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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

sh to add god/goddess-power forms as an interspersed chant, with the voices of the group ebbing and rising in waves. you may wish to welcome the archangels, or guardians of the four watchtowers at the four compass points as you cast your circle (the archangels represent the celestial beings that feature in the cosmologies of the three main religions of the western world -christianity, judaism and islam. for more information, see pages 200 and 236. alternatively, you may wish to call upon powerful goddess forms: isis, ishtar, cerridwen, innana, shakti, yoruba, danu, kali and aine, protect, empower and inspire this magical endeavour. you can embellish the casting ceremony as much as you like, perhaps drawing pentagrams in the air at the four main compass points, and combining this with light

awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed. gabriel brings wise words of truth and the clear voice that speaks of hope and a new purpose in life, but also compassion and the acceptance of the weaknesses of oneself as well as others. gabriel's protection can be felt with each new moon, especially on the day before the crescent is visible in the sky. gabriel stands in t

attract health and good fortune. anima: the term coined by carl gustav jung to represent the female power within men as well as women. animus: jung's term for the male power within women and men. ankh: an egyptian symbol of eternal life. archangels: higher orders of angels, celestial beings featuring in the cosmologies of the three major religions of the western world, christianity, judaism, and islam, as well as many other world religions. athame: a double-edged knife used in formal ritual magick. auric field/aura: the personal energy field around all animate life, visible to clairvoyants. beltain: the celtic festival of summer, beginning on 30 april and lasting for three days. bicarmel mind: a way of thinking that uses both hemispheres of the mind, the logical and the intuitive, rather

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

the magic of the master that he gains more and more the power to dwell in the world of reality. and with this comes the terrible temptation--the desire to enter and enjoy rather than remain among men and suffer their illusions. yet, since the sole purpose of the incarnation of such a master was to help humanity, they must make the supreme renunciation. it is the problem of the dreadful bridge of islam, al sirak--the razor-edge will cut the unwary foot, yet it must be trodden firmly, or the traveler will fall to the abyss. i dare not sit in the old absinthe house forever, wrapped in the ineffable delight of the beatific vision. i must write this essay, that men may thereby come at last to understand true things. but the operation of the creative godhead is not enough. art is itself too nea

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. it will then be lawful for a magician to invoke isis, and identify himself with her; if he fail to do this, his apprehension of the universe when he attains samadhi will lack the conception of maternity. the result will be a metaphysical and- by corollary- ethical limitation in the religion which he founds. judaism and islam are striking example of this failure. to take another example, the ascetic life which devotion to 11 magick so often involves argues a poverty of nature, a narrowness, a lack of generosity. nature is infinitely prodigal- not one in a million seeds ever comes to fruition. whoso fails to recognise this, let him invoke jupiter<
inflicted by this dagger. it reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. a judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal prejudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. dogma, with persecution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and many another evil, as its satraps, has always established a tyranny when genius has proclaimed it. islam making a bonfire of written wisdom, and haeckel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity disputing the conclusions of geology, and theologians impatient of truth struggling against the tide of thought; all such must perish at the hands of their own error in making their minds, internally defective or externally deflected, the measure of the universe> of being. the ae

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ith the sufis and the vedantists. but this again led to the mere denial of the reality of evil. thus drawing away, little by little, from clear appreciation of the facts of nature, their doctrine became purely theoretical, and faded away, while the thundercloud of sin settled down more heavily than ever. the most important of all the efforts of the white school, from an exoteric point of view, is islam. in its doctrine there is some slight taint, but much less than in christianity. it is a virile religion. it looks facts in the face, and admits their horror; but it proposes to overcome them by sheer dint of manhood. unfortunately, the metaphysical conceptions of its quasi-profane schools are grossly materialistic. it is only the pantheism of the sufis which eliminates the conception of pro

which reeks of religion. a political manoeuvre of the brahmin caste. suppose we relax a little, come down to earth, and look at what the far-famed morality of the holy man was, and is, in actual practice. you will find this useful to crush toshophist and antroposophagist1 cockroaches as well as the ordinary christian scolex when they assail you. in the lands of hinduism and (to a less extent) of islam, the sultan, the dewan, the maharajah, the emir, or whatsoever they call "the grand pandjandrum himself, with the little round button on top" it is almost a 100 per cent rule that the button works loose and is lost! even in less exalted circles, any absolute ruler, on however petty a scale, is liable to go the whole hog in an unexceptionably hoggish fashion. he has none to gainsay him, and h

666 p.s. one further reflection. with all these "sore spots" is closely linked the idea of cruelty. i need not touch upon the relation of cruelty to sex; the theme has been worn threadbare. but in religion, note the bottomless pit and the eternal flame; in buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen cold hells, with many another beneath. hindu eschatology has countless hells; even pedestrian, precise islam, and the calculating qabalists, each hoast of seven. again with drugs as with insanity, we are confronted constantly with nameless terrors; the idea of formlessness, of infinity pervades them alike. consider the man who takes every chance gesture of a stranger in the street as a secret sign passed from one of his persecutors to another; consider those who refuse food because of the mysteriou

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

roper name based on an understanding of the phenomenon which occurred. theorists have not been at a loss to explain; but they differ. the mohammedan insists that god is, and did really send gabriel with messages for mohammed: but all others contradict him. and from the nature of the case proof is impossible. the lack of proof has been so severely felt by christianity (and in a much less degree by islam) that fresh miracles have been manufactured almost daily to support the tottering structure. modern thought, rejecting these miracles, has adopted theories involving epilepsy and madness. as if organization could spring from disorganization! even if epilepsy were the cause of these great movements which have caused civilization after civilization to arise from barbarism, it would merely form

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

f god' etc) 79 chapter lxxiv a restraint of misunderstanding. 1. the people have no fear of death((for the meddlesome governments have made their lives intolerable) why then seek to awe them by the threat of death? if the people feared death((their lives being pleasant) and i could put to death evil-doers, who would dare to offend? 2. there is one appointed to inflict death((azrael in the lore of islam. this chapter is again difficult. par. 2 shows capital punishment as interference with heaven's privilege. yet in par. 1 we see the threat of it kept as a ruler's last resort. only, this is a 'fool's knot' proposal; for such punishment is effective only when the people are so happy that they fear it infinitely, so that none ever incurs it. hence it need never be carried out) he who would usu

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ted literally. it was so taken by the scribe at the time. yet a mystical meaning is easy to find. exempli gratia; vv. 4-9. the new comment comment seems hardly necessary. the great war is a mere illustration of this text. the only nations which have suffered are those whose religion was osirian, or, as they called it, christian. the exception is turkey, which foolishly abandoned the principles of islam to form an unholy alliance with the giaour. abdul hamid would never have made such an ass of himself as the degenerate gang of "liberty and progress; may jakals defile the pyres of their dog fathers (the god of vengeance is in greek omicron alpha-lambda-alpha-sigma-tau-omega-rho, aleister. for some reason which i have not been able to trace, this god became alastor, the desert daemon of the

auds from paganism, and judaism. the subject of 'jesus' is, most unfortunately, too extensive for a note; it is treated fully in my book 888. al iii,52 "i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him" the new comment mohammed's point of view is wrong too; but he needs no such sharp correction as 'jesus' it is his face- his outward semblance- that is to be covered with his wings. the tenets of islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our way of life and light and love and liberty. this applies especially to the secret tenets. the external creed is mere nonsense suited to the intelligence of the peoples among whom it was promulgated; but even so, islam is magnificent in practice. its code is that of a man of courage and honour and self-respect; contrasting admirably with the cringi

ism 'mongol" presumably the reference is to confucianism, whose metaphysical and ethical flawlessness has not saved its adherents from losing those ruder virtues which are proper to a fighting animal, and thus yielding at last a civilization coeval with history itself to the barbarous tribes of europe "din 'severity' or 'judgment' may refer to the jewish law, rather than to the faith (ad 'din) of islam. assuming this, the six religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside islam and christianity. why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct- i take judaism as qabalistic- but the practice imperfect. al iii,54 "bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds" the old comment 54. appears to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory encompassing them. the function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red mist of christianity, or the glimmering silver-white of celtic paganism; the hard grey dim-gilded of buddhism, the fleecy opacity of islam, or the mysterious medium of those ancient faiths which come up in as many colours as their investigator has moods* in order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the na ve naturalism of many parts of those scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, philo borrowed from the stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of greek mythology) that great excalib

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

of the lingham. the maha deva' before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modern champions of that religion of sensualism par excellence, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas of their own temples. the mahody of elephanta, the round tower of bhangulpore, the minarets of islam- either rounded or pointed- are the originals of the campanile column of san marco, at venice, of the rochester cathedral, and of the modern duomo of milan. all of these steeples, turrets, domes, and christian temples, are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the lithos, the upright phallus (vol. ii, p. 5) nevertheless, and however it may be, the fact that all these hebrew elohim, spar

fashioners, the preservers and the rulers of this world, and in the accidental state, clothing themselves in visible corporeality, they descended on the earth and reigned on it as kings and instructors of the lower hosts, who had incarnated once more upon it as men[[footnote(s* by godolphin mitford, later in life, murad ali bey. born in india, the son of a missionary, g. mitford was converted to islam, and died a mahomedan in 1884. he was a most extraordinary mystic, of a great learning and remarkable intelligence. but he left the right path and forthwith fell under karmic retribution. as well shown by the author of the article quoted "the followers of the defeated elohim, first massacred by the victorious jews (the jehovites, and then persuaded by the victorious christians and mohamedans

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

mental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance o

lands, seeking for and eager to destroy every obelisk and pillar, scroll or parchment they could lay their hands on, if it only bore the symbol of the tau, or any other sign borrowed and appropriated by the new faith; and he will then see plainly how it is that so little has remained of the records of the past. verily, the fiendish spirits of fanaticism, of early and mediaeval christianity and of islam, have from the first loved to dwell in darkness and ignorance; and both have made- the sun like blood, the earth a tomb, the tomb a hell, and hell itself a murkier gloom" both creeds have won their proselytes at the point of the sword; both have built their churches on heaven-kissing hecatombs of human victims. over the gateway of century i. of our era, the ominous words "the karma of israel

to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things. says faigi diwan, the "witness to the wonderful speeches of a free-thinker who belongs to a thousand sects "in the assembly of the day of resurrection, when past things shall be forgiven, the sins of the ka'bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of christian churches" to this, professor max muller replies "the sins of islam are as worthless as the dust of christianity. on the day of resurrection both muhammadans and christians will see the vanity of their religious doctrines. men fight about religion on earth- in heaven they shall find out that there is only one true religion- the worship of god's spirit* in other words "there is no religion (or law) higher than truth "satyat nasti paro dharmah- the motto of th

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

sh to add god/goddess-power forms as an interspersed chant, with the voices of the group ebbing and rising in waves. you may wish to welcome the archangels, or guardians of the four watchtowers at the four compass points as you cast your circle (the archangels represent the celestial beings that feature in the cosmologies of the three main religions of the western world -christianity, judaism and islam. for more information, see pages 200 and 236. alternatively, you may wish to call upon powerful goddess forms: isis, ishtar, cerridwen, innana, shakti, yoruba, danu, kali and aine, protect, empower and inspire this magical endeavour. you can embellish the casting ceremony as much as you like, perhaps drawing pentagrams in the air at the four main compass points, and combining this with light

awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictated the koran to mohammed. gabriel brings wise words of truth and the clear voice that speaks of hope and a new purpose in life, but also compassion and the acceptance of the weaknesses of oneself as well as others. gabriel's protection can be felt with each new moon, especially on the day before the crescent is visible in the sky. gabriel stands in t

attract health and good fortune. anima: the term coined by carl gustav jung to represent the female power within men as well as women. animus: jung's term for the male power within women and men. ankh: an egyptian symbol of eternal life. archangels: higher orders of angels, celestial beings featuring in the cosmologies of the three major religions of the western world, christianity, judaism, and islam, as well as many other world religions. athame: a double-edged knife used in formal ritual magick. auric field/aura: the personal energy field around all animate life, visible to clairvoyants. beltain: the celtic festival of summer, beginning on 30 april and lasting for three days. seite 177 wicca01.txt bicarmel mind: a way of thinking that uses both hemispheres of the mind, the logical and

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

y of nishapur, was trained with various languages and techniques of war and survival. later on in life hassan overtook the eagles nest that is also called alamut. located on the southern shore of the caspian sea around the elburz mountain range, sabbah established a fanatical power base that was soon feared throughout the region. hassan i sabbah s faith seemed to be a gnostic dualistic similar to islam in a manicheism ideal. the religious head or what is called imam is a personal representative to god itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in western definitions, this concept is similar to the pope. sabbah was not only able to raise a number estimated at several thousand fanatic followers, called the assassins from their ritual use of hashish, which was said to

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

body or kept conspicuously about in the open to guard against misfortune and evil. the french trader jean barbot described gris-gris charms in seventeenthcentury upper guinea (the present-day senegambia) that were displayed by elites "all over their body, on their head, neck, arms, waist and legs" that contained "scraps of paper written with moorish or arabic" in areas that had been influenced by islam, africans placed "unlimited faith" in the power of grisgris, leather and cloth packets commissioned from muslim priests and marabous that guaranteed health and protection to their wearers.[22] throughout africa charms were created that were conceived as portable containers for spiritual entities. these containers were believed to possess efficacious powers. in kongo, central africa, the manu

78.1712, ed. p. e. h. hair (london: hakluyt society, 1992, pp. 86, 93.94; john atkins, a voyage to guinea, brazil and the west indies, with remarks on the gold, ivory and slave-trade (london: printed for caesar ward and richard chandler, 1735, p. 56; john mathews, a voyage to the river sierra leone on the coast of africa (london: b. white and son, 1788, p. 132; j. spencer trimingham, a history of islam in west africa (london: oxford university press, 1962. 23. hilton, kingdom of kongo, pp. 15.17; christian missionaries in early kongo, adopting endogenous categories in their efforts to convert africans, identified the bible, the eucharist, crosses, and even churches as nkisi. see hilton, kingdom of kongo, p. 94; and john thornton, the kingdom of kongo: civil war and transition, 1641.1718 (m

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

y under emperor justinian (483-565) invades italy and defeats the ostrogoths at the battle of taginae; justinian establishes a presence at ravenna (technically, an exarchate) which lasts into the eighth century. 560-636. isidore of seville. only fragments of astrology survive in his work. 6th ce sefer yetzirah edited (to 7th cent)-eddas (to 9th cent)-welsh mabinogion. 570-632 muhammed, founder of islam. c. 580 maximus the confessor born. commented on the works of dionysios the areopagite. 590: gregory (540-604) becomes pope. 610 w.v. qur'an 642 third (and final) destruction of library of alexandria (by moslems. arabs bearing the new religion of islam captured alexandria, and the mantle of alchemical study and research passed from the greeks to the arab world. 644-656 can. of qur'an. 692 ch

rod (cf. revelation xi. divided into 2 parts and 4 sections, consisting of a dialogue between "nathaniel" and "cleophas, having a crudely shaped rose design with a cross in the centre, containing 1790 pages with the dedication to the duke of wurttemberg adding yet another 205 pages. its author was particularly interested in the dates in the life of henry of navarre, believing that the prophet of islam was the spiritual son of the pope, predicting that the last pope would be crucified by the duke of wurttemberg in 1612 and that the second coming would occur in the year 1620. frederick i, duke of wurttemberg invested with the order of the garter, conferred on him in stuttgart by a special embassy from james i. 1606 trithemius' steganographia first published 1608 michael sendivogius goes to

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ods- originated: negative extraterrestrials. the 'fear of god' was born, and this fear and resistance to change (disobeying the gods) is still in the collective psyche. over time, as described at length in the robots' rebellion, these various god myths became fused together to form 'composite gods, based on themes from many of the earlier civilisations. so it is with judaism, the christian bible, islam, and most of the others. their version of; god relates to the type of extraterrestrials from which their religion originated or the way many different extraterrestrial stories have become fused into a composite god over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the origins of the major religions, th

t extraterrestrial stories have become fused into a composite god over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the origins of the major religions, the stories are remarkably similar to those we hear today from people claiming to have met, or been abducted by, extraterrestrials. mohammed, the founder of islam in the seventh century, said that he had been visited by the angel gabriel, who was "in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon".2 this figure told him he had to be a prophet, and he was given messages which formed the islamic holy book, the koran. these messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that followed. he also

sought to control this dimension. the potential for manipulating humanity with such technology is simply limitless. what better way to control people, close down their minds and divide and rule, than to create a series of dogmatic religions based on extraterrestrial special effects? look at the pain, misery, and inter-generational ignorance that has been visited upon this planet by christianity, islam, judaism, and all the rest. if you want to shut down someone's consciousness so they stop thinking for themselves and delink their minds from their infinite potential, sell them a dogmatic religion or some other form of rigid dogma. they are then putty in your hands. i think the takeover of planet earth was achieved by what i call the luciferic consciousness. i use this as an overall name to

o cling to both until its knuckles turn white. dogmas take endless forms and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through 'divide and rule' becomes easy. it is happening today in the same way- more so, in fact- as it has throughout the period of the vibratory prison. to a manipulator, judaism is just as useful as christianity and islam; the political 'left' is just as important as the political 'right. you need two dogmas to play off against each other. the most effective dogmas over thousands of years have been the religions. one generation takes on a narrow view of life and themselves (a religion) and imposes it on their children, who then do the same to their children, and so it goes on into the modern world. the religi

nerations, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it was accordingly changed to suit those in power at any given time. this is why you still find elements of this knowledge in all religions. the original core knowledge has been diluted and diverted in countless directions, to manifest as religions such as christianity, islam, judaism, paganism, hinduism, etc. all have retained the themes of the knowledge to some extent, while often destroying its true meaning with dogma, myth, and manipulated make-believe. ironically, paganism has retained far more of the original knowledge than those religions (such as christianity) which condemn it as 'evil. the fourth dimensional prison warders wish to prevent us from knowing

the other speakers at the event pulled out at the last minute. across the street was the columbia presbyterian hospital, but they refused to respond. in the end malcolm's aides had to run over to the hospital, grab a stretcher, and carry him there themselves. one of his close aides, leon 4x ameer, went to the fbi to say that elements within the government and the black organisation, the nation of islam, had been involved. a few days later, at the age of 32, he was dead. the cause of death was given as suicide, then a drugs overdose, and finally natural causes. i wonder if his doctor was trained at the vatican! the black consciousness movements had long been infiltrated by the fbi and cia and assassinations could be arranged from inside as well as outside of these black organisations. this

sovereign grand commander of the ancient and accepted rite of scottish freemasonry in the american south. he was an associate of guiseppe mazzini, the leader of the bavarian illuminati after the death of adam weishaupt.63 a statue of pike still stands today in washington dc in honour of his work on behalf of the elite) the fbi used an anti-communist group called bossi to infiltrate the nation of islam and malcolm x's breakaway group, the organisation of afro-american unity. the head of bossi was anthony ulazowitz and his chief operative was john caulfield. both were publicly exposed during the watergate scandal as two of the main characters in richard nixon's dirty tricks department. caulfield had been used by the warren commission to 'investigate' an anti-castro group. common names and t

d that it was the man who had been following him prior to the king assassination. one of youngblood's associates was frank fiorini, who later changed his name to frank sturgis. this man was one of the watergate burglars.66 the journalist, lewis lomas, investigated the king and malcolm x assassinations and wrote a book, to kill a black man. he revealed that john ali, the treasurer of the nation of islam organisation to which malcolm x was connected for some time, worked for the fbi. at one point, ali was the most powerful man in the nation of islam. lomas was following leads which could have linked the murders of jfk and martin luther king, particularly through the guy bannister 'detective' agency in new orleans which played a key role in the jfk assassination. lomas intended to implicate t

this plan. according to spotlight, king fahd was repeatedly reassured by his ambassador in washington that the us planned to lift the arms embargo in time to allow decisive reinforcements to reach the embattled muslims. as a result the king convinced other islamic leaders to have faith in washington. now the saudi monarchy is denounced as a gullible fellow-traveller of the cia, or as a traitor to islam. which, of course, suits the manipulators wonderfully well. in the light of all this, there are some interesting connections between the 'peace' negotiators in bosnia. lord carrington (riia, bil, tc, comm 300, lord owen (bil, tc) and sweden's carl bildt (bil) followed each other as official peace negotiators for the the one party states 347 european union in the former yugoslavia. the united

ilure. everyone goes away thinking they all did their best and could do no more, when the whole thing was being controlled as an exercise in 'democracy' which was designed to fail in its goal of stopping whatever policy is involved. the sheep mentality is so ingrained in the human race that it takes very few to infiltrate, direct, and control. look at how one of the key officials of the nation of islam was working for the fbi in the period of malcolm x and the black civil rights movement in the 1960s. that story could be repeated a million times and more in 'radical' organisations all over the world. some of the protest groups use violence. the animal liberation front and class war in britain are two of them. when class war, which claims to be 'anti-state, trigger violent clashes with the

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

"sides" in the two world wars and that's provable (see..and the truth shall set you free. so let us summarise the scam (a) you need to first imprison the human mind with a rigid belief and a fundamentally limited sense of reality- the sheep pen. it doesn't much matter what these beliefs may be, so long as they are rigid and discourage free thought and open-minded questions. christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, each make their contribution to human servitude while apparently claiming different "truths (b) you encourage those who follow these rigid beliefs to impose them on others and make life very difficult and unpleasant for anyone who does not conform (c) you bring these beliefs into conflict, so ensuring the divide and rule you so desperately need for control by the

all the religions have emerged- the continuation of the knowledge and bloodlines of atlantis and lemuria. they may interpret this base information slightly differently and emphasise different strands, but the core from which they have come is the same: the atlantean, lemurian and sumer empires and their belief system, not least its focus on the worship of the sun. where did christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, buddhism, and others like zoroasterism, etc, etc, all emerge from? the middle and near east, the vast region ruled from sumer at one time and still dominated by that knowledge base and belief system in the thousands of years that followed sumer's atlantis revisited 51 demise. the sumerian story of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a basket of

s, joseph smith, a high-degree freemason and merovingian bloodline, said he had a the unholy alliance 89 "vision" on september 21st, 1821 in which he saw "a messenger sent from god" dressed in a long white robe of "the most exquisite whiteness. from this "vision" came the mormon church, and a stream of religions have been founded on stories, real or otherwise, of similar experiences. mohammed and islam is just one example. john a. keel also highlighted the blue-blond theme in our haunted planet "according to the traditions of many isolated peoples, the first great emperors in asia were god-kings who came down from the sky, displayed amazing superhuman abilities, and took over. there was a veritable worldwide epidemic of these god-kings between 5000 and 1000bc..the myths and legends of gree

he table and said "don't go there. as you can see, i took his advice. the unholy alliance 101 and enki, eventually gave much greater power to their children, who were assigned different parts of the world to rule and develop. nannar, the eldest son of enlil, ruled mesopotamia, palestine, jordan, and syria from the city of ur, we are told. the crescent moon was his symbol and this was inherited by islam. nannar was known as sin in the semitic language and it is from this name of a reptilian god that we get sinai and the christian term "sinner" or "to sin. the christian cross was the symbol of u-tu "the shining one" and known to the semites as shamash. he was the grandson of enlil and son of sin, the tablets tell us. shamash ruled the lebanon, then a place of enormous forests, and his capita

-illuminati to destroy or marginalize the cultures of the native americans, central and south americans, black africans, the australian aborigines, and the "pagan" religion in general. this is what they did, of course, as even conventional history records, but it never tells you the real reason why or who was really behind it. by replacing these native cultures with imposed christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, they could either crush the true knowledge with rigid dogma, or imprison it in a gruesome hierarchical structure of genetic "superiority, as with the hindu caste system. the unholy alliance 107 columba(us) the interconnections of the illuminati web can be seen in the story of christopher columbus. he sailed to the americas in 1492 knowing basically where he was g

he goddess was replaced by the male "god. however, that was only on the surface, 196 children of the matrix for public consumption, control, and ignorance. to suppress the ancient knowledge, not least that of true history, it was necessary to destroy the outward expression of goddess worship while its initiates continued with business as usual. therefore, religions like judaism, christianity, and islam were created to give the appearance of being dominated by the male, while, in truth, being secret vehicles for the worship of the goddess. this involved taking female deities like el and depicting them as male. the sun goddess way back in history the sun was portrayed as female.2 in japan, a country with a long history of serpent worship, the ruling clans claimed descent from the sun goddess

e of bread" and jesus said he was "the bread of life. the priesthood took the ancient sumer sun religion, esoteric, astrological and astronomical knowledge, and the stories of their reptilian gods, and buried them in symbolic fables. this hid their real meaning, except to initiates, while introducing the rigid beliefs of the prison religions. every major religion, judaism, christianity, hinduism, islam, and buddhism all had the same basic origin: the knowledge and beliefs of sumer, which inherited the knowledge and beliefs of atlantis and lemuria. the major religions were all founded in the lands once occupied by the sumer empire. they may have emphasised different elements of the sumer beliefs, but that was the mould from which they all came. the priesthood's job was to withdraw the true

ristian scam is the jehovah's witness or watchtower society although as always, the vast majority of its advocates have no idea this is so. this worships the hebrew angry god jehovah. one of its leading founders was the paedophile and merovingian bloodline, charles taze russell, a high- degree freemason. russell was close to the rothschilds and, again, kuhn, loeb and company funded his operation. islam was created to further polarise the religious divides and in the biggest secret i show some of the connections between the secret societies behind "christianity, including the knights templar, and those at the heart of islam. among these were the assassins, from whom we get the term for politically motivated murder. the muslim faith and the creed of islam were inspired by the story of mahome

of how joseph smith inspired the mormon religion. in 612, it is said, mohammed had a "vision" and was told to start a new faith- just as smith later claimed. the date is interesting because some ancient peoples were told to expect an incarnation of "god" every 600 years and mohammed came 600 years after "jesus. once again the muslims encompass elements of the judeo-christian fantasy. muslims see islam as an updated continuation of judeo-christian themes and they, too, trace their ancestry back to abraham in the old testament, the alleged origin of the hebrew belief system. muslims believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine of mecca, and the focus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was originally a pagan temple to goddess worship featuring the famous black st

e was not. allah, the islamic god, is the same god, the muslims say, as the judeo-christian jehovah. they give credence to the pentateuch, the first five books of "moses" in the old testament, but in truth the books of the levites. muslims say that mohammed was the latest prophet (apart from all the others since) and therefore, the most valid. as such, all christians and hebrews should convert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term jihad is the "holy war" that muslims are urged to wage against all of those who will not accept the law of mohammed. the very word, islam, means "to submit or surrender" and muslim means "one who submits. god save us from religion 223 islam was another illuminati creed that was to cost the lives of hundreds of millions in the bloody wars waged with chri

