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their usefulness has passed. geburah is reflected in the charioteer in the tarot. tiphareth: the sixth emanation on the tree of life. it is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (chesed) and judgement (geburah) higher on the tree. occultists identify tiphareth as the sphere of spiritual rebirth, and is ascribed to solar deities such as ra, apollo, and mithra as well as osiris and jesus christ. the tarot card temperence identifies the direct mystical ascent to tiphareth from malkuth, the physical. netzach: the seventh emanation on the tree of life. netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represents intellect and rational thought. netzach is the sphere of love and spiritual passion and is

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

od, only wodan the wizard himself could conjure and heal the limb (see suppl. the whole incident is as little known to the edda as to other norse legends. yet what was told in a heathen spell in thuringia before the tenth century is still in its substance found lurking in conjuring formulas known to the country folk of scotland and denmark (conf. ch. xxxiii, dislocation, except that they apply to jesus what the heathen believed of balder and wodan. it is somewhat odd, that cato (dere rust. 160) should give, likewise for a dislocated limb, an old eoman or perhaps sabine form of spell which is unintelligible to us, but in which a god is evidently invoked: luxum si quod est, hac cantione sanum fiet. harundinem prende tibi viridem pedes iv aut v longam, mediam diffinde, et duo homines teneant

% who are said to be three, like the sirens and mermaids- the bulgarian samodiva or samovua corresponds to the servian vila. when the wounded pomak cries to his 'sister' samodiva, she comes and cures him. the samodivy carry off children; and mischief wrought by the wise women. 437 elements, by storms &c, is ascribed to them. like the fates, they begift the newborn: three samodivy visit the infant jesus, one sews him a shirt, another knits him a band, and the third trims a cap for him. some stories about them closely resemble those of the swan-maids. stoyan finds three samodivy bathing, removes their clothes, restores those of the two eldest, but takes the youngest (mariyka) home, and marries her. st. john christens her first child, and asks her to dance as do the samodivy. but she cannot w

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

, in binah 63 seg, in yetzirah 45 mah and in assiah 52 ben (indicating the end tablet) in the tablet is shown the method of writing the hebrew words by the yetziratic attribution of the alphabet, whence result some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus, tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh by air, aries, virgo, aries; from yeheshuah, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus. which is simply the tetragrammaton, with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination; virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox of earth, in whose manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries;

e manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries; virgo, water; the firmament, the balanced force, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign operating in the zodiac) the virgin goddess and the waters of creation. returning to the spelling of yeheshuah, it is easy to see that the lamb is an appropriate symbol of jesus, from the prevalence of the aries symbol, whose fire is subdued and modified by its other associations. hiero: returns to his seat. heg: leads practicus to west. hiereus: in the theoricus grade you were shown the lineal figures attributed to the planets. the figures as shown consist of the dekagram, endekagram and dodekagram, together with the two forms of the enneagram and the remaining for

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d from it is derived the password of this grade which is hyha, which should be lettered separately when given thus: chief "a" aspirant "h" chief "y" aspirant "h" chief "the keyword is i.n.r.i. which is inscribed with its correspondences upon this complete symbol of the rose and cross which i bear upon my breast. these letters have been occasionally used as the initials of the following sentences: jesus nazarenus rex judecorum, whence it symbolizes the grand word of this grade which is hwchy or the hebrew name of jesus, formed of the holy letter c, representing the \yhla jwr, placed within the center of the name 27 tetragrammaton. also, it has been interpreted as: igne natura revovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" chief (indic

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

conditions: the direct experience of spiritual truth. here, and here only, do we find a position in which the great religious minds of all times and all climes coincide. it is necessarily above dogma, because dogma consists of a collection of intellectual statements, each of which, and also its contradictory, can easily be disputed and overthrown. 3. you are probably aware that in the society of jesus the postulants are trained to debate on all these highly controversial subjects. they put up a young man to prove any startling blasphemy that happens to occur to them. and the more shocked the young man is, the better the training for his mind, and the better service will he give to the society in the end; but only if his mind has been completely disabused of its confidence in its own right

instincts, desires, or habits can intrude. he has freed his will of all these inhibitions. he is a perfect function of the machinery of the order. in the general of the society is concentrated the power of all those separate wills, just as in the human body every cell should be completely devoted in its particular quality to the concentrated will of the organism. 5. in other words, the society of jesus has created a perfect imitation of the skeleton of the original creation, living man. it has complied with the divinely instituted order of things, and that is why we see that the body, which was never numerically important, has yet been one of the greatest influences in the development of europe. it has not always worked perfectly, but that has not been the fault of the system; and, even as

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ow is mentioned as the sign of salvation. the world has been purified by water, and was ready for the revelation of wine. god would never again destroy his work, but ultimately seal its perfection by a baptism of fire. now, in this analogue also falls the coat of many colors which was made for joseph, a legend which was regarded as so important that it was subsequently borrowed for the romance of jesus. the veil of the temple, too, was of many colors. we find, further east, that the manipura cakkra--the lotus of the city of jewels--which is an important centre in hindu anatomy, and apparently identical with the solar plexus, is the central point of the nervous system of the human body, dividing the sacred from the profane, or the lower from the higher. in western mysticism, once more we le

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

e in the air, and lighteth upon the earth at his pleasure. so spake iacobus burgundus molensis(17) the grand master of the temple; and of the god that is ass-headed did he dare not speak. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 73 [76] commentary( lambda-gamma) 33 is the number of the last degree of masonry, which was conferred upon frater p. in the year 1900 of the vulgar era by don jesus de medina-sidonia in the city of mexico. baphomet is the mysterious name of the god of the templars. the eagle described in paragraph 1 is that of the templars. this masonic symbol is, however, identified by frater p. with a bird, which is master of the four elements, and therefore of the name tetragrammaton. jacobus burgundus molensis suffered martyrdom in the city of paris in the year 1314

s; the song within be dumbness. god! in what prism may any man analyse my light? immortal are the adepts; and ye hey die-they die of shame unspeakable; they die as the gods die, for sorrow. wilt thou endure unto the end, o frater perdurabo, o lamp in the abyss? thou hast the keystone of the royal arch; yet the apprentices, instead of making bricks, put the straws in their hair, and think they are jesus christ! o sublime tragedy and comedy of the great work! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 122 [126] commentary( nu-eta) haggai, a notorious hebrew prophet, is a second officer in a chapter of the royal arch masons. in this chapter the author, in a sort of raging eloquence, bewails his impotence to express himself, or to induce others to follow into the light. in paragraph

stood by masters of the temple. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 142 [145] 68 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-eta manna at four o'clock there is hardly anybody in rumpelmayer's. i have my choice of place and service; the babble of the apes will begin soon enough "pioneers, o pioneers" sat no elijah under the juniper-tree, and wept? was not mohammed forsaken in mecca, and jesus in gethsemane? these prophets were sad at heart; but the chocolate at rumpelmayer's is great, and the mousse noix is like nepthys for perfection. also there are little meringues with cream and chestnut-pulp, very velvety seductions. sail i not toward laylah within seven days? be not sad at heart, o prophet; the babble of the apes will presently begin. nay, rejoice exceedingly; for after all

o hell with the bloody english "o frater perdurabo, how unworthy are these sentiments "d'ye want a clip on the jaw"(40) book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 167 [170] commentary( pi) frater p. continues the subject of chapter 79. he pictures himself as a vigorous, reckless, almost rowdy irishman. he is no thin-lipped prude, to seek salvation in unmanly self-abnegation; no creeping jesus, to slink through existence to the tune of the dead march in saul; no cremerian callus to warehouse his semen in his cerebellum "new thoughtist" is only old eunuch writ small. paragraph 2 gives the very struggle for life, which disheartens modern thinkers, as a good enough reason for existence. paragraph 5 expresses the sorrow of the modern thinker, and paragraph 6 frater p.'s suggestion for

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child and that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. iii,48: now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. iii,49: i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. iii,50: curse them! curse them! curse them! iii,51: with my hawk s head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross. iii,52: i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him. iii,53: with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din. iii,54: bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds. iii,55: let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! iii,56: also for beauty s sake and loves!

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ires in time all the obloquy attaching to that functionary in the eyes of the criminal classes, and becomes a slanderer. does any one really think that any angel is such a fool as to try to gull the omniscient god into injustice to his saints? then, on the other hand, what of moloch, that form of jehovah denounced by those who did not draw huge profit from his rites? what of the savage and morose jesus of the evangelicals, cut by their petty malice from the gentle jesus of the italian children? how shall we identify the thaumaturgic chauvinist of matthew with the metaphysical logos of john? in short, while the human mind is mobile, so long will the definitions of all our terms vary [lat. approx. perhaps it will be pleasant to remember these things one day] all symbolism is perhaps ultimate

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

tion only rendered possible by the process of death. the alchemists themselves taught this same truth. the first matter of the work was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formula is thus in close essential harmony with the natural mystic process. we find it the 29 basis of many important initiations, notably the third degree in masonry, and the 5 degree=

red her, so as to heal his father (amfortas, avenge him (osiris, or pacify him (jehovah. but in order to grow to manhood, he must cease to depend on her, earning the lance (parzival, claiming his arms (achilles, or making his club (hercules<three remain for a time as neuters among woman, prevented from living the male life, and wander in the waterless wilderness like krishna, jesus, oedipus, chi. tau. lambda- until the hour when, as the "king's son" or knight-errant, he must win the princess, and set himself upon a strange throne. almost all the legends of heroes imply this formula in strikingly similar symbols. digamma. vau the sun- son. he is supposed to be mortal; but how is this shewn? it seems an absolute perversion of truth: the sacred symbols have no hint of it

the story of abraham's being commanded to sacrifice his firstborn son, with the idea of the substitution of animal for human life. the annual ceremony of the two goats carries out this in perpetuity. and we see again the domination of this idea in the romance of esther, where haman and mordecai are the two goats or gods; and ultimately in the presentation of the rite of purim in palestine, where jesus and barabbas happened to be the goats in that particular year of which we hear so much, without agreement on the date. this subject must be studied in the "golden bough, where it is most learnedly set forth by dr. j. g. frazer. enough has now been said to show that the bloody sacrifice has from time immemorial been the most considered part of magick. 92 the ethics of the thing appear to have

r virtue. this can be done sometimes on a tremendous scale, as, for example, when all the images of isis and horus, or similar mother-child combinations, were appropriated wholesale by the christians. the miracle is, however, of a somewhat dangerous type, as in this case, where enlightenment has come through the researches of archaeologists. it has been shown that the so-called images of mary and jesus are really nothing but imitations of those of isis and horus. honesty is the best policy in magick as in other lines of life- 138 chapter xvii of the license to depart after a ceremony has reached its climax, anti-climax must inevitably follow. but if the ceremony has been successful this anti-climax is merely formal. the magician should rest permanently on the higher plain to which he has a

space. he is therefore life, and love. but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is light, and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty (note that the "jehovah" of the hebrews is etymologically connected with these. the classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is that between nu and had, north and south, jesus and john. the subject is too abstruse and complicated to be discussed in detail here. the student should consult the writings of sir r. payne knight, general forlong, gerald massey, fabre d'olivet; etc. etc, for the data on which these considerations are ultimately based. it was said by the sorcerer of the jura that in order to invoke the devil it is only necessary to call him with your whol

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ork in cooperation with them. i am afraid you have still got the idea that the great work is a tea-party. contact with other students only means that you criticize their hats, and then their morals; and i am not going to encourage this. your work is not anybody else's; and undirected chatter is the worst poisonous element in human society. when you talk of the "actual record" of the "being called jesus christ" i don't know what you mean. i am not aware of the existence of any such remagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 cord. i know a great many legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character. 9 it would be better for you to get a copy of the equinox of the gods and study it. the great work is the uniting of opposites. it may mean the uniting

your bones at the mere idea of seeing another member through the telescope! well, i employ the figure of hyperbole, that i admit; but it really won't do to have a dozen cooks at the broth! if you're working with me, you'll have no time to waste on other people. i fear your "christianity" is like that of most other folk. you pick out one or two of the figures from which the alexandrines concocted "jesus (too many cooks, again, with a vengeance) and neglect the others. the zionist christ of matthew can have no value for you; nor can the asiatic "dying-god- compiled from melcarth, mithras, adonis, bacchus, osiris, attis, krishna, and others- who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. rightly you ask "what can i contribute" answer: one book. that is the idea of the week

uantities; at the very least, we must be able to distinguish it from "that-whichis- not-pork" but- one moment, please! l. there is in advaitism a most fascinating danger; that is that, up to a certain point "religious experience" tends to support this theory. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 70 a word on this. vulgar minds, such as are happy with a personal god, vishnu, jesus, melcarth, mithras, or another, often excite themselves- call it "energized enthusiasm" if you want to be sarcastic- to the point of experiencing actual visions of the objects of their devotion. but these people have not so much as asked themselves the original question of "how come" which is our present subject. sweep them into the discard! m. beyond vishvarupadarshana, the vision of the fo

magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 166 contrast with this elaborate care, rightness of every detail, earnestness and intentness upon the goal- contrast, i say, the modern spiritist in the dingy squalor of her foul back street in her suburban slum, the room musty, smelling of stale food, the hideous prints, the cheap and rickety furniture, calling up any one required from jesus christ to queen victoria, 6* dogme et rituel de la haute magie, by eliphas l vi. 26 all at a bob-a-nob! faugh! let us return to clean air, and analyse l vi's experiment; i believe that by the application of the principles set forth in my other letters on death and reincarnation, it will be simple to explain his partial failure to evoke apollonius. you had better read them over again, to have

ived in bristol and "open brother" names muller, who was a wizard at this; grace before breakfast, the usual palaver about the lord and his blessings and his bounty et cetera, da capo; to conclude "and, blessed lord, we would humbly venture to remind thee that this morning thou art oe3 4s. 6 1/2d. short in the accounts; trusting that thou wilt give this small matter thine immediate attention, for jesus' christ's sake, amen" sure enough, when he came to open his post, there would be just enough, sometimes exactly enough, to cover that amount. this story was told me by an enemy, who thought quite seriously that he would go to hell for being "open("open" brethren were lax about the lord's supper, let people partake who were not sound upon the ramsgate question; and other theological atrocitie

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ciation" which he had undoubtedly heard in his boyhood, and said "gabriel appeared to me" but in spite of his ignorance, his total misconception of the truth, the power of the vision was such that he was enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to-day one man in every eight belongs. the history of christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. jesus christ was brought up on the fables of the "old testament" and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to "jehovah" although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sacrifice<jews in eastern

he teacher should then seek gently and firmly to key up the pupil, little by little, until obedience follows command without reference to what that command may be; as loyola wrote "perinde ac cadaver" no one has understood the magical will better than loyola; in his system the individual was forgotten. the will of the general was instantly echoed by every member of the order; hence the society of jesus became the most formidable of the religious organizations of the world. that of the old man of the mountains was perhaps the next best. the defect in loyola's system is that the general was not god, and that owing to various other considerations he was not even necessarily the best man in the order. to become general of the order he must have willed to become general of the order; and becaus

e buddhist, nibbana, was in any way different from their own goal, heaven, in spite of the perfect plainness of the language in such dialogues as those between the arahat nagasena and king melinda; and their attempts to square the text with their preconceptions will always stand as one of the great follies of the wise. again, it is almost impossible for the well-mannered christian to realize that jesus christ ate with his fingers. the temperance advocate makes believe that the wine at the marriage feast of cana was non-alcoholic. it is a sort of mad syllogism "nobody whom i respect does this "i respect so-and-so "therefore, so-and-so did not do this" the moralist of to-day is furious when one points to the fact that practically every great man in history was grossly and notoriously immoral

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

e small area of an enclosed garden hgwr( 286 high, lofty mwrm 287 a piece of the host (unleavened bread) nmwqyp) little ry(z 288 vindication rw(yb breeding, bearing; offspring rwby( winter prx 289 that which sets free (see 537, where it is figuratively gan opening h) r+p a particular, a detail +rp 290 thine enemy kr( fruit yrp piece cr persecutor, enemy; distress, danger; stone rc mary, mother of jesus myrm 291 torrents of water (lit. gchannels of water h) mym yqyp) to treasure, store rc) earth (in particular, the earth of malkuth) cr) a leopard (hence also gspotted h )rmn an adhering, adhesion; first, most eminent )krys 292 a young bird (deut. 22:6) hwrp) gold rcb a medicine, drug h)wpr 294 the greater light (sol) ldgh rw)mh purple nmgr) pertaining to autumn prwx 295 curtain, canopy; vaul

bush xy# square; the gsquare h hebrew alphabet (bwrm 319 cancer: a crab n+rs 320 boy: name of enoch, and of metatron r(n the friends my(r thorn; enclosure k# 322 lamb; to subdue #bk middle line y(cm)h wq hebrews (as 282) myrb( 323 long-absent brother qwxr x) uranus (referred to chokmah) swnrw) 324 (metatron (q.v) spelt with yod after mem; it denotes shekinah) nwr++ym 325 need, indigence hkyrc 326 jesus (note the letters of hwhy completed by shin= 300 q.v: the spirit of god; a variant is: h#why) hw#hy vision hyy# 328 to steam; darkness k#x 330 boundary, terminus; crosspath; isthmus; distress rcm revolution; hurricane, tempest r(s transgression, error, crime l# 331 tamarisk; ga great tree h (gn. 21:33, trans. ga grove h) l) 332 the fiery light dwqyh rw) a void place ywnp mwqm 333 qabalah of

number of the beast. 1-36. 36 is the sum of the letters aleph to cheth (tyx= 418, hence 666 is an expansion of 418. the number of talents of gold received by solomon in one year (i kings 10:14) aleister crowley (rabbi battiscombe gunn fs transliteration) ylwrq ry+syl) ommo satan: the gevil triad h of satan-typhon, apophras, and besz. lit. gthe dimness of satan h, scil. gveil h) nts wmm( the name jesus hw#hy m# his secret place (ps. 18:11, his covering wrts your god *mkyhl) 667 the oil for lighting rw)ml nm# 668 a female merchant trxs the ears *mynz) to shut up, obstruct *msx builders *mynwb 670 deprecating, entreating rt( kinsmen, nation, populace; with, by, near *m( 671 bearing fruit yrp h#w( the gate: a title of malkuth)(rt taro (cf. 216, 224& 280 (r)t adonai: my lord (spelt in full :y:

rit of lives *myyx xwr 843 that goes on foot *mylgr 844 intellectual virtues mylk#h twxkh 845 flowing oil (p#h nm# neptune (referred to kether *nw+pn 846 high, lofty *mwrm 847 most high god *nwyl( l) 849 the end of the sabbath (i.e. saturday evening) tb# y)cwm 850 violet (blue/purple; perfection tlkt my perfect one( gnot h read. ct. 5:2. see 857& i.z.q. 713) ytmt archetypal *nwmdq mary, mother of jesus *myrm to rule *k#ym 851 souls (i.r.q. 1052 et seq) nwhtm#n he was angry *pn) torrents of water (lit. gchannels of water h *mym yqyp) 852 gconcealed gold h: plaited with gold: netzach and hod receiving influence from geburah (ex. 28:11, gouches of gold h, for the two gems on the ephod) bhz twcb#m 853 an orchard myxwpt hd# plague *pgn 854 the angel of destruction tyx#mh k)lm 856 the central le

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

rs claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, oannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon

om the illusion-veils of the khu, so that the two infinities become one, and none; and create, in the manner shortly to be described, a new finite. this finite will evidently be an expression of the particular mood of its father and mother at the moment of its conception. obviously, this "child" cannot add to the universe; it is therefore inevitably twin (horus and harpocrates, osiris and typhon, jesus and barabbas) in nature, formed of equal and opposite elements. when the operation is mystical in character, the "child" does not appear at all in this manifested form as two, but as naught. in the consciousness of the adept, this is called samadhi. he has united himself with, and lost himself in, nuit. when the "child" appears as two, it is magick, as the other is mysticism. this is the ess

with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating" the old comment 49. declares a new system of magic, and initiation. asar-isa is now the candidate, not the hierophant. hoor- see cap. iii- is the initiator. the new comment this verse declares that the old formula of magick- the osiris-adonis-jesus-marsyas-dionysus-attis-etcetera formula of the dying god- is no longer efficacious. it rested on the ignorant belief that the sun died every day, and every year, and that its resurrection was a miracle. the formula of the new aeon recognizes horus, the child crowned and conquering, as god. we are all members of the body of god, the sun; and about our system is the ocean of space. this formul

eparateness. if you are "walking in darkness, do not try to make the sun rise by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile. the general illusion is to the equinox ritual of the g. d. where the officer of the previous six months, representing horus, took the place of the retiring hierophant, who had represented osiris. isa is the legendary "jesus, for which canidian concoction the prescription is to be found in my book bearing that title "liber dccclxxxviii. al i,50 "there is a word to say about the hierophantic task. behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. the gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. thus ye have star& star, system&

with sober sense to support and stress of suffering to spur them. they prove with euler's exactness and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousies, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self-indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincare's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark antony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind samson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table whe

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, shaloshethem yechad themim: the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbut djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo: the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo: ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado: when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat uwcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah, i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy uwcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwub, beaugoth r

is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat uwcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah, i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy uwcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwub, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo, i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. by this the initial or finals or both, or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to form a word or words. thus the qabalah is called hrtsn hmkj, chokham nesethrah, the secret wisdom; and if we take the i

and obtain an approximation to p 3.1415 (good enough for the benighted hebrew, as if thereby the finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the creator. 34 concealed yods on the other hand are another matter entirely t.s. 35 [lat, a coward created the soul of the earth] 36 [heb, possibly intended for: the son, the spirit, the father, the grave: ihvh [is] the law] 37 [grk, jesus christ, son of god, saviour] 38 [grk, approx. the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom] liber lviii 23 yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, e?39 the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! the rational table of tziruph should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the

and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. wn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. icqus= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 2 3 3 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111 \yhla awh dja, he is one god [la, aleph, an ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning. as the lightning ligheneth out of the east eve

flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th thyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter summ. 333= 37 9 the accurs d. 340 \c the name. 341. the sum of the 3 mothers, aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha, exis

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panel* in libel i bewail me (funny how english seems to fail me) so, as a surgeon to a man, sir, 185 let me excise your christian cancer impersonally, without vanity, just in pure love of poor humanity! here s just the chance you d have! behold the warm sun tint with early gold 190 yon spire: to-day s event provide my text of wrath ascension-tide! oh! tis a worthy day to wrest hate s diadem from jesus crest! ascends he? tis the very test 195 by which we men may fairly judge, from the rough roads we mortals trudge or god s paths paved with heliotrope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, 200 in metaphysic s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection bring out the antiseptic soap! we ll judge the christ by simple section, 205 and stri

indian yogis fall back to the planet after all, 330 never attain to heaven and stand (stephen) or sit (paul)50 at the hand of the most high! and that alone that question of the great white throne, is the sole point that we debate. 335 i answer, here in india wait the sword of song 14 former compared to kerubim; as it is written, running and returning. shri parananda applauds yogi. gerald jeers at jesus. john iii. 16* its importance. its implied meaning. samadhi-dak,51 convenient to travel to maha meru,52 or gaurisankar s53 keen white wedge spearing the mighty dome of blue, 340 or chogo s54 mighty flying edge shearing across the firmament, but, first, to that exact event you christians celebrate to-day. we stand where the disciples stood 345 and see the master float away into that cloudlet

ion fizzles in smoke, and i am found 735 attacking nothing. here s the ground, pistols, and coffee three in one (alas, o rabbi schimeon) but never a duellist no son, no father, and (to please us most) 740 decency pleads no holy ghost! all vanish at the touch of truth, a cobweb trio like, in sooth, the sword of song 24 the reader may hope. summary. reader dismissed to chapel. future plans of poet. jesus dismissed with a jest. the jest. that worthy yankee millionaire, and wealthy nephews, young and fair, 745 the pleasing crawfords! lost! lost! lost !78 the holy spirit, friend! beware! ah! ten days yet to pentecost! come that, i promise you but stay! at present tis ascension day! 750 at least your faith should be content. i quarrel not with this event. the supernatural element? i deny nothing

f brixton on ascension day) 770 he s gone his belly filled enough! this robert-browning-manqu stuff! twill serve mercutio s scratch! to show where god and i are disagreed. there! i have let my feelings go 775 this once. again? i deem not so. once for my fellow-creature s need! the rest of life, for self-control,81 for liberation of the soul !82 this once, the truth! in future, best 780 dismissing jesus with a jest. ah! christ ascends ?83 ascension day? old wonders bear the bell84 away? santos-dumont, though! who can say? 25 poem dissimilar to its predecessor. will it lead somewhere this time? reflections on the weather, proper to beginning a conversation in english. autobiography of bard. lehrjahre. wanderjahre. the magician of paris. how clever i am! to-day thrice halves the lunar week si

now for health. reasons for undertaking the task. and sail the waters wild a-wenting 150 over your child! the left lamenting (campbell).28 the ibis head,29 unsuited to grin, perhaps, yet does its best to show its strong appreciation of the humour of the situation 155 in short, dismiss me, jeered and hooted, who thought i sported roland s crest,30 with wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted (as i my jesus) with a jest.31 so here is my tribute a jolly good strong un 160 to the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong un! it s fun when you say a mysterious way32 god moves in to fix up his maskelyne tricks. he trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (like cosmo; and as for his pace, we bethought us 165 achilles could never catch up with that tortoise! no flyer, but very who s griffiths*

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ts dreaded foe is of necessity "dogma" 150 directly a man begins to say "yes" without the question "why" he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar. and it is for this reason that we are so bitterly opposed to and use such scathing words against the present- day rationalist6 when we attack him. for we see he is doing for darwin, huxley, and spencer what the early christian did for jesus, peter, and paul; and that is, that he, having already idealised them, is now in the act of apotheosising them. soon, if left unattacked, will "their" word become the word, and in the place of the "book of genesis" shall we have the "origin of species" and in the place of the christian accepting as truth the word of jesus shall we have the rationalist accepting as truth the word of darwin. b

as the souls of men were bought and sold and bartered for, till heaven became a bauble of the rich, and hell a debtor's dungeon for the poor. yet amongst those rotting bones in the "oubliette" and in those purple palaces of papal lust, hovered that spirit of life, like a golden flame rolled in a cloud of smoke over the dark altar of decay. listen "have you got religion. are you saved. do you love jesus "brother, god can save you. jesus is the sinner's friend. rest your head on jesus. dear, dear jesus" curse till thunder shake the stars! curse till this blasphemy is cursed from the face of heaven! curse till the hissing name of jesus, which writhes like a snake in a snare, is driven from the kingdom of faith! once "eloi, eloi, lamma sabachthani" echoed through the gloom from the cross of ag

der shake the stars! curse till this blasphemy is cursed from the face of heaven! curse till the hissing name of jesus, which writhes like a snake in a snare, is driven from the kingdom of faith! once "eloi, eloi, lamma sabachthani" echoed through the gloom from the cross of agony; now jerry mcauley, that man of god, ill-clothed in cheap leeds shoddy, bobbing in a tin bethel, bellows "do you love jesus" and talks of that mystic son of him who set forth the sun and the moon, and 172 all the hosts of heaven, as if he were first cousin to mrs. booth or to aunt sally herself. once man in the magic land of mystery sought the elixir and the balsam of life; now he seeks "spiritual milk for american babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments" once man, in his frenzy, drunken on the wine of i

o be wasted" thus is the name of god belched forth in beer and bestial blasphemy. who would not rather be a st. besarion who spent forty days and nights in a thorn-bush, or a st. francis picking lice from his sheepskin and praising god for the honour and glory of wearing such celestial pearls in his habit, than become a smug, well-oiled evangelical christian genteel-man, walking to church to dear jesus on a sabbath morning, with prayer-book, bible, and umbrella, and a three- penny-bit in his glove? 173 the spendthrift "arcadia, night, a cloud, pan, and the moon" what words to conjure with, what five shouts to slay the five senses, and set a leaping flame of emerald and silver dancing about us as we yell them forth under the oaks and over the rocks and myrtle of the hill-side "bruised to th

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marvellous of man's mechanical achievements, than the most powerful engine ever made by human hands. one great engine, at its worst, exploding, may destroy a few hundred lives; at its best may carry a few thousand men, may promote trade, and the comfort of some few hundred lives; but who can estimate the power of one human mind, whether for good or for evil? one such mind, the mind of a man like jesus christ, may bring about the tortured death of many million men, may wreck states and religions and dynasties, and cause untold misery and suffering; another mind, employing the same manner of energy, but rightly using that energy for the 33 benefit of others, may, like the buddha, bring hope into the hopeless lives of crores upon crores of human beings, may increase by a thousandfold the pit

ation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. the first is, bn rvch ab shlvshthm ichd thmim, ben, ruach, ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo "the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity" the third is bkvri rashvni ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus" the fourth is, bbva rbn ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, beboa rabban asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "when the master shall come whose name is jesus ye shall worship" the fifth is, bthvlh ravih abchr shthld ish vo thashrvh, bethulh raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thashroah "i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her belssed" the sixth is, bovgth rtzpim asththr shgvpi i

hose name is jesus ye shall worship" the fifth is, bthvlh ravih abchr shthld ish vo thashrvh, bethulh raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thashroah "i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her belssed" the sixth is, bovgth rtzpim asththr shgvpi ishvo thaklv, beaugoth ratzephim asattar shgopi yeshuah thakelo "i will hid myself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body" the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of the notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. by this the initials or finals, or both, or the medials, of a sentence, are taken to form a word or words. thus the qabalah is called chkmh nsthrh, chokhmah nesthrah "the secret wisdom; and if we ta

eiled. 100. the number of hb:qof, the perfect illusion, 10 x 10. also hb:peh-final hb:koph, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. nvn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. iota chi theta upsilon sigma= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111. achd hva alhim "he is one god" alp, aleph, and ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning "as the lightning lighteneth out of

s symbolic of the holy spirit, rvch alhim= 300. hence the letter of the spirit. descending into the midst of ihvh, the four inferior elements, we get ihshvh jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ash, fire. 314. shdi, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 103 325. a mystic number of mars. brtzbal, the spirit of mars, and grapial, the intelligence of mars. 326. ihshvh, jesus- see 300. 333. chvrvnzvn, see liber 418, 10th aethry. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of matter summ. 333= 37 x 9 the accurs d. 340. shm- the name. 341. the sum of the "3 mothers" aleph, mem, and shin. 345. mshh, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, ahih as

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and far. o lord god, let thy spirit hither unto me! for i am lost in the night of infinite pain: no hope: no god: no resurrection: no end: i fall: i fear. o saviour of the world, bruise thou my head with thy foot to save the world, that once again i touch him whom i slew, that in my death i feel the radiance and the heat of the moving of thy robes! let us alone! what have we to do with thee, thou jesus of nazareth? go! go! if i keep silence- or if i speak each word is anguish without hope. and i heard the aethyr cry aloud "return! return! return! for the work is ended; and the book is shut; and let the glory be to god the blessed for ever in the aeons, amen" thus far is the voice of tex and no more. the cry of the twenty and ninth aire or aethyr, which is called rii the sky appears covered

r, the setter of snares; he who baffleth even them that have understanding. for i stand on every path, and turn them aside from the truth by my words, and by my magick arts. and this is the horror that was shown by the lake that was 125 nigh unto the city of the seven hills, and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind. moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower sephiroth. and its balance is in beauty, and t

t beheld the city of the pyramids, how shouldst thou behold the house of the juggler? for he is wisdom, and by wisdom hath he made the worlds, and from that wisdom issue judgements 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. 142 and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk up

rer shadowing-forth of the great mystery of the aeon which is to be led up to by the aethyrs. note however that the king of the new aeon never appears until the very first aethyr. 27. hecate appears- her son, the son of a virgin, a magus, is to bring the aeon to pass. and she, the herald, her function fulfilled, withdraws within her mystic veil. 26. the death of the past aeon, that of jehovah and jesus; ends with adumbraiton of the new, the vision of the stele of ankh-f-n-khonsu, whose discovery brought about in a human consciousness the knowledge of the equinox of the gods, 21. 3. 04. 25. appearance of the lion god of horus, the child of leo that incarnates him. the first angel is isis its mother. 173 24. now appears his mate, the heavenly venus, the scarlet woman, who by men is thought o

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l methods to tame the body; strictly mental methods to control the mind. this latter restriction is not so vitally important. any weapon is legitimate against a public enemy like the mind. no truce nor quarter! 67 on the contrary, to use the spiritual forces to secure health, as certain persons attempt to do to-day, is the vilest black magic. this is one of the numerous reasons for supposing that jesus christ was a brother of the left-hand path. now my body has been treating me well, waking nicely at convenient hours, sleeping at suitable times, keeping itself to itself an admirable body. then why shouldn't i take it out and give it the best dinner lavenue can serve? provided that it doesn't stop saying that mantra! it would be so easy to trick myself into the belief that i had attained!

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ch, and scarcely had he learnt to lisp the simplest syllables of childhood than his martyrdom began. from infancy he struggled through the chill darkness of his surroundings into boyhood, and as he grew and throve, so did the iniquity of that unnatural treatment which with lavish and cruel hand was squandered on him. then youth came, and with it god's name had grown to be a curse, and the form of jesus stood forth in the gloom of golgotha, a chill and hideous horror which vampire-like had sucked dry the joy of his boyhood; when suddenly one summer night he broke away from the ghouls that had tormented him, casting aside the sordid conventions of life, defying the laws of his 231 land, doubting the decaying religion of his childhood, he snapped, like rotten twigs, the worm-eaten conventiona

symbol of temperance appears to promise aid. therefore by this straight and narrow path of hb:samekh let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the centre of hb:taw hb:shin hb:qof (qsheth) the bow of promise; for by this hieroglyphic of the arrow hath sagittarius ever been represented. and as this sign of sagittarius lieth between the signs scorpio (death) and capricornus (the devil) so hath jesus to pass through the wilderness tempted by satan. but sagittarius the archer is a bi- corporate sign, the centaur, the man and the horse combined. recall what was said unto thee in the passage of the 31st path of fire leading into the 3= 8 of practicus 'also there is the vision of the fire-flashing courser of light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery an

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etween two young men named percy and sidney! it must be a great help to a master of arts in attaining a second edition if he can pat his own musings on the back at psychological moments with such interpolations as"'yes' said percy 'i like that thought" the clumps of quotations at the commencement of the various chapters read on occasion rather incongruously. for instance, in front of chapter xiv"'jesus called a little child unto him- matthew xviii. 2'"uncle tom" said eva "i'm going there 'uncle tom's cabin" norman roe. 392 stewed prunes and prism: the tennyson centenary the judicious may possibly wonder why one should dig so deep into the tumulus of oblivion to rescue (though but for execration) the bones of so very dead a dog as alfred tennyson. but the truth is not so near the surface. h

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the vedana type are the ecstasies of joy and agony experienced by such men as luther, fox, molinos, and others. professor william james treats most adequately of this matter in his "varieties of religious experience" the limitations of this stage are first, its absorption in self; secondly, its almost always insuperable tendency to self-limitation and narrowness. two mystics, the one wallowing in jesus and the other in vishnu, will describe their experiences in almost identical language, yet denounce each other as "heathen" and "mlechha" respectively. among hashish phenomena the correspondences are those of the intense emotions experienced (well described 70 by de quincey (opium) and ludlow in particular. such are fear, pride, love, laughter, anguish, and the rest. in the case of vishvarup

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g. the aspirant may now resume his emblems; after which themis commemorates the life and death of osiris under the figure of christian rosenkreutz, as it were "the morning of isis" for aspirant being now "dead" isis mourneth for him. but aspirant also mourneth, that l sign may be formulated in him. she points out rose cross as an external emblem of the completion of the great work. in the life of jesus christ the master, the most notable events are_ he is cloistered at 5; when 30 he takes disciples and begins ministrations. when 32 (paths and sephiroth) he takes 4 others and is the one among the 7 (or the 3 and the 4= 12. at 106 he dies (106 is "attained" and hb:nun-final hb:vau hb:nun scorpio. the symbolism of 120 having been accomplished, his tomb is found. this is the tomb of the postul

his cleaving of the veil of the vault of the adepts is in truth the precipitation of the jechidah from the elemental flux that goes to make man. the virgin mother of malkuth, the earth fecundated by air, water and fire, is delivered of her son the spirit, who is the adept reborn in the vault as christian rosencreutz; not yet adonai the christ, the son of god, but adonai, jehesuah, the son of man, jesus the carpenter who one day will fashion the tree of life into the image of the supernal christ. no longer is the vision of adonai a mere glimpse as of a flickering light without, lost in the distance of a great forest, but a light which burns as a lamp within a lantern, and which sheds its beams equally in all directions. it is here, when the aspirant becomes a sun unto himself, entranced by

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of my readers, having unclean minds, will otherwise find a fulcrum therein for their favourite game of slander. let it suffice if i say that the buddha_ in spite of the ridiculous membrane legend,6 one of those foul follies which idiot devotees invent only too freely_ was a confirmed and habitual adulterer. it would be easy to argue with hegel- huxley that he who thinks of an act commits it("cf" jesus also in this connection, thought he only knows the creative value of desire, and that since a and not-a are mutually limiting, therefore interdependent, therefore identical, therefore identical, he who forbids an act commits it; but i feel that this is no place for metaphysical hair-splitting; let us prove what we have to prove in the plainest way. i would premise in the first place that to

iable it all was. only his more than paternal 310 kindness for me kept me with him. god rest him; i hear he has been reincarnated as w. t. stead. for one thing i do most seriously take blame, that my training was too strong for my power to receive spiritual truth. for when the holy angels came to instruct me in the great truths, that there is no sin, that the soul passes from house to house, that jesus was but man, that the holy ghost was not a person, i rejected them as false. ah! have i not paid bitterly for the error? still, the incarnation was not all loss; not only did i attain the grade of major adept, but left enough secret knowledge (in an available form) to carry me on for a long while. i am getting it back now; with luck i'll be a magister templi soon, if i can only get rid of my

nd space! i will only add that i was profoundly interested in the final book "the king's dole" no mystic who is familiar only with christian symbolism can afford to neglect this ritual. vale, frater! a. c. the cleansing of a city. greening and co. 1"s" net "wherefore i say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven,the same loveth little" jesus christ "but this german woman, pretending to defend the cause of virtue, and to warn women against the perils of the day, produces a book('the diary of a lost one) which is defilement to touch. before i had skimmed fifty pages i found my brain swimming; i nearly swooned" rev. r. f. horton, d.d. this book should be printed on vellum and locked up in a fire-proof safe in the british museum, gr

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pace and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundless diamond whirring with millions of wings! olympas. master! marsyas. know also that above these portents hangs no veil of love; but, guarded by unsleeping eyes of twice seven score severities, the veil that only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus' heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. woe be to that accurs d man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath's avenging flood to black immitigable seas! 24 woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craft into a single

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at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl's letter. and this is the coherent paragraph "there are 3 apocryphal descriptions of the man christ jesus. all "agree" in describing him as 'strikingly tall '6 ft. high' and with curled or wavy locks "this, to my mind, established the identity of the daibutsu with the curl- covered head and colossal stature" this, to my mind, establishes the identity of mrs. gordon with mr. j. m. robertson. a. c. old as the world. by j. w. brodie-innes. 6"s" rebman. a rattling good novel, with hundreds of incide

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of memnon's singing stone so fierce a questing barked and brayed, it turned his laughter to a groan. his vow forgot, his task undone, his soul whipped in god's bitter school (he moaned a mighty malison) the perfect knight? the perfect fool "now, by god's wounds" quoth he "my strength is burnt out to a pest of pains. let me fling off my curse at length in old chaldea's starry plains! thou bless d jesus, foully nailed unto the cruel calvary tree, look on my soul's poor fort assailed by all the hosts of devilry! is there no medicine but death that shall avail me in my place, that i may know the beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen" 77 xxx st

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6 complex tatwas; the golden dan symbol, and so on. also i began the exercise of the pendulum and other simple regular motions. wherefore to-day of venus, the 22nd of february 1901, i being in the city of guadalajara, in the hotel cosmopolita, i do begin to set down all that i accomplish in this work: and may the peace of god, which passeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind through christ jesus our lord. let my mind be open unto the higher: let my heart be the centre of light: let my body be the temple of the rosy cross. ex deo nascimur in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus. we must now digress in order to five some account of the eastern theories of the universe and the mind. their study will clarify our view of frater p's progress. the reader is advised to study chapt

r self accomplished, and the pinnacles of that temple, whose foundations are laid deep in the black earth, are lost among the starry palaces of god. in the "hatha-yoga pradipika" we read that "there can be no raja yoga without hatha yoga, and "vice versa" that to those who wander in the darkness 54 "shiva sanhita" iii, 37. 55 "ibid, iii, 33. 56 vivek nanda "karma-yoga" p. 62. 57 as in the case of jesus, the aspirant, for the joy that is set before him, must "dare" to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be "set down at the right hand of the throne of god" hebrews, xii, 2. 58 "if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to god (1 corinthians, xiv, 28) has more than one meaning. 59 "and when he had opened the seventh seal, t

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. though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the gnosis, such as mr pryse unveils, yet it is clearly aryan, dating from the time of momu- the thinker; then again the development of the kundalini- serpent fire- world's mother, also termed rousing the brahm- is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165 egyptian kings; apollonius of tyana, a contemporary of our jesus, visited the gymnosophists of the upper nile, but said that they were not equal to those of india. the british druids must have had a knowledge of the "serpent fire" in their secret instruction, or why exclaim "i am a serpent" the mythraic mysteries, and all the eranoi societies, were equally protected by the laws of solon seven centuries b.c, and mr pryse observes that only once does the wo

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

it carne as a shock. when the latter told him one morning that he was to be confirmed, but when he protested his objections were overruled 'i've written to your parents' uncle louie said 'your mother told me you were baptized into the church of england. she'll be glad if you're confirmed' the ceremony took place in st hubert's church at great harwood and alex prayed throughout it, apologizing to jesus christ and assuring him that no blasphemy was intended. he did not need to placate his witch god, feeling sure that he would understand. afterwards he put the whole episode behind him and roamed the countryside testing his witch knowledge. he found the wild herbs used for potions in the very places described in witch-records 'beside fast running water 'beneath the mossy side of stones 'where

agreed.to .yisithimthe ne tday. she was a huge jamaican, clad in ailowered drcss and a cartwheel hat .overflowing with, life,.sized apples and, otahges. her mournful expression did not ,match her, ex,ubcrant appearance 'dear lord j you must,help 'tne .she wailed: seizing alex's hands and almost crushing ,them as heled her. into thesma111iving-;room ofhis newtori heath house. in between appeals to jesus to con6:rm the truth. of h 109 statements,tshe .told him ofher trembles. a year .earlier. she hadle.t one.ofherroonts to an idshman, paddy. he had been a ;g oajodger!until,he hadbec?me unemployed.-whereupon he:cowdnolon erpay his rent. she had let him live rent free fora while aridlladgiven hini the occasional meal and pennies for his gas meter. whensheireturnedfrontshopping one day, she hea

ought that the germans would invade england in the second world war, another grand sabbath was called. in the new forest over four hundred witches met to celebrate the gj;and mass. to increase the potency of their power, they accepted the offer from some of the members to be willing sacrifices, for although our god demands none, it accepts voluntary victims as proof of their faith, as, 1 suppose, jesus christ accepts christian martyrs. no witch was killed that night but many were scourged with real whips, and some sent out so much of their vital life-force into their familiars that they subsequently died. that week dense mists and fogs obscured the english ch;ume;l; the 126 invasion 'was called off. we believe it was due to witthcraft. q: you speak offamiliars. in old witch trials it was s

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

isciples and highly evolved men and women to pass into the ranks of the hierarchy, and thus- 23- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust constantly has there been a circulation of new life and blood, and the coming in of those who belong to a particular period or age. some of the great names during the later periods are known to history, such as shri sankaracharya, vyasa, mahommet, jesus of nazareth, and krishna, down to those lesser initiates, paul of tarsus, luther, and certain of the outstanding lights in european history. always have these men and women been agents for the carrying out of race purpose, for the bringing about of group conditions, and for the furthering of the evolution of humanity. sometimes they have appeared as beneficent forces, bringing peace and cont

and rulers; they pour forth mental energy on governing groups, thus bringing about the desired results wherever co-operation and receptive intuition can be found amongst the thinkers. the world teacher presides over the destiny of the great religions through the medium of a group of masters and initiates who direct the activities of these different schools of thought. in illustration: the master jesus, the inspirer and director of the christian churches everywhere, though an adept on the sixth ray under the department of the mahachohan, works at present under the christ for the welfare of christianity; other masters hold similar posts in relation to the great oriental faiths, and the various occidental schools of thought. in the department of the mahachohan a large number of masters, in f

g of certain of the great philosophies, and interests himself in a number of philanthropic agencies. to him is given the work very largely of stimulating the love manifestation which is latent in the hearts of all men, and of awakening in the consciousness of the race the perception of the great fundamental fact of brotherhood. at this particular time the master m, the master k. h. and the master jesus are interesting themselves closely with the work of unifying, as far as may be, eastern and western thought, so that the great religions of the east, with the later development of the christian faith in all its many branches, may mutually benefit each other. thus eventually it is hoped one great universal church may come into being. the master jesus, who is the focal point of the energy that

han's department. secondly, the preparation of the world on a large scale for the coming of the world teacher, and the taking of the necessary steps before they themselves come out among men, as many of them surely will towards the close of this century. a special group is forming amongst them now who are definitely preparing themselves for this work. the master m, the master k. h. and the master jesus will be specially concerned with the movement towards the last quarter of this century. other masters will participate also, but these three are the ones with whose names and offices people should familiarise themselves, wherever possible. two other masters, specially concerned with the seventh or ceremonial ray, whose particular work it is to supervise the development of certain activities

s is consistently laid on his astral development, although his mental equipment grows steadily. many lives may intervene between the first initiation and the second. a long period of many incarnations may elapse before the control of the astral body is perfected, and the initiate is ready for the next step. the analogy is kept in an interesting way in the new testament in the life of the initiate jesus. many years elapsed between the birth and the baptism, but the remaining three steps were taken in three years. once the second initiation is taken the progress will be rapid, the third and fourth following probably in the same life, or the succeeding. the second initiation forms the crisis in the control of the astral body. just as, at the first initiation, the control of the dense physical

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

net. the vibrations of that ray will quiet down as far as we are concerned, and find increased activity elsewhere. to phrase it otherwise, our planet and all thereon will become positive and non-receptive, and will temporarily repulse this particular type of force. a psychical manifestation of this can be seen in the dying down of what is called christian enthusiasm. this ray, on which the chohan jesus may be found, will no longer pour its force to the same extent into the form he built, and it will necessarily slowly but surely disintegrate, having served its purpose for close on two thousand years. later again the same force will be felt returning, and a new form will be found slowly coming into being, but along more adequate lines. it will consequently be apparent how the knowledge of t

. 7. there is also a group of devas connected with the lodge of masters, whose work it is to build the aspirational forms towards which average man may aspire. they are divided into certain groups three in number connected with science, religion and philosophy, and through these groups of deva substance the heads of the three departments reach men. it is one of their channels for work. the master jesus is particularly active at this time along this line, working in collaboration with certain adepts on the scientific line, who through the desired union of science and religion seek to shatter the materialism of the west on the one hand and on the other the sentimental devotion of the many devotees of all faiths. this is made possible now through the passing out of the sixth ray and the comin

t sacrifice, and taken a russian body in the desire to act as a peace centre in that distracted land. certain initiates of the third initiation have taken feminine bodies, one in india will in due time do much toward the emancipation of the women of india, whilst another has a peculiar work to do in connection with the animal kingdom which likewise is awaiting the day of his appearing. the master jesus will take a physical vehicle, and with certain of his chelas effect a re-spiritualisation of the catholic churches, breaking down the barrier separating the episcopal and greek churches from the roman. this may be looked for, should plans progress as hoped, about the year 1980. the master hilarion will also come forth, and become a focal point of buddhic energy in the vast spiritualistic mov

hird, a disciple will return into incarnation occasionally so as to fit into the plan of a greater than himself. when a messenger of the great lodge needs a vehicle through which to express himself, and cannot use a physical body himself, owing to the rarity of its substance, he will utilise the body of a disciple. we have an instance of this in the manner the christ used the body of the initiate jesus, taking possession of it at the time of the baptism. again when a message has to be given out to the world during some recurring cycle, a disciple of high position in a master's group will appear in physical incarnation, and be "overshadowed" or "inspired (in the technically occult sense) by some teacher greater than he. fourth, a disciple may, through lack of rounded development, be very fa

ic "vestures" worn by the one monad as a man wears his three bodies simultaneously, and functions in them separately.30(295) one or other of these three can, if so he will, occupy a body on the physical plane which will not be simply a created mayavirupa. this is done in one of two ways: either through the occupancy of a willingly vacated body, as was the case when the christ occupied the body of jesus, or by a divine overshadowing of a disciple, as has been and will be the case. the quality of the form occupied or used, and the nature of its work depends upon which of the three higher aspects of the initiating impulse, is manifesting. very rarely a more mysterious phenomenon occurs and the overshadowing buddha, bodhisattva, or adept each makes his "appearance" upon earth thus demonstratin

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

a complete change in the activities of the physical plane man. the constant cultivation of this effects an entire transformation in the threefold lower man, and eventually the truth of the christian phraseology becomes apparent "only christ is seen and heard" only the real or spiritual man can be seen expressing himself through a physical medium, as christ did through his instrument and disciple, jesus. 34. thoughts contrary to yoga are harmfulness, falsehood, theft, incontinence, and avarice, whether committed personally, caused to be committed or approved of, whether arising from avarice, anger or delusion (ignorance; whether slight in the doing, middling or great. these result always in excessive pain and ignorance. for this reason, the contrary thoughts must be cultivated- 108- the lig

gising the nerves that the thinker can- 181- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust galvanise its instrument into activity during incarnation, and similarly produce trance, samadhi, or death. the same basic knowledge enables the adept to raise a dead body, as christ did in palestine, or occupy the vehicle of a disciple for purposes of service, as christ occupied the body of the disciple jesus. this knowledge and its use, we are told, is subject to the great law of karma, of cause and effect, and even the christ himself may not set the law aside in any case unless there is adequate "weakening" of the cause producing the bondage. 39. by subjugation of the upward life (the udana) there is liberation from water, the thorny path, and mire, and the power of ascension is gained. pervadi

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

se words may be, is devoid of all sense of separateness; hence the union with god is a realization of a fact in nature which has always been. the soul consciously knows itself to be one with god. with this idea in our minds and with an understanding of the part that intellection has played, the words of st. paul take on a new clarity, when he says "let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus, who, being in the form of god thought it not robbery to be equal with god" the results of this realized union (realized when in the contemplative state) is illumination of the mind and of the brain, provided that they have both been held positively steady and in a waiting condition. the illumination, when it has become frequent and, finally, when it can be drawn upon at will, produces event

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

person who has modelled his life on the divine as far as he can. he has a good copy yet something is lacking. what is this something? the manifestation of the indwelling christ. the germ has been there but it has lain dormant. now it is fostered and brought to birth, and the first initiation is attained. much then remains to be done. the analogy is complete. many years were spent by the disciple jesus between the birth and baptism. the remaining three initiations were taken in three years. you have the same situation on the path of the aspirant. the second initiation marks the crisis of the control of the astral body. after baptism there remain the three temptations, demonstrating the complete control of the three lower vehicles. then comes the transfiguration, followed by knowledge of th

dly, the creator of the thought-form (in this case an aspirant) remains responsible. the form remains linked to him by his living purpose and therefore the karma of the results, and the ultimate work of destroying that which he has built must be his. this is true of every embodied idea, the good as well as the bad. the creator of all of them is responsible for the work of his creation. the master jesus, for instance, has still to deal with the thought-forms which we call the christian church, and has much to do. the christ and the buddha have still some consummating work to carry through, though not so much with the forms which embody their enunciated principles, as with the souls who have evolved through the application of those principles. with the aspirant, however, who is still learnin

