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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

, but occasionally a man, the solitary witch practises eclectic magick drawn from a variety of traditions. in the further reading section on page 301, you will find some suggested books in which you can read about some of these different traditions. those expert in brews and potions are also called kitchen witches. indeed, many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who possessed a remarkable intuition, read the tea leaves and made herbal concoctions, were jokingly called witches by their own families- and were just that! all the rituals in this book can be carried out by a lone witch. you have your choice of groves, stone circles, the ocean shore, your garden or balcony, where you can connect with the powers of nature and work unobtrusively. whether you are working alone, or in a grou

ese tasks as he could. as a result, he was admitted to the tuatha de danaan and eventually became their leader. you can invoke lugh especially at the time of lughnassadh, for the reaping of benefits sown earlier in the year, but also at any time for adaptability, versatility, innovation and originality. deities of the moon invoke these for gentle increase, power and banishing energies, fertility, intuition, magick and dreams. arianrhod arianrhod is a welsh goddess of the full moon and also of time, karma and destiny. she ruled over the realm of the celtic otherworld, called caer feddwidd, the fort of carousa. here a mystical fountain of wine offered eternal health and youth for those who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuven

mily harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women. astarte astarte is the supreme female divinity of the phoenicians, goddess of love and fertility, associated with the moon and all nature. invoke her for power and wisdom, seduction and passion as well as fertility. cerridwen cerridwen is the welsh mother

t fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of

ney. ruled by saturn. aquarius, the water carrier: 21 january to 18 february. colour: indigo or dark blue. a fixed air sign, for independence, friendship, creativity and for detachment from emotional blackmail. ruled by saturn in the ancient system, now by uranus. pisces, the fish: 19 february to 20 march. colour: white or mauve. a mutable water sign, for spells to develop spiritual awareness and intuition, and for divination, especially involving water and the fulfilment of hidden dreams. ruled by jupiter in the ancient system, now by neptune. in magick, it tends to be the old rulerships that are used in spells (see planets and angels. colour correspondences colour is of great significance, both in healing and magick, and colour symbolism is used frequently with candles, and also with cry

ion with the moon in all its phases, was a goddess of fertility as well as love. it is also used on some altars to represent the goddess, with a gold candle for the horned god. silver is potent in all forms of divination, but especially for candle divination, for awakening clairvoyant powers, telepathic and psychometric abilities, astral projection, for rituals to invoke anima (female) power, for intuition and mysticism. it represents dreams, visions and a desire for fulfilment beyond the material world. in times of stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver can

agical wood, associated with healing and positive energies. elder wands are symbols of faerie magick and so are good for any visualisation work. hazel comes from the tree of wisdom and justice and is linked with the magick of the sun. the wand should be cut from a tree that has not yet borne fruit. rowan is a protective wood and so is good for defensive and banishing magick. willow is the tree of intuition and is said to be endowed with the blessing of the moon. you can also use a long, clear quartz crystal, pointed at one end and rounded at the other, as a wand. in its crystalline form, especially, the wand is used for directing healing energies from the circle to wherever they are needed. the wand is used for directing energies and for making circles of power in the air- hence the image

ABRAMELIN1

in a sense, therefore, they are irresponsible for the action of a current as a whole, though responsible for the part thereof in which they immediately act. therefore also they are at the same time subject to the general current of the force, wherein they live, move, and have their being; though superior to the immediate and particular part of it which they direct. such races, superior to man in intuition, and magical powers; inferior to him in other ways; superior to him in their power in a particular current of an element; inferior to him in only partaking of the nature of that one element; are of necessity to be found constantly recurring in all the mythologies of antiquity. the dwarfs and elves of the scandinavians; the nymphs, hamadryads, and nature spirits of the greeks; the fairies

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

y of the true will. this knowledge is secret and most sacred; each of you must incorporate for yourself the incidence and quality of herschel. it is the most important of the tasks of the yogi, because, until he has achieved it, he can have no idea who he is or where he is going. 18. still more remote and tenuous is the influence of neptune. here we have a niyama of infinite delicacy, a spiritual intuition far, far removed from any human quality whatever. here all is fantasy, and in this world are infinite pleasure, infinite perils. the true niyama of neptune is the imaginative faculty, the shadowing forth of the nature of the illimitable light. he has another function. the yogi who understands the influence of neptune, and is attuned to neptune, will have a sense of humour, which is the g

our arguments are arguments in a circle. 3. any statement which we make is demonstrably meaningless. and yet we do mean something when we say that a cat has four legs. and we all know what we mean when we say so. we give our assent to, or withhold it from, the proposition on the grounds of our experience. but that experience is not intellectual, as above demonstrated. it is a matter of immediate intuition. we cannot have any warrant for that intuition, but at the same time any intellectual argument which upsets it does not in the faintest degree shake our conviction. 4. the conclusion to be drawn from this is that the instrument of mind is not intellectual, not rational. logic is merely destructive, a self-destructive toy. the toy, however, is in some ways also instructive, even though th

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

fter in themselves, for therein lies the truth death. lovecraft saw this evil, as the world passed from one war and moved menacingly towards another. crowley prepared for it, and provided us with the formulae. the mad arab saw it all, in a vision, and wrote it down. he was, perhaps, one of the most advanced adepts of his time, and her certainly has something to say to us, today, in a language the intuition understands. yet they called him "mad. accompanied in the ranks of the "insane" by such "madmen" as neitzsche, artaud, and reich, the mad arab makes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come wh

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ion, others contain obscure allusions, play upon words, secrets expressed in cryptogram, double or triple meanings which must be combined in order [5] book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 to appreciate the full flavour; others again are subtly ironical or cynical. at first sight the book is a jumble of nonsense intended to insult the reader. it requires infinite study, sympathy, intuition and initiation. given these i do not hesitate to claim that in none other of my writings have i given so profound and comprehensive an exposition of my philosophy on every plane..my association with free masonry was therefore destined to be more fertile that almost any other study, and that in a way despite itself. a word should be pertinent with regard to the question of secrecy. it has

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

and said: holy, holy, holy, lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory \ymc wlyw lbt tebel vilon shamaim veil of the vault of heaven table iv 22 xcv. contents of col. xciv. xcvi* the revolutions of hwhy in yetzirah. xcvii. parts of the soul. xcviii. english of col. xcvii. 0. 1 hwhy hdyjy yechidah the self 2 whhy hyj chiah the life force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, mikhael offering souls of just wyhh 7 millstones where manna for just is ground for future whyh 8 sol, luna, planets, stars, and 10 spheres yhwh 9 hyhw jwr ruach the intellect 10 has no use. follow 390 heavens, 18,000 worlds, earth, eden and hell. hhyw yhhw hwhy la cpn nephesh the animal soul

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e succeeded in reducing the whole magical alphabet to nonsense, and shewing that he had never understood its real meaning. the absurdity of any such disturbance of the arrangement of the paths is evident to any sober student from such examples as the following. binah, the supernal understanding, is connected with tiphereth, the human consciousness, by zain, gemini, the oracles of the gods, or the intuition. that is, the attribution represents a psychological fact: to replace it by the devil is either humour or plain idiocy. again, the card "fortitude, leo, balances majesty and mercy with strength and severity: what sense is there in putting "death, the scorpion, in its stead? there are twenty other mistakes in the new wonderful illuminated-from-on-high attribution; the student can therefor

r nature must be investigated by intellectual methods such as the qabalah, but the precise shape of meaning in any one case, and the sphere and tendency of its application, must be acquired by experience, that is, but induction, by recording and classifying one's experiments over a long period; and- this is the better part- by refining one's ratiocination to the point where it becomes instinct or intuition, whichever one likes to call it. it is proper in cases where the sphere of the question is well marked to begin the divination by invocations of the forces thereto appropriate. an error of judgment as to the true character of the question would entail penalties proportionate to the extent of that error; and the delusions resulting from a divination fortified by invocation would be more s

cular instance than a long putt by a champion golfer. its calculations 172 are infinitely more complex than chess, a chess played on an infinite board with men whose moves are indeterminate, and made still more difficult by the interference of imponderable forces and unformulated laws; while its conduct demands not only the virtues, themselves rare enough, of intellectual and moral integrity, but intuition combining delicacy with strength in such perfection and to such extremes as to make its existence appear monstrous and miraculous against nature. to admit this is not to discredit oracles. on the contrary, the oracles fell into disrepute just because they pretended to do more than they could. to divine concerning a matter is little more than to calculate probabilities. we obtain the use

gical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the 226 only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webster or murray is to the english language. the reprint with additions will shortly be published "liber dcccxi. energised enthusiasm" specially adapted to the task of attainment of control of the body of light, development of intuition and hathayoga. equinox ix, p. 17 "liber dcccxiii. vel ararita" an account of the hexagram and the method of reducing it to the unity, and beyond. unpublished "liber dcccxxxi. liber iod, formerly called vesta" an instruction giving three methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the unity. adapted to facilitate the task of the attainment of raja-yoga and of the knowledge and conve

ate himself to his angel by continual conscious communion. for his angel is an intelligible image of his own true will, to do which is the whole of the law of his being. also the angel appeareth in tiphereth, which is the heart of the ruach, and thus the centre of gravity of the mind. it is also directly inspired from kether, the ultimate self, through the path of the high priestess, or initiated intuition. hence the angel is in truth the logos or articulate expression of the whole being of the adept, so that as he increases in the perfect understanding of 300 his name, he approaches the solution of the ultimate problem, who he himself truly is. unto this final statement the adept may trust his angel to lead him; for the tiphereth-consciousness alone is connected by paths with the various

ry: 7:-rvch :kama :manipura (solar :mars in leo valour: plexus: 8 :prana :svadistthana :mercury in sagit: tarius swiftness (navel: 9 :linga :moon in sagittarius .sharira: great strength-:muladhara (lingam: 10 :npsh :sthula: and anus :saturn in sagit: tarius oppression :sharira: xcviii- english of col. xcvii: the self. 1 the intellect. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9: the life force. 2 the animal soul which: the intuition. 3 perceives and feels. 10: 320 table iv: cxxxiv: cxxxv: cxxxvi :key scale: titles and: titles and: titles and :attributions of the: attributions of: attributions of :cup or chalice suit: the sword suit :the coin, disc or (hearts (spades: pantacle suit (diamonds: 0: 1 :the root of the :the root of the :the root of the: powers of water: powers of air: powers of earth: 2 :venus in cancer l

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

id and irrevocable decision without without counting the cost. i think that it is altogether wrong to allow yourself to be worried by "psychological, moral, and artistic problems" it is no good your starting anything of any kind unless you can see clearly into the simplicity of truth. all this humming and hawing about things is moral poison. what is the use of being a woman if you have not got an intuition, an instinct enabling you to distinguish between the genuine and the sham? your state of mind suggests to me that you must have been, in the past, under the influence of people who were always talking about things, and never doing any real work. they kept on arguing all sorts of obscure philosophical points; that is all very well, but when you have succeeded in analyzing your reactions y

naturally, when you have several hundred factors, helplessly bound and gagged, it would be just too bad if you couldn't pick out one to serve your turn- after the event! no, dear girl, it should be obvious to an unweaned brat (a) they can't see the wood for the trees (b) they are using ruach on a proposition which demands neschamah. intellect is quite inadequate; the problem requires mother-wit, intuition, understanding. here is my system in a number 000 ampoule. put up the figure at birth: study it, make notes of the aspects and dignities, concentrate- and turn on the magical tap! occasionally, when i began, i set up the "progressed figure" to see how the patient was doing this week, but it never seemed to help enough to compensate for the distraction caused by the complication. what i d

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

mplicity and sublimity to my soul, little by little, as the conditions of my physical life, no less than of my spiritual, penetrated the 3 sanctuaries of my spirit. the philosophy of lao tze communicated itself to me, in despite of the persistent efforts of my mind to compel it to conform with my preconceived notions of what the text must mean. this process, having thus taken root in my innermost intuition during those tremendous months of wandering across yun nan, grew continually throughout succeeding years. whenever i found myself able once more to withdraw myself from the dissipations and distractions which contact with civilisation forces upon one, no matter how vigorously he may struggle against their insolence, to the sacred solitude of the desert, whether among the sierras of spain

nment at the moment of their occurrence. they are equally tokens of the tao, by whom, in whom, and of whom, they are. to value them for themselves is deny the tao and to be lost in delusion. to despise them is to deny the omnipresence of the tao, and to suffer the illusion of sorrow. to discriminate between them is to set up the accursed dyad, to permit the insanity of intellect, to overwhelm the intuition of truth, and to create civil war in the consciousness. from 1908 to 1918, the tao teh king was my continual study. i constantly recommended it to my friends as the supreme masterpiece of initiated wisdom, and i was as constantly disappointed when they declared that it did not impress them, especially as my preliminary descriptions of the book had aroused their keenest interest. i thus c

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ation of the rosy cross (i am supposing that the reader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a name by its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited, it may be interpreted) thus if i ask what is knowledge? and receive the answer tud i read it d the door, u matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to rpceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, howe

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

htning to lightning, the spirit in me? parody? shall not his spirit forgive me, who shall love him as long as i live? love s at its height in pure love? nay, but after when the song s light dissolves gently in laughter! 60 then and then only the lovers may know nothing can part them for ever. and so, muse, hover o er me! apollo, above her! i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21 out of the way intuition shall shove her. 65 spirit and truth in my darkness i seek. little by little they bubble and leak; such as i have to the world i discover. words are they weak ones at best? they shall speak! ascension day 7 his achievement. plan of poem. connspuez dieu! apology for manner of poem. a chance for tibet. hopes. identity of poet. attention drawn to my highly decorative cover. shields? be they

lity and convertible by a process of reason which simulates or replaces that apprehension which we can never (one may suppose) attain to. let us apply this idea to the beginning of all things, about which the christians lie frankly, the hindus prevaricate, and the 1 ratiocination may perhaps not take us far. but a continuous and attentive study of these quaint points of distinction may give us an intuition, or direct mind-apperception of what we want, one way or the other. a.c. tycarb 76 buddhists are discreetly silent, while not contradicting even the gross and ridiculous accounts of the more fantastic hindu visionaries. the qabalists explain the first cause 1 by the phrase: from 0 to 1, as the circle opening out into the line. the christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

e rosy cross (i am supposing that the treader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a name by its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited, it may be interpreted) thus if i ask "what is knowledge" and receive the answer "doth" i read it daleth the door, o matter, th darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the "trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god" suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, ho

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

and walk (or drive; it's all the same to me) to haggerston town hall (wherever haggerston may be; but say it's n.e. thence to maida vale. from maida vale i could take a true line for piccadilly again and not go five minutes walk out of my way, bar blind alleys, etc. and i should know when i got close to scott's again before i recognised any of the surroundings. it always seems to me that i get an intuition of the direction and length of line a (scott's to haggerston bee-line; in spite of any winding, it would make little odds if i went vi poplar) another intuition of line b (haggerston to maida vale) and obtained my line c (back to scott's) by "subliminal trigonometry. in this example i am assuming that i had never been in london before. i have done precisely similar work in dozens of stra

at operate these things possessed the secrets of the destiny of an adept, or could help him in his agony! for this reason, divination should be discarded from the start: it is only a "mere toy, the basis of mercenary fraud" as zoroaster more practically assures us. 105 yet one can get the right stuff out of the tarot (or other inconvenient method) by spiritualising away all the meaning, until the intuition pierces that blank wall of ignorance. let o.m. meditate upon this oracle on his way to feed john st. john's body and thus feed his own! 6.52. out, out, to feed! 6.57. trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one's dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave."adonai, ply thou th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

n most minutely classified. june. 22nd. 10.20 p.m. mahasatipatthana for half an hour (1) breathing gets deeper, rather sleepier (i am tired (2) notable throbbing in ajna and front of brain generally, especially with inspiring (3) tendency to forget what i am doing (i am tired (4) very bad concentration, but better than expected. 23rd. 10.11 a.m. walk with mahasatipatthana. i obtained a very clear intuition that "i breathe" was a lie. with effort regained delusion. 11.30 a.m. entered temple. 11.33 a.m. pr n y ma. 10. 20. 30. resulting in a good deal of pain. 11.40 a.m. mahasatipatthana. 11.57 a.m. pr n y ma. 10. 20. 30. i do seem bad! my left nostril is not all it should be. 11.57 a.m. left temple. 12.30 p.m. began mahasatipatthana desultorily. 1.15 p.m. in mahasatipatthana. doing it very b

evil; i'm sure of it. i know it was his fault, somehow. ossory. nonsense, nonsense, my dear! he was not even in the car. mrs. ossory. it was his car, alfred. ossory. you're a fool, emily. carr. i think mr. ossory means that we could hardly hold him responsible if one of his steamers ran down a poor polar bear on a drifting iceberg. mrs. ossory. i know i'm quite unreasonable; it's an instinct, and intuition. you know saga of bond street said how psychic i was["during the next few speeches" carr "and" euphemia "correspond by signs and "winks" grandfather. when i was in australia forty-four years ago there was a very good fellow of the name of brown in ballarat. brown of buninyong we used to call him. i remember- mrs. ossory["bursting into tears. how can you, grandpa? can't you realise that p

lieving that we have ever lived self-consciously in any other state, and cannot thus explain it, may not this be the solution of the enigma? at the moment of the soul's reception of a new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. to this definition of its boundaries and likeness succeeds, at times 263 of high activity, an intuition of the fact that the sensation shall be perceived again in the future unveiling that is to throw open all the past. prophetically she notes it down upon the indestructible leaves of her diary, assured that it is to come out in the future revelation. yet we who, from the tendency of our thought, reject all claims to any knowledge of the future, can only acknowledge perceptions as of the p

the pythagorean mysteries, and the progressive instruction that succeeded it, to a considerable extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll up the murk and mist from beclouded truths till they stood distinctly seen in the splendour of their own harmonious beauty as an intuition. one thing related of pythagoras and his friends has seemed very striking to me. there is a legend that, as he was passing over a river, its waters called up to him in the presence of his followers "hail! pythagoras" frequently, while in the power of the hasheesh dilirium, have i heard inanimate things sonorous with such voices. on every side they have saluted me, from rocks, and trees

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

rshana.271 165 october pr n y ma. thirty-five minutes. 10. 20. 30. a'sana 3rd 12.20 a.m. terrible. 10-11.30 walk with mantra. a.m. a.m. 11.30-12.41 a'sana. always with mantra and ajna. a.m. a.m. pr n y ma. eighteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. 1.50-2.30 dh ran. got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleep- p.m. p.m. ing) then resumed a'sana till 5.5 p.m. now again at last the golden dawn. this, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the dhy na and also keeping me fixed therein. yet, i fear, of partially destroying its perfec- tion- he knows! thus the disk came clear: but i began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture. the flaming clouds are "thought; the shadowy or hinted form is adonai! 5.35 p.m. three pr

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

rehension of atomic energy. then paralleling the evolution of the human being again, we can look for man to dominate the air. there is a great vibratory sphere, or plane, in the solar system, called in some occult books the intuitional plane; it is called in the eastern literature the buddhic plane, and its symbol is the air. just as man is beginning to find his way through the development of the intuition on to that plane now, so science is beginning to discover how to dominate the air, and as the intuition in man develops and grows, so will his control of the air be developed and grow. another thing we can look for (and it is already being recognised somewhat) is the development of the ability to- 47- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust see in subtler matter. everywh

he protestant, catholic, and buddhist churches. they all teach the treading of this path, calling it by different names, such as the way, the noble eightfold path, the path of illumination, or the path of holiness. yet it is the one path, that which shineth ever more and more unto the perfect day. we can look, too, for the development of the power to think abstractly, and for the awakening of the intuition. as the great races have succeeded one another upon the planet, there has ever been an ordered, directed unfoldment of the powers of the soul, and a definitely planned sequence. in the third root race, the lemurian, the physical aspect of man was carried to a high stage of perfection. later in the great race which preceded ours, the atlantean, and which perished in the flood, the emotion

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

aven. this aspect reflects the three aspects of the godhead: 1. will or power..the father. 2. love-wisdom..the son. 3. active intelligence..the holy spirit. and is only contacted at the final initiations, when man is nearing the end of his journey and is perfected. the monad reflects itself again in ii. the ego, higher self, or individuality. this aspect is potentially 1. spiritual will..atma. 2. intuition..buddhi, love-wisdom, the christ principle. 3. higher or abstract mind..higher manas. the ego begins to make its power felt in advanced men, and increasingly on the probationary path until by the third initiation the control of the lower self by the higher is perfected, and the highest aspect begins to make its energy felt. the ego reflects itself in iii. the personality, or lower self

r its control. chapter i introductory remarks before entering upon the subject matter of the following articles of initiation, on the paths that- 3- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust open before the perfected man, and on the occult hierarchy, certain statements may be made which seem essential for the judicious study and comprehension of the ideas submitted. dogmatism and the intuition it is to be recognised that throughout this volume facts are alleged and definite statements made which are not susceptible of immediate proof by the reader. lest it be inferred that the writer arrogates to herself any credit or personal authority for the knowledge implied she emphatically disavows all such claims or representations. she cannot do otherwise than present these statements

orms a barrier. take, in illustration, the web that separates the etheric body and the emotional. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and complete, and the three lower vehicles function as one. you have a somewhat analogous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels of the mental plane to the etheric. in the destruction of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation (called symbolically "the crucifixion) you have a process analogous to the burning of the web that leads to the unification of the bodies of the personality. the disintegration that is a part of the arhat initiation leads

he germ of mind in animal man was stimulated. the fourfold lower man, a. the physical body in its dual capacity, etheric and dense, b. vitality, life force, or prana, c. the astral or emotional body, d. the incipient germ of mind, was co-ordinated and stimulated, and became a fit receptacle for the coming in of the self-conscious entities, those spiritual triads (the reflection of spiritual will, intuition, or wisdom, and higher mind) who had for long ages been waiting for just such a fitting. the fourth, or human kingdom, came thus into being, and the self-conscious, or rational unit, man, began his career- 20- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust another result of the advent of the hierarchy was a similar, though less recognised development in all the kingdoms of nature

imal kingdoms, just as the radio-activity of minerals is the method of bridging the gulf between the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. in due course of time scientists will recognise that every kingdom in nature is linked and entered when the units of that kingdom become radioactive. but it is not necessary for us to digress along these lines. a hint suffices for those who have eyes to see, and the intuition to comprehend the meaning conveyed by terms which are handicapped by having a purely material connotation. in lemurian days, after the great descent of the spiritual existences to the earth, the work they planned to do was systematised. offices were apportioned, and the processes of evolution in all the departments of nature were brought under the conscious wise guidance of this initial

ahachohan, yet in hierarchical work he may and does hold office temporarily under the manu. these regents hold in their hands the reins of government for continents and nations, thus guiding, even if unknown, their destinies; they impress and inspire statesmen and rulers; they pour forth mental energy on governing groups, thus bringing about the desired results wherever co-operation and receptive intuition can be found amongst the thinkers. the world teacher presides over the destiny of the great religions through the medium of a group of masters and initiates who direct the activities of these different schools of thought. in illustration: the master jesus, the inspirer and director of the christian churches everywhere, though an adept on the sixth ray under the department of the mahachoh

h ray of concrete knowledge or science, we find the master hilarion, who, in an earlier incarnation was paul of tarsus. he is occupying a cretan body, but spends a large part of his time in egypt. he it was who gave out to the world that occult treatise "light on the path" and his work is particularly interesting to the general public at this crisis, for he works with those who are developing the intuition, and controls and transmutes the great movements that tend to strip the veil from the unseen. his is the energy which, through his disciples, is stimulating the psychical research groups everywhere, and he it was who initiated, through various pupils of his, the spiritualistic movement. he has under observation all those who are psychics of the higher order, and assists in developing the

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y do its work, carry its message, and thus reach the hearts and minds of searchers everywhere. if it is of no value, and has no basis in fact, it will disappear and die, and most rightly so. all that is asked from the student of this treatise is a sympathetic approach, a willingness to consider the views put forth and that honesty and sincerity of thought which will tend to the development of the intuition, of spiritual diagnosis, and a discrimination which will lead to a rejection of the false and an appreciation of the true. the words of the buddha most appropriately have their place here, and make a fitting conclusion to these preliminary remarks: the lord buddha has said that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed dow

arlier cycle attainment was marked by the blending of the latent fires of matter with the radiatory or active fires, and then their union with the fires of mind. in the earlier period the effects in manifestation of the divine flame were so remote and deeply hidden as to be scarcely recognisable, though dimly there. its correspondence can be seen in the animal kingdom, in which instinct holds the intuition in latency, and the spirit dimly overshadows. yet all is part of a divine whole. the subject of the radiatory heat of the macrocosmic and microcosmic systems will be dealt with in detail in a later subdivision. here we will only deal with the latent interior fire of the a. sun. b. planet. c. man. d. atom. we must remember that in both the astral and the mental sheaths there exist the cou

erarchy of human monads, held by a fourfold karmic law under the guidance of the lipikas. fourth. the four planetary logoi50(46) of harmony, knowledge, abstract thought and ceremonial, who are in their totality the quaternary of manas while in process of evolution, and who pass under their influence all the sons of men. fifth. the deva lords of the four planes of buddhi, or the plane of spiritual intuition, manas, or the mental plane, desire, and the physical, who are likewise allied to the human evolution in a cioser sense than the higher three. a further interesting correspondence is found in the following facts that are even now in process of development: the fourth plane of buddhi is the one on which the planetary logoi begin to make their escape from their planetary ring-pass-not, or

greater responsiveness, tuned to a higher key, of more adequate refinement, and vibrating to a different measure. in these three thoughts lies much information, if they are carefully studied and logically extended. d. by the transmutation of the violet into the blue. this we cannot enlarge on. we simply make the statement, and leave its working out to those students whose karma permits and whose intuition suffices- 74- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust e. by the withdrawal of the life, the form should gradually dissipate. the reflex action here is interesting to note, for the greater builders and devas who are the active agents during manifestation, and who hold the form in coherent shape, transmuting, applying and circulating the pranic emanations, likewise lose their

g, employing the imagination, and thereby effecting two things: these are an ability to expand our mental concept and to build the antaskarana, or that bridge which all who seek to function in the buddhic vehicle must build between higher and lower mind; hence the necessity for the use of the imagination (which is the astral equivalent to mental discrimination, and its ultimate transmutation into intuition. all teachers, who have taken pupils in hand for training, and who seek to use them in world service, follow the method of imparting a fact (oft veiled in words and blinded by symbol) and then of leaving the pupil to follow his own deductions. discrimination is thereby developed, and discrimination is the main method whereby the spirit effects its liberation from the trammels of matter

rmation given above, from its prime significance for man, as that which concerns himself, to the solar system, the macrocosm, and to the cosmos. what can be predicated of the microcosm is naturally true of the macrocosm and of the cosmos. it will not be possible to give the systemic triangles, for the information would have to be so blinded that, except for those who have occult knowledge and the intuition developed, it would be practically useless intellectually, but certain things may be pointed out in this connection that may be of interest. the solar system. we might briefly look at this from the standpoint of the centres of the heavenly men and of the grand man of the heavens, the logos. a. the heavenly men. the heavenly men, in themselves, embody centres just as does a human being, a

..4th 3. clairvoyance..3rd 4. imagination..2nd 5. emotional idealism..1st mental. 1. higher clairaudience..7th form 2. planetary psychometry..6th form 3. higher clairvoyance..5th form 4. discrimination..4th form 5. spiritual discernment..3rd formless response to group vibration 2nd formless spiritual telepathy..1st formless buddhic. 1. comprehension..7th 2. healing..6th 3. divine vision..5. th 4. intuition..4. th 5. idealism..3. rd atmic. 1. beatitude..7th 2. active service..6th 3. realisation..5th- 109- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. perfection..4th 5. all knowledge..3. rd it can be noted that we have not summed up the two planes of abstraction on the atmic and the buddhic planes, the reason being that they mark a degree of realisation which is the property of ini

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thinking principle. 2. stabilization of the mind and its subsequent use by the soul as an organ of vision, a sixth sense, and the synthesis of all the five other senses. result: correct knowledge. 3. right use of the perceiving faculty, so that the new field of knowledge which is now contacted is seen as it is. 4. that which is perceived is rightly interpreted through the subsequent assent of the intuition and the reason. 5. right transmission to the physical brain of that which has been perceived; the testimony of the sixth sense is correctly interpreted, and the evidence is transmitted with occult accuracy. result: correct reaction of the physical brain to the transmitted knowledge. when the process is studied and followed, the man on the physical plane becomes increasingly aware of the

e medium of the soul. it is the word of the incarnated sons of god. in such a short commentary as this, it is not possible to write a treatise on this secret of secrets, and this great mystery of the ages. all that can be done is to collate certain facts about the aum, and leave the student to extend the concept and grasp the significance of the brief statements made according to the state of his intuition. iii. the lost word. the idea of this lost word has been preserved for us in masonry. it is the word of the first aspect, the spirit aspect, and only the initiate of the third degree can truly begin the search for this word for only the freed soul can find it. this word concerns the highest initiations and it is profitless for us further to consider it. the following statements about the

d it is this too which eventually brings him to the position where he seeks liberation. 3. the indicated. back of the sixteen specialized divisions and back of the six unspecialized, lies that which is the cause of them all, which is called in the hindu books buddhi, or pure reason, the intellect apart- 90- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust from the lower mind, sometimes called the intuition, whose nature is love-wisdom. this is the christ-life or principle, which in the process of taking incarnation or form, as we know it, manifests forth as the specific and the unspecific. it is as yet for the majority only "indicated" we surmise it is there. the work of raja yoga is to bring forth into full knowledge this vague surmise so that theory becomes fact and that which is latent

the attention upon the throat centre, the cessation of hunger and thirst will ensue. 31. by fixing the attention upon the tube or nerve below the throat centre, equilibrium is achieved. 32. those who have attained self-mastery can be seen and contacted through focussing the light in the head. this power is developed in one-pointed meditation. 33. all things can be known in the vivid light of the intuition. 34. understanding of the mind-consciousness comes from one-pointed meditation upon the heart centre- 131- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 35. experience (of the pairs of opposites) comes from the inability of the soul to distinguish between the personal self and the purusa (or spirit. the objective forms exist for the use (and experience) of the spiritual man. by medita

her of its many states. 3. specific use in time conditions. as the yogi one-pointedly concentrates on the form, or object, meditates on its quality (the subjective aspect or symbolic nature, and contemplates the life veiled by the form but testified to by the factor of consciousness, he becomes aware of the present stage of development, and thus the future, past and present, stand revealed to his intuition. it will be apparent therefore to even the casual reader, that if meditation in its three above mentioned stages is carried forward correctly, all knowledge becomes possible to the yogi, the eternal now is a realized fact in nature and intelligent cooperation with the evolutionary plan becomes possible. service is then based on complete understanding. 14. the characteristics of every obj

higher. through it literally must be passed the forces of the lower nature. it gathers up the forces of the body below the diaphragm and directs them upward. 4. in the solar plexus, the animal soul becomes merged in the soul of man, and the christ consciousness is seen in germ. taking the analogy of the antenatal state and the germinating of the christ in each human being, students who have their intuition developed will see the correspondence between the activity of the solar plexus and its function, and the first three and one-half months of the antenatal period. then comes what is called the "quickening" and life makes itself felt. a rising up takes place, and the correspondence can then be seen between the natural physiological process and the birth of the christ in the cave of the hea

ghtly with yoga practices and is seen even by concentration on the space between the eyebrows. by samyama (meditation) on this light the class of beings called siddhas popularly known in theosophic circles as mahatmas or high adepts able to walk through space unseen, are immediately brought to view, notwithstanding obstacles of space and time" 33. all things can be known in the vivid light of the intuition. there are three aspects of knowledge associated with the light in the head. first, there is that knowledge which the ordinary man can possess, which perhaps is best expressed in the word theoretical. it makes a man aware of certain hypotheses, possibilities and explanations. it gives to him an understanding of ways, means and methods, and enables him to take the first step towards corre

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e sequence of the modifications of the mind, likewise terminates, giving place to the eternal now. sutra 34. the state of isolated unity becomes possible when the three qualities of matter (the three gunas or potencies of nature) no longer exercise any hold over the self. the pure spiritual consciousness withdraws into the one- 233- the light of the satcopyright 1998 lucis trust from intellect to intuition by alice a. bailey copyright 1932 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1960 by lucis trust first printing 1932 the publication of this book is financed by the tibetan book fund which is established for the perpetuation of the teachings of the tibetan and alice a. bailey. this fund is controlled by the lucis trust, a tax-exempt, religious, educational corporation. the lucis publishing company

en these concessions are made, a structure of truth will be found to emerge which will embody the spirit of the new age. modern thinkers are realizing this and dr. overstreet points out that "eastern philosophy, one suspects, has had small effect upon western thought chiefly because of its manner. but there is every reason to believe that as the influence of western thinking- 2- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust particularly its experimental hard-headedness is felt in the east, a new philosophic manner will be adopted, and the profound spirituality of eastern thought will be expressed in ways more acceptable to the western mind."2(2) both schools have hitherto tended to antagonize each other, yet the quest for truth has been one; the interest in that which is, and that

. no one of these is worth much without the others."4(4) those who have studied in both schools tell us that the mystical imagery of the east (and also of our western mystical exponents) is only a veil behind which those gifted with intuitive perception have always been able to penetrate. the science of the west, with its emphasis upon the nature of the form, has also led us into the realm of the intuition and it would seem as if the two ways could blend and that it should be possible for each discarding the non-essentials to arrive at a basis of understanding. thus they work out a new approach to the central mystery of man founded on old and demonstrated truths. dr. jung again takes this up as follows- 3- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust "science is the best tool of

e of understanding the instrument with which he has to work. he is asking himself: what use is he to make of it? where is the mind, which he is slowly learning to master, going to lead him? what does the future hold for man? something, we feel, of greater beauty and certainty than anything we have hitherto known. perhaps it will be a universal arrival at that knowledge which- 4- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust the individual mystic has had. our ears are deafened by the din of our modern civilization and yet at times we catch those overtones which testify to a world which is immaterial. our eyes are blinded by the fog and the smoke of our immediate foreground, yet there do come flashes of clear vision which reveal a subtler state of being, and which lift the fog, lett

et learned to function in a non-material one. we even deny its existence at times. we face the inevitable experience, which we call death, and yet take no rational steps to ascertain whether there really is a life beyond. the progress of evolution has produced a wonderful race, equipped with a sensitive response apparatus and a reasoning mind. we possess the rudiments of a sense which we call the intuition and, with this equipment, we stand before the gates of the future and ask the question "to what purpose shall we put this composite, complex mechanism which we call a human being" have we reached our full development? are there shades of meaning to life which have hitherto escaped our attention, and have they escaped our attention because we have latent- 5- from intellect to intuition co

and the brain, with their automatic reaction to pleasure, to pain and to thought. we know much about man, the machine. the mechanistic school of psychologists have placed us deeply in their debt with their discoveries about the apparatus whereby a human being comes into contact with his environment. but there are men among us, men who are not mere machines. we have the right- 6- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust to measure our ultimate capacities and our potential greatness by the achievements of the best among us; these great ones are not "freak" products of divine caprice or of blind evolutionary urge, but are themselves the guarantee of the ultimate achievement of the whole. irving babbitt remarks, that there is a something in man's nature "that sets him apart simpl

c, that the meditation technique has to do. it is this with which we deal in this book. the problem of leading man into his heritage as a human being is the function of the 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 r

