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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ion like irpoa- kvvi]ai; is not at variance with the sense of the word. an os. giwitan, as. gewitan, means abire; could inveitan also have signified merely ffoing up to, approaching? paul. diac. 1, 8 twice uses accedere. fraveitan is vindicare. now let us compare the on, vita inclinare^ which biorn quotes under veit, and spells, erroneously, i 1 verehrung, o.h.g. ira, goth. prob. aiza. the o.h.g. iron is not merely onr ehren, to honour, but also verehren, revereri (as reverentia is adoration, cultus; a.s. urur'dian, o.s. giu-erthsn. all that comes from the gods or concerns them is holy, for which the oldest teutonic word is goth, vtilis, o.h.g. icth; but only a few of the o.h.g. documents use this word, the rest preferring heilac, o.s. has only helag, a.s. hdlig, o.n. heilagr. on the conne

in neapolitan territory, but supj)osed by orelli 2053 to have been made by ligorius, has' tamfanae sacrum (gudii inscript. iintiq. p. iv. 11, de wal p. 188; tlieword is certainly geiman, and formed like hludana, sigana (sequana, liutana (lugdunum, eabana (eavenna &c" yet the celtic forms also are not far removed, ir. iaran, wei. haiarn, armor, uarn (ferrum; ir. doras, wei. dor (porta: haearndor= iron gate, luoted in davies's brit. mythol. pp. 120, 560^ frontier mountains held sacred and made places of sacrifice by some nations; ritters erdkunde 1, aufl. 2, 79. vol. 2, p. 903. buildings. 8] ab hommibus, factum non statim abjecerint vel sacerdotibus haec destruentibus prohibuerint, datis fidejussoribus nou aliter discedant nisi in nostris obtutil: us praesententur. vita s, eadegundis (t 587

nay identical with them, were named after chcru, hcru= eor, from whom their name can be derived^ after this weighty consonance of facts, which opens to us the meaning of the old national name, and at the same time teaches that' heru' was first of all pronounced' cheru' and last of all' eru, er' i think we may also bring in the gallic war-god hesus or esiis (lucan 1, 440, and state, that the metal iron is indicated by the planetary sign of mars, the as' tires tacen' and consequently that the rune of zio and eor may be the picture of a sword with its handle, or of a spear.2 the scythian and alanic legends dwell still more emphatically on the god's sword, and their agreement with teutonic ways of thinking may safely be assumed, as mars was equally prominent in the faith of the scythians and t

t in the faith of the scythians and that of the goths. the impressive personification of the sword matches well with that of the hammer, and to my thinking each confirms the other. both idea and name of two of the greatest gods pass over into the instrument by which they display their might. herodotus 4, 62 informs us, that the scythians worshipped ares under the semblance or symbol of an ancient iron sword aklvukt, which was elevated on an enormous stack of brushwood' three furlongs in length and breadth, but less in height: evl tovtov orj tov ojkov u k t v d k r (j ihr) fjeo
(gramra. 1, 188) the name of a walkurie armed with the helmet of terror, and ailso why' daemon' in another gloss is rendered by cgisgrimolt. the as. egcsgrime is equally a mask, and in el. 260 the helmet that frightens by its figure of a boar is called a grimhelm. 1 venture to guess, that the wolf in our ancient apologue was imagined wearing such a helmet of dread, and hence his name of isangrim, iron-mask, eeinh. ccxlii (see suppl. nor have we yet come to the end of fancies variously playing into one another: as the god's or hero's helmet awakened terror, so must his shield and sword; and it looks significant, that a terrific sword fashioned by dwarfs should likewise be named in the two forms, viz. in the vilkinasaga eclcisax, in veldek's eneit uokcsahs (not a letter may we alter, in the

ip, to whose mast it was suspended as a sail, was built on the kerameikos, and moved on dry land by an underground mechanism, first to the temple of demeter and all round it, past the pelasgian to the pythian, and lastly to the citadel. the people followed in solemnly ordered procession^ we must not omit to mention, that aventin, after transforming the tacitean isis into a frau eiscii, and making iron (eisen) take its name from her, expands the account of her worship, and in addition to the little ship, states further, that on the death of her father (hercules) she travelled through all countries, came to the german king schwab, and staid for a time with him; that she taught him the forging of iron, the sowing of seed, reaping, grinding, kneading and baking, the cultivation of flax and hem

he year with dumplings and herrings. fish and farinaceous food were considered by christians the proper thing for a fast^ the revenge taken by the wrathful berclda, when she misses the fish and dumplings, has a quaint and primitive sound: whoever has partaken of other food on her day, she cuts his belly open, fills it with chopped straw, and sews up the gash with a ploughshare for a needle and an iron chain by way of thread (superst. 525^ tlie braunschw. anz. 17g0, p. 1302, says no leguminous plants are to lie eaten when dame holla is going ronnd in the' twelve-nights. either a niistake, or to be understood of particular kinds of pulse^ almost the same is told iu the voigtland of the jverre or dame holle. tlie w'erre, on the holy eve of the high new-year, holds a strict inquiry whether all

he mountain district about trauenstein (up. bavaria, opposite salzburg) they tell tlie children on the eve of epiphany, that if they are naughty, berchc will come and cut their bellies open. greasy calces are baked that day, and the workmen say you must grease your stomach well with them, so that dame berchc s knife may glance off (schm. 1, 19-4. is that the reason why she is called icild bertha, iron bertha? crusius, ann. suev. p. 2, lib. 8, cap. 7, p. 266, relates, as his explanation of the origin of the name, that henry iv. bestowed privileges on the city of padua: inde, in signa libertatis, armato carrocio uti coeperunt in bello, bertha nominato. hinc dictum ortum puto, quo terrentur inquieti pueri' schweig, oder die eiserne bertha kommt^ in other places, franconian and swabian, she is

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which floweth down upon malkuth, the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. the grade of practicus is referred to the

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notice that air is reflected from kether through tiphareth to yesod. water is reflected from binah through chesed to hod; and fire is reflected from chokmah through geburah to netzach. while malkuth is earth, the receptacle of the other three. on this second tablet is the image of nebuchadnezar, whose head was of gold, the breast and the arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass, the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay. in his hands are represented the hot and moist natures. heg: conducts practicus to tablet of yetziratic palaces in the south. heg: these are the seven yetziratic palaces, containing the 10 sephiroth. in each palace are the six letters from the divine name of 42 letters. thus, the name of 42 letters has been taken from the 42 first letters of the histor

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

o make any claim at all to authenticity (not that authenticity matters as much as sincerity of purpose, it would be through those midland roots, which are connected to what is said to be the most ancient order of witches known. at the turn of the twentieth century, my father's family were canal people and my father grew up at a time when the boats were still a major form of transport for coal and iron. some of these midland canal people were known as 'water witches' because they practised a religion based on the sacredness of water and earth. their symbol was the six-spoked sun wheel, painted on their boats. this sign was once thought to be a ship's wheel, but this is improbable, since canal boats have large rudders. unlike the romany gypsies, the midland water witches were descended from

group, these can be kept either by different members or in a safe place and brought out at meetings. they need not be at all expensive. magick was traditionally carried out with the equipment of the home: the broom for sweeping the magical circle was the besom used for sweeping dirt (and negativity) out of the door and was stored with its bristles upwards to protect the home. the cauldron was the iron cooking pot on the black kitchen range that served to heat the home as well as for cooking. items often can be gathered from around your home: for example, a silver bell, a crystal bowl or a large wine glass. attractive scarves or throws make ideal altar cloths. car boot sales are an excellent source of magical equipment. keep your magical tools separate from your everyday household equipment

e was the family hearth. focus is latin for 'hearth' and from ancient rome to china, the household deities have always had their place, being offered morsels of food, nectar and flowers and consulted on family happenings. it was believed that the ancestors as well as the living gathered around the family hearth, and so it became a natural focus for magick. the witches' cauldron started off as the iron cooking pot that hung over the fire (such pots are still used in country regions of europe- i saw one for sale quite recently in the market in rouen in france. herbal brews were not only created to cure coughs and colds but also, with magical words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother wo

ed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of water* place four blue candles at the four main compass points in a room or any outdoor area. the four blue compass candles can act as sentinels of light, protecting the four quarters of the circle* in the centre, place a cauldron or pot (a three-legged iron pot or any ceramic pot will do. these can often be found in antique shops, at car boot sales or garden centres, as well as in new age shops. it need not be very large* fill the cauldron with water and float blue candles on the surface* light a large blue candle to the west of the cauldron; light the candles in the cauldron from this candle, using a taper* surround the cauldron with symbols of

god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of mars is especially good for psychic self-defence and for courage in a crisis. element: fire colour: red crystals: garnet, bloodstone, ruby, jasper incenses: dragon's blood, ginger, mint, thyme trees: cypress, holly, pine herbs and oils: basil, coriander, garlic, pepper, tarragon metal: iron or steel mars rules aries, march-20 april, and is the co-ruler of scorpio, 24 october-22 november. in magick, it is most potent during these two sun sign periods and for those born under aries and scorpio. mercury wednesday, the day of mercury, is good for spells to assist money-making ventures, for clear communication, persuasion, adaptability and versatility, for improving memory and sharpe

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

ist the priestess when she is in the ecstasy of union- and falling upon me, like a wild beast she buried her teeth in my neck, bearing me to the ground. then, loosing me, while the blood streamed from me, she fixed her glittering eyes upon it with strange joy, and with her hands she shook me as a lion shakes a buck. sinewy were her hands, with big knuckles, and the strength of her was as cords of iron. yet her might was but a mortal s; in a little she gave one gasp like a drowning man s; beer body slackened, and fell with its dead weight on mine, her mouth glued to mine in one dreadful kiss. dreadful; for as my mouth returned it, almost mechanically, the blood gushed from her nostrils and blinded me. i too, then, more dead that alive, swooned into bliss, into trance. i was awakened by the

ticular a giant, a nubian blacker than polished granite seen by starlight, tall as a young palm and straight, yet more hideous than the ape of thoth. also i bought a young pale stripling from the north, a silly boy with idle languishing ways. but his mouth burned like sunset when the dust-storms blow. so pale an weak was he that all despised him and mocked him for a girl. then he took a white-hot iron from the fire and wrote with it my name in hieroglyphics on his breast; nor did his smile once alter while the flesh hissed and smoked. thus we went out a great caravan to a rocky islet in the nile, difficult of access for that the waters foamed and swirled dangerously about it. there we builded a little temple shaped like a beehive; but there was no altar and no shrine therein; for in that t

rned and answered sullenly "i was the high priest "thou hadst no longer the ring" she raged at him, her face white with fury, her mouth dripping the foam of her anger- for the word was a vile word. then she smote upon the bell, and the guard appeared. at her order they brought the instruments of death, and summoned the executioner, and left us there. then the executioner bound him to the wheel of iron by his ankles and page 36 gulf.txt his waist and his throat; and he cut off his eyelids, that he might look upon his death. then with his shears he cut off the lips from him, saying "with these lips didst thou blaspheme the holy one, the bride of osiris" then one by one he wrenched out the teeth of him, saying every time "with this tooth didst thou frame a blasphemy against the holy one, the

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

il such time as it is needed. the number os shammash is twenty and this is his seal: the god of mars is the mighty nergal. he has the head of a man on the body of a lion, and bears a sword and a flail. he is the god of war, and of the fortunes of war. he was sometimes though to be an agent of the ancient ones, for he dwelt in cutha for a time. his colour is dark red. his essence is to be found in iron, and in all weapons made to spill the blood of men and of animals. his gate is the fifth you will see as you pass the zones in the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of light is red. this is his seal, which must be engraved on a plate of iron, or on paper in blood, when mars is in exaltation in the heavens. it is best done at night, far from the habitations of men and of animals, whe

et shape he armed himself with the disc of power in chariots of fire he went forth with a shouting voice he called the spell with a blazing flame he filled his body dragons, vipers, all fell down lions, horse-men, all were slain. the mighty creatures of hubur were slain the spells, the charms, the sorcery were broken. naught but tiamat remained. the great serpent, the enormous worm the snake with iron teeth the snake with sharpened claw the snake with eyes of death, she lunged at marduk with a roar with a curse she lunged. marduk struck with the disc of power blinded tiamat's eyes of death the monster heaved and raised its back struck forth in all directions spitting ancient words of power screamed the ancient incantations marduk struck again and blew an evil wind into her body which fille

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

(45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. metals. lxxxii. the noble eightfold path. 12 (2080) trtrtpt taphthartharath ophiel mercury samma vaca 13 (369) yadwmcj chasmodai phul silver samma sankappo 14 (175) lamdq qedemel hagith copper samma kammanto 21 (136) lamsh hismael bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12 right speech left lower point 13 right aspiration bottom point 14 right conduct right lower point 21 right discipline right upper point 27 right energy left lower point 30 right rapture centre point 32 ri

of each image (similar but not always identical to those in agrippa. cols. clv clxvi. i have added transliterations of the names of the spirits and numbers according to the order in which they appear in the goetia. planetary symbols indicate the rank of the spirit and the material from which its seal is to be made (some spirits have two ranks, thus: rank planet metal prince jupiter tin earl mars iron king sol gold duke venus copper president mercury mercury (hmm) marquis luna silver note that in rendering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. notes 56 cols. clxvii clxxi. a comple

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

, such as electrical and thermal conductivity; but neither in us nor in them- so far as we know- is there any direct conscious perception of these forces. imperceptible influences are therefore associated with all material phenomena; and there is no reason why we should not work upon matter through those subtle energies as we do through their material bases. in fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images (14) man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives, for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. he may thus subjugate the whole universe of which he is conscious to his individual will (illustration: man has used the idea of god to dictate his personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellow, to excuse

wever, a further object in this recommendation. the more trouble and difficulty your weapon costs, the more useful you will find it "if you want a thing well done, do it yourself" it would be quite useless to take this book to a department store, and instruct them to furnish you a temple according to specification. it is really worth the while of the student who requires a sword to go and dig out iron ore from the earth, to smelt it himself with charcoal that he has himself prepared, to forge the weapon with his own hand: and even to take the trouble of synthesizing the oil of virtiol with which it is engraved. he will have learnt a lot of useful things in his attempt to make a really virgin sword; he will understand how one thing depends upon another; he will begin to appreciate the meani

ontributory causes of himself. they have made him what he is. they correspond exactly to his own faculties. they are all- ultimately- of equal importance. the fact that he is what he is proves that each item is equilibrated. the impact of each new impression affects the entire system in due measure. he must therefore realize that every event is subject to him. it occurs because he had need of it. iron rusts because the molecules demand oxygen for the satisfaction of 281 their tendencies. they do not crave hydrogen; therefore combination with that gas is an event which does not happen. all experiences contribute to make us complete in ourselves. we feel ourselves subject to them so long as we fail to recognise this; when we do, we perceive that they are subject to us. and whenever we strive

i- the :rupa :nephesh: point: yellow square :31 "bis :h:ychydh :topmost :akasa- the black :vin nanam :iechidah: point: egg: table iii: lxxvii: lxxxi: lxxxiii: the planets: the attribution of: and their numbers: metals: the hexagram: 12: mercury 8: mercury: left lower point: 13: moon 9: silver: bottom point: 14: venus 7: copper: right lower point: 21: jupiter 4: tin: right upper point: 27: mars 5: iron: left upper point: 30: sun 6: gold: centre point: 31: saturn 3: lead: top point: 319 table iv :xcvii: cxvii: cxviii: cxxiv: cxxxiii :key scale:parts: the: the chakkras or: the: titles and: of: soul: centres of :heavenly: attributions of: the:(hindu: prana :hexagram: the wand suit: soul (hinduism (clubs: 0: 1 :ychydh:atma :sahasrara (above: jupiter :the root of the: head: powers of fire: 2 :ch

n before the graal. having adored it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next her, she moves in a serpentine manner involving 3 1/2 circles of the temple (deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font, widdershins about altar and so to the tomb in the west) she draws her sword and pulls down the veil therewith" the priestess. by the power of+ iron, i say unto thee, 347 arise. in the name of our lord+ the sun, and of our lord+ that thou mayst administer the virtues to the brethren "she sheathes the sword "the "priest "issuing from the tomb, holding the lance erect with both hands, right over left, against his breast, takes the first three regular steps. he then gives the lance to the "priestess "and gives the three penal signs. he then

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

, such as electrical and thermal conductivity; but neither in us nor in them- so far as we know- is there any direct conscious perception of these forces. imperceptible influences are therefore associated with all material phenomena; and there is no reason why we should not work upon matter through those subtle energies as we do through their material bases. in fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 43 14. man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives; for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. he may thus subjugate the whole universe of which he is conscious to his individual will (illustration: man has used the idea of god to dictate h

ation. let me sum up, very succinctly; as usual, my enthusiasm has lured me into embroidering my sage discourse with poets' imagery! why should you study and practice magick? because you can't help doing it, and you had better do it well than badly. you are on the links, whether you like it or not; why go on topping your drive, and slicing your brassie, and fluffing your niblick, and pulling your iron, and socketing your mashie and not being up with your putt- that's 6, and you are not allowed to pick up. it's a far cry to the nineteenth, and the sky threatens storm before the imminent night. love is the law, love under will. fraternally, 666 chapter iii hieroglyphics: life and language necessarily symbolic cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. very natural, the irri

mon-sense comment by frater o.m "all this about gautama buddha having renounced nirvana is apparently all a pure invention of mme. blavatsky, and has no authority in the buddhist canon. the buddha is referred to, again and again, as having 'passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing what- 40^ weh note: if homer can nod, so can crowley. the mineral called fool's gold is actually iron pyrites, not copper. it has a brassy look, and that might account for this error. 65 ever behind' the account of his doing this is given in the mahaparinibbana sutta; and it was the contention of the toshophists that this 'great, sublime nibbana story' was something peculiar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one fr

c "law) i was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in strange lands, camping on glaciers, and so on. i fixed it workably well. in mexico, d.f. for instance, i took my bedroom itself for the circle, my nighttable for the altar, my candle for the lamp; and i made the weapons compact. i had a wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to represent the tree of life; within, an iron tube containing quicksilver- very correct, lordly, and damsilly. what a club! also, bought, a silver-gilt cup; for air and earth i made one sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. in the wilds it was easy, agreeable and most efficacious to make a circle, and build an altar, of stones; my alpine lantern served admirably for the lamp. it did double duty

nt me, so long as you're getting what you need? just being childlike, i suppose! no? merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. all right; on to no. 2. shall we look at levitation for a change? this power- if it be one- is very curious indeed. it connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. the first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. age before honesty! let father poulain s.j. speak first! he is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the church has done so. but precisely similar accounts of the levitation of pagans and heretics must be according to him, lies, or works of the devil. as for the method "god employs the angels to raise the saint, so as to avoid the necessity of intervening himself" lazy

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

of pain, death, and bondage. students of the gospel will recollect that in the martyrdom of christ these three were used, the dagger being replaced by the nails<magical instruments. the hill of golgotha is a circle, and the cross the tau. christ had robe, crown, sceptre, etc; this thesis should one day be fully worked out> the scourge should be made with a handle of iron; the lash is composed of nine strands of fine copper wire, in each of which are twisted small pieces of lead. iron represents severity, copper love, and lead austerity. the dagger is made of steel inlaid with gold; and the hilt is also golden. the chain sic is made of soft iron. it has 333 links<equinox, no. v "the vision and the voice: xth aethyr> it is now evident why the

; which, in tibet, is usually made of human bone. the bell itself is made of electrum magicum, an alloy of the "seven metals" blended together in a special manner. first the gold is melted up with the silver during a favourable aspect of the sun and moon; these are then fused with tin when jupiter is well dignified. lead is added under an auspicious saturn; and so for the quicksilver, copper, and iron, when mercury, venus, and mars are of good augury. the sound of this bell is indescribably commanding, solemn, and majestic. without even the minutest jar, its single notes tinkle fainter and fainter into silence. at the sound of this bell the universe ceases for an indivisible moment of time, and attends to the will of the magician. let him not interrupt the sound of this bell. let this be t

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ding order; i.e. 1-21) prolonged; grew long kyr) male )rwkd 232 the sum of the four ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244

of the way, remote qwxr shaddai, the almighty: a name of god yd# acacia wood h# 315 ice, hail; crystal, pearl #ybg gullet+#w formation hrycy a vision of splendour hgwnh h)rm cave hr(m 316 bound, imprisoned #wbx green qwry a bundle, handful rmw( punishing iniquity, visiting sin nw( dqwp) perfumed )r+wq to worship, bow down xx# 317 is sown, is scattered (ps. 97:11) m(rz dry, parched; withered h#by iron (ch) lzrp hoariness hby# coronzom (as spelt in dee fs ms; cf. 333) mznrk 318 a wash-basin and stand wnkw rwyk a copse, bush xy# square; the gsquare h hebrew alphabet (bwrm 319 cancer: a crab n+rs 320 boy: name of enoch, and of metatron r(n the friends my(r thorn; enclosure k# 322 lamb; to subdue #bk middle line y(cm)h wq hebrews (as 282) myrb( 323 long-absent brother qwxr x) uranus (referred

yh) r) hyh) 544 apples (ct. 2:5) myxwpt 545 a boar of the wood r(ym ryzx 546 sweet qwtm preserves; a watchman rmw# guards rwm# the head that is not: a title of kether )ld)#yr thy god (deut. 4:24, 28:58 *kyhl) 548 lord god of knowledge: the divine name of tiphareth t(dw hwl) hwhy 549 moral; felt, sensed #grwm storm-wind hr(s xwr 550 eagle, vulture, bird of prey; to fall off, fall away r#n a rod of iron (ps. 2) lzrb +b# masters, princes, heads, chiefs myr# dragons (restricted (ps. 74:13) mnynt 551 thy terror *kmy) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level *kn) 552 the daily want, daily desire mymy tdmx 553 the great dragon lwdg nynt 554 bearing seed (rz (rz 555 obscurity htp( the god had (spelt in full :d):h 556 mark, vestige, footstep wmy#r restoration nwqt 557 first, fo

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covetousness and disorder((this is the regular yogi doctrine, and may be tested by experience of various bhavanas and other proper concentrations. but laotze draws a parallel for social or political use. to excite cupidity leads to theft at home, and war abroad. it is only too evident to day how neglect of this rule has destroyed civilization; i need not insist on examples of how a's potash, b's iron, c's coal and d's trade routes have caused e to set the world ablaze) 2. the wise man seeketh therefore to content the actual needs of the people; not to excite them by the sight of luxuries. he banneth these, and concentrateth on those((the present labour troubles are due to the absurd cult of material complexities miscalled prosperity) 13 chapter xiii the contempt for circumstance. 1. favor

areth fruit in the mastery of the tao. then the man, the tao permeating him, endureth; and his bodily principles are in harmony, 19 proof against decay, until the hour of his change. 20 chapter xvii the purity of the current. 1. in the age of gold, the people were not conscious of their rulers; in the age of silver, they loved them, with songs; in the age of brass, they feared them; in the age of iron, they despised them. as the rulers((becoming self-conscious) lost confidence, so also did the people lose confidence in them. 2. how hesitating did they seem, the lords of the age of gold, speaking with deliberation, aware of the weight of their word! thus they accomplished all things with success; and the people deemed their well-being to be the natural course of events. 21 chapter xviii the

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of self-strung diamond formed from the carbon dioxide of the air by the action of the 'seed of light. another grotto would be a monochrome of blue, various copper salts being 'planted' everywhere, and growing in incrustations and festoons of every shade of blue from the faintest tinge of coerulean azure and green and grey, in whose abyss would be seen shapes of anemonies, perhaps of such hues as iron oxide, silver chromate, and cupramonium cyanurate. all this floor would in all respects resemble water but for its greater solidity, and floating on it would be giant lilies, great green leaves of emerald with cups of pearl not less than twelve feet in diameter, with corollae of pure gold, so fine that they glimmered green, with pistils of platinum on whose tops trembled great pigeon- blooded

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r any special forms of experience, and seek eagerly after novel adventures (like a philatelist after rare stamps) to complete the collection. they are also as a rule both very careful and very careless about their bodily welfare, taking pains to preserve their powers for the purpose of gaining new experiences, but utterly indifferent to them as valuable in themselves. they rule them with a rod of iron, and train them like pugilists; but they risk them recklessly whenever the work demands it. it is important to understand the necessity of our present universe. perfection could do not otherwise than create imperfection. but was there not original imperfection? no; for perfection is hardly more than that original state, since we cannot conceive the total as susceptible of addition<
n and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance on virility. by paul sat buddha smiling, ananda's arm about his neck, while mohammed paced the floor impatiently between two warrior comrades, his belt bearing an iron key, a whip and a sword, wherewith to limit women's liberty, their love their life, lest to his loss they lure him. the beast is there also, aloof, attentive. he will not weigh the evidence in the balances of any particular kind of advantage. he will not admit any standard as adequate to assess the absolute. to him, the pettiest personal whimsy outweighs all wisdom, all philosophy, all privat

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paten before the graal. having adored it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next her, she moves in a serpentine manner involving 3 circles of the temple (deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font, widdershins about altar, and so to the tomb in the west) she draws her sword and pulls down the veil therewith. the priestess: by the power of iron, i say unto thee, arise. in the name of our lord the sun, and of our lord. that thou mayst administer the virtues to the brethren. she sheathes the sword. the priest, issuing from the tomb, holding the lance erect with both hands, right over left, against his breast, takes the first three regular steps. he then gives the lance to the priestess, and gives the three penal signs. he then kneels

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n his elect! confusion sweeps upon the throng awake, awake, o sword of song! awake to wound, awake to heal by wounding, thou resistless sword! raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal in agony to their prostrate lord! raise the duped herd they have suffered long awake, awake, o sword of song! my strength this agony of the age win through; my music charm the old sorrow of years: my warfare wage by iron to an age of gold: the world is old, and i am strong awake, awake, o sword of song* the name of siegfried s sword. introduction to ascension day and pentecost not a word to introduce my introduction! let me instantly launch the boat of discourse on the sea of religious speculation, in danger of the rocks of authority and the quicksands of private interpretation, scylla and charybdis. here is

allup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mother. the sword of song 8 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpretation. former excused. buddha rebukes poet. detailed scheme of modified poem. ho! i adopt the number. look at the quaint wrapper of this book* i will deserve it if i can: 110 it is the number of a man.33 so since in england christ still stands with iron nails in bloody hands not pierced, but grasping! to hoist high children on cross of agony, 115 i find him real for english lives. up with my pretty pair of fives !34 i fight no ghosts. but why revile (you urge me) in that vicious style 120 the very faith whose truths you seem (elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme in your own soul? perhaps you know how mystic doctrines melt the snow of any fa

earing across the firmament, but, first, to that exact event you christians celebrate to-day. we stand where the disciples stood 345 and see the master float away into that cloudlet heavenly-hued receiving him from mortal sight. which of his sayings prove the true, lightning-bescrawled athwart the blue? 350 i say not, which in hearts aright are treasured? but, what after ages engrave on history s iron pages? this is the one word of our lord; i bring not peace; i bring a sword. 355 in this the history of the west55 bears him out well. how stands the test? one-third a century s life of pain he lives, he dies, he lives again, and rises to eternal rest 360 of bliss with saints an endless reign! leaving the world to centuries torn by every agony and scorn, and every wickedness and shame taking

pose in advance. 575 the sword of song 20 heaven suffers hell s pangs, owing to reproaches of bard. ethical and eloquent denunciation of christian cosmogony. tending to final bliss to stir some life to better life, this pain is needful: that i grant again. did they at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive 580 the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution s iron key did them provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last 585 out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest s joy to revel 590 betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on

ls, includes, absorbs 250 both mighty unrevolving orbs in one informing masterless master-idea of consciousness all differences as these indeed are chess play, conjuring. proceed! 255 nay! i ll go back. the exposition above, has points. but simple fission has reproduced a different bliss, at last a heterogenesis! the metaphysics of these verses 260 is perfectly absurd. my curse is no sooner in an iron word i formulate my thought than i perceive the same to be absurd (tannh user. so for this, sir, why! 265 your metaphysics in your teeth! confer a. crowley, berashith. but hear! the christian is a dualist; the sword of song 32 bard is pleased with himself. poetee manifests a natural irritation. sabb pi dukkham! beyond thought, is there hope? maya again. vision of the such view our normal cons

sness. after one memory o abide! vivid savitri lightning-eyed! nothing is worth a thought beside. 685 one hint of amrita55 to taste and all earth s wine may run to waste! for by this very means christ gained56 his glimpse into that world above which he denominated love. 690 indeed i think the man attained by some such means i have not strained out mind by chance of sense or sex to find a way less iron-brained determining direction x;57 695 i know not if these hindu methods be best( tis no such life and death odds, since suffering souls to save or damn never existed. so i fall confessing: well, perhance i am 700 myself a christian after all! so far at least. i must concede christ did attain in every deed; yet, being an illiterate man, not his to balance or to scan, 705 to call god stupid or

no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cowelephant desiring her bull in the jungles of ceylon. meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have the opportunity. in any case what the easterns call onepointedness is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. and iron will-power is a still earlier qualification. by meditation i do not mean merely thinking about anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. now true magical ceremony is entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished ment

d in leash the four beasts, but he strode boldly to her, and kissed her full on the lips. wherefore she signed and fell back a space, and he pressed on. now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. but the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. but the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. our father passed into the fire. some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our father among them. now away! he cried. i would look upon the sun! and with that the fire

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us ascend. yet bring with ye two things, the flint and the steel 168- the slumbering fire of mystery, and the dark sword of science; that we may strike a spark, and fire the beacon of hope which hangs above us in the brasier of despair; so that a great light may shine forth through the darkness, and guide the toiling footsteps of man to that temple which is built without hands, fashioned without iron, or gold, or silver, and in which no fire burns; whose pillars are as columns of light, whose dome is as a crown of effulgence set betwixt the wings of eternity, and upon whose altar flashes the mystic eucharist of god. 169 the miser "god" what a treasure-house of wealth lies buried in that word! what a mine of precious stones- ptah, father of beginnings, he who created the sun and the moon;

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t from that small, pale "heinous" man "pore ole bill" seems derived from "the rime of the ancient mariner" and "the yarn of the nancy bell" mixed. what could be more ridiculous? yet i read it again and again, and the oftener i read it the keener does its fascination grip me. and what shall i say of "the sword and the idol? only this; that it is true. lord dunsany has really beheld the dawn of the iron age, and the conquest of the king by the priest. g. w. foote ought to publish this tale as an atheistic pamphlet; it is the best ever written. and yet to me "the silence of ged (oh bold my lord dunsany) came as a voice in the wood at midnight, when the sword-holder raises his steel against ged. ged neither hit nor shrank- in the end the sword was laid as an offering upon his knees. so let the

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part, with dust upon my head, discrowned and desolate. i must lurk in forbidden corners of the earth. i must plot secretly in the by- ways of great cities, in the fog, and in marshes of the rivers of pestilence. and all my cunning shall not serve me. and all my undertakings shall be brought to naught. and all the ministers of the beast shall catch me and tear out my tongue with pincers of red-hot iron, and they shall brand my forehead with the word of derision, and they shall shave my head, and pluck out my beard, and make a show of me. and the spirit of prophecy shall come upon me despite me ever and anon, as even now upon my heart and upon my throat; and upon my tongue seared with strong acid are the words "vim patior" for so must i give glory to him that hath supplanted me, that hath ca

ion. yet they are not resting upon their arms, but tense and vigilant. and between them and me is the god shu, whom before i did not see, because his force filleth the whole aethyr. and indeed he is not visible in his form. nor does he come to the seer through any of the senses; he is understood, rather than expressed. i perceive that all this army is defended by fortresses, nine mighty towers of iron upon the frontier of the aethyr. each tower is filled with warriors in silver armour. it is impossible to describe the feeling of tension; they are like oarsmen waiting for the gun. i perceive that an angel is standing on either side of me; nay, i am in the midst of a company of armed angels, and their captain is standing in front of me. he too is clad in silver armour; and about him, closely

d by three and by three hath he made firm the foundation against the earthquake that is three. for in the number nine is the changefulness of the numbers brought to naught. for with whatsoever number thou wilt cover it, it appeareth unchanged. these things are spoken unto him that understandeth, that is a breastplate unto the elephants, or a corselet unto the angels, or a scale upon the towers of iron; yet is this mighty host set only for a defense, and whoso passeth beyond their lines hath no help in them. yet must he that understandeth go forth unto the outermost abyss, and there must he speak with him that is set above the four-fold terror, the princes of evil, even with choronzon, the mighty devil that inhabiteth the outermost abyss. and none may speak with him, or understand him, but

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serpent of the tree of life" illustration on page 278 approximated below_ aries_ gemini_ taurus aquarius cancer scorpio leo_ virgo_ libra_ sagittarius_ capricorn_ pisces_ diagram 38. the calvary cross of twelve squares. illustration on page 278 described "diagram 39. the serpent of brass. this is a stylized tree of life. all ten sephiroth are represented by small white holes in black rings, like iron. the central pillar is the only vertical, and all three horizontal paths are depicted alike, as solid black strips connecting the sephiroth. the whole has the appearance of a grand hierophant's cross or patriarchal cross with perforated circular bosses. entwined mostly over and sometimes behind this cross is a serpent in the usual configuration for tail on path 32, all paths crossed in order

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d lavenderians, up jumps some renegade monk, proclaims himself the spirit of the twentieth century, and replaces the weak tea of the past by his own stinking cabbage-water. it seems useless nowadays to call for a draught of the right wine of iacchus. the evangelicals object to the wine, and the rationalists to the god. we had filed off the fetter, and while the sores yet burn, find another heaver iron yet firmer on the other foot- as stevenson so magnificently parabled unto us. then how this nauseous stinkard quibbles! this defender of truth! how he delights with apish malice to write "in england" wishing his hearers to understand "great britain; and when taxed with the malignant lie against his brother which he had thus cunningly insinuated, to point out gleefully that "england" does not

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silence in the one thought of the one beyond all thought. the world of phantoms has no terror left; we can take the blood of the black dragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ease upon the path of the chameleon, by the towers of iron and the fountains of supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea most still. xiii "from the cavities of the earth leap forth the terrestrial dog-faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man "go not forth when the lictor passeth by "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rul

usly, one may admit 'i came 'adding under my breath 'i saw, i conquered 'who is that' i added sternly, pointing to the prostrate hag"'ah, sir (she began to cry 'it is my mother' the horror of it was tenfold multiplied 'she- she' the child blushed, stammered, stopped "i heard, mademoiselle' i cried indignantly"'i am here (she sobbed 'for a month, starved, whipped- oh! by day the window barred with iron; by night, open, the more to mock my helplessness' then, with a sudden cry, her little pink hand darting out and showing a faultless arm 'look! look! she is on you "the mother had drawn herself away with infinite stealth, regained her feet, and, a thin stiletto in her hand, was crouched to spring. indeed, as she leapt i was hard put to it to avoid the lunge; the dagger-edge grazed my arm as i

we were fighting in the street. i would not cry for help; one was more likely to rouse a bandit than a guardian of the peace. and, besides, who could say how the law stood "i had certainly killed a lady; i was doing my best, with the aid of her stolen cloak, to kill a servant of the house; i contemplated an abduction. best kill him silently, and be gone "but when and how had jean pulled open the iron gates and retreated into the street "it mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi- darkness- the dawn was not fairly lifted- for life and death"'ten thousand crowns, monsieur jean' i cried 'and my service- i gave him my style 'i see you can be a faithful servant"'faithful to death' he retorted, and i was sor

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win fish of time, which being set apart never divulge the secret of their unity. 11. o thou flame of the horn d storm-clouds, that 17 sunderest their desolation, that outroarest the winds; i swear to thee by the gleaming sandals of the stars, to climb beyond the summits of the mountains, and rend thy robe of purple thunders with a sword of silvery light. 12. o thou fat of an hundred fortresses of iron, crimson as the blades of a million murderous swords; i swear to thee by the smoke-wreath of the volcano, to open the secret shrine of thy bull's breast, and tear out as an augur the heart of thine all-pervading mystery. 13. o thou silver axle of the wheel of being, thrust through the wings of time by the still hand of space; i swear to thee by the twelve spokes of thy unity, to become unto t

in the motionless balance; nor smitten by the arrow-flights of man! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; shield me in the unity of thy might, and reckon me aright in the span of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 13. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the breathing influx of life; nor the iron ring i' the marriage feast of death: o thou who art not shadow d forth in the songs of war; nor in the tears and lamentations of a child! i deny thee by the powers of my understanding; sheathe me in the unity of thy might, and kindle me with the grey flame of thine all-pervading nothingness. for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. o glory be unto thee through all

eil of space! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou smiling mouth of the dawn, that art freed from the laughter of the night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dazzling star-point of hope, that burnest over oceans of despair! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou naked virgin of love, that art caught in a net of wild roses! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou iron turret of death, that art rusted with the bright blood of war! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou bubbling wine-cup of joy, that foamest like the cauldron of murder! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou icy trail of the moon, that art traced in the veins of the onyx! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frenzied hunter of love, that art slain by the twisted horns

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in in life, not through their attempts to struggle, but on account of their weakness_ the enemy not considering they are worth power and shot. but the strong gain their lives in fight and victory; the sword is their warrant to live, and by their swords "will" they attain; and when they once have attained, by their swords will they rule, and from warriors become as helm d kings whose crowns are of iron, and whose sceptres are sharp swords of glittering steel, and reign; whilst the weak still remain as slaves, and a prey to the wild dreams of the night. of a truth, sometimes the weak charioteer wins the race; but on account of his weakness he is often carried past the winning-post by the steeds that have given him the victory, and, unable to hold them back, he is dashed against the walls of

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loor ascending, as of old the lonely captive saw them, whose cell was doomed to be his coffin. nearer and nearer am i born toward the corpse. i shrunk back from the edge of the bed; i cowered in most abject fear. i tried to cry out, but speech was paralysed. the walls came closer and closer together. presently my hand lay on the dead man's forehead. i made my arm as straight and rigid as a bar of iron; but of what avail was human strength against the contraction of that cruel masonry? slowly my elbow bent with the ponderous pressure; nearer grew the ceiling- i fell into the fearful embrace of death. i was pen, i was stifled in the breathless niche, which was all of space still left to me. the stony eyes stared up into my own, and again the maddening peal of fiendish laughter rang close bes

ls of the terrible press; there came a heavy crush, and i felt all sense blotted out in darkness. i awoke at last; the corpse was gone, but i had taken his 255 place upon the bier. in the same attitude which he had kept i lay motionless, conscious, although in darkness, that i wore upon my face the counterpart of his look of agony. the room had grown into a gigantic hall, whose roof was framed of iron arches; the pavement, the walls, the cornice were all of iron. the spiritual essence of the metal seemed to be a combination of cruelty and despair. its massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great engine crank, and realised its capacity for murder, will catch a glimpse, even in the memory, of the t

alls, the cornice were all of iron. the spiritual essence of the metal seemed to be a combination of cruelty and despair. its massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great engine crank, and realised its capacity for murder, will catch a glimpse, even in the memory, of the thrill which seemed to say "this iron is a tearless fiend" of the unutterable meaning i saw in those colossal beams and buttresses. i suffered from the vision of that iron as from the presence of a giant assassin. but my senses opened slowly to the perception of still worse presences. by my side there gradually emerged from the sulphurous twilight which bathed the room the most horrible form which the soul could look upon unshatt

nd" of the unutterable meaning i saw in those colossal beams and buttresses. i suffered from the vision of that iron as from the presence of a giant assassin. but my senses opened slowly to the perception of still worse presences. by my side there gradually emerged from the sulphurous twilight which bathed the room the most horrible form which the soul could look upon unshattered- a fiend also of iron, white-hot and dazzling with the glory of the nether penetralia. a face that was theferreous incarnation of all imaginations of malice and irony looked on me with a glare withering from its intense heat, but still more from the unconceived degree of inner wickedness which it symbolised. i realised whose laughter i had heard, and instantly i heard it again. beside him another demon, his very t

er penetralia. a face that was theferreous incarnation of all imaginations of malice and irony looked on me with a glare withering from its intense heat, but still more from the unconceived degree of inner wickedness which it symbolised. i realised whose laughter i had heard, and instantly i heard it again. beside him another demon, his very twin, was rocking a tremendous cradle framed of bars of iron like all things else, and candescent with as fierce a heat as the fiend's. and now, in a chant of the most terrific blasphemy which it is possible to imagine, or rather of blasphemy so fearful that no human thought has ever conceived of it, both the 256 demons broke forth, until i grew intensely wicked merely by hearing it. i still remember the meaning of the song they sand, although there is

m to perpetuate in any degree such profanity as beyond the abodes of the lost no pips are capable of uttering. every note of the music itself accorded with the thought as symbol represents essence, and with its clangour mixed the maddening creak of the for ever oscillating cradle, until i felt driven into a ferocious despair. suddenly the nearest fiend, snatching up a pitchfork (also of white-hot iron, thrust it into my writing side, and hurled me shrieking into the fiery cradle. i sought in my torture to scale the bars; they slipped from my grasp and under my feet like the smoothest icicles. through increasing grades of agony i lay unconsumed, tossing from side to side with the rocking of the dreadful engine, and still above me pealed the chant of blasphemy, and the eyes of demoniac sarca

successive generations, without a break in one link, until the rush of their procession reached a rapidity so awful as fully to typify eternity itself; and still i fled on through that burning genesis of cycles. i feel that i do not convey my meaning, but may no one else ever understand it better. withered like a leaf in the breath of an oven, after millions of years i felt myself tossed upon the iron floor. the fiends had departed, the cradle was gone. i stood alone, staring into immense and empty spaces. presently i found that i was in a colossal square, as of some european city, alone at the time of evening twilight, and surrounded by houses hundreds of stories high. i was bitterly athirst. i ran to the middle of the square, and reached it after an infinity of travel. there was a founta

he fiends had departed, the cradle was gone. i stood alone, staring into immense and empty spaces. presently i found that i was in a colossal square, as of some european city, alone at the time of evening twilight, and surrounded by houses hundreds of stories high. i was bitterly athirst. i ran to the middle of the square, and reached it after an infinity of travel. there was a fountain carved in iron, every jet inimitably sculptured in mockery of water, yet dry as the ashes of a furnace "i shall perish with thirst" i cried "yet one more trial. there must be people in all these immense houses. doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. good friends! water! water" a horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. every sash of all the hu

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eyes that stared to god, whose ardour sent his radiance from the ruthless skies. then like a statue still he sate; nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. but the coldest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinis

han heather hordes can scowl, the spectre hunger rages there; he passes like a midnight owl, hooting his heraldry, despair. the knights and squires of palamede stalk pale and lean through court and hall; though sharp and swift the archers speed their yardlong arrows from the wall. their numbers thin; their strength decays; their fate is written plain to read: these are the dread deciduous days of iron-souled sir palamede. he hears the horrid laugh that rings from camp to camp at night; he hears the cruel mouths of murderous kings laugh out one menace that he fears. no sooner shall the heroes die than, ere their flesh begin to rot, the heathen turns his raving eye to caerlon and camelot. king arthur in ignoble sloth is sunk, and dalliance with his dame, forgetful of his knightly oath, and c

n were men? that is thy question, warrior sir palamede the saracen! 11 iv now, with two score of men in life and one fair babe, sir palamede resolves one last heroic strife, attempts forlorn a desperate deed. at dead of night, a moonless night, a night of winter storm, they sail in dancing dragons to the fight with man and sea, with ghoul and gale. whom god shall spare, ride, ride (so springs the iron order. let him fly on honour's steed with honour's wings to warn the king, lest honour die! then to the fury of the blast their fury adds a dreadful sting: the fatal die is surely cast. to save the king- to save the king! hail! horror of the midnight surge! the storms of death, the lashing gust, the doubtful gleam of swords that urge hot laughter with high-leaping lust! 12 though one by one t

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im. they reminded him of the terrible prediction of the french poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, la femme ayant gomorrhe et l'homme ayant sodome.2 all the messalines and circes of an impure sex were 33 balancing before him their tempting, repulsive, holy and foul, loose or firm, twin breasts. himself, cloven-hoffed and curl-horned, had to flagellate his own flesh with iron chains, which failed to overcome the moral urtication, as had the repeated physical purgings of his early years. narcissus, in a corner, pale and smiling, urged him to renewed efforts; spirits, both incubi and succubae, thrusting themselves upon him, ate him away. but all these dreams gradually faded out. lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. the time

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e pray! 106 verily, o thou littlest babe, too weak to stir or speak, capable hardly of a thought, yet seed of word and deed! to thine assured fruition we may trust this weary dust. we who are old, and palsied (and so wise) lift up our eyes to little children, as the storm-tossed bark hails in the dark some hardly visible harbour light; we hold the hours of gold to our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass- so swift they pass and grind us down- we hold the wondrous light our scattering sight yet sees, the one star in a night of woe. we trust, and so lift up our voices in the dying day indeed to pray: o little hands that are so soft and strong, lead us along [sor. gemini "plays accordingly<gemini. brother virgo, wilt thou not join us who love not spee

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court of the profane we cannot yet reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adept, seeing all these things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20. the many change and pass; the one remains. even as wood and coal and iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of transcendent heat; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are consumed in the one knowledge. 21. nevertheless, as a fire cannot be started with iron alone, in the beginning one system may be suited for one seeker, another for another. 22. we the

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

months had passed mary bibby died. her daughter went to dispose f her oss ssio s and was ldly surprised at the odd collection of antiques she found m the old chest. alex begged te have them as mementoes and his mother agreed. aware of the boy's desolation at his grandmother's death, she hoped the sword, the crystal, the brass bowls and the censer would comfort him, but refused to let him keep the iron cauldron-or coal scuttle as she called it. there was nothing else to suggest that gran had been a witch. alex had burnt her book of shadows immediately after her death and had chopped up her broomstick which had been carved with phallic symbols. so much of his life had been spent studying witchcraft with his grandmother that alex was now at a loose end. when he tried to work magic to bring he

is failure, alex was glad to getaway from the unruly poltergeist. he. spent the ievening looking through his witch books to seejftherei was anything he had omitted to do. the next night he presented himself at the appointed hour. mrs. peters showed him into the' kitchen where a crowd of fifteen ortwen.tyjatnaicans .were awaiting him. on the table was a sack .ofcement; a wreath ofgarlic, four huge iron spikes each attached to a length of heavy chain; and a dagger. tied to the table leg was a small goat bleating as if in anticipation ofitsdeath 'oh. no' alex said .when the dagger was offered to him 'i don't make sacrifices. it's not necessary nowadays.'his words were. drowned by rumbles of anger. mrs peters leapt in toappeaseherfnends while alex tried to explain his point ofview. asmall,wize

alex tried to explain his point ofview. asmall,wizenedjamaican inenecornet voiced the majority opinion 'are white witchestoo high and mighty to help their colouredbtethten' vainly alex tried towinthdr approval and,grudgingly, they agreed. to tell him how the voodoo ceremony should be conducted. the goat mustbe killed so.that its blood splashed the walls, and all the people within them. then. the iron spikes ii. had to be taken to the. cemetery where the irishman was buried d .one spike.embedded in. cement at each corner of the grave to bind the spirit. lastly the wreath ofgarlic must be placed on top of the grave to prevent its escaping. again alex. was handed the dagger' and again he refused to take it. without further ado, a tall jamaican snatched it and drew it across the goat's throat

rsday. flower: heliotrope. trees: willow, elm. animals: sheep and ox. birds: swan and stork. metal: tin. colours: purple, mauve, sea-green. 152 arms the ram. 22 march to 21 april. lucky stones: ruby, bloodstone, diamond. lucky numbers: aries, seven; mars, nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: gorse, wild rose, thistle. trees: holly, thorn, chestnut. animals: ram, tiger, leopard. bird: magpie. metal: iron. colours: bright green, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for both taurus and venus. lucky day: friday. flowers: lily-of-the-valley, violet, rose, myrtle. trees: almond, apple, walnut, ash, sycamore. animal: bull. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: all shades of blue, indigo

ht; venus, six. lucky day: friday. flowers: violet, white rose. trees: almond, walnut. animals: hart, hare. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: blue, violet. scorpio the scorpion. 22 october to 21 november. lucky stones: ruby, beryl, turquoise, topaz. lucky number: nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: heather, chrysanthemum. trees: holly, thorn. animals: wolf, panther. birds: eagle, vulture. metal: iron. colours: red, russet, brown. sagittaluus the archer. 22 november to 21 december. lucky stones: sagittarius, sapphire; jupiter,amethyst. lucky numbers: sagittarius, four; jupiter, three. lucky day: thursday. flowers: carnation, wallflower. trees: mulberry, vine. animal: horse. bird: eagle. metal: tin. colours: orange, mauve, purple. 154 capricorn the goat. 22 december to 21 january. lucky sto

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

e. he works specially with masses more than with individuals, though he has gathered around him quite a numerous body of pupils. he is upon the sixth ray of devotion, or abstract idealism, and his pupils are frequently distinguished by that fanaticism and devotion which manifested in earlier christian times amongst the martyrs. he himself is rather a martial figure, a disciplinarian, and a man of iron rule and will. he is tall and spare with rather a long thin face, black hair, pale complexion and piercing blue eyes. his work at this time is exceedingly responsible, for to him is given the problem of steering the thought of the occident out of its present state of unrest into the peaceful waters of certitude and knowledge, and of preparing the way in europe and america for the eventual com

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

n this key, which produces the great world cataclysms, wrought through volcanic action. every volcano is sounding forth this note, and, for those who can see, the sound and colour (occultly understood) of a volcano are a truly marvellous thing. every gradation of that note is to be found in the mineral kingdom which is itself divided into three main kingdoms: a. the baser metals, such as lead and iron, with all allied minerals. b. the standard metals, such as gold and silver, which play such a vital part in the life of the race, and are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect. c. t he crystals and precious stones, the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom the consummation of the work of the mineral devas, and the product of their untiring efforts. when scientists fully

d that- 635- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the mineral kingdom is responsive to that type of energy which is the lowest aspect of fire, of those internal furnaces which exert an influence upon the elements in the mineral world, and which resolve these atomic lives into a gradual series of ever-higher types of mineral energy. for instance, the type of energy which plays upon iron ore, or which produces tin, is emanated from a different centre in the body of the entity informing the mineral kingdom to that which converts the elements into those wondrous jewels, the diamond, the sapphire, the emerald or the ruby. the energy of the particular centre involved is likewise responsive to force originating in the centre in the body of the planetary logos which centre depends

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

he bhakti, the devotee and the saint and brings him to a knowledge of the soul and of sainthood. the former line is that to be followed by our aryan race. this second line was the path of attainment for the atlanteans. if students would follow these tabulations with care much light would come. the necessity for a strong energetic will becomes apparent if the path of initiation is studied. only an iron will, and a steady, strong, unswerving endurance will carry the aspirant along this path and out into the clear light of day. 22. those who employ the will likewise differ, for its use may be intense, moderate or gentle. in respect to the attainment of true spiritual consciousness there is yet another way. it would be wise here to make clear the two ways whereby men reach the goal, knowledge

