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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

o?i?rstac, gl. bias. 76^ burcard von worms 195: quintam feriani in honorem jovis honorati. vi. dies veneris, fria dag, 0. v. 4, 6. frije tag, t. 211, 1. vii. at last, like the romance and gothic, avoiding the heathenish dies saturni, samlaziag, t. 68, 1. n. 91, 1^ samiztag, n. 88, 40. sunnun dband, our sonnabend, 1 an old hexameter at the end of the editions of aiisoniiis: ungnes mercurio, barbam jove, cypride crines (nails on wednesday, heard on thursday, hair on fri(hiy. 2 cies for zies, as the same glossist sg^ writes gicinibere and cinnum' hiambazolus n. prop, in karajan. 124 gods. already in 0. v. 4, 9, prob. abbreviation of sunnundages aband, feria ante dominicam, for vespera solis cannot have been meant [conf. engl. whitsun-eve; and occasionally, corresponding to tlie eomance dies d

, and so be equivalent to donar; it is true, they explain jmndr as loricatus, from l^und lorica. but wuotan, as voma, is the noise of the rushing air, and we saw him hml the cudgel, as thorr does the hammer- as zeus also is rplros, from which tpiroyiveta is more easily explained than by her birth from his head (see suppl* ielfric's glosses 56% altanus: woden. altanus, like summanus, an epithet of jove, the altissimus; else altanus, as the name of a wind, might also have to do with the storm of the' wiitende heer* the greek fiivos would be well adapted to unite the meanings of courage, fury (mut, wut, wish, will, thought. wodan. 1g3 believe, liow wuotau, wish and will should touch one another (see suppl. with the largitor opum may also be connected the as. wela, os. welo, ohg. wolo, welo= o

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

in this way let every idea go forth as a triangle on the base of two opposites, making an apex transcending their contradiction in a higher harmony. it is not safe to use any thought in magick, unless that thought has been thus equilibrated and destroyed. thus again with the instruments themselves; the wand must be ready to change into a serpent, the pantacle into the whirling svastika or disk of jove, as if to fulfil the functions of the sword. 61 the cross is both the death of the "saviour<matter of the individual self, the indivisible point determined by reference to the four quarters. this is the formula which enables it to express its secret self; its dew falling upon the rose is developed into an eidolon of itself, in due season> and the phallic symbol of resu

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

dship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eye-lash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give itself utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the will. last of all, the act must be supreme. it must do and it must die. from that death it must rise again, purged of that will, having accomplished it so perfectly that nothing is left thereof in its elements. it

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

* as if this was not enough, we find the annals of psychical research publishing in all good faith as a serious account "the apparition of mrs. veal to mrs. bargrave" which was written by daniel defoe as a puff of some ass's meditations on death* 2 we do not blame the editors of these papers for nodding; but we do think they owe us some poetry as good as homer's or some erotic adventures to match jove's* i had almost forgotten dear old mathers. yet it was only last december that a colleague of mine was told by some greasy old harridan, in her best nominal 7= 4 voice (she has paid hundreds of pounds for that nominal 7= 4, and never got initiated into any mysteries but those of over-eating) that imperrita(?imperator) was coming over from paris to "crush" perdurabo; and perdurabo has "fled" b

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ll fairy-tales, and as these drops in turn reuniteen rivire ou sur lestang,(on silent lake or streamlet lone,)as villon hath it, even so minor myths are again formed from the fallen waters. in this story we clear-ly have the dog made by vulcan and the wolf jupiter settled the question by petrifying them asyou may read in julius polluxhis fifth book, or any other on mythology. is canis fuit postea jove inlapidem conversus. page 54 this is pretty, but it is only imitation, and neither in form or spirit really equal to the incantations,which are sincere in faith. and it may here be observed in sorrow, yet in very truth, that in a verygreat number of modern poetical handlings of classic mythic subjects, the writers have, despite alltheir genius as artists, produced rococo work which will appea

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

phinxiad" and of "urania's key to the revelations "at noon, the ecliptic would be parallel with the meridian, and part of the zodiac would descend from the north pole to the north horizon; crossing the eight coils of the serpent (eight sidereal years, or over 200,000 solar years, which would seem like an imaginary ladder with eight staves reaching from the earth up to the pole, i.e, the throne of jove. up this ladder, then, the gods, i.e, the signs of the zodiac, ascended and descended (jacob's ladder and the angels. it is more than 400,000 years since the zodiac formed the sides of this ladder. this is an ingenious explanation, even if it is not altogether free from occult heresy. yet it is nearer the truth than many of a more scientific[[vol. 2, page] 358 the secret doctrine. and especia

himself very improperly the "was, is, will be" now translated into the "i am that i am" and interpreted as referring to the highest abstract deity, while esoterically and in plain truth, it means only periodically chaotic, turbulent, and eternal matter with all its potentialities. for the tetragrammaton is one with nature or isis, and is the exoteric series of androgyne gods such as osiris-isis, jove-juno, brahma-vach, or the kabalistic jahhovah; all male-females. every anthropomorphic god, in old nations, as marcelinus vicinus well observed[[vol. 2, page] 602 the secret doctrine. has his name written with four letters. thus with the egyptians, he was teut; the arabs, alla; the persians, sire; the magi, orsi; the mohammedans, abdi; the greeks, theos; the ancient turks, esar; the latins, d

