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on. on the tree of life, yesod has the function of channeling the energies of the higher down to the earth below, malkuth. occultists associate yesod with the astral plane, because if the sephiroth above malkuth are regarded as a map of the unconscious psyche, yesod is the most accessible area of the mind. yesod is the sphere of fertility and lunar 67 imagery. it is identified with witchcraft and goddess worship. it is also the so-called animal soul, known by qabalists as nephesch. malkuth: the tenth emanation of the tree of life. malkuth is associated with the gods and goddesses of the earth, especially persephone, proserpina, and geb. malkuth is the domain of the manifested universe, the immediate environment, the plane of physical reality. as a consequence, all inner journeys of conscio

ses of the earth, especially persephone, proserpina, and geb. malkuth is the domain of the manifested universe, the immediate environment, the plane of physical reality. as a consequence, all inner journeys of consciousness begin symbolically in malkuth. it is particularly appropriate, for example, that the myth of the rape of persephone confirms her both as queen of the underworld and as a lunar goddess. from an occult point of view, the underworld equates with the lower unconscious mind, and the moon, represented by the sphere of yesod, is the first sephira reached on the inner mystic journey up the tree of life. malkuth is closely linked with the universe card. the path of the flaming sword is the path of creation. according to the early qabalist, when lucifer was thrown out of heaven b

1 10 INITIATION CEREMONY

he head, the chest, and the trunk. i now confer upon you the mystic title of periclinus de faustis, which signifies that on this earth you are in a wilderness, far from the garden of the happy. and give you the symbol of aretz which is the hebrew name for earth, to which the grade of zelator is referred. the word zelator is derived from the ancient egyptian zaruator, signifying searcher of athor, goddess of nature; but others assign to it the meaning of the zealous student whose first duty was to blow the athanor or fire which heated the crucible of the alchemist. hiero: resumes seat on dais. kerux: leads new zelator to seat in north west. hiero: frater kerux, you have my command to declare that our frater has been duly admitted to the grade of zelator. kerux: comes to n.w of hierophant, f

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ention 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 two of which, and part of the third, will contain the trans

od as father became more familiar to the christians than to heathens. the ohg. altfatar= grandfather, 0. i. 3, 6. as. ealdfteder, beow. 743. 1883, i have nowhere seen applied to god. as the greeks coupled together zei? tran^p, esp. in the voc. zev ttcitep, and the romans jupiter, diespiter, dispiter, mars pater^ as well as atj/jl^ttjp, aajnatrjp, terra mater, so the lettons bestow on almost every goddess the epithet mahtc, mahviina^=mafer, matercula (biittner 244. bergmann 142, on which we shall have more to say hereafter. to all appearance, father goth, fadr is connected with fa]?s lord, as pater irary'jp is with ttotl, ttoctl, lith. pats. the as. meotod, metod, csedm. 223, 14. eald metod, beow. 1883. s65 metod, beow. 3222. os. metod, hel. 4, 13. 15, 17. 66, 19, an expression which likewi

of the cimbri, and dietmar of the northmen, will be cited later. epist. bonif 25 (ed. wlirdtw: hoc quoque inter alia crimina agi in partibus illis dixisti, quod quidam ex fidelibus ad immolandum paganis sua vemtndcnt mancipia; masters were allowed to sell slaves, and christians sold them to heathens for sacrifice. tlie captive prince graecus avar de (a) suevis pccudis more litatus (ch. xiii, the goddess zisa^ for evidences of human sacrifice among the norse, see miiller's sagabibl. 2, 560. 3, 93. as a rule, the victims were captive enemies, purchased slaves or great criminals; the sacrifice of women and children by the franks on crossing a river reminds of the greek sta^at7]pla- the first fruits of war, the first prisoner 1 adam of bremen de.'itu daniae cap. 24, of the litlinanians: draco

espread custom at a idanquet to set aside a part of the food for tlie household gods, and particularly to place a dish of 'broth before berhta and hulda, the gods were also invited to share the festive drink. the drinker, before taking any himself, would pour some out of his vessel for the god or housesprite, as the lithuanians, when they drank beer, spilt some of it on the ground for their earth-goddess zemynele^ compare with this the norwegian sagas of thor, who appears at weddings when invited, and takes up and empties huge casks of ale. i will now turn once more to that account ot the suevic ale-fuh (cupa) in jonas (see p. 56, and use it to explain the heathen practice of viinnedrinking, which is far from being extinct under christianity. here also both name and custom appear common to

te or incomplete, that it is impossible to gather from them with any certainty whether the expressions used betoken the ancient cultus or one departing from it. the most weighty and significant passages relating to this part of the subject seem to be the following (see suppl: tac. germ. 40 describes the sacred grove and the worship of mother earth; when the priest in festival time has carried the goddess round among the people, he restores her to her sanctuary: satiatam conversatione mortalium deani templo reddit. tac. ann. 1, 51: caesar avidas legiones, quo latior populatio foret, quatuor in cuneos dispertit, quinquaginta millium spatium ferro flammisque pervastat; non sexus, non aetas miserationem st. benedict found at montecassino vetustissinmm fanuni, in quo ex antiqiio more gentilium

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for therein a solar world and endless light subsist. the sun more true measureth all things by time, for he is the time of time. and his disc is in the starless above, the inerratic sphere, and he is the center of the triple world. the sun is fire and the dispenser of fire. he is also the channel of the higher fire, aether, sun, and the spirit of the moon, ye are the leaders of air. and the great goddess bringeth forth the vast sun and the brilliant moon, and the wide air, and the lunar course and the solar pole. she collecteth it receiving the melody of ether, and of the sun, and of the moon, and of whatsoever is contained by air. unwearied doth nature rule over the worlds and works, so that the periods of all things may be accomplished. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is na

, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. the grade of practicus is referred to the sephira hod, and the 30th and 31st paths which are those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is thus given; stand with the heels together, raise the arms till the elbows are level with the shoulders bring the hands across the chest touching the thumbs and tips of fingers thus forming a trian

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

re, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox of earth, in whose manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries; virgo, water; the firmament, the balanced force, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign operating in the zodiac) the virgin goddess and the waters of creation. returning to the spelling of yeheshuah, it is easy to see that the lamb is an appropriate symbol of jesus, from the prevalence of the aries symbol, whose fire is subdued and modified by its other associations. hiero: returns to his seat. heg: leads practicus to west. hiereus: in the theoricus grade you were shown the lineal figures attributed to the planets. the

ach, hod and yesod and rests upon malkuth. the surrounding circle includes chesed, geburah and malkuth. also the calvary cross of 6 squares forms the cube, and is thus referred to the 6 sephiroth of microprosopus, which are chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod and yesod. heg: resumes his seat. hiero: moves to west of altar. hiero: this is the symbolic representation of the fall. for the great goddess who in the practicus grade was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus being tempted by the tree of knowledge (whose branches indeed, tend upward into the seven lower sephiroth, but also tend downwards into the kingdom of the shells) reached down into the qlippoth, and immediately the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic system was shattered, an

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

hocolate. spells tend to work best when there is a genuine need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals f

he huntergatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the sonconsort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the cre

ion was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sen

lities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted

er se, but a contemporary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca follow

ABRAMELIN2

from lux, light, and fugio, to fly from- he who shuns the light. leviatan: from hebrew, lvithn (usually written leviathan instead of leviatan- the crooked or piercing serpent or dragon. satan: from hebrew, shtn= an adversary. belial: from hebrew, bliol= a wicked one. the eight sub-princes. astarot: from hebrew, oshthrvth= flocks, crowds or assemblies. usually written ashtaroth. also a name of the goddess astarte; esther is derived from the same root. magot: may be from hebrew, movth= small stones or pebbles; 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 a

force in the observance of the equinoxes. 21 abraham evidently means his guardian angel. 22 here abraham admits to an extent what i have urged in my previous notes. 23 i.e, the astrologers to whom abraham refers in the first sentence of the chapter. 24 i.e, the moon and monday; sun and sunday; mars and tuesday (tuisco is a name of mars; venus and friday (freya's day, after freya, the scandinavian goddess, etc. 25 et jusqua ceguil tremonte son jour dure jusqua cequil se leve derechef. 26 this is the initiated rosicrucian teaching, which is very different to that of the outer and uninitiated world. 27 this is the great point to be studied in all magical operations soever, and unless the whole heart and soul and faith go with the ceremony, there can be no reliable result produced. 28 the titl

ABRAMELIN3

pelagim, hebrew plgim divisions, strata, etc. no. f is a square of d g squares. kiloin= hebrew qloim, excavations. no. g is a gnomon of j squares taken from a square of c f squares. nakab- hebrew, nqb= piercing. perforation. no. h is a square of d g squares. kittik may mean= to arrange in a store-place. tinnat recalls a name used on some of the gnostic magical gems. tannit is the name of a tyrian goddess. no. i is a gnomon of j squares out of a square of c f squares. marak, from hebrew mrq= to cleanse, purge, or refine. the sacred magick 143 the seventh chapter. o cause the spirits to perform with facility and promptitude all necessary chemical labours and operations, as regardeth metals especially( b) to make all metals( c) to make them perform the operations( d) to make them teach chemis

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. the niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the all. in greek mythology artemis, the goddess of the moon, is virgin; she yielded only to pan. here is one particular lesson: as the yogi advances, magic powers (siddhi the teachers call them) are offered to the aspirant; if he accepts the least of these- or the greatest- he is lost. 15. at the other end of the scale of the niyama of the moon are the fantastic developments of sensibility which harass the yogi. these are all help and e

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ays the same- the principles of scientific study and research. 26. we end where we began 'the wheel has come full circle' we are to use the experience of the past to determine the experience of the future, and as that experience increases in quantity it also improves in quality. and the path is sure. and the end is sure. for the end is the path. love is the law, love under wiioabsinthe: the green goddess by aleister crowley copyright o.t.o. i. keep always this dim corner for me, that i may sit while the green hour glides, a proud pavine of time. for i am no longer in the city accursed, where time is horsed on the white gelding death, his spurs rusted with blood. there is a corner of the united states which he has overlooked. it lies in new orleans, between canal street and esplanade avenue

all the other phantoms. for the sole reality of this universe is god. the old absinthe house is not a place. it is not bounded by four walls. it is headquarters to an army of philosophies. from this dim corner let me range, wafting thought through every air, salient against every problem of mankind: for it will always return like noah's dove to this ark, this strange little sanctuary of the green goddess which has been set down not upon ararat, but by the banks of the "father of waters" vi. ah! the green goddess! what is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible? do you know that french sonnet "la legende de l'absinthe" he must have loved it well, that poet. here are his witnesses. apollon, qui pleurait le trepas d'hyacinthe, ne voulait pas ceder la victoire a la mort. il

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

watched me and conveyed intelligence to the old magus of the well. page 7 gulf.txt now then the folly of my guardians appeared in this; that while all day i slept and languished and played idly, at night while they supposed i slept, i slept not. but i rose and gave myself to the most violent exercises. first, i would go into my bathing-pool and hold my breath beneath the water while i invoked the goddess auramoth one hundred times. next, i would walk on my hands around the room; i even succeeded in hopping on one hand. next, i would climb each of the twenty-four smooth pillars. next, i would practise the seventy-two athletic postures. also in many other ways i would strive to make my strength exceeding great; and all this i kept most secret from my guardians. at last on one night i resolve

en unto her death, as latter appeared. but the veiled one was wroth with them because of this, and appeared in her glittering veil upon the steps of her temple. there she stood, and called them one by one; and she lifted but the eye-piece of her veil and looked into their eyes; and dead they fell before her as if smitten of the lightning. but those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known them

suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret of the oracle. standing afar off the priest beholds the reflection of her in the mirror, seeing her lips that move under the veil; and this he interprets to the seeker after truth. thus the priest reads wrongly the silence of the goddess, and the seeker understands ill the speech of the priest. then come forth fools, saying "the goddess hath lied- and in their folly they die. while, therefore, they held me beneath the surface of the pool, the high priestess took the vows on my behalf saying: i swear by the orb of the moon; i swear by the circuit of the stars; i swear but the veil, and by the face behind the veil; i swear b

nd then came the awful penalty of failure. i dare not recall half of it; yet in it were these words: let her be torn by the phallus of set, and let her bowels be devoured by apep; let her be prostituted to the lust of besz, and let her face be eaten by the god. it is not good to write his name. then they loosed me, and i lay smiling in the pool. they lifted me up and brought me to the feet of the goddess, so that i might kiss them. and as i kissed them such a thrill ran through me that i thought myself rapt away into the heaven of amoun, or even as asi when hoor and hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her womb, sprang armed to life. then they stripped me of my robes, and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the

f virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of adoration. this i page 10 gulf.txt did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in the darkness- for night had fallen by this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was indeed chosen aright. so last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me on the high throne. one by one the priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. and the banquet wax

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

wer raised by the witches. it has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially with rites of evil magick, or the forbidden magick, of the enemy, and of satan. and the twisting, sacred spiral formed by the serpent of the caduceus, and by the spinning of the galaxies, is also the same leviathan as the spiral of the biologists' code of life: dna the goddess of the witches the current revival of the cult called wicca is a manifestation of the ancient secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, an

erse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified

are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christia

of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the c

re known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

! three master masons out of work! all these sat on their haunches waiting the report of the sojourner; for the word was lost. this is the report of the sojourners: the word was love;(23) and its number is an hundred and eleven. then said each amo;(24) for its number is an hundred and eleven. each took the trowel from his lap,(25) whose number is an hundred and eleven. each called moreover on the goddess nina,(26) for her number is an hundred and eleven. yet with all this went the work awry; for the word of the law is theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 114 [118] commentary( nu-delta) the title of this chapter refers to the duty of the tyler in a blue lodge of freemasons. the numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant; each master-mason

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope

rot trumps. clxxxi. correct design of tarot trumps. 11 the spirit of aiqhr. a bearded ancient seen in profile* 12 the magus of power. a fair youth with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy kin

i drew it. line 19. before him goeth upright the royal ur us serpent. line 21 [h, f, and g, or sattva, rajas, and tamas. line 23. from a gallows shaped like the letter d hangs by one foot a young fair man. his other leg forms a cross with the suspending one. his arms, clasped behind his head, form an upright b, and this radiates light. his mouth is resolutely closed. line 25. a winged and crowned goddess, with flashing golden belt, stands, and pours from her right hand the flame of a torch upon an eagle, while in her left hand she pours water from an horn upon a lion. between her feet a moon-shaped cauldron of silver smokes with perfume. line 26. levi s baphomet is sound commentary on this mystery, but should not be found in the text. line 27. human figures thrown thence suggest the letter

nother matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op

(to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyptian for cat and appears to have been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is more usually spelt maat or ma at. lines 23, 31: auramoth and thoum-aesh-neith were never egyptian deities but were names constructed on qabalistic principles by the golden dawn to refer to water and fire; similarly the name tarpesheth (tharpesht) is unknown prior to g.d. material, although she a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e sky" frontal. heels together and slightly angled apart to the front, flat on floor. head down. arms angled up on either side of head about head 1.5 ft. from head to wrist and crooked as if supporting a ceiling just at head height with the finger tips. the palms face upward and the backs of the hands away from the head. thumbs closed to side of palms. fingers straight and together "3. water: the goddess auramoth" same body and foot position as #2, but head erect. arms are brought down over the chest so that the thumbs touch above the heart and the backs of the hands are to the front. the fingers meet below the heart, forming between thumbs and fingers the descending triangle of water "4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh-neith" frontal. head and body like #3. arms are angled so that the thumbs

ism and nihilism. it is impossible to enter into a discussion of their relative merits in a popular manual of this sort. they may be studied in erdmann's "history of philosophy" and similar treatises. all are reconciled and unified in the theory which we shall now set forth. the basis of this harmony is given in crowley's "berashith- to which reference should be made. infinite space is called the goddess nuit, while the infinitely small and atomic yet omnipresent point is called hadit<form. i cannot even explain (for instance) that an idea may not refer to being at all, but to going. the book of the law demands special study and initiated apprehension> these are unmanifest. one conjunction of these infinites is called ra-hoorkhuit< more correctly, he

while alim, the congress of dead elements, only fructifies by the brooding of spirit. this being so, how can we describe alim as containing a magical formula? inquiry discloses the fact that this formula is of a very special kind. the word adds up to 81, which is a number of the moon. it is thus the formula of witchcraft, which is under hecate<crowley "orpheus" for the invocation of this goddess> it is only the romantic mediaeval perversion of science that represents young women as partaking in witchcraft, which is, properly speaking, restricted to the use of such women as are no longer women in the magical sense of the word, because thy are no longer capable of corresponding to the formula of the male, and are therefore neuter rather than feminine. it is for this reason that thei

n the servant, are so sympathetic to the magus himself that he may use them without reference to the nature of the spirit, or of the operation; unless he requires an exceptionally precise spirit free of all extraneous elements, or one whose nature is difficulty compatible with tiphareth. to show how these positions may be used in conjunction with the spirals, suppose that you are invoking hathor, goddess of love, to descend upon the altar. standing on the square of netzach you will make your invocation to her, and then dance an inward spiral deosil ending at the foot of the altar, where you sink on your knees with your arms raised above the altar as if inviting her embrace< to conclude, one may add that natural artistic ability, of you possess it, forms an excelle

the element of surprise. 177 assists the lesser characters to get out of themselves at the supreme moment. following the climax there should always be an unrehearsed ceremony, an impromptu. the most satisfactory form of this is the dance. in such ceremonies appropriate libations may be freely used. the rite of luna (equinox i. vi) is a good example of this use. here the climax is the music of the goddess, the assistants remaining in silent ecstasy. in the rite of jupiter the impromptu is the dance, in that of saturn long periods of silence. it will be noticed that in these rites poetry and music were largely employed- mostly published pieces by well-known authors and composers. it would be better<"perhaps! one can think of certain awful consequences "but, after all, they wouldn't seem so t

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l postulate of the white school of magick, that means exist by which the universal sorrow (apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be unmasked, even as at the initiatory rite of isis in the ancient days of kehm. there, a neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the pouting buttocks of the goat of mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste lips of a virginal priestess of that goddess at the base of whose shrine is written that no man has lifted her veil. the basis of the black philosophy is not impossibly mere climate, with its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid, bilious, anaemic, fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. we accordingly find few true equivalents of this school in europe. in greek philosophy there is no trace of any such doctrine

al, but one really needs to be a hindu to make much use of them. the former is very good indeed, if your remember to switch off when he slides into sloppiness, which luckily is not often. to study magick" book 4, parts ii, iii (magick in theory and practice) and iv (the equinox of the gods) add the book of thoth and the you are "being furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" of other writers, you have the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage" and any of the works of eliphaz l vi. but that's all. but- i suppose you knew all this long ago. it may help if i try to expound the essence of these two methods in very simple language, and very different language. by contrast and comparison, you should be able, without reading even one of all those books, to

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s; wave; dung; oil vessel lg 34 god the father: divine name attributed to jupiter b) l) to ransom, avenge, pollute l)g to reveal )lg wretched; a pauper ld a common person; uneducated, ignorant +wydh 35 agla, a name of god (notariqon of ateh gibor le-olahm adonai, 858 )lg) boundary, limit lbg he will go khy 36 the mystic number of hod a tent, tabernacle lh) how (la. 1:1, 2:1& 4:1-2) hky) to curse; goddess; a name of god attributed to mercury hl) to remove, cast away )lh confession ywdyw perhaps, possibly; would that; not, no wl to separate, divide ldb 37 god (ch )hl) behold! wl) perished, grew old hlb to grow great ldg standard, banner lgd tenuity, breath, vanity; in vain; abel (i.z.q: gthe supernal breathers h) lbh profession lz yechidah: the soul in kether hdyxy flame bhl to stray, turn a

p, wall dn 55 1-10. the sum of the sephiroth; the mystic number of malkuth. thief; stole bng robbery, pillage hlyzg silence hmwd a footstool mwdh to swell, heave (see 51) myh to walk klh knuckle; member, limb )ylwx bride: a title of malkuth hlk noon; midday bgn ornament; splendour, eminence hn lo; whether, if; they (fem) nh 56 dread, terror hmy) he suffered hn) day mwy beautiful h)n food hlk) the goddess nu wn 57 pisces: fishes mygd rim ndb) consuming lkw) formidable, terrible mwy) we wn) a breaking down, subversion, destruction lw+yb to build; built hnb altar xbzm laying-by, making secret )wbxm strength; wealth; trouble, sorrow; heliopolis (cf. 51) nw) better b+wm species, kind nz 58 loves, amours (see 499) mybh) an ear nz) my strength, power, might ylyx grace, love, kindness, charm (nota

ee s.d. 1:38-39: thickness, cloud; aub b( revolving; transmigration lwglg 73 chokmah: wisdom hmkx gimel: a camel lmg to trust in, shelter in hsx a day of feast bw+ mwy a title of chokmah hmxk 74 lamed: an ox-goad dml a leader, chief, judge nyyd worn-out; beggars mykd a circuit; roundabout bybs all the way, duration; eternity; booty; witness, proof; ruler d( knowledge (cf. 474 (d 75 nuit, the star goddess (cf. 466 +ywn hues, colours, complexions ynwwg brightness; lucifer, the herald star llyh a lamenting, wailing hlly the pleiades hmyk night; by night hlyl priest nhk unto them mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate

d gracious, obliging, indulgent nwnx science (dm brains nyxwm we wnxn 115 here am i ynnh the heat of the day mwyh mwx to make strong; vehement, eager qzx we wnxn) 116 doves mynwy the munificent ones mybydn primordial h)ly( artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s) mylglg 117 fog, darkness lpw) chief, duke; guide pwl) 118 to pass, renew, change plx to ferment (mx the high priest lwdg nhk the goddess nu (spelt in full :w:n 119 lydian-stone nxwb nb) beelzebub: the fly-god bwbzl(b weeping (subst) h(md abominable lwgp 120 samekh: a prop, support kms master l(k foundation, basis ydswm season; the time of the decree d(wm strengthening nykm prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h) mylm a veil, covering, screen ksm a name of god n( imaginary, fanciful ynwymd

rwb+ strife, controversy [of the lord] hbyr bright, shining ryhb leanness; secret yzr 218 ayre, aethyr )ryw) briah: the creative world h)yrb the benignity of time mlw( dsx the moon (cf. 276; a month (cf. 312) xry multitude ywbr arcana )yzr odour, a smell xyr 219 cleansing; cleansings hrh+ 220 the number of verses in the book of the law. the sephiroth the paths the elect ryxb mistress; queen; demi-goddess hrybg ye shall cleave unto hwhy( gnot h read; cf. 192) hwhyl myqbdx clean; elegant rwh+ a giant qn( giants (fully written only in num. 13:33) mylypn softness kr cups mylps 221 long kr) 222 unto the place (ex. 23:20) mwqmh l) whiteness hrwwh goodly mountain (deut. 3:25) bw+ rh i will chase hyw)r to kneel; bless; knee, lap krb young male camel rkb to make heavy; to make many, multiply; long;

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s are now here, now there, scattered throughout the book as the stars are scattered through the field of night. rejoice with me, all ye people! at the very head of the book stands the great charter of our godhead "every man and every woman is a star" we are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven, who is also matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. hear her first summons to us men and women "come forth, o children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy" later she explains the mystery of sorrow "for

to me" again she speaks "love is the law, love under will" keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is love. the law of your being becomes light, life, love and liberty. all is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy. for hear, how gracious is the goddess "i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice" is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the slave-gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of "sin" wearily seeking or simulating wearisom and tedious "virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema hav

, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice" is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the slave-gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of "sin" wearily seeking or simulating wearisom and tedious "virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star-goddess "i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me" and thus she ends "sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daug

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ctly black with a blackness no negro can equal; from this circumstance comes the name atlas. it is absurdly attributed by some authors to the deposit of excess of phosphorus in the zro. i need only point out that the mark existed long before the discovery of black phosphorus. it is evidently a racial stigma. it was the birth of a girl child without this mark which raised her mother to the rank of goddess, and ended the terrestrial adventure of the atlanteans, as will presently appear. of the ethics of this people little need be said. their word for 'right' is 'phph' made by blowing with the jaw drawn sharply across from left to right, thus meaning 'a spiral life contrary to the course of the sun. we may assume it as 'contrary "whatever is, is wrong" seems to have been their first principle

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(in the old classification of things) of air. now as "one" or aleph he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he

and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmamen

l-less state of women refers to a matter of expression. he believed it more generally, but probably based it on victorian male conceptions of "unliberated women. the comment to this and the previous verse may say more about the defensive insecurity of crowley the man than the verses of liber al. in chapter i comment, remember that all this is a male mind trying to contemplate the revelations of a goddess. square peg and round hole problems may arise. i feel a certain necessity to explain that an 'avatar' implies rather a release from the limits of personality than anything else. the scarlet woman and i are peculiarly representative of nuit and hadit by virtue of our attainments in making our consciousness omniform as they re. it must not be supposed that our original individualities can cl

ally the five of the microcosm with the six of the macrocosm. al i,21 "with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit" the old comment 21. refers to the actual picture on the stele. nuit is a conception immeasurably beyond all men have even thought of the divine. thus she is not the mere star-goddess, but a far higher thing, dimly veiled by that unutterable glory. this knowledge is also to be attained by adepts; the outer cannot reach to it. the new comment the importance of this verse lies in the assertion of the metaphysical entity of our lady, her incomprehensibility to normal sense. the method of invoking nuit is given in liber xi (see equinox i, vii. note the initials of god and a

ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of horus, the young child who rises strong and conquering (with his twin harpocrates) to avenge osiris, and bring on the age of strength and splendour. his formula is not yet fully understood. following him will arise the equinox of ma, the goddess of justice, it may be a hundred or ten thousand years from now; for the computation of time is not here as there. the new comment note the close connexion between leo and libra in the tarot, the numbers viii and xi of their trumps being interchanged with xi and viii. there is no such violent antithesis as that between osiris and horus; strength will prepare the reign of justice. we should

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its playing-fields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23 sir j. maundevill, voiage and travill, ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34 i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25 in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished t.s] notes 67 149. ra.26 the sun-god. 149. nuit.27 the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28 the waters wild went o er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29 characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30 see two poets of croisic, xci. 159. a jest.31 see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32 god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. intentional species? 171

but our father s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. wherefore he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. woman, he bade sternly, be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work? but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 113 sapientiae lux viris baculum. femina rapta ins

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ling turf like the sea-stars in the surf- millions of bejewelled tents for the warrior sacraments. vaster, vaster, vaster, vaster, grows the stature of the master; all the ringed encampment vies with the infinite galaxies. in the midst a cubic stone with the devil set thereon; hath a lamb's virginal throat; hath the body of a stoat; hath the buttocks of a goat; hath the sanguine face and rod of a goddess and a god! spell by spell and pace by pace! mystic flashes swing and trace velvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable recesses, 40 till at last the spell is woven, and the faery veil is cloven that was sequence, space, and stress of the soul-sick consciousness "give thy body

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as a rose in the embrace of night? but thou must play the wanton to the sun, and the wind must tear thy petals from thee, and the bee must rob thee of thy honey, and thou must fall into the dusk of things. amen and amen. verily the light is hidden, therefore he who hideth himself is like unto the light; but thou openest thyself; thou art like unto the darkness that bindeth the belly of the great goddess2. olaho viruden mahorela zodireda! on pireda exentaser; arba pire gah gaha gahal gahalana vo abra na gaha velucorsapax. 2 in the light of the cry of loe, this passage seems to mean precisely the opposite of its apparent meaning. and the voice of the aeon cried: return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles i

ailos. there is one in green armour, with green eyes, whose sword is of vegetable fire. that shall avail me. my son is he- and how shall i bear him that have not known man? all this time intolerable rays are shooting forth to beat me back or destroy me; but i am encased in an egg of blue-violet, and my form is the form of a man with the head of a golden hawk. while i have been observing this, the goddess has kept up a continuous wail, like the baying of a thousand hounds; and now her voice is deep and guttural and hoarse, and she breathes very rapidly words that i cannot hear. i can hear some of them now. untu la la ulula umuna tofa lama le li na ahr ima tahara elula etfoma ununa arpeti ulu ulu ulu maraban ululu mahata ulu ulu lamastana. and then her voice rises to a shriek, and there is a

s not possible that one should come to zaa. give me thy face. let me kiss it with my cold kisses. ah! ah! ah! fall back from me. the word, the word of the aeon is makhashanah. and these words shalt thou say backwards: 17 ararnay obolo maharna tutulu nom lahara en nediezo lo sad fonusa sobana arana binuf la la la arpazna uohulu when thou wilt call my burden unto appearance, for i who am the virgin goddess am the pregnant goddess, and i have cast down my burden even unto the borders of the universe. they that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes. and the n

, which is tiphereth, that she existeth, in order first that the wisdom may be joined with the understanding; and he affirmeth her in tiphereth that she may be fertile. it is impossible to describe how this vision changeth from glory unto glory, for at each glance the vision is changed. and this is because she transmitteth the word to the understanding, and therefore hath she many forms, and each goddess of love is but a letter of the alphabet of love. now, there is a mystery in the word logos, that containeth the three letters whose analogy hath been shown in the lower heavens, samech, and lamed, and gimel, that are 93, which is thrice 31, and in them are set the two eyes of horus (ayin means an eye) for, if it were not so, the arrow could not pierce the rainbow, and there could be no poi

see vast plains beneath her feet, enormous deserts studded with great rocks; and i see little lonely souls, running helplessly about, minute black creatures like men. and they keep up a very curious howling, that i can compare to nothing that i have ever heard; yet it is strangely human. and the voice says: these are they that grasped love and clung thereto, praying ever at the knees of the great goddess. these are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of love. each plume of the peacock is full of eyes, that are at the same time 4 x 7. and for this is the number 28 reflected down into netzach; and that 28 is kaph cheth (kach, power. for she is sakti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the c

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, yet are their functions different: the imperator to command the praemonstrator to instruct. the cancellarius to record "even as the flaming fire doth overcome, and the still waters reflect all images, and the all-wandering air receiveth sound" the synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of thoth who cometh from behind the veil. yet also the imperator may be referred unto the goddess nephthys from his relationship unto geburah. the praemonstrator unto isis from chesed. and the cancellarius unto thoth in his position as recorder. of the stations of the invisibles. the gods of the elements their stations are at the four cardinal points of the hall without, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple: and they are placed according to the winds, viz: behind the stat

entrance, and the preparer of the ways for the enterer thereby. therefore the reconciler between the light and the darkness, and the mediator between the stations of the hierophant and the hiereus. his symbols and insignia are: the robe of pure whiteness; the mitre-headed sceptre; the lamen. 249 "before the face of the gods in the place of the threshold" is the name of the hegemon; and she is the goddess thmais11 thmaist of dual form as 11 more fiery. s.r.m.d. says thmais contains the letters of hb:shin hb:taw hb:mem hb:aleph and probably is the origin of the greek theta epsilon mu iota sigma, the justice-goddess. thmait.12 "the kerux- the kerux is the principal form of anubis. the sentinel being the subsidiary form. the kerux is the anubis of the east, whilst the sentinel is the anubis of

urniture of the temple. his peculiar insignia of office are the red lamp and the wand.13 "watcher of the gods" is his name, and he is anubis the herald before them "the stolistes- the station of the stolistes is in the midst of the northern part of the hall; without, and to the north-west of the black pillar. he has the care of robes and insignia of the temple. his peculiar ensign is the cup "the goddess at the scale of the balance at the black pillar" is the name of the stolistes; and she is auramooth, or the light shining through the waters upon the earth. illustration "diagram 10. the cup of the stolistes" this is a abstract of three black lineal figures superimposed on a slightly modified tree of life. each sephiroth is represented by a white ring circumscribing a white disk, and no pa

esod and the ring with its apex and includes malkut in the center of its base. the whole is suggestive of a horned cup superimposed on the tree of life "the dadouchos- the station of the dadouchos is towards the midst of the southern part of the hall, and to the south-west of the white pillar. he has the charge of the lights, the fire, and the incense of the temple. his ensign is the svastika.14 "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the name of the dadouchos, and she is thoum-aesh-neith, or perfection through fire manifesting upon the earth. the grade of neophyte "the opening" the officers and members being assembled the kerux proceeds to the right of the hierophant and facing west raises his wand, as a symbol of the ray of divine light from the white triangle of the

, symbolic of the ending and judging of the world by fire. but also the circumambulation commences with the paths hb:shin and hb:resh, as though bringing into action the solar fire; whilst the reverse commences by those of hb:qof and hb:tzaddi as though bringing the watery reflux into action. this is the order of the circumambulation; first cometh anubis, the watcher of the gods; next themis, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the remaining members in order of precedence; and lastly, the goddesses of the scales of the balance, as though a vast wheel were revolving, as it is said "one wheel upon the earth beside the kerub" and also note the rashish ha-gilgalim.16 of this wheel the ascending side commenceth from below the pillar of nephthys, and the descending side from below

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e sky" frontal. heels together and slightly angled apart to the front, flat on floor. head down. arms angled up on either side of head about head 1.5 ft. from head to wrist and crooked as if supporting a ceiling just at head height with the finger tips. the palms face upward and the backs of the hands away from the head. thumbs closed to side of palms. fingers straight and together "3. water: the goddess auramoth" same body and foot position as #2, but head erect. arms are brought down over the chest so that the thumbs touch above the heart and the backs of the hands are to the front. the fingers meet below the heart, forming between thumbs and fingers the descending triangle of water "4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh-neith" frontal. head and body like #3. arms are angled so that the thumbs

s not to suspect that, vice or no, it had strange fruits; if not of the tree of life, at least of that other tree, double and sinister and deadly. nay! for i am of the serpent's party; knowledge is good, be the price what it may. such little fruit, then, as i may have culled from her autumnal breast (mere unripe berries, i confess) i hasten to offer to my friends. and lest the austerity of such a goddess be profaned by the least vestige of adornment i make haste to divest myself of whatever gold or jewellery of speech i may possess, to advance, my left breast bare, without timidity or rashness, into her temple, my hoped reward the lamb's skin of a clean heart, the badge of simple truthfulness and the apron of innocence. in order to keep this paper within limits, i may premise that the prep

egelian folly. it may, i think, be readily conceded that the reasoning faculty is not apodeictally absolute. it represents a stage in human thought, no more. you cannot convince a savage of the truth of the binomial theorem; should we then be surprised if a mystic fails to convert a philosopher? yet must he try. 51 ix "for being furnished with every kind of armour, and armed, he is similar to the goddess- zoroaster. my dear professor, how can you expect me to believe this nonsense about bacteria? come, saith he, to the microscope; and behold them! i don't see anything. just shift the fine adjustment- that screw there- to and fro very slowly! i can't see- keep the left eye open; you'll see better! ah- but how do i know. oh, there are a thousand questions to ask! is it fair observation to us

ehold six certain paths; and in six days did 172 god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration of its numbers is the perfect number, even the decade of the sephiroth (1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10) thus can our science teach us wherefore the door<holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love> of venus, hb:dalet, is the gateway of initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 sephiroth; the entrance to the shrine of our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of hb:samekh through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is

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y the symbols and the words of power: by the light of my godhead in thy midst: by the lord harpocrates, the god of this mine operation: that thou leave thine abodes and habitations, to concentrate about me, invisible, intangible, as a shroud of darkness; a formula of defence: that i may become invisible, so that seeing me men see not, nor understand the thing that they behold! come unto me, o ma, goddess of truth and justice! thou that presidest over the eternal balance. auramooth, come unto me, lady of the water! thoum-aesh-neith, come unto me, lady of the fire! purify me and consecrate, for i am aeshoori the justified. for the twelve stars of light are on my brow: wisdom and understanding are balanced in my thought! wrath in my right hand and the thunderbolts; mercy in my left hand and t

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the mob. down with the old tree! simplex["unperturbed] and oh, he, ho, the will so powerful (after one million years the tree fell) see the result: toys, toys, toys, toys! simplicissimus["dobmatic] the spirit of persistency unborn. the mob. down with the lords! 281 simplex. behold again: an empty well- a crystal pure- a dry sea- birds- a dead bird, a live bird, a phoenix- a dying immortal harlot-goddess- a cage (alas! it broke open in the year of the sixteenth funeral. the mob. down with the birds! simplicior. yet, neither bird could re-enter it! the mob. beer and cup-ties! simplicissimus["pointedly] the spirit of persistency conceived! the mob. down with the spirits! simplex. behold again, impatients, and decide: two centres i saw, that were but one- a thick set of hair upon a white skul

dy feeling strange and new sensations, sweating in an uncontrolled sukshma-pranayama. alack-a-day, fellows! that was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. she stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. had he know of our lady hecate (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the vault of our beloved brethren the ka d sh knights of water p.a..p.p. water. to cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the lady. she thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of h

broods, all breeds. but immanent as hers that reigns is this most silent crown of love, adela that broods on me, and is i, in the gondola. they twist, they twine, these white and black canals, now stark with lamplight, now a reach of styx. even as out love- raging wild animals suddenly hoisted on the crucifix to radiate seraphic coronals, flowers, flowers- o let our light and darkness mix, adela, goddess and beast with me in the gondola! come! though your hair be a cascade of fire, your lips twin snakes, your tongue the lightning flash, your teeth god's grip on life, your face his lyre, 315 your eyes his stars- come, let our venus lash our bodies with the whips of her desire. your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, adela! shall i give the word to the man of the gondola? aleister cro

d. a. quiller, jr. 351 in the temple the subtle-souled dim radiant queen burns like a bale-fire through the mist; the slender earth is bright and green, emerald, gray and amethyst; the wavering breeze has slowly kissed the way between her zone and wrist. pale guardian of the altar-flame, syren of old, perfidious song, a murmuring runnel lately came in streaming hate of mortal wrong. wait, for, my goddess, not for long the snake is tame. see! he is strong! the wide-set temple-pillars gleam, as marble white, and tall as pines; the doorway to immortal dream lies through the temple's purple shrines. behold, pure queen, the magic signs. let words out-stream as mingled wines. victor b. neuburg. os"special supplement" the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following

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n their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear' frank hollings, 7 great turnstile, holborn (near the inns of court hotel. photographs. to be had of the equinox. price ten shillings each. neatly framed in gold. the original panel photographs: the student (a reproduction faces "aha" in no. iii) the interpreter (reproduced on p. 279 of no. iv) the guardian of the flame. the goddess. no student of the mysteries should be without one at least of these remarkable and beautiful studies. their presence serves to remind the possessor of the constant quest and to stimulate to more persistent effort. essay of prentice mulford "crown 8vo. crimson cloth extra "3"s" 6"d. net per volume" the gift of the spirit. a selection from the essays of prentice mulford. reprinted from the

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understanding and ingenium devise a magick lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the aethyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. this then is that which is written "bring furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" and again "i am armed, i am armed" 19 i.nsit n.aturae r.egina i.sis (obtained in invocation, june 9-10, 1910 o.s) all the hot summer i lay in the darkness, calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, slay me with light in the heat of the summer; but the winds had no answer for one who was fallen asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, no voice of the lyre, and no song to ch

called to me "thou who art hidden in the green silence, let a time of quietness come now upon thee. lay thine head on the earth and slumber on her bosom: time and the gods shall pass darkling before thee" there in the silence i lay, and i heeded the slow voice that called me, the grave hand that beckoned, that beckoned me on through the hall of the silence. there in the silence there was a green goddess, folden her wings, and her hands dumbly folden, laying in her lay, as though asleep in the darkness. then did i hail her "o mother, my mother, syren of the silence, dumb voice of the darkness, 21 how shall i have speech of thee, who know not thy speaking? how shall i behold thee, who art hidden in the darkness? lo! i bend mine eyes before thee, and no sign dost thou vouchsafe me; i whisper

untains, slow as the voice of the great green gliding river. calmly in thy silence am i come to rest me, now from the world the light hath slowly faded; i have left the groves of pan that i might gaze upon thee, gaze upon the virgin that before time was begotten, mother of chronos, and the old gods before him, child of the womb of the silence, whose father is the unknown breath of the most secret goddess, whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness "now do i come before thee in thy temple, with offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water that girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; and all the austerity of the brooding summer, and all the wonder of the starlit spaces that stare down awesomely upon the lonely marshes, and the bogs with sucking lips, and the pool

ther "who stands with downcast eyes in the temple of our lady" and the answer "a wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; yet knoweth he not the bride of the darkness, her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness that see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, and cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, utterly immortal in the gods' eternal darkness" and the first voice cried "oh, that we might perish, and become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, lending the waste places of the world our darkness, that the vision might burst in the brain of the seer, and we be formed anew, and reborn in the light world" but the other voice was silent, and the noise

hat we might perish, and become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, lending the waste places of the world our darkness, that the vision might burst in the brain of the seer, and we be formed anew, and reborn in the light world" but the other voice was silent, and the noise of waters swept me back into the world, and i lay asleep on a hill-side. bearing for evermore the heart of a goddess, and the brain of a man, and the wings of the morning clipped by the shears of the silence; so must i wander lonely, nor know of the light till i enter into the darkness. omnia vincam. 23 how to keep fit, by c.t.schofield, m.d. w. rider and sons. 1"s" net. there is a deal of sound sense in this little manual. the author castigates faddists, though to my mind not severely enough. however, i

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bro. aries["advances and kneels to" mars. mighty and terrible one, we beseech thee to lead us in the battle. here, by thy symbols, thy spear, the sword, and the drum, we pray thee to strengthen our arms and to defend our hearts. for we are thy chosen warriors, o thou master of the battle["silence" we now invoke thee, o ama-inanna, whom our brethren worshipped in the days of ancient babylon, great goddess of love and war, who made love and war to gilgames, the ruler of thine own city erech. we invoke thee, our mother, that thou entreat for us with the master of battles. sor. scorpio. to what end do we ask the aid of the lord mars? bro. aries. unto jupiter we have given the thunderbolt and the lightning- flash; for we seek to enthrone him in the stead of saturn his father. but saturn yet rei

e round as fire! ye elemental sorceries of song, surge, strenuous and strong, seeking dead dreams, the secret of the shrine; so that she drain my life and being up as from a golden cup, to mingle in her blood, death's kiss incarnadine. who cometh from the ocean as a flower? who blossometh above the barren sea, thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower, thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me? o goddess, queen, and wife! o lady of my life! who set thy stature as a wood to wave? whose love begat thy limbs? whose wave-washed body swims that nurtured thee, and found herself a grave? 56 but thou, o thou, hast risen from the deep! all mortals mourn and weep to see thee, seeing that all love must die besides thy beauty, see thee and despair! deadly as thou art fair, i cry for all mankind- they

d of night! inscrutable and infinite! let orpheus journey forth to see the disk in peace and victory! let him adore the splendid sight, the radiance of the heaven of nu; soar like a bird, laved by the light, to pierce the far eternal blue["he turns to" ares "and" scorpio. hail! hermes! thou the wands of ill hast touched with strength, and they are shivered! the way is open unto will! the pregnant goddess is delivered["he kneels to" sol. happy, yea, happy! happy is he that hath looked forth upon the bier that goeth to the house of rest! his heart is lit with melody; peace in his house is master of fear; his holy name is in the west 59 when the sun sinks, and royal rays of moonrise flash across the day's["he rises and faces altar" i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from th

