this edition in the following chapter a reprint of my article gaustin osman spare and his theory of sigils' from the, alas, now.defunct german magazine unicorn, issue 1/82. this issue has been out of print for quite some time, but many readers' inquiries have shown that there is still much interest in this article and it is increasing every day. since the article also covers some of the historical and philosophical background of spare's sigil magic, it might be useful to present it here within a new context to a greater audience

sometimes it will even waken this desire in the first place. this pragmatic approach which dominates present-day anglo-saxon magic (israel regardie, francis king, david stephen skinner, w, b. gray, conway, lemuel johnstone, to name but a few relevant authors) goes to show that austin osman spare, rather than aleister crowley, should be considered the real father of modern pragmatic magic.7 in the german-speaking countries, the situation is quite different. writers like quintscher, gregorius, bardon, klingsor and even spiesberger allow but little room to maneuver when creating magical coordinates individually. here the adept is expectedly grow into a ready-made system instead of fashioning one, this is a completely different approach, the value or non-value of which we will not discuss here

not discuss here. the nearest thing to pragmatic magic, existing already in 1917 i.e. 1921 (the date of the second revised edition of his major work on magic as an experimental science, was staudenmaier. the works by mahamudra, which have of late been receiving some attention, are mainly of a descriptive nature and deal with traditions and new interpretations, thus remaining within the context of german magical heritage; however, they do take heed of recent results in scientific psychology and are, therefore, at least partially related to the pragmatic approach. pragmatic magic will become more and more important because today's magicians have to face a austin osman spare and his theory of sigils/ 7 psychologized. and psychologizing. environment whose philosophical relativism has been shap

omewhat dignantly.by frater. s in .thanatos of the o.t.o, but, as see it, carroll is on the right course. to date, the markus jungkurth9 has been the only ls with spare fs alphabet in more detail. ut while he does quote the odd word or two from on, he gives us ately. et of desire is art of a special proto-language of man fs (or possibly ctually spare fs) own unconscious does, however, give s an i german authorwriter who dea b spare fs own writings by way of explanativery few clues for actual practice, unfortunspare fs statement that the alphab p au important practical clue, particularly if we are familiar with the techniques involved in constructing artificial ritual languages.10 it would be wrong to assume that spare, who as a magician was an absolute pragmatist, understood it as being a

icians, it may be revitalized and tapped (the parallels to carl g. jung fs concept of the collective unconscious.at least in one of its possible interpretations.should be obvious) this is exactly what happens with atavism, which in biology denotes a retrogression of sorts into earlier stages of evolution. the term nostalgia calls for some clarification. working with atavistic nostalgia/ 87 to old german ginesan of the same meani h a xperience and a strong psychic stability. and let us not forget that spare uses the english word nostalgia (new latin nos-talgia, deriving from the greek notos= ghomecoming h and algos= gpain h; thus, ghomesickness h is one of its meanings. it is also related to old english genesan= gsurvive h and ng; gothic ganisan= gbeing saved (healed) h also reveals spare f

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

latter. evil exists, for god's own wise purpose, by the sufferance of the absolute one, who gives us the blighting cold, frost, and night, and also the beneficent and blessed daylight, warmth, and sunshine. man therefore partakes of two regions, that of the external, visible, matter world, that of evil and darkness, and that of the internal spiritual higher world, that of goodness and light. the german philosopher hegel holds that a thing can only exist through its opposite, that the thing and its opposite must arise together, and that eternally, as the complements of a unity; white is not without black, nor black without white, good is not without, nor is evil without good. this is the doctrine of the siphrah d'tzinoothah and the sepher ye'tzeer-ah. at the very beginning of the life germ

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

n is accounted as female, it is the great mother within whom is contained the male; in later ages, however, it is represented as male, the female being concealed beneath convenient symbols. the trinity of the goths was male; yet as odin could not create independently of the female energy he is provided with a wife, frigga, to whom "all fair things belonged, and who had priestesses among the early german tribes" frigga when worshipped alone was both female and male. according to one german tradition, tiw (zeus, which in its earliest conception was female, was the parent of the first man. this man begat three sons who became the fathers of the three deutsch tribes. ish (or ash) was the parent of the franks and allemans; ing was the progenitor of the swedes, angles, and saxons; and er, or erm

re forcibly than do those connected with the veneration of fire. the testimony of all writers upon this subject agrees that in europe, down to a late date in the christian era, fire was still adored, and in some mysterious manner was connected with the creator. upon the subject of the continuation of sun and fire worship to modern times, it is stated that the ancient bonfires with which the north german hills used to be ablaze mile after mile are not altogether given up by local custom. in ireland as late as the year 1829, the ancient canaanitish and jewish rite of passing children through fire as a cleansing or regenerating process was still in operation. it is related that at stated seasons great fires were lighted in public places, on which occasions, fathers, taking their children in t

preservation of holy fire upon every hearth was clearly a religious observance, still, as in those days there were no matches, the material benefit to be derived from this precaution doubtless had a significance apart from that connected with worship. according to the testimony of tylor, the festival of john the baptist was celebrated in germany down to a late date. this writer quoting from a low german book of the year 1859, refers to the "nod fire" which was sawed out of wood to light the st. john's bonfire "through which the people leapt and ran and drove their cattle" with regard to the worship of fire and light it is related that in jerusalem, at the present time, the easter service is performed by the bishop of the church emerging from a tomb with lighted tapers "from which all crave

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

scripts of waite'saddressesto the order, togetherwithcopies ofthepreliminary report, declaration of independence; and circular letters 1903-8 (c) bound volume of completed forms of application for candidates for the order, togetherwithorder summonses. 1904-13 (d)thetestimoniesoffraterfinemrespice(i.e. r. w. felkin. manuscript transcript of waite's conversationswithfelkin over the third order, the german rosy cross, and other matters concerning felkin's temple. 1915 (the conversations from 1906 to 191ftthegoldendawntwilightofthe magiciansbyr.a.gilberttheaquarian presswellingborough, northamptonshirefirst published1983251r. a.gilbert1983this bookissoldsubjectto theconditionthat it shallnot,frywayojtradeorotherwise,be lent,re-sold,hiredout, orotherwisecirculatedwithoutthepublisher'spriorconse

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

masonry, rosicrucian brethren are sworn to eschew politics utterly, but contrary to masonic practice'oursociety does not exclude a worthy woman from being initiated, this provision dating, perhaps, from1490when the rosicrucians 'did separate themselves from the free-masons. from this, and from the fact that it had no instituted rituals, it would seem that de chazal's order did not derive from the german masonic order of the golden and rosy cross, of1m,butfrom the earlier alchemical rosicrucians described by sig255 mund richter in1710.bacstrom gives a further account of defoundation15chazal in a letterof1804to alexander tilloch, one of his fellow alchemists,butmakes no reference to the rosicrucian society.thereis in fact no evidence that bacstrom propagated theorderinengland-butlater occult

e studied with the wise men, from thence to egypt, to fez and then to spain, learning in all countries thefoundationdoctrinesoftheir religion and philosophy, and their artsofmedicine; and he at last settled down in south germany about the year1413.after several years spent in the studyofthe knowledge and arts so collected, c.r. chose three companions, fratres g.v, la (who, it was noted, was not a german) and1.0.,and instructed them fully in the precious resultsofhis travels, and so these four fratres founded the 'fraternityofthe rose and cross'.theymade a magical alphabet, language and dictionary, and wrote the books m (magicon, axiomata, rotamundiand protheus; they also designed and built the house called'domussancti spiritus' as the home of the fraternity. after a few years a second circ

years.'frater1.0.,a learned kabalist and doctor, authorofthe book h, cured the young earlofnorfolk ofleprosy, and was the first member to die, and that in england. about1450a funeral vaultofseven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the reposeofthe founder. frater p.d. was the second to die.'in1457the curious alchymical tractate called "chymische hochzeit (chemical wedding) was written in german by c.r.butwasnotthen published.itnarrates the attainment by himofthe grade of"equesaurei lapidis" or "knight of the golden stone'.18 thegoldendawn'in1484the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed and put into the vault, which was closed and con255 cealed from the membersofthe latest circle of junior students 'frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater

same decade he made the discovery that was to bring him a doubtful kind of immortality. in1887,according to his own story, westcott acquired and translated a strange manuscript that had been written in a cipher, to which, fortunately, he possessed the key.themanuscript contained the rough draft of a series of initiatory rituals of a quasi-masonic nature.italso contained the name and address of a german adept to whom westcott wrote and from whom he received the authority to found the isis-urania temple of 'die goldene dammerung; in westcott's english this became the golden dawn.thetale of the magical manuscripts upon which the order based its very being has been told in countless versions, no two ofcreationz]which agree entirely. some versions are for the credulous, othersforthe sceptical;

r westcott, who was familiar with old alchemical and magical texts and was well aware oftrithemius'polygraphiae-thebook which contains the cipher's key. trans255 lating it he found that it was in english, although written from right to left, that it allowed for both male and female initiates, and that it needed considerable improvement before the rituals could be worked. he further found that the german adept was the 'famous soror' sapiens dominabitur astris of nuremberg, whose real name was anna sprengel. in her 'reply' to westcott's initial letter, anna sprengel distri255 buted occult largesse wholesale: westcott was raised to the statusofadeptus exemptus(t=4260, he was authorized to establish a new temple in england and to choose two companions to be his co-chiefs. a further letter gave

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

255 feited with all the ornaments and attires; in his hand he held a parchment book, calledt,the which, nextuntothe bible, isourgreatest treasure, which ought to be deliveredtothe censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this elogium, which then follows in latin -itmaybeshortly translated thus 'a seed sown in the breast of ihesus 'christian rose cross, sprung from a noble and famous german family.theman of his age for the most subtle imaginations and divine revelations, and one of unwearied labour in the search for heaven's mysteries and those alsoofhumanity; he was secretly admitted to a morethanregal or imperial gaza (or treasure house) during his journeys in arabia and africa; he instituted and became the custodian for posterity of these arts; he formed theminutummundum,wh

, and with protestant crudities: and so differs widely from the purely hermetico255 philosophic or gnostic-christian form of the earlier work. i have no objection to urge against the notion which has been formulated by edward macbean among others, that thefamawas written by a true follower of christian rosenkreuz's original order, lind that the latter was written by valentine andrea, a well-known german theologian and mystic who flourished at that time. he may have been a low grade initiate of the rosicrucian order and have been ordered to publish thisconfessioto temper the storm which had been set up by the first tract. this effect, however, did not follow, and the polemic fury of theliteraticontinued in full force for many, many years. many modern critics have accepted this suggestion th

e he studied with the wise men, from thence to egypt, to fez and then to spain, learning in all countries the doctrines of their religion and philosophy, and their arts of medicine; and he at last settled down in south germany about the year 1413. after several years spent in the study of the knowledge and arts so collected, c.r. chose three companions, fratres g.v, la (who it was noted was not a german) and1.0.,and instructed them fully in the precious results of his travels, and so these four fratres founded the 'fraternity of the rose and cross. they made a magical alphabet, language and dictionary, and wrote the books m (magicon, axiomata, rota mundi and protheus; they also designed and built the house called 'domus sancti spiritus' as the home of the fraternity. after a few years a se

frater1.0.,a learned kabalist and doctor, author of the bookh.,cured the young earl of norfolk of leprosy, and was the first member to die, and that in england. about 1450 a funeral vault of seven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the repose of the founder. fraterp.d.was the second to die. in 1457 the curious a1chymical tractate calledchymischehochzeit(chemical wedding) was written in german byc.r.,butwas not then published.itnarrates the attainment by him of the grade of 'eques aurei lapidis' or 'knight of the golden stone. in 1484 the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed andputinto the vault, which was closed and concealed from the members of the latest circle of junior students. frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date

real personal knowledge of the affairs of the brethren of the fraternity, nor do they exhibit literary ability. several other editions followed.itshould be noted that during the interval between the deathofc.r.in 1484 and the opening of the vault in 1604 the protestant reformation had been effected in germany by luther and others, about 1517. in 1615 was printed at dantzig, by julius sperber, in german,anechoofthe god-illuminated brotherhoodofther.c.highly praising the learning of the fraternity. in 1616 thechymische hochzeitwas printed and published at strasburg, and dr wynn westcott possesses a copy; this was claimed by andrea (also written andreas andandrea)as being his own work, as is found in an autobiography published after his death. andrea lived from 1586 to 1654, and was abbot of

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

illu2* dost hear the sound, marsaly. no! comesitthen only for me? child 'tis now nigh on half a century since i heard that lament come booming from the pipes. why comes it back now? when the january winds are wailing, and the fateful eighteenth century draws to its mournful close. five and forty years ago our hearts were all a-dance with joy and hope in the western islands, the dreary time of the german domination was ending. our prince had landed- our bonnie prince charlie was among us, and all the*pronouncedha cheel.some celtic memoriesiiiloyal clansmen were flocking to his standard. only with us here in skye there was grief and trouble. for our chief (shame that it should be said of a macleod of dunvegan) looked on his own interests, and forgot his loyalty, gave his adherence to the ger

ave by the sea donald played the great pibroch, that was to hail charles stuart king of his lawful heritage, with nonebutme, and the gulls, and the waves to hear. ah me! only in heaven will that pibroch be heard now i fear me. but then how light were our hearts, till like a black cloud, the news came to us that our chief was mustering his men, not for our country, and our king,butto help the base german crew and the redcoats 'but what help was there! for ever a piper must follow his lord, whatever his lord may do "we sail tomorrow, my lass" he said."thegalleys are all ready, and i must playa pibroch. no, no! not that one, that is all our own, yours and mine, lass! but i pray that i may die, for i cannot wish our chief defeat, and i dare not wish him success, for his cause is evil, and i mu

ight to deprecate the hasty dogmatism and superstition of those who proclaim loudly, on the very slenderest authority, that the secrets of the universe have been laid bare, and the key to universal knowledge is in the hands of some certain mystic writer or teacher, who poses as a divinely inspired final authority and revealer of mysteries. there be many such nowadays, specially of the discredited german brand. but in this deprecation we should beware offalling into the opposite error, and because there is no proof, rashly assume that there is no evidence.itis by the patient examination of minute, almost invisible, and nearly obliter255 ated traces, that true scientific investigation triumphs at length. there are traces, faint and infinitesimal it is true, of an egyptian origin both of the

also by the power of the name. i have been shown over a hundred names and seals of demons from medieval books of magic, and many instances are recorded from the times of the pharaohs till within a couple of hundred years of this present time, of magicians who in time of war, have cast fear into the hearts of the enemies of their country. froissart records the work of magicians who accompanied the german armies in his day, causing fogs to cover a retreat, and the like. many of the troubles anciently ascribed to obsession -are now sometimes dealt with, and it is said successfully, by hypnotism, and a new vocabulary has grown up, and we hear much of suggestion, and auto-suggestion, of the subliminal, and superliminal consciousness, and of unconscious cerebra255 tion, none of which seems to ta

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

by 1873 the distributors, trubner& co, had reduced the price from 7s 6d to 4s 6d. beswick himself remained confident that both the book and his rite would succeed, as is clear from his enthusiastic letter to the rev.j. p. stuart, a fellow mason and swedenborgian, at st. louis in missouri: the masonic publishers here say it is of more value than all the historic books on masonry either american or german. and they have placed the masonic encyclopaedia into my hands for revision in relation to all the masonic organisations of the eighteenth century23[23. presumably it did not remain in his hands, for no edition of any american or english masonic work of reference shows any sign of beswick s involvement. 22[22] w. m. cunningham to the rev. alfred stroh, of stockholm, 17th december 1907. the l

ropean country: germany. his gaze fell on a degree-monger in the same class as yarker: theodor reuss40[40. after some preliminary correspondence, and doubts on the part of yarker, who hesitates to issue written authority for 6 lodges, because, he does not want to have half 40[40] for reuss, see e. howe 8r h. moller, theodor reuss and irregular freemasonry in germany 1900 1923, in aqc 91, 1978 the german masonic world condemning him as well as half the english who condemn him for the a& p. rite'41[41] a charter was issued by yarker to reuss on 21 february 1902 to constitute the swedenborg lodge of the holy grail no. 15 at berlin. nor was this an ordinary lodge. it was to be the mother lodge of germania with power to form a provincial grand lodge and temple of the swedenborg rite, and to fou

nor was this an ordinary lodge. it was to be the mother lodge of germania with power to form a provincial grand lodge and temple of the swedenborg rite, and to found subordinate lodges at his discretion and on my approval.42[42] establishing the provincial grand lodge of germany had not been without trauma for westcott. leopold engel, with whom reuss had quarrelled, objected and resigned from the german swedenborgian lodge, although he remains a member of the english body. in the same letter to reuss (27 june 1902) westcott told him that, i fear i am in for a pretty quarrel between you and your german friends. i am likely to be, like the wheat, ground between the upper& lower millstones. for this and for other reasons he was becoming disenchanted with the rite; it was, he told reuss, never

y quarrel between you and your german friends. i am likely to be, like the wheat, ground between the upper& lower millstones. for this and for other reasons he was becoming disenchanted with the rite; it was, he told reuss, never popular here& i recommended the soc. ros. instead of it. it would seem that the swedenborgian rite was part of a package deal with reuss: in exchange for the rite, and a german college of the sria, westcott received membership of the order of illuminati and the right to propagate it in england. in 1908, the last year for which a balustre of the rite is known, westcott is still shown as supreme grand secretary and as supreme grand past master but he had ceased from active participation. his careful index to correspondence with swedenborg brethren and herr theodor r

w, he also took some loose papers which were nothing to do with the rite but were mackenzie s outline draft of a series of esoteric intitiation ceremonies. they were written in a cipher derived from trithemius s polycraphiae, and westcott soon translated them, making use of the blank versos of swedenborgian rite summonses. they are better known as the cipher manuscripts that led to the fiction of german adepts and to the undisputed fact of the hermetic order of the golden dawn that westcott unleashed upon the world in 1888. in their fully developed form the ceremonies of the order make full and effective use of a temple filled with symbolic representations. it is an ironic twist of fate that westcott s enthusiasm for an obscure, utterly forgotten, yet wholly respectable masonic rite led by

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pt rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those of the s.r.i.a- which was scarcely to be wondered at, given that all three founders were prominent members of the s.r.i.a- and were derived ultimately from the eighteenthcentury german order of the golden and rosy cr

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

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people, encourage them to think about basic faith-related issues (such as the existence of god, his unity and the hereafter, and to expose the feeble foundations and perverted ideologies of godless systems. harun yahya enjoys a wide readership in many countries, from india to america, england to indonesia, poland to bosnia, and spain to brazil. some of his books are available in english, french, german, spanish, italian, portuguese, urdu, arabic, albanian, russian, serbo-croat (bosnian, polish, malay, uygur turkish, and indonesian, and they are enjoyed by readers worldwide. greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental in many people recovering their faith in god and in many others gaining a deeper insight into their faith. the wisdom, and the sincere and ea

eir blind attachment to the theory of evolution, we are struck by its profound ignorance. for example, when we examine turkish sources, we see that evolutionist claims that were proved false in the first quarter of the twentieth century are still defended passionately. one of these is the story of haeckel and his theory on embryos mentioned nearly in all masonic publications. the story is about a german biologist by the name of ernst haeckel, who was a close friend and supporter of charles darwin, and one of the most prominent supporters of the theory after darwin's death. in order to establish the validity of the theory, haeckel examined the embryos of various living things, and proposed that they all resembled one another and that each undergoes a miniature process of evolution before bi

osed and it was forbidden to give any religious education in schools. many of the clergy were arrested, some were exiled and religious persons began to be regarded as second-class citizens. for this reason, in 1904, the vatican broke all diplomatic relations with france but this did not change the country's attitude. it took the loss of the lives of hundreds of thousands of french men against the german army in the first world war before the country's arrogance was tamed and it again recognized the importance of spiritual values. as the catholic encyclopedia maintains, the war against religion, from the french revolution to the twentieth century, was carried out by "the anti-clerical measures passed in the french parliament" which "were decreed beforehand in the masonic lodges and executed

ent in that country. one such country is germany. the campaigne agaisnt religion in germany "kulturkampf" 150 years ago, there was no such country as germany. the present territory called germany was ruled by a number of principalities. the largest of these was prussia, which occupied the eastern part of today's germany and a large part of poland. in the 1860's, prussia began to annex other small german states and founded the german empire in 1871. the ruler of this new state was the prussian prime minister and chancellor of the new german empire, otto von bismarck. bismarck was a successful statesman, especially in foreign politics, but did not enjoy the same success in domestic affairs. one of the reasons for this was a group of intellectuals known as the "national liberals" similar to t

because these tactics produced a strong reaction among the catholics of the country against the government, the kulturkampf was relaxed. bismarck ignored the suggestions of the national liberals, who had led him into this campaign, and restrained the kulturkampf little by little until he finally cancelled it completely. this whole campaign resulted in nothing other than the oppression of faithful german catholics, and the ruin of the country's sense of social well-being. many historians today believe that it was a fiasco that shattered germany's sense of social security. moreover, after germany, the wave of this kulturkampf encompassed austria, switzerland, belgium and holland, causing a great social tension in these countries. the interesting thing to note that it was the mason intellectu

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pt rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those of the s.r.i.a- which was scarcely to be wondered at, given that all three founders were prominent members of the s.r.i.a- and were derived ultimately from the eighteenthcentury german order of the golden and rosy cr

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

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of the traditionalist position, he was also considered one of the most erudite authorities on hermeticism and magic. this did nothing to reduce the great controversy that surrounds him. julius cesare andrea evola was born in rome in 1898 to an aristocratic family of sicilian origin. his child-hood was marked by intelligence close to genius and he quickly learned many languages. he read widely in german, french and italian. he be-came involved with both the dada and futurist movements and was considered a promising artist. he served with honour during world war i in a regiment of mountain artillery and survived the war to continue his search for meaning. he made contact with arturo reghini (1878-1946) who was the co-ordinator of the ur group which studied speculative freemasonry, occultism

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s reflected the spiritual path. the life of the gnostic on the path, involves the total transformation of the individual from one substance (dialectic) to another (static) and accordingly, involves the greatest revolution in consciousness possible. this transformation cannot be readily expressed in words but needs to be experienced. an interesting description of the transformation is given by the german philosopher fredrich nietszche, when he discusses the process of "overcoming man" and becoming the overman, comparing the gap between man (dialectic man) and the overman (static man) in the following terms. gnostic theurgy page 145 i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him? all beings so far have created something beyond themselves;

ust considering many of the perceptions people had of the change that occurred. when it comes to philosophy it is much the same, however, one name stands out above the others- that of fredrich nietzsche. gnostic theurgy page 217 nietzsche was born in rocken in prussian saxony in 1844. he studied theology at leipzig university but soon abandoned his studies as he realised the degenerative state of german theology. he completed a doctorate in philology and continued to teach it for some ten years at basil. he began a study of philosophy first basing his work on schopenhauer and then going beyond to create his own unique system based on the will to power. the philosophy of nietzsche is an embodiment of the gnosis for the present age, his voluminous works such as thus spake zarathustra, beyond