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ly[[vol. 1, page] 449 the six stellar gods. and what not, only not the seven planets, which are surya's brothers, not his sons. these astral gods, whose chief with the gnostics was ildabaoth (from ilda "child" and baoth "the egg, the son of sophia achamoth, the daughter of sophia (wisdom, whose region is the pleroma, were his (ildabaoth's) sons. he produces from himself these six stellar spirits: jove (jehovah, sabaoth, adonai, eloi, osraios, astaphaios* and it is they who are the second, or inferior hebdomad. as to the third, it is composed of the seven primeval men, the shadows of the lunar gods, projected by the first hebdomad. in this the gnostics did not, as seen, differ much from the esoteric doctrine except that they veiled it. as to the charge made by irenaeus, who was evidently ig

ure; but not especially the four elements any more than one of their creations, such as trees, rivers, mounts or stars. the genius loci- a very late after-thought of the last sub-races of the fifth rootrace, when the primitive and grandiose meaning had become nearly lost- was ever the representative in his accumulated titles of all his colleagues. it was the god of fire, symbolised by thunder, as jove or agni; the god of water, symbolised by the fluvial bull or some sacred river or fountain, as varuna, neptune, etc; the god of air, manifesting in the hurricane and tempest, as vayu and indra; and the god or spirit[[vol. 1, page] 463 the cosmic gods. of the earth, who appeared in earthquakes, like pluto, yama, and so many others. these were the cosmic gods, ever synthesizing all in one, as f

ents, in the forces of nature. the four-fold jupiter, as the four-faced brahma- the aerial, the fulgurant, the terrestrial, and the marine god- the lord and master of the four elements, may stand as a representative for the great cosmic gods of every nation. while passing power over the fire to hephaistos-vulcan, over the sea, to poseidon-neptune, and over the earth, to pluto-aidoneus- the aerial jove was all these; for aether, from the first, had pre-eminence over, and was the synthesis of, all the elements. tradition points to a grotto, a vast cave in the deserts of central asia, whereinto light pours through its four seemingly natural apertures or clefts placed crossways at the four cardinal points of the place. from noon till an hour before sunset that light streams in, of four differe

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

bremrillaham of the druids; thor, son of odin, of gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentaut and quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divine teacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi, ieo, lao-kium, chiang-ti, and tien of china; ixion and quirnus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; mohammed or mahomet of arabia, dahzbog of the slavs; jupiter, jove, and quirinius of rome; mithra of persia, india, and rome.18 the cult of mithra originates thousands of years before "jesus" and yet again tells the later christian story in fine detail. it is even said that gold, frankincense, and myrrh, were offered to him. by the time that jesus was invented by the anunnaki priesthood, the mithra rites and religion were widespread throughout the roman empi

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

unseen world. wandering spirits of the dead, spirits of evil, the anger of innocently offended deities, and the menace of the evil eye. portents and prodigies were everywhere. in the heavens, strange things might be seen. the sun had been known to double, even treble itself, its light turn to blood, or a magical halo to appear round the orb. thunder and lightning were always fraught with presage. jove was angered when he opened the heavens and hurled his bolts to earth. phantoms, too, hovered amid the clouds. upon the campagna, the gods were observed in conflict, and afterward tracks of the combatants were visible across the plain. unearthly voices were heard amid the mountains and groves and cries of portent sounded within the temples. blood haunted the roman imagination. sometimes it was

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

s and christ councils. hermes (mercury) is in charge of communication through space. adonis (venus) guides the evolution of love and beauty. enoch (earth) oversees prophecy. croesus (mars) is responsible for the coordination of council activities with the dictates of the ascended masters in the brotherhood of light. athena (the asteroid belt, formerly the planet maldek) defends truth and justice. jove (jupiter) balances magnetic fields. zoroaster (saturn) monitors order, structure, and destiny. quetzalcoatal (uranus) leads religious and philosophical change. merlin (neptune) directs scientific discovery. lao-tzu (pluto) offers objective, detached wisdom, and apollo (phoenix) generates change. all of these individuals figure in earthly mythology and (in the case of lao-tzu, the founder of t

FAUST

picturesque, entrancing view! whenas (the primal sires surveying, chaos and night) i saw my honour lost, i, with the titans joined in playing, hurled ossa, pelion too, as balls are tossed. thus we raged on in youthful passion till vexed and weary at the last both mountains we, in wanton fashion, like twin peaks on parnassus cast. apollo gladly lingers yonder there in the muses blest retreat. for jove himself and for his bolts of thunder i heaved on high his lofty seat. thus i, by strainings superhuman, pushed from the depths to upper air, and dwellers glad i loudly summon new life henceforth with me to share. sphinxes surely one would call primeval what so burg-like looms today, but we saw the earth give way to the straining, vast upheaval. a bushy wood is spreading up the side, while roc

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ol of the sign aries, where this wonderful creative activity commences, is shaped like a double ram's horn, which also resembles a hammer. it is also worthy of notice that in the ancient norse mythology, the vanir or water deities are said to have been conquered by the assir, or fire gods. the hammer wherewith the norse god thor struck fire from the sky finds its counterpart in the thunderbolt of jove; like hiram, the assir belong to the hierarchy of fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are