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

t. it is the ray of the high priest and the court chamberlain, of the soldier who is a born genius in organisation, of the ideal commissary general who will dress and feed the troops in the best possible way. it is the ray of the perfect nurse for the sick, careful in the smallest detail, though sometimes too much inclined to disregard the patients' idiosyncrasies and to try and grind them in the iron mill of routine. it is the ray of form, of the perfect sculptor, who sees and produces ideal beauty, of the designer of beautiful forms and patterns of any sort; but such a man would not be successful as a painter unless his influencing ray were the fourth. the combination of four with seven would make the very highest type of artist, form and colour being both in excelsis. the literary work

point of manifestation, we find the divine concepts working out. the goal of the universal concept is seen when the jewel rays forth its beauty, and when radium sends forth its rays, both destructive and constructive. if you could really understand the history of a crystal, you would enter into the glory of god. if you could enter into the attractive and the repulsive consciousness of a piece of iron or lead, you would see revealed the complete story of evolution. if you could study the hidden processes which go on under the influence of fire, you would enter into the secret of initiation. when the day comes when the history of the mineral kingdom can be grasped by the illumined seer, he will then see the long road that the diamond has travelled, and by analogy the long road that all sons

tical possibilities increases step by step. it is only by arguing from analogy that we grasp esoteric truth, and it might bring us some illumination if we realised that there are higher forms of life and consciousness in the cosmos who find it as difficult to throw their consciousness down into the animal forms of humanity as we would find it hard to project ourselves into the consciousness of an iron ploughshare. but again, so it is. let us now tabulate some of the available ideas and information. 2. the vegetable kingdom influences. the second ray of love-wisdom, working out in a vastly increased sensibility. the fourth ray of harmony and- 146- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust beauty, working out in the mineral harmonization of this

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

pon a major need when you spoke of the "lack of fire" which you evidence. this is, as you know, partly due to physical causes, but i would remind you that a physical body such as you possess can house a fire of such intensity (owing to its refinement and its purity) that many can warm themselves at it and kindle their own little flame. make not your physical body a deterrent or an excuse. use the iron will with which you are gifted and force its compliance to your soul's demands and to humanity's need. this appeal is one that i make to all in my group of disciples. in all of you are limitations, hindrances and certain obstacles to progress. were it not so, you would be liberated souls and not upon some division of the path of approach and under my tuition, as now you are. the immediacy of

o the north, and a steep slope to the south, with the path to the valley. this beautiful land in the high, bright air, has been made into a garden with walls oriental walls fourteen feet high, with, in each corner, a chinese-looking little minaret. a stream runs the entire length of this garden, from east to west; it comes in and goes out of the garden through arches in the walls, where there are iron grilles. above these grilled arches, supported upon short stone beams projecting from the wall, are two narrow, stone-and-wood chinese-curved bridges, backing on the wall, and with a latticed hand-rail on the side towards the stream. the gate to this garden is in the middle of the north wall one of the long sides the garden being more long- 407- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright

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

ays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust are definitely bound together. this, therefore, brings in the shamballa force and you consequently have an esoteric triangle of energy will, humanity and the mineral kingdom. they have a very close rapport with each other, both from the angle of the plan and from the expression of material selfishness. hence the great use of minerals (iron, copper, etc) in the world war ii. it is literally a war in which the mineral kingdom is used against the human. humanity had gone down into the caves and the depths of concretion and is ready now for an upward shift or move, this time consciously taken and taken all together. this is a most difficult situation for the average man to comprehend but the entire problem of the conscious use of t

and from these three (the pleiades, capricorn, mercury. a.a.b) man takes a nature which is his today. son of the mother, born from the tomb and showing after birth the light which he has taken from them all. then to the lower three he turns and to these souls in prison he in time becomes a messenger. thus does the lord of mercury repeat himself. the son descends again into the place of earth and iron. again he knows his mother. and thus the little one upon the littlest sphere becomes the greatest god. from the directing centre of his life on earth he toils and works and carries out the plan (the ajna centre is the directing centre. a.a.b) he too awakens to the need and from the chosen place (the throat centre. a.a.b) he utters forth the sound which in time becomes the word. and then the t

determination; it is not whipping up and stimulating desire so that it can be transmuted into will; it is not an implacable, unshakable, immovable focussing of all energies in the need to triumph (the enemies of the forces of light are adept at that. victory for the allies did lie in the effort to produce this focussing with better effect than the enemy. the use of the will is not expressed by an iron fixation to stand steady and not yield to evil forces. determination, the focussing of energy and the demonstration of an all-out effort towards victory were only (where the allies are concerned) the expression of a one-pointed desire for peace and for an ending of the trouble. this type of effort is something which the masses can give and which they did give on both sides in this conflict. t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

he moon and on pluto are not given but complete the twelve planets- 413- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrolhu- copyright 1998 lucis trust to produce a condition of utter exhaustion. the physical vehicle was given no respite. the heart and blood condition grew steadily worse. during the last two years of her life she fought against these pressures and conditions with a truly iron will. her first ray personality rose to the final effort in response to the demand of her soul. it was in 1946 that she made the decision to refuse invalidism. each day therefore, as it had been her life's custom, she worked to the limit of physical capacity regardless of fatigue or pain. she chose to go out actively working and still on the job. this she did. even during the last days in the

girl. this developed in me an inability to be idle. i was never permitted to be idle, so i never am. a third reason is one which i think could be very helpful to many people. there was so much i wanted to know and i had to find the time for all these things and yet not neglect my children. i never neglected the children, but it took some planning, some scheming and some disciplining. i learnt to iron with a book in front of me and to this day i can read and iron simultaneously without scorching the clothes. i learnt to peel potatoes whilst reading without cutting my fingers, and i can shell peas and string beans with a book in front of me. i always read when sewing and mending. this is just because i wanted to and many women could learn to- 77- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998

r business and that you must say the things they want said and portray yourself to them as they think you should be. i shall never forget telling an audience of around 800 people, one day in new york, that all of them could attain a certain measure of spiritual realisation if they cared enough to do so, but that it would entail sacrifice as it had in my own life. i told them that i had learned to iron the childrens' clothes, etc, whilst reading a book on spiritual or occult matters and that it did not mean i burnt the clothes. i told them that they could regulate their thinking and learn mental concentration and spiritual orientation whilst peeling potatoes and shelling peas because that was what i had had to do, for i was no believer in sacrificing your family and their welfare to your ow

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

of a people who refuse sufficiently to value the spiritual issues at stake to take positive action. and we, the teachers on the inner side, who for aeons have aided in the preparation of humanity for the coming age of peaceful cooperation and brotherhood, see all this future hope imperilled. aggression and the rape of peaceful nations go steadily forward, as nation after nation crumbles under the iron heel of germany, grinding the peoples of the world and sweeping them into slavery on a scale of serfdom and cruelty that the world has never before seen. as those who sought to arrest german progress succumb to treachery and pain and desert their comrades, the machine of evil marches on; neutral nations, resting back upon their peaceful intent and the- 155- the externalisation of the hierarch

; it is not whipping up and stimulating desire so that it can be transmuted into will; it is not an implacable, unshakable, immovable focussing of all energies in the need to triumph (the enemies of the forces of light are adept at that. victory for the united nations does not lie in the effort to produce this focussing with better effect than the enemy. the use of the will is not expressed by an iron fixation to stand steady and not yield to evil forces. determination, the focussing of energy and the demonstration of an all-out effort towards victory are only (where the united nations are concerned) the expression of a one-pointed desire for peace and for an ending of the trouble. this type of effort is something which the masses can give, and which they do give on both sides in this conf

y exchange representative of the bartered goods when they are relatively small and unimportant and by a planned scale of related values. national material assets and the needed commodities will all be provided for under an entirely new system. 3. private enterprise will still exist, but will be regulated; the great public utilities, the major material resources and the sources of planetary wealth iron, steel, oil and wheat, for instance will be owned in the first place by a governing, controlling international group; they will, however, be prepared for international consumption by national groups chosen by the people and under international direction. upon this subject i have no time to give, and besides this, anything i could say would be regarded as visionary and impractical in a world w

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

y evoke the harmony which will liberate the spirit of america, which will reveal to its people that it is one world and which will enable the people of this land to harmonise with the rest of the world and draw forth the loving response of other nations. it is for this that the men of goodwill must work. russia is, if you could but realise it, a battleground today within her own sealed walls. her iron curtain is to russia what the monroe doctrine was to the american people. in connection with all the three great powers the u.s.s.r, the u.s.a. and the u.k. certain major conflicts are being specifically precipitated; these will fundamentally affect the destiny of humanity. these three nations constitute the three points of a most potent world triangle of energy, and once there is a free circ

territory, against the police state, the lack of free enterprise and the reduction of men and women to automatons. this is the true imprisonment of the human spirit. the situation is, however, so pronounced and the evil so obvious (and the human spirit so basically and divinely strong) that it will eventually defeat itself; when the present group of totalitarian rulers (behind what you call the "iron curtain) die out a different state of affairs will gradually supervene and a true communism (in the spiritual sense of the term) will take the place of the present wickedness. on the other hand, the much vaunted democracies have much to learn. men are not truly free, even in democratic countries; the negroes, for instance, lack their constitutional rights in parts of the united states; and in

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

e" he added "the task awaits. through gate the ninth you now must go" forward, then, went hercules, the son of man who was also the son of god. for long he searched until he came to stymphalus. before him lay the fetid marsh. a multitude of birds cawed raucously, a chorus menacing and dissonant, as he approached. at nearer view he saw the birds. large and fierce and hideous they were. each had an iron beak that was sharpened like a sword. the feathers, too, seemed like steel shafts and, falling, could cleave in twain the pates of weary travellers. their talons matched their beaks in sharpness and in strength. three birds, perceiving hercules, swooped down upon him. he stood his ground, and warded off attacks with the heavy club he bore. one bird he struck resoundingly upon the back; two fe

and much has been achieved. wisdom and strength are yours. will you make use of them to rescue one in agony, a prey to vast and unremitting suffering" the teacher gently touched the forehead of hercules. before the latter's inner eye a vision rose. a man lay prone upon a rock, and groaned as if his heart would break. his hands and legs were shackled; the massive chains that bound him were tied to iron rings. a vulture, fierce and bold, kept pecking at the prostrate victim's liver; in consequence, a trickling stream of blood flowed from his side. the man uplifted his manacled hands and cried out for help; but his words echoed vainly in the desolation, and were swallowed by the wind. the vision faded. hercules stood, as before, at the side of his guide "the shackled one whom you have seen is

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

and they made a plan together. they created a counterfeit spirit, who resembles the spirit who had descended, so as to pollute the souls through it. and the angels changed themselves in their likeness into the likeness of their mates (the daughters of men, filling them with the spirit of darkness, which they had mixed for them, and with evil. they brought gold and silver and a gift and copper and iron and metal and all kinds of things. and they steered the people who had followed them into great troubles, by leading them astray with many deceptions. they (the people) became old without having enjoyment. they died, not having found truth and without knowing the god of truth. and thus the whole creation became enslaved forever, from the foundation of the world until now. and they took women

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

eenth century and had many disciples- indeed, they were thousands also- during the masonic age which followed. the story is that the templars began in poverty, but baldwin ii, king of jerusalem, gave them a house in the vicinity of the site where solomon's temple was built of old. when it was put in repair by hugh de payens and the rest of the first brethren, their digging operations unearthed an iron casket which contained priceless treasures, and chief among all the true process of the great work in alchemy, the secret of transmuting metals, as communicated to solomon by the master hiram abiff. so and so only was it possible to account for the wealth of adornment which characterised the first temple. the discovery explains also the wealth acquired by the templars, but it led in the end t

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

e is the only true spirit, and that that which the ignorant herd look upon as dead may be brought back to permanent, visible, twelve keys of basil valentine 41 of 95 and spiritual life, if but the spirit be restored to the body v v the spirit which is supported by heavenly nutriment, and derived from heavenly, elementary, and earthly substances, which are also called formless matter. moreover, as iron has its magnet which draws it with the invisible bonds of love, so our gold has its magnet, viz, the first matter of the great stone. if you understand these my words, you are richer and more blessed than the whole world. let me conclude this chapter with one more remark. when a man looks into a mirror, he sees therein reflected an image of himself. if, however, he try to touch it, he will fi

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

n tibetan hidden lands. 68 this method of authentication, which establishes a supposed connection to a true sanskrit tantra now lost, is a common motif within the terma textual tradition. see mpg, p. 300.1 and appendix a, p. 155. 69 see kapstein 2000, pp. 51-65. 37 locations that become connected to him. this fact is succinctly described in the perfect feast invocation, which declares "he who has iron-hooked light rays appearing in his heart center resides at the red copper fields in the might demon land of the west, the changeless and spontaneous samy temple, the temple at badhahor,70 the dark willow grove in khotan, the thirty-three heavenly realms, the land of the ayon..kas,71 and the uninterrupted skies of india."72 a number of extra realms not previously mentioned are even included. t

right hand. he carries in his left hand a copper lasso that he throws at his enemies. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [3] the serpentine might demon has a terrifying dark red body color and wears clear boots and garments. he wears a belt of malicious snakes. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin bow case on his left. he rides a yellow tiger and brandishes a red iron spear with his right hand. he carries a lasso of poisonous snakes in his left hand. he plagues his enemies with magical delusions [4] the knife might demon has a terrifying red body color and wears fur-lined red robes. he has a tiger-skin quiver on his right and a leopard-skin bow case on his left. he brandishes a red leather spear in his right hand and a lasso of might demon intestines in hi

al mig ma "red vermillion-eyed woman" opens her mouth and bares her fangs of copper. a fog of disease swirls from her mouth. she catches the enemy s breath and drinks warm blood from the transgressor s brain. she follows the rock might demon and consumes the brain of the enemy [3] the bitch marnak trakmikma (dmar nag khrag mig ma "dark red blood-eyed woman" gathers clouds of poisonous vapors. her iron teeth and claws are sharp like weapons. she steals the life-force of the enemy and gulps down the life-force of the vow-violator. she follows the serpentine might demon and cuts the lifeline of the enemy [4] the bitch marmo tingmikma (dmar mo mthing mig ma "red azure-eyed woman" opens her mouth, bares her fangs, and vomits warm blood. she catches the smell of blood from afar. she catches the

having gathered big black clouds on the sky, cast thunder, lightning, thunderbolts, and great pieces of hail, order the the u rang demons to cause fits of madness, and command the ma mo [demonesses] to cause fits of fainting to your foes. bind tightly your enemies by means of your red snare, strike them hard with the great stick. with the flaming sword, cut them into huge pieces. with the flaming iron hook, tear out their heart-veins; having chewed the bodies of the foes with your flaming teeth, swallow them down into your stomach which is like a r.k.asa-hole. send various kinds of illusions to deceive your enemies. send suddenly the illnesses called gag nad95 and gzer nad.96 destroy seven generations of the multitude of obstacle-creating demons and enemies.97 this task reiterates the desc

pehar as such: in the northern quarter [of the ma..ala, in a blue (or green) heavenly palace made of turquoise, comes forth from the syllable tri231 the "king of the karma( phrin las rgyal po, zhal gsum stod kyi mi bo che [zhelsum t kyi miwoche "the three-faced, high-ranking, great man, with three heads and six arms. he has a white, a sky-blue, and a red face, in his three right hands he holds an iron hook, an arrow, and a sword. his three left hands lift a knife, a bow, and a stick (ber ka. he wears an upper garment of white silk, a drawn (human) skin, and a tiger-skin serves him as a loin-cloth. on his head he wears a hat of cane, similar to a parasol. he rides on a white lion, and the mon bu pu tra [monbu putra] acts as the leader of his mount.232 as with tsiu marpo, variations certainl

lotus" 423 as four aspects. skt. dharmavajra. 424 in fact, this is his secret name. 425 "conch shell-colored vermillion-eyed woman" 426 tib. srog dbugs. 427 "red vermillion-eyed woman" 164 rock might demon [313] run! run! now run! be incited [and] drink the brains of the enemy! descend at the time of the red bronze wolf! bhyo! the bitch marnak trakmikma428 gathers cloud-like poisonous vapors. her iron teeth and claws stand out like weapons. she steals the life-force and life of the enemy at midnight. she drinks by gulping the life-force and life of the vow-violator. she who is the follower of the red serpentine might demon. run! run! now run! now run she-wolf of blood! be incited [and] cut the lifeline of the enemy! descend at the time of the red blood wolf! bhyo! the bitch marmo tingmikma

nemy! descend at the time of the bleeding red woman! bhyo! the bitch marmo zimikma433 opens her mouth and cries out" o dod!"434 in the ten directions. a satchel of diseases is bound to her neck. she who catches the breath of the enemy in the evening gives infectious diseases to the vow-violator, the enemy. she who is the follower of the black obstacle might demon. run [run! now run] now run great iron she-wolf [314] be incited [and] give infectious diseases to the enemy! descend at the time of radiant iron wolf! 428 "dark red blood-eyed woman" 429 "red azure-eyed woman" 430 the tibetan is actually more ambiguous concerning the distance. the word translated as six miles is dpag tshad, which is variously translated as an unspecified distance, a league, a mile, or about six miles. this sugges

lled by a knife. 168 4a. fourth stage [summon] by means of the ultimate red spear lasso (317.3-318.3 "homage to glorious tamdrin! regarding the methods of the vow-violators, the enemies and hindering demons, being completely struck down by means of the red spear lasso; fasten with a copper spike a whip of bamboo, pine, or cane produced from red rock and without the tip and bottom of an arm-length iron knife; make red with knife-blood and vermillion; and offer good ornaments and calculations. within that, write [words] derived from the life wheel and mantra tantra with knife blood and vermillion. i supplicate to be associated [with the deity] like the body and the shadow. completely strike down my wrathful enemies! samaya. rgya rgya rgya" speak thus, and on the top of the spear write the gl

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

nce in the great expanse of heaven. seven hundred years she wandered, seven hundred years she laboured, ere her first-born was delivered. ere a beauteous duck descending, hastens toward the water-mother. lightly on the knee she settles, finds a nesting-place befitting, where to lay her eggs in safety, lays her eggs within, at pleasure, six, the golden eggs she lays them, then a seventh, an egg of iron (kalevala, rune i[[vol. 2, page] 15 stanzas from the book of dzyan. anthropogenesis in the secret volume (verbatim extracts) i. 1. the lha which turns the fourth is subservient to the lha of the seven, they who revolve driving their chariots around their lord, the one eye. his breath gave life to the seven; it gave life to the first. 2. said the earth "lord of the shining face; my house is em

rd, then, to which, in the traditions of various peoples of the aryan race, are attributed various ornithological forms of birds which all lay golden eggs* in the kalevala (the epic poem of finland, the beauteous daughter of the ether "the water mother" creates the world in conjunction with a "duck (another form of the swan or goose, kalahansa, who lays six golden eggs, and the seventh "an egg of iron" in her lap. but the variant of the leda allegory which has a direct reference to mystic man is found in pindar* only, with a slighter reference to it in the homeric hymns* castor and pollux are in it no longer the dioscuri (of apollodorus iii. 10, 7; but become the highly significant symbol of the dual man, the mortal and the immortal. not only this, but as will now be seen, they are also th

s at that time of "one language and of one lip" this did not prevent the last two sub-races of the third race* from building cities, and sowing far and wide the first seeds of civilization under the guidance of their divine instructors* and their own already awakened minds. let the reader also bear in mind that, as each of the seven races is divided into four ages- the golden, silver, bronze, and iron age- so is every smallest division of such races* speech then developed, according to occult teaching, in the following order- i. monosyllabic speech; that of the first approximately fully developed human beings at the close of the third root-race, the "golden-coloured" yellow-complexioned men, after their separation into sexes, and the full[[footnote(s* to avoid confusion, let the reader rem

the necessary corroboration that jupiter belongs to the purely human atlantean cycle- if uranus and kronos who precede him are found insufficient- may be found in hesiod, who tells us that the immortals have made men and created the golden and the silver age (first and second races; while jupiter created the generations of bronze (an admixture of two elements, of heroes, and the men of the age of iron. after this he sends his fatal present, by pandora, to epimetheus* which present hesiod calls "a fatal gift" or the first woman. it was a punishment, he explains, sent to man "for the theft of divine creative fire" her apparition on earth is the signal of every kind of evil. before her appearance, the human races lived happy, exempt from sickness and suffering- as the same races are made to l

purity. qualifies the first race. the men of the second race, those of the age of silver, are already inferior to the first. inert and weak creatures, all their life is no better than a long and stupid infancy. they disappear. the men of the age of bronze are robust and violent (the third race; their strength is extreme. they had arms made of bronze, habitations of bronze; used nought but bronze. iron, the black metal, was yet unknown (op. at d, 143-155. the fourth generation (race) is, with hesiod, that of the heroes who fell before thebes (see "the seven against thebes" by aeschylus, or under the walls of troy. thus, the four races being found mentioned by the oldest greek poets, though very much confused anachronistically, our doctrines are once more corroborated by the classics. but th

nce good and bad dragons and serpents, and also the names given to the "sons of god (sons of spirit and matter: the good and bad magicians. this is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man. the legend of the "fallen angels" in its esoteric signification, contains the key to the manifold contradictions of human character; it points to the secret of man's self-consciousness; it is the angle-iron on which hinges his entire life-cycle- the history of his evolution and growth. on a firm grasp of this doctrine depends the correct understanding of esoteric anthropogenesis. it gives a clue to the vexed question of the origin of evil; and shows how man himself is the separator of the one into various contrasted aspects. the reader, therefore, will not be surprised if so considerable space i

. the telluric, metalline, magnetic, electric and the fiery elements are all so many allusions and references to the cosmic and astronomic character of the diluvian tragedy. in astronomy, the poles are indeed the "heavenly measure (vide note supra; and so are the kabiri dioscuri, as will be shown, and the kabiri-titans, to whom diodorus ascribes the invention of fire* and the art of manufacturing iron. moreover, pausanias shows that the original kabiric deity was prometheus (i. ix. p. 751) but the fact that, astronomically, the titans-kabirim were also the generators and regulators of the seasons, and cosmically the great volcanic energies, the gods presiding over all the metals and terrestrial works, does not prevent them from being, in their original divine characters, the beneficent ent

ealed to solon the history and fate of atlantis. according to theopompus, it was a unique continent of an indefinite size, and containing two countries inhabited by two races- a fighting, warrior race, and a pious, meditative race* which theopompus symbolizes by two cities* the pious "city" was continually visited by the gods; the belligerent "city" was inhabited by various beings invulnerable to iron, liable to be mortally wounded only by stone and wood* de rougemont treats this as a pure fiction of theopompus("peuple primitif" vol. iii. 157) and even sees a fraud (supercherie) in the assertion of the saitic priests. this was denounced by the "demonologists" as illogical. in the words of de mirville "a supercherie which was based on a belief, the product of faith of the whole antiquity; a

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

unconscious "being" the condition of paranishpanna, without paramartha, the self-analys[[footnote(s "mother of the gods" aditi, or cosmic space. in the zohar, she is called sephira the mother of the sephiroth, and shekinah in her primordial form, in abscondito[[vol. 1, page] 54 the secret doctrine. ing consciousness (svasamvedana, is no bliss, but simply extinction (for seven eternities. thus, an iron ball placed under the scorching rays of the sun will get heated through, but will not feel or appreciate the warmth, while a man will. it is only "with a mind clear and undarkened by personality, and an assimilation of the merit of manifold existences devoted to being in its collectivity (the whole living and sentient universe" that one gets rid of personal existence, merging into, becoming o

creation is contained in it. a sentence or two in it vividly recalls to mind similar ones in the kabala and the phraseology of the king psalmist (civ, as both, when speaking of god, show him making the wind his messenger and his "ministers a flaming fire" but in the esoteric doctrine it is used figuratively. the "fiery wind" is the incandescent cosmic dust which only follows magnetically, as the iron filings follow the magnet, the directing thought of the "creative forces" yet, this cosmic dust is something more; for every atom in the universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it, and is, like the monads of leibnitz, a universe in itself, and for itself. it is an atom and an angel. in this connection it should be noted that one of the luminaries of the modern evolutionist scho

som of parabrahmam" hence the expressions "the day of come to us" and "the day of be with us" etc. just as the square is the symbol of the four sacred forces or powers- tetraktis- so the circle shows the boundary within the infinity that no man can cross, even in spirit, nor deva nor dhyan chohan. the spirits of those who "descend and ascend" during the course of cyclic evolution shall cross the "iron-bound world" only on the day of their approach to the threshold of paranirvana. if they reach it- they will rest in the bosom of parabrahmam, or the "unknown darkness" which shall then become for all of them light- during the whole period of mahapralaya, the "great night" namely, 311,040,000,000,000 years of absorption in brahm. the day of "be-with-us" is this period of rest or paranirvana. s

the temples of india, egypt and greece, the towers and the 127 towns in europe which were found "cyclopean in origin" by the french institute, are all the work of initiated priest- architects, the descendants of those primarily taught by the "sons of god" justly called "the builders" this is what appreciative posterity says of those descendants "they used neither mortar nor cement, nor steel nor iron to cut the stones with; and yet they were so artfully wrought that in many places the joints are not seen, though many of the stones, as in peru, are 18 ft. thick, and in the walls of the fortress of cuzco there are stones of a still greater size (acosta, vi, 14 "again, the walls of syene, built 5,400 years ago, when that spot was exactly under the tropic, which it has now ceased to be, were

of the creation of our earth. they embrace a metaphysical conception of some indefinite period in the eternity, when successive attempts were being made by the law of evolution at the formation of universes. the idea is plainly stated in the zohar "there were old worlds, which perished as soon as they came into existence, were formless, and were called sparks. thus, the smith, when hammering the iron, lets the sparks fly in all directions. the sparks are the primordial worlds, which could not continue because the sacred aged (sephira) had not as yet assumed its form (of androgyne, or opposite sexes) of king and queen (sephira and kadmon, and the master was not yet at his work" see zohar "idra suta" book iii, p. 292, b. the supreme consulting with the architect of the world- his logos- abo

e man has become as one of us" etc. hence both those who worship and sacrifice to the elohim, the angels, and to jehovah, those who revile the gods of their fellow-men, are far greater transgressors than the occultists or any theosophist. meanwhile many of the latter prefer believing in some one "lord" or other, and are quite welcome to do as they like* to liken the "immateriate species to wooden iron" and laugh at spiller referring to them as "incorporeal matter" does not solve the mystery (see "concepts of modern physics" p. 165 et infra[[vol. 1, page] 494 the secret doctrine. and ruler of matter" under every form. to do so effectually, the hypothesis in its earliest appearance has to be recalled to mind. to begin with, is it newton who was the first to discover it? the athenaeum of jan

orbear accusing that which "just, though mysterious, leads us on unerring through ways unmark'd from guilt to punishment- which are now the ways and the high road on which move onward the great european nations. the western aryans had, every nation[[footnote(s* dryden[[vol. 1, page] 645 ancient and modern prophecies. and tribe, like their eastern brethren of the fifth race, their golden and their iron ages, their period of comparative irresponsibility, or the satya age of purity, while now, several of them have reached their iron age, the kali-yuga, an age black with horrors. it is true, on the other hand, that the exoteric cycles of every nation have been correctly made to be derived from, and depend on, sidereal motions. the latter are inseparably blended with the destinies of nations an

f which does not go beyond the early period of neo-platonism. no hermetic[[footnote(s* an image expressing the succession of divine functions, the substitution from one form into another, or the correlation of forces. aam is the electro-positive force, devouring all others as saturn devoured his progeny* aanroo is in the domain of osiris, a field divided into fourteen sections "surrounded with an iron enclosure, within which grows the corn of life seven cubits high" the kama-loka of the egyptians. those only of the dead, who know the names of the janitors of the "seven halls" will be admitted into amenti for ever; i.e, those who have passed through the seven races of each round- otherwise they will rest in the lower fields "and it represents also the seven successive devachans, or lokas. i

BLUE EQUINOX

ds. for it is a little cottage of red and green, by the western side of a great lake, and it is hidden in the woods. man, therefore, is at odds with wood and water; and being a magician bethinketh himself to take one of these enemies, wood, which is both the effect and cause of that excess of water, and compel it to fight for him against the other. what then maketh he? why, he taketh unto himself iron of mars, an axe and a saw and a wedge and a knife, and he divideth wood therewith against himself, hewing him into many small pieces, so that he hath no longer any strength against his will. good; then taketh he the fire of our father the sun, and setteth it directly in battle array against that water by his army of wood that he hath conquered and drilled, building it up into a phalanx like u

aten before the graal. having adored it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next her, she moves in a serpentine manner involving 3 circles of the temple (deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font, widdershins about altar, and so to the tomb in the west) she draws her sword and pulls down the veil therewith. the priestess: by the power of+ iron, i say unto thee, arise. in the name of our lord the+ sun, and of our lord. that thou mayst administer the virtues to the brethren. she sheathes the sword. the priest, issuing from the tomb, holding the lance erect with both hands, right over left, against his breast, takes the first three regular steps. liber xv 253 he then gives the lance to the priestess, and gives the three penal signs. h

y, and who are willing to fight for freedom. to read the newspapers, one would suppose that freedom was dead for ever. but with whatever bonds they will bind liberty, there will always be a few like padraic colum to keep her torch alight. we may not be allowed to speak or write what we think, but life will always live in fairyland, and an hour cometh when the doors of fairyland will open, and the iron hero nursed on fairy milk will strike the tyrants dead. aleister crowley. gitanjali and fruit-gathering. by rabindranath tagore. the macmillan co. knowing that whatever is good in rabindranath tagore is due to the style of w. b. yeats, i expected the introduction to be by that individual, who might have been romantic if he had been willing to wash his face and put on a clean collar every mont

astigating curs with his contempt swells a paean in my heart .consider one fact: the civilization that kissed maeterlinck on both cheeks and tagore perhaps even more intimately. let the high praises of god be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron. to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. praise ye the lord. a. c. reviews 307 sanine. by michael artzibashef. b. w. huebsch. sanine is not a supreme novel in the full flower of a period, like la cousine bette. it is too lyric. it is like the timid song of a young thrush in the morning of life. for this novel is much more than a great novel. it is the first

BOOK OF ENOCH

o dwell with you, over the face of the dry ground. i will not again put them to the test, on the face of the earth, but they will be blessed and increase on the dry ground in the name of the lord" 67.4] and they will shut up those angels, who showed iniquity, in that burning valley, which my great-grandfather enoch had shown to me previously, in the west, near the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin. 67.5] and i saw that valley, in which there was a great disturbance, and a heaving of the waters. 67.6] and when all this happened, from the fiery molten metal, and the disturbance, which disturbed the waters in that place, a smell of sulphur was produced, and it was associated with those waters. and that valley of the angels, who led men astray, burns under the ground

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

e goddess was still of fertility and lesson one: the history and philosophy of witchcraft/ 3 also of rebirth, for wo/man had developed a belief in a life after death. this is evidenced from the burial customs of the period. the gravettians (22,000-18,000 bce) were innovators here. they would bury their deceased with full clothing and ornaments and would sprinkle them with red ochre (haematite, or iron peroxide, to give back the appearance of life. frequently family members would be buried beneath the hearth so that they might remain close to the family. a man would be buried with his weapons; perhaps even his dog all that he might need in the afterlife. it is not difficult to see how a belief in a life after death came about. at the root of it were dreams. to quote from witchcraft from the

better to have an altar that does not contain any steel, so a ready-made table is not really the best (unless glued or pegged together. if there has to be metal in the table, brass is acceptable. why is this? it has to do with conductivity. the witch's knife and sword (and wand, if used) are the only tools that are used for storing and directing energies. they, then, can be of a conductive metal iron or steel. all other items should be non-conductive silver, gold, brass, stone, wood since they are not used in that fashion. but why not have a little aestheticism with your altar? lesson two: beliefs/ 21 22/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft why not do things properly? you are working in a circle, so why not a circular altar? to me, a rectangular altar in a circle always looks somewhat

(pronounced "a-tham-ay. in the scottish tradition it is a yag-dirk and in the saxon a seax("see-ax. the knife usually has a steel, double-edged blade, though one exception is in the frosts' tradition, where it is a single-edged brass knife. it might be worth quoting from anglo-saxon magic by dr. g. storms (gordon press, ny 1974, an annotated translation of various ancient anglo-saxon manuscripts "iron manifestly takes its power from the fact that the material was better and scarcer than wood or stone for making tools, and secondly from the mysterious way in which it was originally found: in meteoric stones. it needed a specialist and a skilled laborer to obtain the iron from the ore and to harden it. indeed we find many peoples regard their blacksmiths as magicians. among them wayland stan

it was originally found: in meteoric stones. it needed a specialist and a skilled laborer to obtain the iron from the ore and to harden it. indeed we find many peoples regard their blacksmiths as magicians. among them wayland stands out as the smith par excellence. the figure of this wondrous (saxon) smith symbolizing at first the marvels of metalworking. was made the subject of heroic legend" so iron, or steel, would seem to be the best material to use. the size of the knife should be to suit yourself; whatever feels comfortable. this is your personal tool a magical tool and as such is something very special. it will not do, then, to simply go to a store and buy a ready-made knife (though more on that later. the best thing, by far, is to make your own from scratch. of course, not everyone

you may show a score something like this: actual content envelope number 1 2 3 guesses 4 5 6 7 cotton a silk cotton silk wool cotton cotton cotton silk b cotton silk velvet silk silk cotton silk. velvet c wool feather bamboo velvet wool velvet oak snakeskin d ivory feather snakeskin oak feather snakeskin feather seashell e oak ivory shell ivory shell shell ivory wool f shell oak velvet wool wool iron wool ivory g feather shell ivory ivory ivory shell shell clay h iron iron clay velvet feather clay clay iron 1 velvet snakeskin ivory iron silk bamboo iron bamboo j oak velvet bamboo oak bamboo oak oak oak k oak wool oak oak oak bamboo bamboo feather l clay wool cotton velvet snakeskin feather feather you can see that there is a certain pattern emerging. by the seventh try (in this example) y

hysical environment and make physical movement all but impossible. under these conditions, the consciousness is loosed from physical bondage and becomes free to roam beyond the physical horizon. as illustrated (figure 8.2) in the first cradle the person is wrapped in a mummy-like shroud of leather or cloth. the arms are fastened down in straight-jacket fashion. leather straps hold the body in the iron frame while a leather hood shuts out sight and sound. the head is held in place by a leather strap or iron band, as shown. the cradle is suspended by a single rope so that it can swing and rotate freely to give complete dis-orientation with the ground. the second variation (figure 8.3) is suspended by the leather sleeves. the leather sheath was cushioned with fur (modern versions use foam rub

ian propaganda. one alternative is mutual masturbation. another is oral sex. to once again quote dr. mumford "any repugnance to oral sex among westerners is due to widespread confusion about the difference between bodily secretions (waste products no longer needed) and sexual secretions (fluids rich in nutrients. biochemistry has discovered that fresh semen contains liberal quantities of calcium, iron, phosphorous and vitamin c" oral sex can be especially suitable, of course, when all chances of pregnancy must be eliminated. i have already emphasized the importance of bodily cleanliness for magick. where sex magick is to be worked, it is especially important. sex magick can also be very useful as an adjunct to such things as divination and astral projection. if being used as a means of cha

ne but traditionally some substances are more appropriate than others, and their use will imbue the talisman with more power. for example, as you know, the days of the week are each ruled by a planet: sunday sun, monday moon, tuesday mars, wednesday mercury, thursday jupiter, friday venus, saturday saturn. now each of these planets is, in turn, associated with a metal: sun gold, moon silver, mars iron, mercury mercury, jupiter tin, venus-copper, saturn lead. from the table of correspondences given in the last lesson (for candleburning) you know what properties are governed by the days of the week and can therefore correlate those properties with the metals: sunday sun /gold/ fortune, hope, money monday moon/ silver/ merchandise, dreams, theft tuesday mars/ iron/ matrimony, war, enemies, pr

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

o make any claim at all to authenticity (not that authenticity matters as much as sincerity of purpose, it would be through those midland roots, which are connected to what is said to be the most ancient order of witches known. at the turn of the twentieth century, my father's family were canal people and my father grew up at a time when the boats were still a major form of transport for coal and iron. some of these midland canal people were known as 'water witches' because they practised a religion based on the sacredness of water and earth. their symbol was the six-spoked sun wheel, painted on their boats. this sign was once thought to be a ship's wheel, but this is improbable, since canal boats have large rudders. unlike the romany gypsies, the midland water witches were descended from

group, these can be kept either by different members or in a safe place and brought out at meetings. they need not be at all expensive. magick was traditionally carried out with the equipment of the home: the broom for sweeping the magical circle was the besom used for sweeping dirt (and negativity) out of the door and was stored with its bristles upwards to protect the home. the cauldron was the iron cooking pot on the black kitchen range that served to heat the home as well as for cooking. items often can be gathered from around your home: for example, a silver bell, a crystal bowl or a large wine glass. attractive scarves or throws make ideal altar cloths. car boot sales are an excellent source of magical equipment. keep your magical tools separate from your everyday household equipment

e was the family hearth. focus is latin for 'hearth' and from ancient rome to china, the household deities have always had their place, being offered morsels of food, nectar and flowers and consulted on family happenings. it was believed that the ancestors as well as the living gathered around the family hearth, and so it became a natural focus for magick. the witches' cauldron started off as the iron cooking pot that hung over the fire (such pots are still used in country regions of europe- i saw one for sale quite recently in the market in rouen in france. herbal brews were not only created to cure coughs and colds but also, with magical words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother wo

ed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of water* place four blue candles at the four main compass points in a room or any outdoor area. the four blue compass candles can act as sentinels of light, protecting the four quarters of the circle* in the centre, place a cauldron or pot (a three-legged iron pot or any ceramic pot will do. these can often be found in antique shops, at car boot sales or garden centres, as well as in new age shops. it need not be very large* fill the cauldron with water and float blue candles on the surface* light a large blue candle to the west of the cauldron; light the candles in the cauldron from this candle, using a taper* surround the cauldron with symbols of

god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of mars is especially good for psychic self-defence and for courage in a crisis. element: fire colour: red crystals: garnet, bloodstone, ruby, jasper incenses: dragon's blood, ginger, mint, thyme trees: cypress, holly, pine herbs and oils: basil, coriander, garlic, pepper, tarragon metal: iron or steel mars rules aries, march-20 april, and is the co-ruler of scorpio, 24 october-22 november. in magick, it is most potent during these two sun sign periods and for those born under aries and scorpio [insert sym16] mercury wednesday, the day of mercury, is good for spells to assist money-making ventures, for clear communication, persuasion, adaptability and versatility, for improving mem

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

powers of the otherworldly beings that charms contained. some charms were tightly bound with cord, to represent attachment, impenetrability, or entanglement; others were formed with hollow spaces so as to be inhabited by spirits that would be made to work for their owners with prayers and oaths. wooden figurines such as minkisi minkondi, the distinctive "nail fetishes" of kongo, were pierced with iron spikes and pegs to provoke the forces within them. these spirits were then commanded by their owners and given specific appeals or imprecations.[24] the emphasis on materiality carried over into black american supernatural traditions. like their enslaved forebears, conjure practitioners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries relied on created material objects. they used an array of charms

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

e desirous to learn what might yet ensue, than that i had slept enough. now after i had put on my clothes, and according to my custom had gone down the stairs, it was still too early, and i found nobody else in the hall; so i entreated my page to lead me about a little in the castle, and show me something rare. he was now (as always) willing, and led me down certain steps under ground, to a great iron door, on which the following words in great copper letters were fixed (here lies buried venus, that beauty which has undone many a great man both in fortune, honour, blessing and prosperity) this i thus copied, and set down in my table-book. now after this door was opened, the page led me by the hand through a very dark passage, till we came again to a very little door, that was only now put

ur before a round hole at the very top was uncovered, where we saw our virgin, who called to us, and bade us good morrow, desiring us to come up. those with the wings were instantly above and through the hole. only those with the ropes were in an evil n page 68 plight. for as soon as every one of us was up, he was commanded to draw up the ladder after him. at last each man s rope was hanged on an iron hook, so everyone had to climb up by his rope as well as he could, which indeed was not accomplished without blisters. now as soon as we were all up, the hole was covered again, and we were friendlily received by the virgin. this room was the whole breadth of the tower itself, having six very stately vestries raised a little above the room, and were entered by an ascent of three steps. in the

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

eople inhabit their world. chinese mythology 60 expert commentary the yellow emperor may have been based on a real ruler of 2697 2598 b.c. poet and author brian p. katz describes his reign and appearance in mythology: the development of time-telling devices, compasses, calendars, and coinage are all attributed to him. in one depiction, huang ti [the yellow emperor] is seen as monstrous: he has an iron head, a bronze brow, hair like swords, the body of a bull, and six arms with eight fingers each.2 the father and son pair of kun and yu are typical of the early mythological gods in their willingness to help people. noted sinologists jan and yvonne walls write: characteristic of classical chinese myths is their rather dominant concern with some of the universal themes the creation and mainten

uty and ability to absorb bright dyes made it a highly prized trade item in ancient egypt, rome, and persia. the water spinach, ung choy, has thick hollow stems and long slender leaves. it will sprout leaves and regenerate with very little water, and it will grow as much as four inches per day. this hardy plant saved people from starvation during china s many wars and is also a valuable source of iron for the people of india, vietnam, brazil, central america, and africa.2 64 china was once thought to be surrounded by four seas. to the east was a vast ocean. beyond the ocean, magnificent plants bloomed on an island paradise. the most glorious specimen of all the plant life was the fusang tree, whose wondrous branches stretched up toward the heavens and out across the island for hundreds of

and disappear instantly. this is the main reason why, even though all the waters or all the rivers and streams empty into the sea, the sea never overflows.7 water spinach is a nutritious plant. agricultural research magazine reports: the first historical record of cultivated water spinach, ipomoea aquatica, comes from the chin dynasty. originating in india and southeast asia, the plant is rich in iron, making it an ancient remedy for anemia.8 while it is a highly prized vegetable in many parts of the world, the weed science society of america warns of its potential for clogging up the waterways: a single plant can branch profusely and can grow to more than 70 feet in length. under ideal conditions [in hong kong, annual yields of the plant are up to 40 tons per acre.9 it is known by many na

nkeys feasted on dates, fruit, and grape wine. the visit to the dragon king monkey decided that the demon was right to have laughed at him. he was king of his monkeys, but he did not have any clothes or weapons worthy of a king. so monkey recited a spell and dove into the sea to meet with the dragon king of the eastern sea. when he demanded a suitable weapon, the dragon king showed monkey a heavy iron pillar weighing several tons. no one in the sea could lift it; many feared its strange, glowing light. monkey grabbed the stick, recited a spell, and changed it into a weapon-sized iron rod. making thrusts and parries, monkey jabbed and swung the stick in the air so ferociously that the tortoises drew in their heads, and the crab, shrimp, and lobster soldiers all scuttled out of his way. but

the sea could lift it; many feared its strange, glowing light. monkey grabbed the stick, recited a spell, and changed it into a weapon-sized iron rod. making thrusts and parries, monkey jabbed and swung the stick in the air so ferociously that the tortoises drew in their heads, and the crab, shrimp, and lobster soldiers all scuttled out of his way. but monkey was not satisfied with the wonderful iron stick. next, he demanded suitable clothing from the dragon king. the dragon king summoned his dragon brothers by beating on gongs and drums. from their treasuries, the dragons gave monkey a pair of cloudstepping shoes made of lotus fiber, a cap made of phoenix monkey 99 feathers, and a chain mail vest made of yellow gold. without so much as a nod of thanks, monkey left. the dragon king and hi

llow gold. without so much as a nod of thanks, monkey left. the dragon king and his brothers were angry at monkey s poor manners and complained to the gods in heaven about the monkey king s rude behavior. when monkey returned to his mountain home, he showed off his new clothes. he preened this way and that, and twirled around and around in front of the admiring monkeys. then monkey pulled out his iron staff. first he changed it into a long bridge that arched over the widest river; then he transformed it into a tall tower that touched the clouds. finally, he shrank the iron staff into a tiny embroidery needle and tucked it behind his ear, grinning at his astonished subjects. with his fine clothes and new weapon, monkey proclaimed himself the equal of any god in heaven. monkey gets a job in

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glow in the dark and people would start talking to you in ukrainian. now comes the interesting part. see the energy radiating back into the universe. after all, you don't want to so pack yourself that you combust. as you do this, repeat to yourself "i am the source of all love and attraction. i am a powerful source of magnetism and anyone who comes into the range of my field is drawn to me as an iron filing is to a magnet. they cannot resist this power and they will come to me. i am irresistible" your etheric body is now acting like a magnet, a very big magnet and all you have do to put into action is to use your imagination. visualize yourself moving among the type of people you wish to attract and see them being bathed in the power of the magnet, the light of your etheric body. know tha

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it was at versailles that the rothschild-wall street-colonel house-bernard baruch-round table connections imposed the impossible reparations on germany which were sure to destroy the 88. and the truth shall set you free new german democratic republic and prepare the way for the rise of a dictator, adolf hitler. added to this colossal debt, other decisions at versailles had cost germany 75% of her iron ore, 68% of her zinc, and 26% of her coal. soon france announced that germany had defaulted on reparation payments and french troops occupied the ruhr. this 'defaulting' turned out to be a small shortfall in deliveries of coal and telegraph poles. the french move sent the german mark into freefall and it plunged to 7,592 to the dollar. this is hardly surprising, given that the ruhr produced 8

inc, and 26% of her coal. soon france announced that germany had defaulted on reparation payments and french troops occupied the ruhr. this 'defaulting' turned out to be a small shortfall in deliveries of coal and telegraph poles. the french move sent the german mark into freefall and it plunged to 7,592 to the dollar. this is hardly surprising, given that the ruhr produced 80% of germany's coal, iron, and steel. by november 1923, the mark had plummeted to 4,200 billion to the dollar! what followed was a double-strike by the wall street and british banking cartel, which first financed german rearmament and enabled germany to prepare for the next war, and then collapsed the german economy again to bring adolf hitler to power. these strikes were called the dawes plan and the young plan. gene

united states. on april 9th 1951, life magazine reported that eisenhower had radioed stalin via the us military mission in moscow, to detail his plan to stop at the elbe river and allow the russians to take berlin. the message was written by his political advisor, john wheeler bennett of the royal institute of international affairs, received by w. averell harriman, and passed on to stalin.33 the iron curtain and the berlin wall were elite creations on the classic principle of divide and rule and manipulate through fear. world war as a form of control was going to be replaced, at least for a few decades, by the fear of apocalyptic conflict between east and west. this fear was fuelled by the unveiling of a new and devastating weapon, the atomic bomb. it was created by the americans under th

nce rockefeller (tc, cfr, bil) to lead a special commission on population growth. this recommended in 1972 that population control be introduced in america (i.e. among the 'lesser' stock. after discussions with the club of rome, of which he is a prominent member, kissinger later established two other population control organisations within the departments of government which he controlled with an iron fist. in the years 1968 to 1977, the usaid programme for expenditure on health projects dropped by $40 million, while those directed at population control went up by $100 million. in 1974, kissinger and the rhodes scholar, brent scowcroft (cfr, tc, bil, supervised the production of the national security study memorandum 200, called implications of worldwide population growth for us security a

e symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out."66 ehrlich was a biologist at the elite-controlled stanford university and his wife, anne, was a member of the club of rome.67 he said that compulsory birth control could be imposed by governments via the addition of "temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food".68 shortly, when we come to the "report from iron mountain" you will see the even greater relevance of this statement. the 'brutal and tough-minded' decisions which ehrlich said would be required are evident in henry kissinger's much-loved abode, china. it was here that the one-child-per-family policy was implemented and paid for directly, or indirectly, by the united nations. western and chinese observers have spoken of seeing thousands of

tional monetary fund, and nation governments has the role in the network to promote the use of the environment to demand centralised control and eugenics. the club of rome was launched publicly in 1968, just a few years after a group of invited 'experts' met in the united states to prepare a report which, it is plain to see, was to inspire the sort of policies i've just described. the report from iron mountain70 this was the secret report of the special study group of fifteen people brought together during the kennedy years. the proposal for the study group came around 1961 and it was established in august 1963. among those assembled is claimed by some researchers to have been john kenneth galbraith (cfr, the keynesian economist. the first and last meetings were at iron mountain, an underg

for the emergency corporate headquarters for corporations like standard oil of new jersey (the rockefellers, exxon, manufacturers hanover trust (rothschilds, and shell. the content of the report was revealed by one of the group who believed the public should know what it contained. this group member had the code name 'john doe' and his friend, leonard c. lewin, produced a document summarising the iron mountain report. i have a copy of this.71 it says that the idea for the study came from members of the kennedy administration like robert mcnamara (tc, cfr, bil, mcgeorge bundy the secret government 171 (tc, cfr, bil, and dean rusk (tc, cfr, bil. the brief was to study the implications of a world without war while still maintaining the control of the population wielded by war and the fear of

uffs, both of which are largely controlled by elite companies? also, just look again at what professor paul ehrlich said in his book, the population bomb, published two years after this secret report was completed in 1966. he said that governments could enforce birth control by the addition of "temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. yet another amazing coincidence. the report from iron mountain laid out the functions of war which new policies would have to replace: 1 economic. war has provided both ancient and modern societies with a dependable system for stabilising and controlling national economies. no alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown itself remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. 2 political. the permanent