-apophis. children, array yourselves before me, and worship at my feet. aries. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? leo. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? scorpio-apophis. i am the mother of the gods and the sister of time and the daughter of space. i am nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. brother leo, i am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the lion. behold! i strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. i command thee to declare me unto the multitude. leo. lo! in the interstellar space of night clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces abide the dawn of deity and light, vibrate before the passionless pale faces 74 shrined in exceeding glory, eremite. the tortoise skies in sombre carapaces a

t officers? 113 taurus. thyself, the warden of the holy graal. myself, the lord of the bow. a nymph, a satyr- pan. 1. and pan! cancer. brother pan, i command thee to honour our lady artemis. taurus. bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333 [pan" recites chorus from swinburne's "atalanta" when the hounds of spring are on winter's traces. the wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. taurus. the goddess stirs not. cancer. silence is the secret of our lady artemis. pan. hath no man lifted her veil? cancer. no man hath lifted her veil. taurus. bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333. it is the hour of sealing up the shrine. taurus. let us banish the spirits of the elements["performs the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and returns] bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333

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chain. 36. this chain reaches from eternity to eternity, ever in triangles- is not my symbol a triangle- ever in circles- is not the symbol of the beloved a circle? therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. but the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the great goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, amen! 38. therefore lift up thyself as i am lifted up. hold thyself in as i am master to accomplish. at the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of nuit, do thou slay thyself as i at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlo

urable curve, and the line of our beatitude is one with the sigil of our fate. 44 pallid, a mummy throned, she sits; the egyptian eyes, the egyptian hair, the band on her brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore

to the silence that bore it unto him that is beyond the silence and the speech! also thanksgiving in the highest for the gift of all these things, and for the maiden in whom all these things are found, for the holy body and soul of man, and for the sun, and for the earth. amen. francis bendick. 111 sleep along the silver pathways of the moon (with lilies strewn to mark her passing hours) a mighty goddess strays. her rapt eyes gaze in calm undying swoon, like stars in june that guard earth's sleeping flowers, the guests of summer days. moving she plays some sweetly slumbrous tune, as mothers croon; through faint aeolian showers, her mist-hung garment sways. and in her shadow chaste as starlit snows, a vestal goes, scattering sweet roses: roses deep-thorned and red- whose leaves are shed in

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

popular editor of a pharmaceutical newspaper and an authority on all matters connecting with pharmacy "the chronicles" would have proved an excellent monument to his memory; unfortunately mr wootton died before his book left the publisher's hands. e. whineray, m.p.s. isalex sanders with his crystal maxine blesses her athame tarot cards the witches' circle. maxine beside the altar alex honours the goddess maxine inside the circle breathing life into the fith-fath the witches' dance walking to covenstead calling down the power the symbolic sex act the witches' altar passing the pentacle around the circle the witches fall to the ground fertility rites the black mass athamll book of shadows coven covens'read esbat esp familiar fith-fath the key of solomon measure pentacle sabbat tarot card voo

portant to note at this point that although we have few historical records of 'white' witches at this time and must include them under the general term 'witches, modem white witches, who are the subject ofthis book, believe that they are descended from, and adhere to, a separate tradition embracing the worship not of satan, but of the homed god and the earth mother-symbol of fertility, the oldest goddess known to man. certain aspects of white-witch dogma can be traced in ancient religions all over the world, in druidical beliefs, for instance, and the incantations in runic have been passed from generation to generation. white witchcraft is invariably confmed to doing good, restraining evil and promoting fertility. but although some attempt was made in the middle ages* often confused, erron

e told him 'later i'll teach you how to use it, but you've had enough for one day. now come and get your tea' it would be years before he discovered that he was the last of a line of witches dating back to the fifteenth century; that the initiation from which he was still smarting was a pale replica of those once carried out in sparta when males were emasculated so as to become priests ofthe moon goddess. ages would pass before he tried turning his powers to evil to gain himself a fortune; before his misuse of them lost him the person he loved. this was 1933 and alex sanders was just a bewildered child who believed he and his grandmother were the last two witches left unburnt. 14 2 :jff(agic ctcbilbboob left to himself, alex might have ended his foray into witchcraft there and then, but fa

the white-haired man of his vision bending over him. he was a. doctor and he was stitching the cut. alex's 'growing belief in witchcraft, reinforced by 'each experience of clairvoyance, did not conflict with his regular attendance at sunday school. his gran had explained .that there was only one god but that he was known by many names. it was easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamedly declared it by her dress i

the regaliawas arranged -she lay down on the floor and drew the boy to her until their bare bodies touched. then they were united. there were no gestures of affection or passion; it was strictly a rit al an? alex did not feel the slightest .repugnance at losing his virginity to a woman of seventy-four. afterwards she pe ed a bottle of wine and, in his new robes, alex poured a libation to the moon goddess and drank to his future as a witch. 28 before many months had passed mary bibby died. her daughter went to dispose f her oss ssio s and was ldly surprised at the odd collection of antiques she found m the old chest. alex begged te have them as mementoes and his mother agreed. aware of the boy's desolation at his grandmother's death, she hoped the sword, the crystal, the brass bowls and the

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ive wishes or curses were buried with pisite features: message board email atho the laws the old law the redes various aphorisms the 8 wiccan tenets circle casting circle opening circle closing consecration consecration of sword or athame consecrating other working tools initiations charge to new initiates first degree initiation ritual second degree initiation ritual legend of the descent of the goddess third degree initiation ritual/great rite verse version of priest's declamation in great rite esbats esbat sequence witches' rune charge of the goddess verse version of charge of the goddess drawing down the moon ancient call great god cernunnos invocation esbat cone of power wine blessing cake blessing ritual elements invocation to the horned god besom chant welcome to the public domain v

ared and purified to enter into the presence of the gods. with love and worship in their hearts, they shall raise power from their bodies to give power to the gods. 8. 9. as has been taught of old. for in this way only may men have communion with the gods, for the gods cannot help man without the help of man. 10. hps& hp 11. and the high priestess shall rule her coven as the representative of the goddess. 12. and the high priest shall support her as the representative of the god. 13. and the high priestess shall choose whom she will, be he of sufficient rank, to be her high priest. for, as the god himself kissed her feet in the five-fold salute, laying his power at the feet of the goddess because of her youth and beauty, her sweetness and kindness, her wisdom and justice, her humility and

use of her youth and beauty, her sweetness and kindness, her wisdom and justice, her humility and generosity, 14. 15. so he resigned all his power to her. 16. but the high priestess should ever mind that the power comes from him. 17. it is only lent, to be used wisely and justly. and the greatest virtue of a high priestess be that she recognize that youth is necessary to the representative of the goddess. 18. 19. so she will gracefully retire in favour of a younger woman should the coven so decide in council. for a true high priestess realizes that gracefully surrendering pride of place is one of the greatest virtues. 20. and that thereby she will return to that pride of place in another life, with greater power and beauty. 21. security in the old days, when witchdom extended far, we were

, they may not tell if they do not know. so be it ordained that no one shall tell anyone not of the craft who be of the wicca, nor give any names or where they bide, or in any way tell anything which can betray any of us to our foes. 31. 32. nor may he tell where the covendom be. 33. or the covenstead. 34. or where the meetings be. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 35. disputes let each high priestess govern her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 36. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and strive

old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love to decide the new boundaries. 47. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both covendoms may join either but not both. though all may, if the elders agree, meet for the great festivals if it be truly in peace and brotherly love, 49. but splitting the coven oft means strife, so for this reason these laws were made of old and may the curse of the goddess be on any who disregard them. so be it ordained. 50. grimoire if you would keep a book, let it be in your own hand of write. let brothers and sisters copy what they will, but never let the book out of your hands, and never keep the writings of another. 51. 52. for if it be found in their hand of write, they may be taken and arraigned. 53. let each guard his own writings and destroy them wh

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ey to the processes whereby the elements as we know them can be disintegrated and recombined. only when scientists are prepared to admit the fact that there is a body of vitality which acts as a focal point in every organised form, and only when they are willing to consider each element and form of every degree as constituting part of a still greater vital body, will the true methods of the great goddess nature become their methods. to do this they must be prepared to accept the sevenfold differentiation of the physical plane as stated by eastern occultism, to recognise the triple nature of the septenary manifestation. a. the atomic or shiva energy, the energy of the first subplane or the first etheric plane. b. the vital form building energy of the three ensuing etheric levels. c. the neg

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gnition of soul and form. soul interplay. sagittarius one-pointed spiritual aspiration. disciples. evolved man virgo the mother of the christ child. gestation. pisces the world saviour. mediatorship. in connection with the above, it is interesting to note that the twins set apart and unattached in gemini become the centaur, the man-beast, in sagittarius, whilst virgo, the virgin, becomes the fish goddess in the polar opposite, pisces. a treatise could be written on the subject of the relation of the opposites in the zodiacal circle for they express spirit and matter and their inter-relation, plus the play of qualitative energies; they bear witness at the same time to the fact that these two are one and are simply the expression of great mutable, and yet fixed and initiated spiritual lives

sound, lifted his head; an impulse from the base mounted in time and space. leo within the heart and head shouted aloud and stood whilst saturn did his work. and thus the twain were one. ii. the central light of sirius shone through the eye of the son; the vision came. the light of wisdom penetrated into the waters and cast the radiance of the heavens into the depths. at this attractive call, the goddess rose unto the surface (the fish-goddess, the symbol of pisces. a.a.b) and welcomed the light within the depths and grasped it as her own. she saw the sun, having seen her son, and from that day the sun has never left her. there is no darkness. there is always light. and then the heavens within the ring-pass-not responded to the light from sirius which, passing through the sea of pisces, li

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of truth and reality which is the high prerogative and potent factor in the life of a liberated son of god. meaning of the story eurystheus, therefore, sent hercules to capture the golden horned keryneian doe or hind. the word "hind" comes from an old gothic word, meaning "that which must be seized, in other words, that which is elusive and difficult to secure. this doe was sacred to artemis, the goddess of the moon; but diana, the huntress of the heavens, the daughter of the sun, also claimed it and there was a quarrel as to ownership. hercules accepted the charge of eurystheus and set out to capture the gentle hind. he was a whole year hunting it, going from one forest to another, just catching sight of it and then again losing [84] it. month after month went by, and he never could catch

ciousness, that highly developed sense of awareness, which gives to the disciple a vision of new fields of contact and opens up for him a new world of being. we are told that the battle is still going on between apollo, the sun god, who knew that the doe was the intuition, diana, huntress of the heavens, who knew it was intellect, and artemis, the moon, who thought that it was only instinct. both goddess claimants have a point and the problem of all disciples is to use the instinct correctly, in its right place, and in its proper way. he must learn to use the intellect under the influence of diana, the huntress, daughter of the sun, and through it become en rapport with the world of human ideas and research. he must learn to carry that capacity of his into the temple of the lord and there

amazons worshipped the moon (the form, and mars, the god of war; they too did not understand their true function, for mary is pictured with the moon under her feet, and in her arms the one to be known as the prince of peace. the two ways as always there is a choice for good or evil before the native of a sign, depending on his status of evolution and the degree of sensitivity. virgo is called the goddess of virtue or of vice. but what is the root meaning of "vice "to render ineffective, and that for virgo is to negate the whole purpose of the sign, for it is said that "the christ is to her the purpose of existence" the root of "virtue" is the latin word vir meaning "strength "man, as in "virility. the deep meaning of vice as an ineffectiveness of the spiritual life, reminds one again of th

an. another idea presents itself in this connection, i.e, that "sin" means literally "anything that is done amiss. just not hitting the "bull's eye, the "eye of illumination" spoken of in taurus, is a sin for the son of man who is also a son of god. how perfectly these fundamental ideas interplay and confirm each other, when we abandon the complexities of the lower mind. virgo is also called the "goddess of the two ways, because as the holy mother principle she symbolizes matter and also is the custodian of the christ life. it is meaningful that this sixth sign, the number of physical plane activity, is called the number of the beast. this idea seems to have a horrible fascination for many, but what it really means is that virgo is a symbol of the triplicity, 6 on the physical plane, 6 on

ion, and reception of energies and their transmutation into forces by the receiving entity. this defines clearly what should be our attitude at full moon meditations and our use of individual horoscopes "the point i seek to make here, says the tibetan "is that it is all a question of developed reception and sensitivity [123] significance of the sign and its polar opposite in the mermaid, the fish goddess, we have the symbol of the at-one-ment of virgo with its opposite sign pisces. always there is the duality, inherent in us and in the solar system; the second ray of the sun itself being a duality, love-wisdom. the lesson for the virgo native, as stated by dane rudhyar in gifts of the spirit, is to have "a clear realization that no truth is complete or even real which does not include- 71

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ptian mysteries, the postulant after death is identified with osiris. inasmuch as the candidate is dead already, unless osirified, he too must be slain. like christ, he must be stripped and flogged, and placed on the cross of suffering. but first, he enters. at this point, the second adept is still horus. the third adept is now anubis. hodos, or the introducing adept, is themis. themis is a greek goddess of justice. she is titan like, thus she fits better than maat. anubis now challenges the aspirant who exalteth his ego and lower self with proclamations. the aspirant is seeking the kingdom of heaven by horus and force. horus, the chief guardian of the sacred tomb will not allow him to enter the tomb. the sword and the serpent are presented unto the aspirant who is now clothed in black to

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

these things for a gift or for food or for drink or for clothing or for any other such thing" and these things were presented to him in a mystery, and immediately he disappeared from him. and he went to his fellow disciples and related to them what the savior had told him. jesus christ, amen. the apocryphon according to j a 30 this passage recalls strangely enough the worship of the graeco-roman goddess pavororfear, the attendant on mars. she was much invoked, as in the present instance, to terrify intrudersor an enemy. aeschylusmakes the seven chiefs before thebes swear by fear, mars, and bellona.mem. acad. of inscriptions, v. 9.appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts. 31 hence the saying that to know all would be to forvive all; which may be nine-tenths true, butthereisa tenth of resp

!i am so wearythat i can go no fartherand thou shalt reply as usual,fairy diana, i conjure theet o give to this goat relief and peace! page 73 n r r r r r we implore thee give this sleeper,give unto this good melambothe great gift of understandingwhat all creatures say while talking!this legend contains much that is very curious; among other things an invocation to the firefly, oneto mefitia, the goddess of malaria, and a long poetic prophecy relative to the hero. it is evidently fullof old latin mythologic lore of a very marked character. the whole of it may be found in a forthcom-ing work by the writer of the book, entitled the unpublished legends of virgil. london, elliot stock.diana as giving beauty and restoring strength.diana hath power to do all things, to give glory to the lowly, w

in or recover something of thekind, i at last received from her, on january 1, 1897, entitled aradia, or the gospel of the witches.now be it observed, that every leading point which forms the plot or centre of the vangel, such asthat dianais queen of the witches; an associate of herodias(aradia) in her relations to sorcery;that she bore a child to her brother the sun (here lucifer; that as a moon-goddess she is in somerelation to cain, who dwells as prisoner in the moon, and that the witches of old were peopleoppressed by feudal lands(sic, the former revenging themselves in every way, and holding orgies todianawhich the church represented as being the worship of satan all of this, i repeat, had beentold or written out for me in fragments by maddalena (not to speak of other authorities, eve

eens of heaven, or of night and of sorcery, and it may be that this wasknown to the earliest myth-makers. so far back as the sixth century the worship of herodiasanddianaby witches was condemned by a church council at ancyra. pipernus and other writers havenoted the evident identity of herodiaswith lilith. isispreceded both.dianais very vigorously, even dramatically, set forth in this poem as the goddess of the god-forsak-en and ungodly, of thieves, harlots, and, truthfully enough, of the minions of the moon, as falstaffwould have fain had them called. it was recognised in ancient rome, as it is in modern india, that nohuman being canbe so bad or vile as to have forfeited all right to divine protection of some kind orother, and dianawas this protectress. it my be as well to observe here, t

m the downfall of the roman empire until the thirteenthcentury, that the belief that all which was worst in man owed its origin solely to the monstrous abus-es and tyranny of church and state. for then, at every turn in life, the vast majority encountereddownright shameless, palpable iniquity and injustice, with no law for the weak who were withoutpatrons. page 61 n r r r r r lavernawas the roman goddess of thieves, pickpockets, shopkeepers or dealers, plagiarists, ras-cals, and hypocrites. there was near rome a temple in a grove where robbers went to divide theirplunder. there was a statue of the goddess. her image, according to some, was a head without abody; according to others, a body without a head; but the epithet of beautiful applied to her byhorace indicates that she who gave disgu

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ghosts are sidereal he wrote and it seems to me that his strange geometric experiments pierce through to the soul of the stars. from this i can find a definite magickal thrust that culminates in the commissioned work he did for his friend kenneth grant s occult group, the nu-isis lodge in the 50 s. spare was commissioned to produce numerous magickal paintings including depictions of isis the star goddess. the stunning pastel isis smiles is perhaps the most famous of these. there also exists a very novel picture called female nebula that shows a swirling spiral galaxy, literally the body of the stars: a depiction of the feminine mystery of space and a reference to the children of isis being the stars themselves. this in turn recalls aleister crowley s maxim every man and every woman is a st

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

below; that which is visible, to be invisible; and that which is palpable, to become impalpable. again, let that which is below become that which is above; let the invisible become visible, and the impalpable, palpable. here you see the perfection of our art, without any defect, or diminution. but that in which death and life, destruction and resurrection dwell, is a round sphere, with which the goddess of fortune drives her chariot, and imparts the gift of wisdom to men of god. its proper name here upon earth, and for the human understanding, is all vin vall. let him who would know what this all vin vall is, give the earth great wings, and make it fly upward through the air to the heavenly regions. then singe its wings with fierce heat, and make it fall into the red sea, and there be dro

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

s lucifer/azazel fell from the sphere of light to the darkness of the earth, shall a new knowledge be gained in the exploration of the chthonic realms of the psyche. from tasting and knowing the darkness shall the light be controlled and mastered unto the self. one of the specific focuses of the sabbatic path is one rising to acknowledge that the only god is the self, from which all other god and goddess find their existence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the individual will then soon realize that there is no god and there is no devil, yet we as the image of the adversary, are both god and the master of the devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. iv) the dragon and vampyrism i come befor

this in turn ultimately led to their own wastage and death when they themselves are devoured by az, for az is not only the demon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is never sated; she is the demon 'who swallows all things: the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism, r.c. zaehner, new york, 1961 az, which is a female demon related directly to ahriman, is considered a harlot and goddess of death and blood. in this aspect az is related or a blue-print for, lilith, hecate and babalon. she is the vampyre queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the luciferian and vampyre. az may also be related to kali, the goddess who devours and brings life. the vampyre in this aspect is one who feeds of the blood- lifeforc

imagination, thus revealing the vampyre as a solitary being who holds no need in the actual draining of blood. the blood itself is symbolic, as an invocation to the dark well of the fallen angels, the subconscious or imagination (iblis, shaitan. az is connected with the word, azhi, meaning a serpent. the chaos of the divine feminine or lunar essence is explored through a godform relation to this goddess, thus the magician invokes az to understand the feminine within. it is the serpent and dragon which are the immortal avatars of the well of the imagination, the blood pool of immortality and the endless existence of the psyche. death and the grave exists a challenge and significance within the shadow sabbatic path, being of two primary points. one is that death and darkness is a challengin

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

bal strife was common until the various groups of ethnic tibetans became centralized under one kingdom. nonetheless, border societies always held a fluctuating status in their relationship with the central ruling power. such early beginnings are mythologized in accounts of tibet being a land of demons in its prehistory; even the early tibetan tribes were considered to have descended 88 this hound goddess has the same name as the previous. 89 see mpg, pp. 312.3-314.3 and appendix a, pp. 165-167. 52 from a rock demoness.90 this wild and vicious self-characterization continued to exist during imperial expansion, when such passionate energies were directed toward military and political endeavors.91 in this regard, todd gibson has done a convincing job of associating might demons with the imper

rma and food" they347 offered their life-force essence. their karma that was due was the entrustment to protect the buddha s teachings. their food that was due was the relievment of their life-force [by] flesh and blood.348 due to previous karma349 and habitual tendencies [tsiu marpo] is a great obstacle demon of everyone in the royal class, there are seven attendant riders, and his sister is the goddess350 sister ekaj.ti;351 so it is said. this is the second chapter, which reveals the birth lineage from the heart tantra of the red violence demon. chapter 3: ritual materials and preparation (305.4-307.1) following that, the..kin. invoked with these words "alas! great glorious one, body of power, what is the process of accomplishing352 the seven attendant riders who are malicious, these war

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

to seek in the aforementioned titles as well as works by kenneth grant who continued the initiatic work of crowley and spare from the 1950 s onward. symbolism and commitment the model of left hand path sexual magick is a challenge which moves beyond the constraints of sociological limitation; it is taboo without psychological degradation, self-motivational empowerment through becoming as a god or goddess, to discover your weaknesses and strengths. adamu forbidden sexual magick the definitions of the left hand path has long been a clouded and often misunderstood definition. essentially, the left hand path is by universal perception as being the mutation or transformation of consciousness into a divinity or divine conscious, this is done by the process of the practice of magick and sorcery t

e demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited wit

relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen ones and demons, only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kissed her form and caused menstruation, which was passed on to all women as lilith is directly connected with their fiery and dark sides. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft is lilith or babalon, as described previously. she is also hecate, the darkened moon goddess of the cunning circle, whose blessing is both youth, imagination and death. the son is within you and that is cain, the baphometic daemon whose magick is the core essence of the religion of sorcery. the very circle casting rite as written by gerald gardner presents the moth

ented a system coherent with cainite workings based on the isolated spirit as embodied in the flesh of the initiate, being as represented as paitisha, the rite of zohak and other workings within the grimoire. the spirit of baphomet or the sabbatic goat, the god of witches is revealed thus as cain himself, the bestial god who has shed the flesh to the daemon head of the therion formed witch-god or goddess. once one has began the process of separation, ignorance falls away as clay burnt with blackened flames, the spirit lifts up to dance in twisted widdershins forms, the body and shadow and light copulate to the musick of jubal cain and the sabbat circle is complete. foundations of skir-hand witchcraft the suggestions of the foundation of sorcery and cunning craft is from the earliest legend

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

y the great serpent which occupies so conspicuous a place among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions" esculapius, serapis, pluto, knoum and kneph, are all deities with the attributes of the serpent. says dupuis "they are all healers, givers of health, spiritual and physical, and of enlightenment" the crown formed of an asp, the thermuthis, belongs to isis, goddess of life and healing. the upanishads have a treatise on the science of serpents- in other words, the science of occult knowledge; and the nagas of the exoteric buddhist are not "the fabulous creatures of the nature of serpents. beings superior to men and the protectors of the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 27 man's dual and triple nature. seven figures of clay- earth and wa

s the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric philosophy it is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, madra

en by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, madras presidency, the hermaphrodite goddess adanari (see also "indian pantheon) has the ansated cross, the svastica, the "male and female sign" right in the central part, to denote the pre-sexual state of the third race. vishnu, who is now represented with a lotus growing out of his navel- or the universe of brahma evolving out of the central point nara- is shown in one of the oldest carvings as double-sexed (vishnu and lakshmi) sta

he boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and mesopotamia. in assyrian ak meant creator, the letter k pronounced kh (ah) gutturally. according to swedenborg's mysticism adam was not a man but a church) of primitive light. in the vedas ad-iti is the primitive light, the akasa of the phenomenal world[[vol. 2, page] 43 adam-adami. untouched by fruitless speculation. the only reference m

kadmon in the kabala (zohar, meaning as it did, the "one (son) of the divine father, or the creator" for the words "am" and "om" meant at one time in nearly every language the divine, or the deity. thus adam kadmon and adam-adami came to mean "the first emanation of the father-mother or divine nature" and literally "the first divine one" and it is easy to see that ad-argat (or aster't, the syrian goddess, the consort of ad-on, the lord god of syria or the jewish adonai, and venus, isis, ishtar, mylitta, eve, etc, etc, are identical with the aditi and vach of the hindus. they are all the "mothers of all living" and "of the gods" on the other hand- cosmically and astronomically- all the male gods became at first "sun-gods" then, theologically, the "suns of righteousness" and the logoi, all s

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ight of oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil of maya" kwan-shai-yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the sanskrit avalokiteshwara, and as such he is an androgynous deity, like the tetragrammaton and all the logoi* of antiquity. it is only by some sects in china that he is anthropomorphized and represented with female attributes* when, under his female aspect, he becomes kwan-yin, the goddess of mercy, called the "divine voice* the latter is the patron deity of thibet and of the island of puto in china, where both deities have a number of monasteries (see part ii. kwan-shai-yin and kwan-yin[[footnote(s* hence all the higher gods of antiquity are all "sons of the mother" before they become those of the "father" the logoi, like jupiter or zeus, son of kronos-saturn "infinite time

a, heaven, or astral light, anima mundi; whence anaitia, devi-durga, the wife of siva, is also called annapurna[[footnote(s* we find the same expression in egypt. mout signifies, for one thing "mother" and shows the character assigned to her in the triad of that country "she was no less the mother than the wife of ammon, one of the principle titles of the god being "the husband of his mother" the goddess mout, or mut, is addressed as "our lady" the "queen of heaven" and of "the earth" thus "sharing these titles with the other mother goddesses, isis, hathor, etc (maspero[[vol. 1, page] 92 the secret doctrine. and kanya, the virgin "uma-kanya" being her esoteric name, and meaning the "virgin of light" astral light in one of its multitudinous aspects (c) the devas, pitris, rishis; the suras a

again, the self told her that there are two minds, the 'movable' and the 'immovable 'the immovable is with me' he said 'the movable is in your dominion (i.e. of speech) on the plane of matter. to that you are superior. but inasmuch, o beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e. proudly, therefore, o, sarasvati! you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation "the goddess speech (sarasvati, a later form or aspect of vach, the goddess also of secret learning or esoteric wisdom "verily, dwelt always between the prana and the apana. but o noble one! going with the apana wind (vital air, though impelled, without the prana (expirational breath, she ran up to prajapati (brahma, saying 'be pleased, o venerable sir' then the prana appeared again, nourishing speech

which is produced in the body by means of the prana, and which then goes (is transformed) into apana, and then becoming assimilated with the udana (physical organs of speech. then finally dwells in the samana('at the navel in the form of sound, as the material cause of all words' says arjuna misra. so speech formerly spoke. hence the mind is distinguished by reason of its being immovable, and the goddess (speech) by reason of her being movable" this allegory is at the root of the occult law, which prescribes silence upon the knowledge of certain secret and invisible things perceptible only to the spiritual mind (the 6th sense, and which cannot be expressed by "noisy" or uttered speech. this chapter of anugita explains, says arjuna misra, pranayama, or regulation of the breath in yoga pract

ivine voice" literally. this "voice" is a synonym of the verbum or the word "speech" as the expression of thought. thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the hebrew bath-kol, the "daughter of the divine voice" or verbum, or the male and female logos, the "heavenly man" or adam kadmon, who is at the same time sephira. the latter was surely anticipated by the hindu vach, the goddess of speech, or of the word. for vach- the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of brahma, one "generated by the gods- is, in company with kwan-yin, with isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of osiris) and other goddesses, the female logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in nature, the word, voice or sound, and speech. if kwan-yin is the "melodious voice" so is v

BLUE EQUINOX

s are now here, now there, scattered throughout the book as the stars are scattered through the field of night. rejoice with me, all ye people! at the very head of the book stands the great charter of our godhead .every man and every woman is a star. we are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. is not that good tidings? then comes the first call of the great goddess nuit, lady of the starry heaven who is also matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. hear her first summons to us the equinox 48 men and women .come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love! i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. later she explains the mystery of s

to me. again she speaks .love is the law, love under will. keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is love. the law of your being becomes light, life, love and liberty all is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy. for hear, how gracious is the goddess .i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. is this not better than the death-in-life of the slaves of slave- gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of .sin. wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious .virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have

y, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. is this not better than the death-in-life of the slaves of slave- gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of .sin. wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious .virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star- goddess .i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me. and thus she ends .sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daug

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

elcome you. i hope you get as much out of this material as did my previous students- bright blessings raymond buckland san diego, california introduction lesson one 1 the history and philosophy of witchcraft history and development. persecutions. re-emergence. the philosophy of witchcraft. principles of wiccan belief. the power within. spells and charms. lesson two 13 beliefs deities; the god and goddess of witchcraft; reincarnation; retribution; between lives. your temple. your altar and its furniture. magick an introduction. lesson three 27 tools, clothing and names working tools; knife; marking in metal; sword; other tools; dress; jewelry; horned helmet. inscriptions. your witch name. lesson four 41 getting started rites of passage. circles. self-dedication. coven initiation. lesson fiv

h the spear-stabbed clay models of bison and bear. it is interesting to see how this form of sympathetic magick survived right through to relatively modern times. the penobscot indians, for example, less than a hundred years ago, wore deer masks and horns when performing rituals for the same purpose. the mandan indians' buf-falo dance is another example. along with this god of hunting there was a goddess, though which came first (or whether they evolved together) we do not know, and it is immaterial. if there were to be animals to hunt, there had to be fertility of those animals. if the tribe was to continue (and there was a high mortality rate in those days) then there had to be fertility of wo/man. again sympathetic magick played a part. clay models were made of the animals mating, and i

to hunt, there had to be fertility of those animals. if the tribe was to continue (and there was a high mortality rate in those days) then there had to be fertility of wo/man. again sympathetic magick played a part. clay models were made of the animals mating, and in an accompanying ritual the members of the tribe would copulate. there are many carved and modeled representations of the fertility goddess extant. generally known as "venus" figurines, the venus of willendorf is one of the best known. other examples include the venus of laussel and the venuses of sireuil and of lespugne. all are similar in that the feminine attributes of these figures are greatly over-emphasized. they have heavy, pendulous breasts, large buttocks, an oftimes swollen belly as though pregnant and exaggerated ge

ave heavy, pendulous breasts, large buttocks, an oftimes swollen belly as though pregnant and exaggerated genitalia. there is invariably complete lack of identity with the rest of the body. the face is not defined and the arms and legs, if there at all, are barely suggested. the reason is that wo/man was solely concerned with the fertility aspect. woman was the bearer and nurser of the young. the goddess was her representative as the great provider and comforter; mother nature or mother earth. with the development of agriculture there was a further elevating of the goddess. she now watched over the fertility of the crops as well as of tribe and of animal. the year, then, fell naturally into two halves. in the summer food could be grown, and so the goddess predominated; in the winter wo/man

dominated; in the winter wo/man had to revert to hunting, and so the god predominated. the other deities (of wind, thunder, lightning, etc) gradually fell into the background, as of secondary importance. as wo/man developed, so did the religion for that is what it had become, slowly and naturally. wo/man spread across europe, taking the gods along. as different countries developed, so the god and goddess acquired different names (though not always totally different; sometimes simply variations on the same name, yet they were essentially the same deities. this is well illustrated in britain where, in the south of england, is found cernunnos (literally "the horned one. to the north the same god is known as cerne; a shortened form. and in still another area the name has become herne. by now w

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birth of osiris, with serpents and gods [paragraph continues] in front of the boat glide three serpents, which are called sek-re, sefa, and nepen, and in front of these march four man-headed click to view gods in the procession of the boat of the birth of osiris. gods and two hawk-headed gods, each with a serpent in his left hand, a god called nabti, who holds a crook in each hand, net, or neith, goddess p. 8 of the south, net, or neith, goddess of the north, and the goat goddess artet. the two hawk-headed gods are called tchatui and meti, and the four following gods abenti, benbeti, sekhti, and sekhet. the explanation of this scene is given by the horizontal line of hieroglyphic text written above it, which reads"[the god cometh to] this court, he passeth through it in the form of a ram

elve divine beings, who are. described as the "goddesses who unfold the portals in the earth" their names are--1. qat-a, 2. nebt-meket, 3. sekhit, 4. ament-urt, p. 10 [paragraph continues] 5. sheftu, 6. ren-thethen, 7. hekent-em-sa-s, 8. qat-em-khu-s, 9. sekhet-em-khefiu-s, 10. huit, 11. hunt, 12. nebt-ankh. click to view (left) the nine ape-warders (right) the twelve goddesses of the gates. each goddess stands with her arms hanging by her sides. p. 11 iii. nine seated gods, each with his hands raised in adoration of ra; they are called the "gods who praise ra" the first three are man-headed, and are called hetch-a, maa-a, and hes-a, the second three are jackal-headed, and are called neb-ta-tesher, ap-uat, and ap-sekhemti, the third three are crocodile-headed, and are called tchat-tuat, se

enti amenti. there is a shout of joy to ra at the entrance to the doors of the earth. praise be to thee and make thou perfect the light, and enter thou [in through the habitations] of the great country. the apes( ambenti) open the doors to thee, the apes (amhetetu) unfold to thee the portals, the serpents sing, and exalt thee, and the divine serpents p. 20 lighten thy darkness for thee. o ra, the goddess of the hour cometh to thee, the two soul goddesses tow thee along in thy form, and thou takest up thy position on the ground of the field of [this] land. thou hast taken possession of the night, and thou wilt bring in the day, and [thou] dost likewise make long the hours, and thy boat cometh to rest. thou seizest the grain of the god henbet in thy secret place) net. thou openest net-ra "th

is court, he doeth battle at the fortifications thereof, the doors of this [court] are strong, saying "shut [your doors] by your bolts. come ye to me, advance ye to me, make ye your way [to me, and ye shall abide in your place; take ye up your stand on the banks of the stream [urnes" this great god passeth them by, and they (i.e, the gods) wail when he hath gone by them in the field of urnes [the goddess of] the hour who guideth [this great god] through this court is "ushem-hat-kheftiu-nu-ra" footnotes 16:1 see l febure, op. cit, part iv, pl. 28, and description de l' gypte, tom. v, pl. 41, no. 5. next: chapter ii: the second division of the tuat, which is called urnes sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 21 chapter ii. the second division of the tuat, which is called urnes

ld and uttereth words" click to view the boat of the full moon. the name of the fore part of the boat appears to be urer, and in front of the boat is written "chief of the gods of the tuat" p. 24 the hieroglyphics above the full moon read, and those above the stern of the boat read "field of him that beareth up urnes" the ends of the second boat likewise terminate in click to view the boat of the goddess hathor. bearded human heads, but each is surmounted by a pair of plumes. in the centre of the boat, between two goddesses, stands a huge sistrum, which is the symbol of the goddess hathor, and indicates that the boat is that of hathor, or of hathor-isis. in the fore part of the boat is a beetle, which is described as "this great god neper" p. 25 [paragraph continues] above the goddess to t

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

mber 8. meaning: field, or fence. the intelligence of the house of influence. 1 the limitless light is en soph aur, which is to us as darkness because it transcends our earthly vision. it is the divine darkness concerning which so much is said in all mystical literature. it was, for the egyptians, indicated by their declaration "osiris is a black god" it is also the terrible darkness of the hindu goddess, kali. 2 khattawath, ch t a th, a hebrew noun meaning both "sin" and "punishment, corresponds to the letter-name cheth, ch i th, because both add up to 418. the derivation of ch t a th is from a verb meaning" to miss the target [87] meditation on teth* i my secret wisdom is hid in number, and in the sign of the tally is concealed the building of the whole creation. number veileth the power

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

hocolate. spells tend to work best when there is a genuine need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals f

hunter-gatherer culture had given way to the development of agriculture, and the god evolved into the son-consort of the earth mother. he was the god of vegetation, corn, winter and death, who offered himself as a sacrifice each year with the cutting down of the corn, and was reborn at the mid-winter solstice, as the sun god. the neolithic period also saw the development of shrines to the triple goddess who became associated with the three phases of the moon: waxing, full and waning. the moon provided one of the earliest ways by which people calculated time. since its cycles coincided with the female menstrual cycle, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the cre

a01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sen

lities until the early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted

orary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with seite 9 wicca01.txt covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca follow

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

several specific symbols that by this time are unknown in meaning just by viewing them. paintings and art are ideal for other types of sigils. many seem to overlook this. one may approach the written letters and other manipulations with images drawn, painted or drafted with the idea they are seeking to make manifest. one of the specific suggestions is art such as paintings of a particular god or goddess. this image, while focused upon brings the mind to an alliance with the images, creating the gods or goddesses within the sorcerers own mind. make reference to peter carroll s comment in my book of the witch moon: create your gods with care, for they will reform you in their own image. carroll himself, while not distinctly left hand path or luciferian, is an adept of quite colorful work. t

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

s who lived somewhere in africa began to split up. 24,000 bc "black venus" figurine unearthed near the czech village of dolni vestonice in 1924. also one at willendorf. 11 cm tall. discovered in 1908. oldest paleolithic sculptures? oldest known portrayals of women? 100 small statuettes have been found. 6500 bc catal huyuk, neolithic site in turkey (central anatolia) flourished..at catul huyuk the goddess images were shown with the bull horns emerging from her womb (june campbell pg 41) 4242 bce earliest recorded date in history (in ancient egypt. egyptian calendar which is regulated by sun and moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 bce astrology begins in mesopotamia. sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. the sun, moon and 5 visible planets are used. a

from the time "kingship was lowered from heaven" 3200 bc writing in sumerian tablets 3100 bce pyramid texts [egy. 2953-2838 chinese emperor fu hsi, produced first w.v. of i ching 2700 bce the great pyramid of khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors. 2494-2345 pyramid texts [egy. 2340 bc first imperial dynasty of egypt 2300 bc astarte, one of the ancient forms of the universal great goddess, was worshipped by the iranians in her form as anahita. her image was found in sumeria around 2300 bc. in the tibetan pantheon she is a manifestation of the sky goddess kaladugmo (mkhah.la.gdug.mo) or ma namkha (ma.nams.mkha) or 'mother sky. 2000 bc indo-aryans left proto-aryan homelands (eastern iranian steppes of ancient sogdiana, chorasmia, and bactria (yarshater: 1987..pg 685. indo-ary

name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans invade india. vedic culture. 1500 (ca) volcanic destruction of thera, thought to be the origin of atlantis story. harranians established a pilgrimage

ptian book of the dead (book of coming forth by day. 1570 ebers papyrus 1550-1450 o.c. rig-veda, sama-veda and yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans invade india. vedic culture. 1500 (ca) volcanic destruction of thera, thought to be the origin of atlantis story. harranians established a pilgrimage site at the giza plateau in egypt. 1400 bc the roots of mithraic belief are found in the worship of the sky goddess mitra in northern mesopotamia. avesta composed in avestan (an east-iranian language) 1200 origin of judaism, o.c. of o.t, starting with the torah (the first 5 books. sophocles claimed dice were invented by palamedes during the siege of troy. herodotus attributed them to the lydians in the reign of atys. 1194 fall of troy (events described in iliad/odyssey. 1100 (ca) rise of mayan culture

gardie publishes the golden dawn, which includes the bulk of the golden dawns' rituals and teachings. 1939 william butler yeats dies 1942 arthur edward waite dies 1944 arcanum 17 andre breton 1945 discovery of nag hammadi scriptures. 1946 dion fortune (i.e. violet mary firth) dies 1947 aleister crowley (crowley, edward alexander) dies 1947-56 discovery of qumran (dead sea) scrolls. 1948 the white goddess by r. graves. 1949 gardnerian book of shadows 1953 grand lodge of the state of israel was constituted. 1957 l'art magique andre breton 1958 franz bardon dies 1961 a history of the jews in christian spain v.1 yitzchak baer links radical joachimite spiritual spanish franciscans with jewish mysticism in thirteenth-century spain 1971 73 henry corbin mundus imaginalis 1974 julius evola dies 197

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

with the tao, or the way, a nature force. later, it evolved into a religious system involving many gods, goddesses, spirits, ghosts, demons, magical powers, and the quest for immortality. 7 preface in a.d. 67 buddhism was introduced to china from india. it contributed two powerful religious and mythical figures: the buddha, a real, historical person who later became a divinity, and kuan yin, the goddess of mercy. it also introduced the concept of reincarnation, the idea that a person may be reborn into another life. myths might contain elements and characters from all of these sources, and for this book we have chosen stories that reflect their influences. many of the ancient myths are from the fabled era of the ten legendary kings, a time before the dawn of history. thereafter, the histo

the dynamic which drives the whole of life. for they are found locked together in every being, every situation. as one seems to be gaining the ascendancy, the other arises for they each carry the seed of the other within them as the yin yang symbol so clearly illustrates.3 22 2 nuwa creates people introduction whereas panku, the creator of the universe was male, the creator of people was a female goddess named nuwa. nuwa is briefly mentioned in several ancient chinese texts, a classic of history (eighth century b.c, a classic of mountains and seas (third century b.c, and questions of heaven (fourth century b.c).1 in addition, many images of nuwa have been uncovered on ancient chinese bronze sculptures and paintings. like many of the early chinese gods, nuwa was half animal, half divine. mo

g of their own. however, in their roles as mothers and wives, they were extremely powerful. since women generally outlived their husbands, they often asserted themselves and ran the household after their spouses death. even in politics, several women (empresses) became extremely powerful after the death of their husbands, the emperors.2 although most gods were male, nuwa is a very powerful female goddess in early mythology. she creates mankind and is responsible for repairing the earth. 24 the world was indeed a sparkling jewel. sturdy pine trees dotted the mountains, and weeping willows lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, crimson, and iridescent green feathers d

s lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, crimson, and iridescent green feathers drifting in the wind. silverfish and carp splashed gleefully in the waterways. fierce beasts like tigers and gentle creatures like deer roamed with equal abandon across the rocky hills. nuwa, a goddess, stumbled accidentally upon this vibrant world during her travels. the earth was humming and teeming with life. she marveled at its many wondrous creatures. everywhere she looked, she found a creature more marvelous than the one before. she saw every type of fur and fin, feather and scale, horn, hoof, and stinger. creatures lumbered, crawled, and slithered upon the earth. they jumped, dart

every type of fur and fin, feather and scale, horn, hoof, and stinger. creatures lumbered, crawled, and slithered upon the earth. they jumped, darted, and roiled in the sea. scented flowers like jasmine, hyacinth, and narcissus wrapped the entire world in their warm, strong perfume. but as she explored its niches and crannies, nuwa began to feel strangely dissatisfied with the budding world. the goddess found it to be enchanting, but empty. it felt 25 nuwa creates people lonely to nuwa, who sat by a river to ponder her feelings. she gazed at her reflection in the water, and suddenly she knew what was missing: she wanted the world to be filled with thinking, laughing creatures like herself. the river stretched out before her, its waves slapping the shore. the cloudy green waters left a rim

DARK GODS

ausal and acausal spaces. in one sense represents hidden wisdom but generally dangerous to sanity. partially manifest when nemicu vibrated. gaubni: related to 2nd path. often called the great demon repulsive smell and appearance. may manifest when nythra vibrated. sapanur: form along the 11th. path. the sudden fire of destruction. a primal atavism of human origin not related to dark gods. darkat: goddess, associated with lunar aspects. the name is traditionally regarded as pre-sumerian in origin of the myth of lilitu/lilith the female counterpart of dagon, remembered as one of the dark gods from their last manifestation on earth. associated with the 10th. and 8th. paths. the dark gods according to tradition, the dark gods are actual entities which exist in the acausal universe. according t