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

- 246- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the ancient legend tells us that the three went forth in sorrow and revolt, laden with their treasures, and thus the history of the wandering jew began. it is significant to remember that one of the greatest sons of god who has worked on earth, and who epitomised in himself the way and the achievement, jesus of nazareth, was a jew. he reversed all the earlier conditions. he possessed nothing at all. he was the first of our humanity to achieve, and was a direct descendant of the eldest of the original three disciples who revolted from the drama of detachment. the jew embodies in himself the world prodigal son. he is the symbol of the disciple who has not yet learned the lesson of a just sense of

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

these are symbolised in the animal power to eat and drink. subjective agency. smell or scent, the instinctual discovery of that which is needed, from the activity of ranging forth for food, and the use of the power to scent that food, to the identification of the smell of a beloved master or friend. quality .t amas or inerti .copyright 1998 lucis trust from bethlehem to calvary the initiations of jesus by alice a. bailey copyright 1937 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1965 by lucis trust foreword this book goes out with the earnest wish that its effect may be wholly constructive and result in a deepening of our belief in christ and a broader recognition of the work which he came to initiate. many years of work as an evangelist and as a teacher in the field of christian principles, and a di

tely clear and clean-cut recognitions: first, a recognition of the reality of the individuality of christ and of his mission; and secondly, a recognition that the development of the christ consciousness and the christ nature in individual man, and in the race as a whole, carries with it the solution of our world problem. most heartily do i endorse the words of arthur weigall when he says "yet the jesus of history as distinct from the jesus of theology, remains `the way, the truth, and the life; and i am convinced that concentration upon the historic figure of our lord and upon his teaching can alone inspire in this twentieth century that fervent adherence and service which in former ages could be obtained from the average layman by the expounding of theological dogmas, the threat of hell

rom bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust we are free to choose and to reject; but let us see to it that we choose with eyes opened by that sagacity and wisdom which are the hallmark of those who have penetrated a considerable way along the path of return. there is life and truth and vitality in the gospel story yet to be re-applied by us. there is dynamic and divinity in the message of jesus. christianity is, for us today, a culminating religion. it is the greatest of the later divine revelations. much of it, since its inception two thousand years ago, has come to be regarded as myth, and the clear outlines of the story have dimmed and have come frequently to be regarded as symbolic in their nature. yet behind symbol and myth stands reality an essential, dramatic and practical t

the present. through self-initiated experiment we can prove their validity; through experience we can establish them as governing forces in our lives; and through their expression we can demonstrate their truth to others. this is the theme of this book, dealing as it does with the facts of the gospel story, that fivefold sequential myth which teaches us the revelation of divinity in the person of jesus christ, and which remains eternally truth, in the cosmic sense, in the historical sense, and in its practical application to the individual. this myth divides itself into five great episodes: 1. the birth at bethlehem. 2. the baptism in jordan. 3. the transfiguration on mount carmel. 4. the crucifixion on mount golgotha. 5. the resurrection and ascension. their significance for us and their

e realise the unity, and at times the uniformity of the teaching as it is given in both the east and the west. for instance, the fourth event in christ's life, the crucifixion, finds a parallel in the fourth initiation of the oriental teaching which is called the great renunciation. there is an initiation, called in the buddhist terminology the "entering of the stream" and there is in the life of jesus an episode which we call the "baptism in jordan" the story of christ's birth at bethlehem can be paralleled in practically every detail in the lives of earlier messengers from god. these proved facts should surely evoke from us the recognition that though there are many messengers there is only one message; but this recognition in no way detracts from the unique task of the christ and the un

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

f himself and others, his wasted efforts, and his lack of understanding of the point of view of others have all gone, but as yet nothing has taken their place. he is swept by futility and his world rocks under him. let him stand still at the centre, fixing his eyes on the soul and ceasing activity for a brief period of time until the light breaks in. it is interesting here to note that the master jesus, as he hung upon the cross, experienced (on a much higher turn of the spiral than is possible to the disciple) the acme and the height of this- 228- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust crisis, though in his case being attuned to god and to all god's children there swept over him the sum total of the dilemma of the world disciples and all

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

and a member of a certain standing in the hierarchy, with the cooperation of certain other initiates. i am not, as i have already told you, the only worker along these lines and these seed groups are not the only units to be found today in the world. there are, for instance, several seed units working out into being within the framework of the catholic church, under the inspiration of the master jesus. these are, however, somewhat more subjective than are the groups in which i am particularly interested and their emergence is slower but they do exist. there are, also, two such seed groups in china and four in india. i mention this in order to safeguard you against the sense of uniqueness which is the subtle seed of the great heresy of separateness. 2. these groups of disciples are all pas

oluntarily submitted to the suggestions of a second ray- 483- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust disciple, myself. the pressure of work on the masters morya and k.h. is such that some of us are lifting what we can off their shoulders. in the same way the master hilarion is lifting a good deal of the work of training sixth ray disciples off the shoulders of the master jesus. a number of inner adjustments are going on in the exigencies of the stress of this cycle. it is one work, my brother, and all forces are expressions of the energy of love and the potencies of wisdom. to the wisdom force of the buddha, you easily respond. to the militancy and devotion of the master jesus and to the vibration of his organism, the church militant, you vibrate also with facilit

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

nate divinity through human beings and two thousand years ago portraying the nature of that divine immanence in the person of the christ. today, as an outcome of this unfolding divine presence, there is entering into the minds of men everywhere a new concept: that of "christ in us, the hope of glory (col. 1.27) there is a growing and developing belief that christ is in us, as he was in the master jesus, and this belief will alter world affairs and mankind's entire attitude to life. the wonder of that life, lived two thousand years ago, is still with us and has lost none of its freshness; it is an eternal inspiration, hope, encouragement and example. the love he demonstrated still holds the thinking world in thrall, even though relatively few have really attempted to demonstrate the same qu

his is my beloved son" several times, we read, the seal of affirmation (as it is spiritually called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being (acts xvii.28, the lord of the world, the ancient of days (dan. vii.9) can speak this final affirmative word. there are, as well we know, five crises or initiations which concern the master jesus the birth at bethlehem, the baptism, the transfiguration, the crucifixion and the resurrection but lying behind this obvious and practical teaching, lies an undercurrent or thought of something much higher and of greater importance the affirmative voice of the father, recognising that which the christ has done. when christ completes the work during the next two thousand years which he inaugu

escended upon christ. the new testament bears witness to a somewhat similar event when, at the baptism, we read that "he saw the spirit of god, descending like a dove and alighting upon him (st. matt. iii.16) this spirit is a being of tremendous cosmic potency and is today overshadowing the christ in much the same manner as christ (two thousand years ago) overshadowed or worked through the master jesus. this spirit of peace is not the sum total of an emotional and static calm, bringing to an end the turmoil on the earth and instituting an era of peace. he is, in a mysterious sense, the spirit of equilibrium; he works with the law of action and reaction and the inevitability of his activity will be recognised. his work will demonstrate in two ways fully when the christ appears among men and

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ever, lessening decade by decade. let me illustrate these facts for you by means of the two rays which are our immediate consideration. both of them as is ever the law express themselves through a higher and lower form or forms. one of the higher expressions of the out-going sixth ray is to be found in christianity, the spirit and principles of which were embodied for us in the life of the master jesus, who was, in his turn, inspired and over-shadowed and used by his great ideal, the christ. in the word "idealism" you have the keynote of this ray idealism taking form, providing a living example and indicating to the race of men their own divine potentialities. in the appearance of the christ, the divine ideal for the race, as a whole, was presented for the first time. other and earlier son

a first ray soul, a second ray personality and a sixth ray astral body. these potencies and energies sufficed to carry him through all the trials and the labours of the disciple. the buddha had a second ray soul, a first ray personality and a sixth ray mind a very rare phenomenon. the christ had a second ray soul, a sixth ray personality (which accounted for his close relationship with the master jesus, plus a first ray mind. these three all embodied the essences of the spiritual life and all of them were enabled to set their seal upon history and upon the hearts of men, largely through the potency of their sixth ray expression. all of them embodied also the new spiritual impulse which their day and age required and all of them for centuries by the strength of their living love and power b

t; today the british race (who are largely re-incarnated romans and hence the friendly feeling which basically exists between the two countries in spite of outward appearance) are the original railroad makers. this is all upon the material side. upon the spiritual side, as i told you in an earlier book, the whole field of religion will be re-inspired and re-orientated from rome because the master jesus will again take hold of the christian church in an effort to re-spiritualise it and to re-organise it. from the chair of the pope of rome, the master jesus will attempt to swing that great branch of the religious beliefs of the world again into a position of spiritual power and away from its present authoritative and temporary political potency. the united states of america has for its perso

by goodwill. this "mind as it is in christ" can be seen in their revolt against materialistic religion and in the widespread effort to be seen in europe and elsewhere to return the land (mother-earth, the true virgin mary) to the people. it can be seen in the constant movement of people throughout the world from place to place, symbolised in the gospel story by the journey of mary with the infant jesus into egypt. then followed, as we are told in the new testament, a cycle of thirty years wherein all we know is that the infant jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the baptism in jordan, and begin his public service. today the many who in this life have taken the first initiation are entering the long silence of that symbolic thirty years wherein they too will gro

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ps towards expression. the form of the expression is also qualified. thus the seven ways of illusion are produced. i have here outlined for you the causes and the various types of illusion to which the disciple is prone. in its pure form, this illusion has to be met and some day surmounted; it has to be isolated and dispelled by the initiate. it was the final successful effort to do this that led jesus upon the cross to cry out in words of apparent distress. he then finally dissipated the illusion of the personal, objective deity. at that moment, he entered fully into the consciousness that he was himself god, and naught else; that the theory of unity outlined by him in the gospel of st. john, chapter xvii, was indeed and in truth a fact in his own consciousness, established unalterably. y

ciousness and form, the three aspects of divinity all of them equally divine. as the aspirant learns to free himself from the glamours upon which we have touched, he discovers another world of fog and mist through which the path seems to run and through which he must penetrate and thus free himself from the glamours of the path. what are these glamours, my brothers? study the three temptations of jesus, if you would know clearly what they are. study the effect that the affirmation schools which emphasise divinity (materially employed) have upon the thought of the world; study the failures of disciples through pride, the world saviour complex, the service complex, and all the various distortions of reality which a man encounters upon the path, which hinder his progress and which spoils the

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

of nations. before he took up special work, the master serapis sought to bring through some constructive idea for the helping of humanity. he conceived of a world unity in the realm of politics which would work out as an intelligent banding of the nations for the preservation of international peace. he presented it to the adepts in conclave and it was felt that something could be done. the master jesus undertook to present it to his group of disciples as he was working in the occident. one of these disciples on the inner planes, seized upon the suggestion and passed it on (or rather stepped it down) until it registered in the brain of colonel house. he, not recording the source (of which he was totally- 3- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust unaware, passed it on i

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

avour, when in sagittarius, to practise one-pointedness along some one line; when in virgo, he will know that opportunity to bring the form more under the influence of the hidden christ is possible and that, in pisces, sensitivity to the higher impression is his right and privilege. all these four possibilities, in regard to the advanced initiate are beautifully demonstrated for us in the life of jesus, the master on the sixth ray. the gemini aspect of his life is shown in the perfect fusion of the basic duality found in humanity: the human and the divine. the virgo aspect came into expression in his twelfth year when he said "wist ye not that i must be about my father's business" thereby indicating the subordination of the form life to the will of the indwelling christ; this was consummat

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e, a nice child. not only did i have a temper but i always wanted to know how people ticked and what made them work and behave as they did. miss godby used to keep a self-examination book in which, every evening, the record of the day's failures was entered and somewhat morbidly (from my present attitude to life) she analysed her words and actions each day in the light of the question "what would jesus have done" i had discovered this book one day in the course of my inquisitive prowling and made a practice of carefully reading her record. in this way, i found out that she did know that i had taken all her jewelry and destroyed it but that as a matter of discipline for herself and in order to help me she was not going to say one word to me until my own conscience prompted me to confess. sh

be found in the fact that i, a young girl called alice la trobe-bateman, had an interview with a master but in the fact that knowing nothing whatsoever of their existence, i met one of them and that he talked with me. the value is to be found also in the fact that everything that he told me came true (after i had tried hard to meet requirements) and because i discovered that he was not the master jesus, as i had naturally supposed, but a master of whom i could not possibly have heard and one who was totally unknown to me. anyway, the master k. h. is my master, beloved and real. i have worked for him ever since i was fifteen years old and i am now one of the senior disciples in his group, or as it is called esoterically in his ashram. i make these statements with a definite purpose in mind

to make irish needlepoint lace. i was always proud of that achievement and specially proud when i once sold two yards of flounces for $30 a yard, the proceeds going to the church missionary society, as in those days i needed no money. but the time had now come when i felt the need to make myself of some use in the world and to justify my existence. in those days i expressed this urge in terms of "jesus went about doing good" and i, as his follower, must do the same. so i began, furiously and fanatically, to "do good" i became an evangelist in connection with the british army. looking back to the time when i was working as an evangelist among british troops, i realise that it was the happiest and the most satisfactory time of my entire life. i quite liked myself and all that concerned me. i

, doctrine, my ability to do things, the sureness of my knowledge and the infallibility of any advice i might give. i had an answer for everything and knew just what should be done. i handled life and circumstances at that time with the sure touch of complete inexperience and my answer to every problem, and my cure for every ill was always to be found in the answer to the one question "what would jesus do in similar circumstances" having decided what he would do (i wonder how i knew) i went ahead and did it or advised others to follow the same rule. at the same time, unrealised and unexpressed, i was beginning to ask questions, though refusing to answer them, and underneath all the surety and dogmatism, great changes were taking place. i know that this period saw me take a definite step fo

ting. i found myself one sunday afternoon on a platform in a large room, facing a couple of hundred soldiers and some members of the royal irish constabulary. i started off fluently, slowed down, got stage fright, gave those men one look, burst into tears and bolted off the platform. i swore that wild horses could not take me back but in due time and in answer to my perennial question "what would jesus have me do" i crawled back. but the ridiculous thing was that, having come to that decisive conclusion, the next night i went to the meeting room to get ready and proceeded to light the gas. i nearly blew myself across the room and singed my hair and could not take the meeting that night. the explosion was like a full stop. several weeks later i returned. this time i had memorised my talk an

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

nsciousness of the patient can be a help, for too earnest, emphatic and impatient help can offset the work quiet, silent and controlled-by the healer. once, however, the rapport is established, the work of the healer simply consists in holding the relationship steady; no interference must be permitted in the work being done by the patient's soul, set in motion by the aid of the healer. the master jesus on the cross could not respond to any saving process (even had he desired to do so) because the soul body as is always the case at the fourth initiation-was destroyed; there was nothing to respond to the evocative power of an outside person, interested or loving. as an adept and as one in whom monadic consciousness was firmly established, the powers then available to jesus could not be used

of the evolutionary progress of humanity would have been altered, and in a dire and awful manner. but the dynamic harmlessness, the expression of the will-to-good and the demonstration of the will-to-power (forcing evil to leave him) marked a most important crisis in the life of the christ. the gospel story (with its resume of the five initiations) concerns the progress and triumph of the master jesus; the story of the three temptations indicated the taking of a still higher initiation, the sixth, by the christ; this conferred on him complete mastery over evil, and not mastery over imperfection; it was because he was the "perfect one" that he could take this initiation. i have given you much for mature consideration and thrown some light upon an initiation of which little, naturally, can

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ng of the christ consciousness in the hearts of men everywhere; its first expression will- 120- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust be goodwill. in the second place, disciples everywhere will find themselves increasingly sensitive to his quality, his voice and his teaching; they will be "overshadowed" by him in many cases, just as before, he overshadowed his disciple jesus; through this overshadowing of disciples in all lands, he will duplicate himself repeatedly. the effectiveness and the potency of the overshadowed disciple will be amazing. one of the first experiments he made as he prepared for this form of activity was in connection with krishnamurti. it was only partially successful. the power used by him was distorted and misapplied by the devotee type o

o the buddhic plane, thereby making direct and unimpeded etheric reception possible. this is one of the significances of the words which we read in the new testament that "the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" a symbolic way of expressing the unveiling of an unimpeded channel. this was made possible by the christ as the avatar, working in cooperation with the master jesus, and also by the point of evolution reached by the humanity of that time. we will leave the fifth point of revelation at this time and consider it in our next instruction. it is one of tremendous importance, for it concerns the highest aspect of the will and covers the synthesis of the energies of the five planes of human and superhuman evolution. this synthesis precedes the work done on the

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ntity, nor do they know how to carry on this work in such a way that never for a moment are they unaware of what they themselves are doing and the purpose of their activity. definitely and with purpose they lend their body temporarily to another soul for service, preserving their own integrity all the time. the highest expression of this type of activity was the giving of his body by the disciple jesus for the use of the christ. it is in the word service that the whole story lies, and the safeguard. when this true mediumship is better understood, we shall have the medium passing out of his body in full waking consciousness through the orifice at the top of his head, and not, as is now the case in the majority of instances, through the solar plexus, with no preservation of awareness of the

itual man, functioning as a soul, becomes the channel for forces, ideas and activities other than his own but to which he gives full intuitive assent. it is all carried forward with full understanding and consciousness of method, process and results. it is an act of free spiritual cooperation, for the good of humanity, in the work of a great spiritual force or being. the cooperation of the master jesus with the christ is a case in point. in connection with the coming avatar, it may involve the cooperation of the christ or of a "kindred, equal soul" with a cosmic being or presence, taking place on still higher spiritual levels of consciousness and producing an incredibly focussed potency. in the case of obsession, the evil force enslaves the personality which, in the majority of cases, is b

. appearance or manifestation. every possible step has been taken by the hierarchy to enable the avatar, the coming one, to appear. what these steps are cannot be declared here. only some questions, suggesting possibility, are permissible. think you that his body of manifestation is already on earth, waiting to be overshadowed, inspired and used at the right time, as was the vehicle of the master jesus by the christ? there are those who say that it is waiting and has been waiting for 22 years. is it possible that there will be a sudden descent of the prince of light and peace to change present conditions by the effectiveness of his radiance and his message? there are those who look for him to suddenly appear, and they number millions of expectant people. some say he is already on his way

ill evoke eventually the spirit of peace. this evocation will bring to humanity that stimulation and active desire to participate in the expression of goodwill which will render world peace an effective outcome of wise action and the establishment of right human relations. just as the great lord of love and son of god, the christ, used as his vehicle of expression on earth, the form of the master jesus, so this great extra-planetary life, the spirit of peace, can be enabled, on a higher turn of the spiral, to use as his vehicle of expression, the form of the christ, the prince of peace; thus his stupendous energies will be stepped down through the medium of the lord of love and become available to the mass of men. i gave you later another stanza of the invocation, of great power which was

he christ. that the oriental peoples may call this great official by another name than that of "the christ" has no bearing on reality and alters not the fact of his influence and his esoteric coming. certain of the masters have the work under their control, and through their grouped disciples are already actively engaged in the work of preparation. the master morya, the master k.h. and the master jesus are the three working at this time in closest cooperation with the christ. with them work the master hilarion, he whom you call the master d.k, and another master who is specially linked with the work of preparation in the sacred land of india. one of the english masters is also exceptionally active, and the master in america is laying his plans toward an active participation in the work. th

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

ent that "the father spoke to him" that "he heard a voice" and that the seal of affirmation (as it is occultly called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the lord of the world, enunciates the final affirmative sound. this has no reference when it occurs to the earlier initiations, but only to the final ones. there are five obvious crises of initiation which concern the master jesus as step by step he took or re-enacted the five initiations. but lying behind this obvious and practical teaching, lies an undercurrent or thread of higher revelation. this is concerned with the realisations of the overshadowing christ as he registered the voice which is heard at the third, fifth, sixth and seventh initiations. the gospel story gives us the five initiations of the master jesu

from shamballa, and inherent also in form (as are the other two, which eventually relates the human will, through the right use of the mind, to the organised planning of his separate and individual life in the three worlds, and which eventually relates and reorients that will to the will of god. these three energies are faintly symbolised for us in the life of christ when overshadowing the master jesus, two thousand years ago. the purificatory aspect of the monadic force is indicated at the baptism episode; secondly, the destroyer aspect can be seen expressing itself at the time of the crucifixion, when it rent the veil of the temple from the top to the bottom. the episode which indicates the energy of organisation and the relation of the spiritual will of the christ to the purpose and the

es are- 56- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust grasped. that which has so grossly imprisoned the human spirit is disappearing; the rocky grave of humanity is breaking open and releasing men to a life of resurrection. forget not that in the interim between the tomb experience and the appearance in living form to his disciples, the master jesus went down into hell (figuratively speaking, carrying release for those to be found there. there will be an interim between the darkness of the war with the evil history of the past, and the appearance of a living civilisation and culture based on the spiritual values and intelligently developing the divine purpose. the stage is now being set for this. the crucifixion and the tomb experience

n through the evil which he does and by the material focus of his desires; the following of a life of vice will breed disease, as is well known. the disciple can also destroy his form nature through selfless service and devotion to a cause. in both cases the form is destroyed, but the motivating impulse is different and the energy of destruction comes from different sources. the death of a master jesus or of a father damien, and the death of a hitler or of a murderer, are not the result of the same essential energies. when the din of battle and the smoke and fire of bombing and the cruel effects on human bodies have faded into the past, it will be apparent to the understanding aspirant that much evil has been destroyed in all fields of human activity in the field of theological religion, i

s task of world saviour. his work as preserver and as head of the hierarchy had not then begun. it was at that time dependent upon the experience in the garden of gethsemane and upon the resurrection initiation. some day the gold and the silver threads of the gospel story will be disentangled, and men will know the two interpretations which can be put upon the events and episodes in the career of jesus the christ. the underlying true events give us great steps and developments in the work of the christ as he "enveloped humanity in the mantle of love, grasped the rod of initiation on behalf of his brothers, and faced the lord of life himself, unattended, unafraid and in his own right" the episodes refer to happenings in the life of jesus. at the present time, and at the immediate point of t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

, intelligently aware of the work to be accomplished, a world savior is formed. two great and dramatic stories have been held constantly before the eyes of men down the ages. in the twelve labors of hercules, that path of discipleship is depicted, and his experiences preparatory to the great concluding cycle of initiation meet with a ready response from every aspiring man. in the life and work of jesus the christ, that radiant and perfected son of god, who "has entered for us within the veil, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps, we have portrayed the five stages of the path of initiation, which are the climaxing episodes for which the twelve labors have prepared the disciple. the oracle has spoken, and down the ages the word has sounded forth: man, know thyself. this know

wn essential divinity. through the overcoming of form and the subjugation of matter, a picture is given us of an unfolding divine self-realization. in the study therefore of hercules the disciple, and of christ, the world savior, we have an entire pictorial presentation of the final stages of unfoldment which lie ahead of all of us. the five great initiations as portrayed for us in the history of jesus the christ are not dealt with here, but form the subject of another book (from bethlehem to calvary) as we study the story of hercules and go with him through his twelve labors, passing around the great zodiac of the heavens, we will approach it from two angles: that of the individual aspirant and that of humanity as a whole. it is now possible to regard the human family as having reached, p

the great aspirants and mystics of the world. note how st. paul cries out as he wrestles with the problem "i find then a law, that, when i would do good, evil is present with me "for i delight in the law of god after the inward man: but i see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members "i thank god through jesus christ our lord. so then with the mind i myself serve the law of god; but with the flesh the law of sin (romans, vii, 21-25. as hercules grew up, we are told, great care was given to his education. he was trained in all possible accomplishments, and every faculty that he had was developed and organized. what is the lesson to be learned from this? it is the need to realize that every disciple

he overcame all obstacles and passed undeterred from aries to pisces; starting in aries as the humble aspirant and ending in pisces as the all-knowing, victorious world savior. one point might be made here. in the history of hercules we are told nothing of what he ever said; we are only told of what he did. through his deeds, he earned the right to speak. in the story of that greater son of god, jesus the christ, we are told not only what he did but also what he said. in the silence of hercules and in his steady accomplishment, no matter by what failure and difficulty he might be faced, and in his power of endurance, we have shown to us the characteristics of the disciple. in the story of jesus the christ, through the demonstration of his powers and by the words he spoke, we have the proo

with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we find cassiopeia, the dominant woman. woman and child and as we shall later see, mother-matter is the nurturer of the infant christ, the virgin mary gives birth to jesus. in pisces, at the close of the great round, we find andromeda, the chained woman. first the woman enthroned and dominant, then the woman caring for the infant, christ, and then the woman, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet later as one of the three co

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

d "the literature and history of the kabalah" by arthur e. waite, have been published, yet i think that this little treatise will be found of interest to those who have not sufficient leisure to master the more complete works on the kabalah. the old testament has been of necessity referred to, but i have by intention made no references to the new testament, or to the faith and doctrines taught by jesus the christ, as the saviour of the world: if any desire to refer to the alleged reference in the kabalah to the trinity, it will be found in the zohar ii, 43, b: and an english version of the same in "the kabbalah" by c. d. ginsburg. wm. wynn westcott, m.b, etc. the kabalah it must be confessed that the origin of the kabalah is lost in the mists of antiquity; no one can demonstrate who was it

m was again taken and pillaged by antiochus in 170 b.c. then followed the long wars of the maccabees; subsequently the romans dominated judea, then quarrelling with the jews the city was taken by pompey, and not long after was again plundered by the roman general crassus in 54 b.c. yet the jewish religion was preserved, and we find the religious feasts and festivals all in progress at the time of jesus; yet once more in a.d. 70, was the holy city taken, plundered and burnt, and that by titus, who became emperor of the romans in a.d. 79. through all these vicissitudes, the hebrew old testament survived, yet must almost unavoidably have had many alterations and additions made to its several treatises; the more esoteric doctrines which were handed down along the line of the priestly caste, an

matters, is yet marred by the application of penalties of gross cruelty and harsh treatment of erring mortals, which are hardly compatible with our modern views of what might have emanated from god the personal creator of this universe with its million worlds; and the almost entire absence of any reference to a life after death for human beings shows a materialism which needed a new revelation by jesus, whose life has earned the title of "christ" yet the orthodox of england hear this statement with incredulity, and if asked to show the passages in the old testament which insist on a life after death, or on a succession of lives for purposes of retribution, or the passages demonstrating the immortality of the soul, they could not produce them, and are content to refer you to the clergy, who

that day were largely the champions of suffering and oppressed races, and for centuries the wisest of men, the greatest scientists have maintained, and ever won, struggle after struggle with the assumed infallibility of old hebraic testament literal instructions, assertions and narratives. the old testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for jesus the christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish people, but the interminable list of christian sects of to-day have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of a right of personal interpretation of the bible, which might have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys of interpretation were lost, or at least missing, and that without their assistance error of a v

by the mutual illumination that is available. by tolerance and mutual esteem much good may arise, but by the internecine struggles of religionists, every faith is injured, and religion becomes a by-word meaning intolerance, strife and vainglory, and the mark and profession of an earnest sectarian is now that he is ever ready to condemn the efforts of others, in direct opposition to the precept of jesus the christ, who said-"judge not, that ye be not judged" one sect of the jews, the caraites, successors of the sadducees, throughout history rejected the kabalah, and it is necessary to say here that the hebrew rabbis of this country of the present day do not follow the practical kabalah, nor accept all the doctrines of the dogmatic kabalah. on the other hand, many famous christian authors ha

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

se things to him that he might write them down and keep them secure. and he said to him "cursed be everyone who will exchange these things for a gift or for food or for drink or for clothing or for any other such thing" and these things were presented to him in a mystery, and immediately he disappeared from him. and he went to his fellow disciples and related to them what the savior had told him. jesus christ, amen. the apocryphon according to j a 30 this passage recalls strangely enough the worship of the graeco-roman goddess pavororfear, the attendant on mars. she was much invoked, as in the present instance, to terrify intrudersor an enemy. aeschylusmakes the seven chiefs before thebes swear by fear, mars, and bellona.mem. acad. of inscriptions, v. 9.appendix.comments on the foregoing t

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

the candidate. that of apprentice recalls the earliest of christian chivalries, being the canons or knights of the holy sepulchre, who for long had no distinctive clothing and hence the divested state of the masonic postulant. but this state signified also that his arm is ever ready to do battle with the enemies of the holy christian religion and his heart for the sacrifice of his entire being to jesus christ. the alleged correspondences and meanings are developed at some length, but it will be sufficient to mention that the masonic candidate enters the lodge poor and penniless, because that was the condition at their beginning of the templars and the other orders of christian knighthood. the candidate is prepared for the second craft degree in a somewhat different manner from that of the

BLACK SERPENT1

and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground (niv) 12 dominionist theologians believe that it is their responsibility, as christians, to bring the entire world- all countries, societies, and governments- under the "word of god" they are also postmillennialists, meaning they believe jesus christ will only return to earth after most of the world has been converted to christianity. under a dominionist society, mainline and liberal christian churches would be prohibited from holding services or proselytizing. all non-religious groups would also be prohibited from such. perhaps you might be able to worship the demons inside the privacy of your own home, but if you even breathe a

hear of southern baptist preachers calling for the merciless execution of minority religions. they would much rather just proselytize. this again is a demonstration that dominionists do not represent the norm in fundamentalist christianity. 13 perhaps one of the most important theological differences between dominionists and other fundamentalists is that, as postmillenialists, they do not believe jesus will return until far in the future. this is a significantly big difference; most fundamentalist christian groups are premillenialists, who believe that the requirements for jesus' return have mostly been fulfilled already, and christ will be showing up any day now. these various examples demonstrate that dominionists are a minority even within their own religious culture; they are not the m

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

he pythagorean triangle, the 10 dots within, and the seven points of the triangle and the cube* whence the kabalistic name of shells given to the astral form, the body called kama rupa, left behind by the higher angels in the shape of the higher manas, when the latter leaves for devachan, forsaking its residue* which shows that the essenes believed in re-birth and many reincarnations on earth, as jesus himself did, a fact we can prove from the new testament itself[[vol. 2, page] 112 the secret doctrine. i corinthians vi, 3 "know ye not that we (the initiates) shall judge angels? finally, it is shown in every ancient scripture and cosmogony that man evolved primarily as a luminous incorporeal form, over which, like the molten brass round the clay model of the sculptor, the physical frame of

sar was the name of an ancient irish god, meaning 'to light a fire (kenealy. the christian kabalists and symbologists who disfigured pymander- prominent among them the bishop of ayre, francois de tours, in the 16th century- divide the elements in this way- the four elements formed from divine substances and the spirits of the salts of nature represented by[[diagram. st. matthew. angel-man. water (jesus-christ, angel-man, mikael) a[[diagram. st. mark .the lion. fire e- y. st. luke. the bull. earth i- o. st. john. the eagle. air[[footnote(s* to those who would inquire "what has hydrogen to do with air or oxygena[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 115 sons of yoga. h, the quintessence[[hephlox, flamma-virgo (virgin oil, flamma durissima, virgo, lucis aeterna mater. the first race

mankind. the fourth, which had tasted from the fruit of the tree of good and evil- wisdom united already to earthy, and therefore impure, intelligence* had consequently to acquire that wisdom by initiation and great struggle. and the union of wisdom and intelligence, the former ruling the latter, is called in the hermetic books "the god possessing the double fecundity of the two sexes" mystically jesus was held to be man-woman. see also in the orphic hymns, sung during the mysteries, we find[[footnote(s* compare ezekiel's vision (chap. i) of the four divine beings who "had the likeness of a man" and yet had the appearance of a wheel "when they went they went upon their four sides. for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheel* see prof. wilder's essay "the primeval race double-sex

m- become enamoured of the daughters of men, marry, and reveal to their wives the mysteries unlawfully learnt by them in heaven, according to enoch; and this is the "fall of angels* but what is, in reality, the "book of enoch" itself, from which the author of revelation and even the st. john of the fourth gospel have so profusely quoted (e.g, verse 8, in chapter 10, about all who have come before jesus, being "thieves and robbers) simply a book of initiation, giving out in allegory and cautious phraseology the programme of certain archaic mysteries performed in the inner temples. the author of the "sacred mysteries among the mayas and quiches" very justly suggests that the so-called "visions" of enoch relate to his (enoch's) experience at initiation, and what he learned in the mysteries; w

m, gathered from pagan sources. the coluber tortuosus "the tortuous snake" a qualification said to have originated with the jews, had quite another meaning before the roman church distorted it- among others, a purely astronomical meaning. the "serpent" fallen from on high "deorsum fluens" was credited with the possession of the keys of the empire of the dead[[tou thanatus arche] to that day, when jesus saw it "falling like lightning from heaven (luke x. 17, 18, the roman catholic interpretation of cadebat ut fulgur to the contrary, notwithstanding; and it means indeed that even "the devils are subject" to the logos- who is wisdom, but who, as the opponent of ignorance, is satan or lucifer at the same time. this remark refers to divine wisdom falling like lightning on, and quickening the in

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

he clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have any, since bopp, has "laid down his code of phonetic laws" in their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history, it is a bold step for our orientalists to take, to deny, a priori, everything that does not dovetail with the

tained for years that the doctrines taught in the theosophist, and which culminated in "esoteric buddhism" had been all invented by the present writer, have finally turned round, and denounced "isis unveiled" and the rest as a plagiarism from eliphas levi, paracelsus, and, mirabile[[vol. 1, page] xlvi introductory. dictu, buddhism and brahmanism) as well charge renan with having stolen his vie de jesus from the gospels, and max muller his "sacred books of the east" or his "chips" from the philosophies of the brahmins and gautama, the buddha. but to the public in general and the readers of the "secret doctrine" i may repeat what i have stated all along, and which i now clothe in the words of montaigne: gentlemen "i have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of

r or zeus, son of kronos-saturn "infinite time (or kala, in their origin were represented as male-female. zeus is said to be the "beautiful virgin" and venus is made bearded. apollo is originally bisexual, so is brahma-vach in manu and the puranas. osiris is interchangeable with isis, and horus is of both sexes. finally st. john's vision in revelation, that of the logos, who is now connected with jesus- is hermaphrodite, for he is described as having female breasts. so is the tetragrammaton= jehovah. but there are two avalokiteshwaras in esotericism; the first and the second logos* no religious symbol can escape profanation and even derision in our days of politics and science. in southern india the writer has seen a converted native making pujah with offerings before a statue of jesus cla

even-syllabled oeaohoo of the archaic doctrine; i.e, the one unmanifested logos, the second manifested, the triangle concreting into the quaternary or tetragrammaton, and the rays of the latter on the material plane[[vol. 1, page] 74 the secret doctrine. the kabalists- between the former, the embodiment of divine wisdom in the region of the spiritual, and the latter, evil, on the plane of matter* jesus accepted the serpent as a synonym of wisdom, and this formed part of his teaching "be ye wise as serpents" he says "in the beginning, before mother became father-mother, the fiery dragon moved in the infinitudes alone (book of sarparajni) the aitareya brahmana calls the earth sarparajni "the serpent queen" and "the mother of all that moves" before our globe became egg-shaped (and the univers

escribed in the old books as being situated north of mount meru, called "hamsa" and connected with episodes pertaining to the history of religious mysteries and initiations. as to the name of kala-hansa being the supposed vehicle of brahma-prajapati, in the exoteric texts and translations of the[[footnote(s* this is again similar to the doctrine of fichte and german pantheists. the former reveres jesus as the great teacher who inculcated the unity of the spirit of man with the god-spirit (the adwaita doctrine) or universal principle. it is difficult to find a single speculation in western metaphysics which has not been anticipated by archaic eastern philosophy. from kant to herbert spencer, it is all a more or less distorted echo of the dwaita, adwaita, and vedantic doctrines generally[[vo

BLUE EQUINOX

versenkt suggestion of an admittedly insane agent of his approaches the maniacal savagery of i samuel xv, 3, and by no means matches the undiscriminating imbecility of its ferocity .now go and smite amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. who is the author of this order? it is the father of jesus christ .i and my father are one. it is therefore the god of wilhelm von hohenzollern, the american people (if their newspapers lie not, and a very few particularly troglodytic englishmen of whom mr. t. b. bishop is a striking .survival of the meanest. mr. bishop really believes that this tribal demon designed butterflies, and put the rainbow in the sky as a guarantee that the world would nev

complaining that the young lady aforesaid had tried to seduce him. this appeared an uncomplimentary reference to augustus john, walter duranty, myself, and several others. i wrote to mr. lewis, and told him that he was a stupid cad, and that i would kick him if i saw him. stupid cad about fills the bill. it is perfectly easy to create a sensation by going into a church and shouting .to hell with jesus. at the elevation of the host. and that is mr. lewis. artistic method. whether he is decorating a room in a bad imitation of klimmt, or attempting some insincere cubism, or futurism, or vorticism, it is always the same stupid cad, brawling in church .blast. was a quite senseless vulgarity, and deceived nobody .tarr. is an attempt to repeat the trick. he dots his pages with french words and p

as an elemental spirit. but undoubtedly her utterance is remarkably distinctive and coherent. it is almost entirely free from the worst of the disfigurements to which psychical researchers have acclimatized us, confound them. the mention of psychical researchers has ruined my temper again. i am going to be nasty even to my dear mrs. hutchings. it is very easy to spoil a case by claiming too much. jesus preferred would stand higher in the market to-day if some would-be clever press agent had not added ridiculous pagan stories of the virgin birth, and so on, to the earlier and more plausible legend. and the most serious criticism of patience worth is the existence of that ridiculous novel by .mark twain. patience worth is not impossible, or even improbable. she makes mistakes. she commits an

y members in one body. and it is also written "i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. the equinox 304 do not even the most pious and pig-headed agree that these are the last days? are we not come through much tribulation to the latter end of the apocalypse, and shall we not cry with the apostle "the spirit and the bride say: come "yea, come, lord jesus, come quickly" john st. john. on the threshold of the unseen. an examination of the phenomena of spiritualism and of the evidence for survival after death. by sir william f. barrett. e. p. dutton& co. sir william barrett.s book is decidedly well worth reading by those who imagine that there is nothing in spiritualism and kindred subjects. sir william barrett has marshalled his facts and fict

y any means. 14. shun praise, o devotee. praise leads to selfdelusion. thy body is not self, thy self is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not. pride is an expansion of the ego, and the ego must be destroyed. pride is its protective sheath, and hence exceptionally dangerous, but this is a mystical truth concerning the inner life. the adept is anything but a .creeping jesus. 15. self-gratulation, o disciple, is like unto a lofty tower, up which a haughty fool has climbed. thereon he sits in prideful solitude and unperceived by any but himself. develops this: but, this treatise being for beginners as well as for the more advanced, a sensible commonplace reason is given for avoiding pride, in that it defeats its own object. 16. false learning is rejected by the w

BOOK OF ENOCH

ously refers to events well after moses (see my notes on that chapter. additionally; who would have dared to produce a book with people such as moses described in terms of farm animals? michael knibb, whose translation i have used to produce this book, studied all available manuscripts and sources, and it is clear that this book was well known and studied in many countries well before the time of jesus. the earliest known surviving fragments and quotations in various languages show that this is the same book, and that the ethiopians have preserved it well. in the end i was convinced that the book is really enoch s true account of otherwise forgotten events that occurred in early times; events that we have no other surviving records of. enoch left us a book that describes people of an advan

present god. it is a bit confusing that enoch sees characters from the future. it may be that the watchers presented this to enoch as a theatrical drama so that he could see it and ask questions at the same time. it was no doubt a deliberate policy not to give actual names so that different readers in different eras would assume they new the names. when i read this, i think it obviously refers to jesus, but many ages had a chosen one. the number of righteousness (47.4, that is reached, may refer to the twelve times twelve thousand predicted to survive in the biblical book of revelations. sheol is mentioned at 51.1, it is the name for hell used in early times and it is also mentioned in the book of genesis and book of job, it means the grave- but more than just a hole in the ground. the mou

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eformation, it only existed in the outlying country districts. non-christians at that time became known as pagans and heathens "pagan" comes from the latin there were other more definite adoptions from the old religions, especially in the early formative years of christianity. the idea of the trinity, for instance, was taken from the old egyptian triad. osiris, isis and horus became god, mary and jesus. december 25th, as the birthdate of]esus, was borrowed from mithraism which also believed in a second coming and indulged in the "eating of god. in many religions of the ancient world were found immaculate conceptions and sacrifice of the god for the salvation of the people. witchcraft ancient and modern raymond buckland, hc publications, ny 1970. some of the instruments of torture used in t

people came to worship two principle deities: the horned god of hunting and the goddess of fertility. these, then, were our representations our understandable forms of the supreme power which actually rules life. in the various areas of wo/man's development we see that these representations became, for the ancient egyptians, isis and osiris; for the hindus, shiva and parvati; for the christians, jesus and mary. in virtually all instances (there were exceptions) the ultimate deity was equated with both masculine and feminine. broken down into a god and a goddess. this would seem most natural since everywhere in nature is found this duality. with the development of the craft, as we know it, there was also, as we have seen, this duality of a god and a goddess. deities' names as mentioned in

. in judaism there is this problem to an extent (though judaism is a theocentric faith; the supreme power there has a name which may not be uttered and may not be written. yahweh is the vocalized form often used, but it is derived from the four letters yhwh (the "divine tetra-grammaton, signifying "that name too sacred to be pronounced. in christianity there was developed the use of a human male, jesus, to play the part of the "son of god, the christ, thus giving a recognizable form to deity; a form to which the followers could relate. with the addition of mary, the mother figure, the duality was complete. bo it was much more comfortable to pray to jesus, as the extension of god/supreme being, yet all the time knowing that there was the indefinable, the incomprehensible, beyond him. jesus

e year, even though deference may be given to one over the other at certain times. there is a common theme of death and resurrection found in myths throughout the world. the symbolism is frequently furthered in a descent to the underworld with a later return. we find it with ishtar's descent and search for tannaz; with sif's loss of her golden tresses; with idunn's loss of her golden apples; with jesus' death and resurrection; with siva's death and resurrection, and many more. basically all represent the coming of fall and winter followed by the return of spring and summer; the lead figure represnting the spirit of vegetation. from witchcraft here are "the myth of the goddess" as found in (a) gardnerian wicca and (b) saxon wicca "now g* had never loved, but she would solve all the mysterie

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alue 50 "white brilliance" is a technical name for kether, the crown. the reference to it here is derived from tsatekhakh, tz ch ch" to glare, to be bright, to be dazzling white. this word adds up to 106, the value of the lettername n v n. 5 the book of exodus says that joshua was the son of nun. his father's name signifies "perpetuity. joshua means "the nature of reality is to liberate. the name jesus is a variant of joshua. concerning the doctrine in the succeeding portion of this paragraph, the following comment was given at the time the outline of the text was first received "the attribution of motion to nun becomes more intelligible when it is remembered that the older philosophers used the term motion to designate what is now more commonly called change. thus aristotle enumerates fou

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ith an invisible reality. but it is also about religion, which may be defined as a viable system of ideas and activities by which humans mediate the sacred realm. in some african american spiritual traditions, ideas about magical and religious practice can enclose identical experiences. christianity may presume a person's acceptance of a kind of supernaturalism, as a religion that calls upon god, jesus, and the holy ghost to directly intervene, when petitioned, in the life of the believer. individuals may utilize the rhetoric of miracle to characterize this kind of spiritual efficacy, or they may adopt a lexicon that is associated with\ 3\ magic. or they may choose both. a fixed dichotomy between these ideas is not always apparent. it is clear, then, that we are dealing with contested noti

ve charms, for example, were endowed by specialists with spiritual potency "in the name of the lord" accoutrements adopted from both catholic and protestant traditions were enlisted by black conjurers for supernatural protection. the slave old divinity, a mississippi conjurer who claimed to be the grandson of a witch, was buried clutching his cherished silver medal of saint anthony and the infant jesus. w. d. siegfried, a baptist missionary who lived among the freedmen in augusta, georgia, after the civil war, complained bitterly of the sale and dissemination of religious books and pictures to african americans, who frequently adopted them as charms and protective objects. especially notorious was the "letter from jesus christ" that, according to siegfried, circulated extensively among bla

d seventh\ 26\ books of moses, the last one an esoteric treatise of occult science and philosophy that was considered by some to be the "hoodoo bible"[28] the medicinal items that african american supernatural practitioners employed for treating their patients were often given religious names and identifications. herbs identified as angel's root, devil's shoestring, bowels-of-christ, and blood-of-jesus leaves were utilized to heal and give the carrier control and protection "jew david" was a plant that was especially prized among slaves for its therapeutic properties, whereas "adam and eve" root brought luck. individuals who possessed sampson's root or st.-john's-wort boasted of supernatural security. the leaves of the peace plant and the king-of-the-woods, patterned in the shape of a cros

revelation from god" he remarked "as do all the conjure doctors i have ever heard of" similar statements characterize the beliefs of other african american conjure practitioners. when asked by a white professor where she had obtained her knowledge of divination and "tricking (casting spells, a conjure woman in alabama named seven sisters said "it's a spirit in me that tells.a spirit from the lord jesus christ. c i tricks in the name o f the lord" at the turn of the twentieth century chesnutt interviewed an aged conjure woman whom he described as a "dreamer of dreams and seer of visions" who was well versed in conjuring lore and explained that she was guided by jesus and "de spirit er de lawd" in his research on conjure and folk beliefs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

29\ a supernatural perspective truly interpenetrated the beliefs of many black believers, churchgoing christians or not. in the african american religious imagination there were a host of forces that intervened directly in human life and its affairs, including spirits, ghosts, and angelic personalities that were periodically summoned to assist human beings in their endeavors. the biblical god of jesus and moses was also the sovereign of the unseen world whose power was witnessed in "signs and wonders" on the earth. to many, it was all a matter of correctly perceiving the nature of things "the old folks c knows more about the signs that the lord uses to reveal his laws than the folks of today" recalled a ninety-one-year-old former slave "some of the folks laughs c says it am superstition

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onia centuries earlier. 86-82 bc rhetorica ad herennium latin rhetorical treatise on the classical art of memory attributed to marcus tullius cicero. 70-19 virgil 67 pirates based in cilicia (a province on the southeastern coast of asia minor) were practicing secret rites of mithras. 46-120 plutarch 20 bc- 45 philo of alexandria, jewish platonic philosopher 10 bce apollonius of tyana 4? bce-33 ce jesus founds christianity. diamond sutra. heart sutra. 1st century ce apollonius of tyana flourished. nagarjuna- first order 4 magic square, in india. 1st to 3rd ce) testament of solomon composed 17 egyptian zodiac at denderah is erected. 30-96 new testament. 50-63 (n.t) colossians, philemon, ephesians, philippians. c.50 chaeremon egyptian stoic philosopher and grammarian, superintendent of the al

there to kabbalists and magicians in palestine into arabia accompanied by a christian youth, christoph possible literary model for the development of the character of christian rosencreutz. h. khunrath, the amphitheatre of eternal wisdom (completed by erasmus wolfurt, which reproduced dee s monad and emphasised the symbolism of the microcosm and the macrocosm. containing a correspondence between jesus christ and the philosopher s stone, this work by khunrath was held in high esteem by lutherans, who referred to him in their writings. 1610-1685 joseph de voisin editor of pugio fidei, author of conclusiones cabalisticae 1610-1660 johann harprecht proto-rosicrucian who called himself "filius sendivogii" 1612 flamel figures hierogliphiques (first publication. ruland's lexicon alchemiae. jacob

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d you will give. fix your gaze and send out the energy, feeling the stuff of your etheric body expand and flare out from your eyes to extend in a long, thin line to the target. again, you do not actually have to see this, though it helps, merely know that it is happening, that the energy is going forth and acting on the etheric body of your subject. you may even feel the energy leave you, just as jesus is said to have felt the energy leave him when the woman touched his robe (which was nothing compared to what he felt leave him when she touched his chuck! stop that. in any event, the person should respond to your sending by doing what you wish, but there will be times when that will not happen. if that is the case, do not give up; pick another victim and blast away again. remember the old

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messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that followed. he also wrote of going on a 'celestial journey. 6. and the truth shall set you free many people in the modern world who claim to have experienced extraterrestrial contact have said the same as mohammed. saul of tarsus, better known as st paul, was the man who changed the image of y'shua (jesus)3 into the saviour-godmessiah from which the christian religion was spawned. this happened after he had a 'vision' of y'shua on the road to damascus. he also talked about being 'taken up' into heaven, or a number of different heavens (dimensions. speaking of himself, he wrote "i know a man in christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. whether he was in the body or out o

the women of the land. the priests also declare, but i for one do not credit it, that the god comes down in person into this chamber, and sleeps upon the couch."10 on a tomb found in rome and dated between the first and fourth centuries ad the inscription read "i am a son of the earth and the stars of the sky, but i am of the celestial race. may the knowledge be passed on!"11 the birth of y'shua (jesus, as described in the gnostic gospels, also has similarities to modern day et experiences. the protoevangelion of james is the oldest of the gnostic gospels which were removed from christian orthodoxy at the notorious council of nicaea in 325ad (see the robots' rebellion. the gnostic text describes the birth of y'shua and how people and animals froze in mid-gesture in a powerful, though tempo

d now, is actually an experience we have created as a mirror for us to face the collective imbalances within the human mind and, in doing so, remove them. if we see it that way, it becomes a positive experience at least in outcome. sources 1 barbara marciniak, bringers of the dawn (bear& co, sante fe, 1992) 2 hari prasad shastri, the ramayana of valmiki (shanti sadam, london, 1976) vol. ii, p95 3 jesus is a greek translation of a judean name, probably y'shua, the hebrew for joshua. the full name would have been y'shua ben yosef (joshua, the son of joseph) 4 george c. andrews, extra-terrestrials among us (llewellyn publications, usa, 1986) p63 5 extra-terrestrials among us, p54-55 6 ibid p73-74 7 ibid p72-73 8 ibid p63 9 preston b. nichols with peter moon, the montauk project (sky books, ne

and symbolic stories which have been added to and twisted under the guidance of the prison warder consciousness, until the original meaning has been lost under an avalanche of myth and invention. so often when you investigate the origin of the foundation stories of the religions, you find the same basic themes with different names for the alleged heroes and villains. for the christian version of jesus, see also bel (sumer, dionysus (greece, mithra (persia and rome, osiris (egypt, quetzalcoatl (central and south america, krishna (india, and so on. in this way, the spiritual knowledge from which all religions originally derive, has, to a large extent, been destroyed in the public arena. this process has been essential to controlling the human race. you take information out of the public are

emjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writers, including arthur koestler in his book, the thirteenth tribe,32 very few jews today can trace their 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 alternativ

