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ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

l issues. these issues are in themselves perfectly simple; but they have been completely overlaid by the sinister activities of priests and lawyers. there is no question of right or wrong in any abstract sense about any of these problems. it is absurd to say that it is 'right' for chlorine to combine enthusiastically with hydrogen, and only in a very surly way with oxygen. it is not virtuous of a hydra to be hermaphrodite, or contumacious on the part of an elbow not to move freely in all directions. anybody who knows what his job is has only one duty, which is to get that job done. anyone who possesses a function has only one duty to that function, to arrange for its free fulfilment. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 8. we shall not be surprised therefore if we find that the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

lity and therefore one facet of truth "rest" is an idea: so immobility is one magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 164 of the moving states. a certain state of mind is (almost by definition "eternal" yet it most assuredly begins and ends. and so on for ever- i fear it would be nugatory, pleonastic (and oh! several other lovely long adjectives) to try to guard you from these hydra-headed and protean booby-traps; you must tackle them yourself as they arise, and deal with them as best you can: always remembering that often enough you cannot tell which is you and which is the monkey puzzle, or who has won("everybody's won; so everybody must have a prize" applies beautifully. and none of it all matters a row of haricots verts saut s; for the conclusion must always be doub

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

ct darkness and nothing else can be seen or even recognised beyond self. by those who have passed along both these mystic paths, it will be found that the energy expended is the same in both. concentration is a terrific labour; the mere fact of sitting still and mediating on one idea and slaying all other ideas one after the other, and then constantly seeing them sprout up hundred-headed like the hydra, needs so great a power of endurance that, though many undertake the task, few reach the goal. again, the strain brought to bear on a ceremonial magician is equally colossal, and often costly; and in these bustling days the necessary seclusion is most difficult to obtain. and so it came about that a combination of both the above systems was ultimately adopted by p. however, it must be rememb

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

en i last said it to you, i was under no illusion as to the extent of your problem or of the weakness of the agonised equipment which you brought to its solution. the outcome of your struggle a year ago was very problematical. it is not so now. the ancient habits of thought and the quick submerging by the old rhythms are still possible; you are oft profoundly discouraged by the cropping up of the hydra of resentment and of suspicion with its many heads. yet much progress has been made and your astral body is really quieter. this you know yourself. you are finding it easier to swing into other interests. the periods of submergence in the old lines of thought do not last so long and your understanding is growing. the fight is not yet over but by may, 1936, you should have reached a point whe

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

d and conquered and that the lower nature is (by being lifted up in the air, i.e. into heaven) capable of reaching the goal for this world period, and that from the earthy foundations of scorpio the personality can be so tested that it shows fitness for the world service demanded in aquarius. this is beautifully expressed for us in the legend of hercules, the sun-god who overcomes the nine-headed hydra or serpent of desire by being forced to his knees and from that position of humility lifts up the serpent into the air, and then deliverance comes. 4. in aquarius in this sign, the long effort of the soul is consummated and concludes the- 86- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust experience of the disciple upon the fixed cross. the man then t

o touch when we come to our study of the science of triangles. each test (and therefore each decanate) concerns the three aspects which in this treatise on the seven rays we have called- 122- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust life, quality and appearance. thus the three great tests in scorpio are in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed hydra or serpent which is ever associated with scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by hercules, the sun-god, in this sign. it is interesting to note that each of the great sons of god whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men hercules, the buddha and the christ are associated in the archives of the great white lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (whi

the functions of scorpio and mars upon our planet at this time, and you will note also how brief a time remains in which humanity can (rightly or wrongly) handle its tests. you will realise also the pressure under which the hierarchy at this time struggles now that martian energy is expressing itself upon the astral plane. will the world hercules lift this problem up into heaven and "elevate the hydra" of passion and hate, of greed and aggression, and of selfishness and ambition up into the region of the soul? or will it carry the whole matter down on to the physical plane with the inevitable corollary of world disaster, world war and death? such are the problems with which the guiding hierarchy is faced. scorpio is also most interestingly connected with the constellation, cancer, through

called "the radiant surface of the earth" the plane of form; the assumption or glorification of the virgin has not yet taken place and the raising up of substance is not yet realised. it is interesting to note that scorpio establishes the inevitability of this final assumption of matter into heaven in capricorn, and this is previsioned for us in the story of hercules in scorpio when he raises the hydra high above his head into the air. virgo symbolises depths, darkness, quiet and warmth; it is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are discovered and eventually "brought to light; it is the place of slow, gentle and yet powerful crises and periodic developments which take place in the dark and yet which lead to light. it is the "blinded stage" which is found in masonic rituals and wh

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ns of the myth the two ways the constellations and stars the mutable cross and the planetary rulers significance of the sign and its polar opposite keynotes labor vii the capture of the erymanthian boar the myth prologue reflections of a libran the rulers of libra and its opposite sign the constellations and stars some highlights from the lecture by alice bailey labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra the myth introduction psychological analysis of the myth the nine heads of the hydra fighting the hydra: modern version applications to life what is death scorpio, the sign of magic the constellations and the stars labor ix killing the stymphalian birds the myth interpretation of the labor silence two gates, three constellations the chrysalis symbol the spirit of truth the spirit of right th

stars in this constellation also have numerical significance for we have there 9 x 10+ 5. nine is the number of initiation, ten is the number of human perfection, five is the number of man, and thus in this grouping of stars we have the story of man, of the personality, the initiate and his ultimate spiritual achievement. the three symbolic constellations there is an immense constellation called hydra, the serpent, associated with the sign leo. we find also crater, the cup, and corvus, the raven. all three sum up in their significance the problem of the man who is seeking initiation. they picture to him distinctly and clearly the work that he has to do. as leo [106] the king, the soul, starts upon his work, he realizes that he has the cup of suffering and of experience to drink, the serpe

crater, the cup, and corvus, the raven. all three sum up in their significance the problem of the man who is seeking initiation. they picture to him distinctly and clearly the work that he has to do. as leo [106] the king, the soul, starts upon his work, he realizes that he has the cup of suffering and of experience to drink, the serpent of illusion to overcome, and the bird of prey to eliminate hydra, the serpent, in the ancient pictures is portrayed as a female serpent. it covers more than a hundred degrees and lies beneath the three constellations, cancer, leo and virgo. in scorpio, this serpent of matter or of illusion, with which the soul has identified itself for so long, is finally overcome. it y has in it sixty stars, and again we come in touch with a significant number, for six i

