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tate. it is situated on the right bank of the seine, in the rue de sully, near the river, and not far from the place de la bastille, and is known as the biblioth que de l'arsenal. in round numbers it now possesses 700,000 printed books, and about 8000 manuscripts, many of them being of considerable value. among the latter is this book of the sacred magic of abra-melin, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech; which i now give to the public in printed form for the first time. many years ago i heard of the existence of this manuscript from a celebrated occultist, since dead; and more recently my attention was again called to it by my personal friend, the well-known french author, lecturer and poet, jules bois, whose attention has been for some time turned to occult subjects. my f

ch the author of the strange story had in view when he makes sir philip derval in the ms. history of his life speak of certain books describing occult experiments, some of which he had tried and to his surprise found succeed. this rare and unique manuscript of the sacred magic of abra-melin, from which the present work is translated, is a french translation from the original hebrew of abraham the jew. it is in the style of script usual at about the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and is apparently by the same hand as another ms. of the magic of picatrix 1 also in the biblioth que de l'arsenal. i know of no other existing copy or replica of this sacred magic of abra-melin, not even in the british museum, whose enormous collection of occult manuscripts i hav

e insolently familiar. this first book contains advice concerning magic, and a description of abraham s travels and experiences, as well as a mention of the many marvellous works he had been able to accomplish by means of this system of sacred magic. the second and third books (which really contain the magic of abra-melin, and are practically based on the two mss. entrusted by him to abraham, the jew, but with additional comments by the latter) differ in style from introduction iv the former, the phraseology is quaint and at times vague, and the second person plural, vous, is employed for the most part instead of tu. the work may then be thus roughly classified: first book= advice and autobiography; both addressed by the author to his son lamech. second book= general and complete descripti

irst book have none; wherefore in the table of contents i have supplemented this defect by a careful analysis of their subject matter. this system of sacred magic abraham acknowledges to have received from the mage abra-melin; and claims to have himself personally and actually wrought most of the wonderful effects described in the third book, and many others besides. who then was this abraham the jew? it is possible, though there is no mention of this in the ms, that he was a descendant of that abraham the jew who wrote the celebrated alchemical work on twenty-one pages of bark or papyrus, which came into the hands of nicholas flamel, and by whose study the latter is said eventually to have attained the possession of the stone of the wise. the only remains of the church of saint jacques de

ker of wonders. at this period, it was almost universally believed that introduction v the secret knowledge was only really obtainable by those who were willing to quit their home and their country to undergo dangers and hardships in its quest; and this idea even obtains to an extent in the present day. the life of the late madame blavatsky is an example in point. this period in which abraham the jew lived was one in which magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its professors were held in honour; faust (who was probably also a contemporary of our author, cornelius agrippa, sir michael scott, and many others i could name, are examples of this, not to mention the celebrated dr. dee in a later age. the history of this latter sage, his association with sir edward kelly, and the

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ll powerfully tempt you, saying unto you who is he who hath given thee so great authority? they will reproach you with your hardihood and presumption in summoning them, knowing how powerful they are, and contrariwise, how weak and sinful you yourself are. they will reproach you with your sins, and will especially seek to dispute with you concerning your religion and your faith in god: if you be a jew they will tell you that your faith and your religion have been refuted by god himself, and that you observe not the true law as it should be (observed: also if you be a pagan they will say, what hath god to do with you or his creatures either, seeing that you know not god? if you be a christian they will say unto you, what business is it of yours to have to do with hebrew ceremonies which are

on. but should such person unto whom you give them have made some express pact (with spirits) in such case the familiar spirits will fly in haste to serve him (13) these three books of this present operation ought to be read and re-read an infinitude of times; so that in the space of six months before commencing, he who operateth should be fully instructed and informed therein; and if he be not a jew, he should further be conversant with many of the customs and ceremonies which this operation demandeth, so as to become accustomed unto that retirement which is so necessary and useful (14) should he who performeth this operation during the six months or moons commit voluntarily any mortal sin prohibited by the tables of the law, be certain that he will never receive this wisdom (15) sleep in

death. by thus acting the mercy of the lord will never depart from you. unto the which lord be praise, and glory, and honour, for the gifts which he hath granted unto us. so be it! end of the second book of abramelin the mage 111 footnotes to the second book 1 the style of the writing here is much more quaint and obscure than that of the first book; and is evidently the translation of abraham the jew from a more ancient writer. 2 i.e, the revelation, or apocalypse. 3 this whole passage about the signification of these numbers is very obscurely worded in the original. i take the meaning to be the following: the arts or methods of magical working are twelve, if we class them under the twelve signs of the zodiac. the second number mentioned above, 5, is perfect because of its analogy with the

ntaining garbled and perverted words and characters; and which teach nothing but hurtful and selfish practices; the great point in which is generally the forming of a pact with an evil spirit. because true characters represent the formulas of the currents of the hidden forces of nature and true ceremonies are the keys of bringing the same into action. 13 it seems again to me here that abraham the jew stretches the matter too far. it is perfectly and utterly true without doubt that angelic magic is higher than that form of talismanic magic which has its basis in the astrological positions of the heavenly bodies; and can therefore do more, and be also independent of astrological considerations, because the matter is relegated to a higher plane than this' and one wherein the laws of physical

he phrase so frequent in conjurations, in which the spirits are commanded to appear in human form without any deformity or tortuosity. 73 because some of the demonic forms are so terrible that the shock of their sight might cause a person of a nervous temperament to lose his reason. 74 i must again repeat that it is only evil and perverted symbols which come under this denunciation of abraham the jew; for nearly all pentacles and seals are the symbols and sigils of divine and angelic names. 75 i.e, of allegiance to you. 76 the four superior spirits and princes are: lucifer, leviathan, satan, and belial. 77 the eight sub-princes are: astaroth, magoth, asmodeus, beelzebuth; oriens, paimon, ariton, and amaymon. 78 by a very evident slip, chapitre ix. is written in the ms. instead of xix. 79 q

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notes to these chapters i have classed under various heads for greater convenience of reference, thinking that besides the explanations of most of the magical names employed in the symbols, it would also be of assistance to the occult student to be able to see at a glance briefly stated at the end of each chapter, the substance of the information especially referring thereto, given by abraham the jew in other parts of the work, notably towards the end of the second book: under (a) therefore i have stated by what powers the symbols of each particular chapter are manifested. under (b) the names of the sub-princes of the evil spirits who are the especial overseers of the execution of the effect desired. under (c) whether the operations of the chapter in question can be to an extent performed

a h e t u l a h o s a n i t (14) i e d i d a h e d i d a h i l o q a h o q a r c a of abramelin the mage 176 notes to chapter xix (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested in part by the angels, and in part also by the evil spirits (b) probably belzebud performs this operation; as those of the twentieth chapter are submitted to him; and these two chapters are classed together by abraham the jew in his special instructions, the one being the exact reverse of the other (c) the familiar spirits can to an extent perform the operations of this chapter (d) name aloud the person or persons by whom you wish to be loved, and move the symbol under whose class they come. but if it be not for yourself that you are operating, but for two or more other persons, whether for love or for (15) s a q a

l to the ground( c) to destroy a town( d) to demolish strongholds( e) to ruin possessions (and estates. notes to chapter xxiii (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested by the evil spirits only (b) astarot performs the operations hereof (c) the familiar spirits can to an extent perform the operations of this chapter (d) no especial instructions are given regarding this chapter by abraham the jew (e) no. b consists of b c squares taken from a square of c f squares. naveh means a house or habitation (1) n a v e h a v e h q q d (2) q a q a h a q a h q q q (3) c o m a h o n o m a h o n q q (4) b i n i a m i n i a m n u u s i the sacred magick 187 no. c consists of b c squares from a square of c f. qaqah to make void or empty. no. d consists of b f squares from a square of e j squares. com

rom a square of e j squares. naginah= a stringed instrument. no. c consists of a gnomon of b d squares from a square of e j squares. mekolah= singing. no. d is a gnomon of b d squares from a square of e j squares. nigigin= musical instruments, probably. no. e consists of c b squares from a square of e j squares. mecasef means enchantment. this finishes the list of symbols set down by abraharn the jew, the which i have given in their entirety; but i must of my own initiative warn any who may endeavour to use these signs, that unless animated by the purest and best motives they will find them react terribly against them; and that, if the preliminary period of six months preparation advocated by abra-melin be not observed, the symbols will be practically worthless in their hands; for, as will

things divine; to flee evil conversations and occasions of sin; to live in oneself; and to accustom oneself to continuing a life of such regularity. for if one were to go to present oneself before a king, what would one not do to appear before him with splendour and magnificence; and what diligence and care would not one 1. in the original qua diem neplaise. the parenthesis is put by abraham the jew. the sacred magick 209 put in practice to prepare oneself hereunto. now we must understand that the enjoyment and vision of the angels of the lord be infinitely above the princes of earth, who in fact are but a vanity, a shadow, and vile dust of earth. now if to please these mortal princes one would almost commit idolatries; what ought one not to do to appear before the holy angels of god who

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. let him beware of abstinence from action. for the curse of his grade is that he must speak truth, that the falsehood thereof may enslave the souls of men. let him then utter that without fear, that the law may be fulfilled. and according to his original nature will that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, being an hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a jew; and yet another ardour and manliness, being an arab. yet this matter toucheth the mystery of incarnation, and is not here to be declared. 15. now the grade of a magister teacheth the mystery of sorrow, and the grade of a magus the mystery of change, and the grade of ipsissimus the mystery of selflessness, which is called also the mystery of pan. 16. let the magus then contemplate each in turn

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e monkish and monkeyish recluses, with their hideous clatter and cackle "the tittering, thin-bearded, epicene "dwarf, fringed with fear" the obscene vole, dweller by and in backwaters that has foisted upon us the grotesque and poisonous superstition that wisdom abides only in dogs-eared, worm-eaten, muleinspired long-forgotten as misbegotten folios. i like the story- it is a true tale- of the old jew millionaire who bought up the annual waste of the pennsylvania railroad- a matter of three million dollars. he called with his cheque very neatly made out- and signed it by making his mark! the railroad man was naturally falbbergasted, and could not help exclaiming "yet you made all those millions of yours- what would you have been if only you had been able to read and write "doorkeeper at the

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he know, and he probably knew that he did no know much, the jews and the arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastro he? there is a large number of excellent people, possessed of even less that the minimum amount of brains required to grease a gimlet, who are always boring us with the bogey of the jew-bolshevist peril. but as most of them are roman catholic and unaware that rome is laughing in its sleeve at them, they conveniently ignore what should be if they realised it their best argument. what was the ultimate cause of the destruction of the great civilisation of rome? what corrupted the spirit of a people unconquerable in arms? what but the spread of the slave morality of jewish commun

unists of the period? if you will take your new testaments from your pockets, you will find in the fourth chapter of the acts of the apostles and the thirty-second verse "and the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not one of them said that aught of the things that he possessed was his own, but that they had all things in common" of course one of them, and he too was a jew, tried to hold out on the kitty, and was struck miraculously dead for his pains. lenin and trotsky never did as well! so, as roman catholics are always telling us, the church has a monopoly of logic, and the pope argued that all jews were communists. anyone who had or wanted knowledge must be a jew, and therefore a communists, and therefore well, the pope too believed in preparedness, though h

lackmailed them out of vast sums. you see, the people for whom this dear young gentleman was writing all get sexually excited by pictures of young women, and also by any statement about large sums of money. for they immediately have a wish phantasm if they had large sums themselves, what terrible fellows they could be. in the middle ages, the art of exciting the people was not very different. the jew had always an immense hoard of ill-gotten wealth, and of course every penny that was exacted by reginald front-de-boeuf was laid to the jews account. but there was another treasure that the peasant was afraid to lose, the dearest treasure of all, his children. as little boys, thank god, have a habit of straying in search of adventure and getting lost in the process, which is good for thier sou

thesis whatever that is, i am not quite sure that it is possible to adduce. in the minds of the kind of people who believe in their neighbours making candles of infants fat and digging up corpses to economise on the butcher s bill, the surgeon that is to say, the man in pursuit of knowledge which it is hoped may alleviate human pain is the same kind of animal as the witch and the ritual-murdering jew. it is, no doubt, because it is a part of the old taboo complex about the corpses of one s relatives, that the clerical attack on surgeons concentrated itself on one fact the fact that to learn to be a surgeon you must have corpses to dissect. for at that time, it will be remembered, hospitals were not as flourishing as they are today, and it was very difficult to find living people whom you c

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ans? catholic christians are really pagans at heart; there is usually good stuff in them, particularly in latin countries. they only need to be instructed in the true meaning of their faith to reflect the false veils. an xxi sol in cancer after some years spent in catholic countries, i wish to modify the above. catholics are dead alike to spirituality and to reason, as bad as protestants. and the jew is far from hopeless outside america, where the previous paragraph was written. al iii,19 "that stele they shall call the abomination of desolation; count well its name& it shall be to you as 718" the old comment 19. 718 is upsilon-pi-omicron-mu-omicron-nu-eta the abstract noun equivalent to perdurabo. the new comment the reference appears to be to the old prophecies of 'daniel' and 'john. the

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uebelo israel torah, in the beginning the elohim saw that israel would accept the law. in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, 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 y

hovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets. he who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe. therefore when a devout jew comes upon it in reading from the scriptures, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name ynda, adonai, lord. the radical meaning of the word is to be, and it is thus, like hyha, eheieh, a glyph of existence. it is capable of twelve transpositions, 23 in the equinox publication this replaced a reference to one of the table

houldn t y have a little concealed unity of its own?34 that the method should ever have been accepted by any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the gh

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, in the gospel of buddha, is pleased to represent nirvana as a parallel for the heaven of the christian. it is sufficient if i reiterate the unanimous opinion of competent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in any canonical book sufficient to establish such interpretations in the teeth of buddhist tradition and practice; and that any person who persists in tuning buddhism to his own jew s harp in this way is risking his reputation, either for scholarship or good faith. scientific men are common enough in the west, if buddhists are not; and i may safely leave in their hands the task of castigating the sneak-thieves of the physical area. ii. the essential features of bhuddism have been summed up by the buddha himself. to me, of course, what the buddha said or did not say is imm

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elo israel torah "in the beginning elohim saw that israel would accept the law" in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word brashith by solomon meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these have all a christian tendency, 72 and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed 1 weh note: plagiarized entire from ginsburg's "the kabbalah. 2 weh note: better: his purported translation of three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh note: this observation led mathers to miss-identify a picture of moses as metatron in his edition (not translation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. t

is in hebrew ad name of four letters, ihvh; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation of it is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets "he who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe" therefore when a devout jew comes upon it in reading the scripture, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name adonai, adni, lord. the radical meaning of the word is "to be" and it is thus, like ahih, eheieh, a glyph of existence. it is capable of twelve transpositions, which all convey the meaning of "to be; it is the only word that will bear so ma

uldn't "y" have a little concealed unity of its own? that this method should ever have been accepted by any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers' jew, converted by the notariqons of "berashith" true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; 91 showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbids fecit ignavus animan terrae, or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the

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0 "illustrations, white cloth "extra, with designs in gold on cover" 1910 "post free" 15"s. net" occult science in india, and among the ancients, with an account of their initiations, and the history of spiritism, from the french of louis jacolliot, by willard l. felt. large 8vo "cloth extra, n.d. recent" 6"s" 6"d" book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered into english. from a unique and valuable ms, in the "biblioth de l'arsenal" at paris; with copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold. 1900 (published at 21s) postage free 10s. 6p. the original work, of which this is a

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like accuracy what the kabiri really were. the student will find more concerning these semi-mythical beings in strabo, diodorus and varro. d llinger says "this much is undoubted on the joint testimony of strabo and mnaseas; the gods whose initiation people received here (samothrace) were axieros "i.e, demeter; axiokersos "i.e, hades; and axiokersa "i.e, persephone- d llinger "the gentile and the jew" eng. edition, 1906, vol. i, pp. 172-186. 12 hence "odic" force; and "obi" or "obeah" witchcraft. illustration on page 271 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ air_ tablet/ of air/ pan) tacle_ seals/ throne. lamps of east_ incense) black white banner of east_ salt salt_ spirit 7 heavens of assiah tablet_ of earth lamp_ 20# key_ of_ tarot_ 10 averse_ seats for altar sephiroth_ practicus/

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progress in the bold calculations of pythagoras; fable abounded in its miracles, and history, attempting to appreciate this unknown power, became confused with fable; it shook or strengthened empires by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear" book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered into english. from a unique and valuable ms, in the "biblioth que de l'arsenal" at paris; with copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l.s.macgregor-mathers. 4to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold. 1900 (published at 21s) postage free 10s. 6p. the original work, of which this is

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ethods he adopted; however, before we enter upon these, we must return to our first point, namely_ the meaning and value of ceremonial magic. ceremonial magic, as a means to attainment, has in common with all other methods, western or eastern, one supreme object in view_ identification with the godhead; and it matters not if the aspirant be theist or atheist, pantheist or autotheist, christian or jew, or whether he name the goal of his attainment god, zeus, christ, matter, nature, spirit, heaven, 135 reason, nirvana, asgard, no-thing or no-god, so long as he "has" a goal in view, and a goal he is striving to attain. without a goal, he is but a human ship without port or destination; and, without striving, work, will to attain, he is but a human derelict, rudderless and mastless, tossed hit

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of wombs" and if a man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk, a crow; if woven flax, a frog; if a cow, a lizard; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear "institutes of manu" xii, 55-67. 289 we find christ insisting on this absolute chastity of body and mind, in a similar manner, and for similar reasons; for the eastern jew if he is not actually doing something dirty, is sure to be thinking about it. hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.290 191 he realized that there were in this world she-mules as well as she-asses, and that though the former would never foal in spite of all the stallions of moultan, the latter seldom failed to do so after having been for a few minutes in the presence of a margate jack

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t key is given in thekabbalah" lucifer: a theosophical magazine, intended to bring to light the hidden things of darkness. edited by h. p. blavatsky, mabel collins, and annie besant. vols. i to xvii inclusive. scarce set, 1877 to 1896. with symbolical bookplates of e. d. bacon. 17 vols. 8vo, half calf "net "7 15"s" book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered into english. from a unique and valuable ms, in the "biblioth de l'arsenal" at paris; with copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold. 1900 (published at 21s) postage free 10s. 6p. the original work, of which this is a

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d mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc. book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rendered into english. from a unique and valuable ms. in the "bibliotheque de l'arsenal" at paris; with copious notes and magical squares of letters. by l. s. macgregor-mathers. 4"to, black cloth, magical square on side in gold" 1900 (pub. at 21"s, postage free. 10"s" 6"p" the original work, of which this

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rotected me["alone among the corpses] curtain. 96 persons of the tragedy act iii sir rinaldo del la chapelle "grand master of the temple" a bishop representative of the king of jerusalem the grand master of the knights of st john the grand master of the knights of malta clerks, ushers, advocates "etc" torturers a physician the king of jerusalem many dignitaries and their ladies the crowd isaac "a jew" an urchin laylah "now known as princess koureddin" 97 act iii scene i "twenty years later. jerusalem. the council chamber of the grand tribunal. a bishop, as grand inquisitor. on his right "rinaldo; now become grand master of the temple; on his left the grand master of the knights of malta. beyond these, the grand master of the knights of st john and the representative of the king of jerusale

the truth, and destroys me. anon. anon["he goes sorrowfully out" curtain. 104 "scene ii. a few days later. a public place in jerusalem. in the midst a stake with faggots. seats for the dignitaries, some thirty or forty of whom are present, most with their ladies. there is present moreover a motley crowd of all classes of society, christian and saracen. note especially" isaac "a fat good-tempered jew, and an" urchin "of some twelve years old. in front are jugglers, tumblers, singers and dancers, hucksters, etc, all of whom ply their trade merrily. the official procession now enters, the guard clearing away these folk. all take their seats, chatting. the bishop is enthroned, in full canonicals. he is supported by three acolytes, bearing bell, book and candle" laylah "brought in and bound to

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

in her futile effort to preserve a purity of race now impossible, is due to her first ray personality, whilst her fourth ray egoic force is responsible for her effort to standardise and harmonise all the elements within her borders, to- 239- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the exclusion, however, of the hebrew race. with the problem of the jew i will deal later. germany cannot help herself, for though the first ray is not in manifestation as we understand the term, yet the bulk of the egos now in power in germany are on the first subray of the seven different rays, and hence they are from one dominant angle the transmitters of first ray force. a hint is here given. it is for this reason therefore that great britain can contact the g

of the jewish people, is the third ray. their egoic ray is the first. their astrological sign is capricorn, with virgo rising. mercury and virgo play a prominent part in their destiny. these clues should suffice to give to the advanced student and astrologer those salient points which will give him light upon their strange history. because of this third ray influence, you have the tendency of the jew to manipulate forces and energies, and to "pull strings" in order to bring about desired ends. as a race, they are natural law makers, and hence their tendency to dominate and govern, because their egoic ray is the first. hence also the constant appearance of the goat in their history, and their teaching about the virgin mother who should give birth to the messiah. in every grouping, whether i

come, and again you stand before the gates of light, this time with empty hands. then enter, free, accepted by the servants of the lord, and know, forever, peace- 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 th

t 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 values. he has been the victim of the law of light and of his inability to comply with that law. he sinned wilfully and with his eyes wide open to results. hence he knows the law as no other race knows it, for he is eternally its victim. he has enunciated the law f

and which could have spoken the word of power which would have caused the gates of resurrection to open wide. we are told that these three swore an everlasting vow to stand together and never to desert each other. this vow down the ages they have kept; it has consequently produced that racial separativeness and community of interests which arouses the antagonism of other races. down the ages, the jew has been wandering, producing much of beauty in the world, and giving to humanity many of its greatest men, but he has (at the same time) been hated and persecuted, betrayed and hounded. he embodies, in himself, symbolically, the history of humanity. the ancient tendency of the jews to grasp and hold, and also to preserve their racial and national integrity, are their outstanding characteristi

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

r experience had been one of such a friendship as man had never known, of disastrous failure and a forgiveness beyond all believing, and of a new, a free, a creative life. nothing of all this was of their own achievement. they knew they were men remade, and they knew that the mode of their remaking was love. this was a providence, a deliverance, greater and more significant than anything that the jew had ever claimed for the creator-god. yet they could not think of it as other than his work, since god, as all their national tradition taught, is one. it interpreted for them, as we might put it in our more cautious way, the creative reality to which they, with all men, had looked with uncertainty and even with fear. henceforth the central hypothesis which men call god was known as love, and

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

r ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. the result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they are scattered a corresponding desire to force that very separation upon them. under the law, we draw forth from others what is actually present within ourselves, and to this law, races and nations are no exception. through the inter-relation of jew and gentile, of semitic and aryan, and through the solving of the jewish problem will the great heresy of separateness eventually be fought out- 351- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust it is not intended that the aryan race should be a psychic race. their goal is bringing the mind nature into prominence. this could not take place if the "

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education today) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice- 35- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does not matter whether a man is an asiatic, an american, a european, british, a jew or a gentile but only that each has an historical background which enables him to contribute something to the good of the whole, that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a matter of birth; that if a man is born in italy

enables him to contribute something to the good of the whole, that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a matter of birth; that if a man is born in italy, the probability is that he will be a roman catholic; if he is born a jew, he will follow the jewish teaching; if born in asia, he may be a mohammedan, a buddhist, or belong to one of the hindu sects; if born in other countries, he may be a protestant and so on. he will learn that the religious differences are largely the result of man-made quarrels over human interpretations of truth. thus gradually, our quarrels and differences will be offset and the idea of the o

this but to a much lesser degree and have been eventually absorbed and assimilated by the land of their citizenship. the jews have always constituted a nation within a nation, though this has been less marked in great britain, holland, france and italy than elsewhere, and therefore, in none of these countries has there been any strong anti-semitic feeling. in every country and down the ages, the jew has turned to commerce and has worked with money; they are a strictly commercial and urban people and have shown little interest in agriculture, except lately under the zionist movement in palestine. to their extremely materialistic tendencies they have added a great sense of the beautiful and an artistic conception which has added much to the world of art; they have ever been the patrons of t

s apt to forget; if he remembered it he would realize that the eastern approach to truth and honesty and to the use and possession of money is widely different to that of the western, and herein is to be found a part of the difficulty. it is not so much a question of right and wrong as one of different standards and inherent racial attitudes which are shared with the whole of the east. the modern jew is also the product of many centuries of persecution and of migrations; he has wandered from country to country and from city to city, and in the course of these wanderings he- 56- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust has inevitably developed certain habits of living and thinking which, again, the occidental fails to recognize and for which he makes no allowance; the jews are, for i

s in their ancient forms as far as possible, so as to provide evidence to other hebrews in new lands and cities that they were jews as they claimed to be. it is this that makes them the most reactionary and conservative race in the world. racial characteristics have become increasingly pronounced owing to the inevitable intermarriage during the past centuries and the emphasis laid by the orthodox jew in the past upon racial purity. the young and modern jew lays no emphasis upon this and has usually no objection to intermarriage with the gentiles, but this is only a late development which meets with no approval from the older generation. the gentile also objects in many cases. the jew is a good citizen, law-abiding, kindly and decent in his ways, anxious to play his part in community life a

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ves in our major cities; it goes forth over the radio in europe and in america and there is no country or island in the world where its use is unknown. all this has taken place in the space of eighteen months. this new invocation, if given widespread distribution, can be to the new world religion what the lord's prayer has been to christianity and the 23rd psalm has been to the spiritually minded jew. there are three approaches to this great prayer or invocation: 1. that of the general public. 2. that of the esotericists, or of the aspirants and the disciples of the world. 3. that of the members of the hierarchy. first, the general public will regard it as a prayer to god transcendent. they will not recognise him yet as immanent in his creation; they will send it forth on the wings of hope

ally into the sign, pisces, the fishes, and recognise their messiah when he comes again in the sign aquarius. otherwise, they will repeat their ancient sin of non-response to the evolutionary process. they rejected that which was new and spiritual in the desert; they did it again in palestine two thousand years ago; will they do it again, as opportunity is offered to them? the difficulty with the jew is that he remains satisfied with the religion of nearly five thousand years ago and shows as yet little desire to change. the coming in of the aquarian age, christ foresaw and reduced to pictorial form for us, thus preserving for us down the centuries a prophetic episode, the interpretation of which is possible of demonstration only in our time and age. astronomically, we are not yet function

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ure of the individual or soul and of the persona- 18- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. the problem of the jews which is symbolically the problem of humanity as a whole. it is today for the first time definitely a humanitarian problem and one which is closely tied up with the fourth kingdom in nature because that kingdom is the meeting-place of the three divine aspects. the jew, with his emphasis upon his position as one of the "chosen people" has stood symbolically throughout the centuries as the representative of the wandering, incarnating soul, but the jewish people have never recognised the symbolic mission with which their race was entrusted, and they have taken to themselves the glory and the honour of the lord's elect. the jew made this mistake and, as an orie

l are the lord's elect. calvin and all who followed his lead made the same mistake and instead of holding before the people of the occident the realisation that those who recognised their essential divinity did so symbolically on behalf of all the developing, incarnating sons of god, they regarded themselves as the chosen people and all who did not think as they did are regarded as lost. when the jew and the narrow-minded religious devotees recognise their identity with all other people and express this identity through right relationship, we shall see a very different world. the world problem is essentially a religious problem and behind all strife in every department of world thought today is to be found the religious element. when the nature of the present struggle is better understood

is a misnomer, for the past renders it impossible; mixed blood runs in all veins, but the effort to produce this is the keynote of certain of the more modern cultures. these fortunately are in a minority, for they are anti-evolutionary and their objective is quite impossible of achievement, for they do not start with any pure strain. this tendency towards racial segregation (so noticeable in the jew and the german) is a form of- 34- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust isolationism and necessarily an aspect of materialism, and is related to the personality of humanity and not to the soul aspect; it is separative in effect and normally feeds pride in the individual and the nation; it runs counter to the true progress of humanity which must lead increasingly to closer human

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ernment, and for the line that they have taken against the jewish people, might be turned with almost equal justification against the jews themselves. the latter have always been separative and have regarded themselves as "the chosen of the lord" and have never proved assimilable in any nation. the same can be said of the germans, and from many they evoke the same reaction as they mete out to the jew, though not the physical persecution. neither attitude, as you well know, is justifiable from the angle of the soul; they are both equally wrong, and this is a point of view which the jew and the anti-jew must eventually understand and, through understanding, bring to an end. i mention this because i am going to ask you to deal with that ancient and world-wide glamour the glamour of the hatred

ugh not the physical persecution. neither attitude, as you well know, is justifiable from the angle of the soul; they are both equally wrong, and this is a point of view which the jew and the anti-jew must eventually understand and, through understanding, bring to an end. i mention this because i am going to ask you to deal with that ancient and world-wide glamour the glamour of the hatred of the jew. in this group there are those who are, in their thought at least, violently anti-german; there are others who are definitely, though intelligently, anti-jew. i would ask those in both these groups to recognise the problem with which they are faced. it is a problem which is so very ancient and deeply rooted in the consciousness of the race that it is far bigger than the individual can possibly

mited that constructive usefulness is noticeably impaired. after all, my brothers, the point of view of the "under dog" is not necessarily the only one or necessarily always the correct one. both the germans and the jews merit our impersonal love, particularly as they are both guilty (if i may use such a term) of the same basic errors and faults. the german is powerfully race conscious; so is the jew. the german is separative in his attitude to the world; so is the jew. the german insists today on racial purity, a thing upon which the jew has insisted for centuries. a small group of germans are anti-christian; so are an equally small number of jews. i could continue piling up these resemblances but the above will suffice. therefore, your dislike of one group is not more warranted than your

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

own where i was living and where walter evans had his last charge in the san joaquin diocese. we owed a couple of hundred dollars on our grocery bill, though i was quite unaware of the fact. word, of course, had gone around the village of everything that had happened. the morning after my husband had been sent away to san francisco, the telephone rang and it was the grocery store. the owner was a jew and a very ordinary looking jew. i had never done anything for him except be courteous and, being british, had made it evident that i had no anti-jew feeling. there has never been any anti-semitic attitude in great britain, particularly in my youth there. some of our greatest men have been jews, such as lord reading- 67- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust viceroy of india

ty. he also asked for the key to our mail-box, so he could look after my mail for me. i have felt and still feel deeply indebted to him. it took me over two years to pay off his bill but it was paid, and each time i sent him five dollars on account i would get back a grateful letter from him just as if i had done him a favor. apart from the fact that i had been brought up in england where no anti-jew feeling has prevailed and where the problem of the negro is better understood than in the united states, i have been deeply indebted to members of these two suffering minorities. the problem of the negro has always seemed to me simpler than that of the jew, and one that can be much more easily solved. the jewish problem has seemed to me well nigh insoluble. i, at this time see no way out, exce

gina keller and victor fox i love devotedly, and they know it. there are few people in the world as close to me as they are, and i depend upon them for counsel and understanding and they do not fail me. i have been officially on hitler's "blacklist" because of my defence of the jews whilst lecturing up and down western europe. in spite, however, of knowing full well the wonderful qualities of the jew, his contribution to western culture and learning and his wonderful assets and gifts along the line of the creative arts i still fail to see any immediate solution of their crucial and appalling problem. there are faults on both sides. i do not here refer to the faults or rather the evil criminality of the germans or the poles towards their jewish citizens. i refer to all those people who are

tmosphere of any district in which they reside. they hang their bedding and their clothing out of the windows- 68- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust they live on the streets, sitting in groups on the sidewalks. but for centuries the jews were tent dwellers and had to live this way and may still react to hereditary qualities. the complaint is made that the moment you permit a jew to get a footing in your group or business organisation, it will not be long before his sisters and his nephews, his uncles and his aunts are in it too. but the jews have had to hang together in the face of centuries of persecution. it is claimed that the jew is strictly material, that the all-mighty dollar matters more to him than the ethical values and that he is quick and expert in taking a

fice regulations. i decided that the ten commandments must be preserved, one or two of the bible stories such as the love of david and jonathan, the 23rd psalm and the 91st psalm with a few others and about four chapters in the book of isaiah. all the rest was largely useless or undesirable, and much that was left fed the pride and nationalism of the people. that which stands between the orthodox jew and the mass of the gentiles are his religious taboos, for the jewish faith is largely a religion of "thou shalt not" that which conditions gentile thinking concerning the unorthodox and younger jew is his materialism, of which shylock is a symbol. as i write these words i am conscious of their inadequacy and lack of complete fairness and yet from the standpoint of a broad generalisation, they

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

universal concern. the jews have- 156- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust always had a symbolic significance; they sum up in themselves as a nation, down the ages the depths of human evil and the heights of human divinity. their aggressive history as narrated in the old testament is on a par with present-day german accomplishment; yet christ was a jew and it was the hebrew race which produced him. let this never be forgotten. the jews were great aggressors; they despoiled the egyptians and they took the promised land at the point of the sword, sparing neither man, woman nor child. their religious history has been built around a materialistic jehovah, possessive, greedy and endorsing and encouraging aggression. their history is symbolic of t

t of united joint activity to bring about the good of humanity as a whole, and not just the good of an individual nation or people or race. the jewish problem will not be solved by taking possession of palestine, by plaint and demand and by financial manipulations. that would be but the prolongation of ancient wrong and material possessiveness. the problem will be solved by the willingness of the jew to conform to the civilisation, the cultural background and the standards of living of the nation to which by- 158- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the fact of birth and education he is related and with which he should assimilate. it will come by the relinquishment of pride of race and of the concept of selectivity; it will come by renouncin

n the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the fact of birth and education he is related and with which he should assimilate. it will come by the relinquishment of pride of race and of the concept of selectivity; it will come by renouncing dogmas and customs which are intrinsically obsolete and which create points of constant irritation to the matrix within which the jew finds himself; it will come when selfishness in business relations and the pronounced manipulative tendencies of the hebrew people are exchanged for more selfless and honest forms of activity. the jew, owing to his rays and point of development, is outstandingly creative and artistic. this he must recognise and not seek as he now does to dominate in all fields, to grasp all opportunities away

xchanged for more selfless and honest forms of activity. the jew, owing to his rays and point of development, is outstandingly creative and artistic. this he must recognise and not seek as he now does to dominate in all fields, to grasp all opportunities away from other people, and so better himself and his own people at the expense of others. release from the present situation will come when the jew forgets that he is a jew and becomes in his inmost consciousness an italian, an american, a britisher, a german or a pole. this is not so at this time. the jewish problem will be solved by intermarriage; that of the negro will not. this will mean concession and compromise on the part of the orthodox jews not the concession of expediency but the concession of conviction. let me point out also t

nsciousness. the general theme of the old testament is the recovery of the highest expression of the divine wisdom in the first solar system; that system embodied the creative work of the third aspect of divinity that of active intelligence, expressing itself through matter. in this solar system, the created world is intended to be the expression of the second aspect, of the love of god. this the jew has never grasped, for the love expressed in the old testament is the separative, possessive love of jehovah for a distinct unit within the fourth or human kingdom. st. paul summed up the attitude which humanity should assume in the words "there is neither jew nor gentile" the evil karma of the jew today is intended to end his isolation, to bring him to the point of relinquishing material goal

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

a better system which will guarantee that the children of the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice. world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does not matter whether a man is an asiatic, an american, a european, british, a jew or a gentile but only that each has an historical background and history which enables him to contribute something to the good of the whole, and that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a matter of birth; that if a man i

bles him to contribute something to the good of the whole, and that the major requirement is an attitude of goodwill and a constant effort to foster right human relations. world unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a matter of birth; that if a man is born in italy, the probability is that he will be a roman catholic; if he is born a jew, he will follow the jewish teaching; if born in asia, he may be a mohammedan, a buddhist, or belong to one of the hindu sects; if born in other countries, he may be a protestant and so on. he will learn that the religious differences are largely the result of man made quarrels over human interpretations of truth. thus gradually, our quarrels and differences will be offset and the idea- 61- edu

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

divine indication of coming events and a planned progress towards them, and this is already arousing interest among thinkers in many lands. however, the necessary responsive planning is still lacking. this new invocation, if given widespread distribution, can be to the new world religion what the lord's prayer has been to christianity and the twenty-third psalm has been to the spiritually minded jew. i would like to indicate to you three approaches to the subject of this invocation. i will do so briefly, as time lacks. it is for you to arrive according to your evolutionary status and the depth of your reflection at what i may leave unsaid. these three approaches are: 1. that of the general public. 2. that of the esotericists, that is, of aspirants and disciples. 3. that of the more advanc

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ond solar systems. if you will remember that the third ray governed that system and also governs the jewish race, if you bear in mind that that system was occupied with the divine aspects of matter only and with external conditions, and that the jews were the highest- 50- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust product of that system you can come to an understanding of the jew, his separateness, his desire for racial purity and his interest in that which is commercial and tangible. the jew, down the ages, has insisted upon being separated from all other races but he brought over from the previous system the knowledge (necessary then but obsolete now) that his race was the "chosen people" the "wandering jew" has wandered from system one to this where he must learn th

for that was his major problem in early lemurian times when the race came into a world that had in it no human beings, for it was before the coming of the lords of flame; this insistence has been carried down the ages and has governed the rules of marriage and the preparation of food instead of being dropped (as it should have been) thousands of years ago. it is these facts (unknown to the modern jew) which has militated against him down the years and made it possible for the forces of separativeness and of hate, to use the jewish race to stir up world difficulty, and thus bring to a crisis the basic human problem of separation. when humanity has solved the jewish problem (with the understanding cooperation of the jew) and overcome ancient antipathies and hatreds, it will do so by fusing t

ant of humanity, far more advanced than ours, should have been destined to work out its future on our earth, is hid in the knowledge of the lord of shamballa, and is unattainable knowledge for you and, indeed, for many in the hierarchy. it is simply a fact to be accepted by you. the solution will come, as i said, when the races regard the jewish problem as a humanitarian problem but also when the jew does his share of understanding, love and right action. this he does not yet do, speaking racially. he must let go of his own separative tendencies and of his deep sense of persecution. he will do this latter with great facility, when he grasps, as a race, the significance and inevitability of the law of karma, and from a close study of the old testament and of the acts and deeds there claimed

th great facility, when he grasps, as a race, the significance and inevitability of the law of karma, and from a close study of the old testament and of the acts and deeds there claimed by him as his racial acts and deeds (conquest, terrorism and cruelty, realises that the law is working out and incidentally releasing him for a greater future. there must, at the same time, be a realisation by the jew and gentile of equal responsibility and equal liability for the present world difficulty. the two forces to which i have been referring must, therefore, be taken into account by all disciples as they seek to serve in this critical cycle; these two forces must also be taken into your calculations as you start this new group work or your wrong idealisms and thoughts may hinder the group work. yo

st be set free from fear, as must the women in other lands; the population of germany must also be liberated from the evil rule of hitler. this is recognised by the allied nations. make no mistake. the german is as dear to the heart of humanity, to god, to christ and to all right thinking people as are any other people. the german must be rescued from hitler's world order as much as the pole, the jew, the czech or any captive nation. in effecting this freedom, the allied nations and the neutral powers must preserve the spirit of goodwill, even when using force, which is the only means of conquest the totalitarian powers understand. steps towards the new world order in contradistinction to the totalitarian world order, what should the rest of the world plan? towards what world objectives sh

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

of palestine away from its original owners nearly three thousand years ago, at the point of the sword and through an unprovoked aggression. this conflict which the zionists have precipitated is basic and useful. it constitutes a test case, being based upon physical plane aggression, being fought with the most violent emotional disturbance and being founded upon completely illogical premises. the jew has ever been (could he but usefully remember it) the symbol of humanity evolving, seeking, restless, materialistic, separative and greedy. he is the symbol of the mass consciousness, presenting this consciousness in an exaggerated form; he is ever seeking and searching a home and is the true prodigal son of the new testament. curiously enough, the jews have never been a fighting race since th

senting this consciousness in an exaggerated form; he is ever seeking and searching a home and is the true prodigal son of the new testament. curiously enough, the jews have never been a fighting race since the time of the sorry story of the conquest of the early tribes in palestine; they have been persecuted and repudiated down the centuries, but have retaliated simply by moving on the wandering jew seeking a home, wandering humanity, saying always "i must arise and go to my father" the motive given to the prodigal son in the gospel story is a strictly material one, and we have here an outstanding instance of the prophetic knowledge of the christ. the jewish people have not only repudiated the messiah (which their race produced, but they have forgotten their unique relation to humanity; t

their race produced, but they have forgotten their unique relation to humanity; they forget that millions in the world today have- 417- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust suffered as they have suffered and that for instance there are eighty per cent of other people in the concentration camps of europe and only twenty per cent jews. the jew, however, fought only for himself, and largely ignored the sufferings of his fellowmen in the concentration camps. i have enlarged thus upon the jewish conflict because it is the symbol of all past conflicts in human history, based upon universal selfishness and the greed of undeveloped humanity, and because the crucial test of the nations and of the united nations assembly is to be found in t

of the great invocation. the uniqueness connected with the invocation consists in the fact that it is, in reality, a great method of integration. it links the father, the christ and humanity in one great relationship. christ emphasised ever the fatherhood of god and substituted it in place of the cruel, jealous tribal jehovah of the nation to which he had gone for a physical vehicle. christ was a jew. in the 17th chapter of st. john's gospel (which is another of the major spiritual statements of the world) christ emphasised the relation of the christ consciousness to the consciousness of deity itself. he linked the concept of the monad to the fully developed soul-infused personality, and the underlying unity existing between all beings in all forms and the father. the possibility which he

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

atises are "the commentary on the ten sephiroth" by rabbi azariel ben menachem, 1200 a.d "the alphabet" of rabbi akiba" the gate of heaven; the "book of enoch "pardes rimmonim, or garden of pomegrantes "a treatise on the emanations "otz ha chiim, or the tree of life" of chajim vital "rashith ha galgulim, or revolutions of souls" of isaac de loria; and especially the writings of the famous spanish jew, ibn gebirol, who died a.d. 1070, and was also called avicebron, his great works are "the fountain of life" and "the crown of the kingdom" the teaching of the kabalah has been considered to be grouped into several schools, each of which was for a time famous. i may mention--the school of gerona, 1190 to 1210, of rabbi isaac the blind, rabbis azariel and ezra, and moses nachmanides. the school

things they attribute to the kabalah, and things very difficult to explain have been seen in england, at the hands of students of kabalistic rites and talismans. the rabbinic commentaries, many series deep, overlaying each other, which now exist in connection with the old treatises form such a mass of kabalistic lore as to make it an almost impossible task to grasp them; probably no christian nor jew in this country can say what doctrines are not still laid up in some of the old manuscript works. the dogmatic or theoretical kabalah indicates philosophical conceptions respecting the deity, angels and beings more spiritual than man; the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation and the several worlds or planes of existence. the practical kabalah

ence above a beast: for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him" who, indeed, except his own ego, soul or higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all: jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals a

en crude additions, and by the vagaries of oriental imagery; but the keynotes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energising of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it may be that the catholic church, from which the protestant church seceded, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew rabbinic secret of the intentional exoteric nature of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding the esoteric kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which bein

ose a book of doctrine which would be more respected. no, every word has a sublime sense, and is a heavenly mystery. the law resembles an angel: to come down on earth a spiritual angel must put on a garment to be known or understood here, so the law must have clothed itself in a garment of words as a body for men to receive; but the wise look within the garments" at some periods both the ordinary jew and even christian fathers have made a somewhat similar declaration of a literal and a mystical meaning of scripture. the talmud in book "sanhedrin" remarks that manasseh king of israel asked whether moses could not relate something of more value than tales of timnah a concubine, and rachel with her mandrakes, and he is answered that there is a concealed meaning in these narrations. the christ

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istance against nazism in 1930's germany "first they came for the communists, and i did not speak out, because i was not a communist. then they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out, because i was not a socialist. then they came for the trade unionists, and i did not speak out, because i was not a trade unionist. then they came for the jews, and i did not speak out, because i was not a jew. then they came for me- and there was no one left to speak out for me" may the spirit of leviathan be with you all in these dark times. http//www.theisticsatanism.com 16 finding the right group by m. delaney (hp) editor s note: the word sect is used in this article because it was written by a demonolator. however it is used interchangeably with group and the advice herein is good advice for fi

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the captivity period, without leaving a trace behind them, when we are informed that the jews had de facto but two tribes- those of judah and of levi. the levies, moreover, were not a tribe at all, but a priestly caste. the descendants have only followed their progenitors, the various patriarchs, into thin, sidereal air. there were brahms and a-brahms, in days of old, truly, and before the first jew had been born. every nation held its first god and gods to be androgynous; nor could it be otherwise, since they regarded their distant primeval progenitors, their dual-sexed ancestors, as divine beings and gods, just as do the chinese to this day. and they were divine in one sense, as also were their first human progeny, the "mind-born" primitive humanity, which were most assuredly bi-sexuals

o utilize in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, that we have to look for the origin of the anthropoids[[footnote(s* ptolemy, speaking in his ninth table of the kabolitae (kabul tribes, calls them[[aristophuloi, the aristocratic or noble tribes. the afghans call themselves ben-issrael (children of is(sa)rael, from issa "woman and also earth" sons of mother earth. but if you call an afghan yahoudi (jew, he will kill you. the subject is fully treated elsewhere. the names of the supposed twelve tribes and the names of the real tribes, the same in number, of the afghans, are the same. the afghans being far older (at any rate, their arabic stock) than the israelites, no one need be surprised to find such tribal names among them as youssoufzic "sons of joseph" in punjcaure and boonere; the zablis

be regarded in the light of a saviour. an "adversary" to jehovah the "personating spirit" he still remains in esoteric truth the ever-loving "messenger (the angel, the seraphim and cherubim who both knew well, and loved still more, and who conferred on us spiritual, instead of physical immortality- the latter a kind of static immortality that would have transformed man into an undying "wandering jew" as narrated in king's "gnostics "ilda-baoth, whom several sects regarded as the god of moses, was not a pure spirit, he was ambitious and proud, and rejecting the spiritual light of the middle space offered him by his mother sophia- achamoth, he set himself to create a world of his own. aided by his sons, the six planetary genii, he fabricated man[[vol. 2, page] 244 the secret doctrine. but t

aught men agriculture; but it is very important to prevent fanatics from monopolising all the facts in history and legend, and from fathering their distortions of truth, history, and legend upon one man. noah is either a myth along with the others, or one whose legend was built upon the kabirian or titanic tradition, as taught in samothrace; he has, therefore, no claim to be monopolized by either jew or christian. if, as faber tried to demonstrate at such cost of learning and research, noah is an atlantean and a titan, and his family are the kabiri or pious titans, etc- then biblical chronology falls by its own weight, and along with it all the patriarchs- the antediluvian and pre-atlantean titans. as now discovered and proven, cain is mars, the god of power and generation, and of the firs

book of esdras, that of enoch, the sibylline oracles, and the book of hermes- every one of these dating no further back than two or three centuries b.c" ewald came down still harder on chwolsohn, and finally m. renan. in the "revue germanique* the ex-pupil pulls down the authority of his master, by asking him to show a reason why his nabathean agriculture should not be the fraudulent work of some jew of the third or fourth century of our era? it can hardly be otherwise- argues the romancer of the "life of jesus" since, in this in-folio on astrology and sorcery we recognise in the personages introduced by qu-tamy, all the patriarchs of the biblical legends, such as adam-adami, anouka-noah, and his ibrahim-abraham etc, etc" this is no reason, since adam and others are generic names. meanwhil

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primordial light (the central sun. this "first-born" however, was only the aggregate of the host of the "builders" the first constructive forces, who are called in ancient cosmogonies the ancients (born of the deep, or chaos) and the "first point" he is the tetragrammaton, so-called, at the head of the seven lower sephiroth. this was the belief of the chaldees "these chaldeans" writes philo, the jew, speaking very flippantly of the first instructors of his ancestors "were of opinion that the kosmos, among the things that exist) is a single point, either being itself god (theos) or that in it is god, comprehending the soul of all things (see his "migration of abraham" 32) chaos-theos-kosmos are but the three aspects of their synthesis- space. one can never hope to solve the mystery of this

idol, and that the same superstition is suddenly transformed into praiseworthy piety and religion whenever the name of the celestial addressee is changed? but the tree is known by its fruit. and the fruit of the christian tree being no better than that of the tree of paganism, why should the former command more reverence than the latter. thus, when we are told by the chevalier drach, a converted jew, and the marquis de mirville, a roman catholic fanatic of the french aristocracy, that in hebrew lightning is a synonym of fury, and is always handled by an evil spirit; that jupiter fulgur or fulgurans is also called by the christians oelicius, and denounced as the soul of lightning, its daemon; we have either to apply the same explanation and definitions to the "lord god of israel" under the

and also physical meaning. it had the latter when it was said to dissolve into ether (see isis unveiled, vol. i, p. 297) even epicurus, the model atheist and materialist, knew and believed so much in the ancient wisdom, that he taught that the[[footnote(s* plato uses the words "secretions" of turbulent elements (timaeus* valentinus' esoteric treatise on the doctrine of gilgul* surely no educated jew ever believed the literal sense of this allegory- namely, that "the bodies of jews deposited in foreign lands contain within them a principle of soul which cannot rest, until by a process called the "whirling of the soul" the immortal particle reaches once more the sacred soil of the "promised land" the meaning is evident to an occultist. the process was supposed to be accomplished by a kind o

he cock-and-bull hypothesis of some modern critics to the effect that neither orpheus, nor yet homer and hesiod, ever existed, it would seem time lost to mention these archaic authors at all. the arabian job will suffice; unless, indeed, his volume of lamentations, along with the poems of the two greeks, adding to them those of linus, should now be also declared to be the patriotic forgery of the jew aristobulus. but if the zodiac was known in the days of job, how could the civilized and philosophical hindus have remained ignorant of it? risking the arrows of modern criticism- rather blunted by misuse- the reader may be made acquainted with bailly's learned opinion upon the subject. inferred speculations may be shown to be erroneous. mathematical calculations stand on more secure grounds

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w, and his work shows no understanding of the great traditions of biblical commentary and midrash. there are obvious islamic influences (jinn, ibrahim, but the sexual imagery used to describe human (adam) and eve echoes the battle cry of the english peasant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's speech as a reference to nimrod's justification for his tower. only a few elements of david's lamentation appear in nimrod's epitaph. it is hard to fit joshua's quote with this text, except as a hyperbole