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

ale powers residing within the sun, the quartered disk signifying the male energy, and the eight-rayed orb appearing as the emblem of the female![26 [26] essay x. during an earlier age of human history, prior to the dissensions which arose over the relative importance of the sexes in reproduction, and at a time when a mother and her child represented the deity, the sun was worshiped as the female jove. everything in the universe was a part of this great god. at that time there had been no division in the god-idea. the creator constituted a dual but indivisible unity. dionysos formerly represented this god, as did also om, jove, mithras, and others. jove was the "great virgin" whence everything proceeds "jove first exists, whose thunders roll above, jove last, jove midmost, all proceeds fro

ve. everything in the universe was a part of this great god. at that time there had been no division in the god-idea. the creator constituted a dual but indivisible unity. dionysos formerly represented this god, as did also om, jove, mithras, and others. jove was the "great virgin" whence everything proceeds "jove first exists, whose thunders roll above, jove last, jove midmost, all proceeds from jove; female is jove, immortal jove is male; jove the broad earth, the heavens irradiate pale. jove is the boundless spirit, jove the fire, that warms the world with feeling and desire" in a former work the fact has been mentioned that the first clue obtained by herr bachofen, author of das mutterrecht, to a former condition of society under which gynaecocracy, or the social and political pre-emin

by a radiant circle which evidently represents the sun. on the reverse side is ieu, the word "which is the usual way of the ecclesiastical authors reading the hebrew word jehovah" referring to this from montfaucon, godfrey higgins observes "here isis, whose veil no mortal shall ever draw aside, the celestial virgin of the sphere, is seated on the self-generating sacred lotus and is called ieu or jove"[32] she has also the mystic number 608 which stands for the deity. her breasts show plainly that it is a female representation, although connected with the figure appears the male emblem to indicate that within her are contained both elements, or that the universe is embodied within the female [32] anacalypsis, book v, ch. iv. higgins thinks there is no subject on which more mistakes have be

grote observes "that they were all to a great degree analogous, is shown by the way in which they necessarily run together and become confused in the minds of various authors" concerning sadi, sadim, or shaddai, higgins remarks "parkhurst tells us it means all-bountiful--the pourer forth of blessings; among the heathen, the dea multimammia; in fact the diana of ephesus, the urania of persia, the jove of greece, called by orpheus the mother of the gods, each male as well as female--the venus aphrodite; in short, the genial powers of nature" to which higgins adds "and i maintain that it means the figure which is often found in collections of ancient statues, most beautifully executed, and called the hermaphrodite" as in the old language there was no neuter gender, the gods must always appea

the serpent "in most ancient languages, probably all, the name for the serpent signifies life, and the roots of these words generally also signify the male and female organs, and sometimes these conjoined. in low french the words for phallus and life have the same sound, though, as is sometimes the case, the spelling and gender differ; but this fact is thought to be of no material importance, as "jove, jehova, sun, and moon have all been male and female by turn" no doubt many of the inconsistencies hitherto observed in the religion of the ancients will disappear so soon as we obtain a clearer knowledge of their chronology; and events which now seem contradictory will be satisfactorily explained when placed in their proper order with regard to date. religion, like everything else, is consta

has changed her sex. this god is now the "ruler of the seas "master of the life-boat (the ark, and "lord of the earth" the earth is his and the fulness thereof. he is the "life giver" the "lord of hosts" who subsequently becomes the maker of heaven and earth. minerva, who had been the first emanation from the deity and the daughter of the great mother of the gods, now has a father but no mother. jove, who in course of time came to be represented as a male creator, brought her forth from his head. later, woman is produced from the side of man. the male principle, symbolized by a serpent, has become "the one only and true god" it is passion--the "healer of nations--the great "i am" no unprejudiced individual who carefully follows the results of later investigation, and who attempts to unrav

re, namely destruction and regeneration, seems quite significant as indicating some of the actual processes involved in this change. there can be little doubt that the facts relating to this deity indicate the source whence has sprung the great theological dogma underlying christianity, that woman is the cause of evil in the world. chapter x. ancient speculations concerning creation "daughters of jove, all hail! but o inspire the lovely song! the sacred race proclaim of ever-living gods; who sprang from earth, from the starred heaven, and from the gloomy night, and whom the salt deep nourished into life. declare how first the gods and earth became; the rivers and th' immeasurable sea high-raging in its foam; the glittering stars, the wide impending heaven; and who from these of deities aro

arded as an independent entity, which itself had created matter out of nothing. thus is noticed the extent to which the god-idea has been developed in accordance with the relative positions of the sexes [97] l. t. ives, art words. according to the grecian mythology, much of which was a comparatively late development, mortal woman was the handiwork of vulcan the firegod, who, being commissioned by jove to execute "a snare for gods and man" moulded the beauteous form of woman. this is a worthy example of the contempt and scorn shown by the greeks for women during the later period of their career as a nation. that such contempt was a later development is shown in the fact that woman was originally the gift of pallas athene, or wisdom. when she first appeared on the scene she was crowned by th