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ntly so in geological terms, too. how interesting then that plato dated the cataclysm that destroyed the continent of atlantis to around 9000bc and so do allan and delair in their superb work, when the earth nearly died. they say it happened around 9500bc. the american researcher charles hapgood claimed that the surface of the earth had moved by some 3,000 miles around 10000bc' rocks that contain iron act like a compass. as the molten rock cools, the molecules align with the north pole and even if those rocks are moved they continue to hold that connection. this allowed hapgood to establish that before about 10000bc the physical north pole had been located on the land in the region occupied today by the hudson bay in canada" but something happened around that time that moved the whole surf

of the 286 stone circles in britain, 235 are built on rocks more than 250 million years old, the statistical chances of which are more than a million to one. robert graves, the poet and writer on mythology and mysticism, said "there are some sacred places made so by the radiation created by magnetic ores. my village, for example, is a kind of natural amphitheatre enclosed by mountains containing iron ore, which makes a magnetic field. most holy places in the world- holy not by some accident, like a hero dying or being born there- are of this sort. delphi was a heavily charged holy place."42 delphi in greece was the centre for the "oracle, a psychic woman or "channel, who connected her consciousness with other-dimensional entities and spoke their words. they knew that the sites of magnetic

a million people could have died in the blast and it was at least the size of those that devastated japan in 1945. support for these modern finds can be found in the ancient texts. the mahabharata epic tells of "a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe..an incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendour..it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race" it talks of corpses burned so badly they could not be identified. how their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke "without cause, and birds turned white. within hours foodstuffs were contaminated. is that the description of a nuclear explosion or what? this and a very long list of other texts, like the ramayana

s will to resist" and climbed inside to find the three guys who had been following him for months. he was driven to a wooden area, he said, where he saw a large "ufo. the car stopped and they all walked up to the craft, which was hovering above the ground and surrounded by a "luminous ring. the next thing he knew, they were inside and he was sat in a chair with handles that secured his wrists. an iron bar pressed his head backwards against the chair and his neck was also fastened. now, he said, the "men in black" transformed. their "heads ripped open into a heart shape" and their skin became scaled and green like a reptilian. this happened in 1979-80 long before mibs became associated with reptilians. he said he also saw human corpses hanging from hooks. everything went blank after that an

l the "third world" countries and offered them enormous loans at low interest rates to "boost" their economies and "industrialise. the spin was that the illuminati banks didn't want these loans repayed for reasons i will come to. they knew that the money would largely be wasted by their placemen and, anyway, they had insured against repayment by their next move. enter margaret thatcher (bil, the "iron lady, who was, in fact, one of the most controlled and manipulated leaders of the 20th century. the strings around her were pulled by her foreign secretary and rothschild bloodline, lord carrington. he is henry kissinger's close associate, a former chairman of the bilderberg group, and the uk foreign secretary who engineered the falklands war and handed power to the dictator robert mugabe in

epresent different frequencies. it is all the same energy, but in a very different state. our bodies consist of many different sub-frequencies within the dense physical range. look at x-rays. they are tuned to frequencies that match our bone structure and so they do not portray the outer flesh, which is vibrating to a different frequency. x-rays don't show the walls of buildings, just the rods of iron within them for the same reason. look at the world from the x-ray frequency and it looks very different than it does from ours. how an object or person appears depends purely on the frequency from which you are observing. the human aura, as technology has shown, is a mass of different colours (frequencies) that change as our thoughts and emotions (frequencies) change. the x-ray is just one ex

edmond, in fact, began to settle jews in palestine as far back as the 1880s (when charles taze russell was making his prediction. he financed russian jews to establish settlements in palestine, but it was nothing to do with their freedom or birthright, it was to advance the rothschild-illuminati agenda. edmond financed the creation of farms and factories, and ran the whole operation with a rod of iron. the jewish farmers were told what to grow and they soon found out who was in charge if they questioned his orders. in 1901, these jewish people complained to rothschild about this dictatorship over their settlement or "yishuv. they asked him..if you wish to save the yishuv, first take your hands from it, and..for once permit the colonists to have the possibility of correcting for themselves

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woman. another girl is holding a mayantablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a greendarth v ader by alex christopher, stands over a destroyed city with a sword in his handand women are walking along a road holding dead babies. all the children of the worldare depicted taking weapons from each country and handing them to a figure of agerman boy with an iron fist and an anvil in his hand. denver is apparently scheduled tobe the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist globalstate called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is saidto be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how thedesign of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know why.c

e irish language today is english which replacedgaelic and gaelic itself evolved from a now lost earlier language. gaelic speakingmissionaries in the middle ages had to use interpreters to communicate with the picts,the ancient people of what became scotland, and cormac, a gaelic-speaking irish kingof the ninth century, referred to the language of the people of munster in south westireland as the iron language. but even gaelic connects us very firmly into the middleeast. in conamara, in the west of ireland, is a community which still speaks gaelic asits first language. their sean-nos (old style) singing, the basis of all irish music, isamazingly similar to the native songs of the middle east. even trained ears find italmost impossible to distinguish between the chants of the gaelic singers

branch managers in those countries go to work through their financial, mediaand secret society operations to ensure that it happens. in this way, the world can be runby a very few people in the city of london and other brotherhood centres like paris,bonn, brussels, washington, new york, switzerland and the v atican. its a simple andbrilliantly organised structure, ruled from the top with a rod of iron, and no mercy isshown to anyone who does not do exactly as they are told. thats why it has worked soefficiently for so long. add to that the fact that the truth of what is going on is so bizarrethat most people will not believe it and you have the perfect situation for ongoing,unchallenged control.until now. sources1from the ashes of angels, p 12.133chapter sevenknights of the sunover thousan

ompany and once in america he acquired gold mines,including the gold hill mining company, which he purchased secretly using a trustee,george newman, as his frontman or proxy. with the invention of the steam engine,payseur began to build railroads and leased them to operating companies. he alsoestablished the lancaster manufacturing company to produce timber for railroadproducts and the lincolnton iron company which later located in chicago and formedtwo subsidiaries, carnegie steel and pullman standard company. to provide fuel forlocomotives (or so it was said, the federal government (the virginia company of whichpayseur was a shareholder) allocated all land extending 100 feet either side of the tracks.much larger areas of land alongside the railroads were also broken up into sections some

king to go to war in 1914 to fulfil the prophecyof germanys world domination. when the war was over and wilhelm had abdicated,he realised how he had been manipulated. wilhelm gathered together a mass of bookson the occult and the german secret societies and he was convinced that they hadconspired to create the first world war and caused germany to be defeated.chamberlain, who had been awarded the iron cross by the kaiser, died in 1927 afteryears in a wheelchair broken in body and spirit. this is something that often happens tothose who are used as vehicles and channels for this highly malevolent branch of thereptilian consciousness. it eventually destroys them. but chamberlains influence wasto live on in the mind of adolf hitler. he had been introduced to hitler by alfredrosenberg, the ref

support for euthanasia. most people involved with the hospicemovement are compassionate, it is the motivation of those who are manipulating it thati am talking about. once euthanasia is accepted in law, it opens the floodgates for thelegalised murder of what kissinger calls the useless eaters. as has been welldocumented in the countless biographies of jfk, he endured a loveless childhood underthe iron rule of his father joe and mother, rose. he wasnt even told that his brotherteddy had been born and it was only when he came home from boarding school that herealised he had a new brother. there were no hugs, no show of affection, and thekennedy children were not allowed to show pain. his upbringing has all the classicsigns of the mind control techniques the elite use on their own children. p

ion of the ice in greenland and the polar regions. everytime the earth has experienced the rapid fall in the magnetic field that we are seeing now,it has led to a pole shift when magnetic north and south change places. people likebraden estimate that the earth will stop rotating for some days before it begins to spin inthe opposite direction. as you can see when the flow of electricity through an iron bar isreversed, the poles reverse. as the planet spins in the other direction, the flow ofelectricity will reverse and so, therefore, must the poles. if the planet stopped rotating,one side of the earth would be in constant sunshine and the other in darkness in thisperiod and that is what the ancients said happened thousands of years ago. the peruvianstalked about the long night of three days

offer a global solution: a worldgovernment and army to meet this threat. that is the plan we are now being preparedfor.back in the 1960s during the kennedy administration, it is claimed that a groupof 15 experts in their various fields were brought together to produce a report intoways of controlling the population and centralising power without the use of wars.it became known as the report from iron mountain, an underground facility innew y ork state, where they held their first and last meetings. one of the membersleaked the contents to a friend who leaked it more widely, it is said. i detail thereport in. and the truth shall set you free. it is claimed to be a hoax, but if itwas, it was an inspired one. two of the recommendations it made to centralisepower were: a threat to the global

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he crowd caught my attention and said he had duplicated the experiment using a piezoelectric like the chemist used, gotten similiar results, and stated that the experiment did not need near as much power as the chemist had used. in the ensuing questions from the crowd, i lost track of the young researcher and was never able to get the details of his duplication effort. 2.2.3.3 levitation of 4 ton iron sphere after keely's untimely death in 1898, several investigators from the scientific american magazine staf went to keely's laboratory looking for evidence to support the idea that keely was a fraud. they thought they found what they were looking for when they lifted the floorboards of a section of the laboratory and found a large cast-iron sphere from which protruded pieces of iron pipe, b

thing. the sphere was estimated to weigh 6,625 pounds and have a bursting strength of 28,000 pounds. this event revived the charge that keely had used compressed air to perform his miraculous feats; which, if true, would have earned keely a fortune from compressed air inventions. a friend of mine uncovered a newspaper article, written while keely was still living, which tells the story of how the iron sphere got under the floorboards. it seems the newsman who wrote the article had gone to see keely for possible newsworthy information. he found the inventor in his laboratory tearing a large hole in the floor. keely greeted the reporter but did not seem to be in a talkative mood as he appeared quite busy. after enlarging the hole, keely attached a strange belt with several mechanisms built i

talkative mood as he appeared quite busy. after enlarging the hole, keely attached a strange belt with several mechanisms built into it to his waist. he then attached a thin wire leading from the belt to a large sphere resting in a corner of the laboratory. after a few minutes of intense concentration by keely, the ponderous globe slowly lifted a few inches off the floor. keely then "floated" the iron sphere over the hole in the floorboards and allowed the huge mass to settle to the ground below the floor level. after a few adjustments to the belt mechanism keely again seemed lost in rapt concentration. this time the globe slowly but inexorably settled itself into the earth, buried by the opposite of levitation; namely, supergravity. keely had evidently caused the apparent mass of the sphe

f the sphere to increase to such an extent that it sank into the firm earth much as a heavy rock sinks into mud. the inventor told the reporter that he was making room in his lab by clearing away outmoded equipment. this is the sphere later found by the scientific american expose group. it is theorized that the belt mechanism keely wore during the levitation feat tuned the atomic structure of the iron sphere so all the atoms were synchronized and aetheric force directed through the sphere caused it to levitate or gravitate. 2.2.4 summary of keely's research studying keely's writings and trying to make sense out of them is a painful process. keely invented his own vocabulary and it took me many years to understand in a small part what he had accomplished. using sound vibration, keely had li

. 2.3.3 the oraccu the orgone accumulator, or oraccu as it was called, is an invention by reich which will accumulate and intensify orgone energy. experiments showed that orgone is able to penetrate anything; however, the speed of penetration is different for different materials. reich found that organic materials such as cotton, wool, wood, and silk readily transmit orgone energy. metals such as iron and aluminum, on the other hand, will first absorb orgone and then repel it. within each category (i.e, organic and metal) there were varying degrees of conductivity and absorption. the materials of these two effects form the basis of the oraccu or orgone accumulator. table 2.3.2-1 facts about orgone energy an oraccu consists of a simple container like a box of 6 sides of any size with the wa

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short list of ritual tools you will require, followed by a sample ritual working which a coven may wish to employ. ritual tools& supplies 2 silver-plated candle holders, black candles, brass incense burner, charcoal blocks, powered incense, brass thurifer, cauldron, or burning dish (for burning pacts, seals, requests, etc) 2 silver-plated chalices (in purple-velvet boxed set, some form of elixir, iron sword, dagger or athame, bell, gong, plate containing unholy bread, bowl containing unholy water, libation dish (for pouring out drink offerings, jar containing unholy anointing oil, trapezoidal altar (waist height, large enough to support one person, black altar cloth (with inverted pentagram etched in silver, symbol of baphomet or setian pentagram wall plaque above altar, upside-down cross

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sided over by the god of war, is a synonym for the sternest kind of control that can be imposed upon human beings. the discipline of geburah must exactly equate with its energy; in other words, the brakes of a car must bear a relationship to its horse-power if it is to be safe on the road. it is this tremendous geburah discipline which is one of the testing-points of the mysteries. we speak of an iron discipline, and iron is the metal of mars. 48. the initiate of geburah is a very dynamic and forceful person, but he is also a very controlled person. his characteristic virtues are an even temper and patience under provocation. it is well known on the sports field, which is the play aspect of the god of war, that a loss of temper gives the game away. every boxer knows that if he gets angry a

ve agreed in calling the metal of the sun and recognising as the most precious metal and the basic unit of exchange. the part played by gold in the polity of nations far exceeds its intrinsic utility as a metal. it is, moreover, the one substance on earth which is incorruptible and untarnishable. it may be dulled by the accumulation of dirt upon its surface, but the metal itself, unlike silver or iron, undergoes no chemical change or decomposition. neither does water corrode it. 43. the sun is to us truly the giver of life and source of all being; it is the only adequate symbol of god the father, who [page 200] may aptly be called the sun behind the sun, tiphareth, in fact, being the immediate reflection of kether. it is through the mediation of the sun that life comes to the earth, and it

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n! so it is with ceremonial magic. let us consider a concrete case of someone who wants to avail himself of a fighting force. he would have recourse to a ceremony of the planet mars. he would therefore gather together in his temple all that was appropriate to mars. he would drape his altar with a scarlet cloth; he would himself wear a scarlet robe. all his magical implements would be 61 of 103 of iron and his rod of power would be a naked sword. upon his altar he would place five lights, five being the number of mars. upon his breast would be the symbol of mars engraved upon a steel pentagon. on his hand would be a ruby ring. he would burn sulphur and saltpetre in his thurible. then, according to the work in hand, he would call upon the angelic or demonic aspect of the fifth sephira, gebur

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successors, khufu (cheops, khaf-ra (chephren, men-kau-ra (mycerinus, and others. revision of certain chapters in the ivth dynasty. in the reign of mycerinus some important work seems to have been under taken in connection with certain sections of the text of the book of the dead, for the rubrics of chapters xxxb. and cxlviii.[3] state that these compositions were found inscribed upon "a block of iron) of the south in letters of real lapis-lazuli under the feet of the majesty of the god in the time of the king it of the north and south men-kau-ra, by the royal son herutataf, triumphant" that a new impulse should be given to religious observances, and that the revision of existing religious texts should take place in the reign of mycerinus, was only to be expected if greek tradition may be

ich only appears in painting on the walls of the tomb. m. am lineau combats this interpretation, and agrees with m. maspero's rendering of "juste de voix; see un tombeau gyptien (in revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xxiii, pp. 153, 154. it is possible that maa-kheru may mean simply "blessed] p. 1xxv and his ka is triumphant.[1] he sits on a great throne by the side of god.[2] the throne is of iron ornamented with lions' faces and having the hoofs of bulls.[3] he is clothed in the finest raiment, like unto the raiment of those who sit on the throne of living right and truth.[4] he receives the urerit crown from the gods,[5] and from the great company of the gods of annu.[6] he thirsts not, nor hungers, nor is sad;[7] he eats the bread of ra and drinks what he drinks daily,[8] and his br

isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (10 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the abode of the blessed. the egyptian heaven. the gods of the egyptians dwelt in a heaven with their ka's, and khu's, and shadows, and there they received the blessed dead to dwell with them. this heaven was situated in the sky, which the egyptians believed to be like an iron ceiling, either flat or vaulted, and to correspond in extent and shape with the earth beneath it. this ceiling was rectangular, and was supported at each corner by a pillar; in this idea, we have, as m. maspero has observed, a survival of the roof-tree of very primitive nations. at a very early date the four pillars were identified with "the four ancient khu's who dwell in the hair of horus"[

s a second female is represented bowed beneath nut [1 (fig. 2, and this is believed to signify the night sky across which the moon travels. in an interesting picture which m. j quier has published[2] the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms stretched out at full length above her head; on her breast is the disk of the sun, and on her stomach the moon. those who believed that the sky was an iron plane imagined that the stars were a numbers of lamps which were hung out therefrom, and those who pictured the sky as a goddess studded her body with stars. one scene makes the morning and evening boats of ra to sail along the back of nut;[3] another depicts shu holding up the boat of the sun wherein is the disk on the horizon.[4] a third from the sarcophagus of seti i. represents nu the god

optos in the seventh century of our era, we have a series of details which reflect the tuat of the ancient egyptians in a remarkable manner. the bishop having taken up his abode in a tomb filled with mummies, causes one of them to tell his history.[3] after saying that his parents were greeks who worshipped poseidon, he states that when he was dying already the avenging angels came about him with iron knives and goads as sharp as spears, which they thrust into his sides, while they gnashed their teeth at him; when he opened his eyes, he saw death in all its manifold forms round about him; and at that moment angels without mercy came and dragged his wretched soul from his body, and tying it to the form of a black horse they bore it away to amenta. next, he was delivered over to merciless to

red him in a place where there were multitudes of savage beasts; and, when he had been cast into the place of outer darkness, he saw a ditch more than two hundred feet deep filled with reptiles, each of which had seven heads, and all their bodies were covered as it were with scorpions. here also were serpents, the very sight of which terrified the beholder, and to one of them which had teeth like iron stakes was the wretched man given to be devoured; for five days in each week the serpent crushed him with his teeth, but on the saturday and sunday there was respite. another picture of the torments of hades is given in the martyrdom of macarius of antioch, wherein the saint, having restored to life a man who had been dead six hours, learned that when he was about to die he was surrounded by

hee, and thou livest, and a thou art.[14] o osiris unas, the eye of horus which strove with set hath been, the followers of horus [addressing the statue of the decease the setem priest says] 1. here [offer] perfume of the south, three grains. 2. repeat four times. 3. here [offer] natron of the north. 4 here [burn] one grain of incense. 5. here [bring] the pesesh-kef. 6. here [offer] two pieces of iron of the north and south. 7. here [offer] unguent of the north, and unguent of the south. 8. here [offer] milk. 9. here [offer] two vases of milk. 10. here bring two black and white pitchers. 11. here [offer] a cake. 12. here [offer] two baskets of onions. 13. repeat four times. 14. here [offer] a cake] p. xcli given unto thee, and thou hast lifted it[1] to thy lips, and thy mouth is opened the

ee.[6] o unas, the eye of horus which strove with set hath been, given unto funeral ceremonies. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod11.htm (3 of 5 [8/10/2001 11:24:10 am] thee, in order that the opening of thy mouth may be caused thereby.[7] o unas, that which flowed from osiris hath been given unto thee.[8] o unas, the eye of horus hath been given unto thee, in order that without the help of iron thy mouth may be set free.[9] o unas, the eye of horus hath been given unto thee, in order that thy face may be adorned therewith.[10] o osiris unas, the eye of horus hath sprinkled oil upon thee.[11] o osiris unas, that which hath been pressed out of thy face hath been given unto thee.[12] o osiris unas, the eye of horus hath been given unto thee, in order that it may shave) thee.[13] o osir

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orces of nature. but we live in an age in which men have not the courage to confess the miracles they witness; and if anyone says "i have seen or have done myself the things which i relate" he will be told "either you are making sport of us or you are sick" it is better to keep silence and act. the metals that correspond to the four elementary forms are gold and silver for air; mercury for water; iron and copper for fire; and lead for earth. talismans are prepared from them, having relation to the forces which they represent, and to the effects proposed to be obtained. divination by the four elementary forms named aeromancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, and geomancy, is made in diverse ways, which all depend upon the will and transparency or imagination of the operator. in truth the four element

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

fourteen of the infantry were left. when there was not a shoe to the feet of any one, lieutenant a. l. smith with his cavalry took their work upon themselves. this incredible pursuit was due to general miles, who had taken the place of general crook, relieved at his own request. low twelve 33 it was the privilege of several of us who had been in at the start to stick it out to the end. among the iron-limbed scquts were a number also who withstood the frightful heat and privations. chief of those was vikka, that wonderful apache, with an eye like the eagle's, muscles of steel and an endurance that seemed not to know the meaning of fatigue. often i looked at him as he rode his gaunt pony, without saddle, at my side and envied the salamander who seemed to revel in the furnace-like temperatur

nd privations. chief of those was vikka, that wonderful apache, with an eye like the eagle's, muscles of steel and an endurance that seemed not to know the meaning of fatigue. often i looked at him as he rode his gaunt pony, without saddle, at my side and envied the salamander who seemed to revel in the furnace-like temperature. frequently the fingers of the men were blistered by contact with the iron of their weapons. many times, when we had struggled on to some well-known spring or water hole, we found it either dry or so befouled by the hostiles that had been ahead of us that one would have died of thirst before touching the water. our poor horses suffered with us, and more than one succumbed, not so much from exhaustion as from thirst. there were times when the muddiest pool that could

eyes, vikka, but i ought to do as well as you with the telescope "don't look right place; ain't in hills-closer by" it was an astonishing declaration. if the hostiles were not among the mountains, where could they be? surely this plain of pulsing sand could not hide them without so much as a shrub and hardly a blade of withered grass. lowering the glass, i looked inquiringly at my companion. the iron countenance was wrinkled with a smile, which showed his even white teeth. i saw that he was not looking at the hills, but at the plain a short way out. what did he see there? was not this a display of the waggery which he showed at rare intervals? was he not having a little amusement at my expense? but it was no time for jest; the scout was in earnest. he certainly had discovered something. w

w beside the boulder. one glance at it was enough. i was too familiar with the fellow to be mistaken. it was geronimo himself. iv the first look was enough. geronimo, the ferocious leader of the warm spring band, was standing within thirty feet of where i lay on my face behind the boulder, with my revolver tightly grasped in my right hand. 11 it was geronimo himself' low twelve 53 my muscles were iron, my nerve cool and the shot a fair one. i had the drop on him and swore he should not escape me. my second impulse was not to wait, but to bring him down before he turned his head to scan his surroundings. but there was something in such an act at which i revolted. unspeakable wretch though he was, and deserving of death ten times over, i shrank from a cold-blooded snuffing out of the apache

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eles: aetherius society, 1963. the practices of aetherius. hollywood, calif: aetherius society, 1964. the twelve blessings. london: aetherius press, 1958. you are responsible. london: aetherius press, 1961. the story of aetherius society. hollywood, calif: aetherius society, n.d. aetherius speaks to earth see cosmic voice aetities (or aquilaeus) a precious stone of magical properties, composed of iron oxide with a little silex and alumina, and said to be found in the stomach or neck of the eagle. it is supposed to heal falling sickness and prevent untimely birth. it was worn bound on the arm to prevent abortion and on the thigh to aid parturition. afan see association for astrological networking affectability a term coined by parapsychologist charles stuart implying susceptibility to feedb

oubtful whether they possess any secrets save that of extracting virtue and poison from plants. during the first trip which i made into the bush i sent for one of these doctors. at that time i was staying among the shekani, who are celebrated for their fetish [image. he came attended by half-a-dozen disciples. he was a tall man dressed in white, with a girdle of leopard s skin, from which hung an iron bell, of the same shape as our sheep bells. he had two chalk marks over his eyes. i took some of my own hair, frizzled it with a burning glass, and gave it to him. he popped it with alacrity into his little grass bag; for white man s hair is fetish of the first order. then i poured out some raspberry vinegar into a glass, drank a little of it first, country fashion, and offered it to him, tel

n the metal itself, and they explained this by the hypothesis, that the metal contained a spirit known as phlogiston, which becomes visible when it escapes from the metal or combustible substance in the form of flame; thus the presence of the phlogiston lightened the body just as gas does, and on its being expelled, the body gained weight. i accordingly asked the chemist whether he had found that iron gains weight when it rusts, an experiment he had ample means of making. but no, he had not yet reached the seventeenth century; he had not observed the fact, but was none the less ready with his answer; the rust of iron was an impurity proceeding from within, and which did not affect the weight of the body in that way. he declared that a few days would bring the realisation of his hopes, and

n, and they alike admit a difference of sex. in the latter, the name of azazil is given to the hierarchy nearest the throne of god, to which the mohammedan satan (eblis or haris) is supposed to have belonged; also azreal, the angel of death, and asrafil (probably the same as israfil, the angel of the resurrection. the examiners, moukir and nakir, are subordinate angels who are armed with whips of iron and fire, and interrogate recently deceased souls as to their lives. the parallel belief in the talmud is an account of seven angels who beset the paths of death. the koran also assigns two angels to every man.one to record his good and the other his evil actions. they are so merciful that if an evil action has been done, it is not recorded until the man has slept, and if at that time he repe

ere is some mediumistic intervention or some sufficiently potent driving motive to achieve the manifestation to nonsensitive people provided they happen to be in a receptive state. an instance of the first is cromwell varley s oft-quoted testimony before the london dialectical society in 1869: in the winter of 1864.5 i was busy with the atlantic cable. i left a gentleman at birmingham to test the iron wire. he had seen something of spiritualism but he did not believe in it. he had a brother whom i had never seen in life. one night in my room there were a great number of loud raps. when at length i sat up in bed i saw a man in the air.a spirit.in military dress. i could see the pattern of the paper on the wall through him. mrs. varley did not see it. she was in a peculiar state and became e

hat the power of animal magnetism might better explain the phenomena than the intervention of spirits. in the history of the curious occurrences in the household of dr. larkin of wrentham, massachusetts, around his servant girl, mary jane, about 1844, it is recorded: on one occasion, the whole family being assembled round the couch of the magnetized sleeper and every door being shut, a heavy flat-iron, last seen in the kitchen.quite a distance away.was suddenly placed in their midst, and, at the request of mrs. larkin, as suddenly disappeared, and was next found in the kitchen, every door of communication having remained closed. the apport of a white dove into the olive branch of peace circle of boston was attested, in the early years of american spiritualism, in an account published in th

t the rest of the armor was not apported. one experiment is on record to test the theory that heavy apports brought about no variation in the weight of the medium. it was done in w. h. terry s house in melbourne in 1876 with mrs. paton, a medium who specialized in apporting her personal property. sometimes it was a cup of tea she had forgotten to drink before leaving home, once a burning hot flat iron, at another time a glass of wine and a plate of eggs. her phenomena were mostly recorded between 1872 and 1878. there could hardly be anything to surpass in wonder the accounts of the apports said to be experienced by general lorrison (major-general a. w. drayson) at portsmouth. the medium was a mrs. maggs, the wife of a local editor and a writer herself. in a strictly private circle, apports

x, washington. the church s periodical panegyria includes both articles on paganism and news of the church. information may also be found at the church s website, http/ www.aquatabch.org, or that of one of its prominent congregations, http//www.ironoak.org. the church may be contacted at p.o. box 409, index, wa 98256. sources: aquarian tabernacle church. http//www.aquatabch.org. november 1, 1999. iron oak congregation. http//www.ironoak.org. november 1, 1999. aquarius rising (magazine) quarterly publication of the astrology center of the northwest. last known address: 522 northeast 165th st, seattle, wa 98155. aquino, michael a (1946) michael a. aquino, u.s. army officer and founder of the temple of set, is a graduate of the university of california, santa barbara (b.a, 1968; ph.d, 1980. i

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iter s good faith or intelligence are alike so conspicuous. magnetic phenomena some readily observable phenomena have suggested a connection between psychic abilities and magnetism. the medium henry slade could influence the movements of a magnetic needle. johann zollner made convincing experiments with a glass-covered compass. slade could also magnetize steel knitting needles, and zollner lifted iron filings and sewing needles with their ends. stanislawa tomczyk could exert a similar influence over the compass. the british psychic researcher and author stanley de brath also reported a case in which a young man deflected the magnetic needle. he was searched for a concealed iron or a magnet but nothing was found. more recently, the controversial psychic uri geller has also demonstrated defl

ce over the compass. the british psychic researcher and author stanley de brath also reported a case in which a young man deflected the magnetic needle. he was searched for a concealed iron or a magnet but nothing was found. more recently, the controversial psychic uri geller has also demonstrated deflection of a compass needle, while his skeptical critics also claim that he must have a concealed iron or magnet. magnetometer a device invented by the abbe fortin (ca. 1864) consisting of a piece of paper cut to the shape of a compass needle and considered to indicate some kind of electromagnetic force. it was suspended in a glass cylinder by a silk fiber. if the cylinder was approached by a hand, the paper (over a dial of 360 degrees) would either turn toward the hand or away from it. carrie

e of an old woman who posed as being a great prophetess. this aged person conducted the two friends into a dark cabinet lit only by a single lamp, where they could see upon a table covered with a cloth a kind of little statue, or mandragoras, seated upon a tripod, its left hand extended and holding a hank of silk very delicately fashioned, from which was suspended a small piece of highly polished iron. placing under this a crystal glass, so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass: i command you, mandragoras, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which he is about to make. if so, strike three times with the iron upon th

under this a crystal glass, so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass: i command you, mandragoras, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which he is about to make. if so, strike three times with the iron upon the goblet. the iron struck three times as demanded without the old woman having touched any of the apparatus, much to the surprise of the two spectators. the sorceress put several other questions to the mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him. but the author claimed that this procedure was an artifice, for the piece of iron suspended in the goblet was extremely light and when the ol

he sorceress put several other questions to the mandragora, who struck the glass once or thrice as seemed good to him. but the author claimed that this procedure was an artifice, for the piece of iron suspended in the goblet was extremely light and when the old woman wished it to strike against the glass, she held in one of her hands a ring set with a large piece of magnetic stone, which drew the iron toward the glass. this sounds very much like the folklore practice of putting a ring on a thread and holding it so that it dangles inside a glass and responds to questions put to it (see pendulums. the ancients attributed great virtues to the plant mandragoras, or mandrake, the root of which was often uncannily like a human form, and when plucked from the earth was believed to emit a species

e any likeness. the solidity of the materialized form varied. some mediums only produced vaporous phantoms called etherealizations. the exertion of force apparently had no relationship to the spirit entity s solidity. for example, an early illustrative account appears in spiritualism by john worth edmonds and g. t. dexter (2 vols, 1853.55: i felt on one of my arms what seemed to be the grip of an iron hand. i felt distinctly the thumb and fingers, the palm of the hand, and the ball of the thumb, and it held me fast by a power which i struggled to escape from in vain. with my other hand i felt all round where the pressure was, and satisfied myself that it was no earthly hand that was thus holding me fast, nor indeed could it be, for i was as powerless in that grip as a fly would be in the g

t had often appeared in the photographs; from it a root or string seemed to extend to the object materializing. in this case the root was strangely twisted. similar observations of what seem in retrospect simple conjuring were reported by karl blacher of riga university, with the apport medium bx (zeitschrift fur parapsychologie, june 1933. in trance and under control, nails, screws, or pieces of iron would be visibly drawn out of his chest, armpits, or arms, as could be clearly observed by means of luminous screens. on one occasion wire more than a yard long was drawn from the man s bared chest; at another time blacher himself caught hold of an end that was protruding from the same spot and drew out a long, leather strap. at another sitting the medium produced a heavy slab of metal from h

urers. ring experiments and chair threading ring experiments and chair threading were claimed on many occasions. in october 1872 the religio-philosophical journal of chicago claimed to have witnessed this demonstration. the editor wrote: we had the pleasure of attending a seance at which capt. winslow was the medium. the manifestations were very fine. one remarkable feat is the union of two solid iron rings, leaving them thus interlinked, and yet the metal perfectly sound. in the majority of cases, however, this plain test was always shirked for the far less convincing demonstration of placing an iron ring on the sitter s arm after the clasping of the hands or of placing a ring too small to pass over the hand on the medium s wrist. the medium cecil husk wore such a ring until his death. th

FAUST

! night. an open field. faust and mephistopheles storming along on black horses. faust what weaving are they round the ravenstone? mephistopheles i know not what they are brewing and doing. faust hovering up, hovering down, bending low, bowing down. mephistopheles a witches guild. faust they strew and dedicate. mephistopheles on! on! a prison faust [with a bunch of keys and a lamp, in front of an iron wicket. a long-unwonted shudder over me falls, the woe of human lot lays hold on me. here then she dwells, within these humid walls, and all her crime was a fond fantasy. you hesitate to go her? you fear again to see her near? on! your faltering brings death lingering here! he grasps the lock.someone is singing [inside. my mother, the whore, she has murdered me! my father, the rogue, he has e

d working everywhere. kinship to kind good-men we own, as surgeons of the rocks are known, the mountains high, go sapping them, the swelling veins, go tapping them; metals we hurl on pile on pile, with cheery hail- good luck while- the while, a greeting well-meant through and through. we re friends of all good men and true. yet gold we bring and gold reveal that men may pander and may steal, that iron fail not his proud hand who ever wholesale murder planned. he whom these three commandments fail to bother will pay no heed to any other. for all that we are not to blame; as we are patient, so be ye the same! giants the wild men of the woods- their name, in the hartz mountains known to fame. in nature s nakedness and might they come, each one of giant height, a fir tree s trunk in each right

r! dactyls conforming, tiny but swarming, our orders hear ye and firewood bear ye! heap in a pyre smothering fire! charcoal prepare ye! generalissimo. with bow and arrow foes will we harrow! herons that wander by that pond yonder, numberless nesting there, haughtily breasting there, shoot them straightway, all them together, in helm and feather us to array. ants and dactyls. who now will save us! iron we re bringing, chains to enslave us. chains we re not springing, not yet the hour; heed, then, their power! the cranes of ibycus. cries of murder, moan of dying! fearful pinions fluttering, flying! what a groan and moan and fright pierces upward to our height! all have fallen in the slaughter, reddened with their blood the water. greedy lust, misshapen, cruel, steals the heron s noble jewel

a lordly precious stone. now on thy breast the emerald green alone is worthy to be seen. now swaying twixt thy lip and ear let ocean s oval pearl appear; rubies would all their radiance lose beside thy glowing cheek s bright hues. the treasure greatest and most rare before thy presence i lay here; and to thy feet is brought today the fruit of many a bloody fray. as many chests as here i bore, of iron chests i have yet more; admit me to thy train, i will thy vaults with every treasure fill. for scarce dost thou the throne ascend, ere now they bow, ere now they bend, intelligence and wealth and power, before thy peerless form and flower. firmly i held all this as mine, but now it s free and it is thine; twas precious, sterling, vast, i thought, but now i see that it was naught. vanished is

ree, of undaunted mood, not sparing of their blood: to their unbreakable, consecrate chain, fighters unshakeable, may it bring gain! chorus. look aloft! how high he s mounting! yet to us not small he seems, as if armed, on triumph counting, as of bronze and steel he gleams. euphorion. not on walls or moats enduring, on his own strength each must rest; fortress firm and all-securing is a man s own iron breast. would ye live unconquered freemen, arm, and off to combat wild! amazons will be your women, and a hero every child. chorus. hallowed poesy, soar aloft heavenly, shine on, thou fairest star, farther and still more far, yet dost thou reach us still, yet do we hear and thrill, joyous we are. euphorion. no, not a child am i appearing, a youth in armour i come on, who, joined with strong m

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

e by nigel jackson lay of the arthame this is the metal: it dropp d from the sky, a ferrous tear of the fire-drake s eye, that burned through cloud and seared the soil and set the furious seas a boil, that lay in ancient pores of earth, til blacksmith s brought it to birth, thrice-purified in tubalo s fire, it suffered the ordeal of the pyre; cast into waters, hissed it s song, the starry viper s iron tongue was tempered on the anvil-stone, til radiant as changeless bone, with whispered charge and wordless spell, the gramarye of azazel. the edge was ground and thus was made, the narrow road of sharpened blade. this is the metal: twas shaped by cain who wrought the heavenly arthame. the rite of the fire of qayin- being the mystery of the house of azazel: the invocation of the great blood an

s, the myriad lanterns and blazing torches of all-knowledge. by the methods of the art rouse the inner fire and fervently invoke the daimon within by the ancient pact. let the forces of the goat be raised and the dragon-serpent of naamah- lilith be stirred through all five senses perfectly focussed upon the fire within the mortal flesh. o flame-breathing daemon and wizardly smith, who forgest the iron weapons of victorious liberation, the precious jewels of wisdom and beauty, hearken to me why am sprung from thy cunning seed, the hidden house of azazel. i am of the children of tubal-qayin. thy mark burns upon my brow: of thy clan and stock am i cunning-wo/man. waken and feed the flaming serpent within my blood, kindle the shinning fire of my inheritance. by goat and serpent, great tubalo

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

veneto, cornclio agrippa di nettesheim, a cura di e. garin, m. brini, c. vasoli, p. zambelli, rome, 1955. thorndike lynn thorndike, a history of magic and experimental science, columbia university press, 1923-41 (six vols. walker d. p. walker, spiritual and demonic magic from ficino to campanella, the warburg institute, university of london, 1958. xiv chapter i truth through successive brazen and iron ages still held sway and the search for truth was thus of necessity a search for the early, the ancient, the original gold from which the baser metals of the present and the immediate past were corrupt degenerations. man's history was not an evolution from primitive animal origins through ever growing complexity and progress; the past was always better than the present, and progress was reviv

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

complete. the body itself shall become cognizant of it s inner void/light instantaneously shredding existence asunder. our way should not be approached directly, but askance. the mask called choronzon is infiltrated by the self, which is it s only means of communicating with the light. the quaklephant seeks to merge with the shell and absorb it into his mass. doing so traps the light in a cage of iron. consumption on it s death follows, where the quaklephant can gibber of it s bounty. this victory is neither real, nor false, for the quaklephant is of us as well. it s inner light is established as the inverse light of the crossover. it is quite insane, as a matter of fact, it is completely beyond any concept of sanity, even of the lower quliphoth. when encountering this gibbering soup, sile

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ll not become me henceforth to utter. the very consciousness of the possession of a great power will ever make a generous mind cautious and gentle in its exercise. to rule has been the lot of many, and requires neither strength of intellect or soundness ofjudgment; to rule well has been the fortune of but few, and may well be the object of an honorable ambition. it is not by the strong arm or the iron will, that obedience and order, the chief requisites of good government, are secured,but by holding the key to the hearts of men. the office of grand master is of great antiquity and respect, and is one of the highest dignities to which we may aspire. its incumbent, to rule well, should possess and practice several important requisites. as a man, he should be of approved integrity and irrepro

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ich cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace (3) the third age, when a divine christ, who, like melchisedec, shall fill the dual office of king and priest, and shall rule over a urged and glorified humanity, which has risen from sex-love to soul-love. part vi spiritual alchemy when we expose a piece of iron to the air, the oxygen contained in the latter element oxidizes the iron and in time disintegrates it. this process is commonly known as rusting. the blood comes in contact with the air every time it passes through the lungs, and as a needle is drawn to a magnet, so does the oxygen of the inspired air coalesce with the iron the blood. a process of combustion takes place, which is similar to t

e latter element oxidizes the iron and in time disintegrates it. this process is commonly known as rusting. the blood comes in contact with the air every time it passes through the lungs, and as a needle is drawn to a magnet, so does the oxygen of the inspired air coalesce with the iron the blood. a process of combustion takes place, which is similar to the rusting or oxidation we observed in the iron exposed to the air. the ether contained in the dense fiber of wood, after the latter has undergone combustion in a stove, passes outwards through the iron in the form of semi-invisible heat-waves vibrating at different velocities according to the degree of heat in the furnace. so the spiritual vibration generated by the combustion of oxygen and iron in our physical bodies, passes outwards and

l artists gifted with spiritual sight, in their pictures of saints whom they represent as surrounded by a golden aureole, indicating their emancipation from the power of the lucifer spirits of mars who are the fallen angels, as well as from jehovah and his angels, who belong to an earlier stage of evolution and are warders of national and race religions. the lucifer spirits find expression in the iron in our blood. iron is a mars metal, difficult to start into high vibration, so difficult that it takes many lives of great effort to change the product of its combustion to the golden color which designates the saint. when that has been achieved, the greatest feat of alchemy has been performed; the base metal has been changed to gold, the wonderful alloy of the molten sea has been made from t

f christ that to become his disciple one must leave father and mother. that is one of the hard sayings of the gospel and generally misunderstood because it is taken to refer to our physical father and mother in the present life, whereas in the esoteric point of view something very different was intended. to get the idea let us once more call to mind that the lucifer spirits by the introduction of iron into the system made it possible for the human ego to become an indwelling spirit, but continued oxidation of the blood renders the body undesirable as a habitation in time and death ensues. therefore, though the lucifer spirits helped us into the body, they are also truly angels of death, and the progeny of samael and eve are subject thereto as well as the children begotten by her and adam

rs the body undesirable as a habitation in time and death ensues. therefore, though the lucifer spirits helped us into the body, they are also truly angels of death, and the progeny of samael and eve are subject thereto as well as the children begotten by her and adam, for all are flesh. the sun is the center of life and rules the life-giving gas we know as oxygen which coalesces with the martial iron. therefore, christ, the lord of the sun, is also the lord of life, and when by spiritual alchemy as has been explained, we become like him, we are immortal and thus we leave our father samael and our mother eve, and death has no more dominion over us. that does not mean that death may not happen to the body of such people, but the body entirely under their control, and a body used by such peo

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but what profits progress if the world is to be filled with discontent? freedom is a sublime mystery, but when this mystery is vulgarized it becomes anarchy. look around: everywhere we see turmoil, strife, jealousy, fear, and greed; satan brooding over the four corners of the world and the drums of war beating nearer and nearer. behind this turmoil crouches the machine, the baphomet of the age of iron. he should have been the servant of man, yet he has become his master. he should have mitigated the curse of eden and have transformed toil and labour into leisure and contentment. why has he failed to do so? because the mysteries of physical science, having slipped the leash of secrecy, have, like maenads, coursed madly about the world. once the searchers after the mysteries of nature worked

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

l and everything" max muller says that in later times she "may have become identified with the sky, also with the earth, but originally she was far beyond the sky and the earth"[24] the same writer quotes the following, also from a hymn of the rig-veda [24] origin and growth of religion, p. 221 "o mitra and varuna, you mount your chariot which, at the dawning of the dawn is golden-colored and has iron poles at the setting of the sun; from thence you see aditi and diti--that is, what is yonder and what is here, what is infinite and what is finite, what is mortal and what is immortal"[25 [25] ibid. aditi is the great she that is, the everlasting. muller refers to the fact that another hindoo poet "speaks of the dawn as the face of aditi; thus indicating that aditi is here not the dawn itself

d widely in india, borneo, the malay peninsula, and egypt, says "i think, on the whole, the most interesting experience i ever had was in an ancient city on the nile in egypt. when i was there a year ago, and men were digging among the ruined temples, some curious things were brought to light, and these i regard as the strangest things seen in all my wanderings. in an old tomb was found a curious iron and glass object, which on investigation proved to be a photographic camera. it was not such a camera as is used now, or has been since our photography was invented, but something analogous to it, showing that the art which we thought we had discovered was really known 6000 years ago" the same writer states that a plow constructed on the modern plan was also found "it was not of steel but of

tess is now arrived; and the grand series of ages. that series which recurs again and again in the course of our mundane revolution begins afresh. now the virgin astrea returns from heaven; and the primeval reign of saturn recommences; now a new race descends from the celestial realms of holiness. do thou, lucina, smile propitious on the birth of a boy who will bring to a close the present age of iron and introduce throughout the whole world, a new age of gold. then shall the herds no longer dread the fury of the lion, nor shall the poison of the serpent any longer be formidable. every venomous animal and every deleterious plant shell perish together. the fields shall be yellow with corn, the grape shall hang its ruddy clusters from the bramble, and honey shall distil spontaneously from th

t the erection of the luxor obelisk in paris, and yet i think that i would have felt greater emotion if i had witnessed the successful performance of the old celtic engineer who placed on its three pedestals of stone the enormous rock which constitutes the druidical altar here at castle may" it is believed that this people understood the art of mining and that they were acquainted with the use of iron. the following is an extract from one of hamilton's letters on the antrim coast "about the year 1770 the miners, in pushing forward an adit toward the bed of coal, at an unexplored part of the ballycastle cliff, unexpectedly broke through the rock into a narrow passage, so much contracted and choked up with various drippings and deposits on its sides and bottom, as rendered it impossible for

t by people at least as expert in the business as the present generation. some remains of the tools, and even of the baskets used in the works, were discovered, but in such a decayed state that, on being touched, they immediately crumbled to pieces. from the remains which were found, there is reason to believe that the people who wrought these collieries anciently, were acquainted with the use of iron, some small pieces of which were found; it appeared as if some of their instruments had been thinly shod with that metal" through various means the fact has been ascertained that although in the sixth century the buildings in ireland were mean and wholly without artistic merit or skilful design, in an earlier age they were magnificent. of the causes which produced the decay of architecture, t

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ut rays, or differentiationsofthe sun, it is true, but some special teaching was evidently to be given us by this abrupt transition from mars, the planetofoutward expulsion and destruction, to the sun, who symbolizes the all-attracting, inward-drawing centre, and who is the planet of life and resurrection.thetarotsymbol of mars is very suggestive in this connection, also the alchemical meaning of iron, which has the same symbol as mars, and is said to be corrosive externally,butsolarinternally.(note.i think it was at this point that we asked for information concerning the hiltofthe sword, which is like a reversed cross when the point is raised. all i can remember is that the cross bar was a guard against the higher forces, preventing the escape into spiritofthe material before it had finis

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ses says,'0naphtali satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of thelord,possess thou the west and the south' the armorial bearings of naphtaliare-blue, a hind. of asher )jacob says 'out of asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties' moses says 'let asher be blessed with children, lethim beacceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be' the armorial bearings of asher are purple, a cup. allthiscoincides with the nature of venus and libra, while the feet refer to the sign pisces, which rule the feet, and in which(c?)is exalted. iron and brass are the metals of the friendly planets (d')and (c).of dan (tt\)jacob says 'dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of israel

g bent under her in a cramped position every evening at sunset. all day she dreaded the exercise, which was very painful, andfirmlyresolved to have no more to do with it. but towards evening came a certain looking forward to the time 'just a moment or two tonight for the154thesorcererandhisapprentic:f;last time, and then never again' she said.andat sunset therewasanexhilaration in getting out the iron stirrup that held her foot in the crouchingposition,ageowingexcitement and beating of the. heart with. the. first twinge of. pain. then a wonder how long she could keepitup,aresolve to count by hundreds,andshe vowed to herself if she passed one hundred she must complete the next, and so on. psychologically i fancy that a sense of power camewiththementalconquestofthe body,andthat herein. lay t

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the krita or satya yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and it is from here that things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. each age in succession is shorter than its predecessor, is more intense, and more material. the kali age is the shortest, most materialistic and intensely destructive. it is this age we are in now. the kali yuga, or iron age is sometimes described as the age of the wolf, due to its ferocity and violence. there are many different dating systems, but according to the mahabharata, the kali yuga started on the midnight of 17th and 18th february, 3102 bce and represents the final stage of the cycle. it is interesting that this date coincides with the start of the 5th sun period of the mayans, which they believe cl

y well with the image described in the old testament book of daniel. central to daniel chapter two is the description of an unusual figure, a figure that is used to express a prophetic outline of history. the interesting thing is that inherent with this figure is a pattern and design which is far older than the text of daniel in which it appears. the image is comprised of gold, silver, bronze and iron (with clay feet) and partakes of the oldest division of history. while this division also has a localized and prophetic meaning which focuses on the gnostic handbook page 56 gold silver copper iron into matter back into spirit the many the few spirit matter flow of mass consciousness, degenerates through the spiritual consciousness, develops from yuga to yuga kali yuga, when technology and ma

owest ebb and the few who find wisdom will achieve the most of all. the yuga cycle the gnostic handbook page 57 the interplay between various major kingdoms from the 6th century bce onwards, its primary focus covers immense periods of time and sets the stage onto which humanity plays its part. these four ages are also found in the greek historical tradition as the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. however what is especially interested in the greek in a trans- temporal age which exists between the copper and kali yuga. while this age the age of heroes, is not seen as existing "in time, it exists as the path of transfiguration (the solar tradition) during the kali yuga. so while the age may be dark, there is wisdom for those who seek. while the vedic, indo-european, biblical and greek t

song. evola other published works, the yoga of power and the hermetic tradition offer various interpretations of the means to achieve the aristocratic self. evola s worship of the heroic brings us full circle, it brings us back to the yugas and the greek model with its trans=temporal heroic age. the age of heroes in the greek system exists outside the time based cycle of gold, silver, copper and iron, it is that call to go beyond the natural entropy of the cycles and achieve greatness. in evola s system it is the true solar path, the path of the sun which leads back to the axis mundi, the polar golden age. the gnostic handbook page 63 the great year the concept of precession is central to the cycle known as the great or platonic year. it is based on the simple fact that the earth does not

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c system divided history into four ages or yugas. the system itself is in some sense gnostic, as it positions the most cultivated age of man as the first, and the most brutal as the last. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek tradition of dividing history into ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there onwards things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. the evolutionary or technological worldview sees human life from a materialistic angle. life has evolved from amoeba to human, becoming more and more complex with related advances in culture and technology. when two worldv

re will be an intrusion of the malefic inhabitants of this inferior subtle domain. this process of degeneration is codified in the early vedic system by dividing history into four ages or yugas. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek historical tradition as the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. each age in succession is shorter than it predecessor, is more intense, and more material. the kali age is the shortest, most materialist and intensely destructive. it is this age we are in now. gnostic theurgy page 183 the cycle

eater scheme. however, enough esoteric speculation! the cycles of the yugas as they apply to the ages of earth (exoteric and esoteric) are important, for they show the state of the earth and its various lifestreams. the yugas show man s degeneration, since they are from the viewpoint of all of humanity. the four yugas show the fall from the golden age, through to the most destructive age; that of iron- this is also known as the kali yuga or age of the wolf. the great year at the same time as the yugas are unfolding and man heads for destruction, the treasury of light is working to offer man the gnosis. a good analogy here would be someone drowning at the sea-side, as he is sinking deeper and deeper into the water, inching closer and closer to death, the lifeguard is struggling harder and h

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h of shadow unto light. samael great dragon transformed, i summon thee as fulmino-lucifer, the morning star of the east, the serpent-angel of the emerald crown who fell to earth awaken now and open forth the gates of the imagination by air and dream. mahazael father of the witch spirit, who blesses and curses under the hidden and bright moon, i do summon thee forth unto me, initiator of flame and iron, come thou forth unto this circle. horned beast and angel perfected, awaken to my northern calls of the earth! in hearth and forest shall you walk with me; in shadowed valley shall you walk as me; in desert and mountain shall you carry my body in thy circle of being! mahazael, incarnate within! azael as the candle burns out and as the sun fall into the darkness, i call unto thee azael spirit

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en the pillars and say "it is the word of the veil, the veil of the tabernacle of the temple before the holy of holies, the veil which was rent assunder. it is the veil of the four elements of the body of man which was offered upon the cross for the service of man. i heard the voice of the holy one proclaim 'thou art my son. this day have i begotten thee. thou shalt rule the nations with a rod of iron. thou shalt break them in pieces as a potter's vessel' let therefore the elements obey the voice of yhvh. o ye spirits of flashing fire, and air, spirits of water and earth, even ye legions of demons who dwell in the land of twilight, recognize in me your master and in this creature of talismans one whom ye are powerless to hurt or touch. turn ye, o ye creatures of night and the darkness. com

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en the pillars and say "it is the word of the veil, the veil of the tabernacle of the temple before the holy of holies, the veil which was rent assunder. it is the veil of the four elements of the body of man which was offered upon the cross for the service of man. i heard the voice of the holy one proclaim 'thou art my son. this day have i begotten thee. thou shalt rule the nations with a rod of iron. thou shalt break them in pieces as a potter's vessel' let therefore the elements obey the voice of hwhy. o ye spirits of flashing o, and m, spirits of n and l, even ye legions of demons who dwell in the land of twilight, recognize in me your master and in this creature of talismans one whom ye are powerless to hurt or touch. turn ye, o ye creatures of night and the darkness. come and obey my