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if official history tells you from cradle to grave that the second world war was fought between the good guys and bad guys, the allies fighting for freedom and the fascists seeking a global dictatorship, you do not open your eyes to see the endless provable evidence that both "sides" were funded and controlled by the same people operating through wall street and the city of london. the story of "jesus" is another outstanding case, probably the best. the christian religion is based entirely on belief in the historical, literal, existence, of a jewish man who was born to a virgin mother, performed countless "miracles, died on a cross to save us all, disappeared from his tomb after three days, and then ascended to heaven to be with his dad. over the best part of 2,000 years, billions of live

y on belief in the historical, literal, existence, of a jewish man who was born to a virgin mother, performed countless "miracles, died on a cross to save us all, disappeared from his tomb after three days, and then ascended to heaven to be with his dad. over the best part of 2,000 years, billions of lives on this planet have been controlled, limited, manipulated and directed by a belief that the jesus story actually happened. still today, vast swathes of humanity are obsessed with, and their every action based upon, this fairy tale being historically accurate. just one story about one "man" has had that staggering scale of human consequence, ancient and modern. and yet, as we shall see, the gospels are nonsense if taken literally, with no historical foundation whatsoever. they are merely

orically accurate. just one story about one "man" has had that staggering scale of human consequence, ancient and modern. and yet, as we shall see, the gospels are nonsense if taken literally, with no historical foundation whatsoever. they are merely the most exploited versions of a symbolic, not literal, story that you find all over the world in all its detail thousands of years before the name "jesus" was first mentioned. t 12 children of the matrix a little quiz. who am i talking about here? he was born on december 25th to a virgin mother; he was called a saviour, the only begotten son, and died to save humanity; he was crucified on a friday "black friday- and his blood was spilled to redeem the earth; he suffered death with nails and stakes; he was the father and son combined in an ear

day- and his blood was spilled to redeem the earth; he suffered death with nails and stakes; he was the father and son combined in an earthly body; he was put in a tomb, went down into the underworld, but three days later, on march 25th, his body was found to be gone from the tomb and he was resurrected as the "most high god; his body was symbolised as bread and eaten by those who worshipped him' jesus, yes? no, no. all of this was said about the saviour son of god called attis who was worshipped by the phrygians, one of the oldest races in asia minor, now turkey, well over a thousand years before the manufacture of "jesus. it is just one of countless symbolic deities of whom the same story was told millennia before christianity. others are accepted to have been myths and not to have liter

l of this was said about the saviour son of god called attis who was worshipped by the phrygians, one of the oldest races in asia minor, now turkey, well over a thousand years before the manufacture of "jesus. it is just one of countless symbolic deities of whom the same story was told millennia before christianity. others are accepted to have been myths and not to have literally existed. but not jesus. while christians laugh at those "pagan" tales and condemn them as evil, they ask the rest of the world to believe, indeed have insisted on pain of torture and death, that their version of the same story is somehow literally true while all the others are not. yeah, right. to understand how the repeat of an ancient, endlessly recurring story could be transformed into the prison-religion calle

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he garden of eden andthe serpent/dragon theme is global. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delightcalled heden which was more beautiful than all the rest of the world. it was the originalabode of the first men, they said, before they were tempted by the evil spirit, in the formof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the banyon treeunder which the hindu jesus, known as khrishna, sat upon a coiled serpent andbestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it

sins of the people. the goat would then be taken into the wilderness and plunged over acliff, symbolising the fallen angel azazel, who was seen as bound and chained in thewilderness- the abyss in the language of the book of revelation- which i think isimprisonment in the lower fourth dimension. from this comes the ancient theme of thescapegoat which manifested in one form as the symbolic story of jesus. the goat headof azazel, a fallen angel-reptilian, is symbolised by the inverted pentagram of satanism.we can debate the details and we should because there is a vast amount ofinformation still to be uncovered. i have an endless stream of questions myself. butthere are some emerging themes: extraterrestrial races have been visiting the earth withvarying intent for probably millions of years

ve been crucifiedwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammuz became the osiris-isis-horus mythologyof the egyptians with its equivalent in india, asia, china and elsewhere. much later itwould be joseph, mary and jesus. when the babylonians held their spring rites to markthe death and resurrection after three days of tammuz-ninus, they offered bunsinscribed with a solar cross. yes, even the hot cross buns of british easter traditioncome from babylon. easter comes from another face of queen semiramis- ishtar -andit is from this, and possibly another brotherhood deity, ashtaroth, that we get the nameof ashta

ears. 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 dictates can we findgod and be saved. that is precisely what the babylonian priests said about nimrodwhen the blueprint for control-by-religion was being moulded in babylon. those whorefuse to believe this hogwash are condemned to stoke the fires of hell for all eternity.staggeringly, billions upon billions have fallen for this sca

n passes as autumn approaches. summoning his last burst of power, sam-the-sun,pushes down the two pillars, which are classic brotherhood symbolism going back atleast to ancient egypt and are still used by the freemasons today. samson is sam sun- asymbolic story of the suns annual cycle. there wasnt any such person. in hebrew,samson means i understand, the god of the sun.to the orthodox christian, jesus is the only begotten son of god who died so oursins could be forgiven. but you will find exactly the same claims for a stream of godsin the ancient world long before the name of jesus was even heard of. indeed, weknow his name wasnt jesus because thats a greek translation of a hebrew name. theterm son of god would seem to originate at least as far back as the aryan gothic kingsof cilicia who

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

hidden agenda. of course it also explains why politicians have their own agendas, they are controlled by the elite mason. the brethren in the visible organization are spoon-fed "false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols- for what reason- those brethren in the visible organization "deserve only to be mislead. if a man were to make it known to his fellow brethren that he believes in jesus christ he would immediately be placed into the visible organization of freemasonry. he would never learn the truth either unless he researched this subject independently. this man wouldn't be considered an adept, or a sage, or on of the elect. those terms are reserved for the members of the invisible organization. you would be one of those who were deliberately lied to about the doctrines of

ons and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who they might seem. they are evil spirits set out to enslave other spiritual beings

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r of the circle. the intersecting lines actually cross energy fields in the center of the circle. therefore, aether will be concentrated in the center of the circle. this means the circle acts as an aetheric pump to draw in energy and concentrate it at the center. figure 1.4.9-1. shape power of a circle 1.4.10 symbol from mary a healing energy symbol given to a healer from beloved mary, mother of jesus, was tested as a shape power device. the symbol is shown in figure 1.4.10-1. when i drew the symbol for clairvoyant tests, we found that aetheric energy immediately streamed into the top spiral and its associated triangle contained it. then the aetheric energy flowed into the bottom triangle and shot out the bottom spiral, transformed and improved, brightening the room where the symbol was d

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nment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver, even a fallen angel. christianity condemned paganism, goddess-worship, and sexuality as evil; and the cult of lucifer could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devil of hebrew origin, satan. in hebrew mythology, satan was an angel who accused men before god in or

uted. the trial of the knights templar and the suppression of the various gnostic heresies were only a foreshadowing, however, of the witch-hunts and inquisitions which spanned the 14th to 17th centuries as the church condemned anyone suspected of paganism or witchcraft to death by burning. as the people labored under the oppression of the church, some began to see satan as a preferable master to jesus of nazareth. the church condemned every natural inclination as sinful and wicked. the only way to salvation, the people were told, was denial of the flesh and obedience to the church and state. it is questionable whether or not there was a single satanist before the inquisition, but as a result of christian oppression (and repression) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic

as characterized by the pre-christian pagan world. the aeon of osiris, which followed the aeon of isis, was a time when man rejected the natural world, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. christianity rose as the dominant religion in the west during the aeon of osiris. crowley, who came to believe that he was the beast described in the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle, wrote the book of the law, which he claimed was revealed to him by the spirit aiwass and was a true revelation from the egyptian deities nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khut. in the book of the law we read dowhat thou will shall be the whole of the law and love is the law, love under will. the word of the aeon of horus was thelema, the greek word for will. the will in this

of the coming forth by night in which he declared the start of the aeon of set, a succession to the aeon of horus. the word of the aeon was xeper, an egyptian word which means to become or to come into being. the egyptian god xepera was associated with the scarab beetle and was the god of expansion of consciousness. michael aquino claimed to be the second beast from the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle and the spiritual son of aleister crowley described in the book of the law. in contrast to the church of satan s professed atheism, the temple of set embraced the literal existence of set, not as a christian devil, but as an ancient egyptian god associated with the night sky and with the expanding of consciousness. according to aquino, horus and set were the gods of a

orship and condemned millions of innocent men, women and children to death. various gnostic sects were among those executed. intellectual freedom was suppressed and obedience to the church was demanded. with the age of enlightenment and the eventual separation of church and state, a new emotional christianity took the place of the authoritarian christianity. the new christianity espoused faith in jesus, the person, as the savior of man and the redeemer of the world. the bible was accepted as the living word of god by those claiming to be reborn in christ. in emotional fervor many christians would take up serpents, speak in tongues, and witness miracles performed by faith healers. this is the christianity we have been left with today, a religion of blind faith and superstition- intolerant o

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he discover his light; the world he sought to create. humanity was given this fire by samael, who came unto the earth initiated the spark of the flame of selfknowledge. the devil as he is called later, mingled with both darkness and light; held within a light brighter than any mere angel, yet devoured those before him who were lost in self righteousness. as written in the bible, supposed words of jesus- ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it- gospel of john that the children of humanity are indeed the seed of samael and lilith, the devil are those descendents of cain the

umanity are indeed the seed of samael and lilith, the devil are those descendents of cain the witch father, that those who affirm the devil are thereby of this spirit of strength and wisdom. the spirit of flame, called samael and many other names, who is a dragon and beast in spirit, came in the form of man to test him. one account of the testing came in the form of a man to question the sheep of jesus- that a pharisee named arimanius approached him and said to him "where is your master whom you followed" and he said to him "he has gone to the place from which he came" the pharisee said to him "with deception did this nazarene deceive you, and he filled your ears with lies, and closed your hearts (and) turned you from the traditions of your fathers"-the apocryphon of john it must be consid

s the following "then hell, receiving satan the prince, with sore reproach said unto him: o prince of perdition and chief of destruction, beelzebub, the scorn of the angels and spitting of the righteous why wouldest thou do this? thou wouldest crucify the king of glory and at his decease didst promise us great spoils of his death: like a fool thou knewest not what thou didst. for behold now, this jesus putteth to flight by the brightness of his majesty all the darkness of death, and hath broken the strong depths of the prisons, and let out the prisoners and loosed them that were bound. and all that were sighing in our torments do rejoice against us, and at their prayers our dominions are vanquished and our realms conquered, and now no nation of men feareth us any more. and beside this, the

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o notice the presence of that individual within their presence. if they are noticed they are immediately forgotten about, and paid no attention to. a ritual to accomplish this state. inner alchemy: a method of controlling the psychic (q.v) energies of the body as they are raised during sexual excitation for the purposes of working magick (q.v) and achieving enlightenment. inri: letters written on jesus' cross, they have been interpreted to mean different things, depending upon who you talk to. primarily a notarikon (q.v) from the latin by christians as meaning "iesus nazarenu, rex iudaeorum" interpreted as "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews" used to mock the christian messiah jesus (q.v) christ as he was crucified on the cross of galgatha (called calvary. secondly said to be a latin nota

n intimate communication with a spirit or to assume a portion of the spirit's knowledge, skill, ability, or powers. i.o.b: a ritual developed by donald michael kraig, as a powerful method of getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after t

ought and feeling of others. sixty-nine (69) current: what the followers of the teachings of the order of the astral star (q.v) call their path or tradition. the sixty-nine comes from the numerological reduction via gematria (q.v) of the words "manger or stable" in hebrew indicating that the order of the astral star is founded upon the christ event that led the wise men to a stable where the lord jesus christ was born in bethlehem. sky-clad: literally, implying naked, to "wear only the sky" a term used by wiccans (q.v) to indicate ritual nudity. gardnerian (q.v) witches are supposed to work their rituals in this state. most however, do in fact wear robes. sol (the sun: the only star in the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god hellios adapted from the

nt world religions. the great tree at the axis of the world that was believed in shamanism (q.v) to hold up the heavens with it's branches and provide a frame work for the entire universe- x- no "x" terms listed- y- yeh-chee-dah: psychic center just above the head, it is also the deepest level of the subconscious. also called "the higher self" yeheshuah: the pentagrammaton (q.v. the name given to jesus by christian kabbalists during the renaissance, who used it as the supreme word of power (q.v) in their magick and worship. they intended it replace the tetragrammaton (yhvh (q.v) of the jews. yesode: hebrew for "foundation" pronounced "yea-sohd" the ninth (9th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. yetzirah: the third of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of f

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will be readily understood by those who are acquainted with the esoteric theory concerning races and sub-races. everything must have a source. cultures do not spring out of nothing. the seed-bearers of each new phase of culture must of necessity arise within the preceding culture. no one can deny that judaism was the matrix of the [page 2] european spiritual culture when they recall the fact that jesus and paul were both jews. no race except the jewish race could possibly have served as the stock upon which the new dispensation was to be grafted because no other race was monotheistic. pantheism and polytheism had had their day and a new and more spiritual culture was due. the mystical qabala page 5 christian races owe their religion to the jewish culture as surely as the buddhist races of

e second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a strange thing that christian exegesis has never sought the keys to the old testament in the qabalah. 12. in our lord's day there were three schools of religious thought in palestine: the pharisees and the sadducees, of whom we read so frequently in the gospels; and the essenes, who are never referred to. esoteric tradition avers that the boy jesus ben joseph, when his calibre was recognised by the learned doctors of the law who heard him speak in the temple at the age of twelve, was sent by them to the essenian community near the dead sea to be trained in the mystical tradition of israel, and that he remained there until he came to john to be baptised in the jordan before commencing his mission at the age of thirty. be that as it may

gue, on a lower plane, of the abyss which separates the three supernals from the rest of the tree. like the abyss, the veil marks a chasm in consciousness. the mode of mentation on one side of the chasm differs in kind from the mode of mentation prevailing upon the other. tiphareth is the highest sphere to which normal human consciousness can rise when philip said to our lord "show us the father" jesus replied "he that bath seen me hath seen the father" all the human mind can know of kether is its reflection in tiphareth, the christ-centre, the sphere of the son. paroketh is the veil of the temple which was rent asunder at the crucifixion. 25. we now come in our brief preliminary survey to the third triangle composed of the sephiroth netzach, hod, and yesod. netzach is the basal sephirah o

ty would present if approached in the same way. unsympathetic observers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is

esa has so clearly shown in her interior castle. he will fall into the error, however, of thinking that the images he perceives and the experiences he undergoes are the direct and personal dealings of god with his soul, instead of realising that they are stages on the path. he will find a personal saviour in the god-man instead of in the regenerative influence of the christ-force. he will worship jesus of nazareth as god the father, thus confounding the persons. 13. chesed, then, is the sphere of the formulation of the archetypal idea; the apprehension by consciousness of an abstract concept which is subsequently brought down the planes and concreted in the light of experience of the concretion of analogous abstract ideas. equally, in its macrocosmic aspect, it reprents a corresponding pha

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our equilibrium. the sites of monasteries that were disbanded with persecution at the time of the reformation are also frequently badly "haunted" by psychic forces. the group-mind of a religious community is a very potent thing, and when it is disturbed by the corporate emotion of its members, the forces thus let loose are not readily dispersed. moreover, the monks, initiates of the mysteries of jesus, would not be likely to hand over their sacred places to the despoilers with any good will. it has been reported again and again that a curse rests on those who profited by the spoliation of church lands. this is too well known to require discussion in these pages. there is another fact in connection with church property, however, which may not be so well known, and that is the frequency wit

water"(pointing the first and second fingers at the salt) i exorcise thee, creature of earth, by the living god, by the holy god, by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified of all evil influences in the name of adonai, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over salt) creature of earth, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of jesus christ his son, our saviour, i consecrate thee) to the service of god, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost. amen"(pointing first and second fingers at the water) i exorcise thee, creature of water, by the living god, by the holy god) by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified from all evil influences in the name of elohim sabbaoth, who is lord of angels an

ingers at the water) i exorcise thee, creature of water, by the living god, by the holy god) by the omnipotent god, that thou mayest be purified from all evil influences in the name of elohim sabbaoth, who is lord of angels and of men"(extending hand over water) creature of water, adore thy creator. in the name of god the father almighty, who decreed a firmament in the midst of the waters, and of jesus christ his son our saviour, i consecrate thee) to the service of god, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost. amen"(casting the salt into the water) we pray thee, o god, lord of heaven and earth, and of all that in them is, both visible and invisible, that thou mayest stretch forth the right hand of thy power upon these creatures of the elements and hallow them in thy

them is, both visible and invisible, that thou mayest stretch forth the right hand of thy power upon these creatures of the elements and hallow them in thy holy name. grant that this salt may make for health of body and this water for health of soul, and that there may be banished from the place where they are used every power of adversity and every illusion and artifice of evil, for the sake of jesus christ our saviour. amen" the water thus consecrated may be used as a bath, or for making the sign of cross upon the forehead, or for sprinkling about a place. when thus using it, the following prayer may be employed "in the name which is above every other name, and in the power of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost, i exorcise all influences and seeds of evil; i lay upon them t

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individual to expel a demon, but are only effective when the afflicted person sincerely wants to be helped. a demon is expelled when its host simply refuses to obey its directives to commit criminal and hurtful actions. there is no advantage for a demon when a human being ignores its temptations, and ceases to surrender to its abuse and intimidations. the demon leaves. the notion that the name of jesus in itself has power over demons was disproved by the biblical incident of the jewish exorcists who attempted to use the names of jesus and the apostle paul as magical words of power to cast out a possessing demon from a man. the demon said through the voice of its human host "jesus i know, and paul i know; but who are ye" the demon then used its host body to beat the jewish priests until the

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o could transform for a time bits of twigs and stones into the semblance of gold and silver coins, or could make a lavish banquet seem to appear in a twinkling- but eventually the coins became twigs again, and the food of the banquet failed to fill the stomachs of the guests. this explanation has always struck me as a bit flimsy. who is to say that the loaves and fishes miraculously multiplied by jesus to feed his flock (matthew 14:15-21) were any different in kind than the banquets created by faust and other famous magicians to feed their dinner guests? when the magician of the pharaoh of egypt cast down a staff before moses and transformed it into a serpent, was this really any less miraculous than the staff cast down and turned into a serpent by moses himself? if true changes of essence

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in the form of mist they can exit and enter their graves through minute cracks in the ground. they cannot see their reflections in mirrors, nor be seen in them. for some unspecified reason, this causes the vampire to hate mirrors, and to shatter any looking glasses that happen to be around. they are equally discomforted by garlic and the christian cross, or the crucifix (cross with the figure of jesus upon it. in modern versions of the myth, vampires sometimes show contempt for the cross rather than fear. the vampires of popular modern fiction can be destroyed in a variety of ways. sunlight and holy water dissolve their flesh and bones like strong acid. in some versions of the legend, sunlight causes them to burst into flames. a stake through their heart also causes them to decay very rap

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ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign of orifiel. the third reign of anael began in 109 ad the third reign of zachariel began in 463 ad the third reign of raphael began in 817 ad the third reign of samael began in 1171 ad the third reign of gabriel began in 1525 ad the third reign of michael began in 1879 ad levi appears to have been deeply impressed with this system of rule by archangels, and edw

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resident of the parapsychology laboratory of the university of chicago (1957.60; and charter associate of the parapsychological association. his paper extrasensory behavior was presented at the seventh annual congress of the parapsychological association at oxford in 1964. abraxas (or abrasax) the basilidian sect of gnostics of the second century claimed abraxas as their supreme god and said that jesus christ was only a phantom sent to earth by him. they believed that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven greek letters which form the number 365, the number of days in a year. abraxas, they thought, had under his command 365 gods, to whom they attributed 365 virtues, one for each day. the older mythologists consider abraxas an egyptian god, and demonologists des

jones. the anatomy of the body of god. new york: samuel weiser, 1969. achad, frater [george graham price. ancient mystical white brotherhood. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1971. melchizedek truth principles. phoenix, ariz: lockhart research foundation, 1963. acheropite term used to describe a supernormally produced portrait on cloth. another term, used for a cloth that bears the miraculous portrait of jesus, is veronica, based on an apocryphal legend of a woman who wiped the face of jesus during the procession to the cross. the controversial turin shroud is one of the more interesting examples of such a cloth. achmet see ahmad ibn sirin aconcio, jacques see jacobus acontius acontius, jacobus (ca. 1500.ca. 1566) also known as jacques aconcio. theologian, philosopher, and engineer. born in trent

miracles gained him great popularity, and he gave away many cuttings of his nails and locks of his hair as powerful amulets. he is even said to have set up an altar in his own name. the small amount of biographical information that exists tells of miraculous powers bestowed by an angel at his birth. adalbert was accused of showing to his disciples a letter that he declared was brought to him from jesus christ and delivered by st. michael. adalbert was also accused of composing a mystical prayer invoking uncanonical angels believed to be demons. in 744 c.e. a church synod denounced him. a year later, after appealing to pope zacharius, adalbert was deprived of priestly office. later he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in the monastery of fulda. adam, book of the penitence of a manuscr

parliament. it was king s habit to meditate daily, and while so engaged several days later, he was visited by an indian yoga master who informed him of his mission: the cosmic intelligences had selected him as their primary terrestrial channel. king began to communicate with an entity named aetherius, a venusian who was one of the cosmic masters of the interplanetary parliament located on saturn (jesus christ is also considered a parliamentary master) until his death in 1997, dr. king was in regular contact with these masters. eventually king went public when he permitted the master aetherius to speak through him at a channeling held at caxton hall in london. he began the magazine aetherius speaks to earth (now cosmic voice) and in 1956 founded the aetherius society. by this time the issue

ly those coming from evil extraterrestrials. spaceships position themselves above the earth at special times of the year, considered the best moments for transmitting the energies from outer space. king authored a series of books spelling out the theology and practices of what emerged as a new occult religion. king claimed that he received a mystical consecration on july 23, 1958, from the master jesus for his mission; the lord buddha added his consecration on december 5, 1978. the society continues and has headquarters in both london and california, where it owns a complex of buildings. it may be contacted at 757 fulham road, london, sw6 5uu, england and 6202 afton place, los angeles, ca 90028. website: http/ www.aetherius.org. advanced spiritual church healing center encyclopedia of occu

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for several months with a cancerous tumor, claimed that she regained the use of her left arm and was able to walk again after being virtually immobile (see also healing by touch) magus a master magician or adept. the magi, or magicians (plural form of magus, were the wise men of the ancient persian priesthood. it is noted in the christian new testament that three magi brought gifts to the infant jesus. in the later tradition they were given names.kaspar, melchior, and balthasar. and their bones are said to rest in cologne cathedral, germany. the term magus is also used in magical societies like the golden dawn to indicate one of its highest grades, between the master of the temple and the ipsissimus. sources: king, francis. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. magu

ch was a village in northeastern hungary and the place of origin of one of the more notable weeping icons of the virgin mary revered among eastern rite roman catholic christians. the icon was prepared by stefan papp, the brother of the pastor of the local parish church. originally, the icon was intended for display in the local parish church. the picture of the virgin was shown holding the infant jesus, who in turn held a threepetaled lotus in his hand. the icon was seen to weep for the first time on november 14, 1696. it again was seen to weep on december 8, and on this second occasion the tears continued to flow for eleven days. the event had such impact that the town became known as mariapovch. word of the weeping icon reached the royal court of the austro-hungarian empire in vienna. th

and several churches have constructed shrines to house copies of it. eastern roman catholics are similar to eastern orthodox churches and have icons instead of statues. weeping icons serve the same function in those churches that weeping statues serve in western or latin rite churches. sources: weeping icon of mariapovch. http//www.carpathorusyn. org. april 14, 2000. marie of agreda (or maria de jesus (1602.1665) a spanish nun, maria fernandez coronel, who founded and was abbess of the franciscan recollects at agreda. she published a work entitled la mystica ciudad de dios (the mystic city of god, a miracle of the all-powerful, the abyss of grace: divine history of the life of the most holy virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virg

h nun, maria fernandez coronel, who founded and was abbess of the franciscan recollects at agreda. she published a work entitled la mystica ciudad de dios (the mystic city of god, a miracle of the all-powerful, the abyss of grace: divine history of the life of the most holy virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virgin mary from her birth on, including a visit to heaven in her early years, when she was given a guard of 900 angels. t

her father experienced a strange phenomenon in which his room was filled with a glowing light and he heard a sound like wind blowing. linda did not die, and soon afterward the fluid was drained away from her head by means of a new american treatment for hydrocephalus. the operation was successful and the size of the head reduced. at the age of three, linda frequently spoke about my lady and about jesus. the lady had a blue dress and gold chain and lived in heaven with jesus and also looked after her. at the age of five, linda foretold her own death, saying, my jesus christ is not coming to see me many more times, but i shall soon be going to see him. she died october 20, 1961. during her brief life, linda manifested healing gifts as early as the age of three. sometimes she would simply put

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replaced by a power to which she, the mighty mother, has herself to bow. the pages of the history of the world present to us many instances of such events, which we generally class as miracles; some of them are as well authenticated as any points in ancient history. the israelitic passage of the red sea, the swallowing of jonah by a whale which brought him forth again alive, and the ascension of jesus, are examples. the power of prophesy is a contradiction of the ordinary powers of earthly beings, and is so far miraculous. angel visitors come but rarely now from the realms of glory; is heaven more distant? or have men grown cold? rosicrucians are nothing if not christians, and christians have ever believed in miracle, or have ever acknowledged the existence of an omnipotence who can act a

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967. the warminster mystery. london: neville spearman, 1978. ufo prophecy. new york: global communications. aetherius aetherius is one of the cosmic masters who preside at the interplanetary parliament on aetherius 11 saturn. in 1954 aetherius made his presence known psychically to george king, a london man with longstanding occult interests. soon king was channeling other space people, including jesus. by january he had gone public with the cosmic gospel essentially earthbound occult doctrines ascribed to philosophical extraterrestrials and soon was issuing a mimeographed bulletin titled aetherius speaks to earth (later cosmic voice. in august 1956 king established the aetherius society, among the most successful and enduring contactee groups. king died on july 12, 1997, in los angeles, w

, and he was in his third earthly incarnation. the first was during the revolutionary war, he said. he was one of 150,000 incarnate beings living on our planet and observing our activities. these beings telepathically communicated their findings to space people both on the surface of our planet and in our upper atmosphere. according to anthon, we are now entering the end of an age that began with jesus appearance, though anthon believes jesus was not the son of god but the only human being to have incarnated through enough lifetimes and enough karmic experiences to transcend death. he is in charge of the transition into a new age which will occur sometime in the near future. anthon claimed that many incarnate beings do not know their true identity; thus they have to be awakened to it. see

stop their work on the device immediately, we shall eliminate all projects connected with such (van tassel, 1952. though van tassel would claim contacts with many other curiously named other- ashtar 27 worldly entities, only ashtar would make a wider mark in the contactee subculture. be f o re long other channelers we re receiving material f rom ashtar as well as his associates, such as sananda (jesus, ko rton, soltec, at h e n a, monka, and others. so many ashtar channelings occurred that soon ashtar was warning some communicants that evil astral entities we re impersonating him. he was also forced to deny allegations that he was some form of giant mechanical brain (constable, 1958. in the 1970s and beyond, as fundamental christians began writing books on ufos, ashtar was re p resented a

ough the mist, like a nose, mouth, eye s, d e finitely human. i knew this was connected with the 1954 visit, because i re m e m b e re d they told me they we re making a n ew me. when she and the others we re re s u r rected or reanimated, she thought, we will all be able to see and talk with them here in the body. if i we re to die now, i believe that my o t h e r b o d y will house my soul when jesus says it is time, and i, too, will come back. see also: abductions by ufos further reading turner, karla, 1994. taken: inside the alien-human abduction agenda. roland, ar: kelt works. contactees contactees are people who claim a regular, ongoing relationship with benevolent extraterrestrials, sometimes called space brothers. these aliens essentially angels in spacesuits are nearly always huma

t of the strife cosmic awareness communications, which had the strongest links to the earliest group, emerged the strongest. based in olympia, washington, it survives today and maintains a sometimes controversial presence on the new age scene. its head, paul shockley, continues to channel teachings from awareness. his organization characterizes awareness as the force that expressed itself through jesus of nazareth, the buddha, krishna, mohammed and other great avatars who served as channels for what is commonly known as god, and which expresses itself once again as the world begins to enter the new age of spiritual consciousness and awareness( cosmic awareness communications, 1994. awareness teaches that the united states of america came into being through intervention with the founding fa

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ity? furthermore, the word rabbi does not appear anywhere in the torah, and was not an official title or position until after rabbinical academies were established in the fifth century bce. how did the pharisaic rabbinical sect secure its position of dominance and orthodox authority over judaism by the time of the late hasmonean period? what was the advent of master 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% yeshuvah (jesus) really about xa call for a new direction in judaism or for a return to its original roots? was master mohammed really the last in the line of the shemite prophets, and the qur an its final revelation? when regarded outside the context of the dogmas that developed to support the orthodox authority of their respective conventional religions, do the mystical qabalah, mystical christianity, and

ns of core ideas may lead you to think about what you do know in new ways$ this book is composed of seven chapters, an epilogue, a glossary, and two appendices. the first chapter focuses on how the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham developed and took shape through successive transmissions of the universal mystical spirituality by adam, abraham, mosheh (moses, yeshuvah' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (jesus, and mohammad. the ensuing discussion addresses a number of basic questions: e what is the universal mystical qabalah of the children of abraham? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the practical or hermetic kabbalah? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the rabbinical jewish kabbalah? e what is the relationship between the mystical qabalah and mystical chris

ral tradition. this oral tradition not only outlined a rigorous routine of lifestyle and conduct, but also created special learning and knowledge that was the exclusive domain of the members of the sect. in this way, a community of such learned men developed. their special knowledge drew an excess of reverential regard from the masses of people who were not privy to it, for which master yeshuvah (jesus) and later master muhammad chastised them. the masses hence became the laity outside of this elite community of pharisees. the intense and complicated levitical focus of the rabbinical sect developed from the codes of behavior and traditions institutionalized by the priesthood (kohanim) of the centralized temples in jerusalem. the strict codes reflected the extraordinary level of levitical p

hristian perspective to qabalistic doctrines.21 in the seventeenth century ce, the center of christian cabala moved to england and germany, where its status was boosted by the theosophical writings of jacob boehme and the landmark qabalistic compendium of christian knorr von rosenroth.22 von rosenroth and athanasius kirchner extrapolated the qabalistic allusion of adam kadmon to 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

of the pentecost replaced the tradition of whitsunday, the holy day of the goddess frigg, the norse queen of heaven and consort of odin. easter absorbed the pesach of the jews, and was named after eostre or ostara, the pagan goddess of spring. 17 dimont, max. jews, god, and history, simon and schuster, new york p. 205, 1962. 18 peshitta, matthew 5:17-18. 19 eisenman, robert. james the brother of jesus, penguin, new york 1997. 20 gospel of thomas, translated by thomas hickey, esoterica, iowa city, 1992. the gospel of thomas was discovered in the coptic gnostic library found at nag hammadi in upper egypt. 21 among influential works that contributed to the proliferation of the spelling cabala was georg von welling s opus mago-cabbalisticum, which appeared in 1735. 22 knorr von rosenroth, chr

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's translation, i, pp. 14-19; 220-2; 468-9. the sibylline oracles themselves were no more genuinely antique than the hermetica. forged sibylline prophecies of jewish origin appeared at some uncertain date, and were later manipulated by the christians. it seems difficult to distinguish what is of jewish and what is of christian origin in the oracula sibyllina. see m. j. lagrange, le judaisme avant jesus-christ, paris, 1931, pp. 505-11; a. puech, histoire de la ihtirature grecque chretienne, paris, 1928, ii, pp. 603-15; and the note by g. bardy in oeuvres de saint augustin, desclee de brouwer, vol. 36, i960, pp. 755-9- 8 hermes trismegistus general passages lactantius condemns the worshipping of images, and he also thinks that the demons used by magi are evil fallen angels.1 these things are

on of paying an undivided and indivisible honour to the god of the universe that he does not believe that the only god who is worshipped and splendidly honoured is sufficient to grant the man who honours him, in consequence of the actual worship he offers to him, a power which prevents the attacks of daemons against the righteous person. for he has never seen how, when the formula "in the name of jesus" is pronounced by true believers, it has healed not a few people from diseases and demonic possession and other distresses. according to celsus we might practise magic and 1 julian, works, loeb edition, i, pp. 405, 407. 3* 59 hermes trismegistus and magic sorcery rather than christianity, and believe in an unlimited number of daemons rather than in the self-evident, and manifest supreme god'

similar themes by agrippa. thus agrippa had discussed solitude and tranquillity of life as necessary for the religious experience, quoting moses' vision in solitude, and proclus on rising to the vision of the intelligible essence in solitude.7 this becomes the basis of bruno's first "contraction" mentioning among those who in solitude have achieved the vision and gained marvellous powers, moses, jesus of nazareth, ramon lull, and the leisured contemplators amongst the egyptians and babylonians, and he introduces attacks on those who have destroyed the leisure and peace necessary for the con- 1 see below, pp. 284-5. 21 give the work this title to cover its three parts; see above, p. 205, note 1. 3 see above, p. 206* it will be treated more fully in the book which i hope to write on the art

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etimes on the grand illusion and if in fact, this exists separate from deity. maybe my perspective of in fact is at fault here and a more appropriate phrase would be in mind as i write this a woman on the bus wants me to move into a corner seat to accommodate her large mass. i do not move, but instead create room for her to walk by and wedge herself in the corner seat, if she desires. she swears, jesus! and then takes the undesired seat next to me. i am her problem (to her, getting in the way of desire. she probably would have killed me if she could. she exists without. if you have a question, the answers are always there, you just have to open your eyes. the bus has always been a boundless source of wisdom. it is full of solitude (even if it is crowded, the journey is long and there is al

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of hiram abiff, the grand master-workman of solomon's temple, into the seething sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which form the path of initiation. we also remember that at the end of that journey hiram abiff, the son of cain, received from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesus, the son of seth, immediately after his descent from golgotha entered the subterranean strata where he remained for some time in communion with the spirits who dwell there. thus the various strata of the earth from the circumference to the center form the path of initiation, both for the sons of seth and the sons of cain, and that is the reason why little or nothing is said of the inner cons

tually prevented from trespassing upon the path of initiation. stories are told of initiates having overcome the law of gravitation in order to rise in the air at certain times for a definite purpose while still in the dense body. initiates are also taught how to suspend the law of levitation when they are in their soul bodies, and how to pass through the nine strata of the earth. it is said that jesus was the son of a carpenter, but the greek word is tekton, and means builder; arche is the greek name of primordial matter. it is also said that jesus was a carpenter (tekton) himself. it is true, he was a tekton, builder or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center

brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hiram abiff had been given the baptism of fire by cain, which freed him from the lucifer spirits; he was also given a new hammer and a new word. when the new era dawned, he was born as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, and raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw to the rank of immortals as christian rosenkreuz. solomon, the son of seth, was reborn as jesus. the baptism of water administered by john as representative of jehovah freed him also. he yielded his body at that moment to the descending christ spirit and ranged himself with the new leader. religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer catholic, that is to say, universal. sects and "

ve of jehovah freed him also. he yielded his body at that moment to the descending christ spirit and ranged himself with the new leader. religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer catholic, that is to say, universal. sects and "isms" have branched out in one direction and another, but still jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the sons of seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the kingdom of christ. christian rosenkreuz was given charge of the sons of cain who seek the light of knowledge at the sacred fires of the mystic shrine. as the creative energy implanted by their divine ancestor samael caused cain to

nkreuz was given charge of the sons of cain who seek the light of knowledge at the sacred fires of the mystic shrine. as the creative energy implanted by their divine ancestor samael caused cain to work out their own salvation through the fire of tribulation, and fashion for themselves the golden wedding garment, which is the "open sesame" to the invisible world. and though the cleansing blood of jesus is an absolute necessity to millions of weaker brothers, there can scarcely be any question when we assert that the more men and women who engage in mystic masonry to consciously build this temple of the soul, the sooner we shall see the second advent of christ, and the stronger will be the race which he shall rule by the law of love. end of freemasonry and catholicism* click here to go to t

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environment for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the coming birth of jesus to mary) and his lunar angels are therefore the givers of physical life, while samael and the hosts of mars are the angels of death. thus originated the feud in the dim dawn of this cosmic day, and that which we see as free masonry today is an attempt by the hierarchs of fire, the lucifer spirits, to bring us the imprisoned spirit 'light' that by it we may see and know. catholicism is an act

s evident that our lord sprang out of judah of which tribe moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood. and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of melchisedec there ariseth another priest who is made not after the law of carnal commandments but after the power of an endless life, for he testifies 'thou are a priest for the age, after the order of melchisedec* by so much was jesus made the surety of a better testament* because he continueth ever and has an age lasting priesthood* for the law maketh men high priests who have infirmities, but the word of god which was since the law, maketh the son who is consecrated for evermore. now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum; we have such a high priest who is yet on the right hand of the throne of the majesty i

nd teaching them the preparation of the philosopher's stone or molten sea. thus also the physically negative sons of seth must learn to leave their father, jehovah, and naturally the first to take the step must be a great soul. as the superlative skill of the sons of cain was focused in hiram abiff at the time of his baptism of fire, so the sublime spirituality of the sons of seth was centered in jesus at the time of his baptism in the waters of jordan. when he arose from this water he was in the same position as hiram emerging from the fire; each had left his father respectively, jehovah and samael, and each was ready to serve the christ. therefore the christ spirit was seen at the baptism to descend upon jesus' body, which was inhabited and used by christ during his ministry. jesus himse

lute necessity of blood as an adjunct to the temple service; he show how the high priest was required to offer blood for his own sins before he was qualified to give sacrifice also for sins of the people, and that this double sacrifice must be performed year after year. he points to the sacrifice upon golgotha as having been made once and for all, providing a way of atonement through the blood of jesus. during the regime of jehovah, the blood of humanity had become impregnated with egotism, which is the separative factor in this age. from this sin it must be cleansed before mankind can be united and enter the kingdom of christ. this was a gigantic task, for humanity had become so impregnated with selfishness that scarcely anyone would do another a favor. hence the post-mortem panorama, of

t thou mayest judge my people over whom i have made thee king, wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee, and i will give thee riches and wealth and honor such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like" it was this characteristic of unselfishness developed in former lives that fitted the spirit of solomon which inhabited the body of jesus for the high mission it was destined to fulfill; to serve as a vehicle for the unifying unselfish christ spirit, for the purpose of bringing to an end the division between the sons of seth and the sons of cain and uniting them in the brotherhood forming the kingdom of heaven. when faust made the pact with mephistopheles, as recorded in the ancient soul-myth of that name, he was about to sign

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who shall say how many teachings" many who are in masonry are not aware that they are lied to. finally, remember albert pike's bold assertion in morals& dogma, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries [p. 624, teachings of the 28th degree] of course these top 5% call jesus christ an "inferior god" they never, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a bent satanic cross as seen on another page which shames christ on the cross. freemasons used luciferic symbols within the layout of government center washington d.c. freemasons worship lucifer, the light-bearer. lucifer and satan are biblically the s

reemasonry: its hidden meaning, new york, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, 1948, p. 63. also, steinmetz wrote this belief in his book, the lost word: its hidden meaning, new york, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, 1953, p. 148. another masonic writer, j.d. buck, blasphemously writes "it is far more important that men should strive to become christ's than that they should believe that jesus was christ [j.d. buck, mystic masonry, illinois: indo-american book co, 1913, sixth edition, p. 138] let us hear that terribly blasphemous statement again "it is far more important that men should strive to become christ's than that they should believe that jesus was christ" again we see freemasonry is revealed not to be christian. the unique deity of jesus christ is denied with the above st

gain "it is far more important that men should strive to become christ's than that they should believe that jesus was christ" again we see freemasonry is revealed not to be christian. the unique deity of jesus christ is denied with the above statement. and because of this, the teachings of freemasonry qualifies as being the work of antichrist. 1 john 2:22 "who is such a liar as he who denies that jesus is the christ? he is the antichrist who habitually denies and refuses to acknowledge the father and the son. no one who habitually denies or disowns the son even has the father [parallel bible, kjv/amplified bible commentary] 1 john 4:3 "and every spirit that confesseth not that jesus christ is come in the flesh is not of god: and this is that spirit of antichrist" 2 john 1:7 "for many decei

ly denies and refuses to acknowledge the father and the son. no one who habitually denies or disowns the son even has the father [parallel bible, kjv/amplified bible commentary] 1 john 4:3 "and every spirit that confesseth not that jesus christ is come in the flesh is not of god: and this is that spirit of antichrist" 2 john 1:7 "for many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh. this is a deceiver and an antichrist" in addition to denying that jesus is the christ come in flesh, this statement also teaches that man can save himself. obviously, freemasonry cannot be considered christian in any way, shape, or form when it teaches this heresy straight out of the pit of satan's hell. going back to the triangle pointing upward which represents

is what it is called when one point is up. it "symbolizes the perfect or divine man" this quote is not from some heinous black-hooded satanist, it comes from a 33rd degree masonic author named george s coy teinmetz [freemasonry: its hidden meaning, new york, mapublishing and masonic supply company, 1948, p. 63, repeated on p. 67] as any person familiar with scripture will tell you, the gospel of jesus christ tells man boldly and clearly that no person can work themselves up to being "divine" indeed, all our effort is as "filthy rags" to jesus christ. yet, freemasonry joins all pagan groups in saying that man can become "divine" or "perfect" in another book, george returns to this theme once again, this time blaspheming an important and familiar scripture, god's own words, to be exact. lis

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rigen,8 celsus was undoubtedly right when he declared that the primitive christian church was possessed of a secret system, and weishaupt, the supposed founder of the illuminati, may not have been altogether wrong when he said: no one. has so cleverly concealed the high meaning of his teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom, as our great master jesus of nazareth. this secret meaning and natural consequence of his teaching he hid completely, for jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the scriptures.9 whether this is so or not, there can be no doubt whatever that the bible is a mystical work containing a secret doctrine which is only known to those who have been initiated into it. what part of this doctrine is wil

f god. the final h (heh) of tetragrammaton represents the remaining seven sephiroth. this revelation of the shin shows the triadic nature of the first three sephiroth which constitute the intellectual world, and it closely relates it to many mysteries. thus, in ydw shaddai (almighty, the name of the deity before he revealed himself as yhvh, the shin comes first; in messiah (hywm) and the exoteric jesus (ovwy) it comes second; in the esoteric yeheshuah (hvwhy) it comes in the middle; and in serpent (whk) it comes last. in yeheshuah it is the letter of mercy, for it is the central equilibrating fire; in all the others it is the letter of wrath, for it is out of equilibrium, and particularly so in shaddai and the serpent. in actual conception these three sephiroth form a trinity in unity of k

old that the name of tetragrammaton is unpronounceable, and this in fact is so, for though yhvh can be pronounced as yahweh, or jehovah, this is not the true name of tetragrammaton, for his name must contain the shekinah as symbolized by the letter shin. if this letter is placed in the centre of the four letters of tetragrammaton, we obtain yhshvh; that is ishvah, yeheshua, jehoshuar, joshua, and jesus, any one of which may be taken as the veritable name of the yetziratic deity, the god or genius of the world of formation. the chief of the angelic hosts is yhwvh(=326= 11= 5+ 6= the microcosm and the macrocosm, and only when the shekinah (w) flames forth does tetragrammaton descend in the merkabah, the chariot of magic, and become the great magician of the earthly world. to translate this i

gand the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush. h 9 then he conversed with god, who revealed himself to be the secret jehovah; and on his return to egypt such was his power that not only did he to all intents and purposes found the jewish religion, but he succeeded in turning egyptian society upside down. st. paul journeying to damascus saw a vision of jesus christ, was filled with the holy ghost, and retired into the desert of arabia, and on his return he began to undermine the power of rome and more than any other man founded christianity. simon ben yohai, the traditional composer of the zohar, retired with his son to a cave and as legend affirms gsat in the sand up to their necks h for twelve or thirteen years gstudying the law h. 10 also ram

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olstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of this traditional virgin. she is standing, one foot upon a crescent and the other on a serpent's head, in the mouth of which is the sprig of an

possesses none of the essentials which constitute a deity. in other words, woman is not a creator. from the father is derived the soul of the child, while from the mother, or from matter, the body is formed. hence the prevalence at a certain stage of human history of divine fathers and earthly mothers; for instance, alexander of macedon, julius caesar, and later the mythical christ who superseded jesus, the judean philosopher and teacher of mankind. henceforth, caves, wells, cows, boxes and chests, arks, etc, stand for or symbolize the female power. we are given to understand, however, that for ages these symbols were as holy as the god himself, and among many peoples even more revered and worshipped. we have seen that the ancients knew that matter and force were alike indestructible. acco

s of life' in all animal as well as vegetable production. boodha in the garden of loobim through which flowed a holy stream, and christ by the brook at bethlehem, nay, the first pair in the garden of the four rivers, are all the same idea--fertility and creation. the high russian pontiff now slowly and solemnly stooped, and taking up some of the holy water, proceeded to sprinkle the vernal child--jesus, whispered these crowds, but the ancients said horus. the sacred fluid was then sprinkled on the clergy, the czar, and all dignitaries, and finally on the sacred emblems, banners, guns, etc. men and women, aye, wise as well as foolish, of every rank, now crowded forward, and on bended knee besought their patriarch to sprinkle and to bless them. finally, the great czar put the cup to his lips

rom the land of the brahmins" concerning the story of herod and his order to slay all the male infants, there has been discovered in a cavern at elephanta, in india, a sculptured representation of a huge and ferocious figure, bearing a drawn sword and surrounded by slaughtered children, while mothers appear weeping for their slain. this figure is said to be of great antiquity. mary, the mother of jesus, like mai, the mother of gatama buddha, was regarded by certain sects in the earlier ages of christianity as an immortal virgin whose birth had been announced by an angel.[126] she was in fact the ancient virgin of the sphere--the mother of the gods--the queen of heaven [126] see gospels of mary and the protovangelion. as soon as christ was born he conversed with mary, as did also crishna wi

hy of divine worship; for he is truly the son of god" and at the same instant this idol fell down, and at his fall all the inhabitants of egypt, besides others, ran together.[127] a similar story is related of crishna. this indian god, the same as christ, cured a leper. a woman, after having poured a box of precious ointment on the head of crishna, was healed; so also a woman anointed the head of jesus. crishna when but a lad displayed remarkable mental powers and the most profound wisdom before the tutor who was sent to instruct him. christ astonished the school-master zaccheus with his great learning.[128 [127] gospel of the infancy, ch. iv [128] gospel of the infancy, ch. xx. crishna had a terrible encounter with the serpent calinaga; the infant christ had also a dreadful adventure with

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and body, and so alone can you cultivate a powerful will: will is a plant of illimitable growth; but it willnot grow wild, it must be forced. never drift with the tide, decide upon every occasion, alwaysact-neversuffer a thing to occur. every failure to stand on your own basis, every time you lean on another, every hope for others' help will sap the foundations of willpower. look unto the master jesus, if you will, with reverence, with admiration, with gratitude, in that his history, his life and his teachings have led you to recognize holiness and purity, but look not to him, or any other, to saveyou-ifyou won't save yourself. he has shewn an excellent path, attempt it, but do not cling to his garments, he is an 'example' not a beast of burden. substituted service is a weakness and a fai

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ring the fratres of the order. be just to rosicrucianism and its origin, and history; ask yourselves what absolute proof you have of the fact of manyotherhistorical events; proof i mean independent of the evidence of those who had already convinced themselves and of those who have a personal object to serve in establishing the20themagical masontruth of any alleged occurrence- such as the death of jesus by crucifixion, the trojan war, or of the striking incident in the conversion of saul of tarsus, or of the former existence of the pharos of alexandria. and, on the other hand, of what value is negative evidence in such a discussion.thefact that the works of josephus have no mention of jesus which is not a forgery, is no proof that a gentle, wise and revered spiritual divine teacher did not

e in early life of monks: we must bear in mind that out of europe, in the east, christianity was gnostic,22themagical masonand that the gnostics and neo-platonists, although to a roman catholic or protestant decidedly heretical, were yet inspired by christian ideals- although they could not realize the accepted admixture of the god and man in christ, yet insisted on the christ teaching of the man jesus; similarly so we today, having mostly entered upon the eastern theosophy from a christian education, still are largely tinctured by our basic theology and still use christian language and types and symbolsinour new ideals of the higher principles of man and humanity.forexample, read the theosophic works of brothers kingsland and brodie innes. for this reason,itseems to me, that this book, ex

language and types and symbolsinour new ideals of the higher principles of man and humanity.forexample, read the theosophic works of brothers kingsland and brodie innes. for this reason,itseems to me, that this book, explanatory of an eastern occultism yet using frequently christian terms, must be read as though the christian allusions were to a gnostic and not to a catholic christ spirit and man jesus; for jesus to the hermetist is the shortened form of yehoshua, which title is formed of the letters of the kabalistic yod, heh, vau, heh, having inter255 posed the letter shin, the emblem of the spark of the divine overshadowing each human soul. this yod heh vau heh, the incommunicable name, being the origin of the common godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the je

godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the jewish nation,buta glyph of the divine creative forces which emanate from the highest god ideal, yet unmanifested and certainly not individualised. as to the tenets of the order then.thefamabegins with a tribute to the mercy and goodness of the wise and merciful god, by which a more perfect knowledge of two subjects is obtained- jesus christ and nature, note these two- as of equal importance. god is then thanked for the raising of some men who are able to bring arts to perfection; and then finally that man might understand his own nobleness and worth, and why he is called microcosmos- that is, i take it, man's unlimited range of improvement and that he is a mirrored reflection of the macrocosm, the divine universe of mani

n and replaced by a power to which she, the mighty mother, has herself to bow.thepages of history of the world presents to us many instances of such events, which we generally class as miracles; some of them are as well authent255 icated as any points in ancient history.theisraelitic passage of the red sea, the swallowing of jonah by a whale which broughthimforth again alive, and the ascension of jesus, are examples.thepower of prophecy is a contradiction of the ordinary powers of earthly beings, and is so far miraculous. angel visitors comebutrarely now from the realms of glory; is heaven more distant? or have men grown cold? rosicrucians are nothing if not christians, and christians have ever believed in miracle, or have ever acknowledged the existence of an omni255 potence who can act a

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satan, prayer in the qur'an, the theory of evolution, the importance of conscience in the qur'an, the day of resurrection, never forget, disregarded judgements of the qur'an, human characters in the society of ignorance, the importance of patience in the qur'an, general information from the qur'an, the mature faith, before you regret, our messengers say, the mercy of believers, the fear of allah, jesus will return, beauties 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

one of these orders, in particular, was different from the others. it underwent a transformation that would influence the course of history. this order was the templars. df from the templars to ancient egypt the crusaders wreaked havoc in jerusalem. the mediaeval engraving shown above depicts certain scenes of the horror. the templars the templars, or, their full name, the poor fellow-soldiers of jesus christ and the temple of solomon, was formed in 1118, that is, 20 years after the crusaders took jerusalem. the founders of the order were two french knights, hugh de payens and godfrey de st. omer. at first there were 9 members, but the order steadily grew. the reason they named themselves after the temple of solomon was because the place they had chosen as a base was the temple mount where

g strange rites to give form to these doctrines. finally, in 1307, the french king philip le bel decided to arrest the members of the order. some of them managed to escape but most of them were caught. pope clement v also joined the purge. following a long period of interrogation and trial, many of the templars admitted to heretical beliefs, that they had rejected the christian faith and insulted jesus in their masses. finally, the leaders of the templars, who were called "grand masters" beginning with the most important of them, jacques de molay, were executed in 1314 by order of the church and the king. the majority of them were put into prison, and the order dispersed and officially disappeared. some historians have a tendency to portray the trial of the templars as a conspiracy on the

ad gone to jerusalem to study the ruins of the temple. wilson found traces of digging and excavation under the foundations of the temple, and concluded that these were done by tools that belonged to the templars. these items are still in the collection of robert brydon, who possesses an extensive global freemasonry ee the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus archive of information concerning the templars.14 the writers of the hiram key argue that these excavations of the templars were not without result; that the order discovered in jerusalem certain relics that changed the way they saw the world. in addition, many researchers are of the same opinion. there must have been something that led the templars, despite the fact that they had previously

prising in masonic brotherhood all men and all nations "the triumph of the galilean" said the president of the grand orient, senator delpech, on 20 september, 1902 "has lasted twenty centuries. but now he dies in his turn. the romish church, founded on the galilean myth, began to decay rapidly from the very day on which the masonic association was established"125 by the "galilean" the masons mean jesus, because according to the gospel, jesus was born in the palestinian town of galilee. therefore, the masons' hatred for the church is an expression of their hatred for jesus and all monotheistic religions. they thought that they had destroyed the effect of the divine religions with the materialist, darwinist and humanist philosophies they established in the nineteenth century, and returned eu