, with which the soul has identified itself for so long, is finally overcome. it y has in it sixty stars, and again we come in touch with a significant number, for six is the number of mind, of the creative work of the universal mind, and of the six days of creation. in the sixth sign, virgo, we have the completed form. we are told in the book of revelations that the mark of the beast is 666, and hydra, the serpent, lies under three constellations and its number 6 is, therefore, three times potent. ten is the number of completion. six expresses, therefore, the limitations of the body nature working through form and the utilization of the personality; it symbolizes god in nature, whether cosmically or individually. hydra the serpent, represents the matter aspect, as it veils and hides the s

n stars of ordinary magnitude and about- 62- the labours of hercules ninety small stars, though some books of astronomy say three brilliant stars and ninety small. so we have again the number of matter, or of form-taking, and the number of what is called "apostasy, and of "the turning of the back, as judas iscariot did, upon the soul or christ aspect. this cup forms really part of the body of the hydra, for the stars at the foot of the cup form part of the body of the serpent, and both constellations claim them. it is the cup that every human being has to drink, full of that which he has distilled out of his experience in matter. it is the cup of obligation certain of the ancient masonic rituals, and symbolizes the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same t

to drink, full of that which he has distilled out of his experience in matter. it is the cup of obligation certain of the ancient masonic rituals, and symbolizes the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same truth can be expressed in the words of christian bible "as a man soweth, so shall he also reap [107] then we have, thirdly, corvus, the raven, that stands upon hydra, the serpent, and pecks at it. it has nine stars, again the number of initiation. the old testament started with a raven, the new testament starts with a dove. experience starts with the bird of matter and ends with the bird of spirit. it is interesting to note that in aquarius, the consummating sign to leo, we find cygnus, the swan, the symbol of the bird of spirit. in the voice of the sile

red to the initiate, to which christ referred in the garden of gethsemane, when he pleaded that the cup be taken away from him, but which he ended by drinking. so hercules, the aspirant, expressing himself in leo, visions the great battle that lies ahead of him, knows that his past must work out to fulfilment in the future, knows that before he can climb the mountain in capricorn he must slay the hydra, and knows that he must no longer be the raven, but must manifest as aquila, the eagle of scorpio, and as cygnus, the swan, in aquarius. this he must begin to do in leo, by demonstrating the power to dare, by facing the terrific struggle that lies ahead of him in the next three signs and by the slaying of the lion of [108] his own nature (king of beasts) alone and unaided, and so earn. the p

he must no longer be the raven, but must manifest as aquila, the eagle of scorpio, and as cygnus, the swan, in aquarius. this he must begin to do in leo, by demonstrating the power to dare, by facing the terrific struggle that lies ahead of him in the next three signs and by the slaying of the lion of [108] his own nature (king of beasts) alone and unaided, and so earn. the power to overcome the hydra, in scorpio. the lesson of the labor two thoughts, taken out of the christian bible, summarize the lesson of this labor. in st. peter's epistle we find these words "your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" and in revelations v, 5, we find the words "behold, the lion of the tribe of judah the root of david, hath prevailed to open the book, and

without obscurity. to the average man, with no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and again throughout the aeons "and the word said: let choice be made" the response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary process and from the soul "i choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force (ibid. pp. 251, 261 [140] labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra (scorpio, october 22nd- november 21st (beginning with scorpio the statement of the myth will be written dr. francis merchant, as no further copy by the tibetan was found among the papers of a.a.b. he has used the best available material for the details of the story casting it in the iambic cadence of the old commentary. other material by a.a.b. is used as before, with some necessary condensa

he great presiding one, enrobed in radiant calm, said but a single word. the teacher heard the golden command, and summoned hercules, the son of god who was also the son of man "the light now shines on gate the eighth" the teacher said "in ancient argos a drought occurred. amymone besought the aid of neptune. he bade her strike a rock, and when she did, outgushed three crystal streams; but soon a hydra made his dwelling there "beside the river amymone, the festering swamp of lerna stands. within this noisome bog the monstrous hydra lies, a plague upon the countryside. nine heads this creature has, and one of them is immortal. prepare to battle with this loathsome beast. think not that common means will serve; destroy one head, two grow apace" expectantly hercules waited "one word of counse

tench polluted all the atmosphere [141] within a space of seven miles. when hercules approached, he had to pause, for the smell alone well-nigh overcame him. the oozing quicksands were a hazard, and more than once hercules quickly withdrew his foot lest he be sucked downward by the yielding earth. at length he found the lair where dwelt the monstrous beast. within a cavern of perpetual night, the hydra lay concealed. by day and night hercules haunted the treacherous fen, awaiting a propitious time when the beast would sally forth. in vain he watched. the monster stayed within its fetid den. resorting to a stratagem, hercules dipped his arrows in burning pitch, and rained them straight into the yawning cavern where dwelt the hideous beast. a stirring and commotion there upon ensued. the hyd

cavern where dwelt the hideous beast. a stirring and commotion there upon ensued. the hydra, its nine angry heads breathing flame, emerged. its scaly tail lashed furiously the water and the mud, bespattering hercules. three fathoms high the- 81- the labours of hercules monster stood, a thing of ugliness that looked as if it had been made of all the foulest thoughts conceived since time began. the hydra sprang at hercules and sought to coil about his feet. he stepped aside and dealt it such a crushing blow that one of its heads was immediately dissevered. no sooner had this horrid head fallen into the bog than two grew in its place. again and again hercules attacked the raging monster, but it grew stronger, not weaker, with each assault. then hercules remembered that his teacher had said "w

