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ng the tetragrammaton vibrating in the four qabalistic worlds. the bonding link and vow we each took. the love and support given and received from each of us on our solo trek. the horizontal position represents the horizon that the sun eternally emerges from. the four elements. the warmth is spirit. the three shakes referring to the three supernals and pillars. kether, chokmah, binah father, son, holy spirit love, truth, knowledge the triangle of the two opposing forces and one reconciler. 45 (the arms form the symbol of the opposing forces and yourself as the reconciler) each individual as the banner of the west. the two greeting in this way as the banner of the east. the infinity symbol (the clasping of the hands represent the infinity symbol) the classical grip, step and grand word of t

three united form earth, the final manifestation into physical existence. with these three elements we have two contending, opposite forces, fire and water, with air acting as the reconciler between them. the letter mem is the element of water, therefore is considered spirituality or consciousness. the letter shin represents the element of fire, symbolizing the three fold flames of divinity, the holy spirit. in hebrew, the word for holy spirit is ruach elohim (pronounced roo-ach eh-low-heem) these two letters with the third, aleph, form the "three mother letters. it is through these three letters that the physical universe came into being, and it is through the understanding of these three letters that indicates the presence of all the elements combined, the elements of fire, water, air a

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oglyphic symbolism. thus, tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh by air, aries, virgo, aries; from yeheshuah, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus. which is simply the tetragrammaton, with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination; virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox of earth, in whose manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries; virgo, water; the firmament, the balanced force, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign operating in the zodiac) the virgin goddess and the waters of creation. returning to the spelling of yeheshuah, it is easy to se

ABRAMELIN1

far as we shall not transgress the bounds of the divine mercy and goodness, by requesting unlawful knowledge; but that thou wilt graciously shew us what things are most profitable for us to know and do, to the glory and honour of his divine majesty who liveth and reigneth world without end. amen. lord, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven make clean our hearts within us, and take not thy holy spirit from us. o lord, by thy name we have called them, suffer them to administer unto us. introduction xxiii and that all things may work together for thy honour and glory, to whom with thee, the son and blessed spirit, be ascribed all might, majesty, and dominion, world without end. amen. the invocation being made, the good angels will appear unto you which you desire, which you shall ente

eady before told you that my first master had been the rabbin moses at mayence, who was indeed a good man, but entirely ignorant of the true mystery and of the veritable magic. he only devoted himself to certain superstitious secrets which he had collected from various infidels, and which were full of the nonsense and foolishness of pagans and idolaters; to such an extent that the good angels and holy spirits judged him unworthy of their visits and conversation; and the evil spirits mocked him to a ridiculous extent. at times, indeed, they spake to him voluntarily and by caprice, and obeyed him in matters vile, profane, and of no account, in order the better to entrap, deceive and hinder him from searching further for the true and certain foundation of this great science. at argentine i fo

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der to pray. ye have the holy and sacred scripture, the which is filled with very beautiful and potent prayers and actions of grace. study then herein, and learn herefrom, and ye shall have no lack of instructions how to pray with fruit. and although in the commencement your prayer may be weak, it sufficeth that your heart be true and loyal towards god, who little by little will kindle in you his holy spirit, who will so teach you and enlighten your spirit, that ye shall both know and have the power to pray. when ye shall have performed your orations, close the window, and go forth from the oratory; so that no one may be able therein to enter; and ye shall not yourselves enter again until the evening when the sun shall be set. then shall ye enter therein afresh, and shall perform your pray

caused you thereby, which might distract your attention. in the evening when the sun shall be set, you shall eat but soberly; and then you shall go to rest alone; and you shall live separated from your wife during these days. during seven days shall you perform the ceremonies without failing therein in any way; namely, the day of the consecration, the three days of the convocation of the good and holy spirits, and the three other days of the convocation of the evil spirits. now the second morning after, you are to be prepared to follow the counsel which the angel will have given you. you will go early unto the oratory, you will place the lighted charcoal and perfumes in the censer, you are to relight the lamp if it be (by that time) extinguished; and wearing the same robe of mourning as of

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

g angel, awh, and if i fail herein, may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease (third adept hands dagger to the second adept and holds cup conveniently for him. second adept dips point of dagger in wine and makes cross on aspirant's brow, feet, right hand and left hand, and heart, saying) 15 second (for brow "there are three that bear witness in heaven; the father, the word, and the holy spirit, and these three are one (for feet "there are three that bear witness on earth; the spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one (right hand "except ye be born of water and the spirit, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven (left hand "if ye be crucified with christ, ye shall also reign with him" second (marks heart in silence "let the aspirant be released from the cro

and part of the book "m" were transcribed. for the true order of the rose cross descendeth into the depths, and ascendeth into the heights, even unto the throne of god himself, and includeth even archangels, angels and spirits "these four fraters also erected a building to serve for the temple and headquarters of their order, and called it the collegium ad spiritum sanctum, or the college of the holy spirit. this being now finished, and the work of establishing the order extremely heavy, and because they devoted much time to the healing of those sick and possessed, who resorted to them, they initiated four others, fraters r.c (the son of the deceased father's brother of c.r.c) c.b, a skillful artist, g.c, and p.d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans except i.a, and now eight in

er members, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c.r.c, was buried occurred as follows. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavored to remove a brass memorial tablet which bore the names of certain brethren, and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away it pulled with it a large stone which thus partially uncovered a secret door. on the top of 17 the door was inscribed in large letters 'post cxx annos patebo' meaning, afte

ing this came the names of the three highest chiefs of the order, frater hugo alverda, the phrisian, in the 576th year of his age. frater franciscus de bry, the gaul, in the 495th year of his age. frater elman zata, the arab, in the 463rd year of his age. last of all was written: ex deo nascimur; in hwchy morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus 'in god are we born, in hwchy we die, through the holy spirit we rise again (the pastos is closed and the altar is replaced) second "so, then our frater n.n. and his companions reclosed the pastos for a time, set the altar over it, shut the door of the tomb, and placed their seals upon it (all quit the vault. aspirant carries crook and scourge; the door is closed and aspirant is led out of the portal. the tomb is then re-opened and chief adept re

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g to his operation proper. although such work is technically witchcraft, it must not be regarded as undesirable on that ground, for all operations which do not transmute matter fall strictly speaking under this heading. the real objection to this formula is not inherent in its own nature. witchcraft consists in treating it as the exclusive preoccupation of magick, and especially in denying to the holy spirit his right to indwell his temple<initiate of the xi degree of o.t.o. will remark that there is a totally different 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 ca

al 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 here there is no question of re-arrangement; the creative force is employed deliberately for destruction, and is entirely absorbed in

nity of brahma, vishnu, and shiva; and the operations in the universe of their triune energy. it is thus the formula of a manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternates with a pralaya, during which creation is latent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is the holy spirit who begets god in flesh upon the virgin, according to the formula familiar to students of "the golden bough. a is also the "babe in the egg" thus produced. the quality of a is thus bisexual. it is the original being- zeus arrhenothelus, bacchus diphues, or baphomet. u or v is the manifested son himself. its number is 6. it refers therefore, to the dual nature of the logos as divine and

h. these are represented by a flame for fire, by incense or roses for air, by wine for water, and by bread and salt for earth. the eucharist of "five" has for basis wine for taste, a rose for smell, a flame for sight, a bell for sound, and a dagger for touch. this sacrament is implied in the mass of the phoenix in a slightly different form. 180 the eucharist of "six" elements has father, son, and holy spirit above; breath, water, and blood beneath. it is a sacrament reserved for high initiates<holy spirit of life, in silence. the bread and wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the virgin mother. the elements are then intermingled and consumed after the epiphany of iacchus, when "countenance beholdeth count

ing its light to restore life to earth; the other is the act by which life claims that love is light and liberty. and these are two-in-one, the divine letter of silence-in-speech whose symbol is the sun in the arms of the moon. but "sh" and "t" are alike formulae of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns "sh" is the holy spirit as a "tongue of fire" manifest in triplicity, 337 and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their "angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd "sh" is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but "t" is the holy spirit in action as a "roaring lion" or as the "old serpent" instead of as an "angel of light. the

hough it is possible that the version found here is a simple error for that earlier text, crowley may have deliberately changed this late version in the mass to reflect the ix degree idea. other versions of the mass are found in the "international (first publication) and in the equinox iii, 1 (the "blue equinox, published a few years before this text> the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run, to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus: men. glory to thee from gilded tomb. second semichorus: women. glory to thee from

the teeth of the camel? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. iii. 0. the ox is thought. man, rule thy thought! how else shalt thou master the holy spirit, and answer the high priestess in the middle gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more (a) avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the conversation of others. 428 (b) by some device, such as the c

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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 works of congreve. and the context makes this even clearer, for he sits in a corner, that is in the place of christ, the corner stone, eating, that is, enjoying, that which the birth of christ assures to us. he is

nd more is in the crown first described. the crimson cap implies concealment, and is also symbolical of the flood of glory that pours upon the magician from above. it is of velvet for the softness of that divine kiss, and crimson for that it is the very blood of god which is its life. the band of gold is the eternal circle of perfection. the three pentagrams symbolize the father, the son, and the holy spirit, while the hexagram represents the magician himself. ordinarily, pentagrams represent the microcosm, hexagrams the macrocosm; but here the reverse is the case, because in this crown of perfection, that which is below has become that which is above, and that which is above had become that which is below. if a diamond be worn, it is for the light which is before all manifestations in for

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

me; remainder, remnant; future tyrx) brethren (referred to lilith& samael *myx) 620 kether: the crown rtk chokmah, binah, daath; the first descending triad t(dw hnyb hmkx to hide, treasure up (ps. 31:20) tnpc the doors myr# spirits, ghosts twxwr 621 the point of a sword brx txb) by-paths (see 1351) twxrw) 622 blessings tkrb the depths of the sea (samael and his wife) my twlwcm breadths twbwxr 623 holy spirit #dqh xwr the nose *m+wx 624 the number of letters in the great table of enoch (not counting the black cross of union: 12 13 4 his covenant (ps. 25:14) wtyrbw liberty twryx 625 weasels and other terrible animals *myxw) 626 the qliphoth: shells, demons twpylq 628 light (spelt in full, vau )w; cf. 633 and 643 :r:w) blessings twkrb to be wise *mkx life *myyx 629 the great trumpet lwdg rpw#

x 624 the number of letters in the great table of enoch (not counting the black cross of union: 12 13 4 his covenant (ps. 25:14) wtyrbw liberty twryx 625 weasels and other terrible animals *myxw) 626 the qliphoth: shells, demons twpylq 628 light (spelt in full, vau )w; cf. 633 and 643 :r:w) blessings twkrb to be wise *mkx life *myyx 629 the great trumpet lwdg rpw# nations; gentiles *myywg 630 the holy spirit)#ydq )xwr seraphim, flaming ones: the angelic choir of geburah mypr# hairy ones; he-goats; demons myry# drill, coarse linen; a triad #l# adam and eve *hwxw md) thine eye( gis h written. see 160& i.r.q. 652 *kny( 631 concealed mystery )tw(yncd silence; silent *ml) 632 the world of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 564) twdwsy mlw( 633 light (spelt in full, vau=

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LAW OF LIBERTY

, by night and day, to do your will; for "there is no law beyond do what thou wilt" lift yourlseves up! walk forth with us in light and life and love and liberty, taking our pleasure as kings and queens in heaven and on earth. the sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight "the word of sin is restriction" or as it has been otherwise said on this text: that is sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! go on, go on in thy might; and let no man make thee afraid. love is the law, love under wi a the lost continent by aleister crowley ordo templi orientis p.o box 2303 berkeley, ca 94702 (c) copyright o.t.o. june 21, 1985 e.v. sun in cancer moon in leo an 81 e.n .pa the lost continent* preface last year i was chosen to succeed the venerable k-z--who had it in his mind to die, that is

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

, and understand" the old comment 25. dividing 6/50= 0.12. 0, the circumference, nuit, the centre, hadit. 1, the unity proceeding, ra-hoor-khuit. 2, the coptic h, whose shape closely resembles the arabic figure 2, the breath of life, inspired and expired. human consciousness, thoth. adding 50+ 6= 56, nu, and concentrating 5+ 6= 11, abrahadabra, etc. multiplying 50 x 6= shin, and ruach elohim, the holy spirit. i am inclined to believe that there is a further mystery concealed in this verse, possibly those of 418 and 666 again. the new comment see qabalistic appendix. weh note: appendix not yet recovered. k. grant, op. cit, adds several paragraphs here which appear to come from crowley. this is not provided in this text for lack of certainty of the providence. al i,26 "then saith the prophet

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

and breeding, source and seed of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from w

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ncy added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rwr tja, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chayyim: one is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. 11 in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article t.s. 12 given the timescales involved it is prima faci far more lik

niting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical tree of life, on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial

e introduction to levi s rituel de haute magie t.s. liber lviii 31 280. the sum of the five letters of severity, those which have a final form kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning tooth, and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th thyr. it is

ain that written in ill-spelt babu english, one knows what to do. on the contrary the man who was lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own* this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only by marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says never less than four. hence i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

son, no father, and (to please us most) 740 decency pleads no holy ghost! all vanish at the touch of truth, a cobweb trio like, in sooth, the sword of song 24 the reader may hope. summary. reader dismissed to chapel. future plans of poet. jesus dismissed with a jest. the jest. that worthy yankee millionaire, and wealthy nephews, young and fair, 745 the pleasing crawfords! lost! lost! lost !78 the holy spirit, friend! beware! ah! ten days yet to pentecost! come that, i promise you but stay! at present tis ascension day! 750 at least your faith should be content. i quarrel not with this event. the supernatural element? i deny nothing at the term it is just nothing i affirm. 755 the fool (with whom is wisdom, deem the scriptures rightly) in his heart saith (silent, to himself, apart) this sec

-known advertisment, hence who s griffiths= safe. the sword of song 30 our logical method. classical allusion, demonstrating erudition of poet. whether or not spirit and matter are distinct, let us investigate the fundamental necessities of thought. impermanence of the soul. why, in a word, i seek to gain a different knowledge. why retain 190 the husk of flesh, yet seek to merit the influx of the holy spirit? and, swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- roic guerdon of srotapatti ?35 195 with calm and philsophic mind, no fears, no hopes, devotions blind to hamper, soberly we ll state the problem, and investigate in purely scientific mood 200 the sheer ananke of the mind, a temper for our steel to find whereby those brazen nails subdued against our

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cy united to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. how, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word rvch, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah "achth rvch alhim chiim, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chimm: one is she the spirit of the elohim of life" now, we find that before he deity conformed himself thus "i.e, as male and female- that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or

ting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical "tree of life" on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son, and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolised by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordi

of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the "five letters of severity" those which have a final form- kaph, men, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 x 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also rp= terror. 300. the letter hb:shin, meaning "tooth" and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit, rvch alhim= 300. hence the letter of the spirit. descending into the midst of ihvh, the four inferior elements, we get ihshvh jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ash, fire. 314. shdi, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 103 325. a mystic number of mars. brtzbal, the spirit of mars, and grapial, the intelligence of mars. 326. ihshvh, jesus- see 300. 33

piritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are only known to yourself and god, forms the grip, sing, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly tiled. 8 this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only be marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphereth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st john makes his son say "i and my father are one" and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says "never less that four" hence

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ll of the aethyr. and all day and all night, awake or asleep, shall thy heart be turned as a lotus-flower unto the light. and thy body shall be the temple of the rosy cross. thus shall thy mind be open unto the higher; and then shalt thou be able to conquer the exhaustion, and it may be find the words- for who shall look upon his face and live? yea, thou tremblest, but from within; because of the holy spirit that is descended into thy heart, and shaketh thee as an aspen in the wind. they also tremble that are without, and they are shaken 108 from without by the earthquakes of his judgement. they have set their affections upon the earth, and they have stamped with their feet upon the earth, and cried: it moveth not. therefore hath earth opened with strong motion, like the sea, and swallowed

th. come away! the volume of the book is open, the angel waiteth without, for the summer is at hand. come away! for the aeon is measured, and thy span allotted. come away! for the mighty sounds have entered into every angle. and they have awakened the angels of the aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. for in the holy letter shin, that is the resurrection in the book of thoth, that is the holy spirit in the trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed. come away! for the second triad is completed, and there remaineth only the lord of the aeon, the avenger, the child 165 both crowned and conquering, the lord of the sword and the sun, the babe in the lotus, pure from his birth, the child of suffering

thou must pass through the great waters, a redeemer. thou must have the tail of the scorpion, and 170 the poisoned arrows of the archer, and the dreadful horns of the goat. and so shalt thou break down the fortress that guardeth the palace of the king my son. and thou must work by the light of the star and of the moon and of the sun, and by the dreadful light of judgment that is the birth of the holy spirit within thee. when these shall have destroyed the universe, then mayest thou enter the palace of the queen my daughter. blessed, blessed, blessed; yea, blessed; thrice and four times blessed is he that hath attained to look upon thy face. for i will hurl thee forth from my presence as a whirling thunderbolt to guard the ways, and whom thou smitest shall be smitten indeed. and whom thou

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ore appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation."the virgin lies at bethlehem.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the root of david shoots a stem.(o holy spirit, shadow her! she lies alone amid the kine.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the straw is fragrant as with wine.(o holy spirit shadow her! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them ind

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ore appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation "the virgin lies at bethlehem (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the root of david shoots a stem (o holy spirit, shadow her) she lies alone amid the kine (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the straw is fragrant as with wine (o holy spirit shadow her" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them inde

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d by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the hb:shin("see" lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c. in theosop

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time, and by these four was made the foundation of the fraternity in europe. these worked and studied at the writings and other knowledge which c.r.c. had brought with him, and by them was some of the magical language transcribed. 1409. the four fratres also erected a building to serve for the temple and headquarters of their order, and called it "collegium ad spiritum sanctum" or "college of the holy spirit. 1410. they initiated four others, namely, fratres r.c, the son of the deceased father's brother of c.r.c; b, a skilful artist; g.g; and p.d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans, except i.a, and now eight in number. their agreement was (1) that none of them should profess any other thing but to cure the sick, and that gratis. 215 (2) that they should not be constrained to wea

to remain with christian rosenkreutz [the "second adept" then takes up the narrative. the discovery then of the vault of the adepts, wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father, christian rosenkreutz was buried, occurred as follows: 1600. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n; he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet, which contained the names of certain brethren and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a long and strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away, it pulled with it a large stone, which thus partially uncovered a secret door, upon which was inscribed "post cxx annos patebo [the aspirant then leaves the

th in equilibrium, we have the twenty-two letters as a rose; the nine planets, five elements and three alchemicals as a cross (39= ihvh+ achd, in all sixty-one symbols,12 "i.e, the ain(=61) is thus denoted. the rose and cross being united, they bring down into the centre of all the divine white brilliance of kether, in which is shown another rose cross, no longer of divided light, but ruby of the holy spirit; of gold, the glory of the light; of green rays because isis shines forth_ a new creation. this higher rose cross is again the mystery of the higher genius descending into kether, when the lower is in tiphereth established. for in all things are higher and lower "e.g, binah, chesed and hod are all water, but in a different manner and degree13""the wands."14 isis hath the wand of thoth

pernatural splendour which will fill the whole apartment, and will surround you with an inexpressible odour, and this alone will console you and comfort your heart so that you shall call for ever happy the day of the lord.42 "during seven days shall you perform the ceremonies without failing therein in any way: namely, the day of the consecration, the three days of the convocation of the good and holy spirits, and the three other days of the convocation of the evil spirits "on the second morning you shall follow the counsels your holy guardian angel shall have given you, and on the third you shall render thanks "and then shall you first be able to put to the test whether you shall have well employed the period of your six moons, and how well and worthily you shall have laboured in the ques

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the light yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god's. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble like an aspen, quiver like light upon a rainy river! marsyas. do what thou wilt! is the sole word of law that my attainment heard. arise, and lay thine hand on god! arise, and set a period unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure heart (her incense burned 47 of gums and woods, in gold inurned, and let the serpent flame therein a little, and thy soul shall win to lie within her bosom. lo! thou wouldst give all_ and she cries: no! take all, and take me! gather spice and virgins and great pearls of price! worship me in a single robe, cr

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teeth of the camel? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. iii 0. the ox is thought. man, rule thou thy thought! how else shalt thou master the holy spirit, and answer the high priestess in the middle gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. alpha. avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the conversation of others. 13 beta. by some device, such as

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e have one aspect of the threefold nature of god, intelligence demonstrating through the atom; and through the form we have the love, or attractive quality manifesting. this can also be expressed in the recognition that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before ever there was creation, goes on to say that when "he appointed the foundations of the earth

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human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chart the seven planes of our solar system, the constitution of man the constitution of man, as considered in the following pages, is basically threefold, as follows: i. the monad, or pure spirit, the father in heaven. this aspect reflects the three aspects of the godhead: 1. will or power..the father. 2. love-wisdom..the son. 3. active intelligence..the holy spirit. and is only contacted at the final initiations, when man is nearing the end of his journey and is perfected. the monad reflects itself again in ii. the ego, higher self, or individuality. this aspect is potentially 1. spiritual will..atma. 2. intuition..buddhi, love-wisdom, the christ principle. 3. higher or abstract mind..higher manas. the ego begins to make its power felt in advance

deduce, held latent certain faculties that were forced to demonstrate in a peculiar way, under the law of cause and effect, as does all else in the universe (b) all manifestation is of a septenary nature, and the central light which we call deity, the one ray of divinity, manifests first as a triplicity, and then as a septenary. the one god shines forth as god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit, and these three are again reflected through the seven spirits before the throne, or the seven planetary logoi. the students of occultism of non-christian origin may call these beings the one ray, demonstrating through the three major rays and the four minor, making a divine septenary. the synthetic ray which blends them all is the great love-wisdom ray, for verily and indeed "god is l

sing that form. these sounds grow out of the other group and affect inferior groups or kingdoms, if the word "inferior" may be used in connection with any department of divine manifestation. for instance, the human kingdom (the fourth creative hierarchy) was produced by a triple aum sounded in a particular key by the three persons of the trinity in unison, god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit, or shiva, vishnu, and brahma. this sound is still going forth; the interplay and interblending of the many tiny notes of each human being produces a great united sound which can be heard in the high places and which, in its turn, is having a definite effect upon the animal kingdom. it is one of the factors which produces animal forms, both for human and animal occupation, for it must

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oint of conscious life. we are dealing only with matter and latent heat, with the result produced by rotary movement of radiatory heat and the consequent interplay of bodies atomic. we are therefore dealing with the point we set out to consider while studying our fifth division, motion in the sheaths. 4. the circle divided into four. this is the true circle of matter, the equal armed cross of the holy spirit, who is the personification of active intelligent matter. this shows the fourth dimensional quality of matter and the penetration of the fire in four directions, its threefold radiation being symbolised by the triangles formed by the fourfold cross. this portrays the fourfold revolution of any atom. by this is not meant the ability of any atom to make four revolutions, but the fourth d

holds the same relation to the human kingdom as the dense physical body does to the seven principles and still finds its connecting link with man through the close correspondence between their bodies of objectivity. 2. the animal kingdom is the third of the kingdoms and is (from the esoteric point of view and as regards its relation to mankind) the mother aspect, prior to the overshadowing by the holy spirit, the manas aspect. think out this resemblance, and trace the analogy between the cosmic mother, the systemic mother, and the same mother aspect as seen in the animal kingdom as a basis for the evolution of man. each of the kingdoms of nature acts as the mother to the succeeding one in the evolutionary process. any group, which may be under consideration, should in due course of evoluti

his self-consciousness, and it is their action upon the negative aspect which produces the human ego (on a large scale, viewing them in their totality as cosmic force; it is their action upon the negative or mother aspect which, on cosmic levels, produces that self-conscious unity, a solar logos, functioning through his physical vehicle. from the christian standpoint, the greater builders are the holy spirit, or force overshadowing and fecundating matter, whilst the negative or lesser builders correspond to the virgin mary. the lunar pitris, and lesser builders from the systemic point of view find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom. when they, as the initiatory impulse, had produced animal man they had performed their prime function, and just as (on a smaller scale and in conne

re negative and positive to each other. this centre is to be found in some form or other in all sentient beings and upon it largely depends: a. consciousness at one of its seven stages. b. continuity of existence. c. perpetuation of species or reproduction on some or other of the planes. it might be of interest here to note that this centre is literally a fourfold radiation, and the "cross of the holy spirit" the equal armed cross, is its symbol. this four-petalled lotus is the result of evolution. in the first kingdom of nature, the mineral, through which a specific entity is manifesting, this centre is a unity on etheric levels, for only one petal is to be seen. in the vegetable kingdom, viewing it as the expression of a great existence, two petals are becoming active. in the third kingd

ll the ability to function as a self-conscious unit, that entity we call man.37(207) mahadeva sits at the heart, surya or vishnu reveals him in his essence as the wisdom of love and the love of wisdom, and brahma, the creative logos makes that revelation possible. the father in heaven is to be revealed through the christ, the son, by the method of incarnation made possible through the work of the holy spirit. all this has been brought about by the sacrifice and instrumentality of certain cosmic entities who "offer themselves" up in order that man may be. from their very essence, they give out that which is needed to produce the individualising principle, and that which we call "self-consciousness" and thus enable the divine spirit to enter into fuller life by means of limitation by form, b

p between spirit and matter, in which a condition in substance is brought about through the action of the energising factor, the spirit. it has, therefore, to do with the relation of the greater devas as they carry out their work of form-building under the law of will of god to the lesser devas who represent living substance. it will be apparent to the student that it concerns the relation of the holy spirit to the mother in the production of the son, and then the relation of the son to the mother. if the ideas formulated in this treatise have been carefully followed, it will be obvious that in studying the question of pralaya, we are studying the relation (in time and space) of the positive energy of the solar logos, the planetary logos, and of man to the substance through which alone man

cience, and bring about changes in the care of the physical body. the devas and energy. before we take up the consideration of these two groups it might be wise here to emphasise the necessity of remembering that when we consider the etheric levels of the physical plane we are dealing with those planes upon which the true form is to be found, and are approaching the solution of the mystery of the holy spirit and the mother. in this realisation, and its extension to include an entire solar system, will come a clarifying of the connection between the four higher planes of the system and the three worlds of human endeavour. we have, in the macrocosm, the four planes of super-conscious life, or those four central vibrations which are the basis of the life and energy of the etheric body of a pl

of a planetary logos and of a solar logos, and the three planes of conscious and of self-conscious life which form the dense physical vehicle of a heavenly man, and of the grand man of the heavens. by a close scrutiny of these conditions in the macrocosm and in the microcosm will come a comprehension of the reason why the physical vehicle is never considered a principle at all by occultists. the holy spirit, the one who overshadows and who implants the germ of life in the waiting acquiescent virgin mother or matter (causing her to awaken and to commence her great work of producing the divine incarnation) is a primary factor from the standpoint of the second solar system. in a way incomprehensible to modern thinkers, the mother, or the divine aspirant to the mysteries of the cosmic marriag

mother or matter (causing her to awaken and to commence her great work of producing the divine incarnation) is a primary factor from the standpoint of the second solar system. in a way incomprehensible to modern thinkers, the mother, or the divine aspirant to the mysteries of the cosmic marriage, was (in a previous system) the dominant factor. in this system in connection with substance it is the holy spirit. the work, therefore, on etheric levels, and the energy and activity originating therefrom, are the factors that primarily are responsible on the physical plane for all that is tangible, objective, and manifested. the accretion of matter around the vital body, and the densification of substance around the vital etheric nucleus are in themselves the result of interaction, and the final

gods, of men and of atoms. much time is spent in speculating upon the sources of life, upon the springs of action, and upon the impulses which underlie the creative processes. hitherto science has worked somewhat blindly and has spent much time investigating the lower three planes. it has dealt principally with the mother, with the negative receptive matter, and is only now becoming aware of the holy spirit aspect, or of the energy which enables that mother to fulfill her function, and to carry on her work. considering the same problem microcosmically it may be pointed out that men are only now- 543- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust beginning to be aware of the springs of spiritual action, and of the sources of spiritual life. the energy of the higher planes is only re

es, and this apprehension, rightly grasped, will clarify the others. the transmitter of the word on the first plane of adi is the embodiment of the throat centre of a cosmic entity. from this statement will come a just realisation of our place in the cosmic scheme, and the fundamentally physical nature of the seven planes of the solar system is also here demonstrated, the nature of brahma, or the holy spirit, becoming apparent. the old commentary says "brahma is one, yet includes his brother. vishnu is one, yet existeth not apart from his brother, younger in point of time yet older far. shiva is one, and antedates them both, yet he appeareth not nor is he seen, until they both have cycled through their courses" the above sevenfold tabulation can be, under the law of correspondences, applie

hing that father and mother, or spirit and matter, when brought into contact, produce the son. the difficulty which students have to surmount consists in the true interpretation of the three terms: mother matter moisture (or the waters- 603- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust in creation, the three vibratory spheres: 1. the dense physical..mother..matter, 2. the etheric..matter..holy spirit, 3. the astral..moisture..water, work as a unit, and in the occult teaching, during the earlier stages of creation, must not be separated or distinguished apart. on the path of involution, if the subject may be approached from a different angle, and thus somewhat clarify, distinctions are made, and on the path of evolution, or of return, they are, as we well know, surmounted; on the mi

tivity of the ego, for instance, which is rotary-spiral-cyclic, and that which results in the stimulation of the self-contained atom, in the periodical emergence of form, and in the steady, though slow, progress towards a goal. we might, for the sake of clarity, differentiate the effects thus: 1. rotary activity..the internal activity of every atom viewed as a unity, the activity of brahma or the holy spirit, perfected in the first solar system. it is unified individual consciousness."i am" 2. cyclic activity..the activity of all forms, viewing them from the aspect of consciousness, and of time. it is unified group consciousness."i am that" the activity of vishnu in process of being perfected in this the second solar system. 3. spiral activity..the influence which impresses all forms, whic

st the law of attraction governs that which is produced by the relation of these two, and is itself controlled by a greater cosmic law which is the principle of the intelligence of substance. it is the law of akasha. it must be borne in mind that these three laws are the expression of the intent or purpose of the three logoic aspects. the law of economy is the governing principle of brahma or the holy spirit; the law of synthesis is the law of the father's life; whilst the son's life is governed by, and manifests forth divine attraction. yet these three are the three subsidiary laws of a greater impulse which governs the life of the unmanifested logos.25(290) i. the subsidiary laws the subsidiary aspects, or laws, of the law of attraction might be enumerated as follows: 1. the law of chemi

heir syzygies make 10, or the decad; and last of all, the hexalpha or interlaced triangles the hexad, which with their syzygies make 12, or the dodecad. such are the contents of the pleroma or completion, the ideas in the divine mind, 28 in all for bythus or the father is not reckoned as it is the root of all. the two small circles within the pleroma are the syzygy christos-pneuma (christ and the holy spirit; these are after-emanations and, as such, from one aspect, typify the descent of spirit to inform and evolve matter, which essentially proceeds from the same source; and from another, the descent or incarnation of the kumaras or the higher egos of humanity. from "lucifer" for may, 1890. 82 93: bible. ep, 4:13. 83 94 "matter, it must be remembered, is that totality of existence in the k

signify "having no body" and has no reference whatever to moral qualities. it is a state of consciousness. the great teachers of nirvanic spheres are called by this name. 226 58: bible. romans, 8:22. 227 59: each human being is an incarnation of god. s. d, iii, 449. compare: s. d, ii, 541; s. d, iii, 475, and the biblical words "i have said, ye are gods "know ye not that ye are the temple of the holy spirit" no being can become a god without passing through the human cycles. s. d, ii, 336. man therefore is like god in that he represents the pairs of opposites, good and evil, light and darkness, male and female, etc. he is a duality- 813- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust he represents also god in that he is a triplicity, being three in one, and one in three. see s. d, i