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ower ea the demiurgos or world maker (the reflection ofea-divinewisdom) gave names and assigned duties to them. angels were associated with birds, and the home of angels was poetically called the bird's nest. in ancient rome civilization the divinities were largely beings of an angelic nature and function rather than gods, because they were themselves under control of a few higher deities such as jove and saturn.theromans believed in the genius loci, or guardian of a place, and in the 'lares publici, and 'lares domestici' of the home. zoroaster appears to have taught the existence of spirits or angels who were at man's disposition for intercession with god, and paul appears to have combated this dogma.themohammedans taught that two guardian angels watched each man's actions, one registerin

which were animal forms related tocertain tribes, sects, and families. we remember, of course, that the four quarters of the earth were associated with lion, bull, man and eagle, and that these symbols were allocated by the hebrews to the four cherubim and by the christiansto the four evangelists.theancient greek kronos, emblematic of time, was considered as lion-headed; venus as love, as a dove; jove with an eagle; apollo is shown with a swan. preliminary to admission to the secret grades we read that candidates had to pass a long period of probation, of cleansing both moral and physical, and of prolonged abstinence from meat food, and that they suffered many other privations. after severe tests a form of baptismperlavacrumwas carried out and solemn oaths administered, and tertullian stat

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

tempted on p. 253 remains a bold guess. another as. gealdor, against adder's bite, begins' terce aercre ffirnem nadre asrcund bel agruem ni) ern' etc^ ms. sceafltahen. i take it as' manipulum capiat' blessing the coenfield. plough-cake. 123d monies have crept into it, seems to reach far back to the early times of heathen sacrifices and husbandry. as the daps was spread and the winebowl emptied to jove, after which the millet, panic, leek and lentils might be sown, so ploughing is here preceded by sacrificial rites. sods are cut out from the four corners of the field, oil, honey and barm, milk of each sort of cattle, some of every kind of tree (except hard wood, i.e. oak and beech, ka. 506, and of all name-known herbs (save burs) are laid on the sods, and holy water sprinkled; then the' fou

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

f deluge, ii. 16, 384: cbs 5 vwb xcuxcttti tracra kexalvrj fiefipide "xq&v ij/j,ar otrwpo y, ore xa^porarov x^ i $8w/> zeus, ore 77 p dvdpecrcrt /careercrd/u.ei os xaxetttji y, o? f3iri elv dyopfj cr/coxtas kpivucrt $eytucrras, k 5e 5uc?7i> exao-wm, de&v 8iriv ovk. fuvvdei se" re py even as crouches the darkening land, overcrowed by the tempest, all on a summer s day, when jove doth the down-rushing water suddenly pour, and wreak his wrath on the proud men, men of might, who sit dealing a crooked doom in the folkmote, forcing justice aside, unheeding of gods and their vengeance (rivers swell, etc) and the works of man are all wasted. 4 bopp s die siindflut, berl. 1829. deluge. 579 now shall manus make all creatures, gods, asuris and men, and all the worlds, things m

blem of vigilance, and the watchman, to command a wide view, must be highly placed; 2 but it is quite possible that the christian teachers, to humour a heathen custom of tying cocks to the tops of holy trees, made room for them on church-towers also, and merely put a more general meaning on the symbol afterwards (see suppl. at the head of wildfowl the eagle stands as king, and is the messenger of jove. in our beast-fables the raven seems to take upon him the parts both of wolf and of fox, uniting the greed of the one with the other s cunning. two ravens, huginn and muninn, are, like the two wolves, constant companions of cvsinn (p. 147; their names express power of thought and remembrance: they bring him tidings of all that happens. 3 compare the sage sparrow (sporr) of the norse king dag

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

in size they approximated a small man, and their fore-legs bore delicate and evident feet curiously like human hands and fingers. but strangest of all were their heads, which presented a contour violating all know biological principles. to nothing can such things be well compared- in one flash i thought of comparisons as varied as the cat, the bullfrog, the mythic satyr, and the human being. not jove himself had had so colossal and protuberant a forehead, yet the horns and the noselessness and the alligator-like jaw placed things outside all established categories. i debated for a time on the reality of the mummies, half suspecting they were artificial idols; but soon decided they were indeed some palaeogean species which had lived when the nameless city was alive. to crown their grotesqu

ISIS UNVEILED

tine once bad that designation; so had a spot on mount parnassus. but diodorus declares that nysa was between phoenicia and egypt; euripides states that dionysoa came to greece from india; and diodorus" adds his testimony "osiris was brought up in nysa, in arabia the happy; he was the son of zeus, and was namcxl from his father [nominative zeus, genitive dioa\ and the place dio-npaoa" the zeus or jove of nysa. this identity of name or title is very significant. in greece dionysos was second only to zeus, and pindar says "so fmthci zeiu govemi all thiiigi^ uki bacchtu he governs tjao" but outside of greece bacchus was the all-powerful "zagreus, the highest of gods" moses seems to have worshiped him personally and together with tbe populace at mount sinai; unless we admit that moses was an i