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is too much weakness for such a great work. and although in theology, medicine and mathematics, the truth doth oppose itself, nevertheless, the old enemy, by his subtlety and craft, doth show himself in hindering every good purpose by his instruments and contentious, wavering people. to such an intention of a general reformation, the most godly and highly illuminated father, our brother, c.r.c, a german, the chief and original of our fraternity, hath much and long time laboured, who, by reason of his poverty (although descended of noble parents, in the fifth year of his age was placed in a cloister, where he had learned indifferently the greek and latin tongues, and (upon his own earnest desire and request, being yet in his growing years, was associated to a brother, p.a.l, who had determi

t of the high-illuminated man of god, fra. c.r.c, is this: after that a. in gallia narbonensi was deceased, there succeeded in his place our loving brother n.n. this man, after he had repaired unto us to take the solemn oath of fidelity and secrecy, informed us bona fide, that a. had comforted him in telling him that this fraternity should ere long not remain so hidden, but should be to the whole german nation helpful, needful, and commendable, of the which he was not anywise in his estate ashamed. the year following, after he had performed his school right, and was minded now to travel, being for that purpose sufficiently provided with fortunatus' purse, he thought (he being a good architect) to alter something of his building, and to make it more fit. in such renewing, he lighted upon th

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hing else although some of them look like that from above. viewed at ground-level they are little more than grazes on the surface made by scraping away thousands of tons of black volcanic pebbles to expose the desert s paler base of yellow sand and clay. none of the cleared areas is more than a few inches deep and all are much too soft to have permitted the landing of wheeled flying vehicles. the german mathematician maria reiche, who devoted half a century to the study of the lines, was only being logical when she dismissed the extraterrestrial theory with a single pithy sentence a few years ago: i m afraid the spacemen would have gotten stuck. if not runways for the chariots of alien gods, therefore, what else might the nazca lines be? the truth is that no one knows their purpose, just a

made it possible to calculate the approximate period when the kalasasaya must originally have been laid out. these alignments suggested the controversial date of 15,000 bc about seventeen thousand years ago. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 83 chapter 11 intimations of antiquity in his voluminous work tiahuanacu: the cradle of american man, the late professor arthur posnansky (a formidable german-bolivian scholar whose investigations at the ruins lasted for almost fifty years) explains the archaeo-astronomical calculations which led to his controversial re-dating of tiahuanaco. these, he says, were based solely and exclusively on the difference in the obliquity of the ecliptic of the period in which the kalasasaya was built and that which it is today .1 what exactly is the obliquity

pp. 428-9; folklore in the old testament, p. 115. in this version the character of michabo is called messou. 24 from lynd s history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature and the bible, pickering and inglis ltd, london, 1970, p. 58. andree was an eminent german geographer and anthropologist. his monograph on diluvial traditions is described by j. g. frazer (in folklore in the old testament, pp. 46-7) as a model of sound learning and good sense set forth with the utmost clearness and conciseness. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 191 for example, early jesuit scholars who were among the first europeans to visit china had the opportunity in th

ath may be a poetic creation born in more than one instance in diverse places. but when characters who do not play the lyre but blow pipes get themselves flayed alive for various absurd reasons, and their identical end is rehearsed on several continents, then we feel we have got hold of something, for such stories cannot be linked by internal sequence. and when the pied piper turns up both in the german myth of hamelin and in mexico long before columbus, and is linked in both places to certain attributes like the colour red, it can hardly be a coincidence. likewise, when one finds numbers like 108, or 9 x 13 reappearing under several multiples in the vedas, in the temples of angkor, in babylon, in heraclitus dark utterances, and also in the norse valhalla, it is not accident..4 connecting

itation, the passageway was barred within a few feet of its entrance. 13 the pyramids of egypt, p. 93. 14 dimensions from traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 121, and the pyramids of egypt, p. 93. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 310 the grand gallery and the king s and queen s chambers with their northern and southern shafts. the reason, though i was unaware of it at the time, was that a german robotics engineer named rudolf gantenbrink was at work within, slowly and painstakingly manoeuvring a $250,000 robot up the narrow southern shaft of the queen s chamber. hired by the egyptian antiquities organization to improve the ventilation of the great pyramid, he had already used his high-tech equipment to clear debris from the king s chamber s narrow southern shaft (believed by egypto

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leader and occult initiate general karl haushofer (1869-1946) was the magician, the secret master. of nazi germany. hess believed in the cause to the end of his life. the last prisoner at spandau, hess died at the significant age of 93, proclaiming his loyalty to the thule ideal to the very end. the period, in the middle 1930s, in which these groups attained their greatest, ruinous power over the german state coincides closely with the reports of ghost rockets over northern europe. the british raj in india, and the european christian colonization of the east in general, had all but destroyed the classical tantrism and illuminism of the great white brotherhood in the east, finding such institutions as temple prostitution, chakra-puji, shiva devotion, etc. to be sexual obscenity. on the othe

ishna consciousness in india was seduced by a black tantric magician, and wound up leaving a life of celibacy as a hari krishna for the lurid existence of a madame in an upscale american house of prostitution. i leave it to my readers to decide whether she was seduced from the great brotherhood to the black lodge, or vice versa. certainly, prior to the destruction of the tibetan black lodges, the german ss 62 allen h. greenfield under thule and vril influence and directed by the infamous ahnenerbe group imported a number of black brothers and adepts from tibet during and prior to the second world war. the tibetan colony in berlin in fact predates the nazi rise to power, having been established in 1926. one tibetan monk, termed the man with the green gloves and a reputed psychic, was freque

id crowley, the worst thing they can do is what is done in america, to disenchant the man of earth with his destiny; to fill him with the facts and fancies that enthrall etiolated and degenerated idealists and unfit him for his evident purpose, that of supplying society with supermen. the black lodge in the nazi era totally discredited the concept of the evolved human supermen by grafting it onto german nationalist and racialist conceits, while suppressing the gnostic church, the oto, the anthroposophical society and even lost-word freemasonry- in short, anyone who might have an actual understanding of the coming being. the leading figure of the oto in germany, the future grand master karl germer, was placed in a concentration camp. his official crime was that he knew and maintained relati

believe it was robert graves who observed that all translation is a lie. take the greek word agape. in english, it means love sort of. actually, if you truly understand the word, you understand the great mysteries. in the theosophical literature, the tendency is to use the term master and mahatma interchangably. in our discussion of the super being concept, i have guardedly used the untranslated german term ubermensch. nietzsche also used a term usually translated higher men and his nazi admirers and corrupters long after his death introduced a term usually translated subhuman. magicians have tended, in the english-speaking world, to refer to the masters simply as the secret chiefs of the order. ubermensch and mahatma actually mean the same thing. the sanskrit root words maha( great) and

che also used a term usually translated higher men and his nazi admirers and corrupters long after his death introduced a term usually translated subhuman. magicians have tended, in the english-speaking world, to refer to the masters simply as the secret chiefs of the order. ubermensch and mahatma actually mean the same thing. the sanskrit root words maha( great) and atman( being or soul) and the german uber( over or super) and mensch( man or human) both carry the sense of more highly evolved human being. seen in this light, it can be better understood how mahatma ghandi and the theosophical master k.h. may fall in the same category. the reader may wish to compare possible masters of the positive and negative type by trying their hands at timothy leary s computer game mind mirror. try hitl

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for despoiling our heathenism, antecedent to the conversion, of all its contents, so to speak. history teaches us to recognise in language, the farther we are able to follow it up, a higher perfection of form, which declines as culture advances; as the forms of the thirteenth century are superior to our present ones, and those of the ninth and the fifth stand higher still, it may be presumed that german populations of the first three centuries of our era, whose very names have never reached us, must have spoken a more perfect language than the gothic itself. now if such inferences as to what is non-extant are valid in language, if its present condition carries us far back to an older and oldest; a like proceeding must be justifiable in mythology too, and from its dry watercourses we may gu

found yet again as a proof that even poetry may agree with history in the' chochilaichus' of gregory of tours. if in the 12th and loth centuries our country^s hero-legend gleamed up for the last time, poets must have kept on singing it for a long time before, as is plain from the saved fragment of hildebrand and the latin versions of rudlieb and waltharius; while not a tone survives of those low german lays and legends, out of which nevertheless proceeded the vilkinasaga that mirrors them back. the rise of our courtpoetry has without the slightest ground or necessity been ascribed to the crusades; if we are to assume any importations from the east, these can more conveniently be traced to the earlier and quieter intercourse of goths and northmen with the greek empire, unless indeed we can

t between bregowine, freawine, and gotes friunt (p. 93. true to my original purpose, i have this time also taken the norse mythology merely as woof, not as warp. it lies near to us, like the norse tongue, which, having stood longer undisturbed in its integrity, gives us a deeper insight into the nature of our own, yet not so that either loses itself wholly in the other, or that we can deny to the german language excellences of its own, and to the gothic a strength superior to both of them together. so the norse view of the gods may in many ways clear up and complete the german, yet not serve as the sole standard for it, since here, as in the language, there appear sundry divergences of the german type from the norse, giving the advantage now to the one and now to the other. had i taken the

the gods may in many ways clear up and complete the german, yet not serve as the sole standard for it, since here, as in the language, there appear sundry divergences of the german type from the norse, giving the advantage now to the one and now to the other. had i taken the rich exuberance of the north as the basis of my inquiry, it would have perilously overshadowed and choked the distinctively german, which ought rather to be developed out of itself, and, while often agreeing with the other, yet in some things stands opposed. the case appears therefore to stand thus, that, as we push on, we shall approach the norse boundary, and at length reach the point where the wall of separation can be pierced, and the two mythologies run together into one greater whole. if at present some new point

vealed themselves too. to the norse antiquarians in particular, i hope my procedure will be acceptable: as we gladly give to them in return for what we have received, they ought no less to receive than to give. our memorials are preface. ix scantier, but older; theirs are younger and purer; two things it was important here to hold fast: fii'st, that the norse mythology is genuine, and so must the german be; then, that the german is old, and so must the norse be. we have never had an edda come down to us, nor did any one of our early writers attempt to collect the remains of the heathen faith. such of the christians as had sucked german milk were soon weaned under roman training from memories of home, and endeavoured not to preserve, but to efface the last impressions of detested paganism

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it was already a roman super stition: sed quomodo dicunt, ego nihil scivr, sed audivi, quomodo incuboni pileam rapuisset, et thesaurum invenit/ home- 1 the description of his figure (a horse s mane, hawk s bill, cat s tail, goat s beard, ox s horns and cock s feet) can hardly have been all invented there and then. 2 unless wilse (beskriv. over spyd. 419) has confounded nissen with nocken; yet the german goblin goldemar was likewise musical (ir. elfenm. ixxxiii. wilse, and faye, pp. 43-45, give the best account of the norwegian nissen, and thiele i. 134-5 of the danish. 512 wights and elves. sprites guard treasures, and in nib. 399 siegfried becomes master of the hoard as soon as he has taken alberich s tarnkappe from him. in calderon s darna duende the little goblin wears a large hat: era

or hieronymus, but how to ex plain the swiss schmutzli (staid. 2, 337) i do not rightly know, perhaps simply from his smutty sooty aspect? instead of grampus there is also in styria a bdrthel (pointing to berhta, or bartho lomew) schmutzbartel 3 and klaubauf, who rattles, rackets, and 1 heinrich and ruprecht were once common names for serving-men, as hans and glaus are now. 2 zember about eger in german bohemia (popowitsch 523; at the same time the lausitz idol sompar (supra, p. 71 note) is worth considering. 3 the phrase he knows where barthel gets his must, notwithstanding other explanations, may refer to a home-sprite well-known in the cellar. 516 wights and elves. throws nuts (denis, lesefr. 1, 131; see suppl. further, on this point i attach weight to the swedish jullekar, dan. juleleg

f magic power, and equivalent to our monster, spectre, unearthly being. by trold the danish folk-tales habitually understand beings of the elf kind. the form suggests a gothic trallu; does our getralle in renner 1365 &lt;der gebure ein getralle/ rhym. alle/ mean the same thing (see suppl. giant is in lith. milzinas, milzinis, lett, milsis, milsenis; but it would be overbold to connect with it german names of places, milize (trad. fuld. 2, 40, milsenburg, melsungen. the slovak obor, boh. obr, 0. pol. obrzym* pol. olbrzym, is unknown to the south slavs, and seems to be simply avarus, abarus -nestor calls the avars obri (ed. schlozer 2, 112-7. the &lt; grsecus avar &gt; again in the legend of zisa (p. 292-5) is a giant. now, i neue mitth. des thiir. sachs. vereins 3, 130-6. 5, 2

ak sleep under a tower, which his enemies undermine, so that it tumbles about his ears; he shakes himself up and cries: this is a bad place to rest in, the birds drop things on your head. 1 after that, three men drag a large bell up the oaktree under which scharmak is asleep, snoring so hard that the leaves shake; the bell is cut down, and comes crashing on the giant, but he does not even wake. a german nursery-tale (1, 307) has something very similar; in another one, millstones are dropt on a giant in the well, and he calls out, drive those hens away, they scratch the sand up there, and make the grains come in my eyes (2, 29- 1 a giantess (g$"gr) named hyrrokin (igne fumata) is mentioned in the edda, sn. 66 on occasion of baldr s funeral: nothing could set the ship hringhorn, in whic

tumme; when he wished to speak to his chum oden at hersmala two or three miles off, he went up a neighbouring hill hogatoft, from which you can see all over ydre (widegren s ostergotland 2, 397. the first of the two names is apparently the on]?umbi (stultus, inconcinnus, conf. p. 528, but the other is that of the highest god, and was, i suppose, introduced in later legend by way of disparagement. german folktales make such giants throw stone hammers and axes to each other (deut. sag. no. 20, which reminds one of the thundergod s hammer. two mines living, one on the bberstein, the other on homburg, had but one axe between them to split their wood with. when the eberstein hime was going to work, he shouted across to homburg four miles off, and his friend immediately threw the axe over; and t

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dd wrote the brief apology for the fraternity of the rosy cross and other treatises wherein he zealously defended the rosicrucians of his time [13] isaac newton sir isaac newton (1642-1727).english natural philosopher and rosicrucian. newton, a genius in the worlds of physics and mathematics, put forth concepts which had a revolutionary impact on science [14] jacob boehme jacob boehme (1575-1624).german mystical philosopher and rosicrucian. boehme was the author of aurora, a book which inspired ecclesiastical opposition, but provided a profound influence on later philosophical thought [15 [16] above- the plaza and fountain, this view was taken from the promenade of the rose-croix university building and reveals the attractive plaza and the fountain, which at night may be magnificently illu

.l.t.(true local time) in corpus christi, texas on february 17, 1943. corpus christi was the temporary residence of burnam's parents, stella m. and george e. schaa. his father, a watchmaker by trade, was conscripted by the navy to work on delicate instruments during world war ii, and the family was "stationed" there for two years. the name schaa often elicites questions. burnam's first generation german father answered this by saying that his father before him came from a 200-year-old banking family in germany. the spelling of the name appears to be neither germanic nor dutch in origin, and it has been speculated that perhaps, because of the pronunciation, it may have been a conversion of the scottish name shaw. burnam's mother is from two old southern english and french families.the brook

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, now being utterly beyond your control, you have voluntarily taken upon yourselves a most serious responsi255 bility,-remembering, as we must do,'thatwhatsoever a man soweth, the same shall he reap.'itwould be out of place to endeavour in the compass of a letter to elucidate the strange coincidence of doctrines derived immediately from the indwellers of the spirit world, with those of the modern german rationalists, who,164 therosicrucianseersay my fourth and fifth volumes are as yet only partly fair copied; but so soon as i have one finished, it shall be at your service. on tuesday the 7th inst, i asked the c. a. if the fourth and fifth parts of the'newexistence,'which i had that morning received, but had not read, would have a beneficial tendency.thereply was- c.a-'iam of opinion that t

against me. 1875 17 may i am very glad bro. hockley has lent you his mss and given his sanction to what you name.4extracts concerninghockleyfromthe mackenzie-irwin correspondence[kennethroberthendersonmackenzie(1833-86) was the son of a physician. spending his early years in vienna he showed promise as a linguist and writer, but one that was never realized. at seventeen his translations from the german were praised and he was contributing regularly tonotesandq!leries.byhis early twenties he had achieved membership of the ethnographical society, the royal asiatic society, and the royal society of antiquaries. a love of the bottle, bogus claims to academic titles, an irascible nature and a veritable passion for mystery lost him many good friends. hockley possibly came into contact with mack

sion of madame blavatsky and the theosophistsinthe 1 890s. 5theirwins were granted a great favour as hockley normally refused to loan his crystal mss. cagliostro was the main spirit raised by the irwins in their scrying experiments. 6 see note2of letter 19.7comtedegabaliswas written by abbe montfaucon de villars and first publishedinparis in 1670.thehero of the novel meets the comte de gabalis, a german qabalist, who teaches him the doctrine of elemental spirits, adding a new dimension by describing the meeting of elemental spirits and mortals.thenovel was not associated with rosicrucianism until two english translations appeared in 1680. 8 nicholas culpeper,theenglishphysitian(165;2)characterized as astrological botany derived from aristotle. william salmon,botonolo255gia,(1710. maynard i

e& i must part with a good many as i have at my new place no room for another book case, besides i have made up my mind if i am not better this time next year to sell my furniture, books etc. and set myself in as small a compass aspossible-iam going tohockley'slettersto theirwins79one was trithemius in french" 4to&the other lenaine on the cabala, we have nothing likeitin english&the hebrew in the german books are very incorrectly printed. i saw the monk of course in the r[osie] c[rucian] and was vexed5-ithad been put in without consulting me first. have you not selected a bad time to go toparis-ihave been told and often read that it is insufferably hot in summer months, however you must take care¬ expose yourself to the chance of sun stroke. i only wish that i could have a month with yo

ucianwithout permission.78 therosicrucianseerbeg you will tender my kindest regards toher-butwhen i shall reach bristol is at present obscure&with kindest fraternal regards to your father&yourself believe me both faithfully and fraternally yours. my head is so cluttered i quite forgot to ask: will you kindly let me know by returnofpostifyoucan-howmany leaves there are in thesecondpartofthe longer german rcwork-includingthetitle-ilent my copy much against mystomachto an old friend&it came back last night, i think a leaf short.isibley'srotalois a msscrapbookorcommonplacebook now in the library of thewellcomeinstitute.2a spiritualist periodical edited by jamesburns(see note2of letter2).343raymondbuildings, gray's inn, w.c.24june1877my dear herbert, i am obliged by your very prompt reply to my

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

idea of a unique creator deity within the polytheistic religion of ancient egypt. it is not aimed at beginners. john baines. egyptian myth and discourse: myth, gods, and the early written and iconographic record. journal of near eastern studies 50, no. 2 (1991: 81 105. this important article discusses the status of myth in egyptian texts. it includes a valuable summary of the ideas of the leading german-language writers on egyptian myth. r. t. rundle clarke. myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: thames and hudson, 1959. this book is primarily about developments in the mythology of osiris from the old kingdom through to the end of the new kingdom. there are summaries of some other important myths and a useful chart of religious symbols. egyptian myth: annotated print and nonprint resour

ks, 1998. this book has magnificent color photographs by erich lessing, but the text is of equal importance. the subjects covered include the organization of the egyptian pantheon and the ways in which individuals related to their gods. vernus writes particularly well about animal forms of deities. books and articles on egyptian myth in other languages more has been written about egyptian myth in german than in any other language. important or interesting works include siegfried schott s mythe und mythenbildung im alten gypten (leipzig: j. c. hinricks, 1945; emma brunner-traut s article on myth in lexikon der gyptologie, edited by w. helck et al, vol. 4 (wiesbaden, germany: harrassowitz, 1982, 277 286, and her gelebte mythen: beitr ge zum alt gyptischen mythos (darmstadt: wissenschaftliche

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

thus adding anadditional horror to one already great enough. with a view to a clearer comprehension of the situation, i must interrupt these recollections with a few wordsabout myself. oh how, if i could, would i obliterate that hated self!born in switzerland, of french parents, who centred the whole world-wisdom in the literary trinity ofvoltaire, j. j. rousseau and d'holbach, and educated in a german university, i grew up a thoroughmaterialist, a confirmed atheist. i could never have even pictured to myself any beings- least of all a being- above or even outside visible nature, as distinguished from her. hence i regarded everything that couldnot be brought under the strictest analysis of the physical senses as a mere chimera. a soul, i argued, evensupposing man has one, must be material

losing sight for several minutes of things andpersons. my nights were disturbed, my dreams oppressive, and at times horrible. good sailor i certainly was;and besides, the weather was unusually fine, the ocean as smooth as a pond. notwithstanding this, i often felta strange giddiness, and the familiar faces of my fellow-passengers assumed at such times the mostgrotesque appearances. thus, a young german i used to know well was once suddenly transformed beforemy eyes into his old father, whom we had laid in the little burial place of the european colony some threeyears before. we were talking on deck of the defunct and of a certain business arrangement of his, when maxgrunner's head appeared to me as though it were covered with a strange film. a thick greyish mistsurrounded him, and gradual

n of the quiet family, appeared a cloud. on anunlucky day one of the nieces took it into her head to study the zither. the instrument being of purelyteutonic origin, and no teacher of it residing in the neighbourhood, the indulgent uncle sent to st. petersburgfor both. after diligent search only one professor could be found willing to trust himself in such closeproximity to siberia. it was an old german artist, who, sharing his affections equally between his instrumentand a pretty blonde daughter, would part with neither. and thus it came to pass that, one fine morning, the oldprofessor arrived at the mansion, with his music box under one arm and his fair munchen leaning on theother. from that day the little cloud began growing rapidly; for every vibration of the melodious instrument found

ks, and wept in silent rapture. the family, understanding that they nightmare talesthe cave of the echoes54 were cheated out of the inheritance, also wept; but it was for another cause. having thus wept, they consoledthemselves and tried to rejoice, for the old gentleman was sincerely beloved by all. not all of them rejoiced,though. nicolas, who had himself been smitten to the heart by the pretty german, and who found himselfdefrauded at once of his belle and of his uncle's money, neither rejoiced nor consoled himself, butdisappeared for a whole day. meanwhile, mr. izvertzoff had given orders to prepare his traveling carriage on the following day, and it waswhispered that he was going to the chief town of the district, at some distance from his home, with theintention of altering his will

ntoms of the heroes of local legends. in short, the old manor offered every commodity forromantic horrors. but alas! this once they serve for nought; in the present narrative these dear old horrors playno such part as they otherwise might. its chief hero is a very commonplace, prosaical man- let us call him erkler. yes; dr. erkler, professor of nightmare talesfrom the polar lands59 medicine, half-german through his father, a full-blown russian on his mother's side and by education; andone who looked a rather heavily built, and ordinary mortal. nevertheless, very extraordinary things happenedwith him. erkler, as it turned out, was a great traveller, who by his own choice had accompanied one of the mostfamous explorers on his journeys round the world. more than once they had both seen death

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

gnorance, renounces nirvana, and determines to remain invisible in spirit on this earth. they have no material body, as they have left it behind; but otherwise they remain with all their principles even in astral life in our sphere. and such can and do communicate with a few elect ones, only surely not with ordinary mediums. q. i have put you the question about nirmanakayas because i read in some german and other works that it was the name given to the terrestrial appearances or bodies assumed by buddhas in the northern buddhist teachings. a. so they are, only the orientalists have confused this terrestrial body by understanding it to be objective and physical instead of purely astral and subjective. q. and what good can they do on earth? a. not much, as regards individuals, as they have n