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nnus, it was said, held the keys to the doors of heavenand he was the sole intermediary between god and humanity, therefore any belief notsupported by him was false and should be condemned. this was a wonderful tool forthe babylonian priesthood to impose their will on the populous and exactly the samescam has been played by their successors, the christian priests, the rabbis and thepriesthoods of islam, hinduism and all the rest. the roman catholic title of cardinalcomes from the word cardo meaning hinge and relates to nimrods role as guardian ofthe door to heaven.10 the babylonian priests even established a governing body theycalled the grand council of pontiffs, a name later transferred to the church of rome.11the babylonian high priest, who instructed the inner circle initiates, was kno

call themselves christian. there are many whoexpress a loving spirituality through their christian beliefs. i am talking of the institutionof christianity and its arrogant indoctrination and imposition of its desperately limitedvision of life which has created a mind-prison for literally billions of people over almost2,000 years. all the worlds major religions, hinduism, christianity, judaism and islam,came out of the very same region of the middle and near east from which the aryanrace and the reptile crossbreeds emerged after the cataclysm of perhaps 7,000 years ago.these religions were designed to imprison the mind and engulf the emotions with fearand guilt. they were usually based on some saviour-god figure like jesus ormohammed and only by believing in them and following their dictate

e state religion in egypt and that the intellectual and spiritual activitiesof the people were paralysed by complete obedience to the dogma formulated by thepriestcraft. what a perfect description of the levite-babylonian mode of manipulationand of all the religions, like christianity, which were to emerge from the lies theypeddled. and thats a crucial point to remember. judaism, christianity and islam allbase their beliefs on these same stories written by the levites after their stay inbabylon. we are looking at a point in history which was to define and control the worldfrom then until now. the knowledge the levites stole from egypt and expanded as aresult of their stay in babylon, became known as the cabala (kabala, qaballa, whichcomes from the hebrew root, qbl, meaning mouth to ear. th

id.50ibid, p 172.103cmapter fiveconquered by the crossthe christian church is a farce founded on a fantasy. if anyone requires confirmationof how easy it is for the few to control the masses, they need look no further than thebillions of people who have worshipped the fairy tales peddled these past 2,000 yearsby men in long frocks. and what goes for christianity goes for the rest of them,judaism, islam, hinduism and all the rest.these religions were created by the same force to achieve the same effect and,therefore, the saviour-god myths throughout the ancient world have an identical gameplan: 1 you are born with original sin and so you are an unworthy piece of shit from theday you arrive on the planet. 2 you can only be saved by believing in the saviour andthat means doing what the priest

s titled the holy spirit. so the father, son and holyghost, are in fact nimrod-tammuz and semiramis. christianity is the religion ofbabylon and has been from the start. today rome and italy remain a majorbrotherhood centre, as i detail in. and the truth shall set you free. the v atican itselfis wholly controlled by the brotherhood and one of its most important bases.christianity, like judaism and islam, was designed to achieve another vital part ofthe reptilian agenda: the suppression of the female energy, the intuitive connection tohigher levels of our multidimensional consciousness. once you suppress your feminineenergy, your intuition, you switch off your higher consciousness and become dominatedby your lower consciousness. you are isolated from your highest expression of love,wisdom an

christianityare also very similar because they originate from the same source and the popes mitreis the fish head symbol of nimrod.to complete the trio, along came the skull-cap-wearing muslims and the creed ofislam, inspired by the prophet mahomet (mohammed) when he had a vision in theyear 612. once more we find that islams roots are in christianity and judaism andtherefore babylon. muslims see islam as an updated continuation of thejudeo-christian stream and they, too, trace their ancestry back to our old mate,abraham, who is said to have emerged from the sumerian city of ur and headed foregypt. they believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine at mecca, and thefocus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was in fact originally a pagantemple of goddess (semirami

moon and venus, the morning star, the term used forlucifer. v enus was also a title for queen semiramis. muslims have bought the idea thatmoses, king david and jesus were divine prophets sent by the one all mighty god,when in fact all three are brotherhood inventions. their holy book, the koran, whichwas supposed to be inspired by god, mentions jesus in 93 verses and treats him as aliving person. islam was created by the same brotherhood networks as the christianreligions, to further imprison, divide and rule. mohammed was the last prophet andtherefore, the muslims reckon, the most valid. as such, all christians and jews shouldconvert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term, jihad, is the holy war thatmuslims are urged to wage against all who do not accept the creed of mohammed. ho

ted by the same brotherhood networks as the christianreligions, to further imprison, divide and rule. mohammed was the last prophet andtherefore, the muslims reckon, the most valid. as such, all christians and jews shouldconvert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term, jihad, is the holy war thatmuslims are urged to wage against all who do not accept the creed of mohammed. howfitting that islam means to submit or surrender and muslim means one who submits.some of the bloodiest conflict in history has resulted from the desire of islam,christianity and judaism to impose their creed on each other, when they all come fromthe same source and the same manipulation! excuse me, did i come in late and misssomething? beam me up scotty, get me out of here..the islamic god allah is the same go

id he lost consciousness and entered a trancestate. while mohammed was in his trance or hypnotic state, gabriel gave him amessage to remember and recite. mohammed said that when he awoke the messagewas inscribed upon his heart. what followed the encounter with gabriel was abloodbath spanning the centuries to the present day, as mohammed and hissuccessors sought to impose their creed on the world. islam is not the opposite ofchristianity and judaism, they are all oppo-sames: the same state of mind with adifferent name, ultimately controlled by the same people, the reptilians. islam isanother mystery school religion, its texts written in esoteric code for the masses totake literally. there were times in later centuries when some of this secret knowledgewas allowed into the public domain by m

credibleand prince charles can trace three thousand lines of decent alone from edward iii(1312-1377),10 the monarch who formed the brotherhood grouping the order of thegarter. nineteen presidents of the united states have also been related to edward iii11and therefore the line of prince charles. the windsors even have a blood connection tothat brotherhood stooge, mohammed, the official founder of islam.12william of orange, william iii, died in 1702. he and his wife, mary, left no heirs andso marys sister, anne, became queen. anne was the last of the stuart monarchs becausealthough she had 17 children by her husband, george of denmark, she survived them all.in 1714 the scene was set for the takeover of the british crown by the german blacknobility family, the hanovers. they were closely con

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, which is ta'us melek("the peacock angel, the chief of all. the black book it is presented here that ta us melek is the foundation of independent energy, motion and progression. in no mentioning of the black book is satan considered to be a negative force, rather a misunderstood power which can reside in each human being who can recognize what azazel is. 25 iblis, the the black light satanism in islam, published in gnosis magazine 23 then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. he made it man, and endowed it with a soul by his power. then he commanded gabriel to place adam in paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. after a hundred years ta

ce from the natural order, an antinomian symbol which survived in the cults of yezidism. the shaykh known as ayn al-qozat hamadani was perhaps one of the most rebellious figures of his time, champion to a higher intellect and satanism in a pure form of selflove and evolution to god itself, hamadani suggested an alternate path through sufism which was considered blasphemy to the fundamentalists of islam. ayn al-qozat wrote that the black light above the throne is the light of eblis, which he called the dark tresses of god, compared also to the divine light of darkness. al-qozat suggested that satan had a pride in love that he would not accept any but his creator. while in an initiatory sense, the foundations of god may represent a self-possibility and non-union with the natural order. by th

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. br, germany. abu yazid al-bestami (ca. 801.874) noted islamic mystic who founded the ecstatic school of sufism. born in bestam in northeastern persia, he became known as al-bestami. his claim that the mystic quest could result in complete absorption and identification with divinity is thought to have been an influence of hindu vedanta. in this respect, his heterodoxy was blasphemous to orthodox islam. beginning with the sufi concept of approaching divinity as the lover approaches the beloved, al-bestami claimed that this love was in itself an obstacle. he renounced conventional worship in the mosque, pilgrimage to mecca, and even the mystical practices of asceticism and meditation. various miracles were ascribed to al-bestami. sources: attar, farid al-din. muslim saints and mystics. tran

, the basically pantheistic and polytheistic religions have also been cross-fertilized with islamic and christian teachings, creating new beliefs and modifying old ones. today a large but undetermined number of africans follow traditional beliefs involving deities, ghosts, and spirits as well as an array of special powers in nature presided over by the supreme entity adopted from christianity and islam. the latter, somewhat remote from everyday problems, is believed to largely operate on humans through the many other deities. southern africa among the zulu and other bantu tribes of equatorial and southern africa, witchcraft or malevolent sorcery was traditionally practiced.in secret, for the results of detection were terrible. tribes instituted a caste of witchfinders assigned the task of

erating in the senegal, where he teaches what he terms egyptian yoga. east and west come together in these new movements in a mutual affirmation of astrology, divination, spiritual healing, and an esoteric approach to life. these indigenous have also become an avenue for the advancement of women who often must assume a secondary role in traditional african religions as well as in christianity and islam. sources: gardiner, john. the new age cult in south africa. cape town: stuikhof, 1991. hackett, rosalind i. j. new age trends in nigeria: ancestral and or alien religion? in perspectives on the new age, edited by james r. lewis and j. gordon melton. albany: state university of new york press, 1992. religion in calabar: the religious life and history of a nigerian town. berlin: mouton de gruy

but judicial astrology, or the art of foretelling future events from the position and influences of the stars, was a favorite pursuit; and many of their philosophers dedicated all their labors to this futile but lucrative inquiry. they often spoke highly of the iatro-mathematical discipline, which could control the disorders to which man was subject and regulate the events of life. the tenets of islam, which inculcate an unreserved submission to the overruling destinies of heaven, are evidently adverse to the lessons of astrology; but this by no means hindered the practitioners of old spain and arabia from attaining a high standard of perfection in the art, which they perhaps first learned from the peoples of chaldea, the past masters of the ancient world in astronomical science, in divin

of heaven, are evidently adverse to the lessons of astrology; but this by no means hindered the practitioners of old spain and arabia from attaining a high standard of perfection in the art, which they perhaps first learned from the peoples of chaldea, the past masters of the ancient world in astronomical science, in divination, and the secrets of prophecy. but in arab spain, where the tenets of islam were perhaps more lightly esteemed than in their original home, magic unquestionably reached a higher if not more thoughtful standard. from the greeks, still in search of science, the arabs turned their attention to the books of the sages who are esteemed the primitive instructors of mankind, among whom hermes was deemed the first. they mention the works written by him, or rather by them, as

d publication in 1984. last known address: caroline wise, 56 telemann sq, kidbrook, london se3, england. assassins the contemporary term assassin, referring to someone murdering a political or religious leader, derives from the use of the term to describe a mystical islamic sect that arose in the twelfth century following the destruction of the fatimid dynasty in egypt. following the emergence of islam, it had split into factions due to differences over the leadership of the community. one group saw the leadership passing to the descendents of muhammad. today these muslims are known as shi ites and constitute about 20 percent of islam. they are concentrated in iran and iraq, but there are large shia minorities in afghanistan and pakistan. for several centuries after muhammad s death, the s

n some countries. the imam remained in seclusion. only in the tenth century were they able to rise up and establish a homeland in egypt. their rulers were known as the fatimids, after fatima the daughter of muhammad. the fatimids, who turned cairo into a major city and created their famous university, ruled until 1173, when they were driven out by sunni muslims (the majority party in the world of islam. in the wake of the fall of the fatimid dynasty, two parties arose, each attempting to regain the throne. the first supported the fatimid prince, al-tayyib. the other supported al- tayyib s brother nizir. unable to regain the throne, the niziriyah moved their headquarters to syria and resumed the underground existence that had been standard in the ismaili community prior to the dynasty in eg

oberto encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 96 nally captured in 1256, but assassin fortresses in syria survived until the sixteenth century. the assassins gradually dropped their distinctive ways, including murder and hashish, reconciled with the other ismaili factions, and continue to the present under their present imam, still a descendent of nizir, the aga khan. sources: what is islam: a comprehensive introduction. london: virgin, 1998. association for astrological networking (afan) afan was founded in chicago in 1983 by members of the american federation of astrology who were dissatisfied with some of its more conservative policies. the new organization took an aggressive stance toward changing public opinion about astrology, seeking to reverse negative rulings concernin

reat assistance to alchemists in the transmutation of metals. it is alluded to by the historian josephus (lib. 8, chap. 25) bab name given to mirza ali muhammad (1819.1850, who led the movement that was the direct precursor of the baha i faith. baha u llah (1817.1892, the founder of the baha i faith, was a member of the babi religion, which was in turn heavily influenced by the traditions of shia islam, the form of islam dominant in iran (formerly persia. the bab, meaning the gate (of revelation, was martyred for his faith. sources: balyuzi, h. m. the bab: the herald of the day of days. oxford: g. ronald, 1973. selections from the writings of the bab. comp. habib taherzadeh. haifa, israel: bahai world center, 1976. babau a species of ogre with which the nurses in the central parts of franc

autier in the conte du graal (a medieval version of the holy grail legend. it is said that he was fastened to a tree by kay and left hanging head downward until released by perceval. on bagommedes return to the court, he challenged kay but was prevented by king arthur from slaying him. the baha i faith a world religious body dating from mid-nineteenth century persia (now iran. founded out of shia islam, which dominates the religious life of iran, the baha i faith projected a broad view of the oneness of mankind and coming unity of different religions. members of the baha i faith generally look upon three major figures as founding influences on the new religion. mirza ali muhammad (1819.1850, known as the bab, or gate, of revelation, founded a movement in persia in the 1840s based upon the

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bout 200 kilometers inland from the adriatic coast. the area is a meeting place between serbs and croats, between moslem traditions, the eastern orthodox church, the established catholic church, and the franciscans. the region has a complex and troubled history, involving military and religious conflicts. for four centuries, the region was under turkish rule, and many christians were converted to islam. the franciscans kept the catholic faith alive and became identified with the concept of croatian identity. when the turks lost power in 1878, pope leo xiii appointed non-franciscans to work in the parish. this was resisted by the laity, and by the franciscans themselves, who did not wish to lose their status. conflict of interest between the established church and the franciscans on the iss

t. years went by, and all search for the vanished alchemist proved vain, but once, when the sultan was hunting in the neighborhood of jerusalem, one of his servants chanced to hear of a hermit who was able to create gold. convinced that this must be none other than morien, kalid straightway sought him out. once more the two met, and again the alchemist made strenuous efforts to win the other from islam. many discussions took place between the pair, both speaking on behalf of their respective religions, yet kalid showed no inclination to desert the faith of his fathers. as a result morien relinquished the quest in despair, but it is said that, on parting with the sultan, he duly instructed him in the mysteries of the transcendent science. nothing is known about morien s subsequent history

nce itself, whereas the ordinary devotee of most religious systems merely desires to walk in god s way and obey his will. historical survey mysticism has emerged as a strain in all of the major religious systems, both east and west. it tends to have a particular affinity, however, with some systems. while there is, for example, a perceptible mystical stain in christianity, judaism (hassidism, and islam (sufism, western systems that emphasize the transcendence of a personal all-powerful deity have made mysticism a secondary concern. in the east, where the unreality of material things is emphasized, mysticism is a more dominant form of spiritual life. the sufis of persia may be said to be a link between the more austere indian mystics and those of europe. with the rise of alexandrian neoplat

ence, was always serene and peaceful. oki himself was scared that he would be executed, so he became a pupil of the older man, learning from his chanting, meditation, and religious observances that gave him serenity. later, both men were freed when a raiding party liberated the jail. oki s first teacher turned out to be hoseini-shi, father of the ayatollah khomeini, the former spiritual leader of islam in iran. after the war was over, oki concentrated on earning a living. he ran a medical clinic and also operated a profitable smuggling business between japan, korea, and taiwan. becoming dissatisfied with material success, he joined a japanese peace movement, but was soon disillusioned. he decided to become a zen monk. he divorced his wife, built six orphanages, gave away the remainder of h

death (2 vols, 1903) that the recorded appearances, intimations, and messages of the departing and the departed prove that between the spiritual and material worlds an avenue of communication does exist.that which we call the despatch and receipt of telepathic messages, or the utterance and the answer of prayer and supplication. traditional prayer in western religions (judaism, christianity, and islam) that imply a direct relationship between the believer and a beneficent deity have always been severely challenged by the existence of significant evil. the idea of a loving and omnipotent god acting on behalf of human life was put to its most intense test by the holocaust of world war ii. if there is any simple efficacy to devout and heartfelt prayers to a deity, why did the inconceivably m

benares. he traveled more than 25,000 miles, eighty percent on foot. he then returned to his own home in kerala as a wandering sannyasin after 70 years. he found no trace of his sister, who had also become a renunciate. he concluded remaining family affairs, then retired to the forests of nepal. although he was known as a holy man, equally at ease with the religions of buddhism, christianity, and islam (a task made easier by hindu ideas about the nature of religion, he insisted on remaining isolated, living in a small wooden hut and seeing only a few genuine seekers. those who saw him received a sense of inner peace and realization from him, and one visitor suggested that even the wild beasts of the forest were on friendly terms with him. j. g. bennett, a disciple of g. i. gurdjieff who la

ty of the subjects and the objective reality of the phenomenon. one difficulty in assessing the strictly christian spiritual value of stigmatization is due to the perception that some stigmatics have not been especially religious. moreover similar phenomena have been reported of islamic ascetics, who appear to have reproduced the wounds received by muhammed the prophet in spreading the message of islam. experiments with posthypnotic suggestion have shown that burns, blisters, and similar wounds may be produced on the body as a result of strong suggestion, and it is possible that some cases of stigmatization resulted from conscious or unconscious selfhypnosis. professor jean-martin charcot was the first to demonstrate in an experiemnt the role of autosuggestion in stigmatic or borderland ph

ivers (new enigmas of the universe. n.p, 1943. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. sudre, rene 1507. personnages d au-dela (people from the beyond. n.p, 1945. traite de parapsychologie. 1956. translated as treatise on parapsychology: essay on the scientific interpretation of the human phenomenon known as the supernatural. new york: citadel press, 1960. sufism a mystical movement of islam. the name derives from the woollen clothing (suf, worn by sufis as a token of penitence, similar to the christian penitent tradition of wearing hair shirts. in medieval times sufism was characterized by a complex system of striving for spiritual attainment and divine grace. the spiritual stages involved include conversion, abstinence, renunciation, poverty, patience, trust in god, and conten

fluenced religious movements in india, java, and elsewhere and played a part in the development of such unorthodox prophets as baha u llah of the baha i faith and the mystic meher baba. the major emphasis in sufism is intense love for god, expressed in the perfection of the soul. a western sufi organization is the sufi order (headed by pir vilayat inayat khan, whose traditions are said to predate islam and to have become incorporated in it. in 1910 the sufi order was established in europe and the united states through the lectures of hazrat pir-o-murshid inayat khan. the order stresses that god is one and that there are no barriers between religions. address: sufi order secretariat, box 574, lebanon springs, ny 12114. british branch: barton farm, pound lake, bradford-on-avon, wiltshire, en

or the charges of heresy made against the templars. their intimate connection with the east and the long establishment of the order had in all probability rendered their christianity not quite so pure as that of western europe. numerous treatises have been written for the purpose of proving or disproving the temple heresy, to show that it followed the doctrines and rites of the gnostic ophites of islam, that baphomet was merely a corruption of mahomet, and it has been collated with various other eastern systems. hans prutz furthered the view of the rejection of christianity in his book geheimlehre und geheimstatutendes tempelherren- ordens (1879) in favor of a religion based on gnostic dualism, and at once raised up a host of critics. but many defenders of the order followed, and it was pr

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, the universal mystical spirituality of the children of abraham is a robust, precious, and little known heritage upon which the fabric of the judaic, christian, islamic, and perhaps even the tantric religions are woven. in this book, that heritage is called the mystical qabalah.1 within the context of rabbinical judaism, this mystical tradition has come to be known as the jewish kabbalah, and in islam, as sufism (arabic tasawwuf. the christian cabala emerged from the mystical side of christianity, which developed as a parallel tradition to pauline dogma as it diverged and became estranged from its judaic roots. the christian cabala evolved as a way to harmonize jewish kabbalistic doctrines with christian theology. the precise usage of the word qabalah to denote the ideas and practices of

rom and return to nowhere like a dream, and in which all name and form emanate, manifest, and dissolve. in the qabalah, the lord hvhy is the immense i-ness that knows itself as pure being in the unmanifest supernal realm, and pervades everything from elohim down to the lowest creature in the lower worlds of manifestation. this supreme, unifying i-ness is worshipped in christianity as christos, in islam as allah, and in the tantras as the divine mother kali. it is worshipped in hinduism as ishvara, in tibetan buddhism as vajradhara or avalokiteshvara, in taoism as the divine mother kwan yin, and in the polynesian kahuna tradition as the goddess pele.9 an individual with this level of awareness directly perceives the innate identity of themselves and all beings with that one indwelling spiri

of abraham, few remain that are entirely faithful to their original versions. many of them are replete with corruptions, and have taken on additions and commentary often undifferentiated from the original texts. despite extensive evidence brought forth by linguistic experts to the contrary, most orthodox and fundamentalist adherents in each of the respective branches of judaism, christianity, and islam regard their respective scriptures as completely intact and unviolated reproductions of the originals. many english translations of the scriptures are flawed by dogmatic distinctions and/or a low level of understanding. many of the commentaries on the primary texts, and much of the secondary material available, are built 8- f e upon expositions of earlier writers who possessed little direct

be a reference to jesus as the primordial man in christian theology. in the final phase in the development of the christian cabala in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became permeated with alchemical symbolism and conjoined with the emerging doctrines of theosophy. this in turn greatly influenced the development of freemasonry. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 '0- 0* like judaism and christianity, islam is a primary branch stemming from the religion of the children of abraham. like master abraham, the prophet mohammed was faced with the task of leading his people away from the worship of idols and back to the universal mystical spirituality of a divine singularity. if you remove the clouds of dogmatic theocracy that now often overshadow the depth and beauty of that transmission, islam proba

ading his people away from the worship of idols and back to the universal mystical spirituality of a divine singularity. if you remove the clouds of dogmatic theocracy that now often overshadow the depth and beauty of that transmission, islam probably more closely resembles in some ways the original hebrew religion than does rabbinical judaism. the mystical tradition (ar. tasawwuf) at the core of islam is called sufism by westerners, and those who walk its path are called sufis, dervishes, and faqirs. the appellation sufi is thought by some to have been derived from the word suf (heb. and ar. pure wool, reflecting the rough patchwork wool robes worn by the early sufi ascetics to reflect the quality of spiritual poverty (faqira. in their literature, the sufis have a variety of other names a

fer to themselves, such as possessors of the kernel and community of the bench. the tradition itself is also given a variety of prominent epitaphs, such as haqiqah( way of truth, reflecting the goal of union with the singularity of the divine essence. as it is written: the highest truth is that i alone am. 23 everywhere you look, there is the face of allah. 24 several centuries after the birth of islam, a number of informal private sufi teaching circles in iraq and persia grew in numbers and organized into orders (tariqa. soon thereafter, dozens of other orders, most of which evolved as sub-branches of the initial ones, arose throughout the middle east, central asia, india, east africa, and spain. sufi influence continued to expand with the spread of islam throughout the world. the various

in the qur an (see figure 1.2. the name allah is found in the sefer hashmoth (book of the names) as aleh (hla lit. these, with one lamed l instead of two. the addition of the second lamed l extends the name into asiyah (qabalistic world of activity. 2 f# name allah the silent and oral recitation (dikhr) of the affirmation of unity (la illaha il allah, which is the root mantra at the foundation of islam, is a core practice of all sufis. the various orders can often be distinguished by the way that they do this. moses maimomades, the oft-cited author of the guide for the perplexed, regarded the affirmation of unity of the qur an as essentially equal to the affirmation of unity of the torah, shem ayin yisrael hvhy elohenu hvhy echad. maimomedes made this declaration actually believing this to

.29 the glass, as it were, a shining star,30 lit with the oil of a blessed olive tree, not of the east, not of the west. its light luminous even though fire touches it not, light upon light. 31 and, later in the surah, or like darkness upon a vast ocean,32 covered with waves upon waves, over them clouds, darkness upon thick darkness.33 and whoever allah gives not- light, has not- light in all. in islam, judaism and christianity are regarded as revealed religions, and therefore given protected status. in the qur an, there are a number of references to the jews as the people of the book (i.e. torah) whom muslims are exhorted to honor and respect. in the most high surah, the torah is called the book of mosheh and the sefer yetzirah (book of formation) is referred to as the book of abraham. th

ezebel, who was subsequently vanquished by eliyahu; and then as salome, whose infamous nude dance resulted in the beheading of john the baptist. so, the mainstream of religious jews deny master yeshuvah as a messianic appearance of the lord hvhy within the context of judaism. they greatly revere, but do not generally ascribe messianic stature to master mosheh, ignore the massive commonalties with islam, and wait for acharit who will bring the jews to the great sabbath. mainstream religious christians politely respect master mosheh, but certainly have no sense of him as a messiah. they feel no connection with the prophet mohammed and islam, regard master yeshuvah as the exclusive and only incarnation of the lord hvhy, and are waiting for the last to appear as the second coming of master yes

he rambam asserted that this utterance and the shem ayin are essentially the same.15 la is the not (al, illaha is vast face, il is the glue between vast and small face, and allah is the small face totality archetype. hu refers to the visible sefirah knowledge/first in the throat center seen from the sefirah crown/above in atziluth on a perfect tree. allah, the most important name of small face in islam, is also a brilliant name of fire. an aspirant attracted to% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 allah as their chosen ideal would repeat a root mantra containing the name allah, and would visualize allah as dancing letters of fire on a background as described above. sufis, the qabalists of islam, call the process of taking the name or repeating root mantra dikhr (lit. remembrance, which is the equivalent

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thus, thand direct access to the un conscious is severy important part in (including zen, and many other eastern philosophies. these mantras may be more or less free of recognizable sense (for example, ghram hrim hrum h, or they may carry a meanin h h which, as you may know, approximates ghail hee jewel in the lotus blossom h. tm ay express a certain form of worship and heightening of awareness. islam (especially sufism) knows its mantras, as does catholicism, which uses them, for example, in its rosary litanies, and shamans all over the world are known to work with different forms of mantras. while a sound knowledge of mantra theory can be of help when using mantrica n ecessary. sometimes it may even prove to be an oobstacle if you are for some reason (e.g, cond d special, established sy

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no exaggeration to say that the collection of books by harun yahya have assumed this leading role. by the will of god, these books will be a means through which people in the 21st century will attain the peace, justice and happiness promised in the qur'an. the works of the author include the new masonic order, judaism and freemasonry, global freemasonry, kabbalah and freemasonry, knight templars, islam denounces terrorism, terrorism: the ritual of the devil, the disasters darwinism brought to humanity, communism in ambush, fascism: the bloody ideology of darwinism, the 'secret hand' in bosnia, behind the scenes of the holocaust, behind the scenes of terrorism, israel's kurdish card, the oppression policy of communist china and eastern turkestan,palestine, solution: the values of the qur'an

terrorism, terrorism: the ritual of the devil, the disasters darwinism brought to humanity, communism in ambush, fascism: the bloody ideology of darwinism, the 'secret hand' in bosnia, behind the scenes of the holocaust, behind the scenes of terrorism, israel's kurdish card, the oppression policy of communist china and eastern turkestan,palestine, solution: the values of the qur'an, the winter of islam and its expected spring, articles 1-2-3, aweapon of satan: romanticism, the light of the qur' an destroyed satanism, signs from the chapter of the cave to the last times, signs of the last day, the last times and the beast of the earth, truths 1-2, the western world turns to god, the evolution deceit, precise answers to evolutionists, the blunders of evolutionists, confessions of evolutionis

musa, the prophet yusuf, the prophet muhammad (saas, the prophet sulayman, the golden age, allah's artistry in colour, glory is everywhere, the importance of the evidences of creation, the truth of the life of this world, the nightmare of disbelief, knowing the truth, eternity has already begun, timelessness and the reality of fate, matter: another name for illusion, the little man in the tower, islam and the philosophy of karma, the dark magic of darwinism, the religion of darwinism, the collapse of the theory of evolution in 20 questions, engineering in nature, technology mimics nature, the impasse of evolution i (encyclopedic, the impasse of evolution ii (encyclopedic, allah is known through reason, the qur'an leads the way to science, the real origin of life, consciousness in the cell

the honeybee, the miracle of seed, the miracle of hormone, the miracle of the termite, the miracle of the human body, the miracle of man's creation, the miracle of protein, the miracle of smell and taste, the miracle of microworld, the secrets of dna. the author's childrens books are: wonders of allah's creation, the world of animals, the glory in the heavens, wonderful creatures, let's learn our islam, the miracles in our bodies, the world of our little friends: the ants, honeybees that build perfect combs, skillful dam builders: beavers. the author's other works on quranic topics include: the basic concepts in the qur'an, the moral values of the qur'an, quick grasp of faith 1-2-3, ever thought about the truth, crude understanding of disbelief, devoted to allah, abandoning the society of

uties presented by the qur'an for life, a bouquet of the beauties of allah 1-2-3-4, the iniquity called "mockery" the mystery of the test, the true wisdom according to the qur'an, the struggle against the religion of irreligion, the school of yusuf, the alliance of the good, slanders spread against muslims throughout history, the importance of following the good word, why do you deceive yourself, islam: the religion of ease, zeal and enthusiasm described in the qur'an, seeing good in all, how do the unwise interpret the qur'an, some secrets of the qur'an, the courage of believers, being hopeful in the qur'an, justice and tolerance in the qur'an, basic tenets of islam, those who do not listen to the qur'an, taking the qur'an as a guide, a lurking threat: heedlessness, sincerity in the qur'a

e veneration of "humanity" in his place. but, this raises an important question: do masons reserve this belief for themselves only, or do they wish it to be adopted by others as well? when we look at masonic writings, we can clearly see the answer to this question: the goal of this organization is to spread the humanist philosophy throughout the world, and to eradicate the monotheistic religions (islam, christianity and judaism. for example, in an article published in the masonic magazine mimar sinan, it says "masons do not search for the origin of the ideas of evil, justice and honesty beyond the physical world, they believe that these things arise from a person's social conditions, social relationships and what he strives for in his life" and adds "masonry is trying to spread this idea t

nkers based merely on their philosophical and ideological whims, and been adopted by a number of civilizations. naturalism was born and flourished in pagan societies such as ancient egypt and ancient greece. but, with the spread of christianity, this pagan philosophy was largely abandoned, and the idea that god created the whole of nature and the universe came to dominate. in a similar manner, as islam spread throughout the east, naturalist ideas, and pagan beliefs, such as zoroastrianism and shamanism, were eradicated, and the fact of creation was accepted. the theory of materialist evolution was developed by the pagan philosophers in ancient greece. global freemasonry dee nevertheless, the naturalist philosophy persisted underground. it was preserved by secret societies and emerged again

hological effect. from the quotation above, we learn that the ikhwan as-safa, a parallel society of freemasonry in the islamic world, carried on activities much like those of the modern masons. their method was to espouse a pagan philosophy contrary to true religion, to express that philosophy by means of symbols, and to introduce this secret philosophy to its members gradually. in the history of islam there have been various thinkers who in this way distanced themselves from islam, and were influenced by the ancient greeks' materialist and evolutionist myths. the fact that this school of thought, that the great islamic scholar ghazali so loathed and refuted in his works, has a masonic character to it surely casts some important light on the matter. in his work entitled al-munqidh min al-d

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e just some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the hindu's, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the bl

ism into the religious field. mysticism and esotericism (inner teachings) are rejected in favour of doctrines and beliefs that can be understood by a blinkered use of the rational mind. while fundamentalism is ambivalent to the intellect, it uses a restricted form of rationalism to hold its doctrines in place, accordingly, fundamentalism is most prevalent in religions of "the book- protestantism, islam and so forth. while other forms of fundamentalism exist, the most pernicious forms are those which in reaction to materialism and scientism use rationalism to create a stalwart of dogma and doctrine, and yet in the process destroy the very foundation of the true religious vision- mysticism. to appreciate the esoteric and mystical view of truth we need to travel back to ancient greece and exa

her, his family owned a vineyard which was passed to his younger brother as it was obvious rene had a flair for the academic but was not gifted in either the arts or winemaking. moving to paris in his youth he had contact with many occult organizations, becoming a student of papus for a period. by 1912 he had become an initiated sufi and became deeply immersed in the esoteric of both hinduism and islam. after the death of his wife in the 1930's he left to spend the rest of his life in isolation in cairo, rejected the modern world. he again married and live with his egyptian wife under the name abdel wahed yahi. he died on the 7th january 1951. guenon's earliest works are meant to clear the way for a real appraisal of esotericism and gnosis, they are bitter and incisive attacks on both theo