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vatum foal's foot coltsfoot tussilago farfara frog's foot bulbous buttercup ranunculus bulbosus goat's beard vegetable oyster tragopogon porrofolius goat's foot ash weed aegopodium podograria hare's foot clover trifolium arvense hedgehogs medicago intertexta horse tail scouring rush equisetum hyemale horse tongue hart's tongue scolopendrium vulgare hound's tongue vanilla leaf liatris odoratissima jew's ear fungus on elder or elm peziza auricula lamb's tongue ribwort plantain plantago lancetolata lizard's tail breastweed saururus cernuus lizard's tongue sauroglossum mother's heart shepherd's purse capsella bursa pastoris mouse ear mouse blood wort hieracium pilosella mouse tail common stonecrop sedum acre negro head vegetable ivory phytelephas macrocarpa old man's beard fringe tree chionant

there would be a big hallowe'en party sponsored by the village. five such parties were to feature "burning a witch" in a big bonfire. a reporter for the chicago tribune called stan modrzyk, priest of the first temple of the craft of wica, of chicago heights, and asked him how he felt about it. stan told him he thought there would be all sorts of hell to pay if they said they were going to burn a jew or a baptist, and immediately wrote to all five villages, several local papers (including the tribune) and an attorney, saying that making a witch-burning, even in effigy, was a poor lesson for the kids, that it smacked of religious persecution and he was prepared to go to court to stop such demonstrations if they did not call it off. bonfires were okay, but no witches in them. a town meeting

also called them off ed) but you can bet it won't happen next year! i feel members of the pagan community have a duty to speak up when incidents like this occur. history tells us that witches, or at least some accused of witchcraft, were burned in the past. history also tells us that quite a few jews were put in gas chambers in the '40s. if anyone were to make a municipal display of "gassing the jew" there would be screams, boycotts, legal actions, etc, by every jewish organization in the country. the jewish defense league would probably show up and stop such a demonstration with physical force if necessary. can witches do less? i am not advocating violence. i am saying that we should start young wiccans lesson fourteen: getting set up/ 211 looking out for ourselves and fighting ignorance

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ce 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 cross, were sacred and powerful if used with a prayer to "the father, son and holy g

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of the egyptian priesthood preserved by porphyry on the sanctity and symbolical secrets of ancient egypt. 60-80 (n.t) acts of the apostles. 68 destruction of qumran community (dead sea scrolls. 70 (n.t) gospel of mark. 70 destruction of the second temple in jerusalem by the forces of emperor vespasian. 2 enoch, or the slavonic apocalypse of enoch, was written late first century c.e. in egypt by a jew. it survives only in late old slavonic manuscripts. it may have been composed originally in aramaic or hebrew, later being translated into greek, and later still being translated into old slavonic. 80 (n.t) gospel of matthew. 80 (n.t) gospel of luke. c.86 apollonides archprophet orapis of memphis wrote in greek on egyptian religion. 90 (n.t) gospel of john. 81-96 revelation of st. john. 123-17

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istian belief in a son of god and a lamb of god dying so our sins could be forgiven can be found in sumer, babylon, and egypt. the idea of a lamb dying to forgive the sins of humanity originates from the sumerian belief that if you literally sacrificed a lamb on the altar, it would remove the sins of the people involved. while i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edi

turalised us, director of german general electric (a.e.g; and paul m. warburg, of the bank of manhattan. when the war ended and the investigations into its background began, three german members of that american i.g. board were found guilty at the nuremberg war crimes trials. the american representatives such as paul warburg were left untouched, as was his brother, max warburg, who, even though a jew, was allowed to leave nazi germany in 1939 without any restriction. the elite controlled even the arrests and trials resulting from the war and the horrors they themselves engineered. such operations were not only between two companies, they involved other elements of the global elite-brotherhood in other companies and governments. the president of standard oil of new jersey (now exxon) at thi

meant "i thought back to rudolf kommer's remark about an anti-semitic programme directed by jewish or half jewish fanatics- rosenberg was distinctly jewish in appearance, although he would have been the first to protest furiously if anyone had questioned his ancestry. yet i used to see him most mornings sitting in a dingy cafe at the corner of briennerstrasse and augustenstrasse with a hungarian jew named holoschi, who was one of his principal assistants. the man called himself hollander in germany and was another of these jewish anti-semites..i suspected the aryan background of many of the others, strasser and streicher looked jewish to me as well as figures like ley, frank and even goebbels, who would have had difficulty in proving their pedigree."3 now isn't this all rather strange? je

be the 'fall guy, to protect the few from legitimate investigation and exposure. so much of their history is kept from them to ensure they remain under the mental and emotional control of the few. major alojzy dziurski, of the wartime polish underground movement, was no apologist for the nazis and nor was he anti-jewish. he had a wide circle of jewish friends and expressed a deep gratitude to the jew he said had saved his life. in his book, freedom fighter, dziurski told how he heard that the german attitude to jews had changed quite dramatically after they realised the zionist influence in stalin's soviet union. this prompted major dziurski to meet with polish jewish leaders in march 1942, to warn them that they must disperse the jews living in the ghettos, move them to homes among polish

prove the point. at the time of the kennedy assassination the national secretary of the american nazi party was a man called daniel burros. he was a close associate of the "nazi" roy frankhouser, a man who once said "hitler had the jews; we've got the niggers. we have to put our main stress on the nigger question, of course, because that's what preoccupies the masses- but we're not forgetting the jew. if jews knew what was coming- and believe me, it's coming as surely as the dawn- they'd realise that what's going to happen in america will make nazi germany look like a sundayschool picnic. we'll build better gas chambers, and more of them, and this time there won't be any refugees".11 charming. but "nazi" frankhouser turned out to be a professional federal infiltrator of the ku klux klan an

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yed was not clear. the nazis were manipulated by their demonic masters to instigate breeding programmes between the blond-haired, blue-eyed, nordic bloodlines. a founder of the thule society was rudolf glauer, an astrologer, who changed his name to the grand-sounding, baron von sebottendorff. his demands for a revolution against jews and marxists turned the thule society into a focus for the anti-jew, anti-marxist, german master-racers. out of all this came the german workers party, which would become the nazi party. another committed occultist and friend of sebottendorff was highly significant. this was dietrict eckart, a heavy drinking, drug-taking writer, who believed he was here to pave the way for a dictator of germany. he met hitler in 1919 and decided he was the one, the messiah he

. if the parent is a christian, muslim, voter for this political party or that, a racist, a sexist, working class, middle class, upper class, whatever, that is the conditioning they overwhelmingly insist on imposing upon their offspring. the child is conditioned to be a reflection of the parent and the pressure to be like them can be enormous. the very idea that a vehement christian or muslim, or jew, or hindu, would respect their child's right from birth to reach their own conclusions without pressure to conform to their parents' beliefs, would be utterly abhorrent to such people. indeed most could not begin to comprehend such a level of mental and emotional respect for their child's uniqueness, and freedom of thought and expression. as i said at the start of the book, i debated at the ox

ce the war! botha told me that he refused to accept the money, but pik botha left the meeting with the rothschilds and he could not be sure that they did not come to some arrangement. breathtaking. but the world is not what we think it is. to this day the rothschilds continue to control the state of israel, which has their family symbol on its flag. it is they who use that country and its people, jew and arab, to maintain the conflict. this involves civil war within its borders and with surrounding arab countries that has allowed the illuminati-rothschilds to control their so-called "arc of crisis" in the middle east through divide, rule, and conquer. it has allowed them, not least, to control the oil-producing countries since the war when the oil really came on line. please jewish people

an gangster family, the bronfmans. to expose the exploitation of the mass of jewish people by the few is, according to the agents of that hierarchy and the non-jewish juveniles who serve them, to be "anti-semitic. well norman finkelstein cannot be accused of that because he is jewish and his parents suffered under the nazis. but, naturally, he has been dubbed a "self-hater, a label applied to any jew who seeks to expose the scam. here are some quotes from norman finkelstein's the holocaust industry. finkelstein is a star"'if everyone who claims to be a survivor is one, my mother used to exclaim 'who did hitler kill' on the simon wiesenthal centre "the centre is renowned for its 'dachau-meets-disneyland' museum exhibits and the successful use of sensationalist scare tactics for fund-raising

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tes, representatives of the priestlybloodlines of the reptilians and the babylonian brotherhood, who have no moreallegiance to the jewish people than did adolf hitler. to blame it on the jews is anonsense and exactly what the brotherhood want people to do because it createsenormous opportunities to divide and rule, the very foundation of their control. whathorrors this manipulation has caused for jew and gentile alike. it is the same with thejewish oral law called the mishnah, completed by the second century ad. israel shahak,a survivor of the belsen concentration camp, is one of the comparatively few peoplenow known as jews, who has had the courage to openly challenge and expose thetalmud. shahak, in his book jewish history, jewish religion, highlights the stunninglevel of racism on which

s book jewish history, jewish religion, highlights the stunninglevel of racism on which the jewish (levite, brotherhood) law is founded. he tells how87the extreme end of this faith, as represented by the orthodox rabbis today, makes it areligious offence to save the life of a gentile, unless there would be unpleasantconsequences for jews not doing so. the charging of interest on loans to a fellow jew isbanned, but by talmudic law they must charge a gentile as much interest as theypossibly can. it is demanded that jews must utter a curse every time they pass a gentilecemetery and that when they pass a gentile building they must ask god to destroy it.jews are forbidden to defraud each other, but that law does not apply to the defraudingof gentiles. jewish prayers bless god for not making the

as theypossibly can. it is demanded that jews must utter a curse every time they pass a gentilecemetery and that when they pass a gentile building they must ask god to destroy it.jews are forbidden to defraud each other, but that law does not apply to the defraudingof gentiles. jewish prayers bless god for not making them gentiles and others ask thatchristians may perish immediately. a religious jew must not drink from a bottle of wineif a gentile has touched it since it was opened. the jewish writer, agnon, after beingawarded the nobel prize for literature, said on israeli radio: i am not forgetting that itis forbidden to praise gentiles, but here there is a special reason for doing so- that is,they awarded the prize to a jew.17 these are the laws of the belief system calledjewish which

is,they awarded the prize to a jew.17 these are the laws of the belief system calledjewish which is constantly complaining about, and condemning, racism against jews!the very belief system is founded on the most extreme racism you will ever encounter.yet the cry of anti-semitic is used to discredit researchers who are getting too close tothe truth about the global conspiracy. benjamin freedman, a jew who knew the topzionists (sionists, sun cultists) of the 1930s and 40s, said that anti-semitism should beeliminated from the english language. he went on:anti-semitism serves only one purpose today. it is used as a smear word. when so-calledjews feel that anyone opposes their real objectives, they discredit their victims by applyingthe word anti-semite or anti-semitic through all the channels

onal pope, philippe turned hismind to the knights templar. he coveted their wealth, hated their power and was a puppetof the priory of sion. the templars lost much of their influence with the church after1291 when the saracens defeated the christian crusaders and ejected them from the holyland. philippe, in league with his puppet pope, set out to destroy the templars. in 1306he had arrested every jew in france, banished them from the country and taken all theirproperty. he then planned a similar operation and secretly arranged for all templars infrance to be arrested at dawn on friday, october 13th 1307. friday the 13th has beendeemed unlucky ever since. many templars were seized, including their grand master,jacques de molay, and subjected to the unimaginable torture of the inquisition. b

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allen" gods, or deities men no longer worship. but then, are not gods simply devils men choose to worship? could it be that yahweh and allah are simply more "politically correct" devils than astaroth and beelzebub? the followers of every religion have been condemned by others as "devilworshippers" at some time or another. in the "tolerant" social climate of today, the christian still condemns the jew; the jew still condemns the muslim, and the muslim still condemns the christian. each is willing to kill and commit heinous crimes in the name of his "god. would it not be more honest for man to admit that he is a worshipper of devils and a believer in fairy tales? it is with these thoughts in mind that the demonic bible is written. stop now at the horror of these words and cower in fear for y

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many other of the ancient arts, and is only being laboriously recovered piecemeal in the more advanced circles of scientific thought. 11. the method used by the modern initiate for interpreting the language spoken by the ancient myths is a very simple and effectual one. he finds in the qabalistic tree of life a link between the highly stylistic pagan systems and his own more rational methods; the jew, asiatic by blood and monotheistic by religion, has a foot in both worlds. upon the tree of life with its ten holy sephiroth the modern occultist bases both a metaphysic and a magic. he uses a philosophical conception of the tree to interpret what it represents to his conscious mind, and he uses a magical and ceremonial application of its symbolism to link it up with his subconscious mind. the

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nd the glory (clasping his hands) unto the ages of the ages. amen" by this formula the operator affirms the power of god as sole creator and supreme law of the universe to which all things must bow, and he establishes this formula magnetically in his aura by the action of making the sign of the cross upon himself. this sign is not an exclusively christian symbol, and can be used as readily by the jew as the churchman, for it is the equi-limbed cross of nature that is being used, not the calvary cross, of which the shaft is double the length of the cross-bar, and which is the symbol of sacrifice. the equi-limbed cross refers to the four quarters of the globe and the four elements, and the formula associated with it proclaims the dominion of god over these, and thereby occultly formulates hi

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s, it was used as a spell to cure asthma. abracalan, or aracalan, another form of the word, is said to have been regarded as the name of a god in syria and as a magical symbol by the jews. it seems doubtful whether the abracadabra, or its synonyms, was really the name of a deity. sources: levi, eliphas. transcendental magic. london: rider, 1896. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. abraham the jew (ca. 1362.ca. 1460) little biographical information exists concerning this german jew, who was an alchemist, magician, and philosopher, ca. 1400. what is known is mostly derived from a manuscript in the archives of the bibliotheque de l arsenal, paris, an institution rich in occult documents. written entirely in french, the manuscript purports to be translated from the hebrew, and the handwrit

ishop of wurzburg, king henry vi of england, the duke of bavaria, and pope john xxii. no details exist about the rest of abraham s career, and the date of his death is uncertain, but it is commonly supposed to have occurred about 1460. the previously mentioned manuscript which yielded this biographical information is entitled the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech. this title is rather misleading and not strictly accurate, for abra-melin had absolutely no hand in the opening part of the work, which consists of an account of abraham s own youth and early travels in search of wisdom, along with advice to the young man aspiring to become skilled in occult arts. the second part, on the other hand, is either based on the documents that ab

lowing the thinking of saints ireneus, ambrose, augustine and almost all of the church fathers, antichrist will be a man similar to and conceived in the same way as all others, differing from them only in a malice and an impiety more worthy of a demon than of a man. more recently, however, cardinal bellarmin asserted that antichrist will be the son of a demon incubus and a sorceress. he will be a jew of the tribe of dan, according to malvenda, who supported his view with the words the dying jacob spoke to his sons, dan shall be a serpent by the way.an adder in the path: by those of jeremiah, the armies of dan will devour the earth; and by the seventh chapter of the apocalypse, where st. john has omitted the tribe of dan in his enumeration of the other tribes. elijah and enoch will return t

dead safeguarded the deceased in every way from the danger of damnation. a number of the chapters consist of prayers and hymns to the gods, but the directions as to the magical uses of the book are equally numerous; the concept of supplication is mingled with the idea of circumvention by sorcery in the most extraordinary manner. book of the sacred magic of abra-melin a magic manual by abraham the jew, a magician of the middle ages, translated and edited by s. l. macgregor mathers from a rare manuscript dated 1478 at the bibliotheque de l arsenal, paris. this translation was first published 1898 and has been frequently reprinted (see also abraham the jew) sources: the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage. translated by s. l. macgregor-mathers. 1898. reprint, chicago: de laurence

french history. the king was blamed for allowing the affair to become public at all, and there the evidence of such conduct as displayed by aristocrats inflamed public opinion and may have hastened the french revolution. mme. de lamotte not only charged cagliostro with the robbery of the necklace, but also invented for him a terrible past, designating him an empiric, alchemist, false prophet, and jew. this is not the place to deal with the trial at length, but suffice it to say that cagliostro easily proved his complete innocence. the parisian public looked to cagliostro to supply the comedy in this great drama, and assuredly they were not disappointed, for he provided them with what must be described as one of the most romantic, fanciful, and absurd life stories in the history of autobiog

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stments and appurtenances the practice of magic generally prescribes various items of clothing and accessories as needful adjuncts to magical rites, in part to assist the magician in imagining himself/herself to be in an otherworldly setting. their color, name, form, and substance, which were symbolic of certain powers and elements, supposedly added greater efficacy to the evocations. abraham the jew, a magician of the middle ages, prescribed a tunic of white linen, with an upper robe of scarlet and a girdle of white silk. a crown or fillet of silk and gold was to be worn on the head, and the perfumes cast on the fire might be incense, aloes, storax, cedar, citron, or rose. according to other authorities on the subject, it was advisable to vary the robe s color and employ certain jewels an

wo rules: first, that an even number of vowels in a man s name signifies something amiss in his left side; an uneven number, a similar affection on the right. second, of two competitors, success was based on the competitor with the longest name; thus achilles triumphed over hector. according to caelius rhodiginus, the gothic king theodotus practiced an unusual version of onomancy recommended by a jew. the diviner advised the prince, on the eve of a war with rome, to enclose 30 hogs in three different sties, having previously given some roman and others gothic names. on an appointed day, when the sties were opened, all the romans were found alive, but with half their bristles fallen off; all the goths were dead. from this, the onomantist predicted that the gothic army would be destroyed by

efore the statue that has been set up in the basement of the church. sources: clebert, jean-paul. the gypsies. hammondsworth, uk: penguin books, 1967. saint germain, comte de (ca. 1710.ca. 1780) one of the most celebrated mystic adventurers in history. like cagliostro and others of his kind, little is known concerning saint germain s origin, but there is reason to believe that he was a portuguese jew. there were claims that he was of royal birth, but these have never been substantiated. it is fairly certain that he was an accomplished spy, for he resided at many european courts, spoke and wrote various languages, including greek, latin, sanskrit, arabic, chinese, french, german, english, italian, portuguese, and spanish, and was even sent upon diplomatic missions by louis xv. horace walpol

isters are transformed into dogs that have to be thrashed every day. also of this class are the stories beauty and the beast and the frog prince. procurement spells procurement spells are spells to procure some minor end. love spells were engraved on metal tables by the gnostics and the magicians of the middle ages. instances of these are to be found in the book of the sacred magic of abraham the jew. spells were often employed to imprison evil spirits. jewish folklore has many opinions and legends relating to this subject, which appear to have derived in a great measure from the babylonians. the ancient historian josephus affirmed that it was generally believed by his countrymen that solomon left behind many spells that had the power of terrifying and expelling evil spirits. some of the o

ns. both also suddenly put on 10 pounds at the same time in their lives. at the age of 18, both jim twins suffered similar syndromes of intermittent migraine headaches. their drinking and smoking habits were also identical, and both chewed their fingernails. another pair of identical twins, jack and oscar, were raised apart with completely different backgrounds. jack was brought up as an american jew by his father after his parents separated; the mother took oscar back to germany (where she had been born) where he was raised as a catholic, later joining the nazi youth party. in adult life, jack ran a store in san diego, while oscar became a factory supervisor in germany. but both men wore wire-rimmed eyeglasses and mustaches and two-pocket shirts with epaulets. both were absentminded and h

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

his re c o rding career on the sun label. the name numbers for jesus and elvis both equal nine, she says. in fact, their namenumbers match exactly, letter for letter and number for number: jesus= 15363, elvis= 53613. their followers worshipped and a d o red them. both could heal and re a d minds, and both had powe rful enemies who sought to stop them. go d f rey claims that like jesus, elvis was jew i s h. she also notes that the bible frequently refers to the voice of god on many occasions. is there any voice more spectacular than elvis presley s? she asks. the psalms even predict that presley one day would disappear: i am shut up and i cannot come forth (psalms 88:8) and how long, lord? wilt thou hide thyself forever (psalms 89:46. isaiah 4:2 states that when the messiah comes, in that

rd my command craft from whence he will direct all evacuation and transition activities as regards the period you ones call the end prophecies of armageddon. in contrast to the benign words of most othe rworldly beings who speak through contactees, hatonn and his fellows preach a fie rcely expressed conspiracy theory with openly anti-semitic elements. for example: a n a rchy is something that the jew pro m o t e s re l e n t l e s s l y. while in complete control of the financial powers of the state, they promote internecine strife (ec k e r, 1992. hatonn also denies that the holocaust ever occurred. ha t o n n refers to jews who are working with the anti- christ, satan, and the evil leaders of the new world order to control the world. the plotters call it plan 2000. the space people and t

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er summoned in a priest who came and when he d scarce perceived the game, got much contentment from the sight. he said: so one is minded right! who overcometh, winneth a crown. the church hath a good stomach ever, whole countries hath she gobbled down, and yet hath over-eaten never; the church alone, dear ladies, best can all unrighteous goods digest" faust that is a custom that men oft pursue; a jew and king can do it too. mephistopheles with that he bagged brooch, chain, and rings, as if mere toadstools were the things, and thanked them neither less nor more than were it a basketful of nuts he bore. he promised them all heavenly pay and greatly edified thereby were they. faust and gretchen? mephistopheles now sits restless. what she would she knows not, neither what she should, thinks of

so badly flowing. the flow of wine? that, to be sure, is slowing. where once in cellars cask on cask was nuzzling, the best of brands and vintages befuzzling, our noble lords eternal guzzling is draining every last drop out. the city council s store must now be opened up. a basin, bowl, is seized as drinking-cup and under the table ends the drinking-bout. now i m to pay, give each his wages. the jew will spare me no outrages, he ll make advances which for ages will put our revenues to rout. the swine are no more fatten fed, pawned is the pillow on the bed, at table we eat bread for which we owe. emperor [after some reflection, to mephistopheles. say, fool, can you not add a tale of woe? mephistopheles indeed, not i! i see this ambient splendour, yourself and yours- should one his trust su

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

same time, none of them should assume that they have been assigned an exclusive licensing agreement or that only their watch tells the correct time* 4 #4 '0' mystical christianity is an outgrowth of the same universal spirituality found in the hebrew tradition as the mystical qabalah. christianity began as a sect of judaism that sprang from the messianic advent of master yeshuvah, who was born a jew and lived in a jewish culture. all of his apostles and early disciples were also jews. master yeshuvah, as with every appearance of messiah, brought a fresh transmission of universal mystical spirituality clothed in the context of the historical setting, cultural milieu, environment, language, characteristic worldview, and prevailing body of discourse among the people to whom it was being deli

and concealing, revealing itself in a thousand short days. 22" f" 2' 8: 4 2 f# ezra hebrew yosher in the tzimtzum surrounded by leviathan '0-,8. 3' unlike master mosheh and the prophet mohammed, master yeshuvah did not record a revelation to be handed down after his departure from human form. he did not come to start a new religion, but to fulfill and revitalize an old one. master yeshuvah was a jew born to jewish parents; a messianic messenger and redeemer awaited and yearned for by faithful jews. his life was his message, and it can only truly be understood in jewish terms. upon interrogation, the head rabbi could find no fault in him. what was there to dispute? when asked what the first of all commandments was, master yeshuvah (like rabbi hillel did a century before him) unhesitatingly

iahs appear to be completely or partially veiled from awareness of their true identity until awakened to it by a perfect master who has incarnated to do so, or through a supra-conscious experience of the divine. master mosheh was dramatically changed by his experience of the burning bush. the qur an also tells us that master mosheh was guided by al khidr, often referred to as the green one or the jew. the perfect master john baptized master yeshuvah in the holy spirit. the monk tota puri struck the bengali avatar sri ramakrishna in the center of his forehead with a sharp rock. it immediately sent him into a nirvikalpa samadhi that lasted for six months and culminated twelve years of intense spiritual practices, after which ramakrishna commenced his activity as a world teacher. the mystery

ster yeshuvah delivering the sermon on the mount. another root mantra for master yeshuvah, in use among eastern orthodox christians since the second century ce, and prominent in the catholic mass is kierie eleison christe eleison( lord have mercy, christ have mercy).8 the our father prayer that master yeshuvah instructed his disciples to embrace might also be incorporated in one s practices. as a jew addressing jews, it is highly likely that master yeshuvah would have spoken such a prayer in hebrew. hence, it might be said as follows: the lord s prayer.;ms svdq,,ymsb rsa vnyba avinu asher bushamayim, qadosh shamekha. 8./rab ]k ,ymsbk,;nvor hsiy,;tvklm avbt tavo malkhutekha, ya ase ratzonekha kebashamayim ken ba aretz. vnyaux li vnl xlcv ,vyh vnl ]t vnqx ,xl ta et lechem chukenu ten lanu ha

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hinking of a comparison with the beginning of st. john's gospel. as ficino hurriedly translated the pimander for cosimo he would have realised how right lactantius had been when he said that tris- 1 ficino, loc. cit. 2 theologia platonica, viii, i (ficino, p. 400. ficino probably got his information about artapanus from eusebius, de praeparatione evangelical, ix, 27, 6. artapanus was a hellenised jew; see festugiere, i, pp. 70, 384. 26 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" megistus "by some means or other searched into almost all truth" and "often described the excellence and the majesty of the word, calling him "son of god, not only in the pimander, but also in the asckpius. thus an odour of sanctity surrounds the author of the egyptian genesis, who is so like moses, who prophesies chri

are complementary to each other and' on the cabala, see g. g. scholem, major trends in jewish mysticism jerusalem, 1941. 1 scholem, op. cit, p. 210. 3 ibid, p. 212* ibid, p. 18. 92 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic intermingled. one branch is called the path of the sephiroth; the other the path of the names.2 an expert practitioner of the path of the names was the thirteenth-century spanish jew, abraham abulafia, who developed a most complex technique of meditation through a system for combining the hebrew letters in endless varieties of permutations and combinations. though cabala is primarily a mysticism, a way of trying to know god, there is also a magic which goes with it, which can be used mystically or subjectively on oneself, a kind of self-hypnosis, as an aid to contemplation

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of attempting to do so in a few sentences we will let this central principle evolve slowly on its own in this and the next four chapters. esoterically, the object of this philosophy is a return of the universe into the structure of the first adam; this mystery we will attempt to explain later on. exoterically it is the return of israel to the garden of eden- the megalomania of the all-conquering jew. the relationship between these two objects is that the second constitutes the protective shell of the first. the second maintains the jewish peoples intact, and this intactness enables qabalistic wisdom to evolve. outside this protective duty, the second has no relationship to the first, no more than the shell of an egg- lifeless substance- has a relationship to the yolk within it- living sub

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ess of life. the jambu tree, the buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross.[14 [13] essays on symbolism, p. 74 [14] wilford, asiatic researches. among the kelti a tall oak was not only a symbol of the deity, but it was jupiter himself, while the earth from which it sprang was the great mother. throughout europe, in all ages, the oak has received divine honors. the fact that under its branches jew, pagan, and christian alike swore their most solemn oaths, shows that its veneration was not confined to any particular nation or locality. the sacredness of the oak among the druids is well attested by all writers who have dealt with this interesting people. in rome its branches formed the badge of victory worn by conquering heroes, this emblem being the highest mark of distinction which coul

d from matter, or that it was developed in and through it. the belief that something can be made from nothing was reserved for a later age. in the oldest semitic kosmogonies, we are assured that the self-conscious god who is manifested in the order of the universe, proceeded out of the great abyss, and out of unorganized, dark, primeval matter. during the earlier historic period, however, by both jew and gentile, the belief was entertained that spirit is material. it is the essence of fire--a substance akin to the galvanic or electric fluid. this masculine element, the manifestation of which is desire, or heat, and which was finally set up as an eternal, self-existent, creative force, or god, was originally regarded as a manifestation of matter, and as having no independent existence. in a

" the "island of the blessed" this subject will, however, be referred to later in this work. when we closely examine the facts connected with the evolution of religion, there can be little doubt that the persians laid the foundation for that great moral and intellectual awakening which a century or two later is represented by confucious, gotama buddha, and pythagoras. from the persians, doubtless jew and gentile alike received the little leaven of spirituality which in later ages crept into their gross conception of a deity. by the persians, the hindoos, and other nations of the east, it was believed that the end of each cycle of six hundred years, at which time a new sun or savior was to come, would mark a new era of religious development. at the close of each of these cycles it was devou

nsual rites practiced in the temples of the latter is recorded. hence, as the mexicans had not arrived at that stage of religious progress) at which sensuality inculcated as a sacred duty, and at which moral and physical debasement was encouraged both in public and private life, we may reasonably conclude that their faith represents a somewhat earlier stage of development than does that of either jew or greek. in point of morality, as judged by the most ancient standards, or by the more modern, the mexicans compare favorably with either of these nationalities. indeed when we compare the social, religious, and civil conditions of mexico as we find them under montezuma with those of the jews under david or solomon, or with those of the greeks under solon, or even with those of the christians

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ian source and sprang from a rejuvenation by frater robert wentworth little of that lapsed rosicrucian college in england, which is mentioned by godfrey higgins in his notable workthe anacatypsis,or 'an attempt to withdraw the veil of the saitic isis, which was published in 1836; he remarks that he did not join the old english college there referred to. about fifty years earlier a certain eminent jew named falk, or dr falcon, lived in london (a reference to whom will be found in theencyclopaediaoffreemasonryby kenneth mac255 kenzie) and was of high repute as a teacher of the kabalah and of other studies of a rosicrucian character; he was indeed said to have magical powers. falk could not have been fully affiliatedto any rosicrucian college because he was a strict jew, and the members of al

r,but they of course do not include a view of the whole subject. other famous treatises are:'thecommentary on thetensephiroth, by rabbi azariel ben menachem, 1200a.d;'thealphabet' of rabbi akiba; the 'book of enoch 'the palaces, pardes rimmonim, or garden of pomegranates 'otz ha chiim, or tree of life 'rashith ha galgulim, or revolutions of souls; and especially the writings of the famous spanish jew, ibn gebirol, who dieda.d.1070, and was also called avicebron.theteachings of the kabalah has been considered to be grouped into several schools, each of which was for a time famous. i may mention:theschoolof gerona, 1190 to 1210, of rabbi isaac the blind, rabbi azariel, and rabbi ezra.theschoolofsegovia, of rabbis jacob, abulafia, shem job, and isaac of cikko.theschool of rabbi isaac ben abra

sistency in matters of opinion is not to be expected of any man, and apart from party politics, of which i know nothing, i heartily endorse the dictum. true progress cannot be made by a rigid adherence to the ideals of childhood, and i urge upon all of you, my hearers, the duty of forming your own opinion on matters of religion: be not blindly led of any man: search the scriptures, whether of the jew, christian, or of madame blavatsky, and hold fast that which seemstoyou good. the unpardonable sin is knowingly to reject spiritual truth: whether from bigotry, self255 interest, or from a policy oflaisseralleris not important: the rejection is the key of the position. i congratulate you who are present, as those who have come out from among the masses of unthinking beings, and are seeking for

man hathnopreeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for thatishis portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him' who, indeed, except his own higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all; jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the anima

n crude additions, and by the vagaries of oriental imagery; but the key-notes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energizing of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it might be well argued that the catholic church, from which the protestant church was derived, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew secret of the intentional exotericism of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding it, the esotericism of the kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewis

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uardian for 3 june 1921. despite detecting errors of fact cohen found that 'there is more to admire than to criticize in these handsome volumes. the author has earned the gratitude of every mason who is curious to learn all that the craft has to teach him. even more satisfying for waite was cohen's reference to waite's claim that, prior to 1717, freemasonry was exclusively christian and 'that the jew and the heathen had no part therein, and his admission that 'the correctness of mr. waite's statement seems to me unquestionable. but cohen may have been inclined to be especially lenient as the jewish press had been praising waite earlier in 1921 for his detailed refutation, in the occult review100[100, of mrs. nesta webster's anti-semitic and anti-masonic articles in the morning post. such r

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uardian for 3 june 1921. despite detecting errors of fact cohen found that 'there is more to admire than to criticize in these handsome volumes. the author has earned the gratitude of every mason who is curious to learn all that the craft has to teach him. even more satisfying for waite was cohen's reference to waite's claim that, prior to 1717, freemasonry was exclusively christian and 'that the jew and the heathen had no part therein, and his admission that 'the correctness of mr. waite's statement seems to me unquestionable. but cohen may have been inclined to be especially lenient as the jewish press had been praising waite earlier in 1921 for his detailed refutation, in the occult review100[100, of mrs. nesta webster's anti-semitic and anti-masonic articles in the morning post. such r

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asy group to understand as they were in some sense transitionary. while they tried to keep the original israelite faith they were also corrupted by many local customs, laws and beliefs and hence while their hearts were in the right place, their beliefs were not. their value is more in the bridge they created for the gnostic traditions and jesus, than in their own doctrinal stance. jesus was not a jew racially or by geography (he was a galilean, he was certainly not a jew by religion either but an israelite in the essene sense. in this context we can then see how gnosticism (or real christianity) developed out of the israelite-essenes, not the fundamentalist or literal judaism of the pharisees. they (the essenes) were not waiting to receive the law- they already possessed it. their aim was

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eft an oral law, it is amongst the essenes that it was preserved. the pharisees who flattered themselves so highly on possessing it, only has its outward forms, as jesus reproaches them at every moment. it is from these latter that the modern jews descend. la langue hebraique, fabre d'olivet. it is from the ranks of the essenes that jesus came and re-established the gnostic faith. jesus was not a jew racially, by geography (he was a galilean) and he was certainly not a jew by religion (pharisaic or edomite. he was an israelite in the essene sense of the world. in this context we can then see how gnosticism (or real christianity) developed out of the israelite-essenes, not the judaism of palestine. we can also clearly see how judaism (in the modern sense) developed from the talmudic schools

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rough and his oahspe, or 1. louis bimstein may have selected max theon as a pseudonym in part for the initials m.t. in rosicrucian circles, m.t. is the abbreviation for magister templi or master of the temple the 2=8 degree. according to kenneth mackenzie, historian and initiate of that secret order, this circle held assemblies at camra in poland every nine years. bimstein was originally a polish jew. in his native warsaw, the adepts of the philosophus degree (6= 4) assembled every five years. these degrees are closely paralleled in the a.a. system, and that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. note that crowley regarded blavatsky as a high intitiate of the great white brotherhood, or a.a. he ranked her an 8= 3 (master of the temple) in his class b commentary on the voice of the silen

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ou shall see your guardian angel appear unto you in unequalled beauty; who also will converse with yyou, and speak in words so full of affection and of goodness, and with such sweetness, that no human tongue could express the same. in one word, you shall be received by him with such affection that this description which i here give unto you shal l appear a me re nothing in comparison. abraham the jew, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage this invocation, the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel, is the primary goal of enochian magick. it is the magical experience of your encounter with your own inner divinity, the divine spark at the core of your being. it will be fully experienced in the 8th aethyr, zid. until then, you can achieve various degrees of this k

d seem that such magic words do exist. h.p. blavatsky, isis unveiled these symbols (i.e, magick squares, then, be made for you to avail yourself of them when you be in the company of other persons; also you must have them upon you, so that in touching or handling them simply, they may represent your wish. immediately then he unto whom the symbol appertaineth will serve you punctually. abraham the jew, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage the theory of magick squares is a very old one. their use stems from the principle of the power of words to name things, and that knowing the name of something gives you a degree of power or control over it. refer to the sacred magic of abramelin the mage translated by mathers for the theory and use of magick squares. enochian magick also inc

y observe these rules, all the followingsymbols (i.e, magick squares) and an infinitude of others will be granted unto thee by the holy guardian angel; thou thus l iving for the honour and glory of the true and only god, for thine own good, and that of thy neighbors. let the fear of god be ever before the eyes and the heart of him who shall possess this divine wisdom and sacred magic. abraham the jew, thebook of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage when used for meditation, each letter represents a force. the nature and relational positions of each letter one to another, in each square, comprise a statement describing an important part of your magical universe. such magical statements often lose their power when put into words or when they are logical ly defined by the rational mind. the

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an oaktree, and thought to have stood from the beginning of the world; and before our lord suffered 'twas green and well-leaved, but when god died on the cross, it withered up 'tis found written in prophecies, out of netherland shall come a prince with many christians, he shall win these lands, and let sing the mass under the dry tree, then shall it gather green leaves again, and be fruitful, and jew and heathen all turn christian. therefore do they shew it great honom, and over it keep good ward' this is from the transl. by otto von diemeringen; the nethl. edition names the tree drip, the latin one dirp, and has nothing about the predicted singing of mass. was this a german interpolation, and is the whole a western legend transported to the east? or are the german popular traditions due t

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they beat them with staves, believing that that would make them fruitful. in silesia they often dragged about a bare fir-tree with chains of straw, as though it were a prisoner. here and there a strong man, in the midst of children, carried a may- 1 luther parodied this song in his driving of the pope out, journ. von u. fur d. 1787. 2, 192-3. 2 dern alten juden in seinen bauch, etc, into the old jew s belly, on to the young jew s back, the worse for him; over hill and dale, so he may never come back; over the heath, to spite the shepherds; we went through the greenwood, there sang birds young and old. finn magnusen (edda 2, 135) would have us take the old juden for a iotunn. 3 j. f. herri, on certain antiquities found in the erfurt country 1787, p. 28, has the line: wir tragen den krodo i

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of thorns, or many other symbols typical of some event in his life and works. those who are of the jewish religion justly feel that the cross is a symbol to them of suffering in the form of persecution. one need only read the real history of the jews to note how they suffered needlessly and continuously through campaigns conducted by those who ever cried aloud "via cruris" by way of the cross the jew was ever made to be an outcast and a persecuted victim of the ancient systems which merely used the sacred symbol to hide their real purposes. for, truly, the christian principles have naught in them to justify that which has been perpetrated in their name; but the same may be said of many other religious movements during their early stages. however, we wish to assure jews and gentiles, roman

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pancies may be referred to our own limited information. to anyone possessed only of the knowledge of theattractionof iron by the magnet, the fact of the opposite polerepellingit would be 'a discrepancy equally at variance with his common sense and reason.'mrsandby also objects that departed souls, on their arrival in the other world, retain. their antecedent habits and opinions; in other words 'a jew seems to remain a jew, a catholic a catholic, and a miser as fond of his gold as before' exactly so; and what idea more rational than the soul, which i presume mr s. allows to be the reasoning faculty when on earth, retaining its erratic dogmas for a short period (for what is1000years or so to eternity, and when it becomes illumined by the divine mind, and capable of solvingourdoubts, being pl

onstothezoist187and amongst others the following remarkable relation is to be found in eckhartshausen's xejtomagic,p. 57; munich, 1791; and is thus related by jung-stilling in his admirable theory of pneumatology*'eckhartshausen became acquainted with a scotsman, who, though he meddled not with the conjurationofspirits, and such like charlatanry, had learned however a remarkable pieceofart from a jew, which he communicated also to eckhartshausen, and made the experiment with him, which is surprising and worthyofperusal.hethat wishes to raise, and see any particular spirit,mustprepare himself for it, for some days together, both spiritually and physically.thereare also particular and remark255 able requisites and relations necessary betwixt such a spirit and the person who wishes to see it;

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

nto an old one by allappearances" said one of the gentlemen who accompanied us, pointing as he spoke to a large rent in theback, which had been clumsily repaired with pins "and that is just the most wonderful part of the whole story" quietly answered the phanariote, not in the leastdisconcerted "they showed me in the shining circle the quarter of the town, the house, and even the room inwhich the jew who had stolen my pelisse was just about to rip it up and cut it into pieces. my son and i had nightmare talesthe luminous shield50 barely time to run over to the kalindjikoulosek quarter, and to save my property. we caught the thief in thevery act, and we both recognized him as the man shown to us by the dervishes in the magic moon. heconfessed the theft and is now in prison" although none of

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

, was also a man universally respected and esteemed, and of the most profound learning and integrity. when thirty-nine years of age he page 5 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt accompanied the roman emperor gordian and his army to the east, to be instructed by the sages of bactria and india. he had a school of philosophy in rome. porphyry, his disciple, whose real name was malek (a hellenized jew, collected all the writings of his master. porphyry was himself a great author, and gave an allegorical interpretation to some parts of homer's writings. the system of meditation the philaletheians resorted to was ecstasy, a system akin to indian yoga practice. what is known of the eclectic school is due to origen, longinus, and plotinus, the immediate disciples of ammonius. the chief aim of t

g with the philosophies of greece at that period. it was not wonderful that thoughtful men supposed that the strife of words ought to cease, and considered it possible to extract one harmonious system from these various teachings panaetius, athenagoras, and clement were thoroughly instructed in platonic philosophy, and comprehended its essential unity with the oriental systems. in those days, the jew aristobulus affirmed that the ethics of aristotle represented the esoteric teachings of the law of moses; philo judaeus endeavored to reconcile the pentateuch with the pythagorean and platonic philosophy; and josephus proved that the essenes of carmel were simply the copyists and followers of the egyptian therapeutae (the healers. so it is in our day. we can show the line of descent of every c

ple was an abstraction like parabrahman, though modern cabalists have succeeded by mere dint of sophistry and paradoxes in making a "supreme god" of it, and nothing higher. but with the early chaldean cabalists ain-soph was "without form or being" with "no likeness with anything else" that ain-soph has never been considered as the "creator" is proved conclusively by the fact that such an orthodox jew as philo calls "creator" the logos, who stands next the "limitless one" and is "the second god "the second god is in its (ain-soph's) wisdom" says philo in qu st et solut. deity is no-thing; it is nameless, and therefore called ain-soph-the word ain meaning nothing. alchemy (arabic ul-khemi) the chemistry of nature. ul-khemi or al-kimia, however, is really an arabianized word, taken from the g

has entered the last and highest path, and is thus emancipated from rebirth. arians the followers of arius, a presbyter of the church in alexandria in the fourth century. one who holds that christ is a created and human being, inferior to god the father, though a grand and noble man, a true adept, versed in all the divine mysteries. aristobulus an alexandrian writer, and an obscure philosopher. a jew who tried to prove that aristotle explained the esoteric thoughts of moses. aryan (sans) lit "the holy; those who had mastered the aryasatyani and entered the aryamarga path to nirvana or moksha, the great "fourfold" path. they were originally known as ishis. but now the name has become the epithet of a race, and our orientalists, depriving the hindu brahmins of their birthright, have made rya

ut the profane, who knew only that chr stos was in some way connected with priest and prophet, and knew nothing about the hidden meaning of christos, insisted, as did lactantius and justin martyr, on being called page 149 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt chr stians instead of christians. every good individual, therefore, may find christ in his "inner man" as paul expresses it, whether he be jew, muslim, hindu, or christian. christ see chr stos. christian scientist a newly-coined term for denoting the practitioners of a healing art by will. the name is a misnomer, since buddhist or jew, hindu or materialist can practice this new form of western yoga with like success if he can only guide and control his will with sufficient firmness "mental scientists" is another rival school. these w

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

ss in x:xxx [i.e, alchemy. i have been too busy to touch my chemicals yet. in haste. thealchemist of the golden dawn chacombe vicarage 14 october 1892 37 72 74 the a !chemist of the golden dawn quabalah, is potent to expel these creatures. they say also that the burning of fir cones drives them away, but i have never tried it. read about the pentagram and hexagram in eliphas levi. do you know any jew qabalist who would do it for you? it is a pity but you had belonged [the sense is 'that you do not belong] to our rosicrucian society [i.e, the golden dawn, in which all these things are taught. the t[heosophical] s[ociety] teaches very high things, but omits the practical details. in this, our order is ancillary to the t.s. however, there are several stiff examinations before you could get to

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

elt the more witches they got rid of, the better became the church's reputation. so they looked all over hell-and-gone to find witches. it was very simple. mental defectives were easy to eliminate. people of power were a bit more difficult, but it didn't prevent them from eradicating a few mayors and governors, too. mass hysteria is commonplace in any era. just look at what hitler did by turning "jew" into an evil word. nor was 20th-century america immune. joseph mccarthy had the same effect with the word "communist" remember what happened to the indians? so many dollars per scalp. those bounty hunters were direct descendants of the witch hunters of the 1600s who made a pretty penny by turning in their neighbourhood nuisances under the handy label of "witch" even so, fewer witches were put

ISIS UNVEILED

used, after the ceremony of exorcism, newly-killed white cocks. believing herself constantly bewitched, and being in very delicate health, the marfoihale had the ceremony of exorcism publicly appued to herself in the church of the augustines; as to the birds, she used them as an application to the forehead on account of dreadful pains in the head, and had been ad- vised to do so by montalto, the jew physician of the queen, and by the italian priests. in the sixteenth century the cura de bargota of the diocese of calla- hora, spain, became the world's wonder for his magical powers. hia most extraordinary feat consisted, it was said, in transporting himself to any distant counti;y, witnessing pohtical and other events, and then returning home to predict them in hia own country. he had a fam

aced by angeb from heaven" a church must have reached the last stages of degradation, when such sacrilegious trickery as this could be resorted to by its clergy, and accepted with or without question by the people. no t far be such a reli^on from the man who feels the workings of an immortal spirit within him! there never was nor ever will be a truly philosophical mind, whether of pagan, heathen, jew, or christian, but has followed the same path of thought. gautama-buddha is mirrored in the precepts of christ; paul and philo judaeus are faithful echoes of plato; and ammonius saccas and plotinus won their immortal fame by combining the teachings of all these grand masters of true philosophy "prove all things; hold fast that which is good" ought to be the motto of all brothers on earth. not

s of the sacred sanskrit books; they have no right to present the speculative philosophy of ancient sages as an inconsistency and the philosophers themselves as illogical fools. with far better reason we can accuse the ancient jews ttf utter nihilinn. there is not a word contained in the books of moses or the prophets either which taken literally implies the spirit's immortality. yet every devout jew hopes likewise to be "gathered into the bosom of a-braham" the hierophants and sonw br&hmanas are accused of having adminis- tered hi their ep&ptai strong drinks or anaesthetics to produce visions which were to be taken by the latter as realities. they did and do use sacred beverages which, like the soma-drink, possess the faculty of freeing the astral form from the bonds of matter; but in tho

book "he baaia of the material common to irenaeua and the codie* nmaraeiu murt be at leaat as eariy aa the firit century" says tbe author in his preface to sbd, the son ef &t man, p. i. 282. codtx niaoraeiu, i, p. 109l dunlap: op. nl, p. 4s. digitizecoy google 130 isis t7nveiled not there is one very strange peculiarity about this sentence of john. it b flatly denied in acts, zix, 2-5. apollos, a jew of alexandria, belonged to the sect of st. john's disciples; he had been baptized, and had in- structed others in the doctrines of the baptist. and yet when paul, cleverly profiting by his [apollos] absence at corinth, finds certain disciples of apollos at epbesus, and asks them whether they received the holy ghost, he is naively answered "we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy

ahoka, dei-okes, or astyages, the serpent-king, was aiisjrrian, median, and bai^lonian when those countries were united" this opinion does not, however, in the least affect our statement that the secret doctrines of the magi, of the pre-vedic buddhists, of the hierophants of the egyptian thoth or hermes, and of the adepts of what- ever age and nationahty, including the chaldaean kabalists and the jew- ish tuaars, were idxruical from the beginning. when we use the term buddhutt, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric buddhism in- stituted by the followers of gautama-buddha, or the modem buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of bdjcyamunit which in its essence is 302. puto; rt!pub. x. liii. 303. strom. v, nv. 304. diog.lurt: lmtt^atphitatoflieti.lattoa, 2. 305. laftefclau

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ough for what purpose he knows not; and he is rather amused as at a comedy in life, than engaged in it as in a business. even perpetual youth, and life prolonged, with pleasures infinite, even the fancied ever-during life, would, to the deeply thinking man who had risen, as it were, over life, and to that strangely gifted being who has in himself the power of self-perpetuation (like the wandering jew, seem vain. man can be conceived as tiring of the sun tiring of consciousness even. what an expression is that, forgotten by death! the only being through whom the scythe of the great destroyer passes scatheless! that life, as a phantom, which is the only conceivable terrible doom of the wanderer (if such a magical being ever existed; whom as a locomotive symbol, to be perpetuated through the

iculars in ordinary life. he has nothing which can interest him. he can have no precise and consolidated likings or affections or admirations, or even aversions, because the world is as a toy-shop to him its small mechanism is an artificial show, of which (given the knowledge of the wheels) he can predicate as to the movements safely completely. to return for a moment to the idea of the wandering jew, which some have supposed to be derived from the claim of the rosicrucians to the possession of a secret means of renewing youth, and to the escape of some notion of it from out their writings. even supposing that this strange tale was true, nothing can be imagined more melancholy than the state of this lone traveller, moving with his the wandering jew. 17 awful secret through the world, and s

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

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

KETAB E SIYAH

lucifer if you add even one word to it! luciferius et tu dominus! lucifer is your lord! the legend this is the legend of the book of lucifer, which has been handed down orally through the ages by the devoted disciples of the book: the 387 legend says, the book was originally written in the blood of its author on parchment made from human skin. the legend says, the book was originally written by a jew named ben shakur. the legend says, ben shakur walked the earth during the reigns of julius and augustus caesar. the legend says, ben shakur was able to raise the dead. the legend says, ben shakur performed many miracles through the power of lucifer during his life time. the legend says, ben shakur shall return to claim the souls of those that worship lucifer and the book. the legend says, the

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. let him beware of abstinence from action. for the curse of his grade is that he must speak truth, that the falsehood thereof may enslave the souls of men. let him then utter that without fear, that the law may be fulfilled. and according to his original nature will that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, being an hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a jew; and yet another ardour and manliness, being an arab. yet this matter toucheth the mystery of incarnation, and is not here to be declared. 15. now the grade of a magister teacheth the mystery of sorrow, and the grade of a magus the mystery of change, and the grade of ipsissimus the mystery of selflessness, which is called also the mystery of pan. 16. let the magus then contemplate each in turn

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ce in between the spiritual, altruistic giving and the material, egoistic, impure receiving. if at every single moment a person is not bound to the spiritual, he forgets about it altogether and remains in the impure and physical state" it is said in the book, hakuzari, that the king kuzari, when it came time to select a religion for his people, turned to a christian, to a muslim, and finally to a jew. when the king heard the jew, he remarked that the christian and the muslim both promised him eternal heavenly life and great rewards in the world to come, after his death. on the other- 362- attaining the worlds beyond hand, the jew spoke of the rewards for the observance of the commandments and the punishment for disobeying them in this world. but it seemed to the king that it was more impor

world to come, after his death. on the other- 362- attaining the worlds beyond hand, the jew spoke of the rewards for the observance of the commandments and the punishment for disobeying them in this world. but it seemed to the king that it was more important to be concerned with what he would receive in the world to come, after death, than with the way he should live his life in this world. the jew then explained that those who promise reward in the world to come, do so because they want to distance themselves from the falsehood in this manner, to conceal the lie and the meaning in their words. in a similar fashion, rabbi yehuda ashlag explained that the words of agra, the concept of yehudi("jew) is the name for one who attained the entire spiritual world, the whole world to come, while

observing the commandments, we reply that this was how we were brought up; it is the accepted way of life for us and our community. with upbringing as our base, habit has become second nature, and we require no effort to perform natural actions, since they are dictated both by body and mind. thus, there is no risk of transgressing that which is most familiar and natural. for example, an observant jew will not suddenly have a desire to drive on saturday. but if we wished to behave in a way unnatural to our upbringing, and not perceived by our being as a natural need of the body, even the least significant action would generate from the body the question:why are we engaging in this activity and a seed of altruism- 385- what prompted us to leave the state of relative tranquility to do so? in

