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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ly deiim colere, with apparently no thought of a bloody sacrifice. for xarpeia eom. 12, 1, he puts uotinassus, and for d6ojewish sacrifice, and follows them up with ace. of thing and dat. of person: blotan sunu (filium sacrificare) 173, 5. onbleot]?fet lac gode (obtulit hostiam deo) 177, 21. in ielfred's orosius we have the same uotan pret. blotte. i derive from it uetsian, later blessian, to bless. the ohg. pluozan, pret. pliez and pluozta, appears only in glosses, and renders libare, litare, victimare, immolare, gl

rischling. how are we to explain then, that this ohg. friscing in several writers translates precisely the lat. liostia, victima, holocaustum (istotker cap. 8, ps. 15, 4, 26, 6. 33, 1. 39, 8. 41, 10. 43, 12. 22. 50, 21. 115, 17. osterfriscing, ps. 20, 3. lamp unkawemmit kakepan erdu friscing, i.e. lamb unblemished given to earth a sacrifice, hymn 7, 10, except as a reminiscence of heathenism? the jewish paschal lamb would not suggest it, for in friscing the idea of porcellus was predominant. in the north, the expiatory boar, sdnargoltr, offered to freyr, was a periodical sacrifice; and sweden has continued down to modern times the practice of baking loaves and cakes on yule-eve in the shape of a boar. this golden-bristled boar has left his track in inland germany too. according to popular

t langobardic' carmen nefandum' had been preserved, we could judge more exactly of the rite than from the report of the holy father, who viewed it with hostile eyes. about other sacrificial beasts we cannot be certain, for of dietmar's dogs and hawks and cocks, hardly any but the last are to be depended on (see sup^^l. but even then, what of domestic poultry, fowls, geese, pigeons? the dove was a jewish and christian this also a reference to heathen sacrifices; an as. name for xov. is expressly twtmones. the common man at his yearly slaughtering gets up a feast, and sends meat and sausages to his neighbours (conf. maiichli, stalder 2, 525, which may be a survival of the common sacrifice and distribution of flesh. it is remarkable that in sei-via too, at the solemn burning of the badnyak, w

d on trees in honour of them (see suppl. whole lurntofferings, where the animal was converted into ashes on the pile of wood, do not seem to have been in use. the goth, allhrunsts]\ik 12, 33 is made merely to translate the gk. 6\o/cavt(o/na, so the ohg. alhrandopher, n. ps. 64, 2; and the as. hryncgield onhred& rommes blose, coedm. 175, 6. 177, 18 is meant to express purely a burntoffering in the jewish sense^ neither were incense-offerings used; the sweet incense of the christians was a new thing to the heathen. ulphilas retains the gk. tliymiama lu. 1, 10. 11; and our weih-rauch (holy-reek, 0. sax. wiroc hel. 3, 22, and the ok reykelsi, dan. rogelse are formed according to christian notions (see suppl. while the sacrifice of a slain animal is more sociable, more universal, and is usually

them. on the gabel-heath in mecklenburg the wends as late as the 15th century walked round the budding corn with loud cries; giesebrecht 1, 87 chapter iv. temples. in our inquiries on the sacred dwelling-places of the gods, it will be safest to begin, as before, with expressions which preceded the christian terms temple and church, and were supplanted by them. the gothic alhs fem. translates the jewish-christian notions of mo (matt. 27, 5. 51. mk. 14, 58. 15, 29. lu. 1, 9. 21. 2 cor. 6, 16) and iep6v (mk. 11, 11. ig. 27. 12, 35. 14, 49. lu. 2, 27. 46. 4, 9. 18, 10. 19, 45. john 7, 14. 28. 8, 20. 59. 10, 23. to the goth it would be a time-hallowed word, for it shares the anomaly of several such nouns, forming its gen. alhs, dat. alh, instead of alhais, alhai. once only, john 18, 20, gudhii

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ngels this would be a suitable ritual for welcoming a new baby or child into a family whether in birth, by adoption or through the joining of two existing families. it may also be used for sending a teenager out into the world. you can also adapt the ritual to welcome adults into a family or help them to move on to a new phase or place. you might like to use a seven-branched candlestick, like the jewish menorah, and light a candle on seven consecutive hours throughout the day. you could carry it out on the baby's christening or naming day or on a quiet day with the teenager. alternatively, you could perform the ritual for seven days at the same hour of the day on the week before the christening or departure and make this a special family orientated hour. it does not matter in which order y

ABRAMELIN1

give some examples of angelic invocation taken from other sources. abraham the jew repeatedly admits, as i have before urged, that this particular system of the sacred magic of abra-melin has its basis in the qabalah. it is well to examine what is here meant. the qabalah itself is divided into many parts; the great bulk of it is of a mystic doctrinal nature, giving the inner occult meaning of the jewish sacred writings. also it employs the numerical values of the hebrew letters, to draw analogies between words, the total numerical value of whose letters is the same; this branch alone is a most complicated study, and it will be foreign to our purpose to go into it here; the more so as my work, the kabbalah unveiled, treats at length of all these points. the so-called practical qabalah is th

ABRAMELIN2

counsel you on no account to commence it; because the lord doth not care to be mocked, and he chastiseth with corporal maladies those who make a mock of him. howbeit, he who is hindered from continuing through some unforeseen accident, sinneth in no way (17) it is impossible for him who hath passed fifty years of age to undertake this operation. thus also was it the custom in the true and ancient jewish law concerning the priesthood. also, he should not be less than twenty-five years of age (18) you shall not permit the familiar spirits to familiarise themselves too much with you, through your disputing and arguing with them; because they will propound so many affairs and things at once as to confound and trouble the mind (19) with the familiar spirits you should not make use of the symbol

thstanding, it is well in a sacred magical operation to employ a language which does not to our minds convey so much the commonplace ideas of everyday life, so as the better to exalt our thoughts. but, as abraham says, we should before all things understand what we are repeating. 17 the passover is about the vernal equinox and nearly corresponds to our easter; it begins on the 15th or 16th of the jewish first month= nisan or abib. the feast of tabernacles begins about the middle of their seventh month= tisri. 18 ie, religious denomination. 19 it is immaterial whether the religious conception be theistic or pantheistic. 20 the initiates of the true rosicrucian wisdom, know that there is a certain force in the observance of the equinoxes. 21 abraham evidently means his guardian angel. 22 her

ABRAMELIN3

o, to diminish. omare, perhaps greek, an assembly or synthesis. togen= perhaps from greek toge, why or wherefore when used in an adverbial sense. no. g is a square of b g squares. nasi= hebrew nsi= my banner or symbol. apis= the egyptian sacred bull. sipa perhaps from sph= hebrew to consume. isan= perhaps from heb. ishn= to sleep. no. h is a square of c f squares. gohen should perhaps be cohen= a jewish priest. orare, latin= to pray. hasah, heb. hsh= to keep silence. eraro perhaps from heb. arr to curse. nehog= perhaps heb. nhg= to lead. no. i is a gnomonic square of j squares out of c f squares. admon- perhaps from heb. dmo= tears but also liquids or fluids. no. j is a gnomonic square of j squares out of c f squares. leleh= hebrew lilh= night, darkness. of abramelin the mage 136 the fifth

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

is, by experienced magicians. hence, the following recommendations. the religion of the ancient sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion- or religion- magickal structure- of the night, of darkness in a sense. invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing necronomicon demons and intelligences. for instance, the kaddish prayer of the jewish faith contains some solar elements that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the lord's prayer for christians is also a workable method. we suggest that individual operators utilise an equivalent solar (i.e, positive light) invocation from their own religion or the religion of their ancestors, should the no longer have a religion or should they have changed it in th

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

riting each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

e. the right-hand sides to the element of the rank in this order: air, water, earth, fire. liber lxxxiv 15 iv follows plate ix, the alphabet in which all this is written.18 it is the alphabet of the angelic language. the invocations which we possess in that tongue follow in their due place [it is called also enochian, as these angels claimed to be those which conversed with the patriarch enoch of jewish fable.19] enochian a a alphabet b b c c, k d d e e f f g g h h i i, y l l m m n n o o p p q q r r s s t t u u, v, w x x z z plate ix. the symbolic representation of the universe 16 v the thirty thyrs or aires and their divisions and angels are as follows [we omit for the present consideration of the parts of the earth to which they are stated to correspond, and the question of the attributi

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

a well-known story quoted in several treatises of psychology in which the heroine is an ignorant english servant girl of quite inferior intelligence, and unacquainted with any language, even her own. in the course of a fever, she became delirious, and proceeded to reel off long passages of scholarly hebrew. investigations showed that in her first youth she had been for a time in the service of a jewish rabbi who had been accustomed to declaim his sermons in the hearing of the girl. although attaching no meaning to the words, she had stored them mechanically in her subconscious memory, to be reproduced when the action of the fever excited the group of cells where they were recorded> our praeter-human intelligence 256 must convey a truth not known to any human mind, past or present. yet thi

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

w can you talk of "anachronism" when the being is eternal? for the type of energy is eternal. every name is a number: and "every number is infinite; there is no difference (al i, 4. but one name, or system of names, may be more convenient either (a) to you personally or (b) to the work you are at. e.g. i have magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 32 very little sympathy with jewish theology or ritual; but the qabalah is so handy and congenial that i use it more than almost any- or all the others together- for daily use and work. the egyptian theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical, the most bound to me (or rather i to it) by some inmost instinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as ankh-f-n-khonsu, that i use it (with its graeco-phoenician child) for all wo

ption of that mood which should lead every truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape from the 33* anti-semite writers in europe- e.g. weininger- call the black theory and practice judaism, while by a curious confusion, the same ideas are called christian among anglo-saxons. in 1936 e.v. the "nazi" school began to observe this fact. 34* n.b. christianity was in its first stage a jewish communism, hardly distinguishable from marxism. 52 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 93 ferule of the black schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the white mistress of life. let us leave the sinister figure of schopenhauer for the mysteriously radiant shape of spinoza! this latter philosopher, in respect at least of his pantheism, represents fairly enough the fu

to active, eager children, not to dullards that hated the idea of "lessons" so with pretty well everything; we first excited the child's will in the desired direction. but (you ask) are there any special branches of learning which you regard as essential for all? yes. our old unvalued friend st. paul, the cunning crook who turned the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 250 jewish communism of the apostles into an international ramp, saw in a vision a man from macedonia who said "come over and help us" this time it has been a woman from california, but the purport of her plaints was identical. much as i should like to see my father the sun once more before i die, nothing doing until- if ever- life recovers from the blight of regulations. luckily, one thing she said h

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

at all" as the magical book was the record of the past, so is the magick bell the prophecy of the future. the manifested shall repeat itself again and again, always a clear thin note, always a simplicity of music, yet ever less and less disturbing the infinite silence until the end. 112 chapter xv the lamen the breastplate of lamen of the magician is a very elaborate and important symbol. in the jewish system we read that the high priest was to wear a plate with twelve stones, for the twelve tribes of israel (with all their correspondences, and in this plate were kept the urim and thummin<divination> the modern lamen is, however, a simple plate which (being worn over the heart) symbolize

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

of 1 my studies as comprehensive as possible, omitting no school of thought however unimportant or repugnant. i made a critical examination of all these teachers in the light of my practical experiences. the physiological and psychological uniformity of mankind guaranteed that the diversity of expression concealed a unity of significance. this discovery, furthermore, was confirmed by reference to jewish, greek and celtic traditions. one quintessential truth was common to all cults, from the hebrides to the yellow sea, and even the main branches proved essentially identical. it was only the foliage that exhibited incompatibility. when i walked across china in 1905-6, i was fully armed and accoutred by the above qualifications to attack the till-then-insoluble problem of the chinese concepti

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

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 communists 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

four hundred, say, put no parents on their guard? i think, at the best, it is a case of little tommy who told his mother that therewere millions of cats on the wall of the 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 w

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

hey only carry you five miles in the hour: let us refuse to walk; let us ride horseback. so the horse is 'wrong' compared to the train and the motor-car; and these are 'wrong' to the aeroplane. if speed had been the atlantean's object, he would have thought aeroplanes 'wrong' and all else too, so long as the speed of light was not surpassed by him. curious survivals of these laws are found in the jewish transcript of the egyptian code, which they, being a slave race, interpreted in the reverse manner "thou shalt not make any graven image" every male child on attaining manhood, had a graven image given him to worship, a miracle-working image, whose principle exploits he would tattoo upon it "remember the sabbath day and keep it holy" the atlantean kept one day in seven for all purposes unco

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

stands plain, even to sceptical reason- indeed, most of all to the sceptic- that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam, the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. i take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another o

to another. such is my intimate individual will. it seems as thou this "god of war and of vengeance" is then merely one who shall cause men to do their won wills by going as gods do, instead of trying to check the irresistible course of nature) p. s. el ouid algeria an xx sol in sagittarius. the terror of syria in the reign of oman was the great soldier and administrator melekh-al-astar. possibly jewish mothers used to scare their crying babies by threatening them with this "demon of the desert" and the rabbins incorporated the "bogey man" in their averse hierarchy. al iii,4 "choose ye an island" the old comment 4. an island= one of the cakkrams or nerve-centres in the spine. the new comment 4-9. this is a practical instruction; and, as a 'military secret, is not in any way soever to be di

r 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 absent-minded bigotry. no chance that any intelligent person would accept his opinions without repeated trial! in some versions of "liber aleph" the passage "never marry a nigger" appears after c

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

bolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom god says, my name is in him. with regard to gematria of phrases (gen. xlix, 10, hlyc aby, yeba shiloh= 358, which is the numeration of the word jycm, messiah.4 thus also the passage, gen. xviii. 2 hclc hnhw, 3 i.e. the kaballah unveiled. as scholem (major trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually fairly minor in the scheme of the zohar (a reasonably complete english translation of which occupies five quarto volumes) t.s. 4 the quote from genesis, in jacob s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discussed later in this article

ry letter of the word tycarb, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain hrwt larcy wlbqyc \yhla har tycarb, be-rashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo 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 w

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

ter of the word brashith, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain brashith rah alhim shiqblv ishral thvrh, berashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo 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

the historian; yet this is the first condition of the life of a magus, like the disappearance of salmon from rivers. unless one went back to the sea pretty often, those silver scales would blacken. many other matter, too, would have suggested their own explanation. however, the historian's native with has gone very far to supply him with motives for cagliostro. what puzzles fools, whether they be jewish, russian, french, or naturalised englishmen, in estimating the actions of an adept, is this; they have not the smallest notion of what he loves, or even of what he sees. cagliostro is fortunate in finding a student with good sense and perspicacity. it is only a step from cagliostro's vindication (successfully accomplished in this book) to his triumph. mr trowbridge will come one day to see

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

path should run away with me. therefore i think it may fairly be counted unto me for righteousness. i now drink a final coffee and retire, to do i hope a more straightforward type of meditation. so mote it be. naked, maryt looks like corregio's antiope. her eyes are a strange grey, and her hair a very wonderful reddish gold a colour i have never seen before and cannot properly describe. she has jewish blood in her, i fancy; this, and her method of illustrating the axiom "post coitum animal triste" made me think of baudelaire's "une nuit que j'etais pr s d'une affreuse juive" and the last line obscurcir la splendeur des tres froides prunelles. and barbey d'aurevilly's "rideau cramoisi" suggested to me the following poem.[we omit this poem. ed. 11.30. done! i' th' rough! i' th' rought! now

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

ndon opinion "a competent master of words and rhythms. his esoteric style is unreasonably obscure from an intelligent plain poetry-lover's standpoint "morning leader "a charming volume of poems. pagan glamour. passion and vigour 'sigurd's songs' are commendable for dealing with the all too largely neglected scandinavian theology. a scholarly disciple. the entire volume is eminently recommendable "jewish chronicle "a gorgeous rhapsody. fortunately, there are the police. on the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting "light "sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase-"times "poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. a neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist "liverpoo

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

the realisation that he himself is not simply an accumulation of physical atoms, a material something, and a tangible body, but that latent within him is a consciousness, a power, and a psychic nature which link him to all other members of the human family, and to a power outside himself which he must perforce explain. this it is which has led, for instance, to the evolution of the christian and jewish point of view, which posits a god outside the solar system, who created it, but was himself extraneous to it. these systems of thought teach that the world has been evolved by a power or being who has built the solar system, and who guides the worlds aright, keeping our little human life in the hollow of his hand, and "sweetly ordering" all things according to some hidden purpose which it i

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

ness of the cosmic christ. 3. the higher realisation of unity follows upon this sense of duality, and in this final stage the sense of being soul and body is lost. the consciousness identifies itself with the indwelling life of the planet and of the solar system. when this happens, there is the registering of a state of being which lies beyond word, mind and form expression of any kind. the great jewish seer sought to convey these three stages in the words, i am that i am. he thus expressed them tritely and succinctly and adequately, had we but the development to know it. the third (however understood) defies expression, and hints at a fourth type of realisation which is that of deity itself, about which it profits us not to speculate. 2. life-quality -appearance in our study of the rays i

will be found that, in the elusive following to its source of that mysterious revelation which we call beauty, there will be expressed that subtle quality of which "smell" in the animal sense, is the symbol. the great search and the esoteric "following of the scent" will come to an end. this fourth ray is pre-eminently the way of the seeker, the searcher and the sensitive reflector of beauty. the jewish nation has a close relation to this fourth ray and to the fourth root race, and hence their eminence at this time in the world of art, and hence the magnitude of their endless symbolic wandering and searching. when the knowledge of god shall shine forth universally (and this is not the knowledge of, or awareness of a great being but the expression through human instrumentality of the divine

ion. the soul pattern in the states today works out through the acquisitiveness of the nation and its love of possessions which it attracts to itself through the misuse of the law of love. the eventual expression of this will be the changing of the attitude which loves the material into that which loves the real, and the acquisition of the things of the spirit instead of those of the form. b. the jewish problem in connection with the nations and the rays i want now to indicate to you certain fundamental conditions which partially account for the (so-called) jewish problem, a problem which has existed for centuries, and which is, at this time, causing the deepest possible concern to many, including members of the planetary hierarchy. if this problem can be solved, it will be one of the pote

ithout the cooperation of the men of good will throughout the world. there is little that i can say anent this matter that can be checked and proved, for the clue to the problem is to be found back in the very night of time and, literally, when the sun was in the constellation gemini. at that time the two pillars were set up which, as all masons know, are two great landmarks in masonry. hence the jewish colouring of all the masonic work, though it is not jewish in the sense that that word conveys today. who, therefore, if the facts are of such ancient import, shall say that i speak with accuracy, or establish the right or wrong nature of my conclusions? i but present the facts as i know them from my access to records more ancient than any known to man. the personality ray, the material for

ing of all the masonic work, though it is not jewish in the sense that that word conveys today. who, therefore, if the facts are of such ancient import, shall say that i speak with accuracy, or establish the right or wrong nature of my conclusions? i but present the facts as i know them from my access to records more ancient than any known to man. the personality ray, the material form ray 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

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

nning of that astronomical age which we call "the piscean age" because, during this period of approximately two thousand years, our sun is passing through that sign in the zodiac which we call pisces, or the fishes. hence the frequent references to fishes, and the appearance of the symbol of the fish in christian literature, including the new testament. this piscean age comes between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherein the sun was passing through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the ram or the scapegoat in the old testament teaching, and

of the plan and of the racial response can be traced quite clearly in the development of the god idea. first, god was a far-away, anthropomorphic deity, unknown and unloved, but regarded with awe and fear, and worshipped as the deity expressing himself through the forces of nature. as time elapsed, this distant god drew a little nearer to his people, taking on a more human colouring until, in the jewish dispensation, we find him much like ourselves, but still the wrathful, ethical ruler, and still obeyed and feared. he approached still nearer as time went on; and before the advent of christianity men recognised him as the beloved krishna of the hindu faith, and as the buddha. then the christ came to the west. god himself was seen incarnate among men. the distant had become the near, and th

is dismissed in a very few words. only one episode is related, and that is the one in which jesus, having reached the age of twelve years, was taken up by his mother to the temple of the lord and there, for the first time, gave indication of his vocation, and evidenced the realisation that a mission was pre-ordained for him. prior to this, his parents had conformed to all the requirements of the jewish ritual; they had also sojourned in egypt. of his time there, we are told nothing. all that we know is covered by the words "they returned into galilee to their own city nazareth. and the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of god was upon him."60 students would do well to remember that the number twelve is regarded by the esotericists of all faiths as s

xperienced and not to be dreamed; something to enter into and not to vision. christ's reply each time should be viewed in this triple manner "it is written" he says, and the- 74- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust unthinking and small-minded regard this as endorsing the verbal inspiration of the scriptures. but surely, he was not referring back only to the ancient sayings of the jewish scriptures, beautiful as they are. the possibilities of error are too great to warrant our unquestioning acceptance of every word in any scripture in the world. when the processes of translation are studied this becomes glaringly apparent. christ meant something much deeper than "the bible says" he meant that the signature of god was upon him; that he was the word, and that that word was th

re frequently used in this connection when considering the fixed cross of the cosmic saviour. scorpio is the serpent of illusion from which the christ nature finally frees us, and it is to the illusory wiles of this serpent scorpio that adam succumbed in the garden of eden. the "face of the ox" is the biblical symbol for the sign taurus, the bull, which was the religion immediately antedating the jewish revelation, and which found its exponents in egypt and in the mithraic mysteries. upon this fixed cross all the world saviours, not excepting the christ of the west, have been eternally crucified, as reminders to man of the divine intent based upon the divine sacrifice. the early fathers recognised this truth, and realised that the story written in the heavens had a definite relation to hum

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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 "drift" of the forces, flowing into the human mechanism was in the dire

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ust 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. your soul ray focusses itself in and through your astral body and your personality ray does the same. hence your problem and hence th

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

te 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 one humanity will take th

ial faults may be entirely the result of the point reached in evolution, of unfair environing conditions and of a certain type of temperament, as is the case with the negro minority in the united states of america, which leaves them basically not responsible for the difficulty; or the responsibility of the struggling minority may be far greater than it is willing to admit, as is the case with the jewish minority in the world who are an ancient and civilized people with a full culture of their own, plus certain inherent characteristics which may account for much of their trouble. the difficulty again may be largely a historical one and based upon certain essential incompatibilities such as those which can exist between a conquered and a conquering people, between a militant group and a nega

ice and fair play, full 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 const

nt 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 the world are on the side of the negro. 1. the jewish problem this problem is so old and so well known that it is difficult to say anything about it which will not be in the nature of a platitude, that will not indicate a bias of some kind (from the point of view of the reader) and that will not arouse in the jewish reader above all an undesirable reaction. there is little usefulness, however, in saying that which will be acceptable or which a

d people are on guard against him and his methods. this general statement is often untrue where the individual jew is concerned. there are jews in every nation and locality who are deeply loved by all who know them, whether jew or gentile, who are respected by all around them, who are sought after and valued. these belong to the great spiritual aristocracy of humanity, and though they function in jewish bodies and bear jewish names, they join forces with men and women gathered out of all nations who belong to humanity and who have outgrown national and racial characteristics. these men and women are, as a group, the hope of humanity, the guarantee of the new and better world for which we all wait; their numbers are increasing daily. in a broad generalization about any race or nation, the

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

nto significances. these facts will condition the reappearance of the christ and tend to a more rapid spreading of the news of his coming and the contents of his message- 7- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust today, when he comes, he will find a world uniquely free from the grip and hold of ecclesiasticism; when he came before, palestine was held in the vicious grasp of the jewish religious leaders, and the pharisees and the sadducees were to the people of that land what the potentates of the church are to the people in the world today. but there has been a useful and wholesome swing away from churchianity and from orthodox religion during the past century, and this will present a unique opportunity for the restoration of true religion and the presentation of a simpl

eign atmosphere and into a situation wherein all his divine resources will be needed, and will have to be tried out to the uttermost. the generally accepted idea that he will return as a triumphant warrior, omnipotent and irresistible, has surely no basis in fact. that he will ultimately lead his people, humanity, into jerusalem is a fact, founded on a secure foundation, but it will not be into a jewish city called jerusalem but into "the place of peace (as the word "jerusalem" means. a careful consideration of the world situation today and a dedicated use of the imagination will reveal to the sincere thinker how appalling is the task which he has undertaken. but he has again "set his face to go to jerusalem (luke ix.51) he will re-appear and guide mankind into a civilisation and a state o

testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colours jewish history. the fact that christ was the teacher of the new period into which the sun was entering, the period of pisces, is forgotten, but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology which runs consistently through all four gospels; the symbol of the fish is the astrological symbol for the sign pisces, and has been for untold ages. but christ also looked ahead to the work he would have to do i

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 the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented himself to them as their messiah, ma

ed 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 the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented himself to them as their messiah, manifesting through the jewish race. in the rejection of the christ as the messiah, the jewish race has remained symbolically and practically in the sign aries, the scapegoat; they have to pass again speaking symbolically 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 r

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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 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 h

s, as yet, of determining the date, for instance, of the birth of a nation or of a race. boundaries are not determining factors nor is history itself, as now given, an adequate guide. as said above, some nations are entities and demonstrably so, as, for instance, france or japan; others have been great and powerful nations but are so no longer, but the strain is there, and of these, india and the jewish race are illustrations. other nations are, relatively speaking, very modern, as for instance the german nation, yet the strain is very ancient. strains, types, races, nations, branches and sub-branches produce a bewildering kaleidoscope before which astrology necessarily stands confused. but to the eye of the enlightened esotericist, certain entities emerge clearly and form the nations of t

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as you are and as eager for the achievement of the right attitude as you feel yourself to be. this is something often forgotten and i would remind you of it. i might also illustrate this point by pointing out to you that the hatred or the dislike (if hatred is too strong a word) that any of you may feel for the activities of the german government, 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

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f capricorn, once that summit has been reached. it is at the transfiguration initiation that this vision appears before the eyes of the astounded disciple. the great experiences upon the various mountain tops as related in the bible have all to do with capricorn. moses, the lawgiver on mount sinai, is saturn in capricorn imposing the law of karma upon the people. a clue to the significance of the jewish people as a karmic clearing house can be found here. ponder on those words "a karmic clearing house" the mount of transfiguration in the new testament is venus in capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person of the christ, and "he was transfigured" before all men. at the same time, he received the vision of the father and of what he had to do as he "went up to jerusalem" the pla

he influences of gemini is strikingly borne out if the significance of masonry is studied. this world-wide institution was as i have earlier told you organised under the influence and impulse of this sign and is governed by it in a most unusual manner. the format or exoteric symbolism of masonry has frequently been changed during the millenia of years through which it has been active. its present jewish colouring is relatively modern and not necessarily enduring, but its significance and its history of unfoldment are the history of the indwelling christ consciousness and of that inner light, and this must unalterably be continued. that which has entered through the two pillars of hercules, the disciples (jachin and boaz, and through the sign gemini, has entered to stay. apart from the impo

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

e people of this little town. mildred was ten days overdue; the temperature was 112 degrees on my porch; the twelve children next door were terribly noisy; i had been very ill for days; and then the cesspool fell in. i pictured dorothy, who was then two and a half, trotting about and falling into the cesspool. walter was no help. he just disappeared about his parochial duties. i had a good little jewish nurse who was getting frightened about me and kept phoning for the doctor who delayed coming. the door suddenly opened and, without knocking, the saloon keeper's wife walked in. she gave me one look and then strode over to the telephone and from house to house chased the doctor until she caught him and ordered him to come at once. she then tucked dorothy under her arm, nodded to me, assured

one 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, except through the slow process of evolution and a planned educational campaign. i have no anti-jewish feeling; some of my most beloved friends such as dr. assagioli, regina 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 the

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 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

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 advantage of the gentiles. but the jewish religion lays no emphasis upon immortality or upon the life after death, and this is true because i have 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 t

rved, 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 are absolutely true although from the standpoint of an individual

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ituted, carried forward, endorsed, omitted to do or has done right through the ages until the present moment. today, the harvest is ripe and mankind is reaping what it has sown, preparatory to a fresh ploughing in the springtime of the new age, with a fresh sowing of the seed which will (let us pray and hope) produce a better harvest. the outstanding evidence of the law of cause and effect is the jewish race. all nations prove this law, but i choose to refer to the hebrew peoples because their history is so well known and their future and their destiny are subjects of worldwide, 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 t

mmand. 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; 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

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 jewish race would recall, therefore, their high symbolic destiny, and if the rest of humanity would see themselves in the jewish people, and if both 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

oblem, and together they will cooperate to bring to an end the wrong attitudes on both sides. all karma of evil nature is solved by the presentation of an accepting will, a cooperative love, a frank acknowledgment of responsibility and a skillful adjustment 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

st 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 that just as the kabbalah and the talmud are secondary lines of esoteric approach to truth, and materialistic in their technique (embodying much of the magical w

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omething 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- education in the new age co

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ill aid you in entering somewhat into the mind of god, thus permitting you to penetrate at least into that "area of promise" upon which all spiritual hope, all expectancy and the dynamic intention behind the evolutionary process depend. the "halls of initiation (to speak again in symbols) in which the initiate demonstrates his redemptive quality are the true "promised land" the whole story of the jewish people is based upon a recognition of this fundamental truth; it is, however, distorted by them into a form of individual and racial possessiveness, owing to the profound materialistic selfishness of the race. they give to the entire, eternal hope (which is the hope of all the sons of mind) a material and racial distortion and a purely material objective the objective of territory. all this

possessiveness, owing to the profound materialistic selfishness of the race. they give to the entire, eternal hope (which is the hope of all the sons of mind) a material and racial distortion and a purely material objective the objective of territory. all this is, in its turn, founded upon the arrogance, the aggressive nature and the lack of true perspective which are basic characteristics of the jewish people, in spite of many exceptions. the "area of promise" wherein the divine thought is projected, directed and held true to the originating impulse of the planetary logos is to be found on cosmic levels and remains there unchangeably. it is that which holds sanat kumara, in his council chamber at shamballa, standing steadfastly by all those lives which are undergoing redemption and by all

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

es which tend to increase the already prevalent tension in the world are: 4. the forces of materialism, streaming out into the three 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 t

type of energy the energy of focussed and directed hate, of separation, 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 o

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 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

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 the problem in one vast humanitarian situation. when that happens, the problem will be rapidly solved and one of the major difficul

e nursery for the seeds of separativeness and why this remnant 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 o