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on means to bind back, to return to the source or origin. these teachings are those which lead back to the spiritual world, the treasury of light from which we have become alienated. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however fragmentary and incomplete, belong neither to the hindus, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. madame blavaskty. behind the veil of the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the ass

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

the autobiography of malcolm x described malcolm s encounter with an mib in prison: he had on a dark suit i remember. i could see him as plainly as i see anyone i look at. he wasn t black, and he wasn t white. he was light-brown skinned, an asiatic cast of countenance, and he had oily black hair. it is interesting that the celebrated film malcolm x chooses to imply that this figure was nation of islam leader elijah mohammed. while elijah mohammed and his mysterious teacher wallace fard (who vanished without a trace) had come out of high degree prince hall freemasonry, and certainly knew some of the esoteric secrets, the being malcolm x described is more in accord with aleister crowley s description of the pr terhuman intelligence aiwass than of elijah mohammed. in the shadows, the men in

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for it. these explanations should contain at least one each of the following types: i. an explanation based on the parameters of the magical system that you have been employing. ii.strict materialism iii. something exceptionally silly. 2. when you have been experimenting with belief-shifting for a while, try contemplating two which appear to be mutually exclusive such as christianity and tantra, islam and radical feminism, new age celtic revivals and marxism. 3. meditations in menzies. read specialist magazines that you have no interest in, especially those written by enthusiastic amateurs. also read publications with oppposing views in quick succession, such as playboy and spare rib, or andrea 42 phil hine dworkin and the marquis de sade. 4. do not put live toads in your mouth. 5.everyon

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the cabbalistic zohar, peter jammy's set of albertus magnus, raymond lully's ars magna et ultima in zetsner's edition, roger bacon's thesaurus chemicus, fludd's clavis alchimiae, and trithemius's de lapide philosophico crowding them close. mediaeval jews and arabs were represented in profusion, and mr. merritt turned pale when, upon taking down a fine volume conspicuously labelled as the qanoon-e-islam, he found it was in truth the forbidden necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred, of which he had heard such monstrous things whispered some years previously after the exposure of nameless rites at the strange little fishing village of kingsport, in the province of the massachussetts-bay. but oddly enough, the worthy gentleman owned himself most impalpably disquieted by a mere minor detai

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dox thought. in the invocation of satan, this archetype of selfliberation was means of release, of seeking knowledge and freedom within the self to have the choice of free thought, action and deed. this is why the serpent is considered an aspect of satan or lilith, the serpent is long viewed as a symbol of wisdom and fertility. the christian satan was taken from the early mythological folklore of islam, from which satan s (meaning to oppose or the adversary) name was azazel. in the koran and accepted traditions such as the ahadith, azazel is said to be made of fire similar to the djinn, yet not of light as other angels. it is this fire which makes azazel the brightest angel among the others. azazel was the preacher to all angels in pre-eternity, seated beside the throne in glory. god creat

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to a universal religion. he will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. he will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of god, whether the point in question be christianity, buddhism, islam or any other kind of religion. fundamentally he may be faithful to his own religion. but he will not be satisfied with the official doctrines of his church, and will try to penetrate deeper into god s workshop. and such is the purpose of our initiation. according to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion

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form of the lingam. the mahd-dma^ before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modem champions of that religion of sensualism par exedlsnee, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas ot their own temples. the mahody of elephanta, the round tower of bhagalpur, the minarets of islam either rounded or pointed are the originals of the campanile column of san marco at venice, of rochester cathedral, and of the modem duomo of milan. ah of these steeples, tur^ rets, domes, and christian temples are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the liaot, the upright phallus "the westem tower of st. paul's cathedral, london" saya the author of the roncnidana "is one of the doubl

rote "let not the punishment, which you deem it necessary to inflict on mortoi men on account c ?perianal grwtanea, tall upon the living church. prepare not the way for perpetual divinons of the church imder fhepreuntt ijf piety" such wm one al uie first christian saints- and the founder of the innity as he qipears on the pages of history. digitizecoy google 54 isb unveiled codqiming sword of the islam prophet ia a direct consequence of the bloody riots and fights among christians. it was the intestine war between the nestorians and cyrilians that engendered lalamism; and it is in the convent of basra that the prolific seed was first sown by bahira, the nestorian monk. freely watered by rivers of blood, the tree of mecca has grown till we find it in the present century over- shadowing near

esiastical christianity, and will do my utmost to expose the imposture "in a vampire story, told in thalaba by soutbey, the resuscitated being takes the form of a dearly beloved maiden, and the hero is obliged to kill her with his own hand. he does so; but whilst he strikes the 156. swptrtiatural rmgiont an inquiry into at rauitg of diviiu rettuilion. digilizocb, google the pope fraternizing with islam 8t form of the loved one lie feels aure that be ala7s only a demon. in like manner, when i endeavor to destroy the current heathenism, which haa assumed the garb of christianity, i do not attack real rehgion" few would accuse a workman of malignancy who cleanses from filth the sur- face of a noble statue. there may he some who are too nice to touch a nasty subject, yet even they will rejoice

nd it seema as if nothing would more please his holiness than to be presented by the latter with several thousands of the bulgarian or servian "foreskins" true to her policy to be all things to all men to promote her own inter- ests, the romish church is, at this writing (1876, benevolently viewing the bulgarian and servian atrocities, and, probably, maneuvering with turkey against russia. better islam and the hitherto-hated crescent over the sepulcher of the christian god, than the greek church estab- lished at constantinople and jerusalem as the state-religion. like a decrepit and toothless ex-tyrant in exile, the vatican is eager for any alliance that promises, if not a restoration of its own power, at least the weakening of its rival. the axe its inquisitors once swung, it now toys 157

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siebeck, 2004. aryeh kaplan adds a fourth: the gra/ari version; see below, p. 13* the comments of both steven m. wasserstrom and elliot r. wolfson were made as discussants at the association for jewish studies 33rd annual conference (washington, dc: december 16, 2001) in the session titled sefer yesirah: mystical and philosophical intertexts. see wasserstrom s articles (1) sefer yesira and early islam: a reappraisal (in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, vol. 3 no. 1: 1993) and (2) further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah (in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, no. 2 (2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale; see also wasserstrom s comments in between muslim and jew: the problem of symbiosis under ear

am: a reappraisal (in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, vol. 3 no. 1: 1993) and (2) further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah (in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, no. 2 (2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale; see also wasserstrom s comments in between muslim and jew: the problem of symbiosis under early islam (princeton: princeton university press, 1995, pages 126-133. further, refer to wolfson s summary, sefer yetzirah: linguistic mysticism and cosmological speculation, which is a section of jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview, in history of jewish philosophy, edited by daniel h. frank and oliver leaman (london new york: routledge, 1997. don karr, 1991, 1994; updated 2001-7. email: dk0618

al studies in science and judaism, number 2: 2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale. wasserstrom, steven m. further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah, in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, number 2: 2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale. sefer yesira and early islam: a re-appraisal, in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, volume 3, number 1, special issue: studies in jewish mysticism, esotericism, and hasidism, edited by elliot r. wolfson and paul mendes flohr (harwood academic publishers gmbh, 1993. wolfson, elliot r. jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview, sefer yetzirah: linguistic mysticism and cosmological speculation, in history of je

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ard us will change for the better. on the contrary, hatred toward us will arise even in countries that today seem supportive of us, unless we begin to realize our destination. t h e r i s e o f t h e i s l am besides increasing anti-semitism, there is another recent phenomenon that is strongly affecting our situation: christianity is surrendering its domination to fundaisrael s role 179 mentalist islam. this process is described in the book of zohar as part of the processes that will occur when israel returns to its land: and the children of ishmael are destined to evoke great wars in the world, and the children of edom will gather over them and they will wage war with them (zohar, vaera, item 203. when we study the rise of islam, as when studying any process, we must first know that every

sts describe this modus operandi in the following words (bereshit raba, 10, 6: there is not a blade of grass below that does not have an angel (force) above it that strikes it and tells it: grow. in other words, nothing changes in our world without a force that operates it from a higher degree, the upper world. therefore, to understand the relations among religions in general, and the rise of the islam, in particular, we must know the upper root of religions: the three lines. in fact, man s evolution toward equilibrium with the inclusive nature unfolds along the right, left, and middle line. there are many degrees to this path, and in each degree one gains egoism from the left line, and acquires altruistic balancing force (to correct the ego) from the right line. our task is to coalesce th

the two lines in the middle, meaning use the ego altruistically. corresponding to those lines is a system intended to sustain them, like a rind that guards the fruit within it. for this reason, the system is named, the klipot (shells, peels) system. its task is to guarantee the functioning of the lines. the consequences of the work of the forces of the right and the left in the human society are islam and christianity, respectively. israel s role 181 the left and right lines help israel keep a straight course in the middle line toward the realization of nature s plan. during the exile, the force that operated on israel came primarily from the left line. but toward the end of the correction of the collective human egoism, the right line is becoming increasingly active. during the exile, th

ted our world. it took the place of athens and rome (which were not religions, or klipot, dominated the world and suppressed all other methods. but as the time approaches when israel must correct itself and ordain the quality of altruism over ego, the domination of the force of the klipa of the right is appearing in the world. this is what we feel today as a global intensification of the power of islam over christianity. 182 from chaos to harmony when the people of israel begin to tackle the two klipot and stabilize themselves in the middle line, they will encounter the klipa of the middle line. it resides within them, in their own religion, and they will have to distinguish it, separate it, and uproot it from the world. we should be aware that all the wars that kabbalists describe can be

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r elements, in the sense that they precede all religions and belief systems. kabbalah is about the two working forces of reality, the giving force, called creator, and the receiving force, called creature. kabbalah has nothing to do with any religion or any faith. i do not want to compare kabbalah to other teachings, nor do i wish to discuss any religion, be it hinduism, judaism, christianity, or islam. after all, why deal with religion when we can discuss the physics of the upper world? the challenge in explaining this material is that we cannot compare our emotions. we cannot say that the term, upper force that one person feels is identical to the term, upper force that another person feels. hence, trying to compare this or that teaching to the kabbalah is pointless. kabbalah is a techni

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e a final battle (a zoroastrian armageddon) between good and evil in which it is anticipated that ahriman and his hosts will be defeated. the earth will then be renewed, evil people will be destroyed, and the righteous resurrected. one of the points on which zoroastrianism differs from the other monotheisms is in its conceptualization of the genesis of satan. mainstream judaism, christianity, and islam all view satan as a fallen angel who was cast out of heaven, either for disobeying god or for rebelling against god. by way of contrast, ahriman is believed to be very much on par with ahura mazda. they even created the world together, which explains why the world is such a mixture of good and bad. later thinkers speculated that the two beings were twins, both fathered by boundless time (zur

of catholicism as being at the very center of a vast satanic conspiracy to destroy christianity (which does not mean that other fundamentalists necessarily tend to look kindly upon catholicism. in addition to infiltrating christianity (in chick s mind, catholicism equals christianity perverted by demonic paganism, catholics especially the jesuits are behind everything from nazism to communism to islam. chick publications were dropped from the shelves of many christian bookstores after the alberto series virulently anti-catholic comics based on the revelations of a ex-jesuit came out. chick was, however, saved from going out of business after jimmy swaggart began quoting his periodical battle cry on the air. sales of ministry products subsequently rebounded enough to keep chick publication

evil in their efforts to keep their devotees in the faith. a number of female demonic figures have also been developed that explain children s sicknesses or death. in medieval central and eastern europe the lamias, mythic figures of greek and roman origin, were believed to kill all children by drinking their blood; the hindu churalin (who embodies the women who died because of childbirth, and in islam ghul, are female demons who lie in wait and practice cannibalism. in judaism lilith, considered to be the first wife of adam, typically was believed to attack children. most of the traditional cultures of the world visualize the universe as a three-tiered cosmos of heaven, earth, and underworld.heaven is reserved for deities, living human beings occupy the middle world, and demons often resi

n as itself embodying demonic activity. as c. s. lewis wrote in the screwtape letters, there are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. one is to disbelieve in their existence. the other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. they themselves are equally pleased by both errors (lewis 1961, 3. see also buddhism; china; hinduism; islam; judaism; possession and exorcism for further reading: barn, george. the index of leading spiritual indicators. dallas, tx:word publishing, 1996 .what americans believe. ventura, ca: regal books, 1991. cognac, j. f. handbook about demon possession for human service workers. http//www.gelservices.com/hs.html. does satan really exist? our baptist heritage, march/april 1993. text published at:

become king of the gods with the rise of babylon s political fortunes. like the gods of the greek and roman pantheons,mesopotamian divinities were pictured as human beings drawn large. the gods were, in other words, not much more than strong human beings, possessing magical powers and immortality. humanity, for its part, was created out of clay to serve the gods. unlike judaism, christianity, or islam, this creation did not include the fashioning of an immortal soul. hence the afterlife was conceived of as a pale shadow of earthly life,much like the jewish sheol or the greek hades. mesopotamians, like many of the other traditional peoples of the world, imagined the universe as a three-tiered cosmos of heaven (above the earth, earth, and hell (beneath the earth. heaven was reserved for dei

further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. eliade,mircea. shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy. princeton, nj: princeton university press, 1964. mcdannell, colleen, and bernhard lang. heaven: a history. 1988. new york: vintage, 1990. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. harut and marut judaism, christianity, and islam all have lore related to the lust of angels for human beings and their subsequent transformation into demons. although the basic idea of spirit beings or demons having sex with human beings is very ancient, judeo-christian speculation on such ideas grew out of two short, obscure verses in genesis (6:2 and 6:4) about the sons of god taking to wife the daughters of men. in these rather strange

demons having sex with human beings is very ancient, judeo-christian speculation on such ideas grew out of two short, obscure verses in genesis (6:2 and 6:4) about the sons of god taking to wife the daughters of men. in these rather strange verses, the expression sons of god was taken to indicate angels. the traditional interpretation of these passages is that these sons of god are fallen angels. islam s version of this theme is a tale involving two angels mentioned in the koran, harut and marut, although the koranic reference contains no allusion to these angels sexual misconduct. heavy metal music 105 according to the story, humanity s seeming inability to avoid temptation and sin prompted the angels to make some less-than-complimentary remarks about humankind. god, it is said, responded

e to eternal punishment in hell. the other angels had to admit that god was right, and, presumably, snide remarks about the weakness of humanity ceased to be made within the precincts of heaven. as for harut and marut, they occupied their time teaching sorcery to humanity, although they never failed to warn human beings of the ultimate consequence of practicing the forbidden arts. see also iblis; islam for further reading: the encyclopaedia of islam. leiden: e. j. brill, 1978. glass, cyril. the concise encyclopedia of islam. san francisco: harper san francisco, 1989. heavy metal music next to horror movies and conservative christian literature, the most significant source of diabolical images in contemporary popular culture is heavy metal music and some of heavy metal s darker musical rela

ian-islamic complex share a similar idea about the origin of satan, which is that he was a prideful angel who was ejected from heaven. in his postcelestial career, satan then took on the task of leading humanity astray. in judaism and christianity, satan provokes a war in heaven in which he leads a revolt against god.he is, of course, defeated, and he and his followers are ejected from heaven. in islam, the story is somewhat different. in the muslim tradition there are three orders of creatures: angels, who are made from light; jinn, who are made from fire; and human beings, who are made from clay. the angels were created first. when god created adam, he commanded the angels to worship him. iblis (often spelled eblis) refused on the ground that adam, who, after all, was a mere creature of

d, and thus an act of idolatry a severe sin in the muslim tradition. iblis, to continue this line of interpretation, was a true lover of god, and thus a sufi. iblis knew that the consequences of his actions would be punishment, but he preferred remaining true to his love of god (and the consequences of being condemned to hell) over being untrue to his love of god and remaining in heaven. see also islam; jinn for further reading: the encyclopaedia of islam. leiden: e. j. brill, 1978. glass, cyril. the concise encyclopedia of islam. san francisco: harper san francisco, 1989. imp imps are minor evil spirits, rather like infernal fairies. the word from old english impian, to graft, means offshoot or cutting, a term that conveys the impression of imps being offshoots of satan. imps have also be

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whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory en-compassing them. the function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red mist of christianity, or the glimmering silver-white of celtic paganism; the hard grey dim-gilded of buddhism, the fleecy opacity of islam, or the mysterious medium of those ancient faiths which come up in as many colours as their investigator has moods .in order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the na ve naturalism of many parts of those scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, philo borrowed from the stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of greek mythology) that great excalib

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inflicted by this dagger. it reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. a judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal prejudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. dogma, with persecution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and many another evil, as its satraps, has always establsihed a tyranny when genius has proclaimed it. islam making a bonfire of written wisdom, and haeckel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity disputing the conclusions of geology, and theologicans impatient of truth struggling against the tide of thought; all such must perish at the hands of their own error in making their minds, internally defective or externally deflected, the measure of the universe. point ii 17 tho

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

an interesting question: aside from christianity, how do other major world religions view the issues of scientific evolution and divine creation? to what extent are 20 evolution and religious creation myths there conflicts between the two in these religions? and are creationist movements present within world religions outside christianity? in what follows, we discuss these matters in relation to islam, judaism, hinduism, and buddhism. islam islam is an arabic word meaning both submission and peace. at the core of the islamic faith is the idea that a muslim submits to allah (god, thus finding spiritual peace. islam emphasizes the oneness and unity of allah, that muhammad was his final prophet (in arabia in the seventh figure 1.2 representatives of some of the major non-christian denominati

men celebrating the hindu festival of teej; a buddhist monk in thailand; a muslim bridegroom from bangladesh (from linda stone s collection. creationism and intelligent design 21 century c.e, and that the quran is allah s divine word recited by muhammad. the general belief is that the quran is to be fully understood only in the original arabic. lives of muslims are governed by the five pillars of islam (1) the witness i witness that there is no god but allah; i witness that muhammad is his prophet (2) five daily prayers to allah (3) the giving of alms to the less fortunate (4) fasting, as an expression of gratitude to allah, especially during the month of ramadan; and (5) a pilgrimage, if feasible, to the holy sites in the city of mecca in saudi arabia once in one s lifetime. as with chris

during the month of ramadan; and (5) a pilgrimage, if feasible, to the holy sites in the city of mecca in saudi arabia once in one s lifetime. as with christianity, there is within the vast world of islama wide spectrum of opinions on evolution versus creationism or id. on the one hand, many muslims around the world maintain that there is no conflict whatsoever between evolution and the tenets of islam. at the other end of the spectrum, the teaching of evolution is forbidden in the islamic nation of saudi arabia. in addition, muslim followers of wahhabism (the dominant version of islam in saudi arabia) reject evolution, holding that it is incompatible with islam. this movement (now more often called salafism) is named after a person who lived in saudi arabia in the 1700s. it has sought to

t the other end of the spectrum, the teaching of evolution is forbidden in the islamic nation of saudi arabia. in addition, muslim followers of wahhabism (the dominant version of islam in saudi arabia) reject evolution, holding that it is incompatible with islam. this movement (now more often called salafism) is named after a person who lived in saudi arabia in the 1700s. it has sought to restore islam to its original form. other than this, we are aware of only one creationist movement in themuslim world. this movement is based in turkey and goes after the name of harun yahya, which is apparently the pen name of adnan oktar, an author known for his writings about zionist racism. according to oktar s web page, harun is translated as aaron and yahya means john. these, according to oktar, are

cteristics of a well-designed organization. 22 evolution and religious creation myths the quran is less detailed than the bible in its account of the origins of life and the universe (the quran mentions adam and his spouse who is not referred to as eve but does not specify how the universe was created. as a result, muslims generally have no qualms with the idea of an old earth. on the other hand, islam can be fertile ground for id principles, as much as christianity is. harun yahya s anti-evolution web page is extremely similar to christian creationist and id pages. these might as well be copies of one another. the same misrepresentations of evolution are offered, in the same sequence, and using the same examples. also, harun yahya vilifies darwinism, making it responsible for, among other

ually do no go that far, although some u.s. evangelical leaders have blamed the 9/11 attacks on our materialistic society, no doubt further vitiated by darwinian ideology. harun yahya promulgates that schoolchildren be instilled with the fear of god, a fear supposedly diminished by pernicious and godless darwinism. judaism judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion still in existence today. like islam, but unlike christianity, it rejects any pictorial representation of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation

. amidst all the diversity within hinduism are the unifying concepts of dharma and moksha. dharma refers to the religious duty to maintain and perfect the world and society. moksha refers to spiritual release from this world, often by renouncing society. there are various ways and means within hinduism to both maintain the world and seek ultimate release from it. contrary to monotheistic judaism, islam, and christianity, polytheistic hinduism has a plurality of religious texts. such books as the rig-veda, the upanishads, and the bhagavad-gita come to mind. likewise, hinduism has more than one myth of creation. one version restricts itself to saying that some sort of substance, prakrit, is at the origin of all that exists in the universe. another version is much more descriptive; it explain

ing egoistical attachment (4) desire can be stopped by following the eightfold path, which is basically following a moral, compassionate, and selfless style of life. after this very brief introduction to buddhist philosophy, let us see whether it is compatible or not with evolutionary science. first, we should point out that, contrary to what is happening with judaism, christianity, hinduism, and islam, there is no such thing as buddhist fundamentalism, nor are there political parties based on buddhism. in addition, buddhism does not recognize any particular myth of creation, making it impossible for evolutionary science to conflict with buddhist texts. in other words, buddhism does not have the equivalent of genesis and its counterpart in the quran, or the equivalent of hindu sacred texts

what happens in the world is ultimately a product of mind, and there is no creator of mind. what can we conclude from this admittedly brief foray into the reception of evolution in non-christian world religions? first, it appears that evolution can be a problem in the more orthodox or fundamentalist portions of three world religions christianity (mostly protestantism but more rarely catholicism, islam, and judaism. all three are monotheistic religions with the idea of one god as creator. further, these are revealed religions. possibly, then, a powerful single creator god with a strong message about the origin of life sets a frame for some within these faiths to see evolution as a threat to religious conviction. by contrast, neither hinduism nor buddhism is monotheistic or revealed, and ne

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

n that it is the equivalent of an entire short book. if you read this book in its entirety you will be in a good position to dive into subjects such as the qabbala, alchemy, tarot, ceremonial magic, neo-platonic philosophy, mystery religions, and the theory of rosicrucianism and freemasonry. although there are some questionable and controversial parts of the book, such as the outdated material on islam, the portion on the bacon-shakespeare hypothesis, and hall's conspiracy theory of history as driven by an elite cabal of roving immortals, they are far out-weighed by the comprehensive information here on other subjects. for many years this book was only available in a large format edition which was hard to obtain and very expensive. however, an affordable paperback version has finally been

s the theory and practice of alchemy: part one the theory and practice of alchemy: part two the hermetic and alchemical figures of claudius de dominico celentano vallis novi the chemical marriage bacon, shakspere, and the rosicrucians the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy freemasonic symbolism mystic christianity the cross and the crucifixion the mystery of the apocalypse the faith of islam american indian symbolism the mysteries and their emissaries conclusion the secret teachings of all ages an encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, qabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy being an interpretation of the secret teachings concealed within the rituals, allegories, and mysteries of all ages by manly p. hall san francisco printed for manly p. hall by h.s. crocker comp

he cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost libraries of alexandria--the cross in pagan symbolism- the crucifixion, a cosmic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the historical hiawatha--the popol vuh--american indian sorcery--the mysteries of xibalba--the midewiwin. 193 the mysteries and their emissaries the golden chain of homer--hypati

ch is his least spiritual state--he carries the scales, and by the "philosophic death" is released again into the highest spheres. in the ancient roman games the chariot of the sun was drawn by four horses of different colors and the horsemen of the apocalypse may be interpreted to represent the solar energy riding upon the four elements which serve as media for its expression. next: the faith of islam sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 189 the faith of islam representative of the attitude of christendom toward islam, till recent years at least, is alexander ross's postscript to the anglicized version, published in 1649, of sieur du ryer's french translation of the koran. the author of the postscript directs the following invective against mohammed and the koran "good reader, the

st and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the face of allah; for allah is omnipresent and omniscient. they say, allah hath begotten children: allah forbid! to him belongeth whatever is in heaven, and on earth; all is possessed by him, the creator of heaven and earth; and when he decreeth a thing, he only saith unto it, be, and it is" in other words, the god of islam has but to desire and the object of that desire at once comes into being, whereas the god of alexander ross must proceed in accord with the laws of human generation! mohammed, prophet of islam "the desired of all nations" was born in mecca, a.d. 570) and died in medina, a.d. 632, or in the eleventh),ear after the hegira. washington irving thus describes the signs and wonders accompanying the

which they themselves affirm, for many of the disciples, apostles, and saints of the early church are known to have been subject to nervous disorders. mohammed's first convert was his own wife, khadijah, who was followed by other members of his immediate family, a circumstance which moved sir william muir to note "it is strongly corroborative of mohammed's sincerity that the earliest converts to islam were not only of upright character, but his own bosom friends and people of his household; who, intimately acquainted with his private life, could not fail otherwise to have detected those discrepancies which ever more or less exist between the professions of the hypocritical deceiver abroad and his actions at: home (see the life of mohammad) among the first to accept the faith of islam was

omulgated his doctrines among a small circle of powerful friends. when the enthusiasm of his followers finally forced his hand and he publicly announced his mission, he was already the leader of a strong and well-organized faction. fearing mohammed's growing prestige, the people of mecca, waiving the time-honored tradition that blood could not be spilt within the holy city, decided to exterminate islam by assassinating the prophet. all the different groups combined in this undertaking so that the guilt for the crime might thereby be more evenly distributed. discovering the danger in time, mohammed left his friend ali in his bed and fled with abu bekr from the city, and after adroitly eluding the meccans, joined the main body of his followers that had preceded him to yathrib (afterwards cal

ly a bloodless victory and established it as the spiritual center of his faith. planting his standard to the north of mecca, he rode into the city, and after circling seven times the sacred caaba, ordered the 360 images within its precincts to be hewn down. he then entered the caaba itself, cleansed it of its idolatrous associations, and rededicated the structure to allah, the monotheistic god of islam. mohammed next granted amnesty to all his enemies for their attempts to destroy him. under his protection mecca increased in power and glory, becoming the focal point of a great annual pilgrimage, which even to this day winds across the desert in the months of pilgrimage and numbers over threescore thousand in its train. in the tenth year after the hegira, mohammed led the valedictory pilgri

also from fever, but on june 8th seemed convalescent. he joined his followers in prayer and, seating himself in the courtyard, delivered a lecture to the faithful in a clear and powerful voice. apparently he overtaxed his strength, for it was necessary to assist him into the house of a isha, which opened into the court of the mosque. here upon a tough pallet laid on the bare floor the prophet of islam spent his last two hours on earth. when she saw that her aged husband was suffering intense pain, a isha--then but a girl of twenty--lifting the gray head of the man she had known from infancy and who must have seemed more like a father than a husband, supported him in her arms until the end. feeling that death was upon him, mohammed prayed "o lord, i beseech thee, assist me in the agonies o

oulder, and then umar, who occupies the same position with respect to his predecessor. amongst christian historians there is a popular story to the effect that muhammadans believed the coffin of their prophet to be suspended in the air, which has no foundation whatever in muslim literature, and niebuhr thinks the story must have arisen from the rude pictures sold to strangers (see a dictionary of islam) concerning the character of mohammed there have been the grossest misconceptions. no evidence exists to support the charges of extreme cruelty and licentiousness laid at his door. on the other hand, the more closely the life of mohammed is scrutinized by dispassionate investigators, the more apparent become the finer qualities of his nature. in the words of carlyle "mahomet himself, after a

