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f species, one particular strain will possess what could be termed a "hive soul" take for example the monarch butterfly- there are thousands in existence, yet they collectively possess one soul. when a specie dies and is considered extinct, that collective soul forms the basis for a new specie. the hive soul will eventually see it's last (collective) incarnation and emerge as a unified individual human soul. for one to understand the evolution of the human soul, it is important to acknowledge the existence of parallel time lines. the reader must understand that everything that can happen, has happened and will continue to happen until the current universe ends. every decisive moment creates another split in time where both choices are realized. there is a time line where the nazis won the

to happen until the current universe ends. every decisive moment creates another split in time where both choices are realized. there is a time line where the nazis won the war and another dominated by global communism. there are countless parallel time lines and each one is as real and as relevant as the one in which you reside. now trace back to where i mentioned the emergence of the individual human soul. this event is occurring simultaneously in various time lines, though certainly not all. therefore, the human soul can not as yet declare it's unique existence, for it enjoys multiple existences. a perceptual blurring together of these realities and various past life recollections is avoided by a natural "cosmic buffer" which serves a pragmatic purpose; enabling one to focus and thereby

ikeness of the deity, keep repeating the obvious in a forceful and compelling manner. for example "you are satan, creator of all things" do this until you are exhausted or it is time to go to sleep. 6. keep repeating this ritual. do not look for results. godform will happen when you least expect it. the effect is unmistakable. the birth of a daemon we have discussed the spiritual evolution of the human soul, the expansion and contraction of the group soul until it's eventually distilled into one form, occupying a single time line. the oversoul (guardian) occupies this body. the daemonic incubation process now begins and lasts about five centuries. this is an extremely volatile, difficult period- roughly fifty per cent do not survive- they return to the all, back to square one. should the i

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ity and lucidity, with a touch of the madness, of the moon; and above all there is the dittany of crete of which the eastern sages say that one flower hath more puissance in high magic than all the other gifts of all the gardens of the world. it is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul. and it is no doubt that in the due employment of this liquor such effects are easy to obtain. a single glass seems to render the breathing freer, the spirit lighter, the heart more ardent, soul and mind alike more capable of executing the great task of doing that particular work in the world which the father may have sent them to perform. food itself loses its gross qualities in the pr

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

ver, i brought through by my magic, for she had amused me mightily, and i took great pleasure in her love, that was wilder than the rage of all the elements in one. so i called together the nine who had survived, all being men, and gave them instruction and counsel, that they should form a secret brotherhood to learn and to teach the formula of the osiris in its supreme function of initiating the human soul. that they should keep discipline in the temple only for the sake of the people, permitting every corruption yet withdrawing themselves from it. is not the body perishable, and the skin most pure? so page 39 gulf.txt also he ancient practice of embalming should fall into desuetude, and that soon; for the world was past under the rule of osiris, who loveth the charnel and the tomb. all b

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

, for maya, the cause of all suffering. their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. the christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the manichean heresy1 must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar conclusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. trismegistus, iamblichus, porphyry, boehme, and the mystics generally have of course substantially done so, though occasionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those made in some cases by the vedantists themselves. man then being disproved, god the person disappears for ever, and becomes atman, pleroma, ain soph, what name you will, in

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but begged to know what was its cause, that he might laugh too. i could only cry out that my right leg was a tin case filled with stair-rods, and as i limped along, keeping that member perfectly rigid, both from fear of cracking the metal and the difficulty of bending it, i heard the rattle of the brazen contents shaken from side to side with feeling of the most supreme absurdity possible to the human soul. presently the leg was restored to its former state, but in the interim its mate had grown to a size which would have made it a very respectable totter for brian boru or one of the titans. elevated some few hundred feet into the firmament, i was compelled to hop upon my giant pedestal in a way very ungraceful in a world where two legs were the fashion, and eminently disagreeable to the

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leams, there masterless the whirling sword shrieks shrill and high. the shrink, he gallops. closely clings the child slung at his waist; and he heeds nought, but gallops wide, and sings wild war-songs, chants of gramarye! 13 sir palamded the saracen rides like a centaur mad with war; he sabres many a million men, and tramples many a million more! before him lies the untravelled land where never a human soul is known, a desert by a wizard banned, a soulless wilderness of stone. nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales; nor beast, nor bird, span space. immense, black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, fill the dread armoury of sense. nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star their subtle light at all display; nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: all's one intolerable grey. black llyns, grey

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ts in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way that we on account of the experiences we have gained. but, if this love is turned into a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures of this world are renounced for some higher ideal still, an ideal super-worldly, then will it become a divine emotion, a love which will awake the human soul and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the supreme soul. to teach this celestial marriage to the children of earth even the greatest masters must make use of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the sublimest of truths, until man's eyes, no longer seeing the light, see but the flameless lantern, because of the filth that has be

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the idea that revelation is a book of initiation is not altogether new to freemasons, as the late dr geo. oliver elaborated that view at considerable length, but mr pryse's view is quite a different sort of initiation; it is the development of the semi-miraculous powers of the gnosis of clement, origen, and the early christian church, the birth of the divine three principles, the crestos, in the human soul. the key to this "unsealing" is the text itself, in which is found the nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, 1000, as applied to the seven principal "chakras" of the human body, as taught by greek yogis. apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development of the "kundalini" and each subject is followed in the

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

has to work with the forms through which spirit is to manifest; he destroys, and builds up again. these three individuals preside over the three departments into which the hierarchy is divided, and therefore represent in their particular sphere the three aspects of divine manifestation. 51 56: rootrace. the secret doctrine teaches us that in this evolution or round on this planet the jivatma the human soul passes through seven main types or "rootraces" in the case of the- 774- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust two earliest of these, known as the "adamic" and the "hyperborean" the forms ensouled were astral and etheric respectively "huge and indefinite" they were with a low state or outward-going consciousness exercised through the one sense (hearing) possessed by the fi

ine and the turning of its attention to the two higher triangles comes the redemption of man. 55 63: 1 "the master-soul is alaya, the universal soul or atma, each man having a ray of it in him and being supposed to be able to identify himself with and to merge himself into it. 2. antaskarana is the lower manas, the path of communication or communion between the personality and the higher manas or human soul. at death it is destroyed as a path or medium of communication, and its remains survive in a form as the kama-rupa the shell" voice of the silence, page 71 "the antaskarana is the imaginary path between the personal and the impersonal self, and is the highway of sensation; it is the battlefield for mastery over the personal self. it is the path of aspiration, and where one longing for g

erica, under the "great brotherhood" he works through various organisations and movements including masonry. he is one of the masters who take pupils. the master h. or hilarion, is a cretan master, is interested in the spiritualistic movement and is responsible for light on the path. 136 53: antahkarana is the lower manas, the path of communication between the personality and the higher manas, or human soul. h. p. blavatsky. 137 54: karma and reincarnation, the fourth and fifth doctrines of the wisdom-religion. these two are, in reality, the a, b, c, of the wisdom-religion. karma is the sum total of our acts, both in the present life and in the preceding births. it is of three kinds- 795- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. sanchita karma 2. prarabdha karma 3. agami kar

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

educators and of the psychologists. they must lead him up to the door of the mystical world. paradoxical as it may sound, the work of leading him into his spiritual heritage is the work of religion and of- 7- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust science. dr. pupin tells us that "science and religion supplement each other, they are the two pillars of the portal through which the human soul enters into the world where divinity resides."12(12) let us give the word "spiritual" a wide connotation! i do not here speak of religious truths; the formulations of the theologians and the churchmen in all the big religious organizations, both eastern and western, may, or may not, be true. let us use the word "spiritual" to signify the world of light and beauty, of order and of purpos

it behooves all sincere educators to help in this work by applying the scientific method of ascertaining agreements amidst differences."5(17) both east and west seem to feel that an educational system that does not eventually lead a man out of the world of human affairs into the wider consciousness of spiritual things has failed in its mission and will not measure up to the soaring demand of the human soul. a training that stops short with the intellect, and ignores the faculty to intuit truth which the best minds evidence, lacks much. if it leaves its students with closed and static minds, it has left them without the equipment to touch that intangible and finest "four-fifths of life" which dr. wiggam tells us, lies outside the realm of scientific training altogether.6(18) the door must

me to themselves again, they find themselves possessed of a distinct knowledge of things, more luminous and more perfect than that of others."16(82) contemplation has been described, as a psychic gateway, leading from one state of consciousness to another. jeremy taylor calls it the "transition from intense meditation to that contemplation which attains to the vision of the wonders of god, as the human soul enters the realm of the divine light".17(83) francois malaval, who lived and wrote in the 17th century puts it most beautifully. he says "this act (contemplation) is also more perfect than reasoning because in reasoning the soul speaks, whilst in this act it enjoys. reasoning..convinces the soul by its principles, but here the soul is rather illumined than convinced, it sees rather than

knowledge which the soul has transmitted. when this is carried forward automatically and accurately, we have the illumined man, the sage. the second activity to which the mind responds as the result of illumination is telepathy. it has been said that "illumination itself may be regarded as the highest known example of telepathy; for throughout the blazing forth of that supreme enlightenment, the human soul is a percipient and the father of lights, the agent" the agent may work through the medium of many minds, for the world of the soul is the world of group awareness, and that opens up a field of contacts which is wide indeed. not only is the soul of man en rapport with the universal mind, but also with all minds through which that divine purpose we call god may be working. in this way we

man, and the "light of the soul" can be turned upon any problem. thus the omniscience of the soul will be manifested on earth. let me close this chapter with some words written by a hindu mystic and some by a modern christian mystic, typical examples of the two points of view of the mystic and the knower. the hindu says "they are called brahmins only that have an inner light working in them..the human soul is a lamp not covered over with a bushel. the lamp emits not the rays of the flesh but the rays of mental light to illuminate all humanity and is therefore the channel for the world soul. the rays of mental light assist all humanity in its mental growth and expansion, and the lamp is therefore one of the eternal world brahmins. it gives light unto the world but takes nothing that the wo

way. from this point of junction, they travel the same way, and employ the same methods, and use a curiously similar phraseology. that the time has come when this should be definitely realized becomes apparent when we note the wide study of comparative religion, and the interplay between the races. these two factors are steadily breaking down the old barriers, and demonstrating the oneness of the human soul. speaking generally, this way is almost universally divided into three main divisions, which are to be seen, for instance, in the three great religions, the christian, the buddhist and the hindu faiths. in the christian church, we speak of the path of probation, the path of holiness, and the path of illumination. dr. evans-wentz of oxford, in his introduction to tibet's great yogi, mila

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

ect has informed and pervaded the forms in the subhuman kingdoms, and when it has worked upon those forms and their latent sentiency so as to produce adequate refinement and sentiency, the vibration becomes so potent that the higher is attracted and there is a fusion or at-one-ing. this is like a higher recapitulation of the initial union of spirit and matter which brought the world into being. a human soul is thus brought into existence and begins its long career. it is now a differentiated entity "soul" also is a word used to express the sum total of the psychic nature the vital body, the emotional nature and the mind stuff. but it is also more than that, once the human stage is reached. it constitutes the spiritual entity, a conscious psychical being, a son of god, possessing life, qual

nables him (by the time the third initiation is reached) to have sensed and then to have cooperated with his ray purpose. after the third initiation he begins to sense the synthetic purpose towards which all the seven rays are working; but as this treatise is written for aspirants and disciples, and not for initiates of the third degree, it is needless to speculate upon this ultimate destiny. the human soul is a synthesis of material energy, qualified by intelligent consciousness, plus the spiritual energy which is, in its turn, qualified by one of the seven ray types. thus the human being emerges, a son of god incarnate in form, with one hand (as the old commentary says) holding firmly to the rock of matter and with the other hand plunged into a sea of love. an ancient scripture puts it t

his is not so at this time. a careful study and a true analysis of the effect and work of the rays in connection with the animal kingdom is not possible. yet it must be remembered that the roots of human psychology lie hidden in this expression of god. humanity is an expression of two aspects of the soul, the animal soul and the divine soul, and these two, blended and fused in man, constitute the human soul. it is this fact that is the cause of man's special problems, and it is these two factors which involve him in the long struggle which eventuates in the liberation of the divine soul, through the sublimation of the animal soul. in these words lie much food for thought "the twain shall be one. this work is begun in the animal kingdom, and constitutes its "secret, and hence the use of the

e vital physical life and the physical body. here you have, if you note carefully, a summation of the rays which govern and differentiate the- 199- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust life of the personality forms, and therefore bring in other factors which psychologists will have to consider as time goes on. you will see therefore that: 1. the human soul or ego is found on one or other of the seven rays, in one or other of the seven ray groups. 2. the mind nature and mental body are governed by the rays of purpose, of harmony or synthesis, and of knowledge. 3. the emotional nature and form are governed by the rays of love, wisdom and of idealistic devotion. 4. the vital life and physical body are governed by the rays of intelligence in

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

nence in the human heart never became quite the central truth of theology till the time of the medieval mystics. it is eckhart who says `the father speaks the word into the soul, and when the son is born, every soul becomes mary'"67 we are summoned to the new birth. our personalities are now alive with potentiality. the hour is upon us- 54- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the human soul must hear the challenge of the christ soul, and realise that "mary is blessed, not because she bore christ bodily, but because she bore him spiritually, and in this everyone can become like her (eckhart) chapter three the second initiation. the baptism in jordan key thought "it is a propitious moment to put the christian life into serious practice. at a time of catastrophe, a process of

hnique of at-one-ment which all who would study his life and react to his spirit could follow. he could not therefore fall into the error of diversity. he could not identify himself with multiplicity when he embraced in his consciousness, as god, the larger synthesis. pope, in his famous essay on man, sensed this, and expressed it in words familiar to all of us "god loves from whole to parts, but human soul must rise from individual to the whole. self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, as the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; the centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, another still, and still another spreads; friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; his country next; and next all human race; wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind take every creature in, of

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

the lower self atomic energy, vital energy, feeling energy and mental energy plus the two energies of the soul, make the six energies used by man in his life experience; but the energy of the atom is usually not counted as a human energy, as it is uniform in its usage in all forms of life in all kingdoms, and therefore man is regarded as a sum total of five energies, and not of six energies. the human soul (in contradistinction to the soul as it functions in its own kingdom, free from the limitations of human life) is imprisoned by and subject to the control of the lower energies for the major part of its experience. then, upon the path of probation, the dual energy of the soul begins to be increasingly active, and the man seeks consciously to use his mind, and to express love-wisdom on t

ciety until death shall bring to an end this interlude in the life of the soul. it is interesting to remember that these conditions are related far more to the karma of the parents or of those who have charge of the case than to the patient himself. in many of these cases, there is no person present within the form at all, but only an animated living body, informed by the animal soul but not by a human soul. we are primarily engaged with those problems which arise in the mental nature of man and from his power to create in mental substance. there is one aspect of this difficulty to which i have not yet referred, and that is the potency of thought of such a case, and the dynamic stimulation of the mind which we are considering, to evoke response from the desire body and thus swing the entir

scious soul. these are the greater powers to which the christ referred when he promised his disciples that some day they would do greater things than he had done. it should be remembered, however, that all the psychic powers are the powers, faculties and capacities of the one soul but that, in time and space, some of them are expressions of the animal consciousness or the animal soul, some of the human soul, and some of the divine soul. the following tabulation of the developing psychic powers as they blend in consciousness three kingdoms in nature may be of service at this point if careful study is made of the inferred- 337- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust relationships: animal. human. divine. 1. the four major instincts. the five

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ountry, resulting in the welcome to the father's home; pain is the illusion of the father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the building of the temple. the uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. that peace, that light and that liberation, within the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all the sons of men. from the old commentary- 524- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust "the assuaging waters cool. they slowly bring relief, abstracting form from all that can be tou

ed of spiritually inclined people. such people fail to think clearly and confuse an unwillingness to take sides with brotherly love, forgetting the words of the christ that "he who is not with me is against me" let me repeat what i have oft said before. the hierarchy and all its members, including myself, love humanity but they will not endorse evil, aggression, cruelty and the imprisoning of the human soul. they stand for liberty, for opportunity for all to move forward along the way of light, for human welfare without discrimination, for kindness and the right of every man to think for himself, to speak and to work. necessarily they cannot, therefore, endorse the nations or the people in any nation who are against human freedom and happiness. in their love and their grasp of circumstance

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

chings of lesser minds; that clear perception and ability to convey thoughts in concise and crystal clear terms will be utilized to bring home to many the eternal verities. when france finds her spiritual soul and not just her intellectual soul, she will prove to be the medium through which will come revelation as to the nature of the soul of man. france has in the past revealed the nature of the human soul in its stage of intensest individualism and selfishness. through fire and pain, france will later demonstrate the qualities of the spirit of man. the accent upon the material values and the intense emphasis upon the importance of france to the world, instead of the importance of the international attitude to france in terms of unselfish human relations, summarizes the psychological prob

echniques and methods must be developed gradually and will hasten the process of integrating the whole man. there is no hope for the future world except in a humanity which accepts the fact of divinity, even whilst repudiating theology, which recognizes the presence of the living christ, whilst rejecting man-made interpretations of him and of his message, and which emphasizes the authority of the human soul. the future which lies ahead is full of promise. let us base our optimism upon humanity itself. let us recognize the self-proven fact that there is a peculiar quality in every man, an innate, inherent characteristic to which one may give the name "mystical perception. this characteristic connotes an undying, though oft unrecognized, sense of divinity; it involves the constant possibilit

and who can become still more active if recognized, reached and organized- 70- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter v the problem of the churches the title of this chapter is not called the problem of religion but simply the problem of those people and organizations who attempt to teach religion, who claim to represent the spiritual life, to direct the spiritual approach of the human soul to god and to lay down the rules for the spiritual life. in writing on this theme we are treading on dangerous ground. there is no justifiable quarrel with the religious spirit; it exists and is essential to a full and true life on earth. we can recognize the timelessness of faith and the witness of the spirit, down countless ages, to the fact of god. christ lives and guides the people

rit will defeat them and proceed triumphantly into the kingdom of god, leaving them far behind unless they enter as an humble part of the mass of men. pompous prelates and executive ecclesiastics have no part in that kingdom. christ does not need prelates and executives. he needs humble teachers of the truth able to exemplify the spiritual life. nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of the human soul on its long pilgrimage from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality and from ignorance to wisdom. if the great organized religious groups of churches in every land and composing all faiths do not offer spiritual guidance and help, humanity will find another way. nothing can keep the spirit of man from god. i. the failure of the churches let us remember:

n free. if the catholic church can change her techniques, can relinquish authority over the souls of men (which she has never truly had) and can really follow the way of the saviour, of the humble carpenter of nazareth, she can render a world service and set an example which will serve to enlighten the followers of every faith and of every branch of christianity. the problem of the freedom of the human soul and its individual relation to god immanent and god transcendent is the spiritual problem, facing all the world religions at this time. no longer must the churches interpose their authority and their interpretations between god and man. the time for that is past. this problem has been slowly shaping up for centuries, developing with the growth of the human intellect and the self-conscio

eart of every man for betterment, for experience, for progress, for increasing realization and for his steady moving on towards the distant height which he has visioned. there is no other explanation of the capacity of the human spirit to emerge out of darkness, out of evil and death into life and goodness. this emergence has been the unfailing history of man. something is always happening to the human soul which projects him nearer to the source of all good and nothing on earth can arrest this progress nearer to god. 3. christ and the hierarchy the third great spiritual and essential truth is the fact of christ, the living christ, present among his people, fulfilling his promise "lo, i am with you always, even unto the end of the world, and increasingly making his presence felt as men app

d man, between the spiritual hierarchy and humanity, became possible and the door into the kingdom of god was opened. man learned that the way into the holy place could be entered through love. to the mental principle was added again by the force of invocation and responsive evocation another divine attribute or principle, the principle of love. these two great approaches made it possible for the human soul to express or manifest two aspects of divinity: intelligence and love. intelligence today is flowering through knowledge and science; it has, however, not yet unfolded on any large scale its latent beauty of wisdom; love today is only just beginning to engross human attention; its lowest aspect, goodwill, is only now being recognized as a divine energy and is still a theory and a hope

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

termediary and for the mediator who will plead their cause with god and bring about a rescue. they look for a saviour. this doctrine of mediators, of messiahs, of christs and of avatars can be found running like a golden thread through all the world faiths and scriptures and, relating these world scriptures to some central source of emanation, they are found in rich abundance everywhere. even the human soul is regarded as an intermediary between man and god; christ is believed by countless millions to act as the divine mediator between humanity and divinity. the whole system of spiritual revelation is based (and has always been based) on this doctrine of interdependence, of a planned and arranged conscious linking and of the transmission of energy from one aspect of divine manifestation to

hrist copyright 1998 lucis trust thus the fundamental truths upon which relation to god (and, therefore, relation to our fellowmen) is founded are always given out by the son of god, who in any particular world period is the teaching head of the spiritual hierarchy. in due time, christ came and gave out to the world (mainly through his disciples) two major truths: the fact of the existence of the human soul and, secondly, the system of service (this phrase is used advisedly) as a mode of establishing right human relations to god and to one's fellowmen. he told men that they were all the sons of god in the same sense that he was; he told them in many symbolic ways who and what he was and assured them that they could do even greater things than he had done, because they were divine as he was

n line with the obsolete old teaching. the essential truth lies elsewhere "whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap (gal. vi.7) is a truth which needs re-emphasising. in these words, st. paul phrases for us the ancient and true teaching of the law of cause and effect, called in the orient the law of karma- 79- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust the immortality of the human soul, and the innate ability of the spiritual, inner man to work out his own salvation under the law of rebirth, in response to the law of cause and effect, are the underlying factors governing all human conduct and all human aspiration. these two laws no man can evade. they condition him at all times until he has achieved the desired and the designed perfection and can manifest on earth as

roups, working under the inspiration of the christ. churchmen need to remember that the human spirit is greater than all the churches and greater than their teaching. in the long run, that human spirit will defeat them and proceed triumphantly into the kingdom of god, leaving them far behind unless they enter as a humble part of the mass of men. nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of the human soul on its long pilgrimage from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality and from ignorance to wisdom. if the great organised religious groups of churches in every land, and composing all faiths do not offer spiritual guidance and help, humanity will find another way. nothing can keep the spirit of man from god. the churches in the west need also to realise

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

t political, religious, economic, social, educational and philosophical. the result of all this conflict is, i would tell you, definitely good, and it demonstrates the steady achievement of the great white lodge. the consciousness of humanity has been definitely expanded and the whole world of men at this time is thinking. this is a totally new phenomenon and a fresh experience in the life of the human soul. the first result of all the turmoil has been to shift the focus of human attention on to the mental plane and thereby nearer to the sources of light and love. it is right here and in connection with this eventful change of focus that the world disciples can shoulder responsibility and proceed to active work. when i here speak of disciples, i am using the term in connection with all who

an inner and spiritual reality, carried out into expression upon the physical plane by the force of the inner embodied life. an emblem is man's formulation of a concept, created by man and embodying for him the truth as he sees it and understands it. a symbol is ever greater in its implications than is an emblem. the etheric levels are also the field of expression for the soul, whether it is the human soul or the soul as an expression of the higher triad, the monadic life. i wonder whether any of you have the faintest idea what will happen to humanity when the inner subjective reality, functioning through the etheric and pouring its forces unimpeded through the centres in that body, will have made its major controlling integration with the dense physical apparatus, reducing it to complete

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

of germany, japan and italy to this ancient miasma but also upon the fact that every nation united nations as well as totalitarian nations are tainted with this universal condition. the freedom of the world is consequently largely dependent upon those people in every nation who (within themselves) have moved forward out of one or other of these "glamorous illusions and mayavic impressions" of the human soul into a state of awareness wherein they can see the conflict in its wider terms, i.e, as that existing for them between the dweller on the threshold and the angel of the presence. these people are the aspirants, disciples and initiates of the world. they are aware of the dualism, the essential dualism, of the conflict and are not so pre-eminently conscious of the threefold nature and the

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

t and understanding is not all that is necessary in the new telepathy which will distinguish the new age. there must also be mental development and mental control. this form of telepathy is not a function of the animal soul, as in the case of the solar plexus contact and response to messages by the emotionally polarised man or woman. this telepathic rapport and response is a characteristic of the human soul working from mind to mind and from brain to brain. it is literally a state of consciousness which is sufficiently conditioned by the integrated mental person so that he is aware of and inclusive of the mental state and thought processes of another person. 3. the energy of prana, or the etheric force of the vital body. this energy, by an act of the will and under the pressure of the magn

ctive magnetic solar energy to which we give the quite unsuitable name of love. it is this energy which constitutes the cohering, unifying force which holds the manifested universe or planetary form together and is responsible for all relationships; it is this energy which is the soul of all things or of all forms, beginning with the anima mundi and reaching its highest point of expression in the human soul which is the constituent factor in the fifth kingdom in nature, the kingdom of god or of souls. an understanding of this human potency comes as a man makes contact with his own soul and sets up a stable relationship with that soul; then he becomes a soul-infused personality. as you well know, the threefold personality is to the soul what the spiritual triad is to the monad: a clear medi

surely that these three periodical vehicles are under the influence or impression of the three major planetary centres and are, therefore, finally conditioned by the three major energies to which i- 76- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust referred earlier in this section. i do not feel it to be necessary to enlarge upon this basic relation; it is that which integrates the human soul into the vast general whole and makes the individual an intrinsic part of the sum total. the centres and the ray energies there is one aspect of the science of impression upon which i have not yet touched and that is the place of the centres as focal points, as transmitters or as agencies for the seven ray energies. it is known to esotericists that each of the seven centres comes under

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uence" during this process the mental principle, the discriminating mind, is developed and in this specific connection (not in a general connection) the emphasis is laid upon the influence of aries, gemini and libra. under that influence the man learns to overcome desire through experiment with and experience of every kind of desire and selfish impulse. thus gradually, and with infinite pain, the human soul learns to function first as a member of the human family, and, secondly as a spiritual entity, the divine soul. you will see from the above that certain positions taken by the esoteric astrologer reverse the position of the orthodox astrology of today. the reason for this is that in the descent of ideas from the plane of ideas, they become "reversed" upon the astral plane and subject to

in an inaccurate and definitely misleading manner and should be regarded as a mystery and therefore not to be defined. these signs and their relationship to the sacred and non-sacred planets will be considered later. to sum up: man will, therefore, have to be studied as a threefold entity, a composite individual, expressing (in the three worlds: a. the spiritual soul, reflecting the monad. b. the human soul, reflecting the divine soul. c. the form nature, which should be the revealer of the two higher. three creative hierarchies condition the man in incarnation, the 4th (or 9th) the 5th (or 10th) and the 6th. these, in collaboration, create man and, at the same time, constitute the field of his expression. man is consequently a blend of electric fire, being a divine flame, and becomes even

tive and subjective. we have, in the larger issue, to consider the influence of the zodiac and the planets upon: 1. the spirit of the earth, the embodiment of the physical planet and the sum total of the form life in all the kingdoms of nature. these are the expression of the anima mundi or of the world soul. 2. humanity, the individualised and finally initiated man. this is the embodiment of the human soul or ego, a differentiation of the world soul, which expresses itself as a personality (a correspondence to the spirit of the planet) and finally as a spiritual soul (a correspondence to the planetary logos. 3. the lord of the planet, one of the great lives or sons of god, at present regarded as "an imperfect god" as far as our planet is concerned and yet, from the angle of humanity, perf

fixed cross is that of the individual christ in each human being, and the cardinal cross is that of the cosmic christ. it might here be noted that the cross with which we are here concerned is that of the mass, and that the consciousness which it exemplifies is that of the instinctual consciousness and its merging into the intellectual consciousness; it is the cross of the anima mundi and of the human soul before the consciousness of duality is clear in the mind of the man and before transfer is made on to the fixed cross. it is consequently more closely allied to the cardinal cross of the heavens, for the mass consciousness, which is the significant consciousness of the mutable cross, becomes the group consciousness or the synthetic consciousness of divinity, after passing through the in

cing the soul. there is much to think out here but little more can be directly indicated, as the curious fact of this triple control by a planet constitutes one of the mysteries of initiation. it is tied up with the relation between leo and aquarius, for leo is unusual in having all its ruling influences concentrated through the medium of one planet. leo indicates the height of achievement of the human soul. we are apt to think that initiation and liberation are the achievement of the human kingdom and the attainment of humanity. this is not the case. initiation is an achievement and an attained success of the soul which has at last succeeded in dominating the personality and in manifesting its true nature and character, in spite of the personality and the antagonism of the human being int

erstood. in these signs and their relationship upon the fixed cross lies hid the mystery of makara and of the crocodiles. the keynotes of this sign are all indicative of a crystallisation process. this concretising faculty of capricorn can be considered in several ways. first of all, capricorn is an earth sign, and in it we have expressed the densest point of concrete materialisation of which the human soul is capable. man is then "of the earth, earthy" and is what- 95- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the new testament calls "the first adam" in this sense, capricorn holds in itself the seeds of death and finality the death which takes place finally and eventually in pisces. ponder on this. when crystallisation has reached a certain de

nd spirit. the following tabulation or concise statement of rather momentous implications may serve to make this clearer: leo sagittarius a quarius the lion. the centaur .t he water-carrier. the man. the archer. the server. self-consciousness. focussed consciousness. group consciousness. physical nature. emotional nature .l ower mental nature. integrated man .a spiring man .i ntuitive mental man. human soul. spiritual human soul. spiritual soul. individualisation. discipleship. initiation. personality .e goic focus. monadic focus. the fixed cross. the mutable cross. the fixed cross. centralisation. orientation. decentralisation. individual unity. sensed duality. universal unity. fire. fire. air. selfishness. struggle. service. evolution .t he final path. liberation. i could continue to sum

om which period we have inherited what we know about astrology, the sign was frequently depicted by the centaur the fabulous animal which was half a man and half a horse. the horse symbolism dominated atlantean myths and symbols, just as the ram and the lamb are prominently to be found in our modern presentations. this earlier sign of the centaur stood for the evolution and the development of the human soul, with its human objectives, its selfishness, its identification with form, its desire and its aspirations- 105- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the archer on the white horse, which is the more strictly aryan symbol for this sign, signifies the orientation of the man towards a definite goal. the man is then not part of the horse but