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

ibutes are realised as existing and recognised as aspects, it is not possible for the name of the law which embodies the law of freedom to be given, for there is no word in our language adequately available. the above information will, however, link sirius and our little planet, the earth, in your minds. masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long ante-dating the jewish dispensation, was organised under direct sirian influence and modelled as far as possible on certain sirian institutions and bearing a slight resemblance also to our hierarchical life as seen in the light of the eternal now. its "blue lodge" with its three degrees is related to the three major groups of lives on sirius, for there are there no kingdoms of nature, such as we possess; these gr

ourth path. down the ages, the masonic tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time, reinterpreting its words of power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its original beauty and intent. the time has now come, under cyclic law and in preparation for the new age, for certain changes to be worked by masons with spiritual understanding. the present jewish colouring of masonry is completely out of date and has been preserved far too long, for it is today either jewish or christian and should be neither. the blue lodge degrees are entirely jewish in phrasing and wording, and this should be altered. the higher degrees are predominantly christian, though permeated with jewish names and words. this too should end. this jewish colouring is today o

he 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, which worked originally through hitler and his evil gang. the "sealing" of that door had not been successfully accomplished, and it is the part of wisdom to discover this in time. these forces of evil work through a triangle of evil, one point of which

rms and formulas in such a manner that the spiritual possibilities, symbolically indicated, will emerge with greater clarity and a deepened spiritual potency; the coming form of masonry in the new age will necessarily rest upon the foundation of a newly interpreted and enlightened christianity, having no relation to theology and being universal in nature. its present form, resting as it does on a jewish foundation which is nearly five thousand years old, must disappear. this must take place, not because it is jewish, but because it is old and reactionary and has not followed the evolutionary passage of the sun through the zodiac. that passage should and does symbolise human evolution, and just as the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness was their reverting to a dispensation and

evolution, and just as the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness was their reverting to a dispensation and religious ritual which had passed and gone (the religion of the people in the time of taurus, the bull, symbolised by their falling down and worshipping the golden calf, so today modern masonry is in line to do the same; and the ancient usages and forms, consistent and right in the jewish dispensation, are now obsolete and should be abrogated. it is equally true of the jewish race that in the rejection of the christ as the messiah they have remained, metaphorically and practically, in the sign of aries, the ram, or of the scapegoat; they have yet to pass into the sign (again speaking symbolically) of pisces, the fishes, and recognise their messiah when he again comes in the

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

erge. we can say, for instance, that between four and five thousand years ago the sun was somewhere in the sign taurus, the bull. then we had the worship of the bull in egypt and in india, and the sacrifice of the sacred ox, as in the mysteries of mithras. approximately two thousand years before the birth of christ, astronomers tell us, the sun passed into the sign aries, the ram or lamb, and the jewish dispensation came into being. at that time, therefore, we have the inauguration of the jewish passover and the lamb sacrifice. it is interesting to note in this connection the true significance of the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness. we read that they made a golden calf and fell down and worshipped it, thus reverting in this act to ancient forms and sacrifices. their sin con

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ere 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 been kept curiously distinct both from the exoteric pentateuchal mosaic books, and from the ever-growing co

touched on by the hebrew system, or are excluded by differences of a fundamental nature: such as the cosmogony of other worlds, unless the destroyed worlds of unbalanced force refer to these; the inviolability of law, as karma, is not a prominent feature; reincarnation is taught, but the number of re-births is limited generally to three. some small part of the kabalistic doctrine is found in the jewish talmud, but in that collection of treatises there is some grossness that is absent from the true kabalah; such are the theories of the debasement of men into animal forms; and of men to be re-born as women, as a punishment for earthly sins in a previous life. it must be remembered that many points of doctrine are limited to the teachings of but a few rabbis; and that the differences between

the hebrews, the foundation dogmas are doubtless almost as old as the first promulgation of the main principles of the worship of jehovah. i cannot now attempt any glance at the contentions 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

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 solomonic r gime, it was then that they wrote the pentateuch. the renewed worship maintained until 320 b.c, when jerusalem was captured by ptolemy soter, who, however, did not destroy the foundations of the jewish religion; indeed his successor, ptolemy philadelphus, caused the hebrew 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 ma

uries 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 vicissitudes, the hebrew old testament survived, yet must almost unavoidably have had many alterations and additions made to its s

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ould not have been pure invention. the antecedent material would then have been worked over and adapted to masonic purposes, inspired by the oration of ramsay. it is to be presumed that when this speculation is left to stand at its value, there is no critical mind which will dream of an authentic element in hugh de payen's supposed discovery of the powder of projection at or about the site of the jewish temple. this romantic episode stands last in a series of similar fictions which are to be found in the history of alchemy. when we are led to infer therefore by the records before me that the chapter of clermont reached its end circa 1763, we shall infer that it was in a position no longer to carry on the pretence of possessing and being able to communicate at will the great secret of alche

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

ognition of one's path as a *real> religion has been an issue in the neo-pagan community for quite a while. yes, from its initial incorporation, the temple of set is a legal religious corporation within the state of california, and it is fully tax exempt (i believe most of us would gladly do away with the tax exemption of all religious organizations, losing our own if it meant that all christian, jewish, hindu, scientologist, and other religions also paid their fair taxes. but as long as they are tax exempt, we'll save our money this way also) yes, setian priests are able to perform legally binding marriage ceremonies. 3.2 set set is the most ancient name for the prince of darkness, given to the prince of darkness in ancient (pre-dynastic) egypt. whether set exists as an independent metaph

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

ike the torrent of a violent stream. the fourth book of occult philosophy it is written in the bible that samael/satan fell from heaven as lightening, being a flash downwards, who before the fall, was a guarding seraph around the throne of god. after his fall he was a master of death, the very poison of god yet he was also a giver of life, being the father between fallen angel and woman. in later jewish writings, samael is associated with the name malkira, which morris jastrow jr. associated with malik- ra, being the evil angel and the name matanbuchus, being a form of angro-mainyush or ahriman. here does the circle become closed and the nature of the first angel become perceived or sensed. in ongoing ritual work, the magician begins identifying his or herself with samael (and lilith) with

lso by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the first pairikas or faeries/witches, in their beautiful appearances, invited the sons of seth (children of god) and copulated with them, bearing other children. this jewish folklore presents the earliest forms of the witches sabbat as a luciferian celebration and practice of sexual magick. to philo, likewise, cain is the type of avarice, of "folly and impiety("de cherubim" xx, and of self-love("de sacrificiis abelis et caini "quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat" 10 "he built a city (gen. iv. 17) means that "he built a doctrinal system of law-lessness, insol

ilt a doctrinal system of law-lessness, insolence, and immoderate indulgence in pleasure("de posteritate" 15; and the epicurean philosophers are of the school of cain "claiming to have cain as teacher and guide, who recommended the worship of the sensual powers in preference to the powers above, and who practiced his doctrine by destroying abel, the expounder of the opposite doctrine (ib. 11. the jewish encyclopedia, compiled by kaufmann kohler, w. h. bennett, louis ginzberg herein we can see that cain is thus a flesh and blood embodiment of the luciferian path itself, he is the son of satan and lilith, the dark essence which is deeply connected with eve, the wife of adam. cain is not only the patron father of witches, also the symbol of the initiate upon the antinomian path. nathaniel har

mplete. foundations of skir-hand witchcraft the suggestions of the foundation of sorcery and cunning craft is from the earliest legends, memories and mythology of mankind. cain who wandered east to the land of nod became essentially, according to the truth of the circle the first satanist and witch, whose children beget children and the blood line of the cunning were born. it is suggested in some jewish lore that the daughters of cain were the ones to seduce or copulate with the fallen angels, the watchers. it is beginning with the watchers that the balanced aspects of angelic and satanic magick are found it is the very atavistic depths in which this bloodline still rests deep within our psyche, along with the serpents and therion-atavisms within our flesh. the book of enoch, translated fr

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nt nara- is shown in one of the oldest carvings as double-sexed (vishnu and lakshmi) standing on a lotus-leaf floating on the water; which water rises in a semicircle and pours through the svastica "the source of generation" or of the descent of man. pythagoras calls sukra-venus the sol alter "the other sun" of the "seven palaces of the sun" that of lucifer venus is the third one in christian and jewish kabala, the zohar making of it the abode of samael. according to the occult doctrine, this planet is our earth's primary, and its spiritual prototype. hence, sukra's car (venus-lucifer's) is said to be drawn by an ogdoad of "earth-born horses" while the steeds of the chariots of the other planets are different "every sin committed on earth is felt by usanas-sukra. the guru of the daityas is

l, 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 it becomes rather difficult to confine adam to the mosaic bible alone, and to see therein simply a jewish name. vide part ii. of this volume "adam-adami" there is frequent confusion in the attributes and genealogies of the gods in their theogonies, as given to the world by the half-initiated writers, brahmanical and biblical, the alpha and the omega of the records of that symbolical science. yet there could be no such confusion made by the earliest nations, the descendants and pupils of the div

n) of the divine father, or the creator" for the words "am" and "om" meant at one time in nearly every language the divine, or the deity. thus adam kadmon and adam-adami came to mean "the first emanation of the father-mother or divine nature" and literally "the first divine one" and it is easy to see that ad-argat (or aster't, the syrian goddess, the consort of ad-on, the lord god of syria or the jewish adonai, and venus, isis, ishtar, mylitta, eve, etc, etc, are identical with the aditi and vach of the hindus. they are all the "mothers of all living" and "of the gods" on the other hand- cosmically and astronomically- all the male gods became at first "sun-gods" then, theologically, the "suns of righteousness" and the logoi, all symbolised by the sun* they are all protogonoi (the first-bor

their tenets from babylonia. the sadducees, the real guardians of the laws of moses, knew not of, and rejected, any angels, opposing even the immortality of the human soul (not impersonal spirit. in the bible the only "angels" spoken of are the "sons of god" mentioned in genesis vi (who are now regarded as the nephilim, the fallen angels, and several angels in human form, the "messengers" of the jewish god, whose own rank needs a closer analysis than heretofore given (vide supra, stanza i, sub-sections 2, 3, et seq, where it is shown that the early akkadians called ea, wisdom, that which was disfigured by the later chaldees and semites into tismat, tisalat and the thallath of berosus, the female sea dragon, now satan) truly "how art thou fallen (by the hand of man, o bright star and son o

s" in hesiod, and also the war of the asuras (or the tarakamaya) against the devas in puranic legend, are identical in all save the names. the aspects of the stars show (bentley taking the year 945 b.c. as the nearest date for such conjunction) that "all the planets, except saturn, were on the same side of the heavens as the sun and moon" and hence were his opponents. and yet it is saturn, or the jewish "moon-god" who is shown as prevailing, both by hesiod and moses, neither of whom was understood. thus it was that the real meaning became distorted- stanza ii- continued. 8. the flames came. the fires with the sparks; the night fires and the day fires (a. they dried out the turbid dark waters. with their heat they quenched them. the lhas (spirits) of the high; the lhamayin (those) of below

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. 605- xv. gods, monads, and atoms. 610 the gods of the ancients- the monads. 613 the monad and the duad. 617 the genesis of the elements. 621 hermes and huxley. 625 the teaching of leibnitz. 627 the monads according to occultism. 632- xvi. cyclic evolution and karma. 634 karmic cycles and universal ethics. 637 destiny and karma. 639 karma-nemesis. 643- xvii. the zodiac and its antiquity. 647 the jewish patriarchs and the signs of the zodiac. 651 zodiacal cycles. 656 hindu astronomy. 661- xviii. summary of the mutual position. 668 science confesses her ignorance. 669 materialism is leading europe towards a catastrophe. 675- n.b- the index and glossary will be found at the close of volume ii[[vol. 1, page xvii] introductory "gently to hear, kindly to judge- shakespeare. since the appearance

of belus, for alexander the great, from the astronomical and chronological records preserved by the priests of that temple, and covering a period of 200,000 years, it is now lost. in the first century b.c. alexander polyhistor made a series of extracts from it- also lost. eusebius used these extracts in writing his chronicon (270-340 a.d. the points of resemblance- almost of identity- between the jewish and the chaldean scriptures* made the latter most dangerous to eusebius, in his role of defender and champion of the new faith which had adopted the jewish scriptures, and with them an absurd chronology. it is pretty certain that eusebius did not spare the egyptian synchronistic tables of manetho- so much so that bunsen* charges him with mutilating history most unscrupulously. and socrates

erate forger. is it likely, then, that he dealt more tenderly with the chaldean records, which were already menacing the new religion, so rashly accepted[[footnote(s* found out and proven only now, through the discoveries made by george smith (vide his "chaldean account of genesis, and which, thanks to this armenian forger, have misled all the civilized nations for over 1,500 years into accepting jewish derivations for direct divine revelation* bunsen's "egypt's place in history" vol. i. p. 200[[vol. 1, page] xxvii introductory. so that, with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments, the entire chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost atlantis. a few facts that were contained in the berosian history are given in part ii. o

nknown to science. the oldest religions of the world- exoterically, for the esoteric root or foundation is one- are the indian, the mazdean, and the egyptian. then comes the chaldean, the outcome of these- entirely lost to the world now, except in its disfigured sabeanism as at present rendered by the archaeologists; then, passing over a number of religions that will be mentioned later, comes the jewish, esoterically, as in the kabala, following in the line of babylonian magism; exoterically, as in genesis and the pentateuch, a collection of allegorical legends. read by the light of the zohar, the initial four chapters of genesis are the fragment[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] known causeless cause" is the oldest dogma in occultism, millenniums earlier than the pater-a

h and even of the new testament, comes from the same source. but surely the pyramid of cheops, whose measurements are all found repeated by professor piazzi smythe in solomon's alleged and mythical temple, is not of a later date than the mosaic books? hence, if there is any such great identity as claimed, it must be due to servile copying on the part of the jews, not on that of the egyptians. the jewish glyphs- and even their language, the hebrew- are not original. they are borrowed from the egyptians, from whom moses got his wisdom; from the coptic, the probable kinsman, if not parent, of the old phoenician and from the hyksos, their (alleged) ancestors, as josephus shows in his "against apion" i, 25. aye; but who are the hyksos shepherds? and who the egyptians? history knows nothing of t

BOOK OF ENOCH

hebrew copies exist today, however, although there are some hebrew passages quoted in some of the aramaic fragments that survive from a few centuries bc. the appearance of the book in ethiopia, is probably due to events in jerusalem during the reign of king manasseh of judah (695- 642 bc, which are documented in the bible (2chronicles 33:1- 20, and at 2kings 21:1- 18. king manasseh was not of the jewish faith, he erected alters to baal and asherah in solomon's temple. in kings at 21:16, it says that so much innocent blood was shed that it filled jerusalem from end to end. at this time, the religious establishment left the country, taking the ark of the covenant and all the important religious texts with them. after a number of years in egypt, the refugees went further south, near to the so

BOOK OF JASHAR

ayers. then you may find peace" and abram asked "how can we be fathers of separate nations? will not my sons marry their daughters, and my daughters marry their sons" then god put a blessing on abram, and so to this day he has been called ibrahim, the father of many nations. commentary on the jashar apocryphon at the dedication of the first temple, a supreme watershed moment in the history of the jewish religion, king solomon is said to have justified the proceedings by a scriptural quote from the "book of jashar (1 kings 8.13, from the greek septuagint sources. other citations of jashar in the hebrew bible include joshua 10.13, where joshua stops the moon and the sun, and 2 samuel 1.18, where david mourns jonathan and saul. we cannot help wondering what could have been in this "straight b

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

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

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 of the craft wherever we find it. let the world know that the vario

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ngels this would be a suitable ritual for welcoming a new baby or child into a family whether in birth, by adoption or through the joining of two existing families. it may also be used for sending a teenager out into the world. you can also adapt the ritual to welcome adults into a family or help them to move on to a new phase or place. you might like to use a seven-branched candlestick, like the jewish menorah, and light a candle on seven consecutive hours throughout the day. you could carry it out on the baby's christening or naming day or on a quiet day with the teenager. alternatively, you could perform the ritual for seven days at the same hour of the day on the week before the christening or departure and make this a special family orientated hour. it does not matter in which order y

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ccultism" p. 410; hortense powdermaker, after freedom: a cultural study in the deep south (new york: viking press, 1939, pp. 294.95. on charms containing psalms and biblical verses see botkin, lay my burden down, p. 339. germanand french-language magical booklets were first published in the united states during the early nineteenth century and consulted as reference texts by healers within german jewish and pennsylvania dutch communities. eventually, english-language editions of these manuals made their way into the hands of angloand african american practitioners of folk magic. belief in the inherent supernatural power of certain books, letters, and written materials may have intensified when literacy acquired a near-sacred significance for african americans in the post-emancipation era

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

g 41) 4242 bce earliest recorded date in history (in ancient egypt. egyptian calendar which is regulated by sun and moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 bce astrology begins in mesopotamia. sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. the sun, moon and 5 visible planets are used. astrological knowledge is recorded in cuneiform on clay tablets. 3761 bc first day of jewish calendar (according to jewish sources. 3760 bc the assyrian calendar begins with the first recorded year of the "beginning of civilization (shooraya d'mdeetanayoota) as seen through the eyes of the ancient bet-nahranaye (mesopotamians. these ancient inhabitants of assyria, babylon, and sumer believed that civilization was a "gift from the gods" and it was marked from the time "kingship was

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

ch he modestly names constantinople. c.318 pachomius left his hermitage at an old serapis temple and founded the first known cenobitical or "communal type" monastery at tabennis near denderah, egypt. 325 council of nicea, can. of christian bible (to 13th cent) puranas. iamblichus: on nicomachus's introduction to arithmetic- first mention of casting out nines. ca.340-420 jerome studied hebrew with jewish instructors in bethlehem. 346 st. pachomius dies. 350-407 john chrysostom 350? abbaye jewish babylonian teacher expounds on the decans. 363 last pagan emperor julian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he consulted the oracles at the temple of the moon. 380 hephaestio of thebes. compendium, delineations of the decans and contains a very long excerpt from nechepso/pet

ian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he consulted the oracles at the temple of the moon. 380 hephaestio of thebes. compendium, delineations of the decans and contains a very long excerpt from nechepso/petosiris on detailed eclipse delineation. preserves an ancient egyptian method of prediction using the dog-star alone. c.380 sepher ha-razim (the book of the mysteries) a jewish mystical and magical grimoire from egypt. related to the sepher raziel. 385 d. st. gregory of nyssa 386: augustine (354-430, a rhetorician of north african descent currently working in milan, accepts baptism into catholic christianity from bishop ambrose of milan. 391 second burning of library at alexandria (by christians. 401 confessions of st. augustine. 404 cod. of the vulgate (latin bib

cenna) metaphysics of angelology identifies the active intellect with the angel of revelation, gabriel, the holy spirit. theory that the soul can make an impression upon "first matter (astral matter) by the vehemence of its affection and intention influenced albertus magnus (thorndike, history of magic and experimental science, ii, 731) 1039-1123 milarepa 1040-1105 rashi (rabbi solomon ben isaac; jewish sage, talmudic exegist of troyes, france c.1050 michael psellus studying in constantinople, received an annotated copy of the hermetica from a scholar from harran. 1052-1127 ibn al-sid al batalyawsi kitab al- hada'iq or "the book of imaginary circles" ladder by which the soul ascends and descends(influenced by the "epistles of the brethren of purity) popular in medieval spain and provence

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pope did open it in 1960, but we are still waiting for all of it to be made public! one thing is for sure: if it had confirmed the basis of the roman catholic religion, it would have hit the airwaves within minutes. so what did it say? i am convinced that the old testament 'god' known as yhwh (yahweh) is also based on an extraterrestrial, or more likely, a series of them. interestingly, while the jewish religion is perceived as a 'one god' faith, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the hebrew refers to adonai, the plural 'lords. jehovah, who is often interchanged with yahweh, would seem to have a different origin. another

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 edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and through that into the new testament. today's religions are the recycling of ancient beliefs and symbolic stories which have been added to and twisted under the guidance of th

oth in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars and the crusades spawned many brotherhood offshoots, which continue to significantly influence events- secret societies like the knights hospitallers of st. john, known today as the knights of malta. nor was this merely a phenomenon of the christian and jewish world. similar secret societies were created within all cultures, and the arab brotherhood grand lodge in cairo was to become a major manipulator of events. the aim of this negative brotherhood structure is to persuade the mass of the people to believe any old nonsense while the manipulators keep for themselves the knowledge of the nature of life and creation and how to exploit the power of

readneedle street (as the bank of england is called) has always been, and remains, an arm of the global elite. the rothschild representatives across the world continued to manipulate events to expand their power and to serve a longer-term agenda which mirrored that of the brotherhood: world domination. i stress here that to highlight the part played by the rothschilds is not to cast aspersions on jewish people as a whole, the vast majority of whom have no idea what is happening and certainly would not support it if they did know. many of the members of families i will name, like the rothschilds, rockefellers, and others, do not know the game plan, either. it is those who control those empires that i am seeking to expose, not everyone whose name is rothschild, rockefeller, or whatever. i be

and certainly would not support it if they did know. many of the members of families i will name, like the rothschilds, rockefellers, and others, do not know the game plan, either. it is those who control those empires that i am seeking to expose, not everyone whose name is rothschild, rockefeller, or whatever. i believe that researchers over the years who have blamed the entire conspiracy on the jewish people as a whole are seriously misguided; similarly, for jewish organisations to deny that any jewish person is working for the new world order conspiracy is equally naive and allowing dogma or worse to blind them to reality. we are looking at a common thread- a lust for power and the all-seeing eye cult- which goes across all races and, in my view, is connected- sometimes knowingly but mo

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have been denied life-saving blood transfusions because their brain-dead parents insist on conducting every aspect of their lives according to the contradictory dictates of a book purveying stories of pure fantasy. the creation of the mental and emotional sheep pen of norms, which imprisons 99% of humanity, goes on minute by minute in subtle and less subtle ways. there are children of christian, jewish, muslim, or hindu parents who don't accept the religion, but still follow it because they don't want to upset their family. then there is the almost universal fear of what people think of us if we speak a different version of reality or live a different kind of life. note that the fear for those who wish to break out of the sheep pen is not the fear of what the elite families, the illuminat

variety. these beliefs are perceived as "opposites" when, as i pointed out in my book, i am me, i am free, they are opposames. the vision of reality and possibility within the pen is so limited that it contains no opposites. so the elite have to create the perception of them to manufacture the divisions that allow them to divide and rule. i mean, what is the difference between a christian bishop, jewish rabbi, muslim or hindu priest, or a follower of buddha, imposing their beliefs on their children and others? there is none because while the belief they seek to indoctrinate may be slightly different, often very slightly, the overall theme is exactly the same- the imposition of one person's belief on another. look at the opposames in politics. the far left, as symbolised by josef stalin in

reedom and the fascists seeking a global dictatorship, you do not open your eyes to see the endless provable evidence that both "sides" were funded and controlled by the same people operating through wall street and the city of london. the story of "jesus" is another outstanding case, probably the best. the christian religion is based entirely on belief in the historical, literal, existence, of a jewish man who was born to a virgin mother, performed countless "miracles, died on a cross to save us all, disappeared from his tomb after three days, and then ascended to heaven to be with his dad. over the best part of 2,000 years, billions of lives on this planet have been controlled, limited, manipulated and directed by a belief that the jesus story actually happened. still today, vast swathes

e hand, full of symbols. among these are the all-seeing eye, symbolising, credo points out, the "watchers (the same as the illuminati image on the us dollar bill; also there is the constellation of orion, which modern researchers have constantly connected with extraterrestrial activity on earth, especially the reptilians; and a star of david, which is not, contrary to accepted belief, an ancient "jewish" symbol at all. as some jewish historians have stated, it is a far ancient symbol found all over the world, and only became associated with the jewish faith when the banking and illuminati bloodline dynasty, the rothschilds, 76 children of the matrix began to use it in the 18th century. a researcher who saw the symbols on the necklace at one of my talks, also saw the connections with the st

nd prince philip was sent to a school in germany run by the nazi youth programme (see..and the truth shall set you free and the biggest secret. phillip eugene, the rothschild offspring, says of this "aeneas" bloodline "apparently aeneas embodies all the various bloodlines that must trace their lineage back through charlemagne because in him is embodied the confluence of the lineage of both david (jewish) and alexander the great (aryan. it is the modern day representatives of these roman 'gens' or european monarchs that make up the ruling 'aristocracy' of the revived roman empire. these 'royal' families maintain their pedigree through endogamy (inter-familial marriages. the first prototype of the antichrist [the purest bloodline] was nimrod, founder of babylon. the historical and seminal ne

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is created by pressures of this magnitude. intact treeshave been found fossilised and that would be impossible unless it happened in aninstant because the tree would normally have disintegrated before it could befossilised over a long period of time.25 in fact, fossils of this kind are not formingtoday.26 they are the result of the cataclysmic events here described, desborough15says. the russian-jewish psychiatrist and writer, immanuel v elikovsky, causedoutrage among the scientific establishment in the 1950s by suggesting that the earthhad been through enormous upheavals when v enus which was then, he said, a comet,careered through this part of the solar system before settling into its present orbit.when v enus was photographed by the mariner 10 mission, many of v elikovskysdescriptions

. gargoyles are symbols of the reptilians and that iswhy you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airportis marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of theterminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesquemural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them:a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman. another girl is holding a mayantablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a greendarth v ader by alex christopher, stands over a destroyed city with a sword in his handand women are walking along a road holding dead babies. all the children of the worldare depicted taking weapons from each country and handi

fact, a reptile-human hybridand many peoples have sought to claim descendence from noah -descendence from thereptilian watchers and anunnaki. in hebrew myth, the nefilim are described as awwimwhich means devastators or serpents. in the dead sea scrolls, noah is described aslooking like the children of the (fallen) angels of heaven whose conception was (due)to the watchers. and to the nefilim. in jewish lore, eve is seen as the ancestral motherof the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake. eve was,of course, tempted by the serpent according to old testament myth and other sources. inchapter 69 of the book of enoch we find that among the watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of

n and aneed for ritual. by ritual i dont just mean dressing up in a satanic ceremony. there aremany examples of the human obsession with ritual, including doing the same things atthe same time, day after day, week after week. the reptilians have used the white raceas their main route to global control, but they have crossbred with all races includingthe chinese, japanese, arabs and those known as jewish. all this allows the reptiliansto control apparently unconnected people and organisations. it is the extraterrestrialversion of members of the same secret society working in many places of influence,while the rest of the population have no idea that they are connected. you can look at aseries of apparently different human beings in different positions of power who come tothe same conclusion

asiaminor, now turkey, and other near eastern countries, taking with them the same stories,myths, and religion. this is why, as we shall see in detail later, all the major religions tellthe same tale but using different names. they all come from the same source, this aryanrace, which seems to have originated on mars, and the reptile-human bloodlines operatingcovertly within them. what we call the jewish race also originated in the caucasus regionand not, as claimed, in israel. jewish historical and anthropological sources have shownthat only a few of the people known as jewish have any genetic connection to israel. inthe 8th century a people called the khazars living in the caucasus mountains andsouthern russia had a mass conversion to the jewish religion. later when that empirefolded, the

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e symbol. for example, a company logo would have no intrinsic power in itself; however, the company may be a powerful organization. the use of the pentagram (i.e, a five pointed star) in both white (i.e, constructive with center point up) and black (i.e, destructive with center point down) ceremonial magic is well known to those who have dabbled in the occult sciences. the christian cross and the jewish star of david are common religious symbols with certain mystic power associated with them. when first studying shape power and symbols, i wondered how a symbol could be used for both constructive and destructive purposes even to the point of questioning if the symbol really had anything at all to do with the magical processes. i have long since learned differently, and i invite you to learn

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cross. among them was the magician francis barrett, author of the magus, a classic on the subject of ceremonial magic, and eliphas levi, author of numerous books on the cabala. this was followed a century later by another occult order, known as the golden dawn, of which the magician aleister crowley was a member. the golden dawn, like the earlier rosicrucian brotherhood, explored the study of the jewish cabala, egyptian magic, and the enochian keys of dr. john dee. the cabala is a system of hebrew mysticism which identifies ten sephiroth, or emanations of god in graduated order from pure spirit to the course material world. even the shells or husks (evil spirits) are manifestations of god s power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and therefore beyond description. yahweh, according to the

e elements earth, air, fire, and water. the hebrew god was a god of physical manifestation who appeared to moses in a burning bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night 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 th

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the paitisha15 as a force to be invoked and controlled within the transformation mirrored through the ritualistic focus of the serpent within the mind and body. essentially in zoroastrian lore, zohak or azi dahaka is the second 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 fina

ed 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 means of satanic influence among his people. no doubt many of the arabs and surviving zoroastrians considered the jewish faith to be a joke propagated by ahriman. there were ten precepts of the priest zohak who was considered a part of the hebrew religion, while the actual intent of these so-called precepts of zohak are not acknowledged, the zoroastrians considered him very

