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iture of the hall is properly arranged at the opening, to guard the inner side of the portal, to admit the fraters and sorors, to watch over the path of the candidate, and to lead all mystical circumambulations. my lamp is a symbol of hidden knowledge and my wand is a symbol of directing power" hierophant "honored hegemon, your station and duties" hegemon "my station is between the two pillars of hermes and solomon. my face is toward the cubical altar of the universe. my duties are to watch over the gateway of hidden knowledge. for i am the reconciler between light and darkness. i immediately follow the kerux in the mystic circumambulations. i watch over the preparation of the candidate and assist in his reception, and i lead the candidate onto the path that conducts from darkness to light

by alternate syllables from mouth to ear. it is the title of the egyptian god of silence and should ever remind you of the strict silence you have sworn to maintain. the password is_ which will be periodically changed at each equinox so that a member who has resigned, demitted, or been expelled from the order may be in ignorance of the existing password. i now place you between the two pillars of hermes and solomon in the symbolic gateway of hidden wisdom (hiereus leads the neophyte forward and then takes back the sword and banner as the hegemon hands them to him) hiereus (stands northeast of the black pillar "let the final consecration take place (moves back to his position (stolistes and dadouchos, purify and consecrate all members with fire and water) stolistes "i purify thee with water

r, fire, water, and earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht-are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek words- konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be 'light rushing out in one ray, and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things are the pillars of hermes and solomon. they are the door posts of the gateways of hidden wisdom. like yin and yang, they are symbols of opposite twin powers. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book of the dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in

h rhythmically until the body is still and the mind quiet. keep this state for a few minutes at first- and for longer as you get more used to preventing the mind from wandering. think now of the subject for meditation in a general way- then choose one thought or image and follow that to its conclusion. the pillars lecture highlights the two pillars in the neophyte ritual are called the pillars of hermes, seth and solomon. in the ninth chapter of the ritual of the dead, they are called the pillars of shu, the pillars of the gods of the dawning light, and also the northern and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth. ruach elohim formulates the ineffable name of god at creation. this is symbolized by the black and white cubical bases of the pillars. prayers and hymns in the egyptia

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guard the inside of the portal. i admit fraters and sorors of the order. i assist in the reception of the candidates. i attend to the lamp of my office. i lead the mystic circumambulation and make all announcements and reports. hiero: what do your lamp and wand symbolize? kerux: the light of occult science and directing power. hiero: honoured hegemon your station? heg: between the two pillars of hermes and solomon facing the cubicle altar of the universe, very honoured hierophant. hiero: your duty? heg: i preside over the symbolic gateway of occult science. i am to reconcile her between light and darkness. i immediately follow the kerux in the mystic circumambulations. i superintendent the preparation of the candidate; lead him through the path of darkness into light, and assist in his re

nate syllables mouth to ear thus. it is the title of the egyptian god of silence and should ever remind you of the strict silence you have sworn to maintain. the password is (blank) which will be periodically changed at each equinox so that a member who has resigned, demitted, or been expelled from the order, may be in ignorance of the existing password. i now place you between the two pillars of hermes and solomon in the symbolical gateway of occult science. hiereus: draws candidate forward between the pillars. he receives sword and banner from hegemon, stands at the latter's left, all facing candidate. hiereus: let the final consecration of the candidate take place. kerux: goes to the north and faces east. stol: signs a cross on candidate's forehead, bows to hierophant and sprinkles east

lements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be light rushing out in one ray and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things, art the pillars of hermes and of solomon. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book of the dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in-pouring of the heart of god. the lamps that burn, though with a veiled light, upon their summits show that the pathw

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nareiks, on. lormunrekr) shows; and beyond a doubt the hcvmunduri are properly ermunduri (gramm. 2, 175, the h being often prefixed to all such forms. now whatever may be the probable meaning of the word irman, iormun, eormen, to which i shall return in due time, one thing is evident, that the irman-piuar had some connexion, which continued to be felt down to a late period (p.ll6),with mercury or hermes, to whom greek antiquity raised similar posts and pillars, which were themselves called hermae, a name which suggests our teutonic one. the saxons may have known more about this; the eranks, in upper germany, from the 8th to the 13th century, connected with irmansul, irminsul the general notion of a heathen image set up on a pillar. probably euodolf associated with his truncus ligni the 1 t

sog. 1, 501: grainr er ysr osinn, angry is 0. with you. victory was in the eyes of our forefathers the first and highest of gifts, but they regarded wuotan not merely as dispenser of victory; i have to show next, that in the widest sense he represented to them the god to whose bounty man has to look for every other distinction, who has the giving of all superior blessings; and in this sense also hermes (mercury) was to the greeks preeminently sctitcop idcov, giver of good things, and i have ventured to guess that the name gihika, kijncjw originally signified the same to us. 235. ed. 1842, 4, 5, 39. h. sachs (1563) v. 381. according to greek and 0. norse notions, the gods have a throne or cliair: tha gengengo regin oil a rokstola ginheilog gos, s;eni. 1. compare in the bible: heaven is god

d to the ships, fornm. sog. 2, 16, hence a good sailing wind is called oshahjrr, ssem. 16o, i.c^oskahyrr\>yrv is from byrja, ohg. purran, to rise, be lifted up. it is in striking accord with this, that the mhg. poets use wunschivint in the same sense; hartmann says, greg. 615: do sande in (to them) der slieze krist den vil rehten wunschwint (see suppl) but other attributes of wuotan point more to hermes and apollo. he resembles the latter, in as much as from him proceed contagious diseases and their cure; any severe illness is the stroke of god, and apollo's arrows scatter])estilence. the gauls also imagined that apollo drove away diseases (apollinem morbos depellere, caes. b. g. 6, 17; and wodan's magic alone can cure balder's lamed horse. the raven on the god's shoulder exactly fits apol

7; and wodan's magic alone can cure balder's lamed horse. the raven on the god's shoulder exactly fits apollo, and still more plainly the circumstance that osinn invented the poetic art, and saga is his divine daughter, just as the greek muses, though daughters of zeus, are under apollo's protection, and in his train. on the other hand, writing and the alphabet were not invented by apollo, but by hermes. tlie egyptian priests placed hermes at the head of all inventions (lamblich. de myst. aegypt. 8, 1, and theuth or thoth is said to have first discovered letters (plato's phaedr. 1, 96, bekker, while, ace. to hygin. fab. 143, hermes learnt them by watching the flight of cranes. in tbe as. dialogue between saturn and solomon, we read (thorpe's anal, p. 100 'saga me, hwa aerost bocstafas sett

this, they always make the devil play at cards, and entice others to play (see suppl^ when to this we add, that the wishing-rod, i.e. wish's staff, recals mercury's caduceus, and the wish-wives, t.e.,osknieyjar, valkyrior, the occupation of the psychopompos; we may fairly recognise an echo of the gallic^ or germanic]\lercury in the epithet trismcgistos (lactantius i. 6, 3. vi, 25, 10. ter maximus hermes in ausonius, which later poets, romance and german, in the 12tli and 13th centuries^ transferred to a saracen deity termagant tervcigan, tervigant, terviant. moreover, when hermes and mercury are described as dator bonorum, and the slavs again call the same god dobro-pan (p. 130, note, as if mercis domains; it is worth noticing, that the misnere amgb. 42% in enumerating all the planets, sin

1, 69. to this god first and foremost the people turned when in distress; i suppose he is called asagrim, because amons the ases he bore the name of grimnir^ eeuscli, sagen des preiiss. samlands, no. 11. 29. 2 in the old british mythology there appears a gwydion ah don, g. son of don, whom davies (celtic researches pp. 168, 174. brit. myth. p. 118, 204, 263-4, 353, 429, 504, 541) identities with hermes; he invented avriting, practised magic, and inult the rainbow; the milky way was named caer gwydion, g.'s castle (owen, sub v. the british antiquaries say nothing of woden, yet gwydion seems near of kin to the above givodan= wodan. so the irish name for dies mercurii, dia geden, whether modelled on the engl. wednesday or not, leads lis to the form goden, gwoden (see suppl. 3 even nursery-ta

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, which unite and form a river at her feet; the river going forth from the supernal eden, which overfloweth and faileth not. note well that in this key she is completely unveiled, while in the 21st key, she is only partly so. the two urns contain the influences from chokmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life and on the left the tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights. and therefore does this key represent the restored world after the formless and the void and the darkness, the new adam, the countenance of the man which falls in the sign aquarius. and therefore doth the astronomical symbol of this sign represent as it were, the waves of water, the ripples of that river going forth out of eden. but therefore, also it is justly attributed unto air

cross terminates in tiphareth, whereby as it were the supernal triangle is to be grasped, and tiphareth is the purified man. the meaning of the alchemical symbol of mercury was explained to you in the previous grade. the symbol of salt embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and the mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of hermes as above, so below. hiero: resumes his place. hiereus: heg: pract: move to the tablets in the west. hiereus: this tablet represents the trinity operating through the sephiroth, and reflected downwards in the four triangles of the elements, through the tree of life. notice that air is reflected from kether through tiphareth to yesod. water is reflected from binah through chesed to hod; and f

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

le planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened their windows and placed garlic on the window ledge so that only the good family dead might enter and take shelter from the cold. this simple folk magick, rather than ceremonial magick, forms the basis for the majority of spells. as above, so below, the words of the semi-divine father of magick, hermes trismegistos, may originally have evolved from popular magick that is practised in many different cultures around the world to this day. they are certainly as applicable today as they ever were. whatever the aim of your magick may be, if you look around your home, garden, workshop or even office, you have the necessary tools for the spells you require. what is more, rooted as they are in do

rated mind and soul flow. 4- gods and goddesses the mechanics of witchcraft magick takes place at what ts eliot in the four quartets called the 'still point of the turning world, that moment of timelessness that enables thought to be turned into reality on the material plane. it operates on the principle as above, so below. this phrase comes from the beginning of the emerald tablet, attributed to hermes trismesgistos (thrice-blessed hermes, thought to be a powerful first-century egyptian sorcerer who became worshipped as a god after his death. this tablet is said to contain all magical knowledge as well as the principles of alchemy, and states that human action and events reflect what occurs in the heavens. and so by releasing magical intentions into the cosmos, as i said earlier, they wil

ed as a woman wearing a single ostrich feather as a headdress. she was all-powerful, even over the king, who had to rule with truth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge. the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communicat

al knowledge. the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. the wings on the caduceus are for wisdom, guarding against gossip and malicious words as well as illness. among hermes' many patronages were moneylenders and thieves and so he can protect against poverty and trickery, as well as helping you to speak the truth that is in your heart. hermes can also be invoked for all medical and commercial matters, for good fortune of all kinds and for peaceful sleep. minerva minerva is the roman goddess of wisdom, who ruled with jupiter and juno as the triumvirate of justic

a mortar and pestle with a few drops of laurel or eucalyptus essential oil- these are also good for viral infections. as you mix, chant a mantra, such as: heal and restore, strength once more. if you are working as a group, one person should mix the herbs on the altar while the others chant the names of healing deities (see page 77) in ever-rising intensity and pitch, for example: brighid, ganga, hermes, thoth, hygeia, panacea, sulis, iduna! as you do so, you raise a cone of healing energies over the mortar and pestle, breathing in life from the living fruits and flowers and projecting it as blue healing light that may be mingled with the green of the herbs. you can adapt the chant if you do not wish to use specific names, for example: goddess, mother, healer, restorer, hear our plea* now

nt for business negotiations, overcoming debts, repelling envy, malice and spite and those who would deceive. for this reason, mercury spells must always be used with honest intent. wednesday is also traditionally associated with divination. mercury, the planet nearest the sun, completes its orbit in only 88 days and so is named after the fleetfooted messenger god who, like his greek predecessor, hermes, carried the healing caduceus. he is also linked with the anglo-saxon god, woden, after whom wednesday is named. mercury hour spells are good for finding a quick way out of difficulties and for melting rigid opinions in others. element: air colour: yellow crystals: agate, citrine, falcon's eye, jasper, malachite, onyx incenses: lavender, lemongrass, mace trees: hazel, ash herbs and oils: di

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f (indicates diagram of mountain "this is the symbolic mountain of god in the center of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation, the mystic mountain of abiegnus. below and around it are darkness and silence, and it is crowned with the light ineffable. at its base is the wall of enclosure and secrecy, whose sole gateway, invisible to the profane, is formed of the two pillars of hermes. the ascent of the mountain is by the spiral path of the serpent of wisdom. stumbling on betwteen the pillars is a blindfolded figure, representing the neophyte, whose ignorance and worthlessness while only in that grade is shown by the 0= 0, and whose sole future claim to notice and recognition by the order is the fact of his having entered the pathway to the other grades, until at length

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the kind of protection you desire. aiwass, lord egan's daemonic form, grants one astral projection experience. lucifer grants increased intelligence. pan (priapus) grants one sexual encounter with whomever you desire. bacchus grants that your unpaid debts shall be brought up to date. aphrodite (venus) grants the perfect male partner shall come to you. harpocrates grants the power of invisibility. hermes grants healing for a friend, loved one or relative. amon grants rain where you reside for two days. thoth grants you clairvoyance and clairaudience- the ability to see and hear spirits. athena grants clairsentience- experiencing realities or entities via physical senses. once more, you must ask for your gift when you've assumed godform. you may also request that the gift be given to someone

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

e cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in the sumerian language in reference to the rite of exorcism, one of

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dagger will therefore appear principally in the banishings, preliminary to the ceremony proper. the formula of the pantacle is again of no particular use; for the pantacle is inert. in fine, the formula of the wand is the only one with which we need more particularly concern ourselves< now in order to invoke any being, it is said by hermes trismegistus that the magi employ three methods. the first, for the vulgar, is that of supplication. in this the crude objective theory is assumed as true. there is a god named a, whom you, b, proceed to petition, in exactly the same sense as a boy might ask his father for pocket-money. the second method involves a little more subtlety, inasmuch as the magician endeavours to harmonize himse

ent formula of alim, complementary with that here discussed. 81 may be regarded as a number of yesod rather than of luna. the actual meaning of the word may be taken as indicating the formula. aleph may be referred to harpocrates, with allusion to the well-known poem of catullus. lamed may imply the exaltation of saturn, and suggest the three of swords in a particular manner. yod will then recall hermes, and mem the hanged man. we have thus a tetragrammaton which contains no feminine component. the initial force is here the holy spirit and its vehicle or weapon the "sword and balances. justice is then done upon the mercurial "virgin, with the result that the man is "hanged" or extended, and is slain in this manner. such an operation makes creation impossible- as in the former case; but her

ur ele: sciousness or ruach. ments :parzival as the child in: his widowed mother's: care: horus, son of: isis and the slain: osiris :parzival as king: priest in montsalvat: performing the mir: acle of redemption: horus crowned and: conquering, taking the: place of his father :christ-bacchus in hea: ven-olympus saving the: world: the hermit :ix :yod (a hand: 10:virgo (an :the root of the alphabet (hermes: english i: earthy sign: the spermatozoon. the with lamp: or y: ruled by: youth setting out on wings: mercury: his adventures after wand: exalted: receiving the wand. cloak, and: therein: parzival in the desert serpent: sexually: christ taking refuge: ambivalent: in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :n

of episodes. the second main point is the completion of the a babe bacchus by the o pan (parzival wins the lance, etc. 37 the first process is to find the i in the v- initiation, purification, finding the secret root of oneself, the epicene virgin who is 10 (malkuth) but spelt in full 20 (jupiter. this yod in the "virgin" expands to the babe in the egg by formulating the secret wisdom of truth of hermes in the silence of the fool. he acquires the eye-wand, beholding the acting and being adored. the inverted pentagram- baphomet- the hermaphrodite fully grown- begets himself on himself as v again. note that there are now two sexes in one person throughout, so that each individual is self-procreative sexually, whereas isis knew only one sex, and osiris thought the two sexes opposed. also the

wisdom of the egyptians which was the boast of moses, plato, and pythagoras, and the source of their illumination. modern research (by profane scholars) leaves it still doubtful as to whether alchemical treatises should be classified as mystical, magical, medical, or chemical. the most reasonable opinion is that all these objects formed the preoccupation of the alchemists in varying proportions. hermes is alike the god of wisdom, thaumaturgy, therapeutics, and physical science. all these may consequently claim the title hermetic. it cannot be doubted that such writers as fludd aspired to spiritual perfection. it is equally sure that edward kelly wrote primarily from the point of view 183 of a magician; that paracelesus applied himself to the cure of disease and the prolongation of life as

on mysticism and magick. the pistis sophia. an admirable introduction to the study of gnosticism. the oracles of zoroaster. an invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. the dream of scipio, by cicero. excellent for its vision and its philosophy. the golden verses of pythagoras, by fabre d'olivet. an interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays of the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invalu

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thing that i could do, so i bethought myself that i had better invoke mercury. as soon as i got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy "but i am mercury" i put it into latin- mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction which said "that's not quite right" like a flash it came to me to put 14 it into greek, which gave me "hermes eimi, keynote: may wish to convert to true greek and adding that up rapidly, i got the number 418, with all the marvellous correspondences which had been so abundantly useful to me in the past (see equ. of the gods, p. 138. my troubles disappeared like a flash of lightning. now to answer your questions seriatum; it is quite all right to put questions to me about the book of the law; a very

it (with its graeco-phoenician child) for all work of supreme import. why stamp my vitals, madam! the abramelin operation itself turned into this form before i could so much as set to work on it! like the duchess' baby (excuse this enthusiasm; but you have aroused the british lion-serpent) note, please, that the equivalents given in 777 are not always exact. tahuti is not quite thoth, still less hermes; mercury is a very much more comprehensive idea, but not nearly so exalted: hanuman hardly at all. nor is tetragrammaton iao, though even etymology asserts the identity. in these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even syncretic. and you must consider the nature of your work. if i wanted to evoke taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the qabalistic system; for

ong way ahead of me if he is one of them. you have already in these pages and elsewhere in my writings examples numerous and varied of the way in which they work. the list is far magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 112 from complete. the matters of ab-ul-diz and of amalantrah show one method of communication; then there is the way of direct "inspiration" as in the case of "hermes eimi" in new orleans38. again, they may send an ordinary living man, whether one of themselves or no i cannot feel sure, to instruct me in some task, or to set me right when i have erred. then there have been messages conveyed by natural objects, animate or inanimate39. needless to say, the outstanding example in my life is the whole plan of campaign concerning the book of the law. but is a

utting, and dexter hand on his haunch abutting, went the little man, sir ausbruch, strutting" it's not the least bit like tokay; rather the bull's blood its neighbor, or any rough strong red wine like rioja. curious, though, his making him a hunchbacked dwarf; there must be something in this deep down. i wonder what (ask jung) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 204 47 but hermes trismegistus is not content with any such fugues as the astronomer, however cunning and colossal his organ; his third degree demands much more than this. the astronomer's estimate has puttied every tiniest crack, he concedes it, but then waves it brusquely away: all the time the door is standing wide open! the astronomer's exquisitely tailored figure stands in abashed isolation, like a gawk

a gawky young man at his first ball; he feels that he doesn't belong, for this d.s.t, or greenwich, or what not, however exact in itself, is so only in reference to some other set of measurements which themselves turn out to be arbitrary; it is not of any ultimate import; nobody can dispute it, but it simply doesn't matter to anybody, apart from the particular case. it is not "of all truth" what hermes means by this it will be well to enquire. may we call it "a truth of religion (don't be shocked! the original word implies a binding-together-again, as in a "body of doctrine" compare the word "ligature. it was only later by corruption, that the word came to imply "piety" re-ligens, attentive (to the gods) as opposed to neg-ligens, neglectful) i think that hermes was contemplating a ruach c

patriotic russian, and by a german poet and philosopher: one can hardly believe that the subject of any two of these biographies is the same man. but upon certain points the identity is bound to transpire; even when we read of his crushing and classic defeat at waterloo by the belgians, the man is detected. transferring the analogy to the gods, it is then open to us to suppose that tahuti, thoth, hermes, mercury, loki, hanuman and the rest are identical, and that the diversity of the name and the series of exploits is due merely to the accidents of time and space. but it is at least equally plausible to suggest that these gods are different individuals, although of the identical order of being, characteristics and function. very much as if one took drake, frobisher, raleigh, hood, blake, r

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ding her; she thus becomes the mother, the uniting of whom with the father absorbs all into the crown. see liber cdxviii> the magick wand is thus the principal weapon of the magus; and the "name" of that wand is the magical oath. the will being twofold is in chokmah, who is the logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. thoth the lord of magic sic is also the lord of speech; hermes the messenger bears the caduceus. word should express will: hence the mystic name of the probationer is the expression of his highest will. there are, of course, few probationers who understand themselves sufficiently to be able to formulate this will to themselves, and therefore at the end of their probation they choose a new name. 71 it is convenient therefore for the student to express h

t adventures. but we must proceed to consider the interpretation of the following rime: little jack horner sat in a corner, eating a christmas pie. he stuck in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, and said "what a good boy am i" in the interpretation of this remarkable poem there is a difference between two great schools of adepts. one holds that jack is merely a corruption of john, ion, he who goes-hermes, the messenger. the other prefers to take jack simply and reverently as iacchus, the spiritual form of bacchus. but it does not matter very much whether we insist upon the swiftness or the rapture of the holy spirit of god; and that it is he of whom it is here spoken is evident, for the name horner could be applied to none other by even the most casual reader of the holy gospels and the wor

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

r flamed forth as a star and set a guard of water in every abyss. w when distinct from u represents the operation of choice 'u" does this to some extent (will, word, way- also certain secret ones concealed the light of purity in themselves, protecting it from the persecutions. o the breath concentrated and directed. as to i as magic is to mysticism- likewise also did certain sons and daughters of hermes and of aphrodite, more openly g (hard) opening as if to devour (soft- but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. z an irritated or excited form of s, emphasizing elements of anger and alarm- yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. b bursting forth. phallus and vulva. kissing* now did the horror of

a deeper significance than at first sight may appear. the question is not merely equivalent to "is the dictation at an end" for the word is conceived as the act of possession. this is evident from the choice of the word "exhausted. the inspiration has been like an electrical discharge. language is in itself nothing; it is only the medium of transmitting experience to consciousness. tahuti, thoth, hermes, or mercury symbolize this relation; the character of this god is declared in very full terms in "the paris working, which should be studied eagerly by those who are fortunate enough to have access to the ms. al ii,70 "there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; refine thy rapture! if thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety ru

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f our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they glory unto men (at each name the deacon signs with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicized, with wording as is shown) laotze and siddartha and krishna and tahuti, mosheh, dionysus, mohammed and to mega therion, with these also hermes, pan, priapus, osiris and melchizedek, khem and amoun and mentu, heracles, orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius, catullus, martialis, rabelais, swinburne, and many an holy bard; apollonius tyanaeus, simon magus, manes, pythagoras, basilides, valentinus, bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with merlin, arthur, kamuret, p

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salt, o thou on the corn of ceres that didst wax fat! for as pure being is pure nothing, so is pure wisdom pure-,11 and so is pure understanding silence, and stillness, and darkness. the eye is called 11 i suppose that only a magus could have heard this word. seventy, and the triple aleph whereby thou perceivest it, divideth into the number of the terrible word that is the key of the abyss. i am hermes, that am sent from the father to expound all things discreetly in these the last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are sealed up, and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. and that bright light of comfort

f, rebacked" 1681 "1 5"s" alchemy- suchten (alex. van. of the secrets of antimony; also basil valentine's salt of antimony, with its use, translated out of high dutch by daniel cable, a person of great skill in chemistry, 1671- treatise concerning the fiez water of the philosophers, written in he german tongue, and now published in english by j. f. houpreght, a student of the wonderful secrets of hermes "n.d- marrow of alchemy, an experimental treatise discovering the most hidden mystery of the philosopher's elixer, by e. p. philalethes (lewis du moulin, 1654-55. in one volume, 8vo "being a series "of beautifully written manuscripts, as legible as copper-plate, in calf "4 4"s" there is practically no doubt that this very singular volume was entirely the work of daniel cable, and none of th

nation, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with magi, who at length perished, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed ind

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f gold for his throat, a scarlet bow for his horns! elaine carr (216) the temple of solomon the king book ii the scaffolding of the temple of solomon the king and the ten mighty supports which are set between the pillars of death and life. that which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, for the performance of the miracles of the one substance "hermes" illustration on this page. in the background is an inverted solid black pentagram. superimposed on the black pentagram is an upright white pentagram, so arranged as to obscure all but the points of the black pentagram which emerge behind the inner angles of the white. these two pentagrams form a perfectly symmetrical ten-pointed star or decagram with alternating white and black points. in

e state that, the actual mss. in our possession relating to the g. d. occupy some twelve hundred pages and contain over a quarter of a million words. the official account of the g. d (probably fiction) known as "the historical lecture" written and first delivered by fra. q.s.n, runs as follows "the order of the g. d. in the outer is an hermetic society which teaches occult science or the magic of hermes. about 1850 several french and english chiefs died and temple work was interrupted. such chiefs were eliphas levi, ragon, kenneth r. h. mackenzie, and fred hockley. these had received their power from even greater predecessors, 239 who are traced to the fratres rosa("sic) crucis of germany. valentine andrea("opera" a.d. 1614) has given an esoteric account of the s.r, probably he also edited

des, while in the thirty-second path leading thereunto, through which you have just passed, the kerubic guardians are represented; and the palm-trees, or trees of progression in the garden of eden. honoured "hegemon" conduct the zelator to the west, and place him there before the portal of the thirty-second path through which he has just entered" the zelator then seeks entrance by the caduceus of hermes, the symbolism of which the "hegemon" explains to him. 268 6 "see 777" cols. cvi, cvii, p. 23. illustration on page 269 approximated below_ hb:resh hb:samekh hb:tzaddi/ tablet/ of air_ kamea la/ dais) pentacle moon of mp_ on tree moon_ hierophant of life_ tablet of salt salt nb: here lineal earth is placed figures/ lamp a drawing_ of the tree of life lights unshaded with serpent tree of lif

tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female- adam and eve. the pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark; the right, male- metatron; and the left, female- sandalphon. above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, the higher life, of which they are the partakers in the eternal uncreated one" illustration on page 269 described "diagram 24. the caduceus of hermes" this is composed of two figures, side by side. on the left is a variation on the caduceus: a winged sun disk (ba-hadit) atop a stick. two serpents twine the stick in stylized fashion with open loops. the serpents face each other at top, with the stick between. their bodies intersect three times over the stick as they loop it back and forth. the second figure, to the right, is composed of a

d hathoor. she is aima, binah, and tebunah, the great supernal mother aima elohim pouring upon earth the waters of creation. in this key she is completely unveiled, whilst in the twenty-first she was only partially so. the two urns contain the influences of chokhmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life, and on the left the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights; therefore this key represents the restored world. illustration on page 280 described "the lineal figures" this is a double column of regular figures. the odd numbered are to the left and the even to the right. in each case the regular figure of the requisite number of points (all circumscribable) is composed of lines connecting all vertices. the figures with number of points are: t

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hb:bet :thoth stood before the unborn ones of time .then was formulated the universe .then came forth the gods thereof, hb:resh .the aeons of the bornless beyond. hb:aleph<caduceus("see" p. 269) the air symbol vibrating between them [also hb:yod, virgo, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0 degree= 0 square- p> then was the voice vibrated. hb:shin<spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth> then was the name declared .at the threshold of entrance, hb:taw .betwixt the universe and the infinite .in the sign of the entere

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y tongue is the sanctuary of truth: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself like that of ptah when he creates his works. since i am eternal everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless for eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 177 thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi. thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness rising, descending, changing for ever, yet for ever the same! the

he diagram of the mystic titles and grades, and says] this is the symbolic mountain of god in the centre of the universe, the sacred rosicrucian mountain of initiation, the mystic mountain of the caverns, even the mountain of abiegnus [this diagram shows a mountain crowned with light, and surrounded with darkness. at its base is the wall of secrecy, whose sole gate is formed by the two pillars of hermes. the ascent of the mountain is made by the serpent of wisdom. the explanation of this diagram being concluded, the "second" and "third "adepts" remove the altar, and the "chief adept" completes the third point by instructing the aspirant in the mystic symbolism of the vault itself, as follows] the vault consists of three principal parts (1) the ceiling, a brilliant white (2) the heptagonal

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nation, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with magi, who at length perished, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed ind

the letter-press, calf, re- backed, rare, 1652. 3 10s. physical rarities, containing the most choice receipts of physick and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to man's body: being a rich jewell kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets and approved medicines. published by ralph williams. hereunto is annexed, the physicall mathematicks of hermes trismegistus. 12mo, hf, old sheep, rare, 1652. 17s. 6d. agrippa (h. c) de incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientia et artium liber: et de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, etc, thick 12mo, old claf, hagae-comitum, 1662. 6s. 6d. agrippa (h. c) the vanity of arts and sciences. small 8vo, old calf, 1684. 10s. 6d. agrippa (henricus cornellus) de occulta philosophia, libra tres. folio

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death of those that are base and their resurrection in the prefect forms of gold and silver. a golden and blessed casket of nature's marvels. by benedictus figulus. with a life of the author. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a collection of short treatises by various authors belonging to the school of paracelsus, dealing with the mystery of the philosopher's stone, the revelation of hermes, the great work of the tincture, the glorious antidote of potable gold. benedictus figulus connects by imputation with the early rosicrucians. the triumphal chariot of antimony. by basil valentine. translated from the latin, including the commentary of kerckringius, and biographical and critical introduction. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a valuable treatise by one who is r

nd astrological charts, and a thousand other symbols of things, ideas, and states, all reflecting the one idea; so that he may build up a mighty mound, and from it eventually leap over the great wall which stands before him as a partition between two worlds. 4 "doctrine and ritual of magic" pp. 194, 195. 5 instructor. all faculties and all senses should share in the work; nothing in the priest of hermes has the right to remain idle; intelligence must be formulated by signs and summed by characters or pantacles; will must be determined by words, and must fulfil words by deeds; the magical idea must be rendered into light for the eyes, harmony for the ears, perfumes for the sense of smell, savours for the palate, objects for the touch; the operator, in a word, must realise in his whole life

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nation, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with magi, who at length perished, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed ind

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na. yoga killeth out all pain for him who is regulated in eating and amusement, regulated in performing actions, regulated in sleeping and waking.64 this balancing of what is vulgarly known as virtue and vice,65 and which the yogi philosophy does not always appreciate, is illustrated still more forcibly in that illuminating work "konx om pax" in which mr. crowley writes: as above so beneath! said hermes the thrice greatest. the laws of the physical world are precisely paralleled by those of the moral and intellectual sphere. to the prostitute i prescribe a course of training by which she shall 81 comprehend the holiness of sex. chastity forms part of that training, and i should hope to see her one day a happy wife and mother. to the prude equally i prescribe a course of training by which s

striver, the attainment of the state of "stainless deeds" to the great love wherein he must now enshrine all things. in detail the differences between buddhism and the yoga are verbal; in essence, man, at this stage, becomes the lover of the world, and love is the wand of the magician, that wand which conquers and subdues, vivifies, fructifies and replenishes the worlds, and like the cad uceus of hermes it is formed of two twining snakes. v "right livelihood" up to this stage man has been but a disciple to his holy guardian angel, but now he grows to be his equal, and in the flesh becomes a flame-shod adept whose white feet are not soiled by the dust and mud of earth. he has gained perfect control over his body and his mind; and not only are his speech and actions right, but his very life

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eir lust in vain: my song their fury scorns; they sink, they grovel in the dust["he turns to" sol. hail, self-created lord of night! inscrutable and infinite! let orpheus journey forth to see the disk in peace and victory! let him adore the splendid sight, the radiance of the heaven of nu; soar like a bird, laved by the light, to pierce the far eternal blue["he turns to" ares "and" scorpio. hail! hermes! thou the wands of ill hast touched with strength, and they are shivered! the way is open unto will! the pregnant goddess is delivered["he kneels to" sol. happy, yea, happy! happy is he that hath looked forth upon the bier that goeth to the house of rest! his heart is lit with melody; peace in his house is master of fear; his holy name is in the west 59 when the sun sinks, and royal rays of

; and for thine hair flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare of tears of that most memorable one, the radiant queen, the veiled paphian. the wings of light divine beneath thy body shine; the invisible rayed with some tangible flame, seeking to formulate a name, 100 a citadel; and the winged heels are fiery with enormous speed, one spurning heaven; the other trampling hell; and thou- recede! o hermes! messenger of inmost thought! descend! abide! swift coursing in my veins shoot dazzling pains, the word of selfhood integrate of nought, the ineffable amen! the wonder wrought. bring death if life exceed! bid thy pale hermit bleed, yet life exude; and wisdom and the word of him drench the mute mind grown dim with quietude! fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! my spirit free! mix with my br

sanctuary of truth: and a god sitteth upon my lips! my word is accomplished each day, and the desire of my heart realises itself, like that of ptah when he creates his works. i am eternal; therefore everything acts according to my designs, and everything obeys my words. therefore i say unto thee: come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all-light, all-power! thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still un-named and nameless to eternity! come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou, star of the east that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest betwixt the light and the darkness. rising, descending; changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy

nation, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc. book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered into english. from a unique and valuable ms. in the "bibliotheque de l'arsenal" at paris; with copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4"to, black cloth, magical square

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shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 26 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by hermes the invisible. 17. and this is the wrath of god, that these things should be thus. 18. and this is the grace of god, that these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love; but that ye know not, fo

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which was drawing the life they were concerned with out of its apparently legitimate sphere into a new realm of activity. some few did possess this knowledge but (realising the danger of their conclusions) refused to put in writing the result of their investigations. if students will study the laws of transmutation,11(276) as already apprehended, and above all, as incorporated in the writings of hermes trismegistus, bearing this in mind, some interesting results might be brought about. let them remember that that which "seeks liberty" is the central electric spark; that this liberty is achieved first of all through the results brought about by the activity of the "frictional fire" which speeds up its internal vibration; then by the work upon the atom, or the substance of solar fire, which

the gross, gently with much sagacity; it ascends from earth to heaven, and again descends to earth; and receives the strength of the superiors and the inferiors so thou hast the glory of the whole world; therefore let all obscurity fly before thee. this is the strong fortitude of all fortitudes overcoming every subtle and penetrating every solid thing. so the world was created" emerald tablet of hermes. 277 12: man must understand the nature of the wheel in which he is turned, called in sanskrit the wheel of samsara. this latter word derived from the root sru, to move, indicates a motion wheel or the great wheel of changing life in which the human entities have been called upon to work and which must never be abandoned out of compassion for man and in obedience to the law of oneness which

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

rrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to these goddesses, so likewise is it sacred to the virgin mary at