) from another. he is regarded as embodying in himself both these aspects of the mental principle, the expression of the concrete and the abstract mind of god. the lower concrete mind was unfolded in the first solar system and the higher abstract intuitional mind, the pure reason, is unfolding in this system. mercury is the synthesis of manas-buddhi, mind-wisdom which expresses itself through the human soul; mercury rules the bridge or the antahkarana. in virgo, mercury reaches his full power, for virgo is intelligence and the hidden christ is wisdom or pure reason. venus, pure love-wisdom, falls into generation in this sign and occultly "descends to earth" and stands (as the secret doctrine has so carefully pointed out) for the gift of mind and of divinity, embodied in the son of mind and

sign rising, as well as its influences upon the planet. throughout the universe, it is the soul which is the conscious, sensitive theme of the divine plan the soul as the anima mundi, or the soul of the world, animating all forms of life below the animal kingdom; the soul as the animal soul and the extension of this to the bodies of all animals, including the human physical body; the soul as the human soul, which is a still further expansion of the same sensitive factor but augmented or stimulated by the principle of self-awareness or of focussed personal sensitivity to all sub-human soul expression, plus awareness (conscious or unconscious) of the immortal or divine soul; the soul as the ego or spiritual soul on its own plane the source of consciousness as far as the three worlds of- 175

s yet knows but little. these three aspects of the sun are the factors which bring consciousness to the birth and make the ultimate goal attainable; they make all forms of consciousness possible because these are rooted in the sun (symbolically speaking) and are an inherent aspect of the greater whole. 1. the physical sun the anima mundi; the animal soul. multiplicity. 2. the heart of the sun the human soul and the divine ego. duality. 3. the central, spiritual sun the divine consciousness. the will of the whole. the awareness of god. unity. as you have been told, the sun veils certain hidden planets, and in the case of leo, the two planets through which the sun focusses its energy or influences (like a lens) are neptune and uranus. the "heart of the sun" employs neptune as its agent, whil

-conscious emphasis wherein everything is latent and hidden. human consciousness is only embryonic in cancer, for it is the mass mind which dominates and not the individual mind. in virgo, the christ life or consciousness is hidden and the christ child is as yet embryonic in the womb of matter and of time, and during this stage, the emphasis is upon the form which veils and hides the reality. the human soul and the divine soul (the essential duality) are there but their presence is not easily detected. in scorpio comes a point of transition, of change and of re-orientation. that which has been hitherto hidden appears and is brought to the surface by means of the experience, the tests, the trials and the "sting of life" in capricorn as a result of the effects of the influences of cancer, vi

ther influences and the seventh ray is at the same time entering into a major cycle of activity on the earth, there is then present the energy needed to precipitate the crisis of initiation and produce a great rhythmic awakening. astrologers would find it of interest to note similar combinations in the individual horoscope. it must not be forgotten that leo marks the height of achievement for the human soul, and this is today stimulated by the shamballa force now flowing into the centre of humanity. this inflow will continue its critical work until in the aquarian age, so rapidly coming into expression, the one-pointed attitude of the leo person (or shall i call it the self-centredness) becomes the expanded consciousness and the decentralised attitude of the aquarian man. you can, therefor

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ine and feeds our aspiration. the rapturous moments when a sunset arrests our amazed attention, or the silence, deep and unbroken, of the moors and country envelop one's spirit those are points of remembrance; a skyline or a riot of color in a garden engrossing us to the exclusion of all else; friend calling to friend and a resulting hour of communion and of satisfying contact; some beauty of the human soul emerging triumphant in the face of difficulty these are the things which must not pass unrecognised. they constitute the great conditioning factors of life. they indicate the divine. why is it that they are so often forgotten and the disagreeable, sad or terrible things remain fixtures in one's mind? i do not know. apparently on this peculiar planet of ours, suffering is registered more

ological doctrines, as expressed by leading churchmen, were summations of divine truth. i knew exactly what god wanted and (because of my complete ignorance) i was ready to discuss every conceivable subject, knowing that my point of view would be right. today, i often feel that there is just a chance that i am wrong in my diagnosis and prescription. i have also a staunch belief in the fact of the human soul and of the ability of that soul to lead a man "out of darkness into light and from the unreal to the real" to quote the oldest prayer in the world. i had, in those days, to learn that "the love of god is broader than the measure of man's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind" but it was not a really kind god that i proclaimed. god was kind to me because he had opene

his face "never you mind, mrs. evans, we here call you 'the diamond lost in the mud" i found that full compensation for all that had been said. is it to be wondered at that i have an unalterable and unshakable faith in the beauty and divinity of humanity? if these had been people who were under obligation to me, the story would be different, but all this expressed the spontaneous kindness of the human soul to people in similar difficulties to their own. the poor are usually kind to the poor. let me tell one more story which expresses even more fully this attitude of human kindness. one day when the lunch bell went, a great, hulking, dirty, elderly man whose appearance was- 74- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust terrible and who smelt to high heaven came up to me and s

ed of spiritually inclined people. such people fail to think clearly and confuse an unwillingness to take sides with brotherly love, forgetting the words of the christ that "he who is not with me is against me" let me repeat what i have oft said before. the hierarchy and all its members, including myself, love humanity but they will not endorse evil, aggression, cruelty and the imprisoning of the human soul. they stand for liberty, for opportunity for all to move forward along the way of light, for human welfare without discrimination, for kindness and the right of every man to think for himself, to speak and to work. necessarily they cannot, therefore, endorse the nations or the people in any nation who are against human freedom and happiness. in their love and their grasp of circumstance

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n by man. the processes of dying and of dissolution and the dissipation of forms goes on every moment without producing contagious contamination or the disfiguring of the surface of the earth. the results of dissolution are beneficent in effect. ponder on this beneficent activity and on the beauty of the divine plan of death and disappearance. with man, death takes on two aspects of activity; the human soul differs from the soul in the non-human forms in that it is itself a full and on its own plane an effective expression of the three divine aspects; it determines within certain limits based on time conditions and spatial necessity its entrance into human form and its exit therefrom. once this exit has been made and the soul has withdrawn the thread of consciousness from the brain and its

gs which are god's" that the work of healing will be greatly accelerated or, on the other hand, that the task of smoothing the way through the gates of death will be greatly simplified. after all, death is in itself a work of restitution. it involves the work of rendering back of substance to the three worlds of substance, and doing it willingly and gladly; it involves also the restoration of the human soul to the soul from whence it emanated, and doing this in the joy of reabsorption. you must all learn to look upon death as an act of restitution; when you can do this it will take on new light and true meaning and become an integral part recognised and desired of a constant living process. if i were asked to say what is the major task of all healing groups, such as the hierarchy seeks to

us words i have chosen in considering the basic requirements have been so chosen for their specific meanings: 1. the work of restitution signifies the returning of the form to the basic reservoir of substance; or of the soul, the divine spiritual energy, returning to its source either on soul or monadic levels, according to the point in evolution. this restitution is predominantly the work of the human soul within the physical body and involves both the heart and the head centres. 2. the art of elimination. this refers to two activities of the inner spiritual man; i.e, the elimination of all control by the threefold lower man, and the process of refocussing itself upon the concrete levels of the mental plane as a point of radiant light. this concerns primarily the human soul. 3. the proces

is because the enquirer and the dead person are mental types, and there is therefore a true telepathic rapport between them which the medium intercepts. the race is progressing, developing and becoming increasingly mental. the relation between the dead and the living must and will be upon mental levels, prior to the processes of integration; the true severance of communication will come when the human soul is reabsorbed into the oversoul, prior to again reincarnating. the fact of communication up to that time will, however, completely destroy the fear of death. in the case of disciples working in a master's ashram, even this process of integration will constitute no barrier. in the next few pages i will give some teaching on what might be called the art of dying and so expand what i said

escent into matter, of an ascent through the medium of constant incarnations in form until those forms are perfect expressions of the indwelling spiritual consciousness, and of a series of initiations at the close of the cycle of incarnation, are being more readily accepted and acknowledged than ever before. such are the major solutions of the problems of immortality and of the persistence of the human soul; they aim to answer the eternal questioning of the human heart as to whence, why, whither and where? only the last of these proposed solutions offers a truly rational reply to all of them. its acceptance has been delayed because, ever since the time of h. p. blavatsky, who formulated this ancient truth for the modern world in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, it has been so- 2

xtra-planetary beings. i have given these brief summations so as to enlarge your general understanding of what the masters call "the extension of death in space" nevertheless, in the following pages we shall confine ourselves to the theme of the death of the physical body and of the subtler bodies in the three worlds; we shall deal also with the processes which bring about the reabsorption of the human soul into the spiritual soul upon its own plane, the higher mental plane; we shall consider the reassimilation of substance and the appropriation of matter in order again to reincarnate. we shall therefore consider the three major processes to which i earlier referred; these cover three periods and lead, eventually, to other processes under the law of rebirth. they are: 1. the process of res

red; these cover three periods and lead, eventually, to other processes under the law of rebirth. they are: 1. the process of restitution, governing the period of withdrawal of the soul from the physical plane and from its two phenomenal aspects, the dense physical body and the etheric body. this concerns the art of dying. 2. the process of elimination. this governs that period of the life of the human soul after death and in the two other worlds of human evolution. it concerns the elimination of the astral-mental body by the soul, so that it is "ready to stand free in its own place" 3. the process of integration, dealing with the period wherein the liberated soul again becomes conscious of itself as the angel of the presence and is reabsorbed into the world of souls, thus entering into a

eloped, and the second death becomes possible and takes place. this phase covers the process of elimination. when these two phases of the art of dying are over, the discarnate soul stands free from the control of matter; it is purified (temporarily by the phases of restitution and elimination) from all contamination by substance. this is achieved, not through any activity of the soul in form, the human soul, but as a result of the activity of the soul on its own plane abstracting the fraction of itself which we call the human soul. it is primarily the work of the overshadowing soul which effects this; it is not carried forward by the soul in the personality. the human soul, during this stage, is only responsive to the pull or the attractive force of the spiritual soul as it with- 242- a tr

h we call the human soul. it is primarily the work of the overshadowing soul which effects this; it is not carried forward by the soul in the personality. the human soul, during this stage, is only responsive to the pull or the attractive force of the spiritual soul as it with- 242- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust deliberate intent extracts the human soul from its imprisoning sheaths. later on, as the evolutionary processes proceed and the soul increasingly controls the personality, it will be the soul within the imprisoning sheaths which will bring about consciously and with intention the phases of dying. in the earlier stages, this release will be brought about with the aid of the overshadowing spiritual soul. later on, when the man is

an family and faintly, very faintly, in the animal kingdom is the reaction to fear found. could you but see the etheric world as those on the inner side of life experience and see it, you would see (going on ceaselessly and without any pause) the great planetary act of restitution. you would see a great activity proceeding within the etheric world in which the anima mundi, the animal soul and the human soul are constantly restoring the substance of all physical forms to the great reservoir of essential substance. this essential substance is as much a vital, directed unity as the world soul of which one hears so much. this interplay of the principle of death with the principle of life produces the basic activity of creation. the impulsive, directive force is the mind of god, of the planetar

regard the law of attraction as an expression of the second aspect, love-wisdom. this attractive principle is found in all forms, from the tiny form of the atom to that form, the planet earth, through which our planetary logos expresses himself. but if it is the principle of coherency and the cause of integration, it is also the medium through which "restitution" is brought about and by which the human soul is periodically reabsorbed into the overshadowing soul. this aspect of the law of attraction has, as yet, received little attention. the reason is that it concerns the highest expression of that law, and is therefore related to the will aspect of deity, as also the will aspect of the monad. only as the shamballic force proceeds with its more direct work in the coming cycle, and men begi

being is concerned and brings this about in three phases to which we have given the names: a. restitution, resulting in the dissolution of the body and the return of its elements, atoms and cells, to their originating source. b. elimination, involving the same basic process in relation to the forces which have constituted the astral body and the mental vehicle. c. absorption, the mode whereby the human soul is integrated into its originating source, the overshadowing, universal soul. this is an expression of the first aspect. all these phases, rightly understood, illustrate or demonstrate the unique potency of the law of attraction and its relation to the law of synthesis, which governs the first divine aspect. integration eventually produces synthesis. the many cyclic integrations which a

ical body the cessation of all heart activity and the concentration of the basic etheric focus in the region of the head, or the heart, or the solar plexus has been effective and the withdrawal is already well under way. the etheric forces are first of all withdrawn into the surrounding extension of the etheric ring-pass-not, prior to that final dissipation which leaves the man free to stand as a human soul within the ring-pass-not of his astral vehicle. you have here a somewhat new aspect of the death process. the withdrawal of the etheric body from occupation of the dense physical body has oft been posited and presented. but even when that has been accomplished, death is not yet- 272- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust complete; it still

s a much needed means for bringing about the purification of the astral plane and for arresting the "downward moving" tendency of desire which so greatly handicaps the incarnating soul. it can find no point of focus, because essentially fire repels the form-making aspect of desire and is a major expression of divinity with which the astral plane has no true relation, being created entirely by the human soul and not the divine soul "our god is a consuming fire" is the statement in the bible which refers to the first divine aspect, the aspect of the destroyer, releasing the life "god is love" connotes the second aspect and portrays god as incarnated existence "god is a jealous god" is an expression indicating god as form, circumscribed and limited, self-centered and not outgoing. the destroy

ghtest, the light of the centre itself will convey the needed information. if he is a very advanced healer, he will not use any form of psychic perception but will react immediately upon contact to an impression so powerful, coming from the patient, that it cannot be denied and is probably entirely correct and to be depended upon. it must be remembered, however, that owing to the integrity of the human soul, and to the fact that- 326- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust every soul is in its own nature a master, there will be always a margin of error where the healer is concerned, even if he is an initiate healer; there will be evidence to him of a point where the spiritual man (of which the patient is only a reflection) controls, and beyond

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therefore, is the thread of consciousness, of intelligence, and the responsive agent in all sentient reactions. the interesting point to bear in mind, and where we must now lay the emphasis, is that this thread of consciousness is evolved by the soul and not by the monad. the world soul pours its gossamer thread of sentient consciousness into all forms, into all body cells and into all atoms. the human soul, the solar angel, repeats the process in relation to its shadow and reflection, the personality. this is part of the creative work of the soul. but, in its turn, the human being has also to become creative in the mental sense of the term and must repeat the process, for in all points the microcosm resembles the macrocosm. therefore, through the life thread, the soul creates and reproduc

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

f the ageless wisdom issued by the hierarchy. they must not be permitted to become a bible of a sect, as has been the case with the secret doctrine and the theosophical society. this incidentally has been a profound disappointment to the hierarchy. a.a.b. must not be turned into an occult authority. those connected with the great white lodge favour no bibles or authorities only the freedom of the human soul. the teaching matters, not the source or the form. let me reiterate for the sake of clarity: none of you has any responsibility for the arcane school or for the service activities though you can work helpfully, with humbleness and pure motive in any or all of them, under the direction of a.a.b. or of those into whose hands she has put responsibility. it is in these relationships that yo

ll an integral part of this group which had the task and the responsibility of being one of the first groups (not by any means the only one, however) to attempt to make the first steps towards the externalisation of the ashrams of the hierarchy. one of the major recognitions which is essential to the spiritual aspirant is that the hierarchy is completely unable under the law of the freedom of the human soul to work in the world of men without those representative groups which can "step down" the hierarchical quality of energy so that the average man (with his average vibration and quality) can find in himself a point of response. it was for this specific reason that i engineered this experiment in group work with all of you in order to test out the human capacity in its higher brackets to

umanity, and the superhuman kingdoms their opportunity, and through the human kingdom all superhuman lives have at some time passed. this you well know. in the first three lines you have reference to the mind of god as a focal point for the divine light. this refers to the soul of all things. the term "soul" with its major attribute of enlightenment, includes the anima mundi, the animal soul, the human soul, and that consummating point of light- 111- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust which we regard as the "overshadowing" soul of humanity. it is an aspect of the divine manifestation to which that great son of god refers when (as shri krishna) he remarks "having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of myself, i remain" that fragment is the soul of al

cis trust by soviet russia runs completely counter to the truth. their idea is that the concept, the idea, the decision and the interpretation of a group of powerful men establishes the truth, and to this truth the docile masses render prompt allegiance. this is a basic misconception and to it no member of the new group of world servers will render homage; they will fight this imprisonment of the human soul to the last gasp. true unanimity is free decision in response to a presentation of truth which is as near the achieved reality as possible. therefore, it is in the enunciation of truth that security for all men lies. this necessarily involves a deeply spiritual presentation of essential facts. the principle of simultaneity is allied to this, for a mutual recognition of an identical appr

n these words of mine. a focussing of your spiritual attitude and nature upon the physical plane will result in a more dynamic life, instead of the basically negative life you at present demonstrate; you will be surprised at the results which may eventuate. i am giving you no meditation. i seek to see the flow of your spiritual life downward into daily life, and i seek not to see you raising your human soul towards a soul contact you seldom achieve, consciously at least, this life. your problem has been due to the fact that in the past you at one time achieved a most definite soul contact, but knew not how to handle the force engendered. in this incarnation, this force flowed into the astral body to a very great extent and evoked the glamour and the deception which have coloured your life

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us now pass on to a brief indication of the work of the eighth group, which is psychological service. in this field the work will be lifted out of the realm of the strictly human and will concern itself with wider issues for, my brothers there are wider issues than those which concern the human family alone. the work of these disciples will cover the following three issues: 1. the relation of the human soul to the subhuman kingdoms in nature and the place of the human kingdom as an intermediary between the three higher kingdoms and the three lower. 2. the quality of the soul in the three subhuman kingdoms, with particular emphasis upon the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. the consciousness of the mineral kingdom is so far removed from the human that it is not possible for us to formulate

relatively temporary though apparently permanent focal point of reactionary energy. in connection with the petals of the lotus, you will find a close connection with the forces of the five kingdoms in nature; therefore, to the tabulation which was earlier given i would add the following for your consideration: 1. 5th kingdom..i.ntuition..s.piritual soul..head centre 2. 4th kingdom..intelligence..human soul..throat centre 3. 3rd kingdom..i.nstinct..a.nimal soul..solar plexus 4. 2nd kingdom..sentiency..f.eeling consciousness..heart centre 5. 1st kingdom..response..sub-consciousness..base of spine to this you may add the following- 60- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. shamballa..head lotus..kingdom of god. 1st ray..will quality of will 2. hierarchy..h. eart

u who are not participating in this planetary war? i speak with clarity because i seek to arouse you to the true issues whilst there is yet time. i seek to arrest in you the idea that the western hemisphere is the seat of all civilisation, the custodian of the best that there is in humanity, and that the spiritual future of humanity lies in the cherished land of liberty. liberty is a thing of the human soul and is found throughout the entire human race. civilisation is a universal human right and not the prerogative of one nation. i tell you that humanity is everywhere spiritually minded and that the new race, the coming civilisation, and the new age culture will be found throughout the world the universal inheritance of the human race. but everywhere humanity is the victim of propaganda a

consequently work against so-called peace. power is something which has ever been of interest, down the ages, to advanced humanity and to those men who could respond to the will aspect through their mental unfoldment. it is today becoming of interest to the masses and to the more mediocre types of men, and is hence oft misused and turned to selfish purposes. the power here to be evoked out of the human soul, in this hour of need, is the ability to know the plan and to work for its furtherance, thus cooperating with those forces which are endeavouring to re-establish order on earth and to end the cycle of- 182- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust aggressive wickedness in which today we find ourselves. the question arises here whether the cycle is susceptible to i

e one each stage and each life bringing its own revelation of the beauty of divinity and the glory of light more truly and clearly before the disciple. similarly, there come cycles wherein the dweller on the threshold appears and confronts the aspirant, challenging his purpose and progress and blocking the door which leads to expanded life and liberation. the dweller challenges the freedom of the human soul. so it is also in the life of a nation, a race, and humanity as a whole. the angel of the presence indicates divine possibility, reveals to the attentive disciple the next step towards liberation which must be made, and throws light upon the immediate stage of the path to light which must be trodden. so does the avatar who reveals the lighted way to humanity. the dweller on the threshol

han they love humanity. yet all that is needed is such a deep love of humanity that it works out on all levels of activity and all life effort. if the idealists of the world would realise the situation as it is, they would relinquish all that they hold dear and come to the rescue of humanity, and thus snatch the helpless masses back from slavery and death. they would battle for the freedom of the human soul with every weapon in the armory of mankind. they would hold back the forces of aggression by force itself if need be. they would aim at clear thinking, and thus clear the channel for the inflow of spiritual force. the major prerequisites today for true world service are an overwhelming love of humanity and a sense of proportion. the only requirements today for disciples and aspirants ma

f everything possible to bring the war to an end. every physical plane method must be used to drive the forces of evil and of cruelty back to their dark place. physical plane methods, when motivated by unchanging love of humanity and under the direction of an enlightened soul, become agents of righteousness. there are worse things than the death of the physical body; there is the enslaving of the human soul. 2. the focussing of the inner life towards the hierarchy in radiant faith. the way of the coming one must be made clear, and the life force must be dedicated to the outer life of compassion. 3. the clarifying of the mental life in the pure light of the soul. disciples live too much in the world of feeling; hence the clouding of their vision. when they have clarified their minds and see

ne. the next twelve months will be decisive in human affairs. by the end of 1942, chaos and difficulty will still be present, but the sound of the victor's trumpets will be heard. will the victors be the forces of light, under whose banners fight the allies, or will evil triumph and greed reap the profits of aggression? will men be led into a darkness which though not interminable will engulf the human soul for decades? the answers to these questions lie in the decisions and the activities of humanity itself. the hierarchy waits. i have referred to the increased difficulty which will confront the men and women of goodwill (working under the new group of world servers. what constitutes the difficulty, if we analyse the situation? two major factors: first, the steadily mounting feeling of in

any, japan and italy to this ancient miasma but also upon the fact that every nation the united nations as well as the totalitarian nations are tainted with this universal condition. the freedom of the world is consequently largely dependent upon those people in every nation who (within themselves) have moved forward out of one or other of these "glamorous illusions of mayavic impressions" of the human soul into a state of awareness wherein they can see the conflict in its wider terms, i.e, as that existing for them between the dweller on the threshold and the angel of the presence. these people are the aspirants, the disciples and the initiates of the world. they are aware of the dualism, the essential dualism, of the conflict and are not so pre-eminently conscious of the threefold nature

k, and humanity is moving towards that relationship and that in spite of the fact of war. 6. the fact of the path to god. awareness of this has been preserved for us down the ages by those who knew god and whom the world called mystics, occultists and saints. opening out- 266- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust before aspiring men stretches the way. the history of the human soul is the history of the search for that way and its discovery by the persistent. in every race and nation, in every climate and part of the world, and throughout the endless reaches of time itself, back into the limitless past, men have found the path to god; they have trodden it and accepted its conditions, endured its disciplines, rested back in confidence upon its realities, received i

rchy, and between both and shamballa. such messengers embody divine intention. the response of mankind to their messages is dependent upon the point in evolution which has been attained by man. back in the early history of the race these approaches were rare indeed. countless ages passed between them. today, owing to the greatly increased power of the human mind and the growing sensitivity of the human soul to the spiritual values as they express themselves through major world ideologies, these approaches of the divine to the human can become more frequent and are taking on a new form. man's inner realisation of his own innate spiritual potency and the unfoldment of his sense of relationship are bringing about an effort on his part consciously undertaken to make true progress towards the g

man to god (religion) and of man to man (government or social relationships. two major approaches are to be found in the past history of the race, and both are of such significance that it would be well to note them here. they lie so far back in human history that we have only myth and monument to indicate their happening. the first great approach of the divine to man caused the appearance of the human soul and the adding of another kingdom in nature to the three (mineral, vegetable and animal) already existing. the kingdom of man appeared on earth. aeons passed away whilst primitive man continued to evolve, and when the second great approach took place and the spiritual hierarchy of our planet drew nearer to humanity; the spiritual way to god was opened for those who consciously can move

times during the entire history of the human kingdom. at other times, it makes its impact directly upon the hierarchy, and is then transmuted or stepped down so that humanity can take it. the three times it has been directed, unimpeded and untransmuted, towards humanity are: 1. at the time of the individualisation of animal-man when the mind principle was implanted. this was the birth hour of the human soul. 2. in atlantean days when the power of the black lodge was so great that defeat faced the hierarchy and the destruction of the human soul. shamballa then interfered, and the world of that time was destroyed. this period is recognised in modern history as the time of the great flood- 288- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. today, once again, the powers of

this power was seized upon by the evil forces to destroy the souls of men, to precipitate war and to destroy the cities and all our centres of civilisation and culture. the first phase or form of destruction was directed by the disciples, the aspirants and the clear thinking people of the world, and this was needed and very good. the old social, political and religious forms were stultifying the human soul and handicapping all progress. the second phase or form of destruction was directed by evil, and was focussed through those nations who had succumbed to the glamour of superiority, to the temptation of material aggression and to intolerant racial hatreds, implemented by cruelty and barbarism. the time has now come when this divine energy must express itself through the second aspect of

nrepresented and this for a long time will be the fourth. as the fourth ray is, however, the constant ray of the human family, its influence is consistently present, and this ashram is equally constantly aware of and influential in human affairs; it will come into full expression when the intuition of the human being, emanating as an energy from the fourth or buddhic plane, has been evoked by the human soul and is a recognised asset in human consciousness. the fourth ray will come into manifestation before many generations have passed, but only from the angle of its incarnating monad, and not from the angle of its active ashram. once the contact in physical manifestation and physical recognition has been established, a system of "appearances and of abstractions" will be instituted by the h

d you, the- 421- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust final decisions in world affairs have to be made through mankind's deliberate choice; no compulsion is ever exerted by the hierarchy or by the disciples of the christ to force men to take some desirable action. man's free will must be preserved. in an unique manner, men are today facing a period of the freeing of the human soul, or a period of its imprisonment indefinitely; the right decision will lead to the kingdom of god, and the other to a retrogression which will deify the past and prolong past wrong action. this outpouring of spiritual energy passes through the groups or (to use a technical word which is relatively unimportant) through the ashrams of all the masters of the wisdom, the disciples of the ch

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igher spiritual values, to the trends and ideologies which are everywhere appearing, and to the clear lines of demarcation which have emerged in the realm of human determinations and objectives. these are all the results of great changes in the field of the higher consciousness and are conditioned by the soul of all things, lying largely in the realm of the anima mundi; of this great sumtotal the human soul and the spiritual soul are but aspects or expressions. it is these changes in the "moving, shifting realities" of the soul consciousness and spiritual awareness of the members of the hierarchy which are responsible for the new trends in the life of the spirit and the new methods in training disciples in such an experiment, for instance, as externalising the ashrams of the masters. it is

und in the next. it is related to an aspect of the creative intelligence, an aspect and characteristic peculiar to humanity. this aspect was not found in the previous solar system, in which the other aspects of the creative intelligence functioned. in this solar system, it has been developed and brought from latency to potency in connection with the substance of the human bodies through which the human soul is gaining experience. it holds the secret of beauty in manifestation, and its first expression can be seen in the creative perfection of certain phases of art for which man, and man alone, is responsible. no other kingdom in nature creates forms, produces colour and sounds in harmonious relation, except the human; all of this type of creative art is the result of aeons of conflict, pai

are far from being even true aspirants. in either case then the horoscope may prove inaccurate. it is of no use to use the esoteric planets in relation to the average man. 5. information about the new group of world servers and their work. this information includes a. the recognition of this group as intermediate between the hierarchy and humanity. b. the nature of their work as it influences the human soul and as it seeks through the instrumentality of the men and women of goodwill to determine the period in which we live. c. the triangle work which embodies two phases of their work, i.e, the forming of the network of light as the channel of communication between the hierarchy and humanity, and the forming simultaneously of the network of goodwill, which is the objective expression of the

the antahkarana with the introductory teaching on the science of the antahkarana we shall not here deal, for the student will find it in the book, education in the new age. that preliminary presentation should be studied before taking up the more advanced stage which begins here. let us now consider, step by step this science which is already proving a useful source of experiment and testing. the human soul (in contradistinction to the soul as it functions in its own kingdom, free from the limitations of human life) is imprisoned and subject to the control of the lower three energies for the major part of its experience. then, upon the path of probation, the dual energy of soul begins to be increasingly active, and the man seeks to use his mind consciously, and to express love-wisdom on th

yond saying that these five (in reality seven) senses constitute avenues of spiritual approach to varying aspects of the divine manifestation in the three or five worlds of human evolution. it might here be pointed out that (in a mysterious manner) the seven centres in the etheric body are correspondences to the seven senses, for they are responsive to vibrations coming from the world soul or the human soul, from the ashram and from the master, as well as registering eventually the energies of all the seven rays; these pour into the disciple and through him as part of the great circulatory system of the sevenfold divine energy which is the basis of manifestation. i dealt with these senses and the circulating energies somewhat at length in a treatise on cosmic fire. with the theme of the fu

ion and as i said above the combination of these forces produces the ascension; this is an exceeding great mystery and one which cannot as yet be grasped by you. from the height of the mount of ascension light is thrown upon the hierarchical plan in such a manner that the purpose in the mind of the planetary logos is (for the first time) truly grasped. 3. from that height also, the mystery of the human soul is revealed and a great triangular pattern will be seen, relating the human spirit to the world of forms, to the united hierarchy and to the council chamber of the lord. upon this i may not here enlarge, for we must not diverge too far from our study. one thing only can be said: from that high place, atma-buddhi-manas (will, love and intelligent action) can be seen in united activity an

of that freedom factor sponsored today by the hierarchy. communism being an imposed ideology, forced on the people by totalitarian authority, is regarded as evil. it is not the communistic theories which are necessarily wrong; it is the technique and the methods, rampant in the totalitarian lands, which are counter to the spiritual plan. imposed communism and all totalitarian methods imprison the human soul, and breed fear and hatred everywhere. should the democratic principles therefore be imposed upon the world or any part of the world by a totalitarian regime, it would be equally wrong. these conflicting ideologies are presenting clearly to the human consciousness certain great distinctions; these distinctions are found in techniques and methods far more than in the various tenets. many