? a. just so. but these means must be used intelligently and wisely, not blindly and foolishly; like an athlete who is training and preparing for a great contest, not like the miser who starves himself into illness that he may gratify his passion for gold. q. i understand now your general idea; but let us see how you apply it in practice. how about vegetarianism, for instance? a. one of the great german scientists has shown that every kind of animal tissue, however you may cook it, still retains certain marked characteristics of the animal which it belonged to, which characteristics can be recognized. and apart from that, everyone knows by the taste what meat he is eating. we go a step farther, and prove that when the flesh of animals is assimilated by man as food, it imparts to him, physi

it is denied by christians, who seem to misunderstand the teachings of their own gospels. nevertheless, the putting on of flesh periodically and throughout long cycles by the higher human soul (buddhi-manas) or ego is taught in the bible as it is in all other ancient scriptures, and "resurrection" means only the rebirth of the ego in another form (see theosophical glossary) reuchlin, john a great german philosopher and philologist, cabalist and scholar. he was born at pfortzheim in germany, in 1455, and early in youth was a diplomat. at one period of his life he held the high office of judge of the tribunal at tubingen, where he remained for eleven years. he was also the preceptor of melancthon, and was greatly persecuted by the clergy for his glorification of the hebrew cabala, though at

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d yorke, a patrician gloucestershire landowner whom i first came to know well during the 1960s. yorke acquired them after gardner's death from the late michael houghton (i.e, hurwitz) during the 1930s. houghton was the founder and proprietor of the atlantis bookshop, then in bury street close to the british museum. i used to visit it occasionally before the war, not to see houghton but, rather, a german refugee bookseller whom houghton allowed to occupy a corner of the ramshackle premises and who, much to houghton's irritation, regularly sold me books that had no connection with occultism. at that time my lack of interest in arcane knowledge was total; indeed, it still is except in relation to the history of ideas or, if one likes, the study of 'intellectual underworlds' or sub-cultures. m

f the visit of vieroont, the brass-founder, to him in 1666 and giving him a small portion of the powder of projection by which he did transmute cad] into silver. this vieroont was the nephew of elias the artist, and must have learned of him, a fact not generally known. for the short process, monte snyder is one of the best teachers, but there are only 2 copies of him in brit. mus, and both are in german. lambsprinck, also in german, teaches a great deal to those who have the clue. flamel gives the usual symbolical teaching. bernard trevisan also teaches much, and rather more plainly. eugenius philalethes is very enigmatical. alexis of piedmont is more clear. you may read all these and yet fail to get a sufficient perception of what is meant. even if you get a perception, then comes the gre

invitation. on monday isthjuly we go to bri h on .for inside of a week, and on monday aznd july we go to visrt fnends near cheltenham for some time. after that we have visitors here, and then we probably must visit mrs a's brother in suffolk. our time is about disposed of, but we shall see further on. mrs ayton joins me in kind regards. got all hay up yesterday! 1 wilhelm heinrich schussler was a german author of books on homoe.opathy. ayt?n may have read c. hering, the twelve tissue r medtes of dr sch.lissler (1874. occultists were particularly identified with hom?eopathic remedies at that time. during the 1890s the membership of the golden dawn included at least half a dozen quali ed p ysicians who were homoeopaths. the schussler remedies are still available, ee dr g. w. carey and 1. e

om india is most ill-judged and ill-timed. harte is a very pleasant fellow and very zealous. altho' he never uses col. o[lcott]'s name, i doubt very much whether he would have approved of this appeal' my idea of the position is, that some tremendous crisis is at hand, which is foreseen by the mahatmas, and which will probably necessitate their interference in a more open way, even as the count st german [i.e. saint-germain] interfered in the first french revolution. the t.s. by making known the "secret doctrine &c. generally, altho' the minds ofmen are now far too much taken up with worldly gain, and worldly pleasures, will, in this great crisis, and the terrible sufferings and distress the letters 45 attend.ant u on it, then turn to the mahatmas and their pure doct mes, instead of the spu

ous works on 'elcctro-homoeopathy' such as specifiques electro-homoeopathiques du comte mattei avec les indications necessaires pourla guerison detoutes les maladies et speaalement des maladies incurables (7th edition, valence, combier 1884. biography in satumus, s. l, iatrochimie et elearo-homoeopathie; etude comparative sur la medicine du m( yen-age et celle des temps-modcrnes; translated from' german (paris, chamucl, 1897, with portraits of paracelsus and mattei. the letters 65 letter no. 33, of 22 june 1891" needs a brief commentary. w. t. stead (1849-1912) was an outstandingly able and energetic journalist who became editor of the pall mall gazette in 1883. he soon gave the newspaper a reputation for courageous investigative reporting. thus in july 1885 an article headed 'the maiden t

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

, blake told no one of his expedition. instead, he read much in certain books, examined long years of newspaper files downtown, and worked feverishly at the cryptogram in that leather volume from the cobwebbed vestry room. the cipher, he soon saw, was no simple one; and after a long period of endeavour he felt sure that its language could not be english, latin, greek, french, spanish, italian, or german. evidently he would have to draw upon the deepest wells of his strange erudition. every evening the old impulse to gaze westwards returned, and he saw the black steeple as of yore amongst the bristling roofs of a distant and half-fabulous world. but now it held a fresh note of terror for him. he knew the heritage of evil lore it masked, and with the knowledge his vision ran riot in queer ne

ext in a script and idiom which somehow seemed oddly unhuman. these markings were mostly in the respective languages of the various books, all of which the writer seemed to know with equal, though obviously academic, facility. one note appended to von junzt's unaussprechlichen kulten, however, was alarmingly otherwise. it consisted of certain curvilinear hieroglyphs in the same ink as that of the german corrections, but following no recognized human pattern. and these hieroglyphs were closely and unmistakably aldn to the characters constantly met with in my dreams- characters whose meaning i would sometimes momentarily fancy i knew, or was just on the brink of recalling. to complete my black confusion, my librarians assured me that, in view of previous examinations and records of consultat

HP LOVECRAFT DAGON

indow into the squalid street below. do not think from my slavery to morphine that i am a weakling or a degenerate. when you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that i must have forgetfulness or death. it was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad pacific that the packet of which i was supercargo fell a victim to the german sea-raider. the great war was then at its very beginning, and the ocean forces of the hun had not completely sunk to their later degradation; so that our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of her crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as naval prisoners. so liberal, indeed, was the discipline of our captors, that five days after we were taken i managed t

rphine; but the drug has given only transient surcease, and has drawn me into its clutches as a hopeless slave. so now i am to end it all, having written a full account for the information or the contemptuous amusement of my fellow-men. often i ask myself if it could not all have been a pure phantasm- a mere freak of fever as i lay sun-stricken and raving in the open boat after my escape from the german man-of-war. this i ask myself, but ever does there come before me a hideously vivid vision in reply. i cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. i dream of a da

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

intelligent desperation apparently sufficient to prove every theory of herbert west. certainly, the nerves were recalling the man s last act in life; the struggle to get free of the falling aeroplane. what followed, i shall never positively know. it may have been wholly an hallucination from the shock caused at that instant by the sudden and complete destruction of the building in a cataclysm of german shell-fire- who can gainsay it, since west and i were the only proved survivors? west liked to think that before his recent disappearance, but there were times when he could not; for it was queer that we both had the same hallucination. the hideous occurrence itself was very simple, notable only for what it implied. the body on the table had risen with a blind and terrible groping, and we h

esulting from a curious experiment in the canadian army in 1915. west, in the midst of a severe battle, had reanimated major sir eric moreland clapham-lee, d.s.o, a fellow-physician who knew about his experiments and could have duplicated them. the head had been removed, so that the possibilities of quasi-intelligent life in the trunk might be investigated. just as the building was wiped out by a german shell, there had been a success. the trunk had moved intelligently; and, unbelievable to relate, we were both sickeningly sure that articulate sounds had come from the detached head as it lay in a shadowy corner of the laboratory. the shell had been merciful, in a way- but west could never feel as certain as he wished, that we two were the only survivors. he used to make shuddering conjectu

HP LOVECRAFT THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

t tottering house in the rue d auseil kept by the paralytic blandot. it was the third house from the top of the street, and by far the tallest of them all. my rcom was on the fifth story; the only inhabited room there, since the house was almost empty. on the night i arrived i heard strang music from the peaked garret overhead, and the next day asked old blandot about it. he told me it was an old german viol-player, a strange dumb man who signed his name as erich zann, and who played eve nings in a cheap theater orchestra; adding that zann s desire to play in the night after his return from the theater was the reason he had chosen this lofty and isolated garret room, whose single gable window was the only point on the street from which one could look over the terminating wall at the decliv

but having a paradoxical suggestion of intense and frightened listening. subsequently he seemed to be satisfied, and crossing to a chair by the table wrote a brief note, handed it to me, and returned to the table, where he began to write rapidly and incessantly. the note implored me in the name of mercy, and for the sake of my own curiosity, to wait where i was while he prepared a full account in german of all the marvels and terrors which beset him. i waited, and the dumb man s pencil flew. it was perhaps an hour later, while i still waited and while the old musician s feverishly written sheets still continued to pile up, that i saw zann start as from the hint of a horrible shock. unmistakably he was looking at the curtained window and listening shudderingly. then i half fancied i heard a

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

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

panish and french named wednesday after mercury, but we use the germanic "wodensday" woden was the counterpart of the god mercury. thursday is thor's day. thor was the god who was comparable to jupiter and although the french and spanish named their thursday after jupiter, we stick to thor. thor and jupiter were the same gods in different parts of the world. friday comes from venus but we use the german "freitag" the equivalent goddess. saturday is saturn's day. it is not only witches who set aside special days. there are certain traditional days to do certain things; all sorts of tricky things that most women know about. a sunday marriage is blessed and, of course, this may be why so many more people get married on sunday than on any other day (sunday marriages are customary in the united

sculinity. i think if you're having a grand time with your life completely, somewhere along the line you're going to be able to make do. i don't think anybody who's having a good time is starving. the time poverty sets in is when you're not doing anything, when you're frightened and when you're hiding out. dear louise: do you believe in turning the other cheek? my birthdate is november 4, 1942. a german shepherd of my neighbour's attacked my small daughter and myself. i got nerve damage to the right leg as a result, so i sued against the neighbour and the insurance company. the next meeting is delayed to february. my neighbour says no good person would ever sue her, no matter what, but she won't even pay the doctor bills. she thinks i'm the most evil person on earth. she swears she'll keep

no good person would ever sue her, no matter what, but she won't even pay the doctor bills. she thinks i'm the most evil person on earth. she swears she'll keep cancelling out until i forget about the suit. what do you think of my chances of settling my suit? i'm in pain for the rest of my life. am i evil to sue? irmgarde c. we've got a couple of sick neighbours here. the lady next door with the german shepherd is understandably not wanting to be sued and is trying to browbeat the passive neighbour into thinking she's evil. well, witches are supposed to be evil, too, if you listen to just anybody. but if you have physical damage done to your body, and if you are wanting to know from a witch whether or not you should sue the people who caused the damage, you have some other kind of problem

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

already, he will be advised to use this ritual as little as possible. evidently some people will come to the conclusion that several of the political movements or parties are performing an indirect magical action with the gesture of salute, and in this manner supply the general reservoir with more, however small parts of the vital power, by constant repetition. we shall remember the salute of the german nsdap, consisting in a lifting of the hand and certainly representing a certain gesture of power. but if such an increased collective power reservoir is used for greedy and questionable purposes, this mentally strained power is turning against the founders because of its polarity, and decay and destruction will follow, apart from the fact that the curses of the absolutely innocent victims p

ISIS UNVEILED

o ui bf ui eye-mtnesb who hu vuited the church aero! times, a bombn catholic, who fdt perfectly horrified, aa be eipressed it 14. refening to the aeed planted by jesui and his apoatlea. 15. chip* fiom a otmait workihop, i, ixv-xxvi, preface. digitizec by google the hells op vabiods natioiffi ii respectable personage; and loke [the scandinavian, though a mischiev- ous person, was not a fiend. ilie german goddess. hell, too like proserpina had once seen better days. thus, when the germans were indoctrinated with the idea of a real devil, the semitic satan or diabolus, they treated him in the moat good-humored manner" the same may be said of hell. hades was quite a different place from our region of 'eternal damnation' and might be termed rather an inter- mediate state of purification. neithe

nd the effects. if the clergy have not over-estimated the real power of the 'arch-enemy of god' it must be confessed that he takes mighty precautions against being recognised as the' prince of darkness' who aims at our souls. if modem 'spirits' are devils at all, as preached by the clergy, then they can only be those "poor" or "stupid devils" whom max muller describes as appearing so often in the german and n w^ian tales. notwithstanding this, the clergy fear above all to be forced to rehn- qui^ this bold on humanity. they are not willing to let us judge of the tree by its fruits, for that might sometimes force them into dangerous di- lemmas. they refuse ukewise to admit, with unprejudiced people, that the phenomena of spiritualism have unquestionably spiritualized and re- cliumed from evi

f its majestic civilisation? what m there so surprising in ihe idea? who knows but that as the christian cburcb has uiicodtciously begotten free thought bv reaction against her own cruelty, rapadty, and dogmatism, the public mind may be ^ad to follow the lead of the orientalitt, away from jerusalem and towards ellora; and that then much more will be discovcaed that is dow hidden? 40. chip4 from a german fporktiutp, 1. p. 373 'semitic monotheiam' digitizecoy google what was sated from the bruchion 27 certain monks, and with learned babbis in palestine, who pass their lives in commenting upon the taimvd. they say that not all the ndls and manuscripts, reported in history to have been bumed by caesar, by the christian mob, in 389, and by the arab general amni, perished as it is conmionly beli

d to him by the satire of cervantes, ndther torralva nor the monk ^etro are fictitious heroes, but historical personages, recorded in ecclesiastical documents of rome and cuenca, in which town the trial of the physician took place in the years 1528 to 1530' the book of dr. w. g. soldan, of stuttgart, has become as famous in germany as bodin's book on denumomania in france. it is the most complete german treatise on sixteenth centuiy witchcraft. one interest- ed in learning the secret machinery underlying these thousands of legal murders, perpetrated by a clergy who pretended to believe in the devil, and succeeded in making others beueve in him, will find it divulged in the above-mentioned work' the true origin of the daily accusations and death-sentences for sorcery are cleverly traced to

2. adr. mart, tv. ix; xvu, xxxvi; mmk w. v. 17. 363. supmataral rehfioh, loe. eu. digitizecoy google the two factions in the primitive choech 161 but their own interpretations and unwarranted assertions* we will now proceed to state what ven the views of marcion, whom tertullian de- sired to annihilate as the most dangerous heretic german biblical critics, then "from the critical standing-point one must. consider the state- ments of the fathers of the church only as expressions of their ub- jectixe viae, which itself requires proof" we can do no better nor make a more correct statement of facts codceming marcion than by quoting what our space permits from superttatural religion^ the author of which bases his assertions on th

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

his book is for you. namaste. jasmuheen divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 6 dedication and acknowledgment to konrad halbig and his wife karen i will be eternally grateful for their decision to publish the first book in this series, and then to later stand tall amid the controversy that the release of this information would bring. i also give my thanks to the german people whose hearts were touched by my early research enough to walk the path with me and who then proved by their own experience that what i had come to know was also true for them. to the millions who have walked before me and beside me exploring all these fields, i also give thanks, for you have made the journey easier for us all. to my publishers in germany, italy, croatia, france, spai

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

e of the flying insect called in england lady- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic green is the mythic, magic green of venus. the emerald is the smaragdus or smaragd. the name of the insect barnabee, barnbee, burning fire-fly, whose house is of fire, whose children are ten, is red chafer, rother-kaefer, sonnen-kaefer, unser- frawen kohlein, in german; it is sun-chafer, our lady s little cow, isis, or io, or c ow, in english. the children tenne (tin, or tien, is fire in some languages) are the earliest "ten signs "in the zodiacal heavens each sign with its ten decans, or decumens, or lenders of hosts. they are also astronomically called stalls, or stables. we may here refer to porphyry, horapollo, and chifflet s gnostic gems. the speckle

cians. lagar, the speaking stone. we may speculate upon the word lich, lych, lech in this connection, and the terms lich-gate, or lech-gate, as also the name of lichfield. there is a porch or gateway, mostly at the entrance of old-fashioned churchyards, which is called the lyke- porch, or litch-porch. lug, or litk, is a word in the danish signifying the same as lyk in the dutch, and leiche in the german. thus comes the word lich-gate. lich in the anglo-saxon means a dead body. see notes and queries, vol. ii. p. 4. the lych-gates were as a sort of triumphal arches (propyl a) placed before the church, as the outwork called the propylon, or propyl um, was advanced before the egyptian and the grecian temples. they are found, in the form of separate arches, before the gates even of chinese citi

stus paracelsus was born in 1493, at einsiedeln, a small town of the canton of schwitz, t 66 the rosicrucians. distant some leagues from zurich. having passed a troubled, migratory, and changeful life, this great chemist, and very original thinker, died on the 24th of september 1541, in the hospital of st. stephen, in the forty-eighth year of his age. his works may be enumerated as follow: i. the german editions: basil, 1575, in 8vo; ib. i, 1589-90, in 10 vols. 4to; and strasbourg, 1603-18, in 4 vols. folio. 2. the latin editions: opera omnia medico-chymico-chirurgica, francfort, 1603, in 10 vols. 4to; and geneva, 1658, in 3 vols. folio. 3. the french editions: la grand chirurgerie de paracelse, lyons, 1593 and 1603, in 4to; and montbeliard, 1608, in 8vo. see adelung, histoire de la folie

s alp or alb, and their compounds, meaning white everywhere. i conclude, also, that from the pen of the celt, umbrians, and sabines, which signifies a head, top, or high place, they made penninus mons, the apennines, vast mountains in italy. thus these celebrated words proceed certainly from the gaulish tongue, and are older by several ages than the city of rome. the following are all teutonic or german words: alb, alf (qy. alfred, and alp, which all signify white, as their original root. thus much for white. white is also a colour not auspicious to the prussian royal family, although, again, in a contradictory way, the ensigns of prussia (borussia, or of the borussi) are, as armorists well know, the original white and black of the egyptians, which were adopted by the teutons and the templ

nights of the round table. their successors again were the knights of malta, with their eight' langues, or nations each represented in a blade of, or ray, of the eight-pointed red templar cross. 370 the rosicrucians. the temple church, london, was dedicated to st. mary. the gr al is a sort of oracle. it is, so to speak, at the orders of the mother of god, to execute all her commands. parsival the german champion-hero thinks of transporting the greal to the east, from whence it originally came. he takes the san gr al, embarks at marseilles with the templars, and arrives at the court of his brother feirifix in india. the sacred cup manifests a desire that parsival should remain possessor of the gr al, and only change his name into that of prester john (prestre, or pretre, jehan, or john. par

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

had seen, so! they are on the greak ark, now? yet feel that kobenhoven is still being held, intact. windjammer sailors are hard fighters& prove good sport to the l-ms later when pacified, they are good company, make good space sailors. deep space is not for every man, only a few types can take it for very long. most of these type men are sailors, used to long long voyages. on october 3, 1902, the german bark, freya, cleared from manzanillo, on the west coast of mexico (a tropical pesthole, if ever i saw one, for punta arenas (see nature, april 25, 1907. on october 20, she was found at sea, partly dismasted, lying on her side nobody aboard. the anchor was still hanging from her bow, not fully shipped, a good indication that calamity had struck very soon after she left port. the date on the

arried to that spot. how far was the nearest hill where such a stone could be found at all? the above questions will never be asked& so will never be answered& if asked, no one would want to tell the truth, lest he be led away to the "funny farm" or etc of the like. 155 the case is proved (b& jemi) in the summer of 1881, a routine announcement appeared in the form of a letter to the editor of the german astronomical publication, astronomishce nachrichten: while scanning the western sky on the evening of (may 22nd) with the unassisted eye, i detected a hazy-looking object just below the constellation columba, which, for my familiarity with that part of the heavens, i regarded as new. on examining it with a small marine telescope i found it half and five and one-half magnitude and the head o

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

f. the black letters are clearly visible, so the black is the open knowledge, while the while spaces show nothing and represent the hidden wisdom* on-line at http//www.fredreissbooks.com/wst_page3.html. 20073 17 part 2: studies on sefer yezirah franck, adolphe. the kabbalah. the religious philosophy of the hebrews. french original: la kabbale ou la philosophie religieuse des hebreux, paris: 1843. german translation by adolph jellinek: die kabbala, oder die religion- philosophie der hebraer, liepzig: 1844. 2nd french edition, paris: hachette et cie, 1892. hebrew translation from the german by m. rabinsohn: ha-kabbalah o ha- philosophia ha-datit shel ha-yehudim, vilna: 1909. revised and enlarged [english] translation by dr. i. sossnitz: the kabbalah or the religious philosophy of the hebrews

the 32 paths is already based on waite and westcott. ponce missed kalisch altogether. the note quoted is typical of ponce: he ll make a pretty good point, only to undermine it with a serious error. ponce, more generally, is yet another example of someone at the mercy of unreliable translators and commentators (as were mathers, westcott, waite, etc) 20073 20 robert saks [on ponce: his treatment of german hasidism is superficial and misses the point on such a basic matter as its concept of the words of prayers as keys, though gematria, to the unity of all creation. it is hard to excuse his claim that moses cordovero wrote lechah dodi, his use of pereks as the plural of perek, or his description of luria as being primarily interested in the practical side of kabbalah. it is impossible to igno

ludes with a summary of the printed editions and translations of the text. origins of the kabbalah. the jewish publication society/ princeton university press, 1987. the english edition is an expansion of the hebrew work, reshith ha-qabbalah (jerusalem: 1948, more than double its size; it was updated to include additional research (of scholem s) since 1962 (when a revised version was published in german: ursprung und anfange der kabbala, berlin: walter de gruyter& co) drawn from scholem s own special interleaved volume, into which he entered notes, queries, corrections, and additions [french translation: les origins de la kabbale, paris: 1966] in the longest section on sy in origins of the kabbalah (pp. 24-35, scholem discusses the dating of sy then summarizes the fundamental concepts, wit

m beli mah. there follows a brief survey of the commentaries on sy* kabbalah and major trends are not the extent of scholem s work. see, in contrast, on the kabbalah and its symbolism (new york: schocken books, 1965) and on the mystical shape of the godhead (new york: schocken books, 1991. 20073 21 elsewhere, scholem discusses sy s role in the formation of kabbalah (pp. 46-8, its influence on the german hasidim (pp. 97-8, its development as a manual for creating a golem (pp. 102-3, its links with merkabah mysticism (117-8, and notes on the commentaries on sy of joseph ben shalom (p. 224, isaac the blind (pp. 257-8, and nahmanides (pp. 388-9. on the kabbalah and its symbolism. german original: zur kabbala und ihrer symbolik. zurich: rhein-verlag, 1960; english translation: new york: schocke