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osmic christ, resplendent in the heart of each of us. the word "heart" is- 30- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust here used in its occult connotation. the following correspondences may be found illuminating and should be studied with care. aspect quality centre macrocosm spirit. father. monad. will. head. central spiritual sun. soul .s on .e go .l ove. heart. heart of the sun. body. holy spirit. personality. active intelligence. throat. physical sun. ishvara is the second aspect, and therefore the real meaning of this sutra is that through intense devotion to, and love of ishvara, the christ in manifestation, that christ or soul may be contacted or known. ishvara is god in the heart of every child of god; he is to be found in the cave of the heart; he is to be reached through

oul copyright 1998 lucis trust this sutra is intended to cover the technicalities of the form aspect of manifestation whether referring to the manifestation of a human atom or of a solar deity, and simply indicates the natural triplicity of substance, its septenary nature, and its various mutations. it expresses the nature of that aspect of divine life which is called brahma by the hindu, and the holy spirit by the christian. this is the third aspect of the trimurti or trinity, the aspect of active intelligent matter, out of which the body of vishnu or of the cosmic christ is to be built in order that shiva, the father or the spirit may have a medium of revelation. it might therefore be of use if the nature of the four divisions of the three gunas were indicated, after giving the synonyms

iousness continues to sound the cosmic aum, just so long will the objective tangible solar system persist. the following synonyms in connection with this sutra must be borne in mind if clarity of thought is to be achieved: i. spiritual essence. i i. the sound or word. iii. the object. 1. spirit. 1. the soul. 1. body 2. pneuma. 2. the psyche. 2. form 3. the father. shiva 3. the son. vishnu. 3. the holy spirit. brahma 4. the monad. the one. 4. the cosmic christ. 4. the vehicle of life and of incarnation. 5. the eternal will or purpose. 5. eternal love-wisdom. 5. eternal activity and intelligence. 6. one great breath. 6. the aum. 6. the worlds. 7. life. 7. consciousness aspect. 7. activity aspect. 8. synthesising energy. 8. attractive force. 8. matter. 9. first aspect. 9. second aspect. 9. th

ferring to the great illusion which snares the pilgrim for so long. when the aspirant can walk in the light, having found the light (the shekinah) within himself in the holy of holies, then the illusion is- 183- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust dissipated. it is of value to the student to trace the analogy between the three parts of solomon's temple, and that of the "temple of the holy spirit" the human frame. the outer court corresponds to those energies and their corresponding organs found below the diaphragm. the holy place is the centres and organs in the upper part of the body from the throat to the diaphragm. the holy of holies is the head where is the throne of god, the mercy seat, and the overshadowing glory. when these three aspects of freedom have been gained and

nd studies himself. the microcosm reveals the nature of the macrocosm. he will find that he, the real or spiritual man, the thinker, or the one life in his tiny system, is responsible for the creation of his mental, emotional and physical bodies, his three lower aspects, the "shadow" of the trinity, just as his spirit, soul and body are the reflections of the three divine aspects, father, son and holy spirit. he will find that he is responsible for the formation of all the organs in his body, and for all the cells of which they are composed and as he studies his problem more closely he will become aware that his consciousness and life pervades, and is therefore responsible for, myriads beyond number of tiny infinitesimal lives; that he is the cause of their aggregation into organs and form

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er of that which he preserves and nourishes. humanity is the treasure-house of god (this is the great masonic secret, for only in the human kingdom, as esotericists have long pointed out, are the three divine qualities found in their full flower and together. in man, god the father has hidden the secret of life; in man, god the son has secreted the treasures of wisdom and of love; in man, god the holy spirit has implanted the mystery of manifestation. humanity, and humanity alone, can reveal the nature of the godhead and of eternal life. to man is given the privilege of revealing the nature of the divine consciousness, and of portraying before the eyes of the assembled sons of god (at the final conclave before the dissolution) what has lain hidden in the mind of god. hence the injunction b

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tory, built around those major initiations which are our universal heritage and the glorious (and for many) the immediate opportunity. these are: 1. the birth at bethlehem, to which christ called nicodemus, saying "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god."17 2. the baptism in jordan. this is the baptism to which john the baptist referred us, telling us that the baptism of the holy spirit and of fire must be administered to us by christ.18 3. the transfiguration. there perfection is for the first time demonstrated, and there the divine possibility of such perfection is proven to the disciples. the command goes forth to us "be ye therefore perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect."19 4. the crucifixion. this is called the great renunciation, in the orien

ll add; he was a builder, a carpenter, a worker in the building trade, one who adds stone to stone, or beam to beam. he is the symbol of the building-creative aspect of god the father. in these three people, joseph, the infant jesus, and mary, we have the- 44- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust divine triplicity symbolised and represented, god the father, god the son and god the holy spirit, or matter informed by deity, and therefore typified for us in the virgin mary. today the masses are on a journey. today the teaching of the path and of the way to god is engrossing the attention of the aspirants in the world. we are on the path of return to the individual and to the racial bethlehem. we are now on the point of entering the cave wherein the new birth can take place, an

race (and of a child, likewise) the- 63- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust feeling, sentient man is first developed, and then the mind comes into active life. the baptism which christ gives his followers concerns the purification of the mind by fire. fire, under the universal symbolism of religion, is ever symbolic of the mind nature. this baptism by fire is the baptism of the holy spirit. thus jesus went up from nazareth and galilee to take the next step which was indicated in his experience. as the result of life experience and inner consecration, he was ready for the next initiation. this was taken in the river jordan. jordan means "that which descends" but also, according to some commentators, that which "divides" as a river divides and separates the land. in the sy

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- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust behind the manifested universe, however, stands the formless one, that which is not an individual, being free from the limitations of individualised existence. therefore the buddhist is right when he emphasises the non-individualised nature of deity and refuses to personalise divinity. the father, son and holy spirit of the christian theology, embodying as they do the triplicities of all theologies, disappear also into the one when the period of manifestation is over. they remain as one, with quality and life untouched and undifferentiated, as they are when in manifestation. an analogy to this appears when a man dies. then his three aspects mind or will, emotion or love, and physical appearance van

se three aspects of mind energy are thus blended and are a synthesis of the intelligent force of deity. they embody as much of the mind of god as a human being can embrace in time and space, for they are a. the energy of intelligent life, coming from god the father. b. the energy of intelligent soul or consciousness, coming from god the son. c. the energy of intelligent matter coming from god the holy spirit. 5. the disciples of the world are occupied with the integration of the personality with the soul, or with the synthesis of the first five aspects of energy as the lotus petals of love come into conscious recognition, and the intuition begins faintly to function. these petals of love, which are only symbolic forms of expressing energy, have a dual activity they attract upward the plane

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and fertilises all; the scapegoat, in the wilderness, redeems that all; the sacred goat that merges in the unicorn and lifts impaled upon his golden horn the vanquished form in these the mystery lies hid" it here becomes apparent that three mysteries are hidden in the three horned signs: 1. the mystery of god the father. creation 2. the mystery of god the son. redemption 3. the mystery of god the holy spirit. liberation it might also be pointed out here that it is the will of the father aspect, manifesting through aries, that governs shamballa; the loving desire of the son which attracts to the hierarchy; and the permeating, intelligent activity of the holy spirit which animates that centre of divine life which we call humanity. therefore we have: shamballa. hierarchy .h umanity will. love

and they involve the expression of the energy of one cardinal sign and of three signs which form part of the fixed cross of the heavens. we could express this truth in another manner: god the father, the will to manifest, initiates the creative process which is worked out through the activity of god the son, the cosmic christ, crucified upon the fixed cross in the heavens. the activity of god the holy spirit, implicit in the- 116- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust mutable cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system, and the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from that system and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. this divine aspect is to the whole

d prove profitless and unimportant. when, however, the consciousness of man is opened up in such a manner that it can register that which is proceeding and taking place in the three lower kingdoms in nature, then further light and information will be given. this will take place in a period of human history when libra is dominant and the three divine aspects of the third person of the trinity, the holy spirit, the creator law, sex and money will give the clue to the three lower kingdoms. law, natural law (the externalisation of the subjective spiritual law) will give the clue to the animal kingdom; sex or the consciousness of affinity will reveal the mystery of the vegetable kingdom; money will unveil the secret of the mineral kingdom and all this will come about through the activity of ven

father. he who relates. the source of duality. he who perceives the end from the beginning. spiritual consciousness. intuition to inspiration- 147- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. venus. 5th ray of mind. god the son. the son of mind. he who includes. egoic consciousness. intellect to intuition. 3. saturn. 3rd ray of intelligence. god the holy spirit. he who knows. mind. human consciousness. instinct to intellect. it is for this basic reason founded upon the above triple relationship that libra is the "point of balance" in the zodiac. in most of the other constellations, at some stage or other, there comes a "point of crisis" wherein the effect of the energy pouring through the sign (via the ruling planets) to man is at its highest

ve, isis, and mary. they are of peculiar and significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated and functioning as a whole person, we call the personality. this personality is (as far as humanity is concerned) the developed and qualified expression of the third aspect of divinity, that of god the holy spirit, the active intelligent and nurturing principle of the universe. this aspect we shall study in leo and see there the unfoldment of that self-conscious entity and personality which in virgo becomes the mother of the christ child. eve is the symbol of the mental nature, and of the mind of man attracted by the lure of knowledge to be gained through the experience of incarnation. eve, ther

r system it is the soul or the christ principle which is of paramount importance. virgo is, from certain angles, quite the oldest of all the signs, which is a statement i am quite unable to prove to you. in that first system, the faint symptoms (if i may use such a word) of the duality which is a proven fact in this system are to be found, and this truth is preserved for us in the words that "the holy spirit overshadowed the virgin mary" the life of the third divine aspect played then upon the ocean of quiescent matter and prepared that substance (over untold aeons) for its work in this solar system. it is in this system that the christ child, the expression of the divine consciousness and the result of the relationship of father-spirit and mother-matter, must he brought to the birth. anot

or other of the three above wholes, will know whereof i speak; lesser minds will get a general picture or vision of transcendental possibilities which will aid them to an expansion of consciousness, but what i say will remain far-off in the realm of the (temporarily) unattainable. will it clarify the subject technically and academically if i point out that 1. the mutable cross is the cross of the holy spirit, of the third person of the christian trinity, as it organises substance and evokes sensitive response from substance itself. 2. the fixed cross is the cross of the son of god, of the second person of the trinity, driven through love to incarnate in matter and to be consciously crucified upon the cross of matter. 3. the cardinal cross is the cross of the father, the first aspect of the

the christian trinity, as it organises substance and evokes sensitive response from substance itself. 2. the fixed cross is the cross of the son of god, of the second person of the trinity, driven through love to incarnate in matter and to be consciously crucified upon the cross of matter. 3. the cardinal cross is the cross of the father, the first aspect of the sacred trinity, who sent forth the holy spirit (the breath) because the mind of god visioned a destiny for matter which had been long in coming. now that the "time was at hand" the son fulfilled the law in cooperation with the holy spirit and this in response to the fiat of the father. these three crosses are, in their totality of manifestation, related to the three basic energies which brought the solar system into being; they con

t he may learn eventually their divine use. it is in the lower aspect of this cross that the nazis chose this symbol as theirs; they were expressing, at the close of the material cycle of human existence, the false and evil use of matter, of which separativeness, cruelty and selfishness is the key. the misuse of substance and the prostitution of matter and form to evil ends is the sin against the holy spirit. it might be said that the swastika "drives into danger dire and into evil ways, those whose greed is great and who see no beauty in the dawning light and who know no love of human lives" to those who respond not to the lower aspects and effects of the whirling cross (as it is sometimes called "the swastika flings them from itself and far afield until they come to rest upon the cross o

iously establishing contact and persistently focussed in the form whilst time and space endure- 366- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust this third aspect of the divine expression is the result or outcome of the activity of the other two major rays. you must, with care, distinguish in your minds between matter or the mother and substance or the "holy spirit overshadowing the mother; it is with this latter we are concerned, for we are regarding all these rays in terms of will, of spirit, and of life. this whole treatise, therefore, deals with an idea which lies beyond or behind the entire content of modern knowledge and is consequently inexplicable to the finite mind. all that is possible is to indicate that which exists prior to manifesta

ction, subtraction, abstraction and these three are related (as far as man is concerned) to the first three initiations, but only from the will aspect and in relation definitely to the third ray upon the physical plane, or rather on the plane of the etheric body or the vital effective activity. it is this which must be borne in mind when considering the active work of the trinity: father, son and holy spirit. this trinity in manifestation knows itself as the transcending reality and utters ever the word "having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" this trinity in manifestation knows itself as the transmitting one and says through the words of the christ "i, if i be lifted up, will draw all men unto me" this, through the attractive power which the transmitting o

anets. a.a.b) were the heavenly bodies in direct astral and psychic communication morally and physically with the earth, its guides and watchers. the visible orbs furnish our humanity with its outward and inward characteristics and their regents or rectors with our monads and spiritual faculties (s.d. i. 628) 12 "the trinity was represented by the sun (the father, mercury (the son, and venus (the holy spirit (s.d. ii. 569) 13 "there were seven tabernacles ready to be inhabited by monads under seven different karmic conditions (s.d. ii. 223) 14 "every race in its evolution is said to be born under the influence of one of the planets (s.d. ii. 27) 15 "the tradition of the 70 planets that preside over the destiny of nations is based on the occult cosmogonical teaching that besides our own sys

of the planets (of which seven only are called sacred because ruled by the highest regents or gods. is a septenary (s.d. i. 176) 20. the following tabulation is suggestive: a. god the father 1st logos electric fire. great bear. sun. b. god the son 2nd logos solar fire sirius. venus and mercury- 376- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust c. god the holy spirit 3rd logos fire by friction pleiades. saturn (c.f. 96) 21 "the planetary spirit is another term for the logos of a planet, who is one of the "seven spirits before the throne of god" and therefore one of the seven heavenly men. he is on the evolutionary arc of the universe and has passed many stages beyond the human. the planetary entity is on the involutionary arc and is a very low grad

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 trinity is symbolised by the sun: a. the central spiritual sun god the father. b. the heart of the sun god the son. c. the physical sun god the holy spirit" 16 "it is in the sun, more than in any other heavenly body (i.e. in our solar system) that the unknown power placed the seat of its habitation (s.d. iii. 213- 396- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 17 "the central spiritual sun is mirrored by the. sun (s.d. iii. 214) 18 "the sun is one of the nine deities that witness all human act

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s centre registers that of the second aspect and the basic centre expresses the energy of the first aspect. here again you have the lower centres reflecting the throat, heart and head centres and thus completing the higher and the lower manifestation of the divine trinity in man. this centre was brought into full functioning activity in old lemuria, the first human race; its energy is that of the holy spirit, overshadowing virgin substance. here again we find also another divine reflection in the following- 108- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust eventually, in the divine hermaphrodite (later to appear) you will have another combination: again you will note, my brother, how the science of triangles governs the human frame in all its aspects

t of extreme importance. be not therefore misled by apparent moments of achievement. they are but prefaces to change, for such is the law of being. 7. the centre at the base of the spine. this centre is, above everything else, controlled and governed by the law of being, above referred to, and is established where spirit and matter meet and where matter, the virgin mary under the influence of the holy spirit, time energy of the etheric vehicle is translated "into heaven" there (as the christian phraseology puts it "to be seated beside her son in the house of the father" this centre is found at the very base of the spine, and supports all the other centres. it is relatively quiescent at this time, for it is only roused into full activity by an act of the will, directed and controlled by the

h to all the centres. it must be remembered that the life of the centres is founded, in the initial stage, upon the inherent life of the organism itself, with the focus of the emanating life to be found in the centre at the base of the spine. this is a point oft forgotten by esotericists. this basic centre is the one through which the life of matter itself works; this is the life or energy of the holy spirit aspect, the third aspect. through its life each atom in the body is fed. this process of animating the substance of the physical form is started in the prenatal stage; after birth, this type of force is aided and paralleled by the inflow of planetary prana or vital energy from the planetary life itself, via the spleen. this is the essential relating organ between the inherent life of m

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

ity of sensitivity. the love aspect. the nature of relationship. wisdom. understanding. the method of evolution- 303- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust consciousness. soul. the note of attractive sound. utilises the consciousness thread 3. the mother aspect the intelligence of substance. the intelligence aspect. the nature of form. the holy spirit. response to evolution. the note of nature. develops the creative thread the mental plane which must be bridged is like a great stream of consciousness or of conscious substance, and across this stream the antahkarana must be constructed. this is the concept which lies behind this teaching and behind the symbolism of the path. before a man can tread the path, he must become that path h

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who nourishes the form and also the christ-consciousness latent in the form. the mutable cross and the planetary rulers virgo is one of the arms of the mutable cross, with its opposite sign of pisces, and the airy gemini and fiery sagittarius completing the four arms. it is the common cross of those who have probationary status. its description is as follows "the mutable cross is the cross of the holy spirit, of the third person of the christian trinity, as it organizes substance and evokes sensitive response from substance itself (note the beautiful correlation of this statement with the fact that the holy spirit over-shadowed mary) on this cross the man reaches the stage of acquiescence and aspiration, and so prepares himself for the fixed cross of discipleship. it is notable that "the m

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

hovah, ihvh, the divine four-lettered name, the tetragrammaton, but it is as the name of a group of divine conceptions, of emanations from a central spiritual light whose presence alone is postulated; from absolute god there is a series of emanations extending downward to reach jehovah, who is the divine one of binah, the supernal mother; other stages of emanation lead to the elohim, the group of holy spiritual attributes, associated with the sixth sephira, the sun of tiphareth. after another manner, jehovah is the group of the emanations from the deific source, called the ten sephiroth "the voices from heaven" these ten sephiroth, of which the first is a condensation of the supernal glory from the ain suph aour, the boundless light, appear as a rainbow of the divinity in a first world, or

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

that in a mystical sense is buried and alive in the vault. thirty-nine also equals i h v h+ a ch d. in all three are sixty-one symbols of the rose cross lamen, the number of ain. in addition, 6+1=7, the sides of he vault. the rose and cross united bring down into the center of all the divine white brilliance of rtk. there on the center is another rose and cross, the rose of ruby and the o of the holy spirit, and the cross of gold, the glory of light and the 4 perfection of the lower genius united to the higher genius. rays issue forth because osiris hath risen and isis shines forth a new creation. this higher rose cross in the center of the rose cross of divine light is the mystery of the higher genius descending into the rtk of man, and the lower genius is now established in trapt. in ha

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

visible, virginal spirit who is perfect. the first power, the glory of barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man, the holy spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth" requested from the invisible, virginal spirit- that is barbelo- to give her foreknowledge. and the spirit consented. and when he had consented, the foreknowledge came forth, and it stood by the forethought; it originates from the thou

over the light which came forth, that which was brought forth first by the first power of his forethought, which is barbelo. and he anointed it with his goodness until it became perfect, not lacking in any goodness, because he had anointed it with the goodness of the invisible spirit. and it attended him as he poured upon it. and immediately when it had received from the spirit, it glorified the holy spirit and the perfect forethought, for whose sake it had come forth "and it requested to give it a fellow worker, which is the mind, and he consented gladly. and when the invisible spirit had consented, the mind came forth, and it attended christ, glorifying him and barbelo. and all these came into being in silence "and the mind wanted to perform a deed through the word of the invisible spir

e word of the invisible spirit. and his will became a deed and it appeared with the mind; and the light glorified it. and the word followed the will. for because of the word, christ the divine autogenes created everything. and the eternal life his will and the mind and the foreknowledge attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, for whose sake they had come into being "and the holy spirit completed the divine autogenes, his son, together with barbelo, that he may attend the mighty and invisible, virginal spirit as the divine autogenes, the christ whom he had honored with a mighty voice. he came forth through the forethought. and the invisible, virginal spirit placed the divine autogenes of truth over everything. and he subjected to him every authority, and the truth whi

which attend the divine autogenes (and) these are the twelve aeons which attend the son the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 4 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm of the mighty one, the autogenes, the christ, through the will and the gift of the invisible spirit. and the twelve aeons belong to the son of the autogenes. and all things were established by the will of the holy spirit through the autogenes "and from the foreknowledge of the perfect mind, through the revelation of the will of the invisible spirit and the will of the autogenes perfect man (appeared, the first revelation, and the truth. it is he whom the virginal spirit called pigera-adamas, and he placed him over the first aeon with the mighty one, the autogenes, the christ, by the first light a

aw (the consequences of) her desire, it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and

12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm exalted himself above them "and when the mother recognized that the garment of darkness was imperfect, then she knew that her consort had not agreed with her. she repented with much weeping. and the whole pleroma heard the prayer of her repentance, and they praised on her behalf the invisible, virginal spirit. and he consented; and when the invisible spirit had consented, the holy spirit poured over her from their whole pleroma. for it was not her consort who came to her, but he came to her through the pleroma in order that he might correct her deficiency. and she was taken up not to her own aeon but above her son, that she might be in the ninth until she has corrected her deficiency "and a voice came forth from the exalted aeon-heaven 'the man exists and the son of ma

:17 pm said to me "to that place where the angels of poverty go they will be taken, the place where there is no repentance. and they will be kept for the day on which those who have blasphemed the spirit will be tortured, and they will be punished with eternal punishment" and i said "lord, from where did the counterfeit spirit come" then he said to me "the mother-father, who is rich in mercy, the holy spirit in every way, the one who is merciful and who sympathizes with you (pl, i.e, the epinoia of the foreknowledge of light, he raised up the offspring of the perfect race and its thinking and the eternal light of man. when the chief archon realized that they were exalted above him in the height- and they surpass him in thinking- then he wanted to seize their thought, not knowing that they

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

world) engendered the earthly adam. first samael fell, and then deceiving) man, caused his fall also (b) the sentence "they were the shadows of the shadows of the lords" i.e, the progenitors created man out of their own astral bodies, explains an universal belief. the devas are credited in the east with having no shadows of their own "the devas cast no shadows" and this is the sure sign of a good holy spirit. why had they "no fire or water of their own* because (c) that which hydrogen is to the elements and gases on the objective plane, its noumenon is in the world of mental or subjective phenomena; since its trinitarian latent nature is mirrored in its three[[footnote(s* it is corroborated, however, as we have shown, by the esotericism of genesis. not only are the animals created therein

nerative power of nature, isis, vach, venus- the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, but, at the same time, that of the logos whose symbol became with the egyptians and the indians- the bull- as testified to by apis and the hindu bulls in the most ancient temples. in esoteric philosophy the cow is the symbol of creative nature, and the bull (her calf) the spirit which vivifies her, or "the holy spirit" as mr. kenealy shows. hence the symbol of the horns. these were sacred also with the jews, who placed near the altar horns of shittim wood, by seizing which a criminal ensured his safety[[vol. 2, page] 419 was aeschylus initiated? but "argos" is arghya varsha, the land of libation of the old hierophants, whence the deliverer of humanity will appear, a name which became ages later that

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

in of the tradition blended at the same time with that of krishna and his uncle kansa. in the case of the n. t, herod stands for alexander janneus (of lyda, whose persecution and murder of hundreds and thousands of initiates led to the adoption of the bible story* zohar ii, 34[[vol. 2, page] 505 the sacredness of the serpent. a commentary on the puranas says "ananta-sesha is a form of vishnu, the holy spirit of preservation, and a symbol of the universe, on which it is supposed to sleep during the intervals of the days of brahma. the seven heads of sesha support the universe" so the spirit of god "sleeps" is "breathing (meracha' pheth) over the chaos of undifferentiated matter, before each new "creation (siphrah dzeniouta. now one "day" of brahma is composed, as already explained, of one t

ho is made in the english translation to speak of the "wind" and in the original text to refer both to the spirit and the sun. but the zohar, the only true glossary of the kabalistic preacher, in explanation of this verse, which is, perhaps, rather hazy and difficult to comprehend, says that "it seems to say that the sun moves in circuits, whereas it refers to the spirit under the sun, called the holy spirit, that moves circularly, toward both sides, that they (it and the sun) should be united in the same essence (zohar, fol. 87, col. 346) the brahmanical "golden egg" from within which emerges brahma, the creative deity, is the "circle with the central point" of pythagoras, and its fitting symbol. in the secret doctrine the concealed unity- whether representing parabrahmam, or the "great e

he cycle of the naros. seventh hidden" in india they are connected with their nursling, the war god, karttikeya. it is the pleiades (in sanskrit, krittika) who gave the god their name, for karttikeya is the planet mars, astronomically. as a god he is the son of rudra, born without the intervention of a woman. he is a kumara, a "virgin youth" again, generated in the fire from the seed of siva- the holy spirit- hence called agni-bhu. the late dr. kenealy believed that, in india, karttikeya is the secret symbol of the cycle of naros, composed of 600, 666, and 777 years, according to whether it is solar or lunar, divine or mortal, years that are counted; and the six visible, or the seven actual sisters, the pleiades, are needed for the completion of this most secret and mysterious of all the a

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

enth principle in man and kosmos are here unmistakeably meant, this principle being inseparable in its esse and nature from the seventh cosmic principle. in one sense it is the logos of the greeks and the avalokiteswara of the esoteric buddhists[[vol. 1, page] 75 noumenal and phenomenal light. the celestial ocean, the 'ether. is the breath of the father, the life-giving principle, the mother, the holy spirit. for these are not separated, and their union is life" here we find the unmistakeable echo of the archaic secret doctrine, as now expounded. only the latter does not place at the head and evolution of life "the father" who comes third and is the "son of the mother" but the "eternal and ceaseless breath of the all" the mahat (understanding, universal mind, thought, etc, before it manife

as the world made "through three seraphim- sepher, saphar, and sipur" or "through number, numbers, and numbered" with the astronomical key these "sacred animals" become the signs of the zodiac[[footnote(s* this is the literal translation from the ixth and xth sections "ten numbers without what? one: the spirit of the living god. who liveth in eternities! voice and spirit and word, and this is the holy spirit. two: spirit out of spirit. he designed and hewed therewith twenty-two letters of foundation, three mothers and seven double and twelve single, and one spirit out of them. three: water out of spirit; he designed and hewed with them the barren and the void, mud and earth. he designed them as a flowerbed, hewed them as a wall, covered them as a paving. four: fire out of water. he designe

ings into being. in the sepher jezireh, the kabalistic book of creation, the author has evidently repeated the words of manu. in it, the divine substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and as having emitted from itself the spirit "one is the spirit of the living god, blessed be its name, which liveth for ever! voice, spirit, and word, this is the holy spirit* and this is the kabalistic abstract trinity, so unceremoniously anthropomorphised by the christian fathers. from this triple one emanated the whole kosmos. first from one emanated number two, or air (the father, the creative element; and then number three, water (the mother, proceeded from the air; ether or fire completes the mystic four, the arba-il "when the concealed of the conceal

of descent. she is standing on a lotus-leaf flowing on the water. but the signification is, that it is androgyne or hermaphrodite, that is phallus and yoni combined, the number 10, the hebrew letter jod[[diagram, the containment of jehovah. she, or rather she-he, gives the minutes of the same circle of 360 degrees "jehovah" in its best aspect is binah "the upper mediating mother, the great sea or holy spirit" therefore rather a synonym of mary, the mother of jesus, than of his father; that "mother, being the latin mare" the sea is here also, venus, the stella del mare, or "star of the sea" the ancestors of the mysterious akkadians- the chandra or indovansas, the lunar kings whom tradition shows reigning at prayag (allahabad) ages before our era- had come from india, and brought with them t

e "cloven tongues like as fire- the breath of the father-sun. this "fire" descends also into the water or the sea: mar, mary. the dove was the symbol of the soul with several nations, it was sacred to venus, the goddess born from the[[footnote(s* quoted in mr. g. massey's lecture[[vol. 1, page] 403 identity of typology. sea-foam, and it became later the symbol of the christian anima mundi, or the holy spirit. one of the most occult chapters in the "book of the dead" is ch. lxxx, entitled "to make the transformation into the god giving light to the path of darkness" wherein "woman-light of the shadow" serves thot in his retreat in the moon. thot-hermes is said to hide therein, because he is the representative of the secret wisdom. he is the manifested logos of its light side, the concealed

is, and yet is not" in the sepher jezirah, the kabalistic book of creation, the author has evidently repeated the words of manu. in it the divine substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and as having emitted from itself the spirit "one is the spirit of the living god, blessed be his name, who liveth for ever! voice, spirit, and word, this is the holy spirit (sepher jezireh, chap. 1, mishna ix) and this is the kabalistic abstract trinity, so unceremoniously anthropomorphized by the fathers. from this triple one emanated the whole kosmos. first from one emanated number two, or air, the creative element; and then number three, water, proceeded from the air; ether or fire complete the mystic four, the arba-il (ibid) in the eastern doctrine fi

ernary) for ever "ha is said to be masculine and yah feminine, together they make the[[hebrew] i.e, one yhvh. one, but of a male-female nature. the shekinah is always considered in the qabbalah as feminine (p. 175. and so it is considered in the exoteric puranas, for shekinah is no more than sakti- the female double or lining of any god, in such case. and so it was with the early christians whose holy spirit was feminine, as sophia was with the gnostics. but in the transcendental chaldean kabala or "book of numbers "shekinah" is sexless, and the purest abstraction, a state, like nirvana, not subject or object or anything except an absolute presence. thus it is only in the anthropomorphised systems (such as the kabala has now greatly become) that shekinah-sakti is feminine. as such she beco

BLUE EQUINOX

, by night and day, to do your will; for .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. lift yourselves up! walk forth with us in light and life and love and liberty, taking our pleasure as kings and queens in heaven and on earth. the sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight .the word of sin is restriction. or as it has been otherwise said on this text: that is sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! go on, go on in thy might; and let no man make thee afraid. love is the law, love under will. liber lxi vel cavs a.a. the preliminary lection including the history lection v a.a. publication in class d 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellari

o it denieth extension in the three dimensions of space. also i would have you to meditate closely upon the name nu that is 56, which we are told to divide, add, multiply, and understand. by division cometh forth 0.12, as if it were written nuith! hadith! ra-hoor- khuith! before the dyad. by addition ariseth eleven, the number of true magick: and by multiplication three hundred, the number of the holy spirit or fire, the letter shin, wherein all things are consumed utterly. with these considerations, and a full understanding of the mysteries of the number 666 and 418, you will be armed mightily in this way of far flight. but you should also consider all numbers in their scales. for there is no means of resolution better than this of pure mathematics, since already therein are gross ideas m

ource and seed of life, love, liberty, and light, thou beyond speech and beyond sight, thee i invoke, my faint fresh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. the equinox 266 appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from w

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

significant events in american religious history at the end of the nineteenth century was the formation of the holiness-pentecostal movement. the modern holiness movement had roots in the perfectionist strands of wesleyan methodism, which taught that a life of complete righteousness, called sanctification, was available to the believing christian through a "second work of grace" by the indwelling holy spirit. sanctification began with the conversion and justification of the individual and continued as a process in which the christian was empowered in a baptism of the spirit that allowed him to live a devout, sin-free life. holiness practitioners believed that sanctification was achieved by god's grace, although they differed in their ideas of what the human role in this process would be. v

topeka, kansas, had carried forth the old-time practices and biblically fundamentalist beliefs of their forebears. yet their particular innovations regarding the sanctification doctrine marked a departure that ultimately was to shape the course of modern christianity. both seymour and parham insisted that the sanctification experience should be accompanied by a manifest sign of the baptism of the holy spirit, glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. they began to popularize this "third blessing" of the gift of tongues. while parham is credited with having introduced the practice in his bible school as a "formally stated doctrine" it was seymour who is considered responsible for its institutionalization in the public revival that inaugurated the pentecostal movement at the azusa street mission

ible school as a "formally stated doctrine" it was seymour who is considered responsible for its institutionalization in the public revival that inaugurated the pentecostal movement at the azusa street mission in los angeles, california, in 1906.[37] divine healing became a cornerstone of pentecostal theology. the conviction that physical healing, along with unknown tongues and other gifts of the holy spirit such as prophecy and miraculous signs and wonders\ 109\ existed in the present-day church stemmed from the pentecostals f emphasis on biblical authority. for pentecostals, physical affliction ran counter to god's will for the faithful christian. in this tradition, cause of all disease was sin, which had originated with the fall of humanity. underlying the pentecostal faith healing doct

underlying the pentecostal faith healing doctrine was the establishment of a "healing contract" with god, in which the health of the believer was linked to a biblical promise that was accomplished through christ's redeeming work of atonement. thus encapsulated within the pentecostal healing process was the entire experience of repentance, conversion, salvation, sanctification, and baptism by the holy spirit. as seymour wrote in a publication from the azusa street revival "thank god, we have a living christ among us to heal our diseases. c we that are the messengers of this precious atonement ought to preach all of it, justification, sanctification, healing, the baptism with the holy ghost, and signs following" faith healing, which vied against tongues and holy spirit baptism for preeminen

