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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

, aworship exhausts all the conceptions our ancestors had formed of deity and its dwellingplace; it was only the principal one. here and there a god may haunt a mountain-top, a cave of the rock, a river; but the grand general worship of the people has its seat in the grovc^ and nowhere could it have found a worthier (see suppl. at a time when rude beginnings were all that there was of the builder's art, the human mind must have been roused to a higher devotion by the sight of lofty trees under an open sky, than it could^ feel inside the stunted st

mewhere of heathenish doings going on in his own day among saxons and tliuringians (see suppl. and in other poems of the mid. ages the sacredness of the ancient forests still exerts an after-influence. in alex. 5193 we read' der edelc wait frone; and we have inklings now and again, if not of sacrifices offered to sacred trees, yet of a lasting indestructible awe, and the fancy that ghostly beings haunt particular trees. thus, in ls. 2, 575, misfortune, like a demon, sat on a tree; and in altd. w. 3, 161 it is said of a hollow tree: da sint heiligen inne. there are saints in there, die hoerent aller liute bet^ that hear all people's prayers (see suppl^ from the notion of a forest temple the transition is easy to payinj^ divine honours to a sinl'le tree. festus has: delubrum liistis delibrat

jio? o/x/3po9, ii. 5, 91. 11, 493 as well as vi<^dhegoddess of no mean rank^ the comparison of snowflakes to feathers is very old; the scythians pronounced the regions north of them inaccessible, because they were filled witli feathers (herod. 4, 7. conf. 31. holda then must be able to move througli the air, like dame herke. she loves to haunt the lake and fountain; at the hour of noon she may be seen, a fair white lady, hathing in the flood and disappearing; a trait in wiiich she resembles nerthus. mortals, to reach her dwelling, pass through the well; conf. the name wazzerholde? another point of resemblance is, that she drives about in a waggon. she had a linchpin put in it by a peasant whom she met; when he picked up the chips

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

d televisions. it is especially effective if a crystal is placed in the corners of a room where white electrical goods are being used. because it is so powerful, malachite should be cleansed at least every two days. rose quartz rose quartz is the stone of gentle healing and protection. it is known as the children's stone because it is so gentle in soothing away childhood ills and sorrows that may haunt us into adulthood. it is good for protecting families, the home, pets and anyone who is ill or vulnerable. it promotes family love and friendship, and brings peace, forgiveness, emotional harmony and the mending of quarrels. it heals emotional wounds and heartbreak, grief, stress, fear, lack of confidence, resentment and anger. rose quartz will keep away nightmares and night-time fears. clea

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

rength to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, give power to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the burning girra

f the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odour, which comes of burning incenses unlawful to the worship of the elder ones. and their books are the books of chaos and the flames, and are the books of the shadows and the shells. and they worship the heaving earth and the ripping sky and the rampant flame and the flooding waters; and they are the raisers of the legions of maskim, the liers-in-wait. and t

old, and before time. so, say them softly if the formula is "softly, or shout them aloud if the formula is "aloud, but change not one measure lest thou call something else, and it be your final hour. know, seventhly, of the things thou art to expect in the commission of this most sacred magick. study the symbols well, and do not be afraid of any awful spectre that shall invade thine operation, or haunt thine habitat by day or by night. only charge them with them the words of the covenant and they will do as you ask, of thou be strong. and if thou performest these operations often, thou shalt see things becoming dark; and the wanderers in their spheres shall no more be seen by thee; and the stars in their places will lose their light, and the moon, nanna, by whom thou also workest, shall be

s his seal: the fifth name is luggaldimmerankia put order into chaos. made the waters aright. commander of legions of wind demons who fought the ancient tiamat alongside marduk kurios. the word used at his calling is banutukku. this is his seal: the sixth name is nariluggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seventh name is asaruludu wielder of the flaming sword, oversees the race of watchers at the bidding of the elder gods. he ensures the most perfect safety, especially in dangerous tasks undertaken at the behest of the astral gods. his

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

to the list. so much so, indeed, that there is no specific critical test, it is all part of the routine, and goes on incessantly. well, there is just one. without warning a decision of critical importance has to be made by the candidate, and he is given so many minutes to say yes or no. he gets no second chance. but i must warn you of one particular disgrace. you know that people of low mentality haunt fortune-tellers of equal calibre, but with more low cunning. they do not really want to know the future, or to get advice; their real object is to persuade some supposed "authority" to flatter them and confirm them in their folly and stupidity. it is the same thing with a terrifying percentage of the people that come for "teaching" and "initiation" the moment they learn anything they didn't

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

all me a black pot. here s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. 170 though his mills may grind slowly what says the old hymn?33 tune, limerick! author? my memory s dim. the corn said you sluggard! the mill you may tug hard (or lug hard, or plug hard; i forgot the exact rhyme; that s a fact) 175 if i want to grind slowly i shall, a quainter old fable one rarely is able to drag from its haunt in the smoke room or stable! you see (vide supra) i ve brought to the test a ton of tolerance, broadness. approve me, friend chesteron! 180 so much when philosophy s lacteal river turns sour through a trifle of bile on the liver. but now for the sane and the succulent milk of truth may it slip down as smoothly as silk. how very hard it is to be 34 185 a yogi! let our spirits see at least wha

-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound lurk in an unsuspected ground, dine with you, lecture in your schools, share your intolerance of fools, and, while the yogi you condemn, listen, say nothing, barely smile. o if you but suspected them your silence would match their awhile! a classical research [protectionists may serve if the supply of hottentots gives out] i took three hottentots alive. their scale

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

ereides, dwelling in the more elevated exhalations of water, such as appear in damp, cloudy air, whose bodies are sometimes seen (as zoroaster taught) by more acute eyes, especially in persia and africa "let the immortal depth of your soul lead you, but earnestly raise your eyes upwards- zoroaster "nama-rupa- purely material, and therefore shadowy and meaningless, are the innumerable shapes which haunt the mind of man. in one sense we must here include all purely sensory phenomena, and the images which memory presents to the mind which is endeavoring to concentrate itself upon a single thought. in other systems of mysticism we must include all astral phantoms, divine or demoniac, which are merely seen or heard without further reflection upon them. to obtain these it is sufficient to perfor

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

ote: see "confessions. this refers to that portion of crowley's life spent at boleskine as alastor, the "spirit of solitude. vii behold sir lancelot of the lake breasting the stony screes: behold how breath must fail and muscle ache before he reach the icy fold that palamede the saracen within its hermitage may hold. at last he cometh to a den perched high upon the savage scaur, remote from every haunt of men, from every haunt of life afar. there doth he find sit palamede sitting as steadfast as a star. scarcely he knew the knight indeed, for he was compassed in a beard white as the streams of snow that feed the lake of gods and men revered that sitteth upon caucasus. so muttered he a darkling weird, 22 and smote his bosom murderous. his nails like eagles' claws were grown; his eyes were w

es him rest- he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined 25 the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs'd of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 26 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest "ay! ay" their cunning sages grinned "it shines! it shines! guess thou the rest! for naught but this our rishis know" sir palamede his way addressed unto the woods: they blaze and glow; his lance stabs many a shining blade, his sword lays many a flower low that glittering gladdened in the glade. he wrote himself a wanton ass, and to the s

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

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

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ideas, the tendencies of human desire and thought, are not at this time of the highest order, and the physical precipitation of these vague and inchoate thoughts distinguished by a vast similarity, and colored by selfish intent and personal behest, and based upon likes and dislikes, prejudices and longings, can be seen in the most interesting precipitation. the vast assembly of insects which now haunt our planet and cause increasing concern to the scientist, agriculturist, and all those dealing with the welfare of the human animal, are the direct result of thought precipitation. i have not time to enlarge upon this fact, but i can assure you that as men learn to think with more unselfishness and with greater purity, and as malice and hatred and competition give place to brotherhood, kindn

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

and at the end, encountered the tests which released him from the power of his human nature. as we study the life of jesus this solitariness emerges ever more clearly the great souls are always lonely souls. they tread uncompanioned the most difficult parts of the long way of return. christ was ever lonely. his spirit drove him again and again into isolation "the great religious conceptions which haunt the imaginations of civilized mankind are scenes of solitariness: prometheus chained to his rock, mahomet brooding in the desert, the meditations of the buddha, the solitary man on the cross. it belongs to the depth of the religious spirit to have felt forsaken, even by god."33 christ's life alternated between the crowd whom he loved and the silence of the solitary places. first he is to be

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

were so great that they on the whole even excused their worst abuses. for by upholdingauthority in the nobility the church maintained its own.the result of it all was a vast development of rebels, outcasts, and all the discontented, who adopt-ed witchcraft or sorcery for a religion, and wizards as their priests. they had secret meetings indesert places, among old ruins accursed by priests as the haunt of evil spirits or ancient heathengods, or in the mountains. t o this day the dweller in italy may often find secluded spots environed byancient chestnut forests, rocks, and walls, which suggest fit places for the sabbat, and are some-times still believed by tradition to be such. and i also believe that in this gospel of the witches wehave a trustworthy outline at least of the doctrine and r

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

etc; and by the occultists "the winged globes" the "fiery wheels" and in the hindu pantheon by a number of different names. all these gandharvas, the "sweet songsters" the asuras, kinnaras, and nagas, are the allegorical descriptions of the "four maharajahs" the seraphim are the fiery serpents of heaven which we find in a passage describing mount meru as "the exalted mass of glory, the venerable haunt of gods and heavenly choristers. not to be reached by sinful men. because guarded by serpents" they are called the avengers, and the "winged wheels" their mission and character being explained, let us see what the[[footnote(s* the hindus happen to divide the world into seven continents, exoterically as esoterically; and their four cosmic devas are eight, presiding over the eight points of th

r a hand for there to be any fear of a new disguise. and after years of pseudology, of bastard molecules parading under the name of elements, behind and beyond which there could be nought but void, a great professor of chemistry asks once more "what are these elements, whence do they come, what is their signification. these elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. they stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking- mystifying, and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities (gen. of elem, p. 1[[footnote(s "vishwanara is not merely the manifested objective world, but the one physical basis (the horizontal line of the triangle) from which the whole objective world starts into existence" and this is the cosmic duad, the androgy

BOOK OF SATYRS

ntly-advancing theory, but his satires (or satyrs, as he loves to call them) arrive as full-fledged and assertive dogma. the designs have their claim upon the imagination also, not from a visionary cast given by obscure shapes or heavy mystification, but by reason of clearly incisive and circumstantial detail, informed nevertheless, with so psychic an intention that the familiar is made to be the haunt of what is startling and indeterminable. in his art spare continually achieves the unexpected; his pattern is always original; his characteristic line is of fine nervous quality; his types are powerfully visualised. the very subtle irony of his temper is apparent in a hundred whimsical ways-in attitudes, gestures, expressions-too delicate to be more than contributory to the whole impression

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

d televisions. it is especially effective if a crystal is placed in the corners of a room where white electrical goods are being used. because it is so powerful, malachite should be cleansed at least every two days. rose quartz rose quartz is the stone of gentle healing and protection. it is known as the children's stone because it is so gentle in soothing away childhood ills and sorrows that may haunt us into adulthood. it is good for protecting families, the home, pets and anyone who is ill or vulnerable. it promotes family love and friendship, and brings peace, forgiveness, emotional harmony and the mending of quarrels. it heals emotional wounds and heartbreak, grief, stress, fear, lack of confidence, resentment and anger. rose quartz will keep away nightmares and night-time fears. clea

DEMONIC BIBLE

s his seal: the fifth name is luggaldimmerankia put order into chaos. made the waters aright. commander of legions of wind demons who fought the ancient tiamat alongside marduk kurios. the word used at his calling is banutukku. this is his seal: the sixth name is nariluggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seventh name is asaruludu wielder of the flaming sword, oversees the race of watchers at the bidding of the elder gods. he ensures the most perfect safety, especially in dangerous tasks undertaken at the behest of the astral gods. his

DIABOLUS

of his adversary, who would be the zoroastrians. while the zurvanites regarded ahriman to be an original dual aspect of ohrmazd, in the bundahishn ahriman is represented as a lesser demon, but a very significant one that equally causes problems but strengthens those who are connected with him. while they sought to condemn ahriman and speak of his weakness, he was important and powerful enough to haunt their very minds into submission according to a written religious doctrine "diabolus enim et alii d mones a deo quidem natur creati sunt boni, sed ipsi per se facti sunt mali("the devil and the other demons were created by god good in their nature but they by themselves have made themselves evil- fourth lateran council, from the catholic encyclopedia. here we see that azazel and other angels

DONALDTYSON EVILEYE

hee. the morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words" the greek poet apollonius of rhodes, who lived in alexandria, egypt, at the end of the first century, wrote of how the sorceress medea destroyed the giant talos with nothing more than the malice of her gaze "then, with incantations, she invoked the spirits of death, the swift hounds of hades who feed on souls and haunt the lower air to pounce on living men. she sank to her knees and called upon them, three times in song, three times with spoken prayers. she steeled herself with their malignity and bewitched the eyes of talos with the evil in her own. she flung at him the full force of her malevolence, and in an ecstasy of rage she plied him with images of death" the roman historian pliny the elder, who als

DONALDTYSON GHOSTS

are talking with that person. the being in these dreams is not your departed friend or relative, but an astral spirit. such spirits can appear both in dreams and in our waking reality when the proper conditions exist. are ghosts dangerous? usually not. in their most common manifestation they are merely shadows or images without physical substance. on the other hand, if an astral spirit decides to haunt an individual person rather than a particular place, they can become very distracting. this is especially true if the pseudo-ghost takes on physical substance and is able to touch the person being haunted. the touch of a ghost is chilly. it draws heat from the surface of the body, and if it persists, this cold gradually penetrates into the muscle and fat. i have had the experience of being e

DONALDTYSON NECRO

uld be cut off with flesh, fat and skin still attached. all these materials are useful in necromancy. battlefields were popular with necromancers because the ground was literally saturated with blood. in previous centuries wars were fought with swords. sometimes soldiers struggled ankle deep in blood. since this was the place of their deaths, the restless shades of slain soldiers were believed to haunt any field where a battle had been fought. this made a battlefield, particularly a recent battlefield where the blood was still fresh, an even better place to work necromancy than a graveyard. necromancy was not solely man's work. there were female necromancers in ancient greece and rome, who are usually referred to, under the much abused umbrella term, as witches. the term witch has been far

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

cal benefits. the family in charge of the burial of a deceased relative was provided the opportunity of completing any emotional business they had with the deceased.a process today generally termed grief work. burial rites of today are designed for the living, not the deceased, and provide a means of affirming life in the community in the face of death. in many cultures, it is thought that ghosts haunt certain localities. the favorite spot seems to be the burial place, of which there is an almost universal superstitious dread (an emotional reaction to the implied threat of death. however, the indians of guyana (south america) believed that every place where anyone had died was haunted. among the kaffirs and the maoris of new zealand, a hut where a death has occurred was taboo, and was ofte

nally it was represented as flying down the tomb shaft to the deceased or perched on the breast of the mummy. in the book of the dead, a chapter promises abundance of food to the ba. the ba, or soul, should not be confused with the ka, the human double. in egypt the human had both. after death, the ba left the body. the ka remained in the tomb and ventured forth in the likeness of the deceased to haunt family and friends. sources: the book of the dead. translated by e. a. wallis budge. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. baalberith according to johan weyer, baalberith is a demon of the second order, master of the infernal alliance. he was said to be secretary and keeper of the archives of hell. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer

www.udv.org.br/udvpag01-ing.htm. in 1991 and 1995, the uniao organized international conferences to promote the study of ayahuasca and assist in the process of its legalization and legitimization internationally. sources: beneficent spiritual center uniao do vegetel. http/ www.udv.org.br/udvpag01-ing.htm. june 12, 2000. benemmerinen according to ancient hebrew belief, benemmerinen are witches who haunt women in childbirth for the purpose of stealing newborn infants. benjamine, elbert (1882.1951) elbert benjamine, one of america s leading astrologers in the early twentieth century and the founder of the church of light, was born december 12, 1882, in iowa. he began to study the occult as a teenager and in 1900 made contact with the heremetic brotherhood of luxor, a small occult order headqu

sm& parapsychology. 5th ed. blewett, duncan bassett 197 blind term used by parapsychologists in experiments where the evaluator of targets and responses to them is without knowledge of information that would reveal the target (see also double blind) blindfolding a corpse the afritans of the shari river in central america used to blindfold a corpse before burying it to prevent it from returning to haunt the survivors. blind-matching a term used by parapsychologists in relation to tests for clairvoyance with esp cards. the subject holds the pack of zener cards face downward and sorts them into five piles, which are later compared to key cards already hidden in envelopes. blockula believed to be the assembly place for the witches sabbat at mora, sweden, during the great witchcraft hysteria of

1935. the lost continent of mu: the motherland of man. new york: ives washburn, 1926. the sacred symbols of mu. new york: ives washburn, 1933. earll, tony [raymond buckland. mu revealed. new york: paperback library, 1970. le plongeon, augustus. queen moo and the egyptian sphinx. new york, 1896. churchyard it is not difficult to understand why the churchyard has come to be regarded as the special haunt of ghosts. the popu- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. churchyard 293 lar imagination may well be excused for supposing that the spirits of the dead continue to hover over the spot where their bodies are laid. the ancient greeks thought the souls of the dead were especially powerful near their graves or sepulchres, because of some natural tie binding body and soul, even afte

e, always appeared in white; and the apparition of the mansion of houndwood, in berwickshire.bearing the name of chappie .is clad in silk attire. one of the ghosts seen at the celebrated willington mill was that of a female in greyish garments. sometimes she was said to be wrapped in a mantle, with her head depressed and her hands crossed on her lap. walton abbey had its headless lady who used to haunt a certain wainscotted chamber, dressed in blood-stained garments, with her infant in her arms; and, in short, most of the ghosts that have tenanted our country houses have been noted for their distinctive dress. daniel defoe, in his essay on the history and reality of apparitions, has given many minute details as to the dress of a ghost. he tells a laughable and highly amusing story of some

e) and he shall never be at quiet, till he hath made me satisfaction for taking away my drum. glanvill reports: during the time of the knocking, when many were present, a gentleman of the company said, satan, if the drummer set thee to work, give three knocks and no more; which it did very distinctly, and stopped. glanvill himself heard some of the unusual sounds, stating: at this time it used to haunt the children, and that as soon as they were laid in bed. i heard a strange scratching as i went up the stairs, and when we came into the room i perceived it was just behind the bolster of the children s bed, and seemed to be against the ticking. it was as loud a scratching as one with long nails could make upon a bolster. there were two little modest girls in the bed, between seven and eight

on, appearing to be alive. the term does not include apparitions of the living. reports of appearances of ghosts go back to ancient times, and ghost stories have always been popular as a special genre of literature. ghosts are believed to be ethereal, able to penetrate doors and walls, and are often said to appear at the moment of death to a distant relative or friend. ghosts are also believed to haunt specific localities, either dwellings associated with their earthly life or locales with a tragic history. children are often reported to have encountered ghostly playmates. although the evidence for ghosts is largely anecdotal, it is widespread and persistent. for a detailed discussion of various types of ghosts and related appearances, see apparitions (see also double; haunting; and dress

house. new york: world publishing, 1970. reprint, pocket books, 1971. tabori, paul, and peter underwood. the ghosts of borley: annals of the haunted rectory. newton abbot, u.k: david and charles, 1973. underwood, peter. gazetteer of british ghosts. london: souvenir press; new york: walker, 1975. gazetteer of scottish and irish ghosts. london: souvenir press, 1973. reprint, new york: walker, 1975. haunt hunters founded in 1965 as a division of the psychic science institute to serve as a clearinghouse for experiences and information on ghosts, hauntings, extrasensory perception, and other psychic phenomena. it seeks to improve the image of psychical research through public relations techniques and strives to bring together the qualified psychical researcher and the individual who has had a p

on ghosts, hauntings, extrasensory perception, and other psychic phenomena. it seeks to improve the image of psychical research through public relations techniques and strives to bring together the qualified psychical researcher and the individual who has had a psychic experience. it maintains a speakers bureau and a file of more than 300 case histories of psychic phenomena. it has published the haunt hunters handbook for the psychic investigator. address: c/o goodwilling, 2188 sycamore hill ct, chesterfield, mo 63017. haunting disturbances of a paranormal character, attributed to the spirits of the dead. tradition established two main factors in haunting: an old house or other locale and restlessness of a spirit. the first represents an unbroken link with the past, the second is believed

spirit earthbound, but additional theories have also been brought forth. plato quotes socrates in phaedo, and in this case [impure life] the soul which survives the body must be wrapped up in a helpless and earthy covering, which makes it heavy and visible, and drags it down to the visible region, away from the invisible region of spirit world, hades.which it fears. and thus these wandering souls haunt, as we call it, the tombs and monuments of the dead, where such phantoms are sometimes seen. these are apparitions of souls which departed from the body in a state of impurity, and still partake of corruption and the visible world, and therefore are liable to be still seen. and these are not the souls of good men, but of bad, who are thus obliged to wander about suffering punishment for thei

conclusion of the reading was that the experiment is very instructive from a negative point of view. ignis fatuus a wavering luminous appearance frequently observed in meadows and marshy places, around which many popular superstitions cluster. its folknames, will o the wisp and jack o lantern, suggest a country fellow bearing a lantern or straw torch (wisp. formerly these lights were supposed to haunt desolate bogs and moorlands for the purpose of misleading travelers and drawing them to their death. another superstition says that they are the spirits of those who have been drowned in the bogs, and yet another says that they are the souls of unbaptized infants. science now attributes these ignes fatui to gaseous exhalations from the moist ground or, more rarely, to night-flying insects. i

ributed demoniacal possession. the cat was not regarded with any kindly feeling by the japanese, because this animal and the serpent were the only creatures who did not weep at buddha s death. cats also had the power of bewitchment and possessed vampire proclivities. yet among sailors the cat was held in high estimation, for it was thought to possess the power of warding off the evil spirits that haunt the sea. the images of animals were also thought to be endowed with life. there are tales of bronze horses and deer, huge carved dragons, and stone tortoises wandering abroad at night, terrorizing the people and only laid to rest by decapitation. butterflies were thought to be the wandering souls of the living who might be dreaming or sunk in reverie; white butterflies were the souls of the

spero defined it as a kind of second copy of the body in matter less dense than the corporeal, a coloured though real projection of the individual, an exact reproduction of him in every part. the ka was believed to live in the tomb. egyptians mummified the deceased s body and filled the tomb with provisions to prolong the life of the ka. if neglected the ka was thought to come out of the tomb and haunt the guilty relatives. the ka was not to be confused with the soul, called ba or bai, which was believed to abandon the material body and the double at the moment of death. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. hornung, erik. conceptions of god in ancient egypt. ithaca, n.y: cornell university pre

t time as he passed away on june 7, 1905. reuss carried on as outer head of the order for the remaining years of his life. sources: king, francis. ritual magic in england: 1887 to the present day. london, 1970. reprinted as the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1971. o.t.o. history. http//www.cyberlink.ch/ukoenig. april 28, 2000. kelpie, the a water spirit of scotland believed to haunt streams and torrents. kelpies appear to have been mischievous and were often accused of stopping the waterwheels of mills and of swelling streams. the kelpie s name was occasionally used to frighten unruly children, and it was believed that he devoured women. the kelpie, taking the form of a horse, was also said to tempt travelers to mount him, then plunge them into deep water and drown them

ictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. kobolds the sprites or fairies of german folklore. they are of two kinds. the first is a household sprite like the english brownie, helping with the housework if properly fed and treated, but mischievous, playing pranks on people. kobolds are often given names, like chimmeken, heinze, or walther. the second type are underground sprites who haunt caves and mines and are often evil and malicious. the metallurgist george landmann describes these spirits in his book de animatibus subterraneis (1657 (see also elementary spirits; knockers) koch, walter a(lbert (1895) teacher and astrologer who wrote books and articles on parapsychology. he was born on september 18, 1895, in esslingen/ neckar, wurttemberg, germany, and studied at the unive