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d modern language. 2 the great chain of being flatland, the traditional model of the universe, the axis mundi and the sacred tree, characteristics of the traditional model, the neo-platonic cosmos, theosophical and modern maps, the kabbalistic tree of life, yggdrasil:the world tree. 3 first principles who or what is god? what s in a name? the pleroma, the divine will, logos and sophia, what about jesus? jesus, christ and logos, what is sophia, the polarity of the god and goddess, impersonal to personal, the solar logos:christ, gods and spirits, the seven spirits (logoii, the seven planes, the earth and the underworld, the immortals. 4 the secret of saturn the secret of saturn, perceptional dualism, the watchers of enoch, archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild, the battle within, sum

rene guenon and julius evola and evola and "the revolt against the modern world. 6 the gnostic view of time ii the great year, egyptian star gnosis and heraldic cycles. 7 the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic identity message, origins, the israel connection, el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible, the sacred serpent, israel on the world stage, the druid connection, the essene link, the essenes, jesus and the foundations of gnosticism, table of contents the gnostic handbook hyperlinked index just click the gnostic handbook page 3 8 conditional immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven and hell, hell on earth and what is heaven. 9 the mystery of deification what is the aim of this spiritual process? the nature of theo

dingly, remnants of this perennial philosophy are found within the various traditions, belief systems and faiths. these faiths rather than being the primary sources of wisdom within themselves are actually remnants of one earlier, and more pristine school of knowledge. as time progressed the higher kingdoms saw the loss of gnosis and therefore chose to restore the structure of the mysteries. when jesus came of age within the essenes he purified the structure of the mystery traditions and re-instated the original gnostic faith. hence, the gnosticism of jesus is not superior to other gnostic traditions, but is a refinement or adaptation of an age-long tradition. indeed, the gnosticism of jesus brought together egyptian, greek and mystery cult traditions (such as those of eleusis and mithra)

ystery cult traditions (such as those of eleusis and mithra) into one coherent system. the iconography of judaism played a small part but was insignificant in comparison to, for example, the greek mystery cult tradition. to understand this nexus of the gnosis we really need to jettison the old model which sees gnosticism as a jewish or christian heresy. as has been documented in such texts as the jesus mystery and jesus christ, sun of god+ it is more likely that rabbinic judaism and christianity are pagan and gnostic heresies! while there may be vigorous complaints and denials it is now even well known that so-called jewish kabbalah primarily derived from a reworking of neo platonic mysticism which into jewish religious language. these teachings, however, did not remain available forever

rabbinic judaism and christianity are pagan and gnostic heresies! while there may be vigorous complaints and denials it is now even well known that so-called jewish kabbalah primarily derived from a reworking of neo platonic mysticism which into jewish religious language. these teachings, however, did not remain available forever. as society changed and a new regime came to power the teachings of jesus were suppressed and replaced with the political faith of emperor constantine, and accordingly the gnosis went underground to ensure its survival. what we have in today's religious movements are not the original forms of judaism and christianity, but apostate faiths masquerading in their place. the bible itself has been tampered with to the gnostic handbook page 8 such an extent that only thr

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continued, albeit in a different form. while these earlier civilisations offered racial and national centres of the mysteries, the traditions that followed were, for the most part, carried by secret and clandestine bodies. popularity when it did arrive, did not last for long and soon again they made a hasty retreat to the shadows. certainly this was true with the essene gnosis as taught by master jesus, it was only a very short time after his transfiguration before the true teachings could only be passed in secret, and distorted and twisted forms were offered in their stead by the military-political complex that had become the church. taken as a whole the mystery teachings form what can be best understood as the voice of the gnosis and it is from this voice that ultimately all authentic es

. however, today, as the omega day fast approaches, we offer the challenge of uncharted dimensions and new worlds, which can not only be explored, but used to develop undreamed of levels of post-human potential. x gnostic theurgy page 7 what is truth? this is a question that is central to understanding life as we know it. it is never an easy question to answer. two thousand years ago pilate asked jesus the same question and it seems we haven't come much further, though society has progressed in many other ways. gnostic theurgy is the first of a series of volumes which have been meticulously researched to outline what we believe to be a major re-evaluation of man s concept of truth. while nobody can claim to have "the whole truth" we can claim that we have re-discovered the essential gnosis

en, we are simply using different metaphors for the same cosmic event. it seems that many twentieth-century religious movements have become so locked into semantics that they end up arguing about things which are in reality, only different perspectives of the same truth. gnostic theurgy page 15 when we examine the gospels we find ample evidence for different appreciations of the divine mysteries, jesus spends an inordinate amount of time discussing the importance of parables, and seems to delight in using stories with multiple meanings. even the numerical descriptions of his disciples in the gospels have such an application. there are 12 disciples, 70 outer disciples and then the multitudes. here we have an obviously hierarchical structure. the twelve disciples who are symbolic of twelve s

iginal historical figure. these forms are then fed and utilised by the fallen energies that populate the lower plane to their own ends. from one historical figure we have ended up with. gnostic theurgy page 64 1. the historical figure (the thing in itself. 2. different perceptions of that figure. 3. eggregores or artificial energy forces created of that figure. for example, we may have a catholic jesus, a philosophers jesus, a protestant jesus and even a new age jesus (fig 15) it must be understood that there is an immense difference between the forms of the mind and those of the universe itself, between archetypes and gods and between archetypes and eggregores. in some cases there can even be two or more distinct forms of one deity. for example, we have the jesus of history and the neurot

d, personal mental components can be fixed onto external deities and thereby become highly destructive. when we start to consider the nature of the eggregores we can easily see how the archons can twist such images to their own benefit. eggregores serve the fallen kingdoms well, they collect energy from human belief and channel it into degenerative forms. do not get the idea fig 15 many different jesus gnostic theurgy page 65 that eggregores are only passive, in conjunction with their comrades, the memes, they spread like wildfire through towns and cities controlling thought and influencing emotions. just as disease can spread from one to the another, so too can eggregores. since at some level all of humanity is linked, once false idea can destroy a kingdom. memes memes are a recent discov

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pposite side of the arm elements. the rose is a perfect symbol. the hermetic rose is a fitting symbol of the entire, manifested universe. in another adept manuscript, we will cover the proper method of extracting sigils from the rose. it is a perfect emblem to extract sigils in that it represents the entire universe. back of the rose cross lamen the back bears the inscription in latin "the master jesus christ, god and man" this is written between four maltese crosses which allude to the exploding or 5 manifesting outwards of the four elements. the adept should place this on the top arm because it affirms the decent of the divine will into trapt. trapt alludes to the heart center on the body, the place where the rose cross lamen rests when worn. the lowest portion is written the name or mot

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e between me and you. i now declare this temple and rite duly closed" step 34 knock/ bellorfama fraternitatis of the meritorious order of the rosy cross r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 seeing the only wise and merciful god in these latter days hath poured out so richly his mercy and goodness to mankind, whereby we do attain more and more to the perfect knowledge of his son jesus christ and of nature, that justly we may boast of the happy time wherein there is not only discovered unto us the half part of the world, which was hitherto unknown and hidden, but he hath also made manifest unto us many wonderful and never-heretofore seen works and creatures of nature, and, moreover, hath raised men, indued with great wisdom, which might partly renew and reduce all arts (in

ned in this vault, it was nevertheless enlightened with another sun, which had learned this from the sun, and was situated in the upper part in the center of the ceiling. in the midst, instead of a tombstone, was a round altar, covered with a plate of brass, and thereon this engraven: a.g.r.c, a.c.r.c. hoc universal compendium unius mihi sepulchrum feci round about the first circle or brim stood, jesus mihi omnia. in the middle were four figures, inclosed in circles, whose circumscription was: 1. nequaquam vacuum 2. legis jugum. 3. libertas evangelii. 8 4. dei gloria intacta. this is all clear and bright, as also the seventh side and the two heptagons. so we kneeled down altogether, and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal god, who hath taught us more than all men's

beginning of our philosophical canons, prescribed to us by our brother r.c, and be partakers with us of our treasures (which never can fail or be wasted) in all humility and love, to be eased of this world's labours, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of god. but that also every christian may know of what religion and belief we are, we confess to have the knowledge of jesus christ (as the same now in these last days, and chiefly in germany, most clear and pure is professed, and is nowadays cleansed 10 and void of all swerving people, heretics, and false prophets, in certain and noted countries maintained, defended, and propagated. also we use two sacraments, as they are instituted with all forms and ceremonies of the first and renewed church. in politia we ackn

then's fortuna, but is the churches' ornament and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it, also it ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded with by jesus in omnia parte and all members, and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image, so it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theology; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras, and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon, did excel, but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same

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of the ungodly that which will augment their sins and their punishments. although we believe ourselves to have sufficiently unfolded to you in the fama the nature of our order, wherein we follow the will of our most excellent father, nor can by any be suspected of heresy, nor of any attempt against the commonwealth, we hereby do condemn the east and the west for their blasphemies against our lord jesus christ, and offer to the chief head of the roman empire our prayers, secrets, and great treasures of gold. yet we have thought good for the sake of the learned to add somewhat more to this, and make a better explanation, if there be anything too deep, hidden, and set down over dark, in the fama, or for certain reasons altogether omitted, whereby we hope the learned will be more addicted unto

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. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the analysis of the keyword is first introduced to the new adeptus minor in the adeptus minor initiation. the chief adept says "the keyword is i.n.r.i. which is inscribed with its correspondences upon this complete symbol of the rose and cross which i bear upon my breast. these letters have been occasionally used as initials of the following sentences: jesus nazarenus rex judecorum, whence it symbolizes the grand word of this grade which is hwchy or the hebrew name of jesus, formed of the holy letter c, representing the \yhla jwr, placed within the center of the name hwhy. it has also been interpreted as: igne natura renovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" j.s.m. ward, in his book o

ao can be found in the book of enoch 3) hwchy is a symbol of resurrection and it is only through death that we can rise again unto life "for if you will die with hwchy ye shall rise with him" osiris becomes osiris onnophoris, the justified one, only after death and resurrection. this is symbolized by the light of the sun, the golden dawn, rising in the darkness of early morning. light! the master jesus said "i am the light of the world" so, if we wish to rise into light and illumination, we must be prepared to "carry our cross" and become transformed on the cross of suffering. let us recall the words of the chief adept in the pastos "buried with that light in a mystical death, rising in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified by him, our master, o brother of the cross and rose. like

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let every effort under heaven and earth be made to keep the trust of this sacred vigil. it is but a handful of people at any age or time in history who deeply understand the profound necessity of returning the light from whence it came. for it is well known by those who study the esoteric fabric of life that light travels in a circuit. to return the light is to receive the light. in the words of jesus "what you have done for the least of them you have done for me" healing is a sacred responsibility and blessing that has its roots and tradition in our order as far back as our founder g.h. frater c.r.c. we can only be certain of one thing, the axiom "physician, heal thyself" is a deep, subtle truth. for as we project healing to the world, we heal the deepest part of our infected self, thus

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en according to orthodox historical chronology these crosses were not less than 1500 years old. in other words, they had been carved here, by a people with absolutely no knowledge of christianity, a full millennium before the arrival of the first spanish missionaries on the altiplano. where, come to that, had the christians obtained their crosses? not only from the shape of the structure to which jesus christ was nailed, i thought, but from some much older source as well. hadn t the ancient egyptians, for example, used a hieroglyph very like a cross (the ankh, or crux ansata) to symbolize life. the breath of life. eternal life itself?8 had that symbol originated in egypt, or had it perhaps occurred elsewhere, earlier still? with such ideas chasing one another around my head, i walked slowl

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but there are few new ones. the alien names have all but vanished from newer cases. but now we can decode the older cases based on their key word or phrase, usually embedded in the name of the alleged alien, a planetary name or a strange turn of phrase. for example, george adamski s long-haired visitor from the sky calling for peace on earth and good will, one orthon, decodes readily to the name jesus. the name adamski means son of adam he is said to have returned from the dead with a new name and renewed youth, apparently raised by orthon and friends in a bizarre parallel to the new testament s promise of redemption and resurrection. in the west virginia flap of the mid-1960s, we can see now that the beings with funny names who appear dotted among the so-called mothman accounts predict t

ion cases. in the cipher of liber al, which crowley himself did not know, lam is the equivalent of god. crowley only associated the word with the tibetan lama, the living, consciously reincarnating buddha. the peculiarity of lam being the prototype of the current abduction type has been noted by ufologists, but without the key they can only remark of the coincidence. does this mean that orthon is jesus, or lam is god? hardly. the cipher, as becomes apparent to the diligent researcher, only uses the name or key-word for those in the know to examine and find a curious correspondence, pointing the way to whatever the essence of the encounter is. the clues in the adamski case would have yielded to the initiate of these runes, for example, that the yamski reincarnation episode was bound to happ

a 11 times, numbering the next letter (l) 2, counting down 11 spaces again, numbering w as 3, and so on around the 26-pointed star, each point of which is a standard letter in standard sequence. for a ufologist, more interest, as has been the case with me, might lie in the conspicuous strange names given by purported aliens in the contactee lore. for example, by the late 1960s, i had noticed the jesus-like qualities of george adamski s orthon. he looked like the conventional european images of jesus, came from the sky with a message of peace and love, etc. but i had no cipher key. armed with cipher six, the classical al w code, i was able quickly to discover that o-r-t-h-on equaled 7-12-24-4-7-14. adding these letter values 7+12+24+4+7+14 gives a total of 68. now, there might be a very la

total of 68. now, there might be a very large number of words or phrases with the number value of 68, but the cipher itself is derived from the book of the law. therefore, using the number values only of words contained in the code book itself: that is, in secret cipher of the ufonauts 31 32 allen h. greenfield secret cipher of the ufonauts 33 the book of the law, one quickly finds that the word jesus, or j-e-s-u-s or 16-25- 5-17-5 or 16+25+5+17+5, gives a total of 68 once again. therefore orthon= 68= jesus, according to the book of the law. because there are an infinite number of numbers and many combinations of letters, words and phrases, obviously -and this is an old criticism of both simple numerology and qabala by stretching until one finds something that correlates to a preconceived

et up residence in america. contactee george van tassel claimed to contact ashtar, commandant of station schare in 1952, and became the first organizer of contactee conventions, at giant rock, california. ashtar= 47= stars in liber al repeated many times, but also flap, a word which came to mean ufo wave in military and ufology circles. recall that contactee george adamski s contacts included the jesus-like orthon. orthon= 68= jesus, but also chosen and life. significantly, on april 24, 1965, a british subject named arthur bryant had a contact with a newly made ascended master called yamski, only hours after george adamski died suddenly. bryant died june 24, 1967, the anniversary of the first flying saucer sighting, the same day as the death of ufologist frank edwards, and the day of the l

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t into heaven by his mallet, but when on the topmost rung, the mallet's handle came off, and the poor man dropt into hell. the pikeman or blacksmith in the fairy-tale got on better by flinging his knapsack or apron (sledgehammer in asbiornsen p. 1 36 is still more archaic) into heaven. of course these wanderings of the saviour and one of his disciples have something in common with the journeys of jesus and his apostles in judea, the dwarf visitor might be compared to the angels who announced god's mercies and judgments to abraham and lot, as philemon and baucis have a certain resemblance to abraham and sarah; but the harmony with heathen legend is incomparably fuller and stronger. the angels were simply messengers; our mythology, like the greek and indian, means here an actual avatara of d

me to whoever did so, only let him hold her tight and not say a word. a man of thirty, who was still employed as a cowboy, mustered up all his courage for once, and grasped the hand of the castle-dame; while he held, all sorts of jugglery were played upon him, dogs were just going to bite him, horses to run over him, still he held fast; but anguish forced from his breast the moan' herr gott, herr jesus' in a moment the dame was loose from his hand, sobbed out that she was lost for ever, and vanished (reusch's sagen des samlands no. 8. on the hill near kleinteich a castle is said to have stood, which has long been swallowed up. the people say their forefathers still saw with their own eyes a king's daughter come up every day between 11 and 12, and comb her golden locks over a golden trough

ic renders trapaxyrtko^ by us-lipa, as if beside one's limbs, having no use of them; an ohg. urlido is not found' ein siechtuom heizet pogrdt= leme, a lame palsied state, parz. 501, 26 is a corruption of podagra, which was also twisted into podagram. more teut. are fuoz-suht, as. fot-ddl (podagra; zipperlein i do not find before the 16th cent. m. nethl. fledersin, fledercine (arthritis, leven van jesus p. 52, and 'fl. in vote ende in lede' doctrinale 3, 1030; in d'arsy's woordenboeck, amst. 1699' fledecijn,flerecijn, la goutte (chiragra; did the word mean a moth or butterfly that brought on the disease (see suppl. the flying gout that shifts from one pai-t to another (arthritis vaga) was called in n. germany (holstein, the baltic coast, at least as late as the 17th cent' dat varende, lopen

res other lame horses too. what the rest of the gods cannot do, wodan can, just as the yugl. saga 7 says of him' o^inn kunni at gera mes ordum (words alone) einum at slockva eld ok kyrra sia, ok sniia vindum hverja lei^ er hann vildi' he is the greatest magician or wonder-man of all. now observe in what shapes the same spell shews itself surviving in the popular superstitions of today. in norway: jesus reed sig til hede, da reed ban sender sit fole-been (his foal's leg asunder. jesus stigede af, og lagte det: jesus lagde marv i marv, been i been, kjod i kjod, jesus lagde derpaa et blad (thereon a leaf, at det skulde blive i samme stad. in sweden, for a horse's\\ment flag (our anflug, fit: oden st&r p, berget (stands on the hill, ban spoi'jer (speers, asks) efter sin fole, floget bar ban f&

lied, stubbed up the worms outright, one was black, another white, the third worm it was red; here lie the worms all dead; it is clear that such formulas could not have originated in christian times, but might well survive among the people, who had merely to insert new sacred names. the heathen incident that would account for the obscure or senseless words, is mostly hidden from us. on p. 1232-3 'jesus' and 'the lord' have taken the place of wuotan' chrlstiis in petra sedebat, et virgam manu tenebat' mone's anz. 7, 609; or again 'job went over land, had his staff in hand' when' jes7is and peter wandering go from country to country to and fro' it is evidently the same widely diffused notion as at p. 337; but it is not always so easy to hit upon the heathen names that lie at the bottom. a fa

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the home-sprite, that he will not leave his owner, and even when thrown away he always comes back again, unless indeed he be sold [orig. bought] for less than he cost. the last purchaser has to keep him. sirnpliciss. 2, 184. 203. conf. schm. 3, 9c-7 [home-sprites can be bought and sold, but the third buyer must keep him, miillenhoff p. 322. with ref. to the idol (gotze: as the figure of the child jesus has its shirt washed (sommer, pp. 38. 173, so the heckmdnnchen must be dressed up anew at a certain time every year, 10 ehen, p. 235. extr. from suppl] 2 to escape the futtermannchen, a farmer built a new house, but the day before he moved, he spied the f. dipping his grey coat in the brook: my little coat here i swill and souse, to-morrow we move to a fine new house. borner s orlagau, p. 24

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make my humble prayer and supplication unto thee. i confess unto thee o lord thou hast justly punished me for my manifold sins and offences but thou hast promised at what time soever a sinner doth repent of his sins and wickedness thou wilt pardon and forgive him and turn away the remembrance of them from before thy face. purge me therefore o lord and wash me from all my offences in the blood of jesus christ that, being pure and clothed in the vestments of sanctity, i may the secret grimoire bring this work to perfection, through jesus our lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy ghost. amen. sprinkle thyself with holy water and say asperges me domine hysope, et mundabor. lavabis me et super nivem dealbabor. hail o mighty god, for in thy power alone abideth the key

ng: o god who by the breath of thy nostrils framed heaven and earth and wonderfully disposed all things therein in six days, grant that this now brought to perfection by thine unworthy servant may be by thee blessed and receive divine virtue, power and jnfluence from thee that every thing therein contained may fully operate according to the hope and confidence of me thine tmworthy servant through jesus christ our lord and saviour. amen. the blessing of the light i bless thee in the name of the father. o holy, holy lord, god, heaven and earth are fuil of thy glory before whose face there is a bright shining light forever; bless now, o lord, i beseech thee, these creatures of light which thou hast given for the kindly use of man that they, by thee being sanctif ed, may not be put out or exti

rth are fuil of thy glory before whose face there is a bright shining light forever; bless now, o lord, i beseech thee, these creatures of light which thou hast given for the kindly use of man that they, by thee being sanctif ed, may not be put out or extinguished by the power, malice, or filthy darkness of the devil, but may shine forth brightly and lend their assistance to this my work, through jesus crist our lord. amen. then say, asperges me, etc. consecration of the sword: o great god who art the god of strength and fortitude and greatly to be feared, bless o lord, this instrument that it may be a terror unto the enemy, and therewith i may fight with and overcome all phantasms and oppositions of the enemy, through the influence and help of thy most holy mighty name, on, st. the secret

, asperges me, etc. consecration of the sword: o great god who art the god of strength and fortitude and greatly to be feared, bless o lord, this instrument that it may be a terror unto the enemy, and therewith i may fight with and overcome all phantasms and oppositions of the enemy, through the influence and help of thy most holy mighty name, on, st. the secret grimoire agla, and in the cross of jesus christ our only lord. amen. be thou blessed and consecrated in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost. asperges me, etc. benediction of the lamens (symbois. circles: o god thou god of my salvation i call upon thee by the mysteries of thy most holy name, on, st. agla, i worship and beseech thee by thy names el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, and by thy mighty name tetragrammaton, saday, that th

enediction of the lamens (symbois. circles: o god thou god of my salvation i call upon thee by the mysteries of thy most holy name, on, st. agla, i worship and beseech thee by thy names el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, and by thy mighty name tetragrammaton, saday, that thou wilt be seen in the power and force of these thy most holy names so written filling them with divine virtue and influence through jesus christ our lord. benediction of the pentacles: eternal god which, by thy holy wisdom, hast caused great power and virtue to lie hidden in the characters and holy writings of thy spirits and angels, and hast given unto man that with them, faithfully used, power thereby to work many things; bless these, o lord, framed and written by the hand of me thine unworthy servant that being filled with

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ondence. we trust, therefore, that this explanation will anticipate many questions. first of all, let us say that the cross was not originally a religious symbol and is used by many organizations, in some form or another, as a symbol without any religious significance. nor was there any such thing as a christian cross during the time of the birth of the christian doctrines as taught by the master jesus. it is a coincidence in religious matters that jesus, like many others for centuries before him, was crucified on a cross.and not even on a cross like that now used as the christian symbol; and it was due to another coincidence that the cross was adopted by the christian fathers, centuries after the crucifixion, as a symbol of the christian faith. they might have adopted the exclusive use of

c and mystical. a ritual drama is an allegory based on ritual or initiatic rites and may constitute in itself a ritual or initiation. amen.a hebrew word introduced into the egyptian mystic rites at an early date as a term used to express the hidden and invisible god, or a truly inspired representative of god. in this latter sense the term is used in the christian bible just once; in rev. iii: 14, jesus is called "the amen. but at a much earlier date the same word, with the same mystic vowel sounds, was used to designate the name of the god of thebes, and the term amen-ra came to express the name and hierarchy of a powerful god among the egyptians. amenhotep iv changed his name to akhnaton because of the significance of the term amen. as used in modern religious practices, the term amen mea

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ergo a long-purificationinthe 'waste and desert hades, by enduring the deprivation of all that is dear to them,and of every enjoyment, whilst longing most painfully after that earthly life whichhasfor ever fled, and thus be gradually prepared for thelowestdegree of bliss. 37.thesouls of true christians, that have trodden the path of sanctification, and who expired in the exercise of true faith in jesus christ, in the grace of his atonement, and in complete renunciation of everything earthly, are received immediately on awaking from the sleep of death,byangels without delay, conducted upwards to the pure regions oflight, where they enjoy the fulnessofbliss.doctrines such as these may have been a pleasant contempla255 tion for a steadfast lutheran, as jung undoubtedly was, but would afford c

ry,-forthe enlightenment and true teaching of anyofthose mortals who were willing to believe? no christian can deny that hecando this; andifhe will do this for those who have denied him, done wrong to their fellow-men, and yet died in his belief atlast,-whyshould he not do it for a man who, through his long life, has had no aim but the good of mankind; who, as a man, has followed the example that jesus christset-'loveoneanother-'lovethy neigh255 bours asthyself-'dounto others, even as you would they should do untoyoll?'ireturned thanks.[ihasten to send the above. any comments of mine would be superfluous; butitrust shortly to have the pleasure of showing you the whole of the c. a.'s remarks in relation thereto. trusting you are in good health,iam, dear sir, yours faithfully,f.h.]croydon fe

favoured me with, and the response given by the c. a. in answerthereto,-thefirst i hope of a long series. i have had some very curious communications lately, and so soon as i have written up my minutes, iwillforward them for your perusal. i am, dear sir, yours faithfully, robert owen, esq.f.h.180therosicrucianseerenlightened him upon the subject of the atonement and redemption of mankind through jesus christ?c.a.-hisbeliefissomuch nearer to the right path, than it was at first, that i firmly believe the time will come when he will be thoroughly convincedofall the true doctrines of christianity.4.-theanswer you have given me as to this spiritual vision is so surprising, that i beg you will give me some further explanation or reason for its appearance.c.a.-greatpurposes are used to meet gre

is fellow-men, when he was as pure in spirit as he is now, would assuredly guide right at last the man who in so many instances had followed in his path. on tuesday the] inst, i read the question and answer, page 8, appendix a, and requested thec.a.'s view of it. c.a.-iwishithad not been written; but as it is done, i do not wishitto be altered. i am not sure that communication was receivedrightly,jesus christ is the messiah, or rather will be at the second coming. heisthe regenerator of mankind, because through him all have life everlasting.hisinfluence was there; his knowledge and part of his spirit was there; together they formed a spiritual body representing him. all persons who believe in the divinity of christ, believe that he is an all-pervading influence, and that his spirit enters

f.h.croydon 23january 1855mydear sir,i am favoured with the proofs of the appendices a. and b. of your forthcoming part 6. were i to presume to criticise either the questions or the answers contained in appendix a, simply because they are opposed to the views stated in appendixb.,it would on my part be an unwarrantable impertinence; still i cannot but think it is to be regretted that the name of jesus christ should be thus inserted without any comment or qualification upon the simple announcement of an invisible255 spirit rapper, inasmuch asitis a needless and profitless shock to the feelings and opinions of your christian readers and well-wishers. upon receipt of your letter of the 16th november last, i stated to the c.a.-i.-mrowen informs me by letter that at a recentseancethe presence

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

onasticism first developed, and the great monasteries partially took the place of temples in egyptian society. christian chroniclers provide evidence that some egyptians clung to the old beliefs as late as the sixth century ce. a few magical texts of this period still mention the myths of isis and the horus introduction 45 child, but most replace them with anecdotes about the virgin mary and baby jesus. the last stories about the gods of egypt are those that tell of their defeat by coptic saints.109 in the seventh century ce, egypt was invaded first by the persians and then by the arabs. the arabs brought with them the muslim religion, but many of the native egyptians (the copts) remained christian. the coptic language fell out of general use around 1000 ce, but it has continued to be used

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

a. not at all. he was born a christian, but never accepted church christianity. as said of him by the same writer: he had but to propound his instructions according to the ancient pillars of hermes, which plato and pythagoras knew before, and from them constituted their philosophy. finding the same in the prologue of the gospel according to st. john, he very properly supposed that the purpose of jesus was to restore the great doctrine of wisdom in its primitive integrity. the narratives of the bible and the stories of the gods he considered to be allegories illustrative of the truth, or else fables to be rejected. as says the edinburgh encyclopedia: moreover, he acknowledged that jesus christ was an excellent man and the "friend of god" but alleged that it was not his design entirely to a

ot his design entirely to abolish the worship of demons (gods, and that his only intention was to purify the page 7 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt ancient religion -ooo- the wisdom-religion, esoteric in all ages q. since ammonius never committed anything to writing, how can one feel sure that such were his teachings? a. neither did buddha, pythagoras, confucius, orpheus, socrates, or even jesus, leave behind them any writings. yet most of these are historical personages, and their teachings have all survived. the disciples of ammonius (among whom origen and herennius) wrote treatises and explained his ethics. certainly the latter are as historical, if not more so, than the apostolic writings. moreover, his pupils-origen, plotinus, and longinus (counselor of the famous queen zenobia

ature. this selfishness, instead of being eradicated, is daily strengthened and stimulated into a ferocious and irresistible feeling by the present religious education, which tends not only to encourage, but positively to justify it. people's ideas about right and wrong have been entirely perverted by the literal acceptance of the jewish bible. all the unselfishness of the altruistic teachings of jesus has become merely a theoretical subject for pulpit oratory; while the precepts of practical selfishness taught in the mosaic bible, against which christ so vainly preached, have become ingrained into the innermost life of the western nations "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" has come to be the first maxim of your law. now, i state openly and fearlessly, that the perversity of this

fields. the guilt of this great crime rests on the christian church "in the name of the most holy trinity" the spanish government (roman catholic) concluded more than ten treaties authorizing the sale of five hundred thousand human beings; in 1562 sir john hawkins sailed on his diabolical errand of buying slaves in africa and selling them in the west indies in a ship which bore the sacred name of jesus; while elizabeth, the protestant queen, rewarded him for his success in this first adventure of englishmen in that inhuman traffic by allowing him to wear as his crest "a demi-moor in his proper color, bound with a cord, or, in other words, a manacled negro slave" q. i have heard you say that the identity of our physical origin is proved by science, that of our spiritual origin by the wisdom

any means to his neighbors, least of all to men of other nations. we affirm that it will, in good time. therefore, we say, that unless every man is brought to understand and accept as an axiomatic truth that by having wronged one man we wrong not only ourselves but the whole of humanity in the long run, no brotherly feelings such as preached by all the great reformers, preeminently by buddha and jesus, are possible on earth -ooo- our other objects q. will you now explain the methods by which you propose to carry out the second object? a. to collect for the library at our headquarters of adyar, madras-and by the fellows of their branches for their local libraries-all the good works upon the world's religions that we can. to put into written form correct information upon the various ancient

HEPTAMERON

y, thou shalt purge me with hysop (o lord) and i shall be clean: thou shalt wash me, and i shall be whiter then snow. the benediction of perfumes. the god of abraham, god of isaac, god of jacob, bless here the creatures of these kindes, that they may fill up the power and vertue of their odours; so that neither the enemy, nor any false imagination, may be able to enter into them: through our lord jesus christ &c. then let them be sprinkled with holy water. the exorcisme of the fire upon which the perfumes are to be put. the fire which is to be used for suffumigations, is to be in a new vessel of earth or iron; and let it be exorcised after this manner. i exorcise thee, o thou creature of fire, by him by whom all things are made, that forthwith thou cast away every phantasme from thee, that

anner. i exorcise thee, o thou creature of fire, by him by whom all things are made, that forthwith thou cast away every phantasme from thee, that it shall not be able to do any hurt in any thing. then say, bless, o lord, this creature of fire, and sanctifie it, that it may be blessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name, that no hurt may come to the exorcisers or spectators: through our lord jesus christ &c. the sun. the moon. abragini. matasignais. the sun. the moon. commutaff. affaterim. heptameron 5 of the garment and pentacle. let it be a priests garment, if it can be had, let it be of linen, and clean. then take this pentacle made in the day and hour of mercury, the moon increasing, written in parchment made of a kids skin. but first let there be said over it the mass of the holy

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

during your meal. it is most advantageous to foster the same desire in breathing as well as in eating to avoid any opposite vibration or emanations in your body. remember the proverb: he who chases two hares at the same time will never catch one. whoever in the conscious reception of food takes example in the eucharistic mystery, will find an analogy to it here, and remember the words of our lord jesus christ: take and eat, for this is my flesh; take and drink, for this is my blood; he will seize their true and primary meaning. 4. the magic of water water plays one of the most important parts, not only in daily life, being absolutely indispensable for drinking, preparing food, washing, producing steam in factories, etc, but also in our magic development; the water element may prove to be a

t accepts your own radiation of vital power, conveys it to the blood, and will bring about a complete recovery. here also you will have to concentrate on the wish that the force inhaled by the patient should keep on working positively in him. this has been an example of vital force transference from the magician s to another s body by breathing. we can rely on the word of the bible, when our lord jesus christ was touched by a sick woman in the hope of recovery. our lord felt the diminution of his vital power and he remarked to his disciples, i have been touched! working with vital power and magnetism, one has to consider time and space. with a view to this fact, i have quoted several examples concerning the treatment of diseases, and i could still mention quite a number of methods for trea

pping a piece of litmus paper into the prepared water. if the water has been impregnated thoroughly, one will detect an acid reaction with the litmus paper when the active elements of fire and air are concerned, while the reaction will be alkaline in the case of water and earth. who would not be reminded of the wedding at kanaa where our lord transformed water into wine? only such a high adept as jesus christ could accomplish this miracle, not by influence of the elements from the outside, but by mastering the akasa principle of the water being transformed from the inside. at this point i shall finish the mastering of the elements as far as the magical training of the soul in step iv is concerned. nobody is expected to advance before he has worked thoroughly through all the tasks and exerc

ect this lawfulness regarding the universal laws, and he did observe it, since the conception of god has to be interpreted as an outcome of this universal lawfulness. whichever spiritual group the would-be magician belongs to, whatever his creed or path to initiation may be, without exception he has to respect this universal lawfulness in his conception of god. the christian will worship our lord jesus christ as his highest ideal, attributing to him the four fundamental qualities or basic aspects that are manifest in the omnipresence. these fundamental qualities are: omnipotence, omniscience or wisdom, all-love or charity, and immortality. the magician will not regard his christ as a manifestation endowed with only one quality, but regarding the universal laws in analogy to the four elemen

netic volt. there are some more methods, but all of them are based on the willpower and the respective imagination, and the magician can determine them after his own free will. the fact that a magician can change fate, wiping out its cause and with it the sins as well (sins so far as regarded in the religious way, for sins are nothing but moral views of religions) has been pointed out by our lord jesus christ when he said, to whom i forgave the sins, they will be forgiven forever. 10. long-distance impregnation of rooms previously i discussed the impregnation of a room in which the magician himself happens to be, and i also recommended several implements such as the magic mirror combined with a fluid condenser. one fact i did not mention till now is that the magician also can impregnate a

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

ng about another fascinating path of influence into traditional craft, namely that of gypsy beliefs. indeed, i recall once being told the tale of the uncooling nail by a romany fellow- on the night before christ s crucifixion, soldiers were sent out to have four long nails forged for the deed. they approached jewish, greek, and roman smiths, but each refused once they had heard the nails were for jesus of nazareth s crucifixion. outside the city gates the soldiers found a romany smith. he didn t ask the need for the long nails so late at night; he just needed the money. the smith obliged and began making the nails, one by one. however, whilst heating the fourth nail in the fire, he asked who they were for. on learning they were for christ s crucifixion, the gypsy ceased his work abrup tly

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

learnt all her knowledge, and that there was no one in the world more skilful than she. she also stated that william outlawe deserved death as much as she, for he was privy to their sorceries, and for a year and p. 39 a day had worn the devil's girdle 1 round his body. when rifling dame alice's house there was found "a wafer of sacramental bread, having the devil's name stamped thereon instead of jesus christ, and a pipe of ointment wherewith she greased a staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thicke and thin, when and in what manner she listed" petronilla was accordingly condemned to be burnt alive, and the execution of this sentence took place with all due solemnity in kilkenny on 3rd november 1324, which according to clyn fell on a sunday. this was the first instance of the

ell as for rejecting the authority of the holy see. 2 in 1335 pope benedict xii wrote a letter to king edward iii, in which occurs the following passage "it has come to our knowledge that while our venerable brother, richard, bishop of ossory, was visiting his diocese, there appeared in the midst of his catholic people men who were heretics together with their abettors, some of whom asserted that jesus christ was a mere man and a sinner, and was justly crucified for his own sins; others after having done homage and offered sacrifice to demons, thought otherwise of p. 49 the sacrament of the body of christ than the catholic church teaches, saying that the same venerable sacrament is by no means to be worshipped; and also asserting that they are not bound to obey or believe the decrees, decr

ISIS UNVEILED

tation 152 the meaning irf god-incarnate 153 dogmas ol tbe gnostics 155 idraa of marcion, the 'bereaiardi' 159 precepts of mann 163 jebovab, identical with baccbos 165 chafteb jv oriental cosmogonies and bible bbcords discrepancies in the pentateoch 167 indian, chaldaean and ophite systems conqwred 170 who were the firat christians? j78 christos and sc^rfiia-acbamoth 183 secret doctrine uuriit by jesus 191 jesut never daimed to be god 193 new tcatament narrative* and hmdal^aads 199 antiquity irf the 'logos' and 'christ' 205 comparative vi^n-wocship 209 chapter v mysteries of the kabala ain-soph and the sn>hiroth 212 the primitive wisdom-rdigion 216 the booii of omint a compilation of old-world trends 217 the trinity of the kabala 222 gnostic and-naaarene systems coatiasted with hindo myths

ing their feelings; nor would we rob a sin^ layman of his blind con- fidence, if it alone made possible for him holy living and serene dying. digitizecoy google vi authors preface to volume ii an analysis o^ religious beliefs in general, this volume is in particular directed against theological chnstianity, the chief opfmneot of free thought. it contains not one word against the pure teachings of jesus, but unsparingly denounces their debasement into pernicious ecclesiasti- cal systems that are ruinous to man's faith in his immortality and his god, and subversive of all moral restraint. we cast our gauntlet at the dogmatic theologians who would enslave both history and science; and especially at the vatican, whose despotic pretensions have become hateful to the greater portion of enlighten

l against that of the pulpit of peter, which is the teaching of the spirit of god himself! aware of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated

sitting in judgment over the whole worid. when dying on the cross, the martyred man of sorrows forgave his enemies. his last wonis were a prayer in their behalf. he tau^t his disdptes to curse not, but to bless, even their foes. but the hdrs of 11. a.sapolcgg. 1 1 7, 9. digitizecoy google ca-raouc blaspheuy against heaven 9 st. peter, the adf-constituted representatives on earth of that same meek jesus, unhesitatingly curse whoever resists their despotic will. besides, was not the 'son' long since crowded by them into the background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed

, arrayed in a flounced pink skirt over a swelling crinolirtel pious pilgrims who may be anxious to examine the regulation wardrobe of their god's mother may do so by going to southern italy, spain, and catholic north and south america. the madonna of bari must still be there between two vin^ards and a locanda (gin-shop. when last seen, a half-successful attempt had bees made to clothe the infant jesus; they had covered his legs with a pair of dirty, scouop-edged pantaloons. an english traveler having presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful population of the amtadini, accompanied by the village-priest, went in procession to the spot. they managed to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ce

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

believe that this energy of divine love is triggered automatically when a person maintains the theta. delta brain wave patterns. i once met a man who said to me: why do you speak so much of the divine? it s always divine this and divine that. and you say that we are divine beings and maybe that is true for you but i certainly am not divine. i could have responded and quoted john 14.2 and said as jesus did: i shall go to the house of my father to prepare for you an abode. the house of my father has many abodes. on that day you shall know that i am with the father, the father in me and i in you. you are god. but that only impresses those of the christian faith. what about the buddhist who believes in a supreme intelligence rather than a god as we know it and what has this to do with the sci

ld is fed via the mass adulation of audience acceptance, which can balance out their childhood lack. 3b. the non-conventional food of the family is the food that comes when we work with the reality of a global family. this means relating to everyone we meet as if they are as potentially nourishing and important to us as a blood-line relative can be. this is part of the love thy neighbor game that jesus spoke of that is required today in the unification of humanity. everyone knows the nourishment factor of an extended family of friends and treating all people and even animals as if they are loved and cherished brothers and sisters can provide us all with an incredible source of food. this however takes mind mastery as to do this we need to choose to celebrate our differences rather than jud

ter house of god. an ashram is an outer house of god that is created to reveal the inner house. ancient wisdom says that the only reason we have a physical, emotional and mental body is so that our divine essence may know itself in form and for many, this has become basic metaphysical presumption no.1. presumption no. 2 is that we are clones of god, pre-programmed with the same software as in the jesus decree i and my father are one. no. 3 presumption is that this software runs our bio-system effortlessly if we invite it to do so and let go of our toxic ways. we also know that toxic thinking, toxic feeling and toxic feeding will break down our biosystem and create disease and decay. presumption no. 4 is that our physical bio-system is divine hardware and actually part of a divine mainframe

ve global ramifications for world hunger we are simply allowing people to witness and possibly experience another way of being so that they may be free from the need for food, sleep and even the constraints of time. body temperature control and not requiring food or sleep are all by-products of being a limitless being and exploring our full potential. these three are practiced by countless yogis. jesus said, all that i have done you can do and more. note 2003: people of all religious and spiritual persuasions and now answering their own inner call to be part of this new way of being, i always say that this is something that people are pre-programmed to do which we can discover via technique no. 20 in chapter 11. additional questions that are commonly asked and some new ones that aren t: qu

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ot the place and the persons in the body, and may not the suggestions, labouring to that end, of unseen, unsuspected, holy ministries, such as thronging angels, casting off from about us our swathes and bands of thick mortality in the new, overmastering influence, may not all this be as the bridge across which we pass out from this world gladly into the next, until we meet, as. on the other side, jesus, the ruler in very deed, but now felt as the offered, the crucified, the complete and accepted living great sacrifice? may we not in this eucharist partake, not once, but again and again, of that even of that solid which was our atonement, and of that blood which was poured out as the libation to the great earth, profaned by sin, partaking of that reddest (but that most transcendently lucent

or rak( adore; sas, or sax, for sadshi( name. the entire gnostic system was not derived either from the kabala, or from the grecian philosophy, but from the east, as mosheim long ago maintained: so declares the author of the gnostics and their remains; but it is a thorough mistake, both in his authority (mosheim, and also in himself. we shall successfully show this before we have done. as soon as jesus was born, according to the gnostic speculative view of christianity, christos, uniting himself with sophia (holy wisdom, descended through the seven planetary regions, assuming in each an analogous form to the region, and concealing his true nature from its genii, whilst he attracted into himself the sparks of divine light they severally retained in their angelic essence. thus christos, havi

uniting himself with sophia (holy wisdom, descended through the seven planetary regions, assuming in each an analogous form to the region, and concealing his true nature from its genii, whilst he attracted into himself the sparks of divine light they severally retained in their angelic essence. thus christos, having passed through the seven angelic regions before the throne, entered into the man jesus, at the moment of his baptism in the jordan* from that time forth, being supernaturally gifted, jesus began to work miracles. before that, he had been completely ignorant of his mission. when on the cross, christos and sophia left his body, and returned to their own sphere. upon his death, the two took the man jesus, and abandoned his material body to the earth; for the gnostics held* at the

ed to their own sphere. upon his death, the two took the man jesus, and abandoned his material body to the earth; for the gnostics held* at the moment of his baptism in the jordan mark. up to that point he was natural but not the christ. this will recall his exclamation of world s disclaimer to the virgin woman, what have i to do with thee? traditionary facts at the crucifixion. 153 that the true jesus did not (and could not) physically suffer on the cross and die, but that simon of cyrene, who bore his cross, did in reality suffer in his room: and they compel one simon a cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of alexander and rufus, to bear his cross (st. mark xv. 21. the gnostics contended that a portion of the real history of the crucifixion was never written. as

lace in the great final act of the crucifixion, the gnostics maintained that the son of god could not suffer physically upon the cross, the apparent sufferer being human only real body having no part with him. at the point of the miraculous transference of persons, christos and sophia (the divine) left his body, and returned to their own heaven. upon his death on earth, the two withdrew the being jesus (spiritually, and gave him another body, made up of ether (rosicrucian ther um. thenceforward he consisted of the two first rosicrucian principles only, soul and spirit; which was the cause that the disciples did not recognise him after the resurrection. during his sojourn upon earth of eighteen months after he had risen, he received from sophia (soph, suph, or holy wisdom, that perfect know

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

but one could have made a case to fully concur until relatively recently (i.e, until kaplan [1990; see below, page 13. kalisch translated what appears to be the long version* the work is free of any sort of occult agenda a feature which plagues many of the versions discussed hereafter. a translation of sy was published in 1883 (2nd edition, 1886) in alfred edersheim s ambitious life and times of jesus the messiah (london and bombay: longmans/green and company, 2 volumes; reprinted in recent years as a single volume by several publishers: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1943 through 1981; macdonald publishing and world bible publishing company in 1994; hendrickson publishers in 1993 and 1997. the translation appears in appendix v, 4. after a perfunctory description of kabbalah, which conclu

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

prepared by alex jassen and scott noegel at http//faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/jmbtoc.htm (university of washington) or the appendix to my gnotes on the study of merkabah mysticism and hekhalot literature in english. f for starters, though, refer to the following survey articles. alexander, p. s. gincantations and books of magic, h in emil schurer, the history of the jewish people in the age of jesus christ (175 b.c..a.d. 135, a new english version revised and edited by g. vermes, f. millar, and m. goodman (edinburgh: t&t clark ltd, 1986: volume iii, part 1, pp. 342- 79. idel, moshe. gon judaism, jewish mysticism and magic, h in envisioning magic: a princeton seminar and symposium, edited by p. schafer and h. kippenberg (leiden: brill, 1997. schafer, peter. gjewish magic literature in la

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n its failure is a key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child& that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. 48. now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. 49. i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. curse them! curse them! curse them! 51. with my hawk's head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him. 53. with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din. 54. bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. let mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. also for beauty's sake and love's! 57. despise also al

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epistle to the ephesians written by st ignatius (who according to tradition was the little child whom christ once took and set in the midst of his disciples as a type of those who should inherit the kingdom of heaven, this remarkable masonic passage: 285. ye are stones of a temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of god the father, being raised to the heights by the working-tool of jesus christ, which is the cross, and using for a rope the holy spirit, your faith being a windlass, and love the way leading up to god. 286. sometimes the rose is impressed upon that equal-armed cross, and then we have the rose croix, the great emblem of the rosicrucians, which figures largely in the eighteenth degree. the maltese cross is another form of it, with the arms widening or spreading o

losophy or the gnostic systems will remember that the krater or cup plays a prominent part in them. it was the vessel into which the wine of the divine life was poured. in christian thought it is the holy grail filled with the precious blood of christ; the chalice used at the institution of the holy eucharist, the cup which joseph of arimathea is supposed to have held to catch the sacred blood of jesus as he hung upon the cross. all these things are, however, an allegory. the real meaning of the symbol is that the cup is the causal body of man, and the wine is the life from god that flashes into it in the third outpouring from the first logos, at the moment of individualization, which makes the animal into a human being, not perfected yet, of course, but capable of perfection. 290. so the

t a five-pointed star results, as in fig. 17. 972. figure 17 973. 974. and as the mantra is repeated these stars pile up behind one another to form a tube having this five-pointed form of cross-section, which makes a channel for spiritual force coming from shri krishna, who is the same being as the lord maitreya, the present bodhisattva or world-teacher, the great one who entered into the body of jesus as the christ. with this force coming through it the mantra can be used for many purposes, such as healing, or the removal of fire and other elementals, as well as for general good. 975. i found, however, that there were three stages in the process. with the recital of gklim h, which it is said is called gthe seed of attraction h by the hindu occultists, the attention of the source of the fo

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the sun was in scorpio, osiris being in the twenty-eighth year either of his reign or his age (it will be noted that this date marks the beginning of winter, when the sun is mystically slain by the forces of darkness; and it was on this date, corresponding to the festival of all souls in the christian church, that the land of egypt mourned the death of osiris, as we mourn the death of the body of jesus on good friday) 148. news was brought to isis at coptos of the tragedy which had occurred, whereupon she cut off a lock of her hair, arrayed herself in mourning apparel, and went forth in search of the body of osiris. she learnt that the chest had been carried by the sea to byblos- not the byblos of syria, but the papyrus swamps of the delta(*sir e. a. wallis budge, egyptian ideas of the fut

mysteries, but in previous lives had prepared himself for it- for it is the ego who is initiated, not the mere personality of the lower planes. 188. there have always been five great initiations, which in christian teaching have been illustrated by stages in the life of the christ as related in the gospels, which contain elements derived from the teachings of the egyptian mysteries. the disciple jesus was an initiate of the egyptian lodge, and therefore much of the egyptian symbolism was adopted by his followers, and was later woven into the gospel story. in the masters and the path i have given an account of certain of the ceremonies of initiation used in the great white brotherhood at the present day. the egyptian rituals were in some respects slightly different from these in form, alth

by what may have been her older zoomorphic form, or of a priestess deified by the descent of the dove-spirit. 246. the extent to which primitive minoan religious conceptions were familiar to the semitic mind is here again illustrated by the striking parallel of the baptism in jordan and the picture drawn by the evangelists of the holy spirit descending in bodily shape like a dove and lighting on jesus. what has to be borne in mind in all these connexions is that it is not only the inanimate or aniconic object, such as the pillar or the sacred weapon, that may become, through due ritual, the temporary dwelling-place of the divinity, but that the spiritual being may enter into the actual worshipper or votary in human form, who for the time becomes a god, just as the baptized christian becom

noteworthy as indicating that the historical setting is only of secondary importance, and that the main purpose of the degree is to convey symbolical instruction. 295. the essenes and the christ 296. the tradition of the mysteries was transmitted from century to century, until we find it among the essenes, who also appear to have inherited chaldaean rites. it was in this school that the disciple jesus lived in preparation for his ministry, after receiving a high initiation into the true mysteries of egypt. the essenes had among other chaldaean rites inherited what was afterwards known as the mithraic eucharist, the ceremony of bread and wine and salt, which, as we shall see later, was transmitted through the ages until it was incorporated in the modern degree of the rose-croix of heredom

-croix lifts the sovereign prince into a wonderful union with christ, the lord of love; in the ritual of amen the brn. bowed to each who had partaken of the sacrament saying, thou art osiris. the holy eucharist of the christian church is the last and most wonderful of all, for in it we receive him, the lord of love, and the sacred host is just as fully and perfectly his vehicle as was the body of jesus in palestine two thousand years ago. it seems probable that he took the existing sacrament which was regularly celebrated in the essene community, and transfigured it into another and holier eucharist, which has become the glory of his church from generation to generation. 298. kabbalism 299. with the tremendous impetus given by the coming of the lord the mysteries received a greater inspira