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ysical or non-physical level. physical empty ones have no soul, and no hope for the future. enchant: literally "to sing into" the act of casting a magickal spell, especially through the use of muttered, recited, or chanted words of power. enochian: a system of magick channeled by dr. john dee (q.v) advisor to queen elizabeth i of england, and his assistant, edward kelley. it was attributed to the jewish patriarch, enoch by them. sometimes this system is called "angelic" the system was further developed by the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. enthusiasm: a word of greek origin, which initially meant "inspiration or possession by a god" in our context, an emotional interest which can lead to total absorption of attention in a subject and hence to some degree of "altered states of cons

s. it was able to unite several forms of magick and occult philosophy. most books on magick written in this century have been written by people who were members of that order, or who were directly or indirectly influenced by that organization. hexagram: a star of six (6) points formed by two overlapping equilateral triangles. also called the star or shield of david, it is the symbol of modern day jewish faith. in modern magick, it is used to evoke (q.v, invoke (q.v) and banish (q.v) the spirits and powers of the seven ancient planets. a celestial symbol of the macrocosm (q.v) in the greater and lesser rituals of the hexagram. see lbrh (q.v. this figure is used by members of the order of the astral star when a figure involving planetary operation requiring the applications of elemental (q.v

h sephirah (q.v, chesed (q.v. keywords include: abundance, expansion, abstract thought, excess, philosophy, religion, science, law, professions, higher learning, compassion, wisdom, long journeys, growth, generosity, santa claus, gregarious, optimism, faith, hope, lucky, gamble, happy, jovial, humor, magnanimous, counseling, charitable, extravagance- k- kabalah [kabbalah: hebrew for "tradition" a jewish mystical philosophy, the central doctrine concerns the emanation of the world from the godhead in the form of ten divine names or spheres of light. a mystical system which is the basis for western religion as well as ceremonial magick. the word is transliterated hebrew, and is spelled in english in several ways including qabala, cabala, etc. there are many different forms of the kabalah. ka

cancer (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) luna is attributed to the ninth sephirah (q.v, yesode (q.v. keywords include: emotion, response, feelings, reflected, changeable, fluctuate, protective, mother, nurture, instinctual, domestic, home, care, subconscious memory, parenting, environment, security, babyhood, public opinion, the public, masses, women. luria, isaac: famous jewish kabbalist. his prayers form part of standard jewish prayer books to this day. one of his major interests was said to be in reincarnation and the doctrine of the transmigration of souls- m- macrocosm: the greater world, or universe. distinguished from the microcosm (q.v, with which it corresponds. magick [magic: definitions of this term vary widely. 1) the art of causing change in the manife

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

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nted 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 the hindu culture. 4. the m

anding, emanates from the primordial depths of chokmah, wisdom. binah is in kether as well as chokmah "but after another manner" in pure being, formless and partless though it is, are the possibilities of both force and form; for where there is a positive pole, there is necessarily the correlative aspect of a negative pole. kether is for ever in a state of becoming. in fact, i have been told by a jewish qabalist that the real translation of eheieh, the god-name of kether, is "i will be" not "i am" this constant becoming cannot remain static, it must overflow into activity; and that activity cannot for ever remain uncorrelated within itself; it must organise; some manner of adjustment of interlocking stresses must be arrived at; thus we have the potentiality of both chokmah and binah implic

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e. 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 qabalah is almost exclusively in the hands of gentiles, and orthodox jewish scholars know little or nothing of its literature and nothing whatever of its mystical significance

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heir houses to catch demons and prevent them from entering the houses through the ground. they also made amulets with avertive verses against specific demons, such as those that might threaten the life of women during childbirth. during their period of babylonian captivity, the ancient hebrews absorbed many sumerian demons into their own folklore, and over time these were transmuted into uniquely jewish demons, such as lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct personification of the forces of nature, demons were formed by the vilification of the gods and goddesses of other cultures. many of the medieval demon

nature, demons were formed by the vilification of the gods and goddesses of other cultures. many of the medieval demons mentioned in the old testament, such as ashtaroth and baal, are the gods of middle eastern peoples other than the hebrews. the modern concept of demons owes many of its key features to the influence of christian folklore and theological doctrine, which were heavily influenced by jewish beliefs through the old testament. in christianity, a demon is not just a malicious spirit, but a spirit of hell sent to earth by the devil to enforce his authority or to carry out his purposes. just as angels are the agents of god who act with divine authority to do good works among men, so demons are the agents of lucifer who act with infernal authority to do works of evil. indeed, in jew

so long as he or she remains obedient. when a person defies the will and commandments of god, then he or she becomes prey for lucifer. under ordinary circumstances lucifer cannot directly hurt persons under god's protection, which is why he needed a special dispensation from god to injure job's property and family. however, we are able to gather from other hints in the bible and in christian and jewish folklore that lucifer is free to suggest to human beings that they voluntarily defy god. once a person does so, he or she forfeits the protection of god. then lucifer is permitted to commit injuries upon the person. what is true of lucifer himself applies to his agents, the demons. in a nutshell, this is the christian demon myth. demons are tempters of men because they are forbidden to inju

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

n used its host body to beat the jewish priests until they were compelled to flee for their lives. this story is usually interpreted to mean that only a follower of christ can cast out demons in his name, but it seems to me to indicate that a desire to be free from the demon is necessary on the part of the person possessed, and if this desire is absent, mere words and names are of little use. the jewish priests were not offering the possessed man salvation for his soul, but were merely attempting to intimidate the demon into leaving. lists of demons occur in some of the darker grimoires, notable among them the lemegeton or lesser key of solomon. this is a collection of tracts about ritual evocation and spirit magic. the first tract is named the goetia and consists of a descriptive list of

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ft's cthulhu mythos has many powerful echoes in the mythologies of ancient cultures around the world. it is probably for this reason that it struck such a chord of response in readers. we find in it similarities to the myth of the archons of gnosticism, who together with the arch devil and god, yaldabaoth, gave shape to the material world and rule over the human race. there are also echoes of the jewish myth of the fall of the angels, and more specifically of the watchers who descended to earth to sin with the daughters of mankind, and to teach their offspring forbidden arts and sciences. the legend of the fall of atlantis is in harmony with lovecraft's mythos as well, as are the more modern enochian communications of the elizabethan magician dr. john dee. the other day while i was reading

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to the church of satan it is common for new age religions to cater to those very people that are socially well-integrated [31, p. 50) a distinct group of people have received priesthood or magistrate degrees as honorary titles. most known among these are perhaps sammy davis, jr, king diamond, and marylin manson. the exact reason for their honorary titles is somewhat unclear. sammy davis, jr. was jewish; king diamond s personal belief that centers around an afterlife and the existence of a human soul seems at odds with the church of satan s fundamental stance even when the ambiguity of its ideology is considered; and marylin manson s outcast style conflicts with the church of satan s elite image and besides, he later publicly distanced himself from the church of satan. these individuals ha

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, 1989. aaron s rod a magic wand deriving from the biblical narrative of the rods of moses and aaron that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and was retained by adam after leaving the garden of eden, subsequently passing into the hands of a succession of patriarchs. an apocryphal christian legend states that the rod was cut from the tree of knowledge, eventually came into the possession of judas, and was the beam of the cross on which christ was crucified. t

returned in the form of a cart wheel, and, without giving the brother time to put himself on the defensive, rolled heavily over his body, without, however, doing him any injury. after that he left him to pursue his journey in peace. this story is related in regne de philippe le bel by robert gaguin and in histoire de la magie en france by jules garinet (1818. adamantius (ca. fourth century c.e) a jewish doctor, who became a catholic at constantinople in the time of constantine, to whom he dedicated his two volumes on physiognomy; or, the art of judging people by their faces. this work, full of contradictions and fantasies, was printed in the scriptores physiognomoniae veteres of johann g. f. franz at attembourg in 1780. adam kadmon a tree of life in the kabala in the form of an idealized s

ned 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 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 abso

that inhabit trees. akhnim a town of middle thebais, which at one time possessed the reputation of being the habitation of the greatest magicians. the french traveler paul lucas (1664.1737, in his second voyage, speaks of the wonderful serpent of akhnim, which was worshiped by the muslims as an angel, and which the christians believed to be the demon asmodeus. akiba ben joseph (ca. 50.135 c.e) a jewish rabbi of the first century, who began as a simple shepherd, then became a learned scholar, spurred by the hope of winning the hand of a young lady he greatly admired. according to jewish legend, he was taught by the elemental spirits, was a wonder worker, and at his peak had as many as 24,000 disciples. he was reputed to be the author of a famous work entitled yetzirah (on the creation, whi

e name was also given by germans to little statues of old sorceresses, about a foot high. to these they attributed great virtues, honoring them as fetishes; clothing them richly, housing them comfortably, and serving them with food and drink at every meal. they believed that if 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 persi

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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 influenced his arabic, jewish, and christian successors. it has been suggested that maimonides was sympathetic to the teachings of kabala in his late period. he died december 13, 1204. maison des spirites spiritist center founded by jean meyer, who also assisted the foundation of the institut metapsychique international (concerned with psychical research. the maison des spirites was located at 8 rue copernic, paris, and

ology (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 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

operations of the devil. boston: benjamin harris, 1693. mather, increase. essay for the recording of illustrious provinces. boston, 1684. mathers, moina (1865.1928) moina mathers, a leading member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, was largely responsible for the rituals of this ground-breaking magical organization. born on feburary 28, 1865, as mina bergson, she was the daughter of jewish parents and the sister of noted philosopher henri bergson. her brother was a professor at the university of paris, the winner of a nobel prize (1927, and president of the society of psychical research. he authored the noted volume creative evolution, in which he articulated his theory of elan vital, or life urge, an idea integral to magical thought. the elan vital was analogous to the subtl

ld in darkness, but the medium allowed himself to be fastened into a sack. quanties of flowers and stones were apported to sitters. the operators were said to be oriental entities: curadiasamy, a hindu, who spoke with a foreign accent; lissipan, a young indian buddhist; and amakai, a man from china. quirinus, who claimed to be a roman christian of the time of diocletian, and abraham hirschkron, a jewish merchant from mahren, were other picturesque controls. by occupation melzer was a small tobacconist. it is said that at one time he was an actor, which may account for his powers of declamation under control. he visited the british college of psychic science in 1923 and in 1926. owing to a significant development in his mediumship, he was able to sit in good white or red light. in 1923 he w

rio, titled metoposcopia, libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa: cui accessis melampodia de navis corporis tractatus graece et latine nunc primum editus (lutetiae parisorum, 1658. although his interpretations were confined to lines in the forehead (coupled with astrology, his ideas were a forerunner of the physiognomy of j. k. lavater (1741.1801. metratton according to jewish rabbinical legend, the angel metratton is one of the agents by whom god the father works. he receives the pure and simple essence of the divinity and bestows the gift of life upon all. he dwells in one of the angelic hierarchies. metropolitan spiritual churches of christ the metropolitan spiritual churches of christ was a spiritualist church operating in the african american community in th

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the stalls, he and his wife ven- 96 extraterrestrials among us tured into womrath s bookstore on manhattan s lexington avenue. as he related to new york writer tracy cochran, the two noticed a very short couple, bundled up in winter clothes, looking over a copy of communion and complaining about how strieber had gotten things wrong. they spoke rapidly in what sounded like educated upper east side jewish accents. when lee introduced himself as a william morrow employee and asked politely what it was they did not like about the book, the man ignored him, but the woman communicated such complete loathing, hatred that the lees retreated in shock (conroy, 1989. they noticed that the strange couple were wearing large tinted glasses that did not entirely hide large dark, almond-shaped eyes. lee l

ock guitarist carlos santana. santana claims that metatron was responsible for the restoration of his career in 1999 and 2000. during a meditation session metatron told him, we want to hook you back to the radio-airwave frequency and to reconnect the molecules to the light, presumably meaning renewed airplay and popular attention (gates and gordon, 2000. the name metatron comes out of traditional jewish mysticism, where metatron is depicted as an archangel, perhaps the highest of them all. some mystics believe that on earth he was the prophet enoch whom god took directly to heaven without the transi- metatron 173 tional detail of dying. other sources assert that it was he who led the israelites through the wilderness after the exodus. further reading arvey, michael, 1994. metatron. http//w

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ought here in love; the eternal-womanly draws us above. fi wthis chart shows the correlations between the sinatic hebrew, ezra hebrew, and rashi aramaic alphabets. the numerical value assigned to each letter by the qabalah, and the english equivalents are also listed. my wonderful mother and father, may the lord be pleased with their souls, steeped our family life in the extraordinary richness of jewish culture and its religious traditions. my brother and i attended hebrew school from a young age, and we regularly attended services and holiday celebrations at our local synagogue. i treasure the memories of receiving my father s blessing before the ark of the torah on the occasion of my bar mitzvah,1 and observing my mother lighting candles on the sabbath. but, as my heart opened and mind d

es drawn largely from the hermetic qabalah. with all due respect, i found much of the material in the rabbinical writings to be obscure, convoluted, and quasi-philosophical. few of the rabbinical sources described actual mystical practices. those that did were often hard to follow, and provided little explanation about what happens when you ascend the tree. as i searched through miles of print on jewish mysticism, and digested what i was learning from my mentor and experiencing in my practices, many fundamental questions arose in my mind. master abraham did not come out of a spiritual vacuum, nor was his dispensation of a monotheistic worldview the first among ancient cultures. in what ways did the cosmologies of the various ancient near eastern civilizations influence the shaping of the m

of the shemite prophets, and the qur an its final revelation? when regarded outside the context of the dogmas that developed to support the orthodox authority of their respective conventional religions, do the mystical qabalah, mystical christianity, and sufism present successive fresh versions of the same underlying tradition? who were the karaites and why did they maintain a strong voice in the jewish community for almost seven centuries? what mystical doctrines and meditation practices were prevalent among qabalists in medieval and renaissance times? why was sabbatai zevi regarded as such a threat by the orthodox establishment? how did the modern sect of chasidism arise? what are its core ideas and practices? these and many other questions bubbled up in my mind, and searching for defini

nce times? why was sabbatai zevi regarded as such a threat by the orthodox establishment? how did the modern sect of chasidism arise? what are its core ideas and practices? these and many other questions bubbled up in my mind, and searching for definitive answers has continued to this day. it should be clearly understood that the teachings presented in this book are not centered in the rabbinical jewish kabbalah, nor exclusively intended for those born of jewish parents. our mentor explicated the full range of ideas and practices of the mystical qabalah within a universalistic context. he also presented those of every other mystical tradition by way of comparison and confirmation. by the mystical qabalah, we are referring to an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any

iversal mystical spirituality by adam, abraham, mosheh (moses, yeshuvah' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (jesus, and mohammad. the ensuing discussion addresses a number of basic questions: e what is the universal mystical qabalah of the children of abraham? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the practical or hermetic kabbalah? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the rabbinical jewish kabbalah? e what is the relationship between the mystical qabalah and mystical christianity? e what is the relationship between the mystical qabalah and sufism? e what are the similarities between the mystical qabalah and north indian tantra? chapter one concludes with a comparison between the qabalistic teachings regarding the work of creation (ma aseh b reshith) and the work of the chario

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

one extreme to the other on this question of the egyptian elements in hermeticism (see 2 hermes trismegistus however, they were certainly not written in remotest antiquity by an all-wise egyptian priest, as the renaissance believed, but by various unknown authors, all probably greeks,1 and they contain popular greek philosophy of the period, a mixture of platonism and stoicism, combined with some jewish and probably some persian influences. they are very diverse, but they all breathe an atmosphere of intense piety. the asclepius purports to describe the religion of the egyptians, and by what magic rites and processes the egyptians drew down the powers of the cosmos into the statues of their gods. this treatise has come down to us through the latin translation formerly attributed to apuleiu

f god the son places him with the sibyls as a gentile prophet. in 1 see c.h, ii, pp. 276-7. 2 see below, p. 23. 3 lactantius, div. inst, iv, xi; fletcher's translation, i, p. 226. 4 lactantius, div. inst, i, vi; iv, vi; viii, xviii; fletcher's translation, i, pp. 14-19; 220-2; 468-9. the sibylline oracles themselves were no more genuinely antique than the hermetica. forged sibylline prophecies of jewish origin appeared at some uncertain date, and were later manipulated by the christians. it seems difficult to distinguish what is of jewish and what is of christian origin in the oracula sibyllina. see m. j. lagrange, le judaisme avant jesus-christ, paris, 1931, pp. 505-11; a. puech, histoire de la ihtirature grecque chretienne, paris, 1928, ii, pp. 603-15; and the note by g. bardy in oeuvres

pparatus in his edition of the hermetica have been consulted as well as the prefaces and notes in the nock-festugiere edition. other useful works are a. d. nock, conversion, oxford, 1933; c. h. dodd, the bible and the greeks, london, 1935; r. mc. l. wilson, the gnostic problem, london, 1958. 2 there is general agreement that the first treatise of the corpus hermeticum, the pimander, contains some jewish elements but opinions differ as to the amount of the writers' indebtedness to hellenised judaism. 3 most scholars are of the opinion that there is very little, if any, christian influence in the hermetica. dodd, who stresses the jewish influence, thinks that "features of the hermetica in which christian influence might be suspected, can be accounted for by hellenistic-jewish ideas which lie

es but more particularly through the power of the sacred hebrew language. it is thus a much more ambitious kind of magic than ficino's natural magic, and one which it would be impossible to keep apart from religion. for the renaissance mind, which loved symmetrical arrangements, there was a certain parallelism between the writings of hermes trismegistus, the egyptian moses, and cabala which was a jewish mystical tradition supposed to have been handed down orally from moses himself. in common with all cabalists, pico 84 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic firmly believed in this extreme antiquity of the cabalistic teachings as going right back to moses, as a secret doctrine which moses had imparted to some initiates who had handed it on, and which unfolded mysteries not fully explained

his nine hundred theses, or points drawn from all philosophies which he offered to prove in public debate to be all reconcilable with one another. according to thorndike, these theses showed that pico's thinking "was largely coloured by astrology, that he was favourable to natural magic, and that he had a penchant for such occult and esoteric literature as the orphic hymns, chaldean oracles, and jewish cabala",2 also the writings of hermes trismegistus. the great debate never took place, and theologians raised an outcry over some of the theses, necessitating an apology or defence which was published in 1487 together with most of the oration on the dignity of man, with which the debate was to have opened. that oration was to echo and re-echo throughout the renaissance, and it is, indeed, t

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mit of a rainbow, which was fabled to be a bridge leading from earth [female vulva] to heaven [great father's pha llus [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, p. 14; also r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

the skylight and leading the group of merry friends towards the welcoming feast in the adjacent hall. as all move toward the table, deer pauses to close the heavy doors which separate the hall and the ritual room. as he pulls them to on ancient hinges, deer whispers- to the presence which occupies that space within "a thousand thank you's for the dancelathe secret wisdom of the qabalah a study in jewish mystical thought by j. f. c. fuller author of gyoga: a study of the mystical philosophy of the brahmins and buddhists h gthe beings who live below, say that god is on high; while the angels in heaven, say that god is on earth. h-zohar. agnz secret wisdom of the qabalah page 2 preface this small book is in no sense a treatise on the qabalah. instead, it is a speculative study on one of sever

in heaven, say that god is on earth. h-zohar. agnz secret wisdom of the qabalah page 2 preface this small book is in no sense a treatise on the qabalah. instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it contains, and, i believe, the key-doctrine of all the others. should this be correct, then it follows that, unless this doctrine is understood, the whole symbolism of jewish mysticism must remain obscure, and it is this mysticism, so it seems to me, which constitutes the foundations of jewish culture and jewish aspirations. granted that this is so, then it follows that the idea elaborated in this book is one of considerable importance, even if many of my interpretations are faulty. even if the whole of my readings are wrong, which is unlikely, this in itself do

less, i do not intend to touch upon this possibility in the present work; for all i will attempt is to show that the idea is valid. therefore my object is solely to examine and explain it, in order to establish it as a fact. j. f. c. f. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 3 contents preface 2 introduction 6 the mystical foundations of the world order. 6 the secrecy of transcendental knowledge 8 the jewish secret doctrines 9 chapter i 11 the wisdom of the qabalah 11 the qabalah 11 the origins of the qabala 12 the philosophy of the qabalah 13 equilibrium 15 philosophical comparisons 20 chapter ii 22 the cosmogony of the qabalah 22 the primal cause. 22 the sephirotic scheme 23 origin of the sephiroth 25 the ten sephiroth 27 chapter iii 36 the problem of good and evil 36 good and evil. 36 the ev

y, when leibnitz published in the acta eruditorum of leipzig his scheme of differential calculus, he did so in such a way as to hide both the method and object from the uninitiated. newton did the same with his invention of infinite series; and algebra, as far as it was understood by the arabians, was, as 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

e 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 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 b

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

o, beneath the pulpits of their pope, priest, or other oracle"[8 [8] rivers of life, vol. i, p, 36. the sacred ficus is worshipped in india and in many of the polynesian islands. regarding the palm, inman assures us that it is emblematical of the active male energy, or the continuation of existence.[9 [9] ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, vol. ii, p. 448. within the legends underlying the jewish religion, it will be remembered that the tree appears mysteriously connected with the beginning of life and is interwoven with the first ideas of human action and experience. the literal sense, however, of the allegory in genesis concerning the woman, the tree, and the serpent, and its meaning as generally accepted by laymen and the uneducated among the priesthood, has little in common with

of years, layard remarks "the plant or its product was called the mystical body of god, the living water or food of eternal life, when duly consecrated and administered according to zoroastrian rites" it has been suggested, and not without reason, that to this idea of the ancients, respecting the sacred character of the properties of the home juice, may be traced the "origin of the celebration of jewish holy or paschal suppers and other eucharistic rites" although by the ancients water was sometimes regarded as the original principle, later, wine, or the intoxicating quality within it, came to constitute the god-idea. it was spirit, while water was matter; hence, in the sacraments, water and wine were commingled, wine representing the essence or blood of god; water, at the same time, stand

at in arabia, in very ancient times, there was a goddess named azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called samurch, and that in yemen tree-worship still prevails. to the date is ascribed divine honors. this tree is said to have its regular priests, services, rites, and festivals, and is as zealously worshipped as are the gods of any other country. we are not informed as to whether the jewish tree of life was borrowed from the chaldeans or the egyptians, but, as the significance is the same in all countries, it is of little consequence which furnished a copy for the writer in genesis. in dr. inman's ancient faiths, is a drawing from the original, by colonel coombs, of the "temptation" or of the ancient tree-and-serpent myth in genesis. this drawing, in which it is observed that

sh tree of life was borrowed from the chaldeans or the egyptians, but, as the significance is the same in all countries, it is of little consequence which furnished a copy for the writer in genesis. in dr. inman's ancient faiths, is a drawing from the original, by colonel coombs, of the "temptation" or of the ancient tree-and-serpent myth in genesis. this drawing, in which it is observed that the jewish idea of woman as tempter is reversed, was copied from the inner walls of a cave in southern india. the picture is said to be a faithful representation of the version of the story as accepted in the east. of the myrtle, payne knight says that it "was a symbol both of venus and neptune, the male and female personifications of the productive powers of the waters, which appear to have been occa

g more than a faint glimmering. for all the really valuable moral and philosophical doctrines we possess, dutens has shown to have existed there" from what is known relative to the speculations of an ancient race, the fact is observed that creation was but a re-formation of matter. wisdom, or minerva, formed the earth and the planets; she did not create the heavens and the earth, as did the later jewish god. of the seven principles of the universe, matter was the first, and of the seven principles of man, the physical body was the earliest. through evolutionary processes, or through cyclic periods involving millions of years, mind was developed, and in course of time spirit was finally manifested. mai, the mother of gotama buddha, was simply matter, or illusion, from which its higher manif

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ife; no one has satisfactorily explainedhowhe came into it in the firstplace-thereis no trace among the stafford papers of his correspondencewithwaite, andnothingwhatever to explain eitherhowhis obsessionwithalchemy came about orwhatultimately became of it.butfor waitethematterwasunimportant;he wasturningnowaway from alchemy and towards another strandofesotericthought.thekabbalah is the system of jewish mysticism and theosophy 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 andwouldprov

here (where he has so far failed)whowill risk capital over the publication of all g.d. rituals, knowledge lectures and so forth.ispoilt his chance herewitha big firm,buthave no influencewithbusiness houses across the, atlantic (letter of17december1936).theimplicit anti-semitism is surprising in onewhohad taken great pains in 1921 to condemn nesta webster's hysterical account inthemorningpostof a jewish 'occult' peril andwhotook great pride in gershom scholem's remarkthatwaite's books 'belong to the best that have beenwritten.on the theosophyoft-hekabbalah (quoted in thetimesliterarysupplementreview ofthe holykabbalah,12 december 1929).154a. e.waite-magicianofmanyparts_butif the financial rewards were few and if the taskofwriting was increasingly onerous and unsatisfactory (of the addition

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

he number, met nearlyforty yearsago in london and in paristo discussmysticalphilosophy.youwith your12thego/dendawnbeautyandyour learning and your mysterious gifts were held by all in affection, and though,whenthe first draftofthis dedication was written, i had not seen you for more than thirty years, nor knew where you were nor what you were doing, and though much had happened since we copied the jewish schemahamphorasch with its seventy-twonamesofgodinhebrewcharacters, it was plain that i must dedicate my book to you. all other students who were once friends or friends' friends were dead or estranged.whowerethose young men and women? what were they doing, and how did they come to be doing it?and what happened to allofthem?theseare the questions that brought me to the golden dawn, and so t

eft us in his works, published in and after the year1614,an account of100thegoldendawnthe doctrines and exoteric management of the r.c. society. but even the revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the kabbalistic rabbis and of.the most ancient of all secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne 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 a

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

y of robert fludd 48 5. rosicrucian thoughts on the ever-burning lamps of the ancients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.t

n jesus; for jesus to the hermetist is the shortened form of yehoshua, which title is formed of the letters of the kabalistic yod, heh, vau, heh, having inter255 posed the letter shin, the emblem of the spark of the divine overshadowing each human soul. this yod heh vau heh, the incommunicable name, being the origin of the common godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the jewish nation,buta glyph of the divine creative forces which emanate from the highest god ideal, yet unmanifested and certainly not individualised. as to the tenets of the order then.thefamabegins with a tribute to the mercy and goodness of the wise and merciful god, by which a more perfect knowledge of two subjects is obtained- jesus christ and nature, note these two- as of equal importance. god

p over a nation at intervals; periods of rosicrucian enlightenment alternate with other periods of materialistic dogmatism. we must remember that rosicrucianism itself was 'no new thing'butonly a revival of still earlier forms of initiation, and was a lineal descendant of the philosophies of the chaldean magi, of the egyptian priests, of the neo-platonists, of the hermetists of alexandria, of the jewish kabalists and of christian kabalists such as raymond lully and pic de mirandola.therosicrucians, past and present 41the honoured founder of our society- christian255 rosenkreuz- did not invent, at least in our modern sense of the word, the doctrines he promulgated, and which we should now study.itis narrated that he journeyed to arabia, to palestine, to egypt and to spain, and in the seats

gical powers. falk could not have 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's

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 exoteric pentateuchal mosaic doctrine, and from the ever255 growing talmudic commentaries.themishnahand'gemara

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

waite,shadowsof life andthought(1938),p,99.9 in his brief, unsigned memoir printed intheoccultreview,vol. xxix,no.4,(april1919),pp,197-199.10 j.w. brodie-innes,macgregormathers,somepersonalreminisc255ences,intheoccultreview,vol. xxix,no.5(may 1919),pp. 284-286.11r.a. gilbert,thegoldendawn:twilightof themagicians(aquarianpress,1983).part one: papers bys.l.macgregor mathers1.thekabbalahwhat is the jewish kabbalah? to some persons the sound of the word will be familiar, though the ideas which it conveys will probably be vague in the extreme, while to many, indeed, the very name will be unknown. what is the jewish kabbalah?ifwe turn to those general storehouses of all kinds of knowledge, the encyclopaedias, we find but bald and unsatisfactory information.thusburrowes' modern encyclo255 paedia

en numbers and twenty-two letters are what are called in the cabala the thirty-two paths of science, and their philosophical description is the subject of that primitive and revered work known as thesepheryetzirah,the tarot77which is still tobefound in the collection of pistorius and others. the alphabet of thoth is the original of our tarot, only in an altered form. the tarot which we have is of jewish origin, and the types of the figures cannot be traced back further than the reign of charles vi' thesepheryetzirah.referred to in the above quotation has been recently translated by my friend dr wynn westcott, who is a skilful and erudite qabalistical student, so that it can now be read in english.itcertainly gives, in my opinion, the qabalistical key of the tarot; and shows at once, by evi

his knowledge can hardly be overesti255 mated for our own progress and development, and to this again the familiar knowledge of the alphabet is essential. the symbols of the zodiacal signs and of the planets must be so perfectly known as to become instinctive, and the elementary terms of the science of astrology. the third important subject of the first beginning is the hebrew alphabet. the great jewish system of occultism known as the cabalah has survived and been proved for thousands of years.itis not necessary for the student in the early grades of our order to acquire any knowledge of hebrew as a language, but a knowledge of the letters and their meanings and their numerical attributions is essential. and here i may interpose a hint to the beginner. learn from the very first to be very

stone knife, after which they are to beputinto a flaming fire, andburntwith the xessan plant(ihave not been able to identify this) at sunrise, noon, or the first hour of the night225225thefigure of apophi as before directed should then beburntat the festival of the new moon.forthe use of hair in the cursing rituals reference may be made. to isabel goudie's confession. i have among. my treasures a jewish phylactery; the parchment scroll inside the tiny box is tied round with a single long black hair. a learned rabbi.told me the purpose was probablytoinvoke a blessing on some dearly beloved.thesame formula being used according to the intention either for blessing or cursing.thepiercing with a stone knife is paralleled by lady monro's elf arrows; these being. of course, the flint arrow heads

out of this key number, you arrive at other numbers, thesumof the column, and the total sum ofthenumbers and so forth. by substituting the hebrew letters for the numbers certain names are obtained- and thus for mercury we get the name tirial, as. the 267key number for the great. number 225 taphthartharath,whichis. the. name of the presiding spirit.:now those names were simply given because to the jewish initiates they at once gave thekeynumberofthattaphthartharath.theyadded up the numerical value of the letters, and. thus arrived at the key number, just as if doctors were to agree among themselves upon some secret language which would not be understood by their patients, in such a case one doctor might say to another the name of a word which signified 40, and another- word which signified

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180. for waite such comments were wormwood and gall, but he could take comfort in the laudatory reviews by philip wellby in the occult review (although wellby was a close personal friend and waite had, in any case, helped to write the review)99[99, and by miss bothwell-gosse in the co-mason (vol. 13, p. 104, 1921. even more satisfying was a detailed and favourable review by revd. a. cohen in the,jewish guardian 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 't