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

e of female energy is crucial to the harmonising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of the indoctrinated desire of so many men to dominate and to follow the macho man programming. this reemergence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with their

and obvious effect of our propagandists to achieve this, just as in the great war they succeeded in embroiling the united states with germany "fortunately with america, our propaganda is on firm ground. we can be entirely sincere, as our main plank will be the old democratic one. we must clearly enunciate our belief in the democratic form of government, and our firm resolve to adhere to. the old goddess of democracy routine."24 the manipulation around roosevelt was coordinated by bernard baruch and that front for the global elite, the council on foreign relations (cfr. baruch was chairman of the war industries board during world war i and was among the 'advisors' who negotiated the german reparations at versailles. he was the voice in roosevelt's ear, as he had been for many presidents. t

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

t was purged in france after 1307. the goat head is also associated with the sirius system. the ancients designed massive temples to point directly at the spot on the horizon where sirius appeared at the "rising" and their key rituals were focused on sirius, just as many of the illuminati's are today. one example of these sirius-aligned structures is the temple of isis at denderah in egypt.24 the goddess, isis, is a symbol of sirius in egyptian myth. robert temple suggests in the sirius mystery that isis is sirius and the "sister-goddess" of isis, nephthys, represents sirius b. isis was said to be visible and nephthys invisible, just like sirius a and b. another sirius symbol was anubis (anpu to the egyptians, the one portrayed as the dog or jackal-headed god and associated with osiris, th

gyptian myth. robert temple suggests in the sirius mystery that isis is sirius and the "sister-goddess" of isis, nephthys, represents sirius b. isis was said to be visible and nephthys invisible, just like sirius a and b. another sirius symbol was anubis (anpu to the egyptians, the one portrayed as the dog or jackal-headed god and associated with osiris, the "sun god" of egypt.25 there was also a goddess called anukis who sails in a celestial boat with sothis and satis, again the three stars of sirius perhaps because they are associated with goddesses, and sottis was the greek term for sirius. the symbol of the dog or wolf is often found in cults that worship the serpent or reptilians. credo mutwa, the zulu shaman, says that their legends call sirius the "star of the wolf. the leader of th

us b- and their word for heavy star metal was close to the words meaning dwarf and weight.27 the sumerian account called the epic of gilamesh tells of a star that is so heavy it cannot be lifted (sirius b. this star was associated with an or anu, the leader of the anunnaki. the chief egyptian god, osiris, was also called an. in sumerian accounts, an, the jackal-dog-headed god, had a daughter, the goddess bau, the goddess of the dog. it has been suggested that bau is the origin of the term "bow wow" for a dog's bark.28 it certainly bears no resemblance to the sound a dog makes. in the sumerian epic, gilamesh is given 50 companions, which could be symbolic of the 50 years it takes for sirius b to orbit sirius. what's for sure, the ancients perceived sirius and sirius b as very important to t

e tuarkes, have allowed some visitors to see their ancient cavern system in the ahaggar mountains where they have murals of their atlantean ancestors holding snakes and swords with tridents on the blades.46 people invited into the underground temples of the tuaregs claim to have seen green reptile "monsters" called ourans, which the tuaregs worship as the physical representations of their serpent goddess or "grandmother".47 the tuaregs also perform a dance in honour of the atlantean fire god, volcan or votan. the atlanteans and lemurians established colonies in egypt, then known as khem or "land of the fire serpent. the letter "k, the sound used so often by these reptilian bloodlines apparently, was written in the form of a serpent in egyptian hieroglyphics. khem was the name of the deity

before the deluge. plato wrote of this war and official historians have dismissed it because they say that greece did not exist that long ago. they are mistaken. the "classic greece" they ruled by the gods 41 focus upon was a later expression of that culture, not the first. the original greece existed before the cataclysms that sank atlantis. the atlantean colonists of greece worshipped a serpent goddess called athene or neith.48 the greek historians, jane harrison and robert graves, say that this deity was symbolised as a serpent, snake, sphinx, or goddess covered in snakes.49 there are some people- myself among them- who believe that the face on the sphinx on the giza plateau is a woman and not a man as officially claimed. wherever the reptilian bloodlines have located, the worship of a

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ere the chief scientist called enki, lord of the7earth (ki=earth) and ninkharsag, also known as ninti (lady life) because of herexpertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a primitive

people, possibly the extraterrestrials known asthe greys. the hopi refer to their ancestors as their snake brothers and their mostsacred of underground rituals is the snake dance. as i will keep emphasising, not allreptilians are of malevolent intent and i have no wish to demonise the reptile stream.we are talking here only of one group of them. the hopi say that one day under theorders of their goddess, spider woman, they ascended to the surface of the earth andemerged through their cave they called the sipapuni. once on the outside, the hopi say,a mocking bird arrived to confuse their language and make different tribes speakdifferent tongues. this is such a repeat of the biblical story of the tower of babel that aconnection is obvious. to this day the hopi will not recreate the images o

eight.it seems from their texts that you required thenefilim-watcher physical characteristics to qualify to be king. this, no doubt, is the originof the divine right of ki;gs, the right to rule by virtue of your family bloodline, a systemwhich continued when these lines expanded into europe. even the british title of sir,conferred by the queen on her selected subjects, comes from an ancient snake-goddess(reptilian) called sir, which relates to the anunnaki goddess, ninlil or ninkharsag, in thesumerian tablets. her husband, enlil, was called the splendid serpent of the shining eyes.his brother, enki, was also known as a serpent and his emblem was two entwined serpents,the symbol of his cult centre at eridu, and of the modern medical profession. the symbolis known as the caduceus (see figure

ord, svasti, which means well-being, and it was considered a positivesymbol until the nazis turned it around and made it a symbol of destruction. l. a.waddell translated the markings on another stone in scotland, the newton stone in thedumfries and galloway region, to be phoenician-hittite and dedicated to their sun god,bel or bil. the classic british symbol of britannia comes from the phoenician goddess,barati. look at how the phoenicians depicted barati and how the british depictbritannia in figure 12! one of the major centres of the aryan-hittite-phoenicians wascilicia in asia minor and here barati was worshipped as perathea and later diana. sodiana and britannia originatefrom the same source. baratiwas the queen/goddess figure ofthe phoenicians as barat was thegod/king. these are possi

had-ana.36 thesuffix ana in hittite-sumerian (aryan) means one. ana in fact evolved into theenglish word one and the scottish ane. barat-ana or briton therefore means one ofthe barats (bruits. it is the same with many other countries occupied by this whiterace. the name iran comes from the earlier airy-ana or air-an, which means land ofthe arrays or aryans.37the indian v edas also acknowledge the goddess barati (belonging to the barats, andshe was known as brihad the divine. they say her special place was on the saras-vatiriver which happens to be the modern sarus river in the hittite-phoenician land of cilicia.the river entered the sea at tarsus, the alleged home of st paul in the new testament, awork written in accordance with aryan sun myths. also, these phoenicians and aryansworshipped

DEITUS

the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. he was referring, of course, to the pre-christian pagan world. this was followed, he said, by the aeon of osirus, a time of restriction in which man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was the god of death, and horus was the god of rebirth. the period of restriction, he said, had ended and the life-energies had returned to the world. the pre-christian pagan world was more, however, than simply a time of nature worship. men lived in greater harmony with the natural world than they did during the cycle of restriction which followed, but they also celeb

in nature, and unconcerned with human suffering. michael aquino goes a step further in defining satan (or set) as an isolate intelligence within the universe which bestowed upon mankind the gift of consciousness. aleister crowley says the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs, and again i, hadit, am the complement of nu, my bride. i am not extended, and khabs is the name of my house. the goddess nuit, described in the first part of the book of the law, represents the universal subconscious. the god hadit, described in the second part of the book of the law, represents the dynamic consciousness in a non-active state (horus) and the god ra-hoor-kuit, described in the third part of the book of the law, represents the dynamic consciousness in an active state (set) during a cycle of ex

DEMONIC BIBLE

lucifer comes from the latin words lux (light) and fer (to bear. lucifer means, literally, light-bearer and was the name given by the romans to the morning star venus when it appeared in the eastern sky in the hours before dawn. lucifer, the light-bearer, the morning star, personified enlightenment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even

cts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even a fallen angel. christianity condemned paganism, goddess-worship, and sexuality as evil; and the cult of lucifer could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devil of hebrew origin, satan. in hebrew mythology, satan was an angel who accused men before god in order to bring about their punishment. he was never the enemy of god but at times the enemy of man. the name satan in hebrew means adversary. it is recounted

ality which paranormal events suggested. he realized that parapsychologists would never find the scientific and rational explanation they sought since they had blinded themselves to the mystic and spiritual reality which was the cause of the very events these researchers witnessed. at the age of fourteen, he turned his attention to mythology and folklore and has said that he fell in love with the goddess diana of greek mythology. his fascination with mythology quickly combined with his belief in the supernatural and drew him into the study of witchcraft and magic. where parapsychology sought a rational explanation for occult phenomena, magic offered an answer. as sixteen, he read the satanic bible by anton lavey. like many others who have been influenced by satanism, he did not become a sa

er; shut out all outside light sources. 3. either celebrant or partner lights candle(s. 4. either celebrant or partner lights incense; places incense in incense burner. 5. wait a few minutes; allow the incense to fill the room; meditate upon intent of ritual. 6. celebrant recites any preliminary statements( i have become the devil incarnate) 7. partner recites any preliminary statements( i am the goddess of darkness) 8. celebrant and initiate recite incantation together three or more times. 9. both drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 10. celebrant and partner come together in sexual union. 11. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. the rituals of the demonic bible may be undertaken by a group or coven. if this is the case

initiate recite incantation together three or more times. 9. both drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 10. celebrant and partner come together in sexual union. 11. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. the rituals of the demonic bible may be undertaken by a group or coven. if this is the case, each participant chooses a dark god/goddess as his personal archetype. the high priest performs the rituals to cross the gates of hell and become the devil incarnate. he then adopts the name of a particular archetype, such as satan or lucifer, and is known from then on by that name within the coven. he then initiates the high priestess so that she becomes the manifestation of the dark goddess. she assumes the name of a particular ar

DIABOLUS

the meaning is something immersed (mabu tabal. the meaning here is that her intentions are never for the good. she only seeks to incite wars and various demons of war and the war between daughter lilith and matron lilith. treatise on the left emanation by r. isaac b. jacob ha-kohen the multiple spirits of lilith are a part of what could be considered in luciferian witchcraft circles as the triple goddess, or hecate lilith. she is maiden, whore and hag and her number is three just as the points of the triangle. lilith holds intensive wisdom of magick and such along with her mate, samael, is her gift to those children who recognize and identify with her nature. asmodeus the great demon king is a powerful spirit who was first presented in zoroastrian lore as aeshma of the wounding 27 spear, a

ief, thus creates truth from the foundation therein. at the end of this study i must ask, what has been learnt of the adversary within the practice of magick? is the adversary valid within modern times from the early foundations? with reference to the practice of magick, the opposer is the core column which supports all others; it is needed and those who are able to look past the sterile gods and goddess of mere sunlight may then grasp the dual ecstasy of the adversary, of both the sun and the moon. magick is the gift of iblis, and must be respected as such unless the soul becomes devoured by its own weakness. with reference to the second question concerning modern times the adversary is more so alive now as ever. this force exists through those who affirm satan 40 and those who ignore thi

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

t the climax of a ritual or ceremony. it is usually accompanied by an emotional release, and in some forms of magick by physical climax. the catharsis of greek tragedy was no more than a pale echo of the original magickal catharsis of the greek eulusian mysteries. ceres: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the asteroid named after the roman goddess who served as the ruler of the harvest. she is the roman version of the greek goddess demeter. keywords include: mother, abandonment, fertility, alternative parenting- including foster parenting, nurturing, governess, nanny, menopause, ecological, domesticating, animal husbandry, agriculture, survival, compassion, anger. chakras: a sanskrit (hindu) term meaning "wheels" the term is usually

istry (q.v, the tarot (q.v, numerology (q.v, and more recently, the runes (q.v. dowsing: a method for seeking out material objects, and living beings, usually with the use of a "fork" or other instrumental aid. druidism: an ancient celtic brotherhood of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of the

born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marriage. she was the wife of jupiter, though the marriage was not a happy one. keywords include: spouse, wife, partnerships, law giver, judge, women's issues, weather, money, seduction and rape, sex as a weapon, abused persons, alternative lifestyle marriages. jupiter: the fifth planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after

dom. occult knowledge means hidden knowledge. it does not mean or imply evil. ogham: a magickal alphabet of the celts composed of twenty (20) letters called fews, each standing for a different kind of tree. it is very simple in appearance, being made up of short vertical or diagonal strokes set against or across a horizontal line. old horny: an affectionate name for the horned male consort of the goddess of the witches. early christian priests either mistook this pagan god for satan (q.v) or deliberately misidentified this pagan god for satan for political reasons. old religion: a modern day reference for wicca (q.v) or witchcraft (q.v, which many occultists believe to be the descendant of an ancient pagan goddess religion. order of the argentium astrum, the [a.a: the great white brotherho

. for the most part, non-magick using wiccans (q.v. paganism: although most people today use this as a derogatory term, occultists simply equate it with mostly non magic using wiccans (q.v, although some pagans do use magick and do not call themselves wiccans (q.v. pallas: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman goddess who served as the ruler of the sky. she has the same attributes as the greek goddess athena. keywords include: wisdom, daughter, creative intellect, intellectual crafts, calculated war and peace, political activism, social concern, skillful, strategy, rational, literate, professional soldier, martial arts, competitive, technical, police and fire fighters (as protectors of the city, militia

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we get clues to this method in the dream-analysis of analytical psychology. we might describe it as the symbol-using power of the subconscious mind. it is an instructive experiment to toss a mass of irrelevant symbolism into the mind and watch it sort itself out in meditation upon the tree, rising into consciousness in long association-chains like dream analysis. 28. netzach is the sphere of the goddess of nature, venus. hod is the sphere of mercury, the greek analogue of the egyptian thoth, lord of books and learning. observing their opposition, we shall expect to find two different aspects represented in them, these finding their equilibrium in a third, yesod, the sphere of luna. we see then a triangle composed of the lady of nature, the lord of books, and the mistress of witchcraft; in

the ten holy sephiroth, relying chiefly upon their astrological associations to guide us, because astrology is the [page 90] one universal language, for all people see the same planets. space is referred to kether, the zodiac to chokmah, the seven planets to the next seven sephiroth, and earth to malkuth, consequently, any god who has an analogy with saturn will be referred to binah, as will any goddess who might be termed the primordial mother, the superior eve ,as distinguished from the inferior eve, the bride of microprosopos, malkuth. the supernal triangle of kether, chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which every pantheon recognises as the predecessors of those forms of godhead worshipped by the current faith. thus rhea and kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah

reason that a hard and fast attribution of the gods of other pantheons to the different sephiroth is impracticable. aspects of isis are to be found in binah, netzach, yesod, and malkuth. aspects of osiris are to be found in chokmah, chesed, and tiphareth. this comes out clearly in greek mythology, wherein the different gods and goddesses are given descnptive titles. for instance, diana, the moon-goddess, the virgin huntress, was worshipped at ephesus as the many-breasted; venus, the goddess of female beauty and of love, had a temple where she was worshipped as the bearded venus. these things teach us some important truths. they teach us to look for the principle behind the multiform manifestation, and to realise that it assumes different forms on different levels. life is not quite so sim

alanced by hod and netzach. there are goddesses as well as gods for man to worship. boaz and jakin are both pillars of the temple, and only when united do they produce stability. a goddessless religion is half-way to atheism. in the word elohim we find the true key. elohim is translated "god" in both authorised and revised versions of the holy scriptures. it really ought to be translated "god and goddess" for it is a feminine noun with a masculine plural termination aflixed. this is an incontrovertible fact, in its linguistic aspect at any rate, and it is to be presumed that the various authors of the books of the bible knew what they meant, and did not use this peculiar and unique form without good reason "and the spirit of the male and female conjoined principles moved upon the surface o

is called sorrow, and its symbol in the tarot pack is a heart pierced by three swords. out readers will recall the reference to the sword-pierced heart of the virgin mary in catholic symbolism, and mary equates with marab, bitter, the sea. ave, maria, stella maris! 56. swords are, of course, geburah cards, and as such represent the destructive aspect of binah as kali, the wife of siva, the hindu goddess of destruction. 57. pentacles are cards of earth, and as such are congemal to binah, form. the three of pentacles, therefore, is lord of material works, or activity on the plane of form. 58. it will be observed that, just as the planets have their influence reinforced when they are in those signs of the zodiac which are called their own houses, so the tarot cards, when the significance of

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ich followed immediately upon their deaths. the fact that mr. cs first wife died of cancer of the womb does not in itself call for remark, but it is a curious thing that he should lose his second wife from the same disease. cancer is not as common as all that, and in any case, there are many available sites beside the womb. on the other hand, diana, one of the aspects of luna, of whom hecate, the goddess of witches, was another, presides over the female reproductive organs. the illness of mrs. c. began to show itself soon after miss x. was excluded from the house. finally, what shall we say concerning the deaths of the three people most intimately associated with miss x. within a short time of each other, and her immediate break down? in the absence of details any conclusion must be guessw

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of the skull. its name means thousand-petaled lotus. the sahasrara is often represented as a flower with countless petals that lies spread out over the top of the skull. it is important to understand that the chakras are not parts of the human body. they are esoteric centers of power that come into existence when they are pierced by the ascending of kundalini shakti, which is both an energy and a goddess. once activated, the chakras are like beads on a vertical string, or flowers on a central stem, called the shushumna, which is described in eastern occult texts as a hollow tube. inside this tube is a narrower tube called the vajrini nadi (nadi means channel, and inside this a still finer tube called the chitrini nadi. once the power of kundalini ceases to flow up the shushumna, the chakra

d to enter the body through the pores of the skin, and internal chanting of a mantra (word or phrase that embodies occult power. the visualization of power symbols such as yantras is also often used. most important of all in awakening kundalini is a technique that is almost never openly described. it involves the contemplation with love and desire of one of the primary forms of shakti, the mother goddess who represents for the hindus all manifest things and all energies. the word shakti literally means power. it is through the grace and love of shakti that kundalini is awakened and made to ascend. before this grace and love can be attained the practitioner must establish a close personal relationship with shakti. this is done through repeated visualization of that particular form of the go

and all energies. the word shakti literally means power. it is through the grace and love of shakti that kundalini is awakened and made to ascend. before this grace and love can be attained the practitioner must establish a close personal relationship with shakti. this is done through repeated visualization of that particular form of the goddess that has been decided upon, through prayers to the goddess, through offerings and sacrifices to the goddess, through contemplation of the qualities and virtues of the goddess, through active inner communication with the goddess, through visualization of interaction and union with the goddess, and by filling the place of ritual communion with the goddess with scents, symbols, forms, colors, objects, sounds, music, tastes, and textures that are in h

ressed on the surface of the skin. the muladhara chakra forms a hardness at the perineum. during the period of contemplation and communion with the chosen aspect of shakti, the penis will rise and fall rhythmically, remaining erect for periods of ten minutes or so, then becoming flaccid for several minutes, then rising again. this goes on for hours at a time- for as long as the communion with the goddess is maintained. in women, the external genitals become inflamed and moist, and the clitoris erect. there is a copious flow of sexual fluids in both men and women. if, during this period, the mind is directed away from the goddess and toward the inflamed genitals, or if the physical state of tumescence causes erotic thoughts to enter the mind, tumescence ceases almost immediately. for exampl

a copious flow of sexual fluids in both men and women. if, during this period, the mind is directed away from the goddess and toward the inflamed genitals, or if the physical state of tumescence causes erotic thoughts to enter the mind, tumescence ceases almost immediately. for example, the penis can be strongly erect even to the point of discomfort, yet if the mind is allowed to wander from the goddess, erection can completely vanish within the space of five or ten seconds. in recent times there has been an attempt to identify the chakra with nerve centers in the human body. for this reason the chakras are often said to be arrayed along the spinal column. this is incorrect, as anyone who has actually felt the chakras will testify. they are felt near the front of the body, not on the surf

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e quote above, must occur through daath. on a lower, shadow level, the blindragon, coronzon, is required to sexually unite samael, the slant serpent, with lilith, the tortuous serpent. the union of the watchers with the beautiful daughters of man was a work of daath. gareth knight is correct in a strict sense that daath is unnumbered, but it is worth noting that eleven is the number linked to the goddess nuit and to all thelemites in crowley's book of the law. nuit is quoted as saying "my number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us" since daath is one sephirah more than the recognized ten, it is natural to assign it the number eleven. this essay is somewhat more complex and difficult than others on this web site, but the importance of coronzon in the more subtle aspects of western occ

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (24 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] chapter lxvi [the chapter of] coming forth by day. this chapter has no vignette. chapter lxvii. the chapter of opening the doors of the tuat and of coming forth by day. this chapter has no vignette. chapter lxviii. the chapter of coming forth by day. vignette: the deceased kneeling by the side of a tree before a goddess.[1] chapter lxix. another chapter. chapter lxx. another chapter. chapter lxxi. the chapter of coming forth by day. vignette: the deceased with both hands raised in adoration kneeling before the goddess meh-urt.[2] chapter lxxii. the chapter of coming forth by day and of passing through the hall of the tomb. vignette: the deceased adoring three gods. chapter lxxiii (this chapter is now know

clxii* the chapter of causing heat to exist under the head of the khu. vignette: a cow. chapter clxiii* the chapter of not allowing the body of a man to decay in the underworld. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (32 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] vignette: two utchats, and a serpent on legs. chapter clxiv* another chapter. vignette: a three-headed goddess, winged, standing between two pigmies. chapter clxv* the chapter of arriving in port, of not becoming unseen, and of making the body to germinate, and of satisfying it with the water of heaven. vignette: the god min or amsu with beetle's body, etc. chapter clxvi. the chapter of the pillow. vignette: a pillow. chapter clxvii. the chapter of bringing the utchat. this chapter has no vignette

: the deceased standing by the side of osiris. p. xlvi theban version: list of chapters. chapter clxxxv. the ascription of praise to osiris, and of adoration to the everlasting lord. vignette: the deceased making adoration to osiris. chapter clxxxvi. a hymn of praise to hathor, mistress of amentet, and to meh-urt. vignette: the deceased approaching the mountain of the dead, from which appears the goddess hathor. the version akin to the theban. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (34 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] pal ography. the version akin to was in vogue from the xxth to the xxvith dynasty, i.e, about b.c. 1200-550, and was, like the theban, usually written upon papyrus. the chapters have no fixed order, and are written in lines in the hi

e contract between the god amen-ra and the princess nesi-khonsu. after the list of the names and titles of amen-ra with which it begins follow eleven sections wherein the god declares in legal phraseology that he hath deified the princess in amenta and in neter-khert; that he hath deified her soul and her body in order that neither may be destroyed; that he hath made her divine like every god and goddess; and that he hath decreed that whatever is necessary for her in her new existence shall be done for her, even as it is done for every other god and goddess] p. xlvii the sa te and ptolemaic version. pal ography. the sa te and ptolemaic version was in vogue from the period of the xxvith dynasty, about b.c. 550, to probably the end of the rule of the ptolemies over egypt. the chapters have a

n of osiris are accepted as facts universally admitted. greek writers have preserved in their works traditions concerning this god, and to plutarch in particular we owe an important version of the legend as current in his day. it is clear that in some points he errs, but this was excusable in dealing with a series of traditions already some four thousand years old.[1] according to this writer the goddess rhea [nut, the wife of helios [ra, was beloved by kronos [seb. when helios discovered the intrigue, he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of her child in any month or in any year. then the god hermes, who also loved rhea, played at the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (1 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] tables with selene and won from

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conveyed to consecrated ground, and prayers made for the release of her soul from purgatory, but she continued to follow the young nun for a time, teaching her, on her last visit, five secret prayers composed by st. john the evangelist. the alister hardy research centre see religious experience research centre alford, alan f. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 28 allat (or ellat) goddess of the ancient arabs of pre-islamic times, associated with the god dhu-shara, known as allah (supreme god, worshiped in the form of a rectangular stone, reminiscent of the later kaaba of mecca. allat is mentioned in the koran as a pagan goddess. she is said to have been joint ruler with allah and judge of the afterlife. allegro, john (marco (1923.1988) british scholar who assisted in the d

ing dreams or enigmas. amaranth a flower that is one of the symbols of immortality. it has been said by occult magicians that a crown made with this flower has supernatural properties and will bring fame and favor to those who wear it. it was also regarded in ancient times as a symbol of immortality and was used to decorate images of gods and tombs. in ancient greece, the flower was sacred to the goddess artemis of ephesus, and the name amaranth derives from amarynthos, a hunter of artemis and king of euboea. there are many species of amaranth, some with poetic folk names such as prince s feather and love-lies-bleeding. the amazing randi stage name of professional conjuring magician james randi (or randall zwinge, who is the self-appointed archenemy of psychics and the paranormal. amduscia

aeus, and josephus. a particular account of the circumstances is given in the book of enoch, which makes the angels.uriel, gabriel, and michael.the chief instruments in the subjugation of the adulterers and their formidable offspring. the classic writers have perpetuated similar beliefs of the hero race, all of them born either from the love of the gods for women, or of the preference shown for a goddess by some mortal man. the persian, jewish, and muslim accounts of angels all evince a common origin, and they alike admit a difference of sex. in the latter, the name of azazil is given to the hierarchy nearest the throne of god, to which the mohammedan satan (eblis or haris) is supposed to have belonged; also azreal, the angel of death, and asrafil (probably the same as israfil, the angel o

did a number of films, among which are those with occult themes, stemming from anger s fascination with the writings and philosophy of aleister crowley. notable among these are thelema abbey (1955; lord shiva s dream (1954, released as inauguration of the pleasure dome (1958; scorpio rising (1963; invocation of my demon brother (1969; and lucifer rising (1970.80. anais nin played the part of the goddess astarte in inauguration of the pleasure dome, concerned with crowley-esque rituals. margorie cameron, a member of the ordo templi orientis, who was famous for her participation in some magical child rituals with jack parsons, also appeared in the movie. rock singer mick jagger provided a soundtrack on moog synthesizer for invocation of my demon brother, in which anton lavey played the part

olics, though many have pointed out that similar visitations have been recorded widely within non-catholic christianity and among most or all of the world s religions and peoples. it is natural that sincere devotees envision a divine figure in the form familiar through the iconography of their own religion. the nineteenth-century hindu mystic sri ramakrishna frequently had ecstatic visions of the goddess kali. while the unreligious might dismiss such visions as religious hysteria, contemporary psychology has rescued them from the realms of the abnormal and mapped their ecstatic nature along with other transpersonal psychological states, and religious scholars have noted the predominantly meaningful messages they deliver. one might also group such visitations with phenomena like the appeara

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s his followers were called, were initiated, and within a few years hundreds of centers were established in the west. through the mid-1970s the rapidly developing movement ran into trouble, beginning with its inability to fill the houston astrodome in a highly publicized event, millennium 73. then in 1974, maharaj married his 24-year-old secretary, whom he described as an incarnation of the hindu goddess durga. the marriage further disrupted his relationship with his mother and older brothers. a lawsuit in india gave control of the indian branch of the divine light mission to maharaj s mother and led to a complete break with her son, who maintained the complete support of the western disciples. in the late 1970s the divine light mission had also become the target of the anticult movement

e way of denial. instead of refraining from such things as alcohol and sex in order to attain spiritual realization, tantra suggests using items commonly denied as a tool to enlightenment. sexuality is by far the most controversial of such tools. within tantric systems, the practice of maithuna may be either symbolic (the right-hand path) or actual (the left hand path. tantra seeks union with the goddess shakti and speaks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictured a

ntra performed regularly by the sivananda ashram in rishikesh, india, which invokes vishnu (hindu god) to take away illnesses and offenses. shiva hara shankara, as chanted by indira devi s ashram in poona, india, asks the lord shiva to free us from the bondage of life. the shiva mantra implores homage, homage, all homage and glory to you, o lord shiva. similarly, the lakshmi mantra calls upon the goddess lakshmi, we pray to you in benign solemnity to bestow your blessings and shower your wealth upon us. the development of compact discs and digital recordings has made mantra recordings more available in music stores and new age shops. as this technology has fueled western acceptance of yoga, mantras will gain popularity and perhaps take on a new meaning as more and more westerners practice

ories originated from the half-fish half-human gods and goddesses of early religions. the chaldean oannes and the philistine dagon are typical deities of this kind, and a representation of oannes with a human body down to the waist and a fish tail has been found on sculpture at khorsabad. such goddesses as derceto (atergatis) and semiramis have been represented in mermaid form. the classic venus, goddess of love, was born out of the sea foam, it is told, and was propitiated by barren couples who desired children. the mexican coxcox or teocipactli was a fish god, as were some peruvian deities. north american indians have a legend that they were led from asia by a man-fish. in classical mythology the tritons and sirens are represented as half-fish, half-human. in addition to legends of mytho

mexico and central america encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1032 eled through space and was able to visit those places of which it desired to have knowledge. it was likely that the seers hypnotized themselves by gazing at certain small, highly-polished pieces of sandstone, or that they employed these in a manner similar to the crystal-gazing practices found around the globe. the goddess tozi was the patron of those who used grains of maize or red beans in divination. on such native group, the cuna people indigenous to panama, believed that the avisua, sang songs of magic that have curative powers.whether it was the healing of the sick, change atmospheric conditions, or inspire a person to act in some oppositive way. the witch doctors, or neles, claimed powers of extrasens

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according to at h e n a, was one who re c o g n i zed the importance of p roviding for loved ones and providing for those that need nurturing and counsel. athena is described as a small, re d d i s h- g o l d- h a i red, beautiful woman with deep blue eye s. she exudes g reat love and great compassion and tremendous strength. her name, coincidentally or otherwise, is the same as that of the greek goddess of wisdom, the arts, and warf a re. athena was also the name of a space commander in the television series battlestar ga l a c- t i c a, which aired on abc in 1978 and 1979. according to the late thelma b. turrell (who was also known as tuella, a name given her by the ashtar command, athena is the twin flame of ashtar. he has said to me that he could turn over the whole command to her and

th. each entity receives its assignment, and at the end of that assignment (bodily death) the entity appears before the board once more, this time to have its performance reviewed. the karmic board dispenses justice to this system of worlds, adjudicating karma, mercy and judgment on behalf of every lifestream( lords of karma, n.d. members of the karmic board include the great divine director, the goddess of liberty, ascended lady master nada, cyclopea (elohim of the fifth ray, pallas athena 140 karen a japanese print depicting a kappa (victoria and albert museum, london/art resource, ny (goddess of truth, portia (goddess of justice, and kuan yin (goddess of mercy. further reading lords of karma, n.d. http//www.ascensionresearch. org/karma.html kazik in september 1953, albert k. bender of b

i n t e r p retation disputed by others. the first new world appearance of the bvm is said to have taken place five miles north of mexico city just after dawn on december 9, 1531. a fifty-seven-year-old aztec indian, juan diego, was racing along a hillside to get to mass in a nearby village. passing a site at the foot of a hill called tepeyac, which earlier had housed a temple to the aztec mother goddess, he heard a feminine voice calling his name. he saw a young woman, looking about fourteen years old and having mexican features, who asked that a chapel be built at the site. she also told him that he should alert the bishop in mexico city immediately. with some difficulty, he got an audience with the bishop, who was skeptical. diego returned to report his failure to the bvm, who was waiti

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enter, calm in mind, confident that we shall find somewhere, certainly, the best. prudence. two of man s chief foes, behold them, fear and hope, in fetters mated; from this crowd i ll keep and hold them. room, make room! ye re liberated. i conduct the live colossus, see the burden that it carries, and the steepest pass it crosses, step by step, and never wearies. but upon the summit of it yonder goddess with her pinions broad and agile, seeking profit, turns to spy all man s dominions. girt is she by splendour glorious shining far along all courses, victory her name! victorious goddess of all active forces. zoilo-thersites. ho, ho! just right i ve reached this spot, we re one and all a wretched lot! and yet the goal i ve chosen me is she up there, dame victory. she with her snowy wings sp

d s too small for me. a fairly young lady just see her foot! how could it clumsier be? a diplomat i have seen princesses of this same kind! she s beautiful from head to foot, i find. a courtier she nears the sleeper, cunningly demure. a lady how hideous by that form so young and pure! a poet by her rare beauty he is beamed upon. a lady a picture! luna and endymion! a poet quite right! and now the goddess seems to sink, bends over him as if his breath to drink. how enviable- a kiss- the cup is full. a duenna before the crowd! my word! that is too cool. faust a fearful favour for the youth! mephistopheles be still and let the phantom do all that it will. a courtier she steals away, light-footed. he awakes. a lady just as i thought, another look she takes. a courtier he is astounded, thinks a

all my people s woe i cry to thee, diana, luna, hecate! thou breast-expanding one, most deeply pensive one, thou peaceful seeming one, mighty intensive one, break from the glooms of thy dark chasm clear, and without magic let thine ancient might appear! pause. am i too quickly heard? hath my prayer to yonder sphere the ordered course of nature stirred? and greater, ever greater, draweth near the goddess throne, her full-orbed sphereto gaze upon, appalling, dire! and ruddier, redder glows its fire. no nearer! threatening orb, i pray, lest thou wilt sweep us, land, and sea away! thessalian witches? can it then be true that thee once from thy proper path they drew, by spells of impious magic sung, and fatal gifts from thee so wrenched and wrung. the brilliant shield, behold, it darkles! and

sea. olympus not, nor yet your soil, can bear a form that is so dainty and so fair. from dragons of the sea, all in most winsome motion, they leap on neptune s coursers; in the ocean, their element, so tenderly at home they seem to float upon the very foam. on venus radiant, pearly chariot drawn, comes galatea, lovely as the dawn. since cypris turned from us her face, she reigns in paphos in the goddess place. and so, long since, the gracious one doth own, as heiress, templed town and chariot-throne. away! it spoils a father s hour of pleasure, harshness of tongue or hate of heart to treasure. away to proteus! ask that wondrous elf: how one can come to be and change one s self. he goes off toward the sea. thales we have gained nothing by this stay. though one finds proteus, straight he me

nd may glow, still wave upon wave dashes up from below, and all that between them in anguish has wallowed, long hurled to and fro, by the depths all is swallowed; wherefore he has lent us his sceptre today. now float we contented and lightly and gay. sirens you, to helios dedicated, you, to bright day consecrated, greet we in this stirring hour when all worship luna s power! telchines o loveliest goddess in night s dome appearing! the praise of thy brother with rapture art hearing. to rhodes ever blessed an ear thou dost lend, for there doth a paean eternal ascend. he begins the day s course, with keen, radiant gaze, when finished the journey, our troop he surveys. the mountains, the cities, the wave, and the shore are lovely and bright to the god we adore. no mist hovers round us, and if

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

g from elohim down to the lowest creature in the lower worlds of manifestation. this supreme, unifying i-ness is worshipped in christianity as christos, in islam as allah, and in the tantras as the divine mother kali. it is worshipped in hinduism as ishvara, in tibetan buddhism as vajradhara or avalokiteshvara, in taoism as the divine mother kwan yin, and in the polynesian kahuna tradition as the goddess pele.9 an individual with this level of awareness directly perceives the innate identity of themselves and all beings with that one indwelling spirit. the perspective of unqualified non-dualism in the qabalah is that the ayn alone exists and all separate existence is illusory, that a manifest creation on all its levels has no basis in reality, and that all the shells of embodied existence

the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and others. buddhism provides detailed descriptions of the incarnations of the buddha, and of the one to come called maitreya. the sage lao tze, to whom is ascribed the tao-te ching, was the revered divine incarnation who sired the development of taoism. and zoroaster'

d sequences from the eighth wing of the chinese i ching (book of change, titled the shuo qua, are much more abstract diagrams, representing the sefiroth as sets of solid and broken lines. the polynesian kahunas, whose scriptures take the form of sacred hulas recorded on boards in rongo rongo writing, do not have a diagram for their tree, but represent the sefiroth by the different hi iakas of the goddess pele.1 the hi iakas are the same as the dakinis, the female emanations of the goddess kali in the north indian and tibetan tantra, the absorption and synthesis of many eastern mystical ideas into a myriad of new age therapies, holistic psychology, and tantric sexual ecstasy for the masses has made the chakra system the most salient map of consciousness in western culture. the chakric tree

ed sounds (san. bija. the fallen condition is portrayed in the chakric tree by the petals on the lotuses turned downward. when the chakric tree is ascended, the petals of each lotus turn upwards as the consciousness of the traveler awakens in it. as previously mentioned in chapter one, the tantric texts (called shastra) on the chakras describe the chitshakti (energy of consciousness, known as the goddess kundalini, as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. the shekhinah of the qabalah is said to be in exile in the lower worlds. the kundalini and the shekhinah are two distinctly different allusions for the same thing. the snake of the kundalini is said to awaken and ascend the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajna ch

vast face xgod-without-name-and-form. in other traditions, vast face meditation is practiced among the shaivites and advaita vedantins in india, the theravada, tendai, shingon, tibetan, ch an, and zen buddhists, and the wu wei (non- action) taoists.17 the shaivites envision the pure consciousness of vast face as shiva, and the energy of that consciousness as% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 his consort the goddess kali. the vedantic philosophy of advaita (non-duality) regards all name and form as illusory, and that brahman (i.e. the ayn) alone exists. theravada, hinayana, tendai, shingon, tibetan, ch an, and zen buddhists perform variations of vast face meditation practices taught by gautama buddha (regarded as the eighth incarnation of vishnu by hindus) and other bodhisattvas (souls who reach enlig

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

123, apuleius was educated at carthage and at athens and later travelled to egypt where he became involved in a lawsuit in which he was accused of magic. he is famous for his wonderful novel, popularly known as the golden ass= the hero of which is transformed by witches into an ass, and after many sufferings in his animal form, is transformed back into human shape after an ecstatic vision of the goddess isis, which comes to him on a lonely seashore whither he has wandered in 1 lactantius, div. inst, ii, xv. 2 augustine, de civ. dei, viii, xxiii-xxvi. he is quoting from asclepius, 23, 24, 37; sec c.h, ii, pp. 325 ff. 3 c.h, ii, p. 259. 4 de civ. dei, viii, xiii-xxii. 5 this is the title of the sixteenth-century english translation by william adlington. 9 hermes trismegistus despair. eventu

mento borgia, in lectures, warburg institute, university of london, i, pp. 174-88; ii, pis. 115-24. 5+g.b. 115 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic juno, who set argus to watch her. argus was killed by mercury, a scene shown in one of the paintings where mercury, with drawn sword, is despatching argus (pi. 4. having been rescued by mercury from argus, io escaped into egypt where she became the goddess isis. after the scene with mercury and argus, there follows in the frescoes, a scene where io-isis is seated on a throne (pi. 5, with a figure on her left identified by saxl as moses. the figure on her right is obviously the same person as the one shown with the zodiac in the room of the sibyls (pi. 3. he is, i suggest, again hermes trismegistus, now shown with moses. the mercury who kille

ori, pt. ii, dial. 1 (dial, ital, pp. 1092 ff. 276 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan this leads up to the image which is the foundation of the whole poem, that of the lady's eyes as lights or stars: thou dost torment, by hiding from my view those lovely lights beneath the beauteous lids. therefore the troubled sky's no more serene. finally, there is the prayer to the lady, as to a goddess, to relent and turn her eyes upon the suffering lover even though her glance may kill him: render thyself, o goddess, unto pity! open, o lady, the portals of thine eyes, and look on me if thou wouldst give me death!1 the conceit dominating the whole sonnet, which is a tissue of petrarchist phraseology, is that of the stars-eyes which had already been presented in the emblem. in the comment

he is called orcus, or abyss, because his amplitude corresponds to die amplitude of his father, chaos; he is infinite appetite, an unending abyss of need seeking after the infinity of his father. nox is the daughter of orcus and so one of the three infigurables; but through reason she becomes the most ancient of the gods, and in this aspect is figurable. she stands for the materia prima, and as a goddess can have a figurable statue, an old woman, wearing black clothes, with black wings of immense extent.1 to this lower triad of chaos, orcus, nox, there is opposed a "supernal triad, consisting of the father, or mind, or plenitude; of the son, or the primal intellect; of light which is the spirit of all things, or the anima mundi. there is no statue of the father, but infinite light is the t

istianity but actually as the true religion. very important, among the new documents in the sommario are the indications of bruno's view of the cross as really an egyptian sacred sign. a fellow-prisoner reports him as having said that the cross on which christ was crucified was not in the form shown on christian altars, this form being in reality the sign which was sculptured on the breast of the goddess isis, and which was "stolen" by the christians from the egyptians.2 in reply to an inquisitorial question about this, bruno acknowledged that he had said that form of the cross on which christ was crucified was different from the way in which it is usually "painted, adding these significant words: i think that i have read in marsilio ficino that the virtue and holiness of this character("c

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

re, with serk, scorpio, sirocco, and typhon, the typhoon. in the egyptian list this head is described as 'hissing to come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered w

o not know why i name it like this [2: unity in chaos, very similar to the mage as a uniter of worlds. the third ritual is to follow this upcoming tuesday, on my birthday, the moon is now waning. today is 11/8/98 [2] is connected with eris somehow (i think) as it seems to fluctuate between the "hand of eris" and [2, i do not see any relation with the first sigil yet. sekhet the fierce lion headed goddess of the south. her ferocious qualities typify sexual heat and the fire of fermented drink (counterpart bast, sekhet is solar. from sekhet derives the indian word shakti, meaning power. special reference to the fire snake (creative power. 76-15=61 (kali-first divider) 15 is the first digital sum of 393. today is 11/10/98. my birthday (tuesday sacred to kali) i'm 24 years old (i feel like i a

is was when the being, myself) revealed itself/ myself to me. it was like it was beckoning me towards god-hood to form my own manifold and therefore, my own universe. every person was a part of one of these beings (hga's, they were many and there are more others of as. like me, all part of him and he a. this is for all of humanity. the ineffable is; we must reach our own bliss. i was visited by a goddess tonight and it scared the living shit out of me. i finished firing three sigils into the heart of oblivion on the dance floor. i was placing the third one by this "dark" dancing woman's feet. she did not see me. she turned around and came up to me in about a minute and took my hand and said "hello "you know who i am, right" it was fucking babalon! now believe me when i say that i have neve

ies: moglthox: to steal my corruption and purify me. harakhan: to bring me knowledge and wisdom of self. babalon: for her ecstasy and love. teckno: to transport me to babalon in his medium. tiyet: to purify my dreams& submind, and give me the gift of her silence. set: as the dark sun, to show me the majesty and power of self. lucifer-christ (as luciferouschristos) to bring love& unity. the triple goddess of the moon and dyonysis and others (see appendix vii for commentaries on god-forms) all along (months) i have been offering prayers to my "guardian angel" to meet (myself of god. the sigils were received after each ritual of the rog. each rite was performed as instructed by a (this was written of previously, but i did not know it's name. the first two rituals were formalized, but the thir

was present in day to day affairs. now i was left reeling for months after the babalon incident. i cannot emphasize the great deal of truth which was felt at the time of these revelations. now this is treading dangerous territory here, because obsession is sure to follow. thus we get now into the subject of liber chrnzn see now appendix i and ii. afterwards i shall explicate the relations to the goddess-force babalon and the scarlet brotherhood. 6 the rite of suffering death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. thou art not so- some dead poet being a chaotic interpretation of the holy guardian angel operation, as one summons the angel of light, the reverse impulse is attracted and mastery& integration of the darkness is necessary for unity. a thorough selfexamin