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, who swarmed in its several rooms and took up their abode in its hearth, doorposts, verandas, and corners. the nats also inhabited or inspired wild beasts, and all misfortune was supposed to emanate from them. the burmese used to believe that the more materialistic dead haunted the living with a malign purpose. the people had a great dread of their newly-deceased relatives, whom they imagined to haunt the vicinity of their dwellings for the purpose of ambushing them. no dead body would be carried to a cemetery except by the shortest route, even should this necessitate cutting a hole in the wall of a house. the spirits of those who died a violent death haunted the scene of their fatality. like the ancient mexicans (see ciupipiltin, the burmese had a great dread of the ghosts of women who d

been likened to pictures carried in the memory, seemingly faded, yet ready to start into vividness when the right spring is touched. some have suggested, for example, that the rehearsal of bygone tragedies so frequently witnessed in haunted houses is really a psychometric picture that, during the original occurrence, impressed itself on the room. the same may be said of the sounds and smells that haunt certain houses. the psychological effect of the experimental objects appears to be very strong. when a mrs. cridge, william denton s subject, examined a piece of lava from the kilauea volcano she was seized with terror and the feeling did not pass for more than an hour. on examining a fragment of a mastodon tooth, elizabeth denton said, my impression is that it is a part of some monstrous an

ence of spiritualism. i know there is much vulgar fraud and stupidity connected with it, but underneath there is, i am sure, enough to convince us that there is personal life independent of the body, but with this once proved, i have no further interest in spiritualism. also during one summer in switzerland ruskin had a startling experience with a child who saw a ghost that had long been known to haunt a particular spot in the valley of chamonix. he described the female spirit as having no eyes, but only holes where they were supposed to be. ruskin died january 20, 1900. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. prince, walter f. noted witnesses for psychic occurrences. boston: boston society for p

ieve that the crop will be a good one, he spits upon it here and there, and then assures the people that now they may expect a good harvest. some of the chief duties of the witch-doctor consist in laying ghosts, driving off spirits, exorcising kilyikhama in cases of possession, assisting wandering souls back to their bodies, and generally in the recognising of spirits. when a ghost is supposed to haunt a village, the wizard and his assistants have sometimes an hour s arduous chanting in order to induce the restless one to leave. when he considers that he has accomplished this, he assures the people that it is done, and this quiets their fears. evil spirits frequenting a neighbourhood have also to be driven off by somewhat similar chanting. through the twentieth century, practices first des

and fasting and the severe self-discipline of the religious ascetic, must be included many historical or traditional instances.the visions of st. vision (ocular and inner) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1636 francis of assisi, st. anthony, st. bernard ignatius, st. catherine of siena, st. hildegarde, and joan of arc. it may be noted that the convent has often been the special haunt of religious visions. a wave of apparitions of the virgin mary began in france early in the nineteenth century and several hundred incidents have been reported in the intervening decades to the present time (see garabandal; medjugorje) but the most potent means for the induction of visionary appearances are those discovered and used by indigenous people around the world. over the ages people

1670 the wilde frauen or wild-women of germany bear a very strong resemblance to the elle-maids of scandinavia. like them they are beautiful, have fine flowing hair, live within hills, and only appear singly or in the society of each other. they partake of the piety of character we find among the german dwarfs. the celebrated wunderberg, or underberg, on the great moor near salzburg, is the chief haunt of the wild-women. the wunderberg is said to be quite hollow, and supplied with stately palaces, churches, monasteries, gardens, and springs of gold and silver. its inhabitants, besides the wild-women, are little men, who have charge of the treasures it contains, and who at midnight report to salzburg to perform their devotions in the cathedral; giants, who used to come to the church of grod

modern psychic mysteries. london: rider, 1929. windsor castle one of the largest inhabited castles in the world. windsor castle, in berkshire, england, is one of the royal residences and headquarters of the order of the garter. it is frequently cited as a haunted house, filled with numerous notable specters. queen elizabeth, henry viii, charles i, and some of the georges have all been reputed to haunt the castle, and herne the hunter is also said to roam the twelve-acre great park. in february 1897, lieutenant carr glynn of the grenadier guards was sitting in the library reading in the twilight when he heard the rustle of a silken dress and, looking up, saw the ghost of queen elizabeth i glide across the room. he buckled on his sword and reported the matter. the story attracted the attent

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riginalloverhad solemnly cursed the man who had taken her. i inquired how he had done it, and the details seemed to have been well preserved. itwasonce a month in the dark of the moon that he set up each stone walking round thrice widdershins and crying to thel:>evilto .curse and blast the man's life. he also baptized the stone in the devil's name with water from a certain spring, said to. be the haunt of evil spirits. where he got the ritual from no one knows. i believe there are some spells somewhat similiar in thegrimoire.i asked whether the curses had taken effect 'the man i was told had fallen off a roof and broken his l1eck, and the girl had died with her first child. the curser raarried soon after this,buthe was a miserable man all his life, haunted with gloomy forebodings, and died

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plain paranoid and this is not, i repeat, not the state to start contemplating psychic self defence from. it is all too easy to stand in the position of being so self righteous, that we attribute psychic attack to all those who disagree with us. this in itself can be a form of psychic attack, it is known as a belief attack, and occurs when we project so much paranoia and fear, that it returns to haunt us. the more we fight it, the stronger it gets. it is important to be objective before you start attributing certain experiences to psychic attack. the first stage of critical examination should involve examining your own mental and emotional state, and that of those around you. if, after some thought, you still feel something is wrong then, and only then, should you begin to consider gnosti

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sed to come forth and answer the sorcerer. murmus was once an angel of the order of thrones but now governs 30 legions of spirits. murmur may also, at the command of the sorcerer, send forth shades of the dead to encircle the self and strengthen the astral body and to bring voices of insight or divination unto the witch summoning. he may also send the shades of the dead, often infernal spirits to haunt those who the sorcerer may desire. 3 orobas orobas is the fifty-fifth spirit who is a great prince. he appears in the form of a two legged horse, who will put on a human form at the desire of the magician. he inspires divination and brings impulses or intuition regarding things of the past, for instance if a horrible occurrence happened at a spot or area. orobas brings the connection of the

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e pyramid builders must also have understood exactly what kind of beacon they were piling up (with such incredible precision) on this windswept plateau, on the west bank of the nile, in those high and far away times. they must, in short, have wanted this remarkable structure to exert a perennial fascination: to be violated by intruders, to be measured with increasing degrees of exactitude, and to haunt the collective imagination of mankind like a persistent ghost summoning intimations of a profound and long-forgotten secret. 3 in the isolated valley of the kings in luxor in upper egypt, for example. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 307 mind games of the pyramid builders the point where ma mun s hole intersected with the 26 descending corridor was closed off by a modern steel door. b

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ward they sustain only a more general connexion with earth and the living; their memory is hallowed by festivals, and in early times probably by sacrifices^ distinct from these are such spirits as have not become partakers, or not completely, of blessedness and peace, but hover betwixt heaven and earth, and in some cases even return to their old home. these souls that appear, that come back, that haunt, we call spectres (ghosts. the roman expression for peaceful happy spirits of the dead was manes, for uncanny disquietiug apparitions lemures or larvae; though the terms fluctuate, for' manes' can denote spectral beings too, and' lemures' can have a general meaning (creuzer^s symb. 2, 850 866. larfa betrays its affinity to lar (p. 500, and the good kindly lares were often held to be manes or

with lat, spectrum. spectres. 915 oespiic indeed stands in bertliold, cod. pal. 35, fol. 27 (see suppl. more precise is the on. aptrgdnga fern, laxd. saga p. 224, as if auima rediens, dan. glenfdrd, gicnganger, fr. revenant, saxo gram. 91 says redivivus; conf. our phrase *es geht um/ something haunts (lit. goes about' at hann gengi eigi dau^r/ that he walk not when dead, fornald. sog. 2, 346. to haunt is in l. sax. dwetern, on the harz lualteii (harry^s volkss. 2, 46. the regular word in on. is d/rangr, fornm. sog. 3, 200: o^inu is styled' drariga drottinn' yngl. saga cap. 7, and a gravemound draugahus, seem. 169. the word is lost in sweden and denmark, but lives in the norweg. drou, droug (hallager 20. it seems to be of one root with ohg. gltroc, mhg. getroc, delusive apparition, phantom

acium est tempestas nociva, saxo gram, ed. miill. p. 200. a liar is also a mocker, hence' des tievels spot' nib. 2182, 2' daz sinen spot der tuvel mit den sinen habe' gr. rud. 1, 9. in mod. nethl 'de vyand heeft my beet gehad' hostis me ludibrio habuit (see suppl. grendevs diabolic nature resembles that of bloodthirsty watersprites (p. 494; he lives too in moors and fens, and comes up at night to haunt sleeping mortals' com of more gangan' beow. 1413; ho flies 'under fen-hleo'su^ 1632. he drinks men's hlood out of their veins 1478, like vampires whose lips are moist with fresh blood. an on. saga has a similar demon, called grimr oegir because he can walk in water as on land, he spits fire and poison, sucjcs the hlood out of man and beast (fornald. sog. 3, 241-2. about when in the mid. ages

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of ill luck. trans] 3 my faithless lover s. 4 i find this quoted from loccenius s antiq. sueog. 1,3; it is not in the ed. of 1647, it may be in a later. afzelius 2, 147 has the story with this addition, that at the second stroke blood flowed from the root, the hewer then went home, and soon iell sick. tbees. 653 bo-trad, in dan. boe-tra (p. 509. under the lime-tree in the hero-book dwarfs love to haunt, and heroes fall into enchanted sleep: the sweet breath of its blossoms causes stupefaction, d. heldenb. 1871, 3, 14-5. 135 (see suppl. but elves in particular have not only single trees but whole orchards and groves assigned them, which they take pleasure in cultivating, witness laurin s rosegarden enclosed by a silken thread. in sweden they call these gardens elftrdd-gdrdar. the greek drya

n gledum spiwan 4619, deorcum nihtum ricsian 4417. it is said of fafnir ,sgem. 186: screr&lt;5 af gulli, bles eitri, hristi sik ok bar^i hofsi ok sporsi/ stept off the gold, blew poison, shook himself, and struck with head and tail; it was noticed on p, 562 that the two notions of eit (fire) and eiter (poison) run into one. connect with this the descriptions of mhg. poets: the trache* has his haunt in a valley, out -of his throat he darts flame, smoke and wind, trist. 8944-74; he has plumage, wings, he spits fire and venom, troj. 9764. 9817 (see suppl. now it was the heroes province to extirpate not only the giants, but (what was in a measure the same thing) the dragons l in the world: tborr himself tackles the enormous mr&lt;5gar&lt;$s-orm, sigemund, siegfried, beowulf stand f

v. n6bo&gt;(coelum, pi. nebesa, gr. z^0os, lat. nubes, nebula; ir. neam-h, wei. nev, armor, nef, lett, debbes (coelum, debbess (nubes; conf. lith. dangus above [and sky, welkin, with on. scy, germ, wolke, cloud. 2 bills of heaven are high ones, reaching into the clouds, often used as proper names: himmfioll, saem. 14&a. yngl saga cap. 39; himinbiorg, saem. 41, 92b is an abode of gods; spirits haunt the himillnberg (mons coelius, pertz 2, 10; himilesberg in hesse (kuchenbecker s anal. 11, 137. arnsb. urk. 118; a himmelsberg in vestgbtland, and one in halland (said to be heinrsah s; himel^^rc, frauendienst 199, 10. 700 sky and staes. beow. 1713; under swegle (sub coelo, beow. 2149; sweglrad (coeli currus, cod. exon. 355, 47; os. suigli. i call attention to the as. sceldbyrig, cgedm. 283

might even have to do with ancient land-surveying, and answer to the roman cardo, intersected at right angles by the decumanus. to the ashtree we must also concede some connexion with asciburg (p. 350) and the tribal progenitor askr (p. 571-2. another legend of an ashtree is reserved for chap. xxxii (see suppl. niflheimr, where nffihoggr and other serpents (named in sasm. 44b. sn. 22) have their haunt round the spring hvergelmir, is the dread dwelling-place of the death-goddess hel (p. 312, goth. halja( c or heljo/ saem. 94 &lt;i heljo 49. 50. 51, is clearly spoken of a place, not a person, it is gloomy and black, like her; hence a nebelheim, cold land of shadows, abode of the departed, 1 but not a place of torment or punishment as in the christian view, and even that was only develop

mes and a living accusative 1 lith. berlea dea vespertina, breksta dea tenebrarum, lasicz 47. in our tristan, isot is beautifully compared to the sun, and her mother to the dawn, f. heata. 885 (gramm. 3, 441, as it was often apostrophized (klage 847. wigal. 6514, and like norse heroes, or like fire, was called bani (occisor, e.g. hialmars bani, fornald. sog. 1, 522, as its hilt and point were the haunt of snake and adder (p. 687-8; agreeable to all this is a deification of the sword of war (p. 203-4, and for this would be found available not the lifeless neuter( swert/ but the masc. hairus, heru, cheru/ p. 203, to which correspond the divine names eot "apr]s and salisnot: from this divine progenitor s name proceeded the national names of cheruscans, saxons, conf. suardones, with sweor

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norting steed pleases him no longer. the recollections of guns and banners wrested from theenemy; of cities razed, of trenches, cannons and tents, of an array of conquered spoils now stirs but little hisnational pride. such thoughts move him no more, and ambition has become powerless to awaken in hisaching heart the haughty recognition of any valorous deed of chivalry. visions of another kind now haunt hisweary days and long sleepless nights. what he now sees is a throng of bayonets clashing against each other in a mist of smoke and blood;thousands of mangled corpses covering the ground, torn and cut to shreds by the murderous weapons devisedby science and civilization, blessed to success by the servants of his god. what he now dreams of arebleeding, wounded and dying men, with missing lim

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information. in these terms, it is easy to see how a small spirit may, given time and the energy input (directed through ritual and other techniques for directing energy) by enough people, could become what we commonly 31 assume to be .gods. to side-step for a moment, i wish to look again at some of the phenomena associated with ufo and spectral encounters. one factor that rises time and again to haunt the sceptical researcher is the commonality of experiences between different individuals who come into contact with these anomalies. historical research into ufo .flaps. shows that there have been spates of sightings of mysterious spirits, dirigibles, aircraft, submarines, and of course, flying saucers, throughout history. also, numerous reports from individuals who have been .contacted. by

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field; but that, he saw, must have been very long ago. the sheer bulk of the church was oppressive now that he was close to it, but he conquered his mood and approached to try the three great doors in the fa ade. all were securely locked, so he began a circuit of the cyclopean building in quest of some minor and more penetrable opening. even then he could not be sure that he wished to enter that haunt of desertion and shadow, yet the pull of its strangeness dragged him on automatically. a yawning and unprotected cellar window in the rear furnished the needed aperture. peering in, blake saw a subterrene gulf of cobwebs and dust faintly litten by the western sun's filtered rays. debris, old barrels, and ruined boxes and furniture of numerous sorts met his eye, though over everything lay a s

any for a gang of men to blow up the martense mansion and the entire top of tempest mountain with dynamite, stop up all the discoverable mound-burrows, and destroy certain over-nourished trees whose very existence seemed an insult to sanity. i could sleep a little after they had done this, but true rest will never come as long as i remember that nameless secret of the lurking fear. the thing will haunt me, for who can say the extermination is complete, and that analogous phenomena do not exist all over the world? who can, with my knowledge, think of the earth's unknown caverns without a nightmare dread of future possibilities? i cannot see a well or a subway entrance without shuddering. why cannot the doctors give me something to make me sleep, or truly calm my brain when it thunders? what

eposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes. but after all, the attic was not the most terrible part of the house. it was the dank, humid cellar which somehow exerted the strongest repulsion on us, even though it was wholly above ground on the street side, with only a thin door and window-pierced brick wall to separate it from the busy sidewalk. we scarcely knew whether to haunt it in spectral fascination, or to shun it for the sake of our souls and our sanity. for one thing, the bad odour of the house was strongest there; and for another thing, we did not like the white fungous growths which occasionally sprang up in rainy summer weather from the hard earth floor. those fungi, grotesquely like the vegetation in the yard outside, were truly horrible in their outline

where he would come with a large valise and perform curious delvings in the cellar. he was always very liberal to her and to old asa, but seemed more worried than he used to be; which grieved her very much, since she had watched him grow up from birth. another report of his doings came from pawtuxet, where some friends of the family saw him at a distance a surprising number of times. he seemed to haunt the resort and canoe-house of rhodes-on-the- pawtuxet, and subsequent inquiries by dr. willett at that place brought out the fact that his purpose was always to secure access to the rather hedged-in river-bank, along which he would walk toward the north, usually not reappearing for a very long while. late in may came a momentary revival of ritualistic sounds in the attic laboratory which bro

he pains which had been taken to guard him. he had not known of charles's appointment, and promised to notify willett when the youth returned. in bidding the doctor goodnight he expressed his utter perplexity at his son's condition, and urged his caller to do all he could to restore the boy to normal poise. willett was glad to escape from that library, for something frightful and unholy seemed to haunt it; as if the vanished picture had left behind a legacy of evil. he had never liked that picture; and even now, strong-nerved though he was, there lurked a quality in its vacant panel which made him feel an urgent need to get out into the pure air as soon as possible. 3 the next morning willett received a message from the senior ward, saying that charles was still absent. mr. ward mentioned

sons. as a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent. newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to cooperate with the government in the end. only one paper- a tabloid always discounted because of its wild policy- mentioned the deep diving submarine that discharged torpedoes downward in the marine abyss just beyond devil reef. that item, gathered by chance in a haunt of sailors, seemed indeed rather far-fetched; since the low, black reef lay a full mile and a half out from innsmouth harbour. people around the country and in the nearby towns muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world. they had talked about dying and half-deserted innsmouth for nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what

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with dark curtains to conceal our midnight doings. the place was far from any road, and in sight of no other house, yet precautions were none the less necessary; since rumours of strange lights, started by chance nocturnal roamers, would soon bring disaster on our enterprise. it was agreed to call the whole thing a chemical laboratory if discovery should occur. gradually we equipped our sinister haunt of science with materials either purchased in boston or quietly borrowed from the college- materials carefully made unrecognisable save to expert eyes- and provided spades and picks for the many burials we should have to make in the cellar. at the college we used an incinerator, but the apparatus was too costly for our unauthorised laboratory. bodies were always a nuisance- even the small gu

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r latest born messenger, in whose dreams are all the images which other messengers have dreamed before him. he it is that we have chosen to blend into one glorious whole all the beauty that the world hath known before, and to write words wherein shall echo all the wisdom and the loveliness of the past. he it is who shall proclaim our return and sing of the days to come when fauns and dryads shall haunt their accustomed groves in beauty. guided was our choice by those who now sit before the corycian grotto on thrones of ivory, and in whose songs thou shalt hear notes of sublimity by which years hence thou shalt know the greater messenger when he cometh. attend their voices as one by one they sing to thee here. each note shall thou hear again in the poetry which is to come, the poetry which

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any for a gang of men to blow up the martense mansion and the entire top of tempest mountain with dynamite, stop up all the discoverable mound-burrows, and destroy certain over-nourished trees whose very existence seemed an insult to sanity. i could sleep a little after they had done this, but true rest will never come as long as i remember that nameless secret of the lurking fear. the thing will haunt me, for who can say the extermination is complete, and that analogous phenomena do not exist all over the world? who can, with my knowledge, think of the earth's unknown caverns without a nightmare dread of future possibilities? i cannot see a well or a subway entrance without shuddering. why cannot the doctors give me something to make me sleep, or truly calm my brain when it thunders? what

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s century and among those who are still men. this i have known ever since i stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glaisthe picture in the house by h.p. lovecraft written 12 december 1920? published july 1919 in the national amateur, vol. 41, no. 6, p. 246-49. searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. for them are the catacombs of ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. they climb to the moonlit towers of ruined rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in asia. the haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited isl

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risons. as a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to cooperate with the government in the end. only one paper- a tabloid always discounted because of its wild policy- mentioned the deep diving submarine that discharged torpedoes downward in the marine abyss just beyond devil reef that item, gathered by chance in a haunt of sailors, seemed indeed nether far-fetched; since the low, black reef lieu a full mile and a half out from innsmouth harbour. people around the country and in the nearby towns muttered a great deal among themselves, but said very little to the outer world. they had talked about dying and half-deserted innsmouth for nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more hideous than what

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r a while, for my wife is not there! so lend me a hand; i'm not able to stand, but i'm gay whilst i linger on top of the land! about this time i conceived my present fear of fire and thunderstorms. previously indifferent to such things, i had now an unspeakable horror of them; and would retire to the innermost recesses of the house whenever the heavens threatened an electrical display. a favorite haunt of mine during the day was the ruined cellar of the mansion that had burned down, and in fancy i would picture the structure as it had been in its prime. on one occasion i startled a villager by leading him confidently to a shallow subcellar, of whose existence i seemed to know in spite of the fact that it had been unseen and forgotten for many generations. at last came that which i had long

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fallen into as great decay as the house. at one end of that tomb, its curious roots displacing the time-stained blocks of panhellic marble, grows an unnaturally large olive tree of oddly repellent shape; so like to some grotesque man, or death-distorted body of a man, that the country folk fear to pass it at night when the moon shines faintly through the crooked boughs. mount maenalus is a chosen haunt of dreaded pan, whose queer companions are many, and simple swains believe that the tree must have some hideous kinship to these weird panisci; but an old bee-keeper who lives in the neighboring cottage told me a different story. many years ago, when the hillside villa was new and resplendent, there dwelt within it the two sculptors kalos and musides. from lydia to neapolis the beauty of the

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e know that there were three violent deaths in the family who previously resided there, in close succession, shortly before we moved in. there are many unusual things about the house. we had to remove two doors to rooms inside because they wouldn't stay open. as soon as anyone would enter the room, the door would slam, and it created such a disturbing influence we had to remove them. other ghosts haunt our home too. one persistent ghost comes to mind in support of the belief that such projections may be uncontrolled energy bursts from a restless, living mind also occupying the house. the ghost appeared for the first time shortly after the family returned home from travelling through europe. a series of hardships beset us: sickness, storms, and the like. each of the children came down, one

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

the old (not the present) meeting-house in antrim. her living in such a place being thought a confirmation of what was alleged against her, she was thereupon stabbed to death, and her body cut in pieces, which were then scattered over the places where she was supposed to have exercised her evil influence. for some years after this terrible tragedy her ghost, in the form of a goat, was believed to haunt the session-house of the old meeting-house near which she had met her cruel fate; it was popularly known as macgregor's ghost, this having been the name of the man who was sexton of the meeting-house when these things took place, and who probably had been concerned in the murder. so far classon porter. but we very much doubt if the above has really any connection with the antrim witch-case p