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

own mother tongue. that is why kabbalah is expressed in the language of the jews. k a b b a l a h i s n o t a r e l i g i o n q: is there an equivalent to kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no equivalent to kabbalah in other religions because the wisdom of kabbalah is not a religion, but a science. it does not relate to religions, beliefs, extrasensory methods, or even judaism. any orthodox jew will answer the question, do you know the wisdom of kabbalah? by saying that not only do they not know it, but they do not think there is any need to know it. and the response will be correct, as the wisdom of kabbalah is not necessary for those who are occupied with religious rituals. moreover, the wisdom of kabbalah intensifies both the desire to receive and the desire for knowledge, based o

each part joining the others. the mixture of the parts together creates one collective vessel. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 92 q: what v if any v effect does language have on the study? a: kabbalah can be studied in any language. but hebrew is the natural language because the jews are the group that should lead humanity to spirituality. they are the descendants of abraham, the first jew, the first to have crossed the barrier and entered the land of israel. this is why he is called a hebrew (ivri, from the word over, and his language was hebrew. most kabbalists wrote in hebrew because they were the heirs of abraham, meaning his sons, his children. but in principle, kabbalah is a study about the creation of the world and can be expressed in any language. q: can kabbalah be taug

h e x p e r i e n c e 94 about it accessible for everyone, all over the world. in principle, non-jews should come to kabbalah in masses only after the jews do, but if there are those among them who ve already ripened, they ll follow the same path as jews. after all, kabbalah is a method for connecting with the creator, who is unique. a gentile who walks toward the creator is called jewish, and a jew who doesn t is called a gentile. q: what is the best age to start studying kabbalah? a: there is no age limit for the study of kabbalah. i have a student who is eighty years old, and i have students who have just finished high school. when you study, there are no differences between age or origin. the soul doesn t make such discriminations. wo m e n s t u dy i n g k a b b a l a h q: are women

ain one program- the design of creation. s o u l, b o d y a n d r e i n c a r n a t i o n 253 s o u l s o f j e w s a n d i n c l i n at i o n t o k a b b a l a h q: kabbalah belongs to all souls, yet kabbalah is attributed specifically to jews. why? a: every hebrew (ivri, from the hebrew word, ever (passage, meaning one who wants to cross the barrier between our world and the spiritual world, or jew (yehudi, from the word yechudi- meaning one who wants to unite with the creator, or israeli (israel, from the hebrew words yashar-el -meaning straight to god, meaning he who wants to go directly to the creator, takes two lines from above, and bit by bit builds a middle third line. the left line consists of one s uncorrected attributes; the right line consists of the attributes of the creator t

ly to the creator, takes two lines from above, and bit by bit builds a middle third line. the left line consists of one s uncorrected attributes; the right line consists of the attributes of the creator that one by one are shown to us from above. the middle line is the result of the correction of the left line using the right line. the result of one s work, one s spiritual ego, is the hebrew, the jew and the israeli, in everyone now on this earth. as a result of the law of root and branch, there is a great inclination to correction among people who are called hebrews, jews and israelis. but it is only an inclination. those jews (of this world) who do not implement this inclination are considered to have a greater will to receive for themselves than do non-jews. therefore, we can only speak

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

us the ability to predict the future, control it, perhaps even fly. but little by little, we come to realize that instead of all that, we must give all our strength and devote our every goal to the creator. we must nullify ourselves and relinquish our control over ourselves in favor of the creator s control over us. this is how we truly grow. there is a question: what is the connection between a jew by birth, and a spiritual jew? the answer is: in someone who was born jewish, there is a tendency to become a jew in the spiritual sense. the creator matches souls with bodies in a way that the genetic jews, as well as all those who join them, must correct themselves first. that is not an indication that jews are higher quality than others. in fact, jews today are greater egoists than are memb

i t ua l e v o l u t i o n 135 a: there is no connection between the spiritual mt. olives and the physical one. that is why any person can call the mountain by that name, and not only one who has attained the spiritual mt. olives. q: how can we, as ordinary people, name anything according to its spiritual root if we haven t attained it and don t even know that it exists? a: any person, even a non-jew, can name any place on earth according to one s spiritual roots, even without attaining these roots. that is because all people are messengers of the creator, just as is the entire creation and the whole of nature. just as an ordinary person chooses that a mountain should be called mt. olives for some earthly reason, so a kabbalist determines that this mountain should be named that way because

ration? a spiritual teacher may be proficient in many fields science, religious laws and customs, education, etc. however, it is not enough to know what is written in the kabbalah books to become a spiritual guide. such a person can only understand the wisdom, and our sages warn us: wisdom in the gentiles, believe torah (light) in the gentiles, do not believe. the word gentile refers not to a non-jew, but to an egoist yet to be corrected. such a person may display impressive knowledge in kabbalah and boast about it before one s students, displaying knowledge with accurate citations from the texts, etc. this display of knowledge may at first lead beginners to consider this rabbi a spiritual person. this is because beginning students cannot see what spirituality is, and without it there is n

first parts to correct are called jews. afterwards, the other parts mingle with them and begin to approach the creator. in the end, all the parts merge into a single vessel filled entirely with light. this is why there is no such thing as a jewish nationality. if a person feels a genuine need to draw nearer to the creator and attain spirituality through kabbalah, that person will be regarded as a jew. this means that the name jewish correlates to one s natural desire, not to a birth nationality. this is how it was in the past, and only later came the determination of who was considered to be a jew. q: why was the torah (including kabbalah) given only to the jewish people? a: our world is divided into certain groups of people called nations or peoples. all the worlds are built according to

g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 319 o t h e r r e l i g i o n s q: are there parallels to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no parallel to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions because the wisdom of kabbalah is not a religion, but a science. it is not related in any way to religions, faiths, or clairvoyance of any kind, not even to judaism. any believing jew, when asked if is proficient in kabbalah, would reply negatively, and see no need to be. one does not need the wisdom of kabbalah to perform religious commandments. besides, the study of kabbalah increases one s egoism; increases one s desire for knowledge, and relies on self-discovery and understanding of the spiritual world, whereas religion relies on self-restriction, coercion, and settling

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ains 727. little need be said of the remainder of the traditional history. we may note the curious similarity between the names given to the three villains, and the fact that the three terminations when put together make the sacred word aum or om. jubel or yehubel is said to signify ggood and evil h; or it may be interpreted as containing the two names of jah (jehovah) and bel or baal- which to a jew of that period would have been simply good and evil over again. 728. the inscription 729. lastly, we may mention the mysterious inscription on the plate of the c c n on the t c b c of this degree, written in the masonic cipher. in its ordinary straightforward form this cryptogram is known to almost every schoolboy; but it is capable of a number of permutations. in this case its letters are arr

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

nd picking out a high, treble-string lead with his slider, all at the same time. fellow guitarists would watch him with unabashed, open-mouthed wonder. they were watching the delta s first modern bluesman at work (palmer 1981, 117. johnson was born in hazlehurst, mississippi, on may 8, 1911. he grew up in the delta and spent a few years in memphis before returning to mississippi. he picked up the jew s harp, then graduated to the harmonica and johnson, robert 133 finally to the guitar. in robinsonville he came under the tutelage of guitarist willie brown. he moved back to hazlehurst, which he had left in early childhood, where he met an alabama-born guitarist named ike zinnerman (sometimes spelled zinneman. zinnerman liked to tell people that he had learned to play guitar while sitting on

LIBER B VEL MAGI

. let him beware of abstinence from action. for the curse of his grade is that he must speak truth, that the falsehood thereof may enslave the souls of men. let him then utter that without fear, that the law may be fulfilled. and according to his original nature will that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, being an hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a jew; and yet another ardour and manliness, being an arab. yet this matter toucheth the mystery of incarnation, and is not here to be declared. 15. now the grade of a magister teacheth the mystery of sorrow, and the grade of a magus the mystery of change, and the grade of ipsissimus the mystery of selflessness, which is called also the mystery of pan. 16. let the magus then contemplate each in turn

LIBER LVII

uebelo israel torah .in the beginning the elohim saw that israel would accept the law. in this connection i may give six very interesting specimens of notariqon formed from this same word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, 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 y

hovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets .he who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe. therefore when a devout jew comes upon it in reading from the scriptures, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name ynda, adonai, lord. the radical meaning of the word is .to be. and it is thus, like hyha, eheieh, a glyph of existence. it is capable of twelve transpositions, which all convey the meaning of .to be; it is the only word that will bear

ouldn.t y have a little concealed unity of its own?35 that the method should ever have been accepted by any qabalist argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers. jew, converted by the notariqons of .berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the g

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

, in the gospel of buddha, is pleased to represent nirvana as a parallel for the heaven of the christian. it is sufficient if i reiterate the unanimous opinion of competent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in any canonical book sufficient to establish such interpretations in the teeth of buddhist tradition and practice; and that any person who persists in tuning buddhism to his own jew s harp in this way is risking his reputation, either for scholar-ship or good faith. scientific men are common enough in the west, if buddhists are not; and i may safely leave in their hands the task of castigating the sneak-thieves of the physical area. ii. the essential features of bhuddism have been summed up by the buddha himself. to me, of course, what the buddha said or did not say is im

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xpression. next: the tree of the sephiroth sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 121 the tree of the sephiroth the tree of the sephiroth may be considered an invaluable compendium of the secret philosophy which originally was the spirit and soul of chasidism. the qabbalah is the priceless heritage of israel, but each year those who comprehend its true principles become fewer in number. the jew of today, if he lacks a realization of the profundity of his people's doctrines, is usually permeated with that most dangerous form of ignorance, modernism, and is prone to regard the qabbalah either as an evil to be shunned like the plague or as a ridiculous superstition which has survived the black magic of the dark ages. yet without the key which the qabbalah supplies, the spiritual mysteri

people's doctrines, is usually permeated with that most dangerous form of ignorance, modernism, and is prone to regard the qabbalah either as an evil to be shunned like the plague or as a ridiculous superstition which has survived the black magic of the dark ages. yet without the key which the qabbalah supplies, the spiritual mysteries of both the old and the new testament must remain unsolved by jew and gentile alike. the sephirothic tree consists of ten globes of luminous splendor arranged in three vertical columns and connected by 22 channels or paths. the ten globes are called the sephiroth and to them are assigned the numbers i to 10. the three columns are called mercy (on the right, severity (on the left, and, between them, mildness, as the reconciling power. the columns may also be

he fabric of the torah, then the scriptures are veritably books within books. in rabbinical circles the opinion is prevalent that christendom never has understood the old testament and probably never will. in fact, the feeling exists--in some quarters, at least--that the old testament is the exclusive possession of the jewish faith; also that christianity, after its unrelenting persecution of the jew, takes unwarranted liberties when it includes strictly jewish writings in its sacred canon. but, as noted by one rabbi, if christianity must use the jewish scriptures, it should at least strive to do so with some degree of intelligence! in the opening chapter of genesis it is stated that after creating light and separating it from darkness, the seven elohim divided the waters which were under

it continued to impose celibacy, a practice resulting in an alarming number of neurotics. in the mysteries, celibacy is reserved for those who have reached a certain degree of spiritual unfoldment. when advocated for the mass of unenlightened humanity, however, it becomes a dangerous heresy, fatal alike to both religion and philosophy. as christendom in its fanaticism has blamed every individual jew for the crucifixion of jesus, so with equal consistency it has maligned every member of the feminine sex. in vindication of eve philosophy claims that the allegory signifies merely that man is tempted by his emotions to depart from the sure path of reason. many of the early church fathers sought to establish a direct relationship between adam and christ, thereby obviously discounting the extre

e word moses, when understood in its esoteric egyptian sense, means one who has been admitted into the mystery schools of wisdom and as gone forth to teach the ignorant concerning the will of the gods and the mysteries of life, as these mysteries were explained within the temples of isis, osiris, and serapis. there is much controversy concerning the nationality of moses. some assert that he was a jew, adopted and educated by the ruling house of egypt; others hold the opinion that he was a fullblooded egyptian. a few even believe him to be identical with the immortal hermes, for both these illustrious founders of religious systems received tablets from heaven supposedly written by the finger of god. the stories told concerning moses, his discovery in the ark of bulrushes by pharaoh's daught

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heir pains. so enough of all the cant religious, political, nationalist, whatever. overboard with the lot of it. and this is where your little gesture comes in. no, we are not going to ask you to burn a draft card or an american flag; the time-honoured tradition of repeating the so-called lord's prayer backwards is all you have to observe. whether you are or were a practising christian, buddhist, jew, mohammedan, parsee, hindu, whatever, make no difference at all. as long as you are living in a "christian" country, the gesture is most effective. it is a defiant relic from the days of the great witch persecutions, and though witches used not to be specifically anti-christian, many of them became so, not unnaturally, with the advent of that tide of religiously motivated oppression and bloods

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ce to jehovahwas not made in the time of abraham, nor even in the time of moses it occurred much later, in the time of samuel the judge, when the children of israel did put away baal and ashtoreth, and served the lord only (1 samuel 7:4 (p. 25)elohimconsidered in some texts to be foreign rulers and judges (see p. 25)abrahamwhen abraham migrated to canaan in about 1900 b.c, he arrived neither as a jew, nor as a canaan-ite, but as a sumerian (p. 25)hebrew and israelitethe name hebrew derives from the patriarch eber (heber/abhar, six generations before abraham.the term israelite comes from the renaming of abrahams grandson jacob, who became known asisrael (p. 26)long kept records the opening verses of genesis were composed in the sixth century b.c, roughly 1,400 years afterthe time of abraham

s. at the university of mississippi medical center, dr.orlando j. andy would apply lobotomy to six-year-old children. 1935 nazis institute the law for the protection of the genetic health of the german people, whichrequired couples to have a medical examination before marriage; the law forbade marriage if a personwas considered genetically defective, and did not permit marriage between aryans and jew, gypsies,slavs and others deemed inferior. 1935 russians arrested in china found carrying vials of dysentery, cholera, and anthrax for sabotagemissions against the japanese. some missions were successful. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation359 appendix f: general chronology of events 1935 dr. alexis carrel of the rockefeller institute in new york publishes man the unknown, adv

ermany'ssecret chemical weapon is discovered. 1945 united states imports 642 nazi specialists under operation paperclip, which continues to importspecialists in all technical fields until 1973, after an initial phase lasting until 1952. a large number ofgermans involved in mind control work in the concentration camps are imported into the united states.one of the german imports would be a hasidic jew who represented the best of the nazi mind controlprogramming. he would be the one to develop the mind control operations for military intelligence inthe united states, and is known by the pseudonym of cabalist dr.greenbaum. imported also is the meth-odology for deliberately creating multiple personality disassociative states to further multi-level pro-gramming, using drugs, photic, and acousti

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or a creature to whom himself and everything around him are mysteries, to torture and slay others, because they cannot think as he does in regard to the profoundest of those mysteries, to understand which is utterly beyond the comprehension of either the persecutor or the persecuted. masonry is not a religion. he who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. the brahmin, the jew, the mahometan, the catholic, the protestant, each professing his peculiar religion, sanctioned by the laws, by time, and by climate, must needs retain it, and cannot have two religions; for the social and sacred laws adapted to the usages, manners, and prejudices of particular countries, are the work of men. but masonry teaches, and has preserved in their purity, the cardinal tenets of the ol

e any right of persecution at all, it would in all cases be a mutual right; because one party has the same right as the other to sit as judge in his own case; and god is the only magistrate that can rightfully decide between them. to that great judge, masonry refers the matter; and opening wide its portals, it invites to enter there and live in peace and harmony, the protestant, the catholic, the jew, the moslem; every man who will lead a truly virtuous and moral life, love his brethren, minister to the sick and distressed, and believe in the one _all-powerful, all-wise, everywhere-present_ god _architect, creator, and _preserver of all things, by whose universal law of harmony ever rolls on this universe, the great, vast, infinite circle of successive death and life--to whose ineffable na

large body of the jews that adopted his doctrines, were neither pharisees nor sadducees, but the humble, common people. they must, therefore, have been essenes. it is plain, too, that christ applied for baptism as a sacred rite, well known and long practiced. it was becoming to him, he said, to fulfill all righteousness. in the 18th chapter of the acts of the apostles we read thus "and a certain jew, named apollos, born at alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to ephesus. this man _was instructed in the way of the lord, and, being fervent in spirit _he spake and taught diligently the things of the lord, knowing only the baptism of john; and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue; whom, when aquilla and priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounde

t _he spake and taught diligently the things of the lord, knowing only the baptism of john; and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue; whom, when aquilla and priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him _the way of god_ more perfectly" translating this from the symbolic and figurative language into the true ordinary sense of the greek text, it reads thus "and a certain jew, named apollos, an alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, and of extensive learning, came to ephesus. he had learned in the mysteries the true doctrine in regard to god; and, being a zealous enthusiast, he spoke and taught diligently the truths in regard to the deity, having received no other baptism than that of john" he knew nothing in regard to christianity; for he had resided in alexandria

the doctrines taught by himself, and had sent timothy to them to bring them afresh to their recollection. according to paul, christ was to come again. he was to put an end to all other principalities and powers, and finally to death, and then be himself once more merged in god _who should then be all in all. the forms and ceremonies of the essenes were symbolical. they had, according to philo the jew, four degrees; the members being divided into two orders, the _practici_ and _therapeutici; the latter being the contemplative and medical brethren; and the former the active, practical, business men. they were jews by birth; and had a greater affection for each other than the members of any other sect. their brotherly love was intense. they fulfilled the christian law "love one another" they

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he initiate acquires sufficient spiritual experience not to make the same blunders as do "asses in lion skin. 47. but they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. they have half of the key. half=5+1+30+ 6=42. 4+2=6, the sun. the jews have, in common with thelemites, awareness of the sun current. this they acquired through the egyptian initiate they called moses and "adopted" as a jew. it is with motive that they have been called "children of satan. truly, the "eye that watches over israel never sleeps. but that eye watches over everybody! unite by thine art so that all disappear. this phrase sent certain debased elements within jewish occultism hunting for aleister crowley as long as he lived. thelemites have been pointed (by these same so-called occultists) as the origina

experiment on animals to learn how to cure diseases, and is always eager to intervene between his neighbor and his private grief? who is strong? the man who allows the existence and prosperity of others who think differently from him, who refuse to serve him or his ideals, or the man who interprets every demonstration of autonomy as an affront of his ego? who is weaker? the nazi who burned a dead jew in an oven, or any man who worships a god that he considers willing to let a living soul burn in hell forever? who is stronger? the man who daily scatters fish among the hungry, or the man who teaches the hungry how to fish for themselves? who is a king? the man who says "i am the light of the world; come unto me, ye who suffer, and be consoled" or the man who says "every man and every woman i

. the author estimates that the code he proposes will fulfil the needs of human society for at least several centuries (see al iii, 34) and the first step to acceptance and use of such a code is to demote reason from its false crown of king of the self to its true function of instrument of the libido. freud analysed the psyche correctly; but his emotional attachment to tabus (he was, after all, a jew and a bourgeois) led him to the hopeless attempt of trying to saddle the lithe race-horse of the contemporary unconscious with the heavy accoutrements of the seedy nag of palestine. reason is in capitals, which suggests a qabalistic meaning. reason =200+5+1+ 7+70+50=333, the number of choronzon "dispersion (see liber 418, the tenth aethyr "dogs of reason" are, therefore, the "black brothers. w

may eventually prove to have been much more important than the industrial revolution "let blood flow to my name" blood= semen "trample down the heathen" the heathen are all those who do not accept the law of thelema: do what thou wilt. it does not mean "people who are not of our religion. thelema is not, repeat not, a religion. it is a method of theurgy or of parapsychoanalysis, if you prefer. a jew, or a roman catholic, or a buddhist, or a marxist, is not necessarily a "heathen" a "thelemite" who wants to kill them because they don't call their idea of god ra-hoor-khuit, is. see liber oz "i will give you of their flesh to eat" he does. and sometimes, very tasty it is. there is also a technical meaning in the expression "trample down the heathen, for heathen=5+ 5+1+9+5+5+50=80, one of the

estant christians? catholic christians are really pagans at heart; there is usually good stuff in them, particularly in latin countries. they only need to be instructed in the true meaning of their faith to reject the false veils. an xxi: after some years spent in catholic countries, i wish to modify the above. catholics are dead alike to spirituality and to reason, as bad as protestants. and the jew is far from hopeless outside america, where the previous paragraph was written. the above is very funny, and we could not resist inserting both the first part, written right after world war i, and the second, written 1925 e.v. having been born in a country where roman catholicism predominates, we could have told him that roman catholics are even worse than protestants. crowley evidently had se

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ought. as mentioned before, although there are dimensions in chochmah, nonetheless, chochmah itself is beyond direct grasp or comprehension. it exists in a way which is not directly tangible. it is only through the grasp and comprehension of binah that the nothingness of chochmah becomes tangible. because of this chochmah corresponds to shabbat, whereas binah corresponds to yom tov. on shabbat, a jew is separate from all worldly matters. he does not do any form of work. it is a day devoted to prayer, study and introspection. in contrast, on yom tov (the jewish holidays) a jew is permitted to do some form of work, such as cooking. from this we see that binah relates to yom tov. binah is an intermediary level between chochmah which is separate and holy, and the emotions and action (the sefir

bove all the angels, even the highest angels in the highest worlds. this physical world is made up of two general levels of kelipah (external shells. the first level is kelipat nogah, which contains some good in it (in a concealed way. it can therefore be transformed and sublimated to g-dliness through the efforts of man. an example is a cow. it can be used for either kosher or non-kosher meat. a jew has the ability to elevate and sublimate the meat to g-d when he makes a blessing over it, and eats it with the intention of serving g-d and doing his commandments. furthermore, when he actually uses the energy derived from the food in the service of g-d, he elevates it further, and transforms it into holiness. however, there is another category of kelipot (external shells) which cannot be rec

ther, and transforms it into holiness. however, there is another category of kelipot (external shells) which cannot be rectified or transformed, except by g-d himself. this category is called "the three impure kelipot, because they have no goodness in them at all, and cannot be uplifted or transformed into holiness by man. an example of this is pork. since g-d forbade the consumption of pork to a jew, it can never be uplifted, even if he eats it with the holiest of intentions. these kelipot will only be rectified by g-d himself in the world to come, at the time of the resurrection of the dead. this is as stated "death will be swallowed up forever" now, it is solely through the contemplation of g-dliness that a person can have any emotions or relationship with g-d. as explained before, the

of g-d, is certainly on the correct path, and is fulfilling the verse "with all your heart. nonetheless, the actual unification and cleaving to g-d and the revelation of g-dliness in one s heart comes about specifically from the divine soul) in order to understand the difference between the divine soul and the animal soul, we must note a clearly observable phenomenon. it is observable that when a jew hears concepts of g-dliness (i.e. chassidus, his intellect becomes greatly aroused by it. this effect is not merely because of the depth of the concepts, for there are many concepts and fields of study which are deep and broad. furthermore, we clearly observe that some will become more aroused upon hearing the very same teachings of chassidus than others (this is to say that some will actually

xcited by the "therefore" of the concept. they mistakenly believe that they have already grasped the actual g-dliness of the concept. because of this, they reject the full explanation of the concept and cannot bear to hear it. this too is a grave error for they have not grasped the essential g-dliness at all. rather, this excitement comes about from the nature embedded in the divine soul of every jew, to become aroused by matters of g-dliness, even without reason. this comes from the lowest level of the lowest level of the divine soul (the nefesh) as will be explained shortly) now, the actual sensitivity and feeling for the g-dliness of the concept, is a sensitivity to the chassidus of the concept. in other words, this is the essential heyulie of the omek hamoosag (the essential depth of t

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

70 archetypal nations, enumerated in genesis 10. their spiritual sources, the angelic gprinces, h are personifications of the different mentalities, or cultures, they each express. each is a different variation (i.e, perversion) of the torah, each emphasizing or expressing a different angle of it, preserving parts and distorting others. the gwicked person h in this exposition can be, of course, a jew just as well as a non-jew. when a jew identifies with a particular non-jewish cultural mindset, he serves as a vehicle for that non-torah take on life. when a person reveals a secret to the wicked, he causes yesod to channel its flow into these 70 [princes] and they [can then] overpower malchut. g-d intended that they should all be subject to malchut, under the purview of the jewish people, bu

eing encompassed by a sheath that protects the world from its rays. one aspect of the purification process of purgatory is unbearable heat. abraham gwas sitting at the opening of the tent, h referring to [our sages f statement] that he sits at the entrance of purgatory and keeps whoever is circumcised and sealed with the holy covenant and has not blemished it from entering.6 abraham was the first jew to be circumcised, and the covenant of circumcision is known to this day as gthe covenant of abraham. h thus, whoever fulfills the commandment of being circumcised and guards the purity of his sexuality merits abraham fs protection. allegorically, this simply means that guarding sexual purity is sufficient merit to be spared the ordeal of purgatory even if one has sinned in other ways that wou

that after his suffering g-d restored to job all his previous wealth and happiness. presumably this means that he did not suffer spiritually either, and remained as gfinished h as he was to begin with, if not more so. or perhaps just by being born, job signified the completion of the rectification of terah, who, as we said before, had been reincarnated as job fs mother. nonetheless, job was a non-jew, and the gshells h claimed him as their own and his merit protected them. for all his perfection, job was not part of the line of abraham (being descended from his brother nahor, as we said above, and thus was not a link in the chain of the primogenesis of the jewish people. we are told that when the spies entered the land of israel, they found the inhabitants mourning over job fs passing, sin

lf and not a blessing. h his mother said to him, glet your curse be upon me, my son. only listen to me, and go take from my [goats. h the allegorical explanation of this is as follows: when adam [and eve] sinned, in order to be rectified they were reincarnated into the three patriarchs and three matriarchs. the sin of the tree of knowledge of good and evil comprised the three cardinal sins that a jew is commanded to lay down his life rather than transgress: idolatry, murder, and infidelity.1 abraham rectified the sin of idolatry when he was thrown into the fiery furnace in ur, as it is written, gand you shall burn their asherah-trees in fire. h2 the asherah-tree was an idol. we see here that the destruction of idolatry is by fire, and abraham submitted to the fire rather than serve idols

ar rabbah 3; vayikra rabbah 1; midrash shmuel 5. 5 exodus 20:11. 6 genesis 2:2. 7 avodah zarah 3b. 8 psalms 145:16. 9 psalms 25:7. the arizal on parashat vayeitzei 149 prepared. thus king david said, gmention not the sins of my youth and my transgressions, for the sake of your goodness, o g-d, h so that there be [enough] people to benefit from it.10 even if we assume that this matron, being a non-jew, did not know this, and rabbi yosi did not wish to tell her this as an answer because she might not have believed in the world to come, there are numerous examples [of things g-d is doing] in this world, as we have said. this being the case, what was her question? and why didn ft rabbi yosi want to answer her thus, but said instead that g-d is making matches.to which she could reply, gi can al

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the destiny of the jews, those scapegoats, martyrs and saviours of the world, a people full of vitality, a bold and hardy race, which persecutions have preserved intact, because it has not yet accomplished its mission! do not our apostolical traditions declare that after the decline of faith among the gentiles salvation shall again come forth out of the house of jacob, and that then the crucified jew who is adored by the christians will give the empire of the world into the hands of god his father? on penetrating into the sanctuary of the kabalah one is seized with admiration in the presence of a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time so absolute. the essential union of ideas and signs; the consecration of the most funda12 the doctrine of transcendental magic mental realities

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substances are those which have been assimilated and magnetized by the science and will of the operator. there-fore the great work is something more than. chemical operation: it is an actual creation of the human word initiated into the power of the word of god himself. this hebrew text, which we transcribe in proof of the authenticity and reality of our discovery, is derived from the rabbinical jew abraham, the master of nicholas flamel, and it is found in his occult commentary on the sepher yetzirah the sacred book of the kabalah. this commentary is extremely rare, but the sympathetic potencies of our chain led us to the discovery of a copy which has been preserved since the year 1643 in the protestant church at rouen. on its first page there is written: ex dono, then an illegible name

imals, vegetables and minerals. h the winged dragon, dominated by the triangle, represents therefore the christ of khunrath. that is, the sovereign intelligence of light and life. it is the secret of the pentagram; it is the highest dogmatic and practical mystery of traditional magic. thence unto the grand and ever-incommunicable maxim there is only one step. the kabalistic figures of abraham the jew, which imparted to flamel the first desire for knowledge, are no other than the twenty-two keys of the tarot, imitated and resumed elsewhere in the twelve keys of basil valentine, there the sun and moon reappear under the figures of emperor and empress; mercury is the juggler; the great hierophant is the adept or abstractor of the quintessence; death, judgement, love, the dragon or devil, the

ewitches those who do him wrong, and never do the enemies of initiates carry far the impunity of their injustice. we ourselves have witnessed numerous examples of this fatal law. the murderers of martyrs always perish miserably, and the adepts are martyrs of intelligence; providence seems to scorn those who despise them and to slay those who would deprive them of life. the legend of the wandering jew is the popular poetry of this arcanum. a wise man was driven by a nation to his doom; it bade him ggo on! h when he sought to rest for a moment. what is the consequence? a similar condemnation overtakes the nation itself; it is proscribed bodily. men have cried to it: gget on! get on! h for centuries, and it has found no pity and no repose. a man of learning had a wife whom he loved wildly and

d thummim, as the figures of the four kabalistic animals, which symbols, as we shall show shortly, were epitomized by the sphinxes or cherubs of the ark. in connexion with the usurped teraphim of the book of hermes 129 michas, he cites a curious passage from philo, which is a complete revelation as to the ancient and sacerdotal origin of our tarots. gaffarel thus expresses himself: ghe (philo the jew) speaking of the history concealed in the before-mentioned chapter of judges, says that michas made three gimages of young boys and three young calves, three also of a lion, an eagle, a dragon and a dove, all of fine gold and silver; so that if anyone sought him to discover a secret concerning his wife, he interrogated the dove; concerning children, the young boy; concerning wealth, the eagle;

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sticism with the schools of greek philosophy and questions the validity of the assertion. quispel states that gnosticism had some greek origins and in the greek philosophic climate gnosticism developed and came to varied expressions. this is not to be taken as agreement with harnack that gnosticism is the acute hellenization of christianity. 1. philo, the man and his thought philo, an alexandrian jew, was born approximately 30 bc. this places him in the times that the romans controlled the hellenized world of alexander. philo is known to have written much. however the actual works extant today are said to be comparatively scarce. philo works predominantly with the idea of the platonic dualism. god is outside of time and space, and in his being unknowable. however, we must not forget that p

a collection titled ancient roots and modern meanings, edited by jerry v. diller. the book covers the extremes in jewish thought of the late 70's. 1. deities: where does judaism stand on the subject of deities? richard l. rubenstein made the following comments "we stand in a cold, silent, unfeeling cosmos, unaided by any purposeful power beyond our own resources. after auschwitz, what else can a jew say about god" a former rabbi, he chose to separate himself from the established jewish community, though his work is representative of the radical reappraisal among jews who, clinging to their one god, have experienced genocide repeatedly for their trust. on the other side is irving greenburg who states "there is a god who cares, human beings have infinite value" but later on he admits "the h

wisdom that the human condition had not been altered. they focused jewish attention on those norms which could make life's limitations more viable, rather than on a savior who promised to overcome the limitations. the fundamental jewish posture is one of realism before existence, rather than one of seeking an escape from the world's necessities" he most poignantly states the dilemma of the modern jew who, faced with the reality of this world, isn't sure what or where his god is, if indeed he exists at all. those who tenaciously hold on to the mystical traditions of the kaballah do so at the price of involved explanations of the hidden god. in utter disillusionment, rubenstein states not only for the jew, but for many of the denominations in the judeo-christian religions. the time of the de

e pagans and christians, the chapter entitled language of the gods, pp. 234& 235, and ancient mysteries, which has numerous examples throughout the book. 3. initiatory states are designed to help the individual deal with the "here and now" though strictly limited to the male members of the communities, the roles available have thousands of years of tradition to reinforce their importance upon the jew. the women have their role, and presumably their satisfaction of religious needs, in that they assume whatever tasks are necessary so that the husbands and sons can freely pursue the religious observances and studies. these are of two types: the rational and the non-rational. the first is the realm of the rabbi, whose task is a life-long confrontation of the sacred texts in order to continuall

ften with the simplest of understanding, i think it is more logical to consider it under mythology "judaism is a religion of strong emotions. its calendar chronicles a series of emotional highs and lows throughout the year. jewish ritual orients itself to the most highly-charged moments of human existence: birth, the passage from childhood to adulthood and responsibility, marriage, and death" the jew is taught to see all of these in terms of their history of god's interaction with them, through concepts such as the exodus experience, which has become for them an archtype of transformation in much the same way as the setian would consider an aeonic word. an example of this is the sect portrayed in the "dybbuk" tale found in an appendix to the book of leviathan by ipsissimus james lewis, gra

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he sunday papers from the corner kiosk when the vendor announced "it's the last week this week. twenty--three years i've been on this corner and the pakis have finally driven me out of business" she heard the word _p-a-c-h-y, and had a bizarre vision of elephants lumbering down the moscow road, flattening sunday news vendors "what's a pachy" she foolishly asked and the reply was stinging "a brown jew" she went on thinking of the proprietors of the local "c tn (confectioner--tobacconist- newsagent) as _pach yderms_ for quite a while: as people set apart- rendered objectionable- by the nature of their skin. she told gibreel this story, too "oh" he responded, crushingly "an elephant joke" he wasn't an easy man. but there he was in her bed, this big vulgar fellow for whom she could open as she

ays been thought a bit stuck-up by the others and who had chosen for themselves the most aristocratic identities, becoming "umm salamah the makhzumite" and, snootiest of all "ramlah, whose namesake, the eleventh wife of mahound, was the daughter of abu simbel and hind. and there was a "zainab bint jahsh, and a "juwairiyah, named after the bride captured on a military expedition, and a "rehana the jew, a "safia" and a "maimunah, and, most erotic of all the whores, who knew tricks she refused to teach to competitive "ayesha: the glamorous egyptian "mary the copt. strangest of all was the whore who had taken the name of "zainab bint khuzaimah, knowing that this wife of mahound had recently died. the necrophilia of her lovers, who forbade her to make any movements, was one of the more unsavour

their hips lose their swagger, their faces start looking their age, in spite of all the make--up. when they reach him, they kneel _who do you say that i am_ he asks, and wants to add _i know your names. i met you once before, elsewhere, behind a curtain: twelve of you then as now. ayesha, hafsah, ram lah, sawdah, zainab, zainab, maimunah, safia, juwairiyah, umm salamah the makhzumite, rehana the jew, and the beautiful mary the copt. silently, they remain on their knees. their wishes are made known to him without words _what is an archangel but a puppet? kathputli, marionette. the faithful bend us to their will. we are forces of nature and they, our masters. mistresses, too. the heaviness in his limbs, the heat, and in his ears a buzzing like bees on summer afternoons. it would be easy to

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but also the group of believers. these early believers, including the apostles( jesus s twelve closest followers, or disciples) peter, james, matthew, john, and thomas, preached the word of jesus only to jews at first. but soon the word of the resurrection spread across the mediterranean world. the spreading of the religion outside the community of jews was largely due to the work of a converted jew, saul of tarsus (died c. 67 ce, who later became known as paul or saint paul. paul was not one of the original apostles. in fact, he had been involved in persecutions (campaigns of mistreatment aimed at stopping the growth of a religion) directed against disciples of jesus. it was only long after the execution of jesus that paul had his conversion experience (or change of beliefs) and began hi

m, and conservative judaism. there is also a fourth, smaller group, called reconstructionist. orthodox judaism, generally regarded as conservative, is a coalition( partnership) of a number of groups that have in common the belief that god gave moses the entire torah, including both the written torah and the oral torah. they believe that the 613 mitzvoth, or commandments or a hasidic, or orthodox, jew stands on a street in jerusalem, israel. the hasidic movement was founded by israel ben eliezer in the eighteenth century. its followers strictly follow the torah s teachings. annie griffiths belt/ corbis. world religions: almanac 351 judaism laws contained in the torah, remain binding on jews. it is estimated that about 7 percent of american jews are orthodox. orthodox judaism is the only rec

ces and pilgrimages jewish holidays can be confusing for non-jews (referred to by jews as gentiles) for two principal reasons. first, the date of jewish holidays is determined by the jewish calendar, so holidays fall on different days each year in the secular (nonreligious) calendar. second, jewish holidays can last for different lengths of time, depending on the tradition from which a particular jew or jewish family or congregation comes. while the jewish calendar contains a large number of holidays and observances, the four most prominent are passover, rosh hashanah, yom kippur, and hanukkah. passover the feast of passover, called pesach in hebrew, is perhaps the most important jewish holiday. most jews observe this holiday to some world religions: almanac 361 judaism extent, even those

laying with a dreidel, a square top. during the reign of antiochus, reading the torah was illegal, but gambling games were not. jews of the time who had gathered to read the torah often played with the dreidel to hide what they were actually doing. pilgrimages the holiest place on earth for jews is israel, especially jerusalem. much of jewish law is applicable only to jews who live in israel. any jew who wants to can automatically gain citizenship in israel. many jews who live elsewhere make it a point to visit israel at some point in their lives. israel is filled with sites that are considered sacred to jews. one of the most famous sites is in jerusalem. it is the western wall, sometimes referred to as the wailing wall. this wall was a retaining wall built around the second temple and lat

outh. benjamin made his home in the west, as did ephriam and menassah, the children of joseph, jacob s favorite son. dan, asher, and naphtali moved to districts in the east. the tribe of jacob s third son, levi, was set apart to serve the holy temple in jerusalem. the bible refers to abraham and his descendants as hebrews, and later, after jacob s change of name to israel, as israelites. the term jew is a shortened version of judahites, which is what the inhabitants of judah s northern tribe were called. 6 world religions: biographies abraham know that you fear god, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son. then god renewed his promise to abraham, saying, i will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seasho

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

rge figures of the gods which were sculptured or painted on the walls, and the hieroglyphic inscriptions which accompanied them, were considered by those who could neither understand nor read them to be nothing more nor less than magical figures and formula which were intended to serve as talismans. the historian mas'udi mentions 1 an instance of the powers of working magic possessed by a certain jew, which proves that the magical practices of the egyptians had passed eastwards and had found a congenial home among the jews who lived in and about babylon. this man was a native of the village of zurarah in the district of kufa, and he employed his time in working magic. in the mosque at kufa, and in the presence of walid ibn ukbah, he raised up several apparitions, and made a king of huge st

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e soviet spy who oversaw the manhattan project, the building of the first atomic bomb, and was present when the humongous mushroom cloud rose with its imploding plumes of fire, is said to have exclaimed "i am became the destroyer of worlds" few realized that this is a quote right out of the hindu scriptures, the "bhagavad gita, and it was supposedly from the hindu sun god, krishna. oppenheimer, a jew, appointed to his august scientific position by 33rd degree mason, president franklin d. roosevelt, was deep into the occult and was a cabalist magician. as michael hoffman ii and a few other keen-minded observers have pointed out, the a-bomb project, the transmutation of matter into intense forms of energy, was long an alchemical objective of the illuminati magicians. like the hindu god who r

show albert pike, 33rd degree, 19th century sovereign grand commander following the american civil war, quoted as adoring lucifer. also wearing the symbol, henry c. clausen, 33rd degree, sovereign grand commander in the 1970s and 1980s. clausen wore the symbol as does the current sovereign grand commander, c. fred kleinknecht. 116 codex magica highly acclaimed artist marc chagall, a russian-born jew, gave us this painting, entitled midsummer nights dream, in 1939. drawing on the theme of "beauty and the beast" the painting has a horned goat as a bridegroom, and a wedding couple being influenced by a red-colored angel. dutch architect rem koolhaas is in great demand. in recent years he's designed a guggenheim museum, public libraries, prada stores, an addition for the whitney museum in new

llion dollar executive jet as a gift from israel, a nation that receives from five to ten billion in free foreign aid money each year from american taxpayers. in effect, begin and israel stole money from the u.s.a. taxpayers and funneled it to falwell. secret handshakes of the illuminati 169 president clinton in a masonic grip with supreme court justice stephen breyer. breyer, a devout cabalistic jew, was nominated by clinton to the supreme court. to the right of breyer is justice ruth bader ginsberg, also a cabalistic and talmudic jew and again a clinton appointee (photo: the cincinnati post, october 1, 1994) apollo 8 crewman frank borman and a top nasa manager in a masonic hand grip. 170 codex magica karl rove, top white house advisor to president george w. bush, sharing a masonic connec

"on the square" a phrase made common in the american lexicon by its frequent usage by masons. along the way, we shall note the illuminist involvement of such infamous folks as the russian mystic and master seducer, grigore rasputin, former u.s.a. president jimmy "peanut" carter, cuban strongman fidel "odd fellow" castro, and master mason and illuminist thug extraordinaire, joseph stalin, the half-jew who massacred some 50-60 million innocents while heading up the illuminati's experimental bolshevik regime. and we'll also take a brief look at a hand sign of illuminist al gore, some confederate officers into masonic skullduggery, timothy mcveigh's rancid "f..you" signal, and a few other choice hand poses of elite servants "masonry ought forever to be abolished. it is wrong essentially wrong

adimir zhirinovsky, flamboyant russian politician, holds in his hand the double-headed eagle insignia of the czarist regime, recently revived in the gorbachev-yeltsin-putin era. zhirinovsky gained worldwide notoriety in the 1990s for bashing jews and for his extreme anti-semitic views. however, he quieted down and muted his animosity toward the jews after it came out that zhirinovsky is himself a jew! the setting up of such fake fronts by the illuminati is a common tactic. it is all part of the hegelian dialectical process (thesis+antithesis=synthesis: i.e. create the problem, then come up with the pre-planned "solution" favored by the elite (photo and article: the european, april 17, 1994 "the czar is dead. long live the czar" seems to be the cry today in russia. czar nicholas and his ent

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"ourselves, which we considered so simple and solid, is but a reflection, in a very elementary plane, of that which (now) seems to us more our selves than "ourselves. whether demoniac entities "really" exist or not, on a certain plane they definitely "exist; and are interwoven with the very structure of our existence as egos. the four great princes of the damoniac world, described by "abraham the jew" in the sacred magic of abramelin the mage exist, not only in the qliphoth but in ourselves; they make part of the forces that compose the structure of our brains. it would be extremely difficult to define here what faculties they especially stimulate or fight in us, for this depends on the plane where we try to consider their influence. let us merely assert tht they act as demons when they in

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progresses, a lasting peace can be achieved and jerusalem may truly become the city of god. m delving deeper halley, h. h. halley fs bible handbook: an abbreviated bible commentary. 24th ed. grand rapids, mich. zondervan publishing house, 1965. harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. kunstel, marcia, and joseph albright. their promised land: arab and jew in history fs cauldron.one valley in the jerusalem hills. new york: crown publishers, 1990. shanks, hershel. the city of david: a guide to biblical jerusalem.washington, d.c: biblical archaeological society, 1975. starr, chester g. a history of the ancient world. new york: oxford university press, 1991. westwood, jennifer. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1996. karnak on the banks o

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d worshippers in thevery earliest dawn of religion.the music to which the worshippers danced was a source of great interest to some of the recorders, andaccounts are very varied. it was not uncommon for the grandmaster himself to be the performer, even whenhe led the dance; but there was often a musician who played for the whole company. the usual instrumentswere the flute, the pipe, the trump or jew's harp, and in france the violin. but there were others in vogue also.the musical bow of the little masked figure of the palaeolithic era (plate ii) is very primitive, the player isdancing to his own music as the devil so often did in scotland. the flute as an instrument for magicalpurposes occurs in egypt at the very dawn of history, when a masked man plays on it in the midst of animals.the p

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idge between the two worlds. and can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? could you think that the spur of a tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother's womb "go on! go on" said the voice of god to the wandering jew "advance! advance" the destiny of the world cries out to france. and where do we go? to the unknown, the the abyss perhaps; no matter! but to the past, to the cemeteries of oblivion, to the swaddling-clothes which our childhood itself tore in shreds, towards the imbecility and ignorance of the earliest ages. never! never! xv the number fifteen fifteen is the number of antagonism, and of cathol

s progress is indefinite, but always relatively finite; it will never find in the language of the finite the complete expression of the infinite. mystery is therefore eternal. to bring into the logic of the known the terms of a profession of faith is to withdraw them from faith, which has for positive bases anti-logic, that is to say, the impossibility of logically explaining the unknown. for the jew, god is separate from humanity; he does not live in his creatures, he is infinite egoism. for the mussulman, god is a word before which one prostrates oneself, on the authority of mohammed. for the christian, god has revealed himself in humanity, proves himself by charity, and reigns by virtue of the order which constitutes the hierarchy. the hierarchy is the guardian of dogma, for whose lette

rs in the presence of the veritable initiates of science, is not a new fact in the annals of occultism. you may read in philostratus the history of the lamia who trembles on hearing the approach of apollonius of tyana. our admirable storyteller alexander dumas dramatized this magical anecdote in the magnificent epitome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel "the wandering jew< the scene takes place at corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of catullus. the bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient polyhumnia; she is amorous and delicio

t, perhaps, they contain a force sufficient to overturn the world. we say "perhaps" on philosophical grounds, for, personally, we have no doubt whatever of the high importance of this great hermetic arcanum. we have just said that alchemy is the daughter of the qabalah; to convince oneself of the truth of this it is sufficient to look at the symbols of flamel, of basil valentine, the pages of the jew abraham, and the more or less apocryphal oracles of the emerald table of hermes. everywhere one finds the traces of that decade of pythagoras, which is so magnificently applied in the sepher yetzirah to the complete and absolute notion of divine things, that decade composed of unity and a triple ternary which the rabbis have 192 called the berashith, and the mercavah, the luminous tree of the

will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4 degree- by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5 degree- by curing a large number of illnesses; 6 degree- by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death; 7 degree- lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of abraham the jew, of flamel, and of raymond lully. all these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the hebrew calls od, as did the chevalier de reichenback, which we, with the school of pasqualis martinez, call astral light, which mr. de mirville calls the devil, and which the ancient alchemists called azoth. it is the vital element which manifests itself by the phenomena of heat, light

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m the ability to predict the future, control it, perhaps even fly. but little by little one comes to realize that instead of all that, he must give all his strength and devote his every goal to the creator. he must nullify himself and relinquish his control over himself in favour of the control of the creator on him. this is man s real growth. there is a question: what is the connection between a jew by birth, and a spiritual jew? in someone who was born jewish there is a tendency to become a jew in the spiritual sense. the creator matches the souls into bodies in a way that the genetic jews, as well as all those who join them, must correct themselves first. that is not an indication to the quality of the jews. on the contrary, the jews today, are greater egoists than any other nation. in

l mt. olives and the physical one? a: there is no connection between the spiritual mt. olives and the physical one. that is why any person can call that mountain by that name, and not only one who has attained the spiritual mt. olives. q: how can an ordinary person name anything according to its spiritual root if he doesn t attain it and doesn t even know that it exists? a: any person, even a non-jew, can name any place on earth according to their spiritual root, even without attaining these roots. that is because all people are messengers of the creator, just as is the entire creation and the whole of nature. just as an ordinary person attains that a mountain should be called mt. olives for some corporeal reason, so a kabbalist attains that this mountain should be named that way because o

ecause the eyes are the highest degree of the guf (body) of the partzuf. the lowest and darkest part is malchut. it transfers light from itself to the eyes of the lower partzuf, which demonstrates the difference between the partzufim. q: who is a gentile and what does the name mean? a: as soon as one changes his fate, his progress in life and his correction system to a private one, he is called a jew. that is because he makes the unification with the superior spiritual force the basis of his life. a gentile or a jew are spiritual concepts. q: does one feel his soul rather than his physical body? a: the physical body is an illusion. one must obtain a state where he will feel his soul. that is what kabbalah initiates: one s sensation of one s own soul. afterwards, one can continue developing

s generation? a spiritual teacher may be proficient in many fields, science, religious laws and customs, education etc. but it is not enough to know what is written in the kabbalah books to become a spiritual guide. such a person can only understand the wisdom, and our sages warn us: wisdom in the gentiles believe, torah (light) in the gentiles do not believe. the word gentile refers not to a non-jew, but to an egoist who hasn t been corrected yet. such a person may display impressive knowledge in kabbalah and boast about it before his students, displaying his knowledge with accurate citations from the texts etc. that display of knowledge may at first lead beginners to think that this rabbi is indeed a spiritual one, because beginning students cannot see what spirituality is, and without i

orrect are called jews. afterwards the other parts mingle with them and reach nearness with the creator. in the end, all the parts merge into a single vessel filled entirely with light, which is why there is no such thing as a jewish nationality. if a person feels a genuine need to draw nearer to the creator and attain spirituality through kabbalah, he can do it, and then he will be regarded as a jew. this means that the name jewish correlates to one s natural desire, not to his birth nationality. this is how it was in the past, and only later on came the determination of who was a jew. q: why was the torah (including kabbalah) given only to the jewish people? a: our world is divided to certain groups of people called nations or peoples. all the worlds are built according to a single princ

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

total unison of mind, body and soul, of sympathies and passions; outwardly that it is a perpetual seal, sealed by god. dr. maudsley once said, gno one can escape the tyranny of his organization, h but woe to the man who cannot dissemble that he can! marriage, the hackneyed sexual union, is a lie to love, a legalizing of prostitution, an abortive horror, over which broods the grinning form of the jew-god. god of lechers and harlots, of david and rahab. what sight more truly pitiable than to behold the tender heart of some young girl, or the ardent spirit of another, cramped by this unnatural bond, and denied the joys of a beneficent nature, that yearning to love and be loved. but not with impunity do we thus triumph over our natures; love cannot be so rudely suppressed; the primary want of

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was, in the words of a masonic historian, an unmitigated vagabond. of almost repulsive demeanour and of no education but gifted with boundless impudence and low cunning. no one, of course, ever encountered johnson s supposed chiefs, and it can reasonably be assumed that they never existed. equally imaginary were johnson s supposed name and nationality; in reality he appears to have been a german jew named either leucht or becker. johnson s pretensions were eventually exposed; he was arrested, imprisoned in the castle of wartburg and there, shortly afterwards, he died. the stricte observance, however, survived and flourished. its influence and reputation grew and it extended itself into almost every european country. in course of time however, schisms the bane of all secret societies arose