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eing "chased eternally, and it is interesting to note that the hebrew names of some of the stars found in this constellation signify "the enemy of the coming one, which is the meaning of the name of the brightest star, arneb; whilst three other stars have names meaning "the mad "the bound "the deceiver. all these words are characteristics of the lower self chased eternally by the higher self; the human soul pursued by the hound of heaven. as we look at the starry heavens at night and locate sirius, the dog star, the story of our past, present and future is dramatically pictured. we have the story of our past in lepus, the hare, fleet of foot, deceived, mad, bound to the wheel of life, identified with the matter aspect, and ever the enemy of "the coming prince. in canis minor, we have the s

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

st in connection with the old treatises form such a mass of kabalistic lore as to make it an almost impossible task to grasp them; probably no christian nor jew in this country can say what doctrines are not still laid up in some of the old manuscript works. the dogmatic or theoretical kabalah indicates philosophical conceptions respecting the deity, angels and beings more spiritual than man; the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation and the several worlds or planes of existence. the practical kabalah attempts a mystical and allegorical interpretation of the old testament, studying each phrase, word and letter; it teaches the connection between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon

verse only became complete with the creation of man, called the microcosm, the earthly adam; a copy of "the archetypal man" after another manner; he has principles and faculties and forms comparable to all the sephiroth and worlds, although his material body dwells on the assiatic plane. from god, the angels and the world, let us pass to consider more fully what the kabalah teaches about man, the human soul or ego. it has already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now the ten sephiroth condense their energy into a formulated four-parted group of three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity, or of matter. these ten sephiroth, and the plane

jehovah, comes neshamah, the buddhi of the hindoos, the spiritual soul. from vau, the v of jehovah, comes ruach, the manas of the hindoos, intellect and mind. from the final h, the ah of jehovah, is derived nephesh, the k ma of the hindoos, the appetites and passions. these are all implanted in the astral shell, which moulds the physical body, the instrument which acts upon material objects. the human soul is again conceived of as distributed through several distinct forms of conscious manifestation related to the "ten sephiroth: the several kabalistic treatises give several groupings, which are all relevant one to the other, the most usual one being a triple division, into nephesh, the passions referred to malkuth; ruach, the mind, reason, and intellect referred to the group of six sephi

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gether, and strove to discover the true interpretation of all they had seen. but they were unable to agree until there came forward a man of venerable age, with snowy locks and silvery beard, and arrayed in a flowing purple robe on his head he wore a crown set with brilliant carbuncles. his loins were girded with the girdle of life. his feet were bare, and his words penetrated to the depth of the human soul. he mounted the tribune, and bade the assembly listen twelve keys of basil valentine 20 of 95 to him in silence, since he was sent from above to explain to them the significance of what they had seen. when perfect silence prevailed, he delivered himself as follows: awake, o man, and behold the light, lest the darkness deceive thee! the gods revealed to me this matter in a profound sleep

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i (the first-born) and[[footnote(s* adam-jehovah, brahma and mars are, in one sense, identical; they are all symbols for primitive or initial generative powers for the purposes of human procreation. adam is red, and so also are brahma-viraj and mars- god and planet. water is the blood of the earth; therefore, all these names are connected with earth and water "it takes earth and water to create a human soul" says moses. mars is identical with kartikeya god of war (in one sense- which god is born of the sweat of siva, siva gharmaja and the earth. in the mahabharata he is shown as born without the intervention of a woman. and he is also called "lohita" the red, like adam, and the other "first men" hence, the author of "the source of measures" is quite right in thinking that mars (and all the

lace in theogony, so the recent discoveries of the chaldean tablets vindicate the good name of the first divine emanations. this is easily proved. christian angelology is directly and solely derived from that of the pharisees, who brought their tenets from babylonia. the sadducees, the real guardians of the laws of moses, knew not of, and rejected, any angels, opposing even the immortality of the human soul (not impersonal spirit. in the bible the only "angels" spoken of are the "sons of god" mentioned in genesis vi (who are now regarded as the nephilim, the fallen angels, and several angels in human form, the "messengers" of the jewish god, whose own rank needs a closer analysis than heretofore given (vide supra, stanza i, sub-sections 2, 3, et seq, where it is shown that the early akkadi

c teachings. for the purely and transcendentally spiritual conceptions are adapted only to the perceptions of those who "see without eyes, hear without ears, and sense without organs" according to the graphic expression of the commentary. the too puritan idealist is at liberty to spiritualise the tenet, whereas the modern psychologist would simply try to spirit away our "fallen" yet still divine, human soul in its connection with buddhi. the mystery attached to the highly spiritual ancestors of the divine man within the earthly man is very great. his dual creation is hinted at in the puranas, though its esoteric meaning can be approached only by collating together the many varying accounts, and reading them in their symbolical and allegorical character. so it is in the bible, both in genes

r bodies and lower principles. they are ourselves, as the first personalities, and we are they. primeval man would be "the bone of their bone and the flesh of their flesh" if they had body and flesh. as stated, they were "lunar beings" the endowers of man with his conscious, immortal ego, are the "solar angels- whether so regarded metaphorically or literally. the mysteries of the conscious ego or human soul are great. the esoteric name of these "solar angels" is, literally, the "lords (nath) of "persevering ceaseless devotion (pranidhana. therefore they of the fifth principle (manas) seem to be connected with, or to have originated the system of the yogis who make of pranidhana their fifth observance (see yoga shastra, ii, 32) it has already been explained why the trans-himalayan occultist

he perfect man later on; when, with the development of "spiritual fire" the noumenon of the "three in one" within his self, he acquires from his inner self, or instructor, the wisdom of self-consciousness, which he does not possess in the beginning. thus here again divine spirit is symbolised by the sun or fire; divine soul by water and the moon, both standing for the father and mother of pneuma, human soul, or mind, symbolised by the wind or air, for pneuma, means "breath" hence in the smaragdine tablet, disfigured by christian hands "the superior agrees with the inferior; and the inferior with the superior; to effect that one truly wonderful work- which is man. for the secret work of chiram, or king hiram in the kabala "one in essence, but three in aspect" is the universal agent or lapis

who sacrifices himself for castor; castor, who, inferior to his brother, owes to him his immortality: for the moon, says theophrastus, is only another, but feebler sun (de ventis 17. see decharme, p. 655* see "book of enoch* adam (kadmon) is, like brahma and mars, the symbol of the generative and creative power typifying water and earth- an alchemical secret "it takes earth and water to create a human soul" said moses. mars is the hindu mangala, the planet mars, identical with kartikeya, the "war-god" born of gharma-ja (siva's sweat) and of the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 125 jah-hovah androgynous. separating into man and woman, and becoming jah-heva in one form, or race, and cain and abel (male and female) in its other form or race- the double-sexed jehovah- an echo o

lutionary nature? could they, as claimed by the biblical dead-letter, form "lord-god"-like, or as pygmalion in the greek allegory, adam-galatea out of volcanic dust, and breathe a living soul into man? no: because the soul was already there, latent in its monad, and needed but a coating. pygmalion, who fails to animate his statue, and bahak-zivo of the nazarean gnostics, who fails to construct "a human soul in the creature" are, as conceptions, far more philosophical and scientific than adam, taken in the dead-letter sense, or the biblical elohim-creators. esoteric philosophy, which teaches spontaneous generation- after the sishta and prajapati have thrown the seed of life on the earth- shows the lower angels able to construct physical man only, even with the help of nature, after having e

e body of egotistical desires and personal will, to cement the whole, as if round a pivot (which it is, truly, to the physical form of man. it is the fifth and the fourth principles- manas and kama rupa- that contain the dual personality: the real immortal ego (if it assimilates itself to the two higher) and the false and transitory personality, the mayavi or astral body, so-called, or the animal-human soul- the two hav[[footnote(s* the fourth, and the fifth from below beginning by the physical body; the third and the fourth, if we reckon from atma[[vol. 2, page] 242 the secret doctrine. ing to be closely blended for purposes of a full terrestrial existence. incarnate the spiritual monad of a newton grafted on that of the greatest saint on earth- in a physical body the most perfect you can

e which begat the giants of atlantis[[footnote(s* it is, perhaps, with an eye to this degradation of the highest and purest spirits, who broke through the intermediate planes of lower consciousness (the "seven circles of fire" of pymander, that st. james is made to say that "this wisdom (psuche in the original) descended not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish; and psuche is manas, the "human soul" the spiritual wisdom or soul being buddhi. yet buddhi per se, being so near the absolute, is only latent consciousness* this is the "undying race" as it is called in esotericism, and exoterically the fruitless generation of the first progeny of daksha, who curses narada, the divine rishi, alleged to have dissuaded the haryaswas and the sabalaswas, the sons of daksha, from procreating t

, was and will ever remain the intellectual "sphinx" of the ages. between zeus, the abstract deity of grecian thought, and the olympic zeus, there was an abyss. the latter represented during the mysteries no higher a principle than the lower aspect of human physical intelligence- manas wedded to kama; prometheus- its divine aspect merging into and aspiring to buddhi- the divine soul. zeus was the human soul and nothing more, whenever shown yielding to his lower passions- the jealous god, revengeful and cruel in its egotism or i-am-ness. hence, zeus is represented as a serpent- the intellectual tempter of man- which, nevertheless, begets in the course of[[footnote(s* herodotus and pausanias supposed that the cause of the condemnation was that aeschylus, adopting the theogony of the egyptian

ually, than do materialistic symbologists in thus taking for granted that the ancient aryans based their religious conceptions on no higher thought than the physiological. but it is not so, and the very spirit of vedic philosophy is against such an interpretation. and if, as decharme himself confesses "this idea of the creative power of fire is explained at once by the ancient assimilation of the human soul to a celestial spark" as shown by the imagery often made use of in the vedas when speaking of arani, it would mean something higher than simply a gross sexual conception. a hymn to agni in the veda is cited as example "here is the pramantha, the generator is ready. bring the mistress of the race (the female arani. let us produce agni by attrition, according[[footnote(s* the italics are

best be shown by placing the 3[[diagram],and 4[[diagram] on parallel lines with the "cosmic" and "human" principles. for the latter, the old familiar classification is made use of. thus- human aspects, or principles. cosmic aspects, or principles[[diagram] triple aspect of the deity. 1. universal spirit (atma) 1. the unmanifested logos 2. spiritual soul (buddhi) 2. universal (latent) ideation* 3. human soul, mind (manas) 3. universal (or cosmic) active* intelligence[[diagram] spirit of the earth. jehovah* 4. animal soul (kama-rupa) 4. cosmic (chaotic) energy noah. 5. astral body (linga sarira) 5. astral ideation, reflecting terrestrial things. space containing life- the waters of the deluge. 6. life essence (prana) 6. life essence or energy mount ararat* 7. body (sthula sarira) 7. the eart

lex than the paragraph and quotations referred to categorically assert. it is practically a reversal- both in embryological inference and succession in time of species- of the current western conception* according to haeckel, there are also cell-souls "an inorganic molecular soul" without, and a "plastidular soul with (or possessing) memory. what are our esoteric teachings to this? the divine and human soul of the seven principles in man must, of course, pale and give away before such a stupendous revelation* a valuable confession, this. only it makes the attempt to trace the descent of consciousness in man as well as of his physical body from bathybius haeckelii still more humorous and empirical, in the sense of webster's second definition[[vol. 2, page] 671 haeckel creates souls. mr. her

e never entirely lost when a man dies. that the atoms best impregnated with the life-principle (an independent, eternal, conscious factor) are partially transmitted from father to son by heredity, and partially are drawn once more together and become the animating principle of the new body in every new incarnation of[[footnote(s* those who take the opposite view and look upon the existence of the human soul "as a supernatural, a spiritual phenomenon, conditioned by forces altogether different from ordinary physical forces "mock" he thinks "in consequence, all explanation that is simply scientific" they have no right it seems, to assert that "psychology is, in part, or in whole, a spiritual science, not a physical one. the new discovery by haeckel (one taught for thousands of years in all t

has sensation and the power of movement" he does not say a word concerning the fact that this is leibnitz's theory, and one pre-eminently occult. nor does he understand the term "soul" as we do; for, with haeckel it is simply, along with consciousness, the production of the grey matter of the brain, a thing which, as the "cell-soul, is as indissolubly bound up with the protoplasmic body as is the human soul with the brain and spinal cord (ibid) he rejects the conclusions of kant, herbert spencer, of du bois- reymond and tyndall. the latter expresses the opinion of all the great men of science, as of the greatest thinkers of this and the past ages, in saying that "the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. were our minds and senses

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mits of no higher deity. the latter, in occultism, is the abstract triangle; with the orthodox, the perfect cube. the creative god or the aggregate gods are regarded by the eastern philosopher as bhrantidarsanatah "false apprehension" something "conceived of, by reason of erroneous appearances, as a material form" and explained as arising from the illusive conception of the egotistic personal and human soul (lower fifth principle. it is beautifully expressed in a new translation of vishnu purana "that brahma in its totality has essentially the aspect of prakriti, both evolved and unevolved (mulaprakriti, and also the aspect of spirit and the aspect of time. spirit, o twice born, is the leading aspect of the supreme brahma* the next is a twofold aspect- prakriti, both evolved and unevolved

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

or physical characteristics with which modern science is acquainted. it is homogeneous in its primitive form beyond the solar systems, and differentiates entirely once it crosses the boundaries of our earth's region, vitiated by the atmospheres of the planets and the already compound matter of the interplanetary stuff, heterogeneous only in our manifested world* manas- the mind-principle, or the human soul* buddhi- the divine soul[[vol. 1, page] 102 the secret doctrine. roman church as the leaders of the heavenly hosts, thus showing the same traditions. having evolved from cosmic space, and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula, the sun, we are taught, drew into the depths of its mass all the cosmic vitality he could, threatening to engulf

has already been done, and science will go no farther[[footnote(s* the greatest philosopher of european birth, imanuel kant, assures us that such a communication is in no way improbable "i confess i am much disposed to assert the existence of immaterial natures in the world, and to place my own soul in the class of these beings. it will hereafter, i know not where, or when, yet be proved that the human soul stands even in this life in indissoluble connection with all immaterial natures in the spirit-world, that it reciprocally acts upon these and receives impressions from them (traume eines geistersehers, quoted by c. c. massey, in his preface to von hartmann's "spiritismus[[vol. 1, page] 134 the secret doctrine. she is before a dead wall, on the face of which she traces, as she imagines

in the original text[[footnote(s* as we are proceeding here from universals to particulars, instead of using the inductive or aristotelean method, the numbers are reversed. spirit is enumerated the first instead of seventh, as is usually done, but, in truth, ought not to be done* or as usually named after the manner of esoteric buddhism and others: 1, atma; 2, buddhi (or spiritual soul; 3, manas (human soul; 4, kama rupa (vehicle of desires and passions; 5, linga sarira; 6, prana; 7, sthula sarira[[vol. 1, page] 154 the secret doctrine. the dark horizontal lines of the lower planes are the upadhis in one case, and the planes in the case of the planetary chain. of course, as regards the human principles, the diagram does not place them quite in order, yet it shows the correspondence and ana

shown further on. in egypt the defunct man- whose symbol is the pentagram or the five-pointed star, the points of which represent the limbs of a man- was shown emblematically transformed into a crocodile: sebakh or sevekh "or seventh" as mr. gerald massey says, showing it as having been the type of intelligence, is a dragon in reality, not a crocodile. he is the "dragon of wisdom" or manas, the "human soul" mind, the intelligent principle, called in our esoteric philosophy the "fifth" principle. says the defunct "osirified" in ch. lxxxviii "book of the dead" or the ritual, under the glyph of a mummiform god with a crocodile's head (1 "i am the god (crocodile) presiding at the fear. at the arrival of his soul among men. i am the god-crocodile brought for destruction (an allusion to the des

a) a spiritual model, or prototype, for that material to shape itself into; and (b) an intelligent consciousness to guide its evolution and progress, neither of which is possessed by the homogeneous monad, or by senseless though living matter. the adam of dust requires the soul of life to be breathed into him: the two middle principles, which are the sentient life of the irrational animal and the human soul, for the former is irrational without the latter. it is only when, from a potential androgyne, man has become separated into male and female, that he will be endowed with this conscious, rational, individual soul (manas "the principle, or the intelligence, of the elohim" to receive which, he has to eat of the fruit of knowledge from the tree of good and evil. how is he to obtain all thi

all its forty-nine fires in him. each of his seven principles is an heir in full to, and a partaker of, the seven principles of the "great mother" the breath of her first principle is his spirit (atma. her second principle is buddhi (soul. we call it, erroneously, the seventh. the third furnishes him with (a) the brain stuff on the physical plane, and (b) with the mind that moves it [which is the human soul- h. p. b- according to his organic capacities (e) it is the guiding force in the cosmic and terrestrial elements. it resides in the fire provoked out of its latent into active being; for the whole of the seven subdivisions of the* principle reside in the terrestrial fire. it whirls in the breeze, blows with the hurricane, and sets the air in motion, which element participates in one of

e. this may be demonstrated to any european who would undertake to solve the problem of existence by the articles of faith of the true vedantin, for instance. let him read and study the sublime teachings on the subject of soul and spirit, of[[vol. 1, page] 570 the secret doctrine. sankaracharya (viveka chudamani, and the reader will realize what is now said. while the christian is taught that the human soul is a breath of god- being created by him for sempiternal existence, i.e, having a beginning, but no end (and therefore never to be called eternal- the occult teaching says "nothing is created, but is only transformed. nothing can manifest itself in this universe- from a globe down to a vague, rapid thought- that was not in the universe already; everything on the subjective plane is an e

him, the monad had remained a simple atom of blind force. but" one perfectly understands the perplexity of modern materialism* leibnitz was an absolute idealist in maintaining that "material atoms are contrary to reason (systeme nouveau, erdmann, p. 126. col. 2. for him matter was a simple representation of the monad, whether human or atomic. monads, he thought (as we do, are everywhere. thus the human soul is a monad, and every cell in the human body has its monad, as every cell in animal, vegetable, and even in the (so-called) inorganic bodies. his atoms are the molecules of modern science, and his monads those simple[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 631 maya and mahamaya. rather) of materialistic philosophy can be considered as extended and divisible, while the monads are

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ard to the conditions surrounding the birth of any child. 15. there is an especially sacred duty, which every brother should fulfil, with regard to all children, those born within the order included. this duty is to instruct them in the law of thelema, to teach them independence and freedom of thought and character, and to warn them that servility and cowardice are the most deadly diseases of the human soul. sixth house 16. personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the members of the order when possible, and great tact and courtesy are to be employed in dealing with them. the equinox 214 17. they, on their part, will render willing and intelligence service. 18. while in lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated as brothers, with perfect equality; such behavi

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n individual had committed himself, he opened a door so that an indefinable something (probably an undetectable mass of intelligent energy) could actually enter his body and exercise some control over his subconscious mind. the human race would supply the pawns..each individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces..the main battle was for what was to become known as the human soul."1 by choosing to give yourself to a deity or "god, you open your psyche to possession by the force that deity or "god" represents. and deities like "mary" and "jesus" represent very different forces to those perceived by their "believers. it is so important for people to get out of religion and start recovering control of their own minds. there is an important point to make before we p

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bode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. i command and i conjure thee in the name of the mighty living god, father, son and holy ghost, to appear without noise and without" page 244 'the secret teaching of all ages' by manly palmer hall 33 "i hereby promise the great spirit lucifuge, prince of demons, that each year i will bring unto him a human soul to do with as as it may please him, and in return lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. if i fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. signed. invocant signs pact with his own blood" page civ 'the lost keys of freemasonry' by manly palmer hall

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occurred, is occurring, and will occur in the universe. alchemy: the art of transforming by magick (q.v) and/or physical practices that which is base into that which is precious. such as the goal of turning a base metal like lead, into gold. this can be seen as a literal idea or as an allegory. spiritually, alchemy is the central rite of the great work (q.v, the purification and exaltation of the human soul. a goal of renaissance alchemy was finding a chemical solution for eternal youth. alchemy (inner: a method of controlling the psychic (q.v) energies of the body as they are raised during sexual excitation for the purposes of working magick (q.v) and achieving enlightenment. alchemy (outer: making use of the magically charged sexual fluids for magickal purposes. alexandrian (wicca: a sys

e do not have things called souls, but rather, we are souls. spirit: 1) the highest level of the psyche (q.v. 2) the fifth magickal element (q.v) or other being which is disembodied by nature. 3) self aware beings that lack a living, material body. some spirits have the power to borrow the bodies of mortal men and women, and use them as their own. 4) in spiritualism/ spiritism (q.v, a disembodied human soul. spirit, human: the vitalizing energy that burns within each individual and is one with the divine radiance. spiritism: french equivalent to the spiritualism of england and america. thanks to the writings of the french occultist, allan kardec (1804-1869, it had an immense influence on the spirit possession cults of brazil and other nations of south america. a religion of which a major a

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body, but by the subtle etheric exchange of magnetism and intellectual and spiritual polarisation. this lifted the cult nf aphrodite out of the sphere of simple sensuality, and explains why the priestesses of the cult commanded respect and were by no means looked upon as common prostitutes, although they received all comers. they were engaged in ministering to certain of the subtler needs of the human soul by means of their skilled arts. we have brought to a higher pitch of development than was ever known to the greeks the art of stimulating desire with film and revue and syncopation, but we have no knowledge of the far more important art of meeting the needs of the human soul for etheric and mental interchange of magnetism, and it is for this reason that our sex life, both physiologicall

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clearly realised that any mating between a human and a non-human is a hopeless proposition. in the first place, it can only be the preamble to a divorce, because non-humans are promiscuous in their sexual habits; and, secondly, there is nothing in the nature of a non-human that can satisfy the higher aspirations of the human. we must not allow the human form to mislead us as to the existence of a human soul. a non-human is a pet animal, not a fellow-creature. that, frankly, is the only possible ground upon which they can be approached. if we expect no more of them than we should of a pet bird, if we manage them as we should manage a kitten, we have got as near to the solution of the problem as we are ever likely to get until the dark angel mercifully restores them to their own kingdom; a m

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oke. possession, as the term is generally understood, involves the entrance of a spirit into the body and mind of a human being, in which the consciousness self-awareness of the human being is temporarily, or permanently, rendered unconscious, as it is during deep, dreamless sleep. the consciousness of the spirit takes over the motor control of its human host. in effect, the spirit pushes out the human soul and takes possession of its body, just as we would evict tenants from an apartment and assume residence there. in voudoun (voodoo) possession by spirits and gods is a necessary part of religious practice. the spirit or loa is said to "ride" the body of the possessed person the way a man rides a horse. the reality of possession is that the human consciousness is seldom completely exclude

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re socially well-integrated [31, p. 50) a distinct group of people have received priesthood or magistrate degrees as honorary titles. most known among these are perhaps sammy davis, jr, king diamond, and marylin manson. the exact reason for their honorary titles is somewhat unclear. sammy davis, jr. was jewish; king diamond s personal belief that centers around an afterlife and the existence of a human soul seems at odds with the church of satan s fundamental stance even when the ambiguity of its ideology is considered; and marylin manson s outcast style conflicts with the church of satan s elite image and besides, he later publicly distanced himself from the church of satan. these individuals have certainly made accomplishments in the real world by figuratively raising the devil in their

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al inside, who moves him. the animal inside the animal, the man inside the man, is the soul. and as the activity of an animal or man is explained by the presence of the soul, so the repose of sleep or death is explained by its absence; sleep or trance being the temporary, death being the permanent absence of the soul. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apparitions 63 sometimes the human soul was represented as a bird.an eagle, a dove, a raven.or as an animal of some sort, just as the soul of a river might be in the form of a horse or a serpent, or the soul of a tree in human shape; but among most peoples the belief was that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body resembling it in every feature, even to details of dress. when a person saw another in a dream, it was th

. universality of belief in apparitions it is clear that the belief in apparitions, and the varied forms under which this belief exhibits itself in various times and countries, is universal. both ancient and modern peoples believe in hauntings and the basic principles of the phenomena.the existence of a spiritual world capable of manifesting itself in the sphere of matter, and the survival of the human soul after the dissolution of the body.are the same. while the beliefs in ancient and medieval times may arouse interest and curiosity for their own sakes, psychical researchers have valued them chiefly as throwing light on modern occurrences and beliefs. the belief in apparitions, for example, has been a root principle of spiritualism and is characteristic of religions that postulate the ex

ter the dissolution of the body.are the same. while the beliefs in ancient and medieval times may arouse interest and curiosity for their own sakes, psychical researchers have valued them chiefly as throwing light on modern occurrences and beliefs. the belief in apparitions, for example, has been a root principle of spiritualism and is characteristic of religions that postulate the existence of a human soul. many indi- apparitions encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 66 viduals who are not spiritualists in the accepted sense have had experiences that render belief in apparitions inevitable. some typical examples of apparitions the true nature of apparitions is not really known. as andrew lang stated: only one thing is certain about apparitions, namely this, that they do appea

e knowledge of the unity of the soul with brahman. it is characterized as the condition of highest joy arising from the belief of the identification of the self (atman) with brahman. sources: mishra, shri ramamurti. self analysis and self knowledge. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1977. atman usually translated soul but better rendered self. in the hindu religion, atman means the union of the collective human soul with god (brahma, eventually merged in the absolute totality of brahman. it is believed that the soul is neither body nor mind, nor even thought, but that these are merely conditions by which the soul is clouded so that it loses its sense of oneness with god. in the upanishads it is said, the self, smaller than small, greater than great, is hidden in the heart of the creature and in the

ad bhagavatam (9) buddha, the great religious teacher; and (10) kalki, an incarnation yet to come, who is prophesied to appear on a white horse with a sword blazing like a comet, to destroy the wicked, stabilize creation and restore purity to the world. in other religious works, as many as 22 incarnations are listed, including various great saints and sages. according to hindu belief, a perfected human soul has no further karma (action and reaction) and is absorbed into divinity at death, but may elect to be incarnated for the good of the world. the deity shri krishna, in the bhagavad-gita (4:7.8) specifically promises: arjuna, whenever there is decline of dharma (righteous duty, and unrighteousness is dominant, then i am reborn. for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of evil

cine. by photographic means he also claimed to have proved that something misty and vaporous leaves the human body at the moment of death. his contribution to the study of vital emanation is significant. he constructed an instrument, called baraduc s biometer, that indicated the action of a nervous force and unknown vibrations outside the human body. his experiments are described in his books the human soul (1913, iconographie de la force vitale cosmique od (1896, methode de radiographie humaine (1897, note sommaire sur la decondensation cerebrale (1901, photographie des etats hypervibratoires de la vitalite humaine (1897, les vibrations de la vitalite humaine (1904, and la force vitale, notre corps vital, fulidique, une formule barometrique (1905 (see also sthenometer) sources: baraduc, h

13, iconographie de la force vitale cosmique od (1896, methode de radiographie humaine (1897, note sommaire sur la decondensation cerebrale (1901, photographie des etats hypervibratoires de la vitalite humaine (1897, les vibrations de la vitalite humaine (1904, and la force vitale, notre corps vital, fulidique, une formule barometrique (1905 (see also sthenometer) sources: baraduc, hyppolite. the human soul. paris, 1913. les vibrations de la vitalite humaine. paris, 1904. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. barbanell, maurice (1902.1981) veteran british lecturer, journalist, and author in the field of spiritualism. he served as editor of the psychic news and the two worlds for over three decades. many

surrounded by high mountains. the headquarters were formally moved in 1951. two years later doreal predicted the coming biblical battle of armageddon for later in the year. it did not occur, but members continued to stockpile food and other resources they might need should war break out. the brotherhood teaches a system of gnosticism that draws heavily on theosophical and kabalistic writings. the human soul is pictured as a spark of the divine that has devolved into matter. this experience has overwhelmed the soul, which has lost the harmony it had after being created. teachings emphasize methods of reestablishing harmony and, with the aid of the masters, returning to the divine realms. new members complete a series of lessons and progress through neophyte and temple grades, which can take

ources: cahagnet, louis-alphonse. magnetisme arcanes de la vie future devoile. paris, 1848. translated as the celestial telegraph. 2 vols. new york, 1851. magnetisme: encyclopedie magnetique spiritualiste. n.p, 1861. cahagnet, louis-alphonse encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 240. sanctuaire au spiritualisme. paris, 1850. translated as the sanctuary of spiritualism: a study of the human soul and of its relation with the universe through somnambulism and ecstasy. n.p, 1851. therapeutique du magnetisme et du somnambulisme appropriee aux maladies les plus communes. n.p, 1883. darnton, robert. mesmerism and the end of the enlightenment in france. cambridge, mass: harvard university press, 1968. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix pr

iumphant. headquarters of the church were moved to california in 1976 and a decade later to montana, on land north of and adjacent to yellowstone national park. the church developed in the midst of the older i am religious activity and freely admits its debt to guy w. ballard, but in its emphasis upon its christian nature it has developed a number of differences from the i am. it teaches that the human soul is the living potential of god. souls are conceived in the mind of god as an initial realization of god s unity. they are then born as separate entities, a realization of the duality of god, a being of both spirit and matter. the individual is thus seen as having two parts.a higher, unchanging self and a lower, changing self. the god-identity of each individual, the i am presence, is ex

through the research of baraduc and others has been french interest in such subjects as radiesthesia and astral projection. it has always been difficult to draw a line between such subjects as psychical research, spiritualism, and radiesthesia, and in the past many prominent french psychical researchers endorsed spiritualist beliefs and astral projection out of their belief in the reality of the human soul or subtle body. some researchers who claim to have detected human radiation have also propagated concepts of the subtle body; baraduc claimed to have photographed it. radiesthesia, a french term for dowsing and divining for water and metals, is specifically concerned with subtle radia- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. france 597 tion, not only human but also animal and

ciation 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 justice of the divine laws governing all life; and

shine, and of recalling the dead. aristides, the greek orator, gave exhaustive accounts of the many dreams he experienced during sleep in the temples and the cures prescribed therein. socrates told of his attendant spirit or genius who warned him, and others through his agency, of impending danger, also foretelling futurity. xenophon, treating of divination by dreams, maintained that in sleep the human soul reveals her divine nature, and, being freed from trammels of the body, gazes into futurity. plato, while inveighing against sorcery, took the popular superstitions relating to magic, demons, and spirits and used them as a basis for a spiritual and magical theory of things. on his teaching would be founded the neo-platonists school, which was among the most fervid defender of magic. aris

very morning when the absolution was signed by the patriarch. sir paul rycaut, who has recorded this event, was neither a greek nor roman catholic, but a staunch protestant of the church of england. he observes upon this occasion that the notion among the greeks is that an evil spirit enters into the excommunicated carcass and preserves it from corruption by performing the usual functions of the human soul in a living body. they suppose that these corpses eat by night and actually digest and are nourished by their food; that several have been found of a fresh, ruddy color, with their veins ready to burst with blood, full forty days after their death; and that upon being opened there is a large a quantity of warm, fresh blood as if it were coming from a healthy young person. this opinion p