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 reviews undoubtedly helped sales of the new encyclopaedia and by 1930 some 7,000 sets had been sold, but through flaws in his contract waite lost his rights to the book when it passed to virtue& co. i

or himself his proud boast that, by 1938 'no less than nineteen thousand sets of the costly volumes have been sold'101[101, must have been a hollow one. it was also erroneous, for the maximum sales could have been little more than half that number. waite and the higher degrees 99[99] diary, 12 march 1921. the review appeared in the occult review for april, 1921 100[100 'occult freemasonry and the jewish peril, the occult review, vol. 32, september 1920, pp. 142-53 101[101] slt, p. 208 by this time he was turning away from the world of masonic scholarship, although he was still to produce his highly important study of rosicrucianism, the brotherhood of the rosy cross102[102, and in 1924 he resigned from the masonic study society which he had helped to found in 1921, confining such lectures

revolution, vol. 14, pp. 140-7 1913 'a master of the inward way (saint-martin& martines de pasqually, vol. 18, pp. 259-67 1915 'master building (review of j. fort newton, the builders, vol. 22, pp. 3 9-42 1917 'a lodge of magic (martines de pasqually and the elect cohens, vol. 26, pp. 228-34 1919 review of buckmaster, the royal order of scotland, vol. 29, pp. iv-v 1920 'occult freemasonry and the jewish peril, vol. 32, pp. 142-53 letter 'mark degree, vol. 32, p. 183 1921 review of churchward, the origin and evolution of freemasonry, vol. 33, p. 121 review of wright, masonic legends and traditions, vol. 34, p. 186 1925 review of haywood, symbolical masonry, vol. 4 1, pp. 12 7-8 review of haywood, great teachings of masonry, vol. 4 1, p. 12 8 review of fort newton, the men's house, vol. 4 1

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tian part of the world, to adopt a system of beliefs and a philosophy so completely different from that of christianity, celebrate heretical masses, and perform rituals of black magic. according to the common views of many researchers, this "something" was the kabbalah. the meaning of the word kabbalah is "oral tradition" encyclopedias and dictionaries define it as an esoteric, mystical branch of jewish religion. according to this definition, the kabbalah investigates the hidden meaning of the torah and other jewish religious writings. but, when we examine the matter more closely, we discover that the facts are quite something else. these facts lead us to the conclusion that the kabbalah is a system rooted in pagan idolatry; that it existed before the torah, and became widespread within ju

t the kabbalah, is explained by just as interesting a source. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, maintains the following in his book, masonluk nedir ve nasildir (what is freemasonry and what is it like: we don't know clearly where the kabbalah came from or how it developed. it is the general name for a unique, metaphysically constituted, esoteric and mystical philosophy particularly connected with jewish religion. it is accepted as jewish mysticism, but some of the elements it contains show that it was composed much earlier than the torah.15 the french historian, gougenot des mousseaux, explains that the kabbalah is actually much older than judaism.16 ef from the templars to ancient egypt eg global freemasonry although the kabbalah developed within judaism, it depends on sources from outsid

how that it was composed much earlier than the torah.15 the french historian, gougenot des mousseaux, explains that the kabbalah is actually much older than judaism.16 ef from the templars to ancient egypt eg global freemasonry although the kabbalah developed within judaism, it depends on sources from outside of it. the kabbalah arose out of the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt and mesopotamia. the jewish historian, theodore reinach, says that the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."17 salomon reinach defines the kabbalah as "one of the worst 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

igion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be upon him. but, within this religion is a system called the kabbalah, that adopts the basic practices of magic forbidden by the religion. this substantiates what we have presented above, and demonstrates that the kabbalah is actually an element that has entered judaism from the outside. but, what is the source of this element? the jewish historian fabre d'olivet says that it came from ancient egypt. according to this writer, the roots of the kabbalah stretch back to ancient egypt. the kabbalah is a tradition learned by some of the leaders of the israelites in ancient egypt, and passed down as a tradition by word of mouth from generation to generation.19 for this reason, we must look to ancient egypt in order to find the bas

egypt, and passed down as a tradition by word of mouth from generation to generation.19 for this reason, we must look to ancient egypt in order to find the basic origins of the kabbalah-templars-freemasonry chain. eh from the templars to ancient egypt kabbalah as "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind" these pictures from modern kabbalist works reflect the dark world of the kabbalah. the jewish historian theodore reinach describes the kabbalah as "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it" solomon reinach defines the global freemasonry ei the dark world of the kabbalah ej from the templars to ancient egypt the magicians of ancient egypt the ancient egypt of the pharaohs was one of the most ancient civilizations of the world. it was also one of th

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180. for waite such comments were wormwood and gall, but he could take comfort in the laudatory reviews by philip wellby in the occult review (although wellby was a close personal friend and waite had, in any case, helped to write the review)99[99, and by miss bothwell-gosse in the co-mason (vol. 13, p. 104, 1921. even more satisfying was a detailed and favourable review by revd. a. cohen in the,jewish guardian 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 't

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 reviews undoubtedly helped sales of the new encyclopaedia and by 1930 some 7,000 sets had been sold, but through flaws in his contract waite lost his rights to the book when it passed to virtue& co. i

or himself his proud boast that, by 1938 'no less than nineteen thousand sets of the costly volumes have been sold'101[101, must have been a hollow one. it was also erroneous, for the maximum sales could have been little more than half that number. waite and the higher degrees 99[99] diary, 12 march 1921. the review appeared in the occult review for april, 1921 100[100 'occult freemasonry and the jewish peril, the occult review, vol. 32, september 1920, pp. 142-53 101[101] slt, p. 208 by this time he was turning away from the world of masonic scholarship, although he was still to produce his highly important study of rosicrucianism, the brotherhood of the rosy cross102[102, and in 1924 he resigned from the masonic study society which he had helped to found in 1921, confining such lectures

revolution, vol. 14, pp. 140-7 1913 'a master of the inward way (saint-martin& martines de pasqually, vol. 18, pp. 259-67 1915 'master building (review of j. fort newton, the builders, vol. 22, pp. 3 9-42 1917 'a lodge of magic (martines de pasqually and the elect cohens, vol. 26, pp. 228-34 1919 review of buckmaster, the royal order of scotland, vol. 29, pp. iv-v 1920 'occult freemasonry and the jewish peril, vol. 32, pp. 142-53 letter 'mark degree, vol. 32, p. 183 1921 review of churchward, the origin and evolution of freemasonry, vol. 33, p. 121 review of wright, masonic legends and traditions, vol. 34, p. 186 1925 review of haywood, symbolical masonry, vol. 4 1, pp. 12 7-8 review of haywood, great teachings of masonry, vol. 4 1, p. 12 8 review of fort newton, the men's house, vol. 4 1

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. indeed, the gnosticism of jesus brought together egyptian, greek and mystery cult traditions (such as those of eleusis and mithra) into one coherent system. the iconography of judaism played a small part but was insignificant in comparison to, for example, the greek mystery cult tradition. to understand this nexus of the gnosis we really need to jettison the old model which sees gnosticism as a jewish or christian heresy. as has been documented in such texts as the jesus mystery and jesus christ, sun of god+ it is more likely that rabbinic judaism and christianity are pagan and gnostic heresies! while there may be vigorous complaints and denials it is now even well known that so-called jewish kabbalah primarily derived from a reworking of neo platonic mysticism which into jewish religiou

es in a standard "scientific" chart and ignore the more organic view that was held of the planes in early theosophy. in the next chapter we will examine this in more detail and consider it in terms of the gnostic tradition. the kabbalistic tree of life the kabbalah is a system of some controversy, it has been heralded as the greatest mystical system of all, handed down by moses and guarded by the jewish people. the problem with this largely mythical tale is that the kabbalah was not developed til at least the 6th century ad and incorporated greek and gnostic images, forms and traditions. indeed it has been suggested by both barbara thiering and gershom scholem that the very image of the tree of life was derived from greek rather than archaic jewish mystical sources. while the kabbalah is o

ical tale is that the kabbalah was not developed til at least the 6th century ad and incorporated greek and gnostic images, forms and traditions. indeed it has been suggested by both barbara thiering and gershom scholem that the very image of the tree of life was derived from greek rather than archaic jewish mystical sources. while the kabbalah is of course overlaid with imagery of old testament, jewish, christian (and sometimes gnostic) layers, it is primarily a greek neo platonic model. the tree starts with nothing, the great void or emptiness behind all things, this is known as ain (1st c) ain at various cycles moves through transformative stages and manifests three principles (2nd c) kether the divine will chokmah the logos binah sophia (saturn) we have deliberately chosen gnostic name

cause 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 people even races and countries. so while the jewish people thought they were worshipped the iam, they were actually feeding a false god, an archon they had created from their own ignorance. this happens all too often and why the esoteric tradition is so imperative. without the guidance of gnosticism and esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer) religion. fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products

yes of modern scholarship. however, if we examine the research of those who laid the foundations for modern archaeology and anthropology, there is much evidence for a direct link between these divergent forms (even perhaps evidence of a single source or point of origin. if we take kabbalah, for example, today promoted as judaic mysticism when we examine the scholarly texts on its origins (both by jewish and non-jewish sources, they all tend to agree that the kabbalah had it roots in greek and hellenistic philosophy, gnosticism and alexandrian hermeticism, and furthermore, that it was only later adapted by judaic sources. an authority as respected as gershom scholem clearly suggests a strong greek influence, if not greek origin for the kabbalah. indeed he posits the key kabbalistic glyph of

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e talmudic form of judaism around 900 c.e. this conversion is of great significance. in his book, the thirteenth tribe, arthur koestler argues that modern jewry is descended not from the people of israel, but from the khazars. accordingly, it is said, they have more in common with the turkish people than with the original people of israel (by the way, koestler is not some rabid anti-semite, he is jewish. the relevance of this is not to illustrate some wild historical polemic, but to show the difference between sethian and cainite kabbalah. this is not simply a racial or cultural debate, but a discussion on the origins of judaism, christianity and kabbalah. just as the gnostics rejected christianity as a distortion of the true faith, they totally rejected talmudic judaism as a demiurgic cre

r, 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 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

n jews who claim the old testament have no racial link to israel whatsoever, according to arthur koestler (author of the thirteenth tribe) the ancestors of the modern jews did not come from jordan, but from the volga, not from canaan but from the caucasus. genetically they are more related to the hun, uigar and magyar tribes than to the seed to abraham, isaac and jacob (and this is from a zionist jewish writer) it seems likely that the traditions of modern jewry were evolved by the edomite tribes while in babylon, here gained precedence while the real people of israel migrated to the west. the migration of isreal created a void and substitute israelites stepped in. accordingly, we need to totally review our interpretation of judaism. when we consider the great fraud that has been perpetuat

) 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 of babylon rather than from the traditions of israel. accordingly we get a clear picture that all is not what it seems in modern religious traditions. when we couple this to the fact that emperor constantine re-moulded the prevailing jewish and christian groups into a political amalgam in 325 ad (nicea, a new perspective on history arises. they (the essenes) were not waiting to receive the law- they already possessed it. their aim was to deliver it from the realms of darkness in which it had been engulfed. the torah, that is, the divine teachings as revealed to moses had, it was held, been successively perverted by false expos

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denotes the rulership of presidency of the a and 5 over the four elements. all of these are united in as they come together. there is some information about the unicursal hexagram in various books which will be covered in higher grades for those of you who would wish to pursue this hexagram and its workings. in regards to the traditional hexagram, which is often times called the star of david or jewish star. it represents the force of the planets acting through the various signs of the zodiac. this is very powerful and effective in sealing the astral image of nature under the presidency of the sephiroth, as well as the seven palaces. the hexagram is especially attributed to a. this symbol is one of great power and of great strength. in it are both the combination of the pentagram and the

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earnest, an idol of viracocha had stood in the holy of holies of the coricancha. according to a contemporary text, the relacion anonyma de los costumbres antiguos de los naturales del piru, this idol took the form of a marble statue of the god a statue described as to the hair, complexion, features, raiment and sandals, just 8 tan. terumah, xi; also, with slight variations, yoma 39b. cited in the jewish encyclopaedia, funk and wagnell, new york, 1925, vol. ii, p. 105. 9 peru, p. 182. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 53 as painters represent the apostle saint bartholomew .10 other accounts of viracocha likened his appearance to that of the saint thomas.11 i examined a number of illustrated ecclesiastical manuscripts in which these two saints appeared; both were routinely depicted as

to live in it, carving great stone figures of giants which he brought to life. at first all went well but after a time the giants began to fight among themselves and refused to work. viracocha decided that he must destroy them. some he turned back into stone. the rest he overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the gian

iptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buried in the biblical sands of the middle east be connected in some unseen way to the giants woven into the fabric of pre-colombian native american legends? adding considerably to the mystery was the fact that the jewish and peruvian sources both went on, with many further details in common, to depict an angry deity unleashing a catastrophic flood upon a wicked and disobedient world. on the next page of the sheaf of documents i had assembled was this inca account of the deluge handed down by a certain father molina in his relacion de las fabulas y ritos de los yngas: in the life of manco capac, who was the

period. like the turin papyrus and the palermo stone, manetho s history also reached much further back into the past to speak of a distant epoch when gods had ruled in the nile valley. manetho s complete text has not come down to us, although copies of it seem to have been in circulation as late as the ninth century ad.7 fortuitously, however, fragments of it were preserved in the writings of the jewish chronicler josephus (ad 60) and of christian writers such as africanus (ad 300, eusebius (ad 340) and george syncellus (ad 800).8 these fragments, in the words of the late professor michael hoffman of the university of south carolina, provide the framework for modern approaches to the study of egypt s past .9 this is quite true.10 nevertheless, egyptologists are prepared to use manetho only

ile-wide nickel-iron asteroid travelling towards us at cosmic speed. of course there would at first be much panic and despair. nevertheless if there were sufficient advance warning steps would be taken to ensure that there would be some survivors and that some of what was most valuable in our high scientific knowledge would be preserved for the benefit of future generations. strangely enough, the jewish historian josephus (who wrote during the first century ad) attributes precisely this behaviour to the clever and prosperous inhabitants of the antediluvian world who lived before the flood in a happy condition without any misfortunes falling upon them :11 they also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. and that their

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goes to show ya: behold, i speak in a mystery. secret cipher of the ufonauts 89 cipher as art: art as code language. the frontispiece to this book consists of a detail excerpted from a larger picture i did for the antiquities of the illuminati website in 2002. i d downloaded a narrative of a trip to tlemcen, algeria, published in tour du monde. this was from the 1870s. the image is of a group of jewish musicians giving a concert, entitled concert juif tlemcen by d. maillart. there are a number of rather nice engravings in that account. for whatever it s worth, tlemcen, algeria, is where max theon s facility was the same facility where he put together the cosmic philosophy. at the time i was learning photoshop skills. i took this engraving (above, and decided that i would modify it. i gath

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oincide (p. 811; in the far later solar-lio-s traces of christian teaching are discernible. in a conflux of so many elements it could not but happen, even where the mental conceptions and views of a simple populace unable to do without myths had felt the full force of the revolution, that in its turn the old, not wholly extinct, should half unconsciously get interwoven with the irrepressible new. jewish and christian doctrine began to lean towards heathen, heathen fancies and superstitions to push forward and, as it were, take refuge in all the places they found unoccupied by the new religion. here we find christian material in a heathen form, there heathen matter in a christian disguise. as the goddess ostara was converted into a notion of time, so was hellia into one of place. the belief

t in individual features, without greatly affecting the whole. under this head come, e.g' the genuine forms are ahnromazdao and agromainjns, but the former is often called cpentumainyus, dyaobs dai/j.oji, in contrast to agromainyus the kukos baip-wv. burnuuf's corum. sur le ya^na 141. 90. 92. flst origin, 985 the myths of 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 who

thing; but his contrivances miscarry and come to nought. so the idea of a devifs-mother might have arisen as counterpart to mary the mother of god, though she had an earlier prototype in the giant's-mother (see suppl. all these influences so diverse in kind have joined to produce such popular notions of the devil's being and character, as have existed from the n. t. to our own times. the devil is jewish, christian, heathen, a false god, an elf, a giant, a spectre, all in one. by the addition of him, christianity could not but receive, just as heathen polytheism was expiring, a visible bent towards dualism, which afterwards philosophy tried to resolve into a general principle of good and another of evil. when we compare the cheerful tone of greek myths with the harshness and grimness impart

through the house by fits, they say' do es der aul van terjohren' there goes the old one of last year, you know who, we need not mention names. as the name hamper for devil never occurs to my knowledge in poets of the mid. ages, i hesitate to derive those imprecations of the vulgar (p. 181-2) from the malleus of the fathers; i would rather believe in an original connexion between the heathen and jewish beliefs. and the same might be the case with riegel (bolt: vedis is not only a thing to fasten doors with, but to shove and thump with, lever, pole, almost malleus over again. leviathan is called vedis, quia usque ad necem percutit (greg. m. 1, hi. the mhg. hellerkjel, as. grendel (p. 243) might be an imitation of this vectis, and also have an older relation to loki. i think i have often no

em. 39 we read' farj^u nu 7ar smyl hafi j;ic! it seems that scandinavian sorceresses call the devil urdar mdni (luna saxeti, biorn sub v, which i know of nothing to compare with. and as loki is next of kin to hel (p. 312, we find the devil in close contact with death (p. 854' den tiuvel and den tot viirhten' frid. g7, 9. so far our survey of a great variety of names (from which however all merely jewish ones, like beelzebub, asmodi, belial etc, had to be excluded) has already shewn an admixture of heathen ingredients, or betrayed a still older identity or similarity of christian and pagan beliefs. apparently words like gram, unhold, and perhaps scado, can only have been applied to the newly adopted devil because they already signified to the heathens a hostile hateful spirit. old was alrea

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connexion. and similar notions of the greeks fit in with this. one who can reckon up his ancestors is appealed to with the argument (od. 19, 163: ov jap atrb spvos evo-t irdxaifydrov ov$ airo irerp- for not of fabled oak art thou, nor rock* and there must have- 1 d; o n o. 408. aventin 18b; conf. the popular joke, prob. ancient, on the origin of swabians, franks and bavarians, schm 3 524 2 in the jewish language, both learned and vulgar, ashkenaz denotes ger many or a german. the name occurs in gen. 10, 3 and jer. 51, 27; how early its mistaken use began, is unknown even to j. d. michaelis (spicil. geogr. hebr. 1, 59; it must have been by the 15th century, if not sooner, and the rabbis may very likely have been led to it by hearing talk of a derivation of the germans from an ancestor askam

r and his host on a holm called oskopnir (supra p. 144, they are all slain, and the world comes to an end (see suppl. it is only the edda that brings in the name of surtr; but our ohg. poetry seems to have interwoven features of him into the church doctrine about antichrist, ohg. antichristo (p. 173-4, which, originally founded on the llth chap, of kevelation, was afterwards worked out further on jewish-christian lines of thought. the name occurs in two epistles (1 john 2, 18. 4, 3. 2 john 7, not in the apocalypse, where he is meant by the many-headed beast. in his time two prophetic witnesses are to be sent from heaven to earth, but to be conquered and slain bv him. muspilli. 811 their names are not given either; that they are enoch and elias follows from, the power given them to shut hea

ath. to the olden time death was not a being that killed, but simply one that fetched away and escorted to the underworld. sword or sickness killed; death came in as messenger of a deity, to whom he conducted the parting soul. dying is announced, not caused, by his arrival. so to that child in the fairytale the angel of death had given a flower-bud: when it blossomed, he would come again. and the jewish notion, which christianity retained, is in harmony with this. the soul of the beggar is fetched away by angels of god, and carried into abraham s bosom, luke 16, 22; or, as the heliand 103, 5 expresses it: godes engilos andfengon is ferh, endi leddon ine an abraharnes barm; x and it completes the picture of the rich man s fate by adding the counterpart (103, 9: letha wihti bisenkidun is seo

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ike that now used as the christian symbol; and it was due to another coincidence that the cross was adopted by the christian fathers, centuries after the crucifixion, as a symbol of the christian faith. they might have adopted the exclusive use of a golden crown (which they do at times) or the crown 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

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of the third century ce contain elaborate spells in demotic.107 the demotic spells often utilize egyptian deities in their traditional mythical roles for dubious purposes. so, for example, the myth of the rape of the goddess tefnut is invoked in a spell to separate a woman from her husband. the spells in greek are populated by figures borrowed from egyptian, greek, and roman myth and aramaic and jewish religion. egypt was a cosmopolitan country, and the roman period was an age of religious synthesis. this is also apparent in the greek texts known as the hermetica.108 like the book of thoth, hermetic texts were usually in the form of a dialogue between a disciple and a deity or a revered sage. the deity is most commonly hermes, the greek god identified with thoth. some hermetica feature is

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known fact that the mysteries of the ancients comprised with every nation the "greater (secret) and "lesser (public) mysteries-e.g, in the celebrated solemnities called the eleusinia, in greece. from the hierophants of samothrace, egypt, and the initiated brahmins of the india of old, down to the later hebrew rabbis, all preserved, for fear of profanation, their real bona fide beliefs secret. the jewish rabbis called their secular religious series the merkabah (the exterior body "the vehicle" or, the covering which contains the hidden soul-i.e, their highest secret knowledge. not one of the ancient nations ever imparted through its priests its real philosophical secrets to the masses, but allotted to the latter only the husks. northern buddhism has its "greater" and its "lesser" vehicle, k

nowledge, and would make outsiders believe that they are full-blown adepts. not only is there no scientific and accurate knowledge of occultism accessible in the west-not even of true astrology, the only branch of occultism which, in its exoteric teachings, has definite laws and a definite system-but no one has any idea of what real occultism means. some limit ancient wisdom to the cabala and the jewish zohar, which each interprets in his own way according to the dead-letter of the rabbinical methods. others regard swedenborg or bo hme as the ultimate expressions of the highest wisdom; while others again see in mesmerism the great secret of ancient magic. one and all of those who put their theory into practice are rapidly drifting, through ignorance, into black magic. happy are those who e

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

he brotherhood of humanity is one of the eternal truths that govern the world's progress on lines which distinguish human nature from brute nature. what can be more theosophical than this? but it is not enough. what is also needed is to impress men with the idea that, if the root of mankind is one, then there must also be one truth which finds expression in all the various religions-except in the jewish, as you do not find it expressed even in the cabala. q. this refers to the common origin of religions, and you may be right there. but how does it apply to practical brotherhood on the physical plane? a. first, because that which is true on the metaphysical plane must be also true on the physical. secondly, because there is no more fertile source of hatred and strife than religious differen

rtality is but one's unbroken consciousness; and the personal consciousness can hardly last longer than the personality itself, can it? and such consciousness, as i already told you, survives only throughout devachan, after which it is reabsorbed, first, in the individual, and then in the universal consciousness. better enquire of your theologians how it is that they have so sorely jumbled up the jewish scriptures. read the bible, if you would have a good proof that the writers of the pentateuch, and genesis especially, never regarded nephesh, that which god breathes into adam, as the immortal soul. here are some instances "and god created every nephesh (life) that moveth" meaning animals; and it is said "and man became a nephesh (living soul, which shows that the word nephesh was indiffer

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ame source 'he has been a journalist, and whilst that journal was under the editorship of miss mabel collins. he contributed a series of articles to the lady. he was at one time offered, but declined, the city editorship of vanity fair and was a regular correspondent to lucifer' gardner's masonic career was brief. he was initiated in montefiore lodge no. 1017 (whose membership was almost entirely jewish) in october 1886 (aet. 29) but resigned in june 1889, three months after he began to correspond with ayton. it is possible that freemasonry did not satisfy his desire for further knowledge of 'the hidden mysteries of nature and science- the phrase is masonic- and supposed that alchemy and theosophy ala blavatsky would provide a better guide to the territory that interested him. in 19 2 he c

personal help i could, but i would not run any risk by making myself responsible for anything. i have no doubts about!'1ah tmas, and h r w?nderful knowledge, but the business part is 9uite another thmg. i do advise you to be very careful. we are quite ready to help to the best of our ability, but we do not incur any responsibility. occultism is not a paying concern and never will be. hainau' is a jewish rabbi and hard up, and he has asked me to subscribe for his work. we took 3 copies, and as we thought yo would appreciate it more than anyone, we sent you a copy. i lucifer, madame blavatsky's theosophical periodical was in financial difficulties' 2 i have not been able to identify either rabbi hainau or his publication. 17 chacombe vicarage 26 november 1889 i am very glad you see this matt

bstruction of gall-duct by gall-stone and jaundiced bile passed thro' kidneys and bladder. there is reciprocal action between the 2 organs. you must not confound david becker with john joachim becher. the work which mentions his portable furnace is "joh. joach. becheri, d, opuscula chymica rariora [edited by] friderico roth-scholtzio, siles. norimbergae& altorfii. anno m.dccxix" becher was of the jewish nation, a man of the most extraordinary powers. this book is partly in latin and partly in german. i should be very glad to look at books that were [the late walter] moseley's. how to get up to your place is the difficulty. locomotion has become very distasteful to me. r should like much to have a talk with you. we are intending to be in london on monday roth inst. to following saturday mor

t. in this we have been much impeded by our squire who begged me to delay it till he could try to effect certain purposes of his own. you do not say that your good wife is also a member of the g.d. some of our lady members are the most advanced. one ofjewish extraction is, i think, the most advanced of all' it is a thing to be worked together, husband and wife especially' i have told you i have a jewish learned friend who was very advanced tho' he never would belong to any order or society' i naturally concluded he had arrived at a communication with higher intelligences and the powers of nature by the rules ofthe qabbalah. the last time i saw him. i alluded to this, and he astonished me by saying he had never put those rules into practice at all, but that everything came to him naturally

ton's wife] is as well as usual and so am i. i percy william bullock (1868-194) was then a clerk in the employment of slaughter and may, a firm of solicitors in the city of london. in 1898 he was articled to w. c. slaughter and his first practising certificate was dated 26 january 1904. he disappeared from the g.d. milieu c.1903. 2 gardner's wife was never a member of the g.d. the 'lady member of jewish extraction' was samuel liddell macgregor mathers's wife moina. 3 the jewish learned friend was undoubtedly julius kohn. see letter no. 42. the letters 77 the n ext letter (no. 42) is not in the yorke collection but was once in the possession ofmr r. a. gilbert. it was to julius kohn 'the jewish learned friend' mentioned in no. 41. in the meantime ayton, who was close to his 79th birthday, h

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

we can see that from the architectural and household remains, and the poisonous sermons of the cramped divines. and in side that rusted iron straitjacket lurked gibbering hideousness, perversion, and diabolism. here, truly, was the apotheosis of the unnamable. cotton mather, in that demoniac sixth book which no one should read after dark, minced no words as he flung forth his anathema. stern as a jewish prophit, and laconically unamazed as none since his day could be, he told of the beast that had brought forth what was more than beast but less than man- the thing with the blemished eye- and of the screaming drunken wretch that hanged for having such an eye. this much he baldly told, yet without a hint of what came after. perhaps he did not know, or perhaps he knew and did not dare to tell

INFERNAL UNION

r oz refers to this very 2 essence, oz as it is called .his gift is that of wisdom and knowledge of the earth (said by kenneth grant to be the reverse hierophant in this regard. in our practice, samael is the king of witchblood, the guardian of the gateway which is access to all other fallen angels and watchers. he is the subprince or shadow and fire of lucifer in the east being air. lilith is in jewish folklore, the first eve or wife of adam. she refused adams advances and attempts to subvert her power, independence and inherent equality. she would not lay 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 be

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ult philosophy. these works also provide avenues for allied figures, such as lucifer, asmodeus, lilith, and the arch-daemonic guardians of the magical circle led by mahazael. although the emphasis of sacrality is reversed, another strand of genealogy is obviously to biblical texts where various elements of the mythos are present. biblical sources likewise connect to the apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, jewish folklore and even manichaean texts as avenues of influence. however, whilst one could explain the presence of cain and lilith with recourse to such sources, contesting some kind of dependence of sabbatic lore upon christian, jewish et al demonologies, this fails to appreciate the unique and self- sustaining complex of the craft mythos in itself. the teachings of traditional craft utilise a

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

ISIS UNVEILED

story of the reantrection of jainu's daiuhter found in the history of krislina 241 untnutwcvth^ teadungs of the early fathera 248 thdr pcnecuting spirit 249 chapter vi esoteric doctrines op buddhism parodied in christianity dccimons of nicene cooudl, how arrived at 251 murder of hypatia 252 origin of the eab- ymbdoctrine al cosmogony 264 diagrams of hindfl and cbaldaeo-jewish systems 265 ten mythical avatarv of viahnu 274 trinity of man uught by paul 281 sooatea and i^to on soul and spirit 283 ?ftue buddhism, what it is 288 digitizecoy google contents chapter vn early cheistian heresies and secret sooeties naiareani, otohitea, and modem druiei (or 'hunxa-ita] 201 etymology of lao 298 'hennelic brotben egypt 307 ivue meaning ol nirvlna 319 ite jaina aect 321 c

om their wretched condition. the gehenna of the new testa- ment was a locality outside the walls of jerusalem; and ill mentioning it jesus used but an ordinary metaphor. whence then came the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of christian theology, with whidi they have succeeded in holding in subjection the numberless millions of christians for nineteen centuries? assuredly not from the jewish scriptures, and we appeal for corroboration to any well-informed hebrew scholar. he only suggestion of something approaching hell in the bible is gehenna or hinnom, a valley near jerusalem, where was situated tophet, a place where a fire was perpetually kept for sanitary purposes. the prophet jeremiah informs us that the israehtes used to sacrifice their children to moloch-hercules on that

ys beausobre* quoting augus- tine "does not mean that the heaven and earth were created before anything else, for, to begin with, the angeu were created before that; but that god did everything through his wisdom, which u his verlmm, and which the christian bme named the beginning" thus adopting the exo- teric meaning of the word abandoned to the multitudes "hie kabala the oriental as well as the jewish shows that a number of emanatione (the jewish sephiroth) issued from the firat principle, the chi^ c^ which was wiedom. this wisdom is the logos of philo, and michael, the chi^ of the gnostic eons; it is the ormazd of the persians; minerva, goddess of wisdom, of the greeks, who emanated from the head of jupiter; and the second person of the christian trinity. the eariy fathers of the church

able veil of mystny, are preserved throughout, and impressed upon the ages. they are known as moses, aholiab, and besaleel, the son of uri, the son of hur, as plato, philo, and pythagoras, etc. at the transfigura- tion we see them as jesus, moses, and elias, the three trismegisti; and three kabahsts, peter, james, and john whose revelation is the key lo all wisdom. we found them in the twiught of jewish history as zoro- aster, abraham, and terah, and later as henoch, ezekiel, and daniel. who of those who ever studied the ancient philosophies who understand intuitionally the grandeur of their conceptions, the boundless sublimity of their views of the unknown deity can hesitate for a moment to give the preference to their doctrines over the incompre- hensible, dogmatic and contradictory theo

hristened 41 did the xeo-platonic school reiich such a height of philosophy as when nearest its end. uniting the mystic theosophy of old egypt with the refined philosophy of the greeks; nearer to the ancient mysteries of thebes and memphis than they had been for centuries; versed ia the science of soothsaying and divination, as in the art of the therapeutiaia; friendly with the acutest men of the jewish nation, who were deeply imbued with the zoroastnan ideas, the neo-platonists tended to amal- gamate the old wisdom of the oriental kabala with the more refined conceptions of the occidental theosophists. notwithstanding the trea- son of the christians, who saw fit for political reasons after the days of constantine to repudiate their tutors, the influence of the new platonic philosophy is c