side and dealt it such a crushing blow that one of its heads was immediately dissevered. no sooner had this horrid head fallen into the bog than two grew in its place. again and again hercules attacked the raging monster, but it grew stronger, not weaker, with each assault. then hercules remembered that his teacher had said "we rise by kneeling" casting aside his club, hercules knelt, grasped the hydra with his bare hands, and raised it aloft. suspended in mid-air, its strength diminished. on his knees, then, he held the hydra high above him, that purifying air and light might have their due effect. the monster, strong in darkness and in sloughy mud, soon lost its power when the rays of the sun and the touch of the wind fell on it. convulsively it strove, a shudder passing through its loat

e rays of the sun and the touch of the wind fell on it. convulsively it strove, a shudder passing through its loathsome frame. fainter and fainter grew its struggles till the [142] victory was won. the nine heads drooped, then with gasping mouths and glazing eyes fell limply forward. but only when they lifeless lay did hercules perceive the mystic head that was immortal. then hercules cut off the hydra's one immortal head and buried it, still fiercely hissing, beneath a rock. returning, hercules stood before his teacher "the victory is won, the teacher said "the light that shines at gate the eighth is now blended with your own. francis merchant introduction again we find variations in the versions of the myth and we have no longer the myth statement by the tibetan to guide us. the story th

ounts it is stated that hercules burned off the heads, and the divine fire would indeed be needed for this destruction. however, it is impossible to negate the powerful picture of the world disciple in this supreme test, sinking to his knees in humility and raising the monster (all the accumulated evils, mistakes, failures of his long past) into the air of the spirit, where by its very nature the hydra could not live, and so drooped and died. the use of the fire, in the preliminary effort, still keeps that symbol in the picture. while sex, under the test of at-one-ment of opposites and the double rulership of mars, has its special place, the over-emphasis of this one facet is not sufficiently inclusive. all pairs [143] of opposites are to be at-oned in this great sign, an advanced sign of

he integrated, conscious disciple; not a sordid one of the unevolved man, as is often thought. again, one must read carefully and distinguish between people on the ordinary wheel and disciples on the reversed wheel. all of which is submitted for the pondering of the reader, not with authority- 82- the labours of hercules psychological analysis of the myth hercules was told to find the nine-headed hydra that lived in a stench-drenched bog. this monster has its subjective counterpart. it dwells within the caverns of the mind. in the murk and mud of unlit mental recesses, it flourishes. deeply lodged within the subterranean regions of the subconscious, now quiescent and now bursting forth in tumultuous frenzy, the beast establishes permanent residence. its existence is not easily discovered

rce a creature. the burning arrows of flaming aspiration must be discharged before its presence is revealed. fighting so formidable a foe is indeed a heroic task for a son of man even though he is also a son of god. lop off one head, and another grows in its place. every time a low desire or thought is overcome, others take its place. hercules does three things: he recognizes the existence of the hydra, searches patiently for it, and finally destroys it. discrimination is needed to recognize its existence; patience, to discover its lair; humility, to bring slimy fragments of the subconscious to the surface, and expose them to the light of wisdom. as long as hercules fought in the bog, amid the mud, slime, and quicksand, he was unable to overcome the hydra. he had to raise the monster into

t is, translate his problem into another dimension, in order to solve it. in all humility, kneeling in the mud, he had to examine his dilemma in the light of wisdom and in the elevated atmosphere of searching [144] thought. from these considerations we may gather that the answers to many of our problems come only when a new focus of attention is achieved, a new perspective established. one of the hydra's heads is immortal, we are told. this would imply that every difficulty, however terrible it may appear to be, contains a jewel of great value. no attempt to dominate the lower nature and discover that jewel is ever futile. the immortal head, dissevered from the hydra's body, is buried beneath a rock. this implies that the concentrated energy which creates a problem still remains, purified

er futile. the immortal head, dissevered from the hydra's body, is buried beneath a rock. this implies that the concentrated energy which creates a problem still remains, purified, redirected, and increased after victory has been gained. such power must then be rightly controlled and channeled. beneath the rock of persistent will, the immortal head becomes a source of power. the nine heads of the hydra the task assigned to hercules had nine facets. each head of the hydra represents one of the problems that beset the courageous person who seeks to achieve mastery of himself. three of these heads symbolize the appetites associated with sex, comfort and money. the second triune group concerns the passions of fear, hatred and desire for power. the last three heads represent the vices of the un

baffled and bewildered in trying to deal with this formidable enemy. hercules invokes a brighter light than that of the analyzing mind. he seeks to raise his problem to a higher dimension, not to stir endlessly in the slough of the subconscious. endeavoring to see his dilemma in the light of that wisdom which we name the soul, he confronts it from a new angle of vision. by so doing, he breaks the hydra's grip, and eventually subdues the beast. fighting the hydra: modern version a consideration of the nine problems that confront the person in this day and age who seeks to slay the hydra, should shed light on the strange forces at work in that keg of explosive, the human mind [146] 1. sex. victorian prudishness and psychoanalytical prurience are both undesirable. sex is an energy. it can be

nd expression as aspiration? can the drives and compulsions of human nature be so transmuted that they become beneficent powers? can the energy that produces thought be utilized as the power of synthesis that results in a sense of identification with all living things? the experience of hercules indicates that such possibilities exist, and that he- 84- the labours of hercules who would subdue the hydra of the passions and the separative mind must solve problems of this nature. 2. comfort. an eternal sense of dissatisfaction spurs man to ever greater heights of achievement. comfort is often a brake upon such striving. clogged down with possessions and blunted by the beguiling sense of comfort, the spirit wilts and fades. the prisoner of comfort sinks back in apathy, forgetting the struggles