ISIS UNVEILED

ht; he was clad in a new surplice, and had a consecrated band hanging from the neck, covered with sacred characters. he wore on the head a tall pointed cap, on the front of which was written in hebrew the holy word, the tetragrammaton the ineffable name. it was writtrai with a new pen dipped in the blood of a white dove. what the exordsts most yearned after, was to release miserable spirits wkich haunt spots v^ere hidden treasures lie. the exorcist sprinkles the circle with the blood of a black lamb and a white pigeon. the priest had to adjure the evil spirits of hell acheront, magoth, asmodei, bedzebub, beual, and all the damned souls, in the mighty names of jehovah, adonai, elohah, and sabaoth, which latter was the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob, who dwelt in the urim and thummim. when

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

t will come to us, particularly when we get a mass field tuning. i look back over the last decade, at all the people i have met who have challenged me or inspired me to do more research, to go deeper within myself and to understand more about divine nutrition and prana power, and to them i give my heartfelt thanks. everything of course is so much easier in retrospect, and the if onlys can forever haunt us in our dreams. if only i had known then what i know now, if only i had done this or that, if only i had been more prepared. i used to say that if i had known what was destined for me in the field of the food of gods, first i would have become a doctor, and then i would have become a priest. both would have been so advantageous in dealing with our skeptical world, except that sometimes the

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

y, that he heard a murmur overhead, as if of the uncertain rumble of horses and of heavy waggons or lumbering wains. next moment, all subsided into total stillness; but the distant light seemed to flicker, as if in recognition or answer to the strange sound. half a dozen times he paused, and turned as if he would remount almost flee for his life upward, as he thought; for this might be the secret haunt of robbers, or the dreadful abode of evil spirits. what if, in a few moments, he should come upon some scene to affright, or alight in the midst of desperate ruffians, or be caught by murderers! he listened eagerly. he now almost bitterly repented his descent. still the light streamed at a distances; but still there was no sound to interpret the meaning of the light, or to display the charac

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

uality, then the creator himself will push us, using that hunger. abraham is a spiritual property that seems to be the basis of all our properties. it is a general spiritual attribute that is the first to be approached by the creator. people don t come to the wisdom of kabbalah because they were sent here, but because the creator approached them pa r t s i x: g e n e s i s 331 first. he begins to haunt them and make them hungry, and only then they come. we will never chase something without a reason or a special need for it. only the sensation of hunger pushes us out of our country. love and hunger rule the world, meaning that the feeling that we re missing something is the only thing that pulls us. that sensation is called abram, and it is to him that the creator turns and says, do you re

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

corpse is then removed for disposal, and an effigy of the corpse is made of wood and dressed in the clothes of the deceased. for the remainder of the bardo, it stays in the corner, attended by the lamas who chant by relays the various liturgies at the appropriate time. at the end of the bardo, the effigy is hung with ornaments and dismantled, and the ghost of the death is warned not to return to haunt the body. the corpse, meanwhile, is given a funeral. tibetans favor cremation, as they believe earth burial can cause the dead one to survive as a vampire. another favored means is to dismember the corpse and leave it to the birds. the beast computer legend 23 at the moment of death, the spirit sees the primary clear light, and experiences ecstasy. all persons get at least a glimpse of the c

wickedness. the attractions feature demons and tortures gruesomely modeled directly after dante dee, john 63 alighieri s fourteenth-century classic, divine comedy: the inferno. tracy turns the exhibit into a moneymaking house of horrors. tracy, however, begins to fear hell, and the words abandon all hope, all ye who enter here, which dante portrayed as inscribed above the gates of hell, begin to haunt him. after the attraction collapses and his wife abandons him, tracy is arrested and held responsible for the disaster and death his attraction caused. dark angel: the ascent a very unusual movie directed by linda hassani about an evil angel who is tired of inflicting punishment to the inhabitants of the underworld. the visual effects for the atmosphere and flavor of the underworld in this 1

ablished a court of oyer and terminer to try the witches. during the course of the trials, 141 people were arrested as suspects, 19 were hanged, and one was pressed to death. the bodies of the sentenced witches were casually placed in shallow graves on salem s gallows hills because, it was believed, witches did not deserve christian burial. according to the legend, the ghosts of the victims still haunt the area. soon neighboring communities such as the town of andover requested that the girls find the witches responsible for a number of problems, including illness, poor crops, and dead livestock. the causes of the salem witchcraft trial, which have been examined by a number of studies, have variously been attributed to the political and social problems of salem village. see also mather, co

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

h a star! the earth.s pulse throbs with mighty rivers; with her low sobs god.s heaven quivers; the dew stands on her brow; with love she aches for all the abyss above, her rocks and chasms the lively strife of her sharp spasms of lust, of life. hark! to the whisper of my fan, my sister kiss to maid and man. through all earth fs wombs, through all sea fs waves, gigantic glooms, forgotten graves, i haunt the tombs of kings and slaves. i hush the babe, i wake the bird, i wander away beyond stars unstirred, soften the ripples of the tide, soothe the bruised nipples of the bride, adonis 31 help stars and clouds play hide-and-seek, wind seamen fs shrouds, bid ruins speak, bring dreams to slumber, sleep to dream whose demons cumber night fs extreme. and softer sped than dream or death quiet as th

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

t girt him there and then to ride to that enchanted ground where amid timeless snows the den of palamedes might be found. 19 vii behold sir lancelot of the lake breasting the stony screes: behold how breath must fail and muscle ache before he reach the icy fold that palamede the saracen within its hermitage may hold. at last he cometh to a den perched high upon the savage scaur, remote from every haunt of men, from every haunt of life afar. there doth he find sit palamede sitting as steadfast as a star. scarcely he knew the knight indeed, for he was compassed in a beard white as the streams of snow that feed the lake of gods and men revered that sitteth upon caucasus. so muttered he a darkling weird, and smote his bosom murderous. his nails like eagles. claws were grown; his eyes were wild

hoves him rest .he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs.d of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 22 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest .ay! ay. their cunning sages grinned .it shines! it shines! guess thou the rest! for naught but this our rishis know. sir palamede his way addressed unto the woods: they blaze and glow; his lance stabs many a shining blade, his sword lays many a flower low that glittering gladdened in the glade. he wrote himself a wanton ass, and to the s

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 14.06.200. liber liberi vel lapidis lazvli advmbratio kabbala agyptiorvm svb figvra vii being the voluntary emancipation of a certain exempt adept from his adeptship. these are the birth-words of a master of the temple v a a publication in class a 1 prologue of the unborn 1. into my loneliness comes. 2. the sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the utmost hills. 3. even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness. 4. and i behold pan. 5. the snows are eternal, above. 6. and their perfume smokes upwards into the nostrils of the stars. 7. but what have i to do with these? 8. to me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of pan. 9. on all sides pan to the eye, to the ear; 10. the perfume of pan pervading, the tast

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

may call me a black pot. here.s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. though his mills may grind slowly.what says the old hymn?33 tune, limerick! author? my memory.s dim. the corn said .you sluggard. the mill .you may tug hard (or lug hard, or plug hard; i forgot the exact rhyme; that.s a fact .if i want to grind slowly i shall. a quainter old fable one rarely is able to drag from its haunt in the.smoke room or stable! you see (vide supra) i.ve brought to the test a ton of tolerance, broadness. approve me, friend chesteron! so much when philosophy.s lacteal river turns sour through a trifle of bile on the liver. but now for the sane and the succulent milk of truth.may it slip down as smoothly as silk .how very hard it is to be.34 a yogi! let our spirits see at least what primal

-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound lurk in an unsuspected ground, dine with you, lecture in your schools, share your intolerance of fools, and, while the yogi you condemn, listen, say nothing, barely smile. o if you but suspected them your silence would match their awhile! a classical research [protectionists may serve if the supply of hottentots gives out] i took three hottentots alive. their scale

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

elementals of alexander pope's rosicrucian poem, the rape of the lock, the mysterious creatures of lord lytton's zanoni; james barrie's immortal tinker bell; and the famous bowlers that rip van winkle encountered in the catskill mountains, are well-known characters to students of literature. the folklore and mythology of all peoples abound in legends concerning these mysterious little figures who haunt old castles, guard treasures in the depths of the earth, and build their homes under the spreading protection of toadstools. fairies are the delight of childhood, and most children give them up with reluctance. not so very long ago the greatest minds of the world believed in the existence of fairies, and it is still an open question as to whether plato, socrates, and iamblichus were wrong wh

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

nt and mischievous, creating poltergeist activity and generally making a nuisance of themselves. to get rid of brownies all you had to do is leave them a new cloak and hood, they would take it and never be seen again. the brownies were found in both england and scotland as far as the shetland isles. red caps, dunters& powries the red cap is one of the most dangerous supernatural creatures said to haunt the castles and watchtowers of the border regions. in appearance they are short and wiry, with ragged pointed teeth and sharp claws like steel. they wear a red bonnet on their heads, and are generally bearded with wrinkled aged faces. the red caps are murderous, and kill by rolling boulders or tearing at people with their sharp claws. they then proceed to drink the blood of their victims and

and wiry, with ragged pointed teeth and sharp claws like steel. they wear a red bonnet on their heads, and are generally bearded with wrinkled aged faces. the red caps are murderous, and kill by rolling boulders or tearing at people with their sharp claws. they then proceed to drink the blood of their victims and dip their hats in the blood, giving rise to the name of red caps. in particular they haunt castles with a reputation for evil events in the past. in the folklore and legend of hermitage castle in roxburghshire bad lord soulis, a man with an evil reputation is said to have had a red cap as a familiar. powries are virtually indistinguishable from the red caps, as are the dunters, who haunt castles with the constant sound of beating flax. it has been suggested that these spirits are

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

nifieth the wheels, because all acts in heaven like immense wheels spangled with stars. their empire is that of harmony. they correspond to the reason. they have for adversaries the chaigidel, or the shells which attach themselves to material and lying appearances. their chief, or rather their guide, for evil spirits obey no one, is beelzebub, whose name signifieth the god of flies, because flies haunt putrefying corpses. the third number is three. the third sephira is binah or understanding. the spirits of binah are aralim, or the strong. their empire is the creation of ideas; they correspond to activity and energy of thought. they have for adversaries the satariel, or concealers, the demons of absurdity, of intellectual inertia, and of mystery. the chief of the satariel is lucifuge, call

MEANING OF MASONRY

to our privilege, and it must be our aim to endeavour to enter into the full heritage of understanding and practising the system to which we belong. chapter iii further notes on craft symbolism" there is no darkness but ignorance (shakespeare" lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, and defend us from all perils and dangers of this night (anglican liturgy" belov'd all-father, and all you gods that haunt this place, grant me to be beautiful in the inner man, and all i have of outer things to be one with those within! may i count only the wise man rich, and may my store of gold be such as none but the good can bear. anything more? that prayer, i think, is enough for me (prayer of socrates. in the lecture on the first degree tracing board masonry is spoken of as" an art founded on the principl

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

s of the forests. corpses who enter the chambers of the sleeping for sexual congress. the wild hunt which rides the northern skies in the autumn, searching for souls to join their ghastly celebrations. the undead in european folklore are immensely strong and colorful in their legend. walking corpses known as draugr, which is described as an animated corpse which crawls from its own grave mound to haunt the night and its prudent folk. draugr was one of the main undead that existed in icelandic folklore, the creature would always incarnate in it's old flesh or the flesh of some dead near it. the term ghost would often be used to describe it, despite it's manifestation in a dead body. the draugr was said as well to have the psychic powers of foreseeing the future, controlling weather (which o

a birth defect. this vampire was often connected (as with many of it's kind) as holding the powers of plague and pestilence. during times of such sickness many a vampire hunt would ensue, causing numerous graves to be exhumed and the corpses defiled by the paranoid town folk. nachttoter (a magickal title taken by the author) is a vampire which translates "killer in the night, a being which would haunt the dreams of many, painting the walls and bed sheets in blood and semen of bestial congress. neuntoter was given its title by the belief that it takes nine full days for the vampire to develop in it's coffin or tomb. found in saxony, the neuntoter was recognized as being a severe carrier of the plague. the alp is a vampire like spirit associated with the incubus/succubus who would torment t

. this particular vampire spirit is generally a living individual, going forth in a presumably normal life. in the night however this vampire would physically enter sleep and its spirit would rise as what was called varcolaci. the undead spirit is able to rise towards the night sky, in the form of a small dragon or wolf with many heads, to drink blood from the moon. the varcolaci are also able to haunt villages and drain astral life force and blood from the sleeping. the varcolaci vampire is quite powerful on the astral plane, being able to haunt the night in many forms, depending on the primal urge and desire. further explanations and developments of this form are discussed in later chapters of this book. dracul or dracula is romanian meaning "son of the dragon" and can also mean "son of

pon the nature of the vampire spirit you are evoking. an enochian key or call to aethyr is recommended "i hereby evoke thee, oh spirit, to act as a guide towards the shadows of the unseen. come and be greeted with much thanks and regard for your very essence, i seek to give a material vessel. by the spirit of lilith and of cain, of which blood you are born and by the dragon which you serve: night haunt vampire spirit of belial, from whose domain your spirit is guided by the wolves from regions unspoken and grave cold i evoke thee into this circle come within and manifest within the sigil i have made samael and asmodeus, to encircle my belief, your essence is of night bane and cloven hoof upon the wings of the bat ye shall ride come quickly and without delay to act as a guide for my actions

ster crowley explored are based on going beyond and above the ego, by the taking of god forms and yoga techniques which further teach the limits of the mind and body. a significant method of weighing down and troubling the mind, in order to weaken the opponent, is to stalk them through dreams. this can be done by actually taking the vampire flesh in your dreams or sending an elemental/servitor to haunt them repeatedly. the vampire spirit will often connect within their dreams and begin to activate disturbing thoughts on the dream level until paranoia sets in. this could manifest in various ways, the intended victim could actually feel chased or even see the spirit which may assume the shape that fits the victims own psychic terror. remember in dreams we can shift flesh into any form desira

the kia and it's manifestations. the spirit should be created by vampiric servitor techniques, of blood and semen and should be focused upon before sleep. the sorcerer should be sure of the intended victim and hold a clear vision in their mind of how the servitor is to act. once this is done then the magickian should retire to sleep and by doing such will send the elemental in the form of a night haunt towards it's victim in the dream. such methods require an advanced degree of development and should only be attempted by those who have had significant experience and practice in the matter of creating and/or evoking servitors. 138 138 nature is more atrocious -sex magick- the birth of a lunar intelligence warning: caution should be exercised with this rite. the creation of a moon child on t

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

triple vaccinations. the children in this group total 182 to date. allare severely brain damaged, some are paralyzed, and 5 have died during the past 18 months. approxi-mately 60% of reactions (major convulsions, collapse, screaming) happened within 3 days and allwithin 12 days. 1976 jimmy carter elected president of the united states. leaves for vacation on st. simon island,favorite bilderberger haunt north of jekyll island. 1976 huge caches of arms found in california owned by groups expecting a communist takeover of theunited states. 1976 the swine flu scare and legionnaires disease. 1976 unusually cold weather plagues the united states. 1976 george hw bush becomes director of the cia, the enforcement arm of cfr. 1976 dr. robert simpson of rutgers university addresses science writers at

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

n would find things like your clothes, hair, blood, and extremely personal items useful if he desired to target you, as it makes for an easy way for him to describe your whereabouts to a spirit. this web that binds all things makes it possible for objects and spaces to essentially record events. which brings us to the problem of ghosts. ghosts are usually thought of as spirit beings that roam, or haunt, a given place. some ghosts repeat the same actions over and over again, while other ghosts seem to interact with people and objects in our world. some ghosts are comprised not of individuals, but as objects such as ghost ships and ghost trains. other ghosts may be whole groups of people, such as american civil war battles, where whole ghost armies are seen marching into battle. some ghosts

many are tragic and abrupt, but where s ghost suvs and motorcyclists? where are the ghost hospital and nursing home patients? countless apparitions should be seen wandering aimlessly up and down the halls of a hospital. and why did each of the few people who ever died in a particular building all become ghosts, while thousands die in the hospital (and at the corner of x and y) and none stayed to haunt? clearly, the prevailing theory about ghosts has some unfinished business of its own. magicians have explained the phenomena of haunting a number of ways, but what should be made clear first is that there are certain locations predisposed to ghostly activity. first, a ghost may be nothing more than a recording from the past; as if the occult properties of a haunted house projected themselves

MORALS AND DOGMA

become known that the [hebrew] were the templars under a veil, and therefore the degree was proscribed, and, ceasing to be worked, became a mere brief and formal ceremony, under another name. now, from the tomb in which after his murders he rotted, clement the fifth howls against the successors of his victims, in the allocution of pio nono against the free-masons. the ghosts of the dead templars haunt the vatican and disturb the slumbers of the paralyzed papacy, which, dreading the dead, shrieks out its excommunications and impotent anathemas against the living. it is a declaration of war, and was needed to arouse apathy and inertness to action. an enemy of the templars shall tell us the secret of this papal hostility against an order that has existed for centuries in despite of its anath

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e roman alexandrines. of course, this was already explicitly declared in verse 51. ra-hoor-khuit in egyptian means, literally "sun of the two horizons. this suggests that the egyptian initiates were aware that the earth moves around the sun, spinning on its axis. why "the sun of midnight, specifically? because midnight was the hour of terror in the middle ages. it was the hour when ghosts came to haunt the living, devils climbed out of hell to tempt the faithful. atavically, fear of the dark dates from pre-history, when the great nocturnal predators hunted our ancestors still ignorant of fire or weapons. this fear must end. see al iii, 18-20, and the commentaries thereon. also lxv, i, 12-19; ii, 31-36, 63; iii, 30-33; iv, 15, 24-25; v, 6. also liber vii, iv, 48-49; vii, 28-40. heru-ra-ha i

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

to have first seen the light of day. pieria is a district on one of the sloping declivities of mount olympus, whence a number of rivulets, as they flow towards the plains beneath, produce those sweet, soothing sounds, which may possibly have suggested this spot as a fitting home for the presiding divinities of song. they dwelt on the summits of mounts helicon, parnassus, and pindus, and loved to haunt the springs and fountains which gushed forth amidst these rocky [159]heights, all of which were sacred to them and to poetic inspiration. aganippe and hippocrene on mount helicon, and the castalian spring on mount parnassus, were sacred to the muses. the latter flowed between two lofty rocks above the city of delphi, and in ancient times its waters were introduced into a square stone basin

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

anne who, we know, was venerated by roofers and also housed chapels dedicated to saint john the baptist and saint john the evangelist. in addition, it served, for several different periods of time, as the sanctuary of the order of the knights of the holy sepulcher of jerusalem, who were instituted in the fifteenth century by pope alexander vi. this church's neighborhood had always been a frequent haunt of the compagnons strangers du devoir de liberte [foreign companions of duty to freedom] the loups [wolves] perhaps because of the patron saint of the parish, saint loup. even into the nineteenth century the compagnons still met in cabarets located on two colorful streets: the rue du grand hurleur (formerly the rue grand hue leu, or hue loup) and the rue du petit hurleur.33 the term hurler

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

pers, yet who knoweth his form? of leng in ye cold waste who seeketh northwards beyond the twilight land of inquanok shall find amidst the frozen waste the dark and mighty plateau of thrice-forbidden leng. know ye time-shunned leng by the ever-burning evil-fires and ye foul screeching of the scaly shantak birds which ride the upper air; by the howling of ye na-hag who brood in nighted caverns and haunt men's dreams with strange madness, and by the grey stone temple beneath the night gaunts lair, wherein is he who wears the yellow mask and dwelleth all alone. but beware o man, beware, of those who tread in darkness the ramparts of kadath, for he that beholds their mitred-heads shall know the claws of doom. of kadath ye unknown what man knoweth kadath? for who shall know of that which ever a

ONYX TABLET OF SET

sepulcher. through this ritual experience of what is called *death, i gave myself permission to trust what i was becoming. maybe now i could accept this haunting presence? i sought the advice of those i knew. it was not yet time. as my quest was true, i understood and continued in my experience of the great work. even beyond these insights of the masters, i trusted the presence which continued to haunt me. again i found myself rejecting it. then i had the dream. i was investigating through the process of meditation what i currently conceived as the *prince of darkness. as an element of practice i rested after these endeavors: a chance for the experience to settle. into the realm of dreams i descended. i was with a member of the priesthood of set "you are a fine adept. seek out that which w

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

m friendship between two men by wearing a hat which is white on one side and black on the other, causing them to quarrel irreconcileably about the color of his hat. medicine calabashes calabash gourds appear on eshu s headdress to show he has magical powers. death, disease, loss, paralysis, big trouble,curse, imprisonment, affliction they are all errand boys of eshu. yoruba saying eshu is said to haunt gateways and crossroads where he can divert humans from their planned course. eshu figure eshu is holding a small statue of himself, much as one of his priests would do. his ability to introduce chance and accident into life means that he is widely respected. he is known for helping people only if they offer him sacrifice, a ritual presided over by a priest. eshu s eyes when eshu is angry, h

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

the above exposition implies that this inner amalek derives from our reluctance to answer the challenge of absorbing and 20 numbers 12:6-8. 21 ibid. 13:20. 22 ibid. 13:18-20. the arizal on parashat beha falotecha (2) 585 elevating the good elements of materiality and foreign culture out of fear of the contamination it will entail. these unredeemed elements of non-jewish culture later come back to haunt us in the form of doubts and the cultured sophistication that cools off our enthusiasm for divinity. so, what is better: to insist on ascetic purity of mind, soul, and body, as jacob did, or to sacrifice purity in order to elevate the non-jewish world and thereby avoid the doubts and indifference of amalek? we could propose that chassidut would answer that jacob could not have allowed himsel

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ret commonwealth 22 partly invisible, partly preying upon the grain as do crows and mice. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_21.htm (1 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29) wherefore in this same age [that is, in the present time] they are sometimes heard to bake bread, strike hammers, and to do such like services within the little hillocks where they most haunt. some whereof were old before the gospel dispelled paganism, and in some barbarous places as yet, enter houses after all are at rest then set the kitchens in order, cleansing all the vessels. such drudges go under the name of brounies [brownies. when we have plenty, they have scarcity at their homes; and on the contrary, for they are not empowered to catch as much prey as they please everywh

ir bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the possibilities of the thing, if not a direct proof of the whole assertion; which [may] yet, moreover, be illuminated by diverse other instances of the like nature, and [just] as wonderful beside what is [said] above [such] as: 8. the invisible wights which haunt houses seem rather to be of our subterranean inhabitants, which appear often to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some obscure testimonies of it [t

for heroic actions than others, having the same measures of virtue and vice as we, and still expecting advancement to a higher and more splendid state of life. one of them is stronger than many men, yet [they] do not incline to hurt mankind, except by commission for a gross misdemeanour, as [in the case of] the destroying angel of egypt and the assyrians [in] exodus 12:29, and 2 kings 10:35. they haunt [that is, inhabit] most where there is most barbarity [that is, in isolated non-english-speaking regions, and therefore our ignorant ancestors [in order] to prevent the the secret commonwealth 57 insults of that strange people, used rude and coarse remedies, such as exorcisms, donations, and vows. but as soon as true piety prevailed in any place, it did put the inhabitants beyond the reach a