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

by substitution, for being substitute; a double paradox. by relativeness we are as diatoms emerging from the ooze of becoming. likewise by relativeness we are greater than anything we conceive or know. our accomplishment is in our greater reality as individuals (by originality. if the absolute is absolute, nothing is impossible; which implies that arbitrarily without necessity. the absolute, like jove, may take pleasure in contact with human flesh. why not? if we are to have the miraculous what then is more wonderful than giving dimensions to infinities? we seldom realize that life is a constant dramatic interaction of our visible unions and separations, motivated by our invisible unities and dissolutions. we awake to further indeterminateness. the blind still lead the blind. how frustrate

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

rds combined result in soros-apis or sor-apis "the tomb of the bull" but it is improbable that the egyptians would worship a coffin in the form of a man. several ancient authors, including macrobius, have affirmed that serapis was a name for the sun, because his image so often had a halo of light about its head. in his oration upon the sovereign sun, julian speaks of the deity in these words "one jove, one pluto, one sun is serapis" in hebrew, serapis is saraph, meaning "to blaze out" or "to blaze up" for this reason the jews designated one of their hierarchies of spiritual beings, seraphim. the most common theory, however, regarding the origin of the name serapis is that which traces its derivation from the compound osiris-apis. at one time the egyptians believed that the dead were absorb

ition, marriage, soul, and science. in his book, numbers, w. wynn westcott says of the duad "it was called 'audacity' from its being the earliest number to separate itself from the divine one; from the 'adytum of god-nourished silence' as the chaldean oracles say" as the monad is the father, so the duad is the mother; therefore, the duad has certain points in common with the goddesses isis, rhea (jove's mother, phrygia, lydia, dindymene (cybele, and ceres; erato (one of the muses; diana, because the moon is forked; dictynna, venus, dione, cytherea; juno, because she is both wife and sister of jupiter; and maia, the mother of mercury. while the monad is the symbol of wisdom, the duad is the symbol of ignorance, for in it exists the sense of separateness--which sense is the beginning of igno

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

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

MORALS AND DOGMA

d" lands, they think and reason like the animals by the side of which they toil. for them, god, soul, spirit, immortality, are mere words, without any real meaning. the god of nineteen-twentieths of the christian world is only bel, moloch, zeus, or at best osiris, mithras, or adona, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. it is the statue of olympian jove, worshipped as the father, in the christian church that was a pagan temple; it is the statue of venus, become the virgin mary. for the most part, men do not in their hearts believe that god is either just or merciful. they fear and shrink from his lightnings and dread his wrath. for the most part, they only _think_ they believe that there is another life, a judgment, and a punishment for sin

nfinite diversity of opinions on all other subjects" says maximus tyrius "the whole world is unanimous in the belief of one only almighty king and father of all" there is always a sovereign power, a zeus or deus, mahadeva or adideva, to whom belongs the maintenance of the order of the universe. among the thousand gods of india, the doctrine of divine unity is never lost sight of; and the ethereal jove, worshipped by the persian in an age long before xenophanes or anaxagoras, appears as supremely comprehensive and independent of planetary or elemental subdivisions, as the "vast one" or "great soul" of the vedas. but the simplicity of belief of the patriarchs did not exclude the employment of symbolical representations. the mind never rests satisfied with a mere feeling. that feeling ever st

power liberates and saves. it was an essential attribute of a titan, that he should arise again after his fall; for the revival of nature is as certain as its decline, and its alternations are subject to the appointment of a power which controls them both "god, says maximus tyrius "did not spare his own son [hercules, or exempt him from the calamities incidental to humanity. the theban progeny of jove had his share of pain and trial. by vanquishing earthly difficulties he proved his affinity with heaven. his life was a continuous struggle. he fainted before typhon in the desert; and in the commencement of the autumnal season (cum long redit hora noctis, descended under the guidance of minerva to hades. he died; but first applied for initiation to eumolpus, in order to foreshadow that state

_hostile_ principle: if, on, the other hand, all agencies are subordinate to one, it is difficult, if evil does indeed exist, if there is any such thing as evil, to avoid the impiety of making god the author of it. the recognition of a moral and physical dualism in nature was adverse to the doctrine of divine unity. many of the ancients thought it absurd to imagine one supreme being, like homer's jove, distributing good and evil out of two urns. they therefore substituted, as we have seen, the doctrine of two distinct and eternal principles; some making the cause of evil to be the inherent imperfection of matter and the flesh, without explaining how god was not the cause of that; while others personified the required agency, and fancifully invented an evil principle, the question of whose

ge of the kabalah, and is the highest of which the columns jachin and boaz are the symbol "in the image of deity" we are told "god created the man; male and female created he _them" and the writer, symbolizing the divine by the human, then tells us that the woman, at first contained in the man, was taken from his side. so minerva, goddess of wisdom, was born, a woman and in armor, of the brain of jove; isis was the sister before she was the wife of osiris, and within brahm, the source of all, the very god, without sex or name, was developed maya, the mother of all that is. the word is the first and only-begotten of the father; and the awe with which the highest mysteries were regarded has imposed silence in respect to the nature of the holy spirit. the word is light, and the life of humani

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

rdship of the thought which expresses the act. the will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. it must be, in alchemical language, the sulphur which fixes the mercury which determines the nature of the salt. the whole man, from his inmost godhead to the tip of his tiniest eyelash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of jove. it must give its elf utterly in the one act of love. it must cease to know itself as anything but the will. it must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the will. last of all, the act must be supreme. it must do and it must die. from that death it must rise again, purged of that will, having accomplished it so perfectly that nothing is left thereof in its elements. it