; and as heaven, in like manner, draws something invisible from below, there is established a free and mutual intercourse, and the whole is contained in an individual. van helmont also believed in the power of the will to direct the subtle fluid. there was, he held, in all created things a magic or celestial power through which they were allied to heaven. this power or strength is greatest in the human soul, resides in a lesser degree in the body, and to some extent is present in the lower animals, plants, and inorganic matter. it is by reason of their superior endowment in this respect that humans are enabled to rule the other creatures, and to make use of inanimate objects for their own purposes. the power is strongest when one is asleep, for then the body is quiescent, and the soul most

stion and power of the imagination to work outwardly, and to impress this strength on others, which then continues of itself, and operates on the remotest subjects. through this secret alone will all receive its true illumination.all that has hitherto been brought together laboriously of the ideal being out of the spirit.all that has been said of the magnetism of all things.of the strength of the human soul.of the magic of man, and of his dominion over the physical world. van helmont also gave special importance to the stomach as the chief seat of the soul, recounting an experience of his own. upon touching some aconite with his tongue, he found all his senses transferred to his stomach. several centuries later, seeing with the stomach was to become a favorite accomplishment of somnambules

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to be of great efficacy in terrifying phantoms if engraved upon glass, and the magicians traced it on their doorsteps to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this symbol was used by many secret and occult societies, by the rosicrucians, the illuminati, down to the freemasons of modern times. modern occultists translate the meaning of the pentagram as symbolic of the human soul and its relation to god. the pentagram is placed with one point in the ascendant. that point represents the great spirit, god. a line drawn from there to the left-hand angle at the base is the descent of spirit into matter in its lowest form; where it ascends to the righthand angle, it typifies matter in its highest form: the brain of man. from here, a line is drawn across the figure to

sina of the house of lusignan in france concerns the daughter of a union between a human and a fairy who cursed the daughter melusine so that she became a serpent from the waist down every saturday. hans christian andersen s sad story the little mermaid echoes folk tales in its theme of a mermaid who falls in love with a prince in a passing ship; the mermaid takes on human form in order to gain a human soul and be close to the prince, but although constantly near him, she cannot speak. when the prince marries a human princess, the mermaid s heart is broken. there is a similar haunting pathos in matthew arnold s poem the forsaken merman. in curious myths of the middle ages (1884) folklorist s. baring- gould suggests that mermaid and merman stories originated from the half-fish half-human go

, and within it resides a spirit. therefore the deity that evolves from this concept is more likely to be of animistic than of totemistic origin. the neophyte was then made one with the deity by partaking of holy food or drink. this recalls the story of persephone, who, upon reaching the dark shores of hades, partook of the food of the dead.thus rendering it impossible for her to return. once the human soul eats or drinks in hades, it may not return to earth. this belief is universal, and it is highly probable that it was symbolized in the eleusinian mysteries. m. foucart ingeniously put forward the theory that the object of the eleusinian mysteries was much the same as that of the egyptian book of the dead, i.e, to provide the initiates with elaborate rules for avoiding the dangers of the

phenomena of spiritualism. 6. we believe that the highest morality is contained in the golden rule: what so ever ye would have that other do unto you, do ye also unto them. 7. we affirm the moral responsibility of the individual, and that he makes his own happiness or unhappiness as he obeys nature s physical and spiritual laws. 8. we affirm the doorway to reformation is never closed against any human soul here or hereafter. 9. we affirm that the receipt of prophecy and healing contained in the bible is a divine attribute proven through mediumship. these beliefs are largely shared by all spiritualist groups, although the nsac has continually been the target of controversy as pockets of members and leaders have professed a belief in reincarnation. traditionally, spiritualism in america and

inally run by professor howard mickel at wichita state university, wichita, kansas. near-death experiences individuals who have shown many of the characteristics of death (stopped heart, flat brain scan, etc) but have survived and been brought back to consciousness often report experiences that seem to have a bearing on the questions of individual survival of death and the possible existence of a human soul or surviving individual consciousness. such experiences have been studied in modern times under the category of neardeath experiences. common to many such experiences is the powerful sensation of rushing through a long dark tunnel with a bright light at the end. this light brings an ecstatic feeling of joy, peace, and freedom from the body. often the tunnel experience is preceded by a d

poke little about his channeling work for fear of being diagnosed as mentally deranged and placed in an asylum. only in the 1990s did he begin sharing the information he had received. in 1990 he began to channel regularly and received the material for a book that he called life after life, or the revelation of aquarius. in the late 1990s, an english translation of that book, on the destiny of the human soul, was made available to a western audience through the internet. the book describes the movement of the soul after death into various spheres of the fiery world, its meeting with spiritual hierarchies in space, and its preparation for reincarnation. while oris understanding of the destiny of the soul contradicts that of traditional russian christianity, he insists that his message is chr

hology, yoga, and magic. astrological forecasts are featured. prediction is published from link house, dingwall ave, croydon, cr9 2ta, england. pre-existence the question of pre-existence has come to the fore throughout western history. some people adhere to the hebraic and christian notions that the individual is created during the period between conception and birth and other people believe the human soul is somehow immortal, neither created nor destined for destruction. for example, according to christianity, god creates the person for life in this world and prepares a person for a life extended beyond death. a variety of positions arrayed themselves against christianity. the question of pre-existence is often tied to the religious issue of reincarnation, a belief that individuals now l

ivine the history of, or events connected with, a material object with which they come in close contact. no doubt such an ability has been manifest from ancient times, but it was first named and discussed in modern history by the american scientist joseph rhodes buchanan in 1842. the term derives from the greek psyche (soul) and metron (measure) and signifies soul-measuring, or measurement by the human soul. buchanan s theory was based on the belief that everything that has ever existed.every object, scene, or event that has occurred since the beginning of the world.has left on the ether, or astral light, a trace of its being. this trace is indelible while the world endures and is impressed not only on the ether but on more palpable objects, such as trees and stones. sounds and perfumes al

ometimes simplified into three principles of the human being: spirit, soul, and body, as in christianity. these three parts are first and highest, the divine spirit or the divine monad, rooted in the universe, whose spirit is linked with the all, being in a mystical sense a ray of the all; second, the intermediate part of spiritual monad, which in its higher and lower aspects is the spiritual and human soul; third, the lowest part of the human constitution, the vitalastralphysical part, composed of material or quasi-material life atoms (see also logos; planetary logos; rupa) sources: besant, annie. the seven principles of man. 1892. reprint, new york: london& bernes; theosophical publishing society, 1904. seven stewards of heaven according to the sixteenth-century magical ritual system arb

e existence of an all-loving god and is dedicated to eliminating what it considers the false concepts of satan, hell, sin, guilt, and the fear of god, all of which are contrary to its understanding of a benevolent creator. the pain of life is not punishment from god; rather it is a learning tool, and a very necessary one in the larger scheme of life. the society also affirms that after death, the human soul goes to the other side, which is better known as heaven. this place is the true reality, as opposed to the temporal planet earth. the other side is eternal, a place of total harmony, no physical limitations. the individual s identity is intact. life exists in its most wondrous and joyous form on the other side. even though the other side is total beauty and happiness, the soul may not b

rs and mediums. membership in the union is open to individual spiritualists as well as to churches and other organizations. the primary aim of the union is to promote the religion and religious philosophy of spiritualism on the basis of the seven principles: 1. the fatherhood of god 2. the brotherhood of man 3. the communion of spirits and the ministry of angels 4. the continuous existence of the human soul 5. personal responsibility 6. compensation and retribution hereafter for good and evil deeds done on earth 7. eternal progress open to every human soul. the spiritualists national union may be contacted at redwoods, stansted hall, stansted, cm24 8ud. website: http/ www.snu.org.uk. sources: edmunds, simeon. spiritualism: a critical survey. london: aquarian press, 1966. the spiritual maga

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ial revolution, and alsinoma (thirty-fourth century) tutored leonardo da vinci. chat noy (fiftieth century) is or will be one of the great pioneers of time travel. chrononauts are spiritual people, goldberg writes. they follow us from lifetime to lifetime, tracing our souls back to previous lives and monitoring our spiritual unfolding. their ultimate purpose is to facilitate the perfection of the human soul to allow for ascension and the end of the karmic cycle. there are also future problems wars, pollution, infertility in this and parallel universes that they are trying to avert by assisting us now in our spiritual progress (goldberg, n.d. marc davenport theorizes that ufos are visitors from the future. in his view, these time machines are peopled by a complex mixture of human beings, ev

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t infinite, turn the worm back into his dog s-form, as at night it often pleased him to trot along before me, to roll in a heap before the feet of the innocent wanderer, and as he fell, to spring upon his shoulders. turn him back into his favourite form, that he may crawl on his belly, before me in the sand, that i may trample him beneath my feet, the outcast- not the first one -woe! woe! that no human soul can grasp it, that more than one creature has sunk down into the depths of this misery, that the first one, in writhing, deathly agony, did not atone for the guilt of all the others in the sight of the eternal pardoner! the misery of this single one pierces the marrow of my life; and you are calmly grinning at the fate of thousands! mephistopheles now we are again at our wits end, there

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ue that this is a fall which involves loss, that man in coming down to nature and taking on a mortal body puts this mortal body, puts his mortal part, under the dominion of the stars, and it is perhaps punished by the separation into two sexes (after the curious period of the seven sexless men engendered by man and nature. but man's immortal part remains divine and creative. he consists, not of a human soul and a body, but of a divine, creative, immortal essence and a body. and this divinity, this power, he recovers in the vision of the divine mens, which is like his own divine mens, shown him by pimander. pimander leaves trismegistus after he has been "invested with powers and instructed in the nature of the all and the supreme vision" in short, the egyptian genesis tells the story of the

of the mathematical sciences in magic may be picatrix. 6+ g.b. 147 renaissance magic and science phalaris which could roar. this art however cannot produce marvellous effects save by means of local motions and weights and pulleys or by using a vacuum, as in pneumatic and hydraulic apparatuses, or by applying forces to the materials. but such forces and materials can never be such as to capture a human soul' this passage may again suggest that a preoccupation with miraculous statues had its scientific side, and that mechanics and other "real artificial" magics could have been fostered by the general revival of magic in the renaissance. it is by putting "real artificial magic" in the context of magia and cabala that the apparently contradictory activities of a man like john dee can be under

s required to recant, but there is in the sommario a summary of a reply by "frater jordanus" to censures on propositions drawn from his works,2 which possibly (though we cannot be quite sure of this) is some indication of what bellarmine's censures were. i find this document very confused and confusing, but it touches on god's infinity implying an infinite universe, on the mode of creation of the human soul, on the motion of the earth, on the stars being angels, on the earth as animated by a sensitive and rational soul, on there being many worlds. these seem to be mainly philosophical points, but, as mercati has pointed out, the interrogations very rarely raise philosophical or scientific points and are concerned mainly with theological queries, matters of discipline, his contacts with her

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op their own, definitely real, magical egregore in the course of time. but we should no longer be interested in struggling with the astral garbage which others have been creating for centuries. spare has certainly opened.probably without an expressed intention to do so.our eyes to an atavism different from the one discussed in chapter 6, for he has shown us the origin of all magical symbolism.the human soul itself! his message is that those magical sigils which truly work derive from our own unconscious and will return again to their source to begin their work after being impregnated by our will. naturally, and this applies to all magic, one might gain the false impression that it would be much less of a strain to get everything organized and prepared straight from the horse's mouth of a g

the process. back in e earliest days of psychology (which is still struggling xisted a model hich has its. i am referring the model of the consciousness, the censor and the nconscious. furthermore, there is the id, the self and the uper e. this may have been justified in spare fs days, and b n s but just that.min the best cases th for acknowledgment as a gscience h) there eof explanation for the human soul whortcomings but still serves us rather well s to us ego. some writers differentiate even more accurately between the unconscious and the subconscious, etc, but the model consciousness/unconsciousness/censor has become established nearly everywhere. but this, as said before, is only a model and not a scientifically objectified fact in the sense of physics or any other gexact h science

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would agree to having his throat slit and be disemboweled. if you think this blasphemy of saying that man can become god is unique to george steinmetz, listen to two more masonic authors. manly p. hall, another 33rd degree mason, writes "man is a god in the making [the lost keys of freemasonry, p. 92] masonic author, joseph fort newton, clearly and boldly states. to the profoundest insight of the human soul- that god becomes man that man may become god [the religion of freemasonry: an interpretation, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1969, p. 37] masonry acknowledges that freemasonry originated in the place where satan dwells! albert churchward, another masonic author states that the triangle pointing upward us a symbol for set, which is one of the infernal names for satan [sign

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d that his wife and daughter had obtained the same honor" it is more than likely that this story, which as we have seen has extended to the remotest corners of the earth, has an esoteric meaning, and that it embodies the doctrines of the ancients relative to re- incarnation and the renewal of worlds. doubtless it portrays not only the end of a cycle, but that by it is prefigured the fortunes of a human soul, which in its ascent, is from time to time forced into a human body. all the early kosmogonies are intermingled with the history of a great flood, from the ravages of which an ark which contained a man was saved. the gothic story of creation indicates that the scythians belonged to the same race as the chaldeans. at the beginning of time when nothing had been formed, and before the eart

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

mathers, and his government of theorderwasbothsane and sensible. there was no seekingoutof secret chiefs or 'sun masters' in the manner of felkin or brodie-innes; the fellowship saw itself purely as'theguardian of a path of symbolism communicated in ritual after the manner of the chief instituted mysteries, past and present, and that symbolism 'is concerned onlywiththe quest and attainment of the human soul on its return to the divine centre: it is sought thereby to recall its members to the true object of research and the living method of its attainment. at the very outset of his career in the order, the would-be neophyte was told'thefulfilment of earthly life is inthelife which is eternal, and the sole purpose of man's sojourn in the material world is that he may attain union with the di

ple headship and in theotherthatthe head is"themosthonouredfrater finem respice, 7=4" andhimonly-_appendixe _thefellowshipoftherosycross(i)constitution&lawsofthefellowship1.thefellowship of the rosy cross is the guardian of a path of symbolism communicated inritualafter the manner of the chief instituted mysteries, past and present.2.thesymbolism is concerned onlywiththe questandattainment of the human soul on its return to the divine centre: it is sought thereby to recall its members to the true object of research and the livingmethodof its attainment.3.the fellowshipdoes notprofessto communicate knowledge of the soul and experience in the path of return otherwise than by the mode of symbolism;butthis way is sacramental and thosewhocan receive into their hearts the life and grace of the s

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rn occultism yet using frequently christian terms, must be read as though the christian allusions were to a gnostic and not to a catholic christ spirit and man jesus; for jesus to the hermetist is the shortened form of yehoshua, which title is formed of the letters of the kabalistic yod, heh, vau, heh, having inter255 posed the letter shin, the emblem of the spark of the divine overshadowing each human soul. this yod heh vau heh, the incommunicable name, being the origin of the common godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the jewish nation,buta glyph of the divine creative forces which emanate from the highest god ideal, yet unmanifested and certainly not individualised. as to the tenets of the order then.thefamabegins with a tribute to the mercy and goodness of t

st in connection with the old treatises, form86themagical masonsuch a mass of kabalistic lore as to make it an impossible task to grasp them: probably no man in this country can say what doctrines are not still laid up in some of these works; both in the main it may be stated that the kabalah indicates philosophical conceptions respecting deity, angels, and beings more spirit255 ual than man, the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation, and the several worlds or planes of existence.thenthe practical kabalah teaches the relations between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon, and temura; the formation and uses of the divine and angelic names as amulets; the formation of magic squares;

he cause.itis god made manifest to man. matter is our conception alone; it represents the aspect of the lowest manifestation of spirit, or spirit is the highest manifest" ation of matter. spirit is the only substance. matter, says a kabalist, is the mere residuum of emanation,butlittle above non-entity.fromgod, and the world around us, let us pass to consider what the kabalah teachesaboutman, the human soul.ithas already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now thetensephiroth cluster their energy into a formulated four-parted group, upon three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity or of matter. thesetensephiroth, and the planes, each cont

balance suggests the existence of its fellow; humanity points out its creator. kether, the crown! but where is the crown unless on the kingdom, which is malkuth: god is crowned by his works, he is revealed in human thought. thus that which is above, is like that which is below. kether is in malkuth, and the idea of kether is the malkuth of human intelligence. god creates the soul of man, and the human soul evolves the existence of god.parturit homo deum.infinite justice equilibrated by infinite goodness, and infinite goodness sustained and inspired by justice, form the ideal of the beauty which we call the splendour of god, the shekinah, the zohar, the light of the glory, the tiphereth. it is in the midst of the sun of human intelligence, that the incommunicable nameihvh,the tetragrammato

d in the laboursofthelate revisers of the old and new testaments.itwillbemost convenient to consider the several bible words relating to man in our theosophic order as near as possible, and with that object first to consider the lower quaternary 255 material body, shadow or astral form, life principle, animal soul; and subsequently to investigate words demonstrating the higher principles- mind or human soul, spiritual soul, and divine spirit. to commence with the material body of man, the hebrew name is guph, or by letters gup, and also gu, guit, gupt, from the root guh or gup. yet the word nephesh, animal soul, to which we shall come presently, is also translated 'body. this word guph becomes in the latin version -corpus,and in the greek -soma.examples of guph or guit asbodyare found in t

and thespiritof the beast that goeth downward to the earth; herespiritis in each case 'ruach. in the context alsoitis stated 'that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts 'as the one dieth so dieth the other. but orthodoxy denies an immortal soul to beasts,butgrants it to man. is the wise solomon then a fool? or does orthodoxy desert the wise solomon?ifthe ruach of those passages be the human soul, then animals have it also;paceshelomoh; or else ruach is a name here for some element of the lower quaternary, prana,i.e.,life, or the material breath. again in genesis xxxii. 16,ruachmeans space:'putaspacebetwixt drove and drove. ecclesiastes xii. 7,'thespiritshall return unto god who gave it; here apparentlyruachmeans the manasic ray of theosophy.ithas been considered by some comment

the manasic ray of theosophy.ithas been considered by some commentators that asruachwas properly tranlated into the greekpneuma,thatruachwas essentially the spirit as opposed to theflesh -that which communicates with the divine ones, rather than with men; but in the face of these examples, the conclusion is very doubtful; indeed, none of these words so far appear to have any close relation to the human soul, the manasic entity, the mind or intellect of the higher plane.anomalies inthebiblical views of man 147we must now seek for glimpses of the immortal manas whose ray is the personal man of human life, who differs from the animal by conscience, by reason, and the powertorecognise good and evil, and to occupy himself in something beyond the support of life, and procreation.itis a notable a

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 meaning in the several words employed to specify mind. the chief words referring to the mental and passionalprinciples areanima,animal soul, kama.animus,human soul, lower manas.mens,the intellect, higher menas.spiritus,an afflatus from above, spirituality, the higher aspirations; like the high ruach of the kabbalists, and symbolic more nearly of our theosophical conception of atma-buddhi. there was a difference recognised even in common conver255 sation in ancient rome between the higher and the lower minds, between 'buddhi manas' and 'kama manas

theosophical conception of atma-buddhi. there was a difference recognised even in common conver255 sation in ancient rome between the higher and the lower minds, between 'buddhi manas' and 'kama manas, between the manasic element of the triad and the kamic element of the tetrad- note the roman use of the two words,animaandanimus,from one root.animawas animal soul; what theanimalhad.animuswas the human soul. they said,animavivimusetsentimus,animosapimusetintel255legimus.'by the animal soul we live and perceive, by the human soulwebecome wise and we understand' otherwise,animaestvitd3,the animal soul pertains to life,animusconsilii255the human soul to consideration, intelligence, and knowledge. there are other words which, in the mouth of some greek and latin authors, are of similar meaning

tian doctrine of a future life are again set into two great groups: the one being of opinion that at death the soul passes to a court of judgment for acquittal or condemnation, while the other alleges that the soul endures a long state of purgatory before any reward or punishment, which will be awarded at the last day of judgment. the great majority of our nation certainly believe that there is a human soul which survives bodily death, while the smallminority is convinced that death is a final extinction of the individual. these considerations bring us once more to the several notions which have been, or are, held by students as to the constitution of man. we have the monist, who assures us that man is a unity, a perfect machine of the finest structure, manifesting mind, will and action; t

, held by students as to the constitution of man. we have the monist, who assures us that man is a unity, a perfect machine of the finest structure, manifesting mind, will and action; the dualist, who grants a soul and body; and the more orthodox, who conceiveof man as spirit, soul and body, forming a human triad. those who regard man as composed of four elements, tell us of a divine spirit and a human soul, dwelling in an ethereal or tenuous shadow, the astral form, which is the vehicle of the life essence or vitality, and the passions, and lastly of a material body. those who consider man to have five principles, tell us of spirit, human soul, animal soul, shade and body. when six principles are granted, a separate kama or passionate elementthe number four159is added: these two views are

s the body, vita the life essence, animus or mens the mind, and anima the soul: the greeks recognised several principles, such as the psyche the soul, nous or phren the mind, thumos the life, eidolon the shadow, and soma the body. the jewish kabalistic rabbis also formulated a complex scheme of human principles; guph body, with the tzelem shadow; nephesh life, with the ruach animal soul; neshamah human soul, and yechidah or chiah the divine emanation inspiring the man. they related the human personality to the letters of the divine name, yod, heh, vau, heh, the tetragrammaton which we call jehovah.itis not proposed to consider this subject any further on this present occasion, but rather to refer to several analogies and allied symbols which call for notice when we adopt the view that man

four are closely repre255 sentative of humanity and the principles of man when man is viewed as a quaternary being.thecharacters, masks or personae are harlequin, colum255 bine, clown and pantaloon, and if we consider man as partly celestial and partly terrestrial, we may look upon him as already suggested as being of fourfold essence, recognising, for example, a ray of divinity--the spirit, the human soul, the animal soul or the passional element, and the material body; thus showing two higher principles from the celestian world and two from mundane sources. you will recall the harlequin, who is always veiled and is carrying a magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven di

magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven divine and planetary forces as they are shown to man in the rainbow of heaven; he is always silent; with his wand he transforms the outward appearance of every object he wills to strike. colum255 bine, named from columba, the dove, is the human soul; she is constantly at the side of harlequin, is always obedient to his wish, is light, aerial and fairy-like, beautiful and pleasing;butshe herself has no magical power, she shines by his light, and is but a minor reflection of the spirit which overshadows thethe number four161personality.thekabalists used thebirdas an emblem ofthesoul, and bird's-nest as a symbol of heaven.theclown rep

which gives rise to the material world.themost common opinion among christians today is, i suppose, that man consists of a soul and a body; while some other christians would say that man is formed of a spirit, soul and body.thesoul leaves the body at death, the former would say; while the latter would surmise that the spirit carries off the soul at death, while both agree that the destiny of the human soul is to receive judgment for its thoughts and deeds. there is a fair amount of agreement about the meaning of the word 'soul: it is said to be the moral personality, the intellect or mind, the human consciousness and the reasonable immortal self of a man. yet not entirely so, for the english wordsoulis also used for 'a person, as 'not asoulknew ofit';and 'mistress gilpin, carefulsoul';and

be blotted out of existence.thegnostics or some sects of these mystics taught that the soul of the infant came from the souls of the parents, as the body from the mother's body.300themagical masonorigen believed in the pre-existence of souls, which 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 aga

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birds may be. but there are others as big as we are,buttheir bodies are like mist you understand, or like a cloud in the108 the sorcerer and his apprenticewater, so you can't see them unless your eyes are used to them. but they can make themselves solid like us; i don't know how,butthey can. and then it happens that one of them will sometimes marry one of us, and the old men say the fairy gets a human soul then' all the time he was talking he was fingering his chanter at intervals, as if helping out the ideas that he could notputinto words, and as he spoke of the marriages between the fairies and mankind he played the plaintive notes of 'oran anteach:'the 'lament of the water kelpie, and told me the story that matthew arnold has rendered immortal in hisforsaken merman,a story by the way t

rn clubs. there are then three ways in which we may regard the tarot126thesorcerer and his apprenticecards. firstly the most obvious, as implements of a game of chance or skill, and this is only historically interesting. secondly as a book of hieroglyphics, revealing,ifproperly interpreted, some great mystic truths. it may be some cosmogony, or history of evolution, either of the universe, or the human soul. and thirdly as a means of divination. clearly the second of these depends entirely on our having the correct order of the cards; and as to this at present no light comes from antiquity, and modern authorities differ, as we have seen.thethird, or divinatory use, depends on the chance laying downofthecards, the order in which they turn up after certain prescribed shufflings and cuttings

. or take your human body, name to me any instant of time which is either day or night of the body, i.e, when the blood is either arterial or venous; both are going on simultaneously; the blood is flowing out from the heart and returning again. or again, let us imagine ourselves going out from the earth; let us take ourselvesto some point in space whence we can look down on the earth, and can any human soul say whether it is day or night? it may be day in edinburgh but night in australia. both are going on continually. so it is everywhere, all the tatwas are going on simultaneously. the sun-breath and the moon-breath are going on simultaneously. you want one or other for some particular purpose. you want the sun-breath or you want the moon-breath. well, you can have it. you can bring about

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the above articles, we see the expression of a common philosophy that manifests itself under such names as materialism, darwinism, atheism and agnosticism. in the first article, the materialist dogma of the eternal existence of the universe is put forward. the second article states, as the theory of evolution does, that human beings were not created. the third article denies the existence of the human soul claiming that human beings are composed of matter. the fourth article proposes a "cultural evolution" and denies the existence of a divinely ordained human nature (a special human nature given in creation. the fifth article rejects god's sovereignty over the universe and humanity, and the sixth states that it is time to reject "theism" that is belief in god. it will be noticed that thes

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mouravieff (praxis institute) who combines orthodoxy with fourth way traditions. theosis or deification is central to the gnostic tradition. it represents the natural development of the inner transfigurative processes of ancient israel. we can see how the divine will revealed knowledge to man first through kingship in a theocracy, then through the prophets and shamans and finally directly to the human soul through initiation and transfiguration. the essence of the transfiguration process is the ability of an individual to enter the path of rebirth and escape the archons to return home as a immortal member of the god-family. the mystery the mystery is central to our understanding of the real message of the apostolic gnosis. that is also why we tend to call true christianity, gnostic christ

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diator self are only awakened through transfiguration. the spiritual soul or divine spirit this is the nature which evolves and collects experience and transmits it from life to life. it has also been known as the buddhi, as it has a semi-immortal memory and exists for the period of an evolutionary cycle. in a practical sense, this is the self of most of humanity during any given lifetime. higher human soul, life spirit or higher thought body this is the higher mind. the instinctual body, pranic body or lower thought force this is the psychic energy which radiates through the organism. it is sometimes also known as od, prana or psychic energy. it also encompasses facets of the lower mind. astral or desire body this is the electro-magnetic field which surrounds the physical organism. it has

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cred circle that thou mayest become a dwelling place of hagiel, the intelligence of venus, a body for the manifestation of the majesty of netzach" step 13 5 the talisman should be purified with water and consecrated with fire "in the name of yhvh tzboath i proclaim, all ye powers and forces now invoked, that i, of the r.r. et a.c. have invoked ye in order to form a true and potent link between my human soul and that spirit of abundance and love and graciousness summed up in the name of netzach. to this end, i have formed and perfected a talisman bearing, the sigil of hagiel, the intelligence of nogah, and the geomantic symbols and sigils pertaining to venus. in addition this venusian bowl of desire has the many other symbols related to venus in flashing colors.this is now covered with a bl

to command unto me the elohim, the gods of netzach. come unto me, ye gods, that the angel of venus, haniel, may cause his intelligence, lhagiel, to make powerful this consecrated telesmata. cause him to take this for his body, to live and reside within this bowl of attraction, passion and desire so that a true and sacred link may be formulated between the spirit of the godhead in netzach and the human soul of the exorcist" step 28 lift up the talisman and place it between the pillars. go to the east, face west, and in the sign of the enterer project the whole current of will upon the talisman. 10 protect with the sign of harpocrates. a light should play about the talisman. if not, repeat the above invocation from the throne in the east. as soon as the light is seen, quit the east and re-p