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l the masters" 1034 to 1124- life of hasan-e sabbah, founder of the assassins of persia. member of the ismaili sect, hasan seized fortress of alamut in daylam in 1090; split with fatimid dynasty in 1094; assassins flourished for next several centuries 1037 d. abu `ali al-husayn ibn sina (avicenna) metaphysics of angelology identifies the active intellect with the angel of revelation, gabriel, the holy spirit. theory that the soul can make an impression upon "first matter (astral matter) by the vehemence of its affection and intention influenced albertus magnus (thorndike, history of magic and experimental science, ii, 731) 1039-1123 milarepa 1040-1105 rashi (rabbi solomon ben isaac; jewish sage, talmudic exegist of troyes, france c.1050 michael psellus studying in constantinople, received

on the tetragrammaton. 1071-1126 guilhelm ix duca d'aquitania, vii conte di poitiers troubadour c. 1075 yehuda ha-levi born. friend of abraham ibn ezra. helped amalgamate ismailite thought and muslim mysticism to jewish thought. 1075-1129 rupert of deutz. trinitarian division of history: the age of the father from the creation to the fall; of the son from the fall to the passion; and that of the holy spirit from the resurrection until the resurrection at the end of time. identified an "age of the spirit "during which the seven spiritual gifts (isa 11:2) are poured out on the faithful, each gift dominating a different age of church history" 1075-1160 abelard of bath translates euclid into latin from arabic 1076-1153 shahrastani refers to sabian "philosophers" 1080-1167 bernard sylvestris s

ouv re member of the confr rie des jongleurs d'arras. c.1210 azriel of gerona(student of isaac the blind) commentary on the sefer yezirah promoted neoplatonic elements in kabbalah; aquainted with the ideas of john scotus erigena and ibn gabirol. 1210-1281 guglielma, princess blazena vilemina, daughter of the king of bohemia. guglielmites believed that guglielma of milan was the incarnation of the holy spirit and wished to establish a church with a female pope and female cardinals. 1214 franciscan friar roger bacon, born in somerset 1215 b. yehuda ha-cohen ibn matqha, astrologer in the entourage of frederick ii. translated his encyclopaedia: midras ha-hokhmah( the search for knowledge, from hebrew into arabic. written 1245-1247. 1215-1235 vulgate cycle of arthurian stories compiled by ciste

5-1563 john bale. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore. bale envisioned three laws of nature, bondage and grace encompassing seven ages of world history. 1496 giovanna(zuana) veronese born aka venetian virgin had francesco giorgi as confessor at the convent of st. francesco della vigna; she explained passages of the zohar to guillaume postel 1549-1550 who believed her to be the holy spirit embodied. together working among the poor at the ospedaletto of venice, which was operated by a confraternity. 1499 (d. after) ibn abi jumhur..12th or, hidden imam, is the pole during the period of occultation" 1499 hypnerotomachia poliphili (written before 1467) 1500 "sefer yetzirah "r" paris 809 (2, foll 93a,-94a. italy. short recension of tamim. 1500 kaf ha-ketoreth "the censer"-apo

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in an historical context. the elite priesthood and other initiates knew what the story really meant, and still do, but they tell the people it is literally true and damnation will befall them if they don't believe it. some 1,200 years before "jesus, the following was said in the east of the "heathen saviour (virishna: he was born to a virgin by immaculate conception through the intervention of a holy spirit. this fulfilled an ancient prophecy. when he was born, the ruling tyrant wanted to kill him. and his parents had to flee to safety. all male children under the age of two were slain by the ruler as he sought to kill the child. angels and shepherds were at his birth and he was given gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. he was worshipped as the saviour of men and led a moral and humbl

ountries pressing the pope to make mary a "co-redemtrix. they want mary to be recognised as equal to jesus, in effect. all prayers and petitions from believers would have to flow through mary who would bring them to the attention of jesus (a bit like a doctor's receptionist, really. she would also play the pivotal role in the trinity as daughter of the father, mother of the son, and spouse of the holy spirit. yes, i know it's all bollocks, but it emphasises the scale of goddess worship within the illuminati's roman catholic church, which, at the same time, acts as a major suppressor of the human female. mary magdalene, the "reformed prostitute" or whore, is another version of the goddess symbolism. she portrays the great whore of babylon, the goddess, mari-anna-ishtar.27 the ritual of the

incent peale, and oral roberts, all 33rd degree freemasons, according to springmeier and wheeler. phillip eugene de rothschild told me the following about oral roberts and his son richard roberts from his own direct experience in the satanic network of the illuminati "oral roberts succeeded in hijacking contemporary american christianity to worship a different jesus under the power of a different holy spirit. oral has been (and still most probably is, despite his retirement) an occult priest of the old sumero-akkadian mystery religion. satanism in its most pristine form. mr roberts was my occult spiritual mentor and indoctrinator. he has been the closest of friends to my rothschild family and to prince philip. mr richard roberts is a corrupt tele-evangelist from tulsa, oklahoma. richard is

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reeds. nimrod was the fish-god dagon who wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 it is possible that this was symbolic of him being halfhuman, half scaled reptile. queen semiramis was also symbolised as a fish because thebabylonians believed fish to be an aphrodisiac and it became the symbol for thegoddess of love.4 hence the use of the fish in christian symbolism and architecture. inher role as the holy spirit, semiramis was pictured as a dove holding an olive branchand semiramis means branch bearer as in ze (the) emir (branch) and amit(bearer).5 note also the symbolism of this in the story of noah and the great flood,when the dove came back bearing an olive branch. the return of the reptilians after theflood? the name, semiramis, was evolved from the earlier indian deity, sami-rama-isior se

our salvation,came down and made flesh, made man, suffered and rose again on the third day, went upto the heavens, and is to come again to judge the quick and the dead; and in the holyghost.simple eh? it was decided that jesus was the same substance as the father because inancient babylon it was said that nimrod and his son, tammuz, were the same person.his mother, queen semiramis, was titled the holy spirit. so the father, son and holyghost, are in fact nimrod-tammuz and semiramis. christianity is the religion ofbabylon and has been from the start. today rome and italy remain a majorbrotherhood centre, as i detail in. and the truth shall set you free. the v atican itselfis wholly controlled by the brotherhood and one of its most important bases.christianity, like judaism and islam, was de

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ruth and fascist agendas not becoming of the truly enlightened. below are quotes written by high level masons praising lucifer with references "the mysteries of magic' by eliphas levi "what is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. the intellectual lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the holy spirit, while the physical lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism" page 428 'the book of black magic' by arthur edward waite 33 "first conjuration addressed to emperor lucifer. emperor lucifer, master and prince of rebellious spirits, i adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. i command and i conj

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as one gets more deeply involved in understanding how the universe functions, and in particular, how geometrical shapes resonate and generate power, the enigmatic view that geometrical symbols are sources of power unknowable or incomprehensible is a childish view. a true mystic believes that he/she 73 can know the cause and effect of things since each person is a part of the whole, a spark of the holy spirit of god, and by meditation and contemplation can achieve a true understanding of the universe and its function and operation. those who are using the term "sacred geometry" apply it to both the geometrical figures most would ascribe to normal geometry and to certain mathematical concepts which would be better described as "sacred mathematics. these are described in the following section

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

e times**repeat this section three times (drink from chalice) invocation of the unholy trinity unholy trinity of hell, i invoke thee. unholy trinity of hell, i summon thee. unholy trinity of hell, i conjure thee. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself. fill me with the unholy spirit. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the unholy spirit unholy spirit, i invoke thee. unholy spirit, i summon thee. unholy spirit, i conjure thee. come forth, unholy spirit, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, unholy spirit, and manifest thyself. come forth, unholy spirit, and manif

iving his body, mind, and soul to lucifer the magician may begin to feel a presence in the room whenever he begins his nightly ritual. when the magician consecrates his body to the dark lord he begins to become a nexus or gate to acausal entities, dark gods, or forces. whatever these beings or forces are exactly they are traditionally called demons. the purpose of invoking the unholy trinity or unholy spirit is to permanently open this gate between the worlds. in christian theology the trinity is the father (macroscosm, son (microcosm, and holy spirit (link. similarly, the unholy trinity represents the forces of darkness, the satanic magician, and the magical link between the forces of darkness and the satanic magician] invocation of the nine lords of the abyss nine great lords of the abys

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saw (the consequences of) her desire, it changed into a form of a lionfaced serpent. and its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth. the apocryphon of john the apocryphon of john, discovered in upper egypt in 1945, is perhaps one of the more significant gnostic texts which hold a hidden relation to the adversary. these early christian writings, dated roughly ad 350, were perhaps one of the most significant records of the history of gnostic r

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(q.v. 2) the conscious, consisting of the will, memory, imagination, reason, and desire. the ruach corresponds with the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sephiroth (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. also corresponds to the psychic center at the solar plexus. ruach, eloheem: the spirit of divinity. similar to ruach (q.v, but on a cosmic scale. became the christian notion of the holy ghost, or holy spirit by early church fathers. runes: angular glyphs used both as magickal symbols and as letters of writing by ancient peoples of northern europe. a method of divination (q.v- s- sagatarius "the archer" in astrology (q.v, the ninth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet jupiter (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

bride of microprosopos, the isis of nature, the tenth sephirah, is two-aspected, and these aspects are distinguished as ama, the dark sterile mother, and aima, the bright fertile mother. we have already noted that she is called the great sea, marah, which not only means bitter, but also is the root of mary; and here we meet again the idea of the mother, at first virgin, and then with child by the holy spirit. 13. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "within the shady stillness of the vale. sat grey-haired satu

meaning of yesod is foundation, and to it is assigned the sphere of the moon. 27.while the second triangle might not inaptly be termed the ethical triangle, the third may well be called the magical triangle; and if we assign to kether the sphere of the three in one, the undivided unity, and to tiphareth the sphere of the redeemer or son, we may be justified in referring to yesod the sphere of the holy spirit, the enlightener; mystical qabala page 35 this is an attribution of the christian trinity that fits better upon the tree than its assignation to the three supernals, which brings the son in the place of abba, the father, and the holy spirit in the place of ama, the mother, and is obviously irrelevant and productive of innumerable discrepancies in the correspondences and symbolisms. in

over child-birth. the physical moon, yesod in assiah, as the qabalists would say, with its twenty-eight day cycle, correlates with the reproductive cycle of the human female. jf the symbolism of the luna crescent be traced through the various pantheons it will be found that the deities associated with it are predominantly female; it is interesting to note in confirmation of our assignation of the holy spirit to yesod that according to macgregor mathers the holy spirit is a feminine force. he says (kabbalah unveiled p. 22 "we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word ruach, spirit, is feminine, as mystical qabala page 36 appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah 'achath (feminine, not achad, masculine, ruach elohim chum: one is she, the spirit of the e

e it is an up-rushing one, and unless our feet are firmly planted on elemental earth we shall be like bursting wine-skins. 26. every practical occultist knows that freud has spoken the truth, even though it is not the whole truth, but they are afraid to say so for fear of being accused of phallic worship and orgiastic practices. these things have their place, though it is not in the temple of the holy spirit, and to deny them their place is a folly for which the victorian age paid dearly in a rich harvest of psychopathology. 27. whenever we are working dynamically upon any plane we are operating the righthand pillar of the tree and derive our primary energy from the yod-force of chokmah. in this connection we must refer to the fact that the microcosmic correspondence of chokmah is given as

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whose agency the divine providence extends. 2. jah, attributed to the person of the messiah or logos, whose power and influence descends through the angel masleh into the sphere of the zodiac. this is the spirit or word that actuated the chaos and ultimately produced the four elements and all creatures, by the agency of a spirit named raziel, who was the ruler of adam. 3. ehjeh, attributed to the holy spirit, whose divine light is received by the angel sabbathi, and communicated from him through the sphere of saturn. it denotes the beginning of the supernatural generation, and hence of all living souls. the ancient jews considered the three superior names to be those above, to be attributed to the divine essence as personal or proper names, while the seven noted below denote the measures (

paul, whose christian life begins with a visionary encounter with the risen christ. he later speaks of being caught up into the third heaven. the bible closes with the visionary experiences of the apostle john, the revelation. paul spelled out the church s early understanding of its encounter with what today would be considered the psychic world (1 cor. 12. psychic gifts were seen as gifts of the holy spirit and included the words of wisdom and knowledge (clairvoyance and telepathy, prophecy, working miracles (psychokinesis, discerning spirits, and speaking in tongues (xenoglossia. the operation of the gifts was placed under the prime directive bianchi, p. benigno encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 182 of love (i cor. 13. however, these gifts operated in the early church an

tants, and he wore a wondrous sword that he alleged had been given to him by saint michael. borri said that he had seen in heaven a luminous palm branch that was reserved for him. he uttered a number of heretical views, including that the virgin was divine in nature, that she had conceived through inspiration, and that she was equal to her son, with whom she was present in the eucharist, that the holy spirit was incarnate in her, and that the second and third persons of the trinity were inferior to the father. all of these views are rejected by the roman catholic church. according to some writers, borri later proclaimed himself to be the holy spirit incarnate. in any case, he was arrested after the death of innocent x by order of the inquisition, and on january 3, 1661, he was condemned to

rash go the chariots: an alternative to chariots of the god. new york: lancer books, 1972. charismatic movement an interdenominational christian renewal movement that began in the 1960s and has developed an international following, especially among members of the roman catholic church. it takes its name from the greek word charisma, meaning gifts, and emphasizes manifestations of the gifts of the holy spirit as described in first corinthians, chapter 12, as a sign of the presence of the holy spirit. the movement began among members of the full gospel businessman s fellowship, an independent pentecostal brotherhood, but quickly spread to roman catholic and mainline protestant churches throughout the united states. there was controversy over whether its elements were based on genuine express

ignorant or unbalanced. by the early 1970s it had spread to europe and gained important support from belgian cardinal suenans. the movement has been characterized by its acceptance of the importance of speaking in tongues (also known as glosso- charcot, jean martin encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 272 lalia, divine healing and prophecies as part of the grace of the power of the holy spirit; most meetings are for prayer and spirited singing and shouting; anointing the sick with oil is also often part of worship service. it has become a meeting ground between followers of the older pentecostalism and people who manifest the gifts but are members of older denominations. as the movement matured through the 1980s, a number of new denominations evolved from it. in time most ev

tecostals. new york: paulist press, 1969. robey, steve and steve rabey. revival in brownsville: pensacola, pentecostalism, and the power of american revivalism. nashville, tenn: thomas nelson, 1999. samarin, william j. tongues of men and angels. new york: macmillan, 1972. williams, j. rodman. should we all speak in tongues? christianity today (march 6, 2000: 84. woodworth-etter, maria beulah. the holy spirit. whitaker house, 1998. charlemagne (or charles the great (742.814) the greatest of the frankish kings. charlemagne was the elder son of pepin the short and succeeded his father in 768.814 c.e. he was emperor of the west, 800.814 c.e. he had a close connection with the supernatural according to legend. very often in the pages of french romance, the emperor was visited by angels who were

to matter, time, and space, the church teaches. it is the goal of each individual to evolve through many incarnations to become one with christ.the higher self.in physical embodiment. the masters have taught a variety of disciplines that use prayers, mantras, and decrees to help purify the soul. these are used in conjunction with the violet flame of transmutation, the sacred spiritual fire of the holy spirit, which allows a balancing of errors of the soul in this and previous incarnations. after the process of purification is completed, the soul ascends to the divine source, from which it originated. through the 1980s the church was the subject of considerable controversy, especially from the anticult movement and from some neighbors in montana who opposed its moving into the sparsely popu

od as symbolic of the power of sin over the unbaptized, not as an assertion of their real or absolute possession. the exorcists formed one of the minor orders of the roman catholic church. at their ordination the bishop addressed them as to their duties, and concluded with these words: take now the power of laying hands upon the energumens, and by the imposition of your hands, by the grace of the holy spirit, and the words of exorcism, the unclean spirits are driven from obsessed bodies. one of the most complete manuals for roman catholic exorcists ever compiled was a volume of nearly 1,300 pages entitled thesaurus exorcismorum et conjurationum (1608. it contained the following tracts: practica exorcistarum (two parts, flagellum daemonum, fustis daemonium, complementum artis exorcistiae, a

5th ed. greater world christian spiritualist association 661 and german (die gro ere welt) editions. the newspaper was replaced by a newsletter. members of the association must subscribe to eight basic beliefs, arising from the teachings of zodiac (1) i believe in one god, who is love (2) i accept the leadership of jesus christ (3) i believe that god manifests through the illimitable power of the holy spirit (4) i believe in the survival of the human soul and its individuality after physical death (5) i believe in the communion with god, with his angelic ministers, and with the soul s functioning in conditions other than the earth life (6) i believe that all forms of life created by god intermingle, are interdependent, and evolve until perfection is attained (7) i believe in the perfect ju

c press, 1967. tenhaeff, w. h. c. paranormal healing powers. olten, 1957. valentine, tom. psychic surgery. chicago: henry regnery, 1974. healing by faith faith healing, the idea that faith in god is the operative agent in miraculous healings of the body, is in large part a misnomer. most christian ministers and evangelists who practice healing understand clearly that god, through the power of the holy spirit, is the operative force in healing. in christian theology, faith is the name given to the trusting relationship the christian hopefully has with god. given the omnipotence of god, faith is often seen as the element that allows the believer to receive god s healing power. the practice of healing in evangelical churches has often received bad press. it has been attacked by those who beli

oriums and the new civic centers built to house seasonal sports events. experienced evangelists such as oral roberts, w. v. grant, and rex humbard found a new life. new life for the healing evangelists also came from the emergence of the charismatic movement, a new spread of pentecostalism within the older mainline denominations. as baptists, methodists, and presbyterians found the baptism of the holy spirit and spoke in tongues, they became open to the pentecostal message of healing. a new generation of healers emerged, including don stewart, kathryn kuhlman, roxanne brandt, and many others. included among them was ruth carter stapleton, sister of former president jimmy carter. one notable evangelist healer is willard fuller, who specializes in dental healing. an eyewitness reported: he p

substances, and some are completely restored to their original condition. is faith healing genuine? healing as practiced by the pentecostal and charismatic evangelists raises all of the questions that any form of nonconventional or psychic healing does. do healings occur? if paranormal healings occur, do they happen because of some psychokinetic force? by definition, consideration of god and the holy spirit stands outside of any scientific discourse, but might it be that the results of any divine intervention in the life of an individual have measurable consequences that could be documented? could it be that subtle psychokinetic forces are active but misunderstood as miraculous or divine? given current knowledge of the mundane healing forces, quite apart from drugs, available to the avera

s 24, isaiah (isaiah 6, and at the mount of transfiguration (matthew 17. yahweh is ultimately spirit, without form. however, since matter is simply condensed spirit, yahweh can take physical form. he does this in a more general sense as the material creation, but in a specific sense in yahshua. following his resurrection, yahshua continued in his physical form as the comforter (usually called the holy spirit. yahweh has acted in history though a series of ages or dispensations. the last of these ages began with the resurrection of yahshua. the revelation to kinley was to usher in the end of this present church age, which should come to an end at sometime around the end of the twentieth century. during the 1990s, by which time the institute had developed centers across north america, the he

oster s contact with some noncorporeal entities known as the brotherhood are described as well as instructions on channeling. kirkwood began her own attempts to communicate with the brotherhood through a process she called cosmic dictation, generally referred to as automatic writing. after some initial difficulties, she made contact with the brotherhood and came to identify them with the biblical holy spirit, whom jesus left when he returned to heaven as counselors for believers. the various entities in the brotherhood do not use any personal identities they once might have had. early in her messages, the brotherhood instructed her to gather her family together, teach them to pray and meditate, and begin weekly family meetings. each week she received material for these gatherings. the fami

ld regular services in the carnegie auditorium at pittsburgh, where a number of cases of miraculous healing were reported during her ministry. she held services at the carnegie auditorium for 20 years before transferring to the first presbyterian church in downtown pittsburgh. during her services she would speak with simplicity and emotional sincerity and become transformed by what she called the holy spirit. members of the congregation reported a feeling of power building up, with a healing effect. at this point kuhlman would become clairvoyantly aware of various diseases and symptoms of ill health, which she would locate and rebuke from her place on the stage. to my right in the first balcony, somebody is being healed of diabetes. a growth has disappeared. it s a man up there in the top

of the founders of l ordre kabbalistique de la rosecroix, but left because he found himself in unresolvable conflict with the other leaders over his religious faith. peladan was a strict roman catholic and possessed a hope of bringing occultism back under the guidance of the church. through his new order he hoped to carry out works of mercy that would lead members to prepare for the reign of the holy spirit. like previous groups, peladan s order had three grades that he termed equerries, knights, and commanders. commanders were assigned one of the sephiroth of the kabbalistic tree. the order enjoyed some success during peladan s life and he led it in assuming a role in cultural nurturance. beginning in 1892 it sponsored a series of art exhibitions in paris aimed at restoring the cult of t

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oon.html. june 11, 2000. kelly, i. w, and r. martens. lunar phases and birthrate: an update. psychological reports 75 (1996: 507.11, james rotton, and roger culver. the moon was full and nothing happened: a review of studies on the moon and human behavior and human belief. in j. nickell, b. karr, and t. genoni, eds. the outer edge. amherst, n.y: csicop, 1996. moon, sun myung (1920) founder of the holy spirit association for the unification of world christianity, more popularly referred to as the unification church. moon was born in korea on january 6, 1920, the son of presbyterian parents. he later noted that on easter day in 1936 he was visited by jesus and told that god had chosen him to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. he attended watseka university. during his early adult year

the english-speaking world. unlike her father, however, she was almost fully conscious in the course of her inspirational addresses. sources: morse, j. j. leaves from my life: a narrative of personal experiences in the career of a servant of the spirits. n.p, 1877. morse fellowship the morse fellowship was a channeling group founded in 1959 by louise morse, who channeled an entity she termed the holy spirit. the organization was named for her husband, elwood morse, who had died in 1958. she saw her work as a fulfillment of biblical prophecies of the last days. through the 1970s the group was headquartered in richardson, texas, but nothing has been heard from it in recent years and it is presumed defunct. sources: morse, louise. the living water. richardson, tex: morse fellowship, 1970. mo

read by moslems as having a deep mystical significance, although for the most part it deals with the intoxication of love. it is certain that many of them exhibit the fervor of souls searching for communion with the highest. the apparent differences between hindu mysticism and christian mysticism are nominal. although christian theology postulates the divine in the form of god as father, son, and holy spirit, such distinctions become largely unimportant in the actual mystical experience. similarly, popular hinduism postulates hundreds of different gods and goddesses, but these are merely legal fictions to the indian mystic, melting away in the totality of higher consciousness. because mind and emotion are transcended in the higher reaches of mysticism, they are seen by mystics as merely wa

the nineteenth century. a rather extensive summary of the rituals he proposed for the order were gathered and published by rene le forestier in 1928. the rituals drew heavily upon the kabala, which pasqually felt was the essence of true judaism. the format, however, followed one that would have been familiar to a pious roman catholic. the members began the day with a reading of the office of the holy spirit. around ten in the evening, following a time of prayer, the members entered a private ritual space where a ritual diagram would be drawn on the floor. the invocation would begin at midnight. its purpose was to communicate with what pasqually termed the active and intelligent cause (god. members of the order were forbidden to consume blood, fat, or kidneys of any animal, were to refrain

first epistle to the corinthians 12. these gifts include the working of miracles, healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues. of the several gifts, the speaking in tongues has been the most controversial. the pentecostal movement began in 1901 in a bible school in topeka, kansas. the school s teacher, charles parham, assigned his students the project of researching the sign of the baptism of the holy spirit in the lives of the first christian apostles. upon questioning, the students agreed that the baptism of the spirit was always accompanied by the individual speaking in tongues. thus the group began to pray for the baptism, and on january 1, 1901, agnes oznam was the first to receive an answer to her prayer and began to speak in tongues. the other students also soon spoke in tongues, an

experience to los angeles. william j. seymour, an african american led a small black congregation that became the center from which the movement spread to the world. it eventually took organizational form in a number of denominational bodies such as the assemblies of god and the church of god (cleveland, tennessee. it is a doctrine of pentecostals that every person who receives the baptism of the holy spirit will initially speak in tongues, and then subsequently manifest one or more of the other gifts of the spirit. within pentecostal congregations, members look for manifestations of all of the gifts. the early pentcostals believed that they were living in the last days prior to the return of jesus. therefore they interpreted the sounds which they heard as people were speaking in tongues a

itanies of the sabbat) sources: ravenwolf, silver. to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1995. valiente, doreen. the abc of witchcraft past and present. new york: st. martin s press, 1973. sabbathi this angel, in the jewish rabbinical legend of the celestial hierarchies, is assigned the sphere of saturn. he receives the divine light of the holy spirit and communicates it to the dwellers in his kingdom. sabellicus, georgius (ca. 1490) a magician who lived about the same time as the legendary necromancer faust, at the end of the fifteenth century. sabellicus s chief claim to fame as a sorcerer rests on his own wide and arrogant advertisement of his skill in necromancy. he styled himself: the most accomplished georgius sabellicus, a se

riodically received locutions, direct communications via telepathy, from jesus. in the 1980s these groups had become a center of marian piety and many had received with enthusiasm the news of the apparitions that were occurring at medjugorje, in yugoslavia (bosnia. eventually, a prayer group centered on the medjugorje events would arise. in 1987, a young couple, charlie and carol nole, attended a holy spirit seminar, a class to introduce the idea of the range of charismatic spiritual gifts (as mentioned in the bible in 1 corinthians 12) to new members of the charismatic prayer groups. the following year, on march 24, 1988, carol began receiving locutions from the virgin mary. she was subsequently told to place a cross on a hill north of santa maria and given instructions as to its size and

cal gospel of mark (16:17.18: and these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. while pentecostals had practiced speaking in tongues and healing.both also mentioned as gifts of the holy spirit in the writings of the apostle paul.no one had paid attention to the signs in the passage in mark until 1909. that year george w. hensley of tennessee captured a rattlesnake and brought it to a church service for snake handling as a test of religious faith. in 1914, hensley was invited to an annual meeting of the church of god, whose leader ambrose tomlinson gave the practice tacit app

ork, and head of the ecclesiastical council, which administered the church s affairs. she and pieres also established a spiritual science institute for training ministers. spiritual science is specifically christian in its belief and affirms a trinity of god the father and creator, the virgin-born encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. spiritual science mother church 1479 son, and the holy spirit. jesus is seen as the lord, master, and dispenser of the law of love. humans have been given free agency and are traveling a spiritual path that includes many incarnations. members of the church are expected to demonstrate spiritual realities in this life. three principal demonstrations are emphasized: preaching, i.e, clairvoyant messages from god about what each member has to do; comm

he became the mother of four children. her career as a healer dates from her own recovery from periods of deep depression. she combined attendance at group therapy sessions with an interdenominational retreat at a north carolina hotel and experienced god as a god of love. some three months later she attended a second retreat and came in contact with pentecostalism. she received the baptism of the holy spirit in a pentecostal meeting and experienced its definitive manifestation, speaking in tongues. she subsequently developed her own kind of healing technique, which might be described as a spiritually-based psychotherapy. she combined prayer with a probing of the unhappy memories of the individuals who sought her help. she taught them to recreate painful past experiences in a guided daydrea

of the sons of zadok. the group believes in a secret oral tradition passed from moses to the essenes, to the gnostics, and eventually to joseph smith jr. that tradition is believed to be preserved in mystical books such as the pistis sophia and sepher yetzira. a 22-item statement of sai beliefs posits a heavenly hierarchy consisting of the heavenly father and mother; their son, jesus christ; the holy spirit; angels and archangels; and ministers of the flame (righteous humans made perfect. human beings are the literal offspring of the heavenly parents and have come into earthly existence to experience the mystery of mortality. redemption for humans comes only through surrendering their life to yeshu-maria the christ and subsequently developing a relationship with the heavenly hierarchy in

at that time an incurable disease, but she claimed she was healed by jesus, who appeared to her in a vision. when she was a young woman living in new york city, she gained a reputation as a miracle healer. important for her future teaching work, she discovered while reading the bible that jesus words, and only jesus words, shone with a light. in a later revelation she was given the secret of the holy spirit as the mother god, a doctrine not previously revealed because males looked upon females as little more than breeders. in addition, the holy spirit told her, this is the new name, superet, which is the everlasting fire in god s sacred purple heart. the superet science taught by mother trust is the manifestation of god s light through our light atom aura. all substances that possess magn

her son, rev. robert e. martin. before her death she oversaw the establishment of a second congregation in wisconsin. the temple affirms the beliefs of metaphysical christianity, including a belief in a god who expresses himself as a trinity; god the father as the universal law of life that creates, sustains, and progresses to eternal life; christ as the perfect demonstration of divine mind; the holy spirit as the action of divine mind within; the variety of forms of worship; the discovery of spiritual truth in the bible and all spiritual truths; and the immortality of humans. the church teaches that it is the essential duty of people to look within and begin to awaken the christ spirit. as one comes to understand universal law, oneness with god can be attained. address: 5030 n. drake, ch

on the speech organs; but the sounds had to come out, and the momentarily repressed glossolalies only burst forth with increased vigor. modern american pentecostalism began in 1901 with the speaking in tongues that occurred at the bethel bible school in topeka, kansas. while away during the christmas season of 1900, the school s founder set a task for the students: investigate the baptism of the holy spirit and discover what, according to the bible, is the sign(s) of its presence. when he returned on new year s eve, he asked what the students had discovered. they replied, speaking in tongues. shortly after reaching a consensus on that point, the group retired to the chapel, where they entered a time of prayer. then, on new year s day, 1901, agnes osman became the first person in modern ti

the bible, is the sign(s) of its presence. when he returned on new year s eve, he asked what the students had discovered. they replied, speaking in tongues. shortly after reaching a consensus on that point, the group retired to the chapel, where they entered a time of prayer. then, on new year s day, 1901, agnes osman became the first person in modern times to ask for and receive the gift of the holy spirit with the accompanying sign of speaking in tongues. usually accompanying speaking in tongues is the additional phenomenon of the interpretation of tongues, in which a reputed translation of the glossolalia is offered. an interpretation of tongues does not always occur even when it is prayed for. when it does occur, the speaker may either envision a written translation or hear it inwardl

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

whom solomon would be compared, had lived and had pursued his spiritual work. like cayce s, solomon s readings encompassed atlantis, reincarnation, healing, prophecies, and more. the source claimed to be a greater power than the spirit or channeling entities that were a good part of the focus of the new age movement of the 1970s and 1980s. its mission was to provide a way for seekers to touch the holy spirit within them and, thereafter, to let it guide them. before his death in 1994, solomon had conducted thousands of readings, many preserved on tape and sold by associates who seek to keep his and the source s memory alive. see also: atlantis; channeling further reading beidler, william, 1977. paul solomon. another cayce? fate 30, 2 (february: 56 61. a healing consciousness, 1978. virginia