PROMETHEUS

it to mankind, though the truth is that he was the discoverer of those things which give forth fire and from which it may be kindled. diodorus siculus 5.67.1 the shining eagle which was eating out the heart of prometheus he killed with his arrows. hyginus fabulae 31 a prediction about thetis, the nereid, was that her son would be greater than his father. since no one but prometheus knew this, and jove wished to lie with her, prometheus promised jove that he would give him timely warning if he would free him from his chains. and so when the promise was given he advised jove not to lie with thetis, for if one greater than he were born he might drive jove [zeus] from his kingdom, as he himself had done to saturnus [kronos. and so thetis was given in marriage to peleus, son of aeacus, and herc

om his kingdom, as he himself had done to saturnus [kronos. and so thetis was given in marriage to peleus, son of aeacus, and hercules was sent to kill the eagle which was eating out prometheus heart. when it was killed, prometheus after thirty thousand years was freed from mount caucasus. hyginus fabulae 54 prometheus, son of iapetus, first fashioned men from clay. later vulcanus [hephaistos, at jove s [zeus] command, made a woman s form from cla y. minerva [athene] gave it life, and the rest of the gods each gave come other gift. because of this they named her pandora. she was given in marriage to prometheus brother epimetheus. pyrrha was her daughter, and was said to be the first mortal born. hyginus fabulae 142 men in early times sought fire from the gods, and did not know how to keep

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

ter length. when the men of old with great ceremony used to carry on the sacrificial rites of the immortal gods, they would burn the victims entire in the flame of the sacrifice. and so, when the poor were prevented from making sacrifices on account of the great expense, prometheus, who with his wonderful wisdom is thought to have made men, by his pleading is said to have obtained permission from jove for them to cast only a part of the victim into the fire, and to use the rest for their own food. this practice custom later established. since he had obtained this permission, not as from a covetous man, but easily, as from a god, prometheus himself sacrifices two bulls. when he had first placed their entrails on the altar, he put the remaining flesh of the two bulls in one heap, covering it

ice custom later established. since he had obtained this permission, not as from a covetous man, but easily, as from a god, prometheus himself sacrifices two bulls. when he had first placed their entrails on the altar, he put the remaining flesh of the two bulls in one heap, covering it with an oxhide. whatever bones there were he covered with the other skin and put it down between them, offering jove [zeus] the choice of either part for himself. jupiter, although he didn t act with divine forethought, nor as a god who ought to foresee everything, was deceived by prometheus sine we have started to believe the tale! and thinking each part was a bull, shoe the bones fo r his half. and so after this, in solemn rites and sacrifices, when the flesh of victims has been consumed, they burn with f

n he realized what had been done, in anger took fire from mortals, lest the favour of prometheus should seem to have more weight than the power of the gods, and that uncooked flesh should not be useful to men. prometheus, however, who was accustomed to scheming, planned by his own efforts to bring back the fire that had been taken from men. so, when the others were away, he approached the fire of jove, and with a small bit of this shut in a fennel-stalk he came joyfully, seeming to fly, not to run, tossing the stalk so that the air shut in with its vapours should not put out the flame in so narrow a space. up to this time, then, men who bring good news usually come with speed. in the rivalry of the games they also make it a practice for the runners to run, shaking torches after the manner

with an iron chain to a mountain in scythia named caucasus for thirty thousand years, as aeschylus, writer of tragedies, says. then, too, he sent an eagle to him to eat out his liver which was constantly renewed at night. some have said that this eagle was born from typhon and echidna, other from terra [gaia] and tartarus, but many point out it was made by the hands of vulcanus and given life by jove. the following reason for the release of prometheus has been handed down. when jupiter [zeus, moved by the beauty of thetis, sought her in marriage, he couldn t win the consent of the timid maiden, but none the less kept planning to bring it about. at that time the parcae [moirai] were said to have prophesied what the natural order of events should be. they said that the son of thetis husband

dn t win the consent of the timid maiden, but none the less kept planning to bring it about. at that time the parcae [moirai] were said to have prophesied what the natural order of events should be. they said that the son of thetis husband, whoever he might be, would be more famous than his father. prometheus heard this as he kept watch, not from inclination but from necessity, and reported it to jove. he, fearing that what he had done to his father saturnus in a similar situation, would happened to him, namely, that he would be robbed of his power, gave up by necessity his desire to wed thetis, and out of gratitude to prometheus thanked him and freed him from his chains. but he didn t go so far as to free him from all binding, since he had sworn to that, but for commemoration bade him bin

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

borne by an inoffensive naturalist of bologna (the author of two works on botany and rare plants, to the radicals of the extinct language. zan was unquestionably the chaldean appellation for the sun. even the greeks, who mutilated every oriental name, had retained the right one in this case, as the cretan inscription on the tomb of zeus (ode megas keitai zan "cyril contra julian (here lies great jove) significantly showed. as to the rest, the zan, or zaun, was, with the sidonians, no uncommon prefix to on. adonis was but another name for zanonas, whose worship in sidon hesychius records. to this profound and unanswerable derivation mervale listened with great attention, and observed that he now ventured to announce an erudite discovery he himself had long since made, namely, that the nume