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house, the kingdom of god and the world of men) are all striving in one vast movement for an intensification of the light of the world. this light will irradiate (in a fashion unknown before) not only the father's house, which is the source of all our planetary light but also the spiritual centre from which have come all those teachers and world saviours who have stood before men and said, as did hermes, the buddha and the christ "i am the light of the world" this light will now flood the world of men, bringing illumination to men's minds and light into the dark places of human living. it is light and above all else "life more abundantly" which christ will bring, and until he- 30- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust brings it we know not what it signifies; we cannot r

he father's house, and the tests and trials which all disciples, aspirants and initiates have to face and which all those who today compose the spiritual hierarchy have already faced. when this statement is considered, it must include also the christ who, we are told "was in all points tempted like as we are (heb. iv.15, but also passed triumphantly the tests and trials. at some also unknown date hermes came and, so the records say, was the first to proclaim himself as "the light of the world" later the great teacher, vyasa, appeared. he gave one simple and needed message that death is not the end. from his time, the thinking of humanity about the possible immortality of the soul can be seen to stem. vaguely and instinctively, men had hoped and sensed that the discarding of the physical ve

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rcury, mars and the earth are closely allied with these three (venus, jupiter and saturn (299) the planet mercury references in the secret doctrine 1 "mercury is just beginning to get out of a state of obscuration. a. mercury has no satellite. b. mercury is a septenary chain (i. 188. 189) 2 "mercury is far older than the earth (i. 180) 3 "mercury is called the first of the celestial gods, the god hermes. to which god is attributed the invention of and the first initiation of men into magic. mercury is budh, wisdom, enlightenment or `reawakening' in the divine science (i. 513) 4 "mercury is the lord of wisdom (ii. 31) 5 "mercury is still more occult and mysterious than venus. it is: a. identical with mithra- 390- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lu

ryan race. a.a.b (ii. 32) 9 "mercury is the elder brother of the earth (ii. 48) 10 "mercury receives seven times more light than any other planet (ii. 570) 11 "buddhi and mercury correspond with each other and both are yellow and radiant golden-coloured. in the human system the right eye corresponds with buddhi and the left eye with manas and venus or lucifer (iii. 447, 448) 12 "mercury is called hermes; and venus, aphrodite and their conjunction in man on the psycho-physical plane gives him the name hermaphrodite (iii. 458) references in a treatise on cosmic fire 13 "venus, jupiter and saturn might be considered. as the vehicles of the three super or major principles. mercury, the earth and mars are closely allied to these three but a hidden mystery lies here (299) 14 "the second hint i s

ubstance is immaterial (s.d. i. 542) 9 "the sun (i.e. the solar system) has alcyone in the pleiades for the centre of its orbit (s.d. i. 545) 10 "the logos with the seven hierarchies form one power, so, in the world of form, the sun and the seven chief planets constitute one active potency (s.d. ii. 27) 11 "the sun, the moon and mercury were the earliest trinity of the egyptians (osiris, isis and hermes (s.d. ii. 640) 12 "the seven rays of the sun are made parallel to the seven worlds of every planetary chain, and to the seven rivers of heaven and earth (s.d. ii. 640) 13 "the seven rays of the sun will expand at the final pralaya into seven suns and absorb the material of the whole universe (s.d. ii. 647) 14 "the moon is the mind and the sun is the understanding (s.d. ii. 675) 15 "the trin

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e have today upon the physical plane the emergence of much light everywhere; we have festivals of illumination, and a consistent endeavour on the part of all spiritual workers to enlighten mankind, and a great deal of talk on the part of educators anent illumination of a mental kind. the keynote of this effort to eliminate world glamour was sounded by christ when he said (following the example of hermes, who initiated the process of enlightenment for our race, the aryan "i am the light of the world- 26- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust disciples must learn the significance of illumination, received in meditation, and the necessity to work with light as a group for the dissipation of glamour. hermes and christ undertook this work of astral enlightenment and ar

pation of glamour. hermes and christ undertook this work of astral enlightenment and are constantly occupied with this task. their work in the new age is to be aided by the intensive activity of certain groups of which this second group is one. later, when the new civilisation is nearing appearance, these groups will all have in them two key persons or points of energy through which the forces of hermes and the will of christ will be focussed, and through which they will be enabled to work. when this takes place, the task of dissipating the world glamour will be much more rapid than it is today. in the meantime groups of disciples can "nurture and conceal" thus protecting from trouble the germ or seed of the new aquarian culture and civilisation along this particular line of freedom. again

ouse, the kingdom of god, and the world of men) are all striving in one vast movement for an intensification of the light of the world. this light will irradiate in a fashion unknown before, not only the father's house, which is the source of all our planetary light, but also the spiritual centre from which have come all those teachers and world saviours who have stood before men and said, as did hermes, the buddha and the christ "i am the light of the world" this light will now flood the world of men, bringing illumination to men's minds and light into the dark places of human living. it is light and above all else "life more abundantly" which christ will bring, and until he brings it we know not what it signifies; we cannot realise the revelation which this will entail and the new possib

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oft the case today; to this must be coupled the steady changing or conversion of scientific attainment, by the enlightenment which wisdom brings; this has in the past safeguarded human aspiration and human progress into light. in the light which enlightenment brings we shall eventually see light, and the day will come when thousands of the sons of men and countless groups will be able to say with hermes and with christ "i am (or we are) the light of the world" we are told by the christ that men "love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil" nevertheless, one of the great emerging beauties of the present time is that light is being thrown into every dark place, and there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed. when we invoke the mind of god and say "let light stream f

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

and passed through gate the tenth. downward, ever downward, did he travel into the binding worlds of form. the atmosphere grew stifling, the darkness steadily more intense. and yet his will was firm. this steep descent continued long and long. alone, yet not all alone, he wandered on, for when he sought within he heard the silvery voice of the wisdomgoddess, athena, and the strengthening words of hermes. at length he came to that dark, envenomed river called the styx, a river that the souls of the deceased must cross. an obolus or penny had to be paid to charon, the ferryman, that he might take them to the other side. the somber visitor from earth affrighted charon, and forgetting the fee, he ferried the stranger across. hercules at last had entered hades, a dim and misty region where the

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pan, by mrs. browning, that whichformed the most exquisite and refined portion of the original myths is omitted by both authors, sim-ply because they missed or did not perceive it. for in the former we are not told that it was thebreathing of the god air(who was the inspiring soul of ancient music, and the bellariaof modernwitch-mythology) on the dried filament of the tortoise, which suggested to hermes the making aninstrument wherewith he made the music of the spheres and guided the course of the planets. as formrs. browning, she leaves out syrinxaltogether, that is to say, the voice of the nymph still lingeringin the pipe which had been her body. now to my mind the old prose narrative of these myths ismuch more deeply poetical and moving, and far more inspired with beauty and romance, th

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proper ties. when this union has taken place, the two bring forth a third namely, an earth vlike twelve keys of basil valentine 12 of 95 substance, which is the principle of our seed, of its first source, so that it can shew an ancestry, and from which three the elements, such as water, air, and earth, take their origin. these elements work underground in the form of fire, and there produce what hermes, and all who have preceded me, call the three first principles, viz, the internal soul, the impalpable spirit, and visible bodies, beyond which we can find no earlier beginning of our magistery. in the course of time these three unite, and are changed through the action of fire into a palpable substance, viz, quicksilver, sulphur, and salt. if these three substances be mixed, they are harde

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

iroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly man" in the collective sense of the word, namely, from the creative spirits; and in the fragments (collected by george smith) of chaldean tablets on which is inscribed the babylonian legend of creation, in the first column of the cutha tablet, seven human beings with the faces of ravens (black, swarthy complexions, whom

or dhyanis, brought forth a wonder. seven men, all males and females (hermaphrodite. according to the nature of the seven governors- book ii. v. 29- or the seven hosts of the pitris or elohim, who projected or created him. this is very clear, but yet, see the interpretations of even our modern theologians, men supposed to be intellectual and learned! in the "theological and philosophical works of hermes trismegistus, christian) neoplatonist" a work compiled by john david chambers, of oriel college, oxford, the translator wonders "for whom these seven men are intended" he solves the difficulty by concluding that, as "the original pattern man (adam kadmon of ch. i. genesis) was masculine-feminine, the seven may signify the succeeding patriarchs named in genesis (p. 9. a truly theological way

cceeding patriarchs named in genesis (p. 9. a truly theological way of cutting the gordian knot[[vol. 2, page] 3 the lemnos-born kabiri (potentially; the latter in the androgynes; these again in the sexual, the later third race (for further explanation, vide infra. were the tablets less mutilated, they would be found to contain word for word the same account as given in the archaic records and in hermes, at least as regards the fundamental facts, if not as regards minute details; for hermes is a good deal disfigured by mistranslations. it is quite certain that the seeming supernaturalism of these teachings, although allegorical, is so diametrically opposed to the dead-letter statements of the bible* as well as to the latest hypotheses of science, that it will evoke passionate denial. the o

ates a commentary; which means that our earth, leaving aside the rest, was created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our solar system. this is borne out by all the ancient cosmogonies: that of hermes, of the chaldees, of the aryans, of the egyptians, and even of the jews. heaven's belt, the signs of the zodiac (the sacred animals, are as much the bne' alhim (sons of the gods or the elohim) as the spirits of the earth; but they are prior to them. soma and sin, isis and diana, are all lunar gods or goddesses, called the fathers and mothers of our earth, which is subordinate to them. but t

ding force of that "creator- good and bad at the same time, the origin of good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of the sun-gods had anything to do. the idea is expressed very clearly in the "books of hermes" and in every ancient folk lore. it is symbolised generally by the dragon and the serpent- the dragon of good and the serpent of evil, represented on earth by[[footnote(s* for a clearer explanation of the origins, as contained in the esotericism of the bhagavad gita, see the notes thereon published in the "theosophist" for february, march and june, 1887, madras[[vol. 2, page] 26 the secret

ey create men by incarnating themselves in[[footnote(s* j. w. alden, new york* it has been repeatedly stated that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom and of occult knowledge "the serpent has been connected with the god of wisdom from the earliest times of which we have any historical notice" writes staniland wake "this animal was the especial symbol of thot or taut. and of all those gods, such as hermes) and seth who can be connected with him. this is also the primitive chaldean triad hea or hoa" according to sir henry rawlinson, the most important titles of this deity refer to "his functions as the source of all knowledge and science" not only is he "the intelligent fish" but his name may be read as signifying both "life" and a serpent (an initiated adept, and he may be considered as "fig

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ations of beings. 223 what incarnates in animal man. 233 formation of man: the thinker. 238 occult and kabalistic pneumatics. 243 akasa and ether. 257 the invisible "lives. 259 occult vital chemistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon

s. 579 all-potential unity. 583 the "seventh" in chemistry. 585- xiii. the modern nebular theory. 588 forces are emanations. 591 what is the nebula. 595- xiv. forces- modes of motion or intelligences. 601 the vital principle. 603 occult and physical science. 605- xv. gods, monads, and atoms. 610 the gods of the ancients- the monads. 613 the monad and the duad. 617 the genesis of the elements. 621 hermes and huxley. 625 the teaching of leibnitz. 627 the monads according to occultism. 632- xvi. cyclic evolution and karma. 634 karmic cycles and universal ethics. 637 destiny and karma. 639 karma-nemesis. 643- xvii. the zodiac and its antiquity. 647 the jewish patriarchs and the signs of the zodiac. 651 zodiacal cycles. 656 hindu astronomy. 661- xviii. summary of the mutual position. 668 scienc

false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history, it is a bold step for our

sense of the greek word[[anthropos[[vol. 1, page] xliii introductory. the "very old book" is the original work from which the many volumes of kiu-ti were compiled. not only this latter and the siphrah dzeniouta but even the sepher jezirah* the work attributed by the hebrew kabalists to their patriarch abraham, the book of shuking, china's primitive bible, the sacred volumes of the egyptian thoth-hermes, the puranas in india, and the chaldean book of numbers and the pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (th

rians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; moses, initiated in the wisdom of hermes, following suit in genesis; the gnostic's serpent with the seven vowels over its head, being the emblem of the seven hierarchies of the septenary or planetary creators. hence, also, the hindu serpent sesha or ananta "the infinite" a name of vishnu, whose first vahan or vehicle on the primordial w

e earth and man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. the serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the greek emblem of psyche, the human soul. the "dragon" was also the symbol of the logos with the egyptians, as with the gnostics. in the "book of hermes" pymander, the oldest and the most spiritual of the logoi of the western continent, appears to hermes in the shape of a fiery dragon of "light, fire, and flame" pymander, the "thought divine" personified, says: the light is me, i am the nous (the mind or manu, i am thy god, and i am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow("darkness" or the concealed deity. i am the

BLUE EQUINOX

nd magick. the pistis sophia. an admirable introduction to the study of gnosticism. the oracles of zoroaster. an invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. the equinox 22 the dream of scipio, by cicero. excellent for its vision and its philosophy. the golden verses of pythagoras, by fabre d.olivet. an interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invalua

d its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recognition in every country in the world. in more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the o.t.o. included such men as: fohi hippolytus laotze merlin siddartha arthur krishna titurel tahuti amfortas ankh-f-n-khonsu percivale herakles mosheh orpheus odysseus vergilius mohammed catullus hermes liber lii 199 martialis pan apollonius tyan us dante simon magus carolus magnus manes william of schyren basilides frederick of hohenstaufen valentinus roger bacon bardesanes jacobus burgundus molensis king wu ko hsuen christian rosenkreutz osiris ulrich von hutten melchizedek paracelsus khem michael maier menthu jakob boehme johannes dee francis bacon sir edward kelly andr a thos. vaughan

our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they glory unto men (at each name the deacon signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicized, with wording as is shown) laotze and siddartha and krishna and tahuti, mosheh, dionysus, mohammed and to mega therion, with these also hermes, pan, priapus, osiris and melchizedek, khem and liber xv 261 amoun and mentu, heracles, orpheus and odysseus; with vergilius, catullus, martialis, rabelais, swinburne, and many an holy bard; apollonius tyan us, simon magus, manes, pythagoras, basilides, valentinus, bardesanes and hippolytus, that transmitted the light of the gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with merlin, arthur

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ity, originally native to arcadia. as such he is god of goatherds and flocks and is usually represented as a very sensual creature; a shaggy human to the loins with pointed ears, goat's horns and legs. he wanders among the mountains and valleys, pursuing nymphs or leading them in their dances. he is quite musical and is the inventor of the syrinx, or 'pipes of pan. he is considered to be a son of hermes" putnam's concise mythological dictionary joseph kaster, putnam, ny 1963 lesson two: beliefs/ 15 with the deities. the god has feminine aspects as well as masculine, and the goddess has masculine as well as feminine. i will examine this in more detail in a later lesson. what names you use for your deities is a matter of personal preference. in saxon witchcraft the name woden is given to the

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

the meditation gimel is referred correctly to chokmah, the second sephirah, because the letter-name, gimel, g m l, adds up to 73 and this is the value of the noun chokmah, c h k m h "wisdom. there are even profounder reasons for the identification of gimel with chokmah, which cannot be included in this brief commentary. 2 the quotation is from the emerald tablet, supposed to have been written by hermes trismegistus, and is one of the evidences that our author is one of the later qabalists. in the qabalah, the direction below is attributed to gimel, and above to beth. philosophically they refer to the superior and inferior natures of the one life, as described in the meditations. the doctrine here is so closely allied to that of the bhagavad-gita as to suggest that our author may have met

y spirit. thy very self am i, o israel, and self of all that is. deluded by the illusion of personal independence, the uninstructed mistake the descent of my power from the life breath of ruach [193] the book of t o k e n s for an ascent of power from my manifestations in malkuth. know ye that never does power have its beginning in that which is below. it doth ascend from earth to heaven, even as hermes saith, and from heaven it descendeth again to earth, as also he hath it. yet remember, that whatsoever the sages write, is always veiled, lest the profane burn themselves with the fires they know not how to direct. thus canst thou see that they who read the. words of the sages with the outer eye alone, mistake the inner import. dost thou aspire to,the height of the sphere of the sun? worthy

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

le planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened their windows and placed garlic on the window ledge so that only the good family dead might enter and take shelter from the cold. this simple folk magick, rather than ceremonial magick, forms the basis for the majority of spells. as above, so below, the words of the semi-divine father of magick, hermes trismegistos, may originally have evolved from popular magick that is practised in many different cultures around the world to this day. they are certainly as applicable today as they ever were. whatever the aim of your magick may be, if you look around your home, garden, workshop or even office, you have the necessary tools for the spells you require. what is more, rooted as they are in do

ddesses [insert pic p056] seite 30 wicca01.txt- the mechanics of witchcraft magick takes place at what ts eliot in the four quartets called the 'still point of the turning world, that moment of timelessness that enables thought to be turned into reality on the material plane. it operates on the principle as above, so below. this phrase comes from the beginning of the emerald tablet, attributed to hermes trismesgistos (thrice-blessed hermes, thought to be a powerful first-century egyptian sorcerer who became worshipped as a god after his death. this tablet is said to contain all magical knowledge as well as the principles of alchemy, and states that human action and events reflect what occurs in the heavens. and so by releasing magical intentions into the cosmos, as i said earlier, they wil

a single ostrich feather as a headdress. seite 44 wicca01.txt she was all-powerful, even over the king, who had to rule with truth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge [insert pic p080- the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of po

ert pic p080- the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. the wings on the caduceus are for wisdom, guarding against gossip and malicious words as well as illness. among hermes' many patronages were moneylenders and thieves and so he can protect against poverty and trickery, as well as helping you to speak the truth that is in your heart. hermes can also be invoked for all medical and commercial matters, for good fortune of all kinds and for peaceful sleep. minerva minerva is the roman goddess of wisdom, who ruled with jupiter and juno as the triumvirate of justic

a mortar and pestle with a few drops of laurel or eucalyptus essential oil- these are also good for viral infections. as you mix, chant a mantra, such as: heal and restore, strength once more. if you are working as a group, one person should mix the herbs on the altar while the others chant the names of healing deities (see page 77) in ever-rising intensity and pitch, for example: brighid, ganga, hermes, thoth, hygeia, panacea, sulis, iduna! as you do so, you raise a cone of healing energies over the mortar and pestle, breathing in life from the living fruits and flowers and projecting it as blue healing light that may be mingled with the green of the herbs. you can adapt the chant if you do not wish to use specific names, for example: goddess, mother, healer, restorer, hear our plea* now

tions, overcoming debts, repelling envy, malice and spite and those who would deceive. for this reason, mercury spells must always be used with honest intent. wednesday is also traditionally associated with divination. seite 140 wicca01.txt mercury, the planet nearest the sun, completes its orbit in only 88 days and so is named after the fleet-footed messenger god who, like his greek predecessor, hermes, carried the healing caduceus. he is also linked with the anglo-saxon god, woden, after whom wednesday is named. mercury hour spells are good for finding a quick way out of difficulties and for melting rigid opinions in others. element: air colour: yellow crystals: agate, citrine, falcon's eye, jasper, malachite, onyx incenses: lavender, lemongrass, mace trees: hazel, ash herbs and oils: di

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

othing can be destroyed (or created) only transformed. 427-347 plato 400 bce books of proverbs, job (o.t) 384-322 aristotle 370 bc eudoxus of cnidus devises calendars using zodiac with 12 equal zodiac signs. invents geometrical theory of proportion. 360 critias by plato: the origin of the atlantis story. 356- alexander the great born 350 bc petosiris, chief administrator of the temple of khumunu (hermes) near hermopolis becomes known for mastering egyptian esoteric astrology. 350 (hist) tao-te ching [tao. 340 writings of chuang-tzu [tao] c. 330 manetho of sebennytos egyptian historian, priest at heliopolis under ptolemy i and ptolemy ii wrote aegyptiaca a collection of three books about the history of ancient egypt, commissioned by ptolemy ii in his effort to bring together the egyptian an

tian esoteric astrology. 350 (hist) tao-te ching [tao. 340 writings of chuang-tzu [tao] c. 330 manetho of sebennytos egyptian historian, priest at heliopolis under ptolemy i and ptolemy ii wrote aegyptiaca a collection of three books about the history of ancient egypt, commissioned by ptolemy ii in his effort to bring together the egyptian and hellenistic cultures. mentioned 36,525 manuscripts of hermes. these books state that the world was made out of fluid; that the soul is the union of light and life; that nothing is destructible; that the soul transmigrates; and that suffering is the result of motion. 330 bc alexander the great (356-323 bc) helps to spread astrology from babylon and egypt throughout the middle east. greek philosophers exposed to new occult ideas from egypt and babylon

the book of the watchers.aramaic. parts of its text have been identified on several copies from qumran cave 4; the earliest fragmentary manuscript(4qenocha) dates. 196- the rosetta stone was engraved 164 book of daniel (o.t. 160 o.t. apocrypha: tobit, 1 esdras, enoch, others. 150 yoga sutras of patanajali; early qumran (dead sea scrolls. 150 bc esoteric form of astrology based on the teachings of hermes or thoth circulates in numerous works under such titles as: astrologoumena, hermaikai diataxeis or doctrines of hermes, apokotastasis, liber hermetis(listing of decan images, asklepios. 130 bc greek astronomer hipparchus is credited for the discovering the precession of the equinoxes which was already known in babylonia centuries earlier. 86-82 bc rhetorica ad herennium latin rhetorical tre

on, combined with physical exercises, that they called hesychasm (from the greek, hesychia=silence, q.v. parallels have been observed between medieval ecstatic kabbalah and hesychast practice. 204-270 ce plotinus, neoplatonic philosopher and mystic (born in egypt) c.210 clement of alexandria stromata book 6 chap.4 describes sacred ceremonial procession of egyptian priests carrying the 42 books of hermes(emanation of re) 215-220: origen (185-253/4, then catechist for the christian community of alexandria, preaches his homilies on genesis along with a lot of other works 216 to 276- life of mani, the illuminator, who founded manicheism, based on ideas from judaism, christianity, zoroasterism, gnosticism, etc. 244-261 mani sent a mission to egypt under adda and patteg reaching as far as alexan

promoting the arab's assimilation of indian, greek and persian science. 787-886 abu ma'shar. persian astrologer. al-kindi's student wrote a "great introduction (ysagoga maiore) to astrology around 850 ce; a major source for medieval astrologers. a fusion of sabian hermeticism, persian chronology, islamic religious doctrine, greek science and mesopotamian astrology. identified idris with enoch and hermes. 796-861 dhu l-nun al-misri hermetic sufi from akhmim egypt, said to have studied with jabir b. hayyan al-kufi. 800-866 al-kindi wrote "on rays (de radiis. al-kindi's theory would tend to imply that the "occult qualities" of plants and stones are a kind of signification "all terrestrial things emit "rays" which exist everywhere simultaneously thereby permitting the magician who understands

to astrology. 1127-1279 "white lotus society. chinese religious sect which developed out of pure land buddhist lay associations in the southern sung dynasty 1128-1203 alanus ab insulis aka alain de l'isle& alain de lille derived his pythagoreanism from the asclepius and hermetica; influenced by pseudo-dionysius and john scotus erigena. school of chartres. influence on romance of the rose. quotes hermes trismegistus liber de xxiv philosophorum: a gathering of twenty-four philosophers debated: what is god? each participant offered a concise description. liber xxiv philosophorum consists of twenty-four definitions #1 god is the one, he brings forth oneness out of himself, and he lets the oneness return to himself in the form of love #2: god is an infinite sphere, the centre of which is every

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e fountain in the aforementioned garden, where i found that the lion, instead of his sword, had a pretty large tablet by him. now having looked well at it, i found that it was taken out of the ancient monuments, and placed here for some special honour. the inscription was somewhat worn out with age, and therefore i have a mind to set it down here, as it is, and give everyone leave to consider it( hermes the prince. after so many wounds inflicted on humankind, here by god s counsel and the help of the art flow i, a healing medicine. let him drink me who can: let him wash who will: let him trouble me who dare: drink, brethren and live) this writing might well be read and understood, and may therefore suitably be placed here, because it is easier than any of the rest. now after we had first w

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sed humans and the full blood51reptilians. this race of giants or titans was said to have been descendants of noah,the baby described in the book of enoch (previously the book of noah) as being awatcher-human hybrid with extremely white skin. the father of nimrod in the text ofgenesis was cush, also known as bel or belus, who was the grandson of noah and sonof ham. cush became known as the deity, hermes, which means son of ham.1 ham orkhem means the burnt one and may have been connected to sun worship.2 a greatnetwork of deities emerged from babylon and its connections with egypt.nimrod and semiramis have remained the key deities of the brotherhood to this dayunder many different names and symbols. nimrod was symbolised as a fish and queensemiramis as a fish and a dove. semiramis is likely

here. this wasalso said of the earlier nimrod, khrishna, buddha, ormuzd, osiris, aeacus and others.jesus is the alpha and omega, the first and the last. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun, bacchus, zeus and others. jesus is claimed to have performed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be rather crowded beca

re 49. look at the names of some of thebrotherhoods insurance companies: sun alliance,sun life, britannic assurance, eagle star. the sunalliance building in piccadilly circus, london, isdecorated with two pillars, two flames, and astatue of britannia (barati) holding her circle andcross shield, the ancient sun symbol! note also thenames given to space craft, military aircraft, andnaval ships like hermes, nimrod, atlantis, andcolumbia. all symbolic to the brotherhood.the fleur-de-lis is another ancient symbol whichis widely used today, particularly by royalty, and you find it on the fences around manybuildings. it can be found on one of the gates to the white house. it was used by themerovingians in france and, apart from its connection to them, it symbolises the babylo-nian god nimrod, and

DIABOLUS

behold me, mortal, for i am thy god, the true image of thyself, and the very essence of life, yet within me lieth a magnitude greater than you can ever behold without. for i am both macrocosm and microcosm; only your petty vanity could decree otherwise. worship me, and i shall give you the stars. reject me, and i shall give the depths of the abyss, for i lie within your own being from the book of hermes from the alex sanders lectures in the manuscript of the book of tahuti by charles pace, he writes that hermes was anubis who is death hermanubis or heru-em-anpu, who is the son of set. it is said 7 azothoz, a grimoire of the adversary by michael w. ford, succubus publishing 9 that anubis is very similar to the grecian hecate, as they are deific forces over both the celestial and infernal re

30 abel in some luciferian lore is considered a lower pre form of cain, thus the sacrifice was not literal. 30 later paths of witchcraft as a lord of magick, but rather the darker aspects. here cain takes a similar path with anubis by name and process. robert cochrane, a practitioner of witchcraft in the 60 s wrote- in the north lies the castle of weeping, the ruler thereof is named tettens, our hermes or woden. he is the second twin, the waning sun, lord over mysticism, magic, power and death, the baleful destroyer. the god of war, of justice, king of kings, since all pay their homage to him. ruler of the winds, the windyat. cain imprisioned in the moon, ever desiring earth. he is visualized as a tall dark man, shadowy, cold and deadly. letters from robert cochrane here we see that cain

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kether cannot be consciousness, but the raw material of conscious-ness when considered microcosmically, and the raw material of existence when considered macrocosmically. for there is this twofold way of considering the tree, as we have already noted; it can be regarded as the universe and as the soul of man, and these two aspects throw light upon each other. in the words of the emerald tablet of hermes "as above, so below" 8. kether differentiates into chokmah and binah before it achieves phenomenal existence, and these two are called by the qabalists, abba, the supernal father, and ama, the supernal mother. binah is also called the great sea, and shahathai, the sphere of saturn. as we continue, we shall find that the sephiroth are called successively the mystical qabala page 31 spheres o

estructive potency, one of the infortunes in astrology. the positive builds up, the negative breaks down; the positive is a kinetic force, the negative is a static force. 9. these aspects appear again in netzach at the base of the pillar of mercy, and hod at the base of the pillar of severity. netzach is venus, the green nature ray, elemental force, the initiation of the emotions. hod is mercury, hermes, the initiation of knowledge. netzach is instinct and emotion, a kinetic force; hod is intellect, concrete thought, the reduction of intuitive knowledge to form. 10. we must remember, however, that each sephirah is negative, that is to say feminine, in relation to its predecessor, whence it emanates and whence it receives the divine influence; and positive, masculine, or stimulating in resp

becomes the upbuilding, organising aspect of evolution; anabolism, as distinguished from the katabolism of geburab. in chesed the chokmah force becomes that peculiarly subtle form of magnetism which gives power of leadership and is the root of greatness. equally, on the left-hand pillar, the forcerestraining binah becomes the form-destroying geburah, and again the maker of magical images, mercury-hermes-thoth. 46. from time to time the symbols of occult science have leaked out into popular knowledge, but the uninitiated have not understood the method of arranging these symbols in their pattern as the tree, nor of applying to them the alchem;cal principles of transmutation and distillation wherein lie. the real secrets of their use. chapter xvii binah, the third sephirah title: binah, under

wer will not flow. every human being must be "earthed" to the earth, both literally and metaphorically. the idealist tries to induce a complete insulation of all earth-contacts in order that the inflowing power may not be wasted; he fails to realise that the earth is one great magnet. 45 tradition declares from of old that the key to the [page 236] mysteries was written upon the emerald tablet of hermes, whereon were inscribed the words "as above, so below" apply the principles of physics to psychology, and the riddle will be read. he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 46. finally we come to the consideration of the signiflcanc of the tarot cards associated with netzach. these are the four sevens of the tarot pack. 47. as we are now coming within the sphere of influence of the earth-pla

the overseers, the archangels, for their instructions, hese last directing the armies of humble toilers who add stone to stone according to the archetypal plan of the most high. whenever did the architect designing the edifice work upon it with his two unaided hands? never, not even when the universe was abuilding. 35. the mundane chakra, as we have already noted, is mercury, and its symbolism as hermes-thoth we have already considered. 36. the spiritual experience assigned to this sephirah is the vision of splendour, which is the realisation of the glory of god manifesting in the created world. the initiate of hod sees behind the appearance of created things and discerns their creator, and in the realisation of the splendour of nature as the garment of the ineffable he receives his illumi

wielded in the magic of light. it is by making himself a channel for these forces that the master of white magic brings order into the disorder of the spheres mystical qabala page 170 of unbalanced force, not by deflecting the invisible powers to his personal will. he is the equilibrator of the unbalanced, not the arbitrary manipulator of nature. 37. in this sphere, which is the sphere of mercury-hermes, god of science and books, how clearly can we see that the supreme virtue is truthfulness, and that the obverse aspect of this sephirab is that which reveals mercury in his aspect as the god of thieves and cunning rogues. in esoteric ethics it is realised that each plane has its own standard of right and wrong. the standard of the physical plane is strength; the standard of the astral plane

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book of the dead certain chapters[4] are stated to be the work of the god thoth. they certainly belong to that class of literature which the greeks called "hermetic"[5] and it is pretty certain that under some group they were included in the list of the forty-two works which, according to clement of alexandria,[6] constituted the sacred books of the egyptians.[7] as thoth, whom the greeks called hermes, is in egyptian texts styled "lord of divine books"[8 "scribe of the company of the gods"[9] and "lord of divine speech"[10] this ascription is well founded. the [1. for the hieroglyphic text see maspero, recueil de travaux, t. vii, pp. 162, 163; and t. xi, p. ii. 2 pietschmann thinks (aeg. zeitschrift, bd. xxxi, p. 73 f) that the satyrs, who are referred to by diodorus (i, xviii) as the co

t is clear that in some points he errs, but this was excusable in dealing with a series of traditions already some four thousand years old.[1] according to this writer the goddess rhea [nut, the wife of helios [ra, was beloved by kronos [seb. when helios discovered the intrigue, he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of her child in any month or in any year. then the god hermes, who also loved rhea, played at the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (1 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] tables with selene and won from her the seventieth part of each day of the year, which, added together, made five whole days. these he joined to the three hundred and sixty days of which the year then consisted.[2] upon the first of these five days was osiris

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s and achievements will shine forth through all the ages yet to come. published in serial parts at 25 cents each or in bound sets of io volumes. for particulars and circulars address francis r. niglutsch, publisher 39 east nineteenth street new york. egypt greece france assyria rome russia babylonia germany spain persia austria china japan norway sweden holland belgium denmelthe emerald tablet of hermes multiple translations this page copyright 2002 blackmask online. http//www.blackmask.com history of the tablet translations from jabir ibn hayyan. another arabic version (from the german of ruska, translated by 'anonymous. twelfth century latin translation from aurelium occultae philosophorum..georgio beato translation of issac newton c. 1680. translation from kriegsmann) alledgedly from th

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ze-working castes of its several races (see shelta thari) it was probably in the byzantium of the fourth century, however, that alchemical science received embryonic form. there is little doubt that egyptian tradition, filtering through alexandrian hellenic sources, was the foundation upon which the infant science was built, and this is borne out by the circumstance that the art was attributed to hermes trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. the arabs, after their conquest of egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was carried to morocco and in the eighth century to spain, where it flourished. during the next few centuries spain served as the repository of alchemical scienc

ence, in divination, and the secrets of prophecy. but in arab spain, where the tenets of islam were perhaps more lightly esteemed than in their original home, magic unquestionably reached a higher if not more thoughtful standard. from the greeks, still in search of science, the arabs turned their attention to the books of the sages who are esteemed the primitive instructors of mankind, among whom hermes was deemed the first. they mention the works written by him, or rather by them, as they suppose, like other authors, that there were three of the name. to one the imposing appellation of trismegistus has been given, and the arabians, presumably from some ancient records, minutely described his character and person. illustrating their astrological discipline, they also published some writing

underbolt, and zeus was eventually prevailed upon to admit asclepius to the ranks of the gods. the worship of asclepius centered in epidaurus, and the cock was offered to him in sacrifice. the serpent and the dog were sacred to him, and his symbol of the serpent coiled about a staff still remains as the sign of medical practice. asclepius is also featured in the hermetic literature connected with hermes trismegistus( thrice-greatest hermes. sources: edelstein, emma jeanette levy. asclepius: a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. new york: arno press, 1975. ashcroft-nowicki, delores (1929) delores ashcroft-nowicki, the head of the servants of the light, a contemporary school of ritual magic, is a sensitive psychic who came from a family of psychics. as a youth, she studied at t

al literature. kut-hu-mi told chaney that she had been selected for a special task.teaching the ancient wisdom to the people of the new age. the chaneys resigned from their church in eaton rapids, michigan, moved to los angeles, and founded astara. astara s teachings are an eclectic body. they draw on christianity, spiritualism, theosophy, yoga, and especially on the ancient egyptian teachings of hermes trismegistus, who is believed to have organized the original mystery school from which all others ultimately derive. the chaneys also have made themselves open to new insights from the world s religions and philosophies. from hermes, astara teaches that god is the only uncreated reality and that he has emanated his seven attributes and all that exists. hermes taught the seven laws beginning

strology had developed among the greeks, but during the conquests of alexander in the west beginning in 334 b.c.e. chaldean astrology flowed into the mediterranean basin. alexander s conquests also introduced astrology into india, although the indians took the chaldean notions and developed them in a unique direction. in egyptian tradition the invention of astrology is attributed to thoth (called hermes trismegistus by the greek, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. he is the mercury of the romans, the eloquent deliverer of the messages of the gods. in imperial rome astrology was held in great repute, especially under the reign of tiberius (14.37 c.e. augustus (27 b.c.e..14 c.e) had discouraged the practice of astrology by banishing its practitioners from rome, but his successors r

n 1845 and 1846. thomas lake harris produced two long poems in a similar manner: epic of the starry heavens (1854, a poem containing nearly four thousand lines, and a lyric of the morning land (1856, another impressive poetic composition of over five thousand words. both were dictated in a remarkably short time. david duguid s curious historic romance hafed, prince of persia (1876, and its sequel hermes, a disciple of jesus (1887, were also taken down from trance dictations. interesting cases of automatic speaking the revelations of catherine emmerich, the seeress of westphalia, were taken down and published by clement brentano in a work of several volumes. the seeress, who lived at the beginning of the nineteenth century, told the story of the life of jesus day by day as if she had been a