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

these commonalties will be discussed in more detail in chapter three in the section on the nature of messianic appearance within the context of the mystical qabalah. finally, like every living tradition, the spiritual power of the transmission does not depend primarily upon the written documents, but in the b rakha (spiritual blessing) of perfect trees and the grace of the divine to quicken one s holy spirit" f" 2' 8 (ruach ha qodesh. mystical christianity has maintained a continuous lineage of known and mostly unknown saints and mystics over the centuries, who have faithfully passed on the essence of master yeshuvah s mystical spirituality. despite later distrust and suppression by pauline orthodoxy, mysticism flourished in the early church. master yeshuvah taught one set of teachings ope

shell in the world of asiyah, infused with vital energy (xvr ruach; in chinese, qi; in sanskrit, prana, is called the nefesh (spn, and is represented by the lower heh h. the astral shell, called the geviyah (hyvg, is the embodiment of consciousness in the world of yetzirah (formation, and is represented by the vav v.26 the upper heh h is associated with the bliss-filled ruach ha qodesh (sdqh xvr, holy spirit) in the world of b riyah (creation. the yod y corresponds to the witness consciousness of the neshamah (hmsn, divine soul, equates to hindu atman) in the supernal world of atziluth (emanation. the back of the neshamah, or consciousness in the roots of the tree, is called the neshamah ha neshamah (hmsnh hmsn soul of the soul) and yechidah (hdyxy, singularity. the qlifoth have holes in t

ss of their true identity until awakened to it by a perfect master who has incarnated to do so, or through a supra-conscious experience of the divine. master mosheh was dramatically changed by his experience of the burning bush. the qur an also tells us that master mosheh was guided by al khidr, often referred to as the green one or the jew. the perfect master john baptized master yeshuvah in the holy spirit. the monk tota puri struck the bengali avatar sri ramakrishna in the center of his forehead with a sharp rock. it immediately sent him into a nirvikalpa samadhi that lasted for six months and culminated twelve years of intense spiritual practices, after which ramakrishna commenced his activity as a world teacher. the mystery of messiah (heb. mashiach) has been an important component of

trol over the dream state and lower psychic states, and can afford such powers as astral projection, clairvoyance, precognition, and reading the earth s akashic record.25 the nefesh (physical body in the waking state of the world of asiyah) shuts out the bulk of information coming from the geviyah (astral body) because the nefesh vibrates at a much slower rate. the station of the ruach ha qodesh (holy spirit, causal body) in the sefirah beauty/last is normally experienced as deep sleep. the awakening of consciousness in the ruach ha qodesh in the world of b riyah is usually experienced as an ecstatic and exclusive experience of one s small face chosen ideal. in sanskrit, this experience is called ananda samadhi (bliss union) and salvikalpa samadhi (godwith- qualities union. this vision is

. sefirah foundation/below is the point of departure from which we may either enter the psychic states by passing through one of% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2+ the gates into the side columns, or into higher states of consciousness by moving further up the central column. from sefirah foundation/below, the traveler on the way of hvhy elohenu moves through the gate of the gimel g into the ruach haqodesh (holy spirit qlifah) in sefirah beauty/last. sefirah beauty/last in the world of b riyah is experienced every night by almost all humans as deep sleep. in consciously passing through the gate of the gimel g, the awakening of consciousness in the ruach haqodesh in the heart sefirah beauty/last is accompanied by great bliss. the individuated consciousness sustains the constant and exclusive experienc

nce. over time, the process of mantric repetition clears this encrustation, whereby you can see the reflection of your higher self as your chosen ideal. the mirror may become clear. when you come to the experience of the watcher, keep chanting the name. fight the impulse to flee, and will yourself to go directly through it. in consciously going through the watcher, you move into the qlifah of the holy spirit (ruach haqodesh) in sefirah beauty/ last in the world of b riyah (creation. this is normally experienced as deep sleep. here, you can have the experience of ananda samadhi xbliss absorption in your small face chosen' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% ideal. in this experience, as generally filtered through the astral senses of the geviyah, there is the exclusive vision of yourself at the feet of, so t

creation is a unity in their small face chosen ideal, even in the waking state of sefirah kingdom. generally, one so established will have a particular bhava, or devotional mood, toward small face. it may be that of servant to the lord as divine master or king/queen, child to the lord as divine parent, parent to the lord as divine child, or lover to the lord as the divine beloved. the play of the holy spirit in the awakened soul is, indeed, a wondrous mystery. for the vast majority of people in this dark age of kali, samadhi experiences will initiate in the dream state in yetzirah. this dream state samadhi is called shushupta samadhi in sanskrit. individuals who have such experiences open in the waking state are rare in these latter days. hence, it is% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h 2" also quite rare to

first: one of the four celestial heads of messiah associated with the manifestation of the small face universe; name for the throat sefirah in the sefer yetzirah. ruach (hebrew: spirit, vital energy: term used in the sefer yetzirah to denote both the pervasive consciousness of elohim, and for the vital animating energy corresponding to prana in sanskrit and qi in chinese. ruach haqodesh (hebrew: holy spirit: the shell of embodied existence corresponding to the world of b riyah; bliss body. small face as the many. ruhiya latifa (arabic: the throat center on the sufi tree. corresponds to the sefirah knowledge/first on the qabalistic tree, and the vishuddha chakra on the tantric tree. sadducees (hebrew: one of the groups who vied for power during the hasmonean period. they viewed the priests

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

fications can attract the angels of heaven, and therefore it cannot be doubted that certain terrestrial substances used in a good way can attract the divinities.2 there follow chapters on fascination, poisons, fumigations (perfumes sympathetic to the planets and how to make them, unguents and philtres, rings,3 and an interesting chapter on light.4 light descends from the father to the son and the holy spirit, thence to the angels, the celestial bodies, to fire, to man in the light of reason and knowledge of divine things, to the fantasy, and it communicates itself to luminous bodies as colour, after which follows the list of the colours of the planets. then we have gestures related to the planets, divinations, geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, furor and the power of the melanchol

as that which we studied in the spaccio or the eroici furori, a change of balance by which the hermetic-egyptian becomes dominant. with each number, agrippa gives a scale for the number in which he sets out its meanings on different levels. for example, in the scale for three,5 the highest or archetypal meaning is the three-lettered name of god (in hebrew) signifying the father, the son, and the holy spirit, the christian trinity. in the intellectual world this number signifies the three hierarchies of angels, that is the nine pseudo-dionysian hierarchies grouped into three representing the trinity. in the celestial world, three refers to the three quaternations of the signs (of the zodiac, the three quaternations of the houses (of a horoscope, and the three triplicities; in the elemental

us did, and as is shown in the representation of hermes trismegistus on the siena pavement. his view of the third person as the anima mundi or the virgilian "spiritus intus alit" was an interpretation frequently made in the renaissance. to give only one example, it was expounded at length by bishop (later cardinal) jacques davy du perron in a whit sunday sermon.2 1 documenti, pp. 93-8. 2 "he (the holy spirit) it is of whom the pagans themselves said, speaking of the constitution of the world, spiritus intus alit" jacques 350 giordano bruno:return to italy bruno's faith as he emphasises later to the inquisitors, he considers to be cathohc and orthodox as concerning the father or the mens; he confesses that he is unorthodox as regards the son1; his view of the third person as the anima mundi

ncluded the many and various points in all the interrogations over the years of imprisonment, as well as the eight points, whatever these were exactly. gaspar scioppius who witnessed the death of bruno and may have heard the sentence read out at the time, gives a very mixed list of points for which he was condemned; that there are innumerable worlds; that magic is a good and licit thing; that the holy spirit is the anima mundi; that moses did his miracles by magic in which he was more proficient than the egyptians; that christ was a magus.4 there are others, equally incoherent. the fact is that we do not have enough evidence (the 1 documenti, pp. 101-2. here he is not expressing his true opinion, for which see above, p. 228. 2 sommario, pp. 113-9. 3 sommario, pp. 12-13. it is most certainl

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth, direct us, we beseech thee, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name and as thou hast taught us, in thy holy word, that all our doings, withoutcharity, are nothing worth; send thy holy spirit, and pour into our hearts the most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. bless and prosper, we pray thee, every branch and member of this our fraternity, throughout the habitable earth. may thy kingdom of peace, love and harmony come. may thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and the who

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

nergy required in the evolution of a solar system. water is the agent it used to quench the fire of active spirits. the zone between the heated center of the separate spirit sphere, and the point where its individual atmosphere meets cosmic space, is a battleground of evolving spirits at various stages of evolution. the present angels were human in the moon period, and the highest initiate is the holy spirit (jehovah. as our humanity and the other kingdoms of life on earth are variously affected by the present elements, so that some like heat, others prefer cold, some thrive on moisture and others require dryness, so also in the moon period among the angels, some had affinity for water, others abhorred it and loved fire. the continued cycles of condensation and evaporation of the moisture

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

agans have used to refer to satan over the centuries and they are in the satanic bible. we'll review some of these "infernal names" of satanism found within masonry [satanic bible, anton lavey, p. 144-46] we shall list the freemason teaching on each of these names, and then the explanation. baphomet "the gnostics held that it [universal agent] composed the igneous [pertaining to fire] body of the holy spirit, and it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes [pike, op. cit, p. 734, teaching of the 28th degree; emphasis added] we find it absolutely incredible that the freemasons should portray the holy spirit with the satanic symbol, baphomet. eliphas levi created this symbol, one of the foremost

blished as a secret book. now do you see why freemasonry insists that their initiates take a solemn vow to never divulge their secrets, under the penalty of having their throat slit and being disemboweled? but, albert pike, the most revered 33 degree mason of all time, has more blasphemy. listen to him describe the ouroboros, the symbol of the serpent devouring his own tail "it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring its own tail [morals and dogma, p. 734, teachings of the 28th degree, knight of the sun, or prince adept] thus, freemasonry blasphemes both jesus christ and the holy spirit of the trinity. what did jesus christ say about this type of situation "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the holy ghos

against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come [matthew 12:31-32] bible scholars call this sin, the unpardonable sin. congratulations, masons, you have just committed the unpardonable sin. this is very serious, because, once a person commits the unpardonable sin, the holy spirit stops working in his heart, convicting him of sin and trying to get him to ask forgiveness through the shed blood of jesus christ. thus, that person is doomed. the facts are now in: freemasonry is boldly, completely, and totally satanic "come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. for her sins have reached unto heaven, and g

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

o non-being, that is no-thingness. in the threefold division of man's nature, kether represents the neshamah or spirit (2) rnyb binah, mind. this sephirah is sometimes placed second and sometimes third, and it is generally called the understanding. it is feminine and negative- the matter, as it were, in which kether can take form and propagates itself. binah is often called the heavenly mother or holy spirit. her letter is h (heh, the numerical value of which is 5. binah possesses 50 gates, which is symbolical of the heh multiplied by the od; her symbol is the dove; her dimension is depth, whilst kether's is length (compare the lingam and yoni in hindu mythology; and her colour is sky blue, the colour of the virgin mary. from the union between kether and binah emanates 'hokmah (3) hmkc 'ho

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

xicating quality within it, came to constitute the god-idea. it was spirit, while water was matter; hence, in the sacraments, water and wine were commingled, wine representing the essence or blood of god; water, at the same time, standing for the people. cyprian, the bishop martyr, while contending for the use of wine in the sacrament of the lord's supper, makes use of the following argument "the holy spirit also is not silent in the psalms on the sacrament of this thing, when he makes mention of the lord's cup, and says 'thy intoxicating cup how excellent it is' now the cup which intoxicates is assuredly mingled with wine, for water cannot intoxicate anybody. and the cup of the lord in such wise inebriates, as noe also was intoxicated drinking wine in genesis. for because christ bore us a

, as baal might not be represented aside from his counterpart ashtaroth, he was no longer adored but came to stand for something "approaching the devil" forlong has observed the fact that, although in hebrew baal is masculine, in the greek translations he is feminine both in the old and new testaments.[88 [88] forlong, rivers of life, p. 223. jehovah was originally female, so, also, was netpe the holy spirit of the egyptian tree of life. we are given to understand that netpe was the same as rhea, the partner of sev or saturn, and that her hieroglyphic name was "abyss of heaven" osiris was the son of this goddess who was really a mai or mary, the celestial mother, he being the only god of the egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. of this forlong remarks "his birthplace

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

a trance, produces messages for those present-themselves, and one, the revd w. stainton moses, was fromi&]2until his death in1892a medium himself and the principal exponent of spiritualist thought in england. others were more circumspect and, whether from natural reticence or fear of episcopal wrath, carefully avoided publicity. one such group had affinities with the rosicrucians.theguild of the holy spirit was first brought to public noticein]anuary1881in the first issue of the spiritualist journallight,a brief note referred to the guild, saying:'theproceedings of the society are quite private, but it is known that the objects pursued are the study and practice of christian mysticism. although the attainment of startling phenomena was not contemplated, yet some satisfactory results even

55 communion..there are gradations in our guild; but all, from the inner to the outermost circle, are believers rather than inquirers.'hewas anxious, too, to stress that the guild guarded itself against curiosity-hunters;'inthat sense only is our society a secret one' it was already common to find priests, of the anglican variety at least, within freemasonry, but the existence of the guild of the holy spirit indicates the rudimentsofa willingness to be partofa hierarchical society devoted to occult pursuits on the part of clergymen without a masonic background. besides communication with the departed there were other aspectsofspiritualism which were well known and enthusiasti255 cally supported not only by spiritualists at large but also within the confinesofthe s.r.i.a. clairvoyance (the

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hem into enthusiastic pupils, and giving his new society his own name, he laid the foundation of that scheme of mystical philosphy, which we are now here to perpetuate and carry into practice: let us remember that he died in the year 1484, that is so far back as the reign of our king richard the third. the fratres of the original collegium, who met in the 'domus sanctus spiritus, or 'house of the holy spirit, were learned men, earnest students and public benefactors. their rules were:thatnone of the members shouldprofessany art except to relieve the sick and that gratis; each one should wear the ordinary dress of the country, and should attend on corpus christi day at a general convocation every year, whenever possible to do so; each one should seek a suitable pupil to succeed him; that th

high enough for spiritualpower-isnot represented in the hebrew secret doctrine. the kabalah indeed is full of jehovah, of the divine four-lettered name, but it is the name of a group of divine conceptions, of emanations from a central spiritual light whose presence alone is postulated; of an absolute, which has an infinity of intervals extending downward even to reachjehovah-theelohim-thegroup of holy spiritual attributes, which human intellect can alone cognize. after another manner, jehovah is the group of the emana255 tions from the deific source, called the ten sephiroth, the voicesfrom heaven. thesetensephiroth-ofwhichthe first is a condensation of the supernal glory from the ain suph aour, the boundlesslight-appearas a rainbow of the divine in a first world, or upon the highest plane

the priesthood of what have apparently been the most debased and extravagant religions, there has always existed an esoteric doctrine held by a select hierarchy, and that doctrine the unity of god, as a creator, designer, and ruler, apart from the modes of his manifestation to us mortals, whether by processes and sublimethereligion of freemasonry 117emanations, or by sonship, or by influenceoftheholy spirit, or by the development into sex, or by maternity; all of these modes of representing the action of a unique impersonal god, in relation to his works.thejews have ever been true monotheists and have been ever persecuted, and the old testament, their own narrative of themselves, is perhaps the chief extant volume recording struggles to preserve a pure theocracy, to preserve a religion of

ed with prana, vitality, or withtheanimalsoul and animal passions. such arepsuche,'soul, nearly always corresponding to nep255 hesh, that is kamic energy: it is from a root meaning 'to breathe'.pneuma,translated 'spirit' in the dictionaries: this is from a root also meaning 'to breathe, and is, commonly, breath and life; but curiously is also specially aplied to thehighspiritual conception of the holy spirit- the divine breath, just as the hebrew ruach, as mentioned earlier, is at times breath of life- at othersittouches the other extreme of meaning, the divine spirit, the spirit of the elohim of life.thumosis the animal soul in the homeric poems, and in the bibleitrefers to passions, often eviland of low nature. turning to the latin version of the bible, we find acloseradherence to meanin

tive of heat, south the positive. levi describes the philosophy of the human mind as formed of affirmation and negation, discussion and ascertainment. discussion tends to reconcile the opposing forces, affirming and denying, while ascertainment- solution of the problem- completes the process. so in the religion of europe we find a conception of universal deity, differentiated into the father, the holy spirit or maternal ideal, and the son;butthe three persons areonegod. numerous nations have pictured this in the four lettered name for deity, such as the greektheos,latin deus, germangott,frenchdieu,and note that the hebrew language, so typical of ideals, gives us the tetragrammaton ihvh,il'l't',formedof three separate letters, resumed in a fourth, being one of these three, a final he combin

as a token of friendship; and they also broke a tessaron or stone, and each of two friends kept a portion.thehebrews, too, in early times, used a pledge calledoirabon,orbun,which was regarded as a sort of talisman to perpetuate friendship.theearly christians are said to have adopted this custom, and they marked their stones with the letters'p.u.a.p.'meaningpater-father,uios-son, andagion pneuma -holy spirit. mention must also be made of the 'philosophers' stone, the stone of the wise, in search of which so many students in past centuries have worked in vain, although there are many narratives in medieval tracts which declare the reality of such a stone and its discovery. there was a material aspect of the stone by which it might transmute the baser metals into gold; andreligious and mason

hich were born again and again into this world; this notion was condem255 ned at a synod held at constantinoplein543.thedoctrine of the immortality of the human soul was accepted at the lateran church council held in 1513,a.d.as to the english word 'spirit, however, we find extreme differences of meaning. while some consider the word to be only applicable to the godhead, to the holy ghost, to the holy spirit which may be over-shadowing a man, others use the word very loosely to mean the breath of life or the vitality, or simply air; while others again degrade the word to mean personalities who have died and who are thought to be the agents which function at seances and necromantic evocations.ourenglish bible also speaks ofevilandfamiliarspirits- beings who are invisibleandimmaterial. in re

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the rosy cross (f.r.c, an androgynous and avowedly christian order structured in a series of grades that represented a symbolical ascent of the kabbalistic tree of life. its rituals and officers were based on those of the independent and rectified rite of the golden dawn, but the ultimate derivation from freemasonry is 102[102] the brotherhood of the rosy cross, being records of the house of the holy spirit in its inward and outward history (rider, 1924) 103[103] slt, p. 177 104[104] the details of the quarrel and of the demise of the isis-urania temple are given in r. a. gilbert, the golden dawn: twilight of the magicians (aquarian press, 1983) immediately evident when the rituals are read105[105. the first meeting of the f.r.c. was held on 9 july 1915 at de keyser's hotel on victoria em

e analogies of masonry) a new encyclopaedia of freemasonry (ars magna latomorum) and of cognate instituted mysteries: their rites, literature and history (rider, 1921) 2 vols (the issue of 1934 adds an account of the masonic peace memorial 'robert fludd and freemasonry, manchester association for masonic research (offprint, 1922 the brotherhood of the rosy cross, being records of the house of the holy spirit in its inward and outward history (rider, 1924 (chapters xv to xxi and xxiv relate to freemasonry) emblematic freemasonry and the evolution of its deeper issues (rider, 1925) the liturgy of the rite of the strict observance (warrenton, n.c, 1934, mimeographed) the secret tradition in freemasonry (rider, 1937) shadows of life and thought, being a retrospective review in the form of memo

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the rosy cross (f.r.c, an androgynous and avowedly christian order structured in a series of grades that represented a symbolical ascent of the kabbalistic tree of life. its rituals and officers were based on those of the independent and rectified rite of the golden dawn, but the ultimate derivation from freemasonry is 102[102] the brotherhood of the rosy cross, being records of the house of the holy spirit in its inward and outward history (rider, 1924) 103[103] slt, p. 177 104[104] the details of the quarrel and of the demise of the isis-urania temple are given in r. a. gilbert, the golden dawn: twilight of the magicians (aquarian press, 1983) immediately evident when the rituals are read105[105. the first meeting of the f.r.c. was held on 9 july 1915 at de keyser's hotel on victoria em

e analogies of masonry) a new encyclopaedia of freemasonry (ars magna latomorum) and of cognate instituted mysteries: their rites, literature and history (rider, 1921) 2 vols (the issue of 1934 adds an account of the masonic peace memorial 'robert fludd and freemasonry, manchester association for masonic research (offprint, 1922 the brotherhood of the rosy cross, being records of the house of the holy spirit in its inward and outward history (rider, 1924 (chapters xv to xxi and xxiv relate to freemasonry) emblematic freemasonry and the evolution of its deeper issues (rider, 1925) the liturgy of the rite of the strict observance (warrenton, n.c, 1934, mimeographed) the secret tradition in freemasonry (rider, 1937) shadows of life and thought, being a retrospective review in the form of memo

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or the logos or christ, he became christed and hence in that understanding is known as jesus the christ. the term christ means "anointed" and refers to the state of sonship to the lord of wisdom. jesus at his baptism communed with the mind of god (logos, his actions came to embody the spirit of god (sophia) and he became a full son of god (christ. we speak of god, of the son, his word, and of the holy spirit and we say that the father, the son and the spirit are united in power. for the son is the intelligence, reason and wisdom of the father and the spirit is an effluence, as light from fire. in the same way we recognize that there are other powers which surround matter and pervade it. athenagoras generally speaking the ancient gnostics primarily viewed christ as an eternal, celestial pow

will transform us into immortal beings. this teaching is the solar tradition and is central to our understanding of the gnosis. the gnostic handbook page 29 that which is not divine will sophia the logos awakened by the mind of god (logos) purified by the wisdom of god (sophia) empowered by divine will the christ-state the gnostic handbook page 30 what is sophia? the general understanding of the holy spirit as found in the christian tradition is a desexing of the great feminine power. sophia is the goddess or feminine principle and as such exists from the earliest pagan traditions right through to the greek mysteries and gnosticism. in gnostic literature she is described by many names the all mothers, mother of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterp

n esoteric gnostic literature that it was the combined power of jesus and mary madgadene who transmitted the mysteries, not jesus alone. the sophia tradition has survived hidden under the veil of christian piety, it is still found in the cult of the virgin mary and is most powerful in the russian orthodox traditions. it is a tradition of great age and some beauty that personifies the power of the holy spirit as distinctly female. for example, in proverbs particularly we have sophia wandering the street begging men to love her. while in the following quotes we may even begin to think that sophia or wisdom is separate, yet in reality, sophia is a facet of the lord of wisdom himself. wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in t

erial world sophia is the presence of god in nature. even after all the pain man has inflicted on it, nature still exhibits the divine spark, though its luster has been sorely diminished. sophia is the bride of the logos embodied in the the gnostic handbook page 32 ecclesia, in the scriptures sophia is wisdom and in man she is the very essence which changes him from mortal to immortal, she is the holy spirit. therefore sophia is twofold, at once divine and creaturely- above and before creation and in creation .in the world, sophia is actualised- as the earth's eros for heaven, all creation longing for liberation from the bondage of corruption for the radiance of sophianic light, for beauty and transfiguration. sophia- the wisdom of god. sergei bulgakov, lindisfarne press, 1993. the concept

e 36 the seven spirits according to the gnostic traditions the triune principle manifests through a series of seven logii or in more traditional language archangels or spirits. these forms can be expressed in many different ways, the most traditional is to know them as aeons, while in egypt they would have been called sacred principles or neters. in the zoroastrian tradition they are known as the holy spirits (spenta amesha (these are akin to the seven spirits before the throne in the book of revelation. this links interestingly with some western traditions, which see the seven spirits before the throne (revelation 4:5) as seven phases of the holy ghost. these aeons or spirits have many different aspects and facets, they may also be related to the seven rays of the theosophical and rosicru

e triune principle and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the upper world operates. the monadic plane from this plane the true self or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarization and differentiation originated. it is on this level that the seven holy spirits operate and direct creation. the gnostic handbook page 39 the spiritual plane. this is the plane of archetypal forms and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and arc

, he went up out of the water. at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting on him. and a voice from heaven said "this is my son, whom i love; with him i am well pleased" matthew 3:16,17 jesus was now in a position to transform the human situation, as a son of god (a being whose essence is in commune with the logos and whose actions embody the holy spirit, he now went about his task of redeeming israel. he was the messiah from the land of light come for his people. these twelve jesus sent out with the following instructions "do not go among the gentiles or enter any town of the samaritans, go rather to the lost sheep of israel. as you go, preach this message `the kingdom of heaven is near' he answered "i was sent only to the lost sheep

ay all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. revelation 21:1-4 the seven stages of salvation the paths of salvation are divided into seven distinct steps. each of which we shall examine in some detail. 1 first steps. 2 faith and education. 3 baptism (initiation. 4 anointing (holy spirit. 5 overcoming the dialectic system. 6 (communion and feasts. 7 rebirth 8 resurrection. first steps: repentance the word repentance rings in the ears of most of us who had the misfortune of being brought up in christian traditions. the problem is that most people have no knowledge of what the word really means! the image of repentance in keeping with the traditions of most of western ch

ce. repentance as discussed earlier involves a radical change of life direction and hence can only be recognised in someone of mature age. baptism is the first of the seven sacraments used by the gnostic church. the rite is only available to those who have entered the path of transfiguration. baptism is one of three initiations offered by the gnostic ecclesia: baptism by water, anointing with the holy spirit and celestial confirmation (consolomentum. as can be seen from the verse below there are two distinct forms of baptism, both of which are available to those on the terrestrial path. there is the baptism of repentance (known scripturally as the baptism of water or john's baptism, and there is the baptism or anointing with the holy spirit or fire (the baptism of the holy spirit. the thir

aptism) and one we will not elaborate on in this study. the gnostic handbook page 99 so paul asked "then what baptism did you receive "john's baptism" they replied. paul said "john's baptism was a baptism of repentance. he told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in jesus" on hearing this, they were baptised into the name of the lord jesus. acts 19:3-5 the anointing of the holy spirit is the baptism with fire. it is not given with the baptism of repentance but is offered later on the spiritual path. as the baptism of repentance is recognition of starting the spiritual path, the baptism of fire is recognition of a certain degree of achievement and is stimulus for further growth. the baptism of water symbolises the start of the work of sophia in cleansing the life of

spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. all these are the work of one and the same spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. 1 corinthians 12:4-11 when they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the holy spirit, the gnostic handbook page 100 because the holy spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptised into the name of the lord jesus. then peter and john placed their hands on them, and they received the holy spirit. acts 8:15-17. many may argue against separate baptisms of water and fire and yet clearly in the book of acts we have a discussion of the difference betw

spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptised into the name of the lord jesus. then peter and john placed their hands on them, and they received the holy spirit. acts 8:15-17. many may argue against separate baptisms of water and fire and yet clearly in the book of acts we have a discussion of the difference between the baptism in the name of jesus and the baptism of the holy spirit. this also leads us to an understanding of the esoteric meaning of the name jesus and the christ. jesus in symbolism is the human principle. in gnostic literature the name jesus was symbolic of the spiritually disciplined life, hence, baptism in the name of jesus is the first baptism, that of water, that of discipline, that of repentance. the second baptism (or anointing) is that of fi

se shall he do; because i go unto my father. john 14:12 the calling to the celestial path is a special one. it echoes across lifetimes bringing the parfait to higher and higher levels of development, until, at an appointed time perfection is achieved. this state of perfection is a unique state of being. it is one where the gnostic is in tune with the mind of god (logos) and his actions embody the holy spirit (sophia. this state of "walking in the light" represents a special achievement of spiritual regeneration. it is the full manifestation of the covenant of the mysteries and is represented by a very small group of humanity. the gnostic handbook page 105 now it is fitting that the soul regenerate herself and become again as she formerly was. the soul then moves of her own accord. and she

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d to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in god, who created all things. ephesians 3:9 the word of god is now god as he had been man, in order to deify mankind together with himself. eusebius, demonstratio evangelica iv:14 seven stages of transfiguration re-orientation (first steps. re-education (education. baptism (initiation. anointing (holy spirit. overcoming dialectic system (communion, feasts, gnostic practise. rebirth. ascension. fig 36 gnostic theurgy page 129 the mysteries are a special teaching that is not covered in most biblical or gnostic studies. it is the final secret teaching revealed by christ to james, his brother and then to the other apostles. the teaching was the last stage of the continuing development of the m

nostic theurgy page 133 and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. revelation 21:1-4 the seven stages of transfiguration the path(s) of transfiguration are divided into seven distinct steps. re-orientation. re-education. baptism (initiation. anointing (holy spirit. overcoming the dialectic system (communion and feasts. rebirth. ascension. re-orientation the word repentance rings in the ears of most of us who had the misfortune of being brought up in "christian traditions. the problem is that most "christians" have no knowledge of what the word really means! there is this concept that repentance simply means saying sorry, in keeping with the trad

repentance (as discussed earlier) involves a radical change of life direction, and hence can only be recognised in someone of mature age. baptism is the first of the seven sacraments used by the gnostic church. the rite is only available to those who have entered the path of transfiguration. baptism is one of three initiations offered by the gnostic ecclesia: baptism by water, anointing with the holy spirit and celestial confirmation. as can be seen from the verse below there are two distinct forms of baptism, both of which are available to those on the terrestrial path. there is the baptism of repentance (known in the bible as the baptism of water or john's baptism, and there is the baptism or anointing with the holy spirit or fire (the baptism of the holy spirit. the third initiation, t

baptism) and one we will not elaborate upon in this study. so paul asked "then what baptism did you receive "john's baptism" they replied. paul said "john's baptism was a baptism of repentance. he told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in jesus" on hearing this, they were baptised into the name of the lord jesus. acts 19:3-5 gnostic theurgy page 139 the anointing of the holy spirit is the baptism with fire. it is not given with the baptism of repentance, but is offered later on the spiritual path. as the baptism of repentance is recognition of starting the spiritual path, the baptism of fire is recognition of a certain degree of achievement, and is stimulus for further growth. the baptism of water symbolises the start of the work of sophia in cleansing the life o

lous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. gnostic theurgy page 140 all these are the work of one and the same spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. 1 corinthians 12:4-11 when they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the holy spirit, because the holy spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptised into the name of the lord jesus. then peter and john placed their hands on them, and they received the holy spirit. acts 8:15-17. many may argue against separate baptisms of water and fire and yet clearly in the book of acts we have a discussion of the difference between the baptism in the name of

pirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptised into the name of the lord jesus. then peter and john placed their hands on them, and they received the holy spirit. acts 8:15-17. many may argue against separate baptisms of water and fire and yet clearly in the book of acts we have a discussion of the difference between the baptism in the name of jesus, and the baptism of the holy spirit. this also leads us to an understanding of the esoteric meaning of the name jesus and the christ. jesus as a symbol represents the human principle. in gnostic literature the name jesus was symbolic of the spiritually disciplined life, hence, baptism in the name of jesus is the first baptism, that of water, discipline and repentance. the second baptism (or anointing) is that of fire, it

e. the second baptism (or anointing) is that of fire, it is the christ baptism. at this baptism sophia breaks down the barriers between the new awakened self (pneumatic spark) and the logos and the gnostic enters into communion with the mind of god. in other words, the lord of wisdom is present in his soul, he is christed. now i realise many traditional christians (and others) will argue that the holy spirit cannot do any harm, it is the spirit of love, and hence these baptisms can be given together. but this is just not so, if we continue to read the account in acts chapter eight, when simon tries to purchase the power of the holy spirit, he is cursed with death, he becomes so terrified he asks the disciples to pray and protect him from its power! in acts chapter 5 we read of ananias, who

harm, it is the spirit of love, and hence these baptisms can be given together. but this is just not so, if we continue to read the account in acts chapter eight, when simon tries to purchase the power of the holy spirit, he is cursed with death, he becomes so terrified he asks the disciples to pray and protect him from its power! in acts chapter 5 we read of ananias, who in trying to deceive the holy spirit was gnostic theurgy page 141 killed by the power of god. in addition to these comments we may also note that the only sin that cannot be forgiven is the "sin against the holy spirit (mark 3:29. accordingly, the baptism of the holy spirit or fire should not be taken lightly. an interesting note on baptism is found in the strong's exhaustive concordance where it is considering the differ

at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting on him. and a voice from heaven said "this is my son, whom i love; with him i am well pleased" matthew 3:16,17 jesus was now in a position to transform the human situation, as a son of god (a gnostic theurgy page 198 being whose essence is in communication with the logos and whose actions embody the holy spirit, he went about his task of redeeming the caged particles of light. jesus however had more to do that simply teach the mysteries, jesus had to initiate the current which would open the door to deification. it was not enough to just teach, jesus himself had to spiritually transform the nature of the dialectic plane so that an opportunity; a gateway for redemption from the archons could b