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, of economics, of philosophy, psychology or elsewhere is but the registering by the mind (and subsequently by the brain) of the eternal verities, and the indication that the race is beginning also to bridge the gap between the objective and the subjective, between the world of form and the world of ideas. this leads inevitably to the emergence of the third branch of knowledge, the intuitive. the intuition is in reality only the appreciation by the mind of some factor in creation, some law of manifestation and some aspect of truth, known by the soul, emanating from the world of ideas, and being of the nature of those energies which produce all that is known and seen. these truths are always present, and these laws are ever active, but only as the mind is trained and developed, focussed, an

who have thus trained the mind in the art of clear thinking, the focussing of the attention, and consequent receptivity to truth have always been with us, but hitherto have been few and far between. they are the outstanding minds of the ages. but now they are many and increasingly found. the minds of the race are in process of training and many are hovering on the borders of a new knowledge. the intuition which guides all advanced thinkers into the newer fields of learning is but the forerunner of that omniscience which characterises the soul. the truth about all things exists, and we call it omniscience, infallibility, the "correct knowledge" of the hindu philosophy. when man grasps a fragment of it and absorbs it into the racial consciousness we call it the formulation of a law, a disco

n between are those who are neither totally ignorant nor intuitively wise. they are the mass of the educated people who have knowledge but not understanding, and who have yet to learn the distinction between that which can be grasped by the rational mind, that which can be seen by the mind's eye, and that which only the higher or abstract mind can formulate and know. this ultimately merges in the intuition, which is the "knowing faculty" of the intelligent and practical mystic who relegating the emotional and feeling nature to its own place uses the mind as a focussing point and looks out through that lens upon the world of the soul. man's three aspects one of the main means whereby man arrives at an understanding of that great sum total we call- 12- a treatise on white magic copyright 199

source of the one life, the plane, or state from which that life emanates is the great hidden mystery to the members of the hierarchy of adepts. the nature of spirit, its quality and type of cosmic energy, its rate of vibration and its basic cosmic differentiations are the study of initiates above the third degree and the subject of their investigations. they bring to that study a fully developed intuition, plus that mental interpretive capacity which their cycle of incarnation has developed. they employ the awakened and developed inner light of their souls to interpret and comprehend that life which (divorced from the world of form) persists on the higher levels of consciousness and penetrates into our solar system from some exterior centre of being. they throw this light (which is in the

erpret and comprehend that life which (divorced from the world of form) persists on the higher levels of consciousness and penetrates into our solar system from some exterior centre of being. they throw this light (which is in them and which they manipulate and use) in two directions therefore, standing as they do in the midmost state and functioning as they choose to function on the plane of the intuition or of buddhi. they cast that light into the world of form and know all things, interpreting all with correctness; they cast that light into the formless realms of the higher three planes (formless from the standpoint of man in the three worlds below the intuitional plane) and seek to understand, through steady expansive growth, the nature and purpose of that which is neither body nor sou

. in these three soul, mind and brain we have the analogy and the clue to the understanding of spirit, soul and body, and their mutual functions. this was the subject matter of the book, the light of the sou1. upon the perfecting of the conditions dealt with in that book there follows still another expansion when the spirit aspect, man's emanating source of energy, begins to use the soul (via the intuition) and to impress upon the soul-consciousness those laws, knowledges, forces and inspirations which will make the soul the instrument of the spirit or monad, just as the personal man became, at an earlier stage (via the mind, the instrument of the soul. in that earlier stage the development was two-fold. as the soul assumed control, via the mind, so the brain became responsive to the soul

terial world demand the consideration of the ablest minds in the world of thought. yet, the questions, what is life? or what is energy? or what is the process of becoming and the nature of being? remain unanswered. the problem as to the why and the wherefore is regarded as fruitless and speculative and almost insoluble. nevertheless, through pure reason, and through the correct functioning of the intuition these problems can be solved and these questions answered. their solution is one of the ordinary revelations and attainments of initiation. the only true biologists are initiates of the mysteries, for they have an understanding of life and its purpose and are so identified with the life principle that they think and speak in terms of energy and its effects, and all their activities in co

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hetic picture of the unfolding mind of god as it works out its plans through the lesser sons of mind. in symbolism and archaic phrases it veiled the truths and principles which lie at the root of the creative process, and in its entirety is beyond the grasp of the advanced student. at the same time, it is a most valuable compendium of information, and will serve to convey truth and to develop the intuition. the last book, a treatise on white magic, is a parallel volume to a treatise on cosmic fire. just as the first dealt with the psychology of deity, the work of the macrocosm, and the laws whereby the solar logos works, so this book constitutes a treatise on the psychology of the son of god and the work of the microcosm. it intimately concerns his place in the larger whole. i have also ai

the solar logos works, so this book constitutes a treatise on the psychology of the son of god and the work of the microcosm. it intimately concerns his place in the larger whole. i have also aided a.a.b. in getting out a translation of the yoga sutras of patanjali, which is a bridging book, intended to show the aspirant the rules whereby the light within him may be developed and the power of the intuition be brought to bear on all problems and on the- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust phenomena of life itself. this book was given the name the light on the soul. here i am fulfilling my intention to write a book on the subject of the seven rays. this topic has always been of real interest for students, but about these rays little is

e has been able to do this intuiting, and to concretise the idea. groups of students meditating synchronously should now attempt to do the same. the effort to synchronise effort does not relate so much to the time element as to unity of intent and of purpose- 14- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust there is to be found today in the realm of the intuition much of wonder; this can be contacted. it is now the privilege of the race to contact that "raincloud of knowable things" to which the ancient seer patanjali refers in his fourth book; the race, through its many aspirants, can today precipitate this "raincloud" so that the brains of men everywhere can register the contact. hitherto this has been the privilege of the illumined and rare se

periment and experience. i should like to point out here that when i speak in terms of personality and perforce employ the personal pronoun, i must not be accused of personalizing these great forces. i speak in terms of entity, of pure being, and not in terms of human personality. but the handicap of language persists; and in teaching those who think in terms of the lower concrete mind, and whose intuition is dormant or only manifesting in flashes, i am compelled to speak in parables and use the language of word symbols. let me point out also that all statements which i may make are in relation to our particular planet and couched in terms that can be understood by the humanity which our planet has produced. the work, as i outline it, constitutes only a fraction of the work undertaken by t

m below upwards, and its true purpose cannot emerge until the soul is awakened and consciousness is adequately recording the known. the planes or manifested spheres of expression are influenced in manifestation in a numerical order: ray i. will or power. plane of divinity. ray ii .l ove-wisdom .p lane of the monad. ray iii. active intelligence. plane of spirit, atma. ray iv. harmony. plane of the intuition. ray v. concrete knowledge .m ental plane. ray vi. devotion, idealism. astral plane. ray vii. ceremonial order. physical plane- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the fifth ray therefore works actively on the plane of the greatest moment to humanity, being, for man, the plane of the soul, and of the higher and the lower mind. it e

rposes of deity. as i write for simple aspirants, i cannot convey the truth until such time as their rapport with their own- 41- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust souls is complete, or more complete than is now the case. the effort, however, to grasp that which cannot be expressed in words produces a downpouring of the abstract mind or of the intuition, and this, in its turn, stimulates and develops the brain cells and produces a steady stabilisation of the power to stand in "spiritual being; then it becomes possible to grasp the inexpressible and to live by its power. question 2. what are the origin, goal, purpose and plan of the soul? the seven rays are the sum total of the divine consciousness, of the universal mind; they might be r

of god the hidden one the seed, that is the flower the mountain whereon form dies the light within the light the corrector of the form the one who marks the parting of the way the master the dweller in the holy place the lower than the three, the highest of the four the trumpet of the lord. the aphorisms connected with this fourth ray are not easy of comprehension. they require an exercise of the intuition and are conveyed by six short and excessively brief commands uttered, curiously enough, late in the creative period and at the time when the fourth creative hierarchy came into incarnation: 1. speak low the word. speak low. quality..power to penetrate the depths of matter- 51- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. champion desire. giv

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from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust we are on that path of transition (can we call it the path of discipleship) which will lead us into a new dimension, into the interior world of true fact and right energy. it is a world in which only the spiritual body can function and only the eye of spirit can see. it cannot be perceived by those whose inner perception is unawakened and whose intuition sleeps. when the spiritual body begins to be organised and to grow, and when the eye of wisdom slowly opens and trains itself to see truly, then there will come the indications that the christ, latent in each son of god, is beginning to control and to lead man into the world of spiritual being, true meaning and essential values. this world is the kingdom of god, the world of souls, and w

h the race in its infancy was governed by instinct, as time elapsed the intellect began to show itself and is continuing to control human affairs, government and thought. out of the- 32- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust intellect, rightly used and understood, something fairer and still more revealing is being evolved, and steadily we can trace the growth of this new force, the intuition, in modern intelligent man. this, in its turn, brings illumination, and so man passes from glory to glory until the omniscient cosmic son of god can be seen, expressing himself through every son of man. again, the same unfoldment can be traced racially in the transition we have made through the various stages from that of the isolated savage to the family and the tribe, then to the unifi

that woman a virgin; then the centaur, ever the symbol of humanity in the ancient mythologies, for man is an animal, plus a god, and therefore a human being. then he who shall come looms over them all, overshadowing them, pointing to the fulfilment which shall come through birth and human incarnation. truly the picture book of the heavens holds eternal truth for those who have eyes to see and the intuition developed rightly to interpret. prophecy is not confined to the bible but has ever been held before men's eyes in the vault of heaven. thus as "the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament sheweth his- 42- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust handiwork,"46 we have the prophecy of that world event which took place when christ was born in bethlehem, the "house of

iptures of the world. the following comments are of interest in this connection, showing as they do the significance of this number, and its relation to initiation "the accomplishment of the age of twelve years signifies a full period of evolution when an initiation was undergone by the christ soul. this took place in the inner mind (the temple) and corresponded to an awakening of the logical and intuition sides of the soul. these are the father-mother principle, indicated by the presence of the parents."61 and again "this number (of the twelve disciples) is typified by many things in the old testament; by the 12 sons of jacob, by the 12 princes of the children of israel; by the 12 running springs in helim; by the 12 stones in aaron's breastplate; by the 12 loaves of the shew-bred; by the

origin in the twelve signs of the zodiac, that imaginary belt in the heavens through which the sun appears to pass on its journey in the course of a year, and during its greater cycle of approximately 25,000 years. having completed the preparatory work, by his twelfth year christ again underwent an intuitive experience, going up from nazareth (the place of consecration) to the temple, where that intuition led him to a new realisation of his work. there is no sign that he knew in detail what that mission was; he went into no explanations to his mother. he started to do the work that was the nearest duty, and to teach those whom he found in the temple, astonishing them with his understanding and his answers. his mother, bewildered and distressed, called his attention to herself and to his f

let us take our stand upon that known and felt experience, refusing to deal with the detail of the glamour of doubt, of emotion, of depression or of blindness in which we may temporarily find ourselves. but the doubt in the world today will be solved only when men bring to bear upon the problems of humanity, of god and of the soul, not only the clear cool light of the intellect, illumined by the intuition, but also the potency of past experience. if the sense of god has persisted in the world for untold ages, and if the testimony of the mystics and saints, the seers and the saviours of all time is historical and verifiable as it is then that testimony, in its wealth and universality, constitutes a fact as scientific as any other. these are days when a scientific fact seems to have some gl

e subject of deity, we have always been told that we know god through his nature, and that nature is spirit or life, soul or conscious love, and form intelligently motivated. life, quality, and appearance these are the three major aspects of divinity, and we know no others; but that does not mean that we shall not contact other aspects when eventually we provide the mechanism of knowledge and the intuition to penetrate deeper into the divine nature. we do not yet know the father. christ revealed him, but the father himself remains as yet behind the scenes, inscrutable, unseen and unknown, except as he is revealed through the life of his sons, and by the revelation given peculiarly to the occident by jesus christ. as we consider these initiations, the three mentioned above stand out clearly

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ivity in cooperation with the whole. desire for right revelation of divinity and light. adherence to right action- 25- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the revelation of glory and good will. ray four confused combat. the realisation of that which is high and that which is low. the darkness which precedes form expression. the veiling of the intuition. the sensing of inharmony, and cooperation with the part and not the whole. identification with humanity, the fourth creative hierarchy. undue recognition of that which is produced by speech. abnormal sensitivity to that which is the not self. constant points of crisis, leading to unity and harmony. the evocation of the intuition. right judgment and pure reason. the wisdom which works th

and harmony. the evocation of the intuition. right judgment and pure reason. the wisdom which works through the angel of the presence. i could here point out a constant misconception on the part of esotericists. this fourth ray of harmony, beauty and art is not the ray, per se, of the creative artist. the creative artist is found equally on all rays, without exception. this ray is the ray of the intuition and of the harmonising of all that has been achieved through the activity of form life, as later synthesised and absorbed by the solar angel; it manifests eventually as all that can be evoked and evolved through the power of the one life (the monad) working through form expression. it is the point of meeting for all the energies flowing through the higher spiritual triad and the lower tr

ure achievable glory to aid them to carry on. this treatise is, therefore, somewhat abstruse and quite symbolical. it may appear difficult to comprehend, and it may mean little to some and nothing at all to others. if the disciples of the world are truly struggling and if they are applying practically the teaching given, as far as in them lies, they will find as time elapses, and their reason and intuition awaken, that such symbolic and abstruse statements become clearer and clearer, serving to convey the intended teaching. when this happens, the angel of the presence approaches ever closer, and lights the disciple on his way. the sense of separateness diminishes until, at last, light permeates the darkness, and the angel dominates the life. 2. the two cycles of egoic appropriation- 31- a

soul. it is the lower consciousness which (when developed) enables a man eventually to make conscious contact with the higher. it is the lower concretising mind which must be awakened, understood and used with definiteness before the higher mind can become the medium through which knowledge can be gained of those realities which constitute the kingdom of god. intellect must be unfolded before the intuition can be correctly evoked. we have, therefore, in the case of man, two groups of major energies dominating, as a result of a long experience of incarnation in form, the energy of the astral or desire nature and the energy of mind. when these are fused and blended, thoroughly organised and utilised, then we see a functioning and powerful personality. seeking to impose itself upon these ener

ing to a second union of still greater importance in that it leads to complete liberation from the three worlds. it must be remembered that the soul, in its turn, is a union of two energies, plus the energy of spirit, of which the lower three are the reflection. it is a synthesis of the energy of life itself (which demonstrates as the life-principle within the world of forms, of the energy of the intuition, or spiritual love-wisdom or understanding (which demonstrates as sensitivity and feeling in the astral body, and of spiritual mind, whose reflection in the lower nature is the mind or the principle of intelligence in the form world. in these three energies we have the atma-buddhi-manas of the theosophical literature. they are that higher triplicity which is reflected in the lower three

orld of human endeavor, and into the world of soul activity. just as the soul makes a way for itself by projecting itself in a thread or stream of energy into the three worlds, so the disciple begins consciously to project himself into the higher worlds. his energy goes forth, through the medium of the controlled and directed mind, into the world of higher spiritual mind and into the realm of the intuition. a reciprocal activity is thus set up. this response between the higher and lower mind is symbolically spoken of in terms of light, and the "lighted way (a term frequently employed) comes into being between the personality and the spiritual triad, via the soul body, just as the soul came into definite contact with the brain via the mind. this "lighted way" is the illumined bridge. it is

r mind is symbolically spoken of in terms of light, and the "lighted way (a term frequently employed) comes into being between the personality and the spiritual triad, via the soul body, just as the soul came into definite contact with the brain via the mind. this "lighted way" is the illumined bridge. it is built through meditation; it is constructed through the constant effort to draw forth the intuition, through subservience and obedience to the plan (which begins to be recognised as soon as the intuition and the mind are en rapport) and through a conscious incorporation into the group in service and for purposes of assimilation into the whole. all these qualities and activities are based upon the foundation of good character and the qualities developed upon the probationary path. the e

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

into any individual instructions which i may be led to give (probably at widely separated intervals) to my disciples. i am not basically writing for any of you at all but in order to lay the foundation for the group work to be done in the world during the coming years. what i say should be read with care, for the written word may contain several meanings and these can be sensed, according to the intuition awakened or otherwise of the aspirant. i, your tibetan brother, am supposing upon the part of each of my disciples, one basic essential at least and that is a persevering earnestness which nothing will deter. each of you starts upon this work with certain fundamental characteristics; each of you is beginning this definite enterprise of training for initiation with certain defects which a

rving the scientific attitude and seeking ever a practical explanation before accepting a mystical one. a spirit of agnosticism (not of atheism) is of real value to the beginner and preserves him from the snares of the world illusion and of lower psychism. 2. any illumination which may come to you, throwing a flood of light upon a problem and revealing the way that you or the group should go. any intuition which corroborated by the reason carries one forward into knowledge and evokes the wisdom of the soul and its registration by the brain, via the mind. 3. any telepathic happenings between you and your fellow disciples. this telepathic interplay should be cultivated but it must be most carefully checked and counterchecked and the strictest accuracy preserved. thus we shall have the foster

eed not specific statements as to faults and characteristics. i seek only to make suggestion as to trends of thought. note here the word suggestion, for that is all i seek to give. the disciple must be left free to follow a suggestion or a hint as seems wise to him. this entire work might be termed an experiment in esoteric commonsense and in willingness to accept suggestion. it is a trial of the intuition and a test in discrimination. this work to which i have called you is also an experiment in impersonality, in willingness to work and learn, in freedom to choose or reject, in observation and in techniques. all have their value. this is an experiment likewise for me. i have worked hitherto with only three occidental chelas, of whom a.a.b. is one. the other two are totally unknown to any

ack of attention. this type of group work is a new venture and unless something definitely new emerges as a result of this- 20- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust experiment, the time and effort are not warranted. you must not imagine that the particular line of work on which you may be engaged is the factor of main interest. it is not primarily the unfoldment of the intuition, or of the power to heal, or of telepathic efficiency which is of importance. that which counts with the hierarchy as the ashrams function is the establishing subjectively of such a potent group interplay and group relation that an emerging world unity can be seen in embryo. a joint power to be telepathic or a group capacity to intuit truth is of value and somewhat novel. it is the funct

us consummation of the work of the brotherhood and to this you do, as do all disciples, respond in your highest moments. it can, in a smaller way and according to the measure of your consecration, be your glory and- 22- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust your goal also if you hold the thought of oneness, of service and above all else of love. second: the power of the intuition, which is the goal of much of the work which disciples must do, requires the unfoldment of another faculty in man. the intuition is a function of the mind also and, when rightly used, it enables man to grasp reality with clarity and to see that reality free from glamour and the illusions of the three worlds. when the intuition functions in any human being, he is enabled to take direct an

the three worlds. when the intuition functions in any human being, he is enabled to take direct and correct action for he is in touch with the plan, with pure and unadulterated fact and undistorted ideas free from illusion and coming direct from the divine or universal mind. the unfoldment of this faculty will bring about a world recognition of the plan and this is the greatest achievement of the intuition in this present world cycle. when that plan is sensed, there comes the realisation of the unity of all beings, of the synthesis of world evolution and of the unity of the divine objective. all life and all forms are seen then in their true perspective; a right sense of values and of time then eventuates. when the plan is truly intuited and at first hand, then constructive effort becomes

o the problem before the hierarchy today is to bring about a similar happening in the life of humanity as a whole, for humanity is at the crossroads and its consciousness is being rapidly focussed on the mental plane. a death blow must be struck at the world illusion for it holds the sons of men in thrall. by learning to break through the glamour in their own lives and to live in the light of the intuition, disciples can strengthen the hands of those whose task it is to awaken the intuition in man. there are many and different kinds of glamour and disciples are frequently surprised when they learn what is regarded as glamour by the masters. i will enumerate a few of the more general glamours for you, leaving you to make any needed application and expansion of the idea from the individual t

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

city and their intuitional potentiality. in infancy and in the earlier school grades, the development of right instinctual reactions will be watched and cultivated; in the later grades, in what is equivalent to the high schools or the secondary schools, the intellectual unfoldment and control of the mental processes will be emphasized; whilst in the colleges and universities the unfoldment of the intuition, the importance of ideas and ideals and the development of abstract thinking and perception will be fostered; this latter phase will be soundly based upon the previous sound intellectual foundation. these three factors instinct, intellect and intuition provide the keynotes for the three scholastic institutions through which every young person will pass and through which, today, many thou

glory of the human spirit still needs expression in writing its composite glory and not just those aspects of it which are strictly national. it consists in the fact that every race and all nations have always produced those who have expressed the highest possible point of attainment for their day and generation men who have united within themselves that basic triplicity: instinct, intellect and intuition. their numbers were relatively few in the early stages of man's unfoldment but today those numbers are rapidly increasing. it will be only commonsense, however, to realize that this integration is not possible for every student passing through the hands of our teachers. students will have to be gauged from the three angles which form the background of this chapter- 36- problems of humani

ying in himself the divine quality of wisdom; he was the manifestation of light, and the teacher of the way of enlightenment. he demonstrated in himself the processes of illumination and became "the illumined one. light, wisdom, reason, as divine yet human attributes, were focussed in the buddha. he challenged the people to tread the path of illumination of which wisdom, mental perception and the intuition are aspects. then came the next great teacher, the christ. he embodied in himself a still greater divine principle greater than the mind, that of love; yet at the same time, he embraced within himself all that the buddha had of light. christ was the expression of both light and love. christ also brought to human attention three deeply necessary concepts- 87- problems of humanity copyrigh

his technique of invocation and evocation has its roots in past methods of human approach to deity. men have long used the method of prayer with important and deeply spiritual results, in spite of its frequent misuse for selfish purposes; people, more intelligent and more mentally focussed, have employed more generally the method of meditation in order to arrive at knowledge of god, to awaken the intuition and to understand the nature of truth. these two methods of prayer and of meditation have brought humanity to the various spiritual recognitions which distinguish human thinking; through their means also the scriptures of the world have been produced and the great spiritual concepts which have conditioned human living and which have led man on from one revelation to another have found th

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

of humanity is concerned and that the purely intellectual approach (which rejects the vision and refuses to accept the unprovable) may be far more at fault than the anticipation of the knowers of god and the expectant multitude. the intelligence of divinity is vested in the spiritual hierarchy, and that hierarchy is today composed of those who have united in themselves both the intellect and the intuition, the practical and the apparently impractical, the factual way of life and way of the man who sees a vision. there are also people who must be found in the market place of daily life; these are the people who must be trained in the divine recognitions which are essentially physical plane responses to the newer expansions of consciousness. the christ who will return will not be like the c

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

mould their national life on their premises; they are only transitory substitutes in this transition period between the piscean and the aquarian ages and cannot permanently last. nothing as yet is permanent. when permanency is reached, evolution will cease and god's plan will be consummated. and then? the greatest revelation of all will come at the close of this world period when the human mind, intuition and soul consciousness is such that understanding will be possible. 5. the idea of a spiritual hierarchy which will govern the people throughout the world and will embody in itself the best elements of the monarchial, the democratic, the totalitarian and the communistic regimes. most of these groups of ideologies have latent in them much beauty, strength and wisdom, and also a profound a

rstanding. that is, of course, the ideal before her, but not as yet the exactly fulfilled achievement. the united states represents the intuitive faculty, expressing itself as illumination, plus the power to fuse and blend. brazil will at some distant date represent a linking interpreting civilisation, based on the unfoldment of the abstract consciousness which is a blend of the intellect and the intuition and which serves to reveal the wisdom aspect of love in its beauty. it is too dangerous in these days of difficulty and world turmoil to express myself more definitely as to the future lines of unfoldment. the destiny and the future functioning of the nations lie hid in their present activities. the majority of my readers are far too nationalistic in their thinking, and too deeply engros

es; others again are coming under the influence of their soul ray, leading to another cycle of fluidity, before the definiteness of the initiate-entity becomes apparent; a few again are purely embryonic. thus the extreme difficulty of the science becomes increasingly apparent. there is, however, no need for discouragement, for this is a science, subject to moments of intense illumination when the intuition will suddenly reveal determining laws and when the capacity to think abstractly and synthetically will pour floods of light upon the most difficult and complex of problems. when the world again settles down to a cycle of peace and with opportunity for further conscious unfoldment, it will be found that that embryonic factor which we call the intuition will flower forth into as recognisab

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

1950 certain preliminary clarifications all groups involved in esoteric work have their own dharma or duty and all have their peculiar objective. in order that you may clearly vision what you, as aspirants to discipleship have to do, and so intelligently cooperate, i will concisely state the purpose: dharma means duty, or obligation, and it is your definite and specific obligation to develop the intuition. the means or methods whereby this development is to be brought about, can be by the study of symbols. i would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare. we are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the av

alities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare. we are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only a small part of his equipment. the area of the brain which is found around the pineal gland is that connected with the intuition, and it is these cells which must be roused into activity before there can be any real intuitive perception which, when aroused, will manifest soul control, spiritual illumination, true psychological understanding of one's fellowmen, and a development of the true esoteric sense, which is the objective before you at this time. i would like to divide what i have to say into three parts, an

e there can be any real intuitive perception which, when aroused, will manifest soul control, spiritual illumination, true psychological understanding of one's fellowmen, and a development of the true esoteric sense, which is the objective before you at this time. i would like to divide what i have to say into three parts, and i plead for a close study of my words: i. i seek to define for you the intuition- 2- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. i shall deal with its mode of development through the study of symbology. iii. i shall close by giving some specific instructions as to a useful mode of procedure. should you, therefore, find these articles hard to understand and your reaction slow, you must bear in mind that this indicates your need for this study and corrobora

ll deal with its mode of development through the study of symbology. iii. i shall close by giving some specific instructions as to a useful mode of procedure. should you, therefore, find these articles hard to understand and your reaction slow, you must bear in mind that this indicates your need for this study and corroborates what i am telling you. if you will seriously consider with me what the intuition is not, i think my words will find in you an inner response. i. definition of the intuition the intuition is not a welling forth of love to people and, therefore, an understanding of them. much that is called the intuition is recognition of similarities and the possession of a clear analytical mind. intelligent people who have lived in the world for some time and who have experienced muc

hem. much that is called the intuition is recognition of similarities and the possession of a clear analytical mind. intelligent people who have lived in the world for some time and who have experienced much and who have contacted many other people can usually sum up with facility the problems and dispositions of others, provided they are interested. this they must not, however, confound with the intuition. the intuition has no relation to psychism, either higher or lower; the seeing of a vision, the hearing of the voice of the silence, a pleased reaction to teaching of any kind does not infer the functioning of the intuition. it is not only the seeing of symbols, for that is a special sort of perception and the capacity to tune in on the universal mind upon that layer of its activity whic

he seeing of symbols, for that is a special sort of perception and the capacity to tune in on the universal mind upon that layer of its activity which produces the pattern-forms on which all etheric bodies are based. it is not intelligent psychology, and a loving desire to help. that emanates from the interplay of a personality, governed by a strong soul orientation, and the group-conscious soul. intuition is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions: towards the monad, and towards the integrated and, perhaps (even if only temporarily) coordinated and at-oned personality. it is the first indication of a deeply subjective unification which will find its consummation at the thir

he synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions: towards the monad, and towards the integrated and, perhaps (even if only temporarily) coordinated and at-oned personality. it is the first indication of a deeply subjective unification which will find its consummation at the third initiation. intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. at its highest point, it is known as that universal love which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings. then is true compassion known

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

s consciousness, an innate content, or that which is part of the group life of the soul on its own level, and when in telepathic communication with other souls, as mentioned under our fourth heading. this is the true meaning of intuitional telepathy. through this means of communication the mind of the disciple is fertilised with the new and spiritual ideas; he becomes aware of the great plan; his intuition is awakened. one point should here be borne in mind, which is oft forgotten: the inflow of the new ideas from the buddhic levels, thus awakening the intuitional aspect of the disciple, indicates that his soul is beginning to integrate consciously and definitely with the spiritual triad, and therefore to identify itself less and less with the lower reflection, the personality. this mental

hen, however, soul-consciousness is achieved or developing, then this triple instrument is superseded by the intuitional receptivity of the soul whose inclusiveness is absolute and who is at-one with the soul in all forms. those disciples who are working along this line are the nurturers of the seed of the future intuitional civilisation, which will come to its full glory in the aquarian age. the intuition is the infallibly sensitive agent, latent in every human being; it is based, as you know, upon direct knowledge, unimpeded by any instrument normally functioning in the three worlds. of this intuitional future age, christ is the seed man, for "he knew what was in man" today, a group or a unit of groups can be the nurturers of the seed of the intuition; the cultivation of sensitivity to t

of the intuition; the cultivation of sensitivity to telepathic impression is one of the most potent agencies in developing the coming use of the intuitive faculty. the truly telepathic man is the man who is responsive to impressions coming to him from all forms of life in the three worlds, but he is also equally responsive to impressions coming to him from the world of souls and the world of the intuition. it is the development of the telepathic instinct which will eventually make a man a master in the three worlds, and also in the five worlds of human and superhuman development. by a process of withdrawal (of occult abstraction) and of concentration upon the telepathic cult, the whole science of telepathy (as a- 21- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust seed of a f

er impression, that they absorb or appropriate the impression so that it becomes a part of their own "impulsive energy" this is by no means an easy subject for me to elucidate, and the reasons are two: 1. the members of the hierarchy (among whom i have the status of master*(6) are themselves in process of learning this science of impression. this they do on the levels of the abstract mind, of the intuition, or of manas and buddhi. 2. the science is as yet without a vocabulary. it is not limited at any stage by thoughtforms but it is limited by word forms; and it is therefore a difficult problem for me to pass on any information anent this subtle mode of communication of which telepathy is in fact but an exoteric externalisation. sources of impression to the three planetary centres impressi

d as it is sensitive to the higher impressions and active in the mental creation of the needed thoughtforms. the mind, rightly trained, will seize upon the fugitive impression, subject it to the concretising effect of mental activity, produce the required form, and this, when correctly created and oriented, will finally lead to the externalising of the registered impression, as it took form in an intuition and eventually found its place upon the mental plane. you will see also why disciples and world workers have to function as minds, as receptive and perceptive intelligences and as creators in mental matter. it is all related to this science of impression with which we have been dealing. you will note also that this whole process is capable of expansion in the processes of meditation, so

or urge of the emotional and desire reactions of the astral plane and of the emotionally polarised world in which he lives physically. more understanding will come also if you grasp the fact that this science of impression is concerned with the activity of the head centre as an anchoring centre for the antahkarana, and that the ajna centre is concerned with the process of translating the recorded intuition into a form (through recognition of and reaction to a mental thoughtform) and its subsequent direction, as an ideal objective, into the world of men. in the early stages and until the third initiation, the science of impression is concerned with the establishing of a sensitivity (an invocative sensitivity) between the spiritual triad (temporarily expressing itself through the abstract mi

y, is nevertheless limited and circumscribed (from the point of view of the informed aspirant, is responsible for the creation of karma or the setting in motion of causes which must unalterably have their effects these effects being negated and rendered useless (or innocuous, if you prefer that word) when the entity concerned brings to the engendered circumstances the needed intelligence, wisdom, intuition or will. ponder on this. consciousness is inherent in all forms of life. that is an occult platitude. it is an innate potency which forever accompanies life in manifestation. these two, related through manifestation, are in reality atma-buddhi, spirit-reason, dedicated for the term of the creative period to a simultaneous functioning; the first result of their relation is the appearance

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

y definitely demonstrable successes. i would ask all of you, therefore, who read and study this section of a treatise on the seven rays to bear in mind the above comments and to preserve a willingness to consider hypotheses and to make an effort to weigh a theory or suggestion and to test out conclusions over the course of a few years. if you can do this, there may come to you an awakening of the intuition which will translate modern astrology into something of real moment and significance to the world. it is intuitional astrology which must eventually supersede what is today called astrology, thus bringing about a return to the knowledge of that ancient science which related the constellations and our solar system, drew attention to the nature of the zodiac and informed humanity as to the

ogy copyright 1998 lucis trust might therefore be stated that, symbolically speaking, 1. leo governs the e\ a\ degree. 2. gemini governs the f\ c\ degree. 3. sagittarius governs the degree of m\ m\ up to the episode of the raising of the master, and that capricorn governs the final part of the ceremony and the h\ r\ a\ it is always confusing to the beginner who has not yet a developed and trained intuition to reconcile the seeming discrepancies and apparent contradictions which appear in the teaching of the ageless wisdom. this same difficulty will be met with in the science of astrology and some reference to the matter is in order at this point. i would remind you of the occult truism which states that interpretation and right understanding are based upon the stage of the development of t

ave been built up in connection with the twelve signs. these thoughtforms were originally constructed or anchored upon the mental plane by the hierarchy in atlantean days and they have steadily gained in power ever since. they serve as focal points for certain forces and enable the individual, for instance, to be in touch with great reservoirs of energy which then definitely condition him. 2. the intuition of the astrologer. the casting of the horoscope serves to put the astrologer en rapport with the individual, but this is of small service to either party unless the intuition and sensitivity of the astrologer is actively present. 3. the capacity of the astrologer in any specific period to respond to the changes which are all the time taking place, such as the gradual shifting and changin

in the light of the soul, the solar angel, so the soul itself disappears and its power and radiance fade out when the presence, which it has hitherto veiled, appears and dominates the scene at the end of the greater world cycle. we are told that the incarnating minds, human beings, the solar angels, came originally from venus, but they in turn give place to the monad, the one. mind gives place to intuition and reason to pure perception. 3. saturn "falls" in aries. this has two meanings, for this is a dual sign. first: saturn is the lord of karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. saturn, therefore "fell" when man fell into generation. he "f

heel through the medium of the mutable cross of which pisces forms a part in the following manner: 1. pisces here the beginner upon the way of life starts with a material receptivity which will enable him to respond to all contacts in the cycle of manifestation. he is, at this stage, negative, fluid and endowed with an instinctual consciousness which contains within itself the potentiality of the intuition. but the seed of the intuition is dormant. the mind which is the instrument of reception from the intuition is, at this stage, unawakened. 2. sagittarius here the ordinary man begins to demonstrate a tendency to become more focussed and the fluidity and negativity of pisces become concentrated upon the attainment of that which is desired. the man demonstrates one-pointed selfish instinct

asingly real and steadily more complex. the man begins to dream of stability, of ordered changes and of union with that which he senses to be the most real part of himself. the mystical vision emerges into- 72- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust his consciousness and he becomes aware of the higher self through the first faint flickerings of the intuition. the experience upon the mutable cross lasts a long time, and carries the man always back again and again into the sphere of influence of aries which, through the ruling activity of the first ray, both strengthens the will of the man (no matter what his ray) and ends cycle after cycle with the "word of destruction" again and again, he enters into the sign pisces and finds his way around

re insistent incentive than those of the other two crosses. when the soul is, therefore, becoming more active, the effect of the fixed cross will be seen working out in the four signs along with the effects of forces of the mutable cross for "that which is dominated and relinquished is held firmly and transformed" gemini the man upon the reversing wheel in gemini becomes increasingly aware of the intuition and increasingly under the influence of "the brothers who live in the light" as the twins are sometimes called. the light of the personality dims and the light of the soul waxes. the fluidity of pisces and the undeveloped gemini gives place to the responsiveness of the personality to soul impression and consequent stabilising of the life on the physical plane. virgo the mind, under the i