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

, always reappearing in egyptian sculptures and hieroglyphics. there is also a likeness to the mysterious letter tau. the whole first chapter of genesis is said to be contained in this latter emblem this magnificent, all-including tau. three bent spikes, or nails, are unmistakably the same symbol that belus often holds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the mediaeval mystics in the three nails of the cross. the gnostics and their remains, ancient and medi val, p. 208. this figure, which is clearly a nail, has also characteristics, which will be remarked in its upper portion, which suggest a likeness to the obelisk, pin, spike, upright, or phallus. the hebrew letter shin, or sin, counts for

ich, united (and intersecting, form the cross. the first mark is the origin of the upright tower, pyramid, or imitation ascending flame of fire, which aspires against the force of gravity; also of the steeple, or phallus, all over the world. the second, or horizontal, mark is the symbol of the tabernacle, chest, or ark, or fluent or base-line, which is the expression of all egyptian, grecian, and jewish templar architecture. the union of the two lines gives the christian, universal cross-form, in the blending of the two dispensations old and new, or law and gospel. now, both of these lines, in the rosicrucian sense, have special magic powers, or gifts, according to their several places, and according to the supernatural extra forces brought specially to bear on them through the operations

ost. see, also, pp. 47, 48, 52, 53, ante. 172 the rosicrucians. supposing that on that day the whole world had been set on fire. it was also at the same period that they celebrated the pyrrhic or fire-dance (and this illustrates the origin of the purifications by fire and water) there are seven planets in the solar system. these seven planets are signified in the seven-branched candlestick of the jewish ritual. the number is a sacred number. these seven prophets, or angels, have each twelve apostles, places, stella, stalls, or regions or dominions (stalls as stables, for the exercise of their powers. these are the twelve divisions of the great circle, or the twelve signs of the zodiac. all this is cabalistic, magical, sabaistical, and astrological. the name ashtaroth or astarte has been de

e of the ages, or to have been mutilated at some unknown, remote period possibly thrown down and broken as objects of superstitious reverence, if not of direct and positive idolatry, thus very probably exciting indignation, which, as it found opportunity and scope for its exercise, was successful in their demolition. in both these stones we certainly have only fragments perhaps of obelisks, or of jewish bethel pillars or stones for all these supposed magical stones are of the same sacred family. the supposed magical stone, enclosed in the wooden block at the base of the coronation chair, has been reputed, from time immemorial, to murmur its approval or disapproval of the royal occupant, only at the moment when the sovereign was placed in the chair for investiture with the sacred pallium or

seven angels or spirits of god, who keep the way round about the throne of the ancient of days. there is in most countries an objection to friday, although it is the mohammedan sacred day or sabbath. friday is the day of the green. emeralds, or smaragds, are proper to be worn on friday, and bring good fortune, as exercising occult influences on this particular day* this is* the breastplate of the jewish high-priest had its oracular gems, which were the urim and thummim. the reputed enchanter, apollonius tyaneus, is said, for the purposes of his magic, to have worn special rings, with their appropriate gems, for each day of the sevenfold week, to command the particular spirits belonging to the different 182 the rosicrucians. the day on which all green gems, and the colour green, should be u

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ruenwald a preliminary critical edition of sefer yezirah, in israel oriental studies 1 (1971; a. peter hayman, introduction, sefer yesira: edition, translation and text-critical commentary (t bingen: mohr siebeck, 2004. aryeh kaplan adds a fourth: the gra/ari version; see below, p. 13* the comments of both steven m. wasserstrom and elliot r. wolfson were made as discussants at the association for jewish studies 33rd annual conference (washington, dc: december 16, 2001) in the session titled sefer yesirah: mystical and philosophical intertexts. see wasserstrom s articles (1) sefer yesira and early islam: a reappraisal (in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, vol. 3 no. 1: 1993) and (2) further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah (in aleph: historical studies in science and jud

aism, no. 2 (2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale; see also wasserstrom s comments in between muslim and jew: the problem of symbiosis under early islam (princeton: princeton university press, 1995, pages 126-133. further, refer to wolfson s summary, sefer yetzirah: linguistic mysticism and cosmological speculation, which is a section of jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview, in history of jewish philosophy, edited by daniel h. frank and oliver leaman (london new york: routledge, 1997. don karr, 1991, 1994; updated 2001-7. email: dk0618@yahoo.com all rights reserved. license to copy this publication is intended for personal use only. paper copies may be made for personal use. with the above exception, no part of this publicat

similar in tone to the hekhalot texts of early chariot mysticism. it was from the first chapter of sy that kabbalah derived the term sefirot and the notion of these as metaphysical stages of creation. the remaining chapters of sy tell of the powers and correspondences of the twenty-two hebrew letters. in 1971, gruenwald noted, although sefer yezira is one of the most frequently published works of jewish esoteric lore, there is no authoritative text available to those who want to study the book. to make a long story short, there are at least three main recensions of the book, and except for one recension (the so-called saadian recension) all the printed texts are defective* gruenwald was commenting on the state of editions in hebrew, the inadequacies of which would inevitably be reflected i

nglish translations of sy which i have seen are discussed in part 1: translations. i deal with these in chronological order, starting with the first, that of isadore kalisch from 1877, and concluding with the most recent, that of dr. fred reiss from 2007* in the introduction to preliminary critical edition. 20073 3 part 1: translations: kalisch, isadore. sepher yezirah. a book on creation; or the jewish metaphysics of remote antiquity, with english translation, preface, explanatory notes and glossary. new york: l. h. frank& co, 1877. reprinted san jose: amorc, 1948, with several reprint editions following; more recently (late eighties) reprinted by heptangle (gillette) in an overpriced deluxe edition. kalisch gives a straightforward translation, showing the english and hebrew side by side

york: thorsons and samuel weiser, 1977. even though the original was french, papus work is included here because it offers an sy translation (of sorts) by an influential occultist which has been circulating in english for some time. unfortunately, one finds papus treatment of sy (pp. 203-48 in the weiser edition) in the midst of a pseudo-scholarly mess. the entire book is a confusion of elements, jewish and non-jewish, many having no connection with kabbalah at all. there are many astounding errors, and the reader is flogged with a continual mystery mongering. as for the sy section, papus introduces the text with a verbose and ranging forward followed by an utterly superfluous summary of the text. finally, there is the text, full of bizarre renderings. papus gives the three sefarim (sy 1:1

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

ernet. many versions of sy offered are already quite familiar to us from their predecessors in print. westcott s translation turns up at numerous sites* two examples: 1. copenhagen qabalah: spiritual technology lab at http//qabalah.mortenhass.com both sy and the thirty-two paths are posted hereha(hereafter ek) ek is an anthology of texts which serves as an excellent complement to ok. dan, joseph. jewish mysticism, volume ii: the middle ages. northvale. jerusalem: jason aronson inc, 1998 (hereafter jmii) jmii is a collection of dan fs articles covering early kabbalah (concentrating on sefer ha-bahir) and the ashkenazi hasidim (see below, pre-kabbalistic streams of jewish mysticism, 5. to the above books, add the following dissertations. brody, seth lance. human hands dwell in heavenly heigh

w in gother references h; translated excerpts are given in ek (pp. 57-69. using scholem fs observations as a starting point, ronit meroz has presented her conclusions regarding the three distinct strata of sefer ha-bahir in several lectures (including ga bright light in the east.the babylonian stratum in sefer ha-bahir, h session: hermeneutical reflections on early kabbalah at the association for jewish studies thirty-fourth annual conference, los angeles: december 17, 2002) and her hebrew article, ga bright light in the east: on the time and place of part of sefer ha-bahir h in da fat: a journal of jewish philosophy and kabbalah 49 (2002. about half was written in provence in the 12th or 13th century. most of the rest was written in the jewish babylonian congregation which lived in the 9t

bahir: an ancient kabbalistic text attributed to nehuniah ben hakana/ 1st century c.e. new york: samuel weiser, inc, 1979. neugroschel, joachim. gfrom the bahir, h in the secret garden, edited by david meltzer (new york: seabury press, 1976. other references. abrams, daniel. gthe condensation of the symbol eshekhinah f in the manuscripts of the book bahir, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts, vol. 16, edited by d. abrams and a. elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 2007. bokser, ben zion. the jewish mystical tradition. new york: the pilgrim press, 1981: 7. gsefer habahir h (translated excerpts. dan, joseph. gershom scholem and the mystical dimension of jewish history [modern jewish masters series #2. new york: new york university press, 1988: chapter 5. gthe enigma

idrash and literature, edited by g. hartman and s. budick. new haven: yale university press, 1986; also jmii: chapter 1. dauber, jonathan victor. standing on the heads of philosophers (noted above, page 2- chapter 2. myth and philosophy in sefer ha-bahir- chapter 3: a. sefer ha-bahir: 30- appendix 2. 32 of sefer ha-bahir in light of early kabbalistic sources. eylon, dina ripsman. reincarnation in jewish mysticism and gnosticism [jewish studies, volume 25. lewiston-queenston-lampeter: the edwin mellen press, 2003. green, arthur. keter: the crown of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997: chapter thirteen. gsefer ha-bahir. h 20081 4. idel, moshe. ascensions on high in jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, and ladders. budapest/new york: central european univer

chapter thirteen. gsefer ha-bahir. h 20081 4. idel, moshe. ascensions on high in jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, and ladders. budapest/new york: central european university press, 2005: chapter 2, 3, gthe pillar in the book bahir h. krzok, paul. ga look at the bahir, h in the hermetic journal, number 22, edited by adam mclean (edinburgh: winter 1983. neubauer, a. gthe bahir and the zohar, h in jewish quarterly review, original series, vol. 4 (1892. schafer, peter. mirror of his beauty: feminine images of god from the bible to the early kabbalah. princeton and oxford: princeton university press, 2002. scholem, gershom. kabbalah [articles from encyclopedia judaica. jerusalem- new york: keter publishing house/times books, 1974; rpt. new york: dorset press, 1987 (article) gsefer ha-bahir. h

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

since mercury appears both as a morning and evening star, its was sometimes thought of as having two sexes. though ninurta and nabu were greatly interchangeable in the sargonid assyrian mystics, ninurta meant first of all esavior in the battle with sin and death f, while nabu eradiant f was primarily the ewinner, who judges all people on judgment day f. influences of this concept have spread into jewish magical texts, where michael. as the earlier ninurta/nabu. occurs as ehealer f and is connected to mercury (parpola las, n.196. the cult of nabu lasted until the 2nd c ad, later he became identified with apollo. 25 figure 10. most widespread variants of mercury in cuneiform: muludu.idim.gu4.ud and mulna-bu-u2. the full name of mercury is muludu.idim.gu4.ud (g139bis) estar of the sun bull f

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

that redeeming the world from its plights depends solely on disseminating the correction method: we are in a generation that is standing at the very threshold of redemption, if we will only know how to spread the wisdom of the hidden in the masses. he emphasizes that the wisdom of kabbalah must be brought to everyone in the world, and compares it to the voice of the shofar (a ram s horn blown on jewish holidays: and the dissemination of the wisdom in the masses is called a shofar. like the shofar, whose voice travels a great distance, the echo of the wisdom will spread throughout the world t h e b i rt h o f t h e p e o p l e o f i s r a e l for the correction method to appear today and lead the world to equilibrium with nature, it had to be passed on and developed from generation to gene

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

lar notebook he always carried. this notebook contained all the transcripts of his conversations with his father, rabbi yehuda leib halevi ashlag, the rabbi of jerusalem, and a kabbalist. he was the author of a 21-volume commentary on the book of zohar, as well as the author of a six-volume commentary on the texts of the kabbalist, ari, and of many other works on kabbalah. not feeling well on the jewish new year in september 1991, my rabbi called me to his bedside and handed me his notebook, saying "take it and learn from it" the following morning, my teacher perished in my arms, leaving me and many of his other disciples without guidance in this world. he used to say "i want to teach you to turn to the creator, rather than to me, because he is the only strength, the only source of all tha

a significant correction was introduced into the world by the kabbalist baal shem-tov. even the masses could feel a slight increase in the amount of the spiritual in the world. for a while, those who desired it found it even easier to reach the spiritual. inner motion and development- 117- in order to select worthy students for his kabbalistic group, baal shem-tov instituted admorut a division of jewish society into sections, with each section having a kabbalist as its own spiritual leader. these leaders (admorim) selected individuals whom they deemed to be worthy of studying kabbalah in their heder (room) classes. here they engaged in raising the next generation of kabbalists and leaders of the people. but the effect of the correction introduced by baal shem- tov has passed, so not all le

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

to the other languages in our generation. today, humanity has come to the last phase in the evolution of the will to receive. this is why baal hasulam adapted the t h e s t ru c t u r e o f r e a l i t y 101 method of the ari to the structure of the souls in our generation -to make it accessible for everyone. c h a n g i n g m y s e l f many people mistakenly relate the wisdom of kabbalah to the jewish religion. in truth, kabbalah and religion are fundamentally different. the purpose of religion is to calm people down; it nurtures the hope that if i pray, the creator s attitude toward me will change. kabbalah takes a very different approach: the root of the word prayer (hebrew: tefila) means sentencing, or judging (hebrew: palal. in other words, one sentences oneself, examines the differe

piritual life--rabbi kook, orot teshuva (lights of repentance, p. 50 around the year 1923, professor einstein visited in the land of israel. a meeting was arranged between him and our rabbi, the raayah kook. the rav related to the comprehensiveness of the professor s method and commented that it is a common sight k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 206 in ancient jewish treasures that some wondrous revelation that astounds the whole humanity is found in some hidden corner of our ancient literature, and especially the occult, whose lightnings soar to the height of conceptual world, transcending every degree of historic evolution in the world of concepts. so also occurred with the wondrous revelation that takes every thinker s breath away with his new relati

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

reature but by the creator, meaning a higher spiritual degree than his current one. the creature never has the strength to perform a self-correction. man s goal is simply to arrive at the desire to be corrected v to send out a prayer, a plea for correction v and the upper degree (the creator) will perform it. t h e e vo l u t i o n o f h u m a n i t y q: why did the kabbalah remain, much like all jewish thought, in the margins of the development of the cultural world, without influencing the advancement of humanity, as did western philosophy? after all, the kabbalah sees as its goal the correction of mankind. a: the purpose of creation is to bring the soul, meaning the whole of mankind, with all of its parts, to a state where its every movement is in harmony with the creator, who is our cr

d. it explains it in the language of pictures, but not a single word of it speaks of our world. it does, however, make use of words to explain the structure of the spiritual world and how it dominates us. because the spiritual world is the world of emotions and has no words, we use languages such as the language of the bible (pentateuch, the language of legends (agada, the language of the talmud (jewish religious laws, and the language of the kabbalah (sefirot, which is the most precise of all, in order to explain and describe that world. for that reason, most kabbalists use the language of the kabbalah. within the kabbalah are several sub-languages as well: the language of the lights, the language of the vessels, gimatria (use of letters as numerals, matrix, drawings, etc. because in each

was the first to compose a book of torah (instructions) about man s path from down to up, from our world to the spiritual world. he described the way in general terms, and for the first time in history, the system of the worlds was described in a literary tongue. kabbalists use four languages to describe the upper world to humanity: the language of the bible (history, the language of the halacha (jewish law, the language of agada (legends and tales, and the language of kabbalah. without exception, they all speak about the upper world. for example, when you open the zohar, you find an explanation of the text of the torah, but in a different language--that of the kabbalah. the zohar is the interpretation of that torah (writing the same thing under a different label is called interpretation

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 equivalent to kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no equivalent to kabbalah in other religi

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 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

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

n extremely strong desire can awaken the point in the heart. even the ari mentioned it. in order for an individual to be included in the united desire of the group, that person must be in complete agreement with that desire. this is because even when this point does exist, its attributes vary from person to person. for instance, it is known that rabbi yosef karo, who wrote the shulchan aruch (the jewish code of laws, a priceless piece of work, slept during his kabbalah lessons with the ari. of course, there were people who absorbed the lurianic kabbalah (the kabbalah of the ari) naturally, and there were people who could not understand it and had troubles disconnecting themselves from the kabbalah of the ramak (rabbi moshe kordoviro. the ari introduced a fundamental change in the method of

ittle 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 members of any other nation. in a corrected state, israel is a corrected desir

ur internal properties from egoism to altruism, not by any mechanical acts. it is said: a mitzva without an aim is like a body without a soul. it is only the aim that determines the value of the action. a mere mechanical act, an aimless one, is also a lifeless one. it does not produce any spiritual influence and brings no result. however, observing mitzvot mechanically is still necessary for the (jewish) collective because it preserves their identities from generation to generation, and prepares souls for their personal correction in one of the future cycles, for the realization of the aim lishma (for her name. keeping the mitzvot in the physical body purifies the spiritual still of man. man s soul consists of four parts of creation; these correlate to the name of the creator: still, veget

onsidered to be the chosen people because they were given the opportunity to reach spirituality before other nations. it is not that jews are any better than others; it is simply that they are the first of manpa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 317 kind to be obligated to correct themselves and attain the spiritual world. there is a certain type of soul called jewish, from the hebrew word yehudi meaning unique, or unified (with the creator. the kabbalah maintains that this is the most egoistic type of soul. it is no coincidence that the jewish people are described as stiff-necked and insubordinate. the collective spiritual vessel (soul, adam) broke into pieces because it was easier to correct small egoistic parts than the entire egoism all at once. the

. the collective spiritual vessel (soul, adam) broke into pieces because it was easier to correct small egoistic parts than the entire egoism all at once. the 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 kab

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

stery teaching of egypt was very closely guarded, and it was only with great difficulty and under special conditions that anyone not an egyptian born could be allowed to receive it. still, it was given to various distinguished foreigners, and among others to moses, of whom it is said in the biblical story that he was glearned in all the wisdom of the egyptians h. he passed on his knowledge to the jewish priestly line, and thus it survived in a more or less defective form till the time of david and solomon. 81. when solomon built his temple he erected it on masonic lines, and made it a centre of masonic symbolism and work. he unquestionably intended his temple to demonstrate and to preserve for his people a certain set of measurements, in the same sort of way in which all kinds of astronomi

ical and geodetic facts were enshrined in the measurements of the great pyramid(*see ch. ii, on the pillars) he did not succeed, because much of the tradition had been lost; or it would perhaps be truer to say that while external ceremonial and even the traditional ornamentation had been very fairly preserved, the clue to the meaning of it all was no longer known. until that time initiates of the jewish mysteries had had their attention directed to the house of light in egypt; but king solomon resolved to keep their thoughts and feelings strictly focused upon the building which he had himself erected, and therefore instead of speaking to them of the symbolical death and resurrection of osiris in egypt he invented the original form of our present traditional history to take its place. in fa

e 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 outlines of masonic history i cannot pursue the question further, but i hope to say more upon it in my next volume, glimpses of masonic history. 83. it is principally along this line of jewish descent that masonry has come down to us in europe, though there have been other infiltrations. numa pompilius, the second king of rome, who founded the roman collegia, established in connection with them a system of the mysteries which derived its masonic succession from egypt; but its ceremonies and teachings were somewhat modified by the migration of the rites of attis and cybele to rome

heir wanderings through the desert, and was always placed east and 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

mpletes the square of the four quarters. it is said that tattu is thus the place established for ever, a heaven with its four quarters, as tat represents the earth with its four quarters. 156. figure 5 and 6 157. 158. in the hieroglyphs the form has become like fig. 5, while in the papyrus of ani it appears as in fig. 6. 159. dr. mackey has made a special study of these two pillars in their later jewish form. he speaks of them as memorials of god fs repeated promises of support to his people of israel, since jachin is derived from jah, which means gjehovah h, and achin, gto establish h, and signifies ggod will establish his house in israel, h while boaz is compounded of b, which means gin h and oaz, gstrength h, the whole signifying gin strength shall it be established h. mackey thinks tha

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

he mysteries. the stages of the occult path. the first three initiations. the fourth initiation. the fifth initiation and beyond. chapter iii the cretan mysteries the unity of the mysteries. life in ancient crete. the cretan race. recent discoveries in crete. worship in crete. the throne room. the three columns. models of shrines. the altar objects. various symbols. the statuettes. chapter iv the jewish mysteries the jewish line of descent. the jewish migrations. the prophets. the builders of k.s.t. the recasting of the rituals. the mingling of traditions. the transmission of the new rites. the essenes and the christ. kabbalism. the spiritualization of the temple. the loss of the divine name. chapter v the greek mysteries the eleusinian mysteries. the origin of the greek mysteries. the god

steries. the greater mysteries. the myths of the greater mysteries. the magic of the greater mysteries. the hidden mysteries. the school of pythagoras. the three degrees. other greek mysteries. chapter vi the mithraic mysteries zarathustra and mithraism. mithraism among the romans. the mithraic rites. the roman collegia. the work of king numa. the colleges and the legions. the introduction of the jewish form. the transition to the operatives. chapter vii craft masonry in mediaeval times evolutionary methods. the withdrawal of the mysteries. the christian mysteries. the repression of the mysteries. the crossing of traditions. the two lines of descent. the culdees. celtic christianity in britain. the druidic mysteries. the holy grail. heredom. chapter viii operative masonry in the middle age

ysteries of a masonic character in that ancient civilization. but where that evidence is supported by the various proofs discussed above no doubt can remain that four thousand years ago and more there existed in crete mysteries in which 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

, 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 the lens of an almost fanatical patriotism by the later compilers of the records. the jewish scriptures as we have them today were almost entirely rewritten after the return from the captivity; and the priestly writers who did this work transfigured in a glow of enthusiastic romance the poetic traditions of their nation. 266. the jewish migration

ory were magnified and distorted through the lens of an almost fanatical patriotism by the later compilers of the records. the jewish scriptures as we have them today were almost entirely rewritten after the return from the captivity; and the priestly writers who did this work transfigured in a glow of enthusiastic romance the poetic traditions of their nation. 266. the jewish migrations 267. the jewish race is an offshoot of that semitic people who formed the fifth sub-race of the atlantean root-race. some four thousand years before the great cataclysm of 75,025 b.c, which overwhelmed the first atlantean empire of egypt, the manu had led his especial followers into the uplands of arabia in order that they might be separated from the bulk of the atlanteans, and that a new type might be evo

LEMEGETON

the whole art of salomon although there be many other bookes that is said to be his yet none is to be compared with this, for this containeth them all, although [100v] they be titled with severall other names, as the booke helisoe wch is the very same as this last [book] is, wch called, artem novam& ars notaria &c. these bookes were first found in the chaldean& hebrew tongues at hierusalem, by a jewish rabbi& by him put into the greeke language& from thence into ye latine, as it is said &c. appendix- other examples of some of the drawings sigil for baal, from harl. 6483. sigil for agares, from harl. 6483. sigil for vasago, from harl. 6483. magical circle and triangle, from sloane 3648. hexagram to be worn as a lamin, from the hebrew manuscript of the clavicula salomonis (sepher mafteah sh

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

. satan has also been portrayed as a proud, clever, creative nonconformist willing to question the status quo. in the modern world, all of these characteristics are regarded as positive traits, at least theoretically. almost all contemporary images of the devil derive directly or indirectly from the christian tradition. christian diabolism in turn has dual roots in judaism and zoroastrianism. the jewish satan was never as sinister as his christian counterpart. initially, in fact, satan was not a being at all, but, rather, an accusatory or adversarial role assigned by god. specifically, 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

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 by the resurrection of the dead, a final judgment, the defeat of satan, and the end of this world. with these apocalyptic additions, the christian devil remained essentially unchanged for centuries. these understandings were

ad. in the earliest vedic texts, yama ruled an afterlife realm not unlike the norse valhalla in which the deceased enjoyed carnal pleasures. as hinduism was transformed in the post-vedic period, yama became a rather grim demigod, who snared the souls of the departed and conducted them to the otherworld. the notion of an angel of death was most fully developed in rabbinical judaism. like yama, the jewish idea of an angel of death developed across time. the biblical emissaries of death were clearly under the direct command of god, as, for example, in 2 samuel: then the angel stretched out his arm toward jerusalem to destroy it; but the lord repented of the evil and said to the angel who was destroying the people, enough! stay your hand (2 sam. 24:16. none of the biblical references indicate

shan a al is of the opinion that organizational satanism is a contradiction in terms. this is one reason that she does not expand ascendancy into a community despite receiving queries from individuals about joining ascendancy. for further reading: ascendancy: http//www.jashan.net asmodeus asmodeus means creature (or being) of judgment. he was originally a persian demon, but was later adopted into jewish lore where he was known as a raging fiend, per the book of tobit. it is in this same book that the story is told about how asmodeus had killed the seven previous bridegrooms of sarah, and then planned to strike once more against the eighth a young man name tobias. but this time asmodeus was not successful as the archangel raphael was protecting tobias. raphael exiled asmodeus to upper egypt

smodeus to upper egypt, where he was kept under restraint by another angel until he finally moved on to hell. in demonology, it is said that one must invoke asmodeus only when bareheaded, otherwise he will trick the caller. asmodeus is also in charge of gaming houses.asmodeus shows up in other writings, such as the devil on two sticks, by alain r. le sage, in which he is the central character. in jewish legend asmodeus is said to be the fatherin- law of the bar shalmon, who is a demon. and in the devil s own dear son, by james branch asmodeus (bridgeman art gallery) aurum solis 17 cabell,asmodeus is the son of sammael and lilith (who is adam s first wife. in the legends of solomon, asmodeus (also known as saturn, marcolf, or morolf) is held responsible for creating carousels, music, dancin

LIBER 141

be truly and duly done is 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 conj

LIBER 777

riting each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings

LIBER CHANOKH

ement of the rank in this order: air, water, earth, fire. the symbolic representation of the universe 14 iv follows plate ix, the alphabet in which all this is written.18 it is the alphabet of the angelic language. the invocations which we possess in that tongue follow in their due place [it is called also enochian, as these angels claimed to be those which conversed with the .patriarch enoch. of jewish fable.19] enochian a a alphabet b b c c, k d d e e f f g g h h i i, y l l m m n n o o p p q q r r s s t t u u, v, w x x z z plate ix. liber lxxxiv 15 v the thirty thyrs or aires and their divisions and angels are as follows [we omit for the present consideration of the parts of the earth to which they are stated to correspond, and the question of the attributions to the cardinal points and

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

iv 53-75. t.s] liber dccclx 14 therefore i think it may fairly be counted unto me for righteousness. i now drink a final coffee and retire, to do i hope a more straightforward type of meditation. so mote it be. naked, maryt looks like corregio fs antiope. her eyes are a strange grey, and her hair a very wonderful reddish gold.a colour i have never seen before and cannot properly describe. she has jewish blood in her, i fancy; this, and her method of illustrating the axiom .post coitum animal triste. made me think of baudelaire fs .une nuit que j.etais pres d fune affreuse juive: and the last line obscurcir la splendeur des tres froides prunelles. and barbey d.aurevilly fs .rideau cramoisi. suggested to me the following poem [we omit this poem..ed.]1 11.30. done! i. th. rough! i. th. rough!