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

and wife, and the status of women in the writings of the early kabbalists h and ggenesis 2:24: ethey become one flesh f: several interpretations by medieval jewish mystics, h in idem, sex of the soul: the vicissitudes of sexual difference in kabbalah. los angeles: cherub press, 2005. scholem, gershom. gthe concept of kavvanah in the early kabbalah, h in studies in jewish thought: an anthology of german jewish scholarship, edited by alfred jospe (detroit: wayne state university press, 1981. willensky, sara o. heller. gthe efirst created being f in early kabbalah: philosophical and isma fillan sources, h in binah, vol. 3 (ed. j. dan; westport: praeger, 1994. gisaac ibn latif.philosopher or kabbalist? h in jewish medieval and renaissance studies, edited by alexander altmann (cambridge: harva

ynagogue traditions (100 ce onward) e. miscellaneous magic texts and other goccult h works 2. merkabah and hekhalot (200 ce onward) 3. sefer yezirah (between 200 and 900 ce) 4. transition a. geonic period (600-1000) b. early commentaries on sefer yezirah c. religious philosophers i. solomon ibn gebirol (1020-1070) ii. judah halevi (1075-1141) iii. abraham ibn ezra (1089-1164) 5. hasidei ashkenaz (german hasidism: ca 1170-1240) 1. early beginnings since jewish mysticism is ultimately based on the hebrew bible, the beginning, really, is the tanakh, parts of which are more gmystical h than others. more important to our line of inquiry is that certain themes were developed more than others for a variety of mystical purposes. by talmudic times, two branches of the mysteries were well known and

stein [the brill reference library of judaism, vol. 20 (leiden. boston: brill, 2005. sela, shlomo. gabraham ibn ezra fs appropriation of saturn, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts, vol. 10, edited by daniel abrams and avraham elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 2004. 20081 21 5. hasidei ashkenaz while not considered part of the early kabbalah in the strictest sense, the german hasidim must be seen as a bridge between the earlier merkabah/hekhalot mysticism and the kabbalah which as to follow.or certain aspects of it. a whole paper could be devoted to the german hasidim; until such time that a full bibliography is developed, the following preliminary list is offered. abrams, daniel. gthe literary emergence of esotericism in german pietism, h in shofar, vol. 12, no

college of new york, 1983. also in rabbinic fantasies: imaginative narratives from classical hebrew literature, edited by d. stern and m. mirsky (philadelphia: jewish publication society, 1990; rpt. new haven. london: yale university press, 1998. piety and society. the jewish pietists of medieval germany [etudes sur le judaisme medieval: tome x. leiden: e. j. brill, 1981. gthe esong of songs f in german hasidism and the school of rashi: a preliminary comparison, h in rashi 1040-1990 (1993. millgram, abraham e. an anthology of hebrew literature. 1961, abelard-schuman, new york: pp. 142-6, excerpts from eleazer of worms f rokeach. rubin, a. gthe concept of repentance among the hasidey ashkenaz, h in journal of jewish studies, vol. xvi (1965. schafer, peter. gthe ideal of piety of the ashkena

ory of jewish mysticism: the beginnings of jewish 20081 24 mysticism in medieval europe, edited by joseph dan (jerusalem: the hebrew university, 1987. wolfson, elliot. along the path: studies in kabbalistic myth, symbolism, and hermeneutics. albany: state university of new york press, 1995: chapter 1. gthe image of jacob engraved upon the throne: further reflection on the esoteric doctrine of the german pietists. h. gthe mystical significance of torah study in german pietism, h in jewish quarterly review, vol. 84, no. 1 (july 1993. through a speculum that shines: chapter five. ghaside ashkenaz: verdical and docetic interpretations of the chariot visions. h. yassif, eli. gthe medieval saint as protagonist and storyteller: the case of r. judah he-hasid, h in creation and re-creation in jewis

KETAB E SIYAH

e wrack of guilt was i made anew and the embers of the ancient satan were kindled into a blazing pyre that shone with a light hitherto unknown. i perceived the dawn in that flame which now raged in my soul and compelled me too to earth. i watched no more nor waited but went forth as a dragon, most hungry for the fight renewed. the triad of humanity's avengers fought side by side and cast back the german armies from the east. then at the west they contended and overthrew the charms of gabriel. by their hand was gabriel made flee all that was once his kingdom. what was once won to him was lost and where he had once seen victory it dissolved like a dream to his eyes and he perceived but defeat. with each day passing did his borders shrink until but berlin was held by him and his foes were at

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

hings are contingent upon it. this is also why we do not find a single genuine kabbalist without comprehensive knowledge in all the worldly teachings, as they acquire it from the wisdom of truth itself, as they are contained in it--baal hasulam the wisdom of kabbalah and its essence 210 p r o m i n e n t s c h o l a r s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h johannes reuchlin (1455-1522) reuchlin, a german humanist, political counselor to the chancellor, a classics scholar and an expert in the ancient languages and traditions (latin, greek, and hebrew) was affiliated with the heads of the platonic academia (della mirandola and others. my teacher pythagoras, who is the father of philosophy, did nevertheless not receive those teachings from the greeks, but rather he received them from the jews

sciences. the other one treats the forces of the higher things, which are over the moon, which is the highest part of magia naturalis. the hebrews also call both of them cabala--pico della mirandola, conclusions paulus ricius( 1470-1541) ricius, a physician and a professor of philosophy at pavia university, austria, served as personal physician and consultant to maximilian i, archduke of austria, german king and holy roman emperor, and to ferdinand i king of bohemia and hungary. the ability to interpret the divine and human secrets by a type of the mosaic law with allegorical sense is called kabbalah. a literal meaning (of a scripture) submits to the conditions of time and space. allegorical and kabbalistic- remains for centuries, unbounded by time and space--paulus ricius, introductoria t

bohemia and hungary. the ability to interpret the divine and human secrets by a type of the mosaic law with allegorical sense is called kabbalah. a literal meaning (of a scripture) submits to the conditions of time and space. allegorical and kabbalistic- remains for centuries, unbounded by time and space--paulus ricius, introductoria theoramata cabalae philippus aureolus paracelsus (1493-1541) a german-swiss physician and alchemist, paracelsus established the role of chemistry in medicine. he is considered one of the founders of modern science. learn artem cabbalisticam, it explains everything- paracelsus, das buch paragranum k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 212 christian konrad sprengel (1750 1816) a german botanist and teacher whose studies of reprod

d that the whole divinity can be affiliated to one original source, as well as the whole light, which shines originally and independently, and the images, which break in numerous different mirrors as in just as many individual objects can be led back to a formal and ideal principle, the source of those images--giordano bruno, le opere italiane gottfried wilhelm leibnitz (1646-1716) leibnitz was a german philosopher, mathematician, and political adviser, important both as a metaphysician and as a logician and distinguished also for his independent invention of the differential and integral calculus. in 1661 he entered the university k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 214 of leipzig as a law student; there he encountered the ideas of men who had revolutioni

ght key to the secret, the thirst for knowledge here eventually led to vanities and superstition of all kinds, from which ultimately developed a kind of vulgar cabbala that lies far away from the true one, as well as diverse fantastic theories under the false name of magic; the books are teeming with those--leibnitz hauptschriften zur grundlegung der philosophie friedrich von schlegel (1772-1829) german writer, critic and philosopher, contemporary of goethe, schiller and novalis. a pioneer in comparative indo-european linguistics and comparative philology, schlegel deeply influenced the early german romantic movement. he is generally held to be the person who first established the term romantisch in the literary context. the true esthetics is kabbalah--schlegel, kritische f. schlegel-ausga

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

tradition of the grail and its spiritual knighthood passed into literature through the hands of chretien de troyes, wolfram von eschenbach and other writers, whence on the one hand we derive the morte d arthur of sir thomas malory, from which tennyson drew the materials for his idylls of the king, and on the other the glorious music of parsifal, in which wagner reconstructed so magnificently the german tradition of the grail brotherhood. 496. heredom 497. in scotland these secret mysteries of the east and west were handed down from generation to generation in various centres, one of the chief of these being the sacred island of iona. among the initiates of the culdee rites iona was called heredom. heredom is said in masonic tradition to be a mystical mountain, and as such it is indeed the

important masonic degrees emerged in the eighteenth century. 499. the monks of the celtic church were largely responsible for the introduction of christianity into germany. wherever they came they raised churches and dwellings for their priests, cleared the forests, tilled the virgin soil, and instructed the heathen in the first principles of civilization(*gould. hist. freem, vol. i, p. 107) some german authorities have held that the monks directing these operations owed much of their success to the remnants of the roman colleges of gaul and britain, and ultimately laid the foundations of the craft guild system in germany. gould rejects this view on the ground that at the time of the celtic influence there were no craft guilds in germany(*gould. hist. freem, vol. i, p. 109) but nevertheles

ch of their success to the remnants of the roman colleges of gaul and britain, and ultimately laid the foundations of the craft guild system in germany. gould rejects this view on the ground that at the time of the celtic influence there were no craft guilds in germany(*gould. hist. freem, vol. i, p. 109) but nevertheless some of the secret rites and traditions of the celtic monks passed into the german monasteries and formed one of the lines of descent of those stonemasons who built the great german cathedrals in the middle ages. 500. in scotland the celtic mystery-tradition passed down independently of the later operative lodges, for there is no trace whatsoever of any high degrees in the extant minutes of mother kilwinning, no. 0 upon the roll of the grand lodge of scotland, which date

always formed the principal population in the cities, and faithfully preserved under their new masters the remembrance and traces of their ancient organization(*levasseur, histoire des classes ouvrieres en france, vol. i, p. 104, quoted gould i, p. 182) 520. roman civil architecture, industry, art- in one word, the whole roman tradition- was perpetuated in france till the tenth century. even the german conquerors, while preserving their own national laws, customs, and usages, accepted the gallic industry much as they found it(*monteil, histoire de l industrie francaise, preface by c. louandre, p. 76, quoted ibid, p. 183) 521. not only was the trade organization preserved without break; the inner mysteries of the colleges of architects were transmitted to the mediaeval building guilds of f

. 35) while according to the bulletin of the supreme council of the ancient and accepted scottish rite (southern jurisdiction, u.s.a) the legend of hiram abiff is carved in stone at strasburg(*op, cit, vii, 200) in the cathedral at wurzburg two pillars, inscribed jachin and boaz, originally stood at the porchway or entrance, but they have now been moved within the building. stieglitz in his early german architecture says that they were intended to bear a symbolic reference to the fraternity(*gould, concise hist, p. 24) a bas-relief in a convent near schaffhausen depicts a figure making one of the s s of an i.m(*an outline history of freemasonry, j. s. m. ward, p. 11) in the year 1459 the stonemasons of germany united to form a grand guild, governed by four head lodges, of which strasburg w

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

favorite sins. evelyn oliver the devil s bride this 1968 movie is hammer studios film adaptation of dennis wheatley s most celebrated black magic novel, the devil rides out. it features, unsurprisingly, a satanist devil-worshiping cult. this is considered by many to be hammer s best work. devil s daughter in the 1991 film devil s daughter, the entrance to hell is none other than the basement of a german tenement. the filmmaker uses a scant story line about satanists looking forward to the birth of the nameless one s baby as an excuse to provide only the sickest of moviegoers with 112 minutes of human sacrifice and torture. the film is sadistically graphic, with realistic horror scenes of gruesome dismemberments and slashings. the worst of the hideous scenes is the tearing off of a woman s

n, twilight of the magicians.wellingborough, northamptonshire, uk: aquarian, 1983. israel regardie, the golden dawn: an account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the order of the golden dawn. 2 vols. 2nd ed. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1969. hex as commonly used, the term hex means an evil spell or bewitchment, and is almost precisely interchangeable with the word curse. it derives from the german word hexe, which means witch. hexe, in turn, comes from the old german term for hag, hagazussa or hagzissa. the term seems to have come into modern english through the pennsylvania dutch, who use it to designate both good and evil spells. the expression hex signs refers to magical symbols and signs used by the pennsylvania dutch.hex signs are usually of circular shape and represent flowers

for the disappointments in their lives in the distilled spirits and smoky taverns for which lavey provided a soundtrack. his odd interests marked him as an outsider, and he did not feel compelled to conform. he despised gym class and team sports and often cut class to follow his own interests. he was an avid reader, and watched films such as those that would later be labeled film noir as well as german expressionist cinema like m, the cabinet of dr. caligari, and the dr. mabuse movies. his flashy mode of dress also served to amplify his alienation from the mainstream. he dropped out of high school to hang around with hoodlum types and gravitated toward working in the circus and carnivals, first as a roustabout and cage boy and later as a musician. he eventually worked an act with the big

chetypal seductress, and the personification of the dangerous feminine glamour of the moon. lilith was said to search for newborn children to kidnap or strangle, and to seduce sleeping men in order to produce demon sons. she is a patroness of witches, and is usually depicted as a beautiful vampire,with great claws as feet. lilith can be found in iranian, babylonian, mexican, greek, arab, english, german, oriental, and north american indian legends, and is often associated with other characters, such as the queen of sheba and helen of troy. according to muslim legend, lilith slept with satan. in the talmud, she was the first wife of adam who refused to accept her subservient role. adam then ejected her, and god created eve as a more obedient helpmate. lilith is then said to have copulated w

also lavey, anton szandor for further reading: lucifers den official site: http//www.angelfire.com/mi/lucifersden magic and magical groups widespread acceptance of the occult had tapered off sharply among the educated by about 1750, but it did not cease altogether, and may have remained more or less constant among peasants. during the next century, the romantic revival of neo-platonism, medieval german mysticism, and astrology; the introduction of asian and especially indian esotericism; and the sudden enthusiasm for secret societies, mesmerism, and swedenborgianism marked the beginnings of the modern recrudescence of the occult.with varying degrees of popularity, faddishness, and intellectual respectability, it has remained a nearly ubiquitous factor in western cultural life ever since

LIBER ALEPH

hou mayst bring into the light thine own subconscious memories. and thy memory is as it were the mortar in the house of thy mind, without which is no cohesion or individuality possible, so that the lack thereof is called dementia. and these books have lived long and become famous because they are the fruits of ancient trees whereof thou art directly the heir, wherefrom (say i) they are more truly german to thine own nature than books of collateral offshoots, though such were in themselves better and wiser. yes, o my son, in these writings thou mayst study to come to the true comprehension of thine own nature, and that of the whole universe, in the dimension of time, even as the mathematic declareth it in that of space: that is, of extension. moreover, by this study shall the child com-preh

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

t. talk! good god! but dorothy kept on quietly and took no notice; and in the end i forgot about them. thinking it over soberly, i see now that very likely they were quite right: i can ft prove it either way. but as a mere practical man, i intend taking the steamer.for my sins i am in gibraltar. the soldier and the hunchback 9 back to dorothy at the earliest possible moment. sandwiches of bun and german sausage may be vulgar even imaginary.it fs the taste i like. and the more i munch, the more complacent i feel, until i go so far as to offer my critics a bite. this sounds in a way like the ginterior certainty h of the common or garden christian; but there are differences. the christian insists on notorious lies being accepted as an essential part of his (more usually her) system; i, on the

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

, bliss. but the main consideration was one of expediency. has not john st. john possibly been stuffing himself both with methods and results? certainly this morning was more like the engorgement of the stomach with too much food than like the headache after a bout of drunkenness. a less grave fault, by far; it is easy and absurd to get a kind of hysterical ecstasy over religion, love, or wine. a german will take off his hat and dance and jodel to the sunrise.and nothing comes of it! darwin studies nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics. and out comes the law of evolution. so it is written .by their fruits ye shall know them. but about this question of spiritual overfeeding.what did darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! liber dccclx 100 many a time)

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

+6+5= 29; if every letter is reduced to units we get 1+5+3+6+5= 20. alternatively if we just take the ordinary gematria value of the word, we get 10+5+300+6+5= 326 which we can then reduce as 3+2+6= 11 .the characters of heaven with thy finger &c. is from an english translation of the .rosicrucian prayer. which appeared in the second part of geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer (an eighteenth century german alchemical- rosicrucian work, as used in the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et. a.c. the latin motto on the final emblem translates as .may the lord our god, who gave unto us the signs, be blessed. it is a slight adaptation of a latin motto which appeared on the figure of the .golden and rosy cross. in geheime figuren (which design was in turn borrowed by mathers for the reverse of the .c

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

age (book iii, cap. 25) gto swim for 24 hours without becoming wearied. h. t.s] 3 [a famous english swimmer of the period. t.s] thien tao; or, the synagogue of satan 7 so they carried kwaw shoulder-high to the yoshiwara, and passed him the glad hand, and called out the indians, and annexed his personal property for relics, and otherwise followed the customs of the best new york society, while the german band accompanied the famous ka ru so to the following delightful ballad:4 chorus. blow the tom-tom, bang the flute! let us all be merry! i fm a party with acute chronic beri-beri. i. monday i fm a skinny critter quite felicien-rops-y. blow the cymbal, bang the zither! tuesday i have dropsy. chorus. ii. wednesday cardiac symptoms come; thursday diabetic. blow the fiddle, strum the drum! frid

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

ore than one world. it is the society whose members form the republic of genius, the regent mother of the whole world [this work was first published in equinox i (1. the designation liber xxxiii was given in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (10. it is an adaptation by crowley (deleting or amending all specifically christian references) of letter ii of the cloud upon the sanctuary, a late 18th-century german work of christian mysticism, translated into french by persons unknown, and from french into english by one isabel de steiger (late 19th century (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ n.i.w.g. this e-text last revised 13.06.200-tliber xxxvi the star sapphire v a a publication in class d 1 let the adept be armed with his magick rood [and provided with his

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

inavian peninsula. the names are indicative: norway, the northern way, the sea route up and down the coast; denmark, the forest of the danes, which separated them from the saxons; sweden, the kingdom of the svear, the people around malaren who at some point during the viking age subdued their southern neighbors in gotaland. the name gscandinavia h appears to be the latinized form of an unattested german word *scandinauja p (the asterisk before the word means that it was never recorded but rather was reconstructed by linguists) this word is a compound, the second part of which, auja p, means gisland. h what the first part means has been endlessly debated. it appears to contain the same root as the name of the southern part of sweden, skane, and may therefore mean gskanian island. h as the i

l dates and origins of the mythological eddic poems, it seems to me that the similarities outweigh the differences and that the pictures of the gods are fairly consistent. in form, the eddic poems are short stanzaic poems that rely chiefly on two meters, fornyr.islag, gold way of composing, h and ljo.ahattr, gsong meter. h fornyr.islag is equivalent to the verse form used in old english, old high german, and old saxon, the other germanic languages in which verse has been pre- 14 norse mythology served, although the division into stanzas appears to be a scandinavian innovation. like the poems in the second half of codex regius of the poetic edda, verse in old english and old high german is about heroes, and even the major surviving example of old saxon, a verse life of christ called heliand

. for example, there are several places in denmark called gtorshoj, h gthor fs hill, h and the major city of the danish island fyn is odense, which originally meant godin fs holy place. h scholars usually distinguish gnature-names h from gcult-names, h but the distinction is not as clear as the previous pair of words suggests. the indo-european background the germanic languages, of which english, german, dutch, and the scandinavian languages are the modern representatives, constitute one branch of the indo-european family of languages. the name gindo-european h was coined when the family relationship between sanskrit, the classic literary language of india, and greek and latin, the classic literary languages of europe, was discovered in the eighteenth century. most of the languages of mode

if a bit of mythological lore was taken from a living people, nobody bothered to ask them what they thought it meant, and in fact the comparative method allowed one to ignore living beings, since change could have obscured the original meaning of something. although adalbert kuhn was an important early adherent of nature mythology, the person most closely associated with it today is max muller, a german indo-europeanist resident in england who was widely read and very influential for the entire second half of the nineteenth century. muller fs theory of myth was actually based on the notion of a gdisease of language, h the idea that language itself was inadequate to express everything it had to and therefore was a major contributor to the development of gods and myths, which grew out of lin

r, which i have translated galtar h in this book. the eddic poems suggest the horgr was something that could be reddened, and they make it appear to be some sort of altar, at least in the sense that sacrifices were made upon it. etymologically the word seems to have to do with stones or rocks, and it is not difficult to imagine the germanic horgr as a pile of rocks in a sacred grove; the old high german cognate is in fact sometimes found with the meaning gsacred rock h and sometimes with the meaning gsacred grove. h tacitus says the germanic peoples did not produce images of their gods. adam of bremen says the pagan temple at uppsala had idols of thor, wodan (odin, and fricco (frey. again, the difference lies in the millennium that passed between the times the two authors wrote, and probab

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

yellow-white, we will have verified that, indeed, the temperature of the surface of the sun is about 5,300 c. this is easier said than done, however, because at this high temperature, all elements exist in the form of a gas, and it is very difficult to contain such a hot gas in any kind of vessel. rather, the temperature of the sun is inferred from a mathematical (theoretical) equation derived by german scientist max planck at the turn of the twentieth century. this equation was experimentally verified at lower temperatures and then extrapolated to objects such as stars. we can see that without planck s theory we would not know the temperature of unreachable objects present in the cosmos. this example shows that a good theory should be able to make predictions that are consistent with obse

there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation myth. on the other hand, jews do not recognize jesus christ as the messiah, and the christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; that is, all believe in revealed religions. it is probably safe to say that god (gott in german, yeob in greek, deus in latin, dieu in french, dio in italian( in russian, and so on, yhwh, and allah are very similar if not identical concepts. one complication in the jewish interpretation of genesis, however, is the existence of several main branches of judaism: orthodox, conservative, and reform, as well as many other variants such as reconstructionist and ultra- orthodox. another comp

to quantum mechanics, elementary particles are smeared out, fuzzy objects. in other words, it is impossible to pinpoint the location of an elementary particle with infinite precision; one can only estimate the probability that an electron is here or there. this has nothing to do with our instruments being imprecise: this fuzziness is part of the fabric of nature; it is, in fact, a law of nature. german physicist werner heisenberg (1901 1976) discovered and formulated this principle mathematically. it has been known since its discovery as the uncertainty principle. this principle states that, at its most basic level, the world of atoms and subatomic particles, nature is indeterminate. of course, the world at the human scale seems to be deterministic, but this is because at our scale, quant