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

listine city of ekron. but he was originally baal the prince, the chief god in the canaan pantheon. baalzebub appeared in kings 2:1 as the god called upon by king ahaziah (c. 850 849 b.c) to cast out demons. in the new testament his name was transformed into beelzebub, and was used to refer to the devil.he was called the prince of devils by the pharisees and as such he appeared in luke 11:19 when jesus, upon healing somebody, was accused of casting out demons through beelzebub. in contemporary usage, beelzebub is an alternate name for satan. see also demons; satan for further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. encyclopaedia judaica. new york:macmillan, 1971. beliar beliar or beliel, meaning worthless, is mentioned as the personification or symbo

movement, ultra-liberalism, etc (101. the notion of the black mass seems to have arisen out of the belief in the mystical( magical) efficacy of the mass, and out of the ends to which certain unprincipled priests put this power. within catholicism and certain other liturgical denominations, the mass is a ritualized miracle of substantiation in which the bread and wine become the body and blood of jesus. this rite, based on the biblical account of the last supper, transforms ordinary, profane ingredients into divine artifacts. the occult nature of the mass was so evident that catholics themselves used it for magical purposes. for example, the gelasian sacramentary, which contains sixth-century documents, includes masses for such mundane goals as healing sick people and cattle, bringing rain

case (1884 1954, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. he was known as an expert in the study of the tarot and cabala, and was said to have been asked by the inner school to reinterpret the ageless wisdom for the western audience. bota s name originated from the greek term meaning holy of holies, and referring to the metaphysical building of one s inner temple.members of bota regard jesus as a carpenter, a builder, and a teacher of the inner spiritual life. 36 builders of the adytum bota is viewed by its members as a mystery school following the western interpretation of ancient wisdom. followers are taught mastery of their physical environment and development of the mental capacities, as well as provided with answers to such metaphysical questions as the nature of immortalit

ere inspired by chinese communist propaganda: one day, bob hammond, missionary broadcaster of the voice of china and asia, told jack marc dutroux and a policeman (ap photo/olivier 46 chick publications that multitudes of chinese people had been won to communism through mass distribution of cartoon booklets. jack felt that god was leading him to use the same technique to win multitudes to the lord jesus christ. other commentators, however, have suggested that the immediate model for the tracts were the so-called two-byfours (referring to their dimensions in inches, which were pornographic minicomics common in the 1950s when chick began his ministry. small and cheap, any evangelist could buy a few hundred chick tracts and leave them wherever the casual passerby might pick them up laundromats

r constant, ongoing assault by demonic forces determined to distract humanity from the only thing that really matters, namely saving one s own soul and the souls of others from damnation. illicit sex, alcohol, recreational drugs, and the like are tools of satan designed to keep people from hearing or from seriously considering the christian message. all tracts end with a call to repent and accept jesus as one s personal savior. although non-christian religions are satanic, chick devotes relatively few tracts to attacks on other religions. he is more concerned with making his readers aware of how demons are busily distracting them from embracing and leading the true christian life. like other conservative christians, he is especially concerned about occultism.all things occult are part of t

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ires in time all the obloquy attaching to that functionary in the eyes of the criminal classes, and becomes a slanderer. does any one really think that any angel is such a fool as to try to gull the omniscient god into injustice to his saints? then, on the other hand, what of moloch, that form of jehovah denounced by those who did not draw huge profit from his rites? what of the savage and morose jesus of the evangelicals, cut by their petty malice from the gentle jesus of the italian children? how shall we identify the thaumaturgic chauvinist of matthew with the metaphysical logos of john? in short, while the human mind is mobile, so long will the definitions of all our terms vary [lat. approx. perhaps it will be pleasant to remember these things one day] all symbolism is perhaps ultimate

e virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, minerva [the disciples are too indefinite] 16 venus[[hymen. 17 castor and pollux [janus[[hymen. 18 mercury[[lares and penates. 19 venus (repressing the fire of vulcan. 20 [attis, ceres, adonis[[vesta, flora. 21 jupiter [pluto] philadelphia 22 vulcan[[venus, nemesis. 23 neptune[[rhea] john, jesus as hanged man 24 mars[[mors. 25 diana (as archer[[iris. 26 pan, vesta, bacchus. 27 mars pergamos 28 juno[ olus. 29 neptune. 30 apollo[[ops] smyrna 31 vulcan, pluto mark 32 saturn[[terminus, astr a] ephesus 32 bis ceres luke 31 bis [liber[[bacchus] the holy ghost [insufficient information] table i (continued) 11 xxxviii* animals, real and imaginary. xxxix* plants, real and imaginary. 0[[drago

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well as a facsimile of the ms of liber al. t.s] svb figvra clxxv 7 cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani, and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi1 for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou take one such story every night, and enact it in thy mind, grasping each identity with infinte care and zest, and do thou figure t

LIBER CCXLII AHA

pace and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundless diamond whirring with millions of wings! olympas. master! marsyas. know also that above these portents hangs no veil of love; but, guarded by unsleeping eyes of twice seven score severities, the veil that only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus f heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. liber ccxlii 10 woe be to that accursed man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath fs avenging flood to black immitigable seas! woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craf

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

ging stone so fierce a questing barked and brayed, it turned his laughter to a groan. liber cxcvii 68 his vow forgot, his task undone, his soul whipped in god.s bitter school (he moaned a mighty malison) the perfect knight? the perfect fool .now, by god.s wounds. quoth he .my strength is burnt out to a pest of pains. let me fling off my curse at length in old chaldea.s starry plains! thou blessed jesus, foully nailed unto the cruel calvary tree, look on my soul fs poor fort assailed by all the hosts of devilry! is there no medicine but death that shall avail me in my place, that i may know the beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen. 69 xxx s

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

real methods to tame the body; strictly mental methods to control the mind. this latter restriction is not so vitally important. any weapon is legitimate against a public enemy like the mind. no truce nor quarter! on the contrary, to use the spiritual forces to secure health, as certain persons attempt to do to-day, is the vilest black magic. this is one of the numerous reasons for supposing that jesus christ was a brother of the left- hand path. 1 [chaldaan oracles, fragment 183 in westcott edition; quoted by proclus in his commentary on plato.s parmenides] john st. john 57 now my body has been treating me well, waking nicely at convenient hours, sleeping at suitable times, keeping itself to itself. an admirable body. then why shouldn ft i take it out and give it the best dinner lavenue c

LIBER LVII

, shaloshethem yechad themim .the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbot djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo .the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbot owcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo .ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbot owcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado .when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat owcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah .i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy owcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwob, beaugoth r

is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat owcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah .i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy owcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwob, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo .i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. 4 [the quote from genesis, in jacob.s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discussed later in this article. t.s] on the qabalah 7 the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. by

bash* and that therefore lbb symbolises kether (620? why, lbb is confusion, the very opposite of kether. 34 [for many examples of this pernicious practice, see the canon. t.s] 35 [concealed yods on the other hand are another matter entirely. t.s] 36 [lat .a coward created the soul of the earth] 37 [heb, possibly intended for .the son, the spirit, the father, the grave: ihvh [is] the law] 38 [grk .jesus christ, son of god, saviour] 39 [grk, approx .the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom* i can see nothing in this at all. taking a dozen clear identities, e.g. aima= bn, athbash disintergrates the whole show. there are useful ones, e.g. qma= illegible 26 liber lviii why athbash? why not abshath? or agrath? or any other of the possible combinations? about the only useful tem

er having the latter spelling communicated to him by one samuel a. jacobs who knew the correct orthography for the simple reason that it was his middle name (patronymic, to be precise. t.s] on the qabalah 35 seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. wn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a crosshandled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. icqus= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 2 3 3 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111 \yhla awh dja .he is one god [la, aleph, an ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning .as the lightning ligheneth out of the east eve

d aour in the introduction to levi.s rituel de haute magie. t.s] on the qabalah 37= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus.see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th athyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter summo. 333= 37 9 the accursed. 340 \c.the name. 341. the sum of the .3 mothers. aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha .e

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

on day 7 panel* in libel i bewail me (funny how english seems to fail me) so, as a surgeon to a man, sir, let me excise your christian cancer impersonally, without vanity, just in pure love of poor humanity! here.s just the chance you.d have! behold the warm sun tint with early gold yon spire: to-day.s event provide my text of wrath.ascension-tide! oh .tis a worthy day to wrest hate.s diadem from jesus. crest! ascends he .tis the very test by which we men may fairly judge, from the rough roads we mortals trudge or god.s paths paved with heliotrope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, in metaphysic.s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection. bring out the antiseptic soap. we.ll judge the christ by simple section, and strictly on th

they said .whate.er you ponder in your head, or make the rest of scripture mean, you can.t evade john iii. 16 .for god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 340 345 350 355 360 365 370 375 former compared to kerubim; as it is written, running and returning. shri parananda applauds yogi. gerald jeers at jesus. john iii. 16* its importance. its implied meaning. 12 the sword of song exactly! grown my mental stature, i ponder much: but never yet can i get over or forget that bitter text.s accurded nature, the subtle devilish omission,57 the cruel antithesis implied, the irony, the curse-fruition, the calm assumption of hell.s fevers as fit, as just, for unbelievers. these are the things that stick b

ci-a-ti-on of brixton on ascension day) he.s gone.his belly filled enough! this robert-browning-manqu stuff .twill serve.mercutio.s scratch!.to show where god and i are disagreed. there! i have let my feelings go this once. again? i deem not so. once for my fellow-creature.s need! the rest of life, for self-control,81 for liberation of the soul !82 this once, the truth! in future, best dismissing jesus with a jest. ah! christ ascends ?83 ascension day? old wonders bear the bell84 away? santos-dumont, though! who can say? 745 750 755 760 765 770 775 780 the reader may hope. summary. reader dismissed to chapel. future plans of poet. jesus dismissed with a jest. the jest. 22 pentecost to-day thrice halves the lunar week since you, indignant, heard me speak indignant. then i seemed to be so fa

dom. crowley dismissed with a jest. 26 the sword of song and sail..the waters wild a-wenting over your child! the left lamenting (campbell).28 the ibis head,29 unsuited to grin, perhaps, yet does its best to show its strong appreciation of the humour of the situation. in short, dismiss me, jeered and hooted, who thought i sported roland.s crest,30 with wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted (as i my jesus) with a jest.31 so here is my tribute.a jolly good strong .un. to the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong .un! it.s fun when you say .a mysterious way32 god moves in to fix up his maskelyne tricks. he trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (like cosmo; and as for his pace, we bethought us achilles could never catch up with that tortoise. no flyer, but very .who.s griffiths* no

atri. is .the soul of osiris. a hymn book? how verse is written. prayer. 36 the sword of song so to the laws all bards obey i bend, and seek in my own way by false things to expound the real. but never think i shall appeal to gods. what folly can compare with such stupidity as prayer? some years ago i thought to try prayer51.tests its efficacity. i fished by a norwegian lake .o god. i prayed .for jesus. sake grant thy poor servant all his wish! for every prayer produce a fish. nine times the prayer went up the spout, and eight times.what a thumping trout (this is the only true fish-story i ever heard.give god the glory) the things seems cruel now, of course. still, it.s a grand case of god.s force! but, modern christians, do you dare with common prudence to compare the efficacity of prayer

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first impressions, 1992. iii (1. detroit: universal publishing company, 1919. also known as the blue equinox. reprinted york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1972, 1993; thame, oxon: first impressions, 1992 and possibly elsewhere. iii (2. never issued. a copy of the page proofs survives in a private collection: a reconstruction is currently (july 2003) said to be in final proofing, to be published as jesus and other papers. iii (3. the equinox of the gods. london: o.t.o, 1936; reprinted tempe: arizona: new falcon, 1991. crowley later identified this volume as part iv of book 4; it was thus included in magick: book 4 parts i-iv. iii (6. liber aleph vel cxi, the book of wisdom or folly. west point, california: thelema, 1962 (ed. karl germer and marcelo motta; corrected reprint with new introduct

LIBER V VEL REGULI

bliss. this is in fact the formula of our magick; we insist that all acts must be equal; that existence asserts the right to exist; that unless evil is a mere term expressing some relation of haphazard hostility between forces equally selfjustified, the universe is as inexplicable and impossible as uncompensated action; that the orgies of bacchus and pan are no less sacramental than the masses of jesus; that the scars of syphilis are sacred and worthy of honour as much as the wounds of the martyrs of mary.12 it should be unnecessary to insist that the above ideas apply only to the absolute. toothache is still painful, and deceit degrading, to a man, relatively to his situation in the world of illusion; he does his will by avoiding them. but the ritual of the mark of the beast 13 the existe

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

ranu teloahe karekareka ois-alamahe lonukaho od vovina karebafe? ave. african proverb. de las cosas mas seguras, mas seguro es duvidar. spanish proverb. tua scienza che vuol, la cosa e piu perfetta. piu senta .l bene, e cosi la doglienza. dante. aaa..z.razazzzaie.zazaeeeiiizaie.z.akh. eoooyth.ezaozaez..zz..zaozakh.za.kheyeit yxaalethykh.this is the name which you must speak in the interior world. jesus christ. mahaparinibbanna sutta. hy is noch visch, noch vleesch: de wyste van ons allen en weet niet wat hy is: hy kan oock licht ontvallen. daniel heinz. dianae sumus in fide puellae et pueri integri dianam pueri integri puellaeque canamus. catullus. tao teh king (hwainan.s v.l) fasterej men fmfi calan selannan y pocruptoisi faennon e.doj nppota plhqoisa malista lampv gan .pi pasan sappho. h

t say. but in the first we came to a mighty throne of grey granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy cat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. it was midnight and the devil came down and sat in the midst; but my fairy prince whispered .hush! it is a great secret, but his name is yeheswah, and he is the saviour of the world. and that was very funny, because the girl next to me thought it was jesus christ, till another fairy prince (my prince.s brother) whispered as he kissed her .hush, tell nobody ever, that is satan, and he is the saviour of the world. we were a very great company, and i can.t tell you all of the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face outwards in a great circle ever closing in on the devil on the throne. but whenever i saw a toad or

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ictorial 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 myth. on the other hand, jews do not recognize jesus christ as the messiah, and the christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; that is, all believe in revealed religions. it is probably safe to say that god (gott in german, yeob in greek, deus in latin, dieu in french, dio in italian( in russian, and so on, yhwh, and allah are very similar if not identical

vel back in time and check the rates of radioactive decay as they may have been thousands or millions of years ago. but then, it is up to the detractors to prove their point. they have not done so. one interesting twist regarding variable rates of radioactive decay has to do with the dating of the shroud of turin (italy. this large piece of cloth is purported to have been used to wrap the body of jesus christ after his crucifixion. not everybody necessarily agreed that the shroud was genuine, regardless of their faith. in a courageous move, the catholic church allowed three independent laboratories to use the carbon-14 dating technique on small samples of the shroud. this particular technique works well with samples of biological origin, such as cloth, if they are not older than about 60,0

ristian creationism: how could god possibly be equated with an incompetent designer? this new attitude is reminiscent of the story developed by the canada-based raelian cult. in it, human beings were created through cloning by extraterrestrials (called elohim) who manufactured human dna. the raelians call themselves scientific creationists and have an exquisite explanation for the virgin birth of jesus christ: mary was artificially inseminated by the elohim aboard one of their spacecraft! needless to say, the raelians support the idea of intelligent design. it would be interesting to know what id theorists think about the raelian interpretation of the world. can a mousetrap evolve? michael behe s most famous and iconic example of irreducible complexity is the familiar mousetrap, which we m

ther than dealing with the passage of cultural information from parents to children, horizontal transmission, as its name indicates, can take place within the same generation. horizontal transmission comes in two varieties: the one-to-many type and the many-to-one type. in the one-to-many mode, a single person, often a charismatic leader, a monarch, or a respected scientist, such as, for example, jesus christ, roman emperor constantine, or darwin, can radically and quickly change the thinking of many. this is how christianity first appeared, through the teachings of jesus christ (surely a type of cultural evolution, and then evolved further through the actions of among others, emperor constantine (who made christianity the official religion of the roman empire, martin luther, and henry vii

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

uch an ascent in de arte kabbalistica;51 another can be found in the hermetica.52 some of these ascents are deeply christian in their character. in de occulta philosophia agrippa. rises through the three worlds, the elemental world, the celestial world, the supercelestial world. where he is in contact with angels, where the trinity is proved. the hebrew names of god are listed, though the name of jesus is now the most powerful of all names."53 viewed with these writings in the background, masonic symbolism certainly seems to reflect these ideas. the first degree on the tree of life the first degree tracing board gives an overview of western metaphysics and of the objectives of masonry. the idiom in which masonry's teaching is communicated in the ritual is the building of king solomon's tem

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphers. 169 freemasonic symbolism the pillars raised by the sons of seth--enoch and the royal arches--the dionysiac architects--the roman collegia--solomon, the personification of universal wisdom- freemasonry's priceless heritage. 173 mystic christianity st. iran us on the life of christ--the original name of jesus--the christened man--the essenes--the arthurian cycle--merlin the mage. 177 the 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

by the ante-nicene church fathers, is derived from the accusations made against them, particularly from the writings of st. iren us. in the third century appeared manich ism, a dualistic system of persian origin, which taught that good and evil were forever contending for universal supremacy. in manich ism, christ is conceived to be the principle of redeeming good in contradistinction to the man jesus, who was viewed as an evil personality. the death of boethius in the sixth century marked the close of the ancient greek school of philosophy. the ninth century saw the rise of the new school of scholasticism, which sought to reconcile philosophy with theology. representative of the main divisions of the scholastic school were the eclecticism of john of salisbury, the mysticism of bernard of

io; the sun, mithras, entering into the side of the bull, slays the celestial creature and nourishes the universe with its blood. click to enlarge the birth of mithras. from montfaucon's antiquities mithras was born out of a rock, which, breaking open, permitted him to emerge. this occurred in the darkness of a subterranean chamber. the church of the nativity at bethlehem confirms the theory that jesus was born in a grotto, or cave. according to dupuis, mithras was put to death by crucifixion and rose again on the third day. next: the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 25 the ancient mysteries and secret societies part two the entire history of christian and pagan gnosticism is shrouded in the deepest mystery and obscurity; for, wh

imed to be the only sect to have actual pictures of the divine syrian. while these were, in all probability, idealistic conceptions of the savior based upon existing sculpturings and paintings of the pagan sun gods, they were all christianity had. to the gnostics, the christ was the personification of nous, the divine mind, and emanated from the higher spiritual ons. he descended into the body of jesus at the baptism and left it again before the crucifixion. the gnostics declared that the christ was not crucified, as this divine nous could not suffer death, but that simon, the cyrenian, offered his life instead and that the nous, by means of its power, caused simon to resemble jesus. iren us makes the following statement concerning the cosmic sacrifice of the christ "when the uncreated, un

s the following statement concerning the cosmic sacrifice of the christ "when the uncreated, unnamed father saw the corruption of mankind, he sent his firstborn, nous, into the world, in the form of christ, for the redemption of all who believe in him, out of the power of those that have fabricated the world (the demiurgus, and his six sons, the planetary genii. he appeared amongst men as the man jesus, and wrought miracles (see king's gnostics and their remains) the gnostics divided humanity into three parts: those who, as savages, worshiped only the visible nature; those who, like the jews, worshiped the demiurgus; and lastly, themselves, or others of a similar cult, including certain sects of christians, who worshiped nous (christ) and the true spiritual light of the higher ons. after t

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ample evidence of that. the name of this particular piece of magic is the sator spell. the words of the charm itself probably derive from the words pater noser and "a. o" standing for alpha and omega, the first and last letters of the greek alphabet. pater noster is the latin for "our father" the first words of the so-called lord's prayer "alpha and omega" is one of the many titles bestowed upon jesus by the early christians, meaning the "first and the last" a reference to his attributed divinity. these words were sometimes formed into an equal-armed cross, which symbol though pagan in origin, as has been already mentioned, became a suitable stock on which to graft the newly arrived cult symbol, the latin or cross of crucifixion. this emblem was then used as a code sign among early conver

using a tellurian incense in your thurible. now, in addition to demagnetizing the ground within the circle, you are going to employ a magical guard at the four quarters. this magical guard, or watch, passed into christian practice through the ages, being transformed into that night spell known as the black pater noster: four nooks in this house for holy angels, a post in the midst, that's christ jesus, lucas, marcus, matthew, johannes, god be in this house, and all that belongs us. or as the god-fearing victorian child knew it: matthew, mark, luke and john, bless this bed that i lie on! the archangels and evangelists here represent the christianized regents of the four elements of the wise: michael and mark of fire; raphael and john, air; gabriel and matthew, water; and last, uriel and lu

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

e four angels: madimiel, bartzachiah, eschiel, and ithuriel written in hebrew around the pentacle. figure 26. the second pentacle of mars. this pentacle serveth with great success against all kinds of diseases, if it be applied unto the afflicted part. editor s note. the letter h, in the angles of the hexagram. within the same the names ihvh, ihshvh yeheshuah (the mystic hebrew name for joshua or jesus, formed of the ordinary ihvh with the letter sh placed therein as emblematical of the spirit, and elohim. around it is the sentence, john i. 4 "in him was life, and the life was the light of man" this may be adduced as an argument of the greater antiquity of the first few mystical verses of the gospel of st. john. figure 27. the third pentacle of mars. it is of great value for exciting war

MEANING OF MASONRY

and that the method of such building is one which involves the cross as its working tool and one which culminates in a death and a raising from the dead. and, of those who attain their initiation and mastership by that method, is it not further written there that they become of the household of god and built into a spiritual temple not made with hands, but eternal and in the heavens and of which "jesus christ is the chief corner stone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple builded for an habitation of god" neither the ancient mysteries nor modern masonry, their descendant, therefore, can be rightly viewed without reference to their relation to the christian evangel, into which the pre-christian schools became assumed. the line of succession and evolut

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

woods rode three men each dressed in black and deathly pale. the leader of the men, who called himself moyset, told pierre that his men would watch over his herd and give unto him a great fortune if he would obey his wishes. pierre agreed and in their next meeting moyset inquired upon pierre's religious beliefs. upon finding that pierre was one who accepted christianity he commanded him to reject jesus christ, the holy virgin and his baptism. burgot then accepted his suggestions and gave an oath by kissing moysets' hand, which was as cold as the hand of a corpse. it was years later when the rider returned and gave burgot an ointment to smear upon himself. this 14 14 act was done along with pierre's friend verdun, who smeared himself with this foul smelling ointment as well. the two became

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

actices by any of the chosen. why, in this case, were mosesand aaron doing the rod and snake trick in front of the pharaoh and his priests?where do the exceptions begin and end? why does jehovah, who commissioned moses to secure the freedom of the chosenpeople, then continually harden pharaohs heart to prevent their easy release? doesthis not smack more of human politics?why is it that we read of jesus experiencing baptism from john? why would the sin-less son of god need to go through a ritual that is reserved for the sinners seekingrepentance and conversion? jesus openly rebuked all public prayer. so why was this made the staple thing in laterchristianity? there is no precedence for celibacy in the bible, so why did this become vogue inchristianity? and what of the character of jesus? we

y are all alike founded on fables andmythology. millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of chris-tianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. what has been the effect of thiscoercion? to make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support rogueryand error all over the earth (thomas jefferson)the clergy converted the simple teachings of jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind andadulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to them-selves..these clergy, in fact, constitute the real anti-christ (thomas jefferson)what influence in fact have christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? inmany instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. in no instance

ng chapters have consigned the whole race to ruin for eating thefruit of one particular tree (p. 335)peoples claiming descent or knowledge of the sky godskachinas (decent from the sun)hopis, utes, toltecs, miztecs, aztecs, quiches, aleutians, creeks, seminoles, mattoles, tepanecas (of columbia)mormonsmikados of japan (decent from the sun)sumerians (sargon the great)semites (moses, isaac, john and jesus, abrahamthe name means father is high)greeks (hesiod theogony, pindar. in plato, the deluge of deucalion)appendix b: book abstracts190atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation chinese (in the pwan-ku, or reign of chaos, states that people lived underground)babylonians and akkadiansindians (indra versus vritra and the battles between the asas and the asuras or gods and demons)russi

tial line was recorded from early times, but that it wasdesignated prestigious in the first place some 6,000 years ago, long before the israelites wrote up thestory (p. 27)nebuchadnezzar ii sacked jerusalem and judah and captured the israelites, destroying the temple of solomon. it was inbabylon about 600 b.c. that the first books of the old testament were compiled. but even as late as thetime of jesus there was no complete book in circulation or existence (see p. 28)first compilationthe first set of amalgamated books to be generally approved as the hebrew bible appeared after the fallof jerusalem to the roman general titus in ad 70, and it was compiled in an endeavor to restore faith injudaism at a time of social turmoil (p. 28)eriduthe most important and sacred of the sumerian cities. th

te strain (p. 224)the ptolemiesin 525 b.c, egypt was conquered by the persians, whose kings were subsequently ousted by alexanderthe greats macedonian army in 332 b.c. this led to the greek dynasty of the ptolemies and queencleopatra vii. her liaison with the roman general mark anthony led to the final withdrawal of thepharaohs, and egypt was subjugated by imperial rome shortly before the time of jesus. at length, theroman empire collapsed, egypt fell to byzantine governors and then, after ad 641, to the sway ofislam (p. 224)the merovingianscarried the grail tradition as it passed into the west officially. these kings had blood ties to the israelitefamilies and, therefore, to the egyptian dynasties.plantagenet erain 1408, at the time of britains plantagenet era, there was the establishment

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ssociated it with the gods. there s hardly a single point on the globe, or in history, whose local population did not associate the gods with serpents and dragons (or the wisdom brought by the gods. in the bible, the serpent is often spoke of as an enemy of god, and in one case the bible refers to satan as that old serpent. even though the whole of the bible identifies the serpent with evil, even jesus was heard saying be as harmless as doves, and as wise as serpents. the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 5 problem with this statement taken literally is that reptiles aren t exactly the geniuses of the animal kingdom; warm-blooded animals are, on the average, more intelligent than reptiles. considering the serpent to be a creature of wisdom is an interesting choice considering that the s

tower to go their separate ways and disperse across the earth. and then there s the savior. a character who, similar to the flood, seems like an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream- yet a pleasant dream this time. the wanderer, the civilizer, the magician, the chosen one, the incarnated god, the sacrificed. he was all of these things. typical of the west, the most famous savior figure is jesus christ. what christians have generally agreed on regarding this savior is: he is the only son of god or was god. he was born from a virgin. he was prophesied to come. he would, in the latter part of his life, travel around with 12 followers [apostles] teaching goodness and performing miracles. he would later die for our sins by being nailed to a wooden cross. his body was placed in a cave an

ption was that of a white man, past middle-age, blue eyes, a long cloak reaching to his knees, and a full, grey beard. in some variations, viracocha was called thunupa, who was killed by a group of jealous conspirators, and whose body was placed on a boat and cast into lake titicaca. instead of drifting away slowly, the boat sailed rapidly out of sight. then you have the egyptian god osiris. like jesus, osiris is associated with goodness and resurrection. he, like virococha, was a civilizer. despite the fact that osiris is not the most ancient of the egyptian gods, he was still proclaimed to be the lord of creation at the moment of his birth. osiris came upon the egyptian people baring gifts of knowledge and love. this civilizer established egypt s first legal code and abolished cannibalis

ir own whom they called oannes. this being was amphibious, but spoke human languages with ease. oannes would emerge out of the water, teaching and giving instruction to humans. he taught people writing, the sciences, the arts, architecture, and agriculture. he is often depicted as a man with the scales of a fish. and lets not forget lone man, the savior figure of the mandan people. lone man, like jesus, was born of a virgin, settled turbulent waters while aboard a boat, and was perfect in all his ways. and finally the god faro from the tales of the people of mali. faro, as stated before, transformed himself into a fish and eventually sacrificed himself to undo the sins of his terrible and evil brother pembe. and faro, like our osiris, was cut into pieces and scattered. i have often wondere

ent waters while aboard a boat, and was perfect in all his ways. and finally the god faro from the tales of the people of mali. faro, as stated before, transformed himself into a fish and eventually sacrificed himself to undo the sins of his terrible and evil brother pembe. and faro, like our osiris, was cut into pieces and scattered. i have often wondered what christians mean when they said that jesus died for our sins, and his death represented a great sacrifice that somehow redeemed my soul. listening to christians explain how that actually works is usually amusing, and always results in an comical, unsatisfactory answer. to live in heaven, spend 33 years on earth, be murdered on a cross, 3 days in the underworld, and back up to heaven for all eternity does not constitute saving my soul

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

th is compared here, again, to sleep. still, as is evident from the preceding chapter, a few persons have drawn upon specific biblical concepts when trying to elucidate or to explain to me what happened to them. for instance, it will be remembered that one man identified the dark enclosure he went through at the moment of death as the biblical "valley of the shadow of death" two persons mentioned jesus' claim "i am the light of the world" apparently, it was at least partly on the basis of that phrase that both identified the light they met as christ. one of them told me "i didn't ever see a person in this light, but to me the light was a christ-consciousness, a oneness with all things, a perfect love. i think that jesus meant it literally when he said he was the light of the world" in addi

6:13-26: at midday, o king, i saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. and when we were all fallen to the earth, i heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the hebrew tongue "said, saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" and i said "who art thou, lord" and he said "i am jesus, whom thou persecutest. but rise, and stand upon thy feet: for i have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in which i will appear unto thee" whereupon, o king agrippa, i was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. and as i thus spake for myself, festus said with a loud voice "paul, thou ar

MORALS AND DOGMA

tfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (iao. she is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her. horus was the _mediator, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle. the word heri, in sanscrit, means _shepherd, as well as _saviour. crishna is called _heri, as jesus called himself the _good shepherd [hebrew _khur, means an aperture of a window, a cave, or the eye. also it means white. in syriac [symbols [hebrew] also means an opening, and noble, free-born, high-born [hebrew, khurm means consecrated, devoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the name of a city[_josh. xix. 38; and of a man[_ezr. ii. 32, x. 31 _neh. iii. 11 [hebrew _khirah, means nobility, a nob

destroying: represented by the mystic character [mystic character: y. the genuine _acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew up around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur: and of it the "crown of thorns" was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs over the threshold* every commonwealth must have its periods of trial and transition, especially if it engages in war. it is certain at some time to be wholly governed by agitators appealing to all the baser eleme

in the country where the essenes lived, professing the same doctrines. he was imprisoned before christ began to preach. matthew mentions him without preface or explanation; as if, apparently, his history was too well known to need any "in those days" he says "came john the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of judea" his disciples frequently fasted; for we find them with the pharisees coming to jesus to inquire why _his_ disciples did not fast as often as they; and he did not denounce _them, as his habit was to denounce the pharisees; but answered them kindly and gently. from his prison, john sent two of his disciples to inquire of christ "art thou he that is to come, or do we look for another" christ referred them to his miracles as an answer; and declared to the people that john was a

them 'have ye received the holy ghost since ye became believers' and they said unto him 'we have not so much as heard that there _is_ any holy ghost' and he said to them 'in what, then, were you baptized' and they said 'in john's baptism' then said paul 'john indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in him who was to come after him, that is, in jesus christ. when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus" this faith, taught by john, and so nearly christianity, could have been nothing but the doctrine of the essenes; and there can be no doubt that john belonged to that sect. the place where he preached, his macerations and frugal diet, the doctrines he taught, all prove it conclusively. there was no other sect to w

nous of platonism and philonism; he that was in the beginning with god, and was god, and by whom everything was made. that he was looked for by all the people of the east is abundantly shown by the gospel of john and the letters of paul; wherein scarcely anything seemed necessary to be said in proof that such a redeemer was to come; but all the energies of the writers are devoted to showing that jesus was that christos whom all the nations were expecting; the "word" the masayah, the anointed or consecrated one. in this degree the great contest between good and evil, in anticipation of the appearance and advent of the word or redeemer is symbolized; and the mysterious esoteric teachings of the essenes and the cabalists. of the practices of the former we gain but glimpses in the ancient wri

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, adad, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, qannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon

red and achieved thereby (see liber 175. certainly: but others have achieved without it, and anyway, once you achieve, why not outgrow the old toys and go on to other things? we take judaism as an example only because the sexual morality preached in the west is essentially old testament stuff it is useless that christians should pretend they are christians when they persist in interpreting their 'jesus' in the same terms that orthodox jews ascribe to a 'good 'rabbi! were we to believe for one moment that the gospels are the biography of an actual, historical, person, we would have to remember that 'jesus' was hated by the jewish priesthood, and was tortured to death through the efforts of the high priest 'jesus' was described as a drunkard, a friend of sinners and a roman sympathizer. he k

oss and the circle. 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. this verse declares that the old formula of magick the osiris-adonis-jesus-marsyas-dionysus- attis-etc. formula of the dying god is no longer efficacious (it never was efficacious; it was merely the least deficient formula possible in the aeon of pisces just past) it rested on the ignorant belief that the sun died every day, and every year, and that its resurrection was a miracle. the formula of the new aeon recognizes horus, the child crowned and conquering, as go

nother star's course "but they are not of me" in one sense, this means that those who identify themselves with either asar or isa can become "stars of her body" only by death be this death initiatic or physical. in another sense, it means that they are of her all the time, since in truth they are not. but as long as your sahashara is not active, for you she does "not" exist. isa is the legendary "jesus, for which canidian concoction the prescription is to be found in my book bearing that title, liber dccclxxxviii. a.c. is unduly harsh with "jesus. this is because at the time of writing the commentaries his personality was still reacting against the brainwashing of his early upbringing. christian worship is not really more repugnant than its parent, attys worship. it is more a matter of cli

with sober sense to support and stress of suffering to spur them. they prove with euler's exactness and hinton's passion that heterosexuality entrains an infinity of ills; jealousy, abortions, diseases, infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution, persecution, idleness, self- indulgence, social stress, over-population, sex-antagonism. they show with poincares's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark anthony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind sampson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

he nave and choir and is maintained by the toicturiers (roofers) of paris.20 there was also a small saint nicolas chapel in the templar church at one time that may have been the seat of a confederation of carpenters. masonry, carpentery, mortar making, stonecutting, plastering, and other trades involved in the construction of buildings would have required a number of patron saints among which are jesus christ, saint blaise, saint nicolas, saint anne, saint thomas, saint john the baptist, and saint john the evangelist. right next to the site of the former church of the temple on the rue saint martin, we find the church of saint nicolas des champs, which is also dedicated to saint john the baptist. a church dedicated to saint nicholas had already been built on this spot at the beginning of t

nity chapel of a confederation of the ascension, which he connects to tailors of religious habits. it may be more likely, however, that this was the seat of a confederation of stonecutters, for the ascension of our lord was depicted on the coat of arms of the association of masons and stonecutters.29 according to a trade legend, it was a stonecutter who unsealed the stone that covered the tomb of jesus and a mason who demolished the rest of it to enable jesus to ascend to heaven.'0 trinity chapel was also the seat of the confederation of the passion and resurrection of our lord, which received patent letters from charles v awarding them the privilege of staging the mystery of the passion and other catholic mystery plays. such performances, which were very popular during the middle ages, of

ster jacques of the companions of duty and the history of the grand master of the templars. the long ironshod cane of the "children of master jacques" so dreadful to the "gavots* would be considered as a souvenir of the templars' terrible lance. others have compared it to the templar cross+ the companions of duty obligatorily professed the catholic faith. a confession of belief in the divinity of jesus christ was required to be accepted into the rites of master jacques or father soubise. it was the companions who gave particular honor to the ascension and the holy savior. the compagnons etrangers du devoir de liberte (the loups+ however, accepted into their ranks men of all nations and creeds. according to agricole perdiguier, in his book on compagnonnage, the compagnons passant [traveling

icates that pope alexander vii (1655-1667) granted one brotherhood of saint joseph to the carpenters, though it is likely that this was actually a confirmation of a brotherhood that was much older in origin. it was installed in the church of saint nicolas des champs, near the temple, a parish where builders were numerous, and its coat of arms was an azure field behind a golden image of the infant jesus holding a compass and measuring a drawing given to him by saint joseph. the livre des confreries also mentions an organization of stonecutters "brotherhood of the ascension of our lord, erected in the parish church of notre dame de bonne nouvelle for the brotherhood of journeymen stonecutters, having then in charge philippe hubert and pierre jouanne in 1663" its coat of arms "was a compass

tion of the southern side of the ancient parisian church saint jacques de la boucherie.8 this same nicholas flamel gave two paintings to this church in 1413, one of which is called an image of a misericorde of our lord, whereas the other depicts the passion and the resurrection.9 it so happens that the coat of arms of the parisian masons and stonecutters depicted the resurrection and ascension of jesus christ. another famous architect and hermetic philosopher from a later time is philibert delorme, the builder of many "dwellings for philosophers" who was "general master of the masonry of the kingdom as well as the king's chaplain.10 it is important to underscore that the immense symbolism, the true thought of the middle ages, was not only the philosophical province of great doctors and sch

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

sing to find that christians, specifically, are cited as the main obstacle hindering the success of this new age-new world order. the reason for this, is the new age belief in many saviors and enlightened teachers, masters and gurus its all good and fine when the goal is the false teaching of man s divinity. the new agers see many ways to salvation; christians proclaim that there is only one way- jesus christ. for the gate is small, and narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it (matt. 7:14) the bible states that this is in reality the broad way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter it (matt. 7:13) therefore, the only religion not compatible with the new age, and hence the coming new world order, is the belief and strict adherence in the word god with tradit

enter it (matt. 7:13) therefore, the only religion not compatible with the new age, and hence the coming new world order, is the belief and strict adherence in the word god with traditional christianity being looked upon as particularly pernicious. in dark secrets of the new age, texe marrs wrote: the new age is a universal open-arms religion that excludes from its ranks only those who believe in jesus christ and a personal god. buddhists, shintoist, satanists, secular humanists, witches, witch doctors and shamans all who reject christianity are invited to become trusted members of the new age family. worshippers of separate faiths and denominations are to be unified in a common purpose: the glorification of man. the guardians of the mysteries freemasonry, by its own accord, practices the

PRELUDE TO THE BLACK ARTS

of your ritual and cry "but you are just as guilty as she" now, if instead of assuming the proper posture and commanding "die, son-of-a-bitch" you instead inquire "i am" then all is lost. you can see the possibilities. so, if you are harboring any guilt about anything, anything at all, crush it under your heel for good or else hustle your bacon back to sunday school where you belong. no cheating! jesus loves you. decided to stay, huh? well, eventually, this "journal" will become your "black book, and in it, you'll keep all sorts of magical information, deals with the devil and the results of your magickal endeavors. even satan keeps one, you should too. it will be especially helpful when your years grow long and your memory grows short. we know of at least one dyslexic satanist who unwitti

f your ceremonial sword, you are almost ready. intent now, the driving force behind magick is the intent behind your purpose. now, you have your purpose, you have your focus, and next you intend to implement those black thoughts of mayhem and destruction. in your mind's eye, you can see the worms eating mary jo's merken as she rubs that nasty thing all over that sweating preacher who is screaming jesus, jesus, jesus to no avail. he can't get away, and the worms are turning into venomous snakes that are biting at his johnson. the flesh is rotting off mary jo, and the preacher's eyes are rolling back in his head. however, there is no one there to see, so you let them roll! will next, the instrument that delivers your intent is your will. now, you bring forth your demon who is worked up and l

th a mighty thrust of your will, you sick him on that accursed pair to feast! your will is all encompassing as it prods your demon in the posterior to attack harder and faster. the temperature rises. through the smoke and flames, the demon is yelling "get off my back" the preacher is gasping, mary jo blows out, and as her cringing soul rises, your will reaches out and snatches it from the arms of jesus and chucks it in your hip pocket. now, the preacher craps out, and as his slippery, eel-like, preacher's soul attempts to escape the festivities, your demon's tongue lashes out like a snake and slurp. then for the finale, the very gates of hell open wide and a whole crew of frothing demons join the feeding frenzy and drag their accursed, unholy prey back into the darkness of hell where they

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

pect its importance. few, however, take time out to apply basic qabalistic and magical principles to elucidate its meaning. so in order to convey some idea of elementary meanings, i have decided to show the student what can be done with these four english letters ln.r.1. they are, of course, the initials of a latin phrase once placed by the romans at the head of the cross representing the phrase "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews" several other theological meanings to these letters have been given at different periods in history by various groups of people and scholars. for example, the medieval alchemists suggested that i.n.r.i. meant "igne natura renovatur integra "the whole of nathre is renewed by fire" another example of about the same period elaborated the four letters to "igne nitr

sis who had searched all over creation for him. as the adept spreads his arms outward from the shoulders forming actively the 14 the golden dawn cross, he says "the sign of osiris slain" then crossing one arm over the other on the chest, he adds "and risen. isis, apophis, osiris, 1.40" thus what started out to be a simple abbreviation of a traditional latin sentence on the cross above the head of jesus, has now evolved by a qabalistic process of exegesis into a complex series of evocative ideas and symbolic gestures which extend tremendously the root idea. and by knowing these ideas, the gestures may be used practically to aspire to the illumination it suggests. this is the essential value of the sacramental actions. the rosicrucian equivalent of this formula is found in the fama fraternat

ersi compendium vivus mihi sepulchrum fen. in themidst were four figures surrounded by the words, nequaquam vacuum. legis jugum. liberfas evangelii. dei gloria intacta. below the altar was found the body of rosenkreuk, intact, and without any signs of putrefaction in his hand was a book of parchment, with golden letters marked on the cover with a t, and at the end was written, ex deo nascimur. in jesus morimur. per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" it was upon this schema and from this original body, to state it briefly, that the hermetic order of the golden dawn claimed direct descent. its history lecture, however, volunteered very few verifiable details as to the historical facts which, from the scholarly point of view, we should be acquainted with-the details for <15> example of the line o

he temptation is the serpent of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil, and not that of the tree of life. here is a method of writing hebrew words by the yetsiratic attribution of the alphabet, whence results some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh,by air, aries, virgo, aries. from yeheshua, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus, which is simply the tetragrammaton with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination-virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries. virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb, fire the fire of the holy spirit, taurus the ox of the earth in whose manger he was laid, and lastly aries the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries

e words as one 94 the golden dawn: volume i book one of them. as he thus traverses the long road to dispassionate self <188> knowled e, and no longer has to waste energy in doing battle for and indu 7 ging wounded feelings in defence of a totally false idea of himself, he is led to meditate on the varied symbols of the cross, and from this to contemplate the crucified one, revealed to the west as jesus of nazareth. this life and the sayings of jesus given in the meditation should be studied and pictured in the mind. the mind must be taught to die to useless churnings over ast things and vain apprehensions about future things. this is difficult !or human phantasies die hard, but once the effort is made, however transient the result, it becomes easier with time to replace wasteful thoughts w

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

rthy brother, on being restored to a more perfect vision you discover before you the altar uponwhich rests the rose upon the cross, commemorative of the spotless life of him whom we believewas the manifested glory of god. behold the initials of that sacred name and title which weretraced in burning letters upon the cross of the redeemer. treasure in your heart the remembrance ofthe word, i.n.r.i, jesus nazarenus rex judeorum. forget not that for 33 years he laboured on earthin meekness and humility, a period which is represented by the 33 lights in the east. the rose, mybrother, alludes to the beauty and grandeur of his resurrection from the dead, and is typical of theeternal glory of the rose of sharon, ego sum rosa sharoni, et lillium convallium. the 5-pointedstar above the east emblemiz

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

nd an initiate of the first order: that he believed in the unity of god and in the 4 the doctrine of transcendental magic universal doctrine of the trinity; that, in a word, he regretted nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and its too gracious images. julian was not a pagan; he was a gnostic allured by the allegories of greek polytheism, who had the misfortune to find the name of jesus christ less sonorous than that of orpheus. the emperor paid in his person for the academical tastes of the philosopher and rhetorician, and after affording himself the spectacle and satisfaction of expiring like epaminondas with the periods of cato, he had in public opinion, by this time fully christianized, but anathemas for his funeral oration and a scornful epithet for his ultimate memori

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

to conquest. it is possible to bind a man but not to make captive the word of god; speech is free, and nothing can repress it. this living introduction 9 speech is the condemnation of the wicked, and hence they seek to destroy it; but it is they only who die, and the word of truth remains to judge their memory! orpheus may have been rent by bacchantes; socrates may have quaffed the poisoned cup; jesus and his apostles have perished in the utmost tortures; john hus, jerome of prague, and innumerable others, have been burned; st. bartholomew and the massacres of september may have had in turn their victims; cossacks, knouts and siberian deserts are still at the disposal of the russian emperor; but the spirit of orpheus, of socrates, of jesus and of all martyrs will live for ever in the mids

truth the nourishment of the soul? thus, the scroll of papyrus, or the book, eaten by the prophet ezekiel; the little volume which the angel gave as food to the author of the apocalypse; the festivities of the magical palace of asgard, to which gangler was invited by har the sublime; the miraculous multiplication of seven loaves narrated of the nazarene by the evangelists; the living bread which jesus-sun gave his disciples to eat, saying, ethis is my body f; and a host of similar stories, are a repetition of the same allegory; the life of souls who are sustained by truth. truth which multiplies without ever diminishing but, on the contrary, increases in the measure that it nourishes. exalted by a noble sentiment of nationality, dazzled by the idea of immense revolution, let a revealer of

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

sort of life, and that nothing moves but what has another animal moving on it, and the secret commonwealth 27 so on, to the utmost minute corpuscle that is capable to be a receptacle of life. 7. they are said to have aristocratic rulers and laws, but no discernible religion, love, or devotion towards god and blessed maker of all. they disappear whenever they hear his name invoked, or the name of jesus, at which all do bow willingly or by constraint that dwell above or beneath [or] within the earth (philip 2: 10) nor can they enact anything at that time, after hearing of that sacred name. the tabhaisder or seer that corresponds with this kind of familiar, can bring them with a spell to appear to himself or [to] others whenever he pleases, as readily as the endor http//www.dreampower.com/ki

a vision and sight as should not, nor could, be told. elisha, also, in his chamber, saw gehazi his servant at a great distance taking a reward from naaman (2 kings 5:26. hence were the [biblical] prophets the secret commonwealth 34 often called seers, or men of second and more exalted sight than others. he [the seer] cites for his purpose also matthew 4:8, where the devil undertakes to give even jesus a sight of all nations and the finest things in the world at one glance, though in their natural situation and station [these are] at a vast distance from one another. and it is said expressly [that is, specifically that] he [the devil] did let him [jesus] see them, not in a map; it seems, nor by a fantastic, magical juggling of the sight which he [the devil] could not impose upon so discern

all nations and the finest things in the world at one glance, though in their natural situation and station [these are] at a vast distance from one another. and it is said expressly [that is, specifically that] he [the devil] did let him [jesus] see them, not in a map; it seems, nor by a fantastic, magical juggling of the sight which he [the devil] could not impose upon so discerning a person [as jesus. it would appear then to have been a sight of real solid substances and things of worth, which intended as a bait for his purpose [of temptation. thus it might seem, comparing this relation of matthew 4:8. with the former [biblical instances cited, that the extraordinary or second sight can be given by the ministry of bad as wed as good spirits, to those that will embrace it. and the instanc

bodies of air condensed and curiously shaped, may be next to man [that is, humankind, superior to him in understanding, yet unconfirmed; and of their region [of] habitation and influences on man, greater than that of the stars upon inanimate bodies. a knowledge reserved for these last atheistic ages, wherein the profanity of men's lives has debauched and blinded their understandings as to moses, jesus, and the prophets, unless they get [such] convictions from things formerly known, as from the regions of the dead. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (7 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) the secret commonwealth 48 nor does the ceasing of the visions, upon the seer's transmigration into foreign kingdoms make his lordship's conjecture of the

k_wbw/pg_40.htm (8 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) correspondent on earth [just] as frequently the report of great actions [battles] has been carried more swiftly to other countries than all the art of us mortals could possibly dispatch it st. augustine [commenting] on mark 9:4, gives no small intimation of this truth, averring that elias appeared with jesus on the mount in his proper body, but moses [appeared] in an aerial body [which he had] assumed [that is, taken on [moses aerial body was] like [those of] the angels who appeared and had the ability to eat with abraham, though no necessity, on the account of their bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular h

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ewhat militant retrenchment by that church. from 1545 to 1563 the council of trent, a catholic church conference, met to resolve questions of dogma. once decided, these dogma were promulgated and enforced with a seriousness not found during the pleasure-loving papacy of the renaissance "if my own father were a heretic" said paul iv "i would burn him" in 1540 ignatius loyola founded the society of jesus (jesuits, characterized by extreme discipline and machiavellian social influence. loyola placed great stress on education, and by the 17th century jesuit-dominated universities were educating virtually all of catholic europe. after 1550 tensions between catholics and protestants had reached the stage of religious warfare, culminating in the terrible thirty years' war between denmark, sweden

egral part of the hermetic science table of contents i. introduction ii. the gnosis as a philosophical hermetism 1. philo, the man and his thought 2. the evidence from hippolytus 3. the old gnostics iii. some basic gnostic methods 1. cosmology 2. anthropology 3. soteriology iv. results of research in gnostic science 1. the myth of pistis sophia 2. the mystery of the first mystery 3. the gnosis of jesus the mystery of the ineffable 4. the degrees of the mysteries 5. the mysteries of mithras 6. the mystic diagrams 7 'inaoca xpiatoa 8. the truth 9. god v. the gnosis as a hermetic science can lead to new-thinking vi. conclusion i. introduction gnosis sounds very much more formidable and technical in english or german than it does in greek. avwaic is "knowledge. gnosis is the original greek ter

reful study of the entire gnostic system. on the basis of my study, i suggest that the following aspects of gnosticism are properly understood if we consider the spirit of scientism to be the basic motif underlying all systems. 1. cosmology the first thing to be stressed is that the gnostics had no place for the conception of a personal god. the gnostics did refer to the living father, to god, to jesus christ as his son. this was strictly borrowed language put to use in their framework. though the gnostics seemed to distinguish between god and the pleroma, in fact they are indistinguishable. the pleroma is the fullness of all things. this idea of the pleroma, according to markus, can only be properly understood when the hermetic literature, which is a combination of greek science and egypt

and the name of god i have not made known unto them- that is to say 'i have not declared the mystery, nor explained who is god, but i kept to myself in secret the mystery which i heard from wisdom' since then the things above (in the pleroma, ogdoad, and hebdomad) had been set right, by the same law of succession the things here (on earth) were to meet with their proper regulation. for this cause jesus, the saviour, was born through mary, that things here might be righted. just as christ was additionally emanated by mind-and-truth for the righting of the sufferings of wisdom- without that is to say the "abortion" so again did the saviour, born through mary, come for the righting of the sufferings of the soul. the above will give the reader some general notion of the cycle of ideas in which

rom above below, and from below above, from the height to the depth, and from the depth to the height, from the length to the breadth, and from the breadth to the length; in a word, he shall have the power of exploring all the regions of the inheritances of light, and he shall have the power of remaining in the region which he shall choose in the inheritance of the light-kingdom" 3. the gnosis of jesus the mystery of the ineffable "that mystery knoweth why there is darkness, and why light" and so on, in the great phrases describing the wisdom of the supreme mystery, who knows the reason of the existence of all things: darkness of darkness and light of light; chaos and the treasure of light; judgment and inheritance of light; punishment of sinners and rest of the righteous; sin and baptisms