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eceive the incarnation 18 of the divine. give it life and energy, i beseech thee, so that always it may manifest unto me the glorious quality of trapt. the charge against evil step 1 lift the talisman with the left hand high, and point blade of sword downward. say: i heard the voice of the holy one proclaim, thou art my son. this day have i begotten thee. thou shalt rule the nations with a rod of iron. thou shalt break them in pieces as a potter s vessel. let therefore the elements obey the voice of hwhy. o ye spirits of flashing o, and m, spirits of n and l, even ye legions of demons who dwell in the land of twilight, recognize in me your master, and in this creature of talismans one whom ye are powerless to hurt or touch. turn ye, o ye creatures of night and of darkness; come and obey my

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at it seems as though some magic had presided over its construction; that it must be the work of demons instead of human beings. it is made of such great stones, and in such great number, that one wonders simultaneously how the indians were able to quarry them, how they transported them. and how they hewed them and set them one on top of the other with such precision. for they disposed of neither iron nor steel with which to penetrate the rock and cut and polish the stones; they had neither wagon nor oxen to transport them, and, in fact, there exist neither wagons nor oxen throughout the world that would have sufficed for this task, so enormous are these stones and so rude the mountain paths over which they were conveyed..19 garcilaso also reported something else interesting. in his royal

have been skilled in cutting and handling this material. the sheets are ninety feet square and form two layers, one laid directly on top of the other.3 mica is not a uniform substance but contains trace elements of different metals depending on the kind of rock formation in which it is found. typically these metals include potassium and aluminum and also, in varying quantities, ferrous and ferric iron, magnesium, lithium, manganese and titanium. the trace elements in teotihuacan s mica temple indicate that the underfloor sheets belong to a type which occurs only in brazil, some 2000 miles away.4 clearly, therefore, the builders of the temple must have had a specific need for this particular kind of mica and were prepared to go to considerable lengths to obtain it, otherwise they could have

ee from care, without trouble or woe. with ageless limbs they revelled at their banquets. when they died it was as men overcome by sleep. with the passing of time, and at the command of zeus, this golden race eventually sank into the depths of the earth. it was succeeded by the silver race which was supplanted by the bronze race, which was replaced by the race of heroes, which was followed by the iron race our own the fifth and most recent creation.34 it is the fate of the bronze race that is of particular interest to us here. described in the myths as having the strength of giants, and mighty hands on their mighty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the rebellious titan who had presented humanity with

ench they were brought, to set the grey stone in motion; he gave them no rest nor peace, attentive to the creak of the mill. their song was a howl, shattering silence; lower the bin and lighten the stones! yet he would have them grind more.12 rebellious and angry, fenja and menja waited until everyone was asleep and then began to turn the mill in a mad whirl until its great props, though cased in iron, burst asunder.13 immediately afterwards, in a confusing episode, the mill was stolen by a sea king named mysinger and loaded aboard his ship together with the giantesses. mysinger ordered the pair to grind again, but this time they ground out salt. at midnight they asked him whether he was not weary of salt; he bade them grind longer. they had ground but a little longer when down sank the sh

ards, in a confusing episode, the mill was stolen by a sea king named mysinger and loaded aboard his ship together with the giantesses. mysinger ordered the pair to grind again, but this time they ground out salt. at midnight they asked him whether he was not weary of salt; he bade them grind longer. they had ground but a little longer when down sank the ship: the huge props flew off the bin, the iron rivets burst, the shaft tree shivered, the bin shot down.14 when it reached the bottom of the sea, the mill continued to turn, but it ground out rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the maelstrom.15 such images, santillana and von dechend assert, signify precession of the equinoxes.16 the axis and iron props of the mill stand for: a system of coordinates in the celestial sphere and repre

he other allegories, is the frame of a world age that same heavenly mechanism that turns for more than 2000 years with the sun rising always in the same four cardinal points and then slowly shifts those celestial coordinates to four new constellations for the next couple of thousand years. this is why the mill always breaks, why the huge props always fly off the bin in one way or another, why the iron rivets burst, why the shafttree shivers. precession of the equinoxes merits such imagery because, at widely separated intervals of time it does indeed change, or break, the stabilizing coordinates of the entire celestial sphere. openers of the way what is remarkable about all this is the way that the mill (which continues to serve as an allegory for cosmic processes) stubbornly keeps on resur

t into any chambers that lay ahead. it was reported that his primary motive in initiating this investigation had not been an ambition to increase his vast personal wealth but a desire to gain access to a storehouse of ancient wisdom and technology which he believed to lie buried within the monument. in this repository, according to age-old tradition, the pyramid builders had placed instruments of iron and arms which rust not, and glasse which might be bended and yet not broken, and strange spells. 9 9 john greaves, pyramidographia, cited in serpent in the sky, p. 230. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 288 the great pyramid: entrance and plugging blocks in the ascending corridor. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 289 the great pyramid: detail of corridors, shafts and chambers. b

serpent in the sky, p. 230. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 288 the great pyramid: entrance and plugging blocks in the ascending corridor. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 289 the great pyramid: detail of corridors, shafts and chambers. but ma mun and his men found nothing, not even any down-to-earth treasure and certainly not any high-tech, anachronistic plastic or instruments of iron or rustproof weapons. or strange spells either. the erroneously named queen s chamber (which lay at the end a long horizontal passageway that branched off from the ascending corridor) turned out to be completely empty just a severe, geometrical room.10 more disappointing still, the king s chamber (which the arabs reached after climbing the imposing grand gallery) also offered little of intere

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

a follower of british contactee benjamin creme and maintained that his earlier works of fiction allegory, really contained a sort of cipher. the last of his novels published in his lifetime, the divine invasion, dealt with this theme from a gnostic religious vantage point he maintained that the phrase king felix was a cipher for the coming of a new being, who would deliver humanity from the black iron prison. king felix= 147= resistance. much of the starseed speculation centers on sirius or sothis, the dog star so important as a calendar yardstick in ancient egypt, and the object of the sirius mystery speculations on ancient visitations from the stars. sirius= 85= of our lady (see valis= 41= her, a phrase from crowley s liber cheth. from liber al. sirsecret cipher of the ufonauts 79 ius= 8

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

intain the separation of the sky (spirit) and the earth (matter. in ikh, shu would be in his highest aspect, equivalent to the god zeus, the'"orderer of all things" you will have the feeling of being on the highest peak of a mountain in a vast mountain range. as you move through this aethyr you wi l l see fortresses, bastions, stockades, bulwarks and entrenchments. crowley saw nine huge towers of iron along the upper frontier of the aethyr. whatever you actually see, the idea of elaborate defenses against hostile invading forces will be strong. even the holy city itsel f wi l l appear this way. you wi l l probably see bastions and sprawling towers and parapets with high thick walls suggesting an enormous medieval castle. the holy city is the "fastness of the most high" and houses the "legi

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into clearer categories like- a light sky, a hard metal, a wet ocean. then originated and created consciousness was handed over to whole specialist orders of intelligences called angels, one type per sphere into the next condition of: 3. yetzirah or formation. here everything gets shaped and formed into the likeness of what it was supposed to become such as light sky over the earth, hard metal of iron under the earth, wet ocean of salt sea in the earth. lastly the processed consciousness was produced as some time-space-event in physical terms at the world of 4. assiah orexpression. here things become located with very definite placement, such as light sky at noon over this place on earth, wet ocean of salt sea in such a size, depth and locality, hard metal of iron at that particular place

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ut> franke's alt unci nen meckl. 1, 57. in silesia children are stilled with the night-hunter, deut. sag. no 270 '938 spectees. with charles the great hero-king, and even with charles v^ this emperor, owing to his treatment of landgrave philip, has left a lasting impression in hesse: karle quintes with his soldiers is lodged in the odenberg; and as the swabian mother threatens her infant with the iron berhta (p. 277 'be stilly or the prechtolterli will come' and the bavarian with' hush, there's prechte coming to cut your belly open' the hessian of this district stills it by the exhortation' du, der quinte kommt' but in earlier times they meant charles the great, as is sufficiently proved by the legend of the thirsting army, known to the annalists (pp. 117. 153, and itself a deposit of stil

to ride about until the end of the world. at the head of the cavalcade comes giironjsse or reisarova^ with her long tail, by which you may know her from the rest; she is followed by a great multitude of either sex. rider and steed have a stately appearance in front; from behind you see nothing but guro's long tail. the horses are coal-black, have glowing eyes, and are governed with fiery rods and iron reins: the noise of the troop is heard from afar. they ride over loater as over land, their hoofs scarce skimming the surface. when they throw a saddle on a roof, some person will presently die in that house; where they expect drunken revelry, rioting and murder, they come and sit over the door^ they keep still so long as no crime is committed, but when it is, they laugh out loud^ and rattle

eins: the noise of the troop is heard from afar. they ride over loater as over land, their hoofs scarce skimming the surface. when they throw a saddle on a roof, some person will presently die in that house; where they expect drunken revelry, rioting and murder, they come and sit over the door^ they keep still so long as no crime is committed, but when it is, they laugh out loud^ and rattle their iron rods. they make their journeys at yule-tide, when there is much carousing. if you hear them come, you must get out of the way, or throw yourself flat on the ground^ and feign sleep, for there have been cases of' guro rvsserova= gudrun horse-tail' suppl' quia mors secus introitum delectationis posita est' eegula benedicti, cap. 7^ conf' manes ridere videns' in the waltlarius loio. as on p. 922

les in the odenherg. here and there a man has gained entrance into such mountains; tanhiluser sojourned many years at the court of venus. a blacksmith was looking in the underwood on the odenherg for a hawthorn to make his hammer-helve, when suddenly he saw a gap he had never noticed before in the face of the cliff; he stept in, and stood in a new world of wonders. strong men were bowhng balls of iron, they challenged him to play, but he declined, the iron balls, he said, were too heavy for his hand. the men were not offended, they told him to choose what present he would have. he begged for one of their balls, took it home, and put it among his stock of iron. afterwards, wanting to work it, he made it red hot, but it burst in pieces on the anvil, and every piece was sheer gold he never ag

a beautiful wonderfloiver, which the favoured person finds and sticks in his hat: all at once entrance and exit stand open for him to the treasure of the mountain. if inside the cavern he has filled his pockets, and bewildered at the sight of the valuables, has laid aside his hat, a warning 972 teanslation. voice^ rings in liis ear as he departs 'forget not the best' but it is then too late^ the iron door shuts with a bang, hard upon his heel, in a twinkling all has disappeared, and the road is never to be found again. the same formula comes up regularly every time in the legends of the odenberg, of the weser mountains and the harzj and in many more (d. sag. nos. 9. 303. 314. bechst. 1, 146. 3, 16. 4, 210-1. dieffenbach's wetterau pp. 284-5. 190; it must be very old^ the flower is commonl

nd to dionysus, acteeon or lo simply added horns. the devil then approximates to those wood-sprites, skrats and pilosi treated of in p. 478 seq; shaped like a man in the rest of his limbs, he is betrayed by his goat's ear, his horn, tail or horse's foot. a vdlant is thus described in tund. 51, 33'^er het vil der heyide^ an des libes ende einea vreislichen zagel (tail, der het manigen isnin nagel (iron nail, manigen haken chrumben, damit er die tumben cholt unde stichet' even in heathen times the gods and ghostly beings could imitate beasts in some parts of their body: the triglav of the slavs had three goat's-heads, and a mixture of human with animal forms is extremely common in the indian mythology; in the greek and teutonic it is rare, and then but barely hinted at. huldra comes before u

66' jja let haun taka finn, einn er margfrosr var, oc vildi ney^a hann til sa'srar sogu (force him to a sooth saw, oc pindi hann, oc feck >j ecki af honum' saga halfdanar svarta cap. 8. vol. iii. l 1044 magic. efldu sei&inn, ok ter^ust a hiallinn mes goldrum ok giorningum/ fornald. sog. 2, 72. magic made men proof against weapons, invulnerable' var seidt at haraldi, at hann skyldi eigi hita iarn' iron should not bite him 1, 374 ?eir letu sei^sa at ogmundi, sva at hann skyldi er^gi iarn hita atkvee'salaus' 2, 241. certain features, that agree with the descriptions to be given by and by of witches^ doings, might be thought plagiarisms. i doubt it. true, the nocturnal gathering before skelking, ofoti and thorger's is not altogether in the spirit of on. religion, but it may have arisen in scan

ons of the phalaenae overlap those of wilf o' wisps or of wichtels, as zunsler, from fluttering round a light, land-surveyors (p. 918, night-oivls, etc- at cross-roads the devil can be called up, so can the alraun, 3 pliny 7, 2 of sorcerers' eosdem praeterea 7ion posse mergi ne vests quidem degravatos' we are told several times, that the devil, after promising to bring the witches in the water an iron bar to make them sink, brings them only a fine needle* miseet. 1075 ancient usage of the witclies' bath (ducking) was founded, once a divine ordeal, ea. 925. if at the beginning of the action they contrive to catch the judge's eye, he turns soft-hearted, and has not the power to doom them. now it is a characteristic fact, that witches, with all their cunning and the devil's power to boot, rem

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ad complete in chambers,1 pp. 56-58; but it does not explain whether the red colour in his name refers to skin, hair or dress. a black complexion is not attributed to giants, as it is to dwarfs (p. 444) and the devil, though the half-black hel (p. 312) was of giant kin. hrungnir, a giant in the edda, has a head of stone (seem. 76b, sn. 109, another in the fornald. sog. 3, 573 is called larnliaus, iron skull. but giants as a rule appear well-shaped and symmetrical; their daughters are capable of the highest beauty, e.g. geroy, whose gleaming arms, as she shuts the house-door, make air and water shine again, sasm. 82a, sn. 39 (see suppl. in the giants as a whole, an untamed natural force has full swing, entailing their excessive bodily size, their overbearing in solence, that is to say, abus

p. 22. nialss. p. 164; see gramm. 2, 633. 534 giants. si bloz/ i.e. bare of knightly weapon, for they carried( itolben swasre, groze unde lange/ l yet the r eald sweord eotonisc pro bably meant one of stone, though the same expression is used in beow. 5953 of a metal sword mounted with gold; even the f entisc helm/ beow. 5955 may well be a stone helmet. it may be a part of the same thing, that no iron sword will cut into giants; only with the pommel of the sword can they be killed (ecke 178, or with the fist, p. 530 (see suppl. ancient buildings of singular structure, which have outlasted many centuries, and such as the men of to-day no longer take in hand, are vulgarly ascribed to giants or to the devil (conf. p. 85, note on devil s dikes: burg an berge, ho holmklibu, wrisilic giwerc is s

n up, the oghuzes have to supply him daily with 2 men and 500 sheep. bissat, the hero, burns out his eye with a red-hot knife; the blinded giant sits outside the door, and feels with his hands each goat as it passes out. an arrow aimed at his breast would not penetrate, he cried what s this fly here teazing me? the laplanders tell of a giant stalo, who was one-eyed, and went about in a garment of iron. he was feared as a man-eater, and 1 to wish a man nordan till fjails (arvidsson 2, 163) is to wish him in a disagreeable quarter (germ, in pepperland, at 2 diez: the jericho. newly discovered oghuzian cyclop compared with the homeric. halle& berlin 1815. giants. 555 received the by-name of yityatya (nilsson 4, 32. the indian mahabharata also represents hidimbas the rakshasa (giant) x as a ma

ive races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been repeated several times; on which point neither the poem itself nor plato (cratyl. 397-8, steph) gives sufficient information. first came the golden race of blissful daimones, next the silver one of weaker divine beings, thirdly, the brazen one of warriors sprung from ash-trees, fourthly, the race of heroes, fifthly, the iron one of men now living. the omission of a metal designation for the fourth race is of itself enough to make the statement look imperfect. dimmest of all is the second race, which also plato passes over, discussing only daemons, heroes and men: will the diminutive stature of these shorter-lived genii warrant a comparison with the wights and elves of our own mythology? in the third race giants s

ale) was thrust into the middle of the fire, to stifle it, but the flame hurled back the cloth. the cloth remained uninjured, but had a red streak running through it. similar to this was the casting of clothes into the lake (p. 596-7. fire breaking out of the earth (iar&lt;5- eldr) is mentioned several times in icelandic sagas: in the even ing you see a great horrible man rowing to land in an iron boat, and digging under the stable door; in the night earth-fire breaks out there, and consumes every dwelling, landn. 2, 5; iarseldr rann ofan/ 4, 12 (see suppl. needfire. flame which had been kept some time among men and been propagated from one fire to another, was thought unserviceable for sacred uses; as holy water had to be drawn fresh from the spring, so it made all the difference, if

und it, crying: hennil, hennil wache! can this have come out of dietmar? and can this hennil, wake! and hennil vigila! so far back as the llth cent, have arisen through misunderstanding the hung, vagyon (which means( est/ not vigilat? anyhow, the village watchman or shepherd, who went round to all the houses, probably on a certain day of the year, carrying the staff on which was a hand holding an iron ring, and who called out those words, seems to have meant by them some divine being. a slovak song in kollar (zpievanky p. 247, conf. 447) runs thus: 7.50 day and night. hainal svita, giz den biely, h. shines, now day is white, stavayte velky i maly! arise ye great and small! dosti sme giz dluho spali. long enough have we now slept. bohemian writers try to identify this hajnal, heynal, hennil

rd: constant use accounts for the numerous distortions of the word.2 its gothic form, wanting in ulph, would have been vair-alj&gt;8 or f vaire al]?s/ virorum (hominum) aetas, aetas (lifetime) passing into the local sense of mundus (world, just as seculum, siecle, has come to mean mundus, monde. we saw on p. 575 that greek myth ology supposes four ages of the world, golden, silver, brazen and iron: a fancy that has travelled far, 3 and was apparently no stranger in scandinavia itself. snorri 15 gives the name of 1 can brawe, ohg. prawa, on. bra, be derived from brehen? perhaps the set phrases in the text reveal the reason for it. in that case the ohg. prawa must be for praha, and we might expect a goth, brehva? then the sanskr. bhru, gr. 6&lt;f&gt;pvs t would be left without th

pon by mhg. poets, e.g. eenner 2293. equally wrong are those from wern to last, and werlen to whirl. it is quite possi ble, that wero alt (virorum aetas) was intended as an antithesis to a risono alt (gigantum aetas) which preceded it. 3 in our mid. ages the world was personified, like death, and the various ages were combined in a statue with a head of gold, arms of silver, a breast of brass and iron, and feet of earth, ms. 2, 175b; another representation gave the figure a golden head, silver breast and arms, brazen belly, steel thighs, iron legs, earthen feet, ms. 2, 225a; a third, a golden head, silver arms, brazen breast, copper belly, steel thighs, earthen feet, amgb. 27 b. this medley, though borrowed from daniel 2, 31-43, reminds us of ancient idols formed out of various metals, and

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ified as cannon balls or oranges are built up into a pile. all of which reveals the "law of the triangle" the reason for this is that every minute particle of crystallizing substance, which we [104] call a "crystal molecule" has certain lines of attractive force by which it gathers to itself other crystal molecules of the same substance, in the same way that a magnet attaches itself to a piece of iron or to another magnet. crystal molecules of different substances generally have different lines of attraction, some being of different intensity; hence it follows that in most cases the solid formed by the piling together of the crystal molecules of a certain chemical compound has an outward shape characteristic of that compound. we also assume that the direction of attraction of the unit of c

and pressure the auras of like atoms may interact in such a way as to lead to the formation of liquids from gases, or solids from liquids. differences in physical states are accounted for on the basis of closeness of atoms as illustrated in plate 2. expressions of this principle of closeness are known to modern crystallographers who have studied the differences between various allotropic forms of iron and sulphur, for example. allotropic forms reflect the various physical arrangements of the atoms concerned. changes in physical arrangements of atoms are usually accompanied by changes in density and, especially in the case of sulphur, elasticity. in figures 1, 2, and 3, of plate 3, dalton shows atoms in groups to form certain elastic fluids. figure 1 shows atoms form hydrogen. figure 2 show

.(note the complicated yet exact designs and diagrams of parts of machinery, architectural elements, etc. expressible with numbers. intelligently as these three dimensions express a thing to our consciousness there are essential elements still missing in the expression.one or more attributes or qualities lacking. what is the nature of the above thing that is 100 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm? is it wood, or iron, or stone? what is its weight, its color? is it hard or soft? we say that all these questions can be answered by expressing the fourth dimension, and expressing it in numerals as the other three are expressed. in this case, as an example, the figures 100 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm/12.0147 (a specific gravity figure would mean that the thing referred to was a piece of south american (not any other kin

for benevolent purposes. magnetism.every electrified body has its aura, and when that aura is active it constitutes a magnetic field and the aura is sometimes called magnetism. magnetism, from a purely electrical point of view, is described somewhat differently; but even so, the fundamental law involved in the foregoing definition remains. the fact that some minerals are "naturally" magnetic, as iron of a certain nature, while others can be made magnetic, indicates that magnetism is not a result of the atomic or molecular structure of matter, but rather of an electrical action that is taking place within the substance or which can be set up in the substance. in electrical science we are instructed how to induce magnetism in a metallic body by surrounding it with an electrical charge; but

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e as i to him. he promised if i told the truth to admit it openly.theni narrated the events with whichmydream-vision had furnished me, and the table learnt the history of the young tradesman'slife,-ofhis school years, his208therosicrucianseertruth seeking spmt, and even those discrepancies may be referred to our own limited information. to anyone possessed only of the knowledge of theattractionof iron by the magnet, the fact of the opposite polerepellingit would be 'a discrepancy equally at variance with his common sense and reason.'mrsandby also objects that departed souls, on their arrival in the other world, retain. their antecedent habits and opinions; in other words 'a jew seems to remain a jew, a catholic a catholic, and a miser as fond of his gold as before' exactly so; and what ide

ule. it is left to the optionofthe supreme judge the modeofexecution.ifhe had a purpose to effect he might do so,butnot from mercy, for that was never a partofhis nature. but whenever the tortureof"thenails" was inflicted it was perfect evidence that the extreme would be gone into, and, insteadofthe fire being kindled after i was bound, it was made first, and i was thenputin, and if necessary, an iron framework would have been thrown over me 'surely the men who could inflict with fiendish pleasure such torments upon their fellow-creatures, however erring, cannot now be at rest 'no; i tell you the sinsoftheir victims are visited on their own heads, and they are expiating their own offences and their victims' in the worstofall states that can befallspirits-inburning themselves in the fires t

, however erring, cannot now be at rest 'no; i tell you the sinsoftheir victims are visited on their own heads, and they are expiating their own offences and their victims' in the worstofall states that can befallspirits-inburning themselves in the fires that they have kindled for their victims''thenthere we will leave them.'themonk continued 'besides other meansoftorture, they drove splinters of iron, like fine nails, intothefleshy parts.ofthe solesofmy feet, a dozen in each at first, and then removed everything from my dungeon that i could either sit or lie upon. standing or walking was insupportable. my hands were bound.onthe damp floor, moist and slimy withvermin,inperfect darkness, except when the light came that was to bring me to punishment, and only dragged into full light to answe

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as particularly associated with sculpture and metalworking. ptah was said to have invented the opening of the mouth ritual in which an adze and other tools were used to bring to life statues and mummies.7 hymns to ptah speak of him designing and crafting the world and smelting the two lands (egypt. he was also said to make bodies for kings out of electrum (an alloy of gold and silver, copper, and iron. 62 handbook of egyptian mythology presumably these were the bodies that kings hoped to inhabit in the divine realm. the shaping of royal bodies was a task more usually attributed to khnum. khnum was represented by a ram, an animal renowned for aggressive virility. he was sometimes described as begetting the gods, but as a creator he was usually celebrated as the divine craftsman who formed e

s (art resource) in the book of the dead, anubis is shown in the throne room of osiris supervising the weighing of the hearts of the dead. among his duties was to fetch the hearts of the followers of seth. a story recorded in the first millennium bce tells how the wicked god seth disguised himself as a leopard to approach the body of osiris. he was seized by anubis and branded all over with a hot iron. this, according to egyptian myth, is how the leopard got its spots. anubis then flayed seth and wore his bloody skin as a warning to evildoers. by this era, anubis was said to command an army of demon messengers who inflicted suffering and death. anubis remained an important funerary god in the roman period, but his cult was singled out for abuse by roman writers. this may have been partly b

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ven arits, and the ten, fourteen, or twenty-one gates (according to the manuscript authority followed, the sekhet-hetepet possessed fourteen or fifteen aats, or regions, each of which was presided over by a god. their names, as given in the papyrus of nu, 1 are as follows- aat i. amentet wherein a man lived on cakes and ale; its god was amsu-qet, or menu-qet. aat ii. sekhet-aaru. its walls are of iron. the wheat here is five cubits high, the barley click to view aat i. click to view aat ii. is seven cubits high, and the spirits who reap them are nine cubits high. the god of this aat is ra-herukhuti. aat iii. aatenkhu. its god was osiris or ra. aat iv. tui-qaui-aaui. its god was sati-temui. aat v. aatenkhu. the spirits here live upon the inert and feeble. its god was probably osiris. p. 39

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corpse-like was her face. thefrenchman informed me that he had sent her to sleep just as we were approaching the house, and that shenow was as he had left her the previous night; he then began busying himself with the sujet, as he calledfrosya. paying no further attention to us, he shook her by the hand, and then making a few rapid passesstretched out her arm and stiffened it. the arm as rigid as iron, remained in that position. he then closed allher fingers but one- the middle finger- which he caused to point at the evening star, which twinkled inthe deep blue sky. then he turned round and went over from right to left, throwing on some of his fluids here,again discharging them at another place; busying himself with his invisible but potent fluids, like a painterwith his brush when giving

frame like an aspen leaf, and sinkingback on his pillows, sick at the recollection, he hears a voice- the voice of the soul-ego- saying in him "fame and victory are vainglorious words. thanksgiving and prayers for lives destroyed- wicked liesand blasphemy "what have they brought thee or to thy fatherland, those bloody victories. whispers the soul in him "a nightmare talesviii16 population clad in iron armour" it replies "two score millions of men dead now to all spiritual aspirationand soul-life. a people, henceforth deaf to the peaceful voice of the honest citizen's duty, averse to a life ofpeace, blind to the arts and literature, indifferent to all but lucre and ambition. what is thy future kingdom,now? a legion of war-puppets as units, a great wild beast in their collectivity. a beast t

but lucre and ambition. what is thy future kingdom,now? a legion of war-puppets as units, a great wild beast in their collectivity. a beast that, like the seayonder, slumbers gloomily now, but to fall with the more fury on the first enemy that is indicated to it.indicated, by whom? it is as though a heartless, proud fiend, assuming sudden authority, incarnate ambitionand power, had clutched with iron hand the minds of a whole country. by what wicked enchantment has hebrought the people back to those primeval days of the nation when their ancestors, the yellow-haired suevi,and the treacherous franks roamed about in their warlike spirit, thirsting to kill, to decimate and subject eachother. by what infernal powers has this been accomplished? yet the transformation has been produced and itis

am44 experience on that memorable and fatal day. i swam underground, dashing swiftly through the earth; i foundmyself once more in the pauper's grave and recognized my brother-in-law in the mangled remains; iwitnessed his terrible death; entered my sister's house; followed her agony, and saw her go mad. i went overthe same scenes without missing a single detail of them. but, alas! i was no longer iron-bound in the calmindifference that had then been mine, and which in that first vision had left me as unfeeling to my greatmisfortune as if i had been a heartless thing of rock. my mental tortures were now becoming beyonddescription and well-nigh unbearable. even the settled despair, the never-ceasing anxiety i was constantlyexperiencing when awake, had become now, in my dream and in the face

e no longer in my sceptical, blind mind "the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; but always the faithful photographs of the real woes and sufferings of my fellow creatures, of my best friends. thus i found myself doomed, whenever i was left for a moment alone, to the helpless torture of a chainedprometheus. during the still hours of night, as though held by some pitiless iron hand, i found myself led tomy sister's bedside, forced to watch there hour after hour, and see the silent disintegration of her wastedorganism; to witness and feel the sufferings that her own tenantless brain could no longer reflect or convey toher perceptions. but there was something still more horrible to barb the dart that could never be extricated. ihad to look, by day, at the childish in

t, of course, partly to divine interference and partly to theevil one- h. p. b. in one of the distant governments of the russian empire, in a small town on the borders of siberia, amysterious tragedy occurred more than thirty years ago. about six versts from the little town of p-,famous for the wild beauty of its scenery, and for the wealth of its inhabitants- generally proprietors ofmines and of iron foundries- stood an aristocratic mansion. its household consisted of the master, a rich oldbachelor and his brother, who was a widower and the father of two sons and three daughters. it was known that the proprietor, mr. izvertzoff, had adopted his brother's children, and, having formed anespecial attachment for his eldest nephew, nicolas, he made him the sole heir of his numerous estates. ti

omentpaganini's arrival in the european metropolis placed an obstacle in the way of the realization of his hopes,and the old german professor wisely postponed his pupil's debut. at first he had simply smiled at the wildenthusiasm, the laudatory hymns sung about the genoese violinist, and the almost superstitious awe withwhich his name was pronounced, but very soon paganini's name became a burning iron in the hearts of boththe artists, and a threatening phantom in the mind of klaus. a few days more, and they shuddered at the verymention of their great rival, whose success became with every night more unprecedented. the first series of concerts was over, but neither klaus nor franz had as yet had an opportunity of hearinghim and of judging for themselves. so great and so beyond their means w

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e life-undulation as individuality, and each of its series of natal manifestations as a separate personality? the perfect individual, buddhist speaking, is a buddha, i should say; for buddha is but the rare flower of humanity, without the least supernatural admixture. and as countless generations("four asankheyyas and a hundred thousand cycles) are required to develop a man into a buddha, and the iron will to become one runs throughout all the successive births, what shall we call that which thus wills and perseveres? character? one's individuality: an individuality but partly manifested in any one birth, but built up of fragments from all the births? q. i confess that i am still in the dark. indeed it is just that difference, then, that you cannot impress too much on our minds. a. i try t

andbank of thought or another, and there remain a stranded carcass to molder and die. q. but if this danger be averted? a. then the society will live on into and through the twentieth century. it will gradually leaven and permeate the great mass of thinking and intelligent people with its large-minded and noble ideas of religion, duty, and philanthropy. slowly but surely it will burst asunder the iron fetters of creeds and dogmas, of social and caste prejudices; it will break down racial and national antipathies and barriers, and will open the way to the practical realization of the brotherhood of all men. through its teaching, through the philosophy which it has rendered accessible and intelligible to the modern mind, the west will learn to understand and appreciate the east at its true v

y initiation into spiritual mysteries of which the ceremonial "mysteries" were a type. gnostics (gr) the philosophers who formulated and taught the "gnosis" or knowledge. they flourished in the first three centuries of the christian era. the following were eminent: valentinus, basilides, marcion, simon magus, etc. golden age the ancients divided the life cycle into the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages. the golden was an age of primeval purity, simplicity, and general happiness. great age there were several "great ages" mentioned by the ancients. in india it embraced the whole maha-manvantara the "age of brahm" each "day" of which represents the life cycle of a chain, i.e, it embraces a period of seven rounds. thus while a "day" and a "night" represent, as manvantara and pralaya, 8,640

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eatures of these kindes, that they may fill up the power and vertue of their odours; so that neither the enemy, nor any false imagination, may be able to enter into them: through our lord jesus christ &c. then let them be sprinkled with holy water. the exorcisme of the fire upon which the perfumes are to be put. the fire which is to be used for suffumigations, is to be in a new vessel of earth or iron; and let it be exorcised after this manner. i exorcise thee, o thou creature of fire, by him by whom all things are made, that forthwith thou cast away every phantasme from thee, that it shall not be able to do any hurt in any thing. then say, bless, o lord, this creature of fire, and sanctifie it, that it may be blessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name, that no hurt may come to the e

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see this matter in the light i do. from the very first, no worldly wisdom, nor prudence have been shewn. we might ruin .ourselves and become paupers by making( urs lves responsi.ble, a?d. then the t[heosophical] p[ublishing] slociety] would still be in just the same difficulties. i always saw that luciftr, conducted as it was, and at such a price, was [ayton's record of his wife's 'vision] broad iron gateway with high pillars and such lovely sunshine apparently entrance to a park. beautiful garden in front of a side-entrance to the house broad gravel walks- irregular- large stone urn- looks a little like a fountain, not in play. very quiet and isolated. supposing the first facing w, then n. of that, at right angles, a collonade of great length, with an urn or cupola in the front centre of

nymous author is, we might institute a search abroad. anyhow, you will know the handwriting and look out for the others. mynsicht was a rositan and it has occurred to me whether the original of this ms was not a private affair of the order, and surreptitiously got hold of by some one out of the order and copied. all other ms[s] and books on the subject make use of sublimated mercury, antimony and iron, but this adept seems to use. separately the sophie mercury or soul of each, and this may be the best way. i shall soon copy the other vol. if i keep well, and will send it to you. it is about 30pp. shorter. it contains the process in detail for making the sophie mercury and oil of gold wh[ich] i have nowhere else seen. i cannot imagine such an ms being intended for any but the eyes of member

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olution seemed to furnish any clue, even when applied on the basis of every tongue the writer might conceivably have used. the ancient books taken from whateley's quarters, while absorbingly interesting and in several cases promising to open up new and terrible lines of research among philosophers and men of science, were of no assistance whatever in this matter. one of them, a heavy tome with an iron clasp, was in another unknown alphabet- this one of a very different cast, and resembling sanskrit more than anything else. the old ledger was at length given wholly into the charge of dr armitage, both because of his peculiar interest in the whateley matter, and because of his wide linguistic learning and skill in the mystical formulae of antiquity and the middle ages. armitage had an idea t

ind it. spells might be all right- but suppose they weren't? voices began questioning armitage about what he knew of the thing, and no reply seemed quite to satisfy. everyone seemed to feel himself in close proximity to phases of nature and of being utterly forbidden and wholly outside the sane experience of mankind. x. in the end the three men from arkham- old, white-bearded dr armitage, stocky, iron-grey professor rice, and lean, youngish dr morgan, ascended the mountain alone. after much patient instruction regarding its focusing and use, they left the telescope with the frightened group that remained in the road; and as they climbed they were watched closely by those among whom the glass was passed round. it was hard going, and armitage had to be helped more than once. high above the t

hs or housewives who sat on their doorsteps, or any of the children who shouted and played in the mud of the shadowy lanes. at last he saw the tower plain against the southwest, and a huge stone bulk rose darkly at the end of an alley. presently he stood in a wind-swept open square, quaintly cobblestoned, with a high bank wall on the farther side. this was the end of his quest; for upon the wide, iron-railed, weed-grown plateau which the wall supported- a separate, lesser world raised fully six feet above the surrounding streets- there stood a grim, titan bulk whose identity, despite blake's new perspective, was beyond dispute. the vacant church was in a state of great decrepitude. some of the high stone buttresses had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neg

among the brown, neglected weeds and grasses. the sooty gothic windows were largely unbroken, though many of the stone mullions were missing. blake wondered how the obscurely painted panes could have survived so well, in view of the known habits of small boys the world over. the massive doors were intact and tightly closed. around the top of the bank wall, fully enclosing the grounds, was a rusty iron fence whose gate- at the head of a flight of steps from the square- was visibly padlocked. the path from the gate to the building was completely overgrown. desolation and decay hung like a pall above the place, and in the birdless eaves and black, ivyless walls blake felt a touch of the dimly sinister beyond his power to define. there were very few people in the square, but blake saw a police

hey were mere legends evoked by the evil look of the place, but even so, they were like a strange coming to life of one of his own stories. the afternoon sun came out from behind dispersing clouds, but seemed unable to light up the stained, sooty walls of the old temple that towered on its high plateau. it was odd that the green of spring had not touched the brown, withered growths in the raised, iron-fenced yard. blake found himself edging nearer the raised area and examining the bank wall and rusted fence for possible avenues of ingress. there was a terrible lure about the blackened fane which was not to be resisted. the fence had no opening near the steps, but round on the north side were some missing bars. he could go up the steps and walk round on the narrow coping outside the fence t

nterest would in a boy's fanciful mind take on all manner of gruesome imaginative associations. the doctor was a bachelor; a white-haired, clean-shaven, old- fashioned gentleman, and a local historian of note, who had often broken a lance with such controversial guardians of tradition as sidney s. rider and thomas w. bicknell. he lived with one man servant in a georgian homestead with knocker and iron-railed steps, balanced eerily on the steep ascent of north court street beside the ancient brick court and colony house where his grandfather- a cousin of that celebrated privateersman, capt. whipple, who burnt his majesty's armed schooner gaspee in 1772- had voted in the legislature on may 4, 1776, for the independence of the rhode island colony. around him in the damp, low-ceiled library wi

ts obscene fungi; the rotting remains of what had been stools, chairs and tables, and other more shapeless furniture; the heavy planks and massive beams of the ground floor overhead; the decrepit plank door leading to bins and chambers beneath other parts of the house; the crumbling stone staircase with ruined wooden hand-rail; and the crude and cavernous fireplace of blackened brick where rusted iron fragments revealed the past presence of hooks, andirons, spit, crane, and a door to the dutch oven- these things, and our austere cot and camp chairs, and the heavy and intricate destructive machinery we had brought. we had, as in my own former explorations, left the door to the street unlocked; so that a direct and practical path of escape might lie open in case of manifestations beyond our

d "town street" that the founders had laid out at the river's edge in 1636. here ran innumerable little lanes with leaning, huddled houses of immense antiquity; and fascinated though he was, it was long before he dared to thread their archaic verticality for fear they would turn out a dream or a gateway to unknown terrors. he found it much less formidable to continue along benefit street past the iron fence of st. john's hidden churchyard and the rear of the 1761 colony house and the mouldering bulk of the golden ball inn where washington stopped. at meeting street- the successive gaol lane and king street of other periods- he would look upward to the east and see the arched flight of steps to which the highway had to resort in climbing the slope, and downward to the west, glimpsing the ol

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enient alcoves and large contiguous bathroom permitted him to hide all dressers and obtrusively utilitarian devices. dr. mu oz, most certainly, was a man of birth, cultivation, and discrimination. the figure before me was short but exquisitely proportioned, and clad in somewhat formal dress of perfect cut and fit. a high-bred face of masterful though not arrogant expression was adorned by a short iron-grey full beard, and an old-fashioned pince-nez shielded the full, dark eyes and surmounted an aquiline nose which gave a moorish touch to a physiognomy otherwise dominantly celtiberian. thick, well-trimmed hair that argued the punctual calls of a barber was parted gracefully above a high forehead; and the whole picture was one of striking intelligence and superior blood and breeding. neverth

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ever, finally melted him; and he grudgingly motioned to me to follow him up the dark, creaking and rickety attic stairs. his room, one of only two in the steeply pitched garret, was on the west side, toward the high wall that formed the upper end of the street. its size was very great, and seemed the greater because of its extraordinary barrenness and neglect. of furniture there was only a narrow iron bedstead, a dingy wash-stand, a small table, a large bookcase, an iron music-rack, and three old-fashioned chairs. sheets of music were piled in disorder about the floor. the walls were of bare boards, and had probably never known plaster; whilst the abundance of dust and cobwebs made the place seem more deserted than inhabited. evidently erich zann s world of beauty lay in some far cosmos of

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rtment so many aeons cut off from the castle below. then unexpectedly my hands came upon a doorway, where hung a portal of stone, rough with strange chiselling. trying it, i found it locked; but with a supreme burst of strength i overcame all obstacles and dragged it open inward. as i did so there came to me the purest ecstasy i have ever known; for shining tranquilly through an ornate grating of iron, and down a short stone passageway of steps that ascended from the newly found doorway, was the radiant full moon, which i had never before seen save in dreams and in vague visions i dared not call memories. fancying now that i had attained the very pinnacle of the castle, i commenced to rush up the few steps beyond the door; but the sudden veiling of the moon by a cloud caused me to stumble

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

f repellent-looking youngish people now became visible on the sidewalks- lone individuals, and silent knots of two or three. the lower floors of the crumbling houses sometimes harboured small shops with dingy signs, and i noticed a parked truck or two as we rattled along. the sound of waterfalls became more and more distinct, and presently i saw a fairly deep river-gorge ahead, spanned by a wide, iron-railed highway bridge beyond which a large square opened out as we clanked over the bridge i looked out on both sides and observed some factory buildings on the edge of the grassy bluff or part way down. the water far below was very abundant, and i could see two vigorous sets of falls upstream on my right and at least one downstream on my left. from this point the noise was quite deafening. t

d that the news of my escape from the gilman had not yet spread. i would, of course, soon have to shift from washington to some other southward street; for that party from the hotel would doubtless be after me. i must have left dust prints in that last old building, revealing how i had gained the street. the open space was, as l had expected, strongly moonlit; and i saw the remains of a parklike, iron-railed green in its center. fortunately no one was about though a curious sort of buzz or roar seemed to be increasing in the direction of town square. south street was very wide, leading directly down a slight declivity to the waterfront and commanding a long view out a sea; and i hoped that no one would be glancing up it from afar as i crossed in the bright moonlight. my progress was unimpe

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

e street. the men, busy with labour, waxed prosperous and as happy as they knew how to be. and the children grew up comfortable, and more families came from the mother land to dwell on the street. and the children s children, and the newcomers children, grew up. the town was now a city, and one by one the cabins gave place to houses simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood, with stone steps and iron railings and fanlights over the doors. no flimsy creations were these houses, for they were made to serve many a generation. within there were carven mantels and graceful stairs, and sensible, pleasing furniture, china, and silver, brought from the mother land. so the street drank in the dreams of a young people and rejoiced as its dwellers became more graceful and happy. where once had been

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth. the vault to which i refer is of ancient granite, weathered and discolored by the mists and dampness of generations. excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. the door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. the abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a stroke of lightning. of the midnight storm which destroyed this gl

the stone door, and essayed to squeeze my slight form through the space already provided; but neither plan met with success. at first curious, i was now frantic; and when in the thickening twilight i returned to my home, i had sworn to the hundred gods of the grove that at any cost i would some day force an entrance to the black, chilly depths that seemed calling out to me. the physician with the iron-grey beard who comes each day to my room, once told a visitor that this decision marked the beginning of a pitiful monomania; but i will leave final judgment to my readers when they shall have learnt all. the months following my discovery were spent in futile attempts to force the complicated padlock of the slightly open vault, and in carefully guarded inquiries regarding the nature and histo

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

rface- so little, yet such a ghastly festering as it bubbles up putrescently in occasional ghoulish glimpses. the witchcraft terror is a horrible ray of light on what was stewing in men's crushed brains, but even that is a trifle. there was no beauty: no freedom- we can see that from the architectural and household remains, and the poisonous sermons of the cramped divines. and in side that rusted iron straitjacket lurked gibbering hideousness, perversion, and diabolism. here, truly, was the apotheosis of the unnamable. cotton mather, in that demoniac sixth book which no one should read after dark, minced no words as he flung forth his anathema. stern as a jewish prophit, and laconically unamazed as none since his day could be, he told of the beast that had brought forth what was more than

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:4618through the gates of the silver key by h.p. lovecraft written 1932- first published in weird tales, july 1934. chapter one in a vast room hung with strangely figured arras and carpeted with bonkhata rugs of impressive age and workmanship, four men were sitting around a documentstrewn table. from the far corners, where odd tripods of wrought iron were now and then replenished by an incredibly aged negro in somber livery, came the hypnotic fumes of olibanum; while in a deep niche on one side there ticked a curious, coffin-shaped clock whose dial bore baffling hieroglyphs and whose four hands did not move in consonance with any time system known on this planet. it was a singular and disturbing room, but well fitted to the business then

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

s of a body, which depend on the composition of the elements, each object, with respect to the electric fluid, owns certain emanations, the so-called electronic vibrations that are attracted by the general magnetic fluid of the entire material world. this attraction is called the weight. consequently, weight is an appearance of the attractive power of the earth. the well known attractive power of iron and nickel is a little example respecting an imitation of that which is happening, in a big measure, on our whole earth. what we understand, on our earth, a magnetism and electricity, is nothing else but an appearance of the four-pole magnet. for, as we know already, by an arbitrary pole-changing, electricity can be obtained from magnetism and, in a mechanical way, we get magnetism through el

cere alchemists are nothing else but exquisite fluid condensers. 9. preparation of a solid fluid condenser since in the next step i am going to describe the genuine mirror magic, the practical handling of the magic mirror, i shall teach the magician how to construct a magic mirror by himself. to manage this, he needs a sold fluid condenser that consists of seven metals. these are: lead 1 part tin iron gold copper brass silver aloe resin animal charcoal 3 parts mineral coal 3 parts the different parts are by volume, not weight. all ingredients must be pulverized. the metals can be filed. put all the ingredients together and mix well to obtain a real solid fluid condenser. the electrum magicum of the old alchemists is a superb fluid condenser composed of: 30 grams of gold 30 grams of silver

ts mineral coal 3 parts the different parts are by volume, not weight. all ingredients must be pulverized. the metals can be filed. put all the ingredients together and mix well to obtain a real solid fluid condenser. the electrum magicum of the old alchemists is a superb fluid condenser composed of: 30 grams of gold 30 grams of silver 15 grams of copper 6 grams of tine 5 grams of lead 3 grams of iron 15 grams of mercury as one can see, it contains all the planetary metals, and from this alloy magic mirrors, bells and similar object have been made. the solid fluid condensers i have recommended are very good, reliable, and have proved useful many times. 10. preparation of magic mirrors two kinds of magic mirrors exist: the concave mirror and the flat mirror. normal mirrors are suitable for

influenced in any way. on the other hand, if you make the same experiment with your astral body, you will perceive it as intensely as if you used your physical body. in the next exercise you will learn to withdraw gradually from your body, step by step. at first you will feel as it were pulled back from your physical body by an invisible attractive power, similar to that which a magnet exerts on iron. this is to be interpreted by the fact that the bond between the astral and the physical body id fed, preserved and kept in balance by the most subtle fluid. by performing the exercises of sending out the astral body, you are committing a deliberate act against the lawfulness of the natural elements in your body, which must be overcome. consequently the movement of your astral body requires a

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

me had a certain demon, an incubus, named son of art, or robin son of art, who had carnal knowledge of her, and from whom she admitted that she had received all her wealth. this incubus made its appearance under various forms, sometimes as a cat, or as a hairy black dog, or in the likeness of a negro( thiops, accompanied by two others who were larger and taller than he, and of whom one carried an iron rod. according to another source the sacrifice to the evil spirit is said to have consisted of nine red cocks, and nine peacocks' eyes. dame alice was also accused of having "swept the streets of kilkenny betweene compleine and twilight, raking all the filth p. 30 towards the doores of hir sonne william outlawe, murmuring secretly with hir selfe these words "to the house of william my sonne h

er the next night. he accepted the invitation, and died the following afternoon, 21st march 1656. this chapter may be brought to a conclusion by the following story from glanvill's relations. 1 one mr. john browne of durley in ireland was made by his neighbour, john mallett of enmore, trustee p. 104 for his children in minority. in 1654 mr. browne lay a-dying: at the foot of his bed stood a great iron chest fitted with three locks, in which were the trustees' papers. some of his people and friends were sitting by him, when to their horror they suddenly saw the locked chest begin to open, lock by lock, without the aid of any visible hand, until at length the lid stood upright. the dying man, who had not spoken for twenty-four hours, sat up in the bed, looked at the chest, and said: you say

it happened, but to no purpose, the child continued in a most terrible paroxysm; whereupon they sent for the minister, who scarce had laid his hand upon her when she was turned by the demon in the most dreadful shapes. she began first to rowl herself about, then to vomit needles, pins, hairs, feathers, bottoms of thread, pieces of glass, window-nails, nails drawn out of a cart or coach-wheel, an iron knife about a span long, eggs, and fish-shells p. 196 and when the witch came near the place, or looked to the house, though at the distance of two hundred paces from where the child was, she was in worse torment, insomuch that no life was expected from the child till the witch was removed to some greater distance. the witch was apprehended, condemned, strangled, and burnt, and was desired to

ISIS UNVEILED

d the physical states of man during their period. krita-yuga, the golden age, the 'age of joy' or spiritual innocence of man; treta-yuga. the age of silver, or that of fire the peri- od of supremat^ of man and of giants and of the sons of god; dv¶- yuga, the age of bronze a mixture already of purity and impurity (spirit and matter, the age of doubt and at last our own, the kah-yugs, or age of iron, of darkbess, niisery and sorrow. in this age vishnu had to incarnate himself in krishna, in order to save humanity from the goddess kali, consort of siva, the all-annihilating the goddess of death, de- struction and human misery. kcdi is the best emblem to represent the 'fall of man; the falling of spirit into the degradation of matter, with all its terrific results. we have to rid ourselves

lessly do we bring secia widely separated in chronological order into critical juxta- position. there is one purpose in our work to be kept constantly in view the analysis of religious beliefs, and the definition of their descent from the post to the present. what has most blocked the way is roman catfaoudsm; and not until the secret principles of this religion are uncovered can we comprehend the iron staff upon which it leans to steady its now tottering steps. we shall begin with the ophites, nazaraeans, and the modem druzes. the personal views of the author, as they will be presented in the schemes, will be most decidedly at variance with the prejudiced specu- lations of irenaeus, theodcxct, and epiphanius (the sainted reo^ade, who sold his brethren, inasmuch as they will reflect the ide

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

hence many level 3 light eaters prefer a life of silence and solitude. however as many of us have specific work that requires us to be very involved with this world, how to be more grounded is something that needs addressing. as such i thoroughly recommend the practice of qigong and the taoist practices so that we can maintain our focus in the world and not feel too alienated. exercises like the iron shirt and many others are a wonderful way to ground us in an energizing manner. another common problem has been our absorption of energies that are not too our liking when our sensitivity levels become too high. we have discussed this in detail in the absorption versus radiation section of the blocking our nourishment chapter. we can also combat this by utilizing the various biofield devices

e buds for the pure sake of pleasure, not need. we are still researching the depth and complexity of the human psyche regarding the connection with eating for emotionally based reasons and this aspect of boredom. note 2003: to me one of the greatest gifts over the past decade has been freedom of choice and freedom from limitation. q: are there any associated health risks/problems or deficiencies (iron, b12? continuing from the previous question, the essence of life is prana. if a person chooses, they may connect to. and be sustained by. the pranic forces which carry all the vitamins and nourishment that is required to maintain an immortal, self-regenerating physical body. therefore, one only would feel tired or experience health risks or problems if one expects to and would be as a result