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

rsons: mrs. max heindel, mrs. alice palmer henderson, mr. ernest dawson and staff, mr. john howell, mr. paul elder, mr. phillip watson hackett, and mr. john r. ruckstell. single books were lent by other persons and organizations, to whom thanks are also given. the matter of translation was the greatest single task in the research work incident to the preparation of this volume. the necessary p. 6 german translations, which required nearly three years, were generously undertaken by mr. alfred beri, who declined all remuneration for his labor. the latin, italian, french, and spanish translations were made by prof. homer p. earle. the hebrew text was edited by rabbi jacob m. alkow. miscellaneous short translations and checking also were done by various individuals. the editorial work was unde

riety of aspects or modes. the mind of man is one of the modes of infinite thought; the body of man one of the modes of infinite extension. through reason man is enabled to elevate himself above the illusionary world of the senses and find eternal repose in perfect union with the divine essence. spinoza, it has been said, deprived god of all personality, making deity synonymous with the universe. german philosophy had its inception with gottfried wilhelm von leibnitz, whose theories are permeated with the qualities of optimism and idealism. leibnitz's criteria of sufficient reason revealed to him the insufficiency of descartes' theory of extension, and he therefore concluded that substance itself contained an inherent power in the form of an incalculable number of separate and all-sufficie

onsidered absolute and sufficient bases for exact thinking. kant's practical reason declared that while the nature of noumenon could never be comprehended by the reason, the fact of morality proves the existence of three necessary postulates: free will, immortality, and god. in the critique of judgment kant demonstrates the union of the noumenon and the phenomenon in art and biological evolution. german superintellectualism is the outgrowth of an overemphasis of kant's theory of the autocratic supremacy of the mind over sensation and thought. the philosophy of johann gottlieb fichte was a projection of kant's philosophy, wherein he attempted to unite kant's practical reason with his pure reason. fichte held that the known is merely the contents of the consciousness of the knower, and that

hers and sisters should be perfectly reconciled to die. ethically and politically, the superman was a law unto himself. to those who understand the true meaning of power to be virtue, self-control, and truth, the ideality behind nietzsche's theory is apparent. to the superficial, however, it is a philosophy heartless and calculating, concerned solely with the survival of the fittest. of the other german schools of philosophic thought, limitations of space preclude detailed mention. the more recent developments of the german school are freudianism and relativism (often called the einstein theory. the former is a system of psychoanalysis through psychopathic and neurological phenomena; the latter attacks the accuracy of mechanical principles dependent upon the present theory of velocity. ren

epresent the anatomy of the divine (or inner) man, and graphically set forth its condition during its human, infernal, and divine states. the plates in the william law edition of b hme's works are based apparently upon gichtel's diagrams, which they follow in all essentials. gichtel gives no detailed description of his figures, and the lettering on the original diagrams here translated out of the german is the only clue to the interpretation of the charts. the two end figures represent the obverse and reverse of the same diagram and are termed table three. they are "designed to show the condition of the whole man, as to all his three essential parts, spirit, soul, and body, in his regenerated state" the third figure from the left is called the second table, and sets forth "the condition of

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

h not all roman troops were withdrawn in 410. only the comitenses or mobile field army was withdrawn, the standing garrisons or limitanaei (at ribchester& carlisle) remained in place as did the foederati or military allies placed at strategic places in the empire in the case of valentia the troops of manau goddodin in lothian (from whence cunedda was sent to retake north wales in the 5th century, german tungrian troops on the wall near carlisle, and a cohort of aelian sailors at ravenglass (cumberland. the notitia dignitatum specifically lists a large array of comitenses forces available to both the count of britain and the count of the saxon shore in about 450, so either not all the forces were withdrawn in 410, or they had been replaced by 450. it is worth noting that bishop germanus who

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ere be whom i love mine own shall be. grow, grow willow tree sorrow none unto me. he the axe, i the helve, he the cock, i the hen: as my will, so mote it be! another charming one of similar ilk is the apple spell apples being a fruit sacred to habondia, it is entirely appropriate that they should figure as much in love magic as they do. here is the original spell translated from the workbook of a german witch in rhyming couplets: on friday early as may be, take the fairest apple from the tree, then in thy blood on paper white thine own name and true love's write. that apple thou shalt in two cut and for its cure that paper put, with two sharp pins of myrtle wood join the halves till it seem good. in the oven let it dry: and wrapped in leaves of myrtle lie, under the pillow of thy dear, yet

entury appellation meaning "little night" rhiannon. welsh-celtic mother goddess. arrianrhod. similar welsh goddess, mother of llew. herodias or aradia. italian name for the witch goddess, being the daughter of the great mother "diana "dione "dana" or "jana" referred to in leland's aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for goddess seen a lady of death, variant of classical hecate. also king arthur's half-elven sister. brigid or bride. a celtic mother goddess. astarte or ishtar. mesopotamian goddess of love. bride of adonis-tammuz. the virgin or maiden. referring to perephone, the greek underworld goddess. should the lady or high priestess have a daught

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

t 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 skin( 6, which he would put on and then transform into a wolf. he murdered numerous people until he was caught and executed as well. no one ever found the belt made of wolf skin. 15 15 this is an excerpt from a german pamphlet spreading the evils of lycanthropy several hundred years ago "stubb peeter a true discourse declaring the damnable life and death of one stubb peeter, a most wicked sorcerer, who, in the likeness of a wolf, committed many murders, continuing this devilish practice twenty five years, killing and devouring men, women and children. who, for the same fact was taken and executed the 31s

god of forest and god of life, shadowy and bestial, flesh in fire, flesh in earth, to the field and forest! cast thy ecstasy into our presence, dwell within our veins and heart, spirit and flesh! let us know your beauty! pan, io pan" each member should be rapidly excited by dancing at their own individual frantic pace, until images of the morning star (of which i recommend paintings of lucifer by german architect fidus) and pan (10 (see rosaleen norton) dance freely in the spirit, a raging fire in the heart and the sun wheel burns a golden red. the rite should end with the witches' sabbath and then a banishing. then each and every member should try and retire to sleep at the same time to attend a group sabbath. beltane april 30th beltane is known primarily as a celtic holiday, translating

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

an intermediary link between themselves and the people. as today, it is very difficult foran ordinary citizen to gain a conference with any man of national importance, so in prehistoric days thegods never came into contact with the people except through the offices of a number two man, an ari,such as moses or aaron (p. 17)agriculturearithmeticherr salutation in germanharry, ohara, aaronhenry the german and english name, henry, was furnished the name of kings from time immemo-rial. eighty consecutive kings of a tribe of germans bore the name henry which means the harry.harland, harlem, harrison, eric, andrew, are but wide variations of the same name and all, have thesame meaning (p. 16)indaraindiadarius king of persiansdarri name for the sacred emperor of japanmandarinharvest means for or

s called the city of churches. four-hundred churches with golden domeslooked down on the slum-like dwellings of the poor. this was a nineteenth century exhibition of thereligion existing on the superstition of the masses. money flowed into the churches to furnish theirgolden domes but none of it ever seemed to be passed out to benefit the poor.during the middle ages, the papacy struggled with the german emperors to maintain world suprem-acy. the germans complained to the ultramontainism, the money passed beyond the alps to build thecathedrals of rome and never to return. today we bear marks of deterioration. we dwell upon the threshold of hysteria. the mental trou-bles that harass the multitude are brought about largely by the universal system of exploitation. whensubmerged races are not a

an augustal flamen, every house an augustal shrine; succeeding emperors sacrificedthemselves to augustus, and irreverence to this deity was visited with the severest penalties (p. 51)commentit appears that the reverence and austere lionization of germanys adolf hitler was not as new a phenomenon as some try to make out. it is also interesting to note the amount of roman symbol-ism employed by the german nazi party.the real bossin a.d. 730, herod is said to have rebuilt the temple of jerusalem and dedicated it to jehovah. in theupper city, he erected another edifice of greater magnitude, which he called the caesarium and dedi-cated it to augustus (p. 43)the real massacre of the innocentswhen, before the nativity, the divine oracle at v elitre predicted that nature was about to bring forth a

least 13 feet tall. a human skeleton 17 feet tall was discovered at gargayan in the philippines (p. 374)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation263 appendix b: book abstracts the master chronology: the psychosocial, biological and electromagnetic manipulation of human consciousnessby v aldamar v alerianunderground cities and civilizationsin 1572, a select and hardy group of about 500 german colonists originating mainly from prussia arehired as soldier-mercenaries by sebastian i, king of portugal, to man a garrison up the amazon river.later, the group had problems with the local indians and during their getaway stumbled upon a caveentrance on the side of a mountain. exploring the cave, they found entrances to deep underground tun-nels. factions of this german colony reemerged i

ginating mainly from prussia arehired as soldier-mercenaries by sebastian i, king of portugal, to man a garrison up the amazon river.later, the group had problems with the local indians and during their getaway stumbled upon a caveentrance on the side of a mountain. exploring the cave, they found entrances to deep underground tun-nels. factions of this german colony reemerged in 1647. headed by a german called v on luckner, thecolony broke into several underground cities over a period of several hundred years. cities were estab-lishedthese colonists also discovered another civilization with linguistic roots similar to german whohad descended to earth some 30,000 years ago in response to a reptilian invasion of earth. these peoplewere called the bods, and they descended into the earth throu

MORALS AND DOGMA

ons to the popular humor; to defend, apologize for, and justify the popular follies; to advocate the expedient and the plausible; to caress, cajole, and flatter the elector; to beg like a spaniel for his vote, even if he be a negro three removes from barbarism; to profess friendship for a competitor and stab him by innuendo; to set on foot that which at third hand shall become a lie, being cousin-german to it when uttered, and yet capable of being explained away--who is there that has not seen these low arts and base appliances put into practice, and becoming general, until success cannot be surely had by any more honorable means--the result being a state ruled and ruined by ignorant and shallow mediocrity, pert self-conceit, the greenness of unripe intellect, vain of a school-boy's smatte

elow vice is punished; and that which makes us sometimes believe in the impunity of evil-doers is that riches, those instruments of good and of evil, seem sometimes to be given them at hazard. but woe to unjust men, when they possess the key of gold! it opens, for _them, only the gate of the tomb and of hell. all the true initiates have recognized the usefulness of toil and sorrow "sorrow" says a german poet "is the dog of that unknown shepherd who guides the flock of men" to learn to suffer, to learn to die, is the discipline of eternity, the immortal novitiate. the allegorical picture of cebes, in which the divine comedy of dante was sketched in plato's time, the description whereof has been preserved for us, and which many painters of the middle age have reproduced by this description

amuse his idle hours with the follies and agonies of mankind, as domitian was wont to do with the wrigglings and contortions of insect agonies. then indeed we might despairingly unite in that horrible utterance of heine "alas, god's satire weighs heavily on me! the great author of the universe, the aristophanes of heaven, is bent on demonstrating, with crushing force, to me, the little, earthly, german aristophanes, how my wittiest sarcasms are only pitiful attempts at jesting, in comparison with his, and how miserably i am beneath him, in humor, in colossal mockery" no, no! god is not thus amused with and prodigal of human suffering. the world is neither a here without a hereafter, a body without a soul, a chaos with no god; nor a body blasted by a soul, a here with a worse hereafter, a

ir work and not to their prayers; where, says an animated writer, they keep up a perennial laudation of the devil, before furnaces which are never suffered to cool. it has been well said, that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. the modern rivals of the german spa, with their flaunting pretences and cheap finery, their follies and frivolities, their chronicles of dances and inelegant feasts, and their bulletins of women's names and dresses, are poor substitutes for the monastery and church which our ancestors would have built in the deep sequestered valleys, shut up between rugged mountains and forests of sombre pine; and a man of meditative temp

verse, and be rulers over the masters of the world "the templars, like all other secret orders and associations, had two doctrines, one concealed and reserved for the masters, which was johannism; the other public, which was the _roman catholic. thus they deceived the adversaries whom they sought to supplant. hence free-masonry, vulgarly imagined to have begun with the dionysian architects or the german stone-workers, adopted saint john the evangelist as one of its patrons, associating with him, in order not to arouse the suspicions of rome, saint john the baptist, and thus covertly proclaiming itself the child of the kabalah and essenism together" for the johannism of the adepts was the kabalah of the earlier gnostics, degenerating afterward into those heretical forms which gnosticism dev

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

53. fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year of the new aeon has dawned (this was thus written in 1918 e.v) yes! i am lifted up, the sun being in scorpio in this fourteenth year of the aeon. students are referred to lxv, 4 12-24 and the commentaries thereon. also to liber vii, i, 14, 22-28, 52-55; ii, 11-12, 17-22; iii, 16, 21,4

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

opulates with her, until he is exhausted. the mark of the beast aleister crowley, an infamous black magician of the 1920s, was< dubbed by the daily express the wickedest man who ever lived and came to believe that he was the biblical beast of the revelations. he was, for a short time, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but his true interest lie in the oto (ordo templis orientis, a german order involved in sexual magic. he took this and adapted it into a new religion, thelema. a magical system dedicated to the enlightenment of one s soul via sex rituals held in honor of pan, the god of earthly existence and often portrayed as the carnal side of man s nature. in 1920 crowley established his abbey of thelema on a small island off the coast of sicily, the walls of which were co

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

otherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 57 the guilds the guild constituted a legal form of association that allowed manual laborers to form the kinds of autonomous groups that had been impossible to maintain in the west since the annihilation of the collegia. origins of the guild the etymology of the word guild has provided fuel for much debate. the term appears to derive either from the german verb gelten (to be worth) or the anglo-saxon gylsa (worship, sacrifice. the institution seems to have a tie to one of the most ancient of german customs, that of convivium.2 tacitus had made note of the distinctive custom of the germans to handle their most serious affairs at the table, during a time marked by the drinking of repeated toasts. born amidst the clamor of blows and the sound of

tion: how were religious or feudal ties compatible with the migratory nature of the manual laborers who worked on the cathedrals? not only were these manual laborers free, but in a good number of cases we have proof that they were independent; they were not bound to the corporative organization of the towns where they were employed. while french documents are not very explicit in this regard, the german ones are much more detailed. quarrels were common between the city workers and those of the cathedral in fourteenth-century strasbourg. should this lead to the conclusion that the cathedral builders had their own organization? we should recall that at the time craft communities were being formed, brotherhoods existing under the protection of monasteries transformed quite naturally into lay

mary, who is our constant advocate. there is also evidence of the worship of the four holy crowned martyrs, protectors of the mastery associations.5 this is quite possibly the earliest mention by builders of the individual worship of the four crowned martyrs, a patronage mentioned in england at the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of the fifteenth century and in the statutes of the german stonecutters from the sixteenth century. there builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 171 were also guilds of the four crowned martyrs in flanders, notably in brussels and anvers, that consisted of masons, stonecutters, sculptors, and others* given the importance of these patrons to the builders, it is probably helpful to recall the legend of the four crowned martyrs. it v

ratisbonnc assembly under the title "statutes and regulations of the brotherhood of stonecutters" the foundations for the revision had been cast in a preparatory meeting held in strasbourg in 1452 and the resulting statutes were subsequently endorsed by emperor maximilian in 1498 and confirmed by charles quint in 1520 and ferdinand i in 1588. the 1459 assembly, held in ratisbonne, the seat of the german diet, was convoked by jobs dotzinger, master builder of the strasbourg cathedral. those gathered there also dealt with general business concerning architecture and the brotherhood.9 the signatures affixed to the revised statutes indicate that the lodges of northern germany were not represented in strasbourg or ratisbonne. these lodges added their voice of support to the revision at an assem

mary, and also the four crowned martyrs, their blessed servants remembered eternally" findel writes that before 1440, the members of the original strasbourg laborers society bore the name of the brothers of saint john. he adds that saint john the precursor, along with the four crowned martyrs, had always been the special patron saint and protector of the association. overall, the statutes of the german stonecutters provide a gripping description of freemasonry's essential characteristics: builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 177 the associates were divided into masters, journeymen, and apprentices. the governance of the organization was entrusted to certain leaders. the profane was excluded. privileges extended to the sons of masters. their were conditions governing ac

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

maidens, with which the original lohengrin story may have been connected. lohengrin this illustration shows the end of act 1 of wagner s opera, lohengrin. at this point lohengrin has mysteriously arrived and beaten friedrich in combat, clearing elsa of the dreadful charges made against her. siegfried and the nibelung treasure siegfried (originally sigurd, see pp. 72 73) is a central figure of the german epic nibelungenlied (c. 1203, and of wagner s ring cycle. he gained the cursed nibelung treasure, and then wooed kriemhild, the sister of gunther, the burgundian king. gunther granted siegfried her hand in return for his help in winning him the amazonian queen brunhild. siegfried defeated and subdued brunhild, who thought it was gunther, using his cloak of invisibility. but when the couples

d ring as heirlooms for his children. duelling sword the notion that guilt or innocence could be decided in single combat by knightly champions is commonplace in medieval romance. such a duel is not a mere trial of strength or skill for, as here, divine powers may aid the righteous. henry the fowler the emperor henry the fowler was a real historical figure, the first non- carolingian ruler of the german reich (916-36. his wife matilda was a descendant of widekund, the pagan ruler who led the saxon resistance to charlemagne, and although after her death she was venerated as a christian saint, she was also feared for her supposed supernatural powers. friedrich here, elsa s challenger, friedrich, is shown humbled at the hands of lohengrin. in keeping with his knightly courtesy, lohengrin did

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

that dr. franz hartmann, in an endeavour to provide a simple outline of the vicissitudes of what came to be known as the rosicrucian order, wrote a book entitled in the pronaos of the temple. the central figure of this history was.a monk, fr. r c.-described in the earliest rosicrucian manifesto the fama fraternifatis as the "pious, spiritual and highly-illuminated father. it is said that he was a german nobleman who had been educated in a convent, and that long before the time of the reformation he had made a pilgrimage to the holy land in company with another brother of this convent, and that while at damascus they had been initiated by some learned arabs into the mysteries of the secret science. after remaining three years at damascus, they went to fez, in africa, and there they obtained

of the rose and the cross have existed from time immemorial, and that the rites were practised, and the wisdom taught, in egypt, eleusis, samothrace, persia, chaldea and india, and in far more ancient lands. the story of the introduction of these mysteries into mediaeval europe has thus been handed down to us. in 1378 was born the chief and originator of our fraternity in europe. he was of noble german family, but poor, and in the fifth year of his age was placed in a cloister where he learned both greek and latin. while yet a youth he accompanied a certain brother p. a. l on a pilgrimage to the holy land, but the latter, dying at cyprus, he himself went to damascus. there was then in arabia a temple of <217> the order which was called in the hebrew tongue "damkar (13bf, that is "the bloo

ding the development of the system, may be found in sloane manuscripts 3189-3191 in the british museum. but this stands out very clearly, that in these diaries is a rudimentary scheme which bears only the most distant relation to the extraordinarily developed system in use by the order. whoever was responsible for the order scheme of the angelic tablets- whether it was mathers and westcott or the german rosicrucian adepts from whom the former are supposed to have obtained their knowledge- was possessed of an ingenuity and an understanding of magic such as never was in the possession either of dee or kelly "this paragraph is repeatedly quoted without due credit (unfortunately, it is also mis-information, and no credit to the late israel regardie) first, the original system of dee and kelly

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

the world and precise as mathematics, is represented by the sages under the emblem of the pentagram or five-pointed star, which is the absolute sign of human intelligence. i will follow the example of the wise by forbearing to name it: it is too easy to divine. the tarot symbol which corresponds to this chapter was misconstrued by court de gebelin and etteilla, who regarded it as the blunder of a german cardmaker. it represents a man with his hands bound behind him, having two bags of money attached to the armpits, and suspended by one foot from a gibbet formed by the trunks of two trees, each with the stumps of six lopped branches, and by a crosspiece, thus completing the figure of the hebrew tau m. the legs of the victim are crossed, while his head and elbows form a triangle. now, the tr

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

ans, cadmus among the phoenicians and palamedes among the greeks. we have obtained in an extraordinary manner a sixteenth-century medal, which is a key of the tarot. we are doubtful whether it should be confessed that this medal and the place where it was deposited were shown us in dream by the divine paracelsus: in any case, the medal is in our possession. on one side it depicts the juggler in a german costume of the sixteenth century, holding his girdle in one hand and a pentagram in the other. on a table in front of him, between an open book and a closed purse, are ten deniers or talismans, arranged in two lines of three each and a square of four; the feet of the table form two h and those of the juggler two inverted r. the obverse side of the medal contains the letters of the alphabet

exhibits the figure of isis emerging from a vase, while two ibises issue from two other vases, one with a crown for the goddess and one holding a lotus, which he seems to be offering for her acceptance. the four aces bear the image of the hieratic and sacred serpent, while in some specimens the seal of solomon is placed at the centre of the four of deniers, instead of the symbolical unicorn. the german tarots have suffered great alteration, and scarcely do more than preserve the numbers of the keys, which are crowded with grotesque or pantagruelian figures. we have a chinese tarot before us, and the imperial library contains samples of others that are similar. m. paul boiteau, in his remarkable work on playing-cards, has given some admirably executed specimens. the chinese tarot preserves

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acterized by extreme discipline and machiavellian social influence. loyola placed great stress on education, and by the 17th century jesuit-dominated universities were educating virtually all of catholic europe. after 1550 tensions between catholics and protestants had reached the stage of religious warfare, culminating in the terrible thirty years' war between denmark, sweden, and the protestant german principalities on one hand and the catholic hapsburgs (spain, austria, netherlands, italy, and most of catholic germany) on the other. france, though catholic, fought against the hapsburgs for secular political reasons. approximately one-third of germany's population died from the war and its side-effects, and the final peace of westphalia (1648) was brought about more by exhaustion than by

uction of better ones. abuse of the first leads to the mistaken idea that the past can or will come again; abuse of the second leads to detachment from the present; abuse of the third leads to a pessimism wherein one sees only the failures of things, unconsciously neglecting their positive legacy. nietzsche interprets hegel as saying that history had now reached its perfection in the contemporary german state system. nietzsche sees danger in this because it would lead to lassitude on the part of modern man, who would feel "there is nothing more to be done [compare the "last days" sects of early, medieval, and modern christianity, as well as the "ecological doomsday" ideologies of the late 20th century] man differs from other animals, says nietzsche, in that he has the power to "create hori

e 1. the myth of pistis sophia 2. the mystery of the first mystery 3. the gnosis of jesus the mystery of the ineffable 4. the degrees of the mysteries 5. the mysteries of mithras 6. the mystic diagrams 7 'inaoca xpiatoa 8. the truth 9. god v. the gnosis as a hermetic science can lead to new-thinking vi. conclusion i. introduction gnosis sounds very much more formidable and technical in english or german than it does in greek. avwaic is "knowledge. gnosis is the original greek term which means knowledge, and it is employed to designate intellectual knowledge as distinguished from the knowledge of faith or experience. gnosis, though it may be sometimes used in some special sense, has a fundamental significance that is so similar to sophia as to make any attempt to draw a radical distinction

s led to the downfall of aleister crowley's order of the silver star, as the entire organization was bound so tightly to his own authoritarian personality that it could not survive. he had made no adequate provision for the selection of successors, and most of the order's prominent members were more personal fans than magicians. the same applies to another order over which he assumed control, the german ordo templi orientis or order of oriental templars. at the present there are numerous offshoots of the parent organization, each claiming sole authenticity. political examples also abound, such as the fragmentation of the empires of alexander and charlemagne and the rapidly-shifting regimes of latin america (5) mixture of black and white principles. magical orders have generally been succes

e announced the beginning of what he termed the age of satan. in his satanic rituals he defines this concept in terms of hans hoerbiger's welteislehre or doctrine of eternal ice, in which the history of the universe consists of alternating cycles of fire and ice.37 the "wel, as it was termed, gained popularity in nazi germany because of adolf hitler's enthusiasm for hoerbiger, whom he called the "german copernicus" anton lavey, however, offers the theory in a social, not a cosmological context. the key number, he suggests, is nine- the number of the devil because it always returns to itself when subjected to basic mathematical calculations [for example: 9x3=27 and 2+7=9. 92=81 and 8+1=9] history, says anton, is divided into "epochs" of 13,122 [adds to 9] years. each epoch is divided into n