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ten depicted, with snakes. meanwhile, here in the new world, the mythologies of the mayans, aztecs, incas, and native americans is replete with serpent symbolism. hinduism, the prevailing religion of india, is yet another religion whose gods are consistently associated with snakes. in china, and the whole of the orient, the immortal gods are connected to, or described as, dragons and serpents. in islam, the serpent is associated with satan, and demons. in voodoo the gods are again associated with serpents. reptile gods are seen as far east as the pacific islands. no matter what place or age we examine, serpents provide a central theme in that region s mythological tales. serpents are also repeatedly associated with villains. story of the flood [1.3] even more frequent than the themes of se

ld at all without possessing a living creature; only by plugging into a living being may they have any experiences of, or gain any pleasure from, our world. many spirits are described as moving back and forth between the material and astral planes, but direct contact between these entities and human beings usually happens in dreams. it is believed by many members of the occult, and the members of islam, that each human being in assigned both a demonic counterpart, and an angelic counterpart. spirits of this kind, those assigned to you at birth, are often called tutelary spirits. it is true, however, that all humans are subject to the whisperings of not only their own demon, but demons and spirits who roam freely. after a vampiric spirit latches on to a human they become increasingly diffic

th reviewing here. muslims believe that the jinn were created before mankind and are beings are free-will (to an extent. the bodies of the jinn are said to be made of smokeless flame, while humans are said to be made of clay, and angels of light. the jinn may come in many forms, but the most common forms are those of spirits, of man, and snakes; there are many reports throughout the scriptures of islam of jinn in human form. jinn are said to cause strife and illness among humans and, although not all jinn are evil, delight in making hardships for mankind. jinn who are wholly evil, and operate as direct agents of satan, are called shaitan, and the more powerful jinn are called afreet. as stated previously, the possession of the jinn is often responsible for the worst crimes ,the worst acts

of demons. muslims believe that jinn mostly prefer to live in places far from the habitation of humans, but the human-looking demons may choose to live among mankind. jinn are believed to live in places such as the oceans, caves, underground, and in the sky, and may be inclined to occupy dirty places such as landfills and bathrooms. some jinn (if not all) are capable of reproduction. followers of islam are discouraged from keeping dirty and unsanitary living quarters as it is claimed that these habits attract jinn into the household. holy water, which is simply water that has had certain prayers uttered over it, is also used to cleanse a room of jinn, and their influence. but there is always one jinn you can t just cleanse away, and that is the jinn that was assigned to at your birth. the

hologies to describe the same character. in the same breath (sentence, satanists would name 5 different gods, from 5 different religions, and declare that they were in fact the same entity. this was a conclusion i came to independently. these black magicians made casual references to the biblical struggle of good and evil, the greek and egyptian gods, the dajjal [anti-christ] and jinn [demons] of islam, the chi [life-force] of the chinese, the shakras of the hindus, and the anunnaki of sumeria. they appeared to embrace the truth in every religion, as if they took a bit of every religion and formed a new one, calling it the occult. but perhaps what has actually happened is that every religion has remaining shreds of occult truth, simply different shreds; this made the occult the purest rema

eby 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. they could quote the bible with the best of them. this overall spiritual knowledge is most likely due to their understanding regarding the singular root story, rather than intense memorization on their part. the fact that they so liberally use the names and storylines from multiple beliefs so interchangeably is proof of th

ory and pragmatic nature of the vampire turned into a religion whose highest achievement is self-deification. the left hand, and the left side of the body has always been associated with darkness. in fact the word sinister comes from latin, where the word meant left-handed or unlucky. in the middle ages, people who wrote with their left hand were thought to be evil, and possessed by the devil. in islam, the tutelary demon assigned at birth always--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 67 resides invisibly on the individual s left side. what s more, muslims prefer to do clean jobs such as eating and greeting others with the right hand, while relegating the left hand to dirty jobs like cleaning one s house and body. teachings of the right hand path always include a firm belief in right and wro

the left-hand side of god s throne. he is often associated with a metal cutting instrument which he uses as a weapon to strike down the enemies of god. some have suggested that gabriel at some point lost the favor of god, but was redeemed. it has also been remarked about gabriel that it was he, at the behest of the god, that confused the languages and divided man into his many current sub-races. islam and the prophet mohammed are said to have been guided by the teachings of gabriel. it was the duty of arch-angel raphael to bind azazel (lucifer) and cast him from the garden of eden and into darkness. raphael physical description is one of a handsome youth, arrayed in purple robes. it is said that raphael is among the gentlest of spirits, especially compared to the other arch-angels. jesus

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d" 3. now let it be first understood that i am a god of war and of vengeance. i shall deal hardly with them. comment seems hardly necessary. the great war is a mere illustration of this text (he means the first world war) the only nations which have suffered are those whose religion was osirian, or, as they called it, christian. the exception is turkey, which foolishly abandoned the principles of islam to form an unholy alliance with the giaour. abdul hamid would never have made such an ass of himself as the degenerate gang of "liberty and progress; may jackals defile the pyres of their dog fathers! because of his early christian upbringing, crowley over-reacted to christianity in his thirties and early forties. all religions are cursed by ra-hoor-khuit, including islam; and as time has pr

undred years of 'jesus' ought to be enough for any healthy stomach. unhealthy stomachs may keep their isa, for all we care. see al i, 49, and the commentary thereof. 52. i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him. mohammed's point of view is wrong too; but he needs no such sharp correction as 'jesus. it is his face his outward semblance- that is to be covered with his wings. the tenets of islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our way of life and light and love and liberty. this applies especially to the secret tenets. the external creed is mere nonsense suited to the intelligence of the peoples among whom it was promulgated; but even so, islam is magnificent in practice. its code is that of a man of courage and honour and self- respect; contrasting admirably with the cring

ism "mongol: presumably the reference is to confucianism, whose metaphysical and ethical flawlessness has not saved its adherents from losing those ruder virtues which are proper to a fighting animal, and thus yielding at last a civilization coeval with history itself to the barbarous tribes of europe "din 'severity' or 'judgment' may refer to the jewish law, rather than to the faith (ad 'din) of islam. assuming this, the six religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside islam and christianity. it should be noted that these religions are mentioned impersonally, while christianity and islam are mentioned in the person of their founders, or alleged founders. obviously 'din' refers to mosaic law; islam has already been disposed of in the previous verse. why assault thei

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

contributed to the greatness of the order, it ultimately abetted its downfall. 70 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages the influence of the muslim world crusaders and templars, and through them the western world, were subject to the overall influence of byzantium and particularly that of its secular institutions, notably the collegia. but occurring at the same time was islam's powerful ascendancy and its influence was as profound as that of the byzantine empire. nor was it limited to the operative plane of construction. born from a social and practical viewpoint, its effects overflowed widely into the speculative, intellectual, and spiritual domains until its message was propagated, just like that of byzantium, throughout the entire christian west. it is importa

could deduce from this murder that the templars were the sworn enemies of the ismailis is puzzling+ saint louis refused to profit from these negotiations and sharply criticised guillaume de sonnace. this occurred during the seventh crusade (boulenger, la vie de saint louis, paris: gallimard, 1929, 101. the crusades and the templars 73 remarkable multifaith society that is politically dominated by islam, but in which a large proportion of believers in other faiths manage to live without difficulty, in a kind of symbiosis for which we would search in vain to find an equivalent in other societies" islam opened for christians numerous doors toward social understanding and harmony. on the muslim side, the principle artisans of this action were the ismaili sects, particularly the karmates and th

ths manage to live without difficulty, in a kind of symbiosis for which we would search in vain to find an equivalent in other societies" islam opened for christians numerous doors toward social understanding and harmony. on the muslim side, the principle artisans of this action were the ismaili sects, particularly the karmates and the assassins. the ismaliens were a bough of the shiite branch of islam. karmate propaganda, born from ismailism, took on the form of a large reform movement that was both social and religious in scope. from the ninth to eleventh centuries, this movement shook the muslim world, including syria, persia, india, and especially egypt, where it led to the installation of the fatimid dynasty. it was in egypt that a command center for the majority of ismailian sects, t

ir members could be found not only arabs but converts mainly christians and jews. in lands that had become muslim it seemed that there was some sort of transformation taking place in the various models of latin and byzantine institutions that had survived. the karmati movement, which is the source of these muslim institutions, stands out both religiously and philosophically in its introduction to islam of basic foreign assumptions primarily those that were hellenic, neoplatonic, pseudo-hermetic, and "sabine" by 74 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages spreading these elements through an esoteric method of initiation based on reason, tolerance, and equality, the karmates facilitated ties among all races and castes* a conversion to ismailism is the basis for the cr

became muslims without experiencing any disorientation. there were affiliations of ismailians and saracen rulers in the temple and perhaps templars among the muslim brotherhoods. this becomes all the more likely given that the faith of eastern christians showed such distinctive features that it was almost impossible to discern any demarcations between these christian sects and the derivatives of islam. both sides came closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the te

s are beyond measure and impossible to determine. 272 conclusion in fact, all authentic traditional paths can intersect only as they are connected to the absolute, which is one. forms are merely different; they do not diverge. it is interesting to note that there was never any conflict in the art of building that is, in the art of serving and expressing the sacred among the christian religion and islam either in spain or the holy lands at the time of the crusades. quite the contrary, their relationship was one of mutual teaching and reciprocal enrichment. the tragedy of operative masonry was the reformation and counter-reformation. rather than being a case of opposition between two different religions, it embodied the opposition of different forms of worship within the same religion. this

PATRON OF SORCERY

n the "magical cookbook" approach exemplified by the theban papyri. thus the written magical tradition of europe began under the auspices of set-typhon, and provided the matrix for the remanifestation of setian thought hundreds of years later. that the papyri themselves survived roman suppression, a ferocious campaign of destruction of magical books under christianity (acts 19:19, and the rise of islam, may itself be reckoned to border on magic. what the papyri may yet reveal of the original cult of set- and of such survivals as have found their way into the wellsprings of western thought--remains to be seen. xeper. compiled by dakhla sba special thanks to the order of setne khamuast for their help in researching this page. revised 13 march 1997 th lumaluma detail from page 104 japanese dr

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

the garms h [of holiness; this is why they are counted as two, inasmuch as there are two arms. greece [clothed] the gtorso h; it is therefore counted as one [in] the present exile [evil clothes] the legs [of holiness, there are therefore two [aspects to it] edom and ishmael, corresponding to the two legs and feet. the former roman empire (europe and north africa) was inhereted by christianity and islam. this is alluded to in the verse: g cwho have defamed the heels of your messiah, h8 since this exile is that of the feet. that is why it is written, gand [the stone] smote the image on its feet. h9 this exile is the final one before the advent of the messiah. both christianity and islam have corrupted the doctrine of the messiah. the downfall of the whole stature/statue of exile will be a bl

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ary 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 1c, 3l, 16a, 16l, 16m [in 389 ce the christian roman emperor theodosius ordered the library burned to the ground as a "heathen" institution. even so, millions of book rolls were rescued or gathered from other repositories, and the library was reestablished. until 636, when egypt was conquered by omar, the third caliph of islam. considering the library a threat to the preeminence of the koran, he ordered all of its contents burned as fuel for the city's public baths. a process that took six months. thus perished countless records of mankind's most ancient civilizations] egyptian hellenization extended only to the delta and did not significantly affect the native population or culture. the ptolemaic dynasty consider

time, and music became somewhat more complex in its written formats. classification: v2- 102- 8 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 13, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list: 3l, 16a, 16l, 16m thomas aquinas (1225-1274) was a christian cleric who ultimately achieved catholic sainthood by his success in reacting to (a) the challenge of islam and (b) the rediscovery of classical philosophy, particularly that of aristotle, ca. 1140. by 1250 aristotle's influence had become so great that he was referred to as "the philosopher" hence it was necessary to refine catholicism to an intellectual precision comparable with that of aristotle, and also to make aristotle's more secular/scientific works tolerable to the church through a flatte

thousands of statues and inscriptions were disfigured. in 389 ce a christian mob, acting on the orders of the christian roman emperor theodosius, burned the great library of alexandria to the ground.7 even so, millions of book-rolls were rescued or gathered together from other repositories and the library was reestablished. until 636. in that year alexandria was taken by omar, the third caliph of islam, who decreed "the contents of these books are in conformity with the koran or they are not. if they are, the koran is sufficient without them; if not, they are pernicious. therefore let them be destroyed" they were burned as fuel to heat the city's baths; it took six months for all of them to be consumed.8 so it is not too surprising that modern researchers have only a pitiful few scraps of

church of jesus christ of latter day saints o seventh-day adventist church o unity school of christianity o the way international o worldwide church of god. indian heritage groups o integral yoga international o international society for krishna consciousness o sri chinmoy centres o syda yoga dham o world plan executive council. islamic groups o american muslim mission o hanafi madh-hab center of islam faith o islamic center o shi'a islam o sufi order. japanese heritage groups o buddhist churches of america o nichiren shoshu of america o perfect liberty kyodan o zen center of rochester (new york. jewish groups o black judaism o conservative judaism o federation of reconstructionist congregations and havurot o lubavitch hassidism o orthodox judaism o reform judaism. sikh/sant mat groups o e

thought. the universal life church has spawned a number of similar church bodies including the crown of life fellowship, the life science church, the calvary grace church and the brotherhood of peace and tranquility. rastafarian are a new religion developed in jamaica in the early twentieth century and imported to america in recent decades. it draws on themes familiar from black judaism and black islam, but is distinct from both. finally, vajradhatu is a buddhist group, but out of a tibetan rather than a japanese tradition. temple of set address: post office box 470307 san francisco, ca 94147 other names by which known: within this religion its principles are termed "setian, and individual affiliates are termed "setians. as the original god set was later caricatured as the "satan" of judae

rdo templi orientis. temple of set. demonology. witchcraft. occult. paganism. santeria. voodoo. rosicrucians. freemasonry. knights templar. stoner gangs. heavy metal music. rock music. kkk. nazis. skinheads. scientology. unification church. the way. hare krishna. rajneesh. religious cults. new age. astrology. channeling. transcendental meditation. holistic medicine. buddhism. hinduism. mormonism. islam. orthodox church. roman catholicism at law enforcement training conferences, it is witchcraft, santeria, paganism, and the occult that are most often referred to as forms of satanism. it may be a matter of definition, but these things are not necessarily the same as traditional satanism. the worship of lunar goddesses and nature and the practice of fertility rituals are not satanism. santeri

orth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. 63. sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! 64. i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky. 65. to me! to me! 66. the manifestation of nuit is at an end. the second chapter 1. nu! the hiding of hadit. according to islam, the term hadith identifies a "divinely inspired utterance" the term has no meaning in egyptian hieroglyphic. the "hadit"-figure on the stele of revealing is identified in the inscription as behdety, a form of harwer, the great horus. this second chapter is intelligible if it is understood as an utterance of aleister crowley inspired by harwer [by contrast, the third chapter is in the form o

ted on some of the suggestions while continuing to examine my ideas about all this. i became more solitary, less predictable, less tolerant of bad management, more charismatic, more visionary. i spent months analyzing these suggestions, trying to decide whether this was an aspect of my subconscious, a version of myself in the future, or an other. this entity was certainly not the god described by islam, christianity and judaism, nor was it an "earth god. it reminded me of the daemon of socrates. to assume that it was the dark lord himself seemed like the height of presumption. perhaps it was my crowleyan holy guardian angel- but how would i know? realizing that other people had "visitations" was reassuring, but did not dispel the mystery. i began to suspect that this experience was trigger

emise of the soviet empire; there were and still are things to take its place. but a major religion, with 20% of the world's population being believers; that demise is a horse of an entirely different aroma. our sodality will never number more than a small percentage of any population group you care to study- what would you leave for the rest of them? if christianity dies, would it be replaced by islam, a religious system and world-view that i consider even more pernicious and toxic than christianity? that's called taking the long view, and it is something you must begin to incorporate into your outlook as you seek to become elect and therefore a person who changes the warp and woof of set's and your world" in an august 26 letter to priest dennis mann, adept parkin pointed out that the wor

vent me from taking classes in ifa divination taught by a yoruba cultural center? no. this is initiatory (learning a magical technique. religion is not the primary and explicit focus. c. would the bylaws prevent me from joining the arab cultural center to study arabic? no. religion is not the primary and explicit focus. d. would the bylaws prevent me from joining the arab cultural center to study islam? no. religion is not the primary and explicit focus. one may study a religion, even under a teacher who belongs to that religion, even as a member of a cultural organization where everyone else is a member of that religion, without affiliation or membership in the religion itself. e. would the bylaws prevent me from being initiated into santeria? yes. santeria is primarily and explicitly a r

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

her village left her alone in her hovel, alone with her toy animals and her peculiar fluttering diet. one young man, however, took to sitting a little distance from her doorway, facing discreetly in the opposite direction, as if he were on guard, even though she no longer had any need of protectors. he was a former untouchable from the neighbouring village of chatnapatna who had been converted to islam and taken the name of osman. ayesha never acknowledged osman's presence, nor did he ask for such acknowledgement. the leafy branches of the village waved over their heads in the breeze. the village of titlipur had grown up in the shade of an immense ban yan--tree, a single monarch that ruled, with its multiple roots, over an area more than half a mile in diameter. by now the growth of tree i

, quickly. what should they do to be saved" at this point the bullock plucked osman's cap off his head and carried it around the crowd, asking for money, and osman would nod, happily: boom, boom. osman the convert and his boom-boom bullock were well liked in titlipur, but the young man only wanted the approval of one person, and she would not give it. he had admitted to her that his conversion to islam had been largely tactical "just so i could get a drink, bibi, what's a man to do" she had been outraged by his confession, informed him that he was no muslim at all, his soul was in peril and he could go back to chatnapatna and die of thirst for all she cared. her face coloured, as she spoke, with an unaccountably strong disappointment in him, and it was the vehemence of this disappointment

winged types for your own good. i wouldn't trust that deity of yours either, if i were you" she added in a more conspiratorial tone, though gibreel suspected that her intentions remained satirical "he hinted as much himself, fudging the answer to your oopar--neechay question like he did. this notion of separation of functions, light versus dark, evil versus good, may be straightforward enough in islam _o, children of adam, let not the devil seduce you, as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them their clothing that he might show them their shame- but go back a bit and you see that it's a pretty recent fabrication. amos, eighth century bc, asks 'shall there be evil in a city and the lord hath not done it' also jahweh, quoted by deutero-isaiah two hundred years later

SATANGEL

rian deity and is also identified as a prince of hell. 8th choir: archangels according to dionysos these are the messengers which carry the divine decrees. they are considered the most important intercessionaries between god and humankind and lead the forces of heaven in their constant struggle with the infernal legions. they are the seven angels that stand before god in revelations. the koran of islam recognises four but names only two- jibril (gabri-el, and micha-el. these two also appear in masonic and psuedo-masonic occult lore, accompanied by rapha-el and uri-el, as are summoned in the lesser rite of the pentagram. these are the four guardian angels. the other three are traditionally chosen from remi-el, sari-el, ana-el, ragu-el, razi-el and metatron. metatron according to rabbinical

SATANIC RITUALS

isies of the everyday world. a striking american parallel to this rite is enacted within the mosques of the ancient arabic order of the nobles of the mystic shrine, an order reserved for thirty-second degree masons. the nobles have gracefully removed themselves from any implication of heresy by referring to the place beyond the devil's pass as the domain where they might "worship at the shrine of islam" l'air epais is impossible to perform without an indiscreet degree of blasphemy toward the christian ethic, hence its exclusion from masonic ritual, thereby halting any further progression beyond the thirty-third degree scottish rite and tenth grade york rite level. the order of the rosy cross of aleister crowley's magic curriculum provided an interesting comparison in its seventh degree (ad

ed to the temple. it was placed on a pedestal around which a running spring of water played into a small pool this served as the shrine and icon towards which homage was directed. the water supposedly came from an underground stream which flows through subterranean caverns in a network opening under each tower of satan. the point of origin of these streams was thought to be the miraculous well of islam known as zamzam. the caverns supposedly terminated at the place of the masters-schamballah (carcosa. in order to establish proper perspective, in addition to the yezidis' own beliefs concerning the caverns and the effects of the towers of satan, the conjectures of outsiders must be mentioned here. it has long been assumed that the towers were not limited to the yezidi geography, but loomed i

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

lso includes a twovolume set of biographies and one volume of primary source documents: world religions: biographies (two volumes) presents the biographies of fifty men and women who have played a critical role in the world s religions throughout history. among those profiled are abraham, whose influence is seen in three of the modern world s most influential religions: judaism, christianity, and islam; muhammad, considered the final and most important prophet by muslims; and siddhartha gautama, who became known as the buddha. modern figures include the hindu teacher swami vivekananda and baha u lla h, the founder of the baha faith. women who made significant impacts on religion are also featured, including mother maria skobtsova, an orthodox christian nun who worked to save many during th

he holocaust. world religions: primary sources (one volume) offers eighteen excerpted writings, speeches, and sacred texts from across the religious spectrum. the selections are grouped into three thematic chapters: creation stories and foundation myths; characteristics of the divine; and religion as a guide to living. the first explores the creation stories of religions, such as those relayed in islam s qur an, and foundational myths, such as the one told in black elk speaks, that provide a unifying cultural basis for many people. the second chapter, characteristics of the divine, explores the aspects and personalities of god or the gods as revealed through religious documents such as the epic of gilgamesh and swami vivekananda s paper on hinduism. the final chapter examines how religion

empire. 313 the roman emperor constantine converts to christianity. 380 the emperor theodosius i declares christianity the official religion of the roman empire. 610 according to islamic belief, the prophet muhammad begins receiving revelations and prophecies from the archangel jabra il (gabriel. 632 the death of muhammad marks the beginning of a long period of islamic civil war and separation of islam into sunni and shiite sects. xii world religions: almanac timeline of events 1054 the christian church is formally divided into two distinct branches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. 1095 1291 the duration of the crusades, a series of military campaigns in which european christians attempt to take control of the holy land from muslims. 1391 1474 life span of gedun

mazda: the supreme god of zoroastrianism. akaranga sutra: one of the sacred texts of jainism, which contains the teachings of mahavira. akhand paath: any occasion, such as a marriage or a death, when the granth sahib is read in its entirety. alchemy: an ancient science that aimed to transform substances of little value into those of greater value, such as lead into gold. allah: the name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. amaterasu: the sun-goddess. amesha spentas: the bounteous immortals, aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. xv amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. animism: the worship of tr

er of jainism. mahavira jayanti: mahavira s birthday, an important holy day for jains. mantra: a formula repeated over and over to create a trancelike state. materialism: a belief that matter and the motion of matter constitute the universe. all phenomena, even those of mind, are the result of material interactions. matsuri: festival. mecca: a city in present-day saudi arabia, the holiest site of islam, where the religion was founded. meditation: quiet reflection on spiritual matters. menorah: a seven-branched candelabrum; at hanukkah, a ninebranched candelabrum is used. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. metaphysical: having to do with the philosophical study of the nature of rea

n; liberation from rebirth. monastery: a place where religious people such as monks live, away from the world and following strict religious guidelines. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. moshiach: the expected messiah in jewish belief. muezzin: the person who issues the call to prayer. murti: image of a god. muslim: a follower of islam, from the arabic phrase bianna musliman, meaning submitted ourselves to god. myth: a legendary story, often with no basis in historical fact, that frequently tells of the actions of deities and helps to explain some naturally occurring event or some supernatural occurrence. mythology: the collected stories of a culture or religion, especially those dealing with the origins, heroes, gods, and

formed; the state of simplicity to which daoists try to return. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. purva: the original jain sacred texts, now lost. pyramid: a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that flows through the body and the earth. qur an: the sacred scriptures of islam; contains the revelations given to the prophet muhammad revealed to him beginning in 610. ra kah: a unit of prayer. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from the mind. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less traditional branch of the faith. regla de ocha: the formal name for the santer an religion. rehit maryada: the sikh code of ethical co

nger of god. shaman: in indigenous tribes, an intermediary between the gods and the tribal members; also one who controls various spiritual forces, can look into the future, and can cure the ill with magic. shamanism: a term used generally to refer to indigenous religions that believe in an unseen spirit world that influences human affairs. shari ah: islamic law. shi ite: one of the main sects of islam; from the phrase shi at ali, or the party of ali. shinbutsu bunri: the separation of shinto and buddhism when shinto was declared the official state religion. shinbutsu shugo: the combination of shinto and buddhism. shinto: literally, the way of the gods or the way of the kami. shiva: the destroyer god, embodying the erotic and sexual. shivaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees shiva( th

knowledge of human and divine things through the use of logical systems. it also says that humans may not be able to control natural events, but that they can control the way they react to them. stupas: originally a mound marking the spot where the buddha s ashes were buried. rock pillars carved with the words of the buddha are also sometimes called stupas. sufism: a trend in or way of practicing islam; characterized by an ecstatic, trancelike mysticism. sunnah: the example of the prophet muhammad, containing the hadiths, or sayings; provides guidance to everyday questions of faith and morality. sunni: the main sect of islam. supernatural: that which is beyond the observable world, including things relating to god or spirits. supreme being: the central god responsible for creating the cosm

and activity ideas are intended to offer suggestions for complementing social studies and history curricula; to trigger additional ideas for enhancing learning; and to provide cross-disciplinary projects for library and classroom use. build a model: build a scale model of the city of jerusalem that shows some of the major sites in three of the world s biggest religions: judaism, christianity, and islam. the map should include the western wall (also called the wailing wall, important to jews; the church of the holy sepulchre, important to christians; and the al-aqsa mosque, important to muslims. be prepared to explain to your classmates the importance of each site and the date on which it was constructed. maps: india is the birthplace of several major religions, including buddhism, hinduism

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

an socialism was hatched under the wing of theosophy. implementing britain's 1944 education act for teaching "comparative religion" a pilot project has been set up to take nine and ten-year-old children in a state school to hear informal talks by various ministers of different faiths -48- the children were required to write essays on these interfaith experiences. the native exponents of hinduism, islam and buddhism visited the school to further the cause of "east-west understanding' they lectured the students to "take their education in tolerance a step farther" reports london educator bernard cousin in the june, july, aug, 1062 issue of the voice universal, chief organ for "theocratic union (published at 8 watling rd, southwick, brighton, sussex, england) the dec. 1961, jan, feb, 1962 iss

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

biography, yes, i can, to being a satan worshipper. the talented singer/dancer said that as a satanist he painted the fingernail of his left-hand "pinkie" finger ebony black as a sign "the chicks loved it" said davis "and found it really a sexual turn-on" some islamic imams (teachers) preach that the hand of fatima, a revered daughter of mohammed, represents the summation of the whole religion of islam, and that fatima's index finger points heavenward to allah. a hand with finger pointed to or touching the lip indicates "be silent" a finger touching or pointing to the head signifies "intellect or wisdom" the pictures and illustrations in this section and the immediately following sections give evidence of the importance the illuminati minions give to the use of hands, either in handshakes

600. the numeroligists say that triple x, then, would yield the number 666. black muslim leaders obviously see x as a substitute name of great spiritual significance. two well-known black muslim leaders have been named malcolm x and louis x, names they chose for themselves. the latter, who was born louis eugene wolcott in 1933 in new york city, changed his name to louis x after his conversion to islam by black muslim leader elijah muhammed. today, he is known as louis farrakhan. it is well-known that farrakhan is a 33 prince hall mason. x as symbol for the sun god according to dr. c.j. koster, head of the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter car

the sign of x, the sign of their silly, fanciful god, all the while cursing the darkness rather than lighting a candle. men blinded for all eternity by their rejection of the true light. 210 codex magica the arm patch on the military uniform of pakistan's president, general pervez musharraf, tells a number of tales. against a black, circle background we find the familiar crescent moon and star of islam (actually, pagan origin, being representative of diana, the witchcraft "star" and "moon" goddess) as well as the two crossed swords (in the pagan era, a sign of mars, god of war. it is doubtful musharraf has any idea of the actual meaning of these symbols. the "x" team? in time magazine (july 14, 2003, p. 79, it was reported that marvel comics intended to publish a comic book that featured a

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ir eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personality in the same way that the

eatest question of all: do humans survive physical death? and if so, are they born again? the mystery of what lies on the other side of death has given birth to humankind s magic, mysticisms, religions, and all the diverse creatures of light and darkness that populate the mysterious regions in between. 1 chapter exploration how the major religions view the afterlife buddhism christianity hinduism islam judaism ancient egypt and the afterlife egyptian book of the dead osiris: death and resurrection pyramid texts individual human experience with death and the afterlife deathbed visions near-death experiences the mystery schools dionysian mysteries eleusinian mysteries hermetic mysteries orphic mysteries pythagorus tribal religions burial mounds land of the grandparents how the major religion

an book of the dead osiris: death and resurrection pyramid texts individual human experience with death and the afterlife deathbed visions near-death experiences the mystery schools dionysian mysteries eleusinian mysteries hermetic mysteries orphic mysteries pythagorus tribal religions burial mounds land of the grandparents how the major religions view reincarnation buddhism christianity hinduism islam judaism contemporary mystery schools and reincarnation akashic records anthroposophy association for research and enlightenment theosophy experiential quests into past lives hypnotic regression into past lives bridey murphy past-life therapy ian stevenson introduction children take the continuity of life for granted. it is the fact of death that has to be taught. self-preservation is one of

ndicates that these prehistoric people believed that death was not the end. the member of the tribe or clan who was no longer among the living still required nourishment, clothing, and protection to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. somehow, there was some part of the person that survived death. that part of the human being that survives death is known in christianity, islam, and judaism as the soul, the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine part of a living being, the atman, which is eternal and seeks to be united with the universal soul, or the brahman. buddhism teaches that an individual is but a transient combination of t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e

aspect of the human personality in the same way that the others do. however, all the major faiths believe that after the spirit has left the body, it moves on to another existence. some faiths contend that it ascends to a paradise or descends into a hell. others believe it may achieve a rebirth into another physical body, or may merge with the divine in an eternal unity. traditional christianity, islam, and judaism envision a resurrection of a spiritual body at a time of final judgment, but generally speaking, the soul is of greater value and purpose than the physical body it inhabited while on earth. the material shell within which humans dwell during their lifetime is nothing other than clay or ashes into which god has breathed the breath of life. the physical body is a temporary possess

r the benefit of the deceased by relatives and friends. in the buddhist tradition, yama is the lord of hell who administers punishment according to each individual s karma, the cause and effect of his or her actions on earth. in neither religious expression is yama at all comparable to satan, who in christian belief is both the creator of evil and the accuser of human weaknesses. in christianity, islam, and judaism, the soul s arrival at either heaven or hell is made somewhat confusing by the teachings of a great, final judgment day and the resurrection of the dead. and when roman catholic christianity added the doctrine of purgatory in the sixteenth century, the matter became all the more complex because now certain souls were given an opportunity to atone for their sins while residing in

veda. trans. by ralph t. h. griffith. new york: motilal banarsidass publishers for the book of the month club, 1992. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york, macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. zaehner, r. c, ed. encyclopedia of the world s religions. new york: barnes& noble, 1997. islam in regard to the concept of a soul, islam envisions a human as a being of spirit and body. the creation of adam as described in the qur an (or koran) is reminiscent of genesis in the judeo-christian bible as the lord announces to the angels that he is going to create a human of clay and that he will breathe his spirit into him after he has given him form. and he originated the creation of ma