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worn before the outer order or non-members. the lamen is a complete synthesis of the masculine or what we refer to as the positive rainbow scale of colors. the scale of colors employed is the king scale. the cross is divided into four parts. each arm of the cross belongs to one of the four elements. top m bottom l right n left o the white portion of the cross belongs to, the ruach ha kadosh (the holy spirit, and unto the planets. there are twenty-two petals on the rose. the twenty-two petals relate to the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the twenty-two petals sit on the cross in trapt. trapt is the receptacle of the forces of the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the center of the rose is white and this looks no more than just a small dot. it is the reflecte

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must obey, and in the name of haniel, your most potent archangel, i command ye to send hither thine intelligence, hagiel, that he may concentrate and bind into this talismanic bowl his life and power. in taking it for his body, let him thereby form a true and wonderful link for me with all those powers of love, desire, passion, abundance and benignity which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. o ye divine powers of nogah, manifest yourselves through this intelligence, hagiel, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through this creature of talismans, i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fellow men. in so doing, grant that unto hagiel who shall charge and live within this talismatic bowl f

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come. thy powers shall be magnified by the light that surrounds thee. be wise in wisdom and know that to give forth thy healing is to praise thy god. i do project upon thee the light of brilliance that may bring the love, and peace profound" step 15 make the sign of the enterer on your astral double "be thy mind open unto the higher, be thy heart a center of the light, be thy body a temple of the holy spirit! oh lord of the universe, thou who art all merciful, in the name of \yhla hwhy and in the name of layqpx, thy great archangel, i now call upon the \ylara to enforce the shroud between my spiritual self standing before thee in the east, the forces of the qlippoth, and the force that would rape my aspirations and true will" step 16 perform the qabalistic cross. 7 "unto thee sole wise, so

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esoever thou mayest be now, by the power of the spirit devolving upon me by this ceremony, i do project unto thee this ray of the divine white brilliance that it may bring thee peace and happiness and rest" step 26 make the sign of the enterer three times to project the light "be thy mind open unto the higher. be thy heart a center of the light. be thy body, whatsoever its nature, a temple of the holy spirit" make the sign of silence. step 27 pause. perform the qabalistic cross "unto thee, sole wise, sole eternal and sole merciful one be the praise and the glory forever, who has permitted_(his/her name, who now standeth invisibly and humbly before thee to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones desc

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name thou must obey, and in the name of layqdx, your most potent archangel, i command ye to send hither thine intelligence, layphy, that he may concentrate and bind into this talisman his life and power. in taking it for his body, let him thereby form a true and wonderful link for me with all those powers of love, wisdom, grace, abundance and benignity which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. o ye divine powers of dsj, manifest yourselves through this intelligence, layphy, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through this creature of talismans, i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fellow men. in so doing, grant that unto layphy who shall charge this talisman, be given a great reward i

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am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise" 7 step 21 stand between the pillars, facing east "i am the reconciler with the ineffable, the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend "be thy mind open unto the higher. be thy heart a center of the light. be thy body, whatsoever its nature, a temple of the holy spirit" step 22 pause. make the qabalistic cross "unto thee, sole wise, sole eternal and sole merciful one be the praise and the glory forever, who has permitted (state earthly name, who now standeth humbly before thee as (whisper your power name) to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon

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notes on the bornless middle pillar exercise by g. h. frater p. c. a. the bornless middle pillar is designed to equilibrate the elements within the sphere of sensation under the divine rulership of spirit. in the bornless middle pillar exercise, the letter c glowing above the head is depicted as black. let this not be confused with the blackness of evil and of ignorance. this is the light of the holy spirit, shining so intensely and so brilliantly that it appears as black to the naked eye. it is divine brilliance. at any given moment in one's sphere of sensation, there shines a pentagram. when the mind and heart is focused on the spiritual in every aspect of life, the pentagram points upward. this, in effect, is placing the world of matter under the direction of the divine or higher geniu

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es to make a truncated pyramid. 43 44 the great crosses the most important tem on each angelic tablet is the great cross whose shaft descends from top to bottom and whose bar crosses the tablet in the centre. this cross comprises 36 squares, and has a double vertical line which is called linea dei patris fitiique,'the line of god the father and the son, and 'linea spiritus sancti' the line of the holy spirit, crossing this horizontally, and containing one rank of letters. the 'linea spiritus sancti' is always the seventh fine or rank of letters from the top, while the two vertical columns of the 'linea dei patris filiique' are always the sixth and seventh columns counting from either right or left. the book of the concourse of the forces the central row of each watchtower tablet, together

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lightest that our souls should appear before thee in clean and pure and undefiled vestments being cleansed, blessed, and consecrated by thee, i may put them on, being therewith clothed i may be whiter than snow both in soul and body in thy presence this day, in and through the ment, death, and passion of our onty lord and saviour jesus christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy spirit, ever one god, world without end. the god of abraham, isaac and jacob bless thee, purge thee, and make thee pure, and be thou clean in the name of the father, son and holy ghost. amen. the secret grimoire in this thy holy sign o god, fear no evil. by thy holy power, and by this thy holy sign all evil doth flee. by thy holy name and thy power which secret was revealed to moses, through

ts of jesus christ, thy son, our lord and sav our. omnipotent and eternal lord god who sittest in heaven and dost from thence behoid alt the dwehlers upon earth, most mercifully i beseech thee to hear and the secret grimoire answer the petition of thine unworthy servant, which i shali make unto thee at this time, through jesus christ our lord, who hiveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of thy holy spirit, ever one god, worhd without end. sead down, o lord, the spirit of thy grace upon me. o god, put fear far from me, and give me an abundance in thy faith, whereby all things are made possib!e unto man; put evexy wicked phantom far from my mind, and grant me true zeal, fervour, and intentive spirit of zeal, and prayer, that i may offer up a welh-pleasing sacrifice unto thee. let me use t

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gardenofparadise he thought he could not revenge himself better, on those who expelled him, than by makinghereat the forbidden fruit, for that he was turned into the boundless space in which the world was a speck.listherosicrucianseerpassport in all afar ages to eternal happiness. hegivesto man his mortal body returning as pure in spirit as when he descended from god.thetwo are again one and that holy spirit is still the universal influence that is felt in the hearts of those who are willing to be christian men. through the intercession of his son, god saves those who believe in him, but through his own love and charity to the creation (the human race) he saves others. father and son were one long before the world was created. for the good of mankind the son descended to the earth, took th

lwill be unity, peace and concord and ready to receive the blessed saviour. his coming will truly as said in isaiah 'shake the nations of the earth. now instead of the belief used by the church of england i would substitute this one forit.there is one god the embodiment of all goodness, all charity, all love, the creator of the humanrace-emanatingfrom him are the divinequalities-hisinfluence, his holy spirit and his son. god has angels in his presence perfect as himselfin purity, in goodness and in truth but unlike himself either almighty, all-knowing or all powerful, their capacities are limited, his are boundless.thereis an antagonist to all this good in the shape of an angel fallen from his highdegree-heis the power of evilalwaysat enmity with god,alwaysstrivingto rule his creator by ga

could not have put in the r[osi] c [rucian)msbut surely you don't intend copying what is already inprint-'silenceafter clamour'.thequestions in my diaries. have no direct connection with the book i received from thec.a.lwhen i commenced the diary my views were unitarian with jesus as an inspiredman-butfrom the c.a.'s teaching they were suddenly changed toa"267god--thedivine birthofjesus and their holy spirit (orinfluence)-butthe trinity as held by priests of the athenasian creed i do not and cannot understand and i have determined to dwell no more uponitand in this i am supported by my learned friend bro. dresser.theimmaculate conception&divine birth of jesus as a matter of belief has to me no difficulty.ofcourse you will perceive my questions&can ask any of your communicants thesame-butth

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f unity with god is a privilege granted to most of the saints and all the believers to whom the divine principle manifested itself somehow in ecstasy. as the magician does not know in which form god will manifest to him, the kind of manifestation will be expressed according to his religious faith. in the instance of a christian, this may happen in the form of a symbol such as a white dove for the holy spirit, in the person of christ himself or in the shape of a cross; all this is, however, of secondary importance. the main point is the quality of the divinity that manifests itself to the respective person. how strong and pervasive this manifestation of god to the individual will be depends entirely in the measure of his mental and psychic maturity. this kind of manifestation will be experi

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ehuid "revela- tion. divine gift. the son of god; nay, god himself, throng hi direct spirit, who descended on the apostles as the pentecostal fire" and who is now alleged to overshadow every priest who sees fit to ezordze tar either glory or a gift. are we then to believe that the recent scandal of public exordsm, performed about the 14th of october 1876, by the senior priest of the church of the holy spirit, at barcelona, spain, was also done under the direct superintendence of the holy ghost' it will be urged that the "bi^op was not 135. a coneqwrnknt of tli loiuiod tiwiet deacriba the caulodimi excatiit in tbe followiiig lines "about the i4th of october it was privately aiiiiihiiiced that a youiw waman of it i-igkt^ii yean ol age, of tiw bwer dau, having long been afflicted with pntbiur

uniting hendf with kanbtmim (matter, turbulent and leiueless, brinp forth teeen badly-htpomd ittuart, in the chcui "seven figum" which she bore "witlesb" codex ntaaraetu, i, p. 179. juitia martyr (boruuor/ addrai to tht otmiu, xziii) evidently adtqria thii idea, for be tell* lu of "toe owred propheti, who tay that one and the kuoe tptril it divided ^to* n qiiriti [ptiemitaki. in the apocal^se the holy spirit ii subdivided into "ttrtn ipiriti be- fore the thioqc" from the persian mithraic mode of classifying. 417a. tlu ghoifia, p. 102. 418. this certainly looks like the "jetuoiu god" of the jewa. 41q, it is the elmnt (plural who create adam, and do not wish man to beoome digitizecoy google 188 isis unveiled heaveuty mother, nunikos, wishing to deprive dda-baoth of the power with which she h

hings. but they say there is not one christ (god, but one above, and the other below. and this last formerly diodt in many; but ike jena, they at one time say is from, god, at another they call him a sphut* this spirit is the christos, the measenger of life, who is sometimes called the angel gobrid (in hebrew, the mighty one of god, and who took with the gnostics the place of the logos, while the holy spirit was considered life^ with the sect of the naza- reoes, though, their 'spiritus' or holy ghost, had less honor. while nearly eveiy gnostic sect considered it a female power, whether they called it binah, ru'^3, or sophia, the divine intellect; with the nasa- rene sect it was the female spiritus, the astral light, the genetrix of all things of mtdler, the chaos in its evil aspect, made t

; the latter ranged with the pauline christianity, blending itself, at the end of the second century, with the platonic philosophy, and engulfing, still later, the gnostic sects, whose symbols and misunderstood mysticism over- flowed the church of rome. amid this jumble of contradictions, what christian is secure in con- fesung himself such? in the old syriac gorpel according to luke (iu, 22. the holy spirit is said to have descended in the likeness of a dove" jesua, full of the sacred spirit, returned from jordan, and the spirit led him into the desert (old syriac, luke, iv, 1, tremellius'"die diffi- culty" says dunlap "was that the gospels declared that john, the baptbt, saw the spirit (the power of god) descend upon jesus after he had reached manhood; and if the spirit then first descen

the exub^ance of the national materialistic fancy. the supreme lord of splendor and of li^t, luminous and rcf ulgedt, before which no other existed, is called corona (the crown; lord feiho, the unievealed life which existed in the former from eternity; and lord jordan the spirit, the hving water of grace* he is the one throu^ whom alone we can be saved; and thus he answers to the ^ekhinab, or the holy spirit, the spiritual garment of ain-soph. these three consti- tute the trinity in abscondito. the second trinity is composed of the three lives. the first is the slmihtude of lord ferho, throu^ whom be has proceeded forth; and the second ferho is the king of light mano rex lucu. he is the heavenly life and light, and older than the architect of heaven and earth* the second life is ish avum [

neroses, or secret cycles* in the sej^er yebdrah, the kabalistic book of creation, the author has evidently repeated the words of manu. in it the divine substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and it emitted from itself the spirit "one is the spirit of the living god, blessed be his name, who jjveth for ever! voice, spirit, and word, this is the holy spirit* and this is the kabalistic abstract trinity, so unceremoniously anthropomorphized by the fathers. from this triple one emanated the whole cosmos. first from oss emanated number two, or air, the creative element; and then number three. water, proceeded from the air; ether or fire complete the mystic four, the arba-il "when the concealed of the concealed wanted to reveal himself, he fir

l lorimat' sophkfadiamolii a manifcau nmjbto (fkitfa witfand the dcmhirge, who ptodncm mabrkl wwki* and nnllem cnation 'woriu wo- out futh (or graoe^ moreover, the opute seven planetaiy genii, who emanated one from the other, are found again in the nazarene religion under the name of the "seven impostor-daemons" or stellars, who "will deceive ao the sons of adam" these are sol; spiriium venereus (holy spirit, in her material aspect, the mother of the "seven badly-disposed stellars" answering to the gnostic achamoth; nebu, or mercury "a false mes- siah, who will deprave the ancient worship of god* sin (or luna, or shuril; kmn (kivan, or saturn; bel-ju ter; and the seventh, nerig, mars (codex nazaraeut, i, p. 55. the christos of the gnostics is the chi^ of the seven aeons, st. john's seven s

harity, sometimes even mihgnostics were intolerant, tertullian was the most intolerant of all" the work begun by the early fathers was achieved by the sophomori- cal augustine. his supra-transcendental speculations on the trinity; his imaginary dialogs with the father, son, and the holy spirit, and the ditdoture* about, and covert allusions to, his ex-brethren, the manichaeans, have led the worid to load gnosticism with opprobrium, and have thrown into a deep shadow the insulted majesty of the one god, worshiped in reverential silence by every 'heathen' attd uau is ii that the whole pyramid of roman catholic dogmat retu tvol upon proof, but upon assumption. the gnostics had

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inking back into vulgar reason. while we are seeking to convict and dethrone this world s reason as the real devil, this would be distinctly deifying common sense. of common sense, except for common-sense objects, we make no account. we have rather in awed contemplation the divine, ineffable, transcendental spirit the immortal fervour into which the whole world evolves. we have the mystery of the holy spirit in view, called by its many names. it is because theologies will contest concerning divers names of the same thing, that we therefore seek, in transcending, but to identify. it is because men will dispute about forms, that we seek philosophically to show that all forms are impossible, that, when we take the human reason into account, all forms of belief are alike. reason has been the g

ppeared to moses on mount sinai. his presence was denoted by torrents of flame, and in the form of fire he preceded the band of israelites by night through the dreary wilderness; which is perhaps the origin of the present custom of the arabians, who always carry fire in front of their caravans (reade s veil of isis. all the early fathers held god the creator to consist of a subtile fire. when the holy spirit descended upon the apostles on the day of pentecost, it was in the form of a tongue of fire, accompanied by a rushing wind. see anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 627 (parkhurst, in voce, grb. the personality of jehovah is, in scripture, represented by the material trinity of nature; which also, like the divine antitype, is of one substance. the primal, scriptural type of the father is fire; of t

e from reason only which will be found to be the mere operation of the forces of the world. no religion is philosophically capable of being defended on the grounds of reason; though one religion may seem (but, in the inner light, it will seem only) to be more reasonable (or 150 the rosicrucians. probable) than another. divine light, or faith, or intuition, in other words, the enlightenment of the holy spirit (to be recognised under its many names, is that means alone which can carry truth, through the exposure of the futility of all knowable (that is, of all intellectual) truth. such are the abstract notions of the gnostics, or illuminati, concerning religion. the curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are (sartor resartus, edit

stial power. some monograms or hieroglyphic expressions, meaning the salvator mundi, show the roman letter i (jesus) mosaic tables of stone. 225 in front, in large size; the letter h (which is feminine, and greek in its origin, meaning here man, as born of woman) much smaller; and behind, interlacing and combining the first two letters, is the single curved or cursive s, which stands for s.s, the holy spirit, or the third person of the trinity. the whole, in another way, is jesus hominum salvator. nearly all the sacred monograms, with the intention of making the letter denoting the man prominent, present the letter i large; in the heraldic language surtout, or over all. the monogram of the saviour is sometimes seen in the ark, or vesica double lithoi: the "tables" of stone. jachin. pillar)

we have translated these phantom olian melodies played in the winds (so to express it, and fixed them in modern musical notation. templar banner. chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries. their traces discoverable in the orders of knighthood. he collar of esses is supposed always to be a part of the order of the garder. the coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third person. the fleurs-de- lis, or lisses, or the lilies of the field, invariably appear in close connection with st. john, or the sanctus fig. 168. collar of esses. spiritus, and also with the blessed virgin mary, in all christian symbola or insignia. the prince of wales triple plume appears to have the same mythic egyptian and babylonian origin, and to be substantially the

halice as a symbol. 245 a chalice is, in general, the sign of the priestly order. the chalice on the tombstone of a knight, or over the door of a castle, is a sign of the knights templars, of whom st. john the evangelist was the patron saint. the cup was forbidden to the laity, and was only received by the priests, in consequence of the decree of pope innocent iii, a.d. 1215. it means the s.s, or holy spirit, to which we have frequently adverted. we have carefully inspected that which has been designated the crux antiquariorum, or the puzzle of antiquaries, namely, the famous font, which is of unknown and bewildering antiquity, in the nave of winchester cathedral. milner (a feeble narrator and misty unreliable historian, in his history of winchester, has the following superficial notice of

e undulating curve of the s.s. issuing out of the foliations: meaning the blessed virgin mary. this is particularly observable in the statue of william of wykeham, the founder, at st. mary s college, winchester; who, holding the spiritual crook in the left hand, gives the usual benediction of the two extended fingers with his right. the crook is the shepherd crook of the second person, and of the holy spirit. we now give a series of gnostic talismans, from originals. the reader is requested to refer to our numerous figures and symbols from the temple church, london, and to the insignia of the templars, as displayed in all countries, for hints as to their connection with the mysterious beliefs constituting that which is called gnosticism. 270 the rosicrucians. concerning the pillars of seth

ural (and yet these magical) feminine circumstances, the character of which our readers will by this time not fail to recognise. the glory of woman and the punishment of woman after the fall, as indicated in genesis, go hand in hand. it was in honour of woman, and to raise into dignity the expression of the condemned means (until sanctified and reconciled by the intervention of the s.s, or of the holy spirit, or of the third person of the trinity, which is her mark and betrayal, but which produced the world in producing man, and which saved the world in the person of the redeemer, born of woman. it is to glorify typically and mystically this fleshly vehicle, that the order of the garter or garder that keeps it sacred was instituted. the knights of the garter stand sentinel, in fact, over w

nor ought the collar to be adorned or enriched with precious stones (as the george may be, such being prohibited by the laws of the order. at what time the collar of s.s. came into england is not fully determined; but it would seem that it came at least three hundred years since. the collar of s.s. means the magian, or first order, or brotherhood. in the christian arrangements, it stands for the holy spirit, or third person of the trinity. in the gnostic talismans, it is displayed as the bar, curved with the triple s. refer to the cnuphis abraxoids occurring in our book, for we connect the collar of s.s. with the theology of the gnostics. that the order of the garter is feminine, and that its origin is an apotheosis of the rose, and of a certain sin290 the rosicrucians. gular physiologica

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the teeth of the camel? 3. thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. thou shalt write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at all times over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. iii. 0. the ox is thought. man, rule thy thought! how else shalt thou master the holy spirit, and answer the high priestess in the middle gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more (a) avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the conversation of others (b) by some device, such as the changi

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. michael and to our lady as real personages and hold festivals in their honour, so in ancient egypt adoration was offered to isis and osiris, and to other deities likewise. in the ultimate these august names referred to aspects of the godhead, amen-ra, for the trinity in egypt was represented by father, mother, son- osiris, isis and horus instead of the christian presentation of father, son, and holy spirit; but below that divine level there were then, as there are now, great beings in whom the ideal was embodied, who acted as representatives and as channels of god fs threefold power and grace to man. furthermore there are hierarchies of angels belonging to these different lines, just as there are hierarchies of angels who follow the leadership of st. michael and of our lady- each of whom

oot-races, such as the lemurian, the atlantean or the aryan. the whole set of seven festoons hanging one below the other denoted one world-period, one occupation of this planet of ours. 178. underneath the chain-work a beautifully executed system of fine network will be seen, and this was employed by the priests of old to elucidate yet another side of the marvellous mystery of evolution. when the holy spirit has brooded over the face of the waters of space, and has impregnated and vivified primordial matter, the activity of the second aspect of the logos begins, and innumerable streams of his divine life pour down into the field prepared for them. in a thousand ways they interlace and combine, and so produce the bewildering multiplicity of the life which we see around us. from their intera

ng perhaps the planetary logoi. the four chains of lilies flowing down from that crown bore to the egyptians a signification connected with the tetraktys, or perhaps with a reflection or expression of that mystery, while the triple band of lilies round the lower edge of the chapiter was taken as signifying the action in matter of the three aspects of the logos- the buds denoting the action of the holy spirit, the arm of the lord outstretched in activity, and always pushing upward and onward within the spirit of man, while the middle row was taken as showing the strength of the father ever shining forth as the sun in his glory far beyond the clouds and mists of earth, and the lowest row betokened the action of the second aspect, god the son, bending down into incarnation and raising humanit

ding to tradition was the little child whom christ once took and set in the midst of his disciples as a type of those who should inherit the kingdom of heaven, this remarkable masonic passage: 285. ye are stones of a temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of god the father, being raised to the heights by the working-tool of jesus christ, which is the cross, and using for a rope the holy spirit, your faith being a windlass, and love the way leading up to god. 286. sometimes the rose is impressed upon that equal-armed cross, and then we have the rose croix, the great emblem of the rosicrucians, which figures largely in the eighteenth degree. the maltese cross is another form of it, with the arms widening or spreading out, conveying the idea that the force that is pouring out i

typifies the mani-festation of the logos at the beginning of a solar system, while the c c s and the s c show further that he manifests himself as spirit and matter; for there is nothing which is not god. to indicate that the second person or aspect of the logos is about to descend into his universe, the column of the w.s.w. is now erected, and that of the w.j.w. is laid down. the brooding of the holy spirit over the waters of chaos is now no longer the only divine activity; the groundwork is laid, and the active life of the system is to begin. the tracing-board which indicates the plan of its activity is now exposed, and the nature of that activity is indicated by the fact that we commence it with a hymn of praise to t.g.a.o.t.u, during the singing of which the brn. should pour out all th

in the life of man with its cycle of existence from childhood through manhood to old age, and in nature with its alternations of day and night and the rhythmic flow of seasons. in this connection it is of interest to note how many words denoting spirit in different languages primarily mean breath- spiritus in latin, pneuma in greek, ruach in hebrew, atma in sanskrit. it is this divine breath, the holy spirit, the creative fire of god, whom we especially invoke in the degree of the h.r.a. 771. within the circle the triangle is placed, teaching us that god, though one in essence, manifests as a trinity- power, wisdom and love. the divine will is the centre of the circle resting in itself in eternal and unchanging peace; the divine wisdom is the process of radiation, the holy spirit who is th

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there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess of love and beauty, while as we have seen, isis was the queen of truth and the mother of all things; yet both were representatives of the feminine aspect of the deity, as also was nephthys. ptah was the master architect of the universe, the holy spirit who is the creative fire of god; he was the celestial worker in metals, and the chief smelter, caster and sculptor of the gods, the skilful craftsman by whom the design for every part of the framework of the world was made(*sir e. a. wallis budge, the papyrus of ani, p. 170) 74. the brothers of horus 75. among the other deities who were especially connected with the mysteries, who stil

cases we have either images of the dove goddess herself, reinforced by what may have been her older zoomorphic form, or of a priestess deified by the descent of the dove-spirit. 246. the extent to which primitive minoan religious conceptions were familiar to the semitic mind is here again illustrated by the striking parallel of the baptism in jordan and the picture drawn by the evangelists of the holy spirit descending in bodily shape like a dove and lighting on jesus. what has to be borne in mind in all these connexions is that it is not only the inanimate or aniconic object, such as the pillar or the sacred weapon, that may become, through due ritual, the temporary dwelling-place of the divinity, but that the spiritual being may enter into the actual worshipper or votary in human form, w

rosy cross still exists in utter secrecy, and, although it is unknown in the outer world, its mysteries are yet handed down on the physical plane, and it still preserves the ancient secrets of healing and magic which its m.w.s. brought in the fifteenth century from the egyptian lodge. only very few, and those high initiates of the white lodge from whence it came, are admitted to its house of the holy spirit. many have claimed and still claim to belong to it, but it is quite independent of the many orders and societies, both open and secret, which bear its hallowed name in the twentieth century. in masonry, however, we inherit some portion of its ritual, though but little of its hidden lore, and the sacramental powers of the rosy cross yet shine through certain of our high grades in the 72

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s of demons: he was like a high-strung little gargoyle, his hide a slimy, bottomless black, his body thin and spiderlike: half humanoid, half animal, totally demon. two huge yellow cat-eyes bulged out of his face, darting to and fro, peering, searching.his breath came in short, sulfurous gasps, visible as glowing yellow vapor. although christians have traditionally believed in the guidance of the holy spirit, the picture peretti draws of highly personal angels conveying guidance to the minds of god s saints makes christian inspiration more lively and dramatic. peretti also pictures angels as capable of materializing to help god s chosen, as in this present darkness when the angel betsy materializes to give one of the heroines, bernice krueger, a short motorcycle ride. once bernice has reac

g on the tradition. notions of possession and exorcism practices are found worldwide, in every major religious and cultural tradition. within christianity and other monotheisms, possession is almost always viewed as demonic. the gospels and the book of acts contain many stories of demonic possession and exorcism by jesus or the disciples. in christianity, however, one may also be possessed by the holy spirit. the 210 possession and exorcism biblical model for this type of possession is the descent of the holy spirit in the form of flames over the apostles after christ s crucifixion and resurrection in the day of the pentecost. reestablishing this unusual experience as the touchstone of the christian life was the thrust of the pentecostal movement, which recognized such phenomena as the abi

odel for this type of possession is the descent of the holy spirit in the form of flames over the apostles after christ s crucifixion and resurrection in the day of the pentecost. reestablishing this unusual experience as the touchstone of the christian life was the thrust of the pentecostal movement, which recognized such phenomena as the ability to speak in tongues (glossolalia) as gifts of the holy spirit. the majority of traditions outside of the judeo-christian-islamic family accept the idea that one may be possessed by divinities and other beneficent beings. particularly in the context of ritual, possession is often the means by which gods and goddesses communicate with the human community. possession also represents a way by which deceased human beings can continue to communicate wi

urch developed, a formal rite of exorcism was developed. beliefs about possession were also extended. for example, in the past, attitudes toward the polluting nature of birth led to the notion that newborn babies were demon possessed. newborns were therefore routinely exorcised at baptism with the following words: i exorcize you unclean spirit in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit. come out and leave this servant of god [infant s name. accursed and damned spirit, hear the command of god himself, he who walked upon the sea and extended his right hand to peter as he was sinking. therefore, accursed devil, acknowledge your condemnation. and depart from this servant of god [infant s name. never dare, accursed devil, to violate the sign of the holy cross which we pla

apacy of pope paul v. it was not revised until 1999, when cardinal jorge arturo possession and exorcism 213 medina, prefect of the congregation for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments, issued an updated exorcism ritual. this ritual uses such time-honored practices as prayers, the sprinkling of holy water, the laying on of hands, making the sign of the cross, appeals to christ, the holy spirit, and the saints of the church. in the imploring formula, satan s evils are enumerated and god a 12th century carving from a door of st. zeno exorcising a woman of the devil (fortean picture library) 214 possession and exorcism is requested to set the victim free. the concluding formula ordering the demon to exit the individual ends with, therefore, go back satan. protestants have also

it sex homosexual sex the viewing of pornography the use of mind-altering drugs hypnosis listening to rock music, especially if the musicians are themselves possessed leading a religious cult worshiping satan astrologers psychics finally, cogan advocates a multiphase program for overcoming possession, only the first step of which is becoming saved. the possessed must: be saved and filled with the holy spirit pray to god for the power of jesus s blood seek a counselor for help pray for deliverance anticipate resistance by the demon(s; they might not want to leave easily; expect that the demon(s) might try to repossess them pray regularly read the bible attend church regularly in addition to liberal religious denominations, most members of secular society naturally do not accept possession a

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t manfully and labour with diligence (with sword and trowel; say i) in this work. for this is the first and last of all, that thou bid every man do what he will, in accord with his own true nature. therefore also blast thou that lie that man is of a fallen and evil nature. for the word of sin is restriction, the doubt of his own godhead, the suppression of, which is the blasphemy against, his own holy spirit. saith not the book of the law that. it is a lie, this folly against self? therefore to every man, in every circumstance, say thou: do what thou wilt; and teach him, if he yet waver, how to discover his true nature, earnestly and with ardour, even as i have striven to each thee. yea, and more also! h the book of wisdom or folly 77 by quare filium creavit: ut fiat libertas (why he creat

areth also a new h, as a by-product, and she is mysterious, being at once the flower of the three others, and their poison. now by the operation of vau upon that h is no new creation, but the daughter is set upon the throne of her mother, and by this is rekindled the fire of yod, which, consuming that virgin, doth not add a fifth person, but balanceth and perfecteth all. for his shin, that is the holy spirit, pervadeth these, and is immanent. thus in three operations is the pentagram formulated. but in the figure of that star these operations are not indicated, for the five lines of force connect not according to any of them; but five new operations are made possible; and these are the works proper to the perfected man. first, the work which lieth level, the vau with the h, is of he yang a

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ht yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god.s. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble like an aspen, quiver like light upon a rainy river! marsyas. do what thou wilt! is the sole word of law that my attainment heard. arise, and lay thine hand on god! arise, and set a period aha! 31 unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure heart (her incense burned of gums and woods, in gold inurned, and let the serpent flame therein a little, and thy soul shall win to lie within her bosom. lo! thou wouldst give all.and she cries: no! take all, and take me! gather spice and virgins and great pearls of price! worship me in a single robe, crowne

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ole exercise is to create a sentinel to stand watch at the threshold of the mind: with this in view one should be able to study the psychology of the practice in detail and arrange matters so as to obtain the best result possible [ms. note added by ac in a copy of equinox i (4, transcribed by yorke] vel jvgorvm 3 iii 0. the ox is thought. man, rule thou thy thought! how else shalt thou master the holy spirit, and answer the high priestess in the middle gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. avoid thinking of a definite subject and all things connected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occupies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense-perceptions or the conversation of others. by some device, such as the changing of

LIBER LVII

ncy added to a masculine idea, and thereby capable of producing an offspring. now, we hear much of the father and the son, but we hear nothing of the mother in the ordinary religions of the day. but in the qabalah we find that the ancient of days conforms himself simultaneously into the father and the mother, and thus begets the son. now, this mother is elohim. again, we are usually told that the holy spirit is masculine. but the word jwr, ruach, spirit, is feminine, as appears from the following passage of the sepher yetzirah \yyj \yhla rwr tja, achath (feminine, not achad, masculine) ruach elohim chayyim .one is is she the spirit of the elohim of life. now, we find that before the deity conformed himself thus.i.e, as male and female.that the worlds of the universe could not subsist, or

iting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical .tree of life. on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. b

xtension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the .five letters of severity. those which have a final form. kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning .tooth. and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr 52 [also laqzjy, ezekiel, and [swy, joseph. elsewhere crowley connects the .city of pyramids. reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each of john dee.s .tablets of the watchtowers. and the pyramids drawn on each square in the golden dawn.s .book of the concourse of the forces. t.s] 53 [also arb .he created, second word of genesis. t.s] 54 [see the remarks on ob, od and aour i

en by p, implying that an infinite factor must be employed. for the qabalist it is usually symbolised by the rosy cross, or by such formula as 5= 6. that they concealed a word answering this problem is also* this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only by marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say .i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says .never less than four. hence