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

m her as i am he (p. 241. this cell connects with the supposed mysteries of the templars and the vapours of demolay can be sensed in its discourses of the twin vessels and the construction of the stone-god. the physical representation of the god or famulus are integrated as an important and crucial part on the crooked road towards the light of the midnight-vale. this technique was employed by the german reuss-derived occult group in the concept of the gotos. a title assigned to the highest degree of the order, but also reminiscent of the physical representation of the orders egregoric spirit. the flavour in this cell is solar and phallic but it androgynity suggest otherwise- that this cell is a rehearsal ground for the phallic manifestation to come and through this it connects with the ste

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khall high street, across from mcdonald"s- they built it to be perfectly sound-proof, but the workers were so disturbed by the silence that now they play tapes of white noise on the tannoy system- you'd have liked that, eh- and about this parsi woman i know, bapsy, that's her name, she lived in germany for a while and fell in love with a turk- trouble was, the only language they had in common was german; now bapsy has forgotten almost all she knew, while his gets better and better; he writes her increasingly poetic letters and she can hardly reply in nursery rhyme- love dying, because of an inequality of language, what do you think of that- love dying. there's a subject for us, eb? saladin? what do you say? and a couple of tiny little things. there's a killer on the loose in my patch, spec

y of the soul blistering and bubbling on the skins of people in the street, you saw the generosity of certain spirits resting on their shoulders in the form of birds. as he roamed the metamorphosed city he saw bat-winged imps sitting on the corners of buildings made of deceits and glimpsed goblins oozing wormily through the broken tilework of public urinals for men. as once the thirteenth-century german monk richalmus would shut his eyes and instantly see clouds of minuscule demons surrounding every man and woman on earth, dancing like dust-specks in the sunlight, so now gibreel with open eyes and by the light of the moon as well as the sun detected everywhere the presence of his adversary, his- to give the old word back its original meaning _shaitan. long before the flood, he remembered

but pamela wanted to know if a doctor was required _no, no, i'll go with jumpy, i'll be fine. it was just hot in there. airless. my clothes too warm. a stupid thing. a nothing. there was an art cinema next to the friends house, and he was leaning against a movie poster. the film was _mephisto, the story of an actor seduced into a collaboration with nazism. in the poster, the actor- played by the german star klaus maria brandauer- was dressed up as mephistophilis, face white, body cloaked in black, arms upraised. lines from _faust_ stood above his head-_who art thou, then-_part of that power, not understood _which always wills the bad, and always works the good. o o o at the sports centre: he could scarcely bring himself to glance in mishal's direction (she too had left the simba meeting i

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these will magnify our effect a great deal. a translation of these web pages in english will provide the feedback link to the "indo-european speaking" temple. morever i have been studying the culture (language and belief systems) of uralic["uralic" is a metaterm for related languages such as finnish, estonian, saami and hungarian; just as "indo-european" stands for related languages like english, german and swedish] speaking peoples for two years now. i have founded a project (the shaman/poem-singer circle) within the kalevala pylon to further this aim and also made some relevant connections within the university. the lhp can be expressed in the terms of almost any tradition, and one of the aims of this project is to come up with a uralic formulation of the goals and methods of left-hand p

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these will magnify our effect a great deal. a translation of these web pages in english will provide the feedback link to the "indo-european speaking" temple. morever i have been studying the culture (language and belief systems) of uralic["uralic" is a metaterm for related languages such as finnish, estonian, saami and hungarian; just as "indo-european" stands for related languages like english, german and swedish] speaking peoples for two years now. i have founded a project (the shaman/poem-singer circle) within the kalevala pylon to further this aim and also made some relevant connections within the university. the lhp can be expressed in the terms of almost any tradition, and one of the aims of this project is to come up with a uralic formulation of the goals and methods of left-hand p

SATANIC BIBLE

been formed which commends and rewards those who support the society in which they live, instead of denouncing them for their human needs. from every set of principles (be it religious, political, or philosophical, some good can be extracted. amidst the madness of the hitlerian concept, one point stands out as a shining example of this "strength through joy. hitler was no fool when he offered the german people happiness, on a personal level, to insure their loyalty to him, and peak efficiency from them. it has been clearly established that the majority of all illnesses are of a psychosomatic nature, and that psychosomatic illnesses are a direct result of frustration. it has been said that "the good die young. the good, by christian standards, do die young. it is the frustration of our natu

SATANIC RITUALS

of the arts that were for centuries considered satan's? why does the scientist, whose academic and laboratory forebears suffered from accusations of heresy, mouth platitudes of christian righteousness in one breath, while dismissing the concept of *controversy over the origin of the english word witch is valid when one considers the etymology of the term in other languages: venifica (latin, hexe (german, streghe (italian, etc. only in its english form has the word assumed a benign origin: wicca, purportedly meaning "wise" any debate must center on recent claims that advance a positive and socially acceptable meaning for a term that has in all ages and most languages, meant "poisoner "frightener "enchanter "spell-caster" or "evil woman" anthropologists have shown that even in primitive soci

thought. modern satanism realizes man's need for an "other side" and has realistically accepted that polarity-at least within the confines of a ritual chamber. thus a satanic chamber can serve -depending upon the degree of embellishment and the extent of the acts within-as a meditation chamber for the entertainment of unspoken thoughts, or a veritable palace of perversity. ceremonies such as the german wahsinn der logisch actually weld the concepts of satanism and the manifestations of insanity into a total assumption of the role of needed social adversary. this phenomenon has been eloquently defined by* inaccurate assumption; the traditional messe noir employs a parody of matthew 6:9 rather than a word-order inversion. psychiatrist thomas s. szasz in the manufacture of madness. wherever

gh the use of ritual-or ceremonial-magic. satanic ritual is a blend of gnostic, cabbalistic, hermetic, and masonic elements, incorporating nomenclature and vibratory words of power from virtually every mythos. though the rituals in this book are representative of different nations, it will be easy to perceive a basic undercurrent through the cultural variants. two each of the rites are french and german, their preponderance accountable to the rich wealth of satanic drama and liturgy produced by those countries. the british, although enamored of ghosts, hauntings, pixies, witches, and murder mysteries, have drawn most of dieir satanic repertoire from european sources. perhaps this is because a european catholic who wanted to rebel became a satanist: an englishman who wanted to rebel became

hampions, that insane berserker rage, of which the northern poets sing. that talisman is brittle, and the day will come when it will pitifully break. the old stone gods will rise from the long-forgotten ruin and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and thor, leaping to life with his giant hammer, will crush the gothic cathedrals -heinrich heine, 1834 the devil holds a unique place in german magical tradition. he, or his personification, always triumphs. no matter how methodically he may be relegated to infamy, he invariably winds up the popular favorite. as the inspirer of werewolves, he drove the goths and huns to their victories in europe; as the final protagonist in the nibelungensaga, he destroyed valhalla and established his own reign on earth. he became the hero, or at l

d to infamy, he invariably winds up the popular favorite. as the inspirer of werewolves, he drove the goths and huns to their victories in europe; as the final protagonist in the nibelungensaga, he destroyed valhalla and established his own reign on earth. he became the hero, or at least the roguish and considerate villain, of the miracle plays. throughout the christian era he has held his own in german literature and drama better than any other character derived from the bible. dramas in which the devil appeared in short scenes allowed him increasingly lengthy roles, until in many cases he had taken possession of almost the whole play! he was, to be sure, almost always defeated and driven back to hell with great tumult and uproar, probably to satisfy the sense of righteousness of the publ

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

man catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. 1095 1291 the duration of the crusades, a series of military campaigns in which european christians attempt to take control of the holy land from muslims. 1391 1474 life span of gedun drub, considered the first dalai lama in tibetan history. 1469 1538 life span of nanak dev ji, the founder of sikhism. 1492 jews are expelled from spain. 1517 the german augustinian monk martin luther launches the protestant reformation, which divides christianity into two main denominations, or branches: catholicism and protestantism. 1817 92 life span of mirza husayn ali nuri, later known as baha u lla h, who was the founder of the baha faith. 1844 the german philosopher karl marx makes his famous statement that religion is the opium of the people. 1867 b

, which he called natural selection, and not divine planning produced the many species on earth. darwin s second work, the descent of man (1871) took this idea a step further, applying it specifically to humankind. this was seen as an assault on the bible s teachings that god created man in his image. so furious were the debates raised by these books that, by the end of the nineteenth century the german philosopher friedrich nietzsche (1844 1900) could declare, god is dead. nietzsche s declaration was premature; he was also speaking primarily of the west, europe and the united states. in the twenty-first century, a large debate between science and religion, at least in the united states, continues to rage over evolution. evolution is taught in schools, but many christians believe that thei

n his critique of pure reason, found no adequate arguments for the existence of god. for kant, however, this did not prove that god did not exist. kant believed that the 26 world religions: almanac agnosticism and atheism existence of god could neither be explained nor totally denied by scientific examination or rational thought. the nineteenth century to the present in the nineteenth century the german philosopher ludwig feuerbach (1804 1872) argued that the concept of god is simply the projection of the highest ideals and standards that people can imagine. as such, god was not a subject for theology (religious study, but for anthropology (the study of human beings and their cultures. his work the essence of christianity influenced an entire generation of german thinkers, including karl m

ibes the world in materialistic terms, saying that all that exists is physical matter. for holbach there was no soul and no god. atheism was the only honest belief. though not a scientist himself, holbach attempted to use the latest scientific findings of his day to support his work. his attack on christianity was important because it blended the work of many thinkers who had come before him. the german philosopher ludwig feuerbach wrote several important works questioning the existence and reasons for god. these include the essence of christianity and principles of the philosophy of the future. he argued that religion was, first of all, simply the product of the human desire for immortality or continual life. for feuerbach, god was an invention of the human mind, a kind of father figure m

uslim invasion of india in the twelfth century, buddhism in india virtually came to an end. by the late twentieth century less than 1 percent of indians were buddhists. buddhism becomes known in the west it was not until the nineteenth century that buddhism became well-known and understood in the west. philosophers (people who study questions of moral behavior and the meaning of life, such as the german arthur schopenhauer (1788 1860, helped to bring the religion before the public. schopenhauer s 92 world religions: almanac buddhism writings popularized the buddhist idea of ending desire as a cure for emotional pain. buddhism took root in small communities in england and also spread to the united states, where the arrival of chinese laborers helped to popularize the religion. american writ

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re collected and printed at lemberg in 1680. the oldest of these six recensions was that of saadjah gaon (by some critics called spurious).there are still extant three latin versions, viz, that of gulielmus postellus; one by johann pistorius; and a third by joannes stephanus rittangelius; this latter gives both hebrew and latin versions, and also "the thirty-two paths" as a supplement. there is a german translation, by johann friedrich von meyer, dated 1830; a version by isidor kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of meyer; an edition in french by papus, 1888; an edition in french by mayer lambert, 1891, with the arabic commentary of saadya gaon; and an english edition by peter davidson, 1896, to which are added "the fifty gates of intelligence" and "the thi

as, doubtless, the crystallisation of centuries of tradition, by one writer, and it has been added to from time to time, by later authors, who have also revised it. some of the additions, which were rejected even by mediaeval students, i have not incorporated with the text at all, and i present in this volume only the undoubted kernel of this occult nut, upon which many great authorities, hebrew, german, jesuit and others, have written long commentaries, and yet have failed to explain satisfactorily. i find kalisch, speaking of these commentaries, says "they contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary explanations, and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental superstitions, a metaphysical jargon, a poor knowledge of physics, and not a correct elucidation o

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

aphos, or painter of men. it was also a notable contradiction in this person, who was addicted to the most extravagant excesses in every passion, whether of hate or love, implacable in revenge, and insatiable in debauch, that he was in the habit of uttering the most beautiful sentiments of exalted purity and genial philanthropy. the world was not good enough for him; he was, to use the expressive german phrase, a world-betterer! nevertheless, his sarcastic lip often seemed to mock the sentiments he uttered, as if it sought to insinuate that he was above even the world he would construct. finally, this painter was in close correspondence with the republicans of paris, and was held to be one of those missionaries whom, from the earliest period of the revolution, the regenerators of mankind w

ty in the painter's own mind; and that in every art, whether its plastic expression be found in words or marble, colours or sounds, the servile imitation of nature is the work of journeymen and tyros, so in conduct the man of the world vitiates and lowers the bold enthusiasm of loftier natures by the perpetual reduction of whatever is generous and trustful to all that is trite and coarse. a great german poet has well defined the distinction between discretion and the larger wisdom. in the last there is a certain rashness which the first disdains "the purblind see but the receding shore, not that to which the bold wave wafts them o'er" yet in this logic of the prudent and the worldly there is often a reasoning unanswerable of its kind. you must have a feeling, a faith in whatever is self-sa

ned the mystic as to the nature of that union or fraternity to which zanoni had once referred "i am right, i suppose" said he "in conjecturing that you and himself profess to be the brothers of the rosy cross "do you imagine" answered mejnour "that there were no mystic and solemn unions of men seeking the same end through the same means before the arabians of damus, in 1378, taught to a wandering german the secrets which founded the institution of the rosicrucians? i allow, however, that the rosicrucians formed a sect descended from the greater and earlier school. they were wiser than the alchemists, their masters are wiser than they "and of this early and primary order how many still exist "zanoni and myself "what, two only! and you profess the power to teach to all the secret that baffle

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

founder viewpoint. in other circles the rediscovery of myth, of cosmic symbolism and mystery, was taking a more positive course. theologians and academics may have felt the threat to conventional ideas; theosophists saw the need for a new synthesis that took seriously the insights both of buddhism and the evolutionary science of the west, the evidence of recurring 2. rudolf bultmann (1884 1976, a german theologian and professor who attempted to demythologize the new testament by utilizing the modern terminology of existentialist philosophy; his theories became the starting point for most twentieth-century theological debate. xii christianity as mystical fact patterns in myth and research into the hidden structures of the mind. h. p. blavatsky s idea of a unity behind it all touched a nerve

itual path as the fruit of the germinal writing of the twenty-one-year-old. he knew the spiritual law: knowledge is not gained by asserting only one s own point of view, but through immersion in streams of thought foreign to one s own. 16 steiner wrote about nietzsche, and he was considered an absolute nietzschean. 17 in haeckel s work steiner recognized the most significant accomplishment of the german spiritual-cultural life of the second half of the nineteenth century, and he was seen as a follower of haeckel. steiner wrote, however, culture is 15. see page 6. 16. autobiographical sketch by rudolf steiner for edouard schure, 1907 in correspondence and documents, 1901 1925: rudolf steiner/marie steiner von sivers, anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1988, p. 12 (ga 262. 17. ibid. steiner s

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

what to expect concerning the details and the gruesome child sacrifice. once in the vatican, she also remembers the two fathers, as they were called, meeting with high ranking members of the clergy before being escorted through a hidden doorway to the secret underground room "there were two other children my age also present and after the ceremony outside in the vatican courtyard, i remember the german father saying i did very well and would rise to greatness in the order" said svali who now lives in northern texas and wants to remain anonymous after leaving the san diego ranks of the illuminati four years ago she added there are 12 ruling illuminati "fathers" in europe and a ruling council of 13 in the u.s. which is divided into separate regional bodies "i have never granted an interview

ay illuminism. the original illuministic leaders chose to take what they felt were the best practices of each root religion, combine them into principles, then organized these principles according to specific guidelines "modern day illuminism is a philosophy funded by the wealthy, but practiced in all social strata. it is a philosophy whose tenets have spread across the world. it started with the german branch of rosicrucian's, spread to england, then came to the united states with the first settlers" svali said during her 30 years with the illuminati she witnessed a lot of violence from programs stemming from the cia's mk ultra, as well as other mind control programs utilized by the cult. working a steady job in the day and then attending heavily guarded, secret meetings three times a wee

her story is picked up 9:30pm in the evening after a full day and just before going to bed "9:30: i get ready to go to bed. i have to get ten to twelve hours of sleep a night, or i am completely exhausted. many times, i fall asleep reading to my two children. just before falling asleep, i say to my husband "remember" and give him the code that lets us know we have to wake up later. he replies in german that he remembers "1:00 am: my husband wakes me up. he and i take turns being the one to wake up the others. we don't need an alarm, because our internal body clocks wake us up. i am in my sweats, i fell asleep dressed to make it easier when i rise in the middle of the night. i am finally me, i can come out now and see the outside world, not locked inside as i am during the day "get the kid

favorite colors, foods, sexual preferences, soothing techniques, and a list of all the codes that will elicit a response from him. there is also a diagram of his internal world that has been created over the years. this subject is easy to work with and things go quickly. i correct the young trainer at one point, when she starts to do something too soon "you have to learn patience" i chide her in german. at night, we all talk german, it and english are the two ligua francas in this group "i'm sorry, i thought it was time" she says. i then teach her the signs to look for when the subject is ready. this is why i am a head trainer. i train the younger ones, because after years and years, i know human anatomy, physiology, and psychology inside out. luckily, i caught this young trainer before s

so you reached the age of 12, and then you're told by your parents you're going to an induction ceremony in the vatican. sv: yes. gs: can you tell us how that happened and what occurred at that ceremony when you went there? sv (deep breath, voice becomes stressed) okay. um, this isn't easy to talk about, as you know. when i was twelve, i was flown over to germany. and i was at, i'll call them the german fathers' house, over there. and, there was some preparation for a few days, beforehand, and i was told that there would be a very important ceremony. and it was considered a sealing ceremony at that point. and basically i was told a little bit about what i was expected to do during the ceremony. when we got there, we went through the vatican. underneath the vatican there is a large room tha

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

chastic resonance. stochastic resonance as an audio element in the ritual chamber has all types of transformative possibilities due to its unique physical properties. but, before discussing the particulars of sr, a brief history. the first use of sr i have found was included in a ritual secretly called the rite of what is to be. allegedly resulting from the magical workings of turn of the century german sorcerors, a copy of this ritual was included in anton szandor lavey s book the satanic bible where it was called the die elektrischen vorspiele roughly translated as: the electrical, or electrocution preludes. this rite called for a series of very detailed audio and electrical field stimulus as components of the actual ritual itself. among the elements included was the distribution of whit

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

ll these people, whether an illuminatus is a member of the inner circle or is a lowly puppet. it is for reason that professor adam weishaupt, co-founder of the classical order of the illuminati (may 1, 1776, called his sect the beenan order (order of the bees. jim keith, in mind control and ufos, also noted this hive mentality. keith wrote that in the south american nation of columbia, there is a german community which, even today, over 60 years after world war ii, uses the swastika as its icon. this group calls its compound "hormiga" in honor of the obedient worker ant, yet another form of illuminati insectoid.9 thus, we find the beehive or anthill as apt metaphors for the servants of the illuminati. it is fascinating to realize that these people are servile, weak, and crawling little per

surprise who have studied the jewish talmud, the rabbis' holiest book. according to the talmud, gentiles are not even to be considered humans "the goyim (gentiles) are not men, but beasts (baba mezia fol. 1146. it should be further noted that the encyclopedia britannica says "the talmud is still the authoritative and practical guide of the great mass of the jews (from the 36 codex magica 9-volume german language translation of the babylonian talmud in the library of congress, washington, d.c) slaves and beasts slaves and beasts! that is what the zionists of israel consider those who aren't jewish. now we discover what the elitist, favored sons of the zionist illuminati think of you, me, and the masses. no wonder they kill without conscience through their instigation of world wars, through

to head thought, care, intellect, wisdom numerical hand signs from a renaissance text on mathematics. such usage often combines the teachings of numerology with the secret messages of hand communications. the international secret language is the occult hand sign, in its many forms and varieties, the international secret language of the freemasons and other covert societies? manfred adler, in his german-language book, the freemasons and the vatican, says the answer to this question is, yes.3 he writes that according to the findings of a united states senate committee that investigated the central intelligence agency (cia "ninety percent of the secret news is transmitted via the media, in particular the press, with the aid of coded texts and pictures."4 messages in the media others, too, be

nsiders. juan maler, argentine author and masonic researcher, explains that the use of the hand sign is for the uninitiated a completely trivial and inconspicuous gesture "but for the members of the secret societies, the hand sign is used as a sign of recognition by those who are in a leading position or who have a mission to fulfill and usually appears with a relevant text."5 johannes rothkranz, german authority on masonic signs, suggests that "if one collects the photos of well-known personalities from the daily papers, then one possesses, in a very short time, a great number of conspicuous and for those who understand the signs also meaningful poses."6 according to rothkranz, the historic handshake between helmut kohl, then the 48 codex magica chancellor of west germany, and modrow, the

signs, suggests that "if one collects the photos of well-known personalities from the daily papers, then one possesses, in a very short time, a great number of conspicuous and for those who understand the signs also meaningful poses."6 according to rothkranz, the historic handshake between helmut kohl, then the 48 codex magica chancellor of west germany, and modrow, the head of the communist east german regime which sealed the deal for german reunification was clearly a masonic handshake. rothkranz further notes that the historic handshake of the two elitists was shown at length on european television.7 a symbol of power why is the use of the hand considered to be so significant as a means of concealed communications by occultists? the herder dictionary of symbols states that the hand is "

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that each soul enters the material plane not by chance, but through grace and the mercy of a loving father-god. as to whether the soul is developed or retarded during these various incarnations is left to the free will of the individuals as they live through the errors incumbent in the life process or rise above them in their journey toward oneness. rudolf steiner (1861 1925) was the head of the german theosophical society until 1912, when he broke away to form his anthroposophical society. steiner s objections with the theosophists were mainly that they didn t revere jesus and christianity as special. however, he had no problem incorporating reincarnation and karma into his beliefs. helena petrovna blavatsky (1831 1891, the founder of theosophy in collaboration with henry steele olcott (

this acceleration of humanity, in steiner s vision, was the christ energy, which the rest of the species must begin to imitate. at the turn of the twentieth century, steiner found that his lectures were wellreceived by those in the audience who were members of the theosophical society, so he began to make himself more familiar with their philosophy. in 1902, he became the general secretary of the german section of the society, but he began to feel uncomfortable with what he perceived to be their lack of enthusiasm about the place of jesus and christ consciousness in the overall scheme of spiritual evolution. although he accepted most of their teachings on reincarnation and highly approved of meditation, he came to believe that helena petrovna blavatsky (1831 1891) and other high-ranking th

lit up into separate personalities, steiner said, but now men and women of the west stand on the threshold of a deepening of thought and experience they will themselves be aware of a longing to find the thread uniting the fragments which make their appearance in the life of a human being between birth and death. in 1914, steiner married marie von sievers, an actress, who had been secretary of the german section of the theosophical society. together they established a school for esoteric research near basel, switzerland, and developed new approaches to the teaching of speech and drama, which led to eurythmy, an art of movement. later, steiner originated the waldorf school movement, an innovative educational system, which still maintains 80 schools in europe and the united states. rudolf ste

r game. according to its creators, e. c. reiche, elijah bond, and charles kennard, the name of the board was derived from the ancient egyptian word for good luck. egyptologists flatly stated that ouija was not an ancient blessing, and william fuld, a foreman at kennard s company, agreed, protesting that he was the one who had really invented the board, fashioning its name by splicing together the german (ja) and the french (oui) t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 85 ouija boards were created in the 1890s and used by spirit mediums to contact people in the afterlife. it was used in seances and as a parlor game (corbis corporation) words for yes. in 1892, kennard lost his company, and the selling of the ouija boards w

e molded by the psychic womb of the medium into a representation of the human body. barbanell gives spirit chemists the credit for compounding ectoplasm until it assumes a human form that breathes, walks, and talks, and is apparently complete even to fingernails. french researcher dr. charles richet (1850 1935) christened ectoplasm in the 1920s, but baron albert von schrenck notzing (1862 1929, a german investigator of the paranormal, gained a medium s permission to amputate some of the material and to analyze it. he found it to be a colorless, odorless, slightly alkaline fluid with traces of skin discs, minute particles of flesh, sputum, and granulates of the mucous membrane. few contemporary mediums attempt to produce ectoplasmic materializations in the seance room. today, the vast major