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

g to consider their fitness to affiliate to a chapter practicing similar rites. xvi i consider it supererogatory to continue my essay on the mysteries and my analysis of energized enthusiasm. energized enthusiasm 23 [the following appeared in crowley fs editorial to equinox i (10; the bulk of it is crowley quoting g.r.s. mead quoting from de vita contemplativa by philo of alexandria, a hellenized jewish writer of the first century e.v. t.s] with regard to the article in no. 9, genergized enthusiasm, h a circumstance of exceptional interest has arisen. the author was not acquainted at that time with the literature of those gnostics who were the earliest and only true christians. in fragments of a faith forgotten, however, we find the following passage: gafter the banquet they keep the holy

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

want to be injured by someone else fs incompetence. there are also simpler methods for entering into a state of pain gnosis on your own, involving just a small sewing needle and a little knowledge of anatomy. the jesuits taught me this trick; it fs called gstigmata h (after the spontaneous bleeding from the ankles, wrists and side experienced by the extremely religious in imitation of a crucified jewish rebel, and they use it to form a sympathetic link with christ. stigmata are done by locating the main nerve entering either hand at the wrist. the magician places a needle into this bundle of nerves. the pain will be instantaneous and overwhelming. this connection is responsible for the wonderful dexterity and mobility of the human thumb. during an actual crucifixion, this nerve is severed

LIBER LVII

ch= 13; or a= 1, j= 8, d= 4, total= 13; and a= 1, h= 5, b= 2, h= 5, total= 13. again, the name of the angel wrffm, metatron, and the name of the deity, ydc, shaddai, each make 314; so the one is taken as symbolical of the other. the angel metatron is said to have been the conductor of the children of israel through the wilderness, of whom 3 [i.e. the kaballah unveiled. as scholem (major trends in jewish mysticism) and others have pointed out, the three tracts translated by mathers are actually fairly minor in the scheme of the zohar (a reasonably complete english translation of which occupies five quarto volumes. t.s] 6 liber lviii god says .my name is in him. with regard to gematria of phrases (gen. xlix, 10, hlyc aby, yeba shiloh= 358, which is the numeration of the word jycm, messiah.4

ry letter of the word tycarb, berashith, the first word in genesis, is made the initial of a word, and we obtain hrwt larcy wlbqyc \yhla har tycarb, be-rashith rahi elohim sheyequebelo 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 w

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

islam is an arabic word meaning both submission and peace. at the core of the islamic faith is the idea that a muslim submits to allah (god, thus finding spiritual peace. islam emphasizes the oneness and unity of allah, that muhammad was his final prophet (in arabia in the seventh figure 1.2 representatives of some of the major non-christian denominations in the world. clockwise from top left: a jewish woman celebrating hanukkah with a nouveau menorah; nepalese women celebrating the hindu festival of teej; a buddhist monk in thailand; a muslim bridegroom from bangladesh (from linda stone s collection. creationism and intelligent design 21 century c.e, and that the quran is allah s divine word recited by muhammad. the general belief is that the quran is to be fully understood only in the o

e christian view of the new testament is not shared by them. nonetheless, jews, muslims, and christians alike are people of the book; that is, all believe in revealed religions. it is probably safe to say that god (gott in german, yeob in greek, deus in latin, dieu in french, dio in italian( in russian, and so on, yhwh, and allah are very similar if not identical concepts. one complication in the jewish interpretation of genesis, however, is the 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 th

ized 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-forms came to be, and the timing of the appearance of humans are still 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 r

ides even wrote that only ignoramuses would take genesis literally. on the other hand, the age of earth, how life-forms came to be, and the timing of the appearance of humans are still 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 t

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 understanding of what ultimately god did. concerning the teaching of id in public schools in the united states, several orthodox and reform rabbis in kansas city made their views crystal clear. in 2005, these rabbis showed their total opposition to the teaching of id

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

roma. one group of the gnostics was of the opinion that the demiurgus was the cause of all misery and was an evil creature, who by building this lower world had separated the souls of men from truth by encasing them in mortal vehicles. the other sect viewed the demiurgus as being divinely inspired and merely fulfilling the dictates of the invisible lord. some gnostics were of the opinion that the jewish god, jehovah, was the demiurgus. this concept, under a slightly different name, apparently influenced medi val rosicrucianism, which viewed jehovah as the lord of the material universe rather than as the supreme deity. mythology abounds with the stories of gods who partook of both celestial and terrestrial natures. odin, of scandinavia, is a good example of a deity subject to mortality, bow

sons' new light on the great pyramid) the little-suspected importance of serapis as a prototype of christ can be best appreciated after a consideration of the following extract from c. w. king's gnostics and their remains "there can be no doubt that the head of serapis, marked as the face is by a grave and pensive majesty, supplied the first idea for the conventional portraits of the saviour. the jewish prejudices of the first converts were so powerful that we may be sure no attempt was made to depict his countenance until some generations after all that had beheld it on earth had passed away" serapis gradually usurped the positions previously occupied by the other egyptian and greek gods, and became the supreme deity of both religions. his power continued until the fourth century of click

r 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 established that wrought the salvation of his people. in the jewish month of tammuz (another name for this deity) he was gored to death by a wild boar sent by the god ars (mars. the adoniasmos was the ceremony of lamenting the premature death of the murdered god. in ezekiel viii. 14, it is written that women were weeping for tammuz (adonis) at the north gate of the lord's house in jerusalem. sir james george frazer cites jerome thus "he tells us that bethle

eoples discredits the theory that she was a historical individual. according to sextus empyricus, the trojan war was fought over a statue of the moon goddess. for this lunar helena, and not for a woman, the greeks and trojans struggled at the gates of troy. several authors have attempted to prove that isis, osiris, typhon, nephthys, and aroueris (thoth, or mercury) were grandchildren of the great jewish patriarch noah by his son ham. but as the story of noah and his ark is a cosmic allegory concerning the repopulation of planets at the beginning of each world period, this only makes it less likely that they were historical personages. according to robert fludd, the sun has three properties--life, light, and heat. these three vivify and vitalize the three worlds- spiritual, intellectual, an

must be mortified and purified by seven planetary circulations or purifications called flying eagles (alchemical terminology) in order to make it medicinal for the restoration of health (here the emanations from the sun are recognized as a medicine for the healing of human ills) the seven planetary circulations are represented by the circumambulations of the masonic lodge; by the marching of the jewish priests seven times around the walls of jericho, and of the mohammedan priests seven times around the kabba at mecca. from the crown of gold project three horns of plenty, signifying the abundance of the gifts of nature proceeding from one root having its origin in the heavens (head of isis. in this figure the pagan naturalists represent all the vital powers of the three kingdoms and famili

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anner on the scheme of the sephiroth. the history of the hebrew original of the key of solomon is given in the introductions, but there is every reason to suppose that this has been entirely lost, and christian, the pupil of levi, says as much in his histoire de la magie. i see no reason to doubt the tradition which assigns the authorship of the key to king solomon, for among others josephus, the jewish historian, especially mentions the magical works attributed to that monarch; this is confirmed by many eastern traditions, and his magical skill is frequently mentioned by the old adepts. there are, however, two works on black magic, the grimorium verum, and the clavicola di salomone ridolta, which have been attributed to solomon, and which have been in some cases especially mixed up with t

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ing solomon. and although there be many other books that are said to be his, yet none is to be compared hereunto, for this containeth them all. though there be titles with several other names of the book, as the book helisol, which is the very same with this last book of lemegeton called ars nova or ars notaria, etc. these books were first found in the chaldee and hebrew tongues at jerusalem by a jewish rabbi; and by him put into the greek language and thence into the latin, as it is said. shemhamphorash (1) bael- the first principal spirit is a king ruling in the east, called bael. he maketh thee to go invisible. he ruleth over 66 legions of infernal spirits. he appeareth in divers shapes, sometimes like a cat, sometimes like a toad, and sometimes like a man, and sometimes all these forms

MEANING OF MASONRY

skirting the black and white chequer-work, even as the divine presence and providence surrounds and embraces our temporal organisms in which those opposites are inherent. why is the chequer floor-work given such prominence in the lodge-furniture? the answer is to be found in the statement in the third degree ritual" the square pavement is for the high priest to walk upon" now it is not merely the jewish high priest of centuries ago that is here referred to, but the individual member of the craft. for every mason is intended to be the high priest of his own personal temple and to make of it a place where he and deity may meet. by the mere fact of being in this dualistic world every living being, whether a mason or not, walks upon the square pavement of mingled good and evil in every action

e other is associated with the western pole and his activities are directed eastwards; whilst the door-keeper is the point of contact with the world without. in one of their many significances they typify the middle term between spirit and matter--the astral medium or psychic bridge, in virtue of which contact between them is possible. heavily veiled beneath the sacrementalism of a council of the jewish sanhedrim, the royal arch ceremony therefore exhibits in a most graphic manner the psychologic rationale of the final stage of regeneration. to the literalist, unacquainted with the fact that, in both sacred writ and the teaching of the mysteries, surface appearances are always intended to be transposed into spiritual values and that quasi-historic characters are meant to be impersonations

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ed to take care of all his people andnever bring another deluge would be so conspicuously absent during all the subse-quent horrors of history? so it goes on and on throughout the bible text. no wonder that pliny the y oungerwhen asked by the emperor trajan about christianity replied that it was a..degenerate sort of cult taken to extravagant lengths.i do not believe in the creed professed by the jewish church, by the roman church, by thegreek church, by the turkish church, by the protestant church, nor by any church that iknow of..each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, i disbe-lieve them all (thomas paine)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation71 what goes on in the bible? i have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and i do no

portray the serpent as an emissary of satan, oreven as satan himself (p. 960)the kabalacame into the possession of abraham when he went with his cult of enlil (el) to canaan (see p. 100)kbl (root of kabala)kbl means to twist.samaelthis lord was said to be samael, or the serpent of evil or enki. enki was indeed the patron saint ofthe region known as sama, in northern mesopotamia.eves first bornthe jewish midrash (meaning inquiry)emphasizes the point that hawahs first son was the son ofthe lord, whereas the second son was the son of adam (p. 101)eves two mateseve had two sons by different fathers, one was homo sapiens, while the other was annunaki: enki son cain adams son abeltherefore, cain (qayin) was the one of the royal blood, which is why he was descried and denigrated inthe christian b

en visitation, and genetic manipulation255 appendix b: book abstracts the name of europe was originally limited to a part of western england, and continental europe wasasia (foreword)constantine the greatas far as the bible geography is concerned it appears that 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

um is discovered. 1831 mazzini is exiled to france. 1831 george hegel dies. german philosopher who gave rise to the hegelian dialectic: thesis (createthe crisis) anti-thesis (offer the solution) which is the basis of globalist elite manipulation paradigms.the synthesis achieved becomes a symptomatic response instead of addressing the real cause (govern-ment. the world order organizes and finances jewish groups, anti-jewish groups, communist groups,anti-communist groups, and other opposing social forces to create predetermined outcomes ensuringpower maintenance. 1831 cholera epidemic spreads from russia to central europe. 1831 smallpox epidemic in wurtemberg, germany, where 995 vaccinated people succumb to the dis-ease. 1831 in marseilles, france, 2,000 vaccinated people are stricken with s

defeated. 1917 freud writes introduction to psychoanalysis. 1917 wagner von jauregg treats syphilitic paralysis by injecting malaria. 1917 congress passes the trading with the enemy act of 1917. the u.s. was at war with germany. 1917 congress passes the espionage act of 1917. 1917 carnegies schooling system is brought to new york by william wirt and tried in twelve schoolsthat were predominantly jewish. jewish immigrants, realizing what was being perpetrated, riot for threeweeks. over 200 school children were jailed (ref: the great school wars, diane ravitch (see also1910, 1930) appendix f: general chronology of events346atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation 1917 congress passes the invention secrecy act in the united states as a wartime measure to preventdisclosure of inve

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

e, who once stood beside the throne of god, set was once the guarding of the sun god ra. apparently, it was after set s battle with apep, the serpent of chaos, that he became the new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris, twice; then begins to make war with the seed of osiris, a god named horus. in jewish folklore, satan was called samael. samael, whose name meant venom of god, was considered a dark angel of death, and also the true father cain (the first child of adam and eve. satanists repeatedly reinforce this association, frequently suggesting that it was the serpent who was true father of cain, rather than adam (the first human. occultists will also freely refer to satan as ahriman (ang

er gods divided creation into three; zeus would rule heaven, poseidon would rule the sea, and hades would rule the underworld, which was the land of the dead. although the greek traditions do not mention a conflict between the two brothers zeus and hades, satanists do. i suspect that this is just another god and his evil brother story. satanists also refer to satan as azazel. azazel, according to jewish lore and the bible, is a fallen angel or demon who is described as an outcast. he, like the egyptian god set, is associated with the desert. although azazel was mentioned in the bible, his most famous appearance was in the book of enoch. the book of enoch is considered an apocryphal text, which means that it did not receive entry into the bible. the book of enoch s exclusion from the canon

above and below us, and like those high-rise dwellers, we too are both separated and yet affected by the comings and goings of our neighbors. the number of layers contained in the universe differs from one occult tradition to another, but in modern western magic it is typically the hebrew cabala, and the dividing lines that it defines, which are most relied upon. the kabala is a series of ancient jewish texts that define the nature of reality, the number of universes, and the rulers of those universes. in the kabala, the universe is divided into 10 parts, each called sephirah, and these 10 sephirah are further divided into 4 worlds and constitute a separate universe, each containing its own ruler and inhabitants. the 4 worlds, in which the 10 sephirah are divided into, are: atziluth, the d

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

escription of the being of light is utterly invariable, the identification of the being varies from individual to individual and seems to be largely a function of the religious background, training, or beliefs of the person involved. thus, most of those who are christians in training or belief identify the light as christ and sometimes draw biblical parallels in support of their interpretation. a jewish man and woman identified the light as an "angel" it was clear, though, in both cases, that the subjects did not mean to imply that the being had wings, played a harp, or even had a human shape or appearance. there was only the light. what each was trying to get across was that they took the being to be an emissary, or a guide. a man who had had no religious beliefs or training at all prior

MORALS AND DOGMA

n every sentence, becomes fastidious, and condenses like tacitus. the vulgar love a more diffuse stream. the ornamentation that does not cover strength is the gewgaws of babble. neither is dialectic subtlety valuable to public men. the christian faith has it, had it formerly more than now; a subtlety that might have entangled plato, and which has rivalled in a fruitless fashion the mystic lore of jewish rabbis and indian sages. it is not this which converts the heathen. it is a vain task to balance the great thoughts of the earth, like hollow straws, on the finger-tips of disputation. it is not this kind of warfare which makes the cross triumphant in the hearts of the unbelievers; but the actual power that lives in the faith. so there is a political scholasticism that is merely useless. th

s before and behind, the lion, the young ox, the man, and the flying eagle _four_ was the signature of the earth. therefore, in the 148th psalm, of those who must praise the lord on the land, there are _four_ times _four, and _four_ in particular of living creatures. visible nature is described as the _four_ quarters of the world, and the _four_ corners of the earth "there are _four" says the old jewish saying "which take the first place in this world _man, among the creatures; the _eagle_ among birds; the _ox_ among cattle; and the _lion_ among wild beasts" daniel saw _four_ great beasts come up from the sea. five is the duad added to the triad. it is expressed by the five-pointed or blazing star, the mysterious pentalpha of pythagoras. it is indissolubly connected with the number _seven

nd making blood to have a sweet savor in his nostrils, and groans of agony to be delicious to his ears. man never had the right to usurp the unexercised prerogative of god, and condemn and punish another for his belief. born in a protestant land, we are of that faith. if we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of st. peter's at rome, we should have been devout catholics; born in the jewish quarter of aleppo, we should have contemned christ as an imposter; in constantinople, we should have cried"_allah il allah, god is great and mahomet is his prophet" birth, place, and education give us our faith. few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. not one man in ten thousand kno

eme and adorable god, who thus declared to his prophet zerdusht 'hold it not meet to do unto others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which, when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee" the same doctrine had been long taught in the schools of babylon, alexandria, and jerusalem. a pagan declared to the pharisee hillel, that he was ready to embrace the jewish religion, if he could make known to him in a few words a summary of the whole law of moses "that which thou likest not done to thyself" said hillel "do it not unto thy neighbor. therein is all the law: the rest is nothing but the commentary upon it "nothing is more natural" said confucius "nothing more simple, than the principles of that morality which i endeavor, by salutary maxims, to inc

the ineffable word. the ancient symbols and allegories always had more than one interpretation. they always had a _double_ meaning, and sometimes _more_ than two, one serving as the envelope of the other. thus the _pronunciation_ of the word was a symbol; and that pronunciation and the word itself were lost, when the knowledge of the true nature and attributes of god faded out of the minds of the jewish people. that is _one_ interpretation-_true, but not the inner and profoundest one. men were figuratively said to forget the _name_ of god, when they lost that _knowledge, and worshipped the heathen deities, and burned incense to them on the high places, and passed their children through the fire to moloch. thus the attempts of the ancient israelites and of the initiates to ascertain the tru

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

it is chesed mercy which is male. the qualities that homosexuals attribute to masculinity are nothing but psychological transference. women, who are much more qualified to judge, like men to be gentle and considerate. they want men to be strong, and hard, and even harsh, of course-but they want to feel an underlying basis of qualities which homosexuals are inclined to attribute to the female. in jewish theology there is no woman concept. the creator is 'all boy; and one must surmise that he produced the universe through some astounding feat of male parthenogenesis. these homosexual tendencies reflect themselves in the harsh intolerance of mosaic law towards women. wives are chattels. women are not admitted to worship. adulteresses are stoned to death. these 'super-male (sin is nothing of

orality 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. indeed, he went so far as to suggest that mosaic law had been created for man, and not otherwise! that he seems to have appreciated whores and vice-versa is repeatedly pointed out. historical or

d as a drunkard, a friend of sinners and a roman sympathizer. he kept none of the mosaic regulations. indeed, he went so far as to suggest that mosaic law had been created for man, and not otherwise! that he seems to have appreciated whores and vice-versa is repeatedly pointed out. historical or not, the intention was obviously to introduce a more humane we shall go further, and say human note in jewish mores. it is deplorable that the attempt took fifteen hundred years to succeed, and did so thanks not to priests and theologians, but to freethinkers and scientists. or perhaps it is not deplorable at all. to men educated in societies influenced by sin morals, a wife is a piece of property 'adultery' can be punished by murder of the 'unfaithful' spouse. one must remark that this cuts both w

ve, 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 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 c

fable presumption of the people elect and its attitude towards its fellowmen. all karma has to be paid, and the jews paid theirs. as compensation, 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

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

gorism and neoplatonism. it was also the arabs who passed on the knowledge of mathematics in general, particularly algebra and the works of euclid. 76 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages nor should we overlook the considerable influence of alchemy. this science, which took shape in the syncretic milieus of third-century alexandria as a synthesis of egyptian, chaldean, jewish, and hellenic speculations and practices, evolved rapidly before entering byzantium and from there the arab world, notably in the fatimid and ismailian sects. it was among the arabs in the thirteenth century that arnaud de villeneuve, saint thomas, raymond lulle, and roger bacon studied alchemy, which took on considerable importance in europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. w

mation that shrouded the division of the christian world. the apparent paradox concerning dogmas also stems from the evolution or rather, change in the modes of reasoning: today's logic finds it difficult to find a place in the framework of the universal freemasonry 209 dogmas and theories that medieval logic found entrance to with no difficulty. this was the era when raymond lulle reconciled the jewish kabbalah and christianity; when abelard, saint bernard, saint thomas, roger bacon, and gerson gave new life to the theories of aristotle; when arab works spread throughout the university of paris. it was also the time when marsilio ficino, perceiving the philosophical continuity connecting the systems of zoroaster, hermes, orpheus, pythagoras, and plato, developed them further with the assi

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ch. it is for this reason that they are called the thirteen attributes of mercy. because they are higher than chochmah of arich which, as mentioned above (in ch. 32) is the source of the laws of the torah, they therefore have the ability to overturn a divine decree from harshness to leniency, through mercy. this is how moshe was able to arouse g-d s mercy, and appease g-d in his wrath against the jewish people. it was specifically by appealing to g-d s mercifulness as exemplified by these thirteen attributes of mercy. the eighth and the thirteenth attributes, notzer and v nakeh, are called mazalot. the hebrew word mazal comes from the root nozel which means "to flow down. they have this name because it is from these two attributes that influence flows down to chochmah and binah. influence

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 sefirot from chesed through malchut (it is specifically because of this that chochmah is called "pleasure" whereas binah is called "fiery joy. in the same way that p

o people are back to back, they could, literally, be standing an inch away from each other, and nonetheless be completely unaware of each other. this is so, even if they are literally one being, but back to back. likewise, before the separation of malchut into a full stature, zeir anpin (the giver) who is also called kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he, was "unaware (so to speak) of the jewish people, who represent malchut (the recipient. in this state, the jewish people too, were unaware of "the giver of all things, kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he, and there was no relationship between them. achor b panim back to face& panim b achor face to back there also is a stage called panim b achor (face to back. in this stage, zeir anpin kudsha brich hoo is aware of the jewi

panim back to face& panim b achor face to back there also is a stage called panim b achor (face to back. in this stage, zeir anpin kudsha brich hoo is aware of the jewish people, but they are unaware of him. this is similar to the time beginning with the exodus from egypt until the destruction of the first temple. during this period, there was great influence from above to below, from g-d to the jewish people, but little reciprocation from below to above. because of this, immediately after receiving the torah directly from g-d and hearing him speak at mt. sinai, the jewish people were capable of making the golden calf. likewise, during the time of the first temple, though there were many prophets of g-d and many open miracles which occurred on a regular basis, the jewish people, neverthel

any prophets of g-d and many open miracles which occurred on a regular basis, the jewish people, nevertheless, were drawn to idolatry, etc. another possibility is the reverse of this stage. this is the stage of achor b panim (back to face. in this case, there is influence from below to above but no reciprocation from above to below. this is similar to the period of the second temple, in which the jewish people repented, but nonetheless, the miracles which had taken place during the time of the first temple did not occur. this is the meaning of the verse "they will call me, but i will not hear them" panim b panim face to face the final stage is called panim b panim (face to face. this is when both zeir anpin and malchut have a full awareness and knowledge of each other. in other words, kuds

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d fear of g-d (midot) nor a pleasure and desire in g-d (atik& arich. finally, action alone (malchut) without intellect and emotions, is similar to a body without a soul. however, our only choice lies in choosing to try to understand g-dliness. furthermore, we have an obligation to try to understand, as stated "da et elokai avicha know the g-d of your father. maimonides actually begins the code of jewish law with this commandment, for it is the prerequisite to all other commandments. this is clearly understood from the statement in isaiah "the ox knows his master, the donkey knows his masters trough, israel does not know (yada, i..e da at, my people do not contemplate (hitbonan. the following verse immediately continues "woe, you sinful nation, a folk laden with iniquity etc" in other words

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

lishing these translations in book form they will, please g-d, be examined for accuracy by a competent authority, and any necessary changes will be made then. chabad of malibu. 22943 pacific coast highway. malibu, ca 90265. 310-456-6588 powered by chabad.org c 2001-2007 chabad-lubavitch media center. all rights reserved. in everlasting memory of rabbi yosef y. kazen, pioneer of torah, judaism and jewish information on the web 11 parashat bereishit the first verse in the torah literally reads gin the beginning, g-d created the heavens and the earth. h the verb in this verse, gto create, h refers to the second of the four worlds, atzilut( gemanation h, beriah( gcreation h, yetzirah( gformation h, and asiyah( gaction h. the torah does not [here] speak about the world of atzilut, but rather th

he shin of [seth fs name in hebrew] shet. moses in hebrew is moshe, mem-shin-hei. he is thus seen as the rectification of seth and abel. in other words, the ultimate tool for rectifying the sin of adam is the torah (which was given through moses. some of the souls that went out [of adam] were rectified [by being reincarnated] in converts. when an individual converts to judaism (in accordance with jewish law, he draws down into his being a jewish soul that he did not possess previously. existentially, then, his conversion process represents the transformation of the mundane into the holy. to explain further: the [original] garment of adam was the light that corresponds to the [aspect of the soul known as] nefesh. this [light] was like the fourth gshell, h which is attached to holiness and i

uds; i will be like the most high, h4 [the numerical value of the word for gclouds h] alluding to the seventy-two nations. the verse quoted was spoken by (or reflects the sentiments of) nebuchadnezzar. the numerical value of the word for gcloud h (av, ayin-beit= 70+ 2) is 72. normally, the torah speaks of seventy nations; it is not clear what the additional 2 refers to [nebuchadnezzar] wanted the jewish people to bow down to [this statue] along with [everyone else],5 and indeed, had chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (g-d forbid) bowed down to it, israel would not have been able to arise [out of its exile. nebuchadnezzar had dreamt that he saw a statue whose head was gold, whose chest and arms were silver, whose stomach and thighs were copper, whose legs were iron, and whose feet were iron

iel 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 unscathed. he also intended to build a tower and a city, as it is written, gis this not the great [city of] babylon that i built up [into a royal house with my powerful strength, to glorify my splendor? h6 1 genesis 11:1-9. 2 ibid. 10:8 ff. 3 daniel 3

uoted the above verse, interpreting it to mean that a snake only bites a person if g-d gwhispers h to him to do so. g-d created snakes in order to kill certain people and thereby prevent them from doing some evil. to be sure, we should not kill any creature unnecessarily, but refraining from killing animals that pose a threat to human life (or communicate diseases) contradicts the requirements of jewish law, and it is doubtful whether any torah authority would permit this. indeed, it is permitted to kill harmful snakes on the sabbath, when killing is otherwise altogether prohibited. the arizal, we may presume, did not have to worry about leaving snakes alive because he did not have to fear being stuck down by one to prevent him from sinning. on the other hand, we see that he was bitten by

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

origin is traced to the fratres roseae crucis of germany, which association was founded by one christian rosenkreutz about the year 1398 a. d "the rosicrucian revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the hebrew pentateuch tells you that moses the founder of the jewish system was learned, that is, in which he had been initiated" in a slender but highly informative booklet entitled data of the history of <17> the rosicrucians published in 1916 by the late dr. william wynn westcott, we find the following brief statement "in 1887 by permission of s.d.a. a continental rosicrucian adept, the isis-urania temple of hermetic students of the g.d. was formed to giv

he basic theory of the order system was such as to idenhfy certain of the grades with various spritual principles existing in the universe. hence a philosophy which describes, classifies, and purports to understand the nature of the universe must be studied before the sigruficance of the grades can be appreciated. one of the most important backgrounds of the system is the scheme of the qabalah, a jewish system described at length in my tree of life and the knowledge lectures herein. since it is primarily a mystical method, the qabalah has innumerable points of identitvwith the more ancient systems elaborated by other peoples in other ;arts of the world. 1ts most important roo concepits that the uitirnate root from which this universe, with all things therein, has evolved is ain souh aour

vau. earth. malkuth. heh. thm-a-oe-st (final) thm-a-oe (the middle pillar) in the equinox ceremony, 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. mich

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

gn idolatry. this was borrowed chiefly from the sabeans, whose religion had been diffused over asia, by the science of the chaldeans, and the arms of the assyrians. of this people, the author above quoted says "the flexible genius of their faith was always ready, either to teach or to learn; in the tradition of the creation, the deluge and the patriarchs, they held a singular agreement with their jewish captives; they appealed to the secret books of adam, seth, and enoch; and a slight infusion of the gospel has transformed the last remnant of the polytheists, into the christians of s. john, in the territory of bassora" it is not within the scope of this work to trace with precision, the relation existing between the modern yezeedees and the magians of old; enough has been advanced to show

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

tic alphabet and of a wheel or circle of four decades, distinguished by four symbolical and typical figures, each having for its radius a scale of four progressive figures, which represent humanity: man, woman, youth, child master, mistress, knight, esquire. the twenty-two figures of the alphabet represent, in the first place, the thirteen dogmas, and secondly, the nine beliefs authorized by that jewish religion which is so strong and so firmly established on highest reason. here follows the religious and kabalistic key of the tarot, formulated in technical verses after the mode of the ancient lawgivers: 48 the doctrine of transcendental magic 1' a conscious, active cause in all we see, 2 h and number proves the living unity. 3 g no bound hath he who doth the whole contain, 4 o but, all pr

endencies of minds are unequivocal symptoms of this widespread disposition. we restore and we build churches only to realize more keenly that we are void of belief, only to long the more for it; once again does the whole world await its messiah, and he will not delay his advent. let a man, for example, come forward, who by rank or by fortune is placed in an exalted position a pope, a king, even a jewish millionaire and let this man sacrifice publicly and solemnly all his material interests for the weal of humanity; let him make himself the saviour of the poor, the promulgator and even the victim of doctrines of renunciation and charity, and he will draw round him an immense following: he will accomplish a complete moral revolution in the world. but the high place is before all things neces

for me, said judas hypocritically, i dreamed that, being in somnambulism, i arose, went softly downstairs, took the gosling from the spit, and ate it. thereupon they also went down, but the gosling had vanished altogether. judas had a waking dream. this anecdote is given, not in the text of the sepher-toldos-jeshu itself, but in the rabbinical commentaries on that work. the legend is a protest of jewish positivism against christian mysticism. as a fact, while the faithful surrendered themselves to magnificent dreams, the proscribed israelite, judas of the christian civilization, worked, sold, intrigued, became rich, possessed himself of this life's realities, till he became in a position to advance the means of existence to those very forms of worship which had so long outlawed him. the an

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

re and one impure, were consecrated in judea; the first was sacrificed in expiation for sins; the other, loaded with those sins by imprecation, was set at liberty in the desert. a strange ordinance, but one 82 the ritual of transcendental magic of deep symbolism, signifying reconciliation by sacrifice and expiation by liberty! now, all the fathers of the church, who have concerned themselves with jewish symbolism, have recognized in the immolated goat the figure of him who assumed, as they say, the very form of sin. hence the gnostics were not outside symbolical traditions when they assigned this same mystical figure to christ the liberator. all the kabalah and all magic, as a fact, are divided between the cultus of the immolated and that of the emissary goat. we must recognize therefore a

radition that pantacles and talismans lose 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 esca

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

w.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_1.htm (3 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:33:52 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 1-9) more or less contemporary with dee was the famous astrologer, doctor of medicine, and prophet, michel de notre- dame, nostradamus. the techniques used by nostradamus were clearly defined in his own words,[8] and far from being a hermetic or kabbalistic system, as we might expect from a jewish (converted to christian) doctor, he uses a system of prophetic inspiration that may be traced back to both the classical greek and roman and ancient celtic world. we shall return introduction 5 to this tradition again, for there are many implications of it in kirk's book, and it is also found clearly described in the twelfth- century works of geoffrey of monmouth on merlin [18& 20, whose pr

level the three worlds are the sky-world, the land-world, and the under-world. the three worlds relate to the concepts of stars and planets and the four elements as shown in figure 4, and though there are several variations upon the patterns, the basic conceptual model underpins ancient magical and metaphysical thought from the simplest models to the more refined, such as those of plato or of the jewish or hermetic neoplatonic kabbalah. page 23 some men of that exalted sight. have seen. a double- man. that is, a superterranean and a subterranean inhabitant perfectly resembling one another in all points, whom [the seer] could. distinguish one from the other. this is kirk's first mention of the double, reflex man or co-walker, a subject which he discusses in several places. although the subj

nd with great strength and endurance. as kirk has added in parentheses that the hair of the tedder should be that which bound a corpse to a bier, there is an additional symbolic binding or connecting to the powers of the dead, those ancestors living in the fairy hills. the bowing of the head to look between the legs has many connections, not the least of which are found in the old testament, from jewish mystical practices. the prophets adopted a meditative pose, just as jewish mystics do to this day, whereby the head and feet were joined together, with the head between the legs, like a deep bow. this united the crown, or seat of divine consciousness in the head, with the kingdom, or expression of divinity in matter, the feet. thus the seer could foretell the future, for he united the extre