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

t, himself, to substantiate these teachings. clear light was being thrown on the old theology. i was discovering that the only thing that was wrong was man-made interpretations of the truth and it dawned on me how silly it was just because some learned preacher or scholar said that god meant this or that that we should accept it. he might be right and if so, intuitively one would know it; but the intuition does not work unless the mind is developed and that has been a lot of the trouble. the mass of the people do not think and the orthodox theologian, no matter what he says, can always get a following. with the best intentions in the world he exploits the unthinking. it dawned on me, too, that there was really no reason because a priest or teacher six hundred years ago interpreted the bibl

world who makes me weary, tired and sick it is the academic, technical occultist. the second group that makes me tired are the nincompoops who think they are in touch with the masters and who talk mysteriously of the communications they have received from the masters. my attitude about all such communications is "i believe this is what the master says; i believe this is the teaching; but use your intuition; maybe it isn't" i may be considered by some as elusive as an eel but i do leave people free. it was this contact with the general public that slowly began to start in 1921 and inaugurated a very difficult period in my life. i have always felt that i should astrologically have cancer rising because i like to hide and not be seen and the verse in the bible that has always seemed to me to

unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust only twice have i been sorry that i had had no college degree. such degrees are frightfully overrated in this country and though i have no degrees i know i am as well educated as those who have. not so many years ago i was asked to give a series of lectures at the postgraduate college in washington, d. c. i was to speak on the intellect and the intuition. the announcements were printed and sent out by the college, but when they discovered i had no degrees after my name, they proceeded to cancel the lectures. i later received a letter from the president of the college indicating that the faculty believed a mistake had been made but that it was too late for them to do anything. shortly after i was asked by cornell university to go there an

y dharma to make public. the average psychic and medium is not usually of a high grade intelligence, and a.a.b. desired to prove (for the aiding of the work of the future) that one could do definitely psychic work and be of a real intelligence. she has, therefore, written four books which are entirely her own production: the consciousness of the atom. the soul and its mechanism. from intellect to intuition. from bethlehem to calvary. she has also written one book in collaboration with me, entitled light of the soul; in it i give the english paraphrase of the sanskrit sutras of patanjali and she contributes the commentary, referring to me occasionally for reassurance as to meaning- 139- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust then followed a treatise on white magic. this was

vels and to act as a soul in the three worlds of human evolution, through the medium of a highly intelligent personality. disciples will be prepared for initiation, and initiates will be trained to take the higher major initiations. emphasis will be laid upon the right handling of energies and forces, upon wisdom as the result of applied knowledge and upon the work and plans of the hierarchy. the intuition will be developed and a still higher fusion brought about between the spiritual man and the universal one. i would like to divide what i have to say about the schools into the following divisions: i. some definitions of esotericism. ii. how an esoteric school is formed. iii. the fundamental truths taught in the new schools- 152- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust a s

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

ch time as he takes the great initiation which is symbolised for us in the transfiguration. all along in our studies, we shall be dealing with secondary causes and their effects, with the phenomenal results of those subjective effects which emanate from causes too far away for us to grasp. this should be admitted and grasped. this is the best man can do with his present mental apparatus. when the intuition rarely works, and the mind is seldom illumined, why should man arrogantly expect to understand everything? let him work at the development of his intuition and at achieving illumination. understanding may then come his way. he will have earned the right to divine knowledge. but the above recognition will suffice for our work and will enable us to lay down those laws and principles which

l..a. tma..c. ausal body. brahmarandra. right eye synthetic. monad j ewel in the 1000-petalled. via soul l otus. lotus dynamic will occultist. initiate. master. dominant after 3rd initiation. 2. centre..pituitary..lower brain..soul force..p. etals..b. uddhic between body. left eye. l ove. of egoic v ehicle the eyes. nose. magnetic. lotus, as causal ajna centre nervous light. a whole. body system. intuition. higher vision. mental aspirant. disciple. mystic. dominant after 2nd initiation. 3. heart..thymus..heart..life force..love..higher. anahata circulatory group petals mental system. consciousness causal blood. also. body vagus nerve all types of spiritual people. dominant after 1st initiation. 4. throat..thyroid..b. reathing..creative..knowledge..mental centre apparatus energy. petals bod

related but distinct from each other. one is related to time and the other to space and (as the old commentary puts it "the sound, the final and yet initiating sound, concerns that which is neither time nor space; it lies outside the manifested all, the source of all that is and yet is naught (or no-thing. a.a.b. for this reason, disciples on the fourth ray usually can develop by the power of the intuition an understanding of the om. this ray of harmony through conflict (the conflict of the pairs of opposites) is necessarily concerned with the bringing in of that vibratory activity which will lead to unity, to harmony and to right relations, and to the release of the intuition. d. the problems incident to the activity of inactivity of the centres are perhaps the most important- 80- a treat

he aspirant, which has its own effect upon the heart and a reciprocal effect upon the ajna centre. there are, consequently, two important triangles to consider: just as there is, astrologically, a science of triangles, so there will later be developed a science of triangles in relation to the human system. but the time is not yet. i but give occasional indications of such a science upon which the intuition of disciples may play- 103- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the solar plexus is a reflection in the personality of the "heart of the sun" just as the heart centre is. it is the central factor in the life of the personality for all humanity below the grade of probationary disciple. at that point the mind definitely begins to function

to see visually where the difficulty lies. this form of diagnosis is not always accurate and can be "coloured" by conditions present in the healer himself. 2. there is a form of direct perception, a process of "clear knowing" which is a soul faculty and infallible, once a person has been rightly trained in its use. it is a blend of mental and spiritual perception and is definite knowledge, or an intuition, if you like, which enables the healer unerringly to put his finger on the place of difficulty and to know its cause, its effect and its end. 3. there is also a more physical method, which is based on sensitivity in the lower nature, which enables the healer to register in his own body the same difficulty of which the patient is aware- 182- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoter

can easily distinguish between soul and personality healing energies, but the average intelligent aspirant as- 211- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust yet cannot. the initiate knows the source from which any type of healing energy may come. he senses its vibration and can follow it to its emanating source by an effort of the will, directed by the intuition. the clairvoyant can see the centre from which the healing energy can flow, and the centre then indicates the type and quality of the projected force. all energy is from the soul in the secondary instance, but in the primary sense all energy is simply life, functioning under direction of some kind. as to the part love has to play in the healing process: love is the life expression of god

rection. man stands in all fields of knowledge at a climaxing point; this has been induced by the rapid unfoldment of the human consciousness, and it prefaces a great expansion of the understanding and a new insight into the conditioning causes which are responsible for much that today distresses man's physical body. the new learning and the coming knowledge will arise as a result of an awakening intuition, of the presence upon earth of a very great number of advanced and developed souls, and the coming of the hierarchy and humanity into a closer relationship. the blending (slowly going forward) of the energies of those two planetary centres will bring about major changes and unfoldments, and this not only in the perceptive faculties of man but in the physical mechanism also. there will be

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

in the same way that the three major rays are enhanced and aided by the work of the four minor rays. these four attributive unfoldments in man, through the activity of the soul in manifestation, are: 4. the attribute of harmony, produced through conflict. this leads to release and to the eventual power to create. this is one of the attributes which education should deal with from the angle of the intuition and should hold before its exponents as personality and group objectives. it is the attribute latent in all forms and is that innate urge or discontent which leads man to struggle and progress and evolve in order finally to make atonement and union with his soul. it is the lowest aspect of that higher spiritual and monadic triad which reflects itself in the soul. it is the consciousness

ing as a basic premise the essentially supernormal potentialities of the human being, we might say that: the first effort of education to civilise the child will be to train and rightly direct his instincts. the second obligation upon the educators will be to bring about his true culture, by training him to use his intellect rightly. the third duty of education will be to evoke and to develop the intuition. when these three are developed and functioning you will have a civilised, cultured and spiritually awakened human being. a man will then be instinctively correct, intellectually sound, and intuitively aware. his soul, his mind, and his brain will be functioning as they should and in right relation to each other, thus again producing coordination and correct alignment. some day an analys

will be made of the contribution of the three great continents asia, europe and america to this triple unfoldment, as far as the aryan race is concerned. the glory of humanity must, however, be remembered; it consists in this: each race has produced those who have expressed the highest which was possible in their day and time men who blended in themselves the triplicity of instinct, intellect and intuition. their numbers were relatively few in the early stages of mankind's unfoldment, but the process of speeding up the development is rapidly going forward, and many are today fitting themselves for the "higher education" in the true sense of the term. much more will be accomplished when the educators of the world grasp the purpose of the process as a whole planned unfoldment, and will then

city and their intuitional potentiality. in infancy and in the earlier school grades, the development of right instinctual reactions will be watched and cultivated; in the later grades, in what is equivalent to the high schools or the secondary schools, the intellectual unfoldment and control of the mental processes will be emphasised, whilst in the colleges and universities the unfoldment of the intuition, the importance of ideals and ideas and the development of abstract thinking and perception will be fostered; this latter phase will be soundly based upon the previous sound intellectual foundation. these three factors instinct, intellect and intuition provide the keynotes for the three scholastic institutions through which every young person will pass and through which, today, many thou

ong all nations. but today there is no training given upon the process of contacting the world of patterns and upon the- 78- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust true interpretation of ideas, and hence the problems. later, when the race sees its problem with clarity, it will act with wisdom and train with care its observers and communicators. these will be men and women in whom the intuition has awakened at the behest of an urgent intellect; they will be people whose minds are so subordinated to the group good, and so free from all sense of separativeness, that their minds present no impediment to the contact with the world of reality and of inner truth. they will not necessarily be people who could be termed 'religious' in the ordinary sense of that word, but they will be m

order to make him: a. an intelligent citizen of two worlds. b. a wise parent. c. a controlled and directed personality. section two: the antahkarana i. the nature of the antahkarana. a. the bridge between the three aspects of the mind: 1. the lower concrete mind, the receptive common sense. 2. the individualised mind or the soul, the spiritual ego. 3. the higher abstract mind or the factor of the intuition. b. the agent of alignment between: 1. mind and brain or man in the three worlds. 2. personality and soul. ii. the technique of constructing the antahkarana. a. its construction up till the present time. b. the immediate task ahead. c. the seven ray methods employed in this construction process. iii. the antahkarana and the new education. a. the practical results of the new technique: 1

ing the antahkarana. a. its construction up till the present time. b. the immediate task ahead. c. the seven ray methods employed in this construction process. iii. the antahkarana and the new education. a. the practical results of the new technique: 1. will induce wholeness or the ability to see life whole. 2. will foster the sense of synthesis and therefore the group spirit. 3. will develop the intuition and the ability to contact the world of ideas. 4. will train the will, especially the will-to-good. b. the mystical results will be: 1. the development of the mystical sense and the mystical realisation of duality. 2. the recognition of a new objective: a. the objective is to integrate the personality. b. next, the objective is to give the vision of the soul, the central self- 100- educa

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ngle of initiation and in preparation for the second or the third initiation. bear this in mind. hitherto i have not taught you from that particular angle, but i have instructed you as accepted disciples in training for preparation a much earlier stage. these hints i will convey to you in the ancient symbolic formulas which will require much deep reflection on your part and an effort to evoke the intuition and thus arrive at the three meanings which they hold for you, and for disciples like you. there are literally seven meanings, but i would advise you to confine yourself to the comprehension of the first three. there will be one meaning for your personality, indicating certain brain and mind realisations which are essential for the right transmission of force upon the physical plane one

in humanity's effort to confront the group dweller on the threshold; this "dweller" is constructed of the evil desires of all mankind, of humanity's mistakes and weaknesses, thoughts, distorted strengths and perverse motives. this confronting is one of the objectives of the present world war. 3. to arrive at that understanding which is the foundation of wisdom, which is the result of a developed intuition, and which is also an intelligent application of the truths apprehended. 4. to stand as a group before the angel of the presence. 5. to take initiation yourself, as an individual, and also as a coherent unit in the group effort towards initiation. other goals will emerge as you strive, study and serve; the simplicity, however, of the above statement will convey to you your immediate obje

rapport with your fellow workers and with me. i am the director of your work. that this relationship may prove the signal achievement of the coming year for each and all of you is my earnest wish. november-december 1949 my brothers of long association: in my last instruction to you i gave you only a very little teaching anent group work, though there were several significant hints if you had the intuition to grasp them. i have, however, given you much over the years; yet, when i look back over those years, i am forced to realise how relatively little you have profited by this teaching upon group work, though many of you have profited much by the personal instructions i gave you. only sixteen of you are left out of an original fifty aspirants to discipleship; i think you yourselves would b

tion to the task in hand. personalities do not enter in. you will remember how some years ago i told you that the personality vehicles are ever left outside the ashram speaking symbolically. this means that the subtler bodies of the personality have perforce to follow the same rules as the physical body they are left outside. remember also that the ashrams exist upon the plane of buddhi or of the intuition. the joint undertaking and the united adhering to the desired and arranged cyclic technique binds all members of the ashram into one synthetic whole; there is therefore no possible controversy or any emphasis upon individual ideas, because no personality vibratory quality can penetrate in the periphery or the aura of an ashram. 3. the planning and the assignment of tasks connected with t

rs view the work of their disciples from this symbolic angle. the disciple who reaps the benefit of this last suggested meditation becomes through an enlargement of his consciousness and the greater scope of his vision "a sower of the seed within the world of men; he distributes ideas, living and potential, in the field of the world, and these he receives from two sources: 1. his own soul, as his intuition awakens. 2. the ashram, as he grasps more of its purposes and becomes accustomed to assimilating its teachings. this takes time. still another objective of this meditation was to bring the disciple to the point where his interest (evoked through the stages of recognition and consideration) would lead him to a realisation of the need for the evocation of the will, the first faint indicati

ty, thus universalising the concept, seeing its relationship to world affairs, its usefulness and spiritual value to humanity as a whole. 3. holding the mind in the light, you will then write down the first thought (no matter what it is) that enters into your waiting mind in connection with the theme of your meditation. the ability to do this will grow with practice, and will eventually evoke the intuition and thus fertilise your mind. 4. again sound the om, with the intent of refocussing yourself upon the mental plane. if your work has been successful, your original focus will have shifted to intuitional levels or to the levels of the higher, abstract mind, via the antahkarana. this must happen, in time, if your work- 101- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust

e men of goodwill and of humanitarian attitudes: it is, finally, the intuitive appeal of the aspirants and the disciples of the world for the full expression in time and space of the will-to-good the will of god. average instinctual humanity, the men and women of goodwill, and the disciples of the world are all concerned in this invocation, bringing in the attributes of instinct, intelligence and intuition. all three are blended in this great invocation. have also constantly in mind this basic fusion, now finding voiced expression, and take courage from the massed approach to the source of all life, love and light. nothing can withstand the united demand of men everywhere in their graded and their serried ranks. this entire invocation refers esoterically to the "raincloud of knowable thing

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the threshold of consciousness, but are actively used and functioning, it means that the solar plexus centre is open and active. when the corresponding mental faculties are present in consciousness, then it means that the throat centre and the centre between the eyebrows are becoming "awake" and active. but the higher psychic powers, such as spiritual perception with its infallible knowledge, the intuition with its unerring judgment, and psychometry of the higher kind with its power to reveal the past and the future, are the prerogatives of the divine soul. these higher powers come into play when the head and heart centres, as well as the throat centre, are brought into activity as the result of meditation and- 6- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust service. let

needless to say, and resembles an animated and galvanised shell- 8- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust because there is in this form much emotional substance and also a certain amount of mental substance, it can make a wide appeal and its validity is such that like all shells, for instance, which are contacted in the seance room, it masquerades as myself and where the intuition is unawakened the illusion is complete and real. devotees can therefore tune in with great facility on this illusory form and be completely deceived. its vibration is of a relatively high order. its mental effect is like a beautiful parody of myself and serves to place the deluded devotees in touch with the scroll of the astral light, which is the reflection of the akashic records. these

unfoldment until today many are seeing the vision, sensing the plan, and dreaming dreams which they can work out together. this they can do because they recognise each other, because they are beginning to know themselves and each other as souls, because their understanding is united and because (and this is of prime importance) the light of the intellect, the light of knowledge, the light of the intuition and the light of understanding is evoked within them; it enters not from without; and in that light, together, they see light. it is a group activity, a group recognition, and the result of group at-one-ment. all this is, however, so new and relatively so rare that these groups remain as yet in an embryonic stage. we call them the seed groups of the new age. there are many such, as i tol

pathy to which humanity can become sensitive, even if unconsciously so, is part of the task which the first group, the telepathic communicators, has undertaken. they are the custodians of the group purpose, and work on mental levels. the second group, the trained observers, has the objective to see clearly through- 21- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the use of the intuition; they serve on astral levels. the third group, the magnetic healers, has the objective of working with forces on the physical plane. the other six groups will be mentioned later. you have become somewhat accustomed to the concept of these groups. the novelty is dying out and you are apt to ask yourselves whether there is, in the last analysis, anything really new in them. i will give you

ey are, in fact, a very small number indeed. in connection with the "seed-groups" which are fusing and blending in humanity at this time, and which in their totality constitute the nucleus of the fifth kingdom, the distinguishing quality is the ability to respond intuitionally to higher impression and to present the mind (with which humanity was endowed in the earlier process) to the light of the intuition and hence to illumination. this intuition is a blend of the two divine qualities of buddhi-manas, or intuitive- 64- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritual understanding (involving interpretation and identification) and the higher abstract mind, which is essentially the power to comprehend that which is not concrete or tangible but which is, in reality

s lower nature and quiet the voices of his own ideas in order to understand and achieve identification with that which must be loved. can you follow the beauty of this concept and comprehend the nature of this silent depth of true understanding? wisdom is the sublimation of the intellect, but this involves the sublimation of the higher as well as of the lower aspects of the mind. it is a blend of intuition, spiritual perception, cooperation with the plan and spontaneous intellectual appreciation of that which is contacted, and all this is fused and blended with and by the love which i have defined above, plus that esoteric sense which must be unfolded before the second initiation can be taken. i call this especially to your attention. seek to understand and perceive the subtle evidences of

e responsibility lies behind the philanthropy, the educational systems, and the welfare movements throughout the world. the progress of the human spirit has been one of irresistible unfoldment, of a developing appreciation of reality, beauty and wisdom- 122- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust instinct has developed into intellect; intellect is beginning to unfold into intuition. the significance of god, the registering of man's divine potentialities, and the increasing capacity to understand and to share in the thought processes of others all these indicate progress and unfoldment. this picture of the beauty of the human spirit must be placed beside the earlier picture of man's selfishness and cruelty, of man's inhumanity to man. both pictures are true, but onl

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

the inner sight and intuitive comprehension comes the opportunity to aid that apprehension and to lead a despairing world deep cast into darkness and distress one step nearer to the light. the work you have to do is to take the knowledge which is yours and adjust its application to the world's need so that recognition of the truth may be rapid. in the heart of every man lies hid the flower of the intuition. on that you can depend, and no eternal or cosmic fact clothed in a suitable form will fail to receive its meed of recognition and understanding. introductory statement- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust i have called you from refreshment to labour at this time (october 1942) because the coming few days are exceedingly busy

he activity of the lower or concrete mind, of the lower personal self, and the subordination of the knowledge aspect of the soul to the clear pure light of the divine understanding. when these two factors are beginning to be active, you will have the emergence of true spiritual activity upon the physical plane, motivated from the high source of the monad, and implemented by the pure reason of the intuition. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that these higher spiritual faculties can only be brought into play when the bridging antahkarana is beginning to play its part. hence the teaching which i am giving on the construction of the rainbow bridge. these rules are in reality great formulas of approach, but they indicate approach to a specific section of the path and not approach to the i

olic way of indicating that the personality life is definitely and finally left behind. it is this phrase which gives the clue to the initiation which is referred to in this rule. each of these rules contains within itself the clue to the particular initiation to which reference is being made. the rules are not placed in their right order, having sequential reference to the seven initiations. the intuition of the aspirant must be invoked if he is to arrive at right knowledge. i shall sometimes indicate the initiation involved, but not always, as it would profit not. the clue to the seventh initiation which lies ahead for such high beings as the christ would be of no service to you at all. the clue to the initiation of the transfiguration can be of importance, as it involves the personality

thdraw not now your application. you could not, if you would; but add to it three great demands and- 31- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust forward move. let there be no recollection and yet let memory rule. work from the point of all that is within the content of the group's united life. a close analysis of this rule will convey to the intuition far more than appears upon the surface, and that is rich enough. each of these rules holds in it the seed of that understanding which must be evoked before the next rule can be mastered. all that is given is ever based on that which has gone before. the "three great demands" of the initiate are based upon the "triple call" found in rule two for aspirants and disciples. the triple call wa

em into manifestation. this, i would remind you, is always done by the use of the will and from a point of tension. 1. the word has now gone forth from the great point of tension: accepted as a group. i would like here to call your attention to the progressive nature of the esoteric science; it is nowhere better illustrated than in this phrase; nowhere is it more clearly shown and yet, unless the intuition and the sense of correlation are functioning, the idea might escape recognition. in all the teaching given to the aspirant and to the disciple in the early stages of their training, the emphasis has been upon the "point of light" which must be discovered, brought into full illumination, and then so used that the one in whom the light shines becomes a light-bearer in a dark world. this, t

nd is an effort, at any cost, to serve that plan as it is progressively understood and grasped. this expresses itself in the cultivation of goodwill, as understood by the average intelligent human being and put into action as a way of life. 2. the stage wherein the love aspect of the soul is brought into touch with the corresponding aspect of the triad, to which we give the inadequate name of the intuition. this is in reality divine insight and comprehension, as expressed through the formulation of ideas. here you have an instance of the inadequacy of modern language; ideas are formless and are in effect points of energy, outward moving in order eventually to express some "intention" of the divine creating logos. when the initiate grasps this and identifies himself with it, his goodwill ex

pyright 1998 lucis trust one in whom all the planetary logoi live and move and have their being, for they are centres in the life which is expressing itself through the medium of a solar system. you can see how little use there is in my enlarging further upon this. its sole usefulness is to give an expanding impulse to the consciousness of the disciple and to stir his imagination (the seed of the intuition, so that even whilst occupied in expressing the m and then the m, he will be reaching out after the sound. earlier i pointed out that the sound of the a.u.m, the sound of the o.m. and the sound itself are all related to vibration and to its differing and varied effects. the secret of the law of vibration is progressively revealed as people learn to sound forth the word in its three aspec

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

he tremendous battle through the medium of which the self-conscious individual, emerging out of the mass in cancer, knows himself to be the individual in leo, the potential christ in virgo, the aspirant endeavoring to balance the pairs of opposites in libra, and the one who overcomes illusion, in scorpio. these are the four signs of crisis and of stupendous endeavor. in them all the illumination, intuition and soul power of which hercules, the aspirant, is capable, are utilized to the uttermost. these have their reflection, too, on the involutionary arc, and a similar sequence of unfoldment can be traced. the soul achieves individuality in leo, becomes the nurturer of ideas and of potential capacities in virgo, swings violently from one extreme to the other in libra, and is subjected to th

f the signs, as they affect hercules, will serve to give some idea of the wonderful synthesis of the picture, and of the steady progression, and of the controlled unfolding of the various forces which play their subtle parts in bringing about the changes in the life of man. three words summarize the objective self-awareness or the conscious aspect of the evolving human being: instinct, intellect, intuition. the sign which we are now studying is predominantly the sign of instinct; but the sublimation of instinct is the intuition. in the same way, as matter has to be lifted up into heaven, so instinct has to be likewise lifted up, and when it has been thus transcended and transmuted, it manifests as intuition (symbolized by the doe. the intermediate stage is that of the intellect. the great

udying is predominantly the sign of instinct; but the sublimation of instinct is the intuition. in the same way, as matter has to be lifted up into heaven, so instinct has to be likewise lifted up, and when it has been thus transcended and transmuted, it manifests as intuition (symbolized by the doe. the intermediate stage is that of the intellect. the great need of hercules now is to develop his intuition and to become familiar with that instantaneous recognition of truth and reality which is the high prerogative and potent factor in the life of a liberated son of god. meaning of the story eurystheus, therefore, sent hercules to capture the golden horned keryneian doe or hind. the word "hind" comes from an old gothic word, meaning "that which must be seized, in other words, that which is

at mykenae, where he laid it down before the altar, in the holy place. then he stood back, pleased with his success. this is one of the shortest of the stories but though we are told very little, this labor, when considered thoughtfully, is one of profound and outstanding interest and the lesson it holds is of deep import. there is no success for the aspirant until he has transmuted instinct into intuition, nor is there right use of the intellect until the intuition is brought into play, interpreting and extending the intellect and bringing realization. then instinct is subordinated to both [85] labor iv the capture of the doe or hind- part 2 (cancer, june 21st- july 21st) qualities of the sign cancer is called the crab and the greeks tell us that it was the crab that was sent by hera to b

ctively, his lower mind and emotional being. the unevolved cancer native is immersed in the mass; he is an unconscious part of the great whole, and therein lies the problem; for the average cancer person, as well as for the aspirant who is performing the labor of this sign, is subjected to the urge to lift himself up out of the mass to which he is held, by his instinct, and to develop instead the intuition, which will enable him so to rise. this sign is sometimes called "the coffin, by the hebrews, because it marks loss of identity, whilst, the early christians called it "the grave of lazarus, who was raised from the dead. in these words "coffin "grave "crab, and in the reference which we sometimes find to cancer as "the womb, we have the thought of hidden life, of a veiling form, of poten

imes find to cancer as "the womb, we have the thought of hidden life, of a veiling form, of potentiality, and of that struggle with circumstances which will eventually produce, in leo, the emergence of the individual and, in capricorn, the birth of a world savior. definitely, therefore, it portrays the struggle that goes on in the life of the aspirant so that instinct can give place eventually to intuition. at-one-ment with capricorn it is interesting to contrast the two signs, cancer and capricorn, for that which is indicated in cancer is consummated in capricorn. cancer represents the home, the mother. it is personal and emotional, whilst capricorn represents the group [89] which the unit consciously enters, and also "the father of all that is. the gate of cancer is entered through the p

constellations covered by this immense sign, that instinct demonstrates as intellect in a human being as he develops self-consciousness and emerges from out the purely animal stage, until the time comes when, having progressed around and around the zodiac, the aspirant finds himself again in cancer, faced with the problem of finding that elusive, sensitive, and deeply occult, or hidden, spiritual intuition which will guide him in his now lonely journey; the aspirant is no longer identified and lost in the mass; he is no longer one of the sheep, safely guarded in the sheepfold; he is no longer one of the great herd of emigrants, but he has emerged out of the mass and has started on the lonely way of all disciples. then he treads the path of tribulation, of test and trial, wrestling by himse

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

emiah; while the two books each of samuel, kings, and chronicles, they called one each. the canon of thirty-nine works was fixed in the time of ezra. returning to the books which illustrate the kabalah, whatever may be the authenticity of their alleged origins, it cannot be denied that those ancient volumes, sepher yetzirah and zohar, contain a system of spiritual philosophy of clear design, deep intuition and far-reaching cosmologic suggestions; that are well worthy of the honour of receiving a special name and of founding a theological body of doctrine--the kabalah. the bulwark and main foundation of the public hebrew religion has always been the pentateuch, five treatises attributed to moses, which proclaim the laws of jehovah given to his chosen people. the old testament beginning with

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ths which lead to it. xeper such as it is results in a deeper recognition of self consciousness, i.e, the uniquely human ability to sense its separateness within the body even while it resides within it. this heightened sense of self being, itself the result of polaric constituents- its me, in this other thing called a body- becomes a building block of a personal methodology based upon knowledge, intuition, learning and change as a result of the preceding. the results of xeper are manifestations into the world of ideas, art, science and culture. for the individual the results of xeper become a metaphysical departure point for developing a bond with the prince of darkness by creating a matrix of linked ideas whose path leads towards the genesis of self being. you'll find another comment or

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

long past preceding manvantaras; another mystery. but, later on, as nirmanakayas, they sacrificed themselves for the good and salvation of the monads which were waiting for their turn, and which otherwise would have had to linger for countless ages in irresponsible, animal-like, though in appearance human, forms. it may be a parable and an allegory within an allegory. its solution is left to the intuition of the student, if he only reads that which follows with his spiritual eye. as to their fashioners or "ancestors- those angels who, in the exoteric legends, obeyed the law- they must be identical with the barhishad pitris, or the pitar-devata, i.e, those possessed of the physical creative fire. they could only create, or rather clothe, the human monads with their own astral selves, but t

asuras, the rudras, and the pitris, for the simple reason that they are all one- i.e, correlative forces and fires. there is no space to describe these "fires" and their real meaning here, though we may attempt to do so if the third and fourth volumes of this work are ever published. meanwhile a few more explanations may be added. the foregoing are all mysteries which must be left to the personal intuition of the student for solution, rather than described. if he would learn something of the secret of the fires, let him turn to certain works of the alchemists, who very correctly connect fire with every element, as do the occultists. the reader must remember that the ancients considered religion, and the natural sciences along with philosophy, to be closely and inseparably linked together

reserving her wrath for those alone who are maddened with pride, egoism, and impiety (see mesomed. hymn. nemes, v. 2. brunck, analecta ii. p. 292; mythol. de la grece antique, p. 304) in short, while nemesis is a mythological, exoteric goddess, or power, personified and anthropomorphised in its various aspects, karma is a highly philosophical truth, a most divine noble expression of the primitive intuition of man concerning deity. it is a doctrine which explains the origin of evil, and[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 306 the secret doctrine. for karma is one with the unknowable, of which it is an aspect in its effects in the phenomenal world. intimately, or rather indissolubly, connected with karma, then, is the law of re-birth, or of the re-incarnation of the same spiritua

obe g. just as each planetary round commences with the appearance of a 'root manu (dhyan chohan) and closes with a 'seed-manu' so a root and a seed manu appear respectively at the beginning and the termination of the human period on any particular planet* it will be easily seen from the foregoing statement that a manu-antaric period means, as the term implies, the time between the[[footnote(s* an intuition and a presentiment of the sishtas may be found in mr. sinnett's "esoteric buddhism" fifth edition. see in it annotations- the "noah's ark theory" pp. 146, 147* the fact that manu himself is made to declare that he was created by viraj, and that he then produced the ten prajapatis, who again produced seven manus, who in their turn gave birth to seven other manus (manu, i, 33-36) relates t

quainted with astronomy and mathematics, throw a retrospective glance into the twilight and shadows of the past. let him observe, take notes of what he knows of the history of peoples and nations, and collate their respective rises and falls with what is known of astronomical cycles- especially with the sidereal year, equal to 25,868 of our solar years* if the observer is gifted with the faintest intuition, then will he find how the weal and woe of nations is intimately connected with the beginning and close of this sidereal cycle. true, the non-occultist has the disadvantage that he has no such far distant times to rely upon. he knows nothing, through exact science, of what took place nearly 10,000 years ago; yet he may find consolation in the knowledge or- if he so prefers- speculation o

as men, in bharata-varsha" exclaim the incarnated gods themselves, during the third root-race. bharata is india, but in this case it symbolized the chosen land in those days, and was considered the best of the divisions of jambu-dwipa, as it was the land of active (spiritual) works par excellence; the land of initiation and of divine knowledge. can one fail to recognise in creuzer great powers of intuition, when, being almost unacquainted with the aryan hindu philosophies, little known in his day, he wrote "we modern europeans feel surprised when hearing talk of the spirits of the sun, moon, etc. but we repeat again, the natural good sense and the upright[[footnote(s* see also memoires a l'academie, etc, of de mirville, vol. iii, for a mass of evidence* in vishnu-purana, book ii, chap. 3

when woman knew no man, and human progeny was created, not begotten. that state will return to it and to the world at large, when the latter shall discover and really appreciate the truths which underlie this vast problem of sex. it will be like "the light that never shone on sea or land" and has to come to men through the theosophical society. that light will lead on and up to the true spiritual intuition. then (as expressed once in a letter to a theosophist "the world will have a race of buddhas and christs, for the world will have discovered that individuals have it in their own powers to procreate buddha-like children- or demons "when that knowledge comes, all dogmatic religions, and with these the demons, will die out" if we reflect upon the serial development of the allegory, and the

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ine thought" like that of "universal mind" must not be regarded as even vaguely shadowing forth an intellectual process akin to that exhibited by man. the "unconscious" according to von hartmann, arrived at the vast creative, or rather evolutionary plan "by a clairvoyant wisdom superior to all consciousness" which in the vedantic language would mean absolute wisdom. only those who realise how far intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception of[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 2 the secret doctrine. it is the one life, eternal, invisible, yet omnipresent, without beginning or end, yet periodical in its regular manifestations, between which periods reigns the dark mystery of non-being; unconscious, yet absolute consciousne

only be suggested by the negatives of all those most abstract attributes which men feel rather than conceive, as the remotest limits attainable by their power of conception. the stage described in stanza ii. is, to a western mind, so nearly identical with that mentioned in the first stanza, that to express the idea of its difference would require a treatise in itself. hence it must be left to the intuition and the higher faculties of the reader to grasp, as far as he can, the meaning of the allegorical phrases used. indeed it must be remembered that all these stanzas appeal to the inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the physical brain. stanza iii. describes the re-awakening of the universe to life after pralaya. it depicts the emergence of the "monads" from their s

ge it is known as "dangma's opened eye" in esoteric phraseology* dangma means a purified soul, one who has become a jivanmukta, the highest adept, or rather a mahatma so-called. his "opened eye" is the inner spiritual eye of the seer, and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood, i.e, the power of seeing at a distance, but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. this faculty is intimately connected with the "third eye" which mythological tradition ascribes to certain races of men. fuller explanations will be found in book ii[[vol. 1, page] 47 the eye of dangma. whereas, it is on the contrary buddhism (of gautama, the buddha) that was "evoked" and entirely upreared on the tenets of the se

ic course are doomed to annihilation sooner or later. others moving in parabolic curves generally escape destruction, owing to their velocity. some very critical readers will perhaps imagine that this teaching, as to the cometary stage passed through by all heavenly bodies, is in contradiction with the statements just made as to the moon being the mother of the earth. they will perhaps fancy that intuition is needed to harmonize the two. but no intuition is in truth required. what does science know of comets, their genesis, growth, and ultimate behaviour? nothing- absolutely nothing! and what is there so impossible that a laya centre- a lump of cosmic protoplasm, homogeneous and latent, when suddenly animated or fired up- should rush from its bed in space and whirl throughout the abysmal d

ictly figurative sense (the only way in which it can be used correctly "a two-dimensional species" the processes of natural development which we are now considering will at once elucidate and discredit the fashion of speculating on the attributes of the two, three, and four or more "dimensional space" but in passing, it is worth while to point out the real significance of the sound but incomplete intuition that has prompted- among spiritualists and theosophists, and several great men of science, for the matter of that- the use of the modern expression "the fourth dimension of space" to begin with, of course, the superficial absurdity of assuming that space itself is measurable in any direction is of little consequence. the familiar phrase can only be an abbreviation of the fuller form- the

n addendum is added to every book contrasting our respective views and showing how even great authorities may often err. we believe that this can be done effectually by showing the weak points of our opponents, and by proving their too frequent sophisms- made to pass for scientific dicta- to be incorrect. we hold to hermes and his "wisdom- in its universal character; they- to aristotle as against intuition and the experience of the ages, fancying that truth is the exclusive property of the western world. hence the disagreement. as hermes says "knowledge differs much from sense; for sense is of things that surmount it, but knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense- i.e, of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect; thus emphasizing the contrast between the laboriously acquired knowledg

ossess it in its entirety, for even the vedas are not complete. every old religion is but a chapter or two of the entire volume of archaic primeval mysteries- eastern occultism alone being able to boast that it is in possession of the full secret, with its seven keys. comparisons will be instituted, and as much as possible will be explained in this work- the rest is left to the student's personal intuition. for in saying that eastern occultism has the secret, it is not as if a "complete" or even an approximate knowledge was claimed by the writer, which would be absurd. what i know, i give out; that which i cannot explain, the student must find out for himself. but while supposing that the whole cycle of the universal mystery language will not be mastered for whole centuries to come, even t