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the universe. ally pronounced gwee-cha, h it is the source for the more common word witch. many witches prefer the term wicca as it does not have all of t th word gwitch. h comments th the ame er member of the iot n a si eiser, inc, 1975. 129 1. one has only to think of the unfortunate development which occurred to a name like astarte (ishtar) in the course of centuries.an erstwhile chaldean moon goddess developed in the middle ages via the addition of the plural ending goth h into a male) demon wi n astaroth. today fs evocatory magicians might be in for quite a surprise or two, if, for example, a supposedly male demon like kedemel from the venusian sphere suddenly appears before them as a female entity (quite obvious, actually, but who would have thought of it beforehand) 2. ray sherwin

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2] please note that our symbol of the statue of liberty was the actual terra cota model constructed in 1870 by the masonic sculptor. in satanism, virtually any perpendicular symbol is the phallus, so the torch certainly qualifies; indeed, one might wonder, from the explanation given, above, that the torch is lucifer's phallus, if the occultist really believes the torch is a symbol of the god. the goddess holding the torch would provide a good female symbol. thus, the freemason depicts the sex act every single day of every year, in new york harbor. sex and the masonic gavel "the gavel is an important masonic and eastern star symbol [dr. c. burns, masonic and occult symbols, p326] the first thing i noticed about the symbol of the gavels is that they were always depicted upside down. i would

ne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the cross and the crown symbol here. after all, our savior and lord jesus christ received his crown in heaven after he suffered the agony of the cross. however, freemasons have just a little bit more on their min

FULL MOON RITUALS

gods (i once put all the invokers' names in a little bowl i have. if the person nominated can't lead next month, they will frequently suggest an alternate; if they don't, it kicks back to the previous leader to try someone else. if the outgoing leader really doesn't want to nominate, he or she will ask for a volunteer. who gets to do the other stuff? usually we ask for volunteers for the quarter, goddess and god invocations. if there are more volunteers than needed, it's the leader's choice. this isn't a question of quality; it's usually a matter of balance (males and females, old people and new people, whatever. what's a petition? after the invocations are completed, the leader usually does a transition to the body of the ritual, which normally consists of people's personal workings, whic

rmances of poetry or music, whatever people want to do with their space. petitions aren't scheduled; you come in any time during the main window, usually 4-5 days. how does it work? the fmr is done during a 5-7 day window. the leader posts an opening note, setting place and mood, usually casting the circle, and welcoming participants. over the next 24-48 hours the quarters are called, the god and goddess are invoked, and the leader posts a transition to the petition period. thereafter people come in at their own time to petition until the pre-announced time of closing, when the leader posts a final hail-and-farewell. it isn't necessary to leave your computer on all week, or to do a physical working that exactly mirrors your petition. while it's true that we take a week to do the ritual; it

re draped in a long and tattered gray robe and cloak, gray hair hanging lankly to her waist, sharon slowly makes the final few steps left in her journey back to the castle. she has traveled alone, barefoot and without provision, along the spine of the sleeping dragon in the desolate mountain range overlooking the region of grove and castle, her mission to renew her awareness of that aspect of the goddess now reigning in her life. the death hag is a harsh taskmistress, but her wisdom is worth the effort required to absorb even a fraction of it. sharon rests briefly on the strength of the staff that has helped her through the long days and nights of walking, the warm ebony wood almost soft against her palms. she closes her eyes and remembers rock and dirt, frost and ice glittering in the whi

door now, she raises her staff and signals for entrance. given permission, she walks slowly inside, eyes filled with glad tears. so many dear ones here! but she is still held within, not ready to greet or exhibit the joy she feels at this reunion of like minds and spirits. she hopes her hag aspect will teach rather than repel. having no answers, she can only represent the questions and trust the goddess to do the rest. slowly, she moves round the ritual room into the circle and waits her turn to invoke the quarter ruling her now..after all the greetings have been made, hugs shared and stories told, deer leads all assembled in a deosil circle about the room- beginning at the wide doors opening into the great hall. he joins in the "ooh's" and "ah's" at the sight of mama high overhead, her r

that to all who desire to see- whether seeing shadow, or faint outline of magical light- that he wears both now. as deer drops to his left knee with both hands clasped upon his right, he reverently lowers his eyes to the floor and to his sister's feet. and, hearing her gentle permission among the many melodies already playing in his head, raises them. knees, womb, heart, breasts. knowing that his goddess already resides within, as she does within all women, but must be called out for all the rest to see. deer rises and places both hands squarely on owl's shoulders, looking directly into her eyes, and notes that it is now she who trembles. while deer can only imagine that the mixture of desire and apprehension which he felt are now hers, that self within otherness with which he now particip

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

s of other books, the bewildering nature of which may be recognized in a few minutes by glancing through a talmudic miscellany by paul isaac hershon. the word hlbq (qblh) is spelt in many ways, such as qabalah, qaballah, cabala, kaballa, and even, though quite incorrectly- gabella. it is not derived from such fantastic origins as the name of kapila, the indian philosopher, or from the name of the goddess cybele, for the word simply means greception h, something received an oral transmission, an oracle, or the spoken word. and the reason is, as we have already mentioned, that for ages the qabalistic doctrines were not set down in writing or print, the hebrews considering them too secret and sublime a wisdom for the common eye. this wisdom is formed within a vast number of doctrines, such as

or the mysteries connected with the tetragrammaton and the other names of god and the angels, comprised in the theosophy as well as with the cosmogony which also played so important a part among the jewish mystics and the kabbalists. 11 but long before the essenes existed lived the qabalah. aryan and chaldean esoteric doctrines percolated into it. in egypt, the mysteries of the sun god, the moon goddess, of osiris and isis, impinged upon it. assyria and babylon gave it much, and not a little may be traced to the vedas, the upanishads, the bhagavad-gita, and the vedantas, and much of the practical qabalah to the tantras more especially. historically, the main point of interest is that the qabalist is an inveterate plagiarist; he never hesitates to absorb knowledge from outside. his doctrin

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

co-operate or work together. in the following descriptions of egyptian emblems, will be perceived some of the changes which finally took place relative to the idea of sex in the god-idea. in the museum of egyptian antiquities in berlin is a sepulchral tablet representing the tree of life. this emblem figures the trunk of a tree, from the top of which emerges the bust of a woman--netpe. she is the goddess of heavenly existence, and is administering to the deceased the water and the bread of life, the latter of which is represented by a substance in the form of cakes or rolls. the time at which this tablet was found is not known, but it is supposed to belong to the period of the xixth dynasty, or about the time of rameses ii, 1400 years b.c. there is also in the berlin museum another represe

a tree of life which is surrounded by winged spirits, bearing in their hands the pine cone, a symbol indicating life, and which is said to have the same significance as the crux-ansata, or cross, among the egyptians. in later ages, the tree of life, i. e, the divine man, or cross, or both together, furnish immortal food to those who lay hold upon them, exactly in the same manner as did netpe, the goddess of wisdom, or spiritual life, in former times. according to the testimony of barlow, this is the subject "most frequently symbolized on early christian sepulchral tablets and monuments"[13] christ's body was the "bread of life" and his blood was the "wine from the tree of life" of which to partake was life eternal. the cross, as in earlier religions, represented completeness of life. the j

directed to the grove of abraham as "that famous oak grove of beersheba, planted by the illustrious prophet and first druid--abraham; and from whom our celebrated british druids came, who were of the same patriarchal reformed religion, and brought the use of sacred groves to britain"[17 [17] barlow, symbolism, p. 98. the fact has been ascertained that in arabia, in very ancient times, there was a goddess named azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called samurch, and that in yemen tree-worship still prevails. to the date is ascribed divine honors. this tree is said to have its regular priests, services, rites, and festivals, and is as zealously worshipped as are the gods of any other country. we are not informed as to whether the jewish tree of life was borrowed from the chaldea

upon it, of which numerous instances occur in the publication of kaempfer, sonnerat, etc: the brama of india is represented sitting upon a lotus throne, and the figures upon the isaic table hold the stem of this plant, surmounted by the seed vessel in one hand, and the cross representing the male organs in the other: thus signifying the universal power, both active and passive, attributed to that goddess"[19 [19] symbolism of ancient art. the lotus is the most sacred and the most significant symbol connected with the sacred mysteries of the east. upon this subject, maurice observes that there is no plant which has received such a degree of honor as has the lotus. it was the consecrated symbol of the great mother who had brought forth the fecundative energies, female and male. not only thro

these nations worshipped the corporeal sun. it was the "centre or body from which the pervading spirit, the original producer of order, fertility, and organization, continued to emanate to preserve the mighty structure which it had formed" it is evident that at an early age, both in egypt and in india, spiritualized conceptions of sun-worship had already been formed. we have seen that netpe, the goddess of light, or heavenly wisdom, conferred spiritual life on all who would accept it. the great mother of the gods in india was not only the source whence all blessings flow, but she was the beginning and the end of all things. of "aditi, the boundless, the yonder, the beyond all and everything" max muller says that in later times she "may have become identified with the sky, also with the ea

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

m. in1875a third and even more influential movement made its appearance in new york and rapidly gained world-wide, enthusiastic, and utterly uncritical support. this was the theosophical society, the creation of madameb1avatskyand colonelh.s. olcott. helena petrovnab1avatskywas a remarkable person by any standards; by those of contemporary seekers after wonders andmarvelsshe was little short of a goddess, and her departure from the spiritualist22thegoldendawnmovement, where she had collectedenrouteboth fame as a medium and the dog-like devotionofcolonel olcott, to the more exotic shoresofeastemoccultism was inevitable. whether or not she had travelled in tibet, and whether or not she served hiddenmahatmas-indeed,whether or not such beings evenexist-isstill hotly debated, but what is unques

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onic points; it refers also to the doctrines of pythagoras whose five pointed star i mention later on. among the masonic points which have been derived from the ancient mysteries, i notice the triple degrees of the system corresponding to the mysteries of serapis, isis, and osiris. now our second degree has feminine suggestions; note, shibboleth, the ear of corn, the water, for corn refers to the goddess ceres, female, or demeter, gemeter, earth mother, and the water is female in all old languages; compare binah, mother deity; andthe religion of freemasonry 119our third is a very close approximation to that which represen255 ted the slaying of osiris.thebattery of acclamation when the candidate is restored to light is a direct imitation of the sudden crash of feigned thunder and lightning

ing of the merry thought bone of a fowl. other common present day superstitions are seen in the notion of an evil result from spilling salt, of seeing a single magpie, of walking under a ladder and of hearing a dog howl at night.thenwe hear of the misfortunes likely to occur from a work undertaken on a friday, and from being one of thirteen at any function.theevil omen of friday the day of venus, goddess of love, is difficult to explain: while the maliceofthirteen is associated for some mysterious reason with the twelve apostles of jesus.summaryas a result of this survey of the history of divination we must conclude that the desire of man for prescience as to the events of his earth life has always existed, and does still exist. almost as universal has been and is the desire to discover wh

tand around, a radiated cup hangs upon a pole, and several animals are also drawn in the upper part of the scene.resemblances of freemasonry to mithra 251thetauroctonic sculpture at osterburken is considered the best example extant. in some sculptures these scenes are supplemented by zodiacal figures, by kronos or time, by atlas, oceanus, the fates and zeus with his thunderbolt. at one period the goddess anaitis (astarte, aphrodite) was associated with mithras in sculptures.theancient persian work namedbundahish,which gives a theory of cosmogony after the zoroastrian ideals throws some light upon these mythical scenes. it narrates that the first creation of ormuzd was of goshurun, the heavenly bull, that this bull was killed by the evil ahriman, and that from its side came gayomort, the fi

ers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associated with the paganmagna mater,the great mother goddess. as mithra worship was fading out, the emperor julian made an attempt to restore its dominance, but his failed, and persecution by christian authorities caused its extinction: the christian priests were especially bitter against the mithraists because of the similarities which christianity offered to the methods of mithra worship, for both used a ceremony of baptism, a sacred meal, the act

estonedto death, beyond the camp, notably any man who had cursed god.thechaldeans worshipped a mysterious stone called mniz255 ouris (see my edition of theoraclesofzoroaster)and offered sacrifices to it. the phoenicians worshipped sacred stone pillars which were called baetylia.thethebans of greece worshipped bacchus as a stone pillar, and tacitus in hishistory,book2,3,tells us that at paphos the goddess venus was represented by a conical stone.thegreeks used also to place pillars, consecrated stones, before their temples and gymnasia, and even before the dwellings of the notables: pausanias says that unhewn stones were preferred. cybele, the goddess, was represented by a black stone; and eusebius remarks that a black stone was peculiarly appropriate to a god because of his obscure and ins

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

8th 18themooni't(29th 19thesun.,030th 20thelast judgment (angel)c',0,31st 21theuniverserlh32nd first cometh the one numbered 0, the circle of the heavens, the negative; then 1 the circle opened out into a right line, the positive. these two numbers have corrupted egyptian titles attached to them which are to the 0 mat; to the 1pogod:these are"'q.-maut- thepekht- stretch out- extension- the mother-goddess of all extended through the universe 'and above the shouldersofthatgreat goddess isnaturein her vastness exalted' notethatthe last atus is called the 'universe. 8 justice is referred to, and,and11 strength is referred totoandq,which causeth a transposition in the attribution, for these are cognate symbols. but at one time the82thesorcerer and his apprenticesword of justice wastheegyptian '

ution, for these are cognate symbols. but at one time the82thesorcerer and his apprenticesword of justice wastheegyptian 'knife' symbol of the*'sickle of leo, while the scales represented the sun having'.just quitted the balance point of highest declination. similarly the female and the lionrepresentedthe idea of venus (lady) offire of vulcan (hinexalted).but'the earliest attribution was the lion-goddess (or lion-god of.'horus)to.q.andmatthegoddess oftruthwith herscales'to, and this is therefore better. alsowas attributed to.225..horus at one time. so unto the 'foolish man' is attributed air, moveable .and'.never permanent.the'juggler' isthenatural symbol of mercury, the god of tricksters and also of thedeeper.knowledge.the'high priestess'267 findeth her natural correla. tive in the]j 225v

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l of the universe, the axis mundi and the sacred tree, characteristics of the traditional model, the neo-platonic cosmos, theosophical and modern maps, the kabbalistic tree of life, yggdrasil:the world tree. 3 first principles who or what is god? what s in a name? the pleroma, the divine will, logos and sophia, what about jesus? jesus, christ and logos, what is sophia, the polarity of the god and goddess, impersonal to personal, the solar logos:christ, gods and spirits, the seven spirits (logoii, the seven planes, the earth and the underworld, the immortals. 4 the secret of saturn the secret of saturn, perceptional dualism, the watchers of enoch, archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild, the battle within, summary:the nature of evil in gnosticism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gno

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

ost whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine and uniting all that is. the pillar and foundation of the truth, pavel florensky. the importance of sophia can be best understood when we understand the primal myth behind her nature. throughout many cultures there has been the legend of the goddess who is stolen from the world of life and is taken to the underworld. there she is kept captive pinning for her lover who is still in the other world. she waits and pines until at last some salvation is achieved by her hero coming into the underworld to save her. however, this salvation is at a cost and together they end in a battle against the underworld until the completion of the tale. t

bulgakov, lindisfarne press, 1993. the concept of sophia is alien to many western gnostics and yet when we clearly study the bible in the light of the gnosis, we find she is an integral part of divinity. when we consider how often the concept of sophia is linked to the concept of wisdom, we can achieve a deeper understanding of the power and beauty of the pleroma. the polarity of the god and the goddess while the three principles (sometimes called the triangle or triune principle (singular) work in unison, in many traditions there is a strong emphasis placed on the polarity between the logos and sophia. while many gnostics would tend to avoid overt anthropomorphism and see these more as principles, other traditions place a strong emphasis on the god/goddess nature of the polarity. these t

ore as principles, other traditions place a strong emphasis on the god/goddess nature of the polarity. these traditions range from those of paganism and heathenism to the syzergies of valentinus. while there is nothing wrong with using myth and legend to put flesh on the bones of metaphysical principles, we should note confuse the image with the essence. certainly there is a wide range of god and goddess images which fit nicely on this polarity, they also move down through the planes and have other expressions. if we use the kabbalistic model for a moment we can see how the pagan concept of the horned god and the triple goddess arose. the horned god manifests as the logos in chokmah and then as the sun. these are his two modes. while the goddess manifests as the old crone of saturn (sophia

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m, named after the celtic sun god ogha from whom it supposedly derived. ogham s use was primarily esoteric and is believed to have developed on the west gnostic theurgy page 111 coast of ireland, probably as a refinement of the finger languages of the druids. another esoteric celtic system is known as the tree alphabet. one poetic and not too scholarly form of this code was published in the white goddess by robert graves (faber and faber 1948. the tree alphabet or beth luis nion is based on the druidic mysteries, it is composed of twenty nine letters divided into four groups. each group is related to various esoteric concepts, seasonal rites and groups of trees. the major seven letters were known as the chieftain letters, they were attributed to the trees oak, hazel, holly, yew, ash, pine

s many forms. the most common adaptation is that found in the language of myth and legend where the x and y factors take on anthropomorphic forms. for the gnostic the logos and sophia are the twin poles of the x factor. one traditional adaptation, for example, was for the logos to be related to the sun and sophia to the moon, and this led to a wide range of sexual duality traditions using god and goddess images. while these are fine in their place, it is gnostic theurgy page 120 important to see them as mythological forms only, to worship the sun or the moon is to fall into the greatest error, and comes under the dominion of the demiurge. since reproduction is only a thing of the lower world and resulted from the error of matter, the images of fertility can only with extreme care be relate

s in which much of the esoteric tradition developed. while much of the form of modern kabbalah originated in medieval mysticism, alchemy and hermeticism, we can clearly see that the basic mythology and forms was egyptian in origin. the recorded history of egypt covers an immense period of time. even the earliest forms of egyptian civilisation- which concentrated on the stellar worship of the star goddess had a highly evolved structure and form. by the first dynasty a wide range of esoteric and religious cults could be found, and a complex system of burial was evolved to guide the deceased into the treasury of light, bypassing the fallen gnostic theurgy page 191 worlds. these ceremonies later evolved to include complex mummification processes and were chronicled in the egyptian book of the

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ay take any form you wish. you are vampyre, incubus, set-like and immortal in essence. you become as ahriman, the infernal king who shapes the world according to his desire. you may communicate and seek various points of congress with all goetic spirits in the dreaming plane, your gate is the dream. this is the sabbat body of which you shall go forth. you may fly forth to discover a great crimson goddess before you. she is robed in red, and her head is covered with a caul bloody with the mark of birth. her hands are pale ivory, with blackened and animal like nails, sharp and cruel. she is encircled with a great red dragon, and two other heads emerge from her red robe hag like and hissing with serpent tongues. you ask her to lift her crimson veil, which she does a skull is beneath, the eyes

obe hag like and hissing with serpent tongues. you ask her to lift her crimson veil, which she does a skull is beneath, the eyes are of blackness. before you this skull becomes flesh and a face which is of great beauty looks at you. her eyes are still black as pitch, and she speaks to you of that which you would tell no one. she knows you more than anyone else, lover friend or family member. this goddess, being lilith called hecate, ruha-az or babalon is the goddess of flame, she is the succubus queen, vampyre and dragon rider. she opens forth her robe and spreads her lips wide, to reveal teeth and a slithering tongue. she invites you in. the teeth retract yet the tongue still slithers as you grow close. you shall go unto her, muse and lover, mother and harlot feel this sensual fire within

, is sigillized and charged essentially with the names of luciferian power, being sabaoth (the lord of the sabbat, or the sabbatic god, associated with zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, as suggested by austin osman spa

the water, touch thy temples and forehead the adornation of the bath by the sacred waters of hecate and the cleansing light of lucifer, i am to prepare for the great work, and my body shall be a temple of both abstinence and fornication. after the bath and when you have robed yourself 31 the adornation at the induing of the vestments- o set-an, lord of the earth, lucifer, lord of the air, hecate, goddess of waters and shaitan, lord of flame, that i shall be wrapped in the cloak of the wolf and encircled in the serpents skin, so it is done! the conjurations the 72 spirits of the shemhamforasch i do summon and evoke thee, o spirit n. by the flames of azazel the lord of the earth i conjure thee forth. by beralanensis, baldachiensis, paumachia and aplogiae sedes; by the most powerful guardians

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LIRP

u turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

of the darkness (sign of silence) stand in one place, pivot clockwise and bow to each of the other archangels, fire, earth, then air. go to the west and give the practicus sign (see the archangel gabrriel respond by making the sign in return) begin meditation with the archangel gabriel "facing west standing or sitting with your eyes closed, visualize the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus. as clearly as possible visualize all the details of gabriel. the colors she may be the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 2 of 2 6/27/2004 8:03 am possible visualize all the details of gabriel. the colors she may be wearing, the clothes, the background, etc, but most importantly try to feel her presence. k

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u trace in the air with your lotus wand, the invoking pentagram of the sign required. so, if you are dealing with a, you will use the invoking pentagram of o. after you have sufficiently charged all twelve bands, then you will lay your wand on your altar with the lotus facing east, you will stand in the west, raise both of your hands, and enflame yourself with the following prayer "oh isis, great goddess of the forces of nature, let thine influence descend and consecrate this wand which i dedicate unto thee for the performance of the works of the magic of light" step 6 wrap your lotus wand in the appropriate silk or linen. 8 step 7 purify the room by n and o just as you did in the beginning; leave nothing out here. step 8 perform the reverse circumambulation to break up the forces. remembe

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angle upon altar, hold the pommel of the sword immediately over it, and say "by all the names, powers, and rites already rehearsed, i conjure upon thee power and might irresistible. khabs am pekht, konx om pax, light in extension. as the light hidden in darkness can manifest therefrom, so shalt thou become irresistible" step 26 pause, and using the hathor, invoke hathor as follows "o thou,who art goddess of passionate beauty and desire,i invoke thee. exalt my soul to the feet of thy glory. hear me, and manifest in splendor to him who worships at thy throne. when ra created sekhmet, her power became perfected in you, hathor. oh hathor, thou who art like the eye of ra, do i call upon thee. thou art attraction. thou art desire. thou art passion. thou art queen of the stars, and thy very name

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rate them: in symbols did he record them: for betwixt the light and the darkness did he stand. this is complete explanation of the symbolism of, and the formulae contained in the 0=0 grade of neophyte of the order of the golden dawn "enterer of the threshold" is the name of the 0=0 grade of neophyte "the hall of the neophyte" is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of truth" that is, of the goddess thmaah, whose name has three forms according to the nature of her operation. this is explained under the chapter concerning the hegemon. of the temple in reference to the sephiroth. the temple, as arranged in the neophyte grade of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, is placed looking towards the hy of hwhy in twklm in hycu. that is, as y and h answer unto the sephiroth hmkj and hnyb

ion to this explanation, it represents the black calvary cross of suffering as the initiator by trial and self abnegation, and the opener of the way into the comprehension of the forces of the divine light. it is therefore suspended from a black collar to show that suffering is the purgation of evil "before the face of the gods in the place of the threshold" is the name of hegemon, and she is the goddess thma-ae-st having the following coptic forms: thma-ae-st- this is as in regards to the middle pillar and the influence from rtk. thma-aesh- this is more fiery as in regards to her influence with respect to the pillar of severity. thmaa-ett- this is more fluidic as in regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from hmkj, and

h respect to the pillar of severity. thmaa-ett- this is more fluidic as in regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from hmkj, and therefore, is the mitre head split in two and not closed, to indicate the dual manifestation of wisdom and truth, even as the hall of the neophyte is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth" the three inferior officers do not wear mantles but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the darkness, under the presidency of the superior officers. the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother lett

e herald before them. the stolistes is stationed in the northern part of the hall to the northwest of the black pillar whose base is in dwh, and is there as the affirmer of the powers of moisture, n, reflected through the tree into dwh. the cup is the receptacle of this, filled from dwh so as to transmit its forces into twklm, restoring and purifying the vital forces therein by cold and moisture "goddess of the scale of the balance at the black pillar" is the name of stolistes, and she is "the light shining through the waters upon earth" aura-mo-ooth, and there is a connection between her and the aurim or urim of the hebrews. the dadouchos is stationed toward the midst of the southern part of the hall, to the southwest of the white pillar whose base is in jxn and is there as the affirmer o

aurim or urim of the hebrews. the dadouchos is stationed toward the midst of the southern part of the hall, to the southwest of the white pillar whose base is in jxn and is there as the affirmer of the powers of o reflected down the tree to jxn. the censer is the receptacle thereof, the transmitter of the fires of jxn to twklm, restoring and purifying the vital force therein by heat and dryness "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the name of dadouchos, and she is "perfection through fire manifesting on earth" thaum-aesch-nia-eth, and there is a connection between her and the thummum of the hebrews. the stolistes has the care of the robes and insignia of the temple as symbolizing by their cleansing and purification, the purging away of the evil of twklm by the wate

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the second order, to affirm that the effect of the ensuing ceremony upon the candidate is only authorized by the higher powers for the purpose of initiation, which shall ultimately lead to the knowledge of his higher self. he is admitted to the grade of neophyte which has no number, concealing the commencement of all things under the similitude of no thing. the hegemon, the representative of the goddess of truth and justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation. this symbolises that it is the presider of equilibrium who is to administrate the process of initiation, by the commencement of the forces of equilibrium in the candidate himself, through the symbols of rectitude and self-control. however, the actual preparation of the candidate should be performed by the sentinel

ness, demands authority from the hierophant to admit the candidate into the hall of truth and justice. the hierophant, in granting the permission, seals the candidate with a new name given to the physical body of the outward man, but signifying the aspirations of his soul. as a consequence of the affirmation of the motto as the name of the candidate in the hall of truth, osiris, sends forward the goddess of the scales of the balance to baptise him with n and the companion goddess to consecrate him with d. as it is written, unless a man be born of water and of the spirit, he shall in no way enter the kingdom of heaven. the kerux instantly bars the candidate s passage to mark that though he has been admitted, the natural man of unpurified desires cannot be a dweller in the hall of the truth

the foot is advanced 6 metrical distances answering to the number 6 of trapt- osiris- alluding therefore to the self-sacrifice necessary to accomplish this. 3. it represents the practical application of the beginning of a magical force. let the adept, in using the sign of the enterer, give the step as he commences the sign and let him imagine himself colossal, clothed with the form of the god or goddess appropriate to the work, his head reaching to the clouds, his feet resting upon earth. let him take the step as if he stamped upon the earth and the earth quaked and rocked beneath him. as it is said, clouds and darkness are round about him- lightenings and thunders the habitation of his feet. its secret name is the step of the avenger. the saluting sign 1. that of groping forward in searc

moun kneph, the sacred spirit. remember that tho-oth, truth, has two aspects- the higher and the lower. the higher is absolute,.and the lower is suitable to human comprehension. to tell the higher form of a truth to one who cannot understand it is to lie to him because, though correctly formulated, it will not be correctly received. 14 the forms of thmaah: there are four forms of spelling for the goddess thma- est whereby she is attributable to the four letters of the name, and therewith to the elements and the tree. n: hnyb, heh. d: hmkj. yod. thma-oe-tt thma-oe-sh l trapt. vau. m twklm. heh. thm-a-oe-st (final) thm-a-oe (middle pillar) in the equinox ceremony, the hegemon is m, spirit, and the principal officer. she reconciles from east to west, and from north to south, and in a circular

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lara, i conjure ye by the mighty name of \yhla hwhy, the divine ruler of hnyb, and by the name of layqpx, your archangel. aid me with your power, in your office to place a veil between me and all things belonging to the outer and material world. clothe me with a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest in the sphere of yatbc (pause) come unto me, oh thamaah, goddess of truth and justice who presides over the eternal balance of this hall of dual manifestation of truth. auramooth, come unto me, thou lady of the purifying waters of life. thaum- aesh-neith, come unto me, lady of the consuming fire, purify me and consecrate me who is aeeshoorist, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. upon my brow are arrayed the twelve stars of light. wis

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ods, provides us with yet more understanding of the letters: i.n.r.i. hebrew hebrew element element i y yam n n n nur o r r ruach m i y yebeshas l the sepher yetzirah gives us a deeper and more profound meaning for inward meditation by assigning the astrology to the keyword: i.n.r.i. hebrew astrology i y f n n h r r a i y f! f is the pure virginal state of nature. this sign relates unto the great goddess isis! h is the sign of death and regeneration. it is also a sign of energy in that ?ruleth. this sign relates to apophis, the greek for set, the slayer of osiris! 0 is the sign of life and light. it is the great life and light giver to the earth. it is, most importantly, the sign of resurrection; for the sun sets in the winter and rises to begin anew in a (vernal equinox. this sign relates

seasonal circles. the top twelve is high noon, it is the sun at its apex. the bottom twelve is midnight, the time of greatest darkness. observe that these are the physical signs of light, lvx, to be performed with the deepest reverence during the "analysis of the keyword" sign of osiris slain at the equinox of a and g. light and darkness are equal. sign of the mourning of isis; the symbol of the goddess and spiritual fruitation. 5 sign of typhon/apophis; death, darkness, destruction. sign of osiris risen; the illumination of light overcoming death. examine the gematria in regard to the word lvx. l=50, v=5, x=10, for a total of 65. this is the number of yanda which translates into "my lord" lvx= 65= my lord and divinity follow closely the steps, and let the adept commit to memory the analy

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

uage.4 according to legend it was established by manco capac and mama occlo, two children of the sun. here, though the incas worshipped the sun god, whom they knew as inti, quite another deity was venerated as the most holy of all. this was viracocha, whose namesakes were said to have made the nazca lines and whose own name meant foam of the sea. 5 no doubt it is just a coincidence that the greek goddess aphrodite, who was born of the sea, received her name because of the foam [aphros] out of which she was formed .6 besides, viracocha was always depicted uncompromisingly as a male by the peoples of the andes. that much about him is known for certain. no historian, however, is able to say how ancient was the cult of this deity before the spanish arrived to put a stop to it. this is because

is lay down comfortably inside. before he had time to get out the conspirators rushed forward, nailed the lid tightly closed and sealed even the cracks with molten lead so that there would be no air. the coffer was then thrown into the nile. it had been intended that it should sink, but it floated rapidly away, drifting for a considerable distance until it reached the sea coast. at this point the goddess isis, wife of osiris, intervened. using all the great magic for which she was renowned, she found the coffer and concealed it in a secret place. however, her evil brother set, out hunting in the marshes, discovered the coffer, opened it and, in a mad fury, cut the royal corpse into fourteen pieces which he scattered throughout the land. once more isis set off to save her husband. she made

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

n part ii, believed to have brought the arts and skills of civilization to mesopotamia.25 legends dating back at least 5000 years relate that uan lived under the sea, emerging from the waters of the persian gulf every morning to civilize and tutor mankind.26 is it a coincidence that uaana, in the mayan language, means he who has his residence in water ?27 let us also consider tiamat, the sumerian goddess of the oceans and of the forces of primitive chaos, always shown as a ravening monster. in mesopotamian tradition, tiamat turned against the other deities and unleashed a holocaust of destruction before she was eventually destroyed by the celestial hero marduk: she opened her mouth, tiamat, to swallow him. he drove in the evil wind so that she could not close her lips. the terrible winds f

he great flood, and who had been rewarded with the gift of immortality because he had preserved the seeds of humanity and of all living things. it was long, long ago, said utnapishtim, when the gods dwelt on earth: anu, lord of the firmament, enlil, the enforcer of divine decisions, ishtar, 1 the epic of gilgamesh, penguin classics, london, 1988, p. 61. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 185 goddess of war and sexual love and ea, lord of the waters, man s natural friend and protector. in those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour. enlil heard the clamour and he said to the gods in council, the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel. so the gods ag

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

"magical universe" a well-known axiom of occultism is that the aura of man is a magical mirror of the universe. in enochian magick, your aura is your personal replica of the magical universe. 18 man is like a circle whose center is nowhere (microscopic) and whose circumference is everywhere (infinite. enochian magick represents this center by the god hadit. the circumference is represented by the goddess nuit. 19 the five elements "the earth is an element, and whatever is produced from it. so is the water and all produced there from. so then that is an element which produces. andan element is a mother, and there are four of them, air, eire, water, earth. from there four matrices everything in the whole world is produced" paracelsus figure 1 shows that the cosmic elements of earth, water, a

. because a monad is defined as a single indivisible unit, consciousness can never actually be separated from the universe. imagine consciousness as a geometric point whose extension is zero. imagine the universe as a circle whose circumference is infinite.together the point within the circle symbolizes man within the magical universe. crowley called the infinitely large circle nuit. the egyptian goddess of the night sky nuit (or nut) personified infinite space as well as the concept of objectivity. he called the infinitely small point hadil. the chaldean god 22 hadit (or had) personified pure consciousness as well as the concept of subjectivity. the egyptians used the symbol of the winged globe to represent a center of consciousness. whatever the symbol used, as a magician you will soon r

sephirothic crosses. observation of figure 12, appendix a, shows that in each subquadrant, one square is used for both the horizontal and vertical names of the calvary cross angels. these 16 special letters can be arranged to spell the phrase ondo-apizebabalon (oh-en-doh ah-pee-zodeh bahbah- loh-en) which can be translated "the eternal regions of babalon" where babalon is the name of an important goddess. she is equivalent to kali, kundali, isis, and other feminine deities who are assodated with the qabalistic sephira of binah. the gematric value of this enochian phrase, i.e, the value of the 16 letters that are assigned to these squares, is 318. this is the value of the magick square of olap as explained later in enochian healing techniques. essentially, this means that these 16 squares a

gematric values of these names you will see: 47 yvsx= 537 lvsx= 485 nvsx= 527 hvsx= 478 furthermore, because the letter x can also be an s (this square has hilo letters, s and x) you would also find, yvss= 144 l v s s= 9 2 nvss= 134 hvss= 85 this gives a total of eight possible angels, archangels and demons in this square. this variety of governing forces is consistent with the presiding egyptian goddess, isis, who herself has many aspects and roles. however, each ruler will be influenced by saturn and the universe (atu xxi. multiple letters in squares, like multiple gematria values for 1, t and z, result from the complexity of these regions. the potential forces of any square can only be fully investigated by looking at each of the letters assigned to it. 48 the watchtower colors blue am

f ra, the father of horus and the brother of isis and nephthys. he is the god of the dead. isis solidification, manifestation, nature, law, principie, l o v e. i s i s g o v e r n s t h e f o r c e s o f sol idi f icat ion. she gives form to the formless and thus rules over all birth processes. her name rneans'throne' and she is the source or seat of creative power. isis is similar to the tantric goddess, kundalini. 66 nephthys dispersion, fragmentation, dissociation, severity. she is the counterpart of her sister,'sis. her name means 'lady of the house' nephthys roles over all dispersion processes. she turras forro into formless essence. nephthys is similar to the tantric goddess, kali. horus attainment, fruition, man, humanity, the present as a result of the past. his title is 'the aveng

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spect elohim gibur (god-goddesses of strength/might).creation byarchangelchamael orsamael (burner or venom of god. formation by the angelic order of serafim (fiery serpents. expressively by the planet madim (mars. humanly by the development of female chromosomes in the foetus. 6 harmony and beauty. here life is brought to balance originatively by the god- aspect yhvh eloah ve-da at (i will be god-goddess of knowledge. creatively by archangel michael (the god-like. formatively by the angel order of the malachim (kings or messengers. expressively by shemesh (the sun) as life-supporting nucleus of our solar system. it is said that the male-female chromosomes are combined into the best possible being here, and the ultimate physical sex of the individual decided. 7 victory and achievement. orig

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

important obstacle to overcome in the practice of magical evocation is the difficulty to find a suitable hierarchy of averse forces. the hierarchies in most of the grimoires are hopelessly corrupt, largely due to the practice of young religions to demonize gods and angels from the pantheons of pre-existing and contemporaneous spiritual traditions. for example, baal and astarte, the great god and goddess of the caananites, appear diabolized in the infernal hierarchy of the goetia, in the lemegeton, as the demons beelzebub and asteroth. other grimoires even include isis, the sublime mother goddess of egypt, as one of the denizens of hell. fortunately, however, the hierarchies of forces attributed to the qabalistic tree of life by the hermetic order of the golden dawn provide a perfect vehic

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o, and still asserts her full power in our present frau. almost all names of the female deities have still a transparent meaning; as compared with those of the male, there is something innocent and inviolable in them, and for that reason they seem to have been treated tenderly or tolerated. the delicacy and inoffensive matter of the myth have shielded it longer in popular legend. pkeface. xxi the goddess hellia has exchanged her personal meaning for a local one, that of hell. ostara, eastre, is preserved at least in the name of the high festival; and hreda, if my conjecture be sound, in the word for a bride's gerada (outfit, as zio was in the name of the sword. folia and sindgund have only come to light through the latest discoveries. this muster of divinities is strong enough to support t

evoted to them? phol appears to point, now eastward, now westward. an important mark of distinction is the change of gender in the same name of a god among different tribes. in gothic the masc. frauja (lord) was still current as a common noun, in o.h. german the fem. frouwa, in o. saxon only the masc. froho, fro, a.s. frea, so that goths and saxons seem to have preferred the god. high germans the goddess; in the north both freyr and freyja are honoured alike. but the north knows only the god nicirsr, and the germans living on the opposite side of the baltic only the goddess nerthus. the relation of zio to zisa, perhaps isis (p. 298, demands further explanation. no doubt the numerous aliases of that female deity, who is not yet forgotten in modern legend, are due to differences of race: hol

ation of zio to zisa, perhaps isis (p. 298, demands further explanation. no doubt the numerous aliases of that female deity, who is not yet forgotten in modern legend, are due to differences of race: holda shews herself in hesse, thuringia, and north franconia, berhta in vogtland, east franconia and sundry tracts of swabia, where likewise a male berhtold encounters us. there is no trace of either goddess in lower germany, but a dame freke now turns up in the mark, and dame gaue haunts majklenburg between elbe and weser. yet in ancient times holda, as huldana, must have reached far westward to the rhine, and, if the ver-hilden-straet (p. 285) was named after her, into the netherlands, reminding us of the kinship between chatti and batavi; while the carolingian berhta pedauca and the biort o

' p. 168. as thor's minni was drunk, so full bowls were emptied in honour of ukko. wainamoinen wakes wipune out of her grave (rune 10, as o^inn does vcila. ilmarinen, the smith-god of the finns, reminds us of hephfestus and volundr, but makes a deeper impression than either; he fashioned a wife for himself out of gold (conf. p. 570 n. to the lapps, sarakka means creatress, from saret to create, a goddess of fortune. all finnish nations use yumala as a general name for the xxxll peefaoe. supreme being in the sense of our god or the slavic bogh, to which corresponds the swed. lapp, yupmel, norw. lapp, ibmel; but the syrian have also yen (gen. yenlon, the permians en, the votiaks inmar^ the tchei'emiss yumn. along the northern edge of europe and over the ural into northern asia extends this w

old, not wholly extinct, should half unconsciously get interwoven with the irrepressible new. jewish and christian doctrine began to lean towards heathen, heathen fancies and superstitions to push forward and, as it were, take refuge in all the places they found unoccupied by the new religion. here we find christian material in a heathen form, there heathen matter in a christian disguise. as the goddess ostara was converted into a notion of time, so was hellia into one of place. the beliefs of our forefathers about elves and giants got intensified and expanded into angels and devils, but the legends remained the same. wuotan, douar, zio, phol put on the nature of malignant diabolic beings, and the story of their solemn yearly visitation shaped itself into that of a wild rabble rout, which

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ungen. 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. 110-132. 6, 37-8. the wow t?tiz t!f? n ^ing 8iant-like but ^ther a goddess standing on a lommo a 1? v hat a 8iant s tomb on mt. blanc is caued la tombe du bon rated m t^^expression associated with the idea of a sacred venep 430 l pra&gt; p 9)&gt; c nf als oodgubbe used of thorr, p. 167, and godmor, pielgrzym! ter f^^mar^areta vienna 1834 p-17 b: obrzim, the -im as in oyczim, giants. 527 as the avari in the mid. ages are= chuni, the words mn and obor alike

arsh (mem. des antiquaires 7, 31. according to a greek legend, athena was fetching a mountain from pallene to fortify the acropolis, but, startled at the ill news 538 giants. brought by a crow, she dropt it on the way, and there it remains as mount lykabettos. 1 as the lord god passed over the earth scattering stones, his bags burst over montenegro, and the whole stock came down (yuk. 5. like the goddess, like the giants, the devil takes such burdens upon him. in upper hesse i was told as follows: between gossfelden and wetter there was once a village that has now disappeared, elbringhausen; the farmers in it lived so luxuriously that the devil got power over them, and resolved to shift them from their good soil to a sandy flat which is flooded every year by the overflowing lahn. so he too

in hesse in the llth cent, comes to us with the more weight, as, with characteristic differences which put all direct borrowing out of the question, it is still in force among servians and mod. greeks. vuk, under the word dodole/ describes the servian custom. a girl, called the. dodola, is stript naked, but so wrapt up in grass, herbs and flowers, that nothing of 1 the peruvians believe in a rain-goddess, who sits in the clouds with a pitcher of ivater, ready to pour it out at the right time; if she delays, her brother with thunder and lightning smites the pitcher in pieces. garcilaso de la vega s histt. incarum peruanorum 11, 27; conf. talvj s characteristik der volkslieder, p. 126. 2 i will here add, from anton s coll. on the slavs, the substance of a wallachian song, which the children

p. 110. need-fire. 611 it is still more interesting to observe how nearly the old roman and greek customs correspond. excerpts from festus (0. miiller 106, 2) say: ignis vestae si quando interstinctus esset, virgines verberibus afficiebantur a pontifice, quibus mos erat, tabulam felicis materiae tarn diu terebrare, quousque exceptum ignem cribro aeneo virgo in aedem ferret/ the sacred fire of the goddess, once extinguished, was not to be rekindled, save by generating the pure element anew. a plank of the choice timber of sacred trees was bored, i.e. a pin turned round in it, till it gave out sparks. the act of catching the fire in a sieve, and so conveying it into the temple, is suggestive of a similar carrying of water in a sieve, of which there is some account to be given further on. plu

reat deal older, if only for the contrast with midsummer fires, which never could penetrate into north germany, because the people there held fast by their easter fires. now, seeing that the fires of st. john, as we "shall presently shew, are more immediately connected with the christian church than those of easter, it is not unreasonable to trace these all the way back to the worship of the goddess ostard or edstre (p. 291, who seems to have been more a saxon and anglian divinity than one revered all over germany. her name and her fires, which are likely to have come at the beginning of may, would after the conversion of the saxons be shifted back to the christian feast. 2 those mountain fires of the people are scarcely derivable from the taper lighted in the church the same day: it