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

hey may gather together all the fair young virgins unto shushan the palace, to the house of the women unto the custody of hege the king s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given [them] 2:4 and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of vashti. and the thing pleased the king; and he did so. 2:5 [now] in shushan the palace there was a certain jew, whose name [was] mordecai, the son of jair, the son of shimei, the son of kish, a benjamite; 2:6 who had been carried away from jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with jeconiah king of judah, whom nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon had carried away. 2:7 and he brought up hadassah, that [is] esther, his uncle s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid

commanded concerning him. but mordecai bowed not, nor did [him] reverence. 3:3 then the king s servants, which [were] in the king s gate, said unto mordecai, why transgressest thou the king s commandment? 3:4 now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told haman, to see whether mordecai s matters would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a jew. 3:5 and when haman saw that mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was haman full of wrath. 3:6 and he thought scorn to lay hands on mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of mordecai: wherefore haman sought to destroy all the jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of ahasuerus [even] the people of mordecai. 3:7 in the first month, that [is] the month nisan, in the

children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. 5:12 haman said moreover, yea, esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am i invited unto her also with the king. 5:13 yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as i see mordecai the jew sitting at the king s gate. 5:14 then said zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. and the thing pleased haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. 6:1 on that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to

of one of the king s most noble princes, that they may array the man [withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. 6:10 then the king said to haman, make haste [and] take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to mordecai the jew, that sitteth at the king s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. 6:11 then took haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour. 6:12 and mordecai came again to the king s gate. but haman hasted to his house mournin

e] pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by haman the son of hammedatha the agagite, which he wrote to destroy the jews which [are] in all the king s provinces: 8:6 for how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred? 8:7 then the king ahasuerus said unto esther the queen and to mordecai the jew, behold, i have given esther the house of haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the jews. 8:8 write ye also for the jews, as it liketh you, in the king s name, and seal [it] with the king s ring: for the writing which is written in the king s name, and sealed with the king s ring, may no man reverse. 8:9 then were the king s scribes called at that time

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

le,1 as he himself consequently was.2 hence an ingenious author has supposed that these androgynous figures represented the first individuals of the human race, who, possessing the organs of both sexes, produced children of each. this seems to be the sense in which they were represented by some of the ancient artists; but i have never met with any trace of it in any greek author, except philo the jew; nor have i ever seen any monument of ancient art, in which the bacchus, or creator in a human form, was represented with the generative organs of both sexes. in the symbolical images, the double nature is frequently expressed by some androgynous insect, such as the snail, which is endowed with the organs of both sexes, and can copulate reciprocally with either: but when the refinement of art

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

grimoires that to achieve a mastery of magic the magus needs nothing beyond a devoted and open heart, and repeated and sincere prayers of invocation. when rightly called, the light will manifest itself in some perceptible form and instruct the magus in all manner of signs and words of the art necessary to achieve his or her ends. in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, abraham the jew writes to his son, lamech: pray unto god and ask him for his assistance, and place all thy confidence in him alone. and although thou canst not have the understanding of the qabal- ah, nevertheless the holy guardian angels at the end of the six moons or months [of the abramelin working] will manifest unto thee that which is suffi- cient for the possession of this sacred magic.34 this truth sho

ays have in abundance-but simply through an ignorance of karma, the law of the cosmos. cosmic law is the way things work in the universe. by denying the way of the light, adepts of chaotic magic close their eyes to cosmic law. they are like blind men and women trying to drive their cars through a crowded city. they can only blunder along so far before disaster strikes. on this matter, abraham the jew writes: the infamous belial hath no other desire than that of obtaining the power of hiding and obscuring the true divine wisdom, so that he may have more means of blinding simple men and of leading them by the nose; so that they may always remain in their simplicity, and in their error, and that they may not dis- cover the way which leadeth unto the true wisdom; seeing that otherwise it is ce

an inspired work, descended from the ancient mysteries of the kabbalah. in it is given a system of living that has been proven effective for attaining the conversation of the guardian angel. the ritual process in abramelin should not necessarily be copied, but rather should be used as a pattern and guide. the spirit names and magic squares that appear in the book belong to the writer, abraham the jew, and should not be used by the magus, who must rely on his or her own guardian to provide a personal hierarchy of spirits and their sigils. the book ofthe sacred magic ofabrarnelin recommends a physical withdrawal from society for a period of six lunar cycles, during which the working to achieve the conversation of the guardian is prepared. this withdrawal into isolation will not be- possible

than self-deception, a kind of hypnosis that can take on a drug-like attrac- tion for weak, hysterical minds, critics observe that when adepts claim to visit the psychic, or astral, realm, outwardly they close their eyes and slip into a kind of trance, their physical bodies traveling nowhere. from this they conclude that psychic travel is the same as daydreaming. this account given by abraham the jew in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin concerning abraham's experience with an austrian witch is typical: she rubbed herself with the same unguent, and i was very expectant to see her fly away; but she fell to the ground and remained there about three hours as if she were dead, so that i began to think that she really was dead. at last she began to stir like a person who is waking, then

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

dawn system with the east and the element air, because the east is the first quarter and ihvh is the primary name that created the world. adonai means "lord" it is the name of god that jews customarily substitute for ihvh when they encounter the tetragrammaton while reading the pentateuch in order to express the name aloud or in their own thoughts, rather than leave a gap in the text (the average jew does not pronounce ihvh by sounding its individual letters-this is an esoteric practice of kabbalists. the golden dawn linked this name with the south and the element fire, because fire is the element of will and adonai is a name of command. in the rituals of the original golden dawn, this name was sounded in three syllables, but to preserve the fourfold symmetry of the four names of the quart

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ne tradition (qiddushin 71a) communicated the true pronunciation of the name to their disciples "mouth to ear" once every seven years. it was the most serious blasphemy for a layman to speak the name. philo says the penalty was death. it shocked and enraged the rabbis that for some time after its use was forbidden, the sect of the samaritans continued to employ the name in their judicial oaths. a jew reading aloud the scriptures who encountered the letters ihvh was directed to speak the name "adonai" which means lord. if the names ihvh and adonai occurred together on the page "elohim" translated the omnipotent, was voiced in place of the ineffable name to avoid the awkward adonai-adonai. this continues to be the practice today. with such fanatical secrecy, it was inevitable that the true p

ah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, ihvh; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation is a most secret arcanum, and it is a secret of secrets "he who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe" therefore when a devout jew comes upon it in reading the scripture, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name adonai, adni, lord. the radical meaning of the word is "to be" and it is thus, like ahih, eheieh, a glyph of existence. it is capable of twelve transpositions, which all convey the meaning of "to be; it is the only word that will bear so ma

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

hutting the door which they were designed to force open. graham howe, the mind of the druid the fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. george benard shaw a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. saul bellow i consider myself a hindu, christian, moslem, jew, buddhist and confucian. mohandas ghandi to become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. dean william r. inge modern man has not ceased to be credulous, the need to believe haunts him. william james science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. albert einstein mystery is a better word for god because it suggests questions, n

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

have the best of the next life, as well as the good things to come. there are two important things. first, that one s bed should be placed north to south and that one should pray in front of his bed. there are two ways before a man, one leads to paradise and one to gai-hinnom, the place of punishment. there are only two jewish laws, the written law of moses, and the oral law of the qabalah. every jew who goes from the synagogue to his house on the eve of the sabbath is accompanied by two angels, one good and one bad, and if the house is all in order the good angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder, the good angel has to say amen to the condemnation spoken by the evil angel. 39. two are better than three; this means youth is better than old age with its staff of support. there w

lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in micah, chapter v. verse 5, we read that 7 shepherds shall waste assyria; the talmud says they were adam, jacob and methuselah, abraham, jacob and moses, and david. succah. 52. 2. of prophetesses there were 7--sarah, miriam, deborah, hannah, abigail, huldah and esther. in the talmud, kethuboth, 17. i, it is said that it is permissible to the jew to look into his wife s face for 7 days after marriage. after this it is presumably wrong, in their opinion. on the 7th day of the month, adar, moses died and the rain of manna ceased, says the talmud, but this appears to be contradicted in joshua v. verses 10-12. he was born on the same day of the same month. 82. the bava kama says that after 7 years a male hyena becomes a bat, in another 7 y

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

s i have analyzed at length in an earlier study, there is a homology between the lure of christianity as idolatry in the theological plane and as the crux of sexual seduction in the social sphere.248 moreover, as yitzhak baer observed long ago, zoharic homilies well attest that for kabbalists in northern spain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, one of the greatest challenges for the male jew was not to succumb to the attraction of christianity in either domain.249 nadab and abihu are exemplary of biblical figures with a pedigree no less impressive than being in the lineage of the high priest who were not able to overcome the sexual temptation of the other side. it is likely, then, that the meaning of their offering a strange fire was that they cohabited with gentile women.250 the

of the coincidence, and in some cases identity, of opposites. hence the high priest is tempted to draw the strange fire into the shrine, to traverse the boundary and thereby unite demonic and divine, to a rm, in the zoharic language, god s declaration, ana we-shem had hu, i and the name are one. although the monistic claim is metaphysically true, in the unredeemed world, the mandate for the pious jew is to keep pure and impure separate. when confronting the sacred in the form of the erotic energy of the feminine, the priest must resist the enticement to render the disjuncture of the moment the slashing of the instant conjunctive by blurring the boundaries separating holy and unholy. phallic fecundity and the spatio-temporal enshrining of prayer there is one more layer of meaning to expose

ecur in the instant that has no before or after.5 linear time is eternalized in the circular rhythms of the sacred time of liturgy and ritual, a process exemplified especially in the celebration of sabbath.6 the jewish sabbath instantiates the coalescence of past, present, and future, the temporal correlates of the theological categories of creation, revelation, and redemption. in the life of the jew, who lives in and from the end, time has been proleptically redeemed and the experience of the between fulfilled. the disavowal of time does not imply an abrogation or even a dialectical surpassing of temporality, but rather its radical deepening, an eradication of time by rooting oneself more deeply in the ground of time. eternity, accordingly, is not the metaphysical overcoming of or existen

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ations from the east and north to tlie west and south. as spiritual light penetrated from the one quarter, life itself was to be reinvigorated from the other, 1 in a book that deals so much with heathenism, the meaning of the term ought not to be passed over. the greeks and romans had no special name for nations of another faith (for erepodo^oi, fiap^apoi were not used in that sense; but with the jews and christians of the n.t. are contrasted 'idvos, wvta, idvikol, lat. gentes, gentiles; ulphilas uses the pi. thiudos, and by preference in the gen. after a pronoun, thai thiudo, simrai thiudo (giiamm. 4, 441, 457, while thiudiskus translates idvikws gal. 2, 14. as it was mainly the greek religion that stood opposed to the judteo-christian, the word"exx.r;y also assumed the meaning iovikos, a

ould be more useful for my investigation, of a learned paper by julius hare on the names of the days of the week (philolog. mus, nov" 1831. conf. idelers handb. der chronol. 2, 177-180, and letronne, observations sur les representations zodiacales, p. 99. gods of the week> of the 2nd century^ the eomans had previously had a week of nine days, nundinae=noveudinae. christianity had adopted from the jews the hebdomas, and now it could not easily guard the church against the idolatrous names of days either (see suppl. but these names, together with the institution of the week, had passed on from eome to gaul and germany, sooner than the christian religion did. in all the eomance countries the planetary names have lasted to this day (mostly in a very abridged form, except for the first day and

ABRAMELIN1

e sapience divine laiss e par abraham lamech son fils traduite de l hebreu 1458. i give the translated title at the commencement of each of the three books. on the fly-leaf of the original ms. is the following note in the handwriting of the end of the eighteenth century: this volume contains 3 books, of which here is the first. the abraham and the lamech, of whom there is here made question, were jews of the fifteenth century, and it is well known that the jews of that period possessing the cabala of solomon passed for being the best sorcerers and astrologers. then follows in another and recent hand: 1 probably the same as gio peccatrix the magician, the author of many manuscripts on magic. 2 since writing the above, i have heard casually that a copy of at least part, or perhaps of the who

re constantly employed in gaining in our towns through so severe usury exacted from, and harm wrought to, our neighbour. he required from me a very solemn and precise promise to change my manner of life, and to live not according to our false dogmas, but in the way and law of the lord. the which promise i having ever after inviolably observed, and being later on again among my relatives and other jews, i passed among them for a wicked and foolish man; but i said in myself: let the will of god be done, and let not respect of persons turn us aside from the right path, seeing that man is a deceiver. the aforesaid abramelin, knowing the ardent desire which i had to learn, he gave me two manuscript books, very similar in form unto these which i now bequeath unto thee, o lamech, my son; but very

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ven unto you sufficient instruction. only it is absolutely necessary to retire from the world and seek retreat; and ye shall lengthen your prayers to the utmost of your ability. as for eating, drinking and clothing, ye shall govern yourselves in exactly the same manner as in the two first moons; except that ye shall fast (the qabalistical fast) every sabbath eve. note well: the sabbath is for the jews, who are accustomed to observe the same every saturday, but for christians the sabbath is the sunday, and they31 ought to consider the saturday as its eve. 7 the sacred magic 58 the ninth chapter. concerning the two last moons which must be thus commenced. orning and noon ye shall wash your hands and your face on entering the oratory;32 and firstly ye shall make confession of all your sins; a

give this sacred operation unto two persons; and in the case of your giving it unto a third, it would hold good for him, but you yourself would be for ever deprived of it. i beseech you in grace to well open your eyes, and thoroughly examine him unto whom you shall give so great a treasure, so that he be not one who will make use of the same to make a mock of god, which is a sin so great, that we jews are a living proof thereof. for since our predecessors began to make use of this sacred magic for evil, god hath granted it unto so few among us, that in my whole lifetime, ourselves included, we be but the number of seven persons who by the grace of god possess the same. when the child shall warn you that your guardian angel hath appeared, then shall you, without moving from your place, repe

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

us hindu. he has interpreted the word 'control' as meaning compliance with certain fixed proscriptions. there are quite a lot of prohibitions grouped under the heading of yama, which are perhaps quite necessary for the kind of people contemplated by the teacher, but they have been senselessly elevated into universal rules. everyone is familiar with the prohibition of pork as an article of diet by jews and mohammedans. this has nothing to do with yama, or abstract righteousness. it was due to the fact that pork in eastern countries was infected with the trichina; which killed people who ate pork improperly cooked. it was no good telling the savages that fact. any way, they would only have broken the hygienic command when greed overcame them. the advice had to be made a universal rule, and s

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

hell. i,42: let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. so with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. i,43: do that, and no other shall say nay. i,44: for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. i,45: the perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are none! i,46: nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-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 a

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

es 1-10 cxxiv. the heavenly hexagram. cxxv* seven hells of the arabs. cxxvi. their inhabitants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones 10 the evil woman or (simply) the woman jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table of correspondences 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels ruling wands. cxxx. pairs of angels ruling cups. cxxxi. pairs of angels ruling swords. 0. 1. 2 lawhw laynd lauya hywbj lalzy lahbm 3 house of glory, ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

the nearest most of them got to ralph straus and desmond maccarthy! words of one syllable! louis marlow5 had already told me what a fool i was to expect that "all they can digest" said he "is a mess of stewed clich s with bird's custard power" damn everything- it's true, it's true. so do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your basilica! chapter lxxiii "monsters" niggers, jews, etc. cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. come now, is this quite fair? when i agreed to tip you off about magick and the rest, i certainly never expected to be treated as if i were being interviewed by an american sunday newspaper. what do i prefer for breakfast, and my views on the future of the theatre, and is the great white brotherhood in favour of eugenic babies

ccount of it. he- the monster, not treves- seems to have been a most charming individual- ah! that's the word we want. every individual has some qualities magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 263 that endear him to some other. and per contra, i doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. artists, police, the clergy "reds" foxhunters, freemasons, jews "heavenborn" women's clubwomen (especially in u.s.a "methodys" golfers, doglovers; you can't find one body without its "natural" enemies. it's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. as soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. collect scholars on a clu

ontempt for the surrounding "mob" in the northern states of u.s.a, where the whites are overwhelming in number, the "nigger" can be more or less a "regular fellow" in the south, where fear is a factor, lynch law prevails (should it? the reason for "no" is that it is a confession of weakness) but in the north, there is a very strong feeling about certain other classes: the irish, the italians, the jews. why? fear again; the irish in politics, the italians in crime, the jews in finance. but none of these phobias prevent friendship between individuals of hostile classes. i think that perhaps i have already written enough- at least enough to start you thinking on the right lines. and mark well this! the submergence of the individual in his class means the end of all true human relations betwee

in a century from four millions to a hundred: extreme individualism with opportunity. our own longest period of peace abroad (bar frontier skirmishes like the crimean war) and prosperity at home coincided with free trade and laissez-faire. 6^ weh note needs research: is this the "elephant man? 17 now we may return, refreshed, to the main question of monsters, real (like treves) or imaginary like jews and niggers 'arf a mo! haven't we solved the problem, ambulando? everything would be okydoke and hunkydory if only we can prevent classes from acting as such? i suppose so. then, what about a spot of pithy paradox for a change? why should the classes want to act as classes? it's obvious "union is strength" the worst fifteen can do more with a football than the best opposing team of one- excus

ner or later dividends dwindle, and the business is bust. to even the most stupid it becomes plain at this stage that war is wholly ruinous; organization breaks down altogether; one meaningless revolution follows another; famine and pestilence complete the job. last time- when osiris replaced isis- the wreck was limited in scope- note that it was the civilized, the organized part that broke down (jews and arabs could remain aloof, and keep a small torch burning until light returned with the renaissance) this time there is no civilization which can escape being involved in the totality of the catastrophe. towards this collapse all totalitarian movements inevitably tend. bertrand russell himself admits that, although himself "temperamentally anarchistic" society must be yet more organized th

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emarkable 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 europe which surprise the ignorant, are almost invariably excited by the disappearance of "christian" children, stolen, as the parents suppose, for the purposes of "ritual murder<blood-libel" myth was later recanted by crowley. the blood-libel was visited upon early christians by the romans and is visited today upon thelemites by

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

on, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly useful. the best way to make armour, or to build cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the christian to get ahead of his friends. therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compatible with the existence of villains, the jews and the arabs were at least allowed to live. besides, the arabs saw to the themselves. but no one was better aware than the pope that knowledge was power. for all he know, and he probably knew that he did no know much, the jews and the arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastro he? there is a

he crusades was the story of the fabulous wealth of the east. we find, in fact, that well-organised armies of buccaneers, such as the templars, did not bring back incalculable spoils, while the honest pious mugs ruined themselves in the process. now, in this particular sport of suppressing earnest enquirers, it was not much good trying to play on people s greed. for everyone knew that even if the jews had wealth, they managed to hide it very successfully, and that they had a nasty was of arranging for protection with peo le who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. so the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a sca

m, in his most ex cathedra manner, the venetians gathered themselves in panic-stricken crowds in the square of st. mark and waited, howling, for the end of the world. it was accordingly easy enough to associate the pursuit of knowledge with the most abominable crimes, real or imaginary or both. for this reason, we hear not as a demonstrated thesis, but as a commonplace of inherited knowledge that jews were sorcerers and wizards. in other works, they know something about grammar. we heard that they transformed themselves into cats or bats, and sucked pe&127;ple s big toes. i have never, personally, investigated the question as to whether this form of nutrition is palatable. but, alas! even in those idyllic chestertonian times there was a little shrewd common sense knocking about; the instin

of adventure and getting lost in the process, which is good for thier souls, the peasant naturally has moments of serious disquietude as to whether something terrible can have happened to little tommy. very good. all we have to do is to play on the alarm. we put into his mind that little tommy (who turns up all right, if rather muddy, half an hour later) has almost certainly been kidnapped by the jews for purposes of ritual murder. the main accusation against gilles de rais is therefore just this general accusation against anyone in christendom who exhibited any desire for knowledge. only, in his case, it was concentrated and exaggerated to fantastic lengths by some factor or other on which i feel it useless to speculate. the one thing of which i feel certain is that 800 children is a lot

he back garden, but under cross-examination, in the style made popular by the dialogue of lot with almighty god, admitted that it was "tom and another" of course, it will be obvious to you by this time that i have been seduced by jewish gold, and the only way that i can think of to disarm your suspicions is to bring forward another case of the same kind, little more then a century old, with which jews had nothing to do. there was a poet laureate i am not quite sure what this species of animal is but his name was robert southey, and he lived, if you can call it living, about the time of william blake. he wrote a number of words arranged in some scheme connected with rime and rhythm; apparently, like golf clubs "a set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose" but, anyway, he called it

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

rapture of release. the mystery of sin "the word of sin is restriction. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" such were the words of a certain square tablet of brass which lay upon the hexagonal table beneath the extended forefinger of mine instructor. and because he saw that their sense was partly hidden from me, he called to my memory two other writings from a compilation of certain jews of old "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of god; and this "the thought of foolishness is sin" now did i understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their true will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. this restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their true will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference o

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

and the latter earthy and fiery. the combination of these four phases of zro accounted for the universe. this quintessence is zro in some state unknown and incalculable. some expected to find it in its twelth state, some in a seventeenth, others in a thirty-seventh: all this was pure guesswork. some tradition to this effect appears to have reached plato; and the neo-platonists combined with those jews who had preserved fragments of the egyptian tradition to form a new initiated hierarchy, the echo of whose teaching is found in paracelsus. at one period, too, missionaries (not colonists, as has been ignorantly asserted; there was no trouble of over-population in atlantis) were sent to the four quarters and parties landed in mexico, ireland and egypt. the adventures of the party who travelle

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

author, aiwaz, is careful to identify himself at intervals by such speech. the interpretation, when thoroughly grasped, is invariably quite overwhelming by its simplicity. it is for this reason that this book should be studied with all assiduity; at any moment the answer to your own deepest problem may be signalled to you from the stars. al i,46 "nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen" the old comment 46. 61= aleph-vau-nun. but the true nothing of nuit is 8, 80, 418. now 8 is cheth, which spelt fully is 418- cheth-yod-taw. and 418 is abrahadabra, the word of ra-hoor-khuit. now 80 is pe, the letter of ra-hoor-khuit (qy. this (could 80= infinity 0. infinity x zero) the new comment see appendix weh note: appendix not ye

e without its termination? perhaps to indicate the essence of the force. the ritual of the adoration of ra-hoor-khuit is, as one might expect, illustrative of his nature. it seems doubtful whether this ritual can ever be of the type of symbolic celebration; it appears rather as if expeditions against the heather: i.e. christians and other troglodytes- but most especially the parasites of man, the jews- were to be his rite. weh note: the crack about jews is often deleted from copies of the comment. crowley's views in the 20s not withstanding, about 1/3 of the present members of o.t.o. are jewish, the "paris working" was a homosexual love affair between crowley and victor newberg, and crowley wouldn't even be "up a tree" without the jewish qabalah! one of the best features of crowley is his

d with the mess. we had not only a war which killed some eight million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six months. are we going to repeat the insanity? should we not rather breed humanity for quality by killing off any tainted stock, as we do with other cattle? and exterminating the vermin which infect it, especially jews and protestant christians? catholic christians are really pagans at heart; there is usually good stuff in them, particularly in latin countries. they only need to be instructed in the true meaning of their faith to reflect the false veils. an xxi sol in cancer after some years spent in catholic countries, i wish to modify the above. catholics are dead alike to spirituality and to reason, as b

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

r. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. appendix ii 118 abracadabra* amethsh. ye fylfar. mysterium matris.1 evocatio. lucus. ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and eighteen. five are one, and six are diverse, five in the midst and three on each side. the word of power, double in the voice of the master. ain elohim. four sounds of four force. o the snake hath a long tail! amen. ain

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

r he approached the atman the less did it appear to him to resemble what he had been 138 taught to expect. indeed its translation into worldly comments was a matter of education, so it came about that he discovered that the great attainment "per se" was identical in all systems irrespective of the symbol may sought it under. thus yahweh as a clay phallus in a band-box was as much a reality to the jews of genesis as brahman in brahma-loka was to the aryas of vedic india; that the vision of moses when he beheld god as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing courser of he chaldean oracles; and that nibb na the non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the christian heaven with its harps, halos and hovering angels. and the reason is, that the man who does attain to a

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and and his band. laylah. you are clever. rinaldo. and you were forced despite yourself to drop a hint that might warn me to rejoin my knights. laylah. no! rinaldo. yes. by that i knew that you loved me. laylah. and by this("she strikes him) know that i hate you. rinaldo. you are too young. i have seen lions. laylah. you are a savage. rinaldo. nature is savage. passion is savage. the god alike of jews and moslems delights in death. or why are men and beasts slain in his honour? brutal force is at the heart of things. man is dragged crying from his mother's womb in dire agony; man fights his surroundings- the nearer they are the more bitterly must he fight them 78- and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. laylah. the cloud grows. rinaldo. indeed you love me, if you

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

i, 25, note; i, 389; iii, 198. c. physical or physiological. s. d, ii, 25, note; iii, 198. d. metaphysical. s. d, ii, 25, note; ii, 394. e. anthropological. s. d, i, 389; iii, 198. f. astrological. s. d, ii, 343. g. geometrical. s. d, ii, 494; iii, 176. h. mystical. s. d, i, 401. i. symbolical. s. d, ii, 561. j. numerical. s. d, ii, 198. 5. each key must be turned seven times. s. d, i, 22. 6. the jews availed themselves of two keys out of the seven. 7. the metaphysical key is available. s. d, i, 338. compare iii, 198. 44 48a "ring-pass-not. the circumference of the sphere of influence of any centre of positive life. this includes the fire sphere of magnetic work of the solar orb, viewing it as the body of manifestation of a solar logos and inclusive of an entire solar system. this term is

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

nd so disappear. he must be taught also that partisanship is in no way a sign of spiritual development. he will not- 244- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore use the words anti this or pro that. such terms automatically breed hatred and attack, and effort to resist change. they put the user on the defensive. every class of human beings is a group of brothers. catholics, jews, gentiles, occidentals and orientals are all the sons of god. as regards the future of this world group of which we have been speaking much depends upon two things. first, it is necessary for all those isolated disciples working in every country in the world, to become aware of one another and then to enter into telepathic rapport. this may seem to you to be a wonderful but impractical vision

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

l superiority, and the attempt to deify a race. without humour and real understanding, one race is preparing to dictate terms to other races, by the weight of its thought and its achievements rather than by war. yet the ideal of a superman is a true ideal, and it needs upholding before the world. temporarily, it has been forgotten that the superman is the goal for all, and that asiatics, nordics, jews, gentiles, americans, and anglo-saxons, the africans and all other world races are children of the same father, fed from the same source of life, and saved by the same divine christ principle. therefore the superman has been and will be found emerging out of the ranks of every people, to find his way into the ranks of the spiritual hierarchy and the new group of world servers. in america, you

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

e born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god' and this birth is spoken of as that `of water and the spirit,'17 this is the first initiation; a later one is that `of the holy ghost and fire,18 the baptism of the initiate in his manhood, as the first is that of birth, which welcomes him as the `little child' entering the kingdom.19 how thoroughly this imagery was familiar among the mystics of the jews is shown by the surprise evinced by jesus when nicodemus stumbled over his mystic phraseology `art thou a master of israel, and knowest not these things'"20 facing these possible heights of attainment stand the disciples of the world at this time. here also stands the weary world disciple, humanity as a whole, worn and distraught, bewildered and restless, yet conscious of divine potentialitie

the baptism initiation; but this- 103- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust time it was of a far subtler nature. he was faced with the test as to whether he could endure and handle worldly success, and pass along the triumphant way of his entry into the holy city, without deviating from his purpose, without being attracted by material achievement and by being acclaimed king of the jews. success constitutes a far more drastic disciplining, and produces many more opportunities to forget god and reality than do failure and neglect. self-pity, a sense of martyrdom, and resignation are potent and effective ways of handling one's failure. but to rise upon the crest of the wave, to be accorded public recognition, and to seem to have achieved the earthly goal are far more difficult

s the best proof we have of the reality of their conviction that death could not hold the saviour, and that after death he was present and living among them. it is difficult for us to gain this high achievement in consciousness which they showed. apparently their world had come to an end upon the cross. christ had apparently failed them, and instead of being the divine son of god, and king of the jews, he was nothing but an ordinary man, convicted of treason and punished as a common malefactor. what they must have endured during the three days of his absence it is not hard for us to imagine. hopelessness, despair, the loss of confidence in themselves and of prestige among their friends; the cause for which they had been so ready to dedicate themselves, as they tramped with christ from plac

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race people, plus a very small sprinkling of the lemurian peoples so small as to be negligible. 2. the aryan race itself, which includes the civilisation of india and all latins, teutons, nordics, and anglo-saxons, and their various offshoots. 3. a group which bridges between the oriental races and the aryan race which we call the semitic. this race is neither purely oriental nor is it aryan. the jews are a group of people in whom the principle of separation is pronouncedly present. for ages they have, with determination and in obedience to the injunctions in the old testament, insisted on regarding themselves as a people set apart. for ages they have held themselves separated off from all other peoples in the world. the result is that they are now evoking from the races among whom they ar

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the difficult nature of your problem which is that most subtle one- 115- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust of the right balancing of energies. you have no third ray energy in you at all (the energy of the ray of the intellect) and this in spite of the fact of your physical constitution. it accounts for your intense feeling that you have no racial relationship to the jews at all in spite of the fact that you are of the hebrew race. this is a true feeling, and the only thing which relates you to the jewish race is the fact that your mental body is on the first ray which is the same as the soul of judaea. the soul knows no distinctions or differences and on soul levels no problem of any kind exists except the problem of understanding love. of this you know much

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ull opportunity and equal sharing of the world's economic resources will only be possible when certain broad and general principles have been enforced by the weight of public opinion. the problems of two minorities are attracting at this time much public attention. if they can be solved a tremendous step forward will have been made towards world understanding. they are: 1. the jewish problem. the jews constitute an international minority of great aggressiveness, exceedingly vocal, and they also constitute a minority in practically every nation in the world. their problem is, therefore, unique. 2. the negro problem. this is another unique problem, with the negro constituting a majority in that great (and as yet undeveloped) continent of africa, and at the same time constituting a minority i

cting great attention. this problem is unique in the sense that it is essentially the problem of the white people and one which they must solve because they produced it and have perpetuated it. if we can get some idea of the significance of these problems, materially and spiritually, and can gain some insight into the responsibilities involved, much of usefulness may be gained. in the case of the jews, the sin of separateness is deeply inherent in the race itself, as well as among- 55- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust those among whom they live, but for the perpetuation of the separation the jews are largely responsible; in the case of the negro, the separative instinct derives from the white people; the negro is struggling to end it and, therefore, the spiritual forces of t

ss, however, in saying that which will be acceptable or which agrees with all points of view or is a statement of all that has hitherto been said. there are things to be said which are not so familiar and which have seldom been said, or have been said in a spirit of criticism or of anti-semitism instead of in a spirit of love, as is attempted here. let us look for a moment at the situation of the jews, prior to the bitter and unpardonable attack made upon them by hitler and prior to the war 1939-1945. they were to be found in every land and claimed citizenship in every country; within the nation of their birth, they preserved intact their own racial identity, their own peculiar way of life, their own national religion (which is everybody's privilege) and a close adherence to those of their

or wrong doing and cruel action. the jew for ages has not been wanted by his gentile brother; he has been chased from place to place; constantly and ceaselessly the jew has been forced to move on or move out across the desert from egypt to the holy land, from there (centuries later) to the mesopotamia valley and from that time on in a constant series of migrations, with great streams of wandering jews moving ceaselessly north, south and west and a small trickle going east; expelled from cities and countries during the middle ages, then after a period of relative quiescence again the displaced jews were on the move in europe, homeless, drifting hither and thither (along with many thousands of other nationalities, however, helpless in the hands of a cruel fate, or not so helpless but organiz

n history. for it there is no excuse or condonation, and right thinking people everywhere are aware of this and are eagerly demanding that these persecutions end. the spiritual forces of the world and the spiritual leaders of humanity (both those working on the outer plane and those guiding from the inner side of the veil) are seeking a solution. the solution, however, will be found only when the jews themselves seek to find the way out and cease their present policy of demanding that the gentiles and christians make all the concessions, find the solution of the problem alone, and, unaided by the jews, bring the evil situation to an end. the jews voice loudly and constantly their demand for redress and help; they blame the non-jewish nations for their miseries; they fail always to recogniz

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

world of material values into the world of spiritual recognitions. it did not relate to death but to life; it had no reference to the cross but to the resurrection. in the past, the keynote of the christian religion has been death, symbolised for us in the death of christ and much distorted by st. paul in his effort to blend the new religion which christ brought with the old blood religion of the jews. in the cycle which christ will inaugurate after his reappearance, the goal of all the- 14- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust religious teaching in the world will be the resurrection of the spirit in mankind; the emphasis will be upon the livingness of the christ nature in every human being, and upon the use of the will in bringing about this living transfiguration of

that one must necessarily be a member of some one of the orthodox churches. the divine christ in the human heart can be expressed in many different departments of human living in politics, in the arts, in economic expression and in true social living, in science and in religion. it might be wise here to remember that the only time it is recorded that christ (as an adult) visited the temple of the jews, he created a disturbance! humanity is passing from glory to glory and, in the long panorama of history, this is strikingly observable. that glory is today revealed in every department of human activity, and the transfiguration of those who are on the crest of the human wave of civilisation is very close at hand. 4. finally, in the triumph of the crucifixion or (as it is more accurately calle

nd struggle and legislate for the economic sustenance of their nations, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. this sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the aquarian age to humanity. this the church has ignored and yet their ecclesiastics cannot explain away the fact that the jews demonstrated their liking for the taurian worship of the bull in the golden calf, that the jewish dispensation used the symbol of the scapegoat or ram in the age of aries, the ram, and that the christian emphasises the fish in the piscean era, the christian era. christ came to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away as a religion with the movement of

of their future, their freedom and their security to be in any condition to listen to him. he will not come, we may be sure, as a conquering hero, as the interpretations of the theological teachers have led man to believe, for that would certainly fail to identify him and he would be simply classed as another military figure; of them we have had a plethora; he will not come as the messiah of the jews to save the so-called holy land and the city of jerusalem for the jews, because he belongs to the whole world and no jews nor any other people have special rights or unique privileges or may claim him as their own; he will not come to convert the "heathen" world for, in the eyes of the christ and of his true disciples, no such world exists and the so-called heathen have demonstrated historica

chin and boaz to give them their jewish names which are, of course, not their real names came into being approximately eight thousand years ago. then came taurus, the bull, wherein mithra came as the world teacher and instituted the mysteries of mithras with an (apparent) worship of the bull. next followed aries the ram, which saw the start of the jewish dispensation which is of importance to the jews and unfortunately of importance to the christian religion, but of no importance to the untold millions in the other parts of the world; during this cycle came the buddha, shri krishna and sankaracharya; finally we have the age of pisces the fishes, which brought to us the christ. the sequence of the mysteries which each of the signs of the zodiac embodies will be clarified for us by the chris

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

in his consciousness and heart; he will think in terms of the whole and not in terms of the part. that is the thing which he will endeavour to impress upon the racial consciousness. this may lead at times to ruthlessness and cruelty if the personality of the individual is not yet controlled by soul impulse. such cases can frequently be seen. an instance of this can be noted in the history of the jews as found in the old testament. when the first ray was in control and passing through one of its rare cycles of activity we read that they butchered and slaughtered all their enemies men, women and children, putting them to the sword. the sword is ever the symbol of the first ray force just as the pen is of the second ray influence. i wish to remind you that i use the word "energy" in referenc

mphasis upon his position as one of the "chosen people" has stood symbolically throughout the centuries as the representative of the wandering, incarnating soul, but the jewish people have never recognised the symbolic mission with which their race was entrusted, and they have taken to themselves the glory and the honour of the lord's elect. the jew made this mistake and, as an oriental race, the jews have failed to hold before the orient the divine nature of mankind as a whole, for all are equally divine and all are the lord's elect. calvin and all who followed his lead made the same mistake and instead of holding before the people of the occident the realisation that those who recognised their essential divinity did so symbolically on behalf of all the developing, incarnating sons of god

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ill suffice. therefore, your dislike of one group is not more warranted than your refusal to recognise any justification for the activities and attitudes of the other. like frequently repudiates and swings away from like, and the germans and the jews are curiously alike. just as many british people and the preponderance of the british race are reincarnated romans, so many germans are reincarnated jews. hence the similarity of their points of view. it is a family quarrel and there is nothing more terrible than this. i am going to ask you to take the germans and the jews into your group meditation and pour out your group love upon both these divisions of your brothers in the human family. see to it that before you begin your meditation you have freed yourselves emotions and mind from any lat

and the jews into your group meditation and pour out your group love upon both these divisions of your brothers in the human family. see to it that before you begin your meditation you have freed yourselves emotions and mind from any latent antagonisms, from any hatreds, from any preconceived ideas of right or wrong but that you simply fall back upon the love of your souls, remembering that both jews and germans are souls as you are and identical in their origin, their goal and their life experience with yours- 88- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust as you pour out the stream of pure white light (as stage iii instructs you, see to it that it pours through you with purity and clarity as one stream. then see it bisect into equal quantities or proportions one stream of livin

you are and identical in their origin, their goal and their life experience with yours- 88- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust as you pour out the stream of pure white light (as stage iii instructs you, see to it that it pours through you with purity and clarity as one stream. then see it bisect into equal quantities or proportions one stream of living light and love going to the jews and the other to the german peoples. the quality of your love will count and not so much the accuracy of your analysis or the perfection of your technique. c. the contrast between maya and inspiration. here we come definitely into the realm of material substance. this is essentially and in a peculiar manner the realm of force. maya is predominantly (for the individual) the aggregate of the fo

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

contribution to western culture and learning and his wonderful assets and gifts along the line of the creative arts i still fail to see any immediate solution of their crucial and appalling problem. there are faults on both sides. i do not here refer to the faults or rather the evil criminality of the germans or the poles towards their jewish citizens. i refer to all those people who are for the jews and not against them. we gentiles have not yet found out what to do in order to liberate the jews from persecution a persecution that is many, many centuries old. the egyptians in the early phases of biblical history persecuted the jews, and persecution has been their record down the years. i hesitate to state my conclusions but am going to do so in the hope that it may help. it is only possi

t it may help. it is only possible however very briefly to bear on one or two points, and from the start it must be necessarily inadequate. there must be some basic cause for this constant and ceaseless persecution, some reason why they are not liked. what can it be? the basic cause probably lies deeply rooted in certain racial characteristics. people complain (and it is frequently true) that the jews lower the atmosphere of any district in which they reside. they hang their bedding and their clothing out of the windows- 68- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust they live on the streets, sitting in groups on the sidewalks. but for centuries the jews were tent dwellers and had to live this way and may still react to hereditary qualities. the complaint is made that the mome

ave discussed this problem with jewish theological students. why, therefore, should they not get the best out of life along material lines? let us eat and drink and get worldly goods for tomorrow we die. all this is understandable but does not make for good relations. as i have studied and thought and asked questions, certain things have clarified in my mind and are for me part of the answer. the jews hang on to a religion which is basically obsolete. i asked myself a few days ago what part of the old testament was worth preserving. much of it is dreadful, cruel and only because the literature is found in the bible does it pass the post-office regulations. i decided that the ten commandments must be preserved, one or two of the bible stories such as the love of david and jonathan, the 23rd

by quoting st. augustine, thomas aquinas and the saints of the middle ages. theologians never seem to face up to the basic issues; they fall back upon the trite statement that "god said" but perhaps he didn't; perhaps the translation was wrong; perhaps the phrase under consideration was an interpolation there are many such in the bible. then came the question in my mind: why did god speak only to jews? i knew nothing of the other scriptures in the world and if i had known them i would not have regarded them as scriptures. there were parts of the old testament that shocked me and parts that made me often wonder how they ever got through the mails. in an ordinary book they would have been regarded as obscene, but in the bible they were all right. i began to wonder if my interpretations were

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

listic jehovah, possessive, greedy and endorsing and encouraging aggression. their history is symbolic of the history of all aggressors, rationalising themselves into the belief that they are carrying out divine purpose, wresting away from people their property in a spirit of self-defense and finding some reason, adequate to them, to excuse the iniquity of their action. palestine was taken by the jews because it was "a land flowing with milk and honey" and the claim was made that the act was undertaken in obedience to divine command. later, the symbolism gets most interesting. they divided into two halves: the israelites with headquarters at samaria, and the jews (meaning two or three special tribes out of the twelve) locating around jerusalem. dualism ran through their religious beliefs;

wo halves: the israelites with headquarters at samaria, and the jews (meaning two or three special tribes out of the twelve) locating around jerusalem. dualism ran through their religious beliefs; they were schooled by the sadducees or the pharisees, and these two groups were in constant conflict. christ came as a member of the jewish race and they renounced him. today the law is working, and the jews are paying the price, factually and symbolically, for all they have done in the past. they are demonstrating the far-reaching effects of the law. factually and symbolically, they stand for culture and civilisation; factually and symbolically, they are humanity; factually and symbolically, they stand as they have ever chosen to stand, for separation. they regard themselves as the chosen people

itution of palestine, wresting it away from those who have inhabited it for many centuries; and by their continued emphasis upon material possession they lose sight of the true solution, which is that, symbolically and factually again, they must be assimilated into all the nations, and fused with all the races, thus demonstrating recognition of the one humanity. it is interesting to note that the jews who inhabited southern palestine, and whose chief city was jerusalem, have succeeded in doing this and have fused with and been assimilated by the british, the dutch and the french in a way that the israelites, ruled from samaria, have never done. i commend this to you for your consideration- 157- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust if the jewi

oth groups would emphasise the fact of human stock and cease thinking of themselves in terms of national and racial units, the karma of humanity would radically change from the retributive karma of the present to the recompensing good karma of the future. regarding this question from the long range vision (looking backward historically as well as forward hopefully, the problem is one to which the jews themselves must make the larger contribution. they have never yet faced candidly and honestly (as a race) the problem of why the many nations, from the time of the egyptians, have neither liked nor wanted them. it has always been the same down the centuries. yet there must be some reason, inherent in the people themselves, when the reaction is so general and universal. their approach to their

en the same down the centuries. yet there must be some reason, inherent in the people themselves, when the reaction is so general and universal. their approach to their direful problem has been one of supplication, or of distressed complaint, or of unhappy despair. their demand has been for the gentile nations to put the matter right, and many gentiles have attempted to do so. until, however, the jews themselves face up to the situation and admit that there may be for them the working out of the retributive aspect of the law of cause and effect, and until they endeavour to ascertain what it is in them, as a race, which has initiated their ancient and dire fate, this basic world issue will remain as it has been since the very night of time. that within the race there are and have been great

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upon the esoteric aspect of all the teaching which you must increasingly give, and learn yourself always to live in the world of meaning. last year you passed through a terrific test and it looked for a while as if the true significance of it all would escape you; the national thoughtform of any nation is necessarily a powerful entity. you can observe an instance of this in the thoughtform of the jews which is the most powerful of all because they are not a nation in any true sense but an ancient religion; they have resurrected something which has been dead for many, many centuries and are now attempting to call it a nation. it is as if the ancient incas and aztecs suddenly announced themselves as nations in south america and sought to gain recognition; they were great nations and as civil

most powerful of all because they are not a nation in any true sense but an ancient religion; they have resurrected something which has been dead for many, many centuries and are now attempting to call it a nation. it is as if the ancient incas and aztecs suddenly announced themselves as nations in south america and sought to gain recognition; they were great nations and as civilised as were the jews, possessing a great and beautiful religion. there is always trouble when that which should be past and gone seeks recognition along ancient lines, and this is a lesson which the zionists must perforce learn. but you, my beloved brother, belong to no nation; disciples of your standing have no national- 430- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust allegiances but stand

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

worlds from the so-called "dark forces" or black lodge, and from those groups of lives and workers which are the antithesis of the great white lodge. 5. the force emanating from that section of humanity which is found in every part of the world and which we call the jewish people. what i say here has no specific reference to any individual; i am considering the world problem, centering around the jews as a whole. these two forces greatly complicate the problem by which humanity and the hierarchy are faced, but it should be remembered that they also produce that balancing which is ever needed for the production of right conditions. there is little that i can tell you about the dark forces. they are not the problems of humanity but that of the hierarchy. the task of these forces is the prese

tion, of fear and pride. with them we who are connected directly with the hierarchy have to deal, but you can aid more than you know through the regulation of thoughts and ideas, through the cultivation of a loving spirit and through the general use of the great invocation. we come now, for a brief moment, to a consideration of the jewish question. remember that it is an interesting fact that the jews are found in every land without exception, that their influence is potent and widespread (far more so than they themselves are willing to recognise, and that they wield most potently that peculiar concretisation of energy which we call money. they constitute, in a strange manner, a unique and distinctly separated world centre of energy. the reason for this is that they represent the energy an

ar system, a certain percentage of the human family will fail to make the grade and will then be held in pralaya, or in solution, until the time for the manifestation of the next and third solar system comes around. then they will constitute the advanced guard and the symbol of the coming humanity of that system. the same thing occurred in the system before this one and those whom we now call the jews (a purely modern name and distinction, as i tried to show in the last few pages of a treatise on the seven rays, vol. i, esoteric psychology, are the descendants of that earlier group which was held in pralaya between the first and second solar systems. if you will remember that the third ray governed that system and also governs the jewish race, if you bear in mind that that system was occup

the petals of the throat centre are represented at this time by certain of the leading world rulers, whose activity is responsible for the rapid creation of the new world with its rapidly altering civilisations and culture. these thoughts will provide much that you would do well to consider. the fourth type of force, which is responsible for the state of world affairs at this time, is that of the jews; they, as a whole, constitute the solar plexus of the planetary logos; their problem is being used today to focus, qualify and condition the world feeling-nature and the emotional reactions of the sensitive nature of humanity and of the planetary logos. forget not that the personality of our planetary logos is not yet perfect, hence the fact that his body of manifestation, the planet, is not

ould have lost its major hold and should lie behind "in the darkness of that which has been outgrown and which has no further hold upon the son of god. you therefore have the following tabulation expressing what i have sought above to make clear to you. i would point out here that the fourth energy, focussed in the jewish problem, is definitely producing cleavage as a part of the divine plan. the jews are instruments in the working out of the plan for the production of certain syntheses and to bring humanity to certain realisations and decisions. a close study of this tabulation will bring you much of knowledge. however, it only expresses the present situation in this interim period between the old piscean age which is passing and the new aquarian age which is coming in. it depicts this pr

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experience. it holds the secret of beauty in manifestation, and its first expression can be seen in the creative perfection of certain phases of art for which man, and man alone, is responsible. no other kingdom in nature creates forms, produces colour and sounds in harmonious relation, except the human; all of this type of creative art is the result of aeons of conflict, pain and suffering. the jews, as a product of the humanity of the previous solar system, and as constituting the incarnating residue from that solar system, have run the gamut of suffering and are in the forefront of the creative arts at this time, particularly in group production such as certain of the great motion pictures and in the field of scientific discovery- 158- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays a

of resurrection is the new and most important revelation which is coming to humanity, and which will lay the basis for the new world religion. in the immediate past, the keynote of the christian religion has been death, symbolised for us in the death of the christ, and much distorted for us by st. paul in his effort to blend the new religion which christ gave us with the old blood religion of the jews. in the coming cycle, this distorted teaching on death will assume its rightful place and be known as the disciplining urge to relinquishment and to the ending by death of the hold by matter over the soul; the great goal of all religious teaching will be the resurrection of the spirit in man, and eventually in all forms of life, from the lowest point in evolution to the highest monadic experi

rds of karma (four in number) are today working through these four great powers; it is, however, a karma which seeks to liberate, as does all karma. in the coming crisis, true vision and a new freedom, plus a wider spiritual horizon may be attained. the crisis, if rightly handled, need not again reach the ultimate horror. the area of difficulty as is well known is the near east and palestine. the jews, by their- 280- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust illegal and terroristic activities, have laid a foundation of great difficulty for those who are seeking to promote world peace. as a jewish member of my ashram pointed out (and i commend him on his soul vision, the jews have partially again opened the door to the forces of evil, wh

es of evil work through a triangle of evil, one point of which is to be found in the zionist movement in the united states, another in central europe, and the third in palestine. palestine is no longer a holy land and should not be so regarded. i would have you bear these points in mind while you investigate the world picture. this picture is taking shape and warrants recognition. it involves the jews (who are not a nation but a religious group) the near east and russia. in the maps which are to be found in the archives of the spiritual hierarchy, the entire area of the near east and europe greece, yugoslavia, turkey, palestine, the arab states, egypt and russia are under a heavy overshadowing cloud. can that cloud be dissipated by the right thinking and planning of great britain, the unit

ory. french aggression in the middle ages has also caused difficulty, and in later days, germany became the prime agent of conflict. today the jewish people are engineering trouble, and it is interesting to note that the main contention in the- 416- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust past of poland, lately of the irish, and today of the jews, is territory, thus evidencing a most distorted sense of values. there is in the last analysis but one world and one humanity, and in a shorter time than you may think boundaries and territories will mean but little. world citizenship will be the only factor of importance. the jews are governed by the third ray of active intelligence, the energy which permeates and controls matter or substanc

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

rigin of the kabalah is lost in the mists of antiquity; no one can demonstrate who was its author, or who were its earliest teachers. considerable evidence may be adduced to show that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple about the year 515 b.c. of its existence before that time i know of no proofs. it has been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosophy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, hence the name qblh from qbl to receive, and it became varied by the minds through which it filtered in its course; there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after. it has

al and wonder-working aspect. the greatest of the wonder-working rabbis were isaac loria, also called ari; and sabatai zevi, who curiously enough became a mahommedan. both of these departments of occult rabbinic lore have their living representatives, chiefly scattered individuals; very rarely groups of initiates are found. in central europe, parts of russia, austria and poland there are even now jews, known as wonderworking rabbis, who can do strange things they attribute to the kabalah, and things very difficult to explain have been seen in england, at the hands of students of kabalistic rites and talismans. the rabbinic commentaries, many series deep, overlaying each other, which now exist in connection with the old treatises form such a mass of kabalistic lore as to make it an almost i

ns of some doubting scholars, who question whether the story of the twelve tribes is a historic fact, or whether there ever were a moses, or even a king solomon. it is sufficient for the present purpose that the jewish nation had the jehovistic theology and a system of priestly caste, and a coherent doctrine, at the time of the second temple when cyrus, sovereign of all asia, 536 b.c, holding the jews in captivity, permitted certain of them to return to jerusalem for the express purpose of reestablishing the hebrew mode of worship which had been forcibly interfered with by nebuchadnezzar in 587 b.c. after this return to jerusalem it was that ezra and nehemiah, circa 450 b.c, edited and compiled the old testament of the hebrews, or according to those who deny the mosaic authorship and the s

ew scriptures to be revised and translated into greek by seventy-two scholars, about 277 b.c; this has been known for centuries as the septuagint version of the old testament. further jewish troubles followed, however, and jerusalem 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 vicissit

to the original "mishna" the rabbis added further commentaries named "gemara" from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the old testament books were the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel series of works of literature; the one, talmudic, being commentaries based upon thirteen rules of argument delivered by moses to illustrate the old testament, and supply material for teaching the populace; and the other a long series of treatises of a more abstruse character, designed to ill