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nter thou within this sacred circle that thou mayest become a dwelling place of layphy, the intelligence of k, a body for the manifestation of the majesty of dsj" 5 step 13 the talisman should be purified with n and consecrated with o "in the name of la, i proclaim, all ye powers and forces now invoked, that i, of the r.r. et a.c. have invoked ye in order to form a true and potent link between my human soul and that spirit of abundance and love and graciousness summed up in the name of dsj. to this end, i have formed and perfected a talisman bearing upon one side, the sigil of layphy, the intelligence of qdx, and the geomantic symbols and sigils pertaining to k. on the other side is a seal referred to k, represented in flashing colors. this is now covered with a black veil, and bound thric

ead above and within me do i invoke layqdx, the archangel of dsj, to command unto me the \ylmcj, the brilliant ones of qdx. come unto me, ye brilliant ones, that the angel of k, layjs, may cause his intelligence, layphy, to make powerful this consecrated telesmata. cause him to take this for his body so that a true and sacred link may be formulated between the spirit of the godhead in dsj and the human soul of the exorcist" step 28 lift up the talisman and place it between the pillars. go to the east, face west, and in the sign of the enterer project the whole current of will upon the talisman. protect with the sign of harpocrates. a light should play about the talisman. if not, repeat the above invocation from the throne in the east. as soon as the light is seen, quit the east and re-puri

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filled with the spirit of trws under the dominion of laykn. enter within and become the manifestation for the beauty of trapt. 7 purify and consecrate talisman with n and o. say: in the name and by the power of tudw hwla hwhy, i proclaim all ye powers and forces now invoked that i, power name, an adeptus minor of the r.r. et a.c, have invoked ye in order to form a time and potent link between my human soul and that spirit of beauty and abundance summed up in the name of trapt, that in this talisman, the light of hwchy may shine forth. to this end, i have formed a perfected talisman bearing on one side the sigil of laykn, the intelligence of cmc, and the geomantic sigils that pertain to a. on the other side are the sigils and divine names referred to trapt and a, which are all represented

ecrated telesmata and to infuse within it trws, the evil spirit of a. under the constant guidance of laykn may sorath also play a part in the empowerment of this talismata and thus, forward the cause of light and the purpose of this talisman in accordance with my will. laykn, thou shall take for thy body this talismata and thus form a sacred link between the spirit of the godhead in trapt and the human soul of the exorcist. step 13 lift the talisman, and place it between the pillars. go to the east, face west, and in the sign of the enterer project your current of will upon the talisman. seal the current with the sign of silence. stop, and see if a light is flashing and flickering on the talisman. if the adept is not satisfied with the charge, repeat the above invocation from the position

hree times with talisman in the right hand. return to position of the throne in the east, place the talisman upon the ground between the pillars, and recite the following invocation: in the name and the power of tudw hwla hwhy, i proclaim all ye powers and forces now invoked that i, power name, an adeptus minor of the r.r. et a.c, have invoked ye in order to form a time and potent link between my human soul and that spirit of beauty and abundance summed up in the name of trapt, that in this talisman, the light of hwchy may shine forth. to this end, i have formed a perfected talisman bearing on one side the sigil of laykn, the intelligence of cmc, and the geomantic sigils that pertain to a. on the other side are the sigils and divine names referred to trapt and a, all represented in brillia

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ne holy guardian angel that i may find the hidden stone whereon a new spiritual name shall be written. teach me the mystery of the earthy self and how it may be made creative. swear by the mighty seal that i hold before you that you will do this for me. 350 whenever i call upon you by word or will or magical ceremony, you will be a perpetual link of communication between the lords of earth and my human soul. step 8. commune with this angel, who should be clearly before you. learn from him according to your will. step 9. the banishment. now banish the angel by saying: i charge you that from this day you will bring no harm to me or to my home or to my family or to my friends and that you will not deceive me. axir (ah-tzee-ar) depart in peace to your habitation in the kingdom of earth. let th

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eiving external stimuli which are not actually present. a hallucination is termed veridical if it corresponds to an event or circumstance unknown to the percipient. harmonium.a state of harmony. the metaphysical meaning when applied to the relationship of humans is unity of thought, agreement of purpose, the direct communion or kinship of souls. as applied to the relationship of the cosmic to the human soul, it means that state of ecstasy where the human becomes conscious of the at-[178] tunement of the natural forces of his being with the absolute or the source from which they emanate. within the individual, harmonium includes health, rhythm, coordination of action in all parts, plus the properly balanced relationship between the psychic and objective functionings. healing.the rosicrucian

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by overpowering by its will the soul, repel all other soul atmos255 pheres: but in the magnetic state, the body being rendered inert, the soul is left free to exert itself, and in that state exists, irrespective of time or space, and endued with the power of attenuating or expanding itself to whatever point it desires to be in, with'oussr-electro-telegrephic-wire-likespeed' and of acting on other human soul atmospheres, thus becoming cognizant of the past transactions of others like heinrich zschokke-the swisshistorian-ofthe present, how far soever distant, like the americansolitaire*'and mr hazard's patient; and, in like manner, becoming possessed by an intuitive perception of the floating ideas of other coexistent souls, thus accounting for the phenomenon of jacobbehmen-arude, unlettered

the two examples selected are of little value while others are omitted which seem perfectly to establish his book as 'a step farther towards the unknown.'thecelestialtelegraphappears to me to prove more forcibly than any other work on animal magnetism, with the exception ofi.hernrichjung's(called stilling)theoryofpneumatology,the existence of guardian angels, of hades, and the materiality of the human soul, but to be as far removed from swedenborgian255ism(by which term i mean a belief in thedoarinesand doxology of the new]erusalemchurch,and particularly articles xxi.,xxii.,andxxiii*)as from behemenism, mahometanism, buddhism, or polytheism, all, there is little doubt, equally indebted to the hitherto occult but ever existent law of nature which we now term animal magnetism.mrsandby has s

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ccepted? 32 the working system of the t.s. 37 the objects of the society 37 the common origin of man 38 our other objects 44 on the sacredness of the pledge 45 the relations of the t.s. to theosophy 49 on self-improvement 49 the abstract and the concrete 52 the fundamental teachings of theosophy 57 on god and prayer 57 is it necessary to pray? 61 prayer kills self-reliance 66 on the source of the human soul 69 the buddhist teachings on the above 71 theosophical teachings as to nature and man 77 the unity of all in all 77 evolution and illusion 78 on the septenary constitution of our planet 81 the septenary nature of man 83 the distinction between soul and spirit 86 page 2 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the greek teachings 89 on the various postmortem states 95 the physical and the

geticists, who started the eclectic theosophical system. as explained by professor wilder, they were called so because of their practice of interpreting all sacred legends and narratives, myths and mysteries, by a rule or principle of analogy and correspondence: so that events which were related as having occurred in the external world were regarded as expressing operations and experiences of the human soul. they were also denominated neo-platonists. though theosophy, or the eclectic theosophical system, is generally attributed to the third century, yet, if diogenes la rtius is to be credited, its origin is much earlier, as he attributed the system to an egyptian priest, pot-amun, who lived in the early days of the ptolemaic dynasty. the same author tells us that the name is coptic, and si

txt attempt to convert christendom to buddhism, which means simply that the word heresy has lost its terrors and relinquished its power. individuals in every age have more or less clearly apprehended the theosophical doctrines and wrought them into the fabric of their lives. these doctrines belong exclusively to no religion, and are confined to no society or time. they are the birthright of every human soul. such a thing as orthodoxy must be wrought out by each individual according to his nature and his needs, and according to his varying experience. this may explain why those who have imagined theosophy to be a new religion have hunted in vain for its creed and its ritual. its creed is loyalty to truth, and its ritual "to honor every truth by use" how little this principle of universal br

would doom every non-christian to eternal perdition. q. does not the buddhist priesthood do the same? a. never. they hold too much to the wise precept found in the dhammapada to do so, for they know that, if any man, whether he be learned or not, consider himself so great as to despise other men, he is like a blind man holding a candle-blind himself, he illumines others -ooo- on the source of the human soul q. how, then, do you account for man being endowed with a spirit and soul? whence these? a. from the universal soul. certainly not bestowed by a personal god. whence the moist element in the jelly-fish? from the ocean which surrounds it, in which it lives and breathes and has its being, and whither it returns when dissolved. q. so you reject the teaching that soul is given, or breathed

ike the "ring of gyges" would prove very fatal to man at large and to the possessor of that faculty in particular, it is carefully guarded. but let us proceed with the principles. this divine soul, or buddhi, then, is the vehicle of the spirit. in conjunction, these two are one, impersonal and without any attributes (on this plane, of course, and make two spiritual principles. if we pass onto the human soul, manas or mens, everyone will agree that the intelligence of man is dual to say the least: e.g, the high-minded man can hardly become low-minded; the very intellectual and spiritual-minded man is separated by an abyss from the obtuse, dull, and material, if not animal-minded man. q. but why should not man be represented by two principles or two aspects, rather? a. every man has these tw

e, which links it to the individuality (or divine page 58 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt man. for it is the buddhi-manas which is called the causal body (the united fifth and sixth principles) and which is consciousness, that connects it with every personality it inhabits on earth. therefore, soul being a generic term, there are in men three aspects of soul-the terrestrial, or animal; the human soul; and the spiritual soul; these, strictly speaking, are one soul in its three aspects. now of the first aspect, nothing remains after death; of the second (nous or manas) only its divine essence if left unsoiled survives, while the third in addition to being immortal becomes consciously divine, by the assimilation of the higher manas. but to make it clear, we have to say a few words firs

eridge, who shows how intuitional he is in some of his comments. hear what he says with respect to the probability that "all thoughts are in themselves imperishable" if the intelligent faculty (sudden 'revivals' of memory) should be rendered more comprehensive, it would require only a different and appropriate organization, the body celestial instead of the body terrestrial, to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence (existences, rather. and this body celestial is our manasic ego -ooo- on the reward and punishment of the ego page 65 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. i have heard you say that the ego, whatever the life of the person he incarnated in may have been on earth, is never visited with postmortem punishment. a. never, save in very

denied during life the continuance of existence after death, he will be unable to see it, because his spiritual capacity having been stunted in life, it cannot develop after death, and he will remain blind. by insisting that he must see it, you evidently mean one thing and i another. you speak of the spirit from the spirit, or the flame from the flame-of atma, in short-and you confuse it with the human soul-manas you do not understand me; let me try to make it clear. the whole gist of your question is to know whether, in the case of a downright materialist, the complete loss of self-consciousness and self-perception after death is possible? isn't it so? i answer, it is possible. because, believing firmly in our esoteric doctrine, which refers to the postmortem period, or the interval betwe

i.e, manas-taijasi, entirely lose its consciousness till the day of its new incarnation? i cannot understand it *1) isvara is the collective consciousness of the manifested godhead, brahma, i.e. the collective consciousness of the host of dhyan chohans (see secret doctrine; praj a is their individual wisdom *2) taijasi means the 'radiant, as a consequence of its union with buddhi, i.e. manas, the human soul, enlightened by the rays of the divine soul. hence manas-taijasi can be described as radiant intellect, the human reason enlightened by the light of the spirit; and buddhi-manas is the revelation of the divine plus the human intellect and self-consciousness (these two footnotes reversely translated from dutch[ editor) a. you cannot, because you will mix up an abstract representation of

uddhi, the divine soul, because the first (manas) is, in its lower aspect, a quality of the terrestrial personality, and the second (taijasi) is page 75 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt identical with the first, because it is the same manas only with the light of buddhi reflected on it. in its turn, buddhi would remain only an impersonal spirit without this element which it borrows from the human soul, which conditions and makes of it, in this illusive universe, as it were something separate from the universal soul for the whole period of the cycle of incarnation. say rather that buddhi-manas can neither die nor lose its compound self-consciousness in eternity, nor the recollection of its previous incarnations in which the two-i.e, the spiritual and the human soul-had been closely li

rse, as it were something separate from the universal soul for the whole period of the cycle of incarnation. say rather that buddhi-manas can neither die nor lose its compound self-consciousness in eternity, nor the recollection of its previous incarnations in which the two-i.e, the spiritual and the human soul-had been closely linked together. but it is not so in the case of a materialist, whose human soul not only receives nothing from the divine soul, but even refuses to recognize its existence. you can hardly apply this axiom to the attributes and qualities of the human soul, for it would be like saying that because your divine soul is immortal, therefore the bloom on your cheek must also be immortal; whereas this bloom, like taijasi, is simply a transitory phenomenon. q. do i understa

s of the human soul, for it would be like saying that because your divine soul is immortal, therefore the bloom on your cheek must also be immortal; whereas this bloom, like taijasi, is simply a transitory phenomenon. q. do i understand you to say that we must not mix in our minds the noumenon with the phenomenon, the cause with its effect? a. i do say so, and repeat that, limited to manas or the human soul alone, the radiance of taijas itself becomes a mere question of time; because both immortality and consciousness after death become, for the terrestrial personality of man, simply conditioned attributes, as they depend entirely on conditions and beliefs created by the human soul itself during the life of its body. karma acts incessantly: we reap in our after-life only the fruit of that

there is not a mental or physical suffering in the life of a mortal which is not the direct fruit and consequence of some sin in a preceding existence; on the other hand, since he does not preserve the slightest recollection of it in his actual life, and feels himself not deserving of such punishment, and therefore thinks he suffers for no guilt of his own, this alone is sufficient to entitle the human soul to the fullest consolation, rest, and bliss in his postmortem existence. death comes to our spiritual selves ever as a deliverer and friend. for the materialist who, notwithstanding his materialism, was not a bad man, the interval between the two lives will be like the unbroken and placid sleep of a child, either entirely dreamless, or filled with pictures of which he will have no defin

e distinctions. the first, as positively the clearest of our theosophical writers, mr. a.p. sinnett, has some comprehensive and admirably-written passages on the "higher self" his real idea has also been misconceived by some, owing to his using the word soul in a general sense. yet here are a few passages which will show to you how clear and comprehensive is all that he writes on the subject: the human soul, once launched on the streams of evolution as a human individuality, passes through alternate periods of physical and relatively spiritual existence. it passes from the one plane, or stratum, or condition of nature to the other under the guidance of its karmic affinities; living in incarnations the life which its karma has preordained; modifying its progress within the limitations of ci

tly from, or is attached to this invisible root above, can partake of its immortal life. hence every noble thought, idea, and aspiration of the personality it informs, proceeding from and fed by this root, must become permanent. as to the physical consciousness, as it is a quality of the sentient but lower principle (kamarupa or animal instinct, illuminated by the lower manasic reflection, or the human soul-it must disappear. that which displays activity, while the body is asleep or paralyzed, is the higher consciousness, our memory registering but feebly and inaccurately-because automatically-such experiences, and often failing to be even slightly impressed by them. q. but how is it that manas, although you call it nous, a "god" is so weak during its incarnations, as to be actually conque

tiation, both moral and physical. in its highest aspect it is nirvana; in its lowest, the astral light. it was feminine with the gnostics, the early christians, and the nazarenes; bisexual with other sects, who considered it only in its four lower planes, of igneous and ethereal nature in the objective world of forms, and divine and spiritual in its three higher planes. when it is said that every human soul was born by detaching itself from the anima mundi, it is meant, esoterically, that our higher egos are of an essence identical with it, and mahat is a radiation of the ever unknown universal absolute. anoia (gr) is "want of understanding "folly; and is the name applied by plato and others to the lower manas when too closely allied with kama, which is characterized by irrationality (agno

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d. this is the realm of the all that is and of perfection consciousness, for it is the home of the gods where pure nourishment and creative possibilities flow endlessly. the food of gods is a timeless mystery that is delivered throughout our system when our brain wave patterns are resonating from deep within the delta field. as already mentioned, it is a quality form of nourishment that feeds our human soul and also our cells. in spiritual terms this energy from the delta field, in its purest essence, is love. in dimensional biofield terms it is simply a brain wave pattern that can unlock inner doors that when opened, and programmed, have the ability to flood our atoms with a supreme type of nourishment that we call divine nutrition. known as manna and prana and chi and the universal life

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with terrestrial fire that the alchemist breaks or sunders the material darkness or atomic thickness, all visible nature yielding to his furnaces, whose scattering heat (without its sparks) breaks all doors of this world s kind. it is with immaterial fire (or ghostly fire) that the rosicrucian loosens contraction and error, and conquers the false knowledge and the deceiving senses which bind the human soul as in its prison. on this side of his powers, on this dark side (to the world) of his character, the alchemist (rather now become the rosicrucian) works in invisible light, and is a magician. he lays the bridge (as the pontifex, or bridge- maker) between the world possible and the world impossible; and across this bridge, in his immortal heroism and newness, he leads the votary out of h

hing was possible, as the gift of god; which explains the classic fables of orpheus, amphion, and. the mythological wonder-workers in music; that music is modulated in the movements of the planets according to the re-arrangement of the postdiluvian world, and in conformity with the re-adjustment of the solar-system after mysterious aberration or cataclysm; that mortality cannot hear, and that the human soul is so debased that it only catches intermittently the faint echo of the continuous universal music which in other now material senses is the life and growth and splendour of everything* music is magic, is sacred, and a power as all harmony must be; the nerves of the world the aspiration of living things the spell which breaks-up and extols into super-added, super-natural life the real i

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and what they are studying in the. t h e p u r p o s e o f k a b b a l a h 25 authentic sources, their powerful desire to understand evokes the upper force that surrounds them, and the effects of this upper force purify and thus elevate them. if not in this life, then in the next, every person will feel the need to study kabbalah and to receive knowledge about the creator. the light surrounds the human soul from the outside until one reaches a spiritual level where the light begins to permeate it. the reception of the light within depends only on one s desire and readiness, and on the purity of one s soul. however, during one s studies one utters the names of the sefirot, the worlds, and the spiritual actions connected to one s soul. thus, the soul receives micro-doses of light from the ou

l is called human souls in a particular world. the ten sefirot in each world are considered the creator s parts in it. the human souls in each world are its center and receive their sustenance from the other levels. those studying the zohar should constantly bear in mind that all objects are viewed only with regard to their interaction in a given world. all research boils down to the study of the human soul and what comes into contact with it. since the zohar studies only souls that are clothed in bodies of this world, ein sof is also studied only in that respect. in other words, the book researches the influence, program, and desire of ein sof with regard to us, but not with regard to any other objects in other worlds. the entire program of creation from beginning to end is included in ei

ese levels are located one inside the other like concentric circles (or onion layers. the innermost sefirat keter influences a particular world as the creator. neshamot (the souls of people who exist in a particular world) dress it. then, mala'achim, levushim, and heichalot dress one another. the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels are created for the sake of the fourth level of desire: the human soul. therefore, it is as though they dress the human soul (serve it) from the outside. from birth, we possess a part of the common (original) soul. this part is a point in our hearts, within our desires, or egoism. all of creation is built so that the general laws ruling at every level and in every world manifest in every part of creation, even the smallest particles. for example, all that

the accumulated knowledge was f r e q u e n t ly a s k e d q u e s t i o n s 105 expounded upon in the book of creation (sefer yetzira, ascribed to abraham. this book is still available in bookstores. in every generation, kabbalists wrote their books for the souls of that particular generation. several languages have been used in kabbalah over the centuries. this is because the development of the human soul occurs gradually. from generation to generation, the increasingly coarser souls return to this world with the experience of past lives. they bring the burden of additional suffering, but also contribute their spiritual luggage. although this information is concealed from the individual, it exists in the point of one s heart. therefore, to understand kabbalah, every generation needs its

he wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. it is about you; about me; about all of us. this book is about the way we were, the way we are, the way we will be, and most importantly, it is about the best way to get there. the science of kabbalah: is the first in a series of texts that rav michael laitman, kabbalist and scientist, designed to introduce readers to the

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ms, and all of nature will exist in a corrected form, in harmony and in perfection. in his manuscripts (p. 170, rabbi kook described this state in the following words: the power of creation and global management has been executed in utter perfection however, there is a small part that lacks correction and upon its completion depends the completion of the whole created being. that tiny part is the human soul, in the form of its desire and in the mimicry of its spirituality. this part is given to man to correct, and with it, to complete the whole created being. nature s laws, as presented here, are hidden laws that kabbalists discovered as they studied nature in its totality. they indicate how to resolve all the problems of our existence. they cannot be proven, but they can be explained in a

he wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. it is about you; about me; about all of us. this book is about the way we were, the way we are, the way we will be, and most importantly, it is about the best way to get there. the science of kabbalah: kabbalist and scientist, rav michael laitman, phd, designed this book to introduce readers to the special language and te

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f which come from hebrew, some from aramaic, and some from other languages, such as greek. but here s the good news: beginners, and even intermediate students, can do just fine with only a few of these terms. although they signify spiritual states, if you experience them within, you will also discover their correct names. kabbalah talks about desires and how to satisfy them. it has researched the human soul and its growth from its humble beginning as a spiritual seed to its culmination as the tree of life. once you get the gist of it, you ll learn the rest within your own heart. 40 kabbalah revealed s p r i n g boa r d fo r g row t h let s start where we ended the first chapter. we said that things could be great if we would only learn to use our egoism differently xto bond with others so

he wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. it is about you; about me; about all of us. this book is about the way we were, the way we are, the way we will be, and most importantly, it is about the best way to get there. 160 kabbalah revealed the science of kabbalah: is the first in a series of texts that rav michael laitman, kabbalist and scientist, designed to in

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but if an revelation and concealment- 157- individual has earned the revelation of the creator, then it is known as "the return from the exile" the varying degree to which the creator reveals himself to us is called "the soul (neshama. as soon as we are able to correct at least one of our desires into an altruistic one, we receive an immediate perception of the creator. thus, it is said that the human soul is part of the creator. once we reach the final stage of correction, the creator will fill all our desires, that is, he will reveal himself to the ultimate degree to which he planned to reveal himself in his creations. all our desires were designed for this ultimate purpose at the very beginning of creation. shechina is the root and sum of all individual souls. each soul is a part of th

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he wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. it is about you; about me; about all of us. this book is about the way we were, the way we are, the way we will be, and most importantly, it is about the best way to get there. the science of kabbalah: is the first in a series of texts that rav michael laitman, kabbalist and scientist, designed to introduce readers to the

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e bible is the basis of the kabbalistic wisdom, for kabbalists know that the only true reality is that of his essence, the upper force. when we accept this concept, we can become truly open to the prospect of freedom for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. while the structure of reality and how we perceive it are at the surface of this book, it is the underlying story of the human soul that truly captivates us: this is about you and me, and all of us. it is about the way we were, the way we are, and the way we will be. 446 a b o u t b n e i b a ru c h bnei baruch is a non-profit group centered in israel that is spreading the wisdom of kabbalah to accelerate the spirituality of mankind. kabbalist michael laitman phd, who was the disciple and personal assistant to kabba

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one can do for oneself, for one s family, for the environment and for the entire world. the whole world will gradually feel better if even a small society lives by altruistic spiritual laws. we must aspire for that and the help will come from above. the creator created a soul with a desire for pleasure. the number of desires is 600,000. if we divide the soul by 600,000, each part will be called a human soul. the difference between each soul is in the quantity and quality of the desire. i am created in such a way that i aspire to a certain pleasure, and someone else aspires to a different pleasure. others have different desires, different pleasures, but the light is one and the same. this means that the difference is only in our desires. it is impossible to replace one desire with another

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derstand the words of an ancient sage, who said that when it is day with ordinary men it is night to the wise, but when it is night to ordinary men it is day to the wise. what looks to men in the world like light and knowledge, he sees to be ignorance and darkness; and where all is dark to them, he sees. it seems sad that so little of the true knowledge vital to the well-being and progress of the human soul is taught in our schools at the present day. much time and energy are expended in trying to make a boy a good classical or mathematical scholar; far less attention seems to be devoted to making him a man of noble life, an honourable, unselfish, loyal and upright citizen. therefore about many of the most important points in life we are truly left to walk in darkness; and it is precisely

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rs accepted only the new testament, which they read in its catholic version. the universe was seen by cathars as constituted of two coexisting spheres: the kingdom of the good god who was spiritual and suprasensible, and who had created the invisible heaven, its spirits, and the four elements; and the kingdom of the evil god, satan, creator of the material world, and who, being unable to make the human soul, had captured it from heaven and imprisoned it in the material body. thus, the fundamental aim of their religious practice releasing the soul from the body, by freeing it from satan s power and helping it to return to its original place in heaven. in marked contrast with orthodox christian belief, bodily resurrection was not viewed as part of the scheme of redemption. rather, only the d

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gleams, there masterless the whirling sword shrieks shrill and high. they shrink, he gallops. closely clings the child slung at his waist; and he heeds nought, but gallops wide, and sings wild war-songs, chants of gramarye! sir palamede the saracen rides like a centaur mad with war; he sabres many a million men, and tramples many a million more! before him lies the untravelled land where never a human soul is known, a desert by a wizard banned, a soulless wilderness of stone. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 13 nor grass, nor corn, delight the vales; nor beast, nor bird, span space. immense, black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, fill the dread armoury of sense. nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star their subtle light at all display; nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: all.s on

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, thou impure one, abomination of asar! tahuti hath cut off thine head and i have slain thee and hurled thee utterly asunder. get thee back from the neshuet boat, as with a fair wind ra saileth over his heaven (circle "o thou scepter of joy! let me not be hurt of any; nor by man, nor by gods, nor by the holy dead, nor by the violently slain, nor by them of old times, nor by any mortal, nor by any human soul (the boat entereth the temple, and circleth it, but not going out; it is brought to the center thereof. the canopy is removed "my hair is the hair of nu! my face is the face of the disk! my eyes are the eyes of hathor! my ears are the ears of apu-t! my nose is the nose of kheuti khas! my lips are the lips of anpu! my teeth are the teeth of serget! my neck is the neck of asi! my shoulder

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the triad of the spirit. on the central column can be found two new jewels: the level of the senior warden in the triad of the soul, and the square of the master in the triad of the spirit. i have included the master here because he is introduced as a step in the staircase; at this point, however, we will give our attention to the senior warden and the middle chamber which i have equated with the human soul. kabbalistically, the soul, bounded by of the truth of tiferet, the judgment, discipline and constraint of gevurah, and the mercy, expansiveness and generosity of hesed, is the seat of morality. consider the working tools of the fellow craft (in dark blue).67 unlike the tools of the previous degree, which were tools of action, these are tools of testing. each tool tests against an absol