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ving underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night- well: he was here now, the great transformer, and this time there'd be some changes made- the laws of nature are the laws of its transformation, and he was the very person to utilize the same- yes, indeed: this time, clarity. he would show them- yes- his _power- these powerless english- did they not think their history would return to haunt them "the native is an oppressed person whose permanent dream is to become the persecutor (fanon. english women no longer bound him; the conspiracy stood exposed- then away with all fogs. he would make this land anew. he was the archangel, gibreel _and i'm back_ the face of the adversary hung before him once again, sharpening, clarifying. moony with a sardonic curl to the lips: but the name

SATANIC RITUALS

space and time's full river flow the mill must blindly whirl unresting so: it may be wearing out, but who can know "man might know one thing were his sight less dim that it whirls not to suit his petty whim, that it is quite indifferent to him "nay, does it treat him harshly as he saith? it grinds him some slow years of bitter breath, then grinds him back into eternal death" what men are they who haunt these fatal glooms, and fill their living mouths with dust of death, and make their habitations in the tombs, and breathe eternal sighs with mortal breath, and pierce life's pleasant veil of various error to reach that void of darkness and old terror wherein expire the lamps of hope and faith? they have much wisdom yet they are not wise, they have much goodness yet they do not well (the fool

SINISTER TAROT

laughing in a room of sacrifice two in a haze of gold beyond the door opfer- vindex entrance/transition to the lands of the dark immortals. the individual becoming that which s/he created- a transferral of consciousness to the acausal to be in essence part of the greater wyrd. a reverberation across aeons of the causal acts of an individual, gradually leaving the essence behind the appearance to haunt the psyches of others. the altering of the astral shell; that which ultimately cannot and need not be described. the deliberate removal of that which is detrimental to wyrd. xiii a canal route lined by white griffins. a vortex of grey starless space. the chalice spills its white blood and the herdsman s light shines in the chamber of the sphinx. death- nythra that which follows hubris; the c

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

if cause there were, it must be traced to the early and mysterious influences i have referred to, when seeking to explain the effect produced on her imagination by those restless streams of sound that constantly played around it; for it is noticeable that to those who are much alive to the effects of music, airs and tunes often come back, in the commonest pursuits of life, to vex, as it were, and haunt them. the music, once admitted to the soul, becomes also a sort of spirit, and never dies. it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. now at times, then, these phantoms of sound floated back upon her fancy; if gay, to call a smile from every dimple; if mournful, to thr

had for the last two days shunned an interview with the young actress. but after a night following his last conversation with zanoni, and that we have just recorded with mervale, a night coloured by dreams so distinct as to seem prophetic, dreams that appeared so to shape his future according to the hints of zanoni that he could have fancied zanoni himself had sent them from the house of sleep to haunt his pillow, he resolved once more to seek viola; and though without a definite or distinct object, he yielded himself up to the impulse of his heart. chapter 2.x. o sollecito dubbio e fredda tema che pensando l'accresci. tasso, canzone vi (o anxious doubt and chilling fear that grows by thinking) she was seated outside her door, the young actress! the sea before her in that heavenly bay seem

though we were apart, though oceans rolled between us, to know the hour in which thy gaze was lifted to the stars, in which thy heart poured itself in prayer. they tell me thou art more beautiful than the marble images that are fairer than all human forms; but i have never dared to gaze steadfastly on thy face, that memory might compare thee with the rest. only thine eyes and thy soft, calm smile haunt me; as when i look upon the moon, all that passes into my heart is her silent light "often, when the air is calm, i have thought that i hear the strains of my father's music; often, though long stilled in the grave, have they waked me from the dreams of the solemn night. methinks, ere thou comest to me that i hear them herald thy approach. methinks i hear them wail and moan, when i sink back

your services will be valueless to his heir, a sober man whom poverty has preserved from vice. for yourself, thank me that i do not give you up to the executioner; recollect the wine of cyprus. well, never tremble, man; it could not act on me, though it might react on others; in that it is a common type of crime. i forgive you; and if the wine should kill me, i promise you that my ghost shall not haunt so worshipful a penitent. enough of this; conduct me to the chamber of viola pisani. you have no further need of her. the death of the jailer opens the cell of the captive. be quick; i would be gone" mascari muttered some inaudible words, bowed low, and led the way to the chamber in which viola was confined. chapter 3.xviii. merc: tell me, therefore, what thou seekest after, and what thou wi

lonely cannot well be conceived than that on which the hoofs of his steed, striking upon the fragments of rock that encumbered the neglected way, woke a dull and melancholy echo. large tracts of waste land, varied by the rank and profuse foliage of the south, lay before him; occasionally a wild goat peeped down from some rocky crag, or the discordant cry of a bird of prey, startled in its sombre haunt, was heard above the hills. these were the only signs of life; not a human being was met, not a hut was visible. wrapped in his own ardent and solemn thoughts, the young man continued his way, till the sun had spent its noonday heat, and a breeze that announced the approach of eve sprung up from the unseen ocean which lay far distant to his right. it was then that a turn in the road brought

rmed and strengthened. the scene that glyndon had witnessed in his trance was faithful to truth. and some little time after the date of that night, viola was dimly aware that an influence, she knew not of what nature, was struggling to establish itself over her happy life. visions indistinct and beautiful, such as those she had known in her earlier days, but more constant and impressive, began to haunt her night and day when zanoni was absent, to fade in his presence, and seem less fair than that. zanoni questioned her eagerly and minutely of these visitations, but seemed dissatisfied, and at times perplexed, by her answers "tell me not" he said, one day "of those unconnected images, those evolutions of starry shapes in a choral dance, or those delicious melodies that seem to thee of the m

itor of all the gifts which double themselves in being shared! how sweet the power to watch, and to guard, to instil the knowledge, to avert the evil, and to guide back the river of life in a richer and broader and deeper stream to the paradise from which it flows! and beside that river our souls shall meet, sweet mother. our child shall supply the sympathy that fails as yet; and what shape shall haunt thee, what terror shall dismay, when thy initiation is beside the cradle of thy child! chapter 4.xi. they thus beguile the way untill the blustring storme is overblowne, when weening to returne whence they did stray, they cannot finde that path which first was showne, but wander to and fro in waies unknowne. spenser's "faerie queene" book i. canto i. st. x. yes, viola, thou art another being

to man, and thou hast lifted the veil from thy gaze. i cannot restore to thee the happy dimness of thy vision. know, at least, that all of us the highest and the wisest who have, in sober truth, passed beyond the threshold, have had, as our first fearful task, to master and subdue its grisly and appalling guardian. know that thou canst deliver thyself from those livid eyes, know that, while they haunt, they cannot harm, if thou resistest the thoughts to which they tempt, and the horror they engender. dread them most when thou beholdest them not. and thus, son of the worm, we part! all that i can tell thee to encourage, yet to warn and to guide, i have told thee in these lines. not from me, from thyself has come the gloomy trial from which i yet trust thou wilt emerge into peace. type of t

lged" he paused, and the drops stood upon his brow "but i" said adela, mastering her fears and throwing her arms around him "but i henceforth will have no life but in thine. and in this love so pure, so holy, thy terror shall fade away "no, no" exclaimed glyndon, starting from her "the worst revelation is to come. since thou hast been here, since i have sternly and resolutely refrained from every haunt, every scene in which this preternatural enemy troubled me not, i i have oh, heaven! mercy mercy! there it stands, there, by thy side, there, there" and he fell to the ground insensible. chapter 5.v. doch wunderbar ergriff mich's diese nacht; die glieder schienen schon in todes macht. uhland (this night it fearfully seized on me; my limbs appeared already in the power of death) a fever, atte

appearance of that formless phantom, with the eyes that seared the brain and congealed the marrow of those who beheld. once seen, it never was to be exorcised. it came at its own will, prompting black thoughts, whispering strange temptations. only in scenes of turbulent excitement was it absent! solitude, serenity, the struggling desires after peace and virtue, these were the elements it loved to haunt! bewildered, terror-stricken, the wild account confirmed by the dim impressions that never, in the depth and confidence of affection, had been closely examined, but rather banished as soon as felt, that the life and attributes of zanoni were not like those of mortals, impressions which her own love had made her hitherto censure as suspicions that wronged, and which, thus mitigated, had perha

in which the final preparations were arranged, sanguine of safety, and foreseeing no obstacle to escape, bent his way back to fillide. suddenly, in the midst of his cheerful thoughts, he fancied he heard a voice too well and too terribly recognised, hissing in his ear "what! thou wouldst defy and escape me! thou wouldst go back to virtue and content. it is in vain, it is too late. no, i will not haunt thee; human footsteps, no less inexorable, dog thee now. me thou shalt not see again till in the dungeon, at midnight, before thy doom! behold" and glyndon, mechanically turning his head, saw, close behind him, the stealthy figure of a man whom he had observed before, but with little heed, pass and repass him, as he quitted the house of citizen c. instantly and instinctively he knew that he

some moments speechless, and at length faltered out "but why, then, to me "why" added zanoni "why to thee have been only the penance and the terror, the threshold and the phantom? vain man! look to the commonest elements of the common learning. can every tyro at his mere wish and will become the master; can the student, when he has bought his euclid, become a newton; can the youth whom the muses haunt, say 'i will equal homer' yea, can yon pale tyrant, with all the parchment laws of a hundred system-shapers, and the pikes of his dauntless multitude, carve, at his will, a constitution not more vicious than the one which the madness of a mob could overthrow? when, in that far time to which i have referred, the student aspired to the heights to which thou wouldst have sprung at a single boun

om and prescription, and felt not the first seizure of the shapeless and nameless fear? everywhere around thee where men aspire and labour, though they see it not, in the closet of the sage, in the council of the demagogue, in the camp of the warrior, everywhere cowers and darkens the unutterable horror. but there, where thou hast ventured, alone is the phantom visible; and never will it cease to haunt, till thou canst pass to the infinite, as the seraph; or return to the familiar, as a child! but answer me this: when, seeking to adhere to some calm resolve of virtue, the phantom hath stalked suddenly to thy side; when its voice hath whispered thee despair; when its ghastly eyes would scare thee back to those scenes of earthly craft or riotous excitement from which, as it leaves thee to wo

ust of brutus. an iron lamp and two branches scatter over the vast room a murky, fuliginous ray, beneath the light of which the fierce faces of that pandemonium seem more grim and haggard. there, from the orator's tribune, shrieks the shrill wrath of robespierre! meanwhile all is chaos, disorder, half daring and half cowardice, in the committee of his foes. rumours fly from street to street, from haunt to haunt, from house to house. the swallows flit low, and the cattle group together before the storm. and above this roar of the lives and things of the little hour, alone in his chamber stood he on whose starry youth symbol of the imperishable bloom of the calm ideal amidst the mouldering actual the clouds of ages had rolled in vain. all those exertions which ordinary wit and courage could

look on death, that ye forget the respect ye owe to it. since thou offerest me thy head, i accept it. to-morrow thou mayst repent; it will be too late "ay, too late, president" echoed the calm visitor "but, remember, it is not pardon, it is but a day's reprieve, i have promised to this woman. according as thou dost satisfy me to-morrow, she lives or dies. i am frank, citizen; thy ghost shall not haunt me for want of faith "it is but a day that i have asked; the rest i leave to justice and to heaven. your huissiers wait below" chapter 7.xvi. und den mordstahl seh' ich blinken; und das morderauge gluhn "kassandra (and i see the steel of murder glitter, and the eye of murder glow) viola was in the prison that opened not but for those already condemned before adjudged. since her exile from za

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ire, however, this ghoul feasts upon the flesh of the deceased, taking the corpses from cemeteries and morgues. the ghoul more common to the waking world is that of the mentally unbalanced individual who engages in eating or otherwise desecrating the flesh of deceased humans. yet a third type of ghoul would be those native of arabic folklore, the ghul (male) and ghulah (female, demonic jinns that haunt burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from graves. it is easy to envision how the legend of the ghoul began in ancient times when graves were shallow and often subject to the disturbances of wild animals seeking carrion. later, as funeral customs became more elaborate and men and women were buried with their jewelry and other personal treasures, the lure of easy wealth

py and antipsychotic drugs and who still perceived herself as a wolfwoman with claws, teeth, and fangs. medical personnel would manage to get the woman under control until the next full moon when she would snarl, howl, and resume her wolflike behavior. rosenstock and vincent stated that the woman was eventually discharged and provided with antipsychotic medication, but she declared that she would haunt graveyards until she had found the male werewolf of her dreams. m delving deeper clark, jerome, and loren coleman. creatures of the outer edge. new york: warner books, 1978. eisler, robert. man into wolf. london: spring books, n.d. fodor, nandor. between two worlds. new york: paperback library, 1967. the haunted mind: a psychoanalyst looks at the supernatural. new york: new american library

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

o cause the living water to flow from the rock of horeb, and who used water from jordan for the baptism of thy divine son, 0 god of mercy, we implore thy immense goodness and thy inexhaustible mercy, may we be spared by the power of thy angels and the merits of thy saints from the ravages of water under whatever be the form: storms, tidal waves, cloudbursts, or hurricanes, and may the daemons who haunt them be kept in check by thy power and justice, be kept off and chased away forever from the places inhabited by thy creatures and far away from thy creatures themselves. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates awhile and resumes his prayer, that the works of man be spared from the winds, tornadoes and hurricanes: o almighty and eternal god, thou who deigned to sanctify the breath of

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

tiny consaously chosen in life by each person, created by the total life experiences of all previous incarnations. karma is the spiritual law of cause and effect-a law of consequence that plays itself out in psychic, moral, and physical ways in the life of human beings. one of the fundamentals of karma is that you get back what you give out. thus evil that you do in one lifetime will come back to haunt you in the next. likewise, the good that you do in one lifetime will come back to reward you in the next. in this manner, the individual human soul slowly evolves over the course of many lifetimes, gradually learning though its mistakes and growing a little wiser, a little closer to the divine each time. in buddhism, the "wheel of life" or round of births is known as sasara. the mystic seeks

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

for permission to dig up graves in the cemetery. the story received wide play in the national press in the summer of 1973 "when efforts were made to find frank kelley in corpus christi it was found that he had given a phony address and phone number, and that no one in treasure-hunting circles have ever heard of him. mr. kelley was apparently another one of the impressive but elusive hoaxsters who haunt the ufo field. the joke was pointless, expensive, and, sadly, very successful. iv. the moment i met mrs. hyre's niece connie carpenter in 1966, i knew she was telling the truth because her eyes were reddened, watery, and almost swollen shut. i had seen these symptoms many times in my treks around the country investigating ufo reports. witnesses who were unlucky enough to have a close encount

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

trenght to my arms! may gibil, the lord of fire, givepower to my magick! injustice, murder, freezing of the loins, rending of the bowels, devouring of the flesh, and madness in all ways hast thou persecuted me! mad god of chaos! may girra free me! azag-thoth ta ardata! ia marduk! ia marduk! ia asalluxi! you have chosen me for a corpse. you have delivered me to the skull. you have sent phantoms to haunt me. you have send vampires to haunt me. to the wandering ghosts of the wastes, have you delivered me. to the phantoms of the fallen ruins, have you delivered me. to the deserts, the wastes, the forbidden lands, you have handed me over. open thy mouth in sorceries against me no more! i have handed thine image over into the flames of gibil! burn, mad fiend! boil, mad god! may the burning girra

f the underworld, ministers of the queen of hell. know, fifthly, that the worshippers of tiamat are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the magician. lo, they have worshipped the serpent from ancient times, and have always been with us. and they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the beast upon them, as they change easily into the shapes of animals and haunt the nights of men and by their odour, which comes of burning incenses unlawful to the worship of the elder ones. and their books are the books of chaos and the flames, and are the books of the shadows and the shells. and they worship the heaving earth and the ripping sky and the rampant flame and the flooding waters; and they are the raisers of the legions of maskim, the liers-in-wait. and t

old, and before time. so, say them softly if the formula is "softly, or shout them aloud if the formula is "aloud, but change not one measure lest thou call something else, and it be your final hour. know, seventhly, of the things thou art to expect in the commission of this most sacred magick. study the symbols well, and do not be afraid of any awful spectre that shall invade thine operation, or haunt thine habitat by day or by night. only charge them with them the words of the covenant and they will do as you ask, of thou be strong. and if thou performest these operations often, thou shalt see things becoming dark; and the wanderers in their spheres shall no more be seen by thee; and the stars in their places will lose their light, and the moon, nanna, by whom thou also workest, shall be

s his seal: the fifth name is luggaldimmerankia put order into chaos. made the waters aright. commander of legions of wind demons who fought the ancient tiamat alongside marduk kurios. the word used at his calling is banutukku. this is his seal: the sixth name is nariluggaldimmerankia the watcher of the igigi and the annunaki, sub-commander of the wind demons. he will put to flight any maskim who haunt thee, and is the foe of the rabisu. none may pass into the world above or the world below without his knowledge. his word is banrabishu. his seal is thus: the seventh name is asaruludu wielder of the flaming sword, oversees the race of watchers at the bidding of the elder gods. he ensures the most perfect safety, especially in dangerous tasks undertaken at the behest of the astral gods. his

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

tands, but at the same wants spirituality, then the creator himself pushes him using that hunger. abraham is a spiritual property that seems to be the basis of all our properties. it is a general spiritual attribute that is the first to be approached by the creator. people don t come to the wisdom of kabbalah because they were sent here, but because the creator approached them first. he begins to haunt them and make them hungry, and only then they come. one will never chase something without a reason or if he feels no special need for it. only the sensation of hunger pushes us out of our country. love and hunger rule the world, meaning the sensation of the absence of something is the only thing that pulls us. that sensation is called abram, and it is him that the creator turns to and says:

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

rip demands a word, and this word is, etc, and should always be followed by the sign. you will now retire, taking your seats in the sublime c.p.i (done) 2nd o: v.i.s.k. is it your will that we pledge our new companions in the bitter draught? viii: my will, which is thine, be done (s. passes as before. meanwhile 2nd o recites) 2nd o: into my loneliness comes the sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills. even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness. and i behold pan. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (7 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the snows are eternal above, above and their perfume smokes ever into the nostrils of the stars. but what have i to do with these?

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us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of hachilah, which [is] on the south of jeshimon? 23:20 now therefore, o king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king s hand. 23:21 and saul said, blessed [be] ye of the lord; for ye have compassion on me. 23:22 go, i pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth very subtilly. 23:23 see therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and i will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that i will search him out throughout all the thousands of judah. 23:24 and they arose, and went to z

, 30:29 and to [them] which [were] in rachal, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the jerahmeelites, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the kenites, 30:30 and to [them] which [were] in hormah, and to [them] which [were] in chorashan, and to [them] which [were] in athach, 30:31 and to [them] which [were] in hebron, and to all the places where david himself and his men were wont to haunt. 31:1 now the philistines fought against israel: and the men of israel fled from before the philistines, and fell down slain in mount gilboa. 31:2 and the philistines followed hard upon saul and upon his sons; and the philistines slew jonathan, and abinadab, and melchi-shua, saul s sons. 31:3 and the battle went sore against saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the arche

ments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at [every] moment, and be astonished at thee. 26:17 and they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, how art thou destroyed [that wast] inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror [to be] on all that haunt it! 26:18 now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that [are] in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. 26:19 for thus saith the lord god; when i shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when i shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 26:20 when i shall bring thee down with them that descend into the

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

nd gesture. 3. thurisaz literal meaning: evil giant or devil general sense: malice, wickedness, vengeance, hatred, spitefulness, slanders, underhanded dealings, evil the land of thurisaz is a land of shadows, an infernal realm of darkness in vast caverns beneath the surface. steam and smoke rise from fissures in the rocks. those who dwell in this place live in fear of the monstrous creatures that haunt the fathomless black pools and hidden clefts. the place has a strange greenish glow that emanates from fungus on the walls and rocks, and the inhabitants subsist on fish and on mushroom-like plants that sprout in abundance from the soil on the cavern floors. these dwellers in darkness have white skin, white hair, and large black eyes adapted to see in the dim glow. they are surly and not to

VOX SABBATUM

oncise and clear study from which practice may develop, of the witches sabbat. as an initiatory model, this practice serves to be the most challenging yet most rewarding for those who may be daring and strong enough for the left hand path. as you have seen the sigillic drawing of the sorcerer, who has become both as lucifer and ahriman, surrounded with the crooked dragon leviathan, may that image haunt your dreams, these words carry on nightwings the desire of the sabbat so is will be become! vox sabbatum by michael w. ford 2003 artwork by elda isela ford 2003 other art by various illustrators. cover sabbat, witch offering navel cord and daemon initiator pg. 16 belial from hades, based from medieval painting. pg. 22 lucifer ahriman leviathan, self-transformation michael ford* p.o. box 9263

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott john heydon says that by it we know the bodies of devils and their nature; the jews understand by it lilith, adam s first wife, a she-devil, dangerous to women in confinements; hence they wrote on the walls -adm chvh chvo lilit, that is, adam, eve, out of doors lilith. jesus, in matt. xii. 43, plainly allows the doctrine that evil spirits may haunt fields, which grotius says the jews think; and their word demon and field are similar, being shdim (fields) and shdim (evil deities; the siddim are mentioned in psalm cvi. 37. it is called the number of sins and the penitent, because it exceeds the number of commandments and is less than twelve, which is the number of grace and perfection. but sometimes even eleven receives a favor from god

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

re j. kisiel, 93 99. evanston: northwestern university press, 1970. white, carol j. ontology, the ontological difference, and the unthought. tulane studies in philosophy 32 (1984: 95 102. whitehead, alfred north. concept of nature. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1920. bibliography 303. modes of thought. new york: macmillan, 1938. wigley, mark. the architecture of deconstruction: derrida s haunt. cambridge: mit press, 1993. wijnhoven, jochanan. the mysticism of solomon ibn gabirol. the journal of religion 45 (1965: 137 152. wilensky, sara o. heller. isaac ibn latif philosopher or kabbalist? in jewish medieval and renaissance studies, edited by alexander altmann, 185 223. cambridge: harvard university press, 1967. williams-hogan, jane. emanuel swedenborg and the kabbalistic tradition

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(fulness) will presently be made apparent. the term enfans may refer either to the unchristencd babes above, or to the great multitude pf heathen, who remained shut out of the christian community. it had long been the custom to divide the known world into three parts^ the domina clothed in white reminds one of perahta the bright, the bona domina or bona socia^ of holda the gracious, and herodias haunting the oaks by night of the old german tree-worship. they are originally benignant beings all, whose presence brings prosperity and plenty to mankind; hence to them, as to friendly spirits or gods, meat and drink are set for a sacrifice in the night season. holda, berhta and werra seem to love a particular kind of food, and look for it on their feast-day. 7. hruoda (hrede. ostara (eastre. th

rities; and the third nymph is again the illnatured one, who lessens the boons of the first two. the only difference is, that the norns do not come to the infant, but the father seeks out their dwelling, their temple (see suppl^ the weaving of the norns and the spindle of the fays give us to recognise domestic motherly divinities; and we have already remarked, that their appearing suddenly, their haunting of weus and springs accord with the notions of antiquity about frau holda, berhta and the like goddesses, who devote themselves to spinning, and bestow boons on babes and chiklren^ among celts especially^ they had a temple then, in which their oracle was consiilted. 2 the lettish laima, at the birth of a child, lays the sheet imder it, and determines its fortune. and on other occasions in

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

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hat is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal. perhaps he had opened the door by m