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

, on the obverse side of the medal for merit, awarded to civilians of the united states and her allies by act of congress 7/20/42.41 the all-seeing eye a symbol of osiris we now arrive at the point when we must consider that all-important key symbol, the all-seeing eye. mr. totten traced the history of the eye in the triangle back to ancient chaldea and its appearance as the solar eye, the eye of jove or jupiter, of phoebus or apollo, the eye of baal, and as the eye of providence. the eye of jove appeared on the front of jove's temple at peloponnessus. as the solar eye it was the symbol of the arabian god of. jethro, the black father-in-law of moses, and of the arabic motto "allah" or "i am that i am" all ancient temples of arabia were decorated with the eye, which had first appeared as th

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

desire striving after archais the ideal, failing, and the ideal seeking the lost desire; but outwardly we have, and visible to all, a true poem of the self-sacrifice of love, and as such i think we should principally read it, the poetry of life and hope, and not the mystic throbs of some deep aspiration. charicles and archais are the golden children of the tree of life; she is under the curse of jove. as all pure love has been under the anathema of some god. and he, blinded by his love, sets the mystic key in the secret lock, opening to his desire the hidden corridor of knowledge; the spell falls hissing as a snake. the picture of their meeting is beautiful indeed. thus we find archais: she lay within the water, and the sun made golden with his pleasure every one of small cool ripples tha

puellas nostrates adeo verecundiam suam perfricta fronte excutiant, ut a lupis, tremula clune extentoque collo saltantibus, vix discerni possint. h*3. when the rich approach the poor, galtera manu fert panem, penem ostentat altera. h such is another pantagruelism of beverland, crude yet to the point. gthe girl who of her own accord presents herself to student, soldier or artist, is considered, by jove! to give a headlong consent to debauchery. h*4. so we see that whilst the upper classes are prostituting themselves for social position, rank, and riches, the lower are doing so for a few wretched coins; and the difference? one eats bread, and the other bread and butter. the gunco gude h thrive and heap execrations on the gunco bad. h in goracles, h crowley states this with the straightforwar

d the primitive chief to his primitive neighbour; gi will put you in jail if you won ft pay me your taxes, h says the modern government to the modern citizen. and as religion could not possibly restrain her octopus tentacles of cupidity from the game of grab, she also hisses, gpray to god and he will tie a knot in his bandana and perhaps remember it some day; but above all, sacrifice to me, or by jove! i will sacrifice you: h and the fool, even in his folly, thought it were better to lose his wits than his brains, and his turnips than his turnip; so he dug and he dug, and he slew and he slew, religion growing fatter and fatter, spawning churches and breeding sects, till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual, that in order to maintain his life in this world he had to a

surpassing beauty, the horny shell a pearl of perfect loveliness. charicles had to tread the thorny path before he won his archais, and so must we, before we can win knowledge, weep many bitter tears. the incessant search after truth carries us through desert lands of misery and oases of temptation, as is only too vividly illustrated in tannhauser. aphrodite before she could overcome the wiles of jove had to seek aid from priapus* thus so have we all to do, we must eat of the htree of knowledge of good and evil h before we can pluck the fruit of the gtree of life. h *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 18. the mediaeval spiritualism of gparacelsus h is curiously modernized, if we may use so crude a word, in the mystical poem haceldama. h the strife in the former from the kingdom to the crown

th lidless eyes undazzled, to arise, son of the morning c *the fatal force, vol. i, p. 145. finds freedom as his god: and freedom stands, re-risen from the rod, a goodlier godhead than the broken god *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 107. it was in the winter of 1619 that descartes made the famous resolution to gtake nothing for truth without the clear knowledge that it is such. h thus jove-like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years, and though the symbolization of his ideas was often at variance with the logic of his facts, it is to him alone that present-day agnosticism must look back on as its founder. berkeley, as we have seen, carried the cartesian principle to its logical result; hume, on the other hand, gproved that, in a multitude of important instances, so far

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

e of marriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (4 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. vi of classical fables the ancients of every nation report their heroes to have been born of the marriage of gods with mortals. as, romulus and remus begotten of the god mars upon a vestal virgin, hercules of jove, buddha of vishnu in the form of a white elephant with six tusks, jesus of jehovah upon a virgin, and many another. even true gods were born of mortal mothers, as dionysius of semele. also they recount many loves of heaven for earth, diana for endymion, zeus for leda, danae, europa, and the rest; even hades issued from his gloomy kingdom to ravish the maid persephone. there are also loves of

ust the arcanum arcanorum, the hidden treasure of the wise. without it all is cold, inertia, death; within it fire, energy, genius, creation. this is the key to every door in the kingdom of heaven; this is the sceptre of the realms that are! the possession and right use of this secret giveth an hundred powers; yea, verily, five score is the numeration of the reward thereof. for this mystery is of jove himself whose letter is pk; and these are the initials of our athanor and our cucurbite, their names in the language of the greeks. yet of all these powers i name but seven, the glories of eulis; the stars upon the foreheads of the brothers of hermetic light. luna and of these the first is the building up of one that is not born; verily, a child of wonder shall he be. venus and the second is