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ilization, and all the advancement made in philosophy, science, and art among the ancients are due to those institutions which, under the veil of mystery, sought to illustrate the sublimest truths of religion, morality, and virtue, and impress them on the hearts of their disciples* their chief object was to teach the doctrine of one god, the resurrection of man to eternal life, the dignity of the human soul, and to lead the people to see the shadow of the deity, in the beauty, magnificence, and splendor of the universe" with the decline of virtue, which has preceded the destruction of every nation of history, the mysteries became perverted. sorcery took the place of the divine magic. indescribable practices (such as the bacchanalia) were introduced, and perversion ruled supreme; for no ins

power of ahriman began, and the struggle for the soul of man continues through the next period of 3,000 years. during the fourth period of 3,000 years, the power of ahriman will be destroyed. good will return to the world again, evil and death will be vanquished, and at last the spirit of evil will bow humbly before the throne of ormuzd. while ormuzd and ahriman are struggling for control of the human soul and for supremacy in nature, mithras, god of intelligence, stands as mediator between the two. many authors have noted the similarity between mercury and mithras. as the chemical mercury acts as a solvent (according to alchemists, so mithras seeks to harmonize the two celestial opposites. there are many points of resemblance between christianity and the cult of mithras. one of the reaso

ples of spiritual regeneration and revealed to initiates not only the simplest but also the most direct and complete method of liberating their higher natures from the bondage of material ignorance. like prometheus chained to the top of mount caucasus, man's higher nature is chained to his inadequate personality. the nine days of initiation were also symbolic of the nine spheres through which the human soul descends during the process of assuming a terrestrial form. the secret exercises for spiritual unfoldment given to disciples of the higher degrees are unknown, but there is every reason to believe that they were similar to the brahmanic mysteries, since it is known that the eleusinian ceremonies were closed with the sanskrit words "konx om pax" that part of the allegory referring to the

pheus is the secret doctrine (apollo) revealed through music (calliope. eurydice is humanity dead from the sting of the serpent of false knowledge and imprisoned in the underworld of ignorance. in this allegory orpheus signifies theology, which wins her from the king of the dead but fails to accomplish her resurrection because it falsely estimates and mistrusts the innate understanding within the human soul. the ciconian women who tore orpheus limb from limb symbolize the various contending theological factions which destroy the body of truth. they cannot accomplish this, however, until their discordant cries drown out the harmony drawn by orpheus from his magic lyre. the head of orpheus signifies the esoteric doctrines of his cult. these doctrines continue to live and speak even after his

s or alphabets by which later the records of his people were preserved. because of this remarkable experience, odin is sometimes shown seated on a gallows tree and he became the patron deity of all who died by the noose. esoterically, the hanged man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization. from a consideration of all these ancient and secret rituals it becomes evident that the mystery of the dying god was universal among the illumined and venerated colleges of the sacred teaching. this mystery has been perpetuated in christianity in the crucifixio

t revealed to hermes. it was after hermes had received this revelation that he began his ministry, teaching to all who would listen the secrets of the invisible universe as they had been unfolded to him. the vision is the most: famous of all the hermetic fragments, and contains an exposition of hermetic cosmogony and the secret sciences of the egyptians regarding the culture and unfoldment of the human soul. for some time it was erroneously called "the genesis of enoch" but that mistake has now been rectified. at hand while preparing the following interpretation of the symbolic philosophy concealed within the vision of hermes the present author has had these reference works: the divine pymander of hermes mercurius trismegistus (london, 1650, translated out of the arabic and greek by dr. ev

t they are making in their own souls, for evil each day increases itself and torments man more sharply, and each evil deed adds to the evil deeds that are gone before until finally evil destroys itself. the punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment" hermes bowed his head in thankfulness to the great dragon who had taught him so much, and begged to hear more concerning the ultimate of the human soul. so poimandres resumed "at death the material body of man is returned to the elements from which it came, and the invisible divine man ascends to the source from whence he came, namely the eighth sphere. the evil passes to the dwelling place of the demon, and the senses, feelings, desires, and body passions return to their source, namely the seven governors, whose natures in the lower m

general ahiman rezon) if, as there is ample reason to suspect, the modern freemasonic order was profoundly influenced by, if it is not an actual outgrowth of, francis bacon's secret society, its symbolism is undoubtedly permeated with bacon's two great ideals: universal education and universal democracy. the deadly enemies of universal education are ignorance, superstition, and fear, by which the human soul is held in bondage to the lowest part of its own constitution. the arrant enemies of universal democracy have ever been the crown, the tiara, and the torch. thus chiram symbolizes that ideal state of spiritual, intellectual, and physical emancipation which has ever been sacrificed upon the altar of human selfishness. chiram is the beautifier of the eternal house. modern utilitarianism

time the human spirit descended into the realms of hades by being immersed in the illusion of terrestrial existence. in an essay on the beautiful, plotinus describes the refining effect of beauty upon the unfolding consciousness of man. commissioned to decorate the everlasting house, chiram abiff is the embodiment of the beautifying principle. beauty is essential to the natural unfoldment of the human soul. the mysteries held that man, in part at least, was the product of his environment. therefore they considered it imperative that every person be surrounded by objects which would evoke the highest and noblest sentiments. they proved that it was possible to produce beauty in life by surrounding life with beauty. they discovered that symmetrical bodies were built by souls continuously in

o through all ages erects living temples of flesh and blood as shrines of the most high. chiram comes forth as a flower and is cut down; he dies at the gates of matter; he is buried in the elements of creation, but--like thor--he swings his mighty hammer in the fields of space, sets the primordial atoms in motion, and establishes order out of chaos. as the potentiality of cosmic power within each human soul, chiram lies waiting for man by the elaborate ritualism of life to transmute potentiality into divine potency. as the sense perceptions of the individual increase, however, man gains ever greater control over his various parts, and the spirit of life within gradually attains freedom. the three murderers represent the laws of the inferior world--birth, growth, and decay--which ever frust

had a voice and that all creatures were eternally singing the praise of the creator. man fails to hear these divine melodies because his soul is enmeshed in the illusion of material existence. when he liberates himself from the bondage of the lower world with its sense limitations, the music of the spheres will again be audible as it was in the golden age. harmony recognizes harmony, and when the human soul regains its true estate it will not only hear the celestial choir but also join with it in an everlasting anthem of praise to that eternal good controlling the infinite number of parts and conditions of being. the greek mysteries included in their doctrines a magnificent concept of the relationship existing between music and form. the elements of architecture, for example, were consider

his face" among the early latins there was a machine of war called the scorpion. it was used for firing arrows and probably obtained its name from a long beam, resembling a scorpion's tail, which flew up to hurl the arrows. the missiles discharged by this machine were also called scorpions. the butterfly (under the name of psyche, a beautiful maiden with wings of opalescent light) symbolizes the human soul because of the stages it passes through in order to unfold its power of flight. the three divisions through which the butterfly passes in its unfoldment resemble closely the three degrees of the mystery school, which degrees are regarded as consummating the unfoldment of man by giving him emblematic wings by which he may soar to the skies. unregenerate man, ignorant and helpless, is sym

ure of its nest. the phoenix (which is the mythological persian roc) is also the name of a southern constellation, and therefore it has both an astronomical and an astrological significance. in all probability, the phoenix was the swan of the greeks, the eagle of the romans, and the peacock of the far east. to the ancient mystics the phoenix was a most appropriate symbol of the immortality of the human soul, for just as the phoenix was reborn out of its own dead self seven times seven, so again and again the spiritual nature of man rises triumphant from his dead physical body. medi val hermetists regarded the phoenix as a symbol of the accomplishment of alchemical transmutation, a process equivalent to human regeneration. the name phoenix was also given to one of the secret alchemical form

rse of troy, secreting an army for the capture of the city, represents man's body concealing within it those infinite potentialities which will later come forth and conquer his environment. again, like noah's ark, it represents the spiritual nature of man as containing a host of latent potentialities which subsequently become active. the siege of troy is a symbolic account of the abduction of the human soul (helena) by the personality (paris) and its final redemption, through persevering struggle, by the secret doctrine--the greek army under the command of agamemnon. click to enlarge neas and the harpies. from virgil's neid (dryden's translation) among the mythological creatures of the mysteries were the harpies--projections into material substance of beings existing in the invisible world

my vow and covenant unto almighty god and will courteously receive thee at all times where thou dost appear unto me "license to depart"'forasmuch as thou comest in peace and quietness and hath answered click to enlarge the pentagram. from levi's transcendental magic. the pentagram. the pentagram is the figure of the microcosm--the magical formula of man. it is the one rising out of the four--the human soul rising from the bondage of the animal nature. it is the true light--the "star of the morning" it marks the location of five mysterious centers of force, the awakening of which is the supreme secret of white magic. click to enlarge form of pact with the spirit of jupiter. from the complete book of magic science. the aforesaid bond of spirits, together with the seal and character of the p

c street giving alms in the name of lucifer. the first time you fail in this you belong to me" if the magician still refuses, realizing that the demon will make it impossible for him to fulfil his contract, other terms will be discussed, until at last a pact is agreed upon. it may read as follows "i hereby promise the great spirit lucifuge, prince of demons, that each year i will bring unto him a human soul to do with as it may please him, and in return lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. if i fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. signed [invocant signs pact with his own blood] the pentagram in symbolism, an inverted figure always signifies

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come contemplation and enlightenment, which are the special subjects of the second degree. aforetime the candidate for the mysteries, after protracted discipline and purification enabling his mind to acquire complete control over his passions and his lower physical nature, was advanced, as he may advance himself to-day, to the study of his more interior faculties, to understand the science of the human soul, and to trace these faculties in their development from their elementary stage until he realizes that they connect with, and terminate in, the divine itself. the secrets of his mental nature and the principles of intellectual life became at this stage gradually unfolded to his view. you will thus perceive, brethren, that the f.c. degree, sometimes regarded by us as a somewhat uninterest

his first place of preparation must needs be in the heart, and his paramount desire and heart-hunger must be for that light which, when attained, is omniscience coming to consciousness in him; otherwise all ceremonial initiation will be with out a vail and he will fail even to understand the external symbols and allegories of it (2) the square, resting upon the sacred volume, is the symbol of the human soul as it was generated out of the divine word which underlies it. that soul was created" square" perfect, and like everything which proceeded from the creator's hand was originally pronounced" very good" though invested with freedom of choice and capacity for error. the builder's square, however, used as a craft symbol, is really an approximation of a triangle with its apex downwards and b

s still" in worldly possessions" that is, that some residue of the spirit of this world yet lingers in him which it is necessary to eliminate from his nature before he can be raised to the sublime degree of master. examination of the text of the opening and closing of the lodge in the third degree discloses the whole of the philosophy upon which the masonic system is reared. it indicates that the human soul has originated in the eternal east--that" east" being referable to the world of spirit and not to any geographical direction--and that thence it has directed its course towards the" west--the material world which is the antipodes of the spiritual and into which the soul has wandered. its purpose in so journeying from spiritual to physical conditions is declared to be the quest and recov

k of euclid is an example of this and in consequence has come (though few modern masons could explain why) to be inscr ibed upon the past master's official jewel. again, the squaring of the circle that problem which has baffled so many modern mathematicians--is an occult expression signifying that deity, symbolized by the all-containing circle, has attained form and manifestation in a" square" or human soul. it expresses the mystery of the incarnation, accomplished within the personal soul. under the stress then of the geometrizing principle now found symbolically integrated within the candidate's temporal organism, a re-distribution of his component powers has become effected. his repolarized condition is symbolized by an equilateral triangle with a point at its centre, and such a triangl

r return to jerusalem under an impulse to assist in rebuilding the destroyed national temple, their work among its ruins and the discovery of an ancient and apparently important archive the perspicacious mind will not fail to perceive in this historical or quasi-historical narrative an allegory of the spiritual process which has been going on within the candidate himself. it is he, as it is every human soul, that has been in babylonian bondage, in captivity to the babel-confusion of mundane existence, the tyranny of material interests, and the chaos of his own disordere d nature. it is he who, in revolt from these, has in reflective moments" sat down and wept by the waters of babylon--the transient flux of temporal things-and" remembered zion" in a yearning for inward freedom and permanent

hose who practise the rite make no effort to penetrate its meaning and are content with the unenlightened perfunctory performance of a ritual which even exoterically is singularly striking, beautiful and suggestive. the least reflection upon it must suggest that masonry is here dealing with the building-work of no outward structure, but with the re-erection of the fallen, disordered temple of the human soul; and tha t even assuming that it but memorialized some long past historic events, those events can have no vital bearing upon the life, character or conduct of anyone to-day and would not justify the existence of an elaborate secret order to perpetuate them. but if those events and this rite be symbolic of something deeper and something personal; if they sacramentalize truths perpetuall

outlook and totally unscientific in its conduct. this proto-religion is related to have originated in the east, from which proverbially all light comes, and, as humanity itself became diffused and distributed over the globe, to have gradually spread towards the west, in a perpetual watchfulness of humanity's spiritual interests and an unfailing purpose to retrieve" that which was lost--the fallen human soul. we have already said that in early times the humanity then under its influence was far less materialized and far more spiritually sensitive and perceptive than it subsequently became or is now; and accordingly it follows that with the increasing age and density of the race the influence of the proto-religion itself became correspondingly diminished, though its principles remained as va

would require a long treatise. and to do so would also be like following the course of a river backwards from its broad mouth to a point where it becomes an insignificant and scarcely traceable channel. for the race itself has wandered backwards, farther and farther from the original wisdom-teaching, so that the once broad and bright flood of light upon cosmic principles and the evolution of the human soul has now become contracted into minute points. but that light, like that of a master mason, has never been wholly extinguished, however dark the age, and, by the tradition, this of ours is spiritually the darkest of the dark ages" god has never left himself without a witness among the children of men" and among the witnesses to the ancient wisdom and mysteries is the system of masonry; a

other men who behold them only sub specie temporis and are consequently unable to judge their real values and" fix them on their proper bases" in the time that the mysteries flourished, every educated man entered them in the same way that men enter a university in modern times. they were the recognized source of instruction in the only things that really matter, those affecting the culture of the human soul and its education in the science of itself and its divine nature. candidates were graded according to their moral efficiency and their intellectual or spiritual stature. for years they underwent disciplinary intellectual exercises and bodily asceticism, punctuated at intervals by appropriate tests and ordeals to determine their fitness to proceed to the more serious, solemn and awful pr

his myth, and the importance once attached to it, will be appreciated only upon understanding its interpretation. it is the story of the soul and is of the same nature as the mosaic myth of adam and eve and the apple, and as the cosmic parable of the prodigal son, neither of these being meant to be regarded as historically true, but as a fiction spiritually true of cosmic facts. persephone is the human soul, generated out of that primordial incorruptible mother-earth which the greeks personified as demeter, just as the mosaic narrative speaks of god forming man out of the dust of the ground. her straying from her arcadian home and heavenly mother in quest of flowers (or fresh experiences on her own account) in the fields of enna, corresponds with the same promptings of desire that led to a

narrative were never intended as a record of temporal historic fact, but be a myth enshrining philosophic truths concerning eternal principles, then it must be interpreted with spiritual discernment and its analysis will reveal matters of real importance. the story of the building of the temple, then, is a philosophical instruction, garbed in quasi-historical form, concerning the structure of the human soul. that temple is not one of common brick and stone, but of the" unhewn stone" or incorruptible raw material of which the creator fashioned the human organism. the jerusalem in which it was built was not the geographical one in palestine, but the eternal" city of peace" in the heavens; not, as st. paul says" the jerusalem which now is, but the jerusalem above, which is the mother of us al

ntial spirit of wisdom; incorruptible matter, serving as the mould, matrix or vehicle of that life-essence, to give it fixity, form and objectiveness (strength; and lastly the fabricative intellectual principle or logos binding these two together and constituting the whole an intelligent and functionally effective instrument (beauty. of these three principles, or upon these three pillars, was the human soul originally and divinely built in the heaven-world, and our lectures, therefore, rightly say that those three pillars" also allude to solomon, king of israel; hiram, king of tyre; and hiram abiff" because those names personify the indissociable triadic constituents of the divine unity (they are also shown inscribed upon the central symbolic altar in the royal arch degree as further evide

t in the heaven-world, and our lectures, therefore, rightly say that those three pillars" also allude to solomon, king of israel; hiram, king of tyre; and hiram abiff" because those names personify the indissociable triadic constituents of the divine unity (they are also shown inscribed upon the central symbolic altar in the royal arch degree as further evidence of this divine construction of the human soul. the temple of the soul has, however, now been destroyed and thrown down from its primitive eminence and grandeur. humanity, instead of being a collective united organ ic whole, has become shattered into innumerable fragmentary separated parts, not one stone standing upon another of its ruined building. it has lost consciousness of the genuine secrets of its own origin and nature and ha

to rejoin, their mother are alone worthy to be called the" widow's sons" and it is to the cry to those who have rejoined her from those still labouring at that task in the flesh, and perhaps wiping from their brow the bloody sweat of their gethsemane anguish in the struggle, that the traditional petition applies" come to my help, ye s ons of the widow, for i am the widow's son" the temple of the human soul, primordially constituted of the three principles just spoken of in due balance and proportion and divinely pronounced to be" very good" has deflected from that state. its fall has been effected by the disproportioned, unbalanced and, therefore, disorderly abuse of its inherent powers. just as a man in a temper becomes temporarily unbalanced and liable to do what he would not in serene

masonry, although so widely divergent in outlook and method, have this feature in common, that each declares and insists that no alteration or innovation in its central doctrine is permissible and that it is unlawful to remove or deviate from its ancient landmarks. each is right in its insistence, for in the system of each is enshrined the age-old doctrine of regeneration and divinization of the human soul, obscured in the one case by theological and other accretions foreign to the main purpose of religion, and unperceived in the other because its symbolism remains uninterpreted. to clear vision, christian and masonic doctrine are identical in intention though different in method. the one says" via crucis; the other" via lucis; yet the two ways are but one way. the former teaches through

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c: suggested areas 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 secret

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ew goddess" lilith is described as wearing jewelry and having red flaming hair. she is dressed in scarlet and wearing thirty-nine ornaments. she seduces man and fornicates with him; finally arising presenting the demonic and beastlike essence, robed in garments of flaming fire, kills and takes his soul to gehenna. lilith is the tester of the path, she who would confront the weakest aspects of the human soul. those who would not be as set and babalon would then be devoured and tossed into the hell of the natural order. suggested reading: barbara koltuv, ph.d "the book of lilith, nicolas-hays, inc. 1986 raphael patai- gates to the old city, new york, avon 1980 the temple itself should be adorned in the decorations of the sabbat and reflective of the aesthetic concept of the daemonic feminine

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

and, there no doubt will be many who read this and find in it a great relief, for they will discover that they are not alone in having had such an experience. to them-especially if, like most, they have concealed their story from all but a few trusted persons-i can only say this: it is my hope that this volume may encourage you to speak a little more freely, so that a most intriguing facet of the human soul may be more clearly elucidated= 1- the phenomenon of death what is it like to die? that is a question which humanity has been asking itself ever since there have been humans. over ,he past few years, i have had the opportunity to raise this question before a sizable number of audiences. these groups have ranged from classes in psychology, philosophy, and sociology through church organiz

MORALS AND DOGMA

infinite intelligence, which is the one supreme deity, most feebly and misunderstandingly characterized as an "architect" certain faculties of man are directed toward the unknown--thought, meditation, prayer. the unknown is an ocean, of which conscience is the compass. thought, meditation, prayer, are the great mysterious pointings of the needle. it is a spiritual magnetism that thus connects the human soul with the deity. these majestic irradiations of the soul pierce through the shadow toward the light. it is but a shallow scoff to say that prayer is absurd, because it is not possible for us, by means of it, to persuade god to change his plans. he produces foreknown and foreintended effects, by the instrumentality of the forces of nature, all of which are _his_ forces. our own are part o

upiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. that these represented the planets, we are assured by clemens of alexandria, in his stromata, and by philo judaeus. to return to its source in the infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend, as it had descended, through the seven spheres. the ladder by which it reascends, has, according to marsilius ficinus, in his commentary on the ennead of plotinus, seven degrees or steps; and in the mysteries of mithras, carried to rome under the emperors, the ladder, with its seven rounds, was a symbol referring to this ascent through the spheres of t

silent, unostentatious, unerring monitor that was the sailor's guide over the weltering waters. but if drifted too far northward, he finds the needle no longer true, but pointing elsewhere than to the north, what a feeling of helplessness falls upon the dismayed mariner, what utter loss of energy and courage! it is as if the great axioms of morality were to fail and be no longer true, leaving the human soul to drift helplessly, eyeless like prometheus, at the mercy of the uncertain, faithless currents of the deep. honor and duty are the pole-stars of a mason, the dioscuri, by never losing sight of which he may avoid disastrous shipwreck. these palinurus watched, until, overcome by sleep, and the vessel no longer guided truly, he fell into and was swallowed up by the insatiable sea. so the

e down to us full-freighted with the intellectual riches of the past; and that in the lading of these argosies is much that sheds light on the history of masonry, and proves its claim to be acknowledged the benefactor of mankind, born in the very cradle of the race. knowledge is the most genuine and real of human treasures; for it is light, as ignorance is darkness. it is the _development_ of the human soul, and its acquisition the _growth_ of the soul, which at the birth of man knows nothing, and therefore, in one sense, may be said to _be_ nothing. it is the seed, which has in it the _power_ to grow, to acquire, and by acquiring to be developed, as the seed is developed into the shoot, the plant, the tree "we need not pause at the common argument that by learning man excelleth man, in th

desires" that our influences shall survive us, and be living forces when we are in our graves; and not merely that our names shall be remembered; but rather that our works shall be read, our acts spoken of, our names recollected and mentioned when we are dead, as evidences that those influences live and rule, sway and control some portion of mankind and of the world--this is the aspiration of the human soul "we see then how far the monuments of genius and learning are more durable than monuments of power or of the hands. for have not the verses of homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have decayed and been demolished? it is not possible to have the true pictures or statues o

e_ is right, where other men, equally intelligent and equally well-informed, hold directly the opposite opinion. each thinks it impossible for the other to be sincere, and each, as to that, is equally in error"_what is truth" was a profound question, the most suggestive one ever put to man. many beliefs of former and present times seem incomprehensible. they startle us with a new glimpse into the human soul, that mysterious thing, more mysterious the more we note its workings. here is a man superior to myself in intellect and learning; and yet he sincerely believes what seems to me too absurd to merit confutation; and i cannot conceive, and sincerely do not believe, that he is both sane and honest _and yet he is both. his reason is as perfect as mine, and he is as honest as i. the fancies

r no tower of pride was ever yet high enough to lift its possessor above the trials and fears and frailities of humanity. no human hand ever built the wall, nor ever shall, that will keep out affliction, pain, and infirmity. sickness and sorrow, trouble and death, are dispensations that level everything. they know none, high nor low. the chief wants of life, the great and grave necessities of the human soul, give exemption to none. they make all poor, all weak. they put supplication in the mouth of every human being, as truly as in that of the meanest beggar. but the principle of misery is not an evil principle. we err, and the consequences teach us wisdom. all elements, all the laws of things around us, minister to this end; and through the paths of painful error and mistake, it is the de

stration [illustration: t.d.i.c.g] xii. grand master architect [master architect] the great duties that are inculcated by the lessons taught by the working-instruments of a grand master architect, demanding so much of us, and taking for granted the capacity to perform them faithfully and fully, bring us at once to reflect upon the dignity of human nature, and the vast powers and capacities of the human soul; and to that theme we invite your attention in this degree. let us begin to rise from earth toward the stars. evermore the human soul struggles toward the light, toward god, and the infinite. it is especially so in its afflictions. words go but a little way into the depths of sorrow. the thoughts that writhe there in silence, that go into the stillness of infinitude and eternity, have n

ual. we do believe in and know the infinity of space and time, and the spirituality of the soul; but the _idea_ of that infinity and spirituality eludes us. even omnipotence cannot infuse infinite conceptions into finite minds; nor can god, without first entirely changing the conditions of our being, pour a complete and full knowledge of his own nature and attributes into the narrow capacity of a human soul. human intelligence could not grasp it, nor human language express it. the visible is, necessarily, the measure of the invisible. the consciousness of the individual reveals _itself_ alone. his knowledge cannot pass beyond the limits of his own being. his conceptions of other things and other beings _are only his conceptions. they are not those things or beings themselves. the living pr

are but his ideas, aided by an intelligence, or wisdom [greek: s?f?a, which gives one of his attributes; in which we see the occult meaning of the necessity of recovering "the word; and of our two columns of strength and wisdom, which are also the two parallel lines that bound the circle representing the universe: that the visible world is the image of the invisible world; that the essence of the human soul is the image of god, and it existed before the body; that the object of its terrestrial life is to disengage itself of its body or its sepulchre; and that it will ascend to the heavenly regions whenever it shall be purified; in which we see the meaning, now almost forgotten in our lodges, of the mode of preparation of the candidate for apprenticeship, and his tests and purifications in

und on ancient coins and medals, excavated from the ruins of oojein and other ancient cities of india. you entered here amid gloom and into shadow, and are clad in the apparel of sorrow. lament, with us, the sad condition of the human race, in this vale of tears! the calamities of men and the agonies of nations! the darkness of the bewildered soul, oppressed by doubt and apprehension! there is no human soul that is not sad at times. there is no thoughtful soul that does not at times despair. there is perhaps none, of all that think at all of anything beyond the needs and interests of the body, that is not at times startled and terrified by the awful questions which, feeling as though it were a guilty thing for doing so, it whispers to itself in its inmost depths. some demon seems to tortur

ht _is studying how to die" all soul is part of the universal soul, whose totality is dionusos; and it is therefore he who, as spirit of spirits, leads back the vagrant spirit to its home, and accompanies it through the purifying processes, both real and symbolical, of its earthly transit. he is therefore emphatically the _mystes_ or hierophant, the great spiritual mediator of greek religion. the human soul is itself [greek: da] a god _within_ the mind, capable through its own power of rivalling the canonization of the hero, of making itself immortal by the practice of the good, and the contemplation of the beautiful and true. the removal to the happy islands could only be understood mythically; everything earthly must die; man, like dipus, is wounded from his birth, his real elysium can e

. eleusis closed her gates against nero: and the pagan priests told constantine that among all their modes of expiation there was none so potent as could wash from _his_ soul the dark spots left by the murder of his wife, and his multiplied perjuries and assassinations. the object of the ancient initiations being to ameliorate mankind and to perfect the intellectual part of man, the nature of the human soul, its origin, its destination, its relations to the body and to universal nature, all formed part of the mystic science; and to them in part the lessons given to the initiate were directed. for it was believed that initiation tended to his perfection, and to preventing the divine part within him, overloaded with matter gross and earthy, from being plunged into gloom, and impeded in its r

ient philosophers, of the pre-existence of souls, in the eternal fire from which they emanate; that fire which animates the stars, and circulates in every part of nature: and the purifications of the soul, by fire, water, and air, of which he speaks, and which three modes were employed in the mysteries of bacchus, were symbols of the passage of the soul into different bodies. the relations of the human soul with the rest of nature were a chief object of the science of the mysteries. the man was there brought face to face with entire nature. the world, and the spherical envelope that surrounds it, were represented by a mystic egg, by the side of the image of the sun-god whose mysteries were celebrated. the famous orphic egg was consecrated to bacchus in his mysteries. it was, says plutarch

one thing remained--to represent its return, through the constellations and planetary spheres, to its original home. the celestial fire, the philosophers said, soul of the world and of fire, an universal principle, circulating above the heavens, in a region infinitely pure and wholly luminous, itself pure, simple, and unmixed, is above the world by its specific lightness. if any part of it (say a human soul) descends, it acts against its nature in doing so, urged by an inconsiderate desire of the intelligence, a perfidious love for matter which causes it to descend, to know what passes here below, where good and evil are in conflict. the soul, a simple substance, when unconnected with matter, a ray or particle of the divine fire, whose home is in heaven, ever turns toward that home, while

els. those of spring, as for example aries and taurus, auriga and capella, were the beneficent stars; and those of autumn, as the balance, scorpio, the serpent of ophiucus, and the dragon of the hesperides, were types and subjects of the evil principle, and regarded as malevolent causes of the ill effects experienced in autumn and winter. thus are explained the mysteries of the journeyings of the human soul through the spheres, when it descends to the earth by the sign of the serpent, and returns to the empire of light by that or the lamb or bull. the creative action of heaven was manifested, and all its demiurgic energy developed, most of all at the vernal equinox, to which refer all the fables that typify the victory of light over darkness, by the triumphs of jupiter, osiris, ormuzd, and

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say that it is the infinite revelation of g-d himself. since the ohr ein sof is the revelation of g-d, as he truly is, therefore it bears all his properties. just as he is a simple quintessential singularity with no parts, so is his light. conversely, just as he is kol yachol, that is, he has infinite abilities (heyulies, so does his light. yachid-singular from the analogies above concerning the human soul, we may now understand the three matters mentioned above, as they apply to the infinite light. the first is called yachid- singular. this level includes all ten sefirot, but here they are called, esser sefirot hagnoozot (the ten hidden sefirot. this is because they are completely hidden in the essence of the infinite light and cannot be distinguished from it at all. this is similar to t

s quintessential singularity, and are totally indistinguishable from him. about these sefirot it states in the zohar "he is wise, but not with a knowable wisdom, he is understanding, but not with a knowable understanding etc. he is not of any of these qualities altogether (patach eliyahu. now, the difference between the essential singularity of the ohr ein sof and the essential singularity of the human soul, is as follows; since the human soul is limited, therefore its heyulies are limited, whereas, since g-d is infinite, the heyulies of the ohr ein sof are unlimited. for example, the heyulie of a flint is limited to bringing out fire. no matter how many times one hits the flint, it will never bring out water. likewise, the human soul possesses limited heyulies. it is limited to human abil

levels that precede it. the general primal desire of creation, the ratzon hakadoom, is an all encompassing "circle" which contains all subsequent desires and each subsequent desire encompasses all the particular desires that follow it and is contained by the desires that precede it. now, the difference between the desire before the tzimtzum and the desire after the tzimtzum may be compared to the human soul before it is invested in a body and after it is invested in a body. before a person is born, we cannot speak of any "natural tendencies" or "desires" only after he is born in a body can we say, with certainty, that a baby possesses primal urges and desires that will affect and encompass his entire life. for example, we can say with certainty that he will desire a place to live in, even

nly through letters can there be a chaining down of cause and effect (seder hishtalshelut, from the essence of the soul to the final action. what we further understand from this is that the very essence of the soul is the source of this power of description (i.e. the letters. for this reason it is stated in etz chaim that the essence of the soul is full of letters. this is also the reason why the human soul is called a "speaking soul. likewise, in g-dliness, it is understood that the source of the letters is the essential ability to give description and tangible existence to everything. this includes giving definition to both the infinite and the finite. in other words, infinity too is a defined state, just as the finite is a defined state, in that it is defined to being infinite. now, bei

which are "vessels" and the letters which are "clothing" look exactly alike, they, nonetheless, are two separate matters. souls taken from the clothing it is stated in the zohar "he made clothing for them (the sefirot) from which the souls of human beings come out" now, according to what was explained above, how is it possible that from a totally separate thing, like clothing, the essence of the human soul can come out? it must therefore be understood that what is considered to be a "garment" on one level can become the essential light of another level. this may be understood by examining what takes place when one person communicates a desire or an idea to another. from the essential desire of the first person, his desire descends, in the fashion explained earlier, until it is enclothed w

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pects of the nefesh-ruach-neshamah, we are (usually) referring to these aspects the divine soul; when we speak of the animal soul we (usually) only consider the nefesh. now it sometimes happens that when the soul of an evil man is descending [into the world to be born, and at the same time the soul of a domesticated or wild animal is being emanated [downward into a physical animal being born, the human soul is grafted onto [the soul of the animal] in order to punish it, in accordance with the decisions of the heavenly court. this is a description of transmigration of souls (gilgul, wherein someone who dies without repented (i.e, having done teshuvah) for his sins is sent down again into an animal body. this experience is extremely painful and frustrating for the divine soul, in that it can

ew for gsacrifice h (korban) is from the verb gclose h (karov; the sacrifice is designed and intended to bring the offerer close to g-d. it can also happen sometimes that [the sinner descends and] is found in the animal fs food [in either case, whether he is reincarnated into the animal or its food, the animal] is thereafter offered on the altar. and when the proper rites are performed on it [the human soul within it] is brought close again to its source and rectified. even if the sacrificial animal does not contain any reincarnated human soul within it, it nonetheless contains within it something of the 288 sparks [from the vessels world of tohu] that fell and shattered; these are now rectified. all animals (and, indeed, all physical reality) contain sparks from the fallen world of tohu