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nation by their use. liber cdxii. a vel armorum. an instruction for the preparation of the elemental instruments. the equinox 32 liber cdlxxiv. liber os abysmi vel daath. an instruction in a purely intellectual method of entering the abyss. liber dcccxi. energized enthusiasm. this course is specially adapted to the task of this grade, the attainment of control of the body of light, development of intuition, et cetera. course iv the zelator will be examined in the following books: liber ccxx. liber l vel legis sub figur ccxx as delivered by xciii unto dclxvi. this book is the foundation of the new on, and thus of the whole of our work. liber cmlxiii (only the short note pertains to class a) this book is a superb collection of litanies appropriate to the signs of the zodiac. liber cmxiii. li

ith me in that which i shall right concerning light: for here is a difficulty, ever increasing, in the use of words. moreover, i am myself carried away constantly and overwhelmed by the sublimity of this matter, so that plain speech may whirl into lyric, when i would plod the equinox 120 peaceably with didactic, expression. my best hope is that you may understand by virtue of the sympathy of your intuition, even as two lovers may converse in language as unintelligible to others as it seemeth silly, wanton, and dull, or as in that other intoxication given by ether the partakers commune with infinite wit, or wisdom, as the mood taketh them, by means of a word or a gesture, being initiated to apprehension by the subtlety of the drug. so may i that am inflamed with love of this light, and drun

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him begin, who would know, by locating his belief till he sees his will. existing as dual, they are identical in desire, by their duality there is no control, for will and belief are ever at variance, and each would shape the other to its ends, in the issue neither wins as the joy is a covert of sorrow. let him unite them. the cloudy enemies born of stagnant self-hypnotism. natural belief is the intuition that compels belief through that which is experienced reacting, and dominating in turns; everything has to associate itself through its definite emotion, stimulated by those in harmony; those discordant, lose cogency and inhibit. so by its own workings belief is limited and determined for you. the majority of our actions can be traced back to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in confli

ned, the study of knowledge is unproductive. even if "they" were known their study is useless. we are not the object by the perception, but by becoming it. closing the gateways of sense is no help. verily i will make common-sense the foundation of my teaching. otherwise, how can i convey my meaning to the deaf, vision to the blind, and my emotion to the dead? in a labyrinth of metaphor and words, intuition is lost, therefore without their effort must be learned the truth about one's self from him who alone knows the truth. yourself. of what use the wisdom of virginity to him who has been raped by the seducer, ignorance? of what use sciences or any knowledge except as medicine? hidden treasure does not come at the word nor by digging with your hands in the main road. even with the proper im

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give yourself to it and move ever upward, ever inward, into and through. you may have a difficult time keeping the conscious mind still at first. your consciousness is like a spoiled child, constantly demanding attention. once it begins to become disciplined you will begin to notice positive results.you may not have dramatic, earth-shaking experiences, but you will begin to notice a deepening of intuition. you will begin to "know" things that you have not known before. this is proof that your meditation is working and the power of the kundalini is waking. when you first begin to meditate you will find it difficult to sit still for more than a few minutes at a time. your mind wants to wander, your body wants to fidget and may even develop a great itch demanding to be scratched! it will tak

n be separated from the individual who dreams it" keep this thought in mind as you study the following concepts. notice that almost all of the universal symbols have various shades of meaning. in fact, some even have contradictory meanings. the interpretation of such symbols can only be done by you, the dreamer, through consideration of your own feelings towards the dream, the symbol and your own intuition. the dream is a complex and almost limitless combination of symbols. it can be analytical, judgemental or therapeutic in nature. the majority of dreams are analytical. that is, they provide a means for the higher self to comment on your everyday life and your spiritual development. it will analyze how you are relating to your environment and your fellow man and woman. a small percentage

ween the material and the spiritual; mental and physical. it signifies psychism, peace and completion of the second plane. it is twice three. seven completion; old age; endurance; evolution and wisdom. the seven stages of spiritual transformation. four and three. eight the number of dissolution and separation.the law of cyclic evolution and invention. five and three. nine rebirth and reformation. intuition; travel; karma and completion of the third plane. three times three. zero the circle. infinity; the universe; the all. ocean: opportunity; spirituality. owl: wisdom; need for further evaluation. pearl: joy. broken string of pearls misunderstanding. pirate: suspicion. prison: see jail. lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 187 pyramid: thirst for knowledge; seeking. railr

people are alike. if you are reading for two different people and the same card happens to come up in the same position for both of them, it is highly unlikely that it will have the same meaning (the interpretation found in the book) for both people. they are each individuals; it will mean something different for each of them. how, then, do you interpret? go by your instincts; your feelings; your intuition. as you turn over each card, think of the position that it occupies. for example: position #6 the immediate future. what, of the illustration on the card, strikes you most forcibly as you turn it face up? invariably one thing one small part of the overall design will "hit your eye" first. think of what that object, color or symbol, can mean in relation to (in this example) the querant's

have existed when greece and rome were at their height. from the scattered information we have of keltic europe, there is some reason to believe that there, too, the hand was considered to reflect its owner. as with other types of divination, there is a fixed set of meanings to learn in this case, the map of the hand and the meaning of the lines. there is also the need for some carefully applied intuition. the hand changes throughout your life. the lines you see in your palm now are not quite the same as were there a year ago, and probably very different from five years ago. although your hand gives an outline of your life, it is only a tentative outline. you yourself will have the final decision on the course your life will take. whether you want the position or not, you are the captain

diagnostic; it is never a final pronouncement. as a palmist, your attitude is of great importance. never try to "second guess" your subject by adding on-the-spot observations and facts you may know beforehand but which are not shown in the palm. if you are reading the palm; read the palm and only that. ideally you should know nothing whatsoever of the person you are reading. their hands and your intuition should be enough. anytime you are meeting someone for the first time, you can pick up a tentative and often very useful first impression of their personality by unobtrusively glancing at the lines of their hand. first observations different palmists have different ways of working, for this is a very individual art. some will explain each step to the subject, discussing the reason for eve

re is taken. if, however, a new line begins outside the break, or is parallel to the life line and continues unbroken along the mount of venus, the trouble will not be too drastic. the head and the heart note the relative lengths of the head and heart lines, for this will tell whether the subject tends towards things intellectual or whether she leans on the emotions and their very useful adjunct, intuition. for many people these lines are nearly equal in length; for others there will be more or less difference. here the palmist should use her or his own judgement as to how important this difference will be. the line of the head the line of the head shows, by its length and depth, the intellectual capability of the subject. as i lesson nine: divination/ 119 120/ buckland's complete book of

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

, but occasionally a man, the solitary witch practises eclectic magick drawn from a variety of traditions. in the further reading section on page 301, you will find some suggested books in which you can read about some of these different traditions. those expert in brews and potions are also called kitchen witches. indeed, many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who possessed a remarkable intuition, read the tea leaves and made herbal concoctions, were jokingly called witches by their own families- and were just that! seite 11 wicca01.txt all the rituals in this book can be carried out by a lone witch. you have your choice of groves, stone circles, the ocean shore, your garden or balcony, where you can connect with the powers of nature and work unobtrusively. whether you are workin

ese tasks as he could. as a result, he was admitted to the tuatha de danaan and eventually became their leader. you can invoke lugh especially at the time of lughnassadh, for the reaping of benefits sown earlier in the year, but also at any time for adaptability, versatility, innovation and originality. deities of the moon invoke these for gentle increase, power and banishing energies, fertility, intuition, magick and dreams. arianrhod arianrhod is a welsh goddess of the full moon and also of time, karma and destiny. she ruled over the realm of the celtic otherworld, called caer feddwidd, the fort of carousa. here a mystical fountain of wine offered eternal health and youth for those who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuven

mily harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women [insert pic p064] seite 35 wicca01.txt- astarte astarte is the supreme female divinity of the phoenicians, goddess of love and fertility, associated with the moon and all nature. invoke her for power and wisdom, seduction and passion as well as fertility. c

t fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of

sym11] aquarius, the water carrier: 21 january to 18 february. colour: indigo or dark blue. a fixed air sign, for independence, friendship, creativity and for detachment from emotional blackmail. ruled by saturn in the ancient system, now by uranus [symbol- sym12] pisces, the fish: 19 february to 20 march. colour: white or mauve. a mutable water sign, for spells to develop spiritual awareness and intuition, and for divination, especially involving water and the fulfilment of hidden dreams. ruled by jupiter in the ancient system, now by neptune. in magick, it tends to be the old rulerships that are used in spells (see planets and angels. colour correspondences colour is of great significance, both in healing and magick, and colour symbolism is used frequently with candles, and also with cry

ion with the moon in all its phases, was a goddess of fertility as well as love. it is also used on some altars to represent the goddess, with a gold candle for the horned god. silver is potent in all forms of divination, but especially for candle divination, for awakening clairvoyant powers, telepathic and psychometric abilities, astral projection, for rituals to invoke anima (female) power, for intuition and mysticism. it represents dreams, visions and a desire for fulfilment beyond the material world. in times of stress and sorrow, silver candles can remove negativity, promote inner stability and bring to the fore your hidden potential. silver candles are excellent for scrying, especially by the full moon, and for all magick involving the female life and for female fertility. silver can

d with healing and positive energies. elder wands are symbols of faerie magick and so are good for any visualisation seite 115 wicca01.txt work. hazel comes from the tree of wisdom and justice and is linked with the magick of the sun. the wand should be cut from a tree that has not yet borne fruit. rowan is a protective wood and so is good for defensive and banishing magick. willow is the tree of intuition and is said to be endowed with the blessing of the moon. you can also use a long, clear quartz crystal, pointed at one end and rounded at the other, as a wand. in its crystalline form, especially, the wand is used for directing healing energies from the circle to wherever they are needed. the wand is used for directing energies and for making circles of power in the air- hence the image

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is an elite core who work full time for the cause; a circle of members who know the agenda and work within their own organisations to achieve it; and an outer circle of members who are not aware of the real and full implications of the agenda, but are useful to the manipulators in the short term. not everyone who is a member of these organisations is a conscious manipulator and we need to use our intuition and the information presented by researchers to decide which ones know the score and which are being used without understanding what they are really involved in. in this chapter, i will outline the background and influence of these groupings and of their associated power blocs, the united nations and the european union. the royal institute of international affairs (riia) the anglo-americ

ed by former cia officer, miles copeland, as one of two religious-type groups with which the cia made 'arrangements. the other was called moral re-armament. the elite make sure they work through both sides whenever possible, in this case the 'cult' and the 'cult-busters. in doing so they control the actions and events the public mind sees and absorbs. from the evidence that i have seen and my own intuition, i sense the time approaching when a coordinated global campaign will be activated which seeks to discredit all alternative thinking, movements, and lifestyles. it is a time to be strong and determined and allow the power of love to win through. this same technique is being used against investigators into the global conspiracy. as more of the web and background is unravelled, there is a

age. i feel we have to be careful about this because much of this 'new thinking' appears to me to be like an old car resprayed. on the outside it looks new and fresh, but it is the same old vehicle underneath and the rust is starting to show. one of the foundations of the new age thinking is to urge people to ignore what the world may tell them they should think and to follow what their heart and intuition tells them. i could not agree more. but what do i see happening? i see people being told by elements within the new age what they should think and do. this is not done as a suggestion, it is almost an order. failing to accept this 'advice' is seen as confirmation that you have gone "off your path. for "off your path" read "the path that someone else thinks you should be on. are such peop

ot agree more. but what do i see happening? i see people being told by elements within the new age what they should think and do. this is not done as a suggestion, it is almost an order. failing to accept this 'advice' is seen as confirmation that you have gone "off your path. for "off your path" read "the path that someone else thinks you should be on. are such people not seeking to impose their intuition and their belief system on others instead of respecting another's right to follow their heart and instincts in the way they demand to be allowed to follow their own? i thought this was something the new age was supposed to be challenging, not perpetuating. i see censorship in the new age to keep out what would question the gathering and solidifying dogma at its core, and if people now aw

one too far in handing sovereignty to a centralised european cartel. the very idea of supporting a conservative mp on anything would give a coronary to a red or green robot radical. yet it is this very selectivity and lack of dogma that frees us from the programming quicker than anything else and sets us on the road to mental, emotional, and physical freedom. being selective and following our own intuition is the only way to avoid that. opening our minds doesn't require us to accept everything we hear. it requires us to look at all views and information and to take from them what feels right to us and not just to someone else. one final point about the conspiracy research scene which relates very much to the theme of the same thought patterns manifesting in different guises. there is an 42

ore important than thinking for ourselves is to feel for ourselves. in the centre of the chest we have a feeling centre called the heart chakra or heart vortex. it is from here that we express love in the fullest sense. it is from here also, and the solar plexus chakra, that we instinctively feel if something is right for us. it doesn't need words or explanations, it just feels right. this is our intuition speaking to us and our intuition is our connection to our higher consciousness. when i am faced with a choice between what my mind or my intuition is telling me, i go with the intuition every time these days. i often can't explain why i go to a certain place or embark on an area of exploration and research. it simply feels right to do so. the mind, even an open one, can be influenced by

when i am faced with a choice between what my mind or my intuition is telling me, i go with the intuition every time these days. i often can't explain why i go to a certain place or embark on an area of exploration and research. it simply feels right to do so. the mind, even an open one, can be influenced by the daily programming to some extent and it can go through lists of reasons why what our intuition is suggesting is not a good idea "what will my friends think? what about this or that consequence? don't do it, you fool" the feeling centre is not subject to those pressures because it is connected to a level of consciousness and knowledge that is beyond the manipulations of this physical world. as the spiritual renaissance proceeds, the feeling centre is being powerfully reactivated am

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d the ramayana. the naga race is related to another underworld race, the hindu demons, or rakshasas. they also possess, as individuals "magical stones, or a 'third eye' in the middle of their brows, known to many students of eastern mysticism today as a focal point for one of the higher chakras, or energy channel-points, of the human(oid) nervous system- the chakra associated with 'inner visions, intuition, and other esoteric concepts."10 the theme of ruling "royal" families and emperors claiming descent, and their right to rule, from the "serpent gods" can be found across the ancient world. these bloodlines and connections were symbolised by royal emblems in the form of a dragon, snake, sphinx, plumed serpent, or the tree-cross or ankh. in egypt they had an order called the djedhi (jedi i

ch of the reptilians "reptilians are intuitive or paranormal creatures. they live underground because of the sun. the radiation of the sun diminishes the production of seratonin and as seratonin is necessary for the stimulating of the pituitary gland or pineal gland to produce melotonin, they better stay underground. melotonin is indispensable for life. the more melotonin, the more life. the more intuition/paranormal you are the higher production of melotonin."47 draco= dracula this is where part of the symbolism in the story of dracula originates. it was written by the irish author bram stoker and published in 1897. stoker probably knew the score after years of research into the countless vampire legends. as a history channel documentary about stoker confirmed, there is no part of the wor

kind of swarm or hive mentality, very much like bees, and they have worked to make the human race a mirror of that. researcher frans kamp also came across this theme of the orion queen "the bee-queen has a herd. the memories of the herd/swarm are transferred to them by the female/queen. a chemical substance/hormone 'pheromones' is required for this in the same way as melotonin is needed for more intuition [interdimensional connection. the memories are the typical rules of behaviour of the herd. an animal is 146 t the dragon queens 147 pure subconscious. he lives on intuition. we call that paranormal. we humans use our brains. we think that brains do everything. the rest is instinct. well instinct is subconsious. our dna knows everything. your dna/subconscious keeps you alive, not your bra

disconnected from the true enormity of who and what we are. if you were the anunnaki-illuminati where would you want humanity to be- stuck in the droplet or sailing on the ocean? one way they do this is by feeding us drugs and chemicals that suppress brain function, clarity of thought, and the ability to connect powerfully with our higher levels of being, or "sixth sense" of psychic awareness and intuition. this is the real reason behind all the drugs, vaccines, and food additives we daily consume. 1 will give you some examples of this war on the human brain and immune system, but really the list is simply endless. serving the dragon: the future 355 aspartame1 one of the weapons is aspartame, an illuminati creation that suppresses the intellect. it is now used in thousands of foodstuffs an

ts or hemispheres, the right brain and the leftbrain, connected by a mass of nerve fibres. the left side is the rational, logical, and "intellectual. it works closely with the physical senses and can be summed up by can i touch it, see it, hear it, smell it, or taste it? ok, it must exist. it communicates through spoken words and written language. the right brain is where we manifest imagination, intuition, instincts, dream-states, the sub-conscious. it is the artist, musician, creative inspiration. it communicates through images and symbols, not words. this right side is closely related to the r-complex. reptilians communicate through imagery and symbols- just like the illuminati secret society network as widely detailed in the biggest secret and on my website. they have an entire secret

raction of all that is. if our radio and television could only tune to cnn or the bbc we would get a very narrow band of reality. it would be a desperately limited and biased vision of life and possibility. there would be so much that we would never know about. our physical senses disinform us in the same way, unless we balance that by opening ourselves to our higher frequencies of perception and intuition that can recognise an illusion when they see one. so the foundation of freedom from the matrix mentality is to know that we live in a dream world created by our own minds and those who condition them. more and more, i look at the physical world and see it as vibrating energy. the numbers and codes in the matrix movie is a good way to visualise it. i find that this constantly re-confirms

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988, a numberof people in bishopsville, south carolina said they were terrorised by a seven foot talllizard-man that had no hair, eyebrows or lips, three fingers on each hand and large slantedeyes that glowed red in colour. there were five sightings of this lizard-man and thestory was reported in the los angeles times and the herald examiner .35when you go with the flow of life and listen to your intuition, you are shown whatyou need to know by the incredible synchronicity that daily surrounds you and guidesyou through the smokescreens and the halls of mirrors. one day in february 1998 injohannesburg, south africa, i spent nearly five hours talking with a zulu shaman calledcredo mutwa. the word zulu means people from the stars because they believe theyare a royal race that originates beyon

in. and the truth shall set you free. the v atican itselfis wholly controlled by the brotherhood and one of its most important bases.christianity, like judaism and islam, was designed to achieve another vital part ofthe reptilian agenda: the suppression of the female energy, the intuitive connection tohigher levels of our multidimensional consciousness. once you suppress your feminineenergy, your intuition, you switch off your higher consciousness and become dominatedby your lower consciousness. you are isolated from your highest expression of love,wisdom and knowledge, and at the mercy of the manipulated information bombardingyour eyes and ears. this is why the brotherhood have sought to create a world in whichthe male energy has called the shots, on the surface at least. the state of bei

egative female energy and it is for this reasonthat in satanism the high priestess is considered as important as the priest, if not moreso. at that elite centre for satanism in belgium, the castle of darkness i mentioned inan earlier chapter, the top position in the hierarchy is not known as the king, but thequeen mother. so in the pont de lalma tunnel the positive female energy (love,compassion, intuition, symbolised by diana, was eliminated by the negative femaleenergy (manipulation, ritual death, symbolised by hecate and the crossroads.the death of dodi fayed was also crucial to the satanic symbolism. given thecircumstances of his death, it is quite a coincidence that his real name, emad el din, isarabic for pillar of faith. dodi was a nickname he was given as a toddler by his family.th

possible for those mindmanipulators at the global cutting edge.the pont de lalma is one of the most sacred places in the world to the brotherhoodand, as with the street plans in all their key cities, they made sure the site was full ofappropriate symbolism: the bridge, the underground chamber, the crossroads and thename. since my own spiritual awakening in 19901 have been guided by mysubconscious intuition to many earth power centres. often i have not been aware of thisat the time and only with hindsight have i seen how, on a non-conscious level, i hadbeen drawn to a major vortex point on the magnetic grid system and often to those ofparticular importance to the brotherhood. in 1994 i was on holiday with my family nearthe normandy coast in france and we decided to visit paris. it was a lon

nativecultures, the horrors of the inquisition, and the burning of great esoteric libraries likethe one in alexandria. balance= harmony. imbalance= disharmony. if you want dis-harmony you need imbalance. it is a simple fact and this has played a fundamental partin the brotherhoods techniques. the balanced female energy is the energy of intuitionand reconnection. this is where the idea of a womans intuition comes from. a femalebody is far more likely to manifest female energy in abundance and so most of theoracles, channellers and psychics in the ancient and modern world have tended to bewomen. but they dont have to be. men are just as capable of accessing their femalepolarity and using this creative force to connect with higher, intuitive levels of them-selves. but such a reconnection is n

rgy. they used religion to make women471servile to men with no opportunity to express themselves in their full glory. at the sametime they suppressed the female polarity in the male by creating the blueprint for what aman should be. macho and aggressive is what we call a real man (a lost and frightenedlittle boy, in truth. these real men were and are so delinked from their female energythat their intuition and connection with their higher selves is all but extinguished.meanwhile the brotherhood initiates have been using the negative frequencies of thefemale energy (hecate) to connect with their reptilian masters on the lower fourthdimension and to manipulate the world secretly from behind the movie screen. thesuppression and perversion of sexual energy, the creative force, is another funda

n the human being is at one with the cosmos. every cell isconnected to, and in harmony with, the cosmic pulse. what gets in the way, however, islow vibrational emotion and imbalance which breaks the circuit and, once again,disconnects us from the earth and the wider universe. the heart-brain connection hasbeen broken in most people by the separation of the head and the heart, the intellect andthe intuition, the physical and the spiritual. the reason the reptilian-brotherhood ispressing forward with its agenda so quickly today is that it knows it has a colossalchallenge on its hands. creation is governed by energy cycles. at one level we see themwith the earth seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. but there are much biggercycles, too, and these have been recorded in numbers and symbol

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power will be examined. 5.1 sacred geometry the concept of shape power as natural generators, foci of higher order energies, and transducers of that energy into more recognizable energies such as electricity and magnetism is stating essentially the same thing as the above definition of "sacred geometry. whether you ascribe some mystical significance to geometrical patterns on the basis of faith, intuition, symbolic magic, or observed results or you prove in the laboratory with experiments and rigorous "scientific" procedure, you have changed nothing except semantics as far as the end result. both are tapping energy using natural geometrical principles that exist in the natural order of the universe. these principles reveal to us the sacred foundation of all things created. as a mathematic

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) attributed to the first sephirah (q.v) kether (q.v. keywords include: idealism, illusion, spiritual, drugs, alcohol, confusion, deceit, elusive, astral plane, psychic, charlatans, impressionable, wishful thinker, false, occult, escape, mystic, dreams, visions, lacks substance, gaseous, diffuse, foggy, vicarious, spell, self delusion. neschamah: the intuition. corresponds with the third sephirah (q.v) of the tree of life (q.v. netzach: victory. the seventh sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. ninety-three (93) current: what the followers of aleister crowley call their path or tradition. it's holy book is crowley's book of the law, and it's creed his infamous "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, love is the law, love under wil

seventh planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek god who served as the mage of the gods. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign aquarius (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) attributed to the second sephirah (q.v) chokoma (q.v. keywords include: change, individuality, intellectually, inspired, insight, originality, intuition, inventor, genius, disruptive, abrupt, unexpected, freedom, non-conformist, extremism, antiestablishment, revolutionary, unconventional, eccentric, detached, humanitarian, magnetism, electricity, astrology, scientist, experiment, sudden, discovery, unique, individual, surprise- v- veil of unknowing: a term used by don tyson to indicate the boundary between manifest being and the unknowab

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6] face and know even as we are known; for the human mind grows by exercise, and that which was at first as unthinkable as mathematics to the child who cannot manage his sums, finally comes within the range of our realisation. by thinking about a thing, we build concepts of it. 11. it is said that thought grew out of language, not language out of thought. what words are to thought, symbols are to intuition. curious as it may seem, the symbol precedes the elucidation; that is why we declare that the qabalah is a growing system, not a historic monument. there is more to be got out of the qabalistic symbols to-day than there was in the time of the old dispensation because our mental content is richer in ideas. how much more, for instance, does the sephirah yesod, wherein work the forces of gr

image leapt to my mind and a realisation followed. i could conceive the outflowing of life through every channel of existence. i felt that a genuine realisation of the nature of god had been conveyed to me. and yet, if one catfle to analyse the words, there was nothing in them; nevertheless they had the power to convey an image, a symbol, to the mind, and the mind, working upon it in the realm of intuition beyond the sphere of reason, achieved a realisation, even if that realisation could only be reduced to the sphere of concrete thought as an image. 12. we must clearly realise that in these highly abstract regions the mind can use nothing but symbols; but these symbols have the power to convey realisations to minds that know how to use them; these symbols are the seeds of thought whence u

mathers calls the first trinity of kether, chokmah, and binah the intellectual world; the second trinity of chesed, geburah, and tiphareth the moral world; and the third trinity of netzach, hod, and yesod the material world. to my way of thinking, this terminology is misleading, for these words do not connote in our minds what is meant by these worlds. the intellect is essentially a concreting of intuition and apprehension, and as such is an unsuitable term for theworld of the three supernals. with the use of the term moral world for chesed, geburah, and tiphareth i agree; it is identical with my term, ethical triangle; but with the term material world for the trinity [page 60] of netzach, hod, and yesod i emphatically disagree, for this term belongs exclusively to malkuth. these three sep

es of the tenuous veil that shields the subconscious mind. in these investigations, half meditation, half reverie, we want to work on the borders of consciousness and subconsciousness so as to induce that which is subconscious to cross the threshold and come within our reach. 26. as we proceed thus, following out the ramifications of the association-chains, we shall find that a running comment of intuition accompanies the process, and after the experiment has been repeated two or three times we shall feel that we know that sephirah in a peculiarly intimate way, that we feel at home there, that the feel of it is quite different to that of the other sephiroth which we have not yet worked with [page 71] we shall also find that some sephiroth are more congenial to us than others, and that we g

t of the body ensouled by the spirit; its inner robe of spiritual glory concealed from all eyes by the outer covering of dense matter. again and again, as we meditate upon these mysteries, do we find illumination from the apparently fortuitous collection of symbols assigned to each sephirah. we have seen already in our study that no symbol stands alone, and that any penetration on the part of the intuition and the imagination serves to reveal long lines of interlacing connections between them. 52. the four threes of the tarot pack are the cards assigned to binah, and indeed the number three is intimately associated with the idea of manifestation in matter. the two opposing forces find expression in a third, the equilibnum between them, which manifests on a lowe plane than its parents. the

y guardian angel; this holy guardian angel, be it remembered, is really our own higher self. it is the prime characteristic of this higher mode of mentation that it consists neither in voices nor visions, but is pure consciousness; it is an intensification of awareness, and from this quickening of the mind comes a peculiar power of insight and penetration which is of the nature of hyper-developed intuition. the higher consciousness is never psychic, but always intuitive, containing no sensory imagery. it is this absence of sensory imagery which tells the experienced initiate that he is on the level of the higher consciousness. 34. the ancients recognised this, and they differentiated between the mantic methods which induced the chthonic, or underworld contacts, and the divine inebriation o

hall he be turned back on to the planes of form, or shall he he permitted to pass on into the light? this question is, do you believe in the gods? if he answers yes, he will he a wanderer in the planes of illusion, for the gods are not real persons as we understand personality. if he answers no, he will be rurned back at the gate, for the gods are not illusions. what then shall he answer? 12. the intuition of a poet has given us the answer "for no thought of man made gods to love and honour ere the song within the silent soul began, nor might earth in dream or deed take heaven upon her till the word was clothed with speech by lips of man" 13. therein we have the clue to the riddle. the gods are the creations of the created. they are made by the adoration of their worshippers. it is not the

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as. these must be examined with a certain degree of skepticism, since it was often the practice of occult writers in ancient times to make wildly exaggerated specific claims about the powers conferred by the techniques they wrote about, in order to lend their writings greater weight and importance in the minds of their readers. in my own experience, i have noted an increase in the precision of my intuition regarding other persons, the circumstances surrounding my life, and future events. my mind is clearer and more penetrating, particularly when i examine or write about esoteric subjects. there are other more subtle benefits, such as the ability to direct spiritual beings to accomplish general and specific material effects useful to my life and my studies, but i must refrain from writing o

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okesmen for the scientific establishment. defining the terms the term occult remains suspect in many circles. the word derives from latin and simply means to shut off from view or exposure. however, it eventually came to refer to realities specifically hidden from common sight; the occult realm is invisible to the physical eye but can be seen by an inner spiritual vision and/or grasped by psychic intuition. the occult is the opposite of apocalypse, which means to uncover. the last book of the christian bible is alternatively called the apocalypse or the revelation. to many religious people, the term occult denotes that which is opposite of what god has revealed; hence, the realm of satan and his legions of demons. some substance for this observation has been provided by religious leaders w

lice departments around the world. while a few departments, in the wake of some apparent successes, such as the efforts of psychic dorothy allison, continue to use psychics, the practice remains controversial. psychics are also employed by lawyers for use in the selection of jurists in important court cases. thus, while the major observation of dean.that successful executives often demonstrate an intuition that appears to be psychic rather than simply good judgment.may stand, the application of psi to practical situations have yet to yield the results hoped for by the exponents of applied psi in the early 1980s. applied psi has also been called psionics, but has to be distinguished from the use of that term in radionics as initiated by john w. campbell. sources: dean, e. douglas, et al. ex

en called psionics, but has to be distinguished from the use of that term in radionics as initiated by john w. campbell. sources: dean, e. douglas, et al. executive esp. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1974. mishlove, jeffrey. psi development systems. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland, 1983, and william h. kautz. an emerging new discipline! applied psi 1, no.1 (march/april 1982: 1. pease, marshall. intuition and the stock market. applied psi 3, no.3 (fall 1984. 7.9. apports the name given to various objects, such as flowers, jewelry, and even live animals, reportedly materialized in the presence of a medium. during the first hundred years of spiritualism, the production of apports was one of the most prominent and effective features of spiritualistic seances. sometimes apports flew through t

response was so great that the publisher demanded more seagull stories. bach sat down at his typewriter and, with virtually no rewriting, knocked out the second and third parts of the j. l. seagull saga, duly published as magazine stories. the stories were published in book form through the judgment of eleanor friede, then an editor at macmillan (now president of eleanor friede books, who had an intuition about the book. within two years the book sold over one million copies, was on best-seller lists for nearly a year, became a book of the month club choice, was condensed by reader s digest books, and was translated into a dozen languages. it was banned only by the people s republic of china for no very clear reason, but as composers beethoven and mozart also shared this prohibition at th

power, but divided those powers into magnetic (a cool negative force) and electrical (a warm positive force. the magician learns how to control and manipulate these forces. the magician is composed of the four traditional elements (earth, air, fire, and water) understood psychologically, and the accomplished magician must be a balanced person with a developed psyche in which each element, such as intuition or passion, is present but not so dominating as to push the other elements aside. in his first book, initiation into hermetics, bardon leads the student through a basic course in magical training. the second volume, the practice of magical evocation, treats all the magical instruments from the wand to the magical mirror, and explains in detail the process of contacting various kinds of s

n on philosophical subjects, with a special interest in parapsychology in relation to philosophy. he served on the committee of the parapsychological study group, israel. his writings include experimente uber telepathie (experiments in telepathy (1911. hebrew university bestowed an honorary ph.d. on bergman in 1959. bergson, henri (1859.1941) famous french philosopher whose concepts of free will, intuition, and mental life have relevance to psychic research and are frequently cited in that context. born october 18, 1859, in paris of anglo-jewish parents, he became a naturalized french citizen and studied at the ecole normale superieure. he taught philosophy at academies in angers, clermont, and paris, then succeeded emile ollivier at the academie francaise in 1918 but soon abandoned teachi

s deux sources de la morale et de la religion (1932, and la pensee et le mouvant (1935. his main concept was of an eternal flux in which everything is moving, changing, and becoming, including all matter in the cosmos. conscious life itself is not a succession of states but an berendt, h(einz) c(haim) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 172 unceasing becoming. bergson believed that intuition could apprehend reality independently of the limitations of intellect, and he distinguished between the soul and mental life, the soul being independent of, although influenced by, mental life. he claimed that free will is the very nature of our lives and the expression of individuality, although much of our life is largely automatic, deriving from habits and conventions. bergson s ideas

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d became an instructor in clinical neurology at new york university, bellevue hospital medical center, new york. he was a member of the american medical association, american academy of neurology, american board of psychiatry and neurology, and academy of religion and mental health, and a fellow of the american psychiatric association and the american society of clinical hypnosis. his interest in intuition, clairvoyance, and mediumship prompted him to join the american society for psychical research. macrobert published many articles on medical, psychiatric, and neurological subjects, as well as articles in parapsychology, including the chapter something better than reincarnation in the book reincarnation (1956) and the preface to r. dewitt miller s book you do take it with you (1956. he d

r than reincarnation in the book reincarnation (1956) and the preface to r. dewitt miller s book you do take it with you (1956. he died on july 10, 1967, of cancer. sources: macrobert, russell g. current attitudes of american neuropsychiatrists towards parapsychology. journal of parapsychology (november 1948. hallucinations of the sane. journal of insurance medicine 5, no. 3 (1950. psychiatry and intuition. journal of insurance medicine 4, no. 3 (1949. science studies intuition. tomorrow (may 1950. when is healing psychic? tomorrow (spring 1955. where is bridey murphy? tomorrow (spring 1956. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. the macrocosm the whole universe.from the greek words macros (long) and kosmos (the world).symbolized by a

lmost buddhistic, and indeed his mysticism is of the universal type. perhaps hugh of st. victor, a contemporary of st. bernard s, did more to develop the tenets of mysticism, and his monastery of augustinians near paris became a great center of mysticism. one of his apologists, richard of st. victor, declared that the objects of mystic contemplation are partly above reason, and partly, as regards intuition, contrary to reason. the protagonists of this theory, all of whom issued from the same monastery, were known as the victorines and put up a stout fight against the dialecticians and schoolmen. bonaventura, who died in 1274, was a disciple of this school and a believer in the faculty of mystic intuition. in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the worldliness of the church aroused much o

e agreement of the mind with itself. consciousness, therefore, is the sole basis of certainty. the mind is its own witness. reason sees in itself that which is above itself as its source; and again, that which is below itself as still itself once more. knowledge has three degrees.opinion, science, illumination. the means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. to the last i subordinate reason. it is absolute knowledge founded on the identity of the mind knowing with the object known. there is a raying out of all orders of existence, an external emanation from the ineffable one [prudos. there is again a returning impulse, drawing all upwards and inwards towards the centre from whence all came [epistrophe. love, as plato in the banquet beautifu

ritual traditions, new age communities, networks, associations, and information centers. unfortunately, like so many of the new age directories that appeared in the 1980s, new editions were never issued and the volume quickly became outdated. sources: adams, rovert. new times network: groups centers for personal growth. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1982. new ways of consciousness foundation see intuition network new wiccan church the new wiccan church, originally the new celtic church, was founded in the early 1970s to practice witchcraft in the british tradition. membership is restricted to adult witches who have been initiated in the gardnerian tradition or one of the several variations of the gardnerian practice, the most well known being the alexanderian. gerald b. gardner, generally

ence de m. stephan ossowiecki au congres de varsovie. revue metapsychique (september- october 1923. osty, eugen (1874.1938) french physician and director of the institut metapsychique internationale. osty was born may 16, 1874. he was physician at jouet sur l aubor s from 1901 through 1924. in 1910, osty investigated psychical phenomena and summed up his research three years later in lucidity and intuition. osty claimed the acquisition of knowledge through paranormal means was possible. his subsequent research was published in supernormal faculties in man. he described the source of after-death communication as crypto-psychism (lingering after bodily death. osty was succeeded by gustave geley as the head of the institut metapsychique. geley considered osty the first living authority on luc

hypnotic cases, suggested a transformation of the powers of the medium as an explanation. he continued his researches for many years and ended in the acceptance of the spirit theory. in his book after death.what (1909) he expanded upon his observation of the medium: her culture is that of a villager of the lower order. she frequently fails in good sense and in common sense, but has a subtlety and intuition of the intellect in sharp contrast with her lack of cultivation, and which make her, in spite of that, judge and appreciate at their true worth the men of genius whom she meets, without being influenced in her judgments by prestige or the false stamp that wealth and authority set upon people. she is ingenuous to the extent of allowing herself to be imposed on and mystified by an intrigue