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7. echoes from the gnosis. 1907. reprint, hastings, e. sussex, england: chthonius books, 1987. mcmoneagle, joseph encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1006. fragments of a faith forgotten. 1900. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. pistis sophia. london: theosophical publishing society, 1921. simon magus. london: theosophical publishing society, 1892. thrice greatest hermes. london: theosophical society, 1906. meddelande fran sallskapet fur parapsykologis publication in swedish of the swedish society for psychical research. last known address: p.o. box 7045, stockholm 10386, sweden. medea in greek mythology, an enchantress and daughter of the king of colchis who fell in love with jason when he came to that country. medea enabled him to slay the sleepless drago

for example, it would be impossible to evoke voltaire by reciting prayers in the style of st. bridget. for the great men of antiquity, we may see the hymns of cleanthes or orpheus, with the adjuration terminating the golden verses of pythagoras. in our own evocation of apollonius, we used the magical philosophy of patricius for the ritual, containing the doctrines of zoroaster and the writings of hermes trismegistus. we recited the nuctemeron of apollonius in greek with a loud voice and added the following conjuration: vouchsafe to be present, o father of all, and thou thrice mighty hermes, conductor of the dead. asclepius son of hephaistus, patron of the healing art; and thou osiris, lord of strength and vigour, do thou thyself be present too. arnebascenis, patron of philosophy, and yet a

ong tours and occasionally sponsors workshops. for information on activities and visiting, write perelandra, box 136, jeffersonton, va 22724 (see also crystal healing) sources: atwater, p. m. h. the magic of perelandra. east-west (august 1986. wright, machaelle s. behaving as if the god in all life mattered. n.p, 1983. the perelandra garden workbook. n.p, 1987. perfect sermon a hermetic book (see hermes trismegistus; hermetica) percipient encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1196 perfumes perfumes are substances, generally made by blending plant oils, selected animal secretions, and synthetic chemicals, to produce a pleasant odor. such substances were highly valued and sought after throughout human history, especially before regular bathing and the widespread use of deodorant

(1952.57) and a patent engineer at deutsche edelstahlwerke beginning in 1957. he is interested in the phenomena of psychokinesis. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. pohl, hans ludwig. investigation of the pk-effect. journal of parapsychology 24, no. 3 (september 1960. poimandres (or poemander) texts of the hermetica, ascribed to hermes trismegistus. poland poland s history of staunch roman catholic beliefs has offered an interesting perspective on that country s interest in parapsychology and the paranormal. for observers, the belief in miracles and other spiritual phenomena alone might have qualified as testimony to belief in the supernatural. in 2000 the country s roman catholic population was estimated at 80 percent of

hological journals psykisk forum and psykisk information. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. smagorad a mysterious book of magic power in the possession of arnaud guillaume in 1393, during the reign of charles vi of france. smaragdine table believed to be the earliest statement of the principles of spiritual alchemy, ascribed to hermes trismegistus. it was said to have been inscribed on emerald (smaragdine) in phoenician letters and was generally referred to as the emerald table of hermes. smead, mrs (ca. 1902) pseudonym of mrs. willis m. cleveland, wife of an american preacher to whom james h. hyslop s attention was invited in december 1901. smead had occasionally practiced planchette writing from her childhood and began

tician lord edward bulwer lytton (grand patron 1871.73. kenneth mackenzie became an honorary magus. william wynn westcott was supreme magus in 1916. the aims of the society were. to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to facilitate the study of the system of philosophy founded upon the kabala and the doctrines of hermes trismegistus, which was inculcated by the original fratres rosae crucis, of germany; and to investigate the meaning and symbolism of all that now remains of the wisdom, art and literature of the ancient world. in spite of these resounding aims, the society confined itself mainly to lectures and freemasonry rituals. in 1887, westcott, mackenzie, and w. r. woodman were concerned in the format

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lves again, until we have the ability to give birth to ourselves as gods. we are transmuted from being creations of the past to becoming creators of the future. the two latter criterias of faivre corresponds to a certain degree to the philosophy of dragon rouge. there are principles in different dark traditions that corresponds to each other and which makes eclectic studies fruitful. oden, shiva, hermes and lucifer can be compared and one can find corresponding aspects. the last criteria of faivre about initiation and transference has a more individualistic and dynamic expression in dragon rouge. magic and esoterism the sociologist, edward e. tiryakian coined a classical definition of esoterism. he defines esoterism as the belief system or theoretic knowledge that the practices of occultis

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st always monitor the location and effects of phoenix. its members also deal with the periodic arrival of groups from other solar systems. some are highly evolved and benign, others less developed and belligerent. according to korsholm, the members of the planetary council are: horus, representing the sun, coordinates the council s work with that of higher space intelligences and christ councils. hermes (mercury) is in charge of communication through space. adonis (venus) guides the evolution of love and beauty. enoch (earth) oversees prophecy. croesus (mars) is responsible for the coordination of council activities with the dictates of the ascended masters in the brotherhood of light. athena (the asteroid belt, formerly the planet maldek) defends truth and justice. jove (jupiter) balances

ysician and a prolific writer on occult and metaphysical subjects, visitors from the future are here. he claims to have met several chrononauts, as he calls them. they are here, he says, to help us in our spiritual evolution, and they, not extraterrestrials, are the agents responsible for ufo abductions. time travel was, or will be, invented in the year 3050. the inve n t o r, taatos, was the god hermes thousands of years ago, in another lifetime. be f o re taatos traveled back to our time to talk with dr. goldberg, howe ve r, he helped send holographic images into our pre sent re a l i t y. goldberg writes that the chro n onauts have mastered hyperspace travel bet ween dimension[s, and can move thro u g h walls and solid objects. by existing in the fif t h dimension, they can observe us a

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rpheus, gentle, still, and contemplating, but, when he smote the lyre, all subjugating; keensighted lynceus who by day and dark past reef and shallow steered the sacred bark. danger is tested best by banded brothers: when one achieves, then praise him all the others. faust i beg, of hercules i would be learning! chiron. oh, woe! awaken not my yearning. phoebus i ne er had seen, nor yet seen ares, hermes, as they re called, in fine, when my enraptured vision met a form that all men call divine. a king by birth as was no other, a youth most glorious to view, a subject to his elder brother and to the loveliest women too. his like will gaea bring forth never nor hebe lead to heaven again; songs struggle in a vain endeavour, men torture marble all in vain. faust though men may strive in stone a

hat only to us too, instead of promised salvation s weal, doom at last it proclaim not to us, doom to us swan-like maids, fair, white-throated ones, and ah! to her, our swan-begotten! woe to us, woe! woe! all is covered and hid roundabout in the mist. we can see each other no more! what befalls? do we move? float we only, footing uncertainly on the ground? see st thou naught? wings not haply e en hermes ahead? gleams not his golden wand waving, commanding us backward again to the unenjoyable, grey-glimmering, with impalpable phantoms teeming, over-crowded, ever empty hades? yes, tis growing darker swiftly; lifts the mist but leaves no sunlight, darkly-greyish, brown as walls are. walls encounter our free vision. standing stark against our seeing. is it a court? is it a dungeon? horrible in

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ics, the lullism are all interwoven in bruno's complex personality, mind, and mission. all three have a history running from the middle ages through the renaissance up to the dividing line of descartes and the seventeenth century. i am indebted throughout the present book to the nock- festugiere edition and french translation of the corpus hermeticum and to a.-j. festugiere's book la revelation d'hermes trismegiste. though renaissance hermetism has not been set out before in the way in which i attempt to do it in the first ten chapters, these chapters owe much to others, particularly in parts of. iv, vii, ix, and x to walker; the theme of viii has been hinted at by garin. my knowledge of cabala is derived almost entirely from the works of g. g. scholem; my persistence in spelling the word

bee, xxiii-xxix, texte etabli et traduit par a.-j. festugiere; fragments divers, texte etabli par a. d. nock et traduit par a.-j. festugiere. giordano bruno, dialoghi italiani, con note da giovanni gentile, terza edizione a cura di giovanni aquilecchia, florence, 1957 (one vol. documenti della vita di giordano bruno, a cura di vincenzo spampanato, florence, 1933. a.-j. festugiere, la revelation d'hermes trismegiste, paris, 1950-4 (four vols. marsilio ficino, opera omnia, bale, 1576 (two vols, consecutively paged. eugcnio garin, la cultura filosofica del rinascimento italiano, florence, 1961. journal of the warburg and courtauld institutes. paul oskar kristeller, studies in renaissance thought and letters, rome, 1956. paul oskar kristeller, supplementum ficinianum, florence, 1937 (two vols

ries of christianity. but the returning movement of the renaissance with which this book will be concerned, the return to a pure golden age of magic, was based on a radical error in dating. i he great forward movements of the renaissance all derive their vigour, their emotional impulse, from looking backwards. the cyclic view of time as a perpetual movement from pristine golden ages of purity and hermes trismegistus the works which inspired the renaissance magus, and which he believed to be of profound antiquity, were really written in the second to the third centuries a.d. he was not returning to an egyptian wisdom, not much later than the wisdom of the hebrew patriarchs and prophets, and much earlier than plato and the other philosophers of greek antiquity, who had all so the renaissance

istianity, to that religion of the world, strongly tinged with magic and oriental influences, which was the gnostic version of greek philosophy, and the refuge of weary pagans seeking an answer to life's problems other than that offered by their contemporaries, the early christians. the egyptian god, thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom, was identified by the greeks with their hermes and sometimes given the epithet of "thrice great".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a lar

reat".1 the latins took over this identification of hermes or mercurius with thoth, and cicero in his de natura deorum explains that there were really five mercuries, the fifth being he who killed argus and consequently fled in exile to egypt where he "gave the egyptians their laws and letters" and took the egyptian name of theuth or thoth.2 a large literature in greek developed under the name of hermes trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on. besides these treatises or recipes for the practice of astral magic going under the name of hermes, there also developed a philosophical lit

lars to contain very few genuine egyptian elements. others would allow for some influence of native egyptian beliefs upon them.4 in any case, 1 festugiere, i, pp. 67 ff. 2 cicero, de nat. deor, i l l, 22. 3 c.h, i, p. v (preface by nock; festugiere, iii, p. 1. 4 as bloomfield says "scholarship has veered from one extreme to the other on this question of the egyptian elements in hermeticism (see 2 hermes trismegistus however, they were certainly not written in remotest antiquity by an all-wise egyptian priest, as the renaissance believed, but by various unknown authors, all probably greeks,1 and they contain popular greek philosophy of the period, a mixture of platonism and stoicism, combined with some jewish and probably some persian influences. they are very diverse, but they all breathe

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ze a lightening flash descending through the heavens and strike the wand to the floor utilizing (astrally) the rune sowuz/ sowulo and the sigil for the binding of the eye which should be received prior to the rite from the angel. a flashing between both symbols is a good technique. while screaming, io choronzon! statement of office- the following is an adaptation of a calling given by the sons of hermes: universe, hear my plea. earth, open. let the waters open for me. trees do not tremble. let the heavens open and the winds be silent! let all my faculties celebrate in me the all and the one. the gates of heaven are open; the gates of earth are open; the way of the current is open; my spirit has been heard by all the gods and genni. by the spirit of heaven, and earth, the sea& the currents

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ly you can see two 5-pointed pentagrams. one of which is colored darker than the other. the one depicting satan is the one which has two points up and one down. and the other with one point up and two down, depicting lucifer [see the lucifer-satan pentagram explanation, below. the masonic ring symbol is just a disguised pentagram with both the "good" and "evil" stars represented. thoth "the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law. god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emp

ts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is called automatic writing. these writings tie thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect, typhon, the egyptian satan, who was also set [helena petrovna blavatsky, isis unveiled, vol. i: science, new york, trow's printing and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic bible, had no trouble ty

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oratory of satan. 66 the mystical ordeal. 68 the fourth dimension. 69 chapter vii 72 the anatomy of illuminism 72 llluminism. 72 illuminism and revolution. 73 the fourth-dimensional state. 74 the great omission. 79 the mystic way. 81 hebrew alphabet and correspondences 83 glossary of hebrew words and names 84 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 5 list of illustrations plates plate i the caduceus of hermes 18 the winged wand of egypt 19 ii the tree of life 25 iii the chaldean and hebrew cosmos 27 iv the four planes of the tree of life. 31 the three pillars of the tree of life. 33 v the zodiac 2 vii the brazen serpent 44 diagrams diagram 1. the divine man 20 2. the qabalistic chalice 35 3. the flaming sword 45 4. the good and evil pentagrams 53 5. the fourth dimension 75 6. the fourth dimensio

r- is also found in the hermetic doctrines, which drew largely on qabalistic knowledge. all is expressed in one proposition: gthat which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above, for the fulfilment of the wonders of the one thing. h according to eliphas levi this universal principle is gthe telesma of the world h.32 to symbolize this supreme truth, hermes, so legend affirms, duplicated the serpent on his caduceus and so set it against itself in eternal equilibrium (see plate i on page 18 and 19) in the visible world, man is the centre, just as god is the centre of the invisible world. god created man in his own image. adam was made of the same earth out of which was raised the sanctuary of the earth. and the earth on which was the sanctuary

per and the lower h, and: since the form of man comprises all that is in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, god has chosen it as his own form. naught could exist before the formation of the human form which encloses all things. and all that exists is by the grace of the existence of the human form.35 (see diagram 1 on page 20) secret wisdom of the qabalah page 17 plate 1: the caduceus of hermes secret wisdom of the qabalah page 18 plate 1: the winged wand of egypt secret wisdom of the qabalah page 19 diagram 1: the divine man secret wisdom of the qabalah page 20 as man is a duality in unity, so also is the garden of eden. there is the heavenly eden to which there is no human approach, and the earthly eden which is approached by thirty-two paths- the 22 letters and 10 numerals. no

he boundless light of latter-day buddhists. nebo was the babylonian god of wisdom, and his planet was mercury. moses, the supposed originator of the qabalah, was buried on mount nebo. bo, bod, boden, and in china fo, are all gods of wisdom. amongst the buddhists and brahmins the day of wisdom is wednesday. amongst the scandinavians we have wo, wod, and woden; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom, whose day is the fourth day of the week, wednesday, upon which god created glights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night h. 13 wisdom is not only the creator of the universe but also the mediator between the uncreated and the created- god and man. in the form of 'hokmah, the son of kether, wisdom renders comprehen

the right-hand pillar through 'hokmah, and the passive mood enters through binah, the union of these two lights creating the central pillar, the word or logos. the formulation of this word, by balancing the moods of light, constitutes the great magical work of the qabalah. to the student of the occult it will be apparent that these two trees closely resemble the letter shin, also the caduceus of hermes with its central rod and its two entwined serpents, and also the ida, pingala, and central shushumna of hindu yoga. the whole scheme is symbolized in the temple of solomon, the temple itself being the central pillar, whilst its two pylons, yakhin and boaz, the white and the black, the right and the left, represent the tree of the knowledge of good and evil- the eternal complementary forces

to it, and according to the 32 paths of wisdom, this path gis called the perpetual intelligence. because it rules the movement of the sun and the moon according to their constitution, and causes each to gravitate in its respective orb h. 24 in other words, it is the equilibrating force in the world of action, kether 'hokmah, and binah, christ and the two thieves on their crosses, the caduceus of hermes, the solar disc and dual serpents of egypt, and, according to eliphas levi, the astral light between the horns of the baphomet of mendes- the panlike satan of the templars. when erect it is the rod of aaron and the brazen serpent of moses (see plate vii on page 44) its three teeth, or tongues, represent three vaudin and consequently may be translated into the number 666, the solar number an

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

, both of which were necessary reproduction. from this conception sprang the ormuzd and ahryman of the persians, the story of adam, eve, and the serpent in genesis, and the legend of kihua-kohuatl and tonakatl-koatl in mexico "the serpent remained in the memory and affections of most early people as wisdom, life, goodness, and the source of knowledge and science, under various names such as toth, hermes, themis, the kneph or sophia of egyptians and gnostics, and set, shet, or shem of the jews"[75 [75] forlong, rivers of life, etc, vol. i, p. 143. the serpent goddess, although embracing evil as well as good, was still the "giver of life" and the "teacher of mankind" these were the titles which in later ages began to be coveted by monarchs, and then it was that the attributes belonging to th

means the great father. concerning the word am-mon, inman writes as follows "the association of the words signifying mother and father indicates that it is to such conjunction we must refer creative power. with such an androgyne element the sun was associated by ancient mythologists. jupiter was himself sometimes represented as being female; and the word hermaphrodite is in itself a union between hermes and aphrodite, the male and female creative powers. we may fairly conclude, from the existence of names like the above, that there was at one time in western as there was in eastern asia a strong feud between the adorers of on and am, the lingacitas and the yonijas, and that they were at length partially united under ammon, as they were elsewhere under nebo or the nabhi of vishnu"[80 [80] a

onnection with the figure which represents male reproductive power. inman relates that a cross with a rosary attached has been found in use among the religious emblems of the japanese buddhists and the lamas of thibet, and that in one of the frescoes of pompeii, published at paris, 1840, is to be seen, vol. v, plate 28, the representation of a phallic cross in connection with two small figures of hermes.[170 [170] inman, ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, vol. i, p. 408. the rev. mr. maurice adds his testimony to that of other investigators to show the universality of this emblem. he says that the principal pagodas in india, viz, those of bernares and mathura, are built in the form of a cross. in the museum of the london university is a mummy upon whose breast is a cross "exactly in

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

this astral entity were too much for brodie255 innes, who broke completely with felkin and the stella matutina.theorder, however, went from strength to strength. after his76 thegoldendawntrip to germany in1912,felkin and his family travelled to new zealand, where they founded the smaragdum thalassestempleat hawkes bay. in1916,before leaving for new zealand for good, felkin founded three temples: hermes no. 28 at bristol (his numbering seems to have become quite random; merlin in london, for ex-members ofisis-urania who also happened to be anthroposophists; andthesecret college in london, which was restricted to membersofthe s.r.i.a.tothis last came carnegie dickson, who had left brodie-innes and returned, as predicted, tofellin.he also acquired miss c. m. stoddart, who became successively

sofancient egyptian art dreamed up by mathers for decorat255 ing the temples and vaultsofthe order.thetarotcards used by the order, and those designed later for waite by pamela colman smith, may have influenced more recent occultists in search of inspired interpretationsoftarotsymbolism,buttheir artistic influencehas-fortunately-beennon -existent.c.d. broad is alleged to have been a member of the hermes temple in bristol,butnoneofhis philosophical work, or his studies in psychical research, betray the slightest signofthe metaphysicsofthe golden dawn. similarly, evelyn underhill's philosophy of mysticism runs entirely contrary to the ideasofthe order, for it was developed after she had cast offthe order and all itstheories-withwhich she had never had any sympathy, even in the sanitized form

y for your own use.iremain your true brother.exuno disces omnes7=4267 o.r.r.et a.c.dahmeaugust23, i890.appendixbhistorical lecturebyv. h. frater sapere aude praemonstrator of isis-urania templesome years have passed away since it was decided to revive the order of the g.d. in the outer, an hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of occult science, and the practice of the magic of hermes; the decease during the second half of the century of several eminent adepts and chiefs of the order, having caused a temporary dormant condition. prominent among these adepts were eliphaz levi, the greatest of modem french magi, ragon, the author of several classical books on occult subjects; kenneth mackenzie, author of the masonic encyclopaedia, and frederick hockley, famous for his crys

raspappendixc117mine, fail,tryagain and then succeed in touching the fingers only (the hiereus continues to maintain the grip during the rest of his speech)'theword is [har-par-krat] and it is whispered in this position by separate syllables. it is the egyptian nameof[the godofsilence]thepresent password is..it is changed at each festival of the equinox. i now place you between the pillarsofseth, hermes and solomon, in the gatewayofthe hidden knowledge' he draws the neophyte forward by the grip until he stands between the pillars, and then receives his sword from the hege255 mon. he returns to his former position e. of and close to the black pillar.hiereus:'letthe final and perfect consecration take place.'thekerux passes to the n. and there pauses until the procession is formed.thestolist

the endsofthe earth.'thehierophant reseats himself.hierophant:'themystical words khabs, am,pekhtare ancient egyptian and the original of the greek konx, om, pax, which were uttered in the eleusinian mysteries. they refer to the same mode oflight as that which is symbolised by the staff of the kerux.tothe east of the cubical altar are the pillars which are referred by our secret tradition to seth, hermes and solomon.theybear certain hieroglyphical texts from the xviith and cxxvth chapters of the ritual of the dead.theyare the door-postsofthe gateway of the hidden wisdom, they are the emblemsofeternal equilibrium,ofthe dual powersofday and night, love and hatred, severityand mercy, fixed and volatile, work and rest, the subtle force of the loadstone, with its dual polarity, and the eternal o

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

dr r.w. felkin started for new zealand tothehistory oftherosicrucians 39iiiiitinue the work of the rosicrucians in that colony. the aim of the societas rosicruciana in anglia is:to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to facilitate the study of the system of philosophy founded upon the kabalah and the doctrines of hermes trismegistus, which was inculcated by the original fratres rosa: crucis of germany, a. d. 1450;and to investigate the meaning and symbolism of all that now remains of the wisdom, art and literature of the ancient world.itis necessary to state that there are societies both at home lind upon the continent of europe, and especially in the united states of america, which use the title 'rosicruc

e time of the french revolution it would be natural for our count de chazal to drop his title, as did many of the french nobility.theaim of our own society at the present day is to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to facilitate the study of the system of philosophy founded upon the kabalah and the doctrines of hermes trismegistus, which was inculcated by the original fratres rosae crucis, of germany, a.d. 1450; and to investigate the meaning and symbolism of all that now remains of the wisdom, art and literature of the ancient world.therosicrucian societies of anglia, scotia and the united states, alike masonic bodies, are by no means the only descendants of the original collegium, for in germany, and a

types of the far-reaching flashes of the electric fluid. ezekiel's additional imagery of the wheel has supplied the enigma of the wheel of past ellus, intimately connected with the156themagical masontetrad of god; hisrota, the latin word for which is also torah, the hebrew 'law, and taro the mystical keys of the paths of yetzirah, and 22 trumps of the tarot cards, the lost book of the secrets of hermes trismegistus, as levi names it. but one book of hermes is with us still, the words of the 'emerald tablet' are still in our possession; it speaks of the great magical agent, or wonder-working creative god power 'its father is the sun, its mother is the moon, and the wind carried it in its belly, and its nurse was the earth' this is a grand arcanum for those who can read it. read also 'that

ears have merely copied one from another; even in our own times the most recent books tell us little more than do the works of lilly, gadbury, salmon, heydon and coley. one recent new departure may be noted, by w.g. old, who has introduced a mode of rectifying nativities by the pre-natal epoch; which he claims to be more accurate than the old methods of the animodar of ptolemy, and the trutine of hermes.thepseudonymous raphael has also devised a system174themagical masonof reckoning primary and secondary directions differing from that of zadkiel's lilly. quoting, we presume, from talmudic tradition, josephus, the historian of the jews, asserts that adam was instructed by divine inspiration in astrology, and that his son seth practised the art. he wrote abouta.d.66.theannals of the ottoman

ted animals and birds; and phantasus who supplied the scenery of dreams. morning dreams they said came true most often.ifanyone desired a prophetic dream he was taught that he must become very careful in his diet, must avoid raw fruit and beans, and also all wine for three days, and then go to a temple and consult the priests who clothed him in a white garment, and he was instructed to propitiate hermes, that is mercury, before going to his sleep, for mercury presided over a man's sleeping hours (homer in hymn xiv. some persons also carried out this200themagical masonprocedure in their own homes.theeating of fish was said to make dreams obscure and meaningless or deceptive. when a dream seemed to be of doubtful meaning, a soothsayer calledmanteiswas consulted, who said he must appeal accor

the hands the future events of the life, and also certain particulars of the character of the individual; a study of much interest.202themagical masonthere is a hint of such a scheme in job, xxxvii, 7, which was known to aristotle and practised by the emperor augustuscresar.sortilegium-lotsamong the ancient greeks and romans the divination bysortes,that is by casting lots, was in very common use. hermes, the mercury of the romans, was supposed to preside over this system of discovering the will of the gods. inkleromantela,dice, black and white pebbles or beans were used; they were thrown into a vessel, together with an olive leaf to appease hermes; this leaf was, after due prayers, first taken out, and then the fateful lot was drawn. stichomanteia this was another method in frequent use; i

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

rm a cross, and besidehim,beneath his left hand,ifa shield blazoned with an eagle. in his right hand hebearsasceptre similar to that of the empress. hisbodyand arms form a triangle, of which his head is the apex, so that the whole figure represents a triangle above a cross. he represents:realisation.5.the hierophant or pope.he is crowned with the papal tiara, and seated between the two pillars of hermes andofsolomon, with his right hand he makes the sign of esoterism, and with his left he leans upon a staff surmounted by a triple cross (beforehimkneel two ministers) heisthesymbol ofmercyandbeneficence.6.the lovers.this is usually described as representingman'between vice. and virtue, while a winged genius threatens vice with his dart.buti am rather inclined to the opinion that it represent

or partially. supplyitfrom another. so, putting one with another. he managed to read out complete inscriptions in various places. thus we have to trace out the hermetic philosophy. here and there we gathertracesofit,from all the philosophies of the west. we can find, it is true, what is said to be thefirstorigin of it: there are pretty reliable transcripts of what is called the emerald tablet of hermes, on which the first principles of the philosophy arewritten255unintelligible without a key. we have also in the 'virgin of the world' and 'divine pymander' scattered sentences containing great wisdom,butalmost. unintelligible. if we want to interpret them, we must look to egypt for a clue, which we find in thehieroglyphics-as, for example,inillustrating the passage of the soul after death;

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

third lodge, st. john s no. 3, did not receive its warrant until 6 february. they were to meet, respectively, at bristol, manchester and baildon (near shipley in yorkshire. six other lodges were warranted in rapid succession during the same year: swedenborg no. 4, at havant (6 april; edina no. 5, at edinburgh (5 june: liverpool no. 6, at liverpool (15 june; cagliostro no. 7, at bristol (16 june; hermes no. 8, at london (13 august; and royal oscar no. 9, at liverpool (21 november. this rapid expansion of the swedenborgian rite was duly recorded in the pages of the freemason (see, e.g. issues of 25 august and 15 december 1877, but the lodges met with mixed fortunes. thus royal oscar lodge no. 9, named in honour of h.m. the king of sweden, would especially welcome swedish brethren the more s

rwin found difficulty in having it made. the jewels were eventually manufactured: probably at first by edward stillwell& son of london, who advertised regularly in the kneph, and later by p. vaughton r sons of birmingham, who sent a sample jewel to irwin in 1891. the only known surviving breast jewel was made, at an unknown date, by george kenning but there is surprisingly, for he was a member of hermes lodge no reference to the rite and its regalia in any of kenning s catalogues36[36. there was also difficulty in obtaining suitable aprons (of white lambskin with a triangular flap; these had narrow borders, variously blue, blue and silver, blue and gold, and purple and gold, but presumably they were manufactured although none are known to have survived. mackenzie s irascibility, and diffic

in london at 4 torriano avenue, camden road the former home of a mr. knight, one of the founders of the new church theological college. mackenzie died on 3 july 1886, and with appalling insensitivity westcott pestered his widow almost immediately for all the effects of the late supreme grand secretary. when he had obtained from her some 14 packets of constitutions, the warrents of pythagoras and hermes lodges, declairation books, a minute book, various seals and a press for their use, together with some loose papers the manuscript rituals of the rite did not come to him until he purchased them from mrs. mackenzie s second husband, george parratt, in 1908 he set about the business of revival. there was no immediate rush of new candidates but the balustres of the rite from 1887 to 1908 all

ence of some, if not all, of the requisite officers in each of the lodges. while westcott busied himself in his new role as supreme grand secretary, yarker remained in overall charge and was still occasionally admitting candidates to egyptian lodge: his son, john l. yarker, and his friend richard higham, on 31 january 1887: and sholto henry hare in 1895. westcott s candidates, whom he admitted to hermes lodge, were rather less mundane: samuel liddell macgregor mathers appears as j.w. in 1887; by 1901 he had admitted gerard encausse( papus, the french occultist) and established inri lodge no. 14, at paris; and on 1 september 1902 he admitted a. e. waite. all three had one thing in common: they were members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. westcott was also keen on further foreign e

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

s and ancient egypt the ancient egyptian materialist philosophy continued to exist after this civilization disappeared. it was adopted by certain jews and kept alive within kabbalist doctrine. on the other hand, a number of greek thinkers adopted the same philosophy, and reinterpreted it and perpetuated it as the school of thought known as "hermeticism" the word hermeticism comes from the name of hermes, the greek counterpart for the ancient egyptian god "thoth" in other words, hermeticism is the ancient greek version of ancient egyptian philosophy. master mason selami isindag explains the origins of this philosophy and its place in modern masonry: in ancient egypt there was a religious society that bequeathed a system of thought and belief to hermeticism. masonry held something similar to

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

ms of eastern philosophy it is known as sanskaras or karma. if a soul when it has entered the body persists in evil it does not taste the fruits of life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses it courses and takes its way back to creeping things and that ill-fated soul having failed to know itself, lives in servitude to uncouth and noxious bodies, in this doom are vicious souls condemned. hermes. the gnostic handbook page 82 in the western tradition it is figuratively called the book of judgement. this book is a balance sheet of the actions of the person as he reincarnates. as time progresses the positive and negative attributes of a person s life weigh against each other and the person continues to reincarnate. at various stages the balance will reach a crucial stage and according

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

soul or immortal essence, only environmental factors (sanskaras) which repeat life after life, re-creating a semblance of identity in each incarnation. in ancient egypt the followers of amen-ra derived their belief in reincarnation from the course of the sun. as it died in the west and rose again in the east at dawn, so the vital forces sank into the underworld to rise again in a different body. hermes, the great master of the mysteries, was one of the earliest egyptian priests to openly proclaim the once secret teaching of reincarnation. gnostic theurgy page 51 if a soul, when it has entered the body persists in evil, it does not taste the fruits of life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses its course and takes its way back to creeping things and that ill fated soul, having fa

ecret teaching of reincarnation. gnostic theurgy page 51 if a soul, when it has entered the body persists in evil, it does not taste the fruits of life eternal, but is dragged back again, it reverses its course and takes its way back to creeping things and that ill fated soul, having failed to know itself, lives in servitude to noxious and uncouth bodies, in this doom are vicious souls condemned. hermes. while we may not agree to the extent he has taken the concept of reincarnation, this quote does illustrate his acceptance of the doctrine. turning to ancient greece we find a very old tale, a story of proteus, who could change his shape at will. when an old man attempted to grab him, hoping to ascertain his real form, proteus was sleeping as a stone. on being touched he became a plant, whe

should provide is a series of correlation charts. this way you can link what we have discussed about the mind with materials on the seven planes, worlds and later the kabbalistic tree of life. at first all these correlations may seem a bit contrived, but they are for a reason. the law of correspondence is one of the major philosophical premises of the gnostic system, it is based on the dictum of hermes as above, so below. even though the alpha event caused a rift between the worlds, the basic framework of the universe is still the same. while matter is certainly fallen, it has fallen on the same patterns or vibrations as all of the forces within the total system. nothing is totally outside, accordingly, all things are somehow connected, even if only in design or prototype. if we can work

ild by the survivors of atlantis and that even their geometry embodies the ancient ways. from these speculations a whole system has developed (pyramidology) which attempts to interpret the meaning of the shapes, angles and numbers of the great pyramids. from the perspective of the esoteric tradition the greatest legacy that egypt has left us is not found in stone, but is found in the teachings of hermes trismegistus. the teachings of hermes hermeticism takes its name from the person of hermes trismegistus. he was believed to be the greatest scholar of ancient egypt and while he is reputed to have written many texts, only a small number survive. one of the most important surviving texts is that of the poemandres. the basic principle of hermeticism is that our supreme goal must be to become

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

g the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name shaddai el chai, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel raphael look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel chassan and the ruler aral be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the caduceus of hermes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of poraios de rejecttis and the symbol of ruach. i have been brought from amoung rejected. as a lord/lady of the 32nd path, i invoke the powers of air to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of air and the astral realm, so that i may obtain greater understanding of hidden things and thereby advance

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

bsession, trance, and death 7. liber hodos chameleonis (u-7) 8. receive z1 and z3 (to be tested on knowledge and understanding) 9. make and consecrate the lotus wand [d] 10. the rose cross ritual (commit to memory) 11. make and consecrate the rose cross lamen [e] and [f] 6 12. make and consecrate the sword and four elemental weapons [g] 13. consecration ceremony of the vault of the adepti [k] 14. hermes vision 15. lineal figures 16. minutum mundum (commit to memory [w] 17. z.a.m. first stage lectures 1. lecture on sigils (sigils by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. comentary and addition by g.h. frater p.c.a) 2. concerning the ceremony of consecrating the vault of the adepti 3. analysis of the 5=6 initation by g.h. frater p.c.a. 4. symbology of the banners 5. telesmata and flashing tablets 6. the canop

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the z.a.m. as a tool and symbol for traveling and skrying in the spirit vision. this complete symbol should be constructed by the z.a.m. and each portion of it studied and committed to a deep understanding. the instruction on the complete pentagram diagram remains unpublished and available only to our order. first, you will observe that the portion (the top point) is attributed to the scepter of hermes, the rays of c, and the. this is the point of quintessence, the alchemical b. the color is of purity and is therefore colored white. the sephiroth attributed unto its two angles are rtk and hmkj. the two side points or arms of the pentagram are attributed unto m on the left and n on the right. the left arm attributed to the element of m is represented by the sword, z, and man. the kerubic e

are attributed to the sephiroth of hrwbg and trapt. it is here that the o and m dependency is revealed. the pentagram under the presidency of the name hwchy is formulated in two ways in the hexagonal center. these letters should be painted in the white color of on the black background on which the entire pentagram symbol is painted. the top portion of the pentagram is symbolized by the scepter of hermes, the letter c, and the rays which issue forth from the five corner angles of the pentagram. the scepter of zeus, or jupiter, is emblematic of the left side, while the scepter of neptune and poseidon is emblematic of the right side of the pentagram. beyond the bottom two feet of the pentagram are the scepter of pluto, dis, orphaus hades in the o angle, and the scepter of demeter or ceres in