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part of the divine order of things decreed by a creator deity. this divine order was known as maat, and the creator was often identified with the god of the sun. the sun was the great provider of the light and

al or as part of the mortuary cult that continued after his death. others may have been intended to be spoken by the deceased king as he entered the afterlife. in this type of incantation, the king took on the role of many different deities. around 200 deities are mentioned in the pyramid texts. some are the major deities already known from cult temples, such the fertility god min and the creator goddess neith. others are entities such as snake deities and celestial ferrymen who inhabit a complex and intensely imagined realm of the gods. the most frequently mentioned deities are anubis, atum, geb, horus, isis, nephthys, nut, osiris, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued tha

ities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of orion and the goddess isis with the dog star, sirius.20 the cult of osiris is hardly known before the fifth dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid texts are not is a collection of narrative myths. they do contain numerous allusions to myths, many of which are difficult to interpret. some passages include what have been called mythical statements. these give the b

nked stories set in the third and fourth dynasties describes marvels performed by the magicians of this era, such as transforming a wax crocodile into a real one.34 in the framing story, five deities disguise themselves as people to help a mortal woman who is about to give birth to triplets destined to be kings. an incomplete story tells of an alarming encounter between a herdsman and a seductive goddess.35 another relates how an official sent on a mission was shipwrecked on a mysterious island.36 there he encounters a giant serpent who seems to be a form of the creator sun god. one middle kingdom narrative that only features divine characters is a fragmentary story about the attempted seduction of horus by seth, an event alluded to in the pyramid texts. some egyptologists refuse to class

atter s great-grandson, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 both hatshepsut and thutmose iii built special shrines where ordinary people could come to pray to deities such as the goddess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chief wi

HEAVEN HELL

en made, and the "book of the two ways" the coffins of al-barsha p. 14 contain a number of texts of various lengths, many of which have titles, and resemble in form the chapters of the great theban recension of the book of the dead. examples of these have been published in prof. maspero's recueil de travaux, tom. xxvi, p. 64 ff, by m. p. lacau, e.g "chapter of the seven addresses of homage to the goddess meh-urt [chapter of "the reassembling of the kinsfolk of a man in neter-khert "chapter of driving back kebka "chapter of setting out for orion &c. from the considerations set forth above it is quite clear that the practice of illustrating certain sections of books of the dead existed under the xith dynasty, and there is no good reason for doubting that it continued to be observed during th

a portion of osiris's kingdom of sekhet-hetepet, and a constant and abundant supply of wheat (for bread, barley (for beer, incense, unguents &c, and the power to assume any form he pleases at will. in the latter he calls upon certain gods to make his soul rejoin its body, and, addressing the gods who tow the boat of millions of years, he asks them to cause him to be born from the womb of the sky-goddess nut in the eastern horizon of heaven [daily] for ever. it has already been said that a complete illustrated copy of the book of gates was also inscribed on the sarcophagus of seti i, and it is not easy to explain this fact until we remember the important position which it makes osiris to hold in the other world. that the book is formed of very ancient materials is evident from the last sec

h fire. 2. another was filled with rushing, roaring waters, which swept everything away before them. 3. in another the serpent rerek lived. 4. in another the spirits lived upon the inert and the feeble. 5. in another lived the "destroyer of souls" 6. the great antiquity of the ideas about the aats is proved by the appearance of the names of hap, the nile-god, sept, or sothis, and the hippopotamus-goddess, hebt-re-f, in connection with them. the qualification for entering the aats was not so much the living of a good life upon earth as a knowledge of the magical figures which represented them, and their names; these are given twice in the papyrus of nu, and as they are of great importance for the study of magical pictures they have been reproduced above. of the general form and the division

n to say that he shall not be delivered over to the monster amemet, and they order that he shall have offerings, that he shall have the power to go into the presence of osiris, and that he shall have a homestead, or allotment, in sekhet-hetepet for ever. we next see ani being led into the presence of osiris by horus, the son of isis, who reports that the heart of ani hath sinned against no god or goddess; as it hath also been found just and righteous according to the written laws of the gods, he asks that ani may have cakes and ale given to him, and the power to appear before osiris, and that he may take his place among the "followers of horus" and be like them for ever. now from this evidence it is clear that ani was considered to have merited his reward in sekhet-hetepet by the righteous

iven to him, and the power to appear before osiris, and that he may take his place among the "followers of horus" and be like them for ever. now from this evidence it is clear that ani was considered to have merited his reward in sekhet-hetepet by the righteousness and integrity of his life upon earth as regards his fellow-man, and by the reverence and worship which he paid to every god and every goddess; in other words, it is made to appear that he had earned his reward, or had justified himself by his works. because his heart had emerged p. 52 triumphantly from its trial the gods decreed for him the right to appear in the presence of the god osiris, and ordered him to be provided with a homestead in sekhet-hetep. there is no mention of any repentance on ani's part for wrong done; indeed

HEKAS

oth or funeral vestment was the garment used by the aforementioned sect in their rituals; this was indicative of the symbolic interconnection of life and death. sgian-dhu- the scottish knife- speculatively analogous to the skan-do-la, the mandaean ritual knife. sabbat- the witches' rite- stemming from az-sabbat, meaning' the forceful occasion' and from the sa-ba-tu- the sumerian lunar rite of the goddess inanna; this term by means of linguistic confluence equates with the semitic sabbath. note also that the ahl-i-haq, the people of truth- a middle-eastern tribal group, preserve a rite called the sabz which means 'the making green of things; they also sacrifice a cockerel at dawn to mark the liminal edge of night: a custom which has become a glyph of a certain arcanum in sabbatic lore. esba

h is oft' the first word in the magical rite and which i have given as the title for this article 'hekas. here the word existed in the form heka or hekau meaning 'the power of magick; it is believed to derive from the sound of the frog and thus supplies us with a totemic association with the batrachia employed by the witch and the horse-whisperer 'hekas' also gave us hekate- the greek name of the goddess who keeps the gateway of the triple cross-roads, hexe- the spell, mark or charm, hag- the black goddess of the old moon, who in khem was represented as hekt the frog-headed mother of incantation. it was in egypt that the role of stellar worship was at an apotheosis in recorded history; as man looked to the heavens there turned the great dragon about the zenith, marking out the year and tra

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

t thy days arenumbered, and thou shalt reign but three summers longer. wicked thou wert born. perfidious thou art tothy friends and allies, robbing more than one of his lawful crown. murderer of thy next-of-kin, thou whoaddest to the knife and spear in open warfare, dagger, poison and treason, beware how thou dearest with theservant of nerthus" the nourishing (tacit. germ. xi- the earth, a mother-goddess, the most beneficent deity of theancient germans "ha, ha, ha. old hag of hell" chuckles the king, with an evil, ominous sneer "thou hast crawled out ofthe entrails of thy mother-goddess truly. thou fearest not my wrath? it is well. but little need i fear thineempty imprecations. i, a baptized christian" nightmare taleskarmic visions11 "so, so" replies the sybil "all know that clovis has ab

ve of itsmighty hand. then it sees itself in the northern mistworld, it penetrates under the guise of a brave bowmaninto helheim, the kingdom of the dead, where a black-elf reveals to him a series of its lives and theirmysterious concatenation "why does man suffer" enquiries the soul-ego "because he would becomeone" is the mocking answer. forthwith, the soul-ego stands in the presence of the holy goddess, saga. shesings to it of the valorous deeds of the germanic heroes, of their virtues and their vices. she shows the soulthe mighty warriors fallen by the hands of many of its past forms, on battlefield, as also in the sacred securityof home. it sees itself under the personages of maidens, and of women, of young and old men, and ofchildren. it feels itself dying more than once in those form

n egypt and in india, as a symbol of the universe. not a monument in the valley ofthe nile, not a papyrus, without this plant in an honoured place. on the capitals of the egyptian pillars, on thethrones and even the head-dresses of the divine kings, the lotus is everywhere found as a symbol of theuniverse. it inevitably became an indispensable attribute of every creative god, as of every creative goddess,the latter being, philosophically considered, only the feminine aspect of the god, at first androgynous,afterwards male. it is from padma-yoni "the bosom of the lotus" from absolute space, or from the universe outside timeand space, that emanates the cosmos, conditioned and limited by time and space. the hiranya garbha "theegg (or the womb) of gold, from which brahma emerges, is often call

or from the universe outside timeand space, that emanates the cosmos, conditioned and limited by time and space. the hiranya garbha "theegg (or the womb) of gold, from which brahma emerges, is often called the heavenly lotus. the god,vishnu- the synthesis of the trimurti or hindu trinity- during the "nights of brahma" floats asleep onthe primordial waters, stretched on the blossom of a lotus. his goddess, the lovely lakshmi, rising from thebosom of the waters, like venus-aphrodite, has a white lotus beneath her feet. it was at the churning of theocean of milk- symbol of space and of the milky way- by the gods assembled together, that lakshmi,goddess of beauty and mother of love (kama) formed of the froth of the foaming waves, appeared beforethe astonished gods, borne on a lotus, and holdin

modern, that might serve as a parallel to theolder one. did not the count ugolino, condemned to die of starvation in his dungeon, eat hisown children "to preserve for them a father? the popular legend of sunahsepha is morebeautiful than the commentary of manu- evidently an interpolation of some brahmans infalsified manuscripts. the pushkara lake* was one of the spots of this earth favoured by the goddess, lakshmi-padma (whitelotus; she often plunged into the fresh waters that she might visit her eldest sister, varuni, the consort of thegod varuna* lakshmi-padma heard the proposal of devarata, witnessed the despair of the father, andadmired the filial devotion of sunahsepha. filled with pity, the mother of love and compassion sent for therishi visvamitra, one of the seven primordial manus a

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ll things that are moved in every way, administers likewise the heavens. soul then leads everything in heaven, and on earth, and in the sea, by its movements-the names of which are, to will, to consider to take care of, to consult. to form opinions true and false, to be in a state of joy, sorrow, confidence, fear, hate, love, together with all such primary movements as are allied to these being a goddess herself, she ever takes as an ally nous, a god, and disciplines all things correctly and happily; but when with annoia-not nous-it works out everything the contrary. in this language, as in the buddhist texts, the negative is treated as essential existence. annihilation comes under a similar exegesis. the positive state is essential being, but no manifestation as such. when the spirit, in

is, or will be taking place. the glimpses at random, caught by the medium, and his flickering visions in the deceptive light, are transformed under the guiding will of the adept and seer into steady pictures, the truthful representation of that which he wills to come within the focus of his perception. hell a term which the anglo-saxon race has evidently derived from the name of the scandinavian goddess, hela, just as the word ad, in russian and other slavonian tongues expressing the same conception, is derived from the greek hades, the only difference between the scandinavian cold hell, and the hot hell of the christians, being found in their respective temperatures. but even the idea of these overheated regions is not original with the europeans, many people having entertained the conce

for the benefit and instruction of candidates. the most solemn and occult were certainly those which were performed in egypt by "the band of secret-keepers" as mr. bonwick calls the hierophants. maurice describes their nature very graphically in a few lines. speaking of the mysteries performed in philae (the nile-island, he says: it was in these gloomy caverns that the grand mystic arcana of the goddess (isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses. the word mystery is derived from the greek mu "to close the mouth" and every symbol connected with them had a hidden meaning. as plato and many of the other sages of antiquity affirm, these mysteries were highly religious, moral, and beneficent as a s

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iffering symbols, beliefs and dogmas. what symbol systems you wish to employ is a matter of choice, and that the webs of belief which surround them are means to an end, rather than ends in themselves (more of which later. 10 phil hine an important influence on the development of chaos magic was the writing of robert anton wilson& co, particularly the discordian society who revered eris, the greek goddess of chaos. the discordians pointed out that humour, clowning about and general light-heartedness was conspiciously absent from magic, which had a tendency to become very serious and self-important. there was (and to a certain extent remains) a tendency for occultists to think of themselves as an initiated elite as opposed to the rest of humanity. unlike the variety of magical systems which

on t fit your parameters. when you are spending more time defending your models, rather than modifying them, then you know it s time for another spot of deconditioning. report to room 101. 23 oven-ready chaos all hail discordia! the discordian society is, in its own words..a tribe of philosophers, theologians, magicians, scientists, artists, clowns, and similar maniacs who are intrigued with eris goddess of confusion and with her doings. the existence of the discordian society was first popularised in robert anton wilson& robert shea s blockbusting illuinatus! trilogy, and also in malaclypse the younger s book principia discordia which sets out the basic principles of the discordian religion- a religion based around the greek goddess, eris. traditionally, eris was a daughter of nox (night)

l where all the guests were. three of the invited goddesses, athena, hera, and aphrodite, each claimed the apple for themselves and started fighting and throwing food around. to settle the dispute, zeus ordered all three to submit to the judgement of a mortal over just who was the prettiest one, and said mortal was paris, son of the king of troy. zeus sent all three to paris, via hermes, but each goddess tried to 25 oven-ready chaos outwit the others by sneaking out early and offering a bribe to paris. athena offered paris victory in battle, hera, great wealth, while aphrodite merely loosened the clasps by which her tunic was fastened and unknotted her girdle, also offering paris the most beautiful of mortal women. so, aphrodite got the apple, and paris got off with helen, who unfortunatel

essed apostle sri syadasti3, patron of psychedelia, teach us the relative truth and blow our minds. 27 oven-ready chaos 7. face north: blessed apostle zarathud4, hard-nosed hermit, grant us the erisian doubt, and the constancy of chaos. 8. look up (or down: blessed apostle malaclypse5, elder saint of discordia, grant us illumination and protect us from stupidity. 9. look all over the place: great goddess discordia, holy mother eris, joy of the universe, laughter of space, grant us life, light, love and liberty and make the bloody magick work! 10. hail eris! all hail discordia! notes* for more on the spiral pentagrams, see the next section. 1.hung mung is the discordian link to the chinese mysteries and it is none other than he who devised the sacred chao. he is patron of the season of chao

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

ge shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say st "beauty is truth- truth beauty- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. as the singer ceased, there came a sound in the wind blowing from far egypt, where at night aurora mourns by the nile for her slain memnon. to the feet of the thunderer flew the rosy-fingered goddess and, kneeling, cried "master, it is time i unlocked the gates of the east. and phoebus, handing his lyre to calliope, his bride among the muses, prepared to depart for the jewelled and column-raised palace of the sun, where fretted the steeds already harnessed to the golden car of day. so zeus descended from his caryen throne and placed his hand upon the head of marcia, saying "daughter, t

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

d the child s head. then in a tone of silver it addressed me: it is the end. they have come down through the gloaming from the stars. now all is over, and beyond the arinurian streams we shall dwell blissfully in teloe. as the child spoke, i beheld a soft radiance through the leaves of the palm tree, and rising, greeted a pair whom i knew to be the chief singers among those i had heard. a god and goddess they must have been, for such beauty is not mortal; and they took my hands, saying, come, child, you have heard the voices, and all is well. in teloe beyond the milky way and the arinurian streams are cities all of amber and chalcedony. and upon their domes of many facets glisten the images of strange and beautiful stars. under the ivory bridges of teloe flow rivers of liquid gold bearing

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ant: pledging the new sorcerer not to the cosmos in general, but to the moon, which is said to influence the emotions of women- and indeed does, considering the menstrual calendar and the changes in feelings it brings about from cycle to cycle. not even my greatgrandmother remembered why variations in chants exist- it's just that witches always have done it one way or another. isis is the ancient goddess of the moon whose magic, when all is lost and you have gone down and under, will charm you once again to even higher heights. enchantresses who perform rituals in her name are granted special favours. she is queen of witchcraft, known for her sympathetic intervention into affairs of the heart. she has never turned her face from anyone who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no att

ne who has called her name. for beginning sorcerers no attempt should be made to cast a spell, perform a ritual, work a charm, enchant or fascinate without the protection of the ring described, called a full moon ring. the birthstone is said to offer the most protection. however, the stone that you associate with your moonsign is also highly effective. the chant variation is "in the name of isis, goddess of the moon, i offer my energies as a gift of the cosmos; my soul belongs to the wind. i am the cosmos; i am the wind" witchcraft can be a comforting modus operandi. in spell casting, the ritual is performed in a forceful attempt to alter a moment in time, by creating a vibration within the environment that in turn will set into motion a series of events leading ultimately to the desired c

y 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 states) monday marriages are li

INFERNAL UNION

oint may be taken from this itself as young girls were warned against using mirrors too much and falling into liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qlippothic sphere, lust) and infants from being killed by lilith or her children. her earlier origins are somewhat vague though she appears to have always been related somewhat to being a goddess/spirit of the night/air whether in sumerian/assyrian/babylonian or cainanite mythology. lilith is the queen of demons and the wife of samael, from whom came the succubi. she is the infernal moon and queen of the infernal sabbat. she does have a lighter side as well, that of being a protectress to mothers and children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the mo

ine strength and individualized focus. as samael is considered, according to gender, to be the daemon of wizards and warlocks, lilith is the patroness and queen of witches. through lesser black magick as well as dream magick (dayside and nightside respectively) allows them to seduce and command their wills. her various aspects include az (related to death,blood and darkness),that of lilith as the goddess of the earth, lilith hecate(or lucifera) as air or the bride of lucifer, and of babalon(also sekhet or sekhemet) who is fire, death, blood, passion and life. lilith has an angelic aspect as well as a bestial one. she was depicted by the hebrews as a beautiful woman from the waist up, but from the waist down covered in animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screech ow

et. her animal is the screech owl and the connections to various other names (masks) by which she has been called throughout history may be traced by the owl representation of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

anayama exercises there. if we look closely at the symbolism of the muladharaa chakra we shall find tht this center has the shape of a yellow square with a red triangle in it. the center of it is a phallus wrapped three and a half times with a snake. the muladhara chakra is the first, most primitive and gross center that is symbolized by an elephant placed in a corner together with the respective goddess. this symbolic expression, called laya-yoga in india, is unequivocal and means the key for the first stage of yoga. there are several explanations of this sign, but the correct one is that the square represents the earth, the triangle the three kingdoms of the material, astral and mental world, the phallus the generative power or the imagination, and the serpent the path and the knowledge

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

ation of coming events, by which he may have allowed himself to be guided, turned out wrongly. we have already alluded to gerald, the fourth earl of desmond. his namesake, the sixteenth holder of the title, commonly known as the "great earl" who was betrayed and killed in 1583, has passed from the region of history to that of mythology, p. 70 as he is credited with being the husband (or son) of a goddess. not many miles from the city of limerick is a lonely, picturesque lake, lough gur, which was included in his extensive possessions, and at the bottom of which he is supposed to lie enchanted. according to the legend 1 he was a very potent magician, and usually resided in a castle which was built on a small island in that lake. to this he brought his bride, a young and beautiful girl, whom

ISIS UNVEILED

presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful population of the amtadini, accompanied by the village-priest, went in procession to the spot. they managed to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ceremony were both solemn and highly refreshing to our religious feelings. for there stood the image of the goddess in its niche, surrounded with a row of ever-burning lamps, the flames of which, flickering in the breeze, infect god's pure air with an offensive smell of olive oil. the mother and son truly represent the two most conspicuous idols of monoiheittic christianity! for a companion to the idol of the poor amtadini of bari, go to the rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da cand

ook seems to reflect all the bitterness of this last insult flung at the majesty of the crucified" the egyptian isis was also represented as a virgin-mother by her devotees, and as holding her infant son, horus, in her arms. in some statues and biuso-rilievot, when she appears alone she b either complete- ly nude or veiled from head to foot. but in the mysteries, in common with nearly every other goddess, she is entirely veiled from head to foot, as a symbol of a mother's chastity. it would not do us any harm were we to borrow from the ancients some of the poetic sentiment in their religions, and the innate veneration they entertained for their symbols. it is but fair to say at once that the last of the true christians died with the last of the direct apostles. max mtlller forcibly asks "h

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. neither does

christian bme named the beginning" thus adopting the exo- teric meaning of the word abandoned to the multitudes "hie kabala the oriental as well as the jewish shows that a number of emanatione (the jewish sephiroth) issued from the firat principle, the chi^ c^ which was wiedom. this wisdom is the logos of philo, and michael, the chi^ of the gnostic eons; it is the ormazd of the persians; minerva, goddess of wisdom, of the greeks, who emanated from the head of jupiter; and the second person of the christian trinity. the eariy fathers of the church had not much call to exert their imagination; they found a ready-made doctrine that had existed in every theogoay for thousands of years before the christian era. their trinity is but the trio of sephiroth, the first three kabalistic lighie of whi

ure opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition. when cyril, the bishop of alexandria, had openly embraced the cause of isis, the egyptian goddess, and had anthropomorphized her into mary, the mother of god; and the trinitarian controversy had been begun; from that moment the egyptian doctrine of the emanation of the creative god out of emepht? began to be tortured in a thousand ways, until the councils had agreed upon the adoption of it as it now stands the disfigured ternary of the kabalistic solomon and philo! but as ha origin was

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

s, mantras and programming code tools 53 the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit 56 the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita 61& pituitary& pineal gland activation 69 nourishment& our purity of heart 71 the nourishment of ecstasy tool. elemental equilibrium 72 other forms of nourishment 77 divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 9 the food of the goddess 77 7. theta. delta wave feeding: a never-ending source 84 8. nourishing environments. the appropriate ashram 89 9. frequently asked questions 94 our internal organs, lions& lambs weight loss, sensitivity, equilibrium, yogi s& shaman energy reserves, programming& transformation the bigger picture& enlightenment 10. summary& benefits: the madonna frequency attributes 108 divine nutrition pro

style recipe 47 technique no. 6: minimization tool 49 technique no. 7: conversion tool 49 technique no. 8: solar food access 52 technique no. 9: healings sounds 53 technique no. 10: programming codes 55 technique no. 11: sacred sex food 59 technique no. 12: violet light flooding 64 technique no. 13: divine amrita channel 68 technique no. 14: pineal& pituitary food 69 technique no. 15: downloading goddess energy 82 level 2& 3 nourishment& sensitivity development tools chapter 7 technique no. 16: cosmic cable hook-in 85 chapter 8 technique no. 17: nurturing home 92 chapter 9 technique no. 18: yoga teacher tool 101 techniques no. 19a, b, c, d, e: silence training, darkness training field non-displacement training, ambidextrous and weather training 105 level 3 nourishment& sensitivity developm

es the taoist 6 healing sounds plus the use of specific mantras and the perfect health, balance, weight, image programming code. the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit tool. the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita& pituitary& pineal gland activation. nourishment and our purity of heart. the nourishment of ecstasy tool and elemental equilibrium. nourishment from the food of the goddess. the above are just a few non-conventional sources that we will now focus on as tools of nourishment that can contribute to fulfilling all our hungers. below we will look at each in more detail and provide what you may require to hook into and experience being nourished by each source. where the techniques need greater clarification and more detailed outlines for more perfect practice, we

ms of nourishment not readily understood or utilized by our modern day world. for those of us wishing to understand more of the science of the ancient wisdom and how divine nutrition is possible, we need to explore a little more of feeding via the theta. delta wave. once we ourselves are well nourished then, through our personal energy transmissions, we can influence the nourishment of the world. goddess food 12. the food of the goddess the food of the gods is pure love and wisdom and in its feminine aspect it becomes the food of the goddess. the food of the goddess is cosmic glue, a field of pure unconditional love that allows life to exist in all realms, in all forms. one of the more unconventional modern day sources of nourishment. and the one on which this book is based. is divine moth

e unconventional modern day sources of nourishment. and the one on which this book is based. is divine mother love. known also as the madonna frequency, divine mother love has been projecting itself through the fields of earth through eons of time and long before we became a predominantly patriarchal society. i do not wish to get into a feminist type discussion except to say that tapping into the goddess energy brings amazing levels of deep soul nourishment to our lives. i would also like to add divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 78 that one of the major reasons for the high levels of global emotional, mental and spiritual anorexia today is due to the imbalance of the yin/yang. masculine/feminine energies in the earth s fields. this imbalance has broug

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

o mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head; d, hawk (wisdom; e, feathers (soul. the first and strongest conviction which will flash on the mind of every ripe antiquary, whilst surveying the long series of mexican and toltecan monuments preserved in these various works, is the similarity which the ancient monuments of new spain bear to the monumental records of ancient egypt. whils

cabalistic, tutelary, miniature spirits are called, who are supposed to be very jealous of its use. in ireland, green is universally regarded with distrust; but with veneration, in the spiritual sense. it is the national colour; for the patroness of ireland is the female deity, the mother of nature, known in the classic mythology as venus, equally venus the graceful and venus the terrible, as the goddess of life and of death. the various verts, or greens, are the the irish harp. 181 colour-rulers in the emblazonry of the emerald isle. the presiding deity of the land of ierna, or of ireland, is the mythic woman born out of the fecundity of nature, or out of the great deep. this is the genius (with certain sinister, terrible aspects, marked out grandly in the oldforms) who is impaled or cruc

and ingenious greeks into dress and personal appointments. in the temples, and in templar furniture, mythological theosophic hints abound; every curve and every figure, every colour and every boss and point, being significant among the grecian contrivers, and among those from whom they borrowed the egyptians. we may assume that this classic grecian form of the headcover or helmet of the athenian goddess pallas-athene, or minerva, not only originated the well-known grecian mode of arranging women s hair at the back, but that this style is also the far-off, classic progenitor of its clumsy, inelegant imitation, the modern chignon, which is only an abused copy of the antique. in our deduction (as shown in a previous group of illustrations) of the modern military fur caps particularly the gre

otesque of the indian temples, the fantastic scrolls and crooks and oval curves, abounding on the tops of the spring columns in the gothic, or more properly to call it, the romantic architecture called pointed, all have a common ancestor in the horns of the bull, calf, or cow. all these horns are everywhere devoted in their signification to the moon. it is in connection with this secondary god or goddess, who is always recognisable through the peculiar appendage of horns, it is in proximity to this god or goddess, who takes the second place in the general pantheon, the sun taking the first, it is here, in all the illustrations which the mythic theology borrows from architecture, or the science of expressing religious ideas through hieroglyphical forms, that the incoherent horns reiterate

r be* nullam esse herbam, aut plantam inferitis, cujus non sit stella in firmamento, quoe earn percutiat, et dicat ei, cresce. exercitatio in fluddanam philosophiam, p. 228, parisiis, 1630. persiantalisman. chapter the thirty-sixth. indian mysterious adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the bhuddistic and mahommedan temples. eneral note on the sacti puja. power means the good goddess, maya maia (i.e. delusion. she is also called bhagala, vagula, bagala-mukhi. she has neither images nor pictures. the girl in the indian sacred, secret temple rites, who figures as the representative of sacti, is the supposed embodiment of the goddess offered for worship. the word sacti corresponds to genius, or sylph of the rosicrucian creed. the doctrine of guardian angels and of patron

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

and which may be roughly classified as organic and inorganic. we use "organic" in the sense of something which is part of, or associated with, a living, thinking entity, and "inorganic" as being merely the debris of space. an ordinary iron-nickel meteorite from space is inorganic within the sphere of our present definition; but if this meteorite arrives on earth shaped like a seven-headed malayan goddess, or a compound microscope, it's organic. a second major category stands out in the bibliography of oddities. it is the great area of events which encompasses disappearing people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and disappearing without trace and without warning; instantaneous and mysterious transportations of people and things; inexplicable tracks and marks, such as the devil's

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

l is closely linked to you and your subconscious attitudes. it will generally not do things you think it cannot do. as in any magick, results relate to effort and belief. another way of looking at an artificial elemental is as an aspect of your personality (sub personality) which has been detached from you. invocation formal ritual usually involves the invocation (ritually calling up) of a god or goddess, spirit, or other entity. in this sense, magick is somewhat similar to pagan religion and witchcraft. however, we consider magick ritual a technique, not a religion. worship need not be involved. sometimes the invocation of an entity creates an artificial elemental. crowley says there are three different kinds of the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 26 invocation- 1

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

but in this case it seems that in both languages, in the first place scales were meant, as sumerian gi.rin2 and akkadian gi rinnu both mean primarily the most ordinary scales. an epithet of the scales constellation, gstar of justice of .ama h (reiner 1995: 4) can be considered indirect proof. scales are a symbol of justice. also in greece, virgo. which lies besides scales. was connected to dike, goddess of justice.2 in any case, to talk about planet names, we have to start from the babylonians, not sumerians, though we have to consider the influence of sumerian language and writing. the term akkadian is used as a common name for the related semitic languages babylonian and assyrian which can also be considered dialects of the akkadian language. as most contemporary scientists consider the

n with that sumerian sign. thus the akkadian cuneiform writing includes many sumerian anachronisms in addition to the akkadian language having abundant sumerian loans (borger 1981 1.4; 46. 52. a special class of signs is determinatives. signs/words denoting the (non-grammatical) class of the following noun and in modern transliterations written in superscript, e.g. gi. ewooden/tree f, dingir egod/goddess/mythological creature f (in transliterations commonly shortened to d, id3 eriver f, uru etown f, mu. esnake f etc. originally, these were ordinary sumerian nouns, but as determinatives they were probably not pronounced (caplice& snell 1988: 4.9. here we have a special interest in determinatives denoting stars, constellations, planets, and other gheavenly phenomena h. generally, mul sumeria

m signs with the same phonetic value are marked with different subscript. e.g. gu estring, cord f, and gu4 eoxen, bull f; these originally denoted frequency of the sign. many scientists follow the assyriological tradition, using accent marks for the indices 2 and 3, so gu2= gu ethroat f, and gu3= gu evoice f. 11 figure 1. some determinatives in cuneiform. sumerian dingir (akkadian ilu) means egod/goddess f; mul, akkadian kakkabu, means estar f. dingir has come from a pictogram depicting a star, and if we look close at mul, we see it consists of three dingirs. similar sounding ul or ul means estar f and is often used as a determinative. in late astrological texts three more determinatives are used for stars: te, ab2 and gan2, now written by assyriologists as mul2, mulx and mul4 accordingly

honoured ca 1000 gods, about fifty of whom were considered the main gods, and especially important were seven gods. the great seven. the functions of different gods tended to vary by city states, but of the great seven an was universally the god of heaven, enlil. the god of air and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus

assyrian king, said all the stars to be letters in which his name is written (rainer 1995: 9. subsequently, sumer akkad planet main portfolio of the god in akkadian tradition an anu god of heaven enlil marduk (b l) jupiter main god, god of air and earth enki ea god of waters and wisdom nanna sin moon moongod, god of fertility and prosperity utu .ama. sun sungod, god of justice inanna i.tar venus goddess of love and war (ninurta) nabu mercury god of wisdom and writing (savior, redeemer) ninurta ninurta saturn god of war and hunting? nergal mars god of plague, famine, war, and the underworld 15 we bring an excerpt of a list of witnesses from a pact between the same assyrian king and median king ramataia (672 bc, signs denoting the planets are translated as modern planet names: in the presen

KETAB E SIYAH

" and the host of my brothers paid heed to the speech of ashmedai, some cursing his words as treachery and reviling him who spoke them, some bemoaned his speech and mourned his passing from their number, but others looked up, bright with new purpose and understanding and praised the courage of their brother 50 with joyous hearts and silent lips. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a white goddess, endowed with the radiance of the moon and the bewitchments that the silver star commands, seizing hearts, stirring them to joyous passion and dull-aching melancholy, whose glamours and auguries have long been invoked by men to discern those deeds yet undone by the long workings of winged time and raise up shades of ancestors, long-stilled by death, and whose influence incites the harper's

and the host of my brothers paid heed 111 to the speech of ashmedai, some cursing his words as treachery and reviling him who spoke them, some bemoaned his speech and mourned his passing from their number, but others looked up, bright with new purpose and understanding and praised the courage of their brother with joyous hearts and silent lips. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a white goddess, endowed with the radiance of the moon and the bewitchments that the silver star commands, seizing hearts, stirring them to joyous passion and dull-aching melancholy, whose glamours and auguries have long been invoked by men to discern those deeds yet undone by the long workings of winged time and raise up shades of ancestors, long-stilled by death, and whose influence incites the harper's

ding to the earth, flying most swift from heaven, falling as a fulmination to that lower realm to act in defence of his son. appearing in a blast of flame he appeared to mary and warned with these words the mother of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had first approached her "mary, most blessed of the women of the earth, mother to that prince most blessed tha

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

. shri krishna, speaking as the supreme in the bhagavad gita says: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess of love and beauty, while as we have seen, isis was the queen of truth and the mother of all things; yet both were representatives of the feminine aspect of the deity, as also was nephthys. ptah was the master architect of the universe, the holy spirit who is the creative fire of god; he was the celestial worker in metals, and the chief smelter, caster and sculptor of the gods, the skilful

ffence for the understanding of the profane. 114. when morning came and that the solemnities were finished, i came forth sanctified with twelve stoles and in a religious habit, whereof i am not forbidden to speak, considering that many persons saw me at that time. there i was commanded to stand upon a pulpit of wood which stood in the middle of the temple, before the figure and remembrance of the goddess; my vestment was of fine linen, covered and embroidered with flowers; i had a precious cope upon my shoulders, hanging down behind me to the ground, whereon were beasts wrought of divers colours, as indian dragons, and hyperborean griffins, whom in form of birds the other part of the world doth engender: the priests commonly call such a habit an olympian stole. in my right hand i carried a

and winding gallery at the entrance of which was this inscription: the mortal who shall travel over this road without hesitating or looking behind shall be purified by fire, by water, and by air, and if he can surmount the fear of death he shall emerge from the bosom of the earth; he shall revisit the light and claim the right of preparing his soul for the reception of the mysteries of the great goddess isis. 120. the conductor now left the aspirant, warning him that many dangers surrounded and awaited him, and exhorting him to continue unshaken. heavy doors closed behind him, rendering his return impossible. presently he entered a spacious hall filled with flames through which he had to rush with the greatest speed. even when he had passed through this fiery furnace he came to another ha

lly admitted(*sir e. a. wallis budge, the papyrus of ani, p. 53) it would appear, however, that in ancient times it was not lawful to speak of the tradition in any detail, at least to strangers, for herodotus says: 141. also at sais there is the burial place of him whom i account it not pious to name in connection with such a matter, which is in the temple of athene (isis) behind the house of the goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone, and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the round pool in delos. on this lake they perform by night the show of his sufferings, and this the egyptians call mysteries. of these things

the roof of his palace. isis went to byblos and became nurse to one of the king s sons. each night she put the child in the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself into a swallow, and bemoaning the loss of her husband. but the queen happened to see her child in flames and cried out in fear, thereby depriving him of the immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess revealed herself and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this was granted to her, and she took the chest containing the body of osiris back to egypt, hiding it in a secret place while she sought her son, horus. but typhon, by an unlucky chance, found the chest while hunting in the light of the moon, and recognizing the body as that of osiris, tore it into fourteen pieces, which

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

to ward off evil spirits, creatures, and spells. in mexico, the ajo macho is a huge garlic, sometimes as big as a baseball, used exclusively as an amulet against evil in general, but not against specific curses. according to custom, the ajo macho will work only if it is given as a gift, not if it is bought. in ancient greece and rome, garlic was placed at crossroads as an offering to hecate, the goddess of witchcraft and the night. odysseus used garlic as protection against the witchcraft of circe, who turned his men into swine. garlic, of course, is also used to ward off vampires. for further reading: lockhart, j. g. curses, lucks, and talismans. detroit, mi: single tree press, 1971. ravenwolf, silver. to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1996

, the devas and the asuras are locked in ongoing conflict.while the legions of the judeo-christian satan failed to take over heaven in their original rebellion and were cast into hell, in south asian mythology the asuras often storm out of the underworld, succeed in taking over heaven, and drive the devas out. the devas then appeal to the high god (usually vishnu, though occasionally shiva or the goddess, who comes to their aid, defeats the asuras, drives them back into the hell worlds, and reestablishes the deva/asura balance of power. one of the factors at work in the hindu religious ecology that distinguishes it from western religions is the assumption of the notion of reincarnation. as this notion was brought to bear on south asian mythology, devas became capable of ignoble actions, wh

eather, or finding a person or a lost object, or guiding the wandering spirits of the dead to the realm of the dead. in the ancient western world there were a number of myths that recounted descent into the underworld of an heroic or divine being, who aimed to rescue a beloved one or to obtain immortality and wisdom. in one of the most ancient accounts of a journey to the underworld, the sumerian goddess inanna (in the akkadian civilization she was called ishtar) experienced a descent into the underworld where she underwent a sort of initiation process of death and rebirth. during the journey, the goddess went through seven gates, gradually taking off all of her clothes and ornaments. at the end of the journey, the goddess died and the vegetation on earth immediately wilted. when sprinkled

an civilization she was called ishtar) experienced a descent into the underworld where she underwent a sort of initiation process of death and rebirth. during the journey, the goddess went through seven gates, gradually taking off all of her clothes and ornaments. at the end of the journey, the goddess died and the vegetation on earth immediately wilted. when sprinkled with the water of life, the goddess came back to life, thus regenerating the earth. a mythical hero of the ancient greek world was orpheus, poet and musician whose wife, eurydice, died from the bite of a snake. orpheus s art was so powerful that he enchanted the king of hades and convinced him to release his wife, although his violation of the condition that he not look at her until they were completely back in the world res

l they were completely back in the world resulted in the loss of eurydice. the theme of the failure of the hero to complete his task in the underworld realm of the departed represents the effort of the human imagination to come to grips with the unavoidable fate of death. in the greek world, a somewhat related myth is the story of persephone. persephone was kidnapped by hades. her mother demeter, goddess of grain, mourned the loss of her daughter, which resulted in the death of vegetation and humankind s starvation. the gods eventually agreed that persephone should be returned to her mother. in the meanwhile, however, hades had made persephone eat the fruit of the dead (seeds of pomegranate, symbol of fertility and blood, and thus bound her to the realm of the dead. the final agreement was

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for that there is no white eagle to generate the gluten. howbeit, we hold that in this rite is great efficacy; it may be that for certain operations it is equal or superior to that explained to initiates of the ix. but we hold that in this case the priest must be an initiate, for that it is his will which determineth the magical character of his lion; so that if he hath no purpose but that of the goddess adonai he cannot raise agape to her lord thelema, nor will the intention of the priestess, although a lofty initiate, replace this essential power of the priest over that of which he is but the vehicle and guardian. for this reason the ninth degree is not so easy to be made effective by woman initiates. of what may be the result of a development parallel to that indicated above among the n

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; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope

rot trumps. clxxxi. correct design of tarot trumps. 11 the spirit of aiqhr. a bearded ancient seen in profile* 12 the magus of power. a fair youth with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy kin

i drew it. line 19. before him goeth upright the royal ur us serpent. line 21 [h, f, and g, or sattva, rajas, and tamas. line 23. from a gallows shaped like the letter d hangs by one foot a young fair man. his other leg forms a cross with the suspending one. his arms, clasped behind his head, form an upright b, and this radiates light. his mouth is resolutely closed. line 25. a winged and crowned goddess, with flashing golden belt, stands, and pours from her right hand the flame of a torch upon an eagle, while in her left hand she pours water from an horn upon a lion. between her feet a moon-shaped cauldron of silver smokes with perfume. line 26. levi s baphomet is sound commentary on this mystery, but should not be found in the text. line 27. human figures thrown thence suggest the letter

nother matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. see above for heru-ra-ha. line 19: pas

st has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. see above for heru-ra-ha. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyptian for cat and appears to have been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is more usually spelt maat or ma at. lines 23, 31: auramoth and thoum-aesh-neith were never egyptian deities but were names constructed on qabalistic principles by the golden dawn to refer to water and fire; similarly the name tarpesheth (tharpesht) is unknown prior to g.d. material, although she a

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ngenium devise a magick lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the athyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. svb figvra cdxii 3 this then is that which is written: gbeing furnished with complete armour, and armed, he is similar to the goddess. h1 and again gi am armed, i am armed. h2 1 [chaldaan oracles, fragment 171 in westcott/ cory edition; quoted by proclus in platonic theology. the goddess in question is probably hekate. t.s] 2 [this is probably a quote from something, but i have not so far managed to identify it. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised

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nevmatici 36. this chain reaches from eternity to eternity, even in triangles.is not my symbol a triangle?.ever in circles.is not the symbol of the beloved a circle? therein is all progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. but the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the great goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, amen! 38. therefore lift up thyself as i am lifted up. hold thyself in as i am master to accomplish. at the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of nuit, do thou slay thyself as i at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is the mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a h

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agicians work without fear or haste, being omnipotent in eternity, and each star must go his way; and who am i that should save this people .wilt thou smite me as thou smotest the egyptian yesterday. yes, although mine were the might to save these ten, i reached not forth mine arm against iniquity, i spake and i was silent; and that which was appointed came to pass. as it is written, the pregnant goddess hath let down her burden upon the earth. c the book of wisdom or folly 101 gf de femina quadam (of a certain woman) nowest thou for what cause i am moved to write this unto hee, my son only-begotten, child of magick and of mystery? it is that i thy father am also in this ordeal of initiation at this hour. for the sun is nigh unto the end of the sign of he fishes in the thirteenth year of t

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he spirit. 5. thou hast appeared unto me with sword and spear, a warrior god in flaming armour among thine horsemen. 6. thou hast appeared unto me as a young and brilliant god, a god of music and beauty, even as a young god in his strength, playing upon the lyre. 7. thou has appeared unto me as the white foam of ocean gathered into limbs whiter than the foam, the limbs of a miracle of women, as a goddess of extreme love, bearing the girdle of gold. 8. thou hast appeared unto me as a young boy mischievous and lovely, with thy winged globe and its serpents set upon a staff. 2 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 9. thou hast appeared to me as an huntress among thy dogs, as a goddess virginal chaste, as a moon among the faded oaks of the wood of years. 10. but i was deceived by none of these. all these

may be known. 11. for they have the genius of the mighty sword 418. 10 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 12. and they are not deceived by any of these things; for by their subtlety do they expand them all into the twelve rays of the crown. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 11 vi t 0. deeper and deeper into the mire of things! farther and farther into the never-ended expansion of the abyss. 1. the great goddess that bendeth over the universe is my mistress; i am the winged globe at her heart. 2. i contract ever as she ever expandeth. 3. at the end it is all one. 4. our loves have brought to birth the father and creator of all things. 5. he hath established the elements, the athyr, the air, the water, the earth, and the fire. 6. he hath established the wanderings stars in their courses. 7. he hath

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back, and i know the divine souls of the west: tum, and sebek the lord of baklan, and hathoor the lady of the evening (the boat advances "i, even i know the eastern gate of heaven whence ra cometh with a favorable wind. i am the helmsman of the eternal bark; i know the two sycamores of. between which ra showeth himself. i, even i, know the divine souls of the east, heru-khuit, and the calf of the goddess khera, the bright morning star (the boat advances to the first pylon "get thee back! return! get thee back, thou crocodile sui! thou shalt not advance to me, for i live by the magical words of my mouth (the boat circles the temple deosil, leaves it& again faces the pylon. so for each utterance "my front teeth are like knives& my jaw-teeth are like unto his that dwelleth upon the hill of te