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ruct "it's hard to believe" chamcha argued "i've lived here for many years and it never happened before" his words dried up because he saw the manticore looking at him through narrow, distrustful eyes "many years" it asked "how could that be- maybe you're an informer- yes, that's it, a spy" just then a wail came from a far corner of the ward "lemme go" a woman's voice howled "ojesus i want to go. jesus mary i gotta go, lemme go, o god, o jesus god" a very lecherouslooking wolf put its head through saladin's screens and spoke urgently to the manticore "the guards'll be here soon" it hissed "it's her again, glass bertha "glass" saladin began "her skin turned to glass" the manticore explained impatiently, not knowing that he was bringing chamcha's worst dream to life "and the bastards smashed

ight. what it's _like_ is if two people claim they own a house, and one of them is squatting the place, and _then_ the other turns up with the shotgun. that's what it's _like "that's what's really real" jumpy nodded, seriously"_right" she slapped his knee "that's really right, mr. real jam. it's really truly like that. actually. another drink" she leaned over to the tape deck and pushed a button. jesus, jumpy thought _boney m_ give me a break. for all her tough, race--professional attitudes, the lady still had a lot to learn about music. here it came, boomchickaboom. then, without warning, he was crying, provoked into real tears by counterfeit emotion, by a disco-beat imitation of pain. it was the one hundred and thirty-seventh psalm "super flumina. king david calling out across the centur

ke one" saladin chamcha burst into tears. mrs. sufyan, meanwhile, had been horrified by the sight of her younger daughter actually laying hands on the creature, and turning to the gallery of nightgowned residents she waved a soup-ladle at them and pleaded for support "how to tolerate- honour, safety of young girls cannot be assured- that in my own house, such a thing" mishal sufyan lost patience "jesus, mum"_jesus "dju think it's temporary" mishal, turning her back on scandalized hind, inquired of sufyan and jumpy "some sort of possession thing- could we maybe get it you know _exorcized" omens, shinings, ghoulies, nightmares on elm street, stood excitedly in her eyes, and her father, as much the v c r aficionado as any teenager, appeared to consider the possibility seriously "in _der stepp

church" and plunged into an unprepossessing box-like building, seeking more than one kind of sanctuary. inside, however, the pews were full of hyacinths, young and old, hyacinths wearing shapeless blue two--piece suits, false pearls, and little pill--box hats decked out with bits of gauze, hyacinths wearing virginal white nightgowns, every imaginable form of hyacinth, all singing loudly _fix me, jesus; until they saw chamcha, quit their spir- itualling, and commenced to bawl in a most unspiritual manner _satan, the goat, the goat, and suchlike stuff. now it became clear that the hyacinth with whom he'd entered was looking at him with new eyes, just the way he'd looked at her in the street; that she, too, had started seeing something that made her feel pretty sick; and when he saw the disg

in a state of some agitation- hunting, in fact, for pamela, from whom he had become separated during the same rush of singing dickensians which had pushed saladin towards the metropolitan breasts of the young woman in the curiosity shop "talk of the devil" saladin pointed "there the bastard goes" he turned towards gibreel: but gibreel had gone. allie cone reappeared, angry, frantic "where is he? jesus! can't i even leave him for a fucking _second_ couldn't you have kept your sodding _eyes_ on him "why, what's the matter" but now allie had plunged into the crowd, so that when chamcha saw gibreel crossing "southwark bridge" she was out of earshot- and here was pamela, demanding "have you seen jumpy- and he pointed "that way" whereupon she, too, vanished without a word of courtesy; and now j

SATANGEL

e symbolic tradition that obscures the sexual elements of goetic sorceries. instructions to 'sacrifice children' may in fact be instruction to the magical use of non-procreative sex, classically either masturbatory, homosexual, or during the menstrual cycle of the sorceress. although these are perversions of catholic iconography, they are not inversions in the sense of satanism. the power of god, jesus, the virgin mary, the archangels, thrones, dominations, powers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists are called upon to bully the demonic forces into submission to the will of the summoner. the danger of the heresy here is that it is not seen as at all incongruous that a holy man might also be conversing with the powers of darkness, even if it is to subordinate them. the book of ab

ed who might otherwise be unbalanced by the experience and drawn into insanity. their chief is cama-el, he who sees god, who exemplifies the nature of the powers in that he may be considered as benign and malign, and yet gains the favour of god. as kemu-el, he acts as mediator between the prayers of israel and the hierarchs of the seventh heaven. as chamuel, he wrestled with jacob and appeared to jesus in the garden of gethsemane. it was also cama-el who was blasted by moses when he attempted to prevent moses from receiving the torah from god. he is said to command 144,000 angels of destruction, punishment, vengeance and death. cama-el is also identified in the goetia as a duke of hell. the third circle lowest triad the third triad of principalities is rooted in the first heaven and its bo

rything hereinafter laid down must be described in an accurate manner. you must begin by forming a circle with strips of kid s skin, fastened to the ground by means of your four nails. then with the stone called ematille you must trace the triangle within the circle, beginning at the eastern point. a large a, a small e, a small a, a small j must be drawn in like manner, as also the sacred name of jesus between the two crosses. by this means the spirits will have no power to harm you from behind. the warlock and his assistants may then fearlessly proceed to their places within the triangle, and, regardless of any noises, may set the two candlesticks and the two vervain crowns on the right and left sides of the triangle within the circle. this being done, the two candles may be lighted, taki

th exorcised water; then commence to conjure the spirits until they shall come. this is the manner of making sacrifices in all arts and operations wherein it is necessary, and acting thus, the spirits will be prompt to serve thee (the key of solomon. the method of honorius after the consecration of the emblems, the magician shall recite the following prayers, kneeling. prayer my sovereign saviour jesus christ, son of the living god, thou who for the salvation of man didst suffer the death of the cross; thou who before being abandoned to thine enemies, by an impulse of ineffable love, didst institute the sacrament of thy body; thou who has vouchsafed to unworthy creatures the privilege of making daily commemoration thereof; do deign unto thy servant, thus holding thy living body in his hand

f the four corners the signs which follow must be drawn with the thumb; on this day the warlock may drink no wine, and will also abstain from eating meat. on tuesday, at the break of day, let him place the feather, taken from the bird, upon the altar together with a new knife. the signs hereafter represented must be inscribed on a sheet of virgin parchment or paper with wine which is the blood of jesus christ: they should be written upon the altar, and, at the end of the sacrifice, the paper should be folded in a new veil of violet silk, to be concealed on the morrow, together with the oblation of the sacrifice and a part of the consecrated host. on the evening of thursday the warlock must rise at midnight and, having sprinkled holy water about the chamber, he must light a taper of yellow

SATANIC BIBLE

sy" in a circle; burn candles of various colors for various wishes; call out the names of "father, son and holy ghost" while supposedly practicing black arts; pick a "saint" for their personal guide in obtaining help for their problems; dunk themselves in smelly oils and hope the money comes in; meditate so they can arrive at a "great spiritual awakening; recite long incantations with the name of jesus thrown in for good measure, between every few words, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam! because- this is not the way to practice satanic magic. if you cannot divorce yourself from hypocritical self-deceit, you will never be successful as a magician, much less a satanist. the satanic religion has not merely lifted the coin- it has flipped it completely over. therefore, why should it support the very

SATANIC RITUALS

rappe-les nouveau, seigneur de lumi re, pour faire trembler d'horreur ses anges, ses ch rubins et ses s raphins, qui se prosterneront devant toi et respecteront ton pouvoir. fais que s' croulent les portes du paradis, pour venger le meurtre de nos anc tres! thou, thou whom, in my capacity of priest, i force, whether thou wilt or no, to descend into this host, to incarnate thyself into this bread, jesus, artisan of hoaxes, bandit of homages, robber of affection-hear! since the day when thou didst issue from the complaisant bowels of a false virgin, thou hast failed all thy engagements, belied all thy promises. centuries have wept awaiting thee, fugitive god, mute god! thou wast to redeem man and thou hast not; thou wast to appear in thy glory, and thou steepest. go, lie, say to the wretch w

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and utopian creationism vs. established doctrine is attributable to xianity. so pervasive is the desire to know and experience heaven that the xian hierarchy provides and violates some of its religion s basic tenets: you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything you shall now bow down to them or worship them yet they create and adorn themselves with images of their dead messiah jesus the man xians have replaced god with; he has in fact, become the object of supreme xian worship and adoration. they continue to crate facsimiles of heaven and its long-dead human sovereignty; their church buildings are commonly known as houses of god, kingdom halls, etc. xian god creationism personified/externalized: images of a holy hierarchy displayed within a man-made heaven. though clear

nd the proper way to worship his mythological god. thus he continues to employ true xian creationism, violating inapplicable commandments supposedly mandated by his creation the false and imperceptible god. truly, genesis story of creation actually began when the first church, or man-made house of god was established (beginning with moses and the hebrew tradition in the thirteenth century bc; and jesus and xianity in the first century ad, thus ushering in the curse: the actual fall of man the wholesale loss of human integrity, freedom of thought and worship, and inherent strength; generations forever cursed by the xian castration of instinctual harmony thru tyranny and mandated blind faith -7- the following criticisms are based upon historical records, biblical examples of ignorance, media

the wholesale loss of human integrity, freedom of thought and worship, and inherent strength; generations forever cursed by the xian castration of instinctual harmony thru tyranny and mandated blind faith -7- the following criticisms are based upon historical records, biblical examples of ignorance, media accounts, experiences from others and generalized antichristian sentiment. the xian critique jesus is the destroyer of individuality, pride, creativity, happiness, strength ad infinitum. an example of jesus na vet: epilepsy is demonic possession. requirements for the successful performance of miracles: a showman with prestige and an ignorant audience who believes. to consider oneself inferior to a god that doesn t exist is the most outrageous blasphemy ever perpetrated by man against both

. requirements for the successful performance of miracles: a showman with prestige and an ignorant audience who believes. to consider oneself inferior to a god that doesn t exist is the most outrageous blasphemy ever perpetrated by man against both his heritage and nature. xian modus operandi: sheer madness and sanity have transposed each other within the mind and perception of man. xians worship jesus instead of applying and living his disgusting teachings. where is the proof that god has ever given anything to this world? where is the evidence that god loves his children? instead of answers, we were graced with a religious abortion named jesus. there can be no true happiness in a world ruled by xian ideals because all that creates man s happiness would be prohibited or restricted. the ex

ruled by xian ideals because all that creates man s happiness would be prohibited or restricted. the existence and survival of god depends upon belief. the existence and survival of man depends upon truth and realism. obviously the whole intent of the xian religion is compliance based on fear: if you don t worship their god and become moral you will perish. xians are eaters of flesh and blood of jesus; a representation of the feast of cannibals. xian clergymen is sexual deviance a consequence of chastity? apparently so. devils and demons exist to xians they are hypocrisy, weakness, guilt, ignorance devils and demons exist to the satanist they are pride, selfishness, strength, creativity to be a xian is to be doomed to have never lived. god s commandment states you shall not kill. contrary

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

nd and then the ritual was concluded with an orgy. some of the more sensationalist accounts of satanic initiations have added to the early satanic tradition mentioned above as also including the ritua lslaughter of a virgin, usually female, or of a baby or young child and the drinking of a concoction of urine, sperm and/or vaginal fluid and blood whilst the participants blasphemed against god and jesus christ. from a moral perspective there is little, or often, no attempt to apologise for such cases from any satanic quarter. here one comes across the satanic morality, or amorality where what is traditionally accepted by society is not by satanism. it is by going against the accepted norm that the satanist finds the freedom within, by going to extremes of emotion, thought and action the sat

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

99 bce life span of the greek philosopher socrates. c. 428 348 bce life span of the greek philosopher plato. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. c. third century bce period in which the major text of daoism, the dao de jing, is likely written. c. 273 c. 232 bce the emperor ashoka of maurya, in present-day india, begins to spread buddhism beyond the borders of india. c. 6 bce jesus of nazareth, also known as jesus christ, is born. c. 30 ce jesus christ is put to death by crucifixion by roman authorities in jerusalem. 70 ce roman troops crush the great revolt by occupying jerusalem, massacring jews, and destroying the second temple. 142 revelations given to the holy man zhang daoling (also spelled chang tao-ling, who becomes the first of the great celestial masters in d

anets and stars in relation to one another in order to predict future events. ataraxia: serenity, tranquility, or peace of mind. atheism: a disbelief in the existence of god or a belief that there is no god. atomism: the belief that matter is composed of simple, indivisible, physical particles that are too tiny to be observed by human beings. atonement: in christianity, the sacrifice and death of jesus to redeem humankind from its sins. aum: often spelled om, the sacred syllable and symbol of hinduism; a symbol of the unknowable nature of brahma. avesta: the chief sacred scripture of zoroastrianism. xvi world religions: almanac words to know baptism: a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. bar mitzvah: the jewish comin

e. de: political power that is the result of a ruler s virtue and honesty. deity: a god or goddess. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. diaspora: the scattering of the jews throughout the world. digambara: literally sky-clad; one of the two major sects of jainism. disciple: a person who accepts and assists in spreading the teachings of a leader. in the bible, a follower of jesus. doctrine: a set of ideas held by a religious group. druidism: a neo-pagan religion based in the celtic region of the british isles. dynasty: a sequence of rulers from the same family. xviii world religions: almanac words to know eightfold path: the path of the buddha s teachings that can lead to the end of suffering. ek onkar: the true god of sikhism. emanation: that which inevitably flows

al, equinox occurs generally on march 21 and the autumn equinox occurs on or about september 23. esbat: wiccan celebration of the full moon. ethics: the study of moral values and rules or a guide to such values and rules. etiquette: proper behavior; good manners. evangelical: describing a protestant group that emphasizes the absolute authority of the bible and forgiveness of sin through belief in jesus. excommunicate: to exclude or officially ban a person from a church or other religious community. faith: belief and trust in god, accompanied by a sense of loyalty to the traditional doctrines, or principles, of religion. faravahar: a 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. fitra

gime in germany before and during world war ii (1939 45. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. idol: a statue or other image that is worshipped as a god. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence of the world from winter. immaculate conception: the principle of the roman catholic church that mary, the mother of jesus, was conceived with a soul free from original sin. incarnation: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus, making jesus fully human and fully divine. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

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

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

he primum mobile. 40. the empyrean heaven. fifih order: the angelic world 41. ishim--sons of fire. 42. auphanim--cherubim. 43. aralim--thrones. 44. chashmalim--dominions. 45. seraphim--virtues. 46. malakim--powers. 47. elohim--principalities. 48. beni elohim--angels. 49. cherubim--arch-angels. sixth order: the archetype 50. god. ain suph. he whom no mortal eye bath seen, and who has been known to jesus the messiah alone. note--the angels of the fifth or angelic world are arranged in very different order by various kabalistic rabbis. the thirty-two paths of wisdom translated from the hebrew text of joannes stephanus rittangelius, 1642: which is also to be found in the "oedipus aegyptiacus" of athanasius kircher, 1653 (these paragraphs are very obscure in meaning, and the hebrew text is prob

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

art" he then says "that this cult came to be actually codified is attested by the existence of egyptian figurines of the god seth c" after having given a short description of these figurines, doresse concludes "there is no doubt about the identification of the god worshipped in this guise, as one of the great figures of gnosticism: the pedestal is engraved with the name aberamentho, which denoted jesus (p. 105. finally, in order "to show what relations already existed between gnosticism and the more confused magical literature in which this fantastic demon appears, doresse refers to an incantation known as the stele of jeou the painter, where the headless god, akephalos, is said to be osiris- onnophris, i.e "osiris the beautiful being. among his names, doresse counts "arbathiao, seth, iao

n this connection. firstly, typhon in the spell contained in pgm iv.154-285 is not equated with seth, adam's son; in fact, the name of seth does not occur in the spell. secondly, the two prayers "in which adam plays the leading part" mention neither egyptian seth nor jewish seth.8 the "existence of egyptian figurines of the god seth" carrying the name of aberamentho, a name which also is given to jesus in one gnostic work, does not pertain to the jewish figure of seth. it will be dealt with in the second part of the paper. the so-called stele of jeou the hieroglyphist,9 however, must be discussed in the present part. the papyrus certainly shows jewish influence. in the osiris aretalogy at the beginning, the author claims to be moses, and the true name of the headless god, osoronnophris "os

d as representations of seth- typhon.16 the question for us, however, is whether the coptic magical text cited above witnesses to a welding of seth-typhon and christ. iao, a greek form of the name of the biblical god, yahweh (above, arbathiao, is associated and even equated with many deities in the magical texts. the conjuration in pgm iv.3019-3024 begins "i conjure you by the god of the hebrews, jesus, iaba iae c" just before the conjuration, we are informed that the phylactery should include, inter alia, the names, iaeo, iao, iaeo. it is clear that jesus is here identified with the jewish god, whose proper name is rendered by various greek forms.17 from the coptic gnostic texts, we also know that seth, adam's son, and christ could be identified.18 the same identification appears to be 12

erkelbach, abrasax iii, abh. rhein.-westf. ak, pap. coloniensia xvii.3 (opladen 1992) 44, 19f, 214 (gg. for a picture of seth as ass, see, e.g, suppl. mag. ii.69. 15 see procope-walter "iao und set, archiv fur religionswissenschaft 30 (1933) 64-65. he does not discuss pgm iv.1331-1389. 16 see "iao und seth" 34-48. pearson did not note this text. 17 there is no need to regard the identification of jesus as "the god of the hebrews" as due to a later hand. in certain quarters, jesus was regarded as the biblical maleak yahweh, the yahweh angel, who is often indistinguishable from god himself. already in jude 5, jesus is seen as the angel of yahweh who led the people out of egypt; see j. fossum "kyrios jesus as the angel of the lord in jude 5-7, new testament studies 33 (1987) 226-243. this is

4 w.c. crum, catalogue of the coptic manuscripts in the british museum (london 1905) 147. seth in the magical texts 91 we have still to discuss doresse's reference to the existence of certain egyptian figurines of seth as evidence for a welding of seth-typhon and christ. doresse in actual fact cited only one bronze statue bearing the inscription, aberamentho.25 this name also appears as a name of jesus in a formula-like phrase repeated three times in the untitled treatise (book iv) at the end of codex askewianus "jesus who is aberamentho (chs. 136, 139, 141).26 noting that aberamentho is a name of seth-typhon in a spell in the demotic leiden papyrus, and that the same spell also calls him by the name of ereshkigal, the sumerian goddess of the underworld,27 f.c. burkitt proposed that jesus'

SOLOMON

then he once more shook up a dust, and answered me "what wouldst thou have, king solomon" i answered him "tell me what thou art called, and i would fain ask thee a question. but so far i give thanks to god who has made me wise to answer their evil plots [1. so luke xxii. 51. 2. for the use of spittle to produce a cure or other effect in a magical way, cp. mark vii. 33 and viii. 23. in john ix. 6, jesus, we read "spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes with the clay" of this magic use of spittle pliny, in his natural history, gives numerous examples. it was common in antiquity] 33. but [the demon] answered me "i am the spirit of the ashes (tephras" and i said to him "what is thy pursuit" and he said "i bring darkness on men, and set fire to fields; and i brin

for i have no work other than the destruction of children, and the making their ears to be deaf, and the working of evil to their eyes, and the binding their mouths with a bond, and the ruin of their minds, and paining of their bodies [1. the sophia, identified by philo and the early fathers with the logos, is supposed to have entered into and taken possession of solomon as it afterwards did with jesus. 2. stamatihu, an unknown verb. 3. xalep n] 59. when i solomon heard this, i marvelled at her appearance, for i beheld all her body to be in darkness. but her glance was altogether bright and greeny, and her hair was tossed wildly like a dragon's; and the whole of her limbs were invisible. and her voice was very clear as it came to me. and i cunningly said "tell me by what angel thou art fru

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

this deity has been concealed behind an elaborate system of veiled allegories and secret symbols. followers of this pseudomystical, humanistic, occult system of beliefs affirm, without proof, that it is based on an unbroken oral tradition handed down from an ancient priesthood in egypt. the cult projects a minimum belief in a god which totally excludes god, the divine redeemer, and which rejects jesus christ, the son of god. its leaders tell its initiates that the doctrine of the cull is based on a hidden master religion in which all men can agree because it is founded on pre-christian, pagan models that appear not to be in conflict with reputable faiths. this offspring of the ancient idolatrous mystery cults has existed in america for centuries, but its leaders have never dared to admit

upposed"'to have been. placed at one time within the foundations of the temple of solomon, and afterwards, during the building of the second temple, transported to the holy of holies. it was in the form of a perfect cube, and had inscribed upon its upper face, within a delta or triangle, the sacred tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of god -13- in a "scurrilous book of the middle ages. the life of jesus" there waa another account of the stone''at that time there was in the temple the ineffable name of god, inscribed upon the stone of foundation" this scandalous book proceeded to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles [cf.*mark 3:22. there waa a very general p

ed stone, the sure foundation, but also that stone which the builders rejected" but what, really, in the christian meaning, is the cornerstone? isaias said (isa. 28, verse 16 "therefore thus saith the lord god: behold i will lay a stone in the foundations of sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. he that believeth, let him not hasten" the corner stone is jesus christ "the stone which the builders rejected (cf. ps. 118, 22; mt. 21, 42ff; acts 4,11; romans 9, 33; eph. 2, 20; 1 pe. 2, 6ff) one need go no further than the inner entrance of the meditation room to see concrete evidence of the godlessness of the u.n. the "stone" the metal altar, in its stark setting in that room is in itself a symbol of idolatry "stone worship was perhaps the earliest fo

at thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity -30- humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. grant our supplication, we beseech thee, through jesus christ our lord. amen [emphasis supplied] washington's prayer was adapted from his circular letter to the governors; its use of the phrase "our blessed religion" reflected in unmistakable terms washington's conviction that the united stales was a christian nation. a very early drawing in columbian magazine29 of the coat of arms shows the constellation of five-pointed stars scattered over the

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

the uniqueness 1. important landmarks in the development of his ideas are in particular his lectures on the gospels: the gospel of st. john (two cycles, 1908 1909, anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1962; the gospel of st. luke (1909, anthroposophic press, 1988; the gospel of st. matthew (1910, anthroposophic press, 1985; and the gospel of st. mark (1910 1911, anthroposophic press, 1986; also from jesus to christ (1911, rudolf steiner press, london, 1991; building stones for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha (1917, rudolf steiner press, 1985. see also the bibliographical suggestions at the end of this book. x christianity as mystical fact of christianity which resulted from researches in comparative religion, the rediscovery in the west of buddhism, hinduism, and so on. it is a gr

extra-biblical ideas, expectations, and hopes. scholarship had turned up parallels to the redeemer s life and death in eastern religions, and in the paganism contemporary with christian origins. was christ perhaps just another dying-and-rising god such as adonis or attis, or the others surveyed in james frazer s monumental study, the golden bough? not at all, declared others, hastily dissociating jesus from anything of the sort by turning him into the simple man of nazareth, an image equally inappropriate as an interpretation of the new testament sources. closer to our own day, these issues have been sharpened still further by the discovery of essene and gnostic texts from the early christian time and milieu. in many of these, too, christ (or the messiah of the dead sea scrolls) seems ofte

s often to be a cosmic figure rather than a historical individual. despite all the interest in them, desperate special pleading has frequently been the introduction xi response today also. this reflects a desire to keep treasured items of belief safe from the restless questioning of the modern world, even at the cost of a debilitating split between head and heart. if early christian texts present jesus in cosmic terms, relating stories that are less history than myths like those about the pagan savior-gods, or like the apocalyptic figures anticipated by the essenes, these must be seen as unfortunate vestiges in the christian message of former superstitious and unrealistic times. the response of christian theologians must be to demythologize christianity a program relentlessly pursued by bu

f an initiate has a typical character, which can be described without reference to the particular personality concerned. to put it another way: an individual could be described as treading the path to divinization only after having undergone the particular typical experiences of an initiate. 92 christianity as mystical fact one example is the buddha as seen by his disciples, and as such a one did jesus first appear in his own society. we know today of the parallelism between the biographies of the buddha and jesus. one has only to observe the detailed correspondences between them to realize that any attempt at denial would be vain.91 there is an annunciation of buddha s birth to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and

riendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddha. they interpret maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of what a buddha is: the individual s life must correspond to this concept exactly. similarly we find in the gospel of matthew that herod: called together all the people s chief pries

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

s legal council of the sacred rota of the vatican state. 5-6-43# 1965 "pavi" pappalardo, salvatore. cardinal. archbishop of palermo, sicily. 4-15-68# 234-07 "salpa" pasqualetti, gottardo. 6-15-60# 4-231 "copa" pasquinelli, dante. council of nunzio of madrid. 1-12-69# 32-124 "pada" pellegrino, michele. cardinal. called "protector of the church, archbishop of torino (turin, where the holy shroud of jesus is kept. 5-2-60# 352-36 "palmi" piana, giannino. 9-2-70# 314-52 "gipi" pimpo, mario. vicar of office of general affairs. 3-15-70# 793-43 "pima" pinto, monsignor pio vito. attache of secretary of state and notare of second section of supreme tribunal and of apostolic signature. 4-2-70# 3317-42 "pipivi" poletti, ugo. cardinal. vicar of s.s. diocese of rome. controls clergy of rome since 3- 6-7

cient rome, crete, and babylon. but look what happened to the original practitioners! their rules ended, and god brought those rulers filled with pride to dust. i know that this is the end of the illuminati and any other occult groups as well; god has given us a wonderful glimpse in daniel of their eventual fate "there is only one rule, one kingdom that will last forever, and that is the reign of jesus. his reign has already begun in his church, and this gives me hope and joy, and takes away the fear of what the occult "planners" can do. i've placed my bet on the winning side, and moved from darkness to his kingdom" born into the illuminati, a friend fears for svali's safety as she has come up missing after going public with details of her lifelong experience in the illuminati, including c

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

t into a higher level of consciousness. this required introspection- perhaps best understood as a conscious retraction inward to one's self- is optimized into consciousness as a revelation that results in an extension beyond the self. what i mean by saying that the result is an extension is that there is a result created from this activity of introspection. this result can be as simple as finding jesus to in depth levels of philosophical inquiry, and in some cases a unique revelation that changes the way we may perceive an aspect of reality altogether. so, the second step into resonance is the manifestation of this creation which reflects that awakening- an externalization of what was inwardly found. it is a personal statement that has to be thrust into the fabric of conscious life. it is

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

anda encountered on every side, they cannot any longer decipher reality. the majority are caught in some form of psychological matrix. tragically, hundreds of millions of people have, in a manner of speaking, become "manchurian candidates" they eat, breathe, move, and sleep as if in a trance. immobile, unable to react, afflicted with amnesia, they are like pontius pilate who, when confronted with jesus christ standing right in front of him, the very essence of unmovable truth, asked christ the question "what is truth" well, here, in codex magica, in over 600 incredible pages, is truth. here you will see pictures of many of the foremost movers and shakers of human history, ancient and modern, as they secretly communicate through sign and symbol. naturally, the elite do not relish being expo

sness. in this state. man is no longer worshipping god, asking things of god, trying to become like god. he knows that he is god..he is.23 they hate without a cause here, then, we find an arrogant expression of hubris, pride, and, most of all, rebellion. rebellion against god, against his truth, and against his people. the illuminati are revolutionaries. their revolt has no rational cause. christ jesus noted "they hate me without a cause" the illuminist strives for liberty and fulfillment of selfinterest and will apart from god and his will. that is why this brotherhood of evildoers are rebels, opposers of good, colluders with any and all forms of apostasy. the propensity of the illuminati to engage in rebellion, against god, country, and even organized civilization itself is evidenced in

s not matter to the devil which hand is used! the left hand is ever considered the sinister hand. it is associated with words like diabolical, witchlike, clever, deceptive, sly, cunning, evil, wrong, backward, and perverse. the evil eye is said to be the left eye. some early christians (for example, the writer of the apocryphic gospel of nicodemus) taught that of the two thieves crucified next to jesus, the one at his left side an odd, old drawing of a priest with hands in prayer, but aimed downwards toward satan! concealed messages: the importance of hand signs d 49 at left: josephine bonaparte's palm from mlle le normand's les memoires historiques et secrets de l'lmperatrice josephine, paris, 1827. at right: the sabazios hand. bronze symbol of the syncretic jewish mystery cult of sabazio

messages: the importance of hand signs d 49 at left: josephine bonaparte's palm from mlle le normand's les memoires historiques et secrets de l'lmperatrice josephine, paris, 1827. at right: the sabazios hand. bronze symbol of the syncretic jewish mystery cult of sabazios in asia minor. circa first century, c.e (collection of the british museum) rejected truth and was consigned to hell. in heaven, jesus, of course, is believed to sit at the right hand of god, not the left. in ecclesiastes, a book of the old testament in the bible, it is said that "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left (eccles. 10:2) witches throughout history have danced in ritual circles to the left, that is, counterclockwise. druid priests do likewise as they dance and march around the

cly discuss that name, jahbuhlun. anything but that. bamm! he's gone. and i can understand why. ed decker, a friend of mine, a good christian who is an ex-mason and ex- mormon, now heads up a christian ministry aimed at helping men get out of these cults. in a book that ed edited, entitled, the dark side of freemasonry, he writes that while christians know full well that the sacred name of god is jesus, the mason is at first denied knowledge of the sacred name of their god and then belatedly finds out that the name of the mason deity is definitely not jesus, the name above every other name (philippians 2:9-11. the lost name of god the blue lodge masons, encompassing the first three degrees of masonry, are instructed that they are seeking the lost word or the lost name of god..it isn't unti

THAGIRION

agirion is the central qlipha on ilan hizon-the outer tree, or the tree of knowledge. this qlipha is the shadow side of tiphereth on the tree of life. both are spheres of the child or the offspring and tiphereth is associated with christ and messiah characters while thagirion is associated with the anti-christ and the beast 666. the first mentioned characters are preaching salvation through them( jesus proclaims in the bible that he is the only way to salvation, something that is questioned by the other characters who are pointing out the possibility for each man to save himself. both spheres are associated with human characters who are thought to manifest this level on a collective human level. bodhisattvas, secret masters or prophets. since this is the central level some characters are t

THE BLACK LODGE

the black lodge goes about its work. the black lodge creates false initiatic movements or they stimulate faith in false masters. at the present time, all organized religions of the old aeon fall into the category of demonic influence. as it is written, liber 418, 6th aethyr..and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attain unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood (that is, except unto such as had the potential of becoming masters of the temple; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the t

t which represents the qlipoth, or false reflection, of the unity, the crown, kether. this is the first of the demonic reflections, representing division, or duality. please notice that manifested existence would be impossible without this; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world "and satan is worshiped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshiped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshiped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshiped by men under the name of buddha (see al iii 48-56 "moreover, there is mary (the reflex, in the qliphoth of malkuth, of our lady babalon, the guardian of the abyss. she is the scarlet woman who rides the beast, and her cup of abominations is the holy gr

s under their influence; the perpetuation of personal servitude. you have complete freedom under them, until you try to be different. then, they jump o you with both feet, or more. for this, and other reasons, it is written in al ii 48 "i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler" and also, al ii 7" come unto me is a foolish word: for it is i that go" perhaps ths reminds you of the words of "jesus (in truth, a section of the talmud, adapted to roman mentality "come unto me, ye who suffer, and ye shall be consoled? and also al ii 8 "who worshiped heru-pa-kraath have worshiped me; ill, for i am the worshiper" heru-pa-kraath, the babe on the lotus, represents the eternal child, that is, the spiritual seed of our species; he is identical to hadit. it is foolish to worship this child. we a

apted to roman mentality "come unto me, ye who suffer, and ye shall be consoled? and also al ii 8 "who worshiped heru-pa-kraath have worshiped me; ill, for i am the worshiper" heru-pa-kraath, the babe on the lotus, represents the eternal child, that is, the spiritual seed of our species; he is identical to hadit. it is foolish to worship this child. we are this child. the child hoor and the child jesus are the same child, and this symbol of the eternal child is thousands of years older than christianity. it already existed in china and india when the jews had not yet become organized as a cultural group. we already said that the false masters and the false initiatic organizations offer candidates every possible advantage but one: the true initiation; what is true initiation? it is that whi

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hemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other

ortedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflectio

eath and rebirth is to live a contemplative, religious life: men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth lie like wornout bows, sighing after the past (dhammapada 155:56) the counsel of the buddha is quite similar to the words of jesus in matthew 6:19 21 when he admonished those who would follow him not to expend their energies accumulating treasures on earth where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourself treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. t h e g a l e e n

of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. rosten, leo, ed. religions of america. new york: simon& schuster, 1975. 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. christianity the core of the christian faith is the belief in the resurrection of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) after his death on the cross and the promise of life everlasting to all who accept his divinity and believe in him. because christianity rose out of judaism, the teachings of jesus as recorded in the gospels reflect many of the jewish beliefs of the soul and the afterlife, primarily that a reunion of body and soul will be accomplished in the next world. the accounts o

. 30 c.e) after his death on the cross and the promise of life everlasting to all who accept his divinity and believe in him. because christianity rose out of judaism, the teachings of jesus as recorded in the gospels reflect many of the jewish beliefs of the soul and the afterlife, primarily that a reunion of body and soul will be accomplished in the next world. the accounts of the appearance of jesus to his apostles after his resurrection show how completely they believed that they beheld him in the flesh, even to the extreme of the skeptical thomas placing his fingertips into the still-open wounds of the crucifixion. a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that i have, jesus told them. then, to prove his physicality still further, he asks if they have anything for him to eat

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hemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other

ortedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflectio

neighbor and closest friend. johnson accompanied his friend to the cabin that evening. the tale that bell told was an incredible one, but johnson knew that his neighbor was not given to flights of fancy. while he watched at betsy s bedside that night, johnson saw the young girl receive several blows on the cheeks from an invisible antagonist. he adjured the spirit to stop in the name of the lord jesus christ, and there was no activity from the ghost for several minutes, but then betsy s hair received a yank that brought a cry of pain from her lips. again johnson adjured the evil spirit, and it released the girl s hair. johnson concluded that the spirit understood the human language and that betsy was the center of the haunting. he met with other neighbors, and they decided to help the bel

illed interpretation. jacob had a dream of a ladder set up on earth, the top of it reaching to heaven. he beheld in this dream angels of god ascending and descending on the ladder with the lord standing above it, confirming the covenant of abraham to jacob (genesis 28:12. king solomon received both wisdom and warning in dreams (i kings 3:5, 9:2. the new testament accounts surrounding the birth of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) record a number of revelatory dreams. joseph was instructed to wed mary and was assured of her purity (matthew 1:20, in spite of the apparent fact that she was already pregnant. later, joseph was warned to flee to egypt (matthew 2:13, return to israel (2:19) and to go to galilee (2:22. the magi (the three wise men) were warned in a dream not to return to their native

one mechanism or three or four. morris stated that he is convinced that esp is presently above and beyond what present- day science could account for, but he remains confident that future scientists will one day figure it out. m delving deeper auerbach, loyd. a farewell to dr. karlis osis. fate, april 1, 1998 [online] http//www.llewellyn. com/archive/fate/62. belief in supernatural is bigger than jesus, says new report. pr newswire on behalf of living tv, june 10, 2002 [online] http//www.prenewswire. co.uk/cgi/release?id=86400. krippner, stanley. dreamtime and dreamwork: decoding the language of the night. los angeles: jeremy p. tarcher, 1990. krippner, stanley, fariba bogzaran, and andre percia de carvalho. extraordinary dreams and how to work with them. albany, n.y: state university of n

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emistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain fs parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind fs fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions.fear. early humans faced the constant danger of being attacked by predators, of being killed by people from other

ortedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them.sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflectio

25, 2001 [online] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/a61372-2001nov20.html. goeringer, conrad. gfreemasons.from the 700 club to art bell, an object of conspiracy thinking. h american atheist, may 1998 [online] http/ www.americanatheist.org/supplement/conspiracy. html. lomas, robert, and christopher knight. the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus. boston: element books, 1999. macoy, robert. a dictionary of freemasonry. new york: gramercy books, 2000. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. the garduna the origins of the garduna begin in a legend not dissimilar from that of el cid (c. 1043.1099, the heroic knight 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 12

he apostles and athanasius; 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 20 secret societies knights templar parade in 1930 (corbis corporation. to uphold the doctrines of the two testaments, including the interpretations of the church fathers, the unity of god and the trinity of his persons, and the virginity of mary both before and after the birth of jesus. to go beyond the seas when called to do so in defense of the cause. to retreat not from the foe unless outnumbered three to one. in addition to the rules of conduct and discipline, humility was one of the first principles of membership in the knights templar. the helmet of the templar must bear no crest; his beard should never be cut; his personal behavior should be that of a servant of oth

n e d magic and sorcery 47 albertus magnus (the library of congress) alchemy under the name of paracelsus. as with so many of the true alchemists, paracelsus believed that it was far more important to contemplate nature and the majesty of god fs handiworks than to spend all one fs time studying the knowledge that could be found in books. if one could acquire the kind of purity of belief, such as jesus (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e) affirmed existed in the heart of a child, one could literally transform base substances into precious metals and gems, for the primary ingredient necessary for alchemical success lay in obtaining the prima materia, the essence of all substances, the primeval building blocks of the universe. in the view of paracelsus, this essential substance was both visible and invis

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ore; he also recorded the evidence of one of his victims,[10]"the devil made them believe that he was the true god, and he gives as a general statement[11 "our witchesfor the most part hold these demons as gods. in orleans in 1614[25 "they say to the devil, we recogniseyou as our master, our god, our creator. at edmonton in 1621 elizabeth sawyer[12] confessed that "hecharged me to pray no more to jesus christ, but to him the devil" in lancashire in 1633 margaretjohnson[13 "met a spirit or devil in a suit of black tied about with silk points, he instructed her to call him the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god10mamilion "and in all her talk and conference she called the said mamilion her god. gaule, making a generalstatement about witch-beliefs and practices in 1646,[14] says that

ndprivate" this seems to indicate that after the public profession of faith, such as all converts had to make, thepriestess was admitted by a special and private rite. de lancre makes the statement that "there are two sortsof witches, the first sort are composed of witches who, having abandoned god, give themselves to drugs andpoisons. the second are those who have made an express renunciation of jesus christ and of the faith andhave given themselves to satan. these perform wonders"[3 (plate ii).it was this body of persons who were specially stigmatised as witches in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, and to describe them the christian recorders ransacked their vocabularies for invectives andabusive epithets. the favourite adjectives to apply to witches and their doings were: hellish

her words, he held forth on what heconsidered to be the true faith and abused the other side "among other things he told them that they weremore happy in him than they could be in god; him they saw, but god they could not see" in another sermonby the same preacher[7] he "most blasphemously mocked them, if they offered to trust in god who left themmiserable in the world, and neither he nor his son jesus christ ever appeared to them when they called onthem, as he had, who would not cheat them. this was undoubtedly the great appeal of the old religion; thegod was there present with his worshippers, they could see him, they could speak to him as friend to friend,whereas the christian god was unseen and far away in heaven, and the petitioner could never be sure that hisprayer would reach the di

of surviving to the present dayin various forms as a charm to be said before going to sleep. this seems to be the meaning of the epithetsgiven to the two prayers, the white paternoster being the morning prayer to be said in daylight, the blackpaternoster the prayer for the night-time. the black paternoster is as follows"four neuks in this house for haly angels, a post in the midst, that's christ jesus, lucas, marcus, matthew, joannes, the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies55god be into this house, and all that belangs us."many charms and spells surviving to the present day contain the names of pre-christian gods. these spellsare usually connected with cures for diseases in human beings and animals, and are generally accompaniedwith certain manual gestures withou

uite impossible if the death of thearchbishop were simply murder. the monk, william of canterbury, who was actually an eye-witness of thescene in canterbury cathedral, forces the parallel to an extraordinary extent "as the lord, his passion beingimminent, approached the place of suffering, so thomas, aware of coming events, drew near to the place inwhich he should suffer. they sought to seize, as jesus, so thomas, but no one put a hand on him because hishour was not yet come. the lord went in triumphal procession before his passion, thomas before his. thelord suffered after supper, and thomas suffered after supper. the lord for three days was guarded injerusalem by the jews, thomas for some days was guarded in the enclosure of his church. the lord going tomeet those who sought to attack hi

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n heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come. thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day, our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. the hail mary 10 hail mary full of grace, the lord is with thee. blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. amen. the ave maria ave maria, gratia plena; dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui yeheshua. sancta maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. amen. the qabalistic cross in latin tu es regnum, et potestas, et gloria, saecula, saeculorum. a

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

riesthood. duty of man, guarantee of his rights, proof of his immortality, eternity of happiness commencing for him upon the earth, glorious aim given to his existence, goal and path of all his struggles, perfection of his individual, civil and religious morality, the spirit of charity understands all, and is able to hope all, undertake all, and accomplish all. it is by the spirit of charity that jesus expiring on the cross gave a son to his mother in the person of st. john, and, triumphing over the anguish of the most frightful torture, gave a cry of deliverance and of salvation, saying "father, into thy hands i commend my spirit" it is by charity that twelve galilean artisans conquered the world; they loved truth more than life, and they went without followers to speak it to peoples and

evodious. priscillian was killed. exile and death were the fate of his followers. heresy blazed the stronger, and a worse persecution was threatened. then st. martin left his cell at marmontier, and set out a second time to treves. news of the old man coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. they met him at the gate and refused him entrance "but" said martin "i come with the peace of jesus christ" and such was the power of this presence that they could not close the city gates against him. but the palace doors were closed. martin refused to see the ithacans or to receive the communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimony of their sense of his power. they appealed to maximus, who delivered over martin bound to them. but in the night maximus sent for martin, a

anctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of thee, may say to providence "you are our mother" children of woman, let us forgive fallen woman! children of woman, let us adore regenerate woman! children of woman, who have slept upon her breast, been cradled in her arms, and consoled by her caresses, let us love her, and let us love each other! iii the ternary the ternary is the number of creatio

a burned by the order of the sovereign pontiff of the christian religion? are not the pharisees to-day just what they were in the time of caiaphas? if any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and love, will they listen? in rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of the pharaohs, moses inaugurated the reign of the father. in breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism, jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son of god. when the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy ghost. then, glory to the father who drowned the host of pharaoh in the red sea! glory to the son, who tore the

he tiger threatens my children "let nature herself reply to you" harmodius and aristogiton had festivals and statues in ancient greece. the bible has consecrated the names of judith and ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the holy book is that of samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried "let me die with the philistines" and yet, do you think that, if jesus, before dying, had gone to rome to plunge his dagger in the heart of tiberius, he would have saved the world, as he did, in forgiving his executioners, and in dying for even tiberius? 51 did brutus save roman liberty by killing caesar? in killing caligula, chaerea only made place for claudius and nero. to protest against violence by violence, is to justify it, and to force it to reproduce it

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below. the upper sephiroth cannot flow into the lower in an optimum state if the lower are unbalanced, and neither can the lower sephiroth function correctly when the upper sephiroth are disturbed. tiphareth, the sephirah representing human self-awareness, is the key-stone on which this balance rests. indeed, in ephesians 2.20, paul makes reference to "the foundation of the apostles and prophets, jesus christ himself being the chief corner-stone" which in kabbalah can be read to say that yesod (meaning the "foundation) is the sephirah of prophecy and communication to the outside world (malkuth, but the corner-stone is self-awareness as practised by christ, a personification of tiphareth. equally, the role of a mediator is often that of translation, and it is in translation we find tipharet

ssary evil, and works to time the osiris phase as appropriate. crowley connects the iao formula by the gematria of 17 (10+ 1+ 6) to the numbers of squares of the swastika, and from that to the aleph, in that the shape is similar, and thus to the unity. the iao formula hence signifies the unity of an act broken into its motion. inri is taken as an anagram of various phrases, but the most usual is "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews. however, by kabbalah, this phrase embodies the mystery of tiphareth in its analysis as yod, nun, resh and yod. i virgo isis n scorpio apophis r sun osiris i virgo isis thus, as with the tetragrammaton of yhvh, the formula repeats a key letter to indicate that events cycle through growth, death, rebirth and growth again. tiphareth might be the top of one mountai

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the flamboyant star (the pentagram) with its point up, represents to the rosicrucian initiate the incarnation of the divine word in the human nature. dr. r. allandy, in his work on the symbolism of numbers, adds this to what papus had already said. the addition of shin to the sacred tetragram (i.h.v.h) marks the passage of the quaternary into the quinary for the formation of the living creature. jesus, the word made flesh, kabalistically represents all creatures, but particularly man, as man is the most evolved of all creatures" having been taught, and which is in accordance with the general christian tradition, that the entire nature had fallen with adam as a result of his own fall, we can easily understand how in effect this same nature can evolve, with man, back to its original state

called the pentacle of khunrath (see page 6 of this issue for its drawing)4. louis-claude de saint--martin expresses very precisely his thoughts on this name in one of his letters5. when the christ came, he made the pronunciation of this word still more central and interior, since the great name expressed by those four letters was the quaternary explosion, or the crucial sign of all life; whereas jesus christ, by exalting the hebrew shin, or the letter 's, united the holy ternary itself to the great quaternary name of which three is the principle. now, if, in the ancient ordinations, the quaternion had to have its own source in us, with much greater reason should the name of christ take from himself alone its whole efficacy and light. no doubt, a great virtue is attached to this true pronu

d the holy ternary itself to the great quaternary name of which three is the principle. now, if, in the ancient ordinations, the quaternion had to have its own source in us, with much greater reason should the name of christ take from himself alone its whole efficacy and light. no doubt, a great virtue is attached to this true pronunciation whether central or oral, of that great name, and that of jesus christ, which is as its flower. the vibration of our elementary air is a very secondary thing in the process by which these names make sensible what was not so before. their virtue is to do to-day, and at all times, what they did at the beginning, in creating all things; and, as they made all things before the air existed, no doubt they are still higher than the air when they perform the sam

t names of the kabbala of the 16-th, 17-th and 19-th centuries knew the profound value of the pentagrammic name. sedir, in his "history and doctrines of the rose-croix, quotes a disciple of the rose-croix, wilhelm menens of antwerp, who. says in his aureum vellus about the great force which is hidden in the name i.h.s.v.h" which is, evidently, iod-he-shin-vau-he. it should be noted that ieshouah (jesus in hebrew, has the same phonetic pronunciation as ieshouah (joshua in hebrew, although the latter is spelled iod- 3 thi splate was reproduced with an anlysis in the summer 1960 issue of the martinist review, pages 4 5. 4 see also winter 1959/1960 issue of the martinist review, page 15. 5 quoted verbatim from the penny translation of the theosophic correspondence (theosophical university pres

nating 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. and god said to jesus: i s

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e results of analysis, but it proceeds still further. if analysis aims at the acceptance of the unconscious, and the validity of its co-existence with consciousness, then magic may be said to be a technique for realizing the deeper levels of the unconscious. these are levels of power and realization whose value we can but dimly grasp through contemplation of religious figures of the past. buddha, jesus, krishna, st. francis, and a host of others are instances of such illuminated men--of individuals who have striven, all in different ways, to know themselves and attain to a realization of their true divine nature. if so we wish, the techruques they employed we may call devotion, meditation, and contemplation. fundamentally however, they are identical in spirit with what we now propose to di

ngthens and seals the cross of light within the magician's aura. origins of the pentagram ritual the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram was a creation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. however, various portions of the ritual are found to have far more ancient sources. in the new testament, the lord's prayer (matthew 6:9-13) is obviously based upon qabalistic principles, showing that jesus of nazareth, who was called rabbi by his followers, knew his qabalah. this is because the lord's prayer is itself based on the hebrew "prayer of david" from the old testament, found in the first book of chronicles 29:l "the prayer of david at the foundation of the temple" reads as follows: unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, are the greatness and the power and the beauty and the victo y and the glo

er, air, and earth-plus one other. in addition, the number five is attributed to the pentagrammaton or "five-lettered name" this is a natural extension of the tetragrammaton, the holy and hidden "four-lettered name" of god signified by the letters yhvh (717. in the pentagrammaton the letter slun is placed in the center of yhvh, resulting in the name of yeheshuah-yhshvh (71iu7. this is the name of jesus in hebrew, but more importantly to magicians, it is the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth, with the addition of the fifth element of spirit. the element of spirit binds together and governs the other four, which are the metaphysical building blocks of all that exists. the fifth element of spirit, also called the quintessence, crowns and connects the other four. it is spirit which

entagram and its enclosing pentagon (see figure 12, p. 189. the pentagon is a figure that is implied, if not actually traced, when drawing a pentagram. in length every line of the pentagon is composed of thrteen units. the number thirteen is associated with a multitude of occult references: twelve spheres are needed to surround a central (thirteenth) sphere; moses and the twelve tribes of israel; jesus and the twelve apostles; the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac. in addition, many important qabalistic words have the numerical value of thrteen, including achad (yilk "unity" and ahavah( 7 1 7 k "love" other words tied to this number include gahah (ti "healing" or "health; ziv (lt "glory; and hegeh (717 "to separate" or "to imagine" the thrteenth key of the tarot is titled "death" and

forcefully and with authority in a "vibration" visuddha: sanskrit word meaning "purity" refers to the throat chakra. yah: divine hebrew name associated with chokmah. yang: in chinese taoism the positive, active, male principle. yechidah: in qabalah, the highest part of the soul located in kether and is described as the true divine self. the purest form of consciousness. yeheshuah: hebrew name for jesus. a divine name associated with the five elements of fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. referred to as the pentagrammaton. yesod: hebrew word for "foundation" referring to the ninth sephirah on the tree of life. yetzirah: the qabalistic world of formation, consisting of chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod. attributed to the element of air. yhvh (mv) four letters which stand

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

rounded a corner in a wooded area, a huge white thing appeared directly in front of their car. they said it had curved wings about ten feet wide. there was a head on the creature and it appeared to have very long hair. it was in view of their headlights for several seconds before it flew upward and vanished from sight. the witnesses were very religious and assumed they had seen an angel, or even jesus christ himself. after their sighting their telephone went haywire and their television was suddenly subjected to heavy interference. i found a number of ufos had been seen in the letart falls area, with concentrations around a large gravel pit there. sightings in the northeast were keeping me busy at that time. but i talked with mary hyre frequently. she was receiving more ufo reports than s

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

ion, as also judge far otherwise of them, as hath been done by some principal persons, but especially of adam haselmeyer, notarius publicus to the arch duke maximilian, who likewise hath made an extract ex scriptis theologicis theophrasti, and written a treatise under the title of jesuiter, wherein he willeth, that every christian should be a true jesuit, that is, to walk, live, be, and remain in jesus: he was but ill rewarded of the jesuits, because in his answer written upon the famam, he did name those of the fraternity of the rosie cross, the highly illuminated men, and undeceiving jesuits; for they not able to brook this, layd hands on him, and put him into the galleis, for which they likewise have to expect their reward. blessed aurora will now henceforth begin to appear, who (after

ing of our neighbors, and to the restoring of all the diseased. 3 fama fra t e rni t a t i s, o r, a di s c ov e r y o f t h e fra t e rni t y o f t h e mo s t l aud a b l e orde r o f t h e ro s y c r o s s. seeing the only wise and merciful god in these latter days hath poured out so richly his mercy and goodness to mankind, whereby we do attain more and more to the perfect knowledge of his son jesus christ and nature, that justly we may boast of the happy time, wherein there is not only discovered unto us the half part of the world, which was heretofore unknown& hidden, but he hath also made manifest unto us many wonderful, and neverheretofore seen, works and creatures of nature, and moreover hath raised men, indued with great wisdom, which might partly renew and reduce all arts (in thi

hined in this vault, nevertheless it was enlightened with another sun, which had learned this from the sun, and was situated in the upper part in the center of the sieling; in the midst, in stead of a tomb-stone, was a round altar covered over with a plate of brass, and thereon this engraven: a.c. r.c. hoc universi compendium unius mihi sepulchrum feci. round about the first circle or brim stood, jesus mihi omnia. in the middle were four figures, inclosed in circles, whose circumscription was, 11 1. nequaquam vacuum. 2. legis jugum. 3. libertas evangelij. 4. dei gloria intacta. this is all clear and bright, as also the seventh side and the two heptagoni: so we kneeled altogether down, and gave thanks to the sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal god, who hath taught us more then all mens

or beginning of our philosophical canons, prescribed to us by our brother r.c. and be partakers with us of our treasures (which never can fail or be wasted) in all humility, and love to be eased of this worlds labor, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of god. but that also every christian may know of what religion and belief we are, we confess to have the knowledge of jesus christ (as the same now in these last days, and chiefly in germany, most clear and pure is professed, and is now adays cleansed and voyd of all swerving people, hereticks, and false prophets) in certain and noted countries maintained, defended and propagated: also we use two sacraments, as they are instituted with all forms and ceremonies of the first renewed church. in politia we acknowledg

thens fortuna, but is the churches ornament, and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it: also she ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded by with jesus in omni parte and all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image; it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theologie; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon did excel; but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same conc