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS C C1

center is the letter r which corresponds unto the fourth letter of the name atyrara. the right lower point is green. this arm is attributed to jxn and is represented by the girdle of venus. in the center of the right lower arm of the hexagram is the letter y, the fifth letter of the name atyrara. the left lower point is orange. this arm is attributed unto dwh and is represented by the caduceus of hermes. in the center of the left lower arm of the hexagram is the letter t. this is the sixth letter of the name atyrara. the bottom point is colored violet. this arm is attributed to dwsy and is represented by the bow and shaft of luna. in the center of the lowest point of the hexagram is the letter a, the seventh letter in the name atyrara. around the outside of the flaming hexagram is written

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

o myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my death or incapacity, to return the same at once, unread and unopened, to g.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 cherry avenue, suite r- 159, fontana, california, 92337. 2 this is the gbook of the path of the chameleon h. the knowledge of the colors of the forces which lie beyond the physical universe. study thou well that saying of hermes, gthat which is below is like that which is above, h for if that which is below is conformed according to the law of the concealed one. great is his name. be thou well assured that the closer thou adherest unto the law of the universe in thy working, by so much the more is thy magical working just and true. recall what was said unto thee in the ritual of the paths of the portal of the vault

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

wear mantles but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the darkness, under the presidency of the superior officers. the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on rtk and the wings stretch out to hmkj and hnyb, thus, comprehending the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents whose heads fall on dsj and hrwbg. they are the twin serpents of egypt and the currents of astral light. furthermore, the wings and the top of the wand form the letter c, the symbol of o; the heads and upper halv

rs of creation below, and the m symbol vibrating between them" 12 in addition to this, the caduceus of kerux represents the balanced forces of eternal light working invisibly in the darkness, even as the light born before the hoodwinked candidate at his initiation is symbolic of the light which guides him in the darkness of the world though he sees it not nor knows it. this caduceus is the rod of hermes, containing invisible and unsuspected forces, the rules of whose administration may be revealed through meditation. it is the outer form of the wand surmounted by the winged globe below which the twin serpents are shown, the wand of the chief adept in the 5=6 grade. the lamen of the stolistes is thus explained in the grade of practicus "the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbo

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z3

ttraction and sealing of a force in nature then in operation, rather than a continuous and graduated ceremony to build up the same. consequently also, it is well to use the password then in being as an adjunct to the other names employed in magical ceremonies as bringing into operation the link with the solar light. notes on the opening exordium of z the great tho-oth is the highest aspect of the hermes of the most ancient egyptian mysteries, and corresponds almost to the great angel wrffm. it is the archangel of rtk in the briatic world. the mercury of the romans must not be confused with this great hermes* the doctrines of gnosticism and of valentinus approached those of the pure qabalah. in them we find speech and silence. across the abyss of silence comes the primal speech. the divine

cations of the divine light which are above rtk of twlyxa. in such supernal realms, the [ws ya, though negative to us, is there intensely positive. thence came forth the gods, the voice, the aeons, and the name. the egyptian gods are generally most differentiated by their crowns: amen-ra, by the high feathers, mo-ooth (maut) has the same headdress as horus. she corresponds to \yhla amya. the high hermes-tho-oth has the same headdress as amoun kneph, the sacred spirit. remember that tho-oth, truth, has two aspects- the higher and the lower. the higher is absolute,.and the lower is suitable to human comprehension. to tell the higher form of a truth to one who cannot understand it is to lie to him because, though correctly formulated, it will not be correctly received. 14 the forms of thmaah:

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM21

my mouth. the god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mothe

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and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god the vast one may be obedient unto me" step 4 meditate on whatever communication you can obtain from your higher genius. when you are finished communing with your higher genius, simply say "be my mind open to the higher! be my heart the center of the light! be my body a temple of the rose and crospltablet of hermes r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the secret works of chiram, one in essence, but three in aspect. it is true, no lie, certain, and to be depended upon, the superior agrees with the inferior, and the inferior with the superior, to effect that one truly wonderful work. as all things owe their existence to the will of the only one, so all things owe their origin to the o

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uth. the god of wisdom is in my heart. my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips. my word is accomplished every day, and the desire of my heart realizes itself as that of ptah when he created his works. i am eternal, therefore all things are of my design. therefore, do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence, unutterable wisdom, all light or power. thoth, hermes, mercury, odin, by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity. come thou forth i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. thou star of the east that didst conduct the magi, thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell. thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness, rising, descending, changing ever, yet ever the same. the sun is thy father; thy mot

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s. it also happened at this time that the mountains of thessaly were split asunder, and the whole country as far as the isthmus and the peloponnese became a single sheet of water. deucalion and pyrrha floated over this sea in their box for nine days and nights, finally landing on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so the greeks of ancient historical times looked back upon deucalion as the ancestor of their nation and as the founder o

in central america, his ways are subtle and mysterious. like them, he is exceptionally tall and always depicted wearing the curved beard of divinity.22 and like them too, although he has supernatural powers at his reign, we have seven divine pharaohs up to and including thoth (i.e, ra, shu, geb, osiris, set, horus, thoth. 17 the gods of the egyptians, volume i, p. 400; garth fowden, the egyptian hermes, cambridge university press, 1987, pp. 22-3. see also from fetish to god in ancient egypt, pp. 121-2; egyptian magic, pp. 128-9; new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 27-8. 18 manetho, quoted by the neo-platonist iamblichus. see peter lemesurier, the great pyramid decoded, element books, 1989, p. 15; the egyptian hermes, p. 33. 19 see, for example, diodorus siculus, volume i, p. 53

987, pp. 22-3. see also from fetish to god in ancient egypt, pp. 121-2; egyptian magic, pp. 128-9; new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 27-8. 18 manetho, quoted by the neo-platonist iamblichus. see peter lemesurier, the great pyramid decoded, element books, 1989, p. 15; the egyptian hermes, p. 33. 19 see, for example, diodorus siculus, volume i, p. 53, where thoth (under his greek name of hermes) is described as being endowed with unusual ingenuity for devising things capable of improving the social life of man. 20 osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume ii, p. 307. 21 myth and symbol in ancient egypt, p. 179; new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 16. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 9-10, 16; encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 44; the gods of the egyptian

stumbled upon one of the metaphorical books of thoth and read the ancient science inscribed upon its pages? likewise, what about posnansky s discoveries at tiahuanaco, and hapgood s maps? what about the new understanding that is dawning concerning the geological antiquity of the sphinx at giza? what about the questions raised by the gigantic blocks used in the construction of the 22 the egyptian hermes, p. 33. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 474 valley and mortuary temples? what about the secrets now being teased, one by one, from the astronomical alignments and dimensions and concealed chambers of the pyramids? if these, too, are readings from the metaphorical books of thoth, it would seem that the numbers of the fully worthy are increasing, and that new and even more startling r

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enochian magick because the aethyrs, and certain of the watchtower squares, already contain willing partners. in pop, if you are a male for example, is the priestess of the silver star, in zip is the daughter of babalon, and in arn is babalon herself. in the same way, male "partners" await you, if you are female, in other aethyrs( for example, pan is in lin, jupiter is in khr, horus is in zen and hermes is in vta. prel iminary exercises and operat ions of the jnanamudra type are there-fore essential for you to advance in enochian magick. 3. mahamudra. this is the third and highest stage. literally the name means "great symbol" in this degree a "partner" is no longer needed. when you reach this stage you will realize that both the feminine and masculine currents are of equal intensity withi

n the same way, you can think of your body as either a temple of the spirit (an initiatory chamber) or as a prison (a tomb. the former view is held by the residents of vta. the symbolism of dust was used to emphasize their lack of life. the vast numbers of residents, all quietly sharing the same detachment and unconcern, gave rise to the name city of the pyramids. crowley's guide here was the god hermes who described these residents as those "whose eyes are sealed up, and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose 233 bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust" this aethyr holds the fate of those who have detached themselves from their humanity. study them well and see where their yogas and the

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god-goddesses. expressively by the planet nogah (venus. humanly this is where emotions and feelings begin in the foetus. 8 splendour, glory and honour. originatively by the god-aspect elohim tzva ot (god-goddesses of hosts. creatively by archangel rafael (healer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the b nay-elohim (sons of the god- goddesses. expressively by the planet kochav (mercury or hermes. humanly 9 this is where the unborn get their intelligence and intellect from. 9 foundation or basis. originatively by the god-aspect shadai el chai (powerful/almighty lord of life).creatively byarchangelgavriel (virility ofgod. formatively by the angelic order of the ishim (souls of fire. expressively by levanah (themoon, which is closest to this planet. this is the sphere of familial infl

called so after orpheus, patron of song, dance, and free expression. orphically inclined people usually love gaiety and glamour while looking for god emotionally and artistically. they dislike hard and fast rules and regulations, preferring to follow what they consider natural impulses and inner instincts. they tend to associated with the white pillar side of the tree. 2. the hermetic way. after hermes trismegistus, patron of the hermetic 11 figure 4 keshet the bow, and chetz the arrow mysteries. these concern ordered rituals, intellectual pursuits, sciences, and exact procedures governed by definite rules and calculated formulae. often regarded as the opposite of orphic procedures. rationality and logic is the control here. hermetic people usually associate with the black pillar, the pil

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the stamp of authority will be given to research, when side by side with the string of consonances there also runs an inevitable string of divergences and transpositions. in our book of heroes the adventures of wolfdieterich and orendel have in their several ways a striking similarity to features in the odyssey, especially does the angel's mission to shaggy els and to lady breide resemble that of hermes to calypso, when she is commanded to let odysseus go. but such wanderings of heroes and encounters with wise women and giants seem to be a common epic property prevailing everywhere, while the very absence here of all the other main motives of the greek myth excludes the supposition of borrowing. we may surely give their due weight to the many resemblances of wuotan to zeus and apollo, of z

i am not sure but that hesus is the same as cheru, and that segomon (p. 371) ought not to be overlooked. needfires and may-offerings xxx preface. are subjects for consideration. it would greatly advance our knowledge of wuotan^s true nature, if we could ascei-tain how far the celtic worship of mercury differed from the roman; to all appearance that deity was greater to the celts and germans than hermes-mercury was to the greeks and romans; to trismegistus and tervagan i allude on p. 150. all that is left us of the celtic religion, even in stray fragments, bespeaks a more finished mental culture than is to be found in german or norse mythology; there comes out in it more of priestly lore. but in respect of genius and epic matter our memorials are incomparably superior. as the celts enclose

that of the gods in person walking the earth unrecognised, and dropping in at the houses of mortals. even the odyssey 17, 485-7 alludes to such wanderings, in which is found the loftiest consecration of hospitality: a man will be loth to turn away a stranger, under whose guise a celestial god may be visiting him. a greek myth with details appears in the story of orion: three gods, zeus, poseidon, hermes (some say zeus, ares, hermes= donar, zio, wuotan) take lodging with hyrieus, and after being feasted, give him leave to ask a favour; he wishes for a son, and they create him one much in the same way as kvasir was engendered (p. 902, conf. 1025n. ovid s fasti 5, 495 535. hyginus 195 relates the same fable of the thracian byrseus. in the beautiful legend of philemon and baucis (ovid's met. 8

, quite in fairy-tale fashion, in an ear of barley, a swan's feather, and a fish's eg. there were doubtless many more stories like this, such as the norwegian tale in asbiorn. no. 21, conf. p. 423. as bearing upon their subsequent transference, it must not be overlooked that in fornm. sog. 9, 56. 175 osinn on horseback calls one evening at a blacksmith's, and has his horse shod; his identity with hermes becomes quite startling in these myths. at other times however it is thorr with his heavy hammer (p. 180) that seeks a lodging, like zeus, and when -he stays the night at the peasant's, loki accompanies thorr (sn. 49; then again heimdallr, calling himself rigr, traverses the world, and founds the families of man. the finnish legend makes wiiinamoinen, ilmarinen and lemminkainen travel (rune

uppl. not only does the poetic faculty itself proceed from the gods; they invent the very instruments by which song is accompanied. apollo, who in homer plays the phorminx, is said by calliinstruments invented. 907 inaclius to have strung the lyre with seven chords; yet the invention of the lyre is ascribed to hermes^ who gave it to apollo. this is important for its, as in wuotan there is much of hermes and of apollo, with a preponderance of the former. ingenuity is characteristic of mercury, and i can scarcely doubt that in our antiquity, as wuotan was the inventor of writing and rhythm, so he was of some instrument to accompany singing. a confirmation of this is the five-stringed harp (kantelo) of the finns, an invention of their highest god wiiinamoinen, who everywhere represents our wu

he was of some instrument to accompany singing. a confirmation of this is the five-stringed harp (kantelo) of the finns, an invention of their highest god wiiinamoinen, who everywhere represents our wuotan. first he made kantelo of the hones of a pihe, and when it fell into the sea, he made it again of birchwood, its pegs of oak bough, and its strings of a mighty stallion's tail. in the same way hermes took the tortoise (chelys) out of its shell, and mounted this with strings (hymn to merc. 24 seq. swedish and scotch folksongs relate, that when a maiden was drowned, a musician made a harp of her breastbone, the pegs of her fingers, the strings of her golden hair, and the (first) stroke of the harp killed her murderess, sv. folk v. 1, 81. scott's miustr. 3, 81. in one kinderm. no. 28 a bon

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these deities are also connected with watersprites and swan-maids. foreknowledge of the future, the gift of prophecy, was proper to most genii; their inexhaust ible cheerfulness stands between the sublime serenity of gods 1 bead holberg s julestue, and look up julvdtten in finn magn. lexicon, p. 326 note. 2 they frightened children with sooty cyclops, and ace. to callimachus (hymn to diana 66-71, hermes, like our buprecht blackened with soot, struck terror into disobedient daughters even of gods: dxx ore kovpawv rts atreidea /utjre/u /xtjp kvk\(i iras erj eiri iraisl "sitepotrrjv 6 s sw/xaros e/c /jlvxo.toio pfteitjs, girosirj kexpyfjlevos aldrf, tr)v kovprjv /nopfj.ijo aetai 17 5 ff&lt;j) ko\ttovs sprites. genii. 517 and the solemn fates of mortals. they feel themselves drawn to

. p. 4. ceeation. 571 whole world is mirrored back. according to a chaldean cos mogony, when belus had cut the darkness in twain, and divided heaven from earth, he commanded his own head to be struck off, and the blood to be let run into the ground; out of this arose man gifted with reason. hesiod s representation is, that pandora was formed by hephaestus out of earth mingled with water, and then hermes endowed her with speech "e/yyo- 61-79. the number of ingredients is first reduced to earth and blood (or water, then in the 0. t. to earth alone. and there are yet other points of agreement claiming our attention. as ymir engendered man and wife out of his hand, and a giant son out of his foot, we are told by the indian manus, that brahma produced four families of men, namely from his

oes, why, isco or askr may have bran dished them too. one remembers too those wood-wives and fays, who, like the greek meliads and dryads, had their sole power of living bound up with some particular oak or ash, and, unlike the tree-born man, had never got wholly detached from the material of their origin. then, a creation out of stones is recorded in the story of deucalion, whom after the deluge hermes bade throw stones behind his back: those that he threw, all turned into men, and those that his wife pyrrha threw, into women. as in the edda, after the great flood comes a new creation; only in this case the rescued people are themselves the actors.2 even the jews appear to have known of a mythical creation out of stones, for we read in matth. 3, 9: on, svvarai, 6 0eo9 e/c twv \i6av tovtwv

r a comforter (linxmine) the rainbow, who counselled them to leap over the earth s bones: nine times they leapt, and nine couples sprang up, founders of the nine tribes of lithuania. this incident reminds us of the origin of men from the stones cast by deucalion and pyrrha; and the rainbow, of the bible account, except that here it is intro duced as a person, instructing the couple what to do, as hermes (the divine messenger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was rescued affected greece alone, and of such accounts of partial floods there are plenty. philemon and

living in ease. trans. 822 time and woeld. dead, but of picked heroes: the greeks too made the highest blessedness wait upon the warrior s valour. neither were all heroes even admitted there, menelaos was as son-in-law of zeus, od. 4, 569; others even more renowned were housed with aides, in hades. achilles paces the flowery mead, the acr&lt/&gt;o8eao \i/jl(t)v of the underworld, whither hermes conducts the souls of the slain suitors, od. 11, 539. 24, 13. lucian de luctu 5. philops. 24. this( ea of the blest is no less known to our native song and story. children falling into wells pass through green meadows to the house of friendly holla. flore 24, 22: swer im selber den tot tuot, den geriuwet diu vart, und ist im ouch verspart diu wise, dar du komen wilt, an der blancheflur spil

eir attendance and the heroes reception are splendidly set forth in the hakonarmal. but these messengers also take charge of heroes while alive, and protect them until death: they are guardianangels and death-angels. how beautiful, that the gracious god, before he summons them, has provided his elect with an attendant spirit to glorify their earthly path! i can see a connexion between valkyrs and hermes, who is wielder of the wishing-rod (p. 419) and conductor of souls to the underworld, tyvxaycoyos ^u^otto/atto, ve/cpoirofjitros. these maids are osin s messengers, as herines is herald of the gods, nay hermes is o&inn himself, to whom the souls belong. thus the god s relation to the dead is an additional proof of the iden tity between wuotan and mercury. a distinction appears in the fact t

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ood that can be done by medicine, surgery, or other established systems of therapeutics. it is based on the fact that the autonomic nervous system carries and distributes to all parts of the body an intangible energy which vitalizes organs and cells of the body. it takes into consideration primarily the psychic side of man and the psychic cause and nature of disease and pain. health.(see disease. hermes trismegistus.rosicrucian records tell us that there actually was such a character as hermes or thoth. he was not a god, but a sage born in thebes in 1399 b.c. he received the appellation "thrice illustrious"(trismegistus) because he participated in the organization of the great mystery school, had the experience of seeing the illustrious amenhotep iv initiated as a grand master, and the hon

thoth. he was not a god, but a sage born in thebes in 1399 b.c. he received the appellation "thrice illustrious"(trismegistus) because he participated in the organization of the great mystery school, had the experience of seeing the illustrious amenhotep iv initiated as a grand master, and the honor of assisting in the initiation of the successor to amenhotep iv. the best known work attributed to hermes is the divine pymander, or the shepherd of men. hierarchy.a group of persons or things arranged into a progressive order according to their authority or other determined qualities. mystically, this alludes to the celestial hierarchy or a group of spiritual or allegorical beings arranged into nine orders of three triads each. these nine orders constitute a kind of celestial ladder, the most

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nesius to philalethes-for interlocutors, who, if judged from their volumi255 nous writings, must doubtless prove most loquacious fellows, and who, having indulged when on this dull earth so copiously in dark and mystical enigmas, will now throw an unerring light upon the first matter, will trulygiveus an open entrance to the shut palace of the king, a lucid explanation of the tabula smaragdina of hermes, the sophie fire of pontanus, the doves of diana, the fountain of count turisan, and the green lion, and all other monsters ofparacelsus, ripley, flamel, andco,-notomitting the assistance to be derived from those thrice learned ladies, miriam the prophetess, perrenelle, and quercitan's daughter. let them do this, m. alphonse cahagnet, and your revived art of projection will make more conver

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figures borrowed from egyptian, greek, and roman myth and aramaic and jewish religion. egypt was a cosmopolitan country, and the roman period was an age of religious synthesis. this is also apparent in the greek texts known as the hermetica.108 like the book of thoth, hermetic texts were usually in the form of a dialogue between a disciple and a deity or a revered sage. the deity is most commonly hermes, the greek god identified with thoth. some hermetica feature isis or asclepius, the greek god of medicine identified with the deified egyptian sage, imhotep. the instructing deity sometimes relates myths about the beginning or the end of the world. many spells in the magical papyri claim the power to summon visions of deities. in the hermetica, such visions can lead to a truer understanding

fed, an event that had become something of a tourist attraction. 96. for most of egyptian history there were about 750 hieroglyphic signs in use. by the roman period the number of signs had risen to around 7,000, and the old signs were often used in new ways. see figurative hieroglyphs, or cryptography, in parkinson, cracking codes, 80 87. 97. see manetho and chaeremon, in g. fowden, the egyptian hermes: an historical approach to the late pagan mind (princeton, 1986, 52 95. other accounts of egyptian priests make them venal and quarrelsome. 98. translation by j. g. griffiths, from his plutarch s de iside et osiride (swansea, wales, 1970, 223. 99. for these two books, see m. smith, the liturgy of the opening of the mouth for breathing (oxford, 1993; and f. t. herbin, le livre de parcourir l

pyri also contains the most complete version of the demotic eye of the sun myth. the largest collection of spells is in the london-leiden magical papyrus. see j. h. johnson, introduction to the demotic magical papyri, in the greek magical papyri in translation, ed. h. d. betz (chicago and london, 1992, lv lviii. 108. for surveys of the background to these difficult texts, see fowden, the egyptian hermes; and the introduction to b. p. copenhaver, hermetica (cambridge, 1992. 109. for a fascinating account of the long, slow decline of egyptian paganism, see d. frankfurter, religion in roman egypt: assimilation and resistance (princeton, 1998. 110. the arabic literature also referred to the terrifying guardians of such pagan sites for example, the great sphinx. see u. haarmann, medieval muslim

ng that he has made and the land will return into the deep, into the flood, as it was before (creation. a spell in the harris magical papyrus has the magician claim that he can, like the creator, cause the earth to go down into the primeval waters and the south to become north. this strain of thought seems to be reflected in the roman period hermetic text known as the asclepius. in this dialogue, hermes trismegistus warns that in the old age of the world the gods will go back to heaven, egypt will be deserted, and all the people will die. 47 references to an absolutely final destruction are rare in egyptian or egyptian-based texts. even the asclepius promises that the supreme god will remake the world. the eschatology of egypt is most truly represented by the cycles of destruction and rene

e magician s questions. anubis also acted as an enforcer of curses; a role he plays to this day in horror films. see also nephthys; osiris; seth; thoth; wepwawet references and further reading: d. m. doxey. anubis. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. b. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 97 98. s. t. hollis. anubis s mortuary functions in the tale of the two brothers. in hermes aegypticus, edited by t. duquesne. oxford: 1995, 87 100. primary sources: pt 437; ct 825, 936; bd 175; pj; i&o; pdm xiv.1 92, 395 427; pdm supp.101 30 anuket (anukis) anuket was a goddess worshipped on egypt s southern border. see also satet and anuket apis apis was a bull kept at memphis who was the most important of all sacred animals. in life, the apis bull was honored as the physical ma

origins of the nile. imhotep remained a popular deity in the roman period. a surviving fragment from a story cycle has imhotep use magic to defeat an assyrian queen. his association with architecture was remembered by calling him the skillfulfingered one who fixed the plans of the mansions of the gods. the philosophical text known as the asclepius is a dialogue between imhotep/asclepius and thoth/hermes about the secrets of the universe. three thousand years after his death, imhotep was still celebrated as the embodiment of egyptian wisdom. see also khnum; magicians; ptah references and further reading: d. j. thompson. memphis under the ptolemies. princeton: 1988, 24 25, 205, 209 211. d. wildung. egyptian saints: deification in pharaonic egypt. new york: 1977. primary sources: famine stela

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to have been more tolerant than they are in this enlightened century. q. was he encouraged and supported by the church because, notwithstanding his heresies, ammonius taught christianity and was a christian? a. not at all. he was born a christian, but never accepted church christianity. as said of him by the same writer: he had but to propound his instructions according to the ancient pillars of hermes, which plato and pythagoras knew before, and from them constituted their philosophy. finding the same in the prologue of the gospel according to st. john, he very properly supposed that the purpose of jesus was to restore the great doctrine of wisdom in its primitive integrity. the narratives of the bible and the stories of the gods he considered to be allegories illustrative of the truth

"the meadows of hades" as plutarch calls the kamaloka, then in devachan, was part and parcel of the performances during the sacred mysteries, when the candidates for initiation enacted the whole drama of death, and the resurrection as a glorified spirit, by which name we mean consciousness. this is what plutarch means when he says: and as with the one, the terrestrial, so with the other celestial hermes doth dwell. this suddenly and with violence plucks the soul from the body; but prospina mildly and in a long time disjoins the understanding from the soul (proserpina, or persephone, stands here for postmortem karma, which is said to regulate the separation of the lower from the higher principles: the soul, as nephesh, the breath of animal life, which remains for a time in kamaloka, from th

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

relatively easy to generate the star trek world, due to the plethora of books, comics, videos and roleplaying supplements which are available to support that universe. the final proof of all that being that one of my colleagues had to sit a computer exam, and was wracking his brains trying to think of an appropriate god-form to invoke upon himself to concentrate his mind on programming. mercury? hermes? and then he hit on it- the most powerful mythic figure that he knew could deal with computers was mr. spock! so he proceeded to invoke mr. spock, by learning all he could about spock and going round saying i never will understand humans until he was thoroughly spock-ified. and he got an a, so there! and so, back to the cthulhu mythos. lovecraft himself was of the opinion that fear, particu

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with a lasting loathing. perhaps, however, the facial expression of the owner in exhibiting them contributed much of the prejudice. this bizarre collection, besides a host of standard works which mr. merritt was not too alarmed to envy, embraced nearly all the cabbalists, daemonologists, and magicians known to man; and was a treasure-house of lore in the doubtful realms of alchemy and astrology. hermes trismegistus in mesnard's edition, the turba philosophorum, geber's liber investigationis, and artephius's key of wisdom all were there; with the cabbalistic zohar, peter jammy's set of albertus magnus, raymond lully's ars magna et ultima in zetsner's edition, roger bacon's thesaurus chemicus, fludd's clavis alchimiae, and trithemius's de lapide philosophico crowding them close. mediaeval j

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. moon over china, weary moon on the river of the sky. out of the mists gleamed godlike the torm ot a youth, in winged helmet and sandals, caduceus-bearing, and of a beauty like to nothing on earth. before the face of the sleeper he thrice waved the rod which apollo had given him in trade for the nine-corded shell of melody, and upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. then, adoring, hermes spoke "0 nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of cyene or the sky-inhabiting atlantides, beloved of aphrodite and blessed of pallas, thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the gods, which lieth in beauty and song. 0 prophetess more lovely than the sybil of cumae when apollo first knew her, thou has truly spoken of the new age, for even now on maenalus, pan sighs and stretches i

more sacrificing unto him, dwell in beauty and delight. this night shalt thou know the favour of the gods, and behold on parnassus those dreams which the gods have through ages sent to earth to show that they are not dead. for poets are the dreams of gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset. then in his arms hermes bore the dreaming maiden through the skies. gentle breezes from the tower of aiolas wafted them high above warm, scented seas, till suddenly they came upon zeus, holding court upon double-headed parnassus, his golden throne flanked by apollo and the muses on the right hand, and by ivy-wreathed dionysus and pleasure-flushed bacchae on the left hand. so much of splendour marcia had never seen

ong gods: write, write, that from the bloody course of war, my dearest master, your dear son, may hie; bless him at home in peace, whilst i from far, his name with zealous fervour sanctify. accents still more familiar arose as milton, blind no more, declaimed immortal harmony: or let thy lamp at midnight hour be seen in some high lonely tower, where i might oft outwatch the bear with thrice-great hermes, or unsphere the spirit of plato, to unfold what worlds or what vast regions hold the immortal mind, that hath forsook her mansion in this fleshy nook* sometime let gorgeous tragedy in sceptered pall come sweeping by, presenting thebes, or pelop s line, or the tale of troy divine. last of all came the young voice of keats, closest of all the messengers to the beauteous faun-folk: heard melo

ing of mortals to thy home. weep not at the bleakness of thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone and the gods shall once more walk among men. search thou unceasingly for our messenger, for in him wilt thou find peace and comfort. by his word shall thy steps be guided to happiness, and in his dreams of beauty shall thy spirit find that which it craveth. as zeus ceased, the young hermes gently seized the maiden and bore her up toward the fading stars, up and westward over unseen seas* many years have passed since marcia dreamt of the gods and of their parnassus conclave. tonight she sits in the same spacious drawing-room, but she is not alone. gone is the old spirit of unrest, for beside her is one whose name is luminous with celebrity: the young poet of poets at whose fee

HP LOVECRAFT THE TREE

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 their work was praised, and none dared say that the one excelled the other in skill. the hermes of kalos stood in a marble shrine in corinth, and the pallas of musides surmounted a pillar in athens near the parthenon. all men paid homage to kalos and musides, and marvelled that no shadow of artistic jealousy cooled the warmth of their brotherly friendship. but though kalos and musides dwelt in unbroken harmony, their natures were not alike. whilst musides revelled by night amidst the

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

esented the procreative positive and negative forces which stand for the creating act of the universe. the eternal, the infinite, the boundless, and the uncreated have been expressed symbolically by the word aum and the dark purple to black color. initiation i theory the great secret of the tetragrammaton or the quabbalistical yod-he-vau-he device: that which is above is also that which is below (hermes trismegistus) 1. about the elements everything that has been created, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm, consequently the big and the small world have been achieved by the effect of the elements. for this reason, right from the beginning of the initiation, i shall attend to these powers and underline their deep and manifold significance in particular. in the occult literature very litt

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

is book provides the dedicated seeker some resources if they wish to make the journey i have. subjective synthesis. the hermetic tradition is above all a tradition of individualism, the setian current within it particularly so. once adequate research has been begun, questions arise that can only be answered by relating the process to the understanding of the individual. a model, as appropriate to hermes god of communication as it is to current linguistic thinking, emerges. having considered the traditions it factually developed through time (diachronically, how does the individual make use of it in the here and now (synchronically? having learned the language, what do you choose to say? an example would be the common practice of dream-sending, an important tool in the setian toolkit. the q

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germ of thought, the resplendent wobd, the son of god. think that wiiat thus sees and hears in thee, is the verbum of the master, it is the lliou^t, which ia god the father "the celestial ocean, the aethkb, which flows from east to west, is the breath of the father, the life-giving principle, the holt qhost "for they are not at all separated, and their union is life" ancient as may be the ori^ of hermes, lost in the unknown days of egyptian colonization, there is yet a far older prophecy, directly relating to the hindu kriahna, according to the brfthmanas. it is to say the least atrange that the christians claim to base their religion upon a pro- phecy of the bibu which exists nowhere in that book. in what chapter or verse does jehovah, the' lord god' promise adam and eve to send them a re

xample once set, there was no want of followers; the works of the greek philosophers were stigmatized as pro- fane; the transcendently glorious achievements of the museum of alex- andria were hidden from sight by a cloud of ignorance, mysticism, and unintelligible jargon, out of which there too often flashed the destroying lightnings of ecclesiastical vengeance* augustine* and cyprian> admit that hermes and osth&a believed in one true god; the 6rst two maintaining, as well as thcl two pagans, that he is invisible and incomprehensible, except spiritually. moreover we invite any man of intelligence provided he be not a religious fanatic 171. ventura de ruilica: ctmftrmca, ii, put i, p. ivi, preface. 172. ct. thecityofgod,vin.ix;x,u;elc 173. co^id beta. rd. and 3eiau ,p.e2. 174. dt bartumo om

be not a religious fanatic 171. ventura de ruilica: ctmftrmca, ii, put i, p. ivi, preface. 172. ct. thecityofgod,vin.ix;x,u;elc 173. co^id beta. rd. and 3eiau ,p.e2. 174. dt bartumo omfra onurfutm, lib. vi, c. xliv. 175. sonefi c. cypriatti open 'de idoloram vauiute' p. 14: os>nii, 1682. digitizec by google was 'sihon hagus' st. paul? 89 after reading fragments chosen at random from the vorks of hermes and augustine on the deity, to decide which of the two gives a more philosophical definition of the 'unseen father' we have at least one writer of fame who is of our opinion. draper calls the augustinion productions a "rhapsodical conversation" with god, an "incoherent dream" father ventura depicts the saint as attitudinizing before an aston- ished world upon "the most sublime heights of ph

y assjnians "turan, of the poets" be says "i con- sider to be aturia, or assyria; and that zohak (az-dahoka, dei-okes, or astyages, the serpent-king, was aiisjrrian, median, and bai^lonian when those countries were united" this opinion does not, however, in the least affect our statement that the secret doctrines of the magi, of the pre-vedic buddhists, of the hierophants of the egyptian thoth or hermes, and of the adepts of what- ever age and nationahty, including the chaldaean kabalists and the jew- ish tuaars, were idxruical from the beginning. when we use the term buddhutt, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric buddhism in- stituted by the followers of gautama-buddha, or the modem buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of bdjcyamunit which in its essence is 302. put

change in names, the above-given the- ogony is that of all the gnostics, and also of the nazarenes. ophis is but the successor of the egyptian chnupkia (khnemu, the good serpent with a lion's radiating head, and was held from days of the highest antiquity as an emblem of wisdom, or thoth, the instructor and savior of humanity, the *son of god "oh men, live soberly. win your immortality" exclaims hermes, the thrice-great trismegistus "instructor and guide of humanity, i will lead you on to salvation* thus the oldest sectarians regarded ophis, the agathodumon, as identical with christos; the serpent being the emblem of celestial wisdom and eternity, and, in the present case, the antitype of the egyptian chnuphis-serpent. these gnostics, the earliest of our christian era, held "that the supr

not a single act of adoration recorded on their part, nor did jesus himself ever declare his identity with ku father" he accused the pharisees of stoning their prophets, not of deicide. he termed himself the son of god, but took care to assert repeatedly that they were all the children of god, who was the heavenly father of all. in preaching this he but repeated a doctrine taught ages earlier by hermes, plato, and other philosophers. strange contradiction! jesus, whom we are asked to worship as the one hving god, is found, immediately after his resur- rection, saying to mary magdalene "i am not yet ascended to my father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, i ascend unto my father and jfour father, and to my god and yoitr god(/o&n, xx. 17. does this look like identifying himself with