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herefore i went wildly with the girls into abyssinia; and there we abode and rejoiced. 6. exceedingly; yea, in good sooth! 7. i will eat the ripe and the unripe fruit for the glory of bacchus. 8. terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite. 9. within is a crystal shell, shaped like an oyster.o glory of priapus! o beatitude of the great goddess! 10. therein is a pearl. 11. o pearl! thou hast come from the majesty of dread ammon-ra. 12. then i the priest beheld a steady glitter in the heart of the pearl. 13. so bright we could not look. but behold! a bloodred rose upon a rood of glowing gold! svb figvra vii 11 14. so i adored the god. bacchus! thou art the lover of my god! 15. i who was priest of ammon-ra, who saw the nile flow by

ught out; when the ibis-headed one charmed away the strife. 16. i remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kissed abide. 17. there is none other beside thee in the whole universe of love. 18. my god, i love thee, o thou goat with gilded horns! 19. thou beautiful bull ofapis! thou beautiful serpent of apep! thou beautiful child of the pregnant goddess! 20. thou hast stirred in thy sleep, o ancient sorrow of years! thou hast raised thine head to strike, and all is dissolved into the abyss of glory. 21. an end to the letters of the words! an end to the sevenfold speech. 22. resolve me the wonder of it all into the figure of a gaunt swift camel striding over the sand. 23. lonely is he, and abominable; yet hath he gained the crown. 24. oh r

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ields. 128-30. i ve seen them.23.sir j. maundevill .voiage and travill. ch. xvi, recounts a similar incident, and, christian as he is, puts a similar poser. 135. a what?34.i beg your pardon. it was a slip. 146. tahuti.25.in coptic, thoth* title of a (forthcoming) collection of papers on mountain exploration, etc [unpublished. t.s] 64 the sword of song 149. ra.26.the sun-god. 149. nuit.27.the star-goddess. 152. campbell.28..the waters wild went o.er his child, and he was left lamenting. 152. the ibis head.29.characteristic of tahuti. 157. roland s crest.30.see .two poets of croisic. xci. 159. a jest.31.see above: ascension day. 162. a mysterious way.32. god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform; he plants his foodsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. intentional species? 17

but our father.s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. wherefore he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing .woman. he bade sternly .be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work. but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. adest rosa secreta eros. hermaphroditus. mors janua vitae. adeptus. terrae ulto

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fect number, even the decade of the sephiroth (1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10) thus can our science teach us wherefore the door* of venus, d, is the gateway of initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 sephiroth; the entrance to the shrine of* as above, so below; wherefore saith the holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love) liber mmcmxi 8 our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of s through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is the ankh, immortal life.the rose and cross of life; and the symbol of venus. 4. 1. 2. 3. 6. 5. 7. fig. iii.third symbol. by producing th

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, or as a focus for the mind. this is the third practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 60. 17. let the aspirant find a lonely place, if possible a place in the desert of sand, or if not, a place unfrequented, and without objects to disturb the view. such are moorlands, fens, the open 4 liber n v sea, broad rivers, and open fields. also, and especially, the summits of mountains. there let him invoke the goddess as he hath wisdom and understanding to do so. but let this invocation be that of a pure heart, i.e. a heart wholly devoted to her, and let him re-member that it is hadit himself in the most secret place thereof that invoketh. then let this serpent hadit burst into flame. this is the fourth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 61. 18. then shall the aspirant come a little to lie in her bosom. t

his imagination may compel him. and at that moment, desiring earnestly the kiss of nuit, let him give one particle of dust, i.e. let hadit give himself up utterly to her. this is the fifth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 61. 21. then shall he lose all in that hour. this is the fourth indication of the nature of the result (ccxx. i. 61. 22. let the aspirant prepare a lovesong of rapture unto the goddess, or let him be inspired by her unto this. this is the sixth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 63. svb figvra xi 5 23. let the aspirant be clad in a single robe. an gabbai h of scarlet wrought with gold is most suitable (the abbai is not unlike the japanese kimono. it must fold simply over the breast without belt or other fastening. ed) this is the seventh practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 61

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d of all that hath occurred. explicit* this in case of failure. the results of success are so many and wonderful that no effort is here made to describe them. they are classified, tentatively, in .the herb dangerous. part ii, equinox vol. i, no 2, pp. 31-89. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 16 the signs of the grades 1. earth: the god set fighting 2. air: the god shu supporting the sky. 3. water: the goddess auramoth 4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh- neith 5, 6. spirit: the rending and closing of the veil 7-10. the l.v.x. signs. 7+ osiris slain.the cross. 8. l isis mourning.the svastika. 9. v typhon.the trident. 10. x osiris risen.the pentagram. svb figvra vi. 17 transcriber.s notes. this is based mostly on the edition of .liber o. published in equinox i (2. references to other works published

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e. section e. earth i invoke thee. ma go mother! o truth! h barraio g thou mass! h* gmass h in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. the impossibility of defining it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason. point i 7 ioel g hail, thou that art! h kotha g thou hollow one! h athor-e-bal-o g thou goddess of beauty and love, whom satan, beholding, desireth! h abraft g the fathers, male-female, desire thee! h (the conception is of earth, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic hippopotamus* of a venereal nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling ai

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dden they would fly up into the air, shrieking the funniest kind of songs, and then suddenly one would come down flop, and you saw she was really quite young and ever so lovely, and she would have nothing on, and as you looked at her she would crumble away like a biscuit. then there was another passage which was really too secret for anything; all i shall tell you is, there was the most beautiful goddess that ever was, and she was washing herself in a river of dew. if you ask what she is doing she says .i.m making thunderbolts. it was only starlight, and yet one could see quite clearly, so don.t think i.m making a mistake. the third path is a most terrible passage; it.s all a great war, and there.s earthquakes and chariots of fire, and all the castles breaking to pieces. i was glad when we

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

heroic legend and myth. for example, they called gold gthe headpiece of sif, h which is only comprehensible if one knows the myth in which loki cuts off sif fs hair and has the dwarfs make golden hair to replace it. kennings can be helpful in dating myths, for a kenning that relies on a myth indicates the myth was known to the skald and his audience at a given time. seeing whether a minor god or goddess is used in the base word of a kenning.for example, ggna of rings h for woman.can give us some indication as to whether the figure in question was at all known. skaldic poetry, then, was a showy, ornate oral poetry, which must have taken much time to master; indeed, it is clear that a certain amount of training would have been needed just to understand it as a member of the audience. it is

ecause the gods we know from our mythological texts also left traces in such forms as the names of the days of the week (see the entry interpretatio germanica in chapter 3. the foremost witness is the germania of tacitus, from the last years of the first century c.e. tacitus describes several ritual acts carried out by various germanic tribes, of which the most famous is surely the worship of the goddess nerthus described in chapter 40 of his germania. nerthus, mother earth, covered by a cloth, is transported in a cart drawn by cows and accompanied by a priest who recognizes when she is present. this procession takes place in a holy grove on the island on which she lives, and all weapons are laid aside on the days on which it takes place, which are ones of peace and quiet. after the proces

y class, the introduction 33 term go.i, as suggested above, implies a religious function for the leaders of icelandic society before the conversion to christianity. as a roman, tacitus used the vocabulary of his own era and therefore called the man who accompanied nerthus a gpriest, h but he could easily have been something like a go.i, a person of status and a secular leader on the days when the goddess was not present. it is the ggo.i h who notices when the goddess is present, and unlike the slaves, he survives to preside over the ceremonies another day. most or all cults must have been of this nature, led by the chieftain when public ritual was enacted and by the head of household in the case of private ritual. many historians of religion have argued for a close connection between law

serving maid to the princess. when rinda falls sick, othinus arranges for her to be tied down so that she can be given some medicine. he rapes her, and she bears bous, who kills hotherus. these stories are indeed quite different, but there are important similarities that go beyond hod killing baldr and having vengeance taken on him. dreams are important in both versions, as is a magic weapon. the goddess of the dead plays a role in each. the rape of rinda is paralleled in medieval icelandic tradition in a skaldic stanza that states that odin used the magic seid on rind, the mother of vali. the differences in the versions may reflect variants in medieval icelandic oral tradition, since saxo learned from icelanders, but he may also be passing along some genuine danish traditions. the story h

in his priests, warriors, and cattle: a study in the ecology of religions (berkeley and los angeles: university of california press, 1981, 122.133. a credible alternative etymology of einherjar, proposing that the word meant gpeerless warriors, h is in lennart elmevik, gfisl. einherjar ekrigare i valhall f och nagra andra fornnord. sammansattningar med -ein, h saga och sed, 1982: 75.84. eir minor goddess. snorri lists eir third in his catalog in gylfaginning of goddesses among the asir and calls her gbest of physicians. h her name is identical with the noun eir, gpeace, clemency. h eir plays no role in the mythology, but in fjolsvinnsmal, stanza 38, eir is found in a list of the maidens who serve menglod; none of the others is a deity, and many are just feminine adjectives( gbright, h ghap

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ut it does not make the magician. a will to achieve, ambition and the desire and drive make the advancing sorcerer, and through actually practicing the art of magick and witchcraft will the grand awakening occur. there is a path that reveals the manes of the dead, there is a path, from which the wise seek the light, and from the darkness nourish their shades in the dream. this path is born of the goddess of the caves, from which the serpents slither this path is born of the blacksmith who forges the illuminated light of azazel and speaks through the blood of his kin, this is forever a path of fence walking, from which one shall be revealed the great mysteries, spoken in the wind. this is forever a path, from which lilith emerges in the fire of the sabbat, and lucifer emerges as the sun. th

g and weaving their webs of sorcery and magickal illumination unseen by outside folk. the sabbat is the meeting place of the feri, lycanthrope, vampire and the sorcerer s shades which act as familiars. it is the great manifestation of the hidden law, and that we may, by imagination, become lucifer in our self. it is through the chalice of lilith, revealed as babalon, that we seek the union of the goddess. the witches sabbath has long been a misunderstood and often misrepresented expression of magickal art. it should be considered that the witches sabbat cult is an expression of not only folk magic and lore, but that of a modern synthesis of advanced ideals of sorcery, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane lore as the dream meeting of the astra

d ba in egyptian systems) to nourish from the sleepers and achieve a hidden knowledge transmitted only by the path of the unseen. it is from this that we awake, and to be understood clearly, advance us in the image of the prince of darkness whom is ultimately revealed as the lord of light. upon the great meeting of lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat, shall the woman emerge as the model for the goddess to manifest in the earth. therefore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which

e watchers, and their cain inspired brethren known as the nephilim. this is the lore of the nightside, from which legend becomes desire which takes flesh. the very beginnings of witchcraft hold much lore and legend as any other religion or socio-formulated belief pattern. in the beginning within the great darkness, diana (liliththe moon) joined with lucifer (the sun) and produced the daughter and goddess aradia, or by some suggestion hecate. the watchers led by azazel, after lucifer fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchb

allowing those who work through such circles to build the magickal art through practice and discipline. those who enter the gates of witchcraft will automatically view the very gate of the left hand path. very few will enter this infernal tread, as it brings 11 one to the ultimate personal power of self-deification. many are not able to understand this state of being, the ascent to become god or goddess, thus either failing and loosing their mind in the witches sabbat circles of time or renouncing to a much kinder garden path. the witches sabbat of the order of phosphorus respects all paths that lead to human advancement and knowledge, including those of the white light persuasion. we consider that every individual has the right to believe and practice what he or she wills, unless it harm

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

s based upon the self-initiatory association with cain. cain is also considered the offspring of asmodeus/samael and lilith, a child of infernal union. the lore of the sorcerous blacksmith is explained in depth in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon. leviathan considered primarily "male" and often female, leviathan encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk dinoih is the dragon which brings the union of lilith and samael within the magician, that t

iblis/shaitan understood he was unique and powerful within his being, and that by separating himself from the natural order, would become as a god. azothoz presents a cipher in poem on the nature of the adversary and becoming. lilith-az-babalon- hecate the daemonic feminine is the fountain of the witch cult, in it's dreaming and waking aspect. while wicca has taken a more sterile approach to the goddess, a luciferian sorcerer acknowledges the beauty of the daemonic goddess as a well of power and selfdeification. through babalon we drink the blood of saints and emerge as god itself. lilith is the succubus witch queen of the sabbat, whom is the very mother of us all. any within the veil of darkness are from her, we fornicate with her continually in the fruitful imagination of creation. the

ding the work of belarion armiluss al dajjal antichrist, a title of attainment. the essence of witchcraft in its rightful left hand path perspective is the illumination and understanding of the daemonic feminine, which is revealed to each sorcerer who treads this path of darkness. one symbol of coven nachttoter is the sigil of hecate, which is a mirror into the gates of the dead, the abode of the goddess of witches. the sethianic fragments of luciferian witchcraft these god forms are powerful for the sorcerer who summons them, discovers the atavistic aspects which relate to them, and becomes like them. one would seek to create such energy forms that may be closely connected with the psyche, therefore initiating a further speed of ones becoming through manifesting the qualities and traits o

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

te, allowing those who work through such circles to build the magickal art through practice and discipline. those who enter the gates of witchcraft will automatically view the very gate of the left hand path. very few will enter this infernal tread, as it brings one to the ultimate personal power of self-deification. many are not able to understand this state of being, the ascent to become god or goddess, thus either failing and loosing their mind in the sabbatic circles of time or renouncing to a much kinder garden path. the luciferian witchcraft tradition of the order of phosphorus respects all paths that lead to human advancement and knowledge, including those of the white light persuasion. we consider that every individual has the right to believe and practice what he or she wills, unl

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

dawn, embrace now my way which is our way, that thy mysteries are revealed through dedication! shaitan asmodeus belial lilith hecate eko, eko lucife eluciferian witchcraft-the mystery revealed by michael ford 2001 there is a path which reveal the manes of the dead, there is a path from which the wise seek the light, and from the darkness nourish their shades in the dream. this path is born of the goddess of the caves, from which the serpents slither this path is born of the blacksmith who forges the illuminated light of azazel and speaks through the blood of his kin, this is forever a path of fence walking, from which one shall be revealed the great mysteries, spoken in the wind. this is forever a path from which lilith emerges in the fire of the sabbat, and lucifer emerges as the sun. thr

ol ones own initiation into the mysteries. systems are very important to the order, and its works. while some may find interest in the witchcraft tradition developed within toph, some may find especial interest in the medieval black magick systems worked with through the group. finding a strength and beauty in the left hand path allows a balanced and positive ascent into the high mysteries of the goddess and god forms from which flows our inherent myth. much of the doctrine of the order of phosphorus flows directly from the grimoire the book of the witch moon, whic h unites the luciferian witchcraft with the dark and shadow elements of sorcery and magick. written by michael ford, the book of the witch moon is a dangerous tome of black magick that offers a direct gnosis for the individual

ith the macrocosm, the angelic and the demonic, the shadow and the light, all opposites in union. this is the work of the beast 666 and babalon conjoined. the very beginnings of witchcraft hold much lore and legend as any other religion or socio-formulated belief pattern. in the beginning within the great darkness, diana (liliththe moon) joined with lucifer (the sun) and produced the daughter and goddess aradia, or by some suggestion hecate. the watchers led by azazel, after lucifer fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchb

MAGIC AND SPELLS

er foes, transport herself hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye, even reverse death itself. all spells, magic items, spell-like abilities, and even supernatural abilities such as a ghost's ability to walk through walls, depend on the weave and call upon it in different ways. the exact nature of the weave is elusive because it is many things simultaneously. the weave is the body of mystra, the goddess of tragic. mystra has dominion over magic worked throughout toril, but she cannot shut off the flow of magic altogether without ceasing to exist herself. the weave is the conduit spellcasters use to channel magical energy for their spells, both arcane and divine. finally, the weave is the fabric of esoteric rules and formulas that comprises the art (arcane spellcasting) and the power (divi

wield them to create effects. sorcerers do this instinctively through an innate gift and the incredible force of their personalities. bard songs waken echoes o the songs of beginning, the music of creation itself. wizard's construct processesspells- enabling them to bend the weave to their will in order to do what they desire. the divine power infusing any cleric holding the spells of her god or goddess can do the same, shaping the 26-40 41-so 51-55 s6-8s 86-95 96-100 mystra and the weave nothing happens. the spell does not function. any material components are used up. the spell or spell slot is used up, and charges or uses from an item or spell-like ability are used up. nothing happens. the spell does not function. any material components are not consumed. the spell is not expended from

onfused with the shadow weave, gem magic, elemental magic, even the elven high magic of old-have been spoken of down the years, but these are all merely different processes or paths to the same mastery of natural energies. this endless, ever-shifting web of forces is known as the weave. humans refer to the entity or awareness that is bound to the weave of toril as mystra, and worship her as their goddess of magic. the present mystra is a recently ascended mortal woman, who took over from her exhausted predecessor during the time of troubles. mystra exists to give magic to all creatures and to control its use. in ancient times, the archmages of netheril ignored the dictates of mystryl, goddess of magic at the time. one, the wizard karsus the mad, tried to seize divinity by the casting of mi

her wizards to develop new spells, improve old ones, and increase their own magical powers as pupils or challengers of the magister. a magister gains special powers and access to many spells s 57 with runes, and the wreckage of ancient dweomers lie scattered across the land in the form of a portal network riddling the fabric of space. the shadow weave during the course of her eternal war with the goddess sel ne, the goddess shar created the shadow weave in response to sel ne's creation of mystra and the birth of the weave. if the weave is a loose mesh permeating reality, the shadow weave is the pattern formed by the negative space between the weave's strands. it provides an alternative conduit and methodology for casting spells. shar, being the goddess of secrets, has mostly kept the secre

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent of wisdom--the sacred crocodile. 85 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds, part ii the dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol--the lotus blossom--the scandinavian world tree, yggdrasil--the sprig of acacia--the juice of the grape--the magical powers of the mandrake. 93 stones, metals, and gems prehistoric monuments--the tablets of the law--the holy grail--the ages of the world- ta

e to overcome his lower nature, master his appetites, and give expression to the higher side of himself. the mysteries were organized for the purpose of assisting the struggling human creature to reawaken the spiritual powers which, surrounded by the flaming click to enlarge a female hierophant of the mysteries. from montfaucon's antiquities. this illustration shows cybele, here called the syrian goddess, in the robes of a hierophant. montfaucon describes the figure as follows "upon her head is an episcopal mitre, adorned on the lower part with towers and pinnacles; over the gate of the city is a crescent, and beneath the circuit of the walls a crown of rays. the goddess wears a sort of surplice, exactly like the surplice of a priest or bishop; and upon the surplice a tunic, which falls do

use a serpent was the symbol of hu, the druidic osiris; cruciform, because a cross is an emblem of regeneration; or winged, to represent the motion of the divine spirit* their chief deities were reducible to two--a male and a female, the great father and mother--hu and ceridwen, distinguished by the same characteristics as belong to osiris and isis, bacchus and ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being" godfrey higgins states that hu, the mighty, regarded as the first settler of britain, came from a place which the welsh triads call the summer country, the present site of constantinople. albert pike says that the lost word of masonry is concealed in the name of the druid god hu. the meager information extant concerning the secret initiations o

re dedicated to persephone. in his eleusinian and bacchic mysteries, thomas taylor sums up their purpose as follows "the lesser mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature" the legend used in the lesser rites is that of the abduction of the goddess persephone, the daughter of ceres, by pluto, the lord of the underworld, or hades. while persephone is picking flowers in a beautiful meadow, the earth suddenly opens and the gloomy lord of death, riding in a magnificent chariot, emerges from its somber depths and, grasping her in his arms, carries the screaming and struggling goddess to his subterranean palace, where he forces her to beco

james christie presents meursius' version of the occurrences taking place during the nine days required for the enactment of the greater eleusinian rites. the first day was that of general meeting, during which those to be initiated were questioned concerning their several qualifications. the second day was spent in a procession to the sea, possibly for the submerging of a image of the presiding goddess. the third day was opened by the sacrifice of a mullet. on the fourth day the mystic basket containing certain sacred symbols was brought to eleusis, accompanied by a number of female devotees carrying smaller baskets. on the evening of the fifth day there was a torch race, on the sixth a procession led by a statue of iacchus, and on the seventh an athletic contest. the eighth day was devo

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

them, deeply involved with the reconstruction of the old mysteries, and the return to the elder gods. the researches of freud, but especially jung, had provided part of a link with the past via the image-magic of trithemius and bruno. the rest of the link was supplied by the magical dictum publicly propounded by dion fortune herself, that in essence all gods are one god, and all goddesses but one goddess; that the varying pantheons and hierarchies are but racial and regional permutations of the same ancient archetypes. in 1951 the last english witchcraft act was repealed, removing the final official stigma upon the study and practice of the craft, in that country at least. three years later, an anthropologist, gerald gardner, published a work, witchcraft today, admitting, for the first tim

sea tides and the hidden workings of the deep mind. as such, this heavenly body rather than the sun is the main concern of witches. in european mythology the sun has always been seen as a symbol of a male divinity, the moon a female one. however, worship of the moon as a supreme deity evolved much earlier than that of the sun. it is said among witches that in england at least the cult of the moon goddess predated the druidic, solar religion, and that it is from this early prytanic religion that four of the great annual witch festivals are derived. these are the nights of october 31 (halloween; february 2 (candlemas; april 30 (beltane, and august 1 (lammas. of these, beltane and halloween are the more important. the four solar fire festivals of the druids are also observed, though to a less

hall consider last. the witch jewels the necklace, the bracelet, the ring and pendant, the girdle cord and garter the necklace: the necklace is worn by women coven members often at sabbats and esbats only. it is in all probability of similar derivation to that of the girdle or garter some witches say that it has a connection with "brisingamen" the elven necklace possessed by freya, the norse love goddess. others say that through its occasional use of acorns as beads, it derives from the worship of diana of ephesus, whose devotees saw the head of their goddess bound with a coif of hair in the shape of the acorn itself. the number of beads for the necklace often consists of multiples of nine or thirteen. acorns aside, however, the beads may be made of any material you please metal, stone or

each line as you do so. by the mysteries of the deep [strike, by the flames of banal [strike, by the power of the east [strike, and by the silence of the night [strike, by the holy rites of hecate [strike, i conjure and exorcise thee, spirit [name [strike, to present thyself here [strike] and answer truly our demands [strike. so mote it be [strike (the "hecate" invoked here is the classical greek goddess of witchcraft. she is three-formed, having persephone and selene, goddesses of the dead and the moon respectively, as her other aspects) at this point replenish the thurible with more necromantic incense, extinguish all lights upon the altar table so that the room is plunged into darkness, and again moving backwards, carefully pass to the west rim of the circle, to kneel down, facing the t

known as habondia, hulda, and herodias, and sometimes by other versions of the last name, aradia, ariadne, or arianne. she is mistress of the moon as well as the realm of venus. in all your operations of romantic love it is her presence you must invoke, by any of the aforesaid names you may find significant again a little mythological research will help you here. you should strive to contact the goddess before your spells of romantic love, by visualizing her clad in silvery garments, mantled in darkness wherein the stars dimly gleam, and with long streaming hair. she is crowned with a wreath of flowers and corn, while above her brow shines the lunar disk on either side of which rise two rearing serpents. on her right hand perches her symbolic bird, the white dove. all flowers and blossoms

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

stent shape shifter. be it toads, wolves or dragons/serpents, ahriman is the wizard in spirit one who masters time by the dream and the twilight world made flesh by desire. the goal of the ritual is a form of self-initiation, adversarial crystallization of the self, that the individual strengthens the psyche and the shadow of the sorcerer. it is the utterance of a word, the embodiment of a god or goddess in flesh. the rite of the adversarial shadow the chant of the infernal sabbat as i face the star of al ghul the two horns become one. i cast the circle as kabed-us-spae, that within is the circumference of my divinity. by the star of algol i bask in the brilliance of the sun at midnight, the eye of blackened flame and smoke, of arimanius, 25 witchcraft or persian sorcery which involves dev

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

ahriman came before me. i took the mark of the beast and lilith s mark, being the bloodied caul. lilith bathed in blood, and grew strong and comforted from it. she was isolate and beautiful. kind and pale features would caress one who feared her, then her hand would become blackened talons, covered in course gray hair, and her face become contorted in demonic ecstasy i grew in lust for her, this goddess who was both beauty and bestial hunger in the same visage, she would cut the throat of those who feared her, and drink and bath in their life force. lilith taught me the arts of the vampyre, and prepared my spirit and flesh to walk between the world. the true mark of ahriman was given, and i passed between the light to the shadows. upon waking in the sand, i could face again the sun, yet s

his may be passed through the circle from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the emerald grail and the skull cup of the dragon-goddess, did i taste the pleasures of the harlot, walk the earth forever. i am the wandered, and many forms i will take. that even that i have left flesh shall m

f the shadows, when the will is weak. invoke cain in isolation and within the circle of those who are of the mark. isolation is a silent wisdom from which the fountain is never dry seek with the cup of emerald. o cain, spirit born of fire and darkness, shadowed initiator! o cain, who wanders the earth from deserts to forests brought forth from the womb, flesh-born son of the dragon and the harlot goddess, mother of witch blood. spirit and lord of the blackened fires of the forge, who tasted the blood mark as an x upon the brow. o cain, who was awakened by the skull bearing omen of abel lord of beasts and initiator of sorcerous fire, werewolf shapeshifter! let me see within and beyond the caul of lilith s veil! father and brother of the caves wherein are ancient shades, who hold the book of

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

gotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent s skin of azal ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is dodothe book of the witch moon by michael w. ford 2 2 the book of the witch moon is dedicated to hecate, the inspiration behind this grimoire, the goddess of the triple moon, of youth, of wisdom and of darkness..she who resides in the north, whose masks are many, lilith, diana, az, those daughters who shall meet thee in the crossroads blessed is her terrible name, she who blesses and curses with a glance o mother of the bleeding moon, o bride of chaos and darkness born may the pages of this book reveal thy lunar splendor, when shadows envelo

ter with care. our basis is to establish a thought process ushering forth in this upcoming age based on balance and ancient values. the subconscious must be explored on numerous levels to understand what is known as the beast within. we do not wish to throw in a new religion, or claim something amazing or revolutionary. this book was conceived after a great personal undertaking which involved the goddess babalon, for which opened the 6 6 gates of hecate and lilith. this work is seen by me personally as a manifestation and gift for these forces, which both myself and elda isela continue to work with. our approach towards witchcraft is based in nature, that each sabbath is a time of tuning ourselves in with its tides and changes as well as reaffirming our paths and sorceries. the sethanic/lu

ed on pushing the self, tearing away all masks which make up the outside of the individual until the basic essence remains. this is the way in which one begins building something strong and honorable. the essence of the initiation is to dedicate the sorcerer to the life long path of magick, wherein a great and beautiful flower awaits those of awakened and enlightened paths, the making of a god or goddess. the self is god and goddess, since you ultimately answer to yourself. make your self happy before attempting to do so with others. sabbat symbolism refers to the serpent that sheds his skin, enabling the rise to the stars of midnight and dawn, and entry to haunting mist and subterranean cavern. i stress the issue of sorcery being extremely personal to the individual who practices it. one

virgin dagger with which you could easily cut yourself. once the banishing rite is complete, focus on your environment and all of the beautiful and pleasant things around you, the forest, the wind, the animals and the great darkness that approaches, the night in its full and magnificent splendor- the great predators of night that fly about the shadowed skies. you are now in the bosom of the great goddess, she of many names to whom all forms of life eventually answer. face this with great understanding of who you are and remember that, other than a vehicle for the magickal current, you are nothing. all living things, great and small come and return to dust, the great womb is a spawning ground of genetic isolation and personality. time is not our own yet it is within our control. knowing thi

babalon would implement the seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the goddess of the sea (witch queen, the wand by babalon or another fire associated elemental or spirit, the pentagram by the green man, pan or the witches sabbat goat. remember success is based upon an intent focus of will and investment in belief. belief, desire and will are the power points of success in any working. the kangling is an instrument that may be implemented within your own temple. a ka

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

tes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast, the symbols of renewedlife. the egyptians used to place their dead within sarcophagi that were symbols of thefemale body. in fact, the interior of the lid of the sarcophagus had the image of thenight sky as the over-arching body of the mother goddess nuith.clearly, the monarchies of any age have been responsible for atrocious crimes. and yet, themonarchs themselves claim rulership by divine right. james vi of scotland becamejames i of england and was the main proponent of this. the origins of the sanctity of kingsgoes back to pre-diluvian times, however.the state of monarchy is the most supreme thing upon earth, for kings are not only

ating to theisland of oceania, later known as lemuria, where todays pacific ocean is. here theyestablish a thriving civilization where they also practiced the high sciences. the sub-lime cultural inventions and philosophies that enrich humankind then and now origi-nate from them. lemuria comes from mu or mu-devi which means the land ancestral or land of the ancestors. mu-devi was the hindu mother goddess. shiva was her counterpart and is the great father of mankind. an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. at

kind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shallbeget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. now therefore inform thy son lamechthat he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name noah, for he shall be toyou a survivor .in his work called metamorphoses or the golden ass, we read about the god apollosaying strange words regarding the birth of the goddess psyche: on some high crag, o king, set forth the maid, in all the pomp of funeral robes arrayed. hope for no bridegroom born of mortal seed but fierce and wild and of the dragon s breed there is even some evidence of cloning experiments in the bible: and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, and he slept: and he took one ofhis ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; an

de in the heavy streams, men- foul murderers and perjurers, and them whoothers wives seduce to sin, brothers slay brothers; sisters children shed each other s blood.hard is the world, sensual sin grows huge. there the sword-ages, axe-ages; shields are cleftin twain; storm ages, murder-ages; till the world falls dead and men no longer spare or pityone another (norse elder edda: the prophesy of the goddess v ala, page 416, norsemythology by anderson. but despite the histories, despite the statistics, and the vehemence of the suppressionand crime, there are still those who think that evil being endemic can be assuagedthrough time, when the good continue to generate enough love and forgiveness andbegin embracing the darkness and even the dark ones themselves. it does not occuratlantis, alien v

-the big bang never happened michael talbot the holographic universe zacharia sitchin earth chronicles series (10 v ols) robert temple the sirius mystery graham hancock fingerprints of the gods/the sign& the seal thomas mallory la morte darthur alfred lord tennyson idylls of the king chretien de troyes the grail wolfram v on eisenbach parsifal james frazer the golden bough robert graves the white goddess l. a. waddell phoenician origins of the britons/ makers of civilization/ egyptian civilization/ the british edda. c. s lewis that hideous strength /perelandra (v oyage to venus)/out of the silent planet j. r. r. tolkien lord of the rings /the silmarillion/the hobbit. george macdonald phantastes/lilith ursula le guin the earthsea trilogy john christopher the tripods trilogy emmanuel velikov

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

ors part three vampyric rituals the conjuration of the abyssic dragon the ritual of fearsome rays leviathan mastery of darkness the mirror of arashk shadow of astwihad 6 introduction how this book should be used vampirism has for long been a fascination and desire sought by many. no doubt you have considered what it would be like to fly in the night, drain another of energy and live like a god or goddess. if applied, this grimoire may help you. i strongly advise that you be of sound mind and to have begun a basic study or practice as defined in book of the witch moon, luciferian witchcraft and liber hvhi magick of the adversary as these books will prepare you. the vampyre magickian is indeed one who has stepped beyond the foundations of the luciferian path. the model of this path is based

cause many issues if responsibility is not practiced. the vampyre magickian takes the individual and transforms it awakens you and will require that you shed the beliefs of your past. you will become something better. this will definitely offer a short cut in your initiatory focus in an age of a want it now but the price is diving into the abyss and having the will to emerge as a devouring god or goddess. you may wish to use some of these techniques, or all of them as a practitioner on the luciferian witchcraft circle this is entirely up to you. be sure as you will grow from it and become something better if not more balanced from the process itself. notice the spelling of vampyre, denoting the old spelling a necromantic call to the origins and foundation a predator if you will. the vampyr

ho had the head of a griffin or tiger, wings, claws and a scaly tale. she appears also as a giant serpent. tiamat resembles the legends of ahriman as the dragon. here is the adversary, she is the night and the abyss. tiamat can give life and create what she wishes, much like ahriman created the archdaevas to counter creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic feminine is equally important to the adversarial formula in luciferian witchcraft as it is the balance which acknowledges the female generative principle as the foundation of all actions and purpose. the associative name of tiamat was tamtu, both names referring to the primeval sea and the dragon 20 which personified it. tiamat is thus very close to the idea of the hebr

e also men who had wings, or two faces, one body or who had both sexes and the legs of a goat, horns or were serpent like, dragon-men. over these presided omoroca, being ummu khubur or tiamat, the mother of darkness. tiamat was exalted to the rank of divinity, called the god who has taken hold of evil, that she remained in darkness and controlling the forces of chaos. tiamat was indeed a powerful goddess, a sorcerous being who could create fierce monsters and empower them accordingly. in her battle against the gods including marduk, tiamat first created vampiric beings. it was written that she beget serpents who were unsparing of fang and sharp of tooth. she filled their bodies with venom instead of blood, initiating transformation. the great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who

. we are legion yet we come from one source. there is only one from within you. you are the point and the beginning, azothoz as the devourer. in nature can you understand my spirit in all things. in doing such you will understand yourself. in understanding yourself you will be able to utilize all of your senses and develop skills to master what you will in this world. as we see that tiamat is the goddess of chaos, the oceans of the subconscious kingu represents her empowered will to form in life. the dragon is intense possibility, waiting for its means to become real by your desire and belief. with the tiamat foundation of vampirism, you may more easily move through the egyptian or ahrimanic aspects of luciferian sorcery to utilize the predatory spiritual aspects of each. energy and blood

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le river forever, which was the intention and expectation of the conspirators, the coffer sailed away quickly. set would eventually discover the coffin containing the body of his brother osiris in a hidden place. infuriated that his brother survived (in a sense, set cut osiris body into 14 parts and scattered the pieces, seeing to it that his brother would forever remain out of his midst. isis, a goddess that was both osiris wife and sister (such is common in mythology, brought her husband back to life by locating and recombining his scattered parts with sorcery. she failed to find the phallus (penis) of osiris, however, and was forced to substitute one made of gold. after this, osiris would not live long and was soon dead once more, but it is said that he periodically reappears among huma

to see how men like freud came to their conclusions about mythology (being nothing more than stories that symbolically represent the inner and outer struggles of the individual. there is yet another source of confusion that pervades some mythologies (especially the egyptian stories, and that confusion is borne from multiple names and titles associated with a single god. for example, the egyptian goddess hathor is associated with 2 other goddess, isis and bast. sometimes hathor is spoke of as the mother of horus, which would mean hathor and isis were the same entity; in other cases, the title hathor is associated with bast, who is known to not be isis. also, in egyptian mythology, ra is the sun god, but then again so is osiris and osiris son, horus; all three are known as sun gods, and all

tween civilizations in proximity. proposing that, over time, two nearby civilizations will begin to absorb the traditions and gods of the other. this theory does not, however, explain how distant and unacquainted civilizations managed to acquire so many corresponding details in their traditions. easily one of the most common gods who transcend the borders of mythology is venus. venus is the roman goddess of love and fertility. the goddess venus is so closely related to the greek goddess aphrodite that one could hardly pull them apart categorically. aphrodite, from whom came the word aphrodisiac, is also a goddess of love and fertility. aphrodite is also associated with another greek goddess astarte. in mesopotamia, this goddess goes by the names ishtar, ashtoreth, and inanna. ishtar is als

tility. the goddess venus is so closely related to the greek goddess aphrodite that one could hardly pull them apart categorically. aphrodite, from whom came the word aphrodisiac, is also a goddess of love and fertility. aphrodite is also associated with another greek goddess astarte. in mesopotamia, this goddess goes by the names ishtar, ashtoreth, and inanna. ishtar is also a fertility and love goddess who is further associated with the planet venus. the multiple aspects of the goddess inanna, or the concept of multiple aspects, seem to surface in the story of her descent into the underworld. here, inanna descends into the land of the dead, ruled by her dark sister (aspect) ereshkigal. at the end of this story the reader may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, a

f the goddess inanna, or the concept of multiple aspects, seem to surface in the story of her descent into the underworld. here, inanna descends into the land of the dead, ruled by her dark sister (aspect) ereshkigal. at the end of this story the reader may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, absorbed the qualities( or body) of her sister inanna. yet another copy of this goddess is queen semiramis. the average american is more familiar with semiramis than they realize; it is her likeness that graces the statue of liberty. even though the statue of liberty is a spiting likeness of queen semiramis of assyria, the french freemasons that funded the statue s construction left subtler clues as to the true identity of our lady liberty. in magic (of coarse, the metal of t

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ir mind's work, the intuition, understanding, graciousness and ferociousness when the animal hunger emerges. the vampyric and daemonic feminine is the point of intellect which combines and balances elegance and nobility with predatory instincts, the beast itself. it is this balance of being which allows self-improvement and introspection, ultimately to create a self-deified and productive god and goddess. the luciferian essence is found within the eyes of cain, the father of witchblood, buried deep within the dark well of the watchers, from which our mind is of the deep. leviathan the serpent guards this gateway of the arcana of sleep, from which the twilight brings the nightside of the immortal, those who pass the veil of the birth caul of lilith through the essence of the adversary. the

hich the blade is a bit rusty- held in by a back of snake skin. this has been an ongoing work to awaken the spirit within, a join in union with a new famulus bound within. holding the kangling, facing the west i called "i approach the west gate, unto the winds of funerals of past and to come, i summon forth azrael, the angel of death who grants the sight of beyond, the veil is thin! i summon thee goddess of the crossroads, who walks with the howling of wolves, come forth hecate. phenomena and record- became too dark to write as i worked through the ritual, two candles burned in the chamber which was sufficient light. rain poured as i recited. holding evocation dagger "zrazza, zrazza, ushanicht, zrazza, umpeshu "from the grave i return, midnight and midday, from the black earth i grow stron

is a gateway of transformation, the ecstasies contained therein and our own means of developing and becoming an illuminated (hence black flame) promethean being. just as we sip at the golden chalice of the luciferian sabbat, the sunlight essence of the fallen seraph, the fire djinn who holds the flame of self-perception, we to sip from the skull-cup of the dead, of hecate. noctulia- hecate is the goddess robed in black, perched upon her shoulder a raven. she appears before the circle, as the encirclement of our being, the gate-keeper of the realms of the ghostroads and the dead. it is noctulia -hecate (named also lilith) whom we sing hymns of the night unto. the ritual of lycanthropy is a two part process. the first involves the making of a belt of symbolic wolf skin, and possibly obtainin

e your temple area with an x, representing the crossroads. unto those who come to the crossroads (known also as the ghostroads) are inbetween the sun and the moon, from the living and the dead. face the altar "sekah, sekah, zrazza umpesha "by the hidden light known under the black sun, by the prayers whispered in silence unto the blood dripping moon i summon forth the adversary, noctulia- hecate, goddess before me this night. i call forth my lord, the devil, whom is a shadow of my self, just as i, isolate and individual between the dual essence of azoth, from which the toad awaits, shall the secret gates be opened "i call upon thee, satandar and asentacer, i summon thee forth phantom of darkness, i call forth the spirit of the werewolf, beast of darkness and shadow. send now the gray shape

haka hekas" so it is done. the ritual of entering of black eden a vampyric samhain ritual of becoming "as the circle is cast, we who partake of the varcolac cultus of the undead shall become something beyond, who shall embrace the animals of the earth as our sacred companions, whom in the twilight of dreaming shall assume forms which please us, and taste the elixir of the skull- cup of az, dragon goddess of the abyss "i summon thee by the many names of thy calling- drakul, lamiae, empusae, lilitu, naamah, nachtzehrer, from the many names of your palace in the corpse roads, whom approaches with the howling of wolves, who gathers the shades from the tombs. kali, whom dances upon the corpses of false kings and resides in the cremation grounds, i summon thee "by the mark of cain, given by baph

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g the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes [illustration: hieroglyph] the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's

possible. always--it is the decree of fate--the vast majority of men must toil to live, and cannot find time to cultivate the intelligence. man, knowing he is to die, will not sacrifice the present enjoyment for a greater one in the future. the love of woman cannot die out; and it has a terrible and uncontrollable fate, increased by the refinements of civilization. woman is the veritable syren or goddess of the young. but society can be improved; and free government is possible for states; and freedom of thought and conscience is no longer _wholly_ utopian. already we see that emperors prefer to be elected by universal suffrage; that states are conveyed to empires by vote; and that empires are administered with something of the spirit of a republic, being little else than democracies with

oss of the true word, are an allegory, in which are represented the general ignorance of the true nature and attributes of god, the proneness of the people of judah and israel to worship other deities, and the low and erroneous and dishonoring notions of the grand architect of the universe, which all shared except a few favored persons; for even solomon built altars and sacrificed to astarat, the goddess of the tsidunim, and malcum, the aamunite god, and built high places for kamus, the moabite deity, and malec the god of the beni-aamun. the true nature of god was unknown to them, like his name; and they worshipped the calves of jeroboam, as in the desert they did that made for them by aarun. the mass of the hebrews did not believe in the existence of one only god until a late period in th

all the other gods were but manifestations. the ram was his living symbol; which you see reproduced in this degree, lying on the book with seven seals on the tracing-board. he caused the creation of the world by the primitive thought[[greek??a, ennoia, or _spirit[[greek??e? a, pneuma, that issued from him by means of his _voice_ or the word; and which _thought_ or _spirit_ was personified as the goddess neith. she, too, was a divinity of _light, and mother of the sun; and the feast of lamps was celebrated in her honor at sais. the creative _power, another manifestation of deity, proceeding to the creation conceived of in her, the divine _intelligence, produced with its word the universe, symbolized by an egg issuing from the mouth of kneph; from which egg came phtha, image of the supreme

ment of death. socrates says that those who were so fortunate as to be admitted to the mysteries, possessed, when dying, the most glorious hopes for eternity. aristides says that they not only procure the initiates consolations in the present life, and means of deliverance from the great weight of their evils, but also the precious advantage of passing after death to a happier state. isis was the goddess of sais; and the famous feast of lights was celebrated there in her honor. there were celebrated the mysteries, in which were represented the death and subsequent restoration to life of the god osiris, in a secret ceremony and scenic representation of his sufferings, called the mysteries of night. the kings of egypt often exercised the functions of the priesthood; and they were initiated i

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n the old classification of things) of air. now, as one, or aleph, he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool;

d of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now, zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the

, all of us who aspire to her, bound slaves of immortal beauty; it is a pity that our mortal mistresses, not understanding whom we worship in them, so often think that they rule us! then, when the abuse of their egos finally forces us to seek a new priestess, they accuse us of being cold and unfeeling, forgetting that the temple must keep itself clean and comely, and worthy of the presence of the goddess. the ego is a good servant, but a bad master. that sign, nuit gives to all those who seek her, upon their reaching a certain grade. it is exactly as described. of course, a.c 'knew' who he was, since he called himself, and had been first called so by his own mother, 666 from childhood. see liber iv. part iv. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely bro

my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? crowley, who knew the attributions of ain, and its mystical meaning, had become troubled since the dictation of verse 45 "but are not the perfect, all of them, just one" he kept asking mentally as dictation went on. finally aiwass incorporates his doubt in the text, answering it out loud, and speaking for the goddess. the key is, of course, that monotheism is a lie. belief in the oneness of man is a great comfort to the ego "i am the one" cries every 'black brother. the master of the temple answers not, for he is not. the ox aleph is the ox, of course, 1 by the qabalah and zero by the book of thoth, the taro. also, aleph in full alp is 111 "one, one, one. it is also indicative that the two letters of o

ects of the act will prove whether it was "moral" or not. this is the 'reason' why adepts often seem to act with complete callousness and lack of consideration for other people's feelings. please do not confuse 'adepts' with 'black brethren; though, who thought everything was sorrow. cf "who am i "thou knowest" in chapter i (an altogether different case. a. c. was asking what star was he, and the goddess answered that he already knew he was 666. again the injured feelings of 666's personality cause confusion. this is all to the good, though, since it provides us with an example of the relationship between an adept's higher triad, his instrument, and his holy guardian angel) i am far from satisfied with either of the above interpretations of this verse. we shall see a little later, vv. 27 e