RUBY TABLET OF SET

f the orthodox christian groups. they were, and still are, often lumped in with christianity. this is always with the added label "heresy, but they were actually very syncretic. they did borrow from the teachings of christ, but equally from the greeks, egyptians, indians, israelites, and persians. theories as to their origins abound, but the most cogent one is that they derived from the heretical jewish sects, like the essenes. this is based in part on the geographical evidence of early gnostic writings, and on the teachings themselves. one of the prominent themes in their writings is their hatred of the old testament, it's god, and it's laws, which was in accord with many radical jewish offshoots of that time. within this generally anarchistic philosophy, however, there arose specific gro

ws of the subjective world, and can afford to ignore them. while this led the way to antiarchy, this isn't quite the same as active opposition. it was the role of certain gnostic leaders to do that. one prominent gnostic, carpocrates, taught some of the first antiarchal concepts. he felt that "through faith and love we are saved (gal 5:6) he claimed that christ was raised with an understanding of jewish laws, but grew to despise them. this gave christ great power; likewise, people who learn to despise these laws as well will receive great power. his followers were accused of practicing magical arts, incantations, charms and astral travel. these were common accusations of the gnostics. his son, epiphanes, wrote a book called "on righteousness, which probably influenced many subsequent antia

ional o international society for krishna consciousness o sri chinmoy centres o syda yoga dham o world plan executive council. islamic groups o american muslim mission o hanafi madh-hab center of islam faith o islamic center o shi'a islam o sufi order. japanese heritage groups o buddhist churches of america o nichiren shoshu of america o perfect liberty kyodan o zen center of rochester (new york. jewish groups o black judaism o conservative judaism o federation of reconstructionist congregations and havurot o lubavitch hassidism o orthodox judaism o reform judaism. sikh/sant mat groups o eckankar o elan vital o movement for spiritual inner awareness, church of the o sikh council of north america o sikh dharma (3ho "other" groups o baha'i faith o church of satan o church of scientology o ch

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

light and life" judaism in looking at judaism from the four perspectives cited earlier, i selected the writings of contemporary prominent jews. it is clear from what follows how binding, and how blinding to true inner vision, are the ties to tradition. the sources cited here are from 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 w

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

lice of the voiceover racket that, as mimi said "people better 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

the radio, mimi could become the botticelli venus, she could be olympia, monroe, any damn woman she pleased. she didn't give a damn about the way she looked; she had become her voice, she was worth a mint, and three young women were hopelessly in love with her. also, she bought property "neurotic behaviour" she would confess unashamedly "excessive need for rooting owing to upheavals of armenian--jewish history. some desperation owing to advancing years and small polyps detected in the throat. property is so soothing, i do recommend it" she owned a norfolk vicarage, a farmhouse in normandy, a tuscan belltower, a sea--coast in bohemia "all haunted" she explained "clanks, howls, blood on the rugs, women in nighties, the works. nobody gives up land without a fight" nobody except me, chamcha t

l, too, a crisis is approaching. a name gnaws at him, and you can guess what it is, mahound mahound mahound. o the splendour of the fairgrounds of jahilia! here in vast scented tents are arrays of spices, of senna leaves, of fragrant woods; here the perfume vendors can be found, competing for the pilgrims' noses, and for their wallets, too. abu simbel pushes his way through the crowds. merchants, jewish, monophysite, nabataean, buy and sell pieces of silver and gold, weighing them, biting coins with knowing teeth. there is linen from egypt and silk from china; from basra, arms and grain. there is gambling, and drinking, and dance. there are slaves for sale, nubian, anatolian, aethiop. the four factions of the tribe of shark control separate zones of the fair, the scents and spices in the s

on--man, basically, famous for his romances with leading ladies of the hindi screen and, according to gossip, for his predilection for white women with enormous breasts and plenty of rump, whom he "treated badly, as the euphemism had it, and "rewarded handsomely. what did mimi want with bad billy, his sexual instruments and his maserati biturbo? for boys like battuta, white women- never mind fat, jewish, non-deferential white women- were for fucking and throwing over. what one hates in whites- love of brown sugar- one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black. bigotry is not only a function of power. mimi telephoned the next evening from new york. anahita called him to the phone in her best damnyankee tones, and he struggled into his disguise. when he got there she had rung off

oice of a bottle of bubble bath, i am entering flatland knowingly, understanding what i'm doing and why. viz, i am earning cash. and as an intelligent woman, able to do fifteen minutes on stoicism and more on japanese cinema, i say to you, chamcha, that i am fully aware of billy boy's rep. don't teach me about exploitation. we had exploitation when youplural were running round in skins. try being jewish, female and ugly sometime. you'll beg to be black. excuse my french: brown "you concede, then, that he's exploiting you" chamcha interposed, but the torrent swept him away "what's the fuckin" diff" she trilled in her tweetie pie voice "billy's a funny boy, a natural scam artist, one of the greats. who knows for how long this is? i'll tell you some notions i do not require: patriotism, god a

SATANGEL

elists are called upon to bully the demonic forces into submission to the will of the summoner. the danger of the heresy here is that it is not seen as at all incongruous that a holy man might also be conversing with the powers of darkness, even if it is to subordinate them. the book of abra-melin sometimes called the sacred magick of abra-melin the mage, the text claims to have been written by a jewish magician in wursburg for his son in 1458. it is considered more likely to date from the 18th century, the oldest known version being in french and preserved in the arsenal library in paris. the art described within is called the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, which later became the principal goal of the thelemic current, as inspired by the magician

el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and eighty-five thousand men from the army of sennercherib, the assyrian king who threatened jerusalem in 701 b.c. in the war o

psychopomp to the dead souls. no less than three of the apostles identify him as incarnate evil and lord of chaos. johann weyer in pseudographica demonica makes him supreme overlord of the underworld and founder of the great order of the fly. the grand grimoire and grimorium verum have him as the prince of hell. corresponds to chokmah. behemoth (hebrew behema, meaning animal. apocalyptic beast of jewish eschatology. identified in the middle ages with satan. a designation of the hippopotamus (job 40. may also appear as an elephant, crocodile or whale, and was created with leviathan on the fifth day. the devil s cup bearer, patron devil of gluttony and despair, who presides over the feasts of hell, entertaining its denizens with songs and plays. creates chaos and discord amongst mortals. bel

SATANIC RITUALS

vocabulary, and have waged a tireless campaign to give dignity to the word witch, though that has always been synonymous with nefarious activity, whether as witch, or hexe, or venifica, or other. they wholeheartedly accept the christian evaluation of the word satan at face value, and ignore the fact that the term became synonymous with evil simply because it was (a) of hebrew origin, and anything jewish was of the devil, and (b) because it meant adversary or opposite. with all the debate over the origin of the word witch, and the clear origins of the word satan one would think that logic would rule, and satan would be accepted as a more sensibly explained label* even if one recognizes the character inversion employed in changing pan (the good guy) into satan (the bad guy, why reject an old

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

theory behind this mass is based upon the assumption that christianity has produced an effect not only on the magical or psychic level of human life but also on the sociological level. this social aspect of christianity is considered to be manifest mainly in the political forms of communism and liberalism. the concept of equality of races and sexes, the goal of eternal peace and the upholding of jewish state from which christianity is assured a firm foundation in its holy birthplace, all amount to a holy crusade according to satanists. the need for a new form of the black mass, one that frees the psyche of the protagonists from the unconscious influences of liberalism and equality is one that has been answered in the form of the mass of heresy. whilst this mass negates equality it upholds

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

first emerged. 3500 2000 bce duration of religion in ancient sumer. 3110 bce 550 ce duration of religion in ancient egypt. 3102 bce emergence of hinduism. 1700 bce the babylonians devise a new creation myth, the enuma elish. c. 1353 34 bce the pharaoh akhenaten rules egypt and enforces the worship of a single god, aten. all 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 b

he 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. 515 bce the second jewish temple is built in jerusalem. 483 bce death of the buddha. c. 470 399 bce life span of the greek philosopher socrates. c. 428 348 bce life span of the greek philosopher plato. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. c. third century bce period in which the major text of daoism, the dao de jing, is likely written. c. 273 c. 232 bce the emperor ashoka of maurya, in present-d

on. 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 2005 reign of poland s john paul ii as pope of t

nd death of jesus to redeem humankind from its sins. aum: often spelled om, the sacred syllable and symbol of hinduism; a symbol of the unknowable nature of brahma. avesta: the chief sacred scripture of zoroastrianism. xvi world religions: almanac words to know baptism: a religious ceremony in which a person is dipped in or sprinkled with water as a sign of being cleansed of sin. bar mitzvah: the jewish coming-of-age ceremony for boys. bat mitzvah: the jewish coming-of-age ceremony for girls. belief: a conviction of the truth of a proposition either by close examination or trust. beltane (beltaine: neo-pagan holiday on april 30. benevolence: the tendency to do good and to be kind to others. bhagavad gita: a sanskrit poem regarded as a hindu scripture; part of the epic mahabharata, which me

temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. hadiths: the sayings of the prophet muhammad recorded by his followers. xx world religions: almanac words to know haj: pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. halal: permissible activities for muslims. hanukkah: the jewish festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the first temple. haram: prohibited activities for muslims. heretic: a person whose beliefs oppose his or her religion s official doctrines, or defining principles. ho-no-che-no-keh: the invisible agents, or lesser spirits, of the iroquois. holocaust: the systematic slaughter of jews by the nazi regime in germany before and during world w

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sculine plural of the feminine form eloah, alh, of the divine masculine name el, al; this is commonly translated god, and means strong, mighty, supreme. chiim is the plural of chi--living, or life. chih is a living animal, and so is chiva. chii is also life. frey in his dictionary gives chiim as the plural word lives, or vitae. the true adjective for living is chia. elohim chiim, then, apart from jewish or christian preconception, is "the living gods" or "the gods of the lives, i.e, living ones" rittangelius gives dii viventes "the living gods" both words in the plural. pistorius omits both words. postellus, the orthodox, gives deus vivus. the elohim are the seven forces, proceeding from the one divine, which control the "terra viventium" the manifested world of life. 6. god. in this case

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

per is to clear up two misconceptions about the identity of seth in the magical texts. although it may appear to be rather modest, the scope is an entirely appreciable one, for the name of seth is prevalent in magical literature. i at the yale conference on gnosticism (1978, b.a. pearson read a paper entitled "seth in gnostic literature. pearson showed that the gnostic figure of seth derives from jewish tradition. in an excursus at the end of the paper named "egyptian influences, the author laid down that the egyptian god seth is never identified with seth, the son of adam.1 in the discussion following pearson's paper, however, c. colpe asserted (p. 510 "in a single magical papyrus from egypt a mistaken identification has been made between egyptian seth and jewish seth (cf. w. fauth, orchr

for such a confusion and welding, referring to an article by a. bohlig. we may dispose of the latter's theory right away. pearson has shown conclusively that the gospel of the egyptians from nag hammadi does not try to "rehabilitate the egyptian god by interpreting him in terms of seth, the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion, but simply refers to j. doresse, the secret books of the egyptian gnostics (new york 1960, 1970 [paris 1958. what does the latter say? doresse's argument is complex

on [above, n. 2] 106-120. moreover, as has been stated above, seth-typhon is never welded with seth, the son of adam, in gnostic literature. can there be found "traces of a cult of seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part? if the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult" shows a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. doresse refers to a prayer handed down in two recensions in the greek magical papyri (pgm i.195-222; iv.1167-1226. in these prayers, the celebrant identifies himself with adam, the first man, and prays to be restored to the original state from which he has fallen. e. peterson, to whom we are indebted for a penetrating analysis of the two prayers, connected the strange name of one of t

od of confusion, probleme der agyptologie 6 (leiden 1967) 139-151. 88 jarl fossum and brian glazer two points only need to be made in this connection. firstly, typhon in the spell contained in pgm iv.154-285 is not equated with seth, adam's son; in fact, the name of seth does not occur in the spell. secondly, the two prayers "in which adam plays the leading part" mention neither egyptian seth nor jewish seth.8 the "existence of egyptian figurines of the god seth" carrying the name of aberamentho, a name which also is given to jesus in one gnostic work, does not pertain to the jewish figure of seth. it will be dealt with in the second part of the paper. the so-called stele of jeou the hieroglyphist,9 however, must be discussed in the present part. the papyrus certainly shows jewish influenc

preceding letters. but in the index of the 3rd volume, the printing plates of which were destroyed during world war ii, preisendanz changed this to arb[a]yiav nre ibet ayeleber %ay ar[a]blaya.11 even if this papyrus regards seth, along with the "tetrad of the four letters (jahwe) and "eastern rhe, as one of the names of osiris, it contains no evidence whatsoever for a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. we can now recapitulate. colpe, asserting that there was an egyptian magical papyrus which showed an amalgamation of egyptian seth and jewish seth, referred to fauth. asserting that such a welding was made on egyptian soil, fauth simply relied on bleeker and bohlig. the latter has been proven wrong that the gospel of the egyptians shows an amalgamation of egyptian seth and jewish seth

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

hat.180 up to here is the hidden and adorned concealment of the king, this is the book of that which is concealed, happy is he that (enters and) comes out, and knows its paths and ways. 20 appendix i181 sifra detzniyutha in chapter three, after the verse:182 and elohim said the waters will swarm with movement of living being.183 there is an extensive addition from the sixteenth century ce, 5300 s jewish era (another interpretation) the waters will swarm with movement translated with movement meaning to say when his lips move with words of prayer, in merit and clarity of mind, for when man wishes to order his prayer to his master, and his lips move in such a way from below upwards- to raise the honor of his master to the place of irrigation of the deep well that flows and comes out. then it

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

nded down to the prophets of israel. listen to me. 2" in this passage the name osoronnophris is clearly a corruption of the old egyptian names of the p. 177 great god of the dead "ausar unnefer" and phapro seems to represent the egyptian peraa (literally "great house) or "pharaoh" with the article pa "the" prefixed. it is interesting to note that moses is mentioned, a fact which seems to indicate jewish influence. in another magical formula we read, 1 "i call upon thee that didst create the earth and bones, and all flesh and all spirit, that didst establish the sea and that shakest the heavens, that didst divide the light from the darkness, the great regulative mind, that disposest everything, eye of the world, spirit of spirits, god of gods, the lord of spirits, the immoveable aeon, iaoou

SOLOMON

and we are called as it were goddesses. we change our place all and together, and together we live, sometimes in lydia, sometimes in olympus, sometimes in a great mountain [1. the pleiades seem to be referred to. cp. job xxxviii. 31, in the revised version "canst thou bind the cluster of the pleiades" they had a malign influence. the grouping of evil spirits by sevens is common in babylonian and jewish folk-lore. as examples i may cite the testamentum of reuben, ch. 2, and the seven evil spirits of the n.t. possibly, however, the seven planets are here in question; though this is unlikely, for they do not tally with the description given. 2. rom. xv. 6 has the same phrase. for "thirty-three" we should read "thirty-six" elements. note that later in the testament these seven spirits are not

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

of the state department (who placed her project under the protection of the religious officers of the department; dr. frank graham of the u.n; thomas watson of ibm; ernest lee jahncke of nbc; samuel pryor of pan-am airways; mrs. ellsworth bunker, wife of the american ambassador to india (who named the project the "temple of understanding; and rabbi israel goldstein, former president of the world jewish congress (the first member of the board of directors of the temple. on february 5, 1964, a few days after the national campaign to publicize and finance the temple began, president lyndon b. johnson spoke to the annual presidential prayer breakfast at the mayflower hotel. several cabinet members were present. chief justice earl warren headed the group from the judiciary. president johnson s

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

nag hammadi showed that christianity had been involved with mysteries at a much earlier stage, leading to the complex situation of the second-century crisis. the dead sea scrolls from qumran showed that the judaism of the type that influenced christianity was itself cosmic religion, centered on initiation into mysteries like those of the essenes. the discovery of other gnostic texts from the semi-jewish sect of the mandaeans unleashed a further set of studies, of which the more valuable are perhaps those of a.loisy, such as his birth of the christian religion.6 many of these studies suffered from the unfortunate but unavoidable lack of sources and even more perhaps from the attempt to derive the inner significance of the process they described from the external evidence, which involved the

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 people. there was no question of an individual initiate being saved; salvation must be brought to the entire people. it belongs to the basic idea of jewish religion that one dies on behalf of all. the existence of mysteries within judaism

investigated when someone sought initiation, so as to establish the exact degree to which the logos had been brought to life within such a person. a higher stage of maturation was considered to be a step higher in spiritual development, with its roots in a preexisting spiritual life. likewise the present life was seen as the stage of preparation for a spiritual phase of development in the future. jewish esoteric teaching preserved in the zohar asserts the strict conservation of the soul s spiritual energy, which continues forever: the essence of christianity 145 nothing is lost in the world, nothing falls into the void not even the words and the voice of a man. everything has its place and its destined part to play.163 a particular personality was only one possible manifestation of the sou

as experienced anew by the mystai in the rites of initiation. but the one who was the word made flesh had to go through it in historical actuality, so that it should have meaning for all humanity. the content of the archaic mysteriosophy emerged, through christianity, to become a historical event; and in this sense christianity is not only the fulfillment of the hopes expressed by the prophets of jewish tradition, but also of what had been prefigured in the mysteries. the cross on golgotha is the mystery-cult of antiquity epitomized in a historical fact. encountered first in the ancient cosmologies, the cross reappears in the context of a unique historical event, accessible to all humanity. there it forms the point of departure for christianity. understood in this way, christianity has its

ly on philo s use of the language of the mysteries. notes 223 101. on the meaning of this central theme in the preaching of jesus, and its esoteric dimension, see steiner, the gospel of st. matthew (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1985, pp. 132ff. 102. the phrase is attributed to the second century a.d. neoplatonist, numenius of apamea, fragment 10 (leemans. 103. cf. g. scholem, major trends in jewish mysticism (schocken, new york, 1961, p. 42. to this tradition belong for example the so-called iii enoch and the writings of the merkavah mystics: see i. gruenwald, apocalyptic and merkavah mysticism (leiden, 1980. for other mystery groups such as the essenes and therapeutae in judaism at the time of jesus, see ch. 9 below. 104. zohar (book of splendor, 110 b. 105. steiner s version is clos

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

" morgante, marcello. bishop of ascoli piceno in east italy. 7-22-55# 78-3601. morma" natalini, teuzo. vice president of the archives of secretariat of the vatican. 6-17-67# 21-44d "nate" nigro, carmelo. rector of the seminary, pontifical of major studies. 12-21-70# 23-154 "carni" noe, virgillio. head of the sacred congregation of divine worship. he and bugnini paid 5 protestant ministers and one jewish rabbi to create the novus ordo mass. 4-3-61# 43652-21 "vino" palestra, vittorie. he is legal council of the sacred rota of the vatican state. 5-6-43# 1965 "pavi" pappalardo, salvatore. cardinal. archbishop of palermo, sicily. 4-15-68# 234-07 "salpa" pasqualetti, gottardo. 6-15-60# 4-231 "copa" pasquinelli, dante. council of nunzio of madrid. 1-12-69# 32-124 "pada" pellegrino, michele. cardi

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

es, or we'll cur your throat from ear to ear' 285 15 up to their necks in mischief 295 16 hand on heart sign of devotion to the chiefs 307 17 triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 327 18 black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 361 19 part devil, part angel 393 20 the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion, and the spear of longinus 405 21 magical signs of the jewish cabala the six-pointed star, babylonian 419 witchcraft, and the hollywood perdition of jerry seinfeld and associates 22 scorched by the sun solar signs, circles, and serpents 459 23 "i fell in to a burning ring of fire" arnold schwarzenegger's 483 masonic ring, newt gingrich's t-rex dinosaur, and other mysterious messages on rings and neckties of the elite 24 ok-sign of the divine king 501

rapezoid, the priory of sion, the alta vendita, the p2 lodge, the solar order of the temple, the modern-day knights templar, the vatican's knights of malta and knights of columbus, the order of the odd fellows, the order of ahepa, the order introduction 13 of skull and bones, the bohemian club, the pilgrims society, and a thousand or more other secret societies and orders, not to mention the many jewish cabalistic groups, satanic churches, and witchcraft and druid sects. knowledge of secret signs opens doors british satanist aleister crowley, a man who fancied himself the "wickedest man on the planet" was grand master of the ordo templi orientis (o.t.o) and also founded the mysterious and luciferian, order of astrum argentinium. he once ruefully and knowingly intimated that after he had in

the power of the air, also referred to as satan and lucifer, must be very proud of his human minions. build you will find pictured in codex magica a variety of different types of people. there are the celebrities and the rich and famous, the glitzy or jet-set people who are into illuminism, occultism, and witchcraft because it is trendy and fashionable. among this group are some who are into the jewish cabala movie and broadway stars, singer/entertainers, activists, and so forth. these are often ignorant people who are used by the illuminati to extract money, for sex, and as novelties. when the money runs out, they grow too old for use as sex partners, or the novelty wears out, they are often cast out or retired and no longer have access to the "inner circle" of the elite. then there are

eftains; yet, they act in public as though they are superior beings oh, so special and "hoity toity" as the saying goes. believing in their own inflated self-worth, they consider themselves members of a higher-level caste while categorizing the masses outside their 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 w

om 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 practical guide of the great mass of the jews (from the 36 codex magica 9-volume german language translation of

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throughout the middle ages and co-existed in the minds of many of the faithful with the miracle stories of the saints. to the native beliefs were added those of non-christian peoples who either lived in europe or whom europeans met when they journeyed far from home, as when they went on the crusades. by the twelfth century, magical practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mi

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

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

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

plex 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 that distinguishes one person from another, the buddhist teachings state that the christian, hindu, jewish, and muslim concept of an eternal metaphysical soul is inaccurate. to buddhists, the human person is but a temporary assemb

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throughout the middle ages and co-existed in the minds of many of the faithful with the miracle stories of the saints. to the native beliefs were added those of non-christian peoples who either lived in europe or whom europeans met when they journeyed far from home, as when they went on the crusades. by the twelfth century, magical practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society s reaction to those who mi

l. new york: new american library, 1968. hurwood, bernardt j. vampires, werewolves, and ghouls. new york: ace books, 1968. mack, carol k, and dinah mack. a field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other subversive spirits. new york: henry holt, 1998. masters, r. e. l, and eduard lea. perverse crimes in history. new york: julian press, 1963. golem the golem is the frankenstein monster of jewish tradition, but it is created from virgin soil and pure spring water, rather than the body parts of cadavers. it is also fashioned by those who purify themselves spiritually and physically, rather than heretical scientists in foreboding castle laboratories who bring down electricity from the sky to animate their patchwork human. once the golem has been formed, it is given life by the kabbali

over 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 creature rests to this day. the synagogue survived the widespread destruction directed against jewish places of worship by the nazis in the 1930s and early 1940s, and it is said that the gestapo did not even enter the attic. a statue of yossele, the golem of prague, still stands at the entrance to the city s jewish sector. m delving deeper frankenstein and the golem. jewish gothic [online] http//www. jewishgothic.com/golem.html. kaplan, aryeh. sefer yetsirah: the book of creation in theory

is said that the gestapo did not even enter the attic. a statue of yossele, the golem of prague, still stands at the entrance to the city s jewish sector. m delving deeper frankenstein and the golem. jewish gothic [online] http//www. jewishgothic.com/golem.html. kaplan, aryeh. sefer yetsirah: the book of creation in theory and practice. new york: samuel weiser, 1990. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. london and new york: thames and hudson, 1991. winkler, gershon. the golem of prague. new york: judaica press, 1994. imp in old english impe means a young plant shoot or a tree sapling. over the years, the word came to refer to smallish entities that were direct offspring of the devil and sent from hell to do evil deeds to humans on earth. imps might well be called junior de

ions, 1970. seibert, trent. scary legend has roots in wilderness of new jersey. denver post, june 2, 2001 [online] http//www.100megsfree4. com/farshores/ cjdevil.htm. succubus according to certain mystical traditions, the demonic sexual molesters known as the incubi and the succubi were the children of father adam s consorting with a beautiful fallen angel named lilith, who in the view of certain jewish mystics, was adam s wife before the creation of eve. succubi appear to men as beautiful, sensual women, tempting and promising, but they also may be vampires thirsting for human blood. while those males who consort with a succubus often meet an untimely end, on occasion their interaction with the entity brings about a horde of demonic children, who will one day gather at his deathbed and ha

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throughout the middle ages and co-existed in the minds of many of the faithful with the miracle stories of the saints. to the native beliefs were added those of non-christian peoples who either lived in europe or whom europeans met when they journeyed far from home, as when they went on the crusades. by the twelfth century, magical practices based upon the arcane systems of the spanish moors and jewish kabbalah were established in europe. the church created the inquisition in the high middle ages in response to unorthodox religious beliefs that it called heresies. since some of these involved magical practices and witchcraft, the occult also became an object of persecution. the harsh treatment of the manichaean cathars in southern france is an example of society fs reaction to those who m

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 secret societies 13 those who followed apollinario in the garduna, would be licensed by god and the holy virgin to destroy the invading heathens. spanish empire farther if he were to acquire their wealth. he also considered them heretics because they were not christians. the slaughter of innocent people began in earnest with muslim and jewish shopkeepers and scholars condemned as heretics and witches. the terrible machinery of the inquisition was quite effective in and of itself, but ferdinand recalled the stories of the garduna, who killed only heathens, and he summoned their leaders to meet with high officers of church and state. for the bandit chiefs of the garduna, it was as if they were given a license to kill and to loot

ly vehm was condemned by the church and the german state, but the secret society remained active in a greatly diminished capacity. toward the end of the nineteenth century, it went underground and seemingly ceased all acts of violence. in the 1930s, with the rise of the nazis to power in germany, for the first time in its 700-year history the vehm came into the open, focusing its bigotry upon the jewish people, judging them to be guilty of heresy. the chivalrous order of the holy vehm appears to have been destroyed along with their nazi allies with the fall of the third reich in 1945. m delving deeper angebert, jean-michel. the occult and the third reich. new york: macmillan, 1974. daraul, arkon. a history of secret societies. new york: pocket books, 1969. heckethorn, charles william. secr

empire. many christian adventurers returned with the secrets of what they called gconstantinople magic h and began to experiment with the ancient teachings in hidden laboratories. by 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 40 magic and sorcery the twelfth century, a school of medieval magic built on the magical systems of the spanish moors and the jewish kabbalah had begun to achieve popularity among the intellectuals of europe, who found in alchemy a perfect expression of their quest for god and for gold. the true alchemist sought the transcendent powers of the material and immaterial dominions that could transmute base metals into gold and transform the baser human instincts into a purity of spirit. although the church had issued many can

most profound mysteries of nature. assisting these magi in their work on earth would be the seven superior spirits of the egyptian system, acting as intermediaries between god and humans. these seven spirits were the same beings that the brahmans of ancient india called the seven devas, that in persia were called the seven amaschapands, that in chaldea were called the seven great angels, that in jewish kabbalism are called the seven archangels. later, various magi sought to reconcile the christian hierarchy of celestial spirits with the traditions of hermes by classifying the angels into three hierarchies, each subdivided into three orders. the first hierarchy: seraphim, cherubim, and thrones. the second hierarchy: dominions, powers, and authorities [virtues. the third hierarchy:principal

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

n they denied the divine feminine, or at best attempted to channel her into a form that they could tame and contain, a form without overt sexuality and independence (so as not to offend their patriarchal sensibilities) and when they locked their understandings of their redeeming son of light into a linear time mold, and locked this universal being into the historical limitations of a little-known jewish prophet/cult leader, they ceased being a true mystery religion, and became a social control organization, that could do nothing more than inculcate people with their own morbid and extreme sense of morality, restrict people s divine creative expressions, and make promises of happy afterlives for all believers. though christianity still retained many of the necessary metaphorical symbols in

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

gma of eternal night: the affirmation of god is the dogma of light! we stop here at the number nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. the others are the keys of nature; we shall return to them in the third part of this work- let us resume what we have said concerning god, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the jewish liturgy. it is a page from the qabalistic poem kether-malkuth, by rabbi solomon, son of gabirol "thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings; thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the most wise of men are lost, because they know it not. thou art one, and thy unity neither wanes nor waxes, neither suffers any change. thou art one, and yet not the on

or. these heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of christianity. our god is the god of moses, unique, immaterial, infinite god, sole object of worship, and ever the same. like the jews, we believe him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe him living, thinking and loving in humanity, and we adore him in his works. we have not changed his law, for the jewish decalogue is also the law of christians. the law is immutable because it is founded on the eternal principles of nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. this signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language does. worship is a form of instruction; it is a language; one

confound them. never can there be contradiction between them, for although they use the same words, they do not speak the same language. faith. oh, well, sister science; what do you say about it? science. i say that we are separated by a deplorable misunderstanding, and that henceforward we shall be able to walk together. but to which of your different creeds do you wish to attach me? shall i be jewish, catholic, mohammedan, or protestant? faith. you will remain science, and you will be universal. science. that is to say, catholic, if i understand you correctly. but what should i think of the different religions? faith. judge them by their works. seek true charity, and when you have found her, ask her to which religion she belongs. science. it is certainly not to that of the inquisition

gns, with the indication of their repetition signified by the three colours, to symbolize the natural world, the human world and the divine world, whose 288 hieroglyphic emblems compose the twentyone trumps of our tarot. in the centre of the ring may be perceived the double triangle forming the star or seal of solomon<jewish lore, solomon having the five-pointed star> it is the religious and metaphysical triad analogous to the natural triad of universal generation in the equilibrated substance. around the triangle is the cross which divides the circle into four equal< parts, and thus the symbols of religion are united to

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

fix to dates and linear sequences of succession due to its nature as oral, traditional, teachings. long before printing presses, the kabbalistic teachings were passed from teacher to pupil as oral teachings and collections of manuscripts, which in turn may have been copies of other sets being used by other teachers. the original impulse of kabbalah, however, emerged from a first century school of jewish mysticism termed "merkabah, meaning "chariot. these mystics utilised secret methods of "spiritual ascent" in order to attain mystical experience. these experiences can be recognised as those common to any modern adept following the occult initiatory system, for example "the world changed into purity around me, and my heart felt as if i had entered a new world. the teachings of the merkabah

st now attempt to sketch some of the significant points at which it passed through to the occult tradition, particularly in europe, and thence to the modern magician. the kabbalah and its teachings passed across into the magical philosophy primarily by transition through medieval christian thinkers who saw in kabbalah a model and validation for their own tradition. from the late fifteenth century jewish converts to christianity brought kabbalistic views to the attention of other theologians. a platonic academy in florence, founded by giovanni mirandola (1463-94) furthered research and discussion of kabbalah amongst the philosophers of the time. the later publication of the shaarey orah "gates of light" in latin (1516) brought further interest in the teachings of the bahir and the fundament

tion. logos translates as either word or thought, and hence is taken as the self-expression of god. in heraclitus, logos is the underlying balance or rationality in the manifest world of flux. the stoics took this idea as the reason of the universe, god. the "divine plan" that mystics search for has its place in chockmah, the layer of the creative process wherein the lattice or "array" is formed. jewish thinkers, on the other hand, identified the logos with wisdom, and the memra, or word. john states "in the beginning was the logos, and the "wisdom of solomon" says "like a fine mist she [wisdom] rises from the power of god. she is the reflection of the everlasting light. herself unchanging, but makes all things new. she spans the world from end to end, and orders all things benignly" in th

fore the world was formed) are the cortices or shells which compose the adverse adam belial, or the "shadow" side of humanity. when adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit, their fall confounded the good and the evil of the cortices, and after this fall the nations of the world were produced from the shells. in this we can see some reflection of the politics of the age, and the history of the jewish people, but also a commentary on the nature of the pysche, which in its "fall" or attachment to the apparent world, forms many identities from the beliefs that in truth are the shells which separate us from recognition of our inherent "core. the unbalanced forces of the universe, the world in its void state, are considered under the symbolism of the kings who reigned in edom before a king w

ry, splendour, majesty, renown, ornament, beauty yesod ysvd foundation, base, ground, principle, compilation malkuth mlkvth kingdom, dominion, realm, reign appendix two the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. there are a number of variants of this ritual, which was the primary practical work of golden dawn initiates until their attainment of the grade of adeptus minor. it pre-dates even its jewish origins, and is to be found in a ancient babylonian text where the individual summons the four major deities to each of the four quarters to protect them. in essence, it is a statement of separation and preparation for esoteric work, but in daily life it is also a ritual of observation, and an attempt to awaken and identify with the observer within. although often cited as an ideal preparat