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

resumed his labour, and, curiously enough, found a large, flat stone in the centre of his field. this field was far away from any of the farms or cotes, as they were called inthose days, with which the now almost twilight country was sparingly dotted. in a short time he cleared the stone free of the grass and weeds which had grown over it; and it proved to be a large, oblong slab, with an immense iron ring fixed at one end in d 6 the rosicrucians. a socket. for half an hour the countryman essays to stir this stone in vain. at last he bethought himself of some yards of rope which he had lying near amongst his tools; and these he converted, being an ingenious, inquisitive, inventive man, into a tackle by means of which, and by passing the sling round a bent tree in line with the axis of the

ing over everything, and lighting up the place with brilliant radiance, like an intense golden sunset! he started back. then his limbs shook and bent under him as he gazed with terror at the figure of a man, whose face was hidden, as he sat in a studious attitude in a stone chair, reading in a great book, with his elbow resting on a table like a rectangular altar, in the light of a large, ancient iron lamp, suspended by a thick chain to the middle of the roof. a cry of alarm, which he could not suppress, escape from the scared discoverer, who involuntarily advanced one pace, beside himself with terror. he was now within the illuminated chamber. as his foot fell on the stone, the figure started bolt upright from his seated position, as if in awful astonishment. he erected his hooded head, a

and showed himself as if in anager about to question the intruder. doubtful if what he saw were a reality, or whether he was not in some terrific dream, the countryman advanced, without being aware of what he was doing, another audacious ever-burning lamps. 9 step. the hooded man now thrust out a long arm, as if in warning; and in a moment the discoverer perceived that his hand was armed with an iron baton, and that he pointed it as if tremendously to forbid further approach. now, however, the poor man, not being in a condition either to reasonor to restrain himself, with a cry, and in a passion of fear, took a third fatal step; and as his foot descended on the groaning stone, which seemed to give way for a moment under him, the dreadful man, or image, raised his arm high like a machine

where the granulation compresses, shining even in its hardness, into the solidest lamince. of cold, darkest blue, and streaky, core-like, agate-resembling white lie the seeds of fire, spiritual flame-seeds to the so stony fruit? in what folds of the flint, in the block of it-in what invisible recess speckled and spotted in what tissue crouch the firesparks? to issue, in showers, on the stroke of iron on the so sudden clattering (as of the crowbars of man) on its operations of fire. 73 stony doors: stone caving the thing fire, unseen, as its sepulchre; stroke warning the magical thing forth. whence comes that trail of fire from the cold bosom of the hard, secret, unexploding flint? children as from what hard, rocky breast; yet hiding its so sacred, sudden fire-birth! who and what science-p

was a most potent charm. the standards and guidons of the cavalry follow the same magic rule. the planets are supposed by the astrologers and alchemists to exercise dominion more particularly in the order following, and to produce effects upon their own appropriate undermentioned metals, on planetarily corresponding days. these are sol, for gold, on sunday; luna, for silver, on monday; mars, for iron, on tuesday; mercury, for quicksilver, on wednesday; jupiter, for tin, on thursday; venus, for copper, on friday; and saturn, for lead, on saturday (lucas s travels, p. 79; count bernard of treviso. the emblematical sculptures, in which the whole enigma of the art of transmutation is supposed to be contained, are those over the fourth arch of the cemetery of the innocents, at paris, as you go

e rosicrucians. appointed) in another metal, the blanker, blacker, and coarser metals being, in fact, only as the diseases of matter, which aims at clear perfect health or as gold. here the alchemists contend that their superhuman (in apparent-sense) science, felicitously applied, completes the operation, and transmutes or compels-on, into gold what weaker-handed nature was compelled to forego as iron. thus nature always intends the production of male (sun gold fire being the workman, or agent; but that in the production of female (silver as against gold the moon sublimated matter, or patient, nature s operation miscarries; the effort degenerates into struggle, and struggle submits in failure. therefore, female. but this shortcoming, when the divine perfecting-means (in another state, and

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

tations of our own knowledge, and the possibility of "intelligence" elsewhere in the universe operating space ships- quite possibly more than one kind of "intelligence" and more than one kind of space ship. this world is full of unexplained oddities. the legends of atlantis and mu have been favorite targets of the scoffers "they" say there are no ghosts, no spirits, nothing falls from the sky but iron and stone meteorites. but for centuries the earth was believed to be flat, there was no america, no heliocentric system of earth and planets, no fossil dinosaurs; yet we know these beliefs to have been wrong. reliable people have been seeing the phenomena known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. there are good reports as far back as 1500 bc and before. thousands of people have s

range events--oddities, we can call them--shows us at least three major areas. one of these relates to things which fall from the sky, some of which come from space and which may be roughly classified as organic and inorganic. we use "organic" in the sense of something which is part of, or associated with, a living, thinking entity, and "inorganic" as being merely the debris of space. an ordinary iron-nickel meteorite from space is inorganic within the sphere of our present definition; but if this meteorite arrives on earth shaped like a seven-headed malayan goddess, or a compound microscope, it's organic. a second major category stands out in the bibliography of oddities. it is the great area of events which encompasses disappearing people, and ships; airplanes and airships crashing and d

onfronted with a falling object of crystalline rock obviously shaped as an optical aid, are we to cravenly call it an erratic, and discard or ignore it? and are we to cringe before the deposition of a few hundreds of dead birds from the heavens, all on one city, but of species completely scrambled and mostly unknown within hundreds of miles of that city? what would you do with a piece of meteoric iron, unmistakably shaped by intelligent hands, but which was equally unmistakably removed from solid formations of geological tertiary age of 300,000 years ago? wouldn't you perhaps reshuffle your conception of the antiquity of intelligence and wonder whether it was, for a fact, indigenous to this planet? if you found raw meat, with hair attached, falling over a two-acre space, from a clear and u

ess in so doing, if only for camouflage or concealment. the l-m great ark=bigger! it may be difficult to see the significance of antiquity in the consideration of space flight or space inhabitance. but failure to consider the sprawling background of the ufo problem is the greatest single factor in the appalling chaos which engulfs this enigma. take but one small item: the little piece of meteoric iron which was found deep within a tertiary coal bed. the locale and the finding are authentic. the shape is purely artificial. it is but an inch or so square, practically a cube. four sides are squarely faced, and the other two are convexly shaped, with complete symmetry. around the four surfaced sides runs a groove, geometrically contrived. here are three established facts: 1. placement in an in

ale and the finding are authentic. the shape is purely artificial. it is but an inch or so square, practically a cube. four sides are squarely faced, and the other two are convexly shaped, with complete symmetry. around the four surfaced sides runs a groove, geometrically contrived. here are three established facts: 1. placement in an incipient coal bed some 300,000 years ago. 2. made of meteoric iron, identifiable by structure and chemical content. 3. clearly shaped by artificial means. the number of explanations as to how it got into that coal bed may be few or several, but there is one underlying fact which cannot be scoffed into oblivion: this piece of natural steel was shaped by an intelligent instrumentation at least 300,000 years ago! before steel was known to h.s. we can go on, but

ces rigidity in a localized or sharply delimited volume of air, or possibly in space itself. we are thinking of something like crystals of ice freezing within a body of water. the element remains the same but its physical attributes change suddenly and drastically. deh o, they can't prove it yet! another example might be the passage of a limited but powerful magnetic field through a scattering of iron filings or iron powder. before the approach of the magnetic flux, the powder lies loose, flexible, and penetrable. yet, when the flux enters it, invisibly and imperceptibly to the senses of man, this docile powder become rigid, tenacious, coherent, and at least semisolid. do the space dwellers have a force which produces this temporary rigidity in the air, or even possibly in the gravitation

beam could not have the effect which we have suggested, else the freeze would take effect along the entire length of the beam. however, it is possible that the threedimensional volume enclosed within the intersection of two beams might create such a congealed island. speculating further on this weird possibility, remember that oxygen is a magnetic substance. it is not, perhaps, paramagnetic like iron, manganese and nickel, but nevertheless sufficiently magnetic that it can be separated from the other constituents of air by means of a magnetic field. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. 2000 watt cyclotron, built 1948, n.y. state gives proof of the actuality of "solidity" in force-fields (sic) however, is not recognized yet, or thought of yet as tool. if such a

a north santa fe merchant, collected it and packed it in sawdust in his store. 1882: pieces of ice eight inches long and an inch and one-half thick fell at davenport, iowa, on august 30. 1883: a lump of ice the size of a brick, weighing two pounds, fell in chicago, on july 12. 1883: there was a storm at dubuque, iowa, on june 16. great hailstones and pieces of ice fell. the foreman of the novelty iron works stated that in two large hailstones, melted by him, were found small living frogs. the pieces of ice which fell at that time had a peculiarity as bizarre as anything in this book. they seemed, evidently, to have been motionless for a long time floating somewhere. 50 there could be no more perfect description of ice suspended in meteoric orbits. 1886: in a small town in venezuela, april

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

define esp and pk. give examples. 3) what is the subconsicous? book list hal n. banks, an introduction to psychic studies. annie besant, thought power. michael h. brown, pk, a report on the power of psychokinesis. richard cavendish, the black arts. alexandira david-neel, magic and mystery in tibet. raynor c. johnson, the imprisoned splendour. ostrander and shroeder, psychic discoveries behind the iron curtan* magick 2- the subjectivity of experience* your awareness of the physical world and of your place within it is mostly based upon the physical senses (hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste. these five senses continually send information to the mind, and it is up to the mind to select and interpret them. if you could not do so, your senses would overwhelm you and be meaningless. selection

KETAB E SIYAH

ome cursing her words as treachery and reviling her who spoke them, some bemoaned her speech and mourned her passing from their number, but others looked up, bright with new purpose and understanding and praised the courage of their sister with joyous hearts and silent lips. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a giant in full dress for that most bloody business, war, arrayed in bronze and iron, forged into greaves and plate. naught but his eyes were seen for his great helm and these eyes were burning with fury and a hunger for the blood of foes, and yet something in that fire was cool, computing the manoeuvre of the fray and cunning strategy to win the fight, giving less and gaining more 53 by the masterful dictation of place and hour thus striking weakness with unresisted strength

ome cursing her words as treachery and reviling her who spoke them, some bemoaned her speech and mourned her passing from their number, but others looked up, bright with new purpose and understanding and praised the courage of their sister with joyous hearts and silent lips. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a giant in full dress for that most bloody business, war, arrayed in bronze and iron, 114 forged into greaves and plate. naught but his eyes were seen for his great helm and these eyes were burning with fury and a hunger for the blood of foes, and yet something in that fire was cool, computing the manoeuvre of the fray and cunning strategy to win the fight, giving less and gaining more by the masterful dictation of place and hour thus striking weakness with unresisted strengt

opal and ruby by the fount of flame came abaddon, the battle-lord, marshal of my hosts. entering at the portal, guarded by great serpents, coiled about the tower's width, he ascended upon black raven's wings the central shaft to the high chamber where, within a pool of mercury i watched the reflections, magic-made, of the passings of men and beasts and angels upon the earth. turning, i hailed the iron-clad angel who bowed before me and hailed me and spoke with these words in a voice that seemed like the battle's very roar, the pounding of drums and hooves, the cannon's bark, the horns resounding blast, the war-cry and the death-cry. thus did abaddon, the lord of ruin, speak "lord satanael, commander of our hearts, know you what transpires upon the earth amongst the nations of the nephilim

ber and obscured methuselah and all his throne. the wind's freezing blast extinguished every torch and lamp that only the bloody dusk-light illumined methuselah and his quailing knights, who fled to the furthest extremes of the throne-room. within the broken portal of the threshold stood the black and terrible angel-shape of abaddon. twice the height of man stood the avenger, armoured in plate of iron and bronze, his wings spread wide like the torn pennant on the field, within his hand the bleeding sword, the ruiner, seven feet long and shaped like the serpent's tongue with engrailed blade and forked point, weeping ever the blood of the fallen. thus came abaddon to the throne of methuselah. even as the raven croaked methuselah repented not and begged not for clemency before a vision so fea

tower he himself girded for battle, 218 arraying himself in green-dyed robes of velvet and tying his black beard, shot through with steel, into seven braids like serpents, binding them with gold. eight feet high stood the king of shurupuk, he was as a giant upon the earth, and his eyes burned as if on fire. thunderous was voice and thunderous his step and in his right hand he bore a mace with an iron-head that had fallen from amongst the stars of the sky; five feet long was the shaft of that rod, decorated with gold and smaragds. and the head was an orb of a foot's girth, bound with the sinews of tigers. upon his head he wore a high-crested helm of bronze, decorated in silver with the temple's seal and his breast was defended by the hide of a crocodile, made strong with scales of steel. t

was the line of lamech cast as the foremost ranks turned to flee even as the hindmost advanced against a foe they perceived not well. in that disorder the sounding of retreat was unheeded and lamech's people were as gazelle in the lion's jaw. lamech himself could not draw his gaze from the white stallion and its rider, throwing up a froth, as the dread king came across the river to meet him, the iron sceptre raised high like the tail of the scorpion that has within its claws its prey. all courage then left the heart of lamech. in the shallows of the river, before the king, utanapishtim, lamech fell upon his knees, casting aside his spear and holding up open hands. the emperor in green dismounted from his horse and crossed the remainder of the distance by his own feet to stand in triumph b

all courage then left the heart of lamech. in the shallows of the river, before the king, utanapishtim, lamech fell upon his knees, casting aside his spear and holding up open hands. the emperor in green dismounted from his horse and crossed the remainder of the distance by his own feet to stand in triumph before the prostrate lamech, raising up once more with two hands the great mace of meteoric iron. now weeping lamech made entreaty to the victor, though the battle was newly joined, and implored mercy of the king of shurupuk "utanapishtim, monarch more terrible than god, i pray you be more merciful than the king of heaven 220 in dealing with those that await your whim. i beg you spare my life and i shall serve you well. i have no more taste for death now that my own is threatened. see th

s like a bolt of fire with a tail of light across the sky, went ashmedai amongst the numberless columns of stone that held aloft the soaring vaults carved into the living stone of earth. as precipitous as an arrow let fly from the singing bow-string, went ashmedai amongst the passages, torn out by the talons of dragons. so came ashmedai to chadel. to receive the shedim thegn the gates, bound with iron, were set open and he passed inwards. with no less haste he made a path to the spire of opal and ruby and came before me in great distraction, panting with ardour of his flight. in this way i learnt of what was planned by heaven for the race of man. upon a seat of cedar i sat, draped with silks of purple and cinnabar, and sipped from jewel-starred cup a rich nectar brewed from grapes grown up

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are' lead! gold& tin$ copper or brass% iron# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence of heat and moisture the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals the bla

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

e study of the zohar, and kabbalah itself, is a starting point in the correction of the entire world and the achievement of absolute peace and happiness. 85 c h a p t e r 11 f r o m t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e s t u dy o f t h e t e n s e f i r o t in the introduction to the study of the ten sefirot, baal hasulam (rabbi yehuda ashlag) explains that his principal desire is to break the iron wall that has been separating us from kabbalah and prevent the disappearance of this science from our world once and for all. however, many objections have been raised against the study of kabbalah, all of which stem from ignorance concerning its essence and purpose. baal hasulam continues to explain that if we ask ourselves, what is the meaning of our lives, these numbered, bitter, hard year

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

reaction is a result of the people s spiritual exile over the past two millennia. during the last, and spiritually lowest stage of the exile, people without spiritual attainment became leaders of their people. a clear example of this approach is the treatment that baal hasulam received when he began to disseminate the kabbalah among the masses. his task was clear: i find a great need to break an iron wall that has been separating us from the wisdom of kabbalah since the ruin of the temple to this generation. it lies heavily on us and arouses fear of being forgotten from israel( introduction to the study of the ten sefirot, item 1. in an attempt to prevent the approaching holocaust, in 1933 baal hasulam published a series of treatises. 190 from chaos to harmony the first treatise stated th

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

now how to build our tool of perception correctly, we will understand where we truly are. as we have said in the previous section of this book, our substance consists of a desire to receive delight and pleasure. if we can make this substance sensitive to insights concerning reception and bestowal, we will be able to use it to perceive the spiritual world. it is similar to the way a block of crude iron is melted to create engine parts. when assembled correctly, they yield a working engine. similarly, we must work with ourselves to perceive spirituality. building the spiritual kli is a lot like sculpting you must carve the raw material and file it until the desired shape appears. the raw material, in this case, consists of our desires, our thoughts, and intentions. the creator formed creatio

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

es because the creator made a vessel of desire, not a vessel of understanding, so knowledge of kabbalah can stem only from emotional scrutiny. d e s i r e, n o t t a l e n t q: can a person with limited talent advance in spiritual degrees by oneself, or does one need additional help? t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 108 a: in the introduction to the study of the ten sefirot( breaking the iron wall, rav yehuda ashlag writes that, unlike a business that demands skills, memory, technical abilities, agility, rhythmic sense, and strength, the study of kabbalah demands no talent, because all the talents are attributes of the body that is in this world. in other words, these attributes pertain to the nature of this world, which are not involved in attaining the upper one. there must be a

istence from absence, because the will to receive pleasure did not exist prior to creation, and hence was not felt. when we begin to feel that our whole nature is actually a desire to delight in the light of the creator, we are then considered a creation. t h e i r o n wa l l a r o u n d u s q: from the introduction to the study of the ten sefirot (item 1: first, i find it necessary to destroy an iron wall that has separated us from the wisdom of kabbalah, since the ruin of the temple and up to our current generation k i have three questions for you on this issue: 1. of what is this wall built? 2. under what conditions was it erected? 3. why is this wall standing between israel and kabbalah? s p i r i t ua l wo r k 153 a: 1. the iron wall is inside our hearts, between its egotistical inten

vel of unfounded hatred, and with them, the entire jewish people fell. there were earlier declines in spiritual level, such as the destruction of the first temple, and from then on, such downfalls have continued to the present day. however, in our time begins the process of realizing the need for correction, and along with this, the rise of souls to the barrier and beyond it. 3. the barrier is an iron wall that separates us from the spiritual, from kabbalah. by definition, kabbalah is not a science of entering the higher world- that is only a part of it. kabbalah is a method that teaches how to unite with the creator and achieve the goal of creation, meaning kabbalah actually starts beyond the barrier. 4. the barrier stands between israel and kabbalah because the desire called israel (with

zion, we were like unto them that dream. this is a transition stage similar to when a child is born; it comes over us from s p i r i t ua l wo r k 171 above without our being aware of it. but past the barrier the work is entirely different. only intensive reading of genuine kabbalistic texts hastens the way. i recommend that you read the introduction to the study of the ten sefirot (breaking the iron wall, item 155. at t e m p t s t o f e e l t h e s p i r i t ua l q: i m trying to feel the restriction, the screen and the corrected desire. is it possible to implement them in my everyday life? a: anything you think you can implement, implement. otherwise, look around you. it does not matter that later you will realize that what you see is not exactly accurate. use incorrect analogies; it d

i s yo u r s c h o o l o f j u da i s m? q: which school of judaism do you belong to? a: i belong to the only ancient ever-existing school, which was started by abraham, the very first jew. upon the destruction of the temples, as a result of a spiritual downfall, various schools of judaism emerged because, as rav yehuda ashlag writes in his introduction to the study of the ten sefirot (item.1, an iron wall has been erected between us and the science of kabbalah. since then schools, currents, and parties emerged. kabbalists never related themselves to anything, since their course has always been directed towards uniting with the creator, and there is only one method to achieve that goal v kabbalah. we are not connected with any schools or streams that were formed to reflect a character, a w

had many prophets. then at some point they disappeared. why? a: because rav akiva s disciples spiritual downfall from the level of love thy neighbor as thyself caused the entire jewish people to fall t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 420 and led to the ruin of the temple. from that moment on, the connection between the spiritual world and ours ceased to exist and, as baal hasulam says, an iron wall has been erected between israel and kabbalah. however, all this describes falling from the level of the 2nd temple (mochin de neshama. before that, there was the ruin of the 1st temple, a fall from the level of mochin de haya. at that time, all prophets vanished, since a prophet s level is haya if he says i saw, and neshama if he says, i heard. in addition, to be able to interpret a prop

l wo r k. 141 the meaning of spiritual work..141 serving the creator means becoming like him..141 are there other paths to the creator. 142 at the king s table. 142 d e t a i l e d t a b l e o f c o n t e n t s 431 the first spiritual degree. 146 deciding to restrict..147 analyzing desires. 148 the ability to decide. 150 correcting surrounding light. 151 the screen: a spiritual decision. 151 the iron wall around us. 152 crossing the barrier. 153 mitzvot in kabbalah. 154 kabbalistic meaning of mitzvot. 158 correct the aim. 158 everyone must pass correction. 159 one hundred and twenty five degrees. 160 the way to change..161 only the screen can correct us..161 the cause of fasting is misinterpretation of kabbalah..161 our behavior and the spiritual worlds. 162 good deeds come only from abov

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

f the earth, and there is also a current flowing at right angles to that, moving round the earth in the direction of its motion. both of these currents are utilized in the working of the lodge, as will be explained when we come to deal with the ceremonies. the world at large does not recognize the presence of these forces, which are not of the same order as those which influence a common steel or iron magnet, but there are some people who are sensitive to them to such an extent that they cannot sleep comfortably if they lie across them. some of these people sleep best with the head to the north, others with the head to the south. among the hindus it is considered that only an ascetic should sleep with his head to the north. the householder, the man of the world, should lie with his head to

xtent impure probably dates from the close of the stone age. the same idea of conservatism dictated that only a stone knife might be used in the offering of sacrifices or in the rite of circumcision. 469. this part of the preparation is also supposed to refer to the fact that at the building of king solomon fs temple there was not heard within its precincts the sound of any axe, hammer or tool of iron, as the stones were fully prepared in the quarries and were laid in their places by means of wooden mauls. 470. that the candidate should enter without any v c s on his person is symbolic of the fact that he is going into a brotherhood in which money, titles, and other distinctions of the outer world do not count. 471. the rich man leaves his rank and state 472. outside the mason fs door; 473

connecting thread of matter which joins the etheric double to the dense physical body when the former is temporarily partially withdrawn from the latter- the gsilver cord h mentioned in a well-known biblical passage as being definitely loosed at death* ecclesiastes, xii, 6) bro. wilmshurst tells us that gsilver is the technical esoteric term for psychical substance, as gold is for spiritual, and iron or brass for physical h(*the masonic initiation, p. 85) he suggests also that the c c t c is intended to hint to us that all the true and higher initiations take place out of the physical body. 483. the inner preparation 484. but little is said in the ritual about the other and even more important aspect of the necessary preparation of a candidate for initiation into freemasonry- the inner an

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

im that many dangers surrounded and awaited him, and exhorting him to continue unshaken. heavy doors closed behind him, rendering his return impossible. presently he entered a spacious hall filled with flames through which he had to rush with the greatest speed. even when he had passed through this fiery furnace he came to another hall the floor of which was covered with a huge network of red-hot iron bars with very narrow interspaces between them. having surmounted this difficulty he reached a wide and rapid channel across which he had to swim. on the other side he found a narrow landing place bounded by two high walls of brass, in each of which was an immense wheel of the same metal, and beyond them was an ivory door. he found no means of opening this door, but presently discovered two l

mere cubicles- but open all round for about two feet under the roof, so that there was ample ventilation. round the wall of this hall under the roof usually ran a frieze of painted bas-relief- generally a procession, executed in the most spirited style. 215. the buildings were of granite, and there were many statues of granite, though also some made of a softer stone, and some of copper and wood. iron was used by this race, but not much; the principal metal was copper. the pottery was distinctly peculiar; all the commonest articles were made of bright yellow earthenware, painted with all sorts of figures. these figures were generally on a broad white band round the middle of the pot, and the colours used were nearly always red, brown or yellow- very rarely blue or green. these were the com

ant, viii) hiram abiff was also a real personage, though he did not meet his death in the manner recorded in masonic tradition. he was a decorator rather than the actual architect of the temple, as the biblical records clearly tell us. he was filled with wisdom and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass(*i kings, vii, 14) he was skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him(*ii chron, ii, 14) 276. josephus confirms the tradition that he was an artist and a craftsman rather than an architect: this man was skilful in all sorts of work, but his chief skill lay in working in gold and silver and b

no doubt be elucidated by long and painstaking research, but it would be a task involving far too great an expenditure of energy and time. 450. craft masonry in medieval times 451. evolutionary methods 452. the theory of human evolution ordinarily put before us is that of a slow upward progress of man from extremely primitive and almost animal conditions through the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, until he has arrived at his present level, which is by this hypothesis the highest which he has yet attained. this view is only partially true; it is only on the one hand in a very broad and general sense covering a development lasting many millions of years, and on the other in a purely local sense affecting one or two sub-races, that it can be said to be true at all, for it leaves enti

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

lls are any less gruesome than western hells. to cite a representative passage from the pali canon: the guards of hell lay him down and chop him with axes and turn him upside down and slice him with razors, and bind him to a chariot and drag him over a fiery blazing earth, and drive him up and down a great mountain of fiery blazing coals, and turn him upside down and hurl him into a fiery blazing iron cauldron; and there he boils, throwing up scum to the surface, rising and sinking and going across; and he feels pain that is sharp and bitter and severe. but he has not finished his time until he has exhausted his evil deeds. and this is only the beginning. dante would undoubtedly have been jealous. speculation regarding demons and hellish realms, particularly as they relate to the postmorte

youth founder genesis p-orridge. it remained for bauhaus, however, to define gothic music, which was booming in the early 1980s. this explosion in turn gave birth to new gothic groups, such as the misfits, dark theater, and the sisters of mercy. by the end of the decade, the subculture had spread across the industrialized world. specialized magazines emerged and non- goth groups such as kiss and iron maiden produced albums with gothic themes. siouxie sioux, lead singer/songwriter with the legendary goth group siouxie and the banshees, 1980 (lynn goldsmith/corbis) grimoire 99 although many young people were weekend goths, the core of the goth subculture eventually came to be constituted by full-time goths who spoke an idiosyncratic language, dressed in black clothing on a daily basis, wore

s, it is unlikely that ac/dc will ever shake off its infernal associations because of their association with the serial killer richard 106 heavy metal music ramirez. ramirez, better known as the night stalker, was a fan of the group, and claimed to have modeled some of his crimes after the ac/dc song night prowler. other heavy metal groups associated with the devil were m tley cr e, judas priest, iron maiden, and sometimes even kiss. satanism became something more than a symbol of rebellion with the emergence of socalled black metal. black metal sometimes termed satanic heavy metal was a blend of gothic music and heavy metal. the first black metal band was venom, an english group originally called oberon. venom popularized the cult of death and satanism as metal themes. their tune black me

such as vandalizing graves and burning churches. these extreme acts are referred to as esoterrorism, or esoteric terrorism.at least two black metal bands, burzum and emperor, were involved in such activities. the leader of burzum, who had converted from satanism to a neo-nazi form of norse neopaganism, was eventually sent to jail for his involvement in the burning of at least ten churches and the iron maiden, 7 july 1998 (mitchell gerber/corbis) heavy metal music 107 murder of another musician. he continues to be popular among black metalists, writing articles and music from prison. mayhem, the band who lost a member to the founder of burzum, is perhaps the most influential northern black metal group. one of their most well-known songs is carnage, another mayhem tune is deathcrush. as indi

head of his defeated enemy, kalya (fortean picture library) hinduism 117 not mean that south asians conceived of their hells as being any less grotesque. instead, by the time of the puranas, hindus had posited baroque hell realms rivaling dante s inferno. this is reflected in the names of some of these realms: forest of sword-blades, diarrhea, burning vat, thorny, saw-toothed, dog-eating, red hot iron balls, worm-eating, and blood- and pus-eating. and the descriptions provided in the puranas are as vivid as the names of the hell worlds; for example, those haughty people who treat their mothers, fathers and teachers with contempt go to hell where they lie with their faces downward in pus, feces and urine. crows rip out the intestines through the anus of men who urinate in front of cows, bra

ts of classical hinduism, these macrocosmic cycles take place across vast expanses of time a spectacle of eternity that seems aimed more at boggling the mind than anything else. the basic building blocks of the hindu temporal schema are the four yugas krita, treta, dvapara, and kali which roughly correspond with the four ages of the classical greco-roman world the ages of gold, silver, brass, and iron. like the mediterranean ages, the series of hindu ages reflects a successive degeneration in the moral order. one complete cycle of four yugas, referred to as a mahayuga, is 4,320,000 human years in duration. one thousand mahayugas, in turn, constitute a kalpa of 4,320,000,000 human years. the end of each kalpa also referred to as a day of brahma culminates in the dissolution of the cosmos an

ire, and wide-eyed houris as the likeness of hidden pearls, a recompense for that they labored (arberry1969, 254. equally vivid descriptions of hell can be found throughout the koran, as in the chapter the pilgrimage: garments of fire shall be cut, and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatsoever is in their bellies and their skins shall be melted; for them await hooked iron rods; as often as they desire in their anguish to come forth from it, they shall be arabic amulet with an koranic inscription (fortean picture library) 130 islam restored into it, and taste the chastisement of the burning (arberry1969, 29. islamic theologians, particularly those of the asharite school, believed that if a believer entered hell, god could forgive his sins or nonconformities and

, literature, and history. new york: harper& row, 1977. mark of the devil the devil s mark (latin sigillum diaboli, meaning devil s seal) or witch s mark was a mark supposedly made by satan on the bodies of his new initiates. according to different accounts, this mark was inscribed on the devil s followers by the prince of darkness scratching them with his claw, branding them with an infernal hot iron, or licking them. these marks, which were not ordinary scars, could be red or blue, and were almost always found in hidden places, such as under the arms, under the eyelids, or in bodily orifices. although belief in the possession of infernal inscriptions on the bodies of witches was universally accepted in the medieval period, descriptions of devil s marks were actually not precise enough to

LIBER 777

rible. 32 onyx a sickle. 32 bis salt the pantacle or[[bread and] salt. 31 bis black diamond[[the winged egg. table i (continued) 13 xlii* perfumes. xliii* vegetable drugs. xliv* mineral drugs. 0[[no attribution possible. carbon 1 ambergris elixir vit aur. pot. 2 musk hashish[[cocaine] phosphorus 3 myrrh, civet belladonna, soma silver 4 cedar opium. 5 tobacco nux vomica, nettle[[cocaine, atropine] iron, sulphur 6 olibanum stramonium, alcohol, digitalis, coffee. 7 benzoin, rose, red sandal damiana, cannabis indica[[anhalonium] arsenic 8 storax anhalonium lewinii[[cannabis indica] mercury 9 jasmine, jinseng, all odoriferous roots orchid root lead 1010 dittany of crete corn mag. sulph. 11 galbanum peppermint. 12 mastic, white sandal[[nutmeg, mace, storax, all fugitive odours. all cerebral exci

(45) layga agiel lxxix. spirits of the planets* cxciii (transliteration) lxxx. olympic planetary spirits. lxxxi. metals. lxxxii. the noble eightfold path. 12 (2080) trtrtpt taphthartharath ophiel mercury samma vaca 13 (369) yadwmcj chasmodai phul silver samma sankappo 14 (175) lamdq qedemel hagith copper samma kammanto 21 (136) lamsh hismael bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12 right speech left lower point 13 right aspiration bottom point 14 right conduct right lower point 21 right discipline right upper point 27 right energy left lower point 30 right rapture centre point 32 ri

n which they appear in the goetia. planetary symbols indicate the rank of the spirit and the material from which its seal is to be made (some spirits have two ranks, thus (the original text has the seals of earls made in mixed copper and silver; mathers suggests copper/silver or silver/mercury alloy for the presidents: liber 777 56 rank planet metal knight saturn lead prince jupiter tin earl mars iron king sol gold duke venus copper president mercury mercury (hmm) marquis luna silver in rendering the names of the demons into hebrew, some suffixes like ion, ius, etc. have been dropped. an alternative set of attributions and hebrew spellings can be found in the sword and the serpent by denning and phillips, and godwin s cabalistic encyclopedia. cols. clxvii clxxi. a completely different set

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

ds. for it is a little cottage of red and green, by the western side of a great lake, and it is hidden in the woods. man, therefore, is at odds with wood and water; and being a magician bethinketh himself to take one of these enemies, wood, which is both the effect and cause of that excess of water, and compel it to fight for him against the other. what then maketh he? why, he taketh unto himself iron of mars, an axe and a saw and a wedge and a knife, and he divideth wood therewith against himself, hewing him into many small pieces, so that he hath no longer any strength against his will. good; then taketh he the fire of our father the sun, and setteth it directly in battle array against that water by his army of wood that he hath conquered and drilled, building it up into a phalanx like u

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

with death and birth, the royal revel, the lover and the loved adore the thing that is, when they are not. astarte. no more! bury thy face between these hills that threat the heaven, their rosy spears (the gods that fret) tipping thine ears, and with my hair i fll hide thee; and these mine handmaidens shall stand beside thee, and mix their nightingale with lion of the guard that chorus and clash iron, while as a river laps its banks my fingertips caress thy flanks (chorus) men. under the sun there is none, there is none that hath heard such a word as our lord hath begun. women. under the moon such a tune, such a tune as his thought hath half caught in this heaven of june. men. never hath night such a light, such a rite! women. never had day such a ray, such a sway! men. never had man, sin

whiteness of the swan, the horn of the narwhal. he couches upon the right side of the lady psyche] hail! thou that holdest thine appointed station, lordliest and boldest of his habitation, silence that foldest over its creation [the lion passes over. he is redder than the setting sun. he couches upon the left side of the lady psyche] hail! thou that art his ward and warrior, the brazen heart, the iron pulse of war! up start, up start! and set thyself to roar [the peacock passes over. this peacock is so great that his fan, as he spreads it on couching before the face of the lady psyche, fills the whole of the hall] hail! glory and light his majesty that hideth, pride and delight whereon his image rideth, while in thick night and darkness he abideth [the stage now darkens. even the light she

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

ed to god, whose ardour sent his radiance from the ruthless skies. liber cxcvii 4 then like a statue still he sate; nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. but the coldest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing siniste

han heathen hordes can scowl, the spectre hunger rages there; he passes like a midnight owl, hooting his heraldry, despair. the knights and squires of palamede stalk pale and lean through court and hall; though sharp and swift the archers speed their yardlong arrows from the wall. their numbers thin; their strength decays; their fate is written plain to read: these are the dread deciduous days of iron-souled sir palamede. he hears the horrid laugh that rings from camp to camp at night; he hears the cruel mouths of murderous kings laugh out one menace that he fears. no sooner shall the heroes die than, ere their flesh begin to rot, the heathen turns his raving eye to caerlon and camelot. king arthur in ignoble sloth is sunk, and dalliance with his dame, forgetful of his knightly oath, and c

n were men? that is thy question, warrior sir palamede the saracen! 11 iv now, with two score of men in life and one fair babe, sir palamede resolves one last heroic strife, attempts forlorn a desperate deed. at dead of night, a moonless night, a night of winter storm, they sail in dancing dragons to the fight with man and sea, with ghoul and gale. whom god shall spare, ride, ride (so springs the iron order. let him fly on honour.s steed with honour.s wings to warn the king, lest honour die! then to the fury of the blast their fury adds a dreadful sting: the fatal die is surely cast. to save the king.to save the king! hail! horror of the midnight surge! the storms of death, the lashing gust, the doubtful gleam of swords that urge hot laughter with high-leaping lust! though one by one the h

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

an boy that laughs in his happiness? his lover is the mighty crater of the mountain of fire. i saw his charred limbs borne down the slopes in a stealthy tongue of liquid stone. 8. and oh! the chirp of the cicida! 9. i remember the days when i was cacique in mexico. 10. o my god, wast thou then as now my beautiful lover? 11. was my boyhood then as now thy toy, thy joy? 12. verily, i remember those iron days. 20 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 13. i remember how we drenched the bitter lakes with our torrent of gold; how we sank the treasurable image in the crater of citlalteptl. 14. how the good flame lifted us even unto the lowlands, setting us down in the impenetrable forest. 15. yea, thou was a strange scarlet bird with a bill of gold. i was thy mate in the forests of the lowland; and eve

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

his elect. confusion sweeps upon the throng. awake, awake, o sword of song! awake to wound, awake to heal by wounding, thou resistless sword! raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal in agony to their prostrate lord! raise the duped herd.they have suffered long awake, awake, o sword of song! my strength this agony of the age win through; my music charm the old sorrow of years: my warfare wage by iron to an age of gold. the world is old, and i am strong. awake, awake, o sword of song* the name of siegfried.s sword. introduction to .ascension day and pentecost. not a word to introduce my introduction! let me instantly launch the boat of discourse on the sea of religious speculation, in danger of the rocks of authority and the quicksands of private interpretation, scylla and charybdis. here

er! 1 crowley.s mother. 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 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. ascension day 5 ho! i adopt the number. look at the quaint wrapper of this book* i will deserve it if i can: it is the number of a man.33 so since in england christ still stands with iron nails in bloody hands not pierced, but grasping! to hoist high children on cross of agony, i find him real for english lives. up with my pretty pair of fives !34 i fight no ghosts .but why revile (you urge me .in that vicious style the very faith whose truths you seem (elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme in your own soul. perhaps you know how mystic doctrines melt the snow of any faith: red

edge shearing across the firmament. but, first, to that exact event you christians celebrate to-day. we stand where the disciples stood and see the master float away into that cloudlet heavenly-hued receiving him from mortal sight. which of his sayings prove the true, lightning-bescrawled athwart the blue? i say not, which in hearts aright are treasured? but, what after ages engrave on history.s iron pages? this is the one word of .our lord .i bring not peace; i bring a sword. in this the history of the west55 bears him out well. how stands the test? one-third a century.s life of pain. he lives, he dies, he lives again, and rises to eternal rest of bliss with saints.an endless reign! leaving the world to centuries torn by every agony and scorn, and every wickedness and shame taking their

es him responsible for it. if he and judas are finally redeemed we might perhaps look over the matter this once. poet books his seat. creator in ascension day 17 tending to final bliss.to stir some life to better life, this pain is needful: that i grant again. did they at last in glory live, satan and judas69 might forgive the middle time of misery, forgive the wrong creation first or evolution.s iron key did them.provided they are passed beyond all change and pain at last out of this universe accurst. but otherwise! i lift my voice, deliberately take my choice promethean, eager to rejoice, in the grim protest.s joy to revel betwixt iscariot and the devil, throned in their midst! no pain to feel, tossed on some burning bed of steel, but theirs: my soul of love should swell and, on those pi

which compels, includes, absorbs both mighty unrevolving orbs in one informing masterless master-idea of consciousness. all differences as these indeed are chess play, conjuring .proceed. nay! i.ll go back. the exposition above, has points. but simple fission has reproduced a different bliss, at last a heterogenesis! the metaphysics of these verses is perfectly absurd. my curse is no sooner in an iron word i formulate my thought than i perceive the same to be absurd (tannh user. so for this, sir, why! your metaphysics in your teeth! confer a. crowley .berashith. but hear! the christian is a dualist; 230 235 240 245 250 255 260 265 recapitulation of principal cosmic theories. bard checkmates himself. consciousness and christianity. dhyana and hinduism. sammasamadhi and buddhism. pentecost 2

onsciousness. after one memory.o abide! vivid savitri lightning-eyed. nothing is worth a thought beside. one hint of amrita55 to taste and all earth.s wine may run to waste! for by this very means christ gained56 his glimpse into that world above which he denominated .love. indeed i think the man attained by some such means.i have not strained out mind by chance of sense or sex to find a way less iron-brained determining direction x;57 i know not if these hindu methods be best(.tis no such life and death odds, since suffering souls to save or damn never existed. so i fall confessing: well, perhance i am myself a christian after all! so far at least. i must concede christ did attain in every deed; yet, being an illiterate man, not his to balance or to scan, to call god stupid or unjust! he

d in leash the four beasts, but he strode boldly to her, and kissed her full on the lips. wherefore she signed and fell back a space, and he pressed on. now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. but the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. but the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. our father passed into the fire. some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our father among them .now away. he cried .i would look upon the sun. and with that the fire

o doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cowelephant desiring her bull in the jungles of ceylon. meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have the opportunity. in any case what the easterns call .onepointedness. is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. and iron will-power is a still earlier qualification. by meditation i do not mean merely .thinking about. anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. now true magical ceremony is entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished me

LIBER PORTA LUCIS

of the profane we cannot reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the sub figura i 3 absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adepts, seeing all things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20. the many change and pass; the one remains. even as wood and coal and iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of transcendent heat; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are consumd in the one knowledge. 21. nevertheless, as a fire cannot be started with iron alone, in the beginning one system may be suited for one seeker, another for another. 22. we ther

LIBER SAMEKH

s contributory causes of himsef. they have made him what he is. they correspond exactly to his own faculties. they are all.ultimately.of equal importance. the fact that he is what he is proves that each item is equilibrated. the impact of each new impression affects the entire system in due measure. he must therefore realize that every event is subject to him. it occurs because he had need of it. iron rusts because the molecules demand oxygen for the satisfaction of their tendencies. they do not crave hydrogen; therefore combination with that gas is an event which does not happen. all experiences contribute to make us complete in ourselves. we feel ourselves subject to them so long as we fail to recognize this: when we do, we perceive that they are subject to us. and whenever we strive to

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

things on it. there was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full of the most delicious wine, and there was a curious coin with the strangest writing on it, and a funny little stick that was covered with flames, like a rose tree is with roses. beside the strange coin was a heavy iron chain, and i took it and put it round my neck because i was bound to my fairy prince, and i would never go about like other people till i found him again. and they took the dagger and dipped it in the cup, and stabbed me all over to show that i was not afraid to be hurt, if only i could find my fairy prince. then i took the crucifix and held it up to make more light in case he was somewhere i

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

his body and its emotions. in the next six years he disciplined and conquered his mind and its thoughts. in the next two years he had reduced the universe to the yang and the yin and their permutations in the trigrams of fo-hi and the hexagrams of king wu. in the last year he abolished the yang and the yin, and became united with the great tao. all this was very satisfactory to kwaw. but even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned provisions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman2 n a a h h a q q q q a a r r i i a a m e m a a that he succeeded in his famous attempt to outdo the feats of captain webb.3 nor was his reception less than a triumph. so athletic a nation as the japanese still were could not but honour so superb an achievement, tho

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

uring that was used for such axes to the south in europe. a hypothetical culture associated with these axes and an even more hypothetical immigration of persons with them from europe is known as the boat-ax culture. around 1000 b.c.e. the scandinavian bronze age begins, and from this same period there are numerous spectacular rock carvings, which may have had a religious purpose. the scandinavian iron age begins circa 500.400 b.c.e, and its first stage, up to around the beginning of our era, is known as the pre-roman iron age, despite incipient trade with the roman empire. around the beginning of our era we begin to get runic inscriptions from scandinavia and the continent in a language that is identifiably germanic, and in scandinavia the so-called roman iron age begins. on the continent

h the roman empire. around the beginning of our era we begin to get runic inscriptions from scandinavia and the continent in a language that is identifiably germanic, and in scandinavia the so-called roman iron age begins. on the continent this is the time when the germanic peoples confront the roman empire, with increasing success. by around 400 c.e. gold appears in scandinavia, and the germanic iron age begins; the older germanic iron age, from circa 400 to 550 or 575 c.e, is also know as the migration period because of the extensive movements of the germanic tribes around europe, as is especially known from accounts of interaction with germanic peoples written by roman historians. scandinavia was probably the homeland for some of these peoples. for example, the burgundians would appear

from the island of bornholm, the goths either from gotaland in sweden or from the island of gotland off sweden fs east coast, and the vandals either from the vendel area of sweden or what is now vendsyssel in denmark. part of the anglo-saxon immigration to england probably came from angeln in what is now denmark. introduction 3 the period circa 600.800 c.e. is usually called the younger germanic iron age, although swedish archaeologists usually called it the vendel period because of the wealth of finds from vendel, an area northeast of lake malaren. during this period, too, there was extensive trade from across the baltic centered at helgo, then an island in the southern part of lake malaren. and in den- 4 norse mythology buckle clasp in silver, gold, and precious stones from admark, norw

viking age. this carving of a pair of bear-like gripping beasts brings to mind related examples in amber (historisk museum, bergen universitetet) the viking age is by definition a period when scandinavians and europeans interacted, and without that interaction and the written documents it gave rise to in europe, archaeologists might have called the period from 800 to circa 1000 the gscandinavian iron age. h the beginning of the period, as we have seen, is portrayed by those who wrote the history, the literate members of the christian church, as a meeting between pagan and christian, and it was only natural that as time passed attempts would be made to convert the scandinavians, as charlemagne had converted the saxons. indeed, those scandinavians who traded or settled in christian lands ha

evel as well. there is documented missionary activity in scandinavia from the early viking age onward, most famously by ansgar, the gapostle of the north, h who worked with both danish and swedish kings in the first half of the ninth century. the process was to bear fruit first in denmark in the later tenth century, when king harald bluetooth witnessed the priest poppo carrying a red-hot piece of iron, with no harm to his hands, as a demonstration that christ was greater than the pagan gods. at jelling in jutland, king harald bluetooth erected an elaborate rune stone celebrating his parents and himself, the person who gmade the danes christian, h as the jelling rune stone says. in norway there is evidence of christian burial from around this time, and hakon the good was a christian king wh

ion is chapter 6 of snorri fs ynglinga saga, which also provides a description of berserksgangr, ggoing berserk. h after stating that odin could make his enemies blind, deaf, or overcome with fear in battle, their weapons useless, snorri added, gbut his men went without armor and were crazed as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, were strong as bears or bulls. they killed men, but neither fire nor iron affected them. that is called going berserk. h other than this passage, berserks seem to have belonged more to the world of men than of gods, which agrees with the project of euhemerism snorri had adopted with ynglinga saga. the skaldic poem haraldskvadi, assembled from various fragments and generally attributed to a poet called thorbjorn hornklofi, assigns berserks to the forces of king hara

of the three major gods gets two objects. odin gets his spear, which he can use to throw an enemy army into panic, and the ring that duplicates itself in multiple copies. thor gets the hammer with which he kills giants, and frey gets the ship that can be folded up and put in a pocket and the gold-bristled boar, gullinborsti. it may be worth noting that each god gets one object of gold and one of iron or wood. furthermore, odin commissioned the dwarfs to make the fetter gleipnir, which he used to bind fenrir. and when odin, hoenir, and loki needed gold to compensate hreidmar for the death of his son otr in skaldskaparmal, it was to the dwarfs that odin sent loki. like the male gods, freyja also had precious objects fashioned by the dwarfs: she had her own gold-bristled boar (hyndluljod, st

the wise one of the mountain: a study in folklore, goppinger arbeiten zur germanistik, 379 (gottingen: kummerle, 1983. deities, themes, and concepts 101 eggther in voluspa, stanza 42, the herdsman of a giantess: he sat there on a mound and played a harp, the herdsman of a giantess, happy eggther. the giantess in question might be the one from stanza 40, who raised the brood of fenrir in jarnvid (iron-woods, possibly therefore angrboda. why anyone working for her would be happy is unexplained; perhaps eggther was especially fond of the harp. in any case, his name is identical to that of ecgtheow, who in the old english epic beowulf is the father of beowulf. andy orchard, in his dictionary of norse myth and legend, says that this parallel gis almost certainly a red herring, h a statement wi

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

, khak-ab, khan-ru,uai sau, beteshu, kharubu the four times wicked the smaiu and mesu betshet were the children of rebellion, those who were shape shifters and cult members who venerated the serpent as their god. as it was written in genesis the serpent was subtle than any beast and refers to the cunning and mindful approach it had towards anything done. the material associated with set-typhon is iron, called often the bone of typho. it was by this strength in which set held dominion over all at some point in time, his forms many and his will and hunger to exist was greater than the efforts of his enemies to destroy him. set is called the personification of the dark waters and the desert, his two-fold essence of being is central to his role as the tester and sorcerous initiator. all predat

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ganics made in the prebiotic soup will take time. in fact, it may well be that surface chemistry (that is, chemical reactions taking place on the surface of minerals) played an important role in the prebiotic soup. to illustrate this, remember that the catalytic converters in our cars are based entirely on surface chemistry. another example of a common reactive mineral is pyrite, a combination of iron and sulfur that makes beautiful crystals. pyrite can bind all sorts of organic materials in very close proximity on its surface, thereby allowing them to react and make more complex compounds, as was shown in the laboratory. pyrite is also a catalyst, that is, a substance that speeds up chemical reactions. several organic compounds commonly found in living cells have been synthesized from car

stence of the rna world itself. we describe next what this alternative model has to propose. another model for the origin of life the other broad model, which we do not describe in detail, proposes that a hydrogen-rich primeval atmosphere was not necessary for the synthesis of the first organic compounds. these could have been made in the superheated water of hydrothermal vents in the presence of iron and nickel catalysts or even on earth s surface. in both cases, sulfur-containing compounds are involved. there is good laboratory evidence that some organic molecules, including amino acids and even short proteins, can be made under these circumstances. however, there is as yet no evidence that rna can be made this way. thus, this model does not suggest how genetic information could have app

we know that the present oxygen level of 21% was reached only about 400 million years ago; it is estimated that oxygen levels in the atmosphere were 1 10% of the present value between 2.4 billion years ago and 545 million years ago. it is also known that oxygen levels varied widely up until about 2 billion years ago, as revealed 148 evolution and religious creation myths by the presence of banded iron formations, which are successive rock layers containing oxidized iron interspersed with rock layers not containing it. iron salts dissolved in water came out of solution after contact with oxygen and formed the bands containing oxidized iron. the existence of banded iron formations then shows that oxygen concentrations went up and down. the exact reason why this phenomenon took place is not w

ock layers containing oxidized iron interspersed with rock layers not containing it. iron salts dissolved in water came out of solution after contact with oxygen and formed the bands containing oxidized iron. the existence of banded iron formations then shows that oxygen concentrations went up and down. the exact reason why this phenomenon took place is not well understood. some think that banded iron formations were paralleled by cycles of active and then less active proliferation of photosynthetic microorganisms. then, as oxygen was appearing in the atmosphere, some microbes evolved a new metabolic pathway called respiration. this pathway actually metabolizes oxygen to produce cellular energy. each time we breathe in some air, our cells are using respiration to power other metabolic reac

s of prokaryotes also use the respiration pathway. interestingly, photosynthesis and respiration both depend on the existence of a class of organic molecules called porphyrins that may have been present in the primeval soup, because they are made in gas-sparking experiments. even hemoglobin, the protein that ferries oxygen to the cells of our body, contains a porphyrin molecule associated with an iron atom. chlorophyll, which is necessary to perform photosynthesis, also contains a porphyrin molecule, in this case associated with a magnesium atom. the appearance of oxygen in the atmosphere had another consequence that is still with us today: the formation of an ozone layer around the planet. the ozone molecule contains three oxygen atoms, contrary to breathable oxygen, which contains only t