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

d this metaphor may have created several narratives on the existence of winged serpents" there are none now; but there is no reason why they should not have existed during the mesozoic age; and cuvier, who has reconstructed their skeletons, is a witness to "flying camels" already, after finding simple fossils of certain saurians, the great naturalist has written, that "if anything can justify the hydra and other monsters, whose figures were so often repeated by mediaeval historians, it is incontestably the plesiosaurus* we are unaware if cuvier had added anything in the way of a further mea culpa. but we may well imagine his confusion, for all his slanders against archaic veracity, when he found himself in the presence of a flying saurian "the pterodactyl (found in germany "78 feet long, a

zodiac, the same characteristics of the signs are found. those who know well the hindu symbols and constellations, will be able to find out by the description of the egyptian, whether the indications of the chronological time are correct or not. on the dendera zodiac as preserved by the modern egyptian coptic and greek adepts, and explained a little differently by mackey, the lion stands upon the hydra and his tail is almost straight, pointing downwards at an angle of forty or fifty degrees, this position agreeing with the original conformation of these constellations "but in many places we see the lion (simha[[vol. 2, page] 433 theories of a self-made adept. mackey adds "with his tail turned up over his back, and ending with a serpent's head; thereby showing that the lion had been 'invert

other constellation, when the pole had been inverted" speaking of the circular zodiac, given also by denon, he says- there "the lion is standing on the serpent, and his tail forming a curve downward, from which it is found that though six or seven hundred thousand years must have passed between the two positions, yet they had made but little difference between in the constellations of leo and the hydra; while virgo is represented very differently in the two. in the circular zodiac, the virgin is nursing her child; but it seems that they had not had that idea when the pole was first within the plane of the ecliptic; for in this zodiac, as given by denon, we see three virgins between the lion and the scales, the last of which holds in her hand an ear of wheat. it is much to be lamented that

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

e rising or setting of the constellation in question. but what is even more decisive as showing that the hindus observed the stars, and in the same way that we do, marking their position by their longitude, is a fact mentioned by augustinus riccius that, according to observations attributed to hermes, and made 1,985 years before ptolemy, the brilliant star in the lyre and that in the heart of the hydra were each seven degrees in advance of their respective positions as determined by ptolemy. this determination seems very extraordinary. the stars advance regularly with respect to the equinox; and ptolemy ought to have found the longitudes 28 degrees in excess of what they were 1985 years before his time. besides, there is a remarkable peculiarity about this fact; the same error or differenc

moon's daily motion of 13deg. 10m. 35sec, made[[vol. 1, page] 665 hindu astronomical methods. use of it to divide the zodiac into 27 constellations, related to the period of the moon, which takes about 27 days to describe it. it was by this method that they determined the positions of the stars in this zodiac; it was thus they found that a certain star of the lyre was in 8h. 24m, the heart of the hydra in 4d. 7h, longitudes which are ascribed to hermes, but which are calculated on the hindu zodiac. similarly, they discovered that the "wheatear of virgo" forms the commencement of their fifteenth constellation, and the "eye of taurus" the end of the fourth; these stars being the one in 6d. 6h. 40m, the other in 1d. 23h. 20min. of the hindu zodiac. this being so, the eclipse of moon which occ

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

ns, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; that of asmodai is as a bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. at the south-east angle are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; everchanging and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath, the daughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were, and formed of putrefying water. after him cometh the un-nameable one (abaddon) and his a

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

efore be serpent worship. another name for balder was egil and this is almost identical to egel, the hebrew for "a bull calf" and the "golden calf" worshipped in the old testament.39 "golden calf" worship= serpent worship? balder was symbolised as a bull or steer and became the "steer god" of israel or isra- el. he is referred to in the edda as the "steer of eden. balder is also called "the young hydra. in greek mythology, the hydra is a nine-headed serpent monster with poisonous breath and when one head was severed, two would grow in its place. it was killed in the second of the 12 labours of the sun god, hercules. the edda says that thor/ indara/adam called his cappadocian capital, himin or "heaven" and that balder("abel) of the serpent cult went to thor's banqueting hall in himin/heaven

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlwjam, a fiendish wretch with serpent hair, enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the northwest angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance but standing upright, as it were, and formed of putrefying n

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

the hercules of violence, the lyre of conspiracy, the triangle of impiety, the bootes of inconstancy, the cepheus of cruelty. may the dragon of envy be far from us, and the swan of imprudence, the cassiopeia of vanity, the andromeda of laziness, the perseus of vain anxiety. let us chase away the ophiuchus of evil-speaking, the eagle of arrogance, the dolphin of lust, the horse of impatience, the hydra of concupiscence. let us put far from us the cetus of gluttony, the orion of ferocity, the river of superfluities, the gorgon of ignorance, the hare of timidity. let us no longer carry in our breast the argo of avarice, the cup of insobriety, the balance of iniquity, the cancer of slowness, the capricorn of deception. let not the scorpio of fraud come near us, nor the centaur of animal affec

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

hich we will suppose is forcefulness (represented by c, but will do so in a lower degree, that is with lower magnetic power than the degree in which he received it. the general symbol will then become b x c (a3= a4) over 2. thus the spiritual devolution will continue, and as it rolls downwards it will accumulate more and more unbalanced forces, until it is lost in the nonsense of such a monstrous hydra-headed symbol as 100a x 500b x 1100c x 300d x 900e x 700f (a3= a4) over 3600. and as from the very beginning a3- a4 is an absurdity, eventually all spiritual force will disappear, smothered by an accumulation of human desires which draw their strength from the unbalanced primitive instincts and emotions. the symbol will then become an idol. it will thus be seen that in the search after the u

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

he wiles of edem, but in the same manner nass, the devil, enticed them away, they being allured by him to their own destruction. again elohim selected hercules, an uncircumcised prophet, and sent him to quell the disturbance caused by naas or edem and to release the father from their power "these are the twelve conflicts of hercules which he underwent, in order, from first to last, viz: lion, and hydra, and boar, and the others successively. for they say that these are the names of them among the gentiles, and they have been derived, with altered denomination, from the energy of the maternal angels. when he seemed to have vanquished his antagonists, omphale (now she is venus) clings to him and entices away hercules, and divests him of his power, viz: the commands of baruch which elohim iss