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

must seek it in the sibylline verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life-blood. and they are: aceldama. the tale of archais. songs of the spirit. jezebel. an appeal to the american people. jephthah. the mother fs tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the sabbatic goat, the baphomet of mendes, the signatures of solve and coagula. gthe everlasting yea and nay. h a.m.e

him thy brain hath moulded and set there in thy brain fs heaven? such a god replies as thy fears move, so men pray everywhere. god did first work in earth when womankind he chipped from adam fs rib. a thankless task i wot his wisdom has long since repined. when i am dead remember me for this that i bade workers work, and lovers kiss; laughed with the stoic at the dream of pain, and preached with jesus the evangel.bliss *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, pp. 109-112 (the metre though not the cadence is that of glaus veneris. h) whilst such lines as the following in the second poem also remind us of the astronomer poet: o thou, zelator of this paradise, tell thou the secret of f the pillar! none can hear thee, of the souls beneath the sun. speak! or the very godhead in thee dies. for

s keen as floral wine, inviting me, and love, to death *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 11. also the following is charming in its simplicity: she has a lithe white body, slim and limber, fairy-like, a snake hissing some babylonian hymn tangled in the assyrian brake *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 10. a curious swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of gwhy jesus wept. h percy, the youth flatulent with love, chants to his angela. society. thus: to me she is the rosy incarnation of a kiss, the royal rapture of a young delight, the mazy music of virginity, sun of the day, moon of the night, all, all to me *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 39. and again: love, love, these raptures are like springtide rain nestling among green leaves *why jesus wept, vol. ii

as crowley is now superseding swinburne. a poetic iconoclast to the very backbone, we find crowley, especially in his later works, breaking away from every poetic convention and restraint. at first it makes itself apparent in gthe star and the garter, h which was unwound from that same tangled skein from out of which browning had ravelled gfifine, h and then, in the full power of manhood, in gwhy jesus wept h; which one day will find its historic niche in the temple of poetry, somewhere between the ghudibras h of butler and the gendymion h of keats. though crowley, as can be clearly seen throughout his works, is not only a great admirer but also a disciple of browning fs, he nevertheless vigorously attacks that great master fs cacophony and wilful obscurity of meaning, in that eccentric cu

rsia ring with! i who fish up no such from soul may yet cry: vade retro satanas! tom bond bishop *the sword of song, vol. ii, p. 148. browning fs cacophony in gthe flight of the duchess h is truly extraordinary: gsoul a stir up h with gstreaky syrup h gwent trickle h g gventricle h gsperm oil h g gturmoil h gwreathy hop h g gathiop h gmatters equine h g gfrench weak wine. h we have mentioned gwhy jesus wept h as one of the most irregular of crowley fs poems, yet its irregularities are regularly irregular throughout, bearing a similar relationship to a true poem like grosa mundi h that a comic song would to a great oratorio. gwhy jesus wept h is a satiric farce, grosa mundi h a great love anthem, almost we might say a wagnerian opera in rime, and comparable in many respects in its continuou

THE GOD SET

ng the ptolemaic period set, merged with the greek titan typhon, became the figure for the goes or sorcerer to use. after hermes the most often invoked god in the magical papyri is set-typhon. this entity was used to bring spirit helpers( bird would fly down and announce that the magician was now under the protection of a god- a popular typhonic practice outside of egypt as well se morton smith's jesus the magician. set was also the god to invoke to send dreams, perform healings on the head or spinal column, and to cause enmity between enemies. there seems to be a few common threads running through the set cult: the quest for immortality, antinomianism, and the practice of magic. perhaps this is why michael aquino's current temple of set finds this figure so appealing as an archetype for t

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

lication of the manuel des chevaliers du temple (1811) by fabre palaprat, who claimed to be grand master of the order. the order of the temple saw itself as the true church of christ, preserving through the centuries a true egyptian gnostic christian tradition. it claimed that the son of god. was brought up in the schools of alexandria. he was able to reach all the degrees of egyptian initiation. jesus conferred evangelical initiation on his apostles and disciples. how this mystic christianity had supposedly passed on to the templars was recounted in the order s legend: file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. up to the year 1118 the mysteries and the hierarchic order of the

stic christianity had supposedly passed on to the templars was recounted in the order s legend: file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. up to the year 1118 the mysteries and the hierarchic order of the initiation of egypt, transmitted to the jews by moses, then to the christians by jesus christ, were preserved by the successors of st. john. these mysteries and initiations. were a sacred trust. preserved from all adulteration. these gnostic christians, appreciating the courage and piety of the templar knights. held it their duty to trust to hands so pure the knowledge acquired over so many centuries. hugues de payens (the templar grand master) was invested with the apostolic

the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the gods of water partake also of the airy nature, and similarly, the earthy gods have their natures intermixed with fire, since the end of winter announces the fiery sign of aries, whose mysteries are those of spring and called the greater mysteries, wherein the slain god is celebrated by his name iao, jupiter, jehovah, iacchis, zeus, shu, jesus, osiris, etc. the ignorance of the vulgar and the corruption of the records have aided time s work of confusing the doctrines, so that the natures of distinct gods have suffered the accretion of alien elements till their simplicity has almost baffled restoration. this infernal rite, of which you are now an initiate, is founded on the apparent tragedy of the fall of the year, seen as a catast

whole of the law: and this: the word of the law is thelema. and this: love is the law, love under will. do not forget that the numeration of thelema, as also that of agape, love or charity in its best sense, is equivalent to that of the word of our 3. it is further of interest to observe that these letters abl added to 33, the number of the years of the life of king solomon s temple, and that of jesus christ. 33 is also the number of degrees in freemasonry; and it has many other qualities, many of which you doubtless know already. note, too, that a is 1, b 2, l 30, as if to signify the whole course of the universe, the unity, the dyad, the many and the naught. it is also pertinent to observe that j is the wand, a the pentagram or pentacle, h the cup, b the crown, v the sword, and l the ba

st word. meanwhile the princes rise from their attitudes of mourning and extinguish the lights, overthrow the pillars, strew the floor with corpses, skulls and bones, light a pungent incense, and the hell-broth. as the candidate re-enters in charge of the grand marshal, a sack is thrown over his head, and he is thrust through the veil, and beaten, pricked and pushed by all as they cry litanies of jesus, joseph, and mary while he gropes his way. the m.w.s. and g.m. should however retire to red room) second point (all present enter the red room, and assume insignia and stalls. the most reverend and perfect prelate advances from the red room. she takes postulant by the hand. the sack is removed) h.p: i come to conduct you from the depths of darkness and the valley of death. truth will direct

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note10.html [12/28/2001 2:09:30 pm] sroto_notes 11. for both a brief outline of tantrism and some details of kellner s possible indebtedness to the american occultist p. b. randolph see my sexuality, magic and perversion (london, spearman; new jersey, citadel press, 1972. file//c /documents%20as/ appearing of our lord jesus christ, to whom with the holy ghost, be all praise and thanksgiving. amen. old testament page 1 genesis the first book of moses, called genesis 1:1 in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. 1:3 and god said, let there be light: and

ith] the statutes and judgments. 4:5 behold, i will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord: 4:6 and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest i come and smite the earth with a curse. new testament page 559 matthew the gospel according to st. matthew 1:1 the book of the generation of jesus christ, the son of david, the son of abraham. 1:2 abraham begat isaac; and isaac begat jacob; and jacob begat judas and his brethren; 1:3 and judas begat phares and zara of thamar; and phares begat esrom; and esrom begat aram; 1:4 and aram begat aminadab; and aminadab begat naasson; and naasson begat salmon; 1:5 and salmon begat booz of rachab; and booz begat obed of ruth; and obed begat jes

and after they were brought to babylon, jechonias begat salathiel; and salathiel begat zorobabel; 1:13 and zorobabel begat abiud; and abiud begat eliakim; and eliakim begat azor; 1:14 and azor begat sadoc; and sadoc begat achim; and achim begat eliud; 1:15 and eliud begat eleazar; and eleazar begat matthan; and matthan begat jacob; 1:16 and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary, of whom was born jesus, who is called christ. 1:17 so all the generations from abraham to david [are] fourteen generations; and from david until the carrying away into babylon [are] fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into babylon unto christ [are] fourteen generations. 1:18 now the birth of jesus christ was on this wise: when as his mother mary was espoused to joseph, before they came together, she w

a just [man] and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 1:20 but while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, joseph, thou son of david, fear not to take unto thee mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost. 1:21 and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. 1:22 now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet, saying, 1:23 behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name emmanuel, which being interpreted is, god with us. 1:24 then joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the lord had bidden him, a

spoken of the lord by the prophet, saying, 1:23 behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name emmanuel, which being interpreted is, god with us. 1:24 then joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 1:25 and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name jesus. 2:1 now when jesus was born in bethlehem of judaea in the days of herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to jerusalem, 2:2 saying, where is he that is born king of the jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 2:3 when herod the king had heard [these things] he was troubled, and all jerusalem with him. 2:4 and when he had gathered all the c

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

; the animal sticks to his subconscious ideas" aleister crowley the confessions "as attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in america, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also- magical religion" j. gordon melton institute for the study of american religion, green egg, 1975 "curse them! curse them! curse them! with my hawk's head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din" liber al vel legis 3:50- 53 "if you are on the path, and see the buddha walking towards you, kill him" zen saying, paraphrased slightly "previously i never thought of doubting that there were many witches in the world; now, however

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

ivine; as plato affirmeth, the art of magick is the art of worshipping god: and the persians call their gods, hence apollonius saith, that magus is either [illegible greek]2 or [illegible greek]3, that is, that magus is a name sometime of him that is a god by nature& sometimes of him that is in the service of god: in which latter sense it is taken in matt, 2.1,2. when the wise men came to worship jesus, and this is the first and highest kind, which is called divine magick; and these the latins did entitle sapientes, or wise men: for the feare and worship of god, is the beginning of knowledge. these wise men the greeks call philosophers; and amongst the egyptians they were termed priests; the hebrews termed them cabalistos, prophets, scribes and pharisees; and amongst the babylonians they w

these latter eight books exist in the present day- ed. 6 the first tome of the book of arbatel of magick called isagoge in the name of the creator of all things both visible and invisible, who revealeth his mysteries out of his treasures to them that call upon him; and fatherly and mercifully bestoweth those his secrets upon us without measure. may he grant unto us, through his onely-begotten son jesus christ our lord, his ministring spirits, the revealers of his secrets, that we may write this book of arbatel, concerning the greatest secrets which are lawful for man to know, and to use them without offence unto god. amen. 7 the first septenary of aphorisms. the first aphorism. whosoever would know secrets, let him know how to keep secret things secretly; and to reveal those things that ar

od as a father, that he would give unto thee all necessaries of this life: and thou oughtest to help thy neighbour with the gifts which god bestoweth upon thee, whether they be spiritual or corporal. therefore thou shalt pray thus: o lord of heaven and earth, creator and maker of all things visible and invisible; i, though unworthy, by thy assistance call upon thee, through thy onely begotten son jesus christ our lord, that thou wilt give unto me thy holy spirit, to direct me in thy truth unto all good. amen. because i earnestly desire perfectly to know the arts of this life and such things as are necessary for us, which are so overwhelmed in darkness, and polluted with infinite humane opinions, that i of my own power can attain to no knowledge in them, unless thou teach it me: grant me th

rn, to thy praise and glory, and the profit of our neighbour. give me a/so an apt and teachable heart, that i may easily understand those things which thou shalt teach me, and may hide them in my understanding, that i may bring them forth as out of thy inexhaustible treasures, to all necessary uses. and give me grace, that i may use such thy gifts humbly, with fear and trembling, through our lord jesus christ, with thy holy spirit. amen the third septenary. aphorism 15. they are called olympick spirits, which do inhabit in the firmament, and in the stars of the firmament: and the office of these spirits is to declare destinies, and to administer fatal charms, so far forth as god pleaseth to permit them: for nothing, neither evil spirit nor evil destiny, shall be able to hurt him who hath t

ires shall he perfected. omnipotent and eternal god, who hast ordained the whole creation for thy praise and glory, and for the salvation of man, i beseech thee that thou wouldst send thy spirit n.n. of the solar order, who shall inform and teach me those things which i shall ask of him; or, that he may bring me medicine against the dropsie &c. nevertheless not my will be done, but thine, through jesus christ thy onely begotten son, our lord. amen. but thou shalt not detain the spirit above a full hour, unless he be familiarly addicted unto thee. forasmuch as thou camest in peace, and quietly, and hast answered unto my petitions; i give thanks unto god, in whole name thou camest: and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thy orders; and return to me again when i shall call thee by thy name

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

their body, and then, as a mark of adoration, kissed him on the posteriors. all this time the worshippers held burning torches in their hands. the abbot of little sense, already mentioned, held the office of master of the ceremonies at these meetings, and it was his duty to see that the new-comers duly performed their homage. after this they trampled on the cross, and spit upon it, in despite of jesus and of the holy trinity, and performed other profane acts. they then seated themselves at the tables, and after they had eaten and drunk sufficiently, they rose and joined in a scene of promiscuous intercourse between the sexes, in which the demon took part, assuming alternately the form of either sex, according to that of his temporary partner. other generative powers 209 wicked acts follow

a priest who was the nephew of madame martin, who went to his aunt and merely enjoined her not to take the girl to the sabbath any more. jeannette said that at the solemn festivals all kissed the devil s posteriors except the notable witches, who kissed him in the face. according to her account, the children, at the age of two or three years, or as soon as they could speak, were made to renounce jesus christ, the virgin mary, their baptism &c. and from that moment they were taught to worship the devil. she described the sabbath as resembling a fair, well supplied with all sorts of objects, in which some walked about in their own form, and others were transformed, she knew not how, into dogs, cats, asses, horses, pigs, and other animals. the little boys and girls kept the herds of the sabb

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

and the silly vain worm-into its fire and makes a new plane, shaping it to suit the purpose of the work and using it as an extension of its will to achieve its end. and another silly worm takes up resi- dence in the handle and fancies itself lord of the manor! the au cares with infinite compassion for the least of its manifestations, which it creates out of love and desire. not without reason did jesus say that god is aware of the fall of the least sparrow. but what is important to mankind is not always important to god. the magus should always remain humble and soft-spoken, no matter how extensive his or her earthly power, since he or she can never be certain that the insect underfoot is not more useful in the scheme of things than the magus. i n the beginning the unmanifest was all. god

e way the smallest material light instantly banishes darkness (which has no real existence but is merely the lesser concentration of light, so does the light of spirit have absolute power over the forces of evil. magi should seek the light in times of trial or when they are doubtful and afraid, any time they find themselves assailed by the darkness. if they seek with open hearts, it will come. as jesus, one of the greatest magi, rightly observed "ask, and it shall be given you (matthew 7:7. but if they play the hypocrite, they will seek in vain, and devils will mock them. the magi should ask the light for instruction in the art of magic. the light will give it if their purposes are honest and if magic is a part of their personal des- tinies. they may ask for the names of spirits, the signs

that has been placed within the subconscious. most attacks of the evil eye are unconscious and are easily frustrated. the evil eye can be avoided by turning the back, looking aside, or walking in the opposite direction. the attack can be emotionally turned aside by giving in to the wishes of the person who unknowingly casts the ray, thereby placating that person. this was the method suggested by jesus. in these ways the victim of an attack can avoid becoming an unwilling participant in his or her own downfall. the evil eye can be thwarted in more active ways. in morocco it was the cus- tom to bare the backside at the attacker. this is a form of mockery that has the effect of making the person giving the evil eye angry, causing him or her to turn the power of the eye inward. scornful laugh

ossed and locked into each other, their force vectors are balanced. the whole cloth will resist tearing not only at right angles but from all directions. just as christ is the third element in the divine trinity and reconciles the other two, so the juncture of the cross is the balance point between the powers represent- ed by the arms. this point is outside time and space. raised up on the cross, jesus became immortal, no longer subject to change and decay. the cross is symbolically separate from the constantly shifting forms of being. thus, the host is blessed with the cross to lock in its purity-in a sense it is set outside the world of forms. when a person is born he or she perceives the world as a sphere, which is sym- bolized in nature by the perfect circle of the sky. the first consc

adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often depicted as a babe in arms with a wise adult head, or as a slender effeminate figure with a narrow waist and broad hips. child- god cultures are characterized by an ambivalence between the active and passive impulses. no question is more puzzling to christians than when, and if, they should turn the other cheek. the western world suffers the incongruity of warrior popes and saintly

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who was a newspaper reporter by profession, collected a number of these more recent unexplained and inexplicable vanishings in his books. in addition to the patriarch enoch, who was believed to have been taken up to heaven by god while still alive and in the body so that he vanished utterly from the earth (genesis 5:24, there is the most famous of all such translations to a higher sphere, that of jesus after his crucifixion (mark 16:19. jesus is unique among them in that he died and came back to life in his body before that body was lifted alive into heaven. he is supposed to have predicted his ascent to heaven. the event had no eyewitnesses. this is generally true of fairy abductions and ufo abductions-a person mysteriously vanishes, sometimes to reappear at a later date, but the actual d

came back to life in his body before that body was lifted alive into heaven. he is supposed to have predicted his ascent to heaven. the event had no eyewitnesses. this is generally true of fairy abductions and ufo abductions-a person mysteriously vanishes, sometimes to reappear at a later date, but the actual disappearance is seldom witnessed. descent into hell it is the dogma of the church that jesus came back to life after his crucifixion and ascended in the living body to heaven. the apocryphal gospel of nicodemus relates the legend that after his ascent to heaven, he subsequently descended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance to hell, jesus caused th

described by saint frances. his poem reads very much like an astral journey. both heaven and hell as related in the prophetic books are astral realms, and for this reason it is quite possible for ordinary men and women to visit them while traveling in the astral body. safe passage through hell is often secured by means of spirit guides, who have the power to shield the astral traveler from harm. jesus, having all wisdom and all power unto himself, was without need of either a guide or a protector. despite superstitions to the contrary, there is no direct physical danger to the body while projecting astrally, but it is possible that the intense shock of scenes in hell might cause a nervous reaction, resulting in emotional or even physical damage in a secondary way by repercussion. the spir

others present, so that others think they see it also, even when it does not physically exist. similarly, one person witnessing a miracle can convey to others by the strength of faith the ability to see the same miracle. perhaps as a deliberate echo of the old testament account of the hand of god reaching down to lift ezekiel up by the hair, the author of the new testament book of matthew told of jesus walking across the sea. the apostle peter wanted to imitate him and, encouraged by jesus, stepped from his boat onto the surface of the water, but became afraid and began to sink. jesus reached down his hand and drew him up, while still standing on top of the water (matthew 1431. it is an eastern belief common in india that the holy men called fakirs can so reduce the weight of their bodies

self three times every night: the first time for her own transgressions, the second for the conversion of sinners, and the third time to help souls in purgatory. when not whipping her own body, she passed the entire night in fervent prayer. not surprisingly, she was subject to astral visions. once, she traveled on the astral level through space and back in time to the scene of the chastisement of jesus by the roman soldiers. she was so overcome with anguish at the sight of his blood flowing from the strokes of the lash that she began to scourge herself in an identical manner. her mother, hearing her screams, ran into her chamber and begged her to stop before she killed herself, but columba was in a state of ecstasy and did not even hear her. in this case, it was not sickness but self-chast

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pass through the beams and pillars of all the crosses. the divine name yeheshuah is vibrated twice for the cross on the ceiling and twice for the cross on the floor in order to balance the four vibrations at the corners of the room. the hebrew names yeheshuah (i, h= 7, sh= w, v= 1, h= 7) and yehovashah (i, h= 7, v= 1, sh= d, h= 7) are associated in the christian kabbalism of the renaissance with jesus christ-they are two magic forms of the name jesus. osiris, isis, and apophis are egyptian deities. typhon is the greek name for apophis. isis ritual of the rose cross 181 is the giver of life who resurrects osiris, apophis is the giver of death who kills osiris, and osiris is the god of rebirth, having died and been restored to life. lux is a latin word meaning light; iao is a gnostic name o

is the giver of life who resurrects osiris, apophis is the giver of death who kills osiris, and osiris is the god of rebirth, having died and been restored to life. lux is a latin word meaning light; iao is a gnostic name of god that is probably related to yahweh. the latin letters i. n. r i. refer to the crucifurion of christ-they are the first letters of the words iesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum (jesus of nazareth, king of the jews, and are supposed to have been written on a placard affured to jesus by the romans at the time of his execution. the hebrew letters yod-nun-resh-yod are merely their transliterations. the enochian words exarp, hcoma, nanta, bitom appear on a small magic square used by the golden dawn in its version of enochian magic-a subject far too complex to describe here. in

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ployed tetragrammaton to heal the sick and banish evil spirits. one such ba'al shem was the great jewish magician rabbi loew of prague, who breathed life into lifeless clay by means of the power of the ihvh and with it created the dreaded golem. during the renaissance, xiv tetragrammaton johannes reuchlin and other christian kabbalists transformed tetragrammaton into the esoteric fivefold name of jesus and proclaimed it the key to all the mysteries. alchemists employed it prominently in their emblems, as did visionary mystics such as robert fludd and jacob boehme. almost all the great figures in occultism over the past two centuries have recorded observations and speculations about the name. the nineteenth- century french magician gerard encausse, better known by his pen name papus, devote

s the pentagram is employed in ceremonial magic for invoking and banishing the four elements. this technique will prove of immense value to occultists, both in their ritual work and as a mnemonic for the forms and associations of the banners. as i will demonstrate, it also provides a graphic explanation of the underlying relationship between the banners and the zodiac signs. the fivefold names of jesus, ihshvh and ihvshh, which were created by the christian kabbalists of the renaissance to supplant ihvh, are examined in both a theoretical and practical way, and their vital role in the hieroglyphic monad of john dee is revealed. clues provided by dee in his monad and in his enochian keys lead to the extraction, by traditional kabbalistic methods, of a previously unsuspected order of twenty

t the true pronunciation is i, iabe, or in another manuscript iave. theodoret, who was born at antioch, says that the samaritans used the pronunciation iabe, or in another passage, iabai. in magical manuscripts, where the name was used as a word of power, the form i, iabe, occurs frequently, and the form i, iaba, is also common. in a magical manuscript from ethiopia that lists the occult names of jesus, yawe is found. even though the manner of speaking the tetragrammaton may be said to have been lost officially, there are many in modern times who have claimed, and continue to claim, possession of the single, true esoteric pronunciation. early in the present century, it was recorded (montgomery, journal of biblical literature xxv [19061, pp. 49-51) that the modern samaritan priests use the

f the kabbalah of the jews with the classical occultism of greece and rome. central to this european hybrid was the tenet that a new name of power had been revealed by god that would supplant the ancient supremacy of tetragrammaton. this new name expressed the essential being of god the son, just as the old name expressed the nature of god the father. according to this theory, the magical name of jesus was composed of the same four hebrew letters as tetragrammaton, but with one letter added in the middle, the hebrew shin (w, which stands for the element fire, or for the cardinal quality. the fivefold name, ihshvh (3lw3, which can be rendered into english as "yeheshuah" was held by the christian kabbalists of the renaissance to have deprived tetragrammaton of all its power, even as jesus ch

ture, in which god revealed himself to the patriarchs through the name of three letters, shaddai c'tw; the second period, of the torah, in which god revealed himself to moses through the name of four letters, tetragrammaton; and the third period, of grace and redemption, in which god revealed himself to the apostles through the name of five letters, yeheshuah. reuchlin held that with the birth of jesus, the name of four letters had been rendered powerless, its ability to cause miracles having passed into the name of jesus. this is why in the gospels the name of jesus has such force in casting out demons from the bodies of the possessed and in healing the sick. by using the holy tongue, hebrew, and the numerical methods of the kabbalah, reuchlin maintained that the truths of christian doctr

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y some one else you do not know directly. this will show that your presence is equal in force to any mankind's created gods that faith in you is strong to create a missionary movement. of course this should be done secretly and subtly. if you outwardly proclaim your godhood crucifixion can result. christianity may be understood as one self deified individual letting his practices get out of hand. jesus is an example of a black magician without ethics. 6. practice your godhood among your followers. when one of your fans is in trouble, magically use the power of your name to help him. not out of pity or compassion but to understand the nature of the name of a divine being. once again keep this practice to yourself. do this until you have results. this illustrates the power of the word of mos

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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 fears grow close he is not sure of himself or what he has done with his life. the will grows broken through years of having the safety net of jesus. the left hand path however in modern times questions and tests, it offers a treasure upon treasure of knowledge and wisdom through experience, it builds and summons forth hidden gods and sleeping beasts, it challenges and destroys those who flinch in the face of the adversary in short it is dangerous. the left hand path is indeed dangerous because it can destroy the perceptions of the condi

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ueen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and nazareth corresponds to the life of seclusion led by the mystae during their period of probation between the lesser and greater mysteries. the three years of ministry are in analogy with the temple-functions of the mystagogues. but lastly, in egypt and elsewhere, there was the mystic experience of the pastos, in which the initiate died symbolically; as jesus died upon the cross. the christian "symbolum" says- descendit ad inferos: that is "he descended into hell; and in the entranced condition of the pastos, the soul of the postulant was held or was caused to wander in certain spiritual realms. but in fine, it is said of christ- tertia die resurrexit "the third day he rose again from the dead" so also the adept of the greater mysteries rose from

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r two of the tarot. the christified soul is the outcome of the sexual union of both (the secret is the arcanum a.z.f. the woman is the mother of the verb. christ is always the child of immaculate conceptions. it is impossible to be born without a mother. when the initiate is ready to incarnate the verb, a woman appears in the superior worlds as if pregnant, suffering labor pains in delivery. when jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother: woman, behold thy son! then he said to [john] the disciple, behold thy mother! and from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. john 19: 26, 27. 4 pronounced al-kah-est 5 ternary: composed of 3 or arranged in 3s. el azufre (fuego) arde totalmente, sin dejar residuo, y el azufre es el sc

rium oratorium in order to carry the fire to each one of your seven chakras. chant i.n.r.i as follows: inri enre onro unru anra, these mantras must be chanted by syllabifying10 them as follows: iiinnn rrriii (clairvoyance) eeennn rrreee (clairaudience) ooonnn rrrooo (heart intuition) uuunnn rrruuu (telepathy solar plexus) aaannn rrraaa (pulmonary chakras memory of past lives) the great hierophant jesus-christ chanted these mantras in the laboratorium oratorium of the pyramid of kephren. 10 syllabifying: i.e. pronouncing them one syllable at time atalanta es la voz que huye; hip manes es la voz que persigue y la manzana es la voz que demora. i.a.o. es el mantram supremo de la magia sexual. i.a.o, es el nombre de la serpiente. bendito sea el i.a.o. el i.a.o. se debe cantar durante las experi

ere (sex. there, mars descends in order to retemper his flaming sword and conquer the heart of venus (the venusian initiation. hercules descends in order to clean the stables of augias (our lower animal depths. perseus descends in order to cut off the head of medusa (the psychological "i" or the terrestrial adam) with his flaming sword. all of the great masters of humanity such as hermes, buddha, jesus, dante, zoroaster, etc, had to pass through this utmost test. the following phrase is written upon the frightful threshold of the ninth sphere (which does not grant access to profaners "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch entrate [abandon hope, all ye who enter here. la novena esfera una sentencia oculta afirma que "nada puede salir sino por la misma puerta por donde ha entrado. nosotros salimos d

enios de la ciencia jinas, llevadme a todos los templos de la ciencia jinas con mi cuerpo. oguara! oguara! oguara! llevadme (esta invocaci n se repite millares de veces antes de adormecerse. 97 the transubstantiation (third part of the 14th arcanum) the last supper of the adorable savior of the world comes from archaic epochs. the great lord of atlantis also practiced this ceremony, as the christ jesus did. this is a blood ceremony, a pact of blood. each one of the apostles brought their blood in a cup and then they mixed their blood with the royal blood of the adorable one within the chalice of the last supper (the holy grail. thus, this is how the astral bodies of the apostles joined the astral body of the christ, by means of this pact of blood. the apostles drank the blood contained wit

blood ceremony, a pact of blood. each one of the apostles brought their blood in a cup and then they mixed their blood with the royal blood of the adorable one within the chalice of the last supper (the holy grail. thus, this is how the astral bodies of the apostles joined the astral body of the christ, by means of this pact of blood. the apostles drank the blood contained within the chalice and jesus likewise drank from it. the holy gnostic unction is united with the last supper through this pact of blood. when these christic atoms (solar astral atoms) descend into the bread and the wine, they are in fact converted into the flesh and blood of the christ. this is the mystery of the transubstantiation. la transubstanciaci n (tercera parte del arcano catorce) la ltima cena del adorable salv

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n; thou shalt wash me and i shall be whiter than snow" 2. then light the incense attributed to the sphere or planetary energy being invoked and say "the god of abraham, god of isaac, god of jacob, bless here the creatures of these kinds, that they may fill up the power and virtue of their odors, so that neither the enemy, nor any false imagination, may be able to enter into them, through our lord jesus christ" numerous other prayers and affirmations may be used in keeping with the student's own personal inclinations, but these should be studied, at least for the implications suggested, both psychologically and magically. purification and intention.so frequently stressed.are vital at this point in the working. the medieval mystic arnold of villanova felt that although talismans were a bless

at of balance or equilibrium (lamed, justice) combined with the power of the life-force (aleph. this perfect equilibrium is represented by the number four, which is the value of al when it is reduced (30+1=31=4. another word which corresponds to four is abba (aba, which is often interpreted as father, but which actually corresponds more closely to the word daddy. it is the affectionate name which jesus used to call his father and was considered slightly slang in the aramaic of his day. another numerical correspondence is the root bab (bb, which means hollow or vein (crowley; as a root it means, interior void or exterior swelling, as well as pupil of the eye (d 'olivet. there is a hidden connection with this idea and ayin, which is the hebrew letter that means eye, as well as surface appear

1, and 666. the first three numbers, six, thirty-six, and 111, when added together, equal 153, which is the number of fish mentioned in john 21: 11. we know that biblical authors did not use numbers arbitrarily, and in this story the catch of fish, which the early christians saw as a symbol for christ, represented the new christian community, since these fish were caught after the resurrection of jesus. one may refer to david fideler's jesus christ sun of god: ancient cosmology and early christian symbolism for other interesting associations of the number 153 with pythagorean symbolism. eliphas levi praises the sephira of tiphareth thus: beauty, the luminous conception of equilibrium in forms, intermediary between the crown and the kingdom, mediating principle between creator and creation

, watchman, how much longer the night" is. 21: 11) 111: msvh: a veil, or face covering (ex. 34: 33. 666: theosophic number of the magic planetary line 666: the square of the first 7 prime numbers *666: alhikm, elohikam: your god 666: asthhr, isthar, the goddess ishtar (aramaic) 666: ihi marth, yehi meoroth: let there be luminaries 666: svrth, sorath: spirit of the sun 666: shm ihshvh: the name of jesus 666: shmsh ihvh, shemash tetragrammaton: sun of jehovah 666: ho seraphas: greek for serapis, egyptian god 666: euporia: greek for material wealth, gold 666: the heart or soul in greek 666: the number of the beast in rev. 13: 18 (a certain wisdom is needed here; with a little ingenuity anyone can calculate the number of the beast) 666: thsrv: you shall turn aside (g. g. locks) the kamea of ne

between the symbols of the tau cross (christ) and the figure eight (mercury) is that, when laid sideways.when the cross is a multiplication symbol (x).it synthesizes with the lemniscate, or figure eight symbol, if the lines continue in an arc until they are connected (see figure 10-b. this is the cross in the sphere and the mercurial wheel of nature, which jacob boehme spoke about. the number of jesus, written in greek, is 888; and tau, the final hebrew letter, doubled equals 800, which is omega in greek. the curves in the number eight are reciprocal and alternating, expressing better than any other number the repetition of equal and complementary parts. its key words are rhythm, alteration, and vibration, and its movement is marked by regular recurrence (see figure 10-c. we can see this

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nished with her, he lifted up the little boy and placed him on top of the grandmother, forcing another sex act upon the both of them. then the grandmother was removed from the table and the little boy was victimized himself by the reptilian, forced to have anal and oral sex. the grandmother protested violently, pushing the reptilian away from her grandson and interposing her body between them "by jesus" she shouted "you will not touch this boy" who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (26 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:59] that must have been the wrong thing to say, because the reptilian became very angry and threatened her "you will die for that" he told her, and the two people were returned to the bedroom from which they'd been taken. the ne

e of my neck and it stung really bad and then i could not move, so the angel touched me and i could move again. i then immediately punched the alien square in the face breaking its neck and killing it instantly. the other two stood by looking at their fallen comrade- their moves were very quick and their heads rotated almost as fast as a lizard. the angel held up his arms and spoke in the name of jesus christ i command you to depart. then both the creatures immediately fell to the floor and these gray aliens were again taken up into a beam of light in the same manner as before. then the angel covered my eyes and then uncovered my eyes. i was all of a sudden on top of a large mountain looking down over a large valley filled with aliens and strange looking humans and their spacecraft. then i

ave apparently been able to repel or kill potential reptilian/alien abductors- at least those "empowered" would-be-abductees that i have heard of- in spite of vastly superior alien technological and psychological advantages, are "blood-bought" reborn christians who have claimed the supernatural power and authority resident within the "divine blood transfusion" that is offered to us as a result of jesus' sacrfice at calvary "behold, i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you/ luke 10:19. this divine decree should be the calling card for all of you potential "jesu-di" knights out there. as you can see by the fact that i'm still kickin and swinging in spite of the relentless and painful psychic attacks

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of the year could be more holy than the sabbath, and why it was even made illegal in boston! the holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older pagan gods and heroes. and many of them (like oedipus, theseus, hercules, perseus, jason, dionysus, apollo, mithra, horus and even arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of jesus. and to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the christian savior. ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. it is the winter solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. it is the birthday of the new sun king, the son of god- by whatever name you choose to call him. on this darkest of nights, the godd

ght of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as christians. perhaps even more so, as the christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. there had been a tradition in the west that mary bore the child jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the month. finally, in 320 c.e, the catholic fathers in rome decided to make it december, in an effort to co-opt the mithraic celebration of the romans and the yule celebrations of the celts and saxons. there was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. shepherds just don't 'tend their flocks b

hraic celebration of the romans and the yule celebrations of the celts and saxons. there was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. shepherds just don't 'tend their flocks by night' in the high pastures in the dead of winter! but if one wishes to use the new testament as historical evidence, this reference may point to sometime in the spring as the time of jesus's birth. this is because the lambing season occurs in the spring and that is the only time when shepherds are likely to 'watch their flocks by night- to make sure the lambing goes well. knowing this, the eastern half of the church continued to reject december 25, preferring a 'movable eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 8 date' fixed by their astrologers accor

time when shepherds are likely to 'watch their flocks by night- to make sure the lambing goes well. knowing this, the eastern half of the church continued to reject december 25, preferring a 'movable eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 8 date' fixed by their astrologers according to the moon. thus, despite its shaky start (for over three centuries, no one knew when jesus was supposed to have been born, december 25 finally began to catch on. by 529, it was a civic holiday, and all work or public business (except that of cooks, bakers, or any that contributed to the delight of the holiday) was prohibited by the emperor justinian. in 563, the council of braga forbade fasting on christmas day, and four years later the council of tours proclaimed the twelve days

y spread to manycountries no faster than christianity itself, which means that 'christmas' wasn't celebrated in ireland until the late fifth century; in england, switzerland, and austria until the seventh; in germany until the eighth; and in the slavic lands until the ninth and tenth. not that these countries lacked their own mid-winter celebrations of yuletide. long before the world had heard of jesus, pagans had been observing the season by bringing in the yule log, wishing on it, and lighting it from the remains of last year's log. riddles were posed and answered, magic and rituals were practiced, wild boars were sacrificed and consumed along with large quantities of liquor, corn dollies were carried from house to house while carolling, fertility rites were practiced (girls standing und

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ed catholicism. at the time of the trials there was clearly some sort of formal service quite apart from the crescendo of the fertility dance. it would, in a catholic age, be very like the known pageantry of the church's own celebrations, with candles, vestments and a parody of the sacrament. it might be conducted by an unfrocked priest using hosts with the devil's name stamped on them instead of jesus, and the defiling of the crucifix-to insult christians and please the devil. the devil himself received praise and homage. a liturgy of evil would be repeated, there would be a mock sermon and absolution made with the left hand and an inverted cross' those who attended these meetings he dismisses in the following way (page 131 'some were perhaps dissipated perverts and had shame or guilty pr

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ist wisdom zen koans see his buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan s lake living alone nan ch uan s rejection thoughts from confucius tao of pooh the stone cutter the cork te of piglet making the best of it sherlock on religion emperor s horses incognito three treasures fantasies live, but live well illusions samurai s late supper the gospel according to zen jesus said. gasan and the bible stringless harp eat when hungry sporting fish empty boats three in the morning zen archery meshing nets the butterflies of chuang tzu the dream what is acceptable? the argument happy fish seven openings look 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? chris

d the samurai, eagerly leaning forward. there had to be something to make it taste so good! tell me-what is it? the zen master softly spoke: it took time, he said. the gospel according to zen editor s note: this collection of sayings was taken from a book called the gospel according to zen: beyond the death of god edited by robert sohl in 1970. i highly recommend the book to you. three sayings of jesus jesus said to his disciples: make comparisons; tell me what i am like. simon peter said to him: you are like a just angel. matthew said to him: you are like a wise philosopher. thomas said to him: master, my mouth will in no way endure my saying what you are like. jesus said: i am not your master. jesus said: let him who seeks not cease his seeking until he find; and when he find, he will be

mon peter said to him: you are like a just angel. matthew said to him: you are like a wise philosopher. thomas said to him: master, my mouth will in no way endure my saying what you are like. jesus said: i am not your master. jesus said: let him who seeks not cease his seeking until he find; and when he find, he will be troubled, and if he is troubled, he will marvel, and will be a king over all. jesus said: i m the light which is over everything. i am the all; from me the all has gone forth, and to me the all has returned. split wood: i am there. lift up the stone, and you will find me there. gasan and the bible a university student while visiting gasan asked him: have you ever read the christian bible? no, read it to me, said gasan. the student opened the bible and read from st. matthew:

tures (known to most christians as the old testament) are full of allusions to such experiences, suggesting them as starting points for our prayer that will lead us to deeper encounters with the transcendent, hidden but ever-present god. such allusions form a constant theme, for instance, in the psalms, jewish prayers which christians continued to pray from the earliest christian times, as indeed jesus himself did. elizabeth johnson women, earth and creator spirit pg. 22 three basic relationships: human beings with nature, among themselves, and with god. in each instance the major classical pattern of relationship is shaped by hierarchical dualism, that is, modeled on the dominance of ruling male elites and the subjugation of what is identified as female, cosmic, or foreign, an underclass

ame laws. give them all an even chance to live and grow. chief joseph laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little one get caught. fear not the law, but the judge. russian thieves increase with the making of new laws. romanian custom is stronger than law. russian first, we kill all the lawyers. shakespeare? harken to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. jesus 293 the test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. henry david thoreau most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it. robert brault one lawyer in a town will languish, two lawyers will prosper. sam adams, rdna the successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. eri

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identical. some christian kabalists point out that in genesis xlix. v. 10 we find yebah shiloh, yba shilh, shiloh shall come, which amount to 358. and that the word messiah, mshych is 40, 300, 10, 8 or 358. but so is also nachash, the serpent of moses, nchsh, 50, 8, 300. and i must remark that the claim to translate shilh, or, as some ancient hebrew mss. write it, shlh, by shiloh, in the sense of jesus christ, is farfetched. the word is simply rest, or peace, in its simplest meaning, but also is the scorpio of the chaldean zodiac (related to nachash, serpent) and judah, of whom jacob is talking in the prophecy, is the sign of the zodiac; leo for judah is a lion s whelp (the chaldean zodiac has a lion couchant, he crouches as a lion. in this sense, then, the scepter shall not depart from ju

f these the first, third and last number 666, but opera and its reverse number only 356. the number 608 is notable, being in coptic, phre, the sun 500, 100, 8. and in greek we find vhs, 400, 8, 200, which becomes ihs in latin, for the greek upsilon changes to y and i in latin, and so we obtain the anagram of iesus hominum salvator. kircher points out a greek example of magic squares. the names of jesus and mary, and iesous maria have a curious relation. iesous is 10, 8, 200, 70, 400, 200=888. now take maria, 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152. set 152 in a magic square of three, i.e. nine compartments, thus, 1-5-2, 5-2-1, 2-1-5, then the totals are all 888. the letters of iesous also make a magic square of 36 divisions, adding every way to 888. consult the arithmologia of kircher. numbers--th eir occu

d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott jealous; yet in spite of all these precautions woman has developed all these faults. of two who quarrel, he or she who first gives in shows the noblest nature. two negatives or affirmations are as good as an oath. shevuoth, 36. i. the twos of the two testaments are two tables of the law. the disciples were sent out two and two; two disciples were sent by jesus to fetch the ass s colt; two to make ready the passover; two disciples buried jesus; caleb and joshua were the two spies; two angels rescued lot; there were two witnesses of the resurrection and two of the ascension. 40. the book of revelation of st. john the divine speaks of two witnesses, two olive trees and two candlesticks. if a dream was dreamed two times it foretold a truth; as in gene

ria; the priests used a cord of 3 colored strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar. terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa colore. the druids also paid a constant respect to this number and even their poems are noted as being composed in triads. it is not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent importance of the christian trinity. in old paintings we often see a trinity of jesus with john and mary. in the timaeus of plato, the divine triad is called theos--god, logos--the word and psyche, the soul. indeed it is impossible to study any single system of worship throughout the world, without being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple number in regard to divinity. whether as a group of deities, a triformed or 3- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir

u es by w. wyn n wes tcott. f. shaw calls attention to the number 3 years as being of mystical importance, as the half of seven, typifying present suffering as compared with future joy. the famine in the time of elias, when israel was persecuted by ahab and jezebel, lasted 3 years. antiochus epiphanes persecuted the church 3 years. forty-two months, or 3 years, are symbolical of times of trouble. jesus preached 3 years. in the revelations, the bride, the lamb s wife, suffers 1260 days in the wilderness, being a time, times, and a half, rev. xii. 6-14. again, the holy city is said to be trodden under foot forty-two months, or 3 years. the two witnesses testify 3 years, and their dead bodies remain unburied 3 days. so also, the scattering of the holy people as mentioned in daniel xii. 7 is f

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s its ultimate thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 5 justification in an intuition beyond the logos in its ocular and verbal representations. the only way to transcend the word, however, is through the word. to support his point exegetically, augustine cites the words attributed to the voice that spoke from the clouds to peter, james, and john while they were witnessing the transfiguration of jesus and his standing in the company of moses and elijah: this is my beloved son, with whom i am well pleased; listen to him (matt 17:5. augustine detects here a reference to the mystery of incarnation, which he expounds in temporal terms: therefore it is clear and evident that the utterance came through the movement of some created thing, serving your eternal will but itself temporal [quod creat

ated thing, serving your eternal will but itself temporal [quod creaturae motus expressit eam, serviens aeternae voluntati tuae, ipse temporalis. and these your words, made for temporal succession, were reported by the external ear to the judicious mind whose internal ear is disposed to hear your eternal word. 25 the eternal word (aeternum verbum) by which all things were created is identified as jesus, the beginning (principium) that is wisdom (sapientia, the silence (silentio) apprehended by way of the inner ear (interior posita, the temporal instantiation of the eternal will. the word, the instrument of creation, is described, therefore, as temporal but also as coeternal with god. insofar as the logos participates in the divine substance, its true eternity and true immortality are set i

ment indeed the momentum of the moment is conceived from the vantage point of the enfleshment of the flesh beyond flesh, 6 chapter one the envisioning of the image beyond image, the immanence of infinitude in the finite. 32 on this basis we can grasp why augustine exegetically links the mystery to the verse today i have begotten you, ego hodie genui te (ps 2:7, a verse that was already applied to jesus in hebrews 5:5. god s eternity is characterized by a today that does not yield to a tomorrow, nor did it follow a yesterday, that is, the today is the fullness of a present that has neither past nor future.33 to speak of the word being born today signifies the begetting of what is coeternal with god, the eternal coming-to-be of what has everlastingly been. the incarnation semiotically encode

tempus.35 in the word, everything which begins to be and ceases to be begins and ends its existence precisely because it is the eternal reason [aeterna ratione] where nothing begins or ends, 36 the eternal law (lex aeterna) that manifests the reason (ratio) of the timeless deity in the transitory world.37 augustine opines further about this matter in his explication of john s statement concerning jesus, they sought therefore to seize him, and no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come (jn 7:30: he was waiting for the time when he would die, because he also waited for the time when he was to be born. the apostle, speaking about this time, said, but when the fullness of time came, god sent his son (gal 4:4. that is why many ask: why did not the christ come before? to them it

ture of the godhead. 244 the obfuscation of the ontic boundary between angel and god, centered about the image of the glorious angel and/or angelic glory, is a fundamental tenet of kabbalah in its varied formulations with roots in much older forms of jewish esotericism that may have served as the model for the binitarian pattern of devotion apparent in early christian communities that ascribed to jesus the role of the chief mediating agent.245 for schelling, the intentional confusion in scripture is proof of the logic of a+ b applied to the godhead, that is, to speak of to imagine the divine essence requires envisioning the essence and the other that comes through that essence but is not identical to it, an ontotheological truth that lies beyond and is the foundation of the christological

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k for further enlightenment. h ow should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses a ll consciousness of self: when he walks in his own courtyard& does not see any of the persons in it- then there will be no error" die jovis: began the pantacle of xvi& went on with my fish story; which by the way is the blasting of the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see line 6

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ask for further enlightenment. how should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses all consciousness of self: when he walks in his own courtyard& does not see any of the persons in it- then there will be no error" die jovis: began the pantacle of xvi& went on with my fish story; which by the way is the blasting of the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see line 6

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rief and simple ritual for helping those in trouble or sickness must conform to this law if it is to be effectual. that is why the l.v.x. signs and invocation of the d.w.b. is so remarkable in its results. it is an epitome of the redemption. just consider it in detail and you will realize this. we begin by intoning the letters i.n.r.i. we recall the varied significance attributed to these letters jesus nazarenus rex judicorum. it is, of course, a form of the 4-fold name (yod he vau he, but its essential significance is not creative but redemptive. the sun in virgo accomplishing the transmutation of scorpio. the virgin mother treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transformi

ole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris, father, and son jesus. and between them the serpent which must be transformed into the eagle. the destroyer who must become the transmuter. remember also that these 3 letters have a further significance thus 't' stands for the ego, the indestructible unit which survives from life to life "0" is the eternal spirit, embracing the universe, reaching out beyond the boundaries of time and space, yet revolving about th

g.d. are extremely complex, with a great deal more revelation required concerning hidden meanings. an example of this is from the 5=6 ritual when i.n.r.i. is discussed: the keyword is i.n.r.i, which is inscribed with its correspondences upon this complete symbol of the rose and cross which i bear upon my breast. these letters have been occasionally used as the initials of the following sentences: jesus nazarenus rex judecorum, whence it symbolizes the grand word which is yeheshua or the hebrew name of jesus, formed of the holy letters shin, representing the ruach elohim, placed within the centre of the name tetragrammaton. also it has been interpreted as: igne natura renvatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum from a personal viewpoint

try into libra stirs into activity the opposite influence of venus. it is no longer the life of the personal self which is of importance, but the unifying influence of the planet of love which impels us to search for that other our higher self and to prepare for that inner consummation which will lead to rebirth and a new life. we may remember that after winter solstice, we celebrate the birth of jesus during this half of the solar year. the coming six months are therefore under the influence of the spiritual life of union. it is thus in a sense dual or, rather, under the influence of a duality which should be merged into unity or oneness. our ceremony is a presentation of this solar drama showing its effect on man, and its interpretation lies chiefly with kerux (silent though he is, and h

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of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a higher matter unsuited for this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is expressed by the rosicrucian formula of the trinity "ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" this is also identical with the word lux, l.v.x, which is formed by the arms of a cross. it is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modern monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the saviour of the world. the doctrine of resurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. it is not even "scriptural. st. paul does not identi

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crook of mercy and in thy left hand the scourge of severity,7 the emblems of those eternal forces, betwixt which in equilibrium the 217 universe dependeth: these forces whose reconciliation is the key of life, whose separation is evil and death [the "third adept" then continues frater n.n.'s narrative, in which are mentioned the names of the early brothers. he ends by saying] ex deo nascimur; in jesu morimur; per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus [the pastos is then closed and the aspirant quits the vault, which is made ready for the third part of the ceremony] illustration on page 218 described "diagram 70. the temple in the third point of the 5= 6 ritual" this is the same room shown in diagram 60. the heptagonal vault is shown in the upper half of the room, with a door ajar on the bottom si

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wo avalokiteshwaras in esotericism; the first and the second logos* no religious symbol can escape profanation and even derision in our days of politics and science. in southern india the writer has seen a converted native making pujah with offerings before a statue of jesus clad in woman's clothes and with a ring in his nose. when asking the meaning of the masquerade we were answered that it was jesu-maria blended in one, and that it was done by the permission of the padri, as the zealous convert had no money to purchase two statues or "idols" as they, very properly, were called by a witness- another but a non-converted hindu. blasphemous this will appear to a dogmatic christian, but the theosophist and the occultist must award the palm of logic to the converted hindu. the esoteric christ

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from behind the veil paroketh. it is for this reason that the messiahs and saviours of the world are assigned to tiphareth in the symbolism of the tree, for they were the light-bringers to humanity; and as all who bring fire from heaven must do, they died the sacrificial death for the sake of mankind. it is here, too, that we die to the lower self in order that we may rise in the higher self 'in jesu morimur" 13. the middle pillar rises through daath, the invisible sephirah, which we have already seen is knowledge according to the rabbis, and conscious awareness or apprehension according to the terminology of the psychologist. at the head of this pillar is kether, the crown, the root of all being. consciousness, theri, reaches from the spiritual essence of kether, through the realisation

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orces. it represents the supreme authority wielded by the magician (alchemical sign or mark for brimstone (sulfur, from the book of signs (1930) by rudolf koch) the term sign is sometimes used for sigil, but is a more general term meaning any simple esoteric symbol, such as the symbol for elemental fire, as in "the sign of elemental fire (skull, a token of death, from het geheele leven ons heeren jesu christi, 1648) a token is a sign that represents something else by association. a rose may be used as a token of love, a raven as a token of putrefaction. tokens do not embody the things they represent (astrological glyph of the planet neptune, from the book of signs (1930) by rudolf koch) a glyph, short for hieroglyph, is usually the pictorial representation of a letter. ancient egyptian and

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ughty, following it up with a violence of blasphemy, then a reference to his dear little friend magdalen, his darling and his favourite mistress. and then, without springing or using effort of any kind, she projected herself into a pane of glass and hanging on to a central bar of iron passed bodily through it, but on making an exit from the other side the command was given in latin, est in nomine jesu rediret non per aliam sed per eadem viam. after some discussion and a definite refusal to return she, however, returned by the same route, whereupon the doctors examined her pulse and tongue, all of which she endured while laughing and discussing other things. they found no disturbance such as they had expected, nor any sign of the violence of her actions and words, her coming to being accomp