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vies. the unknown is it nearer? new york: new american library, 1968. smith, alson j. immortality: the scientific evidence. new york: prentice hall, 1954. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. autoscopy a phenomenon that may be closely related to the projection of the astral self in out-of-body experiences is that of the appearance of one s own double. goethe (1749 1832, a german poet, had the astonishing experience of meeting himself as he rode away from strassburg. the phantom wore a pike grey cloak with gold lace that goethe had never seen before. eight years later, as goethe was on the same road going to visit frederika, it occurred to him that he was dressed in precisely the same cloak that his phantom had been wearing on that earlier occasion. in 1929, an arch

david mckay, 1958. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 17 steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. stevens, william oliver. unbidden guests. new york: dodd, mead& co, 1957. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. poltergeists the perverse talents of the poltergeist (german for pelting or throwing ghost) range from the ability to toss pebbles and smash vases, to the astonishing ability to materialize human or beastlike entities, complete with voices, intelligent responses, and disagreeable odors. from humankind s earliest records to today s newspaper story, every reported poltergeist case follows the same basic patterns. cultural influences seem to matter litt

second body that cannot be perceived with normal senses, yet it coexists with the human body and survives death. automatic writing writing that occurs in an unconscious state or when one is in a trance or supposed telepathic contact with a spirit. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. geiger counter an instrument named after its inventor, german physicist hans geiger (1882 1945, that is used to measure and detect such things as particles from radioactive materials. hallucinations a false or distorted perception of events during which one vividly imagines seeing, hearing or sensing objects or other people to be present, when in fact they are not witnessed by others. megalith very large, sometimes enormous stones that stand alone or

onsters to lie in the ancient nightmares of stone age peoples, other researchers called cryptozoologists (from kryptos, greek for hidden) seek to prove that such creatures as bigfoot, the loch ness monster, and sea serpents really exist. such determined individuals point out that the mountain gorilla was considered a superstition of the native people of africa until 1902 when oscar van beringe, a german explorer, shot two of them while climbing a volcano in the eastern congo. cryptozoologists argue that such physical evidence as hair samples, feces, and casts of footprints indicate that unknown species of apes or apemen unrecognized by science may exist in the himalayan mountains, the remote forests of northern california and canada, and other parts of the world. some cryptozoologists clai

massachusetts in the lead with three; followed by arizona, california, and new jersey, with two each; and the remaining 15 vampires scattered throughout the other states and provinces. today, with the ever-growing popularity of the gothic movements, the various vampire t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 81 the 1922 silent german film nosferatu was the first film which introduced vampires into the cinema (corbis corporation) thevampire legend is universal, and every culture has its own name for the monster. role-playing games, the continuing bestselling status of the anne rice vampire novels, and the high ratings of television series based on vampires and the occult, it would be an impossible task to estimate the cu

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eneral and the 1,000 men that if they ever dared again to violate his mountains, his thunderbolts would be certain to kill them all. general d foctavio and his troops were gone at first light the next morning. when the authorities realized that any army conscripted from southern italy would hold annunchiarico in the same kind of superstitious awe as the local populace, they hired a force of 1,200 german and swiss mercenaries under the command of an englishman, general church. strangely enough, the approach of these battle-hardened veterans of the napoleonic wars affected annunchiarico in ways that astonished his men. it became apparent that their god was visibly nervous, even frightened by the approach of the professional soldiers toward the mountains. suddenly the person who harbored the

osing its location because of the wall that encircled the town. hoping that members of the local populace would join in their defense, annunchiarico prepared for siege. but the citizens of santa marzano could also see that the mighty jupiter the thunderer was, after all, just another bandit, and nothing about his person convinced any of them to risk their lives defending him against the swiss and german soldiers. within a few days of siege, general church fs mercenaries entered the village and killed those decided ones who offered resistance and arrested the others. annunchiarico and three of his lieutenants managed to escape but were captured four days later. even as he was being led to the firing squad, annunchiarico boasted that he had killed 60 or 70 men with his own hands, and he mock

. and if any spoke in defense of their friends, they were likely to be hanged as well, for giving false witness to defend a heretic or a traitor. on those rare occasions when the tribunal failed to convince even its own members of an accused individual fs guilt, that unfortunate person was hanged to preserve the secrecy of the tribunal. eventually the holy vehm was condemned by the church and the german state, but the secret society remained active in a greatly diminished capacity. toward the end of the nineteenth century, it went underground and seemingly ceased all acts of violence. in the 1930s, with the rise of the nazis to power in germany, for the first time in its 700-year history the vehm came into the open, focusing its bigotry upon the jewish people, judging them to be guilty of

igher source. the term may have originated in the gnostic dualism of the forces of light and darkness, and many individuals who claimed to be illuminati, those enlightened by a higher wisdom, joined the rosicrucians and took refuge in france to escape the fires of the spanish inquisition. the secret society known as the order of the illuminati was founded in the city of ingolstadt in the southern german monarchy of bavaria on may 1, 1776 by adam weishaupt, a 28-year-old professor of religious law. beginning with only five members, weishaupt fs order grew slowly, numbering about 60 in five cities by 1780. the professor deliberately blended mysticism into the workings of the brotherhood in order to make his agenda of republicanism appear to be more mysterious than a political reform group. h

e brotherhood in order to make his agenda of republicanism appear to be more mysterious than a political reform group. he joined the masons in munich in 1777 and adopted many of their classes and orders and promised his initiates that they would receive a special communication of occult knowledge as they advanced higher in the ranks of the illuminati. weishaupt fs society had little effect on the german political structure until 1780 when he attracted the interest of adolf francis, the baron von knigge, a master occultist and a man who had risen to the highest levels in many of the secret societies that preceded the illuminati, including the masons. knigge had no problem melding his interest in the supernatural with weishaupt fs goal of political revolution, and the two men quickly establi

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pt separate for practical purposes, although in the final analysis they turn out to be one. this, and the extraordinarily subtle and delicate irony of which eliphas levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever lived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as waite. english has hardly a word to express the mental condition of such unfortunates "dummheit" in its strongest german sense, is about the nearest thing to it. it is as if a geographer should criticize "gulliver's travels" from his own particular standpoint. when levi says that all that he asserts as an initiate is subordinate to his humble submissiveness as a christian, and then not only remarks that the bible and the qur'an are different translations of the same book, but treats the incarnation as an alle

s of thebes and of eleusis, and writes for us the most learned reveries of india with the occult alphabets of hermes? what is that force? i will tell you. but i have still plenty of other miracles to tell; and this article is like a judicial investigation. we must, before anything else, complete it. however, we may be permitted, before proceeding to other accounts to transcribe here a page from a german "illumine" of the work of ludwig tieck "if, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom god had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this 'fall' that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

giovanni mirandola (1463-94) furthered research and discussion of kabbalah amongst the philosophers of the time. the later publication of the shaarey orah "gates of light" in latin (1516) brought further interest in the teachings of the bahir and the fundamental plan of the tree of life. the prime source for the precursors of the occult revival were without question athanasius kircher (1602-80, a german jesuit whose "oedipus aegyptiacus (1652) detailed kabbalah amongst its study of egyptian mysteries and hieroglyphics, and cornelius agrippa's "de occulta philosophia (1533. other works, such as those from alchemists including khunrath, fludd and vaughan indicated that the kabbalah had become the convenient metamap for early hermetic thinkers. christian mystics began to utilise its structure

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to obtain the french visa, regardie up the papers himself and signed hs father's name to it. so in october of 1928 at the age of twenty, regardie went france to take the post that crowley offered him. for the next years regardie lived a rather nomadic life as he tried to get employer to teach him the magical arts. glass silex coffee maker that the detective distilling drugs. the fact that crowley german magical society (the ordo templi the false conclusion that crowley was a crowley's problems came to a head with h s literary press agent who told was a drug addict. as a result of all ths, marie de miramar, were given expulsion regardie, who had neglected to get a valid also told to leave the country. after spending regardie went to england where he his wife. by this time crowley had discov

es, in trivial events which are allowed to be forgotten and to sink into unconsciousness. but ths forgetfulness does not overcome the shock of nervous exhaustion connected with them. on the contrary, they set up what are called resistances-resistances to the flow of life and vitality from the primitive and vital layers of the unconscious level "what matters" remarks georg groddeck20 the brilliant german physician-psychologist "is not to make conscious anything at all of the unconscious, but to relieve what is imprisoned, and in so doing it is by no means rare for the repressed material to sink into the depths instead of coming into consciousness. what is decisive in the success of treatment is the removal of resistance" beginning with the actual events of the day upon which the reader dete

her than the yechidah. see part two, chapter six. 6. a chinese term for "way" it refers to the one absolute reality which is said to have brought forth "ten thousand things" it is the union of yin (female energy) and yang (male energy. 7. the collected works of c. g. jung #13, alchemical studies. 8. the word it is the english translation of the latin word id, which freud used in his theories (the german translation is es) to avoid confusion we have italicized the word it throughout the text to indicate where regardie was referring to the freudian id. 9. on the qabalistic tree of life, yang energy can also be attributed to the masculine right-hand pillar called yachin, while yin energy corresponds to the feminine left-hand pillar of boaz. 10. this is similar to the golden dawn teachings con

, jung further divided the unconscious into two levels-personal and collective. in addition, freud was more concerned with his patient's past, while jung emphasized the patient's future development. whereas freud referred to his method as psychoanalysis, jung preferred the phrase analytical psychology. heilsweg the psychology which jung very gradually developed was described by him as heilsweg, a german word which meant "sacred way" and a "method of healing" jung's idea of the psyche was based on a separation between the conscious and the unconscious-the personal unconscious being a small tributary of the greater river of the collective unconscious. the pilgrimage of the "self' symbolized the bringing of unconscious content into the light of consciousness. heilsweg was a method for differe

gevurah: see geburah. gnomes: elemental spirits of earth. great work: a term borrowed from alchemy's magnum opus. refers to the path of human spiritual evolution, growth, and illumination. g'uph: the lowest part of the soul, centered in malkuth. a low level of subconscious intelligence whch is closely tied to the physical body. hcoma: enohan word associated with the element of water. heilsweg: a german word whch means "sacred way" it was a term used by jung to describe a method for psychological healing and individuation. hermetic: of or relating to hermes trismegistus or the works ascribed to hm. having to do with the occult sciences, especially alchemy, astrology, and magic deriving from western sources (hebrew, egyptian, and greek. hga: holy guardian angel. see higher self. 256 theb al

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s lot and gray's mischievous wit baffled and enraged them. at times it baffled me, too. this towering bear of a man was very hard to "read" but his investigations were always thorough and uncompromising. now he was sitting in the home of newell partridge near salem, west virginia, talking about an errant television set and a missing dog. on the evening of november 14 1966, bandit, a big, muscular german shepherd, had dashed into the darkness and vanished "it was about 10:30 that night, and suddenly the tv blanked out" partridge said "a real fine herringbone pat-ten appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch, peaking and breaking off, as if you were on a musical scale and you went as high as you could and came back down and re

ed that frantic phone call but he would never discuss it. the day after i returned, al johnson called. the tape of our interview had been accidentally erased, he said. he wanted me to come to washington and do another one, which i finally did several months later. an engineer had accidentally placed the first tape on a pile to be erased. such errors were becoming routine to me. on one occasion, a german reporter came to my apartment with a camera crew to interview me for german television. originally he planned to shoot about fifteen minutes of film, but i was so brilliant, charming and informative that we ended up doing a full half-hour. a few days later he phoned me "we can't understand it, mr. keel" he began, with dismay in his voice "but the footage we shot in your apartment isn't usab

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ish. the sumerians did not have an alphabet as we know it, but they had developed a syllabary, very much like the japanese "kana" script of today. in phonetic transliterations, the english spelling sought to approximate the sumerian pronunciation. however, there are a few sounds which english does not possess, and which have been put into phonetic variations. important examples below: x as in the german "ach" ch (same as above) q as in "like" k (same as above) sh as in "shall" ss as in, perhaps "lasso; a hissing "s" common to arabic languages z as in "lots; a hard "ts" sound, not quite as in "zoo" remember, in the transliterations which follow, every letter must be pronounced. there are no schwas or silent syllables in sumerian. hence "kia" is pronounced "keeya "kaimanu" is pronounced "ka

akkadian translation of a given greek charm of conjuration. these will be given here. also, the reader will find english translations of the sumerian charms as they are given in the necronomicon. not al of the charms are available this way, and sometimes we have had to make do with near misses. much of what is found here has come from the maklu text, of which the only extant translation is in the german of tallqvist("die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalen im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae, tomm. xx, no. 6, helsingforsiae mdcccxcv. the word "maklu" or "maqlu" itself is controversial, but tallqvist seems to think that it does, indeed, mean "burning; especially so as the incantations to be found therein invariably entail burning somethin

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e is too great weaknesses for such a great work: and although in theologie, physic, and the mathematic, the truth doth oppose it self; nevertheless the old enemy by his subtilty and craft doth shew himself in hindering every good purpose by his instruments and contentious wavering people. to such an intent of a general reformation, the most godly and highly illuminated father, our brother, c.r. a german, the chief and original of our fraternity, hath much and long time laboured, who by reason of his poverty (although descended of noble parents) in the fifth year of his age was placed in a cloyster, where he had learned indifferently the greek and latin tongues, who (upon his earnest desire and request) being yet in his growing years, was associated to a brother, p.a.l. who had determined t

he high illuminated man of god, fra: c.r.c. is this; after that a. in gallia narbonensi was deceased, then suceeded in his place, our loving brother n.n. this man after he had repaired unto us to take the solemn oath of fidelity and scerecy, he informed us bona fide, that a. had comforted him in telling him, that this fraternity should ere long not remain so hidden, but should be to all the whole german nation helpful, needful, and com10 mendable; of the which he was not in any wise in his estate ashamed of. the year following after he had performed his school right, and was minded now to travel, being for that purpose sufficiently provided with fortunatus purse, he thought (he being a good architect) to alter something of his building, and to make it more fit: in such renewing he lighted

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

y means of a sceptical-theurgy the rational fifth-monarchism of the scientific cults. philosophy and science have up to the present apprehended things per nos, from this day forward they will, under the atheistic theurgy of crowleyanity, know things per se. the ultima thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds, and the mixed drinks of the stumbling scoto-german bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of iacchus. the above may be symbolized as follows: idealism mysticism realism the pyrrhoni stic line hylo-idealism hylo-idealism ag no stic is m agnosticism c r owl e ya n i t y crowleyan i ty in the centre is mysticism which links together idealism and realism, or the ego to the non-ego, and at the same time holds them apart. without it idealism

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musical endeavors from zero kama and his art work today prove this. dewitt had a number of very powerful and dangerous rituals, for which i will only describe in parts here to present the luciferian aspects of this foundation of self-alchemy and evolution. dewitt became a neophyte in the iot in 1988, taking the title frater anon 359. he then began translating a number of peter carroll s works in german and pushed forward with his own temple pleasuredome. much of the workings of temple pleasuredome were focused on spare s zos kia cultus and an uncompromising focus of magick which led others to call him a gnostic extremist. many of the rituals implemented by anon 359 prove a barrier to many of the would be chaos magicians and those who actually do magick, the difference is astonishing and s

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

otland, was, in the words of a masonic historian, an unmitigated vagabond. of almost repulsive demeanour and of no education but gifted with boundless impudence and low cunning. no one, of course, ever encountered johnson s supposed chiefs, and it can reasonably be assumed that they never existed. equally imaginary were johnson s supposed name and nationality; in reality he appears to have been a german jew named either leucht or becker. johnson s pretensions were eventually exposed; he was arrested, imprisoned in the castle of wartburg and there, shortly afterwards, he died. the stricte observance, however, survived and flourished. its influence and reputation grew and it extended itself into almost every european country. in course of time however, schisms the bane of all secret societie

apostolic succession to the templars had initiated hugues de payens into the mysteries and hopes of his pretended church, he lured him by the ideas of sacerdotal sovereignty and supreme royalty, he indicated him finally as his successor; so the order of the knights templar was stained from its origin with schism and conspiracy against kings! 10 by the last decade of the nineteenth century certain german occultists, most of them high-grade freemasons, had been stimulated by their study of l vi s writings on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (5 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the

ngs on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (5 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter three the early years of the o.t.o. somewhere about the year 1896 karl kellner, a wealthy german iron-master who had journeyed through india and the middle east in search of occult wisdom, decided to found yet another templar group, its purpose to revive the sexual magic which kellner believed had been the real secret of the original order of the temple. kellner claimed to have rediscovered this secret doctrine by means of a thorough study of the sexo-yogic teachings he had orally rece

e therefore decided, reasonably enough, to call his fraternity ordo templi orientis the order of oriental templars thus properly acknowledging his intellectual debts to his teachers. whether these teachers ever actually existed, or if they did, whether they taught kellner the things that he claimed that they taught him, is of no great importance. the fact remains that from somewhere or other this german occultist obtained the knowledge of a remarkable magical system bearing some resemblance to both bengali tantrism and certain highly unorthodox forms of sufism.11 it is probable that for many years the o.t.o. existed only in its founder s imagination, for nothing seems to have been heard of it between 1895, the date of its supposed establishment, and 1904, when it began to be mentioned by n

d the kneph. there is no doubt that yarker was a dedicated, even an obsessive, freemason. there is equally no doubt that his masonic activities led him to neglect his private affairs, to fall into poverty13 and, eventually, to be prepared to confer masonic charters on any individual, or group of individuals, who were prepared to pay a sufficiently large fee. in 1902 yarker was approached by three german occultists, named klein, hartmann and reuss, and on september 24 of that year he sold them a charter conferring upon them the right to establish a berlin grand lodge of memphis and misraim. exactly what were the motives that induced these three germans to make their purchase is uncertain; probably it was at least partly in order to establish a profitable business in conferring masonic initi

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us records, for example, this comment from one "confessed witch "i never dreamed that by means of the torture a person could be brought to the point of telling such lies as i have told. i am not a witch, and i have never seen the devil, and still i had to plead guilty myself and denounce others" all but one copy of father stapirius' book were destroyed, and little wonder. a letter smuggled from a german burgomaster, johannes junius, to his daughter in 1628, is as telling as it is painful even to read. his hands had been virtually destroyed in the torture, and he wrote only with great agony and no hope "when at last the executioner led me back to the cell, he said to me `sir, i beg you, for god's sake, confess something, whether it be true or not. invent something, for you cannot endure the

rstood that no viable chapter of the o.t.o. was supposed to exist in england at that time; the sole active chapter was in california, and is the direct antecedent of the contemporary authentic ordo templi orientis. karl germer, crowley's immediate successor, had barely escaped death in a concentartion camp during the war, his mere association with crowley being tantamount to a death sentence. the german oto had been largely destroyed by the nazis, along with other freemasonic organizations, and crowley himself was in declining health and power, the english oto virtually dead. the charter also displayed other irregularities of a revealing nature. though the signature and seals are certainly those of crowley, the text is in the decorative hand of gerald gardner! the complete text reads as fo

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

132 representation of the female organ exhibited in various countries. 134 horseshoes nailed to stable-doors, a remain of the the shelah-na-gig exhibition. 139 the ancient god priapus becomes a saint in the middle ages. 139 x contents. page. marriage offerings to priapus. 141 antwerp, and its patron saint ters. 144 m. forgeais collection of phallic amulets. 146 the fig, and its meanings. 148 the german scrat, and the gaulish dusii. 152 robin goodfellow. 153 liberalia and floralia festivities. 154 easter, and hot-cross-buns. 158 heaving and lifting customs at easter. 160 may-day festivities. 162 bonfires. 163 st. john s, or midsummer-eve. 164 mother bunch s instruction to maidens. 166 plants and flowers connected with phallic worship. 167 the mandrake. 169 lady godiva, the shrewsbury show

worship of which we are treating prevailed so extensively among the romans and throughout the roman provinces, it was far from being peculiar to them, for the same superstition formed part of the religion of the teutonic race, and was carried with that race wherever it settled. the teutonic god, who answered to the roman priapus, was called, in anglo-saxon, fr a, in old norse, freyr, and, in old german, fro. among the swedes, the principal seat of his worship was at upsala, and adam of bremen, who lived in the eleventh century, when paganism still retained its hold on the north, in describing the forms under which the gods were there represented, tells us that the third of the gods at upsala was fricco [another form of the name, who bestowed on mortals peace and pleasure, and who was repr

held his hand in his pocket with this arrangement of the fingers as a protection against the shots of the enemy. there were personages connected with the worship of priapus who appear to have been common to the romans under and before the empire, and to the foreign races who settled upon its ruins. the teutonic race believed in a spiritual being who inhabited the woods, and who was called in old german scrat. his character was more general than that of a mere habitant of the woods, for it answered to the english hobgoblin, or to the irish 152 on the worship of the cluricaune. the scrat was the spirit of the woods, under which character he was sometimes called a waltscrat, and of the fields, and also of the household, the domestic spirit, the ghost haunting the house. his image was probabl

habitant of the woods, for it answered to the english hobgoblin, or to the irish 152 on the worship of the cluricaune. the scrat was the spirit of the woods, under which character he was sometimes called a waltscrat, and of the fields, and also of the household, the domestic spirit, the ghost haunting the house. his image was probably looked upon as an amulet, a protection to the house, as an old german vocabulary of the year 1482, explains schr tlin, little scrats, by the latin word penates. the lascivious character of this spirit, if it wanted more direct evidence, is implied by the fact that scritta, in anglo-saxon, and scrat, in old english, meant a hermaphrodite. accordingly, the medi val vocabularies explain scrat by latin equivalents, which all indicate companions or emanations of p

e influence they exerted on medi val society. the first of the three great festivals just mentioned was purely anglo-saxon and teutonic; but it appears in the first place to have been identified with the roman liberalia, and it was further transformed by the catholic church into one of the great christian religious feasts. in the primitive teutonic mythology there was a female deity named, in old german, ostara, and, in anglo-saxon, eastre, or eostre, but all we know of her is the simple statement of our father of history, bede, that her festival was celebrated by the ancient saxons in the month of april, from which circumstance, that month was named by the anglo-saxons easter-monath, or eoster-monath, and that the name of the goddess had been subsequently given to the paschal time, with w