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a moment hurry back, and bring with you that little rushlight we left spluttering on the mantel-shelf of sleep. now all once again vanishes, and from the floor before us jut up into the shadowland of darkness the stern grey walls of rock, the age-worn architraves, the clustered columns, and all the crumbling capitols of art, where the years alone sit shrouded slumbering in their dust and mould- a haunting memory of long-forgotten days. o dreamland of wonder and mystery! like a tongue of gold wrapped in a blue flame do we hover for a moment over the well of life; and then the night-wind rises, and wafts us into the starless depths of the grave. we are like gnats hovering in the sunbeams, and then the evening falls and we are gone: and who can tell whither, and unto what end? whether to the

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nd so convincing in its simplicity and matter-of-factness is mr. harris's style that we often accept his psychology before we realize on how few grounds it is based. some of the aspects of modern democracy are treated with astonishing insight and ability, and 'the bomb' is distinctly not a book to be overlooked. jacob tonson in the "new age:"the illusion of reality is more than staggering; it is haunting many passages are on the very highest level of realistic art lingg's suicide and death are titanic in pure realism nothing better has been done, and i do not forget tolstoy's 'the death of ivan illytch! it is a book very courageous, impulsively generous, and of a shining distinction "saturday review:"he (mr. harris) is a born writer of fiction. those two books of his,'elder conklin' an

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nd so convincing in its simplicity and matter-of-factness is mr. harris's style that we often accept his psychology before we realize. on how few grounds it is based. some of the aspects of modern democracy are treated with astonishing insight and ability, and 'the bomb' is distinctly not a book to be overlooked" jacob tonson in the "new age "the illusion of reality is more than staggering; it is haunting. many passages are on the very highest level of realistic art. lingg's suicide and death are titanic. in pure realism nothing better has been done, and i do not forget tolstoy's 'the death of ivan illytch' it is a book very courageous, impulsively generous, and of a shining distinction "saturday review "he (mr. harris) is a born writer of fiction. those two books of his 'elder conklin' an

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pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god's field we name not this. our lips are sealed in that the universal key lieth within its mystery. but know thou this. these visions give a hint both faint and fugitive yet haunting, that behind them lurks some worker, greater than his works. yea, it is given to him who girds his loins up, is not fooled by words, who takes life lightly in his hand to throw away at will's command, to know that view beyond the veil. o petty purities and pale, these visions i have spoken of! 25 the infinite lord of light and love breaks on the soul like dawn. see! see! great god of migh

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ind the world of appearance and utterly different from it. this reality is regarded with an admiration often amounting to worship; it is felt to be always and everywhere close at hand, thinly veiled by the shows of sense, ready, for the receptive mind, to shine in its glory even through the apparent folly and wickedness of man. the poet, the artist, and the lover are seekers after that glory: the haunting beauty that they pursue is the faint reflection of its sun. but the mystic lives in the full light of the vision: what others dimly seek he knows, with a knowledge beside which all other knowledge is ignorance "the second characteristic of mysticism is its belief in unity, and its refusal to admit opposition or division anywhere "a third mark of almost all mystical metaphysics is the deni

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wever, have little of this. that forward looking anticipatory state of mind is predominantly a human characteristic and is that germ of the imaginative faculty, linked to the mental processes, which will eventually merge into that intuitive meditation, plus visualisation, which is the true basis of all creative work. but at present it is a menace and a hindrance. ancient suffering, dire memories, haunting miseries, deep-seated in the subconscious rise to the surface frequently and cause a condition of fear and of- 174- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust distress which no amount of reasoning seems able to quiet. facilities of communication put even the most unimportant en rapport with the tragedies, pains and sufferings of his brother thousands of miles away. the economic

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ed spiritual activity? but, my brother, as you note these happenings, be not tempted to aid. leave the personalities to their own wise, pure and loving souls. rest back in the simplicity of this thought and for the next few months cease from wrestling and be content with the path that your soul has chosen you should follow. refrain from breathing exercises for they ever give you discomfort, and a haunting sense of failure. each morning for five or ten minutes work with the art of visualisation a creative art. visualise to yourself a garden in disorder that you are restoring to order and beauty. rearrange that garden and fill it with flowers, with the song of birds and with what you have visioned to yourself as the garden of your dreams. see two things happen: there must be restoration of t

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n essay by j. balance (taken from the exhibition catalogue) i saw my first original austin osman spare painting hanging above the seething bookshelves of atlantis, the occult bookshop that i spent my late teens lurking inside. in fact there were several of his paintings and i could not believe my eyes. until then i had only been aware of his name and had been conscious of seeing the recurring and haunting image of pan, which was actually a section of the late pastel called the vampires are coming. this image was widely used in the seventies on several occult type book jackets and was a key figure in the promotion of the eclectic magazine series man, myth and magic. here were a clutch of excitingly vivid and dynamically coloured originals. my mouth went dry, my head reeled and i was shocked

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steries of nature as the ancient aryans did, they would surely never have imagined that the moon was projected from the earth. once more, the oldest of permutations in theogony, the son becoming his own father and the mother generated by the son, has to be remembered and taken into consideration if the symbolical language of the ancients is to be understood by us. otherwise mythology will be ever haunting the orientalists as simply "the disease which springs up at a peculiar stage of human culture- as renouf gravely observes in a hibbert lecture. the ancients taught the, so to speak, auto-generation of the gods: the one divine essence, unmanifested, perpetually begetting a second-self, manifested, which second-self, androgynous in its nature, gives birth in an immaculate way to everything

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coherent cosmogony. the unfortunate lanoo is in the position of a sea-captain who is furnished with the most elaborate and detailed sailing-instructions, but is not allowed to have the slightest idea of what port he is to make, still less given a chart of the ocean. one finds oneself accordingly in a sort of .childe roland to the dark tower came. atmosphere. that poem of browning owes much of its haunting charm to this very circumstance, that the reader is never told who childe roland is, or why he wants to get to the dark tower, or what he expects to find when he does get there. there is a skilfully constructed atmosphere of giants, and ogres, and hunchbacks, and the rest of the apparatus of fairy-tales; but there is no trace of the influence of b deker in the style. now this is really ve

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" is complication, the means of a means. call this will free or not-beyond will and belief is self-love. i know of no better name. it is free to believe what it desires. you are free to believe in nothing related to belief. the "truth" is not difficult to understand! the truth has no will-will has no truth! truth is "will" never believed-it has no truth "could be"-is the immediate certainty! this haunting sphinx teaches us the value of the "will to anything? then there is no graver risk than absolute knowledge-if little is dangerous-what about omniscience? the almighty power has no accessories! science is the accursed doubt of the possible, yea, of what does exist! you cannot conceive an impossibility, nothing is impossible, you are the impossible! doubt is delay-time-but how it punishes!

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a very different matter, and we shall do well to reserve the term for those cases wherein the attack is deliberate, applying the term parasitism to the cases wherein it is unconscious and involuntary. in my opinion, true vampirism cannot take place unless there is power to project the etheric double. all the records of vampirism that we have give an account of something much more tangible than a haunting. in western europe the occurrence seems to be comparatively rare in modern times, but in eastern europe and in primitive countries it appears to be by no means uncommon, and innumerable well-authenticated cases occur in books of travel. commander gould, in his exceedingly interesting book, oddities, gives an account of vampirism among the berberlangs of the philippine islands. his account

r that come between the incisors and the double teeth, were half as long again as the others, and terminated in points of needle-like sharpness. true vampirism in western europe appears to be rare, but z. was of the opinion that many obscure cases of tropical debility in which anemia played a prominent part, might be attributed to this cause. 28 of 103 chapter vi hauntings there are two forms of "haunting" which have to be considered, the one which is due to a discarnate soul who interferes with a particular person, and the one which is due to the conditions prevailing in a particular place, and which affects any person sufficiently sensitive who happens to go there. except in cases where the influence is exceptionally strong, the insensitive person is immune. to perceive a "haunting" one

. the case was entirely cleared up in one week by means of telepathic treatment. the notes on the manner in which the work was done are of considerable interest "the treatment was given to the entity that was causing the trouble, not merely to the patient, and it was the release of the obsessor from his plane of work and helping him heavenward that gave freedom to his victim" in the other type of haunting, that in which it is the place which is the focus of manifestation, not a special person, we must distinguish between the earth-bound entity which remains attached to a particular spot, and the thoughtatmosphere which is left behind after violent emotions have been experienced there. let us consider first the question of thought-atmosphere, of which i can give a very illuminating example

ify, for i have slept, or rather, tried to sleep, there. where a ghost is seen, it is usually also heard because for a form to be sufficiently substantial to be visible there must be a modicum at least of ectoplasm in its composition, and ectoplasm is capable of exercising force on the physical plane, in some degree at least. where a ghost is both seen and heard, we may be sure there is an actual haunting. where it is seen, but not heard, it may possibly be that a person with psychic tendencies is perceiving the images in the reflecting ether, the photographic plate of nature, and there may be no actual entity present. where the disturbance is heard, but not seen, it may be due to astral forces set in motion by ritual magic, and which continue for a while after the original impulse is with

e perfectly harmless, save that they disturb the sleep in the same way that a rattling window would do. on the other hand, if powerful evocative rituals have been performed, and the clearing of the sphere has not been properly done, profound disturbances may result and the whole situation be exceedingly unpleasant. examples will again help to make the problem clear. as an instance of a non-ritual haunting, i may cite the case of a friend of mine who went to live in a block of modern mansions. from the first she was not happy there, and as time went by the oppression and distress strengthened. coming into her drawing-room one evening at dusk, she saw in the half-light a man standing with his back to the room, gazing intently out of the window. she switched on the light, and found that there

te act were photographed on the atmosphere, as it were, and suggested to her mind thoughts of self-destruction just as the ill-temper or depression of a companion will induce a similar mood in ourselves without any word spoken. another example within the sphere of my experience, although it was not actually my case, is of much interest in that it combines an example of a very definite poltergeist haunting with vampirism. 31 of 103 i was once consulted by a mental healer to whom a very curious case had been brought. some charitably disposed people had raised funds to found a home for unwanted babies, and a suitable house had been purchased on the outskirts of a village not far from london. the house had been a conspicuous bargain and they were very pleased with it. soon, however, they began

se of a laboratory into which no one was ever allowed to go, and in which he worked by night. it is interesting to note that neither the mental healer or myself ever visited the house or were within twenty miles of it; for it shows in what way these unseen forces can be manipulated from a distance. a final example, taken from the confessions of aleister crowley, will serve to show the nature of a haunting produced by ceremonial magic in which the forces invoked are not adequately dispersed "the demons connected with abramelin do not wait to be invoked, they come unsought. one night jones and i went 32 of 103 out to dinner. i noticed on leaving the white temple that the latch of its yale lock had not caught. accordingly i pulled the door to, and tested it. as we went out, we noticed semi-so

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iterary style of the books with her style after lavey s death lends credibility to barton as the original author, albeit strongly inspired by lavey. figure 1. a sample church of satan membership card with the follower s name and signature removed. apparently the number 100261 is printed on all membership cards issued today. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 2 of 30 orful and haunting picture of a person qualified as no less than the devil s right hand man. the strong publicity that the church of satan and its founder have received is itself no indication that the church of satan represents satanism beyond its own claim to the title as the devil s henchmen, however. it can be argued that because in certain aspects of its literature the church of satan references christ

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he future in dreams. drunk in a potion, it was thought to expel poison and render the barren fruitful. in ancient times it was frequently engraved with the head of bacchus and was a favorite with roman women. amiante a species of fireproof stone, which pliny and the ancient demonologists recommended as excellent against the charms of magic. the amityville horror a well-publicized case of a modern haunting that turned out to be an elaborate hoax. on november 13, 1974, a large colonial house at 112 ocean ave, amityville, long island, new york, was the scene of a mass murder. twenty-four-year old ronald defeo shot his parents, two brothers, and two sisters with a high-powered rifle. at his trial, defeo claimed that he had been obsessed by voices who told him to kill, and his attorney entered

a bestseller, with paperback editions in the u.s. and britain, and was turned into a highly successful movie with six sequels. it now appears that the lutzes abandoned the house, not because of any hauntings, but because they realized that they had gotten in over their heads financially. they abandoned their furniture when they left because it was so worn it was not worth moving. the idea of the haunting seems to have come from defeo s attorney s attempt to have defeo s conviction overturned. when insanity proved unacceptable, he tried to blame the murders on the voices. when anson began his book on the story, he was not allowed into the house and he never interviewed the lutzes. he had only several tapes they had made from which to work. he seems to have borrowed heavily from his own scr

, new york: samuel r. wells, 1879. dupoteat, jules. magnetism and magic. new york: f. stokes, n.d. gregory, william. animal magnetism or mesmerism and its phenomena. london, 1909. townshend, chauncy hare. facts in mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it. london, 1844. animals animals are believed to exhibit psychic faculties similar to human beings. in her account of a case of haunting in proceedings of the society for psychical research, vol. 8, r. c. morton mentions two dogs who saw a ghost. the medium mrs. j. h. conant believed that her pet dog and cat saw the spirits she described clairvoyantly. the dog barked and snarled; the cat arched its back, spat, and ran to hide. sir william barrett recorded the case of the montgomery sisters who saw a ghost floating across t

ystematic psychological investigation of locations at which apparitions occurred. in one experiment by michaeleen maher and gertrude schmeidler, different psychics have been taken to the location by an individual without knowledge of the claimed phenomena and therefore unable to color any impressions received. the accounts of the different psychics were collated and a total picture of the claimed haunting built up. theoretical models for apparitional experience remain somewhat speculative since early investigators like frank podmore claimed that apparitions resulted from a telepathic impression conveyed from the mind of one living person to that of another. more recently, british psychical researcher g. n. m. tyrrell, in his monumental survey of apparitions, suggested that the sensory appa

ien. london, 1882. crosland, newton. apparitions. london, 1873. crowe, catherine. ghosts and family legends. london, 1859. the night side of nature. 1848. reprint, philadelphia: r. west, 1978 [defoe, daniel. an essay on the history& reality of apparitions. london, 1727. dingwall, eric j, and trevor h. hall. four modern ghosts. london, 1958. dingwall, eric j, k. m. goldney, and trevor h. hall. the haunting of borley rectory. london: duckworth, 1955. flammarion, camille. death& its mystery. 3 vols. new york: century, 1921.23. haunted houses. paris, 1924. reprint, new york: appleton, 1924. reprint, detroit: gale research, 1971. garland, hamlin. the shadow world. new york, 1908. gurney, edmund, f. w. h. myers, and frank podmore. phantasms of the living. london: trubner, 1886. abridged ed. new

the hymn of praise to me will not be afflicted by disease, and he will find favor in the eyes of the king and his nobles. ghosts among the spirits who were the enemies of humans the ghosts of the dead were most dangerous, especially the ghosts of those who had not been properly buried. these homeless spirits.the grave was the home of the dead.wandered the streets searching for food and drink, or haunting houses. they often injured humans seriously. the ghosts had a scary appearance. when they appeared before children, they frightened them to death. they delayed travelers and mocked those who were in sorrow. the screechowl was a mother who had died giving birth, and wailed her grief nightly in solitary places. occasionally she appeared in some terrible form and killed travellers. adam s fi

loyers engage them in hiring staff. in crime detection the police use the services of payyindas, or foot trackers, who can assess the characteristics of a wanted man from his footprints. sources: fahl, toufic. la divination arabe. paris: sinbad, 1987. cashen s gap an isolated place on the isle of man, united kingdom, known in the manx dialect as doarlish cashen, that was the scene of a celebrated haunting by a talking mongoose named gef. according to the irving family, who lived at cashen s gap, this creature ate rabbits, spoke in various languages, learned nursery rhymes, and imitated other animals and birds. the case was investigated personally by harry price in company with r. s. lambert (then editor of the radio magazine the listener, but the animal refused to manifest until after they

phenomenon, but the evidence to support it proved strong. fodor did not accept a poltergeist explanation and suggested half seriously that gef may have been a mongoose that had learned to talk. many years later, after the whole affair had died down, a strange unidentified animal was killed in the district. some suggested that it might have been gef. sources: price, harry h, and r. s. lambert. the haunting of cashen s gap. london, 1936. cassadaga cassadaga, a spiritualist camp in central florida near deland, was founded in 1895, but grew out of a message given from the spirit world to a young minnesota medium, george colby (1848.1833, in 1868. he was told that he would be the instrument for the founding of a large spiritualist camp in the southern united states. in 1875, directed by his spi

n juan papers: further castaneda controversies. santa barbara, ca: ross-erickson, 1980. reprint, belmont, calif: wadsworth, 1990. seeing casteneda: reaction to the don juan writings of carlos castaneda. new york: g. p. putnam& sons, 1976. silverman, david. reading castaneda: a prologue to the social sciences. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1975. castel-a-mare castel-a-mare, scene of a spectacular haunting in the early twentieth century, was a three-story residence located in rural devon, near torkay, england. suspecting a haunting situation, in 1917 the owner cooperated with a group of spiritualists in an investigation of the house. a female medium was engaged and violet tweedale (1862.1936, a spiritualist writer, included in the investigation party. the account left by tweedale provides t

tury, was a three-story residence located in rural devon, near torkay, england. suspecting a haunting situation, in 1917 the owner cooperated with a group of spiritualists in an investigation of the house. a female medium was engaged and violet tweedale (1862.1936, a spiritualist writer, included in the investigation party. the account left by tweedale provides the primary surviving record of the haunting. the investigation occurred during two sessions with the medium who entered a trance state and was seemingly possessed by the entities who were haunting the building. in the first session, a violent male entity seemed to be the person manifesting through the medium. he delivered a series of expletives and attacked one of the party, drawing blood. however, little information was received

ad master and then being killed herself. following the session, tweedale checked the name of the master with local records but found no record of any murders. it was speculated that possibly the doctor murderer had written the death certificate and had listed the death as natural. he could have said that the maid had merely moved on. if such is the case, however, it does not explain the continued haunting by the murderer s spirit. in 1920, castel-a-mare was dismantled and the land turned into a garden. sources: chard, judy. devon mysteries. bodmin: bossiney books, 1979. tweedale, violet. ghosts i have seen. london: herbert jenkins, n.d. castelvitch, countess (ca. 1920) early twentieth-century private medium of lisbon, portugal, whose powers of physical phenomena were carefully observed by

s first published in the gentleman s magazine for 1763. sources: grant, douglas. the cock lane ghost. new york: macmillan; st. martin s press, 1965. mackay, charles. memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. london: richard bentley, 1841. reprinted as extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. wells, vt: fraser publishing, 1963. wilson, colin. poltergeist: a study in destructive haunting. new york: putnam, 1981. coffin nails in devonshire, england, superstition had it that a ring made from three nails or screws that have been used to fasten a coffin that was dug up in a churchyard would act as a charm against convulsions and fits of every kind. cog see covenant of the goddess cogni, giulio (1908) author, poet, and teacher of aesthetics and the psychology of music. cogni w

oss and other colleagues, woman: an historical, gynecological and anthropological compendium (1935. during world war ii he worked at the ministry of information and british foreign office (1941.45, and resumed his writing after the war. dingwall s numerous titles include racial pride and prejudice (1946; some human oddities (1947; very peculiar people (1950; with k. m. goldney and t. h. hall, the haunting of borley rectory (1956; with j. langdon-davies, the unknown: is it nearer; the american woman (1956; and, with t. h. hall, four modern ghosts (1958. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. dingwall, e(ric) j(ohn) 417 during the 1960s dingwall coedited the four-volume set abnormal hypnotic phenomena (1967.68. he died at st. leonardson- sea, east sussex, england, on august 7, 19

im for some wickedness or impiety. as a result, he was continually exposed to censure and harassed by the curious people who gathered around the house. the essayist joseph addison (1672.1719) wrote a comedy on the affair, the drummer, or the haunted house, first performed at drury lane theater on april 14, 1713 (see also cock lane ghost) sources: wilson, colin. poltergeist: a study in destructive haunting. new york: perigree books, 1981. dual personality what is popularly termed dual, split, or multiple personality is one form of what psychologists call disassociation. two or more mental process in the individual can be said to be disassociated if they either coexist or alternate without apparently influencing one another or becoming connected. in the nineteenth century, disassociation des

te human skeleton was found. it was thought that the murderer first buried the body in the middle of the cellar, then became alarmed, dug it up, and buried it in the space between the two walls. as the murder victim s spirit continued to communicate with the foxes in 1848, mrs. fox s hair turned white as a result of the disturbances in the house. the phenomena soon assumed the character of formal haunting. the sound of a death strug- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. fox sisters, kate [catharine] 589 gle, the gurgling of a throat, and the heavy dragging of a body across the room was heard night after night. finally the family could not stand it any longer and moved out. but the raps continued in the house even after they left, and one night more than 300 people conversed w

a, and that it would be absurd to attempt to invalidate his work with daniel dunglas home, for example, on the grounds that he was sexually involved with him. yet the question remains: if cook was a fraud, why was crookes so completely taken in? after the death of veteran psychical researcher harry price, other researchers declared that price had been guilty of deception in the famous case of the haunting of borley rectory, and that doubt must therefore be cast upon his other investigations. in his biography the search for harry price (1978, author trevor h. hall (who also made the substantive charges against crookes, even questions price s personal integrity. hall seems to go beyond the evidence of price s shortcomings as a researcher in extending his critique to price s basic honesty. th

of psychical research and parapsychology. goldney joined the society for psychical research in 1927 and became a council member in 1943. she served as organizing secretary from 1949 to 1957. through the 1950s and 1960s goldney worked on a number of notable research projects. she assisted s. g. soal in his pioneer investigations into esp with basil shackleton, and also investigated the celebrated haunting of borley rectory with harry price. she then collaborated with eric j. dingwall and trevor hall on their book the haunting of borley rectory (1956, which raised doubts about the part played by price. goldney also discussed the evidence for charges that sir william crookes was misled or falsified his investigations into the mediumship of florence cook. sources: medhurst, r. g, and k. m. go

nd 1920 she was assistant to her husband, who was then district commander under the allied high commissioner in armenia. in addition to her collaboration with stead on borderland, goodrich-freer wrote a variety of articles for different journals in folklore and in psychical research, most of which appeared under the pseudonym miss x. in 1897 goodrich-freer became involved in an investigation of a haunting at bellechin. the affair turned into a fiasco, and she and myers had a heated quarrel that led to a permanent break in relations. the period proved critical for her, since her employment with stead at borderland ended and three years later her patron, lord bute, died. in 1901 she left england for palestine and eventually settled in the united states. she dropped out of psychical research

fraud in her sittings. sources: campbell, john l, and trevor h. hall. strange things. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1968. goodrich-freer, ada. arabs in tent and town. london: seeley, service& co. int, 1924. essays in psychical research. 2nd ed, london: g. redway, 1899. inner jerusalem. new york: e. p. dutton, 1904. outer isles. london: a. constable, 1902, and john, marquess of bute. the alleged haunting of b. house. london: g. redway, 1899. gopi krishna, pandit (1903.1984) a modern hindu teacher who focused attention on the kundalini, the latent force in the human organism said to be responsible for sexual activity and (in a sublimated form) higher consciousness or mystical experience. in hindu mythology kundalini is personified as a goddess with creative and destructive aspects and serp

es, 1978. the spiritualists. 1962. reprinted as the medium and the scientist. buffalo, ny: prometheus books, 1984. the strange case of edmund gurney. london: duckworth, 1964. hall, trevor h, and j. l. campbell. strange things. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1968. hall, trevor h, and e. j. dingwall. four modern ghosts. london: duckworth, 1958. hall, trevor h, e. j. dingwall, and k. m. goldney. the haunting of borley rectory. london: duckworth, 1956. medhurst, r. g, and k. m. goldney. william crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship. proceedings of the society for psychical research 54, no. 195 (march 1964. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. hallowed grounds fellowship of spiritual healing and prayer the now-defunct hallowed