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

rren of nicolai there is an account of a gnostic gem, or talisman, which represents a cynocephalus, with a lunar disc on his head, standing in the act of adoration, with sceptrum displayed, before a column engraved with letters, and supporting a triangle. this latter architectural figure is, in fact, an obelisk. all the egyptian, obelisks were phalli. the triangle symbolises one of the pillars of hermes (hercules. the cynocephalus was sacred to him. the pillars of hermes have been judaiscd into solomon's jachin and boaz. so says herz, in regard to masonic insignia. we will explain fully, later in our book, of these interesting sexual images, set up for adoration so strangely; and from the meaning of which we foolishly but determinedly avert. we now propose to deduce a very original and a v

ld. upwards has nothing of man; for it knows him not. he ceases there; but he is made as downwards, and finds his man s nature there, lowest of all his mere bodily nature there perhaps, even to be found originally among the fourfooted; for by the raising of him by god alone has man got upon his feet, and set his face upward to regard the stars, those stars which originally, according to the great hermes trismegistus (thrice-master, in the astrological sense, raised him from the primeval level; for we refer heaven always to a place over our heads, since there only we can be free of the confinements of matter; but above us or below us is equally the altitude. may not the sacrificial, sacramental rites may not those minute acts of priestly offering, as they succeed each other, and deepen in i

e,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by the planet jupiter (zeus, as lord of theworlds* these are the two chiefmetals of the alchemists, and the two chief mystic symbols of the rosicrucians red is blazoned by the old priestly heralds, or augurs, by the name of the planet mars vert (or verd, and argent, silver (hermes, or thoth, ortaut, orluna, orastarte, indifferently, are represented by the planetvenus and by themoon. persian fire-tower. chapter the twentieth. the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and medi val monuments. hough fire is an element in which everything inheres, and of which it is the life, still, according to the abstruse and unexplained ideas of the rosicrucians, it is itself a

ected with the mind. the egyptian priests also maintained that the gods appeared to man, and that spirits communicated with the human race. the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian doctrine, formed of ether, and at death return again to it. the alchemists were a physical branch of the rosicrucians. the more celebrated authors (and authorities) upon the art and mystery of alchemy are hermes (whose seven chapters and smaragdine table, as it is called, contain the whole alchemical system; geber, the turba, rosary, theatrum chemicum, biblioth que herm tique, chymical cabinet; artephius, arnoldus de villa nova, raimondus lullius, trevisan, nicholas flamel, zachareus, basilius valentinus, cosmopolita, and philalethes (thomas vaughan. refer also to the hermetical triumph, or the vic

imperial mound, and cross-sigma surmounting it. figs. 28, 29, are symbols of venus (aphrodite, the deity of the syrians and phoenicians. they are phallic emblems. fig. 30 is the phallus proper. it is the sigma of zeus, mithras, baalim, bacchus. figures numbered 31, osiris: these various figures signify also jupiter-ammon. the rectangular marks denote the scandinavian tuisco, thoth (mercurius, or hermes. fig. 35 is the indian form of the same idea. the figure marked 36 is to be found on the breast of one of the mummies in the museum of the london university. fig. 36. phallus and lotus. fig. 37. fig. 38. fig. 39. upon a monument discovered in thebes, anubis is represented as st. michael and st. george are in christian paintings, armed in a cuirass, and having in his hand a lance, with which

forms, all presenting the same idea at once. buddha was the sun in taurus; cristna (crishna, krishna) was the sun in aries. in regard to the origin of speech, of writing, and of letters, it may be remarked that the egyptians referred the employment of a written symbol (to record and communicate the spoken word) to a thoth; the jews, to seth or his children (josephus, ant. i, 2, 3; the greeks, to hermes. but thout in coptic (pezron, lexicon lingua. coptic s. voc. gen xix. 26 in the coptic version, also tc in hebrew, and `erm j (hermes) in greek, are all names for a pillar or post. this is the homeric use of rma and rmij (il, 486; od, 278; kenrick s essay on primeval history, p. 119. arca is the ship, navis (from thence come nave and navel, in which the germ of animated nature was saved. th

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram to disintegrate the image, seeing it in his/her mind s eye dissolving on the further side of the circle of flame which is formulated in the pentagram ritual. ix. the pillars in the explanation of the symbols of the grade of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the two pillars called in the ritual the "pillars of hermes" of "seth" and of "solomon" in the 9th chapter of the ritual f the dead they are referred to as the "pillars of shu" the "pillars of the gods of dawning light" and also as "the north and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chapter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confession

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE THREE

to which each suit is referred. they also symbolize father, mother, son, daughter; birth, life, death, resurrection. the fylfot cross the 17 squares out of a square of smaller squares, refer to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac and the four elements. they are arranged so that the fixed signs, mutable and cardinal signs are placed in juxtaposition. the caduceus this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters, shin, aleph. and mem. it represents air, as the mediator between fire above and water below. this symbol has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part and wings touch chokmah and binah. the knob touches kether. these are the three supernals. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

us that the persians of his day called the sun kuros, and he connects it with the greek word kurios, which means lord, which we find in the church service as gkyrie eleison h. khur is also connected with the egyptian name horus, who was also her-ra and haroeris, names of the sun-god. the hebrew word aoor also means light or fire or the sun, and from that we get khurom, which is equal to the greek hermes. bro. wilmshurst also regards the name hiram as identical with hermes, and thinks that a connection can he traced between the form huram and the sanskrit word guru, which means gspiritual teacher h. he therefore takes hiram abiff to signify the father-teacher, or the teacher from the father(*the masonic initiation, p. 100) that hiram was a widow fs son is also a significant fact. horus as t

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e must enter in full consciousness during the rites of initiation into those true mysteries of which masonry is a reflection. each degree relates to a different plane of nature, or to an aspect of a plane, and possesses layer after layer of meaning applicable to the consciousness of t.g.a.o.t.u, the constitution of the universe, and the principles in man, according to the occult law formulated by hermes trismegistus and adopted by rosicrucians, alchemists and students of the kabbala in later ages: as above, so below. the masonic rites are thus rites of the probationary path, intended to be a preparation for true initiation, to be a school for training the brn. for the far greater knowledge of the path proper. 36. the sacramental power 37. to the occult student masonry has also another aspe

egypt in 13,500 b.c; it was ruled by a great dynasty of divine kings, among whom were many of the heroes whom greece later regarded as demigods, such as herakles of the twelve labours, whose tradition was handed on to classical times. 55. it was to this people about 40,000 b.c. that the world teacher came forth from the white lodge, bearing the name of tehuti or thoth, called later by the greeks hermes; he founded the outer cult of the egyptian gods and restored the mysteries to the splendour of byegone days. 56. he came to teach the great doctrine of the inner light to the priests of the temples, to the powerful sacerdotal hierarchy of egypt, headed by its pharaoh. in the inner court of the chief temple he taught them of the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world- phras

o candidates, and of the teaching that was given through the various myths. when people outside pressed for information, and would not be put off, the officials permitted so much to be revealed. 320. the origin of the greek mysteries 321. the original founder of the greek mysteries was orpheus, who was an incarnation of the same great world teacher who had come to egypt in 40,000 b.c. as thoth or hermes, to preach the doctrine of the hidden light. but now the method of his message was different; for it was spoken to a different race. 322. about 7000 b.c, he came, living chiefly in the forests, where he gathered his disciples around him. there was no king to bid him welcome, no gorgeous court to acclaim him. he came as a singer, wandering through the land, loving the life of nature, her sun

uscript, which is fairly representative of the tradition common to all. it is reproduced from hughan s old charges (1872, and is quoted from mackey s encyclopaedia(*art. legend of the craft) 550. the legend begins with an account of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight ewclyde. the latter was commissioned by the king to teach masonry to a large number of c

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

which is described by bota members as the mystical (occult) wisdom teaching of ancient israel, and which is based on a diagrammatical and symbolic glyph called the tree of life, a pictorial-symbolic representation of the one god and humanity s relationship with god and creation. bota s teachings also draw upon the tarot (viewed as a pictorial textbook of ageless wisdom, the hermetic teachings of hermes mercurious trismegistus, alchemy, and astrology. the doctrine of the oneness of god, the brother/sisterhood of humanity, and the kinship of all life patterned after the ageless wisdom mystery schools constitute the principal subjects of bota s teachings and practices, which, like in other occult orders, have as their major objective the promotion of the welfare of humanity. the meaning of t

adition has been inherited by the present heads of the fraternity, assuming a more public profile in the mid- 1980s. the main purposes of the fraternity include (1) acting as a modern repository of the ancient wisdom (2) training members for selfless service to humanity through application of the ancient wisdom; and (3) promulgating the ancient wisdom. the writings of the legendary egyptian magus hermes mercurious trismegistus and the cabala represent the main source of the fraternity s teachings, which include tarot, alchemy, and astrology, as well as occult psychology. members of the fraternity, who work through instruction in the occult, meditation, and ritual, is characterized by three levels. the first level trains new initiates into wisdom, love, and power, whereas the second level i

ied off by hades, ruler of the dead.demeter, not knowing where kore was, searched through many lands for her, growing ever more despondent. she finally arrived at eleusis, on the attica coast not far from athens, and refused to allow anything to flower or bear fruit. the devastation produced by the barren landscape was so terrible that the gods persuaded zeus to retrieve kore from the underworld. hermes was sent to accomplish the task and hades relented, but not before persuading kore to eat a pomegranate, symbolic of marriage and a promise of return. this trickery forced zeus into a compromise, by which kore would have to spend one-third (or one-half, depending on the source) of each year in the underworld, the part of the year when demeter is once again sorrowful and nothing grows. thus

LIBER 777

me scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. artemis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15. athena 16 success in hathayoga, asana and prana-yama [her] 17. castor and pollux, apollo the diviner[[eros] 18. apollo th

emis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15. athena 16 success in hathayoga, asana and prana-yama [her] 17. castor and pollux, apollo the diviner[[eros] 18. apollo the charioteer 19. demeter [borne by lions] 20 [attis] 21. zeus 22. themis, minos, aeacus and rhadamanthus 23 apo-bhawana. poseidon 24. ares[[apollo the pythean, thanatos] 25. apollo, artemis (hunters) 26. pan, priapus [erect hermes and bacchus] 27. tuisco ares[[athena] 28 [athena] ganymede 29. poseidon[[hermes psychopompos] 30 vision of surya. helios, apollo 31 agni-bhawana. hades 32 [athena] 32 bis prithiva-bhawana [demeter[[gaia] 31 bis vision of the higher self, prana-yama. we have insufficient knowledge of the attributions of assyrian, syrian, mongolian, tibetan, mexican, zend, south sea, west african &c. iacchus

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thwith closed, save only for a few, and these are watched and guarded, so that the obstacles are many. this then is the case of magick; for if thou have brought to harmony all principles within thee, thou mayst work easily to transmute a force into its semblable upon another plane, which is the essential miracle of our art; but if thou be at war within thyself, how canst thou work? for our master hermes trismegistus hat written at the head of his tablet of emerald this word: that which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above, for the performance of the miracle of the one substance. how then, if these be not alike? if the substance of thee be two, and not one? and herein is the need of the confession of a pure heart, as is written in the boo

of magick, uplifting the body and its appurtenance unto high ekstacy upon his wings. it is by virtue thereof that the sphinx beholdeth he sun unwinking, and confronteth the pyramid without shame. our dragon, therefore, combining the natures of the eagle and he serpent, is our love, the organ of our will, by whose virtue we perform the work and miracle of the one substance, as saith thine ancestor hermes trismegistus, in his tablet of smaragda. and this dragon, is called thy silence, because in he hour of his operation that within thee which saith .i. is abolished in its conjunction with the beloved. for this cause also is its letter nun, which in our rota is the trump death; and nun hath the value of fifty, the number of the gates of understanding. t liber aleph vel cxi 158 #b de quattuor

iege the fortress of the soul. work thou thy will, as i said aforetime by the mouth of eliphas levi zahed, knowing thyself omnipotent, and thine habitation eternity. o my son, attend well this word, for it is an heirloom, and a ring of ruby and emerald in thine inheritance. h the book of wisdom or folly 197 zx de comedia, qu. dicitur (of the comedy, which is called pan) ubtler than the serpent of hermes, o my son, is this way of restraint of art, and thou shalt meet therein with the god pan, and have him to thy playmate. so shalt thou devise comedy and tragedy, as it were settings for the jewel of thy will, to enhance the beauty thereof, and to refine thy pleasures. this is that which is written in the book of the law. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; r

ph vel cxi 200 z% de caecitia philosophorum antiquorum (of the blindness of the ancient philosophers) ehold, how comfortable is this thy wisdom, wherein i have resolved every conflict soever that is or that can be, even in all dimensions, that antagonism of things no less than their limitations. i have said: evil be thou my good; for it is the magical mirror of our astarte and the caduceus of our hermes. now this was the error of elder philosophers, that perceiving changeful duality as the cause of sorrow, they sought the reconcilement in unity and in stability. but i shew thee the universe as the body of our lady nuith, who is none and two, with hadith her lord as the alternator of those phases. this universe is then a perpetual by-coming, the vessel of every permutation of infinity, wher

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

a publication in class c. 1 adonis an allegory by alesiter crowley inscribed to adonis. argument esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of the body (astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. the soul (psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes his dread of the king of babylon (the material plane) who is death.but also subject to the king of greece, who is the one lord. hermes, the wisdom of god, leads the man to recollection of his true nature by putting him into samadhi, the .sudden death. of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in the equinox printing, but handwritten by ac into a copy of equinox i (7) and subsequently transcribed by

m into samadhi, the .sudden death. of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in the equinox printing, but handwritten by ac into a copy of equinox i (7) and subsequently transcribed by yorke. t.s] persons of the allegory the king of babylon, tributary to the king of greece hermes, a greek physician the lady psyche the count adonis, at first known as the lord esarhaddon the lady astarte the warriors of the king of babylon hanuman, servant to hermes charis. elpis. pistis. attendants on psyche. three aged women handmaidens and slaves of astarte 3 scene i: the hanging gardens of babylon. r, the house of the lady astarte; l, a gateway; c, a broad lawn enriched with clust

rown its ways. astarte. come now. ah! still the pallor clings? wine will redeem the roses. stretch the strings of thy slack heart! still trembling? lean on me! this shoulder could hold up eternity [they go forth to the banquet. 16 scene ii. the hall of the palace of astarte. onyx, alabaster, porphyry and malachite are the pillars; and the floor of mosaic. in the high seat is astarte, on her right hermes, a greek physician. he is a slight, old man, with piercing eyes and every mark of agility and vigour. his dress is that of a babylonish physican. hermes. and now, polite preliminaries past, tell me, dear lady, what the little trouble is! astarte. it was quite sudden. hermes. good; not like to last. it bursts, such malady a brittle bubble is! how is the pulse? allow me! astarte. not for me y

, old man, with piercing eyes and every mark of agility and vigour. his dress is that of a babylonish physican. hermes. and now, polite preliminaries past, tell me, dear lady, what the little trouble is! astarte. it was quite sudden. hermes. good; not like to last. it bursts, such malady a brittle bubble is! how is the pulse? allow me! astarte. not for me your skill. my husband.s lost his memory. hermes. yet he remembers you? astarte. o quite, of course! hermes. let it alone! don.t flog the willing horse! were i to cure him by my magic spells, the odds are he.d remember someone else! astarte. ah, but.a month ago.a woman came. hermes. cool.warm.hot.now we fre getting near the flame! astarte. and what she said or did who knows? hermes. these men! astarte. yes! but he fs never been the same s

ls, the odds are he.d remember someone else! astarte. ah, but.a month ago.a woman came. hermes. cool.warm.hot.now we fre getting near the flame! astarte. and what she said or did who knows? hermes. these men! astarte. yes! but he fs never been the same since then! i fve taken endless trouble not to fret him, done everything i could to please and pet him, and now this wretched woman has upset him! hermes. was he distressed much at the time? astarte. distressed? mad as an elephant in spring! hermes. i guessed adonis 17 it. think he took a fancy to the girl? astarte. well, honestly, i don.t. my mind.s a whirl with worry. she.s a flimsy creature, rags of sentiment, and tears, and worn-out tags of wisdom. hermes. yes, you fve nothing much to fear while you appear as. what you do appear. astarte

rags of sentiment, and tears, and worn-out tags of wisdom. hermes. yes, you fve nothing much to fear while you appear as. what you do appear. astarte. well, there they stood, crying like butchered swine, she and her maids. it seems she.s lost her man, can ft get another, wanted to claim mine. i put a stopper on the pretty plan. but ever since.well, i can.t say what.s wrong, but something.s wrong. hermes. yes; yes. now is it long? astarte. about a month. hermes. what physic have you tried? astarte. the usual things; young vipers skinned and dried and chopped with rose-leaves; cow.s hoof stewed in dung, one pilule four times daily, on the tongue; lark.s brains in urine after every meal, with just a touch of salt and orange-peel. hermes. and yet he is no better? astarte. not a whit. oh yes, t

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

se name is ecstasy. this also is sealed by that secret word; for that word containeth all. into this prepared pyramid of divine light there cometh a certain darkling wight, who knoweth not either his own nature, or his origin or destiny, or even the name of that 1 [death is represented by the hiereus, and life by the hegemon; they are identified with the greek god-forms of hades and demeter, with hermes and iacchus for invisible stations. t.s] liber dccclx 32 which he desireth. before he can enter the pyramid, therefore, four ordeals are required of him. so, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the four great princes of the evil of the world, whose terror is about him on every side. yet since he has followed the voice of the officer who has prepared him

LIBER ISRAFEL

e sanctuary of truth! and a god sitteth upon my lips. 11. my word is accomplished every day! and the desire of my heart realises itself, as that of ptah when he createth! i am eternal; therefore all things are as my designs; therefore do all things obey my word. therefore do thou come forth unto me from thine abode in the silence: unutterable wisdom! all-light! all-power! svb figvra lxiv 3 thoth! hermes! mercury! odin! by whatever name i call thee, thou art still nameless to eternity: come thou forth, i say, and aid and guard me in this work of art. 12. thou, star of the east, that didst conduct the magi! thou art the same all-present in heaven and in hell! thou that vibratest between the light and the darkness! rising, descending! changing ever, yet ever the same! the sun is thy father! t

of god the vast one, may be obedient unto me!3 14. i invoke the priestess of the silver star,4 asi the curved one, by the ritual of silence. 15. i make open the gate of bliss; i descend from the palace of the stars; i greet you, i embrace you, o children of earth, that are gathered together in the hall of darkness. 2 [the last four citations of this section are adapted from the gemerald tablet of hermes. h. t.s] 3 [this section is paraphrased by allan bennett from a graco-egyptian ritual of exorcism on a papyrus in the british museum (p. lond. 46/ pgm v) see betz (ed, the greek magical papyri in translation for a more literal rendition. t.s] 4 [a golden dawn title for tarot trump ii, gthe high priestess. h. t.s] 4 liber israfel 16 (a pause) 17. the speech in the silence. the words against

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

e gods thereof, the aons of the bornless beyond. a then was the voice vibrated. c then was the name declared* the hand of god, always the symbol of his power. remember in the description of the .caduceus (see .the temple of solomon the king) the air symbol vibrating between them [also y, f, is a mercurial sign, and thoth is mercury, though on a higher plane. the hermit, with his lamp and wand, is hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the greek ritual of 0= 0..p. the name \c, the spirit of god, second deity-name in the law, the trigrammaton, or threefold name, by which the universe came forth. a note on genesis 15 t at the threshold of entrance, betwixt the universe and the infinite, y in the sign of the enterer: stood thoth as before him the aons were proclaimed. the positions of th

LIBER SAMEKH

rm. but in the ritual let the adept replace this gmosheh h by his own motto as adeptus minor. for gishrael h let him prefer his own magical race, according to the obligations of his oaths to our holy order!16 (the beast 666 himself used gankh-f-n-khonsu h and gkhem h in this section) liber samekh svb figvra dccc 14 line 2 the adept reminds his angel that he has created that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talis-man charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustai

zed that his act of union with the angel implies (1) the death of his old mind save insofar as his unconscious elements preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elements themselves. but their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. he then, by conscious comprehension of them separately and together, becomes the gangel h of his angel, as hermes is the word of zeus, whose own voice is thunder. thus in this section the adept utters articulately, so far as words may, what his angel is to himself. he says this, with his scin-laca wholly withdrawn into his physical body; constraining his angel to indwell his heart. line 1 gi am he h asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and self. it affirms existence, but of

le world shall attain to this art, he now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win to his wisdom. let i and f face all* yet ward their a from attack. gthe hermit h to himself, gthe fool h to foes, gthe hierophant h to friends. nine by nature, naught by attainment, five by function, in speech swift, subtle and secret; in thought creative, unbiased, unbounded; in act gentle, patient, persistent. hermes to hear, dionysus to touch, pan to behold! a virgin, a babe, and a beast! a liar, an idiot, and a master of men* if we adopt the new orthography viaov (book 4, part iii, chap. v) we must read gthe sun.6.the son h etc, for gall h; and elaborate this interpretation here given in other ways, accordingly. thus o (or f) will not be gthe hierophant, h but gthe devil h.the eye.baphomet, etc, gfift

LIBER TRIGRAMMATON

aven and below earth and hell. against him the brothers of the left-hand path, confusing the symbols. they concealed their horror [in this symbol; for in truth they were the master flamed forth as a star and set a guard of water in every abyss. also certain secret ones concealed the light of purity in themselves, protecting it from the persecutions. likewise also did certain sons and daughters of hermes and of aphrodite, more openly. but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. svb figvra xxvii 3 yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. now did the horror of time pervert all things, hiding the purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

gh her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. and there is the way by which i always go to the king, my father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy domus iii v. intellectio abest egoitas ego est non-ego puerperium partus vita adepti via w v. clavus via h v. fenstra via d v. porta via g v. camelus via b v. domus. the wake world 19 magician called hermes, who takes me through so quickly that i arrive sometimes even at the very moment that i start. last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it being bitten by crocodiles and dogs, and carrying a sack with nothing any use in it at all. but really it is the man who meant to wake up, and did wake up. so that is his

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

it only fair to say that he went on for a long time, and that because you have been fool enough to read thus far, you have no excuse for being fool enough to read farther. gphenacetin is a useful drug in fever, but woe to that patient who shall imbibe it in collapse. because calomel is a dangerous remedy in appendicitis, we do not condemn its use in simple indigestions. gas above so beneath! said hermes the thrice greatest. the laws of the physical world are precisely paralleled by those of the moral and intellectual sphere. to the prostitute i prescribe a course of training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex. chastity forms part of that training, and i should hope to see her one day a happy wife and mother. to the prude equally i prescribe a course of training by which 10 l

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

ll ty lr does in the extant mythology is lose his hand to the wolf fenrir (and provide the gods with a laugh when he does so, we can surmise that he derives from a warrior god of considerable importance. dies mercurii bore the name of mercury, who was associated with travel and commerce (whence our words gmercantile h and gmerchandise h. mercury carried forward a number of the traits of the greek hermes, who was known for his cunning, taste for theft, invention of the lyre, and accompanying of the dead to hades. this set of characteristics fits odin strikingly: he relies on cunning and treachery; he is the thief of the mead of poetry and is deeply associated with that craft (cf. the lyre of hermes; he is associated with the dead (the einherjar) and visits the abode of the dead (in baldrs d

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

than set revealed, his primal draconian aspect of self. apep embodies the very essence of set and may even be considered associated with his shadow or demonic form. in the tenth and eleventh sections of the tuat set-heh is shown as being to the left of the gods in a fiery place, horus standing in front of setheh in the form of a serpent. anubis the lord of jackals and opener of the way, anubis is hermes, the gateway unto death. anubis is a tester, one who would way the heart of he or she that sought to emerge or dive unto the celestial or infernal realms. anubis is also a mortuary god, residing over embalming and funeral preparations. within luciferian sorcery, one undertakes the mask of anubis to become like anubis, some may seek the shades of the dead or further necromantic experiments d

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s; i have reversed this in the etext for legibility--john bruno hare, june 11, 2004. title page preface table of contents introduction the ancient mysteries and secret societies which have influenced modern masonic symbolism the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three atlantis and the gods of antiquity the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus the initiation of the pyramid isis, the virgin of the world the sun, a universal deity the zodiac and its signs the bembine table of isis wonders of antiquity the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagorean mathematics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insect

eleusinian mysteries--the lesser rites--the greater rites--the orphic mysteries- the bacchic mysteries--the dionysiac mysteries. 29 atlantis and the gods of antiquity plato's atlantis in the light of modern science-the myth of the dying god-the rite of tammuz and ishtar--the mysteries of atys and adonis-the rites of sabazius--the cabiric mysteries of samothrace. 33 the life and writings of thoth hermes trismegistus suppositions concerning identity of hermes--the mutilated hermetic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysterie

emperor leopold i--paracelsus of hohenheim--raymond lully--nicholas flarnmel--count bernard of treviso. 149 the theory and practice of alchemy the origin of alchemical philosophy--alexander the great and the talking trees--nature and art--alchemical symbolism--the song of solomon--the philosopher's gold. 153 the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life o

usinian mysteries as consisting of a male and a female hierophant who directed the initiations; a male and a female torchbearer; a male herald; and a male and a female altar attendant. there were also numerous minor officials. he states that, according to porphyry, the hierophant represents plato's demiurgus, or creator of the world; the torch bearer, the sun; the altar man, the moon; the herald, hermes, or mercury; and the other officials, minor stars. from the records available, a number of strange and apparently supernatural phenomena accompanied the rituals. many initiates claim to have actually seen the living gods themselves. whether this was the result of religious ecstasy or the actual cooperation of invisible powers with the visible priests must remain a mystery. in the metamorpho

later called the planets. while a vast number of deities are associated with the samothracian mysteries, the ritualistic drama centers around four brothers. the first three--aschieros, achiochersus, and achiochersa--attack and murder the fourth--cashmala (or cadmillus. dionysidorus, however, identifies aschieros with demeter, achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexander wilder notes that in the samothracian ritual "cadmillus is made to include the theban serpent-god, cadmus, the thoth of egypt, the hermes of the greeks, and the emeph or sculapius of the alexandrians and phoenicians" here again is a repetition of the story of osiris, bacchus, adonis, balder, and hiram abiff. the worship of atys and cybele was also involved in the samothracian mys

scovered if christianity is to reach the heights attained by the pagans in the days of their philosophic supremacy. the myth of the dying god is the key to both universal and individual redemption and regeneration, and those who do not comprehend the true nature of this supreme allegory are not privileged to consider themselves either wise or truly religious. next: the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 37 the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus thunder rolled, lightning flashed, the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. the venerable initiator, in his robes of blue and gold, slowly raised his jeweled wand and pointed with it into the darkness revealed by the tearing of the silken curtain "behold the light of e

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

employing a blast of countermagic against some imaginary enemy when in fact a relatively simple amulet of beneficence may be all that is required. we must know what we are at hence divination. now in magic and witchcraft, the operations of divination have always been conducted by means of contact with a power which is symbolized by the astrological symbol of mercury. the greeks called this power hermes, the egyptians thoth, the scandinavians odin, the early anglo-saxons woden. this power has generally been connected with the starry sky, the air, storm winds, and also the crossroads. indeed in the voodoo pantheon the power of mercury is often known at maitre carrefour or master of the gross-roads. he is the great mediator between the worlds and is also known as psychopompos or guide of sou

ately inscribe the numbers in the square as illustrated, in their correct numerical order, 1, 2, 3, 4, onwards, ending with 64. as you write each number, repeat a short invocation to mercury of your own devising, such as "mercury, be propitious to me" or "herne, lord of the crossroads, guide of the dead "earende, the morning star" or even a string of his names from various pantheons like "mercury hermes odin thoth" whichever you prefer. the only important thing to remember is that the charm should summon up a mental image in your mind which in some way strikes your fancy and links the work in hand with an idea concerning mercury, such as wisdom, speed, starlight, the air, a crossroads at night, or even one of the classical images of mercury. it might be as well to consult a book of mytholo

erie of witchcraft, namely, that the place chosen be "dark and lonely; either in woods or deserts, or in a place where three wayes meets, or amongst mines of castles, abbies, monasteries, etc. or upon the seashore when the moon shines clear, or else in some large parlour" any unfrequented crossroad, hilltop, or woody grove can, in fact, be used, the first locale being traditionally sacred to both hermes and hecate, the second and third to all ancient rural deities; the farther away from man and all his works, the better. however, as a last resort, your living room or den will suffice. the general outline for your sabbat will be presented in the following pages, with any innovation germane to your chosen coven orientation being woven into the traditional framework. sabbat oil prior to atten

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

magic could they be discovered, only by sound could their faces be seenbut yeknow, the masters were mighty in magic, able to lift the veil from the face of the serpent, ableto send him back to his place. came they to man and taught him the secret, the word thatonly a man can pronounce; swift then they lifted the veil from the serpent and cast him forthfrom the place among men (emerald tablets of hermes. and so in numerous movies, not all of which are created by perverse personages, we see thegreat tale cryptically and repeatedly insinuated (see highlander, the hunger, scanners,superman, the hidden, conan the barbarian, sword and the sorcerer, battle star galac-tica, v, beastmaster, the dark crystal, cocoon, red sonja, lifeforce, invasion of the bodysnatchers, the invisible man, frankenste

mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches by main force into all manner ofreckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature ofthe souldarkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable thanlifethe pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise, the madman will be thought abrave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good (hermes trismegistus, ad 150-270) a great change will come to pass, such as no mortal man will have expected. heaven andhell will confront each other in this struggle. old states will perish and light and darknesswill be pitted against each other with swords, but it will be swords of a different fashion.with these swords it will be possible to cut up the skies and to split the earth. a great lament

lectual condescension is tocovet disaster. the tribulations to which they habitually refer were not written in inkand stone, but in blood, blood dead and blood living. they are in our dna. thehuman body is the scriptorium where is kept the greatest gnosis. when will the occi-dental scholar realize that the real academy, the real lyceum, the real library of alex-andria, the real chambers of thoth, hermes, or merlin are not under a rock in someremote wilderness waiting to be discovered by a wanna-be indiana jones. they are inthe house of bone, the temple of the nine gatesthe human body. the famed pillarsof hercules guarding the way to atlantis are not of stone. they are the arms ofadam-kad-amon. they are the serpentine strands of dna.the legacy of the atlanteans is only partly resolved in th

ences in the composition of asteroids, meteor-ites, meteorsregardless of whether they are big, little, in space, or on the earth. why there are so manynames for the same thing is beyond us (p. 51)space debristhere are other, much larger asteroids roaming around in our celestial backyard just waiting to maketheir presence known. some of these dark demons are hard to detect. these demons are called hermes,adonis, apollo, and eros.asteroidsan asteroid weighing some 150 million tons and travelling some 45,000 miles per hour came veryclose to earth on may 19, 1996, wrote editor brent raynes in alternate perceptions (p. 251)another asteroid approached earth in 1992. it has a destructive power of 20 million megatons, the forceof 1,600,000 hiroshima bombs (p. 253)oceans from spaceit is speculated

MORALS AND DOGMA

olomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple contained many emblems of the seasons-the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations ursa major and minor, the zodiac, the elements, and the other parts of the world. it is the master of this lodge, of the universe, hermes, of whom khurum is the representative, that is one of the lights of the lodge. for further instruction as to the symbolism of the heavenly bodies, and of the sacred numbers, and of the temple and its details, you must wait patiently until you advance in masonry, in the mean time exercising your intellect in studying them for yourself. to study and seek to interpret correctly the symbols of

the god anubis, companion of isis in her search for the body of osiris, her brother and husband. then it became the image of horus, the son of osiris, himself symbolized also by the sun, the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. it was hermes, also, the master of learning, whose name in greek is that of the god mercury. it became the sacred and potent sign or character of the magi, the pentalpha, and is the significant emblem of liberty and freedom, blazing with a steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of revolutions, and promising serene skies and fertile seasons to the nations, after the storms of change

rated, devoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the name of a city[_josh. xix. 38; and of a man[_ezr. ii. 32, x. 31 _neh. iii. 11 [hebrew _khirah, means nobility, a noble race. buddha is declared to comprehend in his own person the essence of the hindu trimurti; and hence the tri-literal monosyllable _om_ or _aum_ is applied to him as being essentially the same as brahma-vishnu-siva. he is the same as hermes, thoth, taut, and teutates. one of his names is heri-maya or her-maya, which are evidently the same name as hermes and khirm or khurm. heri, in sanscrit, means _lord. a learned brother places over the two symbolic pillars, from right to left, the two words [symbols] and [symbols [hebrew] and [hebrew, ihu and bal: followed by the hieroglyphic equivalent [hieroglyphic] of the sun-god, amun-ra

ll to comprehend. did the deity leave the whole world without light for two score centuries, to illuminate only a little corner of palestine and a brutal, ignorant, and ungrateful people? why always calumniate god and the sanctuary? were there never any others than rogues among the priests? could no honest and sincere men be found among the hierophants of ceres or diana, of dionusos or apollo, of hermes or mithras? were these, then, all deceived, like the rest? who, then, constantly deceived them, without betraying themselves, during a series of centuries--for the cheats are not immortal! arago said, that outside of the pure mathematics, he who utters the word "impossible" is wanting in prudence and good sense. the true name of satan, the kabalists say, is that of yahveh reversed; for sata

actised it, these emblems reproduced refer to these old doctrines. the lamb, the yellow hangings strewed with stars, the seven columns, candlesticks, and seals all recall them to us. the lion was the symbol of athom-re, the great god of upper egypt; the hawk, of ra or phre; the eagle, of mendes; the bull, of apis; and three of these are seen under the platform on which our altar stands. the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to

d wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnosticism, he was confounded with matter. from egypt or persia the new platonists borrowed the idea, and the gnostics received i

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

below earth and hell. j against him the brothers of the left-hand path, confusing the symbols. they concealed their horror (in this symbol; for in truth they were. w the master flamed forth as a star and set a guard of water in every abyss. o also certain secret ones concealed the light of purity in themselves, protecting it from the persecutions. g likewise also did certain sons and daughters of hermes and of aphrodite, more openly. z but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. b yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. f now did the horror of time pervert all things, hiding the purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. s yes, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a foul stain

f deeper significance than at first sight may appear. the question is not merely equivalent to "is the dictation at an end" for the word is conceived as the act of possession. this is evident from the choice of the word "exhausted. the inspiration has been like an electrical discharge. language is in itself nothing; it is only the medium of transmitting experience to consciousness. tahuti, thoth, hermes, or mercury symbolize this relation; the character of this god is declared in very full terms in "the paris working, which should be studied eagerly by those who are fortunate enough to have access to the ms. 70. there is help& hope in other spells. wisdom says: be strong! then canst thou bear more joy. be not animal; refine thy rapture! if thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ermined to be revenged first on mankind, and then on prometheus. to punish the former he commanded hephastus (vulcan) to mould a beautiful woman out of clay, and determined that through her instrumentality trouble and misery should be brought into the world. the gods were so charmed with the graceful and artistic creation of hephastus, that they all determined to endow her with some special gift. hermes (mercury) bestowed on her a smooth persuasive tongue, aphrodite gave her beauty and the art of pleasing; the graces made her fascinating, and athene (minerva) gifted her with the possession of feminine accomplishments. she was called pandora, which means all-gifted, having received every attribute necessary to make her charming and irresistible. thus beautifully formed and endowed, this exq

inating, and athene (minerva) gifted her with the possession of feminine accomplishments. she was called pandora, which means all-gifted, having received every attribute necessary to make her charming and irresistible. thus beautifully formed and endowed, this exquisite creature, attired by page 25 the graces, and crowned with flowers by the seasons, was conducted to the house of epimetheus[9] by hermes the messenger of the gods. now epimetheus had been warned by his brother not to accept any gift whatever from the gods; but he was so fascinated by the beautiful being who suddenly appeared before him, that he welcomed her to his home, and made her his wife. it was not long, however, before he had cause to regret his weakness. he had in his possession a jar of rare workmanship, containing a

hebes, which still bears her name. amphion became king of thebes in his uncle's stead. he was a friend of the muses, and devoted to music and poetry. his brother, zethus, was famous for his skill in archery, and was passionately fond of the chase. it is said that when amphion wished to inclose the town of thebes with walls and towers, he had but to play a sweet melody on the lyre, given to him by hermes, and the huge stones began to move, and obediently fitted themselves together. the punishment of dirce at the hands of amphion and zethus forms the subject of the world-renowned marble group in the museum at naples, known by the name of the farnese bull. in sculpture amphion is always represented with a lyre; zethus with a club. leda, whose affections zeus won under the form of a swan, was