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ght! to lie in night and dew on mountain height, embracing earth and heaven blissfully, puffing one s self and deeming one a deity; to burrow through earth s marrow, onward pressed by prescient impulse, feel within one s breast all six days work, in haughty power enjoy and know i can t tell what, soon all creation overflow in rapturous love, lost to all sight the child of clay, and then the lofty intuition with a gesture. ending- i dare not say in what fruition! faust shame on you! mephistopheles that s not to your liking, eh? you have the moral right to cry out shame! before chaste ears one must not name what chaste hearts can t dispense with, just the same! in short, i grudge you not the pleasure of evasion, of lying to yourself upon occasion; but you will not stick long to that, it s cl

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in the hermetica. dodd, who stresses the jewish influence, thinks that "features of the hermetica in which christian influence might be suspected, can be accounted for by hellenistic-jewish ideas which lie behind both the hermetica and the new testament (op. cit p. xv, note. 21 ficino's "pimander"and the "asclepius" thought out philosophy. they are records of individual souls seeking revelation, intuition into the divine, personal salvation, gnosis, without the aid of a personal god or saviour, but through a religious approach to the universe. it is this religious approach, their character as documents of religious experiences, which give the hermetica a unity which they entirely lack as a thought system. the cosmological framework which they take for granted is always astrological, even

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viduals currently practising the black arts. in the words of kenneth grant, the present outer head of the o.t.o, lovecraft s great contribution to the occult lay in his demonstration indirect as it may have been of the power so to control the dreaming mind that it is capable of projection into other dimensions, and of discovering that there are doors through which flow in the form of inspiration, intuition and vision the genuine current of creative magical consciousness. 11 lovecraft s occult experiences, disguised as fiction, reveal the intrusion of forces in complete sympathy with those archetypes and symbols brought through by blavatsky and crowley, whilst in contact with astral entities from beyond. he had become the receiver and transmitter of hidden knowledge, though in lovecraft s c

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ploration of the word method/ 19 praeter-conscious, i,e, gprimitive h stage of being, everything which reminds us of the times of amateurish handicraft will awaken primordial impulses in our reptilian brain. this will virtually automatically liberate the magical power in this section of the brain or awaken it in the first place. of course, all this depends largely on the mag our elings (i.e, your intuition) rather than in rules which other magicians have set up according to their own subjec but more frequently it will provoke total failure, my own ician fs personal paradigm. so place your trust in y fe tive biases, disaffections and tempers. if you prefer putting a lot of effort into a sigil, wishing to create a greal piece of artwork, h you are, of course, perfectly free to do so. it is r

symbol and combining it with the letters of the term. of course, these relationships are open to argument. for example, one could assign pain to the element of fire, which would imply a strong, nearly spastic feeling; pain within the element of earth would tend to be dull and lethargic, etc. one may also work with sub-elements such as earth of water, air of water, fire of water, etc. use your own intuition. you may also utilize the pictorial method. love, for example, might be or (symbols of gunion h, e the alphabet of desire/ 71 figure 23 72/ practical sigil magic but these symbols might equally stand for sex for the same reasons. this leads us a bit further into the area of philosophical and psychological cognition and evaluation. if, for example, you consider love as an allembracing pri

le (which need not necessarily be endorsed by everybody, you could perhaps choose this sigil. hate could then.for you.be its negation (for example) or its dissolution. for you, joy might be the bundling of energies into ecstacy, or else it could be the blowing up or overcoming of fetters: or. you will note that the construction of your own alphabet of desire demands not only a lot of thinking and intuition but great effort and hard work as well. let us now discuss the advantages and the possible applications of this sigil language before we tackle the second construction method of such an alphabet. first of all, dealing with the alphabet of desire trains symbolic thinking and perception. this is of special importance for ceremonial magic, but it also enhances any work with omens and symbol

this chapter, a far more personal, individual schema will be called for in this area. but only time will tell. let us now take a look at the association technique for constructing the alphabet of desire and its function as a minor of the psyche. the alphabet of desire as a minor of the psyche the technique of association is basically a mixture of automatic writing, pictorial method and meditation/intuition from the very beginning we can do without a scheme of order like the one we have seen in the last section. instead, we will proceed according to situation, meaning that we will develop our sigil alphabet as we go along, combining the process with a bare minimum of conscious construction. of course, y some rationale in places, but generally we will proceed gchaotically h (one could even s

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ligion of the light, as they have been expounded by the children of the light,whoare the mystic seers of old, and for the exerciseofthe spiritual methods of perfection on the transcendental plane.thenumberofpostulants or members which the existing circle is at present prepared to receive isofnecessity limited. and earnest seekers after the interior knowledge of the soul, men and women of culture, intuition, and nature will alone be eligible.xiiit is designed in the first instance to take possession ofasuitable mansion in a convenient, london centre, which will be made use of asanucleus for the propagation of thenewmysticism and of those high doctrinesoftranscendental religion which are destined for the conquest of the world. it will combine atthesame time all the conveniences of an institu

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thehigh magic of the true rosicrucian is the knowledge of how to perceive by the mental powers of the lower man, the reflections of spiritual man radiated. down for his guidance and instruction. these rays can only be perceived by concentration, will, and effort by purity of mind and purity of body.thehigher aspirations can attain to the spiritual essence and can receive wisdom as the glimpses of intuition. the spirit above isonewith the universal spirit, which is omniscient.itis only the veils of our senses, and the shadows of our materiality that hide us from the knowledge of the supernal.ifwe do become so pure, so refined, so strong in will, so perceptive by aspiration, astocatch some glimpses of the supernal, then practical magic is but the knowledge so attained, transferred into the s

nehemiah, while the two books each of samuel, kings and chronicles, they called one each.thecanon of thirty-nine works was fixed in the time of ezra. returning to the books which illustrate the kabalah, what255 ever may be the authenticity of their alleged origins, it cannot be denied that those ancient volumes,sepher yetzirahandzohar,contain a system of spiritual philosophy of clear design, deep intuition, and far-reaching cosmologic suggestions, that are well worthy of the honour of receiving a special name and of founding a theological body of doctrine- the kabalah 255 which will be found to illustrate and to reflect light upon the secret doctrine which has been nursed in central asia, and has been now recently introduced into this country as the foundation of modern theosophy.theparall

of geomancy and to the revival of fortune telling by cards, generally associated with the gypsies, and especially to the tarot cards. geomancy this is one of the few old methods of asiatic divination which is still recognised as an art; in a treatise on its practice published in england so late as 1889 a full description is given of the process. its use is said to strengthen as well as guide the intuition, and thus to prompt the intellect to perceive the events of the future, and also those occurring at a distance. its processes are intimately relatedtoastrological conceptions which have been already referred to, and to these are added a consideration of sixteen figures peculiar to the system. cornelius agrippa in his fourth book ofoccultphilosophy(by some considered spurious, has left us

es on theosophy and anthroposophy and the occult sciences, rudolf steiner, who has several thousand pupils on the continent of europe. from these students, modern continental teachers who claim to be representatives of the older rosicrucians, seek for initiates for their special culture, which leads, as they allege, to the evolution of the finer human faculties such as the higher clairvoyance and intuition. rosicrucians taught in the past, and their successors of today endeavour to show, how man may still more nearly approach the spiritual world which exists beyond the restrictions of matter. as waves of high thought and others of materialism have passed over europe, so in earlier times we observe the same alterations to have occurred in the east; in persia with zoroaster, in india with th

hristian exaltation are seen represented in catholic shrines in the pictures of the stations of the cross.therosicrucian mode of attaining supra-normal powers was, i have learned, by the mental faculties, by meditation, concentration and by force of will; this system also was conducted by seven methods (1) intellectual studies (2) cultivation of the imaginative faculty (3)themeans of attaining to intuition (4) the preparation of the physical stone of the philosophers (5) realization of the microcosm as aa recent spiritual development 295representation of the macrocosm (6)themerging of the ego into the realm of macrocosmic beings (7) the state of beatific peace accepting and glorying in the cosmic will.itis alleged that there are persons having a certain birthright and peculiar constitution

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at an they would they could tell much. this is not the attitude of the real occult student. those who know the secret tradition (supposing there is one) should either set forth their knowledge, if they may, and are not restrained by any pledges or honourable understanding, or should be silent; and those who have any interpretation to give should give their authority, or if the source be their own intuition orclair255voyance, should frankly say so.ifallcommentators would follow these simple rules of scientific investigation, we might be nearer to solving the two mysteries of the origin of the tarot cards, and the origin of the gipsies, and either proving or disproving their alleged connection.[reprinted from theoccultreview, vol.xxix,no.2(february 1919, pp. 90-8.]14.an egyptian ritual again

hoenicia when thesunwasstill in the signoftaurus. therefore it must have been,ifthe theory be true,arelicofthe formertime-the last time when the sun at the vernal equinox was in thatsign-and as a relic, corrupt and degraded.'now we are comingjustnow into thesignof"aquarius 'there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water. said christ; and now the meeting had come, and the development of the intuition, the female power, is a noticeable fact all over the world- the enormous interest which now at the close of this centuryistaken bye:veryclass"and by every manner ofmanorwoman, more or less, in all mystic or occult subiects.everyoneiscarried onthewavewhether he will or no. history repeats itself; and the time has come for the history to repeat itself, as marked onthegreat clock on the zod

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c system we prefer a more impersonal description. this world includes any number of original principles, it is the higher reaches of plato s world of ideals. in the general gnostic- theosophic tradition it has a triune principle. within the triune principle is the power of polarity, this is important as it gives rise to the sexual polarity of most pagan traditions and the balance between mind and intuition in others. the third is the other world, it is an intermediate reality and is comprised of any number of planes, worlds or locales. these can be described in semi-analytic terms as planes or dimensions or in more organic terms as worlds, halls or localities. the fourth is the earth or the physical world. the fifth is the underworld, the realm of the dead. in most organic models this is s

is the plane of archetypal forms and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the mental plane this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, blueprints are formulated and laid. the astral plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the mental and desire plane is n

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hich energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those on the terrestrial path. the plane of the life spirit this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the plane of the divine spirit and the plane of the life spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gain

hyatira. heart centre. sacrifice. church of sardis. throat centre. that which remains. church of philadelphia. ajna centre. agape (love. church of laodicea. sahasrara centre. judgement. church colour consciousness ephesus. red. action, sensation. smyrna. orange. social consciousness. pergamus. yellow. intellect. thyatira. green. security and devotion. sardis. blue. idealism. philadelphia. indigo. intuition. laodicea. violet. imagination. figs 20/21 gnostic theurgy page 76 regarding the seven divisions of church history and in the most esoteric of interpretations, to the seven spiritual centres of the body. the seven churches of revelation each can be related to the seven psychic centres or chakras with the teachings given to each church (warnings, blessings etc) relating to the consciousne

asic church correlations of colour, consciousness and creative principles church. colour. consciousness. day of creation. ephesus. red. action, sensation. coming of light. smyrna. orange. social consciousness. waters above, below. pergamus yellow. intellect. grass, herbs& trees. thyatira. green. security and devotion. sun, moon& stars. sardis. blue. idealism. fish and birds. philadelphia. indigo. intuition. animals,pre-adamites and man. laodicea. violet. imagination. day of rest. fig 22 gnostic theurgy page 85 the first day of regeneration the recreation of new man is the coming of light. from the perspective of the chakra s this day is the time when the great light of gnosis purifies and transcends the base chakra and transmutes its desires and drives into the something of a higher nature

is marks the appearance of the reborn man. he has subjugated his instincts and mind, liberated his innermost self and united the male and female principles within gnostic theurgy page 87 him. from the perspective of the chakra system, the sixth day is that of the ajna centre, where the currents of creation and destruction are unleashed and the gnostic becomes a master. it is indigo and represents intuition and inner mastery. the seventh day regeneration is complete. in relation to the chakric system is that of completed regeneration. the chakra is sahasrara, the crown centre and it is violet or purple, the colour of royalty. it is the birth of the new man. x gnostic theurgy page 88 origins it is difficult when the question of the origins of the kabbalah arises as there are so many issues i

there are four tools. these four tools are related to the four elements with the fifth, or spirit, being the gnostic himself. gnostic theurgy page 163 the wand. fire. the wand is used as an extension of the will or intent of the gnostic. it concentrates the energies of the rite and is used extensively with rites of invocation and evocation. the chalice. water. the chalice is the projection of the intuition of the gnostic. it has many uses including offerings and the eucharist within the gnostic liturgy. the dagger. air. the dagger or small blade is the projection of the intellect. in some rites it is exchanged for a sword. it is used to contain energies and create sigils and signs. the pentacle. earth. the pentacle is the symbol of the body or physical form. it is used to earth the powers

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ody and to bring voices of insight or divination unto the witch summoning. he may also send the shades of the dead, often infernal spirits to haunt those who the sorcerer may desire. 3 orobas orobas is the fifty-fifth spirit who is a great prince. he appears in the form of a two legged horse, who will put on a human form at the desire of the magician. he inspires divination and brings impulses or intuition regarding things of the past, for instance if a horrible occurrence happened at a spot or area. orobas brings the connection of the living and the dead. he brings also the favor of friends and foes, and is very faithful and respectful to the sorcerer when summoned. he will not trick the magician and will provide quick answers unto that which he governs. he presides over 20 legions of spi

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

essage: the fifth sun, it seems, is going to come to an end on 23 december, ad 2012.17 in the rational intellectual climate of the late twentieth century it is unfashionable to take doomsday prophecies seriously. the general consensus is that they are the products of superstitious minds and can safely be ignored. as i travelled around mexico, however, i was from time to time bothered by a nagging intuition that the voices of the ancient sages might deserve a hearing after all. i mean, suppose by some crazy offchance they weren t the superstitious savages we d always believed them to be. suppose they knew something we didn t? most pertinent of all, suppose that their projected date for the end of the fifth sun turned out to be correct? suppose, in other words, that some truly awful geologic

found an ingenious way to tell us when they were here. of these things i have no doubt. i am also impressed by the enormous lengths they went to to provide us with convincing proof that theirs was a serious and scientifically advanced civilization. and i am even more impressed by the sense of urgency of a vitally important mission that seems to have enlightened all their works and deeds. i go on intuition again, not on evidence. it s my guess that their underlying objective could have been to graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 477 transmit a warning to the future, and that this warning could be to do with a global cataclysm, perhaps even a recurrence of the same cataclysm that so clearly devastated mankind at the end of the last ice age when noah saw that the earth had tilted, and th

that has designed everything to be the way it is. my grandfather says that nothing is here just by chance, that nothing happens by accident whether good or bad and that there is a reason for everything that takes place. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 482 at the millstone grinding when human beings from around the globe, and from many different cultures, share a powerful and overwhelming intuition that a cataclysm is approaching, we are within our rights to ignore them. and when the voices of our distant ancestors, descending to us through myths and sacred architecture, speak to us of the physical obliteration of a great civilization in remote antiquity (and tell us that our own civilization is in jeopardy, we are entitled, if we wish, to stop our ears. so it was, the bible says

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a bula. anubis initiation (masculine, intelligence, wisdom, rational mvnd_ anubis is the son of osiris and nephthys and thus the step brother of horus. he is called the'initiator of the temple' his chief function is to serve as a guide through the tuat and to assist the dead through the after-death state. he is shown with the head of a jackal. bast intuition, magick, irrational mirad. bast is shown as a cat. like a cat sees in the dark, so bast can see into the past and future. mestha endurance, mental protective force, conscious control. he is the son of horus and is shown with the head of a man. hapi endurance, emotional protective force, abundance. he is the son of horas and is shown with the head of an ape. tuamautef endurance, spiritual

1 ikh masculine anticipation 12 loe feminine* love, compassion 13 zim both duty, compassion 14 vta masculine* detachment 15 oxo feminine* intense joy 16 lea feminine* enchantment 17 tan both karma 18 zen masculine* consciousness 19 pop feminine* spiritual impulse 20 khr both cyclic nature 21 asp masculine ego 22 un feminine form/formlessness 23 tor masculine energy 24 nia both joy 25 vti feminine intuition 26 des masculine reason 27 zaa feminine space 28 bag masculine guilt 29 rii both 30 tex both 'aethyr contains an especially strong sexual current. 157 the three degrees of sex magick take an athanor and cucurbite, and prepare a flask for this wine of the holy ghost. thou needest also a flame for the distillation. in the athanor is thy lion, in the cucurbite thine eagle. use a gentle heat

f the operation. for example, if your object is the aethyr kf r and specifically, the wheel of khr, then you will want the colors violet and blue, pperhaps an amethyst or lapis lazuli, wood from an oak, ppoplar or fig tree, and the scent of saffron. your weapon would be a sceptre, and so on. you can use crowley's liber 777 to determine exact correspondences, but you are encouraged to use your own intuition and imagination as well. the iimportant thing in this step is to make your surroundings "feel right" to you. step 3. imagine the object, deity or place that you have chosen clearly before you "see" the colors and shape distinctly. concentrate so hard that no other thought whatsoever enters your mind for as long as you can. 166 step 4. record the results in your magical diary. these shoul

e, silence, fear reversed: freedom, satisfaction, courage 29 rh judgment purification, decision, justice reversed: indecision, delay, impurity, injustice 28 bag guilt, doubt, mistrust, sin reversed: faith, worthiness, trust 27 zaa solitude, loneliness, separation, isolation, void, empty f ulf]lent;sharing 26 des logic, reason, intellect, thought reversed: ignorance, irrationality, insanity 25 vti intuition, inspiration, insight, humility reversed: bias, pride, vanity 24 nia freedom, movement, travel reversed: limitation, restriction, confinement 23 tor energy, force, labor, toil, work reversed: lack of energy, gaiety, frivolity 22 un meditation, ideas, music, transcendence reversed: thoughts, solidification, manifestation 21 asp cause, purpose, meaning reversed: desolation, emptiness, futi

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of matter. humanly by the intentions of procreation. all this projects into: 2 wisdom. origination by the god-aspect yhvh (yahweh, meaning i will be. creation by archangel raziel (herald or announcer of god. formation by the angel order of the ofanim(wheels orcycles ofgod. expressively by themazlot (the zodiac or circle of life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzafkiel( watcher or observer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the aralim (thrones or seats. expressively by the planet shabetai (saturn. humanly by the supply of unfertilised ova or eggs in the female (here male and female forces meet, mate and fertilise. in a perfect

ings could be attached to them providing they were properly used as indicators of divine intentions which left human enquirers free to determine their own reactions with these. the tarot symbols are archetypal and designed to cover practically all contingencies of life on this earth and the types of people involved in them. interpretation of their combinations is a matter of judgment coupled with intuition. the broad outline is usually clear enough to make meaning for anyone, or at least enough to give general guidance to sincere seekers. so this oracular function of the tree through tarot became part of its purpose in relative recent times. originally the consultation of oracles had nothing to do with telling the future at all. it was intended as a means of enquiring what the will of god

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ompanied by an influx of divine apprehension and spiritual awakening, affecting even the physical body to such an extent as to bring about a real rebirth of the body with rejuvenation, increased vigor, restored functioning in organs and parts that were tired, depleted, or subnormal. cosmic consciousness this is followed by a sudden increase in the functioning of a sense which is mistakenly called intuition at the time, for it seems to be like the intuitive faculty that was being highly developed during the earlier stages of preparation leading up to the original initiation into the great white brotherhood. it is not intuition, however, but cosmic consciousness of events now occurring and decreed to occur in the near future. it is knowledge and not a prophetic impression. then follow guidin

cosmic whole. however, matter and divine consciousness in man constitute two different realities working in harmonious parallel. the outer self with its material, physical consciousness is limited in the nature and quality of contact it can make. the inner self, the spiritual consciousness, is unlimited and in no way restricted by "time" or "space, or by the nature and quality of material things. intuition.intuitive knowledge is that knowledge which appears self-evident and which flashes suddenly into the consciousness and about which we entertain no doubt. it is mystically referred to as the intelligence of the cosmic mind, resident in the subconscious and which periodically enters the objective mind as a comprehensive and completed idea commonly called a hunch. psychologically, intuition

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

men of all denominations. i have long been of the opinion that the soul is the luminousmaterialatmosphere which surrounds the body, described by"london,umo.longman and co, 1834. translatedbysamuel jackson.contributionsto the zoist207the soulhaddepartedfrom herbody.falling on my knees, i asked back of god, in my prayer, the soul that i had in my doubts suffered to depart. i seemed, by an effect of intuition, to know that my prayer was heard: after a moment's farther anguish i obtained these words 'why have you called me back' i paid but little attention to her complaints; i was only too happy to hear her speak.in truth, the majority of the magnetic world will care little about m. cahagnet's theory, or whether his logic is of the school or not, any more than for the theories which almost eve

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

forgotten them? as well say it is unjust that the new boots on the feet of a boy, who is flogged for stealing apples, should be punished for that which they know nothing of. q. but are there no modes of communication between the spiritual and human consciousness or memory? a. of course there are; but they have never been recognized by your scientific modern psychologists. to what do you attribute intuition, the "voice of the conscience" premonitions, vague undefined reminiscences, etc, etc, if not to such communications? would that the majority of educated men, at least, had the fine spiritual perceptions of coleridge, 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 intellig

vocate, to be a mental page 102 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt disease, and real faith, i.e, the pistis of the greeks, as "belief based on knowledge" whether supplied by the evidence of physical or spiritual senses. q. what do you mean? a. i mean, if it is the difference between the two that you want to know, then i can tell you that between faith on authority and faith on one's spiritual intuition, there is a very great difference. q. what is it? a. one is human credulity and superstition, the other human belief and intuition. as professor alexander wilder says in his "introduction to the eleusinian mysteries" it is ignorance which leads to profanation. men ridicule what they do not properly understand the undercurrent of this world is set towards one goal; and inside of human cre

most supreme truths of all existence. those who limit that "credulity" to human authoritative dogmas alone, will never fathom that power nor even perceive it in their natures. it is stuck fast to the external plane and is unable to bring forth into play the essence that rules it; for to do this they have to claim their right of private judgment, and this they never dare to do. q. and is it that "intuition" which forces you to reject god as a personal father, ruler, and governor of the universe? a. precisely. we believe in an ever unknowable principle, because blind aberration alone can make one maintain that the universe, thinking man, and all the marvels contained even in the world of matter, could have grown without some intelligent powers to bring about the extraordinarily wise arrange

his duty to give all that which is wholly his own and can benefit no one but himself if he selfishly keeps it from others. theosophy teaches self-abnegation, but does not teach rash and useless self-sacrifice, nor does it justify fanaticism. q. but how are we to reach such an elevated status? a. by the enlightened application of our precepts to practice. by the use of our higher reason, spiritual intuition, and moral sense, and by following the dictates of what we call "the still small voice" of our conscience, which is that of our ego, and which speaks louder in us than the earthquakes and the thunders of jehovah, wherein "the lord is not" q. if such are our duties to humanity at large, what do you understand by our duties to our immediate surroundings? a. just the same, plus those that a

ect that your doctrines could ever take hold of the uneducated masses, when they are so abstruse and difficult that well-educated people can hardly understand them? a. you forget one thing, which is that your much-boasted modern education is precisely that which makes it difficult for you to understand theosophy. your mind is so full of intellectual subtleties and preconceptions that your natural intuition and perception of the truth cannot act. it does not require metaphysics or education to make a man understand the broad truths of karma and reincarnation. look at the millions of poor and uneducated buddhists and hindus, to whom karma and reincarnation are solid realities, simply because their minds have never been cramped and distorted by being forced into an unnatural groove. they have

vegetables. page 120 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. then he had better not eat at all? a. if he could live without eating, of course it would. but as the matter stands, he must eat to live, and so we advise really earnest students to eat such food as will least clog and weight their brains and bodies, and will have the smallest effect in hampering and retarding the development of their intuition, their inner faculties, and powers. q. then you do not adopt all the arguments which vegetarians in general are in the habit of using? a. certainly not. some of their arguments are very weak, and often based on assumptions which are quite false. but, on the other hand, many of the things they say are quite true. for instance, we believe that much disease, and especially the great predisp

ase and nursing chronic diseases for years in their own bodies just like other ordinary mortals. clairaudience the faculty-whether innate or acquired by occult training-to hear things at whatever distance. clairvoyance a faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight. as now used, it is a loose and flippant term, embracing under its meaning both a happy guess due to natural shrewdness or intuition, and also that faculty which was so remarkably exercised by jacob b hme and swedenborg. yet even these two great seers, since they could never rise superior to the general spirit of the jewish bible and sectarian teachings, have sadly confused what they saw, and fallen far short of true clairvoyance. clemens alexandrinus a church father and voluminous writer, who had been a neo-platonist

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had taken him away. so it was here that the youth had been interrupted by the final summons? he was wiser that old joseph curwen, for he had not resisted. willett, boldly determined to penetrate every wonder and nightmare this nether realm might contain, seized the small lamp and crossed the threshold. a wave of nameless fright rolled out to meet him, but he yielded to no whim and deferred to no intuition. there was nothing alive here to harm him, and he would not be stayed in his piercing of the eldritch cloud which engulfed his patient. the room beyond the door was of medium size, and had no furniture save a table, a single chair, and two groups of curious machines with clamps and wheels, which willett recognised after a moment as mediaeval instruments of torture. on one side of the doo

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

ties outside the gates command all angles, and view the myriad parts of the cosmos in terms of fragmentary change-involving perspective, or of the changeless totality beyond perspective, in accordance with their will. as the waves paused again, carter began to comprehend, vaguely and terrifiedly, the ultimate background of that riddle of lost individuality which had at first so horrified him. his intuition pieced together the fragments of revelation, and brought him closer and closer to a grasp of the secret. he understood that much of the frightful revelation would have come upon him- splitting up his ego amongst myriads of earthly counterparts inside the first gate, had not the magic of 'umr at-tawil kept it from him in order that he might use the silver key with precision for the ultima

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it wasn't for wealth, position or pregnancy, and i can't imagine why she was going ahead with it at all. just because he asked her? to know what you want, you have to learn to know yourself. always study yourself and discover why you do things. analyse everything. you say "i did that because i wanted this to happen" always looking at yourself and the things you do and why you do them. with my own intuition, psychic insight, and a few other things, i try to get people who call me on the two-way radio to look at themselves. they ask me for advice, or they ask me what to do, but i never give advice. i tell them that they are failing to explore their real needs. i say "what you are really telling me is that you want to do this because you feel" they say "yes" they end up being very happy that

ious segments of his life. you might be a career man who lets his wife know nothing about his business, for example, or a married man whose wife hasn't the slightest inkling about his love affairs because you are very careful in the way you operate. a number seven day is probably one in which a person would clean up and organize his life, straighten out past difficulties. inspirational forces and intuition are also involved with this number. number eight, the mars number, is a primitive number that deals with the physical self. a number eight person is one who inclines towards working more with the body than the mind. it could be a very strong or oversexed woman. interest in sports, combat, anything associated with physical activity are included in the number eight sphere. number nine, the

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ch of these mentioned four elemental principles has many other aspects corresponding to the law of analogy of the polarity or the positive and negative elements. all of them together form the ego or the spirit. for this reason, we can make the fiery principle responsible for strength, power and passion; memory, power of discrimination and judgment are ascribed to the air principle, conscience and intuition to the principle of water, egotism and the instincts of self-preservation and propagation to the earthy part of the spirit. it would be too long to quote all the properties of the spirit with regard to the elements. the incipient adept can enlarge these qualities by serious studies and deep meditation, with respect to the analogous laws of the four-pole magnet. this happens to be a very

god, that is to say, in the causal principle (the akasa) on all planes of the material, astral, and mental worlds. therefore wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. wisdom could also be considered as a developmental stage of the ego. therefore, insights are not passed on thought the mind, but and this particularly through intuition or inspiration. the degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual. this will not mean, of course, that we ought to neglect knowledge; on the contrary, knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. the adept will therefore endeavor to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development. if knowledge and wisd

l the constitutive moments and processes taking place in the universe, in the true perspective. the scholar is spared from many illnesses producing an effect of balance on his own karma and thus on his fate; he becomes more resistant against any dangerous influence. he is cleaning his mental and astral aura, strengthening his mental and astral matrix, he is reviving his magical faculties, and his intuition will become of universal character. his astral senses will be refined and his intellectual capacities will rise. magical physical training (iv) the exercises of the first step should have become a habit by now. those of the second step have to be enforced and deepened according to time and opportunity. one ought to have the capacity of sticking firmly to any asceticism one has imposed up

y point is symmetrically objective, meaning that it is in its true equilibrium. this is the base of the mystery of the fourth dimension, hence the concept of time and space, of timelessness and spacelessness, and therefore also the secret of space magic. the scholar is advised to meditate very intensely about this problem, and he will be able to open up profundities he never dreamed of and a high intuition will be his reward. in association with the magical mental training of the step v, we shall speak about the space magic. magic mental training (v) with all the previous exercises the scholar has achieved a certain capacity of concentration and he has learned to transform his consciousness at will or to adjust it to any form, and he will be able to see father and deeper. the instructions

an can turn to transferring the power of the elements into a suitable ritual. i have talked about this problem in detail already in the chapter about the rituals. the magician forms any ritual after his own liking by means of finger positions and gestures of the hands into which he is transferring the power. according to his magical development, he will certainly dispose of a sufficient amount of intuition so that he can compose the ritual suitable to the element in question. he can provide it with a self-selected word (formula) and link it to a certain sound corresponding to the element [quabbalah. it is quite impossible to make a mistake here because the rituals are absolutely individual, purely personal. therefore the rituals that the magician composes for this purpose are not to be imp

psychometry, the clear perception of the present, past and future of any object. even the power of materialization of any thought, any being, no matter whether the point in question is a self-created being or an entity already existing in the akasa, belongs to this domain. other faculties connected with sense perception and touch perception also can be registered in the category of clairfeeling. intuition to originates in clairfeeling. these few examples may be sufficient to explain the clairfeeling power. as soon as you have accumulated the water element in the whole body through the pores and through breathing, load it with the intense imagination of the faculty of clairfeeling. you must be absolutely sure that it is strong enough to arouse this faculty in your astral body. with the hel

the mental plane for the magician s or other people s benefit. an elementary, on the other hand, is far more penetrating and subtle in its effect because it is being created from one or several elements. in the light of practical examples, i will explain the real procreation of an elementary as thoroughly as possible, demonstrating the manner in which the magician has to create an elementary. the intuition acquired by the previous training certainly will help the magician to contrive his own practice, responsive to the purpose he aims at. according to his ethical development, he will never dare to create elementaries for evil purposes; the invisible world would certainly vow ferocious revenge on him, because through the knowledge of how to create elementaries, the magician has got a plenit

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e world, though in this particular instance its efforts to right the wrong did not produce a lawsuit: the narrator was mr. alcock, who appears in the preceding story. one david hunter, who was neat-herd to the bishop of down (jeremy taylor) at his house near portmore, saw one night, as he was carrying a log of wood into the dairy, an old woman whom he did not recognise, but apparently some subtle intuition told him that she was not of mortal mould, for incontinent he flung away the log, and ran terrified into his house. she appeared again to him the next night, and from that on nearly every night for the next nine months "whenever she came he must go with her through the woods at a good round rate; and the poor fellow look'd as if he was bewitch'd and travell'd off his legs" even if be wer

ISIS UNVEILED

that it t. psut who broke both lus legs in rome when bying in the air. 368. supenatur^ reugum, part ii, vii? digilizocb, google jesus ignores jehovah 163 balvation to all. the mission of jesus according to mardon was to abrogate the jewish 'lord' who "was opposed to the god and father of jesus christ as matter is to spirit, impurity to purity* was m&tcion so far wrong? was it blasphemy, or was it intuition, divine inspiration in him to express that which every honest heart yeank- ing for truth more or less feels and acknowledges? if in his sincere desire to estabush a purely spiritual religion, a universal faith based on unadulterated truth, he found it necessary to make of christianity an entirely new and separate system from that of judaism, did not mardon have the very words of chiist f

all and lose their powers' as soon as the two halves of the duality separated. the fruit of the tree of knowledge gives death without the fruit of the tree of ijfe. man must know kimself before he can hope to know the ultimate genesis even of beings and powers less developed in their inner nature than himself. so with religion and science; united two in one \hey were infallible, for the spiritual intuition was there to supply the limita- tions of physical senses. separated, exact science rejects the help of the inner voice, while religion becomes merely dogmatic theology eat^ is but a corpse without a soul. the esoteric doctrine, then, teaches, like buddhism and br&hmanism, and even the persecuted kabala, that the one infinite and unknown es- sence exists from all eternity, and in regular

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

a reconciler. the mechanical part of obtaining the necessary geomantic symbols completed, it remains only to interpret what you have entered on form no. 2. some imagination and ingenuity needs to be employed, but the following tables of general interpretation should take the slack out of the first several attempts to divine. as one gains experience, enough confidence will be created to permit the intuition to operate, or to say what comes to mind spontaneously, without critical interference from the ego. gradually, as time goes on, the intuition or inner psychic sense will become stronger, clearer and of course more reliable. geomantic divination as a process is a good psychological corrective for excessive intellectuality, or for uncontrolled flights of fantasy based on romantic reading