, after which there will be a resurrection of the dead which will bring everlasting bliss to the righteous and hellish torments to the wicked. the judgment will be individual. no soul will be able to help a friend or family member, he warns; no soul will be able to give satisfaction or to make intercession for another. while the doctrine of the resurrection of the body has never been abandoned in islam, later students of the qur an sought to define the soul in more metaphysical terms, and a belief in the preexistence of souls was generally established. in this view, allah kept a treasure house of souls in paradise available for their respective incarnations on earth. 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 13 muslims pra

octrine in any of the orthodox christian, islamic, or judaic religions, which all hold fast to the belief that there is but one lifetime, one day of judgment, and a heavenly resurrection of the body for the righteous. reincarnation, the great wheel of return set in motion by one s karma, is accepted as a reality in the hindu and buddhist religions, as well as certain mystical sects in judaism and islam. in the early days of christianity, however, even the church s greatest leaders, such as st. clement of alexandria (150 215 c.e) in his exhortations to the pagans, stated their beliefs in the soul s preexistence: we were in being long before the foundation of the world. we existed in the eye of god, for it is our destiny to live in him. we are the reasonable creatures of the divine word; the

ddhist text, observes that the wise priest knows he now must reap the fruits of deeds of former births. for be they many or but few, deeds done in covetousness or hate, or through infatuation s power [he] must bear their needful consequence. although the qur an, the holy book received by the prophet muhammed, doesn t really address the concept of past lives and rebirth, sufism, a mystical sect of islam, accepts transmigration of souls as a reality. in the words of the sufi teacher sharf-u d din-maneri: o brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me in byone ages. no one has begun this work for the first time. orthodox judaism also rejects reincarnation as doctrine, but the hasidic sect and those who follow the teachings of the kabbalah, a collection of mystical text

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ir eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personality in the same way that the

liday than at work. the origin of the superstition concerning friday is traced by most authorities to the crucifixion of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) on that day. but some writers advance the theory that friday is regarded as an unlucky day because, according to ancient tradition, it was on friday that adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were cast out of paradise. followers of islam try to avoid beginning any new enterprise on wednesdays. for reasons long forgotten, wednesday is seen as a bad day. even today, many muslims avoid even getting their hair cut on that day. and such important occasions as weddings are never scheduled for a wednesday. a familiar old rhyme preserves the old superstitions concerning the personalities of various children on various birthdays: mon

ndicate to their children that they have been judged suitable to marry each other. although (especially in contemporary times) the children have a right to decline their parents choice of spouse, many muslims still consider open courtship as undesirable and believe that the arranged marriage is much more morally acceptable. most muslim families prefer that their children marry within the faith of islam, but in such countries as the united states, unions with non-muslims have become more accept- 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 212 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends most traditional muslim weddings are arranged by the parents. able and common. the exchange of the dowry, the ancient custom of the bride-price, is

heir own family structures, but they were too vitally concerned with the daily task of survival to develop the art of hospitality. however, as the major world religions developed into powerful forces that shaped human society, hospitality and charity became virtues. in order to establish a more complete relationship with the divine, according to the prophets and teachers of judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, taoism, and other faiths, it is important to recognize all people as brothers and sisters and to minister to their needs when the opportunity to do so presents itself. the forty hadith of an-nawawi 15 (islam) admonishes those who believe in allah and in the last day to be generous to their neighbors and to their guests. in the apastamba dharma sutra 8.2 (hinduism) it is written th

monished (talmud, sota 10b. born into the jewish tradition before his conversion to christianity, paul writes to the church in ephesus that god created foods to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for then it is consecrated by the word of god and prayer (i timothy 4:3 5. in the koran, the holy book of islam, it is written, eat of the good things that we have provided for you, and be grateful to god (koran 2:172. the toast. most authorities agree that the custom of drinking to the health of a person originated with the practice of the host or hostess drinking first to show that the drink was not harmful. as the tradition progressed, it came to indicate a gesture of friendship and good will to th

ntry that requires such a containment for the deceased. 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 224 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends if it is possible to do so, the dead are buried on the day following their death. the deceased is washed, perfumed, and wrapped in three cotton burial cloths. those who follow the religion of islam believe that the soul of the deceased is guarded by the angel of death in a place called barzakh until the day of judgment. if at all possible, friends and relatives gather around a dying person and read verses from the koran. with his or her last breath, the dying person always tries to say the shahadah: there is no god but allah, and muhammad is his messenger. large graves and headstones a

s atmosphere. false memory refers to situations where some therapies and hypnosis may actually be planting memories through certain suggestions or leading questions and comments; thereby creating memories that the patient or client believes to be true, but in reality they are not. fanatical extreme enthusiasm, frenzy, or zeal about a particular belief, as in politics or religion. five pillars of islam in arabic, also called the arkan, and consists of the five sacred ritual duties believed to be central to mainstream muslims faith. the five duties are the confession of faith, performing the five daily prayers, fasting during the month of ramadan, paying alms tax, and performing at least one sacred pilgrimage to mecca, the holy land. foo fighter a term coined by pilots who reported sighting

in some way affect them without using anything but mental powers. pulsar a star generally believed to be a neutron star and that appears to pulse as it briefly emits bursts of visible radiation such as radio waves and x-rays. putrefy causing something to decay, usually indicating a foul odor. from the latin stem, putr, meaning rotten, plus facere, to make. qur an the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as revealed to the prophet muhammad (c. 570 c.e. 632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector (clergyman) lives in. reincarnation the reappearance or rebirth of something in a new form. some religions or belief systems state that the soul returns to live another life in a new

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ir eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul.the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personality in the same way that the

suicide commandos, leading them step by step to higher levels of combat proficiency. at the same time that he was shaping his men into fierce warriors, he also indoctrinated them spiritually, convincing them that as they advanced under his tutelage they would come closer to the sacred and ultimate mystery that only he could reveal. hasan told them confidentially that the conventional teachings of islam had misled them. paradise could not be attained by following the preachings of muhammad (c. 570.632, but only by complete obedience to hasan ibn sabah, who was the true incarnation of god on earth. most sources citing the history of the assassins state that in order to be certain that no doubts remained among the initiates that he was deity made flesh, hasan supplied them with generous amoun

written. spanish inquisition was always more interested in persecuting heretics than those suspected of witchcraft. it has been estimated that of the 5,000 men and women accused of being witches, less than 1 percent were condemned to death. the spanish inquisition was concerned with trying the marranos or conversos, those jews suspected of insincerely converting to christianity; the converts from islam, similarly thought to be insincere in practicing the christian faith; and, in the 1520s, those individuals who were believed to have converted to protestantism. the support of spain fs royal house enabled tomas de torquemada (1420. 1498) to become the single grand inquisitor whose name has become synonymous with the inquisition fs most cruel acts and excesses. torquemada is known to have ord

the hollow earth. mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1963. gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. michell, john. eccentric lives and peculiar notions. san diego, calif: harcourt brace jovanovich, 1984. jerusalem jerusalem stands in the middle of the nation of israel, a holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. before muslims underwent pilgrimages to mecca, the most venerated holy place in all of islam was the dome of the rock, a magnificent mosque built over the sacred rock where abraham prepared to sacrifice his son isaac to the lord and where the prophet muhammad (c. 570.632) is believed to have ascended to paradise. for the jews, jerusalem is the site of king david fs (d. 932 b.c.e) ancient ca

acrificed, the place that had held the ark of the covenant in solomon fs temple, and the spot where muhammad had ascended to paradise, lay exposed to the elements. after the area had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 244 places of mystery and power jerusalem is the holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. been purified by prayers and a rainfall, the caliph ordered the dome of the rock to be built to shelter the sacred rock. the shrine with its massive dome gilded with gold mosaics was completed in 691. the golden dome collapsed in 1016, but it was soon rebuilt. in 1099, christian crusaders massacred the muslim inhabitants of jerusalem and converted the dome of the rock to a christian shrine

rmageddon, the last great struggle between the forces of good and evil, will begin before the messiah appears.or for the christians, returns in a second coming. for the muslims, it is here that jesus will conquer the antichrist and the chief eschatological figure, the mahdi (guided one) will appear to help destroy the forces of evil and to bring about the conversions of all jews and christians to islam. when the muslims assumed control of the sacred rock of abraham and the site of solomon fs temple in the seventh century, the jews began to focus their devotion on the huge blocks of stone along the western edge of the old city, all that remained of the retaining wall of the temple built by king herod (73.4 b.c.e. herod had begun the construction of the temple in 19 b.c.e. and the main build

tance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. mecca mecca, known to the muslim faithful as umm al-qura, the mother of cities, is the holiest place in the islamic world. it was here that muhammad the prophet (c. 570.632, the messenger of god, the founder of the muslim faith, was born in 570, and it is here within the great mosque that the ka faba, the most sacred shrine of islam, awaits the muslim pilgrim. throughout the world, wherever they may be, all devout muslims pray five times per day, each time bowing down to face mecca. all able-bodied muslims who have sufficient financial means and whose absence from their families would not create a hardship must undertake a pilgrimage, a hajj, to mecca once in their lifetime during the muslim month of dhu-al-hijah (the t

dedicate the shrine to allah, the one god. on the plains of arafat in 632, muhammad preached to an assembled crowd that tradition numbers as some 30,000 of his followers. after he had completed his message, he declared that he had now fulfilled his mission on earth. two months later, he died at medina. within 100 years, the muslim faith had spread from spain to india. in the twenty-first century, islam is one of the world fs largest religions with an estimated membership of 1.2 billion. the pilgrimage (hajj) to the sacred city of mecca and experience of worshipping at the mosque containing the ka faba is strictly limit- 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 places of mystery and power 257 about the same time ley lines were first introduce

fs atmosphere. false memory refers to situations where some therapies and hypnosis may actually be planting memories through certain suggestions or leading questions and comments; thereby creating memories that the patient or client believes to be true, but in reality they are not. fanatical extreme enthusiasm, frenzy, or zeal about a particular belief, as in politics or religion. five pillars of islam in arabic, also called the arkan, and consists of the five sacred ritual duties believed to be central to mainstream muslims f faith. the five duties are the confession of faith, performing the five daily prayers, fasting during the month of ramadan, paying alms tax, and performing at least one sacred pilgrimage to mecca, the holy land. foo fighter a term coined by pilots who reported sighti

n some way affect them without using anything but mental powers. pulsar a star generally believed to be a neutron star and that appears to pulse as it briefly emits bursts of visible radiation such as radio waves and x-rays. putrefy causing something to decay, usually indicating a foul odor. from the latin stem, putr, meaning rotten, plus facere, to make. qur fan the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, the absolute god of the islamic faith, as revealed to the prophet muhammad (c. 570 c.e..632 c.e) by the archangel gabriel. rectory the house or dwelling that a rector (clergyman) lives in. reincarnation the reappearance or rebirth of something in a new form. some religions or belief systems state that the soul returns to live another life in a new

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iography is chiefly of the britishisles, france, belgium, and sweden.though i am concerned with the existence through the middle ages of a primitive religion in westerneurope only, there is no doubt that the cult was spread in early times through central and eastern europe andthe near east. there it survived, underlying, as in the west, the official religion of the country, christianity ineurope, islam and sometimes christianity in the east. the literati of those countries were of the faith there inthe ascendant, consequently the old religion was seldom recorded, for paganism belonged there as here tothe inarticulate uneducated masses who remained for many centuries untouched by the new religion. i havenot attempted to give every known instance of the beliefs and ritual of the "witches; al

es on thepart of the church; certain practices were permitted, certain images were retained, though often underdifferent names.the reformation appears to have had the same effect on great britain as the mahommedan conquest had onegypt. the moslems found christianity established in the towns of the nile valley while a debased paganismstill existed among the agricultural population. the religion of islam swept through the country like a flame,the converts being chiefly from the pagans, not from the christians. in great britain the appeal of thereformation, like the appeal of the even more fanatical islam, was to the pagan population; but with thisdifference, that in england political conditions brought in the higher classes as well. it was then that thedividing line between christianity and

ell thechristian missionaries felt themselves strengthened by the powers of heaven; and the belief that the devil hadbeen defeated by the archangel michael backed by the whole power of the almighty gave them courage inthe contest.the study of anthropology has changed much of this childish method of regarding the forms of religiousbelief which belong to another race or another country. to consider islam, buddhism or hinduism as theinvention of the evil one would be thought ridiculous at the present day, even the fetishes and the images ofthe more savage races are treated with respect as being sacred to their worshippers.but though there is no difficulty in realising the fact that "heathen" religions exist outside europe, there isstill a strong feeling among christians that christianity is s

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od is god, and man is the prophet of god, when he causes us to believe in god. the old testament, the qur'an, and the gospel are three different translations of the same book. as god is one, so also is the law. o ideal woman! o reward of the elect! art thou more beautiful than mary? o mary, daughter of the east! caste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of islam the mysteries of paradise, and the secrets of beauty! invite them to the festival of the new alliance! there, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54 the tuba tree will make, with its back-curving branches, a dais for the celestial table. the bride will be white as the moon, and scarlet as the smile of morning. all nations shall press forward to

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the mother-letter designating the fire, into the centre of the tetragram, when one recalls the words from the gospel "i am the bread and i am the life. i came to put the fire into the bosom of things" lastly, it is undeniable that this divine name unites all martinists dispersed all over the world, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs, and as such, it is thus a factor of unity* islam reveres the 'lord jesus' as the prophet 'sidna issa' and the koran tells us that. there are only two beings, jesus and his mother, whom the wings of satan have not touched at all" and comments further. an angel said to mary: god announces to you his word. his name shall be jesus, the messiah, son of mary, great in this world as well as in the other, and a confidant of god (koran iv.40) 6. an

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ous and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one time or another been thought "satanic" and occultists have merely played on this bigoted symbolism, not subscribed to it. as we have seen, wicca since gardner's time has been watered down in many of its expressions into a kind of mushy white-light `new age' religion, with far less of the strong sexuality characteristic of gardnerianism, though, also

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reunite and create a product on a level lower than the primary unity. errors in understanding god arise when a culture emphasizes one point of the triangle above the other two. all error is imbalance. a distorted notion of the all must result when the perfect equilateral triangle is distorted. the qualities of the gods of a culture always correspond to the point of the triangle in ascendancy. in islam, god is male and is expressed in all his maleness through the prophet mohammed, man of warfare, of conquest, of command. in islamic culture men dominate, not only where it is their natural right, but also in many areas more commonly controlled by women. women are, in a real sense, appendages of their male counterparts, forbidden to do anything useful that might give them authori- ty. the vei

of a special type that heightened its ability to preserve and sustain spirits, ren- dering easier access to them by human beings. meteorites have been accorded spe- cial reverence throughout history. one such sky stone forms part of the cubic (or roughly cubic) ka'ba in the great mosque at mecca, the center of islamic worship. the black stone, and the ka'ba that was constructed around it, predate islam. mohammed (570-632) purged the "ancient house" as it is titled, of other idols when he took it over as the center of islamic worship. the black stone, which is roughly the size of a cabbage, is fixed in the southeast, or black, corner several feet above the level of the ground, and held together by a silver setting (it was cracked by fire in the siege of 683. the ancient hebrews also recogni

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ower of the name should be spoken emphatically, but there is no need to shout it out. speak it firmly and clearly, while holding in your mind the nature and identity of the being that possesses the name. symbols of faith religious symbols can make potent charms of protection for those who believe in their efficacy. the cross of christianity, the star of david of judaism, and the lunar crescent of islam are all forceful amulets of defense on the astral level, but only for those who have a firm faith in their power. christians can also form the sign of the cross upon the air with their right hand, to act as a barrier. it should be visualized as floating upon the air, burning brightly with white flames. wiccans and pagans may prefer to employ the pentagram. the golden dawn pentagram known as

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kings were great masters of magic and commanded all the spirits and demons of the world. the last monarch ruled for a thousand years. some scholars believe that these mythical persian kings are unconnected with the biblical solomon but became merged with him due to the similarity of names. however it may have happened, the fables of solomon as a wonderworker have always been much more popular in islam than in judaism or christianity. according to arab and jewish legends, solomon had the power to control the four winds of the world. borne upon the wind, he flew sitting upon his throne across the face of the whole earth each day, then returned each night to jerusalem. the wind was able to accomplish this amazing feat because the throne rested upon an enormous green carpet, which the wind bl

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f the world, the key to personal fulfillment as well as social transformation and the basis of a non-repressive civilization. xlvi -147- paschal beverly randolph in the course of his wanderings in the middle east, randolph claimed to been initiated by a group of fakirs in the area of jerusalem, which may have been a branch of the mystical order of the nusa'iri- a group long persecuted by orthodox islam because of their alleged gnostic sexual rituals. upon his return to the united states, randolph began to teach a form of sexual magic that would have a profound impact on much of later western esotericism. for randolph, the experience of sexual orgasm is the critical moment in human consciousness and the key to magical power "true sex-power is god-power" as he put it. as the moment when new

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o has bestowed upon man the power to discover the significance of numbers" in the book islamic patterns: an analytical and cosmological approach (1983) keith critchlow notes that: figure 9-d figure 9-e it is in the sense of finding the perfection of a "thing" that we might best understand both the pattern and effectiveness of a magic square. far more significance than is normally realized outside islam resides in the magical properties of the number patterns lying within the warp and weft of the great carpet tradition (p. 42. many of the elegant designs produced by these master weavers were determined by the symmetry of the numbers on the squares. for example, the venus kamea in figure 9-b shows the arrangement of odd versus even numbers. it is interesting to note that the original design

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under your feet the sacred tortoise the frog in the well the caged sea-bird swimming boatmen old man fall into water christian selections is god a taoist? christian thoughts john shea and bird monika hellwig catholic on nature and on blood original lilith myth 226 scots gaelic poems the heron the great artist three random pieces brotherhood a starfish an island with two churches wit and wisdom of islam the fool and the king the breaking the stink of greed the claim names the muezzin s call the drum the majesty of the sea ambition acquaintance the guest the man with the really ugly face the mirror is it me? the gypsy and his son where there s a will the sermon of nasrudin nasrudin and the wise men first things first whose shot was that? same strength the value of the past second thoughts th

not the retold timeless stories of old taoists (which i kept in this volume. this amounted to about 5 pages being removed out of 40 from the third volume. i will put those removed selections into a file on the web-site for observing, but not for downloading. i have recently added all the selections in zen and the gospel, scots gaelic poems, three random pieces, is god a taoist, wit and wisdom of islam and various other quotes. the end result is a more diversity and intriguing stories and druidical one-liners. please enjoy, michael scharding 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 st

ow his rescuers all the work that he had done. he had missed civilization greatly, so he had cut down several trees in order to build a village. there was a bank, a theatre, a pub, a hotel, a jail and two churches. when the rescuers saw the two churches they asked him why he had built two churches. he smugly replied, you see the one on the left? that s the one i don t go to! the wit and wisdom of islam sufism is a generic western term for the various mystical orders of the muslims. it would be too difficult to try to explain them or even to compare them to any other group. sufis are sufis. shelton and i recommend further readings on sufis by the author idries shah. one interesting characteristic about them is that they are known for a sense of humor, often with religious undertones. two of

a religious animal. man is the only religious animal. he is the only animal that has the true religion several of them. he is the only animal that loves his 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 dogm

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i am not advocating a dualism when i speak of two vectors nor do i deny that kabbalistic tradition presumes an analogical relation between the two spheres such that one gains knowledge of the latent from the manifest and of the manifest from the latent an ancient hermetic teaching with roots in platonic philosophy that had a profound impact on the esoteric teachings of judaism, christianity, and islam as they evolved in the middle ages. it is worthwhile mentioning one extract from cordovero where he frames the kabbalistic teaching in these terms: from the lower beings we discern the supernal beings, as it says from my flesh i would behold god (job 19:26, and by means of them a man can discern divinity. after a man contemplates the supernal beings from the lower beings, he will return from

divine nature. in the cambridge companion to augustine, edited by eleonore stump and norman kretzmann, 71 90. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2001. mach, michael. entwicklungsstadien des j dischen engelglaubens in vorrabbinischer zeit. t bingen: j. c. b. mohr, 1992. 288 bibliography macisaac, d. gregory. projection and time in proclus. in medieval philosophy and the classical tradition in islam, judaism and christianity, edited by john inglis, 83 105. new york: routledge curzon, 2002. mackendrick, karmen. immemorial silence. albany: state university of new york press, 2001. magee, glenn alexander. hegel and the hermetic tradition. ithaca: cornell university press, 2001. malpas, jeff. uncovering the space of disclosedness: heidegger, technology, and the problem of spatiality in bein

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one deva rules over each segment of a magical circle and one of the four elements of fire, water, air and earth. also known as the devic lords of the watchtower. dhoop: an incense stick like a slender rope, from india. the divinity: generic term for the ultimate source of goodness, light and creation. djinn: an invisible, shapeshifting creature of fire and air, originating in the middle east. in islamic tradition, djinns live in a parallel universe and so are invisible, created, it is said, before mortals from smokeless fire. druids: celtic high priests and wise men (and women) who preserved a common culture, religion, history, laws, scholarship, healing, magic and science amongst the disparate celtic tribes. there is historical evidence of druids in ireland, england, wales and gaul and i

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as the middle of the killing spree of the calibre killer, known to the press as the son of sam, who was motivated- according to recent reports- by membership in a satanic cult in yonkers. several months after the capture of david berkowitz in 1978, nearly one thousand people killed themselves in guyana at the orders of a crazed religious leader. several months after that, the leader of a mystical islamic sect seized power in iran and- at the time of writing- is calling for a holy war against the infidel. there is evidence that every new age witnesses a baptism by fire. christians and muslims are turning on each other and themselves; israel is once again in serious jeopardy; buddhism is being eradicated in southeast asia as it was in tibet. the ancient ones, lords of a time before memory, a

as the middle of the killing spree of the calibre killer, known to the press as the son of sam, who was motivated- according to recent reports- by membership in a satanic cult in yonkers. several months after the capture of david berkowitz in 1978, nearly one thousand people killed themselves in guyana at the orders of a crazed religious leader. several months after that, the leader of a mystical islamic sect seized power in iran and- at the time of writing- is calling for a holy war against the infidel. there is evidence that every new age witnesses a baptism by fire. christians and muslims are turning on each other and themselves; israel is once again in serious jeopardy; buddhism is being eradicated in southeast asia as it was in tibet. the ancient ones, lords of a time before memory, a

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ar means straight) which the bible itself cites for authority. the jashar apocryphon is obviously a pseudepigraphic forgery of a much later date. the cultural roots of the text are eclectic, although linguistic analysis suggests that the author probably had little knowledge of hebrew, and his work shows no understanding of the great traditions of biblical commentary and midrash. there are obvious islamic influences (jinn, ibrahim, but the sexual imagery used to describe human (adam) and eve echoes the battle cry of the english peasant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear

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hows; they are written up in local and national newspapers and magazines. witchcraft courses are given in colleges. even in the armed forces is wicca recognized as a valid religion department of the army pamphlet no. 165-13 "religious requirements and practices of certain selected groups a handbook for chaplains" includes instructions as to the religious rights of witches right alongside those of islamic groups, sikh groups, christian heritage, indian heritage, japanese and jewish groups. yes, witchcraft has a place in past history and will have a definite place in the future. the philosophy of witchcraft the craft is a religion of love and joy. it is not full of the gloom of christianity, with its ideas of "original sin, with salvation and happiness possible only in the afterlife. the mus

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CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

supernatural power of certain books, letters, and written materials may have intensified when literacy acquired a near-sacred significance for african americans in the post-emancipation era. three early-twentieth-century sources mentioning "letters" or "books" point to the potential spiritual significance of writings. the concept of the mystical power of the word that is written, so prominent in islamic lore, was fused with the african notion of spirit-embedding charms, which were adopted by black americans. 29. see ruth bass "fern seed.for peace" in folk-say: a regional miscellany, ed. b. a. botkin (norman: university of oklahoma press, 1931, pp. 145.56; puckett, folk beliefs of the southern negro, pp. 557.59. for the use of plants in folk healing in the black christian tradition see kar

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qocho (near modern turfan. 762 caliph al-mansur in baghdad founded house of wisdom for the purpose of promoting the arab's assimilation of indian, greek and persian science. 787-886 abu ma'shar. persian astrologer. al-kindi's student wrote a "great introduction (ysagoga maiore) to astrology around 850 ce; a major source for medieval astrologers. a fusion of sabian hermeticism, persian chronology, islamic religious doctrine, greek science and mesopotamian astrology. identified idris with enoch and hermes. 796-861 dhu l-nun al-misri hermetic sufi from akhmim egypt, said to have studied with jabir b. hayyan al-kufi. 800-866 al-kindi wrote "on rays (de radiis. al-kindi's theory would tend to imply that the "occult qualities" of plants and stones are a kind of signification "all terrestrial thi

riyya, born at rhagae near tehran 836 thabit ibn qurrah (thebit)exiled'sabian' of harran iun baghdad "we are the heirs and propagators of paganism" hermetic philosopher/priest and sabian scientist. 858- 929 abu abdallah mohammad ibn jabir al-battani. harran astrologer. c. 860: john scotus eriugena (c. 800-880) translates pseudo-dionysius's works into latin and adds a commentary. 873-950 al farabi islamic philosopher mystic influenced by plotinus. 875 d. abu yazid al-bistami sufi said to have first expressed symbolism of wine, cup, and cupbearer "i have come to know allah through allah, and i have come to know what is other than allah with the light of allah "praise to me, for my greatest glory "i set forth on an ocean when the [earlier] prophets were still by the shore" 882-942 se'adia ga'

lled the cistercian order. 1108: the abbey school at saint-victor, just outside paris, is founded by william of champeaux, who is breaking away from the cathedral school at notre-dame. 1120 emperor suen-ho has playing cards made for his wives- probably the chinese 'domino' cards. 1120- 1147 jaufr rudel troubadour 1122-1204 eleanor of aquitaine 1125. adelard of bath an englishman who went into the islamic world and learned much about its culture. he was one of the first to translate arabic astrological texts into latin, most notably abu ma'shar's the abbreviation of the introduction to astrology. 1127-1279 "white lotus society. chinese religious sect which developed out of pure land buddhist lay associations in the southern sung dynasty 1128-1203 alanus ab insulis aka alain de l'isle& alain

lah< for the link between asideism and sufism via basra, cf. s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, pp. 175-8> 1154-1191 shihab al-din yahya ibn habash ibn amirak al-suhrawardi. persian sufi whose theosophy of light= ishraqi thought- believed wisdom passed directly from the divine to hermes and from him to egypt and persia eventually extending to greece and thus on to the early sufis of persia illuminating islamic civilization. the soul is exiled into matter but through ishraq(illumination)the soul returns to its home beyond the stars by way of a theurgic angelology. wrote hikmat-al-ishraq 'philosophy of illumination. influence upon isaac luria and the safed qabbalists. c.1155 blondel de nesle trouv re carolled across europe songs to the missing richard i. 1155- 1207 raimbaud de vacqueiras troubadou

uenced by the rasa'il of ikhwan as-safa (encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity) and, possibly, by hermetic sources< bahya s the duties of the heart, written in arabic in around 1075, denote the first complete assimilation of muslim ascetic theology into judaism -s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, 1980, p. 179> 1162 to 1227- life of genghis khan, conqueror of china and russia, invader of europe and islamic empire, destroyer of assassin power. approximate beginnings of the wandering of the gypsies of north india. 1163: work begins on the gothic cathedral of notre-dame de paris. 1165 prester john letter addressed to manuel commentus, emperor of byznatium. c.1165- 1210 jehan bodel troubadour from provence. c. 1165- c. 1230 eleazar ben judah of worms. sodei razayya("secrets of secrets) in 4 part

franciscans. 1247 sakya pandita submits to godan khan; beginning of the first priest/ patron relationship between a tibetan lama and a mongol khan. 1247 dominicans friar ascelin, andrew of longjumeau and simon of tournai visit the camp of the nearest mongol army on the frontier of asia minor seeking alliance with the mongol general ilchikdai (ilchikadai, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the islamic powers for the conquest of syria. 1248-1298 peter john olivi(known as enoch returned to the beguins) important joachite scholar shifted the focus from the three status of joachim onto his theory of the angels of the seven seals, granting the role of the sixth angel to francis himself. 1248 joseph gikatilla, spanish sephardic kabbalist born. christian armies under ferdinand iii take seville

sterismo. 1574-1637 robert fludd "therefore this, too, is the work of an authentic alchemist to separate truth from illusion, that is good from evil and to deliver christ from matter" 1574 peter perna prints the collected works of paracelsus in latin 1575-1625 jacob boehme 1575 arbatel of magic first appears 1577-1638 christoph besold. proto-rosicrucian professor of law. had detailed knowledge of islamic culture and philosophy. read arabic and hebrew. also had knowledge of the humanists and neoplatonists of the renaissance period. author of signs of the times (1614. 1578 francois de foix comte de candallegabriel harvey formed *areopagus* with edmund spencer, sir edward dyer and sir philip sidney. 1578-1645 johannes battista van helm