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ed that the great god of heaven was angry, and they trembled at his wrath. if the calm and tranquil sea became suddenly agitated, and the crested billows rose mountains high, dashing furiously against the rocks, and threatening destruction to all within their reach, the sea-god was supposed to be in a furious rage. when they beheld the sky glowing with the hues of coming day they thought that the goddess of the dawn, with rosy fingers, was drawing aside the dark veil of night, to allow her brother, the sun-god, to enter upon his brilliant career. thus personifying all the powers of nature, this very imaginative and highly poetical nation beheld a divinity in every tree that grew, in every stream that flowed, in the bright beams of the glorious sun, and the clear, cold rays of the silvery m

rowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. under the watchful care of the nymphs the infant zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in

wers fade, and her trees become leafless, they poetically expressed this process of nature under the figure of a lost love. she [19]was said to have been tenderly attached to a youth of remarkable beauty, named atys, who, to her grief and indignation, proved faithless to her. he was about to unite himself to a nymph called sagaris, when, in the midst of the wedding feast, the rage of the incensed goddess suddenly burst forth upon all present. a panic seized the assembled guests, and atys, becoming afflicted with temporary madness, fled to the mountains and destroyed himself. cybele, moved with sorrow and regret, instituted a yearly mourning for his loss, when her priests, the corybantes, with their usual noisy accompaniments, marched into the mountains to seek the lost youth. having discov

, when her priests, the corybantes, with their usual noisy accompaniments, marched into the mountains to seek the lost youth. having discovered him[6] they gave full vent to their ecstatic delight by indulging in the most violent gesticulations, dancing, shouting, and, at the same time, wounding and gashing themselves in a frightful manner. ops. in rome the greek rhea was identified with ops, the goddess of plenty, the wife of saturn, who had a variety of appellations. she was called magna-mater, mater-deorum, berecynthia-idea, and also dindymene. this latter title she acquired from three high mountains in phrygia, whence she was brought to rome as cybele during the second punic war, b.c. 205, in obedience to an page 20 injunction contained in the sybilline books. she was represented as a

and all that they made. their characters seem to have resembled the metal in which they delighted; their minds and hearts were hard, obdurate, and cruel. they led a life of strife and contention, introduced into the world, which had hitherto known nothing but peace and tranquillity, the scourge of war, and were in fact only happy when fighting and quarrelling with each other. hitherto themis, the goddess of justice, had been living among mankind, but becoming disheartened at their evil doings, she abandoned the earth, and winged her flight back to heaven. at last the gods became so tired of their evil deeds and continual dissensions, that they removed them from the face of the earth, and sent them down to hades to share the fate of their predecessors. we now come to the men of the iron age

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mmon objectives, such as ensuring that there is a full moon every month and that summer returns after winter. covens hold great feasts on certain nights each year, february 2 (candlemas, april 30 (walpurgis night, august 1 (lammas, and october 31 (halloween. these four dates are the main witch sabots of the year. special nights on which white witches gather to celebrate their devotion to the moon goddess diana, and the goat-footed god of fertility, pan, indulging in drink, laughter, love, and song. the more interesting covens, on the other hand, indulge in an orgy of< wickedness where all the instincts are given free reign. the dark forces, pleased by the perversions performed for them, then pursue obtaining the tasks asked of them by the participants. welcome to the coven there are variou

: aries: cinnamon, pepper, and chestnuts. taurus: grapes and sage. gemini: carrots and fennel. cancer: garlic and peppermint. leo: almonds and celery seed. virgo: apples and thyme. scorpio: ginger, mustard, and onions. sagittarius: sesame seed and nutmeg. capricorn: dates and wintergreen. aquarius: bananas and rye. pisces: mint and oranges. the word aphrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. of all the goddesses of ancient greece and rome, none was more widely venerated than the goddess of love was. every god -even zeus himself- wanted the beautiful, golden aphrodite as his wife, but she was too proud and rejected them all. one of her children was eros, the winged god of love. the black candle of love< the occult practitioner

r, england, july 1992. occult power points in this book, you ve discovered: the cornerstone of witchcraft is the coven. it is lead by a coven master. the purpose of the coven is to build magic power amongst its members to achieve the coven's common objectives. covens hold great feasts on certain nights each year. special nights on which white witches gather to celebrate their devotion to the moon goddess diana, and the goat-footed god of fertility, pan, indulging in drink, laughter, love, and song. the more interesting covens indulge in an orgy of wickedness where all the instincts are given free reign. there are various forms of secret initiation ceremonies depending on the type of coven one seeks to join. the initiate is led naked to the center of the circle with her hands tied behind he

ditional color used by witches in sexual matters. the conjuration to summon the incubi and succubi works best if it is first worked three days before the new moon. aphrodisiac foods are ruled by the stars and exert a more potent effect if the correct foods are served to the person whose astrological sun sign agrees with the foods concerned. the word aphrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. sex backed by a definite thought or desire is a powerful magical force. you can make the irresistible combination of sex and magic work real wonders for you< the cabala is the secret teaching of the ancient hebrews concerning the inner meaning to the simplistic doctrines and philosophy of the old testament, and forms the basis of modern o

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, god of woods, for the dendrophori, or wood carvers. in other cases it might choose a deceased emperor or even a foreign deity. we know that the romans often adopted the gods of other peoples. we can surmise what deity the roman tignarii, or carpenters, chose for themselves by looking at a stone discovered in 1725 in chichester, england, that bears the dedication (52 a.d) of a temple to minerva, goddess of wisdom, and neptune, god of the sea. the latter may well have been invoked both for the protection of the tignarii, who frequently had to cross the channel, and for the construction of boats.10 a similar inscription discovered in nice-cimiez shows the lapidarii making a vow to hercules, their tutelary deity* it is also likely that the worship of roman builders had experienced the influe

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the creator s care for the beings he has made. it is this care that leads vishnu, the hindu preserver of the world, to take on his many avatar forms in order to help humanity in times of crisis. his final avatar, kalkin, the white horse, will appear at the end of this era, to usher in a new age. the great mother creator gods tend to be male, but much of the work of creation may be delegated to a goddess. for example, among the keres of the american southwest, utsiti, the creator god, who made the world from a clot of his own blood, sent his daughter iatiku with her sister to make the earth fruitful. iatiku sends her son to lead the people up into this world, and then iatiku and her sister sing a creation song, all the while casting seeds and images of their song out of a basket given them

otector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where various goddesses are worshiped under the enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferocious and vengeful durga or kali. sankara wrote of her in the 9th century, your hands hold delight and pain

enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferocious and vengeful durga or kali. sankara wrote of her in the 9th century, your hands hold delight and pain. the shadow of death and the elixir of immortal life are yours. the combination of delight and pain is not confined to india. the great goddess of ancient mesopotamia, variously called ishtar and inanna, also combined the roles of goddess of love and goddess of war. these dual aspects are explored in the epic of gilgamesh, in which she first desires gilgamesh and then, when he rejects her, exacts a terrible revenge (see p. 18. the egyptian isis became absorbed into roman myth, and it is she who speaks, with the unmistakable voice

cient mesopotamia, variously called ishtar and inanna, also combined the roles of goddess of love and goddess of war. these dual aspects are explored in the epic of gilgamesh, in which she first desires gilgamesh and then, when he rejects her, exacts a terrible revenge (see p. 18. the egyptian isis became absorbed into roman myth, and it is she who speaks, with the unmistakable voice of the great goddess, to lucius, the hero of apuleius novel the golden ass, when he is initiated into her cult: i am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. holding the world together in the mysteries of eleusis in ancient

, the hero of apuleius novel the golden ass, when he is initiated into her cult: i am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. holding the world together in the mysteries of eleusis in ancient greece, the great goddess formed the central focus of greek religion (see p. 29. these rituals, open only to the initiated, related to the myth of the grain goddess demeter, and her daughter persephone, the ineffable maiden. those who witnessed the rites were assured of a new birth in death. the mysteries were thought by the greeks to hold the entire human race together. such a belief illustrates the crucial import

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olar phallic masculine archetype, the beast which rises from leviathan) in sexual union the creation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each goddess represents (and how they are the same) and the results of invoking them within (both male and female. the significance of the feminine (lunar) and the goddess of death and birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra, book of cain, book of

thy being! i seek to pass through the gateway of the abyss! leviathan arise and cast thy fiery eye into my very spirit! 15 i proclaim my self as created and reborn in luciferian light! i affirm cain as my earthly guide and blacksmith who shall light my fire of being! i affirm samael-azazel as my fiery initiator of becoming in the light of the sun! i affirm lilith hecate as the night initiator and goddess of the moon! i affirm my awakening into the throne of baphomet! visualize cain coming forth, bearded and horned with one hammer and a bloodied hand he reaches forth and places an x in blood on your brow the mark of the witch. cain now shines with a violet light, a fire which is both brilliant and darkly beautiful. behold, i am encircled in the witch fire this shall become the serpent path

e adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumination. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling beasts, bless my path with your eyes which are always seeing bless me with the fallen star of azazel, as lightening i awake! i do affirm ahriman, prince of darkness and the beast in flesh spectral shadow who is lucifugus, bless my rites with the astral shape of the toad and the serpent dragon open thy eye as algol!

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

of disreputable images by the christian psyche in modern times. the ideal message received on the astral should be "i shall ascend" and not by chance "i am of evil. such doctrines of "evil" and "good" are excuses to not deal with the core of the individual. it is locking away the most dangerous, most powerful and most exciting part of the self. once the shadow is brought into light shall a god or goddess begin to emerge. lucifer stands for the balance of flesh and spirit. the ego or "i, constantly changing must continue to consciously manifest in a positive manner. as aleister crowley pointed out in the article entitled "the initiated interpretation of ceremonial magic (published in the goetia "the spirits of the goetia are portions of the human brain. their seals therefore represent (mr

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

god and ye shall have, seek and ye shall find. knock, and it shall be opened unto you <150> the garden of eden after the fall this diagram is described in the philosophus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to a philosophus on entering the sephirah netzach which he has reached by the three paths of qoph, tzaddi, and peh from the sephiroth-malkuth, yesod and hod respectively. the great goddess eve, being tempted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower sephiroth, but also downward to the kingdom of shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. then the sephirotic tree was shattered. she fell and with her fell the great adam. and the great red dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and eden was desol

ad, the chest, and the trunk. i now confer upon you the mystic title of periclinus de faustis, which signifies that on this earth you are in a wilderness, far from the garden of the happy. and i give you the s bol of aretz which is the hebrew name for earth, to which the 6= grade of zelator is referred. the word zelator is derived from the ancient egyptian zaruator, sigrufylng "searcher of athor, goddess of nature; but others assign to it the meaning of the zealous student whose first duty was to blow the athanor of fire which heated the crucible of the alchemist <65> hierophant resumes seat on dais: kern leads new zelator to seat in north west. hiero frater kerux, you have my command to declare that our frater has been duly admitted to the 0= grade of zelator. kern comes to n. w. of hiero

and said "i am the synthesis of the elemental forces. i am also the symbol of man. i am life and i am death. i am the child of the night of time" as kewandzelatorapproach theeast, hierophant bars the way with banner of the west and fan. hiero the priest with the mask of osiris spake and said "thou canst not pass the gate of the eastern heaven unless thou canst tell me my name" k e w thou art nu, goddess of the firmament of air. thou art hormaku, lord of the eastern sun. hiero in what signs and symbols do ye come? kerux in the letter aleph. in the banner of light, and the symbol of the equated forces. hierophant stands back and signs aquarius =s: before zelator with fan. hiero in the sign of the man, child of air, thou art purified. pass thou on. gives banner of the west to kenuc who leads

l 1 75 therein a solar world and endless light subsist. the sun more true measureth all things by time, for he is the time of time, and his disc is in the starless above the inerratic sphere, and he is the centre of the triple world. the sun is fire and the dispenser of fire. he is also the channel for the higher fire. 0 aether, sun and spirit of the moon, ye are the leaders of air. and the great goddess bringeth forth the vast sun and the brilliant moon and the wide air, and the lunar course and the solar pole. she collecteth it, receiving the melody of the aether and of the sun and of the moon, and of whatsoever is contained in air. unwearied doth nature rule over the worlds and works, so that the period of all things may be accomplished. and above the shoulders of the great goddess, is

son who the golden dawn: volume i1 book two was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, mother of all, the completion of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the thirtieth path "and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted" the three equals eight grade of practicus is referred to the sephirah hod and the thirtieth and thirty first paths- those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is given thus. with the hands together, raise the arms till the elbows are level with the shoulders. with the thumbs and fore-fingers make a triangle on your breast thus (showi

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

blazing torch. we are toapproach creation, the breaking away of night, to enter upon the first rays of lux. the chaoticelements of fire and flood are to give place to a serene, calm, passionless and pure existence of allthings terrestrial and celestial; the heavens and. the earth are to take form, system and harmony. therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles to make known his holy laws, soastronomy, through the wondrous mower of the great creator of all things, has 12 instructors called"gates, or signs of the zodiac, which typify the 12 stones of foundation of the holy city. the mindof the father also decreed tha

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

f which would have saved the life, atoned for the unconscious crime and established the kingdom of oedipus. 12 the doctrine of transcendental magic in the hieroglyphic work of hermes, being the tarot or book of thoth, the duad is represented either by the horns of isis, who has her head veiled and an open book concealed partially under her mantle, or otherwise by a sovereign lady, juno, the greek goddess, with one hand uplifted towards heaven and the other pointed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith

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

ted further by precious indications derived from spanish varieties. the two of cups, for example, the naibi is completely egyptian, showing two archaic vases, with ibis handles, superposed on a cow. a unicorn is represented in the middle of the four of deniers; the three of cups 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 crowd

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

page 58, though such usage has already been carefully qualified at the opening of his text (page 21) where he describes the ancient practice of introduction 8 referring to that which is powerful and potentially dangerous by kindly names. not only did the gaels do this, as they still do to this day in isolated regions of scotland and ireland, but it was common in the classical world. the term good goddess used by the romans, for example, was often descriptive of the terrifying queen of the underworld, hecate, ruler of necromancy, death, poisons, cursing, and similar forces and activities. if we read kirk's material carefully, and try to avoid imposing any modern retrospective attitudes upon it (a difficult but not impossible task, he presents a clear and well-defined purpose to the reader

was the perpetual fire at the sanctuary of st. brigit in kildare in ireland. this saint narrowly disguises the celtic goddesses brigh or brigid, to whom many hundreds of gaelic prayers were uttered. there is some evidence that the early christian church at glastonbury was based on a pagan temple of brigid, and many other examples of her presence in britain and ireland could be cited. the original goddess mediated the energies of poetry and inspiration, smithcraft, and therapy. in celtic christian trad-ition she was midwife to mary and/or foster mother to jesus. we may see echoes of this in the many examples of the theme of the otherworld or fairy child and the human nurse or midwife, though this comparison need not be extended too far. a perpetual fire was kept burning in the temple of ves

of neith in sais. in britain the ancient temple of sulis minerva had a perpetual fire, which was recorded in the legendary history of the kings commentary 86 of britain by geoffrey of monmouth, a text with which kirk was undoubtedly familiar. in geoffrey's vita merlini we find a detailed description of the otherworld island, known as the fortunate isle, and ruled over by a mysterious priestess or goddess of flight, shapechanging and therapy, with her sisters. curiously, if we follow geoffrey's text, 18 the fortunate isle seems to be reached by entering the earth through the sacred springs guarded by king bladud, the celtic god-king presiding over the site of aquae sulis. 19 geoffrey of http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (4 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between

/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (4 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds with earth-magic thomas the rhymer is given clothing of green by the queen of elfland. the significance within the tradition is that the wearing of green signifies unity with the land. janet's virgin state, therefore, is no mere human condition, but declares her to be a character such as the epiphanies of the goddess or spirit of the land that occur in appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 130 early celtic poetical convention. it is her true love that later wins tam lin back to humanity. 3. pulling of flowers tam lin is summoned by the pulling of roses and the breaking of branches. he is therefore an otherworld guardian who may be summoned or aroused through magic connected to nature. he states that none s

g in the role of an impersonal agency, fulfilling certain laws. in thomas, however, the queen is directly concerned in an active dialogue with the hero, and becomes his redeemer through the offering of his love. in other words, the role of 'queen' and 'janet' are merged into one entity in the thomas story, wherein she prohibits the hero from worshipping her as 'queen of heaven- for she is not the goddess. in tam lin, the queen, not activated or motivated by true love, can only be a deeper archetype. this concept is central to the practical operation of magic in the underworld, and should be fully understood before any experiments are attempted. indeed, the stories of tam and thomas should be seen as two operative variants of the same magical liberation process. in the first, http//www.drea

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f responsibility. contingent, of course, upon the maintenance of order, payment of taxes, and general preservation of a harmonious attitude among the people there were no legislated standards of good and evil/right and wrong. justice was meted out ad hoc according to each supervisory official's concept of fairness and equity. the egyptians prized this system very highly; it was personified by the goddess maat. when an egyptian died, a feather from maat's crown would be weighed against his heart to determine whether he would be granted a pleasant repose in amenti or be torn limb from limb by monsters from the tuat. i expect that would-be crooks were inhibited accordingly, since the egyptian religion was taken quite literally. consider the following inscription, dating from one of the earlie

ck is as old as known history. its contemporary revival, however, began in the early 1900s. the most popular form of magical religion, neo-paganism, is a nature-oriented religion based on the worship of male-female polarity, the observance of the agricultural seasons, and magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expressed as allegiance to the horned god and the great mother goddess. ritual follows the movement of the sun and moon. neo-pagans see themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, druid, or egyptian in format. by far the wiccans compose the largest segment of the neo-pagan community. wicca or witchcraft is derived from the ancient paganism practiced in western europe, especially the british i

fferent wicca groups and hundreds of independent covens functioning in the united states. the gardnerians are one of several modern wicca groups. they trace their history to gerald b. gardner, who initiated the current wiccan revival. however, most wiccans now follow an eclectic practice which values creativity and is constantly changing and altering ritual while remaining within the basic nature goddess orientation. during the 1980s many neo-pagans and wiccans joined the armed forces. recently they have formed a network to assist in their relating to the military. the network may be contacted through its newsletter, pagan military newsletter, 829 lynnhaven parkway, virginia beach, va 23452. secrecy is a major element of the existence of both witchcraft and satanism (discussed below. secre

ealization, there can be no other answer. paganism 1. deities: a core pantheon. perhaps one particular deity and his consort were designated as the supreme beings. these were all given human traits in super-human proportions, and linked with cosmic forces or perceived realities in a somewhat archetypal manner. archaeological evidence seems to suggest that the first god forms venerated were of the goddess or mother type. it was not until this century that the concept of archetype as a factor of the human subconscious was widely understood through the works of carl jung. so it can't be assumed that this was the intent among the ancients, though in some cases the written evidence of symbolism suggests similar concepts existed. however, when one considers the proliferation of deities, for exam

wn as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reasoning for mary's being blessed and virgin is due to divine intervention, and is therefore a matter of faith, meaning that a catholic can be excommunicated for heresy if he is not willing to accept these dogmas. commonly used to "honor" mary, the hail mary's are nothing but invocations to a mother goddess. mary has been an extremely touchy subject for catholicism. technically she is a saint, but just try calling her that in a conversation with devout catholics. some of the other female saints who are highly "venerated" do not come out so well either under scrutiny, especially when cults have been established around them. st. therese of the child jesus, a carmelite nun also known as the litt

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

t is opened and closed at a point of ingress..each aath hath especial souvereignity over a specific pair of letters, these twin aatic glyphs being the polarities of such powers as are emanated and drawn in by that particular cell. thus they define the nature and characteristics of the aat as a geminus. an aatic current may thus be called upon as the twin continua of zoa (life) and azoa (death- as goddess and god (p. 94-95. on the pages following a fivefold routine as a ritualistic formulae is revealed so it s clear that the aats function as the mounting points of corporeal form. the formulae can be summed up in the following: i+ will+ desire+ belief= result. some of you might find a strong reference in the work of the british sorcerer austin osman spare through this formulae and the import

ence "mirror the whole nature in your portrait and see the secret beauty. open eye and mind for this. this is the way of netzasch inspiring the "eye" and "mind" for this task. this cell is the place for the fundamental creation of form. the influence of mercury has stirred up the water and the alchemy has started. in this phase of creation "vac" is important "vac" is an aspect of sarasvati as the goddess of speech, signifying sound, or rather the primordial sounds of creation. breath is air and the component needed for transmutation, as seen in the techniques of pranayama. it is this mercurial air of creation the water has stirred up. the rite of ingress, or the establishment of the point and its adversary into the one. the text itself called the eight steps of the rite of ingress gives a

spirits and powers governing the sigil under the dominon of the second hidden star (orion, but in general there are a strong sub-stellar touch to the material presented in this aat, and therefore it is essentially reflected in the lunar rays of the mystery) of the azoth. this cell is focused on the formation of the fluidity and fluxity of the magical matrix of invocation. this is the abode of the goddess of water, salt and fire. she who is colour and sex (p. 146. the 2nd cell is setting forth the mysteries of the goddess trifold of nature and marks through this synthesis the lesser mystery of the three lunar phases and how the growth, maturity and the old age of the goddess are functioning in the magical arte. the greater mystery, the one concerning the black moon is treated in a different

ting forth the mysteries of the goddess trifold of nature and marks through this synthesis the lesser mystery of the three lunar phases and how the growth, maturity and the old age of the goddess are functioning in the magical arte. the greater mystery, the one concerning the black moon is treated in a different house. this is per definition the house of the moon and through this the abode of the goddess. the connection between gimel and nun is significant int his joining between the moon and the lunar animals, like scorpios, centipedes and the like. in the tarot these letters has been assigned to the priestess and death. since this cell is the lunar abode it is also the cell where they mysteries of the psychosexual fluids are understood. the house it self is concerned with the pure and ge

ll occur. the aspiration in this house is total stellar and has through its high aspiration tight connections with the lunar mansions and the abysmal waters resting in the lunar realms. it is in these domains the congress with the devil is sought and where the destruction of the virgin will be accomplished to give rise to the importance of shakti-nature in the excellent call of ononshu, the black goddess who is both the begotten and the begotter of the realm of the sphere of the black goddesses, like hekate, lilith, kali, artemis and the like. in ononshu they are united into one and the distinction is the between. to accomplish the treading of the path of stellar waters the connection towards the animalistic spirits and the atavistic totems are crucial to construct a balance between the lo

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

to prove he was a man "god-sake, mister" the babasaheb pleaded "when i told you back then to go and be a homo i never thought you would take me seriously, there is a limit to respecting one's elders, after all" gibreel threw up his hands and swore that he was no such disgraceful thing, and that when the right girl came along he would of course undergo nuptials with a will "what you waiting? some goddess from heaven? greta garbo, gracekali, who" cried the old man, coughing blood, but gibreel left him with the enigma of a smile that allowed him to die without having his mind set entirely at rest. the avalanche of sex in which gibreel farishta was trapped managed to bury his greatest talent so deep that it might easily have been lost forever, his talent, that is, for loving genuinely, deeply

e called allah (means simply, the god. ask the jahilians and they'll acknowledge that this fellow has some sort of overall authority, but he isn't very popular: an all--rounder in an age of specialist statues. abu simbel and newly perspiring baal have arrived at the shrines, placed side by side, of the three best-beloved goddesses in jahilia. they bow before all three: uzza of the radiant visage, goddess of beauty and love; dark, obscure manat, her face averted, her purposes mysterious, sifting sand between her fingers- she's in charge of destiny- she's fate; and lastly the highest of the three, the mother-goddess, whom the greeks called lato. ilat, they call her here, or, more frequently, al--lat _the goddess. even her name makes her allah's opposite and equal. lat the omnipotent. his fac

mily of the grandee, abu simbel- or, to be more precise, of his wife hind- controls the famous temple of lat at the city's southern gate (they also draw the revenues from the manat temple at the east gate, and the temple of uzza in the north) these concessions are the foundations of the grandee's wealth, so he is of course, baal understands, the servant of lat. and the satirist's devotion to this goddess is well known throughout jahilia. so that was all he meant! trembling with relief, baal remains prostrate, giving thanks to his patron lady. who looks upon him benignly; but a goddess's expresson is not to be relied upon. baal has made a serious mistake. without warning, the grandee kicks the poet in the kidney. attacked just when he has decided he's safe, baa! squeals, rolls over, and abu

esitation or doubt, he recites two further verses "have you thought upon lat and uzza, and manat, the third, the other- after the first verse, hind gets to her feet; the grandee of jahilia is already standing very straight. and mahound, with silenced eyes, recites "they are the exalted birds, and their intercession is desired indeed" as the noise- shouts, cheers, scandal, cries of devotion to the goddess al-lat- swells and bursts within the marquee, the already astonished congregation beholds the doubly sensational spectacle of the grandee abu simbel placing his thumbs upon the lobes of his ears, fanning out the fingers of both hands and uttering in a loud voice the formula "allahu akbar" after which he falls to his knees and presses a deliberate forehead to the ground. his wife, hind, imm

owing with blackness, is a mythological apparition with vast black wings, her hair streaming loose, as long and black as the imam's is long and white: al--lat, gibreel understands, bursting out of ayesha's shell "kill her" the imam commands. gibreel sets him down on the palace's ceremonial balcony, his arms outstretched to encompass the joy of the people, a sound that drowns even the howls of the goddess and rises up like a song. and then he is being propelled into the air, having no option, he is a marionette going to war; and she, seeing him coming, turns, crouches in air, and, moaning dreadfully, comes at him with all her might. gibreel understands that the imam, fighting by proxy as usual, will sacrifice him as readily as he did the hill of corpses at the palace gate, that he is a suic

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re is a great hunger for such "initiations- they are as popular as that perennial best-seller, toilet paper printed to look money. and certainly they are as valuable. i would like to discuss initiation as seen from a left-and path perspective. the left hand path is the path of nonunion. our right hand path brothers and sisters look for patterns external to themselves to harmonize with- be it god, goddess, or dialectical materialism. we look for existent but underdeveloped patterns of the divine within our own experience to bring forth to create a unique harmony within ourselves and our world. our path is burdened by strife, false pride, and true anguish of not knowing what to do- and rewarded by love, personal victories, mindful cooperation, and the sense of the unknown. given our values

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

re is a great hunger for such "initiations- they are as popular as that perennial best-seller, toilet paper printed to look money. and certainly they are as valuable. i would like to discuss initiation as seen from a left-and path perspective. the left hand path is the path of nonunion. our right hand path brothers and sisters look for patterns external to themselves to harmonize with- be it god, goddess, or dialectical materialism. we look for existent but underdeveloped patterns of the divine within our own experience to bring forth to create a unique harmony within ourselves and our world. our path is burdened by strife, false pride, and true anguish of not knowing what to do- and rewarded by love, personal victories, mindful cooperation, and the sense of the unknown. given our values

SATANGEL

eaders may be a little surprised and possibly even upset to see the good book included in a list of grimoire, its use as a source of witchcraft has a long tradition. in particular the psalms, hand copied, torn out, or recited aloud, have been used in many spells throughout the ages. various other passages are also considered to possess their own power. in those traditions where the worship of the goddess has continued, often under the guise of the three marys, the song of solomon has particular importance. whilst modern witches are lucky enough to have all the theological history books at their disposal, and may thus consider themselves to have rediscovered their pagan heritage, the witches of the middle ages had only those few snippets that were preserved in their lineage. much of their t

nt, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will mount the back of a cloud. i will be like unto elyon. according to some versions of this myth, the devil has s

ornless one is employed in goetic evocation, chiefly through the innovation of aliester crowley. alloces (goetia, 52nd spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. a soldier with a red face and flaming eyes, with a huge and course voice, riding a horse. teaches astronomy and liberal arts, gives good familiars. the name possibly has its roots in the greek allecto, meaning she who is unremitting, a cthonian goddess who arose from the spilt blood of kronos father. amaimon (goetia. demon king of the element of earth, and of the north. possibly traceable to ammonium, the oracle site of the egyptian god amun. alternatively, the celts had an agricultural god named amaethon. amdukias, amdusias (goetia. duke commanding 29 legions. appears as a unicorn. bends trees and gives good familiars. amon (goetia, 7th

. the grimorium verum and grand grimoire make him the great duke of hell. also understood to be the treasurer of hell. also serves as a mentor who inspires newr demons on to greater actions of evil. inspires sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (mathers, waite. astarte- ashtoreth was originally the creating and destroying goddess of the phonicians and zidonians, assosciated closely with the cult of baal. known to the egyptians as athtar, venus in the morning, in aramaic she is the morning star, as astroarche she is queen of the stars. avnas, amy (58th spirit, goetia. president commanding 36 legions, who appears as a flame. teaches astrology and the liberal arts, bewrays treasure kept by spirits. gives good familiar

the cult of baal. known to the egyptians as athtar, venus in the morning, in aramaic she is the morning star, as astroarche she is queen of the stars. avnas, amy (58th spirit, goetia. president commanding 36 legions, who appears as a flame. teaches astrology and the liberal arts, bewrays treasure kept by spirits. gives good familiars. az (hebrew, from aleph-zain, meaning then, therefore. the dark goddess. azael (hebrew. demon prince of water. also, amongst the watchers (see above. azarak) a name employed to designate the horned one of the witches, together with its counterpart zomelak. it made its way through major fuller s article the black arts (form, where it is given as a name for the devil, to become included in the gardnerian charge of wicca. azazel (hebrew. demon prince of air. also

SATANIC BIBLE

th leviathan (hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west the infernal names abaddon (hebrew) the destroyer adramelech- samarian devil ahpuch- mayan devil ahriman- mazdean devil amon- egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction apollyon- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics baalberith- canaanite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed baphomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, tak

g devil of the sea damballa- voodoo serpent god demogorgon- greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals diabolus (greek "flowing downwards" dracula- romanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- greek prince of death fenriz- son of loki, depicted as a wolf gorgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym fo

hiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- babylonian god of hades nihasa- american indian devil nija- polish god of the underworld o-yama- japanese name for satan pan- greek god of lust

god of lust, later relegated to devildom pluto- greek god of the underworld proserpine- greek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with dionysos, snake worship saitan- enochian equivalent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon

tan. but what of terms like "god fearing? if god is so merciful, why do people have to fear him? are we to believe there is nowhere we can turn to escape fear? if you have to fear god, why not be "satan fearing" and at least have the fun that being god fearing denies you? without such a wholesale fear religionists would have had nothing with which to wield power over their followers. the teutonic goddess of the dead and daughter of loki was named hel, a pagan god of torture and punishment. another "l" was added when the books of the old testament were formulated. the prophets who wrote the bible did not know the word "hell; they used the hebrew sheol and the greek hades, which meant the grave; also the greek tartaros, which was the abode of fallen angels, the underworld (inside the earth

SATANIC RITUALS

s the omens of thy will! the glowing coals of ancient sacrifice give birth to spectral shadows who live again as gods of wine and joy [celebrant lowers arms] celebrant: arise and call the bones! the living bones upon the throne! slava, slava yevo silye! slava! kashchei! kashchei! immortal man of madness! slava tchortu! participants: kashchei! kashchei! slava tchortu! celebrant: invoke the dancing goddess, with pshent of flame. her yearning knows no bounds; this is her night to lure the multitudes who sit in judgment of her lust! morena! morena! morena! vyelikaya mats! noch eta nasha [congregation performs a metanea (brief bow with right hand lowered to ground, then remains standing. priest moves to altar and places a kiss upon her body, then steps back and motions for thurible. acolyte pre

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

reece, of which shall be spoken presently. in his book the black arts (pan books ltd. 1967, richard cavendish outlines the proceedings of the witches sabbath. commencing with the witches paying homage to the devil. the witches would light a fire whilst the devil was seated upon a throne in the form of either a goat, representing satan himself, or a dog, which may have been connected with the dark goddess- the dog being one of the sacred animals of hekate- rather than with satan himself. the witches would then approach and adore the devil, though their approach would be in a manner foreign to normal men, such as walking crab-like or with their backs turned to him. after this 'came the offering of the candles to the devil and the obscene kiss'(7) where the witch kisses the devils behind. fol

n the police (were) looking out for the vicar you mention (rev. harry neil snelling) and when i said i was going to join the search party on the downs he said no need, they'd got him'(26) whilst the evidence points to the fact of ritual sacrifice by the friends of hekate, little is actually known of their rites although they are believed to focus specifically upon the worship of the ancient greek goddess hekate. whilst the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 10 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 information concerning the connection of the friends of hekate with human and animal sacrifice is both scarce and hypothetical a far more open approach is advocated by the order of nine angles. the sacrificial tradition

'retain the 'cosmic balance- in modern times to keep a nexion open'(27) this tradition has continued until modern times and although it is believed to have remained as it once was in essence, the outward form, that is, the words and chants of the ritual are believed to have been altered over the years. what is understood is that the ritual sacrifice was performed in honour of the dark and violent goddess baphomet- the severed head being associated with her worship. the priest himself would have secured an acausal existence in the land of the dark gods and would thereby become immortal. in more modern times the order of nine angles approach to ritual sacrifice has significantly altered from a willing sacrificial victim- that of the initiated priest- to that of an unwilling sacrificial victi

ilst the priestess visualises the gate opening further. the priest is then led away to a secluded place where the master of the temple will then perform the ritual sacrifice. returning to the temple the master will present the mistress of the earth with a bowl containing the blood of the sacrificed priest. the mistress will then wash her hands and face in his blood as a representation of the dark goddess baphomet. the rite itself is concluded with a feast. an alternative ritual of sacrifice is that known as the giving which occurs once every 51 years. the function of human sacrifice according to the order of nine angles occur on two levels. firstly it releases a vast amount of magical or psychical energy that can be directed in accordance with specific goals, or, alternatively stored in a

tion satanists like to believe. however, this 'life' is not 'human- it is not bound by a body or even by our causal time and space. expressed esoterically, it is acausal. satan, however, is not alone- that is, he is not the only dark, sinister being who affects our world and thus existence. he has a female counter-part- a mistress, lover, bride. esoterically, her name is baphomet. she is the dark goddess. thus, a satanic initiate is often described as the lover of one or both of these sinister entities- and a genuine satanic initiation may be likened to a ritual copulation with either satan or baphomet [where the priest/priestess assumes the form of the entity. in genuine satanism there is no 'worship' of satan (or baphomet- but rather an acceptance of them as friends, lovers (or, in the e

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

sm, which contains the teachings of mahavira. akhand paath: any occasion, such as a marriage or a death, when the granth sahib is read in its entirety. alchemy: an ancient science that aimed to transform substances of little value into those of greater value, such as lead into gold. allah: the name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. amaterasu: the sun-goddess. amesha spentas: the bounteous immortals, aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. xv amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. animism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. anthropomo

ent of belief or basic principles. crucifixion: the suffering and death by nailing or binding a person to a cross. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. daevas: ancient persian deities. dao: the path or way; the rhythmic balance and natural, flowing patterns of the universe. de: political power that is the result of a ruler s virtue and honesty. deity: a god or goddess. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. diaspora: the scattering of the jews throughout the world. digambara: literally sky-clad; one of the two major sects of jainism. disciple: a person who accepts and assists in spreading the teachings of a leader. in the bible, a follower of jesus. doctrine: a set of ideas held by a religious group. druidism: a neo-pagan religion b

buddhist religion: that all life is suffering, that desire causes suffering, that suffering can end, and that ending suffering happens by following the path of the buddha s teachings. gahambars: seasonal festivals. gathas: a portion of the zend-avesta that contains holy songs; believed to be the words of zarathushtra himself. god: the supreme or ultimate being or reality; creator of the universe. goddess worship: term that refers generally to any neo-pagan practice that elevates the status of goddesses over that of gods. golden temple: the chief sikh temple, located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen

african-based religion practiced primarily in haiti and in other central and south american countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s motivating force for the sioux. wen: the arts of music, poetry, and painting. wicca: the name of a neo-pagan religion that generally worships the god and the goddess. wu wei: nonaction, or deliberate and thoughtful action that follows the dao. yahweh: one of the names for god in the tanakh. yazata: guardian angel. yin and yang: literally, shady and sunny; terms referring to how the universe is composed of opposing but complementary forces. yom kippur: the day of atonement. zakat: annual charitable giving. ziggurat: a stepped foundation or structure tha

1.1 billion) say they do not believe in a god or do not believe in a specific religion. the rest of the world s population, some 5.4 billion people, belongs to one of more than twenty different major religions. the world s major religions range in size from christianity, with 2.1 billion members, to rastafarianism and scientology, with about 1.5 million members each. words to know deity: a god or goddess. monotheism: a religion having one god. myth: a legendary story, often with no basis in historical fact, that frequently tells of the actions of deities and helps to explain some naturally occurring event or some supernatural occurrence. pagan: pre-christian or non-christian; also referring to those who worship many gods. pantheon: the class or collection of all gods and goddesses in a sys

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

s have never agreed what the animal used to symbolize set actually is. since the sages of ancient egypt did not use an unrecognizable creature to represent any other major deity, we may guess that this is intentional, and points, like the tcham sceptre, to an esoteric meaning. references: budge, e.a. wallis. the gods of the egyptians. grant, kenneth. cults of the shadow. graves, robert. the white goddess. ions, veronica. egyptian mythology. massey, gerald. the natural genesis. russell, jeffrey burton. the devviset it straight! by denytenamun this article discusses set as portrayed in ancient egypt and as understood in the modern day temple of set. this was denytenamun's first article on set. every setian is sooner or later bound to form some sort of opinion on the entity whose name s/he ha

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scription, aberamentho.25 this name also appears as a name of jesus in a formula-like phrase repeated three times in the untitled treatise (book iv) at the end of codex askewianus "jesus who is aberamentho (chs. 136, 139, 141).26 noting that aberamentho is a name of seth-typhon in a spell in the demotic leiden papyrus, and that the same spell also calls him by the name of ereshkigal, the sumerian goddess of the underworld,27 f.c. burkitt proposed that jesus' title, aberamentho, identified him as rhadamanthus, because nradamanyu! in aeolic is spelled as bradamanyu "if the medial d between the two a's was dropped or misread, something very much like aberamentho is the result (church and gnosis [cambridge 1932] 83. but this explanation is not sustainable. it may be said that "rhadamanthus in

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

o man" persisted glyndon "which some of the alchemists enjoyed. is the golden elixir but a fable "if not, and these men discovered it, they died, because they refused to live! there may be a mournful warning in your conjecture. turn once more to the easel and the canvas" so saying, zanoni waved his hand, and, with downcast eyes and a slow step, bent his way back into the city. chapter 2.viii. the goddess wisdom. to some she is the goddess great; to some the milch cow of the field; their care is but to calculate what butter she will yield. from schiller. this last conversation with zanoni left upon the mind of glyndon a tranquillising and salutary effect. from the confused mists of his fancy glittered forth again those happy, golden schemes which part from the young ambition of art, to play

ght. far more intense than the passion of the gamester was the frantic yet sublime desire that mastered the breast of glyndon. he would be the rival of zanoni, not in human and perishable affections, but in preternatural and eternal lore. he would have laid down life with content nay, rapture as the price of learning those solemn secrets which separated the stranger from mankind. enamoured of the goddess of goddesses, he stretched forth his arms the wild ixion and embraced a cloud! the night was most lovely and serene, and the waves scarcely rippled at his feet as the englishman glided on by the cool and starry beach. at length he arrived at the spot, and there, leaning against the broken pillar, he beheld a man wrapped in a long mantle, and in an attitude of profound repose. he approached

ly swell, ye sails; away from the land where death has come to snatch the sceptre of love! the shores glide by; new coasts succeed to the green hills and orange-groves of the bridal isle. from afar now gleam in the moonlight the columns, yet extant, of a temple which the athenian dedicated to wisdom; and, standing on the bark that bounded on in the freshening gale, the votary who had survived the goddess murmured to himself "has the wisdom of ages brought me no happier hours than those common to the shepherd and the herdsman, with no world beyond their village, no aspiration beyond the kiss and the smile of home" and the moon, resting alike over the ruins of the temple of the departed creed, over the hut of the living peasant, over the immemorial mountaintop, and the perishable herbage tha

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rs of the egyptian magician. saint stephen boasts that the great legislator moses "was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians" and declares that he "was mighty in words and in deeds" 1 and there are numerous features in the life of this remarkable man which shew that he was acquainted with many of the practices of p. 5 egyptian magic. the phrase "mighty in words" probably means that, like the goddess isis, he was "strong of tongue" and uttered the words of power which he knew with correct pronunciation, and halted not in his speech, and was perfect both in giving the command and in saying the word. the turning of a serpent into what is apparently an inanimate, wooden stick, 1 and the turning of the stick back into a writhing snake, 2 are feats which have been performed in the east from

nd my two legs to walk therewith, and my two hands and arms to overthrow my foe. may the doors of heaven be opened unto me; may seb, the prince of the gods, open wide his p. 30 two jaws unto me; may he open my two eyes which are blindfolded; may he cause me to stretch apart my two legs which are bound together; and may anpu (anubis) make my thighs to be firm so that i may stand upon them. may the goddess sekhet make me to rise so that i may ascend into heaven, and may that which i command in the house of the ka of ptah be done. i shall understand with my heart, i shall gain the mastery over my heart, i shall gain the mastery over my two hands, i shall gain the mastery over my legs, i shall have the power to do whatsoever my ka (i.e, double) pleaseth. my soul shall not be fettered to my bod

of power, and there is a legend to the effect that she smote the sun-god ra with severe sickness by the magical power which she possessed. another object of the buckle was to give the deceased access to every place in the underworld, and to enable him to have "one hand towards heaven, and one hand towards earth" 4. the amulet of the tet. this amulet probably represents the tree trunk in which the goddess isis concealed the dead body of her husband, and the four cross-bars indicate the four cardinal points; it became a symbol of the highest religious importance to the egyptians, and the setting up of the tet at busiris, which symbolized the reconstituting of the body of osiris, was one of the most solemn of all the ceremonies performed in connexion with the worship of osiris. the tet repres

eased vigour and renewal of youth; it was made of mother-of-emerald, or of light green or blue porcelain, and, when the words of the clixth chapter of the book of the dead had been recited over it, it was placed on his neck on the day of the funeral. in the xxvith dynasty and later it seems as if the amulet represented the power of isis, who derived it from her father, the husband of renenet, the goddess of abundant harvests and food. at an earlier period, judging from the text of the clxth chapter, the amulet is put by the god p. 50 [paragraph continues] thoth into the hands of the deceased, who says "it is in sound state, and i am in sound state; it is not injured, and i am not injured; it is not worn away, and i am not worn away" 9. the amulet of the soul, this amulet was made of gold i

and represents a musical instrument; it was made of carnelian, red stone, red porcelain, and the like, and was a very favourite form for the pendants of necklaces and strings of beads. 15. the amulet of the serpent's head, this amulet was placed on the dead body to keep it from being bitten by snakes in the underworld or tomb. it is made of red stone, red jasper, red paste, and carnelian. as the goddess isis is often typified by a serpent, and red is a colour peculiar to her, it seems as if the idea underlying the use of this amulet was to vanquish the snakes in the tomb by means of the power of the great snake-goddess isis. this power had been transferred to it by means of the words of the xxxivth chapter of the book of the dead, which are often inscribed upon it. the text reads "o serpe