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nspired as much by rebellion against society as bytheir own passions.there is, however, in the evangel of the witches an effort made to distinguish between the naturallywicked or corrupt and those who are outcasts or oppressed, as appears from the passage: yet like cains daughter (offspring) thou shalt never be,nor like the race who have become at lastwicked and infamous from suffering,as are the jews and wandering zingari,who are allthieves: like then ye shall /not/ be. page 62 appendix.comments on the foregoing t exts.so long ago as the year 1886 i learned that there was in existence a manuscript setting forth thedoctrines of italian witchcraft, and i was promised that, if possible, it should be obtained for me. inthis i was for a time disappointed. but having urged it on maddalena, my c

he lights, and after thatshall hold your supper thus: page 10 translation.tis true indeed that thou a spirit art,but thou wert born but to become againa mortal; thou must go to earth belowt o be a teacher unto women and menwho fain would study witchcraft in thy school.yet like cains daughter thou shalt never be,nor like the race who have become at lastwicked and infamous from suffering,as are the jews and wandering zingari,who are all thieves and knaves; like unto themye shall not be..and thou shalt be the first of witches known;and thou shalt be the first of all i the world;and thou shalt teach the art of poisoning,of poisoning those who are great lords of all;yea, thou shalt make them die in their palaces;and thou shalt bind the oppressors soul (with power; 3 and when ye find a peasant w

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but also the name of the demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to hav

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id, p. 108. if, while coupling with this the fact that samothrace was colonised by the phoenicians, and before them by the mysterious pelasgians who came from the east, one remembers also the identity of the mystery gods of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revela

created or fashioned by terrestrial spirits, the "regents" being simply the supervisors. this is the first germ, the seed of that which grew later into the tree of astrology and astrolatry. the higher ones were the kosmocratores, the fabricators of our solar system. this is borne out by all the ancient cosmogonies: that of hermes, of the chaldees, of the aryans, of the egyptians, and even of the jews. heaven's belt, the signs of the zodiac (the sacred animals, are as much the bne' alhim (sons of the gods or the elohim) as the spirits of the earth; but they are prior to them. soma and sin, isis and diana, are all lunar gods or goddesses, called the fathers and mothers of our earth, which is subordinate to them. but these, in their turn, are subordinate to their "fathers" and "mothers- the

therefore, till then, the latter cannot be referred to as "man" but has to be regarded as a monad imprisoned in ever changing forms. evolution, not creation, by means of words is recognized in the philosophies of the east, even in their exoteric records. ex oriente lux. even the name of the first man in the mosaic bible had its origin in india, professor max muller's negation notwithstanding. the jews got their adam from chaldea; and adam-adami is a compound word and therefore a manifold symbol, and proves the occult dogmas. this is no place for philological disquisitions. but the reader may be reminded that the words ad and adi mean in sanskrit "the first; in aramaean "one (ad-ad "the only one; in assyrian "father" whence ak-ad or "father-creator* and once the statement is found correct i

he mahabharata he is shown as born without the intervention of a woman. and he is also called "lohita" the red, like adam, and the other "first men" hence, the author of "the source of measures" is quite right in thinking that mars (and all the other gods of like attributes "being the god of war and of[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 44 the secret doctrine. mikroprosopoi. with the jews adam kadmon was the same as athamaz, tamaz, or the adonis of the greeks "the one with, and of his father- the "father" becoming during the later races helios, the sun, as apollo karneios* for instance, who was the "sun born; osiris, ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed later on into still more earthly types: such as prometheus, the crucified of mount kajbe

ed liars; the orientalists forgetting that the naradiya is credited with containing 25,000 stanzas, and that it is not very likely that such mss. should be found in the hands of the hindu profane, those who are ready to sell any precious olla for a red pottage. suffice it to say, that narada is[[footnote(s* seth, as bunsen and others have shown, is not only the primitive god of the semites- early jews included- but also their "semi-divine ancestor" for, says bunsen("god in history" vol. i, pp. 233, 234 "the seth of genesis, the father of enoch (the man) must be considered as originally running parallel with that derived from the elohim, adam's father "according to bunsen, the deity (the god seth) was the primitive god of northern egypt and palestine (staniland wake "the great pyramid. and

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69 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its

" concerning the now famous interpolations, for the benefit, and later on to the sorrow, of col. wilford, do not at all interfere with the conclusions to which one who studies the secret doctrine must unavoidably come. for, if the results show that neither the new nor even the old testament borrowed anything from the more ancient religion of the brahmans and buddhists, it does not follow that the jews have not borrowed all they knew from the chaldean records, the latter being mutilated later on by eusebius. as to the chaldeans, they assuredly got their primitive learning from the brahmans, for rawlinson shows an undeniably vedic influence in the early mythology of babylon; and col. vans kennedy has long since justly declared that babylonia was, from her origin, the seat of sanskrit and bra

world's cosmogony (see book iii, gupta vidya and the zohar) left in their symbolical disguise, they are a nursery tale, an ugly thorn in the side of science and logic, an evident effect of karma. to have let them serve as a prologue to christianity was a cruel revenge on the part of the rabbis, who knew better what their pentateuch meant. it was a silent protest against their spoliation, and the jews have certainly now the better of their traditional persecutors. the above-named exoteric creeds will be explained in the light of the universal doctrine as we proceed with it. the occult catechism contains the following questions and answers "what is it that ever is "space, the eternal anupadaka "what is it that ever was "the germ in the root "what is it that is ever coming and going "the gre

e; and during the long night of rest called pralaya, when all the existences are dissolved, the "universal mind" remains as a permanent possibility of mental action, or as that abstract absolute thought, of which mind is the concrete relative manifestation. the ah-hi (dhyan-chohans) are the collective hosts of spiritual beings- the angelic hosts of christianity, the elohim and "messengers" of the jews- who are the vehicle for the manifestation of the divine or universal thought and will. they are the intelligent forces that give to and enact in nature her "laws" while themselves acting according to laws imposed upon them in a similar manner by still higher powers; but they are not "the personifications" of the powers of nature, as erroneously thought. this hierarchy of spiritual beings, th

the unity (book of the keys. by the means of the temura, the anagrammatical method of the kabala, and the knowledge of 1065 (21, a universal science may be obtained regarding kosmos and its mysteries (rabbi yogel. the rabbis regard the numbers 10, 6, and 5 as the most sacred of all* the reader may be told that an american kabalist has now discovered the same number for the elohim. it came to the jews from chaldaea. see "hebrew metrology" in the masonic review, july, 1885, mcmillan lodge, no. 141[[vol. 1, page] 91 the immaculate conceptions. mathematical formulae to express it. this set of figures must have the same meaning, since the 1: 314,159, and then again 1: 3: 1,415,927 are worked out in the secret calculations to express the various cycles and ages of the "first born" or 311,040,00

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. not very old when we look at the whole picture of witchcraft. so if a gardnerian initiation (for example) can be considered "valid, then so can yours. circles a roman ambassador in a foreign country would draw a circle around himself with his staff, to show he should be safe from attack; the babylonians drew a circle of flour on the floor round the bed of a sick man, to keep demons away; german jews, in the middle ages, would draw a circle round the bed of a woman in labor, to protect her from evil spirits. the use of a circle to mark the boundary of an area which is sacred, is very ancient (e.g. stonehenge. but the circle not only keeps the unwanted out, it also keeps the wanted the raised power; the magickal energy in. the dimensions of the circle depend entirely on who is drawing it a

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rength of my law [93] comment on teth* t e t h, pronounced tayth. transcribed as" t. the number 9. meaning: serpent. the intelligence of the secret of all spiritual activities. 1 the ancient form of the letter teth was a crude picture of a tally, in the form of a circle enclosing a cross. mispawr, m s p r "number, arawfel, o r p l "darkness, and mizraim, m tz r i m, the name given to egypt by the jews, are equivalent numerically to 380. the uraeus, or royal serpent, is the characteristic symbol of egypt. those versed in egyptian wisdom will know how truly it may be said that the secret wisdom of that land is "hid in number. in egypt pythagoras learned the great mathematical principles embodied in his system. the same truths are summed up in the great pyramid. 2 nachash, n ch sh, the name o

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0-189 r. judah the prince, redactor of the mishnah. gave merkabah teachings to r. yochanam. c.120 r. akiba ben joseph 130 theon of smyrna: biblion- natural square often cited as magic. d. 132 rabbi ishmael. attributed to him is 3 enoch, or the hebrew apocalypse of enoch, supposedly written after his visionary ascension into heaven 132-5: bar kokhba rebellion in palestine. jerusalem is leveled and jews are forbidden to live there, removing any hope of establishing a third temple c.150 n.t. apocrypha. lotus sutra. cyranides(hermetica which catalogues the occult properties of birds, fishes, plants, and stones for the 4 elements of air,water,earth and fire. its first book has 24 chapters each beginning with a letter of the greek alphabet) ptolemy writes the tetrabiblos, the most comprehensive

a convent. by 1200, the game has spread over most of europe, reaching iceland, the baltic and bohemia. 1012: ben gabirol brings the works of plato to spain. 1013 1103 jacob ha-kohen's book of illumination aleph and angelic symbolism overlayed on the menorah 1016-1100 naropa 1018-c. 1079 michael psellus: on the hieratic art(alchemy theologised. 1020 d. meshullam ben kalonymos corresponded with the jews of babylon. rhineland mysticism. 1034 d. abu'l-hasan kharraqani. iranian sufi of the uwaysis tradition (whom suhrawardi claimed himself a spiritual heir to "i am amazed at those disciples who declare that they require this or that master. you are perfectly well aware that i have never been taught by any man. god was my guide, though i have the greatest respect for all the masters" 1034 to 112

om the school of abelard (christian knowledge of jewish speculation)held that the old testament evidenced in hebrew the incarnation of the word and trinity in the unity of divine essence more than the latin or greek. c.1150 geoffrey of monmouth's "life of merlin" 1150 fl. ya aqob nazir (the nazirian) underwent in jerusalem initiation into mystical and angelogical traditions one of the handfull of jews from provence who were alledged daily access to the revelations of the prophet elia and who had initiated maimonides to the kabbalah< for the link between asideism and sufism via basra, cf. s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, pp. 175-8> 1154-1191 shihab al-din yahya ibn habash ibn amirak al-suhrawardi. persian sufi whose theosophy of light= ishraqi thought- believed wisdom passed directly from the d

217 1270 abd al-haqq ibn sab'in influential sufi in the hermetic tradition. 1219-1295 roger bacon. thought to have composed a basic hebrew grammar. among bacon's disciples, the franciscans william de la mara, gerard of huy, and henry of cossey also demonstrated a good command of the hebrew language and a familiarity with various rabbinic commentaries on the bible -jeremy cohen "the friars and the jews",1982. 1220 prose edda. 1221 d. najm ad-din al-kubra. sufi who formalized initiatory stages in the world of imaginal('alam al-mithal. 1221-74 bonaventure mininster general of the franciscan order from 1257 "salvation only comes through wisdom "the soul has to be reordered according to a process of hierarchization that restructures the soul according to its place in god's design and to its tru

8-1339 john dastin 1289 abulafia, abraham commentary on the sepher yetzirah (camino, italy) franciscan priest and the first archbishop of cambalec john of monte corvino departs from rome through asia into india in 1291. his companions were the dominican nicholas of pistoia and the merchant peter of lucalongo. 1289-1298 peter john olivi led the spiritual party within the franciscan order 1290: all jews are expelled from england. many move to spain. c. 1290 master salion, a canon of padova, who was astrologer to ezzelino da romano, translated three small treatises on astrology, including the book of nativities of al-qabisi alcabitius; a small text from hebrew on geomancy; the hermetic book de stellis fixis(de stellis beibenis) of hermes and the de nativititatibus of albubather. 1291 abraham

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tion, hence the concept of perfection. this is why to pythagoras (and his priestly mentors) 5 was the most sublime of numbers, and why the pentagram was used as the seal of the pythagorean brotherhood. sixth angle: if crowley considered his tenth aether to be accursed, then this would be the accursed (or should i say "hexed) of the nine angles. it is the hexagon and hexagram (also the seal of the jews, authors and proponents of the world's most nihilistic and self- hating monotheism) the hexagon corrupts the golden rectangle; it adds an angle and a line to the pentagram and pentagon, thus destroying them. six is symmetry obese and unnecessary (two and four are quite adequate for the principle. the seeds of the destruction of the hexagonal forms are carried within them, however, for they ne

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sake, if not for that of others. another brotherhood frontman was the marquis de mirabeau. he is known to have been financed by the german, moses mendelssohn, a member of the uluminati.21 rabbi marvin s. antelman names mendelssohn as a key manipulator for an inner 'jewish' clique which he believes has been seeking to destroy judaism and all religion.22 he says that this clique, together with non-jews, are followers of what he, too, calls the all-seeing eye cult. he links this group to the house of rothschild and says the cult was the force behind the french revolution. mendelssohn started the uluminati front, the haskala movement in 1776- the year the bavarian uluminati was launched. another figure close to mendelssohn was the uluminati member, friedrich nicholai. rabbi antelman described

ortality, finality, and materialistic 'science. this would turn human consciousness into an even greater slave to this material level. in the very late 1800s, a controversial document came to light called the protocols of the elders of zion. i call them the illuminati protocols and i quote many extracts from them in the robots' rebellion. some say they were a forgery made public only to discredit jews, 52. and the truth shall set you free and i use the term tlluminati protocols' to get away from the jewish emphasis. if they were a forgery, something that is quite possible, what were they a forgery of, and by whom? the authors of the best-selling book, holy blood, holy grail, conclude that the original protocols were indeed authentic. they suggest that they were the work of an elite group c

ring the first world war was to ensure the recognition by britain of a jewish homeland in what was then arab palestine. the political movement known as zionism had been introduced to campaign for a jewish homeland, but it is often misunderstood: all jewish people are not zionists and all zionists are not jewish. zionism is not a religion or a race; it is a political movement consisting of people, jews and non-jews, who support the claim for a jewish homeland. if you support that, you are a zionist, too, no matter what your race or religious belief. to say that zionism is the jewish race is like saying the british labour party is the english race. zionism was founded in the last century by an atheist, theodore herzl, and it is used as a front for the global elite and a means to dupe jewish

orld war, which the writers of the documents already knew was going to happen. one volume, called 'propaganda in the next war, also discussed, in passing, how the american people had been tricked into fighting in world war i. it said "for some time the issue as to which side the united states would take hung in the balance, the final result was a credit to our british propaganda. there remain the jews. it has been estimated that of the world jewish population of approximately fifteen million, no fewer than five million are in the united states; 25% of the inhabitants of new york are jews "during the great war we bought off this huge american jewish public by the promise of the jewish national home in palestine, held by ludendorf to be a master stroke of allied propaganda, as it enabled us

mated that of the world jewish population of approximately fifteen million, no fewer than five million are in the united states; 25% of the inhabitants of new york are jews "during the great war we bought off this huge american jewish public by the promise of the jewish national home in palestine, held by ludendorf to be a master stroke of allied propaganda, as it enabled us not only to appeal to jews in america, but to jews in germany as well."29 the americans entered the war in 1917. the balfour declaration came on november 6th of that year, when arthur (lord) balfour (comm 300, the british foreign secretary and member of the round table's inner elite, officially recognised palestine as a homeland for jewish people. we need to look at this on many levels again. the propagandists may well

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ents and dragons, p 187 to 194 6 ibid 7 our haunted planet, p 38 8 ibid, p 59 9 ibid 10 detailed in flying serpents and dragons 86 children of the matrix 11 the sirius mystery, p 155 12 ibid 13 egyptian civilisation, p 21 14 the sirius mystery, p 157 15 ibid 16 ibid 17 ibid 18 barbara g. walker, the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets (harper san francisco, 1983, p 399 19 antiquities of the jews 20 see the translations of zecharia sitchin 21 our haunted planet, p 150 22 information from the boston historical genealogical society. boston, massachusetts 23 reuter's report, october 17th, 2000 24 ibid 25 the early history of the merovingians can be found in fredegar's chronicle, a copy of which exists in the national library of paris 26 the phoenician origin of britons, scots, and anglo

lly holding our testicles? you're right, don't lets go there. good thinking. suns of god tammuz was a name for the sumerian god dumazi or damu (the "only begotten son" or "son of the blood) who provided the blueprint for all the later sons of god, including jesus. the hebrews inherited tammuz (also known as adonis) from the babylonians and the roman records refer to tammuz as the chief god of the jews. the jewish calendar still has a month named after tammuz, who was known as "the serpent who emanated from the heaven-god, anu."3 and anu was the head of 198 children of the matrix the anunnaki, the sumerian tablets say. the mesopotamian kings were said to be of the bloodline of tammuz, just as sir laurence gardner claims that the merovingian "true" royal line is the bloodline of jesus. it wa

ubt that it has by now been added to the tourist itinerary. he said he wanted to show me around because he liked me. the money he would demand at the end had nothing to do with it, of course. he showed me the wailing wall, or western wall, that most sacred of places in the hebrew religion, where they think they can speak to god. this ritual goes back at least to the wailing for tammuz in babylon. jews leave little messages for god in the cracks between the stones and they now offer a fax service to believers all over the world. you fax your message to jerusalem and someone goes along and sticks it in a crack in the wailing wall. my next stop was bethlehem, a short bus ride from jerusalem. if you have never been there, forget the idea of "o little town of bethlehem. it's a right dump and an

evision documentary in late 2000 exposed the secret life of a former nazi war criminal, who spied for america's central intelligence agency after the second world war in return for a fake jewish identity.5 he was gunter reinemer, an ss lieutenant who commanded death squads at the treblinka concentration camp. he serving the dragon: the present (i) 241 was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of jews. the documentary said that he was given the identity hans-georg wagner by the cia. he later married a jewish woman, lived in israel and was buried in a jewish cemetery. his story might have been buried with him had he not felt the need to confess in 1988, shortly before he apparently committed suicide. his statements formed the basis of the documentary wagner's confession. he says that after

e left- hand path- black magic and destruction. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolf lanz) used the swastika on a flag that flew over his temple overlooking the danube and for these two black magicians it symbolised the end of christianity and the dawning of the age of blond-haired, blue-eyed aryan supermen. they believed in the racial inferiority of those they called the dark forces, such as the jews, slavs, and negros. liebenfels recommended castration for these people. the two vons, list and liebenfels, were to have a massive influence on adolf hitler. in 1932, with hitler on the verge of power, von liebenfels would write to a fellow believer "hitler is one of our pupils..you will one day experience that he, and through him we, will one day be victorious and develop a movement that will

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back as the aryan gothic kingsof cilicia who took the title son of the sun god, a tradition adopted by the pharaohsof egypt.1 to many in the new age, jesus is sananda, a high initiate of some spiritualhierarchy who incarnated to infuse the earth with the christ energy. or, depending onwho you talk to, he was an extraterrestrial on a similar mission. to others he wasclaiming to be the king of the jews by right of his king david bloodline. but didjesus actually exist? did moses, solomon and king david exist? i would saycategorically no. there is no credible evidence for the existence of any of them outsidethe biblical texts and they are certainly not credible. so where did they come from?the old testamentin 721 bc, it appears that israel was overrun by the assyrians and the israelites orcan

to take literally. according to the levites, moses was givenhis laws and commandments by god on top of a mountain. again and again we see thesymbol of mountains. one reason for this is that the top of a mountain is closer to theirsymbol of god- the sun. mount sion means sun mountain. the sun rising over theeastern mountains is still a major brotherhood symbol today. the story of the israelitesand jews is largely a fantasy- the veil behind which the truth has been hidden. no-onehas been had more comprehensively over these thousands of years than the peoplewho have considered themselves jewish. they have been terrorised, used andmanipulated in the most merciless and grotesque fashion by their hierarchy to advancean agenda which the jewish people in general have not even begun to identify. th

nt ofthe original mystery school teachings, a transition to greater enlightenment. abrbecame ambres, the name of the holy doctrine reserved for initiates, and it was alsowritten as ambric, hebric, hebraic and. hebrew.12 the hebrew alphabet has 22 letters,but the original, before the time of moses, only contained ten, and its true meaningwas known only to the priests.hebrews were not israelites or jews, they were initiates of the egyptian mysteryschools, or at least their founders were. no wonder it has proved impossible to identify agenetic hebrew or jewish race. cohen, the jewish name for priest, comes from cahen,the egyptian pronunciation for a priest and a prince.13 even circumcision, that uniquelyjewish tradition, came from the egyptian mystery schools and was performed at leastas far

xts contain aconstant and sickening theme of extreme racism against non-judeans and the need toutterly destroy anyone who defies them- exactly the way manly hall described themethods of the black magic priests. they encourage murder and mayhem of everyconceivable kind. the talmud must be the most racist document on earth. here are justa few examples of the depth of its spiritual sickness:just the jews are humans, the non-jews are no humans, but cattle kerithuth 6b, page78, iebhammoth 61the non-jews have been created to serve the jews as slaves midrasch talpioth 225sexual intercourse with non-jews is like sexual intercourse with animals kethuboth 3bthe non-jews have to be avoided even more than sick pigs orach chalim 57, 6athe birth rate of non-jews has to be suppressed massively zohar 11

6b, page78, iebhammoth 61the non-jews have been created to serve the jews as slaves midrasch talpioth 225sexual intercourse with non-jews is like sexual intercourse with animals kethuboth 3bthe non-jews have to be avoided even more than sick pigs orach chalim 57, 6athe birth rate of non-jews has to be suppressed massively zohar 11, 4bas you replace lost cows and donkeys, so you shall replace non-jews lore dea 377,1but this is not just a grotesque diatribe of racism. look again. it is the very attitudesthat the draco reptilians and their underlings have towards humans. remember thishorrific stuff was not written by judeans or jews as a people. they are victims of thesebeliefs, not the authors. it was written by the levites, representatives of the priestlybloodlines of the reptilians and th

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exuality 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 order to bring about their punishment. he was never the enemy of god but at times the enemy of man. the name satan in hebrew means adversary. it is recounted in the bible that the jews were carried away as captives into babylon. when later freed by the persians, the jews were exposed to the religion of zoroaster. the jews adopted zoroastrian belief of a war in heaven between ahura-mazda and ahriman, the serpent, with yahweh taking the role of ahura-mazda and satan assuming the part of the serpent ahriman. satan, a minor angel in hebrew mythology, became equal in power with

ight and cloud of vapor by day. it is likely that the hebrew mystical beliefs (which later formed the cabala) developed during the time the israelites lived among the egyptians. prior to the development of the cabala, the jewish religion was a fertility cult of the god adonai, or el. the israelites were syrian foreigners to egypt, osiris being the egyptian name for the syrian fertility god of the jews. a similar mystical system (to the cabala) developed in egypt centered on the god amen. followers of the egyptian god amen began to teach that there was one god, amen, and that all other gods were manifestations of this one true god. the development of monotheism and mysticism occurred simultaneously among the egyptians and israelites. taken alone, the cabala is purely a mystical system but i

ssed 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 ancient egypt prior to the syrian invasion. later, set was personified as evil, the enemy of osiris. one of set s titles, set-hen was adopted by the jews and became satan. by using a more ancient name for satan, the temple of set was able to escape the accusation that satanism is merely an anti-christian religion. the nine angles both before and after the schism within the church of satan, there were a number of groups which split off from the church of satan. by the 1980 s, there were dozens of satanic churches but the original church of sata

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econd in command of ahriman s children, he is for a lack of a better term considered a prototype for an antichrist in that he expands the opposite gnosis against zoroaster. the jewish scriptures were first composed by him (i.e. zohak, and deposited in the fortress of jerusalem. and through zohak men adhered unto the jewish high-priest abraham, and through abraham they adhered unto moses, whom the jews accepted as their prophet and messengers of faith, and unto whom they ascribe the salvation of sins committed, and regarded his acquirements as being necessary for the final propagation of their faith. thus zohak cherished demoniac deceptions to harm his people. the denkard here we read that zohak, during his long life span, was considered the one who propagated early jewish scriptures as a m

erpent is a blind prince, the image of an intermediary between samael and lilith. treatise on the left emanation by r. isaac b. jacob ha- kohen 28 aleister crowley in his work de arte magica describes in certain terms the use of sexual magick within the image of lilith, that she is the key to creations of night born servitors or demons. such workings crowley considered highly dangerous- among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be baulked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his intercourse with her sprang evil races..all other sexual acts involving emission of semen therefore attract or other

tem of justinus39 leviathan is a bad angel. the hebrew term refers to leviathan as that which gathers itself together in folds, thus the coiling dragon. it should be known that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss o

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es 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 notarikon "igne naturae renovatur integra" meaning "nature by fire is renewed in its integrity" by the alchemists of the rennesaince. medieval alchemists also used inri as a latin notarikon "inge nitrum raris inventium" meaning "shining (or glitterin

t have no discernible causal connection. luck is an example of synchronicity- t- talisman: a type of charm (q.v. any object, sacred or profane, with or without appropriate symbols, charged or consecrated toward the achieving of a specific end. for occultists today, a device that will draw something (health, money, wisdom, etc) toward the practitioner or wearer. tallit: a prayer shawl used by male jews during prayer. talmud: a huge commentary on the jewish law, or torah (q.v. tantra: sanskrit for "warp and woof of all creation" or "that which extends knowledge" a mystical philosophy from ancient india (and later tibet) which sees the physical world as spiritual. also, several books about tantrik philosophy. tantra centers on the great mother, shakti, as the fountain of all life. in the west

lepathy refers to the psionic discipline known as "thought transference" called mind speech or mind reading for short. temurah: a system of the literal kabalah (q.v) which transposes letters of the hebrew alphabet, especially words of the old testament. the new words thus formed are said to be important. tephillin: small boxes containing scrolls with prayers written on them. they are worn by male jews during certain prayers. tetragrammaton: from the greek, literally "the name of the four letters" the four-letter name of divinity of the hebrew god, yhvh (q.v) in english. in hebrew "viv. it is a formula that indicates that the supreme divine is unitary in nature, having all opposites united within itself. a name which is supposed to possess vast potency in magick. thelemites: from the greek

s. it has the properties of being cool and moist. the element of the west. the elemental weapon/tool is the cup or chalice. waxing (moon: the moon from when the new moon can just be seen to the time of the full moon. western occultism: the magick of europe and english speaking nations around the world that has descended from the magick of sumeria, babylonia, egypt, greece, rome, the arabs and the jews, as well as from the indigenous european magick of ancient times. it's range is roughly coequal with that of christianity. the kabbalah is said to be the heart of modern western occultism. white magick: 1) the science and art of causing change (in reality or in consciousness) in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional western science, for the purpose of obtai

o "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 formation. yetzirah, sepher: hebrew for "the book of formation" considered to be the first kabalistic book. re-produced in a.e. waite's (q.v) the holy kabbalah, and s.l macgregor mather's (q.v)

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d 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 the east owe theirs to th

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s aspects of divinities as well as etherial ones. we need to search the refuse-heap of history for the lost parts of our own tradition if our faith is to be complete, and the most profitable line of search is in the qabalah and the gnostic literature. the literature of the gnosis has been largely destroyed by systematic persecution, but in the qabalah there is still left us a complete system. the jews, being strictly monotheistic, did not speak of gods, but they recognised a hierarchy of angels and archangels which is the equivalent of the pagan pantheons. it is through these etherial messengers that the all-father formed the worlds. let us consider once more the qabalistic doctrine of the qlippoth, for it has an intimate bearing upon the problem of insanity. the doctrine of the ten holy s

the lodges, though i believe it tried; as witness the application to my own fraternity. the average occultist is not interested in politics, his concern is with things invisible. moreover, the occult fraternities are too inco-ordinated and scattered to be formidable political weapons even if they were imbued with bolshevism. it has also been said that the occult fraternities are controlled by the jews in the interests of zionism. this is quite untrue. there are very few jews in the occult movement. it is true, however, that the qabalah, the traditional mysticism of the jewish race, is one of the principal sources of western occultism, and that any occultist working on that tradition must know at least enough hebrew to be able to transliterate hebrew script. the study of the modern mystical

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gnostics viewed the hebrew god of genesis as a kind of malicious evil demon who had kept man in a state of ignorance in the prison of the garden so that man would not realize his own innate divinity, and at the same moment recognize that he was superior to his spiteful master. how we regard coronzon thus depends on how we regard the serpent of genesis. if we are good, unquestioning christians and jews, we will look upon this serpent as the persecutor of mankind, the view we have been commanded to accept in scripture and by the leaders of religion. but if we are hermetics or gnostics, or even more open-minded kabbalists, we may suspect that the gnostic opinion has virtue, and that the serpent initiated the reformation and salvation of mankind that will ultimately result in the ascent of hum

s of the great tablet of the watchtowers. all the other aethyrs are linked to spirit names that appear within one of the four watchtowers on the quarters of the great table- the names linked with zax lie outside the watchtowers. they are lexarph, comanan and tabitom. it is interesting that this particular air rules over the nation of germany, in view of the attempt by the nazis to exterminate the jews during the second world war. in 1909, while on a walking tour of algeria in northern africa, crowley took up a project he had begun in 1900 in mexico- the invocation of the thirty enochian aethyrs. while in mexico he had procured through ritual means psychic visions of the last two aethyrs, numbers thirty and twenty-nine. now, nine years later, he took up where he had left off with an invocat

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is demon fodder. effectively, they join lucifer's army of apostate fallen angels, although at a very subordinate rank. from a fundamentalist christian point of view, all those who fail to worship christ are disobedient to god, and therefore prey for the demons who walk and swim and fly upon the earth. much the same belief concerning those of other religions is held by fundamentalist islamics and jews. in a broader inter-religious sense, anyone of any religion who strives to do good is afforded protection against the injuries of demons by god; but anyone who knowingly commits acts of evil loses that protection and becomes beelzebub's chew-toy. this is more or less the modern view of demons held by those who believe that traditional demons actually exist. we see this belief surfacing again

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simple and elegant to inscribe upon the air during ritual magic. the origins of this symbol are lost in prehistory. it is found on neolithic rock carvings, and was probably always regarded as a symbol of mystical power, along with a limited number of other simple symbols such as the circle, the cross, the spiral, the square, the zigzag, and so on. it was one of the earliest magic symbols for the jews- the seal of solomon in its earliest form was a pentagram. given its ancient history, the modern use and understanding of the symbol are surprisingly recent. it was not until the 19th century that the pentagram assumed the prominent place it now occupies in western practical magic. it was popularized by french occultists such as eliphas levi, and from this venue found its way into the system

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nd the heliopolis of the greek writers (h?liou'polis, strabo, xvii, 1, 27, 28; herodotus, ii, 3; diodorus, i, 57, 4. 2. maspero, unas, ii. 591, 592; and compare pepi i, ii. 690, 691. 3. see line 596. 4. 5. maspero, pepi i, 1. 465, 466. 6. the pyramid of pepi ii, 1. 665. 7. in reading egyptian religious texts, the existence of the heavenly annu, which was to the egyptians what jerusalem was to the jews, and what mecca still is to the mubammadans, must be remembered. the heavenly annu was the capital of the mythological world (see naville, todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 27, and was, to the spirits of men, what the earthly annu was to their bodies, i.e, the abode of the gods and the centre and source of all divine instruction. like many other mythological cities, such as abtu, tattu, pe, tep, khe

yptians had already conceived the existence of a god who had no like or equal, which they hesitated not to proclaim side by side with their descriptions of his manifestations. looking at the egyptian words in their simple meaning, it is pretty certain that when the egyptians declared that [1. see above, p. xcv] p. cxxviii their god was one and that he had no second, they had the same ideas as the jews and muhammadans when they proclaimed their god to be "one"[1] and alone. it has been urged that the egyptians never the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (15 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] advanced to pure monotheism because they never succeeded in freeing themselves from the belief in the existence of other gods, but when they say that a god has "no

has been urged that the egyptians never the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (15 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] advanced to pure monotheism because they never succeeded in freeing themselves from the belief in the existence of other gods, but when they say that a god has "no second" even though they mention other "gods" it is quite evident that like the jews, they conceived him to be an entirely different being from the existences which, for the want of a better word, or because these possessed superhuman attributes, they named "gods" the powers of darkness or evil. the gods above enumerated represent the powers who were the guides and protectors and givers of life and happiness to the deceased in the new life, but from the earliest times it is c

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ges united in forming a grand lodge in 18o8, which in 1827 declared itself independent of england. our colored grand lodges now number over thirty. the legality of these masons is indisputable, but as much can hardly be said of the negro royal arch masons, commandery and scottish rite. liberia, on the west coast of africa, has had a legitimate grand lodge for sixty years. in some parts of germany jews are not admitted as candidates, nor are they recognized as such individually. these isolated instances of race prejudice must disappear with the progress of enlightenment and real brotherhood. it has seemed to me and many of the brethren that a collection of incidents illustrative of the true nature of free masonry will be interesting and instructive. i find these incidents so numerous that a

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gan community in north america. in 1988 her handfasting to john gliedman was the first pagan marriage covered in the new york times society pages. sources: adler, margot. drawing down the moon. new york: viking press, 1979. rev. ed. boston: beacon press, 1986. heretic s heart: a journey through spirit and revolution. boston: beacon press, 1997. adonai a hebrew word signifying the lord and used by jews when speaking or writing of yhwh, or yahweh, the ineffable name of god. the jews entertained the deepest awe for this incommunicable and mysterious name, and this feeling led them to avoid pronouncing it and to substitute the word adonai for jehovah in their sacred text. the ancients attributed great power to names; to know and pronounce someone s name was to have power over them. obviously o

us name, and this feeling led them to avoid pronouncing it and to substitute the word adonai for jehovah in their sacred text. the ancients attributed great power to names; to know and pronounce someone s name was to have power over them. obviously one could not, like the pagans, suggest that mere creatures had power over god. this custom in jewish prayers still prevails, especially among hasidic jews, who follow the kabala and believe that the holy name of god, associated with miraculous powers, should not be profaned. yahweh is their invisible protector and king, and no image of him is made. he is worshiped according to his commandments, with an observance of the ritual instituted through moses. the term yhwh means the revealed absolute deity, the manifest, only, personal, holy creator a

these little images were neglected, they would bring misfortunes upon the household. alruy (or alroy, david (ca. 1147) a jewish false messiah, born in kurdistan ca. 1147. alruy boasted that he was a descendant of king david. educated in baghdad, he received instruction in the magic arts and came to be more proficient than his masters. his false miracles gained so much popularity for him that many jews believed him to be the messiah who was to restore their nation to jerusalem. according to legends, the king of persia imprisoned him, but no bolts and bars could hold so formidable a magician. he escaped from his prison and appeared before the eyes of the astonished king, though the courtiers saw nothing. in vain the king called angrily for someone to arrest the imposter. while they groped in

d terrors. anathema the name was given by the ancients to certain classes of votive offerings, to the nets that the fisherman laid on the altar of the sea nymphs, to the mirror that lais consecrated to venus, and to offerings of vessels, garments, instruments, and various other articles. the word was also applied to the victim devoted to the infernal gods, and it is this sense that is found among jews and christians, referring either to the curse or its object. the man who is anathematized is denied communication with the faithful, and he is delivered to the demon if he dies without absolution. through the centuries the church often lavished anathemas upon those considered heretics and enemies, though many such as st. john chrysostom taught that while it was well to anathematize false doct

1996. angels the word angel( angelos in greek, malak in hebrew) means a person sent or a messenger. it is a name not of nature but of office, and is applied also to humans in the world who are ambassadors or representatives. in another sense, the word denotes a spiritual being employed in occasional offices; and lastly, men in office as priests or bishops. the angel of the congregation among the jews was the chief of the synagogue. this later usage is also found in revelation 1 and 2, where the angel of the church is regularly addressed. today, the term is now limited to its principal meaning, and pertains only to the inhabitants of heaven. biblical angels mark, the apostle of the gentiles, speaks of the angels as ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of

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of his rosicrucian apologies. maimonides, rabbi moses (1135.1204) a great spanish-hebrew philosopher, theologian, and author of the guide for the perplexed. his theories were aristotelian and rational, but there remained in his viewpoint a touch of mysticism. he was born april 6, 1135, in cordova, southern spain, and was educated by arabic teachers. after the moorish conquest of cordova in 1148, jews left the province, and maimonides settled in fez, morroco. after five years he moved to cairo, egypt, where he became physician to saladin and married the sister of ibn mali, a royal secretary. in his famous treatise, the guide for the perplexed, he sought to harmonize rabbinical and philosophical teachings but maintained that reason must be supplemented by revelation. his treatise profoundly

y cultures under different names. among the iroquois and huron indians, it is known as orenda. in his book primitive man (vol. 1 of a history of experimental spiritualism, 2 vols, 1931, caesar de vesme wrote: we are in a fair way to recognize that we find (approximately) mana in the brahman and akasha of the hindus, the living fire of zoroaster, the generative fire of heraclitus, the ruach of the jews, the telesma of hermest trismegistus, the ignis subtilissimus of hippocrates, the pneuma of gallien, the soul of the world of plato and giordano bruno, the mens agitat molem which vergil drew from the pythagorean philosophy, the astral light of the kabbalists, the azoth of the alchemists, the magnale of paracelsus, the alcahest of van helmont, the pantheistic substance of apinoza, the subtle

imentalmente (has psi been experimentally demonstrated. bulletin of the italian society for parapsychology (july.december 1959. sogno paragnosico (paragnostic dreams. parapsicologia di minerva medica (june 1957. la telapatia (telepathy. metapsichica 1.4 (1953. una nuova esp? bulletin of the italian society for parapsychology (january.june 1959. maranos a term that generally referred to the secret jews of portugal and spain in the fifteenth century, who converted to christianity when their religion was outlawed, but who continued to practice their religion in the privacy of their families. the existence of such jews was amply demonstrated by jews who migrated and soon afterward reemerged to practice publicly the jewish faith. the term was also applied to a jewish secret fraternity that aros

grated and soon afterward reemerged to practice publicly the jewish faith. the term was also applied to a jewish secret fraternity that arose in spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. its members met in the greatest secrecy at inns, and used grips, signs, and passwords (see freemasons magazine 3 [1860: 416. the term marranos (hogs) was used contemptuously at the time to denote moors and jews. marcellus empiricus (ca. 395 c.e) a gallic-roman writer born at bordeaux in the fourth century. he was magister officiorum under theodosius (379.395 c.e. he wrote a work called de medicamentis conspiricis physicis ac rationalibus, a collection of medical recipes, for the most part having more in common with popular superstition than with medical science. march, marion (1923) marion march, an

on to spiritualism at that time. he died on may 18, 1917, in london. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maskelyne, john nevil 985 sources: maskelyne, john n. the fraud of modern theosophy exposed. london: g. routledge, 1913. modern spiritualism: a short account of its rise and progress, with some exposures of so-called spirit media. london: f. warne, 1876. masleh the angel who the jews believed ruled the zodiac. according to a rabbinical legend, masleh was the medium through which the power and influence of the messiah was transmitted to the sphere of the zodiac. masse, francois (1891) commissaire general of the french navy, with interests in parapsychology. he was born on may 10, 1891, at vendome, france. he entered the french navy and served in world wars i and ii, finall

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me be made to burn in a closed vault, it would depart when such was opened. rosicrucian and alchemical doctrines, especially their views on the connection between fire and water, are brought into close apposition to the dogmas of the religion of the hebrews in some portions, at least, of the sacred writings, notably in the volume of the "maccabees" book ii, cap. i, where we are told that when the jews were led captive into persia, the priest took the sacred fire from the altar, and hid it in a dry, hollow place. many years after, in more favourable times, nehemiah sent priests to fetch this fire, nothing doubting its existence; they found water only in its stead. nehemiah caused an altar of sacrifice to be made of wood and other materials, and this water was poured upon them, before all th

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it was a supercomputer into which the minds and bodies of a wide variety of intelligent beings had been transferred. these beings communicated with geller through automatic writing, states of altered consciousness, and voices on blank tapes. spectra s first appearance on earth was twenty thousand years ago, when its spaceship landed in the present nation of israel. since then spectra has seen the jews 234 source as its special people and has tried to protect them. in the meantime, other beings from other planets and dimensions unrelated to spectra have visited earth. the beings behind spectra have said that they live in the future. they are short and generally human in appearance, looking like in their words certain exotic types of japanese. this fantastic tale figured largely in puharich

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orah, but that the living spirit of the torah was no longer there. i knew that other religions had distinct and beautiful mystical traditions, but where was ours? the rabbis never mentioned it, never taught us anything about it. moreover, what was the original hebrew religion like long before there were rabbis and temples, and we lived as nomadic tribes as the children of abraham? like many young jews in the late 1960 s, i began to voraciously read everything i could find on mystical and occult subjects. i went to see any teacher from any mystical tradition who brought their show to town xand in the late 1960 s and the 70 s there were a lot of shows! i learned and experimented with a wide spectrum of meditation practices, and was blessed with some breakthrough experiences that further fuel

amount of misinformation and fear mongering. even those rabbis and talmudic scholars who do not regard the mystical qabalah as evil and malicious echo the injunctions that it should only be studied by married jewish men over the age of forty who have studied the torah and talmud for many years. in all fairness, it should be noted that there are a substantial number of chasidim and other religious jews who embrace and encourage the study and practice of the jewish kabbalah without distinction of age or gender. however, they represent a very small minority, and firmly regard the qabalah as the exclusive property of orthodox judaism. the overall result is that the vast majority of contemporary jews, most of whom are not orthodox, have little knowledge of their own immensely rich mystical trad

n. the authority of the pharisees evolved from the growing prominence of the academies of jewish learning that started to appear in the late fifth century bce under the tolerant regime of the persians, after hundreds of years of assyrian and babylonian repression. the word pharisee comes from the word parush, meaning one separated i.e. one who withdraws himself out of motives for piety. among the jews thus separated, there arose not only differences in social customs, but also in doctrinal views xand specifically, an oral 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 kn

nst the moneychangers within the temple (which had become the biggest bank in the middle east. the dominance of the pharisaic rabbinical sect solidified even further in the diaspora after the destruction of the second temple in 70 ce. except for the karaite and sabbataian movements, this dominance has remained largely unchallenged to this day, though cracks in the wall are starting to appear. few jews give much thought to the idea that the religion of their desert hebrew forebears might have been radically different in practice than rabbinical judaism. the word rabbi is not to be found in the hebrew torah and only finds limited usage in the entire tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings, where it is used to denote tribal leaders and other authorities.5 master yeshuvah told his disciples not

t power spots on special mountains. there are also several accounts of the ritual use of a stone lingam, over which was poured a libation of oil or perhaps milk. numerous passages in the torah also poignantly allude to the experiential transformation of individual consciousness in divine union, and the presence and importance of mystics and awakened souls throughout the history of the hebrews and jews. the monotheism of master abraham did not simply mean that there was only one god, but rather that the divine source alone exists. hence, the mystical focus of the early hebrews would have centered upon the universality and pervasiveness of the divine source within all beings on all planes of existence. group ritual would have underscored and celebrated this relationship. there were no synago

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reason for showing many mysteries which are not evil, and obscure explanations about their animals" nevertheless, the context in which this remark is made is less encouraging, and origen's whole effort was directed towards refuting celsus' view of the history of religion, which was that an ancient good, religious tradition, of which the egyptians were an example, had been corrupted, first by the jews, and then still further destroyed by the christians. ficino's magic is based on a theory of spiritus which has been admirably denned by d. p. walker, to whose book the reader is referred for a full and scholarly discussion of this subject.3 ficino bases the theory of how we are to "draw down the life of heaven" upon the spiritus as the channel through which the influence of the stars is diffu

the greek cow, io, turning into isis in egypt, perhaps move within a similar frame of reference, though they are orthodox in showing the egyptian bulls worshipping the virgin and saints, like proper prisci theologi. bruno's views on the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, are made abundantly clear: do not suppose that the sufficiency of the chaldaic magic derived from the cabala of the jews; for the jews are without doubt the excrements of egypt, and no one could ever pretend with any degree of probability that the egyptians borrowed any principle, good or bad, from the hebrews. whence we greeks own egypt, the grand monarchy of letters and nobility, to be the parent of our fables, metaphors and doctrines .z so the grand controversy of the relative dates of moses and hermes the e

s from the norm, bruno can still be described as belonging into the hermetic-cabalist tradition. in his cabala del cavallo pegaseo he appears to be totally rejecting cabala for his purely egyptian insights, an attitude which accords with his highly unorthodox view of the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, in which, according to him, the egyptians are not only earliest but best, and the jews and christians later and worse. nevertheless, he did not quite consistently maintain this attitude, or rather, just as he thought that his "egyptianism, though unchristian, could still be the basis of a reform within the church, so also he would retain in it something of cabala, of the inferior jewish revelation and magic. 257 giordano bruno and the cabala it is probable that bruno knew very

d it had promoted 1 see above, pp. 172-3. 2 cornelius agrippa, de vanitate scientiarum, cap. 102, ad encomium asini digressio. cf. v. spampanato, giordano bruno e la letteratura del- i'asino, portici, 1904; steadman, article cited, pp. 136-7. might follow that the triumphant beast was really apis, representing not, as for pope alexander vi, a precursor of christianity, but the true religion which jews and christians suppressed and perverted. 261 giordano bruno and the cabala magic to being an adjunct of important philosophies, a tradition most notably continued by bruno. and, on the other hand, the intense religious feeling which had inspired pico to welcome magia and cabala as aids to religious insight, persists very strongly in bruno, who pursues his philosophical religion, or his religi

divine worship of the egyptians, who contemplated the divinity in all things. and knew, by means of the species in the womb of nature, how to receive those benefits which they desired of her. which (species) like diverse ideas, were diverse divinities in nature, who all centered at last in one deity of deities, and fountain of ideas above nature. from hence i believe is derived that cabala of the jews, the wisdom of which (of whatsoever kind it be) hath proceeded from the egyptians, among whom moses was educated. in the first place it gives an ineffable name to the first principle, from whence secondarily proceed four, which are afterwards resolved into twelve, and these never rest till they come to seventy-two in a direct line, which again go in a direct and oblique line till they come to

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he common folk christ spoke in parables, not because he was of a common mind, but because he was an initiate and so understood how fine is the division between reason and madness, and how easily can knowledge dissolve the filament which separates these two. this essential wisdom, and wisdom is largely the application of knowledge to circumstances, has always been realized in the east. amongst the jews, and christ was of that race, we find it firmly established, and it is not a mere coincidence that the hebrew word sod, which means gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear

re are men who have feet above their heads, and countries in which all is inverted, in which the trees and plants grow from the top to the bottom. we find the germ of that error among the philosophers who have claimed that the earth is round.5 st. augustine held a similar opinion.6 long before copernicus wrote his book, revolution of the heavenly bodies (about a.d. 1542, we find that the medieval jews had buried this secret in the zohar, in which may be read: in the book of hammannunah the old we learn. that the earth turns upon itself in the form of a circle; that some are on top, and others below; that all creatures change in aspect, following the manner of each place, keeping however in the same position, but there are some countries of the earth which are lightened, whilst others are i

a secret, known to and hidden by certain italian mathematicians for three hundred years. the jewish secret doctrines the world is a mystery, and mysteries are dangerous to the uninitiated: here are two facts which would seem to be uncontradictable; for divulgence has invariably led to active discontent, caused by a loss of balance between the spiritual and the mundane. like all other peoples, the jews realized this, and long before the qabalah was known as an occult science, the mysteries of creation, evolution, and dissolution were locked up in their sacred writings. then came the great dispersion: a small people bereft of nationship was cast into a dissolving world, and almost simultaneously a new cult arose called christianity- a jewish heresy. the reaction on orthodox jewry was instant

mysteries of creation, evolution, and dissolution were locked up in their sacred writings. then came the great dispersion: a small people bereft of nationship was cast into a dissolving world, and almost simultaneously a new cult arose called christianity- a jewish heresy. the reaction on orthodox jewry was instantaneous; for a tension was established which later on led to the persecution of the jews, whereupon the secrecy of the doctrines took on an accentuated form, for self-preservation had now to be added to non-revelation. this led to the growth of oral traditions. the secret doctrines were passed from mouth to mouth and were locked away in the brains of the priesthood and the learned. later, as persecution began to slacken, the written word once again began to appear, and by degrees

an below must a perfect unity be established, for all things are also to be found in man. to the qabalist the mystery of faith consists gin the union of god with the female whom he fructifies, after the manner of the union of male and female h. to the christian this may seem a blasphemy, but remembering that in the qabalah the union of the sexes is looked upon as the sublimest act in life, to the jews it is the reverse. gbenediction does not abide save when male and female are together h; 35 and even moses the law-giver of israel was not considered perfect because he was separated from his wife. 36 god being a unity in the spiritual world, this oneness is manifested in the material world when the male is united to the female gin a righteous purpose h 37; for it is through the union of bodi

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more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. with the rise of male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the natural female instincts, the principles which originally constituted the god-idea gradually gave place to a deity better suited to the peculiar bias which had been given to the male organism. an anthropomorphic god like that of the jews--a god whose chief attributes are power and virile might--could have had its origin only under a system of masculine rule. religion is especially liable to reflect the vagaries and weaknesses of human nature; and, as the forms and habits of thought connected with worship take a firmer hold on the mental constitution than do those belonging to any other department of human experience, religiou

pieces of it that holy fire was supposed to be drawn from heaven. by holy fire, however, was meant not so much the natural visible element which was kindled, as that subtle substance contained in fire or heat which was supposed to contain the life principle, and which was sent in response to the cravings of pious devotees for procreative energy, which blessing, among various peoples, notably the jews, was indicative of special divine favor. by pagans, jews, and christians, the pomegranate has long been regarded as a sacred emblem. it is a symbol of reproductive energy. representations of it were embroidered on the ephod, and solomon's temple is reported as having been literally covered with decorations, in which, among the devices noticed, this particular fruit appears the most conspicuou

ogies have sprung, and, as has been stated, among all peoples the fact is observed that the religious idea has followed substantially the same course of development, or growth. within the sacred writings of the hindoos there is but one almighty power, usually denominated as brahm or brahme- om or aum. this word in india was regarded with the same degree of veneration as was the sacred ieue of the jews. in later ages, the fact is being proved that this god, into whom all the deities worshipped at a certain period in human history resolve themselves, is the sun, or if not the actual corporeal sun, then the supreme agency within it which was acknowledged as the great creative or life-force- that dual principle which by the early races was recognized as elohim, om, ormuzd, etc, and from which

ied in ancient names, vol. i, p. 311. mithras--the savior, the great persian deity which was worshipped as the "preserver" was both female and male. among the representations of this divinity which appear in the townley collection in the british museum, is one in which it is figured in its female character, in the act of killing the bull. the divinity baal was both female and male. the god of the jews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to

and others to be the self-existent, the great "she that is" of the hindoos, whose significance is identical with the cushite or phoenician deity, aleim. according to marco polo, the chinese had but one supreme god of whom they had no image, and to whom they prayed for only two things-"a sound mind in a sound body" they had, however, a lesser god--probably the same as the "lord (masculine) of the jews, to whom they petitioned for rain, fair weather, and all the minor accessories of existence. upon the walls of the houses of the chinese is a tablet to which they pay their devotion. on this tablet is the name of the "high, celestial, and supreme god" the principal word which this tablet contains is "tien" of this chinese deity barlow says "the chinese recognize in tienhow, the queen of heave