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every saturday. hans christian andersen s sad story the little mermaid echoes folk tales in its theme of a mermaid who falls in love with a prince in a passing ship; the mermaid takes on human form in order to gain a human soul and be close to the prince, but although constantly near him, she cannot speak. when the prince marries a human princess, the mermaid s heart is broken. there is a similar haunting pathos in matthew arnold s poem the forsaken merman. in curious myths of the middle ages (1884) folklorist s. baring- gould suggests that mermaid and merman stories 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

quarterly magazine mind science journal, which included a calendar of holy days, events, and contacts. last known address: p.o. box 1302, mill valley, ca 94941. mines, haunted the belief that mines are haunted is an ancient and universal one, probably arising from the many eerie sounds and echoes that are heard in them and the perpetual gloom, which stimulates belief in apparitions. sometimes the haunting specters are gigantic creatures with frightful fiery eyes. such was the german bergmonch, a terrible figure in the garb of a monk, who could, however, appear in ordinary human shape to those towards whom he was well-disposed. frequently weird knockings were heard in mines. in germany these were attributed to the kobolds, small black beings of a malicious disposition. white hares or rabbit

named philip and who then began to manifest physical phenomena. the result destroyed the spirit hypothesis by demonstrating that spirits were unnecessary in the production of phenomena.it could be produced by the sitters. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. owen, iris m, and p. mitchell. the alleged haunting of borley rectory. journal of the society for psychical research 50 (1979. owen, iris m, and margaret sparrow. conjuring up philip; an adventure in psychokinesis. new york: harper and row, 1976. owen, robert (1771.1858) british socialist and humanitarian. owen was born may 14, 1771, at newtown, montgomeryshire. he was successful in the cotton mill industry and, in 1800, established a utop

cordingly, by a disposing affinity, they resumed their proper position, either in the stalk, the leaves, or the flowers. the next object of these philosophers was to apply their doctrine to explain the popular belief in ghosts. as the experimenters claimed the substantial form of each body resided in a sort of volatile salt, it was believed that superstitious notions must have arisen about ghosts haunting churchyards. when a dead body had been committed to the earth, the salts were exhaled during the heating process of fermentation. each saline particle then resumed the same relative situation it had held in the living body, and thus a complete human form was induced. palingenesy was similar to the early claims of lucretius involving a chemical explanation of the discovery of filmy substan

sp. pulegii. everything that it touched was impregnated for 24 hours. the dining-room cloth and my own nether habiliments had to be exposed to view in the back garden; and on the following morning our dining-room floor and passage had to be freely fumigated with pastilles. that spirit has not been invited to join us again. the experience suggests that the stench observed in some curious cases of haunting have a similar cause. dr. justinus kerner recorded the case of frau eslinger who, in 1835, in the prison of weinberg, was visited and talked to by a ghost that emitted an intolerable stench, felt by many others, as well. the sickening stench of a charnel house was reported in a house near london (daily chronicle, april 15, 1908. on examination it was revealed that a body had been left unb

ntific books, 1974. reprint, metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1975. britten, emma hardinge. nineteenth century miracles. n.p, 1883. carrington, hereward, and nandor fodor. haunted people; story of the poltergeist down the centuries. new york: e. p. dutton, 1951. reprinted as the story of the poltergeist down the centuries. london: rider, 1953. dingwall, e. j, k. m. goldney, and trevor h. hall. the haunting of borley rectory. london: duckworth, 1955. fodor, nandor. on the trail of the poltergeist. new york: citadel, 1958. reprint, london: arco publications, 1959. gauld, alan, and a. d. cornell. poltergeists. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1979. lang, andrew. cock lane and common-sense. london: longmans green, 1896. owen, a. r. g. can we explain the poltergeist? new york: helix press, 1964. p

the borley rectory phenomena. one of those, trevor hall, went on to write a biography of price critical of every aspect of his activities. hall presented him as a pretender, fraud, and dishonest investigator. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. dingwall, e. j, k. m. goldney, and trevor h. hall. the haunting of borley rectory; a critical survey of the evidence. proceedings of the society for psychical research 51 (1956. hall, trevor h. search for harry price. london; duckworth, tex: southwest book services, 1978. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. price, harry. confessions of a ghost-hunter. london: putnam, 1936. reprint, new york: c

l problems raised by parapsychology. he lectured on some philosophical implications of paranormal cognition at the international conference on philosophy and parapsychology, st. paul de vence, france, in 1954. he died in oxford, england, november 26, 1984, at the age of 85. sources: price, henry h. belief. gifford lectures, 1969. essays in the philosophy of religion. oxford: claredon press, 1972. haunting and the psychic ether hypothesis proceedings of the society for psychical research (vol. 45, 1939. hume s theory of the external world. oxford: claredon press, 1940. reprint, greenwood press, 1981. perception (1932; 1973. psychical research and human personality. hibbert journal (january 1949. some philosophical questions about telepathy and clairvoyance. philosophy (october 1940. reprint

nd college teacher interested in the question of survival of death. the foundation was created to investigate phenomena relating to the survival of human personality after death. the foundation serves as a scientific and educational research center to investigate the possibilities of continuation of consciousness after death of the physical body. its research program includes study of sensitives, haunting and poltergeist phenomena, as well as out-of-the-body travel. in 1960, william g. roll became project director and is now president. under roll s leadership the foundation has established an outstanding record of parapsychological research on meditation, haunts, poltergeists, out-of-the-body experiences, and mediumship. roll can be reached at isleway house, fairfield plantation, villa ric

in resurrection in a christian sense. retrocognition term used in psychical research and parapsychology to indicate a form of extrasensory perception in which the subject obtains knowledge of some event in the past by paranormal cognition. this amounts to a kind of backward precognition. f. w. h. myers combined retrocognition with his theory of psychorrhagic diathesis to explain the phenomena of haunting. it was also suggested that apparitions of the dead and visions of the future, owing to a curious inversion of time, may be amenable to retrocognition. retropsychokinesis retropsychokinesis (rpk) refers to the possibility of someone in the present affecting an event that occurred in the past. the study of possible rpk events grew out of the studies on psychokinesis (mind over matter) cond

ligion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. he authored a number of books and professional papers. as a prominent modern american philosopher, royce investigated the problem of the individual self as part of the world mind. in part due to his friendship with william james, he became a founding member of the aspr in 1884 and served as chairman and vice president of the committee on apparitions and haunting houses. the committee s name was changed later to committee on phantasms and presentiments; it classified cases sent in from individuals all over the united states and published his report in the first volume of the proceedings of the aspr. royce died september 14, 1916, at cambridge, massachusetts. sources: royce, josiah. report of the committee on phantasm and presentiments. proceedings

congress. however, malcolm bird in psychic research (july 1930) accused schrenk-notzing of extraordinary improprieties in the way of suppressing unfavorable evidence, and cited as one instance that schrenk-notzing had completely concealed at the paris congress that karl weber was identical to the notorious karl kraus. in his last years, schrenck-notzing devoted much attention to the phenomena of haunting. he left behind a posthumous book, gefalschte wunder: kraus-laszlo-schlag, in manuscript. in 1929, his widow published his collected articles; gesammelte aufsatze zur parapsichologie devoted 47 pages to intellectual and more than 300 to experimental physical phenomena. another posthumous volume (die phenomene des mediums rudi schneider) was published in december 1932. as rene sudre pointe

eap right over the roofs of large houses, the cottages and hayricks were as nothing to him, the mail coaches and post chaises and family barouches were taken in his stride. then, rather unaccountably, public opinion veered from thinking him a new form of highwayman and declared he was an inventor experimenting with a form of flying machine, while others maintained he was not flesh and blood but a haunting spirit. after the death of the marquis of waterford, reports of springheeled jack continued, generated either through legend or a succession of imitators, which led to him being the central character of plays, penny-dreadful comic books, and popular thrillers. as late as 1945, a british movie was made about springheeled jack titled the curse of the wraydons, starring actor tod slaughter

th a glare from an illuminated halo, could result in optical illusions. however, the essential and more elusive aspect of the phenomenon was the religious fervor associated with it, and the feelings of spiritual grace experienced by many individuals. staus poltergeist between 1860.62, the village of staus, on the shores of lake lucerne, switzerland, was the scene of a reported case of poltergeist haunting. the outbreak occurred in the house of m. joller, a lawyer and a member of the swiss national council. the household comprised joller, his wife, seven children (four boys and three girls, and a maid. one night in the autumn of 1860, the maid was disturbed by a loud rapping on her bed frame that she regarded as an omen of death. joller ascribed the sounds to the girl s imagination and forb

rubner& co, 1891. talking mongoose a celebrated paranormal phenomenon from cashen s gap on the isle of man, united kingdom. it was investigated by psychical researchers harry price and r. s. lambert in the 1930s. named gef, the mongoose manifested to the irving family, and there is some doubt whether it was a real creature or a poltergeist phenomenon. sources: price, harry, and r. s. lambert. the haunting of cashen s gap. london, 1936. tallmadge, nathaniel pitcher (1795.1864) united states senator from 1833.34, governor of wisconsin from 1844.46, and one of the early converts to spiritualism. his experiences with the fox sisters, recounted in a letter to a friend under the date april 12, 1853, were published in most of the newspapers of the time. he stated that he had received messages in

on occultism and psychical investigation. he has also written on the cinema. he is a member of the society encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. underwood, peter 1603 for psychical research, the vice president of the unitarian society for psychical studies, and a former member of the research committee of the psychic research organization. underwood took part in investigations into a haunting, conducted worldwide tests in telepathy and esp, and has compiled comprehensive files of hauntings in the british isles. he has been president and chairman of the ghost club for many years. he has written a number of books, has lectured extensively on psychic matters, and made several hundred television appearances and radio broadcasts. his interests have reached far beyond ghosts and hau

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no other theory. since that time i have seen very little of physical manifesta255 tions, of the knocking, moving of furniture, and levitation nature. once seen they become wearisome by repetition. but the memory of that face seen in the old disused chapel in bloomsbury, and the suggestion of a thought-form made visible and tangible to a person with noclaimto abnormal sensitiveness, remained as a haunting problem, as also did the whole question of messages alleged to have come from the dead. my experiences with professional mediums have been very disappointing in one way, though extremely interesting in another. trance mediums have given me messages from friends who have passed over, couched in familiar phrases, in the very tone and manner of the person they were supposed tosome psychic me

secrecy i was shown the witch's cottage, and made her acquiantance. however, when after some little conversation on things in general i asked her if she would 'spae' my fortune, either by my hand, or the cards, or in any other way, she stoutly denied having any power in that way, and it looked as though we had come to a deadlock, till fortunately i remembered a few words of romani, picked up when haunting round the gipsy tents at norwood and epping forest years before. these worked the spell, for my witch had a good deal of gipsy blood mixed with a dash of tinker, and she burst into a stream of voluble romani, most of which was wholly unintelligible to me, though i tried to look as if i were taking it all in, and in theendshe laid down the cards, and looked in my hand, made various conjura

ant remorse.thatis a similar phenomenon to the seeing of a complementary colour when you have looked long upon a bright colour. lookforalong time at a red disc, and after a bit you will see a green one floating before you. so with a prominent action, an evil action, first will come the tendency to repeat it; as that wearsout,and a negative state .of that picture supervenes, will come the constant haunting remembrance of that evil action, not.nowstriving to repeat/it,butexacting remorselessly the penalty for! such action.thusit is thatwehuman beings are constantly forming the prana,theocean of the tatwas of this earth; and every action that we do not only tends to reproduce the same action in ourselves,butin lesser degree to reproducethesame action in others. therefore tothatextent. isone o

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to curses- which can bring about disease and death. psychic atmospheres psychic atmospheres come in two forms. the first is the classic haunted house or location. when you enter these locations or environments you are linked to them. usually this attack is impersonal, that is to say, you have no personal connection to the situation, but this is not always the case. while this category borders on haunting and is not always considered a psychic attack, if you are living in a haunted house and find it is becoming a nuisance then this may be the explanation. the second is what can be best described as systematic attack, to fully appreciate this we need to consider it in some detail. living in a world possessed! i have deliberately chosen an extravagant paragraph heading, as it is important to

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ncarnate, luciferian brillance and darkness. now you may arise from the demonium of the earth to take flight with the wings of the bat or owl. rise up into the stormy and cloudy night sky, and fly forth to the sabbat fires in the ghost roads of hecate. as you fly you approach a great shadow which is enflamed in front of you. this shape is hellish and demonic in every way. its essence is black and haunting, but as you greet this form it will take shape. the face is that of the horned devil, the almost human visage which is scaled and speaks a deep and hidden ancient language with a forked tongue, his eyes are yellow and crimson, and you feel close to this being. the body is blackened shadow with talons holding a forked stave, which is the same as the luciferic angel you embraced previously

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level on to tropical plains overgrown with lush plantations of palms and bananas. we were heading into the heartlands of mexico s oldest and most mysterious civilization: that of the so-called olmecs, whose name meant rubber people. dating back to the second millennium bc, the olmecs had ceased to exist fifteen hundred years before the rise of the aztec empire. the aztecs, however, had preserved haunting traditions concerning them and were even responsible for naming them after the rubber-producing area of mexico s gulf coast where they were believed to have lived.1 this area lies between modern veracruz in the west and ciudad del carmen in the east. in it the aztecs found a number of ancient ritual objects produced by the olmecs and for reasons unknown they collected these objects and pl

sculptures, the inexplicably precise and accurate calendar the mayans inherited from their predecessors, the inscrutable geoglyphs of nazca, the mysterious andean city of tiahuanaco. and so many other marvels of which we do not know the provenance. it is almost as though we have awakened into the daylight of history from a long and troubled sleep, and yet continue to be disturbed by the faint but haunting echoes of our dreams. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 183 part iv the mystery of the myths 1. a species with amnesia graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 184 chapter 24 echoes of our dreams in some of the most powerful and enduring myths that we have inherited from ancient times, our species seems to have retained a confused but resonant memory of a terrifying global catastroph

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

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e shaver mystery. in the early years his editor and literary champion was ray palmer, an eccentric science fiction publisher who possessed a hidden fact that we ve already discussed (keep in mind, too, that it was ray palmer and ken arnold who investigated and publicized the first men in black case, at the end of the shaver mystery era) palmer converted shaver s untutored erratic manuscripts into haunting and unforgettable stories of ancient space-faring races who first settled the earth aeons ago, turning the entire planet inside and out into a technological marvel. pal- mer brought out the great potential of shaver s intense and striking imagery the stuff that makes true mythology. the shaverian mythos had it that our sun developed a form of detrimental radiation which horrified the elde

intot. he concealed information in at least three ciphers, one of which was openly revealed, another revealed in the decoded material from that cipher, and a third which was not easy to come by, without the information that speth made available in the ars quatuor coronati periodical. though the encrypted material is rather tame once deciphered, the engravings are captivating, and, in fact, rather haunting at times. a curious masonic engraving, published by this reporter on 01 may 2000 c.e, is one such attempt at bringing this material to our online readership. also, in passing: the paintings of nicolas poussin, who has caught the attention of many people since the franchise cottage industry of holy blood, holy grail came into being in 1982. upon studying his paintings, i found them to be a

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to divide the treasure, a thing they could not manage themselves; and neither could he (94, 5. the hoard is carried' uz eime holn berge' apparently it belonged to dwarfs, so that schilbunc and niblunc were of the elf kindred. thus in both lays the hoard originates with dwarfs, and in the bdda with dwarf andvari; as elvish beings they are by nature collectors and keepers of subterranean treasure, haunting the mountains as they do (pp. 448. 452, and they delude (pp. 464. 915) like spectres. then the wishiug-hat is brought to mind by the cover-capes and mist-mantles of dwarfs (p. 915; the dwarf race, like the dragons^ cherishes and guards treasures, 1 the seifriedsburg in the rhon mts (weisth. 3, 535) is another place about which the hero-legend is told among the common people (moue's anz. 4

s will one day be anti' pluqnefs coutes populaircs de bayeux. koucn 1834 p. 21. enchanted castle. sunken hoard. 981 christ's, whose coming we have already seen mixing itself up in many ways with the fable of the furious host and mountainprisoned heroes. the legends largely run over into each other: wlat is told of the doings of elves and dwarfs in mountain-clefts is also related of noisy spi-ites haunting deserted houses (p. 514. in one enchanted castle a maiden with her treasures waits deliverance (kinderm. no. 4, another is possessed with devils (ib. no. 81. and here again comes up the feature, that the spirit unblest carries his head under his arm (ib. 3, 15) like the leader of the furious host, and that he gets his beard shaved by the stranger who is to take off the ban (ib. 3, 9. mone

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ner named or called, than he comes* hie ndhet der tot manigem manne/ roth. 277b. daz in ndhet der tot/ nib. 2106, 4. do ndhte im der tot 2002, 3. mors praesens, walthar. 191. der tot get dir vaste zuo/ karl 69b. he lurks in the background as it were, waiting for call or beck (freidank 177, 17. dem tode winken/ beckon to d, renn. 9540. like fate, like wurt, he is nigh and at hand (p. 406. like the haunting homesprite or will o wisp, he rides on people s necks: der tot mir sitzet uf dem kragen, 1 kolocz. 174. stet vor der tur, diut. 2, 153. a story in reusch (no. 36) makes death sit outside the door, waiting for it to open; he therefore catches the soul as it goes out. luckless life-weary men call him to their side, complain of his delay: tot, nu nim din teil an mir! now take thy share of me

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ony of the soul, there lies a transformed man.through the physical agony of the frame, there flutters in it a fully awakened soul. the veil of illusion hasfallen off from the cold idols of the world, and the vanities and emptiness of fame and wealth stand bare,often hideous, before its eyes. the thoughts of the soul fall like dark shadows on the cogitative faculties ofthe fast disorganizing body, haunting the thinker daily, nightly, hourly. the sight of his snorting steed pleases him no longer. the recollections of guns and banners wrested from theenemy; of cities razed, of trenches, cannons and tents, of an array of conquered spoils now stirs but little hisnational pride. such thoughts move him no more, and ambition has become powerless to awaken in hisaching heart the haughty recognition

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salem to consult certain records at the essex institute. about the middle of january, 1920, there entered ward's bearing an element of triumph which he did not explain, and he was no more found at work upon the hutchinson cipher. instead, he inaugurated a dual policy of chemical research and record-scanning; fitting up for the one a laboratory in the unused attic of the house, and for the latter haunting all the sources of vital statistics in providence. local dealers in drugs and scientific supplies, later questioned, gave astonishingly queer and meaningless catalogues of the substances and instruments he purchased; but clerks at the state house, the city hall, and the various libraries agree as to the definite object of his second interest. he was searching intensely and feverishly for

the formulae it pronounced, which could not by chill the blood of every hearer. it was noticed that nig, the venerable and beloved black cat of the household, bristled and arched his back perceptibly when certain of the tones were heard. the odours occasionally wafted from the laboratory were likewise exceedingly strange. sometimes they were very noxious, but more often they were aromatic, with a haunting, elusive quality which seemed to have the power of inducing fantastic images. people who smelled them had a tendency to glimpse momentary mirages of enormous vistas, with strange hills or endless avenues of sphinxes and hippogriffs stretching off into infinite distance. ward did not resume his old-time rambles, but applied himself diligently to the strange books he had brought home, and t

orrible matter. the formulae were as follows- exactly so, as willett is abundantly able to testify- and the first one struck an odd note of uncomfortable latent memory in his brain, which he recognised later when reviewing the events of that horrible good friday of the previous year. y'ai 'ng'ngah, yog-sothoth h'ee-l'geb f'ai throdog uaaah ogthrod ai'f geb'l-ee'h yog-sothoth 'ngah'ng ai'y zhro so haunting were these formulae, and so frequently did he come upon them, that before the doctor knew it he was repeating them under his breath. eventually, however, he felt he had secured all the papers he could digest to advantage for the present; hence resolved to examine no more till he could bring the sceptical alienists en masse for an ampler and more systematic raid. he had still to find the h

me. i saw monstrous constructions of black or iridescent tone in glades and clearings where perpetual twilight reigned, and traversed long causeways over swamps so dark that i could tell but little of their moist, towering vegetation. once i saw an area of countless miles strewn with age-blasted basaltic ruins whose architecture had been like that of the few windowless, round-topped towers in the haunting city. and once i saw the sea- a boundless, steamy expanse beyond the colossal stone piers of an enormous town of domes and arches. great shapeless sugggestions of shadow moved over it, and here and there its surface was vexed ith anomalous spoutings. iii as i have said, it was not immediately that these wild visions began to hold their terrifying quality. certainly, many persons have drea

f of great size beneath the disordered blocks on the surface. my first thought was of the sinister blackfellow legends of vast underground huts among the megaliths where horrors happen and great winds are born. then thoughts of my own dreams came back, and i felt dim pseudo-memories tugging at my mind. what manner of place lay below me? what primal, inconceivable source of age-old myth-cycles and haunting nightmares might i be on the brink of uncovering? it was only for a moment that i hesitated, for more than curiosity and scientific zeal was driving me on and working against my growing fear. i seemed to move almost automatically, as if in the clutch of some compelling fate. pocketing my torch, and struggling with a strength that i had not thought i possessed, i wrenched aside first one t

the latter, as expected, was some twenty by fifteen inches in area, and two inches thick; the thin metal covers opening at the top. its tough cellulose pages seemed unaffected by the myriad cycles of time they had lived through, and i studied the queerly pigmented, brush-drawn letters of the text-symbols unlike either the usual curved hieroglyphs or any alphabet known to human scholarship- with a haunting, half-aroused memory. it came to me that this was the language used by a captive mind i had known slightly in my dreams- a mind from a large asteroid on which had survived much of the archaic life and lore of the primal planet whereof it formed a fragment. at the same time i recalled that this level of the archives was devoted to volumes dealing with the non-terrestrial planets. as i ceas

torial and mathematical suggestion of the strange designs. the patterns all hinted of remote secrets and unimaginable abysses in time and space, and the monotonously aquatic nature of the reliefs became almost sinister. among these reliefs were fabulous monsters of abhorrent grotesqueness and malignity- half ichthyic and half batrachian in suggestion- which one could not dissociate from a certain haunting and uncomfortable sense of pseudomemory, as if they called up some image from deep cells and tissues whose retentive functions are wholly primal and awesomely ancestral. at times i fancied that every contour of these blasphemous fish-frogs was over-flowing with the ultimate quintessence of unknown and inhuman evil. in odd contrast to the tiara's aspect was its brief and prosy history as r

ility to keep hired help that akeley's humbler rustic neighbours were as convinced as he that his house was besieged by uncanny things at night. the dogs really barked, too. and then the matter of that phonograph record, which i could not but believe he had obtained in the way he said. it must mean something; whether animal noises deceptively like human speech, or the speech of some hidden, night-haunting human being decayed to a state not much above that of lower animals. from this my thoughts went back to the black hieroglyphed stone, and to speculations upon what it might mean. then, too, what of the photographs which akeley said he was about to send, and which the old people had found so convincingly terrible? as i re-read the cramped handwriting i felt as never before that my credulou