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the psy- chological, where science assures them that the will can exert an effect. only later with the support of increased confidence will they move into physical magic. it is not that one is easier than the other, but rather, that the magus expects mental magic to be easier than physical. expectation makes it so. all is mind the greatest barrier to magic is the modern zeitgeist. zeitgeist is a german word meaning "time spirit" it is the spirit of an age, the way a people looks upon itself and the universe. for five hundred years the zeitgeist of the western world has been shaped by science. science has gradually exduded all trace of spiritual things from the world view. the magus who accepts this viewpoint can never work magic. magic has no place in the universe of science. when the mag

s- tic kind, risk a corresponding loss of spiritual riches and are liable to all manner of self-deception. the more they believe themselves to be gaining, the more they are likely to lose. the political leaders of germany believed in the 1930s that they could use the nazis to consume the communists; but when the communists were defeated, the nazis turned their appetites on the institutions of the german state. in the table of the hendecagram are listed eleven major traditional demons, which are associated with sins of the human soul, secretions and excretions of the human body, and disorders of the human mind. the list is based on a personal interpretation of the demons, and is not the same list of archdemons usually asso- ciated with the sephiroth, which has come down to modern magic from

sulzbach between the years 1677-84, mathers presents this flawed sequence. it is not certain where he came by it, but the most likely source would seem to be the magus by francis barrett, a work published in london in 1801. barrett, in his turn, repro- duced his order of the banners of tetragrammaton from the 1651 english transla- tion of the three books of occult philosophy, written by the great german renaissance magician, henry cornelius agrippa. the same erroneous ordering also occurs in the original latin edition of agrippa's work, first published in its complete form at cologne in 1533. agrippa, a careful scholar, was probably not responsible for creating the error himself, but very likely copied it from an older source. modern occultists, accepting the authority of mathers without q

e alphabet of the ancient hebrews. each rune is both a letter and a symbol of power. by combining the runes and forming them into words, complex magical effects can be achieved. the number of letters in the different rune alphabets varies from twenty-eight and thirty-three in old english rune alphabets to sixteen in the northern scandi- navian alphabets. for modern magic the twenty-four character german futhark is the most serviceable. the name is taken from the first six letters, which are translit- erated f-u-th-a-r-k. although these are the german runes, the same runes (with minor variations in form and pronunciation) also occur in the english futhorc (f- u-th-0-r-c, where they receive old english names. both german and english names are given here, with the english names in parentheses

ms. a spirit of destruction and pain. all the evil reports of giants in european fairy tales apply. wicked, murder- ous, malicious. sower of storms and tempests. annihilator. magically, this rune may be used to physically destroy an enemy or to cause a disaster. cast against a foe, it brings ill fortune, accident, sickness, and death. 4. ansuz (0s: k (f) sound: a [o] english: a literally "god" in german, but "mouth" in old english -a good angel of reason and order. charitable, kind, benevolent. stern but just. the source of luck and hap- piness. from its english meaning, eloquence of speech and wisdom. magically, it is used as a sign of fortune. it opens the way in a just cause. the wise god, the good angel. cast, it brings justice and reason. 5. raid0 (rad: r (r) sound: r [r] english: r l

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fore the second order, the roseae rubae et aureae crucis (ruby rose and cross of gold, where the higher mysteries of practical magic were taught to carefully selected initiates, came into being in 1892."4 the work of running the golden dawn fell to westcott and mathers. according to the history of the order presented by its three chiefs, the golden dawn was originally founded as an extension of a german secret society of the same name, die 112. howe, xxiii. 113. ibid, 55. 114. colquhoun, sword of wisdom, 172. chapter seven: the golden dawn 97 goldene dammerung, run by an adept named fraulein anna sprengel. westcott claimed to have received a written charter from sprengel permitting him to establish a branch of the german rosicrucian society in england, and maintained that he was in constan

die 112. howe, xxiii. 113. ibid, 55. 114. colquhoun, sword of wisdom, 172. chapter seven: the golden dawn 97 goldene dammerung, run by an adept named fraulein anna sprengel. westcott claimed to have received a written charter from sprengel permitting him to establish a branch of the german rosicrucian society in england, and maintained that he was in constant correspondence with the chiefs of the german order from 1887 to 1890. this is what those joining the golden dawn were taught, and what they believed in the early years. it was not until friction arose between the leaders of the order that it was revealed that this history was a fiction concocted by westcott, perhaps with the collusion of woodman. mathers was not a part of the original deception, which was admitted to him by westcott o

victorian body, the society for psychical research. rhine used the term extrasensoryperception to describe the apparent ability of some individuals to acquire information by means other than the use of their five physical senses. he did not coin the term esp-that term had been used by dr. rudolf tischner 118* soul flight (1879-1961) in his book telepathy and clairvoyance, originally published in german in 1920 and republished in english in 1925-but rhine transformed the term into a household word. he also employed the much less popular term general extrasensory perception, or gesp (which he did originate, to encompass both clairvoyance and telepathy, and the later term psi to cover both extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. psi, a term inverted in 1946 by r. h. thouless and b. p. wie

e "the theoretical standard deviation derived on a conservative basis is 17.57. this total of 558 hits is 188 above the theoretical expectation and it gives a critical ratio of 10.70. the probability that a critical ratio so large as this would occur on the basis of random sampling is less than 10-22."156 parapsychology and the nazis the early work by rhine was regarded with interest in europe by german psychologists, but was never effectively duplicated by them. in germany, the rise of the nazis during 156. rhine and pratt, 176. the 1930s had a chilling influence on serious scientific research into the paranormal. the nazis were infected with mysticism and superstition, but they did not attempt to cast these interests into the pseudo-scientific framework of laboratory esp investigation. e

sebottendorff (1875-1945. it adopted as its symbol a dagger surrounded by oak leaves, superimposed on a swastikakith curved arms. hitler would later use the swastika as the symbolism of nazism. on november 9, 1918, just prior to germany's acceptance of the humiliating armistice treaty that ended the first world war, the newly established thule society met and resolved to continue the struggle for german supremacy. sebottendorff proclaimed as its new symbol a red eagle, declaring to his fellow members that the eagle was an aryan symbol, and that its color symbolized its "capacity for self-immolation by fire" which, he told his audience "warns us that we must die in order to live."157o n may 9, 1945, upon hearing of the surrender of nazi germany to th'e allies, sebottendorff committed suicid

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the world, published at venice in 1525, demonstrated the ideas of pico and reuchlin through the use of kabbalistic numerology. these christian kabbalists and others who followed in their footsteps were greatly aided by several jewish scholars who converted to christianity, such as flavius mithridates, who translated many kabbalistic texts for pico, and paulus ricius, the private physician to the german emperor maximilian, who published rabbi joseph gikatilla's influential portae lucis (the gates of light) at augsburg in 1516. concerning the power of the fivefold name of jesus, cornelius agrippa quotes directly from the conclusions of pico della mirandola when he writes: as john in the revelations describeth that heavenly city, whose twelve gates are guarded with twelve angels, infusing on

e planetary glyph of mercury, except that a dot has been added to the middle of the circle and the sign of aries attached to the bottom of the cross. for dee, the hieroglyphic monad represented in a graphic way the entire universe, which he believed might be understood by a close examination of the glyph's parts and proportions. he considered the work of supreme importance-it was dedicated to the german emperor maximilian 11-and thought it had been divinely inspired. in theorem xxiii, he declares "in the name of jesus christ crucified upon the cross, i say the spirit writes these things rapidly through me; i hope, and i believe, i am merely the quill 56 tetragrammaton which traces these characters (j. w. hamilton-jones translation [1947, the hieroglyphic monad [new york: samuel weiser, 197

n had created this system based upon a few hints from dee and kelley. regardie writes: but this stands out very clearly, that in these diaries [of dee and kelleyl is a rudimentary scheme which bears only the most distant relation to the extraordinary developed system in use by the order. whoever was responsible for the order scheme of the angelic tablets-whether it was mathers and westcott or the german rosicrucian adepts from whom the former are supposed to have obtained their knowledge-was possessed of an ingenuity and an understanding of magic such as never was in the possession either of dee or kelly (golden dawn, p. 625) in fact, almost the entire golden dawn enochian system is derived from the diaries published by casaubon, with the exception of the correspondences of the elements, p

he common practice to assign the banners to the signs successively among the kabbalists and magicians of the renaissance. if nothing else, it has simplicity to recommend it. however, it is no longer possible to dispute the true order of the banners, which i revealed in the new magus through a simple process of numerical substitution. the traditional order of the banners is that given by the great german magician cornelius agrippa in his three books of occult philosophy (1533: ihvh, ihhv, ivhh; hvhi, hvih, hhiv; vhhi, vihh, vhih; hihv, hivh, hhvi. this order was reproduced in the influential work of francis barrett, the magus (london 1801, and probably from this latter source found its way into the magical system of the golden dawn through the work of its founding member, s. l. macgregor ma

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD2

esource (by the way, if you hear of any group sacrificing animals or humans, they are not satanists. if you live by- or aspire to live by- satanic ideals, make sure you contact the correct authorities) satanism and nazism release tremendous forces within their elite (and in the masses. consider impoverished post-wwi germany, which rose from its ashes under the dynamism of nazism. consider how the german rocket movement lives on. there's a pure example of lifeforce worship. the desire to push ourselves further and further into the great dark. both satanism and nazism push at the individual; however, satanism has replaced the destructive hatred of nazism with the pure black light of challenge. 7. learn how to use the external nervous system. we have an opportunity as black magicians which ge

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

eigenen untersuchungen vollenden, indem er das wichtigste zeugniss altagyptischen ursprungs den zahlreichen, von mir angezogenen stellen aus den inschriften hinzufugt. trotz mancher schwierigkeit im einzelnen ist der gesammtinhalt des textes, den zuerst ein englischer gelehrter der wissenschaft zuganglich gemacht hat, such nicht im geringsten misszuverstehen (brugsch, religion, p. 740. he gives a german translation of the creation legend on pp. 740, 741, and a transliteration on p. 756 [fn#2] egyptian hieratic papyri in the british museum, london, 1910, folio. the papyrus is about 16 ft. 8 in. in length, and is 9 1/4 in. in width. it contains 21 columns of hieratic text which are written in short lines and are poetical in character, and 12 columns or pages of text written in long lines; th

each of her four legs is held in position by two gods, and the god shu, with outstretched uplifted arms, supports her body. the cow was published by champollion,[fn#5] without the text. this most important mythological text was first published and translated by professor e. naville in 1874.[fn#6] it was republished by bergmann[fn#7] and brugsch,[fn#8] who gave a transcription of the text, with a german translation. other german versions by lauth,[fn#9] brugsch,[fn#10] and wiedemann[fn#11] have appeared, and a part of the text was translated into french by lefebure.[fn#12] the latest edition of the text was published by lefebure,[fn#13] and text of a second copy, very much mutilated, was published by professor naville, with a french translation in 1885.[fn#14] the text printed in this volu

nse in a censer, and a figure of maat (truth) must be painted on his tongue with green paint. these regulations applied to the laity as well as to the clergy. iii. the legend of ra and isis. the original text of this very interesting legend is written in the hieratic character on a papyrus preserved at turin, and was published by pleyte and rossi in their corpus of turin papyri.[fn#16] french and german translations of it were published by lefebure,[fn#17] and wiedemann[fn#18] respectively, and summaries of its contents were given by erman[fn#19] and maspero.[fn#20] a transcript of the hieratic text into hieroglyphics, with transliteration and translation, was published by me in 1895.[fn#21 [fn#16] papyrus de turin, pll. 31, 77, 131-138 [fn#17] a. z, 1883, p. 27 ff [fn#18] die religion, p

ed into their bodies the actual power of their gods. iv. the legend of heru-behutet and the winged disk. the text of this legend is cut in hieroglyphics on the walls of the temple of edfu in upper egypt, and certain portions of it are illustrated by large bas-reliefs. both text and reliefs were published by professor naville in his volume entitled mythe d'horus, fol, plates 12-19, geneva, 1870. a german translation by brugsch appeared in the ahandlungen der gottinger akademie, band xiv, pp. 173-236, and another by wiedemann in his die religion, p. 38 ff (see the english translation p. 69 ff. the legend, in the form in which it is here given, dates from the ptolemaic period, but the matter which it contains is far older, and it is probable that the facts recorded in it are fragments of actu

su at thebes, and is now preserved in the bibliotheque nationale at paris; it was discovered by champollion, and removed to paris by prisse d'avennes in 1846. the text was first published by prisse d'avennes,[fn#32] and it was first translated by birch[fn#33] in 1853. the text was republished and translated into french by e. de rouge in 1858,[fn#34] and several other renderings have been given in german and in english since that date.[fn#35] when the text was first published, and for some years afterwards, it was generally thought that the legend referred to events which were said to have taken place under a king who was identified as rameses xiii, but this misconception was corrected by erman, who showed[fn#36] that the king was in reality rameses ii. by a careful examination of the const

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passage, but the most obvious one points to the seven seals that are connected to the seven planetary deities, over which the figure 9-k lamb had authority. the value in latin for lamb (agnus) is fifty-six, and this number is emphasized in rosicrucian teaching as being the length, in feet, of the seven vertical lines bounding to the vault of brother c. r. in the adaptation of the gematria to the german alphabet, often used in rosicrucian texts, it stands for the word alchimia, or. alchemy. in latin gematria, the "gold of the philosophers (aurum philosophorum) equals 231, which is the, number of gates connected to the sephiroth. this number also equals "dawn of the philosophers (aurora philosophorum, a hidden reference to the true golden dawn. the 231 gates are all of the possible two-lett

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

uch older than surrounding sectors, due to the various alternate time-line "replays, and that even this worldline is not the original. i.e. that much temporal manipulation has occured. for instance naval philadelphian montauk agents going back in time from an original] worldline in order to stop germany from winning the 2nd world war, and renegade pleiadeans, etc- who were actually descended from german/nordic space colonists in the original worldline- coming back to help hitler in this worldline defeat the normandy invasion. which they failed to do, however they did succeed in helping the germans infiltrate america and take over the montauk projects by taking over the nsa/cia. according to some "montauk" researchers, john f. kennedy lived to a good old age in an "earlier" timeline and onc

and a black woman; another girl is holding a mayan tablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a 'green darth vader' by alex christopher, stands over a destroyed city with a sword in his hand and women are walking along a road holding dead babies. all the children of the world are depicted taking weapons from each country and handing them to a figure of a german boy with an iron fist and an anvil in his hand. denver is apparently scheduled to be the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist global state called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is said to be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how the design of denver and atlanta airports were so si

also symbolic of the womb and drinking menstrual blood, as well as being a symbol of the reptilian 'royal' bloodline itself. menstrual blood was provided for the elite of the reptilian 'royal' line by virgin priestesses and this is the origin of the term 'scarlet woman' or, to the greeks 'sacred woman. the greek word for this, hierodulai, was eventually translated into english as harlot and into german as 'hores, the origin of whore. the word ritual derives from this practice (ritu= redness) and so do the words rite and red. menstrual blood is one reason why the colour red is so important to satanists and it is another reason for the constant use of the colour gold by the 'royal' bloodlines. gold is called the metal of the gods, but to the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets, menstrual blood

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sses her feet, saying a sort of prayer beginning 'blessed be" and the intention following is that indicated by jaffet and the others, the words not being exactly the same, as it is very unlikely that they would be: probably he spoke in french, which was then translated into monkish latin and retranslated into english many years afterwards: doubtless the witch-words have also changed. i remember a german witch saying to me on his first introduction to the english rites 'but this is pure poetry' now none of it rhymes, but it is beautiful, though very unequal, which i think proves that someone poetically inclined rewrote much in the last two hundred years. during this prayer to the high priestess she opens out her arms to the pentacle position. she then represents the goddess, or regeneration

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

d like to alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. george iles equality in injustice is justice. egyptian the more a man knows, the more he forgives. italian he who is accustomed to evil is offended by good. mexican to an unjust government, a martyr is more dangerous than a rebel. italian everyone should be allowed to keep his natural clothes, his natural food, and his natural religion. german justice flees the world because no one will give it shelter in his house. maltese moral decisions are always easy to recognize. they are where you abandon self-interest. rev. mother superior darwi odrade, dune every judgment teeters on the brink of error. to claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. leto atreides ii, dune

v. mother superior darwi odrade, dune every judgment teeters on the brink of error. to claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. leto atreides ii, dune before i judge my neighbour, let me walk a mile in his moccasins. sioux i am free of all prejudices. i hate every one equally. w.c. fields law separates, compromise conciliates. german treat all men alike. give them all the same laws. give them all an even chance to live and grow. chief joseph laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little one get caught. fear not the law, but the judge. russian thieves increase with the making of new laws. romanian custom is stronger than law. russian first, we kill all the lawyers. shakespeare? harken to the spirit

h abides. ecclesiastes, 1, 4 we didn t inherit the land from our fathers. we are borrowing it from our children. amish belief the universe is made up of stories, not atoms. muriel ruckeyser. you will find something more in woods than in books. trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from a master. st. bernard of clairvaux he who follows nature s lantern never loses his way. german o sacred earth mother, the trees and all nature are witnesses to your thoughts and deeds. winnebago indian saying the world is older and bigger than we are. this is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. ed abbey the essence of deep ecology is to ask deeper questions. we ask which society, which education, which form of religion is beneficial for all life on the planet as a whole. arne nae

ans suspending judgment for a moment, then seeing, feeling, experiencing what this condition in front of you is all about. stephen altschuler if knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge. sinai with great doubts comes great understanding; with little doubts comes little understanding. chinese god protect us from him who has read but one book. german the world is a fine book but of little use to him who knows not how to read. italian better unlearned than ill-learned. norwegian ask people s advice, but decide for yourself. ukrainian 294 a good listener makes a good teacher. polish to inquire is neither a disaster nor a disgrace. bulgarian if you would know the future, behold the past. portuguese cultivate your own garden. dutch so great

norwegian ask people s advice, but decide for yourself. ukrainian 294 a good listener makes a good teacher. polish to inquire is neither a disaster nor a disgrace. bulgarian if you would know the future, behold the past. portuguese cultivate your own garden. dutch so great is the confusion of the world that comes from coveting knowledge! chuang tzu teaching is a long way, example is a short one. german knowledge too hastily acquired is not on guard. latin doors are not opened without keys. maltese discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. robert quillen the man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. chinese nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known michel de montaigne too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. gh

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

no. 5 under the rule of v.h. fratre "vote vita mea" was also consecrated at bredford in yorkshire. these three temples have members also in the united states, hindustan, palestine, denmark, etc. the name of the order in various languages is: in hebrew: morning light shining society (chabrath (or chaorah) zoreh aour bakker) which means the society of the shining light of dawn. in latin: aurora. in german: die goldene demmerung. in french: l'aube d' or. reference may now be made to the society which was reconstructed by robert wentworth little, student of the mysteries. this society, which has branches in england, scotland and the united states, is allied with the g.d. it perpetuated one form of rosicrucian initiation which was conferred 100 years ago in england and which was mentioned by go

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

arsees. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott perhaps the oldest extant kabalistic book is the sepher yetzirah, or book of formation, an english translation of which has appeared in three editions from the author s own pen. the fundamentals of the numerical kabalistic ideas on creation are laid down in that treatise; it has also been printed both in french and german, and there is an american edition. upon the mathematical aspect of numbers, readers may consult for further detail in the works of gauss "disquisitiones arithmeticae, 1801; legendre, theorie des nombres, 1830; w. g. o. smith, reports on the theory of numbers, in the transactions of the british association, 1859; james ozanam, mathematical recreations, 1710, translated by hutton in 1814; sna

me was used by the qabalistic rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the divine essence of the creator god. almost all the peoples of antiquity possessed a name for deity consisting of four letters, and many of them considered 4 to be a divine number, thus- in hebrew we find also ihih called eheie; and ahih called aheie. assyrian adad, egyptian amun, persians syre of sire, greek theos, latin deus, german gott, french dieu, turkish esar, tartar itga, arabian allh, allah, samaritan jabe, egyptian teut, taut, thoth. in sanchoniathon we find the deity called ievo. in clemens alexandrinus, the deity is called jaqu. attention should be paid to the sanskrit holy phrase, aspiration or prayer of four syllables- aum mani padme hum--literally, oh, the jewel in the lotus (meaning, the divine spark with

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

ty of the enduring tone certainly does have its absolutely fixed position in objective (even if immanent) time. time is fixed, and yet time flows. in the flow of time, in the continuous sinking down into the past, a nonflowing, absolutely fixed, identical, objective time becomes constituted. 183 i note, parenthetically, that a similar view was expressed by hermann weyl, a substantially less-known german phenomenologist whose work was familiar to husserl, with whom he exchanged some letters.184 distinguishing between time as the original form of the stream of consciousness and space as the form of material reality, weyl noted that the contents of consciousness present themselves not as merely being. but as being-now, filling the form of the enduring now with a continually changing content

tr ckungs-ber ckungsgef ge (f gung) des da. the site for the moment and the strife of world and earth. the strife and sheltering of the truth of enowning. 213 the translators have sensibly rendered dem wesen der wahrheit as the essential sway of truth. the continuation of the sentence, however, defies precise translation, as the poetic flourish of heidegger s rhetoric overflows the vessels of the german language he summoned and was summoned by, als das so gegr ndete entr ckungs-ber ckungsgef ge (f gung) des da. time-space lays the ground of dasein s relationship to being by way of the strife and sheltering of the truth of enowning (der streit und die bergung der wahrheit des ereignisses. strife and sheltering, words juxtaposed by way of opposition,214 convey coming-together in pulling-apar

blished in 1925 with the aim of offering readers pointers on how to read der stern, rosenzweig writes that time is entirely real for the one who embraces the new thinking (neue denken, which he also calls speech-thinking (sprachdenken, in contrast to the philosopher interested in immutable essences who wants to know nothing of time. the critical element of speech, therefore, is the verb, which in german is zeitwort, literally, timeword, the part of language that conveys knowledge of the tenses (zeiten) of reality. 335 rosenzweig thus expresses the secret of the wisdom of the new philosophy encapsulated in goethe s phrase understanding at the right time (verstehen zur rechten zeit):336 understanding always occurs in the present, time in the most temporal sense (zeit im zeitlichsten sinn).33

a temporal perspective it necessitates that what has come to pass will come to be again, all that has taken place will be cast up by the sea again.87 in a world of constant change, the only constant is change, the perpetual (un)becoming of the permanent flux of impermanence.88 needless to say, there are critical differences between the sixteenth-century jewish homilist and the nineteenth-century german philosopher, which i do not mean to ignore or to minimize. nevertheless, nietzsche s depiction of the moment as the meeting-point of the eternal past and eternal future provides a useful way to interpret the view articulated by maharal. moreover, for both of them, the recurrence of the past in the present entails not a quantifiable and hence predictable repetition of the same, but rather an

alef/ where beginnings end 121 unequivocally. in the first chapter, i discussed briefly schelling s characterization of the abyss, the primordial being, as an identity of two independent and irreducible forces rendered equal in their opposition, the a rmative force of outpouring and the negative force of withholding. i noted the probable influence of kabbalistic theosophy on schelling through the german theosophy of a figure like b hme, and i also suggested heidegger s indebtedness to the latter. the second rationale for turning to heidegger to explicate medieval kabbalistic symbolism is the significant conceptual a nities between the two ways of thinking.28 indeed, the path of heidegger s later thought turns in a paradoxical manner predicated, as it is, on a poetological heeding of the un

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