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duellist.no son, no father, and (to please us most) decency pleads.no holy ghost! all vanish at the touch of truth, a cobweb trio.like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 mystical mean-ing of .ascen-sion day. futility of whole discussion, in view of facts. ascension day 21 that worthy yankee millionaire, and wealthy nephews, young and fair, the pleasing crawfords! lost! lost! lost !78 .the holy spirit, friend! beware. ah! ten days yet to pentecost! come that, i promise you.but stay! at present .tis ascension day! at least your faith should be content. i quarrel not with this event. the supernatural element? i deny nothing.at the term it is just nothing i affirm. the fool (with whom is wisdom, deem the scriptures.rightly) in his heart saith (silent, to himself, apart) this secret.\yh

he safe man. a well-known advertisment, hence .who.s griffiths= safe. slowness of divine justice. poet pockets piety stakes. national anthem of natal. but this talk is all indigestion. now for health. reasons for undertaking the task. 150 155 160 165 170 175 180 185 pentecost 27 why, in a word, i seek to gain a different knowledge. why retain the husk of flesh, yet seek to merit the influx of the holy spirit? and, swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- roic guerdon of srotapatti ?35 with calm and philsophic mind, no fears, no hopes, devotions blind to hamper, soberly we.ll state the problem, and investigate in purely scientific mood the sheer ananke of the mind, a temper for our steel to find whereby those brazen nails subdued against our door-pos

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ater of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of$ and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the c (see lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c* in theosophical nomeclatur

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lashing its light to restore life to earth, the other is the act by which life claims that love is light and liberty. and these are two-in-one, the divine letter of silence-in-speech whose symbol is the sun in the arms of the moon.11 but sh and t are alike formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns. sh is the holy spirit as a .tongue of fire. manifest in triplicity, and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their .angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the secret seed of all things, the virgin .the 12 liber v vel reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE

pophis and typhon (v) or the earth sign of set fighting. the sign of baphomet is probably the n.o.x. sign mulier, on the basis that in .liber v vel reguli. the latter sign is identified with the .attitude of baphomet. t.s] 9 [lat .all in two; two in one; one in none; these are neither all nor two nor one nor none. glory to the father and to the mother and to the son and to the daughter and to the holy spirit within and to the holy spirit without, as was and is and it to come, for ever and ever [lit .in generations of generations, six in one through the name seven in one ararita] 10 [commentary by crowley on this chapter as printed in the second edition of the book of lie cdivert from the aim of the work, namely, to let the texts speak for themselves and to give the reader an idea of the ma

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tem, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution. these are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material sun (now symbolized in freemasonry by three candles. the spiritual sun manifests the power of god the father; the soular sun radiates the life of god the son; and the material sun is the vehicle of manifestation for god the holy spirit. man's nature was divided by the mystics into three distinct parts: spirit, soul, and body. his physical body was unfolded and vitalized by the material sun; his spiritual nature was illuminated by the spiritual sun; and his intellectual nature was redeemed by the true light of grace--the soular sun. the alignment of these three globes in the heavens was one explanation offered for the

; and st. john, who holds a cup from which the poison miraculously departed in the form of a serpent (see handbook of christian symbolism) the figure of christ upon the second phalange of the thumb does not follow the pagan system of assigning the first person of the creative triad to this position. god the father should occupy the second phalange, god the son the first phalange, while to god the holy spirit is assigned the base of the thumb--also, according to the philosophic arrangement, the virgin should occupy the base of the thumb, which is sacred to the moon. p. 75 principle; in a state of unfoldment and regeneration it is the house or sanctuary of the deity by whose creative powers it was fashioned "personality is suspended upon a thread from the nature of being" declares the secret

e and your heart turns towards thought, control them, returning to silence. so it is written "and the living creatures ran and returned (ezekiel i. 14) and on this wise was the covenant made with us, 9. these are the ten emanations of number out of nothing: 1st. the spirit of the living elohim, blessed and more than blessed be the living elohim of ages. his voice, his spirit, and his word are the holy spirit. 2nd. he produced air from the spirit and in the air. he formed and established twenty-two sounds--the letters. three of them were fundamental, or mothers; seven were double; and twelve were simple (single; but the spirit is the first one and above all. 3rd. primordial water he extracted from the air. he formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making

of the rose cross sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 137 the fraternity of the rose cross who were the rosicrucians? were they an organization of profound thinkers rebelling against the inquisitional religious and philosophical limitations of their time or were they isolated transcendentalists united only by the similarity of their viewpoints and deductions? where was the "house of the holy spirit" in which, according to their manifestoes, they met once a year to plan the future activities of their order? who was the mysterious person referred to as "our illustrious father and brother c.r.c? did those three letters actually stand for the words "christian rosie cross? was christian rosencreutz, the supposed author of the chymical nuptials, the same person who with three others fo

d its secret cipher language and, according to the fama, a great dictionary in which all forms of wisdom were classified to the glorification of god. they also began the work of transcribing the book m, but found the task too difficult because of the demands of the great numbers of sick who came to them for healing. having completed a newer and larger building, which they called the "house of the holy spirit" they decided to include four new members in the fraternity, thus increasing the number to eight, seven of whom were german. all were unmarried. working industriously together, they speedily completed the arduous labor of preparing the documents, instructions, and arcana of the order. they also put the house called "sancti spiritus" in order. they then decided to separate and visit the

the first rule was that they should take to themselves no other dignity or credit than that they were willing to heal the sick without charge. the second was that from that time on forever they should wear no special robe or garment, but should dress according to the custom of the country wherein they dwelt. the third stated that every year upon a certain day they should meet in the "house of the holy spirit" or, if unable to do so, should be represented by an epistle. the fourth decreed that each member should search for a worthy person to succeed him at his own demise. the fifth stated that the letters "r.c" should be their seal, mark, and character from that time onward. the sixth specified that the fraternity should remain unknown to the world for a period of one hundred years. after t

fifth stated that the letters "r.c" should be their seal, mark, and character from that time onward. the sixth specified that the fraternity should remain unknown to the world for a period of one hundred years. after they had sworn to this code five of the brothers departed to distant lands, and a year later two of the others also went their way, leaving father c.r. c. alone in the "house of the holy spirit" year after year they met with great joy, for they had quietly and sincerely promulgated their doctrines among the wise of the earth. when the first of the order died in england, it was decided that the burial places of the members should be secret. soon afterward father c.r.c. called the remaining six together, and it is supposed that then he prepared his own symbolic tomb. the fama r

g six together, and it is supposed that then he prepared his own symbolic tomb. the fama records that none of the brothers alive at the time of its writing knew when father c.r.c. died or where he was buried. his body was accidentally discovered 120 years after his death when one of the brothers, who possessed considerable architectural skill, decided to make some alterations in the "house of the holy spirit [it is only suspected that the tomb was in this building] while making his alterations, the brother discovered a memorial tablet upon which were inscribed the names of the early members of the order. this he decided to transfer to a more imposing chapel, for at that time no one knew in what country father c.r.c. had died, this information having been concealed by the original members

act but was entirely a product of imagination. this viewpoint is best expressed by a number of questions which are still being asked by investigators of this elusive group of metaphysicians. was the "brotherhood of the rose cross" merely a mythical institution created in the fertile mind of some literary cynic for the purpose of deriding the alchemical and hermetic sciences? did the "house of the holy spirit" ever exist outside the imagination of some medi val mystic? was the whole rosicrucian story a satire to ridicule the gullibility of scholastic europe? was the mysterious father c.r.c. a product of the literary genius of johann valentin andre, or another of similar mind, who, attempting to score alchemical and hermetic philosophy, unwittingly became a great power in furthering the caus

unknown, is representative "o holy and hallowed trinity, thou undivided and triple unity! cause me to sink into the abyss of thy limitless eternal fire, for only in that fire can the mortal nature of man be changed into humble dust, while the new body of the salt union lies in the light. oh, melt me and transmute me in this thy holy fire, so that on the day at thy command the fiery waters of the holy spirit draw me out from the dark dust, giving me new birth and making me alive with his breath. may i also be exalted through the humble humility of thy son, rising through his assistance out of the dust and ashes and changing into a pure spiritual body of rainbow colors like unto the transparent, crystal-like, paradisiacal gold, that my own nature may be redeemed and purified like the elemen

with many petals and of extreme beauty. after declaring all the planets to have been present at the consummation of the great work, the author of the document concludes "i gave to the master [spirit] so much silver and gold that be can never be poor" in his dedication the author and illustrator of the manuscript declares that he has set forth all the operations of the great work. he prays to the holy spirit that he may be included in the number of those who have pursued this most noble of the sciences and that he may be set always in the path of righteousness. exclusive of his own researches, the main sources of his information are said to be the writings of st. thomas aquinas, raymond lully, and arnold of villa nova. to protect themselves from the persecution of despotic theology the med

umns, the pillars before the door, the babylonian cherubim, and the arrangement of the chambers and draperies all indicate the temple to have been patterned after the sanctuaries of egypt and atlantis. isaac myer, in the qabbalah, makes the following observation "the pseudo-clement of rome, writes 'god made man male and female. the male is christ: the female, the church' the qabbalists called the holy spirit, the mother, and the church of israel, the daughter. solomon engraved on the walls of his temple, likenesses of the male and female principles, to adumbrate this mystery; such, it is said, were the figures of the cherubim. this was, however, not in obedience to the words of the thorah. they were symbolical of the upper, the spiritual, the former or maker, positive or male, and the lowe

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by angels, and at his aspect all climes and parts of the universe shall be troubled and astonished, and a fire shall go forth before him, and flames and storm shall surround him; and by the name tau, by which god brought the deluge, and the waters prevailed above the mountains, and fifteen cubits above their summits; and by the name ruachiah, by which god having purged the ages, he will make his holy spirit to descend upon the universe, and will cast ye, ye rebellious spirits, and unclean beings, book one page 31 into the depths of the lake of the abyss, in misery, filth, and mire, and will place ye in impure and foul dungeons bound with eternal chains of fire. by these names then, and by all the other holy names of god before whom no man can stand and live, and which names the armies of

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ct the good spirits, and to banish and cause to retire all hostile phantoms. through thee, o most holy adonai, who livest and reignest unto the ages of the ages. amen. i exorcise thee, o spirit impure and unclean, thou who art a hostile phantom, in the name of god, that thou quit this incense, thou and all thy deceits, that it may be consecrated and sanctified in the name of god almighty. may the holy spirit of god grant protection and virtue unto those who use incense and may the hostile and evil spirit and phantom never be able to enter therein, through the ineffable name of god almighty. amen. o lord, deign to bless and to sanctify this sacred incense so that it may be a remedy unto mankind for the health of body and of soul, through the invocation of thy holy name. may all creatures wh

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y thy holy cherubim: gabriel- by thy holy angel gabriel, who is the author and messenger of good tidings: levanah- direct and support us at this present and for ever. the explanation of the two triangles37 in the parchment. alpha and omega- thou, o great god, who art the beginning and the end: tetragrammaton- thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: soluzen- i command thee, thou spirit of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this circle: halliza- and appear in human shape: bellator (or ballaton- and speak unto us audibly in our mother-tongue: bellonoy (or bellony- and show, and discover unto us all treasure that thou knowest of, or that is in thy keeping, and deliver it unto us quietly:

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iel, who is the author and messenger of good tidings: levanah. direct and support us at this present and for ever. s. 1. the copyist again mistakes a d for an l. ars nova 5 the explanation of the two triangles in the parchment.1 alpha& omega thou, o great god, who art the beginning and the end: tetragrammaton thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: tetragrammaton thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: soluzen. i command thee, thou spirit, of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this circle: halliza and appear in human shape: bellator and speak unto us audibly in our mother-tongue: bello

scover unto us all treasure that thou knowest of, or that is in thy keeping, and deliver it unto us quietly: hally fra and answer all such questions as we may demand without any defect now at this time. an explanation of solomon s triangle. anephezeton. thou great god of all the heavenly host: tetragrammaton. thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: primeumaton. thou who art the first and last, let all spirits be subject unto us, and let the spirit be bound in this triangle, that disturbs this place: michael. by thy holy angel michael, until i shall discharge him. 1. the first two lines in this section refer to the hexagram; the name agla in the diagram is omitted. the remaining names come f

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

s coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent s skin of azal ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is dodothe book of the witch moon by michael w. ford 2 2 the book of the witch moon is dedicated to hecate, the inspiration behind this grimoire, the goddess of the triple moon, of youth, of wisdom and of darkness..she who resides in the north, whose masks are many, lilith, diana, az, those daughters who shall meet thee in th

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

of research explanations for what columbus saw, his experience has contributed to the legend of the bermudatriangle, the huge three-sided segment of the atlantic ocean bordered by bermuda, puerto rico,and fort lauderdale, florida. 11.1500s in spain (33rd parallel, renegade jesuits and franciscans took the name alumbrados(enlightened. they believed in direct contact between the human soul and the holy spirit, whichprompted the inquisition to issue three edicts against the group.12. 1756 charleston, south carolina, the original site of scottish rite masonry in the united states, isonly 15 miles south of the 33rd parallel. 13.1826 masons murdered masonic whistle blower captain william morgan. captain morgan was anamerican freemason who wrote a book revealing masonic secrets, illustrations of

activities largely undetected, and their victims fall with-out justice, or understanding as to what has happened to them. as shakespeare warned: humanitymust perforce prey on itself, like monsters from the deep.in michael's talk, you will discover that what don't know can, indeed, harm you. he provides evidenceas to why so many messengers of light struggle to survive as they attempt to serve the holy spirit,and why it is that, through the ages, spiritually advanced individuals experience financial, vocationaland emotional crises that they cannot satisfactorily account for or remedy. sharing a lifetime of occultresearches, recent case histories, and personal experiences, michael will provide you with the tools toidentify the adversarial agencies, and protect yourself from subtle assaults t

MORALS AND DOGMA

of the forces of nature and the harmony of numbers. to the three sides of the triangle belong the three great names [hebrew, and [hebrew, iahaveh, adona, and agla. above the first is written in latin _formatio, above, the second _reformatio, and above the third _transformatio. so creation is ascribed to the father, redemption or reformation to the son, and sanctification or transformation to the holy spirit, answering unto the mathematical laws of action, reaction, and equilibrium. iahaveh is also, in effect, the genesis or formation of dogma, by the elementary signification of the four letters of the sacred tetragram; adona is the realization of this dogma in the human form, in the visible lord, who is the son of god or the perfect man; and agla (formed of the initials of the four words

ame existences and realities. the attributes of god, personified, became powers, spirits, intelligences. god was the _light of light _divine fire, the _abstract intellectuality, the _root_ or _germ_ of the universe _simon magus, founder of the gnostic faith, and many of the early judaizing christians, admitted that the manifestations of the supreme being, as father, or jehovah, son or christ, and holy spirit, were only so many different _modes_ of existence, or _forces[[greek: d??a e] of the same god. to others they were, as were the multitude of subordinate intelligences, real and distinct beings. the oriental imagination revelled in the creation of these inferior intelligences, powers of good and evil, and angels. we have spoken of those imagined by the persians and the kabalists. in the

y of the idea and of being or verity; in religion, the first principle, the father. 2. being is real. in philosophy, identity of knowing and of being or reality; in religion, the locos of plato, the _demiourgos, the word. 3. being is logic. in philosophy, identity of the reason and reality; in religion, providence, the divine action that makes real the good, that which in christianity we call the holy spirit. the _union_ of all the seven colors is the _white, the analogous symbol of the good: the _absence_ of all is the _black, the analogous symbol of the evil. there are three primary colors _red _yellow, and _blue; and four secondary _orange _green _indigo, and _violet; and all these god displays to man in the rainbow; and they have their analogies also in the moral and intellectual world

isdom, which _thought_ the plan; strength, which _created: harmony, which _upholds_ and _preserves--the masonic trinity, three powers and one essence: the three columns which support the universe, physical, intellectual, and spiritual, of which every masonic lodge is a type and symbol--while to the christian mason, they represent the three that bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy spirit, which three are one _qu_ what do the three greek letters upon the delta? s[_iota, eta, and _sigma] represent _ans_ three of the names of the supreme deity among the syrians, phoenicians, and hebrews. ihuh [hebrew _self-existence. al [hebrew _the nature-god, or soul of the universe. shadai [hebrew _supreme power. also three of the six chief attributes of god, among the kabbalists--wisd

her. hakemah is the active _power_ or _energy_ of deity, by which he produces within himself intellection or thinking: and bainah, the passive _capacity, from which, acted on by the power, the intellection flows. this intellection is called daath: and it is the "word" of plato and the gnostics; the _unuttered_ word _within_ the deity. here is the origin of the trinity of the father, the mother or holy spirit, and the son or word. another trinity was composed of the fourth sephirah, gedulah or khased _benignity_ or _mercy, also termed father(_aba; the fifth, geburah _severity_ or strict _justice, also termed the mother(_imma; and the sixth, the son or _issue_ of these, tiphareth _beauty_ or _harmony "everything" says the sohar "proceeds according to the mystery of the balance--that is, by t

ons, first produced a companion for himself[[greek: s. suzugos, whom he placed in the celestial paradise and who became, by him, the mother of christos, son of the living god _i.e (laying aside the allegory, that the eternal conceived, in the silence of his decrees, the thought of revealing himself by a being who should be his image or his son: that to the son succeeded his sister and spouse, the holy spirit, and they produced four spirits of the elements, male and female, maio and jabseho, nouro and rucho; then seven mystic couples of spirits, and heaven and earth, and all that is; then seven spirits governing the planets, twelve governing the constellations of the zodiac, and thirty-six starry intelligences whom he called deacons: while the holy spirit[_sophia achamoth, being both the ho

e word, the only-begotten, life, light, and _spirit [ghost: in greek [greek??e, f] and [greek??e? a [arche, logos, monogenes, zoe, phos, and pneuma. st. john, at the beginning of his gospel, avers that it was jesus christ who existed in the beginning; that he was the word of god by which everything was made; that he was the only-begotten, the life and the light, and that he diffuses among men the holy spirit [or ghost, the divine life and light. so the pleroma[[greek? a, plenitude or fullness, was a favorite term with the gnostics, and truth and grace were the gnostic eons; and the simonians, doketes, and other gnostics held that the eon christ jesus was never really, but only apparently clothed with a human body: but st. john replies that the word did really become flesh, and dwelt among

??p] and [greek??s?a. anthropos and ekklesia: and from these, other twelve, six of whom were hope, faith, charity, intelligence, happiness, and wisdom; or, in the hebrew _kesten, kina, amphe, ouananim, thaedes, and _oubina. the harmony of the eons, struggling to know and be united to the primitive god, was disturbed, and to redeem and restore them, the intelligence [greek] produced christ and the holy spirit his companion; who restored them to their first estate of happiness and harmony; and thereupon they formed the eon jesus, born of a virgin, to whom the christos united himself in baptism, and who, with his companion sophia-achamoth, saved and redeemed the world. the marcosians taught that the supreme deity produced by his words the [greek [logos] or plenitude of eons: his first utteran

d lived and been distinguished among the persian magi, profited by the doctrines of scythianus, a kabalist or judaizing gnostic of the times of the apostles; and knowing those of bardesanes and harmonius, derived his doctrines from zoroasterism, christianity, and gnosticism. he claimed to be the ?a??t [parakletos] or comforter, in the sense of a teacher, organ of the deity, but not in that of the holy spirit or holy ghost: and commenced his _epistola fundamenti_ in these words "manes, apostle of jesus christ, elect of god the father; behold the words of salvation, emanating from the living and eternal fountain" the dominant idea of his doctrine was pantheism, derived by him from its source in the regions of india and on the confines of china: that the cause of all that exists is in god; an

quadrature of the circle _ans_ the investigation of the quadrature of the circle indicates the knowledge of the four vulgar elements, which are themselves composed of elementary spirits or chief principles; as the circle, though round, is composed of lines, which escape the sight, and are seen only by the mind _qu_ what is the profoundest meaning of the figure 3 _ans_ the father, the son, and the holy spirit. from the action of these three results the triangle within the square; and from the seven angles, the decade or perfect number _qu_ which is the most confused figure _ans_ zero--the emblem of chaos, formless mixture of the elements _qu_ what do the four devices of the degree signify _ans_ that we are to hear, see, be silent, and enjoy our happiness. the _unit_ is the symbol of identit

a of day, to send a thought in an instant round the world, to heal or slay at a distance, to give our words universal success, and make them reverberate everywhere. this agent, partially revealed by the blind guesses of the disciples of mesmer, is precisely what the adepts of the middle ages called the elementary matter of the great work. the gnostics held that it composed the igneous body of the holy spirit; and it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current, of love and wrath. this ambient fluid penetrates everything. it is a ray detached from the glory of the sun, and fixed by the weight of

r the temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current, of love and wrath. this ambient fluid penetrates everything. it is a ray detached from the glory of the sun, and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere and the central attraction. it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring his own tail. with this electro-magnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, the ancients and the alchemists were familiar. of this agent, that phase of modern ignorance termed physical science talks incoherently, knowing naught of it save its effects; and theology might apply to it all its pretended definitions of spirit. quiescent, it i

en in the ternary, it everywhere appears in masonry and in the hermetic philosophy under its mask of alchemy. it even appears where masons do not suspect it; to teach the doctrine of the equilibrium of contraries, and the resultant harmony. the double triangle of solomon is explained by saint john in a remarkable manner: there are, he says, three witnesses in heaven--the father, the word, and the holy spirit; and three witnesses on earth--the breath, water, and blood. he thus agrees with the masters of the hermetic philosophy, who give to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury the name of philosophical water, to their salt that of blood of the dragon, or menstruum of the earth. the blood, or salt, corresponds by opposition with the father; the azothic, or mercurial water, with t

he breath, water, and blood. he thus agrees with the masters of the hermetic philosophy, who give to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury the name of philosophical water, to their salt that of blood of the dragon, or menstruum of the earth. the blood, or salt, corresponds by opposition with the father; the azothic, or mercurial water, with the word, or logos; and the breath, with the holy spirit. but the things of high symbolism can be well understood only by the true children of science. alchemy has its symbolic triad of salt, sulphur, and mercury--man consisting, according to the hermetic philosophers, of body, soul, and spirit. the dove, the raven, and the ph nix are striking symbols of good and evil, light and darkness, and the beauty resulting from the equilibrium of the

sdom, was born, a woman and in armor, of the brain of jove; isis was the sister before she was the wife of osiris, and within brahm, the source of all, the very god, without sex or name, was developed maya, the mother of all that is. the word is the first and only-begotten of the father; and the awe with which the highest mysteries were regarded has imposed silence in respect to the nature of the holy spirit. the word is light, and the life of humanity. it is for the adepts to understand the meaning of the symbols. return now, with us, to the degrees of the blue masonry, and for your last lesson, receive the explanation of one of their symbols. you see upon the altar of those degrees the square and the compass, and you remember how they lay upon the altar in each degree. the square is an i

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first and foremost, through the perfections of its measurements, the symbol of the perfect man, meaning christ, incarnation of god. this brings us to the foundation of christian teachings. man is the true temple of god, for which solomon's temple is a symbol "know you not" saint paul asked "that you are the temple of god (corinthians 1, 3:16 "are you not aware that your body is the temple of the holy spirit within you (corinthians i, 6:19) it is the same truth, an affirmation of god's immanence, that saint bernard would proclaim in his second sermon devoted to the dedication of the church. he makes an allusion there to the visible temple built to shelter humankind, but in which god dwells not as he resides in his image, meaning within man. the oldest known mention of solomon's temple as o

a. ye square, the compass& ye bible. this is the affirmation of the cosmic and sacred meaning of the lodge. following is the christian meaning of the temple: q. what ladder had they. building of ye? a. jacobs. between ye heaven] ye earth* words are missing from this part of the manuscript. speculative freemasonry 229 q. how many steps was in jacobs ladder? a. 3. q. what was ye 3? a. father, son& holy spirit. q. what meant ye golden dore of ye temple, qr (where) the went in to sanctum sanctorum? a. it was another type of christ who is ye door ye way and the truth& ye life by whome& in whom all ye elect entreth into heaven. q. what was ye greatest wonder yt seen or heard about the temple? a. god was man and was god. mary was a mother and yet a maid. q. what signifies the temple? a. ye son o

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y emission, the individual is considered responsible for involuntary emission as well, since dreams are in most cases the way the mind sorts out the thoughts the individual entertained during his waking hours) any seminal emission implies a recipient of the vital seed. normally, this is one fs wife, who inspires or arouses her husband to transmit his creative flow to her; the result of this being holy spiritual offspring (in the form of increased holy energy in the world) and ideally, physical offspring as well. however, evil can also entice or trick a man to transmit his creative flow to it, by deceiving him into thinking that some holy purpose (or some cheap imitation of the exhilaration and excitement of holiness, i.e, ephemeral excitement or fulfillment) will come of this. in this case

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stures may be used practically to aspire to the illumination it suggests. this is the essential value of the sacramental actions. the rosicrucian equivalent of this formula is found in the fama fraternatitas, one of the original three classical rosicrucian documents. ex deo nascimur. in jesu morirnur. per spiritus sanctus reviviscimus "from god are we born. in christ we die. we are revived by the holy spirit" nor is this all. if we take 'lvx' as symbols of roman numerals, we have 65. this number, therefore, attains the symbolic equivalent of light, gnosis and illumination. the adeptus minor obligation imposed on the candidate during the ritual initiation, obligates him, as already demonstrated, to aspire and work and practise so that by enlightenment he may one day "become more than human"

prepared <49> state to return. hi third attempt to go forward places him in a balanced position, the path of equilibrium, the middle way, where he is received. and a way is cleared for him by the hierophant, who again represents the celestial soul of things. during his journey along that path, the stability of earth is established within him, that eventually it may prove an enduring temple of the holy spirit. some have criticised these elemental grades a little harshly and severely; others have rejected them entirely. in a letter sent to me from a former praemonstrator of one g. d. temple, these rituals too were condemned in that they were said to be simply a parade, redundant and verbose, of the occult knowledge that one of the chiefs possessed at that time. in one sense, of course, what

aspirant's higher self which is hidden and confined within the personality, itself wandering blindly, lost in the dark wilderness. the whole concatenation of symbols is an elaborate and dramatic portrayal of the central theme of the great work. in a word, it depicts <71> the spiritual rebirth or redemption of the candidate, his resurrection from the dark tomb of mortality through the power of the holy spirit. in the symbol of the vault, the psychologist no doubt will see a highly interesting and complex array of mother symbols, traces of which, used in very much the same way, may be found in the literary fragments we inherit from the mystery cults of antiquity. it would be possible, and quite legitimate so to interpret the vault. for even the order interpretation refers the vault in its en

hieroglyphic symbolism. thus tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh,by air, aries, virgo, aries. from yeheshua, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus, which is simply the tetragrammaton with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination-virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries. virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb, fire the fire of the holy spirit, taurus the ox of the earth in whose manger he was laid, and lastly aries the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries, virgo, water-the firmament, the balanced forces, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign, operating in the zodiac, the fire god dess, and the waters of creation. 84 the golden dawn: volume 1 book one <167> the terms

and of the great avenging angel, hua, and if i fail herein- may my rose be disintegrated and my power in magic cease. third hands dagger to second adept and holds cup conveniently for him. second dips point of dagger in wine and makes cross on aspirant- on brow, feet, right hand and left hand, and heart, saying (for brow) there are three that bear witness in heaven; the father, the word, and the holy spirit, and these three are one (for feet) there are three that bear witness on earth; the spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one <216 (right hand) except ye be born of water and the spirit, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven (left hand) if ye be crucified with christ, ye shall also reign with him (he marks heart in silence) then says: second let the aspirant be rel

ibed. for the true order of the rose cross descendeth into the depths, and ascendeth into the heights- even unto the throne of god himself, and includeth even archangels, angels and spirits. the golden dawn: volume zz book three these four fratres also erected a building to serve for the temple and headquarters of their order, and called it the collegium ad spiritum sanctum, or the college of the holy spirit. this being now finished, and the work of establishing the order extremely heavy, and because they devoted much time to the healing of those sick and possessed, who resorted to them, they initiated four others, viz: fratres r c (the son of the deceased father's brother of c. r c, c. b. a skillful artist, g. c, and p. d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans except i. a, and now

rs, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c. r. c, was buried occurred as follows. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his <220> place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet which bore the names of certain brethren, and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a strong nail or bolt, so that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away it pulled with it a large stone which thus partially uncovered a secret door (he draws back curtain, revealing door, upon which was inscribed in large letters "post cxx an

n 1887-88 under the governance of the hermetic order of the golden dawn was named very appropriately isis-urania. isis-urania is venus, and she is the occult planet which represents the genius of this order- venus, the evening and the morning star, presaging the rising of the sun of ineffable light. venus is also, as isis, a symbol of the qabalistic shekinah, the glory of the presence divine, the holy spirit. after the revolt in the order about 1900, the schismatic sect appropriated as the name of their order, stella matutina, the morning star, thus continuing the significance of the enlightening function and purpose for which the order was founded originally. for, if one may speak of the order as having a specific purpose, then that sublime motive is to bring each man to the perfection of

e by each adept alone, and consecrated by himself and never touched by any other person; and wrapped in white silk or linen when not in use. it is a complete synthesis of the masculine, positive or rainbow scale of colour attributions, which is also called "the scale of the king" the four ends of the cross belong to the four elements, and are coloured accordingly. the white portion belongs to the holy spirit and the planets. the twenty-two petals of the rose refer to the twenty-two paths. it is the cross in tiphareth, the receptacle and the centre of the forces of the sephiroth and the paths. the extreme centre of the rose is white, the reflected spiritual brightness of kether, bearing upon it the red rose of five petals and the golden cross of six squares; four green rays issuant around t

of the watch-tower situate in the north, and by taxir, the angel who is thy immediate superior, i do invoke thee, and by invocating, do conjure thee. and being armed with the power of adonai, i do strongly command thee by him who spake and it was done, and unto whom all creatures of the earth are obedient. and i, being made after the image of the elohim, and endued therefore with the power of the holy spirit, created also unto divine will, do evoke thee by the name of adonai ha-aretz (vibrate by the middle pillar and circumambulate. i conjure thee in the name of adonai melekh (vibrate by middle pillar, etc) the lord and king of the earth. and i conjure ye powerfully by the three holy archangels of the kingdom: metatron, sandalphon, and nephesch ha-messiach, and by those powerful souls of f

terer. protect with the sign of silence. manifestation should begin in the north. if not, repeat the invocation to tam'r in the east until it has been said three times, and then charge with will as before. if at the third invocation and charging no manifestation commences, replace the sigil on altar, and address a prayer to the gods. 0 ye great lords of the holy kingdom which is the throne of the holy spirit, ye spirits of life who preside over the weighing of souls in the place of judgment before aeshoorist, lord of life triumphant over death. give me your hands, for i am made as ye, who are the formers of the soul. give me your hands and your magic power, that i may have breathed into my spirit the power and might irresistible to compel this angel axir, of the northern quadrangle of eart

bey, and in the name of tzadkiel, your most potent archangel, i command ye to send hither thine intelligence, the angel yohphiel that he may concentrate and bind into this talisman his life and power. in taking it for his body, let him thereby form a true and wonderful link for me with all those powers of love and wisdom, grace, abundance and benignity which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. 0 ye divine powers of chesed, manifest yourselves through this intelligence yohphiel, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through *the student should substitute hisher own magical name. 41 6 the golden dawn: volume 111 book six this creature of talismans i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fell

ransformation 43 1 perfect body of transmutation. formulate before me now in the evoked elements of air, 0 ye powers of yesod, a true and tangible form of isis, that through its assumption, my own inner being may be wholly dissolved as though eaten up by the airs of the spirit, and transformed into a divine transfiguration. to the end that by the descent of the shekinah and my assumption into the holy spirit, i may become the embodiment of the true magic of light, and acquire more perfect knowledge to help my fellow men. and i now declare that all is in readiness for this magical operation, devoted to the formulation of a body of transformation of the goddess isis. pass to the west of the temple with fireand water, and place them either side of the formulation of zsis, saying: 0 form of is

m that they may formulate with power this form of isis. let them give life and vitality unto this form of transmutation before me. let them bind therein the reflection of the light of the supernals so that by my assumption of it, the body of transformation may become a solid link, tangible and unbreakable with all those powers of love and understanding which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. grant that the wisdom and light of the divine ones may descend and through this form, manifest unto me the true holiness and unsullied vision of the light. vibrate and circumambulate zsis by the vibratory formula of the middle pillar. holding lotus wand by black end, directingflower over the head of form, say: in the name of the lord of the universe, arise before me, 0 form of isis un

d unspeakable, immortal queen of the gods, i invoke thee. isis (circumambulate within. by this lotus, the sacred flower of thy life, i invoke thee, i who dwell in the vast hall of living death, crying as thy child horus towards the golden dawn. isis (vibrate) bid me awake, 0 mother, from the darkness of this earthy tomb, that i may as the living osiris speak back to thee. 0 isis, thou form of the holy spirit, from the marble halls of life, the immeasurable deep of yesod, the sea of the sacred love, i invoke thee. isis (circumambulate within) descend from thy palace of the stars. 0 mother. 0 archetype eternal of maternity and love. 0 mother, the flower of all mothers, whose voice all amenti hears. speak unto me and manifest about me that i may rise from the chaos, from the world of shapeles

and wheresoever thou now mayest be, by the power of the spirit devolving upon me by this ceremony, i do project unto thee this ray of the divine white brilliance that it may bring thee peace and happiness and rest. make the sign of the enterer three times to project the light. be thy mind open unto the higher. be thy heart a centre of the light. be thy body, whatsoever its nature, a temple of the holy spirit. pause. make qabalistic cross. unto thee, sole wise, sole eternal and sole merciful one be the praise and the glory forever, who has permitted, who now standeth invisibly and humbly before thee to enter thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. not unto us but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon his head, and teach him the value of self-sacri