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

th sea did, an' them kanakys wudu't never give away their secrets "yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let well enough alone. wudn't bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside- that is, withaout they got pryin. all in the band of the faithful- order 0' dagon- an' the children shud never die, but go back to the mother hydra an' father dagon what we all come from onct. la! ia! cthulhu fhtagn! ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga" old zadok was fast lapsing into stark raving, and i held my breath. poor old soul- to what pitiful depths of hallucination had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain? he began to moan now, and tea

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

th sea did, an' them kanakys wudu't never give away their secrets "yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let well enough alone. wudn't bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside- that is, withaout they got pryin. all in the band of the faithful- order 0' dagon- an' the children shud never die, but go back to the mother hydra an' father dagon what we all come from onct. la! ia! cthulhu fhtagn! ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga" old zadok was fast lapsing into stark raving, and i held my breath. poor old soul- to what pitiful depths of halluci-nation had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain? he began to moan now, and te

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

alvator. the following is the recognitory mark or talisman of the ophidi: f. the scarabaeus, bee, ass, typhon, basilisk, saint-basil, the town of basle (basil, or bale, in switzerland (of this place it may be remarked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged horse, the python, the hydra, the bull (osiris, the cow (or io, are mythological ideas which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedrals a creature resembling a dog, or generally like some four-footed animal, t

of the yoni, or hwj, or havah. the druidical circles, and single stones standing in solitary places, are all connected with the mystic speculations of the rosicrucians. fig. 58. figures on the egyptian sarcophagus in the british museum. fig. 59. the eminences, st. michael's mount and mont st- michel, were dedicated by the phoenicians to the sun-god fig. 57. 212 the rosicrucians (hercules, as the hydra or dragon-slayer. these mounts in the channel are secondary hercules pillars, similar to calpe and abyla. figs. 60, 61. heads of ships: a. fiddle-head; b, c, d. gondola; e. ceres reaping-hook, also saturn; f. blade and fasces; g. beak of galley; h. glaive; i. prow of grecian galley. the architectural genealogy of the tower or steeple displays other phases of the alterations of the upright. a

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

here are both a god fs name and its according magical number (parpola 1998: 281.285. however, we can console ourselves that it was difficult to understand relationships between sumerian and akkadian gods already in their times. even in the most exact-to-be bilinguals, concepts about the beginning of the world among sumerians and akkadians differ (clifford 1998: 67. figure 4. the constellations of hydra and leo as depicted on an astrological tablet of the seleucid era, the eight-pointed star on the left is named dsag.me.gar. jupiter (vat 7847; bottom side. lion (leo) is depicted stepping forth. this plate has been described in depth by n. postgate, who brings out the division of zodiac into subzodiacs on this tablet, while these subzodiacs are connected to different towns, plants, trees and

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

he media. lexington: university press of kentucky, 2000. kagan, daniel, and ian summers.mute evidence. new york: bantam books, 1984. stewart, james r. cattle mutilations: an episode of collective delusion. the zetetic 1, no. 2 (spring/summer 1977. cerberus in greek mythology, cerberus was the guardian or watchdog of the underworld, hades. the offspring of typhon and echidna (who also parented the hydra and the chimaera, he was described as having three heads (though hesiod attributes him with fifty heads, a snake s tail, and a row of snake s heads sprouting from his neck. he greeted the newly dead with eagerness, but ate anyone who tried to escape. cerberus was said to have been charmed by orpheus, who was the only mortal he willingly allowed to enter hades. in another story he was defeate

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

gate of hell under the guidance of the sibyl. of that part of the ritual portrayed above the immortal poet writes "full in the midst of this infernal road, an elm displays her dusky arms abroad; the god of sleep there hides his heavy head and empty dreams on ev'ry leaf are spread. of various forms, unnumber'd specters more; centaurs, and double shapes, besiege the door: before the passage horrid hydra stands, and briareus with all his hundred hands: gorgons, geryon with his triple frame; and vain chim ra vomits empty flame. the chief unsheath'd his shining steel, prepar'd, tho seiz'd with sudden fear, to force the guard. off'ring his brandish'd weapon at their face, had not the sibyl stop'd his eager pace, and told him what those empty phantoms were; forms without bodies, and impassive ai

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

y of the homo atlantis. the reference is tothe coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and false knights, the heroes descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?wha

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

smodeus. samael appears as the devil of the tarot, devouring and consuming life energy souls are the food of this force. asmodai or asmodeus appears as a bloated or bestial man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elder lilith, wife of samael, a woman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance who is at times hag young maiden, beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle

MORALS AND DOGMA

oes obscure, but sometimes greater than those who become illustrious. the mason should struggle in the same manner, and with the same bravery, against those invasions of necessity and baseness, which come to nations as well as to men. he should meet _them, too, foot to foot, even in the darkness, and protest against the national wrongs and follies; against usurpation and the first inroads of that hydra, tyranny. there is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. it is more difficult for a people to keep than to gain their freedom. the protests of truth are always needed. continually, the right must protest against the fact. there is, in fact, eternity in the right. the mason should be the priest and soldier of that right. if his country should be robbed of her liberties, h

ns are blind men, who aim straight, errors are excellent projectiles, striking skillfully, and with all the violence that springs from false reasoning, wherever a want of logic in those who defend the right, like a defect in a cuirass, makes them vulnerable. therefore it is that we shall often be discomfited in combating error before the people. ant us long resisted hercules; and the heads of the hydra grew as fast as they were cut off. it is absurd to say that _error, wounded, writhes in pain, and dies amid her worshippers. truth conquers slowly. there is a wondrous vitality in error. truth, indeed, for the most part, shoots over the heads of the masses; or if an error is prostrated for a moment, it is up again in a moment, and as vigorous as ever. it will not die when the brains are out

erein rolled roaring, huge, blazing rocks; the great gate with columns of adamant, which none save the gods could crush; tisiphone, their warder, with her bloody robes; the lash resounding on the mangled bodies of the miserable unfortunates, their plaintive groans, mingled in horrid harmony with the clashings of their chains; the furies, lashing the guilty with their snakes; the awful abyss where hydra howls with its hundred heads, greedy to devour; tityus, prostrate, and his entrails fed upon by the cruel vulture: sisyphus, ever rolling his rock; ixion on his wheel; tantalus tortured by eternal thirst and hunger, in the midst of water and with declicious fruits touching his head; the daughters of danaus at their eternal, fruitless task; beasts biting and venomous reptiles stinging; and de