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lifted up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is herelively counterfeited, with all the ornaments and attires. in his hand he held a parchment called t, the which next unto the bible is our greatest treasure, which ought not to be delivered to the censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this following elogium: granum pectori jesu insitum. c.r.c. ex nobili atque splendida germaniae r.c. familia oriundus, vir sui seculi divinis revelationibus, subtilissimis imaginationibus, indefessis laboribus ad coelestia atque humana mysteria; arcanave admissus postquam suam (quam arabico et africano itineribus collejerat) plus quam regiam, atque imperatoriam gazam suo seculo nondum convenientem, posteritati eruendam costodivisset et

hey had subscribed themselves: 1. fra. i.a. fra. c.h. electione fraternitatis caput. 2. fra. g.v.m.p.c. 3. fra f.r.c, junior haeres s. spiritus. 4. fra. f.b.m.p.a, pictor et architectus. 5. fra. g.g.m.p.i, cabalista. 1. fra. p.a. successor, fra. i.o, mathematicus. 2. fra. a. successor, fra p.d. 3. fra r. successor patris c.r.c, cum christo triumphantis. at the end was written; ex deo nascimur, in jesu morimur, per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus. at that time was already dead brother i.o. and brother p.d, but their burial place, where is it to be found? we doubt not but our fra. senior hath the same, and some special thing laid in earth, and perhaps hidden, like our father c. we also hope that this our example will stir up others more diligently to enquire after their names (which we have th

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e iuius aereae indumeiiti jimhriam solet. quam cum summo vertice crescens herba contigerit, vires inde ad depcuendos omnes viorhos lauguoresque couquirit; ita ut quaecunque fuerit ilia infirmitas corporis, haustu exiguo madefacta salutaris graminis depellatur; nihil omnino virium gereus, si iintequam aereae fimbriae summitatem crescendo contigerit, decerpatur. banc statuam ad similitudinem vultus jesu tradebant, quae permansit etiam ad nostra (eusebii) usque tempora. sicut ipsi oculis nostris inspeximus' the beautiful myth is also copied by agobardus (0pp. ed. baluze, par. 1666. 2, 248-9. it was essential for the plant to have grown up to the hem of the garment, it was only by touching it that it acquired healing efficacy. 2 les reliques sunt forz, deus i fait grant vertuz, iloc juit uu co

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among christian ones, or found its counterpart in them. the name valholl, walahalla, seems to have been avoided; winsele may indeed have been said of heaven, but i can only find it used of earthly dwellings, csedm. 270, 21. beow. 1383. 1536. 1907. on the other hand our later and even religious poets continue without scruple to use the term freudensal for heaven, for heavenly 4 ik sup mit min herr jesu christ, wenn du, diivel, ewig dorsten miist, un drink init en fort kolle schal, wenn du sittst in de hollequal. this is not mere railing, but the sober earnest of heroes who mean to drink and hunt with wuotan; conf. lisch s mekl. jahrb. 9, 447. 1 such a land of bliss is part of celtic legend too, the fay morgan (p. 412 n) conducts to it; i read in parz. 56, 18: den fuort ein feie, hiez murgan

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canus they were asideans (chasidim) and pharisees (p&rsts, but then thegr became sadducees or zadokites asaertera of sacerdotal rule as contradistinguished from rabbinical. tlie pharisees were lenient and intellectual; the sadducees, bigoted and cruel. says the codex "john, son of the aba-saba-zacharia, conceived by his mother aneshbet in her hundredth year, had baptized ior forty-two years* when jesu messias came to the jordan to be baptized with john's baptism. but he will pervert fjohn'a doctrine, changing the baptism of the jordan, and perverting the sayings of justice* the baptism was changed from wafer to that of the holy ghost, un- doubtedly in consequence of the ever-dominant idea of the fathers to institute a reform, and make the christians distinct from st. john's nazarenes, the

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i philosophico lapide invento, illius usu immortalis fiat. mori tamen clici, c m partes corruptibiles abijcit; resurgere, c m fit incorruptibilis; glorificari, c m proinde easdem dotes assequitur, qu tribuuntur corporibus gloriosis. homines, quih c evaserint, fratres crucis rose dictos, scire omnia, posse omnia, non arbitrari rapinam esse se equales deo, c m eadem in illis sit mens, qu in christo jesu. sext. creationem non esse productionem rei ex nihilo, ut nos vulg intelligimus nihil. materiam (quam s pissim tenebras vocant) esse id, quod propri appelletur nihil; ac proinde cum deus dicitur creare, aut facere aliquid ex nihilo, intelligi creare, aut facere ex materia. moysen, c m creationem mundi descripsit, fuisse alchymistam, itemque davidem, salomonem, jacob, job, et omnes alios; ade

a very extraordinary one; as the design and tendency of it will puzzle most persons who are acquainted with the nature of the antagonistic relations which were supposed to exist between the church of rome and the rosicrucians. the book is exceedingly scarce and valuable: rosa jesuitica, oder jesuitische rottgesellen, das ist, eine frag ob die zween orden, der ganandten ritter von der neerscharen jesu, und der rosen-creuzer ein einiger ordensen: per j. p. d. a s. jesuitarum protectorum. prague, 1620 (4to. this is a truly curious tract upon the relations of the jesuits and the rosicrucians. a very curious book upon the subject of the peculiar and fanciful attributed notions of the rosicrucians, and which drew a large amount of surprised and left-handed attention when it first appeared, was

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that a new-born child should speak with the tongue of full grown men. so did the child speak "behold this wondrous sign and know that god's hand is here, working great deeds upon the earth that all the kingdoms of men might fall down in worship before the one, true god, adonai yahweh. whose hand is reached out to command the motions of the sky and earth and direct the minions of high heaven. i am jesu, most holy messenger, son of heaven, that walks on earth that all men might hear me and heed well those words that i shall speak. now is it that shalem kneels to rome but, by me, shall rome kneel to shalem, consecrated by my holy foot. this is the first of many signs that i shall show that men may turn from wickedness to god and thus may be redeemed. those that take not care of me, most wretc

ch would be wrought by him. michael looked down from his prison-tower where he ever watched all those about whether without or else within, ever guarding for the hidden knife or else the cup brim-full of venom. no ease was there for michael, fallen far from adonai yahweh's favour even as he had cast me far and now the traitor was betrayed by a thousand imagined threats. he saw on earth below this jesu and fear cleaved strong to him. despite the madness that howled within and drew to his sight alone visions of ten thousand hidden blades each clutched by some shadowed form, his elohim craft revealed to him what would be in future days and he perceived within the young child that by this agency would his power be destroyed and jesu's father would gain over him ascendancy in his father's eyes

r of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had first approached her "mary, most blessed of the women of the earth, mother to that prince most blessed that is the very son of heaven. swiftly must you fly hence for it is that herod, king of israel, grows jealous of the blessing of your son and perceives in that boy that which would eclipse his kingdom. thus, in his

tower fell to his knees with fear, knowing well that his part would not long be unknown to gabriel. the company that yet waited without heard both howls and screams come from within and such fear took them that they had not strength to flee that even when came forth from the portal a dread form, crimson-dyed with blood, they were cut down like wheat, standing unresisting before the scythe. so did jesu escape the wrath of herod. the child, in egypt, abided seven years and then, when the tetrarch had but forgotten 333 all that misery his hand had wrought was jesu restored to the land of israel and returned to his mother's town which was called nazareth. there did he grow and become a man. even as he did grow to manhood again and again descended gabriel from heaven to instruct him in many art

el and returned to his mother's town which was called nazareth. there did he grow and become a man. even as he did grow to manhood again and again descended gabriel from heaven to instruct him in many arts and to inscribe upon his soul belief in a great destiny that he might win for himself the faith of those born isaac and those that i had not surrendered. when he was of fifteen years went forth jesu into the wilderness and there, in the desert, with but scorpions and jackals and with but locusts for his meat did he think to meditate forty days that the spirits of the wild places might be tamed by his hand that he might command them and master thus the sorceries that gabriel had taught to him by the agency of dreams. now upon this chance i seized, perceiving his solitude in the desert tha

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ent of magical lore, and an expert kabbalist, to complete openly that which had been begun in secret.3 this is that which is written: his bishoprick let another take. and again: oculi tetragammaton. this is also that which is said: nomen secundum refertur ad gebhurah; qui est rex bittul atque corruptio achurajim patris et matris hoc indigitatur. and so saying we wish you well. ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur. per s.s. reviviscimus. given forth from our mountain of a, this day of c.c. 1903 a. d. 1 mr. a. e. waite writes( real history of the rosicrucians, p. 426 "i beg leave to warn my readers that all persons who proclaim themselves to be rosicrucians are simply members of pseudo-fraternities, and that there is that difference between their assertion and the fact of the case in which the e

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vocative ideas and symbolic gestures which extend tremendously the root idea. and by knowing these ideas, the gestures may be used practically to aspire to the illumination it suggests. this is the essential value of the sacramental actions. the rosicrucian equivalent of this formula is found in the fama fraternatitas, one of the original three classical rosicrucian documents. ex deo nascimur. in jesu morirnur. per spiritus sanctus reviviscimus "from god are we born. in christ we die. we are revived by the holy spirit" nor is this all. if we take 'lvx' as symbols of roman numerals, we have 65. this number, therefore, attains the symbolic equivalent of light, gnosis and illumination. the adeptus minor obligation imposed on the candidate during the ritual initiation, obligates him, as alread

SATANIC RITUALS

satan, we bless thee with this, the symbol of the rod of life (facing north) in the name of satan, we bless thee with this, the symbol of the rod of life (facing west) in the name of satan, we bless thee with this, the symbol of the rod of life. the consecration [the celebrant takes the wafer into his hands and, bending low over it, whispers the following words into it] celebrant: hoc est corpus jesu christi [he raises the wafer, placing it between the exposed breasts of the altar, and then touching it to the vaginal area. the gong is struck. he replaces the wafer on the paten which rests on the altar platform. taking the chalice into his hands, he bends low over it, as with the wafer, and whispers the following words into it] celbbrant: hic est caliz voluptatis carnis [he then raises the

lves to thy service, we may not weaken in our resolve, but with thy assistance, grow in wisdom and strength. deacon and subdeacon: shemhamforash [celebrant recites the fifth enochian key from the satanic bible] the repudiation and denunciation [the celebrant takes the wafer into his hands, extends it before him, and turns to face the assembled company, saying the following] celebrant: ecce corpus jesu christi, dominus humilim et rex servorum [the celebrant raises the wafer to the baphomet. he continues in great anger] celebrant: et toi, toi, qu'en ma qualit de pr tre, je force, que tu le veuilles ou non, descendre dans cette hostie, t'incarner dans ce pain, j sus, artisan de supercheries, larron d'hommages, voleur d'affection, coute! depuis le jour o tu sortis des entrailles ambassadrices

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

: steiner should not be misunderstood that he was being led through a training in spiritual development; cf. steiner s comments in man in the light of occultism, theosophy and philosophy (spiritual science library, blauvelt, ny, 1989, pp. 155-156. 94. 1 john 1:1, 1:3. 95. augustine, against mani s so-called fundamental epistle, 6. 96. matthew 28:20. 97. otto schmiedel, die hauptprobleme der leben jesu-forschung (t bingen and leipzig, 1902, p. 15. 98. adolf harnack, the essence of christianity. 99. see above, pp. 152ff. 100. see above, pp. 91ff. for an important study of the relationship, common symbolism, and so on, between philo and the gospel of john, see c.h. dodd, the interpretation of the fourth gospel (harvard university press, cambridge, 1968, pp. 55-73. dodd comments extensively on

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

ed up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is here lively counterfeited, with all the ornaments and attires; in his hand he held a parchment book, called i. the which next to the bible, is 12 our greatest treasure, which ought to be delivered to the censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this following elogium. granum pectori jesu insitum. c. ros. c. ex nobili atque splendida germaniae r.c. familia oriundus, vir sui seculi divinis revelationibus subtilissimis imaginationibus, indefessis laboribus ad coelestia, atque humana mysteria; arcanave admissus postquam suam (quam arabico& africano itineribus collegerat) plusquam regiam, atque imperatoriam gazam suo seculo nondum convenientem, posteritati eruendam custo divisset

cribed themselves, 1. fra: i.a. fr.c.h. electione fraternitatis caput. 2. fr: g.v. m.p.c. 3. fra: r.c. iunior haeres s. spiritus. 4. fra: b.m. p.a. pictor et architectus. 5. fr: g.g. m.p.i. cabalista. secundi circuli. 1. fra: p.a. successor, fr: i.o. mathematicus. 2. fra: a. successor, fra. p.d. 3. fra: r. successor patris c.r.c. cum christo triumphant. at the end was written- ex deo nascimur, in jesu morimur, per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus. 13 at that time was already dead brother i.o. and fra: d. but their burial place where is it to be found? we doubt not but our fra: senior hath the same, and some especial thing layd in earth, and perhaps likewise hidden: we also hope that this our example will stir up others more diligently to enquire after their names (whom we have therefore publi

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

hallucination at the direction of the fakir. projections by saints a definite case of astral projection is related in the little flowers of st. francis of assisi, an italian work (fioretti) based on a medieval latin manuscript. it concerns the nun saint clare, who was so ill one year that she was unable to go to church on the feast of the nativity, which was a source of great vexation to her. but jesu christ, her spouse, desiring not to leave her thus disconsolate, caused her to be miraculously carried to the church of s. francis and to be present at the whole of the office of matins and the midnight mass, and beyond all this to receive the holy communion and then be carried back to her bed. when the nuns came back to s. clare, after the office in s. darnian's was over, they said to her "0

this to receive the holy communion and then be carried back to her bed. when the nuns came back to s. clare, after the office in s. darnian's was over, they said to her "0 our mother, sister clare, what sweet consolation have we had on this holy feast of the nativity! oh, would that it had pleased god that you had been with us there" and s. clare replied "praise and glory do i give unto our lord jesu christ, the blessed one, my sisters and daughters most dear; for that with much consolation to my soul i have had part in all the solemn rites of this most holy night, and even more than ye: sith through the loving care of my father s. francis, and the grace of our lord jesu christ, i have been present in the church of my venerable father, s. francis, and with the ears of my body and my mind

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ocate it in the holy spirit, with a pure mind and a fervent spirit, that we may obtain those things which are promised us in him; especially knowledge going before, without which there is no hearing of us, according to that of the prophet, i will hear him because he hath known my name. hence at this time no favour can be drawn from the heavens, unless the authority, favour and consent of the name jesu intervene; hence the hebrews and cabalists most skillful in the divine names, can work nothing after christ by those old names, as their fathers have done long since; and now it is by experience confirmed, that no devil nor power of hell, which vex and trouble men, can resist this name, but will they, nil1 they, bow the knee and obey, when the name jesu by a due pronunciation is proposed to t

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

iven over to the god of fire; turn back! a most excellent charm against the hordes of demons that assail in the night (may be chanted while walking around the circumference of the circle, and sprinkling the vicinity with sweet water, using a pine cone or golden brush. an image of a fish may be at hand, and the incantation pronounced clearly, every word, either whispered softly, or shouted loudly) isa ya! isa ya! ri ega! ri ega! bi esha bi esha! xiyilqa! xiyilqa! duppira atlaka isa ya u ri ega limuttikunu kima qutri litilli shami ye ina zumri ya isa ya ina zumri ya ri ega ina zumri ya bi esha ina zumri ya xiyilqa ina zumri ya duppira ina zumri ya atlaka ina zumri ya la tatara ina zumri ya la tetixxi ye ina zumri ya la taqarruba ina zumri ya la tasaniqa ni yish shammash kabtu lu tamatunu ni

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

y-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. i,47: but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. i,48: my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? i,49: abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. i,50: there is a word to say about the hierophantic task. behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. the gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. thu

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tness or magnificence; a masculine potency represented by the divine name al, el, the mighty one, and the angelic name, chshmlim, chashmalim, scintillating flames (ezek. iv. 4. the number 5. from this emanated the feminine passive potency gbvrh, geburah, strength or fortitude; or din, deen, justice; represented by the divine names, alhim gbvr, and alh, eloh, and the angelic name shrpim, seraphim (isa. vi. 6. this sephira is also called pchd, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephira, thparth, tiphereth, beauty or mildness, represented by the divine name alvh vdoth, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names, shinanim, shnanim (ps. lxviii. 18, or mlkim, melakim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty or clemency, and the second trinity of t

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

mpeii or a herculaneum tis said there are still sevenburied cities to unearth. i have done what little (it is really very little) i could, to disinter somethingfrom the dead volcano of italian sorcery.if this be the manner in which italian witchcraft is treated by the most intelligent writer who hasdepicted it, it will not be deemed remarkable that there are few indeed who will care whether there isa veritable gospel of the witches, apparently of extreme antiquity, embodying the belief in a strangecounter-religion which has held its own from pre-historic time to the present day. witchcraft is allrubbish, or something worse, said old writers, and therefore all books about it are nothing better. isincerely trust, however, that these pages may fall into the hands of at least a few who will th

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

or i, the root of which is o (nought) in our conceptions, the all in nature and its mind. pro-mater is divine fire. it is the creator, the destroyer, the preserver. the primitive names of the gods are all connected with fire, from agni, the aryan, to the jewish god who "is a consuming fire" in india, god is called in various dialects, eashoor, esur, iswur, and is'vara, in sanskrit the lord, from isa, but this is primarily the name of siva, the destroyer; and the three vedic chief gods are agni (ignis, vayu, and surya- fire, air, and the sun, three occult degrees of fire. in the hebrew[[hebrew (aza, means to illuminate, and[[hebrew (asha) is fire. in occultism "to kindle a fire" is synonymous to evoking one of the three great fire-powers, or "to call on god" in sanskrit osch or asch is fir

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

, gabriel, uriel and michael; who resisted against lucifer and his raving followers which fell from heaven, and were consigned to hell for a time and a time; who serve god in consistancy and faith; who sing "holy! holy! holy! art the lord of hosts" to thee o lord; who has entrusted the service of leading the souls of the redeemed into heavenly blessedness. amen+ then finish by reciting jn 1.1-18, isa 8.19-22, ps 90& 69. the orders of angels. the shekinah the four great princes ruling over the four camps of the shekinah are michael, gabriel, uriel and raphael. michael is appointed over the water or seas, gabriel rules over the fire, uriel over the wind and raphael over the dust of the earth. these are the seven great princes which are appointed over the seven heavens: michael rules over the

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

a. helped amalgamate ismailite thought and muslim mysticism to jewish thought. 1075-1129 rupert of deutz. trinitarian division of history: the age of the father from the creation to the fall; of the son from the fall to the passion; and that of the holy spirit from the resurrection until the resurrection at the end of time. identified an "age of the spirit "during which the seven spiritual gifts (isa 11:2) are poured out on the faithful, each gift dominating a different age of church history" 1075-1160 abelard of bath translates euclid into latin from arabic 1076-1153 shahrastani refers to sabian "philosophers" 1080-1167 bernard sylvestris school of chartres philosopher of neo-platonic and neo-pythagoreanism tendencies probably influenced by the writings of eriugena. 1080-1154 william of c

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

a receiver and transmitter of energy. the earths magneticgrid, or grids, consist of lines of magnetic energy known as ley lines, meridians ordragon lines to the chinese. where these lines cross, the energy spirals into a vortexand where many lines cross you have a massive vortex of energy. these are the powerplaces, the sacred sites of the ancients who knew of this system. the vortex, or spiral, isa constant throughout the universe. our galaxy is a spiral, water spirals downwards,hair grows in a spiral at the crown, the dna molecule which carries our geneticblueprint is a double spiral. brian desborough, my scientist friend from california, toldme there is a point on one of the earth grids, the hartmann grid as it is called, wheretwelve of these force lines meet and go down into the earth

en. she is knowingly working for the brotherhood agenda and theorder of the garter is one of her premier networks. edward iiis name was windsor andwhen the present royal family decided to change their german name to an english onefor public relations reasons during the first world war, they chose windsor, after theman who founded this key brotherhood order. the insignia of the order of the garter isa jewelled collar with red roses alternating with 26 gold knots representing the 26knights in two groups of 13.1 similar orders emerged in france with the order of thestar, the order of the golden fleece, and the order of st michael. the freemasons arethe knights templar and the priory of sion under another name and the company ofjesus or jesuits are based on the same structure as the templars w

it works like this. if you or me have a million pounds, wecan lend a million pounds. v ery simple. but if a bank has a million pounds it can lendten times that and more, and charge interest on it. if even a fraction of the people whotheoretically have money deposited in the banks went today to remove it, the bankswould slam the doors in half an hour because they do not have it. money in the bank isa myth, another confidence trick. when you go into a bank and ask for a loan, the bankdoes not print a single new note nor mint a single new coin. it merely types the amountof the loan into your account. from that moment you are paying interest to the bank onwhat is no more than figures typed on a screen. however, if you fail to pay back thatnon-existent loan, the bank can come along and quite l

image of baphomet ofmendes or asmodeus, thesatanists symbol of thedevil. asmodeus is said tohave been the guardian ofsolomons treasure and aportrayal of him was foundamong the possessions of abbesauniere, the mysterious priestat rennes-le-chateau whoplaced a statue of asmodeus atthe entrance to his church.asmodeus is named as thechief demon in the hebrewtalmud. a painting ofwashington by caduceus isa mass of esoteric symbolismand geometry. two examplesare that his hand is raised atthe angle of the rising moonand his sword is at the angleof the sun at the wintersolstice.11the washington streetdesign has been expandedover the years, but this hasbeen done in keeping with aplan which appears to havebeen decided at the start. thesame thing seems to havehappened with somefigure 33: the inverted

al friends of the queen and prince philip. these included major generaldavid alexander, companion of the bath and former equerry and treasurer to philip, andair marshall sir thomas kennedy, knight grand cross of the bath, commander of thebritish empire, the former commander-in-chief of the royal airforce in germany. hewas aide-de-camp to the queen between 1983 and 86. the corps of commissionaires isa windsor operation through and through. it wont be a shock to learn, therefore, that thecorps is an umbrella organisation for hired killers. some of the companies in its networkare sandline ltd, executive outcomes and defence systems ltd. like the corps ofcommissionaires these are london-based and employ from the special air services(sas) and the military and police forces in the united kingdom

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ding the passing of time, successfully predicted eclipses, and accurately determined the length of the solar year (within 26 minutes. thus astrology was well developed in chaldea when (in the second millennium b.c.e) the biblical abraham migrated from ur of the chaldees (gen. 11:31) to palestine. the conflict between the emerging religions of the israelites and babylonian astrology can be seen in isa. 47:13 and repeatedly in the book of daniel (e.g. 2:27, 4:7. a primitive astrology had developed among the greeks, but during the conquests of alexander in the west beginning in 334 b.c.e. chaldean astrology flowed into the mediterranean basin. alexander s conquests also introduced astrology into india, although the indians took the chaldean notions and developed them in a unique direction. in

an ordinary person (mark 1:23.24. biblical authors did understand demons as objectively present in the world and pictured the apostles as trying to drive them away. considering demons as having an objective existence placed many questions about the nature of their origin, existence, operation, and habitation on the theological agenda. by the third century, the angel lucifer, who fell from heaven (isa. 14:12, was identified with satan, and the fallen angels with demons. the gnostics (who competed for members with the early christians, imitating plato s classification of the orders of spirits, attempted a similar arrangement with respect to a hierarchy of angels. the first and highest order was named seraphim; the second, cherubim; the third was the order of thrones; the fourth, dominions; t

erubim; the third was the order of thrones; the fourth, dominions; the fifth, virtues; the sixth, powers; the seventh, principalities; the eighth, archangels; and the ninth, and lowest, angels. this classification was censured by the christian church, yet almost outlived the pneumatologists of the middle ages. these scholars.studying the account in which the angel lucifer rebelled against heaven (isa. 14:12, and that in which michael, the archangel, warred against him (rev. 12:7).long asked the momentous question, what orders of angels fell on this occasion? at length it became the prevailing opinion that lucifer was of the order of seraphim. it was also asserted, after laborious research, that agares, belial, and barbatos, each of whom deposed angels of great rank, had been of the order o

aksakof s book. proceedings of the american society for psychical research (march 1907. crawford, w. j. the psychic structures at the goligher circle. london, 1921. d esperance, elizabeth. shadow land. london, 1897. geley, gustav. clairvoyance and materialisation: a record of experiments. london, 1927. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. from the unconscious to the conscious. london, 1927. gray, isa. from materialisation to healing. london: regency press, 1973. holms, a. campbell. the facts of psychic science. london, 1925. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1969. houdini, harry. a magician among the spirits. new york: harper, 1924. reprinted as houdini: a magician among the spirits. new york: arno press, 1972. hyslop, j. h. replies to mr. carrington s criticism of m. aksakof

. london: arthur barker, 1934. greatrakes, valentine. a brief account of mr. v. greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him performed, written by himself. london, 1666. gregory, william. animal magnetism or mesmerism and its phenomena. london, 1884. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. grossi, ralph. reliving reincarnation through hypnosis. smithtown, n.y: exposition press, 1975. gucciardi, isa, ph.d. depth hypnosis with isa gucciardi, ph.d, 15 march 2000 http//www.andreas.com/depthhypnosis. haddock, joseph w. somnolism and psycheisan: of the science of the soul and the phenomence of nervation. london, 1851. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. hall, james a. hypnosis: a jungian perspective. new york: guilford press, 1989. hopper, james, ph.d. recovered memories of sexual abuse: scie

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. london: j. burns, 1874. crossley, alan ernest. the story of helen duncan, materialization medium. uk: stockwell, 1975. delanne, gabriel. les apparitions materialisees des vivants et des morts. paris, 1911. geley, gustav. clairvoyance and materialisation. new york: george doran, 1927. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. from the unconscious to the conscious. london: william collins, 1920. gray, isa. from materialisation to healing. london: regency press, 1973. hall, trevor h. the spiritualist: the story of florence cook and william crookes. london: duckworth, 1962. reprinted as the medium and the scientist: the story of florence cook and william crookes. buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1984. henry, t. shekleton. spookland: a record of research and experiment in the much talked of realm o

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

y a little is known of their history, culture, and spirituality. the christian inhabitants consisted largely of the descendants of heretics who had been expelled from the roman empire. these arabian desert fathers possessed numerous apocalyptic and pseudo-epigraphic texts. but it is suspected that they had limited knowledge of the peshitta, and that the bulk of the material related to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah) and miryam (mary) in the qur an was derived from jewish sources. the hanifites were an arabian faith community largely concentrated in mecca, medina, and a few other cities, who had rejected idolatry previous to the birth of the prophet. they professed to be in search of the original religion of abraham. in the qur an, master mohammed repeatedly applies the term hanif to the

eligions, 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. the qur an also has beautiful surahs devoted to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah, to whom is ascribed the exalted stature of rasool (prophet of the highest degree, and to isa s mother miryam (mary. it is interesting to note that in the history of miryam, master mohammed speaks of miryam, sister of aaron the high priest" f" 2' 8: 0 and master mosheh, as the same miryam who became the mother of master isa 1570 years later. scholars frequently point to this a

master yeshuvah who will vanquish satan (lamc, samael) and take (only) twice born christians to heaven. mainstream religious muslims, who officially don t believe in the possibility of messiah (notwithstanding their tradition of the hidden maghdi, and the messianic beliefs of some sufis),35 have an ambiguous respect for master mosheh and the people of the book. they regard master yeshuvah (called isa in the qur an) as an immaculately conceived master of the highest rung. they are waiting for the last to take action on the day of judgment (yom ah-din, when allah will resurrect the souls of the faithful in paradise. 2" 2' 8: 2 f# acharit wielding a sword riding a white horse many details found in the torah, peshitta (gospels, and apocrypha regarding the nature, lives, experiences, powers, an

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

ery morning a melodious sound is emitted from the first named of these two colossal figures as he salutes his rosy-fingered mother whom he acknowledges as the source of all light and wisdom. the bodies are described as being "without motion, the faces without expression, the eyes looking straight forward, yet a certain grand simplicity occasions them to be universally admired" the goddess disa or isa of the north, as delineated on the sacred drums of the laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the horus of the egyptians.[29] it is observed also that the ancient muscovites worshipped a sacred group composed of a mother and her children, probably a representation of the egyptian isis and her offspring, or at least of the once universal idea of the deity [29] jennings, phallicism. t

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

e eleusinian mysteries, and a further point of resemblance is seen in the refusal to admit a slave, or anybut120themagical masona free man.ifthe whole aim of freemasonry were to propagate brotherly love and charity, why refuse to extend its blessings to the cripple, or the maimed, or to him in subjection.thelegend of the three grand masters, of whom one islost-becomesremoved to the invisibleworld-isa curious image of the kabbalistic first triad of the emanations of the unseen and unknowable ain soph aur, the boundless one, boundless light; first is kether the crown, thence proceed chochmah and binah, wisdom and understanding, and then is the crown concealed and lost to perception in its exaltedness, the word is lost, and replaced by other titles. in thetensephiroth, as in our lodges, we ar

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

palplaneof atziluth;thephysic plane, or plane of briah; the planeofformation,yetzirah; and267267 the material plane .assiah-.this may be illustrated as follows: a sculptor desiring to make a great statue first conceives of it in his mind- the first plane, atziluth. he then conceives of a picture, or something of that kind, which he may sketch. on paper, or perhaps onlyseeas.a mental picture; that isa.further materialising of the idea, bringing it into form, though not yet concrete and visible form, and that is the second plane, briah. he then proceeds to makeaclay model; that is the third plane, yetzirah. his conception is then incarnated in the permanent. marble, where it istoremain, and that is thefinal plane of assiah, the most materialofall. andthuswegetthe four. now the four is also

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

those not awakened is simply oblivion, nothingness, ceasing to exist. if there is any hell with torture and gnashing of teeth it is the world in which are now exiled. what is heaven? the hebrew shamayim (always used in the plural) is translated heavens, but basically means high or lofty. it is used to refer to the atmosphere of earth (such as in deut 4:17, proverbs 30:19, outer space (heb 11:12, isa 13:10, the sky (isa 45:8) and a range of other localities. the term is also used to refer to the higher worlds. in some ways it can be used to both refer to the astral worlds (the lower heavens) and the true heavens (the pleroma) above. what is the aim of this spiritual process? to understand this is to focus on a central issue in the teachings of the gnosis, that of the mysteries. to apprecia

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

locher der steinwende' trickle away, so to speak. 0. iv. 26, 43 has' ruafet thesen hergon, bittet sie thaz sie fallen ubar iuih, joh bittet ouh thie huhila thaz sie iuih theken obana, ir biginnet thanne iiinan erda sliofan, joh sumtet filu tlxrato' hel. 166, 3' than gi so gerna sind, that iu hier bihlidan hoha bergos, diopo bidelban' be-lid and deep be-delve you. much of this language is bibhcal (isa. 2, 19; hos. 10, 8; luke 23, 30; eev. 6, 15, 16, but the sentiment of many nations will run alike in such matters. nib. 867, 2' mir troumte, wie obe dir ze tal viele7i zwene berge' i dreamt, two mts fell on thee. that jumping out of one's skin, like a snake casting his slough, may also come of joy and anger, o.fr 'a poi n' ist de sa pel' is well nigh out of his skin, ogier 6688. nethl' het is

athen deities were declared vanquished and shorn of their strength, yet not downright powerless: their once kindly beniguant sway had turned into a fierce fiendish one. thus what the christians believed about the devil received at the the old faith of the slavs set up a white and a black god: belbogh and cbernibogh. but this dualism seems to mo neither thoroughgoing nor primitive- it arose out of isa. 41, 12' how art thou fallen from heaven, fair moruingstar' but it appears first in eusebius (domonstr. evang. 4, d, not in tertullian, nor irenajus nor lactantius. even jerome and augustine never call the devil lucifer. 986 devil. hands of tlie heathen a twofold enlargement: heathen gods and spirits already malign and gloomy in themselves readily dropt into the christian category of devilish

KETAB E SIYAH

sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. 47. but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor- khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. 50. there is a word to say about the hierophantic task. behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. the gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. thus

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

veral times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large, black eyes yahweh is depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is report

ls fight against the dragon and his rebel angels. in hebrew scriptures, yahweh is sometimes depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1).moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the 150 leviathan visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pha

LIBER SAMEKH

prehend the formula of equilibrium which is now his own, being able to apply himself accurately to his selfappointed environment. line 9 he acclaims his angel as having laid down the law of love as the magical formula of the universe, that he[ gabrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer, hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. h] point ii 13 may resolve the phenomenal again into its noumenal phase by uniting any two opposites in ecstatic passion. line 10 he acclaims his angel as having appointed that this formula of love should effect not only the dissolution of the sepa

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

slates the name isis to mean wisdom. godfrey higgins, in his anacalypsis, derives the name of isis from the hebrew, iso, and the greek zww, to save. some authorities, however, for example, richard payne knight (as stated in his symbolical language of ancient art and mythology, believe the word to be of northern extraction, possibly scandinavian or gothic. in these languages the name is pronounced isa, meaning ice, or water in its most passive, crystallized, negative state. this egyptian deity under many names appears as the principle of natural fecundity among nearly all the religions of the ancient world. she was known as the goddess with ten thousand appellations and was metamorphosed by christianity into the virgin mary, for isis, although she gave birth to all living things--chief amon

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

people? atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation297 appendix d: scientific evidence townsville-rockhampton queenslandanother giant fossil footprint, identical to the penrith and bathurst examples and measuring 61 cm longby 46 cm wide across the toes, was found near townsville, queensland, in 1952. more fossilized giantmanlike footprints of these dimensions have been found in the mount isa district of queensland. in thesame region, according to aborigines, a race of monsterous four-to-five-metre-tall giant men andwomen-the kalkadoons-once lived during the dreamtime. these monsters are reminiscent of the illankanpanka of rockhampton, queensland, aboriginal lore-10-to-12-metre-tall giant beings. are all these monster hominids representative of a single race? givenaboriginal size e

edasgard. it is said that during ragnarok the world is destroyed with flames by a being called surt, wholives beneath the lower world (appropriately called hel) and was involved in the world's creation. bycomparison, the bhagavata purana (3.11.30) states that at the end of brahma's day, the devastationtakes place due to the fire emanating from the mouth of sankarshana. sankarshana (ananta shesha) isa plenary expansion of krishna who is seated at the bottom of the universe (bhagavata purana 3.8.3),beneath the lower planetary systems.more connections to the v edic tradition can be found in the norse lore, but they go beyond the presenttopic.tibet tibetan buddhist perspective of the nagas comes from cho-yang's year of tibet edition. among allthe creatures of the six realms, humans are the mos

as the lower leg bone. the quantity of fluorine deposition was parallel with the progressionof the calcification. they also proved that the deposit of fluorine on teeth and bones starts through theplacenta as early as the embryo period, and then takes place through the mothers milk through theinfancy period, and through food, as well as directly through the inside of the oral cavity. as fluorine isa known active enzyme poison, it is known to affect cell division (mitotic) in the fetus, resulting in ana-tomical anomalies (teratism. 1960 national reconnaissance office (nro) created to manage spy satellites. 1960 from 1960 to 1973, the u.s. sells russia vast quantities of equipment. 1960 captain edward ruppelt mysteriously dies of heart attack. 1960 project aquarius initiated to collect et t

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ths, representing horus, took the place of the retiring hierophant, who had represented osiris. the "general allusion" is nothing of the sort. this verse is a categorical statement, to be taken in the most objective way by any aspirant to initiation. all the rituals, words and signs of past initiatic orders are abrogate. you must not 1 et yourself be conned by any of them. see "the ship. asar and isa are one, that is, they are different forms of the same formula, the central formula of the minor mysteries. the difference between their rites is simply a matter of psychological convenience. see liber 175, verse 2, for this important point "let asar be the adorant. in our system, the candidate presents himself before horus, to invoke him, under the paraphernalia of asar. if the candidate is w

ience. see liber 175, verse 2, for this important point "let asar be the adorant. in our system, the candidate presents himself before horus, to invoke him, under the paraphernalia of asar. if the candidate is wise, he will make sure that he possesses the magical and mystical powers of which the paraphernalia are merely the symbols. for ra-hoor-khuit demands that you bind the words and the deeds "isa the sufferer. this expression needs no explanation if you have any acquaintance with the sado-masochistic nature of christian mysticism, specially where roman catholicism predominates. some people are happy only when they suffer. let them be. see lxv, v, verses 7-10, 19-22, 47-51. who are you to chart another star's course "but they are not of me" in one sense, this means that those who identi

royed "rest" by that which finally equilibrates motion "ecstasy" refers to a trance which combines these "nor do i demand aught in sacrifice--the ritual of worship is samadhi. but see later, verse 61. the above commentary is very lofty, and had as its purpose to refute certain critics who pointed out that nuit gave or promised "indecent" rewards to her worshippers. those who follow the method of "isa the sufferer" cannot understand joy as a religious feeling. however, there is not one young person, or one healthy person, who will not experience a feeling of wonder and worship on contemplating the liquid beauty of a cloudless starry sky. also, it is not necessary to be a magister templi, or even an adept, to experience her rewards. it is enough to love her as much as she loves you (this, fa

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

the god-form of thoth. make the sign of the rending of the veil, and use the exhortation of the portal: 01 sonuf vaorsagi goho iad balata. elexarpeh. comananu. tabitom. zodacara eka zodacare od zodameranu. odo kikale qaa, piape piamoel od vaoanu. make the lnvoking pentagram of spirit active over the altar, vibrating: exarp, bitom, and eheieh, and say: hear me: aoth. abaoth. basum. isak. sabaoth. isa! this is the lord of the gods. this is the lord of the universe. this is he whom the winds fear. this is he, who having made voice by his commandment is lord of all things, king, ruler and helper. hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land, and in the water, of whirling air, and of rushi

; and vice versa. from the nature of the formation of the 15th figure, the judge, it should always consist of an even number of points, and never of odd. that is, in adding together the four lines of points comprising the judge, the result should be an even number. for if the judge were a figure of odd points it would show that a mistake had been made somewhere in the calculations. the reconciler isa 16th figure sometimes used for adding the judgment by combining the judge with the figure in the particular house sigmfymg the thing demanded. thus, in the preceding scheme, the judge <121> formed is populus, and the second figure, being amissio, their combination also yields amissio. in order to discover where$ the part of fortune will fall, add together all the points of the first twelve fig

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

ous forefathers, when the gospel was first proclaimed in these parts. their professed reverence for our blessed lord seems to arise more from the difficulty of withholding from him the honour which is universally ascribed to his character and dignity, than from any knowledge which they possess of his person or mission. in this respect, indeed, they are profoundly ignorant, and their confession of isa, the son of mary, is much more undefined and imperfect than that of the mohammedans. it is true that they affect more attachment to christians than to mussulmans; but this may be fully accounted for on other ground than that of any sincere respect for christianity. for ages the christians have been co-sufferers with them, they have lived under the same yoke of bondage and oppression, and this

RUBY TABLET OF SET

s to be understood in the mundane sense rather than as synonym for the a:.a. grade of ipsissimus] nuit perceives separate intellectual existence as stupid. as are oxen. and futile according to the doctrines put forth in the book of the law. 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and spendour is the lord initiating. all principles of ceremonial magic not in accordance with the book of the law are obsolete and should now be discarded. ra-harakte "hath taken his seat in the east" the sun is now dawning on the equinox of the gods. since the vernal equinox occurs a

of the law are obsolete and should now be discarded. ra-harakte "hath taken his seat in the east" the sun is now dawning on the equinox of the gods. since the vernal equinox occurs at approximately march 21, it may be assumed that the statement refers to an "equally-balanced night" between the unity of nuit and the separate chaos of harwer [as will be seen in the third chapter. asar (osiris) and isa (isis) are identified as representative of a non-germane principle: that of posthumous redemption and revival. osiris is a mythical object of popular worship; isis is symbolic of those who equate worship with abstinence, suffering, and deprivation. deathworship [in the biological sense as distinct from the self-obliteration sense] and worship by abstinence have no place in the aon of horus; th

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

are the messenger of god" he can't won't see her now. she watches him through a stonelatticed window. he can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence of unconscious geometries, his footsteps tracing out a series of ellipses, trapeziums, rhomboids, ovals, rings. while she remembers how he would return from the caravan trails full of stories heard at wayside oases. a prophet, isa, born to a woman named maryam, born of no man under a palm--tree in the desert. stories that made his eyes shine, then fade into a distantness. she recalls his excitability: the passion with which he'd argue, all night if necessary, that the old nomadic times had been better than this city of gold where people exposed their baby daughters in the wilderness. in the old tribes even the poorest o

llen unusually silent, and when he called for the servants there was no reply. the stillness had spread into the potato fields, too; but under the broad, spreading roof of the titlipur tree all was hustle and bustle. the panchayat had voted unanimously to obey the command of the archangel gibreel, and the villagers had begun to prepare for departure. at first the sarpanch had wanted the carpenter isa to construct litters that could be pulled by oxen and on which the old and infirm could ride, but that idea had been knocked on the head by his own wife, who told him "you don't listen, sarpanch sahibji! didn't the angel say we must walk? well then, that is what we must do" only the youngest of infants were to be excused the foot-pilgrimage, and they would be carried (it had been decided) on t

SOLOMON

pletion of the temple. and all the workmen, and all the demons helping them came to the same place to bring up the stone and lay it on the pinnacle of the holy temple, and were not strong enough to stir it, and lay it upon the corner allotted to it. for that stone was exceedingly great and useful for the corner of the temple [1. cp. i pet. ii. 6, 7, who combines in the same way ps. cxviii. 22 and isa. xxviii. 16. cp. matt. xxi. 42, mark xii, 10, luke xx, 17] 119. and after seven days, being reminded of the epistle of adares, king of arabia, i called my servant and said to him "order thy camel and take for thyself a leather flask, and take also this seal. and go away into arabia to the place in which the evil spirit blows; and there take the flask, and the signet-ring in front of the mouth

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

whose name it was."45 he described the "cap of purest crystal" once atop the pyramid of gizeh (the floating triangle on the reverse seal) as the "priceless gem of egypt."the terrible crystal (job xxxviii, 4-7) he believed that "when at last it shall actually crown the pyramid of human institutions, then indeed shall all men dwell beneath the shadow of "the rock."46 (deut. xxxii, 4; psalms xci, 1: isa. xxvi, 4 and xxxii, 2) totlen insisted that the symbolism had a scriptural basis. his "cap" on the pyramid is the biblical cornerstone; his "rock" is jehovah in the old testament. yet his own research and documentation on the meaning of the seal proved the contrary. he was always the optimist, even when he wrote that he could not "but feel. the certainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldr

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

eau, voodoo queen of new orleans. because she now appeared ageless and could sometimes be seen in more than one place at a time, her power and mystery grew ever stronger among her voodoo worshippers and the elite white community, as well. as far as it can be determined, marie laveau died in new orleans on june 15, 1881. m delving deeper arbury, david. gmarie laveau. h voodoo dreams [online] http//isa.hc.asu.edu/voodoodreams/ marie_laveau.asp. 3 march 2002. hollerman, joe. gmysterious, spooky, and sometimes even a little scary. h st. louis post-dispatch, february 7, 2002 [online] http//home.post-dispatch. com/channel/pedweb.nsf/text/86256a0e0068fe5 086256b9003e1. 3 march 2002. gmarie laveau. h welcome to the voodoo museum [online] http/ www.voodoomuseum.com/marie. html. 3 march 2002. metrau

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ols, colors, gods and goddesses, sanskrit letters, animals, and sounds used as mantras. chakra correspondences chakra tattva element symbol muladhara prithivi earth square svadisthana apas water crescent manipura tejas fire triangle anahata vayu air hexagram visuddha akasha spirit egg ajna maha-tattva lightimind winged orb sahasrara bindu bliss lotus mantra god lam brahma vam vishnu ram rudra yam isa ham sadashiva om sambhu- paramshiva goddess dakini rakini lakini kakini shakini hakini maha shakti chakra awareness exercise 1. be seated in a meditative position on the floor or in a chair. relax but be sure that your spine is straight. begin to breathe slowly and rhythmically through your nostrils. as you inhale, draw the air into the lower part of your chest, filling the lungs to their full

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

iven over to the god of fire; turn back! a most excellent charm against the hordes of demons that assail in the night (may be chanted while walking around the circumference of the circle, and sprinkling the vicinity with sweet water, using a pine cone or golden brush. an image of a fish may be at hand, and the incantation pronounced clearly, every word, either whispered softly, or shouted loudly) isa ya! isa ya! ri ega! ri ega! bi esha bi esha! xiyilqa! xiyilqa! duppira atlaka isa ya u ri ega limuttikunu kima qutri litilli shami ye ina zumri ya isa ya ina zumri ya ri ega ina zumri ya bi esha ina zumri ya xiyilqa ina zumri ya duppira ina zumri ya atlaka ina zumri ya la tatara ina zumri ya la tetixxi ye ina zumri ya la taqarruba ina zumri ya la tasaniqa ni yish shammash kabtu lu tamatunu ni

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

human beings onward. defiance of the human spirit against the fates. in mankind, that part which refuses to be broken. stubborn will to endure to the end. magically, it gives fortitude and defiance when all hope is lost. fearlessness in the face of certain death. cast in a positive way, it lends courage and causes inner strengthening. cast in a negative way, it brings suffering and hardship. 11. isa (is: i (i) sound: ee [eel english: i literally "icen-changelessness and the stilling of life. slipping away of determina- tion. motionlessness. silence. magically, it is used to stop an event from taking place or to freeze an intention or emotion before it is fully born. to preserve or fm. when cast, it stills all change-physical, emotional, or mental. 12. jera (ger: d (4) sound: y [y] english

e groups may also be associated with the light or dark natures of the four elements. this is the most useful and revealing of the divisions. some of the others are arbi- trary, but there is a real significance to the way the runes are paired off. for exam- ple, cattle and wild ox, man and horse, demon and god-these and other correspondences are too plain to overlook. each pair presents a duality. isa (is) is frozenness; jera (ger) is change. raido (rad) is quest; kenaz (ken) is guiding light. hagalaz (haegl) is hardship; nauthiz (nyd) is the will to endure. and so on. in each pair there is a receptive rune of yearning or striving followed by an active rune of fulfillment. the second rune completes the occult concept repre- sented by the pair of runes. the first rune of each pair may be cal

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

with new planks brought down from the hills in carts. there is great shouting and confusion, and no one appears in command. the god of this place is a vague form that shapes itself in the smoke rising from the fire so that its flaming eyes and gaping mouth may be seen, and it leans down and threatens and snaps at the backs of those who labor to maintain the bridge. chapter fourteen: runes 251 11. isa literal meaning: ice general sense: fascination, allure, enticement, entrapment, deception, false appearance, heartlessness, halt in progress, an enchantress the land of isa is a frozen lake in the midst of which is a small island covered with willows that stand leafless and naked in the winter sunlight. there is a house built upon the island. as it is approached across the surface of the lake

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

e "he shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away (job 15:30 "therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the lordof hosts, and despised the word of the holy one of israel (isa. 5:24. weaving, and the related activity of spinning, frequently occur in literature as metaphors for the passage of time. the fate clotho spins the threads of life, which are cut by her dreadful sister atropos. penelope, wife of odysseus, spent three years weaving a shroud for her father-in-law as a pretext to avoid marriage, by day weaving the shroud and by night unraveling what she had wove

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

udios y ya" dizque es un iniciado" realmente los estudiantes juzgan a priori muchas veces, porque ignoran los grandes misterios. nosotros debemos diferenciar entre lo que es una persona que est empezando estos estudios y lo que es un bodhisattva ca do. en el apocalipsis de san juan, el pentagrama cae del cielo a la tierra y las aguas humanas se vuelven amargas, se convierten en ajenjo. el profeta isa as dijo!!c mo ca ste del cielo, oh lucero, hijo de la ma ana! cortado fuiste por tierra, t que debilitabas a las naciones (isa as 14:12. empero el astro luc fero (el hombre ca do) brillar un d a como la estrella de la ma ana en la mano derecha del verbo. muchas veces llega a los lumisiales gn sticos un hombre o alguna mujer buscando la antorcha divina de la verdad. aparentemente el reci n lleg

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

fire [esha nukhra ah, the strange fire [esh zarah, and thus it is written do not come at any moment to the shrine (lev 16:2, this is the feminine from the evil inclination [nuqveta min yeser ha-ra. the holy spirit [ruah qaddisha] is male [dekhar, and there is a spirit of impurity [ruah mesa ava, which is the evil inclination [yeser ha-ra, as it says, from the stock of the serpent sprouts an asp (isa 14:29. there is holy ground [afar qaddisha] and unholy ground [afar mesa ava].246 as still other zoharic comments demonstrate, the symbolic ascription of the strange fire to the feminine aspect of the demonic is enhanced by the exegetical link made to the expression the estranged woman, ishshah zarah. it is written they offered a strange fire before the lord (lev 10:1; it is written here stran

ain, to cite dov baer: the matter is as it is said eternity (1 chron 29:11) this is the construction of jerusalem304. for the construction of jerusalem in the future will be eternal in time [nishi bi-zeman] without any cessation at all, for the aspect of the kingship of david and the messiah in the future will also be eternal, as it is written, that it may be firmly established. now and evermore (isa 9:6, as it said, king david shall live everlastingly, 305 as it is known concerning what is written, he asked you for life (ps 21:5, in the aspect of the eternal life of ein sof verily [hayyim nishi de-ein sof mammash, for he will be illumined from the aspect of malkhut of ein sof itself, concerning which it is said the lord will reign forever (exod 15:19, verily in the aspect of the eternal w

than blessing, as it is said, and god blessed solomon, 44 and the lord gave wisdom to solomon (1 kings 5:26. to what may this be compared? to a king who married his daughter to his son, and he gave her to him as a gift, and said to him, do with her as you please! what can we heed [mai mashma? that berakhah is from the word berekh, as it says, to me every knee shall bend [ki li tikhra kol berekh (isa 45:23, the place to which every knee bows down. to what may this be compared? to ones who seek to see the face of the king but they do not know the whereabouts of the king. initially, they ask about the house of the king [sho alim beito shel melekh tehillah, and afterward they ask about the king. therefore, to me every knee shall bend, even the supernal ones, every tongue shall pledge loyalty

usand years i was delighting in his lap [be-heiqo sha ashu im, as it says, every day [yom yom, and his day [yomo] is one thousand years, as it says, for in your sight a thousand years are like yesterday (ps 90:4).62 from here forward it is temporarily [le-ittim, as it says, in every time (prov 8:30, but the remainder [ha-she ar] everlastingly [le-olam, as it says, my glory i will hold in for you (isa 48:9. what is my glory [tehillati? as it is written, a praise [tehillah] of david, i will extol you (ps 145:1. what is the praise? for i will extol you [aromimkha. and what is exaltation [romemut? for i will bless your name forever and ever (ibid. and what is the blessing? to what may this be compared? to a king who planted trees in his garden, even though rain has fallen, the [garden] draws c

this connection, a proximity that promotes rather than impedes difference, one would do well to consider another bahiric text. interestingly, in the pertinent passage, disclosure of the kabbalistic secret is portrayed as the task of students expounding before their master, r. berechiah: they began and said: originarily one [bere shit ehad. spirit before me is faint, i am the one to create souls (isa 57:16. the channel of god is full of water (ps 65:10. what is the channel of god [peleg elohim? thus our master taught us that the holy one, blessed be he, took the waters of creation and divided them. he placed half of them in heaven and half of them in the ocean, as it is written, god divided the fullness of water. by means of them a man studies torah, as it is said, through the merit of act

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