, was not to be deceived. aware of the stratagem, she contrived to obtain the animal from zeus, and placed her under the watchful care of a man called argus-panoptes, who fastened her to an olive-tree in the grove of hera. he had a hundred eyes, of which, when asleep, he never closed more than two at a time; being thus always on the watch, hera found him extremely useful in keeping guard over io. hermes, however, by the command of zeus, succeeded in putting all his eyes to sleep with the sound of his magic lyre, and then, taking advantage of his helpless condition, slew him. the story goes, that in commemoration of the services which argus had rendered her, hera placed his eyes on the tail of a peacock, as a lasting memorial of her gratitude. ever fertile in resource, hera now sent a gadfl

of a shower of gold (further details concerning her will be found in the legend of perseus) the greeks supposed that the divine ruler of the universe occasionally assumed a human form, and descended from his celestial abode, in order to visit mankind and observe their proceedings, his aim being generally either to punish the guilty, or to reward the deserving. on one occasion zeus, accompanied by hermes, made a journey through phrygia, seeking hospitality and shelter wherever they went. but nowhere did they receive a [37]kindly welcome till they came to the humble cottage of an old man and his wife called philemon and baucis, who entertained them with the greatest kindness, setting before them what frugal fare their humble means permitted, and bidding them welcome with unaffected cordialit

eir pretensions, the number of candidates was reduced to three, hera, athene, and aphrodite, who agreed to appeal to paris for a settlement of this delicate question, he being noted for the wisdom he had displayed in his judgment upon page 39 several occasions. paris was the son of priam, king of troy, who, ignorant of his noble birth, was at this time feeding his flocks on mount ida, in phrygia. hermes, as messenger of the gods, conducted the three rival beauties to the young shepherd, and with breathless anxiety they awaited his decision. each fair candidate endeavoured [40]to secure his favour by the most tempting offers. hera promised him extensive dominions; athene, martial fame and glory; and aphrodite, the loveliest woman in the world. but whether he really considered aphrodite the

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

outline. they open with an invocation to the trinity and more or less continue as follows "good breathren and fellows, our purpose is to tell you how and in what manner this worthy craft of masonry was first begun" a memorandum declaring that geometry is the oldest of the sciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is said tha

e to with no difficulty. this was the era when raymond lulle reconciled the jewish kabbalah and christianity; when abelard, saint bernard, saint thomas, roger bacon, and gerson gave new life to the theories of aristotle; when arab works spread throughout the university of paris. it was also the time when marsilio ficino, perceiving the philosophical continuity connecting the systems of zoroaster, hermes, orpheus, pythagoras, and plato, developed them further with the assistance of the kabbalah and christian philosophy. meanwhile his colleague, pico della mirandola was kabbalistically analyzing genesis and declaring that no science proved christ's divinity better than magic. another renaissance scholar, pietro pomponazzi, was denying, in the name of aristotle, the immortality of the soul, o

success, established himself as a defender of the rosicrucian order. rosicrucian societies were formed in london under his influence and adopted his philosophical doctrines. these ideas were inspired by those of paracelsus, cornelius agrippa of nettesheim, and jacob boheme and consisted of a synthesis of alchemy, the kabbalah, and neoplatonic and hebraic traditions collected from the writings of hermes trismegistus mixed with the ambitions and mysticim of the rosicrucians. francis bacon (1560-1626) chancellor of james i, is the famous author of la nova atlantis. in this fictional work, bacon depicts a republic headed by a secret society consisting entirely of intellectuals from the fields of both letters and sciences. the members of this order, speculative freemasonry 241 who called each

sociation its patrons were the medicis nor an initiatory one. but it was still novel for its time. the philosophy ficino taught there would leave a significant mark on the next generation, influencing cornelius agrippa, thomas more, and 242 from the art of building to the art of thinking rabelais. it was ficino's contribution to develop a syncretic philosophy inspired by the systems of zoroaster, hermes, orpheus, pythagoras, plato, the kabbalah, and christian philosophy. he wrote: god appeared in eternity, creating or rather luminously emanating from the center of the circumference, which radiates outward from being and good to nothingness and evil. as men, who are intelligences, finite lights within the abode of time and movement, we aspire toward that motionless light for which we are it

from such diverse sources as king arthur, richard i, ramon lulle, the gnostics and the school of alexandria, the templars (as instructed by judas of galilee, disciple of the hermit banon, pythagoras, plato, jesus christ and the apostles, the persian philosopher each-ben-mohammed- eleansi, ormus, the egyptians, the benedictines, the rosicrucians, zoroaster, abbaris, channondas, eudoxus, hermippis, hermes trismegistus, porphyrus, plotinus, proclus, jamblique, the priesthood schools of india, the gauls, the hebrews, the essenes, and the persian magi.22 the temple of solomon had been transformed into the tower of babel. only a single brother, one of the most eminent in attendance, baron von gleichen, made any allusion to operative masons but only for the the grand lodges and modern freemasonry

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ds loved, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (roman jupiter, ruler of heaven and earth, there were many gods and immortals of whom 12 are usually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by cronos (saturn, seized power from uranus; and in turn were defeated by their own children, led by cronos son zeus. after the de

sephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusis (see p. 29. dionysus dionysus (see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with goat s legs and horns. hercules hercules (see pp. 50 51) was a son of zeus by a mortal. hera hated him. he earned immortality by performing 12 impossible tasks. when he went to olympus he married zeus daughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and

he was god of prophecy, divination, and the arts, especially music, and also a sun-god, although he was not the sun itself this was represented by the god helios. hephaestus hephaestus, the lame blacksmith god (see pp. 26 27, was the son of hera produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typically shown, as here, carrying off a nymph. four winds the winds, zephyrus (see pp. 35 5, eurus, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic

thena, stole fire from the chariot of the sun and brought it down to earth in a fennel stalk; the origin of the olympic torch. prometheus fennel stalk athena pandora s box pandora, the first mortal woman, was created by several gods, on zeus orders, to wreak havoc after prometheus stole fire from heaven. hephaestus (vulcan) shaped her; aphrodite (venus) gave her beauty; helios taught her to sing; hermes (mercury) to flatter and deceive; and athena (minerva) clothed her. although prometheus told epimetheus to refuse any gifts from zeus, he accepted pandora and married her. as intended, she brought chaos, opening a forbidden jar and releasing all the ills of the world that had been shut away. only blind hope remained pandora coaxed it out to comfort humankind. aphrodite and ares 26 aphrodite

ury fashioned a net of metal so fine and light that it was almost invisible, yet so strong that it could not be broken. this he fastened to the bedposts and rafters in the bedroom. when aphrodite and ares next went to bed, the net was released and bound them so tightly that they were unable to escape. hephaestus then invited all the gods to come and laugh at the trapped lovers. poseidon (neptune, hermes (mercury, and helios came. hephaestus demanded that zeus (jupiter) should repay him all the gifts he had made in order to win aphrodite s hand, but in the end settled for a fine to be paid by ares. amid much laughter, poseidon offered to stand surety for the debt, and so the lovers were freed. golden goddess aphrodite is called golden by the poet hesiod. she is also called laughter-loving

order to win aphrodite s hand, but in the end settled for a fine to be paid by ares. amid much laughter, poseidon offered to stand surety for the debt, and so the lovers were freed. golden goddess aphrodite is called golden by the poet hesiod. she is also called laughter-loving, although here the joke is on her. imp of desire some sources say that eros (cupid) was aphrodite s son by either ares, hermes, or even by her father zeus. others say that he was the first god, and hatched from the world egg at the beginning of time. cunning net when hephaestus learned of aphrodite s betrayal, he made a net of fine metal to catch the lovers. hephaestus was the blacksmith god and was worshiped in athens as the patron of craftsmen. aphrodite, hephaestus, and ares by tintoretto, originally jacopo robu

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

may turn to the claims of the order within the more historical times of the late 19th century, though unfortunately, these claims are no more verifiable and certainly no clearer than those which characterised its beginning <16 "the order of the golden dawn" narrates the history lecture of that order "is an hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of occult science and the magic of hermes. during the early part of the second half of last century, several eminent adepti and chiefs of the order in france and england died, and their death caused a temporary dormant condition of temple work "prominent among the adepti of our order and of public renown were eliphas levi the greatest of modem french magi; ragon, the author of several books of occult lore; kenneth m. mackenzie, aut

encyclopaedist, who had received his at the hands of a count apponyi in austria. the objects of this society which confined its membership to freemasons in good standing, was "to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to facilitate the study of the systems of philosophy founded upon the kaballah and the doctrines of hermes trismegistus" dr. westcott also remarks that today its fratres "are concerned in the study and administration of medi <20> cines,andin their manufacture upon old lines; they also teach and practise the curative effects of coloured light, and cultivate mental processes which are believed to induce spiritual enlightenment and extended powers of the human senses, especially in the directions o

rituals of the pentagram. c. the rituals of the hexagram. d. description of lotus wand, and ritual of consecration. e. description of rose cross and the ritual of consecration. f. sigils from the rose. g. sword and four implements, with consecration ritual. h. clavicula tabularum enochi. j. notes on the obligation of the adeptus minor. k. consecration ceremony of the vault. l history lecture. m. hermes vision, and lineal figures of the sephiroth. n. 0. p. q. r complete treatise on the tarot, with star maps. s. the attributions of the enochian tablets. t. the book of the angelical keys or calls. u. lecture on man, the microcosm. w. hodos chamelionis, the minutum mundum. x. the egyptian god-forms as applied to the enochian squares. y. enochian chess. z. symbolism of the temple, candidate, a

ically mediaeval, and definitely unsound from a spiritual viewpoint, and is certainly not in accord with the general lofty tenor of the remaining order teaching. it explains how to find precious metals and hidden treasure, and how to drive away the elemental guardians thereof. it is an inferior piece of work- as also is the document "j, and so i have decided to omit both "m" has two sections, the hermes vision which i do propose to give, and the lineal fimres of the sevhiroth. because of the extreme comvlexitv of the latter, and because ;will be imposiible to reproduce the several geome&cal drawings in coldur which accomvanv that manuscrivt. the writer has deemed it sufficient to restate it in a i j i, general manner as a note to the instruction on telesmatic images <86> the whole of the a

places with stars of flame. likewise, when vibrating the angelic names, the student should endeavour to imagine four vast towering figures about him. but see further in my book''the middle pillar" 1.r <110> the pillars in the explanation of the symbols of the grade of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the two pillars called in the ritual the "pillars of hermes" of "seth" and of "solomon" in the 9th chapter of the ritual of the dead they are referred to as the "pillars of shu" the "l'illars of the gods of the dawning light" and also as "the north and southern columns of the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chap ter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confe

the honours of the tarot pack are, as it were, the vice-gerants of the great name, in the qabalistic world to which each suit is referred. they also syrnbolise father, mother, son, daughter, birth, life, death, resurrection <131> the fylfot cross the 17 squares out of a square of lesser squares, refer to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac and the four elements: this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters placed on one another thus: the caduceus has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part wings touch chokmah and binah: these are the three supernal. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and p geburah <132> the meaning of luna on the tree of life is thus: in its increase it embraces the side of m

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

lue24 practicusreceptionfirst sectionthe theoricus is robed in blue in the preparation room; over his head and face is a thin yellowveil, and in his hand is placed an ebony crux bearing a. red rose. c. of n. robed and cowled inblack. they proceed to porch and enter without alarm.c. of n: by the mystic rose and cross.c. of c: by the power of chymia.c. of n.:as the light of reason dawns.c. of c.:so hermes bids thee enter.the conductor and theoricus make a circuit while is sung this ode to hermes:hermes victorious.rises all glorious;back to the dark abyssdrives all our ills amiss.hark, that bell ringing.angels sweet singing,proud o'er death he reignsconq'ring all ills and painshis will, all-powerful,griefs that are sorrowfulshrink to the shades of nightfade before hermes' light.the mystery en

ysteries,would we be able to comprehend and understand them, unless he should bestow upon us some newfaculties of the mind?before yielding to a fuller consideration of these special subjects, let me advert to your recentinstruction and approach less abruptly such momentous revelations.as a theoricus you bowed to aesculapius, the god of medicine, but reverence is also due to theancient philosopher hermes trismegistus, almost contemporaneous with the law-giver moses, andcalled 'thrice great, by reason of his virtues and great learning. it was he who gave us the divisionof a day into hours. he is the alleged inventor of alchemy: the father of that species of philosophy,which claims to solve and explain all the phenomena of nature from the three chemical principles,salt, sulphur and mercury: a

ty and radiant splendour.as this last sentence is uttered, the 5th alchemist will rinse the rose in a prepared chalice of purewater when the rose will resume its original colour.hast thou sinned, repent and wash thou in the waters of life and god will make you pure.a distant gong strikes 12 equal notes, tolling: which one of the alchemists counts as it strikes.1st alchemist: one half the hours of hermes are gone, and gualdi sleeps, but one stroke more andall our hopes are ended.the gong sounds one stroke more.the council have decided: our gualdi's dead. the secret i form is forever buried.all the alchemists rise, make the sign of the cross with arms extended, then clasp them on theirbreasts, and are sealed in silence and bowing. shortly the1st alchemist, recovering, speaks: know, frater, t

f life andrevealing the long sought for secret.it had been agreed that his watchers should be without intermission, and that the magus and councilshould set this day and hour (it being now 3 days since his syncope commenced) and adjudge himalive or dead: with the notification to the brotherhood, that one-half the number of hours into whichrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus33 hermes had divided the day should be tolled announcing the conclusion of their decision, and thatbriefly following one bell stroke should signify their decision of death, and three in quick successionthe power of his resuscitation. the council has decided, and our worst fears are realised, for we nowmay never know the composition of the solution which was found at his desk, if indeed that whichwas

he south side of thesacred hall, that occupied by the theorici being the first, and which leads into this by a connectingpassage-way. here you beheld loss of confusion in the retorts, bulbs, receivers, worms and cylindersfor compounding and distilled. here were required scales and measures, heating and hanging lamps,and all the appliances necessary and requisite for the use of the philosophers of hermes. salt,sulphur and mercury abound in various shapes. alkali and acids continually met the gaze: and inlong rows, systematically arranged and occupying one side of the room, were many books of theegyptians, treating of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings. of medicinesand ever of divination. the philosophers were termed 'practicus, and here they pursued theirherm

mensity as revealed byastronomy, call forth man222s greatest praise and adoration of the creator of all.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section49 three distinct notes on a silvery-toned bell, followed by four more as defined, and sounded without,are heard.4th philos:'tis the warning of the herald, our converse must soon close for this day marks an era with thephilosophers of hermes, it is their triumph of gualdi over death.how intimately our science of astronomy is connected and harmonises with alchemy. our zodiacalcircle inclosing the square causes its four angles to represent the four elements as it represents thecommencement of the four seasons; and again the embracing triangle is typical of the threeprinciples, all surrounding the central point, or sun, or source

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

ic, but human ignorance has ever stood in fear of the unknown. the science was driven into hiding to escape the impassioned assaults of blind desire: it clothed itself with new hieroglyphics, falsified its intentions, denied its hopes. then it was that the jargon of alchemy was created, an impenetrable illusion for the vulgar in their greed of gold, a living language only for the true disciple of hermes. extraordinary fact! among the sacred records of the christians there are two texts which the infallible church makes no claim to understand and has never attempted to expound: these are the prophecy of ezekiel and the apocalypse, two kabalistic keys reserved assuredly in heaven for the commentaries of magian kings, books sealed as with seven seals for faithful believers, yet perfectly plai

all prove later on; yet she does not recognize the less that her mysterious founder was saluted in his cradle by three magi that is to say, by the hieratic ambassadors of the three parts of the known world and the three analogical worlds of occult philosophy. in the school of alexandria, magic and christianity almost joined hands under the auspices of ammonius saccas and of plato; the doctrine of hermes is found almost in its entirety in the writings attributed to dionysius the areopagite; synesius outlined the plan of a treatise on dreams, which was annotated subsequently by cardan, and composed hymns that might have served for the liturgy of the church of swedenborg, could a church of the illuminated possess a liturgy. with this period of fiery abstractions and impassioned warfare of wor

, under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the androgyne of mendes. all this will be proved. here then are the secrets of occult philosophy, and such is magic in history. let us glance at it now as it appears in its books and its acts, in its initiations and its rites. the key of all magical allegories is found in the tablets which we have mentioned, and these tablets we regard as the work of hermes. about this book, which may be called the keystone of the whole edifice of occult science, are grouped innumerable legends that are either its partial translation or its commentary reproduced perpetually, under a thousand varied forms. sometimes the ingenious fables combine harmoniously into a great epic which characterizes an epoch, though how or why is not clear to the uninitiated. thus

udy, an intrepidity which nothing can check, a will which cannot be broken, and a prudence which nothing can corrupt and nothing intoxicate. to know, to dare, to will, to keep silence such are the four words of the magus, inscribed upon the four symbolical forms of the sphinx. these maxims can be combined after four manners and explained four times by one another. on the first page of the book of hermes the adept is depicted with a large hat, which, if turned down, would conceal his entire head. one hand is raised towards heaven, which he seems to command with his wand, while the other is placed upon his breast; before him are the chief symbols or instruments of science, and he has others hidden in a juggler's wallet. his body and arms form the letter aleph, the first of that alphabet whic

heva. so unity, complete in the fruitfulness of the triad, forms therewith the tetrad, which is the key of all numbers, of all movements and of all forms. by a revolution about its own centre, the square produces a circle equal to itself, and this is the quadrature of the circle, the circular movement of four equal angles around the same point. that which is above equals that which is below, says hermes. here then is the duad serving as the measure of unity, and the relation of equality between above and below forms with these the triad. the creative principle is the ideal phallus; the created principle is the formal cteis. the insertion of the vertical phallus into the horizontal cteis forms the stauros of the gnostics, or the philosophical cross of masons. thus, the intersection of two p

crush the serpent's head is intelligence, which ever rises above the stream of blind forces. the kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight. hereof are the hieratic mysteries of the duad. but there is one, and the last of all, which must not be made known, the reason, according to hermes trismegistus, being the malcomprehension of the vulgar, who would ascribe to the necessities of science the immoral aspect of blind fatality. by the fear of the unknown must the crowd be restrained, he observes in another place; and christ also said: cast not your pearls before swine, lest, trampling them under their feet, they turn and rend you. the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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and sleep; he must be insensible to success and to indignity. his life must be that of a will directed by one thought and served by entire nature, which he will have made subject to mind in his own organs, and by sympathy in all the universal forces which are their correspondents. all faculties and all senses should share in the 14 the ritual of transcendental magic work; nothing in the priest of hermes has the right to remain idle; intelligence must be formulated by signs and summarized by characters or pantacles; will must be determined by words and must fulfil words by deeds. the magical idea must be turned into light for the eyes, harmony for the ears, perfumes for the sense of smell, savours for the palate, objects for the touch. the operator, in a word, must realize in his whole life

nd against all danger of hallucination and fright, must purify himself without and within for forty days. the number forty is sacred, and its very figure is magical. in arabic numerals it consists of the circle, which is a type of the infinite, and of the 4, which sums the triad by unity. in roman numerals, arranged after the following manner, it represents the sign of the fundamental doctrine of hermes and the character of the seal of solomon: preparations 15 the purification of the magus consists in the renunciation of coarse enjoyments, in a temperate and vegetarian diet, in abstinence from intoxicating drink, and in regulating the hours of sleep. this preparation has been imposed and represented in all forms of worship by a period of penitence and trials preceding the symbolical feasts

pated in the ceremony, the operator was always a virgin, a hermaphrodite, or a child. i shall be asked whether the eccentricity of these rites is arbitrary, and whether its one end is the exercise of the will by the mere multiplication of difficulties in magical work? i answer that in magic there is nothing arbitrary, because everything is ruled and predetermined by the one and universal dogma of hermes, that of analogy in the three worlds. each sign corresponds to an idea and to the special form of an idea; each act expresses a volition corresponding to a thought, and formulates the analogies of that thought and will. the rites are, therefore, prearranged by the science itself. an uninstructed person who is not acquainted with the threefold power is subject to its mysterious fascination;

ced the sign of the pentagram upon their doorsteps, to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this constraint followed from the direction of the points of the star. two points on the outer side drove away the evil; two points on the inner side imprisoned them; one only on the inner side held good spirits captive. all these magical theories, based upon the one dogma of hermes and on the analogical deductions of science, have been confirmed invariably by the visions of ecstatics and the paroxysms of cataleptics, declaring that they are possessed by spirits. the g which freemasons place in the middle of the blazing star signifies gnosis and generation, the two sacred words of the ancient kabalah. it signifies also grand architect, for the pentagram on every side r

metals. gold, silver, brass and iron; the pedestal should be of iron, the mirror of brass, the reservoir of silver, the triangle at the apex of gold. it should be provided with two branches composed of a triple tube of three intertwisted metals, in such a manner that each arm has a triple conduit for the oil; there must be nine wicks in all, three at the top and three in each branch. the seal of hermes must be engraved on the pedestal, over which must be the two-headed androgyne of khunrath. a serpent devouring its own tail must encircle the lower part. the sign of solomon must be inscribed on the reservoir. two globes must be fitted to this lamp, one adorned with a transparency, representing the seven genii, while the other, of larger size and duplicated, should contain variously tinted

we must be in position to procure all instruments of the science and be able to make them when needed; we must possess, moreover, an inaccessible laboratory, in which there will be no danger of being ever surprised or disturbed. then, and this is an indispensable condition, we must know how to equilibrate forces and restrain the zeal of our own initiative. this is the meaning of the eighth key of hermes, wherein a woman is seated between two pillars, with an upright sword in one hand and a balance in the other. to equilibrate forces they must be maintained simultaneously and caused to act alternately: the use of the balance represents this double action. the same arcanum is typified by the warning to the imprudent 53 dual cross in the pantacles of pythagoras and ezekiel: see the plate whic

RUBY TABLET OF SET

al. this is certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so. most often after everyone is already in trouble. he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by thinkin

mb those sources looking for concepts that could be distilled down into notions that were unfamiliar, and yet all too familiar. he sought the raw archetypal essence behind various symbols. so for example, there is nyarlathotep, the cryptic messenger of the gods. this being is a sardonic trickster who conveys power and knowledge. it is clear that what lovecraft has taken the traditions surrounding hermes, mercury, and thoth- a being who is the messenger of the gods and a bringer of knowledge, but also a trickster and a thief. people react to the original concept instead of the prettified, sanitized images of these myths that evolves as people tame the archetypes, to make their images comfortable and familiar (think of the mercurial logo used by florists) lovecraft carried out this distillat

ys were published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between dr. john dee and some spirits.3 the attribution of the keys or language to enoch is interesting insofar as he is a remarkable individual in legend. described in the old testament as the seventh master of the world after adam, enoch is the hebrew equivalent of the phoenician cadmus, the greek hermes, and the egyptian thoth. as such he is the reputed author of the tarot, the cabala, the emerald tablet of thoth, and the apocryphal book of enoch. he receives only a brief mention in "genesis, where the fifth chapter recounts "and enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat methuselah: and enoch walked with god after he begat methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and

, and with the power of sowilo, with every bit of strength and power, i strike, and watch this crack as it crumbles to dust at my feet. i behold the u(u)niverse made limitless in the settling dust, and the power within for victory and the success of my individual will [setian southern] i call upon set to bring sebhut through the gate. mercury the planet of my birth, whose god is set, whose god is hermes, the healer, crack this egg, and nurture this spark i now bear within me, which returns with me to the north, and be a reservoir, a power for all those assembled here [setian kawaguchi's activity was silent, and setian hembry's too quiet to register intelligibly on the tape recorder [the closing [the initiate who opened the gate closes same, with whatever words are appropriate.(7] i the gat

SATANGEL

thus he may be equated here with anubis, the dog star, whose name in persian is tistar, chief, and in akkadian kasista, prince. the equation of micha-el and the god of the underworld also continues after the arrival of roman catholicism. the church, anxious to attract and convert the pagans of roman gaul, endowed micha-el with many of the attributes of the god mercury, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is

helel ben shachar (hebrew, morning star, shining one. the phrase as it appears in the original hebrew, isaiah 14:12. thus taken to be a name of lucifer. heramael (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches the art of medicine, gives absolute knowledge of all diseases, with their full and radical cure, makes known all plants in general, their virtues. probably from the greek god hermes. hornblas. patron devil of musical discord. his trumpet gathers the ministry of hell. huictiigara (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. occassions sleep and waking in some, and afflicts others with insomia. iblis (arabic form of greek diabolos. islamic devil, identified as asasel or lucifer after the descent. ijanki (hittite. snake demon, associated with leviathan and typhon. i

SATANIC RITUALS

icipants were garbed in full dress, whether uniformed or not. topical music was added-usually morgenrot at the beginning and unsre fahne flattert uns voran as a closing anthem. these were played by the organist or on a gramophone. music by richard wagner may be used instead at the opening and closing of the ritual. the litany spoken by the celebrant paraphrases the eighth emerald tablet of thoth (hermes trismegistus, in which the einsteinian time/space continuum is advanced through arcane greek and egyptian verbiage. the windows to the fourth dimension are mirrored planes which multiply the image of the single being. small wonder that the looking glass has had the reputation as a tool of lucifer, for beyond its use as the most obvious plaything of pride, it is a tool to find light where no

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

d to leg ulcers (inflammations) and swellings. yeast was also taken internally for stomach disorders and was believed to be an effective cure for ulcers. the egyptians were the first to use and record advanced medical practices. the egyptians gathered their knowledge into large volumes, which were later adopted by the greeks. an ancient medical text written by an egyptian of greek ancestry, named hermes, survives in six books. the first of these six books was directly related to anatomy. the rest served as a book of herb and mineral recipes for various ailments or illnesses. egyptian architecture and building techniques have also been very influential. the pyramidal shape has been adopted by modern architects, including the egyptian-inspired entrance to the louvre museum in paris, france

ted with the dao, or the way, in daoist belief. world religions: almanac 221 greco-roman religion and philosophy directly from zeus s forehead. because she was the protector and defender of athens, she is often depicted as armed. artemis, the goddess of hunting and wild places, was also a moon goddess. she was apollo s twin sister, and young men and girls held her sacred because she was a virgin. hermes was the messenger of the gods. apollo was the sun god and the god of music and prophesy, or predictions on the future. he also represented law and order, appearing in court in aeschylus s plays. hephaestus was the god of fire and crafts requiring fire, such as metalworking. he was also the god of volcanoes. poseidon was the god of the sea, but he was also god of horses and earthquakes. hest

s in order to determine what they should do in the future. one of the most famous of the oracles was at the temple of apollo at delphi, which is located in central greece. the greeks believed in a soul, which they called psyche, but beliefs varied as to whether it survived after death. the traditional belief was that both good and bad souls went to the underworld, hades, escorted there by the god hermes. there, those who were evil were punished in a place called tartaros, while good souls lived in elysium, a place of eternal happiness and sunlight in a portion of hades. others believed that the soul resided in the grave; still others felt that it left the body at death and floated in the sky. creation both romans and greeks used myths to explain the creation of the universe and their place

as the goddess of good counsel, practical insight, and cautious selfcontrol. world religions: primary sources 75 the odyssey things to remember while reading the excerpt from the odyssey: as the daughter of the sky god zeus, athena is one of the twelve olympians, the gods and goddesses who live on mount olympus. the other olympians, besides zeus and athena, include aphrodite, the goddess of love; hermes, the messenger god; poseidon, the god of the sea; and others. athena presents herself to telemachus in disguise. she enters ithaca in the form of mentes, one of odysseus s old friends, and meets with telemachus. she tells the prince that odysseus will return but that in the meantime telemachus has to stand up to the suitors who are the greek gods, depicted at their home on mount olympus, ha

inually with quenchless anger for the cyclops sake whom he blinded of his eye, even godlike polyphemus whose power is mightiest amongst all the cyclopes. then the goddess, grey-eyed athene, answered him, and said: o father, our father cronides, throned in the highest, if indeed this thing is now well pleasing to the blessed gods, that wise odysseus should return to his own home, let us then speed hermes the messenger, the slayer of argos, to the island of ogygia. there with all speed let him declare to the lady of the braided tresses our unerring counsel, even the return of the patient odysseus, that so he may come to his home. but as for me i will go to ithaca that i may rouse his son yet the more, planting might in his heart, to call an assembly of the long-haired achaeans and speak out

tempt to understand them. the old ones didn t die when the ancient pagan religions fell to upstart christianity in europe. most of the rites vanished, but they weren t the only effective ones. wicca is alive and well and the deities respond to our calls and invocations. when envisioning the goddess and god, many of the wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. diana, pan, isis, hermes, hina, tammuz, hecate, ishtar, cerridwen, thoth, tara, aradia, artemis, pele, apollo, kanaloa, bridget, helios, bran, lugh, hera, cybele, inanna, maui, ea, athena, lono, marduk the list is virtually endless. many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information, furnish the concept of deity for wiccans. some feel comfortable associating such names and forms

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

tle of seth-typhon. as shown by m. tardieu (above, n. 30, aberamentho or, actually, aberamentho[o]uth, derives from the hebrew phrase, ym ryba "power of waters, and the greek version of the name of the egyptian god thoth.32 from the xxvith dynasty onwards, thot was seen as the god bringing forth and exercising power over the waters of the nile. in greco-roman times, thoth was also identified with hermes, the messenger and spokesman of the gods. as the "lord of the holy words, thoth-hermes knew the formulas by which the cosmic powers could be controlled. the identification of jesus as aberamentho in the untitled work in the askew codex is thus easily explicable. in the beginning of the tract, jesus is said to have invoked god while "he stood upon the water of the ocean (afahera i. hi n pmoo

god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that also seth-typhon could be given the name of aberamentho throws no light on the phrase "jesus who is aberamentho" the net conclusion of the present article is that neither seth, the son of adam, nor christ is ever welded with the egyptian god seth-typhon. ann arbor jarl fossum brian glazer 412-418

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ave shown thee the absent, and prated to thee, in their charlatanic jargon, of the secret electricities and the magnetic fluid of whose true properties they know but the germs and elements. i will lend thee the books of those glorious dupes, and thou wilt find, in the dark ages, how many erring steps have stumbled upon the threshold of the mighty learning, and fancied they had pierced the temple. hermes and albert and paracelsus, i knew ye all; but, noble as ye were, ye were fated to be deceived. ye had not souls of faith, and daring fitted for the destinies at which ye aimed! yet paracelsus modest paracelsus had an arrogance that soared higher than all our knowledge. ho, ho! he thought he could make a race of men from chemistry; he arrogated to himself the divine gift, the breath of life

fillide's? nothing of the cold stars there! yet how they twinkle and laugh at thee! and that rosy, pursed-up mouth that will answer so sparingly to thy flatteries, as if words were a waste of time, and kisses were their proper language. oh, pupil of mejnour! oh, would-be rosicrucian, platonist, magian, i know not what! i am ashamed of thee! what, in the names of averroes and burri and agrippa and hermes have become of thy austere contemplations? was it for this thou didst resign viola? i don't think thou hast the smallest recollection of the elixir or the cabala. take care! what are you about, sir? why do you clasp that small hand locked within your own? why do you tara-rara tara-ra tara-rara-ra, rarara, tara, a-ra! keep your eyes off those slender ankles and that crimson bodice! tara-rara

SOLOMON

they wish to provide money by means of memory (commemoration, but i supply a little to those who worship me fairly" 18. and i solomon questioned her about her birth, and she replied "i was born of a voice untimely, the socalled echo of a man's ordure [1] dropped in a wood [1. for the demon born of an echo we have an analogue in the hebrew bath kol "the daughter of a voice" in the gnostic hymn to hermes, edited by dieterich, abrasax, p 19, we read, l. 104] 19. and i said to her "under what star dost thou pass" and she answered me "under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things" then i said to her "and what angel is it that frustrates thee" and she said to me "he that in thee [or "through thee] is reigning" and i thought that she mocked me, and bade a

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

west corner of the kaaba at mecca, which was worshipped by the ancient arabians. the druids, it is well known, had no other images of their gods but cubical or sometimes columnar stones. to use the language of dudley, the pillar or stone 'was adapted as a symbol of strength and firmness. a symbol, also, of the divine power, and, by a ready inference, a symbol or idol of the deity himself. the god hermes [mercury] was represented without hands or feet, being a cubical stone, because the cubical figure betokened his solidity and stability."11 (emphasis supplied) hammarskjold, in the speech quoted earlier, said "in this case we wanted this massive 'altar' to give the impression of something more than temporary. we had another idea. we thought we could bless by our -14- thoughts the very mater

in the ancient hebrew alphabet, with values of 1 to 400. the triangle is an ancient emblem of deity; it is also a sign of the female element. however, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down it becomes the male element; thus inverted it may also represent lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal; the ninth hebrew letter, teth, with the value of nine, has the signification of "serpent."22 the number of the beast of revelation is 666, which cabalis- tically is nine, the number of generation.23 the twin s

and "smoking face" they "lived by catching the wicked "fed off their blood" and "devoured their hearts before horus" they were judges, accusers and punishers of crime "guilty souls were handed over to them by osiris, but to be 'tortured' only, not destroyed."56 during osiris' great expedition beyond the borders of egypt "he left his kingdom to the care of his wife isis, and her faithful minister hermes or mercury" who was anubis (brother to osiris, represented with a caduceus. when osiris returned he found that his brother set (typhon) had aroused his subjects against him (set's name was expressed by a hieroglyphic containing the black half-sphere seen in the meditation room murai) set murdered his brother and cut his body into fourteen pieces. isis recovered all the mangled pieces, with

ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury. anubis (brother to osiris) has already beeen mentioned. his emblem, the caduceus, was the talismanic serpent, originally entwined around a tau cross, which was also a phallus. the serpents represented the power of mercury as a sun-god. the caduceus was identified with moses' brazen serpent "in judah the image of jehovah took the form of a golden serpent, as in solomon's temple" its

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hubris, prometheus took up their cause and taught them numbers, writing, and that other prerequisite of culture, the use of fire.82 this provoked zeus rage against prometheus. hephaestus, a son of myth and mysteriosophy 77 zeus, was commissioned to make a female form of great beauty, which all the gods adorned with every possible gift. she was named pandora( all-gifted. the messenger of the gods, hermes, brought her to prometheus brother, epimetheus, to whom she gave a casket as a gift from the gods. epimetheus accepted the gift, despite the fact that prometheus had warned him on no account to accept a gift from the gods. when the casket was opened, out flew every possible human affliction. only hope remained inside, because pandora quickly shut the lid, and hope exists still as a dubious

y grows again. he is to pass his days in agonizing loneliness, until one of the gods freely sacrifices himself, that is, dedicates himself to death. prometheus meanwhile bears his suffering with unflinching patience, for he knows that zeus will be dethroned by the son of a mortal woman unless he himself becomes her husband. it was important for zeus to know this mystery; he sent the messenger-god hermes to prometheus to inquire about it, but prometheus refused to say anything. at this point the sagas of heracles and of prometheus are connected: in the course of his wanderings, heracles reaches the caucasus. he slays the eagle that gnawed at prometheus liver. and the centaur chiron, who cannot die, though he suffers from an incurable wound, sacrifices himself for prometheus. the titan is th