MAGIC AND SPELLS

discern lies 9 storm of vengeance deities: angharradh, arvoreen, baravar cloakshadow, berronar 5 greater command truesilver, chauntea, corellon larethian, deneir, dumathoin- eldath, gaerdal ironhand, garl glittergold, geb, gorm gulthyn, hanali celanil, helm, kelemvor, laduguer, lathander, martham- 1 magic weapon 2 heat metal 6 blade barrier `7 transmute metal to wood domain' planing 3 keen edge 8 iron body deities: gond, helm, ilneval, red knight, siamorphe, ubtao. 4 rusting grasp 9 repel metal or stone granted power: free extend spell feat. s wall of iron planning domain spells moon' domain' 6 heroes' feast' 1 endure elements 6 otiluke's freezing sphere 2 sound burst waterspout 3 water breathing 8 maelstrom 4 freedom of movement 9 elemental swarm 5 wall of ice (cast as a water spell only)

ed. lesser ironguard abjuration level: sor/wiz 5 components: v, s, m casting time: 1 action range: touch target: creature touched duration: 1 round/level saving throw: will negates (harmless) spell resistance: yes (harmless) you or a creature you touch becomes immune to nonmagical metal. metal items (including metal weapons) simply pass through you, and you can walk through metal barriers such as iron bars. magic metal affects you normally, as do spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural effects. attacks delivered by metal items (such as poison on a dagger) affect you normally. if the spell expires while metal is inside you, the metal object is shunted out of your body (or you away from the metal, if it is an immovable object such as a set of iron bars. you and the object each take 1d

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

cording to its species by the divine mind, who when all things were at first confusedly mingled together, came and reduced them to order" archelaus declared the principle of all things to be twofold: mind (which was incorporeal) and air (which was corporeal, the rarefaction and condensation of the latter resulting in fire and water respectively. the stars were conceived by archelaus to be burning iron places. heraclitus (who lived 536-470 b.c. and is sometimes included in the ionic school) in his doctrine of change and eternal flux asserted fire to be the first element and also the state into which the world would ultimately be reabsorbed. the soul of the world he regarded as an exhalation from its humid parts, and he declared the ebb and flow of the sea to be caused by the sun. after pyth

e ground. there is an inscription in egyptian characters on the pyramid which records the quantity of radishes, onions, and garlick consumed by the labourers who constructed it; and i perfectly well remember that the interpreter who read the writing to me said that the money expended in this way was 1600 talents of silver. if this then is a true record, what a vast sum must have been spent on the iron tools used in the work, and on the feeding and clothing of the labourers, considering the length of time the work lasted, which has already been stated [ten years, and the additional time--no small space, i imagine--which must have been occupied by the quarrying of the stones, their conveyance, and the formation of the underground apartments" while his account is extremely colorful, it is app

controversy was at its height, so it was decided that the tomb was that of a rosicrucian initiate. a countryman, discovering the tomb and entering, found the interior brilliantly lighted by a lamp hanging from the ceiling. as he walked, his weight depressed some of the floor stones. at once a seated figure in heavy armor began to move. mechanically it rose to its feet and struck the lamp with an iron baton, completely destroying it, and thus effectually preventing the discovery of the secret substance which maintained the flame. how long the lamp had burned is unknown, but certainly it had been for a considerable number of years. it is related that among the tombs near memphis and in the brahmin temples of india lights have been found in sealed chambers and vessels, but sudden exposure to

is described as being "a tyrian by birch, but of israelitish descent" and "a second bezaleel, honored by his king with the title of father" the freemason's pocket companion (published in 1771) describes chiram as "the most cunning, skilful and curious workman that ever lived, whose abilities were not confined to building alone, but extended to all kinds of work, whether in gold, silver, brass or iron; whether in linen, tapestry, or embroidery; whether considered as an architect, statuary [sic; founder or designer, separately or together, he equally excelled. from his designs, and under his direction, all the rich and splendid furniture of the temple and its several appendages were begun, carried on, and finished. solomon appointed him, in his absence, to fill the chair, as deputy grand-ma

iters, yet is by others thus described: he has but one horn, and that an exceedingly rich one, growing out of the middle of his forehead. his head resembles an hart's, his feet an elephant's, his tail a boar's, and the rest of his body an horse's. the horn is about a foot and half in length. his voice is like the lowing of an ox. his mane and hair are of a yellowish colour. his horn is as hard as iron, and as rough as any file, twisted or curled, like a flaming sword; very straight, sharp, and every where black, excepting the point. great virtues are attributed to it, in expelling of poison and curing of several diseases. he is not a beast of prey (see redgrove's bygone beliefs) while the unicorn is mentioned several times in scripture, no proof has yet been discovered of its existence. th

frequently been symbolized as rocks supporting upon their broad surfaces new lands, races, and empires. according to the scandinavian mysteries, the stones and cliffs were formed from the bones of ymir, the primordial giant of the seething clay, while to the hellenic mystics the rocks were the bones of the great mother, g a. after the deluge sent by the gods to destroy mankind at the close of the iron age, only deucalion and pyrrha were left alive. entering a ruined sanctuary to pray, they were directed by an oracle to depart from the temple and with heads veiled and garments unbound cast behind them the bones of their mother. construing the cryptic message of the god to mean that the earth was the great mother of all creatures, deucalion picked up loose rocks and, bidding pyrrha do likewi

ng of man. little is known today concerning these magical properties, but the modern world may yet find it profitable to consider the findings of the early philosophers who determined these relationships by extensive experimentation. out of such research arose the practice of identifying the metals with the bones of the various deities. for example, the egyptians, according to manetho, considered iron to be the bone of mars and the lodestone the bone of horus. by analogy, lead would be the physical skeleton of saturn, copper of venus, quicksilver of mercury, gold of the sun, silver of the moon, and antimony of the earth. it is possible that uranium click to enlarge examples of herm. from christie's disquisitions upon the painted greek vases. the primitive custom of worshiping the gods in t

s of flowers adorning the columns. offerings, usually of food, were placed near the herm. occasionally these columns were used to uphold roofs and were numbered among the art objects ornamenting the villas of wealthy romans. p. 100 will prove to be the metal of uranus and radium to be the metal of neptune. the four ages of the greek mystics--the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, and the iron age- are metaphoric expressions referring to the four major periods in the life of all things. in the divisions of the day they signify dawn, midday, sunset, and midnight; in the duration of gods, men, and universes, they denote the periods of birth, growth, maturity, and decay. the greek ages also bear a close correspondence to the four yugas of the hindus: krita-yuga, treta-yuga, dvapara-yu

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

ish the kingdom of mann and the isles and the hundred of west derby. my own family name is norse in origin as indeed are many of the south lancashire family names and almost all the place names. lancashire also has a strong celtic and roman heritage. lancashire with cumberland, westmorland and west yorkshire formed the kingdom of brigantia. the brigantes a spanish celtic tribe arrived durin g the iron-age via ireland; where brigantes remained in the province of ulster (the sedantes to which chuhullain belonged were a sept of the brigantes. later during the roman period lancashire was part of the military province of britannia inferior governed from york by the commander of the vith victrix legion based at the city of york. diocletian later broke britannia inferior into two parts and create

he unwary. however he clearly didn t recognise the bronze so i was able to buy it for 18 (about $32) believing it likely to be an 18th century copy of an italian original. later i had the bronze checked at the british museum to find out it was a 2,400 year old original. therefore it was a genuine etruscan votive image of laran (mars. this image would have been the family lar of a tuscan family in iron age italy before coming to britain in the rucksack of a roman legionary perhaps a member of the vith victrix legion based at york. how the bronze came to be lost i will never know but the loss would have been appalling to its owner. the lar represented the spirit of the ancestors of an entire family and the families luck and prosperity resided in it. such an ancient lar could only have belong

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

and the biblical noah or his greek parallel, deucalion, all contain echoes of this belief. witch lore, moreover, tells of settlers from the lost lands coming in their wanderings to the land which is now britain and northern europe, or middle earth as it was called in old english, and mingling with the neolithic cultures then in existence. it was the people produced by this intermingling that the iron-bearing celts discovered on their sweep westwards across northern europe and into britain around 500 b.c. the indigenous britons, or prytani as they then were called, were a strange people, who buried their dead in great burial mounds, or barrows, used bronze as their only metal, and relied for weapons chiefly upon slender arrows with delicate elder-leaf-shaped flint tips. their religion, whi

e slight difference from the usual backward spelling. nema! livee morf su revilled tub noishaytpmet ootni ton suh deel suh tshaiga sapsert tath yeth vigrawf eu za sesapsert rua suh vigrawf. derb ilaid rua yed sith suh vig neveh ni si za thre ni nud eeb liw eyth muck mod-ngik eyth main eyth eeb dwohlah neveh ni tra chioo rertharf rua! as you chant the words, use your imagination to visualize great iron shackles struck off your hands and feet by sizzling bolts of lightning and disintegrating into molten shards to either side of you. hear the whine and crackle of the searing flashes as they accomplish the work of liberation, and consciously try to feel the burden of all your inherited guilts, all those awful shalt's and shalt not's, all that vast edifice of twaddle and claptrap, sliding easef

be slipped warily into some unsuspecting person's drink! the metal of which the ring or pendant is made can be any you wish the following are used by witches to magically stimulate the following traits in their witch character: gold- energy and general success silver- intuitiveness and magical ability copper- success in love brass or fixed mercury- mental agility tin- expansiveness and generosity iron- courage and aggressive instincts lead- stability sometimes an amalgam is made of some or all of them, depending on the orientation required. the resulting alloy is then known as magical electrum. but this is specialist stuff. gold, silver, or copper is the usual choice. like the other jewels, the ring or pendant will always be exorcised and consecrated with fire and water in the waxing moon

s thank you with due faith. hertha herself may be visualized as a dark, statuesque woman of mature age, robed in russet and green and bearing in her arms a sheaf of golden corn dotted with scarlet poppies. about her ankles and forearms twine green serpents, and her full dark breasts are exposed in the manner of the queens of ancient egypt. her lambent eyes are of dark gold; above her high coif of iron-dark hair she wears a square crenellated crown, like four towers bound together. these are the four castles or watchtowers of witchcraft that stand at the four quarters of the world. beneath her feet lush vegetation springs. behind her, in the mountainside, a giant cavern yawns. great masses of creeper trail over it in places like a curtain. the autumn air is heavy with the scent of new-mown

ir part. however, being great magpies and pickers-up of unconsidered trifles, many witches like to reinforce the protective earth currents by hanging other devices such as holystones and sachets of protective magical herbs at strategic points around the house: the hearth, threshold, over windows and doors, in attics, cellars, and, of course, over the beds. witch balls, horseshoes, keys, and other iron objects are also looked on with great favour; iron implements such as the latter are, however, stronger stuff, partaking more of the nature of items of defence rather than beneficence. similarly, the irreplaceable pentacle, used as a door symbol, also comes under this defence heading. but more of these later. the english holystone itself bears ample witness to its country of origin's preoccup

neck of the bearer, again laying him "under the spell of hertha's protection" also considered a potent earthly amulet is the image of the hand making the phallic "sign of the fig" fist clenched, thumb thrust between first and second fingers, carved in nephrite (jade, amber, coral, jet, carnelian, or any other fascination gem, again suspended in red from the bearer's neck in hertha's name; an old iron key will also serve the same purpose, being similar in its sexual implications. elf-shot, ancient flint or stone arrowheads of pre-celtic "pictish" origin, have always been considered highly potent by witches in matters of protection, the manner of employment being no different from the preceding items. last, but by no means least, there is the famous siderite. this is a stone made of magneti

on key will also serve the same purpose, being similar in its sexual implications. elf-shot, ancient flint or stone arrowheads of pre-celtic "pictish" origin, have always been considered highly potent by witches in matters of protection, the manner of employment being no different from the preceding items. last, but by no means least, there is the famous siderite. this is a stone made of magnetic iron oxide, otherwise known as lodestone or magnetite. from time immemorial siderites have been treasured by witches, and if you were to try to choose between wearing one of these as opposed to one of the preceding four, i would counsel you definitely to decide on the siderite. though slightly more complicated to manufacture and maintain, many witches find it well worth the effort. by the light of

and main" see the drops of oil glow as they touch the stone, infusing it with witch power. then tie the stone loosely in a red flannel or chamois leather bag bound with red ribbon with the sealing words "so mote it be" i say "loosely" because every full moon the bearer is going to have to remove the siderite, and after dipping it in a glass of water and drying it, sprinkle on it a small pinch of iron pyrites dust or iron filings "in hertha's name" this is known as "feeding the stone" the siderite must be worn around the neck or carried about in the pocket. in the past, male practitioners would often carry this amulet about with them suspended close to the genital organs, traditionally this being said to increase the sexual vigour and potency of the bearer. in this instance, the horned one

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

achiel anael the key of solomon page 10 table 3: table of the archangels, angels, metals, days of the week, and colours attributed to each planet. days saturday. thursd. tuesda. sunday. frida. wednes. mond. archangel tzaphquiel tzadiqel khamael raphael haniel michael gabriel angel cassiel sachiel zamael michael anael raphael gabriel planet saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon metal lead tin iron gold copper mercury silver colour black blue red yellow green purple white book one page 11 preliminary discourse. from lansdowne mss. 1203, the veritable clavicles of solomon, translated from the hebrew into the latin language by the rabbi abognazar. every one knoweth in the present day that from time immemorial solomon possessed knowledge inspired by the wise teachings of an angel, to which

obey then, by the virtue of these holy names, and by these mysteries of mysteries. after this he shall see the spirits come from every side. but in case they are occupied in some other place, or that they cannot come, or that they are unwilling to come: then let him commence afresh to invoke them after the following manner, and let the exorcist be assured that even were they bound with chains of iron, and with fire, they could not refrain from coming to accomplish his will. the conjuration. o ye spirits, ye i conjure by the power, wisdom, and virtue of the spirit of god, by the uncreate divine knowledge, by the vast mercy of god, by the strength of god, by the greatness of god, by the unity of god; and by the holy name of god eheieh, which is the root, trunk, source, and origin of all the

e, let them all in order quit the circle, one after the other, the master first. furthermore let them bathe their faces with the exorcised water, as will be hereafter told, and then let them take their ordinary raiment and go about their business. take notice and observe carefully that this last conjuration is of so great importance and efficacy, that even if the spirits were bound with chains of iron and fire, or shut up in some strong place, or retained by an oath, they could not even then delay to come. but supposing that they were being conjured in some other place or part of the universe by some other exorcist or master of the art, by the same conjuration; the master should add to his conjuration that they should at least send him some messengers, or some individual to declare unto hi

reatures fear at the sight of the names which are therein, and obey through that fear. these pentacles are usually made of the metal the most suitable to the nature of the planet; and then there is no occasion to observe the rule of particular colors. they should be engraved with the instrument of art in the days and hours proper to the planet. saturn ruleth over lead; jupiter over tin; mars over iron; the sun over gold; venus over copper; mercury over the mixture of metals; and the moon over silver. they may also he made with virgin parchment paper, writing thereon with the colors adopted for each planet, referring to the rules already laid down in the proper chapters, and according to the planet with which the pentacle is in sympathy. therefore unto saturn the color of black is appropria

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and his holy angels thou receive blessing, so that thou mayest be sanctified and blessed, and obtain the virtue which we desire, through the most holy name of adonai. amen. sprinkle the wax and put it aside for use; but take note that the earth which should be dug up with thy hands should be prepared every time thou hast need thereof. book two page 117 chapter xix. concerning the needle and other iron instruments. there are several steel instruments necessary in various operations, as a needle to prick or to sew; a burin, or instrument wherewith to engrave &c. thou shalt make such instruments in the day and hour of jupiter, and when it is finished thou shalt say: i conjure thee. o instrument of steel, by god the father almighty, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars, and of the angels

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

the elohim created, etc; but the characters are sadly mangled in the mss. the versicle is from psalms lxix. 23, and cxxxv. 16 "let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. they have eyes and see not" figures 34 and 35. the key of solomon page 72 figure 38. the seventh and last pentacle of the sun. if any be by chance imprisoned or detained in fetters of iron, at the presence of this pentacle, which should be engraved in gold on the day and hour of the sun, he will be immediately delivered and set at liberty. editor s note. on the arms of the cross are written the names of chasan, angel of air; arel, angel of fire; phorlakh, angel of earth; and taliahad, angel of water. between the four arms of the cross are written the names of the four rulers of

d. editor s note. the pentacle is a species of hieroglyphic representation of a door or gate. in the center is written the name ihvh. on the right hand are the names ihv, ihvh, al, and ihh. on the left hand are the names of the angels: schioel, vaol, yashiel, and vehiel. the versicle above the names on either side, is from psalm cvii. 16 "he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder" figure 50. the second pentacle of the moon. this serveth against all perils and dangers by water, and if it should chance that the spirits of the moon should excite and cause great rain and exceeding tempests about the circle, in order to astonish and terrify thee; on showing unto them this pentacle, it will all speedily cease. editor s note. a handpointing to the name el, and to t

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

38) halphas (40) raum (45) vine (46) bifrons (72) andromalius (seal in lead) knights (50) furcas. note- it will be remarked that several among the above spirits possess two titles of different ranks; e.g (45) vine is both king and earl (25) glasya-labolas is both president and earl, etc. prince and prelate are apparently used as interchangeable terms. probably the seals of earls should be made of iron, and those of presidents in mixture either of copper and silver, or of silver and mercury; as otherwise the metal of one planet, mars, is excluded from the list; the metals attributed to the seven planets being: to saturn, lead; to jupiter, tin; to mars, iron; to the sun, gold; to venus, copper; to mercury, mercury and mixtures of metals, and to luna, silver. in a manuscript codex by dr. rudd

these dames of god, adonai, zabaoth, adonai, amioran; come thou! come thou! for it is the king of kings, even adonai, who commandeth thee. when thou shalt have rehearsed thus far, but still be cometh not, then write thou his seal on parchment and put thou it into a strong black box;33 with brimstone, asafetida and such like things that bear a stinking smell; and then bind the box up round with an iron wire, and hang it upon the point of thy sword, and hold it over the fire of charcoal; and say as followeth unto the fire first, it being placed toward that quarter whence the spirit is to come: the conjuration of the fire. i conjure thee, o fire, by him who made thee and all other creatures for good in the world, that thou torment, burn, and consume this spirit n, for everlasting. i condemn t

MEANING OF MASONRY

ve what is, again symbolically, called the" form of the lodge" i.e, the way in which his own human nature has been composed and cons tituted, the length, breadth, height and depth of his own being. by their help, too, he will perceive that he himself, his body and his soul, are" holy ground" upon which he should build the altar of his own spiritual life, an altar deeper which he should suffer no" iron tool" no debasing habit of thought or conduct, to defile. by them, of too, he will perceive how wisdom, strength and beauty have been employed by the creator, like three grand supporting pillars, in the structure of his own organism. and by these finally he will discern how that there is a mystical" ladder of many rounds or staves" i.e, that there are innumerable paths or methods by means of

all his flesh sees it. so far as it is possible for symbolic ceremonial to portray it this consummation is represented by the restoration to light and the revelation that then meets the candidate's gaze. his condition differs now from any that has preceded it. it is not merely one of illumination by the supernal light. it is one of identification with it. he and it have become one, as a white-hot iron is indistinguishable from the furnace-flame engulfing it. at the outset of his masonic quest the predominant wish of his heart was light. the impulse was not his own; it was that of the light itself--the primal light of light, the divine substantial word--seeking self-development in him. consciousness is that light become self-perceptive by polarization within an efficient physiological organ

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ount of concentration but can be most rewarding if one can go beyond the walls of the conscious. a suggestion is to keep a dream journal, it is especially significant in the beginning as you will be able to follow subsequent psychic developments and emergent thought patterns. dream control stems from the ability to understand the self and offer a power base within the subconscious. foundations of iron are most important. to create something strong one must use the highest quality of materials available. evolving a mental connection to the astral plane requires the most rigorous self-analysis. it is during this period of analysis that the aspirant becomes a 'solitary, shunning unnecessary contacts. the reason is that the mind and its magickal abilities are 21 21 strengthened in solitude, an

individual. vampires, over a period of time through study and practice, are able to be more in tune with psychic phenomena, such as communion with spirits, astral energy and other vampiric contact. it is not unnatural for a learned vampire to sense the approach of another awakened one- it is all a case of the opening of the mind. i do certainly recommend a building of astral walls, of the "black iron walls (13) which will act as a protection from unwanted spirits and enemies. once erected, with will, sweat and blood it is very difficult for another to trespass these walls. the vampiric strength of astral shape shifting is through dream manipulation and awakening. the vampire who is able to alter his/her form in the dream is an awakened avatar of the great vampiric spiral force. for if ope

ssence is within me! closing and banish 95 95 hecate, witch mother whom i invoke under the moon. i am the belief which forms your webs of sorcery. i drink in honor of the witches sabbat mysteries. amen. spirit servitors and guardians spirit servitors are extremely useful for the vampire who practices astral projection frequently, as you are often leaving the human body open for attack. the "black iron walls" are quite powerful however it is more ideal to create servitors based on sigils to guard the chamber in which you sleep. the reason for this is simple, once your astral double has left the human body, the will is not necessarily in perfect tune with the defense settings you have created. in other words, although elementals are also born of desire and will, they can be charged with a sp

e powerful however it is more ideal to create servitors based on sigils to guard the chamber in which you sleep. the reason for this is simple, once your astral double has left the human body, the will is not necessarily in perfect tune with the defense settings you have created. in other words, although elementals are also born of desire and will, they can be charged with a specific purpose. the iron walls act only as a blocking force for unwanted spiritual energy which appears negative towards the will and psyche. its primary role is to protect against another taking control of your physical body, if such occurs it is possible for possession and split personalities to take place. an elemental form composed of will, blood, sexual fluid and visualization can offer a power-packed method of

ho is able to take on the dream flesh of the vampire, it will prove nearly impossible for anyone to absorb such a sorcerer's spirit. such results require close to the same expenditure in time, and semi continuous work, as destroying a spirit to take command of a body. such is possible, but most dangerous and difficult, especially if the original spirit has a host of familiars, servitors or 'black iron walls' with resulting psychic dangers for the operator. i have made mention of the technique of binding a spirit to a sigil covered in blood and sexual fluid. for the next step, involving more powerful servitors, would be one bound to human blood from your body and sealed in a vial or jar with associated herbs and potions. if one is creating a servitor through a sigil it would then be the nex

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

odyssey, and the amazing v oyages of sinbad) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation43 the world falls dead the hindu srimad bhagavatam tells of a demon race which invaded the three plane-tary systems. opposing the demons was the god shiva, who, it is recorded, possessed apowerful weapon that he fired at the enemy airships from his own. in the ancientramayana, there is mention of an iron thunderbolt capable of killing hundreds of thou-sands of humans. it was also said to be so powerful that it could have destroyed theearth. these weapons could only be used by royal decree. there are even passageswhere it mentions the fact that the weapon was used as retaliation for the other sideusing it first. in another v edic tome called samarangana sutradhara, there is mentionof manned sp

tofine powder and thrown into the sea. even with these precautions, peoples hair and finger-nails fell out overnight, birds turned white and their legs became scarlet and blistered, andfood went bad..gurkha flying in his swift and powerful vimana hurled against the three cities of the vrishisand andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe. it was theunknown weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced toashes the entire race of the vrishnis and andhakas the corpses were so burned as to beunrecognizable. their hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and thebirds turned white. after a few hours all foodstuffs were infectedto escape from this firethe soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and thei

one and fire from the lord outof heaven. and he overthrew those cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, andthat which grew upon the ground (genesis 24-26) and again, mention of weapons:o my people that dwellest in zion, be not afraid of the assyrian: he shall smite thee with arod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of egypt.he shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow shall strike him through (job 14:24) the world falls dead46atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation o assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation, woe untous! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are the gods thatsmote the egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness (samuel 4:8) that

type whomatriculates? too often we find that the tendency of the graduated ponderous academeis to become a legend in his own mind. he is utterly fixated on personal interests andpeer recognition. is this not the scenario we often encounter and are frequentlyseduced into accolading? has our access to the corridors of learning helped the planet?does it not give us chains of gold to replace those of iron? are we not again playingby the rules of the adversary? whose books are we reading? whose biographies are wememorizing? whose sciences are we mastering? whose trophies are we coveting?true meaning of graduation- gradual indoctrination (jordan maxwell)if a man has merit, what is the use of decorating him (charles baudelaire)if a man guards a book night and day, what is more important, the man

ual kind) occurs when the defendant is so inherently strong that the chal-lenger, for all his guile and might, cannot operate or insinuate. when your enemy can-not conquer you, you have won. this is the meta-lesson that under-girds the karmictests besetting the human inhabitants of planet earth.this theme of how to conquer evil correctly is beautifully portrayed in the following movies:man in the iron mask, with richard chamberlain; the silent flute (also called circle ofiron) with david carradine and christopher lee; local hero with burt lancaster; the sor-ceress; being there, with peter sellers; and once upon a time in the west by sergio leone.epilogue: time to change the road youre on140atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation now that we are aware of how the adversary has s

ecut their meat and lick the gravywe oil the jaws of the war machineand feed it with our babies.the body bags and little ragsof children torn in twoand the jellied brains of those who remaini put the finger right on you.as the madmen play on wordsand make us all dance to their songto the tune of starving millionsto make a better kind of gun.(two minutes to midnight- adrian smith, bruce dickinson, iron maiden)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation161 appendix b:book abstractsthis appendix presents abstracts from the following books: mankind child of the stars on page 162when the earth nearly died on page 166shattering the myths of darwinism on page 175 humanitys extraterrestrial origins on page 182 sky people on page 184 men among mankind on page 187temple of the stars on page

ere is mention of human sacrifice. this was caused by theante-diluvians when they took over a race.the arabiansthe arabians were an important branch of the great atlantean stock (p. 278) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation197 appendix b: book abstracts atlantis the antediluvian world by ignatius donnellythe atlanteans they existed during the bronze age and at the beginning of the iron age (p. 307)the dispersion of mankindthis cataclysm must have occurred near the first cradle of mankind, and before the dispersion of thefamilies from which the principal races were to spring; for it would be at once improbable and uncriticalto admit that, at as many different points of the globe as we should have to assume in order to explainthe wide spread of these traditions, local phenome

life- on the mid-atlantic islands there exists animal life that did not come there from any other place. the canaries- named not after the birds, but dogs. these were there in abundance but did not come from other lands, since the people of the islands had no boats.basques- believe themselves to be descendants from a continent called atlaintika, which sank beneath the waters.hy brazil- brzl means iron in hebrew and aramaic. brazil has the highest iron deposits in the world.official historyin general, civilization with written history does not extend beyond 4,000 years b.c (p. 13)in the last fifty years, the period for the emergence of developed, if not civilized, man has been pushedback to more than two million years (p. 14)the positive development of advanced group cultures is now estimat

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to be the wolf among sheep. humanity seeks eternally a safety net; a god to believe will save their souls, all the while sending tsunamis, hurricanes, blizzards, and all conceivable disasters upon its own creation. would this be a spirit you would open your arms to? does it help you to know that while you sleep, your dreams grow heavy with the failures and shortcomings of a world around you? the iron age is here, kali is awakened and she is very thirsty. mediocrity has always been accepted, yet by it being perceived and related to, it is consumed and considered acceptable. remind yourself of the socalled american slacker generation, the wonderful nineteen nineties, when if being a college student, it was smiled upon to be someone who continually seeks to underachieve. is this a highlight

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

to control and punish the disobedient--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 45 ones. after the names of god, these magi would call upon the powers of arch-angels to force the obedience of almost any spirit. the magician would assign an inanimate object to the spirit, and like a voodoo doll, subject that object to injury, thereby subjecting the spirit to the same injuries. and finally, he would use iron objects, like swords and long knives, to stab disruptive spirits. satanists, on the other hand, may hesitate to bring iron anywhere near the spirit during a ritual as it may offend the gods. another thing that impressed me about magicians, both good and bad, was the overall knowledge they possessed regarding the bible, islam, apocryphal texts, judaism, hinduism, and almost all the mythologies

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

o resuscitate me, i could hear them telling how many c.c.'s of something to give me, but i didn't feel the needles going in. i felt nothing at all when they touched me" in another case, a woman who had previously had several episodes of heart trouble was seized with a heart attack, during which she nearly lost her life. she says, suddenly, i was gripped by squeezing chest pains, just as though an iron band had been clamped quickly around the middle part of my chest and tightened. my husband and a friend of ours heard me fall and came running in to help me. i found myself in a deep blackness, and through it i heard my husband, as if he were at a great distance, saying "this is it, this time" and my thoughts were "yes, it is" a young man who was thought dead following an automobile accident

MORALS AND DOGMA

y the air, they recoil and bruise itself. it is destruction and ruin. it is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone--not growth and progress. it is polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows. the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed, as the blind force of steam, lifting the ponderous iron arms and turning the large wheels, is made to bore and rifle the cannon and to weave the most delicate lace. it must be regulated by intellect. intellect is to the people and the people's force, what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship--its soul, always counselling the huge mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the north. to attack the citadels built up on all sides again

es. the country is demoralized. the national mind is brought down, from the noble interchange of kind offices with another people, to wrath and revenge, and base pride, and the habit of measuring brute strength against brute strength, in battle. treasures are expended, that would suffice to build ten thousand churches, hospitals, and universities, or rib and tie together a continent with rails of iron. if that treasure were sunk in the sea, it would be calamity enough; but it is put to worse use; for it is expended in cutting into the veins and arteries of human life, until the earth is deluged with a sea of blood. such are the lessons of this degree. you have vowed to make them the rule, the law, and the guide of your life and conduct. if you do so, you will be entitled, because fitted, t

, over all the world; over all places where men meet, and walk or toil together; not over lovers' bowers and marriage-altars alone, not over the homes of purity and tenderness alone; but over all tilled fields, and busy workshops, and dusty highways, and paved streets. there is not a worn stone upon the sidewalks, but has been the altar of such offerings of mutual kindness; nor a wooden pillar or iron railing against which hearts beating with affection have not leaned. how many soever other elements there are in the stream of life flowing through these channels _that_ is surely here and everywhere; honest, heartfelt, disinterested, inexpressible affection. every masonic lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. for here are inculcated disinterestedness

eling as though it were a guilty thing for doing so, it whispers to itself in its inmost depths. some demon seems to torture it with doubts, and to crush it with despair, asking whether, after all, it is certain that its convictions are true and its faith well founded: whether it is indeed sure that a god of infinite love and beneficence rules the universe, or only some great remorseless fate and iron necessity, hid in impenetrable gloom, and to which men and their sufferings and sorrows, their hopes and joys, their ambitions and deeds, are of no more interest or importance than the motes that dance in the sunshine; or a being that amuses himself with the incredible vanity and folly, the writhings and contortions of the insignificant insects that compose humanity, and idly imagine that the

e frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. we know not who among the dead control our destinies. the universal human race is linked and bound together by those influences and sympathies, which in the truest sense do make men's fates. humanity is the unit, of which the man is but a fraction. what other men in the past have done, said, thought, makes the great iron network of circumstance that environs and controls us all. we take our faith on trust. we think and believe as the old lords of thought command us; and reason is powerless before authority. we would make or annul a particular contract; but the thoughts of the dead judges of england, living when their ashes have been cold for centuries, stand between us and that which we would do, and utterly

man and not brutal, nature did grievous wrong to human bodies, to curse them with souls so cruel as to strive to add to a wretchedness already intolerable. when a mason hears of any man that hath fallen into public disgrace, he should have a mind to commiserate his mishap, and not to make him more disconsolate. to envenom a name by libels, that already is openly tainted, is to add stripes with an iron rod to one that is flayed with whipping; and to every well-tempered mind will seem most inhuman and unmanly. even the man who does wrong and commits errors often has a quiet home, a fireside of his own, a gentle, loving wife and innocent children, who perhaps do not know of his past errors and lapses--past and long repented of; or if they do, they love him the better, because, being mortal, h

circumstances other than those that we have briefly mentioned; and all of which we need not repeat here. osiris married his sister isis; and labored publicly with her to ameliorate the lot of men. he taught them agriculture, while isis invented laws. he built temples to the gods, and established their worship. both were the patrons of artists and their useful inventions; and introduced the use of iron for defensive weapons and implements of agriculture, and of gold to adorn the temples of the gods. he went forth with an army to conquer men to civilization, teaching the people whom he overcame to plant the vine and sow grain for food. typhon, his brother, slew him when the sun was in the sign of the scorpion, that is to say, at the autumnal equinox. they had been rival claimants, says synes

, to each of which was a gate, and at the summit an eighth, that of the fixed stars. the first gate says celsus, was that of saturn, and of lead, by the heavy nature whereof his dull slow progress was symbolized. the second, of tin, was that of venus, symbolizing her soft splendor and easy flexibility. the third, of brass, was that of jupiter, emblem of his solidity and dry nature. the fourth, of iron, was that of mercury, expressing his indefatigable activity and sagacity. the fifth, of copper, was that of mars, expressive of his inequalities and variable nature. the sixth, of silver, was that of the moon: and the seventh, of gold, that of the sun. this order is not the real order of these planets; but a mysterious one, like that of the days of the week consecrated to them, commencing wit

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

n and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance on virility. by paul sat buddha smiling, ananda's arm about his neck, while mohammed paced the floor impatiently between two warrior comrades, his belt bearing an iron key, a whip, and a sword, wherewith to limit women's liberty, their love, their life, lest to his loss they lure him. the beast is there also, aloof, attentive. he will not weigh the evidence in the balances of any particular kind of advantage. he will not admit any standard as adequate to assess the absolute. to him, the pettiest personal whimsy outweighs all wisdom, all philosophy, all priv

universe; but he does not understand that he is only part of the universe of his neighbour. what is more, he does not will to understand. students will please note that this attitude is not incompatible with shows of "kindness" or "pity. the worst black brothers are "kind" and "compassive. we say "worst" from the point of view of their slaves "a chain of flowers is more dangerous than a chain of iron" you can never tell beforehand if this or that person will become a "black brother; and how long he or she will remain so. there is a factor infinite and unknown. what is necessary is that you understand the motive why the "black brethren" do not will to understand that every man and every woman is a star. it is because they interpret this as a diminution of the importance of their own selves

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

in course of time temples were raised in honour of the different gods, and priests appointed to offer sacrifices to them and conduct their worship. these priests were looked upon as authorities in all religious matters, and the doctrine they taught was, that man had been created by the gods, and that there had been several successive ages of men, which were called the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages. life in the golden age was one unceasing round of ever-recurring pleasures unmarred by sorrow or care. the favoured mortals living at this happy time led pure and joyous lives, thinking no evil, and doing no wrong. the earth brought forth fruits and flowers without toil or labour in plentiful luxuriance, and war was unknown. this delightful and god-like existence lasted for hundreds of

is, the goddess of justice, had been living among mankind, but becoming disheartened at their evil doings, she abandoned the earth, and winged her flight back to heaven. at last the gods became so tired of their evil deeds and continual dissensions, that they removed them from the face of the earth, and sent them down to hades to share the fate of their predecessors. we now come to the men of the iron age. the earth, no longer teeming with fruitfulness, only yielded her increase after much toil and labour. the goddess of justice having abandoned mankind, no influence remained sufficiently powerful to preserve them from every kind of wickedness and sin. this condition grew worse as time went on, until at last zeus in his anger let loose the water-courses from above, and drowned every [24]in

t admonition failed in its purpose, for pentheus only became more incensed at this interference, and, commanding dionysus to be cast into prison, caused the most cruel preparations to be made for his immediate execution. but the god soon freed himself from his ignoble confinement, for scarcely had his jailers departed, ere the prison- page 142 doors opened of themselves, and, bursting asunder his iron chains, he escaped to rejoin his devoted followers. meanwhile, the mother of the king and her sisters, inspired with bacchanalian fury, had repaired to mount citharon, in order to join the worshippers of the [127]wine-god in those dreadful orgies which were solemnized exclusively by women, and at which no man was allowed to be present. enraged at finding his commands thus openly disregarded b

ontrived so far to conciliate him, that he was induced to promise that if the heroes could succeed in demonstrating their divine origin by the performance of some task requiring superhuman power, the fleece should be theirs. the task proposed by aetes to jason was that he should yoke the two brazen-footed, fire-breathing oxen of the king (which had been made for him by hephastus) to his ponderous iron plough. having done this he must till with them the stony field of ares, and then sow in the furrows the poisonous teeth of a dragon, from which armed men would arise. these he must destroy to a man, or he himself would perish at their hands. when jason heard what was expected of him, his heart for a moment sank within him; but he determined, nevertheless, not to flinch from his task, but to

ength. but feeling within himself the spirit of a hero, theseus resolved to emulate the deeds of heracles, with whose fame all greece resounded, and therefore chose the more dangerous journey by land, as calculated to afford him an opportunity of distinguishing himself by feats of valour. his first adventure occurred at epidaurus, where he met periphetes, a son of hephastus, who was armed with an iron club, with which he killed all travellers. having received from his grandfather a full description of this savage, theseus at once recognized him, and rushing upon him with his sword, succeeded after a desperate encounter in killing him. he appropriated the club as a trophy of his victory, and proceeded on his journey without hinderance until he arrived at the isthmus of corinth. here the peo

us now journeyed on to eleusis, where he found [261]another adversary in the person of king cercyon, who forced all comers to wrestle with him, and killed those whom he vanquished; but theseus overcame the mighty wrestler and slew him. near eleusis, on the banks of the river cephissus, theseus met with a new adventure. here lived the giant damastes, called procrustes or the stretcher, who had two iron beds, one being long and the other short, into which he forced all strangers; in the short one he placed the tall men, whose limbs he cut to the size of the bed, whilst to the short ones he assigned the large bed, stretching them out to fit it; and thus he left his victims to expire in the most cruel torments. theseus freed the country from this inhuman monster by serving him as he had done h

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ourg convoked an important assembly in basel. this congress endorsed the statutes that had been revised by a commission appointed by the grand lodge of strasbourg. these statutes, dated saint michael, 1563, were printed that same year.12 the last large masonic assembly, also convoked by the grand lodge of strasbourg, appears to have been held in strasbourg in 1564. its purpose was to definitively iron out all points of contention between the different lodges. the decision was made there that future difficulties would be subjected directly to the grand lodge for final jusgement with no recourse to appeal.13 the statutes of the stonecutters the ancient statutes of the brotherhood of stonecutters (steinmetzen bruderschaft) dating from 1459 were not, apparently, the first; there is a good poss

l works in brass. and he came to king solomon and wrought all his work. for he cast two brass pillars. that of the right was jachin, and that on the left, boaz. according to the chronicles ii (2:14 and 4:11, huram abi was sent by king hiram of tyre to solomon. he was the son of a woman of the daughters of dan, and his father was a man of tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving. and huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. and huram finished the work he was to make for king solomon for* this explanation conforms to the etymology of these two names. jachin means "he will establish" and boaz means "in strength" speculative freemasonry 231 t

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

cal jewels and talismans. the second splrit is zagan, who appeareth like a great bull, or a king terrible in aspect. thirtythree legions bow before him and he teacheth the mysteries of the sea. the third is called sytry, who taketh the form of a great prince. he hath sixty legions and telleth the secrets of time yet to come. eligor is the fourth spirit; he appeareth like a red man with a crown of iron upon his head. he commandeth likewise sixty legions and giveth the knowledge of victory in war, and telleth of strife to come. the fifth spirit is called durson and hath with him twenty-two familiar demons and appeareth like a raven. he can reveal all occult secrets and tell of past times. the sixth is vual his form is of a dark cloud and he teacheth all manner of ancient tongues. the seventh

ONYX TABLET OF SET

on dragging themselves down into the smelliest slimy behavior through various acts of disrespect, inconsiderateness, and rudeness (1) being polite and respectful does not hurt. it cannot hurt. it sometimes seems to me that some people feel that giving verbal and written respect to someone else in these situations is as painful as branding crosses on your arms, chest, back, and legs with a redhot iron, and then using strong acid to bring out the highlights of this artistic effort. hogwash. there is no damage or pain to *anyone* when respect is offered, and when communications are polite (2) being polite and respectful usually helps. the surest way to stop communication, knowledge, and understanding is to slap someone in the face with a wet and smelly rag. the surest way to open communicati

hat is this phenomenon? is it set ordering us to speak? why is it part of the iii* experience? set is connected with two rites of rebirth in egypt, the heb-sed (or national rebirth, and the opening of the mouth (individual rebirth. in the later ceremony, a doubled-headed knife (the pss-kf knife which egyptologist ann macy roth has recently demonstrated to represent the forked tail of set) made of iron (bia-en-pet "metal of heaven" since most pre-xviii dynasty iron in egypt was of meteoric origin) was used to pry open the mouth of a corpse or animate a statue. set himself was said to have opened the mouths of the gods. onyx tablet: ot.i.4.1 temple of set author: don webb iv date: may 20, 1994 ce revision: html revision: august 8, 1999 ce i see the priesthood as being the experience of havin

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

re released by pandora, the first woman, men lived carefree lives with no sorrow, hard work, or disease. pandora by dante gabriel rossetti (1828-82) according to one greek tradition there have been five ages of man: the golden age during the time of the titan cronos, when humankind lived in ease and harmony; a silver age; two bronze ages (the second in the time of the heroes; and then the present iron age. prometheus steals fire when zeus was cheated out of the meat of sacrificial animals, he decided to withhold the gift of fire so that humankind would have to eat the meat raw. but prometheus, guided up into the sky by athena, stole fire from the chariot of the sun and brought it down to earth in a fennel stalk; the origin of the olympic torch. prometheus fennel stalk athena pandora s box

. hercules captured and killed the erymanthian boar that had been devastating the countryside. in killing it, he also accidentally shot the centaur cheiron (see p. 39. 5. hercules was told to clean out the filthy stables of augeias in one day, so he diverted two rivers to run through and sluice the yard. 6. hercules shot down the flesheating stymphalian birds, which had wings, beaks, and claws of iron. 7. hercules captured the cretan bull, father of the minotaur (see pp. 56 57, which had gone mad. 8. hercules captured the flesheating mares of diomedes. 9. hercules acquired the belt of ares the war god from hippolyta, queen of the amazons. 10. hercules took possession of the cattle belonging to the threeheaded monster geryon. 11. hercules stole the golden apples of the hesperides. 12. hercu

who hoped he would be killed. since being brought over from crete by hercules (see p. 51, the bull had become wild again, and had killed many people. theseus seized it by the horns and dragged it through athens to the acropolis, where he sacrificed it to apollo. when theseus first set out upon the road to athens, he was attacked by the bandit periphetes who used to beat travelers to death with an iron club, thus earning himself the nickname of club-man. theseus killed periphetes, and carried his club ever after, finding it an infallible weapon. the crommyon wild sow theseus traveled to crommyon, where he performed his third daring deed by killing phaea, a ferocious wild sow that had been ravaging the countryside. phaea was said by some to be one of the monstrous children of typhon and echi

he earth, hence his nickname, the pine-bender. he would ask passers-by to help him hold the trees down, then let go, catapulting the unwary stranger into the air; or he would tie his quarry to two bent trees, and then release them, ripping his hapless victim in two. theseus served sinis in the same manner, and then took his daughter, perigune, as his lover. she bore him a son, melanippus. theseus iron club bull of poseidon theseus the hero 55 minotaur soon after theseus reached athens, the city had to send young men and women to crete to be fed to the minotaur, a monster half-man, half-bull. theseus volunteered, faced the monster, and killed him (see pp. 54 55. the bed of procrustes triumphant from defeating king cercyon, theseus came upon the giant procrustes (sinis father) who lived near

y parts were broken, to this very day the sampo continues to grind out salt. the birth of v in m inen in the beginning there was only sea and air. weary of being alone, ilmatar, the daughter of the air, lay down on the sea and conceived a child. but for 700 years, she could not give birth. eventually, a seabird, sent by the sky god, old man, nested on her knee and laid six eggs of gold and one of iron. three hatched and the rest smashed into the sea. the bottom half of the eggs became the earth, and the upper half became the heavens the yolk was the sun, the white the moon, and the mottled shell became the stars and the clouds. still ilmatar did not give birth, so she began to shape the world, dividing land and sea. her son, v in m inen, the first man, was born 30 years later. he floated i

stone of yoruba culture, a ritual that resolves and balances the conflicting forces of the world. full of human contradictions and a lover of mischief, eshu looms larger in yoruba myth than either the supreme god, olodumare, or the creator, obatala who, with the other orisha, or benevolent gods, created dry land and human beings. the orisha, such as shango, god of thunder (see below, ogun, god of iron and war, and ifa, god of divination, are opposed by the ajogun or malevolent gods, such as iku (death) and arun (disease. in the endless cosmic struggle between good and evil, one of eshu s key roles is to trick the ajogun. but like the norse god loki (see pp. 69, eshu is related to the ajogun as well as the orisha, forming a link between them; and like loki, he has sometimes been wrongly ide

or the earth to bear too many trees, too many mountains, too many elephants, everything. so he asked aido-hwedo to coil himself into a circle and lie underneath the overburdened earth like a carryingpad. as aido-hwedo does not like the heat, the creator made the ocean for him to live in. but the earth chafes on aido-hwedo, and when he shifts to ease himself, he causes earthquakes. aido-hwedo eats iron bars that are forged for him by red monkeys that live beneath the sea. when the iron runs out, hunger will drive him to eat his own tail. then the earth with all its burdens will overbalance, and tip into the sea. a second aido-hwedo, the rainbow serpent, lives in the sky and sends the thunderbolts of the gods to earth. serpent s head aido-hwedo carried the creator in his mouth as the world w

to mean god in fon. after the world was made, the creator is said to have made the first people from clay and water. he prepared the mixture in the same way as preparing building materials for a house. aido-hwedo can be seen as a personification of creative power a power that can still be seen in the rainbow, in water, in the ebb and flow of the sea, and in the dance of the stars. gu, the god of iron gu, the god of iron, is one of the 14 children of mawu and lisa. the first three were: da zodji, the chief of the earth pantheon; so, the chief of the thunder pantheon; agbe, the chief of the sea pantheon. other key figures include ag, the god of the hunt, djo, the god of the air, and legba, the trickster and mediator, the fon equivalent of eshu (see pp. 86 87. gu is the god of iron and, ther

PROMETHEUS

was given in marriage to prometheus brother epimetheus. pyrrha was her daughter, and was said to be the first mortal born. hyginus fabulae 142 men in early times sought fire from the gods, and did not know how to keep it alive. later prometheys brought it to earth in a fennel-stalk, and showed men how to keep it covered over with ashes. because of this, mercury, at jove s command, bound him with iron spikes to a cliff on mount caucasus, and set an eagle to eat out his heart; as much as it devoured in the day, so much grew again at night. after 30,000 years hercules killed this eagle and freed prometheus. hyginus fabulae 144 the kneeler. others say he is prometheus, bound on mount caucasus. hyginus astronomica 2.6 arrow. this arrow, they say, is one of the weapons of hercules, with which h

me with speed. in the rivalry of the games they also make it a practice for the runners to run, shaking torches after the manner of prometheus. in return for this deed, jupiter, to confer a like favour on men, gave a woman to them, fashioned by vulcanus [hephaistos, and endowed with all kinds of gifts by the will of the gods. for this reason she was called pandora. but prometheus he bound with an iron chain to a mountain in scythia named caucasus for thirty thousand years, as aeschylus, writer of tragedies, says. then, too, he sent an eagle to him to eat out his liver which was constantly renewed at night. some have said that this eagle was born from typhon and echidna, other from terra [gaia] and tartarus, but many point out it was made by the hands of vulcanus and given life by jove. the

in a similar situation, would happened to him, namely, that he would be robbed of his power, gave up by necessity his desire to wed thetis, and out of gratitude to prometheus thanked him and freed him from his chains. but he didn t go so far as to free him from all binding, since he had sworn to that, but for commemoration bade him bind his finger with the two things, namely, with stone and with iron. following this practice men have rings fashioned of stone and iron, that they may seem to be appeasing prometheus. some also have said that he wore a wreath, as if to claim that he as victor had sinned without punishment. and so men began the practice of wearing wreaths at times of great rejoicing and victory. you may observe this in sports and banquets. but to come back to the beginning of

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

to [nebuchadnezzar] wanted the jewish people to bow down to [this statue] along with [everyone else],5 and indeed, had chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (g-d forbid) bowed down to it, israel would not have been able to arise [out of its exile. nebuchadnezzar had dreamt that he saw a statue whose head was gold, whose chest and arms were silver, whose stomach and thighs were copper, whose legs were iron, and whose feet were iron and clay. daniel told him that the components of this statue were the kingdom of babylonia (the gold head) and the empires that would succeed it in ruling over the jews. by making a similar statue entirely of gold, nebuchadnezzar sought to subvert the prophecy and perpetuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shad

to differentiating between good and evil.and knowing how to release the kernel of good within evil in order to liberate it.is chochmah, or insight. the purer one fs insight, the clearer one will be able to recognize what is good and what is evil, and purity of insight is dependent upon the purity and force of one fs intentions. by way of analogy: when a blacksmith strikes his hammer on a piece of iron, sparks fly forth from it. if the blacksmith is an expert, he collects these sparks and returns them to their original state. apparently this refers to the slivers of iron that break off the larger piece. the skilled blacksmith knows how to grecycle h these splinters and use them. this is the essence of the sages f dispute over whether or not a blessing is to be pronounced over unripe fruit.1

k. thus, the tabernacle and the sabbath are simply two sides of the same coin: the preparation and fulfillment. 4 rashi on exodus 32:1. 5 exodus 25:8. the arizal on parashat ki tisa (3) 398 [moses used the passive voice] and said gshall work be done h instead of [the active voice] gyou shall work h to indicate that the work will be done by itself. similarly, it is said: g[ cno hammer or ax or any iron tool was heard in] the house in its being built. h6 nonetheless, even while engaged in actively purifying and elevating the world, we should not delude ourselves into thinking that we are doing so on our own power. it is only by virtue of the talents and capacities g-d has placed within us that we can make the world into a holy place. therefore, it is at all times as if g-d himself is doing a

erson fs spouse, tempting him to defile his holy marital intercourse by making a means for selfish gratification, mere base, sensual fulfillment, egotistic manipulation, etc, instead of selfless, divine love. these four [she-demons] are opposite the four mothers that jacob married, thereby imitating adam. they are alluded to in the verse [describing king og of bashan, gbehold, his bed is a bed of iron, h7 for og alludes to samael. jacob married two principle wives, rachel and leah, and their maidservants, bilhah and zilpah. the initials of their four names spell the word for giron h (barzel. og was the king who attempted to prevent the jewish people from entering the land of israel. entering the land of israel is another analog of sexual intercourse, the jewish people being the husband and

se kings] the forces of evil were created and issued, as is known. these letters can be combined to form the words satan az geitz, meaning, gthe strength and mighty power of the insolent [az] states of judgment, which descended and became satan, i.e, the forces of evil. h and it is known that the zohar states that these seven kings were like sparks that were scattered, glike a blacksmith who hits iron and sparks fly in all directions. h this is the allusion in the word geitz[ gspark h, as in the words of the talmud, ga spark [geitz] that flies out from under the hammer. h6 we have explained previously that these seven kings took their light from the body of adam kadmon, under the tuft of the beard, but not higher [than this. adam kadmon( gprimordial man h) is the first divine emanation aft