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a man's head, and with my hands, as with a sword, i cut it off, and put it on to myself. and in this way, by means of the fire which is in me, through my neck it is swallowed up. i it is that sends grave mutilations and incurable on men's feet, and inflict sores [1. this seems the sense of enodiais, unless understood, trivialibus dis "to the demons of the wayside or cross-road" hecate was such a goddess, and in c.i. 26 we have mention of a daimon enodia, the latin trivia. as a subst. the neut. plur. enodia= blisters caused by walking, in theophr, sud. 15] 45. and i solomon, on hearing this, said to him "tell me how thou dost discharge forth the fire? out of what sources dost thou emit it" and the spirit said to me "from the day-star [1. for here hath not yet been found that elburion, to w

e me. 64. and there came before my face another spirit, as it were a woman in the form she had. but on her shoulders she had two other heads with hands. and i asked her, and said "tell me, who art thou" and she said to me "i am en psigos, who also have a myriad names" and i said her "by what angel art thou frustrated" but she said to me "what seekest, what askest thou? i undergo changes, like the goddess i am called. and i change again, and pass into possession of another shape. and be not desirous therefore to know all that concerns me. but since thou art before me for this much, hearken. i have my abode in the moon, and for that reason i possess three forms. at times i am magically [1] invoked by the wise as kronos. at other times, in connexion with those who bring me down, i come down a

SORCERIES OF ZOS

between the cardinal points of the compass: the off-beat rhythms of the drums that summon the loa from beyond the veil and formulate the laws of their manifestation. spare's system of sorcery, as expressed in zos kia cultus, continues in a straight line not only the petro tradition of voodoo, but also the vama marg of tantra, with its eight directions of space typified by the yantra of the black goddess, kali: the cross of the four quarters plus the inbetweenness concepts that together compose the eightfold cross, the eight-petalled lotus, a synthetic symbol of the goddess of the seven stars plus her son, set or sirius. the mechanics of the new sexuality are based upon the dynamics of the death posture, a formula evolved by spare for the purpose of reifying the negative potential in terms

sentially egyptian formula of the mummified osiris. spare was acquainted with this version of the mystery. he became a member of crowley's a^.a, for a brief period, in 1910, and the golden dawn rituals- published shortly afterwards in the equinox- may have been available to him. the concepts of death and sexuality are inextricably connected. saturn, death, and venus, life, are twin aspects of the goddess. that they are, in a mystical sense, one idea is evidenced by the nature of the sexual act. the dynamic activity connected with the drive to know, to penetrate, to illumine, culminates in a stillness, a silence, a cessation of all effort which itsel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equation 0=2, where naught

nected with the drive to know, to penetrate, to illumine, culminates in a stillness, a silence, a cessation of all effort which itsel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equation 0=2, where naught symbolizes the negative, unmanifest potential of creation, and the two the two polaritites involved in its realization. the goddess represents the negative phase: the atmospheric 'i' symbolized by that -asleleing eye with all its ayin symbolism; and the twins- set-horus- represent the phase of 2, or duality. the lightning-swift alternations of these terminals, active-passive, are positive emanations of the void, i.e. the manifestation of the unmanifest, and the hand is the symbol of this creative, power-manifesting dua

of exceptional interest by reason of its close approximation to a form of dream-control into which he was initiated many years earlier by witch paterson. the word ku has several meanings in chinese, but in this particular case it denotes a peculiar form of sorcery involving elements which spare had already incorporated in his conception of the new sexuality. the adepts of ku worshipped a serpent goddess in the form of a woman dedicated to the cult. during an elaborate ritual she would become possessed, with the result that she threw off, or emanated, multiple forms of the goddess as sentient shadows endowed with all the charms possessed by her human representative. these shadow-women, impelled by some subtle law of attraction, gravitated to one or other of the devotees who sat in a drowsy

e devotee to reify his 'inherent dream. she was known as the 'whore of hell' and her function was analogous to that of the scarlet woman of crowley's cul tt,he suvasini of the tantric kaula circle, and the fiendess of the cult of the black snake. the chinese ku, or harlot of hell, is a shadowy embodiment of subconscious desires concentrated in the alluringly sensuous form of the serpent of shadow goddess. the mechanics of dream control are in many ways similar to those which effect conscious astral projection. my own system of dream control derives from two sources: the formula of eroto-comatose lucidity discovered by ida nellidoff and adapted by crowley to his sex-magical techniques, and spare's system of sentient sigils explained below. sleep should be preceded by some form of karezza du

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

tinent data concerning the symbols with which we are dealing. the babylonians of the 7th century b.c. attached to each god in their pantheon "a special mystic number, which is used as his emblem and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or crossed, designates the sun-god, san or shamas; a six-rayed or eight-rayed star the sun-goddess, gula or anunit" the altar was represented by an emblem surmounted by a triangle.49 the use of the simple circle and the quartered disk as a divine symbol of the sun traced back from the babylonians to the chaldeans of the 23rd century b.c. the gods were the same, san and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies placed their gods in triads, headed by one god, ra "a sort of fou

d with the sun, hence the rays of glory around his head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we der

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

rld. this appears in empedocles four elements. god osiris is slain. human beings, with their knowledge (which is divine in nature) will restore him to life. we are to rediscover him in the form of horus (son of god, logos, wisdom) in the opposition between strife (typhon) and love (isis. in a greek way, empedocles expresses his basic ideas in terms that still have a mythical ring; his love is the goddess aphrodite, his strife is neikos, divine beings who bind and loose the elements. myths of initiation the style in which the content of myth has been described here should not be equated with a symbolic or allegorical approach to myth. nothing of that kind is myth and mysteriosophy 73 intended. the images that form the content of the myth are not invented symbols for abstract truths. they ar

at home, on the other hand, nothing good awaits him. his wife penelope is besieged by a crowd of suitors, and has promised them that she will choose a husband when she has completed a garment she is weaving. she evades keeping her promise by unraveling every night what she has woven during the day. before he can rest, united again with his wife, odysseus therefore has to overcome the suitors. the goddess athene changes him into a beggar, so that he can enter unrecognized, and in this way the suitors are conquered. what odysseus is seeking is his own deeper consciousness, the divine powers in the soul. it is with these that he wishes to be united. but before the mystai can discover them, they must conquer everything that comes as a suitor for the favor of their consciousness that is, the wo

divine powers in the soul. it is with these that he wishes to be united. but before the mystai can discover them, they must conquer everything that comes as a suitor for the favor of their consciousness that is, the world of mundane reality, transient nature, from which the horde of suitors stems. the logic that pertains to them is a weaving that unravels itself when it has been spun. wisdom the goddess athene is a sure guide to the deepest powers that the soul possesses. she turns one into a beggar, meaning that she divests one of all that is transitory in origin. the myth and mysteries of eleusis the spirit of mysteriosophy is all-pervasive in the festivals celebrated at eleusis in greece in honor of demeter and dionysus. a sacred way stretched to eleusis from athens, lined with mysteri

the cosmic events governing the fate of the divine in the world and of the human soul. the lesser mysteries took place in february, the greater mysteries in september. initiation into the mysteries took place in connection with these festivals. the climax of the initiatory proceedings was a symbolic enactment of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the goddess demeter. she is a daughter of kronos, and before his marriage to hera, zeus had by her a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in the f

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ences have worked themselves into our social structures, our politics, our myths and legends and our way of thinking. these two ways, or paths can be described as the path of spiritual dissent and the path of spiritual unity. to understand this a bit better we can say that the path of spiritual unity depends upon the individual giving themself over to manners of conduct as determined by their god/goddess/gods/doctrine/dogma in various ways. at the opposite side of this would be individuals who engage in actions that are determined through independent criteria (such as personal experience) rather than through dogma or ritualized and established codes of conduct. i will explore this in greater detail further on in your reading. this book is not, as many would think, an attack upon god or any

r in the constellation of the thigh. the second text is the book of knowing the spiral force of re and the felling of apep. this protective formula, which ramses iii, son of setnakt, inscribed on certain border monuments, shows two setian particularities. firstly, it has an unnamed god coming into being in the psychic (subjective) realm as the god xephra- previously it had been held that neith, a goddess of nature, had transformed herself into the xephra beetle. secondly, the spell which gives the magician one of the powers of set, which is to slay apep, the dragon of delusion. with the coming of the xxiind dynasty, egypt entered its long decline. set became a tremendously unpopular deity. his worship ceased everywhere except the oases and the city of thebes, where his cult was absorbed in

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on who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, the god who reigns for all eternity in heaven. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 59 60 codex magica george washington in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, indicates that washington had taken the vow of vengence to all enemies of the order of the illuminati. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun m 61 the marquis de lafayette of france presented george washington with this masonic apron which

ling books. featured in newsweek (january 28, 2002, p. 56, koolhaas apparently is communicating an esoteric message. the parallel vertical lines are undeniably reminiscent of horns. the nude images on either side of the architect cry out lust and sex, while the face, arms and body posture are also meaningful. baphles me! 117 a well-known witchcraft newspaper carried this illustration (top) of the goddess and her consort and master, the horned god (lucifer. the cupid-like angel is their son. below is an ad offering "magick" products for the "new aeon (new age. the magnetic (e.g. magical) powers of lucifer and his goddess mate are boastfully shown to uphold planet earth. 118 codex magic a the demon, mephistopheles, shown being conjured up by a magician in masonic scholar and 33rd degree illu

able resemblance to yoda, the wise ascended master of the star wars saga, return of the jedi. look closely and you'll see a painting of baphomet, the androgynous goat god, on the wall at left and also a skeleton's head at top right. this is a member of the radical environmentalist group, earth first. he's decked out as pan, an ancient, mystical greek deity who had a mistress said to be the "earth goddess" seven "el diablo" shows his horns the devil rides out! people that are christians now, but were satanists, recognized president clinton's signal at his inauguration as a sign of satan. that seems fairly cut and dried, and it is. clinton communicated what he wanted to the people to whom he wanted to communicate. the whole affair with him flashing the satanic handsignal took only a couple o

tian god. for example, dr. burns quotes albert mackey, 33, former sovereign grand commander of the scottish rite, who admits: the right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped deity under the name of fides or fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the masonic ritual. yet the holy bible commands "thou shalt have no other gods before me (exodus 20:3) and goes on to emphatically state "make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard out

had been one of them until he was excommunicated. the masons didn't take too kindly to masonic brother smith's stealing their symbols and ceremonies and incorporating them into his mormon (lds) church rituals.4 as joseph smith lay dying on the jailhouse floor, he cried out "is there no help for the widow's son" this is the enigmatic saying taught masons, stamping smith as a follower of the great goddess, patroness of the masonic fraternity. the bible in revelation 27 refers to her as "mystery, babylon the great, mother of harlots" john j. robinson, author of a celebrated book, born in blood defending freemasonry and blasting its critics, also referenced the grand hailing sign of distress sign taught in the 3 ritual: after brief ceremonies, the blindfold is removed, and the newly sworn mas

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opyright beltain 2000 by parker torrence, version 1.2 all rights reserved, all wrongs returned three fold. grimoire of eclectic magick in 1996, the craft was released in theaters and a new standard for movies about witchcraft was established. this was in part due to the technical advice of pat devin, an elder and the first officer of the southern california local council of c.o.g (covenant of the goddess) established in california in 1975, an incorporated, religious, non-profit organization[ in 1996, there were approximately 250,000 wiccans in the united states] while much of the technically correct information in the movie was a fresh relief for many of us, hollywood also had filled the movie with the normal amount of special effects. you know, the kind that have nothing whatsoever to do

ng, for rulership. in the course of their battle, the father is wounded, this is symbolized by the following days growing cooler. mabon, the second harvest festival, the fall equinox. once again daylight and night are in balance. now is the time to celebrate the gifts of the earth mother. page 6 grimoire of eclectic magick) archetype gods and goddesses( all gods are one god, all goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator! from aspects of occultism by dion fortune gods of ancient egypt horus imiut isis khepera khnum maat min nekhbet nephthys nut osiris ptah ra re sekhmet selket seshat set shu sobek taweret tefnut thoth wadjet agou ayizan baron cimeti re baron la croix baron samedi dambalah danbalah erzulie fr da gu d legba loco-d ogoun simbi voudoun loa celtic-gaulish deities aen

was more commonly known as the tao. the tao is a beautiful concept, but is has only one major flaw, it has no face. humans, being the creatures that we are, like to have faces and personalities attached to our divine beings. let me also state that pagans do not really worship these gods and goddesses. what we do is honor the aspect of the divine that they reflect. by employing a name of a god or goddess our human psyche connects with the archetype symbol that they represent for us. common examples: diana the huntress for many brings to mind a maiden who is wild and free. frigga the mother is evoked often by both pagans and non-pagans with the words t.g.i.f. as the f stands for friday, and once upon a time that was frigga tag, or frigga day. we all have strong emotions about friday. hecate

oted god of male youth. the oak king brings to mind the strength and warmth of summer. while the holly king is symbolic of the joys of the winter season. deck the halls with boughs of holly, tra-la-la-la-la la-la la la. tis the season to be jolly etc. etc. what deities you choose to honor, unless you are following a tradition, are very much a personal matter. these pages have a number of gods and goddess listed. these are provided as reference for your own research (greek and roman deities have not been listed) in the later sections of this book, i will be employing the basic celtic deities for simplicity and reference. amun (amun-re) anubis amam aten atum bastet bes geb hap hathor heket page 7 monon is the fictitious name used in the craft for the spirit (the force, or tao. it is of inter

re) anubis amam aten atum bastet bes geb hap hathor heket page 7 monon is the fictitious name used in the craft for the spirit (the force, or tao. it is of interest to note that it sounds similar to mananan the celtic-gaelic god of the sea. grimoire of eclectic magick dark or bright, most pagan traditions arrange the gods and goddesses into a standard pattern. the first of these is the three fold goddess. regardless if you call the lady gaia, frigga or dana. underlaying her power, are the three aspects of maiden, mother& crone (lunar archetypes. in some traditions these are three distinctively different goddesses. in other traditions, they are the same goddess at different stages of her development. then there are goddesses like the triple morrigan- macha, nemain and babd. then we have the

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gain, and reigned eternally in heaven. they [the egyptians] believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done. the ancient myths proclaim that osiris first received renown as a peaceful leader of a higher culture in the eastern delta, then as a powerful ruler over all the delta, a veritable god of the nile and its vegetation, growth, life, and culture. he was the husband of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic; father of the great war god horus; and finally conqueror of northern upper egypt with his principal city at abydos. it was then that he came into conflict with set, who killed and dismembered him. the dark mists of death didn t 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 18 afterlife mysteries in ancient egypt, dead pe

p l a i n e d 18 afterlife mysteries in ancient egypt, dead people s bodies were prepared for mummification. it was believed they would go to an afterlife (ap/wide world photos) the pyramid texts were the oldest extant funerary literature in the world, dating back to as early as the fourth millennium b.c.e. eliminate osiris. quite the opposite, in fact, for isis, incarnation of the divine mother goddess, used her magic to put him back together. osiris rose from the dead and became for all of his followers a god of resurrection. the cult of osiris was established at abydos, where he became known as the lord of the death or lord of the west, referring to his mastery over all those who had traveled west into the sunset of death. the theology of osiris, which promised resurrection, soon overs

d of resurrection. the second period extended from the time of the pyramid texts to the common era, when he was primarily god of the dead and king of the underworld. when an ancient egyptian died, the deceased expected to appear before osiris, who would be sitting upon his throne, waiting to pass judgment on him or her. the deceased would be led in by the jackal-headed god anubis, followed by the goddess isis, the divine enchantress, representing life, and the goddess of the underworld, nephthys, representing death. there were 42 divine judges to assess the life of the one who stood before them, and the deceased would be allowed to deny 42 misdeeds. once the deceased had presented his or her case, osiris indicated a large pair of balances before them with the heart of the deceased and the

dashun stated that the three-stepped pyramid belongs to the hongshan culture period of 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, during the stone age. at the top of the pyramid, the archeologists found seven tombs and the ruins of an altar. also found were many fragments of broken pottery carved with the chinese character mi (rice. they also discovered a bone flute, a stone ring, and a life-sized sculpture of a goddess. archeologists believe that the discovery of these relics, as well as of the pyramid itself, will be crucial in learning more about both the spiritual and earthbound life of the peoples of the hongshan culture. sources: xinhua. china daily.http//www.chinadaily.net/cndy/2001-07- 10/19256.html. 10 july 2001. hongshan pyramid discovered in china the pyramid texts were inscribed on the stone w

g lights of torches and the musical liturgies played during the performances of the sacred plays all fueled the imagination and stirred deep emotions. the initiates left the celebration of the mystery feeling that they were now superior to the problems that the uninitiated faced concerning life, death, and immortality. not only did the initiates believe that their communion with the patron god or goddess would continue after death, but that they would eventually leave hades to be born again in another life experience. m delving deeper cotterell, arthur, ed. encyclopedia of world mythology. london: dempsey parr, 1999. ferm, vergilius, ed. ancient religions. new york: the philosophical library, 1950. 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 32

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als remain among the most potent images that humankind has ever created. when modern anthropologists or archaeologists enter the caves with electric lights, he said, the paintings are still frightening. once humankind s psyche had absorbed such hybrid monsters from the stone age, it continued to fashion human-animal deities of great power, such as the gods of ancient egypt, which included the cat goddess bast, the canine-headed anubis, the hawkman horus, and so on. from such were-beings, it was a natural progression to fashion other mystical creatures, such as the minotaur (half-human, half-horse, the satyr (half-human, half-goat, the harpy (half-woman, half-bird, and a host of other hybrid entities the vast majority unfavorably disposed toward humankind. and somewhere along the way, certa

greek word acro to denote a great height. arachnophobia, a fear of spiders, is an extremely common fear that undoubtedly has its basis in the reality that some spiders are poisonous or inflict painful bites. the name for this phobia comes from the greek word for spider, arachne. there is also the greek myth of arachne, a woman from the ancient city of lydia, who had the boldness to challenge the goddess athena to a weaving contest. as a punishment, arachne was changed into a spider. claustrophobia, a fear of being enclosed in a small or tight place, was experienced by the great escape artist houdini, who often accepted the challenge of freeing himself from very small and tight boxes and trunks. disciplining himself to conquer his phobia was one of his greatest feats. the name of this phob

l possibilities for psychedelic drugs. u.s. food and drug administration [online] http//www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_ psyche.html. masters, r. e, and jean houston. the varieties of psychedelic experience. new york: dell/delta, 1966. mckenna, terrence, and tom robbins. archaic revival speculations on psychedelic mushroom, the amazon, virtual reality, ufos, evolution, shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess& the end of history. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1992. merkur, daniel. psychedelic sacrament manna, meditation& mystical experience. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2001. pearce, joseph chilton. the biology of transformation: a blueprint of the human spirit. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2002. psychedelic library [online] http//www.psychedeliclibrary

1584) gives warning that black cats are witches in disguise, and that killing a cat does not necessarily mean killing the witch, for a witch can take on the body of a cat nine times. in the middle ages, the brain of a black cat was considered an essential ingredient in all recipes of the witches and witch doctors. the old belief that a cat has nine lives goes back to ancient egypt. the cat-headed goddess, bast (or ubasti, was associated with the benevolent aspect of hathor, the lioness, and was said to have nine lives. the egyptians did not fear the cat, but rather reverenced it, and they elevated cats far above the role of domestic pet. to the egyptians, the cat was transformed from mouse catcher to supreme deity, the sayer of great words. the egyptian word for cat was mau, which is at on

people, the making of such a circle was to create a symbol of the sun. in ancient persia, dogs were believed to be able to protect the dying soul from possession by evil spirits. when a person was dying, a dog was stationed by the bedside to keep away the negative spirits that hovered near newly released souls. the greeks believed that dogs had the ability to perceive the presence of hecate, the goddess of darkness and terror. while this malign entity remained invisible to human eyes and was thus able to work her evil undetected, dogs were able to see her and warn their human companions by barking and growling at her unseen presence in darkened corners. there is an old superstition that good luck will be granted to a person who is followed by a stray dog. if the dog should follow someone

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human sacrifice of which they were accused, the members of the leopard cult of africa were responsible for many such ritual murders on their jungle altars and left hundreds of mutilated human corpses to prove their guilt. the thuggee of india, who committed more murders than any other secret society, allegedly dedicated the lives of the thousands of victims which they strangled to death to their goddess kali. of all the secret societies examined in this chapter, only the tongs and the freemasons remain in existence in the twenty-first century. while some contemporary metaphysical groups proclaim that their philosophical heritage may derive from the knights templar or the rosicrucians, there is little to substantiate such claims other than an admiration for their precepts and ideals. on oc

arcgl.org/rosie.htm. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. yates, frances a. the rosicrucian enlightenment. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1978. the thuggee no organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the thuggee. in the 1830s this indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and travelers as a sacrifice to their goddess kali, the gdark mother, h the hindu triple goddess of creation, preservation, and destruction. the name thuggee comes from the sanskrit sthaga, gdeceiver. h although the thuggee probably originated sometime in the sixteenth century, they were not uncovered by british authorities until about 1812. great britain was beginning to expand its territories in india, and the british administrators

nters, blacksmiths, maimed or leprous persons, ganges water-carriers, and women. despite the restriction against the murder of females, however, the presence of wives traveling with their husbands often necessitated the strangling of a woman to protect the secrecy of the society. the strongest rule of the brotherhood was the one prohibiting the shedding of blood. according to thuggee beliefs, the goddess kali taught the fathers of thuggery to strangle with a noose and to kill without permitting the flow of blood. all victims of the thuggee were sacrificed to kali, and the members of the secret society would have been greatly incensed by an accusation that they killed only for booty. with the exception of a small number of boys who may have been captured or spared during a raid, a man had t

31. when asked if he experienced any feelings of remorse or guilt, he answered sharply that no man should ever feel compunction in following his trade. although isolated cases of a thug fs proficiency with a noose still exist in india and in 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 secret societies 33 other parts of the world, the stranglers of the goddess kali no longer exist as a secret society. the designation of gthug, h however, remains as a negative term applied to brutish criminals. the violent chapter imprinted in india fs history by the cult of the thuggee has been portrayed quite often in motion pictures, notably gunga din (1939) with cary grant, douglas fairbanks, jr, and victor mclaglen; terence fisher fs stranglers of bombay (19

ral about the manifestations and phenomena associated with this extrasensory area of the mind. they believe that psychic powers lie dormant in everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, and the disciplines of wicca are designed to develop these to the fullest. wicca is a polarized religion, embodying within its worship the male principle in the figure of the horned god and the female in that of the goddess. thus its adherents believe that wicca presents a truer picture of the nature and workings of the universal creative principle than do those religions that overemphasize either the male or the female values and relegate the other to a subordinate status. wicca incorporates both cognates of the universal creative principle. in witchcraft here and now, sybil leek defined witchcraft as a reli

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is girdle. the sed-heb or tail-festival, when the king wasinvested with the tail, was one of the most important of the royal ceremonies. a sacred dance, performed bythe pharaoh wearing the bull's tail, is often represented as taking place in a temple before min, the god ofhuman generation. the worship of horned gods continued in egypt until christian times, especially inconnection with the horned goddess isis.the indian figures of the horned god, found at mohenjo-daro, are of the earliest bronze-age. there aremany examples, and in every case it is clear that a human being is represented, either masked or horned.sometimes the figure has a human body with a bull's head, sometimes the head and body are covered with ahairy skin, probably indicating a bull's hide. the most remarkable is that of

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hings, places, and beings. even the earth itself can be said to be her gown; meaning, poetically, that the outward manifestations of nature s power, the trees, the ground, the waters, and the like, are her garment. in that capacity, she can be called an earth mother, but in many places, the physical earth itself is seen as a more passive, secondary and encompassing force, with the dame being it s goddess, the true and mysterious source of what grows out of the earth, and the ultimate source of all things that come from it, such as animal life and humans, and, on other levels, even the source of the gods and all beings. but a distinction is made, usually, between the dark reality of the dame s being, and the physical body of nature that expresses her potentials. she is seen in many mytholog

a distinction is made, usually, between the dark reality of the dame s being, and the physical body of nature that expresses her potentials. she is seen in many mythologies as darkness, the darkness of old night (and dame dark, or night are also names for her) and in this capacity, she is the figure old fate, the ultimate, supreme, and first being, from whom all things come. she was an underworld goddess, the dark and first queen of the underworld, because the darkness of the underworld, which is also the darkness of fate s womb, is the same primal darkness that existed at the beginning, and from which the cunning fire and light flowed. but as she is the origin and source of all, she is the end of all, that to which all returns, before regeneration. the nine worlds of indo-european mytholo

and from which the cunning fire and light flowed. but as she is the origin and source of all, she is the end of all, that to which all returns, before regeneration. the nine worlds of indo-european mythology were all born from her womb, and at the world-doom, they were withdrawn back into her darkness, to await regeneration, and only she remained, as she was in the beginning. she was the spinning goddess, who spun the threads of fate, and the stars and moon floated in the darkness of her immense being. as the source of life and the place of death, she was depicted as half- fair and half dark and decaying; the outward life of the earth can also be seen as her fair face and the darkness below as her dark face. the original darkness that she embodies, which is the darkness of the mystery of f

ate natures are parts of her being. but the dame also has children by the father: all life, from gods, plants, animals, and humans, are her children by her consort. however, this section focuses on mythologyand the divine/mythological figure of the daughter of the mother is central to this discussion. the mother s daughter is called by the clan of orvendale tara de rosilea, but the concept of the goddess of all having a daughter is as old as the hills- demeter s daughter kore or persephone springs to mind here, and this example is particularly apt in this case, because persephone was seen, in the classical world, as the queen of the dead, or the queen of the underworld- the queen of elfhame. before we continue this short discussion on the daughter, something has to be clarified: the title

the myths, you will see that freya was also a child of the earth mother, and bore all the attributes of the daughter, up to and including a shared rulership over half the dead, along with queen hel (a figure that is cognate with dame hyldor) and freya was the queen of wanahame- the home/spiritual dimension of the wans, the land spirits or elder gods of the land and nature. freya was likewise the goddess of witchcraft. as the dame represents the darker and more passive mysteries and realities, this daughter shows the active and fiery essence that acts in tandem with them. whe n the mother is encountered, it is normally the daughter that is met, though by meeting the daughter, one is meeting the mother after another manner of speaking. as we will see below, in our analysis of the housle, th

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th is indeed based in the shadow. the luciferian is one who begins in darkness, masters the infernal aspects of his/her being and then seeks to illuminate further the light of imagination; the 3 flame of consciousness and isolate being this is known as the black flame. god forms associated with the black flame and self-illumination are lucifer (called azal ucel, set (the egyptian god, lilith (the goddess of the luciferian path, cain (the isolate one, lord of magicians and witches) and ahriman (the dragon of darkness who takes many forms. such god forms span various cultures and ages, but their essence lives in the idea of the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft and sorcery. the initiate begins the path of shadow, from which he or she models from the legend of lucifer falling from light. it wa

omes as this spirit. the witch or sorcerer becomes stronger in their results of magical practice, and they begin to note concrete results within and outside the self. at this point many will fail, to face the devil or shadow side will often lead the individual to face his or her worst fears and weaknesses, that which can destroy 4 the individual not strong or prepared enough to become as a god or goddess. it is at this point that the symbol of the averse pentagram will begin to resonate within the sorcerers being, it is more than a symbol, it is a sigil which represents the shadow way and divinity which fell from heaven to taste darkness. the averse pentagram is thus the luciferic star which represents beauty in isolation, power through facing the unknown- symbolically, the averse pentagra

s he faces darkness and light. this is a two fold state of the sorcerer who is balanced between darkness and light. he has tasted both ecstasies and has grown in wisdom from that experience. the alphabet of desire 5 sigils around the circle are focused forms of power which may arise in the conscious (by results of the will-desire-belief) by the arcana of the subconscious. the daemonic feminine or goddess is indeed lilith hecate. she has many names and masks, but revealed is something more terrible and beautiful than would be expected. she is the mother of all magick, she lives in the blackened flame of both man and woman. you cannot walk the path of magick and shut her out. she devours or blesses, her kiss means everything. invoke the goddess and listen well to her words. she is babalon, t

ld be expected. she is the mother of all magick, she lives in the blackened flame of both man and woman. you cannot walk the path of magick and shut her out. she devours or blesses, her kiss means everything. invoke the goddess and listen well to her words. she is babalon, the crimson harlot who rides the infernal beast of the sun. she is az, the primal instinct of sexual hunger, she is the white goddess, who would caress you before removing the flesh of her pale face to reveal a ravenous wolf. lilith hecate is the triple mooned initiator, she who guides upon the path. in inspired lore, cain was initiated by lilith. she is the source, the point of luciferian transference. the purpose of the descriptions of the grimoires is to offer a basic form of guidance through them, how one can get the

nd a manual of how one may in a balanced manner, work with the shades of the dead. featured in nox umbra is the cultus of akhtya, the persian path of sorcery in relation to ahriman, the beast dragon of darkness. this entails vampyric dream shape-shifting, vampyric self-transformation (without the use of blood or predatory workings, servitor creation and egyptian god forms. explored equally is the goddess archetype in relation to vampyrism, including the methods and process of evoking and summoning forth lilith, the lilitu (succubi) for dreaming congress. nox umbra brings to light a new perception of witchcraft and sorcery, how it may be explored in a positive manner and a challenging path way into the shadow. nox umbra contains a sigillic formula which opens the reader to the spirit of the

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nging to that of the individual he wishes to influence, be it for healing or cursing, or with or without the individuals knowledge. other more esoteric correspondences are seen across sets of items, for example, numbers, planets, scents and colours. an example is that the colour green, the number seven and the emotion of love are associated with each and the planet venus, also viewed as the greek goddess of love. a magician attempting to invoke the influence of this goddess is likely to surround himself with items which resonate with her. this occult idea has a psychological parallel in colour theory, which has demonstrated that certain colours produce changes in our internal physical and psychological states. a biological theory of morphic resonance has recently been postulated as detaili

"nought" card. however, it should be seen that the fool is not a "zero" in the same way that the ain is "negative" rather than "nothing. the negative in this case is that of the finite glyph of kether, the point (having position but not magnitude) as created from the infinite ain (having infinite magnitude and no position. kether can be represented as the god hadit and the ain represented by the goddess nuit in the thelemic system developed by aleister crowley. in magick, chapter 0 (hence, the ain) he states "infinite space is called the goddess nuit, while the infinitely small and atomic yet omnipresent point is called hadit. this is the basis of all cosmology, which refers to the known, the unknown, and ultimately, their interaction. yod in chockmah the "first swirlings" of chockmah can

is to be approached with due consideration. if meditation and contemplation (the stilling or focusing of the thought processes, and ritual or ceremony can be assigned to hod, then through the awareness freed thereby (tiphareth) we can regain chesed, the grand waystation of the universe as it pours into manifestation, and align ourselves to that flow. a simple rite of magic involving the egyptian goddess ma'at, who can be attributed to chesed, designed by maggie ingalls demonstrates this procedure, by the meditation (hod) on a flame (tiphareth) and a feather (chesed, which combined with a suitable mantra links the practitioner to the "ma'at current, which is none other than the evolutionary and stochastic current of the universe. the hermit card also resumes this symbolism, and perhaps sho

sepher sephiroth are given below: 10: value of yod; dah (to fly, soar; bdd (to be secluded; at (soothsayer; adh (to steam, rise skyward; grade password of chesed; 1+2+3+4; number of malkuth; number of wheel tarot card 11: chg (to make a circle (festival, feast; gch (to break through; chba (to hide oneself; crowley's number of magick "energy tending to change; number of justice tarot card 12: gdh (goddess of fortune; avh (desire, longing; vv (the letter vau, meaning pin, hook, fastening; hva (he himself; number of hanged man tarot card 13: bhv (emptiness, chaos; abdh (destruction, abyss; dvg (fisher; vhb (pool; achd (one, unity; ahbh (love; 9+3+1=111 base 3; number of death tarot card another method of gematria is to square each value, thus agd, meaning "to bind together, becomes 12+32+42=2

ly different format (this is the same process as found in fractal patterns. 2. make a list of apparent opposites, such as day and night, hot and cold, black and white, and so forth. try in each case to find the merging point between them, and observe that all dualities are in fact points along a sliding scale. note how the two of pentacles in the tarot demonstrates this fact. chapter three 1. the goddess is often represented as a triad of personifications; maiden, mother and crone. make a list of the characteristics of each of these three forms, and observe how closely these three categories describe the activities and behaviour of the goddess, or nature, or women, or the feminine aspect of men. 2. binah is the sephirah of "form. observe and enjoy the various ways in which humanity has cre

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lower unconscious contains fundamental drives, primitive urges, inferior dreams, and complexes. this is the personal unconscious which is the storehouse of hidden memories, repressed psychic content, and the shadow personality. this part of the psyche is accessed by working with hypnosis, trance, and imagery. archetypes of the lower unconscious include all underworld deities, such as the sumerian goddess ereshkigal and the greek divinities hades and persephone. if we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physical discomfort can affect the mind, the mind, through focused visualization, can affect the body. archetypes of the manife

t letters, animals, and sounds used as mantras. chakra correspondences chakra tattva element symbol muladhara prithivi earth square svadisthana apas water crescent manipura tejas fire triangle anahata vayu air hexagram visuddha akasha spirit egg ajna maha-tattva lightimind winged orb sahasrara bindu bliss lotus mantra god lam brahma vam vishnu ram rudra yam isa ham sadashiva om sambhu- paramshiva goddess dakini rakini lakini kakini shakini hakini maha shakti chakra awareness exercise 1. be seated in a meditative position on the floor or in a chair. relax but be sure that your spine is straight. begin to breathe slowly and rhythmically through your nostrils. as you inhale, draw the air into the lower part of your chest, filling the lungs to their fullest capacity without strain. maintain th

ary. keep the arm extended. turn to face the east. extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me, raphael (rah-fayel. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you, visualize another figure and say "behind me, gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. the pentagram 177 see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword. say "on my right hand, michael (mee-kai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left han

it should sound something like "gy" 31 "aa" as in "awl" the pentagram 207 32. the "great spirit" of the lakota tribes, who was also known as wakan tanka "the power above" who was the source of all. 33. the "great hare" of the algonquin tribe, said to be the creator of the earth. 34. creator god of the iroquois and huron tribes, who was known for defeating demons, and giving magic. 35. the "peace goddess" of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 36. algonquin god of the east wind. 37. the "great spirit" known to many tribes. 38. algonquin god of the west wind. the son of the twilight. 39. the great spirit of the innuit (eskimo) peoples of the north. 40. eskimo god of the air, and the energy of the universe. 41. innuit sea god. 42. chickasaw god of fire. 43. algonquin earth goddess. 44. yaqui god of "

intone the word "theos" the middle pillar exercise 229 (oeopsr onounced "theh-os" meaning "god. keep vibrating the name until it is the complete focus of all your attention. bring a shaft of white light horizontally across from your chokmah center to your binah center at the right temple of your forehead. form a sphere of white light there. vibrate the word "thea@&paro nounced "theh-ah" meaning "goddess) a number of times until it occupies all of your mind. now bring a shaft of white light down diagonally from your binah center to your daath center at the nape of your neck. visualize a sphere of white light there. vibrate the word "sophia (co4ta pronounced "soh-fee-ah" meaning "wisdom. intone the name until it is the only thng in your conscious mind. next, visualize a shaft of white light

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

and eyeless, and said he was "a space robot encased in a time capsule" as soon as mrs. de long reached her home after the visit her phone rang. it was kronin. she later recorded several conversations with him in which he explained the problems of the universe. she had never heard of cronus, the roman god of time. another entity popular in occult circles for centuries is ashtoreth, the phoenician goddess of love. a character called ashtar has been communicating with ufo fans for years, coming through worldwide stances, on ouija boards, and through mental telepathy. ashtar is a big cheese in the intergalactic federation. contactees have churned out dozens of books filled with his messages. a woman on long island had an encounter with an olive-skinned gentleman in a greenish suit in may 1967

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

wer raised by the witches. it has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially with rites of evil magick, or the forbidden magick, of the enemy, and of satan. and the twisting, sacred spiral formed by the serpent of the caduceus, and by the spinning of the galaxies, is also the same leviathan as the spiral of the biologists' code of life: dna the goddess of the witches the current revival of the cult called wicca is a manifestation of the ancient secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, an

erse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified

are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christia

of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of the c

re known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deities

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

nd light our visions. lead us through the dark. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com morning prayer to aphrodite hail mother! the sun has risen. another day has begun. i wash my face in these new born rays and take my first step in the ways of love. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com trinity by the divinity of three, so mote it be! eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com land prayer grain goddess, upon your body i live. you give to us the gift of life and the gift of nourishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people live upon you. blessed are all men and women and blessed is your womb from which all life springs. hail mo

s, upon your body i live. you give to us the gift of life and the gift of nourishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people live upon you. blessed are all men and women and blessed is your womb from which all life springs. hail mother! goddess of all, cradle us within your loving arms from birth to death and to rebirth. faeries of the earthen mounds. guardians of secrets dear. by your love commit me here. to teach the knowledge of the ancient ones. be ever at my side to light my way. to guide and teach me both night and day. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com elements spirit of nature, embrace me. body of mother, nourish me

the call. take the action. feel the flow. become oneness. eyes wide open. calmness within. you see all. you feel all. say my name: hecate, hecate, hecate. i will guide you. a crones hand out of darkness. wisdom older than the ages. i am here for you, my child. say my name. we will take the journey together. hecate, hecate, hecate. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com life affirmation i am the goddess being born. i am the goddess full of life. i am the goddess shedding skin. i am the goddess, three times three. i will. i am. i was. and i will be again. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com mother hecate come mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. spider s web and blackened tree. at the crossroads we shall meet. mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. eliza fegley http//ww

iral.com medusa in darkness. i go within your darkness. i am surrounded by your darkness. i am filled with your darkness. i smell the rich dark earth. i feel the damp air. i taste the dust of antiquities. i hear your whispered secrets. and i see what i ve come to see. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com power chant i am powerful and i am just. i am strong and i am supple. i am woman/man. i am goddess/god. i am all. i am one. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com breath i breathe. in with light. i breathe. out with dark. i breathe in towards the self. i breathe out all blocks. i breathe. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com creative flow bursts of orange inside my head. swirling matter taking form. molding energy into shapes. thoughts keep coming. sights ensue. wheels keep turning

free! patience chant to be said when you feel a loss of patience and feel the stirrings of anger. air of silence, surround me. quell the flame within me. breathe in the tranquility around me. may the calmness fill and ground me. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com isis moonlight beauteous love enamoured raven mourning dove spiral helix cosmos sky persephone underworld mother butterfly triple goddess morrigu this is the calling of the chosen few. writer s chant mnemosyne. mnemosyne. muse of the ancient time. keeper of the ancient rhyme. memory of that ancient age when poetry was kept on tongue, not page. whisper to me those ancient utterings. send pen and ink fluttering. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com acorns fallen from up above are kept for youth and for true love. an arrowhe

THE SHADOWED ONES

garden where shades walk do we call you in the musick of gods, follow the very song of your soul bath in darkness and light, raise yourself above god to know the keys to both heaven and hell. this grimoire shall be written in blood and dried in the noon tide sun. i am both fire and darkness, yet within is a light once adored by that unperceived chaos called god. my sister and lover is that fiery goddess called lilith by some and demoness by others, yet she too drinks of both ecstasies. we are undying and eternal, we may sleep in the flesh of the dragon yet emerge in the heights of both the sun and the moon. the shadows merely remind us of our reflections and self divinities. you too are like us, no bending knee as the mindless, yet an ascended mind beyond that fallen and crumbling crowd-c

u all seek certain destruction. araqiel brings the gifts of knowledge and joy through the respect of the land, and those creatures which dwell upon it. araqiel communicates the wisdom of a balanced mind to work according to his or her own design. by dream and by waking do we hear the voice of araqiel. sariel knows the motions and phases of the moon, and by seeking him one may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation

ead you away from spiritual gnosis which is not your own. empower yourself in the flames of self-awareness, of the passions of the soul! listen well to your consciousness and seek to expand it, never unify your divine being in a faith not heeded by the instincts of yourself. dissent from the paths all torn by the death of the soul, by a cross way can you fully recognize your potential as a god or goddess. by this path you must seek that wisdom not yet known, by journeying into the unknown and feared. i am that demon which is of hell, yet in the pleasures of hell the very hidden nature of mankind can you recognize an angel of light. every being which fell from the limitless nothingness of what you call god offers only self-possibility once you have moved beyond it. as our wings blackened we

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

where the thrush is awake, and the voice of the turtle is soft in the amorous places of peace, and the tamarisk groves and the olive and myrtle stir ever with love and content and release. o bountiful bowers and o beautiful gardens! o isles in the azure ionian deep! ere ripens the sun, ere the spring-wind hardens your fruits once again ye shall have me to keep. the sleep-god laments, and the love-goddess pardons, when love at the last sinks unweary to sleep *orpheus, vol. iii, pp. 200. as also does the song of orpheus: o hawk of gold with power enwalled, whose face is like an emerald; whose crown is indigo as night; smaragdine snakes about thy brow twine, and the disc of flaming light is on thee, seated in the prow of the sun fs bark, enthroned above with lapis-lazuli for love and ruby for

lf-love and even selfhonour to attain the ideal of its purpose. love is the predominant power in the universe; over and over again we shall find this enforced, greater than fame, than wealth, than glory, greater than knowledge, greater than wisdom, greater than the power of the gods themselves; for they too must worship at the shrine of love, the shrine of the great world mother, the mystic isis, goddess of beauty, mother of love, queen of laughter, mistress of pleasure. gi am all that has been, that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil. h *inscribed on the statue of the goddess. innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers; the first spells ignorance and the second failure, for love

dethrone jupiter .the mysteries of magic, p. 120. such is the power of love, undaunted, infuriated in the cause of freedom, justice, and truth. charicles plunges into the waves of destiny, gand with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped. h onward he swims striving against poseidon, god of the ocean, who heaps the sea foam against him, as he makes for the paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of love; and in his blinding anger he sees her not, though she is by his side journeying homeward from rome. she raises the swimmer to her pearly car and carries him to her fair home, where in the following beautiful symbolic action she promises to restore him his lost love. archais. then aphrodite loosed a snake of gold f