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he thing which the shining shaft of light left cold, petrified, and unvocal. it is all that remains of my friend; the friend who led me on to madness and wreckage; a godlike head of such marble as only old hellas could yield, young with the youth that is outside time, and with beauteous bearded face, curved, smiling lips, olympian brow, and dense locks waving and poppy-crowned. they say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of attica-hypnos. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:444:nyarlathotep by h.p. lovecraft written early dec 1920 published november 1920 in the united amateur, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 19-21. nyarlathotep. the crawling chaos. i am the last. i will tell th

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nchanted me for over an hour with strains i had never heard before; strains which must have been of his own devising. to describe their exact nature is impossible for one unversed in music. they were a kind of fugue, with recurrent passages of the most captivating quality, but to me were notable for the absence of any of the weird notes i had overheard from my room below on other occasions. those haunting notes i had remembered, and had often hummed and whistled inaccurately to myself, so when the player at length laid down his bow i asked him if he would render some of them. as i began my request the wrinkled satyrlike face lost the bored placidity it had possessed during the playing, and seemed to show the same curious mixture of anger and fright which i had noticed when first i accosted

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ictorial and mathematical suggestion of the strange designs. the patterns all hinted of remote secrets and unimaginable abysses in time and space, and the monotonously aquatic nature of the reliefs became almost sinister. among these reliefs were fabulous monsters of abhorrent grotesqueness and malignity-half ichthyic and half batrachian in suggestion-which one could not dissociate from a certain haunting and uncomfortable sense of pseudomemory, as if they called up some image from deep cells and tissues whose retentive functions are wholly primal and. awesomely ancestral. at times i fancied that every contour of these blasphemous fish-frogs was over-flowing with the ultimate quintessence of unknown and inhuman evil. in odd contrast to the tiara's aspect was its brief and prosy history as

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uilt. none could tell just whose arrest might cut off the damnable plotting at its source. many times came bands of blue-coated police to search the shaky houses, though at last they ceased to come; for they too had grown tired of law and order, and had abandoned all the city to its fate. then men in olive-drab came, bearing muskets, till it seemed as if in its sad sleep the street must have some haunting dreams of those other days, when musketbearing men in conical hats walked along it from the woodland spring to the cluster of houses by the beach. yet could no act be performed to check the impending cataclysm, for the swart, sinister men were old in cunning. so the street slept uneasily on, till one night there gathered in petrovitch s bakery, and the rifkin school of modern economics, a

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th earthly life, but moving outrageously amidst backgrounds of other planets and systems and galaxies and cosmic con-tinua; spores of eternal life drifting from world to world, universe to universe, yet all equally himself. some of the glimpses recalled dreams- both faint and vivid, single and persistent- which he had had through the long years since he first began to dream; and a few possessed a haunting, fascinating and almost horrible familiarity which no earthly logic could explain. faced with this realization, randolph carter reeled in the clutch of supreme horror- horror such as had not been hinted even at the climax of that hideous night when two had ventured into an ancient and abhorred necropolis under a waning moon and only one had emerged. no death, no doom, no anguish can arous

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

y strong. it's also a good day for sexual contacts. number nine is a day of inspiration. it's a mysterious day. mysterious things could happen, and if you are afraid to experience unusual events, you might stay home and make no move that day. still, the day should be used to find yourself, the meaning of what you are, and to establish possible relationships that will have a hold on your life in a haunting, mysterious, melancholy way. sometimes you may be tired on a neptunian day. that doesn't mean you can't do any of the things that you can do on any other day. it's just that it will be easier to explore your spirit world on your ninth day. you see, through witchcraft and its control and understanding, you are programming yourself to experience the full range of numerical life adventure. k

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ican embassy was thrown down. the people of madrid rushed to the streets and there was a panic in which many were injured. for five and a half hours a luminous cloud of debris hung over madrid, and stones fell from the sky. here we have stone falling from the sky, a hint of a localized cloud, luminosity, and definitely the suggestion that some violent activity had come from space. there is also a haunting resemblance to the circumstances of the great heresford quake, in england, of december 17, 1896. a disc of quartz fell on the plantation, bleijendal, dutch gueana,(sic) and was sent to the layden musuem (sic) of antiquities. it measures six centimeters by five millimeters by about five centimeters. i am puzzled by these dimensions, unless the disc is slightly oval and is six cm. in its ma

eir environment, or at least a moist habitat. many falls are reported in clear weather from a clear sky, but most are associated with torrential downpours of water not an ordinary rain. in some cases, isolated and strange-looking clouds are responsible, and some of these suddenly appear in otherwise cloudless skies. the descriptions of these storms and clouds have an element of similarity and the haunting suggestion arises that these storms and clouds are the result of artificial conditions as opposed to ordinary meteorological forces. this does not prove that hydroponic tanks exist for the convenience of our space race; however, whether these tanks are for supplies or experimentation, it substantiates our thesis for either a race originally from earth which drove itself to space, or a rac

the yellow substance at kourianof, combustible (organic_ covering six or seven hundred square feet about the size area we have so often noted some characteristics of pine pollen but who ever saw pine pollen of fibrous nature which "when torn had the tenacity of cotton? two inches thick means tons! i am inclined to think that there is something of an indication in these buttery things. there is a haunting quality which says that these substances were formed by some guidance of a higher intellectual grade than the chemical law of averages. the constant references to substances, rather than naming definite elements, compounds, or natural organic products, is significant. why, if all this stuff that admittedly falls from the sky is commonplace, natural material or life, is it usually so diffi

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

it s dangerous. what exactly is the danger in studying kabbalah? a: a great many people tried to deter me from kabbalah: they were religious, secular, jews and non-jews alike, and strangers and relatives. i tried to fight the craving to know the purpose of my life, and i couldn t picture a day when i could get up in the morning without asking the t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 96 same haunting question over and over again. i couldn t imagine a peaceful, thoughtless day, where i could sit down quietly and enjoy my life k if there s no cure for it, it s like a curse. but the cure exists. if you feel that question burning in your gut, leaving you restless, you might be losing precious time listening to the advice of others and living by their reason, because ultimately you ll go b

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

he light slowly faded until there was complete darkness. then the music died down altogether, and there was a period of silence during which the brn. meditated upon the death and life of osiris. 900. out of the silence there presently arose soft, faraway fairy-like music, which swelled and drew nearer by imperceptible degrees. though so soft it was no longer sad, but calm and happy, with a lovely haunting refrain; and after a while a voice emerged, but so gradually, so skillfully that it was scarcely possible to say when it began. at first it seemed to be humming the air; then words somehow shaped themselves little by little, and before one knew it the voice was singing ever more and more strongly and clearly: gosiris is immortal, unchanging; osiris is broken, divided into thousands of par

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

ollowing death, spirits must find their way to the otherworld. in many cases souls are unable or unwilling to undertake the journey to the realm of the dead, and continue to hang out around their living relatives, often bothering the living in some way. as spirits who are no longer a part of the realm of the living, and yet who cannot or who will not find their way to the realm of the dead, these haunting spirits exist in a kind of borderland a limbo between life and death. thus at least a rudimentary notion of an afterlife limbo is widespread in world cultures. in religious traditions that postulate a heaven and a hell as the final abode of the soul, serious thinkers have grappled with the fate of those who, while not ethical exemplars, have been more or less good, and not guilty of truly

death, spirits must find their way to the otherworld. in many cases souls are unable or unwilling to undertake the journey to the realm of the dead, and continue to remain in the presence of their surviving relatives, often bothering the living in some way. as spirits who are no longer a part of the realm of the living, and yet who cannot or will not find their way to the realm of the dead, these haunting spirits exist in a kind of borderland a limbo between life and death. thus at least a rudimentary notion of an afterlife limbo is widespread in world cultures. in religious traditions that postulate a heaven and a hell as the final abode of the soul, serious thinkers have grappled with the fate of those who, while not ethical exemplars, have been more or less good, and not guilty of truly

LIBER CCXLII AHA

pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god fs field we name not this. our lips are sealed in that the universal key lieth within its mystery. but know thou this. these visions give a hint both faint and fugitive yet haunting, that behind them lurks some worker, greater than his works. yea, it is given to him who girds his loins up, is not fooled by words, who takes life lightly in his hand to throw away at will fs command, to know that view beyond the veil. o petty purities and pale, aha! 11 these visions i have spoken of! the infinite lord of light and love breaks on the soul like dawn. see! see! great god o

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ally occurring personality disorder. should you be fortunate or unfortunate enough to also possess free-floating witch power of the type manifested by so-called materializing mediums, then you will also begin to be the target of such apparently malicious poltergeist phenomena as disappearing objects, mysterious breakages, inexplicable outbreaks of fire and the like. all the signs of a traditional haunting, in fact. persistent runs of misfortune are often taken to be signs of a well-lodged curse, but they are more often than not self-inflicted by the victim's own deep mind for some devious reason, as already mentioned in chapter 2. of course, if you are solemnly informed by a malevolent rival that you are about to be magically strafed, and your bad luck promptly begins from that time onward

essor indeed have tried to cast the spell, the countercharm will cause it to rebound with unerring accuracy, inflicting upon him those things he wished upon his victim, but only to the extent that he himself would have been able to initiate. if his curse would have been ineffective to begin with, then it will be ineffective in the rebound. finally, should you be confronted by a really bad case of haunting caused by bewitchment, asperge and fumigate the four corners of your home with one of the following incenses, using your usual exorcism formula of fire and water, and opening all doors and windows beforehand. this has a practical as well as a symbolic meaning, as you will see when you try the fumigations for yourself! exorcism fumigations 1. calamint peony mint palma christi 2. simple gum

MEANING OF MASONRY

corated these primitive temples, quart-pots and" churchwardens" figured largely among the unauthorized equipment. in one of the great london galleries there hangs a famous picture called" night" by the great artist and moralist of his age, hogarth. his purpose was to depict a characteristic night-scene in the streets of london as they appeared in his time. among the typical specimens of depravity haunting those ill-lit streets, the great artist has held up to the derision of all time the figure of a freemason staggering home drunk, still wearing his apron and being assisted by the tyler of the lodge. no true mason can regard this picture without a burning sense of shame, and without registering a resolution to redeem the craft from this stigma. we have, i hope, got past such things as thes

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

to dance with you, to guide towards a glimpse of the night of pan, to gather on the astral plane at the witches' sabbath. come close, if your will is against it much is deadly, however with pleasure and the glowing lamp of strength all is possible. come within the night side, where varcolaci await. vampirism, lycanthropy and european folklore for thousands of years there have been tales of beasts haunting the countryside by night, demons which stalk the roads and pathways of the forests. corpses who enter the chambers of the sleeping for sexual congress. the wild hunt which rides the northern skies in the autumn, searching for souls to join their ghastly celebrations. the undead in european folklore are immensely strong and colorful in their legend. walking corpses known as draugr, which i

all times you are able to float above and below what could be ground. upon looking closely at the trees which are twisted as writhing ghosts- you notice the roots which are extensive and elongated are held by nothing but air. they do not move, save for the spectral wind, which whistles through the skeletal branches. in the distance you hear moaning cries, or chants which seem to be projected by a haunting collection of voices, each seeming so far away yet growing near you. there is no light, save from a crescent moon which is below you and not above. the sky is reversed and the moon is blood red. above you see nothing but sheer impenetrable darkness, nothingness. fear is twisting it's gray hand across your throat and you seek to control yourself. will must preserve you. in the air you noti

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 who approaches magick as impersonal will obviously be a failure since successful sorcery demands a strong and focused conviction and frame of mind. one must understand that in order to create change, significant knowledge and superior presence must exist to reach th

n meet. recite67 67 phantom and shade, spectar and vampyre, lover and seductress i summon you to rise in the dark of the moon, rise from your tomb and by my guide, my initiator, my familiar, my goddess hekas, hekau sakeka ushu umpesha narastu by lamia do you grow, arise vampyre seductress who shall guard and taste of my blood, whom shall give me the elixir of the evening, of dreaming and twilight haunting, alive shall you, arise! you may use this fetish to inspire your dreams and from which you may acquire visions, as well as a coven meeting from which you bring the famulus/spirit within to speak unto the members. in such a case, you would displace your personality via will long enough to allow this aspect of yourself to take assumption of this energy. 68 68 baphomet- horned god of witches

be constructed which constitutes a dedication to the craft and the path of the wise. the astral departure of the spirit and body within the witches sabbat craft is symbolised by the shedding of the serpents skin, of laying waste to the old in the reaching of something new. it can be viewed as a psychic rebirth wherein a heavy weight is taken from ones shoulders. the astral conclave is exceedingly haunting for those on uninitiated paths who, in dream, are drawn to such a gathering. we might suspect many tales of the sabbath have come down to us this way. some questions may arise, such as "is the witches sabbat craft and vampiric sorcery based only in dream" the answer is no, it is not, sorcery and witchcraft have their basis in time drawn secrets which are transferred through the dreaming s

them and attend the conclave. i was seeking ever so intensely to arrive, taking the form of a night owl, and the night sounds around me as i flew were filled with exhilaration. i could hear the sounds of moaning and laughing in the night winds, my mind telling me it was the many witches, beasts, wolves and vampires of the dream plane. my level of excitement rose further upon being drawn to these haunting voices. i let out a call sounding so very loud within my ears that it must have been heard by the ecstatic witches and warlocks. i was joining those of the blood, those of my lineage, who continue the great work of the witches sabbat path on this plane of existence. i could only wonder later who are the many companions with whom we frolic with in these states, are they distant coven membe

ached, only a growing and yearning desire to be at one with my ilk. one major difference at this conclave, i noticed the witches were literally hags, dancing with each other surrounded by bestial shapes and their familiars. some of the familiars were of strange shapes, wolf heads upon goats and black and blood red cats, dancing about in a frenzied manner. i noticed the flutes of pan playing their haunting musick close within my ear, a rhythm filled pulse reverberating within every single spirit in attendance. we were at one. the women were wrinkled and mostly naked, their shapes writhed through the very fires which burned at different spots within the field, i could feel their ecstasy as i looked on in awe and astonishment. even though i had attended a sabbat before, the feeling which one

r, etched with a wolf head and what could be celtic carvings. once i passed through the door i knew she would be waiting, as she always had been. as i passed through i gained sight of the chamber and finally the witch. she stood prominent in the shadows of the room, standing behind a slow burning fire. robed and hooded in black and what could be night blue, she was sounding a beautiful and almost haunting mantra, by which the quality of her voice was displayed. it seemed to be both fairy-tale like and haunting at the same time, as if a dual or double headed spirit was made manifest through her. i could finally see her eyes as i drew closer, how dark they were, reflecting a burning passion i had only known through a scarlet woman. how deeply i yearned for the taste of her astral flesh, that

overwhelming passion. i observed as only i could do at this moment, watching every move in a controlled state of astral awakening. she was no longer clothed in the finery in which i made her acquaintance however. a black night robe adorned her body, with crimson red flower petals embroidered upon it, with what seemed to be nothing underneath. her astral flesh had formed itself into so refined and haunting a beauty. ivory white flesh so smooth and tight, her own devised psycho-physical desire body was exhilarating. her breasts were firm and ample, in keeping with her lean, well proportioned body. she stood near the center of the chamber, holding out her arms towards the ceiling, and her robe opened to bare her beautiful body even further. i glimpsed at her method of summoning the dead. the

ll take it away. 137 137 all was possible through my will just as i shall feast upon thy essence. this is my natural rite and will. return to my shadows and become not. so mote it be" enter the circle of evocation and work yourself into a steady and controlling focus on absorbing the spirit. breathe deeply until exhaustion and slowly regain your composure. close the circle and banish fully. dream haunting once the tables of magickal combat are turned towards you and there is no conceivable chance of avoiding it, then you must turn your will towards the utter destruction of the enemy. if there is no other way then one should not hold any feelings of guilt or remorse. when there is a chance or way to avoid such means, one should not be reluctant to take it. have diligence and respect for you

connect within their dreams and begin to activate disturbing thoughts on the dream level until paranoia sets in. this could manifest in various ways, the intended victim could actually feel chased or even see the spirit which may assume the shape that fits the victims own psychic terror. remember in dreams we can shift flesh into any form desirable unto the self, so it is with the receptor of the haunting. this is the danger of the knowledge of the kia and it's manifestations. the spirit should be created by vampiric servitor techniques, of blood and semen and should be focused upon before sleep. the sorcerer should be sure of the intended victim and hold a clear vision in their mind of how the servitor is to act. once this is done then the magickian should retire to sleep and by doing suc

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

e manner (unlike those momma s-boy philosophers and old-maid eccentrics. bottom line: the magician didn t have to hope for a haunted house, he could make it haunted; he didn t have ask the spirit to leave, he could make it leave. hence my decision. there are numerous holes in the theory that a tragic story, combined with unfinished business, leads to the creation of a ghost and the beginning of a haunting. the most glaring is the fact that not all ghosts are people but, as suggested earlier, could be trains, ships, even odors. how did the train become a ghost? did enough souls perish in the train to drag the train--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 50 itself to the spirit world with them? why did those civil war soldiers bring their rifles, uniforms, and horse with them to the afterlife?

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

name andar, being the bearer of cunning fire and blackened flame of ahrimanic sight, bring the shadow wisdom to i who seeks to immolate and become. by the fourth which is the name azi dahaka, a great dragon who long has slept in the blood rivers of az-umpesha, come now and guide the familiar of my arcane of desire to grow strong in my form by the fifth which is the name xaremiza-akhian-nas, grave haunting shade which drinks from those which trespass our guarded path, emerge and protect my circle of essence. by the sixth which is the name khesut-nomida being that which wanders the desert under the shadow of cain, seek now our coven of being, we who drink of the dual ecstasies of the empyrean and infernal meeting of spirts. by the seventh which is the name lilkamena, born of the congress of

our shadows ashen, and those within this circle blessed under the cloak of azrael "i ensorcell the spirits of the ancestral dead, those who hasten to the circle chant of the sabbat, come forth, mighty dead arise. we of vampyric birth do acknowledge thee! the veil is thin, enter this plane of waking and dreaming "i, akhtya seker arimanius- call forth from the grave that which walks the dream lands haunting and draining those sleeping and unawake. by my oath, signed in blood from which the sorcerous art is pledged, i do call the attendant of this mask andmy own famulus which shall reside within this very object of arte. by the sign of x do i mark thee- eyes which see beyond the veil, mouth of crystals and essence storing objects, horns of five which form the pentagram of the fallen seraphs

dess of the ashen cremation grounds, i summon thee forth, gather now the manes of our many forms we shall taste the blood of the night "o' blood drinking whore, whom by the essence from the crossroads, who has survived beyond the grave, take now your throne upon the great dragon arimanius, offer unto me the chalice of life, that which shall sustain our flesh and spirit-az, i summon thee "o' night haunting consort of the serpents of the abyss, whom takes theform of owls and beasts, lilitu, witch queen of the caul, the mark ofcain- lilitu- bless this grave shroud- walk with me in dreams "i seek now to enter black eden, as the form of belial, wolf- cloaked and bat- winged, in the phantom dream shall i arise from the blackened earth of the tomb, by the in-between of life and death, i have come

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

the room. we had to consider that it could have been a shadow cast by something going past the window. i had been sitting facing the window with my eyes closed when the entity came and stood in front of me, blocking out the sunlight shining in through the window. i had an interesting emotional reaction (interesting, that is, to me) to this event. i felt a strange sensation. something indefinite, haunting, something half-forgotten, a far away memory returning again. when i was six or seven years old, one bright sunny day, i was playing in the backyard of the family home when i happened to look up and saw a tall, gray colored entity standing over me. it made no sound and had no eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or anything like that it was just like a solid gray form. i screamed aloud and shouted fo

ONYX TABLET OF SET

stess of set is. when i first started to notice something different about my experience, i realized its source was those elements i was learning about myself. not only was i inspired, but i was beginning to inspire others through my work: examples noticed from fellow initiates' writings, scroll/ pylon/order articles, and other related aspects. this raised the question: what was going on here? the haunting presence and this direct/indirect inspirational influence i was having on other initiates gave me reasons to further investigate what seemed to be happening to me. what is a priest or priestess of set? 1) in terms of the direction of magical work the priest or priestess is no longer only geared to him/herself. the nature of his or her personal investigations still remains as much as he or

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

od. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? it is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. from the days of old there is no permanence. utnapishtim s lesson is repeated in a haunting little aztec poem, addressed perhaps to the lord of life quetzalcoatl, who descended to the underworld to restore humanity to life (see pp. 98 99: can it be true that one lives on earth? not forever on earth; only a little while here. be it jade, it shatters. be it gold, it breaks. be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart. not forever on earth; only a little while here. in a world where th

victim the bound victim here is medea s brother apsyrtus. according to one account, medea cut him into pieces and threw them one by one into the sea, thus delaying her father s pursuit while he gathered together his son s scattered limbs for burial. the poet apollonius places the murder on dry land, and says that jason licked and spat out the victim s blood three times, to prevent the ghost from haunting him. jason, triumphant thief the exultant jason yells his defiance to ae tes, who is pursuing him. when, with the aid of medea s spells, jason stole the fleece from the sacred grove of ares (mars, we are told that he put it over his shoulders and reveled in it like a girl admiring herself when the moonlight catches her silk gown. when jason arrived in colchis, he asked ae tes to give him

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

low a consecrated host over which the formulae of execration have been pronounced. the animal is then wrapped in magnetized objects, bound with the hairs of the victim, upon which the operator has previously spat, and is buried at the threshold of the bewitched person's door, or at some point where he is obliged to pass daily. the elementary spirit of the toad will become a nightmare and vampire, haunting the dreams of the victim, unless indeed he should know how to drive it back on the operator. let us pass now to bewitchments by waxen images. the sorcerers of the middle ages, eager to please by their sacrileges him whom they regarded as their master, mixed baptismal oil and ashes of consecrated hosts with a modicum of wax. apostate priests were never wanting to deliver them the treasures

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ce] the roman [catholic] invention of good and bad daemones and guardian angels [is] particularly assigned [and] is called by them [that is, the seers] an ignorant mistake sprung only from the secret commonwealth 24 this original [resemblance or reflection of species through the elements. they call this reflex-man a coimimeadh or co-walker, every way like the man, as a twin-brother and companion, haunting him as his shadow and is oft seen and known among men, resembling the original both before and after the original is dead. and [this co-walker] was also often seen, of old, to enter a house; by which the people knew that the person of that likeness was to visit them within a few days. this copy, echo, or living picture, goes at last to his own herd. it accompanied that [living] person so

urteous and charitable spirits that are everywhere ready to defend men (as in daniel 10:13) to be souls that have not attained their rest [such souls are active] through a vehement desire of revealing a murder or notable injury done or received, or a treasure that was forgot in their lifetime on earth, which, when disclosed to a conjurer alone, the ghost quite removes [itself from the site of its haunting. in the next country [region] to that of my former residence about the year 1676, when there was some scarcity of grain, a marvelous illapse and vision strongly struck the imagination of two women in one night [both] living at a good distance from one another, about a treasure hid in a hill called sith bhruaich or fairy hill. the appearance of the treasure was first represented to their f