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bsence of these i was entertained like an angel with the works of god in their splendour and glory; i saw all in the peace of eden. all time was eternity, and a perpetual sabbath" such is the stone of the philosophers, the quintessence, the summurn bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. psellus, the neoplatonist, has written that the function of initiatory magic was "to initiate or perfect the human soul by the powers of materials here on earth; for the supreme faculty of the soul cannot by its own guidance aspire to the sublimest intuition and to the comprehension of divinity" it is a commonplace aphorism in occultism that "nature unaided fails" that is to say that the natural life, if left to itself, and isolated from the impact of a higher type of life or consciousness, can only <41>

en as it comprises the motive first to seek the services and aid of the analytical psychologist. this impetus and this self-consciousness are the prime implications of daath. its signification is a higher type of consciousness, the beginning of a spiritual rebirth. it acts as a selfevolved link between the higher genius, on the one hand, at peace in its supernal abode, and, on the other hand, the human soul bound by its fall to the world of illusion and sense and matter. not until that self-consciousness and acquired knowledge are turned to noble and altruistic ends, so long will sorrow and suffering be the inevitable result. continually will the red dragon, the inverted power of the eros, ravish the little kingdom of self until such time as we open ourselves to the deepest levels of our u

cuth, and by the power of the choir of angels who art set over the governance of the kingdom (trace sigils of all these names and vibrate very pawetfully, the aschim, the holy souls of fire, let it be known that i, ad majorem adonai gloriarn; neophyte of the golden dawn, and frater r r et a. c. have summoned the powers of earth to my presence. let there be formed a true and potent link between my human soul on the one hand, and all those divine powers of malkuth which receive the influx from on high. to this end, i propose to evoke unto physical manifestation, the great angel axir of the third lesser angle of the watch-tower of the north in the name of adonai ha-aretz and by the divine aid of emor dial hectega. bindandveil sigil with white cord and blackcloth. place it without the circle a

therein the hidden stone of the philosophers, that stone whereon is written the new name of redemption. and finally swear thou by the mighty magic seal which in my hand i hold that thou wilt always speedily appear before me, coming whensoever i call thee by word or will, or by a magical ceremony. to the end that thou mayest be a perpetual link of communication between the lords of malkuth and my human soul therein. when all is fulfilled and prior to his banishing, say: inasmuch as thou hast obeyed my wish, i now conjure thee, axir, that thou hereafter harm me not, nor this place, my companions, or aught pertaining unto me, that thou faithfully perform all these things as thou hast sworn by 412 the golden dawn: volume 111 book six the names of god, and that thou deceive in naught. therefor

bound thrice with cord, should be purified with water and consecrated with fire. in the name of al, i proclaim, all ye powers and forces now invoked <215> that i, ad majorem adonai gloriam, neophyte of the stella ma* the student should substitute hisher own magical name. consecration ceremony 415 tutina, and frater r. r. et a. c. have invoked ye in order to form a true and potent link between my human soul and that spirit of abundance and love and graciousness summed up in the name of chesed. to this end i have formed and perfected a talisman bearing upon one side the sigil of yohphiel the intelligence of tzedek, and the geomantic symbols and sigils pertaining to jupiter. on the other side is a seal referred to jupiter, represented in flashing colours. this is now covered with a black vei

e do i invoke tzadkiel, the archangel of chesed, to command unto me the chashmalim, the brilliant ones of tzedek. come unto me, ye brilliant ones, that the angel of jupiter, sachiel, may cause his intelligence, yohphiel, to make powerful this consecrated telesmata. cause him to take this for his body that a true and sacred link may be formulated between the spirit of the godhead in chesed and the human soul of the exorcist. lift the talisman and place it between pillars. go east, face west, and in the sign of the enterer project the whole current of will upon the talisman. protect with the sign of harpocrates. a light should play about the talisman. if not repeat the above invocation from the throne of the east. as soon as the light is seen, quit the east and repurify and reconsecrate the

ish this work of transformation. draw sigil of kerubim in the hexagram. pause for some while, formulating the god-form of isis. in the name of shaddai el chai, i proclaim all ye powers and forces of yesod, that i, ad majorem adonai gloriam* neophyte of the golden dawn, and a frater roseae rubeae et aureae crucis, have summoned ye to my presence for the forming of a true and potent link between my human soul in malkuth and the great goddess isis, whose true abode is in the supemals, yet reflected in yesod, the eternal foundation of all things. to this end i now formulate a magical image of isis in the astral light, so that by its assumption and with the divine aid i may be transformed from corruption into incorruption, and putting aside mortality become divinity itself through the descent o

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to substitute wits for virtue by inaugurating the reign of industry. neither of these operations has proved complete or adequate; neither has brought men to perfection and felicity. that which is now dreamed, almost without daring to hope for it, is an alliance between the two forces so long regarded as contrary, and there is good ground for desiring it, seeing that these two great powers of the human soul are no more opposed to one another than is the sex of man opposed to that of woman. undoubtedly they differ, but their apparently contrary dispositions come only from their aptitude to meet and unite. no less is proposed, therefore, than a universal solution of all problems? the answer is yes, unquestionably, since we are concerned with explaining the philosophical stone, perpetual moti

y. the magical dogma is also one in three and three in one. that which is above is like or equal to that which is below. thus, two things which resemble one another and the word which signifies their resemblance make three. the triad is the universal dogma. in magic principle, realization, adaptation; in alchemy azoth, incorporation, transmutation; in theology god, incarnation, redemption; in the human soul thought, love and action; in the family father, mother and child. the triad is the end and supreme expression of love; we seek one another as two only to become three. there are three intelligible worlds which correspond one with another by hierarchic analogy; the natural or physical, the spiritual or metaphysical, and the divine or religious worlds. from this principle follows the hier

sh between apparent and real death, holding that the two are seldom simultaneous. in their view, the majority of persons who are buried are still alive, while a number of others who are regarded as living are in reality dead. incurable madness, for example, would be with them an incomplete but real death, leaving the earthly form under the purely instinctive control of the sidereal body. when the human soul suffers a greater strain than it can bear, it would thus become separated from the body, leaving the animal soul, or sidereal body, in its place, and these human remains would be less alive in a sense than a mere animal. dead persons of this kind are said to be identified by the complete extinction of the moral and affectionate sense: they are neither bad nor good; they are dead. such b

ill, to others as to ourselves, according to the capacity of our will and within the sphere of our operation, must take place infallibly, if the will be confirmed and the determination fixed by acts. such acts should be analogous to the will. the intent to do harm or to excite love, in order to be efficacious, must be confirmed by deeds of hatred or affection. whatsoever bears the impression of a human soul belongs to that soul; whatsoever a man has appropriated after any manner becomes his body in the broader acceptation of the term, and anything which is done to the body of a man is felt, mediately or immediately, by his soul. it is for this reason that every hostile deed committed against one's neighbour is regarded in moral theology as the beginning of homicide. bewitchment is a homici

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sorceresses, when they spent the night at the meeting-place of three cross-roads, yelled three times in honour of triple hecate. all these figures, with the acts analogous thereto, all these dispositions of numbers and of characters, are, as we have said, so many instruments for the education of the will, by fixing and determining its habits. they serve, furthermore, to combine all powers of the human soul in action and to increase the creative force of imagination. it is the gymnastics of thought in training for realization: and hence the effect of these practices is infallible, like nature, when they are fulfilled with absolute confidence and indomitable perseverance. the great master tells us that faith could transplant trees into the sea and remove mountains. even a superstitious and

he kabalist, a portent of victory and happiness. a long contemplation of the sky exalts imagination, and then the stars respond to our thoughts. the lines drawn mentally from one to another by primitive observers have given man his first notions of geometry. accordingly as our soul is troubled or at rest, the stars seem burning with menace or sparkling with hope. the sky is thus the mirror of the human soul, and when we think that we are reading in the stars it is in ourselves we read. 100 the ritual of transcendental magic gaffarel, applying the presages of celestial writing to the destinies of empires, says that not in vain did the ancients place all signs of evil augury in the northern region of the sky; calamities have been in all ages regarded as coming from the north to spread themse

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that concerning the church-yard mound, such as kirk reports, were developed. in some cases, of course, the church mound was originally a pagan worship site. commentary 98 page 31 [the seers. affirm that those creatures that move invisibly in a house, and cast. great stones. to be souls that have not attained their rest. we now come to a clear definition of supernatural activities connected to the human soul: ghostly activity (which kirk also says is countered by the action of good spirits, is connected to the desire to reveal a wrong, or a treasure hidden, or similar unrealized desires. kirk then tells a typical story of two women being drawn to a fairy hill and finding treasure, possibly a hoard of ancient coinage from a burial chamber. he leaves the final judgment to others, as to whethe

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ct private property, but wrong in saying that this is natural and reflects justice. rousseau's natural man has two fundamental passions (1) self preservation (2) sympathy with others of his kind. natural man differs from other animals because of his capacity for free exercise of the will. he is not governed merely by instinct. the awareness of this free will is evidence of the spirituality of the human soul= implies its somewhat vaguely conceived immortality. man can also use his will to improve his level of knowledge and sustain it over generations. it is this same free will which is man's downfall, because he has used it to move from a "free animal" existence to the misery of civil life based upon inequality and private property. modern man cannot very well go back to a natural state of

rom the stigma attached to personal ego-fulfillment" he wrote "they would not need to play self-deceitful games such as belief in reincarnation as a means of satisfying their natural need for ego-fulfillment" magus lavey, like ouspensky, understood that reincarnation, transmigration, karma, and all theories dealing with the survival of the self were actually approaches to the relationships of the human soul to time. his method of passing this on was taught through an insistence on rejecting self-deceit. he knew perfectly well that reincarnation, karma, and the other theories needed to be viewed as symbols which hid deeper meanings behind their facades. he was himself also perfectly aware that in order to be seen as viable, both theories and symbols must conform to workable applications in

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edy, the full-blooded original being unavailable to modern men and women, so it's said- a burlesque for our degraded, imitative times, in which clowns re-enact what was first done by heroes and by kings- well, then, so be it- the question that's asked here remains as large as ever it was: which is, the nature of evil, how it's born, why it grows, how it takes unilateral possession of a many-sided human soul. or, let's say: the enigma of iago. it's not unknown for literary--theatrical exegetes, defeated by the character, to ascribe his actions to "motiveless malignity. evil is evil and will do evil, and that's that; the serpent's poison is his very definition- well, such shruggings-off will not pass muster here. my chamcha may be no ancient of venice, my allie no smothered desdemona, farish

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

e. heraclitus (c. 535 c. 475 bce) thought in much the same way as the earlier nature philosophers. he was also from ionia, though from ephesus and not from miletus. heraclitus believed in fire as the primary element. therefore, he thought that all things came from and returned to fire. even though everything was always changing, changes were structured by the logos, the logic of the universe. the human soul, according to heraclitus, was but one part of the universal fire. world religions: almanac 213 greco-roman religion and philosophy a second major school of thought revolved around the mathematician pythagoras (c. 582 c. 507 bce, who believed that the universe could be explained in terms of numbers. pythagoras was a native of the greek island of samos. he and his followers formed a relig

ore specific meaning to hindus similar to the christian idea of heaven. hindus believe that the world s inequalities of wealth, suffering, and prestige are the result of karma. they are the inevitable result of previous acts, both in one s current life and in previous lives. verses from the upanishad, a sacred text, ask whether there is an end to the cycle of reincarnation. they maintain that the human soul( atman) is supreme and is responsible for all that it experiences. the chief topic of the katha upanishad explains using the analogy of a chariot, where the soul rules the chariot, which is the body; the reins are the world religions: almanac 247 hinduism mind, the horses are the senses, and the paths the chariot takes are the objects of the senses. one who lacks discipline never reache

f parts and begins with passage under the tori into the world of the gods. after purifying themselves by ritually washing their hands, worshippers pass into the shrine s sanctuary, where they bow before the altar (an inner sanctuary can be entered only by priests and priestesses) food offerings are made, often consisting of rice cakes, based on the belief that each grain of rice is a symbol for a human soul. then, the priest or priestess leads prayers on behalf of the worshippers. many of these prayers date from as far back as the tenth century. music and dance are typically part of the ritual (as well as of shinto festivals. ritual dances called kagura are performed by trained dancers, world religions: almanac 409 shinto accompanied by musical instruments. symbolic offerings to the kami a

practices that he later came to believe they were not part of true, historical hinduism. sankara had many doubts about his religion. when a beloved uncle died five years after the incident at the temple, he began to search for a path that humans could follow to overcome their mortality (death. hindus believe in reincarnation, an ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that in effect traps the human soul in the material world. in an attempt to escape that trap, sankara began to practice yoga, an intensely focused mental, spiritual, and physical discipline that some believe can lead to enlightenment and spiritual salvation, or release from the cycle of death and rebirth, called samsara. in 1843 sankara fled his home, fearing that his family would arrange a marriage for him. he became a m

he date of his death is traditionally given as 1276. madhva s teachings one of the chief religious debates taking place in india during madhva s life concerned the nature of god and the relationship between god and the material world. hindu teachers tended to fall into one of two camps. one camp preached a monist view of god. monism refers to belief in the basic unity, or oneness, of god with the human soul, and indeed with all of existence, including matter. monism was preached by another well-known acharya, sankara (788 820, and was the most common view among indian hindus at the time of madhva s birth. monism was also the doctrine taught by the guru under which madhva studied as a youth. this school of thought is called advaita vedanta. the word vedanta means end of the vedas, referring

alist view of the world. this dualist view, which was taught by madhva, was referred to as dvaita, and the school of thought he founded is called dvaita vedanta. that term is more general than the name of his specific sect, madhvism. madhva based his beliefs on his interpretations of the upanishads and other hindu texts. he and his disciples taught five main points: that god was separate from the human soul; that god was separate from the physical universe; that the human soul and physical matter were different; that individual human souls were different; and that various types of matter were different. although these distinctions may not seem surprising to modern-day readers, they were startling in the thirteenth century. until this time hinduism a swami bathes in the tank, known as madha

century. until this time hinduism a swami bathes in the tank, known as madhava sarovar, which surrounds the sri krishna temple in udupi, india. worshippers believe the ganga, or ganges, river flows into the tank every ten years. devotees purify themselves in the waters before going to pray. david h. wells/corbis. world religions: biographies 239 madhva had only taught a basic unity among god, the human soul, and physical matter. madhva also taught a view of creation that was in opposition to hindu tradition. he did not believe that creation was ordered by the god vishnu, as was the common theory. rather, he believed that matter existed before vishnu and evolved in response to his will. he believed that no one could prove the existence of vishnu, but that he could be understood through the

e from the bhagavad purana, a part of the vedas, depicts the gods vishnu, brahman, and sesha nag. ramanuja wrote many essays on hindu religious practices based on the vedas, often challenging core beliefs. archivo iconografico, s.a/ corbis. world religions: biographies 331 ramanuja during the twelfth century hindu theologians debated the nature of god and the relationship between god and both the human soul and physical matter. two major positions were taken. one was the position that had been outlined by sankara in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. sankara looked at the state of hindu practice and belief and opposed what he saw as meaningless ritual and animal sacrifice. based on his interpretation of the vedas, he adopted a monist position about the nature of god. the monist vie

g has characteristics that make it different from other things. if humans claim to know something about an object, then that implies that the object has characteristics. ramanuja applied this principle to knowledge of god. if humans are to reach god, they have to somehow know god, as much as possible. to know god implies that god has form and characteristics and is different and separate from the human soul and from physical creation. he believed that god did have an identity and that people could on some level come to know it. for ramanuja, the chief characteristics of god were intelligence, truth, and infinity. god was not cursed with the ignorance of humans and other living things. he was never untruthful, and he had unlimited energy. ramanuja rejected the accepted notion that a jiva, a

things in creation are different. thus, each person s soul would be different. because each soul is different, each has to have free will. otherwise, without freedom of will, souls could not be manifestations of god, or indications of god s existence. in ramanuja s view the only way that god and humans could have a relationship that made any sense was if god gave people the freedom to choose. the human soul could not in any meaningful way serve god if it was not free to do so. both ramanuja and his successor, madhva, were strong supporters of the bhakti movement, a loosely organized movement of hindu sects that emerged in medieval india. the word bhakti comes from the sanskrit word bhaj, which means something like to revere or adore. the word bhakti, therefore, is usually translated into e

then the hindu believes that he is a spirit. him the sword cannot pierce him the fire cannot burn him the water cannot melt him the air cannot dry. the hindu believes that every soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere but whose center is located in the body, and that death means the change of the center from holy to body. nor is the soul bound by the conditions of matter. well, then, the human soul is eternal and immortal, perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of center from one body to another. the present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. the soul will go on evolving up or reverting back from birth to birth and death to death. but here is another question: is man a tiny boat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamy crest of a bil

n. man is to become divine by realizing the divine. idols or temples or churches or books are only the supports, the helps, of his spiritual childhood; but on and on he must progress. to the hindu, man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. to him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun. unity in variety is the plan of nature, and the hindu has recognized it. every other religion lays down certain fixed d

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so thou wilt have much profit and much joy. if god grants many things in thy life, give plentifully to the poor, be faithful and silent about the art, for this surely is god's will, keep truth and faith, think of me, so thou wilt be free from all evil. mons philosophorum. the soul of men everywhere was lost through a fall, and the health of the body suffered through a fall, salvation came to the human soul through iehova, jesus christ. the bodily health is brought back through a thing not good to look at. it is hidden in this painting, the highest treasure in this world, in which is the highest medicine and the greatest parts of the riches of nature, given to us by the lord iehova. it is called pator metallorum, well known to the philosopher sitting in front of the mountain-cave, easy to

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egetable principles appear. 13. seeds germinate in moisture. 14. herbs and trees. 15. fructification in vegetable life. 16. origin of low forms of animal life. 17. insects and reptiles appear. 18. fishes, vertebrate life in the waters. 19. birds, vertebrate life in the air. 20. quadrupeds, vertebrate earth animals. third order: decad of humanity 21. appearance of man. 22. material human body. 23. human soul conferred. 24. mystery of adam and eve. 25. complete man as the microcosm. 26. gift of five human faces acting exteriorly. 27. gift of five powers to the soul. 28. adam kadmon, the heavenly man. 29. angelic beings. 30. man in the image of god. fourth order: world of spheres 31. the moon. 32. mercury. 33. venus. 34. sol. 35. mars. 36. jupiter. 37. saturn. 38. the firmament. 39. the primu

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rm tenderly round his neck, and under that heavenly light her face seemed lovelier for its blushes "for the enigmas are but love's common language, and love should solve them. till i knew thee, till i lived with thee; till i learned to watch for thy footstep when absent: yet even in absence to see thee everywhere! i dreamed not how strong and all-pervading is the connection between nature and the human soul "and yet" she continued "i am now assured of what i at first believed, that the feelings which attracted me towards thee at first were not those of love. i know that, by comparing the present with the past, it was a sentiment then wholly of the mind or the spirit! i could not hear thee now say 'viola, be happy with another "and i could not now tell thee so! ah, viola, never be weary of

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s if we debate his concept of fire, asking whether he meant by it sense-perceptible fire or whether it was not rather a metaphor for that eternal spirit which dissolves and reconstitutes all things. for that is to misconstrue his thought. he meant both, yet neither of these things.32 for him, the spirit was vitally active in ordinary fire. the energy of physical fire works in a higher mode in the human soul, and in its crucible melts sense-perceptions down to draw forth from them the vision of the eternal. it is all too easy to misunderstand heraclitus, for example when he makes war the father of things but only of things, not of the eternal. if there were not contradictions in the world, if there were not the most diverse conflicting tendencies, there would indeed be no becoming, no trans

t also independence. they behold the logos, but they can only participate in it according to the proportion of the mixture that the eternal logos brought about in their case. hence human beings derive their unique calling: to fashion the eternal out of the temporal. it is the spirit, the logos, that works in human beings. but it does so in a special way: out of the temporal. the uniqueness of the human soul consists in this: a temporal being is active and powerful in the same way as an eternal being, and can be likened both to a god and to a worm. human beings are placed between god and animal. the active, powerful component of them is their daimonic part. it is what reaches out beyond their own self. as heraclitus strikingly puts it, a man s daimon is his destiny. 33 thus for heraclitus s

ws purely through autonomous mental activity. and when one s gaze is turned toward the natural world, things obey the same laws that have been ascertained in one s own soul. if one grasps the idea of an ellipse, one knows the laws of the ellipse. the heavenly bodies are found to move according to such laws, which have been so ascertained.42 a direct corollary of this is that the operations of the human soul are not an activity set apart from the rest of the world. what is expressed in those operations is the pervasive cosmic order. in the pythagorean view, the senses reveal sense-perceptible phenomena, but not the harmonious ordering principles that regulate them. these harmonizing and ordering principles must rather be discovered in the human mind, if one wishes to see them at work in out

the pervasive cosmic order. in the pythagorean view, the senses reveal sense-perceptible phenomena, but not the harmonious ordering principles that regulate them. these harmonizing and ordering principles must rather be discovered in the human mind, if one wishes to see them at work in outer nature. the deeper meaning of the world, which is expressed as an eternal law of necessity, appears in the human soul and first achieves immediacy and actuality there. the meaning of the cosmos is revealed in the soul. that meaning is not to be found in what we perceive by sight, hearing or touch; it must be brought up from the hidden depths of the soul, for it is there that the eternal laws lie hidden. to find the eternal, one must go down into the psychic depths. in those depths is god the eternal ha

ring or touch; it must be brought up from the hidden depths of the soul, for it is there that the eternal laws lie hidden. to find the eternal, one must go down into the psychic depths. in those depths is god the eternal harmony of the cosmos. 38 christianity as mystical fact thus, the human psyche is not limited to the confines of the body, enclosed within the skin; for what come to birth in the human soul are the laws which govern the stars in their courses. the soul is not confined by our personal consciousness. in fact the personality is no more than the instrument through which the cosmic order manifests itself. the spirit of pythagoras is caught by one of the church fathers, gregory of nyssa, who declared: we are told that human nature is a paltry thing, confined and small, whereas g

it contains all creatures that are visible and is itself an image of the intelligible; and it has thus become a visible god, supreme in greatness and excellence, beauty, and perfection, a single, uniquely created heaven.60 but this single and uniquely created world would not be perfect if it did not contain among its images the image of its creator himself. and that image can arise only from the human soul; it is not the father himself, but the son, platonic mysteries 55 the living child of god in the soul who is of like nature with the father, to whom humanity can give birth. the expression son of god is used in this context by philo of alexandria, who was called a plato redivivus. it designates the wisdom that lives in the soul and is born of human beings, having as its content the reas

ten when i wished to put my philosophical thoughts in writing in my accustomed way, and saw quite clearly what was to be set down, i found my mind barren and rigid, so that i was obliged to give up without having accomplished anything, and seemed to be beset with idle fancies. at the same time i marveled at the power of the reality of thought, with which it rests to open and close the womb of the human soul. at other times, however, i would begin empty and arrive, without any trouble, at fullness. thoughts came flying like snowflakes or grains of corn invisibly from above, and it was as though divine power took hold of me and inspired me, so that i did not know where i was, who was with me, who i was, or what i was saying or writing; for then a flow of ideas was given me, a delightful clea

crocosmic man (adam).67 the mystery of love it is also as an initiation that we have to interpret the symposium the platonic dialogue on love. love figures here as the herald of wisdom. we have seen that wisdom is the eternal logos, the son of the eternal world-father. to this logos love stands in the position of a mother. before even so much as a spark of the light of wisdom can be struck in the human soul, there must be present in it an obscure urge or longing for the divine. unconsciously it must draw one in the direction of what will subsequently, when it is raised into consciousness, constitute one s highest bliss. heraclitus apprehended the daimon in human beings; in plato this is connected with the idea of love. the symposium comprises speeches on love from men of the most diverse s

le, which gives birth to wisdom, the son of god, the logos. the woman stands for the power that is active unconsciously in the soul, that brings about the raising into consciousness of the divine element in humanity. the soul, which has not yet found wisdom, is the mother of that experience of divinization. here we come to one of the central conceptions of mystery-teaching, which acknowledges the human soul as the mother of the god, leading human beings unconsciously and with the inevitability of a natural force to their union with the divine.68 all this casts light on the mystery-interpretation of greek myths. according to this, as we have seen, the world of the gods is something generated in the human soul, and the gods we behold are images we have ourselves created. but then we must win

ourselves created. but then we must win through to a further platonic mysteries 61 understanding. we must be able to take the divine creative power that is present in ourselves from which the images of the gods are derived and form that power itself into divine images, so that behind the world of the gods we shape an image of the divine mother. this is none other than the archetypal power of the human soul. thus mythology places the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods

on the other hand there is within the individual sufficient higher wisdom, this latter nurses and cherishes the unformed child until it is born again as a second son of god dionysus. and thus sense-derived understanding, the dismembered divine force in human beings, is reborn as the undivided wisdom that is identical with the logos. it is the son of god and a mortal mother, who is the transitory human soul aspiring unconsciously after the divine. we are still far removed from the spiritual reality that is played out in the myth if we recognize in it only psychological processes, and pictures of psychological events, at that. this spiritual reality is not something that the soul experiences as confined to itself. it is rather released from itself to take part in a cosmic event. the reality

e sea. aeetes pauses to collect them and so the pair reach jason s homeland with the fleece. every detail of the story requires elucidation in depth. the fleece is something pertaining to humanity that is infinitely precious, something lost since the time of the beginning, and which can be recovered only by the overcoming of terrible powers; such is the situation with regard to the eternal in the human soul. the eternal belongs to human beings, yet we find ourselves divided from it by our own lower nature, and we can attain to it only when we conquer and lull to sleep our lower self. that is made possible when the magic power of our own consciousness (medea) comes to our aid. medea becomes for jason what diotima was for socrates when she instructed him in the mysteries of love. humanity s

isdom which qualified them for this task was handed down from generation to generation in the priestly families; it was the wisdom which enabled them to perform their ritual service at eleusis, the wisdom of the greek mysteries, mysteriosophy.84 the festivals were celebrated twice in the course of each year, and dramatized the cosmic events governing the fate of the divine in the world and of the human soul. the lesser mysteries took place in february, the greater mysteries in september. initiation into the mysteries took place in connection with these festivals. the climax of the initiatory proceedings was a symbolic enactment of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the goddess demeter. she is a daughter of kronos, and before his marriage to her

he underworld and in the upper regions; the myth clothes in a picture the eternal nature of the soul that persists throughout its endless transformations, its births and deaths. the soul has an immortal mother demeter but is carried away into the realms of transitoriness, and even induced to share in the destiny of the perishable world. it has eaten the fruit of the underworld that is to say, the human soul has found satisfaction in perishable things, and therefore cannot live always in the heights where the gods abide. it has to return ever and again to the kingdom of transience. demeter stands for the essential source out of which human consciousness arises. thus we must conceive of consciousness as arising from the spiritual forces of the myth and mysteriosophy 85 earth for demeter is t

demeter places her charge secretly in the fire every night. human beings, however, cannot bear the pure energy of fire (or spirit) and demeter has to cease her attempt. all she can do is to institute the temple cult. through this, so far as they are able, human beings can participate in the divine nature. the festivals at eleusis were an eloquent confession of the belief in the immortality of the human soul. the conviction was expressed in the imagery of the myth about persephone. but alongside demeter and persephone at eleusis, the god dionysus was honored. if demeter stood for the divine origin of the eternal within humanity, dionysus was worshipped as the divine presence in the world, which assumes an endless variety of forms. he is the god poured out into cosmic existence, torn apart i

y came to be popular and was universally worshipped in egypt, eclipsing the other local the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 87 divinities and subsuming the attributes of the other gods into himself. but whatever the ordinary people of egypt thought about the nature of osiris, in the book of the dead we have evidence of a priestly doctrine, according to which osiris was to be found within the human soul. that emerges from everything said there about death and about the dead. when the body is given over to the earth, preserved under earthly conditions, humanity s eternal part enters into the eternal condition that was in the beginning. it appears before osiris. it stands before him for judgment, surrounded by the forty-two judges of the dead. the destiny of one s eternal being depends u

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home, only days after he mailed his expose manuscript to u.s. attorney-general janet reno; and wolfgang amadeus mozart, the world-famous classical composer, who paid the ultimate penalty, the aqua toffeta, arsenic poisoning that wracked his body. poor mozart. he, too, had revealed some of the secrets of freemasonry. blackballed by the order, so frightened were his friends and family that not one human soul so much as attended his funeral. it is said that mozart's faithful dog followed dutifully behind the lonely funeral wagon. the sad and forlorn canine was the only living creature in sight as the body of the man all of europe had once toasted and applauded was taken to its burial site. so, i ask you, dear friend, once again: do you dare to discover the secrets many have been punished for