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ir genetic ancestry back to the semite line of this period and/or the semitic line in palestine and israel at the time of y'shua (jesus. instead, they are the genetic descendants of a people of turkish-mongolian-nordic ancestry called the khazars who converted to the jewish religion in 740ad. the khazars lived in lower russia between the black and caspian seas. they were between the christian and islamic worlds and their leader chose to accept the jewish faith to avoid being swamped by the empires of the perceived alternatives. most jews today, koestler says, originate from these people, not the semitic line. in fact, to call someone 'anti-semitic' is, more accurately, to call them 'anti-arab, because more members of the old semite race are arab than are jewish! after the breakup of the kh

the official stories of the nazi gas chambers. the letter went on "i speak for all [my emphasis] jews when i say how you have betrayed and shamed us. we are pleased that your bloodline ends here" there we have yet another individual claiming to speak for all and telling everyone what they should think and do. a clone leading clones. the people who have bodies which are jewish or roman catholic or islamic or whatever, cannot be legitimately referred to as one entity. they are, like all races and peoples, an example of creation's infinite beauty and uniqueness. the jewish hierarchy in their desperation to control are denying the full expression of thought and potential that jewish people can offer the world. it is the same with other extreme religions, too. and this is causing so much pain f

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of the golden dawn, wrote in his work, the magical mason, that the black stone was first used for pagan rituals. a stone is ancient symbolism for the penis and for this reason many religions were founded on a stone or a "rock, as with peter the rock and christianity. in the old testament tale of jacob, he anointed his stone with oil, which sounds like great fun. must try that one. the koran, the islamic holy book, which is supposed to have been inspired by god, mentions jesus in 93 verses and treats him as a living person when clearly he was not. allah, the islamic god, is the same god, the muslims say, as the judeo-christian jehovah. they give credence to the pentateuch, the first five books of "moses" in the old testament, but in truth the books of the levites. muslims say that mohammed

ing the three blue lodge degrees of freemasonry and completing the scottish or york rite degrees, masons can petition to become a shriner. these who swear a blood oath and confess allah as god.43 allah is a moon god. this is why you will see a crescent moon at the top of mosques around the world, and why the shriners have the crescent moon on their fez hats. this symbol is on the flags of various islamic nations and muslims fast during the month that begins and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon in the sky "i liked your face" the city of jerusalem, the ironically named city of peace, is the myth capital of the world. i went there in 1993 to see this most sacred of shrines to christians, hebrews, and muslims. what a summary of how religion has gripped and manipulated the human mi

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religion, its texts written in esoteric code for the masses totake literally. there were times in later centuries when some of this secret knowledgewas allowed into the public domain by more enlightened muslim leaders and thiswas the inspiration for the advanced societies and science which came out of muslimspain and baghdad. today, part of the brotherhood agenda is to stimulate conflictwith the islamic nations by causing division between the muslim and christian-jewish world.the mormon church is another vision religion which very powerfully locks intothe brotherhood network, as all religions do. the mormon church, or more formally,the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, was founded by joseph smith after heclaimed an angel called moroni appeared to him in 1823. moroni, he said, t

gigantic obelisk indisguise. the washington monument in washington dc is a colossal obelisk. thedome (from a greek word meaning place of the gods) draws in and harnesses energy,as does the pyramid. so often you find that the great cathedrals are built around amassive dome because their builders and designers understood the power of geometryto focus energy in one spot. the vast golden dome on the islamic shrine on templemount in jerusalem, the dome of st peters at the v atican in rome, and the church ofsanta maria which dominates the skyline of florence, are obvious examples of this.look around the major brotherhood cities and you will find they have at least one355major domed building. in the city of london you have st pauls cathedral designed bythe initiate sir christopher wren after the

george bush and bankrolled part ofbushs iran-contra arms-for-drugs operation in the 1980s. george bush, in turn, is abosom buddy of the queen and prince philip. al fayed is involved in manyunderground deals and plots involving events, people, and subjects that he is desperateto ensure remain secret. certainly not a man to trust under any circumstances, in myview. i should emphasise, too, that the islamic elite, like the sultan of brunei, aresignificant players in the brotherhood pyramid and the grand lodge at cairo is one ofthe most powerful secret society centres in the world. this is hardly surprising given thebrotherhoods obsession with ancient egypt and its ritual and symbols. the reptilianbloodlines may be predominantly aryan, but they are far from exclusively so. theywork through str

ans greatest weapon, the plan is to engineer events, real andstaged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. this includes aplan to start a third world war either by stimulating the muslim world into a holy waragainst the west or by using the chinese to cause global conflict. maybe both. thebombs placed near us embassies in africa in 1998 and the american response ofbombing islamic targets is all part of this. one of their key plans is called projectbluebeam. one element of this is to use laser-generating satellites in the star warsnetwork in different parts of the world to project holographic images in the sky ofufos, jesus, mohammed, buddha, khrishna, etc. with each belief system convincedthat their saviour has come, the potential for enormous religious conflict is

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dead presents set as the lord of the northern sky, who is over storms, cold weather and darkness. set was perhaps the most significant egyptian god in that he alone was the god of mystery and the unknown, both the shadow and fire. as being a patron of the deserts, seth was also revered as a deity over the scorching heat of the desert sands. this concept continued on in the persian ahriman and the islamic shaitan, which shall be discussed in further detail later on in this treatise. verily, the soul of set, which is greater than all the gods, hath departed- from the papyrus of ani set was known as a god of unrest who continually fought with horus, his brother and was the antagonist and murderer of osiris, a god of stasis. set also protected ra on his journeys through the underworld, and was

pers of demons to be an abomination and that they sought infernal power makes them polluted with nasa, or the druj-nasa, which is a demon who takes the form of a fly to enter the corpse and steal the spirit. this demon is said to come forth from azrezura, the cold mountain of the north which leads to hell. 20 iii. the adversary and the bride of the devil, cain the son the hebrew samael, satan and islamic shaitan and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:9) the spirit of diabolus is one which remains timeless and extensive. this sorcerous daemon has walked the earth since the dawn of mankind, from desert to forest, in every culture and

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

uled by the planet jupiter (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color blue. keywords include: wide rangingly, boisterously, bluntly, expansively, optimistically, wisely, freely. sanders, alex: the founder of a tradition of wicca (q.v) known as alexandrian wicca (q.v. called by his followers "the king of the witches" satan: in the christian, jewish, and islamic religions, the supreme arch-foe of god. the prince of darkness, the adversary of god. in modern thought, the lord of evil. satanism: a religion that basis it's beliefs on reverse and backward principles of christianity. the worship of satan, the arch-foe of christ, through such practices as the black mass, sexual perversion, drug taking, violence, mutilation, killing, and sacrilege. in rea

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h beliefs through the old testament. in christianity, a demon is not just a malicious spirit, but a spirit of hell sent to earth by the devil to enforce his authority or to carry out his purposes. just as angels are the agents of god who act with divine authority to do good works among men, so demons are the agents of lucifer who act with infernal authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jewish, islamic and christian mythology, lucifer was himself once an angel of heaven who defied god. seeking to overthrow god and rule heaven, lucifer assembled an army of apostate angels and initiated a war in heaven. he and his angels were defeated by michael and the angels who remained loyal to god, and were thrown down from heaven to hell. in their fallen state these angels of hell are supposed in chr

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and wisdom otherwise unattainable (and thus resembles the guru in the hindu tradition) and helps the apprentice by communion and inspiration. helena petrovna blavatsky alleged that she was the apprentice of such masters and claimed that they dwelled in the tibetan mountains. the term adept was also employed by medieval magicians and alchemists to denote a master of their sciences. adhab-algal the islamic purgatory, where the wicked are tormented by the dark angels munkir and nekir. adjuration a formula of exorcism by which an evil spirit is commanded, in the name of god, to do or say what the exorcist requires of him. adler, margot (1946) margot adler, author and wiccan priestess, is the granddaughter of renowned psychotherapist alfred adler. she was raised in a nonreligious setting and at

0. the network may be contacted c/o dr. harry morgan moses at the new thought center, 8798 complex dr, san diego, ca 92123. its webpage can be found at http//www.newthought.org. sources: affiliated new thought network. http/ www.newthought.org. may 16, 2000. emerson institute. http//emersoninstitute.edu. may 16, 2000. africa (note: the north of africa, including the sahara and the sudan, has been islamic territory for many centuries. for a discussion of islamic magic and alchemy, see the entry arabs. instances of arabic sorcery are also discussed in the semites entry) beliefs and practices thought of as occult in western society were integral to the traditional tribal religions in the southern two-thirds of africa, especially those concerning sympathetic magic, the cult of the dead, and wi

e people flocked about him. with a tiger skin in his hand, he walked to and fro, until, singing all the while, he laid the tiger skin at the feet of the witch. at the conclusion of his song the people seized the witch and put him or her in chains, saying, if you don t restore our brother to health, we will kill you. western occultism in africa today more than 100 million africans follow a form of islamic faith, and an almost equal number some form of christianity. in addition to roman catholic and protestant faiths, there are many variant forms of christianity, and many christian groups have become independent of the older missionary churches and reorganized as indigenous religious bodies. the religious picture has been confused in recent years as a result of the unrest attending the throw

prayers made for the release of her soul from purgatory, but she continued to follow the young nun for a time, teaching her, on her last visit, five secret prayers composed by st. john the evangelist. the alister hardy research centre see religious experience research centre alford, alan f. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 28 allat (or ellat) goddess of the ancient arabs of pre-islamic times, associated with the god dhu-shara, known as allah (supreme god, worshiped in the form of a rectangular stone, reminiscent of the later kaaba of mecca. allat is mentioned in the koran as a pagan goddess. she is said to have been joint ruler with allah and judge of the afterlife. allegro, john (marco (1923.1988) british scholar who assisted in the deciphering of the dead sea scrolls

ransformation in our time. los angeles: j. p. tarcher/ houghton mifflin, 1987. aquarian educational group the aquarian educational group is a small group built around the teaching activity of the rev. torkom saraydarian (1917.1997. saraydarian was born in asia minor of armenian heritage. he had a diverse religious upbringing and began to search for spiritual wisdom as a youth in the christian and islamic mystical groups available in his homeland. he was also an accomplished musician. after moving to the united states and gaining some proficiency in english, in the 1960s he began teaching informally in his home in van nuys, california, but soon shifted to agoura, california, where group meetings were held until the early 1990s when the move was made to sedona, arizona. in 1987, gita sarayda

live differently, consecrating his days to the service of god. lully took his holy orders, but his active and impetuous temperament left him little inclined for monastic life. aiming to carry the gospel far afield to convert the followers of mahomet, he began to study arabic. in 1276 lully founded trinity college of majorca and trained other men in arabic and prepared missionaries for service in islamic lands. soon lilly proceeded to rome to enlist the pope s sympathy in his project. lully failed to get the pope s support, yet, undaunted, he embarked on his own from genoa in about 1291, and when he reached tunis, he commenced his crusade. his ardor resulted in fierce persecution and ultimate banishment, so he returned for a while to europe, visiting paris, naples, and pisa, and exhorting

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n human experience common to all of humankind. when meister eckhart stated, if i am to know god directly, i must become completely he, and he i: so that this he and this i become and are one i, he comes to the same point as the advaita vedanta doctrine of hinduism, where the jiva (individual soul) merges with brahma the creator before absorption in brahman, the non-personal divine ground. sufism, islamic mysticism, first arose in the ninth century among the persian moslems, probably as a protest against the severe monotheism of their religion, but in all likelihood more ancient springs contributed to its revival. in the persia of hafiz and saadi, pantheism abounded, and their magnificent poetry is read by moslems as having a deep mystical significance, although for the most part it deals w

something called yoga, which he would understand through later experience. at the time oki was only eight years old. as a young man, he studied at a military academy and also took a brief course in medicine before becoming a soldier. he became a spy for the korean government in 1939, after japan had seized areas on the china coast. oki s task was to enter parts of southern asia and cooperate with islamic independence movements. as a cover for this, he went to tibet to train as a lama. at that time, this was a purely utilitarian move without religious significance. his religious experience was later stimulated when he was arrested on an assignment in iran and thrown in jail, with a leg chain and an iron ball. he shared a cell with an older man who, although facing a death sentence, was alwa

ivately, and became a british citizen. he became the proprietor of the international press agency in 1953, and from 1966 until his death he was the director of studies of the institute for cultural research in london. he was also the literary and film director of mulla nasrudin enterprises. shah wrote over 30 books and translated others, and through them he became a major force in the movement of islamic, especially sufic, thought into the west. he also had a broad knowledge of the occult and reportedly ghostwrote the early biography of gerald b. gardner, the founder of the neopagan revival in the 1940s. he was awarded the dictionary of international biography certificate of merit for distinguished service to human thought, and in 1972 he was appointed visiting professor in intercultural s

as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man. some claimed fragments of these magical books of solomon are mentioned in the codex pseudepigraphus of fabricius, and josephus himself has described one of the antidemoniacal roots, which appears to refer to legends of the perils involved in gathering the mandrake root, or mandragoras. the islamic solomon the qur an alleges that solomon had power over the winds, and that he rode on his throne throughout the world during the day, and the wind brought it back every night to jerusalem. this throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a prodigious length and breadth, and sufficient to afford standing room to all solomon s army, the men on his right hand and the jinn on his left. an

d rabbis also described solomon as an accomplished magician. it is possible that the belief in the power of spells and incantations became general among the hebrews during the captivity, and that the invention of them was attributed to the wise solomon, as a more creditable personage than the deities of the assyrians. those fictions acquired currency, not only among the arabs, persians, and other islamic nations, but, in the process of time, also in many christian communities. they were first adopted by the gnostics and the dualistic sects in whose beliefs pagan rituals mixed with jewish and christian notions. in the middle ages they found their way among catholics too, principally by means of the apocryphal gospels and the hagiography of the saints. an incident in the life of st. margaret

le, court poet of emperor rudolph ii (1552.1622, who took a great interest in alchemy, chemistry, and astrology. zacaire s opuscule was published originally at antwerp and repeatedly reprinted. it won the honor of being translated into latin. sources: davis, t. l. the autobiography of denis zacaire: an account of an alchemist s life in the sixteenth century. isis 8, 2 (1926. zacornu a tree in the islamic hell that has for fruit the heads of devils. zadkiel pseudonym of richard james morrison (1795.1874, one of the pioneer british astrologers of the nineteenth century. he was born in london, england, on june 15, 1795. he joined the navy when only eleven and eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant by the time of his retirement in 1817. he developed an interest in astrology in the 1820s and

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ie detector. saucers 2, 3 (september: 6 8. national investigations committee on aerial phenomena, 1967. information sheet on daniel fry. washington, dc, august. reeve, bryant, and helen reeve, 1957. flying saucer pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. 106 fry, daniel william a ufo supposedly photographed by daniel fry at merlin, oregon, may 1964 (fortean picture library) gabriel in christian and islamic tradition, gabriel is one of the two mightiest angels. he is the only angel mentioned in the old testament, as the destroyer of sodom and gomorrah. he is said to sit on god s left hand and to preside over paradise. mohammed credits gabriel with dictating the koran to him. in more recent times, an entity named gabriel, identifying himself as an archangel, channels through a new york city ma

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salistic context. he also presented those of every other mystical tradition by way of comparison and confirmation. by the mystical qabalah, we are referring to an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any of the religious vessels through which it has been subsequently filtered and adapted. these vessels include the israelite hebrew, rabbinical judaic, mystical christian, sufi islamic, and possibly even, the north indian tantric. each of these vessels has framed the universal teachings of the mystical qabalah within the context, language, and cultural milieu of their respective dispensations. each version is unique and beautiful, to be respected and celebrated. but no single one of these vessels can legitimately claim to be the orthodox authority for these teachings. th

of isaiah and ezekiel, and the sh ir qoma (measure of the divine body from the sefer raziel hagadol; the peshitta (gospels) and the revelation of john; the qur an; and the etz hachayyim (tree of life. while many would question including the peshitta and qur an as primary sources of the mystical qabalah, it is appropriate to include them if one acknowledges that the hebrew, jewish, christian, and islamic religions are progressive developments or branches of the same shemite tree. 2 ef 2 5 chapter three gives a thorough introduction to the core teachings of the mystical qabalah. in this chapter, the reader will learn about the ayn, the negatively existent mysterious unknown at the roots of all things and its two faces: vast face and small face. this is followed by an explication of the natu

ans for spiritual awakening from dualistic sleep. each of the branches is built around variations of the same totality archetype anchored in the same negatively existent substratum. yet, the religious teachings of the different branches have somehow evolved so that the variations have become mutually exclusive. while the mystical qabalah stands as the very foundation of the hebrew, christian, and islamic religious dispensations, few contemporary rabbis, priests, or imams study its ideas or engage in its practices within the context of their respective faiths. 8- f e 5 2 f# tree of the children of abraham the ideas and practices of the mystical qabalah find their counterparts (albeit differently clothed) in virtually every other mystical tradition, all of which present their own unique vers

ir roots in the sacramental use of bread and wine that goes back to the earliest hebrews and beyond. ablution with water, lighting of candles, prostration, rituals that celebrate the mystical significance of the rites of passage, and rituals associated with 8- f e 3 changes of season, planting and harvesting are other fundamental elements christianity shares in common with its hebrew, judaic, and islamic cousins. a more in-depth look at the core ideas of mystical christianity within the context of the universal mystical qabalah will appear later in the book when the peshitta and the revelation of john are discussed in more detail. starting in the late fifteenth century ce, a movement arose among some jewish converts to christianity in spain to ascribe a distinctly christian context to the

(blessing of spiritual potency) of mystical gnosis to their aspirants (mureed. others have become a name without a reality. congregations of sufis convene with their shaykhs in specially designated halls (persian, khanqah; arabic, zawiya; turkish, tekke. sufis are, with a few notable exceptions, devout muslims. yet, sufism is generally eschewed and viewed with suspicion by the sunnite and shiite islamic orthodox authorities. like the vast majority of mainstream muslims, sufis generally do not participate in or endorse the extreme agenda of radical ultra-orthodox fundamentalists. in addition to the qur an, the sufis have a rich and prolific mystical literature filled with sublime mystical allusions and brilliant allegories. like the chasidim, teaching stories and sayings are important vehi

ys in the last line of the last psalm 150:6, kol haneshamah tuhhalel hy hallelu hy( the whole of the neshamah praises hy, praise be to hy) f c 2= f: e$ 5, 0" the universal mystical spirituality that was transmitted through the children of abraham has become filtered by and clothed in a variety of vessels i.e. desert hebrew, israelite judaic, rabbinical judaic, messianic judaic, pauline christian, islamic, and tantric. over the course of time, each of these vessels has come to be dominated by the overriding impressions (sanskrit. samskaras) of their conventional outgrowths, and substantially altered in theology, practice, and ritual as they expanded and assimilated to different cultural and political milieus. the root mystical teachings at their respective foundations have been overshadowed

doubt has been established by numerous biblical scholars and linguistic experts specializing in ancient semitic languages that none of the current versions of the torah and peshitta are accurate renditions of their originals, replete with additions, corruption, and undifferentiated commentaries. while the qur an is the most recent primary revelation, and has been subject to only limited revision, islamic orthodoxy has blurred many of its verses with forced meanings that are skewed by political agendas and sexual bias. the idea of jewish renewal has become fashionable in recent times, particularly among baby boomers. its growing popularity reflects that a significant number of jews question the spiritual authority of conventional rabbinical judaism, and yearn for a return of the mystical el

s niche for lamps, royal asiatic society, london. 1924. the mishkat al anwar is primarily a commentary on the light surah. al ghazzali. the alchemy of happiness, translated by claud field, ashraf, lahore, 1966. ibn arabi. what the seeker needs, translated by bankey behari, sufi publishing co, surrey, england, 1992. al jilani, abdul qadir. the secret of secrets, interpreted by shaykh tosun bayrak, islamic text society, cambridge, 1992. rumi, jalal al-din. discourses of rumi, translated by a.j. arberry, samuel weiser, new york, 1972. al suhrawardi, abu al najib. a sufi rule for novices (abridged, translated by menahem milson, harvard university press, cambridge, 1975. ibn ata allah. the book of wisdom, translated by victor danner and kwaja abdullah ansari; and intimate conversations, transla

the immortality of the soul, and denied that there was a divine reward/punishment system in a life after this life. sahasrara chakra (sanskrit: crown center on the top of the head of the chakric tree, portrayed as a lotus with one thousand petals. corresponds to the sefirah crown/above on the qabalistic tree, and the latifa haqiqa on the sufi tree. 43' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% salat (arabic: sequence of islamic prayers performed five times a day. salvikalpa samadhi (sanskrit: ecstatic absorption in godwith- qualities wherein the individuated consciousness is still present. samskaras (sanskrit: impressions: residal impressions of previous lifetimes imprinted on the mirror of the watcher on the threshold, and hard wired in the deep memory of the brain. samyana (sanskrit: one-pointed concentration

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tish authors, michael baigent and richard leigh, they established a kind of medieval capitalism, and led the way to modern banking through their interest-based transactions.5 it was the templars who were mainly responsible for the crusaders' at- global freemasonry dg the crusaders put to sword all those living in the lands they conquered. tacks of and murder of muslims. for this reason, the great islamic commander saladin, who defeated the crusaders' army in 1187, in the battle of hattin, and afterwards rescued jerusalem, put the templars to death for the murders they had committed, even though he had otherwise pardoned a large number of christians. although they lost jerusalem, and suffered heavy casualties, the templars continued to exist. and, despite the continual diminution of the chr

for this reason, they placed naturalism at the basis of their philosophies and became known the "naturalists."95 another masonic organization to have developed the idea of evolution was not in the west but it was another masonic order founded in the east. grand master selami isindag provides the following information, in an article entitled "masonry and us from its foundation until today: in the islamic world there was a counterpart of masonry called the ikhwan as-safa [the brethren of purity. this society was founded in basra in the time of the abbasids and published an encyclopedia composed of 54 large volumes. 17 of these dealt with natural science and it contained scientific explanations that closely resembled those of darwin. these found their way even to spain and had an influence o

called the ikhwan as-safa [the brethren of purity. this society was founded in basra in the time of the abbasids and published an encyclopedia composed of 54 large volumes. 17 of these dealt with natural science and it contained scientific explanations that closely resembled those of darwin. these found their way even to spain and had an influence on western thought.96 though it developed in the islamic world, this society distanced itself from basic islamic tenets. it was influenced by ancient greek philosophy, which it expressed by means of an esoteric symbolism. selami isindag continues: this society originated in the ismaili sect and its basic purpose was to make religious dogmas intelligible by allegorical and symbolic explanations. its philosophy was influenced by pythagoras and pla

, in preference of their traditional mythology and the religion of their ancestors, followed the road to destruction. freemasonry, a contemporary manifestation of this paganism, is drawing the whole world, and themselves, into ruin. it is for this reason that human beings must protect themselves from this potential calamity, by overcoming the intimations of what bediuzzaman said nursi, a renowned islamic scholar, referred to as "the disease called materialism and naturalism" and in this way preserve the faith of the masses. dkh conclusion asonry has been one of most interesting phenomena of the past two centuries. naturally, it has attracted attention because of its closed, reserved and mystical character. at the same time, an antipathy to masonry has arisen; it attempts to advertise itsel

advertise itself as a "harmless charitable institution" while a determined opposition to masonry has grown as a result of the contradictory claims of the organization. however, what must be done in order to oppose masonry is not to adopt a blind anti-masonic agenda, but to discern and show the invalidity of the perverse philosophy that this organization espouses and imposes on humanity. the great islamic scholar bediuzzaman said nursi describes in one paragraph the main outline of such a duty: atyrannical current born of naturalist and materialist philosophy will gradually become strong and spread at the end of time by means of materialist philosophy, reaching such a degree that it denies god it is clear just what foolish buffoonery it is for impotent man, who may be defeated by a fly and

he truth and aid people in accepting it is much easier. when muslims undertake this duty, with god's permission, the following pronouncement will become manifest "rather we hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away (qur'an, 21:18) then, the twentyfirst century will not be the century of "global freemasonry" as the masons had hoped, but the century of islamic morali othe masonic career of a.e. waite by bro. r. a. gilbert (aqc vol 99 1986) introduction in english freemasonry the seal of a certain distinction attaches to the name of arthur edward waite, while it has proved of such appeal in america that an important grand lodge has conferred upon him, causa honoris, one of its highest official positions. among his many publications those on the m

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ngs) are elusive and hard to find, they have been passed from "mouth to ear" through brotherhoods, sects and orders. they do not evolve, while their appearance may change from age to age, they exist as memories and reflections, transmissions from the golden age (the equivalent in time to the world of ideals) through history. while esotericism can take any form from hindu to buddhist, christian to islamic, it is at the core, distinct from each. it is trans-temporal and yet being in time takes the appearance of the country, tradition or the gnostic handbook page 11 epoch it is clothed by. at the same time we must appreciate the form it takes, esotericism is not ecumenical, it is dangerous to assume that all esoteric traditions are the same. islamic esotericism (sufism) is distinct from buddh

odern attributions. saturn is both the demiurge and the divine purifier, uranus is the lord of the abyss or great barrier between the pleroma and the lower world. aquarius will be an age of great ferocity, violence terror as well as growth and transfiguration for those who seek the light. one of the images associated with aquarius is the peacock. the peacock was the sacred image of the yeizidi, a islamic people who followed an ancient gnostic religious tradition. the peacock was melek taus who can be related to the demiurge (our projections regarding matter, but at the same time the eyes of the peacock (eye=ayin in hebrew, the devil tarot card) show us that ultimately dualism has no power, no reality and hence the real source is beyond in the pleroma and the invisible spirit. the gnostic i

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which would devour any not prepared to become bearers of the black flame, a luciferian spirit themselves. once this pact is made, when the sigillium diaboli is upon the mind, spirit and body, then there is no turning back only the ascension of the spirit as beyond the mortal clay. 6 in the modern world of magicians, sathan is our initiator and stimulator of the psyche. one should remember, in pre-islamic lore satan/azazel is considered the imagination sufism recognizes satan as the imagination itself. sathan is thus our announcer of the path, the very fountain of our attainment. in the view of a god form and model, lucifer (sathan) is an ideal form to align with in an initiatory sense. azazel rebelled against the natural order (god ain soph) as he sought independence, fell to the realms of

el of fire who is azazel. samael is the demon prince who is married to lilith and father of tubal-cain. the root word of samael is sml, which translates idol or image) azael west (associated with azrael, the angel of death or the egyptian anubis, the god of the dead. azael represents the west and the realm of twilight) azazel south (associated with the element fire, as azazel is the fire djinn of islamic sufism. in hebrew azazel is the scape goat, associated with the root oz, meaning goat and devil, sexual force) mahazael north (associated with earth, being cain or the egyptian set as the lord of the earth in typhonian lore. mahazael comes from the root mhzal, meaning to consume and devour and is associated with amaimon, a grand daemon) 11 the rite of the coiling dragon (leviathan, the cro

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struction. through these myths the voices of the ancients speak to us directly. what are they trying to say? 53 world mythology, p. 26. details of the hopi world destruction myths are in frank waters, the book of the hopi, penguin, london, 1977. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 197 chapter 25 the many masks of the apocalypse like the hopi indians of north america, the avestic aryans of pre-islamic iran believed that there were three epochs of creation prior to our own. in the first epoch men were pure and sinless, tall and long lived, but at its close the evil one declared war against ahura mazda, the holy god, and a tumultuous cataclysm ensued. during the second epoch the evil one was unsuccessful. in the third good and evil were exactly balanced. in the fourth epoch (the present a

sing the sarcophagus to vibrate around me, i closed my eyes. when i opened them a few minutes later it was to behold a distressing sight: six japanese tourists of mixed ages and sexes had congregated around the sarcophagus two of them standing to the east, two to the west and one each to the north and south. they all looked. amazed. and i was amazed to see them. because of recent attacks by armed islamic extremists there were now almost no tourists at giza and i had expected to have the king s chamber to myself. what does one do in a situation like this? 22 reported in p. w. roberts, river in the desert: modern travels in ancient egypt, random house, new york and toronto, 1993, p. 115. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 324 gathering as much dignity as i could muster, i stood upright

our frequent research trips to cairo, we had struck up a friendship with him and he now worked with us whenever we were in egypt. we haggled for some time about the appropriate daily rate for the long return journey to abydos and luxor. many matters had to be taken into account, including the fact that some of the areas we would be passing through had recently been targets of terrorist attacks by islamic militants. eventually we agreed 17 the gods of the egyptians, volume ii, p. 264. 18 blue guide, egypt, p. 509; see also from fetish to god in ancient egypt, pp. 211-15; osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume i, p. 31ff; the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 197. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 346 on a price and arranged to set off early the following morning. graham hancock

ex of the delta, elevated above the valley of the nile, and equipped with an excellent foundation of solid limestone bedrock. doing things by degrees we were driving north from luxor to giza in the back of mohamed walilli s peugeot 504 a journey of just over 4 degrees of longitude, i.e, from 25 42 n, to the 30th parallel. between asiut and el minya, a corridor of conflict in recent months between islamic extremists and egyptian government forces, we were provided with an armed escort of soldiers, one of whom wore plain clothes and sat in the passenger seat beside mohamed fondling an automatic pistol. the others, about a dozen men armed with ak47 assault rifles, were distributed equally between two pick-up trucks which sandwiched us front and rear. dangerous people live here, mohamed had co

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century. for westerners, especially in america, the separation of church and state has been sufficient to make it difficult even to think in terms of spirituality and political philosophy as a continuous sphere. even hardcore bible-belters are unable to truly imagine an established religion in the european sense, let alone in the asiatic. i believe most of us have virtually no idea of what makes islamic republicanism tick, and we stand appalled not only at the atrocities of islamic government, but at its sheer zeal. the idea of pat robertson driving a truck filled with explosives into an enemy military compound shouting jesus is lord! is ludicrous in our imaginations. put billy graham behind the wheel. but you get the point. yet, it has been shown that the founders of speculative freemaso