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truth.difficulties and perils may beset your mental vision, even as obstacles present themselves in ourworldly affairs, let us, however, remember that knowledge is power and that the source of allwisdom will sustain our feeble steps on the journey that leads to eternal life.battery of three, that all may rise.be thou ready to exclaim, like the martyrs of old, ab ben verouah hacodesh,"father, son, holy spirit, to thee be all the glory.music-gloriarituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section14 the torch bearer proceeds to the aspirant and placing a lighted taper in his hand causes him reverseit in a vessel of salt (which is near the east) so as to extinguish, as he says: like the light of this taperso should your light be extinguished should you fail in your voluntary pledge

s his maker222sprototype: other creatures grovel in the earth and have their senses intent upon it, the creature man isreared up toward heaven, with face toward it, yet possessing the offices of life, nourishment,digestion and generation. how wonderful in all his structure. he was made last because he was theworthiest, the soul was inspired last because yet more noble, for it is the breath of the holy spirit.the soul is liken unto god, for it is one, immaterial, immortal, distinguished into three cowers whichall make up one spirit. yet observe how closely the spirit and the man are united, symbolised, bythe zodiacal sign, gemini, or the twins; and of which the stars of the second magnitude, castor andpollux are typical as they are termed "corposant, or body and spirit.conductor and compani

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, like apollonius, what is taking place on the other side of the world; to heal or injure at a distance; to give speech a universal success and reverberation. this agent, which barely manifests under the uncertain methods of mesmer's followers, is precisely that which the adepts of the middle ages denominated the first matter of the great work. the gnostics represented it as the fiery body of the holy spirit; it was the object of adoration in the secret rites of the sabbath and the temple, 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

endured much. there is mercy and there is justice in god; to the just he dispenses justice and to sinners mercy. in the soul of the world, which is the universal agent, there is a current of love and a current of wrath. this ambient and all-penetrating fluid; this ray loosened from the sun's splendour and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere and the power of central attraction; this body of the holy spirit, which we term the universal agent, while it was typified by the ancients under the symbol of a serpent devouring its tail; this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is depicted in archaic monuments by the girdle of isis, twice-folded in a love-knot round two poles, as well as by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblematic of prudence and of saturn. motion and lif

ology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the mother of god. god, considered as father, has nature for his daughter; as son, he has the virgin for his mother and the church for his bride; as holy spirit, he regenerates and fructifies humanity. hence, in the trigrams of fohi, the three inferior yin correspond to the three superior yang, for these trigrams constitute a pantacle like that of the two triangles of solomon, but with a triadic interpretation of the six points of the blazing star. the triangle of solomon 15 dogma is only divine inasmuch as it is truly human that is to say, in

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rved to our own day, but wholly misconstrued, are nothing else than the game of tarot, the antique allegories of which were remarked and appreciated for the first time in the modern world by the learned archaeologist, court de gebelin. the double triangle of solomon is explained by st. john in a remarkable manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the f

he water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word or logos, and the ether with the holy spirit. but the things of transcendent symbolism can only be understood rightly by the true children of science. the threefold repetition of names with varied intonations were united to triangular combinations in magical ceremonies. the magic wand was frequently surmounted with a small magnetized fork, which paracelsus replaced by the trident represented below. 26 the ritual of transcendental

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tains information on these selected religious groups provided by the groups themselves. errors or changes may be reported through official channels to the chief of army chaplains. subject: religions and religious groups reading list: table of contents. christian heritage groups o church of christ, scientist o church of jesus christ of latter-day saints o family of love o foundation faith of god o holy spirit association for the unification of world christianity o jehovah's witnesses o mennonite church o religious society of friends in the u.s. o reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day saints o seventh-day adventist church o unity school of christianity o the way international o worldwide church of god. indian heritage groups o integral yoga international o international society fo

y satan, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. the activities of satan the diabolical trinity: the biblical satan has a trinity, as jehovah has a trinity. as jehovah assumes the role of father, satan assumes the role of the father figure. jesus christ is likened to the antichrist. at one point they are both flesh and blood. and the satanic spirit becomes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. the biblical authority of satanic churches and temples: revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not, but a

rist (the communal partaking of the "flesh and blood of christ. in the protestant denominations the holy eucharist is considered a symbolic act. the catholic however must believe he is actually eating of the body of christ and drinking his blood in a unique, non-rational concept called transubstantiation. confirmation (chrism-anointing) allows one to become a fuller participant in the life of the holy spirit through receiving his gifts of which there are seven. this is the highest that a lay person may achieve who is not accepted into the priesthood. it is expected that the confirmed individual can handle all aspects of the faith including mystical experiences. the sacrament of the eucharist when first received is considered a step between the baptism and the confirmation. the redemption s

c christians of africa to the russian and greek orthodox of middle and eastern europe. 12. which established the "apostles' creed" as the basic statement of belief for each baptized catholic 13. though not admitted in centuries that followed, or at that time for that matter 14. an innovation which occurred to them after seeing similar movements in egypt 15. today called syncretisms 16. changed to holy spirit in the 60's 17. mass, or more properly holy mass, is the name of the liturgical service commemorating the death and resurrection of christ. it follows a specific format called the canon of the mass, which can be embellished. however, the basic formulas must be used in the sequence and wording decreed by the church. to tamper with this is considered blasphemy, which is why the satanic r

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ight the great lucifuge may appear unto me under a human form, free from evil smell, and that he may accord me in virtue of the pact which i propose to enter into, all the desires i make. o grand lucifuge, i pray thee now to quit thy dwelling, wheresoever it be, and hasten hither to speak with me. otherwise will i compel thee by the power of the strong living god, his beloved son, and the eternal holy spirit. obey promptly, or thou shalt be eternally tormented by the power of the potent words of the grand clavicle of solomon the king, wherewith by the powers of magick he was accustomed to compel the rebellious spirits, to receive his compact. then straightaway appear, or i will unhesitatingly torture thee by the virtue of the great words of this clavicle. aglon, tetragram, vaycheon, stimul

ng fingers forward, hands level with the third eye. hold for a second. lunge forward suddenly, shouting; procul! o procul! este pofani! bahlasti! ompheda! in the name of the great and terrible one i declare that i have banished these shells to their habitations! finally, the gesture of silence, standing erect with fingers on lips. exorcism i conjure you, o devil, by the father and the son and the holy spirit, and by the patriarchs and prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and all the holy men and holy women of god. and by our lord jesus christ i conjure, that you should recede from this servant of god [n, i conjure you, o devil, by the passion of our lord jesus christ, which he endured for the human race, that you should recede from this servant of god,[n. i conjur

ist, in which he appeared to his disciples saying, it is i, do not be afaraid, and he commanded them, saying, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature; he who believes and is baptised shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned; by the aforesaid words i conjure and admonish you that you should recede from this servant of god [n. i conjure you, devil, by the holy spirit, the paraclete most high, whom our lord jesus entrusted to his disciples in fiery tongues, that you should recede from this servant of god [n, and not returns any more, nor make any spirit return to him, and as god separated heaven from earth, truth from falsehood, good from evil, sweet from bitter, so may you be separated from this servant of god and not be able to approach him any mo

earth. nor should you be unaware, satan and beelzebuch, that pains and torments will come upon you in the day of judgement and in that eternal day when god will come like a fiery furnace to judge the living and the dead k (the conjuration of malign spirits dealing in the bodies of people, as it is done by saint peter, fifteenth century. exorcism ii in the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirits, amen. i conjure you, elves and all kinds of demons, of the night and of the day, by the father, and the son, and the holy spirit, and the undivided trinity, and by the intercession of the most blessed and glorious ever virgin mary, by the prayers of the prophets, by the merits of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by

ximian, dionysius, john, constantine, serapion, and mortian, and by the name of the lord god which is blessed forever a g l a, that you should cause or inflict no harm or any evil on this servant of god,[n, whether in sleep or while awake. christ has conquered nchrist reigns nchrist rules nmay christ bless us nand defend us from every evil namen. in the name of the father, and the son, and of the holy spirit, amen. nin my name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, if they drink any poison it will not harm them, and they will put their hands on the sick and will cure them. nwondrous cross, dispeller of sorrow, recovery of health. nbehold the cross of the lord; flee adverse ones. nthe lion of the tribe of judah has conquered, the root of dav

the position of the master is indicated in the centre of the pentagram, and the cardinal directions are marked outside the bands] when this has been inscribed, enter into it as is designated, and place the sword beneath your knees, and, facing south, recite this conjuration: i conjure you, all the demons inscribed on this ring- which you should have in your hand- by the father and the son and the holy spirit, and by almighty god, maker of heaven and earth k that all of you, constrained and bound to my will and power, should proceed hither in benign form, so that i will not fear, and should conscecrate this ring in such a way that it may possess this power, namely that whenever i place it on the finger of a dead person, one of you will enter him, and he will appear alive as before, in the s

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

dus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. tori: the gate that marks the entrance to a shrine. its shape is regarded as a symbol of shinto. totem: some sort of object or, perhaps, animal that assumes a spiritual symbolism for a clan or tribe. transcendent: going beyond the ordinary, beyond the universe and time, into spiritual dimensions. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. tsukiyomi: the shinto moon-god and the ruler of night. ujiko: a named child whose name is entered at birth at the local shinto shrine. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. urvan: the soul. vaishnavaism

and worship. the names of these gods differed across religions, although many shared similar characteristics. this is true in the monotheistic faiths that consider abraham as a founder of their religion. these are judaism, christianity, and islam. the jewish name for god is yahweh, or yhwh. another common variation on the name is jehovah. christianity refers to god as the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this refers to the christian trinity, in which god is believed to exist as himself, within jesus christ, the son of god, and as a purely physical representation in the holy spirit. islam refers to god as allah. muslims, the followers of islam, have ninety-nine different variations of god s name. the religion of baha grew out of islam and came to call baha (glory or splendor) its god

ans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. 120 world religions: almanac christianity the historic jesus of nazareth jesus was a jewish teacher and healer from the first century ce. although jesus is accepted as an actual historical figure, there is little known about him outside the stories fo

p for the sins of humankind. a belief in jesus and his suffering leads to salvation. followers. christians number about 2.1 billion, making christianity the world s largest religion. name of god. the christian god is called god and is also known as the lord or the father. jesus is believed to be the son of god. the concept of the trinity makes god a combination of god the father, the son, and the holy spirit. symbols. the cross and the simplified sketch of a fish are two dominant christian symbols. worship. religious services are held in churches. most christians pray and observe the sacraments, or rites, of baptism and holy communion. dress. there is no special dress for christians. texts. the bible, consisting of the old testament, of jewish origin, and the new testament, written after t

ey, world religions: almanac 125 christianity became involved in doctrinal arguments. for the next several hundred years, large councils of bishops (clergymen who rank above priests) met to decide matters such as the nature of the doctrine of the trinity. under the doctrine of the trinity, god is united into a single figure with three sides: the father (a creative side, son (the earthly part, and holy spirit (the supernatural, or spiritual, aspect. still, some believed that god the father was more powerful than the other two parts. councils in 325 and 381 decided that issue. they wrote the nicene creed, a statement of belief in one god with three aspects. the first monasteries are formed during the fifth to tenth centuries the monastic system arose. this development was prompted in part by

or sinners are punished. there is also no complete agreement as to whether hell is eternal and whether its punishment is spiritual or physical. some christians reject the notion of hell altogether. the third major doctrine of christianity is belief in the trinity. while christianity is monotheistic, it also holds the concept that the single, eternal god is composed of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this three-in-one concept of god stirred great debate in early christianity, just as the idea that jesus was wholly human and wholly divine at the same time did. added to these basic beliefs are others, not necessarily held by all denominations. some hold a firm belief in the historical crucifixion and resurrection of jesus. not all denominations believe in the virginity of mary and t

ols sacred to christianity are the cross and a primitive drawing of a fish. the cross is used as a symbol of jesus s sacrifice for humankind, while the fish was first used as a means by which christians could identify one another. royalty-free/ corbis. world religions: almanac 137 christianity christian symbol, especially when depicted with a halo of three rings. the dove is used to represent the holy spirit, while the three rings of the halo represents the trinity. the image of a lamb similarly symbolizes jesus, the lamb of god (agnus dei in latin. worship the form of worship for christians was established in the early days of the church. at first some of the worship service was borrowed from jewish forms, so that the faithful said prayers together, sang from psalms( biblical hymns, and r

he entire congregation. the second part is the actual celebration of the last supper, with the symbolic eating of a wafer and drinking of wine. catholics also make the sign of the cross at various times during the service by placing the right hand to the forehead, to the breast and to the left shoulder and to the right shoulder, with the words: in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy spirit. amen. music and singing also forms a part of the mass. a typical worship service in a protestant church is led by a preacher or minister and focuses on a sermon or a teaching from the bible. some services are opened with prayers from the bible. though the lord s supper, also called communion, is part of protestant worship, it is not necessarily a weekly matter. some protestant denomin

a supportive group of family and friends. ap images. 142 world religions: almanac christianity the ceremony is also called a christening. the newborn usually has a few drops of water splashed on its head or is immersed in shallow pool. an official of the church, such as a priest or minister, carries out the ceremony, while saying i baptize you in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit. this service is attended by friends and family and by persons chosen by the parents to be godparents, who promise to help raise the child as a christian. in some protestant traditions, though, children are not baptized until their parents and other church members feel they are old enough to understand the commitment they are making in the ceremony. the next major rite of passage for c

two drink from a common cup to signify the life they will be sharing. portions of the bible, including the letters of paul, are read at these services. finally, christianity also provides for believers at their time of death. for christians, death is not an ending, but a beginning. christians believe that there is a life after death. this is stated clearly in the apostle s creed: i believe in the holy spirit; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and life everlasting. for christians, death is a passage to eternal life. just before death, if possible, ministers or priests will give a final sacrament to the believer. this is called the anointing (touching with oil) of the sick. the priest or minister touches the dying person

and life everlasting. for christians, death is a passage to eternal life. just before death, if possible, ministers or priests will give a final sacrament to the believer. this is called the anointing (touching with oil) of the sick. the priest or minister touches the dying person with holy oil and says, through this holy anointing may the lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the holy spirit. amen. may the lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up. amen. catholics also confess their sins to the priest so that they can go to heaven without waiting in purgatory. after death, all christian traditions follow a similar routine. there is a public announcement of the death, the body is prepared, there are funeral services at a church, a procession of cars to the cemet

together, and plotinus believed that individuals wanted to return to the divine mind and then be absorbed back into the one. sin was the result of being kept separate from the one. these concepts had a powerful influence on early christianity. the idea of emanation is very close to the idea developed by christian theologians to explain the concept of the trinity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. moreover, plotinus s concept of sin is very close to the christian concept. sin, for plotinus, came about from humans being separated from the one, just as in christian theology sin arises from humankind s separation from god. sects and schisms greek religion was both a public and private matter. but there were no written rules for the religion, no m

s attend an indigenous ritual. african indigenous religions have influenced christianity and islam in africa by making them more mystical, reflecting africans strong belief in an unseen spirit world. 278 world religions: almanac indigenous religions for instance, african shamans who practice christianity alongside indigenous beliefs will often say that they have mystical powers that come from the holy spirit, which enable them to channel the spirits of others. in contemporary life, the indigenous religions of africa have enjoyed a revival. many westerners are exploring the belief systems of indigenous religions around the world because of dissatisfaction with western religions. they are also attracted by the strong environmental component of many indigenous religions. from africa to the ne

called a hounsi bossale, which literally means something like untamed (or wild) bride of the spirit. this person is in effect in training for initiation. an initiate is then referred to as a hounsi kanzo. his or her status becomes similar to that of a christian world religions: almanac 281 indigenous religions who has received confirmation, the rite that allows a person to receive the gift of the holy spirit. at the next level, the person is considered si pwen, sur point, meaning that he or she enjoys the patronage of a lwa and can receive the sacred rattle. this person is similar to a priest or minister in christianity. at the final level of initiation, a person is referred to as asogwe, similar to the position of a bishop in christianity. such a person can initiate others. santer a discu

aning wisdom, so ahura mazda is usually translated as wise lord or lord of wisdom. in addition to ahura mazda are a number of amesha spentas, or bounteous immortals (sometimes called holy immortals. these figures, which were developed from ancient persian deities called daevas, are thought of as various aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. chief among them is spenta mainyu, similar to the christian holy spirit. zoroastrianism recognizes six more the amesha spentas: 1. vohu manah, who represents good mind and purpose; 2. asha vahishta, or truth and righteousness; 3. spenta ameraiti, or devotion, serenity, and kindness; 4. khashathra vairya, or power and just rule; 5. hauravatat, or wholeness and health; and 6. ameretat, or long life and immortality. it is believed that vohu manah appeared to

ffenses included fines, religion classes, whippings, torture, and exile( being forced to leave a place. death sentences were given to people who committed adultery and blasphemers, or those who took the name of god in vain. in 1553 calvin was personally responsible for the burning of a spanish physician who denied the concept of the trinity, which is the union of the father (god, son (christ, and holy spirit. education was controlled by the church, as were social services such as charities. begging was not allowed. in short, geneva was ruled by very strict and rigid laws. calvin remained the head of, and force behind, this theocracy from 1541 until his death in 1564. calvin s intention was to turn geneva into a model christian city. all who visited were impressed by the order and cleanline

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her "in fact, in the 'sepher yetzirah' god considered as the infinite and consequently the indefinable being, extended throughout all things by his power and existence, is while above, yet not outside of numbers, sounds and letters--the principles and general laws which we recognise "every element has its source from a higher form, and all things have their common origin from the word (logos, the holy spirit. so god is at once, in the highest sense, both the matter and the form of the universe. yet he is not only that form; for nothing can or does exist outside of himself; his substance is the foundation of all, and all things bear his imprint and are symbols of his intelligence" hebrew tradition assigns the doctrines of the oldest portions of the "zohar" to a date antecedent to the buildi

if thy mind escape from thee bring it back to thy control; even as it was said "running and returning (the living creatures ran and returned (19) and hence was the covenant made. 9. the ineffable sephiroth give forth the ten numbers. first; the spirit of the god of the living (20) blessed and more than blessed be the living god (21) of ages. the voice, the spirit, and the word (22) these are the holy spirit. 10. second; from the spirit he produced air, and formed in it twenty-two sounds--the letters; three are mothers, seven are double, and twelve are simple; but the spirit is first and above these. third; from the air he formed the waters, and from the formless and void (23) made mire and clay, and designed surfaces upon them, and hewed recesses in them, and formed the strong material fo

job xxxviii. 9 "and thick darkness a swaddling band for it" the sixteenth path is the triumphal or eternal intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the glory, beyond which is no other glory like to it, and it is called also the paradise prepared for the righteous. the seventeenth path is the disposing intelligence, which provides faith to the righteous, and they are clothed with the holy spirit by it, and it is called the foundation of excellence in the state of higher things. the eighteenth path is called the intelligence or house of influence (by the greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased, and from its midst the arcana and hidden senses are drawn forth, which dwell in its shade and which cling to it, from the cause of all cau

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o be born. the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 93 one of the brahmans, asita, says of the buddha: this child is the one who will become a buddha, the savior, the leader to immortality, freedom, and the light. compare with this what happens in the gospel of luke: now there was a man in jerusalem called simeon, who was righteous and devout. he was waiting for the consolation of israel, and the holy spirit was upon him. when the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him what the custom of the law required, simeon took him in his arms and praised god, saying: lord, as you have promised you now dismiss your servant in peace. for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the gentiles, and for glory to your people i

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is illustrated elsewhere in this book, was more to the point. he recognized that satan and lucifer are, indeed, one and the same. but levi also taught that satan, believe by true christians to be the enemy of god, is, in fact, man's helper and benefactor. indeed levi praised satan, or lucifer, as the "angel presiding over the light of truth "lucifer is divine and terrestrial" said levi "he is the holy spirit" and is the "light-bearer in us. it is our mind."15 thus, we discover the cabalistic philosophy is not only that lucifer is divine. he is integrated into and is one with the mind of the men who make up the illuminati elite. lucifer and these men are of one mind. this brings to pass the prophecies of revelation 17 where we are told that the conspiracy of the elite in the endtime shall b

ottish rite as embodying within the attributes of the godhead, or holy trinity, by blasphemously declaring himself to be the great i am that i am, thus identifying himself with satan's promise in the garden "ye shall be as gods" hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 57 jewish spiritual powers.7 actually, this trinity of the jews is in competition with the true godhead of the bible: father, son, and holy spirit "i am that i am" the mason proclaims equally blasphemous is that in the lecture on the seventh, or royal arch degree, of the york rite, the mason initiated is asked the question "are you a royal arch mason" his answer is required to be "i am that i am."8 in other words, in this degree's ritual the mason has not only acknowledged that the devil, in the guise of jahbuhlun, is his sacred

morals and dogma, he emphasizes: this force was known to the ancients. it is a universal agent, whose supreme law is equilibrium..it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current..it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring his own tail..force attracts force..5 the jewish cabalists speak in mysterious, guarded terms of this same potent force. they say it is produced from the uniting of the two triangles, male and female, in the sex act, releasing the generative energy of creation. the result symbolized is, of course, the jewish star of david, known as the seal

ttish rite textbook, a bridge to light, by rex hutchens, 33rd degree, outlines the knowledge and symbols used for the various degrees of freemasonry. in this book, hutchens restates the principles of albert pike's 19th century classic, morals and dogma. according to these principles, the oroboros serpent shown in this design (levi's occult magic of "as above, so below) represents eternity and the holy spirit of the triune godhead. in other words, the illuminists are declaring that the serpent, identified in the scriptures as the devil, is, in their religion, the divine holy spirit! a blasphemous concept, indeed. a company called azure green puts out a catalog offering "egyptian deity wall plaques" including this one, a depiction of the combined gods of egypt, horns and set. two entities re

lation 12:9, identifies lucifer as "the great dragon..that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world" so, by whatever name you call him, the god of the illuminati and masonry is the serpent. in fact, in a bridge to light, an official textbook of the supreme mother council, 33, the highest council of the scottish rite, rex hutchens, 33, reveals that "the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent" is none other than "the serpent devouring his own tail."4 that is, the oroboros serpent. remember, in all their writings, the most revered of masonic scholars manly p. hall, albert mackey, albert pike, etc. claim that the masonic rituals and teachings come from the "mysteries" of ancient babylonians, egyptians, greeks, persians and others. thus, we glean understan

THE BOOK OF THE ELDER KINGS GOLDEN DAWN

of the elder kings issued by the thelemic order and temple of the golden dawn official holy book of the novus ordo aureae aurora concerning the great white brotherhood received by sir david cherubim copyright (c) 1989 e.v. 0. there is silence. and now the elder kings make speech: 1. we come in the name of the most beloved one, the most mysterious one, whom is the grand lord of the aeon, and whose holy spirit is the life and light of the whole universe. we come as sacred nourishment, as delicious ambrosia and sweet nectar. we come as a blessed sacrament of wisdom and joy unto all. know thou this holy truth! 2. we are the ageless brethren of l.v.x, whose voice is our holy habitation. we are the secret masters of the formless fire who conduct the world's initiation. and know thou that we are

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s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 225 prayer is a basic element of religious expression. 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 226 religious phenomena the phenomenon of speaking in tongues during ecstatic religious experiences is also known as glossolalia, and began among the first christians. described in acts 2:1 18, the holy spirit granted to the apostles the ability to speak in the languages of the foreigners who had assembled in jerusalem for the observance of pentecost. the visitors were amazed they could speak with them in their native language. while holy spirit allowed the apostles to converse suddenly in a foreign language, later references implied that glossolalia was a kind of religious ecstasy or uninte

en to true believers. then, in the early 1900s, pentecostalism declared that spirit-baptism brought with its indwelling power the ability to speak in tongues. in the 1960s, glossolalia became suddenly popular even among the more mainstream churches. while the movement spread in the 1970s, the position largely taken by the mainstream church bodies was that, while it may be legitimate gift from the holy spirit, glossolalia was hardly the normative expression for christians and did not denote a superiority over those who did not practice it. however, today s approximately 500,000 practicing pentecostals continue to believe in the power of the holy spirit to bring about a baptism of the spirit like that received by the apostles that enabled them to speak in tongues. sources: dyer, luther b. to

t all who believe in him shall cast out devils and shall speak with new tongues. in addition, believers shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them (mark 16:17 18. in 1909, reverend george went hensley (c. 1870s 1955) of the church of god in grasshopper, tennessee, began to teach that those verses in mark should be taken literally. if believers truly had the holy spirit within them, he argued from the pulpit, they should be able to handle rattlesnakes and any number of other venomous serpents. they should also be able to drink poison and suffer no harm whatsoever. snake handling as a test or demonstration of faith became popular wherever hensley traveled and preached in the small towns and backwaters of tennessee, kentucky, the carolinas, virginia, oh

and indiana. for a time, the church of god defended the innovation of snake handling that had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 239 been injected into the prescribed order of service by hensley, but in 1922, it disavowed the practice. other pentecostal churches followed suit and discouraged their members from testing the holy spirit by picking up venomous snakes or drinking poison. undaunted, hensley established the church of god with signs following. some researchers of the religious snake handling phenomenon state that the practice sprang up independently on sand mountain, alabama, around 1912 without any assistance from george hensley. within a couple decades, snakes were being handled openly in outdoor worship

cized snake fatalities, passed an act making it illegal to display, handle, use, or exhibit any poisonous snake or reptile in such a manner as to endanger the health of another. those who have investigated snake handling have found that it is a popular misconception that the snakes won t bite the snake handlers in their religious ritual or that, if bitten, the handlers, under the direction of the holy spirit, won t die. although exact records are difficult to substantiate, at least 71 people have been killed by poisonous snakebites during religious services in the united states. and that number includes the founder of the snake handling movement, george went hensley, who, it has been estimated, had been bitten over 400 times before his death in 1955. while some might consider such deaths a

t they are truly using dangerous snakes in their worship services. 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 240 religious phenomena according to the gospel of mark believers shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. it is believed in some southern american pentecostal churches that if a person truly has the holy spirit within them, they should be able to handle rattlesnakes and other venomous serpents. snake handling is used as a test or demonstration of faith (national archives and records administration) in those rural churches in the appalachian highlands where snake handling remains popular, no members of the congregations are required to handle the snakes, and in most churches, no one under the

do so, and the cult continued to be anathema to the church down through its variations in the cathars, the albigensis, and the knights templar. the first gnostic of importance would seem to be simon magus (fl. c. 67 c.e, a samarian sorcerer, a contemporary of the apostles, who was converted to christianity, then strongly rebuked by peter when he sought to purchase the wonder-working power of the holy spirit (acts 8:9 24. those gnostic christians influenced by such charismatic individuals as simon magus believed that there was a secret oral tradition that had been passed down from jesus that had much greater power and authority than the scriptures and epistles offered by the orthodox teachers of christianity. the gnostics, like the initiates of the greek and egyptian mysteries, sought dire

uteff, focused the group with her vision that judgment day would occur on april 22, 1959. her prophecy having failed, she sold mount carmel in 1965 to benjamin roden, who named his faction the branch davidian seventh-day adventist association. after roden s death in 1978, his wife, lois roden, declared herself the sixth angel in revelation and a prophet speaking through the feminine aspect of the holy spirit. a young man named vernon howell joined the branch davidians in 1981 and almost immediately caught lois roden s eye as the group s next prophet. howell assumed control of the davidians in 1988 and changed his name to david koresh in 1990. he pronounced himself the lamb of revelation, who would open the seven seals of the scroll and interpret the secrets that would immediately bring abo

eddon in waco: the final days of david koresh. u.s. news and world report, may 3, 1993, 24 34. reavis, dick j. the ashes of waco: an investigation. syracuse, n.y: syracuse university press, reprint, 1998. eckankar those who follow the alternative religion of eckankar say that theirs is the religion of the light and sound of god. the light of god is the eck, known to many saints and mystics as the holy spirit. the sound of god is the rushing wind that the disciples of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) heard on that first pentecost. eckists believe that they follow ancient wisdom teachings that were revived in 1965 for modern men and women by the living eck master paul twitchell (1910? 1971. according to twitchell and such masters from higher planes as rebazar tarzs, whose teachings he relayed

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y tells that the authors of the various books of the bible believed that animals have souls and spirits, just as humans do. stating that she has been enriched by her exploration of various religious practices, from catholicism to pentecostalism, holmes offers a suggestion for those individuals who are troubled about orthodox teachings that deny spirituality to animals. she urges them to allow the holy spirit to be their teacher. attorney holmes says that she is not ashamed to be compared to animals, for most are of the highest character and are very good company. we have much to learn about and from animals. holmes was inspired to write her book by her late mother, irene hume holmes, who would often question members of the clergy of various faiths: did animals have spirits? and if they did

sive research enabled her to answer at last her mother s oft-posed query, do dogs go to heaven? in the affirmative. janice gray kolb, author of compassion for all creatures, says that she had been taught since childhood that her beloved pets did not have souls. today, however, she states that she has a firm conviction that there will be animals in heaven. once i had this inner conviction from the holy spirit that animals and all god s creatures do inhabit heaven with us, then i could never believe otherwise, she writes. it was irrevocable! no matter what anyone else may argue, i cannot be shaken on this. as a student of the bible, kolb states that god created humans out of the ground, and he created animals out of the ground. the new american catholic bible uses for man clay of the ground