SYMBOLISM

al. this is certainly an area that needs deeper investigation. the workshop session discussion however left the topic of abstract forms, and instead investigated the historic use of symbols in various cultures. looking first at the more complex god forms, it seems each major culture has a "trickster" god: coyote fills this niche in several amerindian cultures, loki in the norse mythos, and thoth (hermes and mercury) in the egyptian (greek and roman) mythologies. the trickster is that spirit who makes you think. he is the spirit who is unpredictable in his actions or reactions, who gets himself and everyone else into trouble. in the process of doing so- most often after everyone is already in trouble- he makes people think, and in the end he generally gets everyone out of trouble by thinkin

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

(rr- which is the word of set. april 30, 1966 when anton szandor lavey founded the church of satan and began a magical exploration of the psychological factors of the christian satan. 1972, when anton lavey published the satanic rituals, which included die elektrischen vorspiele, which was privately known as the rite of the is-to-be. this text, based on the eighth precept of the emerald tablet of hermes use your mind to its full extent and rise from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to earth and combine the powers of what is above and what is below. thus you will win glory in the whole world, and obscurity will leave you at once. this is largely an invocation to anubis, opener of the way, to cause power to flow forth under the control of the children of set (so named. north solst

TELESMATA AND FLASHING TABLETS

ld two flashing colors. basic mode of charging and consecrating step 1 use the proper words and letters when charging a tablet. these would be the letters governing the signs under which the operator falls, along with the correct planetary association (only for a planetary talisman. an example is to take the letters of the appropriate triplicity in elemental operations. next, add the letters a.l (hermes) thus forming an angelic name. this angelic name is the expression of the force. example: earth operation (one method) example: earth operation b f j laxyw the above method is an abstraction from the names of the triplicities utilizing the corresponding letter from the path of the tree of life. another method is law for b only. most specific workings can be obtained by the utilization of th

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

a pan, the horned god of the mountains, forest, streams, and valleys, is almost universally worshipped by witches, as the honor bestowed upon him by the title and cover art of this recent book indicate. the ivy and holly are his favored vegetation (thus, the ivy-covered buildings on the campuses of harvard, yale, and other elite establishment colleges and the name, hollywood. pan, whose father is hermes, god of secrecy, is often pictured as the green man, a vegetation-covered deity. the tale of the jolly green giant is a myth begun by his admirers. who, really, is pan? well, of course, pan is simply the devil in a new disguise. baphles me! 105 106 codex magica the bearded revolutionary rebel is symbolic of baphomet, who also has a beard. this artist rendition of notorious cuban guerilla le

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by the gods to be resurrected. membership in the mysteries of eleusis was undertaken to ensure initiates a happy immortality. m delving deeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. gaster, dr. theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of t

ric times, from ancient times. the earliest human records legible, the pyramid texts of egypt (c. 3000 b.c.e, contain many prayers that are quoted from a far more ancient period, and it is apparent that the prayers were used in the texts as magical formulas and spells. the mysterious first initiator into these sacred doctrines was known as toth and later to the greeks by his more familiar name of hermes. hermes-toth is a generic name that designates a man, a caste, and a god at the same time. as a man, hermes-toth is the originator of a powerful system of magic and its first initiator; as a caste, he represents the priesthood, the repository of ancient wisdom; as a god, hermes becomes mercury for the greeks, the god who delivers messages to mortals from the olympiad and the god who initiat

hermes-toth is the originator of a powerful system of magic and its first initiator; as a caste, he represents the priesthood, the repository of ancient wisdom; as a god, hermes becomes mercury for the greeks, the god who delivers messages to mortals from the olympiad and the god who initiates mortals into transcendent mysteries. later, the greek disciples of this secret tradition would call him hermes trismegistus (three times great, and he would be credited for originating the material contained in 42 books of esoteric science. in the time of the ramses (c. 1300 b.c.e, egypt shone as a beacon light of civilization throughout the known world, and while the leaders of foreign nations sought to barter for the empire s rich produce in order to avert local famines and to make treaties with p

around the year 2000 b.c.e. egypt was invaded and partially conquered by bands of shepherdkings from asia called hyksos, who occupied the areas of the delta and middle egypt. the invaders brought with them a culture that was corrupt by egyptian standards, and for a time it seemed as though the life and soul of egypt was threatened. however, the priesthood that kept alive the ancient knowledge of hermes withdrew to hidden sanctuaries and temples and practiced the secret mysteries. while they outwardly bowed to the foreign gods, they maintained their old traditions and believed in a time when the dynasties of egypt would be restored in all their magnificence. 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 260 mystery religions and cults it was duri

the rites of purification had been observed, the initiates bathed in the sea and were sprinkled with the blood of pigs as they emerged. a sacrifice was offered to the gods, and a procession began the journey to eleusis, where, upon the arrival of the priests, the initiates were received by the high priest of eleusis, the hieroceryx, or sacred herald, who was dressed in a manner suggesting the god hermes (mercury, holding the caduceus, the entwined serpents, as a symbol of his authority. once the aspirants had assembled, the sacred herald led them to a sanctuary of the goddess persephone hidden in a quiet valley in the midst of a sacred grove. here, the priestesses of persephone, crowned with narcissus wreaths, began chanting, warning the newcomers of the mysteries that they were about to p

s a young religion when compared to the worship of the greek, roman, egyptian, and other middle eastern and eastern deities. the mystery schools kept alive the practice of magic and the belief that secret rituals and sacred relics could command the presence of divinity. the ancient mystery rites dedicated to such gods as osiris, isis, and dionysus, together with the magical formulas discovered by hermes trimegistus and other masters of the art of theurgy, compelled the gods to manifest and share their powers. the myths of the old gods and the holy scriptures of the christians, the secret experiences of the ancients and the revelations of the apostles, the personal sense of god developed by the pagan cults, and the promise of the church fathers that one could know god through his son all se

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s psychic integration of the personality, this striving toward wholeness, the process of individuation. many authorities consider dr. nathaniel kleitman (1895 1999) to be the father of modern scientific dream research, for he pursued the subject when his colleagues dismissed 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 mysteries of the mind 119 the god hermes pours sleep into the eyes of mortals (getty images) manyauthorities consider dr. nathaniel kleitman (1895 1999) to be the father of modern scientific dream research. the area as having no value. as a professor of philosophy at the university of chicago, kleitman asked a graduate student, eugene aserinsky, to study the relationship of eye movement and sleep; and in 1951, aserinsky identified

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n territorial disputes, and to bring peace to the spirits of their deceased tribal kin. throughout the evolving centuries to the present day, humankind continues to seek magical means of improving its lot in life, providing order to the chaos of the physical world, and winning the favor of the inhabitants of the unseen world. 39 chapter exploration alchemy valentine andreae roger bacon. helvetius hermes trismegistus albertus magnus. paracelsus magick abremelin magick black magick enochian magick vodun/vodoun/voodoo white magick magi agrippa count allesandro cagliostro aleister crowley. john dee dr. faust. marie laveau eliphas levi. simon magus pico della mirandola. pythagoras count saint-germain wicca people of wicca margot adler philip emmons (isaac) bonewits raymond buckland gavin frost

and full-time frauds is not quite accurate. most of them were, in fact, highly spiritual men whose quest to transmute one substance into another was closer to mysticism than modern chemistry. the essence of alchemy lay in the belief that certain incantations and rituals could convince or command angelic beings to change base metals into precious ones. according to ancient tradition, the mummy of hermes trismegistus, the master of alchemical philosophy, was found in an obscure chamber of the great pyramid of giza, clutching an emerald tablet in its hands. the words contained on the tablet revealed the alchemical creed that git is true and without falsehood and most real: that which is above is like that which is below, to perpetuate the miracles of one thing. and as all things have been de

ved from one, by the thought of one, so all things are born from this thing, by adoption. h within the secrets inscribed on the tablet was the gmost powerful of all powers, h the process by which the world was created and by which all gsubtle things h might penetrate gevery solid thing, h and by which base material might be transformed into precious metals and gems. for centuries, the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered a precious legacy from the master of alchemy. the hermetics believed that the nature of the cosmos was sacramental: gthat which is above is like that which is below. h in other words, the nature of the spiritual world could be discovered through the study of the material substance of earth; and earthly humans, created of the dust of the ground, comprised the pri

ron, m, and s. hutin. the alchemists. translated by helen r. lane. new york: grove press, 1961. de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology of sorcery, magic and alchemy. translated by j. courtenay locke. new york: causeway books, 1973. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. hermes trismegistus in alchemical/magical tradition, powerful secrets of alchemy were found inscribed on an emerald tablet in the hands of the mummy of hermes trismegistus, the master magician and alchemist, who had been entombed in an obscure chamber of the great pyramid of giza. the preamble to the key to transmuting base materials to precious metals and gems instructed the adept that git is tru

mmy of hermes trismegistus, the master magician and alchemist, who had been entombed in an obscure chamber of the great pyramid of giza. the preamble to the key to transmuting base materials to precious metals and gems instructed the adept that git is true, without falsehood, and most real: that which is above is like that which is below, to perpetrate the miracles of one thing. h the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered by the alchemists as a legacy from the master of alchemy and were, therefore, precious to them. as much as the thought of such a find may fire the imagination, the discovery of the emerald tablet at giza is quite likely an allegory. the alchemists, who were concerned with the spiritual perfection of humankind as well as the transmutation of base metals into gold

much as the thought of such a find may fire the imagination, the discovery of the emerald tablet at giza is quite likely an allegory. the alchemists, who were concerned with the spiritual perfection of humankind as well as the transmutation of base metals into gold, commonly recorded their formulas and esoteric truths in allegorical form. today it is known that there was no single personage named hermes trismegistus and that the leyden papyrus discovered in the tomb of the anonymous magician contains the oldest known copy of the inscription from the legendary emerald tablet, which is itself a description of the seven stages of gold-making. hermes, who is called trismegistus, gthree times the greatest, h was a deity of a group of greeks who once founded a colony in egypt. this transplanted

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ers relate to the tree of life. the ave maria exposes the greatest qabalistic truth in that through the feminine principle, we are taught about the justified one, and through the justified one, we learn of the infinite. as it is written: whomsoever sees me, sees the father. i and my father are oneit(la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi the key of the mysteries according to enoch, abraham, hermes trismegistes and solomon by eliphas levi translated, with an introduction by aleister crowley "religion says 'believe and you will understand' science comes to say to you 'understand and you will believe "at that moment the whole of science will change front; the spirit, so long dethroned and forgotten, will take its ancient place; it will be demonstrated that the old traditions are all tru

f god. mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revelations, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. who has given us this power? we do not fear to reveal it to our readers. there exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the hebrews attribute to enoch, the egyptians to thoth or to hermes trismegistus, the greeks to cadmus and to palamedes. this alphabet was known to the followers of pythagoras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. solomon represented this alphabet by seventy-two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. eastern initiates still call these the "little keys" or clavicles o

ognize them, since the world is renewed, since st. paul burned at ephesus the books of the hierophants? was then st. paul a barbarian, and was he committing a crime against science? no, but he burned the winding-sheets of the resuscitated that they might forget death. why, then, do we to-day recall the qabalistic origins of dogma? why do we join again the figures of the bible to the allegories of hermes? is it to condemn st. paul, is it to bring doubt to believers? no, indeed, for believers have no need of our book; they will not read it, and they will not wish to understand it. but we wish to show to the innumerable crowd of those who doubt, that faith is attached to the reason of all the centuries, to the science of all the sages. we wish to force human liberty to respect divine authorit

in the name of their reason or, rather, of their individual unreason, have laid hands on dogma, have, in the very act, lost the spirit of charity; they have excommunicated themselves. the catholic, that is to say the universal, dogma merits that magnificent name by harmonizing in one all the religious aspirations of the world; with moses and mohammed, it affirms the unity of god; with zoroaster, hermes and plato, it recognizes in him the infinite trinity of its own regeneration; 78 it reconciles the living numbers of pythagoras with the monadic word of st. john<gospel legend itself is a macedoine of those of bacchus, adonis, osiris, and a hundred others, and that the mass, and christian ceremonies generally, have s

wheel "azoth" is written above the head of this figure. a demon reminiscent of proteus descends the wheel on the left. his head is bearded and horned, his legs are tentacular and finned. he carries a trident below "hyle" is written below his head. that substance is one which is heaven and earth; that is to say, according to its degrees of polarization, subtle or fixed. 108 this substance is what hermes trismegistus calls the great "telesma" when it produces splendour, it is called light. it is this substance which god creates before everything else, when he says "let there be light" it is at once substance and movement. it is fluid, and a perpetual vibration. its inherent force which set it is motion is called "magnetism" in the infinite, this unique substance is the ether, or the etheric

alogy, the sketches of worlds to come. it is the instrument of thaumaturgy and divination, as remains for us to explain in the third and last part of this work. 109 first book magnetic mysteries chapter i the key of mesmerism mesmer rediscovered the secret science of nature; he did not invent it. the first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by hermes and pythagoras. synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the platonistic records of the school of alexandria: gr:mu-iota-alpha pi-alpha-gamma-alpha mu-iotaalpha rho-iota-zeta-alpha tau-rho-iota-phi-alpha-eta-sigma epsilon-lambda-alpha-mu-pi-epsilon mu-omicron-rho-phi-alpha. pi-epsilon-rho-iota gamma-alpha-rho sigma-pi-alpha-rho-epsilon-iota-sigma-alpha pi-nu-omicron-iot

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l of paroketh. the sephirah embodies the energies of transmutation through sacrifice, hope and rebirth. this sequence is explored in the appropriate ritual of the sapphire temple given later. chapter eleven; hod, the crystal watercourse in the psyche, hod is the intellect as balanced against the sephirah of the emotions, netzach. the alchemical hermaphrodite is composed of these two sephiroth, as hermes represents the mind, and aphrodite the emotions. thus hod is specifically the power of the mind, the thoughts and the mental will. it acts as a lower arc of chockmah, the divine will, and a lower level of geburah, discrimination, and binah, understanding. all these are reflected in the process of thought, as we structuralise our perceptions of the environment and our intuitive processes equ

dawn for this sephirah is that of shu supporting the firmament. moon: as its primary symbol is that of the moon, yesod has attributed to it such lunar deities as diana. also, in its generative aspect (merging to netzach, diana-artemis of epheseus, the many-breasted. threshold: as the connective element between the nephesch (animal instinct) and ruach (reasoning principle, such gods as hermanubis (hermes the guide and anubis the guardian) and ganesha (as breaker-down of obstacles, the juggernaut) can be placed here, as well as the "guardian of the threshold. this latter entity is encountered as the first "fear" on the new initiate's path, and usually manifests as the "shadow" in terms of jungian psychotherapy. the appearance of the guardian is the sure sign that the work of the zelator is b

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

respondence. they can be found in several books, such as crowley's 777 (samuel weiser, 1982, which is based upon golden dawn manuscripts, and bill wlutcomb's the magician's companion (llewellyn, 1993. 8. once again, regardie has switched the natural order of the qabalistic cross here "ve-gevurah (right shoulder) should precede "ve-gedulah (left shoulder. 9. libellus xi (ii "a discourse of mind to hermes" see scott, hermetica, 90-91. 10. plotinus was a leading neoplatonist of the third century c.e. he strove to combine greek logic and rational philosophy with mysticism and transcendental experience. his major work, the enneads, was compiled by his student porphyry. 11. for this reason it is important that the student keep a diary and record the results of all meditations, exercises, and rit

ities who have "walked between the worlds" of life and death (conscious and subconscious, such as the sumerian inanna and the egyptian osiris. 4. the field of consciousness, whch contains the ego, is the incessant flow of observable images, feelings, thoughts, sensations, and impulses. archetypes of this region include several groups of deities with a variety of attributions: wisdom (enki, thoth, hermes; love (hathor, aphrodite; war (horns, ares; pleasure (bes, pan; etc. 5. the higher unconscious or superconscious is the transpersonal level of the unconscious-containing higher intuitions, inspirations, latent psychic functions, and spiritual energies. it is here that the higher self expresses itself in various forms through archetypes. the ordinary person is usually unaware of these forces

creative resources are a primary influence in the development of music, dance, literature, and other art forms. the transconscious imagination expresses itself in two ways, the intuitive imagination and the creative imagination, which relate respectively to the natures of the reflective anima and the creative animus. together, these two archetypes coalesce into the partly androgynous archetype of hermes,32 the messenger god, who symbolizes the transconscious imagination as the psychopomp, the guide, healer, and protector of the soul. the language of the soul (and the imagination) is revealed in symbol, image, and allegory. therefore in all mythologies the many figures, places, and situations are metaphors for different archetypes, as well as different aspects of the psyche and transformati

d, who symbolizes the transconscious imagination as the psychopomp, the guide, healer, and protector of the soul. the language of the soul (and the imagination) is revealed in symbol, image, and allegory. therefore in all mythologies the many figures, places, and situations are metaphors for different archetypes, as well as different aspects of the psyche and transformative experiences. thus does hermes, representing the soul guide and the transconscious self, communicate to all levels of the psyche through symbol and myth. the imagination is one of the most important tools of magic. a focused imagination is employed by magicians for everything from the consecration of talismans to healing. concentration on a visualized image or symbol is the key to this type of working. in healing, the so

in the sephwah of tiphareth, the seat of the holy guardian angel. 30. in magic, this can be compared to the work of the 27th path of peh (known as "the tower) in which the old outmoded personality is dismantled, and a new personality is rebuilt. 31. transconscious is a term developed by psychologist/magician william stoltz to describe the psyche's creative and intuitive imagination. 32. although hermes is male, he is sometimes seen as an androgyne or hermaphrodite. in fact, the word hermaphrodite is a combination of the names hermes and aphrodite-the union of the anirna and the animus. 33. sometimes confused with freud's super-ego, which was an artificial construct composed of external influences in accordance with a process called introjection- the incorporation of the characteristics of

chakra system of yoga, the hindu mystical tradition. many people, including authors, make the common mistake of calling tiphareth "the heart chakra" or referring to yesod as "the moon chakra" in fact the cover of llewellyn's second edition of regardie's the middle pillar (see figure 1, p. xi) shows the chakras superimposed over the qabalistic tree of life with the twin serpents of the caduceus of hermes. as easy as it is for some to transpose the terms "sephrah" and "chakra" ths habit should be avoided, since it only adds to confusion between the two systems. it would be better to refer to the sephiroth of the middle pillar exercise as galgalim,l whch is hebrew for "whlings" there are five sephiroth on the middle pillar in contrast to seven chakras in the eastern system. the sephrah of ket

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e cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in the sumerian language in reference to the rite of exorcism, one of

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

was only by casting off god, and breaking away from the essentially bestial quality of unreason, that man paradoxically assumed godhood. eliphas levi in one of his unpublished letters wrote, gthe riddle of the sphinx has two answers which are true only in a third. ethe first is god, the second is man, and the third man-god. f f f this is but the overman of the egoistical philosophy of nietzsche. hermes struck a higher chord when he said: gto create god, is to accomplish our own creation, to make ourselves independent, impassible, and immortal. h blake demonstrated the at-oneness of good and evil very clearly in gthe marriage of heaven and hell. h gi tell you no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments, h he says, referring to the decalogue. further back in his gproverbs of

sapphire of the cornflower; so with us, it is synthetically that we rise, and not analytically. blake grasped this idea and so did joseph de maistre. the arcanum of solomon is represented by the two pillars of the temple, yakheen and boaz, the two forces, the white and the black; separate and contrary, yet in their polarity they are uniform, equilibrating their unity. the philosopher fs stone, as hermes declared, consisted in separating the ethereal from that which was gross. thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the ethereal from the gross, gently, but with great industry. it ascends from earth to heaven, and again it comes down from heaven to earth, and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things. thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world, an

it ascends from earth to heaven, and again it comes down from heaven to earth, and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things. thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world, and all darkness will depart from thee. it is the strong power of every power, for it will overcome all things subtle and penetrate all things solid. it is thus that the world was created *hermes. tannhauser also separated the higher from the lower self, the good from the evil. christ also attempted the same course, not living alone for either good or bad, but for the whole, as jelaladeen sang, gi am the song and singer, h etc, the surest centre of immortality lying in the whole, and not in the part. the qabalist compared the wicked with the excrement of the great human body, a nece

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

d by a lunar crescent. from the tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ensemble personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mind, or soul. the cross below is matter, the circle is spirit. together they figure the lingam of the hindus, representing the union of the sexes; and the crescent above the union of spirit and matter represents the soul which is the evolved product of their union. the seal on the breast of natu

THE GOD SET

representations of set. he became--for all practical purposes the christian devil. some scholars have even derived the name satan from set-hen, a cult title meaning the majesty of set, but i am dubious of this particular derivation. however set was not down for the count. during the ptolemaic period set, merged with the greek titan typhon, became the figure for the goes or sorcerer to use. after hermes the most often invoked god in the magical papyri is set-typhon. this entity was used to bring spirit helpers( bird would fly down and announce that the magician was now under the protection of a god- a popular typhonic practice outside of egypt as well se morton smith's jesus the magician. set was also the god to invoke to send dreams, perform healings on the head or spinal column, and to c

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

rist. salute them which are of aristobulus [household] 16:11 salute herodion my kinsman. greet them that be of the [household] of narcissus, which are in the lord. 16:12 salute tryphena and tryphosa, who labour in the lord. salute the beloved persis, which laboured much in the lord. 16:13 salute rufus chosen in the lord, and his mother and mine. 16:14 salute asyncritus, phlegon, hermas, patrobas, hermes, and the brethren which are with them. 16:15 salute philologus, and julia, nereus, and his sister, and olympas, and all the saints which are with them. 16:16 salute one another with an holy kiss. the churches of christ salute you. 16:17 now i beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 16:18 for they tha

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etic and astronomy; who before abraham s coming unto them, knew none of these sciences. abraham sanctitate& sapientia omnium pr stantissimus, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the caldeans, then the phoenicians, lastly the egyptian priests, astrologie and divine knowledge. without doubt, hermes trismegistus, that divine magician and philosopher, who (as some say) lived long before noah, attained to much divine knowledge of the creator through the study of magick and astrologie; as his writings testifie. the third kind of magick containeth the whole philosophy of nature; which bringeth to light the innermost virtues, and extracteth them out of nature s hidden bosome to humane use:

sent for from cornelius the centurion. after this maner, in vocal words, are all disciplines delivered, by the holy angels of 1. 10 god, as it appeareth out of the monuments of the gyptians. and these things afterwards were vitiated and corrupted with humane opinions; and by the instigation of evil spirits, who sow tares amongst the children of disobedience, as it is manifest out of st. paul, and hermes trismegistus. there is no other maner of restoring these arts. then by the doctrine of the holy spirits of god; because true faith cometh by hearing. but because thou mayst be certain of the truth. arid mayst not doubt whether the spirits that speak with thee, do declare things true or false, let it onely depend upon thy faith in god; that thou mayst say with paul, i know on whom i trust. i

aled unto thee also, when thou art unwitting thereof, either by god, or by spirits which have secrets in their power; or by dreams, or by strong imaginations and impressions, or by the constellation of a nativity by celestial knowledge. after this manner are made heroick men, such as there are very many, and all learned men in the world, plato, aristotle, hippocrates, galen, euclides, archimedes, hermes trismegistus the father secrets, with theophrastus, paracelsus; all which men had in themselves all the vertues of secrets. hitherto also are referred, homer, hesiod, orpheus, pytagoras; but these had not such gifts of secrets as the former. to this are referred, the nymphes, and sons of melusina, and gods of the gentiles, achilles, neas, hercules: also, cyrus, alexander the great, julius c

o be referred all those who are noted in the two tables of the law; and are set forth with their evil deeds. 28 the subdivisions and species of both kindes of magick, we will note in the tomes following. in this place it shall suffice, that we distinguish the sciences, which is good, and which is evil: whereas man sought to obtain them both at first, to his own ruine and destruction, as moses and hermes do demonstrate. aphorism 42. secondly, we are to know, that a magitian is a person predestinated to this work from his mothers wombe; neither let him assume any such great things to himself, unless he be called divinely by grace hereunto, for some good end; to a bad end is, that the scripture might be fulfilled, it must be that offences will come; but wo be to that man through whom they com

secuted of the spirit of c sar, and exposed to punishment, that he slew himself, who had slain his own father, and the father of his country. aphorism 48. all magick is a revelation of spirits of that kinde, of which sort the magick is; so that the nine muses are called, in hesiod, the ninth magick, as he manifestly testifies of himself in theogony. in homer, the genius of ulysses in psigiogagia. hermes, the spirits of the more sublime parts of the minde. god revealed himself to moses in the bush. the three wise men who came to seek christ at jerusalem, the angel of the lord was their leader. the angels of the lord directed daniel. therefore there is nothing whereof any one may glory; for it is not unto him that willeth, nor unto him that runneth; but to whom god will have mercy, or of som

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der, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise. when one observes it from the side, the double helix looks exactly like the standing waves. the intersection points of the spirals mark the yod and the vau; the opposite peaks and valleys place the first he and second he, which alternate along the waves or spirals. the meaning of the balanced and opposite spirals is the mystery of the caduceus of hermes; it is the mechanism by which manifest things maintain them- selves. when the oscillations are disrupted there is loss of being. the manifest returns to the unmanifest. these spirals are the two serpents that twine around the life centers of the body, one ascending and the other descending. they can also be applied fruitfully to the ten apples on the tree of the sephiroth. perhaps an unders

anets because it combines all three symbols of the sun, moon, and earth. it is the most balanced and complete of the planets and the closest in charac- ter to mankind. this can be seen by comparing the sign of mercury to the sign of the microcosm given earlier. mercury is adaptable, at home in all circumstances, and not by accident is the symbol of magic and the magus, as well as the magical gods hermes and thoth. from these descriptions it will be readily apparent that four of the planets can be linked with the four elemental principles: mars is the closest in nature to fire; venus is of the nature of water; jupiter has the mediating qualities of air; and sat- urn has the coldness and heaviness of earth. two of the wandering bodies repre- sent opposite extremes of hot and cold, good and e

gods muses elements descriptions examples occupations cc obedience horus clio air of air childish child joseph goebbels disciples cf exuberance apollo terpsichore fire of air fatherly child sir francis drake explorers fc petulance thor thalia air of fire childish father alexander the great conquerors ff confidence love calliope fire of fire fatherly father augustus caesar rulers fm contemplation hermes euterpe water of fire motherly father king james i priests mf arrogance diana melpomene fire of water fatherly mother joan of arc rebels mm caring hathor polyhymnia fire of water motherly mother florence nightingale caregivers mc yearning venus erato fire of water childish mother cleopatra sensualists determination i thoth urania i water of fire 3 s motherly s child e john dee 2 z scholars

d, blond woman might have a guardian in the form of a black-haired man with dark skin from her own culture. the reason for this oppo- sition is that the guardian represents the spiritual spouse of an incarnate soul. communion with the guardian is the alchemical union of opposites between mor- tal and immortal, between flesh and spirit. the similarity between the guardian angel and the winged god, hermes (for the romans, mercury, will at once be apparent. the guardian is a personal her- mes; hermes is an abstraction of all the guardians: for in truth there is only one guardian, who is diversified in several billion human consciousnesses. all angelic visitations, such as the one that came to the shepherds at the birth of jesus, are vis- itations of the guardian in different guises. each man

rt. neither was the race put here to despise its nurturing mother, the earth, and flee back into heaven. mankind is an instrument whose sole purpose is the furthering, in its infinite complexity, of the desire of the all as expressed in the evo- lution of the universe. since humans were created in the creator's image, the desire of god is also the highest and best desire of human beings. mercury (hermes, the messenger of the gods, is an anthropomorphic symbol of the magus. the titan prometheus, who gave the secret of fire to humanity, is also symbolic of the magus. woden, who snatched the runes of power from the roots of the cosmic tree yggdrasill and bequeathed them as a gift to his people, is the magus in yet another mythic guise. all of the great teachers of wisdom, such as. thoth of eg

to call darkness the light. even should the magus fail in the end, he or she will know how and why this failure occurred, and what precious attainment has been lost- a degree of self-awareness that is a precious and rare attainment in itself. 1. blake "auguries of innocence' complete writings (london: oxford university press, 1972, 431. 2. blake "auguries of innocence" complete writings, 433. 3. hermes trismegistus "the emerald tablet' from agrippa, three books of occult philosophy, tyson ed (st. paul: llewellyn publications, 1993, 71 1. 4. wilhelrn and jung, eds, the secret of the golden flower (london: routledge& kegan paul, 1962, 22. 5. blake "the everlasting gospel' complete writings, 753. 6. spaeth, trans "the vision of the cross' old english poetry (princeton: princeton university p

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sides by the fronts of buildings and by high stone walls, bend and twist back upon themselves like the windings of a labyrinth. the inhabitants of the town are sly and knowing in their manner toward strangers, and the children enjoy playing tricks. even the animals that may be encountered, such as horses, dogs, or cats, have a knowing light in their eyes. the ruling intelligence of this trump is hermes, the greek god of commerce, communication, and wisdom. his oracle is a square pillar that has the bearded head of the god carved into its upper part, located near the central well of the marketplace. if you place a coin upon the stone ledge at the base of the pillar, the god may grant your wish. ii the high priestess hebrew letter: gimel (camel) correspondence: moon path: thirteenth the hig

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

dexed by david godwin. st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn publications, 1990. first published in four volumes 1938-1940 by aries press of chicago. this is regardie's greatest work. it consists of an edited collection of the original golden dawn teaching documents and grade rituals that circulated among members of that hermetic order. regardie obtained this material in 1934 when he was admitted to the hermes lodge of the stella matutina. it was the first time these instructional papers had been presented in an honest form, although much of the golden dawn teachings had previously appeared in print as part of aleister crowley's periodical, the equinox. crowley tended to present the golden dawn teachings as his own, but regardie returned the credit for their brilliance to the leader of the golden

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place. a useful 20 tetragrammaton physical model of this archetypal process is the electric motor. the axis of a motor turns smoothly in one direction even though the polarity of the electromagnets around that axis is being very rapidly switched back and forth from positive to negative. standing wave of ihvh the creation-destruction double helix of the name resembles closely the serpent staff of hermes (see illustration on opposite page. the mystical staff with its two united and intertwined snakes coiling around it has from ancient times represented life, the bringing forth of being from nothingness. it used to be believed that snakes entwined in this intimate manner were mating (actually, they were fighting. the staff of hermes is a two-dimensional physical representation of a transcend

ion "what is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below: to accomplish the miracle of the one thing" in the same way that the molecular pattern of a crystal is revealed by its gross shape, so is the mental pattern of the creating mind of the universe exhibited in the structure of the genetic coding of life. 22 tetragrammaton on this three-dimensional staff of hermes, no point on either helix is closer to the ideal axis, which the path of each helix defines, than any of the limitless number of other points, and at no point do the two balanced helixes touch. like the side rails of the dna-ladder, they remain always at the same separation. any single point on either helix is identical, considered by itself, to any other point. differentiation occurs throu

ognize that the way they appear on the page, or carved into clay or stone, is not their true form but only a flat rendering of a three-dimensional relationship. just as a blueprint of a ship will not convey all the information it is capable of conveying to the shipbuilder unless the shipbuilder realizes that it is a flat image of a three-dimensional object, so ancient symbols such as the staff of hermes cannot be understood unless we recognize that they are only images of mental models that possess depth as well as height and breadth. an excellent example of this error is the spiral. this fundamental occult symbol cannot be wholly grasped in two dimensions. a spiral is really the flat image of a helix, a line winding in a regular way around the side of an infinitely long invisible cylinder

physical threedimensional reality. but when we look at a stone age petroglyph of a spiral, we do not understand it because it represents the three-dimensional model of an ideal form, not some common and familiar object. nevertheless, the ancient shaman who carved it into the rock intended that it be considered in three dimensions. so did greek philosophers who represented the occult symbol of the hermes staff intend that its mystery be interpreted in three dimensions. and when we make a model or image representing ihvh, we must make it with length, breadth, and height if it is to possess a useful meaning. understanding the name 23 needless to say, any mystical three-dimensional symbol is only a jumping- off place for grasping an awareness of a higher truth that transcends the physical limi

er) image in the mind we must seek an intuitive perception of the mentally examined symbol, a wordless and pictureless apprehension of its fundamental identity. only in this manner can the true ineffable name be approached. words and mental images are useful signposts along the way but, if we cling to them, they quickly become barriers to a higher awareness of tetragrammaton. besides the staff of hermes, which is the pre-eminent symbol for understanding the name, intuitive awareness may be approached through the symbol of the cross. each arm of the cross is assigned one of the letters. the vertical arm receives the masculine i and v, while the horizontal arm is given the feminine first and second h: it should come as no surprise after what has just been revealed that the cross must also be

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

called "iseion" which suggests that if we approach the temple of the goddess rightly, and with purity, we shall obtain the knowledge of that eternal and self-existent being (to on [fn#260] the egyptian form of the name is as-t, or. plutarch wishes to derive the name from some form of greek oida [fn#261] in egyptian, tebh. iii. the goddess isis is said by some authors to be the daughter[fn#262] of hermes [fn#263] and by others of prometheus, both of them famous for their philosophic turn of mind. the latter is supposed to have first taught mankind wisdom and foresight, as the former is reputed to have invented letters and music [fn#262] according to the egyptian heliopolitan doctrine, isis was the daughter of keb, the earth-god, and nut, the sky-goddess; she was the wife of osiris, mother o

leverness is astonishing [fn#291] the egyptian tehuti, or thoth [fn#292. xii. now, the story of isis and osiris, its most insignificant and superfluous parts being omitted, runs thus- the goddess rhea,[fn#293] they say, having accompanied with kronos[fn#294] by stealth, was discovered by helios[fn#295] who straightway cursed her, and declared that she should not be delivered in any month or year. hermes, however 'being also in love with the same goddess, in return for the favours which he had received from her, went and played at dice with selene,[fn#296] and won from her the seventieth part of each day. these parts he joined together and made from them five complete days, and he added them to the three hundred and sixty days of which the year formerly consisted. these five days are to thi

the world neither at the proper time nor by the right way, but he forced a passage through a wound which he made in his mother's side. upon the fourth day isis was born, in the marshes of egypt,[fn#301] and upon the fifth day nephthys, whom some call teleute, or aphrodite, or nike, was born. as regards the fathers of these children, the first two are said to have been begotten by helios, isis by hermes, and typhon and nephthys by kronos. therefore, since the third of the superadded days was the birthday of typhon, the kings considered it to be unlucky,[fn#302] and in consequence they neither transacted any business in it, nor even suffered themselves to take any refreshment until the evening. they further add that typhon married nephthys,[fn#303] and that isis and osiris, having a mutual

eces. afterwards a battle took place between horus and typhon, which lasted many days, but horus was at length victorious, and typhon was taken prisoner. he was delivered over into the custody of isis, who, instead of putting him to death, loosed his fetters and set him free. this action of his mother incensed horus to such a degree that he seized her, and pulled the royal crown off her head; but hermes came forward, and set upon her head the head of an ox instead of a helmet.[fn#312] after this typhon accused horus of illegitimacy, but, by the assistance of hermes, his legitimacy was fully established by a decree of the gods themselves.[fn#313] after this two other battles were fought between horus and typhon, and in both typhon was defeated. moreover, isis is said to have had union with

e owned indeed to make use of a very plausible method of eluding such difficulties as may arise about this subject, and ingeniously enough to transfer the most shocking parts of it from the divine to the human nature. moreover, it must be admitted that such a solution is not entirely destitute of any appearance of historical evidence for its support. for when the egyptians themselves tell us that hermes had one hand shorter than another, that typhon was of red complexion, horus fair, and osiris black, does not this show that they were of the human species, and subject to the same accidents as all other men?[fn#323] nay, they go farther, and even declare the particular work in which each was engaged whilst alive. thus they say that osiris was a general, that canopus, from whom the star took

shells which are dug out of the mines, and are found on the tops of the hills. the nile year by year creates new land, and thus drives away the sea further and further, i.e, osiris triumphs over typhon [fourth explanation of the story [sec. xli. osiris is the moon, and typhon is the sun; typhon is therefore called seth,[fn#342] a word meaning "violence "force &c. herakles accompanies the sun, and hermes the moon. in sec. xlii. plutarch connects the death-day of osiris, the seventeenth of hathor, with the seventeenth day of the moon's revolution, when she begins to wane. the age of osiris, twenty-eight years, suggests the comparison with the twenty-eight days of the moon's revolution. the tree-trunk which is made into the shape of a crescent at the funeral of osiris refers to the crescent m