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

rful, all loving and everywhere including within each of us, for without this belief much of what we propose may seem too far-fetched; although the dimensional biofield science aspects may at least provide some food for your future thinking. b) that you are open to know more of this force and yet are able to trust your inner instinct and use discernment for we are exploring realms where only your intuition will be able to confirm what is true. as this is my 18th book covering metaphysical topics, much of the basic esoteric teachings have been covered in the book in resonance and we have explained the science of it all in the biofields& bliss series which includes our planetary peace program. as we are not interested in convincing the reader of anything in this book, it is easier if you hav

lain. stage 3: discovering the theta field and rarely being hungry. level 2& 3 in the divine nutrition program (dnp: the more time we spend with our brain wave patterns anchored in the alpha zone, aware that we can co-exist compassionately and be in harmony with others, the more at peace and fulfilled we become. particularly if we have learnt to listen to and trust our inner voice or 6th sense of intuition, which is the guidance of our authentic self. our dow. in this stage we have moved into the field of unified consciousness where we may even feel at one with everything as if we are just one small cell in the body of some divine organism that seems to pulsate with a compassionate, intelligent and loving awareness. in this stage we have realized that how we spend our time, and what we pay

nal and that death is just an illusion. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 21 in this stage our brain wave patterns are firmly anchored in the theta zone of 4 to 7 cycles per second. in this field divine revelations and holy visions are more common as are visitations with holy beings that reside on the inner realms and who are accessible when our 6th sense of intuition and our 7th sense of knowing are activated and tuned to their channels. we tune to them via the power of programming, and the conscious direction of our will and intention, and our success at connecting with them is determined by the purity of our heart levels which then magnetize the pure of heart to us. the more we spend time in this field, the more we wish to give something back, to s

n human senses, of which people who exist in the beta field usually only use five. in order to access the channel of the food of gods, we need to activate our 6th and 7th senses and utilize the elements that work with them. the relationship between the elements and our physical senses are as follows: astral light: hearing; 2. air: touch; 3. fire: sight; 4. water: taste; 5. earth: smell; 6. akasa: intuition; 7. sea of fire: knowing for those open to the metaphysical aspects of this, in dimensional biofield science, the quantum field is an aspect of akasa, which is the second element of the constitution of the universe. the first element is termed a principle and is boundless, inconceivable and the root from which all the other six elements of the universe grow and each element evolves from

body fitness: biofields and bliss book and briefly touched on in chapter 6. do simultaneously with steps 3, 7, 8 and 9 below. step 3: prepare the body via specific detoxification programs such as fasting and colonic irrigations and dietary changes. step 4: get to know your dow. the divine one within you and understand its role as master computer controller of your bio-system. learn to trust your intuition by listening to its voice and seeing the positive evidence of its guidance in your life. apply tools. like the 8 point lifestyle mentioned. to develop the yogi and shaman within. learn to test and trust your paranormal powers as they reveal themselves. understand the power of the god within you and surrender to it. this getting to know our dow requires us to make the commitment to act im

rcle upon circles are now forming around you of beings with whom you have shared and co-created some sort of energy imbalance right back through time to when you originally began to feel that you were separate from others. breathe deeply. perhaps you have cleared most of these imbalances and so there are not many beings in these circles around you or perhaps there are now thousands, just let your intuition guide you, trust that the right ones will come for their freedom now. imagine now other beings coming into these circles, beings that you have not yet connected with this life but who you are destined to connect with in the future because of energy imbalances that are creating karmic debts and a magnetic pull. now imagine pure light flowing in through your crown chakra as per the previou

her translations which often loses this interesting point) the tantric yogi, swami satyananda gives this description of the third eye: this chakra is called the third eye or the command centre. it is a point in the psychic body where information from the outer world is perceived, and where the guru in more advanced forms of practice guides the student through instructions. it is the famous eye of intuition, where the psychic developed can observe everything that goes on both on the physical and psychic planes of existence. melatonin and the immune system and cancer: although the pineal gland is not bigger than a pea, it is still the organ in the body that produces the most melatonin, even though small amounts are also produced in the eyes and in the intestines. normally the secretion of me

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

orshipped in the senses, as the last thing of them, and the king of them, that is, that which we know as the phenomenon, burning fire, the spiritual fire being impalpable, as having the visible only for its shadow; the ghostly fire not being even to be thought upon; thought being its medium of apprehension when it itself had slipped; the waves of apprehension of it only flowing back when it being intuition had vanished. we only know that a thought is in us when the thought is off the object and in us: another thought being, at that simultaneous instant, in the object, to be taken up by us only when the first has gone out of us, and so on; but not before to be taken up by us; that thought being all of us, and a deceptive and unreal thing to pass at all to us through the reason, and there be

seen that during that space which is a space taken out of time, though independent of it in which miracle is possible to us, we cease to be men, because time, or rather sensation, is man s measure; and that when we are men again, and back in ourselves, the miracle is gone, because the conviction of the possibility of a thing and its non-possibility has expelled it. the persuasion of a miracle is intuition, or the operation of god s spirit active in us, that drives out nature for the time, which is the opposite of the miracle. no miracle can be justified to men s minds, because no amount of evidence can sustain it; no number of attestations can affirm that which we cannot in our nature believe. in reality, we believe nothing of which our senses do not convince us, even these not always. in

dd circumstances, but should not have the least inclination to believe so miraculous an event. i should not doubt of her pretended death, and of those other public circumstances that followed it. now, in their own sequence, as they occur to us as real facts in the world, so unreal even are true, positive circumstances, that we only believe them by the same means that we believe dreams that is, by intuition. there is no fact, so to say. startling as it may appear, i appeal to the consciousness of those who have witnessed death whether the death itself did not seem unreal, and whether it did not remain without belief as a fact until the negative that is, the dead man is not here affirmed it, not through present persuasions, but through unreal incidents, post-dating reappearance. as to the be

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

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

unrelated subject matter brought into focus so skillfully and analyzed so successfully. he says "apparently" means "seemingly" it is the men of insight and the men of unobstructed vision of every generation who are able to lead us through the quagmire of a in-a-rut thinking. it is the men of imagination who are able to see relationships which escape the casual observer. it remains for the men of intuition to seek answers while others avoid even the question. mr. jessup's analyses are based on phenomena which were of scientific record many years before the present controversial era, and are therefore objective; thus, the overall picture which we have here will, and should, become the bible for the ufo. whereas, i may not necessarily agree with mr. jessup in each of his startling deductions

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ook (on the taboo against knowing who you are* magick 3- the four worlds* the ancients described man as mind, body, and soul. psychologists of the twentieth century added the subconscious to that deffinition. this produces a four-fold classification. the universe is also divided into four corresponding parts('worlds, as shown below: world body quality= spiritual world spiritual body (soul or kia) intuition mental world mental body (conscious mind) rational thought astral world astral body (subconscious) emotions physical world physical body physical senses the astral body (subconscious) is the intermediary for intuition, magical and psychic phenomena, and is the 'psychic link' to the physical world. most occult and magical phenomena originate in the invisible, non-sensate, the basics of ma

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

for the physical body(*for a fuller study of these principles from this point of view, see professor wood fs book, the sevenrays) 143. according to this interpretation the columns represent the three aspects of the outer world (the world of human tuition, but the three principal officers, who preside at their pedestals, stand for the three aspects of divine consciousness (the inner world of human intuition, as in the following diagram: 144. diagram 1 145. 146. the pillars of the porchway 147. referring to king solomon fs temple, the english craft ritual says: gthere was nothing in connection with this magnificent structure more remarkable, or which more particularly struck the attention, than the two great pillars which were placed at the porch or entrance. h the ritual goes on to explain

both of which are highly symbolical, and have remained unchanged for a very long period. it should be distinctly understood that a man who joins freemasonry does thereby take a step forward in evolution, and the fact that his identification as a freemason begins with that s c p is a constant reminder and acknowledgment of that. 376. the l c f c, because it is nearest to the heart, symbolizes the intuition, while the r c f c is supposed to represent intellectual faculty. the meaning of the s c p is therefore obviously that in occult matters intuition always takes precedence over mere reasoning processes. the position adopted is intended to show that reason must always spring from the centre of right feeling. 377. having thus indicated the method of our advance-ment, we proceed in co-masonr

ties of life that those powers make us fit to perform- there is growth or evolution from within. through karma- the outer environment that comes to us as the result of the actions that we have done in past lives- come opportunities for progress and sometimes obstacles, which, however, when rightly faced, increase our inward strength. as emerson put it, man learns in this world through tuition and intuition- both externally and internally he is being taught. on the occult path it is still more important that the aspirant shall proceed without impetuosity or reluctance, without rashness or fear. just as one wishing to walk on a line must go neither too slowly nor too fast, so must the candidate proceed on the path which is narrow as the edge of a razor. gfestina lente h might well be taken a

development depends upon the right use both of the body and the soul, the square and the triangle. in the method of symbolism adopted the candidate is always required to look forward to that which shall be, rather than to rest content with that which is. the perfection at which the m.m. is aiming will be attained in its fullness only when the three points of the triangle, the spiritual will, the intuition and the intelligence shall be fully aroused and in entire control of the four lower vehicles- the mental, astral, etheric and dense physical bodies. 662. as bro. powell has said: 663. in the third degree in freemasonry we find an appeal quite different and distinct from those of the two preceding degrees. the m.m. comes within the range of a fresh influence, entering a new world, piercin

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

rough them the fullness of their love for the helping of the world, were also known in ancient egypt, and these were linked with the sovereign princes in their higher principles, so that their seraphic love also was at hand to be outpoured in blessing. to their guardianship the candidate was entrusted, and he had to realize his unity with the angels as well as with his brn. 172. at this stage the intuition or buddhi in the candidate, that hidden wisdom which is horus or the christ dwelling in man, was enormously quickened and aroused, so that the candidate became to some extent a manifestation of that eternal love who in later ages was called the christ, and he was thereby enabled to work upon the emotional nature, which is a partial reflection of it in the matter of the astral world, so a

otaur, which was slain by theseus, was the personality in man, half animal and half man. theseus typifies the higher self, who has been gradually developing and gathering strength until at last he can wield the sword of his divine father, the spirit. guided through the labyrinth of illusion which constitutes these lower planes by the thread of occult knowledge given him by ariadne (who represents intuition, the higher self is enabled to slay the lower and escape safely from the web of illusion; yet there still remains for him the danger that, developing intellectual pride, he may neglect intuition, even as theseus neglected ariadne, and so failed for the time to reach his highest possibilities. the legend of the slaying of bacchus by the titans, the tearing of his body into fragments and h

ish a lodge in order to admit to and multiply the royal order of masons in all the perfect and sublime degrees, and gave him power to create other inspectors. the original of this document has not yet been found, and the world knows of it only from the copy preserved in the golden book of the comte de grasse-tilly, founder of the supreme council 33 of france. bro. r. r gould, however, has a right intuition in the matter, for he is by no means prepared to deny its authenticity, and a complete transcription of it is given in his history of freemasonry(*iii, p. 125ff) it is signed by chaillon de joinville, prince de rohan, brest-de-lachaussee, comte de choiseul, and others of the council of the emperors. in 1761, stephen morin arrived in san domingo, where he commenced the dissemination of th

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

rine, such as some views that he could not derive directly from the bible, although they had wide acceptance among pious angelologists: devils can suffer physical pain and are in a sense always in hell; they were the deities of heathendom; god created men to repopulate heaven after the fall of angels; satan tempted eve from the mouth of the possessed snake; angels, good or evil, know the world by intuition rather than by discourse, and can control the humors in men s bodies to produce dreams and visions. in paradise lost, milton rejects the ancient view that good angels were corrupted by the beauty of women.he argued that the sons of god were never involved with women, because the love they knew was not libidinous. also, in paradise lost, milton did not commit himself on the three principa

hose fabled satanic daycare centers going. if at least one parent is going to be home anyway, the teaching will come naturally and constantly. that doesn t mean that the at-home parent can t work as well, at least part time. it s good for children to see both parents involved in their own pursuits. satanism is ideally suited to homeschooling. though we ll have to discover the how through impulse, intuition, and trial-and-error, some of the whys are readily apparent: 1. one major criticism people often lob at home learning is that the children don t have the opportunity to socialize with other children their own age. they always use that same word. your children will be isolated, we re cautioned, unable to relate to others, will miss out on the proms, the football games, graduation, and all

LIBER 141

a dam restraining the natural current of the favourable forces, thus keeping them back so as to make them more effective in the end. but this may be false interpretation of the observed phenomena. and, again, a series of such sacraments has been futile until one last work has landed in success. yet this again may be coincidence, the result of the first working, but delayed. the adept will develop intuition in all these questions; it is likely that the personal equation is very important, and that no absolute rule catholic, always everywhere, and by all men to be observed, exists. vii of certain unknown inhibitions, and their effect we have marked subtly and regularly, the conditions and results of divers workings of this art, and this is the marvel now the result follows swift and perfect

LIBER 777

holy, holy, lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory \ymc wlyw lbt tebel vilon shamaim veil of the vault of heaven table of correspondences 22 xcv. contents of col. xciv. xcvi* the revolutions of hwhy in yetzirah. xcvii. parts of the soul. xcviii. english of col. xcvii. 0. 1 hwhy hdyjy yechidah the self 2 whhy hyj chiah the life force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, mikhael offering souls of just wyhh 7 millstones where manna for just is ground for future whyh 8 sol, luna, planets, stars, and 10 spheres yhwh 9 hyhw jwr ruach the intellect 1010 has no use. follow 390 heavens, 18,000 worlds, earth, eden and hell. hhyw yhhw hwhy la cpn nephesh the animal soul

LIBER COLLEGII SANCTI

ples (even so little as he understandeth) for that mystery is the enemy of truth. furthermore, he shall construct the magic lamp, according to the instruction in liber a. six months after his admission to the grade, he shall go to his adeptus minor, pass the necessary tests, and repeat to him his appointed part in the temple of initiation. 9. he shall in every way establish perfect control of his intuition, according to the advice of his adeptus minor, for that the ordeal of advancement is no light one. 10. thus and not otherwise may he attain the great reward, yea, may he attain the great reward! the oath of a dominus liminis i (motto, being of sound mind and body, and prepared, on this_ day of [an! in_ of] do hereby resolve: in the presence of, an adeptus minor of the a a to prosecute th

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

and walk (or drive; it.s all the same to me) to haggerston town hall (wherever haggerston may be; but say it.s n.e, thence to maida vale. from maida vale i could take a true line for piccadilly again and not go five minutes walk out of my way, bar blind alleys, etc, and i should know when i got close to scott.s again before i recognised any of the surroundings. it always seems to me that i get an intuition of the direction and length of line a (scott.s to haggerston bee-line; in spite of any winding, it would make little odds if i went via poplar, another intuition of line b (haggerston to maida vale, and obtained my line c (back to scott.s) by .subliminal trigonometry. in this example i am assuming that i had never been in london before. i have done precisely similar work in dozens of str

s that operate these things possessed the secrets of the destiny of an adept, or could help him in his agony! for this reason, divination should be discarded from the start: it is only a .mere toy, the basis of mercenary fraud. as zoroaster more practically assures us. yet one can get the right stuff out of the tarot (or other inconvenient method) by spiritualising away all the meaning, until the intuition pierces that blank wall of ignorance. let o.m. meditate upon this oracle on his way to feed john st. john fs body.and thus feed his own! 6.52. out, out, to feed! 6.57. trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one fs dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave. 1 [i.e, the chalda

LIBER DOMINI

books filled with feces. comment: there are no specific metaphysical or ethical beliefs required to follow satan. it is one thing to have personal opinions on these matters, but quite another to claim some kind of authoritative sanction for them. what the followers of dogmatic religion choose to ignore is the fact that these dogmas are always the opinions of other men- whether based on a personal intuition or a so-called inspired book. in matters of faith, no man has authority over another- a satanist must recognize this fact, or they will fare no better than the sheep of dogmatic religion. 6. i trample on these powerless and false gods. i laugh at their petty disputes over the unreal world inside the minds of their followers. i blaspheme against all their articles of faith, the toys of ch

LIBER LVII

on of the rosy cross (i am supposing that the reader is sufficiently acquainted with the method of reading a name by its attributions to understand how, once a message is received, and accredited, it may be interpreted) thus if i ask .what is knowledge. and receive the answer .tod. i read it d the door, o matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando67. but here i am only dealing with the .trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to proeed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, h

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? parody? shall not his spirit forgive me, who shall love him as long as i live? love.s at its height in pure love? nay, but after when the song.s light dissolves gently in laughter! then and then only the lovers may know nothing can part them for ever. and so, muse, hover o.er me! apollo, above her! i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21 out of the way intuition shall shove her. spirit and truth in my darkness i seek. little by little they bubble and leak; such as i have to the world i discover. words.are they weak ones at best? they shall speak! 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 apology of poet. skeleton of poem. valuable fact for use of lovers. invocation. imperfect scholastic attainements of author remedied by his great spiritual insight. his intention. 4

lity and convertible by a process of reason which simulates or replaces that apprehension which we can never (one may suppose) attain to. let us apply this idea to the beginning of all things, about which the christians lie frankly, the hindus prevaricate, and the 1 ratiocination may perhaps not take us far. but a continuous and attentive study of these quaint points of distinction may give us an intuition, or direct mind-apperception of what we want, one way or the other..a.c. tycarb 94 buddhists are discreetly silent, while not contradicting even the gross and ridiculous accounts of the more fantastic hindu visionaries. the qabalists explain the .first cause.1 by the phrase .from 0 to 1, as the circle opening out into the line. the christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive o

LIBER OS ABYSMI VEL DAATH

origin of the world, the origin of evil, infinity, the absolute, the ego and the non-ego, freewill and destiny, and such others as may attract him. 11. let him subtly and exactly demonstrate the fallacies of every known solution, and let him seek a true solution by his right ingenium. 12. in all this let him be guided only by clear reason, and let him forcibly suppress all other qualities such as intuition, aspiration, emotion, and the like. 13. during these practices all forms of magick art and meditation are forbidden to him. it is forbidden to him to seek any refuge from his intellect. 14. let then his reason hurl itself again and again against the blank wall of mystery which will confront him. 15. thus also following is it said, and we deny it not: at last automatically his reason will

LIBER SAMEKH

himself to his angel by continual conscious communion. for his angel is an intelligible image of his own true will, to do which is the whole of the law of his being. also the angel appeareth in tiphareth, which is the heart of the ruach, and thus the centre of gravity of the mind. it is also directly inspired from kether, the ultimate self, through the path of gthe high priestess, h or initiated intuition. hence the angel is in truth the logos or articulate expression of the whole being of the adept, so that as he increases in the perfect understanding of liber samekh svb figvra dccc 36 his name, he approaches the solution of the ultimate problem, what he himself truly is. unto this final attainment the adept may trust his angel to lead him: for the tiphareth-consciousness alone is connec

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ject and the uncertainty principle would have applied to it. this means that the universe could not have been designed in a deterministic way, as if someone were pulling the trigger at a predetermined time. at this point, it is important to qualify what is meant by the expression the moment of the big bang. intuitively, it is tempting to think of this event as taking place at time t 0. but again, intuition and common sense are often false friends in science. it turns out that the timing of the big bang is also subject to heisenberg s uncertainty principle, as is the size of the universe at its beginning. quantum mechanics shows that both time and size become fuzzy, impossible to determine exactly below certain values. for time, the earliest knowable moment in the origin of the universe is

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

bjective realities, friedrich wilhelm joseph von schelling, who succeeded fichte in the chair of philosophy at jena, first employed the doctrine of identity as the groundwork for a complete system of philosophy. whereas fichte regarded self as the absolute, von schelling conceived infinite and eternal mind to be the all-pervading cause. realization of the absolute is made possible by intellectual intuition which, being a superior or spiritual sense, is able to dissociate itself from both subject and object. kant's categories of space and time von schelling conceived to be positive and negative respectively, and material existence the result of the reciprocal action of these two expressions. von schelling also held that the absolute in its process of self-development proceeds according to a

sisting of three movements. the first, a reflective movement, is the attempt of the infinite to embody itself in the finite. the second, that of subsumption, is the attempt of the absolute to return to the infinite after involvement in the finite. the third, that of reason, is the neutral point wherein the two former movements are blended. georg wilhelm friedrich hegel considered the intellectual intuition of von schelling to be philosophically unsound and hence turned his attention to the establishment of a system of philosophy based upon pure logic. of hegel it has been said that he began with nothing and showed with logical precision how everything had proceeded from it in logical order. hegel elevated logic to a position of supreme importance, in fact as a quality of the absolute itsel

ect causing the original reaction be absent. the utilitarianism of jeremy bentham, archdeacon paley, and james and john stuart mill declares that to be the greatest good which is the most useful to the greatest number. john stuart mill believed that if it is possible through sensation to secure knowledge of the properties of things, it is also possible through a higher state of the mind--that is, intuition or reason--to gain a knowledge of the true substance of things. darwinism is the doctrine of natural selection and physical evolution. it has been said of charles robert darwin that he determined to banish spirit altogether from the universe and make the infinite and omnipresent mind itself synonymous with the all-pervading powers of an impersonal nature. agnosticism and neo-hegelianism

rom this ancient word, for faith is belief in the reality of things unseen or veiled. the greater mysteries (into which the candidate was admitted only after he had successfully passed through the ordeals of the lesser, and not always then) were sacred to ceres, the mother of persephone, and represent her as wandering through the world in quest of her abducted daughter. ceres carried two torches, intuition and reason, to aid her in the search for her lost child (the soul. at last she found persephone not far from eleusis, and out of gratitude taught the people there to cultivate corn, which is sacred to her. she also founded the mysteries. ceres appeared before pluto, god of the souls of the dead, and pleaded with him to allow persephone to return to her home. this the god at first refused

all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. there is an eternal sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of his existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel his power by an inner faculty which is called intuition" certain rosicrucian scholars have given special appellations to these three phases of the sun: the spiritual sun they called vulcan; the soular and intellectual sun, christ and lucifer respectively; and the material sun, the jewish demiurgus jehovah. lucifer here represents the intellectual mind without the illumination of the spiritual mind; therefore it is "the false light" the false

s of mount hira (since called jebel nur "the mountain of light) and here in his loneliness cried out to god to reveal anew the pure religion of adam, that spiritual doctrine lost to mankind through the dissensions of religious factions. khadijah, solicitous over her husband's ascetic practices which were impairing his physical health, sometimes accompanied him in his weary vigil, and with womanly intuition sensed the travail of his soul. at last one night in his fortieth year as he lay upon the floor of the cavern, enveloped in his cloak, a great light burst upon him. overcome with a sense of perfect peace and understanding in the blessedness of the celestial presence, he lost consciousness. when he came to himself again the angel gabriel stood before him, exhibiting a silken shawl with my

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

d, on the subject matter surrounding uranus. there will be ample material to select a name from, especially if the book is one of comparative mythology, showing the interrelations of legends among different cultures. should none of these methods yield results or appeal to you, then you should just go ahead and evolve a name that "feels right" cooking it up for yourself out of the blue, using your intuition to guide you. this in fact is ultimately the only criterion; the preceding methods are merely indicators and helps. so mull over a selection of names in your mind. ponder them in reverie if you can and let your deep mind send up some hints if possible. this really is the best way, as in the final analysis the deep mind is what we are really concerned with here. the witch name is basicall

rary addition, the myth itself being implicit in the entire initiation ceremony. as you can see, both rituals have many things in common, as well as their considerable differences, all or any of which can be incorporated into an initiation ceremony by the resourceful practitioner; he should also include any additional coven symbolism required. as always, it remains a matter of personal choice and intuition as to what is included and what left out, what bias the ritual should have- knowledge and power with its hermetic overtones or love and joy with its dionysian ones. evolve your coven emblems first, and the rest will follow naturally. the central idea to adhere to is one of the purification and regeneration of the candidate, symbolized by the impositions and removal of the blindfold and l

MEANING OF MASONRY

and slumbering and becomes active only in moments of stress or deep emotion. the west (or polar opposite of the east) represents his normal rational understanding, the consciousness he employs in temporal every-day affairs, his material-mindedness or, as we might say, his" common sense" midway between these east and west extremes is the south, the halfway house and meeting-place of the spiritual intuition and the rational understanding; the point denoting abstract intellectuality and our intellectual power develops to its highest, just as the sun attains its meridian splendour in the south. the antipodes of this is the north, the sphere of benightedness and ignorance, referable to merely sense-reactions and impressions received by that lowest and least reli able mode of perception, our ph

s is the north, the sphere of benightedness and ignorance, referable to merely sense-reactions and impressions received by that lowest and least reli able mode of perception, our physical sense nature. thus the four sides of the lodge point to four different, yet progressive, modes of consciousness available to us. sense-impression (north, reason (west, intellectual ideation (south, and spiritual intuition (east; making up our four possible ways of knowledge. of these the ordinary man employs only the first two or perhaps three, in accordance with his development and education, and his outlook on life and knowledge of truth are correspondingly restricted and imperfect. full and perfect knowledge is possible only when the deep seeing vision and consciousness of man's spiritual principle hav

e" sun" and, masonically, the" sun" stands for the illuminated human intelligence and craft understanding, which results from the material brain-mind being thoroughly permeated and enlightened by the spiritual principle; it denotes these two in a state of balance and harmonious interaction, the junior warden personifying the balance-point or meeting-place of man's natural reason and his spiritual intuition. accordingly it is he who, as representing this enlightened mental condition, asserts in the second degree (which is the degree of personal development where that condition is theoretically achieved) that he has been enabled in that degree to discover a sacred symbol placed in the centre of the building and alluding to the g.g.o.t.u. what is meant is, of course, that the man who has in r

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hat you should use the colors as they suit you, based on your individual interpretations of such. black: hidden knowledge, death, change and defense red: creativity, love, attraction, vitality, war and aggression white: purity, cleansing, protection and bestowing health to another blue: happiness, work (obtaining job, change of career) and friendship yellow: health, happiness, wits and alertness= intuition, green: money, success and material items orange: endurance, thought, and inspiration. purple: sex and rejuvenation. this is a list of the possible influences and significance that each color holds. it could be that the sorcerer develops his or her own detailed system of intermixing color and combining them with the burning of candles. some examples could be the following: if one was see

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ry. but it appears that the ancients explanation was no more of a cop-out than the explanations of today s university scholars, who label everything that doesn t fit within their theory a mystery. when it comes to the more tangle forms of evidence, exhibit a would be the ultra-accurate maps of antiquity--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 16 map-making, or cartography, is far more difficult than intuition would suggest, and the days when maps were wildly inaccurate are all but forgotten. with today s satellites, cameras, and aircraft, producing an accurate map of a particular region is as easy as taking a photo. but in ancient times, without the advantage of modern technology, drawing up an accurate map of a given region was nearly impossible. the problem lied in the fact that the map-mak

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r caves by the red sea, the darkness of the earth, the gateway of the demonum she breeds phantoms, shades and lilitu, sexual daimons which cater to the sorcerers who work in her veil. the daemonic feminine itself is defined as instinct, the knowledge of emotion and how one may control their deepest desires. this instinct is the primal aspect of the animals of the earth, how their mind's work, the intuition, understanding, graciousness and ferociousness when the animal hunger emerges. the vampyric and daemonic feminine is the point of intellect which combines and balances elegance and nobility with predatory instincts, the beast itself. it is this balance of being which allows self-improvement and introspection, ultimately to create a self-deified and productive god and goddess. the lucifer

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oing on, and that's all. but after this happened, my mind was the main point of attraction, and the body was second-it was only something to encase my mind. i didn't care if i had a body or not. it didn't matter because for all i cared my mind was what was important. in a very small number of cases, persons have told me that after their experiences they seemed to acquire or to notice faculties of intuition bordering on the psychic (i) following this experience, it almost seemed as if i were filled with a new spirit. since then, many have remarked to me that i seem to have almost a calming effect on them, instantly, when they are troubled. and it seems that i am more in tune with people now, that i can pick up things about them faster (2) one thing that i think has been given to me, because

MORALS AND DOGMA

sts substituted the idea of the absolute, for the supreme essence itself--as the first, simplest principle, anterior to all existence; of which nothing determinate can be predicated; to which no consciousness, no self-contemplation can be ascribed; inasmuch as to do so, would immediately imply a quality, a distinction of subject and object. this supreme entity can be known only by an intellectual intuition of the spirit, transcending itself, and emancipating itself from its own limits. this mere logical tendency, by means of which men thought to arrive at the conception of such an absolute, the [greek, was united with a certain mysticism, which, by a transcendent state of feeling, communicated, as it were, to this abstraction what the mind would receive as a reality. the absorption of the

he exclusion of every human passion, it was sublimated to a something devoid of all attributes, and wholly transcendental; and the mere being [greek, the good, in and by itself, the absolute of platonism, was substituted for the personal deity[[hebrew] of the old testament. by soaring upward, beyond all created existence, the mind, disengaging itself from the sensible, attains to the intellectual intuition of this absolute being; of whom, however, it can predicate nothing but existence, and sets aside all other determinations as not answering to the exalted nature of the supreme essence. thus philo makes a distinction between those who are in the proper sense sons of god, having by means of contemplation raised themselves to the highest being, or attained to a knowledge of him, in his imme

rd of revelation was falsified by the admixture of various errors, and overlaid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in heathenism many luminous vestiges of primitive truth. for the old heathenism had everywhere a foundation in truth; and if we could separate that pure intuition into nature and into the simple symbols of nature, that constituted the basis of all heathenism, from the alloy of error and the additions of fiction, those first hieroglyphic traits of the instinctive science of the first men, would be found to agree with truth and a true knowledge of nature, and to afford an image of a free, pure, comprehensive, and finished philosophy of life. the str

him; he is no longer isolated, but is a part of the eternal harmonies around him. his erring will is directed by the influence of a higher will, informing and moulding it in the path of his true happiness. man's power of apprehending outward truth is a qualified privilege; the mental like the physical inspiration passing through a diluted medium; and yet, even when truth, imparted, as it were, by intuition, has been specious, or at least imperfect, the intoxication of sudden discovery has ever claimed it as full, infallible, and divine. and while human weakness needed ever to recur to the pure and perfect source, the revelations once popularly accepted and valued assumed an independent substantiality, perpetuating not themselves only, but the whole mass of derivitive forms accidentally con

ce--necessity and liberty. the laws of the supreme reason necessitate and regulate liberty in god, who is necessarily reasonable and wise. knowledge supposes the binary. an object known is indispensable to the being that knows. the binary is the generator of society and the law. it is also the number of the _gnosis, a word adopted in lieu of _science, and expressing only the idea of cognizance by intuition. it is unity, multiplying itself by itself to create; and therefore it is that the sacred symbols make eve issue from the very chest of adam. adam is the human tetragram, which is summed up in the mysterious yod of the kabalah, image of the kabalistic phallus. add to this yod, the ternary name of eve, and you form the name of jehova, the _divine_ tetragram, the transcendent kabalistic an

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ome active, even if for just one moment "hadit consoles not" hadit, of course, is the a biding flame of life that makes manifestation, even of the "fallen; possible. though they are not conscious of him, he is in them. see lxv, iii, 36. but for the same reason, he "hates" those who console and those who let themselves be consoled. to fear death is to blaspheme against life, and your own spiritual intuition gimel in the qabalah turns against you in scorn. it is for this reason that beggars hate the alms giver, and the alms giver, deep in his heart, despises the beggar. this is a psychological fact, no matter how much well-intentioned fools may deny or conceal it. curses brace your soul benedictions put you to sleep. does your brother beg your help? cast him into the snake pit and laugh at h

ON SET

individual, self-conscious, autonomous potential of mankind to actualize within the temple of set, and without it as well as appropriate- this does not include any kind of converting; by its very nature the need for individual selfbetterment must come from within an individual himself. no one can do such a work for others, only for oneself. reality of set is not based on mere knowledge or on mere intuition. it is based on both, but it is essentially via rationally based intuition, my own conscious efforts to understand my own self, via my own conscious efforts to come into being as a more perfect, more autonomous individual, that i have experienced the principle, that it has become necessary for my own initiation (self development process) and self- understanding. set will not be known to

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not a literal eye, but a series or set of reflections based on the type and relevance of any given situation a priest or priestess of set might encounter. within kundalini yoga of east indian tradition, the "third eye" or "brow chakra" seems an appropriate metaphor. this "third eye" is "opened" via the process of personal initiation, and is considered a latent aspect of the language of the heart (intuition. this is the ability of the adept to establish and maintain an upward flow of energy within the spine- mixing both the objective, physical life-force with that of the subjective "soul" energy. this allows the archetypical "serpent movement" of such magnetism to "open" the "third eye "soul" energy is further the force of animation as it is connected to the human perception of isolate inte

ion or meditative state- an illustrative gbm laboratory which can engender either a constant or consistently-accessible relationship with the "eye. as the result of such inward adventuring, an outward ability to peel back the "subjective overlays" can be remanifested, and continues to be so as further xeper is achieved. this is not an absolute ability but a heightened one. again, even a sensitive intuition is not 100% accurate. the fact that intuition has its basis in the subjective carries a certain margin for error, this from an intellectual vantage-point. the eye can bring to light many interesting "points of perspective, but it must such be seasoned with a rational and grounded quality of common sense. despite the awareness of the priesthood of set, the inertial qualities of one's huma

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efore, there is only one simple way to explain it. it has a narrow width and a short length because it is not deep. all this applies to the matter of comprehension, called binah. now, the depth of a river reaches all the way to its source, in the spring. likewise, the depth of a comprehended concept flows from, and reaches back, to its source in the spring of chochmah. chochmah is the insight and intuition which flashes into the comprehending mind of binah, seemingly materializing from nothing to something. this corresponds to the trickle of water that flows out of the inner depth of the spring. as this water becomes revealed from its original concealment beneath the earth, it becomes the source of the river. now, just as there is a length, width and depth in the comprehension of binah, li

tween the ability of a child to concentrate as opposed to the concentration of an adult. now, the three dimensions of da at are related to each other. for example, a person who cannot concentrate deeply will tend to have a short attention span. in contrast, a person with deep concentration will tend to have a long and wide attention span. abba and imma as mentioned above, chochmah (wisdom) is the intuition and insightful wisdom which flashes into the comprehending brain of binah (understanding. now, if one does not immediately grasp on to the seminal insight of chochmah and begin analyzing it, it will begin to dissipate and he will soon forget the insight completely. it is only when the flash of intuition is grasped in a way of analysis and comprehension that it can develop into a full blo

comprehend, there must be a seminal concept to grasp through analysis. on the other hand, the concept cannot exist in a vacuum. there must be a vessel to contain it and develop it. this vessel is the comprehension of binah. for this reason these two sefirot are always found together. when one is thinking, he must think about something. the creation of "something from nothing" is when the flash of intuition (chochmah) breaks through like a lightning bolt, to the level of understanding (binah) from that which is above intellect (keter. this comes from the source of intellect which is called "koach hamaskil (chochmah of arich. koach hamaskil is the ability to bring out new insights into the intellect. we may now understand the meaning of the statement in etz chaim that abba (chochmah) receive

the subject we are occupied with here, is the matter of the two mazalot and that which results from their unification. however, in the examples, the thought and innovation is directed outward, towards something outside of one s self. that level of thought comes about from netzach, hod, and yesod of arich (the gut emotions of the desire, as will be explained later. on the other hand, the flash of intuition we are dealing with here is an intuitional insight that goes up, into the self itself, rather than down, outside of the self, and represents deep introspection. this is like an intuitive flash of insight into the true nature of reality. in other words, the analysis is not into externalities, such as making a better computer, or discovering a medical breakthrough. rather, the analysis is

introspection. this is like an intuitive flash of insight into the true nature of reality. in other words, the analysis is not into externalities, such as making a better computer, or discovering a medical breakthrough. rather, the analysis is inward, into the essential self. for example, the analysis is to understand the desire, purpose and intent behind all of creation. therefore, this flash of intuition comes from keter of arich (desire of desire) within which atik yomin (emotions of pleasure) is enclothed, which, as mentioned before, is still part and parcel of the self. in truth, it can actually reach even higher, into the original simple desire and intent in the essence of the self itself (ratzon hapashoot b atzmooto. the arms of arich anpin become enclothed in abba and imma now, we

binah) lends the clothing (the five gevurot) to the daughter (malchut" etc) nonetheless, it is also stated in the zohar, that "the father (chochmah-insight) founded the daughter (malchut-speech. in other words, whereas the power to divide the letters comes from binah, the power to combine them comes from chochmah. furthermore, this comes about automatically, as explained before, that the flash of intuition which brings everything together, comes about automatically. for example, if while dismantling a watch, a person focuses and pays close attention, carefully scrutinizing each piece and noting its relationship to all the other components of the watch, he will automatically be able to put it back together. likewise the dividing of the letters, how the idea is dissected and analyzed, comes

ng of the letters through chochmah must take place. in summary, there are two general powers in thought, and two particular powers in thought. the first general power is the power of comprehension, to distinguish and comprehend the difference between one thing and another. this is the analytical thought of binah. the second general power is the power to bring things together. this is the flash of intuition which comes automatically, from chochmah. the first particular power in thought is the power to divide the letters, which comes from the five gevurot of binah. the second particular power in thought is the power to combine and formulate these letters into words, which comes automatically from chochmah (this is called the thread of thought, which travels through the word, sentence or thou