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

den dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! cii9> second knowledge lecture the names andaichemica1 symbols of the three principles of nature are- sulphur 9 mercury salt@ the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are- lead 5 gold 0 tin 2 copper or brass' 9 iron d quicksilver g silver) the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings given below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold-the refined. essence of heat and dryness. luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver-the refined essence of heat and moisture. c120> the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals. th

have been assembled here and added as an appendix since this was assumed to be more satisfactory than inserting them once again into the knowledge lectures. i. r) 82 the golden dawn: volume i book one <163> two further alchemical attributions to the tree of life 1. kether mercury the metallic root 2. chokmah salt lead 3. binah sulphur tin 4. chesed silver silver 5. geburah gold gold 6. tiphareth iron iron 7. netzach copper herrnaphroditical brass 8. hod tin brass 9. yesod lead mercury 10. malkuth mercury philosophorum medicina metallorum the qlippoth on the tree of life 1. kether thaumiel-the two contending forces, 2. chokmah ghogiel-the hinderers 3. binah satariel-the concealers 4. chesed agshekeloh-the breakers in pieces 5. geburah golohab-the burners 6. tiphareth tagiriron-the disputer

this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb, on either side of which was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits. and thus do the rivers of. eden form a cross, and on that cross the great adam, the son who the golden dawn: volume i1 book two was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, mother of all, the completion of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the thirtieth path "and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted" the three equals eight grade of practicu

of the vision of nebuchadnezzar, which was <171> showed you in the passage of the 27th path, leading to the= grade of philosophus "thou, 0 king, sawest and beheld a great image. this great image, whose brightness was excellent stood before thee and the form thereof was terrible. this image's head was pure gold, his breast and his arms were silver, his belly and his thighs were brass, his legs of iron and his feet part of iron and part of clay. thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet, which were part of iron and part of clay, and brake them to pieces. then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away and no pla

and filled the whole earth. thou, 0 king, art a king of kings, for the god in heaven hath given unto thee (makes qabalistic cross) the kingdom, the power and the glory! thou art this head of gold (to phil) thou art this head of gold! thy head represents in thee the dominion of the divine ruling over the rest of the body. the silver is the world of the heart, the brass is the material passion, the iron is the firm purpose, and the feet, part of iron and part of clay, are the mingled strength and infirmity of the natural man. and the stone made without hands is the eternal stone of the wise, which will become the mountain of initiation, whereby the whole earth shall be filled with the knowledge of god. hiereus takes phil. to second diagram <172> hiereus. this tablet shows the symbolic manner

stower and receiver. circumambulate three times with talisman in right hand. return to the throne of the east, place the talisman upon theground between the pillars, and repeat the invocation on page 215. alternate it with this conjuration. consecration ceremony 419 i heard the voice of the holy one proclaim "thou art my son. this day have i begotten thee. thou shalt rule the nations witha rod of iron. thou shalt break them in pieces as a potter's vessel" let therefore the elements obey the voice of yhvh. 0 ye spirits of flashing fire, and air, spirits of water and earth, even ye legions of demons who dwell in the land of twilight, recog <222> nise in me your master, and in this creature of talismans one whom ye are powerless to hurt or touch. turn ye, 0 ye creatures of night and the darkn

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

eend of conquering the possible; the reduction or destruction of pain and waste in physical organism,the rejuvenation of man, the obtainment of the general solvent, or menstrum universale, whichshould possess the power of removing all the seeds of disease from the human system, therebyrenewing life, the transmutation of baser to superior metals, or the elevation of the divine in man.twice had the iron-tongued bell echoed through the rocks, startling the monks from their reveriesand duties, proclaiming some potent special secret found. once it was the mystery solved, that alloyand baser metal had yielded to transmutation to silver, and again, once to the richer gold, but theirproducts were not permitted to result in ease and luxury.the greatest secret yet lay hid, the prolongation, the reju

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

animals serve in enchantments; their brain combines with the perfumes of the planets, and it is recognized by ancient practice that they possess magnetic virtues corresponding to the seven planetary influences. the talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stones, such as the carbuncle, crystal, diamond, emerald, agate, sapphire and onyx, or upon metals, such as gold, silver, iron, copper, fixed mercury, pewter and lead. the kabalistic signs of the seven spirits are: for the sun, a serpent with the head of a lion; for the moon, a globe divided by two crescents; for mars, a dragon biting the hilt of a sword; for venus, a lingam; for mercury, the hermetic caduceus and the cynocephalus; for jupiter, the blazing pentagram in the talons or beak of an eagle; for saturn, a la

had counted on taking part in the evocation with a trustworthy person, who, however, proved nervous at the last moment, and, as the triad or unity is indispensable for magical rites, i was left to my own resources. the cabinet prepared for the evocation was situated in a turret; it contained four concave mirrors and a species of altar having a white marble top, encircled by a chain of magnetized iron. the sign of the pentagram, as given in the fifth chapter of this work, was graven and gilded on the white marble surface; it was inscribed also in various colours upon a new white lambskin stretched beneath the altar. in the middle of the marble table there was a small 1 copper chafing-dish, containing charcoal of alder and laurel wood; another chaf66 the doctrine of transcendental magic ing

in more than one old book which claims to be hermetic, is in reality that of the powder of succession. the grand grimoire gives one in particular which is very thinly disguised under the title of method of making gold; it is an atrocious decoction of verdigris, arsenic and sawdust, which, if properly prepared, should consume immediately a branch that is plunged into it and eat swiftly through an iron nail. john baptist porta cites in his natural magic a specimen of borgia poison, but, as may be imagined, he is deceiving the vulgar and does not divulge the truth, which would be too dangerous in such a connexion. we may therefore quote his recipe to satisfy the curiosity of our readers. the toad itself is not venomous, but it is a sponge for poisons, and is the mushroom of the animal kingdo

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

of hippolytus dragged by his own horses, or phalaris victimized himself by the instrument of torture which he had invented for others. human volition realized by action is like a cannon-ball and recedes before no obstacle. it either passes through it or is buried in it; but if it advance with patience and perseverance, it is never lost: it is like the wave which returns incessantly and wears away iron in the end. man can be modified by habit, which becomes, according to the proverb, his second nature. by means of persevering and graduated athletics, the powers and activity of the body can be developed to an astonishing extent. it is the same with the powers of the soul. would you reign over yourselves and others? learn how to will. how can one learn to will? this is the first arcanum of ma

e has the courage to confess the wonders that he has witnessed, and did anyone say: gi have myself beheld or performed the things which i am describing, h he would be answered: gyou are diverting yourself at our expense, or otherwise you are ill. h it is far better to be silent and to act. the metals which correspond to the four elementary forms are gold and silver for the air, mercury for water, iron and copper for fire, lead for earth. talismans are composed from these, relative to the forces which they signify and to the effects which it is designed to obtain from them. divination by the four elementary forms, respectively known as aeromancy, hydromancy, pyromancy and geomancy, is performed after various manners, which all depend on the will and the translucid or imagination of the oper

of necromancers, or the trident of paracelsus, the true and absolute magical wand must be one perfectly straight branch of almond or hazel, cut at a single blow with the magical pruning-knife or golden sickle, before the rising of the sun, at that moment when the tree is ready to blossom. it must be pierced through its whole length without splitting or breaking it, and a long needle of magnetized iron must occupy its entire length. to one of the extremities must be fitted a polyhedral prism, cut in a triangular shape, and to the other a similar figure of black resin. two rings, one of copper and one of zinc, must be placed at the centre of the wand; which afterwards must be gilt at the resin and silvered at the prism end as far as the ringed centre; it must then be covered with silk, the e

, the following words being said: be thou unto me as the sword of michael; by virtue of eloim sabaoth, may spirits of darkness and reptiles of earth flee away from thee! it is then fumigated with the perfumes of the sun and wrapped up in silk, together with branches of vervain, which should be burned on the seventh day. the magical lamp must be composed of the four metals. gold, silver, brass and iron; the pedestal should be of iron, the mirror of brass, the reservoir of silver, the triangle at the apex of gold. it should be provided with two branches composed of a triple tube of three intertwisted metals, in such a manner that each arm has a triple conduit for the oil; there must be nine wicks in all, three at the top and three in each branch. the seal of hermes must be engraved on the pe

he magic of his style the paradox that society alone depraves men. much as if he had said that competition and emulation in labour render workmen idle. the essential law of nature, that of initiation by effort and of voluntary and toilsome progress, has been misconstrued fatally. masonry has had its deserters, as catholicism its apostates. what has been the consequence? the substitution of a cast-iron level for the intellectual and symbolical level. to preach equality to what is beneath, without instructing it how to rise upward, is not this condemning us to descend ourselves? and hence we have stooped to the reign of the carmagnola, the sanscullotes and marat. to restore tottering and distracted society, the hierarchy and initiation must be again established. the task is difficult, but th

ural ignorance (4) blind faith in all that is incredible (5) an utterly false idea of god. we must afterwards (1) profane the ceremonies of the cultus in which we believe (2) offer a bloody sacrifice (3) procure the magic fork, which is a branch of a single bough of hazel or almond, cut at one blow with the new knife used for the sacrifice. it must terminate in a fork, which must be armoured with iron or steel, made from the blade of the knife before mentioned. a fast of fifteen days must be observed, taking a single unsalted repast after sundown. it should consist of black bread and blood, seasoned with unsalted spices or black beans and milky and narcotic herbs. we must get drunk every five days after sundown on wine in which five heads of black poppies and five ounces of pounded hemp-se

inal note: gthe draught is in hell, in the closet of lucifer h, a valuable item of information about a locality but imperfectly explored, and belonging to a period in no wise remote from our own, though anterior to the trial of young labarre and etalonde, who, as everyone knows, were contemporaries of voltaire. evocations were followed frequently by pacts written on parchment of goat skin with an iron pen and blood drawn from the left arm. the document was in duplicate: one copy was carried off by the fiend and the other swallowed by the wilful reprobate. the reciprocal engagements were that the demon should serve the sorcerer during a given period of years and that the sorcerer should belong to the demon after a determined time. the church in her exorcisms has consecrated the belief in al

. had he, by any potion, really attempted the reason of the woman in question, he would have deserved punishment as a poisoner: this is the most that we can say. but the most terrific of all philtres are the mystical exaltations of misdirected devotion. will ever any impurities equal the nightmares of st. anthony or the tortures of st. theresa and st. angela de foligny? the last applied a red-hot iron to her rebellious flesh, and found that the material fire was cooling to her hidden ardours. with what violence does nature cry out for that which is denied her, but is brooded over continually to increase detestation thereof! the pretended bewitchments of magdalen bavan, of mlles. de la palud and de la cadiere, began with mysticism. the excessive fear of a given thing makes it almost invaria

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nd acquired sights in the twinkling of an eye [for] both those sights, where once they [are] come, are in the same organ and inseparable. or they [may] strike them dumb. the secret commonwealth 26 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_21.htm (4 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29) the tramontaines( highlanders) to this day put bread, the bible, or a piece of iron, in women's bed[s] when travailing [that is, in labour] to save them from being thus stolen. and they commonly report that all uncouth unknown wights are terrified by nothing earthly so much as by cold iron. they deliver [that is, explain] the reasons to be that hell, lying between the chill tempests and fire brands of scalding metal, and the iron of the north, hence the lodestone causes a te

vouch, as is said, that surely these are a numerous people by themselves, having their own politics [that is, systems of society and government. this diversity of judgments may occasion several inconsistencies in this [my the secret commonwealth 29 present] rehearsal [of fairy lore] after the narrowest scrutiny [has been] made about it. 8. their weapons are mostly solid earthy bodies, nothing of iron, but much of a stone similar to yellow soft flint [and] shaped like a barbed arrow head, but flung as a dart with great force. these arms, cut by art and tools it seems beyond human [skill, have somewhat of the nature of a thunder-bolt, subtly and mortally wounding the vital parts without breaking the skin. some of these wounds i have observed in beasts, and felt them with my [own] hands. the

nvanquishable, at least in appearance. the men of that second sight do not [simply] discover strange things when asked, but at [that is, in] fits and raptures, as if inspired with some genius at that instant, which before did lurk in or about them. thus have i frequently spoken to one of them who in his transport[ed state] told [that] he cut the body of one of these [fairy] people in two with his iron weapon, and so escaped this onset [of the second sight. yet he saw nothing left behind of the apparently divided body. at other times he out-wrestled some of them. his neighbours often perceived this man to disappear at a certain place and then about one hour after to become visible [again] and discover himself [that is, reveal himself] nearly a bow-shot from the first place. it was in that p

eir vigorous healthy spirits affecting the sick [just] as usually the unhealthy fumes of the sick infect the sound or whole [that is, healthy. 13. the minor sort of seers prognosticate many future events, only for the space of a month [ahead, from the shoulder-bone of a sheep, on which a knife never came, for as has been said before (see page 26 above (and the nazarets of old had something of it, iron hinders all the operations of those that travail [that is, work] in the intrigues of those hidden [fairy] dominions. this science [of using a shoulder-blade] is called silinnenaith. by looking into the bone they will tell if whoredom be committed in the owner's house, what money the master of a sheep had, if any will die out of that house for that month [ahead, and if any cattle will take a t

lomon's temple, with the addition of some secret sign delivered from hand to hand, by which they [the masons] know and become familiar with one another. 3. this second sight so largely [that is, extensively] treated of before. 4. charms and curing by them very many diseases, sometime by transferring the sickness to another [carrier or location. 5. a [human] being proof of [that is, against] lead, iron, and silver, or a brief [garment] making men invulnerable. divers of our scottish commanders and soldiers have been seen with blue marks only [even] after they were shot with leaden ball; which seems to be an italian trick, for they seem to be a people too curious and magically inclined. finally irish-men, our northern scottish, and our atholl men are so much addicted to, and delight in, harp

tures readily rage with pain until they die. thus this cheap way of healing distemper without physic [that is, medicine, does, not withstanding, pay the account [in] some other way, by sacrificing something to the original healer, whoever [may] be the [present] instrument [or mediator of healing. to assess these for the present with the briefs and amulets that make men proof against lead bullets, iron weapons, and the like, i will [next] set down [in writing] some of their more remarkable charms and spells as they are usually written and spoken, one in latin [and] another in irish, which i translate. and [i shall also] give the rest [but] only interpreted, for brevity's sate. 1. the general prayer or pater noster, called seachd phaidir, repeated in way of preface and conclusion to every re

ious and magical arts worldwide, in which candidates sit in graveyards, in caves, or at crossroads. in the context of the fairy nurse, kirk next describes (page 25) the motif in which a human, gaining sight of the fairies through magical means, may be stricken blind with a puff of their breath. this is found in a large number of folk tales in variant forms, as is the belief that the fairies abhor iron, which is described in the following paragraph. there is a striking similarity between the traditional explanation of the fairies' dislike for iron, and the cosmology and bardic topography or holistic world-view found restated in the vita merlini (appendix 7. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (5 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) page 26 th

ouch of the seventh daughter of his family, who was then only a baby. page 29 the men of that second sight do not [simply] discover strange things when asked, but [in] fits and raptures. this is repeatedly asserted, that the sight comes as a sudden fit and not as a steady faculty: a seer recounted to kirk that he fought off the fit by out-wrestling or by cutting a fairy communicant in two with an iron weapon, upon which the fairy vanished. most seers are not of such sturdy stuff. page 29. neighbors often perceived this man to disappear. and. about one hour after to become visible [again. nearly a bow-shot from the first place. where. those subterraneans did. combat with him. this is the first description of a physical transportation or translation witnessed by others, unlike that of the nu

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to its own destructive course "the fate of my gifted race rests in the balance" it was for this day that this message was imparted. long have you pondered it in preparation for this day. hear now that you may understand it- for without understanding it is a weapon without force. this i tell you as the master of weapons and the glorious aspect of war- i who once presided over the birth of fire and iron, knowing not to what bad use this intelligence would be applied and by what feeble hands this gift of mine would be conveyed. this day, you must take back by force that which was once freely given. in what a curious fashion you have made my gift the power of your enemies. but that is done- now it must be undone. there was a time, my children, when i was known as the greatest servant of this e

ing it is a weapon without force. h this passage is reminiscent of "for with no purpose the force of the mind must fail"(8) this passage is self-evident, and could only be justified as an emphasis that the understanding necessary for their blood to endure has not been achieved. gthis i tell you as the master of weapons and the glorious aspect of war- i who once presided over the birth of fire and iron, knowing not to what bad use this intelligence would be applied and by what feeble hands this gift of mine would be conveyed. h astaroth here defines his attributes. they are those of a god of war in a later and fuller stage of development. a point where creativity, artistry, and an advanced concept of nobility modify the naked destructive energy of more primitive expressions "the birth of fi

nowing not to what bad use this intelligence would be applied and by what feeble hands this gift of mine would be conveyed. h astaroth here defines his attributes. they are those of a god of war in a later and fuller stage of development. a point where creativity, artistry, and an advanced concept of nobility modify the naked destructive energy of more primitive expressions "the birth of fire and iron" suggests the point at which mankind potentially became equal to the power of natural processes, which signified a decisive step in his evolution. astaroth did not know to what use his gift would be put- this recalls..memory of the future cannot exist" the lowercase "gift" would then seem to indicate an aspect or external manifestation of the gift of set, specifically, man's control over his

e large enough for considerable movement, like dancing. one point should face south, the direction of set. alternatively it can face the constellation of the great bear, associated with set, or the country egypt. another alternative is to try a trapezoid with the short side facing south. it can be designed with rope, drawn in the sand or dirt, or drawn with chalk. another possibility is to make a iron triangle large enough to sit on. the base of heaven was alleged to have been made of iron, implying that divinity rested on set. it could also be implied by the position of the candles. there will be three candles, one at each corner. if outdoors, lamps can be used. if more lights are need, then nine is an appropriate number. there can be a truncated pyramid around the magician. this symboliz

s the intellect of the magician. with its keen edge it cleanly cuts through ignorance and intellectual laziness. it protects its user from the forces of slavery and oppression, from those who would limit his freedom. this is one of the gifts of set. usually flint daggers were used for sacred purposes since they were made without human hands. crescent shaped ones represented the power of the moon. iron should be used as sacred to set. copper, because it is red, can also be used. pantacle: the pantacle symbolizes earth, the foundation and strength of the magician. here is where he draws his stamina from, and builds his temple on. the magician plants the seeds of possibility in the earth, from it he draws energy to make his will manifest. it can be made from red or black clay, wood, or from i

open the gate for my passage! open the gate, anubis, lest i spring over the pylon! open the gate, anubis! open it now [self passes the gate which allows entrance into the house of maat [recitation from the word of set, part two [self enters the house of maat and comes to the hall of the maati [self stops at the hall's entrance and speaks the evocation] gracious goddess who rules with the truth of iron; noble lady upon whose principle set has placed absolute infinity; lovely maat i come into your house this night, without fear, for i am pure of heart and have subject: harwer reading list: made your blessed throne the center of my self. hear these sounds, for i speak with a pure heart: i will that we shall become as one. my self watched the maati materialize in the hall, then approached them

make fast our selves. from the south i call the fiery sparks to ignite and inflame our wills. from the east i call the airy space to expand and fill our minds. from the west i call the watery abyss to give birth to shape and form. from the inner south i call forth salt to quicken us to life. from the outer north i call forth venom to wreck that which weakens us. from the inner south i call forth iron to hold our foes at bay. from the outer north i call forth yeast to cause us to wax in growth. within this chamber is come into being a world of our making, an earth amid the stars. upon this earth, made of all the elements brought together, our might and main is proven- at this pillar of power are all qualities come together and along its path rise and fall the hearts and minds of all who wo

he chamber as a symbolic gateway to the tuat. emphasis should be placed on egyptian symbolism, as is appropriate to the nature of the rite. the stele of bes-na-maut should be beneath the pentagram of' set in the center of the altar between two black candles. the graal of babalon and the ur-hekau("mighty one of enchantments) should be in place on the altar in front of the stele. the ur-hekau is an iron rod surmounted by a cobra's head, with a ram's head at one end, and meandering like a snake's body. this instrument is said to have been used by the god set to open the mouths of the gods. it is also symbolic of the stellar constellation of the thigh, and its metal, iron, is that sacred to set [dress for working. the celebrant will don a black-cowled robe displaying the insignia of the order

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pure, and the first thing it did was to inform him that it wanted nothing to do with his pathetic personality, that half-reconstructed affair of mimicry and voices, it intended to bypass all that, and he found himself surrendering to it, yes, go on, as if he were a bystander in his own mind, in his own body, because it began in the very centre of his body and spread outwards, turning his blood to iron, changing his flesh to steel, except that it also felt like a fist that enveloped him from outside, holding him in a way that was both unbearably tight and intolerably gentle; until finally it had conquered him totally and could work his mouth, his fingers, whatever it chose, and once it was sure of its dominion it spread outward from his body and grabbed gibreel farishta by the balls "fly" i

f the dying actor, but for the future, for themselves. who did not visit gibreel in hospital? who never wrote, made no telephone call, despatched no flowers, sent in no tiffins of delicious home cooking? while many lovers shamelessly sent him get-well cards and lamb pasandas, who, loving him most of all, kept herself to herself, unsuspected by her ball--bearing of a husband? rekha merchant placed iron around her heart, and went through the motions of her daily life, playing with her children, chit-chatting with her husband, acting as his hostess when required, and never, not once, revealed the bleak devastation of her soul. he recovered. the recovery was as mysterious as the illness, and as rapid. it, too, was called (by hospital, journalists, friends) an act of the supreme. a national hol

where thackeray wrote _vanity fair_ and the square with the convent where the little girls in uniform are always going in, but never come out, and the house where talleyrand lived in his old age when after a thousand and one chameleon changes of allegiance and principle he took on the outward form of the french ambassador to london, and arrives at a seven--storey corner block with green wrought--iron balconies up to the fourth, and now the dream rushes him up the outer wall of the house and on the fourth floor it pushes aside the heavy curtains at the living-room window and finally there he sits, unsleeping as usual, eyes wide in the dim yellow light, staring into the future, the bearded and turbaned imam. who is he? an exile. which must not be confused with, allowed to run into, all the

she seemed to grow weary all of a sudden, and went off the path to lie in the shade of a tamarind--tree and rest. the moment her eyes closed he was there beside her, dreaming gibreel in coat and hat, sweltering in the heat. she looked at him but he couldn't say what she saw, wings maybe, haloes, the works. then he was lying there and finding he could not get up, his limbs had become heavier than iron bars, it seemed as if his body might be crushed by its own weight into the earth. when she finished looking at him she nodded, gravely, as if he had spoken, and then she took off her scrap of a sari and stretched out beside him, nude. then in the dream he fell asleep, out cold as if somebody pulled out the plug, and when dreamed himself awake again she was standing in front of him with that l

s in her impossible, forbidden love for the prince, salim-"pyaar kiya to darna kya- that is to say, more or less _why be afraid of love_ and gibreel, whom she had accosted in the garden of his doubt, felt the music attaching strings to his heart and leading him towards her, because what she asked was, just as she said, such a little thing, after all. he reached the river; and another bench, cast--iron camels supporting the wooden slats, beneath cleopatra's needle. sitting, he closed his eyes. rekha sang faiz _do not ask of me, my love _that love i once had for you _how lovely you are still, my love _but i am helpless too _for the world has other sorrows than love _and other pleasures too _do not ask of me, my love _that love i once had for you. gibreel saw a man behind his closed eyes: not

g in this abridged metropolis over fascination fledgeby's rooms in the albany, the west end's very heart- but the guests are not disposed to grumble; the reborn city, even rearranged, still takes the breath away; most particularly in that part of the immense studio through which the river winds, the river with its fogs and gaffer hexam's boat, the ebbing thames flowing beneath two bridges, one of iron, one of stone- upon its cobbled banks the guests' gay footsteps fall; and there sound mournful, misty, footfalls of ominous note. a dry ice pea-souper lifts across the set. society grandees, fashion models, film stars, corporation bigwigs, a brace of minor royal personages, useful politicians and suchlike riff-raff perspire and mingle in these counterfeit streets with numbers of men and women

umpy- and he pointed "that way" whereupon she, too, vanished without a word of courtesy; and now jumpy was seen, crossing "southwark bridge" in the opposite direction, curly hair wilder than ever, coathanger shoulders hunched inside the greatcoat he had refused to remove, eyes searching, thumb homing in on mouth- and, a little later, gibreel headed across the simulacrum of that bridge which is of iron, going the same way as jumpy went. in short, events had begun to border on the farcical; but when, some minutes later, the actor playing the role of "gaffer hexam, who kept watch over that stretch of the dickensian thames for floating corpses, to relieve them of their valuables before handing them over to the police- came rowing rapidly down the studio river with his stipulated ragged, grizzl

, alphaville. he wanders through a confusion of languages. babel: a contraction of the assyrian "babilu "the gate of god" babylondon. where's this- yes- he meanders, one night, behind the cathedrals of the industrial revolution, the railway termini of north london. anonymous king's cross, the bat-like menace of the st pancras tower, the red-and-black gas-holders inflating and deflating like giant iron lungs. where once in battle queen boudicca fell, gibreel farishta wrestles with himself. the goodsway- but o what succulent goods lounge in doorways and under tungsten lamps, what delicacies are on offer in that way- swinging handbags, calling out, silver-skirted, wearing fish-net tights: these are not only young goods (average age thirteen to fifteen) but also cheap. they have short, identic

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in the hell of unquenchable fire and brimstone, unless thou shalt forwith appear before this circle, to do my will. come therefore quickly, and peaceably, by the names, adonai, zebaoth, adonai-amioram, come, come, adonai, king of kings, commands thee. now if he delays his appearance, write his name on parchment; put it in a black box, with brimstone and other stinking perfumes: bind the box with iron wire, hang it on the point of your blade, hold it over the fire of charcoal, which shall be placed towards that quarter whence the spirit will come, and say first to the fire: i conjure thee, o fire, by him who made thee, to torment, burn, and consume this spirit [n] everlastingly. to the spirit: because thou art disobedient, and obeyest not these, my commands, nor the precepts of the lord, t

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he powerful, for they shall be reverenced among men- cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out! 3. blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the world- cursed are the righteously humble, for they shall be trodden under cloven hoofs! 4. blessed are the victorious, for victory is the basis of right- cursed are the vanquished, for they shall be vassals forever! 5. blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit shall flee before them- cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon! 6. blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land- cursed are the gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty! 7. blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true messiahs- cursed are the god-adorers, for they s

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litany of desire celebrant: calling to mind the seekers after joy, who have, at the hands of unnatural and perfidious virtue, perished, we, thy brothers, ardently desire: dominion o'er the teeming lands beneath the darkened sky, above the watery sea! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai seela! dread lord of the dark flame give power! celebrant: rearing turrets and massive domes with iron walls and courts of stone! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai krepost! dread lord of the dark flame give strength [priest receives bone from acolyte, holds it on high, and, facing congregation] celebrant: thou art a tower of strength and power, and we, thy brothers, proclaim thee lord unto all ages [priest turns to altar, holding bone aloft] celebrant: slava tchortu! participa

while creeping to their graves. i gaze upon the massive hoards that suffocate, like peter's fish pulled from the lake of life's sweet waters. to perish in heaven's foul vapors shall be their doom! the fate of fools is justice! i am the tempter of life that lurks in every breast and belly; a vibrant, torpid cavern, nectar laden, with sweetest pleasures beckoning. i am a thrusting rod with head of iron, drawing to me myriad nymphs, tumescent in their craving! i am rampant carnal joy, an agent borne of ecstasy's mad flailing! through jagged ice, my father leers with cavernous eyes, below the sphere of earth that is my mother, moist and fertile whore of barbarous delights! my body is a temple, wherein all demons dwell. a pantheon of flesh am i [priest receives bone from acolyte and places it

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ba xian. he xiangu spent her life as a hermit in the mountains. while she was dreaming she received instructions on how to obtain immortality. afterwards she developed the ability to fly from mountain peak to mountain peak. lan caihe: he lived as a beggar, dressed in rags and wearing only one boot. then one day lan suddenly disappeared into the clouds as an immortal. li tieguai: he walks with an iron crutch, which was given to him by xi wangmu or by laozi after one of them healed his leg. either xi or laozi then taught li how to become an immortal. lu dongbin: he received a magical sword from a dragon on mount lu. he used it to conceal himself in heaven. lu believes that compassion is the way to achieve perfection. he uses his sword to conquer ignorance and aggression. zhang guolao: he li

myths and defining the gods with his theogony, which supplies more information about the relationships between the gods and goddesses. also, in his works and days, he provides a history of what he called the five ages of humans, from the golden age, ruled by the god chronos, to the silver age of zeus, the warlike bronze age, the heroic age of the trojan war, and ending with hesiod s own time, the iron age. virgil and ovid provided a similar service for the romans. in his aeneid, virgil transforms the sometimes bickering and petty couple zeus and hera into the thundering and all-powerful roman god jupiter and the angry juno. ovid, in his fifteen-volume metamorphoses, supplies a 228 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy history of the world, from creation to ovid s own

at the top. the khanda was used by guru gobind singh to stir the amrit in the first amrit ritual used to create the khalsa, the sikhs seventeenth-century fighting force. while the khanda was a dagger used in battle, it also has spiritual significance. the right edge symbolizes freedom; the left, divine justice. in the center of the khanda is a circle called a chakkar. this is actually a circular iron weapon with a sharpened outer edge (popularized in the television series xena: warrior princess. as with many circular religious symbols, it represents the eternity of god, who is without beginning and end. finally, two crossed swords encircle the insignia. the left sword, called piri, represents spiritual freedom; the right sword, called miri, represents political freedom. piri and miri were

r of that in the randomly selected hymn. another ceremony that holds special significance is the sikh initiation ritual, called amrit sanskar. during this ceremony, five sikhs called panj piaray, or the five elect, initiate the young sikh into the faith. they prepare holy water called amrit, which is made of water and sugar. they mix the solution with the khanda, or double-edged sword, in a large iron bowl while reciting prayers. they then pour it into the hands of the initiate and sprinkle some of it into the hair and eyes five times. the initiate is now considered a member of the khalsa brotherhood and is required to follow the sikh code of conduct (rehit maryada) for life. male initiates take the name singh, meaning lion, and female initiates take the name kaur, meaning princess. a fina

h. during the shang dynasty (c. 1766 c. 1112 bce, the chinese had established an administrative system, a complex agricultural system, and defined social classes. a method of writing and the first chinese calendar had also been developed. this era was followed by the zhou (chou) dynasty (c. 1025 256 bce, china s classical age. this period featured written laws, a monetary economy, tools made from iron, and ox-drawn plows. during the zhou dynasty, the kings began gradually losing their hold on the people, and large areas of china fell under the control of local princes. by 800 bce these princes began fighting not only the zhou leaders but also each other for control of the lands. the next several hundred years were ones of great chaos and disorder. in lu, the state where confucius lived, th

nts in northern ireland continued to attack one another in bombings and assassinations. despite the bloodshed, conflict, and prejudice that took place during the protestant reformation, historians agree that the revolution launched world religions: biographies 233 martin luther by luther and others contributed significantly to the development of europe. the continent s nations were freed from the iron grip that the catholic church had on most aspects of life, including government, education, scientific research, and the publication of books. the emphasis on personal belief rather than church authority gave rise to a renewed interest in learning. in turn, this new interest contributed to the rapid intellectual, social, and artistic advancement of europe. for more information books bainton

e the sky, and the bottom half became earth. an african creation story virtually every culture in the world has a creation story that explains how the world came about. the cultures of africa present a rich collection of such stories. here is one from the fulani people of mali. at the beginning there was a huge drop of milk then doondari (god) came and he created the stone. then the stone created iron; and iron created fire; and fire created water; and water created air. the doondari descended a second time. and he took the five elements and he shaped them into man. but man was proud. then doondari created blindness and blindness defeated man. but when blindness became too proud, doondari created sleep, and sleep defeated blindness; but when sleep became too proud, doondari created worry

bear butte for religious and spiritual observances. finally, it is believed that the souls of the sioux dead reside in the black hills. 36 world religions: primary sources black elk speaks excerpt from black elk speaks the great vision what happened after that until the summer i was nine years old is not a story. there were winters and summers, and they were good; for the wasichus had made their iron road along the platte and traveled there. this had cut the bison[ buffalo] herd in two, but those that stayed in our country with us were more than could be counted, and we wandered without trouble in our land. when we had camped again, i was lying in our tepee and my mother and father were sitting beside me. i could see out through the opening, and there two men were coming from the clouds

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of light, which is the new birth in man, all seven are good, and then saturnius stands for compassion, mercurius for doing good, mars for gentleness, sol for humility, venus for chastity, jupiter for wisdom, and luna for christ's flesh or body. the hermetic philosophy i attract all those seeking god and the truth; those alone will find the art. i am the magnet-stone of divine love; attracting the iron- hard men on the road to the truth. i am the moisture which preserves everything in nature and makes it live, i pass from the upper to the lower planes; i am the heavenly dew and the fat of the land; i am the fiery water and the watery fire; nothing may live without me in time; i am close to all things yea; in and through all things, nevertheless unknown. nevertheless i only am in the grasp o

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

vigil. but during the night the child grew worse, the physician (the leechcraft has never been very skilful at naples) shook his powdered head, kept his aromatics at his nostrils, administered his palliatives, and departed. old bernardi seated himself by the bedside in stern silence; here was the last tie that bound him to life. well, let the anchor break and the battered ship go down! it was an iron resolve, more fearful than sorrow. an old man, with one foot in the grave, watching by the couch of a dying child, is one of the most awful spectacles in human calamities. the wife was more active, more bustling, more hopeful, and more tearful. viola took heed of all three. but towards dawn, beatrice's state became so obviously alarming, that viola herself began to despair. at this time she s

e, like the sublimer schools, from the common-place of imitation, apart, with them, from the conventional littleness of the real, he grasps the imagination, and compels it to follow him, not to the heaven, but through all that is most wild and fantastic upon earth; a sorcery, not of the starry magian, but of the gloomy wizard, a man of romance whose heart beat strongly, griping art with a hand of iron, and forcing it to idealise the scenes of his actual life. before this powerful will, glyndon drew back more awed and admiring than before the calmer beauty which rose from the soul of raphael, like venus from the deep. and now, as awaking from his reverie, he stood opposite to that wild and magnificent gloom of nature which frowned on him from the canvas, the very leaves on those gnome-like

onti of those who boasted that no woman ever escaped their lust, and no man their resentment. the crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy, their ambition and their spirit are undecayed! my honour is now enlisted in this pursuit, viola must be mine "another ambuscade" said mascari, inquiringly "nay, why not enter the house itself? the situation is lonely, and the door is not made of iron "but what if, on her return home, she tell the tale of our violence? a house forced, a virgin stolen! reflect; though the feudal privileges are not destroyed, even a visconti is not now above the law "is he not, mascari? fool! in what age of the world, even if the madmen of france succeed in their chimeras, will the iron of law not bend itself, like an osier twig, to the strong hand of power

you see sickness menace her; danger hover around; years creep on; the eyes grow dim; the beauty fade, while the heart, youthful still, clings and fastens round your own, can you see this, and know it is yours to "cease" cried zanoni, fiercely "what is all other fate as compared to the death of terror? what, when the coldest sage, the most heated enthusiast, the hardiest warrior with his nerves of iron, have been found dead in their beds, with straining eyeballs and horrent hair, at the first step of the dread progress, thinkest thou that this weak woman from whose cheek a sound at the window, the screech of the night-owl, the sight of a drop of blood on a man's sword, would start the colour could brave one glance of away! the very thought of such sights for her makes even myself a coward "

ill circumstance, that hotbed, brought forth the two which, in ordinary times, lie ever the deepest and most latent in a man's heart, cowardice and envy. to one of these sources is to be traced every murder that master-fiend committed. his cowardice was of a peculiar and strange sort; for it was accompanied with the most unscrupulous and determined will, a will that napoleon reverenced; a will of iron, and yet nerves of aspen. mentally, he was a hero, physically, a dastard. when the veriest shadow of danger threatened his person, the frame cowered, but the will swept the danger to the slaughter-house. so there he sat, bolt upright, his small, lean fingers clenched convulsively; his sullen eyes straining into space, their whites yellowed with streaks of corrupt blood; his ears literally mov

ere was a still pause, as all, with pale cheeks, made way for the relentless henriot (or hanriot. it is singular how undetermined are not only the characters of the french revolution, but even the spelling of their names. with the historians it is vergniaud, with the journalists of the time it is vorgniaux. with one authority it is robespierre, with another roberspierre) scarce had this gruff and iron minion of the tyrant stalked through the throng, than a new movement of respect and agitation and fear swayed the increasing crowd, as there glided in, with the noiselessness of a shadow, a smiling, sober citizen, plainly but neatly clad, with a downcast humble eye. a milder, meeker face no pastoral poet could assign to corydon or thyrsis, why did the crowd shrink and hold their breath? as th

wo immense tribunes, raised at either end, contain the lees and dregs of the atrocious populace, the majority of that audience consisting of the furies of the guillotine (furies de guillotine. in the midst of the hall are the bureau and chair of the president, the chair long preserved by the piety of the monks as the relic of st. thomas aquinas! above this seat scowls the harsh bust of brutus. an iron lamp and two branches scatter over the vast room a murky, fuliginous ray, beneath the light of which the fierce faces of that pandemonium seem more grim and haggard. there, from the orator's tribune, shrieks the shrill wrath of robespierre! meanwhile all is chaos, disorder, half daring and half cowardice, in the committee of his foes. rumours fly from street to street, from haunt to haunt, fr

anded scorn. and yet there, the reverence that comes from great emotions restored nature's first and imperishable, and most lovely, and most noble law, the inequality between man and man! there, place was given by the prisoners, whether royalists or sans-culottes, to age, to learning, to renown, to beauty; and strength, with its own inborn chivalry, raised into rank the helpless and the weak. the iron sinews and the herculean shoulders made way for the woman and the child; and the graces of humanity, lost elsewhere, sought their refuge in the abode of terror "and wherefore, my child, do they bring thee hither" asked an old, greyhaired priest "i cannot guess "ah, if you know not your offence, fear the worst "and my child" for the infant was still suffered to rest upon her bosom "alas, young

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and other substances in the form of ladders have often been found, but the signification of them is not always apparent. from the texts inscribed upon the walls of the corridors and chambers of the pyramids of unas, teta, pepi, and other early kings, it is clear that the primitive egyptians believed that the floor of heaven, which also formed the sky of this world, was made of an immense plate of iron, rectangular in shape, the four corners of which rested upon four pillars which served to mark the cardinal points. on this plate of iron lived the gods and the blessed dead, and it was the aim of every good egyptian to go there after death. at certain sacred spots the edge of p. 52 the plate was so near the tops of the mountains that the deceased might easily clamber on to it and so obtain a

egyptian to go there after death. at certain sacred spots the edge of p. 52 the plate was so near the tops of the mountains that the deceased might easily clamber on to it and so obtain admission into heaven, but at others the distance between it and the earth was so great that he needed help to reach it. there existed a belief that osiris himself experienced some difficulty of getting up to the iron plate, and that it was only by means of the ladder which his father ra provided that he at length ascended into heaven. on one side of the ladder stood ra, and on the other stood horus, 1 the son of isis, and each god assisted osiris to mount it. originally the two guardians of the ladder were horus the elder and set, and there are several references in the early texts to the help which they

merhu, her husband seemed to devote himself exclusively to the study of magical books, and one day a priest of ptah promised to tell him where the magical book described above might be found if he would give him a hundred pieces of silver, and provide him with two handsome coffins. when the money and the coffins had been given to him, the priest of ptah told ptah-nefer-ka that the book was in an iron box in the middle of the river at coptos "the iron box is in a bronze box, the bronze box is in a box of palm-tree wood, the palm tree wood box is in a box of ebony and ivory, the ebony and ivory box is in a silver box, the silver box is in a gold box, and in the gold (sic) box lies the book. the box wherein is the book is surrounded by swarms of serpents and scorpions and reptiles of all kin

olenischeff, plate 3) p. 155 might thwart the sea monsters, and he proceeded to carry it into effect. he made a box ten cubits long and five cubits wide with sides made of sheets of glass fastened into frames by means of pitch, resin, etc. in this box alexander placed himself, together with two skilful draughtsmen, and having been closed it was towed out to sea by two vessels; and when weights of iron, lead, and stone had been attached to the under part of it, it began to sink, being guided to the place which alexander wished it to reach by means of cords which were worked from the ships. when the box touched the bottom of the sea, thanks to the clearness of the glass sides and the water of the sea, alexander and his two companions were able to watch the various marine monsters which passe

taken in his hand the mah staff, he hath provided himself with his throne, and he hath taken his seat in the boat of the great and little companies of the gods. ed maketh pepi to sail to the west, he stablisheth his seat above those of the lords of doubles, and he writeth down pepi at the head of those who live. the doors of pekh-ka which are in the abyss open themselves to pepi, the doors of the iron which is the ceiling of the sky open themselves to pepi, and he passeth through them; he hath his panther skin upon him, and the staff and whip are in his hand. pepi goeth forward with his flesh, pepi is happy with his name, and he liveth with his ka (double" curiously enough only the body and name and double of the king are mentioned, just as if these three constituted his whole economy; and

ver, and the bite of all poisonous reptiles which crawl forth from their holes. get thee back, o crocodile mak, thou son of set! move not by means of thy tail! work not thy legs and feet! open not thy mouth! let the water which is before thee turn into a consuming fire, o thou whom the thirty-seven gods did make, and whom the serpent of ra did put in chains, o thou who wast fettered with links of iron before the boat of ra! get thee back, o crocodile mak, thou son of set" these words were to be said over a figure of the god amen painted on clay; the rod was to have four rams' heads upon one neck, under his feet was to be a figure of the crocodile mak, and p. 175 to the right and left of him were to be the dog headed apes, i.e, the transformed spirits of the dawn, who sang hymns of praise t

truments, called "seb-ur" and "tuntet" respectively, and touched the mouth of the statue or mummy with them, whilst the kher-heb said "thy mouth was closed, but i have set in order for thee thy mouth and thy teeth. i open for thee thy mouth, i open for thee thy two eyes. i have opened for thee thy mouth with the instrument of anubis. i have opened thy mouth with the instrument of anubis, with the iron implement with which the mouths of the p. 196 gods were opened. horus, open the mouth! horus, open the mouth! horus hath opened the mouth of the dead, as he in times of old opened the mouth of osiris, with the iron which came forth from set, with the iron instrument with which he opened the mouths of the gods. he hath opened thy mouth with it. the deceased shall walk and shall speak, and his

isel and touched the openings of the mouth and of the eyes, and then the sem priest touched them first with his little finger, and afterwards with a little bag filled with pieces of red stone or carnelian, with the idea, m. maspero thinks, of restoring to the lips and eyelids the colour which they had lost during the process of mummification. the "son who loves him" then took four objects called "iron of the south, and iron of the north" and laid each of them four times upon the mouth and the eyes while the kher-heb recited the proper address in which the mummy or statue is said to have had his mouth and lips established firmly. this done, the sem priest brings an instrument called the "pesh-en-kef" and touches the mouth of the mummy or statue therewith, and says "o osiris, i have stablish

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

reams: sigil 1: the sign of the wud-zauberor invocatory name: wode (woahd) poetic stream: disguised as serpent and winged god the cunning king bestowed his worth upon the man and woman, shapely formed that they would unite heaven and earth sigil 2: the sign of the fire invocatory name: azael (oz ah el) poetic stream: even the fire has horns red tines with burning life the smith hammers the heated iron love in the earth, on the anvil, strife. sigil 3: the sign of the autumn equinox invocatory name: wandil (wahn dill) poetic stream: autumn, the doorway of the blessed water in the pale bloom unseen life comes to sleep, risen above to sink below the fading green sigil 4: the sign of the devil's trident invocatory name: routa (roo tah) poetic stream: the old puck-angel raises a fork a threefold

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am commanded by all the demons. i am offspring of the archangel uriel, the power of god" 11. i solomon, having heard the name of the archangel, prayed and glorified god, the lord of heaven and earth. and i sealed the demon and set him to work at stone-cutting, so that he might cut the stones in the temple, which, lying along the shore, had been brought by the sea of arabia. but he, fearful of the iron, continued and said to me "i pray thee, king solomon, let me go free; and i will bring you all the demons" and as he was not willing to be subject to me, i prayed the archangel uriel to come and succour me; and i forthwith beheld the archangel uriel coming down to me from the heavens. 12. and the angel bade the whales of the sea come out of the abyss. and he cast his destiny upon the ground

is that i roam about in those parts" 25. and i said to him "hast thou nothing else about thee, asmodeus" and he answered "the power of god knoweth, which hath bound me with the indissoluble bonds of yonder one's seal, that whatever i have told thee is true. i pray thee, king solomon, condemn me not to [go into] water" but i smiled, and said to him "as the lord god of my fathers liveth, i will lay iron on thee to wear. but thou shalt also make the clay for the entire construction of the temple, treading it down with thy feet" and i ordered them to give him ten water-jars to carry water in. and the demon groaned terribly, and did the work i ordered him to do. and this i did, because that fierce demon asmodeus knew even the future. and i solomon glorified god, who gave wisdom to me solomon hi

was prosperous, and my army was with me. and for the rest the city of jerusalem had repose, rejoicing and delighted. and all the kings of the earth came to me from the ends of the earth to behold the temple which i builded to the lord god. and having heard of the wisdom given to me, they did homage to me in the temple, bringing gold and silver and precious stones, many and divers, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and cedar logs. and woods decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the temple of god. 109. and among them also the queen of the south, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. and having heard my wisdom, she glorified the god of israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all love in which i instructed her, according to the wisdom

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

iling is wedge-shaped and separated from three walls of the inner room by a footwide space. thus the room appears to be much longer than it really is because of the many converging lines leading into the narrow end, the corners of which are rounded off on either side of the mural -7- the altar the altar is four feet high and rests on two narrow cross pieces. it is a dark gray block of crystalline iron ore from a swedish mine and weighs six and one-half tons. the swedish government presented this block of ore. the largest of its kind ever mined. to the u.n. in early 1957 "the chunk rests on a concrete pillar that goes straight down to bed-rock."1 the area and passageway beneath the room are closed to the public. the chunk of ore has been described as a lodestone, or magnetite, which is stro

1, 1957. during the period of the remodeling the guards were on hand during the day to keep out the curious and at night the room was locked up with a chain and padlock. the artist said of his work'"it has no title, and you can make what you wish of it" he explained that the geometric patterns in the mural repeated the proportions of the room and those of the focal point of the room, the piece of iron ore. he also said that he intended to give a feeling of space with the picture. the un review story stated that "he sought to open up the room so that the eye can travel in the distance when it strikes the wall. to give a slight upward movement, he said he designed winding circles and a spiraling diagonal line which might be compared to a vibrating musical chord. as a 'resting spot' for the v

sions on people of different levels. and people from lower levels will never receive from it what people of higher levels receive. this is real, objective art. an objective work of art. affects the emotional and not oniy the intellectual side of man (his emphasis) mr. beskow's picture is described as nonobjective, yet its composition admittedly reflects the dimensions of the room and the chunk of iron ore. this involves mathematics. he said of his mural "you can make what you wish of it" yet he admittedly sought to create a specific subjective effect in the mind of the spectator. consequently, mr. beskow's remarks create confusion rather than understanding. the room of stillness' the leaflet made available to those who visit the meditation room was written under the direction of dag hammar

to matter "but the stone in the middle of the room has more to tell us. we may see it as an altar, empty not because there is no god, not because it is an altar to an unknown god, but because it is dedicated to the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms "the stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. the block of iron ore has the weight and solidity of the everlasting. it is a reminder of that cornerstone of endurance and faith on which all human endeavor must be based "the material of the stone leads our thoughts to the necessity for choice between destruction and peace. of iron man has forged his swords, of iron he has also made his ploughshares "the shaft of light strikes the stone in a room of utter si

rowed in turn by virgil from the mystic sybylline records "the entire quotation is as follows 'the last age of cumaen song now comes (novus ordo seclorum altered from magnus soeclorum ordo, a mighty order of ages is born anew. both the prophetic virgin and saturnian kingdoms now return. now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. favor, chaste lucina, the boy soon io be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth" virgil was a pagan philosopher of rome.16 the literalure on the mystic meaning of the seal is extensive and amazing. it appears that almost every secret fraternity, society and movement in the country has claimed the seal's reverse side as its own. celestia root lang wrote:17 "the reverse side must have been de

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

sense for detail. 13 material for the banners should be very thin. it is almost impossible to fold thick cottons or other fabrics into these patterns; they invariably appear lumpy and crude. the ideal fabric, from the standpoints of availability of colors, cost and ease of construction, are acetates intended as lining materials. to some extent, this should be considered a "cut and paste" project. iron-on seam binding should be used to hold the pieces firmly in place before they are overstitched. it is essential that the pieces be held completely flat before final sewing if a machine is used. otherwise, fabrics may pull to one side or the other creating uneven lines. the following is a technique for sewing a cross. in the absence of iron-on seam binding, the panels should be basted (large t

pieces firmly in place before they are overstitched. it is essential that the pieces be held completely flat before final sewing if a machine is used. otherwise, fabrics may pull to one side or the other creating uneven lines. the following is a technique for sewing a cross. in the absence of iron-on seam binding, the panels should be basted (large temporary stitches) to the background panel. 1) iron the fabric, and on the back of it draw a cross. a soft black pencil will generally show up, even on black fabrics. a white chalk pencil available at fabric stores may also be used. lines must be measured carefully. 2) cut around the outside of the cross, leaving a border of approximately 3/8 inch. 3) cut the corners and central angles as shown in the illustration. 4) apply a very small drop o

stores may also be used. lines must be measured carefully. 2) cut around the outside of the cross, leaving a border of approximately 3/8 inch. 3) cut the corners and central angles as shown in the illustration. 4) apply a very small drop of white glue at each inner or outer corner point. this will keep the fabric from fraying at the point where there is nothing to be folded over. 5) with a steam iron, fold back the edges of the cross. some materials will hold such an edge eaily, but others may require tacking with a small strip of the seam binding. 6) place the cross on the background material, with strips of seam binding underneath. cover it with a cloth and press with a hot iron. 7) finally, overstitch around all of the edges, keeping the lines a straight as possible. hanging the banner

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

ears the satanic goatee beard? johannes kepler (1571-1630, a german astronomer and mathematician who taught the numerological philosophies of plato and pythagoras that were adopted by the illuminati (from the book, sacred architecture, by a.t. mann, element books, 1993) 92 codex magica russian president boris yeltsin was known to be a dupe of jewish illuminati interests. following the fall of the iron curtain, these illuminati jews carved up russia, seizing every asset of value and leaving the everyday soviet citizenry in desperate economic straits. yeltsin, a hopeless drunk, shows his loyalty to illuminist interests with his clenched fist masonic pose. for he's a jolly good fellow 93 england's sir james de rothschild, of the fabulously wealthy rothschild dynasty, about 1935. the books he