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

t. he was particularly intrigued with the work of wilheim reich. when america became involved in world war 11, regardie discontinued h s practice and joined the army, something he later considered a huge mistake. when the war was over, he continued his studies and received a doctorate in psychology. for a time he explored christian mysticism with as much energy as he had previously pursued hindu, jewish, and buddhist systems. he was especially drawn to christian science, new thought, and the unity school of christianity, which taught that faith, belief, and the power of positive thinking could cure physical illnesses. he concluded that the healing techniques taught by these different schools had validity, and he explored these ideas in the romance of metaphysics (1946).5 in 1947, regardie

e breast, say "malkuth("the kingdom. 3. touch the left shoulder, and say "ve-gedulah("and the glory. 4. touch the right shoulder and say "ve-gevurah("and the power).l 5. clasping the fingers on the breast, say "le olahm amen("forever, amen. the words employed are in the hebrew tongue. hebrew is so employed because the magical system first attained prominence in europe since it was adopted by some jewish philosophers whom we call qabalists. apart from this usage of hebrew words, there is not the slightest implication of hebrew theology or philosophy. the gestures themselves are a variance of the ordinary christian cross, making use of the last few phrases of the lord's prayer. that it is utilized in magical work is due to the fact that it constitutes an ideal method of equilibriating the pe

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. this points to the differences between orthodox jewish practice and the esoteric practice of western hermetic magicians. 8. for the same reason indicated in the above endnote, the divine name here should be pronounced "yod heh vav heh el-oh-ah ve-dah-ath" 9. the "ch in chai should be pronounced like the scottish word "loch" 10. another common suggestion is to vibrate the name several times until it fills the mind completely, and no other though

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ms undergo remarkable changes of personality. their iq sky-rockets, they change their jobs, divorce their wives, and in any number of well-documented instances they suddenly rise above their previous mediocre lives and become out-standing statesmen, scientists, poets and writers, even soldiers. in religious lore, being belted by one of these light beams causes "mystical illumination" when saul, a jewish tent-maker, was zapped by one of these beams on the road to damascus it blinded him for three days and he was converted to christianity on the spot and became st. paul. the second part of the phenomenon consists of the cover or camouflage for the first part, the "meandering nocturnal lights" as the air force has labeled them. if these lights appeared in cycles, year after year, century afte

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

is, by experienced magicians. hence, the following recommendations. the religion of the ancient sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion- or religion- magickal structure- of the night, of darkness in a sense. invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing necronomicon demons and intelligences. for instance, the kaddish prayer of the jewish faith contains some solar elements that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the lord's prayer for christians is also a workable method. we suggest that individual operators utilise an equivalent solar (i.e, positive light) invocation from their own religion or the religion of their ancestors, should the no longer have a religion or should they have changed it in th

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

n that an extremely strong desire can awaken the point in the heart. even the ari mentioned it. in order for a single person to be included in the united desire of the group, he must be absolutely in agreement with it, because even when this point does exist, it is different in its attributes from person to person. for instance, it is known that rabbi yosef karo, who wrote the shulchan aruch (the jewish code of laws, a priceless piece of work, slept during the kabbalah lessons with the ari. of course, there were people who absorbed the lurianic kabbalah (the kabbalah of the ari) naturally, and there were people who could not understand it and had troubles disconnecting themselves from the kabbalah of the ramak (rabbi moshe kordoviro. the ari introduced a fundamental change in the method of

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en 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 a corrected state, israel is a corrected desire that is dir

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THE ABYSS AND TABAET

r the human spirit, vizaresh for instance had no specific physical attrtibutes but could detect spirits, sat at the mouth of hell and sought to drag souls into darkness. material based daevas such as druj nasu, came in the form of a fly and transformed the body into dark matter and the spirit into a type of spiritual predator. the names and etymology of ahriman (satan) in rabbinical, which is old jewish religious text and apocryphal writings, the names of satan (adversary) are many. just as his forms are different, so is the source of him, remember that the adversary is both of darkness and light and uses elements of both in accordance with his will. belial as the name of the adversary in recent times been considered different from satan, old grimoire texts mention belial was the angel cre

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

amount of cultural cross-fertilization between the stricte observance and the order of elect cohens (elus coens, i.e. chosen priests, the first masonic association to be deeply involved in the practice of ceremonial magic. the elect cohens were founded by martines de pasqually, a somewhat mysterious figure who may have been portuguese by nationality. it has been suggested that de pasqually was of jewish origin, but there is no hard evidence of this and it is clear that, nominally at least, he was a catholic, for there is a surviving record of his son s baptism. nevertheless, he had undoubtedly been deeply influenced by a somewhat debased variety of jewish mysticism, for he was a devotee of the degenerate version of qabalistic magic presented in such works as the key of solomon and the seph

n even out of the mouth of the enemy that there is a sacred use, even as an abuse, of the sanctuaries of life, and although there be rites so sacrosanct and so secreted that even to the perfectly illuminated adepts of the viii they may not be disclosed, yet to them is due a full declaration of many mysteries almost surpassing speech. ii of the rites of blood it is said that there is a sect of the jewish brethren called chassidim whose practice is the sacrifice of man. thus preferably a child, but also an adult, is taken from among the gentiles, and ceremonially slain so that not a drop of blood is lost, lest the spirit of the victim, taking refuge in that drop, escape the exorcist. this blood is then consumed as a sacrament, or employed for talismanic purposes. for once the spirit of the s

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

, specially they of the circumcision: 1:11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre s sake. 1:12 one of themselves [even] a prophet of their own, said, the cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. 1:13 this witness is true. wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 1:14 not giving heed to jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 1:15 unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 1:16 they profess that they know god; but in works they deny [him] being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. 2:1 but speak thou the things which becom

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ions, and not incarnations of the creative spirit, as when in copulation with the goat. the creator himself is frequently represented in a human form; and it is natural that his emanations should partake of the same, though without having any thing really human in their composition. it seems, however, to have been the opinion in some parts of asia, that the creator was really of a human form. the jewish legislator says expressly, that god made man in his own image, and, prior to the creation of woman, created him male and female,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 th

ii, c. 38. 86 on the worship in the vision of ezekiel, god is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion,1 the emblems of the therial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the idea of them must have been present to the prophet s mind, previous to the apparition which furnished him with the description. even those on the ark of the covenant, though made at the express command of god, do not appear to have been original; for a figure exac

bservable upon the greek coins, particularly the bull and lion fighting, and the mystic flower, which is the constant device of the rhodians. the style of workmanship is also exactly the same as that of the very ancient greek coins of acanthus, celendaris, and lesbos; the lines being very strongly marked, and the hair expressed by round knobs. the wings likewise of the figure, which resembles the jewish cherubim, are the same as those upon several greek sculptures now extant; such as the little images of priapus attached to the ancient bracelets, the compound figures of the goat and lion 1 see plate xviii. fig. 1 from the isiac table, and plate xix. fig 5 from niebuhr's prints of chilminar. see also plate xviii. fig. 2 and plate xix. fig. 1 from the isiac tables and the egyptian portals pu

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 obscene idols, generally supposed to be of priapus, under the reign of abijam.6 the christian religion, being a reformation of the jewish, rather increased than diminished the austerity of its original. on particular occasions however it equally abated its rigour, and gave way to festivity and mirth, though always with an air of sanctity and 1 erg. ver. 730. 2 strabo, lib. x. 3 herodot. lib. ii. 4 see spences de leg. rit. vet. hebr or. 5 exod. ch. xxxii. 6 reg. c. xv, ver. 13. ed. cleric. of priapus 107 solemnity. such were o

ted in the odyssey of homer, in a great measure arose. the poor, and the stranger who wandered in the street and begged at the door, were supposed to be animated by a portion of the same divine spirit which sustained the great and powerful. they are all from jupiter, says homer, and a small gift is acceptable.2 this benevolent sentiment has been compared by the english commentators to that of the jewish moralist, who says, that he who giveth to the poor lendeth to the lord, who will repay him tenfold.3 but it is scarcely possible for anything to be more different: homer promises no other reward for charity than the benevolence of the action itself; but the israelite holds out that which has always been the great motive for charity among his countrymen the prospect of being repaid ten-fold

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l provide a road map and a condensation of the information pre- sented here. it is not the purpose of this text to repeat what has been written a thousand times before, but to offer new insights on difficult questions. the magus should consult several of the many available books on the kabbalah of modern western occultism, which differs in its emphasis and some of its parts from the tra- ditional jewish kabbalah. this time will not be wasted. in modern magic, the kabbalah is used as a kind of mega filing system. it is concerned almost exclusively with the tree of the sephiroth and its aspects. the tree provides a schematic pattern that organizes and relates the many disparate subsystems of magic, such as astrology, the tarot, the occult elements, the angelic hierarchy, numerology, the hebr

spects. the tree provides a schematic pattern that organizes and relates the many disparate subsystems of magic, such as astrology, the tarot, the occult elements, the angelic hierarchy, numerology, the hebrew letters and their many occult uses, the demon- ic hierarchy, the ritual instruments, the various levels of human awareness, the four worlds or planes of being, and so on. in the traditional jewish kabbalah, attention is focused mainly on the use of holy names of god as mantras, and the numerical manipulation of sacred texts for the purpose of achieving a transcendent awareness of divinity. rabbis have employed the kabbalah for the attainment of mystical experience, not earthly power. even jewish magicians, who were called ba'alei shem (masters of the name, manipulated the sacred text

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

as probably not responsible for creating the error himself, but very likely copied it from an older source. modern occultists, accepting the authority of mathers without question, have carried on this mistake. thus, it has descended through the western occult tradition in an unbroken chain for five centuries. it is evident that the correct sequence of the banners was known to at least some of the jewish kabbalists who lived around the time of agrippa. it occurs, minus the numerical proof given above, in the work pardes rimmonim by moses ben jacob cordevero, which was written in 1548. although agrippa composed his occult phi- losophy some forty years earlier (it was written in 1509-lo, it is quite probable that agrippa and cordevero drew on the same tradition for their ordering of the banne

of spirit, the holy shekhinah, instantly destroys darkness. the names of the principle emanations of the unmanifest, which are names of god, have power over hurtful spirits when spoken with sincerity. the tetragrammaton (ihvh) is espe- cially useful when rightly understood. traditionally it was said that a true uttering of this name would give the speaker power over all the during the middle ages jewish magicians called themselves ba'alei shem, which translates masters of the name, out of respect and reverence for tetragrammaton. the full magical effi- cacy of this holy name can only be called forth by a perfect devotion undefiled by the smallest particle of ego. such a devotion does not exist in the present age. its power would be beyond measure. these are the least potent form of protect

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

lms. observing that the visual impressions of the astral world are but "representations at their own level of higher forces' gareth knight wrote "however, 222 soul flight if one sticks to astral imagery one is still on the astral plane, even if one seems to be floating in a brilliant blaze of glory in kether, with the kerubim circling all around."201 the tree of life is derived from the system of jewish mysticism known as the kabbalah, which westcott and mathers incorporated into the teachings of the golden dawn. the kabbalah was developed mainly in europe during the middle ages and the renaissance, although portions of it, such as the text sepher yetzirah, are much older. the tree was an attempt to represent in a single diagram the stages in the emanation of the universe from the undiffer

mathers and his flock in an illustration in the 1652 work oedipus aegyptiacus, written by the mystical philosopher and jesuit priest athanasius kircher (1601-1680. very similar trees of the sephiroth, though not in all their details, are older, but there exist numerous symbolic arrangements of the sephiroth that do not resemble trees in the least. one of the more popular arrangements developed by jewish kabbalists was concentric, so that the sephiroth are shown emanating outward in everwidening circles from a central point. 201. knight, vol. 2,278. chapter thirteen: pathworking 223 golden dawn tree of life 224 soul flight the kircher and golden dawn glyph of the tree is somewhat unusual for having three connecting pathways leading up from the lowest of the ten sephiroth: malkuth (the kingd

trumps, and their meanings colored by the meanings of the tarot cards. during pathworking, the traveler astrally moves from sephirah to sephirah along the connecting paths. what is experienced on those pathways is determined in large measure by the tarot trumps assigned to them in the golden dawn system. whether this overshadowing of the paths by the trumps is justified is debatable. traditional jewish kabbalists regard it with anathema. whereas before its imposition, the meaning of a path was determined by the two sephiroth that occupied its ends, and by its relative location on the tree, the meanings of the trumps became predominant after the tarot was applied to the paths. all of these ten spheres have their astral equivalents. it is these astral reflections, not the actual spheres, th

ards was a way of saying something without actually voicing it aloud for everyone to hear. it works quite well when you wish to repeat a mantra where others who are sleeping in nearby rooms might be disturbed were it spoken in a normal voice. it was also used in religion. shortly before the temple at jerusalem chapter fifteen: training for soul flight 271 was destroyed by the romans in ad 70, the jewish high priests adopted the practice of speaking the name of god in such a manner that it could not be heard by the worshippers in the temple-in this way the power of the name was released by vocalizing it, but its sacredness was not diminished by revealing it to those who were not priests. symbol visualization a useful way to develop a talent for astral perception is to do regular visualizati

olly astral in nature. later in the ritual, bread and salt are physically offered, but this first offering consists of astral bread and astral wine. it is the imagination of the seer that creates the materials of the feast on the astral level, allowing the god anubis to acquire them. 230. griffith and thompson, leyden papyrus, 31. 294 soul flight in a ritual of babylonian oil magic, recorded in a jewish magical manuscript of the eighteenth century that is based on much older sources, the magician is instructed in the text to tell the child seer the following: and if he sees a man dressed in black tell him that he should put on white garments and return at once, and when he returns he shall say unto him: i command that thou shalt go at once to thy kingdom, and thou shalt bring a lamb and sl

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iah. kether energizes tiphareth through a direct, vertical descending channel. it is not possible to astrally rise up in awareness to kether, but by visualizing this ascent, it becomes easier to link kether with tiphareth-or more accurately speaking, it becomes easier to gain an awareness of the ever-existing link between these two sephiroth. you need not understand these terms from the system of jewish occultism known as the kabbalah in order to perform this exercise properly. i merely mention these associations for the interest of those readers familiar with the tree of the sephiroth, to show that a basis exists in the kabbalah for the star and golden sphere, which play so important a part in later exercises. grounding and centering f ace a blank wall, curtain, door, or other surface tha

of these names with four sounds, when they are employed together to stand for the four directions and four elements. ihvh, also known as the tetragrammaton, is written all in capital letters because the name is too powerful and too universal to be spoken as a single word. its letters should always be voiced individually by vibrating the names of the letters, rather than their sounds. the ancient jewish pronunciation of this supreme name of god is unknown. in the fourth century before christ its use was suppressed by the priests of the temple at jerusalem, who kept the occult might of the name for their own uses. sometimes it is pronounced yahweh, but this pronunciation should not be used in ritual magic. ihvh is linked in the golden dawn system with the east and the element air, because t

ady" or "0 goddess" instead of the words "create in me a clean heart, 0 lord" the words "create in me a clean heart, 0 lady" or "0 goddess" may be substituted. those who conceive the highest creative power in an abstract way may wish to use "0 light" or "0 source" in place of "0 lord" although the prayer originates in judeo-christian scripture, its effectiveness is not limited to the conventional jewish or christian concept of god. it is simply a request for cleansing and renewal from the highest active expression of deity. the cleansing prayer can be employed to purify substances and instruments for ritual use. it is especially good as a quick purification method for water, salt, candles, incense sticks, paper, pens, and other common things used in ritual work. to purify an object or mate

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

t. solomon used it to compel the spirits of the earth to build the first temple at jerusalem, then turned it upon them and sealed them beneath the sea in a prison of brass. prophets and exorcists used its fabled might to restore the dead to life, to rule storms and calm the seas, to turn back the course of the sun, and to drive demons out of those possessed. so revered was the name by the ancient jewish priests that they forbade anyone to speak it. after the fall of herod's temple to the romans in a.d. 70, its true pronunciation was lost to the general jewish population, but esoteric sects and solitary magicians continued to rely upon its potency as the foundation of all their works. in the middle ages, ba'alai shem, or masters of the name, employed tetragrammaton to heal the sick and bani

. after the fall of herod's temple to the romans in a.d. 70, its true pronunciation was lost to the general jewish population, but esoteric sects and solitary magicians continued to rely upon its potency as the foundation of all their works. in the middle ages, ba'alai shem, or masters of the name, employed tetragrammaton to heal the sick and banish evil spirits. one such ba'al shem was the great jewish magician rabbi loew of prague, who breathed life into lifeless clay by means of the power of the ihvh and with it created the dreaded golem. during the renaissance, xiv tetragrammaton johannes reuchlin and other christian kabbalists transformed tetragrammaton into the esoteric fivefold name of jesus and proclaimed it the key to all the mysteries. alchemists employed it prominently in their

nd keys, all represent groundbreaking work in magic. it is my sincere hope that some of the innovations presented here will find their place in the day-to-day practices of kabbalists, ritual magicians, and astrologers over the years to come. lvx donaltdy son march 21,1994 bedford, nova scotia historoyf the name t etragrammaton, from the greek tetra (four) gramma (letter, is the word used by early jewish authors writing in the greek language to signify the most sacred and powerful name of god composed of four hebrew letters. it appears in the works of philo judaeus, an alexandrian of the first century, and flavius josephus, a native of jerusalem who lived during the same period. the pronunciation of the name was forbidden except to priests of the temple during the benediction of the people

ether 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 pronunciation of the name would be lost, but this did not take place overnight. as late as the fourth century, perhaps much later, it was known in babylonia, and the jewish magicians, who styled themselves ba'alei shem (masters of the name) used it widely in driving demons out of the possessed and healing the sick. among the kabbalists of the middle ages, it was handed down from master to disciple. much of the ire of the rabbis against these mystics may have been incited by the fear that they would misuse the name in secular magic and thus profane it. biblical

ng small marks or 4 tetragrammaton "points" near the letters. the consonants ihvh were pointed with the vowels for adonai in hebrew bibles to indicate that when ihvh was encountered it should be read as adonai. ordinarily, when such a substitution is made, the consonants of the substituted word are written in the margin to avoid confusion, but since the use of adonai for ihvh was so well known to jewish readers, this was deemed unnecessary. european scholars, unaware of this practice, read the consonants ihvh and the vowel sounds for adonai together, and the result was the impossible hybrid "jehovah" the correct pronunciation is thought to be yahveh or yahweh, with the accent falling on the second syllable. writing in greek around the end of the second century, clement of alexandria states

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his first real initiation into the world of esotericism and magic occurred until 1898, when he was introduced to group known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. founded by william westcott and macgregor mathers in 1887, the golden dawn was an eclectic blending of a number of older western esoteric traditions, including hermeticism, freemasonry, rosicrucianism and theurgic arts derived from jewish kabbalah. an affluent and elite group, the golden dawn attracted a number of prominent artists, poets and intellectuals, including w.b. yeats. eventually crowley and mathers would part ways, and finally become mired in a lawsuit when crowley published a full description of the secret rites of the golden dawn in his journal, equinox.xvii revealing secrets and sparking controversy, we will se

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latest date that the most drastic view- now generally abandoned- has proposed for the most important text. we find therein after what manner, according to mystic israel, solomon's temple was spiritualized; we find deep meanings attached to the two pillars j. and b; we find how the word was lost and under what circumstances the chosen people were to look for its recovery. it is an expectation for jewish theosophy, as it is for the craft mason. it was lost owing to an untoward event, and although the time and circumstances of its recovery have been calculated in certain texts of the kabalah, there has been something wrong with the methods. the keepers of the tradition died with their faces toward jerusalem, looking for that time; but for jewry at large the question has passed from the field

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ints, like so many hebrew words. it means "mischief "ruin or calamity" as well as "to be "to exist" and "to form or constitute (ben yehuda. agrippa also gives ahi, which means "where" both of these words, it must be noted, are names of god if one letter is added (ahih and ihvh, one at the beginning and one at the end. there are numerous mysteries to ponder here, and qabalists who have studied the jewish qabalistic texts will see the similarities between these words and the divine names to which they are related. we said earlier that the simplest but most well-concealed secret of forming the magical planetary seals is to follow the hint given in the figure 6-g: agrippa's kamea. the kamea of chesed/jupiter. figure 6-h figure 6-1 saturn kamea (see saturn figures in chapter five. this techniqu

rld includes the sephiroth chesod and geburah (whose colors combine to make purple, or yesod's color on the tree) as well as tiphareth. this triangle represents the emanation of created forces, which in qabalah are called elohim. their association with the moon hints at the creative powers of reflection, and in this sense can be compared to the moon's reflection of the sun. there are many ancient jewish kabbalistic rituals which celebrate the joining of sun and moon, or tiphareth and yesod. in hebrew the word for moon is levanah, which means beautiful heart (lb nh. in greek, the word mathesis, which means disciple, also has a numeration of 369. it has a particular reference here to adeptship, or the development of full discipleship in the figure 11-n figure 11-o figure 11 p: agrippa's kame

e eleven, 121, 671, and 7381. gematria for these numbers is in the correspondence tables at the end of the chapter. daath has seldom (if ever) been addressed as a planetary sephira in treatises that deal with magical squares. case does give some interesting correspondences through the numbers, and knorr rosenroth, in his kabbala denudata, gives us much fascinating material for reflection as well. jewish kabbalists seldom touch the subject of daath (at least in their published writings) and when it is written about, we find opinions about its nature to be as diverse and complex as a philosophical treatise about the nature of god or the meaning of life. in other words, theories about daath's mysterious nature vary. william gray considers its residence, the abyss, to be fraught with danger, f

teresting phenomenon to be observed is that the very name of daath is contained in daleth, as is yod in yesod when the paths are linked to the sephiroth in this way. remember that these eleven pairs can be reversed, i. e, every set of pairs can be read backwards, which gives us 22 sets of pairs, or the sephiroth (including daath) doubled (for example, al and la belong to kether) apparently in the jewish kabbalistic tradition that knorr rosenroth studied with great fervor there was a secret connected with these gates that related to the highest grade, known as the last (fiftieth) gate of binah. binah is here related to the great darkness (the first sephira one contacts on the other side of the abyss, and her last gate is said to be the most difficult, and one that only adepts can attain. th

s read parts of the untranslated kabbala denudata (latin. the technique of translating the letters to their archetypal meaning, to tarot keys, or even to affirmations is a simple one and can be utilized by anyone with just the information in figure 12-a. the value for daath is 474, which is also the numeration for the phrase "you shall know" which refers to knowledge itself, but it is used by the jewish kabbalist gutman locks in his excellent gematria of the bible (1985) to refer to the phrase in genesis 15: 13 "and you shall know for certain that your descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own" this refers to the time that the israelites would be in egypt, but in an esoteric sense, it can be taken for the mysterious alien territory of daath, about which we can only make strange g

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goyles are symbols of the reptilians and that is why you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airport is marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of the terminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesque mural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them: a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman; another girl is holding a mayan tablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a 'green darth vader' by alex christopher, stands over a destroyed city with a sword in his hand and women are walking along a road holding dead babies. all the children of the world are depicted taking weapons from each country and

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ods, 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 book we have the following interesting passage on page 23 'studies of the magic and ritual of africa have in the last few years established with some certainty that all the

nted to scare people into having their babies baptised and paying the fees. it 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 forbad

ws 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 the jewish worship with their own. those who have thought on the matter have a theory that it is simply a word taken from the christians when christianity first came to britain. there would be no resident priests in the 'outlands, the witch districts, and services of the revivalmeeting type would be held by strolling priests, possibly on sundays, and the phrase 'sabbath meetings' would become attached

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

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott any nations of antiquity made use of the letters of their alphabets as substitutes for any independent signs to typify numerical conceptions. it is with the hebrew letters as numerals that we are chiefly concerned, and to a smaller extent with greek. ancient records show that the greeks used their numbers almost exclusively for everyday purposes; while the jewish rabbis added to their practical value special peculiar purposes, and looked to them to furnish deeper views of nature, existence and doctrine. no doubt can exist that the ancient egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that greece, and neither judea nor babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient egypt, it is a curious fact h

existence and doctrine. no doubt can exist that the ancient egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that greece, and neither judea nor babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the hierophants of sais, memphis and thebes greek literature has transmitted to us. the jewish rabbis discovered so much of interest and importance behind the merely superficial value of numbers, and of words as their representatives, that they gradually developed a complete science of numerical conceptions apart from mathematics. this took the name of kabalah or qabalah, cabbala, or even cabala, words variously misspelt from qblh--the received doctrine, from the root qbl, meaning to

very 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 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 thr

e with its staff of support. there were two women notorious for their pride, and their names were contemptible. deborah meant wasp and hulda weasel. many persons nowadays believe that numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott birth names somehow affect their owners, as names given are prophetic of the nature and fate of the person. speech may be worth one selah (a jewish coin, but silence is worth two. a certain man had two wives, one young and one old. when he was forty and inclined to become gray, the young one pulled out all the gray hairs and the old wife pulled out all his black hairs, so he became bald. which things point a moral as well as adorn a tale. given two dry firebrands of wood and one of green, the dry will destroy the green. two dogs once k

delivered from a tripod, as is related of the oracle at delphi. with regard to music, 3 is said to be mistress, because harmony contains 3 symphonies, the diapason, the diapente, and the diatessaron. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ezekiel xiv. v. 14 mentions 3 men who saw a creation, destruction and a restoration; noah of the whole world, daniel of the jewish world jerusalem, and job of his personal world. note the hindu trinity of brahma, who consists of brahma, vishnu, and siva; creator, preserver, and changer. in india, each has still a special sect of worshippers, who mark themselves with particular emblems; the vaishnavas are much the most numerous. the living were of old called the 3 times blessed (the dead 4 times blessed. there were thre

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some greek versions give herios, which cory translates, air. 38. exalted upon high and animating light, fire, ether and worlds. simplicius in his physica, 143. z. or t. 13 ofusi wish to express my gratitude to professor david biale, who first approached me about preparing these lectures, and to professor daniel boyarin, who followed up by extending an o cial invitation on behalf of the program in jewish studies at berkeley. the time i spent on the berkeley campus was a turning point on my journey, both personally and professionally. the goal of my lectures was to illumine the nexus of time, truth, and death elicited from the symbolic imaginary of the jewish esoteric tradition known by both practitioners and scholars as kabbalah. the inspiration and framework for my exploration, however, wa

account of the ungrund, the self-enfolding god, as both nichts (nothing) and alles (everything, the single will in which all creation lies, the eternal one beyond the polarities of love and anger, light and darkness.232 a comprehensive examination of the influence of kabbalistic doctrine on schelling is beyond the scope of this chapter, 233 but su ce it to say that he drew from the wellsprings of jewish esoteric lore either directly from a compilation of material translated by christian knorr von rosenroth in kabbala denudata (sulzbach 1677 1684)234 or through secondary channels like friedrich christoph oetinger235 to formulate his logic of identity and indifference, the absolute unity that arises from the belonging together (zusammengeh rigkeit) of two oppositional forces in a third that

orthy of a vision of that highest vitality, of that inner consuming yet always again reviving (and in this respect not consuming) fire that is the nature of the godhead. 244 the obfuscation of the ontic boundary between angel and god, centered about the image of the glorious angel and/or angelic glory, is a fundamental tenet of kabbalah in its varied formulations with roots in much older forms of jewish esotericism that may have served as the model for the binitarian pattern of devotion apparent in early christian communities that ascribed to jesus the role of the chief mediating agent.245 for schelling, the intentional confusion in scripture is proof of the logic of a+ b applied to the godhead, that is, to speak of to imagine the divine essence requires envisioning the essence and the oth

f of the logic of a+ b applied to the godhead, that is, to speak of to imagine the divine essence requires envisioning the essence and the other that comes through that essence but is not identical to it, an ontotheological truth that lies beyond and is the foundation of the christological myth of three persons in the one substance of god. in line with those who viewed kabbalah as a repository of jewish doctrine that confirms christian belief, a strategy that gained particular currency in renaissance humanist and neoplatonist circles advocating a prisca theologia, schelling adduces the trinitarian dogma on the basis of a dyad derived from the mythologic of kabbalistic symbolism. in consonance with the theosophy of b hme, schelling maintains that the godhead is a whole and undivided unity c

g contends that what is altogether first in god, in the living god, the eternal beginning of itself in itself, is that god restricts itself, denies itself, withdraws its essence from the outside and retreats into itself. 251 the primary gesture of god is an originary negation (urspr ngliche verneinung, 252 an act of severity, exclusivity, and intolerance that schelling associates with the jealous jewish god, 253 a withdrawing that exposes what remains withdrawn, a concealment that facilitates disclosure.254 the now active negating potency is the force (i.e, the possibility) of positing the a rming potency. for god is precisely in that god does not have being. god is only as not having being, in the state of involution (implicite, in statu involutionis, which is a transport (intermediary) o

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