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chochmah itself. now, chochmah of chochmah is the wisdom of all understandings, therefore, the binah of chochmah is the ability to explain all concepts. it is how all concepts are unified at their source. one who has attained this level is capable of understanding one subject from another. such a person is called a navon (a man of understanding (actually, chochmah of binah, which is the flash of intuition into a particular subject, ultimately is also rooted in binah of chochmah. however, in chochmah of binah, binah of chochmah (which is the ability to explain all things, remains hidden and only the insight into the specific matter under examination becomes revealed) binah& tvunah (comprehension& application) there are two general levels in binah. these are binah and tvunah. binah is the a

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ot divination using a ten card layout, as described towards the end of his booka pictorial key to the tarot (university books, new york, is a useful, simple and direct method. it can and should, of course, be supplemented by some of the brief order definitions as laid down in the second volume of this edition. practice will demonstrate its value. the unsuspecting student will rapidly discover his intuition and psychic faculties will undergo a marked stimulation and development bv the use of these methods. 1gofar as the portal document sugge& the s&dent reflect on "words and the power of words" i am reminded of something i have long wanted to say, but somehow neglected. i would like strongly to recommend the miracle of language by charlton laird (premier books, new york, 1953, a superb piec

what formerly was dross into gold. initiation has as its object the commencement of a new life, to transform the base and low into the pure and unutterably splendid "all appeared new and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. i was a little stranger which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. my knowledge was divine; i knew by intuition those things which since my apostacy i collected again by the highest reason. my very ignorance was advantageous. i seemed as one brought into the state of innocence. all things were spotless and pure and glorious; yea, and infinitely mine and joyful and precious. i knew not that there were any sins, or complaints or laws. i dreamed not of poverties, contentions, or vices. all tears and

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> produce a commonplace thing of the natural life. it reminds us of the sentiment of the alchemists who expressed contempt of their first mat

but more white than the hovering virgin snow when it is not yet sullied with the earth" the qabalistic sephirah of daath is the conjunction of chokmah and binah on 34 the golden dawn the tree of life, the child of wisdom and understanding -knowledge. it <61> refers to the symbolic sphere formed within or above the rmch by means of experience obtained, and this assimilated becomes transmuted into intuition and faculty of mind. but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders daath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge 'thus it stands proven" claims blavatsky "that satan, or

of spiritual development. many will no doubt be rather perplexed by this. divinationusually is said to refer exclusively to the low occult arts, to fortune-telling, and the prognostication of the future. actually, however, so far as the order is concerned, the principal object for these practical methods is that they stimulate, as few exercises can, the faculties of clairvoyance, imagination, and intuition. though certain readings or interpretations to the geomantic and tarot symbols may be found in the appropriate text books, these rule of thumb methods do not conduce to the production of an accurate delineation of the spiritual causes behind material events. these interpretations are usual to the beginner in the art, for he requires a foundation of the principal definitions employed upon

among analytical psychologists, and identify the latent spiritual self of man with what is known as the unconscious, then be it remembered that this vast subterranean stream of vitality and memory and inspiration can only be reached by means of a symbol. for the latter, states jung "is the primitive expression of the unconscious, while on the other hand it is an idea corresponding to the highest intuition produced by consciousness" thus these weapons and magical instruments are symbolic representations of psychic events, of forces inhering within the potentiality of the inner man. by means of their personal manufacture, magical consecration and continual employment they may be made to affect and stimulate the dormant side of man's nature. it is aninteresting fact that in his practice, jun

whether you can give a reading which satisfies their friends. the order requires only that you should be able to set up an accurate horoscope and that you should know how to work out the aspects and how to make a simple assessment of the good and bad factors in a horary figure. if astrology interests you further, it is a very fascinating field of research. divination. you may try to develop your intuition by the use of horary and natal astrology, geomancy, and the reading of the tarot cards by the method given in the small book by mr. a. e. waite. you are advised to attempt only questions in which you are not emotionally involved because methods of divination can be a fruitful source of self-deception to those who are psychic but not self-knowing. if you are given to having intuitions you

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all the centuries trembled before such an absolute and terrible word; they have hesitated in arrogating to themselves the first privilege of divinity by assuming the possession of science, and have been contented, instead of the verb to know, with that which expresses learning, while, in place of the word science, they have adopted that of gnosis, which represents simply the notion of learning by intuition. what, in fact, does man know? nothing, and at the same time he is allowed to ignore nothing. devoid of knowledge, he is called upon to know all. now, knowledge supposes the duad a being who knows and an object known. the duad is the generator of society and of law: it is also the number of the gnosis. the duad is unity multiplying itself in order to create, and hence in sacred symbolism

rect rays. so long as the soul struggles it is reasonable; when it yields to this species of invading intoxication it becomes mad. to disentangle the direct ray, and separate it from the reflection such is the work of the initiate. here let us state distinctly that this work is being performed continually in the world by some of the flower of mankind; that there is hence a permanent revelation by intuition; and that there is no insuperable barrier which separates souls, because there are no sudden interruptions and no high walls in nature by which minds can be divided from one another. all is transition and blending, wherefore, assuming the perfectibility, if not infinite at least indefinite, of human faculties, it will be understood that every person can attain to see all, and therefore t

y can be rendered tractable, which is magically called their imprisonment. let us explain this marvel briefly. all created beings communicate with one another by signs, and all adhere to a certain number of truths expressed by determinate forms. the perfection of forms increases in proportion to the emancipation of spirits, and those that are not overweighted by the chains of matter, recognize by intuition out of hand whether a sign is the expression of a real power or of a precipitate will. the intelligence of the wise man therefore gives value to his pantacle, as science gives weight to his will, and spirits comprehend this power immediately. thus, by means of the pentagram, spirits can be forced to appear in vision, whether in the waking or sleeping state, by themselves leading before o

mediation of the diaphane, and it is in this sense that we become and remain the children of 40 the doctrine of transcendental magic our works. the astral light, transformed at the moment of conception into human light, is the soul's first envelope, and, in combination with extremely subtle fluids, it forms the ethereal body or sidereal phantom, of which paracelsus discourses in his philosophy of intuition philosophia sagax. this sidereal body, being liberated at death, attracts and for a long time preserves, through the sympathy of things homogeneous, the reflections of the past life; if drawn into a special current by a will which is powerfully sympathetic, it manifests naturally, for there is nothing more natural than prodigies. it is thus apparitions are produced. but we shall develop

urope with institutions and remained poor. nicholas flamel, who in spite of his legend is really dead, only attained the great work when asceticism had detached him completely from riches. he was initiated by a suddenly imparted understanding of the book aesh mezareph, written in hebrew by the kabalist abraham, possibly the compiler of the sepher yetzirah. now this understanding was for flamel an intuition deserved, or rather, rendered possible, by the personal preparations of the adept. i believe that i have spoken sufficiently. divination is therefore an intuition, and the key of this intuition is the universal and magical doctrine of analogies. by means of these analogies the magus interprets visions, as did the patriarch joseph in egypt, according to biblical history. the analogies in

most remarkable points are the obstinate perseverance and incontestable good faith of the author, who all his life perceived the grandeur of the occult sciences, but was destined to die at the gate of the sanctuary without ever penetrating behind the veil. he had little esteem for agrippa, made much of jean belot and knew nothing of the philosophy of paracelsus; but he possessed a highly-trained intuition and great persistence of will, though his fancy exceeded his judgement. his endowments were insufficient for a magus and more than were needed for a skilful and accredited diviner of the vulgar order. hence etteilla had a fashionable success 102 the doctrine of transcendental magic which a more accomplished magician would perhaps have been wrong to renounce, but assuredly would not have

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out, as the latin letters disappeared for greek eyes. so the inscription on the cross of the saviour vanished entirely, and nothing except mysterious initials remained. but when science and philosophy, reconciled with faith, shall unite all the various symbols, then shall the magnificences of the antique worships be restored to the memory of men, proclaiming the progress of the human mind in the intuition of the light of god. but of all forms of progress the greatest will be that which, restoring the keys of nature to the hands of science, shall enchain for ever the hideous spectre of satan, and, explaining all abnormal phenomena, shall destroy the empire of superstition and imbecile credulity. to the accomplishment of this work we have consecrated our life, and do still devote it in the

uch. the operator, in a word, must realize in his whole life that which he wishes to realize in the world without him; he must become a magnet to attract the desired thing; and when he shall be sufficiently magnetic, let him be assured that the thing will come of itself, and without thinking of it. it is important for the magus to be acquainted with the secrets of science, but he may know them by intuition, and without formal learning. solitaries living in the habitual contemplation of nature, frequently divine her harmonies and are more instructed in their simple good sense than doctors, whose natural discernment is falsified by the sophistries of the schools. true practical magicians are found almost invariably in the country, and are frequently uninstructed persons and simple shepherds

ood sense than doctors, whose natural discernment is falsified by the sophistries of the schools. true practical magicians are found almost invariably in the country, and are frequently uninstructed persons and simple shepherds. furthermore, certain physical organizations are better adapted than others for the revelations of the occult world. there are sensitive and sympathetic natures, with whom intuition in the astral light is, so to speak, inborn; certain afflictions and certain complaints react upon the nervous system and, independently of the concurrence of the will, may convert it into a divinatory apparatus of less or more perfection. but these phenomena are exceptional, and generally magical power should and can be acquired by perseverance and labour. there are also some substances

nce we suspend our judgement in the expectation of fresh and more conclusive discoveries. as to the alphabet of the stars, we believe it to be instinctive, like the configuration of clouds, which seem to assume any form that imagination lends them. star-groups are like points in geomancy or the figures of cartomancy. they are a pretext for auto-magnetism, an instrument to fix and determine native intuition. thus, a kabalist, familiar with mystic hieroglyphics, will perceive signs in the stars which will not be discerned by a simple shepherd, but the shepherd, on his part, will observe combinations that will escape the kabalist. country people substitute a rake for the belt and sword of orion, while a kabalist recognizes in the same sign. considered as a whole. all the mysteries of ezekiel

three letters combined make 1025, which must be computed from the taking of constantinople by mahomet ii, a calculation which still promises several centuries of existence to the enfeebled empire of the sultans, sustained at present by all europe combined. the mane thecel phares which belshazzar, in his intoxication, saw written on the wall of his palace by the glare of torches, was an onomantic intuition similar to that of the rabbins. initiated, no doubt, by his hebrew diviners in the reading of the stars, belshazzar went to work mechanically and instinctively upon the lamps of his nocturnal east, as he would upon the stars of heaven. the three words which he had formed in his imagination soon became indelible to his eyes and paled all the lights of his banquet. it was easy to predict a

e is reason in the finite? truth is hidden from no one. god is visible in his works, and he requires nothing contrary to its nature from any being, for he is himself the author of that nature. faith is confidence; have confidence, not in men who malign reason, for they are fools or impostors, but in that eternal reason which is the divine word, that true light which is offered like the sun to the intuition of every human creature coming into this world. if you believe in absolute reason; if you desire truth and justice before all things, you will have philtres and magnetism 113 no occasion to fear anyone, and you will love those only who are deserving of love. your natural light will repel instinctively that of the wicked, because it will be ruled by your will. thus, even poisonous substan

erved for true science and genuine divination. the divination of events to come is possible only in the case of those the realization of which is in some sense contained in their cause. the soul, scrutinizing by means of the whole nervous system the circle of the astral light, which influences a man and from him receives an influence; the soul of the diviner, we repeat, can comprehend by a single intuition all the loves and hatreds which such a person has evoked about him; it can read his intentions in his thoughts, foresee obstacles that he will encounter, possibly the violent death which awaits him; but it cannot divine his private, voluntary, capricious determinations of the moment following consultation, unless indeed the ruse of the diviner itself prepares the fulfilment of the prophe

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elic-speaking parishioners consequently scholars studying such beliefs use kirk's book as a prime source for comparison with more recent popular beliefs, as it is one of the earliest accounts of fairy lore in the english language. kirk was no mere ignorant country priest, but a learned scholar, linguist and writer, and, of equal importance in the present context, a man of spiritual conviction and intuition. his involvement with second sight, however, may run even deeper than an of the foregoing, for he was a seventh son, and such people are traditionally said to be born with certain inherent powers of second sight and of healing. kirk discusses this tradition in several places in his text, and we shall return to it again. he does not, however, state directly that he had second sight, thoug

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. it was important to plato that virtue be raised to a level of rationality. it was not enough for people to be unconsciously or instinctively virtuous; they must "taste of the knowledge of good and evil" and then knowingly choose the good. plato stratified thought as eikasia (primitive emotion, pistis (ordinary active/reactive thinking, dianoia (precise, logical, enlightened thought, and noesis (intuition and apprehension of the agathon. he offered the famous "parable of the cave" whereby philosophers (who have seen the agathon of perfect wisdom) lead mankind into the light by means of the dialectic [here "dialectic" means teaching or rather the encouraging of selfteaching through examination and refutation of imperfect concepts] plato was an elitist, but his elitism was directed towards

least in the historical-academic category that i am referring to 4. erotic crystallization inertia is noesis mystical? classification: v2- 156.a- 1 author: pat hardy iii date: december 15, xxiv html revision: jan 12, 1998 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 2v, 12b, 12c plato identified four levels of thought. the highest of these, noesis, was an intuitive recognition of truth. this enlightened intuition was brought about through the development of the psyche. it is an important factor in the setian concept of initiation.(1) various writers have described noesis as a mystical faculty. some infer from this that setian philosophy itself is based on an irrational mysticism. this questionable conclusion is based an assumption, namely, that noesis is mystical. the purpose of this article is t

lected that the time-unit "picosecond" was unimaginable to most people. yet understanding the presentation would require a gut feel for the switching speeds of components in the system under discussion. suddenly, she saw the answer. at the briefing she distributed scraps of wire, and explained "picosecond" thus: signals could travel this length of wire in a picosecond. people understood. hopper's intuition is a simple example of noetic thought. in the terminology of de lubicz, the picosecond-wire is a symbol, while the word "picosecond" is a conventional sign bearing no necessary relation to its meaning. noesis is not mystical, but a mode of nonverbal symbolic thought. because it is not a verbal form of reasoning, it seems `superrational' and perceptual in the terms of the verbal mind: the

s. those who do not experience this type of insight naturally express skepticism. some say that granting validity to an exotic, elite means of receiving knowledge opens the door to unbridled fantasy. yet if people pass off hallucination and manipulation as "noesis" on the less-savvy, this is surely proof of deceit and ignorance, not disproof of noesis. reason is a reliable machine; we should test intuition. we should be equally wary of language. on no account should we reject nonverbal symbolic thought simply for difficulty of exposition. miserable is the craftsman who discards a screwdriver because it is not a hammer. footnotes 1. see "the concept of initiation, black magic in theory and practice, in the crystal tablet the gnosis as an integral part of the hermetic science table of conten

s to say in the causal principle (the akasha, on all planes of the grossly material, astral, and mental world. therefore wisdom does not depend on mind and memory, but on the maturity, purity, and perfection of the individual personality. wisdom could also be considered as a developmental stage of the "ego" therefore insights are not passed on through the mind, but- and this particularly- through intuition or inspiration. the degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual. this will not mean, of course, that we ought to neglect knowledge; on the contrary, knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. the adept will therefore endeavor to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for none of the two must lag behind in development. if knowledge and wisdom

h to build his mathematical philosophy, so plato must have an assumption. the ability to recognize absolute perfection. upon which to build his dialectic philosophy. the chimaera: plato seems to be caught in a trap between the relativistic sophists on one hand. who denied the reliability of intuitive assumptions. and the pythagoreans on the other. who permitted original assumptions via revelation/intuition. plato rejects the notion that axioms are necessary for reason, yet he cannot reason without them. no wonder he was so touchy about the sophists. the sphinx: note the very precise manner in which the pythagoreans discussed the original assumptions of mathematics: again he indicates page #522 of the stanley text. the whole science of mathematicks, the pythagoreans divided into four parts

ositivist. furthermore, in addition to the intellectual faculties, or what might be termed "the intelligence of the head" the setian recognizes the existence of an intuitive form of knowing, or "the intelligence of the heart" the objects of which are apprehended through the greater black magical working. the knowledge arising out of such workings is highly phenomenological in that it involves the intuition of essences by means of free imaginative variation. the setian greater black magical working is to be distinguished from conventional religious worship in that the setian does not identify set with god, but understands him to be a finite being who is engaged in a constant process of becoming. nor does the setian abase himself before this being, but instead sees him as a teacher. ultimate

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, 2006. the great madhva archya. dharmakshetra.com. http//www.dharmakshetra.com/ sages/saints/madvacharya.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. 240 world religions: biographies madhva mahavira born: c. 599 bce kundagrama, bihar, india died: c. 527 bce papa, bihar, india indian philosopher; religious leader whether i am walking or standing still/whether i sleep or remain awake,/the supreme knowledge and intuition/present with me constantly and continuously. mahavira was an indian philosopher who lived a life of extreme piety, or devotion. he is regarded as the founder of a religion called jainism, which is practiced primarily in india. jains, however, would say that mahavira did not found jainism. they would instead say he rediscovered or reinvigorated jain principles and beliefs that had always

ao other themes run through the dao de jing. one is an emphasis on the value of the feminine principle, with its qualities of fluidness and softness, like water (as opposed to the male principle of solidity, represented by the mountain. in this way, the dao de jing challenges its readers to reject such male traits as action, force, command, and ruling in favor of such female traits as dependence, intuition (the ability to know instinctively, without having to discover something) and recognizing the mysterious and obscure, or unclear, aspects of creation. another theme has to do with return. on the face of it, this has been simply interpreted to mean something like a return to nature, or to a simpler, more natural state of existence before the beginning of civilization. in daoism, though, t

a variety of reasons. one practical reason was the lack of convenient writing materials. but the emphasis on oral transmission, or retelling buddhist texts and stories from person to person, came from deeper causes. early buddhist wise men believed that the way to achieve enlightenment and contact with a divine reality was through self-deprivation (going without or denying oneself something) and intuition (the state of being aware of or knowing something without having evidence. it was believed that contemplation, or the study of spiritual matters calmly and over a long period of time, of wisdom that was heard rather than read was a purer path to enlightenment and that writing actually took away from the value and wisdom of the words. further, while a stone tablet engraved with part of th

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he living creatures, kerubic forms. 20. the spirit of the gods of the living. ruch alhim chiiim; or as r. gives it "spiritus deorum viventium" orthodoxy would translate these words "the spirit of the living god" 21. al chi h oulmim "the living god of ages; here the word god really is in the singular. 22. the voice, spirit and word are qul, ruch, dbr. a very notable hebrew expression of divinatory intuition was bath qul, the daughter of the voice. 23. formless and void. thu and bhu; these two words occur in genesis i. 2, and are translated "waste and void" 24. note the order in which the primordial elements were produced. first, spirit (query akasa, ether; then air, vayu; then water, apas, which condenses into solid elementary earth, prithivi; and lastly from the water he formed fire. 25. t

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ting them until they are ours. however, none of the above principles need be practiced in a heavy handed and destructive manner. as we say, success may be achieved with no more effort than the gentle force of a finger flicking aside a domino. that is why this lesson is placed in the second section instead of the first. think of yourself as a mental martial artist, one who uses their intellect and intuition instead of their hands and feet. that is one of the reasons we taught you to practice seeing and developing all of your senses into one super sense that even includes your sixth sense. the idea was to make you aware so you could open up and accept new ways to do old tricks. we wanted you to practice and overcome your old limitations by clearing your mind and adjusting your attitude momen

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

cy, not his affectation. your heart resembles him even more than your genius: you have the same noble enthusiasm for your sublime profession; the same lofty freedom from envy, and the spirit that depreciates; the same generous desire not to war with but to serve artists in your art; aiding, strengthening, advising, elevating the timidity of inexperience, and the vague aspirations of youth. by the intuition of a kindred mind, you have equalled the learning of winckelman, and the plastic poetry of goethe, in the intimate comprehension of the antique. each work of yours, rightly studied, is in itself a criticism, illustrating the sublime secrets of the grecian art, which, without the servility of plagiarism, you have contributed to revive amongst us; in you we behold its three great and long

orced and exaggerated. to the manners of his host, those of zanoni afforded a striking contrast. the bearing of this singular person was at all times characterised by a calm and polished ease, which was attributed by the courtiers to the long habit of society. he could scarcely be called gay; yet few persons more tended to animate the general spirits of a convivial circle. he seemed, by a kind of intuition, to elicit from each companion the qualities in which he most excelled; and if occasionally a certain tone of latent mockery characterised his remarks upon the topics on which the conversation fell, it appeared to men who took nothing in earnest to be the language both of wit and wisdom. to the frenchmen, in particular, there was something startling in his intimate knowledge of the minut

nite creation, of which itself is an essence and a part, the secrets that embalm the very clay which they consecrate, and renew the strength of life with the ambrosia of mysterious and celestial sleep. and while he spoke, viola listened, breathless. if she could not comprehend, she no longer dared to distrust. she felt that in that enthusiasm, self-deceiving or not, no fiend could lurk; and by an intuition, rather than an effort of the reason, she saw before her, like a starry ocean, the depth and mysterious beauty of the soul which her fears had wronged. yet, when he said (concluding his strange confessions) that to this life within life and above life he had dreamed to raise her own, the fear of humanity crept over her, and he read in her silence how vain, with all his science, would the

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wn. god in this sense neither exists nor does not exist. he transcends existence. god cannot be approached therefore through the medium of ordinary cognition, which is concerned with things that exist. we have to be raised above ourselves, above our sensory observation, above our rational thinking- processes, and cross over to purely spiritual apprehension. then we can begin to grasp, in mystical intuition, the perspective of the divine. however, the superexistent god has brought forth from himself the logos, the wisdom-filled foundation of the universe. and the logos is accessible to the weaker human faculties. he is present in the structure of the world and mediates between god and humanity. the logos may be present in humanity in various degrees, and may be actualized in the world throu

st the mystical side of christianity in a historical presentation. it was meant to show how christianity came into being, from the standpoint of a mystical awareness. behind this lay the idea that spiritual happenings were factors in its emergence, which could only be observed from such a point of view. it is for the book itself to demonstrate that by mystical i intend nothing in the way of vague intuition rather than strict scientific argument. in many circles mysticism is understood to be just that, and therefore to be distinguished from the concerns of all genuine science. but in this book i use the term to mean a presentation of spiritual reality a reality only accessible to a knowledge drawn from the sources of spiritual life itself. anyone who denies the possibility of such knowledge

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

e. what delineates pseudo-lhp groups from actual real ones is the absolute necessity to manifest a creation relevant to being awake. there is much to see, and each and every individual must have a personal vision what is to be if they want to extend and expand their sight and vision until it creates inscription and continuance. a personal vision is a shadow at the edges of consciousness. it is an intuition that there exists just outside the cusp of consciousness an important understanding. you feel it, you see it, but it eludes direct confrontation- a mystery which you know, but can't yet articulate. the "will to do" is the mechanism which allows that shadow to be articulated. you can never essent into your own own essence and know it without doing. nearly all the failures i have seen in t

hin. however, for the purposes of this book, i will focus very specifically on the elements of the ritual chamber- considered as an area of extreme transformative energy. it is also the area of highest potential for future transformational experience. all great magic occurs over time, instant results cannot and should not be expected. what can and does occur instantly are brief moments of vision, intuition and apprehension of something important just outside the edge of consciousness. the result of extending the perceptual reach of consciousness is to convert these intuitions into functional tools that can generally be described as insight. these moments of insight are here, and then gone, only their conscious remnants, and the process of seeking to recover that experience, are real and tr

sonal transformative activities within the ritual chamber. this was prompted by the acceptance of most practitioners of both the black arts, and occultists in general, that the actual mechanism responsible for magic was largely unknowable in practical terms. this was something i called the ooga-booga factor. it was an unacceptable act of faith where method was not preceded by knowledge. i had the intuition and magical experience (plus the archives of the order of the trapezoid) to have a sophisticated understanding of the artifically created environments of the ritual chamber. it was through the ritual imagery and atmospheric conditioning found in ritual chambers that i wanted to explore aspects of my question regarding what makes magic work. i also felt that trapezoidal oriented ritual, p

s/expressive stage of notice in the mind. this is a fairly simple beginning to such a complex topic as the will and its application in the lhp. simply understood though, stage one is when the item of which one eventually applies the will is brought to the attention of consciousness. you notice it, it has been expressed to your consciousness in some form, an image, a symbol, a complex of ideas, an intuition. it has taken some type of form within the consciousness of the individual. the basic idea is that if it ain t in your consciousness, the will is unable to work with it. stage one reveals then that the will acts upon objects (whatever form) within consciousness that become a center of focus. stage two. this is the desire stage. once an object has been focused upon (remembering when i ref

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superior; they develop an intense conviction that they are better qualified to judge the true will, both theirs and the order s, than the guru or hierarchic superior; and so on and so forth. truly, it is not only perfectly possible that the disciple is better qualified to judge his or her own true will than the master, but also necessary. the sign that we are not dealing with legitimate spiritual intuition, but with a rebellion of the inferior nature, consists in the simple fact that the disciple is completely free to leave the master (or the order, in case he or she feels that he or she has gained full self control (that is to say mastership; but instead of doing so, the disciple starts dictating conditions to the master, or trying to rule the order. he/she tries to teach the master how t

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egin, who would know, by locating his belief till he sees his will. existing as dual, they are identical in desire, by their duality there is no control, for will and belief are ever at variance, and each would shape the other to its ends, in the issue neither wins as the joy is a covert of sorrow. let him unite them. 28 29 the cloudy enemies born of stagnant self-hypnotism. natural belief is the intuition that compels belief through that which is experienced reacting, and dominating in turns; everything has to associate itself through its definite emotion, stimulated by those in harmony; those discordant, lose cogency and inhibit. so by its own workings belief is limited and determined for you. the majority of our actions can be traced back to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in confli

ned, the study of knowledge is unproductive. even if "they" were known their study is useless. we are not the object by the perception, but by becoming it. closing the gateways of sense is no help. verily i will make common-sense the foundation of my teaching. otherwise, how can i convey my meaning to the deaf, vision to the blind, and my emotion to the dead? in a labyrinth of metaphor and words, intuition is lost, therefore without their effort must be learned the truth about one's self from him who alone knows the truth. yourself. of what use the wisdom of virginity to him who has been raped by the seducer, ignorance? of what use sciences or any knowledge except as medicine? hidden treasure does not come at the word nor by digging with your hands in the main road. even with the proper im

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

, changeability, thursday blue, light tranquility, understanding, patience pink love, friendship, health green finance, fertility, growth, friday green-yellow anger, jealousy, discord yellow intellect, confidence, sunday orange encouragement, energy, attraction brown hearth, home blessing, grounding red strength, vigor, sexual passion, tuesday gold wealth, abundance, prosperity silver discretion, intuition gray neutrality, tranquility black banishing, absorption, protection, saturday you know how to use candles? ya, you light the wick. it s more than that first put on the shirt then put on the pants ca e n h d t l e gnisserd in order to practice candle magick, you must first select a new unused colored candle, based upon your desired goal. then the candle needs to be anointed with oil. thi

ding for this sample ritual, has been taken from the invocation scene of the craft. facing east say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the east. powers of air and invention. hear us(me! facing south say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the south. powers of fire and feeling. hear us(me! facing west say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the west. powers of water and intuition. hear us(me! facing north say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the north. powers of mother and earth. hear us(me! looking skyward say, aid us(me) in our magical workings reason for the ritual. invoking pentagrams banishing pentagrams element- compass point relationship air- east: fire- south: water- west: earth- north page 18 grimoire of eclectic magick the art of magick ritu

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esearch unit at manchester college in england. a biology based upon an acceptance of the mechanistic hypothesis is a marvelous extension of chemistry and physics, hardy remarked. but to call it an entire science of life is a pretense. i cannot help feeling that much of man s unrest today is due to the widespread intellectual acceptance of this mechanistic superstition when the common sense of his intuition cries out that it is false. in april 2001, research funded by the alister hardy trust being conducted at the 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 mediums and mystics 145 the parapsychological association, inc. the parapsychological association provides readers with parapsychology faq which is a three-part document compiled by researche

mber of basic metaphysical and occult truths and did not place enough emphasis on the role of the christ and the christian church in humankind s spiritual evolution. in 1913, steiner left the theosophists and formed his own group, the anthroposophical society, dedicated to constructing a path for spiritual growth established on four levels of human nature the senses, imagination, inspiration, and intuition. in 1914, steiner married marie von sievers, an actress, who had been secretary of the german section of the theosophical society. his first marriage, to anna eunicke, had ended in divorce some years previously. between 1910 and 1914, he had written four mystery plays and he intended to stage these, together with the dramas of goethe, in the goetheanum, a school for esoteric research tha

tion of pure being: the blind intent stretching here receives its reward in a profound experience of eternal life. in this experience, the consciousness of i-hood, of space and time all that beings to the world of becoming and our own place therein are suspended. the vitality which we are accustomed to split amongst these various things, is gathered up to form a state of pure apprehension a vivid intuition of the transcendent. underhill goes on to explain that in the perfect unity of consciousness that comes in a state of ecstasy, the mystic is so concentrated on the absolute that his or her faculties are suspended and he or she ceases to think of himself or herself as separate from the all that is. the mystic becomes so immersed in the absolute that as the bird cannot see the air which su

of theological material which fills the mind. some researchers also find it likely that the vision, much like a normal dream, originates from some sensational stimulus which the imagination proceeds to interpret and elaborate. mystic ecstasy, to the percipient of the experience, reveals a genuine truth. he or she is brought face-to-face with ultimate reality that is experienced with emotions and intuition. a transcendence of the self is achieved. the mystic returns from the experience with the certainty of having been somewhere else where a revelation of some remarkable truth was given, a truth such as reality is unitary and divine; even ordinary human experiences are phenomenal; the soul, which is the key to reality, may rise to oneness with god; that god s presence may be found everywhe

re well aware that they must undergo the rigors of disciplined study and the training of body, soul, and spirit. in order to attain the self-mastery demanded by the priests of the mysteries, the newcomers understood that they would undergo a complete restructuring of their physical, moral, and spiritual being. the priests, the hierophants, preached that only by developing one s faculties of will, intuition, and reason to an extraordinary degree could one ever gain access to the hidden forces in the universe. only through complete mastery of body, soul, and spirit could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways to be taken in the afterlife. many times these mysteries were taught in the form of a play and celebrated away from the cities in sacred groves or in secret temples. in contempo

they must undertake the rigors of disciplined study and the training of body, soul, and spirit. they had heard from former initiates that in order to attain the mastery demanded by the priests of the mysteries that the newcomers would undergo a complete restructuring of their physical, moral, and spiritual being. according to the credo of the mysteries, only by developing one s faculties of will, intuition, and reason to an extraordinary degree could one ever gain access to the hidden forces in the universe. only through complete mastery of body, soul, and spirit could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways to be taken in the afterlife. only when one has conquered fate and acquired divine freedom could he or she, the initiate, become a seer, a magician, an initiator. the greek phil

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ough the people involved actually had no physical experiences, they could be made to confess to their witchcraft because they could not separate hallucinations from reality. dr. sidney cohen, a los angeles psychiatrist- pharmacologist, author of the beyond within: the lsd story (1972, commented, it is hardly necessary to invoke supernatural explanations for the mind s more exceptional activities. intuition, creativity, telepathic experiences, prophecy all can be understood as superior activities of brain-mind function. the experience called hallucinogenic will play a role in leading us into the future. it points out the existence of unique mental states that must be studied and understood. on may 2, 1938, dr. albert hofmann of the sandoz research laboratories in basel, switzerland, first s

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ultist had smashed in the officer fs skull with the club and fled into the bushes. wilson had lost one of his best officers, but the knife that the young man still held in his hand was covered in blood. the police would now be able to search for a man with a severe knife wound. the district officer was about to have some men take the constable fs body to the compound when he had a sudden flash of intuition that the leopard man might return to the scene of the crime. while the other officers searched the neighboring villages, wilson hid himself behind some bushes overlooking the trail. around midnight, just as wilson was beginning to think about returning to the compound, a nightmarish figure crawling on all fours emerged from the jungle, pounced on the young officer fs corpse, and began cl

d the ancients. zolar, once described as gthe dean of american astrologers, h wrote in the preface to his book it fs all in the stars (new york: zolar publishing, 1962: gastrology, in its purity, though forming a system of divination, is totally unconnected with either fortune telling or mediumship. it is a divine science of correspondences, in the study and application of which the intellect and intuition become 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 prophecy and divination 123 blended in a natural, harmonious manner. they commence to vibrate in unison. when this union becomes complete, the ignorant man becomes the prophetic sage. h joseph goodavage, author of astrology: the space age science (1966, began his book with the following decla

e wisdom that in order to tap the wellspring of occult knowledge, one must search one fs own subconscious. number two stands for the mother principle and represents the expression of unity through woman (one and one. the empress (arcanum three) is the symbol of feminine instinct, a thought or solution that arises directly from the subconscious. the number three is the key that unlocks the door to intuition and is the driving energy that unites positive and negative, male and female. on the material level, the empress card represents the human aspect of love and symbolizes the sexual conjunction of male and female. the emperor (arcanum four) warns that no one can compromise with his or her conscience. the emperor of wisdom is activated by the fire of the vital force within all humans and re

ger, is not present in many people fs hands. the line of the sun is located underneath the third (ring) finger. the line of saturn, the so-called fate line, is only found in about 40 percent of the population. this vertical line (s) runs from the wrist up towards the middle finger. the girdle of venus is composed of curved lines that will appear underneath the middle and ring fingers. the line of intuition is a curved, crescent-like line that extends from the lowest part of the mount of the moon to the mount of mercury, located directly below the little finger. the lines of affection or marriage are located on the side of the hand under the little finger in the area called the mount of mercury. the longer one spends studying the human palm, the more lines and markings one is likely to disc