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

or neechayvala, he wanted to know, and i didn't enlighten him; i certainly don't intend to blab to this confused chamcha instead. i'm leaving now. the man's going to sleep. o o o his reborn, fledgling, still--fallible optimism was hardest to maintain at night; because at night that otherworld of horns and hoofs was not so easily denied. there was the matter, too, of the two women who had started haunting his dreams. the first- it was hard to admit this, even to himself- was none other than the child-woman of the shaandaar, his loyal ally in that nightmare time which he was now trying so mightily to conceal behind banalities and mists, the aficionada of the martial arts, hanif johnson's lover, mishal sufyan. the second- whom he'd left in bombay with the knife of his departure sticking in h

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ta was every inch italian and neapolitan. her youth had been all love, and her age was all superstition. she was garrulous, fond, a gossip. now she would prattle to the girl of cavaliers and princes at her feet, and now she would freeze her blood with tales and legends, perhaps as old as greek or etrurian fable, of demon and vampire, of the dances round the great walnut-tree at benevento, and the haunting spell of the evil eye. all this helped silently to weave charmed webs over viola's imagination that afterthought and later years might labour vainly to dispel. and all this especially fitted her to hang, with a fearful joy, upon her father's music. those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from h

ale and mute before the stern, cold array of those countless eyes. at that instant, and when consciousness itself seemed about to fail her, as she turned a timid beseeching glance around the still multitude, she perceived, in a box near the stage, a countenance which at once, and like magic, produced on her mind an effect never to be analysed nor forgotten. it was one that awakened an indistinct, haunting reminiscence, as if she had seen it in those day-dreams she had been so wont from infancy to indulge. she could not withdraw her gaze from that face, and as she gazed, the awe and coldness that had before seized her, vanished like a mist from before the sun. in the dark splendour of the eyes that met her own there was indeed so much of gentle encouragement, of benign and compassionate adm

"i don't know which to thank the most. you give me so much joy, child, i am so proud of thee and myself. but he and i, poor fellow, have been so often unhappy together" viola's sleep was broken, that was natural. the intoxication of vanity and triumph, the happiness in the happiness she had caused, all this was better than sleep. but still from all this, again and again her thoughts flew to those haunting eyes, to that smile with which forever the memory of the triumph, of the happiness, was to be united. her feelings, like her own character, were strange and peculiar. they were not those of a girl whose heart, for the first time reached through the eye, sighs its natural and native language of first love. it was not so much admiration, though the face that reflected itself on every wave o

mine eyes best see, for all the day they view things unrespected; but when i sleep, in dreams they look on thee, and, darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. shakespeare. zanoni followed the young neapolitan into her house; gionetta vanished, they were left alone. alone, in that room so often filled, in the old happy days, with the wild melodies of pisani; and now, as she saw this mysterious, haunting, yet beautiful and stately stranger, standing on the very spot where she had sat at her father's feet, thrilled and spellbound, she almost thought, in her fantastic way of personifying her own airy notions, that that spiritual music had taken shape and life, and stood before her glorious in the image it assumed. she was unconscious all the while of her own loveliness. she had thrown aside

ccept thy promise. before the last hour of that day, come what may, i shall see thee again, here, at thine own house. till then, farewell" chapter 3.iv. between two worlds life hovers like a star 'twixt night and morn. byron. when glyndon left viola, as recorded in the concluding chapter of the second division of this work, he was absorbed again in those mystical desires and conjectures which the haunting recollection of zanoni always served to create. and as he wandered through the streets, he was scarcely conscious of his own movements till, in the mechanism of custom, he found himself in the midst of one of the noble collections of pictures which form the boast of those italian cities whose glory is in the past. thither he had been wont, almost daily, to repair, for the gallery containe

ave sought. how hast thou followed my admonitions! are these the scenes in which the aspirant for the serene science thinks to escape the ghastly enemy? do the thoughts thou hast uttered thoughts that would strike all order from the universe express the hopes of the sage who would rise to the harmony of the eternal spheres"'it is thy fault, it is thine' i exclaimed 'exorcise the phantom! take the haunting terror from my soul "mejnour looked at me a moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied"'no; fool of thine own senses! no; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the knowledge that is without faith climbs its titan way. thou pantest for this millennium, thou shalt behold it! thou shalt be one of the agents of the

ings, and a mysterious sympathy had appeared to unite their fates. she remembered, above all, that, comparing their entangled thoughts, both had then said, that with the first sight of zanoni the foreboding, the instinct, had spoken to their hearts more audibly than before, whispering that "with him was connected the secret of the unconjectured life" and now, when glyndon and viola met again, the haunting fears of childhood, thus referred to, woke from their enchanted sleep. with glyndon's terror she felt a sympathy, against which her reason and her love struggled in vain. and still, when she turned her looks upon her child, it watched her with that steady, earnest eye, and its lips moved as if it sought to speak to her, but no sound came. the infant refused to sleep. whenever she gazed up

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

" is complication, the means of a means. call this will free or not-beyond will and belief is self-love. i know of no better name. it is free to believe what it desires. you are free to believe in nothing related to belief. the "truth" is not difficult to understand! the truth has no will-will has no truth! truth is "will" never believed-it has no truth "could be"-is the immediate certainty! this haunting sphinx teaches us the value of the "will to anything? then there is no graver risk than absolute knowledge-if little is dangerouswhat about omniscience? the almighty power has no accessories! science is the accursed doubt of the possible, yea, of what does exist! you cannot conceive an impossibility, nothing is impossible, you are the impossible! doubt is delaytime- but how it punishes! n

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xpose margery as a fake by whatever means necessary. during one night of tests, houdini brought an electric doorbell into the seance room and said that he would challenge the spirit to ring it for the circle. once margery was in a trance state, a low voice, that of walter, the medium s deceased brother and her spirit control, bemoaned the presence of houdini. still trying to get some publicity by haunting seance rooms, eh? the spirit voice taunted the magician. walter then directed malcolm bird, secretary of the committee, to take houdini s doorbell out of the room so that he might examine it and see what kind of trickery the magician had planned. bird hesitated for a moment, then picked up the apparatus and left the room. when he returned a few moments later, bird frowned in displeasure a

et smith, and a party of five others obtained permission to spend a night in a haunted house located some 50 miles from new york city. as he referred to the incident in his essays in the occult (1958, the summer tenant had been forced to move back to the city in the middle of july because neither he nor his wife could sleep uninterrupted and their servants had all left their employ because of the haunting. carrington insisted that he be told nothing of the history of the house until he had first had an opportunity to explore the place from cellar to attic. the house was lighted from top to bottom, and the party began its safari into the unknown. on the second floor, two or three of the group commented that they had sensed something strange in one of the middle bedrooms, especially in the a

to gold, as a means of replenishing his fortune. within a short time, he had converted an entire wing of his castle into a series of extensive alchemical laboratories. alchemists and sorcerers from all over europe flocked to tiffauges. some came to freeload on the feasts and to fleece the young nobleman out of a few bags of gold. others came to seek final answers and resolution to the persistent, haunting quest of the alchemist. although de rais himself joined the alchemists and magicians in work sessions that went nearly around the clock, all of their experiments counted for naught. 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 298 mystery religions and cults it was the italian alchemist/sorcerer antonio francisco prelati, a former priest, who t

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or reassure the human psyche as completely as can belief in the supernatural. the famous psychoanalyst dr. carl jung (1875 1961) described a personal encounter with a ghost in fanny moser s book spuk (1950. in 1920, jung was spending a weekend at an english country house a friend had rented. the nights afforded no rest, however, for the house was subject to the complete repertoire of a full-scale haunting. there were raps on the walls, noxious odors, and the mysterious dripping of liquid. jung always experienced a sensation of incapacity whenever the phenomena would begin, and cold perspiration would bead his forehead. the climax of the haunting occurred when the head of a woman materialized on the pillow of jung s bed about 16 inches from his own. the ghostly head had one eye open, and it

city, town, or village in the world has a bit of folklore about a phantom dog with red eyes that guards the grave of a master long dead, a phantom nun who still walks the ruins of a convent that burned to 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 14 ghosts and phantoms russ tamblyn, clair bloom, and richard johnson in a scene from the 1963 movie the haunting (the kobal collection) the ground decades ago, a phantom horseman who patrols the grounds of an old battlefield. phantoms comprise that category of ghosts that have been seen again and again by countless men and women over many years and have literally begun to assume independent existences of their own, becoming, in a sense, psychic marionettes, responding to the fears and expectations o

egory of ghosts that have been seen again and again by countless men and women over many years and have literally begun to assume independent existences of their own, becoming, in a sense, psychic marionettes, responding to the fears and expectations of their human percipients. in some dramatic instances, an entire section of landscape seems to be haunted. in most cases of this particular type of haunting, a tragic scene from the past is recreated in precise detail, as some cosmic photographer had committed the panorama to ethereal film footage. battles are waged, trains are wrecked, ships are sunk, the screams of earthquake victims echo through the night all as it actually took place months, years, or centuries before. thomas a. edison (1847 1931, the electrical wizard, theorized that ene

they say that they have seen them butting into each other and bouncing like big basketballs. certain observers swear that they have tracked the lights at speeds of almost 100 miles per hour. on one saturday night in 1959, according to some area residents, more than 5,000 persons turned out to see the lights. some of the spookiest lights on record are the ones linked popularly to ghosts and their haunting grounds. in the little town of silver cliff, colorado, ghost lights have plagued the local cemetery since 1880. silver cliff is itself almost a ghost town: in 1880 it boasted a population of 5,087; by the 1950s it had only 217 inhabitants. the ghost lights reached the mass media in the spring of 1956 in the wet mountain tribune, and on august 20, 1967, in the new york times. local folklor

e encounters with the glowing orbs. theorists have ascribed the marfa lights to natural phenomena, such as ball lightning, electrostatic charges, or gas emissions. certain scientists have blamed a combination of solar activity and seismic activity that creates a kind of underground lightning that on occasion rises above ground level to be seen as the eerie lights. there are many more ghost lights haunting the nooks and crannies, mountain peaks and valleys, of the planet earth. experts have tried to explain the mystery of spook lights by using the existing structure of physics and known natural phenomena, such as ball lightning, will o the wisps, and swamp gas, but so t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 23 far all att

ondents said that they believed that houses could be haunted by ghosts or spirits of the dead. psychoanalyst dr. nandor fodor theorized that genuinely haunted houses were those that had soaked up emotional unpleasantness from former occupants. years, or even centuries, later, the emotional energy may become reactivated when later occupants of the house undergo a similar emotional disturbance. the haunting mysterious knocks and rappings, opening and slamming doors, cold drafts, appearance of ghostly figures is produced, in fodor s hypothesis, by the merging of the two energies, one from the past, the other from the present. in fodor s theory, the reservoir of absorbed emotions, which lie dormant in a haunted house, can only be activated when emotional instability is present. those homes whi

lity by which it can affect others. price s theory holds that the collective emotions or thought images of a person who has lived in a house some time in the past may have intensely charged the psychic ether of the place especially if there had been such powerful emotions as fear, hatred, or sorrow, supercharged by an act of violence. the original agent, price theorized, has no direct part in the haunting. it is the charged psychic ether which, when presented with a percipient of suitable telepathic affinity, collaborates in the production of the idea-pattern of a ghost. ghosts, according to price, may be manifestations of past events that have been brought to the minds of persons sensitive enough to receive a kind of echo from the past. these sensitive individuals receive impressions from

ible antagonist. he adjured the spirit to stop in the name of the lord jesus christ, and there was no activity from the ghost for several minutes, but then betsy s hair received a yank that brought a cry of pain from her lips. again johnson adjured the evil spirit, and it released the girl s hair. johnson concluded that the spirit understood the human language and that betsy was the center of the haunting. he met with other neighbors, and they decided to help the bell family as best they could. a committee kept 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 26 ghosts and phantoms hauntings are in the minds of persons sensitive enough to receive a kind of echo from the past. watch at the bell house all night to try to placate the spirit, but all th

s accomplished was to bring about an especially vicious attack on the unfortunate betsy. a number of neighbors volunteered their own daughters to sleep with betsy, but this only managed to terrorize the other girls as well. nor did it accomplish any useful purpose to take betsy out of the cabin into the home of neighbors the trouble simply followed her there and upset the entire house. by now the haunting had achieved wide notoriety, and the disturbances were thought to be the work of a witch, who had set her evil spirits upon the bell family. each night the house was filled with those who sat up trying to get the witch to talk or to communicate with them by rapping on the walls. the disturbances soon became powerful enough to move outside the cabin and away from betsy. neighbors reported

s skeletal remains. if her bones were all put back together, she would be able to rest in peace, the entity lied to them. later, the witch told the family with a merry cackle that she was the ghost of old kate batts, a woman who had been an eccentric recluse and who had earned the appellation of witch from the citizens of clarksville. when the word spread that it was the ghost of old kate who was haunting the bells, the entire mystery became much more believable to several doubting neighbors. the bell home became crowded, indeed, when the witch s family moved in with her. four hell-raisers named blackdog, mathematics, cypocryphy, and jerusalem, each speaking in distinct voices of their own, made every night party time during their stay with their mother. the sounds of raucous laughter ratt

library, 1968. fodor, nandor. the haunted mind. new york: new american library, 1968. hays, tony. the bell witch project. world net daily, june 14, 2001 [online] http//www. worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_ id=2312. norman, michael, and beth scott. historic haunted america. new york: tor, 1996. stevens, william oliver. unbidden guests. new york: dodd, mead& co, 1957. borley rectory the haunting phenomena usually began each night in borley rectory shortly after reverend and mrs. smith had retired for the evening. they would be lying in bed, and they would hear the sound of heavy footsteps walking past their door. reverend g. e. smith soon took to crouching in the darkness outside of their room with a hockey stick gripped firmly in his hands. several nights he lunged at something

the grounds of the rectory. on several occasions, she had hurried to confront the phantom, but it had always disappeared at the sound of her approach. the smiths left the rectory shortly after price s visit. they had both begun to suffer the ill effects of the lack of sleep and the enormous mental strain that had been placed on each of them. borley rectory presents an interesting combination of a haunting and the phenomenon of poltergeistic activity. harry price maintained that approximately one-half of all hauntings include some type of poltergeistic disturbance. henry bull had 14 children who lived in the rectory. phenomena began to become active about 10 years after he had 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 30 ghosts and phantoms bo

tic activity. harry price maintained that approximately one-half of all hauntings include some type of poltergeistic disturbance. henry bull had 14 children who lived in the rectory. phenomena began to become active about 10 years after he had 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 30 ghosts and phantoms borley rectory presents a combination of a haunting and the phenomenon of poltergeistic activity moved into the rectory with his family. it is also interesting to record that the phenomena reached new heights of activity when the reverend lionel algernon foyster, a cousin of the bull family, took up residence in the rectory on october 16, 1930. the reverend brought with him his wife, marianne, and his four-year-old daughter adelaide (many

rectory had all been true. he could hardly deny them in view of such dramatic evidence. he was not frightened, however, as he felt protected by his christian faith. he used a holy relic to quiet the disturbances when they became particularly violent and remained calm enough to keep a detailed journal of the phenomena that he and his family witnessed. marianne foyster received the full fury of the haunting s attack from the beginning of their occupancy. one night, while carrying a candle on the way to their bedroom, she received such a violent blow in the eye that it produced a cut and a black bruise that was visible for several days. a hammerhead was thrown at her one night as she prepared for bed. she received a blow from a piece of metal that was hurled down a flight of stairs. another t

n the scene. at any rate, that is exactly what they did. advised by the bull sisters of the famed investigator s interest in the borley phenomena, reverend foyster wrote to london to inform price of renewed activity in the rectory. price gained permission to stay in the rectory with two friends, and upon arrival, the researcher and his party once again examined the house from attic to cellar. the haunting wasted no time in welcoming the returning investigator. while he was examining an upstairs room, an empty wine bottle hurled itself through the air, narrowly missing him. the party was brought back down to the kitchen by the screams of their chauffeur, who had remained behind to enjoy a leisurely smoke. the distraught man insisted that he had seen a large, black hand crawl across the kitc

wder box and a wedding ring materialized in the bathroom, and, after they had been put away in a drawer, the ring disappeared overnight. stonethrowing had become common, and reverend foyster complained of finding stones in their bed and under their pillows as well. although reverend foyster was a brave man, he had never enjoyed good health nor the kind of stamina necessary to outlast a full-scale haunting. the foysters endured the phenomena at the rectory for five years before leaving in october of 1935. after the foysters left, the bishop decreed that the place was for sale. in may of 1937, harry price learned that the rectory was empty and offered to lease the place for a year as a kind of ghost laboratory. his sum was accepted, and the investigator enlisted a crew of 40 assistants, most

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 ghosts and phantoms mayerling admits that there was one incident he was unable to explain. on easter in 1935, the acclaimed playwright george bernard shaw; t. e. lawrence, the famous lawrence of arabia; sir montagu norman, governor of the bank of england; and bernard spilsbury, the home office criminal forensic scientist all believers in the haunting phenomena at borley joined mayerling and marianne foyster for a seance at the rectory. all at once, mayerling recalls, all the kitchen bells clanged as one and a brilliant silver-blue light seemed to implode around them from the walls and the ceilings. from his previous experience creating eerie sounds and noises in the rectory, mayerling knew that it was impossible to make all the bells

mayerling s confession of pranks during the occupancy of the bull and foyster families does not explain the extensive phenomena reported by price s team of researchers during its year-long observation of the rectory nor the manifestations noted by gregson after he assumed ownership of borley. since the admitted pranksters were not present at the rectory during those years, the authenticity of the haunting of borley will remain a controversial subject among psychical researchers. m delving deeper carrington, hereward, and nandor fodor. haunted people. new york: new american library, 1968. hill, amelia. hoaxer s confession lays the famed ghosts of borley. the observer, december 31, 2000 [online] http//www.observer.co.uk/ uk_news/story/0,6903,416556,00.html. price, harry. the most haunted hou

s castle the disturbances that took place in the norman castle of calvados, france, from october 12, 1875, to january 30, 1876, were written up and published in the annales des sciences psychiques in 1893 by m. j. morice. although the master of calvados kept a diary that could later be used as a documentary of the phenomena, he insisted that his family name not be mentioned in connection with the haunting. he is, therefore, referred to in the narrative only as m. de x. his immediate family consisted of mme. de x, and their son, maurice. the remainder of the household consisted of abbe y, tutor to maurice; emile, the coachman; auguste, the gardener; amelina, the housemaid; and celina, the cook. on the evening of october 13, abbe y. came down to the drawing room and told m. and mme. de x. th

ndlesticks and statuettes had been upset. and, the abbe complained, there had been rappings on his wall. the next evening, the manifestations did not confine themselves to the abbe s room. loud blows were heard all over the castle. m. de x. armed his servants and conducted a search of the entire building. they could find nothing. it would be a pattern that they would repeat again and again as the haunting phenomena began its siege in earnest. night after night, its hammering fist would pound on doors and rap on walls. the inhabitants of calvados castle would not know a night of unmolested slumber for more than three months. the curate of the parish arrived to witness the phenomena and was not disappointed. nei- 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

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m and were veryseemly-like to see; she was informed that these were "from the court of elfame; she had previouslyreceived a visit from the queen of elfhame though without knowing at the time who her visitor was; shedescribed the queen as "a stout woman who came in to her and sat down on the form beside her and asked adrink at her and she gave it" alesoun peirsoun[6] in fifeshire, was "convict for haunting and repairing withthe good neighbours and queen of elphane, and she had many good friends at that court which were of herown blood, who had good acquaintance with the queen of elphane" in leith, christian livingstone[7]affirmed "that her daughter was taken away with the fairy-folk, and that all the [occult] knowledge she hadwas by her daughter who met with the fairy. aberdeen was full of

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

ne beings- they are metaphors for the human soul. the events of their mythology are symbolic of each and every person s experience on their journey through the tides of fate, life, and death, led by love. the daughter, who is sometimes called the fair queen of elfhame, to set her apart from the dark queen of elfhame (a name that usually refers to her mother) is the sexual force of the mother, the haunting, seductive and lovely, but dangerous daughter of the earth. she is the living force of the countryside, the heath- and her name horn conceals a secret that unlocks immortality. lady horn is the spirit that teaches the wise; she is the mistress of the craft and all families and covens of the hidden craft. her cats are forever present. when she rode up above, on the serpent-tracks, her name

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

e radio waves, and when certain conditions exist they can see these things. the tibetans believe that advanced human minds can manipulate these invisible energies into visible forms called tulpas, or thought projections. did walter gibson's intense concentration on his shadow novels inadvertently bring a tulpa into existence? readers of occult literature know there are innumerable cases of ghosts haunting a particular site year after year, century after century, carrying out the same mindless activities endlessly. build a house on such a site and the ghost will leave locked doors ajar as it marches through to carry out its programed activity. could these ghosts really be tulpas, residues of powerful minds like the phantom in the broad-brimmed hat? next, consider this. ufo activity is conce

spaper. she carried a book "like a big ledger" and asked the witness a number of personal questions about her family background. when i later checked 'with the newspaper i found they employed no one of that description. the local mount misery expert was miss jaye p. paro, a radio personality then with station wbab in babylon, new york. miss paro is a dark-haired, dark-eyed young lady with a soft, haunting voice. at that time she conducted an interview show, largely devoted to the historical and psychic lore of the region. soon after she reported some ufo sightings around mount misery she began to receive all manner of crank calls, both at the station and on her unlisted home phone. metallic voices ordered her to meet them on "the mount (she didn't go. through miss paro i met several local

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hat is to be found in many grimoires of any period and perhaps reveals a little of the magicians's mentality; for there is very little that is evil to the advanced magus, who cares not if he deals with angelic or demonic forces, save that he gets the job done! then, following the urillia text and forming the very end of the received ms, is the second part of the testimony of the mad arab. it is a haunting and sorrowful occult personality. was he really mad? this is perhaps a question that will go on for as long as man tries to understand himself; himself as a part of the cosmic dance and spiral, which includes the satanic as well as the deific, the sad as well as the happy. perhaps the arab was privy to some other-worldly secret that he could not reveal. perhaps he had opened the door by m

THE SIGIL OF ADVERSARY

lize a goal and then recite the name as a mantra to manifest the desire. may be used for protection, by imagining a great typhonic dragon to encircle your dwelling. the fourth is saatet-ta, the darkener of the earth. this is the ensorcelled daemon or daeva which the magician may manifest his will and send forth the shadow to bring forth his or her desires. this sigil may be used in dream sorcery, haunting or copulating as the vampire and incubi/succubi with your chosen .the third of the devourer, amam. use this sigil to encircle 9 times around the name of your enemy, to bring the serpent-devils of seba to bring storms against them. burn the sigil in the fire of the noon tide sun while invoking keteb of the twelfth. the second sigil of the adversary, being hau-hra, the backward face. this i

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

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

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be trusted. because this is an astral world, it is possible to hear them and speak to them through the water. the women of this race have lovely faces, and are sensual by nature, but fickle and apt to lose interest and dart away. their goddess is a mermaid with bluish skin, more human in shape than the others. only her fingers are webbed, and her feet end in small fins instead of toes. she sings haunting wordless melodies that evoke strange illusions and dreamlike vistas. 22. inguz literal meaning: fertility god general sense: home, hearth, family, patriarch, nurture, growth, development, evolution, decency, humanity, homely virtues the world of inguz is a country farm, with a stone farmhouse having a thatched roof and a wattle barn. the trees of the surrounding forest press the cultivate

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