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marian sorcerer, a contemporary of the apostles, who was converted to christianity by philip. although he had been a highly respected magus, simon continued to be impressed by the remarkable powers of the apostles and their ability to heal and to manifest miracles. when he saw peter and john baptizing people by the laying on of hands, he asked that he might be taught the power of transferring the holy spirit to others. eagerly, simon offered to pay the apostles a fee to teach him how to manifest the holy spirit. peter strongly rebuked him for attempting to buy this profound spiritual gift (acts 8:9.24. simon accepted the rebuke and asked peter to pray for his forgiveness. the term gsimony h to describe the purchasing of ecclesiastic blessings has come down through the ages. simon apparentl

d to pay the apostles a fee to teach him how to manifest the holy spirit. peter strongly rebuked him for attempting to buy this profound spiritual gift (acts 8:9.24. simon accepted the rebuke and asked peter to pray for his forgiveness. the term gsimony h to describe the purchasing of ecclesiastic blessings has come down through the ages. simon apparently brooded over his inability to acquire the holy spirit from the apostles, and, according to legend, he fell back on his old ways of sorcery and began to traffic once again with demons. to prove his power, simon announced to all of rome that he would fly into the sky and ascend to the heavens, just as jesus had done. remarkably, simon, supported by demons, began to fly upward. peter, however, fearful that many innocents would be attracted t

estionable medical devices, in minneapolis, minnesota. sources: cooper, helen, and peter cooper heads, or the art of phrenology. london: london phrenology co. ltd, 1983. gall and phrenology [online] http//human-nature.com/mba/ chap1.html. 22 november 2002. hedderly, frances. phrenology, a study of mind. london: l. n. fowler& co. ltd, 1970. phrenology into a state of mind in which the voice of the holy spirit might be heard. all human cultures throughout history have given great attention to their prophets and seers. perhaps the quintessential prophet is nostradamus (1503.1566, whose name has become synonymous with prophecy and who is better known to the general public than any of the old testament prophets. the french seer has inspired numerous books, countless articles, and a number of te

tell you; or to speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. h although totems are most often associated with native americans, many cultures have at some time in their past used animal totems. local sport teams use names such as the tigers, lions, bears, cardinals, and falcons. various religions and sects use expressions like the lamb of god, the dove of the holy spirit, and the lion of judah. people through history have even had such surnames as bear, beaver, wolf, crane, crow, drake, finch, fish, fox, hawk, robin, pike, lamb, partridge, and salmon. for many centuries, humans have allowed animals to be both surrogates and teachers. the ethnologist ivar lissner has pondered the provocative mystery of why those anonymous franco-cantabrian cave artists

ng. once he understood what the philosopher f stone represented, he would have found it at last.and he would have become one with it. many scholars have since insisted that the true alchemists sought not to turn base metals into gold, but to transform the dense material of their physical bodies into a spiritually evolved immaterial entity. in this perspective, the philosopher fs stone becomes the holy spirit that mystically transmutes humans into true manifestations of god on earth. m delving deeper cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1968. de saint-didler, l. hermetical triumph: the victorius philosopher fs stone. edmonds, wash: holmes publishing group, 2001. kelly, edward. the stone of the philosophers. edmonds, wash: holmes publishing group, 1990. smith, patri

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nto the higher. many and great are the mysteries of the rosary. 3 color of rosary: black: while the color is not particularly important, the initiate must remember that colors are forces. thus, most rosaries are black to denote the change brought forth through the process of putrefaction. this fits well with the (5) decanates of (10= 50= n= death. in god we are born, in yeheshua we die and in the holy spirit we are reborn. the black rosary could be said to be symbolic of the war waged on the control of the ruach and nephesch, thus, opening the gateway to the higher genius. white: symbolic of divine white brilliance and the transformation brought forth when this purity touches corruptibility. pink, rose or natural color: to denote the highest forces of tiphareth through which we must attain

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used by envy and strife, he died upon the cross that he might give us life. all who accept his aid to guide and to sustain by his example may to god like him attain. he rose from death to reign throughout the ages' dance; he is the sun that melts the clouds of ignorance. his precepts, better known and mightier soon to be, shall judge the quick and dead for all eternity. i do believe in god's most holy spirit, whose fire the heart and mind of saints and prophets did inspire. he is a breath of life and of fecundity, proceeding both from god and from humanity. i do believe in one most holy brotherhood of just men that revere heaven's ordinance of good. i do believe one place, one pontiff, and one right, one symbol of one god, in one intent unite. i do believe that death by changing us renews

eason" says science "in its identity with the spirit of charity, the highest reason is my obedience" says faith "in its identity with the motive of reasonable acts, being is justice" says science "in its identity with the principle of charity, justice is providence" replies faith. sublime harmony of all certainties with all hopes, of the 100 absolute in intelligence with the absolute in love! the holy spirit, the spirit of charity, should then conciliate all, and transform all into his own light. is it not the spirit of intelligence, the spirit of science, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of force "he must come" says the catholic liturgy "and it will be, as it were, a new creation; and he will change the face of the earth "to laugh at philosophy is already to philosophize" said pascal, re

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beasts, the cause of the raigning of the winds, and minds and intents of men, all sorts and natures of plants, vertues of roots, and others, was not unknown to him. now i do not think that there can be found any one who would not wish and desire with all his heart to be a partaker of this noble treasure; but seeing the same felicity can happen to none, except god himself give wisdom, and send his holy spirit from above, we have therefore set forth in print this little treatise, to wit, famam& confessionem, of the laudable fraternity of the rosie cross, to be read by every one, because in them is clearly shewn and discovered, what concerning it the world hath to expect. although these things may seem somewhat strange, and many may esteem it to be but a philosophical shew, and no true histor

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

e royal race *gargoyles, vol. iii, pp. 85, 86. this is the divine union of the active y with the passive hwh formulating tetragrammaton, and of the c descending upon the hwhy formulating christ* it is the old story of devaki or of mary, in which the aspirant falling into an ecstatic state, is visited by the divine essence; in the one case under the form of mahadeva, in the other under that of the holy spirit; and losing consciousness of all worldliness, in a boundless bliss the divine child is conceived *similarly with one voice eckart and tauler, ruysbroek and suso exclaim: garise, o man! realize the end of thy being: make room for god within thy soul, that he may bring forth his son within thee. h .vaughan, hours with the mystics, p. 300. so has it been with all those who have realized t

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: greeting and peace from the supreme grand council and from the grand master baphomet. senior perfect magician present: homage, welcome and all hail (all give hailing sign and repeat) herald: v36 j: v omnipotent. h: v omniscient. z: v omnipresent. one unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, so cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of the holy spirit that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy name aumn.37 all: so mote it be. z: brethren, assist me to open a lodge of perfection. what is the first care of every perfect magician?38 h: to see that the lodge is properly tyled (to j) see that the lodge is properly tyled! j (to herald) see that the lodge is properly tyled! herald (to senior p.m) see that the lodge is pr

luminated of our sublime ix, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost, one god, eternal, indivisible, omnipotent, omniscient, file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (2 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. omnipresent. the favour of god and the grace of our lord jesus christ, and the abiding of the holy spirit be with you now and forever more amen. here now the secret of secrets, the key of all magick, revealed unto me for your instruction and behoof by the loving kindness of the o.h.o. lege judica tace of the nature of the arcanum i am alpha and omega, the first and the last, i will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. he that overcometh shall inherit a

e o.t.o. from this duplicity of speech hath sprung infinite confusion in the vulgar mind. for they understand not that man is the guardian of the life of god; woman but a temporary expedient; a shrine indeed for the god, but not the god. thus do they blaspheme who worship the false trinity of father-mother-son: blind mouths that gape poison, let them perish in the day of be-with-us. moreover, the holy spirit is the unity in the trinity; for the father and the son are indeed guardians of the quintessence, heirs to the quintessence, of the substance of the quintessence, but they are not the quintessence itself. and this is of the godhead; but in earth it is the son that combineth father and spirit as it were man and woman, god and man. nor is this mystery to be understanded of him who is not

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

know wisdom. 51:7 purge me with hyssop, and i shall be clean: wash me, and i shall be whiter than snow. 51:8 make me to hear joy and gladness [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice. 51:9 hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 51:10 create in me a clean heart, o god; and renew a right spirit within me. 51:11 cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 51:12 restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit. 51:13 [then] will i teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 51:14 deliver me from bloodguiltiness, o god, thou god of my salvation [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 51:15 o lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise

is mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 63:8 for he said, surely they [are] my people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their saviour. 63:9 in all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 63:10 but they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy [and] he fought against them. 63:11 then he remembered the days of old, moses [and] his people [saying] where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy spirit within him? 63:12 that led [them] by the right hand of moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to m

h findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11:11 if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 11:12 or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 11:13 if ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him? 11:14 and he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. and it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. 11:15 but some of them said, he casteth out devils through beelzebub the chief of the devils. 11:16 and others, tempting [him] sought of him a sign from heaven. 11:17 but he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, every

1 in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 1:12 that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in christ. 1:13 in whom ye also [trusted] after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise, 1:14 which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 1:15 wherefore i also, after i heard of your faith in the lord jesus, and love unto all the saints, 1:16 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 1:17 that the god of our lord jesus christ, the father of glory, may give u

down upon your wrath: 4:27 neither give place to the devil. 4:28 let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 4:29 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 4:30 and grieve not the holy spirit of god, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 4:31 let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 4:32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as god for christ s sake hath forgiven you. 5:1 be ye therefore followers of god, as dear children; 5:2 and walk in love, as christ a

in the lust of concupiscence, even as the gentiles which know not god: 4:6 that no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 4:7 for god hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 4:8 he therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but god, who hath also given unto us his holy spirit. 4:9 but as touching brotherly love ye need not that i write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of god to love one another. 4:10 and indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 4:11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 4:

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lves. this art is not delivered, but divinely. unto whom god will, he revealeth his secrets; but to whom he will not bestow any thing out of his treasuries, that person shall attain to nothing without the will of god. therefore we ought to desire [illegible greek]1 from god alone, which will mercifully impart these things unto us. for he who hath given us his son, and commanded us to pray for his holy spirit, how much more will he subject unto us the whole creature, and things visible and invisible? whatsoever ye ask, ye shall receive. beware that ye do not abuse the gifts of god, and all things shall work together unto you for your salvation. and before all things, be watchful in this, that your names be written in heaven: this is more light, that the spirits be obedient unto you, as chri

ered, 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. if no sparrow can fall to the ground without the will of the father which is in heaven, how much mo

aries of this life: and thou oughtest to help thy neighbour with the gifts which god bestoweth upon thee, whether they be spiritual or corporal. therefore thou shalt pray thus: o lord of heaven and earth, creator and maker of all things visible and invisible; i, though unworthy, by thy assistance call upon thee, through thy onely begotten son jesus christ our lord, that thou wilt give unto me thy holy spirit, to direct me in thy truth unto all good. amen. because i earnestly desire perfectly to know the arts of this life and such things as are necessary for us, which are so overwhelmed in darkness, and polluted with infinite humane opinions, that i of my own power can attain to no knowledge in them, unless thou teach it me: grant me therefore one of thy spirits, who may teach me those thin

lory, and the profit of our neighbour. give me a/so an apt and teachable heart, that i may easily understand those things which thou shalt teach me, and may hide them in my understanding, that i may bring them forth as out of thy inexhaustible treasures, to all necessary uses. and give me grace, that i may use such thy gifts humbly, with fear and trembling, through our lord jesus christ, with thy holy spirit. amen the third septenary. aphorism 15. they are called olympick spirits, which do inhabit in the firmament, and in the stars of the firmament: and the office of these spirits is to declare destinies, and to administer fatal charms, so far forth as god pleaseth to permit them: for nothing, neither evil spirit nor evil destiny, shall be able to hurt him who hath the most high for his re

mies, sagani, nymphes, dryades, and spirits of the woods. 4. the fourth is, to be able to discourse with knowledge and understanding of all things visible and invisible, and to understand the power of every thing, and to what it belongeth. 5. the fifth is, that a man be able to govern himself according to that end for which god hath appointed him. 6. the sixth is, to know god, and christ, and his holy spirit: this is the perfection of the microcosmus. 7 the seventh, to be regenerate, as henochius the king of the inferiour world. these seven secrets a man of an honest and constant minde may learn of the spirits, without any offence unto god. the mean secrets are likewise seven in number. 1. the first is, the transmutation of metals, which is vulgarly called alchymy; which certainly is given

it. 4. also i the lord thy god do teach thee, what things are profitable for thee, and do guide thee in the way wherein thou walkest. 5. and i will give thee understanding, and will teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go, and i will guide thee with my eye. 6 also if you which are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give his holy spirit to them that ask him? 7. if you will do the will of my father which is in heaven, ye are truly my disciples, and we will come unto you, and make our abode with you. if you draw these seven places of scripture from the letter unto the spirit, or into action, thou canst out erre, but shalt attain to the desired bound; thou shalt not erre from the mark, and god himself by his holy spirit

himself according to these seven subsequent laws, to accomplish his magical end. the first law is this, that he know that such a spirit is ordained unto him from god; and let him meditate that god is the beholder of all his thoughts and actions; therefore let him direct all the course of his life according to the rule prescribed in the word of god. secondly, alwaies pray with david, take not thy holy spirit from me; and strengthen me with thy free spirit; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 1. 27 evil: i beseech thee, o heavenly father, do not give power to any lying spirit, as thou didst over ahab that he perished; but keep me in thy truth. amen. thirdly, let him accustome himself to try the spirits, as the scripture admonisheth; for grapes cannot be gathered of thorns:

ans faign. sixthly, all the deceitful imitations and affections of the devil are also to be avoided, whereby he imitateth the power of the creation, and of the creator, that he may so produce things with a word, that they may not be what they are. which belongeth onely to the omnipotency of god, and is not communicable to the creature. seventhly, let us cleave fast to the gifts of god, and of his holy spirit, that we may know them, and diligently embrace them with our whole heart, and all our strength. aphorism 41. we come now to the nine last aphorismes of this whole tome; wherewith we will, the divine mercy assisting us, conclude this whole magical isagoge. therefore in the first place it is to be observed, what we understand by magitian in this work. him then we count to be a magitian

ich we have above already spoken of, that even as there is one god, from whence is all good; and one sin, to wit, disobedience, against the will of the commanding god, from whence comes all evil; so that the fear of god is the beginning of all wisdom, and the profit of all magick; for obedience to the will of god, followeth the fear of god; and after this, do follow the presence of god and of the holy spirit, and the ministery of the holy angels, and all good things out of the inexhaustible treasures of god. but unprofitable and damnable magick ariseth from this; where we lose the fear of god out of our hearts, and suffer sin to reign in us, there the prince of this world, the god of this world beginneth, and setteth up his kingdom in stead of holy things, in such as he findeth profitable

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

as the essence of the passive principle, as fire was of the active; the one being of terrestrial, and the other of thereal origin. hence, st. john the baptist, who might have acquired some knowledge of the ancient theology, through its revivers, the eclectic jews, says: i, indeed, baptise you in water to repentance; but he that cometh after me, who is more powerful than i am, shall baptise you in holy spirit, and in fire:6 that is, i only purify and refresh the soul, by a communion with the terrestrial principle of life; but he that cometh after me, will regenerate and restore it, by a communion with the thereal principle.7 pan is 1 ver. 703. 2 pindar, olymp. i. ver. 1. diodor, sic. lib. i. p. 11. 3 il. x, ver 246, and f, ver. 196. 4 clementina, hom. xii. arnob. adv. gentes, lib. ii. 5 see

untry where worshipped. she was borne by lions, and he by bulls, to show that nature, the passive productive power of matter, was sustained by anterior destruction, whilst the therial spirit, or active productive power, was sustained by his own strength only, of which the bulls were symbols.1 between both was a third figure, with a dove on his head, which some thought to be bacchus.2 this was the holy spirit, the firstbegotten love, or plastic nature (of which the dove was the image when it really deigned to descend upon man,3) proceeding from, and consubstantial with both; for all three were but personifications of one. the dove, or some fowl like it, appears on the medals of gortyna in crete, acting the same part with dictynna, the cretan diana, as the swan is usually represented acting

the present medal, is like the apollo, the destroying power of the diurnal sun. on the other side of the medal3 is a figure, somewhat like the jupiter on the medals of alexander and antiochus, sitting with a beaded sceptre in his right hand, which he rests upon the head of a bull, that projects from the side of the chair. above, on his right shoulder, is a bird, probably a dove, the symbol of the holy spirit, descending from the sun, but, as this part of the medal is less perfect than the rest, the species cannot be clearly discovered. in his left hand be holds a short staff, from the upper side of which springs an ear of corn, and from the lower a bunch of grapes, which being the two most esteemed productions of the earth, were the natural emblems of general fertilization. this figure is

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ite, which must take place apart from interruption, wash and anoint yourself with clean oil. don a robe you have hand-made of clean white linen. draw a circle of protection about yourself and invoke the guardians of the quarters-the angel, eagle, lion, and bull. purify the circle with fire and water. cre- ate a vortex at its center by dancing or walking clockwise and call down the divine light of holy spirit. offer your heartfelt prayers to the all and state clearly your intention in carrying out the ritual. these are the preliminaries, which are the most important part of any ritual, as they prepare the way for what is to follow. if they are not properly carried out, the essential symbolic message of the ritual will not reach its objective, no matter how elegantly it is constructed or exe

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oxy before a panel of theologians at poitiers. after a two-week interrogation in the spring of 1429, they found no fault with her. their conclusion reads, in part "the king. must not prevent her from going to orleans with his soldiers, but must have her conducted honorably, trusting in god. for to regard her with suspicion or abandon her, when there is no appearance of evil, would be to repel the holy spirit and render himself unworthy of the aid of god."57 the king gave his consent, and joan rallied the army that liberated orleans, turning the tide of the war against the english. captured outside the city gates of compikgne by the french forces of the duke of burgundy, who was in alliance with the english against charles vii, she was sold to the english by the burgundians, interrogated by

ed because it is the pleasure of the glory, beyond which is no other glory like to it, and it is called also the paradise prepared for the righteous" 17. binah to tiphareth hebrew letter: zayin tarot trump: vi the lovers correspondence: gemini chapter thirteen: pathworking 235 "the seventeenth path is the disposing intelligence, which provides faith to the righteous, and they are clothed with the holy spirit by it, and it is called the foundation of excellence in the state of higher things" 18. binah to geburah hebrew letter: cheth tarot trump: vii the chariot correspondence: cancer "the eighteenth path is called the intelligence or house of influence (by the greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased, and from its midst the arcana and hidden se

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

en as jesus christ had supplanted the jealous god of the hebrews and the gospels had displaced the old testament. this view was first explicitly set forth by giovanni pico della mirandola (1463-94) in his seminal seventy-two conclusions on the kabbalah, published in 1486. in the fourteenth conclusion, he argued that the insertion of the shin into tetragrammaton represents the descent of the fiery holy spirit into the fourfold realm of matter-the incarnation of god in human flesh. 48 tetragrammaton pico held that the addition of the sh made the previously ineffable ihvh pronounceable. this premise was defended by the first great non-jewish kabbalist, johannes reuchlin (1455-1522) in his highly influential work de verbo mirifico (on the wonder-working word, published in germany in 1494, and

of four letters is no further necessary, the whole virtue thereof being translated into the name jesus, in which only miracles are done; neither is there any other (as peter saith) under heaven given unto men, by which they can be saved, but that. but let us not think, that by naming jesus prophanely, as the name of a certain man, we can do miracles by virtue of it: but we must invocate it in the holy spirit, with a pure mind and a fervent spirit, that we may obtain those things which are promised us in him; especially knowledge going before, without which there is no hearing of us, according to that of the prophet, i will hear him because he hath known my name. hence at this time no favour can be drawn from the heavens, unless the authority, favour and consent of the name jesu intervene;

when the name jesu by a due pronunciation is proposed to them to be worshipped (three books of occult philosophy 3.12) 50 tetragrammaton when agrippa writes of "knowledge going before" he is referring to the age-old belief, held by the ancient egyptians and others, that knowledge of the true name of a spirit gives command over that spirit. when agrippa writes of invoking the name of jesus "in the holy spirit" he means the elevation and focus of the mind that comes with magical purity of the will. when he writes of "a due pronunciation" he refers to the technique of vibrating the fivefold name. although the christian kabbalists of the renaissance were quite sincere in their belief that the name ihshvh had displaced and rendered ineffective the name ihvh, we need not give their opinions too

canopy over this carpet and shielded it from the hot rays of the sun. solomon was able to communicate with the birds, as well as with all the beasts of the field, because he understood their languages. from the legends of the jewish midrash, we learn something about the throne itself, which solomon is said to have fashioned in the shape of the "throne of glory which is above" with the help of the holy spirit. in the throne were the shapes of the four living creatures-the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle. the lion was placed opposite the ox, probably on the arms of the throne, and presumably the man was opposite the eagle on the two sides of the back. behind the throne was the likeness of a wheel and cherubim. the throne was made of pure gold studded with pearls and precious stones. ins

its magical implications. those who overcome the weaknesses of their own natures shall not have their names blotted out, but those names shall be supplanted by the name of god. even more fascinating, from a magical standpoint, is the last part of the verse, where the author says "i will write upon him my new name" the name of god has become the magical name of st. john, who is possessed with the holy spirit, even as i t becomes the new name of the worthy "names" of sardis. by this literary device, the author shows that he has put off his old identity and assumed the god-form of the heavenly christ by ritually taking onto himself the secret magical name of christ, which he does not reveal. the name of heavenly jerusalem mentioned in the verse refers to the permutations of tetragrammaton. j

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upon in terms of symbolical architecture. the candidate is instructed to work towards his own perfection under the light of masonry. there is no mystery, no concealment whatever, and it calls for no research in respect of its source. its analogies and replicas are everywhere, more especially in religious systems. it is a reflection of the pauline doctrine that man is or may become a temple of the holy spirit. but it should be observed in this connection that there is a rather important though confusing mixture of images in the address of the worshipful master to the candidate, after the latter has been invested and brought to the east. it is pointed out to him that he represents the cornerstone of a building- as it might be, the whole masonic edifice- but he is immediately counselled to ra

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tres sephirotes son la corona sephir tica. 6 the other seven inferior sephiroth come in the following order: chesed mercy; jupiter, the divine i, atman, primeval hieroglyphic is represented by a breast. the fourth tarot card, the emperor. geburah severity; the fifth card of man, the pope or the hierophant of the tarot: mars, the warrior of aries. tiphereth beauty, venus of taurus, the love of the holy spirit, the causal body of the man, the sixth card of the tarot, the lover. netzach victory, justice of the arcanum, the seventh card of the tarot, the chariot, saturn. hod glory, mercury of gemini, the eighth card of the tarot, the eternity of all. yesod foundation, the sun of leo, the ninth card of the tarot. the hermit. malkuth kingdom, the entire universe, mary or virgo, nature. these ten

are now going to study the sixth arcanum of the tarot. beloved, remember that indeed and without any doubt, the two interlaced triangles of the seal of solomon, which join or separate love, are the two shuttles with which the ineffable mystery of eternal life in the loom of god is woven or unwoven. the upper triangle symbolizes kether (the father who is in secret, chokmah (the son) and binah (the holy spirit of each human being. the lower triangle represents the three traitors of hiram abiff; those three traitors are inside of us. the first traitor is the demon of desire; that traitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpow

st must not only kill desire, but moreover, he has to kill the very shadow of the horrible tree of desire. sacred dances between men and women were performed in the mysteries of eleusis along with love and the music of the centers in order to enchant the serpent. then, the dancers of the temple were clean from the filthy venom of desire. all kinds of sins are forgiven, except the sins against the holy spirit. flee fornication. every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. 1st corinthians 6: 18. however, fornication does not pertain only to the physical body; it is also related to thoughts, emotions, words and animal sensations. es precisamente en el micro-cosmos, representado tambi n por el tri ngulo inferior, donde debemos realiz

very few are the human beings who have succeeded in passing such an ordeal. a precious jewel (with the seal of solomon) a ring filled with ineffable light is granted to the one who victoriously passes the ordeal of the sanctuary. the neophyte who touches the ring with the left hand inevitably loses it. another explanation of the seal of solomon is the following: above the father, the son and the holy spirit, below the power that governs (the intimus, the power that deliberates (the mind, and the power that executes (the personality. when the power of deliberation and the power of execution become rebellious, they are insubordinate against the governor (the intimus) and then the outcome is failure. the three traitors usually take possession of the powers of deliberation and execution. the

s of horus18, oro [spanish for gold. we need to transmute the lead of the personality into the gold of the spirit and this work is only possible within the alchemist s laboratory. when the alchemist fledgling is crowned, he transforms himself into a god of fire; it is then that he opens with his own hands the terrible jaws of the furious lion. the potable gold of alchemy is the sacred fire of the holy spirit. the attachement of the cross-man within the triangle-spirit would be impossible without the potable gold. the number 11 this number is formed by two unities that heinrich khunrath translated in these two words "coagula et solve. we need to accumulate the sacred fire, and then learn how to project it. the key to this is the connection of the membrum virile with the genitalia murielis

reto. estos tomos sat nicos son recogidos de los infiernos at micos del hombre por los rganos creadores despu s de la eyaculaci n. 112 these satanic atoms are picked up from the atomic infernos of man by the creative organs after the ejaculation. when such satanic atoms attempt to rise through the sympathetic canals to the brain, they are downwardly precipitated by the three rays: father, son and holy spirit. when these kinds of tenebrous atoms descend, they violently crash against a master atom of the black lodge that resides in the fundamental chakra of the coccygeal bone. this evil atomic entity then receives a formidable impulse which gives him power to negatively awaken the fiery serpent of our magical powers. in such a case, the fiery serpent descends downward to the atomic infernos

f. each time a defect is disintegrated, something new occupies its place: be this an esoteric password, a mantram, a cosmic initiation, an esoteric degree, a secret power, etc. this is how we fill ourselves, little by little, with true wisdom. arcanum 21 the kabbalistic addition of this arcanum gives us the following result: 2+1= 3. one is the father (kether, two is the son (chokmah, three is the holy spirit (binah: this is the resplendent dragon of wisdom within any human being that comes into the world. anyone who achieves the dissolution of the psychological i (the fool of the tarot) incarnates his resplendent dragon of wisdom. whosoever incarnates his resplendent dragon of wisdom becomes a spirit of wisdom["speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words" p

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, rhythm and periodicity. 3. when the primordial idea of unity is added to the idea of a binary, what results is a ternary. it draws us out from the absolutism of dualism. it is the synthesis after experiencing thesis and anti-thesis: the creative third force. three is the number of creation, the cause of everything comprehensible. it represents both adaptation and transmutation. it is binah, the holy spirit or third person of the trinity on the tree. it is characterized by the first geometrical shape, the triangle. the triangle of art in the western magical tradition is where materializations occur when doing evocations. as the number and sphere of the first creative force actualizing itself in binah, the mother, it gives birth to all of the remaining sephiroth on the tree, and to it is a

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but they lived peacefully side by side. they were largely synonymous with the catharists. they had their own bishops and deacons, and had great reverence for their 'perfects- initiated persons who were regarded as almost divine. they prostrated themselves before them, saying 'benedicite' the perfects also adored each other, though this adoration was not directed towards themselves but towards the holy spirit who had descended upon them. the church charged the catharists with believing and teaching that they could freely indulge in all kinds of pleasures or debaucheries until they entered the circle of perfects; that their souls wandered about from one creature to another (reincarnation) until they became perfects, and then ascended to heaven at death. they were also charged with persuading

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. talmud, berachoth, 57.2. even on the sabbath you may kill 5 things the fly in egypt; the wasp in nineveh; the scorpion of hadabia; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the serpent of israel, and the mad dog anywhere. talmud, sabbat, 121. 2. in the first temple of solomon were 5 things, which were not in the second temple; the cherubic ark; the shekinah; the holy spirit, and the urim and thummim. talmud, yoma, 21. 2. rabies in the dog has 5 symptoms; its mouth gapes; it drops spittle; its ears hang down; it carries its tail between it legs, and it keeps to the side of any path. yoma, 83. 2. for suckling mothers, there are 5 things, which are injurious; garlic, cucumber, melon, leeks and onions; said rashi. in one study 5 years and then has found no pr

th in the hebrew tongue; aretz, adamah, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott arequa, gia, tziah, yabeshah, cheled or thebel. the mystical river sambatyon flowed all the week, but was still on the 7th day, says rashi. hershon, talmudic miscellany, 154. the 7 catholic deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth. the 7 gifts of the holy spirit, isaiah xi. v. 2, are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the lord. these are seven of the kabalistic sephiroth. 83. seven is the token of union between god, who is triune, and man, who is quaternary. w. f. shaw. the holy ghost is said to impart a 7-fold gift; 7 lamps burn before the throne of god. the council of arles declared that 7 bishops ought t

ccu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the kabalists greatly esteemed the 12-lettered name of god, hih-hvvh-vihih, meaning fuit, est, erit, or- he was, is, will be. less esoteric was the triple tetragrammaton, ihvh thrice written. all fratres of the rosicrucian society of england will also be familiar with ab ben v ruch h qdsh, ab-benve- ruach-ha-kodesh; meaning father, son and holy spirit. the rosicrucian society had a scheme of distributing 12 shades of color among the zodiacal signs, but this is a secret matter. many erroneous schemes have been published. the 12 signs of the zodiac are named in hebrew, beginning with aries; taleh, shur, thaumim, sartan, ariah, bethuleh, mazanaim, akrab, kesith, gedi, deli, and dagim. in arabic; al hamal, al thaur, al tauman, al sartan

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reading attested in other zoharic passages. for example, the following appears in the stratum of zohar known as sitrei torah: there is a holy fire [esha qaddisha, the feminine [nuqba, and a foreign fire [esha nukhra ah, the strange fire [esh zarah, and thus it is written do not come at any moment to the shrine (lev 16:2, this is the feminine from the evil inclination [nuqveta min yeser ha-ra. the holy spirit [ruah qaddisha] is male [dekhar, and there is a spirit of impurity [ruah mesa ava, which is the evil inclination [yeser ha-ra, as it says, from the stock of the serpent sprouts an asp (isa 14:29. there is holy ground [afar qaddisha] and unholy ground [afar mesa ava].246 as still other zoharic comments demonstrate, the symbolic ascription of the strange fire to the feminine aspect of th

. 171. finally, mention should be made of the interpretation of the letters of the divine name offered by arnaldo de villanova in allocutio super tetragrammaton, which was composed in 1292: yod refers to the father, which is described as the principle without beginning (principium sine principio, waw to the son, which is the principle of beginning (principium ex principio coeternum, and he to the holy spirit that emerges from the first two principles. see scholem, beginnings, p. 25. although the doctrine of ten potencies became the prevalent theosophic view as kabbalah evolved in the thirteenth century, vestiges of the older mythologic structure are discernible. this is so, for instance, in the approach attested in zoharic literature (especially prominent in the idrot strata) whereby the g

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's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent's skin of azal'ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is done_ an invocation to the holy guardian angel, spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light- azal'ucel by michael w. ford i am the daimon who speaks the words of the immortal fire, the holy flame which emerges from the lightning flash and storm of chaos bred, so this the angel-serpent shall come forth with th

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and some in lower case. the letters in capitals stand for the initial letters of the names of the 91 governors of the enochian aethyrs. the names are worked out by a series of sigils drawn from each capital letter through the lower-case letters of the tablets, as shown in figures 7 through 10. these are, in turn, allied to "the four triads are the names of god extracted from the four lines of the holy spirit, which govern all creatures on the earth (both visible and invisible. they are carried on the twelve banners (dee mss) these are, of course, the twelve holy names which are derived from the three holy names of each tablet. these names are then arranged according to the diagram of the shewbread, as given in the 1=10 ritual of zelator, which shows the associated astrological corresponden

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ctionary thereof made; and the rituals and part of the book 'm' were transcribed "for the true order of the rose cross descendeth into the heights--even unto the throne of god himself, and indudeth even archangels, angels and spirits "these four fraters also erected a building to serve as a temple and headquarters of their order, and called it collegium and spiritum sanctum, or the college of the holy spirit. this now being finished, and the work of establishing the order being extremely heavy; and because they devoted much time to the healing of those sick and possessed who resorted to them, they initiated four others, viz: fraters r.c (the son of the deceased father's brother of c.r.c, c.b. a skillful artist, and p.d, who was to be cancellarius; all being germans except la, and now eight

er members, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c.r.c. was buried occurred as follows "after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeavoured to remove a brass memorial tablet which bore the names of certain brethren, and some other things. in this tablet was the head of a strong nail or bolt, such that when the tablet was forcibly wrenched away, it pulled with it a large stone which partially uncovered a secret door, upon which was inscribed in large letters post oa annos patebo 'after an hundred and twenty yea

the names of the three highest chiefs of the order, viz: frater hugo alverda, the phrisian, in the 576th year of his age. frater franciscus de bry, the gaul, in the 495th year of his age. frater elman zata, the arab, in the 463rd year of his age. last of all was written: ex deo mascimur; in yesheshuah morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus 'in god are we born, in yeheshuah we die, through the holy spirit we rise again' so, then, our frater n.n. and his companions reclosed the pastos for a time, set the altar over it, shut the door of the tomb, and placed their seals upon it" though slightly slanted from the order's perspective, it does give an indication of the content of the rosicrucian documents and their teachings. the official history of the order, written by wyn wescott (under the

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