nions_ in the royal arch degree of the american rite. then he passed, porphyry says, through the degree of the lion--the constellation leo, domicile of the sun and symbol of mithras, found on his monuments. these ceremonies were termed at rome leontic and heliac; and _coratia_ or _hiero-coracia, of the raven, a bird consecrated to the sun, and a sign placed in the heavens below the lion, with the hydra, and also appearing on the mithriac monuments. thence he passed to a higher degree, where the initiates were called _perses_ and children of the sun. above them were the _fathers, whose chief or patriarch was styled father of fathers or _pater patratus. the initiates also bore the title of _eagles_ and _hawks, birds consecrated to the sun in egypt, the former sacred to the god mendes, and th

h of night, and received the full moon in his cup. above him and with him rose the feet of pegasus, struck wherewith the waters flow forth that the muses drink. the lion and the dog, indicating, were supposed to _cause_ the inundation, and so were worshipped. while the sun passed through leo, the waters doubled their depth; and the sacred fountains poured their streams through the heads of lions. hydra, rising between sirius and leo, extended under three signs. its head rose with cancer, and its tail with the feet of the virgin and the beginning of libra; and the inundation continued while the sun passed along its whole extent. the successive contest of light and darkness for the possession of the lunar disk, each being by turns victor and vanquished, exactly resembled what passed upon the

teries went to rome in the time of sylla. this is amply proved by the descriptions we have of the mithriac cave, in which were figured the two movements of the heavens, that of the fixed stars and that of the planets, the constellations, the eight mystic gates of the spheres, and the symbols of the elements. so on a celebrated monument of that religion, found at rome, were figured, the serpent or hydra under leo, as in the heavens, the celestial dog, the bull, the scorpion, the seven planets, represented by seven altars, the sun, moon, and emblems relating to light, to darkness, and to their succession during the year, where each in turn triumphs for six months. the mysteries of atys were celebrated when the sun entered aries; and among the emblems was a ram at the foot of a tree which was

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ffort, succeeded in strangling him. he then made himself a coat of mail of the skin, and a new helmet of the head of the animal. thus attired, he so alarmed eurystheus by appearing suddenly before him, that the king concealed himself in his palace, and henceforth forbade heracles to enter his presence, but commanded him to receive his behests, for the future, through his messenger copreus. 2. the hydra..his second task was to slay the hydra, a monster serpent (the offspring of typhon and echidna, bristling with nine heads, one of which was immortal. this monster infested the neighbourhood of lerna, where she committed great depredations among the herds. page 269 heracles, accompanied by his nephew iolaus, set out in a chariot for the marsh of lerna, in the slimy waters of which he found he

at length emerged, and sought refuge in a wood on a neighbouring hill. heracles now rushed forward and endeavoured to crush her heads by means of well-directed blows from his tremendous club; but no sooner was one head destroyed than it was immediately replaced by two others. he next seized the monster in his powerful grasp; page 270 but at this juncture a giant crab came to the assistance of the hydra and commenced biting the feet of her assailant. heracles destroyed this new adversary with his club, and now called upon his nephew to come to his aid. at his command iolaus set fire to the neighbouring trees [240]and, with a burning branch, seared the necks of the monster as heracles cut them off, thus effectually preventing the growth of more. heracles next struck off the immortal head, wh

is poisoned darts, one of these pierced the knee of chiron. when heracles discovered that it was the friend of his early days that he had wounded, he was overcome with sorrow and regret. he at once extracted the arrow, and anointed the wound with a salve, the virtue of which had been taught him by chiron himself. but all his efforts were unavailing. the wound, imbued with the deadly poison of the hydra, was incurable, and so great was the agony of chiron that, at the intercession of heracles, death was sent him by the gods; for otherwise, being immortal, he would have been doomed to endless suffering. pholus, who had so kindly entertained heracles, also perished by means of one of these arrows, which he had extracted from the body of a dead centaur. while he was quietly examining it, aston

ing his magnificent prize before him through gaul, italy, illyria, and thrace, he at length arrived, after many perilous adventures and hair-breadth escapes, at mycena, where he delivered them up to eurystheus, who sacrificed them to hera. page 278 heracles had now executed his ten tasks, which had been accomplished in the space of eight years; but eurystheus refused to include the slaying of the hydra and the cleansing of the stables of augeas among the number, alleging as a reason that the one had been performed by the assistance of iolaus, and that the other had been executed for hire. he therefore insisted on heracles substituting two more labours in their place. 11. the apples of the hesperides..the eleventh task imposed by eurystheus was to bring him the golden apples of the hesperid

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

come unto you in sleep and show his sign with which ye shall unlock the secrets of the deep. ye incantation o thou that lieth dead but ever dreameth, hear, thy servant calleth thee. hear me o mighty cthulhu' hear me lord of dreams! in thy tower at r'lyeh they have sealed ye, but dagon shall break thy accursed bonds, and thy kingdom shall rise once more. the deep ones knoweth thy secret name, the hydra knoweth thy lair; give forth thy sign that i may know thy will upon the earth. when death dies, thy time shall be, and thou shalt sleep no more; grant me the power to still the waves, that i may hear thy call (at ye third repeating of ye incantation cast forth the tablet into ye waves saying: in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming, yet he shall rise and his kingdom shall cover th