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

hrough his loins "by george, gardner, you've got something there, i should think! i could license you to initiate people into the o.t.o. today, and you could form the nucleus of such a group" he paced in agitation "yes, yes" he mused, half to gardner, half to himself "the book. the mass. i could write some rituals. an `ancient book' of magick. a `book of shadows. priestesses, naked girls. yes. by jove, yes" great story, but merely a dream, created out of bits and pieces of rumor, history and imagination. don't be surprised, though, if a year or five years from now you read it as "gospel (which is an ironic synonym for `truth) in some new learned text on the fabled history of wicca. such is the way all mythologies come into being. please don't misunderstand me here; i use the word `mytholog

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

are less apparent. this is because many of the old gods are no longer well known. tuesday is named after the teutonic war god tiw, the nearest equivalent in the pagan hierarchy to mars. wednesday is named after woden, the earlier germanic form of the god the scandinavians named odin, who is the northern divine magician, or mercury. thursday is named for thor, who is associat- ed with jupiter, or jove, because he hurls thunderbolts. friday is named for frija, a teutonic mother goddess whose name means "beloved" and is linked with venus. the heptagram is drawn in one continuous line crossing from point to point. mercury is placed at the uppermost point, and as the figure is drawn clockwise, the rest of the planets follow in the order of the days (see figure at the top of page 100. also, beg

al world the internal world is also mastered. father-child is the mature masculine mind perverted with the willfulness and self- ishness of the child. there is great energy here, but it is expended in ill-consid- ered ways. dictators and boy-conquerors in all walks of life are of this nature. they can grasp but they cannot hold. father-father is the perfect ruler. it is king arthur of camelot and jove on mount olympus. its personal qualities are eloquence, judgment, and keen insight into the human mind and heart. father-mother is the nature of saints and martyrs. this mixing of the strength and courage of the masculine with the sacrifice and caring of the feminine can be immensely powerful. mother-father is the inwardly or outwardly masculine female. when the polarities are favorably balan

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ah (sink down, fall) yields the meanings "he who causes to fall" or "he who strikes down" the name has also been connected by some scholars with the arab hawa (the void between heaven and earth, leading to the interpretation "he who rides the wind" or "he who makes the winds to blow" earlier speculations that there is a connection between tetragrammaton and the greek god of thunderbolts (jehovah= jove, or with the gnostic deity iao, are generally discounted (although gershom scholem finds a connection between iao and the truncated name ihv used in sepher yetzirah to seal the six directions of space-see scholem, kabbalah, p. 27. so are wilder claims that the name can be traced back to ancient china, egypt, or babylonia. all these propositions have been put forth at different times, but ther

the father by the first procession; and the holy ghost be equal to both by the second procession. hence that super-excellent, and great name of the divine trinity in god is written with four letters, viz. lod, he, and vau, he, where it is the aspiration he, signifies the proceeding of the spirit from both: for he being duplicated, terrninates both syllables, and the whole name, but is pronounced jove as some will, whence that jovis of the heathen, which the ancients did picture with four ears, whence the number four is the fountain, and head of the whole divinity (three books of occult philosophy [1531-31, bk. 2, ch. 7, english translation of 1651, p. 183) but the true name of god is known neither to men nor to angels, but to god alone, neither shall it be manifested (as the holy scriptur

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

me example that i feel are particularly druidical to me. enjoy. the frogs desiring a king the frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swamp that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody and nobody troubling with them. but some of them thought that this was not right, that they should have a king and a proper constitution, so they determined to send up a petition to jove to give them what they wanted. mighty jove, they cried, send unto us a king that will rule over us and keep us in order. jove laughed at their croaking, and threw light. he knows that mankind destroysdown into the swamp a huge log, which came down -kerplash- into the swamp. the frogs were frightened out of their lives by the commotion made in their midst, and all rushed to the bank to look at

nd even dared to touch it; still it did no move. then the greatest hero of the frogs jumped upon the log and commenced dancing up and down upon it, thereupon all the frogs came and did the same; and for some time the frogs went about their business every day without taking the slightest notice of their new king log lying in their midst. but this did not suit them, so they sent another petition to jove, and said to him: we want a real king; one that will really rule over us. now this made jove angry, so he sent among them a big stork that soon set to work gobbling them all up. then the frogs repented when too late. better no rule than cruel rule. the bat, the birds and the beasts a great conflict was about to come off between the birds and the beasts. when the two armies were collected toge

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

the hebrew shbo, seven, or satisfied, abundance, being septos, holy, divine, and motherless, and a virgin. from nicomachus we learn that it was called minerva, being unmarried and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, i.e, even number, nor from a father, i.e, odd number. but proceeding from the summit of the father of all things, the monad; even as minerva sprang all armed from the forehead of jove or zeus. hence also obrimopatre, or daughter of a mighty father, and glaucopis, shining-eyed, and ametor and ageleia, she that carries off the spoil. and fortune, for it decides mortal affairs. and voice, for there are seven tones in every voice, human and instrumental. because they are emitted by the seven planets, and form the music of the spheres. also tritogenia, because there are 3 parts

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