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hy that developed in the early centuriesofthis era (its origins lie in the earlier merkabah (chariot) mysticism, reached its zenith in the late medieval periodwiththesepherhazohar(bookofsplendour, and fascinated renaissance figures such as reuchlin and pico della mirandola,whobelieved, quite erroneously, that kabbalistic texts contained trinitarian doctrine andwouldprovide a meansofconverting the jews to christianity. from the sixteenth century onwardsthestrange and complex symbolismofthe kabbalah had been utilized frequently by occultists, and by the nineteenth century it had come to be associated largely(butunjustly)withmagic. waite made his acquaintancewiththekabbalahthroughthefantasiesofeliphas levi, buthe had senseenoughto dismiss levi's bizarre misunderstandings of kabbalistic texts

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orne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very curious fact that the classical nations, the greek and the roman, have handed down to usbutslight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is the more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt and rome to the empire both of the greeks and of the jews. greece indeed succeeded to a shareofthe mysteries of the egyptians, for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of those more ancient and solemn ceremonies oflsis, osiris and serapis, but they lacked the true magic of egypt, and further the classics retain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian secrets. and these glimpses serve only to disclose the fact that the eleusinian pupils were partly

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e been fully affiliatedto any rosicrucian college because he was a strict jew, and the members of all true rosicrucian colleges have always been christians. kenneth mackenzie classesdrfalk among the rosicrucians of eminence, and certainly told me he had first-hand evidence of his connection with the society; many christian students adopted a modification of the old jewish kabalah, so perhaps some jews have been allied to the christian rosicrucians.ourown magus frater r. w. little surrounded himself with several other notable rosicrucian students, of whom i may mention the late supreme magus in anglia, dr william robert woodman, a learned kabalist and hebrew scholar;w.j.44themagical masonhughan, the great masonic historian; william carpenter, editorofcalmet'sdictionaryofthe bible;and alphon

lame be made to burn in a closed vault, it would depart when such was opened. rosicrucian and alchemical doctrines, especially their views on the connection between fire and water, are brought into close apposition to the dogmas of the religion of the hebrews in some portions, at least, of the sacred writings, notably in the volume of the 'maccabees, bookii.,cap.i.,where we are told that when the jews were led captive into persia, the priest took the sacred fire from the altar, and hid it in a dry, hollow place. many years after, in more favourable times, nehemiah sent priests to fetch this fire, nothing doubting its existence; they foundwateronly in its stead. nehemiah caused an altar of sacrificeto be made of wood and other materials, and thiswaterwas poured upon them, before all the peo

ced to show that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple.ofits existence before this time i know of no evidence. one of the chief books, thesepheryetsirah,is ascribed to abraham:butmodern criticism, which is hardly disposed to grant the existence of abraham, does not of course assent to this ascription.ithas been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosphy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, and became varied by the minds through whom it filtered in its course: there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after; and it was kept curiously distinct both from the exot

nder-working aspect.thegreatest of the wonder255 working rabbis were isaac loria, who died in 1572; and sabbatai zevi, who curiously enough became a mahommedan. both of these departments of occult rabbinic lore have still their living representatives, chiefly scattered individuals; very rarelygroupsof initiates are found. in central europe, parts of russia, austria, and poland, there are even now jews, known as wonder-working rabbis, who can do strange things the attribute to the kabalah, and things very difficult to explain have been seen in england, at the hands of students of kabalistic rites and talismans.thecommentaries, many series deep, overlaying each other, which even now exist in connection with the old treatises, form86themagical masonsuch a mass of kabalistic lore as to make it

the name in especial of the so-called passive principle, or female aspect of binah- and that this did at times degenerate into the worship of the groves- yet this stigma does not attach to the kabalistic conception of the tetragrammaton, that dreadful name of majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews. time will not permit me to extend much farther this paper on the doctrines of the kabalah; but i may say that the teaching include the following dogmas.(1)that the supreme incomprehensible one was not the direct creator of the world (2) that all we perceive or know of is formed on the sephirotic type (3)thathuman souls were pre-existent in an upper world before the origin of this present wor

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which gives a fair definition of its various branches, but denounces the system on the ground that its adoption tends to represent the scriptures as a collection of acrostics, anagrams, and riddles.rees'cyclopaediahas also an article of fair length on the subject,butit is generally adverse to the claims advanced by the cabbalists. rees gives the following account of the origin of the cabbala 'the jews derive the mysteries contained in the cabbala from adam; and assert that whilst the first man was in paradise the angel rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the doctrines of heavenly wisdom; and that when adam received this book, angels came down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone;

m adam to seth.thebook being lost, and the mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive law from god. accordingly the jews believe, that god gave to moses on mount sinai, not only the law,butalso the explication of that law; and that moses, after his coming down, retiring to his tent, rehearsed to aaron both the one and the other. when he had done, aaron standing on the right hand, his sons, eleazar and ithamar, were introduced to a second rehearsal; this being over, the seventy elders that composed the sanhedrim

nowledge of god. astrology was not, and is not, fortune-telling at all. the zodiac shows the whole history of man, past, present, and future- not the history of any individual man or woman during one short lifetime; it is the destiny of our planet itself through myriads of years that we read in the zodiac. the book of revelation is one of the greatest astrological books that ever was written. the jews, phoenicians, and the phrygians, all just about the time of christ's coming went strangely back to egypt; this was outwardly caused by the power and the policy of alexander the great. the pupils went back to their old master, and so we have the great neoplatonic school founded inalexandria,255we get the hermetic doctrine in its then state. the result of this concurrence is exceeding instructi

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asons, like everyone else, are free to choose for themselves, and can adopt whatever worldview they wish and to live in accordance with it. this is their natural right. but, others also have a right to expose their errors and to criticize them, and this is what this present book attempts to do. we follow the same approach in our criticisms of other communities introduction y k l as well. like the jews for example. this book, in part, also deals with the history of judaism and offers certain important criticisms. it must be pointed out that these have nothing to do with anti-semitism or "judeo- masonic" conspiracy theories. indeed, anti-semitism is alien to a true muslim. jews are a people that at one time had been chosen by god and to whom he sent many prophets. throughout history they suf

e's call with excitement, their intentions were basically mundane. as donald queller of the university of illinois put it "the french knights wanted more land. italian merchants hoped to expand trade in middle eastern ports. large numbers of poor people joined the expeditions simply to escape the hardships of their normal lives."1 along the way, this greedy mass slaughtered many muslims, and even jews, in hopes of finding gold and jewels. the crusaders even cut open the stomachs of those they had killed to find gold and precious stones the victims may have swallowed before they died. so great was the material greed of the crusaders that they felt no qualms in sacking the christian city of constantinople (istanbul) during the fourth crusade, when they stripped off the gold leaf from the chr

n they stripped off the gold leaf from the christian frescoes in the hagia sophia. after a long and difficult journey, and much plunder and slaughter of muslims, this motley band called crusaders reached jerusalem in 1099. when the city fell after a siege of nearly five weeks, the crusaders moved in. they carried out a level of savagery the like of which the world has seldom seen. all muslims and jews in the city were put to the sword. in the words of one historian "they killed all the saracens and the turks they found. whether male of female."2 one of the crusaders, raymond of aguiles, boasted of this violence: wonderful sights were to be seen. some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers;

aberrations of the human mind."18 the reason for reinach's contention that the kabbalah is "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind" is that its doctrine is connected in large part with magic. for thousands of years, the kabbalah has been one of the foundation-stones of every kind of magic ritual. it is believed that rabbis who study the kabbalah possess great magical power. also, many non-jews have been influenced by the kabbalah, and have tried to practice magic by employing its doctrines. the esoteric tendencies that took hold in europe during the late middle ages, especially as practiced by alchemists, have their roots, to a great extent, in the kabbalah. the strange thing is, that judaism is a monotheistic religion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be u

e us a god just as these people have gods" he said "you are indeed an ignorant people. what these people are doing is destined for destruction. what they are doing is purposeless (qur'an, 7: 138-139) despite moses' warnings, the israelites continued in such perversion, and when moses left them, to ascend alone to mt. sinai, it manifested it- fh the inside story on the kabbalah the statue that the jews worshipped when they departed from their true religion was, according to many researchers, was an egyptian idol made of gold in the form of a calf. self fully. taking advantage of moses' absence, a man by the name of samiri came forth. he fanned the sparks of the israelites' inclination towards idolatry, and persuaded them to fabricate the statue of a calf and worship it. moses returned to hi

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forms out of control. if we return to the image of satan for a moment, we may remember that the image of satan in the old testament is primarily that of the tester, the devils advocate rather than one of an evil being. in the new testament, however, things are different. the term satan is used to describe people (jesus calls peter satan and says get behind me, groups (jesus says the father of the jews is the devil) and is described as plural (legion. if we consider this model carefully we start to realize that the new testament satan is not the tester of the old testament, but is bad mind. that is satan is negative thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this

t is bad mind. that is satan is negative thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this can be yours. it is legion as there are multitudes of archons both dwelling within our minds and within the collective unconscious. the question of the devil being the father of the jews takes us into the darker reaches of archon theory, because not only can they exist in the unconscious collective mind but they can create a breach into the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the products of mankind enlivened by fall

breach into the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions. they can control and influence individuals, collectives even nations and governments. jesus decried the jews not because of racial prejudice but because the judaic community of that period had become fundamentalist and literalist, they had lost the esoteric core of their tradition. in becoming so extreme they had created a destructive thought form which they were feeding. in gnostic literature these archons can so increase in power that they become dominions, forces which control whole groups of peo

ival of the gnosis through the dark time from constantine's rule to the present. the gnostic handbook page 77 if it is true as everyone attests, that moses left an oral law, it is amongst the essenes that it was preserved. the pharisees who flattered themselves so highly on possessing it, only has its outward forms, as jesus reproaches them at every moment. it is from these latter that the modern jews descend. la langue hebraique, fabre d'olivet. while we will study the essenes in more detail later, they form an important background, as it is from them that jesus came and re-established the gnostic faith. they are not an easy group to understand as they were in some sense transitionary. while they tried to keep the original israelite faith they were also corrupted by many local customs, la

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ritage of aryan israel. however, all is not at it seems, during this same period, a false tradition, a counterfeit kabbalah was being developed. in babylon the children of cain created an amalgam of babylonian paganism and israelite belief which later became known as the talmud. as time progressed they stepped into the shoes of the now-believed lost ten tribes and falsely identified themselves as jews (of judea) or as israel. they edited the torah to reflect their distorted view of judaism, and created a apostate faith based on the values of the talmud. as the deception continued many of these babylonian cainites migrated to other regions, they became known as the edomites and later on many of their number integrated with the people known as the khazars. the khazars were of turkish stock a

aith, they totally rejected talmudic judaism as a demiurgic creation. further to this, we know that the essenes were a small group of the lost ten tribes who returned to israel after the captivity and that they saw the pharisees and saduccees as being of a dissimilar culture, race and spiritual heritage. the essenes and gnostics agreed with jesus in his evaluation of those who professed to be the jews of that period 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 gnostic theurgy page 90 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 john 8:44,45. as time has progressed the talmudic form of judaism has become accepted. we have com

er the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not gnostic theurgy page 90 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 john 8:44,45. as time has progressed the talmudic form of judaism has become accepted. we have come to call the people who were khazars- jews and even have come to accept their appropriation of the name israel. the truth of the matter is that the kabbalah is aryan in origin, it is an ariosophic tradition and is part of the indo-european worldview. it is not and never has been jewish in the modern misuse of the term. restoring the kabbalah it is not easy to restore the ariosophic kabbalah. the gnostics were attacked from both sides

d even have come to accept their appropriation of the name israel. the truth of the matter is that the kabbalah is aryan in origin, it is an ariosophic tradition and is part of the indo-european worldview. it is not and never has been jewish in the modern misuse of the term. restoring the kabbalah it is not easy to restore the ariosophic kabbalah. the gnostics were attacked from both sides by the jews and the christians, their works were burnt and their lives taken. luckily for us many jewish and christian groups purloined kabbalistic traditions in an attempt to make them their own. while these traditions have been twisted and distorted, at least they survive. these teachings are of great value, they can be seen hidden behind the parables of jesus and in the works of valentinus, among many

ophets wrote of israel, the probability becomes a certainty. sharon turner, anglo-saxon historian. the ancient traditions of israel hence became the building blocks of the druids, celts and anglo-saxons, while the tribes of judah who returned to palestine, became the people we know as the essenes. there are two major problems that arise when we discuss the people of israel- the question of modern jews and the nature of the old testament. the biggest bone of contention is the identity of modern jewry. the answer according to the gnostic tradition is explosive. the people of israel were of the same racial stock as the first dynasties of egypt and sumer- they were white. the modern jews who claim the old testament have no racial link to israel whatsoever, according to arthur koestler (author

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

it seems possible that the essence of the cult might survive, carried forward by a nucleus of determined men and women. i suspect, too, with the proper motivation and indoctrination techniques, plus a means of recruiting new members from among the half-savage local inhabitants, that such a cult might perpetuate itself almost indefinitely. this could happen, however, only if its members (like the jews awaiting the messiah) were prepared to bide their time, for thousands and thousands of years, until they felt confident that the moment had come to declare themselves. if they did that, and if their sacred objective were indeed to preserve and transmit knowledge to some evolved future civilization, it is easy to imagine how the cult members might be described in terms similar to those used fo

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ally, as noted above, rooted in the hebrew qabala, and is limited in function for english speaking adepts and initiates. it was soon exposed, but by the mid-19th century something new was afoot in the occult underground [i must return momentarily to the high middle ages, the renaissance, and the period of the protestant reformation in europe. the persecution of real or imagined witches, heretics, jews, moslems and occultists was then at a peak, and the heirs of the illuminated tradition the templars, cathars, albigensians and other gnostics were forced to resort to a roundabout code or cipher to carry on their ideas in relative safety. new ciphers were developed. the cryptic language of alchemy that so intrigued carl jung and others overlaps with the rosicrucian tradition. a key work that

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

d precision. in fact the whole tree is a mathematical calculation in itself concerning god-man relationships. being forbidden to worship any solid kind of shaped idol, the hebrew produced an energy-concept which was purely a mental arrangement of numerical values based on the decimal system. not that kabbalah is an orthodox hebrew practice at all. in fact it is regarded as heretical by most pious jews, because it implies a distinctly feminine side to divinity which would not suit their paternalistic attitude. however, it should not be assumed that kabbalah is entirely hebrew by any means. relating man with god by mathematics is a very ancient idea, and semitic scholars only developed their version of it, which proved very practical and based on the soundest principles. once the decimal sch

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

evenings is called odens jagt^ in bavaria they say nacht-gejaid or nachtgelait (processio nocturna, schm. 2, 264. 514; in german bohemia nncht-goid= spectre, rank's bohmerwald pp. 46. 78. 83. 91. in thuringia, hesse, franconia, swabia, the traditional term is' das wiltende heer' and it must be one of long standing: the 12th cent, poet of the urstende (halm 105, 35) uses' daz wuetiinde her' of the jews who fell upon the saviour; in rol. 204, 16 pharaoh's army whelmed by the sea is* sin wstigez her/ in strieker 73 'daz wiietunde her; reinfr. v. brnswg. 4 'daz wiletende her; mich. beheim 176, 5 speaks of a 'crying and whooping (wufen) as if it were das ivatend her; the poem of henry the lion (massm. denkm. p. 132) says' then came he among daz ivoden her, where evil spirits their dwelling have

day and night, of elves light and dark (p. 44 i, of summer and avinter^ the jewish monotheism accorded to its satan q) only the subordinate part of a tempter and traducer, as is plainly shewn in the book of job, and confirmed by the greek term s6a/3o\o9 which the lxx and new t. use alternately with aarav, crarava (arabic shaitan) or sai/xovtov (usually for hebr. shed l^j. after the captivity the jews were more familiar with the idea of dualism, and in n.t. times their whole demonology had largely expanded; beelzebub is spoken of as prince of all evil spirits, whom the 0. t. knows merely as a heathen idol: so that, even as early as that, false gods come to mean demons or devils. it pertains to the history of christianity to explain how there came to be added the notion of lucifer^ a rebel

307; is the notion of fortune's wheel (p. 866) or the sun's wheel (pp. 620. 701) at work here? splinters of a tree struck by lightning, coffin-splinters are of use (i, 171. 208. the bridal bed must have only dry tvood, but off living trees^ other fancies about the bridal bed 486-7. no picked up feathers, no hen's feathers should be put in a bed 281. 346. 593. choosing of days prevailed among the jews (levit. 19, 26. deut. 18, 10, greeks, and probably all heathens. hesiod distinguishes between mother-days and stepmother-days, he goes over all the good days of zeus, and all the bad "epya k 'h/x. 765 (710) seq. even if our names for the days of the week were imported from abroad (p. 127, yet native superstitions may have been mixt up with them from a very early time' nullus observet' so prea

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ched from the material of their origin. then, a creation out of stones is recorded in the story of deucalion, whom after the deluge hermes bade throw stones behind his back: those that he threw, all turned into men, and those that his wife pyrrha threw, into women. as in the edda, after the great flood comes a new creation; only in this case the rescued people are themselves the actors.2 even the jews appear to have known of a mythical creation out of stones, for we read in matth. 3, 9: on, svvarai, 6 0eo9 e/c twv \i6av tovtwv eyelpai re/cva rc5 aftpadfj (see suppl. the creation of dwarfs is described ambiguously in the edda: according to one story they bred as worms in the proto-giant s flesh, and were then endowed by the gods with understanding and human shape; but by the older account t

rit vel abstulerit ligna vel tabulas alterius in lib. x den. puniatur. midsummee fiees. 623 vanse dias, vienen dias, venido era el de sant juan, do ode christianos y moros hazen gran solenidad: los christianos echan juncia, y los moros arrayhan, los judios echan eneas, por la fiesta mas honrar. here nothing is said of fire, 1 but we are told that the christians strew rushes, the moors myrtle, the jews reeds; and the throw ing of flowers and herbs into the flame seems an essential part of the celebration, e.g. mugwort, monks-hood, larkspur (p. 618, mullein and walnut leaves (p. 621. hence the collecting of all such john s-herbs in germany (superst. i, 157. 189. 190, and of s. hans urter (worts) in denmark (k, 126, and the like in france (l, 4. according to gasp. zeumer s de igne in festo s

1, 520 as siebenstirni, wagan/ and in luther as siebenstern, orion/ for ksil in isaiah 13, 10 the lxx has /2/aiw, vulg. merely splendor/ luther orion/ in amos 5, 8 kimeh and ksil are avoided in lxx, but rendered in vulg. arcturus, orion/ and by luther the glucke, orion/ michaelis drew up his 86 questions on the meaning of these stars, and niebuhr received the most conflicting answers from arabian jews; 4 on the whole it seemed likeliest, that (1) ash was the arabian constellation om en ndsh (2) kimeh or chima the arab, toriye (3) ksil the arab, shell (sihhel; the three corresponding to ursa major, 1 keisersperg s postil 206: the sea-star or the wain, or die hennmit den mnlin as ye call it. grobianus 1572 fol. 93b: wo der \vagen steht, und wo die gluck mit hunkeln geht. several writers inco

and hervarars. p. 487; so an etruscan nymph speaks the name of the highest god in the ear of a bull. 1 it has already been suggested (p. 815) that presentiments of a mightier god to come may have floated before 1 0. mailer s etr. 2, 83, with which must be conn, the medieval legend of silvester (conrad s poem, pref. p. xx. suktk. 825 the heathen imagination, like the promise of the messiah to the jews.1 the world s destruction and its renewal succeed each other in rotation; and the interpenetration of the notions of time and space, world and creation, with which i started, has been proved. further, as the time-phenomena of the day and the year were conceived of as persons, so were the space-phenomena of the world and its end (halja, hades, surtr. 1 martin hammerich om eagnaroks-mythen, cop

e narrow bridge is between purgatory and paradise, even owain the hero had to cross it (scott s minstr. 2, 360-1. in striking harmony with it (as supra p. 574) is a mahom. tradition given in sale s koran (ed. 1801, introd. 120: in the middle of hell all souls must walk over a bridge thinner than a hair, sharper than the edge of a sword, and bordered on both sides by thorns and prickly shrubs. the jews also speak of the hell-bridge narrow as a thread, but only unbelievers have to cross it (eisenmenger 2, 258; conf. thorns p. 91. ace. to herbelot, the mahometans believe that before the judgment- day they shall pass over a redhot iron rod, that spans a bottomless deep; then the good works of each believer will put themselves under his feet. betdge. hell-shoe. 835 river of the underworld appea

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nement, 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 cold comfort to the myriads of devout jews, or pious mussulmans, and truly worthy men of all denominations. i have long been of the opinion that the soul is the luminousmaterialatmosphere which surrounds the body, described by"london,umo.longman and co, 1834. translatedbysamuel jackson.contributionsto the zoist207the soulhaddepartedfrom herbody.falling on my knees, i asked back of god, in my prayer, the soul that i had in my doubts su

mployedthem,itis to be regretted thatmanymesmerists,whojustlydeprecate theirfavouritesciencebeingdeemeda deception and its professorsimpostors,yet soreadilybestowthe sameabusiveepithetsindiscriminatelyupon theadvocatesofanydoctrinewhichmay beopposedto their ownpreconceivedopinions.it is to be remembered thatdivinationby thecrystalis, more than anyotherspeciesofmodemmagic,derivedimmediatelyfromthe jews--apeoplewhosenumerousceremonialsofthe same kind wereenjoined,we are taught tobelieve,bydivinecommand;and theirfollowers,thecabalists,thoughnot perhapsstrictlyspeakingtheutilitariansof theirday,yet remembering 'how much better it is to getwisdomthangold,and understanding rather thanfinesilver,'t werediligentinvestigatorsof theoccultproperties of nature, and theefficacyof their 'concentric circ

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

s not this one more proof that the secret doctrine of the east may have good reason to maintainthat the name of the patriarch was neither a chaldean or a hebrew name, but rather an epithet and a sanskritsurname, signifying abram, i.e, one is non-brahman* a debrahmanised brahman, one who is degraded orwho has lost his caste? after this how can we avoid suspecting that we may find, among the modern jews,the chaldeans of the time of the rishi agastya- these makers of bricks whose persecution began from eighthundred to a thousand years ago, but who emigrated to chaldea four thousand years before the christian era- when so many of the popular legends of southern india resemble the bible stories. louis jacolliot speaksin several of his twenty-one volumes on brahmanical india of this matter, and

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

owers of the egyptian therapeutae (the healers. so it is in our day. we can show the line of descent of every christian religion, as of every, even the smallest, sect. the latter are the minor twigs or shoots grown on the larger branches; but shoots and branches spring from the same trunk-the wisdom-religion. to prove this was the aim of ammonius, who endeavored to induce gentiles and christians, jews and idolaters, to lay aside their contention and strife, remembering only that they were all in possession of the same truth under various vestments, and were all the children of a common mother. this is the aim of theosophy likewise. page 6 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt says mosheim of ammonius: conceiving that not only the philosophers of greece, but also all those of the different

to the students of universities, colleges, and schools of christendom: to professors of metaphysical, mechanical, and natural science in all its forms: to men and women of education generally, of fundamental orthodox faith: to deists, arians, unitarians, swedenborgians, and other defective and ungrounded creeds, rationalists, and skeptics of every kind: to just-minded and enlightened mohammedans, jews, and oriental patriarch-religionists: but especially to the gospel minister and missionary, whether to the barbaric or intellectual peoples, this introduction to theosophy, or the science of the ground and mystery of all things, is most humbly and affectionately dedicated. in the following year (1856) another volume was issued, royal octavo, of 600 pages, diamond type, of theosophical miscell

ciety at large are free to profess whatever religion or philosophy they like, or none if they so prefer, provided they are in sympathy with, and ready to carry out one or more of the three objects of the association. the society is a philanthropic and scientific body for the propagation of the idea of brotherhood on practical instead of theoretical lines. the fellows may be christians or muslims, jews or parsees, buddhists or brahmins, spiritualists or materialists, it does not matter; but every member must be either a philanthropist, or a scholar, a searcher into ryan and other old literature, or a psychic student. in short, he has to help, if he can, in the carrying out of at least one of the objects of the program. otherwise he has no reason for becoming a "fellow" such are the majority

may be found necessary. q. then let us begin with the first. what means would you resort to, in order to promote such a feeling of brotherhood among races that are known to be of the most diversified religions, customs, beliefs, and modes of thought? a. allow me to add that which you seem unwilling to express. of course we know that with the exception of two remnants of races-the parsees and the jews-every nation is divided, not merely against all other nations, but even against itself. this is found most prominently among the so-called civilized christian nations. hence your wonder, and the reason why our first object appears to you a utopia. is it not so? q. well, yes; but what have you to say against it? a. nothing against the fact; but much about the necessity of removing the causes w

tent as regards any finite relations. the visible universe depends for its existence and phenomena on its mutually acting forms and their laws, not on prayer or prayers. q. do you not believe at all in the efficacy of prayer? a. not in prayer taught in so many words and repeated externally, if by prayer you mean the outward petition to an unknown god as the addressee, which was inaugurated by the jews and popularized by the pharisees. page 34 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. is there any other kind of prayer? a. most decidedly; we call it will-prayer, and it is rather an internal command than a petition. q. to whom, then, do you pray when you do so? a. to "our father in heaven"-in its esoteric meaning. q. is that different from the one given to it in theology? a. entirely so. an o

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

hermes trismegistus in mesnard's edition, the turba philosophorum, geber's liber investigationis, and artephius's key of wisdom all were there; with the cabbalistic zohar, peter jammy's set of albertus magnus, raymond lully's ars magna et ultima in zetsner's edition, roger bacon's thesaurus chemicus, fludd's clavis alchimiae, and trithemius's de lapide philosophico crowding them close. mediaeval jews and arabs were represented in profusion, and mr. merritt turned pale when, upon taking down a fine volume conspicuously labelled as the qanoon-e-islam, he found it was in truth the forbidden necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred, of which he had heard such monstrous things whispered some years previously after the exposure of nameless rites at the strange little fishing village of kings

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

. i'm addicted to it, not just attracted. there is an ancient belief that there is power in words; this belief is based on the concept that words are symbols of your ideas and thus have a magical quality. we use words to place what is happening in our minds with another person's mind. some of the older religions still believe that the symbolism of letters is powerful, too. during world war ii the jews in syria had every reason to believe they were about to be invaded by the germans. they called up their cabalists (a body of religious scholars) who spent an evening in meditation. the cabalists discovered they could manipulate the letters in "syria" and by reversing them, spell "russia. after chanting this reversal over and over, they appeared in the plaza and told the assembled crowd to hav

INFERNAL UNION

y beneath him in sexual congress by instead called upon the secret names of god and fled to the caves in the shores of the red sea where she mated with demons and spawned the lilim or lilitu, the succubi or sexual vampires.[it has also been said that lilith, adams first wife was the astral image of his desire (which apparently was more than he expected)(pg.270. the lilim were widely feared by the jews, patriarchic or not. mirrors were considered to be a possible point of access to the darkness of the place where lilith resides (apart from this occult reference, a very feminist point may be taken from this itself as young girls were warned against using mirrors too much and falling into liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qli

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

on the 29th of september 1317 (wright says 1320, bishop de ledrede held his first synod, at which several canons were passed, one of which seems in some degree introductory to the events detailed in the preceding chapter. in it he speaks of "a certain new and pestilential sect in our parts, differing from all the faithful in the world, filled with a devilish spirit, more inhuman than heathens or jews, who pursue the priests and bishops of the most high god equally in life and death, by spoiling and rending the patrimony of christ in the diocese of ossory, and who utter grievous threats against the bishops and their ministers exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and (by various means) attempt to hinder the correction of sins and the salvation of souls, in contempt of god p. 48 and the c

ISIS UNVEILED

untied statet for ima year 187l 2. them are: the bavhmt. cmffrefotianaluli, fpikopojtaiu, northem utikoditu, southern mdkodiili, methodiita torioui, narthcm prmbyfortoiu, southern prtaytmokt, vnoei frubglerwu, utated brtuum, brethren in ckriel, b^orwiad duuii, s^onhed otrauat, rearmed preibtltrmu, citmberlmid pretbjfleriant. digitizecoy google 2 isis unveiled head. there are many hundred thousand jews; some thousands of orientals of su idnda; and a very few who belong to the greek church. a man at salt i^e city, with mneteen wives and more than one hun- dred children and grandchildren, is the supreme spiritual ruler over ninety thousand people, who believe that he is in frequent intercourse with the gods for the mormons are polytheists as well as polygamists, and their chief god is represe

the 'lord' why not scorn also tiie pagan rites and philosophy? why draw so deeply from the wells of wisdom, dug and filled up to brim by the same heathen? or did the fathers, in their desire to imitate the chosen people whose time-wom shoes they were trying to fit upon their feet, contemplate the re-enactjon of the spohation-scene of the exodus? did they propose, in fleeing from heathendom as the jews did from egypt, to carry off the valuables of its religious allegories, as the 'chosen ones' did the gold and silver ornaments? it certainly does seem as if the events of the first centuries of chris- tianity were but the refiexion of the images thrown upon the mirror of the future at the time of the exodus. during the stormy days of irenae- us, the platonic philosophy, with its mystical subm

haeua, the soul of the world, and the latter was in its metaphysical sense as closely related to the emana- tions, being the first manifestation sephira, or divine light. and when could the latter be more feared than at that critical moment? origed* clemens alezandrinus^ chalcidius^ methodius* and mai- monides* on the authority of the tar^m of jerusalem, the orthodox and greatest authority of the jews, held that the first two words in the book of oeruais b-rasit mean wudom, or the principle; and that the. idea^ these words noeaning 'in the beginning' was never held but by the profane, who were not allowed to penetrate any deeper into the esoteric sense of the sentence. beausobre" and after him godfrey hig- gins, have demonstrated the fact "all things" says the kahala "are derived from one

- tions from the divine substance, and were in existence b^ore the second principle, then the anthropomorphized son is at best an emanation like themselves, and cannot be god hypostaiwiuy any more than our visible works are ourselves. that these metaphysical subtleties never entered into the head of the honest-minded, sincere paul, is evident; as it is fur- thermore evident, that like all learned jews he was well acquainted with the doctrine of emanations and never thought of corrupting it. how can any one imagine that paul identified the son with the father, when he tells us that god made jeaus "a luiie lower than the angel" barewt, ii, 9) sjs.a a, little hiiiher\iiaji moaea "for this man was counted worthy of more ^ory than moses" hd>reui, iii, 3. of what or how many forgeries, interpola

bed by the ancient creed "the 'black virgins' so highly reverenced in certain french cathedrals. proved, when at last critically examined, to be basalt figures of isis* before the shrine of jupiter ammon were suspended tinkling bells, from the sound of whose chiming the priests deduced their auguries "a golden bell and a pomegranate. round about the hem of the robe" was the result with the mosaic jews* but in the buddhistic system, during the reugious services, the gods of the deva-loka are always invoked and invited to descend upon the altars, by the ringing of bells suspended in the pagodas. the bell of the sacred table of siva at kuhama is described in kaiuua, and every buddhist mh&ra and lamasery has lis bells. we thus see that the bells used by christians come to them directly bota th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

first edition of the rosicrucians abundantly proved. dr. ginsburg says of the cabala, or kabbalah (regarding the mysteries of which the rosicrucians claimed to be the only true exponents, that it is a system of religious philosophy, or more properly of theosophy, which has not only exercised, for hundreds of years, an extraordinary influence on the mental development of so shrewd a people as the jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the greatest t viii preface thinkers of christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. it and all that refers to it therefore claims the greatest attention of both the philosopher and the theologian. the thinkers of the past days, after restlessly searching for a scientific system which should disclose to them the deepest depths of the divine

ok published in. london in 1829, with the title, the celtic druids; or. an attempt to show that the druids were the priests of oriental colonies, who emigrated from india, by godfrey higgins. a recent writer confidently intimated that the knowledge 102 the rosicrucians. of druidism must be searched for in the talmudical writings; but another, in return, asserts that the druids were older than the jews. whence and when the british druids transplanted themselves to this lone world amid the ocean, no historian can write. we can judge of the druids simply by the sublime monuments which are left of them, surviving, in their majestic loneliness, through the ages of civilisation. unhewn masses or heaps of stones tell alone their story; such are their cairns, and cromlechs, and corneddes, and that

otion. this material trinity, as a type, is similar to the material trinity of plato; as a type, it is used to conceal the secret trinity. see anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 627. holy fires, which were never suffered to die, were maintained in all the temples: of these were the fires in the temple of the gaditanean hercules at tyre, in the temple of vesta at rome, among the brachmans of india, among the jews, and principally among the persians. now to prove that all appearances are born of fire, so to speak, according to the ideas of the rosicrucians. light is not radiated from any intensely heated gas or fluid. if nitre is melted, it will not be visible; but throw into it any solid body, and as soon as that becomes heated it will radiate light; hence the phenomenon, nasmyth s willow-leaves, in t

e two potent spirits, or mystic rulers of the world, it is supposed astrologically that all mundane things were produced. the following three pages explain the mystic analogy between colours, language, music, and the seven angelic adverse intelligences, supposed by the gnostics to be operative in the dissonance of creation. these represent the descending half of the machataloth, as the cabalistic jews called the zodiac united. the whole is made up from abstruse sigmas, or the application of rosicrucianism on its hieroglyphic and representative side. 162 the rosicrucians. heraldic and figurative chart, according to the oldest heraldic systems (no. 1 (musical notes also) region elementary, whereon he saw angels ascending anddescending: and he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth

the male generative principle, as the physical means, in conjunction with the yoni (loni, or discus, of the production of all visible things. in this connection, the addition to the name of simon peter (petra, or pietra, cephas. jonas, bar-jonas, lonas) will be recalled as suggestive. there is a sacred stone in every temple in india. the stone, or pillar, or pillow, of jacob was sacred among the jews. it was anointed with oil. there was a sacred stone among the greeks at delphi, which was also anointed with oil in the mystic ceremonies. the stone of caaba, or black stone at mecca, is stated to have been there long before the time of mohammed. it was preserved by him when he destroyed the dove and images. the obelisks at rome were, and are, lingas (or linghas. in the temple of jerusalem, a

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

lternative readings. he also constructed several charts and tables based on the information in sy. stenring s work on sy seems careful and conscientious, but there are some disquieting statements here and there. a paragraph from the notes section serves well as a summary example: the 231 gates eighteen hundred years ago, when rabbi akiba ben joseph reduced into writing the secret tradition of the jews in the book of formation, he hesitated to unveil the greatest secret of the kabala, the arcanum of the great symbol, which had been handed down to him from his forefathers. for this reason he embodied it in a riddle( s.y, ii. 4 and 5, which many ancient and modern philosophers have tried in vain to solve. of all the different tabulations, claiming to be the great arcanum of the kabala, that w

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university of new york press, 2007. idel, moshe. ga unique manuscript of an untitled treatise of abraham abulafia in biblioteca laurentiana medicea, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts, volume 17, edited by daniel abrams and avraham elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 2008. gabraham abulafia and menahem ben benjamin in rome: the beginnings of kabbalah in italy, h in the jews of italy: memory and identity, edited by barbara garvin and bernard cooperman (bethesda: university press of maryland, 2000. gabraham abulafia and unio mystica, h in studies in medieval jewish history and literature iii, edited by isadore twersky and jay m. harris (cambridge. london: harvard university press, 2000. 20081 10. gabulafia fs secrets of the guide: a linguistic turn, h in perspecti

s on high in jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, and ladders. budapest. new york: central european university press, 2005: chapter 2, gon cosmic pillars in jewish sources. h. enchanted chains: techniques and rituals in jewish mysticism [sources and studies in the literature of jewish mysticism 16, with a forward by harold bloom. los angeles: cherub press, 2005. 20081 13. gjewish mysticism among the jews of arab/moslem lands, h in the journal for the study of sephardic and mizrahi jewry, edited by zion zohar (february 2007; on-line at http//sephardic.fiu.edu/journal/jssmjinsidecover.htm. gkabbalah and elites in thirteenth-century spain, h in mediterranean historical review, volume 9, number 1 (london: frank cass [tel aviv university, 1994. gmaimonides f guide of the perplexed and the kabbalah

ngs in judaism, see back to the sources: reading the classic jewish texts, edited by barry holtz (new york: summit books, 1984. there, one is guided by specialists through the issues and literature of the bible, talmud, midrash, medieval commentaries and philosophy, kabbalistic texts, hasidic teachings and prayer books. another good overview of the literature of judaism is the sacred books of the jews by harry gersh (new york: stein and day, 1968. one of the best general anthologies is philip s. alexander fs textual sources for the study of judaism (totowa: manchester university books/barnes and noble books, 1984; rpt. university of chicago press, 1990. alexander fs introductions are particularly helpful. a very instructive set of anthologies (if you can get past the lame illustrations) is

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if indeed you are a wrong-doer 347 i am bound by my own duty to bring you before pontius pilate. my duties too are most burdensome and my time is short for you. well would it reflect upon you if you were to confess to these crimes and i would speak well of you as you are sentenced by rome's proxy. these then are the charges against you: first, have you spoken against caesar and counselled to the jews that they pay not the taxes that are due to rome. second, have you blasphemed against god saying "i would tear down the temple built to honour adonai yahweh and, in three days, build it up that it be more splendid than before" you answer not these accusations but remain silent and most still. only a guilty man would guard his tongue so well, fearing that it would condemn him. how then will yo

ld destroy him. he walked with bandits on that road and upon each side came the city's people to mock and laugh as the captives passed. so was the son of gabriel brought to golgotha to die upon the cross. the executioners put up the gallows and thereto nailed him through shin and wrist to hang there with to other men, sentenced to die as robbers. above his head they wrote "behold, the king of the jews" upon his head did the soldiers place a crown woven of briars and they divided his clothes amongst them. now the sun rose, hot, unmerciful, and his throat was parched with thirst. soaring higher, as though delighting in every new suffering that it wrought, the cruel orb of flame seared his flesh bereft of cloth to ward off the rays. now his strength was lost to him like steam and his hope mel

earth that he is reborn through me and lives eternal by his nobility. yet not all found peace upon that day and one voice cried out in wrath to see him that was his son suffer so upon the cross. thus stood gabriel at golgotha, unseen, even as was taken down the body of his one son amongst my multitudes, and this curse did he roar that it resounded betwixt earth and heaven "what have you done, you jews? you know not, in truth, both of the deed that you have wrought and what consequence it shall have for you. you have slain my son that which in all the world i loved. now is there but hatred in me and you are in full possession of it. 353 hear me then, children of isaac, and tremble at my words for you. once had you called yourself the chosen, the chosen people of adonai yahweh. the days shal

wrath. the days that fathers abided in egypt and were made slaves to the pharaoh shall seem most blessed to you. never shall there be peace for you and your enemies shall be on every side. when your innocent children are slain then shall you know my grief. be most afeared, judaea, for these days are coming soon" now did grow black the sky, stained with the angel's wrath, and in the temple of the jews the veil that hid the inmost sanctum was rent in two by an unseen hand. the very earth shook and raged with the potency of the ire of gabriel. so was his curse upon the jews. three ten years passed on earth, now gabriel was a player of chess, confounding with a thousand subtle moves those elohim that played against him. those of judaea and rome he moved alike that were weak to his manipulatio

weak to his manipulations. hither moved he and thither and brought at last in war to shalem's walls, the roman titus. perceiving not the hand of gabriel 354 that worked them to such an end to their prophets had they paid heed, the people of israel, and heard that adonai yahweh alone was king and they made rebellion against the caesars. now had come titus against the walls of the great city of the jews with the legions of rome behind him and they made siege against the walls. what recourse had they, the jews, as all the cohorts of rome were set against them and heaven itself was in discord as the brightest son of adonai yahweh sought the destruction of the chosen people. the revolt of the jews was founded upon heaven but even heaven's foundation are rotted. well was it to defy a distant rom

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k is to preserve the correction method throughout human history until the time when everyone needs it. at that time, this group, by now called the people of israel, would be able to realize its function and transfer the correction method to all the nations. the fall of that group of kabbalists under the ego s domination produced within them a sophisticated and unique ego. this was effected so the jews would speed up the evolution of the world while they were still among the nations. the nations of the world did not possess sufficient drive for progress, and the jews role was to urge them forward to greater egoistic evolution. hence, jews led the cultural, scientific, economic, and technological revolutions. these would accelerate the realization that egoism only brings the world to a dead

tent that they perform their duty. otherwise, they will not be considered the people of israel and the land will not be considered the land of israel. israel will then become a land that ejects and repels this people, a land that cannot stand this nation on its soil, a land that devours its inhabitants (numbers, 13:32. baal hasulam predicted that if no changes were made, the very existence of the jews in the land of israel would be at risk. in the writings of the last generation, he wrote that matters could deteriorate and so many would leave israel that bit-by-bit, they will escape the discomfort until too few remain to merit the name state, and they will be swallowed among the arabs. uniting the nation if we really want to be a free nation in our land, as our national anthem states, we m

exist. therefore, the fundamentalists are positive that sooner or later they will defeat us and drive us out of here, or at least end our sovereignty. certainty always overcomes uncertainty. hence, in their eyes, we are living on barrowed time. a newspaper article recently published in one of the arab newspapers, ended in a quote from haminai, who was quoting from the quran when he said that the jews will not fight you israel s role 175 as one man. you think that they are united, but their hearts are divided. unity among us can only be achieved when we unite around the realization of our duty to the world. we are not meant to bond in order to improve our situation at the expense of other nations or countries. the nationalistic idea of the nation that the wisdom of kabbalah talks about is

s on which the state of israel was founded will we be able to unite and to promote the unity of all people, wherever they are.24 a n t i- s emi t i sm no calamity comes to the world but for israel--talmud bavli, yevamot, 63:1 understanding the role of israel makes it easier to understand the phenomenon of anti-semitism, and how it may be resolved. the root of both anti-semitism and of blaming the jews for every adversity that occurs in the world is part of the purpose of israel s existence: providing the world the method for the correction of the ego. the fate of the people of israel depends on the way they realize their task. as long as israel does not carry out the correction method on themselves and does not pass it on to the rest of the nations, humanity s imbalance with nature will in

e intensity and frequency of negative phenomena in all of humanity, and israel s role 177 in the lives of every individual. today, these phenomena have worsened to the level of a global crisis. anti-semitism is appearing in the world according to the evolution of the nations. subconsciously, the nations sense that they depend on israel for their happiness. this is why the negative attitude toward jews has appeared specifically in more evolved nations. it is not surprising that germany, the most developed country in the beginning of the 20th century, was also the country where a horrendous outbreak of anti-semitism occurred. the more a nation s ego evolves, the more powerfully is awakened a hatred of jews. in some, it is a violent reaction; in others, it is quiet consent and support. today

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

n, a german humanist, political counselor to the chancellor, a classics scholar and an expert in the ancient languages and traditions (latin, greek, and hebrew) was affiliated with the heads of the platonic academia (della mirandola and others. my teacher pythagoras, who is the father of philosophy, did nevertheless not receive those teachings from the greeks, but rather he received them from the jews. therefore he must be called kabbalist] and he himself was the first to convert the name kabbala, unknown to the greeks, in the greek name philosophy. pythagoras philosophy emanated from the infinite sea of the kabbalah. this is the kabbala, which does not let us spend our lives on the ground, but rather raises our intellect to the highest goal of understanding--reuchlin, de arte cabbalistica

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since kabbalists described t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 69 everything in hebrew, they built a dictionary- the link between the root and the branch- that today is the basis for this whole science. the hebrew language is also called the holy tongue because it leads to holiness, to the attributes of the creator. now, there still remains the question why, until today, kabbalists were either jews or people who converted to judaism (proselytes. the reason lies in the uniqueness of their souls. the collective soul of adam consists of 600,000 parts, or 600,000 souls, separated by the intensity of their will. before the sin of the first man, every desire was aimed at pleasing the creator; each was a desire to give to the creator. but as a result of the sin of the first man, desires change

correction begins with the smallest desires and ends with the greatest. all desires, in the order of their correction, form a line or a chain: the smallest desires come first, then the greater ones. they are generally divided into two groups: galgalta ve eynaim (ge) and awzen, hotem, peh (ahp. at first, the ge are corrected and then come the ahp. souls (desires) that are related to ge are called jews; souls (desires) that are related to ahp are called nations of the world. souls dress in corporeal bodies in our world. therefore, there are groups of people in our world that connect by the types of their soul and t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 70 their desires (in fact, this is how nations and peoples are formed. because the jews must be the first to correct, there is pressure on

a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 70 their desires (in fact, this is how nations and peoples are formed. because the jews must be the first to correct, there is pressure on them from above, by the upper guidance--the creator- in order to bring them to correction. the creator uses all the means of this world (see introduction to the zohar, item 66 through the end. because the souls that are called jews must be corrected before all other souls, then in our world, in groups of people with a jewish type of soul there are kabbalists. those are people who came out to the spiritual world and express their impressions and the method of correction in their own mother tongue. that is why kabbalah is expressed in the language of the jews. k a b b a l a h i s n o t a r e l i g i o n q: is there an equ

erson who has attained that level, where physical life and death do not exist, sees the entire process from beginning to end and is above our world. then the secrets open up like innermost fountains, and we understand the laws that are at the basis of that system. before that, we will not understand the meaning of those secrets, even if we heard or saw them. q: can you explain kabbalah to the non-jews by using general terms, without using the terms of kabbalah? a: there s no reason to explain or refrain from explaining anything. our goal is to make the books of kabbalah and all the knowledge t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 94 about it accessible for everyone, all over the world. in principle, non-jews should come to kabbalah in masses only after the jews do, but if there are thos

egin to feel the world differently, because men and women are indeed two different worlds and have a different perception of creation. i n n e r l i s t e n i n g q: i ve begun to take an interest in kabbalah. i want to start studying, but i m told it s dangerous. what exactly is the danger in studying kabbalah? a: a great many people tried to deter me from kabbalah: they were religious, secular, jews and non-jews alike, and strangers and relatives. i tried to fight the craving to know the purpose of my life, and i couldn t picture a day when i could get up in the morning without asking the t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 96 same haunting question over and over again. i couldn t imagine a peaceful, thoughtless day, where i could sit down quietly and enjoy my life k if there s no

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igment of our imaginations. over the years, many of us have consciously or unconsciously adopted this principle after realizing that, by changing our perspective, we might be able to better cope with our day-to-day problems. this perspective determines our reactions, our feelings, and ultimately our reality. what, then, is the actual reality around us? today, kabbalists can state a principle that jews concealed for thousands of years: that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. this force operates in such a way that one sees him as an image of a certain reality, which we call my world. we are all able to see and feel varying images and sensations depending on our sensory organs and inner properties. all our sensations are subjective and exist only wi

104 his words can also be interpreted to describe those who follow the ways of the lord: those people have a desire for both corporeality and spirituality, as it is said, that those who were close to baal hasulam had a screen and aviut (coarseness, but now that he was gone, they had no one to submit to, and were left with coarseness but no screen, and were only looking to become rabbis and pretty jews. therefore, i (rabash) suspect everything that comes out of their hands, for there is no one to restrain them. i am speaking briefly here, for i do not want them in my thoughts, for you know the rule that one is where one s thoughts are, but because i know your fondness for the truth, i am compelled to bring to my mind the coarseness that hasn t a screen, which are broken vessels that are as

ires, or desires to receive (ahp awzen, hotem, peh. that is why it is said that israel, meaning ge, will be a minority. when the rest of the nations are corrected, the light of hochma will appear in each and every soul, as well as in the collective vessel of mankind. the nations of the world subconsciously feel their dependency on israel. they are given that feeling by the creator to press on the jews and set them in motion towards correction. it is difficult for us to imagine what this means in terms of spiritual growth, when one group has to wait for another and is completely dependent on another for one s own correction. the state of israel is a gift from the creator and has a right to exist only to the extent that it gives altruism the right to exist. this is the idea of nearing the cr

al degree. that enables us to not only connect with the ideas and direction, but also forms a bridge that could help us in our progress as we bond with the author. it is not important if the author is alive or not; we can bond in our feelings while studying the author s books. at the age of 18, the eldest son of baal hasulam, baruch ashlag, finished his studies at the yeshiva (school for orthodox jews) and started to work as a construction worker. he would rise before dawn, eat a kilogram of bread and onion, drink a little water, and go to work. bread and onion was also his supper. on holidays he would add a little herring or something else that would make his meal more festive. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 112 rabbi baruch ashlag lived a very hard life. he was among the workers who bu

ead them. the year was 1981; he gave me a notebook that i copied, then read it and used it for the next ten years. in 1991, a day before he passed away, he gave me the original manuscript. he said: read it, it s for you. he asked me to come earlier the next morning to help him put on his teffilin (a portion of the pentateuch written on a piece of parchment and put into special boxes that orthodox jews put on their heads and arms every morning except on saturday and on holidays. he knew what was going to happen in advance, but i did not, and when i arrived, it was too late. he was already semi-conscious and perished right before my eyes. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 290 the essays and the writings that he d given me are priceless. every time i read them, i learn something new. my percep