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

o thebes. laius either disobeyed the oracle s advice or was so upset that he got drunk and slept with his wife jocasta anyway. the sphinx this monster with a woman s head, an eagle s wings, a serpent s tail, and the body of a lion, was the daughter of echidna (who was part-woman, part-serpent. echidna s brood included many of the monsters of greek mythology, including the chimaera (see p. 47, the hydra, cerberus (see p. 31, the nemean lion, and the crommyon sow (see pp. 54 55. 49 the tragedy of oedipus oedipus feet the name oedipus means swollen foot. when he was left to die as a baby, oedipus feet were pierced with a spike perhaps to prevent his ghost from walking. the city of thebes the city of thebes was the capital of boeotia (not be confused with the egyptian city on the site of prese

as a wedding present by her grandmother gaia. eurystheus did not believe that hercules could win them, and when hercules did so, eurystheus gave them back, not wishing to incur the goddess anger. they were returned to the garden by athena. the twelve labors 1. hercules strangled the nemean lion and wore its invulnerable pelt as armor, with its head as a helmet. 2. hercules killed the nine-headed hydra whose heads grew back in duplicate each time one was cut off. 3. hercules captured the bronzehoofed, golden-horned ceryneian hind, sacred to artemis. he blamed the sacrilege on eurystheus. 4. hercules captured and killed the erymanthian boar that had been devastating the countryside. in killing it, he also accidentally shot the centaur cheiron (see p. 39. 5. hercules was told to clean out th

hrodite offered him helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. toward the end of the war paris was fatally wounded by philoctetes, a greek who had been called from the island of lemnos after a captured trojan prophet revealed that troy would never fall without his aid. armed with a bow that had once belonged to heracles (see p. 50, philoctetes shot paris with arrows dipped in the poison of the hydra. knowing he was in great danger paris returned to mount ida where he begged his former wife oenone to heal him. but oenone, so long abandoned, refused and paris died. she then killed herself out of grief. the judgme nt of paris by peter paul rubens (1577 1640) paris, with hermes leaning on the tree behind him, holds out the golden apple while the three naked goddesses stand before him, waiti

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

al power centered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the water grade, so in this grade of philosophus, the power of fire is shown to have called forth catastrophe. formerly coiled beneath the tree, the hydra-headed dragon in this diagram has usurped its proper place. its several homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- to

f pollux, the other of the gemini; greater part of cancer, aab; face of leo; head and face of ursa major. the following twelve keys govern the celestial heavens from the ecliptic to 45' of south latitude 65. fortitude. rules the whole of leo, from the point of regulus or cor leonis. stars. the fore-legs and hind-feet of leo, greater part of the sextans and of crater, the cups, part of the body of hydra, the great water ser <226> pent, greater part of antlia pneumatics, the air pump, greater part of pyxis nautica, a small part of the ship argo. 66. hermit or prophet. rules the whole of virgo. stars. left arm, hand, and arm of virgo, and her ear of corn; part of the body of hydra, corvus, the crow, part of crater, tail and right hand of cent a u r t he, man-horse, small part of air-pump and

art of pyxis nautica, a small part of the ship argo. 66. hermit or prophet. rules the whole of virgo. stars. left arm, hand, and arm of virgo, and her ear of corn; part of the body of hydra, corvus, the crow, part of crater, tail and right hand of cent a u r t he, man-horse, small part of air-pump and of argo. 68. justice. rules the whole of libra. stars. part of the south scale of libra, tail of hydra, head, body, armsand forefeet of centaurus. legs, body and tail of lupus, the wolf which he is killing. right claw of scorpio. 70. death. rules the whole of scorpio. stars. body and tail of scorpio, head and neck of lupus, whole of ara- altar, two feet of ophiuchus, point of arrow of sagittarius, part of norma, mason's square. 71. temperance. rules the whole of sagittarius. stars the whole o

us, the hare. 63. the lovers. rule the whole of gemini. stars. legs of castor and pollux, the gemini, canis minor, a small part of cancer. the whole of monoceros, the unicorn, except the hind-quarters. head and forepart of canis major, the greater dog. 64. the chariot. rules the whole of cancer up to regulus in leo. stars. one claw and part of the body of cancer, forepaws of leo, head and part of hydra, part of sextans, part of pyxis nautica, hind legs and tail of monoceros, part of the mast, rigging, and prow of the ship argo. note: the keys answering unto the seven lords who wander (planets) and the three spirits (the elements) are not assigned any fixed dominion. the following 36 small cards (2's to 10's) rule the decans of the signs in the celestial heavens and their dominion extendeth

leon. 10"-20" of 9 pt. of crux, musca and chameleon. 20"-30" of y pt of musca, circinus, compasses, and chameleon. 0"-10' of d pt. circinus, chameleon and of triangulum australe. 10"-20" of a pt. triangulum aushale, apus the swallow and octans. 20"-30" of o part of pavo, apus, octans. 0"-10" of x p part of pavo, apus, octans. 10'-20" of d part of pavo, apus, octans. 20"-30" of fi pt. of pavo, pt. hydra, watersnake. 0"-10" of m 3 part of pavo, part of hydra. 10"-20" of d part of toucan, part of hydra. 20"-30" of 0 part of toucan, part of phoenix. 0"-10" of; o part phoenix, end of eridanus. 10"-20" of p parts hydrus, reticulum rhomboidalis. 20"-30" of d parts phoenix, hydra, reticulum and eridanus. 0"-10" of 3f 9 part phoenix, eridanus, reticulum. 10'-20" of y part phoenix, eridanus, reticul

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

l tensions of will predispose to obsessions and nervous diseases; enforced celibacy, asceticism, hatred, ambition, rejected love, are so many generative principles of infernal forms and influences. paracelsus says that the menstruations of women beget phantoms in the air, and from this standpoint convents would be seminaries for nightmares, while the devils might be compared to those heads of the hydra of lerna which were reproduced eternally and propagated in the very blood from their wounds. the phenomena of possession amongst the ursulines of loudun, so fatal to urban grandier, have been misconstrued. the nuns in reality were possessed by hysteria and fanatical imitation of the secret thoughts of their exorcists, these being transmitted to their nervous system by the astral light. they

SATANIC BIBLE

lts to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage! 13. the most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie- the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. it is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. it is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. it is a social cancer! 14. the lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact- the lie that has been inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee- is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence! 15. popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal li