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

tras had these vestments made, and clothes himself with them in order to perform his miracles. they are red in colour. he wears upon his forehead a cross in the form of a lingam; and his pastoral staff is surmounted by a hand, all of whose fingers are closed, except the thumb and the little finger. now, all that is diabolical in the highest degree. and is 150 it not a really wonderful thing, this intuition of the signs of a lost science? for it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of hermes and of solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of god, and to that of

ing has already produced? these phenomena become particularly terrible when perversity takes possession of them. it is then that one can really affirm the intervention and the presence of the spirit of evil. perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one of these two powers. as to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid. these instinctive reflections may be produced if the magic word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of the occult sanctuary are the natural expressions of absolute ideas. it is this which we shall demonstrate in our book. but, in order not to send back our readers from the unknown to the future, we shall detach beforehand

brew nor coptic? if it were, for example, the universal primitive language? now, this language, which was that of the transcendental qabalah, did certainly exist; more, it still exists at the base of hebrew itself, and of all the oriental languages which derive from it; this language is that of the sanctuary, and the columns at the entrance of the temples ordinarily contained all its symbols. the intuition of the ecstatics comes nearer to the truth with regard to these primitive signs that even the science of the learned, because, as we have said, the universal vital fluid, the astral light, being the mediating principle between the ideas and the forms, is obedient to the extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but f

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t. this judgement, of course, is that made by geburah once the first four sephiroth are in place. rudy rucker proposes the following conceptual tetrad to match jungs four modes, which i feel can be usefully referred to the four worlds as they exist in the psyche (a) number (sensation) referred to assiyah (b) space (feeling) referred to yetzirah (c) logic (thinking) referred to briah (d) infinity (intuition) referred to atziluth. the fifth concept, that of information, can be seen (as the top point of the pentagram or the shin descending into yhvh) as the binding or redeeming concept and may be referred to the divine presence in each of the worlds in terms of communication, complexity, and meaning. information, in terms of coherence, organisation, or "a non-random pattern, is that which is

removing the guesses and that which is left, as arthur conan doyle puts it "however improbable, must be the truth" or at least, certainly narrow down the area which is the truth. the classic text dealing with the paths is that found in the sepher yetzirah. however, it reads very much like a series of unintelligible zen koans, and it may be that they are most accessible by prolonged meditation and intuition, rather than a full-frontal analytical attack. i offer here a few notes as to their relationships in terms of the pillars and the triads (see diagram 2. it should also be noted that the descriptions offered by the text seem to describe some paths in their descending context and functions, and others in their ascending context. it may be that the sepher yetzirah was pieced together from f

nd path 17, the "constituting" and the "disposing" intelligences. the first is the path to which the emperor card is attributed, and relates to the "creation in warm darkness. this fits with the symbolic meaning of aries, the generative force in astrology, which is also attributed to the path. on the other side of the tree, the "lovers" card symbolises the "disposing" of occult experience through intuition, which is how the golden dawn saw the card, as the "impact of inspiration on intuition. that is to say, the experience in awareness of that which is above the abyss comes not through the intellect (hod, the emotion (netzach) or the imagination (yesod, but above these faculties (iii) the third triad we are looking at connects chesed, geburah and tiphareth. the paths are paths 19, 20 and p

and the fastening to the "on-high, which is a state of being rather than a place or plane. the triangle and the hexagram (two triangles) both contain two occurrences of the letter shin, which in itself is symbolic of fire, represented by a triangle. 1. kether; the ritual of the altar and the lamp altar; mzbth; the altar is the foundation of initiation, the link to on-high. offerings are made and intuition received here. the magician arranges the four elements and makes manifest his magic. lamp; mnvrh; the light of on-high, transforming the dark, bringing grace and enlightenment. the light of the lamp is the window through which we see. the lamp pertains to two of the sephiroth, and is used here to represent kether. the lamp hanging above the altar is symbolic of kether, as it illuminates

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

h a relationship does indubitably exist. it is a fact of clinical and consulting-room experience. for, during the course of a protracted analysis, the cruder and more superficial unconscious levels having been uncovered and moral conflicts resolved, symbols and theme-motifs of a religious or spiritual nature do make their entry across the threshold of consciousness. this entry is by way of dream, intuition, and by direct apprehension. not only is this so, but they exert a potent influence on the entire personality producing integrity a new and more equilibrated attitude towards life, and an unification of the various strata of consciousness whch collectively we call man. what modern psychology has quite possibly accomplished is an advance over the efforts of our predecessors in the way of

the persona is in contact with the objects of external reality. the anima is an archetypalfigure that might almost be described as the precipitate of man's age-long impressions of woman-not his conscious reasoned ideas, but the unconscious inherited mould into which she is cast. the anima is a correspondence of the neshamah which is feminine and passive, representing the true spiritual vision of intuition or the imagination. here it may be interpolated that it has always been an axiom of the magical system that the being which is active physically is passive the tree of life 31 spiritually and vice versa. in many an occult work do we find some such statement as this: man is termed the positive member of the two sexes. in reality only his physical body is positive. his etheric body is pure

a thing is at once to admit that you have not that thing. to desire to be a thing is to assume that you are not the thing desired. true love, however, is centered always upon one object, an object with which the lover seeks to identify himself to the exclusion of all else. it is this love which fundamentally is implied in the term anima. to love is to understand. understanding bestows insight and intuition. this is anima. tao, animus, and anima, or yechidah, chiah, and neshamah, constitute the innermost core of what we have chosen to call the psychic onion, the primordial principles operating in the deepest levels of the unconscious. it might be said that this is the level which is always in direct contact with the racial and universal levels of the collective unconscious-that dynamic and

acceptance. likewise the acceptance of the collective unconscious in the manner described, with the realization that the whole of life is an indissoluble unity accordingly raises that conscious co-operation to a hgher and much more deliberate level. it removes evolution from the purely personal alignment with nature, to a realization of the divine object of individual existence. with it comes the intuition in full consciousness how best that object may be fulfilled in relation to all other men and to life as a whole. if i describe its techmque, some understanding perhaps of its purposes may be divined. it presupposes, as said, some familiarity with the middle pillar. it demands, moreover, that the middle pillar should be in active formulation as an interior column of brilliance at the part

r, images that appear as themes in religion, mythology, and folklore. the process of individuation contains many particular aspects which collectively might be termed "outer psychology" ths category includes jung's separation of introverted and extroverted personality types as well as his organization of types in accordance with their conjunction of the faculties of sensing, thnking, feeling, and intuition. all of jung's ideas were of vital importance to modern understanding of the human psyche. however, the most notable contribution of jungian psychology was the concept that individuation was a spiritual excursion and it is hghly significant that ths pioneer of psychology phrased his ideas in spiritual terms. thus it is no surprise to find that jung's system complements the mystical qabal

iritual, discord into harmony, and the personal into the transcendent. imagination and the transconscious self with the lines between psychology and magic becoming increasingly transparent, we arrive at a new more transcendent interpretation of consciousness. the connecting link between all parts of the self is the transconscious se2f.31 composed for the most part of the processes of imagination, intuition, and will, the transconscious is a reconciling intelligence with a unique nature. it has the ability to move through, communicate with, and cause change on all levels of the psyche, and it is capable of a wide range of powers associated with cornrnunication and transformation. the imagination is the essential aspect of the transconscious self. it is a potent medium for the processes of i

akra, is located in the hollow of the throat. the thyroid and parathyroid glands are associated here, along with the vocal chords and the pharyngeal plexus. the name visuddha means "purity" the traditional color for this center is purple. an alternate color is gold.11 its symbol is the akasha or black egg of spirit. the fifth chakra controls respiration, auditory functions, cleansing, sensations, intuition, perception, psychc ability, communication, creativity, and self-expression. it is a center of focus and direction (when psychc blockage occurs at this center, it is usually described as a feeling of being "all choked up" or having "a lump in the throat) malfunctions of the thyroid, as well as speech and hearing disorders, are under the dominion of the fifth chakra. the essence of this c

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fter in themselves, for therein lies the truth death. lovecraft saw this evil, as the world passed from one war and moved menacingly towards another. crowley prepared for it, and provided us with the formulae. the mad arab saw it all, in a vision, and wrote it down. he was, perhaps, one of the most advanced adepts of his time, and her certainly has something to say to us, today, in a language the intuition understands. yet they called him "mad. accompanied in the ranks of the "insane" by such "madmen" as neitzsche, artaud, and reich, the mad arab makes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come wh

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

. parallel extracts from the gthree dialogues between hylas and philonous h and gan enquiry concerning human understanding h gaway then with all that scepticism, all those ridiculous philosophical doubts. what a jest is it for a philosopher to question the existence of sensible things, till he hath it proved to him from the veracity of god; or to pretend our knowledge in this point falls short of intuition or demonstration! i might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things i actually see and feel. h. p. 91. gnow, it is plain they [things] have an existence exterior to my mind c there is therefore some other mind wherein they exist, during the intervals between the times of my perceiving them: as likewise they did before my birth, and would do after my supposed annihila

ensation, and according to kant are not deducible from experience, consequently they are a priori. the understanding, similarly as the sensibility, possesses certain forms called judgements, of which there are four classes: gquantity, quality, relation, and modality. h these are the a priori categories of the understanding, and they are synthetic. this a priori (crowleyanity affirms) is no innate intuition at all, in fact merely an abstraction from experience, and an equivalence of statement. it may be a postulation of our egoity, but it therefore need not necessarily be so for all other personalities, as it cannot be in any way demonstrated as final. kant did not have the necessary knowledge of taking into consideration the fact of inherited experiences, as herbert spencer was able to do

into the fallacy of supposing his own brain to be without a history, it is curious to note that kant fs a priori is but a recasting of the old myth of pallas, wisdom, springing fullarmed from the brain of zeus, and like the legend is a strangely false assertion] thus, into the trap kant sets out to rescue hume from, he himself falls, by asserting that: git is only by means of the form of sensuous intuition that we can intuite things a priori, but in this way we intuite the objects only as they appear to our senses, not as they may be in themselves (p. 29 [thus kant himself proves the noumenon, the sole refuge from scepticism, itself to be sceptical] kant must have in some way felt the weakness of his argument, since in the following page, he, in true berkeleyan fashion, in order to upset t

te, he comes to a somewhat similar conclusion to that taught by eckhart in germany at the beginning of the fourteenth century. gthat the creature apart from the absolute, that is, god, was nothing, that etime, space, and the plurality which depends on them, f are also nothing in themselves, and that the duty of man as a moral being is to rise beyond this nothingness of the creature, and by direct intuition to place himself in immediate union with the absolute. h*1. the two disputants, scepticus and mysticus, set out by agreeing that the unknowable is unreal, and as the latter says with berkeley, ga thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us. h*2 *1. the real history of the rosicrucians, a. e. waite *2. time, vol. ii, p. 269. when scepticus asks mysticus, ghow old are you? h and r

ay; let us hope that psychical research will give us a purer metaphysics. now the question before us here, is: how does all this decaying and growing of ideals affect the poetic philosophy of aleister crowley? and the answer is as follows: to the writer of this essay it seems on reading aleister crowley fs poems that the revolt against existing ideals and morals is more the outcome of spontaneous intuition than of meditative scepticism: and so strong is the current, and so diverse and intricate are its eddies, that for one who is not an adept, it seems almost a forlorn hope to plunge into the boiling cataract of his ontologic philosophy, with any expectation of reaching the further bank in safety. it would perhaps seem safer to forego such an attempt altogether, but so alloyed have these m

of all these years in a moment. recejac says concerning this state: when the will succeeds in gaining admission to the imagination, and the attention is fixed upon a moral object, such a case of mono-ideism becomes the most noble of hallucinations. the nature of the facts in this case admits a prolonged attention, for the moral object, far from being exhausted like objects of sense in one single intuition, extends and increases the longer it is dwelt on. such an object will express itself in the mind which is generous to give it persistent attention, under symbols which become more and more intense until the soul, all absorbed in them, is sublimely hallucinated, and returns to itself full of eloquence, enthusiasm, and courage *the bases of the mystic knowledge, p. 249. thus crowley again

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e. the veil falling over the face announces that nature reveals her truths only to the pure in heart, and hides them from the curious and profane. the book half hidden under the mantle signifies that but half of the truth can be discerned by the physical senses, the exoteric side. the esoteric, or other half, must be apprehended through the application of the psychic senses. reason, divorced from intuition, can discern only in the realm of effects; but re-wed to intuition, can remove the obscuring mantle from nature's most secret page and pursue her mysteries at leisure. these mysteries are revealed only in solitude, to the sage who meditates in silence in the full and calm possession of himself. the tiara represents the power of the intellect to penetrate the three realms of existence--ph

n signifies the creative forces of the solar sign, leo, and the courage which is necessary to all real attainment. the head of the bull represents the fructifying agent of nature and points out the necessity of labor in all progress. the eagle signifies that sex, as signified by the sign scorpio, has been turned into channels which lead to spirituality. and the head of the man indicates that both intuition and intelligence are necessary guides in unfolding the highest spiritual possibilities. these four emblems ranged around the zodiac typify the processes of evolution. they are the four forms of the egyptian sphinx, and also symbolize the passage of the sun through the four zodiacal quadrants. as applied to adeptship they point out that the neophyte must have energy and courage to sustain

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

trust to be united by death to the hur al ayn of paradise, so do these others yet think that earthly marriage is but fornication, for that death is a nuptial wherein the soul is united to that god or goddess to whom on earth his lust aspired. thus, even in the embraces of their lovers, their hearts were fixed on artemis or on aphrodite or on ares or on apollo, as the inner tendency urges and the intuition thereof proclaims. consider of this. viii file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (5 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. of succubi and incubi from all time the life of man has now and again overflowed, in sleep, without will, and only reflected itself dimly and fantastically by dream into his knowledge. now s

some time after the last occasion of wearing them. but at most times these precautions are not necessary; only if engaged in operations of the greatest importance is it indispensable to observe them. xv of the cunning of this instruction now concerning this charge, it may be that certain deem therein to be contained things monstrous and extravagant; let them consider this as a defect of their own intuition and apprehension, and moreover as a thickness of that veil that is yet betwixt this areopagus and the sanctuary of the gnosis. for perfectly illuminated as ye are, beloved brethren, think this, that there may be a darkness that is more than all your light. xvi farewell amen, and amen, and amen of amen. i greet you by the sign: i exchange with you the token: i whisper the word even as i r

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and so is mistaken by each for part of the other. knowledge is made up of two components that may be called wisdom and understanding. wisdom is the inside of knowledge; understanding is the outside. knowledge is not complete unless it possesses both parts in balance. mystics pursue wisdom apart from understanding. they grasp the meaning of life, but are completely unable to express or apply their intuition in any way. sci- entists pursue understanding apart from wisdom. they can manipulate matter and symbols, but are increasingly unable to find a purpose for their activities. xxiv new millennium magic the human enterprise that combines both wisdom and understanding is art. the artist manipulates concepts, symbols and materials at the direction of his or her spiritual insights, relying on s

for if a thing has no size, no weight, no time or place, then it is everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. at once it is immense and minuscule and both and neither of these conceived extremes. the ancient hebrews also grasped the great truth that god cannot be con- ceived. any form the mind attempts to impose on the unmanifest is inapt and at once becomes sacrilegious, as it degrades the highest intuition of the nature of god. other ancient races perceived this dimly, but they allowed the truth to slip away in their hunger for a deity they could understand in human terms. to yearn toward the all and not to give it a human face required a courage they did not possess. it is a hard truth for people brought up in a traditional religious system. the reader (who will hereafter be called the ma

top and bottom of the hexagram, and into a second polarity of male and female relating to the right and left sides. 0 light i female- t i 3 dark male the magus should be clearly aware that this assignment of the planets to the points of the hexagram is not often used in modern magical practice. it must be left up to personal judgment whether to blindly follow tradition or to use intelligence and intuition to study the matter independently. the arrangement given here should no more be accepted without question than the traditional arrangement. the numbering of the planets must be changed slightly to accord with their new positions. traditionally the sun, placed in the center of the hexagram, is given the number six. when the planet mercury is moved to the center, it assumes the six. the su

nature of the planetary being. each chakra is a filter of a different color corresponding to the planet and the sephiroth or sephirah to which it relates. if the magus chooses to enter the crown center he or she will feel a oneness with the light. the brow center will give a feeling of penetrating intellect and clarity of per- ception. the throat center causes a burgeoning of the subtle powers of intuition and symbolism. the heart chakra is the center of balance that controls and regulates the posi- tive and negative forces of the perceived self, even as the heart regulates the sensa- tions through its rate of pulsation. the solar plexus center controls the breathing and nervous impulses of the body. it is a focus for ingoing and outgoing information concerning the physical running of the

to find those who will bear refinement and tempering into a useful instrument for the light. how far the candidates will advance in the art is another question, but they should have little difficulty with the physical aspects of the initiation rite itself. if, on the other hand, the would-be magician is utterly alone, learning the ele- ments of the art from books and, it is to be hoped, guided by intuition, his or her task is more difficult. this is all too often the case in the western world. it is not that secret organizations offering initiation do not exist, but it is seldom worth the while of the magus to join them. too often they are rookeries of conceit where the rocks and twigs of learning are guarded and hoarded up jealously with magpie zeal, as though avarice alone would transfor

arded up jealously with magpie zeal, as though avarice alone would transform them into precious jewels. the magus should seek out a circle he or she feels may have something useful to teach, but should not join from desperation a social club for the self-deluded. it is far better to construct an original initiatory rite, conduct a self-baptism with a magical name arrived at through meditation and intuition, and compose an orig- inal motto to act as a staff for personal development. but to do this the magus must possess a clear concept of what the rite is intended to accomplish. solitary initiation is seldom as beneficial for the development of the magus as group initiation, for a number of reasons. group initiation partakes of the dra- matic effect of a pageant. at its best it is awesome a

t the hebrew letter aleph, transliterated as a, is sometimes represented in english by the letter "en for ease in pronunciation. there are many other associations for each hebrew letter, and each of these symbols has many associations of its own. thus the variety of figures, personalities, and qualities that can be extracted from this group of symbols is virtually infinite. the magus must rely on intuition to find the best figure for his or her needs. this traditional method of deriving spirits has certain limitations. the magus is bound by the symbols attached to the hebrew letters, and these may not always be right for the purposes in mind. he or she is restricted by a limited number of names for angels, demons, and so on. in other words, the magus must try to fit his or her ritual needs

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

t and, if so, you will need to allow your unconscious mind to modify it until it comes alive for you. ritual is the most intimate of activities. the reactions of each individual to each ritual are unique, and the factors that cause those responses are so complex that it is utterly impossible to predict them. the most effective ritual structure for each person must be arrived at through the use of intuition coupled with trial and error. the process is made easier if a sound basic ritual structure is adopted in the beginning. such a structure provides a stable symbolic foundation upon which to build your unique personal ritual. you can think of the basic ritual described below as a blueprint for a house. if designed well by the architect, the blueprint provides all the basic needs in a balan

a low whistle effective. i sustain a tone on my breath and project it mentally outward, allowing it to carry my awareness 172 soul flight away from my physical location. when i run out of air, i simply breathe in and renew the tone. sometimes it can be effective to allow the whistle or hum to vary slightly, by letting it rise or sink in pitch. this must be done according to the directive of your intuition. it is not something you can plan ahead of time. if it feels right to you that you allow the tone you are creating to gently rise or fall in pitch, do so. it may make a sort of atonal melody, but you should not let your awareness focus on the sound as music, but instead continue to ride it farther and farther away from your body. this sound technique is effective as a way of initially en

mantra, but mantras are often selected specifically for an individual student by a teacher as a key to enlightenment. the idea is that if the mantra is repeated often enough, enlightenment will dawn. since you have no teacher, you must choose your own mantra. this can be 270 soul flight done by meditating on your need, and then opening your mind to receive whatever mantra is given to you by your intuition. in a sense, as the author of this book, i am your teacher, so it is only fitting that i provide an effective general mantra for the use of my readers. the mantra i have chosen for you is enochian, a phrase based on real enochian words that were transmitted through the scrying crystal of edward kelley to john dee by the enochian angels, but never put together into the phrase that appears

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hts for months without enlarging their biceps, it is impossible to work these exercises of practical magic without expanding and strengthening the occult faculties. you will become more aware of the processes of your own mind, and increasingly conscious of your dreams. you will sense subtle currents of force moving within your body and through the world around you, and learn to control them. your intuition will grow keener and more reliable. you will perceive the presence of spiritual intelligences and interact with them. you will be able to project the power xii introduction of your will as a tangible force to influence spirits and human beings. you will cleanse buildings and places of destructive atmospheres, charge objects with subtle energies, open gateways to higher spiritual realms

of the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, saturn, and the sphere of the fixed stars, or zodiac. this traditional division of the world into successive shells or spheres about the earth should be understood in a symbolic sense. lower spirits are those involved with the senses, emotions, desires, health of the body, and physical substances. higher spirits are concerned with aspirations, intuition, inspiration, ideals, morals, destiny, and the soul. in general, lower spirits are of a materialistic nature, higher spirits are of a spiritual nature. the moon is the portal between the earthly realm 304 moving exercises and the higher spheres, and as a result, lunar spirits are concerned with fantasies, dreams, illusions, delusions, manias, obsessions, and mental health, and partake of

erved with a tranquil and receptive mind and balanced emotions. fear must not be permitted to arise when the spirits manifest, as it will inhibit or destroy the benefits they would otherwise confer. 314 practice schedule if the exercises are done properly, by the end of the 280 days of training, you will notice a profound difference both inwardly and in the greater world. there will be heightened intuition, enhanced perception of the thoughts, emotions, and intentions of other human beings, increased physical vitality and clarity of thinking, and the more frequent occurrence of significant coincidences that have a bearing on your training. these synchronicities become very common when you are making good progress. it is best to obtain a loose-leaf binder at the beginning of the training pe

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outledge and kegan paul, 19621, p. 30. it is the custom in modern magic to pronounce the name by sounding out each of its hebrew letters fully: yod-he-vau-he (pronounced "yod-hayvav- hay) in order to more accurately express its compound esoteric meaning and also to acknowledge that the true name is unspeakable. no scholar or mystic of modern times, regardless of depth of learning or profundity of intuition, can be sure that a particular way of sounding the four consonants ihvh is identical to the way used by the high priest in the history of the name 5 temple at jerusalem before the roman conquest. it is equally impossible to be certain that the pronunciation of the jewish priests, though historically accurate, was the correct mystical manner of vibrating the name. merely because it was sp

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n the laboratorium oratorium. the mantra i.n.r.i. has an absolute power over the fire; chant this mantram also in the laboratorium oratorium in order to carry the fire to each one of your seven chakras. chant i.n.r.i as follows: inri enre onro unru anra, these mantras must be chanted by syllabifying10 them as follows: iiinnn rrriii (clairvoyance) eeennn rrreee (clairaudience) ooonnn rrrooo (heart intuition) uuunnn rrruuu (telepathy solar plexus) aaannn rrraaa (pulmonary chakras memory of past lives) the great hierophant jesus-christ chanted these mantras in the laboratorium oratorium of the pyramid of kephren. 10 syllabifying: i.e. pronouncing them one syllable at time atalanta es la voz que huye; hip manes es la voz que persigue y la manzana es la voz que demora. i.a.o. es el mantram supr

of profound vision, we become conscious of the defect we are trying to comprehend. once the defect is dissolved, something new arrives. it is necessary to be in a state of alert perception and alert novelty [newness] during internal meditation. in order to receive that something new, each defect must be replaced with something new. this is how man becomes wise indeed; this is the path of wisdom. intuition as we go along, dissolving the fool of the twenty-first arcanum of the tarot, intuition is developed; this is the flower of intelligence. intuition and comprehension replace reasoning and desire. these two latter ones are the attributes of the i. intuition allows us to penetrate into the past, into the present and into the future. intuition allows us to penetrate into the deeper meaning

go along, dissolving the fool of the twenty-first arcanum of the tarot, intuition is developed; this is the flower of intelligence. intuition and comprehension replace reasoning and desire. these two latter ones are the attributes of the i. intuition allows us to penetrate into the past, into the present and into the future. intuition allows us to penetrate into the deeper meaning of all things. intuition grants us entrance into the world of the ineffable gods; any intuitive initiate converts himself into a true prophet. cuando descubrimos un defecto debemos primero analizarlo intelectualmente y despu s comprenderlo en los distintos trasfondos de la mente con la t cnica de la meditaci n. es necesario concentrarnos en el defecto descubierto y meditar en l con el nimo de comprenderlo profun

tuici n y la comprensi n reemplazar n a la raz n y al deseo, stos dos ltimos son atributos del yo. la intuici n nos permite penetrar en lo pasado, en lo presente y en lo futuro. la intuici n nos permite penetrar en el hondo sentido de todas las cosas. la intuici n nos da entrada al mundo de los dioses inefables, todo intuitivo se convierte en profeta verdadero. 137 practice for the development of intuition it is urgent for the devotee of the path of the razor s edge to intensify the development of intuition. this faculty resides in the coronary chakra; this chakra shines upon the pineal gland, which is the seat of the soul, the third eye. modern scientists believe that they know more than the ancient sages from the ancient school of mysteries; thus, they deny all of these esoteric matters

and degenerates into fibered tissues that no longer secrete such a hormone, and then impotence arrives. an exception exists in this process and this is known only by the gnostics. gnostics preserve the activity of their pineal gland and its sexual functional secretion remains active by means of sexual magic throughout their entire life. the pineal gland is the center of the intuitive polyvoyance. intuition manifests within the heart as hunches; yet, in the pineal gland those hunches become intuitive images. it is urgent that our devotees practice the powerful mantra of intuition; this mantra is the following: triiiiiiiiinnnnn prolong the sound of the vowel i and of the consonant n, it sounds like a bell. practica para desarrollar la intuici n es urgente que el devoto de la senda del filo d

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or information, and give permission for an answer. in fact, you may need to give permission several times, and press for information, especially at first. 3. h. g. a. s that are true guides will not tell you what to do (e. g "my guide told me to poison your dog. watch this one; it shows an immediate false guide. your h. g. a. will never coerce or interfere with your free will. they do function as intuition, hunches or conscience. sometimes (often) they speak in symbolic language, and leave it for you to interpret. they seldom make predictions (global or personal) 4. the h. g. a. will not judge or flatter (e. g, agree with you that someone is treating you badly; fluff up or demolish your ego, etc. it will advise, if asked. 5. a guide who is a real h. g. a. will never have a vibration of fea

r in medieval magical literature. humans have five senses and understand the universe through its five elements (earth, air, fire, water, and ether. levi says it is the number of magic and enchantment. the five-pointed star is a symbol used both to invoke and to banish spirits. five symbolizes the transcendence of spirit over nature. it signifies versatility and adventure as well as mediation and intuition. 6. six is represented on the tree by beauty and harmony, called tiphareth. it is the number of perfect equilibrium and divine order through harmony. to it is attributed the sun, which keeps the rest of the planetary spheres in balance. it's symbolic form is represented by the six-pointed star or seal of solomon. the latter symbol is frequently described by the hermetic maxim "as above

inutes are in each planetary hour (e. g, sixty-five minutes. if you don't finish the talisman within the hour, it is not so important as beginning it during the appropriate planetary hour. planetary attributes saturn: positive: endurance, reserve. strengthens capacity to carry out one's duties. constriction, limitation, equilibrium. use for grounding, stability, and making ideals concrete. higher intuition. patience. negative: hatred and discord. impatience and coldness. brooding, irksome, autocratic. jupiter: positive: good judgment, direction, honor- benevolent power, expansion, contentment. optimism. spirituality and devotion. mercy and generosity. negative: hypocrisy, pride, dogmatism. smugness and greed. exorbitant and self-righteous. mars: positive: dynamic action and energy. ambitio

ion and control. fearful. venus: positive: gentleness, aesthetic beauty, affection, emotional sensitivity, kindness, and love. reconciliation with others. joyful, expressive, nurturing. creativity. negative: self-indulgent, over-emotional, lustful. superficial, possessive, jealous. mercury: positive: adaptation and movement. ingenuity, eloquence, precision, influence. communication, intelligence, intuition. skill and analysis. good at making judgments. negative: craftiness, deceitful, impatient. critical, aloof, divisive. moon: positive: dreaminess and imagination. adventurous spirit. spontaneous, alluring, psychic. self-reconciliation. negative: impulsivity, instability and mental agitation. mood-swings. idleness. obsession with psychic powers. pluto: positive: transforming, rejuvenating

ve cauda draconis (fire) life force going out with great energy populus (water) psychic power, catalyst for uniting, gathering rubeus (water) joining of conscious with unconscious in violent kind of way.use with caution laetitia (water) intuitive, useful, outgoing via (water) conception, production puella (air) feminine power and mediation; strength of will tristitia (air) inspiration, analytical intuition, conscious understanding albus (air) rushing thoughts, continuous motion fortuna minor (fire) concentration, controlled movement carcer (earth) power and drive, but restrictive amissio (earth) earthy emotion, control of flightiness conjunctio (earth) communication; understanding on the material plane caput draconis (earth) fixed matter, entering inward, centering figure 3-0 i* three.bina

action of its outer vehicle of personality. it is truly untouchable. it can never be defiled (true and invisible rosicrucian order, p. 126. the full realization of this symbol, however, belongs to the age of aquarius, into which we are just entering. another important correspondence that belongs to this kamea is the magical word qol (qvl, which also has a value of 136. this is really the voice of intuition, or the higher self, or h. g. a. in case's interpretation, it is represented by the hierophant, which is, as we have noted, the sixteenth path. this path belongs to the grade of magus, or the exempt adept who has "so perfected the organization of his vehicles of consciousness that there is no obstruction between him and his communication with that one teacher (ibid, p. 286. qol forms a s

ious occult student should bear this relationship in mind. the word for prophecy or prediction in hebrew has a value of sixty-four and looks like figure 10-f, which resembles the letter beth, attributed to the magician in the tarot (see figure 10-g. the magician is a figure that really synthesizes all of the powers of human self-consciousness by virtue of his concentration. the greatest powers of intuition come when we have perfected the art of inductive reasoning, or the ability to draw logical inferences from experience. the number eight is the number representing rhythm and renewal, and because of its shape, is the lemniscate, or infinity sign as well. this symbol is placed about the head of both the magician and the virgin (see figure 10-h) in key eight of most tarot decks. the number

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fact you do have free will? mortal: that i simply took for granted. god: but why should you? mortal: i don t know. do i have free will? god: yes. mortal: then why did you say, i shouldn t have taken it for granted? god: because you shouldn t. just because something happens to be true, it does not follow that it should be taken for granted. mortal: anyway, it is reassuring to know that my natural intuition about having free will is correct. sometimes i have been worried that determinists are correct. god: they are correct. mortal: wait a minute now, do i have free will or don t i? god: i already told you you do. but that does not mean that determinism is incorrect. mortal: well, are my acts determined by the laws of nature or aren t they? god: the word determined here is subtly but powerfu

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ds even in moses s own hebrew, for truth uses neither mouth nor tongue as instruments and utters no audible syllables, and thus it can be stripped of any particular linguistic attire.24 one cannot fail to note the ironic twist in augustine s thought. the scriptural truth that the medium of creation is the word of god finds its ultimate thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 5 justification in an intuition beyond the logos in its ocular and verbal representations. the only way to transcend the word, however, is through the word. to support his point exegetically, augustine cites the words attributed to the voice that spoke from the clouds to peter, james, and john while they were witnessing the transfiguration of jesus and his standing in the company of moses and elijah: this is my beloved

he locus of temporality in internal time-consciousness.116 in modern philosophical discourse, kant established the foundation for the phenomenological viewpoint, or what has been felicitously called the reflexive temporalization of time, 117 by insisting on the transcendental ideality of the temporal sensibility.118 to be more precise, kant identified both space and time as pure forms of sensible intuition, the two sources of cognition that impart the necessary conditions for the synthetic knowledge that shapes all human experience. yet he accorded a privileged status to time, for space is limited as an a priori condition merely to outer intu- 16 chapter one itions, whereas time, being linked to the inner sense, is the a priori formal condition of all appearances in general. 119 the logic

to time, for space is limited as an a priori condition merely to outer intu- 16 chapter one itions, whereas time, being linked to the inner sense, is the a priori formal condition of all appearances in general. 119 the logic behind kant s assessment is clear enough: all mental representations, even if they correspond to external objects, are determinations of the mind and thus belong to the inner intuition, which cannot be understood except through the modalities of time; we cannot think of consciousness in the absence of time, nor time in the absence of consciousness. 120 indeed, for kant, we cannot account for human experience without presuming the unity of self-consciousness the hypothetical construct of transcendental apperception the i think that accompanies all representations and th

r it really says no more than that in the whole time in which i am conscious of myself, i am conscious of this time as belonging to the unity of my self, and it is all the same whether i say that this whole time is in me, as an individual unity, or that i am to be found with numerical identity, in all of this time. 122 time, therefore, is given epistemological preference over space as the form of intuition that provides the structure of the phenomenal datum as such: time cannot be removed from appearances without there ceasing to be appearances.123 john r. searle captures the point succinctly: since kant we have been aware of an asymmetry in the way that consciousness relates to space and to time. although we experience objects and events as both spatially extended and of temporal duration

48 describing the nature of temporal relations in a discourse dictated relatively late in his life (february 22, 1915, he remarked: it seems certain that we can never think of anything without thinking of something as present, that is to say, however, as on a boundary line which exists as the connecting point of an otherwise non-existent continuum or as providing its beginning or its end. 149 our intuition of time, according to brentano, is linked exclusively to the moment,150 the point of the present that divides the continuum into potentially limitless parts that converge transcendentally in the bound- 22 chapter one ary of boundless temporal determinations but in so doing allows a sense of continuity between what has come before and what will come after.151 the presumption of continuity

internal timeconsciousness, which were compiled and published by heidegger, his former student,176 in 1928, husserl wrote: when we speak of the analysis of time-consciousness, of the temporal character of objects of perception, memory, and expectation, it may seem, to be sure, as if we assume the objective flow of time, and then really study only the subjective conditions of the possibility of an intuition of time and a true knowledge of time. what we accept, however, is not the existence of a world-time, the existence of a concrete duration, and the like, but time and duration appearing as such. to be sure, we also assume an existing time; this, however, is not the time of the world of experience but the immanent time of the flow of consciousness. the evidence that consciousness of a tona

. it follows (contra some interpreters of husserl, including derrida to whom i refer above) that spatiality assumes a secondary and derivative status vis -vis temporality.189 husserl s view is reminiscent of the stance taken by schelling and rea rmed by the early heidegger, as will be seen shortly. schelling, in dialogue with kant,190 a rms that space and time are the necessary conditions for all intuition, one being imperceptible without the other. although space and time cannot be severed phenomenally space without time would be extension without limitation and time without space would be limitation without extension logically, it is possible to conceive of limitation without extension, but not the reverse, and hence priority is bestowed on time as determinative of the borders and contou

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