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h of european alchemy, astrology, and magic, the author of the books was said to have been adam s grandson, who built the great pyramids of egypt; or an egyptian magician who lived three generations after moses; or a magus from babylonia who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. dionysus zagreus, the horned son of zeus (king of the

t to allow the spirit to leave at a time of its own choosing. for the native american tribes, the color black was the symbol of death, evil, and mourning, as it seems to be so often throughout the world. in native american tribal art or sign-writing, a black circle signified the departure of the soul, whose travel to the land of the grandparents occurred at night, after the sun had gone down. the human soul was represented among some tribes as a dark and somber image, complete with feet, hands, and head. because the soul still existed in human shape, it, like the ka of the ancient egyptians, still needed to be provided with nourishment. some tribal members burned the best part of their food as an offering to the souls of the departed. m delving deeper emerson, ellen russell. indian myths

balah, describes the esoteric reality that lies behind everyday experience, and insists that the real meaning of the torah lies in its mystical secrets. although tradition declares rabbi simeon ben jochai (c. 80 c.e) as its author, later scholarship acknowledges the contribution of rabbi moses de leon (1240 1305) and other hebrew scholars in the thirteenth century. the zohar states that since the human soul is rooted in the divine, the redemption of the world will be achieved when each individual has undergone the process of the transmigration of souls and completes his or her task of unification. because humans cannot know the most high s plans for each individual, they cannot know how they are being judged at all times, both before and after coming into the world and when they leave it

ena of the seance room is really due to as-yet unknown faculties of the human mind, then the sins of mediums are doubled if they claim that manifestations originating in their subconscious come from discarnate entities. spiritualists will answer such charges by stating that the more conservative religions promise their congregations a life eternal, but spirit mediums offer tangible proof that the human soul does survive the act of physical death. they will assert that millions of stricken hearts have been healed by the consolation afforded by the conviction that they have truly communicated with the spirits of loved ones who have gone on before. they will argue that the sincere medium is no more a fraud than the sincere pastor, priest, or rabbi. and when parapsychologists claim that the ph

knowledge that would blend science and religion. wishing to please his father, steiner took a degree in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, from the technische hochschule in vienna, but he wrote his doctoral thesis, truth and science, at the university of rostock in 1891. in 1894, he published the book the philosophy of spiritual activity, which he described as a biographical account of how one human soul made the difficult ascent to freedom. in the work, steiner sought to help others discover the reality of spiritual experience and demonstrate how it could function side by side with the world of ordinary thought and experience. in his worldview, it was possible to have a spiritual science that would be an outgrowth of the true spirit of natural science. in his thirties, steiner awakened

ent believed that the heavenly helpers who ministered to them were the benevolent spirits of humans who had died, rather than higher spiritual beings with special powers. a similar poll conducted by self magazine for its december 1997 issue found that 87 percent of readers believed in angels. all religions have some tradition of a guardian angel or type of spirit guide assigned to each individual human soul. in the ancient sanskrit texts of the vedas, the word for angel is angira; in hebrew, malakh, meaning messenger, or bene elohim, for god s children; in arabic, malakah; and in india, multiwinged angels or beings are called garudas. as early as the third millennium b.c.e, the written records of ancient egypt and mesopotamia recognized a hierarchy of supernatural beings that ruled over va

ersal scheme. cosmic sense the awareness of one s identity and actions in relationship to the universe or universal scheme of things. demon possession when low-level disincarnate spirits invade and take over a human body. eschatology comes from the greek word eskhatos meaning last and -logy literally meaning discourse about the last things. refers to the body of religious doctrines concerning the human soul in relation to death, judgment, heaven or hell, or in general, life after death and of the final stage or end of the world. five pillars of islam in arabic, also called the arkan, and consists of the five sacred ritual duties believed to be central to mainstream muslims faith. the five duties are: the confession of faith, performing the five daily prayers, fasting during the month of ra

has been said that nowhere did the ancient mysteries appear in such human, vital, and colorful form. the cult of eleusis centered around the myth of demeter (ceres, the great mother of agriculture and vegetation, and her daughter persephone, queen of the greek underworld, the original name of the goddess of death and regeneration. the drama enacted for the initiates symbolized the odyssey of the human soul, its descent into matter, its earthly sufferings, its terror in the darkness of death, and its rebirth into divine existence. some contemporary students of the mysteries have portrayed the myth as the story of the fall of humankind and its redemption as expressed in the religion of the eleusinians. in the temples and in the groves where the mysteries were celebrated, the candidates were

ght have a hidden meaning or riddle. ephemerality refers to the state of something living or lasting for a markedly short or brief time. the nature of existing or lasting for only a day, such as certain plants or insects. eschatology comes from the greek word eskhatos meaning last and -logy literally meaning discourse about the last things. refers to the body of religious doctrines concerning the human soul in relation to death, judgment, heaven or hell, or in general, life after death and of the final stage or end of the world. evocation the act of calling forth, drawing out or summoning an event or memory from the past, as in recreating. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. 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

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be able 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 116 mysteries of the mind to define the process by which many of these mysteries manifest, the actual region of the brain that gives rise to these enigmas remains as unknown as the secret of human consciousness itself. perhaps one must look outside of the brain and begin to search for evidence of the human soul to explain dreams and their symbols, the higher levels of awareness that may be achieved in various altered states of consciousness, and the riddle of esp (extrasensory perception, the mind expressing itself outside of the traditional boundaries of space and time. m delving deeper anderson, mark k. awareness: mystery of the mind. wired news [online] http//www.wired. com/news/print/0,129

ght have a hidden meaning or riddle. ephemerality refers to the state of something living or lasting for a markedly short or brief time. the nature of existing or lasting for only a day, such as certain plants or insects. eschatology comes from the greek word eskhatos meaning last and -logy literally meaning discourse about the last things. refers to the body of religious doctrines concerning the human soul in relation to death, judgment, heaven or hell, or in general, life after death and of the final stage or end of the world. evocation the act of calling forth, drawing out or summoning an event or memory from the past, as in recreating. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. 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

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ve a hidden meaning or riddle. ephemerality refers to the state of something living or lasting for a markedly short or brief time. the nature of existing or lasting for only a day, such as certain plants or insects. eschatology comes from the greek word eskhatos meaning glast h and -logy literally meaning gdiscourse about the last things. h refers to the body of religious doctrines concerning the human soul in relation to death, judgment, heaven or hell, or in general, life after death and of the final stage or end of the world. evocation the act of calling forth, drawing out or summoning an event or memory from the past, as in recreating. exorcism the act, religious ceremony, or ritual of casting out evil spirits from a person or a place. 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

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of occult societies of britain and western europe, and italy. they are also beings that i have personally experienced or had traffic with in my own journey through the craft. when i discuss their two levels of existence, both as beings in their own right, who have mythology describing and communicating something of their essence, and as metaphorical realities describing the unfolding fate of the human soul, i will offer as many well known mythological corollaries as i am able, to help build a basis for understanding. please bear with me; talking about deep strands of universal mythologies in such a short work is not easy. i shall be as clear and concise as i am able, for my sake, and for the sake of my readers. the dame the first of these beings from craft mythology is arguably the most i

is different in character when wielded by the son or the daughter, but the end result is the same- the fire brings about recognition of wisdom and truth, which leads to immortalization and apotheosis. what must be borne in mind here, as well as below in the discussion of the lightbringer, is that the son and daughter of the mother and father are not just divine beings- they are metaphors for the human soul. the events of their mythology are symbolic of each and every person s experience on their journey through the tides of fate, life, and death, led by love. the daughter, who is sometimes called the fair queen of elfhame, to set her apart from the dark queen of elfhame (a name that usually refers to her mother) is the sexual force of the mother, the haunting, seductive and lovely, but da

r held bound and balanced purely by the forces of instinctual nature. call it growing pains, if you will- but there is another element, which will be expanded upon. as i said above, these sons and daughters of the parents refer not only to the daughter of fire and the light bringing son; all humans are also sons and daughters of the parents. in mythology, the light bringer becomes an image of the human soul, which has undergone its own fall into mortal experience, complete with its vicissitudes and sufferings. we will also see how the fire-bearing daughter likewise underwent her own sufferings and ordeals, and how she too, can be seen as emblematic of the human soul and condition. of course, do recall that the mythology of these beings is meant to be metaphorically related to the condition

horn child, the son of light, or the master this figure is a very universal figure, and key to the entire housle mythology and ritual complex. in short, the child is what comes of the entire mythology- any western mythology. the child is the culmination of entire mythologies; he is the child of the daughter who bears him after all of her ordeals, the daughter who, when taken as a metaphor of the human soul, shows us that the child is the fated outcome or the divine being/reality that will emerge from each of us when our own many involvements in life, death, and fate comes to a culmination. in the masculine mysteries, we have the story of the lightbringer s fall or descent into the world or into matter, which is a metaphorical way of describing the entry of the divine fire into the clay of

vides us with older and more stable patterns from which we can seek an older, deeper, and more european pagan universal understanding of where some of the post-christian folklore was coming from. as has been mentioned before, the children of the great parents, whether that child be the son or lightbringer, or the daughter, are not only spiritual beings in their own right, but also symbolic of the human soul. the stories and myths of the children are the stories and myths of our human condition. the daughter is a metaphor or a symbol of the human soul or being; and in most folklore and mythology, she is subjected to ordeals that usually end with her rescue or restoration by a hero, and her bearing of a child. the child, as described above, represents a kind of culmination to any linear stor

ring a child, is interesting to say the least. what is very important about the mysteries of the daughter is that she (and the feminine mysteries in general) are more representative of the craft worldview, as well as those of the ancient mysteries, all the way up to gnosticism, in which the soul was seen as a feminine power. the kore or persephone of hellenic paganism likewise was a symbol of the human soul- this was part of the key to understanding the hallowed eleusinian mysteries. a myth-pattern for the daughter goes like this: the father, in his rather sky based form of worldly fertility mates with the mother, and the daughter is born. the daughter is then abducted or otherwise seduced/taken down into the underworld by a darker brother of her father (who can esoterically be seen as the

ot be without the lightbringer s fall and ordeals, and yet, they are still not the same. bread and wine are not wheat and grapes; they are something else; and yet, they aren t truly separate, nor can they be separated chemically, from wheat and grapes. different, and yet the same; a paradox whose eternal reality and resolution should be easy to see and accept now. the alchemical child born of the human soul during its ordeals (ordeals that are expressed in fate, in the underworld initiation, and also symbolized on the whole by its marriage to its otherworldly mate) is not the human that helped give birth to it- but as the human soul purifies itself, and finally overcomes the limitations that remain on it (thus symbolically defeating the forces of chaos that threaten the child) it realizes

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od that they have made in their own image, the others denying god with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that world of infinity which pertains to his great name. philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physiological fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. it is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. while man exists, so will religion. considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite idealism, a need which justifies every aspiration for progress, which inspires every devotion, which alone prevents virtue and honour from being mere words, serving to exploit the vanity of the weak and the foolish to the profit of the strong and

be ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of supreme reason. then god intervenes: universal reason yields to the efforts of labour, and shows herself to science; the material side of dogma is alone immolated. this is the meaning of the ram caught by its horns in a thicket. the history of abraham is, then, a symbol in the ancient manner, and contains a lofty revelation of the destinies of the human soul. taken literally, it is an absurd and revolting story. did not st. augustine take literally the golden ass of apuleius? poor great men! 33 the history of isaac is another legend. rebecca is the type of the oriental woman, laborious, hospitable, partial in her affections, shrewd and wily in her manoeuvres. jacob and esau are again the two types of cain and abel; but here abel avenges him

t it imposes itself on the respect of science, and obtains the assent of reason. science dare not affirm or deny those dogmatic hypotheses which are truths for faith; but it must recognize by unmistakable 72 characters the one true religion, that is to say, that which alone merits the name of religion in that it unites all the characters which agree with that great and universal aspiration of the human soul. one only thing, which is to all most evidently divine, is manifested in the world. it is charity. the work of true religion should be to produce, to preserve, and to spread abroad the spirit of charity. to arrive at this end she must herself possess all the characteristics of charity, in such a manner that one could define her satisfactorily, in naming her "organic charity" now, what a

, whose only fault was an excess of love for her; she outraged him and left him, and has continued to hate him ever since. yet she, too, is a decent woman; the pitiless world, however, judges and condemns her. and yet, this was not her crime. her fault, if one may be permitted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband "but" you will say "is not the human soul, then, free" no, it is no longer free when it has abandoned itself to the giddiness caused by passion. it is only wisdom which is free; disordered passions are the kingdom of folly, and folly is fatality. what we have said of love may equally well be said of religion, which is the most powerful, but also the most intoxicating, of all loves. religious passion has also its excesses 115 an

it was for them one of those traditional secrets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. now here is what paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213 and what we have understood through deciphering the qabalistic characters, and the allegories of which he makes use in his work: the human soul is material; the divine "mens" is offered to it to immortalize it and to make it live spiritually and individually, but its natural substance is fluidic and collective. there are, then, in man, two lives: the individual or reasonable life, and the common or instinctive life. it is by this latter that one can live in the bodies of others, since the universal soul, of which each nervous o

sequence, of duty; and if by the word liberty, you are willing to accept our interpretation, the right of doing one's duty, we in our turn will take it for a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error "god and liberty" as there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. axiom i nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235 axiom i

with all one's forces, to the point of risking one's health, one's fortune, and one's life. it is by absolute devotion that faith proves itself and constitutes itself. but the man armed with such a faith will be able to move mountains. the most fatal enemy of our souls is idleness. inertia intoxicates us and sends us to sleep; but the sleep of inertia is corruption and death. the faculties of the human soul are like the waves of the ocean. to keep them sweet, they need the salt and bitterness of tears: they need the whirlwinds of heaven: they need to be shaken by the storm. when, instead of marching upon the path of progress, we wish to have ourselves carried, we are sleeping in the arms of death. it is to us that it is spoken, as to the paralytic man in the gospel "take up thy bed and wal

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f cause and effect-a law of consequence that plays itself out in psychic, moral, and physical ways in the life of human beings. one of the fundamentals of karma is that you get back what you give out. thus evil that you do in one lifetime will come back to haunt you in the next. likewise, the good that you do in one lifetime will come back to reward you in the next. in this manner, the individual human soul slowly evolves over the course of many lifetimes, gradually learning though its mistakes and growing a little wiser, a little closer to the divine each time. in buddhism, the "wheel of life" or round of births is known as sasara. the mystic seeks to get off the wheel of incarnation as soon as possible, speeding up the process of spiritual crowley's teachings, though based on golden dawn

pulation-which are all problems of human thought and behavior. as one modern psychologs: admits "there is a widespread belief that psychology has so 10s: contact with real human experience that there would be no point iasking it to solve major human problems."2 after sigmund freud and his peers arrived on the scene, the clinical model of modern psychology methodically discarded anrnotion that the human soul was spiritual in nature.3 why is the scfence of psychology incomplete without magic? because it doesn r go far enough-it analyzes human thought, motivation, ane behavior, but not the human soul. it is "soul-less" and sterile. you won't find the best descriptions of the human condition in a book on psychology. look instead to literature, art, poetry, and in certak. passages of the world'

e of the individuated psyche. the tree itself is composed of ten sephiroth (spheres or emanations) which are listed in order and are pictured in figure 2 of chapter two, p. 28: kether-the crown, chokmah-wisdom, binah- understanding, chesed-mercy, geburah-strength, tiphareth- beauty, netzach-victory hod-splendor, yesod-foundation, and malkuth-the kingdom. the parts of the soul to the qabalists the human soul is divided into three principal portions whch overlap in some instances (see figure 7, p. 132. these are the neshamah, the ruach, and the nephesh. the highest of these, the neshamah, encompasses the sephroth of kether, chokmah, and binah. it corresponds to the highest aspirations of the soul and what assagioli described as the higher unconscious or superconscious. the greater neshamah i

our true divine self (comparable to assagioli's higher self, the root essence of our spiritual nature. it is that part of us that is nearest to god, the most perfect level of the self. the yechidah is the supreme undifferentiated quality of mind that is pure, unexpanded consciousness. it simply is "i am that i am" the chiah or life force, located in chokmah, is the highest active principle in the human soul. it is our divine will, our inquisitive urge to become more than human. symbolized by the masculine soul image of the animus, or the figure of the supernal father, the chah is the source of our powers of action. the sub-division of the neshamah (as distinct from the greater neshamah, is the intuitive soul located in binah, although it lends its name to the other supernals as being gener

nconscious mind, together with the shadow, have all been unceremoniously rejected throughout hstory as scapegoats for problems which originated in the conscious mind (when the neuroses were consciously repressed rather than examined. thus the nephesh becomes the abode of many emotionally charged complexes, phobias, obsessions, delusions, and compulsive urges. beyond this five-fold division of the human soul, there is one more portion that is sometimes overlooked. the lowest part is called the g'uph. centered in malkuth, the g'uph is closely tied to the physical body and the total range of all psycho-physical functions. it is a low level of subconscious intelligence which communicates the current condition of the human body to the brain. transpersonal psychotherapies and reputable systems o

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can do for himself, for his family, for his environment and for the entire world. the entire world will gradually feel better even if only a small society lives by altruistic spiritual laws. we must aspire for that and the help will come from above. the creator created a soul with a desire for pleasure. the number of desires is 600,000. if we divide the soul by 600,000, each part will be called a human soul. what is the difference between each soul? the quantity and quality of the desire. i am created in such a way that i aspire for a certain pleasure, and someone else, for a different pleasure. he has different desires, different pleasures, while the light is one and the same. this means that the difference is only in our desires. it is impossible to replace one desire with another. the s

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

rewn broadcast among the children of the nation. we still have our bible and need no more erotica. filth has been defined as matter out of place, and so is this pathic literature, relegated to the realms of sexual psychology in the works of an ellis or an ebing is one thing, yet the government of this nation cannot stomach them thus, and seizes, expels, and burns; but if these horrid sores of the human soul are cut out and plastered on the pages of the fickle fiction of the day, then are they passed in seductive covers as proper nourishment for the nation; and devoured with relish and avidity. one minute, impatient reader, for i hear you mutter: gare not these very aberrations set forth with no mean lustre on the pages of the works of aleister crowley? h listen. have any of crowley fs work

verse vi we find the mysticism of berashith gnothing was everything h; and in verse vii, the perfection of life in death habsorbed my life in his, dispersed me, gave me death. h this is pure buddhism *omar khayyam. in death is found release, freedom from desire, which fools alone reject. in the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul; the power of empire and glory is shattered, gthe golden image with the feet of clay, h and the marred vessels of the (all)-mighty potter are cast outside, from the wheel of fate. why contemplate what is so unprofitable and useless? yet in this mysticism which is more intrinsically of the east, we find an intricate web of egotism tangled with the utilitarianism of the west; for it seems

standing has no part in the operation, he would nevertheless continue in the same course of thinking. there is some other principle which determines him to form such a conclusion. h*2 *1. an enquiry concerning human understanding, pp. 37-38 *2. ibid. p. 43. gwe must, therefore, know both the cause and effect, and the relation between them. but do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of one to produce the other? this is a real creation, a production of something out of nothing c such a power is not felt, nor known, nor even conceivable by the mind c h *an enquiry concerning human understanding, p. 69. we are now fairly on our road to crowleyanity. having left berkeley in the dark, feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason

g, an idea of it. i do not perceive it as an idea, or by means of an idea, but know it by reflexion. h to which hylas very properly replied: gwords are not to be used without a meaning. and, as there is no more meaning in spiritual substance than in material substance, the one is to be exploded as well as the other. h philonous, in answering hylas then asserts acquaintance with that nature of the human soul which hume declared to be inconceivable. ghow often must i repeat, that i know or am conscious of my own being; and that i myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking active principle, that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas. h *three dialogues, p. 95. this ghuman soul h of hume, the gi myself h of berkeley are synonymous terms; in fact, they are one with the gp

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of the x upon earth, and to his viceroys in all the britains, greeting and peace. under the seal of the obligation of the ix capitulum primum 1. the homunculus is a living being in form resembling man, and possessing those qualities of man which distinguish him from beasts, namely intellect and power of speech, but neither begotten and born after the manner of human generation, nor inhabited by a human soul. 2. thus, supposing that the re-incarnating ego enters the foetus at the third month of gestation, it would not serve to remove such foetus from the mother, and cause it to live; for it is already human. but a foetus of two months might become homunculus. 3. a human being can only become homunculus if obsessed by a demon to such an extent that the human soul is irrevocably expelled to t

ulties (a) that man (even when discarnate) is so spiritually powerful, that to bar him from his urgent need is a task of colossal awe; and (b) it is necessary to choose a spirit suitable to the foetus. thus if the babe that is to be were by reason of physical heredity sluggish, melancholy and weak, it would be but nugatory to invoke into it a spirit of nakhiel or raphael or haniel or anael. b the human soul is all but inexpugnable; yet we have succeeded in the temporary expulsion of a weak and wandering soul, and its replacement. for example, we once supplanted the soul of a calibancreature, a certain deformed and filthy abortion without moral character, named victor neuburg, by a soul of isis, by a soul of mars and by a soul of jupiter in turn, so that this quasi-human shape, not being a

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themselves to be gaining, the more they are likely to lose. the political leaders of germany believed in the 1930s that they could use the nazis to consume the communists; but when the communists were defeated, the nazis turned their appetites on the institutions of the german state. in the table of the hendecagram are listed eleven major traditional demons, which are associated with sins of the human soul, secretions and excretions of the human body, and disorders of the human mind. the list is based on a personal interpretation of the demons, and is not the same list of archdemons usually asso- ciated with the sephiroth, which has come down to modern magic from the order papers of the golden dawn. the more common arrangement of archdemons on the sephiroth is given below. in the kabbalah

but this is not the purpose of dreams. it is merely a byproduct. we dream because we are essentially spirits clothed in flesh, and it is necessary for us to reen- ter the astral world, the natural realm of spirits, each night to maintain our incar- nate existence, in exactly the same way it is necessary for frogs to reenter the water periodically. the dream world is the natural environment of the human soul. there is no limit to the power of the magus inside dreams. he or she can shat- ter mountains and turn deserts to gardens, create life from clay and destroy it. the wise magus will use this power with discretion lest he or she upset the inner psy- chic balance and induce madness. not all dreams are intended to harm. many are profoundly beautiful and designed to teach. as all dreams are

t is the only measure by which human beings can tell the difference between good and evil behavior. all moral law and prophetic teaching stems from it. by the same token, when we persistently behave in ways that are in disharmo- ny with our higher reason for being, we frustrate the fulfillment of our best poten- tial as living creatures. this causes unhappiness on a spiritual level, because every human soul is constantly yearning and striving for the attainment of its destiny, which is its highest fulfillment of personal potential. animals automatically fulfill their destiny and act in harmony with the light. human beings, because they pos- sess consciousness of self, have the potential to frustrate their destiny if they will- fully turn their backs on the light and pursue petty personal g

by being receptive to the guidance of the light can the magus hope with reason- able confidence to tread the single true way of his or her life. this is the esoteric tao of chinese philosophy, always unique yet always perfectly suited to each individual. the way is not predestined, as this term is commonly understood. no omnipotent being legislates destiny. rather, it is the best response of the human soul to internal and external conditions moment by moment, given the existing resources. it can be visualized as water flowing downhill, which always seeks the easiest course to the sea. so does humanity always seek the easiest channel to divin- ity when rightly attuned in its soul. to pursue destiny is to follow cosmic law. denial of destiny is madness, akin to a river flowing backwards. th

ess, which is the determination to do a thing that is not a part of personal destiny. willfulness is weak because it acts in conflict with cosmic law. willful persons constantly run into obstacles, but those who exercise their true will find the way opening effortlessly before them. work, great: the great work of alchemy is the transformation of base metal into gold, or the transfiguration of the human soul. working, ritual: a series of rituals to accomplish a single purpose is termed a rit- ual working. when a ritual is conducted, it is said to be "worked" ritual work is any action of ritual magic. in a ritual working, a single ritual may be worked many times over a period of weeks, months, or even yea t pathworking 221 chapter fourteen: runes 239 chapter fifteen: training for soul flight

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ory organs of the medium were seated in the phantom. at close approach it produced a sensation of cold, was humid to the touch and made the fingers luminous in the dark."74 this material appears in durville's book les fantdmes des vivants, and was referred to with great interest by hereward carringt n. durville concluded that astral projection proved, beyond a doubt, not only the existence of the human soul, but also the survival of the soul after death. he summed it up in two statements: 74. fodor, 100. 75. muldoon and carrington, projection of the astral body, 31-2. 68 soul flight 1. projection of the astral body is a certain fact, capable of being demonstrated by means of direct experiment. this also demonstrates to us that the living force is independent of matter, and that our individ

astral plane is inhabited by dogmatic religious believers, and the first plane by intellectuals. there are two particular forms of astral inhabitants that are cast off from the souls of the dead as they finally free themselves from the astral world entirely and rise above it. the first is called a shade, and the second a shell. their difference is a matter of degree. neither one has any trace of human soul remaining with it. the shade is composed of the collection of habits, thoughts, impulses, and so on that bound a soul to the lower astral levels. as the soul at last rises, these are cast off, or torn away, and retain the lower aspects of human personality. for a period of time they persist, and often appear to mediums at skances, where they are mistaken for the actual souls of the dead

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

hly truth is equated with heavenly joy, or bliss, which cannot be measured because it exists outside of time. this equation is the essential understanding of the poet john keats, who wrote the memorable lines"'beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all/ ye know on earth, and all ye need to know("ode on a grecian urn. the natural and uncorrupted human response to beauty is a recognition within the human soul of a transcendent truth that is not attainable through mere reason. it is a truth that must be grasped with the heart and that cannot be analyzed with the mind except on a secondary level. the phrase "window of comfort" may be a reference to the windows in the firmament through which the rain was supposed to pour when they were opened "and the windows of heaven were opened (gen. 7:ll. i

of the world by the archons, and her child, the human race, is also made to suffer along with the goddess. the words "one while let her be known, and another while a stranger" apply to both the soul of the world and to human souls-at root, a single essence. in a gnostic sense, it is not so much a command to do something new as it is a description of what is already taking place. at one moment, a human soul may rise up in ecstatic gnosis and attain a union with the soul of the world, who then knows herself through the awareness of her child, but at the next moment forgetfulness comes amid the countless petty distractions of manifest existence. from the christian point of view, as expressed in the vision of st. john, the speaker is christ, who orders the angels of wrath to harrow the earth

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

which didst weaken the nations! nevertheless, the luciferic star (the fallen soul) will shine one day as the morning star in the right hand of the verb. many times a man or a woman in search of the divine torch of truth arrives at any gnostic lumisial; apparently the newly arrived is now a beginner, however, the brethren ignore what the soul of that person is; he or she can be a bodhisattva (the human soul of a master) that wants to return to his own father who dwells in secret. thus, the brethren become overwhelmed when something superior occurs to the apparent beginner, then they say: we, who are older in these studies, are not passing through what this beginner is now passing through, thus, they ask themselves: how is it possible that this person who has only just begun is boasting abo

alized. when the mental matter is transformed into the christ mind, we achieve the mental humanization. the mind represents the intellectual animal; presently we are human only in our physical appearance because in our depths we are still animals. in the mental plane each one has the animal figure that corresponds to his individual character. fourth: sexual function is the basic foundation of the human soul; those who transmute their sexual energies have the right to incarnate their soul. este es un problema grav simo para los hermanos que est n disolviendo el yo; sucede entonces que stos hermanos no s lo tienen que luchar contra sus propios defectos, sino tambi n contra los errores y defectos de esos otros hombres con quienes la mujer tuvo contacto sexual. muerte de satan s comprendiendo

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

and fell in asia, africa, and south america. the battleground had been chosen, and the mode of conflict had been decided upon "the human race would supply the pawns. the mode of control was complicated as usual. human beings were largely free of direct control. each individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces "the main battle was for what was to become known as the human soul "once an individual had committed himself, he opened a door so that an indefinable something could actually enter his body and exercise some control over his subconscious mind..the serpent people or omega group, attacked man in various ways, trying to rid the planet of him. but the superintelligence was still able to look over man. god worked out new ways of communication and control, a

several prophecies of this occurance, however most now say that it did not. but there have been others besides jim [see following post] who claim to have encountered this alternate reality. one in which the draco interventionists are apparently implicated to the core. some may have the feeling that they are existing in one or more "dimensions" simultaneously. could this explain such feelings? the human soul can only produce so much energy, and like the energy grid of planet earth itself the human soul can only exist in so many dimensions at once before it is "spread too thin. however more subtle levels of our soul can apparently interact with "weaker" event-lines. as i said there are reportedly only half a dozen or so actuality lines. then there are the more energized probability lines [qu

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

y, and that by that word of mine the adherent of justice may in the future commune with health, and immortality? selections from: robert o. ballou. world bible. new york, the viking press, 1944. p.210 sayings of muhammad (the morning star) in the name of allah, the beneficent, the merciful: by what heaven and the morning star ah, what will tell thee what the morning star is! the piercing star! no human soul but hath a guardian over it. so let man consider from what he is created. he is created from a gushing fluid that issued from between the loins and ribs. lo! he verily is able to return him (unto life) on the day when hidden thoughts shall be searched out. then will he have no might nor any helper. by the heaven which giveth the returning rain, and the earth which splitteth (with the gr

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

inite numbers, it is to be noted that the old philosophers were deeply imbued with the union of numerical ideas with nature--in its common acceptation, and also to the natures, essences or substrata of things. the nature of good to them was definite, that of evil indefinite; and the more indefinite the nature of the evil, the worse it was. goodness alone can define or bound the indefinite. in the human soul exists a certain vestige of divine goodness (buddhi. this bounds and moderates the indefiniteness and inequality of its desires. 20. it may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from equality, so that obtaining, as it were, the power of a mother and a root, she pours forth with exuberant fertility all sorts of inequality; and did space and time allow, it could be also shown that al

planets are related to a six-hour period by ragon and blavatsky. 47. among the brahmins there were three great vedas; three margas or ways of salvation; three gunas, the sattva, quiescence; rajas, desire; and tamas, decay. three lokas, swarga, bhumi and patala; heaven, earth and hell. three jewels of wisdom, the tri-ratnas; buddha, dharma and sanga. the three fires being the three aspects of the human soul, atma, buddhi and manas. there were three prongs of the trident, and three eyes in the forehead of siva. note also the 3-syllabled holy word aum. at the oblation of the elements in the celtic church, 3 drops of wine and 3 drops of water were poured into the chalice. in the present christian church, we notice 3 crossings with water at baptism, 3 creeds; the banns of numbers--th eir occu

etaphysical abstractions. so there are the seven principles of man, and the upper triad are parted from the lower group of four at dissolution. 79. the seven principles constituting man are variously named by the esoteric buddhism, by the vedantic scheme, and by other philosophies, but they correspond in idea. first from above come atma, a ray from the absolute; buddhi, spiritual soul; and manas, human soul; these are the superior triad, which separates at human death from the lower tetrad of principles. the lower four are kama rupa, the passions; linga sarira, the astral body; prana, life essence; and sthula sarira, the lower body; see the dogmas of esoteric buddhism. the kabalah divides these into four planes of the soul, which are further separated by adepts; these are chiah, neshamah

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ate in an imperfect microcosm, even as the clouds obscure the sun; for of such as make ascent to the most divine of speculations in a confused and disordered manner, with unhallowed lips, or unwashed feet, the progressions are imperfect, the impulses are vain and the paths are dark. although destiny, our destiny, may be "written in the stars" yet it was the mission of the divine soul to raise the human soul above the circle of necessity, and the oracles give victory to that masterly will, which "hews the wall with might of magic, breaks the palisade in pieces, hews to atoms seven pickets speaks the master words of knowledge" the means taken to that consummation consisted in the training of the will and the elevation of the imagination, a divine power which controls consciousness "relieve y

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