, 1995, p. 4) was found this story reporting on "black magicians" among the highest ranks of russian military and political circles. among the magic techniques common in the kremlin: mantras, meditation, astrology and horoscopes, mind powers, telekinesis, spinning saucers, coded messages, remote viewing, tarot cards, and energy fields. blood red- red stars, clenched fists 5 85 actress holds up an iron of vladimir lenin during russian occult stage production, the fourteen red huts. the scarlet island, another russian production. 586 codex magica gorbachev red star" trumpeted this cover of vanity fair magazine (february 1990. ink type, appropriately, was colored red. blood red-red stars, clenched fists 587 the red star is universally recognized as a sign of hard-core communism. so, why has m

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city librarian. later, however, foley made an apology to bridey when he discovered that t. crofton cronker, in his researches in the south of ireland (1824, mentions the custom of kissing the blarney stone as early as 1820. bridey was correct about other matters that at first were thought to be wrong by scholars and authorities. for example, certain authorities discredited her statement about the iron bed she had scratched with her fin- 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 afterlife mysteries 65 gernails after the awful spanking on the grounds that iron beds had not yet been introduced into ireland during the period in which bridey claimed to have lived. the encyclopedia britannica, however, states that iron beds did appear in bridey s e

universe human or nonhuman intelligences that can act directly on matter. sir william crookes (1832 1919, the renowned british chemist and physicist, concluded after a full investigation of katie fox that she only had to place her hand on any substance to produce raps loud enough to be heard several rooms off. in this manner, i have heard them in a living tree, on a sheet of glass, on a stretched iron wire, on a stretched membrane, a tambourine, on the roof of a cab, and on the floor of a theatre. moreover, actual contact is not always necessary. i have heard these sounds proceeding from the floors, walls, etc, when the medium s hands were held, when she was standing on a chair, when she was suspended from the ceiling, when she was enclosed in a wire cage. psychical researcher robert dale

to crawl into the tunnel and continue on his way. with only a small lamp to drive back the shadows of the cramped corridor, the novice crawled on his hands and knees, hearing over and over a deep sepulchral voice warning that fools who coveted knowledge were certain to perish in the tunnel. as the initiate proceeded forward, he eventually found himself in a wider area where he began to descend an iron ladder. but as he reached the lowest rung, he saw below him only a gaping abyss. there seemed no choice left to him. he could not go back, and he could surely die if he stepped off the ladder into what might be a drop of thousands of feet into the blackness below him. it was at this point that the fortunate initiate, if the oil in his small lamp had held out, t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d

ed as a diagnostic tool in tracing a variety of anything from brain disorders, tumors or other irregularities to dream research. electroencephalographic dream research researching dreams using a electroencephalograph to aid the researcher in the brain activity of the one being studied. electromagnetic of or pertaining to the characteristics of an electromagnet, which is a device having a steel or iron core and is magnetized by an electric current that flows through a surrounding coil. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life force of all things in nature, such as minerals, plants, animals, and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day a

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w months while a dozen clergymen refused to take up residence there because of the eerie tales they had heard until reverend g. e. smith and his family accepted the call in 1928. price, the well-known psychical researcher, did not have to wait long for the phenomena to put on a show for him. price and his assistant had just shared a lunch with mr. and mrs. smith when a glass candlestick struck an iron stove near the investigator s head and splashed him with splinters. a mothball came tumbling down the stairwell, followed by a number of pebbles. price busied himself for the next several days with interviewing the surviving daughters of henry bull, the builder of the rectory, and as many former servants as had remained in the village. the eldest of the three surviving daughters told of seein

cupancy. one night, while carrying a candle on the way to their bedroom, she received such a violent blow in the eye that it produced a cut and a black bruise that was visible for several days. a hammerhead was thrown at her one night as she prepared for bed. she received a blow from a piece of metal that was hurled down a flight of stairs. another time, she narrowly missed being struck by a flat iron, which smashed the chimney of the lamp that she was carrying. in addition to persecuting mrs. foyster, the entity seemed determined to establish contact with her. messages were found scrawled on the walls: marianne please get help. the entity may or may not have been suggesting that the foysters once again bring dr. harry price upon the scene. at any rate, that is exactly what they did. advis

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n j. telepathy. new york: berkley medallion books, 1968. krippner, stanley. human possibilities: mind research in the ussr and eastern europe. garden city, n.y: anchor books, 1980. krippner, stanley, with montague ullman and alan vaughan. dream telepathy: experiments in nocturnal esp. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland publishers, 1989. ostrander, sheila, and lynn schroeder. psychic discoveries behind the iron curtain. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1970. rhine, j. b. the reach of the mind. new york: william sloane associates, 1947. sinclair, upton. mental radio. new york: macmillan, 1971. soal, s. g, and f. bateman. modern experiments in telepathy. london: faber and faber, 1954. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 1

in various parts of the brain. these are recorded and used as a diagnostic tool in tracing a variety of anything from brain disorders, tumors or other irregularities to dream research. electrodes two conductors through which electricity flows in batteries or other electrical equipment. electromagnetic of or pertaining to the characteristics of an electromagnet, which is a device having a steel or iron core and is magnetized by an electric current that flows through a surrounding coil. encode to convert a message from plain text into a code. in computer language, to convert from analog to digital form, and in genetics to convert appropriate genetic data. false memory refers to situations where some therapies and hypnosis may actually be planting memories through certain suggestions or leadi

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kept in filthy dungeons. although the pope had little problem yielding to pressure and issuing a ban on the order, he hesitated to give his sanction to the extermination of the knights. philip, however, was determined to see the templars destroyed and their wealth distributed to the state. for two weeks, the knights imprisoned in paris suffered the rack, the thumbscrew, the pincers, the branding iron, and the fire. thirty-six died under torture without speaking. the rest confessed to every charge the inquisition had leveled against them.the worship of baphomet, a black cat, and a serpent; the sacrifice of babies and the murders of pious knights who opposed them. a grand council was called in paris on may 10, 1310, to review the confessions. but philip fs victory was sullied when 54 of the

heir own time of interrogation and torture at the hands of the inquisition. paracelsus may well have expressed the credo of the alchemist of higher magic when he said that nature does not produce anything that is perfect in itself.it is humankind that must bring everything to perfection. it is the sincere alchemist-magician who fulfills nature. god, paracelsus said, did not create objects made of iron. god created the metal that must be enjoined with fire in order to fashion useful items. nothing has been created in its final state. everything is first created in its primary state. it is the alchemist who must bring the fire of creativity to make art. alchemy is the art that makes the impure into the pure. higher magic can separate the useful from the useless and transmute it into its fina

returning to her house after doing an errand, her foster mother found the door wide open and ursula missing. reporting dreadful wailing and strange noises coming from the house, the neighbors told a story of an invisible force that wouldn ft let them enter the kitchen. together, they all returned to the house to discover the girl sitting in the kitchen. completely naked, ursula was sitting on the iron bar in the chimney from which the cooking hooks were suspended, pleased that she had wreaked havoc. from that time on, gossip spread and rumors abounded about her growing uncanny abilities. in addition to being mischievous, ursula made rhymes or prose of events or circumstances that would often come true. she suffered from a physical deformity that made her a victim of merciless teasing, and

britain by the fourth century, celtic culture and the druids were eventually overwhelmed. under the supervision of druids, the theory goes, stonehenge was a sacred ceremonial site. the famous slaughter stone at stonehenge, which shows traces of red after a rain, was believed to have been an altar where druids performed human sacrifices. it was subsequently discovered that the redness derives from iron minerals in the slaughter stone. william stukeley (1687.1765) perpetuated the druid link to stonehenge in the 1740s with his book, stonehenge: a temple restor fd to the british druids (1740. stukeley identified the avenue leading into stonehenge as a procession route. back during the 1720s, he had discovered parallel lines of banks and ditches near stonehenge. he called the phenomenon a cursu

ed as a diagnostic tool in tracing a variety of anything from brain disorders, tumors or other irregularities to dream research. electroencephalographic dream research researching dreams using a electroencephalograph to aid the researcher in the brain activity of the one being studied. electromagnetic of or pertaining to the characteristics of an electromagnet, which is a device having a steel or iron core and is magnetized by an electric current that flows through a surrounding coil. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life force of all things in nature, such as minerals, plants, animals, and the four elements of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day a

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cult of the horned god this does not appear till a much later stage.of the religion of the neolithic period nothing is known in western europe except the burial rites. the godshave left no recognisable trace, though certain female figures may possibly represent goddesses. but whenthe bronze-age arose the horned god is found through all europe from east to west. the fierce tribes whobrought in the iron-age destroyed the greater part of the previous civilisation, and possibly the previousinhabitants also, except those descendants of the neolithic and bronze-age folk still remaining on the moorsand downs, where agriculture was unsuitable at the time and where the valley people would be afraid toventure. powerless though the moormen were against the new weapons they seem to have struck terror

vaders. if there was war between the two races it was a guerilla warfare, in which the little people hadthe advantage over the slow-moving agriculturists. in the end a certain amount of intercourse must have beenestablished. whether it was due to trade and intermarriage that the worship of the horned god wasre-introduced among the tillers of the soil; or, as is more likely, that the people of the iron-age had acquiredthe cult in their own habitat or in their slow march across europe, it is certain that he retained his position as ahigh god.it is not unlikely that at this period the cross was used by the conquerors as a magical method of frighteningand scaring away the hill-people. the cross was already in use as a sacred symbol in the bronze-age ineastern europe, and to the iron-age belong

eat prophylactic powers; so much so that such charms were in use throughout babylonia. theevidence shows that the great seven-horned gods of the temples, who gave their special protection to theroyal family, had little or no appeal for the people, and that the smaller deities, the little two-horned godlings,were regarded as the real protectors in matters of everyday life.throughout the bronze and iron ages horned deities are to be found in egypt. the earliest example has awoman's face and the horns of a buffalo; this is on the slate-palette of narmer,[2] who is usually identifiedwith the first historic king of egypt. it is worth noting that, with the exception of the god mentu, the horns ofcattle are worn by goddesses only, while the gods have the horns of sheep. the chief of the horned go

and is found in europe in the four-faced janus.it is still uncertain whether the four-faced form arose independently in india and europe, or whether one isthe prototype of the other; if the latter, the indian appears to be the earlier.though it is not possible to give an exact date to the early legends of the aegean, it is evident that there alsothe horned god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of the dramatic legends attached to his cult, was the minoan bull, the minotaur,of crete. he was in human form with a bull's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and mask

ollowed by a dancing procession of satyrs and nymphs, while he plays on the pipes which bear his name. hisappearance should be compared with the little dancing god of the palaeolithic people (plate ii, and also withthe figure of robin goodfellow (plate x. as a godling beloved of the people he is like enkidu, whom healso resembles in having hoofs. though our knowledge of him dates only to the late iron-age, his worship isobviously of high antiquity, and he appears to be indigenous in greece.another horned god of greece was bull dionysos, who, like the minotaur of crete, was slain. dionysos wassaid to have been brought into greece from the north; his cult would therefore be a foreign worship, whichfact shows that outside greece, in the countries which have no written record, the belief in a

ously of high antiquity, and he appears to be indigenous in greece.another horned god of greece was bull dionysos, who, like the minotaur of crete, was slain. dionysos wassaid to have been brought into greece from the north; his cult would therefore be a foreign worship, whichfact shows that outside greece, in the countries which have no written record, the belief in a homed deityprevailed in the iron-age and probably even earlier.a few rock carvings in scandinavia show that the horned god was known there also in the bronze age. it wasonly when rome started on her career of conquest that any written record was made of the gods of westerneurope, and those records prove that a horned deity, whom the romans called cernunnos, was one of thegreatest gods, perhaps even the supreme deity, of gaul

a temple so sacred that the site was re-used for the principal temple of the new faith.cernunnos is recorded in writing and in sculpture in the south of gaul, in that very part where the palaeolithicpainting of him still survives. it is highly improbable that the cult of the horned god should have died out insouth-western europe in neolithic times and have remained unknown through the bronze and iron ages,only to be revived before the arrival of the romans. it is more logical to suppose that the worship continuedthrough the unrecorded centuries, and lasted on as one of the principal gaulish cults till within the christianera. such a cult must have had a strong hold on the worshippers, and among the illiterate, and in the lessaccessible parts of the country it would linger for many centuri

ith which they perform magic, both can turn human beings intoanimals, both can appear or disappear at will. in short, the real difference is that the one is a dainty old ladyand the other is a dirty old woman.if then the fairy godmother and the witch are so closely identical, the question of fairies becomes important.the real difficulty in understanding the matter at the present day is due to the iron-bound prejudice of themodern reader in favour of the tiny elf, the "two-inch men, the little creatures who can "creep into anacorn-cup, or ride on a butterfly. these fragile little things have gossamer wings, they float on a moonbeam,they play among the blossoms, they dance in the flowery meadows. everything about them is in miniature,and it would hardly be an alarming experience for a mortal

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an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflections of those which pass, presentiments of those which are about to be. our nervous disposition attracts to us those images which correspond to our agitation, to the nature of our fatigue, just as a magnet, moved among particles of various metals, would attract to itself and choose particularly the iron filings. 117 dreams reveal to us the sickness or the health, the calm or the disturbance, of our plastic medium, and consequently, also, that of our nervous apparatus. they formulate our presentiments by the analogy which the images bear to them. for all ideas have a double significance for us, relating to our double life. there exists a language of sleep; in the waking state it is impossible

those who do not suffer. axiom xviii voluntary death from devotion is not suicide; it is the apotheosis of the will. axiom xix fear is nothing but idleness of the will, and for that reason public opinion scourges cowards. axiom xx succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you. say to sorrow "i will that you be a pleasure, more even than a pleasure, a happiness" axiom xxi a chain of iron is easier to break than a chain of flowers. axiom xxii before saying that a man is happy or unhappy, find out what the direction of his will has made of him: tiberius died every day at capri, while jesus proved his immortality and even his divinity on calvary and upon the cross. 238 chapter ii the power of the word it is the word which creates forms; and forms in their turn react upon the wor

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leonard "shy" elmore, 72, duncan falls, ohio, was taking a stroll around 4 a.m. when he encountered a strange "building" which frightened him badly. like many elderly people, mr. elmore does not sleep well and often takes long walks late at night. on this particular morning, he was walking along a road two blocks from his home when he saw a strange "l-shaped building that looked like a galvanized iron shed" sitting in the middle of a large field. since he had never noticed this "shed" before he walked closer to take a better look. something about it frightened him. later he could not explain why it had scared him. and he turned and started to hurry away. although it was dark and he could see no windows or doors in the "shed" he claims that he distinctly heard a normal male voice come from

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il such time as it is needed. the number os shammash is twenty and this is his seal: the god of mars is the mighty nergal. he has the head of a man on the body of a lion, and bears a sword and a flail. he is the god of war, and of the fortunes of war. he was sometimes though to be an agent of the ancient ones, for he dwelt in cutha for a time. his colour is dark red. his essence is to be found in iron, and in all weapons made to spill the blood of men and of animals. his gate is the fifth you will see as you pass the zones in the rituals that follow. his step on the ladder of light is red. this is his seal, which must be engraved on a plate of iron, or on paper in blood, when mars is in exaltation in the heavens. it is best done at night, far from the habitations of men and of animals, whe

et shape he armed himself with the disc of power in chariots of fire he went forth with a shouting voice he called the spell with a blazing flame he filled his body dragons, vipers, all fell down lions, horse-men, all were slain. the mighty creatures of hubur were slain the spells, the charms, the sorcery were broken. naught but tiamat remained. the great serpent, the enormous worm the snake with iron teeth the snake with sharpened claw the snake with eyes of death, she lunged at marduk with a roar with a curse she lunged. marduk struck with the disc of power blinded tiamat's eyes of death the monster heaved and raised its back struck forth in all directions spitting ancient words of power screamed the ancient incantations marduk struck again and blew an evil wind into her body which fille

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

sprang, he caught her to his breast; the maid smiled and lay back to look at him. he laid her tender body on the sloping field, and felt her sighs in his embraces yield a sweeter music than all birds. but she, lost in the love she might not know, may see no further than his face, and yet, aware of her own fate, resisted like a snare. her own soft wishes. as she looked and saw his eager face, the iron rod of law grew like a misty pillar in the sky. in all her veins the blood fs desires die, and then. o sudden ardour. all her mind and memory faded, and looked outward, blind, beyond their bitterness. her arms she flung around him, and with amorous lips and tongue tortured his palate with extreme desire, and like a manad maddened; equal fire leapt in his veins; locked close for love they lie

and lose my purpose in its silent sea, and lose my life, and find my life, and pass up to the sea that is as molten glass *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 227. nirvana. the drowning of self in eternity. yet if the mind returned not from its abode, and ever rested with god, all would run smoothly enough; but such a possibility is too transcendental to be actual. if it were, then this dull house of gold and iron and clay is happy also. etis an easy way *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 227. but this cannot be. the dice are in god fs lap, and in him alone rests the ultimate goal. in gtannhauser h we find the great dual power of redemption, the interminglings of the powers of virtue and vice. in him, as in the hero of gthe nameless quest, h they wage an eternal contest, it not being till he has passed through th

the cohorts of destruction ran, saw darkness visible, and was afraid, seeing. there grew like death a monster shade, blind as the coffin, as the covering sod damp, as the corpse obscene, the christian god. so to the agony dirges of despair man cleft the womb, and shook the icy air with bitter cries for light and life and love. but these, begotten of the world above, withdrew their glory, and the iron world rolled on its cruel way, and passion furled its pure wings, and abased itself, and bore fetters impure, and stopped, and was no more, but resurrection fs ghastly power grew strong. and lust was born, adulterous with wrong, the child of lies; so man was blinded still, garnered the harvest of abortive ill, for wheat reaped thistles, and for worship wrought a fouler idol of his meanest tho

of reality by clutching the illusive realism of its own creative faculties, was itself whirled into that furnace of hereditary prejudice, and educational bias, from out of which it has flowed a mass of molten and subservient acquiescence. lost in the axiomatic whirlpools of egotistical conceit, it has been cast up once again on the shores of unknowable despair, a veritable mass of philosophic pig-iron, of no further use than that of acting as ballast to the good ship which is to carry us across the turbid ocean of raging eclectics. crowley is more than a new-born dionysus, he is more than a blake, a rabelais or a heine; for he stands before us as some priest of apollo, hovering etwixt the misty blue of the heavens, and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep. before the name

(binah, feminine) there is emanated the lesser countenance. microprosopus. the relation between these two is idealistic, being the relation of the absolute as it really is, to the absolute as it is conceived by man. and it is the search after this relationship. god. that crowley so frequently and ardently depicts. awful and terrible is its path; the very blood of the heart hisses, as water on hot iron, as it rushes through its fiery veins fanned by a flaming soul: by the sun fs heat, that brooks not his eclipse and dissipates the welcome clouds of rain. god! have thou pity soon on this amazing pain *songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 41. struggling on, the hideous path is strewn with bleached bones,*1. and salt encrusted heads,*2. of those who have failed *1. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 4

and the gwas h is not as the gwill be h; every cause has its effect: gfreewill h is the postulate of morality, gdetermination h of science. thus in buddhism we find anikka, dukkha, and anatta, and in agnosticism change, sorrow, and absence of an ego; and in both: that to deny all religions is a sublime act of faith. the metaphysics of these verses is perfectly absurd. my curse is no sooner in an iron word i formulate my thought than i perceive the same to be absurd *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 170. and this fleeting changeful hexperience, h huxley says, is necessarily hbased on incomplete knowledge, h and is gto be held only as grounds of more or less justified expectation h c gon the other hand, no conceivable event however extraordinary is impossible. h *huxley fs hume, p

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magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (5 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter three the early years of the o.t.o. somewhere about the year 1896 karl kellner, a wealthy german iron-master who had journeyed through india and the middle east in search of occult wisdom, decided to found yet another templar group, its purpose to revive the sexual magic which kellner believed had been the real secret of the original order of the temple. kellner claimed to have rediscovered this secret doctrine by means of a thorough study of the sexo-yogic teachings he had orally received fr

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4:19 and lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was] adah, and the name of the other zillah. 4:20 and adah bare jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle. 4:21 and his brother s name [was] jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 4:22 and zillah, she also bare tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of tubal-cain [was] naamah. 4:23 and lamech said unto his wives, adah and zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of lamech, hearken unto my speech: for i have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 4:24 if cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly page 3 genesis lamech seventy and sevenfold. 4:25 and adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name seth

n vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 26:17 and i will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 26:18 and if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then i will punish you seven times more for your sins. 26:19 and i will break the pride of your power; and i will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 26:20 and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 26:21 and if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; i will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 26:22 i will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your childre

both] yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day. 31:20 and purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats [hair] and all things made of wood. 31:21 and eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, this is the ordinance of the law which the lord commanded moses; 31:22 only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 31:23 every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. 31:24 and ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp. 31:25 an

for refuge. 35:14 ye shall give three cities on this side jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of canaan [which] shall be cities of refuge. 35:15 these six cities shall be a refuge [both] for the children of israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. 35:16 and if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:17 and if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:18 or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 35:19 the revenger

the land that [was] on this side jordan, from the river of arnon unto mount hermon; 3:9([which] hermon the sidonians call sirion; and the amorites call it shenir) 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all gilead, and all bashan, unto salchah and edrei, cities of the kingdom of og in bashan. 3:11 for only og king of bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; is it not in rabbath of the children of ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 3:12 and this land [which] we possessed at that time, from aroer, which [is] by the river arnon, and half mount gilead, and the cities thereof, gave i unto the reubenites and to the gadites. 3:13 and the rest of gilead, and all bashan [being] the kin

likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: 4:19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the lord thy god hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 4:20 but the lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace [even] out of egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day. 4:21 furthermore the lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that i should not go over jordan, and that i should not go in unto that good land, which the lord thy god giveth thee [for] an inheritance: 4:22 but i must die in this land, i must not go over jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess

ays, and to fear him. 8:7 for the lord thy god bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8:8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 8:9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 8:10 when thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the lord thy god for the good land which he hath given thee. 8:11 beware that thou forget not the lord thy god, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which i command thee this day: 8:12 lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly hous

giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the lord god of thy fathers hath promised thee. 27:4 therefore it shall be when ye be gone over jordan [that] ye shall set up these stones, which i command you this day, in mount ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. 27:5 and there shalt thou build an altar unto the lord thy god, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them. 27:6 thou shalt build the altar of the lord thy god of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the lord thy god: 27:7 and thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the lord thy god. 27:8 and thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 27:9 and moses and the priests the levites spake unto all

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andaye, deposed that the first time she was presented to the devil she kissed him on this face behind, beneath a great tail, and that she repeated the kiss three times, adding that this face was made like the muzzle of a goat. others said that he was shaped like a great man, enveloped in a cloudiness, because he would not be seen clearly, and that he was all flamboyant, and had a face red like an iron coming out of the furnace. corneille brolic, a lad of twelve years of age, said that when he was first introduced to him he had the human form, with four horns on his head, and without alum es aux c r monies de la messe qu ils voulent contrefaire. on luy voit aussi quelque esp ce de bonet ou chapeau au dessus de ses cornes. il a au devant son membre tir et pendant, et le monstre tousjours lon

et apr s son decez le diable l y menoit luy mesme. que la premi re fois generative powers 229 that the first time she was there she saw the devil in the shape of a trunk of a tree, without feet, but apparently sitting in a pulpit, with some form of a human face, very obscure; but since she had often seen him in man's form, sometimes red, sometimes black. that she had often seen him approach a hot iron to the children which were presented to him, but she did not know if he marked them with it. that she had never kissed him since she had arrived at the age of knowledge, and does not know whether she had kissed him before or not; but she had seen how, when one went to adore him, he presented sometimes his face to kiss, sometimes his posteriors, as it pleased him, and at his discretion. that s

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sades or for the islamic jihad, and indeed it may be written as a triangle over a cross, action overcoming inertia, which can be stylized into a flaming sword (see figure at the top of page 99. table of heptagram \o q, planets colors metals jewels semiprecious elements and motions archangels chakras trees music body sun yellow gold topaz ivory- tzaphqiell ratziel crown apple trumpet head mars red iron ruby coral a khamael brow yew drum right leg venus green copper emerald jade t7 haniel throat birch guitar left arm mercury white platinum diamond opal v raphael heart hazel piano heart jupiter orange tin jasper amber a tzadqiel solar plexus oak organ right arm saturn blue lead sapphire turquoise b michael bowel elm bass left leg moon purple silver amethyst pearl 0 gabriel perineum s willow 5

ten. here is a mnemonic for the beginner that presents in rhymed form a single key word for each of the cards of the major arcana: i. the magus wills with bolts of fire. 11. the priestess shapes her hidden desire. 111. the empress births beneath the sun. iv. the emperor rules the four as one. v. the pope blesses the narrow way. vi. the lovers tempt by night and day. vii. the chariot conquers with iron mind. viii. the balance weighs and pays in kind. ix. the hermit lights the right-hand path. x. the wheel turns, the gods laugh. xi. the strength of faith shuts savage jaws. xii. the martyr bows to heaven's laws. xiii. the reaper frees the souls from earth. xiv. the alchemist blends and finds true worth. xv. the beast tests with earthly blow. xvi. the tower falls if built for show. xvii. the s

ears the terrible words "here perish all fools who covet knowledge and power!"28 the candidate faces an agonizing quandary. should he wait for release, or go on into the threatening darkness? he has been given an oil lamp by his guides, but the oil will not last forever. gathering his courage, he crawls down the sloping passage and eventually comes upon a great abyss. on the side of the pit is an iron ladder that leads down into the impenetrable darkness. with the lamp in his teeth, the candidate descends the ladder. abruptly, his foot swings on empty space. the ladder has ended on nothing- ness, and the bottomless darkness of the pit still beckons below. hopelessness grips the candidate. he inwardly curses the foolishness and pride that led him to such a circumstance. there is no going fo

ng and thus represents unbalanced force. the guard of the repose reci rocating force dagger is akin to the small arm of the christian cross, which is off-center and directs the primary force of the vertical ray out its longest segment. its element is air. magically, the dagger is used to command through threat of punishment. it can cause discomfort to psychic entities, as can all pointed steel or iron objects. generally it symbolizes justice and retribution. held with the point up, it is the symbol of liberation. held point down, it is symbolic of frustration and waste. focused force also called the chalice and grail. it suggests a seed unfolding new life and a womb ready to issue forth its contents, which it has nurtured and protected. growth, love, protection, and creation-all are repres

es of the spirit. narrow these down to the most essential. for example, suppose you wanted to create a protective spirit to watch over a friend. some of the features you might desire in such a being are strength, fierceness, a terrifying aspect, a loud voice, great size, and the like. from the list of qualities, extract a list of corresponding symbols. these might include the color red, the metal iron, thunder and lightning, screaming wind, the ax of war, flaming eyes, the lion, the bear, and the eagle. these symbols can be var- ied and multiplied until they can be made to fit together into a symmetrical figure. the result might be a great creature with the head of a lion, a flaming red mane, fiery eyes, the roaring voice of a storm, the wings of an eagle shining with flashing colors, the

reement, and even here there is a wide diversity of opinion. the colors of the seven traditional planets of astrology seem in general to be linked with the colors of their associated metals, or the oxides of those metals. for example, the color of venus is green; copper is the metal associated with venus, and copper tarnishes to a bright green substance called verdigris. the color of mars is red; iron is the metal of mars, and iron oxidizes to red rust. the color of the sun is yellow; gold is the metal of the sun, and gold (which does not tarnish) is a yellow metal. the colors of the moon are white and black; the metal of the moon is silver, and silver is white when polished, but black when tarnished. the color of mercury is dark orange; the metal of mercury is metallic mercury, which oxid

es have been stained and evoked, but before they have been cast, especially if they are intended for some malicious or destructive purpose. runes are often used for punishment since they are by nature violent and pitiless. the magus protects him or herself with the rune algiz (eolh, y, which should be made in the form of a pendant and hung on a leather thong around the neck. the pendant should be iron (steel will do) or oak. as the runes are stained with red pigment this protective amulet is also stained so that both become potent at the same time. the pendant is stained first, and a short chant of evocation spoken over it before the runes involved in the ritual are stained and evoked. since the pendant is kept pure, wrapped in white linen and apart from all eyes except those of the magus

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descent into hell it is the dogma of the church that jesus came back to life after his crucifixion and ascended in the living body to heaven. the apocryphal gospel of nicodemus relates the legend that after his ascent to heaven, he subsequently descended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance to hell, jesus caused the chains to fall off those languishing in hell and led them up to heaven, where they encountered two others who had ascended in the flesh. chapter four: religious bilocation 53 thus he went into paradise holding our forefather adam by the hand, and he handed him over and all the righteous to michael the archangel. and as they were entering the

bomb in 1953 and the launch of sputnik 160. suster, 213. 161. pauwels and bergier, 170. 124 soul flight in 1957, raising the specter of orbiting nuclear weapons platforms. by the mid-1960s, parapsychologists were speculating what the soviets might be doing in their secret psi laboratories, and how far ahead of the west they were in the development of psychic spies. every so often, a crack in the iron curtain let out a glimmer of information on soviet psychics. rosa kuleshova, a twenty-two-year-old russian girl, was featured in time on january 25, 1963, for her amazing ability to read while blindfolded. li$e did a story on her the following year. in 1968, another russian woman, nina kulagina, amazed the world when film was shown of her moving objects using only the power of her mind at the

had appeared just prior to the transition from the astrological age of pisces to the dawning age of aquarius. he regarded it as a synchronistic event, a mirroring in the outer material world of the tension within the human psyche that was generated by this transitional phase. jung viewed the round shape of flying saucers as an unconscious compensation for the division of the western world by the iron curtain, a futile attempt to restore wholeness by projecting symbols of wholeness into the heavens, the realm of the gods. the beginning of the last great astrological age, that of pisces, coincided with the founding of the christian religion. each age spans approximately 2,120 years. jung intimated, without ever explicitly stating it, that the coming of the age of aquarius, accompanied by th

es" needs no explanation. remember, this book was psychically received by crowley in 1904, long before the second world war and the detonation of the atomic bomb in the 1940s. jung perhaps feared the ill-defined approaching threat of the 1980s, which, as it turned out, was not marked by the nuclear holocaust of a third world war, but by the collapse of the soviet empire and the destruction of the iron curtain. it might be speculated that it is in this way that horus asserts that the 1980s "cower before me and are abased" 176. crowley, book of the law, 734. chapter nine: ufo abductions 145 as can be seen from the quotation, crowley predicted a violent antagonism toward not only christianity but toward all the major world religions. how much of a part adolf hitler plays in this unfolding of

, a defender the land of algiz is a high and narrow mountain pass, in which is set an ancient gate that is defended by guard towers on either side, and which has living quarters for its soldiers along its top. the gate is of stone cut from the sides of the pass, its shape a curved arch. the doors set in its frame are of heavy oak, darkened and made hard by years and bound by great straps of black iron. travelers along the road must await the pleasure of the gatekeepers, since there is no other way over the mountains. they must pay a fee to pass, but for the amusement of the soldiers they are also required to answer riddles correctly. until they can find the correct answer, they are not permitted to enter the gate. those who attempt to force their way through when the gate is opened meet a

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low this stone down and down, deep beneath the earth. feel the fissures in the rocks and the water that wells within them. continue ever deeper, until the coolness of the rock gives way to warmth, then heat, and the darkness is replaced by a red glow. go even lower, and observe the rock turn orange, then yellow as it melts and become liquid magma. go lower still until you are surrounded by molten iron that glows with dazzling whiteness. contemplate the center of the planet earth for thirty seconds or so. ascend up the way you descended, passing through the liquid iron into the molten rock. watch with your inner vision as it becomes orange, then red, then dark, and changes from liquid magma to solid bedrock. press up past the fissures and pockets of subterranean water until you enter the ba

opper (metal of venus) and tin (metal ofjupiter. the influence of both these planets is benign-jupiter is known as the greater fortune, and venus as the lesser fortune. twelve is the number of the zodiac, the circular band of stars that surrounds the earth. dimes are used to define the triangle because they signiftr a value of ten, the number of the tetractys, and dimes are composed of nickel and iron, metals used in the making of the swords and knives that are traditionally employed to control or punish lower spirits. copper is the metal of venus, whose symbolic shape is round; iron is the metal of mars, whose symbolic shape is pointed. in a more general sense, coins are used because the coin is one of the alternative emblems for the tarot suit of pentacles, the suit related to elemental

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

veth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the lord god of thy fathers hath promised thee. 68 tetragrammaton therefore it shall be when ye be gone over jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which i command you this day, in mount ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. and there shalt thou build an altar unto the lord thy god, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. thou shalt build the altar of the lord thy god of whole stones; and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the lord thy god: and thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the lord thy god. and thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly (deut. 27:2-8) it is not perfectly clear in the words of moses, but there s

dover, 19731, pp. 288-9. there is some doubt over exactly what the fabulous shamir may have been. in talmudic legend, it seems to be described as a small worm that could eat through any stone, but this is far from clear. rashi called it "a creature from the six days of creation that no hard object can resist" according to the talmud, solomon asked the rabbis how he could build the temple without iron tools (see 1 kings 6:7. they told him there was a thing called a shamir, which moses had used to cut the stones on the breastplate of aaron. to discover where this magical object lay hidden, solomon caused the king of all the demons, ashmodai, to be bound with a ring and a chain inscribed with tetragrammaton. after learning from ashmodai how to get the shamir, solomon kept the demon prisoner

dai how to get the shamir, solomon kept the demon prisoner to build the temple (see patai, gates to the old city, pp. 185-7. it is easy to see how the diamond might be confused with a creature who can melt through stone, since the diamond is the hardest substance known and was used in ancient times to inscribe and carve other gemstones. couple this with the fable that the temple was built without iron tools (in fact, the stones were probably cut elsewhere and carried to the site of the temple) and the fable that the shamir in solomon's ring was indirectly responsible for the building of the temple, in that it commanded the demons who built it, and we can see how the divine name, the magical stone in the ring, and the demons commanded by solomon were combined to create a fabulous stone-cutt

he hebrew word for sapphire. the brilliant, sparkling light of the sapphire was considered purer the ring of solomon the seal of solomon than all other colors. in this folktale, solomon uses his ring to command the four winds and activates the ring's power by kissing the blue stone. richard f. burton presents a somewhat different picture of the ring. he says that it was composed of stamped stone, iron, copper, and lead (the book of the thousand nights and a night, 6.84, and elsewhere (7.317) says that it was set with four jewels presented to solomon by four angels to rule the winds, the birds, the land and sea, and the spirits. each of these jewels was inscribed with a holy verse. on the jewel that ruled the winds was written "to allah belong majesty and might" on the jewel that ruled the

s neck, and threw the demon into a deep lake. throughout the stories about the ring runs a swallowing motif. ashmodai swallows the ring to keep it from solomon. in the arab version, it is the fish who swallows the ring. according to a story in the zohar, solomon would ride on the back of an eagle to the dark gathering place of evil spirits, where the fallen angels uzza and azael lay bound in vast iron chains that were fastened to the roots of the abyss. solomon would put his seal ring into the mouth of the eagle and hide under its left wing, and the power of the name upon the ring would force the dark angels to tell him all the secrets of supernal wisdom. in alchemy, a common image is the swallowing or devouring of the king (dominant conscious mind) by a dragon or other beast, representing

were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called the word of god. and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god. and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, kingo f kings,a nd lordo f lords(.r ev. 19:11-6) it may be assumed that the seated christ is similar in appearance, if not identical, to the seated twenty-four elders about the throne, who are merely his various permutations, or aspects. he is thus a man with

entagram be visible upon your skin, but you should take care to trace it with a single, unbroken line. make it large enough so that the cross on the middle of your breast is contained within its center. assuming the christ-form 159 once again, gaze upon the candle flame and visualize within the flame the figure of the heavenly christ seated upon a white horse with a sword in his right hand and an iron rod in his left. open your arms in a gesture of embrace. speak the words: holy messiah, anointed fiery knight, descend from thy high white horse of heaven into this sacred circle. aid me in my becoming! i invoke and summon thee, heavenly christ. descend into this blood. aid me in my becoming! descend into this flesh. aid me in my becoming! descend into these bones. aid me in my becoming! i am

d appendix a: the keys 191 forth. in this key, christ is strongly shaped by imagery of the left side, signifylng dominance and rule. he calls himself the "god of justice (din,t he fifth sephirah. the rays of sun and moon are both swords. his hands are not merely clasped, but "trussed" together. he is the christ who delivers "a law to govern the holy ones* and "a rod with the ark of knowledge" the iron rod is a symbol of the authority of the mounted christ of revelation 19:ll-21, who is the child of the woman "clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars (rev. 12:1, she who is the same as madimi's mother. christ is talking in this key to the four kings of the watchtowers, who are the same as the four beasts that surround, and indeed form a part

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ides, thus receiving initiation by a mark given by the devil. in scotland the black man of the sabbat would appear as a black robed figure, with a hat or often in a grotesque form, a 10 the sufis, anchor books and the history of secret societies by arkon daraul. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 7 nose of a beak, burning eyes, long nails on the hands and feet, hair covering the body and strong like iron. in persia was a tribe of witches and sorcerers called the maskhara (revellers) who would use the counter clockwise dance and ointments containing henbane to produce the sensation of flying. these witches would sometimes blacken their faces and attribute the mind into a lycanthropic transformation, through the ecstasy of dance. the blackening of faces they were representing death and then rea

y 13 and was burned in 1916 in paris. she had admitted that the devil s member was like that of a horse, and when inserted was cold and injected ice cold semen. when it was withdrawn it burned her like fire. others had suggested the devil or black man of the sabbat had other talents. a description of the devil s member was that it was sinuous, pointed and snake like. sometimes it was made half or iron and half of flesh. it could also be made completely of a horn as well, sometimes forked as a tongue. there were suggestions that the demon could perform coitus and pederasty (i.e. sodomy) at once, with a third member in his lovers mouth. as described in a rite of the werewolf 14 the definition of the infernal sabbat is, the infernal sabbat, being the antinomian self-love rite of sexual and ps

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and defeated their purpose. the followers of horus here mentioned are called in the text "mesniu" i.e "blacksmiths" or "workers in metal" and they represent the primitive conquerors of the egyptians, who were armed with metal weapons, and so were able to overcome with tolerable ease the indigenous egyptians, whose weapons were made of flint and wood. horus and his "blacksmiths" were provided with iron lances and chains, and, baying cast the chains over the monsters in the river, they drove their lances into their snouts, and slew 651 of them. because horus gained his victory by means of metal weapons, ra decreed that a metal statue of horus should be placed at edfu, and remain there for ever, and a name was given to the town to commemorate the great battle that had taken place there. ra ap

nto the water, and they took the forms of [crocodiles and] hippopotami, but nevertheless ra-heru-khuti sailed over the waters in his boat, and when the crocodiles and the hippopotami had come nigh unto him, they opened wide their jaws in order to destroy ra-heru-khuti. and when heru-behutet arrived and his followers who were behind him in the forms of workers in metal, each having in his hands an iron spear and a chain, according to his name, they smote the crocodiles and the hippopotami; and there were brought in there straightway six hundred and fifty-one crocodiles, which had been slain before the city of edfu. then spake ra-harmachis unto heru- behutet "my image shall be [here] in the land of the south (which is a house of victory (or, strength "and the house of heru-behutet is called

f the things which heru-behutet had done in respect of the slaughter of the enemies. and ra said unto thoth "this fiend nehaha-hra uttereth words at the top of his voice because of the things which heru-behutet hath done unto him" and thoth said unto ra "cries of this kind shall be called nehaha-hra unto this day" and heru- behutet did battle with the enemy for a period of time, and he hurled his iron lance at him, and he throw him down on the ground in this region, which is called pa-rerehtu unto this day. then heru-behutet came and brought the enemy with him, and his spear was in his neck, and his chain was round his hands and arms, and the weapon of horus had fallen on his mouth and had closed it; and he went with him before his father ra, who said "o horus, thou winged disk, twice grea

atbekhab)-stone, rakes-stone, and white utshi-stone; these are found on the east bank. per-tchani-stone is found on the west bank, and the teshi-stone in the river"[here are] the names of the hard (or, hidden) precious stones, which are found in the upper side, among them being the. stone, the name[fn#188] of which hath spread abroad through [a space of] four atru measures: gold, silver, copper, iron, lapis-lazuli, emerald, thehen (crystal, khenem (ruby, kai, mennu, betka, temi, na. the following come forth from the fore part[fn#189] of the land: mehistone [he]maki-stone, abheti-stone, iron ore, alabaster for statues, mother-of-emerald, antimony, seeds (or, gum) of the sehi plant, seeds (or, gum) of the amem plant, and seeds (or, gum) of the incense plant; these are found in the fore part

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

perador cruzadas forman una cruz. realmente esa es la imagen del atanor de los alkimistas. el ligamen de la cruz con el tri ngulo s lo es posible mediante el oro potable (fuego sagrado) de la alkimia. 34 the innermost puts the cross of initiation with the arcanum four of the tarot over his shoulders. we will end this lecture by stating that the elementals of fire are commanded with the trident of iron or with the wand of iron; the elementals of the air are commanded with an eagle feather or any other bird; the elementals of water are commanded with a cup filled with water and the elementals of the earth with a sword or with a brand new knife. the special kingdom of the gnomes resides in the region of the north; the one of the salamanders in the south. the one of the sylphs in the east and

uceus and the cynocephalus11. venus: a sexual lingam. sun: a serpent with the head of a lion. mars: a dragon biting guards of a sword. jupiter: the flaming pentagram or the eagle's beak. saturn: a limping elder, or a serpent entwined on a helicious12 stone. the seven pentacles [talismans] have the power of attracting the seven planetary forces. gold is the sun s metal; silver is the moon s metal; iron is the metal of mars; copper is the metal of venus; quicksilver is mercury s metal, tin is jupiter s metal and lead is the metal of saturn. perfect pentacles [talismans] can be prepared with the proper stones and metals. the lord's prayer is the most perfect prayer because it has seven magical petitions. 11 cynocephalus (from latin canus [dog+ cephalus [head: the dog-headed ape (simia hamadry

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e ordered numeration of the spheres on the tree, the days of the week can be traced in correct order if one starts at the sun and goes downward toward the moon and around the lines marked by the figure of the star. even more amazing has been the discovery of the atomic weights, which in order of density are: lead (saturn, mercury (mercury, gold (sun, tin (jupiter, silver (moon, copper (venus) and iron (mars. this can also be incorporated into the figure in a symmetrical pattern with every other one going clockwise. it has been calculated that the mathematical probability of these kinds of symmetrical patterns are about 119 to one. the ancient chaladeans who gave us the order of the planets (which the tree follows) could not have known the atomic weights (or so it is postulated. this harmon

vities saturn: politics, business, agriculture, mining, clock-making, economics, masonry, plumbing, undertaking, tanning, occupations dealing with wills and real estate. jupiter: philosophy, religion, government, banking, law, appraising, advising, finance, insurance, academia, civic leadership, work involving organizing, credit agencies, ministry. mars: military, mechanics, surgery, engineering, iron and steel work, blacksmithing, fire-fighting, locksmithing, competitive sports, carpentry. sun: acting, goldsmithing, royalty, anything involving executive or superior positions. venus: artistry, music, dance, decorations, designing, embroidery, lapidary, jewelry, ornamental gardening, social activities, ecology. mercury: teaching, lecturing, writing, communication in general, science, theate

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e city and entering a wooded area "the car stopped and they all walked up to a big ufo surrounded by some sort of luminous ring and hovering above the ground. the men walked underneath the craft, which emitted a ray of light and they suddenly were inside. still drained of any willpower, aeromar walked to a chair and sat down. from the arms of the chair appeared handles that secured his wrists. an iron bar then pressed his forehead backwards while another gadget fast- ened his neck. up to here the men were always dressed with suits, but at this point an incredible transformation took place: the mib's head ripped opened into a heart shape and the skin became green and scaled like a reptilian. take into account that while the popular image of the mib was well known 14 years ago, the idea of r

another girl is holding a mayan tablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a 'green darth vader' by alex christopher, stands over a destroyed city with a sword in his hand and women are walking along a road holding dead babies. all the children of the world are depicted taking weapons from each country and handing them to a figure of a german boy with an iron fist and an anvil in his hand. denver is apparently scheduled to be the headquarters of the western sector of the united states under the fascist global state called the new world order which is planned beyond the year 2000. atlanta is said to be the centre for the eastern sector and i remember thinking some years ago how the design of denver and atlanta airports were so similar- now i know w

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them of all kinds of immoralities, devil-worship and cannibalism, as i have shown. torture sometimes made poor wretches confess to these impossibilities, in order to lead the questioning away from the truth. the fact that their god had horns caused him to be identified with the devil. the fact that witches were often people of some property worth looting supplied the incentive; rack and branding-iron did the rest. christian fear and christian fire prevailed. the few remaining members of the cult dived underground and have remained secretive ever since. they are happy practising their lovely old rites. they do not want converts: converts mean talk: talk means bother and semi-persecution. all they desire is peace. 2- there have been witches in all ages there have been witches in all ages an

akes. pulverised snake-skin and snake joints are still used as medicine for sick animals. 4. horses' teeth, torn out and broken in pieces. these are used today, hung round children's necks to make their teeth grow strong. 5. twig of rowan. rowan twigs are used today as charms, etc. 6. charcoal of aspen. charcoal of an aspen tree set on fire by lightning is still a medicine of special force. 7. an iron knife blade and a bronze thread. steel has a great force, especially if it has an edge. 8. two pieces of iron pyrites. every sort of ill-willing is cured by striking fire with pyrites over the patient. 9. a number of pieces of small bone, pebbles and clay. thus it would seem that old ideas continued for a long time. this bronze age witch was evidently an important person, and the cures she us

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ig whose ears he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals. men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. the serpent and the file a serpent in the course of its wanderings came into an armourer s shop. as he glided over the floor he felt his skin pricked by a file lying there. in a rage he turned round upon it and tired to dart his fangs into it; but he could do no harm to heavy iron and had soon to give over his wrath. it is useless attacking the insensible. 269 a green book of meditations volume 3 oriental and monotheist wisdom i was not wholly satisfied with my second volume and i wished to further emulate frangquist and shelton in collecting a broad selection of instructional meditations from the world religions. perhaps i should have practiced their silence? in any c

g big river grove, saint cloud minnesota day 88 of geamreadh, year xxxiii of the reform january 28th, 1996 c.e. printing history 1st printing 1993 2nd printing 1996 zen harvest #710 the one who s escaped the world to live in the mountains, if they are still weary, where should they go? zen harvest #217 today s praise, tomorrow s abuse; it s the human way. weeping and laughing. all utter lies. the iron flute a zen buddhist collection of koans editor s note: a koan is a short parable or story in which a gleam of buddhist wisdom is trapped. it is usually followed by short lectures that enlarge and explain further that wisdom. several teachers comment on each of the following koans. this book is available on open reserve. 34- hsueh-feng sees his buddha-nature a monk said to hsueh-feng, i under

ilt on appreciation of difference in a genuine community. we seek a unifying vision that does not stratify what is distinct into superior-inferior layers but reconciles them in relation ships of mutuality. let us then listen to women s wisdom, discern our kinship with the earth, and remember the spirit, as we step toward an ecological ethic and spirituality. women, earth and creator spirit pg. 34 iron in our blood a crucial insight emerges from this creation story of cosmic and biological evolution. the kinship model of humankind s relation to the world is not just a poetic, good-hearted way of seeing things but the basic truth. we are connected in a most profound way to the universe, having emerged from it. events in the galaxies produced the iron that makes our blood red and the calcium

ts in the galaxies produced the iron that makes our blood red and the calcium that makes our bones and teeth white. these and other heavy elements were cooked in the interior of stars and then dispersed when they died to form a second generation solar system with its planets, on one of which the evolution of life and consciousness followed. in the words of scientist arthur peacocks: every atom of iron in our blood would not have been there had it not been produced in some galactic explosion billions of years ago and eventually condensed to form the iron in the crust of the earth from which we have emerged. chemically, humanity is all of a piece with the cosmos. the same is true of our genes. molecular biology shows that the same four bases make up the dna of almost all living things. the g

gs. latin pass at a distance from him who chops wood. maltese to be a druid was to be a master of the art of living. graham howe, mind of the druid to remain whole, be twisted. to become straight, let yourself be bent, to become full, be hollow. tao te ching. einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. jacob bronowski do not catch everything that swims. russian concrete is heavy, iron is hard but the grass will prevail. ed abbey when logic fails, another tool must be used. honored matres axiom, dune when the bridge is gone the narrowest plank becomes precious. hungarian what cannot be cured must be endured. scottish the function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the north star, to serve as a guiding point. ed abbey the number of things we can really make

neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn t straight. mark twain provide a religious organization with wealth and power and it begins to change into a secular agency. edmund a. opitz fantastic doctrines (like christianity or islam or marxism) require unanimity of belief. one dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. thus the fear and the hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward. planet steward, stephen levine metaphysics is a cobweb the mind weaves around things. planet steward, stephen levine questions are more likely to make good communications than dogmatic statements, which usually only create resistance, shutting the door which they were designed to force open. graham howe, the mind of the druid the fact

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

turnalia, i. 18) said that ia (the gnostic deity) was the sun and the first and last of the planetary set, hence the 7 concentric spheres. duncan assigns these minerals and animals to the 7 heavenly bodies known to the ancient world and are as follows: table of planets, aniiimals and metals planet animal metal moon bull silver mercury serpent quicksilver venus dove, copper sun lion gold mars wolf iron jupiter eagle pewter saturn ass lead numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with seven pilots, in the center of the ship, a lion; possibly from an idea that the sun

her-in-law of alexander, did, and by this means lay with his brother s concubines as often as he did himself. nine also obtaineth the love of women. at the 9th hour our savior breathed his last; on the ninth day the annumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott cients buried their dead; after 9 years numa, received his laws from jove; note the 9 cubits length of the iron bedstead of the giant og, king of basan, who is a type of the devil, and there are 9 orders of devil s in sheol (what we call hell. it prevails against plagues and fevers; it causes long life and health, and by it plato so ordered events that he died at the age of nine times 9. there are nine orders of angels, says gregory, a.d. 381, in homily 34. seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtu

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ossess thou the west and the south' the armorial bearings of naphtali are blue, a hind" holy name pdoce tribe assur or assher sign libra angelic name alpudus "of asshur (libra, jacob says 'out of asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties' moses says 'let asher be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. the shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be' the armorial bearings of asher are purple, a cup. all this coincides with the nature of venus and libra, while the feet refer to the sign pisces, which rules the feet, and in which venus is exalted. iron and brass are the metals of the friendly planets of mars and venus" holy name mph tribe dan sign scorpio angelic name cadaamp "of dan (sc

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