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

at work in us, how could divine things delight us (zahme xenien (r.st) cf. empedocles, fragment 109. 81. the other labors may, therefore, justifiably be interpreted as corresponding to stages in the soul s development. the conquest of the nemean lion and his bringing it to mycenae shows the hero mastering the purely physical power in human nature and taming it. then his killing of the nine-headed hydra, conquering it with firebrands and dipping his arrows in its gall, which made them unerring, shows him overcoming the lower, sense-derived knowledge by means of the fire of the spirit: by conquering it he gains the power of seeing lower things in the light of spiritual vision. heracles captures the hind of artemis, the divine huntress: he hunts down all that wild nature can offer to the huma

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

extended civilization and increased population. h .london labour and london poor, p. 213. even love is sold, the solace of all woe is turned to deadliest agony, old age shivers in selfish beauty fs loathing arms and youth fs corrupted impulses prepare a life of horror from the blighting bane of commerce; whilst the pestilence that springs from unenjoying sensualism, has filled all human life with hydra-headed woes. so sang shelley. now let us turn to aleister crowley, and we shall find his ideal no less great, noble and true than that of shelley fs, the divinest of the poets and pioneers of truth, freedom, and beauty. love is the finding in others what others cannot find in them, and it is of two degrees. the love of a mother towards her child; and the love of man and woman towards woman a

die; delirium abates by some good chance her terror in its season, her ravings picture the cessation of such life as she had known: her mind conceives a god of mercy, happiness and love; reverses life and fact: and so believes *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 179. this last line practically contains the fundamental basis of all religion. man finding that nature was but a thousand-headed hydra, for ever battling with him on the field of the world, fearing her awful powers and dim mysteries, reversed facts which were so unpalatable to him, and drinking deep of the cup of joy during those short moments when it was proffered to his lips, dimly or vividly saw through the intoxicating fumes cloudy realms of perpetual libation, of hope, and of glorious expectations. heaven and then hell

ithout the guidance of a master hand, the hand which supports but does not hold, directing but never compelling. then the isis of aceldama is unveiled, and the secret is caught from the ageworn lips of the sphinx. on the crimson field of the exoteric the body of exclusive esoterism lies dead, the soul has sloughed the skin of caste, has riven the fetters of law, has smitten the last head from the hydra of religion; and rises as an eagle-winged serpent, sublime, neither good nor evil, pristine, adamic, immaculate: xxiv. an ecstasy to which no life responds, is the enormous secret i have learned: when self-denial fs furnace-flame has burned through love, and all the agonizing bonds that hold the soul within its shell are turned to water weak; then may desires obtain the cypress crown they se

y the divine gi h; that unextended absolute passivity, whose dwelling is in that equilibrating activity which balances action and reaction *it should never for a moment be forgotten that any attempt to construct a positive philosophic system from these data would be strenuously repudiated by crowley. the danger constantly recurs, because in the normal (educated) man the reason is master. like the hydra of hercules, its heads grow again; they must be branded by the torch of illuminism, as well as smitten off by the sword of scepticism. hegel (outside the realms of the divine philosophers) was one of the very few who partially grasped the supreme truth of crowleyanity, when he postulated: gbeing and non-being are the same. h he saw that pure being is, in its last analysis, beyond fertilizati

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

they have been allotted as follows- to aries, the quest of the golden apples of the hesperides; to taurus, the slaying of the cretan bull; gemini, hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; cancer, the taking of the herds of geryon; leo, the slaying of the nemaean lion; virgo, the victory over the amazon queen; libra, the death of the erymanthean boar; scorpio, the death of the lernaean hydra; sagittarius, the shooting of the five stymphalian birds; capricornus, taking of the hind alive to mycenae; aquarius, cleaning the stables of augeas; pisces, the capture of the horses of diomedes. janus of the romans is the god of the 12 months and is drawn with 12 altars beneath his feet. he is the same as assyrian ain, ion, jan; on of eastern nations (dunlop s vestiges, 31. john heydon giv

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

aits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. a time will come- but i must not and cannot think! let me pray that, if i do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye. the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft written summer 1928 published april 1929 in weird tales, vol. 13, no. 4, 481-508. gorgons and hydras, and chimaeras- dire stories of celaeno and the harpies- may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition- but they were there before. they are transcripts, types- the archtypes are in us, and eternal. how else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us all? is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capa

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

olution of species with different body plans. evolution of the dna world 165 a good example of the use of evo-devo thinking in evolutionary studies is our present understanding of the evolution of the heart. the heart is a pump whose functioning depends on the presence of contractile proteins. phylogenies indicate that such proteins existed in animals that were the precursors of organisms such as hydras and jellyfish that first appeared at least 700 million years ago. these organisms had no hearts, however, and probably used contractile proteins to regulate fluid movement during feeding, much like modern hydras and jellyfish do. the first heartlike organ is thought to have appeared at least 500 million years ago. it may have been a simple contractile tube without chambers or valves, as cur

under the control of five evolutionarily conserved core transcription factors operating as a network. these factors regulate the timing and level of transcription (rna synthesis, see chapter 3) of, among others, the genes coding for contractile proteins. further, we know that duplication of the genes that code for these transcription factors has occurred over the course of evolution. for example, hydras and jellyfish contain only one copy of the factor called tbx, insects have three, fish have at least four, amphibians have at least five, and reptiles, birds, and mammals have at least seven. thus, one can see that the increase in morphological complexity of the heart is accompanied by an increase in complexity of a regulatory gene network. in addition, we also know that other, ancient gene

MORALS AND DOGMA

he vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious. christina crushes the head of the serpent calyia; apollo destroys python, and hercules that lern an monster whose poison festered in the foot of philoctetes, of mopsus, of chiron, or of sagittarius. the infant hercules destroys the pernicious snakes detested of the gods, and ever, like st. george of england and michael the archangel, wars against hydras and dragons. the eclipses of the sun and moon were believed by the orientals to be caused by the assaults of a d mon in dragon-form; and they endeavored to scare away the intruder by shouts and menaces. this was the original leviathan or crooked serpent of old, transfixed in the olden time by the power of jehovah, and suspended as a glittering trophy in the sky; yet also the power of darkne

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