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

ssant glow of light is the naked beauty of nuit. she reclines, she bends in delectable ecstasy, to receive the kiss of secret fervor of hadit. the winged sphere and the blue of the sky are yours. o.a.o. kakof na. khonsa o.a.o. kakof na. khonsa o.a.o. kakof na. khonsa 2 [pronounced owe-gee-us] a la fragua encendida de vulcano, bajan, marte para retemplar su espada y conquistar el coraz n de venus; hermes para limpiar los establos de augias con el fuego sagrado; y perseo para cortar la cabeza de la medusa. recordad, amados disc pulos, que nuestra divina madre es nuit y que su palabra es (56) cincuenta y seis. este n mero se descompone kabal sticamente as: 5 m s 6 igual 11. 1 m s 1 es igual a 2. uno es el padre, dos, ella, nuit, la divina madre kundalini. practica: 1 acostaos en vuestro lecho

e centro cox geo enroscada tres veces y media. la serpiente debe salir de su iglesia inevitablemente. si sube por el canal medular, nos convertimos en ngeles; si baja hasta los infiernos at micos del hombre, entonces nos convertimos en demonios. ahora comprender is por qu la serpiente del caduceo es siempre doble. la fuerza sexual es el hile de los gn sticos. 41 when the students spill the cup of hermes during their practices with the arcanum a.z.f. they commit the crime of the nicholaitans7, which used a system in order to make the serpent descend. this is how the human being is converted into a demon. the complete and positive development of the serpent is only achieved by working with the philosophical stone within the sexual laboratory of the practical alchemist. the superior triangle

mist fall sexually. it is urgent to work with the four elements of alchemy in order to realize the great work. the alchemical macrocosmos is illuminated by the light; this is the superior triangle of the seal of solomon. the alchemical micro-cosmos is in the shadows, in the region where the souls fight against the black dragon. 7 pronounced nick-oh-lay-tens cuando el estudiante derrama el vaso de hermes, durante sus pr cticas con el arcano a.z.f. comete el crimen de los nicola tas. ellos usaban ese sistema para hacer bajar la serpiente. as es como el hombre se convierte en demonio. s lo trabajando con la piedra filosofal dentro del laboratorio sexual del alkimista pr ctico, se logra el desarrollo completo y positivo de la serpiente. el tri ngulo superior es el centro del micro cosmos y del

in the ninth sphere (sex. there, mars descends in order to retemper his flaming sword and conquer the heart of venus (the venusian initiation. hercules descends in order to clean the stables of augias (our lower animal depths. perseus descends in order to cut off the head of medusa (the psychological "i" or the terrestrial adam) with his flaming sword. all of the great masters of humanity such as hermes, buddha, jesus, dante, zoroaster, etc, had to pass through this utmost test. the following phrase is written upon the frightful threshold of the ninth sphere (which does not grant access to profaners "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch entrate [abandon hope, all ye who enter here. la novena esfera una sentencia oculta afirma que "nada puede salir sino por la misma puerta por donde ha entrado. no

vena esfera se halla la fragua encendida de vulcano (el sexo. all baja marte para retemplar su espada flam gera y conquistar el coraz n de venus (la iniciaci n venusta. h rcules para limpiar los establos de augias (los bajos fondos animales. perseo para cortar la cabeza de la medusa (el yo psicol gico o adam terrenal) con su espada flam gera. todos los grandes maestros de la humanidad tales como: hermes, budha, jes s, dante, zoroastro, etc, tuvieron que pasar por la prueba m xima. en el p rtico terrible de la novena esfera est escrita aquella frase que cierra el paso a los profanos "lasciate ogni speranza voich entrate. 64 the zohar emphatically warns us that within the depths of the abyss lives the adam protoplastus, the differentiating principle of the souls. with this principle we have

f the matter and deliver it to the son of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical ecstasy. christ, buddha, hermes, quetzalcoatl and many other avatars were suprasexual [the forge of] vulcan sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. first: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure spirit. la esfera de la suprasexualidad, es la esfera

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ertain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members of the egyptian institute, who saw a flame rising from the top, but could discover no rational explanation. the pyramid has often been associated in hermetic folklore with revelation of the inner mysteries, and figure 10-c revelation of secrets is the domain of mercury or hermes. it is believed that initiation rites were once held within the dark pyramid chambers: inspiration is mercury, the messenger of the gods. centres of the mercurial influence, like the great pyramid, were places of initiation into the mysteries, for within their labyrinths could be found the spirit whom god had sent to speak directly with men. in the presence of hermes, nothing was concealed

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t of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, the fire of the celtic god of light (bel, beli or belinus. he, in tur

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

unlimited, infinite universe. rev. mother taraza, dune conclusion to the green books? i hope that you have enjoyed them. please feel free to seek more selections to add to this collecti chistoric lecture- golden dawn by v.h. frater sapere aude (dr. w. wynn westcott) the order of the g.d. in the outer is a hermetic society whose members are taught the principles of occult science and the magic of hermes. during the early part of the second half of the 19th century, several adepti and chiefs of this order in france and england died, and their deaths caused a temporarily dormant condition of temple work. prominent among these were eliphas levi, ragon, kenneth r. h. mackenzie, author of the masonic encyclopedia and frederick hockley, possessed of crystal vision whose m.s.s. we highly esteemed

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, of which it seem to form a suitable part, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott and i am hopeful that it may be as well received by students of mystic philosophy as the previous volumes which treated of alchemy, in the hermetic arcanum, hermetic art, euphrates and aesch metzareph; the dream of scipio and the golden verses of the pythagoreans, the pymander of hermes and egyptian magic. i have added in this edition many notes on the notions of the rabbis of israel, both from those who contributed to the mishnah and gemara of the talmuds of jerusalem and of babylon, and from the rabbis who made a special study of the kabalah. only a few talmudic treatises have as yet appeared in the english language, and hardly any kabalistic tracts, except three from th

the brain, the lungs or the heart. bichat, physiologie. one zodiacal sign, that of scorpio, has three emblems; the eagle in the highest symbolism, the snake, and the scorpion in evil aspects only. astrologic natal figures are often erroneous by reason of the alleged moment of birth being incorrect. there are three modes of rectification, two are ancient, the animodar of ptolemy and the trutine of hermes; and there is one modern method, the natal epoch of w. r. old. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in both the old and the new testaments we find the day was divided into three day watches and four night watches. the mediaeval occultists divided the days into planetary hours, the scheme of alternation occupied a week, 7 days x 24 hours=168 hours, so 16

r an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews first and then to the gentiles. mohammed the tenth; he flourished about a.d. 600. chengiz khan the eleventh, a.d. 1200, conquered persia. who the special messenger of 1800 was, the author is ignorant. the secrets of the naro

ercury 8, 64, 260, 2080 luna 9, 81, 369, 3521 in this matter, see also francis barrett, the magus. the later coptic names of the 7 gods and planets and genii of the world of the ancient egyptians are as follows: 1. saturn, rephan, god of time. 2. jupiter, picheus, god of life; 3. mars, moloch, god of destruction. 4. sol, phre or pire, meaning holy lord. 5. venus, suroth, lady of love. 6. mercury, hermes, hermanubis, god of speech. 7. luna, piooh, lady of waters. in china, 7 is the number of death, and their days of mourning are 7 times 7. the seven star plank is the name of the bottom plank of a coffin in which they bore 7 holes. the hindus speak of 7 tattvas, the abstract principles of existence, metaphysical and physical, the subtle elements and the corresponding human senses, of which o

last son of the patriarch. the following associations of birds, animals and flowers with heavenly bodies has the authority of the greco-roman mythology- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott table of biiirds, aniiimals and flowers greek latin bird animal vegetable pallas minerva owl she-goat olive aphrodite venus dove he-goat myrtle helios sol cock bull laurel hermes mercury ibis dog hazel zeus jupiter eagle hart horsechestnut demeter ceres sparrow sow apple hephaistos vulcan goose ass box aries mars magpie wolf dog-wood artemis diana daw hind palm hestia vesta heron lion pine hera juno peacock sheep thorn poseidon neptune swan horse elm the astrologers associated colors with the twelve signs of the zodiac, thus- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys t

eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott and after 40 will have none. bava bathra, 119. 2. to die after 20 days diarrhoea is to die pure. 21. a hen sits 21 days, and the almond is ripe 21 days after the flower falls. 113. 22. 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet, used also as numerals. the realization of a good dream may be deferred 22 years. berachoth, 55. 2. from the works of hermes trismegistus are abstracted 22 axioms on the human will. they can be found in tukaram tatya s guide to theosophy, bombay 1887. 23. in the sanhedrin, 23 judges were required to try cases of punishable death. this day of september is notable because the moon, which comes to the full within a fortnight of it, is called the harvest moon, which rises three days in succession at the same time, in

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ing: xx `big earth. it means manifestation: i.e. the bringing forth to birth of the forces hitherto developed by us in secret. i ask a tarot trump to represent the prime pantacle of the operation: xvi the house of god. now the oath of the working is to establish the book of the law; in particula r to finish the comment and to publish the book as therein commanded. first the refore in this work is hermes to be invoked and next the sun. i am therefore to restore the card `the house of god' as i did when i abode in the body of alpho nse louis constant with the card `the devil. i will therefore obtain a vision of this card, and paint it upon a panel of mahogany wood, with the proper colou rs and forms. now on the day of the sun, in this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he st ood in the 6th

et or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus d eclared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number shall be the

tc. ether at pleasure (10) consume the elements, as by amalantrah the wizard we are taught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) perform any scrying or utter any prophecies, as may be given& at leisure& pleasure resume vestments& insignia& close temple. so far of these matters. now we may begin our first working by the invocation of hermes on his day with the sun in 9 degrees sagittarius, the moon in 23 degrees leo& mercury in 19 degrees scorpio one hour before noon with him in the zenith, sextile to venu s jupiter& saturn. in furtherance whereof, at eleven of the night of monday, did the beast work under the scarlet woman his word, to make the great operatio n go aright. immediately was the beast inspired to a writing mercur

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rking: xx `big earth. it means manifestation: i.e. the bringing forth to birth of the forces hitherto developed by us in secret. i ask a tarot trump to represent the prime pantacle of the operation: xvi the house of god. now the oath of the working is to establish the book of the law; in particular to finish the comment and to publish the book as therein commanded. first therefore in this work is hermes to be invoked and next the sun. i am therefore to restore the card `the house of god' as i did when i abode in the body of alphonse louis constant with the card `the devil. i will therefore obtain a vision of this card, and paint it upon a panel of mahogany wood, with the proper colours and forms. now on the day of the sun, in this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he stood in the 6th de

oly ghost, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impregnates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and leaping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy hermes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes through corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door

d set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus declared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number shall be the g

tc. ether at pleasure (10) consume the elements, as by amalantrah the wizard we are taught, the pantacle being of "earth (in parts 7 to 10 weapons& robes may be laid on the throne of aiwaz (11) perform any scrying or utter any prophecies, as may be given& at leisure& pleasure resume vestments& insignia& close temple. so far of these matters. now we may begin our first working by the invocation of hermes on his day with the sun in 9 degrees sagittarius, the moon in 23 degrees leo& mercury in 19 degrees scorpio one hour before noon with him in the zenith, sextile to venus jupiter& saturn. in furtherance whereof, at eleven of the night of monday, did the beast work under the scarlet woman his word, to make the great operation go aright. immediately was the beast inspired to a writing mercuria

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

s/he begins the inner order work. enochian study, ritual and research become one of the primary pursuits. enochian material in the golden dawn consists of the four watchtower tablets, the tablet of union, the angelic calls and enochian chess. in reality this is just the beginning and only an introduction to the system. we must remember that when regardie published the gd in 1940, he had left the hermes temple at the level of zelator adeptus minor (z.a.m. what is written in his book represents the course of study in that sub-grade, and no more. regardie himself was aware that he had not been given the total knowledge of various divisions of the gd enochian system, such as: xiii sigillum dei aemeth 1. tabula sancta 2. liber scientia auxilii et victoria terrestris 3. heptarchia mystica 4. ta

of campbell's incomplete notes, some diary notes of jack taylor, and original notes on campbell's lectures made in the mid-1930s by several ex-members of the inner order of whare ra. i have tried to reconstruct some of the basic elements of the mathers papers using these sources. in 1983, israel regardie came to wellington, new zealand, to meet with me and with other members of our temple "thoth- hermes" regardie outlined his then-unpublished addendum to the concourse of the forces. he had written it in the 1930s in an attempt to bring the previously missing gaps of the enochian system into a workable unit compatible with the golden dawn system. the addendum to the concourse of forces was to be in three parts. the first part was on the aethyrs, and the second part was on the construction o

y dee and kelley of this seal was to place a crystal upon it for the purposes of scrying. the archangel uriel gave the following instructions on its use "you must use a four square table, two cubits square, whereon must be set the sigillum dei, which is already perfected in a book of thine: blessed be god in all his mysteries *this paper was issued to the zelator adeptus minor grades of the thoth hermes temple, new zealand, in 1985. 2 and holy in all his work. this seal must not be looked uponwithout great reverence and devotion. this seal is to be made of perfect wax: i mean wax that is purified; we have no respect of colors. this seal must be nine inches in diameter, the roundness must be twenty-seven inches or somewhere more; the thickness of it must be an inch and half a quarter, and t

from these seals. for example, when these angels are in8 when conducting golden dawn rituals, there is a very real' effect from these seals. for example, when these angels are in-yoked, they produce a curtain which holds the various hierarchies of the tablets together and allows the seals, placed above each corresponding tablet, to be a cementing factor. over the years, at both whare ra and thoth-hermes tem pies in new zealand, a great deal of experimentation was don, with these seals. although their colors were manufactured by th order, they nevertheless produced a controlling quality whic everyone who worked with the tablets could feel. in the de manuscripts, we are told a number of times that every letter re resents an individual angelic force, and that the grouping of thes. forces prod

or those of you who wish to experiment with it. it is derived from notes on a thesis i did for my mentor jack taylor. i would stress, though, that this was not part of the whare ra course, but part of something taylor especially created for us. this is mainly full ceremonial work, or ritual work taken to its optimum level. it has been included, or should i say adopted, by members of our own thoth-hermes temple, though i feel it may be too long-winded for some. the dee manuscripts insisted that a special ring be worn when doing crystal work and the like (see figure 106. the angelic entity known as michael says of it "after this sort the ring must be. note it. i will reveal thee this ring which was revealed since the death of solomon with whom i was present. i was present with him in strengt

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et a.c. out in the open. my regret is that regardie is not alive to see this book in print. there are still members today of the old bristol temple in england, who meet often, according to a former chief of whare ra to whom i recently spoke. i openly ask these members, some of whom have the 6=5 and 7=4 grades, to help other temples get started in much the same way as jack taylor did for our thoth hermes temple. though confined to a wheel chair and over eighty years of age, he held age as no real excuse, and did all he could to insure that the golden dawn knowledge would not die with him. over twenty years ago a well known english occultist once remarked that revelation of the rituals renders them diminished in power. of course, this is utter nonsense, as any ritual being correctly performe

osed. taylor made the comment to me that though the costumes and rituals of the cromlech temple were elaborate, they lacked any real power, in his opinion. by the late 1970s, the only active golden dawn temple (that i am aware of) was the new zealand temple, whare ra. i can also assure mr. gilbert, who, in his golden dawn, twilight of the magicians wrote "none of the original temples survived the hermes temple in bristol lasted longest, dying in 1972 with its last chief who protested to the end the nonexistence of the rival hermanoubis temple described by francis king" those hundred or so inner order members of the whare ra temple who were still actively doing g.d. ritual in 1972 would be most surprised at his remark. at this point, a comment should be made about francis king's claim. ther

ssured me of two things. firstly, no nominal grades were handed out in the bristol temple. you were either a 5=6, 6=51 or a 7=4, or you weren't. this to me makes a lot of sense, as a number of whare ra members to whom i showed mr. king's notes concerning those founders of the hermanoubis temple being of 5=6 rank yet a nominal 7=4 and 8=3 respectively, could see no reason for this when the bristol hermes temple had its share of higher grades at the time. secondly, no members of bristol at that time, save one who also came out to new zealand in the late 1940s, were interested in practical alchemy. i can confirm the second, as when mrs. hughes, one time chief of bristol, came to new zealand. my good friend and mentor, jack taylor, quizzed her at some length about the alchemical teaching at br

it group who kept in regular communication with each other. if a break away did occur from the bristol temple, it would have been almost impossible to keep secret. at this point i will not condemn mr. king's report as chimera, but will leave it to the reader to make his or her own evaluation. at any rate, with the emergence of the golden dawn temple and society (which was chartered by three thoth hermes members of the 7=4 grade, including jack taylor, there is really no reason to search for secret golden dawn temples. the rituals, study material and grades are available for all those who wish to work and study for them. the repression in whare ra had to be experienced to be believed. it became so bad that one of the chiefs, a certain as, actually walked out due to quarrels concerning teach

ers left to join the b.o.t.a, anne davies told some of the whare ra adepts that she would refuse to have anything to do with those who used the tablets, in spite of the fact that the head of her new zealand branch of the order was a former 5=6 from whare ra. apparently, her fear of the enochian system was due to the fact that michael whitty, a former golden dawn chief (of 7=4 rank) from the thoth hermes temple in chicago, came to an abrupt end which paul foster case blamed on enochiana. this prejudice had been passed on to anne davies. the closure of whare ra left a lot of bitter feelings towards the chiefs, as no meetings were held, and members were simply told that the temple had dosed and that all papers had to be consigned to the flames. a huge truckload of golden dawn original, and la

some time, one could say that at the time we had the knowledge of the 5=6 grade. we were appalled at the lack of information given out by those in charge during the final days of whare ra. over the next few days, jack taylor decided that we would be initiated into the order, and later into the r.r. et a.c. with the help and coaching of the many friends we met that first day, we founded the thoth hermes temple a few years later, after jack taylor drafted up a charter for us to establish a temple in wellington. the closure of whare ra however did not stop the golden dawn system of magic from being practiced among its ex-members. those that had any real ability, in my opinion, still practiced together. one incident that taylor recalled happened in 1984 when he was asked to help exorcise a bu

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the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a lamp and staff* 21 the lord of the forces of life. a wheel of six shafts, whereon revolve the triad of hermanubis, sphinx, and typhon* 22 the daughter of the lords of truth. the ruler of the balance. a conventional figure of justice with scales and balances 23 the spirit of the mighty waters. the figure of an hanged or crucified man* 24 the child of the great transformers. the lord of the gate of death. a skeleton with a scythe mowing men. the scythe handle is a tau. 25 the daughter of the reconcil

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heel merely for pleasure, it would be better to say amusement. a voice comes: for he is a jocund and a ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earthquakes of the soul. one is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing through one. 42 now i see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded sphinx, hermanubis and typhon. and that is wrong. the rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a scarlet heart; and, impossible to explain as it is, the scarlet of the heart and the green of the snake are yet more vivid than the blinding white brilliance of the wheel. the figures on the wheel are darker than the wheel itself; in fact, they are stains upon the purity of the

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"plays the final hopeless dirge<aquarius. brother capricornus, what is the hour? capricornus. noon. aquarius. let us depart; it is accomplished["full light [capricornus "stands with drawn sword before the veil; the others escort the people out] 18 the rite of jupiter officers centrum in centri trigono "black robe, swastika" sphinx "green robe, violin and sword" hermanubis "violet robe, caduceus" typhon "red robe, prong two-forked, or sword" hebe. ganymede "cup-bearers and dancers. white robes "the temple represents the wheel of fortune of the tarot. at its axle is the altar on which sits c.i.c.t. on the rim, s. at east spoke, h. at north-west, t. at south-west. hebe and ganymede are seated at the feet of c.i.c.t. to the west of the wheel is the veil" 21

epresents the wheel of fortune of the tarot. at its axle is the altar on which sits c.i.c.t. on the rim, s. at east spoke, h. at north-west, t. at south-west. hebe and ganymede are seated at the feet of c.i.c.t. to the west of the wheel is the veil" 21 the rite of jupiter part i c.i.c.t. 1-333. sphinx. 22-22. hebe. pisces section from 963 [see equinox, no. iii, special supplement] sphinx. brother hermanubis, summon the guests to the banquet of the father of the gods! hermanubis. 4444, brother typhon, summon the guests to the banquet of the father of the gods [typhon "draws aside veil as" ganymede "begins his dance. lights down] hermanubis. welcome to the banquet of the father of the gods! bear the bowls of libation("done. be silent and secret! for it is by stealth that we are here assemble

stealth that we are here assembled. know that saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a black stone, thinking it to be his son, the child jupiter. but jupiter is here enthroned, and shall overthrow his father. beware then lest ye break silence- until jupiter be ready to make war! typhon. him that speaketh will i slay forthright["a long pause" 23 part ii centrum in centri trigono 1. sphinx 1. hermanubis 1. typhon 1. typhon. hail unto thee, thou great god hermanubis! art thou not the messenger of jupiter? hermanubis. hail unto thee, thou great god typhon! art thou not the executor of his vengeance? typhon. brother hermanubis, what is the hour? hermanubis. noon. brother typhon, what is the place? typhon. the summit of olympus. brother hermanubis, what is thy position? hermanubis. upon th

manubis! art thou not the messenger of jupiter? hermanubis. hail unto thee, thou great god typhon! art thou not the executor of his vengeance? typhon. brother hermanubis, what is the hour? hermanubis. noon. brother typhon, what is the place? typhon. the summit of olympus. brother hermanubis, what is thy position? hermanubis. upon the rim of the wheel. and thine? typhon. upon the rim of the wheel. hermanubis. let us seek the centre of the wheel["they with" sphinx "rise and walk, faster and faster round the rim, returning exhausted to their places] typhon. brother hermanubis, we are no nearer to the centre of the wheel. hermanubis. we are no nearer to the centre of the wheel. typhon. hast thou no message from the gods? hermanubis. none, brother. let us seek an oracle of the gods["they rise a

lk, faster and faster round the rim, returning exhausted to their places] typhon. brother hermanubis, we are no nearer to the centre of the wheel. hermanubis. we are no nearer to the centre of the wheel. typhon. hast thou no message from the gods? hermanubis. none, brother. let us seek an oracle of the gods["they rise an go round the rim, stopping and prostrating themselves before the" sphinx] 24 hermanubis. hail unto thee, that hast the secret of jupiter! declare unto us, we beseech thee, the mystery whereby we may approach the centre of the wheel [sphinx "plays a riddling sarcastic music<typhon "goes to his place in terror [hermanubis "goes to his place in wonderment" sphinx. neither by sloth nor by activity may even my secret be attained. neither by emotion nor by reas

beseech thee, the mystery whereby we may approach the centre of the wheel [sphinx "plays a riddling sarcastic music<typhon "goes to his place in terror [hermanubis "goes to his place in wonderment" sphinx. neither by sloth nor by activity may even my secret be attained. neither by emotion nor by reason may even i be understood. how then should ye come to the centre of the wheel? hermanubis. mother of mystery, what is thy position on olympus? sphinx. upon the rim of the wheel. c.i.c.t. feeling, and thought, and ecstasy are but the cerements of me. thrown off like planets from the sun ye are but satellites of the one. but should your revolution stop ye would inevitably drop headlong within the central soul, and all the parts become the whole. sloth and activity and peace, w

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

july 1890,was duly reported by another german adept, who added the information that other chiefs objected to corresponding with westcott. he was now free to carry on the order without interference from his nominal and non-existent superiors in germany. as his co-chiefs of temple no.3 (number 1 was sapiens dominabitur astris' fictitious licht, liebe, leben temple, and number2the equally fictitious hermanubis templeofthe unknown englishmen who held the cipher manuscript before woodford's alleged discovery of it) westcott selecteddrw. r. woodman, supreme magus of the s.r.i.a, of whom little is known and less need be said, and another rosicrucian mason,creation29samuel liddell macgregor mathers.tomathers, westcott entrusted the taskofreconstructing the cipher rituals so that they could be work

the promotion of his type of occultism, and it published a journal calledthegoldendawn,to which regardie contributed a justification of his work. but the journal, the brotherhood and its ideals allvanishedin the second world war. none of the original templessurvived-thehermes temple in bristol lasted longest, dying in1972with its last chief, who protested to the end the non-existence of the rival hermanubis temple described by francis king. my own efforts to find it went no further than an accommodation address in the balls pond road and i believe it to have been no more than a chimaera. other, more recent innovations exist, claiming descent from the cipher manuscripts, and the various offshoots of the old order that straggled across the atlantic still surviveinthe form of paul foster case

i have long since left the placewhere you sent myletter but i did get your letter in the end after a long time. i was verypleased to hear that the secret papersdescribed byyou haveonce more come to light. these papers were lost years ago by the esteemed abbe constant and then came into the possession of two englishmen who applied for permission to use them. this was granted to the society no.2 of hermanubis but we neverheard whether anything usefulwas done there. afteryou havemanaged to make a thorough examination ofthe papers and haveunderstood them, it is within mycompetence to promoteyou and i appointyou to thet=40ofthe second order of the g.d. in england, l'aube doree in france, die goldene dammerung in germany. youwill nowstart a newsociety(no.)3 and choose twolearned persons in order

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the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a lamp and staff* 21 the lord of the forces of life. a wheel of six shafts, whereon revolve the triad of hermanubis, sphinx, and typhon* 22 the daughter of the lords of truth. the ruler of the balance. a conventional figure of justice with scales and balances 23 the spirit of the mighty waters. the figure of an hanged or crucified man* 24 the child of the great transformers. the lord of the gate of death. a skeleton with a scythe mowing men. the scythe handle is a tau. 25 the daughter of the reconcil

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

gods and goddesses) workings of the antichrist (belarion armiluss al dajjal self transformation rituals) the infernal sabbat workings familiar or servitor creations mass or group ceremonial invocations or evocations goetic or rituals of sorcery necromancy or divination rituals the calling of the four quarters of the triple hermetic circle of hamara t western quarter guardian of the gateway- azatu-hermanubis, opener of the way. i call your presence forth towards this circle. anubis, god of the twilight from which the guardians shall watch; bring forth thy jackals howling at the barrier anubis, who initiates unto the path of the dead, come forth! by the mask of the jackal and wolf, i call thee forth to charge this circle! azatum ashramu likiahaka southern quarter guardian of the gateway- haw

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ne the opener of the way anubis is considered to be an initiatory god form, one which one assumes as a form of passage unto the celestial/luciferian realms of spirit and the infernal sabbat. anubis, as defined by e.a. wallis budge in "the gods of the egyptians" presents am ut, the "dweller in the chamber of embalmment" as the opener of the north (ap-uat) to the realm of set. anubis is also called hermanubis and death. heru-em-anpu is a dual god form, which holds power in both the celestial/luciferian and infernal regions. this draws a close connection between the egyptian anubis and grecian triple moon goddess hecate. as anubis is the jackal headed lord of the dead, he presides in the west. charles pace (hamara't) mentions in the "book of tahuti" that west is the direction of water, as wel

ame, arise from shadows, jackal and wolf, son of chaos born! surround the self in the enchantments of death and the tomb, the anthame should be circled around the self in widdershins, while moving envision the shades of the dead surround and move in a funnel cloud about the circle of self. you are the very spark of life they seek, that by being close to you they shall taste the light of set- that hermanubis, or death brings the dwellers of the ghost realms to the light of his father, being set-an "by the holy fire of the night, which burns above the tombs of those who have life beyond, i am this vessel of both celestial and infernal, i am blackness and the hunger of the dead, yet i am burning with the light of the sun "i open forth the realm ofamenthes that i shall walk among its dwellers

MORALS AND DOGMA

ts emanations be inhaled without danger. the sage prefers to preserve it in its natural envelopes, assured as he is of extracting it by a single effort of his will, and a single application of the universal agent to the envelopes, which the kabalists call _cortices, the shells, bark, or integuments. hieroglyphically to express this law of prudence, they gave their mercury, personified in egypt as hermanubis, a dog's head; and to their sulphur, represented by the baphomet of the temple, that goat's head which brought into such disrepute the occult medi val associations. let us listen for a few moments to the alchemists themselves, and endeavor to learn the hidden meaning of their mysterious words. the ritual of the degree of scottish elder master, and knight of saint andrew, being the fourt

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

physics they produce equilibrium, in philosophy criticism, in religion progressive revelation. the ancients represented this mystery by the conflict between eros and anteros, the struggle between jacob and the angel, and by the equilibrium of the golden mountain, which gods on the one side and demons on the other encircle with the symbolic serpent of india. it is typified also by the caduceus of hermanubis, by the two cherubim of the ark, by the twofold sphinx of the chariot of osiris and by the two seraphim respectively black and white. its scientific reality is demonstrated by the phenomena of polarity, as also by the universal law of sympathies and antipathies. the undiscerning disciples of zoroaster divided the duad without referring it to unity, thus separating the pillars of the tem

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t of black magic, will not astonish students of religious antiquities who are acquainted with the phases of symbolism and doctrine in their various transformations, whether in india, egypt or judea. the bull, the dog and the goat are the three symbolical animals of hermetic magic, resuming all the traditions of egypt and india. the bull represents the earth or salt of the philosophers; the dog is hermanubis, the mercury of the sages. otherwise, fluid, air and water; the goat represents fire and is at the same time the symbol of generation. two goats, one pure and one impure, were consecrated in judea; the first was sacrificed in expiation for sins; the other, loaded with those sins by imprecation, was set at liberty in the desert. a strange ordinance, but one 82 the ritual of transcendenta

that a number of gnostic sects practised them in their conventicles during early centuries of christianity. that the flesh had its protestants in those ages of asceticism and compression of the senses was inevitable and can occasion no surprise, but we must not accuse transcendental magic of irregularities which it has never authorized. isis is chaste in her widow hood; diana panthea is a virgin; hermanubis, possessing both sexes, can satisfy neither; the hermetic hermaphrodite pure; apollonius of tyana never yielded to the seductions of pleasure; the emperor julian was a man of rigid continence; plotinus of alexandria was ascetic in the manner of his life; paracelsus was such a stranger to foolish love that his sex was suspected; raymund lully was initiated in the final secrets of science

e. moreover, to inhale its exhalations is not devoid of danger. the wise man more readily conserves it in the natural envelopes, knowing that he can extract it by a single effort of his will and by a single application of the universal agent to the envelopes, which kabalists term shells. to express hieroglyphically this law of prudence, the sages ascribed to their mercury, personified in egypt as hermanubis, a dog's head, and to their sulphur, represented by the baphomet of the temple or prince of the sabbath, that goat's head which brought such odium upon the occult associations of the middle ages. for the mineral work, the first matter is exclusively mineral, but it is not a metal. it is a metallized salt. this matter is called vegetable because it resembles a fruit, and animal because i

the hermit or capuchin, on account of the hood of his oriental cloak. his true name, however, is prudence, and he thus completes the four cardinal virtues which seemed imperfect to court de gebelin and etteilla. y principle, manifestation, praise, manly honour, phallus, virile fecundity, paternal sceptre. hieroglyph, the wheel of fortune, that is to say, the cosmogonical wheel of ezekiel, with a hermanubis ascending on the right, a typhon descending on the left and a sphinx in equilibrium above, holding a sword between his lion's claws. an admirable symbol, disfigured by etteilla, who replaced typhon by a wolf, hermanubis by a mouse, and the sphinx by an ape, an allegory characteristic of etteilla's kabalah. 136 the ritual of transcendental magic k the hand in the act of grasping and hold

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tor" in conjunction with the three figures riding th wheel, that incalculable brings to the front a component of initiatory progress and will which we tend at times to overlook. a brief study of the three central figures of the trump would be in order before looking at the influence of tje incalculable. the book of thoth explains them this way: on this wheel are three figures, the sworded sphinx, hermanubis, and typhon; they symbolize the three forms of energy which govern the movement of phenomena. a symbol is a representation, an attempt to make concrete the abstract in order that the mind may more easily grasp and use the intangible. magus lewis casteth a wary eye about when he hears or reads of symbolism for, like huston smith [professor of philosophy, m.i.t. and author of the religion

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

siempre la voluntad del padre, debe ser humilde para alcanzar la sabidur a y despu s de lograrlo debe ser todav a m s humilde que nadie, mejor es callar y morir. muriendo el adam de pecado nace el adam cristo. 70 arcanum 10 in this lecture we are going to study the arcanum 10 of the tarot. it is necessary to analyze the cosmogonic wheel of ezekiel. in this wheel, we find the battle of antitheses. hermanubis rises through the right and typhon descends through the left of the fatal wheel. this is the wheel of the centuries, the wheel of reincarnations and of karma. upon the wheel appears the mystery of the sphinx grasping the flaming sword between its lion s paws. this is the wheel of antithesis. the serpent of brass that healed the israelites in the wilderness and the terrible tempting serp

he human being only has consciousness of that which he remembers; no one can have consciousness of things he can not remember. the sinful adam is memory. he is the same reincarnating ego, he is the lunar consciousness. arcano x en esta lecci n vamos a estudiar el arcano diez (x) del tarot. es necesario analizar la rueda cosmog nica de ezequiel. en esta rueda hallamos el batallar de las ant tesis. hermanubis sube por la derecha de la rueda fatal y tif n desciende por la izquierda. esta es la rueda de los siglos de las reencarnaciones y del karma. sobre la rueda est el misterio de la esfinge empu ando entre sus garras de le n la espada flam gera. esta es la rueda de la ant tesis. la serpiente de bronce que sanaba a los israelitas en el desierto y la terrible serpiente tentadora del edem se c

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