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tional history to take its place. in fact, he judaized the entire ritual, substituting hebrew words for the original egyptian, though in some cases at least preserving the original meaning. 82. it should be remembered that in doing this he was only bringing the practice of his people into line with that of neighbouring tribes and nations. there were many lines of mystery tradition, and though the jews had brought with them across the desert of sinai much of the egyptian form, the tyrians and others preserved rather the story of the descent of tammuz or adonis than that of the dismemberment of osiris. indeed, bro. ward in his latest book on this subject seems inclined to advocate the theory that we as masons owe comparatively little to egypt and very much to syria. in this briefest of outli

west when put down. it is certainly not sufficient to say that the early masons oriented their lodges merely because all churches and chapels ought to be so; rather the ecclesiastical rule spectare ad orientem was also a rule for the masons. 100. as we have already said, the egyptian origin of masonry has been somewhat obscured by jewish influence. when moses introduced the egyptian wisdom to the jews they quickly gave their own colouring to it. they are a very remarkable race, in that they assimilate readily, but stamp their own decided characteristics upon whatever they take up. in this case, the egyptians spoke of the great pyramid of gizeh as the ghouse of light h, or more commonly gthe light h but the jews were taught to interpret it as referring to the temple of king solomon. 101. th

t touches or almost touches the v.s.l. an explanation of this which is often given in lodge lectures is that as the circle is bounded by two lines, which signify moses and solomon, and also by the v.s.l, anyone who keeps himself within that circle and follows the precepts of the v.s.l. as thoroughly as did moses and solomon will not err. 113. in ancient egypt, however, long before the time of the jews, it was already a symbol with many meanings. first of all, it was the symbol of the sun-god, ra; secondly, it bore to the egyptians the signification of the earth circling round the sun. that was with them a portion of the secret knowledge reserved for the mysteries. there was a still older tradition, which held the circle to be the equator and the dot in the centre to be the pole-star, whose

having an unbroken line of masonic authority. it is to be understood, of course, that the volumes of the sacred lore are not only the bible of the christians, but the sacred books of other religions as well, for the members of a lodge may and often do belong to various religions. in a lodge meeting on one occasion in bombay there were among the brn. present christians, hindus, buddhists, parsis, jews, sikhs, muhammadans, and jains. it is the custom there to place on the altar the sacred books of all who are likely to attend that lodge. the rev. j. t. lawrence, the well-known author of many masonic handbooks, tells us that he himself has initiated jews, muhammadans, hindus and parsis, and at least one buddhist. he writes: 226. according to a pronouncement of grand lodge, the bible need not

459. preparation of the candidate 460. before his admission he is divested of all m c s and v c s, is h c d, and has his r c a c, l c b c and l c k c b c, and his r c h c s c d. all masonic bodies agree in viewing the continuance of this conventional form of preparation as a matter of the greatest importance, and give as their reason for this the practice of ancient times. it was a rule among the jews, says a treatise connected with the talmud, that gno man shall go into the temple with his staff, nor with shoes on his feet, nor with his outer garment, nor with money tied up in his purse h. 461. the very specific character of the preparation, which is different in each degree, points, however, not to a general rule of this kind, but to real knowledge of the occult physiology of the process

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hich masonic signs and symbols were used, which admitted both men and women, and performed their rites in temples very similar to those of modern freemasonry. 262. the jewish mysteries 263. the jewish line of descent 264. although our modern freemasonic rites and symbols are derived from egypt, as has been shown in the hidden life in freemasonry, they have reached us for the most part through the jews. the tradition which has most influenced our modern masonry is that of the jewish mysteries, so the greater part of our ceremonies and s s are now cast in a jewish form. 265. in the hidden life in freemasonry it has been explained that many of the traditions preserved in the old testament have a basis in fact, although the actual events of jewish history were magnified and distorted through t

em an outlying district of his kingdom if they chose to settle there. eventually some pharaoh made a demand upon them for additional taxation and forced work which they considered an infringement of their privileges; and they once more undertook a wholesale migration under the leadership of him whom we now call moses, and after further wanderings settled in palestine, where they were known as the jews, still strongly maintaining that they were a chosen people(*see man: whence, how and whither, ch. xiv and xvi, passim) 269. during their sojourn in egypt certain of them had been initiated into some of the degrees of the egyptian mysteries. moses, as was said much later, was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians(*acts, vii, 22) and he seems to have been the real founder of the jewish mys

isdom of the egyptians(*acts, vii, 22) and he seems to have been the real founder of the jewish mysteries, much as tradition suggests, introducing into them the succession of i.m.s which he had received from the egyptian priests. our investigations have not confirmed the events related in the early chapters of the book of exodus with regard to the ten plagues and the smiting of the egyptians; the jews departed without much opposition, and after many years of wandering in the wilderness conquered various tribes and took possession of palestine. indeed their migration seems to have been inspired to some extent by the manu. during their wanderings they used a tent for the celebration of their mysteries, preserved in hebrew tradition as the tabernacle; in this they worked in essence the egypti

aps not quite so magnificent as tradition relates, but the king was nevertheless extremely proud of it and considered it to be one of the great achievements of the age. 275. in this work he was assisted by his ally, hiram king of tyre, who supplied a quantity of material for the building, and lent many clever craftsmen to aid in the work; for the phoenicians were more skilled in building than the jews, who were chiefly a pastoral people. also about fifty years before some of the wandering bands of masons who called themselves the dionysian artificers had settled in phoenicia, so king hiram was able to supply many expert workmen. this alliance is a matter of secular history, for josephus tells us that even in his day copies of the letters which passed between the two kings existed in the ty

one, usually a priest or king, represents a god who is slain and comes to life again; that in earlier times at any rate such a representative was really killed and offered up as a sacrifice to ensure fertility; that we first hear of this myth of tammuz in connection with babylon, and that the tribes in the neighbourhood of judaea were all addicted to the worship of that deity. in fact, among the jews themselves we find the prophets blaming the hebrew ladies for taking part in the ritual mourning for him(*ezekiel, viii, 14) 283. solomon himself was by no means definitely monotheistic, and his people betrayed a distinct tendency to run after strange gods. there seems much evidence to prove that the love-song attributed to him in the bible is really a ritual hymn to astarte, for whom he buil

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

ly, the earliest satans were angels, sent by god for the purpose of obstructing or blocking the acts of human beings. this is clearly represented in the book of job, where satan is portrayed as a member of god s heavenly court a kind of celestial prosecuting attorney. satan s transformation into a true bad guy did not really begin until after the persians defeated the babylonians and returned the jews to palestine from babylonia. seeking to make them allies, the persians even gave the repatriated jews money to rebuild the temple. the persians were zoroastrians, a religion built around the notion of an ongoing, more or less evenly matched struggle between ahura mazda (in later zoroastrianism, uhrmazd, the god of light and the upper world, and angra mainyu (later ahriman, the god of darkness

trians, a religion built around the notion of an ongoing, more or less evenly matched struggle between ahura mazda (in later zoroastrianism, uhrmazd, the god of light and the upper world, and angra mainyu (later ahriman, the god of darkness and the lower world. partially because of a friendly link with the persians, judaism took in influences from zoroastrianism. thus satan, the closest thing the jews had to an evil spirit, was reconceived in the mold of angra mainyu as god s enemy. this portrait of an evil divinity locked in a cosmic war against god was later bequeathed to christianity. early christianity arose as a jewish sect during the apocalyptic period. the first christians strongly believed in the imminent second coming of christ (within their lifetimes, which would be accompanied b

the narrative concludes with the moral intervention of a wise angel. beelzebub beelzebub appeared in the old testament only once, never in the apocalyptic literature, and a number of times in the new testament. although the origin of his name is uncertain, beelzebub shared the destiny of many heathen gods of beelzebub (dover pictorial archive) bells 25 canaan who were turned into demons when the jews began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the jews as baalzebub, lord of flies, who created and controlled flies in the philistine 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 ne

in different religious traditions. devils have always had a negative connotation as evil forces whereas demons could be either good or evil, depending on their individual nature. daimones in ancient greece were tutelary semidivine spirits of either good or bad nature. in the early stages of judaism, demons were not a major aspect of the religious belief system. during the first diaspora, when the jews were in demons 65 contact with the dualist vision of zoroastrianism, a more defined role for demons was developed within the tradition, in particular in the aggadah that reflected popular rabbinic beliefs. these mythological figures drew from indigenous pagan beliefs (such as the shedim) and were believed to be either creations of god or offspring of lilith, the first wife of adam. in the cab

g at his right hand to accuse him. and the lord said to satan, the lord rebuke you, o satan! the lord who has chosen jerusalem rebuke you! is not this a brand plucked from the fire (zech. 3:1 2) here satan is still performing his older role as accuser, but now god is moved to anger by satan s activity. zechariah lived during the time when the persians had defeated the babylonians and returned the jews to palestine from babylonia. seeking to make them allies, the persians even gave the repatriated jews money to rebuild the temple. the persians were zoroastrians, whose religious system was built around the notion of an ongoing conflict between ahura mazda, the god of light and the upper world, and ahriman, the god of darkness and the lower world. partially because of their friendly link with

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known by the appearance of the matter of the sacrament, and also by its taste. for not idly is it written in the book of judges "what is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion" and that this secret is here manifested by the holy ghost is clear from the rejoinder of samson "if ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle" xiii of certain jewish theories among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be balked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his intercourse with her sprang evil races. now then they mine the roads of the harbour of conjugal love with many restri

ltimate waking is followed by a final performance of the sexual act. the initiate may then be allowed to sleep, or the practice may be renewed and persisted in until death ends all. the most favourable death is that occurring during the orgasm, and is called mors justi. as it is written: let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! xvi of certain hindu theories like the jews, the wise men of india have a belief that a certain particular prana, or force, resides in the bindu, or semen. but all their theory of magick and meditation being reverbatory, so that their "communing with god" is but a "communing with self" and all their artifice directed to development of the powers in their own bodies and minds, as opposed to the western idea of extending those powers to

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s 1-10 cxxiv. the heavenly hexagram. cxxv* seven hells of the arabs. cxxvi. their inhabitants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens. hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers. laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones. 1010 the evil woman or (simply) the woman. jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table i (continued) 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels ruling wands. cxxx. pairs of angels ruling cups. cxxxi. pairs of angels ruling swords. 0. 1. 2 lawhw laynd lauya hywbj lalzy lahbm 3 house of glory, ma

LIBER ALEPH

the formula of inri. also by his mystery of number he made plain the path for his successor to declare the nature of the whole universe in its form and in its structure, as it were an analysis thereof, doing for matter what the buddha was decreed to do for mind. t the book of wisdom or folly 73 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum, quem appelunt iudaei mosheh (of a certain magus of the egyptians, whom the jews call moses) he follower of tahuti was an egyptian whose name is lost; but the jews called him mosheh, or moses, and their fabulists made him the leader of their legendary exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh, which thou must understand also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this w

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay .qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity.ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. abiegnus. mysterium i. n. r. i. mysterium lvx. pastos. trinitas. unitas. serpentes 86 appendix ii ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and eighteen. five are one, and six are diverse, five in the midst and three on each side. the word of power, double in the voice of the master. ain elohim. four sounds of four force. o the snake hath a long ta

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

hya promulgates that schoolchildren be instilled with the fear of god, a fear supposedly diminished by pernicious and godless darwinism. judaism judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion still in existence today. like islam, but unlike christianity, it rejects any pictorial representation of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exists in judaismalso the potential for a literal interpretation of the genesis creation 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 chri

existence of several main branches of judaism: orthodox, conservative, and reform, as well as many other variants such as reconstructionist and ultra- orthodox. another complication is the absence in judaism of a centralized authority in matters of doctrine, leaving it up to potentially many religious leaders to offer their own interpretation of the sacred texts. and there is the old joke: three jews, four opinions. historically, the general attitude of judaism has been that the creation account in genesis should not be taken literally: it is symbolic rather than descriptive of an actual fact. the great medieval jewish philosopher creationism and intelligent design 23 maimonides even wrote that only ignoramuses would take genesis literally. on the other hand, the age of earth, how life-fo

ill very much debated by jewish scholars. for example, there is no general agreement on what is meant by days in genesis. be that as it may, many orthodox rabbis see the theory of evolution as being compatible with the jewish faith. some, however, do not. on the other hand, expectedly, all agree that god played and plays a role in the events that unfold in the universe. one can say that observant jews believe in the spirit of the torah but do not necessarily equate it with actual fact. further, jews consider that the old testament should be read and understood in conjunction with jewish scholarly texts such as the talmud, for example. interestingly, many jewish people understand that science, too, evolves and that, for some jews, current scientific knowledge simply represents our best unde

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

m is not an expose. it appears to be more of a memorial written by a brother who seems to have been very proud of his masonic connections and very moved by his association with the order. among other things, it contains a romantic history which suggests that masonry had its origins in antiquity, and among the various mystical disciplines that it cites as sources of masonry is. the caballa of the jews."15 in 1730 a mason named samuel prichard published a very hostile, 32 page pamphlet entitled masonry dissected. he had apparently joined the order seeking some personal advantage, and he had been disappointed. as he put it "of all the impositions that have appeared amongst mankind, none are so ridiculous as the mystery of masonry" and he hoped that his publication would. have its desired eff

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

m 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 the death of basilides, valentinus became the leading inspiration of the gnostic movement. he still further complicated the system of gnostic philosophy by adding infinitely to the details. he in

ffin in the form of a man. several ancient authors, including macrobius, have affirmed that serapis was a name for the sun, because his image so often had a halo of light about its head. in his oration upon the sovereign sun, julian speaks of the deity in these words "one jove, one pluto, one sun is serapis" in hebrew, serapis is saraph, meaning "to blaze out" or "to blaze up" for this reason the jews designated one of their hierarchies of spiritual beings, seraphim. the most common theory, however, regarding the origin of the name serapis is that which traces its derivation from the compound osiris-apis. at one time the egyptians believed that the dead were absorbed into the nature of osiris, the god of the dead. while marked similarity exists between osiris- apis and serapis, the theory

pect. the dionysiac architects constituted an ancient secret society, in principles and doctrines much like the modern freemasonic order. they were an organization of builders bound together by their secret knowledge of the relationship between the earthly and the divine sciences of architectonics. they were supposedly employed by king solomon in the building of his temple, although they were not jews, nor did they worship the god of the jews, being followers of bacchus and dionysos. the dionysiac architects erected many of the great monuments of antiquity. they possessed a secret language and a system of marking their stones. they had annual convocations and sacred feasts. the exact nature of their doctrines is unknown. it is believed that chiram abiff was an initiate of this society. nex

of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt, phoenicia, and biblos. the name adonis, or adoni, means "lord" and was a designation applied to the sun and later borrowed by the jews as the exoteric name of their god. smyrna, mother of adonis, was turned into a tree by the gods and after a time the bark burst open and the infant savior issued forth. according to one account, he was liberated by a wild boar which split the wood of the maternal tree with its tusks. adonis was born at midnight of the 24th of december, and through his unhappy death a mystery rite was establis

to him. the sabazian mysteries were performed at night, and the ritual included the drawing of a live snake across the breast of the candidate. clement of alexandria writes "the token of the sabazian mysteries to the initiated is 'the deity gliding over the breast" a golden serpent was the symbol of sabazius because this deity represented the annual renovation of the world by the solar power. the jews borrowed the name sabaoth from these mysteries and adopted it as one of the appellations of their supreme god. during the time the sabazian mysteries were celebrated in rome, the cult gained many votaries and later influenced the symbolism of christianity. the cabiric mysteries of samothrace were renowned among the ancients, being next to the eleusinian in public esteem. herodotus declares th

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

le in cumberland. at bewcastle or fanum cocidi the temple of cocidius there was both a fort and a temple. the strong roman military presence soon became a part of the local mix and cocidius quickly became associated with mars& also silvanus the son of mars) as mars cocidius who was widely worshiped by the civil and military population alike. the roma n military had a tradition (for the most part, jews and druids aside) of respecting the genius loci (local gods, since like all soldiers they needed as much luck as they could get. so they took on the local cult but gave it a roman gloss. my private worship has for some years been reserved for the roman/etruscan trinity of laran (mars, turan (venus) and lupercus (faunus sometimes called silvanus. this came about as the result of a strange chai

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

wise king had caused to be built. this testament was in ancient time translated from the hebrew into the latin language by rabbi abognazar, who transported it with him into the town of arles in provence, where by a notable piece of good fortune the ancient hebrew clavicle, that is to say, this precious translation of it, fell into the hands of the archbishop of arles, after the destruction of the jews in that city; who, from the latin, translated it into the vulgar tongue, in the same terms which here follow, without having either changed or augmented the original translation from the hebrew. the key of solomon page 12 chapter i concerning the divine love which precedes the acquisition of this knowledge solomon, the son of david, king of israel, hath said that the beginning of our key is t

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ations after abraham, jehovah (i am that i am) emerged as the god of mosesand the children of israel when they returned to canaan from egypt. the book of exodus furtherexplains how god told moses that he was the very same god who spoke to abraham, except that abra-ham had called him el shaddai (el of the mountain) because he did not know the divine name of jeho-vah (exodus 6:3. the jehovah of the jews (el elyon of the canaanites) was, therefore, synonymouswith enlil of the annunaki, son of the great anu (p. 64)sumaire (sumerian)an old irish word meaning serpent or dragon.adamthe definition applied to both the male and the female (see p. 74)adam born from claythis comes from a mistranslation of the word tit, which meant potters clay, or in hebrew meant mud.it actually was a mistranslation o

hem into seventy years of captivity by kingnebuchadnezzar ii and his five babylonian successors down to king balshazzer (545 539 b.c (p.118)babylons declineas the centuries progressed, babylon fell to various other invadersthe written legacy of theannunaki was, henceforth, confined to an underworld darkness, and all the tablets of sumerian andakkadian record that had been available to the hostage jews of the sixth century b.c, were destined tobe forgotten beneath the wasteland (p. 119)appendix b: book abstracts218atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation gardner continuesand so it has been for the better part of 2,000 years that the old testament was the sole record of themesopotamian patriarchal era. there was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fictionit wastaken on bo

an empire into roman catholicism.could it be that these personages were more that human? is the time here at last, when real light can bethrown onto this kind of deification, which has perplexed the common historians for centuries?the term saviourupon mounting the throne of egypt ptolemy assumed the surname of soter, or saviour (p. 14)all the ptolemies took this title.macabees revoltcaused by the jews being forced by antiochus iv to worship him as a god descended from jupiter.emperor demetriushe planted an army of wives, concubines, slaves, and catamites in the parthenon, which he so pollutedwith his debaucheries that it appeared to be kept comparatively clean when he indulged himself onlywith such abandoned creatures as lamia, demo, and antieyra. he bestowed upon his principal wifethe sac

d be reared or brought up. thus, every boy born within the roman pale was devoted todestruction, and a frightful slaughter of innocents would have ensued, had not those who expected chil-dren, removed the tablets of the law from the walls of the aerarium; and thus defeated the atrocious act.(p. 47)the expulsionsthe church of augustus tolerated no rivalry and permitted no heresiesthe egyptians and jews in thecity of rome were ordered to renounce their impious worship or leave italy at short notice. four thou-sand of them were transported.the chaldean astrologers, and afterwards all astrologers, magi, andworshippers of strange gods, were banished out of italy (p. 53)claudius and caligulaclaudius and caligula also insisted on being worshipped as actual gods.the strange separatism of the emper

the main person responsible for its misinter-pretation was constantine the great, who had definite motives for transferring the arena of jewish his-tory and that of christ to another region altogether. he used christianity as a valuable political asset,selected the east as his empire, and with the aid of eusebius, jerome and others, invented the presentpalestineif this be correct the present day jews, who make a historical claim to palestine are utterlywide of the mark (foreword)platos atlantisplatos famous atlantis, as a matter of fact, knocks conventional geography, and all the history or tradi-tions attached to it, sky-high. ignatius donnelly, in his work atlantis, said truly that the history ofatlantis is the key to greek mythology, as is, indeed, the case (foreword)the word atlantist

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

the waters. the canarian people of ecuador, the inuit people of alaska (eskimo, and the luiseno tribe of southern california tell tales of a small remnant of humanity surviving a great flood by taking refuge on mountaintops. the chickasaw people of america s dakota region say that a great flood destroyed all of humanity, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. and as for the jews and muslim s, they pretty much echo the bible s version of events. and of coarse you have the aforementioned noah, whose family survived a massive flood in a boat with 2 of every animal, released birds to indicate the presence of dry land, and landed on a mountain. did humanity have a collective bad dream? did a deluge of biblical proportions (forgive me) leave an imprint so deep that none we

him, for the traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden taught humanity much magic, and did not have the support of the most high god. our humble civilizer, on the other hand, spoke of morals and the sciences while never teaching magic, and he also had the support of the most high god. jehovah, jove, or god, is the righteous brother and ruler whose names are also many. to the jews, he was yahweh. to the christians he is jehovah. in persia he was known as ahura mazda, the bother of the evil ahriman. in egypt, he was ra/osiris. the greek myths call this entity zeus, and in rome he went by the name jupiter. this being, and his son, is commonly associated with the sun. here an important distinction must be made, because many have noticed a correlation between the sun, and

abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. in this verse we read that the locusts, which appears to be a reference to an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this angel has names in the mythologies of the neighboring peoples; the jews called this angel abaddon, and the greeks called this angel apollyon. but apollyon is what the ancient greeks called apollo, a sun god of greek mythology. what the bible has done is verified (at least in the eyes of christians and muslims) the actual existence of a god from the greek pantheon. is it likely that apollo is the only greek god that actually exists? probably not. what s more likel

d black. whereas a white magician may choose white. in magic, the color white is associated with purity, god, spirit, the guardian angel, and goodness; the color red is associated with life-force, blood, and violence, and the color black is related to evil, chaos, the guardian demon, and the unknown. satanists follow what is called the left hand path, whereas white magicians, christians, muslims, jews, hindus, and buddhists follow the right hand path. the left hand path is a belief structure that does not regard any moral issues; it is the negation of morality. in the eyes of the left hand pather, what they do is not evil, because there is no evil. this does not mean, however, that those of the lhp do not believe in the existence of god; by percentage you will find more believers of god am

ers are always congregating in their astral bodies, there are 4 major meetings a year, and these meeting are called the sabbats. the celestial sabbat is a gathering of astral beings in a place called, and associated with, the sphere of saturn. it s also worth noting that shabbathai is saturn in hebrew; it is likely that the words sabbat and sabbath derive from the hebrew word shabbathai. further, jews and seventh-day adventists consider saturday, the day associated with saturn, to be the true day of sabbath, as opposed to most christians who worship on sunday. in truth, it is sunday, and the sun in general, which is more closely associated with jesus and goodness; whereas saturn is mostly related to satan, death, and evil. the infernal sabbat is a gathering that happens here on earth, but

MORALS AND DOGMA

rd what these lights, the greater and lesser, are said to be, and how they are spoken of by our brethren of the york rite. the holy bible, square, and compasses, are not only styled the great lights in masonry, but they are also technically called the furniture of the lodge; and, as you have seen, it is held that there is no lodge without them. this has sometimes been made a pretext for excluding jews from our lodges, because they cannot regard the new testament as a holy book. the bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a christian lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the christian religion. the hebrew pentateuch in a hebrew lodge, and the koran in a mohammedan one, belong on the altar; and one of these, and the square and compass, properly understood, are the great lig

s of the initiates, is light condensed. they style the sacred numbers of the kabalah "golden numbers" and the moral teachings of pythagoras his "golden verses" for the same reason, a mysterious book of apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "the golden ass" the pagans accused the christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the samaritan jews, who, figuring the data of the kabalah in regard to the divinity by egyptian symbols, also represented the intelligence by the figure of the magical star adored under the name of _remphan, science under the emblem of anubis, whose name they changed to _nibbas, and the vulgar faith or credulity under the figure of _thartac, a god represented with a book, a cloak, and the head of an ass. accord

hat he would not wish to receive from them. he will deny himself for the sake of his brother near at hand. his _desire_ attracts in the line of his _duty, both being in conjunction. not in vain does the poor or the oppressed look up to him. you find such men in all christian sects, protestant and catholic, in all the great religious parties of the civilized world, among buddhists, mahometans, and jews. they are kind fathers, generous citizens, unimpeachable in their business, beautiful in their daily lives. you see their masonry in their work and in their play. it appears in all the forms of their activity, individual, domestic, social, ecclesiastical, or political. true masonry within must be morality without. it must become _eminent_ morality, which is philanthropy. the true mason loves

reat and good man possesses some portion of god's truth, which he must proclaim to the world, and which must bear fruit in his own bosom. in a true and simple sense, he believes all the pure, wise, and intellectual to be inspired, and to be so for the instruction, advancement, and elevation of mankind. that kind of inspiration, like god's omnipresence, is not limited to the few writers claimed by jews, christians, or moslems, but is co-extensive with the race. it is the consequence of a faithful use of our faculties. each man is its subject, god is its source, and truth its only test. it differs in degrees, as the intellectual endowments, the moral wealth of the soul, and the degree of cultivation of those endowments and faculties differ. it is limited to no sect, age, or nation. it is wid

ers that had formerly kept the nations apart, were thrown down; and while the people of the west readily connected their faith with those of the east, those of the orient hastened to learn the traditions of rome and the legends of athens. while the philosophers of greece, all (except the disciples of epicurus) more or less platonists, seized eagerly upon the beliefs and doctrines of the east--the jews and egyptians, before then the most exclusive of all peoples, yielded to that eclecticism which prevailed among their masters, the greeks and romans. under the same influences of toleration, even those who embraced christianity, mingled together the old and the new, christianity and philosophy, the apostolic teachings and the traditions of mythology. the man of intellect, devotee of one syste

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

escent moon was his symbol. this conception is totally hostile to ours. to us, the moon is a feminine symbol. further, our hermit of the tarot is solar, not lunar' sin' is essentially homosexual. his word is restriction because his nature is twisted. perhaps because of hebrew enslavement by the babylonians, jehovah acquired several of the markedly homosexual characteristics of sin. the god of the jews is a homosexual's concept of maleness: harsh, violent, revengeful, merciless. there are no equilibrating qualities. it is geburah at its worst. it must come as a surprise to those who do not know their qabalah that this image of the male is incomplete. as a matter of fact, geburah is female. it is chesed mercy which is male. the qualities that homosexuals attribute to masculinity are nothing

. 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 kept none of the mosaic regulations. ind

s, and the grail, the cup in the hand of our lady babalon, is its symbol. readers are referred to liber lxv, chapter i, vv. 3, 18, 63; chapter ii, vv. 4-6, 26, 28-29, 43; chapter iii, vv. 17-20, 4 7-48, 61, 65; chapter iv, vv. 47,51, 60; chapter v, vv. 1, 15-18, 22-24, 59-64. see also liber vii, chapter vii, vv. 41-52; liber i, and liber 156. 46. nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. the jews call it ain, 61, not. they are aware of the key, but their awareness is unbalanced. they arrive to it only through mysticism or qabalistic metaphysics, and their spiritual experience is insufficient. it leads them to consider themselves the "chosen people, with the result that hebrew initiates often behave like spoiled childre

ame so-called occultists) as the originators of the nazi party. the fact that the nazis destroyed all copies of the book of the law in germany, and seized all translations of a. c.'s works, and put the outer head of the 0. t. 0 (who, incidentally, was married to a jewess) in a concentration camp is not mentioned. equally, these people seem not to realize that the nazis treated them exactly as the jews treated the "heathen" in the old testament. hitler was a personification of all of jehovah's attributes only, this time, turned against "his people .even the concept of the superiority of the aryan race' and the inferiority of the 'semites' mirrors the ineffable presumption of the people elect and its attitude towards its fellowmen. all karma has to be paid, and the jews paid theirs. as compe

n, through two thousand years of persecution they had to sharpen their wits until today they compose one of the most intelligent and efficient cultural groups on the surface of the planet. if the nazis had been half as intelligent, they would have married jewish women and sterilized only the men. germany might have won the war, then. but the nazis were stupid. they were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most brutish, most cruel, most fanatic cultural records extant. its religious fables are either naive or fatuous. it has neither the loftiness of the pyramid texts nor the human compassion of the sumerian. ft has neither the sub

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

delightful shade and coolness afforded by tall leafy trees is peculiarly grateful in hot countries. indeed so general did this custom of building temples in groves become, that all places devoted to sacred purposes, even where no trees existed, were called groves. that this practice must be of very remote antiquity is proved by the biblical injunction, having for its object the separation of the jews from all idolatrous practices "thou shalt not plant thee a grove of trees near unto the altar of the lord thy god" page 221 statues. the greeks worshipped their gods without any visible representations of them until the time of cecrops. the most ancient of these representations consisted of square blocks of stone, upon which the name of the deity intended to be represented was engraved. the f

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

as were the obligation to mutual assistance and the initiatory oaths.27 trade secrets were gradually passed on to each grade in accordance with a legal custom (dustur, which was transmitted orally. the kinship of these professional brotherhoods with the christianized collegia of the late roman empire is obvious. among their members could be found not only arabs but converts mainly christians and jews. in lands that had become muslim it seemed that there was some sort of transformation taking place in the various models of latin and byzantine institutions that had survived. the karmati movement, which is the source of these muslim institutions, stands out both religiously and philosophically in its introduction to islam of basic foreign assumptions primarily those that were hellenic, neopl

he crusaders they were the ones, writes gerard de nerval in les illumines, who tried to realize the broadest alliance between eastern ideas and those of roman christianity. the name the "militia of christ and the temple of solomon" that the templars assumed immediately after the creation of their order was evocative not only to christians. while it recalled the holy sepulcher, it also recalled to jews and muslims the temple of solomon (wisdom, which was furthermore reproduced on the seal of the grand master. a sacred sanctuary, it spoke simultaneously to the sons of shem, cham, and japhet.34 so the reason for the condemnation of the templars is not to be sought in a heretical deviation. in fact they were never condemned by the pope who was satisfied with simply dissolving the order but by

e madeleine church on the rue de la juiverie, in the cite. this street, which was originally part of the censive and justice district of the saint eloi priory and the order of saint eloi, had passed into templar possession following the agreement reached by the two orders in 1175. as for the church, it was a former synagogue that had been converted in 1183, when philip augustus had driven out the jews. it was in this church where the brotherhood of water merchants would meet, followed by the great brotherhood of the bourgeois of paris around 1205. abbe lebeuf indicates that the church was not a dependency of any secular or regular body.10 such a franchise, irreconcilable with feudal law, could have been conferred only by the lord high justice of the templars. the great brotherhood had its

n its symbolism. in his opinion, the liberal deism of 1723 was assumed as a ploy until anglican protestantism should emerge triumphant and that this is 250 from the art of building to the art of thinking proved by later editions of the book of constitutions in which theism took the place of deism. the best argument j. r. clarke provided to support his contention that deism became the rule is that jews were accepted into freemasonry shortly after 1723. first mention of this is in the daily post, september 22, 1732, and fog's journal, october 7, 1732, which announced the admission of daniel delvalle.5 how could jews who remained orthodox utilize the christian symbolism of traditional freemasonry? and why would the lodges have admitted them if they had renounced freemasonry's principles? in h

ws who remained orthodox utilize the christian symbolism of traditional freemasonry? and why would the lodges have admitted them if they had renounced freemasonry's principles? in his missive anderson's freemasonry not deistic,6 e. ward responded by showing, with the support of precise facts, that english freemasonry had actually retained christian objectives following 1723. thus the admission of jews into freemasonry could amount to only isolated instances corresponding to particular circumstance, much like the admission of several turks into the lodges of smyrna and aleppo in 1738. ward also thought it wise in regard to the dispositions of pastor anderson's mind to quote two sermons, one of which was published in the very year of 1723 "refutation of the errors of the socinianus, pythagor

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

judaism" being espoused today. there is not even an ounce of truth or g-dliness in their "religion. the entire "religion" only revolves around their own personal "comfort levels" and desires, and has nothing at all to do with g-d. nevertheless, though their "religion" has nothing at all to do with true judaism as defined by g-d in his torah, they still feel an inner need to identify themselves as jews. why is this so? it is only because of their inner essential nature, that tiny spark of a spark of the divine soul which remains within them. the five levels of the divine soul 1) the first level, the nefesh of the divine soul, is the natural pull and love for the commandments of g-d, and the natural disdain for evil and any breach of the negative commandments. this level of the divine soul i

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

d not have been able to arise [out of its exile. nebuchadnezzar had dreamt that he saw a statue whose head was gold, whose chest and arms were silver, whose stomach and thighs were copper, whose legs were iron, and whose feet were iron and clay. daniel told him that the components of this statue were the kingdom of babylonia (the gold head) and the empires that would succeed it in ruling over the jews. by making a similar statue entirely of gold, nebuchadnezzar sought to subvert the prophecy and perpetuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shadrach, meisach, and abednego) were daniel fs jewish companions, who refused to bow down to this statue. nebuchadnezzar punished them by having them thrown into a fiery furnace, but they emerged un

der that they have what they need to carry out his purpose. only a residual flow of beneficence reaches the forces of evil.enough to keep them in existence so that they can fulfill their role in the scheme of things. evil also does not receive its life-force directly from g-d; rather, each nation receives its divine flow via its celestial, spiritual archetypal angel (or gprince h. this is why non-jews are allowed to believe in a certain degree of idolatry, i.e, that g-d shares or distributes his power to other celestial beings. however, when those who should be acting righteously sin, they forfeit their preeminence and increase the power of evil, allowing it to receive the divine flow first. the forces of good then have to receive their beneficence via the forces of evil. this is the condi

, into the water, so that they could be rectified in the water. although the earthly pharaoh fs intentions were evil, he was unwittingly trying to rectify the souls that had become reincarnated in the generation of the exodus by immersing them in water, which is a metaphor for the torah. but they were not fully rectified until they came to marah, where they were all fully rectified. at marah, the jews received their first commandments, as a sort of transitional law between the universal laws of the noahides and the 613 commandments of the torah. moses also rectified the hei of abel fs name [hevel, and thus then everything was rectified. when moses received the full torah and transmitted it to the jewish people, all the souls that made up adam fs original soul were finally rectified .transl

ntion from the rest of the flock.]12 now, in the parable, the wolf would certainly be satisfied with one sheep, for he has no desire to eat the whole flock! but in the analogous case, samel was accusing the entire jewish people, saying gthese are idol-worshippers and those are idol-worshippers! h how, then, would he be satisfied just to receive [permission to inflict suffering upon] job? when the jews were crossing the split sea on their way out of egypt, at a certain point they had not reached the other side and the egyptians had entered the sea in their pursuit. at that point, we are told, the heavenly accuser protested to g-d, saying, gboth these and those are idol-worshippers. why are you planning to save these and drown those? h g-d thereupon gthrew satan a bone, h i.e, suggested that

o did balaam [personify da fat] on the side of evil, inasmuch as he personified strict judgment. bela (beit-lamed-ayin) and balaam (beit-lamed-ayin-mem) are spelled exactly the same, except for the final mem at the end of balaam. thus, they are considered to be the same person, or at least personifications of the same spiritual archetype. balaam was the gentile prophet hired by balak to curse the jews on the eve of their entry into the land of israel. he was granted prophecy.even though he misused this gift and was evil.so that the non-jews could not claim that had they, too, had a prophet like moses amongst their ranks, they would have accepted the torah and obeyed g-d fs word. moses personified the sefirah of da fat, subjective knowledge of g-d, and imparted this quality to the jewish pe

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er, 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 nitrum raris invenitum" translated

remony, the hegemon is air, spirit, and the principal officer. she reconciles from east to west, and from north to south, and in a circular formulae 'note: mathers' instinct was far more true than the scholars of his era. in 3 enoch (the hebrew enoch, we have that matrix where gnostic cosomo ony fused with jewish enochian and throne and chariot m sticism. here metatron serve2 the great god of the jews, as "little i.a.o."d id the nost tic transcendant e i ta no.th er title of metatron (whose secret name was michael, was johoel, or yah-god, also called "little jaho. for this see jewish gnosticism, merkabah mysticism and talmudic tradition by gershom g. scholem, as well as lan age and gnosis by j. michael la far e and es ecially the eye-opening the lion becomes man, g e nostic leonfomurphic c

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the adept is depicted with a large hat, which, if turned down, would conceal his entire head. one hand is raised towards heaven, which he seems to command with his wand, while the other is placed upon his breast; before him are the chief symbols or instruments of science, and he has others hidden in a juggler's wallet. his body and arms form the letter aleph, the first of that alphabet which the jews borrowed from the egyptians: to this symbol we shall have occasion to recur later on. the magus is truly that which the hebrew kabalists term microprosopus otherwise, the creator of the little world. the first of all magical sciences being the knowledge of one's self, so is one's own creation first of all works of science; it comprehends the others and is the beginning of the great work. the

the books of hoene wronski. the secret virtue of the gospels is therefore contained in three words, and these three words have established three dogmas and three hierarchies. all science reposes upon three principles, as the syllogism upon three terms. there are also three distinct classes, or three original and natural ranks, among men, who are called to advance from the lower to the higher. the jews term these three series or degrees in the progress of spirits, assiah, yetzirah and briah. the gnostics, who were christian kabalists, called them hyle, psyche and gnosis; by the jews the supreme circle was named atziluth, and by the gnostics pleroma. in the tetragram, the triad, taken at the beginning of the word, expresses the divine copulation; taken at the end, it expressed the female and

of the first and final principle, the alliance between the triad and the tetrad in a word composed of four letters, which form seven by means of a triple and double repetition this word is pronounced ararita. the virtue of the septenary is absolute in magic, for this number is decisive in all things: hence all religions have consecrated it in their rites. the seventh year was a jubilee among the jews; the seventh day is set apart for rest and prayer; there are seven sacraments, etc. the seven colours of the prism and the seven musical notes correspond also to the seven planets of the ancients, that is, to the seven chords of the human lyre. the spiritual heaven has never changed, and astrology has been more invariable than astronomy. the seven planets are, in fact, the hieroglyphic symbol

om physical to metaphysical equilibrium, and maintained that in god, that is, in the first living and active cause, there must be recognized two properties which are necessary one to another stability and motion, necessity and liberty, rational order and volitional autonomy, justice and love, whence also severity and mercy. and these two attributes were personified, so to speak, by the kabalistic jews under the names of geburah and chesed. above geburah and chesed abides the supreme crown, the equilibrating power, principle of the world or equilibrated kingdom, which we find mentioned under the name of malkuth in the occult and kabalistic versicle of the paternoster to which we have already referred. but geburah and chesed, maintained in equilibrium by the crown above and the kingdom below

hanged man is, consequently, the adept, bound by his engagements and spiritualized, that is, having his feet turned towards heaven. he is also the antique prometheus, expiating by everlasting torture the penalty of his glori60 the doctrine of transcendental magic ous theft. vulgarly, he is the traitor judas, and his punishment is a menace to betrayers of the great arcanum. finally, for kabalistic jews, the hanged man, who corresponds to their twelfth dogma, that of the promised messiah, is a protestation against the saviour acknowledged by christians, and they seem to say unto him still: how canst thou save others, since thou couldst not save thyself? in the sepher-toldos-jeshu, an anti-christian rabbinical compilation, there occurs a singular parable. jeshu, says the rabbinical author of

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f form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abstraction, and the cultus of the pantheons, by rehabilitating socrates, prepared altars for that unity of god, of which israel had been the mysterious preserver. but the synagogue denied its messiah, and the hebrew letters were effaced, at least for the blinded eyes of the jews. the roman persecutors dishonoured hellenism, and it could not be restored by the false moderation of the philosopher julian, surnamed perhaps unjustly the apostate, since his christianity was never sincere. the ignorance of the middle ages followed, opposing saints and virgins to gods, goddesses and nymphs; the deep sense of the hellenic mysteries was less understood than ever; greece hersel

f the holy bishop, and as bishops in those days took christianity in earnest, and were consequently poor, spiridion, who fasted religiously, had in his house only some salted bacon, which had been made ready for easter. the stranger was overcome with fatigue and famished with hunger; spiridion offered him the meat, and himself shared the meal of charity, thus transforming the very flesh which the jews regard as of all most impure into a feast of penitence, transcending the material law by the spirit of the law itself, and proving himself a true and intelligent disciple of the man- god, who hath established his elect as the monarchs of nature in the three worlds. 81 chapter xv the sabbath of the sorcerers we recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the tarot by a monst

all their virtue when he who wears them enters a house of prostitution or commits an adultery. the sabbath of orgies must not therefore be considered as that of the veritable adepts. with regard to the term sabbath, some have traced it to the name of sabasius, and other etymologies have been imagined. the most simple, in our opinion, connects it with the jewish sabbath, for it is certain that the jews, most faithful depositaries of the secrets of the kabalah, were almost invariably the great masters in magic during the middle ages. the sabbath was therefore the sunday of kabalists, the day of their religious festivals, or rather the night of their regular assembly. this feast, surrounded with mysteries, had vulgar fright for its safeguard and escaped persecution by terror. as to the diabol

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r between worlds(pages 50-59) among men, or recommended of god. answer. every unusual art or science is not sinful or unlawful unless its original or principal design does make it so; nor was god always pleased to discover [reveal] even every necessary truth at once, yet when such truth and science were permitted, recommended or suggested [then] they were truly lawful. it was long time before the jews thought it lawful to war on the lord's day, and the religious jews themselves were long without a distinct knowledge of the son of god and of the holy ghost; yet because of the noble design of the discovery it ought not to be rejected when further revived. worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_50.htm (10 of 10

ir mysteries [which] was believed to have magical force from the gods, to do the deed [required of it. this strong and vigorous force, but secretly conveyed, was restrained to those very words and points as delivered by tradition, without any voluntary alteration, and they [the magicians] reckoned their virtue evaporated and was lost by being poured out and translated into any other language. the jews also are very shy in translating any of the common forms of blessing, or the like, prescribed in the law by mystical ways. both the good spirit and image of jesus' holy mind and life, and also the malice of the evil spirit against all good, are conveyed to men according to their different endeavours after [such things. it is not the natural influence that the pronunciation of such words can h

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ingredients within the incense. meaning may also be supplied by the words used during the censing of the chambre. without some meaning, incense is not symbol, but only smell. closely related to the sense of smell is the sense of taste, and it's fairly easy to see that certain tastes can have meaning as well. during passover seder, a ritual meal of thanksgiving and freedom (celebrating the exodus, jews will dip greens into salt water and eat the salty greens, to remind them of tears shed by the jews in bondage. they will eat bitter herbs to remind them of the bitterness of slavery. likewise, there can be kinesthetic symbols as well. we feel different when we hold a sword in ritual as opposed to when we hold a dagger. we feel different when we are standing up than we feel when we are sitting

pistis-sophia is itself a "barbarous" formation, not properly paralleled in greek. there is some evidence that the gnostic "sophia (philosophy) was also named by other gnostics "pistis (faith: it is only in coptic that we find the names run together. similarly we have "zorokothora-meljisedek" run together; melchisedec whose genealogy is not given in the bible, is identified, not with shem as the jews sometimes do, but with the heathen zoroaster, and the names are fantastically coupled. we may add that the functions assigned to zorokothora-meljisedek have nothing to so with those of the biblical melchisedec or the persian zoroaster! only the mere names were borrowed by the gnostic. 2. the mystery of the first mystery "but he who shall have received the complete mystery of the first mystery

projected outside. on the other hand the characteristic now seems to be in the world outside, most often in other people. most people have a strong resistance against recognizing this distorted selfimage. resistance has in fact originally been one of the central reasons for projection. the most significant examples of the projection of the shadow wilber finds from the witch hunts, the raid of the jews by the nazis, and the ku klux klan. he also reminds of the fear that prevailed during the cold war that 'there is a communist under every bed'(3) i think that projecting the genetic memory of the core family/group into a larger framework, plus a many-sided propaganda, make for so called nationalistic feelings. in all societies there is much more peaceful activity than military actions. social

tian inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for satan is come unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he have eternity to rule. according to christian doctrine, perhaps satan has this authority because man was given the ability to reason by jehovah? revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. this is one of my favorites, for here we find that christian allegations refute their own testimony. if one is known as rich, how and why do christians acknowledge the individual as poor, unless their motive is un-christian, and if such motive be non-christian, be such motive satanic? revelation 2:24 but unto you i say, and unto the rest of thyati

mes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. the biblical authority of satanic churches and temples: revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. christians should rally to our cause. their own ultimate prayers can never become realized until the satanic prophecies are fulfilled. satan has his doctrine: 1 timothy 4:1 now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the later times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of satan. here is the biblical author

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tter not mention the monopolies commission around us, not even in fun" her range was astonishing; she could do any age, anywhere in the world, any point on the vocal register, angelic juliet to fiendish mae west "we should get married sometime, when you're free" mimi once suggested to him "you and me, we could be the united nations "you're jewish" he pointed out "i was brought up to have views on jews "so i'm jewish" she shrugged "you're the one who's circumcised. nobody's perfect" mimi was tiny with tight dark curls and looked like a michelin poster. in bombay, zeenat vakil stretched and yawned and drove other women from his thoughts "too much" she laughed at him "they pay you to imitate them, as long as they don't have to look at you. your voice becomes famous but they hide your face. go

fter pamela chamcha threw him out, jumpy joshi went over to mr. sufyan's shaandaar caf in brickhall high street and sat there trying to decide if he was a fool. it was early in the day, so the place was almost empty, apart from a fat lady buying a box of pista barfi and jalebis, a couple of bachelor garment workers drinking chaloo chai and an elderly polish woman from the old days when it was the jews who ran the sweatshops round here, who sat all day in a corner with two vegetable samosas, one pun and a glass of milk, announcing to everyone who came in that she was only there because "it was next best to kosher and today you must do the best you can. jumpy sat down with his coffee beneath the lurid painting of a bare-breasted myth-woman with several heads and wisps of clouds obscuring her

aged the pair of them, valance and simba, as one another's antitheses. it seemed that the protests had succeeded: valance was "de--politicizing" the show, by firing chamcha and putting a huge blond teuton with pectorals and a quiff inside the prosthetic make-up and computergenerated imagery. a latex-and-quantel schwarzenegger, a synthetic, hip-talking version of rutger hauer in _blade runner. the jews were out, too: instead of mimi, the new show would have a voluptuous shiksa doll "i sent word to dr. simba: stick that up your fucking pee aitch dee. no reply has been received. he'll have to work harder than that if he's going to take over _this_ little country. i" hal valance announced "love this fucking country. that's why i'm going to sell it to the whole goddamn world, japan, america, fu

sed for securing legal documents, made festive streamers in the air. anahita sufyan, unable any more to resist the demonic proddings of her jealousy, had told hind about mishal's relations with the up--and--coming lawyer-politico, and after that there had been no holding hind, all the years of her humiliation had come pouring out of her, it wasn't enough that she was stuck in this country full of jews and strangers who lumped her in with the negroes, it wasn't enough that her husband was a weakling who performed the haj but couldn't be bothered with godliness in his own home, but this had to happen to her also; she went at mishal with a kitchen knife and her daughter responded by "unleashing a painful series of kicks and jabs, self--defence only, otherwise it would have been matricide for

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ls, music, dancing and drama. archdemon corresponding to geburah (mathers, waite) or to netzach (crowley. 32nd spirit of the goetia, a king commanding 72 legions. gives the ring of virtues, teaches arithmatic, astronomy, geometry, handicrafts. answers demands fully and truthfully, makes one invincible, finds and guards hidden treasures. originally an old iranian spirit inherited by the post exile jews (tobias 3: 8, 17. in some ways reminiscent of the assyrian demon pazuzu. astaroth, ashtaroth (persian ashtoreth, the biblical place name ashtoreth-karnaim means ashtoreth of the twin horns. goetia, 29th spirit) in the goetia, a duke commanding 40 legions. who manifests as a beautiful or foul angel carrying a viper in his hand whilst riding backwards on a dragon. tells fortunes, teaches libera

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not belong to the catholic church. in the same way, many splinter groups of the christian faith, such as the evangelical or revivalist churches, believe that the catholics are heathens who worship graven images (christ is depicted in the image that is most psychologically akin to the individual worshipping him, and yet the chrisitans criticize "heathens" for the worship of graven images) and the jews have always been given the devil's name. even though the god in all of these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible, and to top it all, religionists actually pray for one another! they have scorn for the brothers of the right-hand path because their religions carry different labels, and somehow this animosity must be released. what better w

tian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. the pig was despised by the jews and the egyptians. it symbolized the gods frey, osiris, adonis, persephone, attis, and demeter, and was sacrificed to osiris and the moon. but, in time, it became degraded into a devil. the phoenicians worhipped a fly god, baal, from which comes the devil, beelzebub. both baal and beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or scarabaeus of the egyptians which appeared to resurrect itself, muc

phone, attis, and demeter, and was sacrificed to osiris and the moon. but, in time, it became degraded into a devil. the phoenicians worhipped a fly god, baal, from which comes the devil, beelzebub. both baal and beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or scarabaeus of the egyptians which appeared to resurrect itself, much as the mythical bird, the phoenix, rose from its own ashes. the ancient jews believed, through their contact with the persians, that the two great forces in the world were ahura-mazda, the god of fire, light, life, and goodness; and ahriman, the serpent, the god of darkness, destruction, death, and evil. these, and countless other examples, not only depict man's devils as animals, but also show his need to sacrifice the original animal gods and demote them to his devi

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n known 219 the satanic rituals introduction the rituals contained herein represent a degree of candor not usually found in a magical curriculum. they all have one thing in common-homage to the elements truly representative of the other side. the devil and his works have long assumed many forms. until recently, to catholics, protestants were devils. to protestants, catholics were devils. to both, jews were devils. to the oriental, the westerner was a devil. to the american setder of the old west, the red man was a devil. man's ugly habit of elevating himself by defaming others is an unfortunate phenomenon, yet apparently necessary to his emotional well-being. though these precepts are diminishing in power, to virtually everyone some group represents evil incarnate. yet if a human being eve

i bestow them upon every worthy descendant of adam. thus the government of the world, the transition of generations, and the changes of their directors are determined by me from the beginning (pause, gong is struck) iv i will not give my rights to other gods. i have allowed the creation of four substances, four times, and four corners, because they are necessary things for creatures. the books of jews, christians, and moslems, as of those who are without, accept in a sense, so far as they agree with, and conform to, my statutes. whatsoever is contrary to these they have altered; do not accept it. three things are against me, and i hate three things. but those who keep my secrets shall receive the fulfillment of my promises. it is my desire tht all my followers shall unite in a bond of unit

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ll evidence of his reign is wiped out after his death. tenth century bce the jewish temple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalization of the rig veda, one of hinduism s most sacred texts. 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroys the jewish temple in jerusalem and drives the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. 563 bce siddhartha gautama, who will become the buddha, is born in present-day nepal. c. 551 479 bce life span of the scholar kongzi, who is known in the west by his latinized name, confucius. xi c. 540 c. 470 bce life span of mahavira, considered the main founder of jainism. 539 bce mesopotamian religion ends when babylonia accepts cyrus of persia as king. 5