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ecension (in that it was the basis of saadia s commentary of the early tenth century* even the longest of these contains something less than 2500 words. the date of sy s composition remains a matter of some debate, but most scholars agree that it was written or compiled between the second and sixth centuries. however, steven m. wasserstrom has offered a strong case for the ninth century within an islamic milieu* it was certainly extant by the tenth century, for it exerted a great influence on speculative and mystical thought from that time on. commenting on sy, elliot r. wolfson stated, properly speaking, the work should not be described as a single composition, but rather as a composite of distinct literary strands that have been woven together through a complicated redactional process wh

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tudes of sexual difference in kabbalah. los angeles: cherub press, 2005. scholem, gershom. kabbalah. pp. 409-11 and other citations. 2. c. isaac of acre (or acco: isaac of acre is of particular interest given that he drew from both the abulafian ecstatic school and the catalonian/castilian theosophic school, which included nahmanides and the zohar. fenton, paul. gsolitary meditation in jewish and islamic mysticism in the light of a recent archeological discovery, h in medieval encounters, volume 1, number 2 (leiden: brill, october 1995. fishbane, eitan. gauthority, tradition, and the creation of meaning in medieval kabbalah: isaac of acre fs illumination of the eyes, h in the journal of the american academy of religion, vol. 72, issue 1 (atlanta: emory university, march 2004. contemplative

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pled with the worldwide diminution of food reserves. there is less available freshwater for well over half of the world s population. on average, more than 6,000 children perish each day from diarrhea caused by polluted water. in many parts of the world, violence and terrorism have become the favored means to resolve conflicts. hence, there is deepening insecurity in both rich and poor countries. islamic fundamentalism is spreading throughout the muslim world, neo-nazi and other extremist movements are sprouting in europe, and religious fanaticism is appearing the world over. thus, our very tenure on this planet is in question. however, global breakdown is not mandatory. we can turn the tide, and the following scenario, too, is entirely possible: as the latter part of this book will show

LEFT HAND PATH AND RIGHT HAND PATH

religions described as "right-hand path" argue that this means of dividing religions is a mislabeled or false dichotomy. origins throughout history, many cultures have regarded the left hand and left-handedness as evil. this tendency can be seen in the dual meaning of the word right, in the etymology of words such as sinister, which in latin means both left and unlucky, and in taboos such as the islamic prohibition against touching holy texts with one's left hand. consequently, the left hand has often been used as a symbol for the rejection of traditional religion. the word right as used with hand in the old testament is generally the hebrew word yamin meaning stronger, more dextrous. the word for left is smowl meaning dark. god gives and creates with his right hand, it is his wonderful a

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k? viewers are then advised to go out and stock up while they still have the chance! see also humor for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. ahriman ahriman (or angra mainyu) is the zoroastrian satan, and the prototype of satan for the judeo- christian-islamic family of religions. the central theme of zoroaster s religious vision is the cosmic struggle between the god of light, ahura mazda( wise lord) and his angels, and the god of darkness, ahriman( evil spirit) and his demons. unlike zoroastrianism s sister/brother religious traditions, in which the outcome of the war between god and the devil has already been decided, zoroastrianism portrays

as that used today for blessing, namely with the thumb and first two fingers upright and the other two fingers closed. arabian amulets included dust gathered from tombs and carried in little sacks as protection against evil. also worn were pieces of paper on which were written prayers, spells, magical names, or the attributes of god, such as the compassionate and the forgiver. a popular amulet of islamic peoples beginning in the sixth century was the hand of fatima. the hand of fatima is frequently made of silver and jeweled with semiprecious stones. it is named after the daughter of the prophet muhammad.hands were also used as amulets on gates of islamic buildings. holy books of every culture (koran, torah, bible) are considered to have protective powers. pieces of parchment with scriptur

of human individuals. in medieval europe, the belief in the existence of demons came to be associated with witchcraft and contributed to the development of the practice of exorcism and witch-hunting. since the early drafting of the koran, muslims have also believed in the existence of demonic forces, known as shaytan, who are in constant revolt against god ifrit, marid, and jann (a.k.a. jinn, pre-islamic hostile spirits in general associated with the desert. sometimes these evil forces are identified with animals (such as the snake and the scorpion) or with natural elements. one ambiguous figure, divine and evil (jinn) at the same time, is iblis, who partially resembles the devil of the judeo-christian tradition as a fallen angel. believed to be eternally expelled from the garden of heaven

often spelled eblis) refused on the ground that adam, who, after all, was a mere creature of dust and dirt, was inferior to the angels. as punishment for his disobedience, iblis was transformed from an angel into a jinn. then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals. according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. in an interesting variation on tradition, sufis (islamic mystics) reinterpreted iblis s

hands? said he, i am better than he; thou createdst me of fire, and him thou createdst of clay. said he, then go thou forth hence; thou are accured. upon thee shall rest my cures, till the day of doom (arberry 1969, 163) then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals.according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. muslim tradition also mentions specific dark angels, such as malik, who guards hell. the

most of you were averse to the truth (arberry 1969, 205. malik makes life even worse for them by stoking the fires and making jokes. the only relief comes for the muslim sinners in hell who can escape such treatment by reciting allah, the compassionate, the merciful. malik knows that these true believers will one day be freed from hell by muhammad. in an interesting variation on tradition, sufis (islamic mystics) reinterpreted iblis s disobedience as an act of love for god, and as an act of obedience to the law that only god should be worshiped. to bow down to adam, in other words, would have been an acknowledgment of another god other than god, and thus an act of idolatry a severe sin in the muslim tradition. iblis, to continue this line of interpretation, was a true lover of god, and thu

e in relation to ancient near eastern dreams and its theological significance. lanham, md: university press of america, 1984. kramer, kenneth p. death dreams. unveiling mysteries of the unconscious mind. new york: paulist press, 1993. jinn according to the muslims, the jinn (from which we get the english term genie) are invisible spirits made out of fire, who were created 2,000 years before adam. islamic thinkers postulated three orders of being beyond god: angels, jinn, and humanity. the angels, who were created out of light, are closest to god. the jinn, who are intermediate between angels and humanity, inhabit a subtly material or etheric realm. like human beings, the jinn possess intelligence and free will, and are thus capable of being saved. for this reason, the koran sometimes expli

igence and free will, and are thus capable of being saved. for this reason, the koran sometimes explicitly addresses itself to both humans and jinn. it is said that one night a group of jinn overheard the prophet reciting the koran and became believers. the spot where muhammad later met with the jinns leaders and accepted their allegiance is the site of the mosque of the jinn in mecca. iblis, the islamic satan, was transformed from an angel into a jinn when he refused god s command that he worship adam (who was created out of mere clay. subsequently, iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations. iblis and the jinn were exiled from eden and subsequently became demons (also included amongst the outcasts were five of iblis s sons) ejected from the presence

missed under the generic rubric indian through which native americans are usually regarded. far from being a single monolithic culture, aboriginal americans had created a series of significant civilizations cultures that often bore little resemblance to one another. despite this diversity, it is possible to assert that, like most societies outside the influence of the zoroastrian-judeo-christian- islamic complex, all of these traditions postulated the existence of demonic forces, but none possessed a full-blown satan figure. prior to the intrusion of europeans, the native peoples of central and south america had created societies rivaling the civilizations of ancient egypt, mesopotamia, india, and china. these are the so174 mesoamerica called high cultures of mexico and peru, areas that en

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

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to him, and that they converse as may be fitting. 23. concerning the mysterious triangle. now then as three cords separately may be broken by a child, while those same cords duly twisted may bind a giant, let the philosophus learn to entwine these three methods of magic into a spell. to this end let him understand that as they are one, because 1 [one of crowley.s pseudonyms, a fictitious persian islamic mystic to whom was attributed a curious work known as the scented garden of abdullah the satirist, or the bagh-i-muattar. t.s] astarte vel liber berylli 8 the end is one, so are they one because the method is one, even the method of turning the mind toward the particular deity by love in every act. and lest thy twine slip, here is a little cord that wrappeth tightly round and round all, ev

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ick or greater black magick workings, used in ceremonial or solitary practice. pathally a black handled knife. azazel called the guardian of the goat, azazel is one of the 200 original fallen angels, according to lore. it is considered that azazel is the same as shemyaza, the leader of the watchers. the zohar makes reference (in vayeze 153a) about the rider upon the serpent is the evil azazel. in islamic lore, azazel is the same as eblis and considered by other lore as the first star (in reference to any angels) which would reveal him as lucifer. azoth the beginning and end in its spiritual aspect, azoth is a form of life and death. from between comes the possibility of manifestation. ba- the soul in egyptian mythology. when the immortal physically dies, the ba, which is the astral body, l

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nd france think that evolution is a correct theory. in the united states, this figure is 38. turkey ranks at the bottom, with only 25% of adults who think that evolution is a valid theory. the authors of the study (j. d. miller, e. c. scott, and o. okamoto) blame protestant fundamentalism and the politicization of science for the poor showing of the united states. as for turkey, it is likely that islamic fundamentalism is responsible for its score. thus, in both countries, one witnesses the negative impact of religious thinking on science. what, then, can we do to counter creationism? interestingly, eugenie scott of the national center for science education reminds us that the creationist movement is highly factionalized. among several other factions, one distinguishes what we call classic

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

which has been preserved by reason of the subtle manner in which it was engrafted upon the cult of christianity. from this particular viewpoint, the holy grail is undoubtedly a type of the ark or vessel in which the life of the world is preserved and therefore is significant of the body of the great mother--nature. its green color relates it to venus and to the mystery of generation; also to the islamic faith, whose sacred color is green and whose sabbath is friday, the day of venus. the holy grail is a symbol both of the lower (or irrational) world and of the bodily nature of man, because both are receptacles for the living essences of the superior worlds. such is the mystery of the redeeming blood which, descending into the condition of death, overcomes the last enemy by ensouling all s

alighted on the island of ceylon, and this spot is sacred to certain hindu sects who recognize the old island of lanka- once presumably connected with the mainland by a bridge--as the actual site of the garden of eden from which the human race migrated. according to the arabian nights (sir richard burton's translation, adam's footprint may still be seen on the top of a ceylonese mountain. in the islamic legends, adam was later reunited with his wife and after his death his body was brought to jerusalem subsequent to the flood for burial by melchizedek (see the koran) the word adm signifies a species or race and only for lack of proper understanding has adam been considered as an individual. as the macrocosm, adam is the gigantic androgyne, even the demiurgus; as the microcosm, he is the c

tian ideas, terms therefrom the supreme ambition of their craft and symbols (see the secret societies of all ages and countries) the roman collegia of skilled architects were apparently a subdivision of the greater ionian body, their principles and organization being practically identical with the older ionian institution. it has been suspected that the dionysians also profoundly influenced early islamic culture, for part of their symbolism found its way into the mysteries of the dervishes. at one time the dionysians referred to themselves as sons of solomon, and one of the most important of their symbols was the seal of solomon--two interlaced triangles. this motif is frequently seen in conspicuous parts of mohammedan mosques. the knights templars--who were suspected of anything and every

ply metals. dr. bacstrom writes that the universal spirit (chiram) assisted king solomon to build his temple, because solomon being wise in the wisdom of alchemy knew how to control this incorporeal essence and, setting it to work for him, caused the invisible universe to supply him with vast amounts of gold and silver which most people believed were mined by natural methods. the mysteries of the islamic faith are now in the keeping of the dervishes--men who, renouncing worldliness, have withstood the test of a thousand and one days of temptation. jelal-ud-din, the great persian sufic poet and philosopher, is accredited with having founded the order of mevlevi, or the "dancing dervishes" whose movements exoterically signify the motions of the celestial bodies and esoterically result in the

out twenty-six years old married one of his employers, a wealthy widow nearly fifteen years his senior. the widow, khadijah by name, was apparently somewhat mercenary, for, finding her young business manager most efficient, she resolved to retain him in that capacity for life! khadijah was a woman of exceptional mentality and to her integrity and devotion must be ascribed the early success of the islamic cause. by his marriage mohammed was elevated from a position of comparative poverty to one of great wealth and power, and so exemplary was his conduct that he became known throughout mecca as "the faithful and true" mohammed would have lived and died an honored and respected meccan had he not unhesitatingly sacrificed both his wealth and social position in the service of the god whose voic

his undertaking so that the guilt for the crime might thereby be more evenly distributed. discovering the danger in time, mohammed left his friend ali in his bed and fled with abu bekr from the city, and after adroitly eluding the meccans, joined the main body of his followers that had preceded him to yathrib (afterwards called medina. upon this incident-called the hegira or "flight--is based the islamic chronological system. dating from the hegira the power of the prophet steadily grew until in the eighth year mohammed entered mecca after practically a bloodless victory and established it as the spiritual center of his faith. planting his standard to the north of mecca, he rode into the city, and after circling seven times the sacred caaba, ordered the 360 images within its precincts to b

christianity, more than half of the civilized world, and established a civilization, the highest in the world during the dark ages. it brought the arabian race to their highest development, raised the position of women in the east, though it retained polygamy, was intensively monotheistic, and until the turks gained control for the most part encouraged progress" in the same work, among the great islamic scientists and philosophers who have made substantial contributions to human knowledge are listed gerber, or djafer, who in the ninth century laid the foundations for modern chemistry; ben musa, who in the tenth century introduced the theory of algebra; alhaze, who in the eleventh century made a profound study of optics and discovered the magnifying power of convex lenses; and in the eleve

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

t and the witches sabbat -the adversarial foundations of sorceryby michael w. ford to look into the possibilities of models and how one may shape and assist in self-transformation, it is imperative to study and understand the foundations of the very gods which emerge from us. nightside or shadowside as a term is defined in witches sabbat and luciferian9 terminology as averse dreaming practice. in islamic mythology and lore, shaitan is the lord of rebellious spirits, a djinn made of fire. it is this fire10 which leads the individual towards the wall looking down into the abyss, and the infinite possibilities of being. the sorcerer thus begins to adopt the god form of shaitan to master the spirits and djinn of the self all of those elements which command mastery of the self. night is the in

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within which full attainment and union occurs. the lord of the circle is also the lord of sorcery. asmodeus can be a powerful guide from the gate of the flesh, or earth, to that of choronzon. approach this daemon with caution, for there can be hell to pay if any spirit is invoked without care. 73 73 shaitan -the adversary which developed from the lord of storms and prince of darkness, set. in the islamic tradition (ahadith, shaitan/satan is azazel, the lord of djinn whom is made from fire, thus a source of light unto itself. azazel/shaitan is a fallen angel, the first angel who preached to the other angels in preeternity. shaitan is also melek ta aus, the peacock angel. samael samael in hebrew texts is the husband of lilith, the father of cain. samael is of fire and of night, from which al

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presents lilith as the goddess of the beasts of the earth, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance like coal, which would devour all creation, manifesting her as a vampyric being. azazel [hebrew] the first angel who brought the black flame of being to humanity. azazel was the lord of djinn and was said to be made of fire in islamic lore. azazel refused to bow before the clay of adam, 79 saying that it was profane. he was cast from heaven to earth and was indeed the first independent spirit, the initiator of individual and antinomian thought. azazel was later related to the watchers, the hebrew goat demon god and shaitan. azazel is a name of lucifer, who is the solar aspect of the dragon, the bringer of light. azhi [a

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slims perform this same act of cleansing by saying bismillah before the meal. if said in a hallow and faithless manner, bismillah will have no affect. if said with faith and passion, however, bismillah is claimed to purify the occult properties of their food( and even entire rooms for that matter. there are also types of magic that s holy and ordained. take the exorcisms performed by catholic and islamic priests for instance. like magicians, these priests would separate a seducing spirit from its human host by invoking the many names of god aloud, and even claiming his [god s] authority. and like a magician, these priests can succeed in freeing someone from demonic possession. this is nothing but magic. uttering the names of god aloud does no more than produce a series of sound waves, whic

o be required for travel, and to enter corporate and government buildings. purchases will also come to rely on such forms of identification, as the move for totally electronic currency begins. atheism, and other beliefs lacking spirituality, will continue to rise; the people of the future only concern themselves with the material. you will witness strange new practices in christian, catholic, and islamic churches; they will begin to resemble festivals and marketplaces more than places of worship. those religious people who are unwilling to liberalize their principles will be pegged as dangerous fanatics and fundamentalists. as life for the commoner becomes increasingly unbearable, he seeks to use drugs to escape from it; the depression he attempts to banish is the result of a healthy perso

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

is this: did the templars wield any influence over these brotherhoods and communities and, if so, what was the nature of this influence? in this chapter we will examine: 1. the direct influence of the templars on the art of the builders. in this sense they followed the example of religious communities such as the benedictines and cistercians. 2. the influence that the eastern world byzantine and islamic exercised over western civilization at the time of the crusades and the primary role assumed by the templars in this social and cultural influence, including the close ties they developed to byzantine and muslim guilds. 3. the templars' specific involvement in the formation in europe of professional communities, primarily those of builders, which includes our discovery of the source of the

ndred men and more, and took prisoners, including masons as well as other folk, some four hundred persons."15 this quote from a contemporary underscores the regard held for the masons on the part of the crusaders. what might have been the nature of this true crafts community? was it a monastic association formed by the crusaders or an association of the type that then existed in the byzantine and islamic world? 68 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages the influence of the eastern world byzantine influences the christians of the east, subjects of the byzantine empire, were still grouped in the ancient roman collegia, keepers of the greco-latin traditions that had evolved through contact with the people of the east. these associations particularly those of the buil

rough the intervention of the templars in 1243 that the christians were able to conclude an accord with the malek of damascus and take possession of jerusalem. in the following years, the franks made an alliance with the malik of horns, al-mansour. the templars made themselves noticeable by their eagerness to arrange this union. in fact, they celebrated in their strongholds to such an extent that islamic prayers could be heard echoing beneath the roofs of their monasteries.25 in 1247 the templar grand master guillaume de sonnace got along so well with the turkish emirs that a chronicler wrote "the master of the temple and the sultan of egypt have made so strong a peace between them that they bled themselves together every two years in the same bowl+ when the different branches of the milit

a chronicler wrote "the master of the temple and the sultan of egypt have made so strong a peace between them that they bled themselves together every two years in the same bowl+ when the different branches of the military, governed mainly by common interests, gave way to a peaceful coexistence, the christians found in the muslim world a favorable milieu and climate. claude cahen, a specialist in islamic studies, came to this conclusion in his summary work orient et occident au temps des croisades "the image of the muslim world up until the eleventh century is that of a very* guillaume de tyr, histoire des croisades, vol. 4, 243, 414, geoffrey de tyr, who was hostile toward the templars, appears to have inflated the importance of the murder by a templar of an envoy from the old man of the

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s. where possible, approval of the final draft version was obtained from a church or group official. the final description was then completed, based on the information received from these officials in response to the final draft descriptions. the handbook includes 51 different group descriptions, divided into seven categories. the categories are. christian heritage groups. indian heritage groups. islamic heritage groups. japanese heritage groups. jewish groups. sikh/sant mat groups. other groups each section has a brief introductory segment which provides general comments on the category. the 51 different groups are then divided according to the most appropriate category. the handbook follows the same format for each group in terms of specific questions raised. in total 16 different questi

ns, they have developed beliefs, systems, or structures which are considerably different from those traditions. several of the groups discussed in this section fall within this general framework: the baha'i faith, the native american church, and the universal life church. baha'i is a major new faith built on the revelations given to several persian mystics of the l9th century. while growing on an islamic base, it has moved to a more universal outlook. the native american church is one of many that uses psychedelic substances as a visionary aid and sacramental element. they are distinctive in being both the oldest and the only one with government sanction to use the designated drugs. the universal life church represents a response to the religious freedom in america by individuals with a st

nslated to "ra-harakte, master of the gods" this is a form of harwer (horus the elder. the great horus of pre-osirian legend, literally "horus of the horizon" in his solar aspect of xepera. ra-harakte had been the judge of the dead in non-osirian egypt, and he was also cast as the champion of set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger. the curious term "hadit" is simply the islamic word for a divinely inspired utterance of any sort; hence it is not found on the xxvi dynasty monument. the "hadit" disc is hieroglyphically identified on the stele as "behdety, a form of horus the elder worshipped at behdet in the eastern nile delta. summarily the stele of revealing is not based upon the osirian triad at all; its themes are those of a theban sun-cult based upon horus the

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delicate as a butterfly's wing, or suchlike. then more alarming news reached them. certain religious extremist groupings had issued statements denouncing the "ayesha haj" as an attempt to "hijack" public attention and to "incite communal sentiment. leaflets were being distributed- mishal picked them up off the road- in which it was claimed that "padyatra, or foot--pilgrimage, is an ancient, pre--islamic tradition of national culture, not imported property of mughal immigrants" also "purloining of this tradition by so--called ayesha bibiji is flagrant and deliberate inflammation of already sensitive situation "there will be no trouble" the kahin broke her silence to announce. o o o gibreel dreamed a suburb: as the ayesha haj neared sarang, the outermost suburb of the great metropolis on th

sarang, men whose lives were spent boring pathways through the earth "parting" it, one might say- could not stomach the notion that a girl could do the same, with a wave of her hand, for the sea. cadres of certain communalist groupings had been at work, inciting the miners to violence, and as a result of the activities of these agents provocateurs a mob was forming, carrying banners demanding: no islamic padyatra! butterfly witch, go home. on the night before they were due to enter sarang, mirza saeed made another futile appeal to the pilgrims "give up" he implored uselessly "tomorrow we will all be killed" ayesha whispered in mishal's ear, and she spoke up "better a martyr than a coward. are there any cowards here" there was one. sri srinivas, explorer of the grand canyon, proprietor of a

had to lead the procession dressed in the mundanity of an old cotton sari with a block-printed hem of leaves. the disappearance of the miracle that had seemed to validate their pilgrimage depressed all the marchers; so that in spite of all mishal akhtar's exhortations they were unable to sing as they moved forwards, deprived of the benediction of the butterflies, to meet their fate. o o o the no islamic padyatra street mob had prepared a welcome for ayesha in a street lined on both sides with the shacks of bicycle repairers. they had blocked the pilgrims' routes with dead bicycles, and waited behind this barricade of broken wheels, bent handlebars and silenced bells as the ayesha haj entered the northern sector of the street. ayesha walked towards the mob as if it did not exist, and when

ssacre of muslims, and their corpses had been dumped in the water, where they awaited the ministrations of some twentieth--century gaffer hexam. there were hundreds of bodies, swollen and rancid; the stench seemed to rise off the page. and in kashmir a once-popular chief minister who had "made an accommodation" with the congress- i had shoes hurled at him during the eid prayers by irate groups of islamic fundamentalists. communalism, sectarian tension, was omnipresent: as if the gods were going to war. in the eternal struggle between the world's beauty and its cruelty, cruelty was gaining ground by the day. sisodia's voice intruded on these morose thoughts. the producer had woken up to see the photograph from meerut staring up from chamcha's fold--out table "fact is" he said without any of

and, although the bombay courts had rejected this request, the case had gone up to the supreme court. george, even more stubbly of chin, lank of hair and sprawling of stomach than salahuddin remembered, drank rum in a dhobi talao boozer and thumped the table with pessimistic fists "this is the supreme court of shah bano fame" he cried, referring to the notorious case in which, under pressure from islamic extremists, the court had ruled that alimony payments were contrary to the will of allah, thus making india's laws even more reactionary than, for example, pakistan's "so i don't have much hope" he twisted, disconsolately, the waxy points of his moustache. his new girlfriend, a tall, thin bengali woman with cropped hair that reminded salahuddin a little of mishal sufyan, chose this moment

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ledge of all diseases, with their full and radical cure, makes known all plants in general, their virtues. probably from the greek god hermes. hornblas. patron devil of musical discord. his trumpet gathers the ministry of hell. huictiigara (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. occassions sleep and waking in some, and afflicts others with insomia. iblis (arabic form of greek diabolos. islamic devil, identified as asasel or lucifer after the descent. ijanki (hittite. snake demon, associated with leviathan and typhon. incubus (latin, he who lies on top. the devil as paramour, an erotic dream or nightmare. the name is roman, meaning a spirit summoned through dream incubation. ipos (goetia, 22nd spirit. earl and prince commanding 36 legions. appears as a lion headed angel, with goo

he who lies on top. the devil as paramour, an erotic dream or nightmare. the name is roman, meaning a spirit summoned through dream incubation. ipos (goetia, 22nd spirit. earl and prince commanding 36 legions. appears as a lion headed angel, with gooses feet and a hare s tail. tells fortunes, makes men witty and bold. isheth zenunim (hebrew. demon of prostitution. one of samael s wives. jinn (pre-islamic. nature spirits, who also cause madness. a specific sub-class of jinn were the ghouls. kakabel once an angel known for their interest in astrology. now a demon ruling 365,000 spirits. kesef an angel of wrath who transgressed their position and attacked moses at horeb. it was kezef who was imprisoned by aaron. khil (grimorium verum. occasions great earthquakes. kimaris, cimejes, cimeies (go

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

figure of a bird with its wings spread that is a chief symbol of zoroastrianism. filial piety: the respect and devotion a child shows his or her parents. fitrah: an inborn tendency to seek the creator. five classics: the original texts used by confucius in his practices and teachings: liji, shijing, shujing, chunqui, and yijing. world religions: almanac xix words to know five pillars: the core of islamic belief referring to declaring faith, daily prayer, charitable giving, fasting, and pilgrimage. folk beliefs: the beliefs of the common people. folk (minzoku) shinto: shinto that emphasizes folk beliefs, or common beliefs, of rural agricultural laborers. four affirmations: a code of conduct by which shintoists live, including emphases on tradition and family, nature, cleanliness, and worshi

a) shinto: shinto as it is practiced by a number of sects, or groups, formed primarily in the nineteenth century. secular: worldly things, of the physical world, as opposed to religious and spiritual. world religions: almanac xxvii words to know sedreh-pushi: the zoroastrian initiation rite. sephardic: term used to refer to jews of north africa, the middle east, spain, and portugal. shahadah: the islamic declaration of faith. it consists of the words ashahadu an la ilaha ill allah wa ashahadu ann muhammadar rasulullah, or i declare there is no god except god, and i declare that muhammad is the messenger of god. shaman: in indigenous tribes, an intermediary between the gods and the tribal members; also one who controls various spiritual forces, can look into the future, and can cure the ill

believe that depictions of the prophet muhammad are forbidden, while others believe that positive depictions are allowed. explain the two sides of this argument and show an example of a visual depiction of muhammad. xxxiii politics: religion has mixed with politics in many different ways throughout history. there have been governments in which religious leaders had supreme authority, such as the islamic leaders in afghanistan in the 1990s. and there have been others in which religion was discouraged or even forbidden, such as in north korea. in other countries, religion has changed over time. in japan, for instance, shintoism was once the state religion. however, since world war ii it has lost its religious status but is still practiced in daily rituals and holidays. choose a country and

e also been responsible, in part, for the rule of law in society. religious law was one of the early inspirations for secular or nonreligious legal codes. the code of hammurabi, the eighteenth-century bce babylonian code of law, takes as its inspiration the gods who put hammurabi in power. in some cultures, the secular legal system is still highly influenced by religious law. this is true in some islamic states, where religious law, sharia, is practiced. additionally, some religious historians believe that the development of 16 world religions: almanac what is religion? monotheistic religions led to the creation of strong, centralized nation states, ruled first by kings, and later by elected officials. thus, religion has had a major influence not only on the moral and ethical codes of soci

important holy period for baha s is the festival of ridvan, held from april 21 and 29 through may 2. naw-ruz, or new year s day, on march 21, is also an important holy day. phrases. baha is sometimes used by members to address one another. world religions: almanac 75 baha sects and schisms the baha faith is itself the result of a schism, or separation, from the babis, and that faith was itself an islamic sect. since the religion was established there have been several disputes over leadership. the first of these disputes occurred after the death of baha u lla h, who had established the covenant of baha u lla h. this covenant was a promise to his followers guaranteeing the unbroken continuation of the baha faith by creating a clear transfer of leadership from one generation to another. at h

had become an official office of the catholic church. during the middle ages (the period of european history from c. 500 c. 1500, the inquisition used forms of torture to get confessions of heresy from people. those found guilty were burned at the stake. in 1453 constantinople, the center of the eastern orthodox church, was conquered by the muslim ottoman turks, a tribe that was creating a great islamic empire in the middle east and in asia minor. in time the turks also took over greece, causing many christian scholars and in 313 ce the roman emperor constantine declared christianity to be a legal religion under the roman empire. by 380 it had become the empire s official religion. the granger collection, new york. reproduced by permission. 128 world religions: almanac christianity intell

ximately 760 million muslims live in asia and the middle east. in addition, there are some 301 million african muslims, with the largest numbers in egypt (38 million, morocco (21 million, and algeria (20 million. about 32 million muslims live in europe, with the largest number in russia, where muslims comprise 19 percent of the population. it is unknown how many muslims live in the united states. islamic organizations put the number at a minimum of six million, while independent polling organizations put the number variously at one to three million. canada s roughly 580,000 muslims represent about 2 percent of that nation s population. becoming a muslim requires no formal rituals or ceremonies, such as baptism in christianity. to become a muslim, a person has to recite the shahadah, or dec

. they persecuted (mistreated) muhammad and his followers, often beating them or hurling garbage at them. a key event took place eleven years later, when words to know allah: the name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. caliph: one of muhammad s successors as leader of the faith. fitrah: an inborn tendency to seek the creator. five pillars: the core of islamic belief referring to declaring faith, daily prayer, charitable giving, fasting, and pilgrimage. hadiths: the sayings of the prophet muhammad recorded by his followers. haj: pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. halal: permissible activities for muslims. haram: prohibited activities for muslims. jinn: evil spirits that tempt a person away from dedication to allah. ka aba: the shrine built by

tility from meccans, muhammad discovered a plot to assassinate him. he and his followers left mecca for the city of yathrib to the north. the residents of yathrib gave muhammad a warm welcome. soon they changed the city s name to medina, from the arabic phrase madinat al-nadi, or city of the prophet. as muhammad oversaw the construction of the first muslim mosque (place of worship) and created an islamic state, the muslims in medina successfully repelled at least three invasions by meccan armies. in time they conquered mecca, destroyed idols, and converted mecca into a muslim community. mecca today is the world s holiest site to muslims, who are expected to make a pilgrimage there at least once during their lives. in the seventh century the lands of arabia were peopled by competing nomadic

the teachings of muhammad, to regain control of the empire. civil war broke out again in 680, when ali s son, hussain ibn ali, led the shiites against the umayyads. the war ended when he and his family were killed in a historic battle at karbala, south of baghdad (in present-day iraq. ali s death still did not end the civil wars. as conversions (changes of religious belief) spread throughout the islamic world, many new muslims began to resent the umayyad control on power and their unfair taxes. to oppose the umayyads, yet another rebel group formed: the abbasids, named after muhammad s uncle, abbas. in 750 the abbasids launched a civil war, capturing the muslim capital of damascus and massacring the umayyad caliph and most of his family. one umayyad, abd-er- rahman, escaped his family s d

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have been left to bleed to death. moreover, if cooperation like this existed between brother masons in the field, one is left to wonder at what degree collusion between confederate and union freemasons of high office and rank, took place behind the scenes "i gruesomely swear that i'm on the square" 201 and more revealing hand signs. this photograph in time magazine (february 14, 2005) pictures an islamic mob rallying in karachi, pakistan. the demonstrators were declaring their support for a. q. kahn, called the "father of the islamic nuclear bomb" what is especially interesting are the many varied hand gestures of the people in the crowd. intriguing, to say the least. environmental activists, members of greenpeace, show their signs. several display the so-called "v" sign of the illuminati

mackey's encyclopedia of masonry dates the founding by jews of the royal order of the freemasons in palestine at anno lucis 4037, or 37 ad. chart of masonic emblems showing the many degrees published, distributed by a jewish-owned jewelry firm. magical signs of the jewish cabala 429 an old english masonic manual. the words orbis miraculum mean "magic mirror" 430 codex magica many in the arab and islamic world know that zionism is racism and resent the united states' blind support of israeli zionist aggression. fanatical zionism has also led to masonic excesses, talmudic evil, and cabalistic magic by satanic jews (photo: reuters) magical signs of the jewish cabala 431 blood ritual philip de vier for many years, in europe and russia, reports of cabalistic blood ritual sacrifices of young ge

which is lit by fire (photo: from book, in the words of nelson mandela, edited by jennifer williams, carol publishing group, 1998, p. 43 "black power" symbol. blood red- red stars, clenched fists 575 the communist party's international brigades fought a bloody civil war in spain. here are some of the merciless red thugs at a rally in barcelona in 1938 (photo: vanity fair, september 2001, p. 302) islamic cleric ayatollah khomeni, his hand clenched in the communist style in this poster, led the nation of iran until his death. 576 codex magica performers of the cirque du soleil give the clenched fist salute. cirque du soleil (circus of the sun) is a big hit with their dazzling theatre in shows in las vegas. the demonic influence in their performances is thick. communist hatred of jesus and o

he son and because of saturn's role as taught in the mythologies. blood red- red stars, clenched fists 581 the similarity of the ussr emblem and the united nations emblem is undeniable. a friend tells me a resemblance is also found on products and in commercials for cadillac automobiles, lenox china, george dickel whiskey, winston cigarettes, and on the design of "wheat" pennies. the shriners, an islamic-oriented freemasonry organization whose members take an oath at the altar of allah, erected and dedicated the peace monument in toronto, canada in 1930. observe how the globe, the angel's arms position and the sheathes in the angel's hands are elements found in both the u.s.s.r. and the u.n. emblems. the statue is called "lady of peace" just as the u.s.s.r. called itself a peaceloving coun

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s in this life and his or her continued existence in a future life. conceptions of the world beyond death vary considerably among the world religions, but in every religious expression known to history or anthropology, the question of the afterlife in store for the individual believer has been of prime importance. this chapter will offer summaries of the beliefs of the buddhist, christian, hindu, islamic, and jewish faiths concerning the fate of the soul after death. belief in an afterlife, like belief in a supreme being, creates in those who affirm such faith a way of regarding themselves in relation to the future life. these individuals need not view the possibility of an afterlife in the abstract. those whose faith has trained them to believe completely in an afterlife can easily imagin

of how they have lived their present life. to religious individuals, faith in an afterlife becomes increasingly part of their existence, a source of courage and strength as the years go by. and once physical death overtakes them, for the great majority of these individuals, the most significant feature of an afterlife will be their union with the divine. for those individuals who hold christian, islamic, or jewish religious beliefs, the soul is generally conceived as coming into existence with the birth of the body, and it would perish when the body perished if it were not for the supernatural intervention of god, who confers upon the soul an immortality that it could not otherwise attain. those whose view of the afterlife includes the possibility of reincarnation, past lives, and future

lief in reincarnation to be held primarily by the adherents of hinduism and some buddhist sects, the concept of past lives is by no means confined to these eastern religions. this chapter will examine many western philosophers, clerics, medical doctors, and scholars who have expressed an individual acceptance of a prior and continued existence in an earthly body, in addition to certain christian, islamic, and jewish sects that have also suggested that reincarnation may be one of the forms of survival after death. down through the centuries, the physical act of passage from one world to another at the moment of death has remained a mystery for the living. from time to time, one who had been resuscitated and brought back to life returned with an account of having stood at the edge of some va

ught to define the soul in more metaphysical terms, and a belief in the preexistence of souls was generally established. in this view, allah kept a treasure house of souls in paradise available for their respective incarnations on earth. 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 13 muslims pray in the direction of mecca during an islamic holiday at coney island, new york (ap/wide world photos) the islamic paradise is in many ways an extension of the legendary garden of eden in the bible. it is a beautiful place filled with trees, flowers, and fruits, but it really cannot be expressed in human terms. it is far more wonderful than any person could ever imagine. all who obey god and the apostle are in the company of those on

any person could ever imagine. all who obey god and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the grace of god of the prophets who teach, the sincere lovers of truth, the witnesses [martyrs] who testify, and the righteous who do good: ah! what a beautiful fellowship (qur an 4:69) hell is a place of torment, and, like the image held by many christians, a place of fire and burning. in the islamic teachings, neither heaven nor hell last throughout eternity. infinity belongs to allah alone, and there may exist various stages of paradise and hell for those souls who dwell there. m delving deeper ali, ahmed, trans. the qur an. new york: akrash publishing karachi for the book of the month club, 1992. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper col

particular are not encouraged to remember past lives. regardless of such admonitions against pursuing the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 41 pope john paul ii places a signed note into a crack in the western wall in israel (ap/wide world photos) reincarnation is not an approved doctrine in any of the orthodox christian, islamic, or judaic religions. knowledge of karma acquired from prior life experiences, the holy books of eastern faiths teach reincarnation with none of the reluctance of the west. the chief theological work of the hindus, the upanishads, expresses the doctrine of rebirth in the poetic imagery of a goldsmith who takes a raw piece of gold and shapes it into another more beautiful form. so verily, t

u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 217 kind of power that the untutored masses were attributing to witches. in 1022 there occurred the first fully attested burning of a heretic, in the city of orleans. by the twelfth century, the cathar sect had become so popular among the people that pope innocent iii (1160 or 1161 1216) considered it a greater menace to christianity than the islamic warriors who pummeled the crusaders and who threatened all of europe. to satisfy his outrage, he ordered the only crusade ever launched by christians against fellow christians, declaring as heretics the albigensians, as the cathars of southern france were known. the inquisition came into existence in 1231 with the excommunicamus of pope gregory ix (c. 1170 1241, who at first urged local bi

r for wisdom (1 kings 3:5 9; elijah s prayer for fire to consume the altars of baal (1 kings 18:36 37; jabez s prayer for prosperity in his work (1 chronicles 4:10. there is a rich jewish tradition that envisions angels carrying human prayers to heaven, and there is a belief that the entreaties of the righteous can more effectively intercede with god than ordinary mortals. as in the christian and islamic traditions, there are strict warnings against worshipping the angelic intercessors. god alone must be the sole and ultimate focus of all prayer. in recent years, more and more doctors and scientists have begun to study the power that many religious men and women claim may be achieved by focusing their prayers upon god and asking healing for themselves or others. dr. larry dossey (1940, aut

albigenses, to be heretical and condemned the citizens of beziers, perpignan, narbonne, toulouse, and carcassone to death as enemies of the church. simon de montfort (c. 1165 1218, an accomplished military leader, was appointed to conduct a crusade against fellow christians, cultured men and women of what is today southern france, who the pope had deemed a greater threat to christianity than the islamic warriors who had pummeled the crusaders. although it took him nearly 20 years of warfare against the beleaguered albigenses, de montfort managed to exterminate 100,000 men, women, and children, before he himself was killed during the siege of toulouse in june 1218. according to many contemporary scholars, the cathars or albigenses real offense, their heresy, was their opposition to the sac

. in black magick, can be the casting of a spell or formula to invite an evil spirit to appear. ions an atom or group of atoms that are electrically charged through the process of gaining or losing one or more electrons. from the greek ion meaning moving thing; and from the present participle of ienai meaning to go from the movement of any ion toward the electrode of the opposite charge. jinni in islamic or muslim legend, a spirit that is capable of taking on the shape of humans or animals in order to perform mischievous acts or to exercise supernatural power and influence over humans. from the arabic jinn, which is the plural of jinni. kabbalah body of mystical jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings contained in the hebrew scriptures. kabbalah is hebrew for that wh

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demarcacion, literally meaning, marking off. elixir something that is a mysterious, magical substance with curative powers believed to heal all ills or to prolong life and preserve youthfulness. from the arabic al-iksir and the greek xerion, meaning dry powder for treating wounds. hoax an act of deception that is intended to make people think or believe something is real when it is not. jinni in islamic or muslim legend, a spirit that is capable of taking on the shape of humans or animals in order to perform mischievous acts or to exercise supernatural power and influence over humans. from the arabic jinn, which is the plural of jinni. kabbalist/kabbalah jewish mystical teachings that are based on hidden meanings in the hebrew scriptures. can also be spelled cabala. from the hebrew qabbal

sidered forbidden at one time have developed into an acceptable social activity. for example, seeing a couple kissing in public would seldom raise an eyebrow today, but in the puritan new england of the 1690s, such a harmless act would have sent the man and woman to the stocks and public humiliation. on the other hand, kissing a woman in public might still get a man jailed or fined in many of the islamic nations in the mid-east. as the world grows smaller because of modern transportation and its diverse inhabitants encounter people from different cultures more often than ever before in the history of the human species, it becomes increasingly difficult to condemn one person s custom as another s taboo. within a nation, such as the united states, which has always endeavored to maintain a de

. in black magick, can be the casting of a spell or formula to invite an evil spirit to appear. ions an atom or group of atoms that are electrically charged through the process of gaining or losing one or more electrons. from the greek ion meaning moving thing; and from the present participle of ienai meaning to go from the movement of any ion toward the electrode of the opposite charge. jinni in islamic or muslim legend, a spirit that is capable of taking on the shape of humans or animals in order to perform mischievous acts or to exercise supernatural power and influence over humans. from the arabic jinn, which is the plural of jinni. kabbalah body of mystical jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings contained in the hebrew scriptures. kabbalah is hebrew for that wh

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of heretics who had relapsed in their promises to repent of their sins of doubt and questioning. in 1198, pope innocent declared such individuals as traitors against christ and condemned them to death by burning. in 1208, the cathar sect.also known as the albigensians.had become so popular among the people in europe that pope innocent iii considered them a greater threat to christianity than the islamic warriors who were pummeling the christian knights on the crusades. to satisfy his concern, he ordered the only crusade ever launched against fellow christians by attacking the cathars who resided in the albi region of southern france. in the opinion of pope innocent iii and many of the church hierarchy, the cathars were teaching the rudiments of witchcraft. although the cathars centered th

gearth mysteries. h [online] http//www.religionandnature.com/ encyclopedia/samples/earth_mysteries.htm. magin, ulrich. gwilhelm teudt and his holy lines. h the ley hunter. no. 133 [online] http//www.leyhunter.com/new/ win.htm. the energies of holy lines all muslims who are able to do so are required to make at least one pilgrimage (hajj) to mecca during their lifetime. ed to those who follow the islamic faith. there is an area of several miles around mecca that is considered to be haram (restricted, and non-muslims are forbidden to enter this sacred zone. those muslims who travel into this area as they progress toward the mother of cities must profess their having undergone a state of ritual purity and consecration. it is at this point that they set aside the clothes in which they have tr

in black magick, can be the casting of a spell or formula to invite an evil spirit to appear. ions an atom or group of atoms that are electrically charged through the process of gaining or losing one or more electrons. from the greek ion meaning moving thing; and from the present participle of ienai meaning to go .from the movement of any ion toward the electrode of the opposite charge. jinni in islamic or muslim legend, a spirit that is capable of taking on the shape of humans or animals in order to perform mischievous acts or to exercise supernatural power and influence over humans. from the arabic jinn, which is the plural of jinni. kabbalah body of mystical jewish teachings based on an interpretation of hidden meanings contained in the hebrew scriptures. kabbalah is hebrew for gthat w

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the witches sabbat -the adversarial foundations of sorcery- by michael w. ford 14 to look into the possibilities of models and how one may shape and assist in self-transformation, it is imperative to study and understand the foundations of the very gods which emerge from us. nightside or shadowside as a term is defined in witches sabbat and luciferian1 terminology as averse dreaming practice. in islamic mythology and lore, shaitan is the lord of rebellious spirits, a djinn made of fire. it is this fire2 which leads the individual towards the wall looking down into the abyss, and the infinite possibilities of being. the sorcerer thus begins to adopt the god form of shaitan to master the spirits and djinn of the self all of those elements which command mastery of the self. night is the in-b

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be comprehended by regard- ing it from a higher level, which is the as yet unmanifested eighth point of its cen- ter. this point reveals the dynamic balance between the three of heaven and the four of earth. the heptagram is not static but moving, a symbol of the conquest and victory of the flame of spirit over the dull clay of the flesh. it is an apt symbol for the christian crusades 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

rchdemons that best reflects his or her independent knowledge and experience. all demons are inherently qlippothic. all are apostates, and sow discord throughout the cosmos. the christian church of the middle ages grouped them into military ranks behind the great apostate angel, lucifer, the first created being to rebel against divine authority. this was also done by the jewish kabbalists and the islamic philosophers. it is a dark, shadow imitation of the military order that reigns within the army of the angels of heaven. in christian and jewish myth, the fallen angels were responsible for instructing humanity in all the arts and sciences that can be turned to evil. attracted by the beauty of mortal women, these fallen angels descended to the earth, where they dwelt with their human lovers

ak if it chooses to make itself heard. the din that echoes continuously in the skull of the average modern man or woman makes it utterly impossible for the light to express itself at a safe volume. it is always possible for the light to flood the mind of a human being to the exclusion of other sensory signals, but this can result in madness and only happens in circumstances of dire necessity. the islamic mystics of the middle ages wrote that the voice of god can clearly be heard at all times and in all places, and that it is only the willful stupidity of mankind that obscures it. when the light speaks to an individual on the personal level, it does so through the mediation of a perceived form that the individual's mind is able to deal with. when the message is purely emotional and spiritua

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of the seats of the elders, see appendix a, the third and the fourteenth keys. the divisions of the heavenly throne are reflected in the throne of solomon, god's representative upon the earth. solomon's throne had six steps leading up to it, and upon these steps were twelve lions, representing the twelve tribes (1 kings 10:18-20. the symbolism of solomon's throne gained considerable importance in islamic folklore, where it was merged the twelve stones 75 with the throne of god (see the description in chapter xi. on the symbolic level, the throne and the altar are the same. both are, at root, cubic stones that contain the awareness and power of god. both express tetragrammaton in a concrete manner, numerically in divisions of four, six, twelve, and twenty-four. n the bible, there are a numb

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ic root fhm, meaning black or wisdom. this is the basis of the sabbatic goat as the torch bearer, which signifies knowledge and intelligence. 2 the antinomianian path of self-deification, isolating the psyche from the natural order of self- dissolution. 3 from oz, or azazel the fire djinn and first born of light. 4 leviathan, see the grimoire abramelin. 5 called iblis or is the same as shaitan in islamic sufism. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 3 and hell below. he in his late teens or early twenties rebels from the norm of christianity and adopts a so-called satanic or even an atheistic belief system. by the time he becomes old, 50 s plus he begins reverting back to the christian beliefs which were embedded from his childhood. he dies a christian due as he views his body crumbling and his

luciferian must never sacrifice the deep values of the beauty of life and the search for intelligence and self-excellence. keep in mind, violence has always been the christian way when they cannot intellectually force their will upon others. thus rituals such as the ritual of the holy guardian angel, azal ucel or the ritual of the adversary are designed black magickal or high sorcery dealing 6 in islamic and sufic satanology, azazel or shaitan is considered the divine imagination. 7 by supporting such, you confirm every individual has a life given right to do their will as long as it does not adjure or step over another s. christians ignore and put themselves above the right of to each his own or do what thou wilt, instead propagating bigotry through dirt covered mirrors of a shriveled sav

ordering the affairs and deeds of those who are under my sway. i am presently at to such as trust in me and call upon me in time of need, neither is there any place void of where i am not present -kitab el-jelwa, the book of revelation the so-called devil worshippers known as the yezidis11 have two symbols which relate to their tribe, a black snake and the peacock. the peacock itself in known in islamic lore, being a bird which fell with azazel to earth as shaitan s bird and in zoroastrian lore as ahriman creating the peacock to show that he could if he wished create beauty but chose darkness. the peacock angel, known as malak (meaning king, a word associated with sufi) and tauus (peacock) represents shaitan or azazel the fire djinn. the term angel is accordance to such lore is that angel

h forever, in spirit form, through the blood and psyche of his initiates, and manifest through their deeds and work. cain walks between worlds, as set, as his higher spirit, azazel, called also yaltabaoth23 and is the horned black man of the sabbat. to know the path of the wise is to know and commune with cain, to become like him through initiatory work based on your own predilection. shaitan the islamic traditions consider satan to be a djinn of fire, which presents a certain superiority over other angels. azazel was originally the preacher to all the other angels in pre eternity, who was first seated under the throne of glory. azazel was cast from heaven for refusing to bow before clay (adam) and thus fell into the darkness. it was ayn al-qozat hamadani who symbolized iblis being a guard

olized iblis being a guardian of the threshold, a black light and the tresses which hide the beloved s face. thus shaitan was a guardian and initiatory focus24, from which one could move through to godhead. it is essentially, self-deification through separation from the natural order. in the gnostic christian text, the apocryphon of john, yaltabaoth or lucifer came forth from a beautiful angel in islamic lore to a lion headed serpent, its eyes were like lightening flashes the antinomian djinn was born, who would fall as lightening and know both the highest celestial realms and the chthonic depths of the earth and hell. in summary as the reader has moved through the darkness of this work, let the origins of the sabbat now come to the surface, that which falls to darkness emerges in light th

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power of consecration, so almost anything could be consecrated if it is considered sacred to the magician. for example, i have most certainly consecrated the writings in this book. in consecrating planetary talismans, it is advisable to use invocations of the names on the finished seal itself, along with other prayers or affirmations the magician deems fit. the chart in figure 3-c lists the sufi (islamic) god-names, should the student wish to incorporate any of these names on the talisman. they, like the hebrew god-names, come from the same arabic source, and because they belong to the western tradition can be used just as easily. one will note that many of the ninety-nine attributes in the islamic tradition contain the letters al, which is a god-name in hebrew as well. the student may eit

al-muksit.the equitable 21. dhu'l-jalah wa'l ikram.the lord of majesty and liberality 22. malik ul-mulk.the ruler of the kingdom 23. ar-ra'uf.the kind 24. al-afuw.the pardoner 25. al-muntakim.the avenger 26. at-tawwab.the acceptor of repentance 27. al-barr.the righteous 28. al-wali.the governor 29. al-batin.the hidden 30. az-zahir.the evident 31. al-akhir.the last 32. al-halim.the clement the 99 islamic god-names 33. al-azim.the grand 34. al-ghafur.the forgiving 35. ash-shakur.the grateful 36. al-ali.the exalted 37. al-kabir.the great 38. al-hafiz.the guardian 39. al-mukit.-the strengthener 40. al-hasib.the reckoner 41. al-jalil.the majestic 42. al-karim.the generous 43. ar-rakib.the watcher 44. al-mujib.the approver 45. al-wasi.the comprehensive 46. aj-hakim.the wise 47. al-wadud.the lov

my knowledge, no one in the golden dawn tradition has previously published these planetary seals; they are far more powerful as meditation mandalas than most any other talismanic figures i have ever worked with. even some unpublished golden dawn lessons i have read did not reveal these seals, yet they are exceptionally easy to discover when attention is paid to the design on the saturn kamea. the islamic magicians were most certainly aware of them, and many of their magical designs have been incorporated in beautiful mandala-like islamic carpets and artwork. we will examine this in more detail in chapter nine. information about how to make seals of the planets from the same planetary kameas as we have in the golden dawn tradition is available in the book islamic patterns: an analytical and

mage figure 9-a figure 9-b figure 9-c of the door to eternal life, brother c. r. having conquered death. st. paul once said that death was the last adversary, a motto dr. case was fond of quoting. seven multiplied by four is twenty-eight, the theosophic extension of seven, the planet venus. the flower of venus is the rose, and is the major symbol of both rosicrucianism and the golden dawn. in the islamic tradition, seven represented the planetary sphere of venus as well as universal nature. seven is a quarter division of the cycle of twenty-eight days and becomes the rhythm of a week. it is a particularly feminine planet in all cultures. magical squares were important to islamic magicians, and mulhammad himself once said "praise be god the creator who has bestowed upon man the power to dis

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nal. i do not think this binary can be exegetically elicited from or eisegetically imposed upon hebrew scripture or later jewish literary sources. for a discussion of the paradox of reversible motion in scientific theory, which raises similar questions with regard to the cause and effect relationship, see park, image of eternity, pp. 45 65. 36. on the comparative accounts of perpetual creation in islamic mysticism and zen buddhism, with specific reference to the depiction of the moment as what is cut off from before and after, see izutsu, creation, pp. 141 173. on the paradox of the permanence of impermanence in the buddhist conception of atemporal temporality, see also the analysis of wayman, no time, pp. 51 notes to pages 59 60 209 210 notes to pages 60 62 53; mansfield, time in madhyami

visualization, p. 141, and other references cited on p. 157 n. 37. 91. babylonian talmud, menahot 110a. 92. shalom dovber schneersohn, sefer ha-ma amarim 5663, vol. 2, p. 199. 93. al-qushayri thus referred to the sufi as the son of his moment, ibn waqtihi, that is, the sufi is distinguished by the fact that he lives fully in the moment in which he must fulfill his religious duty. see sells, early islamic mysticism, p. 100; rumi, mathnawi, 1:132 133, 3:1426. the intrinsic connection between sufism and being-in-the-moment is repeated elsewhere by al-qushayri. see, for instance, qushayri, principles of sufism, p. 41: they say concerning the meaning of renunciation, each speaks from his own moment [waqt] and indicates his own limit. and, ibid, p. 303: amr b. uthman al-makki was asked about suf

eaning of renunciation, each speaks from his own moment [waqt] and indicates his own limit. and, ibid, p. 303: amr b. uthman al-makki was asked about sufism, and he asserted, it is that the servant acts according to whatever is most fitting to the moment. also pertinent is the remark of al-junayd accounting for the different presentations of the teachings of al-bistami, translated in sells, early islamic mysticism, p. 214: the accounts passed down from abu yazid are various and the raconteurs differ in what they heard. that might be god knows best because of the difference in the moments (awqat) that had come upon him and the difference in stationings (mawatin) alternating in what was bestowed specially upon him. on the term waqt, see the comments of al-hujwiri, kashf al-mahjub, pp. 96 104

ur anic verses. according to this occasionalist perspective, time (zaman) does not exhibit continuous duration but consists rather of discrete atoms or instants (anat or awqat; every moment, therefore, is considered an accident of ephemerality that is a product of a constant re-creation (khalq fi kull waqt. see massignon, time, pp. 108 114; peeters, god s created speech, p. 130; pines, studies in islamic atomism, pp. 29 31, 32 33, 57 64, 112 114. 94. sells, early islamic mysticism, p. 128. 95. from this vantage point, waqt is the temporal instantiation of the dialectic of fana and baqa according to sufi psychology, that is, the passing-away of the discrete self and abiding in what is real. just as the moment exemplifies the dialectic of effacement and confirmation, so the awakened heart mu

and confirmation, so the awakened heart must abide in 214 notes to pages 70 71 passing away and passes away in abiding. see ch. 5 n. 80. the nexus between the conception of mental entities as momentary and the doctrine of metaphysical selflessness is attested in buddhist sources as well, as noted by rospatt, buddhist doctrine, p. 117. 96. mackendrick, immemorial silence, pp. 109 110. 97. elmore, islamic sainthood, p. 230 n. 22. on the mystical pilgrimage of the heart to the heart, symbolized by the ka ba, as liberating one from the bondage of time (riqq al-awqat, see the passage from ibn arabi in elmore, op. cit, pp. 171 and 247. consider also the formulation of ibn arabi, journey to the lord of power, p. 60: when the influence of the moment befalls him, he will receive it. let him beware

is not to be understood in the sense of a time-atom, but rather as a boundary for periods of time. this interpretation of wujiu as a boundary is also the more plausible one on the ground that the later mohists have developed a theory of potential infinity to solve the paradoxes of infinite divisibility. on the buddhist theory of atoms, see the brief but insightful discussion in pines, studies in islamic atomism, pp. 118 121. there are also grounds, both philological and conceptual, for studying heidegger s thinking in relation to the view of the moment as the fullness of eternity articulated by meister eckhart. for references, see ch. 5 n. 52. 103. gazur-i-ilahi, secret of ana l-haqq, pp. 54 55. 104. this account is an elaboration of my comment in divine suffering, p. 115. 105. my explica

hyeh asher ehyeh as signifying the necessarily existent; altmann, essence and existence, pp. 294 315, reprinted in altmann, studies, pp. 107 127. 115. see goichon, la distinction de l essence et de l existence; rahman, essence and existence, pp. 1 16; morewedge, metaphysica of avicenna, pp. 206 249; wisnovsky, avicenna s metaphysics, pp. 200, 204 205, 219 225, 239 243, 245 249; fakhry, history of islamic philosophy, pp. 156 159. 116. cordovero, elimah rabbati, 5b. 117. ma arekhet ha-elohut, ch. 2, 5b. 118. see, for instance, bahya ben asher, be ur al ha-torah, vol. 2, p. 29 (ad exod 3:13; zohar hadash, 17b (midrash ha-ne elam; and the passage from nahmanides cited n. 136, this chapter. see also spinoza, tractatus theologico-politicus, ch. 2, p. 81. 119. vital, es hayyim, 1:1, 11a. notes to

rimmonim, 4:4, 17d. 143. ibid, 18:3, 84c. 144. see n. 111, this chapter. 145. i borrow this expression from rappaport, ritual, p. 12. 146. the kabbalistic understanding of time as attributable to the divine nature is reminiscent of the identification of allah as time (dahr) attested in various dicta (for example, fa inna allaha huwa al-dahr, god himself is time) traceable to an old strand in the islamic tradition, indeed, a tradition transmitted in the name of god as the speaker (hadith qudsi: god said: man insults me in blaming time (dahr; i am time (ana al-dahr. in my hands is the command (amr, and i cause the alternation of night and day. see b wering, ideas of time, pp. 206 207. consider also the remark of ibn arabi, divine governance, p. 240: our master, the messenger of allah, said:

(aeon) and zaman (time, see chittick, self-disclosure of god, pp. 128 132. in a manner strikingly analogous to the kabbalistic idea, time is treated in sufi teaching as divine and related specifically to the nocturnal-diurnal oscillation. for similar implications in the zoroastrian depiction of zurwan, see n. 166, this chapter. the impact of the notes to pages 78 79 219 zoroastrian conception on islamic perceptions of time is duly noted by b wering, ideas of time, pp. 211 212. see also corbin, cyclical time, pp. 115 172, esp. 144 151, and the comment regarding the muslim tradition of the snake encircling the throne being possibly identical with the cosmic snake usually associated with zervan akaranan (the god of uncreated time) in heinen, islamic cosmology, p. 185. 147. on the symbolic id

from the ra aya meheimna stratum in zohar 3:33b-34a, where the strange fire is interpreted as cohabiting with a menstruating jewish woman; insofar as christian women are always in the status of menstruating women, the interpretations are thematically congruous; in zohar 3:37b, the different explanations of the sin of nadab and abihu are cited. 251. zohar 1:116b. see ibid, 194a. 252. sells, early islamic mysticism, pp. 100 101; b wering, ideas of time, p. 88. a similar image is attested in the buddhist tradition, where the weapon of indra, the thunderbolt or diamond cutter (vajra, is utilized to depict the nonconceptual, ever-fresh awareness, supreme and indestructible, the discerning vision that cuts through obstructing elements to make a space for the primordial state of pure and total p

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