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 daoism. 224 651 during the sassanid dynasty, zoroastrianism spreads aggressively throughout the persian empire. 313 the roman emperor constantine converts to christianity. 380 the emperor theodosius i declares christianity

ided into two distinct branches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. 1095 1291 the duration of the crusades, a series of military campaigns in which european christians attempt to take control of the holy land from muslims. 1391 1474 life span of gedun drub, considered the first dalai lama in tibetan history. 1469 1538 life span of nanak dev ji, the founder of sikhism. 1492 jews are expelled from spain. 1517 the german augustinian monk martin luther launches the protestant reformation, which divides christianity into two main denominations, or branches: catholicism and protestantism. 1817 92 life span of mirza husayn ali nuri, later known as baha u lla h, who was the founder of the baha faith. 1844 the german philosopher karl marx makes his famous statement that reli

which shinto is made the official state religion. 1870 the british scientist thomas henry huxley coins the term agnosticism to describe his own skepticism (doubt) regarding the existence of god. 1893 the paper what is hinduism? by swami vivekananda, presented at the world parliament of religions in chicago, exposes many westerners to hinduism for the first time. 1933 45 some six million european jews are killed during the holocaust. 1948 the jewish nation of israel is established in palestine. 1972 the neo-pagan norse religion of asatru is officially recognized as a religion by the government of iceland. 1974 a number of wiccans gather in minneapolis, minnesota, where they draft a statement containing the principles of wiccan belief. world religions: almanac xiii timeline of events 1978 2

first temple of jerusalem. artha: prosperity and success in material affairs. asatru: a neo-pagan religion based on worship of the norse (scandanavian) gods. ascetic: a person who practices rigid self-denial, giving up all comforts and pleasures, as an act of religious devotion. jain monks and nuns are ascetics. asha: righteousness that derives from natural law. ashkenazic: term used to refer to jews of france, germany, and eastern europe. astrology: the study of the movement of the planets 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 t

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now offer is fundamentally that of the ancient hebrew codices translated into english, and collated with the latin versions of pistorius, postellus, and rittangelius, following the latter, rather than the former commentators. as to the authenticity of "the sepher yetzirah" students may refer to the bibliotheca magna rabbinica of bartoloccio de cellerio, rome, 1678-1692; to basnage, history of the jews, 1708; and to the doctrine and literature of the kabalah, by a. b. waite, 1902.the following copies of the "sepher yetzirah" in hebrew, i have also examined, but only in a superficial manner- 1. a version by saadiah, ab. ben david, and three others, mantua, 1562, 4to. 2. a version with the commentary of rabbi abraham f. dior, amsterdam, 1642, 4to. 3. a version with preface by m. ben j. chagiz

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time span from the initial manifestation of the creation to its dissolution, reshith (tysar, the first) to acharit( tyrxa, the last. the six thousand years of the small face universe (spanning approximately 20 billion light years) depend on the first six days described in torah b reshith. 29 the seventh above them is the seventh millennium of the small face universe, spent in the great sabbath by jews, christians, and muslims. 30 these twelve hours are the hours spent by the letters in atziluth alone i.e. witness states of alef worlds. 31 isaiah 2:17. 23 32 this serpent, or leviathan, is an allusion to the border of the tzimtzum (circular contraction, the totality of the chayot: n, s, e, w, up, down. this serpent is also called ananta in sanskrit, and astrid in roman mythology. 33 psalms 7

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" and the spirit within said "i am the demon called ephippas, that is in arabia" and i said to him "is this thy name" and he answered "yes; wheresoever i will, i alight and set fire and do to death" 122. and i said to him "by what angel art thou frustrated" and he answered "by the only-ruling god, that hath authority over me even to be heard. he that is to be born of a virgin and crucified by the jews on a cross. whom the angels and archangels worship. he doth frustrate me, and enfeeble me of my great strength, which has been given me by my father the devil" and i said to him "what canst thou do' and he answered''i am able to remove [1] mountains, to overthrow the oaths of kings. i wither trees and make their leaves to fall off" and i said to him "canst thou raise this stone, and lay it fo

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who made a connection with him. the separate concern of each individual gave way to a shared concern of all those who were prepared to acknowledge jesus as their lord. to understand how this could be so, we need to see how mysteriosophy had found its way into the national religion of israel. for it was out of judaism that christianity arose. 106 christianity as mystical fact the mysteries and the jews it need cause no astonishment that with christianity we should find grafted onto the stock of judaism those ideas from the mysteries that, as we have seen, were the common heritage of greek and of egyptian spiritual life. in the religions of the several peoples, conceptions of the spiritual assumed various forms. but at the heart of them all, when we go back to the more profound priestly wisd

doctrines and the deeper meaning of the books of moses, that they called plato a moses speaking the language of athens. 102 mysteriosophy was a universal phenomenon. what it drew from judaism was a form which it had to take in order to become an actual world-religion. judaism expected the coming of a messiah. no wonder that the figure of the uniquely initiated one could only be identified by the jews with their messiah. and this connection helps explain the shift from concern with individual initiation in the mysteries to a concern for the whole people. judaism had been from the beginning a national religion, through which the jewish people defined its identity. its yahweh was the people s god. the birth of his son the evidence of the gospels 107 must mean the redemption of the whole peop

s lazarus, came forth recall the cry with which the initiator in the priestly mysteries of the egyptians summoned back to everyday life those who had undergone initiation; they had died to the earthly world and become witnesses of eternal life; the events of initiation had transported them for a time from the world. by speaking them, jesus had revealed the secret of the mysteries. that is why the jews felt that they could not allow such an act to go unpunished, as we may now understand. no more could the greeks have permitted aeschylus to escape punishment if he had betrayed their mystery teachings. jesus had performed the initiation of lazarus before all the people standing by, in a deliberate act revealing the process, that, in the ancient priestly world of the mysteries, had been enacte

ent in the inner life of the mystery-adept. moses wrote, not just to recount historical occurrences, but to provide images of the course that will lead the soul to god. philo s conception renders everything a spiritual reality within a person s own being. the human experience is a subjective echo of god s cosmic experience. god s word, the logos, becomes a reality within the soul. god brought the jews out of egypt and led them to the promised land, subjecting them to trials and privations before giving 158 christianity as mystical fact them the land as their reward these were outward events. but one has to go through them as an inner experience, departing from the land of egypt (the perishable world, going through privations (the suppression of the sense-nature) until the promised land of

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ingredients within the incense. meaning may also be supplied by the words used during the censing of the chambre. without some meaning, incense is not symbol, but only smell. closely related to the sense of smell is the sense of taste, and it's fairly easy to see that certain tastes can have meaning as well. during passover seder, a ritual meal of thanksgiving and freedom (celebrating the exodus, jews will dip greens into salt water and eat the salty greens, to remind them of tears shed by the jews in bondage. they will eat bitter herbs to remind them of the bitterness of slavery. likewise, there can be kinesthetic symbols as well. we feel different when we hold a sword in ritual as opposed to when we hold a dagger. we feel different when we are standing up than we feel when we are sitting

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group as like so many cattle or sheep even as "useless eaters" they look down on the inferior goyim such is the distorted view of the jewish illuminati who derogatorily refer to gentiles as the goyim (cattle. the late dr. israel shahak, professor at hebrew university in israel, a man i respected greatly, was a constant critic of such a deviant, superiority attitude. shahak noted that many zionist jews are unashamed advocates of human slavery: the israelis have resuscitated a book in spanish by jews dating from the 14th century which has been adopted for use as a manual of religious instruction in israel's secondary schools. it explains why non-jews ought to be the slave of jews because jews are the elite of the human race. because of this they deserve to have slaves, and these slaves must

e unashamed advocates of human slavery: the israelis have resuscitated a book in spanish by jews dating from the 14th century which has been adopted for use as a manual of religious instruction in israel's secondary schools. it explains why non-jews ought to be the slave of jews because jews are the elite of the human race. because of this they deserve to have slaves, and these slaves must be non-jews.10 this outrageous and imperious attitude does not take those of us by surprise who have studied the jewish talmud, the rabbis' holiest book. according to the talmud, gentiles are not even to be considered humans "the goyim (gentiles) are not men, but beasts (baba mezia fol. 1146. it should be further noted that the encyclopedia britannica says "the talmud is still the authoritative and pract

s attitude does not take those of us by surprise who have studied the jewish talmud, the rabbis' holiest book. according to the talmud, gentiles are not even to be considered humans "the goyim (gentiles) are not men, but beasts (baba mezia fol. 1146. it should be further noted that the encyclopedia britannica says "the talmud is still the authoritative and practical guide of the great mass of the jews (from the 36 codex magica 9-volume german language translation of the babylonian talmud in the library of congress, washington, d.c) slaves and beasts slaves and beasts! that is what the zionists of israel consider those who aren't jewish. now we discover what the elitist, favored sons of the zionist illuminati think of you, me, and the masses. no wonder they kill without conscience through t

ver divulge masonic secrets. he goes on to demand that if he does divulge secrets, may all the sins of the dead person whose skull he is drinking from be heaped upon his, the candidate's, head.6 so we see that the mason's newfound "god" jahbuhlun (jah-baal-on, is a rigid taskmaster who does not look kindly on traitors and blabbers. it was the canaanite god baal, of course, to whom the backslidden jews and pagans sacrificed their children in the fire. you'll recall that the prophet elijah brought the message of god's judgement against those who worshipped bloodthirsty baal, who, in reality, is merely an idolatrous representation of satan. yes, baal is the devil. to attempt in vain to combine the name of the true god with that of false gods like baal and on is particularly evil and grievous

reached either the seventh degree of the york rite or 13th degree of the scottish rite as embodying within the attributes of the godhead, or holy trinity, by blasphemously declaring himself to be the great i am that i am, thus identifying himself with satan's promise in the garden "ye shall be as gods" hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 57 jewish spiritual powers.7 actually, this trinity of the jews is in competition with the true godhead of the bible: father, son, and holy spirit "i am that i am" the mason proclaims equally blasphemous is that in the lecture on the seventh, or royal arch degree, of the york rite, the mason initiated is asked the question "are you a royal arch mason" his answer is required to be "i am that i am."8 in other words, in this degree's ritual the mason has not

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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 which made a sea mammal come out of the sea. it is that which made a monkey come down from the trees. it is that which leads a man or woman to abandon comfort

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somewhat confusing by the teachings of a great, final judgment day and the resurrection of the dead. and when roman catholic christianity added the doctrine of purgatory in the sixteenth century, the matter became all the more complex because now certain souls were given an opportunity to atone for their sins while residing in a kind of interim area between heaven and hell. while many christians, jews, and muslims believe that the dead lie sleeping in their graves until the last judgment, others in those same faiths maintain that judgment is pronounced immediately after death. likewise, the concept of the world to come in jewish writings may refer to a present heaven or foretell of a future redemption on earth. buddhism while the buddhist text recognizes the existence of a self as a being

ve past-life memories of their own. those christians who accept at least the possibility of reincarnation insist that there are many passages in the new testament that imply a belief on the part of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. 30 c.e) and his disciples in the reality of past lives. in his lux orientalis (c. 1670, joseph glanvil states that the preexistence of humankind was a philosophy commonly held by the jews; and he maintains that such a theological position is illustrated by the disciples ready questioning of jesus when they asked (john 9:1 4: master, was it for this man s sin or his father s that he was born blind? if the disciples had not believed that the blind man had lived another life in which he might have sinned, glanvil argues, the question would have been senseless and impertinent. whe

eir spiritual growth from lifetime to lifetime until they are fit to return to the divine. although the study of the kabbalah undergoes cycles of popularity and esteem, reincarnation is not generally taught today in the three main branches of judaism reform, conservative, and orthodox but is accepted by those in the hasidic sect. rabbi yonassan gershom, a neo-hasidic rabbi, has said that although jews are generally reluctant to speak of their personal spiritual experiences in public, it doesn t mean that some of them aren t having memories of past lives. there are many teachings about reincarnation in jewish mysticism, gershom said. the hebrew word gilgul comes from the same root as the hebrew word for circle or cycle. so the essence of its meaning is similar to the ideal of the wheel of k

from young people, many of them blonde, blueeyed gentiles of nordic descent, who were being forced to deal with what appeared to be past-life memories of having died as victims of hitler s final solution to the jewish problem. at the time he was writing his book, gershom stated that out of the hundreds of people who had told him their dreams, visions, regressions, or intuitions of having died as jews in the holocaust, two-thirds had been reborn as non-jews. later samplings, however, indicated that many more jews have also experienced such past-life memories. gershom s later book, from ashes to healing (1996, focused on stories about the acts of 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 58 afterlife mysteries olga worrall (1906 1985) doing sp

ment compiled by researchers who are leaders in the field, offering a basic introduction to and explanation of the basics in parapsychology; available fyi books, audio and video tapes, cds, etc; and parapsychology online science papers and articles. sources: the parapsychological association, inc. http//www.parapsych.org. 15 october 2001. university of wales revealed that christians, muslims, and jews have similar mystical experiences in which they describe intense light and a sense of encompassing love. since 1969, the trust has collected accounts of 6,000 religious experiences from people of all ages and backgrounds. christians most often described the light as an encounter with jesus or an angel, and muslims also often interpreted the light to be an angel. jews perceived it as a sign of

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, may 1, 2002 [online] http//www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4404697,00.html. veitch, jennifer. so who is behind the monster? edinburgh evening news, may 3, 2002 [online] http//www.edinburgh news.com/capitalcity.cfm?id=476592002. who was the inspiration for dr. frankenstein? the most famous golem is yossele, the creature said to be created by judah loew ben bezalel (1525 1609) to help protect the jews of prague from the libel that the blood of a christian child was used during the passover seder. there are many accounts of how yossele saved jews from reprisals directed against them by those citizens who had been incited by the anti-semitic libel. once the golem had served its purpose, the rabbi locked it in the attic of prague s old-new synagogue, where it is widely believed that the creat

ed to persuade them to break their vows of chastity. epidemics of demon possession and erotomania swept such convents as loudon, louviers, auxonne, and aixen-provence. 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 76 mysterious creatures themost famous golem is yossele, that was allegedly created by judah loew ben bezalel (1525 1609) to help protect the jews of prague. 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 mysterious creatures 77 david j. skal, author of the monster show: a cultural history of horror (1997, has made the observation that the history of horror entertainment closely parallels the great social traumas of the twentieth century. monsters became popular at the box office during world w

he lord s guidance. for god speaketh once, yea twice, yet a man perceiveth it not. in a dream, in a vision of the night, when sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and speaketh their instructions, that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man (kjv: job 33:14. the talmud, the hebrew sacred book of practical wisdom, reveals that the jews gave great importance both to the dream and to the one whom the lord gave the knowledge to interpret the dream. joseph and daniel were two israelites who attained high regard for their skill as dream interpreters. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 117 dreams, or night visions, might be auditory and present a direct

e to the superstition that to tread under a ladder is to foreshadow one s being hanged. on the symbolical level, the ladder often represents an individual s spiritual quest as it moves from a lower to a higher level. seen in dreams, the ladder may symbolize that the percipient is about to achieve a transition to a higher state of awareness. the archetypal ladder vision or dream for christians and jews is the one received by jacob at bethel when he perceived angels descending and ascending a ladder and giving assurance to him that he would be the chosen vessel to extend the jewish people into a great nation (genesis 28:11 19. since that seminal experience, dreams or visions of ladders have been associated with communication with a higher source or with the rites of passage. numbers one of t

e contemporary united states, cardiac deaths for chinese and japanese americans spike 7 percent higher on the fourth of each month. the number four is considered so unlucky in china and japan that many buildings don t list a fourth floor, the chinese air force will not assign the number to any of its aircraft, and even cartoon characters that have only four fingers are deemed bad luck. among many jews, even numbers are considered unlucky, even dangerous. while there are no official christian teachings regarding any numbers being lucky or unlucky, many people believe that the number 12 has significance because of the 12 apostles. and then there is the unholy number 666, which many christians attribute to satan or the antichrist. rabbit s foot experts cannot agree why the rabbit s foot has b

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he blood of non-christians was to be shed. perhaps the garduna would have vanished completely into legend if fifteenthcentury spain had not become a christian nation and king ferdinand v (1452.1516) and queen isabella i (1451.1504) had not so avidly supported the mission of the inquisition and that of its chief heretic hunter in spain, tomas de torquemada (1420.1498. until the inquisition, moors, jews, and christians had for centuries lived quite peacefully in spain. the moors and the jews were respected for their learning and for their skill as craftsmen and merchants, and it was widely acknowledged that both groups of citizens had made considerable contributions to spain fs rise to power and its recent acquisitions in the new world. ferdinand reasoned that the moors and the jews had grow

e, the church fathers, and various works of philosophy to argue his praise of women. the paean to the fair sex was dedicated to margaret of austria, maximilian fs daughter, who was mistress of dole and burgundy, in the hope that he might obtain her patronage. unfortunately for his cause, a franciscan friar in margaret fs cabinet warned her that agrippa was a heretic who taught the kabbalah of the jews and whose attentions were not to be trusted. once the clergy saw that royal support would not be forthcoming for agrippa, they also managed to squelch publication of his praise of women. discouraged by margaret fs rejection of his work, agrippa went first to england, then to cologne where he continued his lectures and his studies. in 1515, his military prowess while serving in maximilian fs c

he fourteenth century, the close of the middle ages, the christian establishment of europe was forced to deal with an onset of social, economic, and religious changes. it was also during this time (1347.49) that the black death, the bubonic plague, nearly decimated the populations of the european nations and greatly encouraged rumors of devil-worshippers who conspired with other heretics, such as jews and muslims, to invoke satan to bring about a pestilence that would destroy christianity and the west. during most of the middle ages, those who practiced the old religion and worked with herbs and charms were largely ignored by the church and the inquisition. after the scourge of the black death, witchcraft trials began to increase steadily throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

p l a i n e d 106 magic and sorcery in1583 the discovery of witchcraft was written. spanish inquisition was always more interested in persecuting heretics than those suspected of witchcraft. it has been estimated that of the 5,000 men and women accused of being witches, less than 1 percent were condemned to death. the spanish inquisition was concerned with trying the marranos or conversos, those jews suspected of insincerely converting to christianity; the converts from islam, similarly thought to be insincere in practicing the christian faith; and, in the 1520s, those individuals who were believed to have converted to protestantism. the support of spain fs royal house enabled tomas de torquemada (1420. 1498) to become the single grand inquisitor whose name has become synonymous with the

witchcraft was heresy, for god himself in the holy bible had condemned magicians and sorcerers. de lancre, however, was not a member of the clergy, and his concerns were social, rather than theological. he believed that sorcerers and witches were a well-organized anti-social force that sought to overthrow the established order. it was customary for the judges of the witchcraft trials to denounce jews as heretics and sorcerers. de lancre was no exception, once stating that god had withdrawn his grace and promises from the jewish people. he claimed also to have it on great authority that 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 magic and sorcery 113 thecathars rejected all the catholic sacraments. many jews were powerful magicians who had the

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ented new members andinformed the chief of any likely convert. if the chief did not choose to dance the officer led the ring and ifthe officer were also a christian priest, as was not uncommon, he performed part of the religious service.the musician was another important member of coven. the chief was often the performer, sitting in thecentre of the ring and playing on the pipes, the flute or the jews' harp. jonet lucas of aberdeen 16 in 1597was accused that "thou and they was under the conduct of thy master the devil, dancing in a ring, and heplaying melodiously upon an instrument. on another occasion isobel cockie of the same coven did notapprove of the devil's playing "thou wast the ringleader, next thomas leyis, and because the devil playednot so melodiously and well as thou crewit, th

within the christian era, is that attributed to christand the disciples.[69] the date is not accurately known, but part of the chant is quoted by augustine (dieda.d. 430) in the epistle to ceretius, and part of sections 93-5 and 97-8 were read at the second nicenecouncil. the whole chant is too long to transcribe here, i therefore quote only a few lines.(94 "now before he was taken by the lawless jews he gathered all of us together and said: before i amdelivered up unto them let us sing an hymn to the father, and so go forth to that which lieth before us. hebade us therefore make as it were a ring, holding one another's hands, and himself standing in the midst hesaid: answer amen unto me. he began, then, to sing an hymn and to say: glory be to thee, father. and we,going about in a ring, an

dations. on lanfranc's death rufus was nolonger bound by his promise; and, as freeman puts it "one aspect of the reign of william rufus sets himbefore us as the enemy, almost the persecutor, of the church in his realm. the god of the witcheswilliam rufus[1]61the stories told of rufus bear all the marks of truth and show him as definitely a pagan. he jeered openly atchristianity, delighting to set jews and christians to discuss the merits of their respective religions; heplundered churches and religious establishments "have ye not chests full of bones of dead men, but wroughtabout with gold and silver, said one of his ministers to the monks who protested that they had no money forthe king. rufus openly declared that neither st. peter nor any other saint had any influence with god, and hewou

f 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 him, said 'i am he whom ye seek: thomas to those who sought him,'behold me. the lord 'if ye seek me, let these depart; thomas 'hurt none of those who stand by. that onethere, this one here, was wounded. there four soldiers, here four soldiers. there the sharing of the garments,he

and the incarnate god.gilles de rais [11] and [12]the case of gilles de rais is remarkable in that it lends itself, as with rufus and joan of arc, to the cheapclaptrap and "purple patches" of a certain type of writer. the most important publications of the trial ofgilles, those which show a realisation of underlying factors, are written by salomon reinach and ludovicohernandez, both authors being jews and therefore not swayed by christian prejudice.the career of gilles has been used by the church in order to pose as the protector of a helpless peasantryoppressed by a brutal overlord; it has also been used by other christian writers to point a moral; andpsychologists have found in it a convenient means of proving or disproving some pet theory. to none ofthese writers does it seem to occur t

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take literally the golden ass of apuleius? poor great men! 33 the history of isaac is another legend. rebecca is the type of the oriental woman, laborious, hospitable, partial in her affections, shrewd and wily in her manoeuvres. jacob and esau are again the two types of cain and abel; but here abel avenges himself: the emancipated intelligence triumphs by cunning. the whole of the genius of the jews is in the character of jacob, the patient and laborious supplanter who yields to the wrath of esau, becomes rich, and buys his brother's forgiveness. one must never forget that, when the ancients want to philosophize, they tell a story. the history or legend of joseph contains, in germ, the whole genius of the gospel; and the christ, misunderstood by his people, must often have wept in readin

y. man has the right to do his duty, and he has no other right. o man! thou hast the right to resist even unto death any who prevents thee from doing thy duty. mother! thy child is drowning; a man prevents thee from helping him; thou strikest this man, thou dost run to save thy son. who, then, will dare to condemn thee? christ came to oppose the right of duty to the duty of right 'right' with the jews, was the doctrine of the pharisees. and, indeed, they seemed to have acquired the privilege of dogmatizing; were they not the legitimate heirs of the synagogue? they had the right to condemn the saviour, and the saviour knew that his duty was to resist them. 35 christ is the soul of protest. but the protest of what? of the flesh against the intelligence? no! of right against duty? no! of the

anitarian expiation, and every head that falls upon the scaffold may be honoured and praised as the head of a martyr. for this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him "let justice be done" pure victims of the roman catacombs, jews and protestants massacred by unworthy christians! priests of l'abbaye and les carmes< victims of the reign of terror, butchered royalists, revolutionaries sacrificed in your turn, soldiers of our great armies who have sown the world with your bones, all you who have suffered the penalty of death, workers, strivers

oses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. you have also been a courageous race, a race that persevered in strife. children of israel, become the children of god: understand and love! god has wiped from your forehead the brand of cain, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say "there go the jews" they will cry "room for our brethren! room for our elders in the faith" and we shall go every year to eat the passover with you in the city of the new jerusalem. and we shall take our rest under your vine and under your fig-tree; for you will be once more the friend of the traveller, in memory of abraham, of tobias, and of the angels who visited them. and in memory of him who said "he who re

century. why? it is more proper, in reality, that he should be an average man. his supremacy is only more divine for that, because it is in a way more human. do not events speak louder than rancours and irreligious ignorances? do not you see catholic france sustaining with one hand the tottering papacy, and with the other holding the sword to fight at the head of the army of progress? catholics, jews, turks, protestants, already fight under the same banner; the crescent has rallied to the latin cross, and altogether we struggle against the invasion of the barbarians, and their brutalizing orthodoxy. it is for ever an accomplished fact. in admitting new dogmas, the chair of st. peter has solemnly proclaimed itself progressive. the fatherland of catholic christianity is that of the sciences

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he 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 mountain, but is also the beginning of

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the angel unto whom thou hast entrusted the guidance of each of these nations, or countries, maintain them always on the path of peace, harmony and tolerance, and in respect of thy faithful elect. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a moment and then prays for the entire human race: o almighty and eternal god, thou who hast used thine own son as the corner stone to bring together jews and gentiles as if linking two walls rising from two opposing foundations, and hast thus reunited these two opposing flocks under only one shepherd, the eternal repairer, o lord, knowing that one day the whole humanity shall render thee its pious tributes in thy holy city of above, do so that thy creatures may in the near future finally live united by the unbreakable ties of charity. never pe

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h were merely considered as stand-ins for the actual name of god, which was unknown and unpronounceable. we believe that the divine name yhvh elohim should be pronounced "yod heh vav heh el-oh-heem" in all golden dawn rituals. some modem magicians believe that the divine name given for daath (and for binah) should not be pronounced as yhvh elohm. they argue that yhvh was never vocalized by devout jews who thought it was too holy to pronounce. whenever it occurred in writing, the words elohim (god or gods) or adonai (lord) were always spoken as a substitute word for yhvh. thus some magicians contend that the compound word yhvh elohim is a mistake, and that what was intended was that the spoken word "elohm" be substituted for the written word "yhvh in binah and in daath (the second word in t

whenever it occurred in writing, the words elohim (god or gods) or adonai (lord) were always spoken as a substitute word for yhvh. thus some magicians contend that the compound word yhvh elohim is a mistake, and that what was intended was that the spoken word "elohm" be substituted for the written word "yhvh in binah and in daath (the second word in the compound name yhvh elohim was considered by jews as a reminder that the holy name yhvh is never spoken but rather vocalized as "elohirn) while this the middle pillar exercise 83 argument may be true for devout jews, it is not valid for practicing magicians in the tradition of the golden dawn. there are several examples of hebrew mystics vocalizing the various permutations of the tetragrammaton for specific ritual work with the sephroth. thi

uperconscious levels are often contacted by visualizing the climbing of a steep mountain-or climbing the branches of a mystical tree. properly used, the imaginative fadties of the transconscious self can be used to activate the latent faculties of the psyche and bring renewed health and well-being to the entire mind/ body system. the tree of life the qabalah is the mystical system of the medieval jews; its exact origins are buried in antiquity. its primary symbol, the tree of life, is said to be a glyph of the essence of god, the origins of the cosmos, the soul of man, and a model of how to live in accordance psychology and magic 131 with the divine plan. it is also the most important symbol used by magicians and other practitioners of the western esoteric tradition. for our purposes, we w

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

s can also be interpreted regarding those who follow the ways of the lord: those people have a desire for both corporeality and spirituality, as it is said, that those who were close to baal hasulam had a screen and aviut (coarseness, but now that he was gone, they had no one to subdue themselves before and were left with coarseness but no screen, and were only looking to become rabbis and pretty jews. therefore, i (rabash) suspect everything that comes out of their hands, for there is no one to restrain them. i am speaking briefly here, for i do not want them in my thoughts, for you know the rule that one is where one s thoughts are, but because i know your fondness for the truth i am compelled to bring to my mind the coarseness that hasn t a screen, which are broken vessels that are as y

or desires to receive (ahp awzen, hotem, peh. that is why it is said that israel, meaning ge will be a minority. when the rest of the nations are corrected, the light of hochma will appear in each and every soul, as well as in the collective vessel of mankind. the nations of the world subconsciously feel their dependency on israel. they are given that feeling by the creator so as to press on the jews and set them in motion toward correction. it is difficult for us to imagine what this means in spirituality, when one has to stand and wait for another, to be completely dependent on another for one s own correction. the state of israel is a gift from the creator, and has a right to exist only to the extent that it gives altruism the right to exist, which is the idea of nearing the creator th

not only connect with the idea and the direction, but also with the bridge that could help us in our progress, because we bond with the author himself. it is not important if the author is or is not in this world momentarily, we can bond with him in our feelings, while studying his books. the eldest son of baal hasulam, rabbi baruch ashlag, finished his studies at the yeshiva (school for orthodox jews) and started to work as a construction worker at the age of 18. he would rise before dawn, eat a kilogram of bread and onion, drink a little water and go to work. bread and onion was also his supper. on holidays he would add a little herring or something else that would make his meal festal. rabbi baruch ashlag lived a very hard life. he was among the workers who built the hebron-jerusalem ro

ive perception of reality. it must lead mankind to an accurate analysis and recognition of the correct good and evil and realize that the evil is our very nature. it is our nature, that prevents us from seeing past our own noses; we are compelled to think only with our gut feeling. there is not a single form of study that explains the real purpose of creation and the method to attain it. orthodox jews think that the purpose of the torah consists of study and performance of physical mitzvot (precepts. in other words, they believe that one must perform mitzvot, and that everything depends on how things are done in the flesh without any addition. this explains their view that all that they need to learn is how to perform physical actions, and that there isn t and should not be any other conse

year was 1981; he gave me a notebook that i made a copy of, and then read it and used it for the next ten years. in 1991, a day before he passed away, he gave me the original manuscript. he said: read it, it s for you. he asked me to come earlier the next morning to help him put on his teffilin (a portion of the pentateuch written on a piece of parchment and put into special boxes that religious jews put on their heads and arms every morning except on saturday and on holidays. he knew what was going to happen in advance, but i did not, and when i arrived it was too late. he was already semi-conscious and perished right before my eyes. the essays and the writings that he d given me are priceless. every time one reads them, one seems to learn something new. one s perception of the words gro

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ty, has given and is giving birth to numerous world-wide systems and philosophies. the taboos of the south seas, the restrictions laid on widow-remarriage in india, the purdah of the mussulman, the veil of the vestal, the numerous accounts of virgin-mothers, all find their origin in this idea. the laws of the vedas, of manu, of buddha, the codes of confucius and lao-tze, the talmudic books of the jews, and the koran of the mohamedans, all maintain its direct influence and restrictions; and in the west in the old mythologies of teuton and celt, in the old norse sagas, more so in the roman and grecian law, and still more so on the christian edicts of constantine, theodoric, athalaric, and justinian, and the innumerable codes of the middle ages: all of which growing one into the other have pr

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

n 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 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

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

n, whom the lord cast out from before the children of israel. 16:4 and he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 16:5 then rezin king of syria and pekah son of remaliah king of israel came up to jerusalem to war: and they besieged ahaz, but could not overcome [him] 16:6 at that time rezin king of syria recovered elath to syria, and drave the jews from elath: and the syrians came to elath, and dwelt there unto this day. 16:7 so ahaz sent messengers to tiglath-pileser king of assyria, saying, i [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of syria, and out of the hand of the king of israel, which rise up against me. 16:8 and ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the lord, and in t

s servants, and put thy trust on egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 18:25 am i now come up without the lord against this place to destroy it? the lord said to me, go up against this land, and destroy it. 18:26 then said eliakim the son of hilkiah, and shebna, and joah, unto rab-shakeh, speak, i pray thee, to thy servants in the syrian language; for we understand [it] and talk not with us in the jews language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall. 18:27 but rab-shakeh said unto them, hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words [hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you. 18:28 then rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the jews language, and spake, saying, hea

eir men. 25:24 and gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, fear not to be the servants of the chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of babylon; and it shall be well with you. 25:25 but it came to pass in the seventh month, that ishmael the son of nethaniah, the son of elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote gedaliah, that he died, and the jews and the chaldees that were with him at mizpah. 25:26 and all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to egypt: for they were afraid of the chaldees. 25:27 and it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of jehoiachin king of judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month [that] evil-merodach king of bab

ke yet [more] against the lord god, and against his servant hezekiah. 32:17 he wrote also letters to rail on the lord god of israel, and to speak against him, saying, as the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the god of hezekiah deliver his people 2 chronicles page 268 out of mine hand. 32:18 then they cried with a loud voice in the jews speech unto the people of jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. 32:19 and they spake against the god of jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth [which were] the work of the hands of man. 32:20 and for this [cause] hezekiah the king, and the prophet isaiah the son of amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. 32:21 and

] the elamites, 4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of samaria, and the rest [that are] on this side the river, and at such a time. 4:11 this [is] the copy of the letter that they sent unto him [even] unto artaxerxes the king; thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time. 4:12 be it known unto the king, that the jews which came up from thee to us are come unto jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls [thereof] and joined the foundations. 4:13 be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up [again, then] will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and [so] thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. 4:14 now because we have mainten

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

he author thereof: as joshua caused the sun to stand still in heaven. 16 they send some of their spirits to the mean magicians, which do obey them onely in some determinate business: but they hear not the false magicians, but expose them to the deceits of the devils, and cast them into divers dangers, by the command of god; as the prophet jeremiah testifieth, in his eighth chapter, concerning the jews. 4. in all the elements there are the seven governours with their hosts, who do move with the equal motion of the firmament; and the inferiours do always depend upon the superiours, as it is taught in philosophy. 5. a man that is a true magician, is brought forth a magician from his mothers womb: others, who do give themselves to this office, are unhappie. this is that which john the baptist

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

t end. the schoolmen indeed were bolder, and, by a summary mode of reasoning, in which they were very expert, proved that they had as clear and adequate an idea of infinity, as of any finite substance whatever. infinity, said they, is that which has no bounds. this negation, being a positive assertion, must be founded on a positive idea. we have therefore a positive idea of infinity. the eclectic jews, and their followers, the ammonian and christian platonics, who endeavoured to make their own philosophy and religion conform to the ancient theology, held infinity of space to be only the immensity of the divine presence `o qepk auto topoj esti1 was their dogma, which is now inserted into the confessional of the greek church.2 this infinity was distinguished by them from common space, as tim

e organ of generation; that is, invigorating the active creative power by the prolific element upon which it acted; for water was considered as the essence of the passive principle, as fire was of the active; the one being of terrestrial, and the other of thereal origin. hence, st. john the baptist, who might have acquired some knowledge of the ancient theology, through its revivers, the eclectic jews, says: i, indeed, baptise you in water to repentance; but he that cometh after me, who is more powerful than i am, shall baptise you in holy spirit, and in fire:6 that is, i only purify and refresh the soul, by a communion with the terrestrial principle of life; but he that cometh after me, will regenerate and restore it, by a communion with the thereal principle.7 pan is 1 ver. 703. 2 pindar

r. p. 9. schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii, ver. 16. of priapus 97 and sometimes to the creator himself, is probably a corruption of briapoj (clamorous or loud; for the b and p being both labials, the change of the one for the other is common in the greek language. we still find many ancient images of this symbol, with bells attached to them,1 as they were to the sacred robe of the high priest of the jews, in which he administered to the creator.2 the bells in both were of a pyramidal form,3 to show the therial igneous essence of the god. this form is still retained in those used in our churches, as well as in the little ones rung by the catholic priests at the elevation of the host. the use of them was early adopted by the christians, in the same sense as they were employed by the later heath

the sacrifices to the generative deities, but in general all the religious rites of the greeks, were of the festive kind. to imitate the gods, was, in their opinion, to feast and rejoice, and to cultivate the useful and elegant arts, by which we are made partakers of their felicity.2 this was the case with almost all the nations of antiquity, except the3 egyptians and their reformed imitators the jews,4 who being governed by a hierarchy, endeavoured to make it awful and venerable to the people by an appearance of rigour and austerity. the people, however, sometimes broke through this restraint, and indulged themselves in the more pleasing worship of their neighbours, as when they danced and feasted before the golden calf which aaron erected,5 and devoted themselves to the worship of obscen

nnals of superstition, so degrading to the pride of man, to trace the progress of the human mind in different ages, climates, and circumstances, uniformly acting upon the same principles, and to the same ends. the sketch here given of the corruptions of the religion of greece, is an exact counterpart of the history of the corruptions of christianity, which began in the pure theism of the eclectic jews,1 and by the help of inspirations, emanations, and canonizations, expanded itself, by degrees, to the vast and unwieldly system which now fills the creed of what is commonly called the catholic church. in the ancient religion, however, the emanations assumed the appearance of moral 1 compare the doctrines of philo with those taught in the gospel of st. john, and epistles of st. paul. of priap

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d to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the 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 figu

ven jewish magicians, who were called ba'alei shem (masters of the name, manipulated the sacred texts for their practical purposes such as healing and driving out demons. the glyph of the sephirothic tree, which is everything to the magical kabbalah, plays only a minor role in the traditional kabbalah. although the kabbalah of western magic is entirely drawn from the tradition- al kabbalah of the jews, it has over the past five centuries or so diverged to reflect the more egocentric goals and methods of practical magic. this has not resulted in conflict, but in a different emphasis between the two systems. the illustration on page 122 presents the glyph of the tree as it is used in mod- ern magic. the three large ovals around the tree represent the three levels of stir- ring, or the three

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

erlap. shamans used whatever they found to be effective, without regard to formal classifications. chanting was a popular form of rhythmic induction. the same phrase or phrases wcluld be repeated in a low voice, sometimes for hours, accompanied by rocking motions of the body. we see the same technique employed in modern society by religious groups during prayer. catholics chant on their rosaries. jews chant in their synagogues an da t the wailing wall in jerusalem. muslims chant the verses of the koran. the result is not always the separation of the astral body, but often this type of prolonged chanting induces an elevated mental condition or even an ecstatic state. a less well-recognized induction technique employed by shamans is the use of extended pure tones in the form of whistling. wh

and deities are the safest to vibrate. if you are religious, naturally the name of a powerful figure in your religion would be a good choice. christians might select the name of an angel such as michael, who is noted for his abilities as a warrior, or the name of jesus, which has the potency to banish evil spirits. names of god that are used in the bible are effective for christians, muslims, and jews alike. the divine name shaddai means "the almighty" and is an ancient name of great potency. it may be used in the simple phrase "shaddai, protect me" similarly, an angelic name would be inserted into the phrase-for example "michael, protect me" the invocation of the power of the name should be spoken emphatically, but there is no need to shout it out. speak it firmly and clearly, while holdi

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ects 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 the golden dawn, harp is attri

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

the way of saying it. josephus was a priest and knew the correct pronunciation of the name, but states in his antiquities (11, 12, 4) that religion forbids him to divulge it. philo calls the name ineffable and says that it is lawful only for those whose ears and tongues are purified by wisdom to hear and utter it in a holy place-in other words, for priests in the temple. in their own language the jews referred to the name as shem ha- mephoresh (w?15?3d;1w" the distinctive excellent name" this designation 2 tetragrammaton is often assigned by occultists to the seventy-two names of three letters extracted by kabbalistic methods from three verses in exodus, but it more properly belongs to tetragrammaton itself. in biblical times, the name was known to the common people and was used in a form

od. it follows that in magic tetragrammaton can be used to command all lesser names. this is why it was held in such esteem by kabbalists. the legend of the golem, an artificial man created out of clay by rabbi loew of prague in the year 1580, gives useful insight as to how tetragrammaton may have been used by the ba'alei shem of the middle ages. very troubled in his mind about how to protect the jews of prague against the malicious libels of a priest named thaddeus, who preached their destruction, rabbi loew used his knowledge of kabbalah to obtain a dream oracle from god, who ordered him to create a golem of clay to defend israel. loew called to him two disciples with the qualities he required. one had been born with the power of the fire element. the other had been born with the power o

became a living soul" the writer of the legend explains that, in the air of the breath, there must be found fire and water. the golem opened his eyes and rabbi loew ordered him to stand up. it is significant that, although the golem could see, hear, and understand, he "did not have the power of speech in his mouth" ten years following its creation, when the golem had accomplished its task and the jews of prague were safe once again, rabbi loew decided it was time to dissolve the artificial man back into clay. he summoned the same two disciples, who met him in the attic room where the golem lay sleeping on a cot. this time every action that had been done in the creation of the golem was reversed. the three stood together at the head of the golem rather than at his feet. they walked seven ti

and blood, it would induce a celestial intelligence to enter into that clay figure and reside within it, where it could be consulted as an oracle on important questions. this is likely the truth behind the golem legend. rabbi loew probably created a manlike statue, then used the magic of the kabbalah to induce an angel of god to dwell within it and act as a protective and tutelary spirit for the jews of prague during their time of trial. there are two aspects to any name, both of which must be considered in magic-the internal name and the uttered name. the internal name is what we understand the meaning of a name to be, and the inner silent expression of that name, as when we seem to speak names in our dreams, or voice them silently in our own thoughts. it is vital in magic that we unders

her or mother continually cries "stupid" in a deep, forceful voice has little chance of ever growing into a fully functional human being. when such hurtful commands are delivered with the commanding voice, their effect is multiplied tenfold. vii t he rebirth of ceremonial magic that occurred in europe during the renaissance was in no small measure driven by the amalgamation of 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

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

st by which the universal sorrow..may be unmasked.lxxv one of the most explicit references to tantric sexual practices in crowley's work is found in his key text for the o.t.o. ix degree rite, de arte magicka. here specifically compares the tantric view of the semen and the rite of maithuna with the ix degree rite, and also demonstrates that he is familiar with at least one tantric text: like the jews, the wise men of india have a belief that a certain particular prana, or force, resides in the bindu, or semen. therefore they stimulate to the maximum its generation by causing a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a singl

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

ing for that time; but for jewry at large the question has passed from the field of view, much as the quest is continued by us in virtue of a ceremonial formula but cannot be said to mean anything for those who undertake and pursue it. it was lost owing to the unworthiness of israel, and the destruction of the first temple was one consequence thereof. by the waters of babylon, in their exile, the jews are said to have remembered zion, but the word did not come back into their hearts; and when divine providence inspired cyrus to bring about the building of the second temple and the return of israel into their own land, they went back empty of all, recollection in this respect. the divine name i am putting things in a summary fashion that are scattered up and down the vast text with which i

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

e bacchae of euripides, says 'nowadays, imagine the premier going off with the archbishop of canterbury to dance with unknown fair ones on hampstead heath' but they did this because the gods wished them to and not for pleasure only, though doubtless they did enjoy it. nowadays people might be shocked if they thought they enjoyed it, or even if they obtained fresh air and exercise that way, as the jews were highly shocked at christ's breaking the sabbath. there is a story that pere lachaise let off king louis xiv with the slightest penances for coldblooded massacres and suchlike, which he thought quite natural things to do; but he was most highly shocked and gave a very heavy penance because after some battle louis ate a mince pie on a friday, not knowing there was some tiny bit of meat in

g. when moved by high principle and purpose, womankind can elevate and ennoble man- a suggestive inquiry, etc, by a.j. attwood. not only in the sacrifices to the generative gods, but in the worship of every god the religious ceremonies of the greeks and of all the ancient peoples were happy and involved feasting, dancing in the gods' honour and rejoicing generally, with the exception of the later jews and possibly of the egyptians: many of the egyptian festivals were happy but some were not, because they had many and diverse gods. it is highly probable that the early jewish rites were festive also, though reformers constantly strove to abolish all mention of this, and there is no doubt that the bible has been tampered with to this end. 8- out of the land of egypt in mr. pennethorne hughes'

s that the witch used and sold poisons. possibly; but the present-day ones have no real knowledge of them. they know vaguely that hellebore is deadly, as they know weed-killer is, but they do not know the correct dose of either, and they do not know where to get hellebore. in the middle ages whenever typhus fever broke out, as it did very frequently, it was a stock thing to say the witches or the jews had poisoned the wells. just because a witch may use a prehistoric cure to heal a sick child, it does not necessarily mean that it is done for an evil end. some individual witches may have done wrong and evil things, but they are not the only ones who can be blamed for that. the most obvious form of doing evil is by sympathetic magic, the making of images. this is done all over the world; if

th the triple thread that the indian brahmins wear; but this is most unlikely at that date. now a witch has eight working tools. of these, five are used only for special purposes; but there are three that she must have in every operation, and cords are among these three. she could at times have worn the cord as a girdle, to disguise it. j.s.m. ward in who was hirim abif? quotes the legends of the jews, which give the twenty-two questions with which balkis, queen of sheba, tested king solomon's knowledge. these questions are thought to refer to the secret initiation ceremonies of astarte-tammuz. question 9 is peculiar, and clearly refers to things used for ritual or magic. sheba 'which are the three that neither die, nor do they have bread put into them, yet they save lives from death' solo

is impossible for large numbers of unbaptised babies to disappear without the police asked questions. the sabbath i asked my friends what was the real meaning of the sabbath and they don't know. they know that books say that it is from sabazius, who was identified with dionysus and zeus, also said to be the same as the jewish oreb, lord god of sabaoth. plutarch in synus, vol. iv, 6, says that the jews worship dionysus and that their sabbath was so named after sabazius, which was one of his forms. my friends agree that the cult of dionysus had some connection with their own. this is clear from some of the rituals. they have also read that the first jews who settled in rome were expelled under the law which forbade worshippers of jupiter sabazius to live in rome; but they cannot reconcile th

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

t wisdom more than from any one other source, for the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians and later by the chaldees of babylon. it is a curious fact that the classic nations, the greeks and romans, have handed down to us but slight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt, and rome to the empire of both the greeks and jews. greece did indeed succeed to a share in the mysteries of the egyptians for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of the ancient ceremonies of isis, osiris and serapis; but they lacked true magic. and further, the classic writings contain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian mysteries, and these disclose the fact that the pupils were partly ignorant of the true mysteries, a notable exampl

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

sanpi tz 900 dotted aleph alpha dashed a 1000 24. note that there were no proper greek letters for 6, 90 and 900, so they used special symbols--episemon (vau, or bau, digamma) for 6; koppa for 90; and sanpi for 900. at some periods, the five finals were not used for the hundreds, but instead tau was written for 400 and other hundreds added; thus 500 was tq. another point of importance is that the jews never write jh jah for 15, because it is a deity title, they use instead 9, 6 thus tv, teth, vau. the qabalists used jh only when they desired to call attention to the holy name in the number. in certain qabalistic numerical computations many rabbis deemed it permissible to add an aleph, one, and this they called colel. in some cases we find the greeks to have used their letters in direct ord

of england, see the unhappiness of kings numbered the second of each name--william ii, edward ii, and richard ii. of england were all murdered. the romans dedicated the 2nd month to pluto, god of hades, and on the 2nd day of it they offered sacrifices to the manes. pope john xix. instituted the fete des trepasses (all souls day) on november 2nd, the second month of autumn. the two talmuds of the jews, among other quaint notions, have the following ideas of the number two. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it is not every man who deserves to have two tables. this meant that very few deserve to have the best of the next life, as well as the good things to come. there are two important things. first, that one s bed should be placed north to south and

02, who overthrew the hordes of cambrians and teutons. 43. the jewish rabbis say that the sword of death has 3 drops of gall, one drops in the mouth and the man dies, from the second comes the pallor of death and the third turns the carcass to dust. see purchas, the pilgrimage, 1613. a letter from yod within an equilateral triangle was a symbol of the ineffable name jehovah and was so used by the jews. the moderns have pointed out that this form suggests the idea that they knew something of a triune god. other monograms of jehovah were also triple; thus 3 rays and the shin, and three yods in a triangle. under the number 3 also we may in passing mention the royal arch sign, the triple tau, three t s united. the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott manne

. the talmuds are crowded with quaint conceits concerning the triad and many are very curious. the ancient hebrews said there are three night watches, in the first the ass brays, in the second the dog barks, in the third the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband. he who three times daily repeats the 114th psalm is sure of future happiness. three precious gifts were given to the jews; the law of moses, the land of israel, and paradise. in three sorts of dream there is truth. the last dream of the morning, the dream which is also dreamed by a neighbor and a dream twice repeated. 45. three things calm a man; melody, scenery and sweet scent. and three things improve a man; a fine house, a handsome wife and good furniture. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es

n d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott he who is born on the third day of the week will be rich and amorous. three despise their fellows; cooks, fortune-tellers and dogs. three love their fellows; proselytes, slaves and ravens. three persons live a life, which is no life; he who lives at another man s table, he who is ruled by his wife and he who is incapable from bodily affliction. orthodox jews were very particular about the cuttings from the nails; a pious man buries them, an orderly man burns them, but he who throws them away is wicked; for if a woman step over them, mischance may follow. moed katon, 18. i. the nails should be trimmed on a friday and never on a thursday. there are three keys, which god keeps to himself and which no man can gain nor use; the key of life, the key of

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

perspectives the rabbis did not proffer a rigorous conception of an autonomous objective time and this in spite of the meticulous concern they demonstrated with respect to establishing the proper temporal frame to determine the jewish calendar based on the sanctification of the new moon (qiddush ha-hodesh, a ritual obligation often presented in rabbinic literature as an act that distinguishes the jews from all other nations, who determine their calendar on a solar basis.25 it is reasonable to conjecture, moreover, that the roots for the rabbinic fusion of historical and mythical layers of meaning lie in the view of time operative in the ritual conception of covenantal history proffered in the priestly and deuteronomistic codes embedded in the scriptural canon. if we are to speak of a linea

o pass according to the motion of the celestial lights, is related to the ritual behavior and time cycles (gilggulei zeman) of the jewish people, which follow the rotations of the emanations (galggallei ha-sefirot. for cordovero, echoing a sentiment broadly attested in previous kabbalistic treatises, time in its essential nature, that is, sacred as opposed to mundane time, is a unique property of jews, for their souls alone are rooted ontically in the sefirotic pleroma, the perpetuity of time in its primordial permutation. holiness itself is intricately connected to the covenantal incision in the fabric of time, undoing the threads of expectation and retention by seizing the moment of what comes to be in having been. the raison d tre of the people of israel is to emulate and thereby be con

utation. holiness itself is intricately connected to the covenantal incision in the fabric of time, undoing the threads of expectation and retention by seizing the moment of what comes to be in having been. the raison d tre of the people of israel is to emulate and thereby be conjoined to god, a divine status that guarantees an intrinsic connection between the ceremonial conduct (hanhagah) of the jews below and the supernal providence (ha-hanhagah ha-elyonah) determined by the emanations above. temporal changes are thus related to the variations of the emanations (shinnuyei ha-sefirot) revealed by torah, which, in the mind of kabbalists, is indistinguishable from the divine essence encoded in the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet comprised in the tetragrammaton.151 in light of thes

is the critical element of the jewish gnosis promulgated in the bahiric passage, though i would cast the matter of the nun in a different historical register, one that provides an opening to the mystery of mem. the exegesis of the double nun in yinnon can be seen profitably as a response to the doctrine of the virginal conception of jesus promoted in medieval christian polemical treatises against jews, which were especially prominent in the twelfth century when the attempt to convince jews of the mechanics of the incarnation was based on an appeal to observable natural phenomena perceived by the senses and understood by reason.43 the remark that the messiah must be propagated through the conjunction of masculine and feminine (sarikh lihyot al yedei zakhar u-neqevah) appears to be a direct

allusion to jesus in the interpretation of the letter saddi preserved in one of the recensions of otiyyot de-rabbi aqiva, a relatively late midrashic compilation that preserves in rudimentary form older esoteric teachings: saddi, why does it have two heads? because this refers to jesus who took hold of two heads, one of israel and the other of edom, and he went and caused people to err. when the jews saw him they stood over him, captured him, and hung him on the cross. as they interpreted if your brother, your mother s son, entices you (deut 13:7, it does not say your father s son. 49 later kabbalistic sources, as attested in a key passage in zohar,50 combine the bahiric decomposition of saddi into yod-nun with the midrashic interpretation of saddi as a symbolic reference to jesus. it has

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